Recent events remind me that it’s probably time to do another round of updates to the Fabled & Fabulous Balloon Juice Lexicon. Here’s a couple new catchphrases that I believe deserve to be annotated for future readers:
#Notintendedtobeafactualstatement
Tickling the penguin
“With a few rare exceptions… “
That Greenspanism, in particular, needs some good links. Any suggestions?
Other words / phrases / in-jokes you’d like to see explicated, or updated?
And who’s got more exciting options for a Saturday evening?
jeffreyw
The pot-sticker option.
ed
What? No! It’s
Come on!
The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik
Virtualy Corruption Free sounds like a good candidate for addition.
Yutsano
Dinner in downtown Seattle with my brothers and sister-in-law. I have the strange feeling I’ll get conned into paying. Which is okay by me. I just forget if the restaurant has good cornbread, because all of a sudden that sounds REALLY good.
gnomedad
I believe it’s “with notably rare exceptions”. “Few” just doesn’t have the same cachet.
Epicurus
I got nothin’. Has everyone gagged over the Michigan Congressman who wants foster kids to buy second-hand clothes? Are there no workhouses? Is the treadmill not still in operation? eschatonblog.com/2011/04/wanker-of-year-nominee.html
rikyrah
are you going to do a post about the Girls School in Detroit that graduates NINETY PERCENT of its students, that has been labeled for closing by their OVERLORD? it’s part of the FINANCIAL MARTIAL LAW repercussions in Michigan. Rachel Maddow did an excellent piece on it on her Friday show.
piratedan
i dunno, I thought I heard someone mention this phrase a couple of weeks ago and thought it should get into the lexicon, “carrying a concealed uterus” because there’s a damn sight more Republican regulation about what a woman may and may not do with that part of her body than there is about guns.
ed
Link:
crookedtimber.org/2011/03/30/with-notably-rare-exceptions/
Look it up, man!
Elizabelle
WaPost website headline:
And from the story:
Cheesy complaint, yes, but why go with that particular headline? ‘Cause it could be “Merkel, Sarkozy, Medvedev, Obama not invited to Royal Wedding.”
Although Sir Elton John, David Beckham and Mr. Bean (actor) will be there.
jeffreyw
crookedtimber.org/2011/03/30/with-notably-rare-exceptions/
Omnes Omnibus
@piratedan: How exactly would one carry an unconcealed uterus? If it is something I don’t want to know, just tell me.
Elizabelle
It’s not in the Lexicon.
What does “Lighten up, Francis” mean, precisely?
I just see a talking mule.
random asshole
How about some documentation on the origins of “Militantly Superior in their own minds?”
TaMara (BHF)
In case anyone missed it, here is the whole Easter Dinner Menu recipes, including the Coconut-Lemon Layer Cake
Neil
for a few weeks here I thought every post was going to contain a reference to the moore award. that should surely be a contender.
walgreens papsmear should deserve a place of horror er honor
Yutsano
@Elizabelle: IT ISN’T?? I thought that got stuck in there ages ago after John did an epic post with that as the title.
Phyllis
Watching Tim Hudson pitch a beaut against the Giants. Chicken breasts are marinating for the grill, and I’ll probably finish off front-pager Tom Levenson’s Newton and the Counterfeiter this evening. All in all a nice Saturday.
WaterGirl
@TaMara (BHF): I had missed it, thanks for linking. When I got to the menu page, for one scary moment I was afraid I might see some yummy recipe for serving that incredibly cute bunny sitting at the top of the page.
BGinCHI
@Elizabelle: Movie: “Stripes,” with Bill Murray, John Candy, and a cast of thousands.
BGinCHI
Getting ready to go here for dinner with friends:
anteprimachicago.net/
So damn good. Even Jeffrey would like it, and you know how much he hates to eat.
TaMara (BHF)
@WaterGirl: If you rollover the bunny, you’ll see the popup text assures you there are no bunny recipes. ;-)
BD of MN
@Elizabelle: It’s from “Stripes”
edit: beaten to the punch, but here’s the clip anyways…
Yutsano
@TaMara (BHF): What? No hasenpfeffer? I’m so disappointed BHF!
(Plus rabbit really is delicious.)
Mike Furlan
Must be some way to immortalize this gem:
“But we talk about it today because it is a principle of free market. That’s a Biblical principle, that’s a historical principle, we have all these quotes from Ben Franklin, and Jefferson and Washington and others on free market and how important that is to maintain. That is part of the reason we have prosperity. This is what the Pilgrims brought in, the Puritans brought in, this is free market mentality.”
