Looks like we are back. I hope you all enjoyed WordPress Error as much as I did today, but the blogmistress informs me we are moving to a new server soon. And there was rejoicing.
Consider this an open thread, but please point out any glaring omissions, typos, factual errors, or formatting problems in the dictionary.
replicnt6
This was just a ruse to illustrate the FYWP entry in the brand-spanking new dictionary.
General Winfield Stuck
Two Weeks/
**The dictionary is cool, but I must live a sheltered life, because of large number of terms that are completely new to me. Or maybe I just don’t read so good.
John PM
I was forced to work this afternoon! I hope you are happy!
Roger Moore
So we’ve made a glossary, but you didn’t mention that
Michael MooreTunch is fat. Also, too.jeffreyw
First!
oops, wrong blog
nevermind
demkat620
No more Worpress error?
Sweet!
gnomedad
What happened today? Dictionary thread + Sully mention = meltdown?
The Other Steve
So is this all related to the gmail outage today?
Jay in Oregon
I was verra sad at the lack of Balloon Juicery today.
Still taking it one day at a time. Hope arguingwithsignposts pops in to say hi.
Jeanne
Just wanted to say I read the “Jane Hamshers of the left” thead today. I have never laughed so hard in my life.The commenters on this blog are the best. I also now get who Darrell is. This blog is great, wordpress errors and all.
Colette
Blogmistress? Is that Lily?
The Other Steve
Did Obama steal your server?
Jeanne
Just wanted to say I read the “Jane Hamshers of the left” thead today. I have never laughed so hard in my life.The commenters on this blog are the best. I also now get who Darrell is. This blog is great, wordpress errors and all.
Zifnab
we are moving to a new server soon: Professor Cole’s way of saying they are simply paying him too much for his taxpayer mooching University gig. If you can afford new servers, John, I SHOULDN’T BE PAYING YOU ALL MY TAXES!
Alt: A consoling platitude intended to lure BJ readers into a false sense of security before the next round of FYWP. See also, Placebo Effect.
Demo Woman
I voted for Little Bitsy, did you?
burnspbesq
Y’all had wordpress error.
I had the TSA and United Airlines.
I think y’all had the better of the deal.
smiley
I thought it was “Baby Blue Cherub” rather than “Powder Blue Satan.” Anyway, I don’t know how wide spread PBS is but I think Markos started using BBC after Atrios starting using GOS. But, then, I’m not sure if I am aware of all internet traditions (rolls eyes).
Zifnab
@Colette: http://blog.mrtweet.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/lolcat-fix-thumb.png
MikeJ
Death panels got it.
Warren Terra
So, if anyone cares, I tried to compile a list of terms that still might require definitions from the last couple of Dictionary Threads. I wound up with more than a hundred terms (some of which are just rephrasings of each other), and posted them in four comments to the previous thread, starting with this comment.
Edit: And having gone to all that effort, I look at the first ten or so comments on this page and already I find a term I missed: Death Panels
Kiril
I think WATB comes from Atrios, not Sadly, No! as stated in the dictionary. I could be wrong.
James K. Polk, Esq.
There’s nothing an agnostic can’t do if he doesn’t know whether he believes in anything or not.
AhabTRuler
@Demo Woman: No, I voted for the Christian Filipina.
Kiril
@smiley: I concur.
JK
John,
A few questions about the Search Function in Balloon Juice?
1. Is it possible at any point in the future, to have 2 search boxes, one allowing you to search for keywords contained in the posts written by yourself, Tim, Doug, Anne and a second search box allowing you to search for keywords contained in the comments?
2. Would it be possible at any point to allow visitors to be able to perform keyword searches within date ranges?
The Balloon Juice Dictionary looks outstanding so far.
SGEW
btw, I think that the event that (presumedly) inspired the title of this very post may deserve it’s own an entry into the
dictionaryglossary.R-Jud
I like this comic. That’s all I got.
SGEW
@R-Jud: I love Hark, A Vagrant.
Personal fave: this one
Stooleo
The BJ dictionary is pure fucking win! I’ve been LMAO all day.
