Comments on: Laff Riot http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6011.html Poise! Poise! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:57:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Atomic Dog http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6011.html#comment-199217 Atomic Dog Mon, 21 May 2007 18:48:00 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6011.html#comment-199217 "a man who had carnal relations with Galapagos turtles" OK, Sisyphus is having way too much fun now in his comment thread. Pity the thing couldn't have been sustained a few more months. Q, I guess it is Hubbard's story. The interesting difference in the bloggysphere is all the interlinking -- you can become part of a network of like-minded sites, start getting ad revenue. You could set up a whole deep-cover network of blogs. E.g. you have to wonder, could studentsforbrownback also be parody? Could the whole Brownback campaign be some sort of performance art? A lot of wingers, from Joe McCarthy to Rush Limbaugh, are con men without deep beliefs, glib talkers who found a shtick that worked and shtuck to it. “a man who had carnal relations with Galapagos turtles”

OK, Sisyphus is having way too much fun now in his comment thread. Pity the thing couldn’t have been sustained a few more months.

Q, I guess it is Hubbard’s story. The interesting difference in the bloggysphere is all the interlinking — you can become part of a network of like-minded sites, start getting ad revenue. You could set up a whole deep-cover network of blogs. E.g. you have to wonder, could studentsforbrownback also be parody? Could the whole Brownback campaign be some sort of performance art?

A lot of wingers, from Joe McCarthy to Rush Limbaugh, are con men without deep beliefs, glib talkers who found a shtick that worked and shtuck to it.

]]> By: les http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6011.html#comment-199116 les Mon, 21 May 2007 16:21:38 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6011.html#comment-199116 Coming from Brownback country, my fear is it's real. You can scarcely believe the depths of insanity now enshrined in the Ks. Repub Party. And no, I don't actually know whether you can enshrine a depth. Phil Kline, former state and now county Atty. is nearly as crazy as the B4B's, and he's a favorite son. Coming from Brownback country, my fear is it’s real. You can scarcely believe the depths of insanity now enshrined in the Ks. Repub Party. And no, I don’t actually know whether you can enshrine a depth. Phil Kline, former state and now county Atty. is nearly as crazy as the B4B’s, and he’s a favorite son.

]]> By: Qetesh the Abyssinian http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6011.html#comment-198929 Qetesh the Abyssinian Mon, 21 May 2007 10:39:33 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6011.html#comment-198929 <i>There’s an Umberto Eco-type story here about someone who starts a parody site that’s taken for real and gradually they get sucked in and it becomes real.</i> Wasn't that Hubbard? There’s an Umberto Eco-type story here about someone who starts a parody site that’s taken for real and gradually they get sucked in and it becomes real.

Wasn’t that Hubbard?

]]> By: Atomic Dog http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6011.html#comment-198771 Atomic Dog Mon, 21 May 2007 02:00:57 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6011.html#comment-198771 http://studentsforbrownback.org/index.php/2007/05/01/what-blogs-i-read-daily/ treats it as genuine oh and check out http://theactblog.wordpress.com/2007/04/18/name-calling-from-brownback-supporters/ Kind of fun. http://studentsforbrownback.org/index.php/2007/05/01/what-blogs-i-read-daily/

treats it as genuine

oh and check out http://theactblog.wordpress.com/2007/04/18/name-calling-from-brownback-supporters/

Kind of fun.

]]> By: RobW http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6011.html#comment-198688 RobW Sun, 20 May 2007 21:34:53 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6011.html#comment-198688 <i>Another little clue is Operation Clambake, a long running and informative anti-Scientology site, sittin in their conservative blogroll.</i> Good catch, adb. Another little clue is Operation Clambake, a long running and informative anti-Scientology site, sittin in their conservative blogroll.

Good catch, adb.

