Joe, The world is waiting!
- NYScott (guest) 12-29-2002 5:48 pm

SERENITY NOW!
- Ian (guest) 12-29-2002 9:38 pm

Someone has pointed out to me today that the study might only apply to Danes. Perhaps non-Danes remain every bit as demented as usual, even if they get drunk on a regular basis.

Comments?
- Joe Dressner 12-30-2002 2:40 am

Danish milk is awesome and has a high fat content, this may be a factor....
- Real Wino 12-30-2002 11:19 am

dear mr. dresser, what can be done about rude people? i was at the football game on saturday and some mean fan kept yelling "move those humps". i decided the best response was no response at all. did i do the right thing?
- the camel (guest) 12-30-2002 12:17 pm

I have learned, by fighting my dementia with two glasses of wine per day, that camels do not leave posted comments on internet wine sites.

No comment.
- Joe Dressner 12-30-2002 12:35 pm

my goodness. there certainly is quite a bit of rudeness in this part of the country!
- the camel (guest) 12-30-2002 1:30 pm

mr. camel you best mosey along. mr. dresser doesn't want any animals on his wine website. in fact in 2003 all animals tresspassing on his website will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. isn't that right mr. dresser?
- the sheriff (guest) 12-30-2002 1:53 pm

It depends how well I do in my dementia workshop.
- Joe Dressner 12-30-2002 4:30 pm

Hi Sheriff, happy holidays. Best, Kay Bixler
- Kay Bixler (guest) 12-30-2002 6:46 pm

howdy miz baxler! i sure wish you the same. the holidays are so hectic that i'm really hoping january gets here quickly. i was speaking with mr. dresser and he invited me an' the missus into the big new york city!!!!! i hope i can get to meet you and the lucky mr. leon when we visit. and with my best wishes...
- the sheriff (guest) 12-30-2002 7:08 pm

i see that the rudeness occurring on this site just doesn't seem to go away. discussing personal invitations in public is the height of vulgarity.
- the camel (guest) 12-30-2002 7:26 pm

Kay and sheriff:

I think the camel, assuming he exists, is right about this one.
- Joe Dressner 12-30-2002 8:10 pm

Does this apply to cheese as well? .... Grate, Dane...Grate.
- Ian (guest) 12-30-2002 10:49 pm

Joe, The world is still waiting! When will the 100 appear? I hear that Loire prices are going through the roof on the speculation.
- NYScott (guest) 12-30-2002 11:21 pm

I'm trying to cure my dementia and that's all you care about!
- Joe Dressner 12-31-2002 12:17 am

Demented or not, that list is worth a fortune in the right hands! Give it up, Joe. Besides, most of us go through life with dementia. What makes yours so special?
- NYScott (guest) 12-31-2002 1:34 am

I have running conversation with camels.
- Joe Dressner 12-31-2002 10:05 am

i'm thinking that i may have been insulted. standard behavior for this ill mannered site. i just may leave.
- the camel (guest) 12-31-2002 12:06 pm

Mr. Camel:

Are you planning to join another wine site?

They have active clowns at erobertparker
- Joe Dressner 12-31-2002 12:39 pm

sounds interesting but i'm not sure if it will have the necessary dementia quotient.
- the camel (guest) 12-31-2002 12:56 pm

Why worry?

It doesn't stop anyone else there?

A recent study in Norway suggests that two visits a day to erobertparker can aid in the fight against Coulrophobia.

Take the case of Richard Hobbs.

Richard Hobbs, an erstwhile political candidate and twice-convicted child molester, has won the right to cadge for spare change as a performing clown at Playland Amusement Park in Rye. Hobbs goes by the name "Saturday the Clown" (at least that is his last known clown alias) and specializes in the art of balloon animal creations. Mostly elephants and dachshunds.

Richard Hobbs came to the public's attention last year, when as a resident of New Rochelle, he secured the Right to Life Party endorsement and ran for the Westchester County Board of Legislators. During the campaign, it was revealed that Hobbs sexually molested two boys, in 1978 and 1982. In the latter case, a Pennsylvania judge sentenced him to nine months in jail.

