Re: Shortly thereafter, he was brained by a falling piece of masonry

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coincidence, the 'dutch' clip i linked in the other thread, there was the 'regal gait' move
the 'Chernobul baby plays ping-pong', 'arabian tetka','cow milking' moves are funny too
a nice tutorial it was imo


Posted by: read | Link to this comment | 09-20-08 12:22 PM
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Surely a member of Billionaires for Bush?


Posted by: oudemia | Link to this comment | 09-20-08 12:33 PM
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No, I think he was for real.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 09-20-08 12:41 PM
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You, sir, are why culture wars happen.


Posted by: foolishmortal | Link to this comment | 09-20-08 1:12 PM
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What are you on about? This guy had muttonchops!

Muttonchops, I tell you!


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 09-20-08 1:14 PM
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What's the problem? Is it some sort of veggie-only farmer's market? Are you such a lamb snob?


Posted by: JRoth | Link to this comment | 09-20-08 1:15 PM
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I can't believe you didn't stick around to make trouble. Chickenshit.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 09-20-08 1:17 PM
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Actually, there was both lamb and goat, but no mutton.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 09-20-08 1:17 PM
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Because the Magnate was wearing it all!


Posted by: JRoth | Link to this comment | 09-20-08 1:23 PM
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"Chickenshit"

No, he wasn't wearing that.


Posted by: pdf23ds | Link to this comment | 09-20-08 2:46 PM
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"Ambassadorship to Greece"?


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 09-20-08 2:58 PM
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Chickenshit on the free-range eggs, obv.

There was an Obama worker signing up ex-pat Americans at the farmer's market last time I was there. Or trying to: mostly he was explaining to confused Brits what he was doing.


Posted by: Jesurgislac | Link to this comment | 09-20-08 3:09 PM
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Yesterday I saw someone selling T-shirts which said, "McCain_Palin: When Pigs Fly."


Posted by: Bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 09-21-08 11:55 AM
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Indeed, I am only now beginning to finish clearing my throat.

One of the most ominous sentences in the English language.


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 09-21-08 12:21 PM
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Is it OK that I skipped all but the first few words in the first two paragraphs? Yes? Good, thanks. That makes me feel better.


Posted by: pdf23ds | Link to this comment | 09-21-08 12:34 PM
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You're hurting me, pdf.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 09-21-08 12:35 PM
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The payoff is entirely in the end of the third paragraph.


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 09-21-08 12:56 PM
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I loved the second paragraph so much I emailed it to my sister. Her response was "that is a very strange blog that you are reading"


Posted by: Cecily | Link to this comment | 09-21-08 12:57 PM
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The payoff is the fourth paragraph.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 09-21-08 12:58 PM
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Jackbooted thugs raid Christian compound in search of sacramental porn.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 09-21-08 1:05 PM
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So, uh, remember the YouTube video of the young men demonstrating their sexual styles by humping the air over an ottoman? Can anyone point me to the unfogged thread wherein it was discussed, or otherwise pin down the date to within a couple of weeks? It was also discussed on LiveJournal among my circle of friends, and I wanted to cite someone's particular reaction to it to someone else, but it's a pain in the ass to search for random comments on LJ.


Posted by: Hamilton-Lovecraft | Link to this comment | 09-21-08 3:02 PM
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So, uh, remember the YouTube video of the young men demonstrating their sexual styles by humping the air over an ottoman?

Srsly? People are funny.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 09-21-08 3:11 PM
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First mentioned and discussed here, and later as the actual topic of a post, here.


Posted by: redfoxtailshrub | Link to this comment | 09-21-08 3:17 PM
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The disseminated intelligence triumphs again. Next: a cure for cancer.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 09-21-08 3:23 PM
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The payoff is in the mail.

Ben that was a work of genius. (What can I say? He paid me.)


Posted by: md 20/400 | Link to this comment | 09-21-08 3:32 PM
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I'm willing to admit, grudgingly, that the second paragraph is to snicker for. Okay, I said it.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 09-21-08 3:52 PM
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All of my future posts will be in the style of this one, until you people are used to it and think it's good.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 09-21-08 4:08 PM
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Given that the vast majority of your past posts are similarly in this style, it would appear that the getting used to will take considerable time.


