#timothy dexter

[salamie-baby]

"I meane No hurt to A flie only when he bits me then I kils the flye"

– Timothy Dexter, A Pickle For The Knowing Ones

[lakefoundtheirexit]

Is there a modern equivalent to the book "A Pickle For The Knowing Ones"?

For those not in the loop the book was written by a guy named Timothy Dexter who through sheer dumb luck became one of the richest people during the revolutionary era of the US. Before he died he wrote his memoir, full of incomprehensible misspelled text and a lack of punctuation, except for at the end where there's a whole dedicated section for punctuation, because, and I quote him directly:

fouder mister printer the Nowing ones complane of my book the fust edition had no stops I put in A Nuf here and thay may peper and solt it as they plese

This man was a shitposter before there was even a word for it and I think about him often

[authorkims]

[myimmortalfan666]

what if timothy dexter wrote my immortal?

[peashooter85]

A Pickle for the Knowing Ones

Timothy Dexter was an American businessman who is probably best known to history for failing upward and becoming extremely wealthy through the most ludicrous and sure to fail business schemes that by sheer luck always worked out.  This included selling bed warmers, wool mittens, and stray cats to the Caribbean islands. Sam O’Nella Academy has an excellent video on him.

In 1802 he wrote his memoirs which he titled A Pickle for the Knowing Ones. The book contained no punctuation, random capitalization, and he made up his own spelling. While he wrote it as his memoirs really the book was just a collection of his random thought, beliefs, and endless ranting. Here is an excerpt from his book about how he plans to build a museum...

“Ime the first Lord in the younited States of A mercary Now of Newburyport it is the voise of the peopel and I cant Help it and so Let it goue Now as I must be Lord there will foler many more Lords prittey soune for it Dont hurt A Cat Nor the mouse Nor the son Nor the water Nor the Eare then goue on all in Easey Now bons broaken all is well all in Love Now I be gin to Lay the Corner ston with grat Remembrence of my father Jorge Washington the grate herow 17 sentreys past before we found so good A father to his children and Now gone to Rest Now to shoue my Love to my father and grate Carieters I will shoue the world one of the grate Wonders of the world in 15 months if Now man mourders me in Dors or out Dors such A mouserum on Earth will annonce O Lord thou knowest to be troue fourder hear me good Lord I am A goueing to Let or shildren know Now to see good Lord what has bin in the world grat wase back to own fore fathers Not old plimeth but stop to Addom & Eve to shoue 45 figers two Leged and fore Leged becose we Cant Doue well without fore Legd in the first plase they are our foude in the Next plase to make out Dexters mouseum I wants 4 Lions to defend thous grat and mistry men from East to wist from North to South which Now are at the plases Rased the Lam is Not Readey in short meater if Agreabel I forme A good and peasabel govement on my Land in Newburyport Compleat I take 3 presedents hamsher govener all to Noue York and the grate mister John Jay is one, that maks 2 in that state the king of grat britton mister pitt Roufus King Cros over to france Loues the 16 and then the grate bonnepartey the grate and there segnetoure Crow biddey—I Command pease and the gratest brotherly Love and Not fade be Linked to gether with that best of troue Love so as to govern all nasions on the fass of the gloub not to tiranize over them but to put them to order if any Despout shall A Rise as to boundreys or Any maturs of Importence it is Left france and grat britton and Amacarey to be setteled A Congress to be always in france all Despouts is to be thare seteled and this may be Dun this will balless powers and then all wars Dun A way there [15]fore I have the Lam to lay Dow with the Lion Now this may be Dun if thos three powers would A geray to Lay what is called Devel one side and Not Carry the gentelman pack hors Any longer but shake him off as dust on your feet and Laff at him there is a grate noise aboute a toue Leged Creter he says I am going to set sade black Divel there stop he would scare the womans so there would be No youse for the bilding I should have to E rect sum Noue won Now I stop hear I puts the Devil Long with the bull for he is a bulling 2 Leged Annemal stop put him one side Near Soloman Looking with Soloman to Ladey venus Now stop wind up there is grat ods in froute I will Let you know the sekret houe you may see the Devel stand on your head before a Loucking glass and take a bibel in to your bousom fast 40 owers and look in the loucking glass there is no Devilif you dont see the ould fellow but I affirm you will see that ould DevelUnto you all mankind Com to my hous to mock and sneare whi ye Dont you Lafe be fore god or I meane your betters think the heir power Dont know thorts and Axsions Now I will tell you good and bad it is Not pelite to Com to see what the bare walls keep of my ground if you are gentel men you would stay Away when all is Dun in marble I expect to goue out myself to Help if thous grat men will send on there Likeness all over the younited States I wish all the printers to give Notis if pleases to in form by printen in the Nouspapers for the good of the holl of man kind———I waus to make my Enemys grin in time Lik A Cat over a hot puding and goue Away and hang there heads Doun Like a Dogg bin After sheep gilty stop see I am Afrade I Rite toue hash my peopel Complane of backker spittel maks work to Cleane it up——in the women skouls A bout it spit in ther hankershif or not spit A tall I must say sumthing or I should say Nothing therefore make sum Noise in the world when I git so ouely to Nash my goms and grising for water and that is salt water when brot A yong Devel to bring it and A Scoyer to wate and tend on gentelmen A black Suier his breth Smelt wos then bram stone by far but Let the Devel goue in to Darknes an takeld his due to Descare mankind for A Littel while this Cloven foot is seen be sum but the trap will over hall the Devel in tim I pittey this poore black man I thinc his master wants purging a Littel to har ber mr Devel A most but I did Not say Let him Run A way good Nit mr Devel Cary the sword and mwney with you tak John mekel Jentel man good Not”

