EEEK! Just got a phone call from the Anal...er, Oral Roberts bunch

[karlrschneider]

Lady sez, "Richard asked me to call you to see if you want prayer or to make a pledge."

I wish I had recorded this call but to shorten a 5 minute conversation down, it amounted to roughly this:

Me: "Why would Richard ask you to call me? I haven't seen or talked to him in 30 years"

Her: "Well, the holy spirit directed him"

Me: "I see, well as it happens, I have known the Roberts family well
since I was their neighbor in the 1950s when they lived 2 blocks away and their youngest son Ronnie was a good friend of mine in school."

Her: "You knew Ronnie in Viet Nam?"

Me: "Not there, I knew him well long before that...I was in their home when we were in high school...he didn't commit suicide until after his time in Viet Nam and he was a good guy who understood the rest of his family were raking in boatloads of money from gullible, guilt-ridden idiots who were scammed by these low-life criminal assholes."

Her: Uh....

Me: "I think there probably are not very many truly evil people on this planet, but the Roberts gang is near the top of my list of them.
I don't believe in Hell, but I hope I'm wrong because those kinds of people deserve the hottest and deepest pit there."

Her: Ohhhh....I'm sorry

(Gonna leave off quotation marks now, too much trouble to type)

Me: Sorry for what? That you are soliciting money for a clan of money-grubbing hypocrite assholes? I blame the whole bunch for Ronnie killing himself, he told me he knew what a scam his daddy was running back in 1958.

Her: I will see that your name is taken off our calling list.

Me: Great. See that you do.

(I've been getting letters from these scumbags regularly the past year or so but this is the first time they had the audacity to actuall call on the telephone.)

:grr:



Me:

[OldLeftieLawyer]

1. I never heard of Ronnie

But, I daresay you did his memory proud today, and I enthusiastically salute you - for a variety of reasons.

Well done.

:toast:

[kliljedahl]

2. No mention of #1 son

Rectal?

Keith’s Barbeque Central

[Jacobin]

3. Wow. The holy spirit directed them to call you?

Why, I think you should have been honored with an introduction like that!!!

I mean, I've never gotten a call from someone who said Gawd told them to call me asking for money!!

Way cool!!

[POAS]

4. My question is what if anything

do you feel about Richard?

Will you express your displeasure to him?

[karlrschneider]

5. Actually I did neglect to include the conclusion of the call...sorry

As I recall, I ended it by saying something like "As I said, I hope every member of that family rots in Hell forever."

She said "I will pass that along to Richard"

I replied "I doubt that but I hope you keep your word."

Richard, of course, is the penultimate asshole, having learned well
from his daddy the ULTIMATE asshole. If you ever have a chance, take
a look at their 35,000 sq. ft. house across the street from Southern Hills Country Club.

[POAS]

6. 35,000 square feet????

I bet they do their own windows too, right?

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. WoW! *agog*

[liberalhistorian]

8. LOL!

I love it, good for you! How I would have loved to have seen the look on her face, too. I love telling these people off just like I love telling off the fucking debt collectrolls. They're of the same breed, if you ask me.

[Coyote_Bandit]

9. I got a call from them too

Told the woman on the phone that I had made my lifetime contribution some twenty years ago when I decided not to sue them. Long story.

Me thinks that God does not look kindly upon their conduct. If thier motives were straightforward and sincere they might be concerned about that.

You are too kind describing them as scumbags.