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March 23, 2009
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for mocking the constant variety of cable news hackery or whatever else you're up to.
It's time to coax some lurkers out of the shadows. Let's go, lurkers. Show yourselves!
Filed under: Open Thread
Posted By Bob Cesca | March 23, 2009 7:12 PM
Comments
First! Woo hoo!
(And now you'll probably never hear from me again)
Posted by: Alex at March 23, 2009 7:27 PM
Lurker? Hey, I resemble that remark!!!!
It's only 4:30 here for me on the Left Coast, so by the time I get home to start my nightly intake of beers I'm way behind you all.
Plus I'm not half as witty.
Posted by: BlueFan at March 23, 2009 7:29 PM
I'm a half lurker. Hi!
"whatever else you're up to..."
I'm currently planning a trip to Miami and their public transit sucks. Boston, Seattle, Philly, NYC, and heck BALTIMORE have more useful lines.
Posted by: Jeremiah at March 23, 2009 7:29 PM
Michele Bachmann should be charged with treason or at the very least inciting violence and/or riot.
I don't give a damn what her opinion is on taxes. Her opinion isn't worth dick. But calling for people to arm themselves and act dangerously is grossly irresponsible of any public figure and is in my opinion criminal.
Posted by: J M Ashby at March 23, 2009 7:30 PM
Hey Jeremiah, I'm an ex Miamian of many moons- if you need tips, let me know.
Posted by: Paddy at March 23, 2009 7:35 PM
blue: ooh, another west-coaster! I was feelin' lonely.
Posted by: fe at March 23, 2009 7:37 PM
Posted by: ceu at March 23, 2009 7:41 PM
I post very occasionally, so I believe that qualifies me as a lurker. So...hello.
Posted by: fightoffyourdemons at March 23, 2009 7:43 PM
Another west coast lurker here.
Great day for Geithner! Who the hell would want that job right now? The left needs to give the guy a little room to operate. Maybe it's time for Bob to post the "Everybody chill the fuck out..." image again. Better yet, e-mail it to Krugman and Arianna. Obama's got this!
Posted by: strohdog at March 23, 2009 7:45 PM
Woohoo! Welcome, lurkers! Broadway Carl is buying the shots.
Posted by: Kat at March 23, 2009 7:46 PM
Definitely lurker material. But I've stepped out of the shadows a few times.
Posted by: LMarathon at March 23, 2009 7:48 PM
Bah! The light!
Posted by: scrum at March 23, 2009 7:48 PM
And apparently claiming West Coast status gets you brownie points... so BAM!
Posted by: LMarathon at March 23, 2009 7:49 PM
Another WCL in the PTT
Posted by: Anne at March 23, 2009 7:52 PM
Wow, look at all you fucking lurkers! Is that all we have to do? Tell you to come out, and you come out? Huzzah!
Posted by: Elvis the Dingeldein™ at March 23, 2009 7:52 PM
welcome, lurkers. and, Kat, the new guys have to buy the drinks.
Posted by: fe at March 23, 2009 7:54 PM
Fe, shhhhhhh....and I'll let you in on a little secret. We buy the first couple rounds, and then they'll forget we put the rest of the night on their tab. ;)
Posted by: Kat at March 23, 2009 8:00 PM
Ice cold Pacificos for all.
Posted by: strohdog at March 23, 2009 8:01 PM
And pretzels. We need pretzels.
Posted by: dontpanic23 at March 23, 2009 8:03 PM
I lurk in Podcast Alley. It's nice and dark there, but I'm always late to the party....this means you Bob, Lee, and Elvis Dingeldein (as in Frankenteen??).
I heard that pronunciation on Bob's podcast. Am I the only one to get this, or do you have another answer, Herr Dingeldein?
Posted by: pablo at March 23, 2009 8:03 PM
That's FrankenSHTEEN.
Posted by: pablo at March 23, 2009 8:04 PM
"Fucking lurker?" *I* resemble that remark. Pittsburghers represent.
Posted by: Les at March 23, 2009 8:05 PM
A Word About "First!"ers
Note: This opinion is entirely mine and in no way reflects the Editorial Opinions of Bob Cesca, Bob Cesca's Goddamn Awesome Blog!, Bob Cesca Enterprises, LLC, or the Bob Cesca Snuggie™ Distribution Centers LTD of Hoboken, NJ and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. So suck it.
One of the first places I ever posted a word as "Elvis Dingeldein" was at Legendary Comic Supersnarker and Booger Enthusiast Dave Barry's blog, where I contributed quite a bit of original material via the commentary and even made Dave himself laugh a few times (according to a brief e-mail correspondence). One of my few remaining follies can be found here, as a matter of fact. Ah, the memories.