Thanks everybody.
jl
@Colette: Tunch runs things (Lily is her very capable and eager understudy: please see the recent tunch and Lily pix) and he has been extra cranky lately. Need to have daily welfare checks on Cole, to see whether Tunch has finally decided he has put up with just about enough already, and has killed and eaten Cole in the middle of the night.
JK
Brachiator and Kirk Spencer,
Thanks for your interesting replies to my comments about YouTube and the copyright issue in last night’s thread.
Bas-O-Matic
Ancient and hermetic order of the shrill, The- A club organized by J. Bradford DeLong (e.g.) that welcomes any and all pundits whose coherent and ultimately correct prognostications are dismissed by opinion leaders as ‘shrill.’ The ritual invocation of patron saint Paul Krugman goes as follows: Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Krugman R’lyeh wagn’nagl fhtagn! Aiiiiiii
This is not exactly right. The Ancient and Hermetic Order of the Shrill, as explained by Brad Delong in the post A History of the Shrill, was (and is) for “those who have been driven into shrill unholy madness by the mendacity, incompetence, malevolence, and disconnection from reality of George W. Bush and his administration.”
JK
David Broder gives Obama the back of his hand one more time:
h/t http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/23/AR2009092303676.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns
WereBear
Love the dictionary. Knew almost all of them. I apparently spend too much time online.
smiley
@Kiril: With what? The attribution, the eye rolling, or both? BTW, I am not a Kossack or an Eschatonian. I read the front pages of both but never beyond that. Just too tedious.
JK
Police Busted For Too Much Gaming Time During Raid
h/t http://www.wcbs880.com/pages/5274724.php?
freelancer
@Stooleo:
It really is, it actually is serving some useful purpose in that I’ve been able to turn a couple people onto the site by saying, “Start here because we speak a different language.”
Warren Terra
The entry for Bobo could really use a link to this classic article demonstrating the essential fraudulence of Brooks’s book “Bobos In Paradise”, from which the name derives.
Also, the Dijongate entry needs a link. I’m sure there were epic threads here, but I can’t readily find them. I nominate this Tbogg post.
R-Jud
@SGEW: This one made wine come out my nose.
JK
@freelancer:
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Balloon Juice experiences a big boost in traffic as The Dictionary expands in size and positive word of mouth spreads.
RedKitten
The dictionary is absolutely delightful. It provides a great way to catch up for those who are new here. And for those of us who have been around for years, it provides some rather hilarious trips down memory lane.
Great work, everybody.
SGEW
@R-Jud: I see you and raise with this (for James Joyce fans/critics).
Punchy
Once, I was in a restaurant, and the waiter sucked, so I too moved to a new server.
MikeJ
That’s actually where Pynchon got the plot of Against the Day.
cleek
@MikeJ:
there’s a plot ?
Jason Bylinowski
@Jeanne:
I too read the Hamsher thread……I must say, wingnut-era Cole is much the same as libtard Cole, maybe a little meaner (but not much). It was an eye opener especially as I just barely missed the whole right to left conversion (I started reading awhile after the ’06 election, say first quarter of 2007). I guess this Hamsher thread for John would be somewhat the equivalent of Jesus’ in the Wilderness, as he really doesn’t seem at home with any particular ideology in that time period (& in my opinion, that can only be a good thing for anyone, wish I was less partisan myself sometimes, because then at least I could see things from the other side a bit better).
Anyway, let’s stay off topic, since apparently I go into concern troll mode too often when talking politics (I’m working on it). Anyone here on a diet? I’m on my first one ever. I’ve always been a big tall dude so it’s not so terrible but I noticed finally that I was actually sucking it in like I used to when I was an awkward chubby teenager. It’s not cool to say “diet” anymore apparently because diet equals “temporary” to some people, so we’ll just call it a radical permanent lifestyle change, which involves less eating and more sweating, every single day. I haven’t lost a pound yet in three weeks, somehow, and yet I feel much better and I can already tell my work shirts fit better, so that’s a start. Hard to lose much weight when you’re gaining so much sexy muscle I guess.
