Frick & Frack Flap

Doc and Solomon, the Frick and Frack of Odyssey-hating nitwits, must be feeling antsy about the "Black Swan" (BS) case. Not content to wait and see how it turns out, or to take the word of Spain's lawyer that it's all but over and Spain has won (to which Judge Pizzo responded, "well, no, actually, we're moving on to discovery and a trial"), they have to distract members with unrelated items to the case (Mass arrests in Spain? Ocean Alert smoke, anyone?).

As usual Doc demonstrates his utter ignorance of all things financial by harping on about minor insider sales from a single OMEX board member (to which even he admits haven't occurred in some time). He bleats on about old news -- Odyssey's first quarter results! --apparently not realizing the company has nearly already completed its second quarter. Twit Minor then follows with one of his classic non sequiturs:

"Members, The financial woes of this company have greatly increased since their only successful recovery. The Republic yielded far less than Odyssey expected and even today there is a court case challenging their rights to what was recovered. I believe that Spain will be successful in proving sovereign immunity in the Mercedes case which closes the door on monetizing this latest recovery. The next sixty days will be most interesting. I look forward to Judge Pizzo's order."

Frack (Solomon), overjoyed by things he admits he doesn't intellectually understand but that still add up to bad news for Odyssey, jumps up and down like a little child on Christmas morn and spews yet more venomous spittle:

"The whole argument of Odyssey is ridiculous. Actually, it is worse than that: it is desperate in its inanity. Like just about everything to do with his misbegotten company, I do not believe the genuiness [sic] of their intent."

Thanks for clarifying that, Angry Twit. No one was truly clear about how you really feel about Odyssey.

Frankly, we're surprised Bartram didn't take the opportunity to once again claim some super secret knowledge about Odyssey that HHI would, in due time, expose to the world. (Of course, these claims are always offered as future revelations, never offered up in the present. You can imagine why.)

After all, Frick and Frack have claimed super secret information about those infamous arrests in Spain (this must be secret because not one media outlet picked up on it); super secret information about the Melkarth; super secret information about living rooms (you can't make this stuff up, folks); super secret information about every project Odyssey has ever worked on; and super secret information about whether Stemm wears boxers or briefs and what color.

This was, of course, the same approach of Joseph McCarthy, who also regularly claimed to posses secret damning evidence about his enemies in his ever-present briefcase. This worked for a while, but we all know how it turned out in the end, don't we? Disgrace and a ruined liver.

Don't be surprised by a similar outcome in this case.