THE LORD, growing weary of those gaining riches upon the vilification of THE LORD’S more rainbow-clad children, has smitten another of the Tribe of Haters, who endeavor to use THE LORD’S name for their own despicable purposes. THE LORD will cause their own seed to bounce from that for which it was designed and to stick upon themselves as resin from a gum tree.
For an antidote, try the Seattle Times rerun of Bloom County which started an oddly appropriate series today.
Does anyone besides me wish that Obama had called out Republican representative Joe Wilson after he shouted “You lie” during the health care speech? It would have been wonderful to see him challenge Wilson to support the accusation on live TV. Oh well, maybe some day….
if we could harness the randiness of politicians as an alternative energy source, bill clinton alone would keep the US off foreign oil, sarkozy could shutdown every nuclear power plant in france, and larry craig could keep all idahoans warm in the winter. or does larry craig already do that?
Jay, I was leaning more towards Obama stepping away from the podium, vaulting over the rail and beating the crap out of that sorry shit-for-brains, but that’s probably not the best place to do such things.
A better scenario would be for one of South Carolina’s finest (and blackest) State Troopers to pull over Representative Wilson during the dead of night on one of the many rural two lane blacktops snaking through the swamps of the Lowcountry for driving-while-being-a-redneck-stupidass-cracker and ask Mr. Wilson to please step out of the car. Obama could then emerge from the of the back of the patrol car and much hilarity and retribution could ensue. Maybe that wouldn’t be the most Christian (or Islamic!) thing to do, but it certainly makes for a satisfying mental image, don’t you think?
Well, Madbard, maybe everyone but our good buddy nato, right Nathan? And Dirk Kempthorne. Dirk is many unsavory things, as we learned during the last administration, but restroom rendezvous are not really his M.O.
Hey, Murray! If you’re still out there, I hope this article will re-enforce to you that the modern southern gentleman appreciates the finer elements of foreign cultures and will, on the rare occasion, welcome them as his own - even if when that culture happens to be (gasp!) the “Yankee culture”. (dee, can I have a witness?)
Thanks for introducing me to Pennsylvania’s own - Yuengling Lager - at Felberpalooza and know that we all now embrace its goodness! Yuengling Lager was recently voted the Best Beer for the Buck (under $6.00) by The Charlotte Observer!!!! Mazel Tov! (See? There you go. I got “Mazel Tov” from Zee Man and Susie.)
cooper, I can certainly attest to your status as modern southern gentleman. And although Yuengling beer was not the drink of my youth, I too have grown to appreciate and it is now my hops beverage of choice. And if you are ever able to get your hands on a bottle (or bottles) of their porter, I recommend you avail yourself of the opportunity. They haven’t been around for 130 years for nothing.
THE LORD will cause their own seed to bounce from that for which it was designed and to stick upon themselves as resin from a gum tree.
piglet, mayhaps, in this most exceptional of cases, THE LORD didst indeed designeth their seed to sticketh only onto themselves so that they wouldst not be fruitful and multiply. Creating them exceedingly ugly and socially awkward wouldst also improveth the chances of this happy outcome. Pops always didst claim that THE LORD possessed a most infinite wisdom.
OK, by discovering this charming article by Adam from the bowels of Tufts Magazine’s archive (I don’t advise going there, BTW), I want it known and proclaimed that I am at least as good a gumshoe as Cybil Sheppard in “Moonlighting” or (dare I dream?) Nick Danger?
Spoken like a Southerner of the first order, although I do not know your geographic origins. But as one with Deep South roots, I embrace your suggestion with great admiration. Suspect Stephen Colbert might also, at least in his private thoughts.
cooper,
Stumbled onto Yuengling quite by accident in a Publix when it was on sale. A most serendipitous find. Lobster love the good folk up in Murray’s neck of the woods who brew this fine affordable libation.
No Larry Craig for me. Besides, that meme’s played out; now we’re known for the dumb-assery of Rex Rammel and his Obama hunting tags. Some days it’s damned embarrassing to admit I live in Idaho. Okay, most days.
