Kissing her
Kissing her career goodbye
(Sarah Palin)
And she can’t go back to being a family gal.
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Not according to her book sales….
*goes to fetch the mop*
well.. she kissed one career good bye and started a new one out of the hideous rubble…
She could always open up a new plumbing company with Joe. After all, he doesn’t have a plumber’s license either
Research fail, I guess…
bitter troll wishes he could kiss his carreer goodbye and make the money former running for vice president hottie is makeing. bitter troll wonders if she does auto shows
You’re right. I researched it. Palin has never expressed an interest in plumbing.
That’s not what Todd says.
Ba dum tish!
Um, book sales are a very easily manipulated statistic. Look at Scientology book sales.
Several organizations are giving away free copies of her book for joining them. (I would think anyone who visits this site would have noticed that!) Those count as ’sold books.’
Well, in truth they may be giving her book away, but it had to be purchased at some point.
There’s no such thing as a free lunch, right Eddie? God, I just had nightmarish flashbacks to hs economics…
Thankfully I’m so old, the economics I was taught involved trading salt and spices for goods…
Now, I knew you were a bit older than me, but I didn’t think you were quite THAT much older.
Oh, don’t let looks deceive.. As my sons are so fond of saying, “Yeah, dad’s old.. so old he farts dust.”
You know, soon I am going to have to start charging you for the tea I keep spitting all over things….
I have learned not to drink or eat while reading any of the comments here. Last time I tried to, I ended up choking on my lunch and then having the hiccups for the rest of the afternoon.
Ok, but as the local distributor for the screen protectors, can’t you just claim tea as a business loss?
I tried that, but those pesky little elves from Tetley sued me in court.
Hehehe, that’s a good one. I’ll have to remember that one.
so old, remembers calling fire that new fangled contraption all the kids are doing these days
hey, do you remember when that punk at the top cave made that round dealy-bobber with the hole in the center, that rolled down hill and smooshed that other fella that was sitting on your lawn? what did that punk name that killer contraption? the wheel? as if throwing rocks like we’d always done wasn’t good enough for him…punk@ss people squisher!
I hope you can figure up the economic cost for screen protectors, as you just made me spew iced tea all over my laptop, the carpet, the couch, and my shoes…..
+10 interwebs.
It’ll be interesting to see if her book is treated the same way that Mark Levin’s book has been treated by the New York Times Bestseller List. His book was #1 for many weeks, but even though the List pushed lower ranking books like Michael J. Fox’s with interviews and ads, Levin’s was just kind of left alone. To my knowledge he was never interviewed, never hawked, never acknowledged by anyone, yet it stayed a bestseller.
Maybe that’s the point. He was such a bestseller that they didn’t feel the need to help it out……(but I doubt it). I’ll be watching the List with great interest to see what happens.
if it makes NYT best sellers… you think oprah will choose it for her book club??
I think that you saying that just caused Oprah to throw up a little in the back of her mouth
what?! you mean the great and glorious oprah is biased.
*dramatic gasp*
nooooooooooooo. whatever shall i do now that i know that oprah doesn’t speak the direct word of god?!
I have another revelation for you. *whispers* C’mere, real close so no one else can hear……..
>_> <_<
She's got a weight problem.
*runs away*
OPRAH’S GOT A GIANT FAT ASS?! IS THAT WHAT YOU SAID??
gee, never noticed it before…
tagging fail. the second part wasn’t supposed to be bold.
Still funny, hehe.
she has gotten pretty fat recently.
Honestly, I think she gains weight when she and Stedman are having problems. Have you noticed that?
So I guess Stedman and I are not getting along? Cause I blew up like a balloon. NASA is requesting that I help them do experiments on aerodynamics.
you mean when she and gayle are having problems? there’s no way she ever let stedman between her hamhocks. she’s a lesbyterian through and through.
“Palin will appear on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” the day before the release of her book, which is currently listed at No. 6 on Amazon.com and No. 11 on Barnes & Noble.com.”
“Palin has mostly been out of the public eye while working with the ghostwriter of her memoir.”
Just got those quotes out of Today Magazine. Mind you that was Oct 27. Not sure how relevant it is but I think I’d like to see Palin on Oprah.
I think I could have worded that better…
Her appearance on the “OWS” is way overdue, especially considering the obvious bias during the campaign. “Oh, we’ll interview Obama twice, but god forbid we have Palin or anyone else on, that would be unfair to the electorate!”
I think it’s a bit of a sell-out on Palin’s part though.
I figure Palin is going to try and cash in as a “folksy Ann Coulter”. And the more appearances, the more books will be sold.
I could see her getting very rich as a less venomous conservative pundit. (I said LESS venomous.)
Perhaps she should abuse Oxycontin. I hear that’s good for making fatasses drop a few pounds.
Got any proof of that, dumbass?
He said he “heard” it. And I’m pretty sure he’s referring to Rush Limpballs. *nodding*
so am I. Problem is that dumbass here can’t back it up with fact, because Rush lost all the weight AFTER he got off the Oxy.
meh…. he’s apparently one of those people that ‘hates Limbaugh like a good little ‘bot and is therefore obligated to mention his long-ago addiction to Oxy. Similarly, one suspects he would get his panties in a bunch if Obama’s days as a coke head were mentioned.
Sock.
Oh, and other thoughts:
Froo! I never pegged you as a Limbaugh defender! I’m crushed!
cornhole/sock: One doesn’t need to be a bot to detest Limpballs. He is one offensive dude.
Of course. Limbaugh is a republican, and must be crucified at any opportunity. Now Ted Kennedy, he apologized. Micheal Vic even liked his apology.
But Rush’s apology was simply profiteering.
I read somewhere that they were printing 1.5 million copies. Is it really going to be worth reading? Even if you’re a republican?
Depends on how good the editing is. Or what the book is even about. I’ll admit, I try to ignore her existance, so I had no idea until today that she had even written a book.
I saw an excerpt somewhere and she “writes” as incoherently as she speaks.
Is that even possible? Oh wait, given the level of comments by some of the trolls around here, yes, I guess it is.
Ok, so is the new Liberal line that she’s an incomprehensible writer, or that she had the book ghost-written and didn’t actually do any writing herself? I can’t remember what the latest slam is….
As much as I don’t like her, I AM getting sick of the same old barf, repeated over and over and over and over and over. Did I say over?
Her being incomprehensible, written or speaking, has nothing to do with liberal vs. conservative. She just is, period. I wouldn’t care if she was a Green Party or Socialist Party candidate, I still would say she’s incomprehensible.
the erection was about a year ago…ms palin is now a private citizen makeing a honest living talking to bankers about stuff , -puts on chris crooker make up- LEAVE PALIN ALONE!!!! YOU SHOULD BE GRATEFUL SHE EVEN RAN FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT!!! LEAVE SARAH PALIN ALONE!!!! SOB SOB BITCH MOAN EMO GIRL CRY
The last erection over here was about four years ago. Still waiting for the shipment of blue pills…
I heard that if you have an erection that lasts over four hours, you should seek medical assistance.
SB, if it lasts more than 4 hours, I don’t think the man is the one needing medical assistance.
Roger, you said over, over.
What’s your vector, Victor?
Have you ever been in a Turkish prison Billy?
SO Billy…do you like Gladiator movies?
So, Billy, have you ever seen a grown man naked?
We’re still slamming her? Damn- if seconds are sloppy, she must be making one HELL of a mess!
I doubt if we’ll see it here in Australia.. although, you couldn’t walk by a bookstore without seeing the one Obama wrote.
Really? My hosts up in Cape Trib couldn’t get their hands on the CD audio book back in June. I was going to send it to them for the holidays.
I’ll bet the library would have it..
Yeah, they’re not even on the electric grid up there so there isn’t much of library.
Is that the first one? Hasn’t he written two? Either of them any good?
Yes, he’s written two but I haven’t read either one so can’t tell you if they’re good or not.
While we’re on that, I read an article that said that based on writings he did in college, and compared to other things he’s written, he no more wrote those books himself than he’s Kenyan. And then it threw out a rather famous name that has a bunch of writing techniques in common as the most likely ghost writer of both books……..
But I’m just a ConservoBot wearing a tinfoil hat….
Soooo, who’s the speculated ghost writer? I really want to know.
Promise you won’t throw rocks or invoke a Godwin?
Why would I do either of those? I haven’t read the books. And I’m really interested in knowing. Heck, I’d read the book and do my own comparisons if it’s possible.
