Thursday Open Comments Apology Edition

While surfing the internet, I came across this:

It started me thinking.  Who would I like to see fill this out, and why?  Some suggestions:
Al Gore – for the global warming fraud.  This should be accompanied by large amounts of money, preferably in small denominations, spread amongst the people who have suffered job losses and overwhelming regulation due to his egomaniacal need to control others.
Barak Obama – for just being a wiss in general, but if I had to choose, it would be for my dizziness.  You know, from that swirly motion our country seems to be making. (oh, please Lord, make it stop, please, make it stop!)

Danny B. – the trombone player I went out with in high school, for telling his friends what a bad date I was, when he was really covering up for the fact that he left his headlights on and drained his battery while we were at a movie.
Who would you choose?  Why?


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  1. Southern Tragedy Avatar
    Southern Tragedy

    Pole!

    Boo Danny B, may you awake to a dead battery this day.

  2. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Pole!
    Boo Danny B, may you awake to a dead battery this day.

  3. Southern Tragedy Avatar
    Southern Tragedy

    Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is coming to Houston for the next phase in her treatment. Thank you Lord for her continued progress.

    If we had politicians on the GOP side who knew how to play the PR game, our medical system, as is, would be getting some credit, respectfully, for the Congresswoman’s amazing recovery to this point.

  4. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is coming to Houston for the next phase in her treatment. Thank you Lord for her continued progress.
    If we had politicians on the GOP side who knew how to play the PR game, our medical system, as is, would be getting some credit, respectfully, for the Congresswoman’s amazing recovery to this point.

  5. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    If we had politicians on the GOP side who knew how to play the PR game, our medical system, as is, would be getting some credit, respectfully, for the Congresswoman’s amazing recovery to this point.

    I suspect the esteemed Congresswoman from the 18th District will be getting a lot of face time with the cameras during the recovery period. She kicked off her Giffordpalooza last weekend.

    Have you ever seen SJL and Quanny together? Hmmm.

  6. Hamous Avatar

    If we had politicians on the GOP side who knew how to play the PR game, our medical system, as is, would be getting some credit, respectfully, for the Congresswoman’s amazing recovery to this point.

    I suspect the esteemed Congresswoman from the 18th District will be getting a lot of face time with the cameras during the recovery period. She kicked off her Giffordpalooza last weekend.
    Have you ever seen SJL and Quanny together? Hmmm.

  7. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Speaking of Quanny, I saw him on tv last week talking about a man even he couldn’t believe.

    “Basically, the things he said to me could not be further from the truth than the devil is from God,” Quanell X said.

  8. Hamous Avatar

    Speaking of Quanny, I saw him on tv last week talking about a man even he couldn’t believe.

    “Basically, the things he said to me could not be further from the truth than the devil is from God,” Quanell X said.

  9. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    From Lats night, Darren said;

    I’m not into car audio. In fact many car subwoofers sound so terrible (I’m sure your son’ wasn’t) that I get nauseous hearing them blare in the wind.

    Au contre you would be wrong Suh! The subwoofer in the Chebby Pick-Um -Up was ever bit as annoying as the one in that little “Rice Rocket” you often hear. 😉
    Mornin’ Gang

  10. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    From Lats night, Darren said;

    I’m not into car audio. In fact many car subwoofers sound so terrible (I’m sure your son’ wasn’t) that I get nauseous hearing them blare in the wind.

    Au contre you would be wrong Suh! The subwoofer in the Chebby Pick-Um -Up was ever bit as annoying as the one in that little “Rice Rocket” you often hear. 😉
    Mornin’ Gang

  11. Dooood Avatar

    Palinoia, the Destroyer

    This is possibly the very best thing yet written on Sarah Palin and the deranged hatred for her among the Left, particularly the female members.

    James Taranto captures, I think, the essence of this insane behavior in otherwise fairly normal people. He quotes a reader’s email to him, a NYC liberal woman in her 30s, about the rage Palin incites in the women she encounters daily.

    From reader Jessica Faller:

    I’m not saying it’s a bad thing. But she couldn’t have pulled it off if she were a gray mouse in a pantsuit, and because the devil in the red dress wasn’t orating like a professor, it roused an unquenchable forest fire of rage and loathing in the breasts of many women, perhaps of the toiling gray mouse variety, who projected onto her their own career resentments and personal frustrations.

    I am amazed at how people still abhor her. I personally do not. I don’t feel she would be a good choice to run this country, but she does not deserve the horrific treatment she gets. I can tell you, being privy to the endless, incendiary rants this past week about her, coming from hordes of liberal women–age demo 25 to 45–they rip her to pieces, they blame her for everything, and the jealousy/resentment factor is so clear and primal. I’ve never seen anything like it.

    Taranto continues:

    As a political matter, contraception is essentially uncontroversial today, which is to say that any suggestion that adult women be legally prevented from using birth control is outside the realm of serious debate. The same cannot be said of abortion, and that is at the root of Palinoia.

    To the extent that “feminism” remains controversial, it is because of the position it takes on abortion: not just that a woman should have the “right to choose,” but that this is a matter over which reasonable people cannot disagree–that to favor any limitations on the right to abortion, or even to acknowledge that abortion is morally problematic, is to deny the basic dignity of women.

    Read the whole thing.

    Here is an updated, corrected link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704590704576091962633206964.html

  12. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Palinoia, the Destroyer
    This is possibly the very best thing yet written on Sarah Palin and the deranged hatred for her among the Left, particularly the female members.
    James Taranto captures, I think, the essence of this insane behavior in otherwise fairly normal people. He quotes a reader’s email to him, a NYC liberal woman in her 30s, about the rage Palin incites in the women she encounters daily.
    From reader Jessica Faller:

    I’m not saying it’s a bad thing. But she couldn’t have pulled it off if she were a gray mouse in a pantsuit, and because the devil in the red dress wasn’t orating like a professor, it roused an unquenchable forest fire of rage and loathing in the breasts of many women, perhaps of the toiling gray mouse variety, who projected onto her their own career resentments and personal frustrations.
    I am amazed at how people still abhor her. I personally do not. I don’t feel she would be a good choice to run this country, but she does not deserve the horrific treatment she gets. I can tell you, being privy to the endless, incendiary rants this past week about her, coming from hordes of liberal women–age demo 25 to 45–they rip her to pieces, they blame her for everything, and the jealousy/resentment factor is so clear and primal. I’ve never seen anything like it.

