He doesn't read the comments, does he?
Fact: I almost emailed the rosy-toed alameida this sentence after I read it because I thought it was so great that I had to share it with someone and hardly anyone was online and I didn't just want to plop it down in any old unfogged thread (though now I've disburdened myself at my "home blog" and will do so again here after I finish this intro and middle-click with my mousy mouse mouse): "Dawn, just as it came to Australian skies, a woman of bad character in a cloak of red possum skins.".
Wait, so is this not an open thread?
Ah, hahahahaha, I get it now.
Just doing my part to confound Drum's readers, yes I am.
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well, he surely didn't arrive at that impression by reading the posts.
DEAR WASHINGTON MONTHLY READERS MY BLOG IS TOTALLY FUNNIER DON'T BELIEVE THE MOUSEOVER TEXT ALSO WE POST ALL THE TIME YRS, SIFU
What did we decide about the adjective "girthy"? I can't remember.
Uh, do you really want them going to your blog, Sifu?
I lo-o-o-ove Washington Monthly readers! They are funny and cheerful and well spoken!
Kevin Drum is totally gay.
That could only improve his blog.
What ho, sir! I declare this to be the jest of the season!
The Season is over, you halfwit goon.
I did not specify which season, dear lad. Why, in the antipodes the first blooms of spring are just emerging!
Maybe Drum didn't mean "funny, ha-ha".
So who's going to take credit for the mouseover text here?
I've gotta say, the mouseover text for the link to Kevin Drum is HIGH-laripus.
I did not specify which season, dear lad. Why, in the antipodes the first blooms of spring are just emerging!
You can have your antipodean season, if you like, Ned, but there's only one Season.
Kevin Drum is totally gay.
Is that why they decided to draw his Election '06 caricature with some enourmous Grizzly Adams beard on it?
m, you've got to feel for his wife, eh?
m, you've got to feel for his wife, eh?
If he's gay, forget feeling for her.
Beard-hating: the only remaining allowable hate on unfogged.
Buncha haters.
If he's gay, forget feeling for her.
Oh contrare, TJ. You have to feel his member on her behalf, he being uninterested in her tender ministrations.
23: you and me, man. Beard power!
On the contrary, mssr w-lfs-n. Since he is uninterested in her tender ministrations, she could probably use a substitute member.
You call that a beard, Tweety? I've known beards, and yours, Sir, is a mere goatee.
She could use a substitute member, and he could use a substitute minister. Really, we're both right.
27: hey, it's the best I can do. Maybe when I'm 70 I'll be able to grow sideburns, but I know Stanley doesn't care. Right, Stan? Bro?
I support beards everywhere in all their iterations. Let's all pool money to get Kevin Drum a real beard.
Sometimes when people are nominated for awards the nomination comes long after the period during which they did their best work.
32: Oh come on, Me 'n' Otto gotta get blotto in the grotto, pronto was only a month ago.
I approve of your urge to email me stuff while everyone else is asleep, young w-lfs-n.
Washington Monthly:Calpundit::Unfogged:funny
There's a good reason analogies are banned, Army. Washington Monthly did not used to be Calpundit, though the person who blogs there did.
35: One of the reasons I didn't was that the following thought occurred to me: "I never said word one of sympathy regarding Daughter X, but now I'm emailing random shit?".
Political Animal:Calpundit::Unfogged:funny
Kevin Drum:centrist::ben w-lfs-n:SALB
Aw, now I feel bad for 36/39; I just feel like someone's supposed to say it.
I haven't got to spend much time around here lately, because I'm taking on new assignments that are a little less breezy or routine for me in addition to some large research projects.
We'll miss you when you're gone, Army.
This Army's rivalry is with Army A&M.
The Poor Man totally kicked Unfogged ass in that comments thread. All hail Sifu!
Not to be favored by that crowd is nothing to be sad about.
TPMI is a little light in the sodomy department, though.
I thought Unfoggers complain about too much mine these days, not enough shaft.
AWB continues her quest to turn every thread into an allegory about her vagina.
I guess my funniest ones would be--
1) Best of Craigslist
2) Overheard in NY
3) that old one with the Medium Lobster in it
But I don't read a lot of the other ones cited.
Hey Apo. Fafblog? Cancer? Really?
52: Not MY vagina, Ned. ALL vagina.
She got the gold mine. I got the shaft.
Really?? I thought you were kidding. Fuck. That really sucks.
