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By: digamma.net - notes » The Most Coherent Writing on the Web

digamma.net - notes » The Most Coherent Writing on the Web — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:25:25 +0000

[...] Gates of Vienna, by the way, is hilarious for other reasons. [...]

By: Kansas Anarchist

Kansas Anarchist — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 05:32:32 +0000

Take one enormous Messianic complex, add multiple parts Red Dawn bravado, streak liberally with chickenhawk,….

A brown-colored streak, no doubt.

By: Kansas Anarchist

Kansas Anarchist — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 05:23:37 +0000

We know this is wrong, because the 910 Group has delegated the task of finding these people, and a sub-network has been formed, a group of what we call â€œFree Muslimâ€? organizations.

This just cracked me up. We know it’s true, because we created a subcommittee to find them. If they weren’t there to be found, we couldn’t have possibly created a subcommittee. Just like those WMDs. They had to be there, because people were looking for them.

By: LanceThruster

LanceThruster — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:10:58 +0000

Take one enormous Messianic complex, add multiple parts Red Dawn bravado, streak liberally with chickenhawk, fold in generous doses of Der Sturmer, shake and bake and what do you get? The contents of the “B” ark in Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. Please leave the telephone sanitizers on your way out.

By: RobW

RobW — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 04:45:33 +0000

Ok, old joke…
What’s the difference between Porsches and porcupines?
Porcupines carry pricks on the outside.

By: Herr Doktor Bimler

Herr Doktor Bimler — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 19:38:44 +0000

912, birth of Otto the Great. It was all downhill after the Ottonian dynasty.

By: mikey

mikey — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 18:59:40 +0000

Shouldnâ€™t it be the 912 group?

Why, does today’s hippest islamofascist terrah-ist prefer Porsches?

mikey

By: RobW

RobW — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 18:58:05 +0000

I thought the 912 group was a 4-cylinder Porsche club.

By: craigie

craigie — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 04:56:18 +0000

Shouldn’t it be the 912 group? Wouldn’t that be more logical?

Oh, wait, logic… Nevermind.

By: LA Confidential Pantload

LA Confidential Pantload — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 04:52:34 +0000

Let me guess, a 910 Group is sorta like a 14/88 Group for chickenhawks instead of skinheads.

By: pwn3rship society

pwn3rship society — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 21:35:27 +0000

Not only did that kill political satire, it resurrected it as a zombie, killed it again, then violated its corpse.

By: Jillian

Jillian — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 21:30:32 +0000

Pub mix is bad for you. Have you checked the sodium content on that stuff?

I’ll make popovers for the lot of you if someone brings the jam.

By: Mr. Roarke's Brand Salad Dressing's Poops

Mr. Roarke's Brand Salad Dressing's Poops — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 21:03:03 +0000

Alex,

House rules:

1. Pub Mix is for everyone, but if you eat the last of it, try to pick up some more at Costco.

2. No poo in the L.

3. Welcome! Here is your lei. What is your Fantasy?

By: Indy

Indy — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 20:53:48 +0000

Here in SE Tenn, there is a guy around town who has a flour-white cadilac, jacked up w/ similar rims, and the pilsbury doughboy painted on the doorpanels

By: Jâ€”

Jâ€” — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 18:41:20 +0000

Welcome, Alex.

RobW: I’m not a southerner, but I think it’s cool too.

By: mmm...lemonheads

mmm...lemonheads — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 15:00:55 +0000

“Just wonderingâ€¦

Am I the only one here who thinks the Cheetoâ€™s-colored lifted Cutlass with the gull-wing doors is kind of cool? Or am I the only southerner here?”

I think it’s just you. Or car guys.
The doors are cool, though.

By: LA Confidential Pantload

LA Confidential Pantload — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 14:26:16 +0000

Fourth- and fifth-generation information warfare? William Lind and John Robb for the Cheetoh-eating set.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 13:04:53 +0000

Never heard of this blog until somebody pointed me to this thread.

Priceless. Just priceless.

By: Herr Doktor Bimler

Herr Doktor Bimler — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 10:41:45 +0000

No. I think not. I think the wackiness of the wingnut is a constant, although you might want to get the opinion of a physicist to confirm.
I used to hold to Swank’s Constant as a reliable fixed point in our unstable universe of flux and evanescence. But now… not so sure. I’m beginning to suspect that there are actually no physical limits on the winginess of the wacknuts, because some of them — not necessarily named Noonan — seem to have ditched this cognitive-dissonance business. They have no qualms about contradicting themselves, nor any scruples either, for they are large, they contain multitudes.

To follow on from a comment from Mikey, a week or two ago — arguing with them is like arguing with a fervent sports fan. Suppose you support Team A; you work yourself into a frenzy during arguments at the pub, and spout all manner of predictions about how well they are going to do in the season. But when they go down 113 to 7 in their first game, is your worldview affected in any way by this clash with harsh reality? Do you feel obliged to adjust your opinions to fit the empirical facts, or to accept your limitations as a prophet? Sadly, no. You shrug and begin to work yourself into a frenzy for the return game.

By: RobW

RobW — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 10:15:43 +0000

Just wondering…

Am I the only one here who thinks the Cheeto’s-colored lifted Cutlass with the gull-wing doors is kind of cool? Or am I the only southerner here?