# What kind of people strangle their mistresses? Ruthless People! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 29, 2006, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-people-strangle-their-mistresses-ruthless-people/378332 "2006-10-29T15:31:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-people-strangle-their-mistresses-ruthless-people/378332/21 "2006-10-30T15:14:12Z")
I saw the video of Sherwood strangling his mistress. It was awful! He’d let up for a while and then he’d start in again. The whole thing must have taken two minutes. When it was over, he looked so satisfied I thought he was going to light up a cigarette! ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-people-strangle-their-mistresses-ruthless-people/378332/22 "2006-10-30T17:21:24Z")
[QUOTE=Triskadecamus] Viet Nam was started by Eisenhower. [/QUOTE] America’s involvement goes back a bit further than that. See [this link](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman_Doctrine) regarding the Truman Doctrine. _“The Truman Doctrine also contributed to and became rationale for America’s first involvements in the Vietnam War. Starting shortly after the outbreak of the Korean War, Truman attempted to aid France’s bid to hold onto its Vietnamese colonies. The United States supplied French forces with equipment and military advisors in order to combat Ho Chi Minh and anti-colonial communist revolutionaries.”_ > [@Evil Captor](#): > > Foley’s page diddling came out in the last freaking month. Did I miss something about actual physical contact by Foley with a page(s), as opposed to rancid IMs and e-mails? ---
**Author:** ![FRDE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e68b1a/32.png) [@FRDE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FRDE)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-people-strangle-their-mistresses-ruthless-people/378332/23 "2006-10-30T18:26:29Z")
Yes, Vietnam was boiling up from the French ‘re-possession’ - ironically the Japanese troops became great friends with the French - I’ve seen touching photos of leave taking ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-people-strangle-their-mistresses-ruthless-people/378332/24 "2006-10-30T19:14:35Z")
[QUOTE=Evil Captor] Ohio Representative Don Sherwood (R-Abuser) [/QUOTE] Sherwood is a U.S. representative from Pennsylvania. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-people-strangle-their-mistresses-ruthless-people/378332/25 "2006-10-30T19:43:28Z")
[QUOTE=Evil Captor] [First pic on the left at the bottom of the page, that’s Morris calling the mayor to blackmail him with the evidence that he’s strangled his mistress.](http://www.movieactors.com/actors/anitamorris.htm) The mayor is the guy holding the phone immediately to her right. I made the connection instantly, and ever since then, Rep. Sherwood has looked like the mayor from “Ruthless People” in my mind. [/QUOTE] > [@Rick](#): > > [nitpick]There was no mayor in Ruthless People. William G. Schilling played the chief of Police Henry Benton. > IMDB link [/nitpick] And Anita Morris was not calling the chief to blackmail him. Earl (Bill Pullman, in his first movie role) was trying to videotape Sam (Danny DeVito) killing his wife, but was too squeamish to watch, and got footage of the chief and his mistress instead. Without watching it, they sent the tape to the chief to prompt him to arrest Sam. She called to find out why Sam hadn’t been arrested and the chief only thought he was being blackmailed. What a great movie. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-people-strangle-their-mistresses-ruthless-people/378332/26 "2006-10-30T20:04:03Z")
[QUOTE=FRDE] Yes, Vietnam was boiling up from the French ‘re-possession’ [/QUOTE] Ah, but Ho Chi Minh only sided with the Russian commies because his independence movement pleas were ignored at the Treaty of Versailles by the Brits and the Yanks. I therefore blame Kaiser Wilhelm (or Gavrilo Princip). ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-people-strangle-their-mistresses-ruthless-people/378332/27 "2006-10-31T16:17:10Z")
Yes, but WHY was Anita Morris blackmailing Kaiser Wilhelm? Other than being a ruthless person, of course. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-people-strangle-their-mistresses-ruthless-people/378332/28 "2006-10-31T16:45:42Z")
[QUOTE=Robot Arm] What a great movie. [/QUOTE] No. It’s the National Rifle Association. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-people-strangle-their-mistresses-ruthless-people/378332.md?page=1)