The raft of late night posts is simply to set up for the morning rush.
It's tempting to let everything continue sequentially until the topic wanes or the conversation spins into a live-chat monstrosity, but we'll try the thematic posts this morning.
It's why tabbed browsers were invented.
OPEN THREAD
posted by Cthulhu @ 12:32 AM
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88 Comments:
3 dollars. They like me...they really LIKE ME!!!!!!
Ok, I am totally bummed. My laptop is up and working agin so I can flame the Frischmeister from the comfort of my Lay-Z-Boy once again, however I had to re-install Windows XP and every other program I had, and lost the My Documents file with all my pictures, the book I was writing, documants, and music, as well as all my MST3K movies.
Totally bummed, but at least my hard drive wasn't fried.
Yes I have most things backed up. It isn't what I know is gone, but rather te stuff I won't find out about till later.
Testing new avatar
Ahhh....this is the one. Perfect
Wait...why didn't that work?
Good morning, VBSers! It's Frischmas Eve!
Good morning, all! Before I rush off to face the horror that is I-85 (316 to 285, you Georgians know what I'm talkin' about here), I thought I'd leave you with a song that Neal Boortz used to greet the day with:
Good morning, good morning
I hope you're feeling swell
Good morning, good morning
(da-ding ding ding)
You look like Hell!
(ding-ding ding-ding dingdingding)
Your face looks to us
like a tractor ran over it
Your hair looks like Don King
You look like sh*t!
Wow, over at the sjdm listserv, there's all these jobs -- nice jobs -- NIH disease modeling, game economics in Alberta, intelligence analysis at Sandia down in the lovely Southwest.
It's just too bad for Debbie that such places have sanity as a prerequisite.
Well I'll be...she posted my dancin' monkey song.
For the record: Hose, I liked Plankton better.
Good morning, all! It's off to work for me. Will check in later.
I'll bet Chell gave her the $3.
Oh wait, I know, it was Deb who put in the $3. She's "priming the pump" so to speak.
I vote with oregonmuse.
Wait, no, I mean I vote with oregonmuse for Chell.
oregonmuse - you're fast!
Mornin' all -
In the "DHDU" thread last night, SBH commented:
Someone ought to write a nice little piece of music for this august blog. Something in Phryschian Mode. Or would that be Frischian Mode? Sounds like a question for Fatwa.
For those with enquiring minds (which I think is pretty much all of us), SBH is referring to one of several traditional musical scales or "modes", this one being the Phrygian mode.
It's basically a type of minor scale; if you were to play it on an instrument, it runs from E to E using no flats or sharps (the black keys on a piano, for you non-musicians). The term goes back to ancient Greek music but its precise definition was changed over time. For a little more background, peep (heh) the entries at Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrygian_mode
I would be more than willing to undertake writing and recording a little DHD orchestral piece strictly for teh gang's entertainment. (And to help advance my chances of scoring "DHD: Teh Movie", of course!)
I'll put up a thread at my abysmal little blog; any interested parties are welcome to leave comments and we'll go from there.
I know a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, especially when it comes to mental flaws... that caveat said, check this out:
1. An exaggerated sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)
2. Preoccupation with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love
3. Believes he is "special" and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions)
4. Requires excessive admiration
5. Has a sense of entitlement
6. Selfishly takes advantage of others to achieve his own ends
7. Lacks empathy
8. Is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him
9. Shows arrogant, haughty, patronizing, or contemptuous behaviors or attitudes
Yeah, but is it treatable? Which then begs the question, why would you want to fix what's a legend in your own mind?
Fatwa,
If you need a master tambourinist, I'm available for accompaniment (I'm a pretty good maracasist as well).
I thought she was a textbook antisocial personality disorder case but when she was asking yesterday for our names and addresses so she'd know who was "worth talking to" and advertising on craigslist for a galpal with a post-grad degree (and car!).
Hose -
See my comment on Technical thread.
