‘Stay The Course’ Named Top Catchphrase of 2006
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‘Stay The Course’ Named Top Catchphrase of 2006
Global Language Monitor, an organization that “documents, analyzes and tracks trends in language the world over” has named “stay the course” the top catchphrase of 2006.
The phrase was used repeatedly by the Bush administration to describe their strategy in Iraq. Watch just a few examples:
[flv http://video.thinkprogress.org/2006/09/bush_stay.320.240.flv]
Subsequently, the White House subsequently claimed their policy has “never been…stay the course.” President Bush will soon unveil a “new way forward” for Iraq, which is expected to involve sending more U.S. troops to Iraq.
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Catch Phrases aka Framing is like a burrito one might purchase from a Roach Coach. Sure it looks good when your really hungry but when eat it you soon discover that it is just a gut bomb.
The same as with this pychological catch-phrase Lakoffian crap.
No more Burritos!!
January 1st, 2007 at 1:39 pmIt’s hilarious that a phrase which represents something the White House claims has never been their policy, ends up the top catchphrase of 2006.
Where the hell did Global Language Monitor get that idea?
OT: Why the hell do they have podiums out there on the dirt flats of Texas?
January 1st, 2007 at 1:40 pmAll of us have been bombarded with catchie phrases for the invasions and this bunch’s speel by the cheer leader in charge from the beginning og of their term’s take over…..I have one word that will suit us all ……Impeachment..Blessings
January 1st, 2007 at 1:40 pmOf course, the American people—through their votes—delivered the message that they don’t want a “way forward”; we want a “way OUT.”
January 1st, 2007 at 1:44 pmWhy? According to Snowjob, Bush has NEVER used that phrase or even advocated anything along those lines.
No, it’s always been…um……er,,,,,,,,”Adapt to Win”. Yes, that’s it. Damn the Liberal Media and their doctored videos.
January 1st, 2007 at 1:44 pmHere is the most popular catch phrase for 2007:
IMPEACH BUSH AND COMPANY!
January 1st, 2007 at 1:44 pmIsn’t “a new way forward” just another way of saying “stay the course”?
Both talk about following a path.
January 1st, 2007 at 1:49 pm.
Zooey, bull shit bush has low paid employees in little 4 wheelers following him around to do all these little task’s like moving equipment and ass wipeing….When you’re the king you can do that..I think their titles are peeon’s, like what all of us are to this administration…LOL…Blessings
January 1st, 2007 at 1:51 pm“Just because he said it doesn’t mean he said it.”
January 1st, 2007 at 1:58 pmDubya is so concerned that this war will resurrect his pitiful legacy, the legacy is and will remain:
The dumbest President ever
The only President appointed by the Supreme Court after losing an election
The highest deficit in history
The greatest military disaster of all time
The worst President ever
And there is more.
All said Dubya is a drunken AWOL coward who the GOP cleaned up thinking he could change…he is and will remain the worst thing that has ever happened this great nation.
January 1st, 2007 at 1:58 pmQuagmire, straight ahead.
-GSD
January 1st, 2007 at 1:58 pmBush’s new phrase for 2007: More Of The Same Stupidity! Untill Bush is gone we will continue to all suffer!
Off to work in my yard. Take care all and Happy New Year to everyone.
January 1st, 2007 at 2:03 pmIt is beyond me why anyone would believe the mendacious Bush or his mouthpieces. The lying is transparent and prolific, and the cynicism is breathtaking.
January 1st, 2007 at 2:11 pmI can see it all now…fastforward a couple of years to a place where the Bush legacy has become one of sheer comedy (except for the unnecessary killing of our troops)….the new play on broadway will be a parody of Bushisms, Bushfauxpas, and the like….entitled: “Stay the Course”. Isn’t this an old fisherman’s catch phrase? It wouldn’t be so comedic if a legitimate “course” had ever been identified….it will be something like The Three Stooges “who’s on first” routine and will go down in infamy as the presidential jokester….Larry, Moe & Georgie…..
Can’t you just hear it now….Stay the course……what course?…..the course that is the plan…..what plan? The plan that was fixed to make a course…..what was fixed? The course was fixed…..what course??
What a sick, demented joke this has become.
January 1st, 2007 at 2:35 pmLet’s “stay the course on impeachment”…….Stay the Impeachment Course is the new mantra of the american people and the people will settle for nothing less.
January 1st, 2007 at 2:36 pm#12 kasinca
Here are a few more items for DUHbya’s legacy:
1. ordering the most executions in any state while serving as Governor?
January 1st, 2007 at 2:40 pm2. being the first President to enter office with a Criminal Record?
3. having the largest annual budget deficit?
4. being President during the 12 month period in which the most private bankruptcies were filed?
5. being President during the 12 month period in which the most mortgage defaults were filed?
6. being President during the largest stock market loss in the history of the market?
7. having the richest Cabinet Members?
8. having the most campaign fund raising trips while in office?
9. using Airforce One for the most personal trips (including as a moving van for his daughters).