My point is, though:
dietingradical permanent lifestyle change sucks, but I’m still doing it after three weeks now and if I can do it, I reckon anyone can, so if anyone’s thinking about it, I say go for it, because even if you don’t reduce your dress size, at least you’ll be able to pick up cars with your bare hands and effortlessly crumple them up like a Starbucks cup. Or you know, you’ll feel like you can.JK
@SGEW:
YES I SAID YES I WILL YES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNTlDesrY3w
R-Jud
So do y’all think that the glorious BJ glossary has made Sully long for his own community with a seekrit langwidge to the point where he’ll open up his blog for comments like a real man?
Me neither.
Warren Terra
More nitpicking the Dictionary: the “Stenographers” term gives the credit for popularizing the term to Glennzilla, but I’m pretty sure the term was used extensively by Atrios way back before Glenn was blogging.
(And, of course, my favorite Nitpick of the dictionary was the commenter who in the previous thread insisted that it’s really a Glossary, not a Dictionary. Haven’t bothered to figure out whether I agree, I just love the nitpick.)
Napoleon
@gnomedad:
Kos mentioned it today.
freelancer
Wow, anyone see this?
John Cole
@Warren Terra: Isn’t it technically a lexicon?
JK
@freelancer:
Eric Cantor is a virulent, malignant cancer. Calling Cantor a scumbag would be an insult to scumbags.
Bill H
I actually just get “server was reset,” which is quite a comedown.
RedKitten
@freelancer: What a douche. Of course, this is a person who will never lose his medical coverage, so it’s very easy for him to blithely suggest that people basically become homeless and destitute in order to pay their medical bills.
If there is any justice in the world, he’ll lose his seat and his insurance someday and have to apply for private insurance, and will hopefully someday be dropped and have to sell all of HIS assets due to a medical condition (nothing deadly — I’d never wish that upon anybody, but something like gout would be nice.)
Bill H
@R-Jud:
Are you kidding? Sully cannot even write his own posts any more. His posts consist only of quotes from other blogs with one liners of meaningless tripe to tell you what is supposedly the reason why he is quoting the other blog.
I think he got that from the borgs that inhabited the space while he was away.
bey
The Dictionary is fab, but it has a sneaky side effect: it made me kinda miss Our Trolls Of The Past, so…….I checked in on myiq.5u over at riverdaughter.
Still fighting the SC primary over there /snerk
General Winfield Stuck
lexicon?
Yes, from the world of DFH blogging. Or, Lexicon, man (- or dude-)
You won’t find it WEbsters.
bizzle
Is Wurlitzer a proper juice-ism?
I only ever see it here, but it seems to have some history.
freelancer
@JK:
Speaking of virulent scumbags, didn’t we have a pretty scatological name for Lanny Davis?
Violet
Love the dictionary! Glad to see it get recognition around the blogosphere.
@Jason Bylinowski: Starting a diet of sorts. Trying to give up sugar, wheat and dairy, although I’m going to fail miserably on the last one. I’ve got all sorts of unspecified problems and I know I feel better when I’m off the sugar. It’s like a drug for me. I know wheat isn’t really good for me either, although I’m not celiac.
Anyway, I’m on day two and it’s like going through some kind of drug withdrawl. I feel awful most of the time and have zero energy. I don’t suppose I can blame this on the flu shot I got yesterday?
A friend I saw on a trip last week has been doing this wheat/sugar/dairy-free thing for several years now and says it basically saved her life. I am hoping for some moderately good results. But as with all this stuff, I can usually stick it out for awhile, but after several months I drift off the wagon.
General Winfield Stuck
@bizzle:
It’s Mighty Wurlitzer, a Cole original brainfart. Should be included,
Shell
What’s with all the damn tents? Can’t Moammar Kadafi just go to a hotel?
Jason Bylinowski
@R-Jud: Heheh, good point, and I betcha it does burn him up jut a tad to be missing out on all the fun…..but not so much that he would actually condescend to join his commentariat. Oh lordy, all that rough talk! & When Andrew gets the vapors, you betta jus’ betta move the coffee table because that man is goin’ down.
