Life With Gohmert! Gov. Christie’s ‘Bromance’ With Obama

That wacky Gohmert says the darnedest things!
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It’s Gohmert time!

That Republican Texas Congressmoron is trying hard for the executive spot in the loony Tea Party caucus (now that Michele Bachmann has, uh, retired), and here’s another zany episode of Life With Gohmert, as Louie unleashes his strange smarmy wrath on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie!

“Think about it, if he had just up and appointed a Republican replacement as he’s authorized to do, do you think the bromance will continue? Do you think the President will come let him win little toys for him and stuffed animals for him down at the fair?” Gohmert joked, “Do you think he would ever get another hug out on the beach from the President?”

Via Right Wing Watch.

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350 comments
1 HappyWarrior  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:32:34pm

Mr. Gohmert are you a U.S Congressman or just another cheap Rush Limbaugh clone? Do your fucking job and let Christie do his. Maybe Christie likes working with Obama because he knows Obama actually cares about the damage his state suffered and fuckwads like you could care less because you think blue states deserve to suffer.

2 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:32:41pm

GOP rebranding continues apace.

3 Targetpractice  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:32:43pm

It just utterly eats at them that the keynote speaker for their last convention is the guy who, months later, had no problem being seen in public with a Dem president and has thanked him for the help that has been provided to get NJ back on its feet after a major hurricane.

Like I said downstairs, nothing would warm my little black heart more than for Christie to put another thumb in the Tea Party’s eye by appointing Cory Booker to the seat.

4 Lidane  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:33:03pm

GOHMERT!
Stockman
Cruz
Cornyn
Barton
Perry

God damn there are a bunch of idiots in office in my state.

5 Charles Johnson  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:34:57pm

This is just… bad thinking. What kind of creepy brain has thoughts like this?

6 HappyWarrior  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:35:03pm

It just kills Louie that Christie may actually believe in the Country First slogan that McCain had five years ago. Louie believes not even in party first but ideology first.

7 Kragar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:35:17pm

Oh that wacky Gohmert.

Youtube Video

8 HappyWarrior  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:35:18pm

re: #5 Charles Johnson

This is just… bad thinking. What kind of creepy brain has thoughts like this?

One that needs to get laid desperately?

9 Lidane  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:36:15pm

re: #3 Targetpractice

Like I said downstairs, nothing would warm my little black heart more than for Christie to put another thumb in the Tea Party’s eye by appointing Cory Booker to the seat.

I want Christie to nominate a Democrat just so I can watch all of his future press conferences. Watching him steamroll the Breitbarts and RWNJs who try to bitch at him for it would be hilarious.

10 EPR-radar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:36:17pm

re: #5 Charles Johnson

This is just… bad thinking. What kind of creepy brain has thoughts like this?

Wouldn’t it be funny if the GOP civil war ended up being sane vs. insane, as opposed to anything normal like libertarians vs. so-cons.

11 Kragar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:36:29pm

re: #8 HappyWarrior

One that needs to get laid desperately?

How many conservatives could be turned into happy productive people if they could just have one guilt free moment of sex at least once in their lives?

12 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:36:32pm

re: #5 Charles Johnson

This is just… bad thinking. What kind of creepy brain has thoughts like this?

Glenn Beck. Remember he was doing this a couple of days ago? Making jokes about Obama and Christie being gay…

13 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:37:25pm

re: #4 Lidane

there is some hope:

Texas is going to get very very interesting

National Republicans spending money to keep Texas red.

14 GeneJockey  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:37:41pm

re: #1 HappyWarrior

Mr. Gohmert are you a U.S Congressman or just another cheap Rush Limbaugh clone?

“It’s a floor polish AND a dessert topping!”

15 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:38:07pm

“Brokeback Boardwalk”

16 darthstar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:38:32pm


Dude’s got an iPad.

17 Lidane  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:38:44pm

re: #11 Kragar

How many conservatives could be turned into happy productive people if they could just have one guilt free moment of sex at least once in their lives?

H/T to Gus, who found this earlier:

18 HappyWarrior  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:38:53pm

re: #12 Gus

Glenn Beck. Remember he was doing this a couple of days ago? Making jokes about Obama and Christie being gay…

Conservative humor reminds me of being back in middle school. HE’S GAY, THAT MAKES HIM STUPID AND USELESS. Hee-hee. Really what passes for conservatism in this country is a fucking joke.

19 HappyWarrior  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:39:36pm

re: #17 Lidane

H/T to Gus, who found this earlier:

Or find some good pornography.

20 austin_blue  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:39:49pm

re: #5 Charles Johnson

This is just… bad thinking. What kind of creepy brain has thoughts like this?

Rush Limbaugh? Faux news? Loonie Louie is hardly the only one peddling this line of thought.

21 Charles Johnson  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:39:54pm

re: #16 darthstar

Dude’s got an iPad.

Probably the 128GB cellular model.

22 darthstar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:40:30pm

re: #21 Charles Johnson

Probably the 128GB cellular model.

Perfect for reading LGF before going on stage.

23 Kragar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:40:59pm

re: #17 Lidane

I swear, we get Bryan Fischer a trip down to Brazil for Carnival, get him hooked up with a dancer, boy or girl, and all our problems are solved.

24 darthstar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:41:13pm

Why Rubio is running from his own bill.

25 Kragar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:41:18pm

re: #19 HappyWarrior

Or find some good pornography.

“ITS RESEARCH!”

26 HappyWarrior  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:42:59pm

re: #24 darthstar

Why Rubio is running from his own bill.

Rubio should be regarded as a joke. He only cares about making his conservative pals happy rather than getting anything actually done. He’s a hack.

27 GeneJockey  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:43:01pm

re: #23 Kragar

I swear, we get Bryan Fischer a trip down to Brazil for Carnival, get him hooked up with a dancer, boy or girl, and all our problems are solved.

What makes you think he hasn’t already done that? It would do a lot to explain the sexism with extra homophobia on the side - nothing like a little self-loathing to make you hate other people even more!

28 Kragar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:43:57pm

re: #27 GeneJockey

What makes you think he hasn’t already done that? It would do a lot to explain the sexism with extra homophobia on the side - nothing like a little self-loathing to make you hate other people even more!

I did say guilt free when I mentioned it earlier.

29 GunstarGreen  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:45:32pm

Governor Christie: “There is a seat to fill, I think the people of my state should decide who fills it in a special election.”

Congressional Republicans: “NO! FUCK YOUR CONSTITUENTS AND WHAT THEY WANT, JUST APPOINT A REPUBLICAN!”

This is the party of ‘Small Gub’mint™’.

30 darthstar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:45:33pm
31 EPR-radar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:47:00pm

re: #27 GeneJockey

What makes you think he hasn’t already done that? It would do a lot to explain the sexism with extra homophobia on the side - nothing like a little self-loathing to make you hate other people even more!

If I were Satan planning for Bryan Fischer’s accommodations in Hell, my first thought would be to immerse him in a world full of people enjoying themselves and not giving a flying ^%^&% what Fischer has to say. Forever.

32 HappyWarrior  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:50:29pm

re: #31 EPR-radar

If I were Satan planning for Bryan Fischer’s accommodations in Hell, my first thought would be to immerse him in a world full of people enjoying themselves and not giving a flying ^%^&% what Fischer has to say. Forever.

That’s what he already lives through already though. This guy thinks he’s the next Billy Graham but he’s too stupid and demented to even by the next Jerry Falwell.

33 goddamnedfrank  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:51:23pm
A Prince William County man says he was suspected by Walmart security of possibly kidnapping his three young daughters — all because they aren’t the same race.

…

“He asks us very sincerely, ‘Hey, I was sent here by Walmart security. I just need to make sure that the children that you have are your own,’” Joseph says.

“I was dumbfounded,” says Keana. “I sat there for a minute and I thought, ‘Did he just ask us if these were our kids knowing what we went through to have our children?’

“He took my ID and asked my 4-year-old to point out who her mother and father were.”

Joseph says the officer told them a Walmart security guard reported seeing him in the parking lot with the girls and thought it was strange.

34 Lidane  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:51:26pm
35 HappyWarrior  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:52:53pm

re: #33 goddamnedfrank

Jeez.

36 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:53:22pm

re: #33 goddamnedfrank

oh good freakin grief…

37 Kragar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:55:39pm

re: #33 goddamnedfrank

Any rent a cop who tried that shit with me would be picking up his teeth. getting news of a lawsuit real fucking fast.

38 GeneJockey  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:56:07pm

re: #33 goddamnedfrank

My niece and her husband adopted two Ethiopian orphans, and they do sometimes get stares. You’d think people might be a little less blatant.

39 AntonSirius  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:56:59pm

re: #10 EPR-radar

Wouldn’t it be funny if the GOP civil war ended up being sane vs. insane, as opposed to anything normal like libertarians vs. so-cons.

The sane would be hopelessly outnumbered. It’d be like Little Bighorn times a thousand.

40 Kragar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:57:03pm

re: #38 GeneJockey

My niece and her husband adopted two Ethiopian orphans, and they do sometimes get stares. You’d think people might be a little less blatant.

People, by and large, are assholes.

41 EPR-radar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:57:32pm

re: #37 Kragar

Any rent a cop who tried that shit with me would be picking up his teeth. getting news of a lawsuit real fucking fast.

Apparently it was a real cop. Who/how this was called in to the police is not clear from the article. Makes it worse that real cops were involved in this mess.

