Sunday, July 3, 2011

Laura Bush's Diary


So we are up at Kennebunkport this July 4th because W’s folks are getting up there so we don’t know how long they will be around. Now we all love Poppy and we want to hang with him as much as possible but his bug eyed bitch of a wife is gonna outlive us all. I mean fueled with tequila and downers she is gonna be older than dirt for crying out loud.

But be that as it Willie Mays we were all sitting around the yard having a barbecue. Jeb’s wife Juanita was whipping up a batch of tamales and burritos and some shit like that there and we were knocking back the Lone Star and PBR’s munching on pork rinds and farting. We shot the shit about a lot of stuff. The gays are all getting married in New York. Wondering if Eddie Koch is gonna send us an invitation to his nuptials. That stupid Frog who stuck his dick in the face of that maid in New York. And all the political news. Then the talk turned to the courts and what not.

First we all laughed about those douches out in Wisconsin. It seems they were smacking each other around and what not and getting all the bloggers all excited about the bullshit going on. Then Poppy spoke up from his rockin’ chair. “Why that’s nothing kids. You know that there is a lot of violence going on the Supreme Court right now even as we speak.”

Now I couldn’t let that go without asking. You see Poppy has a lot of friends on both sides of the aisle and everybody tells him what’s going on. I mean after all he is America’s elder stateman. Who are they going to go to for advice? Jimmy Carter? You got to be kidding? Bill Clinton? Well if you want to know how to get a blow job from the maid he’s your go to guy. But most everyone else in the government both Republican and Democrat go to Poppy for advice.

“What do mean Poppy? Is Clarence getting frisky with the clerks and their coke cans or what?” I asked.

“No it’s not Clarence. It’s that Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg. She is always hauling off and hitting everyone with her string pocket book. It can be a real pain in the ass” laughed Poppy.

“Wait. Who? I thought her name is Ruth Bader Ginsberg” blurted out Jeb. You see poor Jeb is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. I mean when he stuck his dick in the maid he had to marry her.

“That’s her married name from her second marriage” said Poppy. “Her real name was Ruth Buzzi. She used to be on that show Laugh In back in the 1960’s”

“I didn’t know that Dad” W piped up as he was scarfing up a pork rind and cutting a loud one. “Didn’t you go out there with Tricky Dick when he went on the show in 1968?”

“Yes I did son. I was just a young whippersnapper then and I was part of Nixon’s advance team. My Dad sent me out to keep an eye on Nixon for the Tri-lateral commission. Him and Meyer had bought and paid for him and they didn't want to get fucked. That was my first real experience with Hollywood. They were all sucking up to Dick because he was just elected President. All of the girls were hitting on him. Judy Carne wanted hime to fix her visa. Joanne Worley. Even Goldie Hawn took a shot. But Dick was pretty straight so to speak. Until the cast party when everybody got piss ass drunk. I mean Nixon wasn’t a drinker. He ordered a Virgin Mary but Ruth Buzzi spiked it and after two of them he was smashed. She maneuvered him out of the room into her dressing room. Now the Secret Service wasn’t as strict as they are now. So they let the principal do whatever they wanted as long as they thought it was harmless. I mean what would Ruth Buzzi do? But my Dad Prescott told me to keep him out of trouble. I was distracted because I was talking to Agnes Moorhead who was a guest that week.”

“Yes that fucking whore” screeched old Barb from her wheelchair. “You always had the hots for that slut!”

“Now, now Barb calm down. That was 60 years ago for crying out loud. You need to stop it. Do I bust your chops about Sky Low Low anymore? There is a such a thing as a statue of limitations” Poppy yelled back.

“They can make a Statue of Limititations of your Dick you wimpy Cocksucker” replied my nasty old bag of a mother-in-law “It would be a tiny one you fuck.” But she got distracted when WWE Raw came on and turned away to the TV.

“Anyway” Poppy continued “When I noticed Dick was missing I went looking for him. And I saw under this curtain there was a pair of wing tipped shoes with a pair of pants dropped on them. So I pulled the curtain and there was Dick. And Ruth. And she was giving him the Rusty Trombone. Well pandemonium ensued.”

We all broke up and laughed our ass off. “So what happened next Poppy” I asked?