The biggest part of me loves the guy (and I don’t even know why) but it is plain to see that he is a bit of a diva.
But I’m equal parts proud and ashamed that I know very nearly every term currently up on the, ahem, CONCORDANCE (just to submit my suggestion for the title of this thing, dictionary is semantically fine, but just lacks the sort of cultural focus that CONCORDANCE supplies).
freelancer
@General Winfield Stuck:
One man’s Wurlitzer is another man’s Puke Funnel.
General Winfield Stuck
And shouldn’t the entry for K-Lo include “House of Crazy” just sayin’
handy
@General Winfield Stuck:
I thought the same.
cleek
i’m not sure how to tag this one, but it needs to be memorialized: PowerLying 7/19/07 gets proof that Beauchamp was fibbin:
“sandbox” ?
jl
@Warren Terra: Oh yes, I agree. The Bobo entry should link to the article that examines Brooks’ claims to be actually doing some kind of fact based research in his pop social psychology writings. If at all possible, include that link.
The part where she contacted Brooks and he accused her of being unethical in fact checking his work is priceless.
General Winfield Stuck
@freelancer:
There’s room for both. Shouldn’t leave any wingnut term of derision out, seems to me. i’m a splitter in taxonomic terms.
cleek
@General Winfield Stuck:
sadly, “The Mighty Wurlitzer” is not a Cole original. it’s at least 12 years old.
Warren Terra
@ General Winfield Stuck. #61
Sadly, No (link via Wikipedia).
Also, without having any conscious notion of the CIA-tinged stuff at my first link, I was aware of the term long before I was aware of Balloon Juice. I’m not sure where I learned it, but I certainly was a subscriber to TAP when this 2002 This American Prospect article was published.
I think The Mighty Wurlitzer deserves inclusion, or at least consideration, but it’s not something Cole invented.
Edit: I see that Cleek and I submitted posts essentially identical in substance (their first word, their point, their most important link) at about the same time. Except I’m just a wee tad more prolix than Cleek.
Betsy
@SGEW:
Oh, God above, that made me laugh. I’d never heard of that particular comic. Thanks for the introduction. :D
@RedKitten:
Nice to see you! How are you and the little one doing?
JK
@freelancer:
I don’t recall.
R-Jud
@Bill H: Yeah, I was pretty much kidding. I haven’t really bothered with Sully’s blog since he turned it green.
@Jason Bylinowski:
Crossfit. And Crossfit Endurance. Go there and do what they tell you (just don’t read the comments as it’s chockablock with wingers).
It is hard– you will have to scale down or substitute things (unless you can do handstand pushups? I am not that bad-ass myself). In nine weeks I have lost 22 lbs, dropped my best-ever mile time by 25 seconds, and gone from a 143 lb. max deadlift to 220 lbs. I wish I had started doing it in May, when I was cleared to start exercising again after my kid was born.
Comrade Mary
Now that the site is kind of stable, I’d like to apologize for my outburst at Dreggas the other day. I can be a little quick-tempered sometimes, and there were definitely better ways to respond that I should have chosen instead.
JK
HEY, LISTEN UP PEOPLE.
Lanny Davis wants everyone to be NICER to each other.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/23/lanny-davis-wants-everyon_n_296172.html
Anyone have a GODDAMN FUCKING PROBLEM with that?
General Winfield Stuck
@cleek:
Well Shucks. It still ought to go in as applying to the Right Wing Noise Machine/
freelancer
@JK:
Judging from the posts containing his name, the two most frequent words are Worthless and Jackass.
Alien-Radio
@General Winfield Stuck:
Dates back further than that originally refers to cia habit of planting false news overseas that could be used as sources for domestic reporting in order to get around rules against propagandizing on US soil.
http://www.freedomofthepress.net/journalismandtheciathemightywurlitzer.htm
General Winfield Stuck
@Comrade Mary:
Didn’t know what it was about, but I kind of enjoyed it. “Shitstain” is always a fave.
freelancer
And just because no reference to BillO’s dust-up can be mentioned without also seeing the brilliant remix,
Here ya go.
