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You are here: Home / I’m Only Here For the Buffet

I’m Only Here For the Buffet

by John Cole|  April 2, 20105:17 pm| 130 Comments

This post is in: Clown Shoes, Our Failed Media Experiment

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CNN- We Don’t Know What the F**K We’re Doing:

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
CNN Hires Erick Erickson
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Reform

Meanwhile, we are going on nine months since Marcy Wheeler was blacklisted for saying “blow job.“

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  1. 1.

    licensed to kill time

    April 2, 2010 at 5:20 pm

    Arggh – finally a new thread, and I have to go. John, you might want to check what’s going on in the thread below – it’s a total meltdown.

    ETA – now the whole site has gone completely wonky. Everything is messed up, no sidebars and no comment box and OMG!! Imma let you finish, be back tomorrow.

  2. 2.

    Martin

    April 2, 2010 at 5:20 pm

    First rule of journalism – never say blowjob, just give them.

  3. 3.

    dmsilev

    April 2, 2010 at 5:21 pm

    Per the GOS, Erick Erickovich’s latest idiocy is to wank off about threatening census-takers with his wife’s shotgun. Heckuva job, CNN.

    Disclaimer: This is an Erickson idiocy from yesterday. There’s a respectable probability that he’s said something equally stupid today, so it may not in fact be his *latest* idiocy.

    -dms

  4. 4.

    freelancer

    April 2, 2010 at 5:22 pm

    Jay Rosen has some idears, some good, some not so good:

    11 pm.: Liberty or death: World’s first news program from a libertarian perspective, with all the unpredictablity and mix-it-up moxie that libertarians at their best provide. Co-produced with Reason magazine.

    Somehow I imagine a nightly trainwreck that is comparable to Welch vs. Winebox.

  5. 5.

    John Cole

    April 2, 2010 at 5:22 pm

    I already fixed the thread below. Idiots. I leave the blog alone for a couple hours and you jackasses are using crayons on the wall and eating paste.

  6. 6.

    Violet

    April 2, 2010 at 5:23 pm

    New thread! Yay! The Bolding Gone Wild is gone from the old thread – maybe because we got a new thread? Or did Cole fix it?

  7. 7.

    cleek

    April 2, 2010 at 5:25 pm

    i liked the bold!

    (i did not break the layout, though.)

  8. 8.

    dmsilev

    April 2, 2010 at 5:25 pm

    Well, that looks odd. There must be an unclosed div tag somewhere or something, because right now comments 4-6 look like they’re sub-comments of my comment #3.

    -dms

  9. 9.

    John Cole

    April 2, 2010 at 5:25 pm

    @cleek: Asshole.

  10. 10.

    asiangrrlMN

    April 2, 2010 at 5:26 pm

    Um. Someone broke something again, and there is no comment #4. I’m just sayin’.

  11. 11.

    Bob L

    April 2, 2010 at 5:27 pm

    @John Cole:

    Unfair, look closely; that is not crayons on the wall. They don’t make a brown crayons.

  12. 12.

    Joseph Nobles

    April 2, 2010 at 5:27 pm

    @licensed to kill time: wondering what replying here will do.

  13. 13.

    Loneoak

    April 2, 2010 at 5:28 pm

    I’m getting some really bizarre graphics malfunctions on Safari. Have no idea about the technical details, but it’s mushing together multiple comments and superimposing comments over each other when I scroll over with the mouse.

  14. 14.

    MikeJ

    April 2, 2010 at 5:28 pm

    @asiangrrlMN: All multiples of four so far, but it’s a very small data set.

    Edit: With the addition of one more data point, smart ass theory is shot down before the post even goes through.

  15. 15.

    Seebach

    April 2, 2010 at 5:28 pm

    I still do not like the MSNBC is the Fox News of the Left framing. It’s not the same. It simply is not.

  16. 16.

    Violet

    April 2, 2010 at 5:29 pm

    @John Cole:
    What cleek post are you replying to here? The missing Post #4?

  17. 17.

    licensed to kill time

    April 2, 2010 at 5:29 pm

    I said I was leaving, but I just can’t quit you. Random names are popping up in other people’s comments now. Whee!

    Good luck all!

  18. 18.

    eric

    April 2, 2010 at 5:30 pm

    I for one believe that hurtful, over the top, near holocaust level Catholic bashing is causing God’s divine retribution to rain a little Word Press hellfire on y’all.

