Indeed. When a DI can cuss a boot out so thoroughly that the bystanders unconsciously snap to attention that’s poetry. A truly eloquent cussin’ is like a force of nature. *lol*
But only in a GOOD cussing. The mere repetition of the f-word makes you sound like a chicken. I remember 3 of us coming out of the Blair Witch Project clucking ‘f*ck’ just like a yard full of chickens…
Hah! Speaking of eloquence, the horde on the mall just made it very clear to soon-to-be-former President Bush how they feel about him. na na na na hey hey hey goodbye!
My bud is up on the mall sending regular updates. She’s pretty near blown away by the temper & attitude of the crowd – ‘extraordinarily benevolent’ is how she’s phrased it.
Excepting mentions of Bush
Hee. Yeah, the response was REALLY lukewarm when Mr Obama thanked him for “service to the United States.” And did you see his face when Obama talked about actually following the constitution? Priceless.
I was very, very impressed by his speech. I hope he holds true to his words.
The two things that grabbed me were declaring science to be put back into it’s proper place & usage, then listing atheists as humans with actual valuable beliefs. I is hopeful
It was an epic speech… I was quite moved by it, to say the least. Find a buddy with a tivo, or see if YouTube’s got it. Maybe they’ll put it up on whitehouse.gov.
Unbelievably Presidential, I thought (considering the last 8 years it was a breath of fresh air). The look on Dubya’s face was priceless. I think the speech served several purposes; not the least of which was inspiring hope in a nation that truly needs it.
The text is online. I missed all but the last paragraph so I downloaded it as soon as I could. The speech is just what I needed. He pulled some of my pet concerns out from under the rug and introduced them to fresh air & sunshine. Ah, science is no longer a dirty word! The foreclosure mess isn’t the fault of any one group! Maybe my kids will find honest work when they grow up! No sugar coating. Just straight-forward “here’s-what-we-have-to-do”. Sweet relief.
See, this is what gives conservatives a bad name.
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If you’re going to criticize the man, at least wait until he has DONE SOMETHING.
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Complaining about him when he hasn’t been in office for even two days (he was inaugurated at noon) is just childish crap. Go sit in the corner until you can learn to play nice.
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Sore losers = FAIL.
Yes, as I commented on another board… it still irks me that we were tossed in last, as an afterthought, like we’re still the weirdos… but you know, half a loaf is better than none. At least we were included instead of lambasted, as Bush I did.
Hey, now. The VAST MAJORITY of monotheists in the world (Muslims) don’tworship a person. To wit:
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“Those of you who worshipped Muhammad, know that Muhammad is dead. Those of you who worshipped Allah, know that Allah is the Everlasting.”
— Abu Bakr (friend of Muhammad)
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Only Christians worship a dead man. Even Buddhists don’t worship *people*.
Doesn’t “hallelujah” essentially mean “praise the lord (jah)”? That’s what I was taught in lekis, and from that, I rather liked ICDK’s irony. (AF’s post being veru Cptn Obvious, ofc)
Uncle Fester’s point is that it isn’t irony. He mentions
Morrisette because the only thing ironic about her song, “Ironic” is that nothing in her song is actually ironic.
Indeed! Its’ very rare to hear a politician – any politician – acknowledge
atheists. Gave me the warm fuzzies for the first time in a long time
when listening to a speech.
Oh there are more qualifications than that hun. It also helps to Ignore people with a total lack of imagination, who can’t understand anything they can’t put their hands on.
There is, but many outside North America can’t tell the difference. There are roughly as much variety in English accents in the US as the UK, so that may give you an indication of something.
yep. canadians go “oot and aboot”, americans go “out and about”. that’s the easiest one to spell out. but they also say hockey weird too.
i love my best friend (who lives in toronto) but i always giggle a little at her accent and inflections because they’re so different. and the use of “eh” is almost as frequent as we tease them about!
Oh come now there are atleast five distinctly different accents in the US alone. The usual joke is that they put “ah?” in every sentence and that ou turns to oo.
There are many many different accents and dialects. Even here in the US
Please, there are more than five just in the greater NYC area.
As for the whole country (us and Canada), people have to realize how large we each are. I tried to look this up once, but don’t remember the outcome. I believe each country is several times larger than all of Europe, and in our very short histories have had multiple accents and cultures form in many different areas of the land.
We don’t have one unifying language or culture.
We have many.
Ah, but folks from Minnisota and North Dakota have been know to say ‘oot and aboot’ and ‘eh’. And I’ve noticed a diffference in the Canadian accent as well, comparing east-of-Rockies and Toronto area. But not as different as Atlanta and Maine…
Having grown up in the cities, and having spent an awful lot of time on the North Shore, BWCA, the Iron Range and Paul Bunyan and Babe territory, I can confirm this. It is however those damned canucks’ influence Actually, a lot of it came from the French fur traders who were all over that whole area.
I can also state that the Canadian dollar was almost as common as the US dollar. That Canadians owned probably 1/2 of Mpls, and probably much more of it now.
Now, you call yourself Viking Gal, but you misspell Minnesota. Makes me wonder.
Please, there are more than five just in the greater NYC area.
As for the whole country (us and Canada), people have to realize how large we each are. I tried to look this up once, but don’t remember the outcome. I believe each country is several times larger than all of Europe, and in our very short histories have had multiple accents and cultures form in many different areas of the land.
Each country is a little smaller than Europe.
And it isn’t guaranteed that places with large areas will have many accents. Australia has only three distinct accents, and the distinction is more class based than location based. Noting that Australia is only a little smaller than the contiguous 48 states and has a population not much smaller than Canada
@Scum
Sorry, about the miss-spelling of Minnesota, but I’m a Viking gal from the east coast. There was a ‘little Denmark’ in NJ when my mother was a child. And my father came straight from the old country. Plus, my typing deserves swear words!
As for lutefisk, the folks in my family are more into pickled herring, agorksalat, and aebleskivver. (I’m not so much into the herring…cat food!)
Sometimes you just need a good swear word to get your point across. I think that cursing is okay from time to time as long as you have a decent vocabulary and do not use cursewords as filler.