The name I heard was Bill Ayers. He’s an accomplished writer. Also, there are (according to the article) many literary devices used in his books that are shared by Obama’s books that appear nowhere else in Obama’s other writings.
*throws rocks*
What? HelOnWheels was the only one you asked.
That’s interesting. See, now I’ll have to read at least one of the books and do my own analysis. Now I have to stop reading smut to do that. Curse you, Froo!! BTW, who wrote the article you read?
Ok, here’s the main article I read (ignore the source, I never said it wasn’t biased
) {http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/who_wrote_dreams_from_my_fathe_1.html}
Here’s a follow-up:
{http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/09/andersen_book_blows_ayers_cove.html}
Funny enough I was just reading a bit of an interview Obama did about his second book. He said he wrote it when his family was in bed. Then he said his writing time was between 9.30pm and 1am. So maybe he sends them to bed early. Dunno about you, but I haven’t got the charisma, hypnotic power or secret service men to send my kids to bed much before midnight.
My parents managed to get me in bed at 9:30…when I was in high school. So yes, it can be done! (Especially since I didn’t want to feel lousy all day in school due to lack of sleep…)
Duct tape, ball bats, and Dimetapp will work wonders for getting kids in bed on time. Just saying.
Threatening the loss of cherished “toys” works well too! I can get ANYTHING out of the 16 yo step-son by threatening to take his cell phone. *evil grin*
useing a ghost writer? dont he ride a motorcycle and punish people with a flame skull?
oh all famous people do that, they not writers , they famous people!
Nonsense — all Hawaiians spend their days pondering the imponderables at sea and staring into their famously murky waters…
Hawaiians… native somoans or imperalist americans?
also no seas anywhere near the islands, nor murky water (unless you just peed in it). or was that a sarcasm miss?
It was a mild sarcasm miss. Ayers spent some time at sea, and apparently his writing is full of sea allusions, particularly murky water, or so I understand. (I refuse to do anything that might even remotely result in that SOB getting a single dime, so I’m still looking for copies of his stuff to swipe and check.)
i don’t know if it’ll be worth reading, but i’ll pick up my copy in jan after it hits the dollar store
My point is exactly that: the mass book sales that groups make to give books away ARE counted in total book sales. For the author it makes no difference in terms of royalties, but it artificially increases the popularity of the book.
There is a huge difference between you personally going into a store and making a personal decision to buy a particular book and you getting it free for joining some group that you might have joined if they offered something else free or even nothing at all
I was just trying to say, obviously not very clearly, that book statistics are not that cut and dried. Or, as Disreali said, there are three types of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.
heh. Love the conspiracy theory…. I’m guessing you condemn “birthers”?
Why not? Those guys are idiots.
Old news is old.
And not news.
Wow, get a life people… stop harassing Palin…
When she stops harassing the country.
Look, i have no love for her; but, I will say that she made a GREAT move… She is now free to comment on national issues without worrying about that pesky low-paying job she had as Governor!
And everyone loves a quitter.
Oh, how we would all gladly love you. If only….
Damn, took the words right off my fingertips..
Great minds think alike!
I’m sure both of you are every bit as smart as Palin.
And you make Palin look like a rocket scientist.
Can peepers see Russia from his mother’s basement?
That takes tremendous talent. Peepers must be brilliant.
Yet another one of Peepers’ socks. GTFOH, troll!!
I guess my sarcasm wasn’t as obvious as I thought it would be.
Pssst. If you put “/sacrcasm” or a wink-y face after the sarcastic/joking statement it helps. Cause sarcasm doesn’t translate on the interwebs.
Yeah, so bright his dad calls him son.
Peepers is in pain.
And we’re positive that you make Biden look like Einstein.
don’t hate her because she is republican…hate her because she makes liberals look like wussies.
Because nothing says strong and successful like quitting your job, after taking and oath to serve the people for a specific term, because the big, bad media was mean to you.
*passes H.O.W a Samuel Adams* Come on, that one’s getting old. And Hillary quit to take a new job too. Sarah may or may not be planning something honest. And the media attention drove her too it.
Smack her around for real things, but the quiting thing isn’t so much.
I know it’s old, but TSM deserved a troll-like response to his trolling response. What can I say? My ability to be non-frothy is weak today.
*drinks SA* Thanks, I needed that.
Eh. I agree with HelOnWheels. Quitting was pretty bad. The least she could’ve done was finish her term. But hopefully it will make people realize that if she can’t cope with everything that goes on with being governor of Alaska, then she’d be no good for any other position, like say, POTUS. Hopefully she has at least enough sense to keep milking her popularity for money instead of more political positions.
I agree, Rando. I must say that my whole take on the resignation was “weak sauce.” Followed by, “No future votes from me, even if Hitler is the alternative.” But then again, I’m kinda a bitch about it, because she could have chosen to tell John McCain “No, thanks,” knowing what she did about her daughter’s pregnancy and the other things (her ethics investigation for one…) that the national media would definitively pounce on. If it really was for the good of her family (as many have used to excuse the quitting) then she should have made the choice, for the good of her family, to not pursue that opportunity in the midst of everything else they had going on.
*looks down* Where the heck did that soapbox come from?
*hops off and sets it on fire*
but the question remains: what job did palin quit being governor for? otherwise comparing her to hillary moving up to sec of state just doesn’t do much but attract flies
I agree. Sarah just QUIT. Hillary essentially got promoted.
I heard the theory that the reason she quit is that geographically and mentally speaking, Alaska is a hard state to campaign from. Obama, Bush 2, Clinton….those guys didn’t find it necessary to quit their posts because they were geographically closer to where they need to be in order to be in the public eye. For Palin to try and do either a book tour or run a serious campaign for a higher public office would completely take her away from actually doing what she’s being paid by the Alaskan government to do, i.e. run the state. That would open her up to even more criticism for not doing her job.
Essentially she’s damned if she does (quit) and damned if she doesn’t (quit) if she wants to stay in the public eye. I’m thinking she took what she considered to be the lesser of the two evils, since staying in Alaska for the next two years waiting until she could step down and THEN run a campaign would keep her out of the public eye too long to actually be effective in the long run.
Somebody really doesn’t understand the move that she made. And by somebody I mean most people who never stop and think.
The Obama mafia commissioned an ethics investigation against Palin, with about 90 counts of unethical behavior, pretty much all of which were entirely fictional. Despite the fiction of it, it gave the media something to jump on to give her as much negative coverage as they could. Her stepping down as governor allowed Alaska state politics to continue as normal without the Obamabots hovering over her and the state, and it also freed her up to be able to more effectively campaign. She is in incredibly high demand as a speaker, and many of the events she has been invited to have a very large monetary offer for her. That way, she gets to go all over the US, more people see her face and hear her speak, and she actually gets a better shot in the political arena.
you do realise that obama had nothing to do with the ethics investigation on Palin, right? Lemme guess, you believe lizards are going to take over the world, too? Aliens are abucting your daughter? The Mason’s really run the world and are leading it to a New World Order which, probably will be communist if it’s a democrat but ok if it’s a republican…
Gimme my god damn tin foil hat back and go sit in the corner.
“you believe lizards are going to take over the world, too? Aliens are abucting your daughter?”
They’re not?? But, but, “V” says they are! And that’s a documentary!! Right??!!!
Are they keeping the lizards in this time around? I haven’t yet seen a straight answer one way or the other. (Not that it matters — Morena Baccarin is hot-blooded no matter what class she’s in. Rawr.)
Thank the gods they left them out of BSG, though.
I read somewhere that they were going to be “lizard-like” but with an updated twist!!
Anyone else catch the “V”- marathon on sci-fi??!! It was filled with awesome! I just can’t believe how bad the special effects were back then, and we thought they were cutting-edge…
I caught it. And watched the. whole. thing. *hangs head in geek shame* I’d forgotten how awesomely awful it all was!
but they GOTTA keep the lizards!! without the lizards V is just.. you know.. lizardless.
“without the lizards V is just.. you know.. ”
BSG?
Hopefully pre-preachy BSG. (Also V, like every other show on television, needs itself some Tigh.)
Maybe it’ll end up being the anti-BSG. I hear the loony left is working themselves up into a frenzy — friendly outsiders show up, offering peace and universal health care, but turn out to be evil — clearly, this can not stand.
yar, you know, i couldn’t get into the new BSG when i realised the good ‘ol tin cans were removed. i know, added later, but still.. i was scarred. i do want to go back and give it a shot, though, a lot of people make it sound very well done.