42 Kragar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:58:38pm

re: #41 EPR-radar

Apparently it was a real cop. Who/how this was called in to the police is not clear from the article. Makes it worse that real cops were involved in this mess.

Sue the pants off them.

43 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:59:09pm

re: #33 goddamnedfrank

Kaspersky Warning at link:

firefox.exe e:program files (x86)mozilla firefox 4364 fewest_within-aspect.php Detected: HEUR:Trojan.Script.Generic 6/5/2013 2:55:43 PM

44 Kragar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:59:18pm

re: #39 AntonSirius

The sane would be hopelessly outnumbered. It’d be like Little Bighorn times a thousand.

Ever seen Zulu?

45 goddamnedfrank  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:59:51pm

re: #41 EPR-radar

Apparently it was a real cop. Who/how this was called in to the police is not clear from the article. Makes it worse that real cops were involved in this mess.

That’s what I thought, the police shouldn’t be legitimizing people’s bullshit kneejerk racism. OTOH I understand why they investigated, institutional ass covering against the one in ten trillion odds it really was a kidnapping.

46 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:59:55pm

Don’t click that link! Removed link already.

47 Lidane  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:00:33pm
48 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:00:36pm

Gohmert! and his fellow politclowns are just too much. Having grown up in the 70s in California, I find it hard to believe how batshit crazy a not-insignificant chunk of the American population has become.

Fortunately, I have brain bleach that washes it all away. Here you go, fellow Lizards.

Youtube Video

49 Lidane  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:01:59pm

El Rushbo haz a sad:

50 AntonSirius  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:02:38pm

re: #44 Kragar

Ever seen Zulu?

The Michael Caine? I actually haven’t.

51 Kragar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:08:05pm

re: #50 AntonSirius

The Michael Caine? I actually haven’t.

WHA-?!?!

Youtube Video

52 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:12:50pm
53 Charles Johnson  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:13:41pm

re: #52 Gus

Yikes!

54 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:14:35pm

re: #53 Charles Johnson

Yikes!

The UK has been bonkers since Woolwich.

55 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:15:43pm

Here. There…

56 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:18:35pm

re: #52 Gus

Christ that’s nasty.

That’s Richard Desmond’s newspaper. He’s a colossal jackass. He wants to be Murdoch.

57 dragonath  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:19:06pm

re: #52 Gus

Hey, look! Crusaders again.

Image: daily-express-crusader-lo-007.jpg

58 Charles Johnson  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:19:44pm

Video: Anti-Islam Hate Targets Feds at Tennessee Muslim Civil Rights Meeting

Youtube Video

59 Charles Johnson  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:20:19pm

Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer have been promoting this protest heavily. These are their followers.

60 Kragar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:20:21pm

re: #57 dragonath

Hey, look! Crusaders again.

You mean give the regular folks an enemy overseas so they don’t notice the nobility are the ones behind the real problems?

61 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:23:07pm

re: #57 dragonath

Hey, look! Crusaders again.

Yeah, I was looking at that.

Image: mzi.snpuzamh.175x175-75.jpg

62 Bulworth  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:23:50pm

Of course Louie Louie doesn’t acknowledge that NJ is a largely Democratic state, hasn’t voted for a GOP prez since H.W. Bush and controls both houses of the state legislature, so “appointing a Republican” might be seen as, oh I don’t know, a nakedly aggressive partisan act.

63 Kragar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:24:11pm

re: #59 Charles Johnson

Pamela Geller has been promoting this protest heavily. These are her followers.

If your civil rights group is based around destroying the rights of other people, you’re doing it wrong.

64 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:24:20pm
65 wrenchwench  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:24:49pm

re: #58 Charles Johnson

Video: Anti-Islam Hate Targets Feds at Tennessee Muslim Civil Rights Meeting

[Embedded content]

Sign at 1:25:

1st Amendent Freedom of Speech!

66 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:24:53pm

Same paper. 1933.

Image: judea%20declares%20war%20-800px.jpg

67 Bulworth  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:25:03pm

re: #52 Gus

Rebranding—UK style

68 dragonath  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:25:04pm

The anti immigrant guys in the UK are pretty dim, too. They were complaining about Britain opening up its borders to OMG 27 MILLION BULGARIANS.

69 wrenchwench  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:25:17pm

Freedumb of Spellling!

70 A Mom Anon  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:26:17pm

re: #58 Charles Johnson

The woman holding the bullhorn in that clip looks a lot like Shirley Phelps-Roper. But for FFS these people need to get a grip. Your right to freedom to be an asshole doesn’t mean you get to go unchallenged. Especially if you choose to be particularly nasty or advocate violence.

This kind of crap scares the hell out of me. Look at how wound up and mad these people are. Over some perceived slight that doesn’t exist.

71 Bulworth  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:28:17pm

re: #70 A Mom Anon

The woman holding the bullhorn in that clip looks a lot like Shirley Phelps-Roper. But for FFS these people need to get a grip. Your right to freedom to be an asshole doesn’t mean you get to go unchallenged. Especially if you choose to be particularly nasty or advocate violence.

This kind of crap scares the hell out of me. Look at how wound up and mad these people are. Over some perceived slight that doesn’t exist.

Hey, we’re the real victims here!!

72 dragonath  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:29:12pm

re: #66 Gus

Besides that moronic headline, the copy below isn’t too bad. Amazing England has so many shitty newspapers.

73 Bulworth  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:29:45pm

re: #64 Gus

Admittedly I had forgotten this well-known piece of history in which The Jews invaded and occupied Nazi Germany. //

74 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:30:23pm

re: #72 dragonath

Besides that moronic headline, the copy below isn’t too bad. Amazing England has so many shitty newspapers.

Page Three…
sigh…

75 Ian G.  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:33:02pm

On the topic of dumbass Republicans from down south…

abcnews.go.com

Yeah, I’m sure there’s absolutely no reason whatsoever why those strippers keep coming by Sen. McGill’s residence. I’m sure Sen. McGill is in no way spending much of his free time at the strip clubs, and in the bedrooms of many of those strippers.

I can’t wait to see how this story develops over the next week.

77 CuriousLurker  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:34:25pm

re: #70 A Mom Anon

The woman holding the bullhorn in that clip looks a lot like Shirley Phelps-Roper. But for FFS these people need to get a grip. Your right to freedom to be an asshole doesn’t mean you get to go unchallenged. Especially if you choose to be particularly nasty or advocate violence.

This kind of crap scares the hell out of me. Look at how wound up and mad these people are. Over some perceived slight that doesn’t exist.

Yeah, the woman with the bullhorn at 1:13:

Islam does not deserve the protection of the First Amendment! [crowd cheers]

Freedom & protection for me, but not for thee. Patriots! Real Americans™!

78 Charles Johnson  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:34:45pm

re: #65 wrenchwench

Sign at 1:25:

A CLASSIC! Grabbed a pic of it:

Image: ZZ0650AF9D.jpg

79 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:34:53pm

re: #77 CuriousLurker

Yeah, the woman with the bullhorn at 1:13:

Freedom & protection for me, but not for thee. Patriots! Real AmericansTM!

Eek. I see inbreeding!

80 dragonath  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:35:26pm

ARISE REEL ENGLISH AMERICANS

81 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:36:07pm

re: #79 Gus

Eek. I see inbreeding!

Oops. That was meant for #76. Might still apply though. :D

82 funky chicken  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:36:33pm

re: #13 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

there is some hope:

Texas is going to get very very interesting

National Republicans spending money to keep Texas red.

Kos is possibly a bit optimistic. KS had a flicker of sanity but reverted back to electing Brownback.

83 Charles Johnson  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:37:36pm

Image: ZZ1691223C.jpg

84 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:38:13pm

re: #77 CuriousLurker

Islam does not deserve the protection of the First Amendment! [crowd cheers]


Deserve’s got nothin’ to do with it.

It’s the damned Constitution. Perhaps these people are too f***ing stupid to understand that.

85 Bulworth  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:38:48pm

re: #83 Charles Johnson

re: #83 Charles Johnson

re: #83 Charles Johnson

spelling is hard.

86 dragonath  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:40:05pm
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — State lawmakers passed an 11th-hour compromise bill early Wednesday, the final day of the legislative session, preventing the release of crime-scene photos and video evidence from the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre and other Connecticut homicides, concerned such records would be spread on the Internet.

Every single goddamn comment:

CONSPIRACY~!!!!!!

87 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:40:27pm

re: #59 Charles Johnson

Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer have been promoting this protest heavily. These are their followers.

Pamela spewed a demented, hate-crazed firehose of rage at Killian and Nicole Young of The Tennessean for “defaming” her equally bugfuck following.

88 Stanghazi  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:44:11pm

re: #58 Charles Johnson

Video: Anti-Islam Hate Targets Feds at Tennessee Muslim Civil Rights Meeting

[Embedded content]

I saw that on twitter. I am disgusted.

RWNJ’s are approaching critical mass right now.

90 funky chicken  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:44:45pm

re: #86 dragonath

Because I long to see photos of massacred first graders.

91 Kragar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:45:49pm

Fischer: What Keeps An Atom’s Nucleus Together? Jesus

Youtube Video

92 Kragar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:46:37pm

re: #91 Kragar

Fischer: What Keeps An Atom’s Nucleus Together? Jesus

[Embedded content]

And how does one split an atom?

Demons, obviously.

93 GeneJockey  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:46:37pm

re: #91 Kragar

Fischer: What Keeps An Atom’s Nucleus Together? Jesus

We better hope he doesn’t change his mind, or take a vacation.

