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Senator Byrd Should Take His Name Out of Obama’s Hat, Or, How Your Intolerance For a Good Roorbacking Causes Me To Endorse Senator McCain

If anyone on this pathetic excuse for a political website knows anything about hats, it is yours truly.  I have been wearing hats since the days when haberdashers strode across the earth like giants.  But you know only so much of Truman as you gleaned from The Truman Show, so I will not speak to you any further of haberdashers.  Bah.  Notwithstanding your profound ignorance of milliners, Obamakiddies, I am writing to tell you this:  Senator Robert Byrd (D.-W.Va.) should take his name out of Obama’s goddamned hat, forthwith.

I can hear your keening intolerance of all advice or disagreement, Obamaturds, rising in a chorus of fascistic defensiveness to announce to me that this impossible, for His Worship, the Messiah from Illinois, does not wear hats.  Come to think of it, Obamanuts, I cannot decide whether it more amuses me to compare your gang of jackbooted centrists to Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propagandist, or simply to call Obama the New Mussolini.  Don’t ask me what I mean by that.  By even questioning me, you’re fascistically oppressing me, you goosestepping goons of the center-left.   The comparison to Il Duce flatters you unduly, however, because Mussolini was a polymath.  Of course, you don’t know what a polymath is, and probably mistake Mussolini for low-fat venison, you feckless twerps.  Returning to my central point, which concerns milliners, hats, and Barack Hussein Obama, you hateful know-it-alls, you are wrong.  Obama wears headgear – and did so recently, when he posed for the cover of the New Yorker before a burning flag with his very well-armed wife!  Ha!  I will pause whilst you urinate upon yourself in rage over my witty reference to that self-evidently parodic New Yorker cover, and send instant messages to each other about whose pantaloons are more tightly bunched and more foully soiled at the mere mention of its desecration of your Dear Leader.

So there’s my point – you Obamaturds can’t take a good roorbacking!  (I will pause while you search your precious Wikipedia to learn what a roorback is, you Ritalin-addled, snot-nosed youth.)  What kind of pathetic political party moans when its leader is portrayed as a defender of our enemies with an overbearing terroristic wife?  It’s funny, you dumbshits.  Besides, as any reader of the Aurora could have told you, his opponents called Adams a royalist who coddled the Brits, and his wife an overbearing harridan!  It’s called freedom of the press, you FISA-loving crappers upon the First and Fourth Amendments!  But you wouldn’t understand that, since the only amendments you make are to your Facebook profiles, in search of Obama-loving mates with whom you can raise more money to be sacrificed to the golden calf of fundraising you worship daily.  Philistine assholes.

While your sleight of fundraising convinces you that this campaign will go well for you, it is not so, you Stalinists of the center.  Here is why:  it would have been so easy for Obama to unify Van Buren’s party and rise above the roorbacks – by nominating a great leader, a man of the greatest generation, to bring the nonagenarian voters together with those of more recent vintage.  Indeed, to counteract the refusal of frankly racist white voters in the swing states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia to vote for Senator Obama, there could be no better salve for our party, no more stirring tonic, than to nominate as Vice-President a former Klansman from West Virginia itself – former Senate Majority Leader Byrd!  This would unite the Democratic Party as nothing could, but of course your Dear Leader will have nothing of it.  Thus rejected, Senator Byrd should reach with alacrity into whatever headgear Senator Obama favors, and hastily withdraw his name from said headgear, be it hat or cartoon turban, lest he receive an insultingly brief consideration for the Vice-Presidency.

While I had of course supported Dame Clinton in the primaries, as she was the oldest Democrat remaining, since then I have written pamphlet after pamphlet in support of Senator Byrd, even logging onto your puerile Obama website (no, not TalkingPointsMemo.com, though they are indistinguishable) imploring your precious demagogue to select him as a running mate.  Yet I suppose despite Obama’s generation, despite its overweening sense of self-importance and its wallowing in masturbatory self-regard, has earned the right to spurn a generation of nonagenarians like myself and Senate Majority Leader Byrd by the Nietzschean Will to Power through which it ripped control of Franklin Roosevelt’s party from elders who had clutched it to their withered bosoms for decades.  Lacking an appropriately wizened and hunched companion on the Democratic ticket to Senator Obama, I thus announce my support for the the septuagenarian of Sedona.  Though he lacks the unseemly vigor of Senator Obama, I am certain he can take a good roorback, and that, given his birth in the Canal Zone, he will pull the right names from his Panama hat when the time comes.  Nonagenarians, unite.


