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I have somehow managed to hang out for 5 years on the internets and never see these fellas before, but slap my ass and call me Sally, they’re pretty funny, I’ll tell you whut! These two have the attitudes, postures, expressions and even the cadences right -at least as best I can remember from my time among the farmers and cowboys!
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Gee Miz Anchoress, whar did you git pitchers of my kin fok? (Thanks for the laugh and bless you and yours.)
LOL Priceless line:
“Carter, Gore and Obama: that’s like the Mt. Rushmore of shut-the-hell-up.”
But they have a point – in our society today, starting in day care and going forward we reward kids for everything they do – they feel good today so they get a gold star; they smiled today, so they get a gold star; they didn’t hit anyone so they get a gold star; they said thank you so they get a gold star. We have so diminished real accomplishments that why is anyone surprised that Obama has been given the Nobel – it is the equivalent of getting the gold star for washing your hands in day care.
You need to check out Professor Bainbridge’s site more often, he always posts Jackie and Dunlap.
Go back through the Red State archieves for some really funny ones.
For a second there, I thought they were Nefies. Just a second.
I love that line too: “Carter, Gore and Obama: that’s like the Mt. Rushmore of shut-the-hell-up.”
I dang busted my gut laffin’ so hard!!!!!!
That’s not even the best. Check out the Dunlap Solution for Health Care:
“You would either give all doctors guns or make all murderers doctors. I haven’t quite fig’r'd that out yet.”
“It’s not a Culture of Death; it’s a Culture of Killin’.”
OK, Sally, it is then! Personally I like it better to hear “Well, blow me down and call me Shorty.”
Speaking as a transplant from the Northeast to the Southeast, my observation is the guy with the beard talks a little too fast. Otherwise the expressions are right and the act is funny.
So being tied up sounds fun and we are to slap your ass and call you Sally. This is a side of you we haven’t seen before
Yeah, hahaha. Obama gets the Nobel, you belittle it and him, Obama fails at getting the olympics, you are beside yourselves with glee! Can you keep this up for three more years? Bad sportsmanship is bad for the game, worse for the players. I’m so embarrassed for Conservatives. Please, get a hold on yourselves!
[I'm holding up quite well, thanks. I actually put a more constructive spin on Obama's Nobel prize than many on the left -I actually suggested a way that the thing could have current and not "future" meaning. And I was not beside myself with glee over the Olympics, because I was rather agnostic on the whole issue, but I did suggest -quite rightly, I still believe- that the Obamas did not help their cause by going sloppy sentimental (Mrs. O) and "me, me, me" while they were over there. I'm not embarrassed, and I don't know why a non conservative would be embarrassed, either. But if you're commenting without reading stuff, yeah, that might be embarrassing. Thanks for stopping by, your jocularity and good mood was refreshing! -admin]
So I went to the dictionary cause darn I never knew what tarnation meant!
Oh my goodness!
so if you don’t know you are, you aren’t right?
ETYMOLOGY:
tarn(al) + (damn)ation
Regional Note:
The noun and interjection tarnation illustrate suffixation, the addition of a suffix to a word. Tarnation and darnation (the latter probably having come first) are both euphemistic forms of damnation.
Tarnation seems to have been influenced by tarnal, another mild oath derived from (e)ternal! The Oxford English Dictionary cites late-18th-century examples of tarnation from New England, indicating that it has been part of American speech since colonial days.
~yahoo reference
Dont know how to send you an email so I’ll ask this in a combox. You recommended PJ TV and I was enjoying some of the videos until I saw this one
It seems awfully troubling to me. Does it bother you? I would think it does.
[I am not sure what you find troubling, Tom, so I cannot comment. Klavan is a man who is putting forth his point of view. You don't have to like it or watch it. This is America. He's free to say what he likes, and you're free not to listen. If you don't like him, stick with Whittle. Simple, no? -admin]
Those guys are so funny!
anchoress, I’m sincerely distressed at the level of bitterness and scorn for his award, and glee for our loss of the olympics. I hope conservatives can find their inner sense of decorum again. I understand this is suppose to be funny, but it is very emblematic of the tone I hear everywhere! I so hope it stops, I really honestly do.
