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Von Mises' Apprentice

 
  

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Joy Division Oven Gloves
22:58 / 09.05.06
I'd recommend a nice cup of tea between Screaming Orgasms
 
 
Tryphena Absent
23:06 / 09.05.06
Your cocktails Master:

A coconut fantabulsoamarina


Screaming Orgasm


Tequila Sunrise


I am afraid that we have a shocking lack of tomatoes on the island. It seems they were eaten by the TREACHEROUS birds that I have now SLAUGHTERED. The A-TEAM intends to SELL them to the illegal uranium miners that we industriously employed at the lowest possible wage while you were on the other island. I have instead made you a Bloody Mary using my OWN BLOOD-

 
 
Alex's Grandma
23:18 / 09.05.06
It's none of my business, of course, dear ever fantistic Dr Sir Von, but, don't some of those drinks seem as if they might have been 'medicined'?
 
 
Joy Division Oven Gloves
23:50 / 09.05.06
Sir Von, it appears the perimeter has been breached by some kind of ELITE COMMUNIST DOUBLE AGENT with no conception of PRIVATE PROPERTY, intent on spoiling your HARD EARNED vacation. Perhaps it would be wise to bring the BIG GAME HUNT forward a day?

You've got a five minute head-start Alex.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
07:29 / 10.05.06


Indeed, pass me my BLUNDERBUSS.

As I take AIM, perhaps my TARGET will hear me call out a firm REBUKE as follows:

"MEDICINAL drinks are exactly what a body NEEDS at my time of life, you young fuckwit! DUCK DOWN! BLAO!"

...And so on and so forth.

I believe I can see a BOAT on the horizon, come to COLLECT me.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
20:41 / 10.05.06
It is night, and a full moon hangs low over the South Pacific. Beneath the surface, a shoal of blue whales flees in vain the rapacious appetities of man, man who is the most brutal of all animals. These waters, once clear and blue and sparkling with the reflection of the stars, are now befouled by unnatural pollutants, inventions of the twisted human mind.

But lo! What sweet music is this? What is the song that can be heard, carried over the sea, bringing with it the promise of hope and renewal?

Let us follow the sound, gentle reader, follow it until we find the source, which is a proud, elegantly fashioned private yacht, a gleaming silver scimitar slicing through the waves.

Let us approach closer, and we shall see, sprawled in a deckchair upon the fore deck, the figure of a small, stout, aged man, wearing only a pair of "tighty whities" and a World War II US Infantry helmet, and clutching a bottle of whisky.

What is he singing? He is singing a song. How does it go? It goes like this:

"There is a man!
A certain man!
And for the poor you may be sshure that he'll do all he can...
Who is this one?
Whoshe favorite son?
Jusht by his action hasss the traction magnetsh on the run?
Who likesss to smoke?
Enjoysh a joke?
And wouldn't get a bit upset
If he were really broke?
With wealth and fame
He's ssshtill the same!
I'll bet you five he's not alive
If you don't know his name...
He is Von Mises!
VON FUCKING MISES!"



Hello, all of YOU.

What a most ENJOYABLE task. And what a most HARD decision I now face. This judgment requires much THOUGHT.

...

Right, that is THAT. Both teams did their BEST to make me WELCOME on their islands, and both exercised CREATIVITY in the expression of their HOSPITALITY and honest SERVITUDE. A man could get used to this LIFESTYLE. So I have.

However, ONE team went the EXTRA MILE by piling on OFFERS of ENTERTAINMENT before I could even ASK for it, metaphorically taking my COAT from my poor tired SHOULDERS and slipping on my SLIPPERS the moment I stepped through the DOOR. (There was no door. WE WERE ON AN ISLAND.)

That team was THE A-TEAM. I declare them the WINNERS of this TASK.

Meanwhile, I am sorry to say, that while they responded very QUICKLY in some cases, THE MAGNICICENT SEVEN also incurred a PENALTY for making me WAIT the longest - EIGHT AND A HALF HOURS, not six as I mistakenly said earlier. They are the LOSERS, a situation with which half of their team will be all too FAMILIAR.

