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EDUCATION: Without one, you’ll mistake a teddy bear for a panda on national television.
(Bill O’Reilly)
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And doubtless, Bill denied having made a mistake on national television and blames everyone else around him.
What a douchebag.
actually, i think he did deny making the mistake. Granted i saw this ep weeks ago. I’m surprised he even showed up on the daily show.
Yeah, O’Reilly is kind of an idiot. My grandma is always sending us articles about how evil Myspace is, and one time she sent us “The O’Reilly Factor For Kids”. Stupid book is stupid.
Does anyone watch “Talkshow with Spike Feresten”? Lately they’ve been having a recurring skit called “The Lil’ O’Reilly Factor” (Little Bill O’Reilly). It’s a kid who’s about 7 or 8 years old dressed up to look like Bill O’Reilly. He pretty much sits there and screams about gays and liberals and Muslims. It’s hilarious, and really cute. It’s also surprisingly close to the real O’Reilly. You can find it on Youtube.
And just for the record, I knew the difference between a panda and a bear that is shown since I was like, 3.
Pandas aren’t even really bears are they? I believe it’s a misnomer.
The debate raged for a while, but genetic testing established the Giant
Panda’s place in the bear family (Ursidae). Racoons are bears, too.
I was okay on the bear thing, but racoons are different. [Wiki link]
…and two c’s in raccoon.
*headdesk*
I looked both kinds of pandas up in wiki. Apparently, bears and raccoons diverged from a common ancestor long ago. Giant pandas (the black and white kind) evolved from the bear branch of the family, and red pandas from the raccoon side.
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If anybody enjoys travel channel and/or history channel type stories, you might want to check out a book called, “The Lady and the Panda”. It’s a true story about the first explorer to bring a living panda (who most westerners thought was either extinct or a hoax) out of China. What makes it even better is that the explorer is a woman, no less a wealthy socialite of the type I associate with 1930s movies, who goes around saying things like, “What in GOD’s name do I have to do to get a decent gin martini around here??!?” Fascinating story, though.
I can see that lineage, but the pandacoon/bear division is almost as old as the bear/weasel or dog/whale parting of genes. Still, though, it’s fascinating.
(And for no apparent reason, I feel like mentioning that female platypi produce milk to feed there young, but lacking nipples they sweat it out.)
The split in scientific classification comes further down, in the order Carnivora, so your dog/whale parting may be a slight exaggeration. I can’t believe I haven’t looked up “raccoon” before. I have three “regulars” in my back yard.
bill o reillly is believed to have been descended from a whale/kangaroo known as the gaebashur
I love you for all eternity for using “platypi”.
I was going to as well…..until i saw “there” where “their” should be.
Vestigial structure and use of the word platypi WIN.
Well at least we all know that pandas eat, shoots and leaves.
I know raccoons and pandas were cousins, I just thought they all weren’t bears. I guess I’m not up on my taxonomy.
Koalas aren’t bears that’s fer shure
Or… eats, shoots and leaves. HAHAHA
Texas Table Manners FTW!!
Lynne Truss is my patron saint.
All hail St. Lynne!
Yeah
Actually, some teddy bears are made to resemble pandas, some look more like brown bears. The one in the picture is something in between.
I still hate O’Reilly.
That looks nothing like a Panda…
At least he didn’t mistake it for a
felafelloofah.Yeah, and at least he didn’t mistake it for a
suppositorysoup bowl.So is that what he is going to do with his finger?
So is this what you were doing when you burned the walnut butter toffee for the second time?
Oooh, that’s what that smell was!
Two words, Charlie: Bus. Ted.
Hey, I’m innocent — who in the hell expects a dashingly old, yet suprisingly attactive veteran to be able to make candy? *walks away with the faint, yet pungent oder of burning sugar in the background thinking, Where in the hell is an impoverished village when you need one?*
Your wife, apparently. If what she says is true (which it must be if she made me listen to it when I came home from work at 1:00 in the morning) then you were Mr. Candy Maker when she first cut those recipes out 30 years ago. And that was BEFORE you joined the military. *loves knocking Charlie down a notch on the internet*
You… you think that looks anything like a panda?
I weep for education.
Ever heard of polar bears?
Yes, I have. I have seen several.
The picture shows a “teddy bear” which is a cartoonish representation which may or may not resemble any real species of bear.
One thing it certainly does NOT resemble, is a Panda.
Steve, I think фдуч_шяь was referring to smartypants’ comment, “Actually, some teddy bears are made to resemble pandas, some look more like brown bears. The one in the picture is something in between.”
Second
Worst…person…in…the…world!!!
100% agreed.
It’s funny that this LOL immediately follows the Jon Stewart one. Stephen Colbert, formerly of that show, calls Bill OhReally “Papa Bear.” To me, that’s the only redeeming quality this guy has: Laughing stock.
