Handy Tips for President Obama on Behavior in Foreign Countries
Is it just me, or is Barack Obama not the most experienced person we’ve ever had as president? On some of his foreign trips, he’s seemed a bit befuddled on how to behave himself. It’s almost like Obama has never been to a foreign country, which certainly has to be a blow to conspiracy theorists who think he was born in one. His recent bowing before the Japanese emperor was so lame it even embarrassed the Japanese. It’s like Obama learned his Japanese etiquette from watching The Karate Kid.
Now, foreign affairs can be quite confusing. Frankly, I wouldn’t even have thought that guy was emperor, because he’s so assuming in a business suit (shouldn’t an emperor at least have a fancy hat?). And it gets even worse in other countries with their crazy languages and clothing and which animals they consider sacred or filthy. Still, the president of the United States really needs to know how to comport himself out there so everyone is well aware how completely awesome our country is and how much better it is than any of the others with their stupid kings and emperors and parliaments and what not.
Usually, I try to undermine Obama in absolutely any way I can — even trying to get him imprisoned if possible — because I’m hyper-partisan, but in foreign affairs Obama is representing all of America, so it’s important that he does well. Thus I’m going to help him out and give him all the advice I can on how to politely conduct himself in foreign countries while still asserting America’s dominance.
TIPS FOR OBAMA ON HOW TO BEHAVE IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES
- When in a foreign country, U.S. presidents customarily greet its leaders with a measure of time. For example, when visiting France, you’d say, “Hello, President Sarkozy. Seven to ten minutes, considering traffic.” This should be how long you estimate it will take for the U.S. military to conquer the country.
- A deep bow to someone in Japan is too formal and too obsequious. Instead, use a more causal, friendly gesture — such as grabbing the emperor in a headlock and shouting, “Noogie!” and then rapping your knuckles across his scalp.
- If a country gives you a sentimental gift, such as a special pen holder made from the wood of an anti-slavery ship, don’t tell them you’d rather they get you Modern Warfare 2 for the X-Box. Instead, accept it graciously and just subtly point out your Amazon Wish List for future use.
- In the Middle East, don’t throw a shoe at someone’s face, as it is considered a grave insult instead of the lighthearted gesture of friendship it is in Europe.
- Also while in the Middle East, don’t ask any foreign leader how his day has been unless you want to listen to a long rant about the Jews.
- Foreign countries can be quite confusing, so be extra sure something is a urinal before you pee on it.
“Don’t tell foreign leaders how great it is for them to meet you.” Ruh-ro, he won’t be able to overcome this one!
I think the reason he bowed so low in Japan is he was asking someone to check and make sure he had no dandruff on his collar. Oops, it was there and he mistook the Emperor for the dandruff-checker. Double oops.
“Before you tell a foreign leader what a great Rottweiler he has, make sure it’s not actually one of his children.”
That was funny!!
Best advice I ever heard!
I wish you had given these pointers to ‘El Gringo’ Bush.
May Obama heed your advice. Maybe he’ll appoint you as Social Secretary and Chief of Staff á la Letitia Baldrige.
One of the biggest mistakes an executive can make is to hire friends and cronies instead of the most qualified people, even if he doesn’t like them. If Obama surrounded himself with trained, experienced experts, he would be less likely to make diplomatic social gaffes.
President Wee Wee might better stay at home, help Michelle put the garden to bed for the winter, discuss how to destroy America with Andy Stern–anything but embarrass the country any more overseas.
VERY funny. Humor is good.
Instead of making you Social Secretary I am going to nominate you as the Humor Czar. That eliminates any pesky vetting procedures.
Obama has shamed our country in many ways. It will take a John Wayne to pull us out and restore our dignity.
Your column is silly, you can do better, although the rottweiler was funny.
Obama grovels because he has sold our financial soul to these places.
TO: Frank J, et al.
RE: The ONLY Reason….
….Obama did this deep, subservient bow to the Emperor of Japan, was to counter the allegations that he is a Muslim, brought on by his bowing to the Sheik of Arabi, when, before THAT encounter he had not bowed to the Queen of England.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[The Truth will out....Obama IS a Muslim....he said so himself....to Stephanopolis....and the nation....]
I think you meant Sparta, Wisconsin.
http://www.spartawisconsin.org/
“If a leader presents you with a special outfit native to his country, whatever you do don’t put it on. Just explain to him that you don’t want to look like a total moron. He’ll understand.”
No, no, a thousand times, no. The correct advice is to present the foreign leader with a pair of Lederhosen and a Carmen Miranda hat in return, and then request that you both do a photo op together.
Didn’t The One tell us during the campaign the reason he chose Joe Biden for VP was to ease our fears about his lack of foreign policy experience? Excellent job, Joe!
INSULTING!!! Really now, your article is a shallow and disrespectful reading of The Karate Kid. IF POTUS had really paid attention to TKK, he’d know that when bowing you never shake hands at the same time, and you never take your eyes off the person to whom you bow.
What I saw in that embarrassing incident with the Japanese emperor was more of an interrupted kowtow. The only reason he didn’t get all the way to the floor was that the emperor wouldn’t let go of his hand.
Isn’t there someone in the State Dept that has been to these countries before? Maybe BO “I Won” could maybe call over there and say “hey, I know I’ve been kind of ignoring you guys, but I’m heading over to Asia for a few days, any pointers on how not to embarrass us?”
Next time there’s going to be one of these summits, we should host it.
Is it just me, or is Barack Obama not the most experienced person we’ve ever had as president?
Well, considering Tapper’s article described it in these terms:
“Obama’s handshake/forward lurch was so jarring and inappropriate it recalls Bush’s back-rub of Merkel.
The answer would seem to be no. You’re welcome.
As Maximum Leader bowed to the floor, he was heard to mutter “So sorry for Hiroshima and Nagasaki, so very very sorry.”
Anonymous:
Since Bush rubbed someone’s back, Obama is the most experienced president we’ve ever had? You smirt!
I can see why you remain Anonymous; otherwise the FBI would be constantly at your door trying to get you to figure out all their unsolved cases.
Actually Frank J. Fleming, I simply forgot to add my tag. Here’s the thing. The author makes the statement that Obama may be the most inexperienced President we’ve ever had. As evidence he says:
His recent bowing before the Japanese emperor was so lame it even embarrassed the Japanese.
The link is to Hot Air, but the actual statement he’s referring to is from Jake Tapper’s interview with an expert on Japanese culture. Who made the statement I excerpted. Only an idiot would declare that Obama is the most inexperienced President we’ve ever had, using a quote by someone who says the opposite. And only an idiot would defend that bit of logic. Any more questions, fool? I hope so.
moho:
Learn to parse a sentence, kid. You’re apparently inferring that Obama is the most inexperienced president ever, but that just means you’re arguing with yourself right now.
When traveling abroad with Bill Ayers on A.F.1, never, ever, eat the Brown Acid.
Did anybody notice that Obama met with his brother in China and said that he met him “a couple of years ago”? If so, who wrote the detailed description of Obama meeting the same man in 1988 that is in “Dreams…”Did Obama slip up and let the cat out of Ayers bag?
Frank Fleming:There’s a word for your illness–Aphasia. As it progresses you will find a greater impediment in deriving meaning from sentences that possess ambiguity of any kind. Eventually you will only be able to read simply structured sentences, such as “he is the most inexperienced”, rather than intuitively decoding colloquial expressions. I would usually express condolences to your family–as you drift further and further from communication–but in this case, I can only feel a certain joy for them at being liberated from what is currently the supernaturally deep obtuseness that passes for your self-expression.
gosh moho, you talk purtier than a $2 whore…you don’t make any sense, but I’m sure you think you do…
moho:
You don’t get any smarter, do you? Maybe next time you write something moron and don’t put your name to it, don’t later take credit for it after someone points out the stupidity.
Frank. I may not be getting any smarter, but you seem to be getting dumber. Its like the de-programming scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
23. Alphabet Soup:
“…you don’t make any sense, but I’m sure you think you do…”
There’s a phrase for moho’s condition. Sophomoric. Given to condescending intellectual pretensions that impress no one. Most people who catch it recover from it eventually. Some never do.
Commuter:
I’ll lose faith in humanity if he’s older than twelve.
Is moho writing in Esperanto or something?
Frank, seriously: people like you made me lose faith in humanity a long time ago. Also, in our cognitive sciences. Why is there no money put into research for your condition?
Moho, since you don’t know how to shut up, here it is in plain English:
Yes, Obama is our most inexperienced President. No quotes are needed; observation will do.
Happy now?
Esperanto? It is catching. This reminds me of the Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat. Someone should do a study on this phenomenon. In any case, I’ll do my best to use simply verb-subject-adjective sentences for the time being. It will take some work. I am used to communicating with people who can read English. But don’t worry, I will keep your shortcomings in mind.
So moho, you are saying that Frank J., the author of the article you are commenting on, doesn’t understand the sentence that he wrote himself?
Oh wait, Frank. I just realized that you’re the same idiot who wrote this drivel! Oh my god, that’s really freaking hilarious.
IamJack. Yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying:
Here’s his thesis:
Is it just me, or is Barack Obama not the most experienced person we’ve ever had as president?
He then argued that he meant this sentence literally. And he agreed that Bush was not the most experienced either. What the hell was the point? Either he was unable to defend his inference that Obama was the most inexperienced President we’ve had. Or he really did want to make the simple claim that at some point in history, there were more experienced Presidents than either Bush or Obama, which I doubt many people dispute. What a silly little man.
Exurban Jon:
If his writing skills were better, he’d be more able to communicate how dumb he is. Right now, we have an incomplete picture.
By all means, keep scrambling. I especially enjoy watching you grasp at the other posters for help. I have nothing to lose in the bargain so keep it up. Though one could argue that you have little to lose either, which does put a slight damper on it. No, really keep going.
Either he was unable to defend his inference that Obama was the most inexperienced President we’ve had.