Haus, Undertoad, Whisky Priestess, Alex's Grandma: hurry up and tell me which one of you I should DISMISS. Although I can not GUARANTEE that I haven't made my mind up already.

VM.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
21:02 / 10.05.06
As an EXAMPLE to EVERYONE, not least the UK GOVERNMENT, in terms of TAKING A BULLET FOR THE TEAM, I'm going to nominate myself, and FALL ON MY OWN SWORD. Like that Yukio Mishima, who HAD A LOT OF SENSIBLE IDEAS.

Perhaps other members of the Magnificent Seven might care to join me in this act of INTERWEB HARA-KIRI?

The puppet master is surplus to requirements if THE STRINGS ARE CUT.

If not, can I stay on the island, Doktor V? And can I have a ball of some sort to draw a face on so there's someone to talk to, here in the proposed sojourn, at the ends of the earth?
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
21:07 / 10.05.06


You may have a CANNONBALL, Alex's Grandma.

Because you're FIRED. And will now be literally FIRED, out of one of the CANNONS I have mounted on my YACHT, in the vague direction of one of the ISLANDS.

Best of luck. Swim fast.

BOOM!
 
 
Alex's Grandma
21:14 / 10.05.06
Oh fuck it, I'm lying - You should sack Haus. Or The Undertoad. Or Whisky Priestess.

Anyone else except me ...
 
 
Alex's Grandma
21:35 / 10.05.06


YOU, all of you, my erstwhile colleagues, are responsible for the ingrained lines on this WEARY OLD FACE.

I go to get GIN now.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
08:07 / 11.05.06


SIX candidates REMAIN. My search for my apprentice... CONTINUES.

The next TASK will NOT be conducted in TEAMS. It is the much-dreaded INTERVIEW ROUND.

You will shortly each receive a series of QUESTIONS. You must return them with FULL and FRANK ANSWERS to me, and I will ASSESS your SUITABILITY to be my lickspittle accordingly.

At the end of this round, TWO candidates will be FIRED.

That is ALL.

VM.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
15:35 / 18.05.06
Pick me, SirVon! I may be a SALES(WO)MAN but I also have MAD PEOPLE SKILLZ!
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
18:39 / 18.05.06


A message for HAUS:

Please PM me your ANSWERS forthwith! Let me know if you did not receive my most excellent QUESTIONS.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
08:47 / 22.05.06
SirVon

If the HAUS is too much of a SLUGABED to respond promptly and fervently to your QUIZ, why should he DRAG the rest of us down and DELAY the PROGRESS of other HARD-WORKING POTENTIAL APPRENTICES? It's SOCIALISM gone MAD, I tell you!

With great respect, SirVon, for this FLAGRANT FAILURE of the task, does he not DESERVE to be fired?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
09:27 / 22.05.06
And perhaps, COMRADE PRIESTESS, when you have finished telling HERR DOKTOR VON MISES what to do, you could return to your MARXIST FEMINIST COMMUNE?
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
09:41 / 22.05.06


I have just realised that STOATIE has not yet submitted his answers EITHER. Stoatie, please inform me if you did receive my MOST EXCELLENT questions.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
12:11 / 22.05.06
I have just SENT them to you, but BARBELITH appeared to be AFFLICTED by SQUIRRELS. Please let me know if you received them.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
13:31 / 22.05.06


I have NOT. Please send AGAIN!
 
 
Whisky Priestess
13:40 / 22.05.06
And perhaps, COMRADE PRIESTESS, when you have finished telling HERR DOKTOR VON MISES what to do, you could return to your MARXIST FEMINIST COMMUNE?

Stung into action by my RIGHTEOUS REPRIMAND, eh Haus? Woken from your SLUMBERS by the POKEY STICK of CONSCIENCE?
 
 
Disco is My Class War
13:58 / 22.05.06
CHANNEL 23 FEEDBACK
23 May 2006

Dear Sir,

I write with regard to Von Mises' Apprentice (Tuesdays, 7.30pm; Von Mises Uncut, Fridays 10.30pm.)

What sort of reality TV show is this? Last week it was obvious that the apprenatices had help on the island. Next time you should take away their access to Google Image Search and make them do it the OLD FASHIONED WAY with banana leaves, bamboo poles, starvation and JUNGLE PLANT LORE.