Just as long as he doesn’t sexually harass it……
If that were the case, we would know that the bear was just *asking* for it…
Everyone is asking for it, all the time… they run around naked under their clothes in that teasing way….
That just reminded me of Ghostbusters 2 when Bill Murray asks if the Statue of Liberty is naked under her robe.
She’s French, you know…
I don’t think they make Nikes in her size.
She’s tough, she’s a harbor chic!
Depends on the drugs he’s on
I’m pretty sure he can’t mate in captivity.
I am hoping he can’t mate at all…
Agreed!
Maybe he’ll mate with Ann C****er, and she’ll bite off his head afterward.
*Nasty accident involving my lunch, a fork and a lot of coughing*
You really think this site’ll lock-up if you spell She Who Must Not Be Named?
“You really think this site’ll lock-up”
It had more to do with my vomit threshhold.
In retrospect, I’m not sure whether I should have gone with the bites-his-head-off denouement rather than the he-accidentally-breaks-her-in-half-like-a-dried-stick denouement, but it’s all good, right?
Is that an either/or scenario? Hope nawt!
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Excellent use of “denouement:” That’s the sort of thing that telegraphs the pure WIN of you!
Motion seconded – denouement win.
what a douche
BA in History, MA in Journalism. You can hate him all you want, but it doesn’t change the fact that he is, in fact, educated. But don’t let that stop you.
There’s educated in the sense that you have a piece of paper that says you have a skill, and there is the spirit of education where you question the world and your perceptions in order to change for the better and gain understand him. O’reilly may have the first, but he certainly does not have the second.
WIN
No one here claimed he didn’t go to uni, and the person who made the LOL isn’t here. Do you talk to your TV, too?
“Some people can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and never get wet.”
– Norton Juster, who is a prophet
There are people who are ignorant and then there are people who are purposefully stupid. O’Reilly is the latter.
Are you saying his stupidity serves a purpose?
Ignorance is a cure for hydrophobia?
I must admit, he takes home a bigger paycheck than I do.
“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.” –Dorothy Parker
“You buy ‘em books, and you buy ‘em books, and they just chew on the covers” — some guy
“You can lead a student to knowledge, but you can’t make them think! ” –most faculty during exams period.
You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think…
*looks up* What? Did someone call me?
Why yes, Froo. I organized your schedule of Johns this week, cancelled out all the idiots, smacked a couple of crackheads who wanted to steal some business, and made sure dry cleaning was handled for your parties.
I expect money in account by the end of the week like always. Now I have your coworkers to attend to. *grabs cane and tilts hat, grooves out*
Exit DWN, Sophistipimp…
Now I have your coworkers to attend to. *grabs cane and tilts hat, grooves out*
Exit DWN, Sophistipimp…
*funky background music*
I knew I was forgetting something, thanks darling. Tell my 4:30 appointment she better have my money and then tell that one bad cat that I am done setting him up with my girls. He damages the merchandise. If I see him again, I am going to break my size fifteen off in his ass. Then take a break, too damn cold to sit at a desk all day.
*winks and finishes grooving out the door*
You know this cat DWN is a baaad mutha…
Shut Yo Mouth!
I’m just talkin’ ’bout Wyrm…
Foxy Ladies: “And we can dig it!”
*hugs* You rock…
Dorothy Parker FTW!
DING-DING-DING!! We have a winner!!
*awards 1/2 internet to Tessie amidst blinding hail of camera flashes*
“The Portable Dorothy Parker” is one of those books of which I’ve had to buy more than one copy (check out that grammar!) because I’ve physically worn out the first copy. Her short stories are, to me, simultaneously dated and timeless.
I have a rather thumb-worn copy, myself.
Me too. Hmm.
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And now we know part of the secret “ideal woman” formula!
*super cheezy grin*
Knowledge is knowing that tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
That’s what I’ve been doing wrong? Wow… I thought I was on a winner with my kiwifriut-and-tomato icecream salad.
Botanically, a tomato is classified as a fruit; more specifically, a berry.
Agriculturally, a tomato is classified as a vegetable, as is cantaloupe, eggplant, squash, and cucumber, to name some others.
Thanks, bud, I won’t. He is one of the more despicable people on Fox and that is saying something.
Fine; he’s an expensively educated dumbazz. Happy now?
He’s educated but doesn’t let that get in the way of making uneducated statements.
Just because you have one, doesn’t mean you know how to use it!
*Leaves the door open…*
Education: Because it takes training to twist facts like this…
I was expecting penis jokes…
…and for the same reason a cat invariably takes a long stretch on
the threshold, we make you wait . . .
In bed…
That’s cat yoga… they need to do it in the air, but it’s a necessity from their perspective…
Of course, a person’s lap is the ideal location for a cat to achieve caltitude*.
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*the maximum possible altitude of a cat’s butt
LOL!! There’s no telling how many times I’ve told my 20 year old cat, “Honey, I know you’re proud, but I don’t *need* to see your little pink raisin right now.”
Sigh. Same tune, different words.