  19. 19.

    Violet

    April 2, 2010 at 5:31 pm

    @licensed to kill time:
    It’s awesome fun, isn’t it?

    Cole, I guess you ate some of the paste along with Post Number Four. This thread is fun too!

  20. 20.

    dmsilev

    April 2, 2010 at 5:31 pm

    Oy vey. here’s what the comments look like for me. Safari 4 on a Mac.

    -dms

  21. 21.

    Midnight Marauder

    April 2, 2010 at 5:31 pm

    …Whoa. Shit is ALL KINDS OF CRAZY right now.

  22. 22.

    licensed to kill time

    April 2, 2010 at 5:32 pm

    @Violet:

    I blame it all on the dancing reply arrow. Get thee behind me, satanic popup arrow!

  23. 23.

    dr. bloor

    April 2, 2010 at 5:33 pm

    @John Cole:

    I already fixed the thread below. Idiots. I leave the blog alone for a couple hours and you jackasses are using crayons on the wall and eating paste.

    Fuck you, I wasn’t using crayons on the wall. The orange and green ones were delicious.

  24. 24.

    Violet

    April 2, 2010 at 5:33 pm

    The comment box appears and disappears at varying times when the page is reloaded. No idea why. Reload again, comment box reappears. Reload again, disappears. Fun!

  25. 25.

    TooManyJens

    April 2, 2010 at 5:33 pm

    This was a triumph…

  26. 26.

    scav

    April 2, 2010 at 5:33 pm

    Chrome’s now lost it. Mine’s looking like a non-closed indenting (list?) tag or something every so often in the comments. At least this TechnoJoy!! event had nothing possibly to do with my wandering unhampered by common sense into the geekdepths.

  27. 27.

    arguingwithsignposts

    April 2, 2010 at 5:34 pm

    @John Cole:

    I leave the blog alone for a couple hours and you jackasses are using crayons on the wall and eating paste.

    Says the guy whose FPer was posting chatr__lette?

  28. 28.

    jeffreyw

    April 2, 2010 at 5:34 pm

    While at the buffet, try the sesame chicken.

  29. 29.

    me

    April 2, 2010 at 5:34 pm

    Comment 3’s reply link isn’t closed properly and so comment 4 is joined with comment 3.

  30. 30.

    Violet

    April 2, 2010 at 5:35 pm

    @licensed to kill time:
    Yeah, the popup reply arrow is EVIL. If I get some garlic and a silver spike, will that take care of it? I miss the old static reply arrow (whine).

  31. 31.

    Svensker

    April 2, 2010 at 5:35 pm

    @freelancer:

    Per the GOS, Erick Erickovich’s latest idiocy is to wank off about threatening census-takers with his wife’s shotgun. Heckuva job, CNN.

    It’s just dumb beyond words to start with, and then the fact that it is his wife’s shotgun….

    Plus it’s great that CNN has employees on the toob threatening to shoot census workers. Outstanding work, boys!

  32. 32.

    RedKitten

    April 2, 2010 at 5:35 pm

    Yep, she’s gone FUBAR. John, are you seeing what we’re seeing, or did you want me to email you a screen shot?

  33. 33.

    cleek

    April 2, 2010 at 5:35 pm

    @John Cole:
    i didn’t do anything!

  34. 34.

    Sentient Puddle

    April 2, 2010 at 5:36 pm

    Yeah, at this point, seeing the HTML in some comments eat the scripting in others, I think we can safely say that it’s WordPress eating paste, and punching out whole sections of drywall.

  35. 35.

    eric

    April 2, 2010 at 5:37 pm

    @cleek: nice try Pope Cleek I

  36. 36.

    Martian Buddy

    April 2, 2010 at 5:37 pm

    Now there’s a vorpal post in this thread. My head hurts.

    Also, as long as I’m cross-posting my snark:

    This is the towering intellect that wanted to abolish the police force because they were talking about unionizing, yes? Bet the cops would just love to respond to that call.

    “Hey, you had your chance, it’s my turn to tase him in the nuts!”

    (Italics substituted for bold for safety’s sake.)

  37. 37.

    El Cid

    April 2, 2010 at 5:38 pm

    In CNN and Urk Urksum’s defense, he said that on his radio like, a looooong time ago, like, yesterday, when he was many, many, many hours younger. You libruls just can’t let people grow and learn.

