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Hello USA TV Watcher!
Hello! How was your McDonalds? Good to hear, good to hear. Yes, the Diet Coke was a superior choice, I agree. Oh yeah, that is a funny commercial!! I laugh every time he says the catchphrase. Yes, it gets me every time. Your rendering of his funny voice is spot on.
What a game it was! Such a game! Our star player is more talented than their star player. We live in a great area for competitive athletics. Really? I also believe all other teams are feminine and weak in comparison with ours.
Yes, those other races are inferior-- good joke! Did you hear the one about the other race being inferior to ours? Hysterical! It's okay, I know a man of that race and he thinks it's true. In all seriousness, we should just nuke 'em. Nuke 'em. Yes- the problem is other races and nations. That's the problem, nobody has the balls to just nuke 'em.
Now you're speaking my language, friend. Yes, I also heard that on the radio. I also read that in the newspaper. Right, right, it's all over TV! I heard it on the radio, and then my hunch was confirmed by its ubiquity on television and in the newspaper. No, you just don't have time to read the whole thing. Magazines are also a good source of information. Did you read the article about our star player being talented and superior? How true!
I've been meaning to tell you something, and I hope you don't take this the wrong way. Your car could stand to be bigger.
Comments (33)
McMavericky claims his balls -- Bomb, bomb Iran?
Don't stay away for so long LBP!!
Rec'd. Best post of the day!
August 3, 2008 3:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
Oh how I loathe the vile McM.I.C.!! I have returned to destroy him. But, this is high praise coming from you-- BFF!!!!
August 3, 2008 4:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
Well-done. :)
August 3, 2008 9:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
Mmmm, MacFreedomFries washed down with diet boxed wine! LBP, you're my American Idol today.
Rec'dé.
August 3, 2008 11:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
Cute, but now for the not-so-funny part - they each have one vote, just like you. Are there more of them or more of you?
August 3, 2008 11:43 AM | Reply | Permalink
We are them. They are us.
August 3, 2008 11:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yes. There are 300 million of us. Terrifying. My solution? To give cows the vote.
August 3, 2008 1:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
In short, I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
August 3, 2008 12:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't watch television and I shop at whole foods.
I do remember I love Lucy. McCain reminds me of Lucy, and Obama has to be the pants that ate Fred Mertz.
August 3, 2008 1:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wouldn't that make McCain Fred Mertz?
August 3, 2008 6:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
I stand corrected
August 3, 2008 7:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Really, you should be ashamed of yourself. Can't you see that cranky Fred Mertz IS John McCain? You know, the kinda guy that yells "get off my lawn?" :-)
August 4, 2008 2:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
I stand ashamed.
Really, Lucy was far too clever for me to confuse her with anyone but (possibly) Joe Lieberman.
August 4, 2008 9:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
What, no mention of any orange-and-green baby? Did you know that star player may be having an affair with an airplane alien? Yeah. How does he do that?
Feh! Blogs, cannot get any news from them. I'm going back to shouting "ditto" at my radio and knitting house-slippers for Hannity.
I've missed you, LBP. ;)
August 3, 2008 2:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
I miss the Cars, too
Ric always sang like a person in the throes of a nervous breakdown. I think more music should be like that.
August 3, 2008 2:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Looking through the lingr backlog, I noticed that someone thinks you are Workerbee come back with a new ID and avatar. I had thought you to be someone else when I defended you.
I notice your cyber-toying with Quasar continues at that site.
LOL. Cyber-toying in one site can be so limiting. Am I to be your next object here at TPM? I'm honored.
August 3, 2008 3:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow, workerbee has transformed into a rooster, and you into a black cat. A lot has changed!
August 3, 2008 5:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
We all know you are Genghis and Evainne is quasar in a good mood.
Nothing ever changes here.
August 3, 2008 7:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
A very good mood.
August 3, 2008 8:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Normally I wouldn't respond to this type of blatant baiting, but I will say I empathize with your confusion. I keep getting you confused with an old timer poster with a similar name that claimed to be male and into sports. I used to confuse that poster with art appraiser, frequently. I don't post frequently and now I remember why.
I won't ever bother to comment on anything you write again, as you seem a bit hysterical. Frankly. I'm so done with high drama.