Comments (100)

Your cries of "Fowl!" will not go unheeded. There is without doubt a pecking order that must be observed. I rather find the old Byrd endearing after his speech denouncing the Iraqi invasion.

Fascinating post. But it leaves me with some questions.

Where can I buy some mussolini, and what sort of wine would go well with it?

Can someone please link to a picture of Barack Obama in a fedora, wearing an loose white suit?

What sort of hat would John Adams wear?

http://store.hbo.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2998218

This is about as close as I can come:
http://bp1.blogger.com/_ukXaQsWTJrI/SAECPb4phQI/AAAAAAAABIw/kofax3MucV0/s320/barack_obama_hat.jpg

(Without using editing tools, of course.)

What about pictures of Obama using Fedora?
http://fedoraproject.org/

As to the question of what type of hat I might choose to wear upon my head; I would suspect that the Inter-Net might reveal to you the answer to your question. It being dank in evenings near Peacefield, I was forever urged to walk about beneath some hat or other by Abigail or Nabby; and yet, lost in thought, I would most frequently forget this or that hat urged upon me, walking out hatless, resulting in mild reproach as soon as I returned from an evening stroll. In short, I have not placed the importance upon hats that Mr. Crankypants appears to. In his obsession with hats, Crankypants appears to me altogether out of his senses.

Crankypants appears to me altogether out of his senses.

Wha?! When did you appear and who are you? You would not know a thing of "senses," Mister. You wore a permanent chastity belt on yours and so did your wife. Only your son JQA may have had an idea of "senses," and Abigail made sure he killed that quick Go back and get another beer!

Your knowledge of early American history is concededly impressive, Evatrix. Yet had Abigail not flogged the "senses" out of young Quincy, he would not have grown to inhabit the Presidency, would be? Sometimes Calvinism is the best solution, and I don't mean your designer jeans, young lady.

Early American was not my love, Mr. Crankypants, and don't know much about it. Instead it was intellectual history which bit me deep and hard, and is still an addiction. As for the Adams's, read about them in a biography.

Damn... this one's gettin' HOT! Don't let me interrupt. At least not right now. I may be back though.

Uncle Edmund, your Attends are full.

What a cutie! ;)

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Only if the Addlepated Arizonan simultaneously selects a high-profile, younger Congresscritter to run as Vice-President. Perhaps even with an eye to racially balance the ticket... may I suggest a man of letters, Senator Audacious himself. This would create a campaign for the ages, Obama-McCain vs. McCain-Obama. Energy and Experience set against Senility and Superficiality. America would not have to choose the lesser of two evils, and get both weevils at a single stroke!

I don't get all the crap about hats, though.

Many decades ago I was stabbed with a shrimpfork by John B. Stetson of the Stetson Hat Company while working as a waiter at Old Bookbinders in Philadelphia. I learned all I need to know about habadashers striding across the earth like giants the day I lost a kidney thank you very much.

Abigail Adams was an overbearing harridan! Half Of Boston was afraid her foul mouth. Martha Washington was no delicate flower either. Why do you think George insisted all their correspondence be burned upon his death?. My God man, if it wasn't for the constant nagging of those harpies we'd be Canada today!

You speak of low fat venison and golden calfs. If only such delicacies were available to plebeians such as myself. Alas tonight I settled for pockchops marinated in soy sauce, concentrated orange juice and ginger. Unfortunately today's swine gulags produce pig meat impervious to even the strongest of flavor immersions. Soaked in gasoline they'd still probably taste like one of Mr. Stetson's hats.

Note to Canadian Self: Find way to undermine the "harpies." At least the ones in New England, and Oregon maybe. Oregon - SERIOUS babe-country.