But very shortly after becoming a fixture over there, I started to notice an annoying trend in the commentary: Races to be "First!" to comment, and then comments about the commenter that was first, and comments about those commentators that were second or fifth or twelfth, and so on. Commentary started becoming more about the commentary itself than about the articles (though in Dave's case, of course, these "articles" are typically nothing more than a link and the word "booger," or a story about a monkey that wears underpants), and I quickly grew disenchanted with this shallow pool of buffoonery. I haven't been back there since, and OH! how Dave's career has suffered for it. Seriously, he can't sell a book now to save his life, and he's living in the Underpants Monkey's basement.
So if it were up to me -- and it SO isn't -- I'd ask that we not devolve into a legion of First!ers around here. It's juvenile and obnoxious and serves no purpose other than to antagonize and annoy me. But that's just me.
I suppose I could always go back to Dave's blog.
Posted by: Elvis the Dingeldein™ at March 23, 2009 8:08 PM
Pablo - That's exactly why I purposefully munge the pronunciation of Dingeldein. FrahnkenSHTEEN indeed, sir, and well done!
Posted by: Elvis the Dingeldein™ at March 23, 2009 8:09 PM
ummmm...am i the only one embarrassed by their actions on the ptt knowing now how many people are lurking?!
Posted by: gypsy at March 23, 2009 8:11 PM
so...you're saying that it's not your real name?? (gasp)
Posted by: ceu at March 23, 2009 8:13 PM
Elvis, you just described every goddamn day of my existence.
Also, I'm always here. Always lurking. MUHAHAHAHA!
Posted by: Redmond at March 23, 2009 8:13 PM
Why ya'll gotta be hatin' on Michele Bachmann so much? She be the man. She be the man.
Posted by: Les at March 23, 2009 8:15 PM
Shuster on Countdown's gonna be talking about the laughter thing. 15 minutes into the interview was the first time he cracked a smile, and it was about bailout bonuses, not people dying in Iraq. And why do you have to be interminably grim when you're discussing serious issues? Thin soup.
Posted by: ElMystico at March 23, 2009 8:20 PM
Great, here come the penis jokes.
Posted by: strohdog at March 23, 2009 8:20 PM
This is an amusing little thread from Dave's blog during my days posting as Wender J. Crinklebank (Esq.).
It appears some Total Douche had been lurking on Dave's blog, then wantonly plagiarizing the Hysterical Comedy Antics of one of its funniest members* on another blog, passing them off as his own work. I stumbled across said thievery while at The Googles, and spent a fun-filled day viciously shaming him (logged into the other blog as "The Deplagiarinator") until he slunked back under the rock from whence he came, huzzah!
Wender J. Crinklebank was a prolific little fuck. I was sorry to have to stab him in the duodenum with an ice pick one night as he peed in a dark alleyway.
* Me.
Posted by: Elvis the Dingeldein™ at March 23, 2009 8:22 PM
Jesus Christ! Look at all of them.
Posted by: GItheJOE at March 23, 2009 8:29 PM
Elvis, I think you scared the former lurkers back into lurk status. I know I'm shaking a little after the duodenum remark.
Posted by: dontpanic23 at March 23, 2009 8:29 PM
Oooo! And here I get yelled at for using The Potty Languages. Which I suppose is why I ended up over here.
Posted by: Elvis the Dingeldein™ at March 23, 2009 8:30 PM
jeebus, elvis, how long have you been blogging? since before it was cool, I imagine.
Posted by: fe at March 23, 2009 8:30 PM
ummmm...am i the only one embarrassed by their actions on the ptt knowing now how many people are lurking?!
You are not alone, Gyps. Good thing I haven't talked about my obsession with Rachel Maddow, or.....oh noes!!! They all know!!!!
Posted by: Kat at March 23, 2009 8:30 PM
I think the PTT needs to follow the male bathroom guidelines.
If you are gazing upon the dude's wang next to you must say something or kiss him.
Basically, it isn't polite to just look. If you open up the PTT, comment on the first random thing that comes to mind.
Like I just did.
Posted by: GItheJOE at March 23, 2009 8:32 PM
I am a regular lurker, I think I may have posted once, a few months back.
I am the evil spawn of two wingnuts, who like to remind me that I am going to hell because I am pro-choice and I voted for Pres. Obama! So I come here just to feel normal and not feel so bad!
Posted by: Steph at March 23, 2009 8:35 PM
peeking over at Joe in next urinal
Hello, Joe.
It is scary that so many eyes have been on some damned silly remarks of mine.
Posted by: dontpanic23 at March 23, 2009 8:35 PM
Totally doesn't help the chicks, Joe.
