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I’ve Clearly Missed Something

by John Cole|  December 2, 20104:51 pm| 125 Comments

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What is up with all the “cudlip” references? What does that even mean?

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  1. 1.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    December 2, 2010 at 4:53 pm

    No one else seems to know, either. Just some neural backflip of matoko chan’s, apparently.
    *cough*perseveration*cough

  2. 2.

    Joe Beese

    December 2, 2010 at 4:54 pm

    John Waterbury Cudlip (ca 1815 – November 22, 1885) was a merchant and politician in New Brunswick. … Cudlip died in Saint John from injuries sustained from a fire in his home.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Waterbury_Cudlip

  3. 3.

    NobodySpecial

    December 2, 2010 at 4:55 pm

    If’n I had to guess (and I do), I’d think it relates to someone being like a farm animal, either in intelligence or in willingness to be led.

    It’s hard to tell, though, so I’m not gonna bother. I’m gonna install ME2 and see how it goes.

  4. 4.

    freelancer

    December 2, 2010 at 4:55 pm

    It’s an insult that m_c hurls around quite liberally. As for the meaning, you got me, cause even urbandictionary is no help.

    I’m just a simple, country WEC.

  5. 5.

    inventor

    December 2, 2010 at 4:55 pm

    I refudiate cudlip.

  6. 6.

    beltane

    December 2, 2010 at 4:55 pm

    Something to do with cows maybe?

  7. 7.

    Anne Laurie

    December 2, 2010 at 4:56 pm

    I assumed it meant to insult us proles chawin’ dip or chewing gum like dumb cattle with their cuds, but that’s probably not metadimensional enough for the memetically selected for high IQ…

  8. 8.

    scarshapedstar

    December 2, 2010 at 4:57 pm

    You mean a mudkip?

    I think a cudlip is when you have something pushing your mouth out, like a cow chewing cud.

    A wad of chewing tobacco, for example. Basically a cudlip is a hick or a farm animal or some offspring thereof.

    (I have no idea what this post refers to, but it sounds like matoko_chan just scored a point in Capture The Blog.)

  9. 9.

    licensed to kill time

    December 2, 2010 at 4:58 pm

    Here’s the definition straight from the horse’s mouth.

  10. 10.

    morzer

    December 2, 2010 at 4:59 pm

    Cudlip is the way a dyslexic spells cuddly. At least, that’s the best explanation I can manage. Of course, it could be that someone *cough cough* is a few memes short of a Dawkins.

  11. 11.

    morzer

    December 2, 2010 at 5:00 pm

    @licensed to kill time:

    Right horse, wrong end.

  12. 12.

    Ripley

    December 2, 2010 at 5:01 pm

    …cudlip means unselfaware cattle…

    Ya know: different than the self-aware cattle. Not as, um, self-aware.

    Yeesh.

  13. 13.

    Sentient Puddle

    December 2, 2010 at 5:01 pm

    And apparently, I’ve missed even more than you because evidently, matoko_chan has been posting a ton and I’ve barely noticed it.

    Not seeing “cudlip” anywhere else either. What’s the context supposed to be?

  14. 14.

    Brachiator

    December 2, 2010 at 5:02 pm

    What is up with all the “cudlip” references?

    One of the top baby names for 2010?

  15. 15.

    licensed to kill time

    December 2, 2010 at 5:02 pm

    @morzer: I resisted the temptation, though it was difficult.

  16. 16.

    stuckinred

    December 2, 2010 at 5:04 pm

    I opened the door too fast and got a cudlip.

  17. 17.

    morzer

    December 2, 2010 at 5:04 pm

    @licensed to kill time:

    Well, you set the response up perfectly, which is a valuable and noble contribution in itself.

  18. 18.

    NobodySpecial

    December 2, 2010 at 5:05 pm

    @NobodySpecial: Aaand, of course, somewhere along the way, I lost my save game from the original ME.

    /sigh

    Replay, here we come…

  19. 19.

    freelancer

    December 2, 2010 at 5:05 pm

    I should add, I have no clue what a WEC is either. However, I have learned, and this is of great importance, that

    Universities teach hackers

    I’m so glad I know that vital piece of data.

