We're going to need a bigger boat.

I wanted to immortalize Shlomo with the 8 millionth comment.

He'll forever be 8,000,001 to me.

It goes well with the 'over the cliff' metaphor.

Whoa, here it comes now, 2010, Birchers and all!

I'm sure some of your 'fans' will turn this into some cynical take on you.

But then again, fuck em! Good job Charles!

Whoa, here it comes now,
Whoa, here it comes.
Whoa, here it,
Whoa, here,
Whoa.
-- Who

And yet all the anti-LGF crowd keep going on about how LGF is losing readership.

I hope eight million+ sticks in their craw.

Congratulations to Charles.
8,000,000 is a HUGE number. And that's just the comments.
100,000 plus page views a DAY.
It's SO minor, that no one reads it, at all.

HEY! LOOK! You're reading it!

re: #4 BigPapa

I'm sure some of your 'fans' will turn this into some cynical take on you.

But then again, fuck em! Good job Charles!

Now ask me if I give a flying shit.

re: #5 jaunte

Whoa, here it comes now,
Whoa, here it comes.
Whoa, here it,
Whoa, here,
Whoa.
-- Who

Keep going! You'd be surprised to know that the 43rd president actually all of that.

re: #3 Obdicut

It goes well with the 'over the cliff' metaphor.

Whoa, here it comes now, 2010, Birchers and all!

It really does!

When archaeologists of the future dig out the server this site was on, they'll read the comment and be like, "Wow. That totally makes sense." Then they'll do the Magic Dance.

I like it, the 8 millionth comment. People may not realize the size of that. But that's about every person in NYC making a comment on your blog. WOW.

re: #8 Charles

Now ask me if I give a flying shit.

Charles, do you give a flying shit?
/:)

Heh.

re: #13 ratmanar8

8,000,000 comment flounce! Such a rare find!
/Idiot.

re: #13 ratmanar8

best thing about flouncing is how it has its own language and form on here. You don't see that on other websites.

re: #13 ratmanar8

Looks like the flouncer just missed the 8,000,000 post.

re: #6 Summer

And yet all the anti-LGF crowd keep going on about how LGF is losing readership.

I hope eight million+ sticks in their craw.

Yeah, and so irrelevant the LA Times and the NYT are profiling Charles. Their tears taste like candy!

re: #13 ratmanar8

Thank you for your 8,000,000,013th post! Bye bye!

re: #17 windsagio

best thing about flouncing is how it has its own language and form on here. You don't see that on other websites.

I only give him 2.3 for style. He could have tossed in a back flip.

re: #20 BigPapa

Thank you for your 8,000,000,013th post! Bye bye!

Now, eight billion posts WOULD be impressive.

re: #21 avanti

The 2 comment total dragged his whole score down.

re: #19 iceweasel

He's so irrelevant that his posts are what I'm now using to convince the more hidebound of my relatives of the reality of global warming, the duplicity of Glen Beck, and myriad other subjects.

This place is like the one-stop-shop for political mythbusting.

And a flounce! It's the icing on the cake.

Awesome that this site is getting so much traffic, thanks to all the commenters, you rule!

re: #22 fenrisdesigns

Now, eight billion posts WOULD be impressive.

LOL Premature decimization!

re: #13 ratmanar8

"You can flounce if you want to.
The Net is young and so am I.
And you can think you're real cool,
While you look like a fool,
and act like an imbecile."

/I'm going to fill in more this parody each time we get a flounce.

re: #8 Charles

Now ask me if I give a flying shit.

They make those now? I'm never leaving the house without an umbrella again!

re: #28 Dark_Falcon

Nice scansion, dude!

re: #14 Varek Raith

Charles, do you give a flying shit?
/:)

Why ... no. I don't!

re: #28 Dark_Falcon

"You can flounce if you want to.
The Net is young and so am I.
And you can think you're real cool,
While you look like a fool,
and act like an imbecile."

/I'm going to fill in more this parody each time we get a flounce.

"U CAN FLOUNCE IF U WANTS 2.
TEH NET IZ YOUNG AN SO IZ I.
AN U CAN FINKZ URE REAL KEWL,
WHILE U LOOK LIEK FOOL,
AN ACT LIEK AN IMBECILE."

re: #13 ratmanar8

And so ends the reign of ratmanar8. Who dutifully read LGF daily, seething and frothing. Frothing and seething. Lurking in the darkness for his (her? her.) one final chance to register.

She hated the meanie things said about Sarah Palin, and the stinky things about Glen Beck. She railed against what was said about the birthers, and birchers, and the nirthers and nirchers.

And then...why yes then it all came together! She got her account, and dubiously and deviously called herself "ratmanar8." "They won't know who I am! And without that guy from the Da Vinci Code, they'll never get that I'm secretly insulting everyone with my nic"

And she waited and plotted for the perfect time to pounce.
But in the end, all that came out was a sad and feeble flounce.

re: #32 Varek Raith

"U CAN FLOUNCE IF U WANTS 2.
TEH NET IZ YOUNG AN SO IZ I.
AN U CAN FINKZ URE REAL KEWL,
WHILE U LOOK LIEK FOOL,
AN ACT LIEK AN IMBECILE."