]]> By: Atomic Dog http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6011.html#comment-198588 Atomic Dog Sun, 20 May 2007 18:22:16 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6011.html#comment-198588 I vote for satire. The spit-polish point above is telling, and parts of the heliocentrism posting are too deliberately naive; overall it lacks the passion, keening self-pity, and weird mental jumps of real nuttery. There's an Umberto Eco-type story here about someone who starts a parody site that's taken for real and gradually they get sucked in and it becomes real. Scrutator, though, there's a site with passion. What's the story there? For parodies my favorite is the clever and entertaining http://objectiveministries.org/ I vote for satire. The spit-polish point above is telling, and parts of the heliocentrism posting are too deliberately naive; overall it lacks the passion, keening self-pity, and weird mental jumps of real nuttery. There’s an Umberto Eco-type story here about someone who starts a parody site that’s taken for real and gradually they get sucked in and it becomes real.

Scrutator, though, there’s a site with passion. What’s the story there?

For parodies my favorite is the clever and entertaining http://objectiveministries.org/

]]> By: The Other Steve http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6011.html#comment-198575 The Other Steve Sun, 20 May 2007 17:50:22 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6011.html#comment-198575 I gotta agree with what noen said... "Years ago, My rep from the 1st district here in Minnesota, Gil Gutenect, wrote to the NIH or the CDC (I forget which) claiming that his reading of the Bible proved that AIDS was not caused by HIV or some such nonsense. These people are that stupid, believe me. " Maybe it's a Minnesota thing. I'm up in Ramstad territory. Back in 2004 I got into an argument with a guy who insisted that smaller government meant banning homosexuality. I gotta agree with what noen said… “Years ago, My rep from the 1st district here in Minnesota, Gil Gutenect, wrote to the NIH or the CDC (I forget which) claiming that his reading of the Bible proved that AIDS was not caused by HIV or some such nonsense. These people are that stupid, believe me. ”

Maybe it’s a Minnesota thing. I’m up in Ramstad territory. Back in 2004 I got into an argument with a guy who insisted that smaller government meant banning homosexuality.

]]> By: g http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6011.html#comment-198571 g Sun, 20 May 2007 17:40:03 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6011.html#comment-198571 <i>It’s “Columbian� because it was the preferred execution style of Columbian drug warlords in the early 80s </i> Man, things were tougher than I thought up in Morningside Heights in the 80's! It’s “Columbian� because it was the preferred execution style of Columbian drug warlords in the early 80s

Man, things were tougher than I thought up in Morningside Heights in the 80′s!

]]> By: Mooser http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6011.html#comment-198469 Mooser Sun, 20 May 2007 14:33:45 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6011.html#comment-198469 I tried pot once! I had a "bum voyage"! But pot makes you real sexy! I smoked it and tried to take my pants off-- over my head! I ride a VTR-1000 and an 900SS, my motto: <b>Leave no turn unstoned!!</b> I tried pot once! I had a “bum voyage”! But pot makes you real sexy! I smoked it and tried to take my pants off– over my head!

I ride a VTR-1000 and an 900SS, my motto: Leave no turn unstoned!!

]]> By: Brian Schlosser http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6011.html#comment-198464 Brian Schlosser Sun, 20 May 2007 14:24:26 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6011.html#comment-198464 Just popping out of the lurker pool to note that the "Why do Hippies Smoke Pot" post was not only written with references to sleepiness, etc, but it was posted on 4/20. Dude! 4/20! So my vote is for almost 100% straigh-faced satire, and very good stuff too. Just popping out of the lurker pool to note that the “Why do Hippies Smoke Pot” post was not only written with references to sleepiness, etc, but it was posted on 4/20.

Dude! 4/20!

So my vote is for almost 100% straigh-faced satire, and very good stuff too.

