Now All Erick Erickson, All The Time, Here At Sadly, No!
Macon, Georgia’s most illustrious prose stylist, grammar maven, and scholar of history Erick “Joe Bubba” Erickson lets that colored boy in the White House have it:
ABOVE: Mahatma “Bubba”
Mahatmason
Obama released a statement regarding Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday. In the statement, Obama says, “Americans owe an enormous measure of gratitude to the Mahatma. His teachings and ideals, shared with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on his 1959 pilgrimage to India, transformed American society through our civil rights movement.”
There’s just one problem.
Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in 1948.
Surely Obama’s statement was just poorly worded. But you would think the man who wants to set an example by banning texting while driving government vehicles would also want to set an example on proper grammar and writing.
Jesus, Joseph, and Mahatma! Only somebody whose entire knowledge of Martin Luther King’s life was that grandpappy once said King was a communist agitator financed by Northern nigg*r-lovers would read Obama’s statement to mean that King met personally with Gandhi during King’s famous pilgrimage to India in 1959. I suppose if Obama ever mentioned that Jesus’s teachings had been shared with him at church, Cracker Crackerson’s retort would have been that Jesus was crucified in 32 A.D.
And, excuse me for pointing this out, but Bubba Bubbason is not in such a good position to be dissing anyone else’s writing skills. Look at some of Bubba’s prose stylings that I found all in one post:
The ineffable sorrows of improper subject-verb agreement:
The incidents of late with Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Dick Cheney, and others is why I raise this.
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The “anyone” being referred to are the leftists who won’t take Levin, Limbaugh, or others seriously anyway.
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As an aside, perhaps an even greater bother are the high minded types on our side who condemn any level of aggressive activism
Confusing pronoun antecedents cause people to ostracize their admirers:
Their typical means of ostracism is to condemn the rest of us for daring to say nice things about them.
You would think that members of the party of David Vitter and Larry Craig would learn how to spell indiscreet:
But it should likewise mean we don’t race to the nearest microphone to condemn our own when they do something indiscrete.
Tortured metaphors keep America safe from terrorists:
Like a vulture flying in flock with swans, they benefit from the work the rest of us are doing to gain themselves credibility. The media plays along calling the vultures swans so others, they hope, see ugly ducklings around the vultures instead of swans.
From the current Gandhi post, a dangling participle has Obama writing laws while driving cars:
But you would think the man who wants to set an example by banning texting while driving government vehicles would also want to set an example on proper grammar and writing.
And one last dig at the Gandhi post before we’re done: the inane comparison between improper grammar and texting while driving deserves special mention, unless, of course, I’ve missed all those people killed or injured by subject-verb agreement errors.
a dangling participle has Obama
Again, with the black PENIS envy.
Safire weeps from beyond the grave.
Like a vulture flying in flock with swans, they benefit from the work the rest of us are doing to gain themselves credibility. The media plays along calling the vultures swans so others, they hope, see ugly ducklings around the vultures instead of swans.
I read that four times and I still have no fucking idea what the fuck he’s talking about.
I read that four times and I still have no fucking idea what the fuck he’s talking about.
He intends to keep fucking that chicken.
Three cheers for Passive Aggressive Notes.
More grammar-buggery courtesy of Erick:
Maybe now perhaps we can hope he will mature a bit on the issues of foreign affairs.
This from a post dripping with patriotism.
…condemn our own when they do something indiscrete.
I think he meant that Republicans were getting into scandals so often, it seemed to be continuous.
“I still have no fucking idea what the fuck he’s talking about.”
Well, put another way it reads — “I have here in my hand a list of 205—a list of names that were made known to the Comptroller of Macon as being members of a UNION …”
Hmm, let’s see.
Let’s say “Swans=Republicans, Vultures=Democrats, Media=Media”, so:
Like a Democrat flying in a flock with Republicans, they [does “they” refer to the Republicans?] benefit from the work the rest of us [oh, no, it must be the Democrats, tense notwithstanding] to gain themselves credibility. The media plays along calling the Democrats Republicans so others, they hope, see proto-Republicans around the Democrats instead of Republicans.
