Franken: “Ten, right. And make yourself one, too. Just put it on my tab. The name’s Gloria Wise.”*
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update: “Oh. And can you put an Amstel Light on there, too? Turns out we can now add pineapple juice to the list of shit Janeane’s allergic to. The poor dear.”
When you think about it, that’s like, $4.38 per national listener…
I try not to think about Air America, actually. I don’t even know why I posted this. It’s not particularly amusing. Just had this burning need to use the word pineapple. No idea why that is.
Get with the meme, Jeff.
The New! Air America is not legally obligated to repay the debt which was made to (the old) Air America due the machinations of a Bad Man who is no longer there.
But they’re trying to. Those kids, who would otherwise not have services and programs, will be happy mpw thanks to the money given to them by the New! Air America.
They’re good people.
Just ask them.
“Just had this burning need to use the word pineapple.”
Maybe that’s the word Ian thought rhymed with “dork.” Like “Franken” rhymes with “dingleberry.”
Sorry about posting that comment, jeff. It’s just that the calculator feature showed up when I was banging my head against the keyboard and, well, I just had to play with it.
well, I just had to play with it
You have free choice. Get your hands out of your pants, you deviate!
The New Meme
Because of the HIP-OCRACY!
That price per listener might be low. They’re on a 1000 watt daytime/500 watt nighttime station in Dallas. Night signal hardly gets out of Fort Worth.
Ratings? What Ratings?
What are the two main things Janeane is allergic to?
1. Soap
2. Penises
Turing = red, as in If you rub pineapples on your nipples until they are raw and red, the urge to use that word in a blog post will recede for awhile. At least, you won’t be able to type with your nipples after that.
could someone tell me what the heck a turing word is? seems to pop up in every other thread, but i have no idea what it’s supposed to mean
dr.dna:
“Turing word” is the word you copy into the little box below your post, to prove that you aren’t an automated spambot. Other posters call it the spambuster or spam word, or just sw.
Turing = justice, as in Only on protein wisdom can the comedic possibilities of Turing words be done justice.
SW: matter, as in “it doesn’t”
ah, ofcourse, it COULDNT (*hint-hint* turing) have been simpler.
Turing was a computer scientist who invented the idea of a test to distinguish an artificial intelligence from a real live human being. Thus, any test used to screen out automated programs is a “Turing test”. The “Turing word” is the word used in Jeff’s particular version of the TT.
tw:usually. like it usually knows what i’m going to say.
“Is this a test to see whether I’m a replicant or a lesbian, Mr. Deckard?”
Why not both, harrison?
I see you continue to link to that hate mongering racist hate monger, Michelle Malkin. You must not be aware that she’s racist (I read it at KOS).
“Daily” – Though I must confess that I typically find my way to Michelle’s site daily, as I always could use a little more hate and prejudice with my morning coffee.
Hey Salt Lick:
Perhaps you aren’t aware (maybe you’ve never ventured outside your own small town) that other people have different accents to yours. Indeed, I’ve even heard that there are other places in the world where people speak completely different languages. Imagine that!
I happen to be English. I speak with a different accent to you. Therefore “hawk” does indeed rhyme with “dork”.
But I’m interested to know (in the interests of greater cultural understanding, of course) if, in your small town, the word “lick” still rhymes with “dick” or “prick”. Or perhaps most interstingly of all: “hick”. Just curious, y’understand.
“Have a nice day”
OK, now I understand, Ian. I’ve had lots of English friends, but never heard one pronounce “hawk” as “hork,” though I once bumped into this Kiwi on Lake Toba in Malaysia who kept telling me he worked as a “clock.”
So how would you describe your particular English accent? Is it peculiar to a particular region of UK? The “or” intonation sounds a bit Welsh.
Sorry, but I just remembered Lake Toba is on Sumatra Island, Indonesia, not in Malaysia. I get that trip through Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia all jumbled up. I think it’s because I was traveling with these two Aussies I met in Chang Mai, and about the time we got to Penang I found out they were heroin addicts, which scared the shit out of me until we parted ways.
Perhaps the JOOOOOOOOOOOOS compelled you??
Salt Lick –
Happy to oblige. My accent is from the area in the south of England, around Oxford. (It’s actually pretty close to what’s termed “Received Pronunciation” – the slightly posh accent beloved of BBC presenters). If I were Welsh (and I do have some Welsh blood, but no trace of an accent) my pronunciation of “hawk” would be closer to how most Americans might pronounce “caulk”.
But I believe that the misunderstanding is not with “hawk” but with the difference between how we both pronounce “dork” (or “pork” or “fork” for that matter) Now that I think about it, the way it was pronounced in the States when I was there is definitely different from the way we pronounce it in the UK. (Unless you are from Bristol, where its more similar to the US version for some bizarre reason). You guys definitely pronounce the “R” more noticeably than we do – for us the mount remains more open, and therefore what comes out does pretty much rhyme with “hawk”. Ah well – such are the risks of indulging in transatlantic puns and wordplay.
Anyways – thanks for the discussion. Always good to learn more about the common language that divides us…
Ian
THEY MEAN TO WIN WIMBLEDON!
SB: material
I steal it, mostly.
The etymology of those “r” words in the U.S. is pretty interesting. People down in the Tidewater region of Virginia (very Southern) often speak like folks from Massachussetts and Maine (very Northern). Both, for instance, pronounce “harbor” as “hahbah.” Likewise, “bar” as “bah,” and “corn” as “cawn.”
This mystified me until I read a study showing that the early settlers of those regions came from the same group in England. Similar folk settled Massachusetts Bay Colony and the colony named for the Virgin Queen, so they spoke the same, even though we think of Virginia and Mass as being polar opposites.
The hard “r,” however, was common to entirely different folk—the Scots and Irish settlers who fanned out in the backcountry. Ever notice the hard rolling Irish “r?” Well, it’s Scots, also. And that’s the pronunciation of most Americans.
Which means Al Franken is still a dingleberry.
Hmmmm…
Have they checked Sandy Burglars pants?
Odd that this whole issue of accents should come up. I met a guy while on business travel that I swore was a Yuper (Yupers are from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and they sound almost exactly like the main characters in Fargo, in case you’re from another country and all). Turns out he was from Virginia or somesuch, descended from some Scots group or other. I think Yupers are mostly Swedes and Norwegians mixed with French-Canadians, so how one group sounds anything at all like the other is a complete mystery to me.
Why is this story so entertaining?
BECAUSE OF THE HYPOCRISY!!, or course.
You know, organization claiming to be on the side of the downtrodden steals from poor kids and the elderly.
You can’t get any more BECAUSE OF THE HYPOCRISY!! than that. This isn’t just huffing some BECAUSE OF THE HYPOCRISY!! out of a paper bag btween classes, this is like shooting pure, uncut Colombian BECAUSE OF THE HYPOCRISY!! right into your veins.
Not that I would encourage that sort of thing, of course. BECAUSE OF THE HYPOCRISY!! addiction destroys lives.
Then over at the NR Corner they are talking about whether Ian’s countryman John Derbyshire speaks “rhotic” or “non-rhotic” and that means this.
turing=”closed” which I promise is descrigbes my comments on e-rhoticism.
Okay, but I still don’t understand. Is Garofolo a replicant or a lesbian? (And do her allergies somehow tip this off?)
Also, I’m pretty sure Franken also rhymes with ‘dick-weasel’