    Taranto continues:

    As a political matter, contraception is essentially uncontroversial today, which is to say that any suggestion that adult women be legally prevented from using birth control is outside the realm of serious debate. The same cannot be said of abortion, and that is at the root of Palinoia.
    To the extent that “feminism” remains controversial, it is because of the position it takes on abortion: not just that a woman should have the “right to choose,” but that this is a matter over which reasonable people cannot disagree–that to favor any limitations on the right to abortion, or even to acknowledge that abortion is morally problematic, is to deny the basic dignity of women.

    Read the whole thing.
    Here is an updated, corrected link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704590704576091962633206964.html

  13. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Great Article Texpat, and while I’ve said all along that the Hairy Legged Feminists are jealous of her, this caught my eye;

    They say she is uneducated. What they mean is that her education is not elite–not Harvard or Yale, or even Michigan or UCLA. They resent her because, in their view, she has risen above her station.

  14. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Great Article Texpat, and while I’ve said all along that the Hairy Legged Feminists are jealous of her, this caught my eye;

    They say she is uneducated. What they mean is that her education is not elite–not Harvard or Yale, or even Michigan or UCLA. They resent her because, in their view, she has risen above her station.

  15. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Here’s how the Dems “tone down the rhetoric”:

    “They don’t like the truth so they summarily dismiss it,” Cohen said. “They say it’s a government takeover of health care, a big lie just like (Nazi propagandist Joseph) Goebbels.”

    “You say it enough, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, and eventually, people believe it. Like blood libel. That’s the same kind of thing,” he said.

    “The Germans said enough about the Jews and people believed it, and you have the Holocaust,” Cohen added in his remarks. “You tell a lie over and over again.”

  16. Hamous Avatar

    Here’s how the Dems “tone down the rhetoric”:

    “They don’t like the truth so they summarily dismiss it,” Cohen said. “They say it’s a government takeover of health care, a big lie just like (Nazi propagandist Joseph) Goebbels.”
    “You say it enough, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, and eventually, people believe it. Like blood libel. That’s the same kind of thing,” he said.

    “The Germans said enough about the Jews and people believed it, and you have the Holocaust,” Cohen added in his remarks. “You tell a lie over and over again.”

  17. El Gordo Avatar

    But she couldn’t have pulled it off if she were a gray mouse in a pantsuit, and because the devil in the red dress wasn’t orating like a professor, it roused an unquenchable forest fire of rage and loathing in the breasts of many women, perhaps of the toiling gray mouse variety, who projected onto her their own career resentments and personal frustrations.

    Wow. PDS nailed at its core. Very insightful comment. Haven’t read the article yet but I definitely will now.

  18. Dude42 Avatar

    But she couldn’t have pulled it off if she were a gray mouse in a pantsuit, and because the devil in the red dress wasn’t orating like a professor, it roused an unquenchable forest fire of rage and loathing in the breasts of many women, perhaps of the toiling gray mouse variety, who projected onto her their own career resentments and personal frustrations.

    Wow. PDS nailed at its core. Very insightful comment. Haven’t read the article yet but I definitely will now.

  19. Katfish Avatar

    If a terrorist really wanted to bring down an airliner, it would cost him $100 plus the cost of materials to do so. At least at the airport in Charlotte.

    On November 19, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was at Charlotte Douglas Airport testing out JetBlue’s security. Their goal was to try and get an unaccompanied package onto a flight headed to Boston and unfortunately, they succeeded. An undercover TSA agent told a JetBlue ticket agent that he needed to get a package to Boston that day and would pay the agent $100.00 for helping. The agent took the $100, put it in his pocket and proceeded to follow the unknown person’s instructions. The ticket agent chose a passenger’s name at random, which just happened to be an unaccompanied minor, and the package went through the screening process with no problems. Although the package was harmless, the TSA pulled the package just before being loaded onto the aircraft.

    I have the distinct feeling that had the TSA not known about the package all along, it would surely have made it onto the airplane.

    The system worked!

  20. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    If a terrorist really wanted to bring down an airliner, it would cost him $100 plus the cost of materials to do so. At least at the airport in Charlotte.

    On November 19, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was at Charlotte Douglas Airport testing out JetBlue’s security. Their goal was to try and get an unaccompanied package onto a flight headed to Boston and unfortunately, they succeeded. An undercover TSA agent told a JetBlue ticket agent that he needed to get a package to Boston that day and would pay the agent $100.00 for helping. The agent took the $100, put it in his pocket and proceeded to follow the unknown person’s instructions. The ticket agent chose a passenger’s name at random, which just happened to be an unaccompanied minor, and the package went through the screening process with no problems. Although the package was harmless, the TSA pulled the package just before being loaded onto the aircraft.

    I have the distinct feeling that had the TSA not known about the package all along, it would surely have made it onto the airplane.
    The system worked!

  21. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    At Boca restaurant in Tucson, you can sample many exotic (and pedestrian) meats to see which taste most like chicken.

    In the six months since it launched Exotic Taco Wednesdays, Boca Tacos y Tequila has served up python, alligator, elk, kangaroo and rattlesnake.
    .
    Frog legs, turtle, duck and Rocky Mountain oysters have also made appearances.

    Oh yeah, lemme at those testicule tacos!!! Mmm mmm mmm.Next up: the taco that bites back.

    Last week he announced on Boca’s Facebook page that the UA-area taco shop was accepting prepaid orders for African lion, to be served on Feb. 16. Orders must be placed by 3 p.m. Feb. 7.

  22. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    I reckon a lot depends on how you look at things.

  23. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Don’t you think that this “apologize and all will be forgiven” business, as well as the elite’s judgment as to who should apologize and who is not required to do so has gone far enough. When Big O discovers that he has mortgaged our children’s and our grandchildren’s nation, their freedom, their constitutional liberties, their finances, their health care, and so on, do you think just a simple apology will satisfy you?

    BTW, I’m printing off a few of those forms just in case – looks like they might save a little time. Let’s see, first I’ll send one to the red light camera company, then to the parking ticket judge, to the power company to show my remorse for not paying my bill this month – I’m sure that I will find a good use for a few more of them. Maybe even to the cat for not cleaning his litter box often enough. It’s feeling better already being guilt free.

  24. El Gordo Avatar

    Don’t you think that this “apologize and all will be forgiven” business, as well as the elite’s judgment as to who should apologize and who is not required to do so has gone far enough. When Big O discovers that he has mortgaged our children’s and our grandchildren’s nation, their freedom, their constitutional liberties, their finances, their health care, and so on, do you think just a simple apology will satisfy you?
    BTW, I’m printing off a few of those forms just in case – looks like they might save a little time. Let’s see, first I’ll send one to the red light camera company, then to the parking ticket judge, to the power company to show my remorse for not paying my bill this month – I’m sure that I will find a good use for a few more of them. Maybe even to the cat for not cleaning his litter box often enough. It’s feeling better already being guilt free.