And now he’s confusing “infer” for “imply” while writing a sentence fragment. Goodnight, everybody…
“This reminds me of the Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat.”
That’s a porn, isn’t it?
Mojo? You’d know.
Micromanagement and overobfuscation of language is a playground game for the academic. The rest of us work for a living.
moho:
I think we’ve all pretty much assumed by now you have nothing more important to do.
Nice article. Could you fix your Maybeline eye makeup on your twitter avatar picture. You look like your eyes are missing or that have two unpuffy black eyes.
Frank,
Don’t assume that moho has picked up on the fact that the post is satire. He undoubtedly read the first sentence. He’s having trouble parsing it, but he did read it.
Frank. I assumed that about you when you wrote this article.
moho:
I know you are but what am I!
Oh, you already did that. But, you’re right: I often have nothing better to do then write an article an get paid for it. This here, though, I do for fun.
So are really going to keep doubling down on the stupid instead of just admitting you originally read the sentence wrong?
Really moho, if Frank makes you so angry and you think he is so stupid why do you bother reading his articles? Or do you like to troll?
Frank. I’m pretty sure that you get paid through advertising, which relies on the hit, and I’d say that’s most likely a pathetic sum. I’d thank the lord for every time I post, if I were you; you might even be able to buy a Big Mac with your proceeds today. That being said, that’s more a compliment, considering the brain-dead sleestacks that seem to frequent Self-Pwnage media.
But are you really this dumb? If I misread the statement, then you were quite literally making the mundane statement that Obama is not the MOST experienced President instead of using the obvious idiom. Again, what was your point then? The context from the rest of the article suggests that you are saying that he is comically inexperienced. Putting the two together, it seems that you would like me to believe that you didn’t know what you were talking about.
If you were, in fact, saying that Obama is comically inexperienced, then my original criticism is salient. You used Jake Tapper’s interview, which you got through a third party, to suggest that Obama was a supremely inexperienced President. But Tapper’s piece states:
“Obama’s handshake/forward lurch was so jarring and inappropriate it recalls Bush’s back-rub of Merkel.”
The point here is obvious. Obama’s fumble was so lame, it even recalls BUSH! Again, you defended yourself from that criticism by claiming that the sentence has another meaning than what the idiom it is associated with clearly suggests. Either you didn’t check the original source to see the context, or you wrote a pointless article about an even more pointless event.
Served.
So much to remember and so little time. Thank goodness he has a staff of hundreds to remind him. It might be simpler to avoid international travel altogether and just bow to himself in the mirror every day.
Frank:
Moho’s response in #45:
“I’m pretty sure that you get paid through advertising, which relies on the hit…”
to this:
“I often have nothing better to do then write an article an get paid for it. This here, though, I do for fun.”
is a pretty good indicator of moho’s ability to extract meaning from simple sentences.
He’s picking a fight several divisions above his weight class and the tool hasn’t a clue.
My advice is quit going to foreign countries and stay in your place and quit campaigning all the time and then resign as soon as possible!
As with most liberals moho has no sense of humor. Come on Frank make him mad again!
commuter. You’re right I misread that bit. Remarkably, that was the only defense of your daddy that you could pull out of my post. I suppose you’re saying that, save for the portion where I misread the part about his NOT GETTING PAID TO WASTE HIS TIME IN THIS WAY, LOL, I’m right about the other issues.
Moho – “Douchebag says ‘what’”?
Actually, I’m inclined to think that he does call the State Dept. in advance of these overseas jaunts. Hillary has left explicit instructions that are to be delivered in just such circumstances. Then, once he hangs up, everyone at State bursts out laughing.
That Hillary. What a kidder!
Butters Dad. Nice work. It doesn’t work so well written, does it?
moho:
It’s called an understatement. They are used in humor. Do you really have no clue how stupid you look?
Indeed Frank. You can call it an understatement and it is. And its also an idiom. In each case, another meaning is intended. Therefore, you should have simply addressed the point I made when I responded to it as an understatement. Follow along:
You wrote:
Is it just me, or is Barack Obama not the most experienced person we’ve ever had as president?
And you now agree that you meant that he is the least experienced President. To which I responded:
Well, considering Tapper’s article described it in these terms:
“Obama’s handshake/forward lurch was so jarring and inappropriate it recalls Bush’s back-rub of Merkel.
The answer would seem to be no. You’re welcome.
You responded:
Since Bush rubbed someone’s back, Obama is the most experienced president we’ve ever had? You smirt!
You hid behind the literal meaning of the sentence at first, now you want to return to its intended and well-understood meaning. It was lame to begin with, there were other ways to squirrel away from the criticism. Trust me, if I indeed looked stupid, I’d simply fit right in to your little clatch.
moho:
Gah! All I did was imply he’s not a very experienced president! And attacking Bush does not refute this! Are you not a native English speaker? Is this really that complicated?
Butters Dad–right on! That Hillary is such a kidder, heck Bill probably even showed Barry how to bow low, with extended hand and lowered gaze. I can’t wait to see what he does next! Obama’s next best seller will be “Manners for Idiots”…darn it, he’s spoiling the “surprise, surprise”–the pictures are already out there for the world to see. Once the AP *reporters* finish fact checking “Going Rogue” they can pen “MfI” so Obama can earn more royalties for a book he didn’t write.
Frank,
Can you imagine having to interact with this tool in the real world? The workplace? That’d probably be flipping burgers in moho’s case, but the point holds.
There are two kinds of pundits.
Those who criticize both sides [liberal and conservative] when they do something that violates what they construe to be a principled behavior. And those who always mangage to criticize the other side while rationalizing their own side for doing basically the same thing.
What did Obama do that has never been done by a politician on your own side of the ideological fence?
Again, Frank. I didn’t attack Bush. I provided the context of the quote on which you were basing your thesis.
You wrote:
His recent bowing before the Japanese emperor was so lame it even embarrassed the Japanese.
That quote, again:
Obama’s handshake/forward lurch was so jarring and inappropriate it recalls Bush’s back-rub of Merkel.
It was you attacking both Bush and Obama by using that source as the context for why we should view Obama’s act as both very important [because the Japanese also thought it was horrifying] and the product of inexperience. You linked to Hot Air, which said this:
So much of an idiot, in fact, that according to Tapper’s source, at least one Japanese paper isn’t running the photo out of embarrassment. This tool actually groveled himself into a minor international incident.
Hot Air’s source is Tapper’s interview. Tapper’s interview quite clearly puts Obama’s act in context by comparing it [and one could argue actually comparing it favorably] to Bush:
“Obama’s handshake/forward lurch was so jarring and inappropriate it recalls Bush’s back-rub of Merkel.”
Not only do I speak English, I’m starting to feel like your English teacher. The next time you want to make a point about Obama being extremely incompetent in comparison to his predecessors, don’t do it with a quote that suggests that his predecessor WAS WORSE! In fact, the source uses Bush to give the reader an idea of just how incompetent Obama’s act was! Really, dude. Comedy is a way of making a point, but its not a substitute for thinking.
Clint Eastwood for President. He actually has more experience, being a former mayor and all. Plus wash-up actors make good Presidents.
43. Frank J. Fleming:
moho:
I know you are but what am I!
Oh, you already did that. But, you’re right: I often have nothing better to do then write an article an get paid for it. This here, though, I do for fun.
So are really going to keep doubling down on the stupid instead of just admitting you originally read the sentence wrong?
TOO FUNNY FRANK ..way too funny. lol ..you know you shouldn’t feed the troll.
cheers …enjoyable piece by the way
oh, ha, he’s commented again. Anyhoo, moho, the correct answer to “Is it just me, or….” is, “Yes, it’s just you” except it’s not just Frank. Cause I agree that Obama is not the most experienced person we’ve ever had as President.
Opinions tend to be kinda shady in the “right or wrong” category.
Besides, how do you know that “it recalss Bush’s back-rub of Merkel” doesn’t mean that his bow was worse than that, and who knew anyone could be worse? SURPRISE!
in case I wasn’t clear, which tends to happen.
“and one could argue actually comparing it favorably” or not.
FTFY
Fair enough Maggie, it wasn’t really my point. I don’t suppose anyone could match George H W Bush barfing in the lap of the Japanese Prime Minister:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnOnDatqENo
Seriously, Obama’s doing pretty well compared to his predecessor and others. It would have been funnier and more honest to revisit some of these incidents. Ideology got in the way, and as usual, made this a rather dumb exercise in lowest common denominator tribalism.
moho,
You are compareing a invoulentary responce (Bush puking) to an voulentary responce. The issue here is either President Obama is not listening to his protocal experts or he has surounded himself with the dumbest protocal people he could find. Bowing to other heads of state is a huge no no. Has been since President Washington. Obama should have known better since he just got reamed in the media for doing this same thing to Saudi King Abdullah a few months back.
And if you want to talk about lowest common denominator tribalisim, you’re the one on a right wing website, On a humor article, trying desperately to prove the writer wrong. IT’S A FREKING HUMOR PIECE. Are you the producer at CNN that thought it nessecary to “Fact Check” SNL Skits. Loosen up.
P.S Loose the Thesaurus. All it does is make people think you live in your mothers basement. People with lives have enough of a vocabulary to get their point across.
Moho – Worked fine for me.
You are compareing a invoulentary responce (Bush puking) to an voulentary responce. The issue here is either President Obama is not listening to his protocal experts or he has surounded himself with the dumbest protocal people he could find.
Excuse me, but there is no more basic protocol than not throwing up on your host. I don’t care how sick you are, you excuse yourself before things come to it; you don’t simply hang out until you faint in a hail of vomit in your hosts lap. In the Diplomat and Statesman’s Handbook, right on page 1, it says, ‘Remember, no matter what happens or where you find yourself, never, ever vomit on your host. Keep that in mind and everything else is a cake-walk”.
Someone with such poor judgment can be counted on to raise defective children.
