Comments on: MODERN-DAY NERO

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:46:00 +0000

Grasp of world history FAIL for you.

By: fibreoptik

fibreoptik — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:29:42 +0000

S-E-G-W-A-Y

product name FAIL

By: Madame L

Madame L — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:28:58 +0000

Lol, Futurama. Very nice.

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:36:06 +0000

P: Midget called, wants hammer back.
S: Not gonna happen.

P: Live bugs taste terrible
S: Warning sign up saying not to eat mothballs.

By: this guy over here

this guy over here — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:27:49 +0000

awesome.

By: this guy over here

this guy over here — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:26:52 +0000

I should be in this Poof!

By: dude

dude — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:23:36 +0000

THE WHO! That drummer. He was in The Who. I know that.

By: jules

jules — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:16:52 +0000

That’s hilarious! Thanks!

By: jules

jules — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:08:43 +0000

Agreed, that’s excellent!

By: Sorsha

Sorsha — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:43:27 +0000

Very clever.

well done.

By: PortlandMark

PortlandMark — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:32:39 +0000

Okay, point made. : )

By: rhorho

rhorho — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:17:15 +0000

That was me screwing up. I was being lazy, making the same comment to you both. I wanted you to see the link, too.

By: slanagat

slanagat — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:07:00 +0000

I’d give you very long odds indeed against the linked e-mail address actually belonging to the poster.

By: slanagat

slanagat — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:03:57 +0000

Exactly. It’s cluster(fsck)ed on the right, as I said.

By: rhorho

rhorho — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:07:54 +0000

Yep, I’m afraid I’ll have to write you up, Sir.
*scritch-scritch-scritch*
Here’s your citation: You are to appear in the court of the Honorable D. Worm on Monday (unless he’s super busy at his real job).

By: rhorho

rhorho — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:02:44 +0000

LOL–”I’ve got not date”
Gimme some of that *Shasta* you’re drinking! ;o)

By: sharon

sharon — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:48:57 +0000

so the “masked rider” is Neil Peart?

By: sharon

sharon — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:46:42 +0000

among the best lyrics ever written…

By: AC

AC — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:14:24 +0000

What’s that? Does it spam you back? Does it do something evil if you click on her address?

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:12:34 +0000

It’s from the ‘don’t get mad, get even’ dept….

By: herb

herb — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:09:36 +0000

It’s Saturday night, I’ve got not date, a two-liter bottle of Shasta, and my all Rush mix tape.

By: AC

AC — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:55:16 +0000

Why?

By: rhorho

rhorho — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:58:38 +0000

@ PM: Thanks! )

By: rhorho

rhorho — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:56:06 +0000

I was impressed by what a painstaking chore that must have been. I’m sure whoever populated that database came away with bleeding ears. Come to think of it, that may be what’s wrong with Ed’s hearing… (Yes, I’m a stinker!)

By: rhorho

rhorho — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:49:29 +0000

Sorry, Mark and Slan, but even the third coast is not immune from disdainful Khristian scrutiny. (link)

By: nostalgic for CA

nostalgic for CA — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:49:11 +0000

Aah, how Ive missed CA. Moved away two years ago and haven’t been back to visit in at least 6 months… Seeing this picture, however, brings it all back to me. Well-to-do folk with high tech gizmoes and gadgetry standing by, blissfully portraying helplessness, in the midst of crisis. “Someone else should be ascending from the heavenly PDA store in the sky to deliver me in MMS format from this evil that roars before, to a better, less conflicted place… perhaps Vegas!” Don’t worry, CA. We wouldn’t want you to get your hands dirty taking care of yourselves…

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:26:04 +0000

No, that’s true. They have had some pretty serious incidents lately but they still managed to get the planes down without any injuries.

By: slanagat

slanagat — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:22:16 +0000

Ed, I suspect that’s why they’ve got a bulletproof safety record, when they find a problem they don’t shrug and fly anyway.