My sister-in-law lived in both Pocatello and Idaho Falls. (Born and raised in Idaho– Boise State grad to boot.)
She is the source for maybe the strangest politically related thing I have ever heard:
“I’ve always been a registered Republican, but I’ve never voted that way.”
Of course, this is the same woman who admits to being raised Mormon, but swears she’s never going anywhere near a church again.
She married my brother (Lobster bless her), who is a very strange socially conservative Democrat. They now live in Palm Beach county, Florida.
Doesn’t that somehow seem fitting?
Palm Beach County is everything from Palm Beach to the eastern shore of Lake Okeechobee, and is the #1 agricultural county in Florida. I once spent the night in the Spalding mansion next door to the Kennedy estate - college roommate related - but am generally more familiar with the other side of the county. Palm Beach County is fitting for nearly anything along the pretty much full spectrum.
Socially conservative Democrats are an intriguing demographic. I am related to several. In my experience, socially conservative Democrats still quite often come through when push comes to shove, unlike socially conservative Republicans who simply push and shove.
Pink is the new red and blue, the new pink.
An inch off far-right makes you a soc-i-alist fink.
George Will is a lefty, and O’Connor’s a shill:
One doubted Palin, the other the NCLB bill.
All hail King Rupert, the new Citizen Hearst
Whose machine is the teat on which all this is nursed
He’ll work hard as he can to show Obama the door
and craft 2012 as the new 1984.
Which is worse–to have Fanny ticked off and disallowing you, or to not be able to access your Facebook page? My account has been ‘temporarily unavailable’ for almost a day now….
Sweet Fanny Roborat, with your goo-goo-googely eyes, Chris’s crush on you is more than understandable. But what of Ann the Fair, Chris the Harlan? Did you not her scarf carry into the joust? And with whom will you be jousting for the favors of Fanny?
Susie, thanks for carrying the Fanatical Apathy torch. Your posts are great. Would you and incredibly adorable Hugo like to bail out of your busy brother’s blog responsibilities and instead post on the Felbernauts Facebook group? Or do both, i’m gonna read the Fan Ap blog untill it vaporizes.
One reason why he should have: the rest of the world recognizes his vision and his outreach for the profoundly new direction that it represents. And his acceptance speech was appropriate. The Nobel Peace Prize is as much an expression of hope for the future as it is recognition of past achievements. And sometimes they get it wrong, as for instance with Henry Kissinger. But not likely this time.
Now, if he doesn’t get rolled by Big Pharma, Big Oil, Big Insurance, Big Investors, and Big Defense Contractors, maybe he can start to fulfill some of the very important unfulfilled promises from his campaign speeches.
Now it’s time for 50 reasons why the United States has to change its imperialist ways, and even more importantly 50 reasons why, if we don’t get back below 350 ppm of CO2, and get there quickly, we are effed.
Nah, nobody gets to call the TOD except Adam. Am I right? He’ll get back when he gets back. Let us all have a little faith. If he kept it up after the move to L.A., then we can give him the benefit of the doubt.
We should concentrate more on Alternative Energy sources like hydrogen and solar because fossil fuels are already depleted and they are polluting the environment.
Can’t be giving up. OK, so maybe Job comes to mind as far as what is required, but Brian in NC is correct. I am now in the check-in-once-a-week mode.
Besides, if my Gators and waterfowler’s Longhorns (you guys remember the image - a 16-foot latter day swamp dinosaur and a 1200-pound steer going at it for a glass football) do meet in the BCS showdown, said occurrence must be noted on Fanatical Apathy, even if some FAers wonder how in hell grown folk can get so wound up over collegiate mayhem. ‘Course I wonder the same thing about myself, but it has nothing whatsoever to do with rationality, so I quickly dispense with all inquiry into that question.
The Brandon Spikes story is so overhyped as to be comical, were it not for the effect on Brandon Spikes. The guy he was supposedly trying to permanently deprive of the ability to see said he was just having some fun. Were he really trying to hurt the guy, I would see it very, very differently. Spikes had actually been poked in the eye earlier in the game. But I’m ok with the concept of not allowing dirty play. Just for Lobster’s sake cut the lazy, sensationalist overhyping of a dingleberry into a mountain of caca.
