simster
April 27, 2020, 8:06pm
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It is - I’ve used it on mine - along with the “I made you - I can replace you” and the “continental divide” trick …
simster:
The body or the head?
Noooooo…!! :eek: Poor Barbie…
ThelmaLou:
My father used to say, “I’ve only been wrong once in my life, and that was the time I *thought *I was wrong, but I was really right.” He found that amusing. I didn’t.
My Dad used to say that too!
The way I heard it is: I thought I was wrong once but it turns out I was just mistaken.
A palindrome? The palindrome of Noble is Elbon! It don’t work!
Damn, that’s pure gold every time I use it. Who knew fifty years ago we’d finally be living in Python World?
Ukulele_Ike:
A palindrome? The palindrome of Noble is Elbon! It don’t work!
Damn, that’s pure gold every time I use it. Who knew fifty years ago we’d finally be living in Python World?
This is why I love the straight dope message board…
Master_Wang-Ka:
Y’know, I’m thinking about some of the kids I work with.
Some of them can’t handle what we call “painful affective states.” In layman’s terms, they can’t deal with emotional turmoil, so they lash out in some way.
And durned if ol’ Comrade Trumpski isn’t starting to look and act a LOT like some of my kids. He’s being LAUGHED AT, and he can’t MAKE them stop laughing, and he can’t get at them all and beat them all UP, and they won’t LISTEN when he says he was just KIDDING, and they’re BLATANTLY LAUGHING AT HIM AND GETTING AWAY WITH IT!!!
I have no trouble accepting that analogy.
Though one rather important difference: none of the kids you work with have the nuclear codes.
Monty
April 29, 2020, 2:24am
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Analogy, Hell. It’s a fucking perfectly accurate description any decent reporter would be proud of penning.
Well, given the man’s apparent memory span and his inability to read, I don’t think we have to worry about that. At least, let’s hope.
Monty:
Well, given the man’s apparent memory span and his inability to read, I don’t think we have to worry about that. At least, let’s hope.
Well, I don’t know (like everybody else who wasn’t US president) what the procedure is for that, but at least he’d have to remember a 4 digit PIN or so, right? I doubt that he’s intellectually capable to do that.
Monty
April 29, 2020, 3:42am
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Now I’m wondering what could both (a) set him off to the point that he would order the “football” carrier to hand over the football to him, and (b) cause said football handler actually comply with turning over that to such an obviously unstable individual.
Maus_Magill:
Several years ago, I had a manager who was routinely outsmarted by cheese. One day, he sent out a memo about provisioning DS1s and DS3s. He accidentally mis-typed “DS1s and DS2s.” No big deal. We all had a little chuckle about it, until he spent the afternoon going from desk to desk with a copy of Newton’s Telecom Dictionary proving to us that DS2s were actually a thing.
Remember: being wrong about *anything *is a sign of weakness.
You work at Dunder Mifflin?
Dunno about (b), but (a) could be a Pelosi press conference.
Toffe
May 2, 2020, 10:17pm
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EinsteinsHund:
Well, I don’t know (like everybody else who wasn’t US president) what the procedure is for that, but at least he’d have to remember a 4 digit PIN or so, right? I doubt that he’s intellectually capable to do that.
Allegedly the nuclear launch codes for a long time were “00000000”, though that’s disputed .
If that were still the case, just tell the cancerous tangerine the launch codes are the balance on his bank statement. It would be pretty much true, and his fatuous need to lie about his wealth would guarantee no nuclear launch could ever be successfully authorised by him.
Toffe:
Allegedly the nuclear launch codes for a long time were “00000000”, though that’s disputed .
If that were still the case, just tell the cancerous tangerine the launch codes are the balance on his bank statement. It would be pretty much true, and his fatuous need to lie about his wealth would guarantee no nuclear launch could ever be successfully authorised by him.
That is a mighty generous estimate.
Wasn’t it zero, zero, zero, destruct zero?
digs
May 3, 2020, 3:56am
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For the first Gen-X President (Mayor Petey?) it’ll be:Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start
Smapti
May 3, 2020, 6:12pm
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…And then came a Plague, a great and powerful Plague, and the World was never to be the same again! But America rose from this death and destruction, always remembering its many lost souls, and the lost souls all over the World, and became greater than ever before!
That’s not the second half of anything. The Very Stable Genius started his thought with an ellipses, attempted to paraphrase something he thinks was probably in Two Corinthians, and said absolutely nothing of substance in the process.
It sounded like the Little Golden Book Bedtime Stories of COVID-19.
Monty:
Well, given the man’s apparent memory span and his inability to read, I don’t think we have to worry about that. At least, let’s hope.
He may have delegated the decision to launch nuclear weapons to Jared.