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Damn those space sharks, there eating our ozone layer.
Ozone is a librul lie to make honest God-fearing Americans pay extra for their rightful refrigeration.
The depletion of the ozone layer is another lie made up by Al Gore to perpetuate his “internet” scheme.
Also, you should say “they’re” or add the word “out” before “there” for the sentence to be correct.
Apparently the education system is also a LIBERAL lie to make honest God-fearing Americans pay extra for the right to learn to spell properly.
At least Philospher used the correct “their”.
*sulks* Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaay, I’ll give them that…
Awww.. No need to sulk. Just a give credit where credit is due type thing… Here, have a cookie.
Cookie! *Nom Nom Nom!*
Someone likes cookies.
It’s a good thing I made a lot of them before visiting today. Have another one.
The Dark Side has cookies… double choc-chip
Don’t I know it!
*noms double chocolate chip with macadamia nuts* I get frequent evil mileage which I can spend on better cookies. XD
Are you saying my cookies aren’t good enough? It’s the same recipe I used in my Dark Side application.. I haven’t heard back yet.
No, the Dark Side uses a Martha Stewart recipe…
yours are really good, though <3
Ah… I am validated.
You get cookies equal in awesome to the level of awesomely evil you are. I told Lynn that she could play as a kitten when she made her tail and ears. This was after I beat her with a flogger and spanked her. Then I had her on my lap as a pet while I brushed her. Then I raped her face.
I get nifty cookies…
wtf?
You seriously lack the evil. And your head would explode if I told you whose idea it was.
Ann Coulter?
Not with a borrowed dick, no. No No no no NO NO NO NO NO no No nO noO.
If I wanted a man, I would look up Tego.
Wait… who’s Lynn?
DARK chocolate chip
Win
“Them” is plural. There’s only one Naughty Philosopher.
Thank God.
NP wasn’t sarcy?
There can be female naughty philosophers, so I didn’t want to brand IT with a sex…
Hey that’s me! *proudly holds up her philosophy degree* Would you like fries with that?
Erm, yeah, actually. Sorry, Hell!
Also, Naughty Philosopher is a pun on Evil Pundit, who traditionally uses that ‘librul’ spelling.
Dam strate!
Is that pro-gay?
Or are you shaming that dam for being strate? lol
I’ll stop before I hurt myself
You can’t trust the dams, I tell you!
Honest+God-fearing? Maybe you haven’t seen the news or been outside for the last, um, well, ever, but the population of REALLY honest, God-fearing people anywhere is about 2%…if that. Nothing against Christians or what-have-you, but most people who claim to be good religious people have more vices hidden in thier closets than Michael Jackson. Putting on a nice guy act and doing all of your dirty deeds in private doesn’t make it any more moral.
Oh, BTW, if you’re trying to make people respect your opinion, at least learn how to spell the commonly-used description of what you oppose.
You obviously missed the joke.
I didn’t miss it. I never wanted it here in the first place.
Ok, but that was quite a lenghty speech considering it was meant in jest. Besides, who are to say what can and can’t be here?
Lenghty?
My response was in jest, by the way. You know, he said, ‘missed’, and I said, “never wanted it here in the first place’=lol
Don’t take it so seriously, d00d
Calm the proverbial ham PLEASE…
Scorned or not, yer fury’s contaminating my computer.
Thank heavens someone didn’t; well caught, eddie
But… I thought Michael Jackson said to keep it in the closet. Now I’m confused.
Also, it’s spelled “t h e i r”, not “t h i e r” lol.
Their
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I’m an english major and it took me getting my ass flamed online before i learned to spell it right. it’s E I because of the sort of ‘air’ sound it makes.
Also that supid “I before E except after C” rule that for some reason isn’t always true.
Speaking of stupid rules, when I was learning how to make words past tense, my teacher would always say “Drop the ‘E’ and add ‘ED’” (bake = baked for those not following). Finally I raised my hand (because I was sick of erasing all my e’s) and said “Why can’t we just add the ‘D’?” She was not very amused and could only give me the “That’s the way it’s done speech”.
Can you explain why it’s taught that way, English Major? I mean, I suppose they might teach it differently now given that this was about 2 decades ago. But it still bothers me. There were lots of perfectly good e’s I erased for apparently no reason at all.
