It's pretty obvious what happened here, if you apply "Rubeian Reasoning"
First, rube, as he frequently does, decided to post a gratuitous, unprovoked insult directed at Strop for starting a thread about a topic that His Rubeness deemed unworthy of discussion.
He tried to make this insult in a passive aggressive way in the form of a sort of analogy or parable, telling a little story about a dog dragging something foul home to show his master and then wagging his tail about it. (In his analogy, the "dog" is Strop and the "dirty and smelly " thing is the story Strop chose to post about.)
But instead of making his insulting analogy about some hypothetical dog, he decided to make it about some supposedly real dog that he owned, and there's where his problems began....
A little later in the thread, when folks started talking about dogs that are allowed to roam, rube saw an opportunity to slam some more people, (folks who let there dogs roam) so he reflexively did so, apparently forgetting (since it was made up) that the story he told to convey his initial insult landed him squarely in that category of folks that he was now criticizing as "jerks"....
And now here's where rube really puts his rubeness on full display....
When this is pointed out to him, rube, being rube, rather than admit what he had done initially and say something like, "I wasn't really referring to an
actual dog of mine, I was making an analogy." (which he doesn't do of course, because rube never admits to screwing up) he digs himself an even deeper hole by proceeding to concoct a ridiculous pseudo-explanation, the taking the dog for a walk and camping thing.
Which as Strop points out, doesn't even make any sort of minimal amount of sense. (Who the hell is going to be stupid enough to let some dog they are walking drag something "dirty and smelly" all the way back to their house? It makes absolutely no sense.) and of course throwing out some additional insults to boot.
It's rube getting his karma comeuppance yet again; he starts off trying to hurl out a gratuitous insult, and winds up only making
himself look absurd.
It is of course, a
very familiar pattern with him...Rube is kind of like Wile E. Coyote; every time he tries to drop an anvil or a safe on someone else, it winds up landing on
him instead... every time he tries to blow somebody else up, the dynamite winds up going off in
his face...it's part of the on-going amusement factor he brings to the board...
You know, rube's apparent belief that he should be the arbiter of what other people should post about, is inspiring me to consider putting a little time aside to look up
every single, lurid, titillating, sensationalist story in the news I can find, and starting threads about them....
I would encourage others to do so as well...
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