Funny Stuff
21 January 2007 by Bob
Well, I’m sure most of you heard the dirt about Dr. Dino — i.e., the idiot got ten years — but the real part that cracked me up came from another fabulous site. Some highlights:
We conservatives have grown accustomed to liberal activist judges perverting justice for their own evil ends. Last year Judge Jones betrayed us all when he passed his verdict in the Dover school-book case. Shortly afterwards, our dear friend Kent was convicted of tax evasion. U.S. District Judge Casey Rodgers will sentence the Hovinds at 9 a.m for the alleged crime of tax evasion. They claim that he and his lovely wife Jo owe the state almost one million dollars in unpaid taxes. A quick review of the case show that the federal court unfairly denied Hovind’s sensible and truthful defence: Kent owes no tax because everything he “owns” is really property of God. This is a fact that we would all do well to remember! So please dear friends, join me in prayer this morning. Let us pray to Jesus that Kent and Jo will be allowed to continue their important ministry and continue teaching young scientists about the many flaws in Darwin’s theory of evolution.
There are some great pics on this blog — like the one found here (that one’s definitely going on my wall) — and you should definitely check the Atheist Conspiracies section, as well as the great War on Terror section.
Great stuff.
21 January 2007, on 4:54 pm
So technically this would mean that the commandment Thou Shalt Not Steal is null and void because if all property belongs to gawd, not the individual, then by stealing said property is no longer a crime because even though you now hold it in your possession, it still belongs to gawd… or am I just barking at nothing?
21 January 2007, on 5:46 pm
Matt, the ones who are barking are those that wrote that incredible nonsense that Bob quotes – and the nutters who posted arrant nonsense on the blog, such as ‘jesus, the greatest man who ever lived blah blah blah’.
Not only is there NO credible evidence that anyone of that name lived when ‘people of faith’ claim he did, there is even less evidence to support the claim that he was conceived by immaculate conception, was the son and self-same person as God (whoever he be, since his existence is not proven either), was crucified, and was resurrected.
If we truly lived in a caring society, the kindest thing we could do for these psychologically dysfunctional people who claim that god/allah/jesus/Uncle Tom Cobbley et al exist is to provide free lodgings in a nice, secure, mental health facility where they could be overdosed on risperidone and allowed to watch day-time TV all day whilst wearing their pyjamas.
Failing that, we could try to teach them to think critically about the patent nonsense they spout, though you probably have more chance of winning the first prize in El Gordo 6 times in a row.
If neither of these approaches work, then we must simply mock, ridicule, and criticise them for being the irrational, delusional, dysfunctional, psychopathological buffoons that they are.
And don’t anyone tell me I should be more charitable towards them, since they are the ones who gleefully consign anyone who does not agree with their psychopathic delusions to eternal and unimaginably horrible torture in this place they call ‘Hell’. The fact that ‘Hell’ exists only in their sick little minds is not relevant, since it is their intention and lack of compassion which is egregious in the extreme.
Show me someone who claims to be religious, and I will show you someone who is psychopathologically dysfunctional.
21 January 2007, on 6:25 pm
LMAO
Ahhhh! That pic under blasphemy is priceless!
Thanks!
If that is not a parody site, then it is frightening.
21 January 2007, on 8:11 pm
Shelley the Republican is awesome. I love that site. Here’s my favorite article. Apparently, the EAC is so powerful we’ve managed to fill the bible with smutty porn. Way better than Landover.
21 January 2007, on 8:28 pm
Old STR is definitely 1 of the best satire sites on the web. Being a bit of a geek, I actually laughed hardest at the ‘Linux mafia’ (they’re Russian mobsters pushing Linux, no less!), & the egregious errors in the posts. ‘Firefox lost the browser war’, ‘Linux hasn’t changed in 10 years’, oh, the idiocy!
I’d take anything said on that site w/a whole SHAKERFUL of salt.
22 January 2007, on 2:27 am
Thanks Bob…at the risk of piling on with all the silliness:
“Hallowoija…Borat gets “Saved”!”