Also, I’m sorry if my literacy bugs you; you’re going to have to live with it. I’ll write however I like. Believe me, simply spelling the words right would seem like a miracle to a caveman like you in any case; there is hardly a word in your post that’s spelled correctly and you’re telling me to “loose” the thesaurus [sheesh, is this a joke?]. If I was Frank, I’d delete your post as quickly as possible, because its a dead giveaway of the kind of people who find his schtick humorous.
Moho–
Seriously, Obama’s doing pretty well compared to his predecessor and others.
I guess you’re right, if by “well” you mean bankrupting the country. Barry seems to be trying as hard as he can to meet this goal. Bush, admittedly, paved the way for him in this category without having tried very hard.
It would have been funnier and more honest to revisit some of these incidents.
What’s “funnier” is reading your prissy, incoherent blathering about grammar, linguistics and figurative language, as if you had the first bit of knowledge about any of those things.
If you had any idea what you’re talking about, I’d have to call you a humorless pedant.
As it is, you’re just a lonely, angry jerk with an extremely unpleasant personality and no special knowledge about much of anything, that I can tell, though that won’t stop you from pretending you do.
Trust me, your hopes of affirmation and/or acknowledgment of your superiority are utterly in vain.
Trust me, your hopes of affirmation and/or acknowledgment of your superiority are utterly in vain.
Look, don’t take this the wrong way, but if I really needed to prove something about my self-worth, I certainly wouldn’t be doing it here. Seriously, having an argument here is like playing checkers with a four year old. As for “no special knowledge”; well almost everything that I’ve said here is common sense, so you’re right in a way. There’s nothing here that shows that I have a specialized knowledge, nor does there need to be. What’s on display here is your lack of the most basic reasoning and literacy skills; I haven’t claimed to have anything but common knowledge and access to basic reason. That’s the saddest part. Well, actually funny. But sad too.
Also, I’m sorry if my literacy bugs you; you’re going to have to live with it.
Double-talk and obscurantism aren’t literacy. And just because someone insists that you drop the b.s. and speak plainly without trying to conceal your vacuousness doesn’t mean that person is illiterate.
But I’ve never yet met one person of your ilk that doesn’t refuse to make that distinction, because that tattered fig leaf is the only claim you have to credibility.
Brian.
Double talk and obscurantism aren’t literacy? By definition they are, actually. Literacy is not the mess of letters that that bonehead submitted as his post, however. In any case, if you actually have an issue with it, the best way to demonstrate that I used double-talk is to actually show an example of it, and then refute the underlying point. I presented a series of points, Frank seems to have understood them well enough to have replied, even if he didn’t like their tone. You can provide proof of what you’re talking about, and I’ll take you seriously, or as seriously as anyone is likely to take you; or you can continue to cry about how you couldn’t understand me and label it high falutin’, or whatever you hillbillies call it these days.
moho
Did Bush throw up on two differnt dignataries? Because that would be somewhat compareable to this situation. President Obama bowed to Saudi King Abdullah. That was dumb. He recieved flack in the media for it. It was at least understandable since Obama was relatively new to anything resembling foriegn relations. BUT HE DID IT AGAIN. He failed to learn from his mistakes. What does that make Obama; A repeat offender.The guy can’t get simple protocal down, no wonder his foriegn relations plan with Iran is the same worn out plan that has worked wonders for the EU.
Now if you can, Address the issue of Obama still screwing up protocol twice. Or you can skate the arguement by correcting spelling and grammer on blog entries. It must be fufilling since you’ve spent 10 hours today doing it.
BigIlliterate Richard, there is nothing comparable to puking on a head of state. It is the literal equivalent of getting pantsed in front of your school yard crush. Again, if Obama did that you’d ejaculate on to your keyboard and declare that there was no salvation now. I can’t imagine anyone giving Obama a break for having puked on the Japanese prime minister. There is literally nothing you can bring up done by any other President that’s that awful.
In any case, learn to spell. I’m serious. No one takes people seriously when they can’t express themselves properly in English. Just think, when you’re ranting about affirmative action or immigration, how lame your arguments will look; no one will believe anyone could steal your job or whatever, because it will seem, if you have a job, that you shouldn’t have gotten it in the first place. An error here or there is normal and I usually don’t bring it up. But I’ve not seen anything quite like this from an adult.
At least use spell check in a word document, then cut and paste.
moho:
So how old are you and what do you do for a living?
Double talk and obscurantism aren’t literacy? By definition they are, actually.
So, by definition, double talk and obscurantism are literacy? Really?
You just proved my point for me. But, per your request, I’ll include some more examples. Your writing in this thread is rich with them:
As it progresses you will find a greater impediment in deriving meaning from sentences that possess ambiguity of any kind.
Meaning, of course: “Over time, you will take things more and more literally.” But you figured that doesn’t make you sound smart enough, so you composed the pretentious, flaccid tub of lard of a sentence above. Guess what? That doesn’t make you sound smart either.
…I can only feel a certain joy for them at being liberated from what is currently the supernaturally deep obtuseness that passes for your self-expression.
A “supernaturally deep obtuseness?”
I would ask you to explain, but you’d probably just dismiss my query with some sentence that contains the word “hillbilly.” This, of course, to avoid having to explain what you know very well makes no goddam sense to begin with.
If you were, in fact, saying that Obama is comically inexperienced, then my original criticism is salient.
You have no idea what “salient” means. I think you’re trying to say something along the lines of “valid” or “pertinent.” “Salient” means something that stands out from the things that are close to it. Or a part of something that stands out from the other parts. A “salient” criticism would be one that you either rely on the most or that is the most noticeable in relation to the other criticisms you might have. It has not a thing to do with that criticism’s validity, credibility or whether it’s a good argument or a half-baked one or an honest one.
I’m guessing that you hold the risible prose of people like Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, and probably half a dozen other obscurantists in high reverence, and you’ve been taught to write like them as much as you can. You’re nowhere near as creative or as brazen as some of those folks, but you’re in the same vein. More than likely you’ve been taught that masturbatory nonsense is the very height of literacy. At any rate, you’ve admitted that you think so, whether or not someone had to teach you that attitude.
I used to teach college freshmen who succumbed to the same temptation of writing above their own heads in order to try and hide their lack of research, thought and vocabulary.
But…but…writing clearly and coherently is hard work! I’ll have to think things through! I’ll have to do thorough research! I’ll have to use a dictionary and a thesaurus to make sure I’m using words correctly! It’s so much easier just to fill in the huge gaps of my adequacy as a writer and thinker with opaque nonsense or unnecessary fluff that I pass off as serious work!
Don’t feel bad, Moho. You and hundreds of thousands of college freshmen are in very good company. Most academic chairs, the giants of postmodern anti-intellectualism, nearly all government worker bees, even the president of the United States all have this same lazy and dishonest habit, and they all pretend it’s the same thing as “literacy.” And you all (excepting all or most of those freshmen) pretend that the people who call you on your meaningless claptrap are rubes, I suppose to make yourselves feel better.
I have come to the conclusion after reading the posts that “moho” is really that creepy David Axelrod.
Frank, how about this? You first. We can determine from your lame writing style and your self-published book on Amazon dot com [with one review, from you]that you certainly don’t get paid to write. So what do you do for a living? I don’t actually care how old you are? I’m not looking for a date or anything.
Brian H:
Most of your post is hillbilly garbage. Two points, however, I can’t let pass simply for your own benefit. When I said that double-talk is by definition literacy, I didn’t mean to leave you with the impression that literacy is only double-talk. Generally, a person with passing communication skills would understand the difference, but I can tell I’m dealing with somebody with incipient cognitive difficulties. If you can double-talk in writing, then you are by definition literate. The statement was not a qualification of any kind. The words were used by you in the first place.
Second. I can’t leave you with the level of misunderstanding you have of the word salient. Here are some synonyms for the word that may help you understand a bit better how its used in context.
arresting, arrestive, conspicuous, famous, impressive, intrusive, jutting, marked, moving, notable, obtrusive, obvious, outstanding, pertinent, projecting, prominent, pronounced, protruding, remarkable, signal, significant, striking, weighty
Now that you’ve made a complete fool of yourself, I’ll leave you to whatever hillbillies do on a Wednesday night. Off with you, thanks for trying so hard.
“Again, if Obama did that you’d ejaculate on to your keyboard and declare that there was no salvation now.”
Dang moho, I wish you mom wouldn’t tell you these things about me. I mean I am paying her in food stamps, but please. She should have some proffesional courdesy.
But seriously. If Obama thew up on anyone, I might laugh, Like I did years ago when Bush did. Bush Thew up. Obama CHOSE to do the same stupid thing twice. Now this means he’s slow or he’s incompatant leader by surounding himself with culture experts that don’t know the basics of forigen relations. Either way it dosen’t reflect on him well.
By the way. Ever have a friend who can never figure out what their own problem was? Thanks for proving my point. Hey! 12 hours and counting. Keep living the dream.
Look, don’t take this the wrong way, but if I really needed to prove something about my self-worth, I certainly wouldn’t be doing it here. Seriously, having an argument here is like playing checkers with a four year old.
Really? Like playing checkers with a four-year-old?
And yet you’ve spent literally your entire day doing just exactly that. Well, if not a pathetic need to prove your self-worth, there must be some deep-seated psychological drive that is motivating you to forgo a job, household chores, a family, the opposite sex, fresh air and sunshine and all of the other necessary or pleasurable things that life has to offer. Speaking for myself, I could play a game or two of checkers with a four-year-old, but I couldn’t do it all day long. I certainly couldn’t neglect my entire life to do it.
Maybe you’re just more into four-year-olds than is common? There’s got to be some EXTREMELY important reason why you keep doing this.
76. BrianH:
No, moho’s wicked smart. In a PJM comment just a day or two ago, moho claimed that he fought off muggers several times using just his ‘courage’ and ‘intelligence’ to buttress a position he took that only ignorant cowards use guns to protect themselves. (I’m not kidding, moho actually did write this).