94 GeneJockey  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:47:21pm

re: #89 Kragar

Why E.W. Jackson Doesn’t Believe in Evolution: Monkeys Can’t Talk

“Island of Dr Moreau” Fallacy.

95 Bubblehead II  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:47:24pm

YEA! Last load of laundry is in the dryer. Kitchen floor mopped, living room vacuumed and dusted. Only thing left to do is figure out what to cook for dinner and make it. Choices are grilled chicken breast w/rice and green beans or beef stroganoff hamburger helper. Decisions, decisions.

Did I just make Bryan sad?

btw, the last load is towels and they can wait until tomorrow to be folded and put away.

96 Kragar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:48:10pm

I guess this means the numbers of angels that can dance on the head of a pin is 6.0221413e+23

97 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:48:10pm
98 GeneJockey  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:49:11pm

re: #77 CuriousLurker

Yeah, the woman with the bullhorn at 1:13:

“Islam does not deserve the protection of the First Amendment!” [crowd cheers]

America. U R Doin It Wrong.

99 Jolo5309  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:49:40pm

re: #90 funky chicken

Because I long to see photos of massacred first graders.

Go read The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson and you will learn who does

100 darthstar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:49:46pm

re: #97 Vicious Babushka

I’d prefer if Bryan Fischer tweets were posted like this:

Fischer says,

Spoiler

Bryan Fischer tweet

Then I could save myself having to look at his vile hatred.

101 Awea  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:49:55pm

If Louie and company keep this up. We wont be far from this happening daily.Taiwan Parliament fight.

102 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:50:27pm

re: #100 darthstar

I’d prefer if Bryan Fischer tweets were posted like this:

Fischer says,

[Embedded content]

Then I could save myself having to look at his vile hatred.

You can’t embed tweets in spoiler tag. I tried already.

103 Kragar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:51:10pm

re: #102 Vicious Babushka

You can’t embed tweets in spoiler tag. I tried already.

Fischer is pre-spoiled anyways.

104 HoosierHoops  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:51:41pm

re: #96 Kragar

I guess this means the numbers of angels that can dance on the head of a pin is 6.0221413e+23

Liar! It’s infinity times infinity.
Were you sleeping during Sunday School?
/

105 Bubblehead II  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:52:20pm

re: #101 Awea

If Louie and company keep this up. We wont be far from this happening daily.Taiwan Parliament fight.

I’m not sure, but it looks like one of those guys is noshing on someones arm.

106 Kragar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:52:34pm

re: #104 HoosierHoops

Liar! It’s infinity times infinity.
Were you sleeping during Sunday School?
/

I never slept at Sunday School.

I was at home in bed.

107 thedopefishlives  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:52:41pm

Evening Lizardim.

108 darthstar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:52:43pm

re: #102 Vicious Babushka

You can’t embed tweets in spoiler tag. I tried already.

Damn…I thought you could

109 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:53:09pm
110 Lidane  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:54:24pm

re: #89 Kragar

Why E.W. Jackson Doesn’t Believe in Evolution: Monkeys Can’t Talk

SCIENCE!

111 wrenchwench  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:54:43pm

re: #97 Vicious Babushka


Does this mean they’re BFFs now?

112 Kragar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:55:19pm

Allen West opens the door to 2016 presidential run

Former Florida Rep. Allen West revealed that he is considering a run for the presidency in 2016 on Sean Hannity’s radio program Tuesday.

Youtube Video

Please proceed.

113 CuriousLurker  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:55:20pm

re: #104 HoosierHoops

Liar! It’s infinity times infinity.
Were you sleeping during Sunday School?
/

Hey, you! Glad to see you survived all the tornadoes in OK.

114 HoosierHoops  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:56:02pm

re: #106 Kragar

I never slept at Sunday School.

I was at home in bed.

No crib notes?
Hope all things are going well for you..
regards Kragar

115 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:56:40pm
116 Kragar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:56:44pm

re: #114 HoosierHoops

No crib notes?
Hope all things are going well for you..
regards Kragar

Made it thru May, no family disasters yet this month.

117 A Mom Anon  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:57:01pm

re: #112 Kragar

There simply is not enough popcorn in the world.

118 Lidane  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:59:33pm


119 Kragar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:59:54pm

re: #117 A Mom Anon

There simply is not enough popcorn in the world.

The GOPs stars for 2016 are a Governor who quit after half a term, a failed 1 term congressman, and a handful of also rans, all of whom have faced ethics charges in the past.

How is that rebranding going?

120 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:00:48pm

re: #118 Lidane

What a douche.

121 wrenchwench  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:00:56pm


Better link.

122 Kragar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:01:01pm

re: #118 Lidane

Douchebag failed reading comprehension.

She’s been added to the list. No guarantee she’ll get the organs.

123 CuriousLurker  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:01:19pm

re: #116 Kragar

Made it thru May, no family disasters yet this month.

Hush! Try not to jinx it, FFS. //

Edit: typo fixed.

124 Bulworth  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:02:32pm

re: #112 Kragar

this so totally scares me for realz.

/

125 funky chicken  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:03:28pm

re: #49 Lidane

El Rushbo haz a sad:

Who did Christie appoint? Did I miss something?

126 Lidane  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:05:03pm

re: #125 funky chicken

Who did Christie appoint? Did I miss something?

He didn’t immediately appoint a total raving wingnut, so the GOP are out for blood right now.

127 Kragar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:05:28pm

re: #123 CuriousLurker

Hush! Try to to jinx it, FFS. //

I’m expecting fireworks next weekend. My self righteous grandmother who has become a Jesus freak in her dotage is coming into town for the memorial and I can already tell she’ll be complaining like everything that happened is supposed to revolve around her.

In the month since my Dad died, the number of times she’s called my mom to see how she is doing? Zero. She had my uncle call to say when she’ll be in town and told my mom to have a room ready. My mom told her she’ll need to make other arrangements.

128 HoosierHoops  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:06:01pm

re: #113 CuriousLurker

Hey, you! Glad to see you survived all the tornadoes in OK.

Thanks CL.. It was real bad in these parts..Moore is the next town over.. A lot of us have gone there to look at the massive destruction..So sad to see it and the lives effected..We drove by Toby Keith’s ranch on the way back. There was this big field off the road and there in the middle of it was a trashed car like it was dropped from heaven..if it wasn’t so sad it would be funny..Imagine telling the insurance company that your car might be on Toby Keith’s property.
BTW. Our Company sent a Semi full of water and clothes and supplies..
They turned it away..There is simply no more room for more supplies right now..
They have enough water for the next 3 years.. Thank you America!

129 Bubblehead II  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:06:01pm

re: #125 funky chicken

Who did Christie appoint? Did I miss something?

No one. He went the special election route. You know, let the PEOPLE of N.J. decide who is going to represent them instead of appointing a republican replacement.

130 Kragar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:07:21pm

re: #129 Bubblehead II

No one. He went the special election route. You know, let the PEOPLE of N.J. decide who is going to represent them instead of appointing a republican replacement.

COMMUNISM!

131 CuriousLurker  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:08:30pm

re: #127 Kragar

I’m expecting fireworks next weekend. My self righteous grandmother who has become a Jesus freak in her dotage is coming into town for the memorial and I can already tell she’ll be complaining like everything that happened is supposed to revolve around her.

In the month since my Dad died, the number of times she’s called my mom to see how she is doing? Zero. She had my uncle call to say when she’ll be in town and told my mom to have a room ready. My mom told her she’ll need to make other arrangements.

Heh, I like your mom.

132 lawhawk  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:09:10pm

re: #118 Lidane

133 klys and whatnot  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:09:14pm

re: #127 Kragar

I’m expecting fireworks next weekend. My self righteous grandmother who has become a Jesus freak in her dotage is coming into town for the memorial and I can already tell she’ll be complaining like everything that happened is supposed to revolve around her.

In the month since my Dad died, the number of times she’s called my mom to see how she is doing? Zero. She had my uncle call to say when she’ll be in town and told my mom to have a room ready. My mom told her she’ll need to make other arrangements.

Good for your mom. I’m sorry that family can be so trying at a time where it really shouldn’t be about them at all.

134 HoosierHoops  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:10:01pm

Never Believe an Atom!
They make up everything..

135 Kragar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:10:12pm

re: #131 CuriousLurker

Heh, I like your mom.

My mother to my uncle:

“We’re keeping the Memorial small by just inviting people who were there for us when we needed them… and you.”

136 CuriousLurker  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:10:54pm

re: #135 Kragar

My mother to my uncle:

“We’re keeping the Memorial small by just inviting people who were there for us when we needed them… and you.”

Ouch! LOL

137 lawhawk  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:11:04pm

re: #125 funky chicken

Who did Christie appoint? Did I miss something?

He didn’t announce a temporary replacement, but called for a special election - primary in August, special election in October that’s separate from the general election in November.

That’s got some people in an uproar. Here in NJ, not so much.

138 Lidane  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:11:13pm

re: #129 Bubblehead II

No one. He went the special election route. You know, let the PEOPLE of N.J. decide who is going to represent them instead of appointing a republican replacement.

In a fit of irony, the schedule that Christie has set up would actually benefit the GOP in any other case. Whoever he appoints is going to either have to have VERY deep pockets or access to a bunch of rich donors, since they’d have to run a primary and an election this year, then immediately run for re-election in 2014.

From their reaction, you’d think the GOP can’t find a rich Republican in New Jersey.

