Encyclopedia Trippany Finds The Clues
The announcement at Copenhagen by the World Meteorological Organization that the current decade will be the warmest on record and that 2009 will be the fifth hottest year since 1850 has been met by, well, deafening silence in Wingnutlandia. Jonah the Whale and some of the other Cornerdomites are busy speculating on the geopolitical significance of a black golfer schtupping white, blonde women. Mark Steyn is, naturally, still complaining about the excessive number of brown people in Europe. Poor Mona Charen, bless her heart, having apparently decided to completely ignore the dispatches from Copenhagen, is still declaring that global warming is over.
So it truly takes a brave wingnut to stride directly into the coliseum and take on the lions with his bare Funyun-encrusted hands. Sadlynauts, meet Terry Trippany, who, when he’s not out on a Geek Squad call, keeps himself busy as a super-duper NewsBuster.
The media that couldn’t bring themselves to report on the growing scandal surrounding falsified data is all on board with reporting this latest news. Yet it is clear that the Huffington Post, CBS News, the New York Times and others didn’t even bother to check the data that was released from the the UK MET (UK Government Department of Climate and Weather Change).
Uh oh. It looks like little Terry has whipped out his Captain Bozell’s Funtime Sleuthing Set, complete with kerning scale, decoder ring, magnifying glass, snub-nosed junior detective scissors, invisible ink revealer, mini-flashlight and rear-view glasses. And just what has Terry uncovered?
If they had they would have immediately discovered what I found, that the US csv (comma delimited) data dump from 1851 to 2009 is erroneous in its compilation. The January column for each year shows period information instead of temperature records and the latitude appears transposed as well. It appears that they incorrectly shifted the column headers when compling [sic] the dump.
Gasp! Shenanigans afoot! Global warming is a hoax! We win!!!!1 Fire up Dad’s SUV and take a victory lap around the block.
Sadly, no! Take a look at the data:
There’s a comma within the station field (“Key West, Florida”) that isn’t intended to be a delimiter between the fields. So, in fact, the data under January is temperature data and not the year. And the latitude and longitude fields are where they should be.
Now it’s time for Terry to pass his shiny rubber dagger (recommended for children 6 years and younger) straight through the heart of global warming science:
It is just another indication of the desperation by a group of scientists, policy makers and scare mongers that are too sloppy to check their own facts and figures; even before releasing it to the whole world as proof to counter valid questions concerning the validity of their data.
Actually, the British Met Office didn’t even release the data in the format provided by he Guardian. If Terry hadn’t been so busy trying to use his invisible ink revealer on Miley Cyrus’s Facebook page looking to see if she had left secret love notes for him, he could have found the British Met Office’s data dump and seen that it didn’t compile or release the CSV files that the Guardian provided but provided the data in this format:
Number= 037760
Name= LONDON/GATWICK
Country= UNITED KINGDO
Lat= 51.2
Long= 0.2
Height= 59
Start year= 1961
End year= 2007
First Good year= 1961
Source ID= 10
Source file= Jones+Anders
Jones data to= 1998
Normals source= Data
Normals source start year= 1961
Normals source end year= 1990
Normals= 3.8 3.9 5.8 8.0 11.3 14.4 16.5 16.2 13.8 10.8 6.6 4.7
Standard deviations source= Data
Standard deviations source start year= 1961
Standard deviations source end year= 1990
Standard deviations= 2.1 2.0 1.3 0.9 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.2 1.0 1.2 1.1 1.7
Obs:
1961 3.9 7.1 7.5 10.3 11.0 14.7 15.9 16.1 15.7 10.9 6.4 2.7
1962 4.1 4.5 2.5 7.6 9.8 13.0 15.1 14.7 12.6 10.5 5.9 1.7
1963 -2.7 -0.8 6.2 8.6 10.3 14.7 15.1 14.5 13.1 10.3 8.5 2.0
So, even were the confusing comma in the station field of the CSV version an error of some sort, it is attributable to some IT guy at the Guardian and not the “scientists, policy makers and scare mongers” at the Met Office.