The mini-series was really good. Season 1 too. They started pissin’ me off after that. And yet, I continued to watch it cause I like pain, apparently.
Breaking V update!!
The Lizards remain! WOOOO
“The Obama mafia..”
Any credibility you thought you had just disappeared into a swirl of stupidity and paranoia.
Like you have any credibility either.
but what about all the GOOD things the mafia has done? no one ever talks about that
Yeah! Like helping me out with my taxes and dealing with people who bother me so I don’t have to listen to their crap anymore and… uh oh. S’cuse me folks, I have to go hide now.
Stalking me? I must have really touched a nerve somewhere.
stalking you? cause your so special!
Hitting the “reply” button isn’t stalking, but I think it’s more of the natural force of PK-discussion is crying out “GTFO, you dumpf*ck!”
The stalking thing again? Wow, you do have sick fantasies. You are not my type. Not in any universe.
Credibility is for fools!
and Mr T pitty foo’s
Surely you jest. The Democratic Party and Palin’s political opponents would never stoop so low as to file nuisance ethics complaints.
Next you’re going to say that they encourage allegations of racism and show favoritism towards sympathetic news outlets.
Hurry up, Obama is coming to take your guns and your bibles.
Do you not understand the concept of subtlety, or are you merely unable to express it?
Dhoti, don’t feed the troll. He’s proven to be super douchey one and seems resistant to Troll-B-Gone.
Thanks for the tip. I don’t remember this one, but yeah, headed downhill and picking up speed.
He’s got tons of socks too. Will make it more difficult to eradicate.
I think I know who this fungus is. It’s used some of the same writing style and quotes. And it has been banned before, so it went out and got a bunch of free email addresses. Some one run to the store and buy a BIG bottle of Tinactin.
is he being really random??
If he’s a very, um, random troll, he’s switching sides this time. I was a little more reminded of a troll we’ve seen again and again.
i think he’s kinda hitting on both sides right now… maybe he’s JAC’s favorite garf-something or other??
Rando, Again is too much of a caretroll to go to the depths of the internet, and this one has hung around /b/ or the like.
It can’t be Again, so who…
Just once I’d like a troll to rip of his/her mask and go “It is I, _________!!” But they never do, the pansy asses.
I’m too busy hiding my bible to dissect your words.
If you actually laid hands on a Bible, you would burst into flames.
Quick, hand him one NOW!!
Throw one at him!!!
LMAO!! Ok, that made me truly laugh..
Paybacks dude. :p
I don’t know which is sadder, that someone else thought this was funny, or that you are taking the time to stalk me.
Probably the former, since the latter is somewhat flattering.
Who is stalking who, I might ask.
I am stalking YOU!
I’m stalking you while you stalk Rando. Muuahahahahaaha!
Stalking squared? That sounds difficult.
No one is stalking peepers….0-o !!!!!!
The One. Proving that there is such a thing as troll on troll stalking.
I feel left out now. I wanna stalk someone! All the cool kids (and peepers) are doin’ it! *pouts*
Who needs a stalker???
*pats Mina on the shoulder* I do , Mina. I…I…I’ve never had one. There! It’s out! Would you be my stalker pls??
Well, I’ve just been hired to stalk Charro for bitter troll, but I think I can multi task.
*climbs up tree with binoculars* Think it’s time to go “bird watching.”
@mina — darn it, he beat me to it, but if he gets boring, you can come stalk me… but i’m probably even more boring, but more opinionated at the same time
*poses in front of the somewhat casually open window*
OH! I certainly hope no one is staring at me as I’ve just gotten out of the shower! That would be AWFUL and SCARY!
Woohoo.
*almost falls out of tree* Hey, I think I could get used to this!
*continues stalking*
Hmmm…some pushups for the pump, a bit of stretching, now a Tai Chi form or two….Hey…did I just hear a noise??!!!
Hell, I could always use a few more. Hop on the wings and flames, baby!
Um, should I be worried that a teenager is calling me “baby”? Seriously, I can’t stalk a minor. That’s more jail time than I’m willing to commit to.
Just kidding Igor!
*commences stalking*
Well, what else would you call someone who is about to hop on the wings of a dragon and have the ride of her life?
On another note, one of my teachers was discussing punishing me with another teacher every time I said something inappropriate/made innuendo, so naturally, I said “Oooh, can the punishment be spanking? Maybe some light whipping, tie me up a little bit?”
LMAO, students like you are the reason I could not be a teacher. I’d get fired (and likely arrested) for continuing the joke.
So where are we going dragon-me-boy?
Going?
I’m like the giant turtle of the discworld, Mina- I’m the only being in the entire multiverse that knows exactly where it’s going, but can’t say it, and use a lot more black holes, plane crashes, and fried trolls to get there!
*waves at bedroom window* Hi, Igor. You can get off the neighbor’s roof now.
Seriously, nobody is stalking you because nobody would really care if you dropped off the face of the earth. If you want proof, quit posting comments and see if any one wonders where you went.
Wonders where who went?
What were we talking about?
It seems stalking was the subject of – HEY LOOK! A SQUIRREL!
CHASING A CROW!
HEY peepers. You need to take a look around. You are the one chasing everyone around here on PK.
It’s just your basement sick fantasy that people would stalk you.
I’m an old country boy. I would turn the dogs loose with the instructions to very thoroughly mark you as their territory.
But then again, I wouldn’t want my good dogs to get your fungus.
Let loose the hounds of war! We will smoke this troll out and force it off our land!
War? Loose the hounds of HELL!
*flipping pages* I don’t see dogs of hell in the bible… Maybe you’re thinking of mythology?
Maybe you have been watching to many Disney Movies.
By the way, I’m glad to see you admit the Bible as a legitimate source…..
Sarcasm recognition fail buddy.
Considering the original comment was sarcasm, you fail. But then again, you have that chip on your shoulder. Guess that makes it ok.
My husband thought I had lost my mind when I started laughing hysterically. +1 internets to you JAC!!
On rare occasions, I do screw up and actually do something right.
The Bible I am keeping but the government can have my gun, one bullet at a time.
Jesus was big on mass murder. You have your priorities straight.
Sacrilegious idiot. Nice. We got a toofer here!
I say we let him hang himself. It’ll be easier to get rid of him if we have plenty of examples for the admins.
i’ve got some old used rope to donate, but someone else will have to help tie the knot – never could get the hang of it
finally, my years in scouting will pay off!
what type of knot are you looking for? a typical 12 wrap noose or something more fancy schmancy?
Who the f*ck carries a rope?
I have a rope ladder that I usually use for passengers, but you guys can have it- they can just try and climb up using the spikes and my muscular-arms-for-good-measure.
I’d be SO happy to help you tie the noose.
I figured out how to tie one of those before I learned to tie anything but my shoes.
(by accident)
it was one of the first ones i learned too… but then again, i had a demented older brother teaching knots to me.
Those are supposed to be 13 wrap. Because that’s all unlucky number style and everything! =-D
He wasn’t being sarcastic?
Probably, but that’s beside the point. He’s an idiot.
Ugh, not AGAIN!! Are you SURE you’re not really Dave?! *headdesk headdesk headdesk*
Yes, all that “turn the other cheek” business was horribly violent.
Gogo, crazy militia dude!
It’s HILARIOUS!
Is anyone else having flashbacks to Trigun and the giant cross of guns?
Perhaps the coolest anime ever.
Japan confounds me in all possible ways. I try to avoid thinking about it. That and their commercials make me want to rip out my brain.
Hope someone gives her a talk show so she keeps out of politics. Al Franken projects more class and intelligence. But that’s just my opinion; hey, this is still America and we’re all entitled to ours.
The words “Al Franken” and “Class and intelligence” are not allowed to be used together in the same sentence…
Nor can you use “Nancy Pelosi” and “Hot” in the same sentence….!
Really, Schmoe? AL FRANKEN projects more class and intelligence than Sarah Palin? Finally — something funny on PK.
Al Franken has class? Is it every Tuesday night at the Learning Annex?
Well, more than Palin, yeah.
Seriously? I don’t know, I’m sure if a picture was taken with Palin in a diaper and holding a teddy you could possibly say that. Until then.. well, let’s just say Ol’ Al doesn’t really know the meaning of the word class.
Neither does Palin, but Franken used to be funny so I’m taking his side in the argument.