139 funky chicken  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:11:24pm

re: #99 Jolo5309

Go read The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson and you will learn who does

imagine being a parent of one of those kids and having the 9/11 troofer and gun nut brigade using a picture of your dead child to make some lunatic conspiracy tale

140 funky chicken  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:12:27pm

re: #127 Kragar

Good for your mother!

141 Kragar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:12:44pm

re: #136 CuriousLurker

Ouch! LOL

I told her to add the last bit when they spoke. She approved wholeheartedly.

142 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:13:18pm

re: #137 lawhawk

He didn’t announce a temporary replacement, but called for a special election - primary in August, special election in October that’s separate from the general election in November.

That’s got some people in an uproar. Here in NJ, not so much.

Yeah. I noticed that. Basically, some on the left were under some delusion that he would place Cory Booker as Senator. The right of course was hoping for him to pick some wingnut.

143 thedopefishlives  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:15:17pm

re: #135 Kragar

My mother to my uncle:

“We’re keeping the Memorial small by just inviting people who were there for us when we needed them… and you.”

Oh snap!

144 Lidane  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:16:28pm

re: #142 Gus

Yeah. I noticed that. Basically, some on the left were under some delusion that he would place Cory Booker as Senator. The right of course was hoping for him to pick some wingnut.

Heh. I’m not delusional enough to think he’ll go with Booker. I just think it would be hilarious to watch all the meltdowns if he did.

145 CuriousLurker  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:16:48pm

re: #142 Gus

Yeah. I noticed that. Basically, some on the left were under some delusion that he would place Cory Booker as Senator. The right of course was hoping for him to pick some wingnut.

It would be sooooo much fun if he did. Can you imagine?

146 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:16:58pm

re: #144 Lidane

Heh. I’m not delusional enough to think he’ll go with Booker. I just think it would be hilarious to watch all the meltdowns if he did.

Well yeah. That would have been good to watch.

147 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:18:41pm

re: #97 Vicious Babushka

148 Jolo5309  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:18:47pm

re: #139 funky chicken

imagine being a parent of one of those kids and having the 9/11 troofer and gun nut brigade using a picture of your dead child to make some lunatic conspiracy tale

They did this with Rachel North in the UK. She was in one of the carriages that were blown up on 7/7. The truthers claimed that she was not a real person. She is also alive and Ronson talked to her for his book.

149 Bubblehead II  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:19:53pm

OOPS!
Spain seeks U.S. help to trim down overweight sub

“And a former Spanish official says the problem can be traced to a miscalculation — someone apparently put a decimal point in the wrong place.”

150 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:20:54pm

Douche.

151 darthstar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:22:03pm

If you don’t dry fire your weapon, you don’t need snap cap…idiot.

152 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:23:30pm

re: #127 Kragar

I’m expecting fireworks next weekend. My self righteous grandmother who has become a Jesus freak in her dotage is coming into town for the memorial and I can already tell she’ll be complaining like everything that happened is supposed to revolve around her.

In the month since my Dad died, the number of times she’s called my mom to see how she is doing? Zero. She had my uncle call to say when she’ll be in town and told my mom to have a room ready. My mom told her she’ll need to make other arrangements.

Have someone on a motorcycle pick her up…

153 HoosierHoops  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:25:10pm

re: #149 Bubblehead II

OOPS!
Spain seeks U.S. help to trim down overweight sub

“And a former Spanish official says the problem can be traced to a miscalculation — someone apparently put a decimal point in the wrong place.”

They should call the Russians..
Make the Hull out of Titanium.. They will sell you some..hehe

154 Lidane  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:25:21pm

The Fleecing of the RWNJ Rubes, part ZOMG DRONEZ:

155 Kragar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:27:37pm

re: #154 Lidane

The Fleecing of the RWNJ Rubes, part ZOMG DRONEZ:

From the company which brought you the tiger-repellant rock…

156 Stanghazi  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:29:38pm

re: #151 darthstar

If you don’t dry fire your weapon, you don’t need snap cap…idiot.

I hate updinging the multitude of gun accidents posted. Especially the 19 since Newtown (that I’ve seen) involving dead kids. San Diego just had one.

157 Lidane  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:31:38pm

22 Maps That Show How Americans Speak English Totally Differently From Each Other

Everyone knows that Americans don’t exactly agree on pronunciations.

Regional accents are a major part of what makes American English so interesting as a dialect.

Joshua Katz, a Ph. D student in statistics at North Carolina State University, just published a group of awesome visualizations of Professor Bert Voux’s linguistic survey that looked at how Americans pronounce words.

His results were first published on Abstract, the N.C. State research blog.
Joshua gave us permission to publish some of the coolest maps from his collection.

158 lawhawk  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:33:27pm

re: #145 CuriousLurker

It would be sooooo much fun if he did. Can you imagine?

Look, Christie knows that Booker’s lined up for the Senate - and they actually do get along. If he selected him, it sets Christie up nicely for a run as an alternative to the wingnut wing GOP.

But Christie also knows that does him no favor in the GOP primaries where being a wingnut is a plus - not a negative, so it’d harm him more than help.

I’ve heard some rumblings he might pick his Lt. Gov. as the stopgap, and Booker would likely run early for the primary (and likely against Pallone). Booker would win the Democratic primary, and would likely win the special - and the general in 2014. It also means that Booker and Democrats would have to dig deeper into his campaign funds, while Christie sails through easier.

159 funky chicken  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:42:06pm

re: #158 lawhawk

I was hoping he’d appoint Christie Todd Whitman, but that would have enraged the wingnuts almost as much as Booker. I have to admit I’m confused to see right wingers bitching about a special election. It kinda proves they know they can’t win elections with educated voters.

160 wrenchwench  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:42:45pm


SEAL THE BORDER!!!!!1!

161 Bubblehead II  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:44:20pm

re: #153 HoosierHoops

They should call the Russians..
Make the Hull out of Titanium.. They will sell you some..hehe

Not funny. Kursk hit real close to home

162 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:44:52pm

re: #160 wrenchwench

LIAR LIBTARD! THOSE MEXICANTS ARE COMING HERE SPENDING WELFARE CHECKS THAT OBUMMER IS SENDING THEM OVER THE BORDER THROUGH A LITTLE KNOW UNITED NATIONS PROGRAMD!! #TGDN #PATRIOTS

//

163 ProTARDISLiberal  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:44:53pm

re: #64 Gus

redacted:

Sorry, misread.

164 The Mountain That Blogs  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:45:11pm

re: #158 lawhawk

Booker would win the Democratic primary, and would likely win the special - and the general in 2014.

Would be pretty shocking if he didn’t, really. New Jersey hasn’t elected a Republican senator in more than 40 years.

165 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:47:10pm

re: #163 ProTARDISLiberal

Hey, another Hitler-Loving British Rag to go along with the Daily Mail.

What the fuck are you talking about? Try reading the damn article in the picture.

It’s a Jewish-owned newspaper.

166 HoosierHoops  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:48:43pm

re: #161 Bubblehead II

Not funny. Kursk hit real close to home

What? I’m not sure how I offended. Titanium hulls are very light..That’s all I was saying..Wasn’t the Kursk sunk by bad torpedo propellant or something like that?
Wasn’t trying to offend you BH2.

167 ProTARDISLiberal  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:51:38pm

re: #165 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

Sorry, misunderstood the biggest headline I saw there.

168 Bubblehead II  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:52:10pm

re: #166 HoosierHoops

What? I’m not sure how I offended. Titanium hulls are very light..That’s all I was saying..Wasn’t the Kursk sunk by bad torpedo propellant or something like that?
Wasn’t trying to offend you BH2.

Sorry, thought you was talking about selling scrap Titanium to Spain. My bad. Down Ding reversed. And yes, it was a faulty torpedo that blew up inside the hull.

169 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:53:57pm

The News IQ Quiz
Do you know more about the news than the average American?

I might have taken this before?

170 wrenchwench  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:54:05pm

I like the new way old comments show in the Spy now. It did change, didn’t it? Used to be that quoted stuff wouldn’t show in rated comments.

It’s not the new ‘puter, right?

171 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:54:14pm

re: #167 ProTARDISLiberal

Sorry, misunderstood the biggest headline I saw there.

Yeah, it’s kind of confusing.

172 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:55:38pm

re: #167 ProTARDISLiberal

Sorry, misunderstood the biggest headline I saw there.

Well, you jumped to conclusions again and wound up accusing Jewish newspaper of being “Hitler loving.” Come on. If you care about the subject, actually read beyond the headline. The article is absolutely clear in it’s pro-Jewish attitude, and if you do 5 seconds of research on the paper you’ll find it’s Jewish-owned.

173 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:56:28pm

Pizza. When shall you arrive!

174 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:58:00pm

re: #173 Gus

Pizza. When shall you arrive!

I find my mind works faster during the periods of time when I’m waiting for pizza, but it slows down when I’m waiting for pastrami.

175 wrenchwench  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:59:26pm

re: #157 Lidane

22 Maps That Show How Americans Speak English Totally Differently From Each Other

The sweetened carbonated beverage map is my favorite.

176 thedopefishlives  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:00:17pm

re: #174 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

I find my mind works faster during the periods of time when I’m waiting for pizza, but it slows down when I’m waiting for pastrami.

Thursday afternoon is the slowest time in the world.

177 Bubblehead II  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:00:27pm

re: #173 Gus

Pizza. When shall you arrive!

The Drone got lost or shot down.

reorder.

178 klys and whatnot  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:00:31pm

re: #175 wrenchwench

The sweetened carbonated beverage map is my favorite.

It’s called soda.