I concur quinn esq Oregon is serious babe country. Senator Byrd himself might consider it in his search for a new romantic liaison now that his beloved wife has shuffled off the mortal coil. If he takes Sir Edmund's advice and removes himself from Veep consideration he'll have plenty of time on his hands. His life's work, protecting the senate and the constitution from the imprecations of the executive branch are lost causes on a par with the confederacy and there's no more room in West Virginia for another federal program's offices.

As for Canadians undermining our harpies I can only say good luck with that. Canadians are known as the politest people on the planet. You even have signs warning slower drivers to get out of the way on your highways. How you expect to get within spitting distance of, let alone undermine a single one of our harpies is beyond me. Mussolini would have a better chance of winning the Pillsbury bakeoff.

Good luck with your harpies? Ahhh son. Who needs luck when we have our stout of our forearms, ablaze in the sun, the clean-smelling wood flying & settling into neat heaps; or bright red toques, ablur as we ski down the precipi, the cries of children threatened by avalanche our only thought; and the gleam of our naso-gastric tubes, ever-ready to pump the excess bile...

Ok. But at least we've got the politeness thing. If that's ok with you. Though if you'd like some, we'd be happy to share. Oh? Your people need more? Why... HAVE IT ALL, AMERICAN FRIEND! (God, they're pushy bastards, aren't they Helene?)

Sorry quinn, I appreciate the offer but if we can't just take it from you it's not as rewarding. 28 years of trickle down, supply side economics have turned us all into barbarians unable to share let alone be polite.

The only saving grace is if we ever do decide to invade Canada again to acquire, oh your oil sands or politeness let's say, our military has been so gutted we'll probably only have marching bands left to do it with. Beware of Americans bearing tubas playing "Oh, Canada".

Pointe le One. Is no one in that country bright enough to track the proportions of "sand" in the "oil" we've been sending you? Correlates well with "Decline of American military might."

Pointe le Deux. We burned the then "White House" once already. Not sure you've ever really recovered from that. And this time we're after bigger game. Corn subsidies.

Look, French Face:

Point 3: you give up bludgeoning baby seals and well give you Hollywood Starlets, specifically Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears, maybe Madonna and Angelina Jolie. If you think this is a bum deal, think of what we're giving up in rehab and child adoption fees.

Point 4: What the fine print of the latest ANWR resolution states is that we can drill billion mile pipelines under the ground to suck out any Canadian reserves that lie between Barrow and continental US, though we'll likely bypass Quebec so as not to interfere in your internal international affairs. We may ask for a bit of help scraping the sand out of the tar flats, but we'll probably figure out a way to do it automatically.

Point 5: We might throw you Pepe le Peu as well, just to keep things friendly, we'll try to stop referring to hockey as an "American" sport and we'll build a super super highway straight on to Canada for all those Mexican truck drivers just like conservatives say we are.

No,no,no!!! Not Lindsey Lohan. I liked her in Mean Girls. I frequently use it for a map and a character finder here at TPM.

Yeah, but you have those special moments on DVD. In the meantime, think of the baby seals!!!

Preface: I'd love to have a French Face. Any face. Seal, dog, Nick Nolte. Anything.

Point 3. Even up - Angelina Jolie for the seals. By the way, they eat a lot of fish. (I dare ya. Go ahead. Make that comment.)

Point 4: Oilsands. Maybe gimme a call once you've first figured out how to scrape the sand out of that diaper you call Congress.

Point 5: You take Pepe, we get Black Jacques Shellac.

And no returns on David Frum. Or Celine. Or Zbiggy. Or Krauthammer. Right about now, you should be asking yourself how well you've done with your recent trades.

Celine's in either England or Vegas, neither makes no nevermind to me. We'll try to raise money for a face for you and legs for Cypher, expect the same kind of abuse Hillary got retiring her debt - times are tough, money's tight.

I'll give you the sandbox if you give us Candy Cane from the Killer Bambies - may be a bad deal money-wise, but got to default to taste here and there. But Mike Miers has to go.

I second the motion on Mike Miers. We got a deal on John Candy but he died young. And do us a favor Quinn, the next time you're set to deport another Krauthammer send him to Mexico instead. We're all stocked up on nutbags.

