I very much disagree. I do not want people wasting time on things which have NO importance. This is not a theater performance nor should it be. If we see it like that then we are losing sight of the substance and mistaking it for the show. A verbal slip is of no consequence whatsoever and I do not think the ceremony should be about how well a bunch of officials can act in a live performance.
Yet you followed it enough to correctly ascribe his political leaning.
I should note, as it seems to have wooshed several people, that ‘Dumbass’ is yet another reference to our current favorite movie.
I’m just going to go put some Michael Bolton music on for them while they watch it.
Um… whoosh?
I was kidding. Just, you know, channeling my internal high school drama teacher.
I have to admit, I thought that yer won who read out the poem had written it - like Maya Angelou at Clinton’s.
Right. Because you’re a conservative, which automatically makes you a victim. You suffer bravely under a hideous double-standard. Evil liberals have everything their way while you’re always picked on.
You’re a hoot, Steph. You’ve now fallen into the Starving Artist category of unintentionally hilarious moron. A skilled satirist would be hard pressed to make up more patently ridiculous, self-revelatory nonsense. Rock on, rock on.
I’m an Independent and no Obama fangirl but have been reluctantly convinced over the past 8 years that a lot of supposed conservatives have entirely lost their fucking minds.
Mr. Bush can invade Canada whether he’s president or not.
(I stole that line from another thread. My apologies to whomever I’ve bethieved.)
Indeed. My own take was that Obama had probably dreamt taking the oath every night since November 4. At any rate, it was obvious that he instantly noticed that Roberts was straying from the Sacred Text.
Will English majors ever admit that all “modern poetry” is crap? Just listen to Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac sometime. If you didn’t know he was reading a “poem”, you would think he was reciting some little prose essay he had found stuck to his shoe.
In fairness, I couldn’t believe it when the guy who gave the benediction said “let the yellow be mellow”.
I hollered, “Dude, you can’t say that!” loud enough for everyone in the office to hear.
You are right. You would not be allowed to get away with calling someone else retarded because you are the baseline upon which stupidity is measured. You can credibly call someone a “pinko” or a “commie”, but if you cannot recognize your own dessicated intellect, you have no grounds to call into question anyone else’s.
They’re on the IMDb Politics forum as well.
Yes you would, and people use “retarded” around here all the time. Your perscution exsts only in your imagination.
No kidding. Usually when you hear the words “yellow” and “mellow” in one sentence the words “brown” and “flush it down” aren’t far behind.
Hastily arranges for increased capacity for "Lighten Up Francis class…
All? No, but I’ll admit that a great deal of it is crap. But then most everything of any genre in any decade is crap. Thirteen channels, etc.
Perhaps that was the point? They’re probably trying to conserve water and knew a lot of people would be using the restrooms.
That’s what a whoosh IS: when another poster is joking or being sarcastic and you think they’re being serious. Taking a statement at face value when it was actually intended non-seriously is the very definition of being whooshed.
Rehearsal wouldn’t necessarily make you any less nervous. Obama’s use to millions watching him, but what about Roberts?
I half agree. I think anybody (not just Stephe, and not just conservatives) using the word “fag” in earnest as an insult would probably get called on it. As well they should, IMHO.
However, I notice that poor persecuted Stephe used “moron” in earnest as an insult (“Obama is a moron without a teleprompter in front of him”) back in post #101, and nobody batted an eyelash at his non-PCness. So yeah, I think Stephe is somewhat overplaying the victim card here.
Upon Whooshitude:
The thing is, **Cervaise **going all “tard” and “fag” on us, is pretty much the opposite of what we would expect. So taking him at face value is a whoosh. If Starving Artist or **Stephe96 **came out and said, “Obama is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known” and someone accused them of immodest fawning – that would be another whoosh – regardless of whether said whooshee had see The Manchurian Candidate.
Or you’re listening to an oldies station and they’re preceded by “That was Donovan’s big hit…”