  38. 38.

    Violet

    April 2, 2010 at 5:38 pm

    @me:

    Comment 3’s reply link isn’t closed properly and so comment 4 is joined with comment 3.

    In my Firefox there is no Comment 4. And the actual Comment 4, as seen on dmsilev’s screen capture linked in Comment 20 doesn’t appear to be attached to either Comment 3 or 5.

  39. 39.

    licensed to kill time

    April 2, 2010 at 5:39 pm

    Hah, is John banishing the OMG! reply arrow? Cuz now I have no reply thingy at all. This is wild fun, peeps. Man, I really have to go, though.

  40. 40.

    Tonal Crow

    April 2, 2010 at 5:39 pm

    Everything looks OK in Firefox 3.6.2, but the reply button has disappeared. I suspect Tunch is hiding it.

  41. 41.

    Sentient Puddle

    April 2, 2010 at 5:39 pm

    At this point, I’m sure John is now smacking the plugins around with a monkey wrench, as the phantom posts have returned, but I now no longer have a reply button.

    This has been a fun Friday afternoon. All that’s missing is a beer.

  42. 42.

    me

    April 2, 2010 at 5:40 pm

    Part of the problem was dms’s dash was getting transformed into a unclosed strike tag.

  43. 43.

    dmsilev

    April 2, 2010 at 5:41 pm

    Isn’t it fun to sit and kibitz while watching the effects of someone else’s frantic attempts at troubleshooting?

    -dms

  44. 44.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    April 2, 2010 at 5:41 pm

    @eric #18

    I for one believe that hurtful, over the top, near holocaust level Catholic bashing is causing God’s divine retribution to rain a little Word Press hellfire on y’all.

    My theory as well. If you see an HTML table riding a pale horse, don’t bother trying to run for it. It’s too late.

  45. 45.

    Violet

    April 2, 2010 at 5:41 pm

    Hey, Comment 4 is back! And I was wrong in my previous post, but no way to edit anything now.

    This thread is awesome!

  46. 46.

    asiangrrlMN

    April 2, 2010 at 5:41 pm

    Whew. All better now. No more breaking the internetz, peeps! This is why we can’t have nice things.

    Erick the son of Erick’s biggest regret about calling David Souter a goat-fucking child-molester was that his kid and wife got heckled about it. Really. But, you know, CNN long tried to claim that Lou Dobb was two different people, so why not Erick bin Erick? I am contemplating getting cable just so I can cancel it in outrage over CNN hiring the Red State Warrior.

  47. 47.

    MikeJ

    April 2, 2010 at 5:41 pm

    Is today the day we joke about naming our firstborn

    Robert’) Drop Table comments;

  48. 48.

    gbear

    April 2, 2010 at 5:42 pm

    11 pm.: Liberty or death: World’s first news program from a libertarian perspective

    Crap, I was hoping is was a quiz show.

    “What is your favorite liberty?”

    “Gun ownership….NO, speech!AAAAAAAahhhh!!

  49. 49.

    General Egali Tarian Stuck

    April 2, 2010 at 5:42 pm

    Since I hardly ever watch CNN, I did not realize they had jumped in headfirst with the sewer trout. I mean I know that Erick the retch had been hired but that was the first time I actually saw him on teevee.

    That said, your comedy creds have gone up a point or two with me CNN> Center of Nutter News. That was funny as hell and would have been even without Stewart.

  50. 50.

    freelancer

    April 2, 2010 at 5:42 pm

    all better again. Phew. Our little thread is all growed up!

  51. 51.

    asiangrrlMN

    April 2, 2010 at 5:42 pm

    jeffreyw, cannot reply to you, but oh my god oh my god oh my god! WANT the sesame chicken!

  52. 52.

    General Egali Tarian Stuck

    April 2, 2010 at 5:43 pm

    So no edit. That’s alright, I don’t need it. :)

    And now edit appears. Okay, who wants to be this months sacrificed virgin to the WP gawds. Don’t worry, your demise will not be real.

  53. 53.

    KRK

    April 2, 2010 at 5:43 pm

    Today’s xkcd is perfect for BJ commenters: http://xkcd.com/722/.

  54. 54.

    jeffreyw

    April 2, 2010 at 5:43 pm

    Random frog comment.

  55. 55.