“Well we got him out of there and made sure that we wouldn’t let Ruth Buzzi have any further contact with him. She called and wrote and came to the White House and everything. She even blew Bebe Robozo to try to get close to Dick. So to speak. But we were able to block any contact with her. E Howard Hunt got some photos of her giving a Cleveland Steamer to Fred Silverman and we got her to back off. Eventually she got really frustrated. So she did what most frustrated failures do when they can’t get what they want. She went to law school and eventually became a law professor. And then they named her to the Court. And when the decisions don’t go her way she hauls off and hits them with her purse just like she used to do to Artie Johnson. She is a feeble old bitch so they don’t make a big thing out of it like they do in Wisconsin. But whenever one of the Justices has a shiner or a bruise you can bet it is because Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg hauled off and socked it to ‘em.”

So I guess Wisconsin is just following Supreme Court precedent. How about that?

94 comments:

Penny said...

"So I guess Wisconsin is just following precedent. How about that?"

Sorry, Pappy. My ears ain't what they used to be.

When you live as long as I have, those damn July 4th fireworks take their troll.

So?

Wisconsin's following the President?

Penny said...

So where the hell is the VICE?

Penny said...

We need more vice!

Shouting Thomas said...

What in the hell is a Cleveland Steamer?

Ruth Buzzy is all in for abortion and quotas?

Shouting Thomas said...

Well, I looked up that Cleveland Steamer thing, Troop.

I'm disappointed, Troop. I expected a higher moral level from a bra fitter.

Some things are sacred!

Penny said...

"Some things are sacred!"

Yes!

But buying, "Just the right bra"?

The Dude said...

Dear God, Troop, tell me you didn't just go there! "So she did what most frustrated failures do when they can’t get what they want. She went to law school and eventually became a law professor."

You went there.

Penny said...

Ha ha OK!

We got a number of ladies and at least two guys who now think that "The RIGHT bra makes the girl".

Penny said...

So do we have a "LEFT Bra'er" out there, looking for a lady with two breasts that have absolutely NO sense of direction unless you lay her down on her best side right before you flip her over?

Penny said...

It's no wonder gentlemen have *muscles*.

Penny said...

Call me old-fashioned. I admire *hard* work.

chickelit said...

Penny said...
So do we have a "LEFT Bra'er" out there, looking for a lady with two breasts that have absolutely NO sense of direction unless you lay her down on her best side right before you flip her over?

Overheard once: "Roll over sister, that hole's wasted."

__________

wv = eewww

Titus said...

Kennebunkport is so fab.

You all must go there, if you haven't already.

And the most beautiful house with the best lot, out of hundreds of beautiful homes, is George and Babs.

They take the boat to Ogunquit and hang out with the fags, their pics are in all the fag hangouts.

Fucking Rinos.

Babs has some big fucking tits too.

windbag said...

If the Bush family is this whacked, imagine what Rose Kennedy's diary must look like. Ruth Buzzi always creeped me out. Still does. It's a sad state of affairs when you have a television show, and Lilly Tomlin is the hottest chick on the set.

Trooper York said...

Rose Kennedy's diary?

Hhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

TTBurnett said...

Hey Titus, have you heard they've torn down the Grey Gull? That should've been on the Gay Register of Historic Places. They've built oceanfront condos—the "Grey Gull Estates"—instead.

I'm telling you, Ogunquit isn't what it used to be.

TTBurnett said...

Left a comment on one of the the DSK threads over on the EBL's blog.

Woke up in the middle of the night and was headed back to bed. But after reading the comments section on that thread, I think I need a shower first.

Cedarford alone merits an extra rinse, although mentioning "showers" and "Cedarford" in the same breath might be a recipe for nightmares.

windbag said...

@Troop

Rose Kennedy's diary?

Hhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmm!


Can't you just hear Rose? "I'll be damned if that Bouvier bitch is gonna wear those panties. Joe paid a helluva lotta dough to get Jack that job. Hand them over, Mamie."

ricpic said...

Speaking of homo Koch, did anyone see the picture of the homo couple who Giuliani promised to marry (when he was living with the two of them at the time his wife had kicked him out of Gracie Mansion) but is now reneging on that promise because he still has political ambitions? Anyway, to get to the point, did you take a gander at that couple? One is an old yid in even worse shape than Koch and the other looks like a classic philipino houseboy. My point? No point, it just struck me as totally grotesque that they are a long term couple.

ricpic said...

windbag -- the hottest chick on that set was the very young very nubile Goldie Hawn.

windbag said...

