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No Time Left For You

by John Cole|  August 20, 20101:58 pm| 31 Comments

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I’m on my way to better things.

Just too swamped to do anything. Be nice to eh other.

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  1. 1.

    amorphous

    August 20, 2010 at 1:59 pm

    Be nice to eh other

    I think halo is a pretty cool guy, eh kills aleins and doesn’t afraid of anything.

  2. 2.

    Morbo

    August 20, 2010 at 2:00 pm

    Eh?

  3. 3.

    licensed to kill time

    August 20, 2010 at 2:00 pm

    Who is eh other and why should I be nice to him/her?

  4. 4.

    Punchy

    August 20, 2010 at 2:02 pm

    From the looks of this post, Cole clearly left off the necessary “John +8” at the bottom…

  5. 5.

    CJ

    August 20, 2010 at 2:06 pm

    The August heat has gotten to our fearless leader it seems, eh?

  6. 6.

    Frank L

    August 20, 2010 at 2:08 pm

    You found yourself some wings. Enjoy the distant roads that are calling you.

    Eh? Are you coming to Canada?

  7. 7.

    Ned R.

    August 20, 2010 at 2:09 pm

    Surely that should be “Be excellent to each other.”

  8. 8.

    NobodySpecial

    August 20, 2010 at 2:17 pm

    Be nice to eh other.

    Screw you!

  9. 9.

    cleek

    August 20, 2010 at 2:19 pm

    eh other (sometimes: e.h. other) was an American poet. he shocked the poetry world in 1932 when he released his first book, “anal lysis and me aning of pems”. this book introduced the world to his trademark “word frag meant” technique, which relied on splitting words into fragments which could then deliver meaning beyond what the whole words could.

    the titular poem was an instant hit:

    Anal Lysys.
    Up on the die ing of the day
    Light, the ink wis it ive
    Anal list anal eyes ez hims elf.
    Picks at t he scabs grown ing
    Over the fresh wo unds
    Of his after no on.

    many people considered the style too difficult to read, and the technique too obvious. indeed, a number of abridged volumes were published which reprinted the poems with the words un-split, for clarity. but an equal, and frankly more-vocal, number thought it a brilliant commentary on contemporary man’s fragmented and unfocused attention span – a problem that has only increased in the decades since.

    today, eh is nearly forgotten. his style quickly fell out of favor with a public that, ironically, was so eager for new experiences that it discarded him before his second book, which contained his masterpiece “wai tingfor the the rapist”, was even finished. when it was eventually published, in 1934, it sold poorly and most copies were shredded.

    such is fame.

  10. 10.

    MikeJ

    August 20, 2010 at 2:20 pm

    Be nice to eh other.

    It is nice to eh an other, rather than having to eh yourself all the time.

  11. 11.

    MikeJ

    August 20, 2010 at 2:22 pm

    Cleek, where’s our next contest?

  12. 12.

    South of I-10

    August 20, 2010 at 2:23 pm

    Distant roads are calling you?

  13. 13.

    sven

    August 20, 2010 at 2:24 pm

    If you are a Psych fan you might find this story interesting.

  14. 14.

    cleek

    August 20, 2010 at 2:25 pm

    @MikeJ:
    i feel like i keep reusing the same bands over and over. i gotta find some new material to pick from.

  15. 15.

    burnspbesq

    August 20, 2010 at 2:28 pm

    I’ll be nice to whoever I goddam well please to be nice to.

    And if this article in the Times is accurate, that surely won’t include Kenneth Feinberg, the administrator of BP’s $20 billion compensation fund.

    In order to get a payout from the fund, claimants have to agree not to sue TransOcean, Halliburton, and Cameron (the manufacturer of the failed blowout preventer)?

    Fuck no. And fuck you very much for asking.

  16. 16.

    ronin122

    August 20, 2010 at 2:29 pm

    Fuck all y’all.

    So much for being nice =)

  17. 17.

    Librarian

    August 20, 2010 at 2:29 pm

    No time for revolving doors?

  18. 18.

    licensed to kill time

    August 20, 2010 at 2:31 pm

    eh, what fools these other mortals be!
    stand aside: the noise they make
    will cause the others to awake.

    and those other things they do best please me
    that befall preposterously.

    e.h. other Shakespeare, A Midsummer-Daydream

  19. 19.

    Punchy

    August 20, 2010 at 2:34 pm

    @burnspbesq: What’s the prob with ensuring the entire Gulf coast doesn’t double dip? Otherwise, why wouldn’t someone bitch and moan themselves into a nice $100K settlement, then turn around and class-action themselves into another half-milly?

    Gotta to be some restrictions. I cant wait to see taxicab drivers in Jax and Atlanta and scuba instructors in Daytona all trying to claim “injury” from this spill. Gunna make a ton of lawyers filthy rich.

  20. 20.

    jl

    August 20, 2010 at 2:39 pm

    Cole means “Be nice to each other” I suppose.

    Cole is trolling his own site again, and I predict a firestorm.

  21. 21.

    burnspbesq

    August 20, 2010 at 2:40 pm

    @Punchy:

    What’s the prob with ensuring the entire Gulf coast doesn’t double dip?

    Consider, just for a moment, the possibility that the conduct of some or all of the potential defendants is so egregious that it justifies an award of punitive damages. Punitive damages have a public benefit (deterrence) that exists entirely apart from the windfall to the plaintiff.

    The only way to get these fuckers’ attention is to hit them in the corporate treasury – preferably the biggest possible hit. Take the possibility of punitive damages out of the equation, and you’re left with what other means to modify behavior?

  22. 22.

    jl

    August 20, 2010 at 2:44 pm

    @cleek: Interesting, but I can’t find anything on this ‘eh other’. You have a reference, or is this a spoof?

  23. 23.

    Comrade Mary

    August 20, 2010 at 2:52 pm

    COMPLETE Guess Who shoutout, you hosers.

    I was here! (Way in the back.)

  24. 24.

    sacman701

    August 20, 2010 at 2:58 pm

    But do you still have time for the killing floor?

  25. 25.

    cleek

    August 20, 2010 at 3:00 pm

    @jl:
    the latter

  26. 26.

    burnspbesq

    August 20, 2010 at 3:00 pm

    @cleek:

    Try Bruce Cockburn. In addition to being a great singer and guitarist, he’s written so much music over his 40-year career that there is a title or a quote for just about any occasion:

    Example:

    “Everybody
    Wants to see
    Justice done
    On somebody else.”

  27. 27.

    cleek

    August 20, 2010 at 3:06 pm

    just FYI,
    i’ll have a new Name That Tune up Monday AM.

  28. 28.

    maus

    August 20, 2010 at 3:35 pm

    @amorphous: Arrrrgh beaten in the first post.

    O hai, I’m also seeing The Room tonight, do yourselves a favor and watch the Rifftrax version of it.

  29. 29.

    freelancer

    August 20, 2010 at 4:06 pm

    @maus:

    Oh HAI GunBarruugh!

  30. 30.

    Tax Analyst

    August 20, 2010 at 5:09 pm

    John – RE: Thread Title

    (Laughing)
    Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha

  31. 31.

    Anne Laurie

    August 20, 2010 at 5:34 pm

    @Comrade Mary: Thank you for that! It makes me happy to see these guys, older & considerably wider than they were when that song was blasting from every transistor radio, still out there enjoying their jobs.

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