It’s good to see that we’re handling a monumental and historical event with the dignity it deserves… I think Obama has handled the days leading up to his inauguration with a lot of class. Shouldn’t we follow suit?
So the “But everyone else is doing it” reasoning is in effect? I agree with you, though. I can’t really say that I’m impressed with any party as a whole right now. I want to be proud of this big step forward that our country is taking, but a few demonstrators on all sides are making it difficult.
Demonstrators on both sides are a portion of why we live in a great country- Yes O’Reilly can still ignore facts and spin in circles around himself and his toadies, and yes the crazy lady that thinks Obama is going to turn us into Muslims is entitled to babble along as well- and I know their are crazies on the left too (Cindy Sheehan (sp?) certainly made me cringe)- and they are ALL entitled to these opinions- and the rest of us will simple move forward without them. That has always been the beauty of change in this country- those that want to babble about how bad it is simply get left behind (thinking of royalists in Revolution, slave owners, etc). SO do not worry about these negative Nancies on both ends of the spectrum- they will simply be left behind by the rest of us building the great nation we are entitled to have, and the great world that we should be a responsible party to, too.
“I think Obama has handled the days leading up to his inauguration with a lot of class. Shouldn’t we follow suit?”
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Eh, you have a point, but I’m damned if I know how to moon in a ladylike fashion.
Because the last 8 have been a complete cakewalk, right?! Give me a break! You guys had your chance and you blew it. We don’t need anything even remotely like Bush ever again! End of an Error!!! 1/20/2009!
it’s spelled haggis. if you’re going to be a demeaning bastard at least do it right. plus, there’s nothing wrong with eating haggis. it’s quite delicious.
Indeed. Have you tried the veggie stuff? Tis good.
Haggis isn’t even Scottish originally, but I think it makes up 1/2 of the Caledonian words our troll supreme knows…
veggie haggis?! never heard of it. but my mother would love it. she’s a no red meat sorta vegetarian so she’s never had haggis. i’ve tried to explain it to her as a spicier sort of meatloaf because the meat itself has a bigger, bolder flavor.
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last i had haggis was at the rob roy dinner 2 years ago but i have a pound frozen in my freezer for when i get ambitious enough to make haggis tartlets. mmmmm yummy.
Yup. It’s quite popular actually: nice, nutty flavour. I remember ordering some at a pub in Edinburgh and this American lady overheard came over to our table to see it.
I don’t know whose stomach they boil it in tho….
here in the states we use synthetic casing due to people being all creeped out by boiling it in an actual stomach. my thoughts are, you’re eating heart and breain and a stomach bothers you??
that should read “brain”. although the more modern recipes forgo the brain due to mad cow and such. the place where i buy mine tends to go more heavily on the heart and liver to make up the difference in flavor. but then again it’s a tiny little shop and mom makes all the food at the place, so it’s like getting homemade haggis and pasties every time.
i was going to clarify by saying “meat pasties” but that wouldn’t clear up the confusion too much! i [LINKED] a recipe to a pastie, they’re calling it a bridie, which is pretty much interchangeable. there’s a special sort of sauce, similar to a BBQ sauce that goes remarkably well with bridies/pasties, sausage rolls and meat pies in general. i *believe* it’s kinda like a scottish version of ketchup.
You’d be thinking of HP sauce now, wouldn’t you? More like steak sauce than anything else in the states, but heavier on the tamarind and a few other things.
‘I don’t eat veggies because I love animals.. I eat them because I HATE PLANTS!!”
Or better: “If god didn’t WANT us to eat animals, why’d he make ‘em out of MEAT??”
i like that second one. if i hated my car i’d put a bumpersticker on it that said that.
there are very few forms of meat that i won’t eat… but the reasoning is that i dont’ like the flavor. and unfortunately i’ve killed lots of things i haven’t eatne… an ex and i used to do lots of fishing and we’d catch lots of blue gills and sunfish and other little lake dirty fish. so i’d help him scale ‘em and fillet ‘em but i hated the taste of ‘em. when we went salmon fishing though, whoo boy, those were some yummy dead fish.
*scene: my home. condition: upset over 4 YO son’s behavior with babysitter*
husband: Look, kiddo, when an ADULT tells you you have to… whatever, you do it. The ADULTS have your best interest in mind, the ADULTS are responsible for [edit length of speech; suffice to say, the word 'adult was hit pretty hard numerous times]… Do you understand what you did?!
Son: *minor lip trembling & years*…adultery?
*exuent omnes, roffling*
That was suposed to be ‘tears’ of course, and yes, it plays hell with discipline when the boogers make you do a spit-take. My boy, he hath learned well the art of diffusing situations.
WTF is wrong with haggis?
Have you ever actually tried it or are you just desperately attempting to find anything to use as an insult. Pathetic, truly pathetic.
I do hate to be the bearer of logic to your obvious high amounts of ignorant fun but being an Antithesis of Uncle Fester would make you a very pleasant individual devoid of sarcasm and nothing but positive things to say.
So in the interest of logic, try to make some sense with your name.
He thinks I’m a left winger who thinks old Jug Ears has the sun up his bum… I probably handed him his arse on the thoughts thread, since that where he appeared… It could be any number of half wits from there…
BTW, thanks for the glowing character assessment… But I still want to be plasticised after my death and displayed in a grotesque pose, rather than have an epitaph…
Nah, just stating the obvious of your cartoonish persona. I think the pose you picked of looming over a bed was just perfect for your postmortum arrangements.
“But I still want to be plasticised after my death and displayed in a grotesque pose”
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I’m toying with the idea of having the Disney folks prop me upright and doing an animatronic version of the beauty-pageant wave.
Doesn’t work… you’d have to think politicians were universally ‘good and noble’, think blind party politics was a ‘good’ thing, and that one world view is the one TRUE view…
Eesh, these last two lols weren’t very tasteful. I expected something a little more positive about Obama taking office, not kicking Bush out. (Not to say I’m not happy about Bush leaving, of course.)
comedy is Larry poke Moe in the eyes, Laurel hitting Hardy with a plank… it’s brickbats, slapsticks, prat falls and old men mincing in full drag… there isn’t a law that says ‘taste’…
right now the voting page is really bad… all LOLs of bush leaving office… i’m getting sick of seeing the same joke over and over again. “end of an error” wasn’t really that funny the first time… there’s got to be something else happening in the world that we can make fun of…
*shrug* If that’s all that gets submitted, that’s all there is. Tiresome in the extreme, but bitching about it does nothing to solve it. Got some funnies?
