Monday, July 22, 2013

Dutchess In Labor

That is Drudge's headline this morning, underneath a picture of what appears to be a makeshift childbirth watch.

What is it?

Childbirth, labour, delivery, birth, partus, or parturition is the culmination of a pregnancy period with the expulsion of one or more newborn infants from a woman's uterus. The process of normal childbirth is categorized in three stages of labour: the shortening and dilation of the cervix, descent and birth of the infant, and birth of the placenta.
Well, you wouldn't know by reading this sign below, that it is women who become pregnant.
NJ Transit Sign
 
I don't know... I want to close this comment with an Instapundit like upbeat quip. But, I'm not Instapundit and there is nothing upbeat about the purposeful blurring of  ....
 

168 comments:

Paco Wové said...

But men should have the right to have babies, even if they can't, through no fault of their own. Who are you to deny their femininity, Lem?

rhhardin said...

There's a splooge stooge somewhere.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Who are you to deny their femininity?

femininity?

I just found out the it is women that get pregnant. I need to process that.

exhelodrvr1 said...

It's every man's right to have babies if wants them!

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

Back when I first started taking public transportation, and it got crowded, I'd always offer my seat to a lady.

Sometimes they'd react with suspicion, and I didn't feel like dealing with that, so after a while a lady would get onboard and I'd simply get up and stand at the back of the bus or subway car or whatever without saying anything.

After doing that for a while, I stopped sitting and would simply stand, automatically, just in case I'd have to stand eventually.

And people sitting down would see me standing, even though there were empty seats, and again, they'd regard me with suspicion, so I started sitting down, again, whenever I could. But then I'd still have to make the decision about whether I'd have to get up and stand again.

Finally, I stopped taking public transportation altogether because it was making me neurotic.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Althouse has a post on the superfluous/reduntant? use of the word "even".

I say, that sign, is making a far bigger mistake.

Maybe I'm wrong.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

It is "pregnant people" over there and "pregnant women" elsewhere.

There is something amiss with the profile.

edutcher said...

Dutchess is a county in NY state.

Duchess is the wife of a Duke.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Link to the Althouse post I mentioned above.

Meade said...

"There's a splooge stooge somewhere."

Not just somewhere. Everywhere.

Trick is to be the jizz wiz.

ken in tx said...

In the King James Bible, the word 'even' is used to mean, 'is the same as', 'is equal to', or 'which is'. I have seen this cause a lot of misunderstanding in Bible study classes.

Aridog said...

I'd say the error in the dancing Rahm bit by Ann Althouse is alleging he IS a dancer. No, he WAS a dancer, now he is Mayor of Chicago. It is in that context the writer was using the word "even." Beyond that, how many people know Emanuel was originally a trained dancer? The event was the "Taste of Chicago" so "even" the mayor was dancing.

Icepick said...

I just found out the it is women that get pregnant. I need to process that.

Wait'll someone tells him HOW it happens....

Evi L. Bloggerlady said...

Are they going to name the new baby Trayvon?

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

If you get pregnant from a bus seat you can sue for child support.

Icepick said...

There is something amiss with the profile.

This is why profiling is BAD. NOTICING THINGS is strictly verboten!

Aridog said...

EBL ..."Trayvon?" Oh, my, no, the baby will be named "No Limit Wigga"

deborah said...

Lem is pregnant with anticipation regarding a Red Sox World Series ___.

For Lem, in congratulations of last night's victory.

Icepick said...

Sixty, just let it go and ignore Meade. He's as worthy of being ignored at this point as "J" was over at TOP. Just put him on ignore and move forward.

rhhardin said...

Dagen on Imus suggested that boy or girl does not exhaust the possibilities. It's the royal family. It could be a squirrel.

chickelit said...

From the NJ transit sign: "Authorized Person"

"Person" means "anyone" or "no one" in French which I suppose is irrelevant. But it is related.

Who is "authorized"? Is this fiction?

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Thanks deb.

In my mind there, there is a connection between the visual cues people accept as reality, and the apparent disparity of their reaction to events, which seem obvious to one set of individuals and different to another set of individuals.

Maybe the visual cues, the information, saturated with political correctness, leads to an alternative view of the world.

Trying to work out another reason why we might be witnessing the post-trial we are witnessing.