Terry really ought to stick to stuff he has at least a vague chance of understanding, like the best way to say “would you like fries with that?” and leave the science-y stuff to the grown-ups.
wow, seriously? this is his big find? and then he posted this?
You fool! It’s “Miley” Cyrus! Therefore, everything you wrote is a lie!
And by they way kids, when generating a CSV file, always make sure to use quotes with the commas.
“KEY WEST, FLORIDA”,”722010″, …
Problem solved. Maybe Excel will figure this out one day.
[Tintin adds: Fixed. I know it’s Miley. I don’t know where Molly came from. I blame it on nerve damage from the recent YouTube War with Thers at Eschaton]
is that REALLY him in the photo??
[Tintin adds: It’s labeled a “speculative portrait,” which means that it is what I think he must look like without being able to find an actual picture. Alternately, if he doesn’t look like that, he should. It would be irresponsible not to speculate, etc.]
I always knew the end of the world would begin with a misplaced CSV field.
The only way these guys can think the media haven’t covered this is because they never read, watch, or listen to any news. I’ve heard it several times, usually either accepting or promoting the same bullshit premise of how damaging this is to the climate scientists.
And holy fuck, the comments there.
Isn’t he just the answer to a maiden’s prayer… Cripes.
So, this guy got all in a tizzy over a misplaced comma that wasn’t even misplaced.
Excitable sorts, these climate-change deniers, aren’t they?
Oh, Jonah’s covering the climate too. Shorter:
Fuck, I’ve seen the weather changing before our eyes, and I’m not even a fatso. Or a loadpants.
Jaysus. Does ExxonMobil do micropayments to these clowns or something?
He likes talking about dumps a lot, doesn’t he?
Sadlynauts, meet Terry Trippany, who, when he’s not out on a Geek Squad call, keeps himself busy as a super-duper NewsBuster.
Fredo, I know it was you. You broke my heart.
There’s a comma within the station field (”Key West, Florida”) that isn’t intended to be a delimiter between the fields. So, in fact, the data under January is temperature data and not the year. And the latitude and longitude fields are where they should be.
Now, TinTin, I’m sure Geekanny has a full understanding of the intricacies of database management, including the fact that you can never ever ever define a field as anything BUT data!
I think the kind of dump he meant to reference is better explained by this.
Oh, Jonah’s covering the climate too. Shorter:
Good god. Why am I not surprised that this mouth-breathing retard doesn’t know the difference between climate and weather?
This is truly quite dumb.
Assuming for a moment the climate scientists had gotten the “period” data wrongly in as the January recordings, you don’t think when they started running their models someone might have asked why the planet was supposed to have gotten burned into oblivion every News Year’s Day for the last 150 years?
Stupid libs! It’s obviously a HOAX!11!! There is undeniable proof right there in that “data dump.” See where it says “UNITED KINGDO” ? Huh? THERE IS NO SUCH COUNTRY. PROOOF THAT GLOBAL WARMING IS A LIE!!!11ONE!!
Actual email I just sent to Fudgie:
Actual email I just sent to Fudgie:
Any response? From his mother, I mean.
Hey, T&U, I don’t know about you but I am working from home today. Why? Because it snowed. It’ll take more than crazy scienticians’ doubletalk to convince me that the planet’s getting hotter when I can see with mine own eye that it is currently cold in New England.
Also, people outside the range of NYC local TV and radio stations may not be familiar with Tom Carvel’s ultimate creation Fudgie the Whale.
Yeah, come to think of it, Seattle has been very cold. Who am I supposed to believe? ‘Scientists’ who ‘spend their life studying these things’ or my own totally subjective eyes?
But in all honesty, I have been saying for about 5 years that the outcome of global warming will be an ice age because the planet has feedback systems that would kick in when it got too hot, like covering a large portion of its surface in snow to reflect the heat out of the atmosphere. Q.E.D., bitchez. Also.
It’ll take more than crazy scienticians’ doubletalk to convince me that the planet’s getting hotter when I can see with mine own eye that it is currently cold in New England.