“MambmambmamemehhescrewBushblllllshitmwnplcrapfwannnhanafuckCheneyboolleeShite!”
“What?…You don’t recognize speaking in Tongues?…you evil heathen GifS Infidels!”
“Oh ye of little scatological verbiage…you need proof?…Huh?…get your frigin’ infidel asses over to this link!”
“Sheesh”! “No…I’m NOT kidding!”
[OK...I lied!]
[YouTube: "Jesus Saves Borat"]
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZNQzM8e-Fac&mode=related&search=
22 January 2007, on 3:57 am
KA is right. I checked the blogroll (most of them recognizable as RaptureRight/neocon blogs) and linked to Church of the Painful Truth. A few posts in, I found this rant. Seems CofPT is pissed, both by the blog itself but, more importantly, because it “gives the ‘wrong impression’ to foreign visitors–that xians are nuts!” Awww, isn’t that sad?
This text is no longer in the terms of service, which you can find at Shelley_The_Republican.com/tos.html (again, remove the underscores).
The second reference also refers to a dead link (that used to be Shelley_The_Republican.com/meaning-and-purpose.html) that was quoted as containing the following…
“ShelleyTheRepublican.com is a satirical entertainment web site. The purpose of this website is to point out political injustice by exaggerating the viewpoint of the party the injustice originates from. Basically it’s save to say that almost all information in the articles on this web site are false. The web site is designed to be funny. If you don’t find it funny, we kindly ask you to leave. We are committed to Freedom and Justice for all. Please let your friends know about this website. Thanks.”
A truly conservative author, although satirical, wouldn’t have statements like that, IMO. It sounds to me like they’re actually liberal trolls attempting to smear Republicans/Conservatives and Christians by making the world think that Republicans/Conservatives and Christians are stupid, evil people, since their disclaimer either keeps moving or has disappeared entirely.
The true shame here is that there are people outside of the United States that are reading this and, except for few, believing the satire to be true and falling into the trap of believing that Republicans and Christians are actually like this.
Apparently discussion on this site and related sites (presumably by the same author or authors with the same tone) has been going on for months, and the entire time I’ve been blissfully unaware.
[Now would be a good time for me to know how to block-fucking-quote!] Ahem!
I pulled this from StR before I got the joke. But I’ll post it anyway:
Finally, we at STR.com would like to anounce a new petition which will be starting next week. We are going to ask for an official presidential pardon for Kent Hovind. Please add your prayers and other words of support for Kent below.
Yours in Christ,
Tristan J. Shuddery
I did a pretty deep search on StR but came up with nothing about satire. I see why now…
Naomi
22 January 2007, on 4:10 am
OMg! ChuckA, that was funny! I had watched the trailer of “Borat” and a few minutes of the opening scenes. As a result, I had no intention of seeing it.
Now, I must just watch it, after all.
Thanks for the link. You’ve taken me to more movies in the last 24hours than my husband has in ten years…
I don’t know how I’m going to break it to him that I’m leaving him. To be with you, dear ChuckA! Tell your wife to pack everything of hers (including all her B&D stuff–I’m bringing my own).
My husband will not be surprised–he distrusts the ‘tubes. Ex-mormon and Luddite, he won’t touch one. He’s barely made peace with his cell phone!
Naomi
22 January 2007, on 11:16 am
Great laugh Bob! It got my Monday going!
BTW and completely off topic…
Check out any interviews you can find with Coach Dungy or Jim Irsay of the Indy Colts- You will swear that it is only through divine intervention and passing the trial and tribulation test of the LAWD that the Colts are going to the Super Bowl! And expect more of the same after the Super Bowl – Apparently Dungy is a prayer buddy with Lovie Smith,coach of the Bears.
The question I have is this: Why would GAWD give a shit about football? It is a great game, but in the scheme of things???
Despite all of this, as a resident of central Indiana I will be rooting for the Colts…Sorry Stardust…
22 January 2007, on 12:31 pm
This has always been a sticking point for me. Any time I see some sports figure, no matter who, pray before, during or after a game, praise jeebus, etc, I just start fuming. It’s the most retarded thing in the universe.
