You may have a point. The idea was that you might click on a couple of the links and see that he pretty much uses the word as a perjorative for anybody who disagrees with him or he perceives as to the right of him.
It kind of irks me because it’s not a perjorative, and he uses it incorrectly as if it were and generally outside of its specific meaning, and obsessively, as if he’s proud that it’s in his vocabularly.
I had thought that this would be obvious in clicking a few of the links. Did you do that?
Yes, I do. I did cite it in the post you responded to. Here it is again:
So you clearly did say “sophmoric and pedantic,” which, as everybody knows is code for “Total dumbass trying to say something that sounds intelligent.”
This is I find you to be so so fragile telekinetic and hyperintrinsic…
It is the “everybody knows” part that needs a cite you dumb fucker.
What you don’t seem to get, is that unlike you, I am not strutting around a board trying to score some imaginary wit points. I just read to kill time. I saw your post and posted the feelings it generated in me. So no, I did not nor will I, go to great lengths to express my thoughts where you are concerned. Besides you’re pretty much right, I do not have the facility with language that you and many others do, nor am I as bright as a lot of folks here. In fact I would probably concede that your intelligence surpasses mine by a large margin. That doesn’t make you any less “sophmoric and pedantic”.
Think Shodan, think. What have y’all apologists been right about since late 2002? Scylla at least sucked it it up and ate his crow. Have you ever done so?
Still I get the strong impression that this current pitting of rjung is evidence of nothing but left over sour grapes on the part of conservatives who have been so wrong about so much in recent years.
Translating for the slow and literal minded “everybody knows” is shorthand for obvious, or self-evident within the context that I used it. Similar is the phrase “universal code words,” which is as I used it should be easily understood to mean self-evident.
Apparently though, you think there actually is a “universal code book” and want a cite to it.
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Hey, I was wrong. Bush said he knew for a fact that Saddam had WMDs. He didn’t. Therefore he did not know it for a fact. Therefore he lied. No getting around it. Why should I be bitter? It’s not the first time I was wrong.
No. In this case a spade is a spade. In any case speculating about my motivations can never be more than speculation.
Nah, you’re just doing for political gain, like those democrats over NSA spying on Americans.
All I can say is thank God you chose to show back up in this thread. I was beginning to wonder whether you’d decided to emulate clothahump. The birth of a Scyllahump would not be a pretty thing to behold.
If I say “that dog won’t hunt,”
and you ask “What dog? I don’t see any dogs here,”
and I say “there, was no actual dog, I was being figurative”
and you say “I knew that that’s just my way of saying you’re full of shit”
then:
It’s too late to pretend you weren’t looking for the dog. Efforts to the contrary will tend to emphasize the fact that you were.
Hah! I knew it. All along you guys have been saying that it was Bush and Republicans spying on Americans. Finally you admit that all along it was the Democrats.
I’m glad that you’ve finally seen the truth and rejected the Democratic campaign of lies and deceit.
If you say “X is obvious to to everybody”.
and I say "Gotta cite for that, o purplest of purple prosers? "
and you say “ofcourse everybody agrees that x is obvious”
and then you set up a staw man and proceed to burn him.
Then:
Fair question. Try googling “apologist connotation” and there does seem to be a negative response to the word these days. I don’t know when that came to be. I did a search for “Nixon agologist” and found only a little over 300 hits. “Bush apologist” rings in at almost 74,000. That’s one way that Bush has distinguished himself.
I suspect I am being whooshed, but just in case: Apologist and apology have the same root words. Niggardly is, I believe, Swedish – or at least Scandanavian in origin and does not share a root with the disrespectful slang term.
Scylla, it really must be tough to have someone like Bush completely misrepresent everything that conservatives stand for. It’s obvious that he and his hooligans have abused and used everyone to their own ends. Liberals, conservatives and libertarians dislike him. Only the Christian fundamentalists approve and he has them fooled. He is the most Anti-American president that I can ever remember, but he’s great fun in that imaginary backyard BBQ!
I heard Kate O’Byrne make an interesting comment on TV the night after his address. She said (paraphrasing) that the President said exactly what the White House wanted him to say.
Can anyone remember when the President was the White House?