Maybe just: “That’s a Biblical principle, that’s an historical principle.”
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
@jeffreyw:
bill stickers is innocent!
Bill Murray
@Epicurus: Give him a break, he never had new clothes as a kid, so it follows that other kids shouldn’t have new clothes.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
More exciting options on a Saturday night? Than the lexicon? I’m afraid I’m fresh out. Might catch up on Big Bang Theory, finish a C.J. Cherryh novel, browse iTunes. It’s just a happenin’ evening here.
brucds
“Lessons from Atlas Shrugged” – awesome! (Not a parody.)
youtube.com/watch?v=PqWd46O64zU
PurpleGirl
I’m thinking about watching The Ten Commandments. I haven’t seen it in a while. I once went to a theatrical re-release with a friend who was into special effects and he explained how a lot of the shots were made. It should be good for a few laughs.
jnfr
New season of Doctor Who starts tonight! Get with it, people!
closed loop
So, are all the front pagers going to ignore the Obama SF dinner Bradley Manning story? I guess its not a good look for your main man. You guys totally aren’t biased.
Upper West
@Yutsano: Your “AOS” (Actual Orange Satan) i.e, Boehner must be in the Lexicon. (I think it’s yours anyway.)
The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik
@Epicurus:
@rikyrah:
I learned about the foster kids thing literally five minutes ago, and I watched that Maddow segment before bed last night. Seriously, Michigan is really hoping for a spot in the New Confederacy, aren’t they?
Honestly, as much as I adore Rachel’s show, I can’t watch it without feeling more and more fatalistic about everything. Just so much shit going on that seems impenetrable and impossible to stop before it’s already enshrined and institutionalized. The Financial Martial Law thing, the raping of the lower classes, state-level kookery passed and applauded, climate science essentially seen as hucksterism now by the larger public while Birtherism is now a ‘serious’, mainstream issue…
Fuck all…
piratedan
@Omnes Omnibus: meaning that women are only good for two things….. making babies and for practice making babies…..
Yutsano
@Upper West: Oh I can’t take credit for that one. The credit for that goes to bella Q, who is now a hip hop artist from Idaho. Which I would bet there are at least one or two out there. Boise’s a weird town.
@Omnes Omnibus: If one’s uterus is visible, one has other problems to be concerned with than whether or not to have an abortion. Survival, for one.
Omnes Omnibus
@piratedan: I get that; I just tend to believe uteri are usually less than visible.
lamh34
@PurpleGirl:
I watch the Ten Commandments for one MAIN reason…Yule Brynner!!!! Man that guy filled out that pharaoah costume with sexiness. For the age and the time, dude was kinda ripped, plus he def makes my bald-headed hottie list!
birthmarker
Kenyan usurper.
dadanarchist
How, after the last weeks of Sullivan tweaking, could “brave” not be added to the lexicon.
I know it’s often paired with “Serious” but it demands addition.
lamh34
So I went to a movie screening with my gay bestie last Wednesday night called “Bridesmaids”.
It was soo funny, that the audience was laughing so hard that you actually missed some of dialogue, the laughs were just so many!!!! It premieres May 13, all the ladies who want a great movie for movie night, this is the one. Be adviced tohough, it is pretty raunchy humor, not graphic (no boobs or men parts), but FUNNIEST MOVIE I’ve seen in a while!
Some people are calling it the “female Hangover”, but for my money, the Hangover was “Grease 2” and this movie was “Grease: The Original”
it stars Kristne Wiig, Mya Rudolph and a few other SNL’er as cameos.
It’s really funny. At the screening I went to, the whole audience laughed at the same thing, and not just small trickles either, this was uproarious and big bursts of laughter.
If I could convince everybody to see it, I def would.
wazmo
Sekrit Muslim.
Josie
@lamh34: Oh, yes!
Anne Laurie
@piratedan: I think it was a satirical response to one Floridian rep’s announcement that his wife was thinking of incorporating her uterus, so that the pro-corporate panty-sniffers would stop trying to legislate against her reproductive rights.
So — does ‘incorporate your uterus‘ deserve an entry?
gogol's wife
Still celebrating Shirley Temple’s 83rd birthday.
Trying to resist watching “The Ten Commandments.” Oh, Moses, Moses!
Anya
Stephen Goldstein at the Sun Sentinel, via Wonkette, wrote a devastating column exposing Paul Ryan’s plan.
Yutsano
@Anne Laurie: And BAM there it is! “Incorporate your uterus”. Sounds kind of like a kinky Jazzercise move.