Temperatures here are below zero with windchill. Hm. I guess Al Gore is a fat fuck after all.
algore’s beard and fat will protect him against the ice age he knows is coming.
Any response? From his mother, I mean.
This is an actual quote:
Since you brought it up, N__B, it is now your duty to explain the whole “algore” thing to me. I’ve never been able to get an answer on what the hell it’s supposed to mean.
Really? Cuz it’s 50 degrees in December in New Fucking York, where the normal temperature this time of year is “as a witch’s tit”
Huh?
Well, Jonah’s mommy says he’s handsome and thin. Jonah’s mommy loves him and would never lie!
Also, people outside the range of NYC local TV and radio stations may not be familiar with Tom Carvel’s ultimate creation Fudgie the Whale.
We actually just started getting Carvel cakes here. Alas, no Fudgie the Whale. And, is it just me, or is “It’s what happy tastes like!” vaguely pornographic?
This is an actual quote:
Huh?
Oh, Jonah.
Since you brought it up, N__B, it is now your duty to explain the whole “algore” thing to me.
After he invented the internet and before he ran for president in 1992, he devoted his time to mystical and demonic teachings that combined mathematical equations used to raise demons with complex drumming patterns designed to attract zombie-like liberals. After his defeat in 2000, he resurrected this study and turned it to “global warming.” When asked what science lay behind the so-called warming, he said he had a near perfect algorerhythm.
Fudgie the Whale…“It’s what happy tastes like!”
Vaguely?
Cut him some slack. Did you know that Terry Trippany is training to become a cage fighter.
Now, what if that man in the picture is actually some kind of saint- you know, works with the homeless, is kind to babies and kittens, takes his mother out to wholesome animated films, is a member of a law firm that defends the environment, that kind of thing? And here you have sullied him by associating him with this moronic twatwaffle. Imagine opening up the intertubes with your morning coffee and finding your face attributed to that piece of editorial flatulence. It would wreck your day, to say the least.
I bet you feel bad now, Tintin.
Pity about the hair on him though. It makes him look like a ladies lingerie salesman in a Forties screwball comedy. Or a pedophile.
t4,
I won’t make any effort to find links or shit but… Global warming, if unchecked, will turn Europe into a glacier. So there’s that.
Now, what if that man in the picture is actually some kind of saint
Saint Pederast of the Wayward Home For Boys?
Also, people outside the range of NYC local TV and radio stations may not be familiar with Tom Carvel’s ultimate creation Fudgie the Whale.
True, but it also works with the “Pantload” trope.
There’s been a lot of speculation lately in the blogosfur about the underlying motive/desire/psychology of wingnut global warming deniers. I haven’t picked a favorite yet, but wanted to throw this out there.
If the world unites in an effort to stop global warming, this will increase the power of Algore. Algore is One of Them and Cannot Be Allowed to Triumph and Must Be Opposed with All the Fury That Our Keyboards Can Unleash.
Not just Algore, of course, but all the other Poindexters and lie-berals as well.
Or something. I ask only for the sake of honing the mockery.
Leave it to the giggly, immature Obots to think that this true progressive reporter’s good work uncovering ClimateGate is something to scoff at and make fun of, much in the same way the yipping dogs and croaking frogs here at Sadly, O!, scoffed at and made fun of Hillary supporters, who rightly showed that the math the Messiah used to put on the DNC crown of thorns in Denver was as bogus as the undemocratic and misogynist reasons for supporting him in his efforts to stomp his boots on the millions and millions of voters who rightly turned to Hillary. Well he can stomp his boots no longer, as we are stomping ours out the door and to the true blue heart of Appalachia- those Reagan Democrats who are growing tired of the Messiah. It’s over for you Obots, even though you refuse to admit it.
Vaguely?
Okay, yeah, it’s pretty dirty. Which is probably why my husband giggled like a schoolboy when I read it aloud.
“I won’t make any effort to find links or shit but… Global warming, if unchecked, will turn Europe into a glacier. So there’s that.”