  20. 20.

    Martin

    December 2, 2010 at 5:07 pm

    I try to ignore Ms Bell Curve, but I am today appreciative that there is less rending of garments now that Nancy Smash has arrived and gotten all but 3 Republicans to vote against a tax cut. Kudos to Ron Paul for sticking to his principles, stupid as they may often be.

  21. 21.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 2, 2010 at 5:08 pm

    @Anne Laurie: Wouldn’t it be funny if she found out that Assange was posting here under a pseudonym and she had called him a cudlip?

  22. 22.

    General Stuck

    December 2, 2010 at 5:09 pm

    You all are just a bunch or olds.

  23. 23.

    mai naem

    December 2, 2010 at 5:10 pm

    Cudlip refers to Glenn Beck-like lips.

  24. 24.

    sal

    December 2, 2010 at 5:10 pm

    Related, maybe, I heard someone use the word ‘titty hug’ the other day, as in ‘I especially don’t like titty hugs’. What does that mean?. I assume tits meet on most hugs, so I can only guess on variations that don’t make sense. Google & Urban Dictionary no help either.

  25. 25.

    morzer

    December 2, 2010 at 5:11 pm

    I used to think that “cudlip” was just our local idiot’s misquotation from Lawrence of Arabia:

    Auda: Thou tulip!

    Ali: But this is a tulip that the Turks could not buy!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_777HdrgiTM

    The reference is at 3.10 on the clip, if anyone cares.

    However, I now believe that sociopathy makes more sense as an explanation than a flawed devotion to great movies.

  26. 26.

    licensed to kill time

    December 2, 2010 at 5:11 pm

    @morzer: I live but to serve.

    @freelancer: White Evangelical Christian. I’m so sorry I know this.

  27. 27.

    debit

    December 2, 2010 at 5:12 pm

    Apparently Cole does not grok cudlip.

  28. 28.

    duck-billed placelot

    December 2, 2010 at 5:13 pm

    TWO Matoko Chan posts in one day? And here I thought Kain was being an insufferable git with his ‘readership capture’.

  29. 29.

    Linda Featheringill

    December 2, 2010 at 5:13 pm

    @Ripley:

    unselfaware cattle:

    As I am a country girl, I question the lack of awareness of self in cattle. They have selves, they know they are individuals, and they are aware of what other beings think of them. “They” in this case includes cows and horses and pigs. I don’t know about some other creatures.

    So maybe I refudiate the idea of unselfawareness of cattle?

  30. 30.

    kdaug

    December 2, 2010 at 5:14 pm

    @stuckinred:

    I opened obbened the de door too fast fasth and got a cudlip.

    Fix’d

  31. 31.

    danimal

    December 2, 2010 at 5:14 pm

    WTF does any of this thread mean?

    I know I’m an idiot at times, but I can usually decipher the code after a while. Y’all are getting way too obscure.

  32. 32.

    Joseph Nobles

    December 2, 2010 at 5:15 pm

    I thought it was a play off of mudkip, too. Guess not.

  33. 33.

    Alex

    December 2, 2010 at 5:16 pm

    After observing matoko on several different forums over the years, I am convinced that matoko is neither a man or a woman but instead some type of haiku-producing algorithmic machine that aggregates words and syllables together a la the seals in that South Park episode who come up with Family Guy story lines on a nightly basis.

  34. 34.

    Chyron HR

    December 2, 2010 at 5:17 pm

    you need to get hip wif hacker nation 2 understand the vocabs of the incoming wave you bullshyyyyt crumpet dumpers. you cannot stop the spice from flowing it can only stop you. can I show you the TM cyber revolutions fine new generation of iPodz?

    [USER HAS BEEN BANNED FOREVER FOR THIS POST.]

  35. 35.

    freelancer

    December 2, 2010 at 5:17 pm

    @licensed to kill time:

    Well then I’m not a WEC. Assange is holding a tape that will proove dis. Wallah.

  36. 36.

    MikeF

    December 2, 2010 at 5:17 pm

    @sal: As opposed to the Christian Side Hug, maybe?

  37. 37.