And now this week. What's the point of having a REALITY TV SHOW if all the drama happens OFFSCREEN? If you want my advice on the latest interview round, don't keep these interviews secret. These apprentices lack opportunities to reveal what's known in showbiz as their TRUE CHARACTERS. I'd be putting them in the INTERVIEW ROOM, assigning members of the OPPOSING TEAM to a control room outside, and playing "Truth or Dare" with ELECTRICAL SHOCKS. How about a shock for any answer that doesn't refine the art of capitalism? The person who gives the least shocks gets FIRED. Then we could see what they're REALLY MADE OF.

It's a pity we can't VOTE on this show, Von Mises, but there is one way we can vote: with our remote controls. Give us BLOOD, Von Mises, or your free market-loving audience is gonna switch to Big Brother. Hoist with your own PETARD, or WHAT?

Sincerely,
A. Viewer
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
14:18 / 22.05.06


Both the QUESTIONS and ANSWERS will of course be made PUBLIC in due course, you disrespectful young MALCONTENT. In the meantime, GET OFF MY PROPERTY, or you will find youself with an arse full of BUCKSHOT.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
21:21 / 22.05.06


I now present the ANSWERS in the order in which they were RECEIVED.

Firstly, THE UNDERTOAD:


1. What has been the most SIGNIFICANT achievement of your life TO DATE?
Well sir, I'd have to say that my most magnificent achievement(so far), would be spawning my young capitalist seed! Some ignorant woman might say it was his mother that did all the hard work, but I provided much invaluable moral support by reading the collected writings of Corneilius Vanderbilt!

2. What was the last RECORDING OF MUSIC that you exchanged MONEY for? Describe how listening to it made you FEEL.
The last albut I bought was "Bring it On" by Horrorpops! They are a wonderfully money-loving band from Denmark. Listening to it really made me want to go smite some socialists!

3. Name THREE of your HEROES. They may be from HISTORY, FICTION, or even POPULAR CULTURE, but you should also explain why you REVERE them so.
Von Mises- Sir, I worship you with a passion that is usually only reserved for Mel Gibson movies about Christ!

Corneilius Vanderbilt- the OG robber barron!

General Patton- "Old Blood and Guts" should be everyone's hero!

4. Is there any POSITION with you consider to be too DEMEANING for a mentor to request his apprenctice to ASSUME in the course of a day’s honest WORK?
No, sir! As long as it means earning money!

5. FINALLY, of all the WISE things which I, Ludwig Von Mises, have said upon BARBELITH, which is your very favourite, and WHY?
SHUT UP MEGATRON, for the SAKE of GOD! It makes me swoon!

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These answers please me, Ludwig Von Mises, especially the answer to question FIVE. Well done, GOOD and FAITHFUL servant!

VM.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
10:04 / 23.05.06


Next we have the answers of one WHISKY PRIESTESS.

(There was some FLIM-FLAM and FLATTERY before and after her answers which I will give the attention it deserves, i.e. NONE, and EXCISE from this account.)



1. What has been the most SIGNIFICANT achievement of your life TO DATE?

Ah, so many to choose from. But I would have to say that it was WRINGING eight grand out of a TV gameshow production company by virtue of my HARD EARNED EDUCATION and sheer GOOD LUCK. I won a couple of gameshows which puts my hourly earning rate at about £1,500 per hour - an ACHIEVEMENT in anyone's book. Then I blew it all on FINE WINES and EXPENSIVE, SOON TO BE OBSOLETE GADGETS.


2. Would you rather be RICH or find ROMANTIC LOVE? Give REASONS for your answer.

Surely it goes without saying that ROMANTIC LOVE can only follow the ACQUISITION of LUCRE? What woman or man could LOVE one who is not RICH?


3. Is there any POSITION with you consider to be too DEMEANING for a mentor to request his apprenctice to ASSUME in the course of a day’s honest WORK?

Purveyor at tube stations of the SOCIALIST WORKER newspaper, or the LAUGHABLY POOR VALUE so-called BIG so-called ISSUE. (Why can't they wear DECENT SUITS??? Or DO ANY PROPER MARKETING?!?)


