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I am a real-time embedded software engineer currently living amidst the cornfields of Central Illinois, not far from where I grew up, to use a very liberal definition of "grown up."  Most of my work has been for military applications.  I never served in the military, but I've spent a lot of time listening to those who have.

My hobbies include reading (especially history),  music, and collecting previous addresses.  I've lived in Ohio, Georgia, California, and Connecticut.

If you came back here because something I wrote was out of line and offended you, please know that you're probably taking it far more seriously than I did.

Unless I specifically called you a "doody-head,"  in which case, it's on!


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Percival
Name:
Percival
Hometown:
Joliet, IL
Joined:
Mar 31, 2011

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Percival

10 cents: I am not a syncretized idiot. Using big words to tell a person he is small is baneful, deleterious, detrimental, injurious, noxious, and pernicious.

Percival

10 cents: Flownover,

Since no one is helping you be part of this thread. I will tell you how to be a hater like Joan.

  • Always read these comments while drinking either hot coffee, hot tea, or Coca Cola. (No substituting Pepsi for the real thing.)
  • Put up at least ten comments in a row by quoting something they wrote with a totally incoherent response.
  • Use a thesaurus to help bring some unheard of words to make us hate you for your pseudo-intellectuality.
  • Find your niche of humor. Prostate exams, pocket pool, chicken humor, and megalomania are taken.

Start on these things for now. I will add more as I watch your progress. · 0 minutes ago

Or your regress.  10¢'s idea of "progress" is idiosyncratic.

Here you go, 10¢.  Try to keep up. · 6 minutes ago

1 hour ago

If synchronized idiocy were an Olympic event, you and Scrut would be guaranteed a medal.

Percival

10 cents: Flownover,

Since no one is helping you be part of this thread. I will tell you how to be a hater like Joan.

  • Always read these comments while drinking either hot coffee, hot tea, or Coca Cola. (No substituting Pepsi for the real thing.)
  • Put up at least ten comments in a row by quoting something they wrote with a totally incoherent response.
  • Use a thesaurus to help bring some unheard of words to make us hate you for your pseudo-intellectuality.
  • Find your niche of humor. Prostate exams, pocket pool, chicken humor, and megalomania are taken.

Start on these things for now. I will add more as I watch your progress. · 0 minutes ago

Or your regress.  10¢'s idea of "progress" is idiosyncratic.

Here you go, 10¢.  Try to keep up.

Percival

Well, when they get around to having Lois testify, they can ask her to – um – testify, if you get my drift.  What does she pray for?

I get dibs on "social justice" in the pool.

Percival

Susan in Seattle

DocJay: Gnome Alaska? · 13 minutes ago

Close.  Nearer to the Institute of Gnometic Sciences, Oahu. · 4 minutes ago

No no no.  It has to do with the Department of Gnomeland Security.

Percival

...and my account has been hacked.

Percival

Severely Ltd.

10 cents: As every can see from the pictures Percival put up that he is Jay Carney.  · 6 minutes ago

Yes, a constipated Jay Carney. Too much government cheese. · 1 hour ago

I am not Jay Carney.  I'm Anthony Weiner.

Percival

Police and fire department maintain a certain level of professionality that the Obama administration lacks.  Apparently, to "be in charge" for these people is to have no knowledge or involvment with anything being done by their department.

Edited 5 hours ago
Percival

Fricosis Guy: Given the Carney Flambee today, there may be a few more moments of bliss to come.

DocJay

Fricosis Guy: That was nice, though I couldn't watch. Was at the in-laws.

Not a word about the greatness of our Dear Leader. My MIL usually bubble platitudes. Blessed silence. · 19 minutes ago

Enjoy the moment. · 48 minutes ago

52 minutes ago

Carney got another beat-down?  Aw, that's just sad.

Percival
DrewInWisconsin: No question Carney breaks first. I do wonder why Percival thinks that Holder doesn't know anything. Seems clear to me that he's the Screwtape to Jarret's Wormwood. Though I think running them both under the faucet would be good for the nation. · 4 hours ago

Hey, I was just taking him at his word.  You don't think the Attorney General would get up before Congress and just make stuff up, do you?

Percival

Gimme Three Steps: (Lynrd Skynrd) to get out the parking lot.

Foreplay/Long Time: (Boston)

Deuces Are Wild: (Aerosmith)

Axel F: (Harold Faltermeyer, from Beverly Hills Cop)

White Wedding (Part I): Billy Idol

We're An American Band: Grand Funk Railroad

Foggy Mountain Breakdown: (Flatt and Scrugs) (just about the time I hit the sixty-plus miles of cornfields.

Hillbilly Bone: (Blake Shelton)

Thunderstruck: (ZZ Top)

Maynard Ferguson's cover of Country Road

Percival

Central Scrutinizer: Sodomite. Fornicator.

Little hate double tap for y'all this morning. · 2 hours ago

The former implies the latter, if you are doing it right.

And if you are not doing it right, keep it to yourself, will ya?

Percival
Larry Koler: When I think of how MANY comments 10 cents has added to HIS post it kind of makes you wonder, doesn't it? I mean his weighted average is very low because of the low impact of his comments. He has very little effect except in the fact that he can edit the text of this post -- which he lords over us all. Enough to make you gag.  · 20 minutes ago

At least it keeps him off the streets.

Percival

Nigel Farage and Daniel Hannan to heap epic scorn in 3...2...1...

Percival

I don't know about an image that captures the true Joan, but the true Percival would be something between this:

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and this:

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Percival

We can skip Eric Holder.  When he says he has no idea what is going on in his or any other department now or at any point in the past, I believe him.  I hear he does have the highest Angry Birds score of any U.S. Attorney General, though.

Percival

10 cents: Percival,

Steven Miller the lawyer not Steve Miller the singer. Do you ever follow the news? (No Huey Lewis jokes please.) · 15 minutes ago

After Fly Like an Eagle, I hate everyone named Steve. Or Miller.  But especially anybody named Steve Miller.  It saves time.

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