@ricpic

windbag -- the hottest chick on that set was the very young very nubile Goldie Hawn.

I've never thought that she was attractive. She looks like Don Knotts in a wig.

ricpic said...

Put a bag over her head. Or do it in the dark. There are always solutions.

Titus said...

I saw it Ricpic felt the same way.

They have been together since the 90's. How old was the nip then? 12?

And the yid was a big methusula-or whatever that word is you call the old hags.

ndspinelli said...

I don't know what took me so fucking long to come over to a real man's blog. I assume burping, farting, sharting, nut scratching and swearing is encouraged. You're a funny man, Trooper.

Titus said...

I want a fucking post about me Mary.

There has been no Titus or rare clumber or fag or pinched loaf in ages.

I tell ya, I am getting over heard by some fucking 72 year old yenta cunt that talks about erect "penis's".

This is bullshit.

Titus said...

From the sounds of it the 72 year old cunt has been around the block too and she can't shut her fucking lips.

chickelit said...

Cum, cum Titus. That's not the spirit at all.

You'll lose Penny.

Just sayin'

chickelit said...

The place we're staying on the Big Island is so fabulous that it overlooks the harbor were they're going to blow off fireworks in an hour.

We're already scheming and planning how to move here.

Trooper York said...

We will be neighbors if you move to Ohau chick.

Trooper York said...

We have been planning to move there ever since our honeymoon,

Trooper York said...

Welcome nd.

This is the place for the ball busting buddy.

Trooper York said...

Titus you know we love you man.

A Titus centric post will be coming up tomorrow. Stay tuned Mary.

Trooper York said...

I don't think you have to worry about Carol Herman. She is just a rookie. You are a veteran star dude.

Don't sweat it buddy.

Titus said...

Thanks Troop Love you to death.

You know I take all of this a little too personally.

Otherwise, I would be out hagging it around the bars and I will be 41 in a couple of weeks so I can't do that anymore. And if you are over 40 and at a bar and gay you are fucking invisible.

It's a tough world out there girls.

deborah said...

Yeah, nd, ball scratching will get you named for a ballplayer.

And Tim, really? You posted at Althouse? Give me a break. After all that whining and moaning and bitching?

Trooper York said...

Well Deb you know you are entitled to change your mind. Tim might not want to be a full fledged participant like he was but when a thread piques his interest he might want to throw in a comment or two. I think Simon took the same tack recently. I would think the ebl would be cool with that.

Trooper York said...

I think that when you comment a lot on a blog you think you have more of a "relationship" with the blogger than you really have. Look at Titus getting all bent out of shape with the few bits of notice Carol Herman got.

You have to realize that the Evil Blogger Lady is not your friend. You comments are not that big a deal to her. Narcissus is not just another gay greek guy with a flower stuck in his ass. She figures someone will come along to replace Sippican or Theo or Simon or Mort or Trooper. Which is fair enough as far as it goes.

On the other hand I truely value all of my commenters. That's why I love to post picture or threads teasing you guys. Now maybe that's because I have far fewer commenters than the evil blogger lady. But just know that I really appreciate everyone who posts here and will do all I can to curry favor and kiss you ass to keep you commenting here.

Cause that's just the kind of guy I am.

deborah said...

Oh, yeahhh, that's why I got named for a ballplayer, thanks for nuthin'.

I don't agree about EBL. I think she is charmed and appreciative of her followers. It's a hell of a compliment to be admired.

As far as Titus, give me a break. The Prince of Poop has gotten way too much Althouse love. I mean, even Palladian is jealous of him.

Trooper York said...

When I was naming all the commenters for ballplayers I had to associate them with a ballplayer whose characteristics were similar to the commenter.

Palladian-chunky gay guy-Mike Piazza.

Lem-Dominican with short attention span-Manny Rameriez.

Ricpic-hebe-Ron Bloomberg.

I am sorry that I didn't include you deborah but you ladies are hard to charactrize since you reveal a lot less of yourselves in your posts.

