Which is curious given how much Bush supporters feel the need to assert their superiority over the French.

Holmes and Watson have gone camping, and after pitching a tent, they enjoy a hearty meal and a good bottle of wine, and then go to sleep.

Holmes awakens in the night, and nudging Watson awake, says, “look up at the stars, old fellow, and tell me what you deduce.”

The Doctor replies, “I see millions of stars, and if even a few of them have planets, it is quite likely that there are some planets like Earth, capable of sustaining life much like our own. Thus, we may not be alone in the universe.”

Holmes patiently responds, “Quite so, Watson, but more to the point, someone has stolen our tent.”

Always wondered about this:

Although Holmes, breezily enough, describes the contents of his trusty hypo to Watson one day as cocaine (and don’t forget that coke was legal, even for recreational use, in Holmes’ day), Watson elsewhere describes the drowsiness produced by the drug.

Uh, “drowsiness” is most definitely not the first word that comes to mind when contemplating the effects of the drug.

Thus I deduce that Holmes, like so many before and after him, was lying to his best and only friend, Watson, about the drugs he was doing.

Hey, maybe there’s more to this Holmes/Bush link. Holmes abused coccaine to dull his senses, because his brain was constantly working ten steps ahead of him — just like Bush, right?

And by the way, the “Bush Is My Homie” slogan should have been printed on a Hyper-Color shirt; at least then it would be era-appropriate. The last time I heard someone use the word “homie” had to be 1994.

Not as far off as you might think. One of the sillier etymologies suggested for “homeboy”– on a page raging about the blasphemy inherent in a “Jesus is My Homeboy” t-shirt– was this:

[My son says] that the original meaning of “Homeboy” came from quite a few years ago. It was used by sodomites who were living together. It did NOT originate from the Black community, and it is not related to the word “homie.” A homeboy was originally the partner of the sodomite couple who stayed home and kept the house and did not go to work.

Okay, glad we cleared that up. Elsewhere, I found this very academic guess (ivory tower spoken here!):

Word: homie
Syllabification: HO-mee
Part of Speech: n.
Etymology: [Latin "hominis" (man); possibly via French homme; more probably via Spanish hombre.]
Definition: A term used to refer to each other (used mostly by gangsters, skaters, etc.). Example: “Yo, ‘sup, homie?”

And lastly, this from a slang dictionary apparently composed by an Arthur Conan Doyle fan, which left me rolling on the floor:

Holmes: A term of address for a male friend.
Example: What’s up, Holmes?

The word was linked strongly enough with the rest of gangbanger accessorizing– the colors, the hand signs, the tags, the cars, the whole tiresome schtick– that a common response a couple of decades ago to “what’s up, homeboy? [or homey, homie, homes, or just home]” was “Well, first, I ain’t your homeboy.”

And it was usually the younger gangbanger wannabes grinding it into the dust through overuse, making it even more tiresome, so my response to the “Bush is My Homie” sentiment isn’t so much shock & awe as it is rolled eyes, and a hearty “sure, pendejo, whatever, guess you’ll wanna go tag a bus bench or something now to declare your teenage mutant ninja love; buh-bye.”

Pathetic little shits in search of identity…

I think instead of “absolute disgust” it’s more like amusement. What a lame shirt.

Where is this liberal world he refers to? I’d like to know so that I might move there if Kerry loses this election, because the world I live in has an America that features Rethug majorities in both houses of congress, a Rethug president, a rethug dominated supreme court, and a majority of rethug governors.

Man, just typing that makes me depressed.

“Bush: Up Your Nose With a Rubber Hose”

“Ten-Four, Good Buddy: Vote Bush”

“I Can’t Believe I Ate the Whole Bush”

“President Bush: Well Excuuuuuuuuuuuse Meeeeeeeee!”

“I’m With Stupid”

“Homie” is pretty 1998, at the latest, but I guess if fads are years out of date, that’s when they show up in Branson.