I saw the Clay Travis brouhaha on twitter, and all I could think of was a bunch of homophobic rightwing men hankering after an ice cream cone but too frightened to buy one on their own. So they stand outside the ice cream parlor offering random women money to go inside with them like it's the 1970's, they are trying to get into Studio 54, and they know they have a better chance of admittance as a couple than as a single guy.
Making the anodyne antithetical--that's what we've come to both admire and expect from the Right! I'm old enough to recall Barack Obama mentioning that kids should stay in school and graduate . . . only to have the howler monkeys on the Right screech that expecting people to graduate high school is the height of elitism. (Well do I remember seeing Rick Santorum on CNN yakking about how out-of-touch and elitist Obama is because Santorum's grandfather was an illiterate coal miner and why does the president hate coal miners?)
I'm also old enough to recall Michelle Obama saying that kids should be eating healthy foods and not loads of sugar, salt, and fat . . . only to have the howler monkeys scream about elitism once again.
And so here we are, with the howler monkeys now screeching about ice cream cones. I'll bet there are tens of millions of people who do not follow this stuff, and if you told them Republicans are outraged by Joe Biden eating ice cream, they'd either think you were lying or had lost your marbles.
Turkey Hill Dutch chocolate ice cream is the best ice cream of all. It used to be the value price brand at Kroger's, and everybody caught onto it's goodness and it became a hipster thing and the price doubled. I think we can safely blame Joe Biden for that.
Roy, your offering today took me back to 1981, when I was but a lass of 16, working as a fountain girl at a local dairy store with a soda fountain. I served many an ice cream cone to men, women, children, entire families. I suppose we should be grateful that the Commander in Chief didn't order a banana split. Imagine the outcry 🤣
PS: had he done so, I'd have been happy to prepare it. I made a mean nanner split at 16 😜
But Reagan could joke about nuking Russia, then pop a couple jellybeans and Bolt & crew would chuckle and nod approvingly about his common touch. Well, maybe not Dramaturgy. He hates the proles.
A penguin is having car trouble. Takes the car to a mechanic. Guy says "come back in an hour." Penguin hits the sidewalk, wastes some time, notices an ice cream shop. Buys a double scoop and gobbles it all messy like.
Back at the shop, the mechanic says "looks like you blew a seal."
I think the proper way to see it is BIDEN TAKES HIS JOB SO SERIOUSLY THAT HE EVEN DEALS WITH THE MANY ISSUES FACING THE WORLD WHILE ON A (WELL-EARNED) ICE CREAM BREAK.
I also think fox "news" is upset because Biden can manage a cone with one hand, while the orange anus can't even manage that with a glass of water.
Staying in work camps during engineering projects up north, I remember meeting manly men — who were not at all conflicted, over-compensating douchebros — who thought eating salad (rabbit food) or doing your own laundry (women’s work) were gay.
I owned a Japanese truck and, being a city boy, never quite mastered fluent bush, so I was often considered suspect from the get-go.
Fellas, is it gay to eat ice cream?
I saw the Clay Travis brouhaha on twitter, and all I could think of was a bunch of homophobic rightwing men hankering after an ice cream cone but too frightened to buy one on their own. So they stand outside the ice cream parlor offering random women money to go inside with them like it's the 1970's, they are trying to get into Studio 54, and they know they have a better chance of admittance as a couple than as a single guy.
Optional musical accompaniment to this excellent post.
https://youtu.be/beTsDOBRs8I?si=nKCMQP2dhAWuRfzc
'A grown man shouldn't commit treason either', said somewag on reddit...
Which does not diminish the luster of CHAFE (Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em) DRAMATURGY's suit.
But
[Long pause, in which only the distant guffaws of stage crew can be heard.]
Your public DEMANDS that you invite Distant Guffaws to the show, Bolt!
2 marks all 'round!
Making the anodyne antithetical--that's what we've come to both admire and expect from the Right! I'm old enough to recall Barack Obama mentioning that kids should stay in school and graduate . . . only to have the howler monkeys on the Right screech that expecting people to graduate high school is the height of elitism. (Well do I remember seeing Rick Santorum on CNN yakking about how out-of-touch and elitist Obama is because Santorum's grandfather was an illiterate coal miner and why does the president hate coal miners?)
I'm also old enough to recall Michelle Obama saying that kids should be eating healthy foods and not loads of sugar, salt, and fat . . . only to have the howler monkeys scream about elitism once again.
And so here we are, with the howler monkeys now screeching about ice cream cones. I'll bet there are tens of millions of people who do not follow this stuff, and if you told them Republicans are outraged by Joe Biden eating ice cream, they'd either think you were lying or had lost your marbles.
Turkey Hill Dutch chocolate ice cream is the best ice cream of all. It used to be the value price brand at Kroger's, and everybody caught onto it's goodness and it became a hipster thing and the price doubled. I think we can safely blame Joe Biden for that.
" Chortle " is an interesting word !
https://www.cjr.org/language_corner/chortle.php
Do you have a coffee table full of fashion magazines at home?
This was really funny- Thanks!
Roy, your offering today took me back to 1981, when I was but a lass of 16, working as a fountain girl at a local dairy store with a soda fountain. I served many an ice cream cone to men, women, children, entire families. I suppose we should be grateful that the Commander in Chief didn't order a banana split. Imagine the outcry 🤣
PS: had he done so, I'd have been happy to prepare it. I made a mean nanner split at 16 😜
The Joe Lieberman twist was perfect.
But Reagan could joke about nuking Russia, then pop a couple jellybeans and Bolt & crew would chuckle and nod approvingly about his common touch. Well, maybe not Dramaturgy. He hates the proles.
All the while conveniently forgetting my personal favorite nickname, Donnie Two-Scoops. Of all the tells, that's the most telling.
Jesse Watters is clearly a University of Chicago alumnus. Remember Leon Kass?
https://www.brendan-nyhan.com/blog/2008/04/leon-kass-on-ic.html
If stupid were poison we'd all be dead.
A penguin is having car trouble. Takes the car to a mechanic. Guy says "come back in an hour." Penguin hits the sidewalk, wastes some time, notices an ice cream shop. Buys a double scoop and gobbles it all messy like.
Back at the shop, the mechanic says "looks like you blew a seal."
Penguin: "Nah, it's just ice cream."
Mechanic: "Bullshit, you're a dirty fag."
I think the proper way to see it is BIDEN TAKES HIS JOB SO SERIOUSLY THAT HE EVEN DEALS WITH THE MANY ISSUES FACING THE WORLD WHILE ON A (WELL-EARNED) ICE CREAM BREAK.
I also think fox "news" is upset because Biden can manage a cone with one hand, while the orange anus can't even manage that with a glass of water.
"finger-popping wokesters"
Like hey man — oppression isn't beat at all. It's like square, man....
Staying in work camps during engineering projects up north, I remember meeting manly men — who were not at all conflicted, over-compensating douchebros — who thought eating salad (rabbit food) or doing your own laundry (women’s work) were gay.
I owned a Japanese truck and, being a city boy, never quite mastered fluent bush, so I was often considered suspect from the get-go.
If I could eliminate one word from the English language that word would be optics.
Because it’s a stupid word.