“Don’t yell at me, I’ll bounce this binder off that half-deflated basketball you call a face.”
JK
@freelancer:
I think those words could apply equally to wankertarians like Megan McArdle, Glenn Reynolds,Helen Smith, and Nick Gillespie.
R-Jud
@SGEW: “And I will leave my cravat on.” Swoon! And also this one.
Kiril
@smiley: Baby Blue Cherub
freelancer
@JK:
Yeah, Cole does use the word Jackass a lot. I’d hate to see a wordcloud of this whole place.
bey
Isn’t there some way to work Redkitten’s response into the “I can see Russia from my house” entry? It’s a classic.
And thank you thank you thank you for including the Kevin James beatdown. I laughed so hard I cried.
smiley
@Violet: Unless you’re diagnosed with Celiac, or maybe Crohn’s, what’s the point of quitting wheat? Bread? Pasta? WTF? (is that in the dictionary yet … OK, I’ll go check).
pcbedamned
All this downtime today forced me over to read and argue on HA. Thank God you’re back…
asiangrrlMN
@smiley: I am both lactose-intolerant and allergic to wheat. It doesn’t stop me from consuming either, but I regret it afterwards. So, now, I am back on the wheat-free, dairy-free train. We’ll see how long that lasts.
Dulcie
Are punch in the neck and/or kick in the junk in the dictionary/lexicon/glossary? I know they’re both common, but they have a special kind of meaning when John uses them in blog posts.
My favorite thread ever is the skull fuck a kitten thread. I laughed so hard I cried that day, and I’m glad to see it made it into the dictionary/lexicon/glossary
Dulcie
@bey: We really do need a location for the classic funnies like Krista’s and Michael D’s.
JK
@freelancer:
I’d like to see a more robust search function as I mentioned in comment #25, but I guess it’s just not in the cards.
Trinity
@freelancer: I sent the BJ dictionary link to my sister and her best friend who are journalists. The subject line:
This is my world.
They LOVED it. My sister loved Hoekstroika especially because (poor dear) he’s her congressman
RedKitten
@Betsy: Hey Betsy! We’re both doing great, thanks for asking. I’ll have to take some more pictures of him soon for John to post. The little guy is eating like a champion, and is getting really cute, with those adorable, squishy cheeks.
The child actually slept 7 hours straight last night, which was absolutely wonderful. I’m not betting on that happening again tonight, but it was certainly a nice respite from the middle-of-the-night feedings.
Trinity
@JK: FYJK
Seriously though, I WANT MY FUCKING WHITEY TAPE bitches!
RedKitten
@bey:
Aww…thanks, bey!
Fencedude
After reading the Jane Hamsher thread, I think the “Jane Hamsher’s of the left” entry needs to be modified to include:
(Note: “The Jane Hamsher’s of the Left” does not include Jane Hamsher)
Penfold
Typo in entry for “I Smell a Pulitzer!”: “…whether or not Obama was sneaking smoked during the 2008 primaries.” I’m assuming this is probably intended to be “sneaking smokes.” Kind of trivial, yet it antagonizes my inner English major…
I think there was another random typo that escapes me now. Alas. BTW, the dictionary is awesome. Also.
Jason Bylinowski
@R-Jud:
22 f’in pounds? What your calorie restriction? Wait, don’t tell me, I’ll just get more depressed. Oh well, good on you and me too, as I do feel better even if I am not getting offical results yet. But I will check that site out, thanks.
@Violet:
Well good luck to you, sugar is hard to let go of (longtime addict of Mike and Ike and anything made by Willy Wonka). My difficulty is two-fold, but not insurmountable: I was vegaphobic and completely sedentary. One is my fault, and one is not. I’m just a picky eater and always have been since I was a baby, but my New Year’s Resolution was to turn over a new leaf and for once I actually kept a resolution (tonight I ate watercress, broccoli, and cooked carrots, all of which I hate but am starting to tolerate). Unfortunately I still kept gaining weight like crazy because I was completely rewarding good behavior with bad (usually and entire box of Mike and Ike’s while reading the blogs at night). The lack of exercise comes from my history of having bad hip problems. I can’t run or walk very fast without a blowout so I had to pony up and craigslisted a nice stationary bike. Turns out, that was a good idea because it is working.