4. Describe in detail only the GOOD things that come to mind when I ask you to think about your MOTHER.

Her enormous, HYPNOTIC, throbbing, mighty BANK ACCOUNT.


5. FINALLY, of all the WISE things which I, Ludwig Von Mises, have said upon BARBELITH, which is your very favourite, and WHY?

Oh, such cruelty to force a TRUE DISCIPLE to choose!
Oh, all right then. I really liked this one, as it made me PULL MY SOCKS UP and, in a very real sense, GET ON MY BIKE of CAPITALIST ENDEAVOUR. As well as TAKING DOWN TO CHINATOWN, in an even more real and DESERVEDLY PAINFUL sense, that WORK-SHY LAGGARD Alex's Grandma:

Alex's Grandma and Whisky Priestess are a pair of FECKLESS WASTERS whose SLOTH and FLAGRANT AVERSION TO HARD WORK made Von Mises do a little sick, in his own noble mouth, the other day. Nevertheless, they at least have had the GOOD GRACE to GROVEL and ask for my FORGIVENESS.


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Whisky Priestess has answered question 3 INCORRECTLY, and will no doubt be penalised for this. I would also note that she has, with her answer to question 5, drawn attention to her own PREVIOUS FEEBLE EFFORTS in a risky fashion. We shall see if this STRATEGEM pays dividends, or not.

VM.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
10:10 / 23.05.06


The third set of answers are from the WOULD-BE APPRENTICE currently calling herself ANNA DE LOGARDIERE:

1. What has been the most SIGNIFICANT achievement of your life TO DATE?

Realising that all people were scum but TRUE CAPITALISTS. I was eight years old. Tender, young, vulnerable. A man tried to sell me a train ticket in the street. I realised that all trade was FREE. I took that ticket from his hungry hands free of charge and sold it on to an even younger child. Then I SPENT that money on lemons for my lemonade stand.


2. Name THREE of your HEROES. They may be from HISTORY, FICTION, or even POPULAR CULTURE, but you should also explain why you REVERE them so.

VON MISES. Mickey Mouse and myself. Mickey Mouse is a giant mouse who has CONQUERED THE WORLD WITH FREE TRADE. All other people and mice are communist scum and cannot be revered. Will I use flirting or lies to become your APPRENTICE? NO because only FREE TRADE matters.


3. Is there any POSITION with you consider to be too DEMEANING for a mentor to request his apprenctice to ASSUME in the course of a day’s honest WORK?

YES. The POSITION that forced me to lose money.


4. Would you rather be RICH or find ROMANTIC LOVE? Give REASONS for your answer.

RICH. Romantic love loses money through gift giving and foolish whimsy. MONEY loses no MONEY.


5. FINALLY, of all the WISE things which I, Ludwig Von Mises, have said upon BARBELITH, which is your very favourite, and WHY?

Nina Skryty - excellent, an auspicious start! A

Because I should rightfully be THE APPRENTICE.


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I, Von Mises, will have to decide whether the answer to question 3 above is as ERRONEOUS as that of Whisky Priestess - really, the only acceptable answer other than "NO" is "The POSITION that forced YOU, Von Mises, to lose money". However, I am moved by the story of Miss Logardiere's GRIFTING as a child, and impressed by her AMBITION.

VM.
 
 
Disco is My Class War
03:33 / 24.05.06
Sir Von,

Oh dear. It's been brought to my attention that last week I was confusing your show with some American mocku-drama called Lost. They certainly did have help. My humblest apologies to you, your cast and crew. Carry on.

AV
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
12:15 / 24.05.06


ONWARDS we go. These answers are from JOY DIVISION OVEN-GLOVES.


1. What has been the most SIGNIFICANT achievement of your life TO DATE?

In my role as self-appointed retail watchdog, I feel I have achieved much for the cause of local consumers after informing many shopping outlets, in great detail, of the shortcomings in their employees’ customer service skills.

I have lost count of the number of times I have been forced to speak to store owners after a member of their checkout team has invalidated my consumer experience by not affording me the common courtesy of calling me Sir; or slouching in their seat as if they wished to be somewhere other than listening to the many interesting observations I have to make on a variety of subjects including their personal appearance; or becoming positively indifferent when I proffer my phone number and an invitation to dinner later. Many seem not to grasp that in paying them I am entitled to their unconditional gratitude for shopping there.