Forget it- this is an UberLiberal Obama Lovefest site. Any LOL’s you make of Obama that are not kissing his rear, will never even make it to the Vote page; they mysteriously disappear.
It’s a fact, get used to it. The Liberals are all about free speech- as long as you don’t criticize them.
It is free speech. They aren’t disappearing. They remain on your account. And what is put up is a function of the votes received. Ergo, if there is a strong liberal population, their votes put things on the front page by virtue of being more.
If anything, the sites like this are closer to pure democracy than Bush will ever have understanding of the word. It is pure voter to front page input. Just means that the hate Obama population is lower than the love Obama population. Too bad there isn’t a high number of witty people affecting the votes or we might actually get more funny and less masturbation on the front page.
Only hundreds? I think I lost half a workday clicking through those to find something, ANYTHING, else. I would have “win”-voted a plank with the caption “bored”, easily.
Hint to James: Last time carpet bombing worked, despite the cherished hopes of your military who’ve used it in every situation from jungle to desert and back again, was Dresden…
the firebombing of tokyo was pretty horrific as well due to the fact that tokyo was completely built out of wood at the time… it went up like kindling…
Which is why Dresden was the more impressive… getting a city of tinder dry wood and tar paper to firestorm takes little effort. To dry roast people in stone basements takes firepower…
Frankly, it is my opinion that Uncle Fester and his other Brito opinion makers should proceed to piss up a downspout when it comes to American politics. They’d be much better served to shed their opinions on British politics and all the asinine folderol that attends Britich government and royalty. Good God, they can’t even get the dusty wigs off their heads and act like they are part of the 21st century. Pomp and circumstance, you say. Pompus asses, I say ! And definitely pompus opinions.
Call me a troll or whatever, but I see no benefit in criticising that which one knows nearly nothing about.
You mean like you and British Politics… basically, you just shot your bolt there, me old fruit…
And you want asinine foll-de-roll (folderol isn’t a word, BTW) then I’d attend to the macho posturing of your military who disgrace their uniforms by using them as a reason to swear at the people they are sworn to serve…
But I can tell… you want me… but you can’t have me… I am promised to ‘F*ck Fester’ since he asked me first…
Well, if/when they ever manage to get a British (or Canadian) lol on the front page, feel free to lambaste and comment as you see fit. Here’s one for you to feel free to comment on, if you can figure out who the hell I’m talking about (link behind my name).
The is a lol about American politics, why are you giving people grief for NOT going off topic? Believe it or not, not every country in the world is so incredibly insular that they know nothing of other countries politics.
Honestly, who the fsck gives a damn about British politics? :p
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“I see no benefit in criticising that which one knows nearly nothing about”
The main problem is that the US and its decisions, whether we or you like it, has an influence on just about everyone. So get some real American “yay we’re like the whole world or sumfin’, like”-pride, and get a clue as to why we (good ole “rest of the world”) have an opinion about your politicians.
Ya, actually being me is much worse. At least mentally, the rest has ups and downs like most people. But that mentally part… That is just damaging. Hold out as long as you can.
Ah, Uncle Fester, you have again shown your ignorance. The word ‘folderol’ is indeed a word listed in Webster’s Dictionary. Perhaps Webster’s dictionary is not used in merry olde England because one word you constantly use, ‘arse’ is NOT included in Webster’s dictionary whereas the word ‘ass’ is found therein.
I have absolutely nothing against British or Canadian peoples, customs, or government. But I do find it distasteful to hear someone continually lambaste our government and our customs unless, of course, it is meant in jest in the same way we make sport of your royal pomp. But, after months of reading your remarks, I would have to say that I believe you to be of adult age and to have some education plus some life-experiences that should make you a bit wise. Lately you have not been showing much wisdom but more cynicism on a number of topics. Maybe it is the dreary English winter weather that has you down. Or perhaps some extenuating circumstances have pushed you near ‘the edge’ and made you bitter and critical. Whatever, please know that I have, in the past, quite enjoyed many of your come-backs and have looked forward to reading your quips. But not lately. Sorry, folks, for using your forum to vent my own inadequacies but I have no other way to correspond with dear Uncle Fester. I apologize profusely for boring all of you with my bitch of the day.
maybe it’s the whole ‘they’re retards’ outlook.
It’ll end up becoming a self-stoking cycle, and you’ll be buried in an avalanche, zombie-apocalypse style.
Not a pleasant death, but pretty badass.
Webster – the dictionary that lists ‘color’ as a word… Sorry, I don’t recognise that as a standard… well, it is, but only for colonials and servants…
As to your ‘government’ if it pulls it’s feelers back from wanting to Finlandise the world, then I’ll take a big, steaming, cup of STFU…. untill then, stick it up your arse.
and yes, you are inadequate… I’d consider dying in a cold place alone if I were you…
“But I do find it distasteful to hear someone continually lambaste our government and our customs ”
It should be your job, but for some reason you aren’t doing it.(Or – for those here who try – not quite enough.)
New President drops the F-Bomb
His face is great in this picture.
Ha! Funny caption, but I suspect the O-man doesn’t swear too often. Doesn’t seem like the type.
I think Rahm’s got the cussing covered enough for both of them.
Agreed, I can’t see Obama cussing…at least not publicly. But, I’m sure he let’s some F-bombs fly on the basketball court!!!
More like: “The President would like you to get the fnck out.” – Rahm Imanuel
I think from Rahm it’d be: “Hey, fsckhead — the President fscking wants you to get the fsck out.”
All said while holding a steak knife and a dead fish.
LOL! Yes, probably.
He doesn’t look like the type that smokes either though. I was surprised when he said he’s trying to quite that habit.
Eloquent speakers don’t cuss, they just get their point across with said eloquence.
That was very eloquent of you.
Except on the basketball court. EVERYone curses there. Me, too!
