Removing the feeding tube from our aging hipster plaid pants

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Anne Elk
It's better than going around the house singing "Colored Spade". I was in second grade and thought it was a cool song with nonsense words in it.

Ouch. While I sang the Hair soundtrack cover to cover loudly and repetitively in the privacy of my home, I never took it outside the house. My mom should probably be thankful that I was a shy little kid.

[Flinty_McFlint]

Originally posted by Not Bob
Eh? Am I missing the backstory behind "2"?

Let me help with that.

Ten years ago, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team.

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
Something about whether the DC board had to be all on topic all the time. I believe burger might have invented 2. or was it SAM?

Aha. Since I've never been a DC board regular, that means that my not knowing that doesn't mean that my memory is shot.

Or maybe it is, but this isn't evidence of it. Unless I really am a kafka sock. Whoa (in a keanu-like way).

[Skeks in the city]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
Now people are taking horses to slaughterhouses? That is just fucking sick. Though I personally believe cows are not far from horses in terms of intelligence. But this is just fuckig sick. Fucking redneck lunatics. Oklahoma should be kicked out of the country.

Where do you think shell cordovan comes from? It's ass of horse.

[Skeks in the city]

Originally posted by dtb
Those seem nifty -- but my question is what sort of device is there to play the music or radio (well, I guess that would be a radio) into which you would insert the aforementioned nifty headphones? I was considering buying an ipod, but didn't because of the conversation I saw on here about how the ipod wasn't designed to withstand the attendant jostling that occurs when used while running.

An MP3, like the rio.

[Sparklehorse]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
Something about whether the DC board had to be all on topic all the time. I believe burger might have invented 2. or was it SAM?

I know the old skool lore is fun and all, but using a short-hand reference to denote seconding an idea (a la boring meetings with Robert's Rules) is hardly fucking patent-worthy.

Cocktail time.

[Skeks in the city]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Did you have lunch with Sidd or something?

Don't pick on Sidd. Now that he's a partner, his views on politics and economics have much improved. It probably has something to do with having enough change in his pocket to care about taxes and whether much government spending is more productive than burning money.

[Anne Elk]

Is it time we went international?

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
As you well know, horniness is indeed distracting.

I have experienced horniness, but never to the point of distraction.

[Atticus Grinch]

• On an ideological level, Friedman's new book is the worst, most boring kind of middlebrow horseshit. If its literary peculiarities could somehow be removed from the equation, The World Is Flat would appear as no more than an unusually long pamphlet replete with the kind of plug-filled, free-trader leg-humping that passes for thought in this country. It is a tale of a man who walks 10 feet in front of his house armed with a late-model Blackberry and comes back home five minutes later to gush to his wife that hospitals now use the internet to outsource the reading of CAT scans. Man flies on planes, observes the wonders of capitalism, says we're not in Kansas anymore. (He actually says we're not in Kansas anymore.) That's the whole plot right there. If the underlying message is all that interests you, read no further, because that's all there is.

Best.

Book review.

Ever.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
"In December, Congress repealed the 34-year-old ban on slaughtering wild horses that run free across the West. The move has brought a backlash from activists who want to reinstate full protection for the mustangs. "

Now people are taking horses to slaughterhouses? That is just fucking sick. Though I personally believe cows are not far from horses in terms of intelligence. But this is just fuckig sick. Fucking redneck lunatics. Oklahoma should be kicked out of the country.

Um, "lunatics"? I'm going to regret getting into this, but animals don't have inherent moral value, except in relationship to individual human companions or ecosystems. Cows have fewer friends than horses; this, and only this, is why we do not eat horses. We do, however, feed them to our dogs, whom we lunatics value more highly. The ethical duty you owe to an individual horse is neither to avoid killing it nor to prolong its individual life; it's not to waste its life unnecessarily.

Horses have greater-than-average moral status because individual humans find them to be beautiful and useful. Your aversion to killing horses is simply another way of saying you personally don't particularly want to eat them, which is fine as far as it goes. I'm disgusted by people who eat dogs, but I don't kid myself --- I know that's motivated by the same taboo that would cause many devout Hindus to be disgusted by my choice of lunch. Which, frankly, is slightly different from why a devout American vegetarian would be disgusted by my choice of lunch.

Whatever. Anyway, this is probably the only thing on which the lunatics of Oklahoma have my unwavering support. Did you enjoy the soy bouillabaise at Plouf?

I look forward to "horse-eater" joining "bed-shitter" and "Asian fetishist" in the Atticus entry in your bullet points of things you remember about each board contributor. Regards!

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
I have experienced horniness, but never to the point of distraction.

I've been meaning to ask you about that- does the felatio at work cut into billings? I mean I think I'd start each morning thinking about that instead of my files. But you fight through that and can concentrate?

[Mr. Whitefolks]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
A "two-percenter" is a joke or reference that makes it in to the show, despite the fact that only 2% of the audience will get it.

Last night on South Park, the "Hookers At The Point" reference was the best two-percenter I've ever seen. It turned an otherwise average episode into a classic.

Proudly among the two percent since October 2003.

[Hank Chinaski]

http://www.infirmation.com/bboard/cl...?msg_id=002AHi

Enjoy!

i think C. Dogg Snoop was Atticus- that was the best PB sock from infirm

[Say_hello_for_me]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski

i think C. Dogg Snoop was Atticus- that was the best PB sock from infirm

Callum. Greyshaw. Plagiarized video game humor taken seriously by many readers. Best ever, hands down.