The only thing that could make this better is if the singer, Lisa Koch, were a rogue liberal daughter of one of the Koch Brothers:
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The only thing that could make this better is if the singer, Lisa Koch, were a rogue liberal daughter of one of the Koch Brothers:
Heh. Open thread.
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Ben Cisco
BWAHAAHAAHAA!
(gasp)
BWAHAAHAAHAA!
Awesome.
I do have other news – Doc just called, and wants me there soonest, so I’m probably gone for the day. Be well, may the Prophets guide your path, and to hell with the GOP.
IM
Koch is the 12th common name in Germany.
So there should be a few people with this name in the US too.
shortstop
@IM: They should step up and claim it–the Society of Non-Evil Kochs, or something.
David in NY
@IM: We had a mayor with that name, but he rhymed it with “crotch” instead of letting it sound like an illegal drug or lousy soft drink named for said drug.
kindness
Wonder how quickly she get’s dropped from the will.
IM
@David in NY:
I wonder. When I say Koch, it doesn’t sound like coke at all. I probably pronounce both words in a rather unamerican way.
Tuffy
I’m looking for proof that she’s related to David or Charles Koch of Koch Industries and getting zilch.
She seems to have a brother named David but he’s a director of some kind.
the Conster
Lisa Koch is shrill.
p.a.
there’s a beautiful old-style climber/rambler rose growing wild in the verge next to where I’m working. anyone know about rose propagation? can I take cuttings that will root? i think you can ‘splice’ to existing bushes, but would rather not.
David in NY
@IM: I looked it up to be sure, but wikipedia or the Times or somebody says, “pronounced like coke”.
Unless you’re a Yiddish or German speaker here, you probably don’t do the guttural “ch” at the end, so you’ve got the choice of sounds like “crotch,” pronounced like “cock,” or pronounced like “coke.” Can see why the second would be rejected, but the third is far from the the obvious choice.
David in NY
@p.a.: My mom used to take a cutting, probably from soft wood, and stick it in the ground under a glass jar. Not sure if there’s a proper time of year for this.
There is however a world-reknowned rose propagation expert on the web, Henry somebody. You could check the rose forum at gardenweb(dot)com.
ETA: My real point is, it’s easy if Mom could do it.
NancyDarling
The American patriarch of the Koch clan settled in Quanah, Texas. He owned the Quanah Tribune-Chief. I graduated from high school there and the Kochs still owned the paper, although it was then run by the widow of Charles and David’s first cousin—I think his name was Harry. The Quanah Kochs pronounced their name “caw” as in the sound a crow makes.
Villago Delenda Est
@David in NY:
That’s probably true. Because I studied German in HS and College, I automatically do the gutteral ‘ch’ at the end, and I avoid the Americanization of it. I also reject the Americanized take on vowels with umlauts, particularly the o, which the Speaker of the House has mangled so that someone back in Germany would not recognize it.
kindness
My dog got skunked last night. Not bad, through the redwood fence, not a direct hit. I live next to farm fields on two sides so I figure he scared the skunk on the other side. About 3 he comes into the bedroom and man was that potent. Out! Out in the backyard dude. Right now my other half is giving him the vinegar bath. When you allow dogs to make their own choices sometimes they choose poorly.
IM
@David in NY:
German speaker. So my pronunciation of Koch should be within normal parameters. But perhaps I have just problems with coke.
NancyDarling
@NancyDarling: @Tuffy: Also, too, I bet 99.9% of the residents of Quanah don’t know their connection to David and Charles. I suspect most of them would be proud if they knew of it. On the other hand maybe they know since my brother went back for homecoming last year and I had told him about it.
Svensker
@p.a.:
Here’s a link to a rose prop forum
I would think that a rambler would be an easy bet because those things are vi-go-rous! Planted one at our house in NJ and the 2nd year it was sending out 20 foot long canes. Franken-rose. Heavenly scent, though, and the bees lurved it.
Usually can’t stand humorous social commentary songs, but this one is excellent. Lisa Koch for the win!
p.a.
@David in NY: Tks. it will have to be easy for me to be successful with it. it’s in bloom right now, so I think this is not the time to try. I’ll head to teh google now and try ‘henry rose expert’ just for shits and giggles, see what turns up.
David in NY
@p.a.: Only caution about that rose. You might want to avoid propagating it if it’s a rosa multiflora, which is common in waste places — incredibly vigorous, tons of smallish white roses, great fragrance. BUT, it’s invasive, is apt to have babies or suckers all over the place, and can be hard to get rid of.
David in NY
@p.a.: Somewhere I saw bloom time was good, but check Svensker’s link. I think there’s lots of stuff on the internets. You might try “grandma’s mason jar method,” which is what my mother used — take cutting, strip lower leaves at bottom leaving a few nodes, stick in well drained soil, keep ground moist, put jar on head, wait till roots grow.
p.a.
@Svensker: tks, good info at the link. DinNY, the blooms are small, but on the red side of pink. thanks all…
slag
That woman is amazing! Or, in the parlance of Michigan’s times…Get she to a nunnery!
NancyDarling
@NancyDarling: I redrew the Koch family tree in my head, and Harry would have been uncle to Charles and David.
p.a.
don’t want to toot my own horn about SCOTUS and ACA, but I’ve been laughing (bitterly) ever since I read the first ‘Scalia may uphold and bring Kennedy along because…’ works of
journalismfantasy. This moment is what he and his cohorts were bred for. and lo and behold! he’s had a change of heart about precedent.I don’t want to join the ‘if it gets blown up it will quickly lead to true single-payer… and a pony!’ crowd, but I may have to.
Amir Khalid
Doesn’t the name Koch rhyme with Loch, the German for “hole”?
stickler
@Amir Khalid: Amir:
In Germany, yes. In the USA, what with the Anglicization of pronounciation, anti-German sentiment from 1917-45, and general fear of furrin’ words, it’s kind of whatever the family wants it to be.
In the rural area of Washington state where I grew up, there were two branches of the Jaegerle family living in towns thirty miles apart. In one town, populated mostly by German immigrants, the name was pronounced “yay-gur-leh” as you’d expect. In the other town, populated by mostly Anglos, the same name was pronounced “jay-gurl”. The families went with the prevailing pronounciation themselves. Go figure.
No One of Consequence
*That* was fuggin’ air-whipped awesome sauce drizzled lovingly over choclatey folds of Win.
Well played Miss Koch. Well played indeed.
– NOoC
David in NY
@Amir Khalid: Except that in American, that makes the name “Cock,” which as I noted above, is likely not to be acceptable. That’s why Mayor Edward Koch had a last name with the “ch” pronounced as in “cheese.”
Americans can’t do that German/Yiddish “ch.”
ghost_of_salvadordali
That was worth the price of admission. Somebody buy that singer a drink..
Summer
I know this thread is dead as a doornail, but it seems appropriate to listen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5U-YT-mRmI
the Conster
@Summer:
LOL. Thanks for this.
The Golux
That certainly deserves more than 5,828 views. Her guitar chops don’t suck, neither.
Dorothy N.
That performance was both fabulous and hilarious!
Thanks, I needed that!