  25. gtotracker42 Avatar
    gtotracker42

    #11, The Chicago mob takes out the East Coast mob?

  26. gtotracker42 Avatar
    gtotracker42

    #11, The Chicago mob takes out the East Coast mob?

  27. bweldon Avatar
    bweldon

    Damn lefty commie bass holes are destroying our country. Revisionist are everywhere.

    http://www.slate.com/id/2281146/pagenum/all/

  28. squawkbox Avatar

    Damn lefty commie bass holes are destroying our country. Revisionist are everywhere.
    http://www.slate.com/id/2281146/pagenum/all/

  29. Tedtam Avatar

    #15 Bob42

    I have always loved optical illusions. I saw that particular one a long time ago, but it still amazes me how the simple manipulation of length and angles can trick our brains into seeing something that isn’t there.

  30. Tedtam Avatar

    #15 Bob42
    I have always loved optical illusions. I saw that particular one a long time ago, but it still amazes me how the simple manipulation of length and angles can trick our brains into seeing something that isn’t there.

  31. Tedtam Avatar

    This is pretty horrific. The poor baby. And the parents – they have to live with this the rest of their lives.

    Another reason to not have wild animals as pets.

    And why didn’t the baby scream? And if he did, which I assume he would, why didn’t the mother wake up sooner? Was the ferret that quick?

    Something fishy going on here.

  32. Tedtam Avatar

    This is pretty horrific. The poor baby. And the parents – they have to live with this the rest of their lives.
    Another reason to not have wild animals as pets.
    And why didn’t the baby scream? And if he did, which I assume he would, why didn’t the mother wake up sooner? Was the ferret that quick?
    Something fishy going on here.

  33. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    If we had politicians on the GOP side who knew how to play the PR game, our medical system, as is, would be getting some credit, respectfully, for the Congresswoman’s amazing recovery to this point.

    If the most telling point were to be used, it would be met with a firestorm:

    Congresswoman Giffords, along with all members of both Houses, has better Health Insurance than almost any other citizen, and far better than that which the Democrats “gave” to us last year.

    But saying that is “uncivil” isn’t it?

  34. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    If we had politicians on the GOP side who knew how to play the PR game, our medical system, as is, would be getting some credit, respectfully, for the Congresswoman’s amazing recovery to this point.

    If the most telling point were to be used, it would be met with a firestorm:
    Congresswoman Giffords, along with all members of both Houses, has better Health Insurance than almost any other citizen, and far better than that which the Democrats “gave” to us last year.
    But saying that is “uncivil” isn’t it?

  35. meglettx Avatar

    One tRick Perry needs a whole tablet of those formal apology forms.

    Do they have any formal “I’m sorry, I lied to you.” forms?

    He could use a bunch of those too.

    While you’re at it, send some over to Sen. Dann Goeb and ” The Tax Fraud” Bettencourt.

  36. Lawrence Avatar
    Lawrence

    One tRick Perry needs a whole tablet of those formal apology forms.
    Do they have any formal “I’m sorry, I lied to you.” forms?
    He could use a bunch of those too.
    While you’re at it, send some over to Sen. Dann Goeb and ” The Tax Fraud” Bettencourt.

  37. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    #18 I didn’t realize this had become an issue. I always use two spaces since that’s the way I was taught in typing class. It doesn’t look right with one space.

  38. Hamous Avatar

    #18 I didn’t realize this had become an issue. I always use two spaces since that’s the way I was taught in typing class. It doesn’t look right with one space.

  39. Tedtam Avatar

    #23 Hammy

    I agree. I grew up with two spaces. As a matter of fact, I think it helps the reader to see the period. I’ve been with some bad readers who could use every tip and hint possible to comprehend “end of sentence”.

  40. Tedtam Avatar

    #23 Hammy
    I agree. I grew up with two spaces. As a matter of fact, I think it helps the reader to see the period. I’ve been with some bad readers who could use every tip and hint possible to comprehend “end of sentence”.

  41. Tedtam Avatar

    But I notice that our software removes the extra spaces.

    Space nazi!

  42. Tedtam Avatar

    But I notice that our software removes the extra spaces.
    Space nazi!

  43. Tedtam Avatar

    They needed an official report to figure this out!?

    For the Demos, this is another “unexpected” result. Most of us had this one pegged before it was voted on.

    If Democrats want to experiment, I can direct them Bill Nye. He has some fun experiments they could try. Don’t do it with people’s lives and incomes.

  44. Tedtam Avatar

    They needed an official report to figure this out!?
    For the Demos, this is another “unexpected” result. Most of us had this one pegged before it was voted on.
    If Democrats want to experiment, I can direct them Bill Nye. He has some fun experiments they could try. Don’t do it with people’s lives and incomes.

  45. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    #18/23 I was also taught to use two spaces following the period, and old habits are hard to break. To avoid aggravating my editor, prior to sending him a draft I use the find-all/change function to remove the extra spaces.

  46. bob42 Avatar

    #18/23 I was also taught to use two spaces following the period, and old habits are hard to break. To avoid aggravating my editor, prior to sending him a draft I use the find-all/change function to remove the extra spaces.

  47. bweldon Avatar
    bweldon

    Hammie, Tedtam
    Way back in the dark ages of my life I was taught two spaces. Jump forward a couple decades and what I was taught was confirmed. Now my whole typing world has been turned upside down. I do not know how much more of this pressure I can stand.

  48. squawkbox Avatar

    Hammie, Tedtam
    Way back in the dark ages of my life I was taught two spaces. Jump forward a couple decades and what I was taught was confirmed. Now my whole typing world has been turned upside down. I do not know how much more of this pressure I can stand.

  49. Hamous Avatar

    Apologies that need to be made:
    1) From the high school where SJL “graduated” – they had to claim that she successfully has mastered the course material. What a fraud! The college and Law Schools should be closed for their gross negligence for their promotions of her. She is a walking, loud talking, example of the unintended consequences of affirmative action.
    2) From PMSNBC for lying to the American People that Keith Olberdolt, Chris “tingle up my leg” Matthews and Rachel Madcow are journalists.
    3) From every terd-nozzle D who claims that Obamacare is not gov’t controlled healthcare.

  50. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Apologies that need to be made:
    1) From the high school where SJL “graduated” – they had to claim that she successfully has mastered the course material. What a fraud! The college and Law Schools should be closed for their gross negligence for their promotions of her. She is a walking, loud talking, example of the unintended consequences of affirmative action.
    2) From PMSNBC for lying to the American People that Keith Olberdolt, Chris “tingle up my leg” Matthews and Rachel Madcow are journalists.
    3) From every terd-nozzle D who claims that Obamacare is not gov’t controlled healthcare.