By: slanagat

slanagat — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:11:22 +0000

Because it’s less socially acceptable on the political ‘left’ to presume to know god’s judgment. The sort of Khristianists who do that are cluster(fsck)ed in the right wing.

By: Charlie Foxtrot

Charlie Foxtrot — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:00:31 +0000

True, but then again I never heard anything that I really liked, good background songs but no super standouts.

By: PortlandMark

PortlandMark — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:21:00 +0000

Love those, Rho!

By: PortlandMark

PortlandMark — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:18:06 +0000

No! NOOOOOOO!!!!!!

By: PortlandMark

PortlandMark — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:17:27 +0000

The funniest part of the song is that they edited actual Rush audio to make it sound convincingly like he actually sang the song!

By: PortlandMark

PortlandMark — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:14:56 +0000

I’m not terribly offended, but why doesn’t anyone say “It’s God’s punishment for voting Republican” every time a state between Texas and Florida gets hit by a hurricane? No, it’s only the Californians who receive divine retribution; the red states are just victims of bad luck!

(pant, pant) Okay, done ranting now.

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 08:11:38 +0000

Yeah, love the Oz! )

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 08:00:38 +0000

Qantas has been having lot’s of mechanical problems lately though. Still no crashes, but lots of flights aborted for one reason or another.

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 07:54:08 +0000

LOL!! Ok, I got the lyrics, and WOW.. I can’t say I’m that big on Rush. I used to be, but not so much anymore.

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 07:47:53 +0000

Mark, do you have the lyrics? I tried listening but my hearing really crap and I couldn’t make out most of what was said/sung.

By: hotsauce

hotsauce — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 07:46:45 +0000

I didn’t mention it because it isn’t part of the modern idiom. I mean, nobody says “Nero fiddled while Rome burned, then blamed the Christians because at the time they were a bunch of weirdos that made handy scapegoats” do they? And yes, he was fond of playing the lyre, and since he was away from Rome on business and didn’t know it was burning, there’s no reason for him not to have been doing so. But it sounds better to say “he played while Rome burned!” and let people think what you want them to think. Kind of like saying “I served in Vietnam with John Kerry,” and letting people believe that you knew him and served alongside him, when in fact you were simply in the same country as he was during roughly the same time period. So yes, swift-boated.

By: Jessi

Jessi — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 05:37:56 +0000

That’s what I’m thinking, too.

By: rhorho

rhorho — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 04:31:01 +0000

*commences head banging*
Ozzy! Ozzy! Ozzy!

By: rhorho

rhorho — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 03:47:11 +0000

LMAO!! Oh, mercy!! That was hysterical, but it’s a good thing you put an advisory label on it. Besides running the risk of offending our right-of-center friends, there is another matter: This song could easily become the soundtrack for someone’s famous wang, you know.

By: PortlandMark

PortlandMark — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 03:05:53 +0000

Nice one!

By: PortlandMark

PortlandMark — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 01:56:32 +0000

I’d love for that to be a true story!

By: PortlandMark

PortlandMark — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 01:55:15 +0000

Lovett reference?

By: PortlandMark

PortlandMark — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 01:54:11 +0000

(Click name)

I dunno, Rho; Limbaugh sings this song, and I think you’ll like it.

Ema, Froo, Eddie- if you like Limbaugh, you’ll find this to be hateful, not funny. Still, to hear Rush tell me things I already believe… wow, just wow!
Funny funny funny.

By: PortlandMark

PortlandMark — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 01:40:35 +0000

Well, I’ve never heard anything by Rush I hated; for me, that says a lot.

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 23:27:51 +0000

“I’m going off the rails on a crazy train..”

By: rhorho

rhorho — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 23:11:55 +0000

Why would you say that, Glenda?

By: rhorho

rhorho — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 23:10:25 +0000

They definitely have their nut clocks wound up tight, certainly! That said, Dear, just because you can point to someone further off the track does not mean that you aren’t derailed. ~.0