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Have you thought of writing for the New Yorker?

Dude, I wouldn't bring that up. He was one of the founders of the magazine, but they kicked him out after the fistfight with Dorothy Parker.

I heard Mz Parker tackled him right there in the lobby of the Algonquin, sat on his chest, ripped off his cummerbund and tore his shirt asunder so she could put a cigarette out on his left nipple before he admitted that she indeed was right. No one alive recalls what about anymore Sir Crankypants. Maybe you could fill us in.

Correction: Right nipple. She was a Lefty.

Sir Edmund.

Clever that, pulling a Byrd out of a Hat. I'm sure I saw Bullwinkle pull a rhino out once. You know, the one with the great big horn? His was bigger. The rhino. Donno about the hat. Than your Byrd. I may be confused. Or were you in fact recommending that BYRD should pull himself? That's an intriguing thought there - whole new direction - but not to be discussed while the Obamanauts have yet to go to bed. Speaking of pulling birds, I'll bet a handsome fellow like you - in his youth - had no problems ton that front. And likely no need for a hat. But roorbacking seems to have fallen into a state of low regard lately. Except in Holland of course.

Consider this a request for clarification.

My fine curmudgeon, Obamanut though I may be, I would never spurn you with anything Nietzschean because my inner Dionysian might enfire your Depends. Mad scene, delectable old coot. You would moan and groan about your burned parts and my budget could not accomodate the increased expenditure of so many boxes of Refresh Eye Gel.

Also, I know what it is to Roorback. It is a rare and secret technique described in the Kama Sutra and it's what Cindy McCain mastered in order to swipe Johnny away from his first wife.

Your one-eye avatar burns a hole in my bowler, as the very eye of Sauron. You may roorback this ancient husk.

I believe that's "bareback" if I'm spotting the right metaphor at work, as well as "dried-up ancient hollow husk", not to give away the punch line afore it's been a' bared.

That may well have been the Right metaphor, but the Left one would surely have involved the burning in his bowler - and of course, the prevention thereof, need for early education concerning, issues around separation of church/state, and the worrisome fashion sense of that teacher over there. Yeah. That one.

Desidero, ROFL!! You always make me laugh. ;)

I'm delighted you liked my eye. ;)

No roorback[ing] for you. I heard your medical team say, not!

What happens in the oxygen tent stays in the oxygen tent - The Lost Weekend

Never saw that one. I saw Strictly Ballroom yesterday. Fun.

Sir Edmund, not since Xerxes crossed the Hellespont has a young upstart been so overcome with self-approbation. But comparing these wet diapered followers to the comic book antics of Mussolini is to carry the short view and an insult to the fine organizational abilities of one Servius Tullius, who created the social military structure that could sustain legions for centuries. It's one thing to gather a small cohort for chanting puerile slogans, it's another to raise the legions and auxiliae required to take on the Visigoths and Vandals.

Fuck that, Oh God Of Hellfire.

It's Tupperware.

He & I have had this debate already many times, and it's always the Tullius Tullius Tullius from buddy here. You want an army to march? Fine, let's ask the Hog Of Dellfire, shall we? Ed. How would YOU propose feeding a goddamn army of teenagers? On "social military structure?" Ha! I thought 'naut. If feeding troops is yer porpoise, Tupperware's yer man.

And "Visigoths & Vandals?!!" Now THERE'S a herring. More like "Pseudo-Goths & Sandals," the Republicans these days. Ha! Consider yourself farted at. And upon? Worse.

P.S. Please excuse the dyslexia. I comes upon me at the strangest times. Which is a good line in itself.

I was parking through the walk the other night, couldn't sing 2 benches in front of me.

This is how an army marches. I'd like to see Cranky get on this thang.

Sandals and Tupperware, the only thing you got out of Greek Classics and "an army marches on its feet/stomachs" is a Guide to Ancient Recipes and Better Footwear. Note the lack of strategic purpose, whether better to sack Rome this year or push into Central Asia - not a decision left to hippies looking for their next Rainbow Festival or Burning Man. Left to them we'd be speaking some Pict dialect and scratching runes on the soles of our feet. It was the Republicans who shaped Rome as we know it, the ones who built the walls and aqueducts, and while imperialism may not crank your tractor, *SOMEONE* had to import salt to Carthage, and it might as well have been the good ol' United States of Rome. Of course once they lost sight of balancing the exchequer and began putting real live jackasses in the Senate, it was just a matter of time before things turned Byzantine.