I think there are some Drill Sargeants at Paris Island who would disagree…there’s a certain eloquence to a good cussing!!!
Indeed. When a DI can cuss a boot out so thoroughly that the bystanders unconsciously snap to attention that’s poetry.
A truly eloquent cussin’ is like a force of nature. *lol*
/goes hunting her copy of Full Metal Jacket
“Did your parents have any children that lived?”
“Or I will rip out your eyeballs, and skullfcuk you!!”
“Why are you not stomping Private Pyle’s guts out?!”
But only in a GOOD cussing. The mere repetition of the f-word makes you sound like a chicken. I remember 3 of us coming out of the Blair Witch Project clucking ‘f*ck’ just like a yard full of chickens…
F*cking f*ckety f*ck f*ck.
Fuh-faaawk?
FAAAWK fawkfawkfawk FAAAAWK! *pecks ground*
A good cussing works quite well…as long as you reserve those words for when they’re truly appropriate.
If your every other word is “fuck”, you’ve unilaterally disarmed.
Ah.. At last, a group of people who understand the value,
and the danger of devaluing, a good cussing.
Hah! Speaking of eloquence, the horde on the mall just made it very clear to soon-to-be-former President Bush how they feel about him.
na na na na hey hey hey goodbye!
My bud is up on the mall sending regular updates. She’s pretty near blown away by the temper & attitude of the crowd – ‘extraordinarily benevolent’ is how she’s phrased it.
Excepting mentions of Bush
Hee. Yeah, the response was REALLY lukewarm when Mr Obama thanked him for “service to the United States.” And did you see his face when Obama talked about actually following the constitution? Priceless.
I was very, very impressed by his speech. I hope he holds true to his words.
The two things that grabbed me were declaring science to be put back into it’s proper place & usage, then listing atheists as humans with actual valuable beliefs. I is hopeful
I missed the speech. Sad.
But from what I’ve heard.. I shouldn’t have missed it.
It was an epic speech… I was quite moved by it, to say the least. Find a buddy with a tivo, or see if YouTube’s got it. Maybe they’ll put it up on whitehouse.gov.
Unbelievably Presidential, I thought (considering the last 8 years it was a breath of fresh air). The look on Dubya’s face was priceless. I think the speech served several purposes; not the least of which was inspiring hope in a nation that truly needs it.
I was moved too…as in the bowel type…
Careful of those, you wouldn’t want to flush away too much of your essence.
The text is online. I missed all but the last paragraph so I downloaded it as soon as I could. The speech is just what I needed. He pulled some of my pet concerns out from under the rug and introduced them to fresh air & sunshine. Ah, science is no longer a dirty word! The foreclosure mess isn’t the fault of any one group! Maybe my kids will find honest work when they grow up! No sugar coating. Just straight-forward “here’s-what-we-have-to-do”. Sweet relief.
Can’t wait for four years to pass so we can sing “Hey hey hey, goodbye!” also!
See, this is what gives conservatives a bad name.
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If you’re going to criticize the man, at least wait until he has DONE SOMETHING.
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Complaining about him when he hasn’t been in office for even two days (he was inaugurated at noon) is just childish crap. Go sit in the corner until you can learn to play nice.
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Sore losers = FAIL.
Yes, as I commented on another board… it still irks me that we were tossed in last, as an afterthought, like we’re still the weirdos… but you know, half a loaf is better than none. At least we were included instead of lambasted, as Bush I did.
Well he couldn’t very well put atheists FIRST, ya know… might’ve been too much of a shock to the system for the already shaky right…
Well, you ARE the weirdos.
Heh, yes, because WE’RE the ones who go about muttering to our invisible friends…
you’re the one who has a relationship with a Zombie…
Hey, my Zombie and me go and do stuff! Cool stuff, interesting stuff! And we are best friends!
Too easy and still not feeling it. Pass.
Hey, now. The VAST MAJORITY of monotheists in the world (Muslims) don’tworship a person. To wit:
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“Those of you who worshipped Muhammad, know that Muhammad is dead. Those of you who worshipped Allah, know that Allah is the Everlasting.”
— Abu Bakr (friend of Muhammad)
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Only Christians worship a dead man. Even Buddhists don’t worship *people*.
I didn’t watch it…so you’re saying we atheists aren’t going to be second-class citizens anymore? HALLELUJAH!
Irony- you just had it.
Only if you’re a Morrisette fan… otherwise, you just don’t speak English.
Oh the irony of irony.
Doesn’t “hallelujah” essentially mean “praise the lord (jah)”? That’s what I was taught in lekis, and from that, I rather liked ICDK’s irony. (AF’s post being veru Cptn Obvious, ofc)
Uncle Fester’s point is that it isn’t irony. He mentions
Morrisette because the only thing ironic about her song, “Ironic” is that nothing in her song is actually ironic.
Indeed! Its’ very rare to hear a politician – any politician – acknowledge
atheists. Gave me the warm fuzzies for the first time in a long time
when listening to a speech.
Let’s swap countries. You can be a British atheist and I’ll be an American Christian. It’s an ill divided world…
That’s just because we think people with imaginary friends are nutters…
Theres nothing nutty about having an imaginary friend so long as you don’t do two things: Expect them to respond and expect others to see them.
And so long as you’re under the age of what, 6?
Oh there are more qualifications than that hun. It also helps to Ignore people with a total lack of imagination, who can’t understand anything they can’t put their hands on.
I’m neither British nor American. I doubt you’d want to swap places with me unless you like severe cold spells.
… Greece?
(I’ve never been as cold as there – those buggers are even worse than the british at building houses that work when it gets below 20C. :p )
I’m guessing Iceland or Scandinavia
Canada (unless there are many Albertas.
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And the prize goes to Danbala, for actually having the presence of mind to look at my profile.
Um. Prize to be decided upon later.
There are a couple others, but they are all in the US, so they are excluded.
Oh!

Canada sounds great tho…
BTW, I have a question: is there a major difference between Canadian and American accents?