On treatability:
Narcissists rarely enter treatment and, once in treatment, progress very slowly. We're talking about two or more years of frequent sessions before the narcissist can acknowledge even that the therapist is sometimes helpful. It's difficult to keep narcissists in treatment long enough for improvement to be made -- and few people, narcissists or not, have the motivation or the money to pursue treatment that produces so little so late.
hosedragger:
JAY AND SILENT BOB! Yes! :D They are so filthy and delightfully vulgar.
Blizzardlane,
Great find. Interesting problem in differential diagnosis. She still could be sociopathic; her insults might reflect an attempt to cause distress, apart from any existing grandiosity. Narcissists are hard as hell to pin down--the article got that right. I remember one patient I was testing and interviewing over two days once who'd been short-term remanded to a county hospital's inpatient unit (she'd been brought to the emergency room by Sheriff's deputies). I could not pin her down, just could not. She helped organize my thinking a bit when she looked out the 8th floor window and said, "It sure is a long way up."
Thanks for the web reference.
But now, I just can't stay to socialize, I'm just too busy being overwhelmed with all the pressing and vital things I have to do all by myself--holding the world together for all the little people. But, I don't mind--I've sacrificed myself for others my entire life, even when I was the smartest and youngest person to hold every faculty position at Oxford since Sir Isaac Newton. Even though they aren't human to me. And I could kill them. . . with my mind.
I think Deb has exhibited so many signs of different mental illness, I'm just going to go with batfrisch crazy®.
Or sh*thouse crazy. Either one works.
Whatever her problem is, she is a minimally functioning person and as long as all she is destroying is her own career and credibility, there's not much anyone can do to force her into treatment.
texette -
That's you, always giving. In a really scary way, of course.
eri,
love the daisy.
Texette - Well thank you, my dear :)
BrendaK,
Yes, yes I am.
Feel the power. I mean the love. That's the ticket. Feel the love.
So Shelob has posted again. Apparently a friend of 18 years (or an 18-year-old friend, as she writes; who knows what the posterthing means) told her she was "loco in the coco." And of course Deb disagreed, but is having second thoughts.
It brings a song to the heart:
It's beginning to sound a lot like Frischmas
Listen to her shout.
The creep of South(West)Paw
Has sand stuck her craw.
She blames us all for her big falling out.
It's beginning to look a lot like Frischmas.
Everything she writes.
Her thinking is bewilderin'
So you'd better hide your children
When she picks those online fights!
Treatment for these narcissistic/antisocial/borderline personality disorder types remains difficult, in my amateur opinion, because they don't normally seek treatment. This is because they don't think anything is wrong with them. Even when their lives are totally dysfunctional, it's always for reasons other than anything they themselves have done.
It's always somebody else's fault.
teh deb™ put another $2 into teh tip jar.
Denny
I've known several people like Deb, too, and what I find interesting is that they've all been women.
Not all narcissists are women, are they? Hey VBSers, has anybody had any experience with a Deb-type person (and by that I mean an overgrown sense of entitlement, the insistence that they are special and better than anyone else, and continual frustration because nobody recognizes them for the geniuses that they are) who was male? I'm hoping that the sample size of my experience is just too small.
Perhaps you should go back to the math, and also try some psychotherapy. Meds would be good.
Personally, I think splashing her with Holy Water and shouting, "THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU," would be far more effective.
As usual, this 'friend' is doomed to disappointment. It's exactly like the 'take it up a notch' crap she does before every single batfrisch phreak out.
And, she'll start avoiding her last friend, except for Chell. Debbie totally loves Chell. For now (ominous music in background)
Fred -
That's perfect. I could just see Dr. Evil drenching her with a bucket of holy water.
Oh, oregonmuse, dear, dear oregon person. Narcissistic men? Gay or straight?
You know that complete a*****e one or more of your good friends keeps getting involved with--the one that keeps treating them like shite. Who buys them an engagement ring with THEIR credit card, who you can't stand to have at parties because you want to just smack 'im, and so you all start avoiding him and your friend gets isolated, too. And he uses this isolation to so screw up your friend's life, that, by the time he's left, your friend has to be picked up out of the gutter with forceps? And of course, he never meant to hit your friend, but your friend just made him do it?
Does this sound familiar to anyone?
I think men & women have to share this one.