22 January 2007, on 12:44 pm
I have often wondered if it has a direct link to the “team” mentality- Being on a team requires a “follower” mindset. Are team members more easily led and therefore question the absurd less? I have noticed similar actions and quotations from people with military backgrounds…Although the old saying about “there are no athetsts in foxholes” may play a part in that as well.
I wonder…
22 January 2007, on 12:53 pm
Not sure. I spent 3 years in the US ARMY in the early 80s, but I guess since I didn’t make it a career….
There are also a lot of dead soldiers, so praying to gawd doesn’t seem to help.
22 January 2007, on 1:42 pm
I’m a Steelers fan, but I decided to pull for the Colts against the Pats just because they’d never been to a superbowl. Then I saw the post-game interviews and said “Aw, fuck!” *sigh* Now we have 2 teams playing whose coaches think an invisible being has something to do with the game.
I guess I’ll just watch for the commercials this year.
22 January 2007, on 1:54 pm
Is the STR site a parody site? I can’t really tell. it’s not quite out there enough if it’s trying to be.
22 January 2007, on 2:12 pm
Hey karen, you know what’s the funniest thing about that is? Gawd isn’t supposed to play favorites, so if both coaches pray to win Superbowl 41, can gawd possibly answer both prayers which have mutually exclusive results?
22 January 2007, on 2:27 pm
Don’t drop the soap, Kent.
22 January 2007, on 3:10 pm
As Old Git so wisely advised:
“provide free lodgings in a nice, secure, mental health facility where they could be overdosed on risperidone and allowed to watch day-time TV all day whilst wearing their pyjamas.”
[As 'hoid' from outside the Asylum walls]:
“Oooh, Goody! We can all have a Jeebus Jammie party!”
…Hmmm…maybe a CNN special: “NONE Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”?
Your comments, OG, about the Fundie’s loving notion about hell is a reminder of how sadistic they are when they hurl that vicious threat towards anyone who points out their total delusion.
Revenant and Russman…I, like Stardust, am an old Chicago area resident, and, in my case, possibly, in part, because I’m 67, have a rather ‘ratcheted down’ interest in the Bear’s ‘fate’. Like Rev, I also, fume…or, at the very least…cringe, when I hear sports figures blathering on about their ‘Lawd and Saviour’ bullshit.
I wasn’t aware of Lovie Smith’s stance; but Urlacher’s so-called “born again” conversion was highlighted in the news, awhile back.
Right after yesterday’s game, the first comment out of ‘Truck” (name?)’s mouth was his thanking his “Lawd and Saviour” shtick. That stuff immediately alerts me to someone’s lack of intelligence! Even Urlacher steered clear of that stuff in his post game interview.
I noticed on one of the “Saints” TD’s, the ball carrier made a quick “Sign of the cross” and pointed to the sky. Well…at least he didn’t kneel down and pray! [or is it 'prey'?]
Sheesh!…this is what their imaginary, delusional deity cares about..a fucking game; not the killing and wounding of hundreds of thousands…even millions…of people in all the stupid, fuckhead wars fought over ‘His’ so-called existence!
With all the delusional Xtians, it REALLY comes down to: “ME, ME, ME”…as their self absorbed, totally selfish, ego-centric Universe!
There’s so much outrageous stupidity going on, here on this…Carl Sagan described…”Little Blue Dot”!
Speaking of the New Orleans “Saints”; They’re definitely not marching into this year’s Super Bowl!
Come to think of it; as to the notion of the alluded to DEAD “Saints”…There’ll be absolutely no marching orders…no place to march to…and after Katrina…even if, somehow, they DID still exist…they probably wouldn’t even be interested in New Orleans!…
How ’bout…Las Vegas?
[You know...'Lost Wages'!...oh, of course!...the 'wages' of Sin, that we all get...DEATH!]
Oh yeah…Rev…as I’m sure you’re aware of: Contrary to the prevailing…lying…religious fuckhead’s Myth…There ARE, and have ALWAYS BEEN atheists in foxholes!