Thank you, it was just a typo, not as if I don’t know the correct spelling, being a software editor for Washington’s state capitol and Microsoft and such.
I’m sorry, next time I will check credentials before pointing out an error in a comment about an error..
I before E except after C and when they sound like “A” such as in neighbor and weigh. Get the full mnemonic right
*watches School House Rock*
Mnemonic or not, it’s still stupid. Like most of the English language: there they’re their through threw tough plough read read … Egads.
But thanks, I totally forgot the rest of it. I always thought “I before E except after C something something blah blah blah”. Now I can teach my cat.
English grammar is mostly a collection of exceptions
It’s impossible for something to be made up of mostly exceptions. Then they wouldn’t be exceptions.
It is possible if you’re talking about a language hastily scrabbled together by a bunch of illiterate farmers who stole from other languages to make their own. And then mispronounced most of the words they stole.
There you go with the disdain for the masses again. Typical. Hmpfff
LOL
I TRIED to teach my cat and even after going through
a box of Band Aids he still writes “e” before “i” and has
no clue about punctuation.
Silly, cats can’t write with Band-Aids. Next time try a pencil. But if he asks to show you a magic trick with the pencil; just say no.
Definitely Say NOOO.
Weird, that seems inefficient.
Or, as my 6th grade teacher added to that mnemonic, “…and
whenever else the rule doesn’t apply.”
I always knew it as I before E except after C, unless it’s an A as in neighbour and weigh, or if it’s weird.
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English is a twisted mutant of a language, germanic in origin, but french scribes had their way with it, then scholars applied latin rules, after that a bunch of people came in and english started borrowing words. Now it’s a fiend that stalks through alleyways beating up other languages then rifling through their pockets for spare vocabulary.
Sounds like “A”?
Eh naw.
Isn’t it: “I before E except after C and before GH”?
Weird. You’re forgetting weird.
Oh aye.
That’s weird.
another anomaly in the english language: If you say something sucks, that can be bad, or REALLY good
Matt’s still coming down from his GF’s visit, I see…
Wow, that’s one of the best descriptions of linguistic development I’ve ever happened upon. *doffs hat*
I have a bumper sticker that says that =)
¡Viva el Español!
Yay language dorks!
GREAT visual imagery!!
That’s wEIrd. My rottwEIller and I were sitting here, and it just occurred to me that there are actually quite a few words out there that don’t follow that rule… and yet they never actually tell you anything scIEntific about them, so then you’re screwed for the rest of your life spelling your words bass-ackwards…Of course, it may because a dEIty stepped in and did something. Sometimes I can’t help but think that English is almost a forEIgn language, even to me.
I could not tell you to be honest, my focus is more literature based so my knowledge of grammar is more trial and error than anything.
my guess however was that the dropping the E is a habit they wanted to give you when attaching things like ‘ing’ ‘ed’ and so on. In the case of ED there isn’t really a reason to drop the E, however…well here’s an example. Recently I’ve noticed that I misspell “arguing” often. I didn’t think of dropping the e at all so i kept spelling it Argue, argued, argueing. However if my first step would be dropping the e before adding anything, I would spell it right.
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does that help at all? I am not terribly good at telling the why’s of english grammar, I just suck at it enough that I remember problems.
Hmmm.. Makes sense. Perhaps I just got some yet undiscovered great spelling gene, and therefore could distinguish between words like argue and bake or whatnot such as you have exampled. I still want all those wasted e’s back.
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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Awww… Thanks. *packs e’s up for later*
I before E except after C, weird rule if you ask me.
heh. i learned it when i was homeschooled back in the day. i also learned about “a lot” and “utilize.”
Holy thermodynamics, Batman, he’s always increasing…
Anyway, the full mnemonic is:
“I before E, except after C, or when sounding like ‘A’ as in neighbor or weigh, or on weekends and holidays and all throughout May, and you’ll always be wrong no matter WHAT you say!”
Thank you, Brian Regan.
Oh, so the sound that is generated by Sarah Palin’s ears! I get it now!
And Al Gores!
Perhaps they’re old-fashioned Southerners, of the generation that believed sin could be forgiven but scandal could not.
The harder you fight it, the more I’m sure. Face it: You love Southerners!
Can’t people be honest without fearing a god?