Posted by: Di Kotimy | Link to this comment | 09-21-08 4:13 PM
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27: I welcome it, benjamin. I do think it's good.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 09-21-08 4:18 PM
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My posts are in highly variegated styles, Di. Highly.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 09-21-08 4:23 PM
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Really? My bad, then.


Posted by: Di Kotimy | Link to this comment | 09-21-08 4:27 PM
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This, for example:

I briefly pondered sticking around to make trouble, but decided that it would be too out of character and unlikely to have any sort of productive effect.

is really funny.

Di and the other naysayers, what is the problem, you can't read paragraphs that are more than 7 lines long? Pfeh.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 09-21-08 4:30 PM
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It's not the length, it's the girth.


Posted by: CharleyCarp | Link to this comment | 09-21-08 4:40 PM
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Expansive, yes. Are you still complaining?


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 09-21-08 4:51 PM
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I'm so girthy I expand to fill the space allotted.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 09-21-08 5:07 PM
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You create the space, ben. Don't be silly, now.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 09-21-08 5:14 PM
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All of my future posts will be in the style of this one, until you people are used to it and think it's good.

At which point, what?


Posted by: Wrongshore | Link to this comment | 09-21-08 5:14 PM
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The oral sex.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 09-21-08 5:21 PM
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Huzzah!


Posted by: Wrongshore | Link to this comment | 09-21-08 5:31 PM
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32: Mostly, I was taking the opportunity to tweak Mr. W-lfs-n. Because I'm kind of a pain in the ass by nature. But, yes, to parse this particular post would have required an expenditure of intellectual energy that I was unwilling or unable to make. Mostly unable, what with the allusions to things I've never so much as heard of.

38: The style is great! I love it!


Posted by: Di Kotimy | Link to this comment | 09-21-08 5:58 PM
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40.1: The post was not that hard.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 09-21-08 7:19 PM
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The post was not that hard.

That's what the ladies always say to Ben.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 09-21-08 11:25 PM
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Why did young Ben not advise us that he was relating the tale he heard of one Mr. W------ who was in the city of S-- F------- in the fall of the year 20--?

max
['There should also be some monkey glands involved.']


Posted by: max | Link to this comment | 09-22-08 12:10 AM
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I would like to try a Monkey Gland someday. But max, the reason I did not so advise you is that I was not so relating. None but I myself was the protagonist of this observational adventure; I heard of it from noöne. (I do not need to observe myself to have knowledge of myself!)


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 09-22-08 1:05 AM
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41: Maybe not for you, elitist.

videlicet/scilicet
emthymemetic discourse
the Magnate from Gorey's The Fatal Lozenge

Need I say more?


Posted by: Di Kotimy | Link to this comment | 09-22-08 4:18 AM
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Fact: Monkeygland sauce is a popular condiment in South Africa.


Posted by: Knecht Ruprecht | Link to this comment | 09-22-08 8:13 AM
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videlicet/scilicet
emthymemetic discourse

You should train your eye to just glide past that stuff. That's what I did, and I'm much happier now.


Posted by: mcmc | Link to this comment | 09-22-08 9:05 AM
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47, cont'd. So the effect is "nor should we forget the locale, mumble, the Ferry Building Farmers' Market..." and "certain rhetorical advantages similar to those accruing to mumble discourse..."
See? Easy.

I googled emthymemetic and google asked "Did you mean: mathematical?" Merriam Webster says the word isn't in the dictionary, but we have some inter-atomic, eremitical, or antiemetic. Thanks Merriam Webster, but no.


Posted by: mcmc | Link to this comment | 09-22-08 9:14 AM
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I believe that ben meant "enthymemetic."


Posted by: m. leblanc | Link to this comment | 09-22-08 9:17 AM
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that was very prosaic explanation, just typo, though interesting read of course
i tried to split the word, meme i got i thought, em also, thy, also, but when put together i didn't get it


Posted by: read | Link to this comment | 09-22-08 9:40 AM
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a, an


Posted by: read | Link to this comment | 09-22-08 10:10 AM
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