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/how-hard-will-it-be-to-convict-khalid-sheikh-mohammed/#comment-48
He’s like a superhero, he’s so wicked smart.
Seriously though, you’re bringing up pedantic college freshmen (though I would have used sophomores as an example for obvious reasons) does jog the memory on college run ins with the type of blithering idiocy that defines moho. Stoners you know in passing drop by on munchy quests, jump into a conversation, and make about as much coherency as moho does. You don’t know whether to pity them because you know they aren’t likely to be around to graduate, or admire the richness of their fantasies.
Great sources for comic relief but you never give their maundering on any subject serious consideration. Especially when you find that they aren’t much more coherent when they’re straight.
not really you’re point? looking back at you’re first comment, I would have to agree. You seem to be saying “No, it’s not just you and this example from Jake Tapper doesn’t really have anything to do with it.”
but BOOOOOOOOOSH! heh, hey! is that a rabbit over there?
ah, I see it’s homophone FAIL day again.
“Handy Tips for President Obama on Behavior in Foreign Countries”
He should stay out of them.
Especially America.
Moho gets the last word, and, true to my prediction, that word is “hillbilly.”
Then he slinks off into the night, to do whatever it is that bitter, lonely, and not-very-smart guys who like four-year-olds do on the computer in the wee hours.
At least he showed he can look up the word “salient” in a thesaurus. If he had done that to begin with, he could have saved himself some embarrassment.
Good night, moho. Good night.
moho:
I’m a software engineer who writes in his spare time.
So please, how old are you and what do you do for a living? And please include any other information you think might be relevant in understanding what makes an internet troll tick. You seem very desperate to prove to yourself you’re smart (which of course has the opposite effect to everyone else).
Frank. I really do find this interesting. All I’ve done is make a point and defend it using reason and evidence. That seems to be some sort of slanderous crazy thing to you people, lol. Hilarious. “You must think yer smerter n me. Well, I’ll show you, I’m only legally retarded.” As I said, you’re free to think of me as stupid, it doesn’t bother me. Given that you’re surrounded by idiots, its quite possible that your little clatch will support you. From my perspective, it only makes it funnier watching fools unable to prove their points, or be consistent–like Commuter who’s insulted you two or three times by accident without realizing it.
As for why I do this. I hate what you people stand for, I think you’re ruining our country. Those of you who have the ability to reason, eschew it for feel-good bigotry [but that's a small minority, especially obvious after this series of interactions, most of you can't reason]. Criticizing Obama is fine; having supported Bush for eight years while he destroyed our country isn’t. Putting the two together makes you hypocrites. That’s what makes me tick. There’s not a lot I can do about the fact that the thirty percent of American voters who are equally crazed, ignorant and stupid are ruining my country, but I can insult and humiliate you in front of your audience; and indeed, you’ve made it fun and easy [chapeau]. I’ve never claimed to be smart, in fact I’m of average intelligence. What you should be worried about is why its so easy to make you look like a fool.
As for commuter, I didn’t say that only ignorant cowards need guns. Why lie about it if you’re going to provide the link. And why not just post what I said? Its actually shorter than your post. I wrote that guns were equalizers for “cowards”. Looked at from the perspective of a gun owner, who is so frightened of the world that he/she must carry a lethal weapon, it would seem self-evident that those not carrying guns are courageous. Either that, or the world is not quite as dangerous as you paranoid idiots think it is and the repercussions for not being armed not as grave as they may seem to you, grovelling in your cul de sac afraid to walk your dog because a Jihadist is going to jump out of the bushes with a hockey mask and a machete.
And Brian. Sorry, fella, you got served. The funny thing IS THAT IT WAS YOU TRYING TO PROVE YOU WERE SMARTER THAN ME! Nothing puts someone in their place better than being corrected on their own correction; its called Self-Pwnage. You’re welcome to look it up. Next time use the thesaurus FIRST, you dumb^&%t, before telling me I should use a thesaurus [shaking head, weeping with laughter]. And save the lecture for somebody who values your opinon; there’s nothing worse than sitting through the lecture of a flatulent has-been with dementia. Again, I’m of average intelligence; but you friend, are border-line retarded.
Last thing. Frank, don’t quit your day job. And with that, I bid you all a fond adieu [you can imagine me ululating into the sunset, if it makes you feel any better].
moho:
Wow. You really turned misinterpreting one sentence and not being able to admit you’re wrong into a valiant cause. Bravo!
Frank. LOL. I’d try as hard as I could to make it seem that way too, if I were you.
89. Frank J. Fleming:
‘moho:
Wow. You really turned misinterpreting one sentence and not being able to admit you’re wrong into a valiant cause. Bravo!’
He is a hoot.
‘I didn’t say that only ignorant cowards need guns. Why lie about it if you’re going to provide the link. And why not just post what I said? Its actually shorter than your post. I wrote that guns were equalizers for “cowards”…’
That brings me back. I recall the name of one of those stoners back in college now…Jeff. Always wondered what happened to him after his Dad came and picked him up that night.
Anyway,
‘like Commuter who’s insulted you two or three times by accident without realizing it.’
Sorry, Frank…I guess. Not sure what this tool is referring to, but I usually make it a habit to insult people on purpose.
Moho- You are a a complete F**KTARD.
Frank, have you ever tried to take a toy away from a three old who was going to hurt himself but didn’t know he was going to hurt himself? I know you don’t have any kids yet but the moho thing is exactly like that. (except the ululating into the sunset thing on post 88 – that’s just creepy-weird)
Wow. Just… wow. The most dangerous morons on Earth are the ones who don’t know they’re morons.
You can literally plot a diagram the way moho jumps from liberal talking point to talking point. If you carry a gun it’s because you’re afraid that a Jihadist is going to attack you? Isn’t that like hearing hoof beats and assuming Zebras?
I’d say it’s much more likely a person carrying a gun is worried about muggings, stabbings, home intruders – you know, things that happen every day in every major city around the country? Do I have flood insurance because I’m convinced an asteroid is going to land in the ocean and send a tsunami my way or because it freaking rains all the time? Jesus man, for such a smart guy I would have assumed you’d come into contact with Occam’s razor at some point in your life.
And what’s this ‘ruining MY country’ crap? Didn’t you just go off on a rant about tribalism and division? Isn’t it OUR country, or are the only truly ‘enlightened’ such as yourself allowed to have a hand in it? Is there even a physical process capable of dislodging a head so deeply crammed into one’s own ass?
These are the questions that make ME tick.
Best. Thread. Ever.
+1 on wht judge said in #92.
This just made my day.
R
CarbonBigfoot:
Really? That’s all it takes? Calling someone a f&&^tard? That’s the best indictment of this page I could possibly imagine.
To moho:
You really are pathetic. All told, your comments are the length of one or two essays even though you haven’t even grasped the basics of English. Frank J.’s been writing political satire for quite a while now, so I’d give him the benefit of the doubt on whether or not he knows what he’s talking about.
And stop harping on him drawing a quote from Tapper. Using a quote from someone who believes the opposite of what you’re saying is one of the best ways to go. For instance, if I were arguing against closing Gitmo I might quote the fact that Pelosi refuses to have terrorists imprisoned in her state while at the same time trying to close Gitmo. Or if I were arguing that Cap & Trade would hurt certain industries, I might quote Obama declaring his intention to bankrupt the coal industry, despite him (and others) saying that Cap & Trade won’t hurt the economy.
And do you realize that this audience in front of which you claim to be making Frank look like a fool is overwhelmingly conservative and, therefore, far more inclined to side with him than with you? And you’ve done far more to make YOURSELF look like a fool. You argued with a guy about the meaning of his article without even realizing it was his article even though it says “by Frank J. Fleming” right next to the picture at the top. Read the comments, genius. Pretty much no one thinks you’ve made Frank look like a fool and pretty much everyone thinks you’re an idiot.
One more thing, moho.
Regarding comment #96, you think someone saying something like that is the best indictment of this page you could possibly imagine?
1) You’re judging an article based on one reader’s comment.
2) I always – ALWAYS – hear/read much more of that sort of thing from liberal commenters and in the comment threads of liberal articles than from conservatives or in conservative article. It took until comment #92 here. I usually see something similar from a liberal commenter right around comment #5 (or earlier) or even in the article itself.
The most dangerous morons on Earth are the ones who don’t know they’re morons.
Still laughing at this. You idiots supported two disastrous wars with your pants around your ankles, and watched the economy swirl around the drain while we basically sold our economy to China. You nearly fellated the President every time he farted, until it was too embarrassing. Then you became Independents to hide from what you’d done. But only now, in the last eight months, have things become unbearable! Yeah, you’re absolutely right, for the first time I completely agree with someone here!
Commuter:Not sure what this tool is referring to
That’s freakin’ obvious [shaking head]. It was hilarious watching you do it. Its even funnier now watching you fumble around oblivious to it.
Wow. What a mofo, moho.
Now that you’ve intellectualized yourself into a pretzel (think of the clean-up THAT involves), relax, come back to the light. Big words and gaseous sentences only lend themselves to being human, but they don’t define a good person.
A high-fallutin’ intellectual is someone who impresses you with how important they are, whereas a good person makes you feel good.
mofo – I know you’ll mistake what I wrote, it’s your nature, so I’ll just leave you with one of my favorite definitions:
Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.
Hey Frank, punch any hippies today? Remember, aim for the face, follow-thru with your elbow (in case they dodge). Keep up the funny.
Moho–
Did you really just say that I “got served?” Whatever you say, Brittney.
And “Pwnage” doesn’t show up in my dictionary, as it’s a dictionary of English, not the illiterate techno-pidgin of 8th-graders.
And with that, I bid you all a fond adieu [you can imagine me ululating into the sunset, if it makes you feel any better].
