Comments on: Liar - Thief - Cheat - Selfish - Unsharing - Unloving - Unkind - Disloyal - Dishonorable - Unfaithful http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/liar-thief-cheat-selfish.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sat, 18 May 2013 09:14:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: zero http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/liar-thief-cheat-selfish.html#comment-1410477 zero Tue, 01 May 2012 16:59:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157619#comment-1410477 I had this tattoo done about a year ago. Compare and contrast. https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/261710_1715020402019_1433484811_31267112_5108536_n.jpg I had this tattoo done about a year ago. Compare and contrast.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/261710_1715020402019_1433484811_31267112_5108536_n.jpg

]]> By: Culturedropout http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/liar-thief-cheat-selfish.html#comment-1410404 Culturedropout Tue, 01 May 2012 16:15:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157619#comment-1410404 I guess whoever did this decided that trashing him on his Facebook page just wasn't enough... I guess whoever did this decided that trashing him on his Facebook page just wasn’t enough…

]]> By: Scott Taylor http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/liar-thief-cheat-selfish.html#comment-1410385 Scott Taylor Tue, 01 May 2012 16:00:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157619#comment-1410385 Oh, I thought those were his kid's names.  I went to school with a guy named Disloyal Hopkins....I wonder if they're related. Oh, I thought those were his kid’s names.  I went to school with a guy named Disloyal Hopkins….I wonder if they’re related.

]]> By: phuzz http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/liar-thief-cheat-selfish.html#comment-1410275 phuzz Tue, 01 May 2012 14:43:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157619#comment-1410275  No one could accuse Flashman of being unloving! (indiscriminate in his loving perhaps...)  No one could accuse Flashman of being unloving!
(indiscriminate in his loving perhaps…)

]]> By: phuzz http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/liar-thief-cheat-selfish.html#comment-1410270 phuzz Tue, 01 May 2012 14:37:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157619#comment-1410270  I'd agree, to my ear faithfulness and loyalty are pretty much synonyms. That's in brit English.  I’d agree, to my ear faithfulness and loyalty are pretty much synonyms.
That’s in brit English.

]]> By: chgoliz http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/liar-thief-cheat-selfish.html#comment-1410215 chgoliz Tue, 01 May 2012 13:18:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157619#comment-1410215 I spend a lot of time around genealogists, and can tell you many of us would love to find something like this.  Paper trails are very tedious.  We find a lot of NPEs (non-parental events) but usually no backstory to help us figure out how the people at the time dealt with the situation.  Or an individual family member who all of a sudden moves thousands of miles away -- often to a new continent -- and we don't know if they were looking for work, had a rambling spirit, or were trying to stay one step ahead of the law.  To actually see proof that an ancestor was known to be a jerk would be fabulous.  Usually, the sands of time have worn down any personal story.  A lot of tombstones with only a start and end date on them, nothing else. We'd like to believe we descend from conquerors and explorers, but ancestors like Bernard P. Hopkins are more representative of most people's ancestry. I spend a lot of time around genealogists, and can tell you many of us would love to find something like this.  Paper trails are very tedious.  We find a lot of NPEs (non-parental events) but usually no backstory to help us figure out how the people at the time dealt with the situation.  Or an individual family member who all of a sudden moves thousands of miles away — often to a new continent — and we don’t know if they were looking for work, had a rambling spirit, or were trying to stay one step ahead of the law.  To actually see proof that an ancestor was known to be a jerk would be fabulous.  Usually, the sands of time have worn down any personal story.  A lot of tombstones with only a start and end date on them, nothing else.

We’d like to believe we descend from conquerors and explorers, but ancestors like Bernard P. Hopkins are more representative of most people’s ancestry.

]]> By: doggjones http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/liar-thief-cheat-selfish.html#comment-1410197 doggjones Tue, 01 May 2012 12:50:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157619#comment-1410197 It's Flashy! It’s Flashy!

]]> By: Ipo http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/liar-thief-cheat-selfish.html#comment-1410184 Ipo Tue, 01 May 2012 12:10:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157619#comment-1410184 <i>"I hope Bernard wasn't upset by the addendum to his grave marker."</i>  No, no he wasn't.  Left him cold. He was dead already at that time. “I hope Bernard wasn’t upset by the addendum to his grave marker.” 

No, no he wasn’t. 
Left him cold.
He was dead already at that time.

]]> By: Ipo http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/liar-thief-cheat-selfish.html#comment-1410181 Ipo Tue, 01 May 2012 12:04:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157619#comment-1410181  Death, the final frontier.  We'll "water" your flowers for you when we come by.   Death, the final frontier. 
We’ll “water” your flowers for you when we come by. 