22 January 2007, on 3:57 pm
Well-said, ChuckA!!
Just the whole idea that if Jeebus helped one team win, that automatically means he caused the other to lose. What happens if players from both teams do the “Kee-Rist Dance” in the end zone (I’m officially re-naming that the End-Times Zone)?
It’s just incredibly arrogant, preposterous, imbecilic, retarded, small-minded, narcisstic, obstreperous, dammit I’ve run out of words!
22 January 2007, on 5:24 pm
OT but this struck me as funny. From this CNN article
Hmm, Ms. “Grammar Expert”, nice run-on sentence. And “grammar was something that I had expertise in” should probably read “grammar was something with which I had expertise…”
22 January 2007, on 5:24 pm
Despite all of this, as a resident of central Indiana I will be rooting for the Colts…Sorry Stardust…
Da Bears are goin’ all the way, my friends. LOL!
I,too hate the prayer pow wows at football games and other sporting events. Too bad the great imaginary Superfan in the sky didn’t speak to the architects who were planning the Soldiers Field renovation and tell them that their design sucks. ChuckA, tell me if you agree with me or not, but it looks like a giant silver bedpan landed on top of Soldier Field.
22 January 2007, on 5:59 pm
ROTFL, and it’s full of bear crap.
22 January 2007, on 6:42 pm
Hmmm
Two teams of eleven men, rushing each other with mayhem in mind.
Hmmm
Gladiators? Without swords? With rules?
Hmmm
Gladiatorial conflict, made (mildly) safe, and subject to rules, enforced by “line judges”.
Adversarial teamwork, legally filed as corporate entities and sold to the public as “athletic competition”.
Continually refreshed from the now-commercialized educational institutions with (mostly) fraudulent degree programs.
Meat on cleats, paid too much money for: being mean, aggressive, intimidating and wily about the rules. And “chemically enhanced” by science! (Their size is due less to genetics and good nutrition, and more to illegal steroid use.)
Sexist males, maybe on steroids, beat up on girlfriends and wives. And sometimes innocent (albeit drunken loudmouths) bystanders…
Generalizations? Most probably? Just the opinion of one woman, and therefore unimportant? Oh, definitely! But I’m used to it…
The last time I followed football (see if you can guess which years):
George Plimpton trained and played with the Lions so he could write Paper Lion.
George Wilson, coach of the Lions during Plimpton’s research, left the Lions to coach a new team in Miami, owned by Joe Robbie.
George Wilson, four-and-a-half years later, would be replaced by Don Shula.
Don Shula took his new team to the next SuperBowl and got all the credit. (There had never been a Cinderella-like/Titan’s miracle in those days…)
I’ll cover hockey when the season ends. Same for basketball and baseball…
NASCAR is NOT a sport! It’s just daredevils who have no fear of getting tickets for speeding and/or reckless endangerment!
I prefer figure-skating.
Naomi
22 January 2007, on 7:04 pm
ROTFL, and it’s full of bear crap.
Revenant – Bears are going to “flush” the Colts. ROTFL
(refer to comments 20-21)
22 January 2007, on 7:15 pm
I’m with ya, Naomi, as far as sports in general. Don’t mind playing, can’t stand watching any more.
Sounds about like 1972, when I was 10 years old, and the Redskins lost to the Dolphins. I was a diehard redskins fan, for no particular reason. Had my dog wearing a Chris Hanburger Tshirt, #55.
22 January 2007, on 7:18 pm
Well, we will see who flushes whom in two weeks…But if it’s up GAWD the Colts will win because I suspect we have more babble thumpers per square mile than anyplace except South Carolina…And we “are just truly blessed to be a part of such a fine organization…” (Klecko the DT turned WR for the Colts)…
22 January 2007, on 7:23 pm
All joking aside, I am not into sports unless a hometown team is winning, and even then I don’t watch the game. My husband and one of our sons are really into the Bears and Bulls. I can’t watch more than bits of it and am off doing other stuff. Football bores the shit out of me.
22 January 2007, on 9:35 pm
My apologies to Bob for hijacking his post for a sports discussion.