  51. bweldon Avatar
    bweldon

    bob42
    #27
    You are part of the problem then. Stand up man, stand up for two spaces after the period. What next? Will they control the number of periods we use for ellipses? Will they decide that a semi-colon is good enough and do away with the colon?

  52. squawkbox Avatar

    bob42
    #27
    You are part of the problem then. Stand up man, stand up for two spaces after the period. What next? Will they control the number of periods we use for ellipses? Will they decide that a semi-colon is good enough and do away with the colon?

  53. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    “You say it enough, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, and eventually, people believe it. Like blood libel. That’s the same kind of thing,” he said.

    Yah, he’s right. Here are some examples:

    “We’re in Recovery Summer.”

    “This money is going to shovel ready projects that will reviv e the economy.”

    “You’ll be able to keep your own Doctor. Bersides, it will lower the deficit.”

    “Jobs is my number one focus.”

  54. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    “You say it enough, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, and eventually, people believe it. Like blood libel. That’s the same kind of thing,” he said.

    Yah, he’s right. Here are some examples:
    “We’re in Recovery Summer.”
    “This money is going to shovel ready projects that will reviv e the economy.”
    “You’ll be able to keep your own Doctor. Bersides, it will lower the deficit.”
    “Jobs is my number one focus.”

  55. Hamous Avatar

    Hamoulian, Queen Tinkles and Squawk: I also was taught to put 2 spaces after a period. Her Highness is correct in that it aids the reader and is how most printed material still appears. Why some terd-nozzle correcto-nazi wants to change what works very well is a mystery to me, but then again, I was broadsided when they changed the name of Bombay to Mumbai – dittos for Peking to Beijing.

  56. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Hamoulian, Queen Tinkles and Squawk: I also was taught to put 2 spaces after a period. Her Highness is correct in that it aids the reader and is how most printed material still appears. Why some terd-nozzle correcto-nazi wants to change what works very well is a mystery to me, but then again, I was broadsided when they changed the name of Bombay to Mumbai – dittos for Peking to Beijing.

  57. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I’m going to add code to WordPress that adds an extra space after periods if you don’t put in two.

  58. Hamous Avatar

    I’m going to add code to WordPress that adds an extra space after periods if you don’t put in two.

  59. bweldon Avatar
    bweldon

    I am disturbed that the indenting for a paragraph is now extinct. i have succumbed to that abomination.

    BRING BACK PROPER STRUCTURE.

  60. squawkbox Avatar

    I am disturbed that the indenting for a paragraph is now extinct. i have succumbed to that abomination.
    BRING BACK PROPER STRUCTURE.

  61. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    #30 I’m compelled to take the path of least resistance on this one.

    You are part of the problem then. Stand up man, stand up for two spaces after the period.

    You gotta know my editor. When aggravated by minutia, he can become very nit-picky about the entire chapter. Nothing goes to press without his stamp of approval.

  62. bob42 Avatar

    #30 I’m compelled to take the path of least resistance on this one.

    You are part of the problem then. Stand up man, stand up for two spaces after the period.

    You gotta know my editor. When aggravated by minutia, he can become very nit-picky about the entire chapter. Nothing goes to press without his stamp of approval.

  63. Katfish Avatar

    #31 sarge
    “The stimulus will save or create over 3 million jobs.”

  64. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    #31 sarge
    “The stimulus will save or create over 3 million jobs.”

  65. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I don’t think my thumb can stop at one space after a period. I can’t stop it.

    It’s just like writing puns – my four fingers are all for it but my thumb is always opposed.

    /ba dum bum

  66. Hamous Avatar

    I don’t think my thumb can stop at one space after a period. I can’t stop it.
    It’s just like writing puns – my four fingers are all for it but my thumb is always opposed.
    /ba dum bum

  67. Hamous Avatar

    #35 Hammous: What was the name of Istanbul before it was Constantinople?

  68. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #35 Hammous: What was the name of Istanbul before it was Constantinople?

  69. Hamous Avatar

    #38 Hamous: It was like my golfing buddy who said he couldn’t play last week; he said his ankle was sprained – I told him that was a lame excuse.

  70. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #38 Hamous: It was like my golfing buddy who said he couldn’t play last week; he said his ankle was sprained – I told him that was a lame excuse.

  71. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    #39 bone
    Byzantium

  72. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Ouch.

    RT @JTS_1957 RT @pcam: 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner holds State Dinner for man who has 2010 winner under House Arrest.

  73. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Ouch.

    RT @JTS_1957 RT @pcam: 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner holds State Dinner for man who has 2010 winner under House Arrest.

  74. Tedtam Avatar

    Apology forms are required for bad punning.

    Fortunately, we have none of that here on Hammy’s Comfy Couch! 🙂

  75. Tedtam Avatar

    Apology forms are required for bad punning.
    Fortunately, we have none of that here on Hammy’s Comfy Couch! 🙂

  76. bweldon Avatar
    bweldon

    Typing rules changing, countries being renamed, hamous and his bad puns…..

    IS NOTHING SACRED?

    /i love that cartoon

  77. squawkbox Avatar

    Typing rules changing, countries being renamed, hamous and his bad puns…..
    IS NOTHING SACRED?
    /i love that cartoon

  78. Katfish Avatar

    Apology forms
    Cheap substitute for real ones
    Blowing us all off

  79. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Apology forms
    Cheap substitute for real ones
    Blowing us all off

  80. Hamous Avatar

    #41 DING DING DING: Pyro gets the prize! Very few people know the answer to that one.
    Another place that has had lots of names is Jerusalem:
    Salem
    Jebus
    Al quds

  81. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #41 DING DING DING: Pyro gets the prize! Very few people know the answer to that one.
    Another place that has had lots of names is Jerusalem:
    Salem
    Jebus
    Al quds

  82. bob42 Avatar

    This is note I wrote at the request of one of my (hot) Facebook gal pals about writing, editors and editing.
    It’s a shame she live in Florida. We get along well.

  83. El Gordo Avatar

    Interesting email I just received – didn’t get caught in the gmail spam bucket for whatever reason:

    Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem
    Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen
    sallAllaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam

    Sir/Madam,

    I testify that there is no Ilah but Allah, and Muhammad (sallAllaahu
    ‘alayhi wa sallam) is His Messenger.

    I, therefore, invite you to accept Islam. If you accept it, it will
    be good for you. If you not accept it, you will be liable for your
    loss in the hereafter.