Well except for Dust Bunny Queen.
Great investor who hates illegal immigrants-Ty Cobb.

Just sayn'

Trooper York said...

Not everyone who comments at the evil blogger lady's sight has a healthy enough ego to not be worried about getting appreication. Even someone as experianced as hdhouse assumed a relationship with her that he did not have and he flounced off with fan fare (albiet with a few cameo appearances here and there). hd has a healthy ego and a lot of experiance in life....he should have known that his comments were not that big a deal to the ebl. She doesn't pay that much attention or care that much. It's obvious.

You should just make comments because you have something to say and not wait for a pat on the head and a cookie. Just sayn'

Trooper York said...

Titus is a needy dude. What's wrong with throwing him a bone now or then.

Wait that didn't come out right.

deborah said...

Just in a bad mood, Troop...I know you have to play it cool with me :) 'cause we started off on the wrong foot.

Missed the HD imbroglio, fer shure.

Sorry, Tim, but really!! Just in a bad mood.

Trooper York said...

that's Ok Deborah.

I hope you feel better.

This is the place you come to turn your frown upside down.

I just don't want any of my regulars to feel neglected. Just sayn'

deborah said...

Thanks, Troop.

TTBurnett said...

That's OK, Deb. I'm wondering myself why I ever bother looking at that again, much less commenting.

But it's just what Trooper said. I've also become much more analytical of social media lately. It's interesting to watch the wheels turn at several different successful blogs, the EBL's among them, mostly because I know it so well. If something strikes my fancy there, I'll still say something. I think, though, you could count my recent comments on the fingers of one hand.

Despite Trooper and I living on slightly different planets, I appreciate Trooper's friendliness and genuine good will (ball-buster as he may be), so I'm happy to hang around here as much as I am able.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it was either ricpic or Gerard Vanderleun who said, "There's something wrong with a person who hasn't been attacked on Althouse." That's basically it. Your own mileage may vary on the Mindless Insult Parkway, but my odometer finally turned over, and it was time to send the old Theomobile to the junkyard.

I'm shopping around for new wheels, but I'm taking my time, and meanwhile I'm grateful to hop a ride on Trooper's taxi every now and again.

Thanks again, Troop.

Trooper York said...

You know you are always welcome here Tim.

Figures as diverse as Ritmo, hdhouse, Garage Mahal, ricpic and Sity Grit are all welcome and valued contributors here at Trooper York.

I think the atmosphere of good natured ball busting leads to much less acrimony than at the evil blogger lady's joint. There is too much of an Death Race 2000 vibe over there.

Trooper York said...

Getting attacked over there is par for the course. Look at my new buddy ndspnelli. He gave me a couple of good shots and I gave him a few right back. HD and I have had some really nasty exchanges. But if you don't take yourself too seriously it won't leave a mark.

Right now Cedarford and I are going at it pretty good and it is getting nasty. I am just glad about one thing.

Thank God I am not a young Dutch girl hiding in an attic. Just sayn'

deborah said...

That's very gracious of you, Tim. I was way out of line.

And really, I know things there can get on your nerves (I find myself getting snarky at times) but trust me, she super appreciates her commenters.

chickelit said...

I hate acrimony at Trooper York's place.

Acrimony is kind of par for the course at EBL's, but I sincerely doubt it has anything to do with the hostess herself. I say that because she has always been responsive and attentive in offline emails (Meade too) despite appearing more aloof in the comments. I've always found that if you want Althouse's attention, all you have to do is to email her. Trying to get her attention via the comments is a fool's errand and always has been. In a sense, her comment section has always been for the commenters. I treasure the social intercourse I've had there with other commenters more than interactions I've had with the proprietress.

TTBurnett said...

Acrimony? What acrimony?

If Trooper would only admit that the Red Sox are like a city upon a hill and a light unto the nations, well, then everything would be hunky-dorey.

windbag said...

The Mets suck, but for us fans, it's our only solace that they aren't the Red Sox.

I quit the EBL's place for awhile. Didn't do a flameout, just removed her from my favorites file. The bullshit with the Wisconsin protesters drew me back. Meadehouse was johnny on the spot with their coverage.