So you're saying Senator Byrd SHOULD withdraw, if I understand you. Or something something... the hat.

Classics? Pish. Governor of Berlin. 1749. Name him. Ha! A Scot. Frederick the Great's Field Marshalls? Scots. Hitler? Not a Scot. Case neatly rested there, but slipped a bit. Fell open. Some jam on it now, goddammit. Over to sponsor, and.... 3....2....1..... We're back. Rome? Whazzat? We built the British Empire baby. Scotlaaaaaaand! And then the British Empire made YOU. And what a fuckin' predicament that lands ME in, eh? So thanks for that.

And the jam.

I think my left lung just gave out. Just beneath the nipple.

Name the successor to Hadrian's Wall, and describe the operational plans for Caesar's occupation, what natural phenomenon foiled his first attempts at invasion, and where did he successfully make footfall, quoting extensively from his "Commentarii de Bello Gallico" in the original.

And yeah, the islanders kicked his ass but his PR team was better.

Pish tosh, Caesar never even heard of Puerto Rico. I believe the successor to Hadrian's Wall was the Minnesota Viking's Purple People Eaters defensive line of the early 1970s but what that has to do with the subject at hand I have no idea. Desidero are you perchance related to Professor Erwin Corey?

I'm still anxious to find out just what Dorothy Parker was so on about that she'd subdue, straddle and set at least one of Sir Edmund's nipples afire with her ever present lighted protuberance to force his acquiescence. This to me has always rivaled the disappearance of Emelia Earhart as one of the greatest mysteries of the 20th century. Well that and why anyone considers Mussolini to have been an important figure in Italian cuisine. The man couldn't boil water properly.

Spare us your epistemological diversions, we should simply be happy Parker gave us her pens and Erwin Corey didn't invade North Africa like his namesake. But if Caesar hadn't've kicked some Gallic butt, Puerto Rico no doubt would have been speaking Viking instead, and Buck Buchanan managed to eat the entire Minnesota lineup in one gulp. History's written by the winners, and that's the way it is, I reckun, ayup.

So you got her pens! All she left me was a blank notebook and an ashtray she stole from the Fountain Bleu. *Sigh* I guess it's true, she always liked you best.

Corey never understood the necessity of armored brigades at the spearhead. He wouldn't have succeeded in North Africa any better than Mussolini did in his restaurant ventures. If I only had a nickle for every time I've read, "Benito you must boil the water before adding the pasta!" or "Erwin mass your tanks where you intend to attack, whether it's a frontal assault or a flanking maneuver, they are not catering trucks!".

The best quote I've heard about the Kansas City Chiefs of that era is, "they put their pants on one leg at a time just like everybody else, they just need Hank Stram to tell them which side is the front". Nuff said.

As I always told Alexander, you can lead a horse to the Oxus but you can't make him drink. Not everyone understands a feinting maneuver, even though Dorothy could do a damn good fainting spell (or DTs more likely, still how anyone can spell under those conditions I don't know). But if Caesar can make it past the Rubicon, it's no surprise that Germania would be right behind, Pax Romanus In My Ass (PRIMA). As for Kansas City, Kansas City, I think the more germane point was they were using fender covers as their pants legs. Didn't matter what direction they moved, they caused damage. Only when they got scratched and over their deductible did the Vikes stand a chance, though under snowy travel conditions accidents will happen.

You've touched on one of the least known variables in my betting strategy. Forget the over/under and all the yards per carry type nonsense, go with the team that has the lowest deductible and highest uninsured motorist coverage.

For instance you only had to look at the group plan Bill Walsh signed the Forty Niners up for in 1980 to know they were going to be good for at least a decade. Hanna Montana could have quarterbacked that team and they still would have won a bunch of Super Bowls with the money they wisely invested in good car insurance.

