Comments on: Hello… USA? Yea… this is China… your loan is due

By: dragonwars

dragonwars — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:43:32 +0000

Sorry you can only return it if there is a fault with the good. We intended to put the poison in it.

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:34:37 +0000

Does it matter? You’re pwned either way… those pesky bonds…

By: stevie w

stevie w — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:31:18 +0000

Saudi Arabia has dibs on getting their money out first. But which country has the more LOATHSOME human rights record ??

By: Emily

Emily — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:23:06 +0000

OMG that would just end America. BTW how many states do you think that they could bye of us now?

By: OhMyGoodness

OhMyGoodness — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:54:43 +0000

PK has nommed away at some witty postings this mornin’ – I found your comment by accident
*Admires Stetson anyway, thank’ee*

Mate, if that shoulder-angel delivery service is up n’ running, I’ve got the Red Bull…
*but the sun’s just risen, so I’m off for a quick surf*

By: rhorho

rhorho — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:39:52 +0000

Stetsons off to you for discovering PK’s secret hiding place for my comment!

My grandmother used to say “Lands,” but had no idea why. It may have
been “Lord’s hands” at one time, but it beats the h-e-double-hockey-sticks
out of me…

My favorite is “dern.” Is “darn” too close to “d@mn?”

I’ve read that “gadzooks” is a contortion of “God’s hooks,” or the nails used
on the cross. Conversely, when the term “good bye” was first used, it was considered to be a blasphemous shortening of the phrase “God be with you.”

Thank you for the references to “strewth” and “crikey.” Those were new
to me, and fun!

If you venture this way, I have an extra room, and my cats do a good job
of keeping the Baptists out of the yard. Most of our gun racks are confined
to pickup trucks, and froo lives far enough away to pose no immediate
threat. The majority of us have avoided the death penalty, so you can put
that thought out of your mind, mostly…

By: OhMyGoodness

OhMyGoodness — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:06:15 +0000

Yike – just had a picture of Bernanke in bed with Greenspan.
(*~@)

By: OhMyGoodness

OhMyGoodness — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:04:33 +0000

“Lawks” is probably something best asked of Unc, actually. It’s certainly nothing circulating around in our lingua franca.
Off the top o’ me ‘ead… lawks is a word that would have replaced “Lord” as an exclamation (remembering the Commandment about not taking the name of the Lord in vain), much like “gosh”, “golly”, “strewth” (it’s God’s truth), “crikey” (God strike me if I’m lying) etcetera. The avoidance of the Deity’s name certainly has lingering effects.
Involvement of three bears is probably courtesy of Terry Pratchett (someone will quote Nanny Ogg in “Witches Abroad” here, I’m sure).
I must admit that comparisons between Texas and Australia will have to wait for direct obsevation – I’m down to mind’s eye, and I’m sure the thought of Froofrou commuting on her gun-racked horse (her idea, not mine) isn’t helpful. I’ve gotta come over.

By: rhorho

rhorho — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:43:10 +0000

Funny you should draw the comparison. In my
mind’s eye, Australia is like Texas, only with
better beaches, cooler animals and fewer illegal
aliens…

Now, what does “lawks” mean? Is it a sweet way
to say Unc’s favorite word (bollocks)? Is it a play
on “larks?” Are there three bears involved?

By: OhMyGoodness

OhMyGoodness — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:24:31 +0000

Is that right? Lawks – there’s more people in Texas than the whole of my country! (21, 007, 310)
I don’t hear people say that TX is overcrowded, so you can imagine the population-density here. It certainly has made some long-term strategists nervous that there are two countries with a billion-plus just nearby, busting at the seams, which our citizens in their wisdom treat with barely-concealed contempt. China? India? That’s where takeaway food and cheap clothes come from…

By: OhMyGoodness

OhMyGoodness — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:15:54 +0000

Let me see… “You pay now – in bed.”
Hey, it works beautifully. With a penis, even!

By: OhMyGoodness

OhMyGoodness — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:12:37 +0000

India-through-the-phone has never been a problem for me, probably because I’ve got a real soft spot for the place and the people (Mum and Dad were born in the same military hospital in Pune – Empire kids – and my grandmother pretty well grew up in Government House in Bombay). One day I’m just going to go. But Indian “Engrish” is the best.

By: rhorho

rhorho — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:30:14 +0000

Try looking at the LOL, re-reading n8’s comment, in the context that it
is answering Pheemz’s comment. Check your ‘tude, and open your
mind. You may just laugh…

(Hint: It’s called a “joke.”)

By: Mnkyball

Mnkyball — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:00:19 +0000

You’re cool? Ah, yes, it’s the bubble you live in. Most people outside of the USA think different about you.

By: rhorho

rhorho — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:56:38 +0000

Hey Diss, your problems are over!!

*shows Diss checkbook freshly lifted from
Slaggingham’s pocket*

Marry him–He’s a MILLIONAIRE!!

By: rhorho

rhorho — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:04:08 +0000

*hugs; makes shadow puppets for Diss*

By: TS

TS — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:57:15 +0000

D’oh. Forgot to put in the URL. Now click my name.

