another clear vindication of the second amendment.
I wouldn't worry Ogged; they were fighting over a woman.
Besides, you know that armless dude was totally practicing his headbutt every day.
m, they don't say if he had a steel plate in his head
What's up with the "m," stuff, max?
Sort of reminds me of that weird exchange on ObWi yesterday, about what is our boys to do with themselves in Iraq? Contrary to what was asserted there, were I armless I'd think a woman worth fighting for, for strictly practical reasons.
me? still? This noob stigma takes forever to wear off.
Maybe it stands for "meta". He doesn't trust us to understand what he's doing there on our own (and he was right, too).
This woman must be a real prize. Her suitors are an armless dude and a guy who can't defend himself from an armless dude.
9: I apologize to my followers for my involvement in this story. It is left to the reader to determine whether I was slumming or whether this is representative of my true high quality.
The armless guy is Armsmasher's krytonite.
11: Yeah, he has no arms for Armsmasher to mash, but Armsmasher still has a chest for The Head to butt. No contest.
Also, 10 made me laugh out loud silently to myself.
13--
i would have liked to hear that inaudible noise.
13: That's because you are a bad person.
So awesome. My brother is a cop in a town only 15 miles or so from Snellville. Hopefully he'll hear some details.
15: a low-quality person.
11-12: No, see, he had huge arms before.
9, 10: Damn, I nearly dropped the baby.
Dear Lord,
Please grant me the good fortune to have this fight show up on YouTube.
9: armless dudes can be pretty tough.
21: It doesn't sound like much of a fight. A headbutt to the chest, a guy falls down, the other one runs away.
He did get a running start for the headbutt. I can see Hollywood making a funny scene out if it, with the armless man bending over and running forward, then cut to a POV from the armless man as he barrels into the guys chest like a smart bomb making and "aarrrg" noise.
And the sister of the deceased described it as a "fist fight." She'll make a great witness at trial.
"Ma'am, you are aware that the defendant does not actually have any fists, right?"
22: As our friends from the islands might say: The armless are not 'armless.
Proverb learned in junior high school:
"I thought I was poor because I had no woman. Then I met a man who had no hands."
ARTHUR:
What?
BLACK KNIGHT:
Have at you!
[kick]
ARTHUR:
Eh. You are indeed brave, Sir Knight, but the fight is mine.
BLACK KNIGHT:
Oh, had enough, eh?
ARTHUR:
Look, you stupid bastard. You've got no arms left.
BLACK KNIGHT:
Yes, I have.
ARTHUR:
Look!
BLACK KNIGHT:
Just a flesh wound.
[kick]
ARTHUR:
Look, stop that.
I wonder if You Tube has the bar scene form Bad Day at Black Rock. Either Lee Marvin or Robert Ryan...no it was Borgnine got his ass kicked, Spencer had one arm but I don't think he used it, and in fact taunted his opponent with:"I'll take you with one arm behind my back." Tho I may have made that up. I think Spencer Tracy got instructions from Harry...the guy who won the Oscar for Best Days of Our Lives.
Or not.
Fucking great tough guy movie.
I'm shocked that neither Ogged, Becks, or LB has posted this story:
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2007/09/18/shrinking_breasts/
@28: Love Cold War movies where everybody's complicit. And the crime was murdering a Japanese guy during the war, too.
@29: I'm sure it's been referred to here several times.
From a different subdivision:
laundry squabble
Noob.
It never fails! It might even be a good convo starter, except... it isn't.
Maybe it stands for "meta". He doesn't trust us to understand what he's doing there on our own (and he was right, too).
Murder Most Fowl! Madcap Mastication! Many Mad Mutterings! Morph and Morph Again! They Shoot M's, Don't They? Multitude of Mendacious Midgets! My So-Called Economy!
What's up with the "m," stuff, max?
I was going for understatement suave mystery toning it down LESS LOUD, but obviously that didn't work. Back to the brackets.
Unless you're asking the other question ... and the short answer IS! I always sign my posts. So I can get away with handles like 'OPINIONATED MECHA-GOJIRA VERSUS GOLDBERG' and 'Death, Be Not Irritating and Annoying and Shit' and 'HMS Royal Oak' and people will still know who it is.
max
['Even if I go for the minor style shifts.']
I sometimes see twenty comments in a row, by as many people, not one of which would need to be signed.
It's because we're all sock puppets for ogged. It's part of a radical new therapy to cure self-cockblocking.
I don't know about "unimaginative" as a handle. Uni Mage?
Hugs,
LB
Hrmph. "Unimaginative" is a fine, fine name -- I don't mix it up with anything else. I have such few, minor requests, and yet I'm mocked for them.