I watch the games with the sound off so I don’t have to listen to the blathermeisters.
So WF, do you check in periodically? And any guesses on whether it will be Florida or Alabama, and how the BCS game will play out? Florida and Texas have met only once before, sometime in the 30s, and we got beat, although not by a large margin. Those Longhorns were probably mostly wondering what a bunch of overgrown lizards were doing in their stadium.
Jack Stuck in Afghanistan, we think of you often, particularly with all the bad news coming out of that area recently. Hope you’re okay, and if the powers that be let y’all on Facebook, look up Felbernauts, and hail us from there. In the meantime, be well and BE CAREFUL
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Fanny Roborat
62 comments
JR
September 10, 2009 at 10:44 am
1Disgust?
dee
September 10, 2009 at 3:07 pm
2YOU LIE!
nato
September 10, 2009 at 4:56 pm
3When did Apple release the iPatch?
Zee Man
September 10, 2009 at 5:47 pm
4Excuse me, but no one is surprised here, right?
David
September 10, 2009 at 5:47 pm
5She was the Apple of his i.
Susie
September 10, 2009 at 6:27 pm
6You people = funny.
nato
September 11, 2009 at 7:33 am
7At least he didn’t serenade her with Styx’s “Cum sail away” . . .
piglet
September 11, 2009 at 3:52 pm
8THE LORD, growing weary of those gaining riches upon the vilification of THE LORD’S more rainbow-clad children, has smitten another of the Tribe of Haters, who endeavor to use THE LORD’S name for their own despicable purposes. THE LORD will cause their own seed to bounce from that for which it was designed and to stick upon themselves as resin from a gum tree.
Sorry.
Just Jay
September 11, 2009 at 5:11 pm
9For an antidote, try the Seattle Times rerun of Bloom County which started an oddly appropriate series today.
Does anyone besides me wish that Obama had called out Republican representative Joe Wilson after he shouted “You lie” during the health care speech? It would have been wonderful to see him challenge Wilson to support the accusation on live TV. Oh well, maybe some day….
Jay
madbard
September 11, 2009 at 5:17 pm
10if we could harness the randiness of politicians as an alternative energy source, bill clinton alone would keep the US off foreign oil, sarkozy could shutdown every nuclear power plant in france, and larry craig could keep all idahoans warm in the winter. or does larry craig already do that?
Zee Man
September 11, 2009 at 7:51 pm
11Jay, I was leaning more towards Obama stepping away from the podium, vaulting over the rail and beating the crap out of that sorry shit-for-brains, but that’s probably not the best place to do such things.
A better scenario would be for one of South Carolina’s finest (and blackest) State Troopers to pull over Representative Wilson during the dead of night on one of the many rural two lane blacktops snaking through the swamps of the Lowcountry for driving-while-being-a-redneck-stupidass-cracker and ask Mr. Wilson to please step out of the car. Obama could then emerge from the of the back of the patrol car and much hilarity and retribution could ensue. Maybe that wouldn’t be the most Christian (or Islamic!) thing to do, but it certainly makes for a satisfying mental image, don’t you think?
hedera
September 11, 2009 at 7:54 pm
12I like it, madbard - and the supply is endless, just what we need.
Zee Man
September 11, 2009 at 7:59 pm
13Well, Madbard, maybe everyone but our good buddy nato, right Nathan? And Dirk Kempthorne. Dirk is many unsavory things, as we learned during the last administration, but restroom rendezvous are not really his M.O.
cooper
September 12, 2009 at 6:26 am
14Hey, Murray! If you’re still out there, I hope this article will re-enforce to you that the modern southern gentleman appreciates the finer elements of foreign cultures and will, on the rare occasion, welcome them as his own - even if when that culture happens to be (gasp!) the “Yankee culture”. (dee, can I have a witness?)