Apparently you’ve never seen the SNL featuring the actual Palin. She’s aware of how people view her, and has no problem playing along with it.
I really think her communication disconnect has a lot to do with location…..personally, I don’t have any trouble understanding her, but then, I’m surrounded by people who speak country. It’s not a lack of intelligence so much as a lack of universal speaking appeal.
That’s one thing I don’t understand.
All dialects in the U.S butcher the english language, and people don’t seem to call any of them stupid. Just anything that sounds southern.
Jeff Foxworthy does have a point about that. Do you really want to be in the operating room and hear the surgeon say “Nao whut we gonna dew is cut yer heayad open, and we gonna take this hyar stick and root around in theyar a bit till we figure out whut’s wrong.”
We can’t all speak like accent-less Midwesterners with an elite degree from Harvard, though.
midwestereners have a midwesterner-accent.
Cor blimey stroike a loight. You yenks orl sairnd bleedin’ funny to me, me ol’ china!
My Arkansan cousins used to make fun of my “funny accent” when I visited them. Although even in the midwest many people speak with at least a hint of country accent. Not nearly as strong as the South, especially the Deep South, but at least a little bit. And some St. Louisans pronounce “or” sounds as “ar.” “I took Interstate farty-far to 270…”
where can bitter troll find pics of palin wearing diaper and holding teddy bear?
bitter troll craves to see this.
oh and palin has more class in the public eye, dont know her personal life so cant say, but in the public view former running for trophie vice has more class then the guy from stewert skits
Actually, I did see it, but she just parroted someone else’s funny writing. Al used to write his own funny stuff, making him the de facto funny person in this comparison.
And my annoyance with Palin covers 100% of the period with which I have been aware of her existence. My annoyance with Al covers maybe 25% of the period with which I have been aware of his existence – the other 75% of the time I just thought he was funny. So he wins.
As much as I hate to defend Palin for anything, I think she was a pretty good sport to go on SNL where they had been ripping her a new one on a weekly basis.
I thought that Lorne Michaels’ comments about her were very telling. He said that while he didn’t agree with her politics and had no intention of voting for her, she held the audience in the palm of her hand and was completely misrepresented in the press as an idiot. He certainly didn’t think she was an idiot, and said that her ability to speak to people was awe-inspiring. Or something like that.
Well, frankly, it doesn’t matter to me if she’s smart or not. I’m still not a fan of her views, so that takes me out of the running. LOL I think she’s gonna need to polish herself up a little bit if she wants to run for anything else. She most certainly was not ready in 2008.
I can agree with pretty much all of that statement
Uh oh, we divided by zero again. And once we divide by zero we get…-0? How the hell did we get -0?
Um, you can’t divide by zero. You get undefined.
Nor make it negative…negative numbers predate zero. Historically incompatible.
When Rando and I agree on political issues, we divide by 0 and get -0. We can’t explain it, it just happens.
Ah, thanks for explaining. I will add it to the strange knowledge surrounding zero.
Exactly, froo, because when liberals and conservatives agree on political issues, it violated all the laws of science and mathematics. Just like dividing by zero and getting -0. I checked my work twice. It’s -0, I swear.
English is a second language for me. I have to “translate” heavily accented and “improper” English on a daily basis. So I’m used to accents. The ESL speakers in my life make more sense than Mrs. Palin. It has nothing to do with her accent; her speech is rambling and is usually one run-on sentence after another, rarely getting to the point or answering the question posed to her.
If you’ll reread my post, I never mentioned her accent. I said she speaks “country”, which is different. It’s more of a colloquial language dialect as opposed to an accent.
don’t shoot me for this
but her country isn’t much country – she mixes in a bit of maine, a bit of midwest, and did it all trying to be cutesy. she struck me as trying to reach the lowest common denominator and her dialect & idioms were very calculated. more of using the local vernacular so everyone thought she was one of them than letting everyone find out she really was just a caribou barbie. but it was dialect and phrasing, and her accent is western, drawn out, but not bad, flat, but not nasally, no twang to speak of, most letters in words pronounced even if the words are pronounced wrong and few additional letters added…but the idioms & word choices – contrived at best and makes her sound ignorant considering where she grew up and lives now.
pardon the babble in that, hopefully you can decipher what i meant since evidentally all i can do is run in idiot circles today
“all i can do is run in idiot circles today”
Kinda like Palin?
bitter troll has a question, G W BUSH grew up in Massachusetts, spent most of his life there till he was a young adult…how come him speak with a texas accent?
I’ve heard that Bush II can turn the accent on and off.
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Palin reminds me of a 60 year old woman who still does all of the ‘cute’ little gestures which attracted the menfolk in her youth…but are no longer cute, given her supposed maturity of age. Or in Palin’s case, due to the professionalism one would expect of a governor.
I have no objection at all to a woman being both attractive and interested in political power. (such an objection is the usual PK accusation against any woman who dislikes Palin–which is bull$h!t). What really bothers me about Palin is her studied (I HOPE) anti-intelligent persona.
I certainly don’t think you need to have a cultured accent or a formal college degree to be an intelligent person. (too many immigrants and self-trained engineers in my family to have either prejudice!) But it seems to me that Palin appears to put a lot effort into her appearance of cutesy and ignorant… Which is fine if you are Britney Spears, but offensive in an executive officer.
I’ve heard that about Bush too. It wouldn’t surprise me, as he is a lot more politically savvy than he’s given credit for.
Also, I wasn’t raised in Texas but I have a pronounced Texas accent. It tends to be an easy drawl to pick up.
VG, I agree with 100% of your post! *standing ovation*
Bravo, VG!
It’s genetic, like eye color and stupidity. That’s my guess.
@hel — that hurt, in that i can’t believe i just tripped over nothing and fell down sort of funny hurt
Well, your English is a lot better than many of the things I edit — all written by people who supposedly have English as their first language. And a very good description of Palin’s way of talking.
She doesn’t speak any brand of ‘country’ that I’ve ever heard. And it’s certainly not Alaskan. Perhaps more Minnesota? She reminds me a bit of Garrison Keillor. (Spelled that right the first time!)
I like Sarah Palin.
A lot of people like Sarah Palin. She is, as they say, someone you’d like to have a beer with and doesn’t come off as elite or educated or worldly… More like some random lady that lives down the street.
Which is fine.
Except some people don’t want a lady from down the street running the country.
If we (the majority of voters) wanted “Sarah the Hockey Mom”, “Joe the Plumber”, or “Larry the Cable Guy” as our President, I’m sure she would have had more support and possibly be in the White House now…
lady from down bitter troll’s street is a drug dealer…she be bad president
Now see, I think Larry the Cable Guy would make an interesting president. Not a very good one, but it’d be funny at least.
Git ‘er done…possibly not a clarion call to action for a new millennium.
What are you talking about, Diss??? I’d be willing to wager that not “gittin’ it dun” is the problem with this country
Typo.
Remove the “not”….
How many nots can a naught not knot, if a naught not would knot knots?
Naught it!
Hm, Lary the Cable Guy. Now that’s a candidate I can get behind!
unless he has the chilie
Hm, good point. Then it would be way, way, way behind. Like in another parish.
larry the cable guy as pres? naw, jeff foxworthy would be better choice. larry as VP..that way no one would shoot jeff
I want Ron White to become head of the FDA or Surgeon General. Liquor and Tabbacco for everyone!
Unless you don’t want either, then you can have something else that’s unhealthy!
And he needs a second job as the Head of Immigration
I heart his immigration policy.
I’ll have to go refresh my memory on that one. I remember hearing it, but I was, um, a little tipsy at the time and don’t really remember the details.
*deep breath*
Ok, so we take the military base off the beach in Florida and move it back a mile or two. If you want to see the ocean, join the Navy
Then, we take that land and sell it to Israel; they need a place to stay, things aren’t working out so well for them over there! Take the money they give us for the land, buy Mexico, and flip it. Sell it to some country rich off our drug money, like Paraguay. You know Paraguay will default on the payments, so we repossess Mexico. New paint, new shrubs.
Then we take the money we got as a down payment from Paraguay and start buying up all the land south of Mexico, and the fence we’ll need to build between Us and Them gets a little shorter every time. Go ahead and buy back the Panama Canal, stand on this side of it, and yell “Swim this, motherf**ker!”
Now you’ve eliminated the illegal immigration problem and paid off the national debt all in one fell swoop
LMAO, I love it. Ok, he gets to be Head of Immigration too!