]]> By: Moxie http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6011.html#comment-198368 Moxie Sun, 20 May 2007 10:22:43 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6011.html#comment-198368 this is not real. this is not real. this is not real... Bomb Iran? Heliocentrism? Does this Brownback guy know that he has supporters like this? Or is this really his platform? this is not real. this is not real. this is not real... Um, what <I>about</I> the Iranian treatment of the British captives? I mean, yeah, if they'd been stripped naked and tied to chairs, and the Iranians had played Tijuana Telephone on their nuts with a portable electrical generator, I would have <I>strongly</I> supported, um, well, hell, <I>anything</I> but <I>nuclear war</I>. Jesus! this is not real. this is not real. this is not real...breathe</I>> Clinton ruined the country? With what, one swing of his mighty Clenis? I didn't <I>like</I> the son of a bitch, but things weren't actually in too bad a shape when he left. The one thing you can say for sure about American presidents these days is that each new one will be about an order of magnitude worse than the last. I guess "Brownback," if his supporters are anything to go by, will continue this fine tradition. this is not real. this is not real. this is not real... I don't know why hippies smoke marijuana, but you guys have just given me the perfect excuse to take up the habit. Thanks, "Psycheout." this is not real. this is not real. this is not real... Save us, Senator Gravel. Me sending in my contribution <I>today</I>. this is not real. this is not real. this is not real…

Bomb Iran? Heliocentrism? Does this Brownback guy know that he has supporters like this? Or is this really his platform?

this is not real. this is not real. this is not real…

Um, what about the Iranian treatment of the British captives? I mean, yeah, if they’d been stripped naked and tied to chairs, and the Iranians had played Tijuana Telephone on their nuts with a portable electrical generator, I would have strongly supported, um, well, hell, anything but nuclear war. Jesus!

this is not real. this is not real. this is not real…breathe>

Clinton ruined the country? With what, one swing of his mighty Clenis? I didn’t like the son of a bitch, but things weren’t actually in too bad a shape when he left. The one thing you can say for sure about American presidents these days is that each new one will be about an order of magnitude worse than the last. I guess “Brownback,” if his supporters are anything to go by, will continue this fine tradition.

this is not real. this is not real. this is not real…

I don’t know why hippies smoke marijuana, but you guys have just given me the perfect excuse to take up the habit. Thanks, “Psycheout.”

this is not real. this is not real. this is not real…

Save us, Senator Gravel. Me sending in my contribution today.

]]> By: Qetesh the Abyssinian http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6011.html#comment-198348 Qetesh the Abyssinian Sun, 20 May 2007 08:28:48 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6011.html#comment-198348 There's one reason why I'm not so sure this is satire, and it's <a href="http://www.texscience.org/news/chisum-bridges.htm" rel="nofollow">this</a>. It's about the memo circulated by Warren Chisum of Texas and Ben Bridges of Georgia. It's mainly about evolution and how it's all a Kabbalistic plot (yeah, didn't you know?), but they point to links on a geocentric web site. Clearly extremely kooky. I'm surprised that these guys are allowed out on their own, much less trusted to positions in government. There’s one reason why I’m not so sure this is satire, and it’s this. It’s about the memo circulated by Warren Chisum of Texas and Ben Bridges of Georgia. It’s mainly about evolution and how it’s all a Kabbalistic plot (yeah, didn’t you know?), but they point to links on a geocentric web site.

Clearly extremely kooky. I’m surprised that these guys are allowed out on their own, much less trusted to positions in government.

]]> By: DocAmazing http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6011.html#comment-198332 DocAmazing Sun, 20 May 2007 06:34:42 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6011.html#comment-198332 Moonbase Alpha? That's so 1999! Moonbase Alpha?
That’s so 1999!