Man, I thought that would help. Still lost here….anybody else want to try?
For all those who think they are a special flowers and quite capable of gabbing on a phone or twiddly their thumbs texting, and still operate a car safely, get over yourselves.
Texting and talking on a telephone consume huge amounts of your ‘imagination’ as your brain builds an image of the person to whom you are talking.
What the hell does that have to with driving safely?
You are constantly using your imagination to ‘see into the future’ so you can react to constantly changing traffic. Texting or chatting on a phone interferes with your ability to imagine the future and causes you to ass-end Grandma.
And for those who say it’s the same as someone sitting in the car next to you, well, they are sitting right next to you. You don’t have to spend time imagining what they look like.
Dont drive and text.
m,kay?
I see Erick is pleased that we lost the chance to bring a bunch of jobs to America.
The “anyone” being referred to are the leftists who won’t take Levin, Limbaugh, or others seriously anyway
What constitutes not taking Mark Levin seriously? Believing that his radio program is actually one long audition for the job of narrating a revived Rocky & Bullwinkle series?
If that’s the case, then yeah, I guess I don’t take Levin seriously.
Bird mettyphorosicity can get messy At a press conference called later, Cantona gave what is perhaps his most famous quotation. Referring to how journalists would constantly monitor his behaviour, Cantona said, in a slow and deliberate manner: “When the seagulls follow the trawler, it’s because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea. Thank you very much.”
Man, I thought that would help. Still lost here….anybody else want to try?
Glad it’s not just me. I’m sure he thought he was penning a brilliant bit of writing, there. Poor kid.
I have eaten the watermelons
that were in your garden
and which you were probably
saving to shoot with your pistols.
Forgive me, they were delicious
so sweet and unripe.
A thread dissing Eeerick Eeeerickson’s mad writing skilz? C’mon. Fish. Barrel.
Hey, at least he didn’t bash Gandhi like Pat Buchanan did. (Buchanan called him “an old mountebank.” Guess he didn’t come up to the standards of, say, Hitler.)
I have flown with the swans
that were flying as a flock
and which you were probably
assigning great credibility
Forgive me they seem to know where all the naked chicks were.
so naked and so bewbees.
Man, I thought that would help. Still lost here….anybody else want to try?
No thanks.
It’s like he read the dummies guide to James Joyce and thought, “hey, how hard can this be?”
It sounds like, in the SVA areas, that EE has issues with the passive voice. Every single one of your examples are correct – IF the direct object is considered the subject. In passive voice, since the DO performs the function normally performed by the subject, that is an easy mistake to make.
In other words, EE fails eighth-grade English – but sometimes so do I, and probably everyone else once in a while.
OK, I just lost 20 minutes reading Passive Agressive Notes.
I have eaten the subjects
that agreed with those verbs
and which you were probably
saving to mangle as K-Lo would.
Forgive me, they were delicious
so sweet and OMNOMNOMNOM!
“You are constantly using your imagination to ’see into the future’ “
Oh silly Moonbat, go ahead and study that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out.
Ok, let’s try “Swans=Conservatives, Vulture=Liberal, Media=Media, Ugly Ducklings= Fake Conservatives”, therefore:
Like liberals [I’ll just fix the tense problem for him, maybe that will help] flying in flock with conservatives, they benefit from the work the rest of us are doing to gain themselves credibility. The media plays along calling the liberals conservatives so others, they hope, see fake conservatives…
Nononono. Dammit, that didn’t help either.
It sounds like, in the SVA areas, that EE has issues with the passive voice
Yeah, but that just makes him wrong AND a shitty writer.
Passive voice was used.
The plums that were in the icebox
that were eaten by me
were ones that were being saved
for breakfast.
Forgiveness is requested. Deliciousness was a characteristic of said plums,
so sweet and so cold.
OK, I just lost 20 minutes reading Passive Agressive Notes.
Did you notice the second freak-out, someone totally apeshit over “watermellen” theft, came from Macon, Georgia?
“Of the goats being fucked there is joy afterward in the lassitude felt.”
He still hasn’t denied it.