I consider it a high honor to have my verse translated into LOL Cat. Thank you, sir.

Flounce!
Flounce!
Let it all out!
These are the things we can mock about, so come on!
I'm talking to you, come on!

Missed that one, but wow... some florid OCD, to flounce on an ' 8 million posts' topic.

re: #24 Obdicut

He's so irrelevant that his posts are what I'm now using to convince the more hidebound of my relatives of the reality of global warming, the duplicity of Glen Beck, and myriad other subjects.

This place is like the one-stop-shop for political mythbusting.

QFMFT!

We don't refer to this as the anti-idiotarian HQ for nuthin!

re: #33 EastSider

And so ends the reign of ratmanar8. Who dutifully read LGF daily, seething and frothing. Frothing and seething. Lurking in the darkness for his (her? her.) one final chance to register.

She hated the meanie things said about Sarah Palin, and the stinky things about Glen Beck. She railed against what was said about the birthers, and birchers, and the nirthers and nirchers.

And then...why yes then it all came together! She got her account, and dubiously and deviously called herself "ratmanar8." "They won't know who I am! And without that guy from the Da Vinci Code, they'll never get that I'm secretly insulting everyone with my nic"

And she waited and plotted for the perfect time to pounce.
But in the end, all that came out was a sad and feeble flounce.

That reminds me of Tolkien, and I love it.

re: #35 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Flounce!
Flounce!
Let it all out!
These are the things we can mock about, so come on!
I'm talking to you, come on!

Upding for the Tears For Fears use.

*throws confetti*

I just got up to take a leak and something made me check my favorite site!
I've been super busy working but wanted to say I miss reading the smartest blog online with the most intelligent members.

Shlomo's Mouth

Yay! My first embedded mp3!

re: #34 Dark_Falcon

Sadly, I can't post the lolcat to leet cause of the boards format.
Ah, well. It's damn hard to read, anyway. :D

re: #25 Charles

And a flounce! It's the icing on the cake.

Bonus!
The stalker site seems to be off line!

re: #44 Floral Giraffe

Bonus!
The stalker site seems to be off line!

Muhahaha! My planetary alignment thingamajig works!
/

Just an inner troll
Who decides to leave the fold..
He tries the midnight flounce, not going Any...wherrre...
(Don't Stop Believin'
Someone cares you're leavin'...)

re: #44 Floral Giraffe

Bonus!
The stalker site seems to be off line!

Classic!

"Charles, please cancel my account. I never use it, and I'm sure that ratmancar8 is such a desired name that many more deserving of that name would relish using it. Plus, I'm moving to Siberia and giving up electricity so I don't further enrich the evil AlGore.'

8 Million Stories

re: #44 Floral Giraffe

Bonus!
The stalker site seems to be off line!

Aw, that's too bad. I kind of find it funny watching them go nuts when good things happen to Charles. When viewed from a distance, the Crazy Butthurt is kind of amusing.

re: #44 Floral Giraffe

Good things happen when the Freemasons and Zionists collaborate.

re: #50 Dark_Falcon

Yes, that's why I went to look.
I like seeing them squirm.

Goodnight all.
Thanks, Charles, for doing what you do.
8 million times!

re: #48 BigPapa
Poor Al:
[Link: www.adn.com...]

Tomorrow, on Gateway Pundit:

Charles Johnson Admits there are eight million Communists following him!

In a shocking turn of events last night before midnight, Charles Johnson confirmed the existence of 8 million pedophile homosexual communists, all whom follow his blog. "Whoa, here it comes now," Johnson said, implying that they were all in on the same leftist plot.

Read more...

//

re: #51 Slumbering Behemoth

Good things happen when the Freemasons and Zionists collaborate.

Here's a rare photo of our dual-team project coordinator.

A few minutes ago, Little Green Footballs recorded its … eight millionth comment.

Woo hoo! Woot! Ow ow ow! Yowza! Give it up! Make some noise! Eight million! Yeah!

[Link: www.maylin.net...]

re: #44 Floral Giraffe

Sadly, it's back.
But, stalkers are below secondary.

re: #54 tradewind

Poor Al:
[Link: www.adn.com...]

Al Gore should go to Fairbanks to debate Climate Change, but only if he gets to debate Sarah Palin. Because once he gets done mopping the stage with her, he'll have done the nation a great service by showcasing the willful ignorance that is her hallmark.

congrats.

I'm off!

have a great evening Lizards and

Charles, congrats!

Ouch... I'd forgotten how much typing in leet could hurt...
:)

re: #61 ggt

I'm off!

have a great evening Lizards and

Charles, congrats!

Stay safe. The road will be bad tomorrow where you and I live.

re: #59 Dark_Falcon
If you're Al Gore, you don't want to be debating Palin, unless you're at a Kos convention or an off-prime spot at the DNC. His delivery is so dry and stilted compared to hers that it's painful, regardless of the substance.

