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August 24, 2012

Dude Singing God Bless America Fails To Stick The Landing
— Ace

Sorry, just a palate cleanser from the Akin unpleasantness, thanks to @laurww. Yes, LauraW signed up for twitter, created a nonsensical typo name that looks like something Frankenstein says while nutting, and just decided to keep it that way. That's why she fits in so well around here.

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1 When did they change the national anthem?

Posted by: You suck, I'm Mensa at August 24, 2012 03:20 PM (Zs83Q)

2 Ah the guys voice cracked, but ys could tell he loves the song and this country. Now that bitch rossane Barr.....

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 24, 2012 03:22 PM (j1gX1)

3 When did they change the national anthem?

Executive Order sometime last week.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 24, 2012 03:22 PM (xKC/c)

4 I tell you, you take one little nap and they go and change the national anthem while you're sleeping. Feh.

Posted by: mediumheadboy at August 24, 2012 03:23 PM (aHR5E)

5 At least he didn't wet himself, wear a meat suit or flash a tit. Puts him ahead of some "musicians" that people pay to see.

Posted by: lowandslow at August 24, 2012 03:23 PM (GZitp)

6 I think he was going to say "Homo" but caught himself.

Posted by: Nukie at August 24, 2012 03:23 PM (AzwZn)

7 From Steyn's column today: So we can't fight a war in Afghanistan, but we can fight a "war on women" that only exists in upscale liberal feminists' heads. We can't do anything about exploding rates of childhood obesity, diabetes and heart disease, but, if you define "health care" as forcing a Catholic institution to buy $8 contraception for the scions of wealth and privilege, we're right on top of it. And above all, we're doing it for the children, if by "doing it" you mean leaving them with a transgenerational bill unknown to human history Â– or engaging in what Boston University's Larry Kotlikoff, speaking at the International Institute of Public Finance in Dresden last week, called "child fiscal abuse." If that sounds a trifle overheated, how about... hmm, "legitimate fiscal rape"? No? Then let's call it a "war on children." Unlike the "war on women," it's real. --Legitimate fiscal rape. I love it.

Posted by: logprof at August 24, 2012 03:24 PM (Qb/vm)

8 >>>When did they change the national anthem? Talk about serendipity in making a joke about how comfortable I am with typos.

Posted by: ace at August 24, 2012 03:24 PM (fxHyG)

9 Aww poor guy. That makes me sad.

I think I'm gonna go back down on the Akin thread where it's way happier.

Posted by: mama winger in Paul Ryan's district at August 24, 2012 03:24 PM (P6QsQ)

10 When did they change the national anthem?

Executive Order sometime last week.

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Nah, Urkel would change it to "Allah Damn America."

Posted by: mediumheadboy at August 24, 2012 03:24 PM (aHR5E)

Oh...that was bad.

Was that for real? ....He tried twice?

Posted by: wheatie at August 24, 2012 03:25 PM (mtRB0)

12 I always wondered what it sounded like when a guy's balls dropped.

Posted by: Adam at August 24, 2012 03:25 PM (/YJYi)

Not the National Anthem ace The honor for botching that belongs to Olympian Carl Lewis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJLvCM4j2mg

"And the Rockets red glarerere. Uh-Oh"

Posted by: buzzion at August 24, 2012 03:25 PM (GULKT)

14 That's the sound Ace makes when his O ring gets popped.

Posted by: eastvalleyphx at August 24, 2012 03:26 PM (Jpu4i)

15 What the hell did the Dice Clay shit come up at the end?

That didn't make any sense.

but I think the guy singing lost his left nut trying to hit that note.

