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City Councilman Resigns Using Klingon
Virtucon writes "A city councilman in Indian Trail Town, North Carolina has resigned and opted to write his letter of resignation in Klingon. David Waddell is obviously a fan of Star Trek. I wonder if the other council members know what the hell he wrote? I'm sure a nice Qu'vatlh would have sufficed."
Or should I say Kapla?
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Where's a link to the actual resignation letter?
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This NY Daily article has much more info, including the resignation letter.
My favorite part is the mayor's response: "I wish him the best, live long and prosper. I don't know what else to say."
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
Especially for a Klingon. I would have expected a lot more blood and growling.
It looks like he was a buffoon. He voted no on everything including adjournment of the meetings. To top it off, it looks like the only reason he resigned was because he got bored and wanted to perform one last stunt. No one was forcing him to resign.
The icing on the cake being that the idiot still plans to attend the meetings.
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He put the translation in with the letter, so it's not like he was requiring other people to learn the language or anything. He was just having fun.
The main issue is resigning in the middle of your term, which he basically committed to doing when he got elected. As someone else said, "Klingons don't resign."
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Since when does a Klingon resign from anything? This must be a hoax. The only reason the word "resign" would be in the Klingon language is to describe other weakling species. Doh!
Sure, if they were signing a deed for a new ship, and then spilt bloodwine over the signature, they're have to re-sign it.
I'm guessing a Klingon would've chosen to just walk into the council chambers and slaughter all the other members.
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>> David Waddell is obviously a (nutjob)
OK, so the guy resigned in Klingon - probably before his local constituency voted him out. However, if he'd run and won using Klingon, that would be news.
Seriously, if you're going to learn a language, why not Spanish or Chinese something else you can use to communicate with and represent real people with real problems. (If you're a politician, that's really your only job.)
It looks like he was a buffoon. He voted no on everything including adjournment of the meetings. To top it off, it looks like the only reason he resigned was because he got bored and wanted to perform one last stunt. No one was forcing him to resign.
Nope. He's a conservative politician in a primarily progressive area whose main shtick (as you mentioned) was to simply vote "No" on everything regardless of sense or reason. So, naturally, he's resigning to campaign for the U.S. Senate where his skills are clearly in high demand right now.
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Context is important to whether a joke is funny, or just stupid. If this were a conscientious councilman who was forced by circumstance to resign, this story would be cute. But this is an egotistical blowhard who used his position as a platform for obstructive ass-hattery (e.g., voting "no" on everything, including motions to adjourn), quitting because even he'd got tired of the stupid game. See MrEricSir's link above.
This guy was a disgrace to his office, and now he's brought disgrace on fan-dom.
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Just what I was thinking.
"Resign" in Klingon would have to be a polite way of saying "took a Bat'leth to the skull".
He is definitely no Klingon.
That's hardly professional or mature for an elected official, inside joke or not.
This is a mentality I just can't get down with.
OK, so maybe resigning in Klingon wasn't the best decision he could have made; but, when you start pointing out a certain expectation for the 'professional or mature' attitude of elected officials, you're pretty much assuring that the only people who will fit the bill are the same kind of career politicians that have been fucking things up for your entire life.
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As the subject says, he's a petaQ! However, it would have been more interesting if he had stood up in the council chambers, said "taH pagh taHbe' " (to be or not to be), and then disemboweled himself with a handy d'k tagh dagger was carrying. It would have been even better if appeared in Klingon warrior's armor.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
Hey, at least slashdot got it right for once. This truly was "news for nerds".
And nobody else.
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Come on, this is Klingon - they should execute him.
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
Again, I'm not saying this particular guy isn't a moron.
What I'm saying is that when you state such a lofty expectation for behavior in politicians, you pretty much ensure that the only people who will ever qualify for said positions are people who spend their lives being groomed for it. Which leads to political dynasties. Which, IMO, generally suck for the people who aren't part of the aforementioned powerful families.
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