My theory is that a good team wins on good coverage. When worries are taken care of and players can focus on the game, that means they can execute, execute, execute. Like when Dick Butkus took that little fella's head off - a less-prepared player might have needed 2 or 3 swipes to accomplish the same job, and there's no slack for that kind of do-over. For the Bears, having a good underwriter was as important as having a good undertaker. Unfortunately, the Bears suffered in conversion, as Butkus' knees foretold, and it wasn't until they brought in Payton and traveller's insurance, converting previous policies to long-term comprehensive plans, were they able to get the show on the road. Ironically it was the move back from free agency to paid brokerages that produced the string of success we know today.

Exactly right! I see you've read my book. The will to win is nothing without the will to prepare and for most good NFL players that means paying as much attention in the preseason to your high end coverage as it does the playbook. You can imagine how Bear linebacker Lance Brigg's concentration might have been effected when he wrecked his three day old Maserati last summer if he didn't have that jumbo comprehensive policy in place.

Take care of the little things and the big things take care of themselves I always say. Of course there's always an exception to the rule. Rumsfeld ordering the marching bands into Iraq before the combat brigades in 2003 may have endeared him to Cheney for his bold endorsement of Dick's "we'll be greeted as liberators" statement but it only confused the Iraqis. It wasn't the shock and awe they were expecting.

If the Museums had only covered their holdings with a basic Antiquities policy, think of what those early days might have been. Instead they took the risk and came up short - never thought about that rainy day. Guess they'd been lucky from the Hittites onward, but all debts come due eventually - flooded once, can flood again.

Did someone say "sandwich?"

Oh. Hittites. Sorry. The floor is yours.

In that vein a group of soldiers in the US military was once subject to a desultory sales pitch for life insurance, the cost of which they could have deducted from their pay. A chagrined sgt seeing his charges reluctance to sign stood up and said with irrefutable logic, "If the army has to pay your family $10,000 if you die and the next guy's family nothing who do you think they're going to try to keep alive?".

Now that guy's a born salesman. Get his dog tag number, we could make millions.

You see how easy that was Des? Me & Mark just jammed you along the side-boards here, stripped you of the puck (and yer self-respect), now you got no room to maneuver, and if you do, you're gonna get an elbow to the schnozz. Gretsky's already tucked it upstairs, and you're left lookin' like a whiner.

Go on. Try and get the last word in.

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Speaking of outpatients, nice move.

Limericks: the last refuge of scoundrels!

Let's see
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that u do
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I once sued a scumbag down in MO for screwing me out of some money. I hired a big name Chicago law firm to put the fear of God in him and get my money for me. They turned me over to a new grad out of NIU law school with the same name as the German general who surrendered at Stalingrad which in hindsight I should have immediately taken as an omen.

He dicked around with a couple of unimpressive letters that accomplished exactly nothing. Then he had the balls to bill me even though they were working on contingency. In the envelope was a post-it to his secretary asking her "to do that hoodoo, that voodoo you do so well" which she apparently neglected to remove.

I wrote him back thanking him for his missive, acknowledged our mutual fondness for Mel Brooks movies and then asked in a not so gentle tone what in the wide, wide world of sports is goin on here.

Logistics can never bee dismissed! Let us not forget the lessons of 1944. While the US Army's ignorant supply masters were preparing to make sure every GI got a hot turkey dinner for Christmas that December the Nazis were making sure each stormtrooper had enough bullets to snag a drumstick too.

I see these same mistakes being repeated today. At a local congressional candidate's campaign office the other evening I witnessed paid staffers discussing who should approach the manager of the Dunkin Donuts next door about the bounty of bagels and sweet treats he discards each evening and the strategy they might use to implore him to donate these stale confections to our cause. Much time was wasted before they wisely decided to ask one of the prettier interns of South Asian persuasion to make their pitch. Our opponents with their imported beluga caviar snacks for volunteers and beef wellington for the paid staff never leave sustenance to chance or dumpster diving.

Their policies may stink like John McCain's soiled pantaloons when he heard of Maliki's timeline preference but their catering is divine and the shrimp always, always deveined.

Whoring beluga? And you know that shrimp are anathema in the Koran. I suspect you're being more than a little provocative here, and the bagels seem to be getting aroused.

