A Forum for Grinches and Ho-Ho-Hoes

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Gattigap
Yes. I've commented before about this site collapsing under the weight of its self-referential ways. It's an affectation we need to control better.

The best way to get it is simply to ask. Or, just read it for a while. After a short time, you're immersed in the storyline, and you'll notice that the themes become repetitive, somewhat like a soap opera.

Eventually, you'll recognize Hank as James Stenbeck in ATWT, and that some other participants will work their way through friendships and romances that they cybernetically (or literally) consummate. Unfortunately, eventually such characters run through the entire remaining cast, and watching their thrashing about at the realization that there really is noone else to fuck, and then turn on and torch their cyberloves with the searing pain of a thousand vagina denatas,* is somewhat sad.

But I digress. Hang around, it'll all become clear soon enough.

Gattigap










*Shit! Did it again. Apologies.

dtb does not seem to be around, but if anyone else can answer -- isn't "dentata" plural?

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by Spanky
Yes - but I don't have an opinion. In a he said she said its hard to know the truth

That's easy. It's what ever Ty's blogger of the day says it is.

[the ghost of Vince Foster]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
This board was founded about two years ago. We're an offshoot of the greedy boards over at infirmation.com, which were started in 1999 or 2000. There are some people who've been around since the yahoo days of the late 90s. I've been posting with these people since 2000. I can quit anytime I want to. I promise.

etfg

the politics board was invented in 11/2000. By penske. I was the 6th poster, 2nd if you count my DC Chef persona.

Also, the original Yahoo boards were preceded by greedy lawyer use groups on UUNET in the early 90s. I did not join until late 95 on the Prodigy.net newsgroups, obviously after my untimely murde.......suicide.

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
dtb does not seem to be around, but if anyone else can answer -- isn't "dentata" plural?

Probably. I can't even spell it right, apparently.

Personally, I've not hung around them long enough to find out.

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by Spanky
There is so much insider stuff going on I can't understand half of what is being said. How long have you guys been doing this?

Funny you say that. I didn't realize how big of a loser I really was until I viewed it from an outsider's perspective.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Gattigap
Probably. I can't even spell it right, apparently.

Personally, I've not hung around them long enough to find out.

It's not really a spelling error. More sort of a general linguistic naivete. It's sort of sweet.

Happy post-Valentine's Day,
fringey

P.S. Hank, where are my fat jokes?

ETA P.P.S. Our new monkey-spanking friend appears to have its/it's issues. That's way worse than dentatas. OOOOOHHHHHH maybe you are right, vagina dentata is singular, and I was thinking dentatae. Which looks stupid and like it should be the name of some slimy kind of creature, so I like the "s" plural better.

*sniff* I miss dtb.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
It's not really a spelling error. More sort of a general linguistic naivete. It's sort of sweet.

Happy post-Valentine's Day,
fringey

P.S. Hank, where are my fat jokes?

ETA P.P.S. Our new monkey-spanking friend appears to have its/it's issues. That's way worse than dentatas. OOOOOHHHHHH maybe you are right, vagina dentata is singular, and I was thinking dentatae. Which looks stupid and like it should be the name of some slimy kind of creature, so I like the "s" plural better.

*sniff* I miss dtb.

dentata means "toothed" or "having teeth." Vagina should have been pluralized, a al "attorneys general," to either "vaginas" or vaginae, depending on how pompous gatti was attempting to be.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Gattigap
Probably. I can't even spell it right, apparently.

Personally, I've not hung around them long enough to find out.

Me either, but Shape Shifter says it's whithering experience.

[Secret_Agent_Man]

Originally posted by megaloman
[Blah, Blah, Blah from Fluffy with a twist.]

Now, THIS is a nice sock, Hank.

S_A_M

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Gattigap
Hang around, it'll all become clear soon enough.

Why are we assuming spanky is not a sock?

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by Spanky
There is so much insider stuff going on I can't understand half of what is being said. How long have you guys been doing this?

Some (like your law school roommate, though he's smart enough to usually avoid Greedy Politics) have been doing this since 1999 or so.

And even those of us who have been around a while are ignorant of a lot of the inside baseball type stuff that goes on here.

Stick around. Before you know it, you'll be picking up on two-thirds of the stuff like the rest of us.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Why are we assuming spanky is not a sock?

First you don't read Clarke's book and expect us to summarize it for you. Now you don't even bother catching up on a (slow) day's worth of posts and want an explanation. I call bullshit. Maybe you can get away with it when you're POTUS; otherwise, people just think you're a lazy bastard.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
I call bullshit. Maybe you can get away with it when you're POTUS; otherwise, people just think you're a lazy bastard.

people already think that. But I'm glad we take RT's word.

BTW, I've found that providing a parenthetical after a citation often helps advance the argument. Just saying.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by taxwonk
So, many social conservatives, including Alan Keyes, are known for positing that homosexuality is learned behavior, or at least that people "choose" to engage in what they deem a "perversion." Those people and many of their fellow travelers believe that legislating morals, at least to the extent of things like DOMA, sodomy laws, is essential to prevent the spread of homosexuality.

So.... How do upright, moral, Christian conservative folk like Dick Cheney and Alan Keyes explain their daughters? Cheney is acknowledged as having become more tolerant of gays than he was in the past since Mary came out. However, if the conservative crowd is right, then how could he have possibly raised hisself a queer to begin with?

Discuss.

At the risk of failing to STP, I'll say that I don't think it's fair to lump Cheney and Keyes. I don't think Cheney is particularly religious. He's a Wyoming libertarian, of the "live and let live" crowd. He may be willing to accommodate the social conservatives in the party, but that's not his thing.

Keyes is a whole 'nother thing.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
people already think that. But I'm glad we take RT's word.

BTW, I've found that providing a parenthetical after a citation often helps advance the argument. Just saying.

See, e.g., Burger (being a lazy bastard).