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John Cleese explains it (Original Post)
mac56
Jul 2018
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Liberal In Texas
(13,548 posts)1. John "Cheese"...what is that, auto-correct? LOL
CurtEastPoint
(18,641 posts)3. snort...
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)4. Cheese is actually his family's real name.
His dad changed it.
For real!
lame54
(35,287 posts)12. But we know there is no cheese...
The cat ate it
mac56
(17,566 posts)5. Thanks ever so much
for pointing out the auto correct typo.
MontanaMama
(23,313 posts)2. Thank you John Cleese!
Adding pronoid to my lexicon.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,681 posts)7. Me, too. It's perfect!
Pronoia is the positive counterpart of paranoia. It is the delusion that others think well of one. Actions and the products of one's efforts are thought to be well received and praised by others. Mere acquaintances are thought to be close friends; politeness and the exchange of pleasantries are taken as expressions of deep attachment and the promise of future support.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronoia_(psychology)paleotn
(17,912 posts)10. Yep. A good word.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)6. John Cleese says he is leaving UK and moving to Caribbean in protest over 'awful' Brexit debate
Monty Python star John Cleese has announced he is moving to the Caribbean in the autumn in protest over the debate on Brexit.
The 78-year-old comic a long-time Liberal Democrat supporter said his frustration also stemmed from the lying and triviality of British newspapers.
Cleese told BBC2s Newsnight he was moving to the small island of Nevis which has a population of just 11,000 in November describing it as one of the nicest islands he had ever visited.
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/john-cleese-uk-leave-brexit-nevis-caribbean-politics-a8442321.html
The 78-year-old comic a long-time Liberal Democrat supporter said his frustration also stemmed from the lying and triviality of British newspapers.
Cleese told BBC2s Newsnight he was moving to the small island of Nevis which has a population of just 11,000 in November describing it as one of the nicest islands he had ever visited.
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/john-cleese-uk-leave-brexit-nevis-caribbean-politics-a8442321.html
bluevoter4life
(787 posts)8. Is it possible to have a paranoid pronoid as President?
Because I think that is the level we are dealing with. Deep state mentality where he is revered by everyone.
DemoTex
(25,396 posts)9. Actually, Trump is neither paranoid nor pronoid.
Trump is a hemorrhoid.
MontanaMama
(23,313 posts)11. There's THAT!