On Nov 20, 6:25 am, David Richerby
wrote:
J.D. Walker wrote:
I've seen the term ratpacker used frequently.

It's a term that Phil Innes and Larry Parr use to mean, `a member of
the global conspiracy against me.'


It would be more accurate to say that in Larry Parr's
mind, the conspiracy centers around his idol, Larry Evans.

Nearly-an-imp Innes hardly deserves mentioning, since it
was his master who adopted the term; when asked "who
built the pyrarmids", does one answer "a bunch of lowly
slaves, who got whipped every day"? Of course not.

Ah, but this is all a fantasy, for LP is not really deluded
in that respect. His ploy is a deeply dishonest device,
and he knows full well there is no "ratpack" headed up
by phantom Ed Winter. Ad hominem is LP's hobby, so
to speak; rhetoric and lies, his religion. Terms like
"ratpackers" can easily be replaced if other terms come
to hand, or on a whim.

The red herring is his state fish, and it has served him
well. Like a skilled magician, Mr. Parr uses misdirection
and diversion to obscure weaknesses and refocus
attention on random other props and things. But I was
never impressed by that sort of thing. What I wanted
was for Harry Houdini to be bound, gagged, knocked
unconscious and chained, then dropped into a vat of
boiling sulfuric acid and a ton of TNT thrown in. After
this, I expect half the audience to be injured in a huge
explosion, and the the real fireworks start: Air Force
bombers fly over, dropping napalm and yet somehow,
the magician emerges from the carnage unscathed.

Next, we see him sawed in half before our very eyes,
then dropped into the mouth of an angry great white
shark, in pieces... . Okay, maybe I expect too much.


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