Earlier today in another thread, Chris made a comment that deserves more attention:
I’ve been laughing every time I think of it and so it seemed like a fine starting place for a Saturday night Open Thread.
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JPL
The actor in the best SuperBowl Commercial ever that John linked to the other day is a heart patient… Makes it even more special link
There are now more than 10 million links to the youtube.
dmsilev
Thread needs more post-apocalyptic wastelands.
(Yes, it really does look like that here right now.)
dms
Ruckus
Chris made probably the shortest comment that should be in the running for comment of the year.
BGinCHI
Assume matoko is going to copyright “cudlip.”
BGinCHI
Also, what the hell is taking Weird Al so long?
“My Sharia” is a parody song waiting to happen.
The Dangerman
Someplace out there is a woman named Sherry Caliphate; I feel for her.
Anya
Dennis, you are right to highlight Chris’s comment. As someone who heard enough Muslim fanatics, I can tell you that the Evangelists and the Muslim fanatics, share more of less, the same preoccupation. The only exception, the Muslim fanatics are not that obsessed with abortion but they are obsessed with abstinence and purity before marriage and hating on gays and all that other stuff.
Bnut
In addition, she declared that, “much of the mainstream media is already becoming irrelevant” and she says since she has a degree in journalism she wants to help them do a better job.
Quoth the Palin
Current song:
Don’t Fear the Reaper
Blue Oyster Cult
Short Bus Bully
That comment leapt out at me too and I’ve been smiling and laughing about it ever since. The perfect balance of snark, serious commentary and open frustration with a double shot of humor.
Brilliant.
General Stuck
GO Wildcats of Ky!!
Beat dem Gators
serge
Copyright infringement…I like that. There’s also misdirection and projection. Strangely, I find Frank Gaffney somewhat entertaining. He’s funny in a weird way. He’s so serious and calm, and he says the most outrageous shit. So far, at least, he doesn’t have his own show; then I’ll worry. I can’t look at the other stentors. We never got Karl Rove “frog-marched,” but we may all live to see Glenn Beck strait-jacketed and removed forcibly from wherever the fuck he broadcasts.
danimal
@BGinCHI: Well, Weird Al has used the song before, so he can be forgiven.
TaMara (BHF)
Well that comment made my night. I just came back from an adoption clinic where there were 20 puppies, all about 8-10 weeks old. And one 3 year old female that I totally fell in love with. I might have brought her home, but I leave for an extended trip this week. So I had to think like an adult.
She may not be the one, but she convinced me I’m finally ready to bring a new dog into my life.
General Stuck
You can’t copyright mean and crazy. Unless, of course, you are Sarah.
kdaug
For anyone having issues with Firefox and Windows licking may help
Yutsano
@TaMara (BHF): Teh puppeh, she is calling you…
And odds are may still be available when you get back, since adult dogs adopt out at a slower rate to puppies.
Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen
Can we have early voting for comment of the year, plz?
Pam Geller did it but she wasn’t joking.
Chad N Freude
@BGinCHI: In a thread long, long ago and far, far away, I asked (plaintively) “How do you solve a problem like Sharia?”
Yutsano
@Chad N Freude: Hmm…sung by nuns a la Sister Act? I think this could indeed be doable…
Jenn
@kdaug:
Bless you, bless you, bless you. I just burst out laughing so hard I’m crying in the middle of Starbucks. I needed that!
And yes, Chris’s comment is awesome! :-)
S. cerevisiae
Four goals (so far) for Mike Connolly! I just had to say that, now I will go read the thread.
Ahasuerus
@efgoldman:
Good times…
Chad N Freude
@Yutsano: It unleashed a veritable blizzard of musical puns. I was humbled.
Chad N Freude
@Ahasuerus: Hey, man, how’s Esther?
