I had to read Bong's post twice to see what he was referring to on the vote count. Then I finally mustered up the brain power to actually look at the tally. Then I saw your post, P4B. Funny! That was a good trick! I guess everyone was too busy looking and conspiracy forest to see the trees here in this thread.

This story only has to do with the topic of manners, not political moderation, but it's one of the funniest things I ever witnessed. In the retirement home in north Louisiana where my grandmother lived, there was a great Southern lady named Miss Effie. During most of her lifetime, Miss Effie was the most genteel, well-mannered, ladylike thing. Always kind and courteous, even under the most difficult circumstances.

But when she grew old and senile and went to live in the rest home, that long lifetime of ladylike manners flew out the window. Hardening of the arteries turned Miss Effie into, well, a little old sailor who could curse a blue streak. If people walked down the hall outside her room and happened to glance into it, she'd yell, "What in the G-d hell are you looking at, you wall-eyed jackass!!??" And that was some of her more tame language. Another of her favorite lines was simply to yell, at the top of her lungs, "Bring me a G-d piece of bread with some f-ing mayonnaise on it!"

I'm hoping that my lifelong advocacy for manners and civility doesn't end in the same way. But if it does, I trust I will curse a blue streak about politicians and politics, not bread and mayonnaise.