    Mike Goetz

    December 2, 2010 at 5:18 pm

    Not often is the question asked: is our children cudlipping?

  38. 38.

    Mike Goetz

    December 2, 2010 at 5:20 pm

    Oh, and titty hugging sounds like something I’d be into.

  39. 39.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 2, 2010 at 5:21 pm

    @Mike Goetz: And, if they are, shouldn’t they use protection?

  40. 40.

    licensed to kill time

    December 2, 2010 at 5:24 pm

    Who put the cud in the lip de lip de lip?
    Who put the ding in the wallah wallah ding dong?
    Who was that chan?

  41. 41.

    freelancer

    December 2, 2010 at 5:25 pm

    bullshyyyyt crumpet dumpers

    I have found a new Xbox live gamertag.

  42. 42.

    Cat

    December 2, 2010 at 5:26 pm

    If matoko_chan thinks ‘cudlip’ was coined by Richard Morgan then I believe it must be a a misspelling or derivative of another word as there is a very similar word I know of but can’t quite put my finger on this instant.

    I admit to reading the book its from, but only just in the last year or two and I knew of the elusive word well before that.

  43. 43.

    Eric S.

    December 2, 2010 at 5:26 pm

    @licensed to kill time:

    Here’s the definition straight from the horse’s mouth.

    I knew it sounded familiar. Thirteen was a good sci-fi book. The follow ups were as good but I still enjoyed them in a mindless action movie kind of way.

  44. 44.

    cynickal

    December 2, 2010 at 5:28 pm

    It means you lost The Game

  45. 45.

    Watcher of the Skies

    December 2, 2010 at 5:29 pm

    @Alex: Manatees!

  46. 46.

    morzer

    December 2, 2010 at 5:30 pm

    In all seriousness, and after many nanoseconds of Googlefu, I believe the term actually does derive from the novel Thirteen by Richard K. Morgan (published as Black Man in the UK).

    You can find a pdf of the masterwork here:

    http://namcub.accela-labs.com/pdf/Richard%20Morgan%20-%20Thirteen.pdf

    Happy cudlipping, one and all!

  47. 47.

    klem

    December 2, 2010 at 5:30 pm

    John!,

    Big Ben has a broken foot. FUCK!!

  48. 48.

    Calouste

    December 2, 2010 at 5:32 pm

    OT:

    Embassy cables about Afghanistani corruption coming out now. A taster from the Guardian:

    __

    In one astonishing incident in October 2009 the then [Afghani] vice-president, Ahmad Zia Massoud, was stopped and questioned in Dubai when he flew into the emirate with $52m in cash, according to one diplomatic report. Massoud, the younger brother of the legendary anti-Soviet resistance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud, was detained by officials from the US and the United Arab Emirates trying to stop money laundering, it says.
    __
    However, the vice-president was allowed to go on his way without explaining where the money came from.

    “Capital flight” is estimated to be at least $200 million per month, and that’s only the amount that is actually physically taken on the plane and declared.

    Of course it’s peanuts compared to what the banksters have been robbing from the US, but they are learning.

  49. 49.

    debit

    December 2, 2010 at 5:34 pm

    @klem: Did he kick someone in the cudlip?

  50. 50.

    morzer

    December 2, 2010 at 5:37 pm

    @debit:

    Probably happened during his cudliposuction.

  51. 51.

    debit

    December 2, 2010 at 5:42 pm

    @morzer: I bet that hurt enough to make his cudlip quiver.

    (Apparently I don’t have enough to do at work. Or the ability to think of clever ways to use the word cudlip. Or the self awareness and shame to stop anyway.)

  52. 52.

    srv

    December 2, 2010 at 5:43 pm

    It’s not on urbandictionary, so it’s just pulled from his asslips.

    Even emopants has an entry.

  53. 53.

    morzer

    December 2, 2010 at 5:46 pm

    @debit:

    Take two cudlipper oil supplements and call me in the morning if symptoms persist.

  54. 54.

    scav

    December 2, 2010 at 5:46 pm

    It also depends on what your definition of “mean” is. It certainly could mean someone is confusing acquiring credibility, street or otherwise, with accumulating obscure jargon and repeating it, ad nauseam, at higher and higher volumes and frequency.

    kinda like it as a verb though: That thread was totally, just totally, cudlipped, ya know.