Aridog said...

Lem said ...

Trying to work out another reason why we might be witnessing the post-trial we are witnessing.

Follow the money. There is nothing altruistic about the rabble rousers, it is pure unadulterated rent seeking.

deborah said...

What do you mean 'agree on how to formulate'?

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Hazy Dave said...

Expel that infant!

Hazy Dave said...

Wow, abuse on teh intarwebs. I need to process that.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

What do you mean 'agree on how to formulate'?

Well, It seem to me that if we value precision, we might decide that "pregnant women" is better than "pregnant people".

Imprecise Information leads to people getting lost. If they want to get somewhere.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

There is nothing more frustrating than a car of full of people with a driver with bad directions.

rhhardin said...

No justice, no peach.

Armstrong and Getty mailer-in

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

In this car, with people going around lost, somebody gets on the phone and a very tense conversation ensues.

You told me this...

No you didn't, yes you did. No you didn't, yes you did.

Meade said...

"pregnant people or people with disabilities"

Shouldn't it be "pregnant people AND other people with disabilities"? Also, what about the poor disabled males lacking the ability to get pregnant? Now, you might say, no no no, Meade, those men do not suffer a disability. They are just differently abled. Able to stand up, stand their ground, stand it like a man.

deborah said...

Pregnant people is perfectly logical, I think. It is more PC that people go through the ritual musings of why it was said that way.

I think pregnant persons would have been more correct, though, as both women and girls can become pregnant.

deborah said...

Wait.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Crack is on a mission about one aspect of this problem.

Meade said...

A girl, by definition, can not become pregnant.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Pregnant people is perfectly logical

Why not pregnant women?

Meade said...

Calling women "people" is a feminist statement.

Evi L. Bloggerlady said...

Lem's maybe the Royal Couple will surprise you and name the baby Ted Williams.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

I got into a back-and-forth with kentuckyliz in this comments thread. She experienced "individuals" as dehumanizing, and I found "people" irksome unless the reference is to the collective. We both accepted "persons," but I acknowledged that "persons" feels awkward, unnatural, or even incorrect to some... people.

Paddy O said...

Pregnant horses and bears will just have to stand.

deborah said...

lol Evi.

How are you defining girl, Meade?

Why not pregnant people, Lem?

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

In the old days they had to strap wheelchairs to the front bumper.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Why not pregnant people, Lem?

I'll answer that with another question.

What is the justification for less precision rather than more?

Dust Bunny Queen said...

with the expulsion of one or more newborn infants from a woman's uterus.

Made me think of a cannon expelling cannonballs or a futuristic gun in one of those time wasting video games that I love to play.

Pew Pew Pew.

Babies being expelled everywhere!!!

deborah said...

lol Mitchell.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

I consider it a victory for civilization that there's no sign that reads: "Give it Up for Baby Bump."

Meade said...

Soylent Green is people. Dead processed people.

Pregnant human beings would work. Pregnant Homo sapiens. Homos for short. Also, Homo without the sapiens if the pregnancy was unwise. Maybe your mental disability led to your unwise pregnancy. Have a seat.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Less precision is what leads to Obama saying stand your ground bla bla bla... when it has been shown, not just shown, the defense didn't even invoke it.

Lies come easier via less precision. The more precision we uphold the less wiggle room we leave for lying and other destructive things.

deborah said...

Is pregnant people less precise than pregnant women?

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

If a person

can't move too well,

give up your seat

or go to hell.

Burma Shave.

chickelit said...

@Deborah: "Pregnant people" sounds imprecise because the adjective modifies an overly broad noun (no pun intended). It's like saying a "peopled planet" instead of a "peopled earth."

Until men can give birth to more than just thoughts and turds, they should be excluded from pregnancy.

Perhaps you meant that "pregnant people" included the unborn child -- often male. In that cases, people are pregnant too.

Dust Bunny Queen said...

"those who are pregnant or with disabilities" would suffice.

Since the liberals want to equate pregnancy with a disabling health issue for insurance and abortion purposes, why not just give in and let them have their way.

chickelit said...

deborah said...
Is pregnant people less precise than pregnant women?

Yes

Chennaul said...

You could mis-interpret that to mean that she has joined Tony Blair's party.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Is pregnant people less precise than pregnant women?