I should stay up this late more often. Seems there is a whole crowd I miss in other time zones, but really I have to go, and the only reason I didn't get 8,000,000 is because Charles distracted me and made me go check the numbers on the sidebar, along with many others. So there!

Goodnight all.

re: #64 tradewind

wow, really?

re: #64 tradewind

If you're Al Gore, you don't want to be debating Palin, unless you're at a Kos convention or an off-prime spot at the DNC. His delivery is so dry and stilted compared to hers that it's painful, regardless of the substance.

Plus 'debating' someone like implies she's someone worth engaging in debate with, and somewhat legitimises her. She should be shunned instead and treated like what she is: a freakshow.

re: #64 tradewind

If you're Al Gore, you don't want to be debating Palin, unless you're at a Kos convention or an off-prime spot at the DNC. His delivery is so dry and stilted compared to hers that it's painful, regardless of the substance.

True, he'd have that problem. On second thought you're probably right. She might well be seen as the debate winner simply by being more personable.

re: #63 Dark_Falcon
Heh.. our city's public works dept has already shot its last ash/cinders wad and we haven't even seen the first flake yet... starts in a few hours.
We'll have to use kitty litter.///

re: #68 Dark_Falcon

I think more that his dryness would make her freakshow characteristics all the more obvious.

Really tho, ice is right. Any debate would just legitimize her.

re: #69 tradewind

Heh.. our city's public works dept has already shot its last ash/cinders wad and we haven't even seen the first flake yet... starts in a few hours.
We'll have to use kitty litter.///

We've still got enough salt here in Chicago to tackle this storm. One thing that Cook County is good at is keeping the roads clear. The fate of Michael Blandic looms large here in winter.

re: #66 windsagio

wow, really?

Well, come on. Gore has many strengths but charisma (and the quick soundbite) was never one of them. Can you imagine that 'debate'? It'd be nothing but a carnival.

If you don't like the new Calvin & Hobbes postage stamps, why don't you just run off an join Al-Qaeda, ya bastard.

re: #72 iceweasel

I think its the opposite. (to restate) Gores very sane boringness would put how utterly vapid Palin is into context.

re: #66 windsagio
Yes, really.
He was my senator for a few years, and his father's fairly fiery debating style didn't pass down.
Think back to the presidential debates... even commentators who clearly preferred him over Bush were rolling their eyes the morning after.

re: #73 Slumbering Behemoth

Not liking the new Calvin and Hobbes stamps?! Well, I never! Why not just drive over some apple pies scribble Magic Marker all over my "Support Our Troops" car magnet while you're at it?

/

re: #75 tradewind

I've stated why I disagreed twice now, not gonna go over it again. I was just shocked at the idea that anybody would lose to palin in a debate >>

And seroiusly, Gore is boring, but you guys are treating him like his soul is made out of sand.

re: #74 windsagio

I think its the opposite. (to restate) Gores very sane boringness would put how utterly vapid Palin is into context.

Don't be so sure. She has better people skills than he does. He would need a debate frame work that required that specifics be addressed, which she will never agree to.

re: #74 windsagio

I think its the opposite. (to restate) Gores very sane boringness would put how utterly vapid Palin is into context.

True, to sane people, but we already have more than enough context to know she is nothing but a cartoon.
Palin does have charisma. What makes you think she'd stay on point any more than she did during the VP debates?

"Well I'm not going to talk about that, let me tell ya what I wanna talk about..."*

*i could find the transcript, but that's damned close to how she spoke there.

Shlomo and Teddy Thompson - Can't Sing Straight

re: #78 Dark_Falcon

Don't be so sure. She has better people skills than he does. He would need a debate frame work that required that specifics be addressed, which she will never agree to.

Quick, snarky slogans > Facts.

re: #72 iceweasel
Very true, and even if you believe that Palin has nothing to say, her detractors will admit that she has no trouble holding the attention of an audience. Maybe the broadcasting background.

OK, MAYBE you guys have a point >>

(and thats all yer gettin' from me, dammit!)

re: #82 tradewind

arr, I'm tryin' to ge good but the way you talk about Palin always makes me twitchy >

re: #77 windsagio
You're not really saying that the guy has soul?//

re: #82 tradewind

Very true, and even if you believe that Palin has nothing to say, her detractors will admit that she has no trouble holding the attention of an audience. Maybe the broadcasting background.

Attention whores know how to get what they want.

re: #85 tradewind

That on the other hand, made me laugh heartily :D

re: #81 Varek Raith

Quick, snarky slogans > Facts.

On TV, that is sadly the case. TV favors the quick witty slogan over a detailed explanation.

re: #453 iceweasel

I don't think it's currently possible to do that. I've been agreeing with you, btw, just expanding on your thoughts.
One would expect the female archetypes to all involve female sexuality primarily, given that it's only very recently in human history that females truly had autonomy, in the sense of having control over their reproductive destinies (not to mention sexual freedom).
And as we know, that doesn't even apply to most of the women in the world right now, just the Western world.

Ok, back to basics.