Thanks for introducing me to Pennsylvania’s own - Yuengling Lager - at Felberpalooza and know that we all now embrace its goodness! Yuengling Lager was recently voted the Best Beer for the Buck (under $6.00) by The Charlotte Observer!!!! Mazel Tov! (See? There you go. I got “Mazel Tov” from Zee Man and Susie.)
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/508/story/934746.html?q=yuengling
cooper
September 12, 2009 at 6:29 am
15Oops. Sorry. Yuengling was voted the best under $5.00.
Just Jay
September 12, 2009 at 6:21 pm
16Zee Man,
I like it, especially since Obama is probably athletic enough to vault the railing!
Jay
dee
September 12, 2009 at 7:22 pm
17cooper, I can certainly attest to your status as modern southern gentleman. And although Yuengling beer was not the drink of my youth, I too have grown to appreciate and it is now my hops beverage of choice. And if you are ever able to get your hands on a bottle (or bottles) of their porter, I recommend you avail yourself of the opportunity. They haven’t been around for 130 years for nothing.
Aunt Sam
September 13, 2009 at 4:46 am
18piglet~
That was hilarious. I guffawed.
Cotton Mather
September 13, 2009 at 5:40 am
19piglet, mayhaps, in this most exceptional of cases, THE LORD didst indeed designeth their seed to sticketh only onto themselves so that they wouldst not be fruitful and multiply. Creating them exceedingly ugly and socially awkward wouldst also improveth the chances of this happy outcome. Pops always didst claim that THE LORD possessed a most infinite wisdom.
Concetta
September 13, 2009 at 6:57 am
20OK, by discovering this charming article by Adam from the bowels of Tufts Magazine’s archive (I don’t advise going there, BTW), I want it known and proclaimed that I am at least as good a gumshoe as Cybil Sheppard in “Moonlighting” or (dare I dream?) Nick Danger?
http://www.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/winter2008/features/radioland.htm l
This, too.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=745821&id=502313658
And with that….I pinkie swear to cease stalking you, Adam.
David
September 13, 2009 at 10:31 am
21piglet,
Wonderful read. Loved it.
Zee Man,
Spoken like a Southerner of the first order, although I do not know your geographic origins. But as one with Deep South roots, I embrace your suggestion with great admiration. Suspect Stephen Colbert might also, at least in his private thoughts.
cooper,
Stumbled onto Yuengling quite by accident in a Publix when it was on sale. A most serendipitous find. Lobster love the good folk up in Murray’s neck of the woods who brew this fine affordable libation.
nato
September 13, 2009 at 7:01 pm
22No Larry Craig for me. Besides, that meme’s played out; now we’re known for the dumb-assery of Rex Rammel and his Obama hunting tags. Some days it’s damned embarrassing to admit I live in Idaho. Okay, most days.
It's Pat!
September 14, 2009 at 8:15 am
23I lived in Pocatello for 10 months Nato, back in 1980 (in Idaho it was still 1925 however). Not recommended. Sure is pretty to the north of there.
Brian in NC
September 14, 2009 at 8:50 pm
24My sister-in-law lived in both Pocatello and Idaho Falls. (Born and raised in Idaho– Boise State grad to boot.)
She is the source for maybe the strangest politically related thing I have ever heard:
“I’ve always been a registered Republican, but I’ve never voted that way.”
Of course, this is the same woman who admits to being raised Mormon, but swears she’s never going anywhere near a church again.
She married my brother (Lobster bless her), who is a very strange socially conservative Democrat. They now live in Palm Beach county, Florida.
Doesn’t that somehow seem fitting?
David
September 15, 2009 at 6:41 pm
25Palm Beach County is everything from Palm Beach to the eastern shore of Lake Okeechobee, and is the #1 agricultural county in Florida. I once spent the night in the Spalding mansion next door to the Kennedy estate - college roommate related - but am generally more familiar with the other side of the county. Palm Beach County is fitting for nearly anything along the pretty much full spectrum.
