This is kind of cool. While listening to Live Ireland radio, I heard familiar words set to an unfamiliar beat. Sean Tyrrell sings Louis MacNeice’s poem, “Bagpipe Music,” under the title, “No-Go,” on his album, Cry of a Dreamer. I suspect some readers here would enjoy “Bagpipe Music,” if you haven’t read it already.
It’s no [...]
Archive for the ‘Humor’ Category
Words and tropes that piss me off, #1
Posted in Arts, Culture, Humor, Language, Moro on November 9, 2009 | 9 Comments »
SPOILER WARNING-
OPTIMUS PRIME DIES. AND THEN HE IS MAGICALLY RESURRECTED.
I didn’t have any new insights into the healthcare debate, so I thought I’d bitch about the word ‘cheesy’ instead.
“Cheesy.”
I don’t object to all uses of this term, certainly not the ones that are actually listed on dictionary.com:
“–adjective, chees⋅i⋅er, chees⋅i⋅est.
1. of or like cheese: a cheesy [...]
Hadda Spike A Strallion
Posted in Humor, Lifestyle, Nature, Scott Lahti, World, tagged Australia, kangaroos, Outback on November 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Word to Betty: you ever get tired of Bonnie Prince Bahney – heh-heh-hee as Fred would say – and you still like blondes, Inquire Within – as Fred said in his ultra-suave, mustachioed Latin-lover guise, Ah-yabba..a-dabba..a-dew; here’s to you, Mrs. Rubblestone…
This video clip sponsored by the makers of Kangarooster Cockburn, the soothing sunburn cream for [...]
Deputy Dogs
Posted in Arts, Humor, Language, Law, Lifestyle, Scott Lahti, tagged Deputy Dawg on November 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Baker had allowed deputies and their search dogs into her home… - Fla. baby missing for 5 days found alive under bed
Solving the Peanut Allergy Problem on Halloween
Posted in Community, Culture, Humor, Steve S., tagged Clever spouse, Peanut allergy on October 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Early in the evening while passing out candy, one of the children announced he had peanut allergies. I gave him some Dots and Starburst and off he went. I passed this on to my wife and she, being the brilliant woman she has always been, immediately solved the peanut allergy problem. She [...]
Ayn Furor
Posted in Arts, Humor, Mind, Scott Lahti, Self, tagged Ayn Rand, Objectivism on October 29, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Rand at a session of the House Un-American Activities Committee, 1947.
(Photo: Leonard McCombe/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Engaging New York magazine piece on new Ayn Rand bio [tip: The American Conservative]:
Few fellow creatures have had a more intensely odd personal flavor; her temperament could have neutered an ox at 40 paces.
…(I should admit here my own bias: [...]
Trick o’er Treat
Posted in Arts, Family, Humor, Lifestyle, Scott Lahti, tagged candy, Chris Rock, Everybody Hates Chris, Halloween, Halloween candy, knock-offs, off-brands, trick or treat on October 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Inexplicable Deer
Posted in Arts, Humor, Moro, Nature on October 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
PS, are any of you having trouble with images getting clipped on the sides? I thought blogs were supposed to automatically resize and center the image, but maybe that’s just wishful thinking…
I’ll take Restoration Riffraff for £1666, Aleks
Posted in Arts, Humor, Language, Law, Media, Mind, Science, Scott Lahti, Self, Sex, Technology, tagged dildos, Isaac Newton, Mrs. Dash Penis Substitute, Wikipedia, William Chaloner on October 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Because there is only one thing worse than having your post on the role of the dildo in Newtonian post-physics turned into a footnote in an article at Wikipedia, and that is having Apple-Bodied Seemin’, or, Gravity’s Dildo sink like a lead phallus.
[tip: Aleksandreia Blog Stats - Referrers]
“(Don’t) try my product”
Posted in Arts, Commerce, Education, Humor, Lifestyle, Media, Scott Lahti, Technology, tagged John Scherer, Martin Short, Nathan Thurm, Video Professor on October 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
John Scherer and Billy Mays are the reasons our TV has so many dents in it. – commenter yazd, FreeRepublic.com
Never buy anything advertised on television. – DSL., Notes to Self, 1962-
After noticing one too many times John “Video Professor” Scherer laugh sheepishly on his ads after saying his name, we found this after searching on him; [...]
Cyrano de Blogerac
Posted in Arts, Culture, Education, Humor, Language, Media, Mind, Scott Lahti, tagged French literature, Madame de Sévigné on October 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné (5 February 1626 – 17 April 1696) was a French aristocrat, remembered for her letter-writing. Most of her letters, celebrated for their wit and vividness, were addressed to her daughter. Her letters provide much insight into the social mores and customs of 17th-century French life.
From the article on French [...]
Lord, I Was Boner Rampling Man, or, Visconti Python and the Holy Tail
Posted in Arts, Humor, Lifestyle, Scott Lahti, Woman, tagged Charlotte Rampling, Jonathan Nossiter, wine on October 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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*i.e., “Get a room”
Charlotte Rampling
[4:15] John Cleese as Inspector Leopard of Scotland Yard, Special Fraud Film Director Squad ["Leopard of the Yard!" - Gallery.], reviewing the works of director Luchino Visconti in the “Fraud film squad” sketch:
Quote of the Day
Posted in Humor, Patrick, Politics, tagged humor, Megan McCain, Politics on October 15, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I believe Meghan McCain’s father spent much of the last few years attacking other Republicans and even introducing damaging legislation, in large part, because he wanted to punish the GOP for rejecting him in favor of George W. Bush in 2000. For all of his courage in Vietnam and his skill at politics, John McCain [...]