How does w-lfs-n know? w-lfs-n, how do you know? Tell us you were wrong.
I no longer have any idea why I said that, including whether it was a joke or not.
I'm guessing it was a joke, coming as it did soon after I'd come back from a hiatus and had been deemed stomach cancer free.
Still kind of a fucked-up joke, though, right?
Jesus, people. Back to funny blogs, I nominate Harry Hutton. His top post at the moment isn't great, but he is more amusing than I am, or any of you, for that matter.
Bad News Hughes and Defective Yeti are funny.
Yeah, that one is really funny. Especially the archives. It's hard for a blog run by an individual to stay permanently funny. Individuals have only so much humor in them. (But the collective humor of the race is infinite).
My nominations were stupid.
71 to 68. Although I'm sure the blogs mentioned in other comments were funny too.
Links, Mr. Ogged?
re: Hutton, if you remain unconvinced, read this. If you still don't like it, have no fear: the philistines have been promised a two-state solution.
It seemed more legitimate when it was Gary Farber saying it. Stupid short term memory impairment.
Re: Hutton. I can also commend to you his empirically incontestable apercu "A Rolex, though ugly, will pay for itself in quim"
Hutton is good, but the best blogs out of that 'stable' are Bogol and Emerald Bile. I think I love Noreen from Emerald Bile, a little bit. She's one of the few outposts of proper swearing on the net.
I'm not saying that Sifu is a horrible person, but someone's been freeping the Drum comments.
Unfogged seems to have little support except for Drum himself. Not sure how to interpret that.
Nor am I saying that Sifu is not a horrible person. I'm completely neutral on the question.
Sympathy? Alamedia?
La belle dame sans merci.
Rude, ungrateful bitch. No merci from her, ever.
hey apostropher--
did you make up your mind about the cancer issue?
on this thread it seems to have come down to
'apo got it from bwo, bwo says he don't know, so maybe it's all a no-go'.
on drum's site, you posted the cancer claim, but then there's no follow-up.
is it still good law, or has it been over-ruled?
see thing is, i wouldn't make a big deal about it 'cept
god i miss fafblog.
on drum's site, you posted the cancer claim, but then there's no follow-up.
Umm, that was a joke? Yeah, that's the ticket.
It was a joke by ben w-lfs-n. You can see why people would think it was in fact a tragedy.
re:77:
I do like the idea that bloggers, like pimps, have stables.
yeah, that's fine--i have the general concept of joke.
but you might want to go back to drum and post a new comment retracting it, just so that rumors don't spread.
Yeah, maybe I oughta. There's this:
Fafnir hisself dropped by the comments to say that he'll be back. He didn't say when, though. Gen. JC Christian said that they had a project they were going to do together, so I think it's safe to assume that Fafnir (or Chris, or whoever) is still alive.
But that's a year and a half old now.
so i know farber hints at being in the know about their true identity.
and it looks like jc xtian claims to be among the illuminati.
does anyone here simply *know* the author(s) of fafblog, or know their identity, so that we could simply ask them about their health-status?
i can't tell whether they have managed to keep a really tight cover on their identities, or whether this is an open secret that (as usual) is known by all but me.
but the amount of speculation on this thread alone seems to suggest the first hypothesis.
I think you can relax about the health concern, bitzer.
I've forgotten, but I asked if anyone knew who the faf-triumverate were, and got some googling tips that led me to them -- the faf-anonymity is not all that solid. (I couldn't recreate this from what I remember now, but it wasn't that hard.)
In anycase, while this was last year sometime, apparently young and healthy -- any illness would be a fluky out-of-the-blue thing, and there's no reason to think any such thing has happened.
i feel better already.
You should probably get a cancer screening anyway.
ON DeLong and individual was named, and also maybe on Wiki, but IIRC it was all deleted at the individual's request.
DeLong and another individual were named? Wow! Is DeLong the Medium Lobster or Fafnir? This is a restaurant-quality rumor right here!
Actually Medium Lobster was dropped screaming into boiling water, and Fafnir was braised in wine. I've been holding this back until you were old enough to understand.
But Giblets was sent to live on a farm where he can run and play all day.
A farm run by a sinister furry.
96--
that's *the* medium lobster to you, sonny boy.
Still kind of a fucked-up joke, though, right?
Is there any other kind of joke?
Also yes: Harry Hutton is hilarious. But since he's a Brit, we should get a handicap.
It probably goes without saying, but I don't find Jesus' General funny at all.