The EBL starts conversations. She rarely participates. She's capricious and condescending. But, hey, it's her gig. She allows just about anything on her site because, like Trooper says, she doesn't give a shit. Call her names? Big deal...you had visit her site to hurl the insult, so that's another hit. Traffic count is king. That's her opiate.

Oh, and the Mets suck.

Titus said...

chick said social intercourse.

I love the RedSox.

tits.

windbag said...

@Titus

I took you more for a Black Sox fan.

MamaM said...

Traffic count is king. That's her opiate.

The MamaM respectfully disagrees. She sees free expression and creativity as king, with the blogger lady working her art on a huge, ever changing electronic canvas. One on which colors and patterns are presented, lines are drawn, and images are brought into focus before morphing to become part of a greater picture. One which is still evolving.

Another view would be to consider the blogger lady composing an electronic version of Life Magazine while Glenn does Time and Trooper runs Mad.

In these scenarios, patrons, subscribers and numbers of commentors matter greatly as a form of sustenance, encouragement, and applause which might even be addictive, but none trump freedom of expression as king.

TTBurnett said...

I always liked Mad Magazine the best. Can still quote lines from it. Ask me about Mort Drucker or George Woodbridge. (BTW, I finally met George Woodbridge IRL. He was a SERIOUS Revolutionary War reenactor and generally great guy. I made a couple of 18th century-style oboes for a Band of Musick his organization was putting together. Don't ask me whether they played or not.)

But "Life" would sit around on the coffee table, collecting soft drink stains until someone went, "Eww.." and threw it out.

MamaM said...

Life never sat around unread at the MamaM's house.

chickelit said...

Trooper runs Mad

I imagined TY was more like Playboy--Entertainment for Mensch.

Except when he occasionally goes all Larry Flynt, trying to foist Betty Rubble on us.

Trooper York said...

I think Trooper York is what a blog would look like if Benny Hill wrote it. Drunk.

TTBurnett said...

Well, it didn't take much to "read" Life. People today look at collections of Life pictures and ooh and ahh over the classics.

Fact was, most of the week-to-week Life Magazines were just large-format vehicles for cigarette and car ads. Maybe about 10% of the pictures were gems, with distinctly middle-brow editorial content.

But then we knew that and used the crap issues to keep soda can stains off the mahogany.

Mad Magazine had about 50 X the word count of a typical Life, hidden as the words might have been in all those odd, wonderful old Mad crannies.

TTBurnett said...

You're better than that, Trooper.

I'd say Benny Hill only drunk enough to be funny. A stone sober Benny Hill is too 'orrible to contemplate.

Actually, I'm looking for a blog that tries to be like "Cap'n Billy's Whiz-Bang."

chickelit said...

Speaking of Life Magazine, I've been deliberately avoiding comment threads based on links to NYT articles. Really, I don't see why that rag is given such continued deference over at EBL's. The NYT seems only fit for parody. One day its news value will catch up to its shareholder value and it will go the way of Life Magazine or at least shrink back to purely regional publication.

Trooper York said...

Well Benny Hill is one of my personal hero's along with Jackie Gleason, Toots Shore,the Duke and of course the Babe.

chickelit said...

Tim wrote: "Mad Magazine had about 50 X the word count of a typical Life, hidden as the words might have been in all those odd, wonderful old Mad crannies."

Spy vs. Spy was a wonderful exception to that rule.

chickelit said...

Mad magazine was the only place a 12 year-old boy could read the animated plots of M-rated movies like The Cowboys and M*A*S*H. It was fascinating to "know" what the adults were laughing at.

blake said...

Whoa! 64 comments!!!

blake said...

There's some rich irony here among the puppets.

blake said...

I only read a few Mads myself, but it was surprisingly wordy at times.

I had a collection of their poetry parodies which, when you think of it in terms of modern education, seems sort of bizarrely esoteric.

Parodies of Poe, Kipling, Eliot, etc., which of course only had zip if you knew the originals.

Trooper York said...

Hey buddy I give everybody the benefit of the doubt. Your character is your character. Every sock has it's foot so to speak.

Trooper York said...

For some reason a copy of Mad with Paul Neuman when he made the movie "Hombre" sticks out in my mind. I remember that like it was yesterday.

windbag said...