10. receiving the most Corporate campaign donations?
11. having his largest campaign contributor presiding over the largest corporate bankruptcy fraud in the US?
12. allowing the highest gasoline prices in US history?
13. being President during the largest job loss in US history?
14. being President during the largest shift of jobs outside the Country in US history?
15. the most pre-emptive invasions of independent countries?
16. creating the largest (and probably the most inept) governmental bureaucracy in US history (Homeland Security)?
17. breaking the most international treaties?
18. being the first President to remove the US from the Human Rights Commission?
19. being the first President to remove the US from the World Court of Law?
20. being the first President to violate the Geneva Convention?
21. being the first President to refuse entry into the US by the UN Elections Inspectors?
22. holding the fewest number of press conferences since the advent of TV?
23. taking the most vacation days in 12 months?
24. causing the US to be viewed as the most hated nation in the world?
25. having the greatest failure of diplomacy of any free world country?
26. not preventing the worst security failure of US history?
27. not responding in a timely manner to one of the worst natural disasters in US history?
28. having the most world protestors against any US President?
29. earning the distinction of being viewed as the biggest threat to world peace and security?
#16 Veritas
Bud and Lou will haunt you forever! The ‘Who’s on First” routine was an Abbott and Costello standard–Manny, Moe, and Jack did tires.
January 1st, 2007 at 2:43 pmIt’s just more Orwellian word play. “A new way forward” = “Stay the course.”
January 1st, 2007 at 2:43 pm“Cut ‘n run” had to come in a close second.
Take the Presidential Psychopath test.
January 1st, 2007 at 2:43 pm#3 Zooey
Ha ha! It tops the global language monitor list, and Bush&Co deny they popularized the phrase!
Only multiple times daily for months on end.
I think Bush needs a podium to lean on. He can’t stand straight, like he can’t talk straight.
January 1st, 2007 at 2:48 pmThis is ironic and too funny.
GW Botch’s daddy used this phrase all of the time.
Remember the Dana Carvey sketches on Saturday Night Live?
And GW Botch (who has daddy problems) is saddled with a phrase from his worthless, loser daddy’s administration…HHAA..hah..ha..ha…
January 1st, 2007 at 2:49 pmTake the Presidential Psychopath test.
Comment by Sam Thornton — January 1, 2007 @ 2:43 pm
I took the test and scored Bush 40/40, a hardcore psychopath. Just reading the questions gives a perfect summary of Bush’s behavior.
January 1st, 2007 at 2:57 pm#16 and #19
January 1st, 2007 at 3:07 pmHave you seen the very funny video of Bush and Rice doing a version of Who’s on First with Condi trying to explain to Bush who Hu of China is? I thought I saved it on my PC but I don’t have it after all :(
maybe someone else can provide the link.
The same as with this pychological catch-phrase Lakoffian crap.
Comment by Zep Tepi — January 1, 2007 @ 1:39 pm
You should be taking Frank Lunz’s name in vain instead of Lakoff.
January 1st, 2007 at 3:13 pmProfiles in idiocy.
January 1st, 2007 at 3:14 pmWhy the hell do they have podiums out there on the dirt flats of Texas?
Comment by Zooey — January 1, 2007 @ 1:40 pm
zooey – they must grow ‘em there, remember?
probably the ONLY thing that grows on that “ranch”…
when i first caught sight of this headline, my bleery eyes read “catastrophe”… same difference…
January 1st, 2007 at 3:34 pmComment by Sharon Cox — January 1, 2007 @ 1:40 pm
And that’s The Word for 2007.
January 1st, 2007 at 3:38 pmIt’s not suprising that “Stay the course” was named top catch phrase of the year. After all the President, Vice President, and every administration official on the planet used it repeatedly to deflect any critics or anyone qho questioned their policy. However, as has been pointed out since the media has gotten it’s collective head of out it’s butt, “Stay the course”, isn’t a strategy for winning a war. While they were using their signature catch phrase our soldiers were dying in greater and greater numbers in Iraq.
I unlike most of the highly educated fools who run this country knew that a catchy phrase wasn’t going to change a thing on the ground. Our soldiers can’t use it when they are getting blown to hell or lay dying in a pool of blood. A medic can’t reassure a dying soldier by telling him to “Stay the course”. The harsh reality of it is that people die in war and no amount of bull—- is going to change that.
No we have, “The way forward”, so I suppose our soldiers can use it as armor to stop bullets.
January 1st, 2007 at 3:46 pmzooey – they must grow ‘em there, remember?
probably the ONLY thing that grows on that “ranchâ€â€¦
How could I forget that!? :P
when i first caught sight of this headline, my bleery eyes read “catastropheâ€â€¦ same difference…
Comment by katy
Heh.
January 1st, 2007 at 3:46 pmIMPEACHINESS
And that’s The Word for 2007.
Comment by Briseadh na Faire
One of my fondest wishes….