    Violet

    April 2, 2010 at 5:43 pm

    Does anyone have a Reply button? It’s gone for me. I think the garlic and silver spike worked!

  56. 56.

    asiangrrlMN

    April 2, 2010 at 5:44 pm

    gbear, waitaminute. Erick son of Erick claims to be a libertarian? WTF?

    Whee! I got edit back, but still cannot reply.

  57. 57.

    gbear

    April 2, 2010 at 5:44 pm

    FYWP. That little red X replaced quite a bit of text. No edit feature. Joke ruined. FYWP.

    Edit: Oh fucking sure! NOW the edit feature returns. FY sadistic WP.

  58. 58.

    Tonal Crow

    April 2, 2010 at 5:44 pm

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ:

    If you see an HTML table riding a pale horse, don’t bother trying to run for it. It’s too late.

    I’ll raise your pale horse and bid a white cat batting an HTML table.

    ETA: Ooo: two rows of HTML editing buttons. I wonder what happens if I click them?

  59. 59.

    MikeJ

    April 2, 2010 at 5:45 pm

    KRK, I miss the CLI.

  60. 60.

    asiangrrlMN

    April 2, 2010 at 5:46 pm

    Man, Cole’s gotta be ready to kill us about now. #waves at Cole#. Remember, I’m the one on your side about the sheets thing!

    jeffreyw, done! I’ll be there in…how long does it take to drive from Minneapolis to your neck of the woods in IL?

    gbear, never mind. I misread.

    dms, yeah. I mixed up freelancer’s post with the subject of the original post. Sorry!

  61. 61.

    jeffreyw

    April 2, 2010 at 5:46 pm

    jeffreyw, cannot reply to you, but oh my god oh my god oh my god! WANT the sesame chicken!

    Too late! Still have some of these I can fix for ya.

  62. 62.

    scav

    April 2, 2010 at 5:47 pm

    Code in a tumble dryer.

  63. 63.

    dmsilev

    April 2, 2010 at 5:48 pm

    asiangrrlMN: I don’t think he’s ever made that claim. Erick ibn Erick is a conservative hack and proud of it.

    -dms

  64. 64.

    John Cole

    April 2, 2010 at 5:48 pm

    That is the best I can get it right now. You will just have to deal with no reply thing, because that is what caused the problem.

    Also people, move to Firefox.

  65. 65.

    jeffreyw

    April 2, 2010 at 5:48 pm

    Wide stance.

  66. 66.

    Violet

    April 2, 2010 at 5:48 pm

    Man, Cole’s gotta be ready to kill us about now. #waves at Cole#. Remember, I’m the one on your side about the sheets thing!

    I’m on Cole’s side too with the sheets. Don’t let the West Elm trendies get you down, Cole!

    I’ve got two rows of HTML editing buttons too. Almost too much fun here to handle!

    Edit – I’m using Firefox. It still wasn’t pretty.

  67. 67.

    dmsilev

    April 2, 2010 at 5:49 pm

    ETA: Ooo: two rows of HTML editing buttons. I wonder what happens if I click them?

    You fool! That will trigger the emergency self-destruct mechanism. You’ve doomed us all!

    -dms

  68. 68.

    TooManyJens

    April 2, 2010 at 5:50 pm

    Stuck @ 52:

    Okay, who wants to be this months sacrificed virgin to the WP gawds. Don’t worry, your demise will not be real.

    Nor your virginity, for that matter.

  69. 69.

    scav

    April 2, 2010 at 5:50 pm

    [email protected]: just to be utterly clear, Chrome OK? It seemed ok for all the last thread.

  70. 70.

    General Egali Tarian Stuck

    April 2, 2010 at 5:50 pm

    Also people, move to Firefox.

    I have never understood why anyone would use any other browser.

  71. 71.

    freelancer

    April 2, 2010 at 5:51 pm

    @Violet:

    No reply, but now I have two rows of easy html buttons!

    Double your pleasure.

  72. 72.

    Carrie

    April 2, 2010 at 5:51 pm

    Told you he would be pissed….

  73. 73.

    MikeBoyScout

    April 2, 2010 at 5:51 pm

    Any chance Erick, son of Erick, Erickson’s wife intends to show him what she’s made of, gun powder and lead?