Posted by: Kat at March 23, 2009 8:36 PM
Ooo! Here's one of my early entries into The Political Humors, and it also involves Abe Lincoln, huzzah! I think this was the exact moment I decided that Political Humors was the bee's knees.
There's nothing new under the political sky. Awkward translations have haunted presidential candidates since the early days of the Republic.Competing for the crucial Indian Vote in the election of 1860, Republican and Democratic campaign managers alike were horrified to learn that among the Native American population it was a contest between Abraham "Bearded Face of Buffalo Scrotum" Lincoln, Stephen "Little Giant Marching Turd" Douglas and John "Dances With Slave-Owners" Breckinridge. Often called the Karl Rove of the 1860 election, Whig pollster and political genius Cornelius Q. Flapjacket successfully won his candidate, John Bell of Tennessee, 93% of the Native American vote by paying a Sioux Indian chief $4.75 to incorrectly translate his candidate's name as "Kills Whitey And Reinstates Tribal Lands."
Brought to you by the Crinkle History Network. CHN: History is fun! As long as you're white.
Posted by: Elvis the Dingeldein™ at March 23, 2009 8:36 PM
Kat, I snuck in there. Speak for yourself.
Posted by: dontpanic23 at March 23, 2009 8:37 PM
i think the ptt "every nighters" have just become the "new lurkers"!
Posted by: gypsy at March 23, 2009 8:38 PM
oh hey wow what
Posted by: Travis D at March 23, 2009 8:39 PM
Dave Barry = Awesome.
Posted by: Nanotyrannus at March 23, 2009 8:40 PM
Those strange characters in ZALGO's post made ink run down my monitor. Very odd.
Posted by: dontpanic23 at March 23, 2009 8:40 PM
That is some kick ass graphics for the PTT.
Oh...For the ladies, it is like hoarding all the TP and not sharing it with the person in the next stall.
"I can't spare a square."
Posted by: GItheJOE at March 23, 2009 8:40 PM
A little birdie told me that the PTT was just one big stroke-fest. So when can I get someone to stroke me?
Posted by: Kat at March 23, 2009 8:44 PM
warning: Billy Ocean
Posted by: Travis D at March 23, 2009 8:48 PM
One of Wender J. Crinklebank's more cerebral efforts over at John Hodgman's blog, where -- for reasons you'd only understand if you read his first book, The Areas of My Expertise -- he posts photographs of the letter "H".
Google-Archaeology of the Other Selves. Creepy.
Posted by: Elvis the Dingeldein™ at March 23, 2009 8:49 PM
In the words of Dr. Paul Bearer: "I'll be lurking for you!" (said in a voice that came from the bottom of a whiskey bottle and/or a carton of Pall-Malls)For those not in the Tampa Bay area, he was the host of our Creature Feature movies on Saturday afternoons.
Posted by: thruwithbuzz at March 23, 2009 8:52 PM
What an great surprise Hodgman was as the brain doctor on BSG. He came across as completely unfazed by pretty much everything that had happened up until that point.
Posted by: Nanotyrannus at March 23, 2009 9:02 PM
E.D. is kicking ass in here tonight! Elvis lives!
Posted by: Terri at March 23, 2009 9:02 PM
P.S. That post on Good Evening made me laugh.
Posted by: Nanotyrannus at March 23, 2009 9:04 PM
ED, HA!
Posted by: GItheJOE at March 23, 2009 9:10 PM
I am a regular lurker, I think I may have posted once, a few months back.
I am the evil spawn of two wingnuts, who like to remind me that I am going to hell because I am pro-choice and I voted for Pres. Obama! So I come here just to feel normal and not feel so bad!
Posted by: Steph at March 23, 2009 8:35 PM
while not the product of 2 wingnuts, most of my family are nutjobs, and coming here is therapy
welcome all
*furiously thinking what I have said and should I be worried?*
Posted by: veralynn at March 23, 2009 9:11 PM
@ Steph,
Now that you have beem 'baptised' into the BC blog lurkers group, you can leave out the adjective before 'spawn'. :)
Welcome lurkers!
I surfaced the last time the lurkers thread was opened, but I still rarely say much because most of the time the topic is way too 'sophisticated' for me [-labelled 'prudish' from all the way back in high school-]. However, I find that I do get topical and important info from time to time, not to mention some real thoughtful insights, and my knowledge of the political players is certainly improving. I am also fascinated by the very real sense of community that is often displayed among the regulars (as well as the sometimes biting sarcasm).
Thank you, Bob C and all the regular contributors! You do a terrific job engaging / informing / educating (and sometimes scaring)folks like me.