Posted by: © Sponge at August 24, 2012 03:28 PM (nDcVA)

16 Cher couldn't do that well.

Posted by: Clutch Cargo at August 24, 2012 03:28 PM (Qxdfp)

17 I actually prefer this song over the National Anthem. It is beautiful when well done. Maybe this thing I like most about it is that most performers sing it like it is written and not try to pimp it up.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 24, 2012 03:28 PM (jucos)

18 Speaking of singing, got a call from a friend of mine last night saying he had an extra Buffett ticket for tomorrow night. I've seen him a half a dozen times before, last time about three years ago. Told my friend to find somene else, the 2012 Buffett ain't worth the couple hundred bucks it'd cost to go see him. Hell he ain't worth a ten dollar cover at local bar to see him anymore. Sad.

Posted by: lowandslow at August 24, 2012 03:29 PM (GZitp)

19 Fucking Air Force.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 24, 2012 03:30 PM (JDIKC)

20 Are there any good hard rock renditions of Yankee Doodle?

Posted by: Serious Cat at August 24, 2012 03:31 PM (zrpqj)

21 Goddamn. Listening to that guys' voice crack reminds me of my awkward stage. Worst 72 hours of my life.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 24, 2012 03:31 PM (JDIKC)

22 And if tmi3rd ever crushes his nuts like that singing the national anthem (the OTHER one, ace) at a ballgame - that shit's gettin' broadcast. Widely.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 24, 2012 03:33 PM (JDIKC)

23 17 I actually prefer this song over the National Anthem. It is beautiful when well done. Maybe this thing I like most about it is that most performers sing it like it is written and not try to pimp it up. Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 24, 2012 07:28 PM (jucos) --Wasn't the tune for it also originally American, unlike "The Star Spangled Banner" and "My Country 'Tis of Thee."

Posted by: logprof at August 24, 2012 03:33 PM (Qb/vm)

24 A few more estrogen shots and he'll hit that note.

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 24, 2012 03:35 PM (cHZB7)

25 --Wasn't the tune for it also originally American, unlike "The Star Spangled Banner" and "My Country 'Tis of Thee." Posted by: logprof at August 24, 2012 07:33 PM (Qb/vm) ------------------------------------------------------- I believe so.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 24, 2012 03:35 PM (jucos)

26 Bigtime OT

Whats the deal with Lance Armstong? I saw the post he put down telling everybody to F off about the doping, but flipping around the station and landed on NPR, I got the impression he admitted to having a roid catheter as he was riding on the Tour de Farce. Shitty reporting, or did I miss something?

Posted by: Red Shirt at August 24, 2012 03:36 PM (FIDMq)

27 Shouldn't palette/palete/palate cleansers involve a Kate or Christina?

Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 24, 2012 03:37 PM (GEICT)

28 what about #hairymonkeyinanillfittingtunic?

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 24, 2012 03:37 PM (xm1A1)

29 a nonsensical typo name that looks like something Frankenstein says while nutting,

Fire BAD!

Posted by: Frankenstein at August 24, 2012 03:38 PM (MMC8r)

30 flipping around the station and landed on NPR, I got the impression he admitted to having a roid catheter as he was riding on the Tour de Farce. Shitty reporting, or did I miss something? I heard Limbaugh talking about it. Apparently they don't have a scrap of evidence, they just take it on faith that everyone is doping and he must be doping.

Posted by: entropy at August 24, 2012 03:39 PM (Ci0JG)

31 LIVE WRONG

Posted by: Lance Armstrong at August 24, 2012 03:39 PM (Qb/vm)

32 He pulled an Akin.

Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 24, 2012 03:39 PM (ovpNn)

33 Maybe this will help with the palette cleansing.

http://tinyurl.com/9473hgh

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 24, 2012 03:40 PM (zMgpj)

34 I have to say that the woman has a point with that whole War On Pubic Hair thing.

Posted by: soothsayer in a chariot dragging a corpse at August 24, 2012 03:40 PM (1WM2H)

Thing is.....the guy was attempting to sing this song, with his own more-dramatic range....instead of playing it safe.

That's what is sad about it.

Posted by: wheatie at August 24, 2012 03:41 PM (mtRB0)

36 33 Maybe this will help with the palette cleansing. http://tinyurl.com/9473hgh What is that supposed to link to?

Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 24, 2012 03:41 PM (GEICT)

37 "a nonsensical typo name that looks like something Frankenstein says while nutting"

Ha! And this is why I read AoS. This turn of phrase is Lileks-caliber, if Lileks were just slightly deranged.

Posted by: Matt at August 24, 2012 03:41 PM (1nCu/)

38 Outside of Chris Christie, I don't think an actual Fiscally Conservative, Socially Lib/Mod Republican actually exists. Arnold Schwarzeneggar was supposedly one of those. We all know how that worked out. The Maine Sisters are supposed to be like that, but they eagerly stuck their noses in the Stimulus Trough. Fiscally Liberal Social Conservatives are, unfortunately, as common as dirt. George W Bush and Mike Huckabee being two of the worst examples.

Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at August 24, 2012 03:41 PM (azHfB)

39 A little research on the song shows that it was written by Irving Berlin in 1918 and most associated with Kate Smith. I do remember her singing this song. Beautiful.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 24, 2012 03:42 PM (jucos)

Inga Barks(sp?) filling in for Levin tonight so, no Ray Charles America version.

Too bad.

Posted by: JimboHoffa at August 24, 2012 03:42 PM (dAfqy)

41 Something artistic involving the female form, a bier stein, and a lot of milk flowing down the afore mentioned female form.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 24, 2012 03:42 PM (zMgpj)

42 @10 Allah be damned. Funny! Just got an image of Jeff Dunham with his hand up Obama's ass doing his Achmed routine. Though I think Jeff would do a damn site better being O's puppet master than whoever is really behind the scenes pulling his strings while yanking our chains.

Posted by: RKinRoanoke at August 24, 2012 03:43 PM (pxur/)

43 38 Outside of Chris Christie, I don't think an actual Fiscally Conservative, Socially Lib/Mod Republican actually exists. Arnold Schwarzeneggar was supposedly one of those. We all know how that worked out. The Maine Sisters are supposed to be like that, but they eagerly stuck their noses in the Stimulus Trough. Fiscally Liberal Social Conservatives are, unfortunately, as common as dirt. George W Bush and Mike Huckabee being two of the worst examples. Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at August 24, 2012 07:41 PM (azHfB) --The issue is that too many people see social conservatism and fiscal conservatism as being mutually exclusive. The ideas of personal self-restraint and that charity begins at home *strongly* correlate with sense of responsibility with the public fisc.

Posted by: logprof at August 24, 2012 03:45 PM (Qb/vm)

44 41 Something artistic involving the female form, a bier stein, and a lot of milk flowing down the afore mentioned female form. DAMMIT. it doesn't work for me.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 24, 2012 03:45 PM (GEICT)

45 lol

Posted by: phoenixgirl, team dagny & team armstrong at August 24, 2012 03:45 PM (Ho2rs)

46 33 Damn Anna! Nice self-portrait.

Posted by: wierd flunky at August 24, 2012 03:45 PM (tlhtD)

47 thank you ace....

Posted by: phoenixgirl, team dagny & team armstrong at August 24, 2012 03:46 PM (Ho2rs)

48 A little research on the song shows that it was written by Irving Berlin in 1918 and most associated with Kate Smith. I do remember her singing this song. Beautiful. Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 24, 2012 07:42 PM (jucos) --Watch a Flyers home game, and you'll see a lot more of Kate's version.

Posted by: logprof at August 24, 2012 03:46 PM (Qb/vm)

49 Arnold Schwarzeneggar was supposedly one of those. We all know how that worked out.

Saw it on recall night. Looked at the stage and the first thing I said was, "Too many Kennedy's".