Coming in from still another angle, I believe that in the past, the role of women - child-bearing notwithstanding - was far more powerful than we think. It still is, but as with many things feminine, you have to be adept at reading between the lines - catching the fleeting moment when the dice fall, influenced in their tumble in ways that men simply cannot notice. A nanosecond of feminine intention - the pure strength of their will. Lady Luck. I've seen this again and again. I'm strange that way. And don't get me going about places like Ireland, where women (not all, of course, but the pure-bloods who instinctively expressed their Celtic heritage) simply and overtly did whatever the hell they felt was right - and the men be damned. The more I consider the subject, the more I believe that any woman not aware of her power - not her sexual power, but the power of her sex - is simply unconscious for whatever reasons.

re: #6 Summer

Umm, I think total number of posts again how many people are reading it is apples V oranges just to be fair, I mean total number of posts would still reach 8 million eventually regardless of if there are 10 posts a day or 10,000 its just a matter of how long it takes...

re: #77 windsagio

Debating anyone, Palin could eat a live puppy, crap out it's remains on the original U.S. Constitution, and scream the lyrics to Slayer songs at the top of her lungs, while her debate opponent could resurrect said puppy, magically return the constitution to pristine condition, cure world hunger and bring about world peace, and the Palin-heads would still declare her the clear and absolute 'winnar' of that debate.

/a little hyperbolic?

re: #77 windsagio

I've stated why I disagreed twice now, not gonna go over it again. I was just shocked at the idea that anybody would lose to palin in a debate >>

And seroiusly, Gore is boring, but you guys are treating him like his soul is made out of sand.

Not at all! I'm just remembering how in 2000, when in my opinion Gore had kicked ass in the debates, the cut away from the first debate was to a roomful of 'undecideds' in Ohio, who all said things about how Gore seemed stuckup and they didn't like him. The infamous "I'd have a beer with Bush" reaction. I knew right then that it was going to be close.

I'd like to think you're right that he'd win, and he surely would in the sense of objectively winning (being right), but debates aren't entirely about the objective win.

re: #86 Sharmuta

Attention whores know how to get what they want.

That reminds me... Where the heck are those brownies you promised me? I want them now!
/

re: #91 Slumbering Behemoth

Debating anyone, Palin could eat a live puppy, crap out it's remains on the original U.S. Constitution, and scream the lyrics to Slayer songs at the top of her lungs, while her debate opponent could resurrect said puppy, magically return the constitution to pristine condition, cure world hunger and bring about world peace, and the Palin-heads would still declare her the clear and absolute 'winnar' of that debate.

/a little hyperbolic?

No, it's a perfect example of male-female synergy.

re: #84 windsagio
I know, it'd be a lot simpler if she stuttered and looked more like... oh, I don't know... The Homeland Security Sec.
:)
/Don't start... I didn't say I wanted her for President. I feel the same way about her as does Mika Brzezinski ...and she's a good little liberal. /

re: #92 iceweasel

I wanna say "Palin's no Bush" just for the lols, but you have a point.

re: #91 Slumbering Behemoth

+ for mental image of Palin singing Slayer.

re: #93 Slumbering Behemoth

That reminds me... Where the heck are those brownies you promised me? I want them now!
/

Danger, Will Robinson! DANGER!!

re: #94 ryannon

No, it's a perfect example of male-female synergy.

And it's role-reversible, of course.

Isis.

re: #95 tradewind

I'll be good, I'm just channeling my frustration at a certain relative >>

re: #92 iceweasel
Sidling over to your opponent and breathing heavily into his general direction... SIGH... is such a douche-y thing to do. He lost right there.

re: #86 Sharmuta

Attention whores know how to get what they want.

Quoted, for truth!
And, because, we need to remember this!

re: #97 Varek Raith

Just trying to fine-tune my attention whoring skills.
/lookitmelookitme!

re: #100 tradewind

Sidling over to your opponent and breathing heavily into his general direction... SIGH... is such a douche-y thing to do. He lost right there.

But farting in someone's general direction is a GOOD thing!
LOL!

re: #89 ryannon

Coming in from still another angle, I believe that in the past, the role of women - child-bearing notwithstanding - was far more powerful than we think. It still is, but as with many things feminine, you have to be adept at reading between the lines - catching the fleeting moment when the dice fall, influenced in their tumble in ways that men simply cannot notice. A nanosecond of feminine intention - the pure strength of their will. Lady Luck. I've seen this again and again. I'm strange that way. And don't get me going about places like Ireland, where women (not all, of course, but the pure-bloods who instinctively expressed their Celtic heritage) simply and overtly did whatever the hell they felt was right - and the men be damned. The more I consider the subject, the more I believe that any woman not aware of her power - not her sexual power, but the power of her sex - is simply unconscious for whatever reasons.

Ireland is a really interesting example that way. I would love to know more about the tradition there. I recall a book about the rise of social reform programs in the US targeting the poor and immigrants in the 19th century. I'll try to locate the title.

When they were investigating instances of child abuse and domestic violence in those times, they noticed that the Irish immigrant population in America was the exception to the rules. When the woman showed up in the emergency rooms for treatment because her husband had hit her, the man usually showed up as well because she'd brained him with a saucepan.

