Just sit quietly in the dressing room and you’ll be OK.
No, worse! They!
Yah know, my brother and I were having a discussion tonight at the dinner table about whether being off your meds was the opposite of getting high. You know, because one’s from taking drugs and one’s from not taking drugs? I suggested that it be called “getting low”.
Is it just me, or have there been a lot of “low” people hanging out here lately?
I’m terribly sorry. I didn’t see you there.
What I do see is that we are apparently having our regular end-of-school-year influx of kids! who! live! to! shock! with! their! original! positions!
Ah, youth.
Damn, you’re right.
If Rowdy Roddy Piper says they’re bad news, I believe him.
And I’m all out of bubblegum.
Ah, but it is only due to the vigilance of the non-sheeple that we have not already fallen off the precipice into mass eugenicide and eternal servitude to our dark masters.
Besides, the “objective” evidence of improved standards of living and lifespan is spoon-fed to you by the Illuminati-controlled media. We actually lived far longer, ate better and had happier lives back in 1840.
Here is a YouTube video that proves it.
Think they wear yellow coats?
Because of the Illuminati agent provocateurs, duh.
Please: agents provocateur. I know we’re dealing with the terrifying prospect of a conspiracy of global hackers who control our every thought and deed, but that’s no excuse for incorrectly pluralizing French words.
i will direct you back to the first bit of Menckenian wisdom…the one about underestimating things…
No, I am not Miriam Lawrence and I did not write that letter. I just used that letter as an example of the type of letter I had written.
There’s another assumption made about me. That I had written nutty letters. My letters in the newspapers were controversial, subversive, humorous, revolutionary, and bold. I suppose some people could say they were nutty, however that would not be a fair charaterization. You have to understand the time during which I was writting these letters. It was during the Iraq War. It’s hard to characterize this time on college campus. There was the threat of Iran, North Korea. There was affirmative action debate. There was protests, rallies, arguments over human rights, religion.
And I noticed the tenor and type of articles in the student newspaper. In light of then recent events and the Bush administration I had an interesting anti-war viewpoint and view on democracy. I approached the editor with my ideas on anti-war and democracy. He knew me from joking about reality TV and comedy shows of the day. He said, to the effect, “Are you sure you want to do this?” I said, to the effect, “Fuck it! This needed to be written. I want it printed.” He licked his lips and said ok. One of the letters was about the Republicans. Another letter was on anti-war. Another letter was about democracy.
That letter on democracy predicted the Occupy movement among other things.
So read that letter again in post 157 and realize what that letter writer is writing about and maybe you will get an idea of the substance of my letters and views.
Three things you should know about me: (1) I work (2) I read The New York Times every day and (3) I post on The Straight Dope Message Board.
I agree, nobody should incorrectly pluralize agents provocateurs.
Only because you keep saying things are fucking nuts. The fact that newspapers have published your letters (about other stuff) doesn’t prove your views on conspiracies are sane.
Yeah, it’s difficult for all of us now, looking back with our modern sensibilities, to appreciate the turbulent Zeitgeist of like, six or seven years ago.
Don’t make me call a bunch of Attorneys General.
And it’s hard for some young people (whose life history is so short) to understand that for some of us, that’s pretty much “yesterday”.
Way back in the halcyon days of yore when college students were able to face up to the social ostracism and financial repercussions of boldly daring to criticize Republicans and war in a college newspaper editorial page. What a world that must have been. I can only dream.
If this thread had a soundtrack, we’d be hearing Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth” remixed with an obnoxious techno beat.* **
- If this actually exists, please let me remain unaware of it.
** Yes, I’m aware there is no other kind of techno beat.
You know a bunch of very high ranking military attorneys?
Those were the days, my friend
I thought they’d never end
Sheer lunacy was tolerated then.
Is there some place I can order a Derisive, Condenscending, Anti-Conspiriacy Propagandist T-shirt?*
*without the misspellings; I don’t want to look too silly.