Posted by: John P. Squibob at August 24, 2012 03:47 PM (kqqGm)

50 So Jeter, who is hot as hell, leads off the game with a double ( damn near another homer ) and then the next time up gets hit in the head. If I were a Cleveland Indian's hitter I would not get to comfortable at the plate

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 24, 2012 03:47 PM (j1gX1)

51 @50 - I think you are prescient this evening

Posted by: RKinRoanoke at August 24, 2012 03:48 PM (pxur/)

52 50 So Jeter, who is hot as hell, leads off the game with a double ( damn near another homer ) and then the next time up gets hit in the head. If I were a Cleveland Indian's hitter I would not get to comfortable at the plate Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 24, 2012 07:47 PM (j1gX1) --Stickball? Zzzzzzzzz

Posted by: logprof at August 24, 2012 03:48 PM (Qb/vm)

53 Sorry, just a palate cleanser from the Akin unpleasantness OMG! OMG! Ace got it right this time!!!

Posted by: Ace's Finger Painting Coach at August 24, 2012 03:50 PM (r2PLg)

54 Yes, LauraW signed up for twitter, created a nonsensical typo name that looks like something Frankenstein says while nutting

She must have an enormous schwanstucker.

Posted by: Cicero at August 24, 2012 03:53 PM (QKKT0)

55 Another fallen and lost warrior is returning home after 70 years MIA.

It seems an Italian search team might have found the remains of Flt. Sgt Copping of 260Sqn who was lost on a ferry flight in 1942. According to this article, tests will be carried out to see if the bones found about 5 miles from the crash site are indeed those of Copping. Lets pray they are so he can finally rest and his family have closure.

Meanwhile it looks like his crashed Kittyhawk I has been recovered and is now awaiting transport out of Egypt and to the Royal Air Force Museum for restoration.

Movie related trivia - 260Sqn's Intelligence Officer when Copping was lost is the actor Christopher Lee.

http://tinyurl.com/8zkqur8

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 24, 2012 04:04 PM (zMgpj)

56 Now, that guy's got talent!

Posted by: Roseanne Barr at August 24, 2012 04:06 PM (IoNBC)

57 19 Fucking Air Force. I nasalated the keyboard.

Posted by: Bildo at August 24, 2012 04:07 PM (eToum)

58 This reminds me of when I was in middle school and the local national guard unit sent their public relations/dress uniform guys to the school to assist in our Memorial Day thingy. Part of the program was for the boy scouts to hoist the flag and then the school band triumphantly begins playing the Star-Spangled except the scouts didn't hook the flag properly and it didn't go up, but the band did get the first few chords out and then embarrassingly stopped. Of course, the assembled middle schoolers giggled and laughed.

But I'll never forget once they did get it up and the anthem played, the Sgt. took the mic and chastised the students for giggling; he said that it was the same as laughing at our flag. I always think of that whenever a good-intentioned person screws up their patriotic moment, and I don't laugh.

Posted by: Hidajunshin at August 24, 2012 04:12 PM (20NzC)

59 Performing in public is not easy. But thankfully I hit the high C on my one try playing the S.S.B. on trumpet in high school. It was before a basketball game in the gym, and it felt like 50,000 people were watching me. Luckily my friend Mike was playing a duet part, and he stole the show. But I didn't screw up, and got to bask in the reflected glory. Never did it again after that though.

Posted by: Chris M at August 24, 2012 04:26 PM (4lyMJ)

60 a nonsensical typo name that looks like something Frankenstein says while nutting,

My name was already taken. So.

FUCK. YOU.

*goes apeshit in the belltower*

Posted by: lauraw at August 24, 2012 04:37 PM (DbybK)

61 !Kate Smith

Posted by: The Chicken at August 24, 2012 04:46 PM (w78gy)

62 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: steevy at August 24, 2012 06:46 PM (6o4Fb)

63 I'm late to the party, as usual, but pursuant to EoJ's comment above- it will be a cold day in hell before I go for a note that I'm not absolutely certain I could sing hung over and bleeding. And if I ever do, I damn sight am gonna make sure the Morons and Moronettes NEVER know about it...

Posted by: tmi3rd at August 24, 2012 07:27 PM (cxomr)

I know this much is true,

This much is true.

Posted by: I bought a ticket to the world at August 24, 2012 11:53 PM (D7lJF)

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