My wife is Mexican-American, and if anyone called any of her relatives a shoeshine boy, all kinds of mayhem would follow. Apparently, she’s got bigger balls than Villaraigosa does. If he won’t stand up for himself, why should anyone else?

I don’t know, but I once mistook Mel Marinez for a Cuban cigar.

Re anymouse; reminds me of the Leave it to Beaver episode when Mom said, ‘Wally, don’t you think your were a little hard on the Beaver last night?…

me? i’d say currency speculator–any kind of speculator, indeed–was by definition dishonorable and attracted only dishonorable people to them…

REALLY?

Then you won’t mind me telling you that yo mama fcuked the shoeshine boy.

My bad. And he was just trying to fair. Probably balanced, too.

You say “potato”, I say “potahto”.

You say “put a comment in context”, I say “grasping at straws”.

Keltoi Says:

Um..Anymouse? Some unsolicited advice? DON’T get involved with the Troll thing.

BE the Troll. EMBRACE the Troll. Best advice I ever got here.

So you’re recommending that he ignore any evidence that refutes his “context”?

No, not at all, the failure to answer the psychic time traveller thing is legit, I just cringe when someone says “why are you calling me a troll?”. I played that game for a year or more til Zooey told me she had been called a troll, then the pointlessness of the word came home to me.

But you should be able to recognize a genuine troll when you see one by now, hm?

BE the Troll. EMBRACE the Troll. Best advice I ever got here.

So you’re recommending that he ignore any evidence that refutes his “context”?

anymouse is simply trying to be fair (we just disagree on a few points) but I must have said something unwelcoming, because anymouse seems to have left.

Um..Anymouse? Some unsolicited advice? DON’T get involved with the Troll thing.

BE the Troll. EMBRACE the Troll. Best advice I ever got here.

If you are new to the blog, you should know that if you are anywhere to the right of Dennis Kucinich you will get called a Troll at times. It is no biggie, it doesn’t really even mean anything. Derailing threads is true Trollish behavior, which you aren’t doing.

And yes, Toasterhead is a crack up (budding Armenians indeed!) but he is no racist.

How is it being a “troll” to put a comment in context?

Being a troll is ignoring the evidence that your “context” requires a time machine.

When will you respond to Ralph?

How is it being a “troll” to put a comment in context?
I signed on to this site about 2 days ago. I’m trying to be fair. We just happen to disagree on a few points.

gotta call Bull hockey on that one!
Please answer ralph’s questions on post #25.

Unless the Mayor was carrying a shoe-shine kit, it sure sounds racist to me. (Of course, if the mayor had been carrying a shoe-shine kit, then the “Secret Service” line would have been quite insulting to the Secret Service.)