Comments on: One Man, One Vote

By: N. Byrne

N. Byrne — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 10:09:52 +0000

Well, It’s kind of an obvious joke when you think about it.

I bet lots of people came up with it on their own too.

By: Foul Ole Ron

Foul Ole Ron — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 06:56:14 +0000

Misquoted AND stolen. For shame. A black coach is waiting outside. You have an appointment with the Patrician.

((Admittedly, scenario taken from Making Money.)

By: GuesssWho

GuesssWho — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:44:45 +0000

It WAS an inside job, dumbass.

By: Jeanette

Jeanette — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:43:03 +0000

My goodness, that’s exactly what I was going to comment on! I love the Discworld series. At least the Patrician who rules during the time of the series is insanely capable at fixing things.

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:19:03 +0000

Hmm not really that munch funny.

By: Spazmo

Spazmo — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:08:51 +0000

Vetinari has way better dress sense.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:58:44 +0000

On another note, he shortly asks for citations if it’s true, so he doesn’t dismiss JD’s opinion outright.

By: Naughtyhorse

Naughtyhorse — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:43:51 +0000

yet another attributed quote, 90% of whats in tp (and i love it and have read everything) is borrowed, i mean 1/2 the plotlines come from elsewhere. start there and work down

By: Tyler

Tyler — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:42:10 +0000

Don’t insult Eddie, even if he disagrees with your opinion. He could rip your face off with his dust-farts alone, and he’s plenty nice, so you don’t need to go insulting him for ONE dissenting opinion. And I’m not going to make any comments on your opinion, frankly I don’t care until you learn to spell, capitalize and use the apostrophe correctly.

By: Naughtyhorse

Naughtyhorse — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:35:05 +0000

in order to hear, youd need to pull your head out of your ass for 5 minutes, i think that splains it

By: Naughtyhorse

Naughtyhorse — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:32:23 +0000

Way to go JD, Just my thoughts. except the iranians has their sh1t together and didnt need to corrupt the legal system to carry of their ‘win’.
And to all the republicans STILL smarting about the return of democracy to the US
GET OVER YOURSELVES.
Life sucks – get a helmet.
and special mention for DHOTI – you are rite, they Didnt use the national guard, true to form they outsourced to the iraqis and afghanis.

By: Esor

Esor — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:00:22 +0000

I’m glad to see that so many people have read his fantastic books.

By: Esor

Esor — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:56:07 +0000

Actually, dark green has been shown to have some interesting properties.”

By: Esor

Esor — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:55:32 +0000

Thank you for notifying everyone before me about Pratchett, this quote’s source.
“He was the Man, and he had the Vote.”

By: Vila Restal

Vila Restal — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:49:50 +0000

I’ve heard of that joke in the 70′s before I even heard of Terry Pratchett, but most people here probably did get the quote off Terry Pratchett who got the quote from somewhere else.

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:26:16 +0000

Well sort of. “The Colour of Magic” and “The Light Fantastic” are satires of heroic fantasy, but the later (not that much later) novels, certainly from “Soul Music” and “Moving Pictures” on are very much satire and/or social commentary of aspects of our society, or even our society as a whole.

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:19:29 +0000

You’ll give me that Terry is the most likely source for most people to have met it from though? Seriously, he’s the place I first met it, and I’m not sure I could come up with an older one without use of the Interwebnet.

By: Vila Restal

Vila Restal — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:52:30 +0000

Actually words of wisdom from Mr A Nonny Mouse. As I said this quote is older than Methuselah.

By: Vila Restal

Vila Restal — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:37:58 +0000

Actually sorry folks!! But that quote is older than Methuselah!!

By: Tyler

Tyler — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:50:59 +0000

To me, it means I’m going to have to go back in time and steal the winning candidate with my mind, take him to the future and use my super mental abilities to drop a mountain on him.
Have I mentioned yet, Heroes is a real, historically accurate show?
(I’m kidding, of course, whenever I’m wrong in who I would’ve voted for in an election I take it as oh, not as many people like the candidate as much as they do the other’s.)

By: Tyler

Tyler — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:45:55 +0000

Like a playground! Just for the mentally ill, better-than-you types!

By: PortlandMark

PortlandMark — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:43:11 +0000

“Vetinarii specialized in language studies… and that was *not* the soft option!”

By: Dhoti

Dhoti — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:24:50 +0000

Yes, that’s another common coping mechanism.

By: suicide_blonde

suicide_blonde — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:07:12 +0000

I just know there’s going to be an opportunity to use that line in the future! Nice one Jane!

By: suicide_blonde

suicide_blonde — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:05:51 +0000

“(It wasn’t necessarily even a conscious decision; on a more unconscious level, accepting the outcome means your vote was “wrong”, and we hate to be wrong; it bubbles up.)”

No, accepting that outcome meant everyone else’s vote was wrong

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:05:09 +0000

It’ll be so much fun for him/her to wander about the cafeteria randomly attacking people for drinking milk!