January 1st, 2007 at 3:47 pmO.K. BnF….Impeachiness it is…..Listening to Arias all morning has made me way to happy considering the circumstances of our country…..World war 3 went off before midnight and lasted till 2:30…here….We are surrounded by millionairs that like to make noise and blow up thing’s when they aren’t sporting their little BMW”s and trophy wives all over…LOL…Any name you want to call it as long as the job get’s done….Blessings
January 1st, 2007 at 3:50 pmLISTEN PEOPLE………..
this most elite public servant at the highest level HAS LIED SO MANY TIMES LITERALLY HE”S A LOST CAUSE.
we are the people and something like 80% of the people, the american people want us OUT of iraq.
and why isn’t this compulsive incompentent liar not getting impeached
well i’ll tell you why….. give ya a hint… not only were the republican congress totally corrupt criminals but the power in hand has a history
of $25,000 silk covered chairs and it’s off the table.
going to be a very interesting 4 more years of incompentents/corruption
of course it’s a facade, a paradox, and nothing has changed.
just remember they get half and you barely, if even get half
enough to make you PUKE :(
January 1st, 2007 at 3:54 pmThe Top 10 GOP Sound Bites, Final 2006 Edition:
1. “New Way Forward”
2. “Surge”
3. “San Francisco Values”
4. “Fresh Eyes”
5. “(Democrats) Pamper the Terrorists”
6. “Terrorist Surveillance Program”
7. “Cut and Run”
8. “Culture of Life”
9. “No Civil Liberties When You’re Dead”
10. “Criminalization of Politics”
Here’s the complete “Bushboard Top 10 Chart.”
January 1st, 2007 at 3:54 pmLISTEN PEOPLE….
most people CAN BARELY scrape together enough for shelter, eating, &
the bare essentials and are drowning in debt thanks to the Rich that
corrupted the system 100 years ago!!!
it’s not about iraq, it’s about OIL and the rich and who those so called
public servants serve
totally corrupted and enough to MAKE ME PUKE :(
oh ya… for all the wonderful services we get, trust us…. we get half
and you get half. do you recall any public services your getting apart
from raiding the lockbox and a attempt to also turn your social security
investment so they get half and you barely, if even get half
oh yeh… they serve the people all right. enough to puke them out
and reclaim democracy, if it is even possible anymore.
soon will all be under their power for all the wonderful services we
paid for, oops we already are. didn’t the law that never was 100
years ago do that
that’s why washington dc has the very highest crime rate when it
should be purely holy and sacred.
oh ya… they serve the people all right
IMPEACH
M
P
E
A
C
H
NOW!!! and throw the rest of them on the streets…. i’m sure
January 1st, 2007 at 4:05 pmliterally the homeless could have more integrity than these
thiefs
As an aside : I noticed how Bush looked today at Ford’s service : he truly looks disheveled and he looks like he’s leaving his DRY DRUNK days behind him : he looks like’s he’s hitting the sauce all over again.
January 1st, 2007 at 4:21 pm#19 Thanks for the correction! Heyyyyyyy Abbott!! I should have remembered but I was pretty young back then and got my stooges mixed up. Happy New Year, Clyde!
January 1st, 2007 at 4:35 pmI don’t care for the negativeness connoted by the term “cut & run” and would prefer it be labeled more appropriately “Cutting our losses” and leaving while we still have troops left and are not so indebt because of this criminal war that we lose this country over it.
January 1st, 2007 at 4:36 pm#37 I could’t agree with you more. Either his handlers are upping his meds or he’s back on the sauce. It’s a shame but I believe that the drugs and alcohol have, obviously to all who hear him speak, resulted in serious loss of brain cells. It’s downright embarrassing when he’s “on the air” and “off the cuff” (off the handler’s leashes)….everyone cringes for fear that he will make an even bigger idiot out of himself and make some ridiculously uneducated comment. I can’t imagine what some of the more articulate, diplomatic world leaders must think when they hear him speak…..yuk!
January 1st, 2007 at 4:39 pmi have a good news story to tell…
January 1st, 2007 at 4:47 pmearlier i was out braving the crowds to catch some sale things, and i was looking for a tool box and asked the young man for help… turns out it was one of the neighbor kids who played with my son before his family moved away 8+ years ago… i barely recognized him, all grown tall and burly… i knew he’d been in the service, in iraq with the local guard unit… i told him how good it was to see him safe and sound, we gave each other big hugs (he first, which surprised me)… we talked about iraq in general for a bit – he was in baghdad and fallujah – and he said that he felt they had done some good things but that he was coming around to thinking it was all a mistake and they needed to get out of there…
i was very glad to hear that, and told him i thought it was a mistake from the beginning, for the wrong reasons and he was nodding the whole time and said he agreed…
before i left i made a point of telling him that he and his buddies should know that those like me, who hate the bushco and the war, were very much behind the service people, that we know they did what they had to do and did it well, and we just want them out of there now… he was nodding the whole time and said he appreciated my saying that, and i told him to tell his buds and he said they all know that too… another big hug (i was near tears)… i could tell he’d seen a kind of hell and was ever so glad to be out of it…
damn those neoCON criminals, all of them…
Catch this phrase, chymp…
Gimmee an I
Gimmee an M
Gimmee a P
Gimmee an E
Gimmee an A
Gimmee a C
Gimmee an H
What does it spell?