By: TS

TS — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:56:33 +0000

You’re right about the debt to GDP ratio thing, so long as you only use the CIA of International Monetary Fund sourced numbers. If you use numbers sourced from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the US has a higher debt:GDP than any of those countries except Japan. Click my name for a the Wikipedia list of countries by debt:GDP. The thing is that the other countries you named aren’t about to add $1 trillion+ to their debt this year as the US is. Here in Canada our budget deficit is likely to run in the range of US$25 billion. The American economy is roughly ten times the size of Canada’s in terms of nominal GDP, so that a US$25 billion deficit in Canada is equivalent to a $250 billion deficit in the US.

By: Maxwell Silverhammer

Maxwell Silverhammer — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:12:39 +0000

It doesnt help that I keep using the video footage of said knowledge spliced
into DWN’s wedding video to Fed Reserve-roll him.

By: Maxwell Silverhammer

Maxwell Silverhammer — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:11:11 +0000

Fire zee missiles!
But I am Le tired….
Well… have a nap.. ZEN FIRE ZEE MISSILES!

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:34:54 +0000

Ya, I think superpower kills a lot of his argument.

By: froofrou

froofrou — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:30:13 +0000

See, that’s a good statement. But trying to fool yourself into thinking that China will never attack us or even think about attacking us or making any untoward moves against us simply because they have aging equipment, massively outnumbered, or are outgunned is to fool yourself into thinking that the sky is pink. That’s what Crazy Irishman has done. China is a superpower, as you’ve said. They would have no trouble waging war on anyone, should they choose to.

By: FaileV

FaileV — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:27:25 +0000

I agree that china has a lot to be wary off, we’d never make it going alone, but if china did start with the aggression, we would have a lot of allies on our side as well. It would come down to the third world war i think. The superpowers of the world would start picking sides, as soon as nukes come into the picture it would be a bloodbath and ‘the end of ze world’
In the end it is a stand off between giants. China would have trouble if they started sh!t with the US and the US would be in deep if they started sh!t with China.

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:09:57 +0000

Somebody loved somebody else long time.

By: Jocasta

Jocasta — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:01:59 +0000

… How the hell did that happen?

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:55:38 +0000

How could you forget? I was scarred by the knowledge…

By: rhorho

rhorho — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:51:52 +0000

ICBM’s? Are you talking about the outhouse on a winter’s day?

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:50:11 +0000

Well, the red ink weighs more, you know.
*has a broke*

By: rhorho

rhorho — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:49:12 +0000

*watches in envy, as checkbook sinks to the bottom*

Hey! How’d you do that? Mine always floats…

*has a sad*

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:47:05 +0000

*eats cake*
*turns out light while leaving*

By: rhorho

rhorho — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:45:01 +0000

I can’t…Excuse me. I believe you have my stapler?

By: Captain Wow

Captain Wow — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:43:36 +0000

Too true.

By: minerva146

minerva146 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:33:51 +0000

OOOHH , Sorry, I forgot that part. *facepalm*

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:33:11 +0000

Since you’re already down here, it would be great if you could get a can
of pesticide and take care of the cockroach problem we’ve been having
in here.

By: rhorho

rhorho — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:27:56 +0000

Mr. Lumbergh told me to talk to payroll and then payroll told me to talk to Mr. Lumbergh and I still haven’t received my paycheck and he took my stapler and he never brought it back and then they moved my desk to storage room B and there was garbage on it…

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:21:43 +0000

Rhorho, we’re gonna need to go ahead and move you downstairs into storage B.

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:20:31 +0000

Swingline? I guess they’re good for beating clowns with, but
for stapling, I prefer the PaperPro. Best. Staplers. Evah.

By: Captain Wow

Captain Wow — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:13:06 +0000

I was having one of those dreams where you think you’re falling a great distance, at my grandma’s house. She decorated the entire room with clowns. I bounced on the bed and a clown coin bank, that had been sitting on the headboard, lands on my eye (blacks it by the way) and I wake up to this creepy Ronald McDonald looking statue right in my face.
*shudders*
To this day I avoid that room like the plague.

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:11:12 +0000

They date a lot of older men…

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:10:00 +0000

Wacky… *plots*

By: Captain Wow

Captain Wow — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:06:57 +0000

I totally almost said that.

By: minerva146

minerva146 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:06:39 +0000

Oh? And where does the fed get this money FROM???

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:05:08 +0000

Awesome!
*balances checkbook on end of pencil*
See? It’s easy!
*drops checkbook into cocoa*

By: froofrou

froofrou — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:04:32 +0000

Does that tinfoil hat cut off circulation, or did you get it custom fitted?

By: rhorho

rhorho — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:03:59 +0000

*pops open a fresh back of rainbow mini marshmallows*

By: rhorho

rhorho — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:03:07 +0000

Please tell me someone else balances your checkbook for you.

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:02:41 +0000

Ooh, thanks, rho!
*adjusts foil hat*
Got marshmallows?

By: rhorho

rhorho — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:01:26 +0000

*dons foil hat, and hides out with Diss*
*offers Diss a foil hat, and hot cocoa*

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:20:01 +0000

Hey, those lead-lined chintz curtains I bought at WalMart really keep out the sun! Not to mention the radiation. ;o)

By: slaggingham

slaggingham — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:18:06 +0000

Doesn’t work the same way. Trade deficit means our outflow to them, not the other way around. We’re pumping money into their economy by buying all their cheap lead-lined chintz.