  55. 55.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 2, 2010 at 5:47 pm

    This totally has nothing to do with cudlips or mudkips or asshats or anything else on this thread — but it IS an open thread, and this is for General Stuck and jeffreyw. Too cute.

    http://wimp.com/babyhummingbird

  56. 56.

    freelancer

    December 2, 2010 at 5:48 pm

    @morzer:

    Now you’re just paying him cudlip service.

  57. 57.

    morzer

    December 2, 2010 at 5:49 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    I wonder what recipes jeffreyw has for hummingbird…..

  58. 58.

    samson

    December 2, 2010 at 5:49 pm

    Cud chewing animals swallow the vegitation and then regurgitate it back into their mouths for further chewing later – i.e., the cud is remasticated. The cud lip is the name of the valve type orafices between the herbivore’s stomaches that control the regurgitating actions. Sort of like an intermediatary reverse anus along the alimentary canal.

  59. 59.

    morzer

    December 2, 2010 at 5:52 pm

    @freelancer:

    I just want someone to cudlip beside me in my old age….

  60. 60.

    morzer

    December 2, 2010 at 5:53 pm

    @samson:

    I think I threw up a little in my own mouth reading that.

  61. 61.

    AliceBlue

    December 2, 2010 at 5:57 pm

    “Cudlip” will be the name of Sarah Palin’s 12th child.

  62. 62.

    debit

    December 2, 2010 at 5:58 pm

    @morzer: It was the term “reverse anus” that got me.

  63. 63.

    scav

    December 2, 2010 at 6:00 pm

    @debit: still, in isolation like that, it does rather strike one as a rather tricky ice-skating move.

  64. 64.

    Ripley

    December 2, 2010 at 6:02 pm

    @Linda Featheringill:

    I’d agree that self-awareness isn’t completely beyond the cow. I’d certainly trust the filthy damn things to vote more intelligently than my oldest brother, a Republican and a teatard.

    Hell, I’d even drive ’em to the polls.

  65. 65.

    cleek

    December 2, 2010 at 6:02 pm

    @licensed to kill time:
    all i saw there were some nice words about pie

  66. 66.

    debit

    December 2, 2010 at 6:02 pm

    @scav: That was a lovely reverse anus followed by a stunning triple cudlip!

  67. 67.

    morzer

    December 2, 2010 at 6:02 pm

    @debit:

    I was trying to forget that I saw that evil phrase, thank you very frickin’ much!

  68. 68.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 2, 2010 at 6:03 pm

    @morzer: Turduckenhum?

  69. 69.

    morzer

    December 2, 2010 at 6:04 pm

    @debit:

    So we are back to talking about Bristol Palin on DWTS? So early in the evening?

  70. 70.

    debit

    December 2, 2010 at 6:04 pm

    @morzer: You settle down back there, or I’ll put this anus in reverse. Don’t think I won’t!

  71. 71.

    Linda Featheringill

    December 2, 2010 at 6:05 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    baby hummingbird:

    Totally cute! And the child is thriving. That is quite an accomplishment.

  72. 72.

    Quaker in a Basement

    December 2, 2010 at 6:07 pm

    Allright, but if you touch my cudlip I’ll have you arrested.

  73. 73.

    debit

    December 2, 2010 at 6:09 pm

    @debit: I’m sorry. I’m the reason why we can’t have nice things.

  74. 74.

    Felanius Kootea (formerly Salt and freshly ground black people)

    December 2, 2010 at 6:09 pm

    OT: Dick Cheney to be charged in Nigeria corruption case. And no, that’s not a link to the Onion.

  75. 75.

    freelancer

    December 2, 2010 at 6:10 pm

    @Quaker in a Basement:

    Whatever, I’ll be WEC you in a minute.

  76. 76.

    Keith G

    December 2, 2010 at 6:12 pm

    @stuckinred: Obama got 12 stitches in his cudlip.

    See, anyone can play.

  77. 77.

    brendancalling

    December 2, 2010 at 6:12 pm

    i love this site. we can go from outrage over tax cuts to screaming over who sucks worse obama or bloggers, to extended discussions of what exactly a cudlip may be.

    and I mean that sincerely. so fun.