Forget all you haters. I just wanna cuddle the bear.
Isn’t that gay slang for wanting the big guy?
I think it’s more at “the big hairy guy.” [link]
*stare* Well, I’m sheepish. But I’d be lying if I said I didn’t laugh.
Not always hairy, at least in UK Polari type patois these days… Phill Jupitus (pictured behind my name) is something of a gay icon and regarded by some as ‘Queen of the Bears’ (he’s as straight as I am… but we’re English, so who can tell? :¬>)
I LOLed. My roomate is from Sussex, and here in the states is often mistaken for gay, not British. I’m the gay one, and people don’t even believe that half the time….
Try giving them a full on open mouth kiss. That’ll convince em.
you know, i’ve started riots that way….
You. My Hero
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Godless, sinning, hell bound gay, but her hero
Gotta love the Orwellian disjoint…
*thhhbth*
I’m just quoting the lady, there pal…
Love the sinner, not the sin. That’s even if you believe homosexuality is a sin. Nobody can live to the example expected in that book and a decent number of them know it.
I don’t think you’ve quite recovered since that was a bit weak of an insult.
Oh, It wasn’t weak wurm… the lady is a hypocrite, you know it, I know it, she knows it… I hate to think people forget…
There again, I don’t want to shag her, so I have no vested interest in other than the reality… unlike some I could mention…
Eh, I am not really worried about slogging through biblical history or Augustine or anything like that. You want to point out that she is a hypocrite. Fine, she is. As are you, myself, and any other living and dead human on the planet. It is part of our flaws.
Yet you keep at it like it is going to change or that pointing out her hypocrisy somehow negates your own. Or like it matters in any matter. She isn’t making policy. As for shagging her, that is her husband’s job. So feel free to mention these some since I don’t know of any besides him.
So yes, it is weak because it is pointless. It is like saying the sky is blue. We already know. But I won’t stand between you and your hobbies.
and Love the sinner, not the sin is Augustine, not Biblical… although most people think it IS Biblical… Having said that I know that you’d know it’s source…
Never said anything about thinking gays are Godless or hellbound. Go back under your rock of self-loathing.
He can get another one, I stole this one fair and square…
Your rock isn’t self-loathing. It’s a little more sunny than that. Festers is nasty with slime, oozing with pity and hatred, and is festooned with the kidneys of the small children and kittens he lures in and eats over tea.
I thought that was the one I stole…
as you are mine
Hugs and smooches and lots of ice cream to you
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Buddy, looking at the wee storm that followed, you started another one… it just blew in an odd way.
No, it’s just another dust-up in a timeless standoff.
The Robot Chicken skit about Cuddles the bear comes to mind…
Easier mistake to make then calling Jobs a three letter word.
Hey hey hey, liberals are allowed as many mistakes as they want. C’mon, thats just commons sense.
Then it’s more or less the same as the conservatives then… getting caught in gent’s toilets cottaging… oops… your daughter getting knocked up by the son of a woman who brews meth, having used your office to hound someone out of a job and dally with a convicted felon… another hiccup… inadvertently getting caught up in major savings and loans frauds… oops again… declaring a war on a sovereign country bast on lies and distortion of facts, then giving the reconstruction to your buddy’s company in a no-bid contract… deary me, how did that happen…
Just a random selection of the Conservative’s faux pas over the past 8 years…
Now list the Democratic ones…
Wow, you’re right. No, wait. One guy had some money in his freezer…
I’ll leave that you you… I said they were as bad as each other…
They are, it’s just conservatives can hide affairs better, and liberals can openly lie and make stupid mistakes to the public and they keep it like pigs in a trough.
Both suck, I just see one as more disgusting. That though is a matter of opinion.
My point exactly
Cottaging? Should I ask? One expression (from context, anyway) that we don’t have here…
I think it has to do with hi jinx in public restrooms.
I suspect that you may well be right. After I hit “Add comment” I wondered about the wisdom of asking Uncle Fester for details – they may be extraordinarily detailed. Hijinks is detail enough, I think.
Wiki behind my name
Ick. I’m sorry, I don’t even sit on the seat in a public restroom, what is wrong with people?
You drive it underground for long enough, and you get that. Back when Cottaging was ‘popular’ they’d only just stopped hard labour for ’sodomy’ in the UK (1940s)
It was still illegal, and pretty much hard time could be ensured.
These days we just have gay bashing… which may or may not be followed by the law…
I know some people, some people here, think it’s a decline in ‘morality’ that we stopped jailing gay folk or hanging them…
Gotta love so called refined people. *sigh*
I always felt that on a cosmic or even worldly view of things, having a fit over who people want to have sex with of a consenting age was a rather stupid idea. Of all the real problems, we pick that to fight over. I seriously think we need a Cinematically Epic level event to happen so we have to band together and get over petty differences.
When the aliens attacks, who Fred buggers of consenting age won’t really matter. He is needed on the front lines with acceptance as being human, etc, etc.
