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“Make one little change to the “Recent Comments” widget and all hell breaks loose….”
“All hell”? Really Floyd? I may or may not have been the only one to make mention of it. I’m not sure. There have been many (actually one or two) times when I may have hit a “tenner” with no way to show off my prowess, other than to the Threedonian “hierarchy!” I think credit due should be rewarded with some sort of bragging rights. If I ever get to that point, I’ll be sure to let you know!
In other news, Yahoo is actually reporting that the gunman who shot up Discovery Channel’s HQ yesterday was an environmental wacko originally from California, and he thought the Disc. Ch. wasn’t doing enough to protect the planet! I guess he thought all their pretensiousness about evolution and their very slanted “historical” bits that skewed what the Bible really says, weren’t enough for him. He hated “Jon and Kate Plus 8″ because they made too many kids, thus overpopulating an already crowded planet. Not meaning to sound cruel, but the cops took him out, so there is now one less!
I’m sure all the people who warned pro-lifers to curb their “dangerous rhetoric” will now direct the same warnings at environmentalists.
I’m also sure Gabrielle Anwar will be returning my phone calls soon. Any day now.
Lars, the difference is people who follow every utterance of Al Gore as if he were a messiah are really, really smart and would never be led to violence in defense of his opinions. People who listen to Rush and Beck are barely literate cretins, ready to take up arms at the slightest hint of a rallying call from either right-wing Svengali.
Just when I though it might do well to label this guy “religiously motivated” (you know, as the lefties love to foolishly do re. Timothy McVeigh), I realize that would lend credence to Al Gore’s messianic complex. Sticking with “misguided eco-terrorist nut-job.”
In honor of Algore and his acolyte I give you, Cinderella, Shelter Me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgi5xdftOIA&ob=av2e
I want to reply but I have guns that need cleaning.
No one on the right would dare to become violent because of anything Gore might say. I do, however once in a great while, feel the overwhelming desire to see someone punch him in the face so he shuts up! Is that bad of me?
No that’s called a Pavlovian response to an idiot.
Ms. Anwar will return your calls soon enough.
As soon as Summer Glaus mine.
If someone can look at a channel that shows Whale Wars and complain that it isn’t environmentalist enough, they’ve officially jumped the crazy shark.
But for the enviro-whackos, enough is never enough. In my neck of the woods, when the promoters of the “Street of Dreams” housing show decided to go green by spotlighting new sustainable green technologies for houses, the local environmentalists decided that that wasn’t enough. And just to make their point clear, they burned the houses to the ground.
That’s what happens when you give freaks like that an inch, when you try to “compromise” with them. They want us all living in grass huts and drinking our own urine, and will accept nothing less.
As long as its my own urine and not someone else’s.
That runs against the spirit of the commune, Rufus. You’re going to need some urination hydration reeducation.
Tarnation!
Drink enough beer and you may realize the exit strategy appears to closely resemble the entry!
Or you’ll be too drunk to care.
…and the only part of my rant that anyone comments on is the urine drinking part. Figures.
You are in Threedonia, JimmyC. This isn’t the NRO’s Corner.
Rufus and Eric both made runs… and as Outlaw rightly pointed out somewhere… lameness was the result.
I need some help here.
Currently I’m trying to write out the wedding ceremony for Future Mrs. V and I and it’s proving difficult. We won’t be doing the individually written vows because FMV is mortified of public speaking mostly because of her accent and her occassional lapses into Engrish so instead what I’m doing is writing out a nice sweet opening for the officiant, some quality repeat after me vows, and a nice closing. My whole goal here is to make the Future Mrs. V tear up which is harder to do than one would think.
Can any of you literary pointy heads steer me towards some touching prose or soaring love poetry I might be able to borrow from?
The Mrs. and I said the traditional deal, but we said it without the Priest’s prompting (although I think the Mrs. did need some cues from the Priest).
Regarding the tearing up, I’ve noticed that a lot of brides do the opposite of their nature during their ceremonies. Mrs. Firefly is not shy about crying. She cries at all weddings. Heck, she cries during the iPhone commercial where the actress tells the actor he’s going to be a father! She warned me several times to expect her to be bawling uncontrollably during the ceremony and not to take it personally. She laughed through the whole thing! Not even one tear. Yet, I’ve seen many happy, non-emotional brides break down. Very hard to predict.
V, try William Blake, William Wordsworth or Samuel Coleridge. The “second generation” Romantics–Byron, Shelley and Keats–wrote beautiful poetry, but it’s underlying messages are often disturbing and their personal lives were noxious, so it might sour you on them if you look into their backgrounds. You might also try the Middle English poem Pearl in translation, one of the greatest poems written in the English language. Of course, you could also try a selection from Shakespeare’s Sonnets.