Anne Laurie
@dadanarchist:
So… “Brave & Serious”, meaning “Cowardly pandering for the fringiest fringes of one’s political coalition?” or “Word salad to tickle the vanity of Media Villagers hungry for intellectual validation?”
Anybody got a good Sullivan link, or seventeen?
Mouse Tolliver
@jnfr: I wonder if they’ll add a Sarah Jane tribute to the end of the show. Tom Baker posted a nice eulogy on his blog.
cat48
@Elizabelle:
lamh34
@gogol’s wife:
I kind think there is NO escaping Ten Commandments. Even if ur not interested in the “biblical-ness” of it all, I still love looking at it when the action gets good.
Yul Brynner and Anne Baxter steal the show for me. My fav scene, when Nefertiri tells Ramses,
Nefertiri – “I could never love you. ”
Rameses – “Does that matter? You will be my wife. You will come to me whenever I call you,and I will enjoy that very much. Whether you enjoy it or not is your own affair. But I think you will… ”
then he flips that damn sheet or dress or whatever over his shoulder and walks off like yeah…”you want this…”
Anya
@Elizabelle: If they include in that Merkel, Sarkozy, Medvedev were not invited then the story will not be about how the Queen is rejecting the Kenyan usurper.
Cat Lady
Da Broonz playing the Bleu Blanc Rouge. Local sports radio is promoting T shirts outside the Gahden saying “Canadian Dive Team”. Heh.
lamh34
@lamh34:
also, Anne Baxter’s Nefertiri was so damn conniving. The power of a woman, I guess, if she hadn’t put that bug in Ramses but, about Moses’ god killing her son.
Rameses: …I am Egypt.
Nefretiri: Egypt? You are nothing. You let Moses kill my son. No god can bring him back. What have you done to Moses…
Rameses: This is my son. He would have been Pharaoh and would have ruled the world. Who mourns him now? Not even you. All you can think of is Moses. You will not see his body. I drove him out of Egypt. I cannot fight the power of his God.
Nefretiri: His God? The priests say that Pharaoh is a god. But you are not a god. You are even less than a man… Do you hear laughter Pharaoh? Not the laughter of kings, but the laughter of slaves on the desert island!
Rameses: [after hearing the word ‘laughter’, he immediately became irate] Laughter? Laughter? My son I shall build your tomb upon their crushed bodies. If any escape me, their seed shall be spattered and accursed forever. My armor! The war crown! Laughter? I will turn the laughter of these slaves into wails of torment! They shall remember the name of Moses! Only that he died under my chariot wheels!”
And off he went to drown in the Red Sea. Love it just for that!!!
Allan
@closed loop: Here’s an excellent post about that event. Hope you enjoy it!
Southern Beale
We’re doing nada tonite. Butt glued firmly to sofa.
PurpleGirl
@gogol’s wife: It’s Moses! Moses! Moses!
PurpleGirl
@lamh34: Yeah, that’s a good scene and it was just on, in fact.
lamh34
@PurpleGirl: it just came on in DFW.
srv
Emopants is not in the lex.
And one of Freedom Bombs or Nobel Peace Drones.
MikeJ
@Yutsano: Where are you going to dinner? And who in the pacific northwest knows how to make cornbread, besides me?
cat48
I think if you include “Brave” & “Serious”; you must also include the other word used for him “Courageous”, which he is not.
quaint irene
I don’t get it. How is that any different from ‘Just a bald-faced lie that I hope nobody calls me on ?”
*************
And if he had been invited and actually gone, can you imagine the wailing from wingnuttia?
JPL
President Obama is going to England in May at the invitation of the Queen. They have been planning for months but I’m sure the news will ignore the State Dinner that is planned.
gogol's wife
@efgoldman:
You obviously don’t have the same relationship to Yul Brynner that some of us do. And you ladies who like Yul, you should hear him sing Russian gypsy songs.
lamh34
@gogol’s wife: oooh, I’m gonna google that!
ETA: OMG, just heard him…too funny. I don’t need the singing though. love the look of him and the spoken voice…
Tara the antisocial social worker
@Epicurus:
I work with kids in foster care,and I am speechless at this wingnut politician’s sheer meanness.
Foster care payments include a clothing allowance for a specified amount of money. Demanding that they buy from secondhand stores does not save the state a penny. It has no purpose other than furthering the wingnut crusade to shame the have-nots, including children.
And since no one sells secondhand underwear, I guess the kids all go commando?
suzanne
“…over ninety percent of…”.
Do it MadLibs-style. (Proper noun) (present-tense verb) over ninety percent of (plural noun).