Erick is saying that we’re vultures pretending to be swans like him. And that he does all the work.
Which, given that he’s a lawyer with abysmal communication skills and a laughable grasp of logic and the law, and a city councilman who routinely says stupid things that should get him unelected from any other city’s council, is saying that we all cannot be as staggeringly inept and stupid as he is, or we’ll make him look bad.
Did you notice the second freak-out, someone totally apeshit over “watermellen” theft, came from Macon, Georgia?
Erk’s work, no doubt.
Oh, wait, I’m the vulture now? When did that happen?
Maybe now perhaps we can hope he will mature a bit on the issues of foreign affairs.
I’m in agreement with you, my friend.
Bomb, bomb, bomb
Bomb, bomb Iran!
Click me, click me!
If English is too difficult for Mr. Erickson, why doesn’t he try to learn another language?
a city councilman who routinely says stupid things that should get him unelected from any other city’s council,
Well, it is Macon Jawjaw after all. It’s not like Minnesota where being stØØpid™ is insufficient but one must also be batshit insane to get elected*.
*Cf. M. Bachmann, R – DSM IV.
FYWP
His teachings and ideals, shared with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on his 1959 pilgrimage to India,
OK, slightly awkward phrasing thanks to the passive voice, but honestly this is just more of the same TELEPROMPTERLOLOL!! BS about how BO is supposedly oratorically challenged.
Once again, the Repubs and their sycophants do what they always do best: attack your opponents’ strengths.
Like a vulture flying in flock with swans, they benefit from the work the rest of us are doing to gain themselves credibility. The media plays along calling the vultures swans so others, they hope, see ugly ducklings around the vultures instead of swans.
Swans are mean, territorial, useless son-of-bitches, while vultures serve the useful purpose of carcass removal, so obviously he means the media will give the swan Republicans credit for the dirty but necessary work done by vulture Democrats at the same time they lambaste the Democrats for being bitey hissing little motherfuckers who poop in our drinking water reservoirs.
so obviously he means the media will give the swan Republicans credit for the dirty but necessary work done by vulture Democrats at the same time they lambaste the Democrats for being bitey hissing little motherfuckers who poop in our drinking water reservoirs.
But what do ugly ducklings have to do with anything?
But what do ugly ducklings have to do with anything?
There you go, thinking again. That’ll get you into trouble, missy!
But what do ugly ducklings have to do with anything?
“Ugly ducklings” is an attempt to infantilize the Democrats as well as ascribing all the horrible swan-qualities to them. Pure projection, really.
“Like a vulture flying in flock with swans, they benefit from the work the rest of us are doing to gain themselves credibility. The media plays along calling the vultures swans so others, they hope, see ugly ducklings around the vultures instead of swans.”
What he is saying is that if the MSM calls a vulture a swan, people will think swans are ugly ducklings. (?) Also, isn’t the vulture doing the flying work himself in this analogy?
“Like a vulture………..”
Sadly no this is not a tortured metaphor. It is a tortured simile. And it is tortured.
sim?i?le??[sim-uh-lee] Show IPA
–noun
1. a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in “she is like a rose.” Compare metaphor.
2. an instance of such a figure of speech or a use of words exemplifying it.
thank you dictionary.com
[Tintin adds: Although the first sentence is a simile, the second sentence is a metaphor. I thought tortured metaphor sounded funnier than tortured simile]
Also, vultures is code for niggers, also.
Flock of Swans Flies Past
Cold Smelly Wet and Mosquito Infested Bog, Macon GA
A flock of swans flew past, graceful and majestic. Except that one of them didn’t look quite like the others.
Glorious birds, swans are known for their gentle demeanor and ability to get along with other animals.
One of the swans was darker than the others, much rougher in appearance. Lacking the majestic beauty of his brethren, the swarthy coloured swan was much less pleasing to the eye. This rougher appearance is due to his youth, since we all know that young cygnets are ugly ducklings.
Possibly, the one mismatched bird may instead be a sign of how the Obama Administration has failed to protect the swan and has allowed animal rights protestors to disfigure it. An anonymous source presented that theory. No word from the White House denying these allegations have been made.
