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The easy, elegant genius of David Thompson

on display for all to envy. And nary a 1000-word sentence in the mix.

When I grow up, I think I want to be David. But as we all know that I’m never gonna grow up, he’s really quite safe.

Ridiculously so, even. Because as I was writing this, I just invented four new fart jokes! Juvenile, sure. But they were juicy ones, that much I can assure you!

(h/t JHo)

28 Replies to “The easy, elegant genius of David Thompson”

  1. sdferr says:

    I’ve no idea what a microaggression is, though it’s mentioned a number of times in comments at David’s blog, so I’ll tacitly just write it down as a synonym for the Isetta and hope I’m close.

  2. John Bradley says:

    Yeah, Mr. Thompson’s smart, pithy, popular with the ladies, and not beset by a cadre of vindictive pricks who are ostensibly ‘on his side’… but can he rock a bitchin’ ’70s Serpico look? Has he ever talked to the ghost of Corey Haim, or compared Ted Kennedy’s head to a fleshy piece of archaic blacksmith equipment?

    I rest my case.

  3. Lamontyoubigdummy says:

    I just invented four new fart jokes!

    Congratulations. You are now the new head writer for everything Seth MacFarlane.

    Here’s $250,000 dollars.

    Also, I think my Unique, Individual, Choose bumper sticker is gonna get in a knife fight with my CoExist bumper sticker. And I have NO idea how I’m gonna explain all the resulting damage to that car insurance black guy at AllState.

  4. serr8d says:

    He seems to have a healthy disdain for Marx and his -ism, but he keeps his Outlaw! safely holstered. Or as Muhammad Ali might say, “that bee stings like an aunt!”.

  5. charles w says:

    Microaggression , is when a midget wants to fight you.

  6. bgbear says:

    and how has the left changed the meaning of diversity?

  7. dicentra says:

    and how has the left changed the meaning of diversity?

    LETELU — Looks exotic; thinks exactly like us

  8. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Clearly David doesn’t know how to entertain and amuse himself with a sideshow freak.

    Unlike our good host.

  9. […] This paragraph especially struck me [tip of the fedora to Jeff Goldstein]: […]

  10. “Unique! Individual! Choose!” is the new “Democracy! Whiskey! Sexy!”

  11. tigerads8 says:

    Hi, Jeff G, I like your fart jokes. Maybe more ?

  12. Jim says:

    “Single payer” sounds nice: lightweight, affordable, efficient. “Nationalize the health insurance industry” sounds a bit off-putting. “Ban private insurance companies and force everyone onto Medicare” sounds horrible. So, let’s call it “single payer” because that’s nice.

  13. geoffb says:

    To repeat.

    If we are “lucky” it will be an age expanded version of Medicare.

    If we are unlucky it will be Medicaid, for all, with all the Medicaid rules intact. Rules which will split the country into the peasants who are on Medicaid and are not allowed to have much in the way of income or property and those who by wealth to pay the fine and pay for their own care abroad or by waiver are outside the government healthcare system.

  14. newrouter says:

    and we can ignore “them” when? me today.

  15. serr8d says:

    Here’s a worthy read on the mechanics of Political Correctness.

    Human beings tend to comply very quickly when threatened with labels of vilification—i.e., “bigot” or “hater”—that serve to get one socially labeled as a non-person. That’s because we know and fear social ostracism as a death trap. We have a primal, hard-wired response to this risk that is especially hard to resist when our public discourse is commandeered by thought policing.

    So how can we begin to resist the mavens of PC and recapture the gift of free and civil discourse? First, remember that free speech is a use-it-or-lose-it proposition. Second, understand that manufactured cascades are actually very unstable, especially wherever individuals are intent on reaching out to others and sharing their real beliefs. Political correctness is highly vulnerable—otherwise the PC machine wouldn’t be so intent on suppressing competing ideas.

    Most importantly, we must understand that the primary battleground is our daily interaction with neighbors, colleagues, co-workers, classmates, and acquaintances. Each person influences the perceptions of others simply through conversation. We all have the power to embolden others and create ripple effects, and reverse-ripple effects, merely by identifying our views to those who know us, trust us, like us, or identify with us.

    Speak like you mean it. Have no fear; don’t be afraid to push back against those pushing PC. It’s all about our community and the organizing of individuals therein, one by one. As we’ve seen so very well demonstrated by our foes, unfortunately.

  16. dicentra says:

    Check out some of the sick souls on this thread.

    The legacy of Howard Zinn and his ilk is foul indeed.

  17. Patrick Chester says:

    They’re fools. You should eat them.

    (Why yes, I’m halfway through my helpdesk shift and wondering if my “help” is really enabling bad habits instead of actually helping, why did you ask?)

  18. dicentra says:

    Tech support help?

    Can you tell me how to fix the broken cup holder on my tower?

  19. As so often, Jeff is right. I can’t invent fart jokes. I can, at best, note some vigorous responses to aggressive flatulence.

  20. Patrick Chester says:

    This is why my requests for a device to send electric shocks down the line are repeatedly denied.

    (Though I’ve never actually had anyone use that one. People that can’t type in a web address into the address bar of their browser… ugh.)

  21. geoffb says:

    Type?

    Copy ‘n Paste I say.

    “To fix your coffee holder you first need a paperclip.” “You do have a paper clip in your paperless office right?”

  22. Patrick Chester says:

    No, you don’t understand. They can’t paste it in either.

    They don’t know what the address bar is. I give them an address and they open google and type it in.

    They’re everywhere…

  23. McGehee says:

    …and they vote.

  24. mondamay says:

    Patrick Chester says August 15, 2013 at 1:08 am

    They don’t know what the address bar is. I give them an address and they open google and type it in.

    I spent 4 1/2 years in a help desk.

    I feel ya.

    In my case, it wasn’t what people didn’t know that bothered me, it was when they got haughty about what I didn’t know (and couldn’t know). I had one person tell me I ought to get training in wireless because I couldn’t troubleshoot her wireless router (that we didn’t support). I told her that when she was ready to plug into her router by wire as policy required, I’d be happy to assist her with her VPN setup.

  25. palaeomerus says:

    “…and they vote.”

    They want to get rid of mice and wave their arms around like a movie they saw. Which is amazing. And not in a good way. What they ought to do is learn their keyboard shortcuts and then they can really fly through all this computo-tronic-scientorical-techno-socerization.

  26. Slartibartfast says:

    I have no fart jokes, but I do have an earth-shattering kaboom.

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