Oh I remember that bit! That was hilarious!
One of my friends was actually at the taping for that, and said that by the second show of the night, White was completely hammered, hehe. He’d start a joke, screw it up, cuss, and start it over. She said it was hilarious!
best idea i’ve heard in a long time! and foxworthy for potus too – should be ready for him about 2016
*snerk* Parish. You’re localizing yourself
Whoops! I mean County!!! I mean… whatever, everyone knows that people in LA don’t give a rats behind about what’s going on in the rest of the country!
-offers mina money to stalk charro- find her! bitter troll misses charro!
I usually get paid in alcoholic beverages since you don’t have to pay income taxes on them, but whatever, I’ll accept cash this one time.
bitter troll can offer you booze or lap dances in exchange for stalking services
Is no good. If Charro doesn’t want to be found, I won’t be able to find her. She’s a clever little mermaid. Hiding in the water like that when she knows I can’t swim.
Oh! I could go rent a boat! *runs to find boat rental place*
LA might be the weirdest state in the union…and the most humid. No offense but I’ll never set foot there again, even with my dad living there now.
And it has skeeters the size of bats.
Yeah, we visited a friend down there once and my wife got west nile from one. I needed a shotgun to kill the damn bug too.
If you make the mistake of slapping at one that has landed on you, you risk looking like either a murderer or the victim of a really messy vampire. It’s like slapping a water balloon full of blood.
The humidity really freaked me out. I stepped out of the car and in 5 seconds I was drenched in sweat from the really humid heat. This was in July, I might add.
That’s a terrible month to visit, lol. I’d go in January. It’s still hot, but at least it’s not as humid.
It makes it difficult to breathe sometimes, as thick as the air is.
Of those friends with the cycling accidents? None of them had facial injuries. All 3 had to replace the helmets, which had done their jobs. The vertebra victim was hit by a Mac truck, by the way.
(*&$#% nesting failure!!
Yeah, but Florida has them damn roaches with wings.. What do they call them? Palmetto bugs or something? Seriously though, hit one of those in your car and you swear it was a B-52!
We call them water bugs, but I’m not sure if that’s the right name.
They might be.. These things a effing huge, look like roaches, and the worst part is they fly. Although, nothing really compares to the insects and spiders they have down here. Throw a nice steak on the BBQ and the next thing you know you have a swarm of european wasps flying around. And when you finally get it off the grill, you sit down to see a damn huntsman spider the size of your hand sitting there.
ZOMG I HATE WATER BUGS!!!!1!1!!
Yes, they are called Palmetto bugs. Certain swampy places in SC have them too. And they have the instinct to fly towards your eyes, should you disturb them. Makes you flinch and gives them a chance to get away.
They make a real mess of a motorcycle helmet too. *SIGH*
Have to hand it to the Texans, when I lived there they made no bones about calling those giant things roaches. And that’s why they wear cowboy boots — step on them with sneakers and the things just laugh at you!
My husband visited New Orleans and later this ‘creature’ crawled out of his car vent that was so big I almost got out of the car (which was moving). He claimed it was a bug, but I still don’t believe it.
I wear cowboy boots. And some of those Palmetto bugs are too big to stomp. And from my time at Lackland AFB TX, I remember the HUGE rabbits, bats and scorpions. That and water that looked like a snow globe, fresh out of the spigot.
Your experience reminds me of a scene from Damnation Alley. *old memories*
Make that Damnation Valley. I don’t know if it’s lack of sleep, or the crappy keyboard the ignored a key.
You folks make blizzards and northeasters sound soooo much more appealing!
Shoot. Try getting a june bug across the forehead at 60mph. Over 21 in SC, and you don’t have to wear a helmet. And even with a helmet, those things will send you to a dentist. Or put you on a diet.
June bugs are pretty serious–about as serious as bugs get up here, normally. One June bug can keep a cat pretty occupied on the other side of a window screen…although it might be rough on the screen!
And you bring up a point of contention for me, JAC. Why the HELL am I being forced to wear a seat belt in my car when I’m over the age of 21 and have taken defensive driving, but I don’t have to wear a helmet if I don’t want to?
I think that under the age of 18 (at least) should have to be belted in, but over that? Really?? Call me a Libertarian if you must, but it just seems stupid and nanny-state-ish to me.
I think the seatbelt requirement is due to the high incidence of ejection/windshield impact, and the related high incidence of brain injury from either outcome. In other words, head injury patients are a very large long-term drag on social support…since they don’t tend to get ‘all better’. Actually, I think all motorcycle AND bicycle riders should be required to wear a helmet, regardless of age. But then I would rather be physically disabled than brain injured–because I know too much about brain injury!
You’re absolutely right, vg. (Or should it be “VG”?) Washington State passed a motorcycle helmet law decades ago because of the financial drain on the state coffers paying for motorcyclists who whacked their heads on the pavement…because unless you’re Christopher Reeves, you and your family can’t afford the car and it ends up falling to the state.
But it ruins a great joke: What do the ER staff call motorcyclists who don’t wear heltmets? Donorcyclists!
You’re right, froo. A seatbelt law is kinda silly because it should be common freaking sense!! I can’t even imagine going anywhere without a seatbelt on. Nor would I ever ride a motorcycle without a helmet. Not that I ride one now.
You are absolutely correct, vg (or should it be “VG”?). Washington State passed a helmet law for motorcyclists because of the state having to pay for so many people who suffered brain injuries who ran out of insurance/funds.
But it ruined a great joke: What do the ER staff call motorcyclists who don’t wear helmets? Donor cyclists!
I’d never drive without a seat belt. But why am I being forced to? The head injury thing makes sense, but not when compared to getting the lower half of your face peeled off when you hit the pavement after wiping out on your bike. Why is there a double standard? I guess that’s what I’m asking.
And I’m all for jail time for parents caught with unbelted kids in the car.
The other name for motorcyclists without helmets to hospital folk: donors on wheels…
I can get the idea of the cool breeze through the hair, because I started bicycle riding way before helmets were available. But about 5 years back I had 3 friends all survive serious bike accidents (none their fault). 2 broken collarbone and ribs, one with road rash, and one with 3 broken vertebrae… 2 of them would have died without the helmet. I believe!
I’m all in favor of seatbelts as well. But let me add that when I was younger we used to look forward to riding around in the back of my dad’s truck. Yeah, looking back it was incredibly dangerous, but man those were fun times!
Hey VG, know what they call motorcycle riders down here? Temporary Australians.
I don’t know why some states don’t require helmets of adult motorcycle riders. New Hampshire does not. (good old ‘live free or die’–live free AND die?) It is a double standard, and one that I don’t agree with.
I also don’ t know why the states do not require helmets on adult bicycle riders (or in Massachusetts, anyone over 11 years). The brain is just as important after the age of 11! Probably the state senators were all impressed with their own immortality?
@ Eddie. Temporary Australians?! Love it!!
I agree, froo. There shouldn’t be a double standard. The helmet laws should be consistent with the seatbelt laws. It’s too bad such obvious common sense safety needs to be a law, but apparently it does need to be. Unfortunately, if someone is a complete moron who doesn’t feel the need to wear a seatbelt or helmet, making it a law won’t help much. And if someone isn’t putting their child in the required car seat/booster seat/seatbelt, then jail time or mega hefty fine is in order.
I also wish they didn’t have to be laws, but I think that having seatbelt and helmet laws eventually change peoples’ attitudes towards using them, making it more “natural”. (I am looking for a better word, but can only think of Swedish synonyms to the Swedish word I’d want to use here. :/)
I went to bed and missed the tail end of this conversation. But I want to inform everyone that the idea behind the law is that those under 21 don’t have enough judgment skills, but after that, it’s a personal choice.
That way, it protects the foolish youth, but also protects the idea that the govt isn’t a nanny. And most people do wear helmets. Here in NC, helmets are mandatory. (I live on the state line, and we have to keep up with the laws as most of us do business on both sides of the line)
As someone who teaches college students, I would make the ‘age of rational decision’ 21 for the women…and 25 for the men. Just saying!
*snerk* Agreed. It’s long been a personal theory that men aren’t fully baked until they’re at least 30
one of my gay best friends has always said “men aren’t ripe on the man tree until they reach the age of 30″.
I’m on the other side of 50 and I still get called half baked. So I don’t know if any of these theories hold water.
eddie – there is a very fine timeframe in which a guy is baked just right. i believe it’s from 30 to 31… after that they start regressing.