Another possibility is that the ugly duckling may actually be an undocumented immigrant from foreign lands. A well respected biologist says that swans are migratory and therefore cover great distances in their lives. He further stated that it would not surprise him if that one swan was born outside of the US.
The word on the street about the one ugly bird was that it had taken a spot in the flock that could have been filled by a lighter coloured, more beautiful, American born swan. Questions regarding who was paying for the ugly swan’s health care and education were raised. Democratic officials had no comment regarding these concerns.
In related news, Bill Clinton had improper sexual relations with an intern.
When he writes, Eric Ericovich seems to be channeling Chriswell:
We are giving you all the evidence, based only on the secret testimonies of the miserable souls who survived this terrifying ordeal. The incidents, the places, my friends, we can not keep this a secret any longer; let us punish the guilty, let us reward the innocent. My friends, can your heart stand the shocking facts about the Negro in the White House?
Like a vulture flying in flock with swans, they benefit from the work the rest of us are doing to gain themselves credibility. The media plays along calling the vultures swans so others, they hope, see ugly ducklings around the vultures instead of swans.
What a fowl sentence structure.
What a douche.
Uh… I meant “Criswell”, who seems to have had precognitive ability on a par with that of our own resident Nostradumbass, Tr00fie:
Hilarity from liberal smear site Wikipedia:
Criswell authored several books of predictions, including 1968’s Criswell Predicts: From Now to the Year 2000. In this book, the author claimed that Denver would be struck by a ray from space that would cause all metal to adopt the qualities of rubber, leading to horrific accidents at amusement parks. He also predicted an outbreak of mass cannibalism and the end of planet Earth, which he set as happening on August 18, 1999.
…Show IPA
Yes, please. I’m thirsty.
ErikErikErikson’s latest entry: “The lefties are rather mad at me this morning.”
Mad at you? Oh, no sir! We lefties are quite delighted! Please do continue in this vein!
“Like a vulture………..”
touched for the very first time.
This thread, you win it.
damn you all with your pelican, vulture and swan obsessions…
There you go, thinking again. That’ll get you into trouble, missy!
You say this to someone who just spent the last 20 minutes Blingee-ing Sarah Palin’s book cover.
I, too, enjoy IPA.
Stop knocking Criswell. He’s a really really terrific listen. Also, LEPROSY!
While we’re POOPing on RedState, I just have to say that Moe Lane is rapidly rising, reaching ridiculously rarified ranks of retarditude.
No seriously, it’s fucking dumber than the usual.
Yessir, the people of the world love assholes.
I’d certainly like a list of national governments in the world that hate America because it is free.
But seriously, Moe Lane is saying that if we only adopted the John Bolton approach to foreign relations (threaten nuclear destruction, I believe), national governments who hate the US for being vulgar and not giving a shit will change their minds. Or something.
Anyways, the Bush Admin approach to Foreign Relations serves only one purpose in “Foreign Relations 120: Why we don’t have better relations with certain countries” – as a negative example.
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Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
October 2, 2009 at 20:07 (kill)
While we’re POOPing on RedState, I just have to say that Moe Lane is rapidly rising, reaching ridiculously rarified ranks of retarditude.
No seriously, it’s fucking dumber than the usual.
**SIGH**
I wish that had been a shorter. I would have trusted it.
Stop knocking Criswell. He’s a really really terrific listen. Also, LEPROSY!
LEAVE CRISWELL ALLLOOOOONNNEEE!!
Hey, I loves me some Criswell, but, then again, I would probably laugh my ass off listening to an Eric MacEric monologue as well.
Vultures, swans, ugly ducklings? Yet he is still prefer to skull fuck that chicken.
ErikErikErikson’s latest entry: “The lefties are rather mad at me this morning.”
The use of the fancypants word “rather” makes me think he might be using “mad” in that fancypants way as well, as in totally in love with. I’m simply mad at Erick! His japes is rather divine!
Jesus Christ. They should really rename the Dunning-Kruger effect the Erickson-Goodling effect after Erick and his blushing bride (he should have married a fellow Swedish person or whatever the hell he’s supposed to be, so his kids would be immune from all those diseases). Can you imagine what their kids are going to be like? Sure to give Malia Obama a run for her money in the 2052 elections, that’s what.