How many fond adieus have you bid the people in Pajamas Media over the time you’ve been trolling here? (I see you’ve already posted yet again since your “fond adieu” just a short time ago.
If you ever left this place, you’d have no life at all. You spent all day here yesterday. I see you’re going to do the same thing today. And tomorrow. And the next day. And the next…and the next…
Face it: Pajamas Media is your life!
moho – “watched the economy swirl around the drain while we basically sold our economy to China”
At least our President didn’t sign thirteen figures in spending in the first couple months in office.
Brian H. And here you are again, as well. I can write these posts in thirty seconds. I’ve spent a total of twenty minutes on this. It may take you hours of careful research and spell-checking, don’t assume everyone labors under your limitations.
Ditto CarbonBigfoot. My lord that was entertaining…
yeah, the kid has serious problems, nobody ululates into the sunset.
Then again how can you tell the time of day from your mom’s basement.
Yeah, Guffy, he put those thirteen figure expenditures on credit. Really, this is indefensible logic. When the President was funding wars that have no clear goal–and have indeed replaced murderous regimes with incompetent corrupt regimes beset by violence–you people cheered. When another President spends the same money on domestic plans, its suddenly a Hitlerian crime. No accountability, no logic; you people screw yourselves, and you do so with glee as long as your handlers give you the opportunity to spit at a target. You assume that I’m an Obama supporter and I’m not. I view any President or authority figure with great amounts of suspicion and skepticism. You view only some that way, allowing the rest to run rough-shod over the country.
“Still laughing at this. You idiots supported two disastrous wars with your pants around your ankles, and watched the economy swirl around the drain while we basically sold our economy to China. You nearly fellated the President every time he farted, until it was too embarrassing. Then you became Independents to hide from what you’d done. But only now, in the last eight months, have things become unbearable!”
I know you’re probably too upper crust to pay any attention to good old fashioned down-home sayings, but one of my grandfather’s favorites was: When you assume you make an ass out of you and me. That’s your problem here chief – you make a ton of assumptions without evidence, postulate a worldview based on those assumptions, then blame all the problems you see on the failings you attribute to the worldview based on your own original false assumptions. Contaminated water often breeds a sickly tree with poisonous fruit.
Why mention the wars in conjunction to the economy? Seriously? First of all the cost of both wars combined is a veritable drop in the bucket when compared to things like say… the proposed national health care bill? We could have conquered the entire Middle East for what we’re gonna be paying for illegal immigrants alone.
Besides, one of the big problems with the economy is the death of our manufacturing base right? Wanna know one of the few things we still manufacture for ourselves? Military equipment! Most of the money spent to fund the war goes into American defense contractors, which the Democrats took great pains to remind us over the last eight years as they claimed Bush and Cheney were making all their pals in the arms trade rich! I would imagine the wars have pumped nearly as much back into the economy over the last eight years as the so-called ‘job creation’ steps Obama’s admin have undertaken. Disagree with the wars all you want but stop couching it in this ‘it ties into the economy’ thing that the Democrats have been trying to push lately. You’re not going to turn people off the wars by tying them to the stigma of the flagging economy so stop trying already.
Also, who became independents because they were embarrassed by anything other than the moderate shift of the party? Most people who started identifying themselves as independents weren’t becoming ‘moderate’, they were pissed the party wasn’t far enough to the right when McCain won the nomination. You’re just assuming (see how we keep coming back to that?) that they were running away because they were ashamed of Bush. I’d say the recent opinion polls on Obama, socialized medicine, Congress, and the recent elections all point to the opposite being true. If anything I’ve seen a recent rash of people suddenly realizing that Bush wasn’t the monster they thought he was.
I know you’ll just keep assuming you’re right about all us backwards rednecks, but I thought it a service to point it out.
‘ululating into the sunset’
Ululating at the sunset?
Ululating at sunset?
Undulating into the sunset?
Oscillating into the sunset?
moho–
Oh, it’s obvious that your individual posts are 5-10 second affairs. You seem to yearn for congratulations for that for some reason, so…good for you.
But my point, which you missed in your characteristically clueless way, is that you spend all day, every day writing these 5-10 second morsels of vapidity.
No one here needs to prove that he’s smarter than you, when you prove it yourself scores of times every single day.
The hopelessness and obliviousness that doing what you do must require, I can’t even imagine. You could make much more money working at a fast food joint than the peanuts they pay you to be an internet troll.
I just don’t get it.
Listen up Homo: Moho? Whatever…go find another bridge to troll around. It’s obvious that you have a hard-on for conservatives and really big words. So go read something by the founding fathers where they spoke of a responsible government, of the people, by the people, and for the people.
You’ll see that liberal and socialist ideals just don’t belong in this country. We like things that work. Like the Constitution. And conservatives.
Wow. Just wow.
moho, allow me to explain and me use small words cause me no as smart as you.
Frank’s sentence: Tom is not as tall as Jim.
Trapper’s article: Seeing Tom next to Jim recalls Steve standing next to Jim.
moho: Frank said Tom is the shortest, but Trapper clearly states Steve is even shorter.
everyone else: Jim is taller than Tom and Steve.
Try looking up the definition of “contrapositive” in your dictionary, dumb ass.
moho:
“I hate what you people stand for…”
That says it all. The rest was just fluff.
Don’t encourage him to use words like “contrapositive.” He can’t even manage “salient” or “adieu.”
Listen to me, boy: Adieu means “goodbye.” It means you’re leaving. Probably to skip on over to the HuffPo to brag to your buddies about how “salient” your arguments are.
Scott F.
Why mention the wars in conjunction to the economy? Seriously?
Yes, why indeed! LOL. Its obviously absolutely free to run these wars.
First of all the cost of both wars combined is a veritable drop in the bucket when compared to things like say… the proposed national health care bill?
You’re sadly misinformed. The most conservative estimates for the wars is one trillion. Some estimates say closer to three trillion over the next decade, when interest is counted in. That’s not counting the five hundred billion spent annually on Defense! Drop in the bucket? Seriously, this is what you base your political decisions on?
Besides, one of the big problems with the economy is the death of our manufacturing base right? Wanna know one of the few things we still manufacture for ourselves? Military equipment! Most of the money spent to fund the war goes into American defense contractors, which the Democrats took great pains to remind us over the last eight years as they claimed Bush and Cheney were making all their pals in the arms trade rich! I would imagine the wars have pumped nearly as much back into the economy over the last eight years as the so-called ‘job creation’ steps Obama’s admin have undertaken.
The problem here is that the military sector jobs make up only a small proportion of jobs, with almost negligible influence on job creation or the economy, as the last three years of steadily rising unemployment figures, despite an escalating war effort, indicate. This is your drop in the bucket. The next and most obvious problem, Einstein, is that you’re suggesting that the US’s only hope for economic viability is to have constant war! Stupid.
Generally, I would agree with your bucktoothed Granpappy. But I’ve never made an assumption about you idiots that wasn’t immediately proven sixty seconds later in the very next post. Its as if you literally defy the rational discourse about humanity, where every individual should be judged on their own merits! I desperately want to believe that you people are not some agglomeration of abject retards, dragging your knuckles into the voting booth with the seeming intent to destroy our country, but you give me very little hope.
Yeah and ALL that happened in a perfect vacuum where there existed nothing but the war right? I never said that war alone could prop up the economy (though you’d have to be pretty obtuse to argue it’s an ineffective way of doing it after seeing the way World War II lifted us from the Great Depression) only that the war is effectively funneling money right back into the hands of American corporations, a large portion of which goes right back to the government in the form of taxes.
I don’t suppose that those unemployment numbers could have anything to do with the financial markets or the mortgage crisis? It’s just the wars though right? Oh, and my ‘grandpappy’ wasn’t bucktoothed – he was a Jewish bank president from Vermont. See what happens when you make assumptions?
Don’t ask the foreign ruler if he is the first of his race to hold that position .
Moho is more than just a troll, don’t sell him so short.
Three hours of posting pass before you realize that the person you are exchanging barbs with is the author of the article. It’s clear you didn’t read it thoroughly before opening your mouth. This makes you lazy.
And this:
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/author/claytonecramer/
is just classic. It’s clear from this exchange that you’ve done some cursory reading of the subject, but no more than that. Thus it would seem that you are uneducated and ignorant, yet likely deluded enough to think that you are “self-educated.” I doubt you’ve finished high school.
But worst of all, this article is humor, a parody. Yet you still spew this hateful bile. Moho, you are a skeevy a##h###.
Its as if you literally defy the rational discourse about humanity, where every individual should be judged on their own merits
I desperately want to believe that you people are not some agglomeration of abject retards, dragging your knuckles into the voting booth with the seeming intent to destroy our country, but you give me very little hope.
I love how you look for excuses to bring up words and phrases like “fellated,” “farted,” “pants around your ankles,” “retards,” etc., etc. I suppose I ought to congratulate you, because you’re able to demonstrate that you knew what these words mean before you used them.
I apologize to the rest of you fools. I can only address one or two of you. I will try to choose only the dumbest. That isn’t to say you all aren’t dumb–especially those posting with some permutation of my posting name. I can see why all you assume that I’m trying to prove that I’m smarter than you; its what you all are constantly obsessed with doing. Again, I’m proving how stupid you are, not how smart I am.
Moho – “especially those posting with some permutation of my posting name.”
Are you saying that is especially stupid thing to do? Is that what you are saying? What is it when you do it? Inspired? You are now either especially stupid or a hypocrite. Which is it?
Again, just so you don’t start weeping hysterically, I’m not trying to prove that I’m smarter than you in the following, Anonymous, merely how stupid YOU ARE!
That isn’t to say you all aren’t dumb–especially those posting with some permutation of my posting name.
The statement implies that those posting with a permutation are especially stupid. But it does not say that they are especially stupid because they are posting with a permutation of the name. You can infer whatever you like about the reasons for their stupidity.
Careful, Anonymous. You don’t want to make him mad. He might “bid you a fond adieu,” and then “serve” you some “salient PWnage.”