What is Precise?

Precise: 28 up, 2 down

The greatest compliment you can give a woman.
A new age way of telling a girl she's perfect in almost everyway.

Josh: Yo, have you seen the new chick? She's Precise!
Will: Damn. She's perfect... but I still don't think she's as bad as Wenona!
Josh: True, Wenona is precise!
Will: True.

deborah said...

chick:
""Pregnant people" sounds imprecise because the adjective modifies an overly broad noun (no pun intended). It's like saying a "peopled planet" instead of a "peopled earth.""

Wise guy, eh? You say 'sounds' imprecise. But is it imprecise?

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Suddenly... (purely for effect)

Freemans math series is an imperative.

In Spanish 'precise' - 'presiso' is synonymous with necessary. I might even say imperative.

Meade said...

"people in labor or labor people with disabilities"

The disability of collective bargaining. Right to work bus would be the transit system without any seats. Everyone stands.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

(1) I often stood whenever I took the bus or trolley.

One of the things I liked to do was to look down at the heads of middle-aged black men and study the twists and turns of their individual grey hairs, which were easy to make out. Guys somewhere around age 40 or so were my favorite.

(2) I'd also make it a point to notice people's smells.

Many of the black people smelled sort of like coconut. It was a curiosity to ponder that some routes had more coconut-smelling people than others.

(3) It was always a treat whenever a black person would get on board and you could smell that they were bringing home carry-out fried chicken.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Urban dictionary is imprecision writ large... or something.

deborah said...

Lem, love the UD definition...never heard that one.

DBQ, how about:

"Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope, and nice red uniforms - Oh damn!?

rhhardin said...

Armstrong and Getty wonder if there's any chance that the royal baby will be black, like William is red-headed like Diana's bodyguard.

Trayvon would be a good name then.

Meade said...

I Stand With Governor Walker.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

I have to go somewhere.. The reason I say that is because I don't want to seem rude if I don't continue the conversation I started. that would be rude.

Thanks.

deborah said...

"Suddenly... (purely for effect)

Freemans math series is an imperative.

In Spanish 'precise' - 'presiso' is synonymous with necessary. I might even say imperative."

Well played, my good person.

chickelit said...

Wise guy, eh? You say 'sounds' imprecise. But is it imprecise?

It's just years of training around genus/species relations.

Language should inherently be precise unless you're trying of obfuscate, no? Why reach for the broader genus unless you're trying to hide or confuse something?

deborah said...

Bye, Lem.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

UD is imprecise deb. I quoted it as an example of imprecision.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

bye

bagoh20 said...

The silliness of political correctness is evident in how it EVEN fails it's own pretend goals. "Pregnant people" is at least inclusive, as intended, but in the attempt to make all labels sound like compliments they have in fact been very exclusive with "Senior Citizens". Are we to ignore the old lady who needs a seat unless she can produce her birth certificate? What about old foreign tourists, immigrants, or Raëlians? Must they all stand for the hot chick on her way to the gym?

Damned straight they do, if I'm there! "Get up Grandma Lopez, my new friend Candy needs that seat."

Anonymous said...

But surely there is no mystery how the phrase "pregnant people" came to appear on an official notice.

Some public sector bureaucrat knows it is the feminist police who must be satisfied, not the precision police, and according to the feminist police, there must be no differentiation between men and women nor mention of their biological roles.

It's pretty much the same thinking that is bringing same-sex marriage to a church near you.

deborah said...

"Language should inherently be precise..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MD_UN8j59o

"Language should inherently be precise unless you're trying of obfuscate, no?"

In some situations it certainly should be. But as a chemist, you know that :)

"Why reach for the broader genus unless you're trying to hide or confuse something?"

You're making broad assumptions.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

I live in the suburbs, now, but I took the bus into work, once, because my car was in the shop.

It's about a 35 minute ride.

The bus had a robot satellite navigation thing that would talk at us and announce the upcoming stops.

It was for blind people, was my surmise, although it used to be the case that a blind person unfamiliar with the route would simply ask someone for help.

Anyway, there was something wrong with the robot and it got most of the stops wrong and sometimes it would speak in sentence fragments and sometimes it would just make a sort of bleating sound.

Not much assistance to blind people, I thought at the time.