Every time the Olympics are not held in an American city it’s proof that the world hates us and that Obama is a failure.
* Because we are free;
* Because we are vulgar;
* Because we are loud;
* And because we visibly do not care if anybody likes that or not.
Funny, that seems to be the reason why conboys like Moe hate women like me so much. We are the Americas of his international community.
I think Erickson was trying for a really erudite insult but due to the gross limitations of his intellect and training, he failed.
Erk, this is how it’s done, my lad:
I had a flash of inspiration about two years ago while I was sitting in traffic looking at a bumper-sticker. The bumper-sticker read “Aids cures Fags.”
It occurred to me that there are people who are, like Martin Luther King (by the way), larger than life. They aspire to tremendous achievements often in the face of insurmountable difficulties. Those who achieve larger-than-life goals often sacrifice tremendously, even giving up their lives in pursuit of something greater and more important. Such people leave in their wake millions or billions of admirers who are touched daily by the greatness of their spirits, and are remembered long and lovingly for their contributions to their nation, or even to humanity.
There are of course people like myself, who just fit into our lives. We achieve what a normal, mortal human being with the selfish desire to live a normal life and have as much good and comfort as we can gather to ourselves. We do not take more than we are due, and we leave in our wake a family and some friends who remember us fondly for a number of years. We may touch the lives of a few dozen others.
Then there are the folks like Erickson, and my bumper-sticker applying friend, who are smaller than life. They aspire to aggrandize themselves beyond their just deserts, to clutch to themselves anything and everything that they can shake loose with whatever cajoling or lying or outright thievery they can manage, and they are bitter, hateful, vengeful and vituperative towards those whose existence they cannot accept, understand, or fathom. They are frequently despised by many, leave in their wake very few who would wish them back to life and many who are frankly relieved that they are dead and gone.
They are not often remembered long past their ending, unless they are so small and so mean and so ugly as to wreak tremendous havoc and murder and destruction in their short span, in which case they are not famous but infamous, not an inspiration to millions but a warning to history, and not loved so much as worshiped by the few adherents they litter in their wake as a cult of personality or a vicious, vengeful spirit whose grandest aspirations were an abomination vomited forth upon humanity. History’s final judgment upon them will be that it’s a good thing they were mortal because they were limited by their mortality in how much horrific ugliness they could cause.
But you would think the man who wants to set an example by banning texting while driving government vehicles would also want to set an example on proper grammar and writing.
Um, ONE might think that a man who wants his President to set an example of grammar and writing would himself set an example.
Concern troll is concerned.
I applaud my esteemed colleague slippy.
Obviously Obama only wants to ban grammatically incorrect texting, otherwise that is a ridiculous non sequitur. Erk better hope inept blogging doesn’t become the next item on the ban list.
Thorlac and the Swampy Nether Regions
I am so naming my art rock revival band this.
America loses in Olympics bid.
Freichtards cheer.
Why do they hate America?
I thought tortured metaphor sounded funnier than tortured simile
Nah, The S sound is funnier than the M sound.
Kinda like Ks are the funniest consonant.
Not to mention the hilarious ih-ih-ee vowels in “simile.”
I am a vulture
Flying so high with the swans
Tastes just like chicken
/haiku
I thought tortured metaphor sounded funnier than tortured simile
Nah, The S sound is funnier than the M sound.
Then what’s a metaphor, if not to torture?
Need an opening act?
Always, slip.
And a doozy it is too. The Peter Principle, wherein Mark Levin is compared to Jesus. Because Jesus also wondered why husbands of the hags that hounded him mercilessly didn’t shoot themselves. Other winning lines:
Heh, heh. I’m sure it was…
That just one of many, many stupid mistake.
Oh my, high mindedness! How dare these RINO’s go all high minded on us. So inappropriate to attack other conservatives with high mindedness. And now Erick will quote the Bible…
That there is a great way to get people to stop acting high minded.
