DBWI: Former President Hunter S. Thompson found dead.

Former President Hunter S. Thompson was found dead in his Aspen home today. Cause of death as of yet unknown.
 

Hendryk

Banned
He sure reinvented the political memoir genre with Fear and Loathing in Washington. And whatever his domestic achievements, the rest of the world mostly remembers him for ending the ridiculous so-called "war on drugs".
 
He sure reinvented the political memoir genre with Fear and Loathing in Washington. And whatever his domestic achievements, the rest of the world mostly remembers him for ending the ridiculous so-called "war on drugs".

Hi all.

Rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

I had been provided by my attorney with a cocktail of ayahuasca, ketamine, ibogaine and vitamin B12, as well as a quart of Bacardi. Propelled by grim necessity, as my latest column for ESPN.com was as uninspired as the level of play in the NFL these days.

So I decided to endure a shamanic trance to contact the spirit of Richard Milhouse Nixon and ask him what he thought about the latest Green Bay Packers game.

The Secret Service agents that care for me were new and it wasn't until I was on a helicopter on the way to hospital that some doctor had the presence of mind to note, in this order, that corpses:
a) have lower temperature after a while
b) don't sweat profusely and
c) don't start screaming for the head of Rush Limbaugh and a couple of Mojitos.

Richard Milhouse Nixon, unfortunately, was unavailable for comment. All I got from the inside of my skull was six hours of old episodes of Battlestar Galactica, acted by the cast of Knight Rider. Which still was more interesting, logical and entertaining than the last six Green Bay Packers games.

I blame the Bacardi.
 
Hey man- just want to say, great work on the cabinet picks. A Samoan attorney general? There's a man I trust to fight the goddamn bats.
 
I still remember that great State of the Union address:

"Strange rumblings in our Great Nation. Millions of competing health care bills flit about the Hallowed Halls of Legislature like so many goddamn bats, yet the Forces of Idiocy continue fling feces from their respective sides of the tree. The knuckle-dragging simians of the Insane Right continue to blame the bill for everything from Red Uprising to teen pregnancy while the Democratic party chews off its own foot over whether the "i"s should be dotted with a point or a circle.

"Meanwhile the bozos of the modern news media have the Ignorant Masses convinced that the bill brings either Communist takeover or a Loving Utopia with flowers and magical unicorns that shit rainbows and piss vicodin. And getting a single bill that doesn't have more riders than the goddamned Metro is proving as impossible as a winning season for the 'Skins.

"And all any of the booze-addled fools in this crack-orgy of a government can think about on this Appalling Year of our Lord 1996 is the coming election cycle.

"Bad craziness..."
 
I still remember that great State of the Union address:

"Strange rumblings in our Great Nation. Millions of competing health care bills flit about the Hallowed Halls of Legislature like so many goddamn bats, yet the Forces of Idiocy continue fling feces from their respective sides of the tree. The knuckle-dragging simians of the Insane Right continue to blame the bill for everything from Red Uprising to teen pregnancy while the Democratic party chews off its own foot over whether the "i"s should be dotted with a point or a circle.

"Meanwhile the bozos of the modern news media have the Ignorant Masses convinced that the bill brings either Communist takeover or a Loving Utopia with flowers and magical unicorns that shit rainbows and piss vicodin. And getting a single bill that doesn't have more riders than the goddamned Metro is proving as impossible as a winning season for the 'Skins.

"And all any of the booze-addled fools in this crack-orgy of a government can think about on this Appalling Year of our Lord 1996 is the coming election cycle.

"Bad craziness..."
Yeah, he certainly was one of the more charismatic presidents. I'll miss him for sure. :(
 
OOC: Apart from promising to legalise narcotics during his candidacy for sheriff (and assorted craziness), HST really wasn't a man who believed in any constructive approach to public policy. He makes Mailer look like JK Galbraith.

If ASB's made him president he really wouldn't do much, beyond end the war on drugs, and turn American foreign policy ultra-dovish.

The man was a sort of bad governance Leftlibertarian...
 

FDW

Banned
I still remember that great State of the Union address:

"Strange rumblings in our Great Nation. Millions of competing health care bills flit about the Hallowed Halls of Legislature like so many goddamn bats, yet the Forces of Idiocy continue fling feces from their respective sides of the tree. The knuckle-dragging simians of the Insane Right continue to blame the bill for everything from Red Uprising to teen pregnancy while the Democratic party chews off its own foot over whether the "i"s should be dotted with a point or a circle.

"Meanwhile the bozos of the modern news media have the Ignorant Masses convinced that the bill brings either Communist takeover or a Loving Utopia with flowers and magical unicorns that shit rainbows and piss vicodin. And getting a single bill that doesn't have more riders than the goddamned Metro is proving as impossible as a winning season for the 'Skins.

"And all any of the booze-addled fools in this crack-orgy of a government can think about on this Appalling Year of our Lord 1996 is the coming election cycle.

"Bad craziness..."

OOC: EPIC FUCKING WIN Geekhis Khan.:D:D:D
 
If ASB's made him president...

"I might never have won that nomination if it weren't for those goddamned bats!"

OOC: we can assume he wins his OTL sheriff bid ITTL as a POD. Possible if more of his constituents weren't too stoned to vote. If we assume he does well enough to end up pursuing a House post...plausible he could win that. [I have a story idea for him as a Rep. from Colorado filibustering against a Reagan-era drug bill :D] But yea, from there takes some goddamned bats. Maybe he's Pres. Jerry Brown's Sec. of Interior and is the only survivor of that terrorist gas attack on the White House, only becoming slightly disoriented in the attack despite inhaling copious amounts of the horrible stuff. ;)

OOC: EPIC FUCKING WIN Geekhis Khan.:D:D:D

:cool: <-- needs cig. holder.
 
"I might never have won that nomination if it weren't for those goddamned bats!"

IC: Best opening line for a Presidential Innauguration speech ever. Sadly, it got less coherent from there, as I recall. When he got into the second hour and started ranting about the llamas...well, I think he lost whatever goodwill he might have had with the crowd freesing in the sub-freezing weather that day.


OOC: You just made me spray Dr. Pepper all over my monitor screen. Thank you. :)
 
Don't be ridiculous! The Samoans framed the Batavians so we'd join the war.

Lies! It was all part of the Batavian plot to steal the best weed from Amsterdam as colonial reparations! With the Batavians in control of the weed and the former Soviets in control of the Afghan opium and the Columbian coke supplies still in the hands of Marxist rebels, the President's new Pharmaceutical-based economic plan would collapse! :cool:
 
Say this for the man: Thanks to Ralph Steadman, he has the best presidential portrait ever.

LOL, I still remember the controversy over that one! For some reason violence and drug references aren't considered kosher in White House portraits. They ended up moving that one to the Nat'l Portrait Gallery and commissioned a more traditional one.

At least Pres. H. still insisted on the hat and cig holder! :cool:
 
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