After 31 they start regressing? Whoa, that ain’t good.
I like to pretend I have just placed my bare bottom right in her hand, so then the lol could be about her kissing my ass.
And with -no- political skewing, she was the worst speaker I have ever heard. She sounded like a moron 85% of the time. And that’s not on her political points, that’s just carrying a conversation in general.
I hate to say it, but I think a lot of your view of her speaking abilities comes from your particular political slant. I can’t stand listening to Obama because he sounds like an elitist prick when he speaks. At least he doesn’t stammer as much. But I’m fully aware of the fact that I can’t stand him because I don’t agree with him, even a little bit.
My dad is one of the most intelligent people I know. He’s got several Bachelor’s degrees, a couple of Master’s, and at least one PhD, and has been teaching college for longer than I’ve been alive. He’s also an accomplished public speaker who has been literally all over the world giving speeches to various functions.
He also has trouble finishing sentences when you’re talking with him because his brain is ahead of his mouth, and he forgets where he is.
So listening to Palin (for me) is a bit like listening to my dad at the dinner table.
I try to not have a political slant when it comes to American politics. Basically because I don’t agree with either of them. To me, they both are pushing for the inevitable upheaval. But I can understand being used to a particular type of speaker would make it easier to accept Palin. I just demand speakers who are well spoken, or I have a tendency to say negative things about them. I think many people also confuse Obama’s “eliteness” for intelligence. He speaks like he has a firm grasp of the English language and if that’s being elitist, then the US is in worse trouble than I thought.
My dad has an extremely firm grasp of the English language, and he doesn’t sound like either a countrified hick OR and elitist snob. My political views color my view of Obama speaking, just like it does with everyone.
You’re right that people confuse Obama’s speaking abilities with intelligence, and I’ll leave it there.
People also confuse Palin’s “hominess” with lack of intelligence, and they’re just as wrong.
I think “hominess” is interesting.
So you think Biden is a wonderful, intelligent speaker ?
You know what, I think Joe gets a bum rap. I like Biden, dammit!
Try much, much harder.
There would be no reason. When both sides are the enemy it wouldn’t make sense to.
Whatever you say…
I’m always surprised by just how poorly you’ve failed to internalize your stated beliefs. Perhaps that’ll come with maturity and further education.
While we’re waiting for that to happen, your time would be much better spent getting back to work.
Really? Well I am just full of surprises. However, you are not very surprising at all. I had no doubt that no matter how I responded you would find someway to insult me. I think your time would be better spent trying to come up with something new and/ or interesting to say instead of trolling me. I doubt you will. But here is to hoping! And good luck with that.
Awww, such a cute little tool, especially when he gets all upset! Yes you are! Yes you are!
Why yes, I am very cute, which is more than I can say for you. I also had my ass cyber-grabbed today, so choke on that tool you poorly witted troll!
That’s supposed to impress me and fill me with jealousy? LOL!
Comparing her to your dad sounds awfully unfair to your dad. She went to five colleges to get -one- degree. And is NOT an accompished public speaker.
Although her accent grates on my ears, it is more because it sounds totally fabricated. When you listen to Jeff Foxworthy, for example, you -know- you’re listening to an authentic redneck Georgia accent. Her whole manner is so over the top with the cutesy-wutesy, aw shucks business.
I went to three college and only got one degree. It’s not a matter of intelligence, it’s a matter of not knowing what you want to do and being a lazy student, lol.
I’m sorry, I’ll just have to put myself firmly in the column of people who don’t mind listening to her. I rather enjoy listening to GWB as well, because his rolling accent (note, I did refer to his accent, not his colloquial way of speaking…….I did NOT refer to Palin’s accent) is familiar to me.
Sorry to inform you, but Jeff Foxworthy is not a Georgia Redneck. He is from Raliegh NC, and worked for IBM for years.
well, I know he lives there (and I knew he worked for IBM — which doesn’t preclude being a redneck in my experience
), and I’m pretty sure he was born there. That’s what –his– website says.
Food for thought. Where was GWB born?
Connecticut. (I have the hardest time spelling that; please don’t tell my students!)
I knew where. I hoped you would think about it.
Think about what? I lived in Texas for four years; my husband was raised there and can tell you which part of the state a person is from by his/her accent. That’s how we both recognize that GWB manufactures that accent. What the h*ll does that have to do with Jeff Foxworthy?
I believe he’s pointing out that Jeff Foxworthy’s “authentic Georgia redneck” accent is manufactured as well.
And I’d love for your husband to try to figure out what part of the state I spent most of my life in, because I’d be willing to bet he’d get it wrong simply based on where I was born
I disagree. Yes, Foxworthy can speak ‘normally;’ he does exaggerate his accent for his shows, but it’s authentic because it’s the accent he was raised with. (My best friend here is from Georgia and he can trigger her GA accent so easily!) My dad could switch from speaking like a college professor (‘elitist’ I guess many of you would call it) to a true Montana hick accent because he was raised with it. I can do the same with a Western drawl, but if I try to do a Texas drawl it’s incredibly obvious that it’s not my ‘natural’ accent.
The more educated people get, the more they tend to lose their accents, especially, as Foxworthy notes, they want to keep that 20 IQ points people deduct when you open your mouth and a drawl comes out. But seriously, in math and sciences we have so many foreign graduate students that we all learn to clean up our speech just to communicate with our officemates!
And I’ve never known my husband to be wrong in the four years we lived in Texas. Some people are just very good at placing accents. Personally, I can’t even differentiate between the Southern states (and, yes, I do know that Texas is not considered Southern by ‘real’ Southerners).
Why is it “Conne_c_ticut” anyway? You Americans keep dropping letters that are “redundant” IYO, and I’ve yet to hear anyone pronounce the C I’ve highlighted.
Don’t know the etymology of Connecticut, so can’t answer that one. But I have been to England, and they drop entire syllables out when pronouncing words; eg, Worchestershire could almost be written ‘wor-shire.’ So maybe we inherited it?
I deal with a fair number of ESL (English as a Second Language) students and can only say that English (American or British or whatever kind) is a terribly hard language to learn.
Hey V old buddy! You know, just playing the Devil’s advocate here, but you ever think that people in the south make jokes about how idiotic Yankees sound? And how they can’t carry on a conversation without slurring words. Like using the sound AH for the letter R.
Just provoking thought.
I know people in the south make fun of people in the north. I also know people in the north make fun of people in the south. Accents are not my problem.
And some of the greatest minds in the world have been some of the poorest speakers.
That is also true. However, I don’t think that’s the case here.
*aaaargh* I have been awake since 2am yesterday. And I am so sleepy that I am barely coherent. But I must stay up to at least 9, so that I won’t wake up at 2 again.
Please overlook my poor grammar above, and replace it with worst. Sheesh. At least I can both pronounce and spell nuclear.
Is it 9 yet?
how come no one ever makes fun of how inuit’s speak?
Its a real shame they are missing out.
shucks, uncledad listen to how that thar fella talks all funny like yuck yuck, him was all like ” good afternoon sir” oh lord baby jesus, not old smelly long haired hippy jesus, buttums baby jesus, crap ah done did spilled pats blue ribbon on my favorists nascar shirt, but anywhooo. lets go home and slap around auntmom
Or… go run for political office!
naw naw naw first cousin bill and second cousin hillary have that cat in the then thar bag
*headdeskheaddeskheaddesk* Bitter troll, if you’re going to speak Redneck, you really ought to do it properly.
hard for bitter troll to speak in hooman talk as is, let alone hillybilly hooman talk. bitter troll was told watching hana montana helps, but bitter troll feels so dirty when he tries
LOL, you could try watching Steel Magnolias. You’ll get a wide range of various accents there, and not a single one of them Louisianan even though the movie’s supposed to be set here. Though North LA sounds a lot like Mississippi if you’re not from the area.
I’m not sure what they were going for in that movie. Maybe a broad Southern?
IDK, but I have a friend from that area of the state and she cringes every time she watches it. I can understand using a broad Southern accent since trying to understand someone who was born and bred in North LA is nearly as hard as trying to understand the Cajuns. I’ve learned to just smile and nod.
Wasn’t that movie shot in Waxahatchie, Tx?
Natchitoches, Louisiana
It’s a cute little town. The festival they showed in the movie is has been an annual thing there for many many years. Not a bad way to spend a weekend actually.
My parents go to Natchitoches (I DARE a non-Southerner or non-native to try and pronounce that correctly, LOL) for the fireworks every year.