Posted by: vyccan at March 23, 2009 9:14 PM
....as well as the sometimes biting sarcasm.
Elvis' bark is worse than his bite, Vyccan. Or so Jane tells me.
Posted by: Kat at March 23, 2009 9:20 PM
Oh...For the ladies, it is like hoarding all the TP and not sharing it with the person in the next stall.
We don't hoard, we share. really. Besides, any woman worth her salt has some sort of back up in her purse. :)
Posted by: ceu at March 23, 2009 9:25 PM
Kat, I prefer to be the biter, not the bitee.
Posted by: jane at March 23, 2009 9:26 PM
random thought: is anyone else annoyed by that lady in the commercial for "the people of America's oil and natural gas industry"? or is it just me?
Posted by: veralynn at March 23, 2009 9:26 PM
Ceu, I don't do purses. But I've camped before. And I look first.
Posted by: jane at March 23, 2009 9:26 PM
So has it been a relatively natzi-free day around here? Beuller?
Posted by: jane at March 23, 2009 9:28 PM
seriously? the prosecutors in the madoff case used a congo version of the nigerian email scam? wow
i thought lawyers were smarter than that. wait are they federal prosecutors from shrub's admin?
Posted by: veralynn at March 23, 2009 9:29 PM
I know I've been nazi free.
Posted by: fe at March 23, 2009 9:29 PM
I liked this
gone, but not forgotten.
Posted by: ceu at March 23, 2009 9:30 PM
Vera- I agree. And she should let those poor bastards out of her giant pie chart!
Posted by: ElMystico at March 23, 2009 9:30 PM
>>But I've camped before.
Does that mean you used your t shirt. Or heaven forbid, didn't wipe. Ewwww!
Posted by: GItheJOE at March 23, 2009 9:30 PM
@ceu--I like the part at the bottom, "with English Translation"
Posted by: veralynn at March 23, 2009 9:31 PM
El-they do looked very cramped in there
Posted by: veralynn at March 23, 2009 9:33 PM
And yet "Another WCL in the PTT." First time out of the shadows. Otherwise, right now, I got nothin.
Posted by: Stubbhead at March 23, 2009 9:37 PM
Here be another West Coast lurker, says I.
Posted by: GeorgeJungle at March 23, 2009 9:38 PM
I am so way left coast, or at least I was before moving here. Since I'm on the whole other fucking side of the Pacific does that make me more lefty?
This is a commie country so I think I am the leftiest!
Posted by: emsique at March 23, 2009 9:41 PM
Kat, it's not just Elvis. Sometimes your,Jane's and GIthe's (to mention a few) wit scare the daylights out of me. At those times I remember the saying 'it's better to be silent and thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt' - hence the reason I just lurk. I am, however, contemplating GI's earlier suggestion to simply 'sign in'in future, instead of lurking. We'll see.
Posted by: vyccan at March 23, 2009 9:43 PM
I'd agree that GI The ______ (Fill In The Blank; He's the MadLibs Commentator) is in fact terrifying, but you've nothing to fear from the rest of us, Vyccan.
Posted by: Elvis the Dingeldein™ at March 23, 2009 9:47 PM
"you are more than the worst thing you've done" Rachel quoting someone else.... still good, tho
Posted by: ceu at March 23, 2009 9:48 PM
Jane, I can be a pretend Nazi if you want. I love me some jackboots and orderly annihilation of mein enemies.
Posted by: emsique at March 23, 2009 9:49 PM
Greetings Cescans.
I had coffee with Teh Minx today and she sends a big Hello and "I miss you all, I'll be back tomorrow night," to the usual suspects here on the Goddman Awesome PTT.
I gave her a quick rundown of the hightlights of what she's missed here at GDAB while she has been at the beach getting sunburned in sunny Florida.
Also, Teh Minx is either a real woman or has the largest breasts I've ever seen on a man. She is as sweet in meatspace as she is here. It was a pleasant conversation.
She also now knows the correct pronunciation of Dingeldein™.
Posted by: SillyRatfacedGit at March 23, 2009 9:54 PM
git, was there any doubt of minx's female-ness?
Posted by: fe at March 23, 2009 9:57 PM
Hugh Hewitt is pissed that Notre Dame asked Obama to speak at their commencement ceremony. Can you believe that they would ask the President of the United States to speak at their commencement ceremony? How un-wingnut of them! Goddamn it's fun to watch them bleed.
Posted by: strohdog at March 23, 2009 9:57 PM
emsique may be the designated nazi if he wants. I don't object. I may join him from time to time but only if I may wear black leather.
Posted by: SillyRatfacedGit at March 23, 2009 9:57 PM
Eyes up- you perv.