Socially conservative Democrats are an intriguing demographic. I am related to several. In my experience, socially conservative Democrats still quite often come through when push comes to shove, unlike socially conservative Republicans who simply push and shove.
Chris Harlan
September 15, 2009 at 7:28 pm
26Pink is the new red and blue, the new pink.
An inch off far-right makes you a soc-i-alist fink.
George Will is a lefty, and O’Connor’s a shill:
One doubted Palin, the other the NCLB bill.
All hail King Rupert, the new Citizen Hearst
Whose machine is the teat on which all this is nursed
He’ll work hard as he can to show Obama the door
and craft 2012 as the new 1984.
David
September 16, 2009 at 6:27 pm
27All hail King Rupert, the new Citizen Hearst
You got that right, Chris. Miserable bastard just skirts the edges.
hedera
September 18, 2009 at 8:58 pm
28Fanny’s on a rampage again - a perfectly normal post, and it’s in moderation. What’d I do??
Otter
September 18, 2009 at 11:03 pm
29“You fucked up. You trusted her.”
Aunt Sam
September 21, 2009 at 4:17 am
30Which is worse–to have Fanny ticked off and disallowing you, or to not be able to access your Facebook page? My account has been ‘temporarily unavailable’ for almost a day now….
Chris Harlan
September 22, 2009 at 3:10 pm
31Fanny has it out for the word soc-ial-ist.
Chris Harlan
September 22, 2009 at 3:10 pm
32birth certificate. Just checking.
Chris Harlan
September 22, 2009 at 3:11 pm
33Communist.
Chris Harlan
September 22, 2009 at 3:11 pm
34Faschist.
Chris Harlan
September 22, 2009 at 3:12 pm
35Mind grapes.
Chris Harlan
September 22, 2009 at 3:13 pm
36swift boat.
Chris Harlan
September 22, 2009 at 3:14 pm
37pinko
Chris Harlan
September 22, 2009 at 3:14 pm
38Yep, pretty much just social-ist.
Chris Harlan
September 22, 2009 at 3:17 pm
39Sorry. fascist.
David
September 22, 2009 at 4:39 pm
40Sweet Fanny Roborat, with your goo-goo-googely eyes, Chris’s crush on you is more than understandable. But what of Ann the Fair, Chris the Harlan? Did you not her scarf carry into the joust? And with whom will you be jousting for the favors of Fanny?
Acronym Jim
September 23, 2009 at 6:23 am
41When it comes to Fanny, I’m guessing windmills.
David
September 23, 2009 at 6:04 pm
42Perhaps more than a mere guess, A.J., considering some of the Fanny rants to which we have been treated.
SeattleDan
September 24, 2009 at 10:15 pm
43When is Mr. Harlan going to get himself on Facebook and join us lonely Felbernauts there?
Sallymutant
September 24, 2009 at 11:30 pm
44Concetta, reading the Adam article in your fine link was as if … as if he’d posted that fine article here. Thanks for the link to a good Adam read.
Sallymutant
September 24, 2009 at 11:43 pm
45Susie, thanks for carrying the Fanatical Apathy torch. Your posts are great. Would you and incredibly adorable Hugo like to bail out of your busy brother’s blog responsibilities and instead post on the Felbernauts Facebook group? Or do both, i’m gonna read the Fan Ap blog untill it vaporizes.
Chris Harlan
September 27, 2009 at 6:52 pm
46Seattle Dan: Going there, doing that
Sallymutant
September 27, 2009 at 10:21 pm
47Chris, thanks for post 26, very Tom Lehrer-esqe.
detoxy
October 2, 2009 at 7:36 am
48Alternative Energy is the way to go. dont we just hate those air polluting non-renewable fossil fuels.
Gerbeel Haamster
October 5, 2009 at 5:39 am
49That’s how all the stains get on those bills that the lobbyists write for our grammatically challenged representatives.
They’re lobbyists. They’re ’sposed to —- pols. Then the pols —- us.
Everybody gets —-’d.
