Ogged's mom really knows how to get maximum effect from the analogy ban.
All right-thinking people should love Ogged's mom. Ogged is not her fault; things like that happen.
I dated a Cambodian girl whose heavily accented mom would use the "oh, she must have misunderstood me" gambit to great effect: when buying (say) tires, the salesperson would quote one figure, and she would agreeably name a completely different, lower figure. After a few go-rounds the salesperson would usually give up on communicating with the apparently uncomprehending foreigner and sell her the tires for whatever she was willing to pay.
All right-thinking people should love Ogged's mom.
O, hai ogged!
I'm in ur momz house, luvvin ur mom.
Brock says, in his heavily accented English.
Ogged's mom and Becks's mom should start a group blog.
Ogged already asked his mom to stop blogging here. No more Bob.
8: It could consist of all the emails forwarded to them by their children. payitforwardbackward.blogspot.com, or something like that.
I wonder what Gilbert Arenas would have to say about ogged's mom.
Gilbert Arenas has never seen Ogged's Mom. People talk about Ogged's Mom all the time, but really they're just thinking of their own mom. He calls it, "Invasion of Your Own Mom."
13: so, wait, there is no Ogged's mom?
Something's funny, here.
Haha. You thought that Gilbert was just talking about your mom. But he was actually, secretly talking about a particular Iranian Mom. But he has to say it's your mom, so he doesn't get in trouble with his sponsors.
Oh, I just know he ain't talking about my mom.
Ogged is not her fault; things like that happen.
My junior-high math teacher, to me: "Your mom is so sweet, there must be a nugget of goodness in you somewhere."
19: The analogy is clear, I thought.
J.P. (who comments here sometimes, and guest-blogs at B's) has a mother who blogs.
Ogged's mama's so sweet, she makes everybody think There Must Be a Nugget of Goodness Inside You. (There Must Be a Nugget of Goodness Inside You is an unpublished, romantic thrill-ride by ogged's junior-high math teacher, Fleatrice.)
Doesn't w-lfs-n's mom lurk here? Or is that a layer of the w-lfs-n's Mom joke?
That's a joke. L.'s mom used to comment occasionally, but I haven't seen her around in quite a while.
That's a joke.
Wait, what? Obviously you're in a position to know, but I thought there were some non-joke posts after Matt linked her poetry. Maybe that was on his own blog...
All right-thinking people should love Ogged's mom.
Seriously. At a minimum, you should wonder why ogged is so committed to her unhappiness.
20 - Ogged's mom is a shark that breaks into people's houses? That's some scary shit. No wonder the Scientologists wouldn't mess with her.
Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It's a shark riding on an elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see.
From the short story "The Greatest Game", I am led to believe that the most dangerous animal in the world is a shark on a Cape buffalo's back, armed with lasers.
Ogged used to claim that DominEditrix is my mom. But she actually isn't.
33: Take heart, w-lfs-n. I believe Jack Nicholson endured a similar revelation, and yet he's had a pretty good life.
31: No, no, no. You mean a bear holding a shark.
Your mother sounds adorable, Ogged. You should get her something nice, like a rug.
33: How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child...
34: On the contrary, I heard that Jack Nicholson is still quite bitter over the fact that DominEditrix isn't his mother.
Ogged's mom and Becks' mom and my mom should start a blog.
If there is an Unfogged meetup that involves Ogged's mom, I am there.
By the way, the Unfogged Logan Airport meetup was spectacular. We ate at Legal Seafood until 11:15 pm. We snuck our own bottle of Fine Malbec into the restaurant. Tons of fun was had by all.
That story reminded me of a great sketch from Chris Morris's Jam, about an agency that hires out dim people to argue on behalf of clients "because they're too thick to realise they've lost". Video here.
By the way, the Unfogged Logan Airport meetup was spectacular. We ate at Legal Seafood
You guys met at Logan? You're kidding.
You are kidding. Really? And I haven't been to Legal Seafood in a million years.
Hey. Is the so-called No-Name Restaurant still around? It's on some pier somewhere.
Parsimon, they tried and tried to call you.
re: 43
That sketch isn't/wasn't really funny for me. Sometimes I feel I know way too many people who are exactly like that. There's nothing more enraging than getting into an argument (political or philosophical) with someone and totally kicking their ass and them just refusing to give up. Not through sheer stubbornness, as such, but through a total lack of awareness that they've lost.
I am putting myself up for adoption ...
I fear my mom might be going off the deep end. She just emailed to ask if she could stay with me in NYC so she can go to this.
Wow, it's like an all-star lineup of the world's most irritatingly self-righteous atheists.
I wonder why Dawkins isn't there.
Don't stereotype, Teo. They're annoying people, not annoying "atheists".
They're annoying people who happen to be atheists.
The warm cuddly atheists should enhance their media presence. Natalie Portman and Scarlet Johansson can be the spokesbabes, preferably wearing skimpy, non-annoying, warm, cuddly outfits.
The presence of Hitchens and Dershowitz at the same event is compelling evidence of the existence of hell.
Parsimon:
The meetup mostly consisted of my family and me. I am certain that there were some other Unfoggers there who were scared to say the secret identifying code.
There's nothing more enraging than getting into an argument (political or philosophical) with someone and totally kicking their ass and them just refusing to give up.
Yes!
This is only slightly more annoying than having an argument in which the other person keeps trying to claim that ground that is being debated has been conceded.
"I can't believe you tried to defend X"
"I didn't try to defend X, I said Y."
"But Y implies X."
"I didn't concede that, I believe I can argue Y without defending X."
....
"I can't believe you're defending X."
rinse, lather, repeat.