Fred,
Has anyone ever told you you're a friggin' genius?
Morning All!
Thanks for the comments on the lexicon! There's a few more going in sometime today. Tim tipped me off to the "real democracy" bit that she keeps trotting out.
And wasn't it one of the lawyers giving Ms. Frisch all that legal advice that seeded the 10 dollars in the first place? I thought I read that somewhere. I could be wrong. Can anyone verify that?
Has anyone ever told you you're a friggin' genius?
Many times. Of course...I've always enjoyed talking to myself.
Oregonmuse, my ex.
Bone idle, wouldn't take jobs that were "beneath" him, display was all.
Initially, I just thought he was shallow. Later, I came to realize it was worse than that.
Joe - there was comment from some guy (name: texan) that said he put it in.
I think it was signed texan. The comment indicated he felt sorry for her.
Thank you texette and dianna, nice to know that we men are responsibly contributing our fair share of fruits and vegetables to the loony bin.
She really is going back and revising history. A month ago she referred to a certain Harvard professor as "Danny Gilbert, a pompous, sexist, pudgy but curiously popular psychology prof at the disgusting cesspool of sexism and academentia formerly known as hahvad university" ... now the "pompous, sexist, pudgy" part is gone -- and harvard is spelled correctly. Odd, that.
Blizz:
She's trying to sweep the dustbunnies under the rug and put the dirty dishes in the closet for potential "employers." Like when she deleted the post with all the pictures of the UO psych profs.
Brenda:
Thanks! That's what I thought.
As for narcissists, I've known both men and women with some or all of those traits. All of the narcissists I've known have been either an only child or the baby.
Staci:
Ha ha! It's a good thing she doesn't know how to use google! Although I'm sure she'd get a bath there at least once a month.
ohh, man.
I've got the keys to this place for less than 24 hours and already Blizzardlane's got me DSM-IV pegged.
I knew I pickd teh wrong week to give up amphetamines.
Perhaps to increase the hit count on Google we need to be more formal.
"Dr. Deborah Frisch" this, or "Deborah Frisch, PhD" that. Instead of Dr. Frischenstein or Debmentia.
Yoda:
No way. It would take her forever to spell it and she doesn't know how to cut and paste. Plus, there's the whole search engine magic box with buttons thing she hasn't figured out yet.
Master Yoda,
I doubt it. In fact, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the word "football" brought a blank look to her face.
I just had a flashback to Ralphie in A Christmas Story:
"Football?...What's a football?"
Geesh, why does drinking in the afternoon make your eyelids feel heavy. Come on Red Bull, kick in.
I would think that the Red Bull and teh Vodka would work at cross purposes and cancel each other out. Am I mistaken in this?
Sorry if tihs question is off-topic, but...
Is anyone here a mixologist?
I was thinking that we should design a new cocktail: "teh Deb Frisch" or "teh Frisch" (as in "Ugh! I wanna get cray zee--Bartender, gimmee a Frisch!")
Question: What should be in it?
Two thoughts:
(1) Straight well-vodka...with a
side-bowl of nuts;
(2) Well-vodka...with lots of fruit-flourishes;
Tim:
I suggest teh vodka® garnished with whoppers, both to simulate the lies she tells herself and to remind us of poo flingin'!
Absinthe, with a vodka chaser. That'll do it, right there.
The deb-drink has to have a little paper unmbrella in it. I don't know why, it just sounds cRaZEe.
Whoa - she's letting comments through, and she's not editorializing on them!
Aside from one nasty comment, everyone's telling her to listen to her friend! Amazing!
oregon,
And swords. Don't forget the swords.
OK, we can call the drink "the Dancing Monkey" and it has to have some kind of banana garnish or flavoring in it.
"Barkeep, I'd like a Dancing Monkey with extra banana, please."
That sounds about right.
Yeah, a "Dancing Monkey"~~taht's a good 1!
p.s. teh!™
Yeah, i like the swords. They convey just a hint of violence, just like our Deb.
Though tehy gotta be *dull* swords~
'coz sharp is waht teh deb™ surely ain't.
