Comments on: Fadge Thee Well, Fain Thesaurian

By: Theron

Theron — Thu, 29 May 2008 01:51:38 +0000

I’m not an English professor (thank all that is just). Why anyone would volunteer to spend a lifetime grading Freshman Comp papers I can not imagine. But I still have to deal with clowns like this all too often. “Weal” and “fadge” and the like are usually signs of one of two things: 1) Plagiarism or 2) Obfuscation. The first is an automatic flunk and the second generally leads to Cs and Ds, as the paper in question doesn’t really say much. It’s precisely these bozos, however, who go on to law school and then run for office. God help us all.

By: kenga

kenga — Wed, 28 May 2008 19:00:30 +0000

“Smurf her good Lusty!”
I’ll see what I can do.

By: Righteous Bubba

Righteous Bubba — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:58:22 +0000

a Smurfs of Gor poster

Take a picture of it. It sounds great and I’d like to see it.

By: kenga

kenga — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:45:58 +0000

So we fadged over to Gargamel’s castle, fadged our way in and fadged Azrael silly. Gargamel got upset and tried to zap us but we fadged him one right in the butt and fadged home.

You know Bubba, I can go months, sometimes more than a year, without recalling that I own a Smurfs of Gor poster.
And then some wit reminds me …

By: Quicksand

Quicksand — Wed, 28 May 2008 17:39:34 +0000

logopandocie

Lap dance? Pole dance? Log what?

By: MrWonderful

MrWonderful — Wed, 28 May 2008 14:38:04 +0000

Though I tend to logopandocie
“Logopandocie” sounds delicious and I would like the recipe.

Can do, Clyde.

Logopandocie is a conflation of the Spanish “loco” and “pan dulce.” Its literal meaning is “crazy sweet bread.”

1. Take some bread.
2. Spread with jelly, jam, preserves, or honey.
3. Crazy!

By: not even an mba

not even an mba — Wed, 28 May 2008 14:17:16 +0000

From the ‘about’: “He takes a particular interest in ~~political elocution~~blowing and other ignoble uses of ~~English~~goats.”

Fixed.

By: not even an mba

not even an mba — Wed, 28 May 2008 14:06:44 +0000

Hey alec,
So you think if it ain’t baroque, don’t fix it? Well you better watch out our Zombie Johann Sebastien is gonna rise from the dead and slap you in the face with his organ.

By: rz

rz — Wed, 28 May 2008 14:05:51 +0000

From the ‘about’: “He takes a particular interest in political elocution and other ignoble uses of English.”

Another sad case of a writer working with a thesaurus at his side and not a dictionary.

By: tigrismus

tigrismus — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:10:50 +0000

Fraud? Jesus Christ, Alec, if you don’t like Bach just say so, there’s no need to question the intellect or character of those who do.

By: Fadge-y Lee

Fadge-y Lee — Wed, 28 May 2008 12:24:01 +0000

He’s unperturbated with sidereals of yore
He kens contiguous metamorphose is manifest concurrently
He’s patrician sufficiently to synthesize whats dexter
But innervated adequately not to preferentialize it
He’s sapient satisfactorily to victorialize the terrestrial orb
But mooncalf enow to squander it

He’s a contemporaneous biospheric entity.

By: celticgirl

celticgirl — Wed, 28 May 2008 08:41:42 +0000

Now all we have to do is submit this to the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. I smell a win!

By: trollhattan

trollhattan — Wed, 28 May 2008 06:31:35 +0000

Why, oh why teh Sadlys no be on Skippy’s blog roll?

Suspect link to Dilbert blog will trigger restraining order from Scott Adams. Link to McSweeney’s confirms dey no unnestan parody.

Pathetic little trust fund gobshites.

By: alec

alec — Wed, 28 May 2008 06:02:36 +0000

And I reserve special contempt for anyone who describes Rush music as “objectively the best”.

Oh, God. Do people do this? Why would people do this?

I don’t even know why people listen to Rush, let alone . . .

God, I’ve got to lay down.

By: George Smiley

George Smiley — Wed, 28 May 2008 06:01:52 +0000

“…Western classical and baroque, and the opera.” Not opera. Teh opera. And Teh Dance. And Teh Gay. Speaking of which, Wolcott sez Veronica Part is dancing Swan Lake in NYC this Sat., and there are tickets available. Gooooooooooaaaaaaaaal!

By: Mick Rofls

Mick Rofls — Wed, 28 May 2008 05:59:09 +0000

Yeah, fuck those prensie Dartmouth governanciers in their fucking prensie guards.

By: SamFromUtah

SamFromUtah — Wed, 28 May 2008 05:55:40 +0000

You mean, use words to justify one’s preferences about music? Because that’s just a little bit silly. Unless you want that “description in any coherent way” to come in the form of an interpretative dance. Or painting. Or neo-classical architecture.

Damn straight. I get embarrassed reading nearly anything written to try to describe music. I start getting annoyed when it’s about rock and the author hauls out the “crashing chords” cliche.

And I reserve special contempt for anyone who describes Rush music as “objectively the best”.

“I like it because it ROCKS!” is about as honest and readable a written justification of a musical preference as you’re going to find.

By: Snorghagen

Snorghagen — Wed, 28 May 2008 05:54:00 +0000

Though I tend to logopandocie, Mr Manchow is a circumfloribus babliaminy guilty of the worst sort of contravivulating embolalia.

Your statement ambulates with moral chiaroscuro, heightened by a cryptohygenic brio that I find both crenellational and preorgasmic, but without the lachrymose pseudobovine perianalism so often associated with clubfooted Latvian stumphumpers.

By: George Smiley

George Smiley — Wed, 28 May 2008 05:43:33 +0000

Toby: yes, we are the worst, aren’t we?

By: alec

alec — Wed, 28 May 2008 05:30:43 +0000

Krassen: Hey, it’s nothing to be ashamed of. Lookin’ fancy is one of the reasons we have a language; I was simply pointing out what does and doesn’t work for fancy-making with people who speak English well. ‘Reagent budget’ is good, and ‘budget’ is close enough to what it usually means that it doesn’t even look pretentious.

The main point is that using five-dollar verbiage in a deliberate effort to impress makes you look like a semi-literate peasant. Of course, if you’re a moneyed wingnut like this guy, ‘semi-literate peasant’ is all you can really aspire to; Heaven forbid they outwrite their hero Ayn.