Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Spilling the end game before they can coat it in frankl luntz-approved dogwhistles.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Everyone is in a bubble, but some bubbles model reality far better than others!

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

Trump’s legal defense is going to be a dumpster fire inside a clown car on a derailing train.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

Joe Lieberman disappointingly reemerged to remind us that he’s still alive.

Let’s finish the job.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Let there be snark.

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

White supremacy is terrorism.

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  1. 1.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

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

  3. 3.

    NobodySpecial

    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

    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.

  7. 7.

    Anne Laurie

    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

    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.)

  10. 10.

    morzer

    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.

  12. 12.

    Ripley

    …cudlip means unselfaware cattle…

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

    Yeesh.

  13. 13.

    Sentient Puddle

    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?

  19. 19.

    freelancer

    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

    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.

  24. 24.

    sal

    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

    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.

  28. 28.

    duck-billed placelot

    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

    @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?

  31. 31.

    danimal

    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.

  33. 33.

    Alex

    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

    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.]

  40. 40.

    licensed to kill time

    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?

  42. 42.

    Cat

    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.

    @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.

  48. 48.

    Calouste

    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.

  51. 51.

    debit

    @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

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

    Even emopants has an entry.

  54. 54.

    scav

    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.

  58. 58.

    samson

    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.

  64. 64.

    Ripley

    @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.

  77. 77.

    brendancalling

    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.

  80. 80.

    freelancer

    @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.

  82. 82.

    JPL

    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.

  85. 85.

    ukemi

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

  91. 91.

    Larry Signor

    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

    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…

  94. 94.

    matoko_chan

    @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.

  98. 98.

    Tax Analyst

    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.

  103. 103.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @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!

  112. 112.

    Anne Laurie

    @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…

  115. 115.

    matoko_chan

    @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

    @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

    @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

  120. 120.

    ItAintEazy

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

  123. 123.

    matoko_chan

    @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.
    :)

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