It also might rip a long whole in the starboard side of Australia and cause it to sink.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/12/09/australia.iceberg/index.html
That lip growth was a choice, kind to kittens or not.
That lip growth was a choice, kind to kittens or not.
I fail to see how that fauxstache is kind to kittens.
It also might rip a long whole in the starboard side of Australia and cause it to sink.
Ahem!
I fail to see how that fauxstache is kind to kittens.
Tongue scraper.
Last time a whole got ripped in me I couldn’t sit right for a week.
It’s over already, Giggly Obots? I thought we had three more years, give or take.
They must have changed the Constitution while I wasn’t looking.
not to be picky, but did you mean “Funyuns”?
I used to be able to get behind some funyuns, until the dr told me to ease up and mrs. bati put me on a diet of twigs and leaves.
mmmmmmm funyuns.
[Tintin adds: Fixed. I obviously don’t have enough empty packages of them scattered on the floor of my basement.]
true progressive reporter’s good work uncovering ClimateGate is something to scoff at […] Hillary supporters
Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Hillary run on the platform of doing something about global warming, Eyerust?
I really can’t understand the motivation behind PUMA dead-enderism. Is it really just racism? It seems so bizarre to me that you’d be a commited democrat for that long while hating black people.
Ahem!
I forgot h/t to Actor 212. You can keep all of the profit I earn from stealing your link but I get to keep everything I earn from my dumb joke. Fair enough?
You can keep all of the profit I earn from stealing your link but I get to keep everything I earn from my dumb joke. Fair enough?
I’m liberal. It’s cool. Besides I sold the movie rights to Spielberg.
[Tintin adds: Fixed. I obviously don’t have enough empty packages of them scattered on the floor of my basement.]
*He’s making a list, he’s checking it twice, gonna find out who’s naughty and nice*
Hasn’t Hillary already been assimilated into the O’Borg collective. What am I missing here?
That go-thither look is downright irresistible!
Yo yo yo, Loony libs!
Anybody in the NY metro area should check out James Hansen’s lecture in Brooklyn next week.
Last night, I had the pleasure and the privilege to meet N__B and Mrs __B, who attended last night’s lecture, and we consumed a good amount of the Six Points brewery’s winter special beer.
Next Tuesday, folks, BE THERE!
Especially you, actor212.
[FLASHING SIREN] AWOOGA! AWOOGA!
REPUBLICAN CONGRESS SAVES CHRISTMAS!!
This week, 19 House Republicans unveiled a resolution (H. RES. 951) to make it clear that Congress likes Christmas.
Whereas Christmas is a national holiday celebrated on December 25; and
Whereas the Framers intended that the First Amendment of the Constitution, in prohibiting the establishment of religion, would not prohibit any mention of religion or reference to God in civic dialog: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the House of Representatives–
(1) recognizes the importance of the symbols and traditions of Christmas;
(2) strongly disapproves of attempts to ban references to Christmas; and
(3) expresses support for the use of these symbols and traditions by those who celebrate Christmas.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_12/021375.php
Next Tuesday, folks, BE THERE!
I’ll go, if it’s not too cold.
Liberals: SISSIES!
If racist Tennessee mayors are any guide, the best course for the UK climatologists who wrote the hacked e-mails is to ‘regret offending anyone with what [they] described as a “poor attempt at tongue-in-cheek humor amongst friends”.’
Liberals: SISSIES!
hey! Don’t blame ME! The ricer doesn’t like the cold!
Note – Snowfall at any time, anywhere, in any amount is automatic disproof of global warming.
Snowfall at any time, anywhere, in any amount is automatic disproof of global warming.
[Crockett to Tubbs] It’s snowing on the beach. [/Crockett to Tubbs]
Also, people outside the range of NYC local TV and radio stations may not be familiar with Tom Carvel’s ultimate creation Fudgie the Whale.
I have to sound a dissenting note here. I believe Tom Carvel’s greatest achievement, created in his own image, and immortalized by the young Beastie Boys, was Cookie Puss. Cookie Puss, like Grimace, had an Irish counterpart, Cookie O’Puss.