Hiram Taine
Anyone familiar with Kirk Cameron’s release of Darwin’s “Origin of Species” with a 50 page foreword “debunking” it needs to see this video, “Origin of Stupidity” wherein a smart, beautiful Romanian woman does a hilarious job of verbally disemboweling Kir-k..
Svensker
@JK:
Froggy native boys in leather aprons. Yesssssss.
CalD
Dictionary comment:
Kerning is a typographic term that refers to making fine adjustments in letter spacing, e.g., to make typeset headlines more visually pleasing. Onlyest time I can think of when the term ever came up in a political discussion though would have been the (GW) Bush / Texas ANG / 60 Minutes brouhaha, which seems like a bit of a reach. So perhaps there’s some more colloquial meaning that I haven’t run across.
jetan
Now that they are in a dictionary, there are some of these that can never be used again, lest we dork. Others, however, deserve wider usage because they explain so much.
jetan + three.
EL
My favorite John Cole “punch in the neck” moment was here
We love you John, but that was funny as hell. The responses on that thread were pretty good, too.
srv
ENTRY:
Civility Thursday: A long-lost tradition in which left and right trolls would be polite and complementary to one another.
Krista’s Michael Moore Ass Photo Award: Awarded to anyone who completes a complex set of tasks to become a moonbat or DFH. As in “Please perform either an abortion (for pleasure, naturally) and a gay marriage within the next seven days to confirm your status.”
srv
Need an entry for Santorum.
camchuck
Cavuto Mark: “A prophylactic protecting Fox News from anything it might contract during its extensive GOP cocksucking (?)”
les
Damn, I believe I can add a not-entirely-lame effort to the lexicon:
IANAL: I am not a lawyer–standard disclaimer by ordinarily competent commenters, attempting to parse the workings of our, uh, representatives.
or something like that. From a lawyer, who shares the general frustration with our, uh, “representatives.” (KS–Roberts and Brownback. Fuck me to tears.)
les
@Hiram Taine:
Nice; that is a sweet piece of work, in a number of senses. Not that I’m a dirty old man, or anything.
srv
JUMP THE SHARK: Term used to describe the precise moment when something has past its’ zenith and begun a rapid decline in quality.
The origin is from a Happy Days episode in which the Fonz performs a ski jump over a shark, because the show’s writers had completely run out of ideas.
hamletta
I remember the origin of The Clenis!
It was in an Atrios thread, and it was coined by Jennifer, who sometimes posts here, but has had a falling out with Atrios and/or his community of commenters. I’m pretty sure it’s the Jennifer who’s an architect in Arkansas.
It was in Bush’s first term, and the wingnuts were blaming Clinton for everything, and Jennifer made a comment about Bill Clinton’s penis was responsible for all the world’s ills, so we should call it The Clenis.
Or something like that.
VidaLoca
The dictionary would not be complete without an entry for Cindy Sheehan and the high regard John has for her.
SGEW
I daresay that this lexiconic glossary/dictionary has stepped from harmless B-J specific navel gazing, to a wider-ranging injoke collection, to an outright attempt to compile all internet traditions.
Where will the line be drawn? Will lines be drawn?
OriGuy
@CalD: When Obama first posted his birth certificate, some self-proclaimed expert claimed that it had to be phony because “the kerning was all wrong”. He was ignoring the fact that the document displayed was produced by computer after Hawaii had digitized their records.
I could probably come up with a better definition, but dinner is on the table.
Chuck Butcher
“He Has A Book To Sell”
not / no
You said typos…
Reading it was an exercise in LOL
Chuck Butcher
@Jason Bylinowski:
If you are both correcting your diet and performing heavy exercise you will likely not lose weight because you are building muscle mass which is more dense than fat. A better way to judge in that case is a tape measure as opposed to a scale.
