After reading many of his incoherent and rambling posts, I have come to this realization:
Todd is officially my favorite member of this forum.
Oh sure, most of the time he is drunk beyond belief. (His B.A.C. must be above 2.0 in half of his posts). But sometimes he is incredibly articulate.
His posts can be hilariously childish like the one above where he calls his friends his "pantas". But sometimes sober Todd comes out and drops gems like this one:
todd1220 wrote:I am not a diplomat and, as such, I am not fully conversant with the elegant and rarefied language of the diplomatic trade. I have a reputation for saying what I mean and meaning what I say. So I trust that you'll forgive me if I come across as a bit blunt when I state that letting covinous ogres throw us into a "heads I win, tails you lose" situation is unthinkable. Permit me this forum to rant.
Just because I understand AKAI's stratagems doesn't mean I agree with them. No matter how close it's come to making me become the target of prejudice, ridicule, discrimination, and physical violence, it won't be satisfied until it finds a way to cause the destruction of human ambition and joy. This is particularly interesting when you consider that AKAI must have some sort of problem with reading comprehension. That's the only explanation I can come up with as to why AKAI accuses me of admitting that it is a martyr for freedom and a victim of incendiarism. What I actually said is that AKAI has a knack for convincing meretricious ideologues that the cure for evil is more evil. That's called marketing. The underlying trick is to use sesquipedalian terms like "Ultimate Velocity Sensitivity" and "Incredible AKAI reliability and intuitiveness" to keep its sales pitch from sounding pesky. That's why you really have to look hard to see that I have often maintained that reasonable people can reasonably disagree. Unfortunately, when dealing with AKAI and its understrappers, that claim assumes facts not in evidence. So let me claim instead that AKAI wants you to believe that the best way to serve one's country is to use our weaknesses to its advantage. You should be wary of such claims. Be aware! Be skeptical! Think! Do not be diverted, deceived, or mesmerized by AKAI's detestable, jejune fibs. With this in mind, I myself must show AKAI how it is as wrong as wrong can be. Today, as yesterday, I plan to turn AKAI's dangerous, brown-nosing demands to our advantage. Are you with me -- or against me? Whatever you decide, the best thing about AKAI is the way that it encourages us to face our problems realistically, get to the root of our problems, and be determined to solve them. No, wait; AKAI doesn't encourage that. On the contrary, it discourages us from admitting that its stooges all look like it, think like it, act like it, and inure us to wanton post-structuralism, just like AKAI does. And all this in the name of -- let me see if I can get their propaganda straight -- brotherhood and service. Ha!
I sometimes ask myself whether the struggle to express my views is worth all of the potential consequences. And I consistently answer by saying that AKAI says that advertising is the most veridical form of human communication. This is at best wrong. At worst, it is a lie. None but the irresponsible can deny that if we don't soon tell AKAI to stop what it's doing, it will proceed with its hidebound overgeneralizations, considerably emboldened by our lack of resistance. We will have tacitly given AKAI our permission to do so. AKAI has the gall to drag men out of their beds in the dead of night and castrate them. Surely, it is not too peevish to realize that. Okay, I've written enough for one letter, so let me just finish by saying that the things AKAI wants to do are unfair, if not illegal. Please fix our pads now for free AKAI!!![/code]