    Tanvir Zawad
    Bangladesh

    ‘Preciate the invite there, Tanvir, but I’m good thanks.

  84. Dude42 Avatar

    Interesting email I just received – didn’t get caught in the gmail spam bucket for whatever reason:

    Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem
    Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen
    sallAllaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam
    Sir/Madam,
    I testify that there is no Ilah but Allah, and Muhammad (sallAllaahu
    ‘alayhi wa sallam) is His Messenger.
    I, therefore, invite you to accept Islam. If you accept it, it will
    be good for you. If you not accept it, you will be liable for your
    loss in the hereafter.
    Tanvir Zawad
    Bangladesh

    ‘Preciate the invite there, Tanvir, but I’m good thanks.

  85. Hamous Avatar

    #48 Dude: Be sure to run your spyware/virus programs after that email; ya never know. . . .

  86. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #48 Dude: Be sure to run your spyware/virus programs after that email; ya never know. . . .

  87. Hamous Avatar

    One who uses excessive poorly constructed puns causes his listeners to be punished.

  88. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    One who uses excessive poorly constructed puns causes his listeners to be punished.

  89. Tedtam Avatar

    Dude – start checking your back. Now that you’ve rejected Islam, you’re fair game in the jihadi war.

  90. Tedtam Avatar

    Dude – start checking your back. Now that you’ve rejected Islam, you’re fair game in the jihadi war.

  91. Tedtam Avatar

    Speaking of puns, I went looking for the Stargate episode where the name “Hu” caused so much entertainment amongst the scriptwriters. I hope to find it.

    It then feeds into a later episode, in a scene where Daniel Jackson sees his opposing character perk up when the name “Hu” is mentioned, and he warns him that “every possible joke has been overdone, please”.

  92. Tedtam Avatar

    Speaking of puns, I went looking for the Stargate episode where the name “Hu” caused so much entertainment amongst the scriptwriters. I hope to find it.
    It then feeds into a later episode, in a scene where Daniel Jackson sees his opposing character perk up when the name “Hu” is mentioned, and he warns him that “every possible joke has been overdone, please”.

  93. El Gordo Avatar

    Dude – start checking your back. Now that you’ve rejected Islam, you’re fair game in the jihadi war.

    Yeah, at least with the JWs the most you get is aggravated. Tanvir might want my head, and I’m pretty well attached to it at this point in my life.

  94. Dude42 Avatar

    Dude – start checking your back. Now that you’ve rejected Islam, you’re fair game in the jihadi war.

    Yeah, at least with the JWs the most you get is aggravated. Tanvir might want my head, and I’m pretty well attached to it at this point in my life.

  95. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    infidel

  96. El Gordo Avatar

    I like to think of myself as more of a fidel. Not Castro though.

  97. Dude42 Avatar

    I like to think of myself as more of a fidel. Not Castro though.

  98. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    I’m a shakin in my boots. Mobombhead on a pancake.

  99. bob42 Avatar

    I’m a shakin in my boots. Mobombhead on a pancake.

  100. Hamous Avatar

    #56 Bob420: I really like the fried strips of swine flesh right next to the flap-jack. The presence of pig and Mo in the same frame is sure to cause much rage and fury :>)

  101. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #56 Bob420: I really like the fried strips of swine flesh right next to the flap-jack. The presence of pig and Mo in the same frame is sure to cause much rage and fury :>)

  102. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good morning all. Cutting to the chase and skipping the early morning report, I applaud Texpat #7 for featuring Palinoia, The Destroyer. This nails it twice and thrice. The green-eyed monster roams freely amongst women caught in the dhimmitude of feminism. Use your heads, gals, for something besides keeping your bejeweled ears apart. Jealousy destroys from within.

    As an editor of medical and other manuscripts for ~40 years, here is correct spacing following these punctuation marks: two after colons, two after periods concluding sentences, one after commas, one after semicolons. Alas, first the Huns of contemporary composition (led by the print media) disposed of the serial comma and thereby frequently confuse readers as to what goes with what. One can comment that many contemporary print media writers don’t really care about clarity anyway.

    Dismount soapbox.

  103. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good morning all. Cutting to the chase and skipping the early morning report, I applaud Texpat #7 for featuring Palinoia, The Destroyer. This nails it twice and thrice. The green-eyed monster roams freely amongst women caught in the dhimmitude of feminism. Use your heads, gals, for something besides keeping your bejeweled ears apart. Jealousy destroys from within.
    As an editor of medical and other manuscripts for ~40 years, here is correct spacing following these punctuation marks: two after colons, two after periods concluding sentences, one after commas, one after semicolons. Alas, first the Huns of contemporary composition (led by the print media) disposed of the serial comma and thereby frequently confuse readers as to what goes with what. One can comment that many contemporary print media writers don’t really care about clarity anyway.
    Dismount soapbox.

  104. Tedtam Avatar

    I think Bob needs to fill out an apology form for that pancake picture.

  105. Tedtam Avatar

    I think Bob needs to fill out an apology form for that pancake picture.

  106. bweldon Avatar
    bweldon

    Mosts puns are really 2/3rds of a PUN.

  107. squawkbox Avatar

    Mosts puns are really 2/3rds of a PUN.

  108. Katfish Avatar

    A dyslexic man walks into a bra.

  109. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    A dyslexic man walks into a bra.

  110. Hamous Avatar

    My sister is a member of ADM: Mothers against dyslexia

  111. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    My sister is a member of ADM: Mothers against dyslexia

  112. Hamous Avatar

    #58 Adee: serial comma?? Is that like a serial murder or cereal box?

  113. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #58 Adee: serial comma?? Is that like a serial murder or cereal box?

  114. Hamous Avatar

    further to #63 serial: def: a comment made by someone from Syria?

  115. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    further to #63 serial: def: a comment made by someone from Syria?

  116. Katfish Avatar

    One of my relatives goes to see the Medicine Man.

    “Medicine Man, I keep having these alternating, recurring dreams. First I’m a teepee; then I’m a wigwam; then I’m a teepee; then I’m a wigwam. It’s driving me crazy. What’s wrong with me?”

    The Medicine Man replies: “It’s very simple. You’re two tents.”

  117. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    One of my relatives goes to see the Medicine Man.
    “Medicine Man, I keep having these alternating, recurring dreams. First I’m a teepee; then I’m a wigwam; then I’m a teepee; then I’m a wigwam. It’s driving me crazy. What’s wrong with me?”
    The Medicine Man replies: “It’s very simple. You’re two tents.”