There’s 22 pages of this nonsense. It sold well enough in New England that another edition was printed in 1805. I shit you not. You can read it for free at the Gutenberg Project.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/43453/43453-h/43453-h.htm

[askcheerbear]

jorge washeton

[alexar60]

Timothy Dexter (histoire vraie)

Dans la catégorie : « j’ai le cul bordé de nouilles », peut-on faire mieux que Timothy Dexter ? Cet américain est né en 1747 dans le Massachussetts. Il arrêta l’école à 8 ans pour travailler dans une fabrique de cuir. Par la suite, en 1769, il épousa une riche veuve. A ce moment, il décida de devenir entrepreneur. Cependant n’ayant aucune connaissance du métier, il marcha au feeling. Il commença dès 1775 par investir toute la fortune de sa femme dans les ‘Continental Dollars’ une monnaie crée par les révolutionnaires américains peu avant la guerre d’indépendance. Le problème est que cet argent ne valait rien. Il se retrouva donc très vite ruiné. Mais en 1790, la nouvelle constitution des Etats-Unis imposait le «Continental dollar» comme devise officielle, faisant de lui un des hommes les plus riches des Etats Unis. Cette chance soudaine n’a pas plu à l’aristocratie américaine qui n’appréciait pas non plus son manque d’éducation ni sa grossièreté. Du coup, certains bourgeois se sont amusés à lui conseiller des affaires débiles. Et à chaque fois, Timothy Dexter jouait de chance. Pour exemple, il envoya deux navires remplis de charbon à Newcastle en Angleterre. Cette ville est réputée pour ses mines de charbon. Seulement quand les navires arrivèrent dans le port Anglais, la ville connaissait une grève des mineurs depuis deux jours suite à un accident. Résultat il réussit à agrandir sa fortune en revendant son charbon. Autre exemple, quelqu’un lui conseilla d’envoyer des bateaux remplis de gants en cuir en Polynésie, soit disant que c’était la mode là-bas. Quand sa cargaison arriva dans les iles, ses gants ont trouvé facilement des vendeurs grâce à une expédition portugaise faisant escale qui partait en Chine et en Sibérie. Il a exporté des bibles en Inde, un pays sans chrétiens mais coup de bol car à ce moment, les missionnaires qui commençaient à développer le christianisme avaient besoin de bibles. Il envoya une cargaison de chats égarés dans les Caraïbes, et là aussi, les chats ont été vendus grâce à une subite invasion de rats dans les iles. Il acheta aussi par erreur des baleines mais réussit à les vendre comme matériel de soutien pour les corsets. A 50 ans, il a écrit un livre qui avait un gros défaut : le manque total de ponctuation. Cependant devenant populaire, son œuvre s’est très bien vendu et a été édité 8 fois. Dexter était aussi un excentrique. Il a fait construire dans sa résidence, des minarets avec un aigle en or sur la coupole, son mausolée et quarante statues de personnages célèbres. Et dans le genre délirant on ne fait pas mal non plus. Il a annoncé le décès de sa femme alors qu’elle était toujours en vie et n’hésitait pas la présenter comme étant son fantôme quand il recevait des invités. Il décéda en 1806.

Alex@r60

[skwonkk]