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Oct. 25, 2005 Meri, Meri, quite contrary, what makes the garden grow? Fertilizer, my dear; good old steer manure—the same animal byproduct that you feed to your roses and which makes up the main ingredient in your almost daily flights of fancy. On September 8, 2005, when it became manifestly evident to Hurley’s handlers that he just couldn’t cut it on own (his sycophancy was becoming too much for even his minders to stomach), Meri Ulrich was thrown into the breech, in full form and fully informed, to buttress Pat’s business motto, ‘a lie repeated a hundred times becomes a motivational video and is then flogged in some Gospel bookstore’. Back in those salad days, Meri was a mere 63-year-old appendage to her illustrious husband, Richard, the once-Liberator-flying, now-diminished-by-Alzheimer’s author of that sci-fi novel, The Bookkeeper. By a curious twist of fate, Patrick Hurley, that illustrious El Cid of the Christian motivational circuit http://www.useless-knowledge.com/1234/sept/article280.html, also addresses Alzheimer’s in his seminal 12-session, Jesus Christ Video (surely he’s not claiming that distinction, too?) presentation, ‘Junior High Kinda Guy’…giving Pat and Meri even more in common than that touching joint belief in the Holloway hoax and the rampant plagiarism of each other’s philosophy (melded mindsets of a closeness to make one suspect that they are the end results of some incestuous couplings on the porch swing of a single-wide in Anusburg, Alabama). As Hurley was hurtled back into the oblivion which he so rightly deserved, a liberated Meri flexed her new-found wings and promoted herself from a dependable Depend-wielding, early-retired paralegal-cum-caregiver to an authoress who ‘has a Medical/Legal background and is a former forensic researcher specializing in psychological profiling.’ WTF? An authoress and an authority on psychological profiling? What a quantum leap in stature from a former paralegal. Will she next be claiming the three Emmy Awards that seemed only to exist in Hurley’s brief bio and not in the records of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences http://www.useless-knowledge.com/1234/sept/article369.html? Meri has a most impressive output here on useless-knowledge, leading one to wonder what they are feeding her in that Sun City, Arizona, feedlot (and could her weight gain be figured out by using feedlot ratios relating grain in, manure out to pounds put on), but surely these articles are not her only claim to authoress fame? Her husband’s sci-fi novel, the Bookkeeper, may not have been a sales success, but it certainly wasn’t for lack of self-aggrandizing promotion by the remarkably computer-savvy Meri, who hit the Internet head-on in her attempts to gull the innocent into buying his swan song (but who is writing the sequel?) On January 24, 2005, the proud Meri, posting as realityfan http://forums.realitytvplanet.com/viewtopic.php?p=355466&sid=0b80ea2e14c0e13784af08e4680bf593, proudly proclaimed, “MY HUSBAND IS PUBLISHED, BUY HIS BOOK!!!”, and then directed you to the url that appears under all of her articles here. Meri, posting as cathy, on October 3, 2005, popped up on riehlworldview (where she has previously waxed eloquent as texasnurse and Isanah) and proudly displayed her e-mail address, writers2@cox.net, but made no mention of her husband’s output (written, not roughage). Those log-in names lead to a poster, Dutchdad, who is busily prolific on nataleeholloway.net, riehlworldview, and scaredmonkeys. Meri, using the username ‘thebookkeeper' and the trusty writers2@cox.net, next emerges on that horror-themed message board, Random Sanity (randomsanity.com), a strange place for a 63-year-old grandmother to lurk, one would think. However, a quick peek at that posting reveals a remarkably rejuvenated and with-it octogenarian, who writes on March 8, 2005: “My new horror novel came out in January, 2005. It is available on the web and at all major bookstores but you can get a discount and read a synopsis at the floowing link: ‘the url that appears under all of her articles here’ It’s original and scary so check it out. Richard Ulrich, Author” We have lots of output above, but no accredited authorship, unless there is an ongoing dispute in the maybe-not-so-happy Ulrich household over credit for The Bookkeeper (though I don’t know why there would be—it is hardly likely to be Pulitzer-Prize or movie-offer material). Which brings me to that last unmentioned repository for Meri-isms: my e-mail inbox. Like Patrick before you, you have chosen to stuff my inbox with unanswered and unwanted e-mail. Like Patrick before you, I must suggest that your for-my-eyes-only fingerings are no more profound or pleasing than your articles which constantly promote the HollowayMedia Inc.’s creation-based, fiction-filled version of the vanishing. To thine own self be true, Meri. Last Friday, behind closed doors and before a judge brought over from Curacao, Mr. Paulus van der Sloot’s lawyer, Arie Swaen, in the methodical Dutch manner, fired the opening salvo in the battle to clear Paulus's name: he has filed a lawsuit for damages against the Aruban government. Look back over the libels, my dear, and decide who should get credit for authorship (and any served papers)—you or your husband. ------------ About the author: Dayo Gould is a frequent visitor to Aruba, and is a volunteer ESL teacher in a Christian school. Email: ed_asp@hotmail.com Tell a friend about this site! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com. 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