179 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:02:08pm

re: #177 Bubblehead II

The Drone got lost or shot down.

reorder.

Damn, that’s my solution to my food problems in the coming Galtian apocalypse, I’ll just snipe the food-drones.

180 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:02:28pm

re: #178 klys and whatnot

It’s called soda.

They’re phosphates and you get them at the malt shop from the jerk.

181 thedopefishlives  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:03:19pm

re: #179 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

Damn, that’s my solution to my food problems in the coming Galtian apocalypse, I’ll just snipe the food-drones.

Reminds me of the original Command and Conquer, when the NOD forces had to have their vehicles flown into an airstrip. A poorly positioned NOD player could get screwed over by a handful of anti-aircraft capable GDI forces sitting under the flight path.

182 wrenchwench  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:04:39pm

re: #178 klys and whatnot

It’s called soda.

Hate to pop your bubble….

183 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:07:34pm

re: #182 wrenchwench

Hate to pop your bubble….

Would you like a sack for your soder pop?

184 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:08:55pm

re: #183 Gus

Would you like a sack for your soder pop?

‘Round here, if someone’s drinking from a bottle in a sack, it’s not soda.

185 klys and whatnot  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:09:12pm

re: #182 wrenchwench

Hate to pop your bubble….

My real takeaways from these maps are a) how did I manage to conglomerate so many different regional variations into my vocabulary and b) it’s still soda, dammit.

186 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:09:16pm
187 RadicalModerate  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:09:17pm

re: #59 Charles Johnson

Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer have been promoting this protest heavily. These are their followers.

And so are these:

A right-wing arson attack? ‘EDL’ graffiti found after Muswell Hill mosque is burnt down amid fears of Woolwich connection

Counter-terrorism police are investigating a suspected racially motivated arson attack on a Somali community centre in Muswell Hill, north London, by a far-right group amid fears of a backlash against the Muslim community following the Woolwich terror attack.

Investigators are examining the wreckage of the damaged Bravanese Welfare Centre in north London after the three letters EDL - English Defence League - were found freshly painted on the building’s outside walls, according to the centre’s leaders and police.

188 GeneJockey  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:09:56pm

re: #175 wrenchwench

The sweetened carbonated beverage map is my favorite.

In PA, if you’re from the Fluffya end, it’s Soda.

If you’re from the Pissburg end, it’s Pop.

At the Breezewood Rest Area on the Turnpike, about in the middle, the machines sell Soda Pop.

189 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:11:05pm

re: #150 Gus

Douche.

Dweeb.

190 Charles Johnson  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:11:35pm

Just checking something…

MP3 Audio

191 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:11:39pm


Do not try this at home.

192 GeneJockey  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:12:59pm

re: #157 Lidane

22 Maps That Show How Americans Speak English Totally Differently From Each Other

As someone who lives in the Bay Area, the ‘What is The City?” map is interesting. There’s a big area of ‘It’s Not New York’, centered on SF. Damn straight! The City is San Francisco!

193 Charles Johnson  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:13:06pm

Cool. The Media Library is now auto-saving any MP3 audio files you post in a comment, in addition to YouTube and Vimeo videos.

194 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:13:13pm

re: #189 Vicious Babushka

Dweeb.

Noun, verb, AIPAC! He’s like inches away from Alex Jones.

195 klys and whatnot  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:13:20pm

re: #185 klys and whatnot

Also, I disavow any shared linguistic commonalities with south Florida. We’re trying to get rid of them, dammit.

196 klys and whatnot  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:15:16pm

re: #192 GeneJockey

As someone who lives in the Bay Area, the ‘What is The City?” map is interesting. There’s a big area of ‘It’s Not New York’, centered on SF. Damn straight! The City is San Francisco!

In general, if someone tries to argue The City is not NYC, I have to assume they’ve never been to NYC.

half /

197 darthstar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:16:07pm

Image: 945973_424548044317803_909165685_n.jpg

198 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:17:31pm

Pop is a lie.

It’s soda.

//

199 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:18:48pm

Hoagie!

200 darthstar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:18:58pm

re: #198 Gus

Pop is a lie.

It’s soda.

//

I don’t drink anything stronger than pop. (you should see the shit my pop drinks)

201 GeneJockey  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:19:04pm

re: #196 klys and whatnot

In general, if someone tries to argue The City is not NYC, I have to assume they’ve never been to NYC.

half /

BZZZTTT! WRONG! I bin dere.

But hey, thanks for playing, and be sure to pick up our home game on the way out!
//

You gotta remember, I grew up in the sticks. ANY burg larger than about 20,000 was The City to us.

202 Bubblehead II  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:19:05pm

re: #193 Charles Johnson

Cool. The Media Library is now auto-saving any MP3 audio files you post in a comment, in addition to YouTube and Vimeo videos.

Don’t know what you are trying to do, but clicked on the embedded file and only got a black bar, no audio.

Win 7 pro 64 bit, Safari 5.1.7 Build(?) 7534.57.2

203 darthstar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:19:10pm

re: #199 Gus

Hoagie!

Submarine.

204 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:19:32pm

re: #198 Gus

Pop is a lie.

It’s soda.

//

Among the older locals, a ‘Coke” was any soft drink, of any brand.

205 darthstar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:19:42pm

re: #202 Bubblehead II

Don’t know what you are trying to do, but clicked on the embedded file and only got a black bar, no audio.

Win 7 pro 64 bit, Safari 5.1.7 Build(?) 7534.57.2

Safari on Windows? WTF?

206 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:19:49pm

re: #203 darthstar

Submarine.

“The City” is San Francisco. ;)

207 Charles Johnson  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:19:57pm

Checking again… from NPR today about Michelle Obama getting heckled.

MP3 Audio

208 GeneJockey  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:20:18pm

re: #199 Gus

Hoagie!

That’s right! Never heard ‘em called ‘subs’ till I moved to Ithaca.

209 darthstar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:20:28pm

re: #204 Decatur Deb

Among the older locals, a ‘Coke” was any soft drink, of any brand.

That’s what I grew up calling it. I liked Orange coke.

210 darthstar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:20:58pm

re: #206 Gus

“The City” is San Francisco. ;)

Yes, San Francisco and The City are both acceptable. “Frisco” is not.

211 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:21:56pm

The woods! As in “lets get some beers and go to the woods.”

212 thedopefishlives  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:22:39pm

re: #204 Decatur Deb

Among the older locals, a ‘Coke” was any soft drink, of any brand.

Yeah, that was one of the first things I learned on my several trips to Atlanta. “Coke” is a thing there, no matter what brand you’re actually buying. Around here, “soda” and “pop” are mostly interchangeable, though I believe “pop” is preferred.

213 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:22:41pm

re: #208 GeneJockey

That’s right! Never heard ‘em called ‘subs’ till I moved to Ithaca.

IIRC, they were ‘heroes’ in PGH, not to be confused with the ‘gyros’ in Lawrenceville.

214 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:23:09pm

We’d say “the woods” a lot in South Jersey.

215 Bubblehead II  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:23:20pm

re: #205 darthstar

Safari on Windows? WTF?

Windows version. I like it. Although it does have a tendency to reset itself for no apparent reason.

216 Bubblehead II  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:23:55pm

re: #207 Charles Johnson

Checking again… from NPR today about Michelle Obama getting heckled.

[Embedded content]

Same thing. Black bar, no audio.

217 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:23:58pm

The shore. “Hey, let’s go to the shore and get us some pizzers and sodas.”

218 klys and whatnot  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:24:34pm

re: #214 Gus

We’d say “the woods” a lot in South Jersey.

That’s because that’s 90% of South Jersey.

/I’m a central Jersey kid, oh yeah.

219 thedopefishlives  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:25:48pm

And for the record, while we are 90% Canadian up here in the wild north country, we do NOT end half our sentences with “eh”. That’s them crazies out there in Fargo.

220 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:26:19pm

I am a Detroiter, married to a Philadelphian.

Our kids think we talk funny.

222 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:26:30pm

re: #218 klys and whatnot

That’s because that’s 90% of South Jersey.

/I’m a central Jersey kid, oh yeah.

Pineconers!

223 GeneJockey  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:26:39pm

re: #218 klys and whatnot

That’s because that’s 90% of South Jersey.

/I’m a central Jersey kid, oh yeah.

So, how do you pronounce ‘water’?

Wahtur? Or Wootur?

224 lawhawk  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:26:43pm

re: #188 GeneJockey

We want soda, and that soda must be Coke. So we ask for Coke. It’s Coke. And I’m from Brooklyn. So fughettaboutit!

225 Cheechako  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:27:08pm

re: #178 klys and whatnot

No, tonic!

226 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:27:17pm

Pineconers- Out Behind the Barn

Youtube Video

227 darthstar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:27:42pm
228 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:27:46pm

re: #223 GeneJockey

So, how do you pronounce ‘water’?

Wahtur? Or Wootur?

Cawfee

229 Bubblehead II  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:27:52pm

Time to get the grill heating up. The chicken breasts/rice/green beans won out.

230 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:28:01pm

“Gus! Gus! Say coffee!”

//

231 GeneJockey  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:28:07pm

re: #224 lawhawk

We want soda, and that soda must be Coke. So we ask for Coke. It’s Coke. And I’m from Brooklyn. So fughettaboutit!

So, in Brooklyn, is it Hoagie, Sub, Hero, Grinder, or just “‘At’s a big fuckin’ sammwich!”
//

232 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:28:34pm

Oregon… OrihGONE

233 klys and whatnot  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:28:39pm

re: #223 GeneJockey

So, how do you pronounce ‘water’?