LOL, I’ve lived here for 20 years and I had to look up how to spell it. I almost went to college there but decided to go to one of the other state colleges that ISN’T LSU. That school annoys me.
Froo, I’m gonna go with Nay-chee-o-chees for 300?
There are colleges in Louisiana besides LSU?
Close Igor
Nack-o-dish
NACK-a-dish is the closest I can get to a phonetic spelling
The sister city of Natchitoches is Nacogdoches, which is pronounced nack-a-DOH-chess, or as we who went to SFA like to call it, Sack-A-Roaches.
froo –
i dare a non-ohioan to pronounce tuscarawas, or cuyahoga… and those are just 2 of the easier COUNTIES. if we’re getting into cities, even i give up half the time.
I dare someone from outside of the St. Louis Metro Area to pronounce the following streets: Gravois & Skuenker. I’m pretty sure we’ve got more goofy named streets. Those are the two most easily screwed up.
Washington State has tons of weird names. Originally there were many, many Native American tribes, who were mostly killed off, then places were named after them (eg Seattle and Spokane, but the weird ones start with Wawawai and Puyallup). But of course they all had different languages/dialects, so knowing it’s Indian doesn’t help!
mabsba – ohio had a ton of indians too which is why we’ve got our weird names. it’s also why we have the serpent mounds (whoo?)…
Hmmm…although some Southerners are rednecks, not all are. Nor are all rednecks Southerners. Redneck is a state of mind. (That’s probably a Foxworthy quote.)
We got Foxworthy’s “You might be a redneck deer hunter’ for xmas two years back. Hilarious.
Foxworthy defines “redneck” as “a glorious lack of sophistication. This can be full- or part-time.” I think that says it all
bitter troll uses old hana barbara cartoon “hillbilly bears” as bitter troll’s bitter base
*shakes head & walks away* My people are so misunderstood.
wha? bitter troll cant go out and meet more hoomans, bitter troll troll, people see bitter troll and mobs with pitchforks and torchs start, so bitter troll watches to much tv
Hillbilly =/= redneck. TRUST ME.
*speaking as someone with both in her pedigree
It’s ok bitter troll who is bitter over this non-lol crap EWAdams keeps churning out to get front pages. I understand.
-holds up a naked troll doll-
bitter troll knows the pain of types of sterios
I would like to submit my neighbor for the ‘epitome of a redneck deer hunter’ award.
He goes deer hunting on a 4-wheeler with a small (homemade) trailer hitched behind.
Strapped onto the trailer is a cooler filled with beer.
Strapped to the top of the cooler is a seat (scavenged from an old bass boat I believe)
And attached to the rear of the trailer is a small ‘dog box’ (which is a cage used to transport hounds)
So, the dogs are released to find and then chase a deer until it runs directly in front of the ‘hunter’ parked alongside the road, thus allowing the hunter to shoot the deer from his ‘chair’ without spilling the beer in his other hand.
It is truly a sight to behold!
It’s hilarious to hear some Joisey Goil complaining about how Palin sounds.
Dumping on Sarah Palin…
When having YOUR political party in control of the Presidency, Supreme Court, and both houses of Congress JUST isn’t enough to assuage your feelings of total personal inadequacy…
Not really. She’s just a walking punchline.
I’m not American and neither of your polital parties mean squat to me. But Palin is just so loudly, irritatingly, globally in everyone’s face with her lunatic stances and whining and idiotic…idiom that it is hard to fathom that anyone likes her, no matter their particular ideology.
Oh noes! The dreaded idiom, the most evil of all linguistic devices!
Tell me, do you not have multiple channels in your exotic and foreign land? Or do your televisions not have power buttons?
We do have power buttons in this magical land, but every time I want to, say, have a political giggle (fingers crossed) via PK, I have to see her smug punim smirking up in the corner. If I have the radio on in the morning as I get ready for work, I may have to listen to her dulcet *shudder* tones because I’m sitting on the toilet (appropriately enough) and the radio is in the bedroom. If I really don’t want to miss any part of an upcoming news segment (they are so very tiny these days), I may just have to power through whatever lowest-common-denominator crap she’s spewing to get to the other side.
What stations are you watching and listening to? I’ve had Fox News on as background noise on all day and haven’t seen Palin once…
She’s not on right now, however her smug punim is still smirking up at the top of this page.
Ad block. Its cool
You can say that again. I don’t have to be tortured by any of the insane ads they run on this page. I don’t even know what they have anymore. Some of them used to be kinda creepy.
I need ads to find out about new formats, websites, etc. that are starting up. Hell, I need a lot of media to keep track of what I think I’ll like that’s being released….
I don’t mind the Palin or Coulter ads anymore, though. They’re idiots, and I can’t stop them.
Ad block rocks.
Except when, for no real reason, every six months it decides that every thing on the page is an ad.
firefox doesn’t have that problem and it doesn’t seize up like the old ie did, plus where do you think microsnot got the idea for those tabs at anyway? /anti-microsnot pissy fit over/
My son says the only good use for ie is to download other browsers.
I am forced to use IE in order to tend my fish tank on Facebook. For some reason that particular app crashes Safari. *sigh*
I can’t view non-front-page LOLs with Mozilla.
However, Microsoft may suck, but I think Mac sucks worse- due to the arbitrary filing, and the general limited capabilities of their OS, despite the fact that Windows is unstable.
Anyway, I’ll take Linux.
Oh, I love Firefox, and agree that IE is only good for the first use to download Firefox. Just seems like Ad Block has moods. Like Froo’s fishtank thing. I had to set it to not work on a few of the FB game pages myself.
I feel the same way about the apology tour a few months ago. Why is it so hard for people to admit their views of people are clouded by personal ideology?
Because then they wouldn’t be the center of the universe.
Inadequate? We’re not inadequate. We just love to rub it in!
Oh I hope her career is over. I cannot STAND her!
Sarah Palin makes at least $1.25 million in book deal
“…..describing the $1.25 million figure only as a “retainer.”
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that’s more than 95% of the libtards who infest this site will make in their entire life (assuming any of you actually WORK) so keep making stupid comments and proving how retarded you are. I’m pretty sure she didn’t have a terrorist write it for her either unlike your affirmative action hero.
You’re an idiot.
That’s the first smart thing peepers has said all day.
And probably the last.. put it down as a fluke.
THE exception to prove the rule.
Peepers said it- but Bill Ayers wrote it for him to say…….
just all day? i’d wager all year…
Well, stopped clock and all that….
It says that to everyone. Bound to get a hit now and again.
Yeah, on PK there’s at least a 1 in 15 chance of actually talking to an idiot, usually a troll of some sort. Pretty good odds actually.
I think that 1.25 million is pretty easily attainable in one’s lifetime. I do not think its attainable because of one book. I think it’s probably worth so much because the left thinks she’s a fool and the right thinks she mrs soccer-mom come to save us by taking us all to practice in her big ol minivan. Either way the book will sell. Is she deserving of it? No. I don’t think so. But that whole supply and demand things is currently still at work in America.
And on that note, I doubt anyone posting on this site (left or right) is going to write a book and get paid over a million for it. And if it happens, I certainly hope they link it from Amazon so we can go give it a read.
Fvck it, I’m going to write a book now. Do you think there’s a market for experimental dystopian literary porn from a postfeminist perspective? Will I make Oprah’s book club?
i’d check it out from the library
Depends on whether you refer to the vajay-jay!
She should write The Vagina Dialogues and have two va-jay-jays talking to each other.
I’ll buy it! And plenty of Oprah’s readers will if you drop the ‘literary’ bit. Anyway VNV’s thrown down the gauntlet, may have to resurrect my satirical post-literary masterpiece about life in a small Surrey town.. probably needs more childhood trauma, zombies and Albino Jesuits in it to get up to the million mark though.
Adding zombies made “Pride and Prejudice” better. Might work for yours as well.
It’s a shame PJ O’Rourke stole the title that would have fitted her book: ‘Republican Party Reptile’..
Anyway how much have you made? Just to put the libtards into perspective…
here’s a better title:
“The Chronicles of Narcissism – The Lie-in’, The Bitch, and the Wardrobe.”
(snagged from somewhere off the internet)
Well, let’s see — your average Starbucks employee makes $35k/yr. Let’s assume they start working at 25, when those student loan deferments start to expire; it would take 43 years to earn $1.5M, and that’s before considering inflation and cost of living increases.
