Re: Not Today, Space Rangers

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"You can't scare me. I have kids."


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 07-16-16 7:12 PM
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I'm going to tase Ogged and claim it was a medical procedure.


Posted by: gswift | Link to this comment | 07-16-16 7:29 PM
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http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/575207


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 07-16-16 7:36 PM
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My wife and kids would really enjoy Tasing me.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 07-16-16 7:37 PM
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Is there anyone that, at some level, I wouldn't enjoy tasing? Even, like, the pope would be fun. I guess John Lewis would not be OK to tase.


Posted by: R Tigre | Link to this comment | 07-16-16 7:42 PM
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So I guess this is the thread where we learn more than we really wanted to about our fellow commenters.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 07-16-16 7:44 PM
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I would discourage tasing older people because they might have heart attacks. Even the Pope, I'm sure he hasn't had a self-destructive lifestyle, but he probably ingests a lot of wine and cholesterol.


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 07-16-16 7:47 PM
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Come on, everyone has some place inside where they want to tase. I'm not saying you actually should tase anyone, let alone the Pope.


Posted by: R Tigre | Link to this comment | 07-16-16 7:48 PM
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Yeah 7 is the problem. Can you set the tase to super low of you're a cop dealing with a rampaging 60 yr old?


Posted by: R Tigre | Link to this comment | 07-16-16 7:49 PM
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I think your problem is likely to be the Swiss Guard.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-16-16 8:05 PM
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"The Christian in me says it's wrong, but the corrections officer in me says, 'I love to make a grown man piss himself."


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 07-16-16 8:07 PM
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Oh, that kind of ablation. I was all excited at first because I'm in the early stages of a clinical trial for a new version of the uterine kind. But now that it's not about me, I don't have to care.


Posted by: Thorn | Link to this comment | 07-16-16 8:35 PM
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First the ablution, then the ablation.


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 07-16-16 8:36 PM
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Who would Bob Denard tase?


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 07-16-16 8:58 PM
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NMM to Alan Vega.

Fuck.

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Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 07-16-16 9:00 PM
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14: Whom would he not?


Posted by: Thorn | Link to this comment | 07-16-16 9:01 PM
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16: Fair point. Maybe whoever was paying him to instigate his latest coup, unless they threatened not to pay.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 07-16-16 9:06 PM
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coup de tase


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 07-16-16 9:07 PM
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I know it's not teo's way to insist on stuffy linguistic prescriptions, or any linguistic prescriptions, but I was nevertheless surprised that he went with "who" in 14.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 07-16-16 9:44 PM
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That's just how it goes in my idiolect, and the alternative didn't even occur to me until I saw 16. Descriptivism as a way of life.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 07-16-16 9:47 PM
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Bob Denard doesn't have time for linguistic niceties.


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 07-16-16 9:53 PM
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Or any other niceties, really.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 07-16-16 10:22 PM
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French guys named things like "Bob" and "Jef" are always cool.


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 07-16-16 11:07 PM
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No matter what they tell you, death is always on the list.


Posted by: Von Wafer | Link to this comment | 07-16-16 11:21 PM
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I think Chris Christie would be fun to tase.


Posted by: Trivers | Link to this comment | 07-16-16 11:31 PM
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Dammit, Trivers, now you're tempting me to agree.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 07-16-16 11:45 PM
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I am not only agreeing but giggling sadistically at the thought.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 07-16-16 11:49 PM
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My grandmother had a taser. I had the weirdest urge to tase myself to see what it felt like. Other than that I never had the urge to tase anyone. Basically, I'm the only virtuous person to ever comment here.


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 07-17-16 12:42 AM
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20: And my response was not meant to be shaming or a correction, just idiolectalicious from here as well.


Posted by: Thorn | Link to this comment | 07-17-16 1:39 AM
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Whoever tases Walt first gets the title of "only virtuous person to ever comment here".


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 07-17-16 1:39 AM
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Walt was virtuous for the six words he wrote before splitting an infinitive.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 07-17-16 2:09 AM
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Come on, everyone has some place inside where they want to tase.


Posted by: MHPH | Link to this comment | 07-17-16 4:26 AM
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Thanks a whole bundle for 32 which I have just clicked on at work. Not sure what I explain that as research into


Posted by: Nworb Werdna | Link to this comment | 07-17-16 4:39 AM
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30: If any of you procrastinating grammarians can manage the feat, you're welcome to the title.


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 07-17-16 5:48 AM
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30: If any of you procrastinating, enervated grammarians can manage the feat, you're welcome to the title.


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 07-17-16 5:51 AM
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30: If any of you procrastinating, enervated, etiolated grammarians can manage the feat, you're welcome to the title.


Posted by: MHPH | Link to this comment | 07-17-16 5:56 AM
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Go get him, Gswift. He said it's okay.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 07-17-16 6:02 AM
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Isn't Nathan going to be in your neck of the woods by this weekend or something, Walt? Beware!


Posted by: Thorn | Link to this comment | 07-17-16 6:06 AM
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I like how no one is surprised that RT wants to torture everyone with electricity.


Posted by: roger the cabin boy | Link to this comment | 07-17-16 7:45 AM
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It's not the first time he's mentioned it


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-17-16 7:58 AM
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Neoliberalism!


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 07-17-16 8:03 AM
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38: I live in Ulan-Bator. There's no electricity here.


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 07-17-16 8:27 AM
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The old-style acoustic tasers were pretty ineffective.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 07-17-16 10:00 AM
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39: Well, I for one am shocked.


Posted by: marcel proust | Link to this comment | 07-17-16 10:15 AM
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I wonder if I'm the only member of the commentariat who has been tased.


Posted by: politicalfootball | Link to this comment | 07-18-16 6:16 AM
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Did you try to kick the rear window out of a cruiser?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-18-16 6:21 AM
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45: Maybe! Tell us about it?


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 07-18-16 6:49 AM
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Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversity are aimed.


Posted by: OPINIONATED BOB DENARD, AUTHOR OF THE QUIXOTE | Link to this comment | 07-18-16 7:28 AM
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45: Gswift had it done as part of his training, IIRC.


Posted by: togolosh | Link to this comment | 07-18-16 7:28 AM
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47, 49: Then my experience was like gswift's. I wasn't a cop, but I was observing police training with early-model Tasers. I accepted their offer to zap me.


Posted by: politicalfootball | Link to this comment | 07-18-16 7:47 AM
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