OK, here it is:
TEH DANCING MONKEY
Ingredients:
* 3 shots WTF Vodka
* 1 shot Banana liqueur
* 2 shots Creme de Cacao
* 2 scoops Chocolate ice-cream
* 1 oz Chocolate syrup
* 4 oz Chocolate milk or white milk
* 1 Whipped cream
* * mixed nuts and dried fruits
* 1 piece Banana
Mixing instructions:
blend teh vodka, liqueurs with ice-cream, milk and syrup. pour into parfait glass, top with whipped cream and garnish with banana, nuts, and fruits.
I seem to remeber little, plastic monkeys with curly tails that hung on the side of the glass. Those would be good.
Staci said...
. . . Debbie, here is my contact info:
501 Front Street
Norfolk, VA 23510
Tel.: 757-622-7382
Staci,
So, you work for PETA, huh? 757-622-PETA
:-)
The drink, by the way, is an adaptation of a drink called the Chocolate Monkey I found on www.webtender.com. Webtender is an excellent site, by the way, for all your drinking needs.
Don't tell Deb, though.
Fred: taht's genius!
O.M.: tell ehr what?
p.s. teh!™
Now we need a sandwich. Obviously, it should be full of baloney.
yeah: call it an "anti-hero" sub :)
I seem to remeber little, plastic monkeys with curly tails that hung on the side of the glass. Those would be good.
Wait a minute, aren't you thinking of that game called Barrel o' Monkeys where you dumped a bunch of those curly armed and tailed plastic monkeys and you had to pick them up in one long chain?
That game was more fun than...hmmm
UnF'd:
...then we'll just have to tell her we'll "have to agree to disagree"™
Vodka Cra-zee
3 oz. teh Vodka
1 oz. coconut rum
1 oz. passion fruit nectar
1 oz. guava nectar
3 oz. o.j. (the liquid kind)
dark rum float
Mix in cocktail shaker with cracked ice and strain into double rocks glass. Float dark rum. Garnish with raisinettes on a dull sword and a paper umbrella.
Frisch and fruity and you can fling the raisinettes while attemmpting ripostes with your dull sword.
I like the idea of cocktail monkey decorations.
Tuna:
Yeah! La Frischie rules!
hawksp wonders: Question: How is Gods name does Mr. Sinners site keep falling pages behind when I do a google search, when we're having 600+ hit threads and SWP is getting nothing but crickets and Chell?
And we're teh #2 for "teh deb"
:)
And most of the top 10 for Frischmas!
The Piled Higher and Deeper anti-Hero
French roll
Extra-virgin olive oil
Balsamic vinegar
Radicchio
Arugula
Miracle Whip
Smoked ring balogna
Pickled ring balogna
Dijon mustard
Using only your rapier wit, slice open a french roll. Brush one side with extra-virgin olive oil and the other with balsamic vinegar. Layer one side with radicchio and the other with arugula. Cover the greens with a generous portion of Miracle Whip (to act as a binder). On one side, place slices of smoked ring balogna. On the other, slices of pickled ring balogna. Coat with dijon mustard. Carefully assemble the two halves and wrap in parchment paper (your diploma will do) and allow to marinate in a cold, dark place (your refrigerator) for a few hours or overnight. Serve with a bag of nuts and some raisinettes.
"bologna" not "balogna"
allow to marinate in a cold, dark place (your refrigerator)
Deb's bed is a cold, dark place, too.
paddy,
Now those were clever. And sound tasty!
blizzardlane,
Ouch.
That was harsh, I know, but I'm really hoping that that last post was a sign that this may be the Last Frischmas Ever. As much fun as this is for me, I keep thinking, this woman has family and friends who are probably agonizing every day over this nonsense of hers.
Thanks Texette! I owe it all to the Swedish Chef - bjork! bjork! bjork! Svenske köttbullar!
The drink should work out, taste-wise. The PhD would need to be modified. Eliminate the pickled bologna, miracle whip (shudder), and dijon. Add good italian salami, mortadella, and sun-dried tomato pesto.
Buen provecho!
bjork! bjork! bjork!
teh™! teh™! teh™!
How can mixology ever be off topic on a blog about Dr. Deborah Frisch?
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