    Hope and Change? ;-)

  74. 74.

    asiangrrlMN

    April 2, 2010 at 5:52 pm

    Violet, I’m glad I’m not the only woman who doesn’t really give a damn about her paramour’s decor. Hm. What happens if I press this button….

    Will I break the intertoobz?

    Damn. I did not. I am using Chrome. I have no problems with it.

  75. 75.

    Martin

    April 2, 2010 at 5:52 pm

    Mostly because Firefox is starting to suck now. They’re falling behind on the standards, and it’s quite slow compared to Chrome/Safari. We did some testing in the office against my HTML5/Javascript web tools and Chrome was 10x faster than Firefox. It was stunning.

  76. 76.

    Violet

    April 2, 2010 at 5:52 pm

    Is the fun over? Boo….

  77. 77.

    Midnight Marauder

    April 2, 2010 at 5:53 pm

    “I dare them to try and come throw me in jail. I dare them to. Pull out my wife’s shotgun and see how that little ACS twerp likes being scared at the door.” — Erick SonofErick

    Your wife’s shotgun?!

    And all this time, I thought not using/having your own shotgun was an offense punishable by excommunication or death in Real America.

  78. 78.

    freelancer

    April 2, 2010 at 5:53 pm

    “Ceci n’est pas une bold”

  79. 79.

    WereBear

    April 2, 2010 at 5:54 pm

    I guess with EsonofE on CNN, they are going for the demographic that is both mean and stupid. Worst of both worlds there.

    In all seriousness, did they not spend ten minutes on Teh Google? Just a search on Sadly, No! would have made the interview a lot more enlightened.

    Well, can’t boycott what I never watch anyway.

  80. 80.

    Calming Influence

    April 2, 2010 at 5:54 pm

    Firefox is affected somewhat as well. And I have to say, when I saw that “bold, begone!” turned every subsequent comment in the previous thread bold, I had too walk away from my desk I was laughing so hard. FYWP, even if you are occasionally amusing.

  81. 81.

    General Egali Tarian Stuck

    April 2, 2010 at 5:55 pm

    Nor your virginity, for that matter.

    I remain a virgin in spirit.

  82. 82.

    jeffreyw

    April 2, 2010 at 5:57 pm

    You are not alone…

  83. 83.

    Comrade Dread

    April 2, 2010 at 5:57 pm

    I’ve got to say that I enjoy the new angrier, more bitter Mr. Cole’s posts more and more.

    And he’s not even at +1 yet.

  84. 84.

    Martin

    April 2, 2010 at 5:57 pm

    I don’t see how CNN can’t fire recursive-Erick for suggesting violence against a federal employee. And if they had any shame, they’d fire the guy who hired him, and the guy who hired that guy.

  85. 85.

    Violet

    April 2, 2010 at 5:57 pm

    asiangrrlMN:

    I’m glad I’m not the only woman who doesn’t really give a damn about her paramour’s decor.

    Yeah, it really doesn’t bother me. I mean, I might notice it, but would it make any difference to me? Nope.

    Now I do have a male friend who never seemed to get around to washing his sheets. Total stereotypical bachelor kind of guy. House was a total wreck. He started dating a woman, brought her home, and she refused to get into the bed because the sheets were so disgusting. He thought she was ridiculous for complaining. He told me the story, I went over to his place to offer a female opinion, and hoo-boy those things were ripe. Really foul. So yeah, the color of the sheets is irrelevant. The cleanliness…that’s another thing entirely.

  86. 86.

    General Egali Tarian Stuck

    April 2, 2010 at 5:59 pm

    Told you he would be pissed….

    Periodically, when Balloon Juice gets to running too smooth, it needs fixing by our expert blogger.

  87. 87.

    asiangrrlMN

    April 2, 2010 at 5:59 pm

    Martin, well that’s the RedState Erick son of Erick, not the CNN Erick son of Erick. Two completely different people.

    Violet, ok, that’s just gross.

  88. 88.

    Violet

    April 2, 2010 at 6:02 pm

    asiangrrlMN, yeah it was truly disgusting. She really liked him though because she stuck around while he got in the habit of both washing his sheets and changing them regularly. True love. Lolz.

  89. 89.

    Uloborus

    April 2, 2010 at 6:02 pm

    Can I have some more paste? These bottles are empty.

  90. 90.

    Mike in NC

    April 2, 2010 at 6:06 pm

    From the previous messed up thread:

    Anyone have any suggestions on a good biography of FDR? Thx in advance!