Holy Crap! The moho is STILL posting!
This is hilarious. Do ya’ll think he’s for real? I mean seriously, no one is this dumb.
Ewwww… I don’t want to be “served” any “salient” anything from a MoHo.
123. BrianH:
Careful, Anonymous. You don’t want to make him mad. He might “bid you a fond adieu,” and then “serve” you some “salient PWnage.”
Nov 19, 2009 – 11:42 am
Given that you are such a stickler for grammar and spelling, I’d like you to acknowledge your glaring error:
its = possessive form of pronoun “it”
it’s = contraction of “it is”
Please learn the proper usage of both.
Poor moho.
Can’t you uneducated unwashed rightwing extremist rubes all just leave the kid alone?
Wait? Why is he ululating in a sunset?
generic. I’m actually not a stickler for spelling, except for one idiot here who literally misspelled every single word in his post. Or grammar. My initial criticism, which seems to have flipped the lids of all of you dainty flowers, was that the writer misused a source to imply that Obama is especially inept. The grammar portion came when, rather than defend his position, he hid behind the fact that he was using an idiom with a different literal meaning. I had to then explain to him that he could either: claim that he was using the terms literally, and thus destroy his point; or take up the criticism and answer the question about whether he had read the original source, or simply looked at the Hot Air blog that referenced it.
I simply don’t care about grammar or spelling. You’d be hardpressed to find anything I wrote that focuses on that exclusively, except for the one I noted. That was more of an intervention than anything else. Its been you idiots focusing on it. And it makes me laugh that you focus on it to the exclusion of almost anything substantive.
“Again, just so you don’t start weeping hysterically, I’m not trying to prove that I’m smarter than you in the following, Anonymous, merely how stupid YOU ARE!”
I didn’t ask what you are trying to prove. I don’t care what you are trying to prove. Try reading for comprehension.
But I do have my answer, thank you. In addition to being a lazy, ignorant, uneducated a##h###, you are also a hypocrite.
And, a liar. Didn’t you say “Adieu” earlier? Why are you still here? Or are you stupid in more than one language?
Frank:
Yesterday you have caused my stitches to loosen. Please do not do this again. I did not stop laughing throughout the whole reading of this article.
It is funny beyond funny. ABSOLUTELY CAUSES A RIOT OF LAUGHTER.
You are a terrific guy.
Manny J.
128. Frank J. Fleming:
“Wait? Why is he ululating in a sunset?”
I think he meant riding into the sunset. But that sort of clear, concise, unambiguous communication seems to be beyond him. Or maybe he wasn’t watching his spell checker closely and he meant undulating into the sunset. There’s an image.
So, mojo, how exactly is it that Frank is wrong! All he said was that Obama is an idiot and took a quote from Tapper to show that other people think Obama is an idiot too.
And why will you only respond to the dumbest of us! And why are you ululating into the sunset? Is the sun going down where you are or something? If so, it’s probably because of global warming.
Seriously, now, who’s scripting the MoHo? It’s way too stereotypical to be a real lib.
Back to the ululating. It must be my low IQ, but I don’t understand the comment about ululating into the sunset. I looked it up, but I must not be very good with a dictionary because it still didn’t make sense. Can someone explain that comment to me?
And yet you felt compelled to rant on for 2 paragraphs about your lack of caring for either spelling or grammar (once again misusing “its”). In your perusal of your dictionary, check out the definition of “literally,” too, since you use that word wrong as well.
Frank did not misuse an idiom, you misused logic to infer that which was not implied. Then rather than “ululate to the sunset,” you felt it necessary to keep trying to defend your untenable position.
Let’s try it this way: Is it just me or is moho not the biggest dumb ass on this thread? According to your logic, you just became the biggest dumb ass on this thread. Q.E.D. Is that substantive enough for you, dumb ass?
I have to say Frank, I liked “The Limey” way better than this troll. At least he was entertaining.
Smitty –
To ululate means “to pass or discharge urine”. Moho is just saying that he’s headed into the sunset after wetting his pants. I understand the wetting his pants part after reading his posts. What I don’t get is the “into the sunset” part. What the heck does that mean? And why does he have to wait for sundown?
“Ululating into the sunset” is the funniest, most moronic thing I’ve read in a long, long while.
I think the last (and possibly only) time I heard someone ululate was when I saw the footage of the women in Gaza when news reached them of the 9/11 attacks.
Why don’t you dooshes just rename it Moho’s blog? When you gang up on one poster like this, as if he’s the scariest, most threatening object you’ve ever encountered, you only make yourselves look like conformist sissies.
Moho, Frank’s opening line does not mean Obama is the most inexperienced president ever, it means, as it SAYS, he is not the MOST experienced president ever. Do you see the difference? The most inexperienced president is the least experienced president, and only one person can be the least experienced president. But a person who is not the most experienced president could be anyone from the second most experienced president to the least experienced president.
Trolls do their best ululating just at dusk. It’s a troll thing. You wouldn’t understand.
“Criticizing Obama is fine; having supported Bush for eight years while he destroyed our country isn’t.”
Only the simple wiring of the liberal mind equates criticism of Obama with support of Bush. Who’s the narrow-minded hillbilly now?
“Ululating into the sunset” is the funniest, most moronic thing I’ve read in a long, long while. I think the last (and possibly only) time I heard someone ululate was when I saw the footage of the women in Gaza when news reached them of the 9/11 attacks.
What you’re saying here is its moronic because you rarely hear it. Okay. I hope you keep this up.
Possibly the only decent point someone’s yet to make on this blog is on 139. Seriously, I’m just going to kick back and watch you idiots make fools of yourselves treating me as if I’m the most important personage you’ve ever encountered.
Smutty.
LOL. It must be my low IQ, but I don’t understand the comment about ululating into the sunset. I looked it up, but I must not be very good with a dictionary because it still didn’t make sense. Can someone explain that comment to me?
Apparently, no one can. I’v never seen a group of retards have so much trouble with a sentence in my life. You really do insult yourselves to a greater degree than I ever could. Its like being in Idiocracy, where all the idiots are convinced their right, and they simply reinforce their stupidity. By now its self-generating. All I have to do is come back and watch you scratch your heads “duh, what’s he mean by ululating”. And its also hilarious to note that this is the highest comment level this douche has ever gotten.
By the way, Frank, changing someone’s post after they’ve written it is literally screaming ‘you win’.
Wait, I can’t stop laughing about it. I’ve never seen so many fools in such a hurry to prove that they don’t actually understand words–even after they’ve looked them up in the dictionary. Its what you douchebags have written over and over and over again.
I can’t wait for the next fool to write. “Douchebag? What’s he mean by douchebag? I am not a device used to clean a vagina. What could he possibly mean by that? I’ve looked it up in the dictionary and I still can’t figure it out.”
You people are hilarious.
What you’re saying here is its moronic because you rarely hear it. Okay. I hope you keep this up.
I hope you keep the gems of spectacular illiteracy coming (like “ululating into the sunset,” and “my point is salient”). And I hope you persist in the pathetic–yet hilarious–belief that the more you boldly assert yourself, the more your stupidity and shallowness will be concealed.
And people do not “treat” you as if you are the “most important personage” they’ve encountered. That’s just you projecting a personal fantasy. You are nothing more to me or anyone else here than temporary comic relief–with the added gift that the more you are provoked, the more overwrought and incoherent and entertaining you get.
I personally do not believe for a second that a person as self-absorbed and undisciplined as yourself is “just going to kick back and watch” anybody make fun of you. You don’t have anywhere near that much self-control, as evidenced by all your empty adieus and broken promises to “ululate into the sunset.”
> 31: MOHO: Esperanto? [...] In any case, I’ll do my best to use simply verb-subject-adjective sentences
Indeed, you could use any word order besides subject-verb-object (SVO) in Esperanto, provided that it makes sense. The adverb is in front of the verb (adjective or other adverb it modifies) and the adjective in front of the verb. The preposition before the noun. If you have a reason (there are many) to change that order, you may.
There is more freedom in Esperanto than in English, but English word order is acceptable in most cases.
>76 BrianH : meaning of salient
etymologically comes from an Indo-european root meaning “to jump”.
So the original meaning is close to “standing out”.
See file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/HP_Propri%C3%A9taire/Mes%20documents/remush.be/etimo/@etimo.html#SAL_2
Did Obama jump a little before or after bowing? I didn’t see the greetings.
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Thanks to Frank we understand now why Americans are loved so much everywhere.
Sorry Frank I didn’t have the patience to read all the tips you gave. I felt sick after a few.
Smartly done!
It’s time a guy like Obama tries and changes the image American are giving worldwide, but there is a lot to do until the damage of previous generations is patched.
Remuŝ
Wow. Where do I start?
140. Guy Making Fun of People Making Fun of Moho:
Why don’t you dooshes just rename it Moho’s blog? When you gang up on one poster like this, as if he’s the scariest, most threatening object you’ve ever encountered, you only make yourselves look like conformist sissies.
OK you misspelled douche. You not only misspelled it, you spelled it like a retard would. Also it should be fantastically obvious that moho is NOT the scariest, most threatening object we’ve ever encountered and even suggesting that is retarded. He is a liberal. Admittedly, he is more misguided, idealistic, naive, stupid, and stubborn than most, but he is a liberal none the less. The implications should not need to be explained. And ‘ganging up’ on a single idiot among otherwise quite intelligent guys is not conforming. It is a group of guys recognizing a retard and calling him out. Something I am doing to you right now. And moho why are you doing this? You are spending vast amounts of time trying to convince people that very basic, undeniable things are untrue. You also use words like ‘ululating’ and will not quit arguing your pointless (and meritless)cause. This coupled with you failing to present your age, profession, or any other redeeming characteristics makes you appear fantastically ignorant. I would ask you to respond quickly if I didn’t already know that you are staring at your computer screen waiting for a message like this one to arrive.
