Two of them are, anyway, and they aren't exclusive to us.
When they comment here, though, they're at their best.
It was ajay's idea and my bits are notably the shittest, so I think the estimate of "two" is a bit high.
While you're mostly right about where the good bits are, this line:
Kickin' and a-gouging in the mud and the blood and the latte.
cracked me up hard.
It was a mistake to read this while my officemate was at his desk.
Savate rhymes with latte? I did not know this.
Sadly wikipedia suggests that savate does not rhyme with latte. Savate is a french word with no accents in french.
If you swallow the last syllable of latte, it's not wildly far off.
10: The last syllable of latte is 33% spit.
I love the two closing lines, just perfect.
Savate is a french word with no accents in french
Latte is an Italian word with no accents in Italian though.
(I was guessing that Johnny Cash, being American, would pronounce them both as if they were French words ending in e-acute. If it bothers you, substitute "karate".
I dug up an italian pronunciation of "latte" online before posting 9, and unaccented italian final e's seem to be pronounced like spanish and not like french.
13.last makes sense.
Wow, that was an impressive piece of work.
Actually, I hadn't known how to properly pronounce "savate."
Somehow pronouncing it to rhyme with "karate" seemed unsuave, but I was totally guessing on that.
More importantly, to fit the stereotype, surely the mother/father wouldn't drink milk.
19: In fairness, I think "soymilk latte" would spoil the scansion.
Wow. Excellent work. Now do "Riders on the Storm."
Allow me to be the first to say bravo, most excellent, impressive, awesome, and wow.
19: to nitpick, there's no evidence that the son/daughter drinks milk; ve drains ver coffee to the dregs before the fight even starts, so the spilled latte that they're rolling around in must belong either to the father or to some other person.
"Kickin' and a-gouging in the mud and the blood and the latte" cracked me up too. And thanks for all the kind remarks - I need that kind of reinforcement...
I've been pronouncing "savate" incorrectly in my head all these years! I feel like I've really failed to live up to the example set by Batrocthe Leaper (ze Leepair!).
It's just that I don't think "Storm" is such a horrible name, that's all, except for the association with the X-Men character. I can think of many worse names.
"SAVATE" RHYMES WITH CAVITY
HUH
28: It's also associated with American Gladiators.
Storm Field is the name of a long-time NYC weather man, son of NYC weatherman Frank Field.
28 -- I'm naming my next three kids Veyron, Mclaren, and Testarossa.
I watched many weather reports before realizing Show Low was a town, and not a menu option on the weather map.
Not really sure I need Article II pseudo-anonymity here, but being careful.
28: I can think of many worse names.
Like Wry Cooter.
I would guess factory schooling won out over unschooling because books were expensive, and a large proportion of parents didn't know things like "how to read" that were quite important to be able to teach.
Plus being in a rural small town before the internet or even libraries is quite restricting as for what you can actually learn.
We had our parents frightened for awhile that we were serious about naming our hypothetical firstborn "Hateface Mazltov."
"Hateface" would be pronounced ['hät-ə-fäCH-ə].
35: "Likes Wry Cooter" would be great to see on Facebook.
re: 8/9, 27
It's pronounced 'sah-vat', yeah. Doesn't rhyme with latte, still, in the service of a joke ...
1) This is bloody brilliant.
2) There's a singer/songwriter named Storm Large, whose breakout hit was "(My Vagina Is) Eight Miles Wide". It's basically a satirical grrl-power anthem, written after the Lilith Fair turned her down for being "not womanly enough." Well worth a listen: http://bit.ly/5Vvgl
42.2: We all missed that one despite it once being the subject of a front page post.
43: Huh. There's the Geertz parakeet reference I alluded to in a recent thread (about which I'd made a marginal note on a scrap of paper). Good to know the context now, though I suppose I could have searched TFA.
I'm not sure which thread this isn't relevant for. I'm also thinking it is safe for work but I wouldn't want to explain why it is to anybody in the main office.
I'm not going to bother pausing to say this, but I'm very sad I wasn't able to get a good picture of the window decal on the SUV in front of me on my way home. It was a dog head with giant feathery wings and around it in a circle was the text In Memory of ALL PIT BULLS Killed by Ignorance and Hate. And the car had a breast cancer awareness license plate. So weird.
I'm always a bit taken aback at the memorial window stickers that I see every now and then.
thorn lives near my dad??!!! well, the breast-cancer thing seems mildly off.
also, this song is the greatest! although the commodire's "young girls are my weakness" just came up on shuffle. damn.
The "in memory of all pit bulls" people have a Facebook page.
I'd like to imagine I'm swearing at my misspelling the commodores' name earlier. but this song still rules, and I actually thought savate rhymed with karate, so there you go.