  78. 78.

    morzer

    December 2, 2010 at 6:12 pm

    @Felanius Kootea (formerly Salt and freshly ground black people):

    You mean that fat bastard wasn’t really a prince/former finance minister/one of the wealthiest men in Africa/my dear departed husband?

  79. 79.

    scav

    December 2, 2010 at 6:17 pm

    How much cud cud a cudlip lip
    if a cudlip cud lip cud?

  80. 80.

    freelancer

    December 2, 2010 at 6:18 pm

    @Felanius Kootea (formerly Salt and freshly ground black people):

    Dear Mr. D. Vader,
    __
    You are on luck! We find records that are indicate you proper owner of all Nigerian oil fields total. This oil fields worth more than 1 BILLION Dollars USA.
    Unfortunate, Nigerian government has freezing paperwork that allow you access you claim. To get you “rightful” Billion Dollars USA, please to wire 180 Million Dollars USA to account belong to Nigeria Unfreeze Buracracy Dept.
    __
    Sincere,
    John Africa from N.U.B.D.

  81. 81.

    morzer

    December 2, 2010 at 6:20 pm

    @freelancer:

    Apparently Afghanistan is the new Nigeria. They just haven’t got around to sending out the complimentary spam to US tax payers.

  82. 82.

    JPL

    December 2, 2010 at 6:25 pm

    Since I didn’t know what a cudlip was, I thought that I’d read the comments. Although the blog was filled with lots of interesting theories, not one actually knows. Hmmmm.

  83. 83.

    scav

    December 2, 2010 at 6:27 pm

    @JPL: Free your mind grasshopper, there may be no there there.

  84. 84.

    Maody

    December 2, 2010 at 6:32 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Love, love, love that hummingbird video. Thanks!

  85. 85.

    ukemi

    December 2, 2010 at 6:32 pm

    Cudlip is used as a derogatory term by the genetically enhanced super soldiers to refer to regular humans in Richard K. Morgans book Thirteen

  86. 86.

    morzer

    December 2, 2010 at 6:32 pm

    @scav:

    Or no there not there.

  87. 87.

    Ozymandias, King of Ants

    December 2, 2010 at 6:32 pm

    @AliceBlue: FTW!

  88. 88.

    Jager

    December 2, 2010 at 6:35 pm

    @sal:

    Framiliar with the “tee-pee” hug? The hugging equivalent of the “air kiss”

  89. 89.

    Calouste

    December 2, 2010 at 6:36 pm

    @morzer:

    Or the United States Army Corps of Engineers is the new Nigeria? : Gives us 50 million Euros to pass on to the Afghan army and we will only keep a 15% administration fee.

  90. 90.

    scav

    December 2, 2010 at 6:37 pm

    @morzer: Could it be the king’s new there?

  91. 91.

    Larry Signor

    December 2, 2010 at 6:39 pm

    I been farming over 40 years and never heard the term before. Pink-eye, scours, fescue foot, bots…no cudlip, though. Must be one of them new life forms.

  92. 92.

    Maody

    December 2, 2010 at 6:41 pm

    for what Cudlip is worth

    at least the favorite quotation has something to do with cows.

    I wouldn’t want a cow-shit clock. It’d be like, ‘hey nice clock, is that mahogany?’ No, its cow shit, the other other dark wood…

  93. 93.

    Tattoosydney

    December 2, 2010 at 6:46 pm

    @scav:

    How much cud cud a cudlip lip
    if a cudlip cud lip cud?

    I love you.

  94. 94.

    matoko_chan

    December 2, 2010 at 6:47 pm

    @Cole.
    technically, it derives from Black Man.
    the variant 13s describe the rest of homo sap as cudlips, cattle contentedly masticating their cud. dumb cows.
    in your case and this context, it means commenters that reflexively attack Assange because the oligarchs are holding up an ATTACK NAOW sign, without having a glimmer of Assanges real intent…or because they have let Douchebag tell them what to think without reading the Aaron Bady link themselves.
    Douthat is simply a toxic person, and should never be linked anywhere by anyone.
    He is intellectually dishonest.
    Your linkage was extremely unfortunate in that BJ has been recently described as the lowrent Atlantic circle jerk by someone else.
    it seemed appropriate.

