Since basically the only other thing on the front page was a different post also directing out attention to that very comment thread, it's not clear to me why our attention needed redirecting.
Well, I think Labs was trying to say that my rhymes--the only ones that weren't all end-rhymed and shit, yo--were essence of honky, and that y'all are honky just by being around me.
Since basically the only other thing on the front page was a different post also directing out attention to that very comment thread, it's not clear to me why our attention needed redirecting.
Also.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 06-29-05 12:36 PM
Well, I think Labs was trying to say that my rhymes--the only ones that weren't all end-rhymed and shit, yo--were essence of honky, and that y'all are honky just by being around me.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06-29-05 12:43 PM
Is it not the case that lots of rap features internal rhyme?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 06-29-05 12:45 PM
Really, that should be, "I must needs engage in contests" to be truly, white as the driven snow.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 06-29-05 12:46 PM
Matt, I took your comment more or less at random. Really, Ogged's cry for help was the appropriate target.
Posted by FL | Link to this comment | 06-29-05 12:48 PM
3: Indeed it is. I was trying to gently twit the others for not being down with the latest (ca. 1990) flow.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06-29-05 12:51 PM
Wait, let me answer Ben's question bitch-style: I was engaged in what linguist George Lakoff calls a "reframing"...
Posted by FL | Link to this comment | 06-29-05 12:52 PM