Sadly, not all have cared to heed my well-intentioned advice and my freedom to shop where I choose has been cruelly curtailed by legal orders banning me from entering branches of several well-known high street chains. I remain unbowed though and once the paint has dried on my placards and I shall return to continue my struggle for decent consumer rights in this country.


2. Name THREE of your HEROES. They may be from HISTORY, FICTION, or even POPULAR CULTURE, but you should also explain why you REVERE them so.

A hero from history

Why, your legacy as the 20th century’s sharpest mind and snappiest dresser speaks for itself.

A hero from popular culture

Your WILL for others to PROFIT from your ACCUMULATED wisdom conquers even death itself. REBRANDED you enter the modern world of celebrity as agony uncle, TAKING OVER with great HOSTILITY a role MONOPOLISED by feminists telling impressionable teens it’s a good thing to have more babies because then they will get bigger council houses.

A hero from fiction

Please don’t mistake me here, I have no doubt of your objective reality and don’t believe for a moment you are the imaginings of some DEMENTED SOCIALIST intent on SUBVERTING the ideals of LIBERTARIAN ECONOMICS. Possibly for entertainment.
No. I refer of course to the DEMAND you are SUPPLYING in my personal psychic narrative as the greatest hero of all, my OEDIPAL FATHER.


3. Is there any POSITION with you consider to be too DEMEANING for a mentor to request his apprenctice to ASSUME in the course of a day’s honest WORK?


Absolutely not. The inculcation of HATRED through HUMILIATION in underlings is essential if they are to move beyond their lowly station and blossom into beautiful flowers of CAPITALIST ENTERPRISE. Whilst lesser skivvies crowd around the water cooler, their spirits broken, discussing VAGUE and ANTI-CAPITALIST notions of FORMING A UNION, the true apprentice quietly embraces the humiliation, swallowing it down, fashioning a bright, gleaming ball of MALICE inside. Weaker emotions extraneous to SOUND BUSINESS PLANNING are slowly burnt away in the fire of internalized rage and the mind focused on the task of rising to a position where they can FUCK WITH UNDERLINGS OF THEIR OWN. Thus the NATURAL cycle of ENTREPRENURIAL SELF-ACTUALISATION begins anew.


4. Describe in detail only the GOOD things that come to mind when I ask you to think about your MOTHER.

My mother was, of course, a wonderful woman and I remember fondly the moments I would spend in her presence as she instructed the nanny on the many important reasons why she was not to be disturbed and that the best way to deal with my chronic bed-wetting was “to rub the little accident’s nose in it until it learns”. And learn I did, a tribute to her firm-but-fair parental delegation skills!


5. FINALLY, of all the WISE things which I, Ludwig Von Mises, have said upon BARBELITH, which is your very favourite, and WHY?

“SUCCUBI can be a terrible danger to the otherwise rational and ordered workings of the MALE MIND. Indeed, such is the insidious lure of womankind that they are able to compel all men (whose minds have not fallen into HOMOSEXUALISM) to commit acts which the PC LESBIAN FEMINISTS WHO RULE OUR LAW COURTS, SCIENCE LABORATORIES and especially ACADEMIC CENTRES OF STUDY then call SEXUAL HARRASSMENT, merely by dressing like COMMON WHORES. Women of the criminal underclasses are particular good at this form of INCITEMENT, as they prefer to do so rather than spend a day in HONEST WORK - as has been observed by my musically talented friend and current penpal, Richard 'Ricky' Wilson of the excellent Kaiser Chiefs.

As you may be aware, at present I am in Pentonville jail, which is very ROUGH. But at least I am safe from such dangers, as it is not a MIXED environment. The closest thing to female company that I have encountered since the beginning of my sentence (2nd February 2006, a BLACK day in the history books in years to come no DOUBT) is a poster of the young actress Katee Sackhoff in her role as Starbuck in TELEVISION'S BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, which I have affixed to the wall above my bunk by means of BLU-TACK.