    WHOOT!
    i GOT FUCKING NOTICED BY AARON BADY!!!!!
    would you like to admire my trail of carnage?
    :)
    i shall dance naow.

  95. 95.

    morzer

    December 2, 2010 at 6:47 pm

    Matoko reminds me of Brian’s mum in this scene:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIjBO26qjYM

    There’s an animal called a balm.. or did I dream it?

  96. 96.

    matoko_chan

    December 2, 2010 at 6:57 pm

    @ukemi: that too.
    MOAR DESU! THIS BLOG NEEDS MOAR DESU!

  97. 97.

    arguingwithsignposts

    December 2, 2010 at 7:02 pm

    @matoko_chan:
    I was afraid this whole FP attention thing would only encourage it. See what you’ve done, Cole. Damn you!

  98. 98.

    Tax Analyst

    December 2, 2010 at 7:04 pm

    Well Cow-A-Fucking-Bunga!

    So anyway, this linguistic inquiry caused me to break out my cowculator, but all it did was moo at me and stare. Maybe it needs some moo batteries.

    So I don’t fucking know what a cudlip is or if a cudlip could lip cud.

    But on accownt of this question I’m late getting out of the office today.

    So cownt me out of the remainder of this discussion.

  99. 99.

    General Stuck

    December 2, 2010 at 7:04 pm

    @matoko_chan:

    That music video should be illegal as a crime against nature and my ear.

  100. 100.

    freelancer

    December 2, 2010 at 7:06 pm

    @Tax Analyst:

    That’s sow annoying.

  101. 101.

    Tax Analyst

    December 2, 2010 at 7:08 pm

    @freelancer:

    That’s sow annoying.

    Yeah, but by now it’s all a moo’ed point anyway, isn’t it?

  102. 102.

    wmd

    December 2, 2010 at 7:16 pm

    @samson:

    Sort like ruminating?

  103. 103.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 2, 2010 at 7:19 pm

    @General Stuck: It is simply the worst thing she has done on this blog so far. I clicked on it because I thought it might be some new Finnish death metal/Korean 80s retro rap hybrid, but no… it was Ke$ha. Ke$ha? FFS!

  104. 104.

    debit

    December 2, 2010 at 7:20 pm

    What does that even mean?

    Egg management fee.

  105. 105.

    General Stuck

    December 2, 2010 at 7:21 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I once linked a Cowsill’s tune, branded as the worst song ever on bj. I may be off the hook now.

  106. 106.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 2, 2010 at 7:23 pm

    @General Stuck: Why would you link to the Cowsills? You don’t seem wantonly cruel.

  107. 107.

    General Stuck

    December 2, 2010 at 7:27 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I was that night, along with a bout of hormonal flashback

  108. 108.

    arguingwithsignposts

    December 2, 2010 at 7:36 pm

    @General Stuck:
    and we should leave it there. things that are read cannot be unread.

  109. 109.

    Comrade Mary

    December 2, 2010 at 7:57 pm

    @debit: You know who else paid an egg management fee?

    (I still like this one best. That kid is going to be a STAR!)

  110. 110.

    Anne Laurie

    December 2, 2010 at 8:07 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Wouldn’t it be funny if she found out that Assange was posting here under a pseudonym and she had called him a cudlip?

    Ssssshhh! We don’t want to attract Interpol’s attention, and they’re bound to find a good ID photo eventually…

  111. 111.

    debit

    December 2, 2010 at 8:12 pm

    @Comrade Mary: Of all the versions of that clip I’ve seen, that was the best. And I agree, that little girl is awesome.

  112. 112.