I feel bad for not knowing which is which…
There is, but many outside North America can’t tell the difference. There are roughly as much variety in English accents in the US as the UK, so that may give you an indication of something.
yep. canadians go “oot and aboot”, americans go “out and about”. that’s the easiest one to spell out. but they also say hockey weird too.
i love my best friend (who lives in toronto) but i always giggle a little at her accent and inflections because they’re so different. and the use of “eh” is almost as frequent as we tease them about!
Oh come now there are atleast five distinctly different accents in the US alone. The usual joke is that they put “ah?” in every sentence and that ou turns to oo.
There are many many different accents and dialects. Even here in the US
Please, there are more than five just in the greater NYC area.
As for the whole country (us and Canada), people have to realize how large we each are. I tried to look this up once, but don’t remember the outcome. I believe each country is several times larger than all of Europe, and in our very short histories have had multiple accents and cultures form in many different areas of the land.
We don’t have one unifying language or culture.
We have many.
Ah, but folks from Minnisota and North Dakota have been know to say ‘oot and aboot’ and ‘eh’. And I’ve noticed a diffference in the Canadian accent as well, comparing east-of-Rockies and Toronto area. But not as different as Atlanta and Maine…
Having grown up in the cities, and having spent an awful lot of time on the North Shore, BWCA, the Iron Range and Paul Bunyan and Babe territory, I can confirm this. It is however those damned canucks’ influence
Actually, a lot of it came from the French fur traders who were all over that whole area.
I can also state that the Canadian dollar was almost as common as the US dollar. That Canadians owned probably 1/2 of Mpls, and probably much more of it now.
Now, you call yourself Viking Gal, but you misspell Minnesota. Makes me wonder.
And we also said uff-da and lutefisk [Link]
Each country is a little smaller than Europe.
And it isn’t guaranteed that places with large areas will have many accents. Australia has only three distinct accents, and the distinction is more class based than location based. Noting that Australia is only a little smaller than the contiguous 48 states and has a population not much smaller than Canada
@Scum
Sorry, about the miss-spelling of Minnesota, but I’m a Viking gal from the east coast. There was a ‘little Denmark’ in NJ when my mother was a child. And my father came straight from the old country. Plus, my typing deserves swear words!
As for lutefisk, the folks in my family are more into pickled herring, agorksalat, and aebleskivver. (I’m not so much into the herring…cat food!)
Any American politician?
Where I live, it’s more like the poor sods who claim to have a religion have to defend that stand.
I think having to defend having an imaginary friend is a healthy thing in a culture…
But sometimes the only word that says ‘muthafukka’ is ….
Hand me my wallet, it’s the one that says “Bad Muthafukka”.
“Eloquent speakers don’t cuss”
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True. As Shakespeare said, “Obscenity is the crutch of inarticulate mutherfcukers”.
WIN!!
lol. nice one tessie.
HAH!
Sometimes you just need a good swear word to get your point across. I think that cursing is okay from time to time as long as you have a decent vocabulary and do not use cursewords as filler.
Exactly. When you hit your thumb HARD with a hammer…Not as punctuation.
If you’ve hit your thumb HARD then the best one can mange is the noise of a type deflating… then when you can breath, then you start the bombing…
Yeah, it really stank when I was five and didn’t know any effective words. My dad laughed about that ’till the day he died.
It’s good to see that we’re handling a monumental and historical event with the dignity it deserves… I think Obama has handled the days leading up to his inauguration with a lot of class. Shouldn’t we follow suit?
Phblttttt.
Lol! Like I said :p
I found my point being very concise and very “get-a-clue—you’re-on-PK”-ish. :p
The Groundling Republicans didn’t… and some of the Dems didn’t acquit themselves that well… and Libertarians don’t recognise your need for ‘manners’
I think pffft! covers it…
So the “But everyone else is doing it” reasoning is in effect? I agree with you, though. I can’t really say that I’m impressed with any party as a whole right now. I want to be proud of this big step forward that our country is taking, but a few demonstrators on all sides are making it difficult.
Demonstrators on both sides are a portion of why we live in a great country- Yes O’Reilly can still ignore facts and spin in circles around himself and his toadies, and yes the crazy lady that thinks Obama is going to turn us into Muslims is entitled to babble along as well- and I know their are crazies on the left too (Cindy Sheehan (sp?) certainly made me cringe)- and they are ALL entitled to these opinions- and the rest of us will simple move forward without them. That has always been the beauty of change in this country- those that want to babble about how bad it is simply get left behind (thinking of royalists in Revolution, slave owners, etc). SO do not worry about these negative Nancies on both ends of the spectrum- they will simply be left behind by the rest of us building the great nation we are entitled to have, and the great world that we should be a responsible party to, too.
Of course it’s in effect, it’s the raison d’etre of the people with the Obamessiah rhetoric, for Caribou Barbie and McSame…
They’re just butt hurt.
Facepalm.
“I think Obama has handled the days leading up to his inauguration with a lot of class. Shouldn’t we follow suit?”
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Eh, you have a point, but I’m damned if I know how to moon in a ladylike fashion.
I suggest slow and teasing like!
And make sure there are no dingleberries.
How do you know that Tessie has long butt hole hair?
Lighten up! It’s just a joke! And a damn good one too. I would love to see Obama say that!
Bloody hell, man/woman, this is PK.
hey here’s comment number 10.
I can’t wait to see how disappointed all you uneducated fucks are going be in four years.
Please list your academic credentials, so that we may all breathe in the glory
that is you, awdwannabe…
Too modest perhaps?
Still downloading, I think…
Crayon broke?
Why would we wait four years to be disappointed?
Besides, after Bush it’s going to take quite a cluster fsck to disappoint most of us…
nothing like setting your goals high…
I think we have to dig the goals out of the ground…
That’s a chance I’m happy to take. If you beat your head against a wall long enough, stopping feels real good.
Because the last 8 have been a complete cakewalk, right?! Give me a break! You guys had your chance and you blew it. We don’t need anything even remotely like Bush ever again! End of an Error!!! 1/20/2009!
Ooer, I’ll be a fuck in four years still? Good to know.
Such love and tolerance from the Left. Arrogance, WIN!!!
Lol! It’s back!
…..And has forgotten to change its name. Or are you replying in advance to UF?
Go back to your haggus, lassie and let the adults argue!