Nevertheless some nights my sleep is plagued by NIGHTMARISH FANTASIES in which Ms. Sackhoff climbs down from the wall and proceeds to subject me to a series of BRUTAL MINISTRATIONS, while dressed in the uniform of a COMMUNIST COLONEL. She verbally harangues me, tears up my books in front of me, and beats me with a stick. I, Von Mises, am inevitably naked in these nightmares, but for a t-shirt bearing the sign of the DOLLAR.

I hope that by sharing my experiences with you I have provided you with some measure of comfort and wisdom.

Yours from Pentonville,

Von Mises.”


Your example in maintaining correct ideological analyses even in the most trying of circumstances has helped me through many a dark time where I may otherwise have been caught like the proverbial fly in the sticky web of feminist propaganda.

In a world where Political Correctness has gone as mad as a left-handed kipper, the importance of your sustained commitment to common-sense principles is to be admired.


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These are PERHAPS the best ANSWERS so far!

VM.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
12:31 / 24.05.06
Do you not think that rather then sitting around answering questions we should be out there making MONEY? My performance so far clearly shows that I am a brilliant and committed worker but it seems VON MISES that you are a fickle old man who is not TRULY COMMITTED to free trade.
 
 
Princess
12:49 / 24.05.06
[audience]

*Gasp!*

[/audience]
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
12:59 / 24.05.06


SILENCE, harridan, lest I be moved to FIRE you for your INSOLENCE.

Here are the answers of HAUS:


1. What has been the most SIGNIFICANT achievement of your life TO DATE?

Why, that would have to be the YOUNG ENTERPRISE AWARD I received for an entrepreneurial approach to helping the homeless in my home town. As a result of my canny planning, my team began to turn a tidy profit on the younger and more vulnerable of these economically inert wretches, while inducing local people of good character to provide them with beds for the night in a strict QUID PRO QUO arrangement, thus preventing SOCIALISM and WELFARE DEPENDENCY. Very much like THE BIG ISSUE, except with TEARFUL SEXUAL FAVOURS instead of A SHIT MAGAZINE.


2. Would you rather be RICH or find ROMANTIC LOVE? Give REASONS for your answer.

Ah, who is truly RICH? The man with MONEY and FINANCIAL SECURITY, assured through sensible investment in GOLD and PRIVATE PROPERTY, or he who has LOVE in his HEART. Obviously, the FORMER. Therefore, since a form of STOCKHOLM SYNDROME has won me the hearts of many of those participating in the ENTERPRISE described in my answer to question (1).


3. Name THREE of your HEROES. They may be from HISTORY, FICTION, or even POPULAR CULTURE, but you should also explain why you REVERE them so.

1. JOHN NORMAN, writer of the GOR books. Norman not only achieved that rarest of things, generating a CASH INFLUX from his personal predilections, he has also left an inspring (if flawed) model for reexamining the relationships between the genders as source of EXCHANGE and PROFIT. It is a shame that his attitudes to GENDER failed to take into account the possibility that an insightful ENTREPRENEUR could also buy and sell less VIGOROUS men. Without this, he flirts with PROTECTIONISM.

2. ANTON CHEKHOV, for his masterpiece THE CHERRY ORCHARD, in which we are first introduced to a family that has through THE SWEAT OF ITS ANCESTRAL BROW acquired significant LAND, and then has the savvy to REALISE its PROFITABILITY. The only failing in this otherwise brilliant play is the title - why he did not have the sense to call it THE COMPETITTIVELY-PRICED HOLIDAY COTTAGES, I will never know. That would have got BUMS ON SEATS.

3. MORPHEUS, the LORD OF DREAMS. Not only for his SHARP EYE for a BLOUSON-STYLE LEATHER JACKET, or indeed his ADMIRABLE SELF-ABSORPTION, but because it was he who opened my eyes to the beautiful poetry of life, and taught me one of my most important lessons: if you put a black ribbon around it, you SELL IT at a 100% MARK-UP to GOTHS, and they will LOVE YOU FOR IT.


4. Is there any POSITION with you consider to be too DEMEANING for a mentor to request his apprenctice to ASSUME in the course of a day’s honest WORK?