Too bad we need ridiculously big problems to occur before we just band together and move on. Or painfully slow cultural movements but Alien invasion might be worth getting off the chair for.
/pointless babbling.
Don’t preach to me Unc, I get all that. I’m just saying George Michael has better resources at his disposal and I still think sex in a bathroom is unsanitary to say the least.
Or worse. You’ve seen the movie Very Bad Things, right?
*cringes inwardly and rubs back of her head*
I mean, eeeeeep. Or, just be careful, people!
Noting that it involved a non-public bathroom, but scarred me. Seruiously.
Well, now I know. Thanks, Unc.
And knowing is half the battle.
Or using ‘then’ instead of ‘than?’
Aww thanks, you added so much to this conversation!
Who cares??? O’Reilly at least has the stones to call out the failures in DC. All the liberals wanna do is blame Bush.
um… bush IS the source of most of the failures in DC
Not-proving-the-above-person’s-point FAIL
Not-understanding-nature-of-PK FAIL.
Rho, you must admit, it’s a ‘Being a cretin WIN!’
Excellent catch, Unc! How did I miss that!?!
It’s your naturally sunny nature… you think the glass is half full, I think it’s cracked, dirty, and the only reason it’s half full is that some bugger pissed in it and left a turd floater…
(Note to self: If invited to Unc’s for tea, bring own cup.)
and beverage….
That would be rude…
But sanitary…
My father-in-law used to leave a note near his beer if he needed a quiet walk to the gents’ at his local pub. In a clear, firm hand, he would write “I’ve spat in this.” The idea was to stop anyone knocking off his beer. It worked well, until on one crowded day he returned, only to find an addition to his note: “So have I!”
He now leaves his false teth in the glass…
…and now I have the hiccups: Thanks for the chuckle, anyway!
Wise move…
Just don’t have anything in a glass. Cans and bottles of drink should be fine (rules out tea, but who wants tea anyway?)
I drink a lot of tea…
I do too, iced in the summer and hot in the winter. Do you
ever drink Green Tea?
ALL THE TIME. WHY?
Sorry, I was asking Unc.
It’s a staple of my tea cupboard… White tea, Green Tea, Rooibos, Red teas, black teas… Remember, I am English…
I love Rooibos and White tea but you might as well drink hot water as drink Green tea, IMO.
I drink green tea almost exclusively, but do so simply because I prefer the flavor over the black teas. I’m not familiar with either red teas or white tea, but have been given to understand that there are only two kinds of tea: green and black (in many manifestations).
Of course I know you’re English: That’s why I asked you the tea question! Thanks for giving me some choices to try. I’m trying not to be such a critter of habit.
I don’t believe that she was trying to prove the above person’s point. I think she was trying to refute it, and I think she did so quite successfully, with a clever little inversion of the first person’s phraseology.
and then Tessie turns up to make Rhorho look like Eeyore on downers…
I was aiming for somewhere between “snippy” and “scathing”, but could you explain “Eeyore on downers”?
Marvin the paranoid android?
h2g2. i think i love you.
I think you ought to know…I’m feeling very depressed.
Tessie, you amaze me. How did you find “Doris Day” between “snippy”
and “scathing?”
Eeyore is the donkey on Winnie the Pooh. He’s known for his
realism.
“Tessie, you amaze me. How did you find “Doris Day” between “snippy”
and “scathing?””
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Obviously, my aim sucks, but (I can’t resist) que sera sera. I’d be willing to settle for “pedantic”, however.
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I read the Winnie the Pooh books a long time ago. There are some kids books I saved and re-read into adulthood (?), but those don’t happen to be among them. I seem to remember Eeyore as being rather gloomy and depressed; I’m not sure whether downers would make him more so or less so.
I don’t pretend to understand the starburst galaxy that is Unc’s mind, but my translation is you made me look like a gloomy Gus under the influence of depressants.
Rho: Have a non-Lewinskyed cigar!
You’re gonna go far……
And by the way, which one’s Pink?
Becker knows this. However, he can’t admit it due to his articles of faith.
Riiiiiight. Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, and the lower approval rating than Bush congress have nothing to do with it. Common sense FAIl on your part, but good try.
Who cares??? O’Reilly at least has been too stoned to call out anything with any degree of accuracy. All the conservatives want to do is drop their previous HE-RO, GWB like a hot potato, of course after they helped him destroy the economy.
The Clinton enhancement of the CRA helped the cracks in the ceiling progress. How many foreclosed families would personally like to think Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton for their failures?
Are you seriously calling out a guy who hasn’t been president for almost 28 years and somehow trying to pin part of this economic crisis on him?
Wow.
I think so. His accusation to a homeowner suing a contractor because a tornado took his roof off. …but that’s just me.
Correction: I liken his accusation to a homeowner suing a contractor because a tornado took his roof off.