  118. Katfish Avatar

    Alas, first the Huns of contemporary composition (led by the print media) disposed of the serial comma and thereby frequently confuse readers as to what goes with what.

    Would that be the elusive Oxford comma?

    It is, only a distant, relative, to the Shatner, comma. 😉

  119. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Alas, first the Huns of contemporary composition (led by the print media) disposed of the serial comma and thereby frequently confuse readers as to what goes with what.

    Would that be the elusive Oxford comma?
    It is, only a distant, relative, to the Shatner, comma. 😉

  120. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Matt pointed out that today is Obama Hump Day. Our long national nightmare is half over!

  121. Hamous Avatar

    Matt pointed out that today is Obama Hump Day. Our long national nightmare is half over!

  122. Katfish Avatar

    Obama Hump Day

    For a minute there, I was really worried.

  123. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Obama Hump Day

    For a minute there, I was really worried.

  124. Tedtam Avatar

    Obama hump day.

    /scrubbing brain furiously

    NOT an image I want in my head! GET IT OUT! GET IT OUT!

  125. Tedtam Avatar

    Obama hump day.
    /scrubbing brain furiously
    NOT an image I want in my head! GET IT OUT! GET IT OUT!

  126. Tedtam Avatar

    Somebody owes me an apology for putting that image in my head!

    /still scrubbing

  127. Tedtam Avatar

    Somebody owes me an apology for putting that image in my head!
    /still scrubbing

  128. Tedtam Avatar

    Maybe if I imagine him as speed hump.

    /better

  129. Tedtam Avatar

    Maybe if I imagine him as speed hump.
    /better

  130. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    My sister is a member of ADM: Mothers against dyslexia

    Glad to see some organinizing going on.

    Dyslexia is wilding like spreadfire.

  131. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    My sister is a member of ADM: Mothers against dyslexia

    Glad to see some organinizing going on.
    Dyslexia is wilding like spreadfire.

  132. Hamous Avatar

    #71 QT: Imagine the foul “O” getting humped by a camel; that ought ot make you feel at least a little better.

  133. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #71 QT: Imagine the foul “O” getting humped by a camel; that ought ot make you feel at least a little better.

  134. SC Avatar
    SC

    A dyslexic agnostic doesn’t believe in dog

  135. SC Avatar
    SC

    A dyslexic agnostic doesn’t believe in dog

  136. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    What we need to save us from dyslexia is more Palindromes.

    Of course, some Liberal terdnozzle is going to read that as Palindrones and go off the friggn edge.

  137. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    What we need to save us from dyslexia is more Palindromes.
    Of course, some Liberal terdnozzle is going to read that as Palindrones and go off the friggn edge.

  138. Tedtam Avatar

    Bone –

    I prefer the speed hump image.

  139. Tedtam Avatar

    Bone –
    I prefer the speed hump image.

  140. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    It’s quite entertaining how some folk get their knickers knotted when people make fun of Palin while simultaneously broad brushing liberals (and often moderate VMGers) as “terdnozzles.”

    btw, I didn’t knock up Sarah Palin’s daughter. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!

  141. bob42 Avatar

    It’s quite entertaining how some folk get their knickers knotted when people make fun of Palin while simultaneously broad brushing liberals (and often moderate VMGers) as “terdnozzles.”
    btw, I didn’t knock up Sarah Palin’s daughter. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!

  142. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    “I’m stupid and clumsy and it’s your fault!”

  143. Hamous Avatar

    “I’m stupid and clumsy and it’s your fault!”

  144. Dooood Avatar

    #58

    Thus spake Adee.

    So let it be written, so let it be done.

  145. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    #58
    Thus spake Adee.
    So let it be written, so let it be done.

  146. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Red, white, and blue = sample of the serial comma. The Huns write it as: red, white and blue.

    #79 Texpat, Wow.

  147. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Red, white, and blue = sample of the serial comma. The Huns write it as: red, white and blue.
    #79 Texpat, Wow.

  148. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I was also taught to include two spaces between the state and zip code on an address line. MS Word doesn’t like it. I told him to take it up with Ms. Spangler at Newberry High School.

  149. Hamous Avatar

    I was also taught to include two spaces between the state and zip code on an address line. MS Word doesn’t like it. I told him to take it up with Ms. Spangler at Newberry High School.

  150. Hamous Avatar

    Sometimes we think that mooooooslims are stuck in the 8th century and that just ain’t so, or maybe it is.

  151. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Sometimes we think that mooooooslims are stuck in the 8th century and that just ain’t so, or maybe it is.

  152. Dooood Avatar

    PJ O’Rourke writes an early obituary for the New York Times in the upcoming issue of the Weekly Standard.

    The most cringe-inducing article was titled “In the Shock of the Moment, the Politicking Stops .  .  . Until It Doesn’t.” Jeff Zeleny and Jim Rutenberg wrote, “Some Democrats were urging [President Obama] to look back to recent history, when President Bill Clinton seized the political high ground after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.”

    In the matter of self-serving, bitter, calculated cynicism, there wouldn’t seem to be much left to prove against the Times. Judging by what I’ve heard from my fellow conservatives, the issue is decided. The New York Times is a worthless, truthless, vicious institution. But I disagree. I think things are worse than that.

    and this:

    But liberalism, as personified by the New York Times, became a dotty old aunt sometime during the Johnson administration. She’s provincial, eccentric, and holds dull, peculiar views about the world. Still, she has our fond regard, and we visit her regularly in her nursing home otherwise known as Arts and Leisure and the Book Review. Or we did until Sunday, January 9, when she began spouting obscenities and exposing herself.

    We observe in the Times a bizarre overreaction to people and things that can be construed as “antigovernment.” (And all people and most things often can be so construed, e.g., the man who just got a speeding ticket.) The Times has become delusional, going from advocating big government to believing that it is the big government. Americans being somewhat disgruntled with big government, the Times imagines itself under attack from every side, even, no doubt, from within.

  153. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    PJ O’Rourke writes an early obituary for the New York Times in the upcoming issue of the Weekly Standard.

