You are a bunch of elitists showing your intolerance for America by making fun of its most treasured traditions and foodstuffs while you eat your gherkins and your imported British candied lamb cartilage at your cocktail parties. (If it wasn’t for the presence of Mallard Fillmore cornering you latte-licking limousine liberals and forcing you to apologize for saying NPR listeners are better informed than Rush Limbaugh listeners, I wouldn’t even go.)

Liberals. Hmf.

The chinese characters look decent to me, though I guess you do want to make sure it doesn’t actually say “pork rinds” or “elevator” or something.

Sorry if individuality bothers you.

In Dicky’s world, breast implants & facelifts provide a revenue stream to Very Serious Medical Professionals. Tattoos and piercings just pass impulse money to DFHs — money that would otherwise go (so thinks Dicky) to Very Serious Megacorporate Retailers.

I have nothing against tattoos except an allergy to physical discomfort. To quote Norman Ball, “I’d quite like a scar like Major’s, if only they could do it under anesthesia and without breaking the skin.”

That reminds me of a little joke – Do you have Prince Albert in a can?

Apparently Cohen let him out. And then he ate him.

I like how “readers of online news discussion blogs” are a good 15% less-informed than even regular Limbaugh listeners. That says a heck of a lot. I often get the feeling that some of these right wing bloviators are even more ignorant than your average Limbacil. Looks like they actually are.

Call in Tatdude!

Yep, sportin’ major column.

My dad, a physicist by training, used to squirm at the proverbial expressions linking arcane knowledge and unfathomable intelligence to “rocket science.” He said rocket scientists were engineers, basically — and, with almost a shudder, “Most of _them_ still believe in _God_!”

I think this is the report Mallard Fillmore referenced. The date was July 30, 2006.

The three questions asked respondents which party has a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives (Republicans); the name of the current U.S. Secretary of State (Condoleezza Rice); the name of the current president of Russia (Vladimir Putin).

So they weren’t asked to explain anything complex. They were simply asked for a name.

Readers of news magazines, political magazines and business magazines, listeners of Rush Limbaugh and NPR, and viewers of the Daily Show, and C-SPAN also are much more likely than the average person to have a college degree.

Anybody willing to bet that Rush listeners are more likely to have their degrees in engineering or business, than medicine, art, law, etc.?

Contrary to my statements, Russia had not called, they were not running out of vodka, and they hadn’t mentioned him by name. It is not, in fact, possible to be “too drunk to legally even ride in a car [as a passenger]“; that was intended as hyperbole and was not appropriate to the circumstances. Finally, the pun constructed around Millard Fillmore’s affiliation with the “know-nothing” party was unfair.

Of course without the tattoo you’d still be an old person with loose skin, and really that’s not so much better aesthetically.

Anyway just don’t get:
(a) someone’s name in script
(b) a paw print
(c) a picture of Joe Pantoliono with the caption THIS GUY IS GREAT, TRUST HIM in backward mirror-writing.

[Clif adds: Yes.]