TaMara (BHF)
@Yutsano: I know. But I think she needs kids. I put her up on my FB page to promote her. I’m pretty sure when I move this summer, to a house with no stairs, I’ll be adopting an older Great Dane. They are exceptionally hard to place and I’m pretty good with them and my cats love Danes, so it seems a good plan…I just have to not do something impulsive in the meantime.
BruceFromOhio
@dmsilev: When I was last there, I was riding a bicycle in the late day sun, wearing shorts, sweating my Gaia-damned ass and loving every single second of it.
someone
Copyright Infringement Indeed:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2011/2/5/940779/-Idaho-pharmacy-board-is-OK-with-pharmacist-who-was-OK-with-woman-bleeding-to-death
Chad N Freude
@efgoldman: Sounds like a hot indie movie. I was hoping someone (like Ahasuerus) would respond to “Hey, man”. But I’ll take what I can get.
General Stuck
@Ahasuerus:
What a winter that was. I was in college and living in a nothing more than a plywood shack. All the pipes froze, and I had to haul my water from a dug well up a steep hill, for like 3 months. Then one day in early April, I woke up from a nap one afternoon, with water spraying and spewing from all the broken pipes like one those submarine movies when a depth charge goes off nearby.
Ahasuerus
@Chad N Freude: Don’t ask, man; bitch set me up.
Chris
Aw, thanks, everyone :-)
/looks over my shoulder in astonishment that whatever source I subconsciously swiped that from isn’t chasing *me* for copyright infringement, though I’d argue the new context makes it at least “fair use”…
Ahasuerus
@General Stuck: Ouch. Or rather, glub.
We had the start of our spring semester delayed for a week while the city dug itself out. We amused ourselves with daily hikes to the local Stop-n-Shop for provisions, and nightly revelries to consume said provisions. Ah, the sweet debauchery of misspent youth!
kdaug
@efgoldman:
This is a plot from a Steven King story, right?
RIGHT?
Viva BrisVegas
I don’t know why you people are laughing about this, Sharia law would be a disaster. It would mean that:
Gays would be persecuted.
Schools could no longer reach evolution.
Religious classes would become mandatory in public schools.
Abortion would be outlawed.
Sex outside of marriage would become a crime.
People could be killed for questioning religious orthodoxy.
A single text would become the inviolable, unquestionable and unchangeable law of the land, to be enforced as literally as possible by a small group of black robed elders.
TGIF would be less booze and more chanting.
kdaug
@kdaug: Ach, I meant “isn’t”. “Is not”. As in, if your wife is under the bed with the dog, it’s of her own volition. Not that you…
Never mind. Continue with you Saturday evening.
Cain
@Chad N Freude:
Or maybe “Sharia” sung to West Side Story “Maria”
“Shaaaariaa… I’m following a law named Shaaaaria..”
cain
kdaug
@Viva BrisVegas: I’ll take a stab at this, because I’m bored, my wife is out of town, and this movie on SciFi is stupid.
A). Muslems are roughly 2.3% of the population in the US. (CAIR’s top estimate is ~7 million).
B). There are roughly 200 million privately-owned firearms in the US.
C). Nobody wants Sharia law.
QED.
That’s why we’re laughing.
Chris
@serge: You’re spot-on about both of those, too. Their use of projection has a certain clinical brilliance – it works on so many levels it’s scary.
(side note of consternation: how the fuck does a movement so indignantly antagonistic to evolution develop such sophisticated political/rhetorical/media tactics? /begging for “SATSQ: Misdirection. Duh.” answer)
kdaug
@Jenn:
My pleasure, Jenn.
Tyro
@kdaug: Whooosh!
Yutsano
@TaMara (BHF): You realize of course there is only one solution here. You make a list of all the positives and all the negatives on getting a new dog. You stare at the list intently hoping for inspiration. Then you just say fuck it all and rush down there and pick up the happy beast. She resonated with you for a reason.
junebug
Time-wise, the parallels between the freak out about Sharia law and the new Republican controlled House are ones that might not make it to the nightly news, but possibly could.