Why not? I personally blame my students’ negative attitude towards a Charlie Brown Christmas on Millard Fillmore.
*shakes fist at imaginary Millard Fillmore*
Good point! Time has taken the sting out of that memory for most. Thank you for bringing that by-blow’s misdeeds back to the fore!
Those ungrateful students! They dissed a Charlie Brown Christmas? The year can’t finish quickly enough for you, can it, Jane?
All done! Last week was the end for me, that was part of the reason for my radio silence as it were, I was crazy busy getting final grades in and having meetings with their regular teacher where I tried to find nice ways to tell her she did nothing to control the behavior of those kids before I took over and how she might want to work on that.
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AND I told them that I could be giving them a final so they could just shut up and watch Charlie Brown and like it already!
I can see it now…
“We have two options today. Those who want to watch this Charlie Brown movie in silence may do so. Those who want to complain and be hit with a final may do so. I will be putting on the movie now and passing out the final to those who chose the latter option. Enjoy.”
Congrats – you got there. In one piece, too, I think. It’s not a bad time of year to suddenly stop, breathe in the warm salt air, head for the beach with a Santa hat and an old Rusty surfboard. Crack a frosty beer and ENJOY.
Kick back and relax some – well-earned!
(Some day, someone will have to explain the joys of a white Christmas…)
It is snuggling with a loved one, sharing hot cocoa with friends and family, snow forts and fights, all sorts of cuddly fun that is had because of cold weather. Least that is the positives that I get out of it but I can see how that might be foreign concepts to somebody used to warm weather.
Warm Christmasses have their great attractions. We do the turkey, but we do a good seafood platter, mango, strawberries in the champagne… good salad, cold beer, afternoon in the pool / at the beach / playing with the kids toys… it’s lovely. I can understand the attraction of snow (heck, we spray fake snow in shop windows for “that” look, and playing a shopping-centre Santa is Hell’s own gig), and I want to do it… once.
“AND I told them that I could be giving them a final so they could just shut up and watch Charlie Brown and like it already!”
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Unfortunately, she pronounced it “Wah-wah-wah-wah-wah”, so nobody understood what she was saying.
LOL!!! That is so true! There were days when I was sure that was all they were hearing!
My mother borrowed my trombone during my high school years,
and used it in her class for a whole day, according to the complaints from
other teachers, there was one certain point during the day that the
trombone blaring lasted for close to 15 minutes straight.
She told her students that she can teach that way, or she could teach
them the way she had been trying, and they’d have to listen that time around.
The trombone never had to come back to her classroom.
Honestly, my students would probably prefer the trombone. About the only benefit is that sexual harassment boy wouldn’t have been able to make many comments.
Never stopped Bill Clinton…
*Sorry, sorry… shakes head at lack of self-discipline*
Or me… *winks at Jane*
“my students would probably prefer the trombone. About the only benefit is that sexual harassment boy wouldn’t have been able to make many comments.”
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You probably don’t want to know, other than the name, that there’s a vulgar sexual expression called “the rusty trombone”.
(0_@) What the…? A rusty – ooh, I think I understand, but I hope I’m wrong. Is it something that strong antibiotics might fix?
I just looked it up, and you’re on your own.
To be fair, Carter might not have been the best political leader, but he did spend his later years doing his damnest to help people.
He’s the best ex-president we have ever had. What he has done in terms of promoting Habitat for Humanity alone is teh awesome.
Too bad he stunk up the place as President. He was such a wimp, even the rabbits attacked him ! (remember that one?)
I remember the “I have lusted in my heart” one, and Billy (of course), but not a rabbit attack. Are you sure you didn’t fall asleep during The Quest for the Holy Grail?
I’m not clever enough to put a link in my name to the Jimmy Carter attack rabbit issue. So, google “Jimmy Carter rabbit” and wiki will ’splain it to you, Lucy. Or rhorho as the case may be.
I was being lazy earlier, but promise to look it up soon. It’s easy to attach a link. When you are typing a comment, three fields appear above the message field. The first is the one in which you have typed “pcflamingo,” and the second is where you have typed your boss’s email addy. The third field (labeled “URI”) is where you can paste a link. You can also paste a link in your text, but PK may eat it, delay it, etc.
What a disappointing waste of time: No blood or guts, just
Jimmy in a boat, using his oar to splash water at a swamp
rabbit. *slumps; drools*
…and before an OCD fan corrects me, the movie is
actually titled Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
“It’s just a bloomin’ bunny rabbit?!”
That’s the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered
rodent you ever set eyes on!
‘e’ll rrrrrip yourr throat out !
I warned you! But did you listen to me? Oh, no, you knew it all, didn’t you? Oh, it’s just a harmless little bunny, isn’t it? Well, it’s always the same, I always…
Quite how the man who kicked off the policy in Afghanistan to destabilise the USSR, and set the tone for ‘diplomacy’ with Iran for nearly 30 can be called a ‘wimp’ is a little puzzling. Very low key aggression across the planet is more like it.