    “FDR” by Jean Edward Smith (Random House 2007) is very highly rated by presidential historians. In my ‘to read’ pile…

    Mike +3
    (Have a real job starting on Monday!)

  91. 91.

    me

    April 2, 2010 at 6:07 pm

    Also people, move to Firefox.

    To be fair, unclosed tags are undefined behavior. Firefox just handles it better by automatically closing them at the next div rather then blowing up the page like IE.

  92. 92.

    Allan

    April 2, 2010 at 6:08 pm

    Erick also threatened to rape a caller with his wife’s penis.

  93. 93.

    Citizen_X

    April 2, 2010 at 6:13 pm

    It wasn’t me! Tunch ate the paste!

  94. 94.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    April 2, 2010 at 6:18 pm

    @Martin #84:

    if they had any shame, they’d fire the guy who hired him, and the guy who hired that guy.

    And if Count Dracula had a baguette and some garlic, he could make garlic bread.

  95. 95.

    Little Dreamer

    April 2, 2010 at 6:22 pm

    @ Bob L

    Burnt Sienna? That might suffice for brown, depending on dietary deficiencies, I mean.

  96. 96.

    RedKitten

    April 2, 2010 at 6:25 pm

    asiangrrlMN, yeah it was truly disgusting. She really liked him though because she stuck around while he got in the habit of both washing his sheets and changing them regularly. True love. Lolz.

    Yuck — dirty sheets. Even if someone is a complete slob, you would think they’d at least wash their sheets before a DATE, just in case.

  97. 97.

    arguingwithsignposts

    April 2, 2010 at 6:26 pm

    @tonal crow:

    I’ll raise your pale horse and bid a white cat batting an HTML table.

    She is so batting that HTML table!

    ETA: I’ve been on FF the whole afternoon. Chatroul__te is not a browser problem.

  98. 98.

    Little Dreamer

    April 2, 2010 at 6:28 pm

    BTW, I did that link to Bob’s comment by hand, no reply button here either.

  99. 99.

    RedKitten

    April 2, 2010 at 6:31 pm

    Mike +3
    (Have a real job starting on Monday!)

    Hey congrats! That’s exciting news!

  100. 100.

    Maude

    April 2, 2010 at 6:39 pm

    FDR bios, you have to read a lot of them. It seems that each historian has their own personal opinion and it slants the book.
    I haz two quicktags. I iz special.

    We will soon be having a Set The Tone again after we are cursed out for complaining about the messes in the comments.

    The sheets are lovely. I like the duvet color.

  101. 101.

    Ash Can

    April 2, 2010 at 6:40 pm

    @Bob L #11: Sure they make brown crayons. Just look over there in that box full of gravel. That’s where I found mine.

  102. 102.

    SiubhanDuinne

    April 2, 2010 at 6:40 pm

    @arguingwithsignposts #96: I do love that Smudgekitten picture! And seeing it shows how much she’s grown since that was taken.

  103. 103.

    Mark

    April 2, 2010 at 6:45 pm

    I’m a census worker and start in 3 weeks. I’m so mad right now. A “little twerp” am I. This Army vet who has never been arrested in his whole life feels like driving to Atlanta and whipping his ass.

    Trying to support my 2 kids as a single dad and this jerk is gonna get me killed? Unbelievable CNN is allowing this.

  104. 104.

    Yutsano

    April 2, 2010 at 6:45 pm

    @ RedKitten:

    Even if someone is a complete slob, you would think they’d at least wash their sheets before a DATE, just in case.

    Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but I’ve had much more sex in the various cars I’ve owned than in my bed. I cannot also leave out the possibility that I r doing it wrong.

  105. 105.

    matoko_chan

    April 2, 2010 at 6:50 pm

    jeez what is with the multi-chin?
    do all “conservatives” have to have that to get into the All-white Super Adventure Teabagger Fun Club?
    Beck has a multi-chin too.

  106. 106.

    geg6

    April 2, 2010 at 6:50 pm

    Hey, all I said was that the sheets were ugly. I never said I wouldn’t sleep with Cole because of them. Of course, I would be ashamed in the morning. Quite unlike Politico and CNN.

  107. 107.

    RedKitten

    April 2, 2010 at 6:55 pm

    Hey, all I said was that the sheets were ugly. I never said I wouldn’t sleep with Cole because of them. Of course, I would be ashamed in the morning. Quite unlike Politico and CNN.

