Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. Halfway back to turkey sandwich, Lindsay’s floaters wax languidly. Repent, Harlequin!
Tick-tock, man, tick-tock.
I’ve heard the first sentence before. Is the rest of it your invention? I’m giggling like an idiot over it. For some reason, “Repent, Harlequin” just tickles me.
I think that that one isn’t so much a lack of sense of history, as a lack of understanding of the differences between the two parties. Republicans (at least, the current ones) are all about the tribalism: An attack on someone who bears the label “Republican” is an attack on all of them, not to be tolerated. Democrats (at least, the current ones), however, don’t care about the tribe; they care about the ideals the tribe stands for. It doesn’t matter if someone bears the label, if they don’t stand for the ideals.
So the Republicans thought that the Democrats would be like themselves, and rally in defense of “one of their own”. Except that they failed to realize that, to a Democrat, a segregationist isn’t “one of their own”.
“Repent Harlequin!” probably comes from the Harlan Ellison story “Repent Harlequin, said the Ticktockman”
And the tribalist Republicans struggle to grasp that Democrats are not, by and large, like that. So they assume that Democrats are going after Trump because he’s part of the other tribe, rather than because he’s an openly corrupt huckster fleecing the country for his own benefit.
It probably doesn’t help that if they were to realize it, it would force them to come to grips with the fact that they’ve been defending said huckster and that the “libtards” had been right all along.
Dammit. Ninjad!
For the sticklers, it’s “Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman.
Great story, and very appropriate for what the trumpeters demand in our time.
And since it has been mentioned this many times, those curious can find a .pdf copy of it here: https://compositionawebb.pbworks.com/f/%255C'Repent,%2BHarlequin!%255C'%2BSaid%2Bthe%2BTicktockman%2Bby%2BHarlan%2BEllison.pdf
Waiting for Trump to end the SOTU tonight and walk off going mreee, mreee, mreee…
More pedantry: it’s “mrmee, mrmee, mrmee, mrmee.”
Think I’ll stock up on jellybeans, just in case. And they’ll have to pry my cardioplate out of my cold, dead hands.
Governor and Attorney General of Alaska are begging Individual 1 to grant the AG’s wife and her son green cards.
You’d expect Trump to get it right??
Careful, or I’ll set Raoul Mitgong after you.
Boy do I feel stupid for asking, but if I don’t ask, I’ll never learn. How does adding the comma change the sentence fragment?
The “halfway back to turkey sandwich” part was some word salad of my own invention, yes, but as noted, “Repent, Harlequin!” is Ellison.
It clarifies that “Harlequin” is a specific individual, and that the phrase is a command.
Well, the phrase is a command in either case, but I see what you mean about the first half. Thank you.
Right wing asshole Dave Daubenmire wants to sue the NFL for putting his eternal salvation at risk by airing the halftime show.
Correct. As an imperative, it is not a sentence fragment.
In a shocking turn of events that nobody could have seen coming, Susan Collins announces she will vote to acquit Individual 1.
Matt Gaetz has filed a formal ethics complaint against Pelosi for tearing up her copy of the SOTU speech.
He also is planning on filing criminal charges.