I considered making a joke about the absurdity of the situation to the bus driver, but then I thought the better of it, realizing his only possible chance for survival was to convince himself that none of it was actually happening to him, all day long.

That requires considerable mental effort and I didn't want to break his concentration.

rhhardin said...

Althouse with the eternity lady but no comments has nobody to quote Wittgenstein.

Who lives the present lives forever.

rhhardin said...

Pregno-americans.

rhhardin said...

Althouse is whining about commenters again, in her poll (why?) addition.

No empathy. She'd never be a Supreme Court justicess.

rhhardin said...

We can see right here the horror of commenters.

Meade said...

the whoring of commenters.

rhhardin said...

You can scythe wet grass, but the water can't be so deep that the blade is underwater.

I think a pressure wave moves the grass out of the way if water actually has to flow past the edge.

rhhardin said...

So Althouse dropped commenters. Past history. Everybody's made their judgment on it.

I'd suggest dropping it, except for zingers.

Freeman Hunt said...

But remember the "pregnant man?"

Maybe television believers thought he would be utilizing NJ Transit.

rhhardin said...

The trouble with whoring of commenters as a zinger is that it makes no sense. No truth is framed that I can see.

Helen was whoring around and it caused an unpleasantness in Troy.

Something like that?

Meade said...

"Who lives the present lives forever."


Miles from nowhere
I guess I'll take my time
Oh yeah, to reach there

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

To break a car window from the inside:

(1) Remove headrest;

(2) Use fist to pound metal rod between window and door; and then

(3) Pull forcefully, as if it were a crowbar, and as your life depended on it.

deborah said...

"UD is imprecise deb. I quoted it as an example of imprecision."

I know you did, Lem.

Meade said...

"The trouble with whoring of commenters as a zinger is that it makes no sense."

Could be because it isn't a zinger. Zingers are for girls. Soap opera girls.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

I used Bing to see if crowbar is one word or two.

Turns out there's a rock band named Crowbar.

That shouldn't have surprised me, but it did.

deborah said...

"That requires considerable mental effort and I didn't want to break his concentration."

Persons lead lives of quiet desperation.

Thanks for the head rest idea...definitely passing it on to kids and neiphews.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

(1) I read maybe the first sentence or two of that Althouse post about the commenter's poll.

Seemed like she was about to prove to everybody that her vortex is irresistible.

(2) I once went out on a date with a girl whose goal in life was to be sexually alluring like in the old movies. She'd bat her eyelids and make pouty faces. She talked about how she was just like Scarlett O'Hara, and how I could be like Rhett Butler, and I wish I were making this up, but I'm not.

She was wearing a tight dress, and she was pretty good-looking, and she wanted to go somewhere and get physical. Instead, I took her straight home after dinner.

Feel free to call me a homo.

rhhardin said...

Zingers are for poets. Could be either sex.

Framing a truth is the point.

Sudden recognition.

140 characters or less.

rhhardin said...

I'd file Althouse commentergate under gender difference.

Subcategory crazy girlfriends.

rhhardin said...

The zinger says this is the right handle to take hold of the bunch.

rhhardin said...

Althouse commentergate polls fit nicely under crazy girlfriend subcategory.

Laura Ingraham shoved a running garden hose into former boyfriend's front door mail slot.

Like that.

rhhardin said...

Not to deny that the proper Meade efforts are defending girlfriend, definitely not crazy.

Marriage handles that.

Just questioning the quality of the zingers.

bagoh20 said...

"Feel free to call me a homo"

That sounds like a question. I say "yes".

rhhardin said...

Mr. O'Leary's husband after the Chicago fire, for instance, a similar situation, could provide guidance.

bagoh20 said...

Surely she would expect you to say "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.", and then just disappear the next day, so yes, I say homo. And I won't add "NTTIATWWT", because we can see with your example what is sacrificed.

rhhardin said...

I'd suggest parallels to dropping the bomb on Hiroshima as a poetic approach.

Trooper York said...

Last night on "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" there was a big fistfight. Joey Gorga called his sister Theresa scum and when she told her husband Joe Guidice he ran inside and they started duking it out. Well wrestling. Everybody piled into the scrum trying to break it up and finally the security came in and pulled them apart.

When they went to clean up they all found that they had this black shit all over their clothes and hands and faces. They couldn't figure out what it was.