Sounds about right.

re: #102 Slumbering Behemoth

Just trying to fine-tune my attention whoring skills.
/lookitmelookitme!

Well- you'll want to master the CAPS LOCK and bold feature. Be sure to bring an attitude that demands attention, and remember- even negative attention is attention.

re: #102 Slumbering Behemoth

Study this daily.
No, thanks, we DON'T want updates.
LOL
[Link: www.perezhilton.com...]

re: #105 Sharmuta

"No PR is bad PR"

I like stupid criminals...

Police: Pot grower calls to get his plants back, instead gets arrested

re: #100 tradewind

Sidling over to your opponent and breathing heavily into his general direction... SIGH... is such a douche-y thing to do. He lost right there.

Yeah. Similarly with some of McCain's behaviour during the debates. I recall the 'that one' comment as but one instance.

As with Palin, even Obama's harshest detractors have to admit the guy has charisma, even if they don't grant him anything else. You don't even have to find them personally appealing yourself or like them to admit that they have it.

re: #108 Varek Raith

I like stupid criminals...

Police: Pot grower calls to get his plants back, instead gets arrested

I'd say he's been using his own product to excess. :D

re: #94 ryannon

Speaking of male-female synergy...

re: #105 Sharmuta

I hope you had nice Holidays?
Full of family & joy!
Missed you.

re: #110 Dark_Falcon

I'd say he's been using his own product to excess. :D

I'd say so! :D
From the article;

"He even named the plants. One was TNT, and another was Diesel," Ramsay said.

re: #104 iceweasel

There are reality levels and reality limits. Most people find themselves on the slaughterhouse floor and then write learned treatises about the war between the sexes. The smart money, the happy few or just the plain lucky eventually figure out that there's a whole world of more interesting stuff going on. And that what most people accept for reality ain't necessarily so.

Pret à porter penser.

re: #112 Floral Giraffe

Thanks.

re: #115 Sharmuta

De nada.
You were missed!

Well, I've got some nefarious, take-over-the-world plots to hatch.
Night!

re: #109 iceweasel

Yes, charisma is the word.

Personally, my reaction to President Obama is more of shrugging the shoulders.

I respect him very much for his determination to be a good husband and father when his own father abandoned him - that is indeed a sign of good character.

However, for as bright as he is, I find him uninspiring.

He has a tough job, dedicated political enemies and lots of weak political friends. Hopefully he will find a way to carry out the duties of the Executive branch that will help this country find its way through the 21st century.

re: #81 Varek Raith
Sometimes he can be entertaining, but it's usually off the cuff... as in his famous ' E Pluribus Unum, or out of one, many '.
(If Palin had said that one... just more evidence that she Doesn't. Know. Anything).

re: #117 Varek Raith

Sleep tight!
May you rule the world, that you can dream!

re: #106 Floral Giraffe
Read the url.. not clickin' on that freaking attention whoring sleazemaster.
(What did he say? :) )

re: #108 Varek Raith

I like stupid criminals...

Police: Pot grower calls to get his plants back, instead gets arrested

That's funny. Early last year, a local medical marijuana distributor sued the sheriff's dept. (and won) to get back the pot they confiscated. Several pounds of it. The clip on this news showing LEOs bringing it out and helping load it into his trunk was hilarious.

re: #104 iceweasel

And bless the saucepan people

They are legion,

And they shall inherit the earth

The poor sods.

re: #118 freetoken

Yeah, I think that's spot-on analysis.

re: #105 Sharmuta

Well- you'll want to master the CAPS LOCK and bold feature. Be sure to bring an attitude that demands attention, and remember- even negative attention is attention.

Of course it is. Why do you think I've peed on so many people's cars?

re: #121 tradewind

LOL!
But, he's Perezelicious.
Or something.
Ego oriented, classic narcissist.
Fame whore.
You could go on & on & on.
He draws funny little demeaning & VERY RUDE things on the pictures he posts on his site.
Nasty & small minded is being charitable!
Still, he's the best for celebutard trash reporting.

re: #125 Slumbering Behemoth

Of course it is. Why do you think I've peed on so many people's cars?

Yes! Passive aggressive behavior is great for getting attention. It's a little harder in the digital world... try a smiley face after an insult, you jerk. :)

re: #123 ryannon

And bless the saucepan people

They are legion,

And they shall inherit the earth

The poor sods.

What about the cheesemakers? Don't forget them!

re: #125 Slumbering Behemoth

You might have taken credit for it, but the Behemoth I know didn't do that. No way, no how!

re: #128 iceweasel

What about the cheesemakers? Don't forget them!

[Video]

Living where I do, that would be difficult.

Hey, Ice, did you find cleated running shoes for Jimmah?
He went down with a crash, and is injured.
He NEEDS some MORE new shoes!

Poor guy, that black ice sucketh!

re: #118 freetoken
I heard someone... can't remember who say it... re Obama's intelligence. that he has ' a big brain'... no doubt.
What he lacks, it seems to me, is emotional intelligence... the ability to relate and empathize on an intimate level as opposed to campaign mode. It doesn't surprise me that his mother was a very dedicated anthropologist... sometimes he almost seems to be talking about people as if he were studying a culture.