January 1st, 2007 at 5:03 pmBuck you Fush!
#18
Thanks. I knew there was a longer list but didn’t have it handy.
Cheers! Chimpeachment is what this country needs.
January 1st, 2007 at 5:17 pmNot only is the Bush administation stealing elections, they’re also stealing slogans.
As we all know Ford Motor Car Company’s balance sheet has been in the red for quite some time. A few years, they most likely hired a prestigious New York advertising firm, for a couple of million dollars, to come up with a catchy slogan. These wise and smart advertising people came up with the very catchy slogan: ‘WAY FORWARD.”
I’m not an attorney, but don’t you think ” WAY FORWARD” and “A NEW WAY FORWARD” are pretty darn similar? I sure do! I think Ford has legal grounds to sue the Bush administration. They’re stealing slogans. Ford, take the Bush administration to court.
Gosh, I think Ford’s financial future may be looking a little brighter. With the Bush administration forking over a $100,000,000 or so, that should help Ford just a bit. Just a small bit. I think they’re several billion dollars in the hole, but a $100,000,000 would be welcome news.
“Staying the course?” I don’t get that. Are these rich, affluent Bush adminstration officials talking about staying on the posh country club GOLF COURSE. That would be nice: “STAY THE COURSE.”
When one thinks about it, our country is being screwed by this administration. Screwed is the operative word here.
“STAYING THE INTERC***SE” sounds like a fabulous, fabulous, fabulous slogan to me.
John
January 1st, 2007 at 5:21 pm#23…I definitely remember Bush Sr. using “stay the course” first. He used it to deny all the failures of his presidency, especially the recession, and to try to convince us that we should not elect someone else who would actually do something. Instead of meaning “resolve,” staying the course came to mean stubborness and George Sr. was booted out of office.
Bush Jr. used “stay the course” to mean “resolve” to win his “war” in Iraq, no matter what the reality of the situation was. He wanted to tie his legacy to his father to prove to Americans that if they cut out Clinton, the Bush’s “staying the course” strategy would always be a winner for America.
In his attempt to prove that “stay the course” means to win through “resolve,” Bush Jr. has merely proven once again that staying the course simply means more stubborness and failure. His bungled attempt to connect a winning legacy with his father has shown to the American people, more than ever, what a great president Clinton was.
January 1st, 2007 at 5:25 pm#15, “It is beyond me why anyone would believe the mendacious Bush or his mouthpieces. The lying is transparent and prolific, and the cynicism is breathtaking.”
Amazing, isn’t it? THEY AREN’T EVEN GOOD AT LYING. This is one of the things that keeps me removing the sharp objects from my vicinity.
The only “sense” I can make of it, and it is precious little, is that some part of the collective id (I often write “testicles” here, but that can be misconstrued) is so hungry for any form of validation, any yeeehaaaaaww proof of “Amurrrica STILL #1!” that they’ll get behind this mediocre frat boy’s quest to bring whatever is understood as “Democracy” to … uh, whichever Ay-rabs we don’t kill. Which ones is they, agin?
No doubt that is just way to facile, but for some reason I think of Bob Dylan’s immortal line:
“A lot of people don’t have much food on their table, but they got a lot of forks and knives, and they gotta cut something.”
Cuz, uh, otherwise, what’s there to DO? No one’s bowing down to my American a**!
January 1st, 2007 at 5:32 pmLet’s see:
January 1st, 2007 at 5:35 pm
I didn’t see Bush at the Ford service today. I guess I can see him shortly on the evening news. Apparently, he didn’t look all that great. He’s not aging well at all. Laura is looking better, and better but Dumbo is not. I assume Laura has had a little surgery.
I would assume Bush is a little steamed about Ford’s Iraq comments. No doubt, that’s why Bush didn’t fly up to Washington sooner. The entire city of Washington was mourning Ford’s death, and Dumbo is down at the Texas ranch. Dumb! Dumb! Dumb!
Dumbo’s approval ratings are almost in the single digits now, and he should have been up in Washington scoring a few PR points–at least “PRETENDING” to be a nice person.
I guess Ford’s Iraq comments are for real. It sounds like his voice? I don’t understand why Woodward would use a $12.99 tape recorder. Woodward is worth millions, and he records Ford’s comments on a $12.99 tape recorder. I would be using a $25,000 video camera, as you want to have the best possible tape that money can buy.
John
January 1st, 2007 at 5:58 pm#47 Uncle Ho
Speaking of Bumper Stickers here are a couple;
Grow your own dope–plant a Bush.
Politicians and diapers need to be changed often–for the same reason.
Brazenly Going Nowhere.
Fight Crime–Shoot a Republican.
