Gummi da Please

When you lose fake friends, you don't lose diddly-squat. And so is the case with a friend I found on Fakebook - I mean, Facebook.

A person connected to a few Facebook friends of mine became one of my Facebook friends as well. I won't say this person's name, and henceforth will refer to said person as Gummi da Please. I only became a friend of Gummi da Please because of the connections this person had to my other friends, and we got along well, as long as we didn't discuss politics. See, Gummi da Please - notice how I am not revealing this person's gender - is an arch-conservative. Gummi loves Sarah Palin and Scott Brown. I never discussed politics with Gummi, but I have of course written about and supported White House and congressional Democratic policies and initiatives on this blog . . . and Gummi avidly read my blog. Gummi appreciates my writing and humor but not my politics, and I was fine with that, because I don't like to discuss politics with anyone unless I know for certain he or she is simpatico with me on the issues of the day. I lost real friends like that.

Anyway, my fake friend Gummi apparently got tired of the liberal positions and the links to liberal activist groups and media establishments I'd been posting on my Facebook wall, because they show up on the home page of every Facebook friend I have, and so Gummi must have gotten exasperated with me. It was nothing personal against Gummi, really, because I would never deliberately mock a person who disagrees with me politically. Nevertheless, Gummi, proving to be rather thin-skinned, ultimately decided to "unfriend" me.

I don't miss Gummi, frankly. If Gummi can't accept political differences in a friendship, well, that's Gummi's loss. And Gummi was never really much of a friend anyway. Gummi came from a different part of the country than I - a part of the country where conservative politics predominate. I have never met Gummi in person.

So why did I call this person "Gummi da Please?" Why not?

And where did that name come from?

Sorry, I'm not divulging the source of that name any more than I'm divulging the real identity of the person I appended it to.

And anyway, when someone checks my Facebook page, they'll see . . . there's no one there by the name of Gummi da Please! ;-)