Posted by: LurkLurk at March 23, 2009 9:58 PM
>Basically, it isn't polite to just look. If you open up the PTT, comment on the first random thing that comes to mind.
Oh, gawd, no. Then the thing would be how many times longer? I struggle enough to keep up with this addiction as it is.
@GItheOEDer, could you respond to my question (last comment in the thread here) when you get a chance, please? Reply here or there; I'll deskcut or favorite them both just in case.
(Another West Coast (semi)-lurker in the house.)
Posted by: dy at March 23, 2009 9:58 PM
Vyccan, we aren't really that witty. We just drink too much and smartassery ensues. And you should "sign in" on a regular basis!
Posted by: Kat at March 23, 2009 10:00 PM
fe -
No. Not really. But on the internet no one can tell you are a [monkey, dog, ape, cat, giraffe, ...]
Minx is none of those.
Posted by: SillyRatfacedGit at March 23, 2009 10:00 PM
She also now knows the correct pronunciation of Dingeldein™.
I find it Highly Discomfiting that you and Teh Minx had yourselves some coffee and discussed the proper Mouth Sounds required to say my name. That's just odd.
Posted by: Elvis the Dingeldein™ at March 23, 2009 10:01 PM
I'm glad to hear that. I hate monkeys.
Posted by: fe at March 23, 2009 10:01 PM
What have you got against cats, Git???
Posted by: Kat at March 23, 2009 10:03 PM
DON'T HATE ON THE MONKEYS!
Posted by: jane at March 23, 2009 10:04 PM
Git, the long black leather trench coats are definitely the best! And a minority whip!
Posted by: emsique at March 23, 2009 10:07 PM
don't hate the haters, either
Posted by: TruthSerum at March 23, 2009 10:07 PM
Posted by: fe at March 23, 2009 10:08 PM
>>@GItheOEDer, could you respond to my question (last comment in the thread here) when you get a chance, please? Reply here or there; I'll deskcut or favorite them both just in case.
Dy, I am a college student and have free access to said OED.
Posted by: GItheJOE at March 23, 2009 10:09 PM
>Kat, it's not just Elvis. Sometimes your,Jane's and GIthe's (to mention a few) wit scare the daylights out of me. At those times I remember the saying 'it's better to be silent and thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt' - hence the reason I just lurk.
Oh, vyccan, totally. WMTA (witless minds think alike). I just keep hoping I'll osmose some of it or something.
Posted by: dy at March 23, 2009 10:09 PM
monkeys are creepy. they eat them here along with just about anything else. I still wanna BBQ Rush.
Posted by: emsique at March 23, 2009 10:09 PM
Git
I am sure you already have this, but I couldn't resist!! (Forgive me)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtyO4tmpPdk
Mr and Mrs Git
Posted by: veralynn at March 23, 2009 10:09 PM
Sorry, PTTers.
I was looking for a mutual with more risk than Madoff. I found a purely financial fund that gained 30% TODAY!
History question for the PTT?
Much did the DOW go up in the heart of the Great Depression, 1933?
Posted by: GItheJOE at March 23, 2009 10:11 PM
"Dear LibTards,
"The economy is drifting into the netherworld. The Russians just bitch slapped O-Blame-a regarding the missile defense system, Iran is one breath from making a nuke and you are focusing on Limbaugh?
"Its no ownder our country is in the shitter after 43 days of LibTardness!!!
Posted by: TruthSerum at March 4, 2009 5:16 PM
Presented Without Hate.
Posted by: jane at March 23, 2009 10:12 PM
Oh...
Dy, thanks for not calling me GItheED.
Posted by: GItheLIMPDICK at March 23, 2009 10:12 PM
Thanks to vyccan, I now have a new statement for new commenters:
Welcome. We don't bite, but our sarcasm does.
Posted by: SillyRatfacedGit at March 23, 2009 10:12 PM
truth was gone yesterday. it was nice.
Posted by: fe at March 23, 2009 10:13 PM
Jane, you hate everything.
Posted by: GItheJOE at March 23, 2009 10:15 PM
david shuster, if you have to ask if too much is being made of the President laughing, then the answer is yes it is...where is Keith?
Posted by: veralynn at March 23, 2009 10:16 PM
>Dy, I am a college student and have free access to said OED.
Thanks, GI. I thought you might have to be on campus or something in order to access the institutional version.
Anyway, excellent. You can "OED" us here anytime, as far as I'm concerned. (I still have very fond memories of my mom's old hardback 2-volume compact version in the slipcase with the super-thin paper and extra-tiny print that you had to use the supplied magnifying glass in order to read.)