For an excellent translation of Pearl, try this.
Sorry, all that’s coming to mind is a very silly joke we said about 20 times before the wedding. “the couple will now exchange vows”, “I’ll give you and A for an I. Oh you didn’t say vowels?” Goofy, but it cracked us up, even during the ceremony (we didn’t do it, we just thought it)
I’d go with the speech from the pastor in “The Princess Bride.”
I’ve tried multiple times to post a bit of that speech but the cybergods have thwarted me. I wonder what would happen if I sacrificed a disc?
You’d be a bit shorter.
Oh, you didn’t mean that kind of disc.
Oh, wait, there is the Song of Solomon from the bible. There’s some lovely stuff in there.
Just bear in mind you’ve GOT to use the King James Song of Solomon. I’m not a KJV nut, but for SoS only Jimmy will do.
I may be the only one here who doesn’t know, but where is the lucky lady from that she worries about her accent?
If you are really intent on seeing her tears, V, just say this, “Roses are red, violets are blue. You’re a sweet woman and I am too!”
Guaranteed tears!
fritz,
“Roses are red, violets are blue. You’re a sweet woman and I am too!”
I don’t know. I tried that one on a girl.
She ran away screaming.
The great god Thor went out one day to ride upon his filly. “I’m Thor!” he cried. The horse replied, “You forgot your thaddle thilly.”
Ba-rump-bump.
Doctor…Doctor…are we having a crisis that may require medication? Or beer?
What, was his filly Mr. Ed?
A macho young swimmer named Dwyer,
Really liked playing with fire.
One night in the dark
He swam with a shark,
And his voice is now two octaves higher.
Rufus, I thought you might find this article on the behind-the-scenes work of Beck’s rally interesting.
Very interesting. I doubt any of those pastors would have been concerned had it been on any other day. But maybe some still would. It’s good to hear they support it after having seen it.
I was really excited to see the comments change! Sorry all hell broke lose, I forgot about the 5-pete thing. Silly me, you’d think after raising 7 boys I’d know that boys compete with everything.
Tracy, I’m not competitive like most guys. In fact, I’ll bet I could totally kick those other guys’ asses at not competing. Losers.
OK I was busy yesterday, all hell broke loose? Wha’ happened?
The “Recent Comments” list now goes up to 10. Hysterics ensued.
Someone also said the current Miss USA may be the best one of the last 25 years, at least since Vanessa Williams.
And there was a lot of Vince Lombardi bashing.
Is that all? I think its kinda cool.
Who is asleep at the wheel? How has this story not become a post here?
Chicago gangbangers feel harrassed by police and want respect. They had a press conference for god’s sake!!! You can’t make this up:
http://cbs2chicago.com/local/gang.members.weis.2.1892495.html
Sometimes it’s hard to tell the real news items from The Onion’s.
Well, at least it’s not the cops who are the parody in this story.
Hey,Veruckt,I know a poem:”There once was a man from Australia/Who painted his arse like a Dahlia./The color was fine,quite nice a design,But the aroma…ooohhh,now that was a failure!”
That stinks, Scott!
And to celebrate their 2nd anniversary, the Threedonia servers went down for 4 hours. Or did that just happen to me?
Nope. I blame the Bilderbergers.
LOL Lars!
Should I know what that is, Lars? Or am I being blonde right now? – no offense, Steph.
Every conspiracy fan knows the Bilderberg group is the true secret government of the world. Unless it’s the Illuminati. Or Bohemian Grove. Or the Elders of Zion.
Just this morning one of my Facebook friends commented on a post of mine, sincerely saying that it didn’t matter who you voted for, because they’re all Illuminati. Poor woman. She was a victim of child abuse.
Lars, just thought I’d let you know that I lent out my copy of Erling’s Word to a co-worker and he’s really enjoying it. He also comes from Norwegian ancestry.
I’m wondering if I should lend him my copy of West Oversea. On second thought, maybe I should make him buy his own copy of that book.
Thanks. If he’s going in order, he ought to get The Year of the Warrior, which is a double volume containing Erling’s Word and its sequel. Then comes West Oversea.
And yes, he should buy his own.
Good to know. It is always beneficial to know who is actually pulling the strings. I always thought that was the CFR. Oops, I invoked their name – I am sure my computer will detonate in T minus 10 . . . 9 . . .
I thought it was the Trilateral Commission that ruled the world.
That’s what she said.
Minus 1 for a lame use of “that’s what she said”.
Yeah…Floyd or Rufus Bilderberger!