Well, the adult thing is spoiled by you being here… after all, you’re far from mentally adult…
Absolutely! …Can’t even spell “haggis.”
I was trying not to barf while saying it…
No imagination, stultifying ignorance, and no stomach for what is basically a big sausage… you’re really just so disappointing…
it’s spelled haggis. if you’re going to be a demeaning bastard at least do it right. plus, there’s nothing wrong with eating haggis. it’s quite delicious.
Indeed. Have you tried the veggie stuff? Tis good.
Haggis isn’t even Scottish originally, but I think it makes up 1/2 of the Caledonian words our troll supreme knows…
veggie haggis?! never heard of it. but my mother would love it. she’s a no red meat sorta vegetarian so she’s never had haggis. i’ve tried to explain it to her as a spicier sort of meatloaf because the meat itself has a bigger, bolder flavor.
but i have a pound frozen in my freezer for when i get ambitious enough to make haggis tartlets. mmmmm yummy.
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last i had haggis was at the rob roy dinner 2 years ago
Isn’t haggis the same thing as chitlins? Or do I really not want to know?
I don’t know what chitlins are but haggis is usually offal, suet, oatmeal, spice in a sheep’s stomach.
Quite similar to pölsa, I imagine (link in name, and all that). Haven’t been to Scotland yet, but once I’m there, I’m destined to try it.
not the same as chitlins. [LINK] has a bunch of different recipes, but you’ll get the basic idea from the first one or two.
Chitterlings are the intestines and rectum of a pig, washed, then boiled. .
Haggis, in it’s traditional form is sheep stomach stuffed with ground up offal, some mutton and a lot of oats…
Yup. It’s quite popular actually: nice, nutty flavour. I remember ordering some at a pub in Edinburgh and this American lady overheard came over to our table to see it.
I don’t know whose stomach they boil it in tho….
here in the states we use synthetic casing due to people being all creeped out by boiling it in an actual stomach. my thoughts are, you’re eating heart and breain and a stomach bothers you??
that should read “brain”. although the more modern recipes forgo the brain due to mad cow and such. the place where i buy mine tends to go more heavily on the heart and liver to make up the difference in flavor. but then again it’s a tiny little shop and mom makes all the food at the place, so it’s like getting homemade haggis and pasties every time.
Remember-” If it’s not Scottish- IT”S CCRRRAP!”!
“pasties every time”
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I trust you don’t mean the kind of pasties with tassels on them… or do you?
That might actually perk up my mood…
i was going to clarify by saying “meat pasties” but that wouldn’t clear up the confusion too much! i [LINKED] a recipe to a pastie, they’re calling it a bridie, which is pretty much interchangeable. there’s a special sort of sauce, similar to a BBQ sauce that goes remarkably well with bridies/pasties, sausage rolls and meat pies in general. i *believe* it’s kinda like a scottish version of ketchup.
You’d be thinking of HP sauce now, wouldn’t you? More like steak sauce than anything else in the states, but heavier on the tamarind and a few other things.
People are just squeamish about where their meat comes from…
Always reminds me of the old music hall joke
“They were serving pressed tongue in the digs at lunch.
A woman who’s stopping there says
“OH! How AWFUL! I could never eat something that had been in an animal’s mouth!”
So, they gave her a poached egg…’
*giggle*
yeah, i don’t so much care where the meat comes from. as long as it tastes yummy. i’m a proud supporter of PETA… people eating tasty animals.
Nose to tail carnivore. If I’ve had it killed, I’ll eat it, unless I plain don’t like the taste…
‘I don’t eat veggies because I love animals.. I eat them because I HATE PLANTS!!”
Or better: “If god didn’t WANT us to eat animals, why’d he make ‘em out of MEAT??”
i like that second one. if i hated my car i’d put a bumpersticker on it that said that.
there are very few forms of meat that i won’t eat… but the reasoning is that i dont’ like the flavor. and unfortunately i’ve killed lots of things i haven’t eatne… an ex and i used to do lots of fishing and we’d catch lots of blue gills and sunfish and other little lake dirty fish. so i’d help him scale ‘em and fillet ‘em but i hated the taste of ‘em. when we went salmon fishing though, whoo boy, those were some yummy dead fish.
Food good. pdq eat food. Food have for legs? Leafses? pdq eat.
Weirdest thing I ever ate so far: duck tongues.
@pdq
Duck tongues:
Deep fried, crunchy – nutty, but odd.
Pfft, adults. They were made up to make people with some aging to them feel superior with being set in their ways.
*scene: my home. condition: upset over 4 YO son’s behavior with babysitter*
husband: Look, kiddo, when an ADULT tells you you have to… whatever, you do it. The ADULTS have your best interest in mind, the ADULTS are responsible for [edit length of speech; suffice to say, the word 'adult was hit pretty hard numerous times]… Do you understand what you did?!
Son: *minor lip trembling & years*…adultery?
*exuent omnes, roffling*
… *chuckles* Nice.
That was suposed to be ‘tears’ of course, and yes, it plays hell with discipline when the boogers make you do a spit-take. My boy, he hath learned well the art of diffusing situations.
WTF is wrong with haggis?
Have you ever actually tried it or are you just desperately attempting to find anything to use as an insult. Pathetic, truly pathetic.
I do hate to be the bearer of logic to your obvious high amounts of ignorant fun but being an Antithesis of Uncle Fester would make you a very pleasant individual devoid of sarcasm and nothing but positive things to say.
So in the interest of logic, try to make some sense with your name.
He thinks I’m a left winger who thinks old Jug Ears has the sun up his bum… I probably handed him his arse on the thoughts thread, since that where he appeared… It could be any number of half wits from there…
BTW, thanks for the glowing character assessment… But I still want to be plasticised after my death and displayed in a grotesque pose, rather than have an epitaph…
Nah, just stating the obvious of your cartoonish persona. I think the pose you picked of looming over a bed was just perfect for your postmortum arrangements.
any pose in particular?
“But I still want to be plasticised after my death and displayed in a grotesque pose”
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I’m toying with the idea of having the Disney folks prop me upright and doing an animatronic version of the beauty-pageant wave.
DWN wins again!
I do have my moments.