Thoughts on Television
Posted in Arts, Culture, Humor, Media, Mind, Moro on October 13, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Some art forms are completely lost on me. Ballet. How the hell do people watch ballet…
I don’t see a lot of TV either, not entirely out of choice, because I don’t have a hookup, only a DVD player. For the most part, I don’t miss it because my heart belongs almost exclusively to movies. Usually [...]
Defunding the Undie-Fun Doable, or, The Invisible Handjob
Posted in Arts, Commerce, Ethics, Humor, Law, Lifestyle, Man, Media, Mind, Scott Lahti, Sex, Woman, tagged blackmail, David Letterman, Defending the Undefendable, Walter Block on October 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Tom Bachtell
David Letterman
You’ve Got Blackmail: Libertarians who came of age in the 1970s will recall with a wry avuncular twinkle a book from 1976 by the economist Walter Block entitled Defending the Undefendable: The Pimp, Prostitute, Scab, Slumlord, Libeler, Moneylender, and Other Scapegoats in the Rogue’s Gallery of American Society. Its divers chapters defend from [...]
Michael Nesmith’s Twitter, Leon Trotsky’s tongue, Mr. Brain’s Faggots and Adolf Hitler’s Granny
Posted in Arts, Humor, Lifestyle, Media, Scott Lahti, Sex, Sport, Technology, Woman, World, tagged stuff on October 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
All that, plus ‘toons.
Links: Uses for Tools, Disabled Feminists, Job, COIN, and more
Posted in Commerce, Humor, War, World on October 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My young nephew has a blog. It doesn’t have any posts in it yet, but I’m sure it will soon. Go, nephew!
It May *Sound* Humorous, But Sadly It is True. PipeTobacco’s “series of very useful, and truthful definitions for a variety of common tools found in the garage of a male who [...]
Quaker Mate Swapping
Posted in Family, Gods, Humor, Lynn Gazis-Sax, Self, Sex on October 11, 2009 | 5 Comments »
This title is for my old grade school friend Sue, not because she’s either Quaker or inclined to engage in mate swapping, but just for the amusement value of having her see the words in the same sentence. And it also does connect with the post eventually. But I’ll start it out simply [...]
Where Anglosphere Tout Read
Posted in Arts, Humor, Language, Lifestyle, Media, Mind, Nation, Politics, Scott Lahti, World on October 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Peter Brookes, The Times (UK)
A few mid-Atlantic links Hoovered up while you lot snored last night, on the arts of the confectioner, telly comedians tall/Short/American/English/Canadian, book reviewers, and What It Means To Be Conservative and/arrrr a pirate economist – or just a car buyer hoping to save big next time round thanks to game theory:
RedState Update on Obama’s Nobel Peace Price
Posted in Humor, Patrick, Politics, tagged conservative, Democrats, Funny, humor, liberals, Moonbats, Obama, Politically Incorrect, Politics on October 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Originally posted at Political Byline
Nothing Makes Me Risah Like a Guest Spot für Eliza in the Late Night, or, The Fallon Gong Show
Posted in Arts, Humor, Language, Media, Scott Lahti, Sport, tagged Bruce Springsteen, Eliza Dushku, Jimmy Fallon, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, C. Everett Koop, Capitol Steps on October 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
When Eliza Dushku was on Jimmy Fallon(’s show) Wednesday night, her walk-on theme courtesy of the band was the early Springsteen-penned number made famous by Manfred Mann’s Earth Band, “Blinded by the Light“, whose famously-mondegreened line
Revved up like a Deuce [alt: Wrapped up like a douche], another runner in the night
saw the band singing in [...]
Bono Boo, Bono Bing
Posted in Arts, Humor, Language, Lifestyle, Politics, Scott Lahti, World, tagged Bono, U2 on October 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Forwarded conversation
Subject: Bono the Pious
From: Tim d.
Date: Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 11:10 AM
Good column about a certain tax-dodging, runty Irishman.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1219364/QUENTIN-LETTS-Why-politicians–including-sadly-Tories-week–fawn-Bono-smug-hypocritical-whining-tax-dodging-Irish-mountebank.html
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From: Mark M.
Date: Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 12:43 PM
“Then fookin’ stop clapping!”
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From: DSL.
Date: Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 2:34 PM
Here’s Snopes on the Bono legend thus, with bonus Hillary/gun anecdote.
That joke-stem must be [...]
The feel-good blog post of the minute – two clicks WAY up!
Posted in Arts, Humor, Media, Scott Lahti on October 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Why wife never imitates art.
Coldplay is not my friend.
Posted in Arts, Commerce, Culture, Humor, Lifestyle, Media, Mind, Moro, Self on October 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ve gotten a bit of contract work in the past couple weeks at a studio that makes web cartoons. The work itself is both uninteresting and difficult to describe, but it’s easy and the pay is nice. Also, I get to listen to loud music all day on pandora.com. Pandora is fun but mystifying. If [...]
