Comments on: Kim’s Cry for Help http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/05/kims-cry-for-help/ America's favorite blog Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:41:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: David http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/05/kims-cry-for-help/#comment-17754 Tue, 18 Jul 2006 04:00:40 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/05/kims-cry-for-help/#comment-17754 siobhan, Typos on gd keyboards don't count. I can't believe some of the errors that I would never, ever otherwise make. And the Ctrl key, which I keep hitting when I'm just trying to hit the shift key - thereby wiping out whatever I just keyboarded (I refuse to call it typing) - is going to drive me right on over the edge at some point. siobhan,

Typos on gd keyboards don’t count. I can’t believe some of the errors that I would never, ever otherwise make. And the Ctrl key, which I keep hitting when I’m just trying to hit the shift key - thereby wiping out whatever I just keyboarded (I refuse to call it typing) - is going to drive me right on over the edge at some point.

]]> by: siobhan http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/05/kims-cry-for-help/#comment-17735 Mon, 17 Jul 2006 05:32:11 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/05/kims-cry-for-help/#comment-17735 She'd be appalled that I mis-spelled "recognized", so let me set things straight. David, English teachers rule. It would be a mutual admiration society, were she still here. She’d be appalled that I mis-spelled “recognized”, so let me set things straight.

David, English teachers rule. It would be a mutual admiration society, were she still here.

]]> by: David http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/05/kims-cry-for-help/#comment-17728 Mon, 17 Jul 2006 03:14:39 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/05/kims-cry-for-help/#comment-17728 siobhan, Love that family anecdote. Your mother sounds like a cool lady. Both my older sister and I are retired English teachers, so I am immediately predisposed to admire your mother. siobhan,

Love that family anecdote. Your mother sounds like a cool lady. Both my older sister and I are retired English teachers, so I am immediately predisposed to admire your mother.

]]> by: siobhan http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/05/kims-cry-for-help/#comment-17714 Sun, 16 Jul 2006 15:25:17 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/05/kims-cry-for-help/#comment-17714 David, my mother was an English teacher and instilled in all of us a love of reading and language. She recongnized that people (including her kids) swear, though she didn't want it to become as natural as exhaling. I still remember one family vacation when my brother and I were snipping at each other in the back of the station wagon. Brother: "Eh, that ain't shit!" Mother: "John!!" Brother: "Sorry - that <i>isn't</i> shit." True story. David, my mother was an English teacher and instilled in all of us a love of reading and language. She recongnized that people (including her kids) swear, though she didn’t want it to become as natural as exhaling. I still remember one family vacation when my brother and I were snipping at each other in the back of the station wagon. Brother: “Eh, that ain’t shit!” Mother: “John!!” Brother: “Sorry - that isn’t shit.” True story.

]]> by: David http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/05/kims-cry-for-help/#comment-17713 Sun, 16 Jul 2006 14:49:48 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/05/kims-cry-for-help/#comment-17713 Mattie_Boy, I have wondered about that issue, but I don't think this website would work without freewheeling use of the language in all its myriad possibilities. Intriguingly, my mother found some way to let us read all sorts of books but not swear when it would be inappropriate. I'm not sure how she pulled it off, but I'm grateful. She must have gotten us to buy into reading freely, while at the same time watching our mouths when children (and adults) should be watching their mouths. Mattie_Boy,

I have wondered about that issue, but I don’t think this website would work without freewheeling use of the language in all its myriad possibilities. Intriguingly, my mother found some way to let us read all sorts of books but not swear when it would be inappropriate. I’m not sure how she pulled it off, but I’m grateful. She must have gotten us to buy into reading freely, while at the same time watching our mouths when children (and adults) should be watching their mouths.

]]> by: pete http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/05/kims-cry-for-help/#comment-17656 Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:12:28 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/05/kims-cry-for-help/#comment-17656 yeah, i'm pretty sure your 14 year old has never heard the word fuck before. stay eternally vigilant, and welcome to the internet! yeah, i’m pretty sure your 14 year old has never heard the word fuck before.
stay eternally vigilant, and welcome to the internet!

]]> by: Mattie_Boy http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/05/kims-cry-for-help/#comment-17625 Fri, 14 Jul 2006 03:07:29 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/05/kims-cry-for-help/#comment-17625 David: The words you use are correct, but I don't think they're appropriate--I'm dying to let my free-thinking 14-year-old daughter view this site and the comments, but won't unless I see a long period of polite language. Can you do me a favor and clean it up? Thanks in advance (Goodness, I love that catchphrase!)-- David: The words you use are correct, but I don’t think they’re appropriate–I’m dying to let my free-thinking 14-year-old daughter view this site and the comments, but won’t unless I see a long period of polite language. Can you do me a favor and clean it up? Thanks in advance (Goodness, I love that catchphrase!)–

]]> by: David http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/05/kims-cry-for-help/#comment-17542 Mon, 10 Jul 2006 12:59:10 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/05/kims-cry-for-help/#comment-17542 Well, it looks like Japan's Koi One wants to go at it with Kim-O. Graceland had that effect on the man? Weeeee haaaaaaa. Well, it looks like Japan’s Koi One wants to go at it with Kim-O. Graceland had that effect on the man? Weeeee haaaaaaa.

]]> by: David http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/05/kims-cry-for-help/#comment-17526 Sun, 09 Jul 2006 01:28:52 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/05/kims-cry-for-help/#comment-17526 I find a certain macabre humor in a petty pissant being able to tell the "most powerful leader on earth" to go fuck himself, and the mploe can't do jack shit about it because he thought invading Iraq was a good idea. Dumbfuck v. Dumbfuck - and W does look rather much like Alfred E. I don't think it makes a damned bit of difference whether Kim Jong Very Ill does or doesn't have nukes and missiles. Just means our Idiot President can't invade North Korea, which he couldn't anyway. And there are more than enough loose nukes scattered about the former Soviet Union to beat global warming to the punch, should we continue on our current moron's journey through time. And Paris Hilton would make a better president than Dick Cheney. Harmless beats homicidally destructive every time. I find a certain macabre humor in a petty pissant being able to tell the “most powerful leader on earth” to go fuck himself, and the mploe can’t do jack shit about it because he thought invading Iraq was a good idea. Dumbfuck v. Dumbfuck - and W does look rather much like Alfred E.

I don’t think it makes a damned bit of difference whether Kim Jong Very Ill does or doesn’t have nukes and missiles. Just means our Idiot President can’t invade North Korea, which he couldn’t anyway. And there are more than enough loose nukes scattered about the former Soviet Union to beat global warming to the punch, should we continue on our current moron’s journey through time.

And Paris Hilton would make a better president than Dick Cheney. Harmless beats homicidally destructive every time.

]]> by: Pete IVDL http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/05/kims-cry-for-help/#comment-17515 Sat, 08 Jul 2006 15:09:01 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/07/05/kims-cry-for-help/#comment-17515 Three little words. "I'm so ronery..." (I'm tearing up already) then the finale -<i>sob</i>- ..."poor rittle meeeeee....." Oh, how can we be so callous to such a little peewee. He'll take his Taepo Dong and go home, yeah, that's what he'll do. Three little words. “I’m so ronery…” (I’m tearing up already) then the finale -sob- …”poor rittle meeeeee…..”

Oh, how can we be so callous to such a little peewee. He’ll take his Taepo Dong and go home, yeah, that’s what he’ll do.

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