Kerry L. Marsala stands up for what’s right!
When World O’Crap caught Miss Marsala using antithesis in what can only be referred to as a very creative and unexpected way, Kerry apparently left a comment saying it was all a joke. Which is why we know that this too has to be a joke — and boy is it funny!
Even though the FCC and some offended activists are trying to pull Stern off the airwaves, for his loose tongue and vial actions… [Emphasis added]
Unless we can put a stop to vial actions, there is no longer any hope for America.
If Vice President Cheney said the bad word, I hope he apologizes to Senator Leahy, and to all that may have been in earshot.
A young girl’s hopes crushed. It’s truly sad.
WARNING: The quote below may be hazardous to your health. Reading it may require you to seek medical care. The Management cannot be held responsible. Ready?
Honey we’ve all witnessed the black as sin ceiling of the floor- overcrowded with nouns, adverbs, verbs, adjectives and exclamation points of innuendo’s, false accusations, and at times improper language.
Who will protect us from the exclamation points of innuendo’s? Maybe it’s time to call the President on his red bat phone? (Or see below.)
Edit: Corrected our correction of Miss Marsala’s “innuendo’s.” Which come to think of it means she likely had this in mind: Hello. My name is Innuendo Montoya. You killed my exclamation point. Prepare to die.
More to the point, Who will protect us from the exclamation points of innuendo’s?
Innuendo’s what, may I ask?
And who is this Innuendo fellow anyway? Is he related to Sen. Santorum, by any chance?
She’s really just making a comment on the poor quality of education in America. Not to mention the inability for people like herself to get quality spell checkers on their computers.
Even though the FCC and some offended activists are trying to pull Stern off
Huh huh… huh huh huh… huh… you said “pull Stern off”. huh huh..
Oh.
My.
Sweet.
Jesus.
If you hadn’t warned me, I would have been damaged for life. Luckily I put on my peril-sensitive sunglasses and only made it about halfway throughthe sentence before being enclosed in lovely, safe darkness.
Good for you Terry! Lucky for me I’m in such good shape, or I would have never made it past “…ceiling of the floor…”
I still have no idea what it means. Her use of the English laguage is just so file.
Elsewhere, aging groupie Marsala describes a crack in the gluteus maximus, something of an impossibilty, and describes John Kerry as “candle faced.”
Wow.
Yosef, I’m sure you meant “Her use of the English laguage is just so vital.”
hehehe…
And what is up with her abuse of the apostrophe? In 3rd grade I learned that you don’t use it when speaking of plural nouns. Like “CEO’s” and “liberal’s” and “innuendo’s.” Contractions and possessives only, Kerry.
And I think that last quote was Kerry describing her own essay. “[I]mproper language,” indeed.
Hey, Uncle Mike, question: I had always heard that if the noun was all letters, you do use the apostrophe, like CD’s or like you said CEO’s. Is that wrong? I know that when I was learning that, my state was like 45th in education, so it’s entirely possible that I was misled.
Clearly, it’s as Groucho Marx said: “Love flies out the door when money comes innuendo.”
You know, you guys are being a tad ruff on Ms. Marsala. Maybe Howard does indeed have some vial activies – if so shirley someone will have pitchers.
Doesn’t anyone speak english anymore?
It makes me very sad. Seriously.
Hey, Uncle Mike, question: I had always heard that if the noun was all letters, you do use the apostrophe, like CD’s or like you said CEO’s. Is that wrong?
It’s not wrong. It’s correct, although you of course meant “all capital letters.” However, I think “CDs” or “CEOs” may also be acceptable.
At the end of the sentence, though, you should have written “as you said,” not “like you said.” If you were older, you might recall the hubbub in the late 60’s [note correct use of apostrophe in “60’s”] or so over a Winston cigarettes slogan, “Winston tastes good like a cigarette should.” Grammarians went insane, pointing out that it should have been, “Winston tastes good as a cigarette should.” IIRC, Winston ran a later commercial saying that its cigarettes were distinguished by “good taste, not good grammar.”
Incidentally, although Ms. Marsala may be semi-literate, at least she bears the name of one of the greatest eponymous foods: Chicken Marsala. Broccoli is even greater, of course, and Eggs Benedict, Caesar Salad, and Shrimp DeJonghe are certainly worthy contenders.
Yes, Marsala’s prose could best be described as “committing the very act of the mother of all bad words itself”.
Hey, maybe these kids aren’t real. Maybe they’re software routines used to generate Hottest!Young!Conservative!Writer papers, like old Racter on drugs.
It’s probably some MIT prank gone wild – you know, an attempt to be the first to pass the Turing Test, that’s spread to other science schools around the world. Just like when Seb generated fake sentences from whosis, Doug Giles, was it.
Marsala was only copying Gillespie’s use of “vial”. I lifted this off the RNC site.
No Chairman of the RNC left behind apparently.
“Every Democrat seeking his or her party’s nomination, and who stands to benefit politically from MoveOn.org’s efforts to defeat President Bush in November through millions of dollars in advertising, should repudiate these vial attacks. So far, none have. Call talk radio stations, write letters to the editors, talk to your friends. Demand to know why none of the Democratic candidates have renounced these terrible ads yet.”
Sincerely,
Ed Gillespie
Chairman, RNC
Yosef:
Your question takes us to the murky realm of copy-editing and style manuals where decisions are made, as far as I can tell, on a doctrinal basis. The NYTimes is a believer in your “CEO’s, CD’s” construction; I once heard an interview with the copy editor in which she justified the decision by saying, essentially, it looked prettier. Unconvincing, I say; esthetics usually does trump logic, I know, but this is absurd. The apostrophe indicates possession or stands in for missing letters; it’s not a form of the plural, nor is it a sparkly tiara or a really good red lipstick. Anyway, in this finicking, quibbling arena, consistency is the watchword. Make your choice and stick with it. Steady syntax in times of change!
Frederick:
So great is my reverence for chicken Marsala that I prefer to think of our subliterate friend as “Kerry Pimento Cheese.” Perhaps you can answer a lingering question: Is Cubby Broccoli one of the broccoli Broccolis?
Perhaps you can answer a lingering question: Is Cubby Broccoli one of the broccoli Broccolis?
Yes, the late Cubby was grandson or great grandson, I think, of the broccoli inventor.
bellatrys, are you familiar with R. Robot? It’s a right-wing weblog based on this very principle and was created by John “Moon coronation” Gorenfeld.
In further response to brillig (btw, how are the slithy toves these days?):
San Francisco Chronicle 6/28/96:
Born in New York, Mr. Broccoli was an agronomist before entering the film business. It was in the family: Forebears in Italy invented the vegetable that bears their name by crossing Italian rabe with cauliflower.
No, pr, but I’ll have to check it out now. That’s pretty funny.
I used to have a vial habit, but I gave it up for lint. Of course the lint kept clogging my nose.
Chris; the problem isn’t her spell checker, her spell checker worked fine. GIGO.
As for “pulling Howard Stern off”, I guess a wank is as good as a simile for her.
I thought it was Rush Limbaugh who had VIAL habits????