By: suicide_blonde

suicide_blonde — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:03:53 +0000

How about a nice institution? Again will love it at Shady Acres Home for Assholes.

By: Leila

Leila — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:10:35 +0000

Thank goodness I’m not the only one who had that as the first thought on seeing this!

By: Jane St.Clair

Jane St.Clair — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:55:06 +0000

Is there in place further than the outfield that we can put Again. I don’t want him/her on my team either.

By: MacNTosh

MacNTosh — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:26:23 +0000

Fantasy novels? Yeah, sure, like “Gulliver’s Travels” was a fantasy novel. Pratchet’s novels are sharp edged satire and social commentary, among other things, and some of the funniest stuff out there. To say you don’t like it is legitimate (tastes differ), but to dismiss it as simply fantasy, now that IS the mark of an illiterate bastard. Hurr, hurr, hurr……

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:01:04 +0000

Yes, Jane, the outfield is fine. Just don’t forget about him when the game is over though.. oh wait, nevermind.. let him figure it out on his own.

By: Oscar the Mild

Oscar the Mild — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:04:16 +0000

Um, Mel? I think ubr he was being sarcarstic (what with him mentioning it and all – though Terry Pratchett is more satirical than sarcastic) – but knowing who Terry Pratchett is and being proud of not reading him is, um, lame, narrow minded snobbishness

And for the record, yes, Vetinari is the Man and I would not say a word against him (due to his highly efficient spy network)

By: Dhoti

Dhoti — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:12:56 +0000

It’s simple human psychology, really. Kerry voters in 2004, particularly the fervent and the partisan, couldn’t believe that not only did Bush win, he won by a 3M+ vote margin. Rather than accept the outcome, they were more comfortable feeling that the election was instead stolen. (It wasn’t necessarily even a conscious decision; on a more unconscious level, accepting the outcome means your vote was “wrong”, and we hate to be wrong; it bubbles up.)

In reality, there were election irregularities (and, yes, some fraud) all over. Through the magic of confirmation bias, errors in favor of Republicans are turned into evidence, and errors in favor of Democrats are ignored. (Case in point: who remembers the exit poll scam?)

By: Jane St.Clair

Jane St.Clair — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:47:22 +0000

Oh no he Presididn’t! *finger snap*

By: Jane St.Clair

Jane St.Clair — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:43:54 +0000

*whispers* But Eds, I don’t want him playing for my team. Can we put him in the outfield maybe?

By: Musicmom870

Musicmom870 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:24:01 +0000

Yeah, I hated to laugh about the guy’s name, ’cause you can’t help what your parents did to you. But today there was a comment about the nude hike from a ranger named “Woody Lipps”.

By: viking gal

viking gal — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:55:41 +0000

heh-heh! Cletus! –Sorry, had a pre-teen moment there.
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I’m not doubting that there were voting problems–humans involved, and humans have a tendency to be either lazy or corrupt. The point that I was inadequately trying to make is that said irregularities and crimes would have had a much larger impact in 2000 and 2004, when the margin to win was much smaller. The margin and electoral college counts for 2008 were such that wrong-doing (which probably did happen) would most likely not have had a chance to influence the result.

By: Musicmom870

Musicmom870 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:48:15 +0000

Not specific to Ohio, but this one I thought you’d like just because of the crooked judge named Cletus.

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:47:55 +0000

According to Rolling Stone, it says that the 350,000 votes would have given Kerry the election. In reality, it would have given Kerry Ohio, but the number of electoral votes received still wouldn’t have been enough to give it to Kerry.

By: Musicmom870

Musicmom870 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:31:12 +0000

There are better out there, but I did link one to my name.

By: Deep Thought

Deep Thought — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:20:13 +0000

No, I LOVE the word presididen’t… that’s ROFL!

By: viking gal

viking gal — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:11:55 +0000

Could also be that the margin of votes was so much larger in 2008?

By: Tyler

Tyler — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:10:42 +0000

Eddie, you mean typististists’ stutter, right?

By: suicide_blonde

suicide_blonde — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:06:33 +0000

We fight about what we (think we) know

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:04:47 +0000

Cite?

By: Musicmom870

Musicmom870 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:44:27 +0000

I’m not prone to believing conspiracy theories, but the overwhelming evidence does show that the 2004 election was significantly tainted. The fact that the 2008 election was not stolen is a testament to the hours and hours of volunteer work that was put in by people who believed that it, in fact, could happen here.

By: Mel

Mel — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:57:05 +0000

Um, Ubr? Not knowing who Terry Pratchett is doesn’t make one an “illiterate bastard.” It only makes one NOT a fan of fantasy novels. Or, as in my case, not a fan of his writing…period.

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:46:37 +0000

We try not to discriminate..

By: Halo

Halo — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:28:44 +0000

Wow. Even in a LOL about Iran, PK manages to have a fight about US politics.

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:55:48 +0000

Just as I suspected.. nothing more from you but crickets.
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You make some serious allegations and then choose to ignore everything that comes after. You’re nothing more than a sh*t-stirring trolling twit.