It's scary how once you start clicking to old comment threads, those old threads link to older threads, which link to older threads...how deep does the rabbit hole go in the Minshaft Matrix?
In some instances, the suit contends, people on the Match payroll even went on sham dates with subscribers as a marketing ploy.
When the shy, pointy-headed Persian picked up the perky "professor," he didn't know she was just doing her job. But when her prickly boyfriend, Trevor, starts making fun of that loser she's hanging around with, she's got this strange urge to defend him.... Could she be starting to fall for him? Will she ever be able to come clean that the date was a marketing ploy, designed to get him to renew his subscription? And that the hedgehog she's always talking about is really a tall, supercilious, closeted philosophy professor? Find out in "Meeting Your Match," starring Reese Witherspoon, Chris Noth, and Jonathan Pryce as the Gayatollah. Coming soon to a theater near you.
It's sort of sad that I don't even know enough Latin to be able to realize that Sumner provided the translation before the quotation. That Bartleby version is heavily abridged, I'm trying to read the whole thing.
C'mon over. I'm still in bed, watching movies and blogging and such. It's a great way to spend Saturday morning :)
Posted by profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 11-19-05 11:11 AM
You have to admit that that sounds like more fun than running over a dog.
But why a dog? From the post, you've got some co-workers that need killin'.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 11-19-05 11:16 AM
I'm assuming that Ogged hasn't yet responded because he's on his way over. Else, it's time for some brain damage.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 11-19-05 11:27 AM
It's scary how once you start clicking to old comment threads, those old threads link to older threads, which link to older threads...how deep does the rabbit hole go in the Minshaft Matrix?
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 11-19-05 12:12 PM
You were probably there 5 minutes early too, huh?
Posted by Sam K | Link to this comment | 11-19-05 12:48 PM
It's turtles all the way down -- nothing but comment threads, to all eternity.
I've checked.
Posted by Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 11-19-05 1:53 PM
You mean cock jokes all the way down.
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 11-19-05 3:45 PM
Too bad ogged pulled that personal ad.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 11-19-05 4:45 PM
In some instances, the suit contends, people on the Match payroll even went on sham dates with subscribers as a marketing ploy.
When the shy, pointy-headed Persian picked up the perky "professor," he didn't know she was just doing her job. But when her prickly boyfriend, Trevor, starts making fun of that loser she's hanging around with, she's got this strange urge to defend him.... Could she be starting to fall for him? Will she ever be able to come clean that the date was a marketing ploy, designed to get him to renew his subscription? And that the hedgehog she's always talking about is really a tall, supercilious, closeted philosophy professor? Find out in "Meeting Your Match," starring Reese Witherspoon, Chris Noth, and Jonathan Pryce as the Gayatollah. Coming soon to a theater near you.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 11-19-05 5:34 PM
You've miscast Chris Noth, unless you have him wearing a prosthetic head.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 11-19-05 5:42 PM
Chris Noth (this is all I really know of the man).
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 11-19-05 5:47 PM
Oops. How my grip on our blog tropes has loosened.
In any event, Chris Noth's head isn't anywhere near as pointy as ogged makes his out to be. He would definitely need some putty up there.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 11-19-05 5:56 PM
But that's nitpicking. The rest of 9 is spot on. (Is Reese Witherspoon the new Meg Ryan?)
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 11-19-05 5:57 PM
I think I need to recast the Gayatollah as The Rock, as a supercilious philosophy professor. He could do it, right?
If not, maybe Liev Schreiber.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 11-19-05 5:59 PM
This may be an odd question - probably not, considering where I'm asking it - but does anyone know what this means:
"sed potius commune quoddam ex omnibus, et plus quam bellum"
It's in something I'm reading. Strangely enough, google doesn't seem to have a Latin translation option.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 11-19-05 6:17 PM
"but something compounded of all these strifes, and in itself more than war"
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 11-19-05 6:21 PM
"Said the President of the Invincible United States, goddamn hippies who used to live in communes ate plum jam and bell peppers. Yum."
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 11-19-05 6:22 PM
What Sumner was quoting.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 11-19-05 6:26 PM
Thanks, SB.
It's sort of sad that I don't even know enough Latin to be able to realize that Sumner provided the translation before the quotation. That Bartleby version is heavily abridged, I'm trying to read the whole thing.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 11-19-05 6:26 PM
No, no, no. I'd be played by Hope Davis.
Posted by profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 11-19-05 7:15 PM
PS: Should ogged and I go on another date?
Posted by profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 11-19-05 7:16 PM
Nah.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 11-19-05 7:18 PM
I hope Weiner hasn't damaged himself too much.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 11-19-05 7:39 PM
this is the country of brain damage...
(Davis, good, I was feeling a little guilty about Witherspoon.)
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 11-19-05 7:54 PM
PG, yes, you should, if only so that he can agonize about what to wear again.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 11-19-05 8:53 PM
17 should have been "goddamn hippies who used to ride buses...."
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 11-20-05 7:20 AM