Posted by: dy at March 23, 2009 10:16 PM
Jesus H Christ! My favorite disconnected human right now is Pope Adolph. He's been goose stepping around Africa telling the people there not to use condoms. Go ahead, get AIDS. Overpopulate while you're at it. Upon ending this blitzkrieg of religious idiocy he makes a heartfelt plea for the poor. Guess what, Herr Kinderporker? One of the reasons most of your third world flock is so fucking poor is that there are too many mouths to feed! Some family planning might just be the trick. Or is AIDS and famine just part of your hidden "final solution". Fucking Catholic Nazi prick!
Posted by: emsique at March 23, 2009 10:20 PM
Elvis -
The pronunciation came up because she didn't know about your blogradio show. She be getting caught up when she gets back.
veralynn -
Yes that's the sketch that inspired this nym. I thought Silly was better than Sniveling Little.
I have all of Flying Circus and all of their Movies on DVD.
Posted by: SillyRatfacedGit at March 23, 2009 10:20 PM
@kat, re: your "strokey" video
Ouch. Is there a name for male camel toe?
Posted by: dy at March 23, 2009 10:21 PM
dy, you have just been Oxforded. Much like everything else in my life I am good for a short burst but nothing more. I graduate from college soon which will bring the Oxfording to an end.
Posted by: GItheJOE at March 23, 2009 10:22 PM
I don't hate being Oxforded...ahem.
Posted by: jane at March 23, 2009 10:25 PM
While I'm ranting, here is a new plan for toxic assets: Get rid of Geithner and Larry Summers. Those are the two biggest toxic assets of the Obama team. Speaking of Nazi sounding names: Geithner, Bachman, Rumsfeld, Wolf Blitzer, Beck!!!! Gott in Himmel, the place is crawling with them!
Posted by: emsique at March 23, 2009 10:27 PM
Can we please get JONATHAN TURLEY the number to the presidential batphone? Please!
Posted by: Mike H. at March 23, 2009 10:27 PM
Yay, jane to the rescue! (couldn't think of a witty reply to that one myself)
Posted by: dy at March 23, 2009 10:27 PM
Well, y'all, it's past my regular during-the-week bedtime, so I'll say 'au revoir', and thanks for the opportunity to interact.
Posted by: vyccan at March 23, 2009 10:28 PM
Jane, if you didn't like it I could knock you out with its weight(20 plus lbs).
Posted by: GItheJOE at March 23, 2009 10:30 PM
The Roman Catholic Church is proof positive that ideology and dogma can override common sense to the detriment of humanity. I guess the Pope will not acknowledge his error until all of the Africans are dead from AIDS.
Posted by: SillyRatfacedGit at March 23, 2009 10:30 PM
Night vyccan.
And thanks, West Coast lurkers, for coming out. With your help maybe this place won't roll up the sidewalks so damn early.
Posted by: jane at March 23, 2009 10:32 PM
I mean, we've needed a second shift for a while now.
Posted by: jane at March 23, 2009 10:33 PM
Emsique, when I think about Joey Ratz, I see red and feel like throwing large objects. So I refrain from thinking too hard about the obtuseness of a man who thinks that condoms are detrimental to the ending of AIDS. But you pretty much said what I think.
Posted by: Kat at March 23, 2009 10:34 PM
Joe, I sense a new entry into the Oxford Urban Dictionary.
Posted by: jane at March 23, 2009 10:36 PM
I figured you did Git, but I couldn't help myself...
night vyccan
Posted by: veralynn at March 23, 2009 10:40 PM
I sense a disturbance in the Force. WTF is Elvis doing?
*low crawls into Doom room*
Posted by: GItheJOE at March 23, 2009 10:42 PM
jane, thanks for keeping up the TS watch. I've seen some say that he/she/it really isn't all that bad after all, and I think to myself, whoa, wait a minute -- even if I can't remember the exact words, I definitely remember the energy emanating out of its earlier posts. Not to mention, I'm pretty sure that TS had oozed through here before under multiple sundry, other, even more hater-ish monikers.
Posted by: dy at March 23, 2009 10:43 PM
Not that it's any of your bizness, but I'm getting my Maker's on and watching Battlestar Galactica. Bitch.
Posted by: Elvis the Dingeldein™ at March 23, 2009 10:44 PM
Veralyn, every time I see your name, the Pink Floyd song pops into my head.
Posted by: emsique at March 23, 2009 10:45 PM
See, I told you something was wrong. Dogs and Cats living together. The Fourth Angel of the Apocalypse appeared. Trumpets sounded. Then, I realized I was tripping on shrums just like Moses.
Oh..burning bushes. HA! bush
Posted by: GItheJOE at March 23, 2009 10:48 PM
emsique
that is because that is where it comes from :)
does anybody here remember veralynn?