]]> By: AlexG55 http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/liar-thief-cheat-selfish.html#comment-1410170 AlexG55 Tue, 01 May 2012 11:36:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157619#comment-1410170 "HERE LIES EBENEZER AIKLE AGED 102 THE GOOD DIE YOUNG" “HERE LIES EBENEZER AIKLE
AGED 102
THE GOOD DIE YOUNG”

]]> By: Jens Reuterberg http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/liar-thief-cheat-selfish.html#comment-1410155 Jens Reuterberg Tue, 01 May 2012 10:12:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157619#comment-1410155 You should do what Strindberg did "and on my grave I want a huge penis in red sandstone to be erected with the inscription  "Hic Jacet" (and here he lies)" You should do what Strindberg did “and on my grave I want a huge penis in red sandstone to be erected with the inscription  ”Hic Jacet” (and here he lies)”

]]> By: billstewart http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/liar-thief-cheat-selfish.html#comment-1410089 billstewart Tue, 01 May 2012 05:18:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157619#comment-1410089 The graveyard where my father's buried dates back to the 1700s, which isn't uncommon back in the northeast US.  Most of the graves that I found notable were children under 1 year old (way too many of them), and a friend from college who'd disappeared on her way home from music lessons one day (we still hitchhiked back then) and wasn't found until months later after spring thaw. The graveyard where my father’s buried dates back to the 1700s, which isn’t uncommon back in the northeast US.  Most of the graves that I found notable were children under 1 year old (way too many of them), and a friend from college who’d disappeared on her way home from music lessons one day (we still hitchhiked back then) and wasn’t found until months later after spring thaw.

]]> By: frozenintime http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/liar-thief-cheat-selfish.html#comment-1410087 frozenintime Tue, 01 May 2012 05:13:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157619#comment-1410087 Sounds like Soapy Smith. Sounds like Soapy Smith.

]]> By: Brainspore http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/liar-thief-cheat-selfish.html#comment-1410074 Brainspore Tue, 01 May 2012 04:19:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157619#comment-1410074 <blockquote>…it's poor form to go after him when he can't defend himself.</blockquote>Seems to me that if he had been a half decent guy there would be other people willing to do the job for him.

…it’s poor form to go after him when he can’t defend himself.

Seems to me that if he had been a half decent guy there would be other people willing to do the job for him.

]]> By: Antinous / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/liar-thief-cheat-selfish.html#comment-1410070 Antinous / Moderator Tue, 01 May 2012 04:12:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157619#comment-1410070 That was my first thought, too. That was my first thought, too.

]]> By: awjt http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/liar-thief-cheat-selfish.html#comment-1410064 awjt Tue, 01 May 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157619#comment-1410064 How apropos.  I thought the addenda were referring to Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy. How apropos.  I thought the addenda were referring to Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy.

]]> By: LunarMovements http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/liar-thief-cheat-selfish.html#comment-1409985 LunarMovements Tue, 01 May 2012 02:02:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157619#comment-1409985 Those friends of mine who have dogs will sometimes refer to their loyalty, but never to their faithfulness. Perhaps that's a colloquial thing. Or maybe I hang out with a crowd that has more conventional relationships with their pets than those "people [who] talk about the faithfulness of their dogs" to which you are referring. BTW, I hope you don't let those people dog sit for you... Those friends of mine who have dogs will sometimes refer to their loyalty, but never to their faithfulness.

Perhaps that’s a colloquial thing.

Or maybe I hang out with a crowd that has more conventional relationships with their pets than those “people [who] talk about the faithfulness of their dogs” to which you are referring.

BTW, I hope you don’t let those people dog sit for you…

]]> By: Abel Undercity http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/liar-thief-cheat-selfish.html#comment-1409979 Abel Undercity Tue, 01 May 2012 01:56:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157619#comment-1409979 "Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." - Mark Twain Bernard didn't seem to quite manage that. “Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” – Mark Twain

Bernard didn’t seem to quite manage that.

]]> By: Antinous / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/liar-thief-cheat-selfish.html#comment-1409956 Antinous / Moderator Tue, 01 May 2012 01:22:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157619#comment-1409956 It's hard to imagine a cemetery allowing this.  But it kind of makes me want to try to figure out where my father is buried so that I can add some personal sentiments. HE THOUGHT THAT HE WAS A CROSS BETWEEN HUGH HEFNER AND ANDY WARHOL. WE REMEMBER HIM AS A CROSS BETWEEN TED BUNDY AND HOMER SIMPSON. It’s hard to imagine a cemetery allowing this.  But it kind of makes me want to try to figure out where my father is buried so that I can add some personal sentiments.

HE THOUGHT THAT HE WAS A CROSS BETWEEN HUGH HEFNER AND ANDY WARHOL.
WE REMEMBER HIM AS A CROSS BETWEEN TED BUNDY AND HOMER SIMPSON.