Josh Fulton
October 11, 2009 at 6:18 am
5050 reasons why Obama should NOT have won the Nobel:
http://joshfulton.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-wins-nobel-peace-prize-he ll_10.html
David
October 12, 2009 at 3:54 pm
51One reason why he should have: the rest of the world recognizes his vision and his outreach for the profoundly new direction that it represents. And his acceptance speech was appropriate. The Nobel Peace Prize is as much an expression of hope for the future as it is recognition of past achievements. And sometimes they get it wrong, as for instance with Henry Kissinger. But not likely this time.
Now, if he doesn’t get rolled by Big Pharma, Big Oil, Big Insurance, Big Investors, and Big Defense Contractors, maybe he can start to fulfill some of the very important unfulfilled promises from his campaign speeches.
Now it’s time for 50 reasons why the United States has to change its imperialist ways, and even more importantly 50 reasons why, if we don’t get back below 350 ppm of CO2, and get there quickly, we are effed.
Miss17
October 13, 2009 at 1:38 am
52I missed the favorite song question at the end there. ,
Settor71
October 22, 2009 at 1:53 am
53Goldstein posted reviews for 15 wines. ,
No_limits29
October 23, 2009 at 1:27 am
54Great work, but some of the stuff creeped me out. ,
David
October 28, 2009 at 4:57 pm
55OK, I’ll admit it. I feel lost without FA.
Chris Harlan
October 30, 2009 at 12:00 am
56Hey the lights are on. Good. Helllloooo? Nobody? I think I left a bag of oranges somewhere… Hey, David. Is that you?
Yeah. I miss it here to.
Chris Harlan
November 1, 2009 at 10:06 am
57empty silent stage
single ghost light flickering
ice covers the pond
JR
November 2, 2009 at 11:08 am
58Chris is attempting to perform CPR on a blog.
Is it time to call it?
Brian in NC
November 2, 2009 at 5:56 pm
59Nah, nobody gets to call the TOD except Adam. Am I right? He’ll get back when he gets back. Let us all have a little faith. If he kept it up after the move to L.A., then we can give him the benefit of the doubt.
Macnet
November 4, 2009 at 3:17 am
60We should concentrate more on Alternative Energy sources like hydrogen and solar because fossil fuels are already depleted and they are polluting the environment.
David
November 5, 2009 at 7:00 pm
61Can’t be giving up. OK, so maybe Job comes to mind as far as what is required, but Brian in NC is correct. I am now in the check-in-once-a-week mode.
Besides, if my Gators and waterfowler’s Longhorns (you guys remember the image - a 16-foot latter day swamp dinosaur and a 1200-pound steer going at it for a glass football) do meet in the BCS showdown, said occurrence must be noted on Fanatical Apathy, even if some FAers wonder how in hell grown folk can get so wound up over collegiate mayhem. ‘Course I wonder the same thing about myself, but it has nothing whatsoever to do with rationality, so I quickly dispense with all inquiry into that question.
The Brandon Spikes story is so overhyped as to be comical, were it not for the effect on Brandon Spikes. The guy he was supposedly trying to permanently deprive of the ability to see said he was just having some fun. Were he really trying to hurt the guy, I would see it very, very differently. Spikes had actually been poked in the eye earlier in the game. But I’m ok with the concept of not allowing dirty play. Just for Lobster’s sake cut the lazy, sensationalist overhyping of a dingleberry into a mountain of caca.
I watch the games with the sound off so I don’t have to listen to the blathermeisters.
So WF, do you check in periodically? And any guesses on whether it will be Florida or Alabama, and how the BCS game will play out? Florida and Texas have met only once before, sometime in the 30s, and we got beat, although not by a large margin. Those Longhorns were probably mostly wondering what a bunch of overgrown lizards were doing in their stadium.
Aunt Sam
November 6, 2009 at 3:19 pm
62Speaking of checking in periodically–
Jack Stuck in Afghanistan, we think of you often, particularly with all the bad news coming out of that area recently. Hope you’re okay, and if the powers that be let y’all on Facebook, look up Felbernauts, and hail us from there. In the meantime, be well and BE CAREFUL