Wahtur? Or Wootur?

Wah-ter.

My sister is attempting to claim that crayon is a one syllable word after seeing these maps.

234 klys and whatnot  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:28:53pm

re: #225 Cheechako

No, tonic!

That’s for the gin.

235 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:29:09pm

Nevahda

236 lawhawk  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:29:17pm

re: #206 Gus

If that “The City” map underscores anything, it’s that people understand “The City” to generally mean the largest big city nearby, but otherwise they’re referring to NYC.

Heck, in NYC, if you’re talking about The City, it’s referring to Manhattan specifically.

237 CuriousLurker  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:29:40pm

Disgusting, lying, fear mongering, assholes. But we already knew that. *spit*

Youtube Video

Rumsfeld doesn’t know if Obama has switched sides in the War on Terror

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s first mistake was agreeing to participate in the May 21 event organized by David Horowitz. As a rule, fair-minded people who want to maintain a degree of public credibility turn down such invitations.

But more important was what Rumsfeld had to say at the Los Angeles gathering. Our pal James Carter passed along the above clip, featuring an unnamed man asking Rumsfeld whether President Obama has “actually switched sides in the war on terror.” The Bush/Cheney-era Pentagon chief replied, “I don’t feel competent to answer. I can’t tell.”

So, in Rumsfeld’s mind, maybe the president with an impressive record of counter-terrorism successes is secretly siding with al Qaeda, maybe not. Rumsfeld “can’t tell.” […]

More at the Maddow Blog…

238 klys and whatnot  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:29:47pm

re: #219 thedopefishlives

And for the record, while we are 90% Canadian up here in the wild north country, we do NOT end half our sentences with “eh”. That’s them crazies out there in Fargo.

Don’tcha know.

239 thedopefishlives  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:29:59pm

re: #238 klys and whatnot

Don’tcha know.

Yah, sure, ya betcha.

240 Kragar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:30:13pm

How to feel better in about 10 seconds.

When the first thing a guy you haven’t seen in about 6 months says “Man, you’ve lost a lot of weight.”

241 klys and whatnot  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:30:40pm

re: #236 lawhawk

If that “The City” map underscores anything, it’s that people understand “The City” to generally mean the largest big city nearby, but otherwise they’re referring to NYC.

Heck, in NYC, if you’re talking about The City, it’s referring to Manhattan specifically.

If it does not produce real pizza, it cannot be called The City.

And no, Chicago, that monstrosity you have attempted to foist on the rest of us does not count.

242 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:30:42pm
243 GeneJockey  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:30:45pm

re: #233 klys and whatnot

Wah-ter.

My sister is attempting to claim that crayon is a one syllable word after seeing these maps.

It is, as in “That kid took all the kranz!”

244 lawhawk  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:30:50pm

re: #231 GeneJockey

Hero. Sub is acceptable. Never a hoagie or sammich.

Here in Northern NJ, it’s a sub, with a hoagie creeping in.

And then there are those strange folks who think grinders are subs.

245 klys and whatnot  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:31:22pm

re: #239 thedopefishlives

Yah, sure, ya betcha.

I can do the accent scarily well. The problem is sometimes it sticks and then I can’t stop for months.

My husband thinks it’s adorable when it happens.

246 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:31:29pm

Pizza pie.

247 thedopefishlives  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:31:34pm

re: #220 Vicious Babushka

I am a Detroiter, married to a Philadelphia.

Our kids think we talk funny.

One of the fun things I’ve enjoyed about digging into genealogical research over the last week is seeing who married whom and where they were from. It will make for some interesting stories to tell the kids.

248 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:31:44pm

re: #219 thedopefishlives

And for the record, while we are 90% Canadian up here in the wild north country, we do NOT end half our sentences with “eh”. That’s them crazies out there in Fargo.

What the eh are you talking about, eh?

249 thedopefishlives  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:32:45pm

re: #245 klys and whatnot

I can do the accent scarily well. The problem is sometimes it sticks and then I can’t stop for months.

My husband thinks it’s adorable when it happens.

I picked up a bit of the Minnesotan when I moved here. I never had the strong central Indiana accent of my other relations, probably due to my parents moving around through the Midwest when I was younger. So I sound more Minnesotan than my native Hoosier by now.

250 klys and whatnot  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:32:50pm

re: #243 GeneJockey

It is, as in “That kid took all the kranz!”

I am firmly in the cray-awn camp.

251 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:32:53pm

re: #248 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

What the eh are you talking about, eh?

Out and about.

252 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:33:13pm

Sometimes it almost sounds like it rhymes with boot. Out and about.

253 klys and whatnot  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:33:46pm

re: #249 thedopefishlives

I picked up a bit of the Minnesotan when I moved here. I never had the strong central Indiana accent of my other relations, probably due to my parents moving around through the Midwest when I was younger. So I sound more Minnesotan than my native Hoosier by now.

I spent part of my first 17 summers in WI. We have no NJ accent to speak of, but the upper Midwest? Oh, I can do that no problem.

254 CuriousLurker  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:33:50pm

re: #223 GeneJockey

So, how do you pronounce ‘water’?

Wahtur? Or Wootur?

Watah.

255 GeneJockey  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:34:35pm

re: #219 thedopefishlives

And for the record, while we are 90% Canadian up here in the wild north country, we do NOT end half our sentences with “eh”. That’s them crazies out there in Fargo.

I worked with a French-Canadian Post Doc years ago. He’d been in the states for a couple years, and I can’t remember him ever saying ‘eh?”

He finished up and went back to Ottawa for a permanent position, and called after a couple weeks to check up on some work we were doing together. I swear, every other goddam sentence ended with ‘eh?’!

256 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:35:00pm

re: #254 CuriousLurker

Watah.

wAHder.

257 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:35:17pm

re: #255 GeneJockey

I worked with a French-Canadian Post Doc years ago. He’d been in the states for a couple years, and I can’t remember him ever saying ‘eh?”

He finished up and went back to Ottawa for a permanent position, and called after a couple weeks to check up on some work we were doing together. I swear, every other goddam sentence ended with ‘eh?’!

When all sentences sound like questions.

258 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:35:40pm

So I got in my car? Drove up the highway? Ran into a moose?

259 Lidane  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:36:01pm

re: #223 GeneJockey

So, how do you pronounce ‘water’?

Wahtur? Or Wootur?

I had a teacher in high school that would say “war-ter”. For the word “wash”, he’d say “warsh”.

Yes, we went with the obvious Goofy jokes when he wasn’t around.

260 GeneJockey  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:36:32pm

re: #250 klys and whatnot

I am firmly in the cray-awn camp.

I think if I’d said ‘cray-ahn’ where I grew up, they’d have beaten the shit out of me. It was already tough for a kid who pronounced ‘Stone’ as stOn, not stAOn.

261 lawhawk  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:36:47pm

re: #253 klys and whatnot

Give me 48 hours in any environment, and I can pick up the accent with no problem. Including inflections and local-speak.

Came back from Toronto one time, and stopped at a store in Western NY. They thought I was Canadian and couldn’t believe that I called NJ home, or that I grew up in Brooklyn. That was after just two days. Heh.

262 klys and whatnot  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:36:54pm

re: #259 Lidane

I had a teacher in high school that would say “war-ter”. For the word “wash”, he’d say “warsh”.

Yes, we went with the obvious Goofy jokes when he wasn’t around.

I had a teacher do the same thing.

We would conspire to make her say words like “washboard”. We were her first class ever.

I’m amazed she still teaches after us.

263 Bubblehead II  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:37:07pm

re: #258 Gus

So I got in my car? Drove up the highway? Ran into a moose?

Did you buy it a drink?

264 CuriousLurker  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:39:05pm

re: #256 Dr Lizardo

wAHder.

That’s how they say it in Texas.

265 Kragar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:39:06pm

re: #263 Bubblehead II

Did you buy it a drink?

That would explain this:

moose falls in love with moose statue, attempts gay moose sex

266 Bubblehead II  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:39:18pm

re: #263 Bubblehead II

Did you buy it a drink?

As well as the squirrel.

267 GeneJockey  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:39:22pm

re: #261 lawhawk

Give me 48 hours in any environment, and I can pick up the accent with no problem. Including inflections and local-speak.

My wife and I are both unconscious mimics. We can each always tell who the other is talking to on the phone, for example, and I have to be REAL CAREFUL talking to my boss, who’s a Scot, lest I start talking like him, TO him.

268 CuriousLurker  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:40:40pm

re: #259 Lidane

I had a teacher in high school that would say “war-ter”. For the word “wash”, he’d say “warsh”.

Yes, we went with the obvious Goofy jokes when he wasn’t around.

Same here, but it was junior high and a female teacher (native of Georgia).

269 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:40:44pm

Blech. 55°F (12°C) Overcast and 72% humidity. No thank you! Back in the 90s by Monday. Whew.

270 klys and whatnot  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:41:00pm

re: #261 lawhawk

I have been trying, TRYING to resist the whole concept of the highway as a “freeway.”

I have to concede defeat at this point, after 6 years. It’s snuck into my vocabulary and I can’t stop it.

(They’re highways. Or parkways if you want to be really nitpicky.)

271 Occam's Guillotine  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:41:06pm

re: #30 darthstar

Nice looking couple, so where is this fat Michelle the RWNJs keep yammering about?

272 thedopefishlives  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:41:12pm

re: #269 Gus

Blech. 55°F (12°C) Overcast and 72% humidity. No thank you! Back in the 90s by Monday. Whew.