    The most cringe-inducing article was titled “In the Shock of the Moment, the Politicking Stops .  .  . Until It Doesn’t.” Jeff Zeleny and Jim Rutenberg wrote, “Some Democrats were urging [President Obama] to look back to recent history, when President Bill Clinton seized the political high ground after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.”
    In the matter of self-serving, bitter, calculated cynicism, there wouldn’t seem to be much left to prove against the Times. Judging by what I’ve heard from my fellow conservatives, the issue is decided. The New York Times is a worthless, truthless, vicious institution. But I disagree. I think things are worse than that.

    and this:

    But liberalism, as personified by the New York Times, became a dotty old aunt sometime during the Johnson administration. She’s provincial, eccentric, and holds dull, peculiar views about the world. Still, she has our fond regard, and we visit her regularly in her nursing home otherwise known as Arts and Leisure and the Book Review. Or we did until Sunday, January 9, when she began spouting obscenities and exposing herself.
    We observe in the Times a bizarre overreaction to people and things that can be construed as “antigovernment.” (And all people and most things often can be so construed, e.g., the man who just got a speeding ticket.) The Times has become delusional, going from advocating big government to believing that it is the big government. Americans being somewhat disgruntled with big government, the Times imagines itself under attack from every side, even, no doubt, from within.

  154. El Gordo Avatar

    One can comment that many contemporary print media writers don’t really care about clarity anyway.

    To throw more murkiness into the mix, there is the effect internet / texting shorthand has had on written communication. It irks me to no end to receive official business communication that uses this type of shorthand.

  155. Dude42 Avatar

    One can comment that many contemporary print media writers don’t really care about clarity anyway.

    To throw more murkiness into the mix, there is the effect internet / texting shorthand has had on written communication. It irks me to no end to receive official business communication that uses this type of shorthand.

  156. Katfish Avatar

    If the Republicans can pull this off, they deserve to be in office for a long time.

  157. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    If the Republicans can pull this off, they deserve to be in office for a long time.

  158. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    It’s quite entertaining how some folk get their knickers knotted when people make fun of Palin while simultaneously broad brushing liberals (and often moderate VMGers) as “terdnozzles.”

    Terdnozzles come in all flavors, not just Liberals.

    I would say that a Liberal who saw Palindrome as Palindrome would not be a terdnozzle.

    Present company excepted, of course.

  159. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    It’s quite entertaining how some folk get their knickers knotted when people make fun of Palin while simultaneously broad brushing liberals (and often moderate VMGers) as “terdnozzles.”

    Terdnozzles come in all flavors, not just Liberals.
    I would say that a Liberal who saw Palindrome as Palindrome would not be a terdnozzle.
    Present company excepted, of course.

  160. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    If the Republicans can pull this off, they deserve to be in office for a long time it will be a very good start, but a lot more needs to be done.

  161. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    If the Republicans can pull this off, they deserve to be in office for a long time it will be a very good start, but a lot more needs to be done.

  162. Hamous Avatar

    #86 Sarge: Bob is a palindrome:>)
    Here is another:
    I madam, I made radio! So I dared. Am I mad? Am I?

  163. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #86 Sarge: Bob is a palindrome:>)
    Here is another:
    I madam, I made radio! So I dared. Am I mad? Am I?

  164. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    #86 Sarge: Bob is a palindrome:>)

    And he apparently thinks I’m a palindrone.

  165. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    #86 Sarge: Bob is a palindrome:>)

    And he apparently thinks I’m a palindrone.

  166. Hamous Avatar

    Here is a link to a whole bunch of palindromes.

  167. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Here is a link to a whole bunch of palindromes.

  168. Hamous Avatar

    #89 Pyro: Those being sued should counter sue for defamation and costs to defend. They should particularly target the terdnozzle scumbag attorney for filing the stupid case in the first place.

  169. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #89 Pyro: Those being sued should counter sue for defamation and costs to defend. They should particularly target the terdnozzle scumbag attorney for filing the stupid case in the first place.

  170. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    #89 Pyro: Those being sued should counter sue for defamation and costs to defend. They should particularly target the terdnozzle scumbag attorney for filing the stupid case in the first place.

    It’s quite entertaining how some folk get their knickers knotted when people make fun of Palin while simultaneously broad brushing Lawyers (and often moderate VMGers) as “terdnozzle scumbags.”

  171. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    #89 Pyro: Those being sued should counter sue for defamation and costs to defend. They should particularly target the terdnozzle scumbag attorney for filing the stupid case in the first place.

    It’s quite entertaining how some folk get their knickers knotted when people make fun of Palin while simultaneously broad brushing Lawyers (and often moderate VMGers) as “terdnozzle scumbags.”

  172. Hamous Avatar

    #93 Sarge:

    terdnozzle scumbag attorney

    You are quite correct sir. It is only 98% of the terdnozzle scumbag attorneys that screw it up for all the rest of them.

  173. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #93 Sarge:

    terdnozzle scumbag attorney

    You are quite correct sir. It is only 98% of the terdnozzle scumbag attorneys that screw it up for all the rest of them.

  174. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    For the crossword connoisseur;
    “Able was I ere I saw Elba”

  175. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    For the crossword connoisseur;
    “Able was I ere I saw Elba”

  176. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    I’ve become aware that using the wrod terdnozzle is uncivil, and in using it, I reliquish my right to defend people who I think are being maliciously and untruthfully malinged.

    I’m going to change my ways.

    I shall be using turdnozzle from now on.

  177. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    I’ve become aware that using the wrod terdnozzle is uncivil, and in using it, I reliquish my right to defend people who I think are being maliciously and untruthfully malinged.
    I’m going to change my ways.
    I shall be using turdnozzle from now on.

  178. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Ya’ll remember good ol’ GM? General Motors? The company that took billions from the government to bail them out? Not government money, ya know, but TAXpayer money?

    Just heard on the radio a few minutes ago….

    General Motors announced today that it will spend 540 Million dollars to build a new facility to develop and produce the next generation of “clean, green” engines…

    in MEXICO

  179. Katfish Avatar

    Ya’ll remember good ol’ GM? General Motors? The company that took billions from the government to bail them out? Not government money, ya know, but TAXpayer money?
    Just heard on the radio a few minutes ago….
    General Motors announced today that it will spend 540 Million dollars to build a new facility to develop and produce the next generation of “clean, green” engines…
    in MEXICO

  180. SC Avatar
    SC

    Yep, 1000 jobs south of the border. Well at least that’s 1000 that might not crash the border.

  181. SC Avatar
    SC

    Yep, 1000 jobs south of the border. Well at least that’s 1000 that might not crash the border.

  182. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    #98 KatFish, Here’s your LINK

  183. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #98 KatFish, Here’s your LINK

  184. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Too Late SC,….Hey we’re GOOD to Mexico; Exclusive: Over a million immigrants land U.S. jobs in 2008-10.

  185. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Too Late SC,….Hey we’re GOOD to Mexico; Exclusive: Over a million immigrants land U.S. jobs in 2008-10.

  186. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    97 Sarge,

    Once again your erudite commentary has set a new high standard for all of us.