I guess you can tell I am a Floyd fan lol
Posted by: veralynn at March 23, 2009 10:49 PM
dy, my secret is The Google.
Posted by: jane at March 23, 2009 10:51 PM
I think the dream police here have blocked Youtube. Can only see Mr. and Mrs. Git in my memory.
Posted by: emsique at March 23, 2009 10:52 PM
Adding: Some of Spermy's posts are gone forever because even Mr. Cesca broke down and blocked him for a while.
Posted by: jane at March 23, 2009 10:53 PM
I love cats, dogs, and giraffes. Monkeys and apes, not so much.
Strohman -
I suggested somewhere (prolly TPC), that if Notre Dame does not want the POTUS as their commencement speaker, that any of the Jesuit Universities would love to have him. Boston College, Fairfield, Villanova, or Georgetown would certainly have him.
When did a requirement that commencement speakers speakers must conform to the stringent ideological restrictions of the most wingnuttiest portion of the Alumni?
Posted by: SillyRatfacedGit at March 23, 2009 10:53 PM
M-seek, they are doing site maintenance right now, but yeah, it's prolly a Cheap Trick where you are.
Posted by: jane at March 23, 2009 10:54 PM
you can also hear Vera Lynn sing at the end of "Doctor Strangelove".
We'll meet again,
Don't know where
Don't know when.
But we will meet again
some sunny day..,,
Posted by: emsique at March 23, 2009 10:56 PM
cool emisque, I did not know that, thanks
FYI rerun of the Stewart smackdown of Cramer is on
Posted by: veralynn at March 23, 2009 11:02 PM
M-seek,
I want to see what Hong Kong is all about. I hear it is the shite.
Posted by: GItheJOE at March 23, 2009 11:02 PM
No, Jane. Only Youtube. There must be some sensitivity about some video being sympathetic to someone that the govt thinks deserves no sympathy.
Huffpo seems to be permanently banned which surprises me. They share the same aversion to free speech in their comments that the PRC does.
Posted by: emsique at March 23, 2009 11:03 PM
If anyone hasn't read Glenn Greenwald at salon.com, you should check it out...it is a very good piece on the media and why Cramer was so shell shocked by Stewart.
Posted by: veralynn at March 23, 2009 11:07 PM
Joe, by all accounts Hong Kong is mighty fun. I only spent one night there, cuz it was expensive. If you do go, get a Chinese visa before so you have the option of going to the PRC, too. If you go to Hong Kong you are definitely in my neighborhood. There is a direct one hour flight to Zhanjiang, and also a twice a week direct bus. You would be more than welcome, and you could see some real China.
Posted by: emsique at March 23, 2009 11:08 PM
this is my first try so bear with me
Posted by: veralynn at March 23, 2009 11:14 PM
Jeebus, Joe, I'm tellin' ya, Seoul is the shnizzle. Fuck Hong Kong. (No offense, M-seek.) What are you looking for? A one-legged hooker who will slaughter and cook a chicken for you, on the street corner? THEY HAVE IT!!! (And lots more, plus no Big Brother on the Internets. Korea=one of most wired countries in the world.)
Posted by: jane at March 23, 2009 11:15 PM
Posted by: veralynn at March 23, 2009 11:17 PM
Jane, Seoul is totally wired, but for total hedonistic self indulgence, my choice is Bangkok. And it is all the one legged hooker and her twin sister. And Nazi Buddhist nun all nude snake shows!
Posted by: emsique at March 23, 2009 11:20 PM
Posted by: veralynn at March 23, 2009 11:21 PM
veralynn -
Do you have a a URI to the Greenwald piece?
Greenwald is one of my favorite journalists. He is a journalist and a very tenacious one.
Posted by: SillyRatfacedGit at March 23, 2009 11:22 PM
Vera, your method is sound, but your destination page is off.
Posted by: jane at March 23, 2009 11:22 PM
Vera, your method is sound, but your destination page is off.
I hate it when that happens.
Posted by: Kat at March 23, 2009 11:23 PM
M-seek, you're prolly right about Thailand! I just meant he'll find plenty to do in his own backyard, as it were.
Posted by: jane at March 23, 2009 11:24 PM
Posted by: veralynn at March 23, 2009 11:24 PM
Vera! Pull out!
Posted by: jane at March 23, 2009 11:24 PM
you don't have to give a clicky link. The URI will do.
Posted by: SillyRatfacedGit at March 23, 2009 11:26 PM
yeah, I am getting it I think maybe tomorrow when I have fewer drugs in my brain
plus if I kept going, my ambien amnesia will keep me repeating my mistakes...so tomorrow it is
thanks guys
Posted by: veralynn at March 23, 2009 11:26 PM
Posted by: jane at March 23, 2009 11:26 PM
Uh... 151st.