There’s something wrong with you.

273 klys and whatnot  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:42:05pm

re: #269 Gus

Blech. 55°F (12°C) Overcast and 72% humidity. No thank you! Back in the 90s by Monday. Whew.

I go home tomorrow evening and Friday it will be 104 at home.

My response to this really shouldn’t appear in print.

274 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:44:34pm

re: #251 Gus

Out and about.

Oot an aboot.

275 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:44:38pm

re: #264 CuriousLurker

That’s how they say it in Texas.

And California as well.

276 RadicalModerate  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:45:40pm

re: #203 darthstar

Submarine.

Louisiana has two (which is the reason for that big “other” designation)

Po-boy!

or, if in New Orleans, Muffuletta!

277 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:45:43pm

re: #261 lawhawk

Give me 48 hours in any environment, and I can pick up the accent with no problem. Including inflections and local-speak.

Came back from Toronto one time, and stopped at a store in Western NY. They thought I was Canadian and couldn’t believe that I called NJ home, or that I grew up in Brooklyn. That was after just two days. Heh.

Impressionable mind, eh?

278 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:45:50pm

re: #272 thedopefishlives

There’s something wrong with you.

I like it now for my foot/ankle. Right now I feel cold. My foot feels cold. Mongo no like.

279 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:46:48pm

re: #274 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

Oot an aboot.

That’s the one!

280 lawhawk  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:47:18pm

re: #270 klys and whatnot

Yeah, freeways are highways. Parkways are where trucks can’t go. And there’s no such thing as a freeway since we’re paying for it one way or another.

And why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway. /

281 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:47:22pm

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WAS COLLECTING PHONE DATE FOR 3 MONTHS! IMPEACH HIM NOW!!11TY

282 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:47:36pm

We don’t do accents up here.

A frozen tongue cracks easily.

283 lawhawk  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:48:25pm

re: #277 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

Just have a thing with language and speech. Wish I paid attention in French or Hebrew class….

284 Charles Johnson  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:49:02pm

re: #202 Bubblehead II

Don’t know what you are trying to do, but clicked on the embedded file and only got a black bar, no audio.

Win 7 pro 64 bit, Safari 5.1.7 Build(?) 7534.57.2

I think you may need to install Quicktime for Windows to play the MP3 files. I’m checking that now.

285 Kragar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:49:55pm

re: #169 Gus

The News IQ Quiz
Do you know more about the news than the average American?

I might have taken this before?

You answered 13 of 13 questions correctly along with 8% of responders.

286 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:50:47pm

re: #283 lawhawk

Just have a thing with language and speech. Wish I paid attention in French or Hebrew class….

Although I can’t remember a thing about French or German, while I was in those classes I was always asked how to pronounce a word by the other students.

I make a good parrot.

Aarhh Matie!

287 Bubblehead II  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:51:25pm

re: #284 Charles Johnson

I think you may need to install Quicktime for Windows to play the MP3 files. I’m checking that now.

Downloading as well.

288 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:52:52pm

re: #274 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

Oot an aboot.

Hoser.

289 thedopefishlives  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:53:22pm

re: #285 Kragar

You answered 13 of 13 questions correctly along with 8% of responders.

I got 9 of 13. I missed a lot of the people ones because I read mostly text and haven’t read a lot of articles associated with pictures.

290 EPR-radar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:53:59pm

re: #285 Kragar

You answered 13 of 13 questions correctly along with 8% of responders.

That was an oddball test. Very visual (face recognition, logo, flags etc.)

291 klys and whatnot  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:55:13pm

In fantastic OT news, my (other) little sister got a job offer today to sail with the A. J. Meerwald through the beginning of November.

Since her previous internship just finished up last week, we are thrilled. Except for the selfish part of me is sad that she will have no Internet/phone.

I have requested that she not sail through hurricanes.

292 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:55:17pm

re: #285 Kragar

You answered 13 of 13 questions correctly along with 8% of responders.

I got the same-sex marriage question wrong.

293 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:56:07pm

re: #285 Kragar

You answered 13 of 13 questions correctly along with 8% of responders.

I got that too, but the questions seemed familiar, I took the same quiz some months ago.

294 Kragar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:57:34pm

re: #293 Vicious Babushka

I got that too, but the questions seemed familiar, I took the same quiz some months ago.

Its all the same, only the names have changed.

295 Occam's Guillotine  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:59:21pm

re: #237 CuriousLurker

Disgusting, lying, fear mongering, assholes. But we already knew that. *spit*

[Embedded content]

Rumsfeld doesn’t know if Obama has switched sides in the War on Terror

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s first mistake was agreeing to participate in the May 21 event organized by David Horowitz. As a rule, fair-minded people who want to maintain a degree of public credibility turn down such invitations.

But more important was what Rumsfeld had to say at the Los Angeles gathering. Our pal James Carter passed along the above clip, featuring an unnamed man asking Rumsfeld whether President Obama has “actually switched sides in the war on terror.” The Bush/Cheney-era Pentagon chief replied, “I don’t feel competent to answer. I can’t tell.”

So, in Rumsfeld’s mind, maybe the president with an impressive record of counter-terrorism successes is secretly siding with al Qaeda, maybe not. Rumsfeld “can’t tell.”

They would have asked bin Laden his opinion, but he seems to be unavailable. Perhaps Rummy can ask him when they meet up in Hell.

Rumsfeld was a senile and utterly inept tyrant as Sec-def. Thousands of soliders, thousands, were killed because of the unconscionable delays in deploying Mine Resistant Ambush Protection (MRAP) vehicles to Iraq. We had one while I was there as a contractor in 2006, imported from South Africa (where they had built since the 70s) and paid for by my employers. We used to give GIs rides whenever we had enough room, and there was always a line. As a veteran, I was outraged that serving soldiers had to hitch rides with a civilian because they thought his vehicle was better suited to combat than theirs. The MRAPs started appearing in military service in substantial numbers only toward the end of the year. I suspect the delay was because they didn’t fit with the long term profit growth plans of the military industrial complex, which always sees more potential in improbable total war scenarios.

296 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:59:49pm

for me, all my early life in the north, it was the word “fire”…

297 Charles Johnson  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 5:00:35pm

re: #287 Bubblehead II

Downloading as well.

Yes, that was it - with Quicktime installed the video plays.

298 A Mom Anon  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 5:01:00pm

I’m from SE Ohio. It was crick, for creek. Pop for any carbonated drink. Grandma always said warsh, for wash(and then tell us not to giggle or she’d make us go pull weeds in the garden-we moved to Columbus,OH when I was headed into kindergarten,so we lost some of that Appalachian accent growing up). I’m sure there are others I’ve forgotten since transplanting myself in Atlanta back around 1985. It’s interesting how we’ve developed all these little quirks and differences in different places over the years.

If you can find some of the old WPA Writer’s Project books about the different states, they are fascinating looks into the different cultural differences from place to place. There was one for each of the states in the union at the time, but they are expensive and difficult to find. Some states had them reprinted in the last 20 yrs or so. America Eats (the author escapes me at the moment) is a summary of those books, a sometimes not so flattering but interesting look at food, language and traditions.

299 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 5:01:17pm

May 31, 2013 El Reno, Oklahoma EF-5 Tornado 2.6 Mile Wide

Youtube Video

300 Kragar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 5:01:41pm

re: #299 Gus

May 31, 2013 El Reno, Oklahoma EF-5 Tornado 2.6 Mile Wide

[Embedded content]

What climate change?

301 Bubblehead II  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 5:02:13pm

re: #297 Charles Johnson

Yes, that was it - with Quicktime installed the video plays.

Ok, back in a bit as I run the install program.

302 Charles Johnson  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 5:03:21pm

(I meant “audio” not “video,” of course.)

303 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 5:03:48pm

re: #300 Kragar

What climate change?

BAFT

304 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 5:04:03pm

re: #296 Backwoods_Sleuth

for me, all my early life in the north, it was the word “fire”…

Foiyer

305 thedopefishlives  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 5:04:04pm

re: #298 A Mom Anon

There’s an older book that makes the rounds up here, “How to Talk Minnesotan”. My then-girlfriend’s father lent it to me back when she and I were getting serious. Absolutely enlightening when it comes to understanding the unique culture of the wild north country.

306 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 5:07:55pm

re: #304 Vicious Babushka

Foiyer

close…fahr
Then my teacher in NY said no, you’re saying “far” not “fire” (she insisted fire was two syllables).
I said, “no, that’s fer”.
I waz in trouble early on…

307 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 5:11:22pm

re: #306 Backwoods_Sleuth

close…fahr
Then my teacher in NY said no, you’re saying “far” not “fire” (she insisted fire was two syllables).
I said, “no, that’s fer”.
I waz in trouble early on…

Fy Yer.

308 Bubblehead II  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 5:12:06pm

re: #302 Charles Johnson

(I meant “audio” not “video,” of course.)

Thanks for the help. Missed installing that plug-in when I set up the new system. So many plug-ins, so little time, Now I get to do it for IE-9

309 GeneJockey  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 5:13:04pm

re: #307 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

Fy Yer.

That’s how I say it, but folks where I grew up say it ‘Faa-er’

310 A Mom Anon  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 5:13:50pm

re: #305 thedopefishlives

I love that kind of stuff. I also forgot far, for fire and tar, for tire. It’s funny, when we moved from the “country” into the suburbs of Columbus, no one talked like that and it was only maybe an hour and a half drive away from the Hocking Hills area where my parents were born and raised. More diversity in the urban and suburban areas I guess. My best friend in elementary school was Italian, her parents were immigrants and they brought the paternal grandma here with them. I loved them, they were loud, and spoke both languages interchangeably. I loved going to their house, it was way different than my super conservative straight laced wingnut family.