LoL, 150.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=doosh
Of the seven seperate meanings for the word doosh, this was my favorite:
misspelled “Douchebag” on purpose to describe a person that is an idiot and is not worth the correct spelling
Where should you start? If you had any brains, you’d start with yourself. And you would have started a long time ago.
Remush:
>76 BrianH : meaning of salient
etymologically comes from an Indo-european root meaning “to jump”.
So the original meaning is close to “standing out”.
What? I’m not sure what you’re getting at, Remush, but if you’re going to quote my comment at #76, you might at least read that comment. I specifically said that a “salient point” was a point that stands out from the others in an argument. Of course this was completely above moho’s head.
Remus. Few things, I know that this might mean Bill Maher is wrong, but let me clue you in on something. We aren’t hated. I have quite a few friends from around the world going to my school and every single one says ‘back home in Bosnia/Tokyo/Germany/Italy we all wanted to go to America’. If this doesn’t convince you then perhaps we could ask Jews liberated from concentration camps, or Japanese no longer suffering under the military clique that ruled Japan pre-1945 or the millions of Mexicans or Cubans that come here every year. The world is jealous. Oh sure, we are scorned by people listening to anti-American propaganda all day, or who think the collapse of the Soviet Union was the worst geopolitical disaster in the 20th century(such as Putin), or French coffee-house-circle-jerk intellectuals, yet they would all move here in an instance and frankly their opinion doesn’t matter to me much anyway. Sure we aren’t perfect, but we are the best, and everyone knows it. If you are still doubting watch Bill Whittle’s segment titled ‘The Truth about American Exceptionalism’. And all this aside, does it matter what the world thinks of us? Will we be any less great, any less likely to help those in need, or to improve the whole worlds standard of living? No. What does matter is what we give up trying to appease these people. I support diplomacy, but not if it is against our self-interest. Something Obama has been doing quite well. Alienating our friends, especially Poland, and emboldening our enemies, like Iran.
Wow. seriously moho? You use an ONLINE DICTIONARY to contradict me, as if a misspelling and it’s connotations are supposed to be common knowledge. Then you completely evade everything I said about you and threw in a bad insult as a bow to wrap your blatantly obvious stupidity in. Please address what I said. Like why are you doing this? You are spending vast amounts of time trying to convince people that very basic, undeniable things are untrue. Or why are you failing to present your age, profession, or any other redeeming characteristics that would equalize you with the rest of the people? Please give us a few reasons to maybe listen to what you have to say instead of being a douche. (see how you spell it correctly?)
Wow. seriously moho? You use an ONLINE DICTIONARY to contradict me, as if a misspelling and it’s connotations are supposed to be common knowledge.
LOL.
Brian. I’m pretty sure I made you look like a fool when I posted the thesaurus entry for salient. But it looks like you like it, so here we go again. I suppose there was a chance that the others here didn’t catch you getting your ass handed to you:
http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/salient
arresting, arrestive, conspicuous, famous, impressive, intrusive, jutting, marked, moving, notable, obtrusive, obvious, outstanding, pertinent, projecting, prominent, pronounced, protruding, remarkable, signal, significant, striking, weighty
Wow, this guy is beyond what I would expect in the typical troll. Is there any evidence that moho is not just some kind of parody, because I find it a little difficult to believe someone could be this dense.
157 LUMINOS: MOHO IS a typical libtard(stalinist troll)but with a difference:He has tertiary syphillis,and has declared(by way of protest) that he won’t take his penicillin until there is free universal,Obama death care in the US.This is all the more reason for us to stop it.
This seems the standard line Luminos, when you can’t actually argue your point. Some douchebag already tried it a few posts back. Here, show me where the parts that alerted you to my being dense. Come on, you certainly can’t look as stupid as Brian just did.
No, I think he’s real, Luminos. Right now, he seems to think that if he quotes the thesaurus entry for “salient” over and over and over again, his belated understanding of that word might retroactively apply to last night.
It’s magical thinking. He thinks if he repeats something as a mantra enough times, it will become reality. Some psychologists attribute this mentality to stunted development. It’s normal for toddlers (who do not yet understand causality very well and who tend to be very solipsistic), but in adults, it may indicate pervasive developmental disabilities. Apparently, while moho was still in diapers (assuming he ever got out of them) his mind just froze up like an engine without any oil.
Seriously… This is still going on? moho you have been doing this for over 24 hours. Your arguments haven’t changed. Your obsessiveness to spend this much time doing this shows you need help, I’m not joking, Seriously it aint your opinions, it’s you. Turn off the computer, go down to the nearest club and meet a girl. You’ll be glad you did.
Ah, BigRichard you assume a girl would even look at him. An event considered as unlikely as him being correct. And you have to remember that going out to a club would require him to get out of his Spiderman pajamas, something that is very unlikely.
I am not moho, but he (she?) is correct about Frank’s error. It was not Frank’s only error. In the second sentence of the second paragraph Frank writes,
“Frankly, I wouldn’t even have thought that guy was emperor, because he’s so assuming in a business suit (shouldn’t an emperor at least have a fancy hat?).”
I am assuming Frank meant “unassuming”. Perhaps Frank also meant “inexperienced” instead of “experienced”.
Some of Frank’s recommendations were funny, but this was a very poorly written article even by PM standards.
The funniest statement of all, however, is credited to moho @ 147,
“I can’t wait for the next fool to write. “Douchebag? What’s he mean by douchebag? I am not a device used to clean a vagina. What could he possibly mean by that? I’ve looked it up in the dictionary and I still can’t figure it out.”
Moho:
Why would you go howling, lamenting or wailing into the sunset?
Moho, Now and Then, and a few others, are always fun. They read an article, and they do what I call cherrypicking. In your case, Frank, he found one thing that he didn’t like, misinterpreted it, and pounced! Your whole article was bad because of *one* small error, which he attempts to magnify to the point that it’s the whole article. Never mind he misinterpreted what you said in the first place, because once he has started a debate about your mental inferiority (which he takes for granted; you’re a Republican after all) he just bobs and weaves, never really confronts the issue, and keeps picking away. This is his M.O. every time. There’s never any variation, and he never engages anyone on the real issues involved. Bush is Evil, Obama is Good, and while he’ll say that measured, intelligent criticism of Obama is acceptable, he’ll never accept any, because he thinks Obama hasn’t made any mistakes yet, and perhaps won’t ever. So we’re all bigots for opposing Obama; and we’re all stupid because we supported Bush, however reluctantly. Don’t bother responding to him; frankly he’s just an annoyance, and nothing like a worthwhile debater.
Oh of course you aren’t moho 163. You are just the one person on the planet that can understand his ranting, garbled stupidity. Very convenient…Especially when he is no where to be found. But seriously, the validity of his first statement( not saying it is) doesn’t matter. He has shown himself to be such an arrogant ass and an all around retarded douche that he must be denounced. And the name ‘I am not moho’ is kind of suspicious.
Sixtnpenny.
Allow me to enlarge your world for just one second. Ululation is the name for the sound that some people from the middle east make in celebration. It is most often used to denigrate people who are Muslim or Arab. When I said, “you can imagine me ululating into the sunset, if it makes you feel any better”, I was making fun of the very obvious anti-Islamic bigotry common to Pajamas Media. What makes me laugh is that, on their way to mocking me for using the word, everyone who commented showed that they had no idea what it meant. As I said, I’m just a person of average intelligence. Thus, when ever I hear a word I don’t know, I assume that I should know it, not that anyone who knows is deserving of mockery. Indeed, its a pretty common term; its the only English word for that sound. It still makes me laugh; it really is like watching the movie Idiocracy. Never have I seen such a field of bloody Self-Pwnage. It is enough to make one weep for your children.
“Sixtnpenny.
Allow me to enlarge your world for just one second. Ululation is the name for the sound that some people from the middle east make in celebration. It is most often used to denigrate people who are Muslim or Arab.”
What moho says is true. Why I remember in my formative years when our one Muslim student would often run away crying to the teacher “Ms. Smith! Ms. Smith! Sarah called me a ululator!”
You cruel, cruel bastards.
Moho,
I hope you are not weeping for my children. I am unquestionably of above average intelligence (as our my children), which may explain why – according to #166 – I am “the one person on the planet that can understand” you.
I think #166 is incorrect, although it might be true that I am one of the few posters here that understood and agreed with you. I think that fact alone will now be used to label me as a troll, a retard, a liberal, a socialist, a communist – whatever.
I think you may also be underestimating your own intelligence. You are clearly above average for the average poster on PM. Which leads me to my question to you, why do you even bother with them?
When reading the numerous posts directed against you, Barney Frank’s infamous quote came to my mind, “trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table. I have no interest in doing it.”
“It is most often used to denigrate people who are Muslim or Arab…its the only English word for that sound.”
Which is it? Or was that comment written by two of your personalities?
“…everyone who commented showed that they had no idea what it meant.”
No, you persnickety, obfuscating little pissant. They’ve been ridiculing you because they knew exactly what it meant.
Give it up, tool. I’m beginning to pity you and that distracts from appreciating the comic relief you provide. And without providing that, what good are you? Blithering idiots are a dime a dozen.
Moho, I want to thank you so very much for making me laugh so deliciously. Your intense stubbornness has made my day. Let us assume, for the sake of argument, that you are 100% correct in every opinion that you hold, and that everyone who contradicts you in any manner is MAYBE being so advanced to be acting like a simian, if not simply thinking with some vestigial reptilian parts of the brain.
The way that you have been venting on this forum has been entirely unproductive to your cause of educating the masses about your erudite ways. I’m not saying it can’t be done, I’m just saying your approach . . . will only generate more hilarity.
Please, PLEASE keep it up, because while I do agree with you about a few things here and there (e.g. George W was actually a pretty lousy President), for the most part. . . I think you’re opinions are wrong, much like most of Frank’s fans. Does my having bought and enjoyed his book make me a mouth-breather in your eyes? Use big words when you answer, the most misconstruable erudition you can muster, I want to laugh more.