But I’m wearing the Evil Spock/Kirk goatee to prove I’m the Anti Fester!
Doesn’t work… you’d have to think politicians were universally ‘good and noble’, think blind party politics was a ‘good’ thing, and that one world view is the one TRUE view…
I have seen Evil Kirk and Evil Spock, you are not their equal. Besides, I have an evil goatee, so where is my LifeWyrmNexus or LightWyrmNexus?
No wait, nevermind, I don’t want to know what the inverse of me would look like nor do I believe I warrant one.
An inverse of me would be old, male, atheist, lewd, grumpy, English…..
Wait a minute! Does that make me the Anti Fester?
yep. sorry AC, we’re just gonna have to take you out back and shoot you now, save you from a life of misery.
WINNER!
“But I’m wearing the Evil Spock/Kirk goatee to prove I’m the Anti Fester!”
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Bender did that, too.
He certainly doesn’t disturb his muse much… like at all…
“being an Antithesis of Uncle Fester would make you a very pleasant individual devoid of sarcasm and nothing but positive things to say.”
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And daft.
So at least it’s doing something right.
0bama 0wn’d.
It’s spelled ‘Pwned’…
It can be spelled Owned, OWND, 0wnd, Pwned, PWND, or just PWN or OWN.
I’m sure there are other varieties, but I can’t think of any atm.
Maybe…
Nooooo, no, no. “pwned” is the Right Way, with some allowance for pwnx0red, nab. ;P
The guy on the right looks like he just spotted the “666″ on Obama’s scalp……
And then was okay because it still isn’t as bad as having Bush in office.
WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN
All that sticky stuff on your keyboard from late night porn viewing has made your keys stick ……..
can we get some new LOLs? i’m sure this pic already made the front page…
It just feels that way…
Eesh, these last two lols weren’t very tasteful. I expected something a little more positive about Obama taking office, not kicking Bush out. (Not to say I’m not happy about Bush leaving, of course.)
Out from under your rock, LOLs can be distateful. You may be a Barbie girl in a Barbie world, but the rest of us do a reality check daily.
In from under your rock, it’s too dark to read the LOLs.
comedy is Larry poke Moe in the eyes, Laurel hitting Hardy with a plank… it’s brickbats, slapsticks, prat falls and old men mincing in full drag… there isn’t a law that says ‘taste’…
Tragedy is when I get a paper cut. Comedy is when you fall down a manhole and die.
Shouldn’t this be buried under a link or something? Or at least another lol, where you would have to scroll to see it?
I don’t care, but the lady who was walking past my cubicle gave me and the screen a chiding look.
wow. she must have crazy vision to read that at a glance…
Or maybe she gave you a chiding look for being on this site at work? Of course we all are, you just seem to have been caught.
I THINK this site is biased..
really?
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the rest of us KNOW it is…
It used to be the other way round. A lot of right-wingers stopped posting
after the election.
right now the voting page is really bad… all LOLs of bush leaving office… i’m getting sick of seeing the same joke over and over again. “end of an error” wasn’t really that funny the first time… there’s got to be something else happening in the world that we can make fun of…
*shrug* If that’s all that gets submitted, that’s all there is. Tiresome in the extreme, but bitching about it does nothing to solve it. Got some funnies?
me gots lots o funnies. click on my name to see some…
pdq, i even made a new lol just for you…
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i hope you enjoy…
Some of them is not too bad!
Erm, let me translate for print: I am the Mistress of Meosis, so ‘doesn’t suck’ is praise. *pats ubr*
Another person imparting biology to the masses? Yay!
Forget it- this is an UberLiberal Obama Lovefest site. Any LOL’s you make of Obama that are not kissing his rear, will never even make it to the Vote page; they mysteriously disappear.
It’s a fact, get used to it. The Liberals are all about free speech- as long as you don’t criticize them.
It is free speech. They aren’t disappearing. They remain on your account. And what is put up is a function of the votes received. Ergo, if there is a strong liberal population, their votes put things on the front page by virtue of being more.
If anything, the sites like this are closer to pure democracy than Bush will ever have understanding of the word. It is pure voter to front page input. Just means that the hate Obama population is lower than the love Obama population. Too bad there isn’t a high number of witty people affecting the votes or we might actually get more funny and less masturbation on the front page.
the only difference between real democracy and pk is that i can sit on the voting page and vote in all the really stupid ones over and over again.
Pride… Your parents has it.
You’re just butt hurt… you can tell…
You should have seen the “Just Do It” ones on the photo of the Greek
rioter wearing the Nike hoodie. There were hundreds! *twitches*
yeah… me no likey that one either… we need some originality…
Only hundreds? I think I lost half a workday clicking through those to find something, ANYTHING, else. I would have “win”-voted a plank with the caption “bored”, easily.
What it lacks in ‘funny’ it makes up for in accuracy…
Hint to James: Last time carpet bombing worked, despite the cherished hopes of your military who’ve used it in every situation from jungle to desert and back again, was Dresden…
uf… where’d that come from?
You don’t need a weatherman to know
which way the chagrined blows.
Sorry, James is Carpet bombing with his whining about ‘bias’… going from thread to thread posting it
or he was…
ahh… i thought you were off your meds for a second there…
Off my meds… not good
REM suppressants, SSRIs and pain killers
We’re not all innocent when we dream
No- we carpet fire-bombed Tokyo after Dresden.
It really didn’t work though… and Dresden was so impressive it even sickend the people who did it…
Admit it, only time the US have been on that scale they had to go nuclear…
the firebombing of tokyo was pretty horrific as well due to the fact that tokyo was completely built out of wood at the time… it went up like kindling…
Which is why Dresden was the more impressive… getting a city of tinder dry wood and tar paper to firestorm takes little effort. To dry roast people in stone basements takes firepower…
I think everybody with an opinion is biased.
dwn, yet again you have a knack for stating the obvious…
It’s a gift
Now if only I hadn’t opened it, I could return it…
Well that certainly shows which way YOU lean!
That’s very rude, immature, and funny.
That covers the greatness of it…
Indeed!
im in ur base, killing ur d00ds …
The facial expression of the guy on the right is what really makes this lol funny.