Charles linked to How Web Design Goes Straight To Hell.

I've been on The Oatmeal ever since.

Good night, Lizards.
All 8,000,000 of you BRILLIANT commentators!
LOL!

re: #127 Sharmuta

Back in the day, when I used to get rip-roaring drunk and felt the need to empty my bladder, I didn't give a damn who saw my piddle-stick. I had to go, and anyone wanted a free show, they were welcome too it.

It used to piss off my g/f to no end, but I didn't care. She used to piss me off to no end, so to hell with her. I've matured a lot since then, though. If people want to see me pee, they have to pay me now.

/passive-aggressive urination FTW!

re: #124 iceweasel

Yeah, I think that's spot-on analysis.

Kind of disappointing, isn't it?

OTOH, it's good that Presidents ultimately disappoint their followers. We don't have dictators - we hire executives at whom we through barbs (verbal and written) until the clock runs down, then we put the next victim in office.

re: #126 Floral Giraffe

Still, he's the best for celebutard trash reporting.

Kind of an oxymoron right there.//
Thought I read somewhere that he had lied about some starlet or another who subsequently died or OD'd, and friends were pointing fingers at him for contributing.

Palin: I'm "Not Gonna Back Off" Death Panel Claim

Sarah Palin is standing by her claim that Democratic-authored health care legislation includes the infamous "death panels" - even after the assertion was labeled the "lie of the year" by a prize-winning fact checking organization.

The former Alaska governor told Sean Hannity, in a taping of the conservative firebrand's radio program on Wednesday, that she was "not gonna back off" the criticism that the health care bill would pursue cost saving measures by rationing end of life care.

"If the health care bill goes the way Obama wants it, we're gonna have something very much like foreign countries' systems of health care like the British, and it's the American people -- if we have our health care paid for by the bureaucracy, by government -- depending on our health condition, depending on our age -- we're gonna be subject to bureaucrats deciding, panels and commissions deciding -- just like they do overseas -- who will be worthy of receiving the health care that government is going to provide."

"So that is the death panel that I referred to, and I won't back off on criticizing that aspect of the health care bill."

re: #131 Floral Giraffe

Hey FG! Poor Jimmah...he still has a lot of pain from that fall, and he's apparently left me his flu/cold or whatever this is to remember him by.
Looks like the UK is frozen solid for a while and likely to remain so. I think he said they shut down Manchester airport today.

How are you, cutie? Always nice to see you!
(BTW, I noticed you mentioned the Manchester book about the medieval mind downstairs-- I need that!)

re: #133 BigPapa

I've been on The Oatmeal ever since.

You ever look at the source for that page?

re: #135 Slumbering Behemoth
Placing in ' TMI' file.
:)

Shlomo is actually a classically trained musician, and has a jazz quartet. Here's a cool track of him collaborating with the jazz group Polar Bear

re: #73 Slumbering Behemoth

If you don't like the new Calvin & Hobbes postage stamps, why don't you just run off an join Al-Qaeda, ya bastard.

What?! No "Far Side" stamp?! ;)

Since we only have 489 days left until The End... time for some music:

re: #144 freetoken

What I really want to know is how many shopping days we have until Christmas?

So Charles...what do you win for putting up the eight millionth comment?! Set of steak knives? :)

C. S. Lewis had a problem with science fiction too. It's a longstanding antipathy. But let's not get carried away bashing Christians. The evangelical guy I met a while ago, for instance, wasn't concerned with getting Uganda to oppress gays. He was concerned with getting his invention of a very low-tech, mostly made of available improvised materials, well digger adopted. With a modest mass of specialized steel parts, the rest can be thrown together on the spot.

Secular humanists could do worse than study the success Christians have with good works and charity around the world. The cumulative impact of these types of activities is greater than critics realize.

re: #145 Sharmuta

About 353, I think.

So, Charles, you posted the 8 millionth comment?
Highly suspicious.
I was hoping to win the fabulous 8 millionth comment prize of the Harley, the yacht, the airplane, and the beautiful trophy wife.

So it goes.
///

(Congratulations on the success of LGF. That's a whole heaping lot of comments!)

I've got to get to bed. Sleep well, of friends and fellow lizards.

re: #149 UncleSam

Apparently all the winner gets is a set of steak knives.

re: #138 Killgore Trout

Forthcoming Palin tweet: "Soylent Green is peepul!!1"

re: #144 freetoken

Perfect. Favourited. Love it.

Have a good night all!

re: #138 Killgore Trout
Death panel might be a hyperbolic hot button phrase, but the content of your post doesn't indicate anything that she has said that is ' a big lie'. Britain does ration end of life care, not to mention certain cancer treatment availability.
On the other hand, speaking of big lies, how many times did Obama swear we'd see the health care bill debated live on C-Span... eight was it? He campaigned on that one.

re: #144 freetoken
Someone's been watching too much Mayan Reality TV.//
:)

re: #109 iceweasel
True, and he has that whadayacallit...
' compelling life story' thingy going for him.

re: #151 freetoken

Apparently all the winner gets is a set of steak knives.