If we quit voting, woll they all go away?
January 1st, 2007 at 6:01 pmand don’t underestimate the influence of Bush 41 in absolutely “everything” devious that has befallen this country over the past 6 years. He has been since l963 “the man pulling the corrupt strings of this country” and has done so with that slick demeanor and sickeningly twisted smile on his face (leer?). In l963 Bush Sr. was head of the CIA when Kennedy was assassinated….ahem! This country will never heal unless/until we get to the truth of the JFK murder. The official report is bogus just like everything else this Bush family touches.
January 1st, 2007 at 6:06 pmGoogle Hu_s_on_first.wmv Rice and Bush Who’s on first.
January 1st, 2007 at 6:06 pmalvaro uribe is tiny.
January 1st, 2007 at 6:50 pmNew Year’s Day And Bush Wanted Saddam Hanged Before New Year!
Monday 1st of January 2007
by Jay Randal
President George W. Bush is trying to claim he had nothing to do with Saddam being hanged, before the New Year, but Bush did nothing to stop the hanging.
Saddam Hussein was in the custody of US military, before he was turned over to Shia thugs who lynched him, so Bush himself is responsible for the lynching.
The Iraqi PM Nuri Kamal al-Maliki is only a stooge, who does what he is told by the Bush Administration, so Dubya could have halted this farce if he wanted to.
Now to attempt to lay all the blame on PM al-Maliki is disingenuous, and is a cover-up for wanting Saddam dead before the New Year, so to shut him up forever.
Bush family did NOT want Saddam to spill the beans, on all the US dirty laundry in a real court of law, so he was tried in a kangaroo court and sentenced to death.
Will the new Congress investigate this sham in Iraq?
( Jay Randal, political activist and writer in Georgia, USA.)
January 1st, 2007 at 6:58 pm“STAYING THE INTERC***SE†sounds like a fabulous, fabulous, fabulous slogan to me.
–John Gilpins
Sounds more peaceful…..and fun. ;)
January 1st, 2007 at 7:23 pmTo whom it may concern, two questions.
January 1st, 2007 at 7:43 pm#1: How (or why) did you pick a screen name that suggests a male regent?
#2: If such is your real name, do you have any clue as to what your parents were thinking?
I wonder exactly how many of these phrases came directly into Frank Luntz’s head and out of GWB’s mouth?
January 1st, 2007 at 7:52 pmhey, juan… somethin’s “funny”… check out the roberts thread…
January 1st, 2007 at 9:05 pmand i was referring to her posts 55-61… heh… did crack me up… but…
What? I thought nobody ever said “Stay the Course”????
January 1st, 2007 at 9:16 pmBack on thread: My favourite snipet of Prog “new-speak”? “Re-deployment”…….such a Prog crock! Why not just call it what it is – “retreat and surrender”? Losers…..
January 1st, 2007 at 9:25 pmZooey,
“STAY THE INTERC***SE” seems to more adequately describe what this administration is all about than “STAY THE COURSE.”
Previously, I thought only the Democrats had all of the fun. You know– Ted Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Wilbur Mills, etc.
Now that the real truth has come out, I think the Republicans could teach the Democrats a thing or two about having fun. These sorry bunch of losers make Heidi Fleiss look like Mother Teresa.
Justice eventually caught up with Saddam. I do wonder if justice will eventually catch up with some of these rotten folks. I wouldn’t be on it. The world is a crazy place, and toooooo many scoundrels live the good life until their final breath.
John
January 1st, 2007 at 9:28 pm#84 Yup, Stay the Course…stay and die for no reason. You like that?
January 1st, 2007 at 9:29 pm“STAY THE INTERC***SE†seems to more adequately describe what this administration is all about than “STAY THE COURSE.â€
I just flipped it around to sort of a “Make Love Not War” hippy-like thing. :)
The world is a crazy place, and toooooo many scoundrels live the good life until their final breath.
–John Gilpins
True. Some seemingly escape justice, but I think the greater percentage of them live some sort of private hell we will never know about. And that’s ok, as long as they’re living it.
January 1st, 2007 at 9:37 pmLosers…..
Comment by mighty aphrodite
Awww, did Hagette’s team lose its little Bowl Game?
January 1st, 2007 at 9:39 pmC’mere, give us a hug…
Awww, did Hagette’s team lose its little Bowl Game?
Comment by Zooey — January 1, 2007 @ 9:39 pm
actually, no… i was trying to figure out the pissyness, myself…
January 1st, 2007 at 9:44 pmand “re-deployment” is certainly not a NEW term…
#90 Nah, USC won. But it isn’t its team isn’t it? Doesn’t it claim to be a Stanford grad (Ivy League and all)? Too bad there is no NIT for college football…Stanford might have played another game. Wait, no they wouldn’t!!! They only won one game!!
January 1st, 2007 at 9:46 pm#91 Yup, I am sure the term has been around for awhile. Surprised it didn’t say redeploying our troops to Okinawa (another talking point by righty tools suggesting that is the closest we would be to Iraq, which they seem to think is true, morons).