That’s why I said, “Honest+God-fearing”
There can be one without the other, unlike love and marriage, lol
this one made me chuckle
What?
Absolutely no crappy politically biased rhetoric?
*checks address bar*
Yup, it’s Pundit Kitchen
*staggers away stunned*
It’s all President Bush’s fault!!!!!!
All better now?
Well, at least they’re not after space dragons like Ridley, those’re awesome
I Lol’d. Awesome.
Great, the one place I thought I would be safe from sharks…..
*steers Starship Enterprise back towards Earth*
That’s not a Harpoon, this is a Harpoon (see name)
No, my dear, that’s Paris Hilton’s tampon
*did I say that? yuck*
Oh that’s just disgusting. No cookie for you.
That’s okay. I like tacos better. Space shark tacos.
I’ll take it!!
Here ema, have Hell’s cookie.
That sounds weird.
I bet it tastes weird, too.
mmm, thanks! Never turn down a cookie, even if it’s a Hell’s cookie.
Baked in Hell’s Kitchen?
Only if we’re talking part of Manhattan and not that horrible Chef Gordon show. I would stab that man in the face if I could. Prefereably with a spoon.
I usually do my baking in my own kitchen, everything is in it’s place. But there’s always that added little bit of hell.
*Preferably
Ahhh too early in the morning. Also, “its” not “it’s”. Sheesh
I’m gonna cut your heart out with a spoon.
– Why a spoon cousin? Why not an axe?
Because it’s dull, you twit, it’ll hurt more.
She needs one?
That is disgusting as well.. But judging by the obviously non-nutricious diet, the apparent rampant drug and alcohol abuse and the all around whore-ness of her, she probably doesn’t bleed very often. At least not the kind of bleed that requires a tampon.
I have to go wash my brain with bleach now.
I aim to ‘please’
That’s not a knife… it’s a machete!
That’s not a knife, that’s a spoon.
There is no spoon.
Ahh.. I see you’ve played knifey spooney before.
New Thread: The failure of the democrats to remove Lieberman from his committee chairmanship, despite L’s many offenses against them, shows that the next two years will be characterized by a total lack of leadership in the Senate. Discuss.
For those who don’t know, here’s the list of Lieberman’s offenses, as far as I know:
1) Campaigned for McCain.
2) Campaigned for several other Republican senators this year.
3) Has publicly stated that “Democratic control of the White House, Senate, and House of representatives would be a disaster for the nation.”
Well, okay, that’s only three things. In my mind, though, at some point you have to demand party unity from those in leadership roles. He should have lost his chairmanship of Homeland Security, and maybe be given a leadership role elsewhere, say, environmental issues.
i can’t hear you over the sound of your own FAIL.
Oh, sorry, is actual thought inimical to your grey matter?
So basically what you are saying is:
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1) Because he switched to Indie and campaigned for McCain, only those of the party in the majority should have committee chairmanships?
2) See #1
3) Do you not see the problem with one party controlling both houses and the executive branch? Talk about letting the fox guard the hen house.
But 6 years under W was ok in the opposite direction ??
Hmm, yeah ok, I see you’re point. But that still leave 1 and 2.
Okay, on 1 & 2, he was simply caught up in the magic eddy (hah!) of mavericky-ness. It’s all forgives now, because the campaign season is largely over (GA & MN). Besides, he stuck out his lip and said he was really, really sorry.
6 years? 2008
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or am I missing something?
I did go to public school, so maybe.
The Democrats got the majority in 2006.
Oooooohhh
sorry, I had a blonde moment
*I swear, if anyone gets on me for implying that the stereotype of blondes=dumb is correct, I’ll tell them that stereotypes only exist because a certain type of people are well-known for a certain type of behavior. This is my pre-emptive argument*
BLONDIST!!
Pre-emptive argument! I like it, can I use it?
I’m always disappointed no one has ever used my ‘pre-emptive retaliatory strike’ idea…
It sounds sufficiently double speak to work
Ok, I’ll give it a try… when you least expect it.
In bed with Paris Hilton’s tampon.
Pre-emptive extraordinary rendition for you all!
Eeeeuuuw!
I didn’t really see where is said it’s okay cause bush did it. I for one like the idea of having one opposite the other. It is less efficent but all interests are heard. Sort of like the idea of picking cabinet members that go against what you normally believe in the spirit of debate.