Sounds doable. But man, that’s a lot of crappy inoffensive soft rock.
Aren’t you required to have some minimum number of facial piercings to work there? That’s a business expense.
And a dull expression, that takes effort to properly master.
DWN, the dull expression comes with a high school education these days.
Touche’…
Talking of which here’s a lol I did earlier…only ‘cos it’s relevant….
Okay, I lol’d…
Me too. I lol’d. Well, I’m in the office so I kind of snortled to myself, but the intent was there.
Nice. I snerk quietly.
Office Space FTW! One of my all time favourite movies.
35k a year? fvck. i need to quit my job and start working at starbucks.
this is what i get for working in (knowing this will start a fight) healthcare… i make less than the bastard who makes my coffee in the morning. but, of course i’ll be called a fat cat who makes millions off denying peoples claims…
My cousin is an assistant manager for Starbucks. Yeah, Dhoti overshot a little bit.
Even with tips?
*cancels interview with Starbucks*
*also cancels interview at starbucks*
*gets coffee from starbucks*
*saves money making organic blueberry coffee at home*
*flushes another $53.46 down the toilet just for giggles*
That’s nonsense, shortright. We all know it’s your bosses who are the fat cats.
of course she didnt have a terrorists write if for her, they refuse to work for a woman…
now starveing mexican children illegally smuggled into alaska to work the land at slave wages..thats different…and totally untrue as far as bitter troll knows…but it might be true…you never know…its good enough for fox news to report that way its good enough for bitter troll
I heard Rush Limbaugh wanted to replace the Chiefs defensive line with non-union Mexican day laborers. Does that count?
I’m not sure it wouldn’t be an improvement. No, actually, I’m pretty sure it WOULD be an improvement.
send some of those guys up to cleveland… the browns need a QB specifically.
Que?
is detriot lions still a NFL team or have they been demoted to peewee yet?
They lost to the Rams. Peewee uses them for a practice squad now.
Their new slogan is: At least we’re not 0-7 like Tampa Bay. We won a game!
the browns are using that too. we were worried for a bit that we wouldn’t be able to tease detroit about 0-16 last year…
btw, i’m pretty sure that a good high school team could beat the browns right now. probably glenville HS in cleveland… the school that churned out ted ginn jr and troy smith. two of the all time greats from OSU who are kicking ass in the pros. yeah, i’d be willing to bet glenville could beat the browns.
ooooh, so what’s that say about the bills? the only team the browns have managed to beat… ouch.
It all forms a circle of suck. For example: the Redskins beat the Rams, but lost to the Lions. Therefore, you might assume that the Lions were somehow better than both the Rams & Redskins. However, the Rams actually beat the Lions last week (yeah, we were shocked too). So it just forms a crappy mixture of any given Sunday for lousy teams. LOL
this is the bye week for cleveland. we figure they can’t lose if they’re not playing… i think there are going to be lots of happy browns fans this weekend.
A coworker of mine said he thinks the Rams are gonna pull it together and finish the season 6-10. He almost said it with a straight face.
Much anger in you I sense. Turned to dark side you have.
Rando, he’s passed the Dark Side and gone to shit the Sith Lords wouldn’t even touch. I think it’s something like a vial of pure hatred that you pump into your brain, and then you think that once you pick a “team”, you always assume your team is right and that they’re better than the other team, while in reality, there were no teams at all, and both sides were wrong.
Well even Sith Lords are pretty talented. This guy is just pathetic.
Well, that’s cause he tried a procedure the Sith Lords wouldn’t.
And the hatred consumed him.
Or something. I dunno, he’s just a f*cking moron.
Please, you hopelessly partisan, stereotypical idiot, go jump off a bridge. You seem to have the intelligence of someone who’s never thought deeply about an issue, never analyzed a book, nor accepted that other people may be human, regardless of their anonymity.
It’s like you’re lying in a hospital bed, having bullshit pumped into you intravenously…
Another thing, you useless, intellectually bankrupt twit, is that money =/= rightness or how hard one has worked. It is money, and you can STILL get paid for spewing biased, hateful, shit.
Hey, shitsniffer, you have absolutely no idea what the people posting here do or how much money they make. So, with that in mind, STFUPAKDD.
And with that, I’m going to tell the upstairs maids to polish all of my gold toilets.
Because a person’s income determines their actual worth–just like box office draw determines which films deserve Oscars.
Wow, then Dan Quayle and George W. Bush must be gods!!
@Liberals R Idiots – you really know how to set the bar low don’t you? you know that works out to $27,777.78 per year based on a 45 yr work span….sounds much more like the fools who think she’s all that and a cow pie on a stick
She is a real Conservative. It was that fake McCain. Otherwise we would not have to deal with this liar in the white house.
If you think that her being in the White House would remove any liars therein, you’re sadly mistaken. It doesn’t matter your political party, ideology, theology, affiliation, or anything else; if you’re a politician of any sort, you’re lying about something.
Froo, I think we’ve found one subject we don’t disagree on in any way.
Wait, are you suggesting that Palin could have beaten Obama? Are you serious??
she could beat him at a thumb war… maybe.
Are you kidding, Shortright? Have you SEEN Obama’s thumbs?
It’d be like trying to grab a snake with tiny, pink, pudgy fingers!
hmm. this is true. perhaps she could beat him in a strip tease contest? for a 40something mom of however-many-kids-she’s-had, she’s still pretty hot. obama’s too lanky to be really sexy in a banana hammock…
(i’m sorry for the image i just gave you. it’s even grossing me out a little bit)
Honestly, I’d wager that the election would have been MUCH closer had Palin been at the top of the ticket. Love her or hate her, she energizes the base in the party much the same way that Obama has done. They’re both very polarizing figures in their own way.
Actually I wish all those ‘also runs’ would go away. Anyone else remember the good old days when someone ran for president or vp, then they went away after they lost? Regardless of party? Now they have talk shows, book deals, argh!
On to more important topics: TIME FOR V!!!!
***starts the V chant****
V! V! V! V! V!
Is this ‘V’ that everyone speaks of a remake or the original? I saw the original and I have to tell you, lizard sex just plain creeps me out.
Yes, but they left out the weird voices.
I has a sad…I liked the weird voices.
Oh, that would figure. I remember watching the original, but to be honest, I think I threw any recall of the show into the bit bucket… except for the lizard sex. Did I mention that really creeped me out?
did it show lizard boobies?
Don’t want to be a spoiler for anyone who wants to watch later, but I think the lizard sex will come later in the series.
Have to have something for the boys to look forward to!
I’ll probably have to wait a year before it show up here. I think were just getting the final season of Friends now.
TV shows seem to appear instantly on DVD here. Perhaps at the end of the season you do some stalking in exchange for DVDs? Seems as if Mina might be getting over-extended!
And of course, we’re much better off with Affirmative Action Boy, who thinks people in Austria speak Austrian.
Remembering some of her personality traits? Probably…
There’s more in that than you might think. Some Germans speak “high German”, and most Austrians speak “Low German”. Ok, they are technically dialects of German, but Geordie and Scouse technically dialects of English, and I defy a typical American conservatroll to follow a conversation in either, or between a Geordie and a Scouser.
But be honest here. If Sara or any on the right were to make the same statement, they would be labeled as stupid, or uneducated.
Only certain people get their mistakes dismissed.
I thought that CGray’s point was that it was stupid or uneducated to think that people in Austria speak Austrian. I was serious about the degree of difference between high and low German, and am sure Keithybabes will confirm that it requires a knowledge of dialect and an ear for pronuncuation to get by in Geordie and/or Scouse.
No problem there. I was saying that even something that simple would be used to roast Sara, or others on the right, in one big bonfire.
Why aye, pet.
Canny guid like mon.
I’ll translate! I was born in Geordieland and went to uni in Scouseland.
For the love of God, please SHUT UP. Your one or two posts a week always manage to be the grouchiest trolliest I’ve seen.
Actually, they do speak Austrian, Austrian German. There is a difference between the German spoken in Austrian and that spoken in Germany. So, he wasn’t 100% correct but he was not wrong. However, you are all kinds of wrong and a racist douche, especially for using “Affirmative Action Boy”.
Maybe she could join the conservative party instead and stop destroying the GOP with her wing-nut cronies?
Stupid people can’t get enough of this ditz.
MILF!
If she’s so insignificant, why are the NeoComms still so scared of her???
lol.
she kissed it goodbye, alright!
UR’L TROLLS!