However, the idea that anti-Redlining legislation in 1977is a major part of the fact that the banks were trying to screw each over now, while not with some merit due to a snowballing effect, it’s more down to profits uber alles, rather than good business practice by the banks.
“Quite how the man who kicked off the policy in Afghanistan to destabilise the USSR, and set the tone for ‘diplomacy’ with Iran for nearly 30 can be called a ‘wimp’ is a little puzzling.”
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According to my English-to-doofus dictionary, “wimp” is defined as any president who doesn’t personally order the slaughter of every man, woman, child, cat, dog, and goldfish, in whatever (preferably oil-havin’) country is the current boogeyman du jour.
Could you possibly sent the publisher’s details for that dictionary? It sounds rather fetching, though, and I wouldn’t mind having a copy. Could you tell me what it has under “subtle”?
I’m interested in that dictionary, too! In the meantime, my attempt at doofus:
Subtle: (adj) To complain or grumble morosely in low tones.
Unfortunately for the non-doofi among us, the dictionary isn’t actually in print. It has to be absorbed by osmosis, which involves a truly unpleasant and possibly toxic level of proximity to the common doofus and/or the movie “Idiocracy”.
RE your question, their idea of “subtle” is a silent-but-deadly fart.
Tessie, whatever personal sacrifice to bring that wisdom to us…
wasn’t worth it.
Yeah- boycotting the Olympics really helped in Afganistan. Even the Iranians knew he would not do anything and took over the American embassy and took it’s staff hostage. He was a pansy and the world knew it.
Yeah, and he got us into those two quagmires, don’t forget!
mrbecker – the CRA applied to savings & loans and some banks to start out with, not mortgage brokers or mortgage bankers, who do the vast majority of mortgage loan business, especially the subprime business. Eventually Fannie & Freddie incorporated some of the provisions of the CRA, such as more anti-discrimination provisions, but no player – bank, S&L, credit union, Fannie or Freddie said, “let’s make loans to unqualified persons! Yay!”
Having been an underwriter in the mortgage business since 1983 (*activates flame shield*) and having worked for mortgage brokers and mortgage bankers – THAT’S where the fault belongs. All we ever heard from corporate was “more volume, close more loans, ramp it up!”. The FHA and VA loans I was underwriting had more strict credit standards, but the subprime stuff – no standards except “how much profit can we stack on this stinking pile of cr*p” (how many fees can we whack these poor schmucks with in order to make more profit?).
Interestingly enough, who do you suppose was a great cheerleader of the increase in homeownership (which came about because of the lowering of credit standards)? Who used to brag about the increase in speeches? Yes, that would be GWB.
Thank you for shedding some light on the topic.
Listen! Crickets… the neocons have no response to pcflamingo.
It’s…too…quiet, Mark!
Even the “libtard” echoes have faded…
*shivers*
*looks up again* Did someone call me again? I swear I heard my name…….
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*goes back to eating gummy bears, ear cocked for listening*
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FYI, this particular neocon was too busy fending off family during a Christmas function to post today. I love my family, but damn they’re a bunch of dorks!
I hate coming in late…
*Looks longingly for any remaining orange Gummi bears*
*spooky voice* Froo… This is your conscience…
(*snickers*)
*wicked purr* Hello Froo… Shoulder Devil here. Don’t listen to that snickering loon. Evil Rules!
*spooky voice*
This is the Ghost of Libtards Past, Froo…
Don’t listen to Ginger-Breath over there…
You want to be NICE to Libtards…
*checks breath and has realization* Wait, I never eat ginger… And wait… I wasn’t telling her to be mean to libtards. I was just going to continue along her path of sexual expression… But now that you mention it.
*clears throat and then purrs again* Libtards have it coming. They want your money. They want to make lazy people your boss. They deserve your bile. Bwahahaha…
*stifles urge to scream “Oh noes!! It’s teh Gingerbread Man!!*
*spooky voice* Come to the Dark Side, Froo…We have tax breaks and health care…
*head asplodes*
Rawr!!! Run!
Don’t listen to the libtard, their heathcare is run by gerbils who smell of elderberry and the tax breaks are a lie, like the cake.
*looks at froo* So that is how an explosion of sanity looks…
*gathers up oozy squishy brain bits*
*sets up sewing machine*
*looks through notions for darning egg*
Don’t worry, froo! I’ll save you…!
*yawns and stretches shoulder devil wings since my next client was Uncle Fester and he pretty much corrupts himself*
There! It’s the best I could possibly do, under the bad lighting, without my good glasses. Not a bad job, really. Most of her hair will probably grow back, even.
I hope it wasn’t a bad idea to replace the necrotic tissue with ginger…
@DWN
I was corrupt before you were born, laddie…
Like I said, Fester, easy job.
@rhorho: I think it is a good idea, myself.
@rho… a darning egg?