In my humble opinion the best measure is how you feel physically.
Chuck Butcher
I wanted to express my appreciation of the Lexicon at my place, so here’s a heads up.
Johnny Pez
Dictionary tweak:
Modo entry is missing the essential word “superficial”.
Canada Kyle
Wow, I’ve only been reading BJ since this fall or so (linked via Sully, who I have since dropped). I tried the archives occasionally to figure out some of the stuff, but that shit is overwhelming, y’all. The lexicon is cracking me up/seriously helping me figure this blog out.
Good work.
lambert strether
Here is a link on Jennifer and The Clenis from the Atrios Comments section.
lambert strether
Possible omission: Pravda, or Pravda on the Potomac. The Washington Post.
lambert strether
Possible omission: Izvestia, or Izvestia on the Hudson. The New York Times.
lambert strether
For IMHO, consider citing The Jargon File, and including IMNSHO (In My Not So Humble Opinion).
lambert strether
For IMHO, consider citing The Jargon File, and including IMNSHO (In My Not So Humble Opinion).
lambert strether
For IMHO, consider citing The Jargon File, and including IMNSHO (In My Not So Humble Opinion).
lambert strether
For IMHO, consider citing The Jargon File, and including IMNSHO (In My Not So Humble Opinion).
lambert strether
For old-school Eschatonians, this might count as an omission:
Duck Pit
The origin of the term is obscure; everyone talks about the duck pit, but nobody ever says where it is, what it is, or how the people destined for it will get there. Believed to be a Babylon 5 reference, however. Usage example: Aux duck pits, citoyens I found this at Orcinus: “Some liberal commenters, for instance, on certain threads I read have devised, satirically, a “duck pit” into which all conservative minions will be cast on the day of liberal reckoning, there to be nibbled to death by a thousand hungry ducks.” If I remember correctly, it originated in comments at Atrios, as a response to violent threats by Right Wing trolls. Sometimes sillines and absurdity are are a good antidote for hatred.
lambert strether
Omission: DINO Democrat In Name Only, and RINO Republican In Name Only.
lambert strether
SCLM should cite to Eric Alterman’s book.
lambert strether
Omission: Theocon.
Theocon
A political operative who manipulates the religious impulse to attain personal or organizational power; in the United States, generally a “conservative” SIC.
Prob. back formation from “neocon” (neo-conservative). First seen by this writer in a column by Sidney Blumenthal excerpted back here.
Usage example: The theocons are setting up a madrassa to train staffers for the White House at Patrick Henry University.
lambert strether
Omission: 101st Fighting Keyboarders should be added as a synonym for 101st Chairborne.
lambert strether
Mighty Wurlitzer:
It might be mentioned that the original motto at Eschaton — “Middle C on the Mighty Casio” — is a play on the Mighty Wurlitzer
lambert strether
Among the missing:
Bankster
Blogosphere, blogtopia.
Blog whoring
Fainting couch — Where one heads, after clutching one’s pearls.
RL — real life (that is, not the blogosphere)
Troll
Wanker
* * *
Teabagging:
1. The act of taking a scrotum into the mouth for sexual pleasure
Since this definition allows the possibility of taking one’s own scrotum into one’s own mouth, it might perhaps be revised.
lambert strether
Oops! Sorry for the dupes! And it would have to be IMNSHO…
Persis
Daydream Believers:
those who firmly believe in the power of staring out the window, contemplating nothingness and everythingness, imagining how things could be, how they wish things could be, without the aid of computers, ipods, television or any other kind of technology.
Persis
Our Lady of Perpetual Outrage
This is the church at which I prayed in the long dark years of Bush–
I’m going back there to relieve myself of my disgust about the Bank Bailouts, budget cuts in California, and assholes who oppose healthcare reform. It’s the only church I could ever get myself to worship at!
AnneS
Suggestion — Keep fucking that chicken!
Tentative definition — comment of encouragement to an idiot statement or action.