Re: Florida embarrasses itself.

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Does the law as written compensate the would-be dwarf-tossed for foregone income?


Posted by: Benquo | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 8:19 AM
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On leaving the meeting, Rep. Workman was apprehended by Sgt Next of SO-27 and stuffed back into the pages of the Carl Hiassen novel from which he had apparently escaped.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 8:32 AM
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Who are the lobbyists for Big Dwarf Tossing? Because surely Rep. Workman did not come up with this idea on his own.


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 8:34 AM
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And this is purely a position of principle for Workman; it's not a personal issue.

"I would never force anybody to take this form of employment or pay to watch it," Workman said. "I think it's repulsive and stupid. But it's none of the state's business if somebody wants to do this."

I have to assume he's also introduced bills legalizing drug use. I just have to.


Posted by: urple | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 8:49 AM
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If dwarf-tossing is outlawed, then law-abiding citizens will be reduced to throwing their own children at muggers and home invaders. Is that the sort of country you want to live in? Not I, sir. Not I.


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 8:51 AM
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Not quite Angry Birds:

http://funkyphysics.com/dwarf-toss/


Posted by: Criminally Bulgur | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 8:52 AM
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Maybe just allow the tossing of dwarfs who are already pariayzed?


Posted by: DonBoy | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 8:57 AM
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lyzed


Posted by: DonBoy | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 8:57 AM
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Big Dwarf Tossing

Now, that's just insensitive.


Posted by: emdash | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 9:35 AM
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Is it not "dwarves"? I thought it was "dwarves."


Posted by: Mister Smearcase | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 10:28 AM
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I think there's a Tolkien/non-Tolkien split there. Pre-Tolkien English is dwarfs, Tolkien or Tolkien-influenced is dwarves.

(My nerditude, let me show you it.)


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 10:30 AM
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Similarly Elfin/Elven (with the latter being Tolkein-influenced).


Posted by: Unfoggetarian: "Pause endlessly, then go in" (9) | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 10:35 AM
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And Smurfs/Smurves?


Posted by: Mr. Blandings | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 10:40 AM
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Little people, that's what they like.


Posted by: OPINIONATED STORE DICK | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 10:41 AM
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Now, that's just insensitive.

That said, if I were running a lobbying organisation for little people, I would totally call it Big Dwarf.


Posted by: Ginger Yellow | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 10:47 AM
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If dwarf-tossing is outlawed, then law-abiding citizens will be reduced to throwing their own children at muggers and home invaders only outlaws will toss dwarfs.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 11:43 AM
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11: I think Tolkien wanted "dwarrows" or something like that.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 11:52 AM
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'"Nobody tosses a dwarf!" The relation between the empirical and normative reexamined'

This article discusses the relation between empirical and normative approaches in bioethics. The issue of dwarf tossing, while admittedly unusual, is chosen as point of departure because it challenges the reader to look upon several central bioethical themes - including human dignity, autonomy, and the protection of vulnerable people - with fresh eyes. After an overview of current approaches to the integration of empirical and normative ethics, we consider five ways that the empirical and normative can be brought together to speak to the problem of dwarf tossing: prescriptive applied ethics, theorist ethics, critical applied ethics, particularist ethics and integrated empirical ethics.

Posted by: x.trapnel | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 11:57 AM
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And dwarrows does sound maybe a bit too much like something that one tosses.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 11:57 AM
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No, those get fired out of a tossbow.


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 11:58 AM
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18.1: Not that there is anything more pointless and insipid than trying to point out the specific Hollywoodisms in something like Lord of the Rings, but Jesus was that annoying.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 12:00 PM
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Florida embarrasses itself because hydrologically it can't help but dripping on Cuba after it pees.


Posted by: Annelid Gustator | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 12:05 PM
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15: if I were running a lobbying organisation for little people, I would totally call it Big Dwarf.

If we have seen further than others, it is because we're Fucking Giants.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 12:22 PM
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Its probably better to have dwarfs tossing out in the open, where it can be regulated and taxed, than to drive dwarf tossing underground, into seedy speakeasy's and dangerous back alleys.

Also, some people need to toss dwarfs for medical purposes.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 1:23 PM
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11/12: Wait, for real? Really?

22: I promised myself to stay away from pee in this thread, but I'm glad you said it.

Every once in a while I feel a little longing to be closer to family, and the beach, and I consider moving back to Florida. Then stuff like this comes up. This cycle has a roughly circadian period.


Posted by: piminnowcheez | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 2:21 PM
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22: Related Kliban Map Filth cartoon. Not funny or anywhere close to his best, but related.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 2:27 PM
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26: The German satire publication Titanic commemorated the 1981 U.S. presidential inauguration with a similar gag: A conventional map of the U.S. was labeled "Carter Country"; next to it was a map showing a tumescent Florida, labeled "Reagan Country".


Posted by: KR | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 3:08 PM
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At the same time, didn't Tolkein use "elfs" rather than "elves," and that wasn't emulated?


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 5:44 PM
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No, he didn't, I'm all wet. Tolkein insisted on both "dwarves" and "elves," but it seems he didn't invent "dwarves," though he may have popularized it.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 10- 7-11 5:48 PM
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29.last: Google n-grams (dwarves, Dwarves) support that hypothesis to some degree.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 10- 8-11 9:22 AM
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The "elves/Elves" trajectory is somewhat interesting as well. Tolkien's but a meer blip.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 10- 8-11 9:31 AM
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You did a funny thing with the capitalization of "DWarfs". I think this one is more accurate and shows a less Tolkien influence in that lower-cased "dwarfs" is pretty much still the top word.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10- 8-11 9:52 AM
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32: Oops, did not mean to leave that on there. I got rid of the "dwarfs" because of the conflating factor of its uses as a verb.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 10- 8-11 10:01 AM
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I'd forgotten the verb form. Tolkien must have bitch-slapped the English language but good.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10- 8-11 10:08 AM
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