DWM – Want a trick y job? Convince me that Frou isn’t a hypocrite
Nah, I would rather just not care since we are all hypocrites but you keep pointing out the obvious. Gives you something to do.
You mean like your interminable posting on your sex life and claiming a ‘public service’?
Something like that. I post about my sex life and I post about tips for sex. Two different things. However, you seem to think I am doing one and claiming both. The ginger thing I posted started as a bit about my sex life, actually a solution to a sexual issue that turned into a public information situation. A situation that I can say I have discussed further with at least two other people since. Other times I have posted about ideas for sexual rp or just things to try in the bedroom in general.
However, if you have only read my babbling about my sex life and then see me claiming a public service without reading the other parts, sure call me a hypocrite.
Hell, call me a hypocrite on principal because I have given advice which is good that I have personally found very hard to follow. I know I am flawed so your point is what exactly?
@DWN: Thanks. I thought you would like the ginger. I used some home grown, fertilized with fish emulsion. @OMG: The darning egg came in really handy for getting the outside brain skin just right. You’ve seen
one before, right? Let me show it to you…
*looks around for egg*
Uh…
Tell you what – I think someone should check on froo… she hasn’t come up for air after mentioning one ‘asplodind head after dealing with the family.
I saw a movie about this sort of thing. We need heavy voltage to get her squishy brains going again. Unfortunately, money’s a little tight right now, or I could hook her up to the circuit breaker box outside…
*waits for thunderstorm*
Thunderstorm due here this afternoon. I’d take the alligator clamps off her nipples, though – it’s more than sufficient for her to merely hold them in her hands.
Conversely, leave clamps in place & fetch a car battery…
*raises head* Dammit, people keep disturbing my nap.
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*lays head back down* *mutters about damn kids on my lawn*
*makes convincing thunder noise, but with much spitting*
IT’S . . . ALIVE!
*grabs bleach, foil and henna brush*
*makes a streak in froo’s hair*
We belong dead…
BWAH-HAHAHAAAAA…. you think there is one of those?
This picture proves how glued to the telepromter Brain is. He reads what he’s told to read, like a good republican
Bill*
Thanks for commenting on the lol, everyone. =D
Thanks for the terrific LOL!
the neo-fascist is blind in more ways than one.
Ummm… that has to be the oddest fortune cookie you’ve ever pulled, I bet.
in bed.
Haha I was watching that and was like OMG he did NOT just call it a panda! Because if anyone knows pandas, it’s me. What an idiot… I’m glad he is, because it’s so entertaining.
I saw that ep, that was the only thing john had on him and used it as a segway to exit to commercial. Woooooo Bill O’ Reilly. Also cause I know I will get reemed for the above comment alone. I like fox news bush, and The Cobert Report to.
Jeez, you’re game. Spelling “reemed” like that is going to get Uncle Fester worked over on so many levels. I’ll ignore the thought of O’Reilly using a Segway inside a television studio, I’ll ignore the nagging desire to recommend the regular perusal of a decent dictionary… I’ll even completely ignore all the “Ooh! A Troll” shouts. I just want to see Fester waking up and reading “I know I will get reemed…” He’ll spill his marmalade, he really will.
*Shakes head in awe of what the future may hold*
I take it you are less than impressed with this example of Bush’s “No Child Left Behind” educational policy. [link]
I gradeated with a higskool edumacation.
OMG if there is like one word misspelled you egg heads freek lolz. Do you annoy people in real life like this? I would rather misspell things and have friends then be an annoying.
have fun running around the interweb and trying to make ppl feel stupid .
I take it you are counting your felon pen pals as friends. It’s a shame to burst your bubble, but OMG and I have friends, *and* maintain the ability to communicate in writing. Call us overworked multi-taskers, if it helps your little pudding head get to sleep. For the record, you have more than one spelling error, a run-on sentence, a missed comma, and several capitalization errors.
Also, I’m not freaked out, but actually awe-struck by your formidable ability to breathe in and out consistently enough to maintain life.
Hey now Rho, there’s no cause to talk to one of my former students that way.
Sorry about that. I always go snarky when my security blanket is
in the dryer…
Does your banky get that static-electricity thing when it comes out too? I used to love that…
It used to be more fun than it is now. Unfortunately, my cats have
learned to hide from me when I’m “charged up.”
Damn- I am in awe. Excellent come back…
Yeah – rhorho’s the best, isn’t she? Wait until she ratchets to “mildly irritated”… just gets better and better. Rho – thanks for the jump; ’twas awesome to behold!
*Slips bottle of Drambuie into rho’s Christmas stocking*
I thought you might be asleep, so I did my best to volley back.
It felt good to emulate your unique style of troll bashage. (That last word is
really fun to say out loud…)
Bashage – I’m going to try saying that after a few Christmas drinks. I’m not trying it now, what with a mouthful of breakfast cereal and all.
(I was asleep, too!) I’m still learning at the feet of masters, here. Incidentally, where’s Eddie – has he taken Christmas vacation?