Frankly, it is my opinion that Uncle Fester and his other Brito opinion makers should proceed to piss up a downspout when it comes to American politics. They’d be much better served to shed their opinions on British politics and all the asinine folderol that attends Britich government and royalty. Good God, they can’t even get the dusty wigs off their heads and act like they are part of the 21st century. Pomp and circumstance, you say. Pompus asses, I say ! And definitely pompus opinions.
Call me a troll or whatever, but I see no benefit in criticising that which one knows nearly nothing about.
You mean like you and British Politics… basically, you just shot your bolt there, me old fruit…
And you want asinine foll-de-roll (folderol isn’t a word, BTW) then I’d attend to the macho posturing of your military who disgrace their uniforms by using them as a reason to swear at the people they are sworn to serve…
But I can tell… you want me… but you can’t have me… I am promised to ‘F*ck Fester’ since he asked me first…
And thus we have proof that the interwebs are indeed the home of free speech. And morons who can’t read, interpret or understand.
Wow, Uncle Fester, these guys are out to get you lately.
(You know, if they’re not the all the same guy, I mean.)
I’m doing something ‘right’
I’m not sure about right, but I don’t think it is all that left either.
Well, if/when they ever manage to get a British (or Canadian) lol on the front page, feel free to lambaste and comment as you see fit. Here’s one for you to feel free to comment on, if you can figure out who the hell I’m talking about (link behind my name).
Ok, here’s one even more obscure then.
” his other Brito opinion makers”
???
STFU
The is a lol about American politics, why are you giving people grief for NOT going off topic? Believe it or not, not every country in the world is so incredibly insular that they know nothing of other countries politics.
What? What do you mean “every country in the world”!?!?!? There’s another one!?!?!?!
(repeat !?!?!? until you fall over)
Honestly, who the fsck gives a damn about British politics? :p
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“I see no benefit in criticising that which one knows nearly nothing about”
The main problem is that the US and its decisions, whether we or you like it, has an influence on just about everyone. So get some real American “yay we’re like the whole world or sumfin’, like”-pride, and get a clue as to why we (good ole “rest of the world”) have an opinion about your politicians.
Low class and boring.
I can deal with low class… in fact, I often embrace it.
Back to bourbon and women…
Damn… I’m becoming Deathwurm… ah, well… there are worse fates.
Ya, actually being me is much worse. At least mentally, the rest has ups and downs like most people. But that mentally part… That is just damaging. Hold out as long as you can.
Do you dream?
Unless we are calling what I do restful hallucination, yes.
I don’t
It’s better that way
I concur though those rare occasions that I have good dreams, they tend to kick much *ss. Mostly they just leave me feeling more than a tad disturbed.
I shan’t confirm or deny, but you are exposing yourself.
Aren’t you still on probation for that BTW?
I was able to talk to the judge and get his sentence shortened. He is already back on the streets.
…shortened proportionally?
I wouldn’t want to breach my client’s confidentiality.
that’s a filthy lie! I’d have to roll the skin to make it Kosher!
They can prove… NOTHING.
Due to umm, how shall I put this. Lack of evidence??
…bless his heart.
Are you quite sure that’s not either diminutive or missing as well?
@Fester – see what happens when you don’t spread those cheeks
Ah, Uncle Fester, you have again shown your ignorance. The word ‘folderol’ is indeed a word listed in Webster’s Dictionary. Perhaps Webster’s dictionary is not used in merry olde England because one word you constantly use, ‘arse’ is NOT included in Webster’s dictionary whereas the word ‘ass’ is found therein.
I have absolutely nothing against British or Canadian peoples, customs, or government. But I do find it distasteful to hear someone continually lambaste our government and our customs unless, of course, it is meant in jest in the same way we make sport of your royal pomp. But, after months of reading your remarks, I would have to say that I believe you to be of adult age and to have some education plus some life-experiences that should make you a bit wise. Lately you have not been showing much wisdom but more cynicism on a number of topics. Maybe it is the dreary English winter weather that has you down. Or perhaps some extenuating circumstances have pushed you near ‘the edge’ and made you bitter and critical. Whatever, please know that I have, in the past, quite enjoyed many of your come-backs and have looked forward to reading your quips. But not lately. Sorry, folks, for using your forum to vent my own inadequacies but I have no other way to correspond with dear Uncle Fester. I apologize profusely for boring all of you with my bitch of the day.
What the hell is this, hard-on for Fester day?
I attract retards… it’s a gift…
It’s your duct tape sweater…
Which it why I’m devoid of body hair…
You love me, long time… you’ll wear a ball gag…
Shouldn’t have opened it, they don’t take opened returns. I am still annoyed with my gift for pointing out the obvious.
and i’m annoyed with my african christian slave who doesn’t fold or iron laundry. can’t return her because i don’t have the original packaging…
maybe it’s the whole ‘they’re retards’ outlook.
It’ll end up becoming a self-stoking cycle, and you’ll be buried in an avalanche, zombie-apocalypse style.
Not a pleasant death, but pretty badass.
Oooh, it makes you a bit jealous too?
I think we need a club. ;P
Stop mixing up England and Britain!
They’re colonials… they can’t point to Norway on a map, let alone Scotland.
They’re different? O-o
QED
That’s over his head.
Webster – the dictionary that lists ‘color’ as a word… Sorry, I don’t recognise that as a standard… well, it is, but only for colonials and servants…
As to your ‘government’ if it pulls it’s feelers back from wanting to Finlandise the world, then I’ll take a big, steaming, cup of STFU…. untill then, stick it up your arse.
and yes, you are inadequate… I’d consider dying in a cold place alone if I were you…
What, you don’t want to become Finland? I think you’d look great in a knit hat with dangly ear flaps, and reindeer is so tasty!
If you ask nicely, Anti Fester might even give you a Lapp-dance.
“But I do find it distasteful to hear someone continually lambaste our government and our customs ”
It should be your job, but for some reason you aren’t doing it.(Or – for those here who try – not quite enough.)
“Lambaste”? Now you’re making me hungry. Mmmm, basted lamb.
The other guy is Sen. Robert Menendez (D-New Jersey).
menendez? like the guys who took shotguns to their parents?