    Good point. I don’t think any of us here said that bad sheets were a deal-breaker. They’re just not adding anything to the ambiance.

    Yutsano: my car as a teenager was a Geo Storm. If you can have sex in THAT, you can manage anywhere. But it DOES make a bed look that much better.

  108. 108.

    asiangrrlMN

    April 2, 2010 at 6:56 pm

    Mike in NC, woot woot! Good for you!

    Whee! I have started up the debate about Cole’s linens again. He will be SO pleased. But, since he posted an absolutely adorable pic of Tunchie earlier today, I don’t care!

  109. 109.

    WereBear

    April 2, 2010 at 6:57 pm

    Mike in NC: Augh! Went over and read the reviews… and got it for my Kindle app.

    I do like FDR biographies. Such a complex person, who overcame a lot; and did a lot of good for many people. I especially like the “balanced view” of Eleanor that was mentioned.

    I bring my lunch to work so I can afford my Kindle addiction. It’s a win-win.

  110. 110.

    Yellowdog

    April 2, 2010 at 6:57 pm

    I have NO reply arrow at all, no matter what I do. Firefox on Vista. Did I do something wrong? Don’t you like me any more?

  111. 111.

    Yutsano

    April 2, 2010 at 7:02 pm

    my car as a teenager was a Geo Storm. If you can have sex in THAT, you can manage anywhere.

    I’m not bragging or anything, but I’m not exactly a petite individual, and I tend to go for guys quite a bit bigger than me. I still managed to knock boots a few times when I was the proud owner of a Volkswagen Beetle. I’m talking the old school tiny models. It wasn’t that bad either. Okay I’ll shut up now.

    Oh, have your hubby watch his inbox the next couple of days. My parents got the ranch and I want to discuss stonework with him, though it may not happen until I get back from Arizona.

  112. 112.

    kay

    April 2, 2010 at 7:03 pm

    I’m a census worker and start in 3 weeks. I’m so mad right now. A “little twerp” am I. This Army vet who has never been arrested in his whole life feels like driving to Atlanta and whipping his ass.

    Trying to support my 2 kids as a single dad and this jerk is gonna get me killed? Unbelievable CNN is allowing this.

    I’m sure you’ll do great. I used to be a mail carrier. They were always like this. Speak slowly and don’t alarm them, they frighten easily.
    They always thought their mail had been “tampered” with.
    If they give you any trouble, toss off “get a job, loser” as you’re leaving.

  113. 113.

    Hob

    April 2, 2010 at 7:03 pm

    @me:

    To be fair, unclosed tags are undefined behavior. Firefox just handles it better by automatically closing them at the next div rather then blowing up the page like IE.

    <standards-nitpicking>
    No, not undefined at all. In HTML, inline elements (like <b>) are not allowed to go past the end of any block element (like <p>); they’re supposed to get implicitly closed at that point if they were left open. Firefox (sometimes) gets this right now, but most browsers historically haven’t.
    </standards-nitpicking>

  114. 114.

    Nicole

    April 2, 2010 at 7:06 pm

    @ ThatLeftTurninABQ

    And if Count Dracula had a baguette and some garlic, he could make garlic bread.

    I have no idea what that means, but it’s hilarious.

  115. 115.

    asiangrrlMN

    April 2, 2010 at 7:07 pm

    Yellowdog, Cole had a fancy new flashing reply button which is what fucked up the site. Thus, we have no reply arrow right now. Such is our lot in life.

  116. 116.

    RedKitten

    April 2, 2010 at 7:13 pm

    Oh, have your hubby watch his inbox the next couple of days. My parents got the ranch and I want to discuss stonework with him, though it may not happen until I get back from Arizona.

    What type of stonework are you thinking?

  117. 117.

    freelancer

    April 2, 2010 at 7:14 pm

    Erick also threatened to rape a caller with his wife’s penis.

    This made me laugh my ass off. Kudos

    Alan Garner: It was really nice meeting you.
    Melissa: Fuck off!
    Alan Garner: You know, I was thinking of getting my bartender’s license.
    Melissa: Suck my dick!
    Alan Garner: No, thank you.

  118. 118.

    RareSanity

    April 2, 2010 at 7:15 pm

    Man, I love it when Cole just loses it…

    Idiots. I leave the blog alone for a couple hours and you jackasses are using crayons on the wall and eating paste.