It turned out that Joe Gorga uses that hair in a can that he sprays on himself to make himself look better. Not so bald. So that black shit got smeared all over everyone.

It's the same thing here lately. Just sayn'

rhhardin said...

Althouse has decided to go entirely with wind energy.

Something like that.

Chip Ahoy said...

Ha ha ha ha ha. You loons. This is utterly fantastic. I saw all the comments and inside I went, "No! we are NOT this interested in your royal baby."

My British friends go, "Why am I looking at a picture of your dog?"

It's a favorite saying of theirs when someone posts a picture of their family dog.

So. Why are you showing us your royalty?

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, you totally kill me over here.

I asked that to a whole bunch of guys out camping, very frustrated I was with their misplaced displaced enthusiasm, WHY are you even interested? You are American you should be repulsed not attracted, what's wrong with you? We're as far from that as possible, out here on a mountain camping!

"Oh the pomp! You have to love all of that. We love the glitz, the glamor, and the fantastic POMP! It's fabulous."

o
i
c

*grabs hat, leaves*

And now its all over the teevee omg. We're doomed. Culturally bereft. Apparently I was a Minuteman in a previous life perhaps, because my inner self secretly seeks to destroy these people and everything surrounding them. All their wealth dissipated along with their unique indulgences. Whenever I see them, too much, way too much, it is like creeping up and peeking into a window of Bedlam.

And none of you are having it either, apparently. *glees* Anything else is more interesting. And it is! I'm doing a dance over here, elated you're not gushing over this item.

Meade said...
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Eric the Fruit Bat said...

LITTLE LARRY DEVIL: Fuck her. Fuck her brains out! Suck her tits, squeeze her buns. You know she wants it.

LITTLE LARRY ANGEL: For shame! Lawrence, I'm surprised at you!

LITTLE LARRY DEVIL: Aw, don't listen to that jackoff. Look at those gazongas. You'll never get a better chance.

LITTLE LARRY ANGEL: If you lay one finger on that poor sweet helpless girl, you'll despise yourself forever. I'm proud of you, Lawrence.

LITTLE LARRY DEVIL: You homo!!!

-- Animal House (1978)

Meade said...

When John Wayne wannabee is in your comments, recounting last night's housewives soap opera, you may tell yourself: This is not my beautiful blog/this is not by beautiful housewife.

rhhardin said...

Think of comments as the outside. Useful stuff out there, garbage out there.

Become a virtuoso reader.

bagoh20 said...

Hey I didn't inject it here, but now that it is:

What I don't think Meadhouse sees or is refusing to admit is that a number of threads before the door slamming were pretty offensive on the host's part. The taunts and approach to the issue were in my mind identical to a male blogger who had a majority of female commentariat and proceeded to call them "sluts, whores and bitches", or on a gay rights issue to call people "fags" rather than argue the issue. She then refused to roll it back, and just kept doing it, and then told them to "beat it", because they were not worthy of her.

I don't know what you expect people to do after that. Come back and pretend nothing happened?

There is no doubt that some of the commenters were as bad or even worse, but 1) it was not their house, and 2) they were few, and till then tolerated.

The only one still doing it here is Sixty Grit, and I wish he'd stop it, but that's just me, one lone commenter with no more right that he has.

I was impressed with many of our female commenters here who also saw it for what it was, and who rose above gender seeing it as a bald-faced sexist abuse of people you invite to a discussion in your house, a house that many of us loved, and where we felt welcome and respected before that.

An apology is warranted, and it's absence has lowered Althouse more than her grossest commenters of the past ever did. I think she should keep comments closed, for both of their benefit. Besides, Meade has us over here to fight with now, safely outside the house.

bagoh20 said...

That Alinsky was da man.

rhhardin said...

I hardly cared what the Althouse stands were, provided they led to a zinger.

No apology needed or sought.

Closing comments eliminated that process, but now it's over here, sort of.

Also it made Althouse a zinger topic.

Find the best summary motto.

shiloh said...

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

Meade said...

rh's ideations reveal his own emotional violence and hostility.

bagoh20 said...

"No apology needed or sought."

I don't need one either, maybe nobody does. I just saying that if I lived in that house, I'd need one, but I don't live there anymore.