I’m not sure which is worse: 24+hrs of thread bashing, or me having wasted my time reading it. You read an article/commentary and have a choice to comment or not. Getting into an argument about semantics, word misuse, alligators, or STDs in the comments is childish and seems nothing more than an elitist trying to show everyone else how smart he is.
Hold your chin up for a second. I won’t punch you.
> 153 Romulus
You used the key word: self-interest.
Synonym: Umbilical admiration.
If it’s good for “America”, it must be good for the rest of the world (a pile of rubbish, as Frank so elegantly pictured).
BTW I know good guys in many nations besides the States. (Thinking of it… I know only good guys).
The image the States have given lately was horrid.
Restoring some credibility seems a Herculean task.
Remuŝ
Oh I get it. moho ululates for a living.
Mojo:
Dude. Not only can you not get the definition of “ululate” correct, you have yet to explain why you’re doing it “into the sunset”.
Again: to ululate means to pass urine. Can you please tell us why you’re peeing your pants into the sunset?
Also, mojo. I wanted to ask you: Do you like Rage Against The Machine?
dun⋅der⋅head
–noun a dunce; blockhead; numbskull.
Also called dun⋅der⋅pate
Origin: 1615–25; appar. < D dunder(kop) numbskull (dunder thunder + kop head) + head
Related forms:
dun⋅der⋅head⋅ed, adjective
dun⋅der⋅head⋅ed⋅ness, noun
also see moho
I’m not sure which is worse: 24+hrs of thread bashing, or me having wasted my time reading it. You read an article/commentary and have a choice to comment or not. Getting into an argument about semantics, word misuse, alligators, or STDs in the comments is childish and seems nothing more than an elitist trying to show everyone else how smart he is.
Evil Conservative: Thank you for providing an excellent example of how the conservative movement is based on blaming everyone else for one’s own behavior. There are 177 comments here, of which the majority are your compatriots. “Oh please don’t make me engage in 24 hrs. of thread bashing with you! I beg you sir!”
Pathetic. You people have crowned me the owner of this blog, almost every comment is directed at me. Keep blaming me for it, it only makes me laugh harder at how easily pwned douchebags you are. I know you don’t like me [a compliment] but you’ve done little more than taken a big crap on your friend Frank’s blog. The only way to escape your own behavior is to ban me. I would enjoy that; your basic surrender and admission that you have no control over yourselves. Thanks.
Strange:
Obama’s been clicking away madly on that SecureBerry of his all the while moho’s been posting…
moho:
By the way, Frank, changing someone’s post after they’ve written it is literally screaming ‘you win’.
What in the world are you talking about now?
So are you really so deluded as to think you ever accomplish anything by trolling other than being a minor annoyance (and, occasionally, entertainment for the people you irrationally despise), or do you think people will people will actually be convinced by your obstinate obtuseness (“Your sentences mean something other than what they say! Me smirt!”) This just doesn’t seem very psychologically healthy. I don’t know of well-adjusted adults who do this.
But it is fascinating.
Mojo, this is hilarious. I never thought you’d stay this long. I mean for someone who thinks all Righties are stupid, you sure can’t seem to leave.
You keep insulting people, claiming your grammar and understanding of the English language is superior to theirs, and yet, you didn’t even understand the basic meaning of an obviously satirical sentence.
See, Obama isn’t really Jesus either, and only idiots would believe he is, but America is full of such idiots. So asking, “Is it just me, or is it possible Obama’s NOT the Second Coming?” is a joke that’s funny to people with a sense of humor concerning idiots.
And then you mess up infer and imply while writing a fragment and still have the nerve to insult others’ reading comprehension skills before once again misunderstanding Frank’s basic sentence about how he gets money off of these articles.
I’m not even convinced you’re real. You MUST be Frank in disguise just having fun with the rest of us. No real person would do this. I refuse to believe it.
And last, mojo, people are talking directly to you because it’s fun the same way that playing keep away from the tiny nerd was in elementary school. People will tire of it eventually, especially as it becomes obvious how unkind it is. I would have bet money you’d tire first, but clearly I would have lost that one.
Is that your exit strategy after being beaten like a red headed step child, tool? Martyrdom? Ban you, so you can claim (not that I think anyone would listen or care) that that’s what it took to silence your exposition of our ignorance?
That’s the price required to see you off and ululating into the sunset?
Don’t take him up on it, Frank. Encourage him to grow up a little by making the decision himself on whether to extract himself from the hole he’s dug and bug out on his own or continue digging.
Just for the record, these are comments to an article, not a blog. I don’t have any control over this; my comments go into moderation same as everyone else’s.
Ah. Well, same advice to whoever does the moderating/banning for PJM articles.
I cannot believe this is still going on.
The only way to escape your own behavior is to ban me.
Meaning that we would have to take down the brick wall of ridicule that he’s been ramming his head into at full speed for going on 48 hours now.
You see how this works? It’s our behavior that compels him to make a laughingstock of himself.
Frank:
Please nominate moho (anonymoulsy) for the 2010 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest http://www.bulwer-lytton.com.
And still, every single comment about me or addressed to me. It really is amazing. I even commanded you stupid dooshes to keep doing it and you oblige as if you were my b*&^$s. And you can’t help yourselves. Its quite obvious that the only way to escape doing my bidding at this point is to stop responding to me. You’ve already made this Moho’s Blog–there’s no way to deny that! What’s more, this post, now under my supervision, has generated more comments than any other one that this loser I appropriated it from ever did. I’m not even reading your posts anymore, you knobs!
I think it’s rather obvious at this point that the moderators aren’t going to let you off the hook by banning you for posting maundering nonsense, tool.
I think the program you need to follow at this point is the scam you’ve worked several times already on PJM. Continuously post diatribes as vulgar and profane as your fertile imagination can come up with. Then post milder comments calling the moderators cowards for not letting them through. Rinse and repeat until they do ban you. Then post in another PJM thread about how such and such was a coward.
Hey mojo, if this is your blog now then could you put me on your blogroll? I’ve never been on a blogroll before.
And I was serious, by the way. Do you like Rage Against The Machine? It’s a rock band from the nineties.
I suggest an unsolicited and unwelcome shoulder and neck massage is always a good idea.
foreign policy idea #2. . . A deep bow to someone in Japan is too formal and too obsequious. Instead, use a more causal, friendly gesture — such as grabbing the emperor in a headlock and shouting, “Noogie!” and then rapping your knuckles across his scalp.
That doesn’t sound very polite. . . I would think that you should figure out what the translation for “noogie” is in the local language and say that inst. . .
oh, who am I kidding, I’m only posting this ’cause Moho thinks that ’cause he’s funny the world revolves ’round him now and I wanted to prove otherwise, thus proving that it does!
out of sheer idle ignorance and curiosity, what is the main difference or advantage of hating the folks nearby who post in forums (despising them, looking down on their IQ’s or views, refusing to acknowledge that they’re people too) and hating foreigners? I’m just wondering. “Be careful that in fighting the dragon that you do not become the dragon” — Nietzsche
“As it progresses you will find a greater impediment in deriving meaning from sentences that possess ambiguity of any kind.”
Wouldn’t that be, “impediment TO?” It’s such a shame his thesaurus doesn’t (or is that “doesnt”) contain information regarding proper usage.
Moho does make a valid point. He has generated more posts than almost any other article on PJM. The one exception being your regular gal, Sarah (at last count – at least 3 maybe 4 articles about her – plus a few ads for her PAC). Why not rename this the Sarah and Moho web site?
As I wrote over at IMAO (where Frank and Co. do their usual excellent “teh funny”), please don’t feed the trolls, it just makes the fat and squishy and nobody wants to see THAT.
Also going into an intellectual battle with the unarmed is not cricket.
Oh and just because someone generates posts doesn’t mean they are important or interesting or correct. Lindsey Lohan has generated lots of press but I doubt you could find a more useless waste of ink on the planet. Just saying.
“Moho does make a valid point.”
*A* valid point, in less than forty posts? Impossible!
“He has generated more posts than almost any other article on PJM.”
Quite remarkable! I do not know about the rest of you chaps, but I am positively sick with envy that I have not earned the right to claim “supernaturally prescient Internet troll” for my epitaph.
It’s enough to make a man ululate into the sunset!
Confound it; I meant “supernaturally SALUENT Internet troll.” Perhaps I’m paying this nonsense the proper amount of attention, then.
Moho wrote: “And still, every single comment about me or addressed to me. It really is amazing. I even commanded you stupid dooshes to keep doing it and you oblige as if you were my b*&^$s.”
A turd in the punchbowl will draw everyone’s attention.
I too want to be part of this historic comment thread.
I believe moho admitted he lost by his action in #65 of trying to change the subject to Bush vomiting. Actions speak louder than words.
It really hard to ignore someone bouncing in the air, whistling and screaming “Look at me”,”Look at me”,”Look at me”,”Look at me”. The sad, pathetic need for attention is well documented in trolldumb.
SWEET MOTHER MARY! “SALIENT,” dammit!
That’s what I get for entering my comments via my iPhone. E-GADS!
I AM ULULATING INTO THE SUNSET! NOW!
Since this devolved into an exercise in grammar long ago, then I am still waiting for Frank to clarify the following sentence:
“Frankly, I wouldn’t even have thought that guy was emperor, because he’s so assuming in a business suit (shouldn’t an emperor at least have a fancy hat?).”
Frank, did you really mean “assuming”? Or were you confused and meant “unassuming”?
Moho,
I was really rooting for you to get over 200 posts, and pleased as punch that I was the one that put you over the top.
I am now renaming this “Sarah, the Regular vs. Moho, the Elite” web site. For those who do not understand, I will direct you to this truly funny article by George Saunders:
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2008/09/22/080922sh_shouts_saunders