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I could have used that about an hour ago.
Had a big Harris Ranch steak for dinner.
Just doing my part to eliminate all those horrible methane-producing cows.

re: #154 tradewind

Someone's been watching too much Mayan Reality TV.//
:)

Actually, doing the math on his comment, he's not getting that from the Mayans. He's getting it from these types.

/I'll take "Biblical Numerology" for 100, Alex.

re: #157 Slumbering Behemoth
Oh great. Another apocalypse to track.///
' just put the nikes under the bunkbeds, dude'.

And on the topic of Obamacare, it's very natural to expect that the victors in this political fight will claim the spoils. Until recently, gas tax money went lopsidedly to blue states, for instance. Why should we not expect to get half as much money per capita for health care, in our red states, as the blue states get? This is exactly how it works with respect to the gas tax. It's a formula replicated in other settings. Red states will have to pony up to bail out California's extravagant pensions and state worker wages, for example.

On top of that, the pressure will be on for districts to "go blue". Want that new hospital? Think about how your friendly Democratic candidate has "pull".

Please, please don't tell me that Democrats would never do with health care what they've already done many a time with other funding formulas, and what comes naturally. (Give your friends first crack at the goodies.)

re: #159 lostlakehiker
The Governator terminated his support for the health care bill tonight when he figured out that CA was getting no goodies.
This thing gets more fubar'd every day.

re: #158 tradewind

Look at the bright side, that's one less holiday shopping season you have to endure than what the Mayans promised you.

Personally, I think the Mayan calendar makers just thought, "Screw it. That's far enough ahead. We'll all be dead anyway, and we're tired of chiseling out these damned stones."

Just because it's so exceptional, I'm posting the first French song in three decades that displays some real intelligence. It cuts through the pea-soup fog enveloping the contemporary anesthetized French spirit like a scalpel. Elegant, clever and yet barely masking a horrible reality. Like that scene in "Hannibal" where Lecter delicately spoon-feeds an FBI agent little portions of his own brain - which the latter, basically lobotimized, finds delicious.

Bon appetit!

And here are the words for those interested:

Arnaud Fleurent-Didier: "France Culture"

Il ne m'a pas appris l'anglais,
Il ne m'a pas appris l'allemand,
Ni même le français correctement.

Elle ne m'a pas parlé des livres,
De l'histoire des idées,
Pas de politique à suivre,
Pas de mouvements de pensés.

Elle ne m'a rien montré de pratique,
Ni cuisine, ni couture,
Faire monter une mayonnaise,
Monter une SARL, tenir un intérieur.

Il ne connaissait pas grand chose en mathématiques,
Ni l'équation de Schrödinger.
Mais pour être honnête,
On avait veillé à que je perfectionne mon revers a deux mains,
Que je fléchisse bien les jambes, mais ce n'est pas resté,
Ce n'est pas rentré.

On m'a donné un modèle libérale, démocratique.
On m'a donné un certain dégout,
Disons désintérêt de la religion.

Mais il ne m'a pas dit à quoi servait le piano
Ni le cinéma français qui pourtant le faisait vivre.
Elle ne m'a pas dit comment elle s'était mariée, trompés, séparés,
Ni donné d'autre modèle à suivre.

On ne m'a pas parlé de Marx, rival de Tocqueville,
ni de Weber, l'ennemi de Lukacs,
mais on m'a dit qu'il fallait voter.

Elle ne m'a pas caché l'existence mais a tue celle de
Rousseau, de Proust, de Mort à Crédit.

Ils n'ont fait aucun commentaire sur mai 68,
Aucun commentaire sur la société du spectacle,
Mais ils savaient que Balzac était payé à la ligne
Et que l'ont pouvait en tirer un certain mépris.

Ils ne connaissaient pas d'histoire de résistance ou de Gestapo
Mais quelques arnaques pour payer moins d'impôts.

Ils se souvenaient en souriant de la carte du PC de leur père
Mais peu de De Gaulle, une blague sur Pétain, rien sur Hitler.

Ils avaient connu le monde sans télévision mais n’en disaient rien.
Ils n'avaient pas voulu que je regarde "Apocalypse Now"
Mais je pouvais lire "Au cœur des Ténèbres",
je ne l'ai pas lu. On ne m'a pas dit que c'était bien.

On ne m'a pas dit comment faire avec les filles,
Comment faire avec l'argent, comment faire avec les morts.
Il fallait trouver comment vivre avec un demi-frère, une demi-sœur, demi mort, demi -compagne, maîtresse et remarié,
Alcoolique, pas français fils de gauche : milite, milite,
Fils de droit : hérite, profite.

On ne m'a pas donné de coups,
On m'a sans doute aimé beaucoup.
Il n'y avait pas de chose à faire
À part peut-être polytechnicien.
Il n'y avait pas de chose à ne pas faire,
À part peut-être musicien.