Tunch eats over ninety percent of John’s brain.
John Boehner visits over ninety percent of U.S. tanning salons.
Mickey Kaus blows over ninety percent of goats.
Fun.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Yutsano:
Can relate. Was wishing the Big Box was next to a Cuban sandwich shop tonight. Probably not one within miles. Eating Chinese instead. Home around midnight.
gogol's wife
@lamh34:
He sings a little bit in “Anastasia,” and I think he might also sing in “The Brothers Karamazov” — so you can see him while he’s singing. The songs that are on YouTube are not the greatest. A Russian friend gave me a wonderful CD (actually a set of four), but with incredible stupidity I lent it to a student, who trashed it (I know, I know, it’s not that easy to trash a CD, but there was a party. . .). I keep hoping it will turn up on Amazon, but so far it hasn’t.
Josie
@gogol’s wife: Maybe it’s because I lusted after him in my youth, but I don’t think any actor since has measured up to Yul Brynner for sexiness.
gogol's wife
@Josie:
Yes, just ask Marlene Dietrich.
Carrie
I just spent 12 fucking hours stripping 3 layers of paint (and sawing off 12 curly-fucking-cues) off a wrought iron banister thingy. I need some loving tonight.
Since that’s not gonna happen, the least you could do is entertain me. How about a good old fashion blog fight?
Or pity me.
Whichever, I don’t care…
Tonal Crow
“GOP” needs some definitions.
GOP [gahp]
-noun
A particularly objectionable object, person, concept, or other noun. Example: A mother exclaims “What is this GOP?” upon discovering that her child has smeared feces on the refrigerator door.
-verb
To make objectionable. Example: “Don’t GOP it up.”
-interjection
Used as an expletive to express disgust, anger, etc.
Josie
@gogol’s wife: I did not know that. I googled it and have learned something new. This is such an educational site.
Tonal Crow
@Carrie:
I’ve been in that vicinity several times. You have my pity. Have you considered the Huck Finn method?
BruceFromOhio
The sun came out today. After a nice ride in the valley, we colored eggs on the patio, outside. Outside, I tell you!
The rest of the evening will be performed in interpretive dance, with beer.
gogol's wife
@Josie:
Another “10 Commandments”-related fun fact is that Anne Baxter was Frank Lloyd Wright’s granddaughter. (Maybe not as fun as Marlene and Yul.)
Benjamin Cisco
“Ferengi controlled infotainment networks” was brought to us by Villago Delenda Est, and should be added forthwith.
PurpleGirl
You know those 10 Commandment monuments the wingnuts want to put out on courthouse lawns… a lot of them were originally made by Cecile B. DeMille as PR for the movie.
Josie
@gogol’s wife: yeah, pretty tame by comparison. I am laughing and my pooches are wondering why.
PurpleGirl
For Yul Brynner with hair: 1958’s The Buccaneer as Jean LeFitte, Heston played Andrew Jackson.
jnfr
@Mouse Tolliver:
I heard they will. I hope so.
dadanarchist
@Anne Laurie: Those sound like pretty good definitions.
I’d add something about how this “bravery” involves screwing those with no power and wealth in order to give to those with all the power and wealth.
Luthe
::checks:: There’s no Rosie in the Lexicon. How will the n00bs know who John is swearing at if she’s not in there?
Hitchhiker
Chillin in Zion national park w/my main squeeze of the last 25 years
Fabulous day.
Jay in Oregon
@brucds:
I must have missed the “not a parody” tag, because I kept waiting for the punchline.
M-Pop
I love the BJ lexicon and sometimes just read it for the heck of it. It’s better than Urban Dictionary!
Let my son stay up way later than usual today and yesterday; we’re playing the online VW Jumpstart and he’s really enjoying it – I sit wishing they had something that fun for adults.
Going to hang out at Wonkette this evening as everyone ponders its future.
Mouse Tolliver
@jnfr: They closed with a shot of Sarah Jane waving goodbye to the Doctor — taken from Donna Noble’s last regular episode.
Peter
Cudlips.
birthmarker
Readership capture
Tehanu
@PurpleGirl:
Yul Brynner is the ONLY reason to watch that godawful movie. The really scary thing is that he had been the head of drama production, directing stuff like Playhouse 90, at CBS before hitting it big as the King of Siam on Broadway.
However, for laughs that you will never forget, Billy Crystal’s bit about Yul in Ten Commandments is priceless. It might be around on youtube.
AlanDownunder
With notably rare exceptions, the invisible hand avoids leaning on the barbecue hotplate.