And Stardust, you sound like my wife who reminded me last evening when my blood pressure spiked that, “After all, it’s just a GAME!” I begrudging admit that she is right…
22 January 2007, on 9:47 pm
Revenant: Yes, that’s when I stopped following football, in general, and the Lions, in particular. Occasionally, I’d notice that the Lions got a “wild card slot”–but they seemed to always fuck it away.
Not that I ever paid much attention until then, but I lived next door to George Wilson’s daughter, Lynn. Funny, isn’t it, how that suburban kaffe-klatch thing morphed, in my neighborhood…
In 1973, we moved to Port Huron and my football-fetish died from lack of interest.
My husband says that sports should be moved out of colleges/universities and into “sports trade schools”, leaving the education-biz to serious students. I can’t see anything wrong with that proposition. However, the Athletics Programs would perform seppuku, if it happened!
Naomi
22 January 2007, on 9:53 pm
matt
You forget matt, sometimes the answer is “No”.All part of the grand plan. But as I said over at the NGB, gawd will favor da Bears, cause in the Buybull, he has horses tortured, but has children fed to bears.
Go ahead, put yer money down now.
22 January 2007, on 10:06 pm
But as I said over at the NGB, gawd will favor da Bears, cause in the Buybull, he has horses tortured, but has children fed to bears.
Well, there you go! It’s right there in black and white in the bibble…so it must be true! Bears win!
22 January 2007, on 10:47 pm
Speaking of feeding animals, we are long overdue for a feeding of the lions. Any suggestions for the main course?
22 January 2007, on 11:42 pm
Stardust
I think they are getting afraid of us. To them it’s about win or loose. To us it’s all about Bar-B-Que.Hee Hee Hee
22 January 2007, on 11:57 pm
I’d love to see at least one Bears fan hold up a sign that said “2 Kings 2:23″
http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/2kg/2.html#23
23 January 2007, on 12:34 am
Stardust said (#20):
“ChuckA, tell me if you agree with me or not, but it looks like a giant silver bedpan landed on top of Soldier Field.”
That’s an interesting discription Star; just a quick reflection on my, thankfully, very limited experience with that item…I’d have to agree with you. With all the time it took them to decide on the final morphing of the old stadium, I was really disappointed that they didn’t come up with something better. My choice would have been a whole new stadium, with an open/closed dome, considering the Chicago lakefront weather conditions.
I think they had one on the drawing boards, but decided on the “Bed pan” design.
Hmmm…”Oh nurse!…I think it’s full…and everything in it, is completely frozen!…including my ass!” “Oh…and could you warm the latter up for me?…You’re SO nice!”
Naomi, ["Speaking of nice!...I'm so glad you enjoyed our 'movie dates'...Huh?"] your Plimpton
reference brought back some old memories…yeah 1972-ish, seems about right for the “Dolphins” shtick. That was about the time I started to get interested in Pro Football. I was a bit of a “non-sports fan” intellectual snob in the ’60s…not even interested in the Bears at the time they won the 1963(?) pre-Super bowl, when “Da Coach” (Ditka) was a Bear.
I did, as a former Catlick school guy, who briefly played some ‘JV’ football in High School…Irish Catlick mom…and a few other reasons, root for Notre Dame.
Today, I couldn’t give “much of a shit” in general about sports…not even…or should I really say…especially…doing it in the Soldier’s field bedpan!
[I never really identified with the "Fighting Irish" notion, though!.. the "Drunken Irish"...THAT was different; and with a Swedish dad...hey; "Do the math?"... I KID the Irish, and the Swedes!]
I’m also reminded of George Carlin’s old bit, contrasting Baseball to Football’s game terminologies; pointing out the warlike imagery of Football!
…Born in 1939, I’m also getting nostalgic about that year’s “Wizard of Oz” film’s:
[See...I'm building up for my grand bullshit exit, here!]
“Lions and Tigers, and Bears…Oh my!”…
Now, Stardust…as you intimated…[can we be intimate, here?]…what should we feed, as you say, our longtime unfed GifS Lions?…
Hmmm…do we have any Trolls lurking down in our Roman Coleseum-like ‘holding’ cages?