]]> By: robert green http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6011.html#comment-198320 robert green Sun, 20 May 2007 05:08:01 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6011.html#comment-198320 maybe the whole brownback phenomenon, inasmuch as there is one, is a piece of performance art. and we are...well, "it's not so fucking funny when you're the one on stage", that is, we are adding to the second act? look, it's hard to be coherent when you are "rapping" from the "pot" you "smoked*", but the point here is maybe a brownback led America is worth it on comedy points. i'll put it another way--if we are going to hell in a handbasket anyway (peak oil, or global warming, or suitcase nukes or dead oceans or what have you) let's go out laughing at the absurdity of our idiot neighbors. president brownback sounds MUCH funnier than president mccain or giuliani (those just sound hideous and evil). so brownback 2008 i say. i for one will be on my spaceship headed to moonbase alpha anyway, so fuck all you clowns. *does it count as ""smoking" if you use a vaporizer? maybe the whole brownback phenomenon, inasmuch as there is one, is a piece of performance art. and we are…well, “it’s not so fucking funny when you’re the one on stage”, that is, we are adding to the second act? look, it’s hard to be coherent when you are “rapping” from the “pot” you “smoked*”, but the point here is maybe a brownback led America is worth it on comedy points. i’ll put it another way–if we are going to hell in a handbasket anyway (peak oil, or global warming, or suitcase nukes or dead oceans or what have you) let’s go out laughing at the absurdity of our idiot neighbors. president brownback sounds MUCH funnier than president mccain or giuliani (those just sound hideous and evil). so brownback 2008 i say.

i for one will be on my spaceship headed to moonbase alpha anyway, so fuck all you clowns.

*does it count as “”smoking” if you use a vaporizer?

]]> By: J— http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6011.html#comment-198309 J— Sun, 20 May 2007 04:08:52 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6011.html#comment-198309 And for all you G.I. Joe fans, here's <a href="http://www.yojoe.com/filecard/91/psycheout3.shtml" rel="nofollow">Psyche-Out's file card</a>. And for all you G.I. Joe fans, here’s Psyche-Out’s file card.

]]> By: apocalipstick http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6011.html#comment-198298 apocalipstick Sun, 20 May 2007 03:16:04 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6011.html#comment-198298 You can always see true satire as being "real." That's its power. And insanity is a deep flowing river that floods all doorsteps. Ever heard of "Loose Change"? "Bush was really behind 9/11"? Ever talk to a "successful" Amway distributor? You can always see true satire as being “real.” That’s its power. And insanity is a deep flowing river that floods all doorsteps. Ever heard of “Loose Change”? “Bush was really behind 9/11″? Ever talk to a “successful” Amway distributor?

]]> By: J— http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6011.html#comment-198295 J— Sun, 20 May 2007 03:08:53 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6011.html#comment-198295 The 4/7/07 <i>post</i>. The 4/7/07 post.

]]> By: J— http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6011.html#comment-198293 J— Sun, 20 May 2007 03:08:09 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6011.html#comment-198293 See also Psycheout's <a href="http://psycheout-portal.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">personal blog</a>. The 4/7/07 has a link to a David Icke excerpt, of all things. See also Psycheout’s personal blog. The 4/7/07 has a link to a David Icke excerpt, of all things.

]]> By: a different brad http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6011.html#comment-198287 a different brad Sun, 20 May 2007 02:55:31 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6011.html#comment-198287 It's a bit of an Andy Kaufmann thing, I think. It works for them, and that's the point. If some of us appreciate it at points along the way, all the better, no doubt, but our participation is optional. Another little clue is Operation Clambake, a long running and informative anti-Scientology site, sittin in their conservative blogroll. It’s a bit of an Andy Kaufmann thing, I think. It works for them, and that’s the point. If some of us appreciate it at points along the way, all the better, no doubt, but our participation is optional.
Another little clue is Operation Clambake, a long running and informative anti-Scientology site, sittin in their conservative blogroll.

]]> By: mikey http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6011.html#comment-198279 mikey Sun, 20 May 2007 02:34:35 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6011.html#comment-198279 In my experience, Pinko Punko is one of the more mystical, ethereal, and un-moored individuals I have encountered. I love the lack of sensibility in his posts. I love the fact that you can never "get it" because, and this is the joke, there is no "it" to get. And I have no idea if those guys could/would do something like the brownback blog, but if they chose to do it they would do it this well... mikey In my experience, Pinko Punko is one of the more mystical, ethereal, and un-moored individuals I have encountered. I love the lack of sensibility in his posts. I love the fact that you can never “get it” because, and this is the joke, there is no “it” to get. And I have no idea if those guys could/would do something like the brownback blog, but if they chose to do it they would do it this well…

mikey

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