46, 48: I dunno, I can see that. A lot of people get involved in animal rights/animal rescue/animal liberation stuff because they see a fundamental connection between the way animals and humans like themselves are treated in our civilization, especially around medical issues. It doesn't seem like too great a leap to me to say "I love my pitbull who got killed unjustly, I love my aunt who died from breast cancer, both are sentient beings who deserve my respect" or some variation on that.
Or its just two different aspects of that person's life that they feel strongly about, but don't necessarily connect politically.
53: Yeah, I didn't think it was supposed to be one big statement and was more surprised to see the whole back window covered with the logo from DS's link.
I get unreasonably annoyed by the window decals that are RIP/In Memory of Grandma 1927-2009. I mean, I'm sure it was a sad loss, but this is not the same as the tragic dead youths who started this trend.
I have no recall of ever having heard or read the word "savate" before and had no idea there was a French martial art. Now I worry that there a whole raft of nationalistic martial arts about which everyone is knowledgeable except me. And indeed there are many!
Yowla (Arabic: اليولة) is a type of dance and martial art native to United Arab Emirates. It involves spinning and throwing a rifle.
Kbachkun Dambong-Veng: Translated literally it means "the art/martial skill of the long staff."
but this is not the same as the tragic dead youths who started this trend.
I'll be the first to say it, killing a child for putting up a window decal is *wrong*!
I have no recall of ever having heard or read the word "savate" before
Remedial TFA work for Stormcrow.
58: sounds more marital art than martial art.
There is an Indonesian martial art that basically translates as "the art of hiding a knife until you're ready to stab someone with it", which has always appealed to me for a certain lack of preening machismo combined with common sense.
58. Ha! My birthplace has its very own martial art and I never knew.
57: Wow, that's been like ... mentioned a fair bit here. Now that I see them, a vague recall is coming back. But I clearly only skim the martial arts and Ultimate Fight Club (or whatever the hell it is) comments.
61: Nice try, chris. We all know about your extra-curricular stick-licking prowess.
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AWB, bave dee, and teraz: we are in Brooklyn, planning on doing a whole lot of touristy stuff. Not sure anyone else ever replied... We might be down for the beergarden meetup idea one of these afternoons (friday sat sun). If interested, email me in hot mail at tjrj.
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60: LLAP-GOCH.
It is an ANCIENT Welsh ART based on a BRILLIANTLY simple I-D-E-A, which is a SECRET. The best form of DEFENCE is ATTACK (Clausewitz) and the most VITAL element of ATTACK is SURPRISE (Oscar HAMMERstein). Therefore, the BEST way to protect yourself AGAINST any ASSAILANT is to ATTACK him before he attacks YOU...
Fake ad in The Brand New Monty Python Bok, so I ban myself.
64: Fantastic! I'm going to commencement at the moment, but if someone else is willing to plan, I can probably make it!
Yowla (Arabic: اليولة) is a type of dance and martial art native to United Arab Emirates. It involves spinning and throwing a rifle.
If you actually have a rifle, there are probably better self-defence options available to you than throwing it. Note to aspiring muyalwis.
69: Lesson One - carry ammo.
Congratulations, you have passed.
If you are in the Iraqi Army, and the US Army is motoring along the road toward you, forget what ajay says, fall back on your Yowla training and theatrically hurl your rifle as far from your body as you can.
Not sure if this is specifically Yowla, but 1899 video of an "Arabian girl twirler".
Arabian *gun* twirler, Dr. Freud.
73: Interesting. I wonder if that yowla gun-twirling is the ancestor of American rifle-spinning drills.
74: Let's not dismiss the girl-twirling idea so hastily. Perhaps swing dancing could be modified in order to use your partner as a weapon. That could be pretty kickass.
Perhaps swing dancing could be modified in order to use your partner as a weapon.
Everything he does but backwards. With heels. In your face.
It could be called "swing fu" or "Jazz Maga." Instead of belts and degrees, it could have different colours and sizes of corsage. And its universal symbol could be a high heel embedded in an eyeball.
I think it's got legs.
re: 78
Jazz Maga is great. The secret fighting style of Louis Jordan and his Timpani Five.
re: 62
Yeah, I teach it, so that is probably why.
80.2: I knew you taught a martial art, which one it was just never registered.
I used to Lindy in mosh pits. I suppose it could have been more violent.
re: 81
The bar for teaching it in the UK isn't very high (compared to France), and I'm only the most junior of three levels of instructor. So it's not really a hallmark of any particularly fantastic level of skill, tbh.
I only read the comments here so have no idea at all what this is about. I'll assume it's about me.
Thx for all the praise.