Hasn’t Hillary already been assimilated into the O’Borg collective. What am I missing here?
She’s just biding her time until somebody takes a shot at him, so she can go on TV and bark, “I am in charge, here!”, in keeping with the traditions of her office.
“She’s just biding her time”
Shouldn’t that be “Biden her time”?
I believe Tom Carvel’s greatest achievement […] was Cookie Puss.
*glaring*
Wicky The Witch!
(the irony, and the inside joke for you non-NYers, is all these cakes used the same damned mold, just turned in different directions and frosted with different colors)
And by they way kids, when generating a CSV file, always make sure to use quotes with the commas.
or use a different delimiter
Out, damned mold!
Heh indizzle for shizzle, watch the GOP’s SPREAD sizzle, loony libs! Yet another poll’s surfaced from the lamestream media muck showing the A-joint-ed One, the Mess-iah, the Commander in Thief, Obummer himself, is going down, down, downtown like what’ll happen when the Republicans kick you silly socialists onto the bus and drive it through the lane for the ram-slam jam! 2010 is coming faster than you’ll believe, and after that 2012, and after that you’ll be crying faster than a ACORN commie after they run out of granola! Ding dong dilly, sillies! Urban out.
…and this is why | is your friend. None of those messy smart quotes, apostrophes, embedded control characters, or commas to fuck up your data export.
Though having to explain to a non-IT person w
Um, we’ve had Carvel ice cream (and dear Fudgie, Cookie Puss, etc) here in L.A. since I was a wee ubu.
Sorry. Short bus moment. Previous comment s/b:
Though having to explain to a non-IT person what exactly a ‘pipe character’ is for the umpteenth time does sort of wear thin.
she can go on TV and bark, “I am in charge, here!”
“Here at The White House, I’m in charge.” — Al Haig, Sec’y of State, who wasn’t. My favorite political statement ever, narrowing out “I am not a crook.”
NYC snoots: Carvel stuff is available in supermarkets, marketed on the no-longer tube, & there’s at least one Carvel store in Los Angeles. We are not the Philistines you believe us to be. Keep it up & we’re voting for Palin next time., because we’re tired of you elitests looking down your noses at us!!
P. S.: There is Yoo Hoo here too! (How can you drink that stuff? Chocolate water.)
Um, we’ve had Carvel ice cream (and dear Fudgie, Cookie Puss, etc) here in L.A. since I was a wee ubu.
That was after ol’ Tom sold it to a group of cutthroat investment bankers who raped the products and stuffed more air in the ice cream than in your average balloon.
(How can you drink that stuff? Chocolate water.)
*GASP*
It’s a BOTTLED EGG CREAM, heathen pagan!
Though having to explain to a non-IT person what exactly a ‘pipe character’ is for the umpteenth time does sort of wear thin.
Ceci n’est pas une vertical bar.
“Here at The White House, I’m in charge.” — Al Haig, Sec’y of State, who wasn’t. My favorite political statement ever, narrowing out “I am not a crook.”
Combining this and the whole NYC vs US issue, my favorite is Wm Marcy Tweed: “As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?” That was several years before he was arrested in Spain, while fleeing American jail, on the basis of a Thomas Nast cartoon. The cartoon was about Tweed’s abuse of the public-school funding and showed him holding up two boys by the scruff of the neck. The Spanish cops arrested him as a pedophile.
Gioddamnuigt! ATTS, & Always Refresh Before Going Off!
Hey, kingubu. Cold & wet enough for you?
We had Dr. Brown’s (or someone’s, not the other Dr. B.’s) egg creams at one point in a snooty supermarket. OK, but nothing compelling. Yoo Hoos were a big disappointment to my refined palate.
We had Dr. Brown’s (or someone’s, not the other Dr. B.’s) egg creams at one point in a snooty supermarket.
They make a cream soda. I don’t think they can egg creams.
You should try their Cel-Ray soda.
Yes. It’s celery-based.
watch the GOP’s SPREAD sizzle
Wienie roast!
Cold & wet enough for you?