]]> By: Antinous / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/liar-thief-cheat-selfish.html#comment-1409953 Antinous / Moderator Tue, 01 May 2012 01:17:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157619#comment-1409953 Maybe his widow caught his ghost boning Almira Whipple. Maybe his widow caught his ghost boning Almira Whipple.

]]> By: Antinous / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/liar-thief-cheat-selfish.html#comment-1409949 Antinous / Moderator Tue, 01 May 2012 01:13:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157619#comment-1409949 Not to mention all those people who 'live' in the Paths of the Dead. Not to mention all those people who ‘live’ in the Paths of the Dead.

]]> By: Donald Petersen http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/liar-thief-cheat-selfish.html#comment-1409947 Donald Petersen Tue, 01 May 2012 01:11:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157619#comment-1409947 Never mind comets or military-engineered viruses, this will be the motivating factor for Patient Zero Bernie Hopkins in the new zombie apocalypse novel, <i>The Affronted Dead</i>. Never mind comets or military-engineered viruses, this will be the motivating factor for Patient Zero Bernie Hopkins in the new zombie apocalypse novel, The Affronted Dead.

]]> By: 10xor01 http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/liar-thief-cheat-selfish.html#comment-1409934 10xor01 Tue, 01 May 2012 00:54:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157619#comment-1409934 Pull My Finger No More Pull My Finger No More

]]> By: RJ http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/liar-thief-cheat-selfish.html#comment-1409935 RJ Tue, 01 May 2012 00:54:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157619#comment-1409935 Even if he was a cad in life, it's poor form to go after him when he can't defend himself. Even if he was a cad in life, it’s poor form to go after him when he can’t defend himself.

]]> By: RJ http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/liar-thief-cheat-selfish.html#comment-1409932 RJ Tue, 01 May 2012 00:51:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157619#comment-1409932 It must be upsetting to you when people talk about the faithfulness of their dogs. It must be upsetting to you when people talk about the faithfulness of their dogs.

]]> By: 10xor01 http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/liar-thief-cheat-selfish.html#comment-1409933 10xor01 Tue, 01 May 2012 00:51:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157619#comment-1409933 Interesting story, thanks for posting.  This one lacks commentary, but is also notable: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Head&GSfn=Dick&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=19768734&df=all& Interesting story, thanks for posting.  This one lacks commentary, but is also notable:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Head&GSfn=Dick&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=19768734&df=all&amp;

]]> By: LunarMovements http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/liar-thief-cheat-selfish.html#comment-1409911 LunarMovements Tue, 01 May 2012 00:23:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157619#comment-1409911 "(isn't that covered by "disloyal"?)" No. You can be "disloyal" to friends, cohorts, and country while keeping your pants on. It's generally understood that when someone is accused of being "unfaithful" that the betrayal is of a romantic partner with whom you vowed to be sexually monogomous. “(isn’t that covered by “disloyal”?)”

No. You can be “disloyal” to friends, cohorts, and country while keeping your pants on. It’s generally understood that when someone is accused of being “unfaithful” that the betrayal is of a romantic partner with whom you vowed to be sexually monogomous.

]]> By: OgilvyTheAstronomer http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/liar-thief-cheat-selfish.html#comment-1409903 OgilvyTheAstronomer Tue, 01 May 2012 00:12:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157619#comment-1409903 Not a fan of how it switches from nouns to adjectives after the first three, but at least they kept it consistent after that. Not a fan of how it switches from nouns to adjectives after the first three, but at least they kept it consistent after that.

]]> By: MooseDesign http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/liar-thief-cheat-selfish.html#comment-1409896 MooseDesign Tue, 01 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157619#comment-1409896 I love this one from Hollywood cemetery in Richmond, Virginia... There is a fellow buried between his wife and mistress and their mutual headstone reads, "kept" and "satisfied". I have a pic of it somewhere but in the meantime here is one I found on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/montanapets/6270634296/ If you ever find yourself in Richmond and are a history buff of any stripe, definitely take  tour... its a beautiful cemetery with loads of great history and character. I love this one from Hollywood cemetery in Richmond, Virginia… There is a fellow buried between his wife and mistress and their mutual headstone reads, “kept” and “satisfied”. I have a pic of it somewhere but in the meantime here is one I found on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/montanapets/6270634296/

If you ever find yourself in Richmond and are a history buff of any stripe, definitely take  tour… its a beautiful cemetery with loads of great history and character.

]]> By: SedanChair http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/liar-thief-cheat-selfish.html#comment-1409886 SedanChair Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:47:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157619#comment-1409886 I thought this was going to be about "Newt's Word List": http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4443.htm  I thought this was going to be about “Newt’s Word List”:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4443.htm 

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