    He’s right! Give us hell, Quimby!

    As fitting today, as it was yesterday…

  119. 119.

    Yutsano

    April 2, 2010 at 7:20 pm

    @ RedKitten 116:

    I’m thinking an entryway for either their driveway (the driveway to the house is down a long road that leads to the house in the back) or a greeting stone for the porch. I can supply him with some pictures of the type of horse they breed/show. The ranch also has a name that I’m not recalling, but it’s the Spanish word for pork chop. Yes my parents have a strange sense of humour why do you ask? :)

  120. 120.

    RedKitten

    April 2, 2010 at 7:24 pm

    Very good. Just making sure that you were indeed looking for the type of thing that he provides, so that you’re not barking up the wrong tree.

    When thinking of the lettering, keep in mind that he can’t make letters any smaller than 1 inch tall. So the more stuff you have on the stone, the bigger it has to be, and hence, the more expensive it is to create and to ship.

  121. 121.

    Hob

    April 2, 2010 at 7:25 pm

    ARGH, FYWP, I FUCKING ESCAPED THOSE FUCKING BRACKETS.

  122. 122.

    Yutsano

    April 2, 2010 at 7:31 pm

    Very good. Just making sure that you were indeed looking for the type of thing that he provides, so that you’re not barking up the wrong tree.

    I checked the website you showed me and also the stuff that sits around your fireplace, it is exactly what I’m thinking would be perfect for their new place.

    When thinking of the lettering, keep in mind that he can’t make letters any smaller than 1 inch tall. So the more stuff you have on the stone, the bigger it has to be, and hence, the more expensive it is to create and to ship.

    I may just say screw any lettering and just go with the picture of the horse and call it good. Or if I go with the driveway stone just the numbers for the house. I don’t know I’m still mulling exactly what I want there. Honestly I haven’t even seen their new place (I know, I know, bad for the inheritance that they’ll all spend anyway) so I’m still trying to decide exactly what will be the right fit there.

  123. 123.

    Karen in GA

    April 2, 2010 at 7:34 pm

    Mike in NC, congrats!

    And I appear to have swapped out the reply function for double the html button thingies. Safari, Windows 7.

  124. 124.

    RedKitten

    April 2, 2010 at 7:34 pm

    @Yutsano: No problemo. His usual turnaround time is about 30 days, so just keep that in mind if you’re thinking of giving it to them for some particular occasion. Anyway, hopefully he’ll hear from you soon. :)

  125. 125.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    April 2, 2010 at 7:37 pm

    @Nicole #114

    Thanks!
    The meaning was that not only does CNN have no shame, in fact they appear to be allergic to it, like vampires and garlic.

  126. 126.

    BombIranForChrist

    April 2, 2010 at 7:39 pm

    CNN is basically a very, very boring Today Show.

    It’s just so inane.

  127. 127.

    Yutsano

    April 2, 2010 at 7:39 pm

    His usual turnaround time is about 30 days, so just keep that in mind if you’re thinking of giving it to them for some particular occasion.

    I don’t have a set timeline for when I would need this. My father’s birthday is in June, but as he would just as soon we ignore that it ever happens I’m thinking I’ll skip that timing. I might just surprise them with it one weekend while they’re least expecting it. Or even for Canada/Independence Day (I love how they’re three days apart!) or just whenever. I’ll most likely get the ball rolling when I survey the financial damage from the Arizona trip.

  128. 128.

    cleek

    April 2, 2010 at 8:03 pm

    And if Count Dracula had a baguette and some garlic, he could make garlic bread.

    this meets or exceeds expectations.

  129. 129.

    Older

    April 2, 2010 at 8:53 pm

    Irk’s wife won’t let him have a shotgun; that’s why he has to borrow hers. Hopefully, the census won’t call at his house while she’s out.

  130. 130.

    Mister Colorful Analogy

    April 2, 2010 at 9:33 pm

    @dmsilev – April 2nd, 2010 at 5:49 pm

    ETA: Ooo: two rows of HTML editing buttons. I wonder what happens if I click them?
    __
    You fool! That will trigger the emergency self-destruct mechanism. You’ve doomed us all!
    __
    -dms

    Don’t touch it! It’s the History Eraser button, you fool!

    -MrCA

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