Shut up, monkey!
I'd like to nominate Saddam as an honorary Buffista.
Oh, at first it was confusing. Just the idea of computers was like — whoa! I'm eleven hundred years old! I had trouble adjusting to the idea of Lutherans.
Anya ,'Get It Done'
Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
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Jon B. - Mar 05, 2003 10:22:53 am PST #6896 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Connie Neil - Mar 05, 2003 10:24:38 am PST #6897 of 10001
brillig
Shut up, monkey!
but you have to know that every aghast diplomat was secretly wishing they'd said the same thing to someone they disliked at one time or another.
brenda m - Mar 05, 2003 10:25:33 am PST #6898 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
every aghast diplomat was secretly wishing they'd said the same thing to someone they disliked at one time or another.
I can tell you I'm going to be saying it from now on.
§ ita § - Mar 05, 2003 10:29:00 am PST #6899 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
At least he said it to a Kuwaiti delegate. I hate to think what would have went down had he called the Nigerian delegate that.
brenda m - Mar 05, 2003 10:29:27 am PST #6900 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Oh, yeah, that crossed my mind, ita.
Trudy Booth - Mar 05, 2003 11:49:32 am PST #6901 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
Bureaucracy II: Shut up, Monkey!
Connie Neil - Mar 05, 2003 11:53:46 am PST #6902 of 10001
brillig
Trudy has a winner. Plus, it ties in with the Buffista monkey obsession.
edit: numbah!
Laura - Mar 05, 2003 12:06:11 pm PST #6903 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
BWAH! t natter
Wolfram - Mar 05, 2003 12:36:54 pm PST #6904 of 10001
Visilurking
Just to prove that we're not the only ones who get a little worked up in bureaucratic discussions comes this morning's quote from the Iraqi delegate to the UN, in response to remarks made by the Kuwaiti delgate:
Shut up, monkey!
Actually it was not the the UN but at an emergency summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, and the quote was "Shut up, sit down you small agent [of the U.S.], you monkey! Curse be upon your mustache (honor), you traitor." Apparently the Iraqi delegate had been calling Kuwait a traitor for helping the U.S. in the previous Gulf war (after Iraq invaded Kuwait.) The Kuwaiti foreign minister made some inaudible comment and the Iraqi delegate went off on him. The Kuwaiti information minister leapt up and waved a small Kuwaiti flag, and the entire Iraqi delegation stormed out of the room. "The Iraqis always behave like this," the Kuwaiti information minister said.
I'd like to nominate Saddam as an honorary Buffista.
I think he's already a lurker. You gotta admire his ability to get over 90% voter turnout, and 100% of the vote in the Iraqi elections. We should try having armed guards drag you from your homes and then look over your shoulder as you fill out your ballot. Enforcement of democracy.
Java cat - Mar 05, 2003 1:14:08 pm PST #6905 of 10001
Not javachik