Well the mere mention of shellfish might steam up Osama Bin Laden's glasses but I harbor no illusions
about Republicants, they'll eat anything as long it's imported or just plain costs too much. Dick Morris and his disgusting predilection for what I shall euphemistically call the "droppings" of people who have dined on Kobe beef is a perfect example.

I must say though I don't understand this complaint coming from a person with an avatar that looks like a giant phosphorescent orange broccoli spear.

Simply put, if someone's going to do whoring around here, I should get first dibs, not that Kobe beef pellets are my idea of a delicacy.

That's fine by me. I say "let Des try it" ought to be our motto around here like Mikey in the old cereal commercial. If it passes your taste test it still may not be palatable but at least it's edible.

Personally, I've found "Let Des Try It" to be a worthwhile motto across my ENTIRE life. For example,

"Hey! Wanna collect some bull semen?" - Let Des Try It!...

This can be generalized. Do go on.

Don't know about bull semen. For goat semen, you have to squint and scrunch up your face to get them horny. I know they have the reputation for being readily randy, but the reality is they're rather shy without a proper come-on, and then they get as rutty as your next species.

This has been another episode of "Let Des Try It". Back copies can be ordered by sending a self-addressed stamped envelope mentioning episode name and date to PO Box 9746, Grand Central Station, NY, NY 10004. Offer not valid in certain postal districts or where otherwise proscribe by relevant US postal laws.

Oh, you talk pretty now, so-called "Des," but we've all had to come to terms with the consequences of your years of "work." We at the Randy-Pandy Goat-People Of America Truth And Reconciliation Commission believe - unlike some - in documenting and continuing to publicize the horror.

If only you would embrace my "Dignity", as I call it, you might come to grips with that "Little Shop of Horrors". Now that we've had our bit of fun at my expense, ready to play "Let Quinn Try It"? Oh, sorry about the handcuffs, I thought you might be a bit reluctant and recalcitrant. Never you mind, Uncle Des is here, and I can take care of that nasty root canal while I'm at it, save you a bundle even without proper dental insurance.

Sigh...and The Silence of the Goats seemed like such a good title.

Des you wouldn't happen to related to Dr. Zell would you? As fine a dentist as ever fictionally strode the earth in a giant hat or something but all in all not a very nice person.

Oh, no, fiddle dee dee, I'm as nice as the day is long.

Y'see that Des? Two hours, and not a single taker on "Let Quinn Try It." Fear, baby. Carry the Big Stick and you get to eat all the carrots you want.

Well of course we're not gonna let you try everything first quinn, you're Canadian! If it's any good you'll just skedaddle back across the border and then we'll all have to wait in line for weeks on end to get a new passport to go up there to look for you so we can get it back.

Easier, just wait for him to come back asking how it works.

Just got that meatloaf you sent. Thanks. Got any instructions?

Microwave, bag of spleef, indestructible dog...

Des I see you've read Mickey Kaus's book too.

Those goats like rabbits and o'possums have evolved a peculiar self defense mechanism. When approached by a predator their nervous system disconnects. It's called going "tharn" in rabbits. They remain perfectly still which works with cats because felines need to see movement for their brains to register rabbits as prey. O'possums and that species of goat keel over and go stiff as a board in an attempt to appear dead and inedible. Sort of like your average Republican when asked to pay taxes or enlist in the military.

Sort of like the avg Democratic legislator when asked to confront a Republican. The problem with this technique, as my own lagomorph proved, is that sometimes death creeps up for real, so what started as a game becomes a fixed position or a permanent reaction. If it happens with a smile on their face people are likely not to take notice for a good long while.

Brilliant! Got in late tonight to read this string. Love the Byrd and his speeches against giving authority to go to war in Iraq were quite moving and historic. Great laughs all around. Thanks to one and all!

Consider yourself rebutted. Renouncing is SO last May.

Boring, really, Crankypants, not half as clever or amusing as you seem to think.

Ahhhh, but if Crankypants was SECRETLY setting his expectations twice as high as usual... and then came in at merely half as amusing as he seemed to think... why.... someone help with the math.