January 1st, 2007 at 9:49 pmJPark,
Stanford is Hendler’s “ivy league” school, not Hagette’s.
January 1st, 2007 at 9:51 pmjpark – from the roberts thread:
******Except when they are go shopping…..Which studies were you citing? Go USC!!
January 1st, 2007 at 9:53 pmComment by mighty aphrodite — January 1, 2007 @ 4:50 pm
actually, no… i was trying to figure out the pissyness, myself…
and “re-deployment†is certainly not a NEW term…
Comment by katy
Hagette is PO’d because she made the “football food,” and now all Mr Hag is interested in is bonding with the guys at the sports bar, like every other night of the week.
January 1st, 2007 at 9:53 pm#94 Ahh, thanks Zooey, I get the asylum inmates mixed up. Hagette is the one that claims to be from the US but is actually South African.
January 1st, 2007 at 9:57 pm#97 No I am thinking he is upset because Mrs. Hagette didn’t reel in a buff threesome participant.
January 1st, 2007 at 9:58 pmActually,M.A.s team, U.S.C.,won.
They beat the Michigan Woolverines 32-18 in the Rose Bowl.
January 1st, 2007 at 9:59 pmah, that could be it, zooey… or too many shooters… heh…
January 1st, 2007 at 9:59 pm#99 No wonder certain people are annoyed by you Katy. What exactly does this post accomplish?
January 1st, 2007 at 10:00 pmJPark,
katy has a sort of shorthand style that is easily misunderstood. I took the phrase “no more of this…” to mean let’s move on from here, no harm no foul. She’s not being bossy.
Just sayin’
Hope you don’t mind, katy.
January 1st, 2007 at 10:10 pmjeesh… where ever do you get “animosity” from anything i’ve said to her?
January 1st, 2007 at 10:10 pmchill, man…
not at all, zooey… and exactly…
January 1st, 2007 at 10:13 pmSorry, I misunderstood what you said Katy. When you said “no more of this” I thought you were telling her she needs to be quiet. My apologies.
January 1st, 2007 at 10:14 pmThey beat the Michigan Woolverines 32-18 in the Rose Bowl.
Comment by sports guy
In fact, MA won twice. USC won and her dead kid wont ever be a demorat.
January 1st, 2007 at 10:15 pmJpark, katy and Zoo.
Your exchange just reminds me of my family on holiday reunions. Heh. :)
January 1st, 2007 at 10:16 pmyeesh… if aphro’s sorry story NEVER came up again, i would be happy…
January 1st, 2007 at 10:23 pmi know, i know…
Heh. I’m forever the peacemaker — except, oddly enough, in my actual extended family. Noogies for everyone!
January 1st, 2007 at 10:24 pmkaty,
Several of us decided a few days ago that every time Hagette started with her crap, someone would put up the joke she made about her dead child, so people would know what kind of person she really is.
January 1st, 2007 at 10:27 pmWhat’s a hippy? Whatever it is, it sounds real “groovy.” I think George Bush was once a hippy.
Well, maybe it was yuppie? Fundie? Preppie? No! No! Let’s see, yuppies drive bright, multi-colored 1960s VW vans, and hippies drive Mercedes and Jaguars. I think that’s it. Preppies wear overalls with little pigs on them. Or is it alligators?
Yeah, some do suffer in their own private hell. It must be understandably rough for them. Living in a $7,000,000 dollar house would be hell. Sitting eight hours a day out by the pool would be rough, too. We should feel sorry for them. They would all trade places with us in a nanosecond.
John
January 1st, 2007 at 10:34 pmZ- You can do the variation on that, where you saunter off to the kitchen, get the can of whipped cream from the fridge and resume the fray with some frenzied whipped cream fights!
January 1st, 2007 at 10:35 pmAnd Wellsley troll alert? You need to fix your trolldar.
January 1st, 2007 at 10:39 pmHeh. I’m forever the peacemaker — except, oddly enough, in my actual extended family. Noogies for everyone!
Eh, I would probably be happier if I were that way but I am a confrontational SOB. Oh, well.
January 1st, 2007 at 10:41 pmI wonder how long it will be until “the new way forward” is disavowed and denied by the spinsters.?
January 1st, 2007 at 10:51 pmI give it two months.
Zooey, im borderline Bush at this point. Hope ye and yours had a great holiday
January 1st, 2007 at 10:51 pmZ- It’s actually hard to tell who’s who under the bandages and shitload of whipping cream!!
January 1st, 2007 at 10:53 pm#148 Whatever happened to “Together Forward”?
January 1st, 2007 at 10:54 pmPerhaps
January 1st, 2007 at 10:55 pm#136 LOL, sorry Katy, I think you and I are quite similar though :P
Comment by JPark — January 1, 2007 @ 10:46 pm
only a bit… at least i make sure to have my ammo ready…
January 1st, 2007 at 10:57 pmin other words, not without reason and justification…
and no more of that…
Zooey, im borderline Bush at this point. Hope ye and yours had a great holiday
Comment by Vance
That bad, eh? Oy.