You gotta read through the putrid pile of pestulent puffery (I dunno whattup with the alliteration) to get the vulture swan BS.
The swans are conservatives. The vultures are lefty lie-berals who are running a false flag operation, or maybe just moderate conservatives in general, whom Irky Irksome descibes as “creeping leftists”. His complaint is that all the good works done by the ideologically pure, far right, evangelical wing of the conservative movement is undermined and made to look bad by moderate conservatives. Seriously. Also, too.
If it were me, I’d make a post titled The Peter Principle just a single word…
Erick’s still PO’d that Dr. King was such a turn-the-other-cheek type.
Erick was deprived of Black Martin Symbionese Liberation Luther Panther King.
A real shame, that – Erick so wanted to upgrade his billy-clubs, fire hoses and police dogs to fully-automatic phosgene-napalm righteousness.
Sadly, Erick’s a hidden casualty of his race war, destined never to enjoy the smell of victory.
D-KW: If it were me, I’d make a post titled The Peter Principle just a single word…
Why, whatever could you possibly mean?
People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw typewriters. Or computers. Or grammar books.
If it were me, I’d make a post titled The Peter Principle just a single word…
Veiled penis reference
Why do they hate America?
They love America! Just not most of the people in it.
OT, but this makes me love Battlestar Galactica even more.
From T&U’s link, and please note, it’s written by our own Fudgie The Whale, Jonah Goldberg:
Not only is he clueless about politics, the motherfucker is clueless about Star Wars, mythology and science fiction in one master swoop.
PETER.
FYWP.
Jonah is the Ouroboros of ass-headery.
Not only is he clueless about politics, the motherfucker is clueless about Star Wars, mythology and science fiction in one master swoop.
He can’t even make a decent nerd, poor sap.
And, by the way, if he didn’t pick up on the political themes in BSG prior to the third season, then he’s a fucking moron. But we alreayd knew that.
Not only is he clueless about politics, the motherfucker is clueless about Star Wars, mythology and science fiction in one master swoop.
Also, for someone who slurped GWB’s knob so fucking much, it’s surprising that he understands The Bush Doctrine as well as La Palin.
Lemme halp you out Pantload,
The Bush Doctrine: Girls with Brazilians are serious about teh boinkings.
The Bush Doctrine: Girls with Brazilians are serious about teh boinkings.
Then wah duz Jinna an Nawt Jinna have them , ef grils wif Brazilians is alla bout tha sexing up, huh?
A man’s speech must exceed his grasp, else what’s a metaphor?
I never metaphor I didn’t like. Such as. Also, too.
A man’s breech exudes his gasp; that’s what a Jonah’s for.
I never metaphor I didn’t like
I metaphor drinks but nothing happened between us, so no sex.
A man’s breech exudes his gasp
Veiled large penis reference.
I metaphor drinks but nothing happened between us, so no sex.
Didn’t you tell us a simile story last week?
You can lead a Pantload to Cheetos but you can’t make it think. Or something.
I don’t know of any people killed or injured by subject-verb agreement errors, but I nearly had my eye put out once by a dangling participle.
I metaphor drinks but nothing happened between us, so no sex.
Didn’t you tell us a simile story last week?
That was an allusion. I haven’t seen her since
I nearly had my eye put out once by a dangling participle.
Prepositioning would have helped.
That was an allusion. I haven’t seen her since
Well, it took a brass parables to tell her how much you were into analogy after she said she thought it was a synecdoche.
Phase 1: David Letterman’s sex life and Obama’s Olympics fail.
Phase 2: ?
Phase 3: Palin 2012!!!
Well, it took a brass parables to tell her how much you were into analogy after she said she thought it was a synecdoche.
Sophistry so good, as they say. It’s parse and parcel of the whole thing.
Apparently Todd Palin has resigned his day job and is probably going to serve as babysitter for the Grifter.
Todd Palin has resigned his day job and is probably going to serve as babysitter for the Grifter.
a) He had a day job that didn’t involve being a drone to the queen bee?
b) There’s a real macho image for the right wing to digest…
I metaphor drinks but nothing happened between us
So, she just like to litotes?
So, she just like to litotes?