Worst week for a topless Jeep, evar. Being able to snuggle in under Al Gore’s side-rolls helps, though.
is that REALLY him in the photo?? Tintin adds: It’s labeled a “speculative portrait,” which means that it is what I think he must look like without being able to find an actual picture.
Wait, isn’t he also the Snotchos guy?
Coach Urban Meyer said,
December 9, 2009 at 22:58
ROLL TIDE!
I’ve already made my donation to the Fund for Straws that Internet Heroes can Grasp at. Have you?
You better. Otherwise, it will be a long, boring winter.
Yoo Hoo: what you get if you mix your Nestle’s Quik with water instead of milk– but at 10 times the price.
what you get if you mix your Nestle’s Quik with water instead of milk
If you use Quik, you deserve it.
(the irony, and the inside joke for you non-NYers, is all these cakes used the same damned mold, just turned in different directions and frosted with different colors)
You calling Santa a whale?
War on Christmas is ON!!!
Yep, Yep, Yep…
Few things more compelling than men over fifty* discussing the merits of junk drinks from a geographical perspective.
Whatever the brand, it was definitely billed as an egg cream. Some time ago, so Dr. Brown’s was a guess. Obviously nowhere near the real thing, whipped up at the fountain.
*May not apply to kingubu, who may be filled w/ the dewy glow of yout’ & not even male.
Ceci n’est pas une vertical bar.
Ms. Beesley, Kingubu stole my joke!!
hey, protected static:
What is a pipe character and how do you make it?
Okay, don’t explain to me what it is, tell me how to create one on my magic glowing screen.
Iris said,
December 9, 2009 at 21:29 “[what oft was thought but ne’er so well expressed]”
Yikes! These darned monogamy laws prevent me from pleading my case properly, Iris, but will you be my concubine and read me bedtime stories every night until I expire from happiness?
Few things more compelling than men over fifty* discussing the merits of junk drinks from a geographical perspective.
Please. The preferred term is “men of a certain age”. Haven’t you been keeping up???
Ceci n’est pas une vertical bar.
Burst out laughing and scared my cubicle mate.
This is a pipe: |
You make it with the key next to the } key on your keyboard, unless you’re on some wacky laptop or some Eurofagscist differential engine, where you’re on your own.
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Hey, cool!
This is a pipe: |
That’s not a pipe.
Now, THAT’S a pipe! [Tintin adds: NSFW!]
What is a pipe character and how do you make it?
OK, Obvious, I know, but: Pipe Character
Unix people sure do like their pipes.
*May not apply to kingubu, who may be filled w/ the dewy glow of yout’ & not even male.
Men are usually at least somewhat advanced in age before they accede to the throne.
The irritating thing about the pipe is that on a lot of keyboards the graphic for it is split in the middle.
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Please. The preferred term is “men of a certain age”. Haven’t you been keeping up???
What happened to “Grampie”? Passe already?
Yep, that’s the thing. Mine is cut in two. no wonder I couldn’t find it.
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Right on.
As for you, actor, and your large floppy uncut pipe… Why? Srsly. Why?
Unix people sure do like their pipes.
And they love to have a bash. And by bash, I don’t mean a party.
Not to mention your pipes are not pipes.
This is a motherfucking pipe!
As for you, actor, and your large floppy uncut pipe… Why? Srsly. Why?
Uhhhhhhh, because I can?
What happened to “Grampie”? Passe already?
You! Off my lawn!
Ceci n’est pas un pipe: |
actor12: Next time you link to pictures of such awesome pipes, can you put up a NSFW warning?
(Hoping I don’t get an ‘interesting’ visit from IT.)
Not that I’m not the occasional pipe afficionado, but I like to peruse these pipe pictures in the privacy of my own home.
My apologies, BB. My fingers were faster than my mouth.
or something like that.
Indeed.
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The internet is not a truck, it’s a series of pipes.
Anybody got an Hash?
Anybody got an Hash?
No, but I will happily give you a reference.
Have drinks ready.
Don’t ask them about pipe characters, that’s for sure!
