I'm just tired.
So that's my dream. That and some stuff about cigars and a tunnel.
Faith ,'Get It Done'
Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Oct 04, 2006 7:15:01 am PDT #2009 of 10001
Trudy Booth - Oct 04, 2006 7:18:32 am PDT #2010 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
On Studio 60 I suspect that one of the problems they're having is its hard enough to write edgy topical humor when you're commenting on things that are actually happening in real time -- and that part of the reason it is so effective is that people have been perseverating about those topics all day/week and you are now exposing their humor.
They're trying to make up a situation, make us care about it, then nail it comedically. Granted, they're using "events" that are very similar to actual events we've experienced -- but they're forced to be vague and one of the first rules of comedy is that specificity is funny.
I don't think the obstacle is insurmountable and I bet they find their way around it.
Allyson - Oct 04, 2006 7:54:45 am PDT #2011 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Topic!Cindy - Oct 04, 2006 7:57:20 am PDT #2012 of 10001
What is even happening?
Oh, no they didn't. Where's my tinfoil hat at?
tommyrot - Oct 04, 2006 7:59:23 am PDT #2013 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Oh, no they didn't.
They did it three times, actually.
Topic!Cindy - Oct 04, 2006 8:00:00 am PDT #2014 of 10001
What is even happening?
Three lefts make a right.
§ ita § - Oct 04, 2006 8:03:13 am PDT #2015 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Despite being irrationally grouchy last night, and then given rationale for increasing grouch, I do think I'm keeping quite calm. But my pants don't fit right, and I knew they didn't when I wore them out of the house. I'm also irritated that I don't have any black pants that fit right, despite having five pairs. The one pair that fit great? I accidentally washed and tumbledried. So they're a little...inviting. And need the hem repaired.
Yikes. I could go on forever.
Sean K - Oct 04, 2006 8:03:46 am PDT #2016 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Is it just me, or is "Hastert" unsettingly close to "Hastur?"
Not just you, Raq.
tommyrot - Oct 04, 2006 8:06:28 am PDT #2017 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
More on the Fox thing:
See anything wrong with this graphic? The O'Reilly Factor ran it in not one, but two segments and posted it three times. I can understand if FOX and The Factor made an error the first time, but to post it repeatedly should be a firing offense, The most watched show on FOX News has now labeled the former Republican Congressman Mark Foley, who is in the middle of a sexual predator scandal that has Hastert's career on the ropes —a Democrat. Was it an error or done by choice? I report–you decide.
tommyrot - Oct 04, 2006 8:15:00 am PDT #2018 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
OK, this is so fucked up it's funny. Or not.
It's not just O'Reilly, but the Associated Press too:
[Dobson] touched on the uproar over former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley, D-Florida, who resigned Friday in a scandal over electronic messages he sent to former teenage male congressional pages.
The party affiliation that dare not speak its name.
Late Update: As of about 12:18 PM, the version of the AP story I linked to at the San Jose Mercury News has been corrected. But it must have been what the AP sent out over the wire. So I'm sure there are million more examples of it still out there.