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Scat jokes are the new cock jokes.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 11- 2-05 4:16 PM
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Please let this not be true.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 11- 2-05 4:17 PM
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Everything old is new again.


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 11- 2-05 4:19 PM
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I thought the anal phase preceded the genital phase. We're regressing, aren't we. Next stop, oral?


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 11- 2-05 4:22 PM
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I think you're misstating his rationale, Labs. He wasn't trying to punish customers; he was trying to punish the store, which he felt had mistreated him. Ergo, if the flavor crystals were undetectable, nobody would be saying, "I'm not going to that grocery store anymore - their donuts smell like shit."

No, they need to be repulsive in order to achieve his terrible, but poorly executed, vengeance.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 11- 2-05 4:23 PM
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It's the article's fault for using the language of artisanal confections.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 11- 2-05 4:30 PM
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We're all thinking "vine-ripened" when we should be thinking "dirty bomb".


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 11- 2-05 4:34 PM
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"Excuse me, I've got to go set off a dirty bomb."


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 11- 2-05 4:39 PM
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Ah, the good old days.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 11- 2-05 4:41 PM
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8 belongs here really.


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 11- 2-05 4:41 PM
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This thread is turning into a toilet humor clearinghouse. Here's Ben's magnificent contribution (IYKWIM).


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 11- 2-05 4:45 PM
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Through no fault of their own, Oral Roberts' two brothers never had his success in the evangelical world. In the less repressive postmodern world, however, Analia Hounie quickly achieved diva status, a fact which her sister Genitalia resented intensely.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 11- 2-05 5:07 PM
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This slate article attributes the phrase "If you can't do the time don't do the crime" to bob dylan.

I don't think so. If the phrase "keep your eye on the sparrow" has anything to do with bird poop, this post has a chance of being relevant.


Posted by: Joe O | Link to this comment | 11- 2-05 5:07 PM
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I'm teaching Kant's Groundwork tomorrow. Should I assign this post and thread?


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 11- 2-05 5:20 PM
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I suppose this is the time to point out that at its worst levels of pollution, (in the early 90s) Mexico City suffered from what someone described to me as "fecal rain". Quoting one source: "During the dry winter months, untreated fecal matter also becomes airborne. The resulting dangerous mix is responsible for a wide range of respiratory illnesses."

It's supposed to not be a problem any more. But if the world truly is your oyster, Mexico City could be this guy's bear claw.


Posted by: mike d | Link to this comment | 11- 2-05 5:23 PM
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No offense, but you're using a crappy translation. The phrase "which in its special constitution is called character" should read: "whose particular constitution is on that account called character."


Posted by: bza | Link to this comment | 11- 2-05 5:25 PM
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It's the venerable cheapo Ellington translation, in Hackett. Do you mean that if I had a better translation this stuff might actually make sense?


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 11- 2-05 5:30 PM
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Ellington is a blight upon the landscape of Kant pedagogy. Stay away from his Prolegomena translation as well.


Posted by: bza | Link to this comment | 11- 2-05 5:32 PM
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17: Knowing the German doesn't help, much.


Posted by: Cala | Link to this comment | 11- 2-05 5:53 PM
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But Money Jungle is a pretty awesome album.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 11- 2-05 6:10 PM
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I thought I'd bring people's attention to this.

It's pretty funny to listen to; Santorum shows himself to be both foolish and an ass. To quote the C&L emailer:

Rick was selling the Administration's line on the CIA leak/forged Niger documents and Imus sure as hell wasn't buying any of it. And when Rick realized this, he broke up the argument by suggesting that Imus's wife called him up and asked if he would participate in a threesome. It was really quite creepy. (about the 9:35 mark)


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 11- 2-05 6:24 PM
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Re 20:

That is a good album. No vocalist on that one, so no scat singing.


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 11- 2-05 7:05 PM
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Apostropher, your point in 5 is a good one, but I'm not entirely convinced. One aim of his might have been to make the donuts bad but not obviously contaminated, so subtle sprinkling might have worked better. I just can't get over the thought that his plan would have worked better if he'd just been more...reserved.

"Flavor crystals" is definitely the way to go, though.


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 11- 2-05 9:29 PM
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I'm thinking that to really achieve his aims, the donuts should have looked like they were heavily sprinkled with cinammon or dark brown sugar.


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 11- 2-05 9:33 PM
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I'm just glad these sorts of concerns don't apply to the glazed donuts.


Posted by: tom | Link to this comment | 11- 3-05 12:55 PM
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No, but glazed doughnuts have their own issues.


Posted by: Becks | Link to this comment | 11- 3-05 12:58 PM
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Finding Maureen Dowd tiresome, I hadn't read the linked essay before. Has anyone encountered this phrase "girl money" before? Would a cad who used ever get any?


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 11- 3-05 1:20 PM
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Room service? This is room 214. Can you send up a dozen glazed doughnuts? Thanks.


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 11- 3-05 1:25 PM
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I have never heard the phrase "girl money" before. I'm hoping her comments about sarcasm are just as accurate because, if not, I'm screwed.


Posted by: Becks | Link to this comment | 11- 3-05 1:30 PM
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I was going to say -- "girl money" is entirely new to me, and I wouldn't be half surprised if Dowd had made it up.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 11- 3-05 1:32 PM
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And if sarcasm were an insurmountable problem, I wouldn't be the mother of two.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 11- 3-05 1:34 PM
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I'm not finding any non-Dowd hits for the phrase, meaning what it does, but I did find:

Pecūnia, o puella, et philosophia et vīta tua est.

A corrrect translation of this would be:

Your life's philosophy, girl, is money.

Girl, money is both your philosophy and your life.

Girl, money, philosophy and life are yours.

Are they giving "Baby's Got Back" in Latin tests now?


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 11- 3-05 1:37 PM
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At least when Friedman invents memes by extrapolating conveniently pithy comments made by one individual to a society as a whole, he goes halfway around the globe so it's harder to prove his BS.


Posted by: Becks | Link to this comment | 11- 3-05 1:42 PM
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The answer is the second option.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 11- 3-05 1:55 PM
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Well she is right about one thing: I think viewing who gets picks up the check on the first date as a Symbol of The Patriarchy Which Must Be Responded To With Feminist Zeal as completely absurd.

I have never heard the phrase 'girl money' before.


Posted by: Cala | Link to this comment | 11- 3-05 1:57 PM
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I have never heard the phrase 'girl money' before, and get plenty of action despite sarcasm, which is apparently the kiss of death - who knew? Oh, if only I had read Dowd's article earlier, I would have known how to lure men in this age! "It would once more be considered captivating to lie on a chaise longue, pass a lacy handkerchief across the eyelids and complain of a case of springtime giddiness."

Gag.


Posted by: silvana | Link to this comment | 11- 3-05 2:04 PM
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"Who's that chick on the couch with the Kleenex on her face?"

"Silvana. She says she has springtime giddiness."

"It's November. Is she stoned or what?"


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 11- 4-05 3:42 AM
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Your life's philosophy, girl, is money.

Life ain't nothin' but money and bitches.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 11- 4-05 7:22 AM
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Life ain't nothin' but money and bitches.

And, of course, bacon.


Posted by: slolernr | Link to this comment | 11- 4-05 7:30 AM
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Bacon is life. Ergo: Bacon = Bitches + Money.

Good God. Have I just completed the GUT?


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 11- 4-05 8:06 AM
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When the bacon completes the GUT, it's on to the PASTRY CASE.


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 11- 4-05 8:11 AM
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Bacon = Bitches + Money.

At the IHOP.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 11- 4-05 10:43 AM
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