FL and I agree again! Inspiring the character of Morris Zapp is the only good thing Fish as done that I know of. I hope his Milton scholarship is decent, 'cause in philosophy he's the king of the sophists.
Also, he opposes blinded review, which shows he's a dick.
Fish is indeed Zapp. (In your response, discuss this sense of "to be," and distinguish it from the 38 other sense of "to be" discussed in the literature.) And Fish deserves some credit, even if he inspired Zapp by basically being a dick.
Fish strikes me as the kind of guy who likes to be smarter than everyone, only without the smarts. Tim, we've all been meaning to talk to you about the hair.
LOL, not too far off. I find Fish's stuff interesting, even when I think he's being a butt.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 11-30-05 10:06 AM
Do fish have butts?
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 11-30-05 10:07 AM
I invite you to visit my beautiful country.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 11-30-05 10:11 AM
It's really just about putting two and two together.
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 11-30-05 10:13 AM
Hey, unremoved rape story spam at the end of that comment thread.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 11-30-05 10:19 AM
Thanks apo. but that's not spam, just a very bitter co-blogger.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 11-30-05 10:24 AM
Ever notice that removing the hyphen from "co-blogger" and putting an extra space between the words produces the phrase "cob logger"?
More should be said about this.
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 11-30-05 10:26 AM
N00b.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 11-30-05 10:32 AM
Fuck. I've been around for longer than that.
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 11-30-05 10:34 AM
Nice background on Qum.
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 11-30-05 10:42 AM
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Posted by [redacted] | Link to this comment | 11-30-05 10:42 AM
FL and I agree again! Inspiring the character of Morris Zapp is the only good thing Fish as done that I know of. I hope his Milton scholarship is decent, 'cause in philosophy he's the king of the sophists.
Also, he opposes blinded review, which shows he's a dick.
Posted by baa | Link to this comment | 11-30-05 10:48 AM
Yeah, but I'm sloppy too. It's about having the ideas and then handing them off to someone else to futz with the details, didn't you know?
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 11-30-05 11:19 AM
Fish is Zapp? I had no idea.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 11-30-05 12:13 PM
Fish is indeed Zapp. (In your response, discuss this sense of "to be," and distinguish it from the 38 other sense of "to be" discussed in the literature.) And Fish deserves some credit, even if he inspired Zapp by basically being a dick.
Posted by FL | Link to this comment | 11-30-05 12:42 PM
What little I've read by Fish I haven't liked. It turns out I am baa's liberal, less well-read doppelganger. Also, I like cookies.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 11-30-05 12:50 PM
I am baa's liberal, less well-read doppelganger.
This has been obvious for some time.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 11-30-05 12:57 PM
Why does SB hate me? It's my hair, isn't it?
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 11-30-05 1:26 PM
Fish strikes me as the kind of guy who likes to be smarter than everyone, only without the smarts. Tim, we've all been meaning to talk to you about the hair.
Posted by FL | Link to this comment | 11-30-05 1:37 PM
I think this is quite unfair to Bitch PhD, who seems much more clever and sensible than Stanley Fish. As to Ogged...
Posted by BL | Link to this comment | 11-30-05 1:54 PM
If that's really Le/iter, that's pretty cool. And either way, it's funny.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 11-30-05 1:57 PM
I had in mind more your comparable incisivenesses, and less so any disparity, real or imagined, in your well-readnesses.
I hate you because you're beautiful.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 11-30-05 1:58 PM
I also like cookies, Tim, but you hate the Celtics, so we've got that going for us. Jeez louise are they bad this year.
Posted by baa | Link to this comment | 11-30-05 2:04 PM
That fucking incisiveness thing will dog me to my dying day. Don't you all realize ogged is manipulating you all like marionettes?
Posted by baa | Link to this comment | 11-30-05 2:06 PM
baa, I was being sincere. Sorry if that wasn't clear. (This comment rhymes! Oh dear.)
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 11-30-05 2:08 PM
ogged is manipulating you all
Wait, Ogged is a woman?
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 11-30-05 2:10 PM
No no, baa, it's "puppets" and you're dancing for Weiner.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 11-30-05 2:12 PM
More generally, I don't the "incisive" jokes would have gained much traction if there were no truth ogged's declaration.
And now, this:
fatbaa slim is fucking incisive
fatbaa slim is fucking incisive
fatbaa slim is fucking incisive
fucking 'n fucking 'n fucking incisive
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 11-30-05 2:17 PM