Well, my work as an independent sales rep for WebSense is done here…
Mine has the scarey screen if you go to a link like that. I’ve learned.
“men of a certain age”
That makes you Scott Bakula, then?
That makes you Scott Bakula, then?
Now you’re just being nasty.
No, just keeping up.
These references to Magritte and “a series of pipes” are triggering me.
Zut alors! Une référence circulaire!
[débordement de pile suivante]
I see the commies from Greater Frenchistan have arrived.
Well still no sign from IT, guess I’m[connection reset by peer]
You know, I read George Will in Newsweek and on the opinion page of the right-wing rag that I work for, and I see him getting his panties in a twist because of Obama’s remark about being the first Pacific president, and Will see him rather willfully missing the point by pointing out that William Howard Taft was GOVERNOR OF THE PHILIPPINES, no less, and I wonder …
Is this the really the best columnist that the conservative side of the commentary aisle has to offer?
And then I come here and soon realize that the answer to my question is a resounding “yes.”
Thus, giving George Will full bragging rights to a title that no honest, decent, reasonable person would brag about.
Magritte
Series of pipes
triggering
Yeah, despite appearances, I’m still at the other end of my 40s. Who knew that treating your body like an amusement park would have consequences?
Site-appropriate pipe character.
treating your body like an amusement park
You took too much PCP, broke into your body in the middle of the night and drove around in a bulldozer smashing into everything, then set fire to the ferris-wheel?
Live fast, die young, & leave a corpse that reflects the fun you’ve had killing yourself, & can serve as a dire warning, if it’s an open casket deal.
More or less.
Ix-nay on the ust-day, though. Even at my most experimental, that and heroin stayed beyond the pale.
Always TRUST the shorter. Linkage to the Not-Shorter equals cornering.
There is a sense of serene moment when the nose itches just…………………………………..nod………………….
tintin…that isn’t you, is it?
OK, so the guy is balding and has a smug smile, but he’s got intelligent eyes and a sardonic expression overall. And the ironic t-shirt is a nice touch.
Terry Tripany should be porcine, polyester-clad, and with a dull, earnest insurance-salesman expression. And balding, or else with hair that appears to have been combed with axle grease.
Or perhaps something in the Major Grease Weasel Tom Delay/Jack Abramoff look.
This NOT a pipe.
http://foucault.info/documents/foucault.thisIsNotaPipe.en.html
This is not a POOP.
Iris said,
December 9, 2009 at 21:29
Was that post computer generated?
HE: Do you like compling?
SHE: I don’t know, you silly boy – I’ve never compled!
N_B said,
“When asked what science lay behind the so-called warming, he said he had a near perfect algorerhythm.”
Aww, now I know you’re trying to kid us. Anyone knows it’s the colored folk who have natural algorithm.
Especially the ones in Asia, like Ramanujan. (Yeah, I know, this doesn’t work, algorithms weren’t his schtick.)
It’s like the reason there are so many S&L financial people recruited from among the vagino-Americans: they have a natural loss of interest due to early withdrawal.
I’m a Eurofagscist AND on a laptop. My pipe is between the left-hand shift and the Z.
I really can’t understand the motivation behind PUMA dead-enderism. Is it really just racism?
No, someone just left their hotflash-to-text translator on.
“Ix-nay on the ust-day, though. Even at my most experimental, that and heroin stayed beyond the pale.”
phht. Pussy.
“Though having to explain to a non-IT person what exactly a ‘pipe character’ is for the umpteenth time does sort of wear thin.”
Just call it an “or-bar.”
Witness the convergence of two wingnut narratives in the comments to Terry’s post:
“…look at the name of the stations where the readings were taken.
Virtually all of them are “cities”, and it’s well-known that the cities themselves HAVE gotten warmer because of the added mass, asphalt, and energy usage. So it’s clear that taking ONLY the data from the urban areas, you’re going to naturally show warming…
Let’s see the RURAL data sets instead, where urban encroachment hasn’t caused any deviations in the ‘natural temperature trends’.”
Maybe this explains global warming denierism – it’s actually getting cooler in real-world wingnuttia?