The cigarette-smoking man

jjohn on 2002-05-31T12:02:06

U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft has always bugged me. Yes, his political views are abhorrent to me and yes he did lose an election to a dead guy, but there was something else about him - something sinister that lurked just beyond my grasp.

And then it hit me.

John Ashcroft and the X-File's William B. Davis: separated at birth or the same man!.


the smoking man?

hfb on 2002-05-31T14:35:17

No way, Ashcroft is a bible thumpin', hymn singing at executions freak...even the smoking man would have the character and decency to just light up and smoke in a semi-reverent silence while they kill the intended. Ashcroft is simply the second coming of Heinrich Himmler only this time with a less sexy uniform. Now, with more singing! :) Every day there is something new to make me happy that my days in the country are numbered.

I don't think so

vsergu on 2002-05-31T21:08:04

As far as I know, the Smoking Man never wrote bizarre patriotic songs and sang them at assemblies of his subordinates, and I don't believe he ever had himself anointed with cooking oil. I doubt he was interested in covering up naked statues either.

Besides, you can't very well be running things from the shadows when you're occupying offices like senator and attorney general.

Strange

pudge on 2002-06-05T17:06:04

I always find it odd when computer geeks criticize the odd rituals of others.