Well, she and metonymy place but she just stared at the walls and bridges.
Well, once she onomatopoeia, but I synecdoche…so she…
Ah, hell, I got nothing.
Just so long as I never see the title “All nude Erick Erickson all the time”…
“All nude Erick Erickson all the time”…
The wanting of that is not particularity high at this time.
Thanks, ‘cuum. Now I need to go bleach my brain…
“You are either with us or against us”—in a few seconds unraveled the entire moral superstructure of the Star Wars franchise.
Wow, if you can actually believe that Star Wars had ANY moral superstructure and on top of that go on a holy Jihad over it you are…. it’s pathetic, just pathetic.
Take me to your Leda.
Wow. I thought you guys were kiding about the Macon police thing. Unreal. He actually wrote this:
“A unionized police force would be just one more gang our police would have to deal with.”
Yeah right Eric, just as soon as the police start arresting each other for speeding while chasing… speeders. On what planet does this make any sense at all? This is the logic of a four year old.
Why all the hate for this guy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Erikson
Erik Erikson (June 15, 1902 – May 12, 1994) was a Danish-German-American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on social development of human beings. He may be most famous for coining the phrase identity crisis.
Or “particularly.” The other one was not all that wanted either.
I was at a loss for words but… fanboi seems apt. I mean, you this same kind of ernestness with 14 year olds flaming each other over which is better, Star Wars Galaxies or Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy.
“Dudes, it’s gawt moral superstructure you n00b. Don’t you wankers know anything!”
The GOP, finally a political party for nine year olds.
Good guys’n’bad guys. I thought it was obvious…
Wow, if you can actually believe that Star Wars had ANY moral superstructure and on top of that go on a holy Jihad over it you are…. it’s pathetic, just pathetic.
For the cinema Jihadis, Allahu Akbar is pronounced “Wolverines!”
Wow, if you can actually believe that Star Wars had ANY moral superstructure and on top of that go on a holy Jihad over it you are…. it’s pathetic, just pathetic
I dunno. Jar Jar Binks was clearly Objectivist.
Um, that last comment should be said in the voice of Comic Book Guy
Why all the hate for this guy…
He’s Danish! For fuck’s sake.
Worst typed accent ever.
By the way, the Ig Nobel Prizes were handed out last night ahead of the Nobel Prizes next week.
This might be my favorite of the Ig Nobels:
And I thought all they were good for was goofy hats.
ahead of the Nobel Prizes next week
And when Obama fails to garner one of these, watch for another heavy downpour of celebrating wingnuts.
I can understand why this makes for good jokes, but it seems a useful thing to know.
I wonder if Bessie’s steaks are tastier than #247’s. In fact I wonder if there could possibly be an outlet for the zoophiliacs here.
I wonder if Bessie’s steaks are tastier than #247’s. In fact I wonder if there could possibly be an outlet for the zoophiliacs here.
I see a grant in Mickey Kaus’s future.
Well-Blown Goat Curry
This whole business with Mickey and the goats is overblown.
Some pundits are concerned about blowblack. Mickey Kaus practically begs for it when it comes to goats.
This also means that Ignorant Ignorantson, Macon city councilman, doesn’t know squat about the biography and achievements of the man who is, by almost unanimous consensus, the greatest Georgian who ever lived.
I wonder if Bessie’s steaks are tastier than #247’s. In fact I wonder if there could possibly be an outlet for the zoophiliacs here.
I was under the impression that the best tasting milk came from contented cows. Carnation wouldn’t lie to me, now would it. Seems to me a nameless cow is a discontented cow indeed.
And I couldn’t find a picture of “made from contented cows”, but I did find this, so screw it.
Josef Stalin?
My son’s 5th grade class took a trip to back east last spring and claimed they went to Mt. Vernon to learn about George Washington.
Now it turns out he fucking died in 1799! Which means the school was obviously lying about their activities, since GW is waaaay dead and there’s no way anyone could learn about him just by going to where he lived.
I’m starting to suspect that they were sent back to some kind of Obama Youth deal, and asked where to find Gramma was so the Death Panel can find her. I’m gonna email Erick and get him on this right away.