6 years under Bush, but I don’t believe they had the numbers that the Dems do now.
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I think a single party government is a very VERY dangerous thing. Nancy Pelosi isn’t qualified to be God.
Based on the marketing materials available, God isn’t qualified to be god…
No, but Morgan Freeman is.
Yay freemanism!
I preferred George Burns…
Or Alanis Morissette…
Sure, she makes a great god, but can she run congress?
Can’t do worse than Pelosi…
As far as #3, the way Bush was spending we had something like full liberal Democrat control of both for the last 2 years anyway…
Bush not fiscally conservative? Are you a Liberal?
Bush spent our money like a drunken sailor. The end.
You pinko traitor.
1) and 2): yes, eddie, that is exactly what I’m saying. Moreover, it’s the way the senate and house generally run; I don’t think there have been many exceptions in history. Usually if you let an independent caucus with you, it’s expected they follow the party line more closely than Lieberman does. You certainly wouldn’t let them campaign against multiple candidates!
On 3), I usually agree with you. However, right now, I want two to four years of bold democratic leadership to reverse some of the worst problems of the Reagan/Bush/Bush years, then return to sensible, balanced control. Regretfully, allowing Lieberman to hold on to his Homeland Security chairmanship suggests that our leadership will be anything but “bold”.
Plus, I don’t think Lieberman’s done a very good job of exercising his oversight role in Homeland Security, and I’d like to get someone in there who would.
On 1) and 2), shouldn’t committee chairmanships be non-partisan? At least that’s the way I think it should be. I’m not trying to keep Lieberman there, Lord knows I didn’t like the guy when ran for VP in 2000 and I don’t think he’s gotten any better.
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As for 3) I guess we’re going to have to agree to disagree as I don’t see any benefit to having one party control the whole ball o’ wax. At least one house of Congress should be controlled by the opposing party. To my way of thinking, it does help keep everyone a little bit honest (and did say a little bit).
Point three: In a few years, I’m gonna agree with you. Right now, I don’t
“Not long before our nation launched the invasion of Iraq, our longest-serving Senator, Robert Byrd of West Virginia, stood on the Senate floor and said: “This chamber is, for the most part, silent—ominously, dreadfully silent. There is no debate, no discussion, no attempt to lay out for the nation the pros and cons of this particular war. There is nothing. We stand passively mute in the United States Senate.”
Why was the Senate silent?
In describing the empty chamber the way he did, Byrd invited a specific version of the same general question millions of us have been asking: “Why do reason, logic and truth seem to play a sharply diminished role in the way America now makes important decisions?” The persistent and sustained reliance on falsehoods as the basis of policy, even in the face of massive and well-understood evidence to the contrary, seems to many Americans to have reached levels that were previously unimaginable.
A large and growing number of Americans are asking out loud: “What has happened to our country?” People are trying to figure out what has gone wrong in our democracy, and how we can fix it. ”
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Nobody is doing their job. It doesn’t matter who’s in the majority. This is a quote from Assault on Reason. I really like some of what it has to say.
“Nobody is doing their job.”
And still aren’t to this day. The Republicans can’t understand how they lost “control” after 1994, and the Democrats are likely to be asking themselves that same question before too long.
Part of it is that what these people see as their job, largely is to stick it to whoever was sticking it to them the past N years. It’s a slightly more civilized version of the tribal warfare that has gone on for millennia around the world; after a while, you forget what it was you were fighting about in the first place. And you certainly forget who put you there to do the fighting.
I don’t expect much different to come out of this Congress, of the next N of them — it’s largely the same full diaper with a slightly different smell. Until We The People stop shouting at and scapegoating each other, how can we expect our elected representatives to do the same? After all, we deserve the government we get, right? Just look around these comments threads — you can see why Byrd was asking that question. The rot starts at the bottom.
I have a less cynical viewpoint, and that’s saying something as I’ve been a cynic for a long time now. I think this election cycle made a difference. I’ll agree that it may be only short term, but people really started to pay attention to the democratic process. High voter turnout, and I believe that those said voters were more “plugged in” this time around, instead of the usual repetitive drag. The electorate was more “informed” than it has been for a long time. You see this comment treads as rot? I see it as dialogue. You should have been here during the campaign; it got even hotter debate-wise than it does now. Sure there are those that spew along the party line or only repeat talking points they heard on Fox or whatever. A lot of people here ARE genuinely interested in having the debate though. How likely was this to happen six, four, or even two years ago. Congress has been getting record calls and emails from constituents. That is the biggest reason the first bailout bill failed. The people didn’t want it.
