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Skriven 2010-05-13 07:55:00 av Dave Drum (17178.polinc)
  Kommentar till text 13295 av Ross Sauer (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Daffynitions
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-=> Ross Sauer wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 DD> Transcribed from a Monty Python skit.

 RS> Eric Idle from Monty Python had some fun with "fuck." <G>

 RS> http://tinyurl.com/2qnn5l
 
Eric Idle always has fun, it seems. Very droll 

 DD>> You, like many, are stuck into the narrow two party political
 DD>> view of politics.

 EH>> You, like some, think that somehow a viable third party will
 EH>> miraculously form out of thin air.

 DD> Who was talking about a third party? Toss the bastard out within their
 DD> own party. Like the antediluvian wing of the Utah Elephants did to
 DD> sitting Senator Bob Bennett.

 RS> More like the Troglodyte Faction in that party.

antediluvian adj. Extremely old and antiquated.

trog·lo·dyte –noun
   1. a prehistoric cave dweller.
   2. a person of degraded, primitive, or brutal character.
   3. a person living in seclusion.
   4. a person unacquainted with affairs of the world.
   5. an animal living underground.
 
You pays your $$$ you takes your choice. I like that antediluvian is short and
succinct. And unambiguous. Of the definitions of troglodyte only #2 and #4 fit
the meaning I was going for. 
 
 RS> Very occasionally, a third party can have some success.
 RS> I still remember how both the democrats and republicans in Minnesota
 RS> were stumbling around in a daze after Jesse Ventura beat them.

 RS> But, Ventura's gone off the deep end too nowadays.

I assume that you are referring to his TRU-TV (now there's a contradiction in
terms) thing "Conspiracy Theory". Remember the former James George Janos has
been an actor since his earliest days in wrestling. Even his now-officially
changed name, Jesse Ventura, is a part of the acting schtick. As to whether he
actually believes that drivel ... 

He is certainly still a free thinker -- "Organized religion is a sham and a
crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to
go out and stick their noses in other people's business."
 
 DD> "I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune
 DD> during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are
 DD> empty." -- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

 RS> I'm for a means test for Congress and the President.

I'm not. For a number of reasons. If you are doing the work of the people you
should be paid by the people chief amongst those.
 
 RS> If a politician is rich enough, he doesn't need all those goodies, free
 RS> health care like Crashcart Cheney got, free office space, etc.

Cheney got not a lot that others in his (elected) office didn't get. However,
since you brought up Jesse Ventura -- I like his take of Big Dick Daddy from
Cow-flop, Wyoming. When he stated that he had no respect for Dick Cheney
because he is "a guy who got five deferments from the Vietnam War. Clearly,
he's a coward. He wouldn't go when it was his time to go. And now he is a
chickenhawk. Now he is this big tough guy who wants this hardcore policy. And
he's the guy that sanctioned all this torture by calling it 'enhanced
interrogation'."

And when challenged on his stance on waterboarding on Fox and Fiends, after
Brian Kilmeade told Ventura that he would stop supporting waterboarding when
"they're dead", Ventura responded, "Really? Have you enlisted? Have you
enlisted or are you just talking?... Go walk the walk, don't talk the talk."
 
ENJOY!!!

From Uncle Dirty Dave's Kitchen
Home of YAHOOOOAHHHH Hot Sauce & Hardin Cider 

 

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