[I am sincerely distressed that for the first time in my memory, we are not supposed to have fun at a president's expense. I've never seen this before. Any other president is game for jokes and mockery - always. But make a few jokes at Obama's expense and it's "oh, my! This is awful! Where is your decorum?" Please. Joking at the president's expense comes with the job, and there has been too little of it at Obama's expense, if you ask me. If any other president, even Clinton, had walked into closed doors, gotten as tongue tied as Obama often is, or declared he'd visited "all fifty seven states," the whole country would be laughing at it. Lighten up -admin]
The liberal Democrats in this country mocked, questioned, and generally derided everything that George W. Bush did. Literally everything, for 8 years. They did everything possible to weaken and de-legitimize his Presidency, including politicizing a war with soldiers in the field. Now that their man is in the White House they are desperate for a “return to civility” and “an end to the bitterness.” They built this world where the President is given no lee way, is derided, mocked, and lied about constantly. I am happy to let them live in it.
Isn’t it amazing, how Barbara is ‘distressed’ of the rudeness towards the new guy in the White House. I wonder how ‘distressed’ she was when the media mocked Reagan and both Presidents with the last name of Bush.
On the other hand the adulterer Clinton was near made a saint in the media’s eyes.
Hudson is so right, everything that Bush was doing ‘wrong’ is considered right now that ‘their man’ is in the White House.
Just because we don’t talk about Iraq anymore they think its all wonderful again while we never should have been in Afghanistan at all! Russia couldn’t deal with that country and it was in their own backyard!
Lord save us from hypocrites, Amen.
No, no. You misunderstand. I am not saying not to mock Obama, go ahead mock away. Tear him a new orifice! Heaven knows we did Bush! I’m saying its unseemly that you celebrate his failure to achieve for the country and likewise bad form to deride the Nobel committe when the award is an honor for our country too. I’m probably not clearly communicating the difference. The left despised Bush, its true. But we did not, for instance, celebrate when he dropped the ball in New Orleans! For heaven’s sake! We criticized and belly ached, its true, but we did not celebrate for one milisecond. Your behavior for the past nine months indicates that conservatives will pull against Obama, no matter what. Even if it is obviously not in the countries best interest. Very upsetting.
["But we did not, for instance, celebrate when he dropped the ball in New Orleans!" The media did, in its own way "celebrate" NOLA, by painting terrible and largely erroneous pictures that went way over and above the very real tragedies and went out of its way to cover what WAS being done and what WAS constructive. The press went out of its way to use NOLA to beat Bush and the lefty blogs were gleeful about the beating, if not the story itself; no sane people could be gleeful about the story. The comparison does not work, and that is largely because you have an utterly different set of circumstances to deal with. Bush was always, "stupid moron Bush" who "stole the election," and all of that. Obama has been hailed as "the One," and been given a "messianic" vibe from the press and from many of his supporters. The "glee" you see, if there is glee has nothing to do with wishing anything bad to happen to America (or "celebrating" not getting the Olympics, about which I cared neither way). It has to do with seeing the media-created facade punctured. It's not Obama's fault that these silly people in Oslo gave him the Nobel, but it would be unseemly to pretend that this is some sort of huge honor for America, when it is clearly a political affectation meant to kick a former president (again) and affect this president's own foreign policy decisions. For that, the Nobel deserves our contempt, not our high regard, and so I don't think there is anything wrong with mocking the whole damn thing. As to the Olympics, I was one of the people on twitter who was saying Rush was overdoing his satisfaction, but I also did not see "losing" the Olympics as a horrible thing that I had to wring my hands about or be called "unpatriotic." The Obama's made a bad presentation, Rio did better. Big whoop. One cannot compare not getting the olympics with Katrina, and one cannot suggest that indifference (or even amusement) at "the one's" failure in Sweden with a "lack of patriotism" especially not if you were on the side of folks saying, for 8 years, that to question one's patriotism was a rotten thing to do. (and it's something I don't believe I ever did...I've questioned the patriotism of politicians, but not citizens.
admin]
I guess I was out scored. but you get my drift.