Although I will be happy for it to SPLATTER ON MY CHEST, I fear that if it got in my EYES or MOUTH it might lead to an inevitable SICK DAY, which would make me no better than a MALINGERER.


5. FINALLY, of all the WISE things which I, Ludwig Von Mises, have said upon BARBELITH, which is your very favourite, and WHY?

I believe you had some paternal advice for DEAD MEGATRON, which remains in my heart to this day. The only way it could have been WISER is if you had CHARGED FOR IT.

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My THOUGHTS: these are not bad answers in general, however Haus' inability or UNWILLINGNESS to quote me VERBATIM in answer to question 5 is not a GOOD SIGN.

VM.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
13:40 / 24.05.06


And finally, interview with a STOAT:


1. What has been the most SIGNIFICANT achievement of your life TO DATE?

Providing VON MISES with the means to RELAX on his ISLAND, thus ensuring his continued ability to STAVE OFF the forces of SOCIALISM.


2. What was the last RECORDING OF MUSIC that you exchanged MONEY for? Describe how listening to it made you FEEL.

“Rio Grande Blood” by Ministry. It made me want to DANCE, to SHOUT, to FIGHT and to BURN LOTS OF COPIES which I could then SELL, undercutting the MARKET.


3. Name THREE of your HEROES. They may be from HISTORY, FICTION, or even POPULAR CULTURE, but you should also explain why you REVERE them so.

CAPTAIN JACK SPARROW- an ENTREPRENEUR in the TRUEST SENSE of the word.

WARREN BUFFETT, the SAGE OF OMAHA- not just a top-flight CAPITALIST, but a cartoon hero to boot, thus instilling the values of all that is GOOD in the YOUNG and IMPRESSIONABLE.

BATMAN- he can kick SUPERMAN'S near-Godlike ass purely by the prudent application of a LOT OF CASH.


4. Describe in detail only the GOOD things that come to mind when I ask you to think about your MOTHER.

A good EYE for FIGURES and a good FIGURE for EYES.
She knows the VALUE of EVERYTHING. And the WORTH of most of it, too.


5. FINALLY, of all the WISE things which I, Ludwig Von Mises, have said upon BARBELITH, which is your very favourite, and WHY?

A CHRISTMAS CAROL- it shows the YOUNG and IMPRESSIONABLE the TRUIE MEANING of Christmas, as exemplified by that appalling BAD NEWS single a while back, but without the SOCIALIST LEVELS of SARCASM.

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Von Mises says: these answers are BRIEF but TO THE POINT, however DOUBTS are raised in my mind as to Stoatie's CHARACTER by the answer to question 2.

I will now RETIRE to consider who to FIRE.

VM.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
19:30 / 24.05.06
Hang on - does this not mean that Joy Division Oven Gloves wants to MURDER Herr Doktor von Mises? And SHAG his LADY?
 
 
Joy Division Oven Gloves
22:05 / 24.05.06
Don't listen to him Herr von Mises, I would rather put out my own eyes than do any of the unspeakable things he suggests.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
12:26 / 25.05.06


ENOUGH deliberation! I have made my first decision.

WHISKY PRIESTESS, you stated in your interview that the position of BIG ISSUE VENDOR would be too DEMEANING for you to ASSUME in the course of a day's honest WORK, even if REQUESTED by myself.

You do not seem to want this Apprenticeship BADLY enough.

You're FIRED.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
12:30 / 25.05.06


ANNA DE LOGARDIERE, you have shown a lot of POTENTIAL, and this is a very TOUGH decision. However, it is clear to me that you believe that your victory in this contest is already "IN THE BAG", as they say. This has caused you to become too BIG for your BRITCHES, and you have been most INSURBORDINATE to a sweet, kind old man who only ever wanted to HELP you get on in life.

YOU ARE FIRED.

The lesson, dear viewers, to take from these two DISMISSALS, is that a woman may have a valuable role to play in the KITCHEN, BEDROOM or SCULLERY, but she has no place in the BOARDROOM of myself...

LUDWIG VON MISES.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
12:41 / 25.05.06
Your decision only tells everyone that you are not as invested in TRADE and the free RIGHTS of the individual as you would like people to believe. You are NO LONGER my hero.
 
  

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