So the "m" took the place of "max"? Huh. I was thinking it indicated a sound, kind of like a short "hmmm" or "um" or "ahem" or something. Which was confusing since I didn't know which sound max was going for.
36: You can't hug a child with nuclearno arms.
I'm wondering if the armless guy has prosthetics. I've mentioned before that my dad wears a prosthetic hook, somethig like this one. The one and only time he walloped someone with it (in the first grade; the kid was making fun of his hook; dad got grounded afterwards; don't hit people!), it proved itself to be a rather formidable weapon.
Did you see the recent New Yorker article about prosthetic arms, Stanley?
Grrr motherfuckers die. The District just lost its voting rights bill on a fucking filibuster, those cryptoracist fascists.
Doesn't look like it's online, but here's the abstract. It was pretty interesting.
43: Thanks, teo. I'll track down the hardcopy. My dad would be interested, too.
I've always thought they should design prosthetic arms with extra features that meat arms don't have. Pliers, screwdrivers, ratchets, I'm not sure. I don't have an engineering mind, but why stick with a mediocre imitation of a finger and thumb? Someone told me that in Germany they do a little of that.
I'm wondering why the armless guy is referred to throughout that article as "armless." Um. A faithful description, no doubt, but don't we say "double amputee" or something? Unless he was born that way. Just, uh, I dunno.
"Armless man." "Police question armless man." "the armless man attacked her brother."
Sounds a bit like a joke. Then again, the website ogged links to looks like a tabloid.
45: My dad's has a removable hook, and he puts on a "grippier" hook attachment when working on cars. And, of course, many of my friends have speculated on the existence of a "bedroom attachment."
A cook wouldn't need hot pads, and wouldn't have to worry about cutting his hand, and he could have a knife built right in.
This is not an entirely new idea.
My dad's has a removable hook, and he puts on a "grippier" hook attachment when working on cars. And, of course, many of my friends have speculated on the existence of a "bedroom attachment."
This is just wrong, young Stanley. Wrong.
looks like a tabloid
That's what local news sites look like.
This is just wrong, young Stanley. Wrong.
It was my friends, will. I can't be held accountable for their prurient speculations.
That's what local news sites look like.
Oh. Well, they need a damn web designer or something.
54:
Didnt you explain to them that since your parents were in their 40's (or older), they clearly werent doing any of that sex stuff?
Stanley:
Have you announced the Unfogged Amherst meet yet?
Oct 13 & 14th
45, 49, 53: In an effort to burnish my geek credentials, I will point out that Heinlein anticipated this possibility in "Moon is a Harsh Mistress."
Have you announced the Unfogged Amherst meet yet?
I have not, but will do so now. "Hey, will. See you there."
Omigod, Unfogged has ascended to amputee sex jokes? And at less than 100 comments?
Can't remember, tried looking it up, wasn't it in a Bunuel film that Fernando Rey tells Deneuve:"Don't worry darling, some men will prefer you that way."
I would have predicted the thread would go to women choking men with their thighs:Blade Runner, at least two Bonds...
Omigod
Please, bob, it's "OMG". This be the internet.
Since this thread got swamped by genital shaving, I'd like to congratulate you, Ogged. The text of the post itself is funnier than hell.
Thanks, apo. I'm especially gratified since you didn't like my last letter.
You can't hug a child with no arms.
Sure you can. He just can't hug back.
For that matter, you can hug a child with nuclear arms. You just want to avoid pissing him off.
I have not, but will do so now. "Hey, will. See you there."
Anyone else coming?
More detail on the original story. Heart attack, not head butt, to blame.
Police suspicion fell onto the artist with no arms, William "Rusty" Redfern, who had dialed 911 and driven to the police station to report the altercation.
Wow.
Not only can he beat people to death and paint pointillist art, he can drive? This guy's the armless MacGyver.
It still seems like it'd be complicated.
This guy's the armless MacGyver.
Imagine a remake of The Fugitive, with an armless MacGyver by turns chasing and being chased by the one-armed man.
Barry Morse: dead or Canadian?
It still seems like it'd be complicated.
Stumpist.
He's not just 'the armless man' any more, which is good. That was bugging me.
He is not, on the other hand, an amputee, so it would have been pretty foolish to call him that.
Leave the implied pun in 81 alone, people. You don't want that.
"Police said they don't think it's intentional, and I said neither do I," the elder Elliot said, "but it doesn't matter because he killed my brother."
Is the point of "Dead or Canadian?" that many stars and celebraties, living in Canada again after having been big for awhile, essentially disappear from the American scene? Or is it a version of the Algonquin Round Table about Coolidge's death?
I think the idea is that two possible reasons for a celebrity name to be vaguely familiar, but not in a way where you can actually remember anything about them, is that they're either from Canada or they've been dead for a decade.