In seventh grade English, we read the poem "The Highwayman." Mad had spoofed it, so I brought it in and showed it to my teacher. She loved it and read it to the class. That was back when schools taught quality shit to their students.

MamaM said...

Rich irony is how middle brows entertain themselves when they're done looking at magazine pictures and leaving drink rings on the Formica.

TTBurnett said...

Mad Magazine did a very clever thing among us middle-brows: It improved us. Many of the parodies were literate, full of witty allusions, and well-drawn my Mort Drucker and the staff of other, first-rate illustrators. Then there was Bob & Ray. And the thing that did the most good—parodies of poetry and other literature that often sent kids scrambling after the originals. I'll never forget Antony's Funeral Oration:

Friends, Romans, Hipsters: Let me clue you in. I come here to put down Caesar, not to groove him. The square kicks some cats were on stick with them, while the hip bits, like, go down under. So let it lay with Caesar...

Instapundit has a post from January, 2009 about Mad Magazine going quarterly at that time, and he quotes from a reader's e-mail (with some more hep cat Shakespeare):

I can’t say I care one way or the other if Mad goes quarterly. I use it as one of the significant signs of the cultural collapse, and I’m serious about this.

I can still remember articles and parodies from back in the sixties. I don’t find it funny anymore but that may well be me. However, what is interesting is how they approach their target audience, which I assume is still pre-adolescents, adolescents, and post-adolescent adolescents like me.

I recall one parody of the Kennedy family, a mock musical that used tunes from “HMS Pinafore.” Notice the assumption that at least some of the audience would get it. They did a parody of Mark Antony’s funeral oration (“For Brutus wails that Ceasar had big eyes, And Brutus is a cool cat. So are all of the cats in that combo, cool cats…”) It was no spot on that my mother, who either had a refined sense of humor or no sense of humor at all, actually chuckled at it.

In other words, they assumed a level of cultural literacy substantially higher than they do today, except for pop culture. There is virtually no reference to any cultural milieu except that and certainly little, if any, to books. I would guess the reason why they don’t have parodies of famous poems now (the Don Martin version of “The Highwayman,” using Noyes’s poetry with biker gang illustrations, is priceless) because their target group wouldn’t get it and, more, would resent knowing that they don’t.

The language and subject matter is much coarser, it’s more overtly political. We do need a national humor magazine but it’s been years since this was it. Sad, and I don’t think my view is just a function of my age.


When I was a kid, we might not have gotten everything, either, but no one I knew resented it. Instead, it sent some of us 13-year-olds to dusty shelves in the town's 1903 Carnegie library, now long since torn down, along with the middle-brow culture that at least tolerated such things.

TTBurnett said...

There are a couple of things I want to change in the above post, which I've got to say isn't as bad as I feared, written as it was at 4:00 AM after having been awakened in a sweat because my wife didn't want to run the air conditioner. Not too hot, but damned humid.

Anyway, here they are:

First, change Mark Antony's funeral oration (kill also the old-fashioned caps in the title) from: "...the square kicks some cats were on...." to "...the square kicks some cats ARE on...." The original is "...the evil that men do...," so the present tense should be maintained. I'm quoting from memory, as I assume Instapundit's correspondent is, too. If I had an elegant classical literary education, I'd be quoting Suetonius in Latin on the same subject from memory, having read him at least by the time I was 13. That's a path few have taken for a century and a half. But at least we had Mad in 1961.

Secondly, change the last sentence from "...the middle-brow culture that at least tolerated such things" to "...the middle-brow culture that supported it." Trying to sleeplessly cram too much nuance in is never a good idea.

blake said...

Tim--

I think you're right, vis a vis middlebrows, or even lowbrows. The guys who populated Termite Terrace were not the upper crust of society, but they felt no hesitation in creating cartoons like "What's Opera, Doc?" and "The Rabbit of Seville" (both of those being the handiwork of Chuck Jones and Michael Maltese).

You weren't necessarily expected to be into this stuff, but you were sort of expected not to be an ignoramus.

TTBurnett said...

Blake: Exactly.

In addition to those hilarious Chuck Jones classics (which I still think are riots), don't forget the Marx Brothers (with writing by Irving Kaufman, et al.) did to "La traviata" in "A Night at the Opera" what "La traviata" needed to have done to it.—planting the seeds, if you will, for many a Mad Magazine to come.