    Anne Laurie

    December 2, 2010 at 8:32 pm

    @Linda Featheringill:

    As I am a country girl, I question the lack of awareness of self in cattle. They have selves, they know they are individuals, and they are aware of what other beings think of them. “They” in this case includes cows and horses and pigs…

    True that. Also, they have an awareness that the Universe can be unfair. I am not a country girl, but I did take a Dairy Science class back in college, and there was one cow who’d worked out how to unlock her headstall. So the barn guys put a different mechanism in her stand, and we waited to see what she’d do. Ms. Clever paraded in with the other cows, got latched into her headstall, went through the contortions that should’ve let her wander down the aisle and gloat at her less gifted fellows… and failed. She tried it one more time, and then she shrugged. Literally: lowered her head, cast her eyes upwards, and raised both shoulders: a gesture of token submission towards the Alpha Universe and its whims.

    Then she settled down to eat her own dinner, rather than banging around in a futile attempt to make the Universe understand that she had the secret knowing! ! ! … which some would say made her smarter than, oh, certain bigbrain primates determined to prove their superiority to their blog-posting audience…

  113. 113.

    Tim

    December 2, 2010 at 9:01 pm

    @matoko_chan:

    Matoko, stop trying to make ‘fetch’ ‘cudlip’ happen! It’s not going to happen!

  114. 114.

    Tim

    December 2, 2010 at 9:05 pm

    @matoko_chan:

    Gretchen Matoko, stop trying to make ‘fetch’ ‘cudlip’ happen! It’s not going to happen!

  115. 115.

    matoko_chan

    December 2, 2010 at 9:51 pm

    @Anne Laurie: heh. i had a very good day. One of my heroes turned out to just have feet a lil bit muddy, instead of the usual feet of clay.
    I got noticed by another of my heroes !AARON BADY! and had a great techno-discussion with alien-radio, wsn, and THE.
    And ABL came back.

    wsn and aaron get me.
    and that is quite good enough….this is all i relly wanted.

    WSN: Just read yesterday’s thread.
    +1 for matoko_chan’s bewildered outrage. No one is covering the leaks in any interesting way – i.e., if what Assange is trying to do will or could succeed.

    we honestly covered the leaks and Assanges regime change doctrine, and the geekspeak of what the hacktivists are trying to do.
    and BJ is the ONLY blog that did that.

    can i nominate “a trail of carnage” for the rotating tags?

  116. 116.

    suzanne

    December 2, 2010 at 10:05 pm

    @matoko_chan:

    I got noticed by another of my heroes

    It’s generally difficult to miss the flagrantly insane. The body odor alone is often the first tip-off.

  117. 117.

    matoko_chan

    December 2, 2010 at 10:26 pm

    @suzanne:

    aaron bady
    Following Matoko Chan’s trail of carnage through that thread was one of the more amusing experiences of the past few days.
    Thanks for the link!

    /giggles behind hand

  118. 118.

    suzanne

    December 2, 2010 at 10:47 pm

    @matoko_chan: Hey, you amuse me all the time, but I wouldn’t necessarily take that as a compliment.

  119. 119.

    asiangrrlMN

    December 3, 2010 at 12:18 am

    Oh my god. This thread, it is full of the win, as the kids say. But, yes. I do not want to encourage more pie talk from matoko_chan!

  120. 120.

    ItAintEazy

    December 3, 2010 at 2:01 am

    This reminds me of the post when we’re making fun of FireDogLake’s internal shibboleths like “feedpen” and “flapdoodle.”

  121. 121.

    hamletta

    December 3, 2010 at 3:07 am

    wsn and aaron get me.

    How nice for you, dear. Does this mean you’ll be leaving us?

  122. 122.

    matoko_chan

    December 3, 2010 at 5:32 am

    @hamletta: I R who I R, cher.
    i think you, suzanne, and agmn should organize a BJ vote.
    :)

  123. 123.

    matoko_chan

    December 3, 2010 at 5:37 am

    @suzanne:

    you amuse me all the time

    no i dont. i bug the crap out of u and u detest meh.
    srsly, u an agmn should organize one of those classic off-the-BJ-Island votes.
    im pretty sure i can get at least as many gtfo votes as ED.
    :)

  124. 124.

    slimslowslider

    December 3, 2010 at 9:40 am

    still better than “asshat”

  125. 125.

    And the Horse He Rode In on

    December 3, 2010 at 2:47 pm

    @hamletta: wishful thinking, but then if she left, we’d probably miss the little narcissist

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