I don’t know, Eddie and I were singlehandidly battling trolls last Sunday and I left him to get groceries and then plan my last week of lessons. In the craziness of the week I was gone for days, you don’t think the trolls got him, do you? *has a worried*
Say it ain’t soooo…
Eddie is made of nails and manliness, he is fine. Just taking a breather, most likely.
I think the appropriate term would be “walkabout,” given his locale…
That would assume he is wandering.
Eds said that he only had to send his sons (in the States) money
in cards, and was done. Perhaps he and his wife are doing
something with her side of the family.
Aw, shucks! Now my guts are all squishy…
*blushes*
Loperimide fixes that…
Wow! That feels a lot better, and is a far sight better than chewing
limestone, frankly. You’re a peach!
lolz OMG how did you know I had prison friends, you must be I mind reader, or a stalker. O.o lolz. Wow you must be really constapted lol. How long has that self-rightious stick been up your but anyways?
Hooo… jeez, I said I’d ignore… oh, never mind. Poor Uncle Fester’s missing out. Anyone seen him this morning?
Hmmm… should I bite? Tempting, you know… Curiously, I don’t run around the Interweb much at all – as a matter-o-fact, this is one of the very few places I visit regularly. And it’s the fact that I learn that keeps me here – learn perspective in how a country not my own operates, thinks, breathes. Sometimes I watch the flames of hard-earned belief trace burning streaks when some warfare is had (if you keep an eye out, I’d put this up as one of the best applied philosophy sites on the planet), and am in awe of the sweep of intelligence to be found herein… it’s enough to make me feel a little dim sometimes. I learn.
And I have a little fun along the way. It’s part of the nature of this beast, y’know…
Mind you, if I read your opening statement, you were prepared enough for flames that you brought a deck-chair, a long stich and a bag of marshmallows. Enjoy! We do!
Stich… *Looks for coffee*
I know this is probably a revolutionary idea to you, but there is something called manners and etiquette. I’ll try to take this slow for you, but Bill accepted an invitation to talk about his book on the show therefore he was a GUEST. See that word means that Jon Stewart needed to treat him with respect. Now when you have a guest over it’s very rude to point out their every flaw, no matter how many they may have. So while a guest on the show Bill was not going to be attacked on his every flaw and view. When he made the mistake with the bear, it was pointed out in a joking manner.
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Let us summarize. Bill was a guest, therefor he was treated nicely. Whatever Jon might have had on him he did not use because he is a good host
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The link in my name is a good example of a bad host. It’s an old video, but i feel it makes my point rather well. He has a guest on his show. The guest is there to talk about his book, but the host instead starts off insulting his line of work and trying to belittle him and what he does. This is bad etiquette, and I suspect the sign of a man with some personal worth issues.
So now when Bill O has “guests” on his show he will politely let them speak instead of jumping down their throat midway into their first sentence? Sheesh, yes surely that will happen.
It’s probably why so many people think he’s such an incredible douchebag. I can deal with opinions that are vastly different from my own, but the way he presents those opinions is deplorable. He really is a god awful host.
Thank you for linking the YouTube clip.
It was telling of Bill’s paranoia, that he considers Jon Stewart to
be a competitor, because Jon’s show comes on during Bill’s show’s
first replay.
Jon is the one who should be paranoid: He’s *trying* to be funny…
No reason to be paranoid, he practically has a bottomless bag of material to work with as long as people like Bill stay on the air.
“It was telling of Bill’s paranoia, that he considers Jon Stewart to
be a competitor,”
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Some years back, I was watching an interview with songwriter Hoyt Axton. I’d heard the name but that was all; he apparently writes mostly country and bluegrass kind of material.
He was telling a story about a song he wrote for the 70s pop group Three Dog Night. They objected to one line that referred to the Beatles, and asked him to change it. His incredulous response, in a very thick Good Ol Boy accent, was:
[explosive laughter] PHHHAW HAW HAW!!!!
“Yew guys thank you’re competition for the Beatles!?!”
TFF!!!
I made a low blow with my latest LOL, check my name for my lolz.
HA! Win!
I figured you would enjoy. : D
After Satan skates to work…
Bill was peddling some sort of book. Seemed to think that Stewart was also Roman Catholic.
I love what you wrote, but I somehow doubt that Jon asked Bill on the show. My guess is that Bill’s people called The Daily Show and asked to come on the show to promote his book. It seems that the best book promotion tool besides Oprah is The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. Since I feel Bill is interested in being excessively rich as well as rude and obnoxious, he agreed to the Daily Show spot. (of course, this is just my $.02)
Jon was awesome – I loved how he opened up the interview with the cup of hot cocoa and told Bill to relax! Hahaha!
Wow. He made a mistake on national television. That’s a pretty big deal. I skimmed through these nearly 300 comments and am happy that most deal with debating if a panda is a bear or not. I wonder which reflects the poorer intelligence.