coincidence, the 'dutch' clip i linked in the other thread, there was the 'regal gait' move
the 'Chernobul baby plays ping-pong', 'arabian tetka','cow milking' moves are funny too
a nice tutorial it was imo
Surely a member of Billionaires for Bush?
You, sir, are why culture wars happen.
What are you on about? This guy had muttonchops!
Muttonchops, I tell you!
What's the problem? Is it some sort of veggie-only farmer's market? Are you such a lamb snob?
I can't believe you didn't stick around to make trouble. Chickenshit.
Actually, there was both lamb and goat, but no mutton.
"Chickenshit"
No, he wasn't wearing that.
Chickenshit on the free-range eggs, obv.
There was an Obama worker signing up ex-pat Americans at the farmer's market last time I was there. Or trying to: mostly he was explaining to confused Brits what he was doing.
Yesterday I saw someone selling T-shirts which said, "McCain_Palin: When Pigs Fly."
Indeed, I am only now beginning to finish clearing my throat.
One of the most ominous sentences in the English language.
Is it OK that I skipped all but the first few words in the first two paragraphs? Yes? Good, thanks. That makes me feel better.
The payoff is entirely in the end of the third paragraph.
I loved the second paragraph so much I emailed it to my sister. Her response was "that is a very strange blog that you are reading"
The payoff is the fourth paragraph.
Jackbooted thugs raid Christian compound in search of sacramental porn.
So, uh, remember the YouTube video of the young men demonstrating their sexual styles by humping the air over an ottoman? Can anyone point me to the unfogged thread wherein it was discussed, or otherwise pin down the date to within a couple of weeks? It was also discussed on LiveJournal among my circle of friends, and I wanted to cite someone's particular reaction to it to someone else, but it's a pain in the ass to search for random comments on LJ.
So, uh, remember the YouTube video of the young men demonstrating their sexual styles by humping the air over an ottoman?
Srsly? People are funny.
First mentioned and discussed here, and later as the actual topic of a post, here.
The disseminated intelligence triumphs again. Next: a cure for cancer.
The payoff is in the mail.
Ben that was a work of genius. (What can I say? He paid me.)
I'm willing to admit, grudgingly, that the second paragraph is to snicker for. Okay, I said it.
All of my future posts will be in the style of this one, until you people are used to it and think it's good.
Given that the vast majority of your past posts are similarly in this style, it would appear that the getting used to will take considerable time.
27: I welcome it, benjamin. I do think it's good.
My posts are in highly variegated styles, Di. Highly.
This, for example:
I briefly pondered sticking around to make trouble, but decided that it would be too out of character and unlikely to have any sort of productive effect.
is really funny.
Di and the other naysayers, what is the problem, you can't read paragraphs that are more than 7 lines long? Pfeh.
It's not the length, it's the girth.
Expansive, yes. Are you still complaining?
I'm so girthy I expand to fill the space allotted.
You create the space, ben. Don't be silly, now.
All of my future posts will be in the style of this one, until you people are used to it and think it's good.
At which point, what?
32: Mostly, I was taking the opportunity to tweak Mr. W-lfs-n. Because I'm kind of a pain in the ass by nature. But, yes, to parse this particular post would have required an expenditure of intellectual energy that I was unwilling or unable to make. Mostly unable, what with the allusions to things I've never so much as heard of.
38: The style is great! I love it!
The post was not that hard.
That's what the ladies always say to Ben.
Why did young Ben not advise us that he was relating the tale he heard of one Mr. W------ who was in the city of S-- F------- in the fall of the year 20--?
max
['There should also be some monkey glands involved.']
I would like to try a Monkey Gland someday. But max, the reason I did not so advise you is that I was not so relating. None but I myself was the protagonist of this observational adventure; I heard of it from noöne. (I do not need to observe myself to have knowledge of myself!)
41: Maybe not for you, elitist.
videlicet/scilicet
emthymemetic discourse
the Magnate from Gorey's The Fatal Lozenge
Fact: Monkeygland sauce is a popular condiment in South Africa.
videlicet/scilicet
emthymemetic discourse
You should train your eye to just glide past that stuff. That's what I did, and I'm much happier now.
47, cont'd. So the effect is "nor should we forget the locale, mumble, the Ferry Building Farmers' Market..." and "certain rhetorical advantages similar to those accruing to mumble discourse..."
See? Easy.
I googled emthymemetic and google asked "Did you mean: mathematical?" Merriam Webster says the word isn't in the dictionary, but we have some inter-atomic, eremitical, or antiemetic. Thanks Merriam Webster, but no.
I believe that ben meant "enthymemetic."
that was very prosaic explanation, just typo, though interesting read of course
i tried to split the word, meme i got i thought, em also, thy, also, but when put together i didn't get it