Similar to another movie about shooting horses [Like, you know...in the Title?]:
“They eat Trolls, Don’t They?”
23 January 2007, on 12:39 am
True karen, but the Bible says that gawd will answer ALL prayers, no exceptions. Therefore if the Bears and the Colts(?) both pray to win, and since gawd can’t not not answer a prayer… well…
I guess it’s just another one of the mass of contradictions that is the xian religion.
Honestly, I don’t care who wins. I’m not a huge sports nut. In fact, the only sport I even watch is pro wrestling.
23 January 2007, on 2:11 am
Matt: oh, yeah, like pro wrestling is a sport! (*snort!*)
23 January 2007, on 4:05 am
Stardust:
Speaking of feeding animals, we are long overdue for a feeding of the lions.
Godwin at OneCosmos.blogspot. He’s a voracious right-wing, anti-secularist, obnoxious creep.
He’s also a clinical psychologist (who thinks the APA is a secular front) – he’s very smart, very erudite.
1 of his quotes is, “Ultimately this is not about labels but about spiritual value systems that are entirely opposed and incompatible. If you want to see the future of America should the left be successful in undermining our Judeo-Christian heritage, you need look no further than old Europe, which “progresses” further every day toward its own oblivion–and into the jaws of its Islamist executioners, who will perform the coup de grace.”
Calls himself Gagdad Bob (I call him Bagdad Bob, & his rhetorical rent boys are middle-school dropouts).
He’s got the messianic complex REAL bad.
23 January 2007, on 9:58 am
And here’s what Pat Robertson has to say about why Dog won’t answer prayers…sometimes…
http://www.rat-rant.com/drupal/node/994
23 January 2007, on 11:20 am
Sobex, that would indeed be great to see a sign like that on live television on Superbowl Sunday…LOL!
23 January 2007, on 12:42 pm
I suppose I could trot out the Babble references to the four horsemen in Reveal-a-shuns to make my case for the Colts…
23 January 2007, on 1:04 pm
The only exceptions put on prayers-to-be-answered are from xians desperate to explain why their infallible text says one thing but reality says another.
So Pat Robertson is just a moron.
23 January 2007, on 3:07 pm
Hey, you know what, everything I own is property of God, too. He’s just letting me borrow it. So if you want to collect a tax for it, take it up with God.
23 January 2007, on 5:57 pm
Actually Naomi, pro wrestlers ARE athletes, and aside from it’s predetermined nature, it IS a sport. Much like football, the wrestlers are in good shape, train hard, and practice often to perform their moves.
If you look passed the theatrics, it comes down to an athletic showcase.
But you’re probably more familiar with American wrestling, which is less of a sport than it is around the world.
There’s a saying in the internet wrestling community: In Japan it’s a sport, in Canada it’s tradition, in Mexico it’s religion, in America it’s a joke.
In Japan the wrestling style is known as strong style, where it is a slighly less stiff version of MMA/Shoot fighting. If you watch some of those matches, the holds aren’t faked and strikes aren’t pulled.
But seriously, if CURLING is considered a sport, if ARCHERY is considered a sport, if POKER is considered a sport, then so is pro wrestling. It’s just staged gladiatorial combat.
23 January 2007, on 7:47 pm
Naomi said:
I’m impressed; didn’t think many people knew the honorific or ‘proper’ name for what is commonly known as ‘hara kiri’, or belly-cutting. My fist Bushido and Zen Master committed seppuku at the age of 77 when he could no longer perform in the way that he expected of himself.
He died a lonely and painful death, dispensing as he did with the usual practice of having an aide perform the coup-de-grace by beheading with a katana immediately after the act of disembowelment.
Koizumi Roshi, I salute you.
23 January 2007, on 7:55 pm
Matt,
The latest sport amongst nonagenarians is getting an erection.
Tumescence of 5% equals a bronze medal; 10% silver; and anything between 20 and 40% is gold.