Come on, Mr. Tooth Brush Holesmanship. And no giving it the ole Trondheim Hammerdance.

I don't know if that was Crankypants plan all along but it sounds just like Bush's reasoning for deficit reduction. We'll tell 'em we're cutting the deficit in half by predicting it'll be twice as high as it should be.

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I woke up this morning to hear Obama talk about the importance of winning the War on Terror.

I guess it doesn't really make a difference who is president of this ridiculous country.

Now there's the nihilist spirit!

And no one shall read what we type, and we should not type it!

Now mix some ash in with your cornflakes, and you shall have as dark a day as we all aspire to, knowing that we are but shadows that shall melt into dust!

My God, a kindred spirit on this godforsaken website. Praise be.

I'm looking forward to the twilight of my life, a long nuclear winter where the days like the nights appear as nothing but shadow and obscurity. Kind of like the fallen House of Usher on a global scale.

Or here.

gbrook maybe you should change radio stations. Then you could have heard he called for us to bow down before our masters, the Moooooslims.

Sir Edmund, I regret your decision to back the Senatorial Septegenarian from AZ. But, I'm compelled to point out that the man does not hail from the beautiful Sedona. He has a "ranch" in broken down old Cornville, just outside of the lovely Sedona.

Cornville? CORNVILLE?!! Good God, woman - can't you read? Throw out a name like that in a place like this, and before you know it, you'll find yourself & your loved ones out in the barn, keeping watch over your livestock by night.

Personally, I'd set up a perimeter around the deadstock too, you never can tell.

The town of Laurel Bluffs, population 535, gives you a Hee Haw saaa-luute.

We pull Robert Byrd out of Obama's hat 'cause he is older than dirt. He has already had all the vices he needs, no need to be the president of vice.

Pointe le One. Is no one in that country bright enough to track the proportions of "sand" in the "oil" we've been sending you? Correlates well with "Decline of American military might."

I don't know about how well it correlates with the decline of American military might but I suspect it has a lot to do with the decline of my car's engine compression. And here all this time I thought my ex-wife put sugar in my gas tank.

Pointe le Deux. We burned the then "White House" once already. Not sure you've ever really recovered from that. And this time we're after bigger game. Corn subsidies.

Yadda, yadda we burned that shack in Ottawa you called your White House too so there. Of course it may have just been any white old house some locals directed our troops to just to get rid of us. It was probably owned by one of Des's unluckier ancestors.

A word to the wise, corn subsidies won't do you any good if we don't have oil for petrochemical based agribusiness. Our yields will be in the same ballpark that got Krushchev fired in 1963.

The point is we're desperate, for some insane reason we planned out residential areas of this country over the last 60 years like we'd all have Jetson flying cars powered by wishful thinking and good intentions by now. You could spray a can of WD-40 on a quarter acre plot of decaying peat and you'd have Jim Cramer leading a herd of braying investors bidding for your mineral rights with fistfuls of Weimar marks, er I mean US dollars by noon tomorrow.

1. Since most of you seem to have at least a couple of ex-wives, we're pretty unlikely to be detected, wouldn't ya say?

2. How's about using a little common sense and spraying that WD40 on Cramer?

1. Maybe BP should change their slogan from "Beyond Petroleum" to "a little something extra in every tank of gas".

2. Cramer already talks like he's thoroughly lubed. They had him on with Chris Mathews last week and he was waving his arms around saying he just wanted WaMu bank to still open for business in the morning. Ate up the whole segment shouting a mile minute warning of impending economic doom due to insane deregulation even tweety couldn't get a word in edgewise. After repudiating about every economic tenet Republicans hold dear he said he was voting for McCain. I'm warning ya quinn, the man has a tuba and knows how to play it.

Don't worry, we got the tracker on Cramer. That entire MSM of yours down there. They set one foot across the border, and we send 'em to a special "spa" set up for 'em in Yellowknife.

Compleat with baby seal outfits?

I hope you make them work for their keep. Teach 'em how to separate oil from sand. Hell if you squeezed him hard enough you'd probably get a couple barrels of sour crude out of Cramer alone.

Worth more as sour mash.

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