The trick is finding a way to keep people engaged. The open forum is what our founding fathers envisioned. The advent of radio and TV took the forum out of the hands of the people as we didn’t have access to the medium to share our views the same as we did for many years with only newspapers available. The internet has brought the forum back into the hands of the people. We can now debate openly again and let our representatives know how we’ve concluded. I’ve emailed my representatives. It’s easy to do.
I don’t claim PK will solve all of society’s ills, but getting people talking, here and in other places (hopefully that don’t just serve as echo chambers) can only be for the good, especially if we can get people engaged.
(We can thank George W. for failing so miserably he motivated the country to rise out of apathy, does that count for anything?)
Is space shark some kind of code word for Lieberman?
No sh*t — is it even the teensiest bit possible to have a non-political LOL around here? Worse still, since the introduction of this was entirely gratuitous and unnecessary…
Subject change?
Pie is delicious
I want Pi…
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679
8214808651328230664709384460955058223172535940812848111745028410270193852110555964462294895493038196
4428810975665933446128475648233786783165271201909145648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273
724587006606315588174881520920962829254091715364367892590360011330530548820466521384146951941511609
Mmmm 22/7
Your pi was incorrectly baked.
pi told i, get real
i told pi,, be rational
I have pi… but not that much.
Mark, I’m willing to bet that Obama and Reid and Dean are operating on teh principle, “Keep your friends close. Keep your enemies closer.” Do you really think Lieberman still owns his own balls?
You mean they have pictures of him with a dead hooker….
I sure hope you’re right. I’m sure Obama’s start in Chicago politics has prepared him to be that good!
Nothing like offering to introduce someone’s knee caps to your good, dear, friend, Francis Xavier ‘Breaker’ O’Malley, for some ‘attitude adjustment’
O’Malley, O’Reilly, O’Hare And O’Hara
There’s no one as Irish as Barack Obama!
I would imagine so.
BUT I also imagine how much larger a turd Lieberman would look if he goes back on the magnanimous gesture on the part of the PE. Seriously, to get along now, Holy Joe has two choices: stay in line with Senate Dems and keep his plum chair, or go his own way (again) and lose it for reals. SO he either 1- does what them dems want or 2- does what those dems want. Barry gots his ballz fo’shizzle!
I get it!
“Don’t get repbs to get on the TV, we have our own joker that we can put on TV”?
That way it would have been really smart
I thoguht it was, “keep your friends close, and your enemies on your myspace friends list’
They decided to just put a “kick me” sign on his back and let it all work its self out.
Do we have anything to kill landsharks?
*CANDYGRAM!*
– You’re not a candygram, you’re the Land Shark.
– [puzzled, through closed door] How did you know that?
– I heard the music!
SNL reference FTW!!
“Curiously, all the bowl of petunias thought was ‘oh no, not again.’”
*chirp* *chirp* *chirp*
Hello, is this thing on?
Dentarthurdent, is that you?
I’m just confirming our date at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Last Wednesday evening, right?
With a whale? Yes.
She just needs to lose a few pounds, that’s not nice…
hmmmmmm…. slack handful….
“I wonder if it will be my friend?”
SPLAT
also make sure you give her the 42 dollars you owe her
To interject an informative note, this looks to be a rocket with things exploding on each side near the top. Needless to say, that does not bode well.
It also does not bode well that this looks like it is taking off from my neighbor’s back yard. And that guy should not be playing with meth and rockets at the same time.
*looks in the basement* now we need a way to get rid of basement cat
*re-aims rocket toward basement*
NOES!!! I have three basement cats. They’re innocent I tell you!
OH FOR THE LOVE OF CEILING CAT THE ROOT OF EVIL HAS MATED!
THIS IS WHY WE HAVE A SPACE PROGRAM.
I was under the impression it was so we could jump up and down on those NASA mattresses with a large glass of liqour and not spill a drop. …although that HAS come in quite handy……