As yet we are having some difficulty in obtaining approval from the Olympic Committee to have it included in the next Games, but I think that is primarily due to the problem of showing us all those supposedly excitatory naked and nubile young women.
23 January 2007, on 8:02 pm
The question wasn’t whether pro wrestlers were athletes, but whether pro wrestling was a sport. Since the outcomes are pre-determined, it’s not a sport, it’s an act, it’s a soap opera.
23 January 2007, on 8:03 pm
Saint Gasoline said:
I tried that on our Inland Revenue (our version of the IRS), and the Inspector said that was OK with them, provided I threw everything I owned into the air that what stayed up was god’s – and therefore tax free – but what fell back to earth was deemed to be mine and therefore taxable. (The caveat being that anything which couldn’t be thrown into the air was deemed to have fallen to earth permanently anyway!)
23 January 2007, on 9:03 pm
LOL, Old Git!
“Yup!…that stuff that gave me my hernia, is definitely “Earth Bound”!
What’s that?…and taxable?”
You know, Old Git?
I think you’re way more than a “match” for…
Saint Gasoline!
Should we really be somewhat suspicious of some kind of…incendiary Troll-like terrorism, or something?
…and to think that I always thought “Saint Gasoline” was the Catholic Church’s patron saint of rear end car accidents!…
when actually…he’s really just the patron saint of “Rear Ends”!
I could be wrong, of course!
23 January 2007, on 9:46 pm
Old Git,
Did you inquire if the IR agent was one of God’s children? If he had replied yes, you might have had an opprotunity to put his faith to the test and see how gravity vs.faith worked out.
24 January 2007, on 3:01 am
The Old Git: Supashi-bo, tatsujin!
And if my sister, the one who works for MetalOne-America, a Mistubishi steel division (and formerly Niisho Iwai), was up at this hour, I could ask her a better way to say it, rather than farting around with a English-Japanese-English online dictionary. One, I might add, that did not recognize “dozo”, “arigato”, or “domo arigato gozaimasta”, or variations on a theme…
And I can’t take credit for using seppuku properly–the egghead punditocracy here in the US began using it a while back to describe “political suicide”. It has an elegance missing from “hara kiri”, doesn’t it?
Saint Gasoline should know that “Dr.” Kent Hovind tried that, found that the IRS could count to 288 (chargeable tax violations) and that the judge could count to 10 (years in prison). Aren’t numbers fun?
24 January 2007, on 3:06 am
Matt (via Revenant):
The question wasn’t whether pro wrestlers were athletes, but whether pro wrestling was a sport. Since the outcomes are pre-determined, it’s not a sport, it’s an act, it’s a soap opera.
Or just a ballet, a phrase that would cause a revolt in the WWF!
TOG:
Can we assume you will be outlawing that penile steroid, Viagra/Cialis/Levitra?
Naomi
24 January 2007, on 4:46 am
Naomi asked me:
Why ever would I do that? It’s well known that drug-taking is rampant in ALL sports, so why not allow it in the one where ‘rampantness’ matters, lol!
24 January 2007, on 4:47 am
Chuck,
As always, you brightened up my day with your incendiary wit!
24 January 2007, on 4:58 am
Russman,
The Inspector of Taxes was a real skeptic. Another of his sayings when he caught a businessman who had been ‘cooking the books’ to avoid paying tax was: “You must be a real patriot from the way that you play ‘God Save the Queen’ on the till’!” This was just after WWII, when those caught would frequently bleat, “But I bought Post War Credits!” (these were issued during the war by the Government to help fund the war-effort; they paid no interest and were unredeemable, but carried only the vague promise of redemption plus interest after the war ended – in fact they were only redeemed in the 1970s.)
Enough of these reminiscences of a senile old git!
24 January 2007, on 5:20 am
Rampantness, TOG? That puts me in mind of Moll Flanders…
Now, how many other GifS would know about that, hmmm?
Naomi
26 January 2007, on 4:52 pm
Naomi: Rampantness, TOG? That puts me in mind of Moll Flanders…/Now, how many other GifS would know about that, hmmm?
*being an English major, raises hand* There are very few fields as sex-saturated as that of literature!