Hobbs was put out by the negative publicity, which shocked everyone, especially the leaders of the anti-abortion party who had no inkling of his criminal record. Complaining that accusations of pedophilia made it difficult for him to find and keep a job, he told a reporter at a local paper: "Regardless of the fact of whether I'm guilty or unguilty, there are no children at the county legislature."

Despite the Right to Life Party's embarrassed disavowal of Hobbs, the offending clown still received 131 votes.

Members of the county board recalled Hobbs, though. Only a year earlier, in 2000, he had gone before them to ask for permission to do his clown-and-mime act at the county-operated amusement park. He even wore a goofy hat and made a dog balloon for one of the legislators to give to his daughter.

More than once, county officials resisted on the grounds that the park was not a public stage for freelance street performers. Of course, at the time they were unaware of Hobbs' past and Hobbs wasn't about to volunteer that part of his curriculum vitae.

Hobbs swore he would sue on the grounds that barring him from the Playland venue abridged his right to free speech. And sue he did, with the pro bono help of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, an international legal juggernaut that ranked 33rd on this year's New York Law Journal list of top 100 law firms.

Last week, a federal judge supported Hobbs' First Amendment argument, dismaying all who believe that the safety and security of children should outweigh a sex offender's alleged constitutional right to make animal balloons on the boardwalk.

Hobbs gives ammunition to those who, as a result of early childhood trauma, despise clowns and their frightening, in-your-face antics. In fact, expect his story to be posted in some form on ihateclowns.com, a Web site that has been devoted to anti-clown sentiment since 1996.

Designed and maintained by a Californian by the name of Rodney Blackwell, the site gets about 1,000 visitors a day. It features games, evil clown stories and a list of 34 reasons to hate clowns. (Reason No. 19: "Clowns stink.") You can buy stuff off the site, too. For example, T-shirts saying, "Can't sleep, clowns will eat me" sell for $15.95.

The ihateclowns logo is a hellish looking clown framed in a circle with a slash through it under the words, "the no clown zone." When I talked to Blackwell on Friday, he suggested that Playland officials use the logo and that park patrons wear the clown shirt as a form of protest.

While that's a funny idea, it remains to be seen whether Hobbs will actually show up when Playland opens next spring.

Parenthetically, Hobbs' favorite wines are fruit bombs from Australia that score over 95 points.


- Joe Dressner 12-31-2002 1:05 pm

sounds like there should be plenty of parking available at the ol' amusement park this year.
- the sheriff (guest) 12-31-2002 1:20 pm

A sad state of affairs. This is why everyone's moving west. That and the lack of Loire fanaticism that's rampant across the east coast. BTW, if you want to compete with erp, you'll have to step up the zaniness. Talking camels doesn't begin to compare. They've got all kinds of real animals! (Not to mention the clown!)
- NYScott (guest) 12-31-2002 6:25 pm

real animals! what am i? chopped liver?
- the camel (guest) 1-02-2003 11:27 am

I hear there's a yak and at least one pig. Not sure about chopped liver. But there's the foie gras guy and his endless sauternes notes. How are the humps?
- NYScott (guest) 1-03-2003 5:09 pm

oh they're just fine scott, thankyou for asking. i was thinking of sunning them in the carribean this winter.
- the camel (guest) 1-03-2003 6:16 pm

Have you tried Hawaii?
- NYScott (guest) 1-04-2003 11:41 am

its so far away. the last two winters we've gone to st. barth. great food, nice and warm. find some little place for lunch and hang for two hours. ready for someplace different though but am getting outvoted.
- the camel (guest) 1-04-2003 1:07 pm

expensive wine on st. barth, no? can you get a decent poulsard? many camels? hey, joe, where you going with that top 100 list?
- NYScott (guest) 1-04-2003 5:13 pm

we just drink roses and chinons. if you want to get nuts you can but who wants to get nuts?
- the camel (guest) 1-04-2003 6:01 pm

i do.
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Smart, chic choices. Any food tips?
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the wall house, les spirit de saline, gaiac, and a couple of others where i know the locations but not the names. i can get them if you want. it is a very cool place.
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