I saw in City Lights that Ed Kemmick got a note from Marvella Orchard along with a copy of the Northern Light. I got a copy of the Northern Light in the mail the other day, too, but I couldn't find a note. Just now, as I was cleaning off my desk, there it was.
Marvella Orchard wrote: "I have read your personal attacks against Mr. Donald Cyphers and your bad words about the Montana News Association. You tried through unethical business tactics to destroy both Mr. Cyphers and Mrs. Kathleen Plumb of the Northern Light. Yet, as you can see, while you are declining, God is blessing and increasing their business and their influence."
I don't know what I did to "destroy" Ms. Plumb. Nothing that I can recall. And it beats me why Cyphers gets a pass for ripping people off while God punishes me for pointing it out.
Maybe I've spent too many Sunday mornings at St. Mattress.
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David, hmmmm. . . You'd better watch those bad words.
At least you're in good company.
I don't think I would worry too much about that note. I checked and I don't see anything called the gospel of Marvella and there does not seem to be a prophet Marvella so I think she is trying to scare you with authority that she doesn't have. bonnie
A few people suggested to me that it might have been Donald Cyphers who posed as Marvella and wrote that letter to me. I didn't think so, partly because there were no hilarious mistakes in spelling or syntax, but the wording in your letter makes me suspicious. It sounds just like some of those "letters to the editor" Cyphers has "printed," signed by people with names as improbable as Marvella Orchard.
Ed, Now that you mention it, that does sound like typical Cyphers syntax, only with better spelling. There are Orchards in the phone book, but they're in Ten Sleep, Wyo. And the envelope was postmarked in Billings.
But then, the only other pseudonym I've known Cyphers to go by is Mark Johnson. Not exactly an imaginative choice.
If you look at letters to the editor on the MNA site, you'll see a purported letter from the alleged Marvella, as well as another letter, clearly written in the Cyphers style and blasting you for the usual Cyphers reasons, signed by "Mary," with no other identifiers.
I wish to add a comment already posted on Ed's Blog. Thanks.
Marvella. Be careful, for thou knowest not what thee doeseth. Behold the book of Faks 3:10 “Beware thy shaking of fingers under others noseths. For should thou annoyest thy target, they might rise and smitest thee or, at the very leasteth, respond in the words of the netherworld by replying, Up Thine!” Now excuseth me whilst I retreat and attemptest to dodgeth the blue bolt of lightning I’m sure will followeth my posteth! Oh, and I’d appreciate knowing what the “annointed” one uses when he annointeths his head with oil. 10/30 weight?
And, thy might considereth a changeth in thy attitude with a bit lesseth "Tsketh! Tsketh!" And considereth a more "Atta Boyeth" service upon thy Lord! For I sayeth onto thee, thou art not the only personeth thy Lord speaketh upon!
Comment by Pete Hansen — 10/11/2005 @ 4:38 pm
Up Thine?! I kinda like that. May I borrow it, as in Up Thine Where the Sun Doesn'th Shine!
Dona...Oops. I mean Marvella!
Ed, Except that Mary might be a real person. I did talk to some people about DFS abuses early in Outpost history, and I got some interesting stuff, but it never seemed to me to be quite enough to go with. The people I would have had to rely on to make the story convincing all had problems with their stories -- not to say that they had no legitimate grievances but that the details were murky enough that it was hard to say with confidence that DFS was in the wrong.
I can't remember everybody I talked to, but Mary might have been one of them.
This was rather strange to see the Name Donald Cyphers name. Several years ago I had the occasion to go in depth into Mr Cyphers financial and shady business dealings when he was operating a collection agency (CCC) and posing as an attorney. Reports were made to the state bar and he was ordered to quite posing as an attorney. Subsequently he was committing several violations of the fair credit act and was reported for this. Prior to this he was working for an attorney as a paralegal and was dismissed for privacy violations and soliciting money from former clients of the attorney in the attempt to collect on debts owed by the clients. The attorney was performing legally collections for his clients and when he would close the case Mr. Cyphers would reopen them without authorization. In short if this guy comes into your world run as fast and far as you can he is a vampire that sucks society and people dry.
Donald Cyphers has been doing shady deals in Billings for 20 years. He represents himself as an attorney when he is not. He fails to pay his bills. Beware of this guy.
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