My holiday was nice and quiet. I was sober as a
January 1st, 2007 at 10:58 pmjudge….erpriest….um, chaste as a…..well, I was not drinking. :)vance (!) – what does “borderline bush” mean???
January 1st, 2007 at 10:59 pmAs soon as our nazi in chief institutes his escalation plan we will see something along the lines of a Tet offensive. This is going to be a failure and bush should be hung and kicked in public like moussilini.
January 1st, 2007 at 11:00 pm#160 I think it means he only did a half a line of coke!
January 1st, 2007 at 11:00 pm#167 You always have to have the last word even after I have tried to make peace, don’t you, katy?
January 1st, 2007 at 11:07 pm#169…..A true angel are ye. thanx and I wish the best for you as well.
January 1st, 2007 at 11:10 pmThanx for being thoughtful.
troll alert, your trolldar is screwed up. Stop already.
January 1st, 2007 at 11:14 pm#167 You always have to have the last word even after I have tried to make peace, don’t you, katy?
Comment by JPark — January 1, 2007 @ 11:07 pm
whaaaaaaa??? really – why are picking on me? …what’ve i ever done to you?
my blind man comment was actually directed at vance… i’m still not sure what “borderline bush” means, nor do i know how i would call him sometime…
jeesh…
January 1st, 2007 at 11:15 pmAnd just for the record,Pat is ‘little birdie’,who multi posted several threads a couple weeks ago….Prove me wrong.
Comment by troll alert
I think I understand your concern, but after your post I would ask: Who cares?
January 1st, 2007 at 11:15 pmIf she is this or that…what? As long as she keeps posting with decency and make contributions to the topic I dont have a problem…
K, I am sensing I am going to owe a lot of apologies. #172 is messed up.
January 1st, 2007 at 11:15 pm#176 Ach, I am so sorry. I read your previous post (which was less than polite, infering that I had no ammo).
January 1st, 2007 at 11:17 pm#176 “Borderline Bush” means he was half as messed up as Bush. He was pretty screwed up but only half as screwed up as Bush is every time he makes a decision (my interpretation).
January 1st, 2007 at 11:18 pmBy the way, I once posted as Yenta 2. So? Am I a troll?
January 1st, 2007 at 11:19 pmZoo, I think we will be needing a group hug…fast.
January 1st, 2007 at 11:20 pmI am so confused.
January 1st, 2007 at 11:21 pmYenta was pre-Santo wasn’t she?
January 1st, 2007 at 11:22 pmBy the way, I once posted as Yenta 2. So? Am I a troll?
Comment by Juan C
That was a good one, Juan. Then you went back to commenting as yourself, but you forgot to change your name back! Which is exactly what I always do as Yenta!
I once commented as “Complaint Department.” It was fun. I’m a troll.
January 1st, 2007 at 11:23 pmZoo, I think we will be needing a group hug…fast.
Comment by Juan C
And whipped cream. I think it would be appropriate. :)
January 1st, 2007 at 11:24 pmHehe, whipped cream solves a whole lot of problems.
January 1st, 2007 at 11:25 pmOh, that is right. Yenta was the fake, real troll.
January 1st, 2007 at 11:26 pmJPark,
I told you before I AM YENTA!! :)
Oy, such a schmendrick…
January 1st, 2007 at 11:29 pmYenta was pre-Santo wasn’t she?
Comment by JPark
Ha ha ha!! What do you think, Zoo? Were you Santo? :)
January 1st, 2007 at 11:29 pmoh my gawd! this is hilarious!
January 1st, 2007 at 11:30 pmprobably THE most confounding thread commenting EVER!
fun!
my dog wants to walk… later…
jeez! look at the time!
Hmmmmm katy, calling me would be hard ti divulge eh? ideas?
January 1st, 2007 at 11:31 pm#194 Oy vey, I feel like such a schmuck.
January 1st, 2007 at 11:32 pmHa ha ha!! What do you think, Zoo? Were you Santo? :)
Comment by Juan C
Right…and my eyeballs spin counterclockwise on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
January 1st, 2007 at 11:32 pmLMAO at schmendrick….
January 1st, 2007 at 11:32 pmZooey – On the night Wellsley defended you,he started talking about tracking IP.addresses,just like here tonight.
Pat.-Sorry,I’m not Unbelievable,and besides,she never posts this late.
January 1st, 2007 at 11:33 pmAnd Pat., I notice you haven’t denied one thing I’ve said about you.
I deeply apologize for doubting you Katy.
January 1st, 2007 at 11:36 pmZooey – On the night Wellsley defended you,he started talking about tracking IP.addresses,just like here tonight.
Comment by troll alert
Do you know that because you are the one Wellsley was defending me against?
Again, why is this important to you? If I’m suspicious of someone, I just skip over their comments. Done. I don’t need to call anyone out because like you said I’ve been wrong before, and I really don’t need to look like a bigger ass than I already am.
