Team Kimberlin Post of the Day

Team Kimberlin’s forecasts of the direst of dire direness befalling me have consistently been a source of pointage, laughery, and mockification aimed at them. Yesterday’s TKPOTD dealt with a silly prophecy from Matt Osborne, This post from six years ago today, What’s Past is Prologue, made fun of a tweet from Bill Schmalfeldt.

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The Cabin Boy™ seems wowed by three-year old tweets. Meh. The Vast Hogewash! Archives have plenty of his impotent threats filed away, some from more than a year before the ones recycled this morning, some from this month.MU201607280438ZIt’s interesting to compare the timestamp on this tweet with when he was checking in here. He took his first look after midnight at 12:36 ET, and his tweet is stamped 12:38 ET. Then, less than 15 minutes later, he began searching Hogewash! using terms such as “filed by the state,” “I was not a party,” and “Maryland v. Schmalfeldt.”

Who is sweating bullets?

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These comments from the original post are some of the milder mockery—

Team Kimberlin Post of the Day

It took a while, but Team Kimberlin eventually figured out that their attempts to threaten and harass me were doomed to failure. While they were still on that learning curve, I received An Odd Phone Call that I wrote about eight years ago today.

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A bit after 7:30 this evening, our landline phone rang. The Caller ID showed a local number rather than one of the spam callers who ignore the Do Not Call Registry, so I answered. It was some guy who said he had the wrong number, that the girl he had met in the bar had given it to him, and that I didn’t sound like her.

The call seemed weird, so after I hung up, I checked the incoming number again. (410) 857-0868. My old fax number. I called it back and received a disconnected number machine intercept.

Hmmmmm.

Yes, folks, we’re home tonight. We’ll save some dessert for any visitors.

UPDATE—TK201308070020Z

The Carroll County Sheriff’s Office is waiting for your call. Operators are standing by. (410) 386-2900.

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Long on talk, short on action. Nothing happened that evening.

We wound up eating the slices of pie we had saved for responding deputies for breakfast the next morning.