Trooper York said...

One of my friends was banging this chick who was an "actress." We had to go to her off-off-off-Broadway show on the Lower East Side. It was a woefully bad adaptation of Thomas Mann. It sort of a combination of pulling your fingers out while you were watching paint dry. Later we all went to dinner and I made a casual remark about the play and Mann and this prententious twat said "Oh you are familar with this and were able to follow it?" With surpirse in her voice as though a monkey had learned to sing opera. Being the gentleman I am I said "Of course I read it in college I read a fucking book you know you pretentious twat." Naturally I am one of her favorite people.

Some of us have been fully exposed to the joys of classical music, opera, and the dance and much prefer farting, the Three Stooges and Lady Gaga. To each his own as they say.

deborah said...

Who are you calling a puppet, blake?

TTBurnett said...

I'll go with the Three Stooges, Troop, but for the rest, as you say, to each to his own.

And Thomas Mann bores the shit out of me. It's nice you got that far with that artiste. I would have been staring at the ceiling, trying to think of something amusing to keep myself conscious. Or I would have ordered 5 more drinks, and it wouldn't have mattered. You're much more the gentleman than I.

BTW, in that last comment, it should be "...planting the seeds, if you will, OF many a Mad Magazine...."

Gawd, I need a editor.

chickelit said...

Acrimony, acrimony payin' your bills,
Living, loving, she's just a woman!

Led Zeppelin II came out right about the time I first discovered Mad Magazine. Both via my older brother.

Trooper York said...

The deal is that pretentious type always think that you are a dummy just because you are not spouting off allusions to some dead russian sucky novelist. You know like John Leonard who reviews TV shows like Threes Company and tells us how they are inferior to the Illiad. No shit.

I never thought of you as like that Tim. Or hd and his love of classical music. That is natural and organic to your interests and flows without a hitch. It is the posuers who you want to hit in the face with a halibut.

chickelit said...

Gawd, I need a editor.

Me too, way more so than you. But I choose to leave my typos go unless it changes the meaning of what I was trying to say. Clutter not.

In the old days, publishers paid editors to look over draft work. I think even "Letters to the Editor" to newspaters were tweaked. With today's publishing model (or lack thereof) this just isn't possible.

If you've ever looked at patent application file history, you might see a string of claim amendments in the series of correspondence between the Patent Office and the applicant. In the final published patent all you see is the final draft. What happens between the beginning and the end is sometimes of great importance.

Trooper York said...

I am just a common man. So to speak.

MamaM said...

In a blog
Devoted to
Parody, Spoof,and other
Expressions & Representations
of
Exaggeration & Celebration

Puppets & Other
More or less
Pretentious
Elements of Rich Irony
Fit
Like old socks
In a size 14 shoe

deborah said...

Mama, does M stand for meta?

deborah said...

(Blake, if Mama doesn't answer me that means she's me...got it?)

chickelit said...

MamaM wrote: Like old socks
In a size 14 shoe...


Wait wait don't tell me!

I get it now. I kinda suspected too.

MamaM said...

As meta means different things to different users; so to with M's.

MamaM regards Deborah to be a character of integrity with a unique and distinctive voice.

Perspicuous without acrimony.

chickelit said...

MamaM said...
As meta means different things to different users; so to with M's.

To me, meta means not ortho and not para. Kind of like how trans distinguishes from cis, or entgegen differs from zusammen.

deborah said...

Quit showing off, chick.

TTBurnett said...

One last thing:

Is there a corollary to Godwins' Law (or maybe even a new law) that could pertain to the first use or invocation of the words "irony" or "ironic" in a thread?

MamaM said...

Wait wait don't tell me!

I get it now. I kinda suspected too


When it comes to meta, para, ortho, trans, or cis, peck with care, chickenlittle!

Just because Cocky Lockey, Drakey Lakey, Goosey Loosey and Foxy Loxy say the sky is falling doesn't necessarily make it so.

chickelit said...

Just because Cocky Lockey, Drakey Lakey, Goosey Loosey and Foxy Loxy say the sky is falling doesn't necessarily make it so

Your logic is impeckable.

chickelit said...

Where is Henny Penny?

deborah said...

Chickenlittle ate her with fava beans and a nice chianti.