As far as quasar goes...(shudder)....You also seem to suffer confusion as to who baits whom. That is, of course, your business.
I'd think reasonable people, without an agenda ,might be fairly convinced as to that posters purpose here.
August 3, 2008 7:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Mental illness was something that particular poster fabricated, and accused people of and then used it to carry out personal demolition on various people. It is a well-established track record.
Yes, please do ignore me in future.
August 3, 2008 8:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Aaargh, I'm sure glad you sorted out that confusion, because I am femaie and all spectator team sport activities bore me to tears. I'm not the type to begrudge others' joy in it, do admit to teasing the more obssessed in meatworld. Here, it's so refreshing to see someone has an interest besides the political game, I have been known to be supportive of those that post on it!
(But hey, many people have trouble guessing my gender from my writing. I have no idea why, because I am judged a very feminine person by most people who know me. I must admit along those confusing lines that I suspect my antipathy to professional sports is not the typical "girl stereotype" thing, but both nature and nurture. My father, though a very male-brain person, also was bored to tears by spectator team sports, his entire life; he attempted every non-team sport one can think of---to this day at 82, still at tennis, cycling, hunting, golfing, skiing, roller blading--but no no no thank you to watching other people play games, especially overpaid people. I grew up blissfully clueless about spectator sports, and had left the homestead by the time younger brothers were able to drag it into the house.)
August 4, 2008 2:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
correction: femaie should read female.
August 4, 2008 2:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
Interesting. One of the many terrifying things about corporate sports is the logic of its television bobbleheads. It's like Hardball, but with more yelling and interrupting.
August 4, 2008 4:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
But it's Keith Olberman who actually came from sports world and I think what his show did to MSNBC sucks. Not that MSNBC was that great to begin with, but his show took it way further downhill.
August 4, 2008 2:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well that explains why I never saw you on any of Reed Hundt's Redskins threads.
August 4, 2008 9:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
I like your style. Good post.
August 3, 2008 6:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ubiquity???
Yer not from around here, are ya, son?
August 3, 2008 9:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Arrogant.
August 3, 2008 10:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
For some reason this post reminds me of this John Hiatt song:
Since His Penis Came Between Us
It was a wonderful world
The picture too was bright
There was so much to do on a Saturday night
Plenty of talk during commercials
Sometimes even popcorn in bed
I've been a model provider
You must admit to that
A lovely rented bungalow
Two terrific little cats
Is there something that I might have missed
You haven't heard a word I've said
Since his penis came between us
Since his penis came between us
Well I don't mean to seem angry
But I'm a bit taken back
What did you say his name was
Oh my god, it's not Jack?
That scoundrel's gonna' get a talking to
Tomorrow at the coffee machine
It's always someone you know
In this case my best friend
How could he do this to me
We just played golf last weekend
I've got news for Mr. So-and-so
He won't be teeing off with me
Since his penis came between us
Since his penis came between us
Let's play a little game
Is it bigger than a bread-box
Or shorter than your maiden name
Is it as high as an elephants eye
Is it like mounting some great white steed
I mean this thing you have for him
Shall we say - need ?
Let's turn off the lights, love
It's time for bed
Oh look, there's Johnny Carson
If you rather watch instead
I'm glad that we could have this little talk
Goodnight, and pleasant dreams my love
August 3, 2008 10:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
So much for unity.
If "they" can't understand anything but what the TV shovels in "their" mouths and and if "we" can do nothing but insult "them" for it how can WE ever have peace?
I am starting to get discouraged for Obama. I think he earnestly wants to try to unify us and point us all in a different direction. I am 44 y/o and I was starting to feel genuinely idealistic about his message. But there is so much resistance that I question whether he can be elected. What's worse if he is elected and we can't put hate aside and try to move forward he will fail.
August 3, 2008 11:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's interesting that so many readers of this post assume there's a "we" and a "them." I don't get that from the post. What I hear is the TV, talking to me like it always does talk to me -- telling me what I want to hear, or expect to hear.
No "we"; no "them"; no "insult"; no "culture war." Just TV. In which we live and move and have our being.
I trust this interpretation leaves you feeling more hopeful.
August 4, 2008 1:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks Alex! Yes, this is about the TV, not its poor victims.
August 4, 2008 4:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
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