Posted by: Broadway Carl at March 23, 2009 11:27 PM
I think it has to do with Salon's stupid site pass/watch this ad bullshit.
Posted by: jane at March 23, 2009 11:27 PM
Shut up, Carl.
Posted by: jane at March 23, 2009 11:28 PM
so for tonight, here is the old fashioned link
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/03/23/kurtz/index.html
and with that I am going to rewatch the daily show and it the pillow, sleep wonderfully guys
Posted by: veralynn at March 23, 2009 11:28 PM
I knew that would piss someone off, and that someone would be Jane!
Posted by: Broadway Carl at March 23, 2009 11:31 PM
thank you Jane for getting it correctly, but I will learn to do it, even if it annoys the crap out of me dammit
Posted by: veralynn at March 23, 2009 11:31 PM
Love you, Carlos.
Posted by: jane at March 23, 2009 11:32 PM
Vera, Glenn=permalink after post. Old schooly.
Posted by: jane at March 23, 2009 11:32 PM
thanks guys, I will get it if I have to throw this thing on the floor a couple of times lol
nite all
Posted by: veralynn at March 23, 2009 11:35 PM
nitey nite, Vera.
Posted by: jane at March 23, 2009 11:36 PM
Nite Vera!
Posted by: Kat at March 23, 2009 11:36 PM
I'm gonna start calling 69th. Just to be juvenile.
Posted by: Kat at March 23, 2009 11:37 PM
Thanks gals, I got there.
Glenn is good.
Posted by: SillyRatfacedGit at March 23, 2009 11:38 PM
GLENNZILLA!
Posted by: jane at March 23, 2009 11:41 PM
Sixty Nine is devine.
Nite Vera
Posted by: SillyRatfacedGit at March 23, 2009 11:44 PM
Letterman dun gud.
Posted by: Kat at March 23, 2009 11:46 PM
I'm incapable of further thought (nothing new there). G'night y'all.
Posted by: Kat at March 23, 2009 11:47 PM
Nite, Vera.
God I needed a shower after all the Bangkok memories! Joe, Asia is should be mandatory for all Americans. Your horizons will be expanded, along with some other stuff.
Posted by: emsique at March 23, 2009 11:52 PM
is should? Aiyah! Not enough Merkins for me to talk with. Only Engrish speakers and couple of Brits.
Speaking of which one of my favorite sites:
Engrish.com
Posted by: emsique at March 23, 2009 11:56 PM
I was in the middle of my workday, podcasting away, and that was the first thing that came to me when Bob (? their voices do sort of sound alike) pronounced your 'handle'. I snorted out loud, and startled my customer's dog. All I could visualize was Gene Wilder in all his monochromatic glory. Thanks for the laugh!!
And I will never go "zed".
Posted by: pablo at March 24, 2009 12:06 AM
>Uh... 151st.
And then there are the times where it's not my lack of wit that lurkifies me, but just my sheer ignorance and lack of cultural literacy, apparently. Even The Google™ didn't clue me in this time.
Oh, and: Bangkok!
Posted by: dy at March 24, 2009 12:26 AM
Last?
Posted by: Broadway Carl at March 24, 2009 1:21 AM
not yet
Posted by: Tim at March 24, 2009 1:25 AM
Let there be merkins for everyone.
Bang Zoom was a yellow TeleTubby that looked exactly like Glenn Beck.
Michelle Bachmann - Extremely Loony Party (ELP) Representative from Minnesota.
Fucker Carlson - Partisan Clown that pretends to be a political analyst. Watching him on TV is time that you will never get back. He is a total waste of skin.
Posted by: SillyRatfacedGit at March 24, 2009 1:49 AM
>Uh... 151st. (revisited)
Arrgh, whooosh. Finally got it. It was really more a precocious senior moment than my sheer ignorance (yah, sure). And I think I have a built-in anti-Perez Hilton filter, so any talk of firsts and such usually just goes in one eye and out the other.
Sweet dreams, Cescans.
Posted by: dy at March 24, 2009 2:14 AM
did someone say zalgo?
Posted by: Travis D at March 24, 2009 2:24 AM
Paddy-
You may not see this, since the post is veeery long and it's been a day since we posted but...
Miami busses. Two questions. Is there a way to get to the Miami port on the weekends? It looks like the bus only goes weekdays. And two, is there a list somewhere of all the Miami bus stops? Google directions gives me stops but I don't know if they're all right.
Posted by: Jeremiah G at March 24, 2009 6:13 PM