Meade said...

and Mitchell's reveal twisted psycho/sexual proclivities.

Meade said...

bagho, you never did live there. You only thought you did. Apologize to yourself. Your true self. Free your mind. Fly free.

Trooper York said...

It is very nice of Meade to tell you how to run your blog. He is really, really good that way.

But you should be careful Lem. This is how it starts.

You see it starts with comments. Lot of comments. Then emails. Then a visit. Maybe he will ask you out to a movie or something. He must have taken all he can from that poor woman and now he is grooming someone else.

You will see him trying to isolate you. Get you away from people who knew you before and only introduce you to a new circle where his control of you would see like the normal way things are. That's how grifters work.

Now that there is gay marriage all bets are off buddy.

Your Tito Puente records and your autographed Carlton Fisk jockstrap are at risk.

Be careful my friend.

rhhardin said...

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

It's not decided, not because of anything physical but because we don't know what sound means.

It's a word that doesn't usefully run into that situation.

If you ask does it make air vibrate, they you say yes.

But air vibrate isn't what sound means.

It could be outside your hearing frequency range even if you're there.

Is there then a sound? No. You want to word to mean that you hear it if you're there.

Competent speakers of the language do not know what the word sound means, and this is common to all words.

Marriage for instance.

You can't just say same sex marriage is marriage they way you can say polygamy is marriage.

The former destroys the word, the latter does not. The latter is marriage but just illegal.

Anonymous said...

baoh20: Yes.

To be sure there was much nasty commenting and I can understand that was hard on Althouse and Meade, but geez louise, that's still no excuse for the host to meltdown over a period of days -- not an isolated lashing-out or as a response to Mary -- then continue this can't-let-it-go vindictiveness.

At this point I can't imagine Althouse apologizing or letting it go.

Anonymous said...

Still fighting?

shiloh said...

"Be careful my friend."

Stay thirsty my friends

rhhardin said...

A good prose style is aggressive.

It's one of the domestications of aggressive.

shiloh said...

Again, Althouse was always a quick study ie no need to psychoanalyze.

But feel free ...

rhhardin said...

On the other hand aggressive is not a good prose style.

It's one of those right is might and might is right things.

Go for the former.

bagoh20 said...

"bagho, you never did live there. You only thought you did."

I know that now, and I know now I wasn't even welcome, but being someone who doesn't really much like people around, it would be stupid for me to get butt hurt about someone not wanting me around them.

I guess I'm still not right with how rude people act on line compared to in real life, and how much it crosses all lines. Lesson learned.

bagoh20 said...

"Still fighting?"

We were just talking, but I'm sure that's not enough to satisfy you.

virgil xenophon said...

I, for one, think it beneath contempt that, his wife having chased everyone away, Meade should childishly follow the crowd slinging barbs while, in effect, carrying water for his wife. Doesn't he have enough to do around the house, tending the garden, etc?

Meade said...

" Lesson learned. "

Then my job is done.

Anonymous said...

Oh no, even I couldn't keep up this level of fighting...er talking, day after day. But by all means carry on, or don't.

bagoh20 said...

"Then my job is done."

I think we all agree with that. Now what?

Anonymous said...

You know folks, half the fun of fighting is the making up.

Icepick said...

Chip Annoy, my wife has been eagerly anticipating the arrival of the new royal. Her reasoning is that maybe it will finally push all the Martin/Zimmerman crap off the front pages. You think you guys are tired of it, try living next door to it. First Casey Anthony and now this shit? Just leave Central Florida alone, American news media!

Anonymous said...

Even a divorced spouse can be given a mercy fuck once in a while.

bagoh20 said...

" I couldn't keep up this level of fighting...er talking, day after day."

You underestimate yourself. We all know you excel at some things. You are what we call "world class", exceptional, and downright amazing. I've been awestruck by your performance, and you should not diminish your talents.

virgil xenophon said...

"Then my job is done."

YOUR job? Defender of your wife's intellectual honor, eh? I thought that was her job, being all academically credendialed and a high-powered intellectual professor. But gardeners got the moxie, right?

Anonymous said...

Why thank you Baggy honey, I don't plan to stop my world class performances, but a gal has to rest sometimes, ya know? Hey, since you let your dolberman wear my panties, you can keep them, no need to send them back.

bagoh20 said...