311 GeneJockey  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 5:14:02pm

Scrapple - Yes, or No?

EDIT: If yes, what do you put on it? Maple Syrup? Or ketchup?

312 A Mom Anon  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 5:16:45pm

re: #311 GeneJockey

Nope. LOL. But my grandfathers both loved the stuff. Ate it all the time. Calf brains and liver too. Acky.

313 GeneJockey  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 5:16:55pm

re: #310 A Mom Anon

I love that kind of stuff. I also forgot far, for fire and tar, for tire. It’s funny, when we moved from the “country” into the suburbs of Columbus, no one talked like that and it was only maybe an hour and a half drive away from the Hocking Hills area where my parents were born and raised. More diversity in the urban and suburban areas I guess. My best friend in elementary school was Italian, her parents were immigrants and they brought the paternal grandma here with them. I loved them, they were loud, and spoke both languages interchangeably. I loved going to their house, it was way different than my super conservative straight laced wingnut family.

My Dad grew up in Pittsburgh, and he’s retained a bunch of ‘Pittsburghisms”, like ‘strenth’ for strength; ‘worsh’ for wash; ‘arn’ for iron, and of course ‘dahntahn’ for downtown.

314 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 5:19:11pm

Wow. This one is pretty crazy too.

Devastating EF5 Joplin Tornado and Aftermath May 22, 2011

Youtube Video

315 Charles Johnson  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 5:22:33pm

Whoa, new Queens of the Stone Age album is monstrous. Only $6.99 at Amazon right now…

…Like Clockwork: Queens of the Stone Age: MP3 Downloads

316 lawhawk  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 5:22:33pm

That didn’t take long. First named tropical storm of the season in the Gulf - Andrea. Wont be much of a problem for most - just barely qualifying as a tropical storm, and will weaken as it comes ashore. But enough tropical moisture to make for a wet weekend in the Middle Atlantic according to the consensus of the various models.

Oh, and we’d have an even better grip on the science and predictions for where/how the storm will behave if we actually spent more money on the computer programs and hardware that the NHC and NSSL and GDFL and other NOAA agencies need to make better models of the climate and weather.

317 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 5:24:52pm

May 31, 2013 El Reno, Oklahoma EF-5 2.6 Mile Wide Wedge Tornado

Youtube Video

318 Gus  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 5:26:24pm

BAFT

319 Stanghazi  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 5:26:34pm

And with that, good evening LGF.

321 sagehen  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 5:32:31pm

re: #187 RadicalModerate

And so are these:

A right-wing arson attack? ‘EDL’ graffiti found after Muswell Hill mosque is burnt down amid fears of Woolwich connection

a valid segue to post one of my favorite Kinks songs!!

Youtube Video

322 Charles Johnson  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 5:36:07pm


Wow, talk about really bad advice. Hope nobody actually does this.

323 Charles Johnson  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 5:38:27pm

Fire Marshall Bill says, “Never flip your toaster on its side to make a grilled cheese sandwich.”

324 Stanghazi  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 5:40:47pm

re: #322 Charles Johnson

Wow, talk about really bad advice. Hope nobody actually does this.

Dripping cheese? I’d totally do it so you had better warn me.

325 Kragar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 5:41:30pm

re: #323 Charles Johnson

Fire Marshall Bill says, “Never flip your toaster on its side to make a grilled cheese sandwich.”

“LET ME SHOW YA SOMETHIN’!”

326 William Barnett-Lewis  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 5:43:27pm

re: #325 Kragar

“LET ME SHOW YA SOMETHIN’!”

“Here, hold my beer…”

327 thedopefishlives  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 5:45:51pm

re: #326 William Barnett-Lewis

“Here, hold my beer…”

Hey y’all, watch this!

328 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 5:46:23pm

re: #195 klys and whatnot

Also, I disavow any shared linguistic commonalities with south Florida. We’re trying to get rid of them, dammit.

Saw faster.

329 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 5:50:29pm
330 ProTARDISLiberal  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 5:53:18pm

Meanwhile, in Pakistan:

Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif urges end to US drone strikes

“We respect the sovereignty of others and they should respect our sovereignty and independence. This campaign must come to an end,” he told MPs.

That is rich, considering the Taliban is based now in Pakistan, has had Pakistani aid for 15+ years, and refuses to do jack about Al-Qaeda or the Taliban.

Want us to stop the Drones? Start dealing with the violent fanatics in a meaningful way. Oh right, Nawaz Sharif likes these scum.

331 Charles Johnson  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 5:53:30pm

re: #324 Stanghazi

Dripping cheese? I’d totally do it so you had better warn me.

Dripping cheese, red-hot heating elements that are not designed to handle molten cheese, this scenario can’t end well.

332 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 5:56:03pm

cuteness break!

baby stingray says ohai!

333 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 5:56:34pm

re: #323 Charles Johnson

Fire Marshall Bill says, “Never flip your toaster on its side to make a grilled cheese sandwich.”

Everyone knows you use a Proctor-Silex flatiron.

334 Kragar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 5:58:03pm

re: #332 Backwoods_Sleuth

cuteness break!

baby stingray says ohai!

“HEY! CHECK ME OUT!”

335 dragonath  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 5:58:09pm

re: #316 lawhawk

Well, damn. There goes my yard sale.

336 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 5:58:09pm

re: #313 GeneJockey

My Dad grew up in Pittsburgh, and he’s retained a bunch of ‘Pittsburghisms”, like ‘strenth’ for strength; ‘worsh’ for wash; ‘arn’ for iron, and of course ‘dahntahn’ for downtown.

It wasn’t until I was going to college in Pittsburgh and had the “How to speak Pittsburgh-ese” book that I realized that my father said “slippy” for “slippery”. And I had been hearing him say it that way for 15+ years without it registering as such.

My travels this past weekend were sort of interesting since my accent is essentially that of most of New York State north and west of Albany. I fit in there. ;)

337 A Mom Anon  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 5:59:30pm

re: #333 Decatur Deb

Last time I was in the grocery store they had packages of bags you put the sammich in and then put it in the toaster. 4 bucks for 6 of them. I’ll go ahead and drag out the awful skillet and use a spatula, thankyewverymuch.

338 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 6:00:44pm

re: #337 A Mom Anon

Last time I was in the grocery store they had packages of bags you put the sammich in and then put it in the toaster. 4 bucks for 6 of them. I’ll go ahead and drag out the awful skillet and use a spatula, thankyewverymuch.

And I doubt the bags used smoked gouda cheese in their sammiches either!
:p

339 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 6:00:50pm

re: #336 Feline Fearless Leader

Prof Johnstone lecture on Pittsburghese: (1 hour)

Youtube Video

340 EPR-radar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 6:01:44pm

re: #329 Vicious Babushka

For the RW death-cultists, life only counts between conception and birth. After birth, its all death, all the time.

P.S. The only reason they pretend to care about the life of the fetus is because forced pregnancy can kill or injure women.

341 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 6:02:02pm

I can just imagine some drunk college kids doing this in their dorm room (making a grilled cheese sammich in a toaster laid on its side)

What could possibly go wrong?

The best you can hope for is they forget to plug it in.

342 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 6:02:07pm

re: #337 A Mom Anon

Last time I was in the grocery store they had packages of bags you put the sammich in and then put it in the toaster. 4 bucks for 6 of them. I’ll go ahead and drag out the awful skillet and use a spatula, thankyewverymuch.

Whoa—a grilled cheese is supposed to cost 30 cents, with pickle.

343 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 6:02:33pm

There are three kinds of wingnut, Derp, Derp and Derp

344 thedopefishlives  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 6:03:12pm

re: #343 Vicious Babushka

There are three kinds of wingnut, Derp, Derp and Derp

I’m a goddamn American icon!

345 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 6:03:30pm
346 Kragar  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 6:03:52pm

re: #343 Vicious Babushka

There are three kinds of wingnut, Derp, Derp and Derp

I’m more of a Marmot, but thanks for playing.

347 Bubblehead II  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 6:08:35pm

re: #322 Charles Johnson

Wow, talk about really bad advice. Hope nobody actually does this.

Buy a toaster oven. Trust me. You can cook a lot more than a sandwich in one. Would have to think back a bit. But made many a meal made while living in the barracks. A single burner element doesn’t hurt.

Both forbidden as a health/fire hazard. But overlooked as I kept both clean (as well as the impliments) and the roommate never complained.

He just ate it.

348 wrenchwench  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 6:53:07pm

re: #321 sagehen

a valid segue to post one of my favorite Kinks songs!!

[Embedded content]

Thanks! That was the first thing that came to my mind too.

349 subterraneanhomesickalien  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 9:50:00pm

re: #343 Vicious Babushka

There’s a lot of latent misanthropy with these people.

How can you really believe in a concept like freedom, and hate your fellow man so much?

Oh wait, freedom is only a micrometer thick facade for a rather authoritarian ideology that excludes large chunks of the population that these people feel don’t deserve their version of freedom.

Its all becoming clear to me.

350 subterraneanhomesickalien  Wed, Jun 5, 2013 9:51:58pm

re: #347 Bubblehead II

I once set a cabinet ablaze just by toasting a pop tart for too long as a child.

Toasters are fucking terrifying to me.


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