I’d like to see that explored, though we may have a year of St. Ronnie worshiping ahead of us.
Angry Black Lady
Sharia! Sharia!
I think they got your numbah! (Sharia!)
I think they got your alias! (Sharia!)
That you’ve been livin’ undah!
But you really don’t remembah — was it somethin’ that Beck said?
All that Palin™ in your head…
Calling Shariaaaa!!
Yutsano
@Angry Black Lady: Holy cwap, we haz a winnah!
Viva BrisVegas
@kdaug:
They’re only about 5% in Europe and yet we still have Eurabia.
Is that enough? There are probably more than that in Afghanistan alone.
Nobody wanted Justin Bieber either, and look how that turned out.
JWL
I have no problem with today’s NFL Hall of Fame selection. None whatsoever. Kudos, they’re all deserving.
But for crying out loud, why on earth was Chris Carter denied once again? The voters have got to be fucking kidding. Obviously, though, they’re not.
They ought to be embarrassed.
For the record: I am not, nor have ever been, a fan of the Eagles or Vikings. But Carter should have been a slam dunk inductee three votes ago, in his first year of eligibility.
Mr Stagger Lee
@Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen:
How about Stevie Wonder version.
On Off topic, I believe Deion Sanders though deserving of the HOF, should have been denied a year, he needs his ego clipped a bit. It is an outrage that Willie Roaf was denied, as well as Tim Brown.
Calouste
@Viva BrisVegas:
I see the “black robed elders” as the only difference between Sharia law and what the more extreme elements on the American right want. They’ll of course have white robed elders.
Cain
@Angry Black Lady:
Shot through the heart! Sharia’s to blame!
It gives Islam a bad name!
Abdullah walkin the docks, searching for a gal for looove
(it’s true)
It’s his second one this day, the mullah said its his daaay, his day
He’s got to hold on, to what he’s got, it doesn’t make a difference if she’s married or not! It don’t matter, cuz he’s a guy! He’s gonna give it a shot! Whoooooooooaaa
Halfway there, ooooo wah! He’s livin andlikin Shar-rriiia!
cain
Chad N Freude
@Cain: Ha! In the referenced thread it was “I just met a law named Sharia . . .”
Tom Hilton
It’s sort of parallel to an observation I’ve made before: they genuinely believe Sharia law is a possibility in the USA because they genuinely believe there is nothing in the Constitution that prohibits theocratic rule.
Villago Delenda Est
Someone, somewhere, pointed out that if you relabled “Shaira Law” “Jeebus Law”, they’d enthusiastically approve it in Oklahoma.
freelancer
@kdaug:
That’s really funny, and for those of you that don’t read the Russian Cyrillic alphabet, you’ll be shocked to find out the video is called “Stupid Fox”.
JWL
Great lyrics: http://www.youtube.com/user/mccartneymusic
jwalden91lx
@kdaug: That’s the wierdest thing i’ve ever seen. Ever.
kdaug
@jwalden91lx: Pretty sure the window was the weirdest thing the fox had ever seen, too.
piratedan
I dunno, maybe it needs a Bobby Fuller Four treatment instead….
I fought Islam, but allah won
I fought Islam, but allah won
I lost my turban and I feel so bad
I guess my jihad has run
because Sharia law is the best I ever had
and I fought Islam, and allah won.
Angry Black Lady
@Yutsano: i’ll be here all week!@Cain: @piratedan: awesome and awesome.
Yutsano
@Angry Black Lady: Polite applause is indeed in order here. Actually all the efforts have been pretty top notch, but I had to think a bit about yours. Once I got it, I definitely LOLed. Scared the kitteh too.
Arclite
That comment had me laughing out loud. A perfect summation.
Tim O
More like a fear of Market share encroachment,
Douglas
@Viva BrisVegas:
We’re under sharia law here in europe? Why did nobody tell me?
Couldn’t at least the cashier at the supermarket tell me that the booze I’m buying is illegal?