Thanks, I think I have better chance of getting him adopted with them on. I've tried everything else. The push up bra looked ridiculous on him, but he rocks the panties.

Anonymous said...

Hey wait a damn minute here..... I never sent you a push up bra. That must've been one of your other bitches...er lady friends.

Icepick said...

George Zimmerman, Menace II Society.

Icepick said...

Oh, and I've been meaning to point something else out. Whatever else George Zimmerman is, he's definitely a shit magnet.

Anonymous said...

Short, bald and fat, he most certainly isn't a chick magnet.

Anonymous said...

Balding.

bagoh20 said...

"George Zimmerman, Menace II Society."

What's the chances of that happening last week? Anyway, if had just stayed in his car, that other one would have never crashed.

Icepick said...

What's the chances of that happening last week?

On I-4? The shock would be if he was driving down I-4 and DIDN'T drive by some horrific accident.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

After all these years it still amazes me what you can find on the internet. Link.

Nothing in there about Marisa Tomei, though.

Bummer.

Rabel said...

MTB,

Your knowledge of pop culture history is impressive. NTTAWWT.

Ah Pooh said...

A few days ago Lem made a heart felt plea that his blog not become an anti Althouse shooting gallery. Personal attacks would not be welcome here. People, for the most part, have been complying. Today, Sixty Grit, Meade, and Inga choose to ignore that plea - what's with you people?

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Anonymous said...

Ah Poopy,
What?! Who did I attack personally or impersonally here? I happened to be playing around with Bagoh.

Anonymous said...

And just where did I attack Althouse? She isn't fat, bald or short is she? Sheesh.

Anonymous said...

Nor does she have a small penis.

Dust Bunny Queen said...

A few days ago Lem made a heart felt plea that his blog not become an anti Althouse shooting gallery. Personal attacks would not be welcome here. People, for the most part, have been complying. Today, Sixty Grit, Meade, and Inga choose to ignore that plea - what's with you people?

The best response to those who want to cause disruption is no response at all.

BTW: I learned that there is an actual flash game on the internet called Baby Cannon.....I refuse to look at that site, because I'm pretty sure that it would have a nasty virus for my computer.

Pew Pew Pew.....baby cannon

bagoh20 said...

I insist on at least a 10 comment buffer between mention of me and anything to do with a small penis. I just don't want anyone mixing things up there. Besides I was in the jacuzzi, and the water was way below standard temperatures for mixed company.

Icepick said...

DBQ, then just go look at that site from the computer of someone you don't like. Simple!

Anonymous said...

Don't worry Baggy,I can vouch for you, wink, wink. Your phone sends such clear pics....of your dolberman of course.

Paco Wové said...

News Flash: the Royal Baby Cannon has fired.

deborah said...

What'd they name her?

Meade said...

"What'd they name her?"

Pope Henry.

Paco Wové said...

"What'd they name her?"

The Royal Baby Cannon is generally referred to by the affectionate nickname "Kate".

Anonymous said...

The cannon ball has a wee wee.

deborah said...

Oh yeah.

exhelodrvr1 said...

HOw does that saying go?

"Penis mightier than his word!"

bagoh20 said...

"The cannon ball has a wee wee"

I hate when people use the royal wee wee.

Oui?

Anonymous said...

Mais oui! A royal penis must never be described as wee.

Unknown said...

I'm noticing that all the newly de-lurked lurkers have suddenly disappeared.

bagoh20 said...

"I'm noticing that all the newly de-lurked lurkers have suddenly disappeared."

By nature, the lurker is elusive. You can't make any assumptions about them acting natural. They may be laying in wait to pounce. Keep your eyes open.

Trooper York said...

It would be a shame if they left. I had several people who said they were lurkers on my blog and when I gave them access they never commented. So it might be that simple.

They just don't want to comment.

That would be a shame.

Anonymous said...

It's downright eerie how well lurkers blend in with the surrounding pixels.

In fact I'm looking at one right ...

Dam. Musta scared it off.

Meade said...
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justagal said...

This de-lurker is still here. Though my comments have been sparse.

It might not have helped that when a few de-lurked they were immediately accused of being Mary.

I have to say, a few of the former lurkers comments have been really good, right up there with the regular commenters. That includes yours Eileen.