Elle m'a fait sentir que la drogue était trop dangereuse,
Il m'a dit que la cigarette était trop chère,
Elle m'a dit qu'une fois elle avait été amoureuse,
Elle ne m'a pas dit si ça avait été de mon père.

Elle ne m'a pas dit comment faire quand on se sent seul,
Il ne m'a pas dit qu'entre vieux mais, souvent, on s'engueule.
Qu'on s'embrouille, que tout se brouille, se complique, qu'il faudrait faire sans.

Elle ne m'a rien dit sur Freud et j'ignore Lacan.
Pas de conseil ni de raisons pratiques.
Pas de sagesse de famille, pas d'histoire pour faire dormir les enfants,
Pas d'histoire pour faire rêver les grands.

Il ne soufflait mot de la Nouvelle Vague,
Et de tout ce qu'on voyait avant
Mais parlait du Louvre comme d'un truc intéressant.

On ne disait rien sur Michel Sardou
Mais on devait aimer Julien Clerc
On m'a parlé d'un concert.

Sinon je ne sais rien des pauvres,
Je ne sais rien des restes d'aristocrates,
Je ne sais rien des gauchistes,
Je ne sais rien des nouveaux riches,
On ne parlait pas de catho, ni de juifs,
Ni d'arabes.
Il n'y avait pas de chinois.
Elle trouvait que les noirs sentaient
Elle n'aimait pas les odeurs
Lui, lui s'en foutait.

re: #154 tradewind

Not Mayan... Mr. Campbell, of Family Radio.

re: #164 ryannon

Here's the Google Translate deciphering of the French lyrics:

He did not learn English,
He did not learn German,
Not even the French correctly.

She did not talk about books
From the history of ideas,
No policy to follow,
No movements of thought.

She did not show any practical
Neither cooking or sewing,
Make up a mayonnaise,
Mounting a limited liability company, hold an interior.

He did not know much math,
Neither the Schrödinger equation.
But to be honest
We had made sure that I perfected my backhand two hands
I bow legs well, but did not stay,
This is not returned.

They gave me a model liberal democracy.
They gave me some disgust,
Let disinterest in religion.

But he did not say what was used piano
Neither the French film but did live.
She did not say how she was married, deceived, separated
Neither gave the other model.

I have not talked about Marx, Tocqueville's rival,
or Weber, the enemy of Lukacs,
but was told it was necessary to vote.

She did not hide the existence but the killing of
Rousseau, Proust, Death to credit.

They made no comment on May 68,
No comment on the society of the spectacle,
But they knew that Balzac was paid on line
And that could have drawn some scorn.

They knew no history of resistance or Gestapo
But some scams to pay less tax.

They remembered, smiling at the PC card from their father
But few of De Gaulle, a joke about Petain, nothing on Hitler.

They had known the world without television but never said anything.
They did not want me watching "Apocalypse Now"
But I could read "At the heart of darkness"
I did not read. They did not say it was good.

They do not tell me what to do with girls,
How to make money, how to deal with the dead.
He had to find how to live with a half-brother, half sister, half dead, half-companion, mistress and remarried,
Alcoholic, not the son of French left: a militant, activist,
Son in law: inherits benefits.

They did not give shots,
I was probably like a lot.
There was no thing to do
Except perhaps Polytechnique.
There was not anything not to do
Except perhaps a musician.

It made me feel that the drug was too dangerous,
He told me that smoking was too expensive,
She said once she was in love,
She did not say if it was my father.

She did not say how when you feel alone
He did not tell between old but, often, quite difficult.
Let confused, everything is blurred, is complicated, it should do without.

She told me nothing I do not know about Freud and Lacan.
No advice or practical reasons.
No wisdom of family, no history to sleep with children,
No story to dream big.

He never breathed a word of the New Wave
And everything we saw before
But speaking of the Louvre as something interesting.

They said nothing on Michel Sardou
But it was love Julien Clerc
I have heard of a concert.

Otherwise I know nothing of the poor,
I know nothing remains of aristocrats,
I know nothing of leftist
I know nothing of the new rich
We did not speak to Catholic, or Jewish,
Neither Arabs.
There was no Chinese.
It was felt that blacks
It did not smell
Him, nobody cared.

Woah, now those are some catchy lyrics.
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re: #166 UncleSam

Here's the Google Translate deciphering of the French lyrics:

Woah, now those are some catchy lyrics.
///

Google is about 80 percent on target.

The words are actually lovely, but I'm too tired to go through and modify the translation.

Thanks for making the effort to try to figure it out, just the same...

re: #163 ryannon

Magnifique, merci.

Here is an English subtitled version.

re: #168 bagua

Magnifique, merci.

Here is an English subtitled version.

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Good going - it's still a little rough around the edges but better than the Google translation.

It's a very rare pearl and I'm sincerely happy you liked it!

Drinks on me! Congratulations!

Aw, man... I left my party hat in my other suit!

Congrats, Charles!

re: #16 Varek Raith

8,000,000 comment flounce! Such a rare find!
/Idiot.

I missed it. Darn.