Originally published at: Dan Savage lives up to his name in this tweet about lying liar George Santos | Boing Boing
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For those who don’t know the reference:
“To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”
–Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895
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HFS, that made me guffaw. Savage and Wilde.
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If Dan Savage has any kids, I hope one is named Wilde.
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I believe he and his husband adopted at least one child, but sadly I don’t think they went for the gag name.
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In addition, Santos doesn’t understand the necessity for an apostrophe.
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Having three mothers is within the range of possible today.
- Gene mother.
- Egg mother.
- Host mother.
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Lots of kids have more than one mother, just as Dan Savage’s kid has more than one father. But I don’t think Santos ever claimed that the discrepancy in the date of his mother’s passing was due to him having more than one mom.
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She got better?
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(snorted)
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“How extravagant you are, throwing away mothers like that. Someday they may be scarce.”
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- Foster mother.
- Adoptive mother.
And in Santos’ case,
- Fictional mother(s).
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But the ones I listed are biological moms. (Oh to be there when some bureaucrat wants his form filled out properly. 
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I guess fiction boy had a mom, but I’ll wait for supporting evidence.
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There’s an app for that…
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“motherless son of a goat!”
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According to Auric Goldfinger: “Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, the third time it’s enemy action.” So we should wait for her to die a third time before jumping to conclusions.
“Hey, I died twice.” – Buffy Summers
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I thought it was “son of a motherless goat”?
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