January 1st, 2007 at 11:42 pmGroup hug with whipped cream? Sounds like the wasted days of my 70s youth, can I get in on it?
January 1st, 2007 at 11:45 pmJuan, did you actually notice what people said? Do you think that people can change their minds or are you like Bush?
January 1st, 2007 at 11:46 pmand I really don’t need to look like a bigger ass than I already am.
Comment by Zooey
Heh. There is nothing more grave and dangerous than a person that takes himself too seriously. Great post, Zoo. :D
January 1st, 2007 at 11:48 pmhi all….just got in after a nice dinner…a little Stewart…a little Colbert…now this….
I need another scotch!
8-}
be back after a few….
January 1st, 2007 at 11:50 pmGroup hug with whipped cream? Sounds like the wasted days of my 70s youth, can I get in on it?
Comment by SKdeA
Please! We need some sanity around here — and you’re it!
January 1st, 2007 at 11:52 pmHeh. There is nothing more grave and dangerous than a person that takes himself too seriously. Great post, Zoo. :D
Comment by Juan C
The day I start taking myself too seriously is the day I will keel over and die.
Thanks, Juan. :)
January 1st, 2007 at 11:55 pmoh, and why hasn’t anybody figured out that the “new way forward” is East and West of Baghdad?
January 1st, 2007 at 11:59 pmSKdeA
The amount of money at stake is large enough to buy a lot of silence. I saw a bit of a corroborating article on the underlying transactions a Russian (translated – I don’t read Russian) website. It could be upwards of $70 TRILLION. Now, if an international tribunal found that the money has been misappropriated (stolen) and orders restitution…that will cause some economic upheaval the likes of which this world has not seen…it would make the Great Depression look like Happy Days.
January 2nd, 2007 at 2:18 amHow can you post TWO messages around here at the SAME time?
That has to do with TPs server. The delays are really making it difficult most days. Sometimes a post somehow gets hung up in the server for several minutes, then suddenly appears way up the thread, bumping numbers (which we occasionally use to refer to other posts). Then there are the appearing/disappearing/reappearing posts which test anyone’s sanity.
If it gets too crazy I just go to dailykos and hang out there for awhile.
January 2nd, 2007 at 2:30 amPAT:
You’re losing your marbles,you poor worm you.
And it seems to me I remember ‘Wellsley’ arguing deep into the night with himself-you remember that don’t you Zoo?
And take no comfort from BnF,he still fantasizes you are a girl-but some of us know better.
January 2nd, 2007 at 3:43 amChill everyone!
January 2nd, 2007 at 3:53 amNot only can two posters post at the same time, but unfortunately, TP does not have the ability to block posters from using each other’s screen names. So try not to worry so much about who is impersonating who!
I don’t think Troll Alert is Unbeleivable either, not the same voice. The same phrase could easily be being lifted to use to try and make PR think that it is Unby (who is a much cleverer writer BTW!).
BnF, I agree there is a lot of $ at stake,I am going to keep an eye open for more on the story. Scary stuff.
I don’t think Troll Alert is Unbeleivable either, not the same voice
Comment by SKdeA-
Nice deduction,Shirlock:
If you’d kindly scroll up you would see I explained that to our tipsy friend PAT. 4 hours ago.
January 2nd, 2007 at 4:02 am
The evidence of CNN ILLEGALLY tampering with the careers of black political candidates in order to bias our elections and mislead the American public: http://static.crooksandliars.com/2007/01/cnn-obama-osama.jpg
A Valentine — from America to YOU, CNN/TimeWarner.
“February 14th 2007
Music and Lyrics
Warner Bros. Picturesâ€
IN PUNISHMENT for CNN playing dirty tricks against Barack Obama,
–Boycott ‘Music and Lyrics’ at the theaters this Valentine’s Day.–
Tell your friends.
Even better, carry signs with this Obama graphic on it in front of a local theater, and pass out a flyer explaining to people approaching the theater why they should boycott ‘Music and Lyrics’ to help tell CNN/TimeWarner — IN CASH — how America won’t accept any more of their slap in the face RACIST programming.
Let’s help CNN/TimeWarner have a Happy Valentine’s Day.
BOYCOTT ‘MUSIC AND LYRICS.’
January 2nd, 2007 at 4:14 amCatchphrase of 2007 : Bush Impeached!
January 2nd, 2007 at 6:29 amI saw a bit of a corroborating article on the underlying transactions a Russian (translated – I don’t read Russian) website.
Comment by Briseadh na Faire
I can read a little russian. Whats the link?
January 2nd, 2007 at 7:25 amhttp://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,,00.html I f that story is not here-gotta wonder.
January 2nd, 2007 at 9:02 amI have a long list of the odious things at . Please add your own favorites that you love to hate.
January 2nd, 2007 at 1:46 pmIt’s spelled Sherlock.
January 2nd, 2007 at 3:19 pm