    Simple

    /sarc off

  187. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    97 Sarge,
    Once again your erudite commentary has set a new high standard for all of us.
    Simple
    /sarc off

  188. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    102 Simple Simon says:
    January 20, 2011 at 4:21 pm
    97 Sarge,

    Once again your erudite commentary has set a new high standard for all of us.

    Simple

    /sarc off

    Were that my goal, or if seeking approbation was, I’d be crestfallen.

  189. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    102 Simple Simon says:
    January 20, 2011 at 4:21 pm
    97 Sarge,
    Once again your erudite commentary has set a new high standard for all of us.
    Simple
    /sarc off

    Were that my goal, or if seeking approbation was, I’d be crestfallen.

  190. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    My #104

    Antonovich arrived at the estimate by factoring in the cost of food stamps and welfare-style benefits through a state program known as CalWORKS. Combined with public safety costs and health care costs, the official claimed the “total cost for illegal immigrants to county taxpayers” was more than $1.6 billion in 2010.
    “Not including the hundreds of millions of dollars for education,” he said in a statement.

  191. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    My #104

    Antonovich arrived at the estimate by factoring in the cost of food stamps and welfare-style benefits through a state program known as CalWORKS. Combined with public safety costs and health care costs, the official claimed the “total cost for illegal immigrants to county taxpayers” was more than $1.6 billion in 2010.
    “Not including the hundreds of millions of dollars for education,” he said in a statement.

  192. El Gordo Avatar

    Akelas Biggins third album released today with major kudos and thanks due to Squawk for his excellent graphic design work and for the use of his photo therein.

  193. Dude42 Avatar

    Akelas Biggins third album released today with major kudos and thanks due to Squawk for his excellent graphic design work and for the use of his photo therein.

  194. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    My daddy taught me good!

    And she ain’t from Florida

  195. Hamous Avatar

    My daddy taught me good!

    And she ain’t from Florida

  196. Dooood Avatar

    #107 Hammie

    I think I went to high school with that chick. Damn, and I thought I would never have to see her again.

  197. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    #107 Hammie
    I think I went to high school with that chick. Damn, and I thought I would never have to see her again.

  198. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #52 TT

    where the name “Hu” caused so much entertainment

    Flashback to the early ’90s and smallish engineering company I worked for had hired a Chinese scientist, last name Hou, pronounced “hoe”. Receptionist never got that right and would occasionally page “Doctor Who” causing groans and chuckles to echo up and down the hall.

  199. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #52 TT

    where the name “Hu” caused so much entertainment

    Flashback to the early ’90s and smallish engineering company I worked for had hired a Chinese scientist, last name Hou, pronounced “hoe”. Receptionist never got that right and would occasionally page “Doctor Who” causing groans and chuckles to echo up and down the hall.

  200. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #58 Adee

    many contemporary print media writers don’t really care about clarity

    Adee, don’t discount plain ignorance. Due to the failure of US education during the last 50 years, hardly anyone can write a lucid English sentence now. Over most of my working life, I have been asked to proofread technical docs because I have good language skills. Generally speaking, the younger the writer, the worse the writing, and also the more astonished the writer is to (finally) learn the truth that he/she couldn’t write his/her way out of a paper bag.

  201. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #58 Adee

    many contemporary print media writers don’t really care about clarity

    Adee, don’t discount plain ignorance. Due to the failure of US education during the last 50 years, hardly anyone can write a lucid English sentence now. Over most of my working life, I have been asked to proofread technical docs because I have good language skills. Generally speaking, the younger the writer, the worse the writing, and also the more astonished the writer is to (finally) learn the truth that he/she couldn’t write his/her way out of a paper bag.

  202. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #80 Adee

    #79 Texpat, Wow.

    High praise indeed. Wow, indeed.

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    mharper42

    #80 Adee

    #79 Texpat, Wow.

    High praise indeed. Wow, indeed.

  204. Tedtam Avatar

    Is anyone else tired of hearing about the sainted Rep. Giffords?

    I mean, she was shot. That was a bad thing. She’s recovering. That’s a good thing. I don’t need to hear every detail about her, her life, and the intimate details about her relationship with her husband. I KNOW the doctors will work hard to give her the best quality of life possible. I’m happy for her. I’m happy for her husband.

    There were other people shot that day. Other than the little girl, I’ve heard little about them. Oh, except that one of them made a death threat of his own.

    She is no more special than anyone else. There are a lot of things happening in the world that don’t involve her. I’m tired of the wissin’ media circus that acts like the whole world is revolving around this woman. This was a significant event, but it’s time to move on. Let the woman and her husband have some privacy, and let’s stop the politicians from using her as political leverage.

  205. Tedtam Avatar

    Is anyone else tired of hearing about the sainted Rep. Giffords?
    I mean, she was shot. That was a bad thing. She’s recovering. That’s a good thing. I don’t need to hear every detail about her, her life, and the intimate details about her relationship with her husband. I KNOW the doctors will work hard to give her the best quality of life possible. I’m happy for her. I’m happy for her husband.
    There were other people shot that day. Other than the little girl, I’ve heard little about them. Oh, except that one of them made a death threat of his own.
    She is no more special than anyone else. There are a lot of things happening in the world that don’t involve her. I’m tired of the wissin’ media circus that acts like the whole world is revolving around this woman. This was a significant event, but it’s time to move on. Let the woman and her husband have some privacy, and let’s stop the politicians from using her as political leverage.

  206. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    In yesterday’s thread I posted that bob42’s understanding of Christians and Christianity comes off as limited little did I know that he was prove my point thunderously clear.

    Should a government mandate that all citizens “have no other gods before” the one that some politicians happen to believe in? Should a government mandate that citizens “not worship any graven image?” Should a government mandate that citizens “shalt not take [a specific description of a] God’s name in vain?” (Or draw a picture of it?) Should a government mandate that citizens “remember [a specific] sabbath and keep it holy?” Should a government mandate that public schools teach as science, a literal interpretation of Genesis?

  207. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    In yesterday’s thread I posted that bob42’s understanding of Christians and Christianity comes off as limited little did I know that he was prove my point thunderously clear.

    Should a government mandate that all citizens “have no other gods before” the one that some politicians happen to believe in? Should a government mandate that citizens “not worship any graven image?” Should a government mandate that citizens “shalt not take [a specific description of a] God’s name in vain?” (Or draw a picture of it?) Should a government mandate that citizens “remember [a specific] sabbath and keep it holy?” Should a government mandate that public schools teach as science, a literal interpretation of Genesis?

  208. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    To those who condemn using two spaces to type after a period, well, I pick my nose in their general direction.

  209. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    To those who condemn using two spaces to type after a period, well, I pick my nose in their general direction.

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