“PUBLIC HEALTH PRIZE:
Elena N. Bodnar, Raphael C. Lee, and Sandra MarijanErick Erickson ofChicago, Illinois,Macon, GA, USA, for inventing abrassierejockstrap that, in an emergency, can be quickly converted into a pair of gas masks, one for thebrassierejockstrap wearer and one to be given to some needy bystander.”fiqxt.
Breathe in deeply Eric.
…the greatest Georgian who ever lived.
Only Caucasians are qualified to be labeled “Greatest Georgians” Case in point: Joseph Stalin
The GOP, finally a political party for nine year olds.
Well that would explain why the 11-year-old doesn’t like them. He is a good Rotten Little Perisher.
Drat! N.C. beat me to it.
N.C. and Newbie, you jest, however, anyone want to remind me of a short list of great sons and daughters of (the great US State of) Georgia? Who would be MLK’s rivals, not just in Erickson’s mind but for others?
Obi-Wan was from Georgia?
Obi-Wan was from Georgia?
“Obi-Wan” is Galactic Basic for “Billy Ray”.
“Help me, Billy Ray. You’re my only hope.” Star Wars is MUCH funnier this way. Especially if you’re stoned.
Like a vulture flying in flock with swans, they benefit from the work the rest of us are doing to gain themselves credibility
The swans should go Galt. Then the vulture would realize he’s fucked without the swans. He’d be reduced to eating dead animals on the side of the road!
Who would be MLK’s rivals, not just in Erickson’s mind but for others?
Pogo.
Who will help me work to gain myself credibility? asked the little red hen.
Not I, said the vulture. I’m off to fly in flock with swans.
Flock the swans! Flockin’ flying around like they own the place.
Fucking peliswans.
Has Erick dissolved the police force yet? How did this stump get elected?
Dude, you never had Sister Anna Carmel for 6th grade English… the threat was always there.
You’re wrong about this one.
As an aside, perhaps an even greater bother are the high minded types on our side who condemn any level of aggressive activism
The subject is “types,” not “bother.” The sentence can be reconstructed like this:
As an aside, the high minded types on our side who condemn any level of aggressive activism are perhaps an even greater bother
On the other hand, “high minded” should be hyphenated (compound adjective).
[Tintin adds: No, the subject is bother; types is the subjective complement. The verb agrees with the subject (duh!), not the subjective complement. You base the verb on how the sentence is constructed, not how it might be constructed. Using are would only be correct if the sentence were re-written as “the high-minded types on our side are a bother” in which case types would be the subject and bother would be the subjective complement. Sigh. Even so, because a sentence where the subject and subjective complement are, respectively, singular and plural (or vice versa) can sound awkward to some ears, good writers finesse the issue by using a verb that is the same for both singular and plural subjects: “An even greater bother can be those high-minded types.”]
Similes. Tortured SIMILES. Anyone noted that yet?
[Tintin adds: The first sentence in question is a simile; the second sentence, however, is a metaphor. This was discussed in an earlier comment. In fact, the second sentence is an extended metaphor or conceit. I thought tortured metaphor sounded funnier than tortured simile or tortured conceit, but like all question of teh funny, that is pretty subjective]
I’m sure none of you care, but MLK Jr. was in fact a communist, a plagiarist, and a whore-mongering adulterer.
The more you know…
You’re absolutely correct.
None of us care.
I see the word “like”; I think “simile.” But if “metaphor” is “poetic license” I’m OK with that. See also: choose your battles and “should read earlier comments.”
Fool me once, shame on, shame on you….
Every year many people dies due to improper conjugation.
Gay marriage is killing peoples?!
Every year many people go unnecessarily thirsty and sober due to improperly declining ‘atequila’.
I think people confuse spell check with proof reading. I’m amazed at the number of errors I find in books these days, and I am a spelling challenged mechanical engineer! Most probably happen because with spell check people don’t proof read as closely.
When will the Internets finally learn that you should never make fun of someone else’s grammar. Especially if you’re not anonymous.
Erickson, meet petard. Petard, meet Erickson.
*hoist*