March 03, 2013

Erg vs. The Volcano
— Ace

mount_doom.png
Scene from "The Master," courtesy of director Philip Michael Thomas
and producer Keyser Sose

Erg's an idiot. This is a trivial thing but I wanted to share it, just so you can make fun of this insipid troll when he returns.

Erg loves to come into movie review threads and inform me that my aesthetic judgment is "knucklehead." He returned again to tell me so in the review of the The Master.

His primary complaint is that our aesthetic judgment is hopelessly compromised by our knucklehead need for validation of our knucklehead beliefs. But he never comprehends the irony of making this claim while also offering his own hyperpoliticized view of art. Here's erg explaining to me what The Master is about.

Did I say The Master? I meant all films. All films -- every one of them -- is about this, according to erg:

287 The director's films are pretty easy to understand unless you are terrified by the paralyzing fear that the movie might say something bad about George W. Bush. This is called the "George Lucas effect." The only cure for this malady is public suicide. But I digress.

The director of this film, like all of the other films, ridicules the knucklehead fantasies of the monad-hero-self-made-man. The director despises the right wing knucklehead. In the most directly brilliant exposé to this understanding of the director's works, he has a drunken plutocrat murdering a charlatan evangelist with a bowling pin. If only this happened every day in the Capitol Rotunda, you would learn something important.

Now at some point I began to suspect erg hadn't even seen The Master in the first place, because he kept "explaining what it meant" in such general terms. So I asked him an easy trivial question about the movie (in which city did a certain event take place), which he wouldn't answer, but he did continue insisting he'd seen the movie, and was here to explain it all for us:

299 It is a condemnation of groupthink posing as the liberation of the self (eternal life through reincarnation is the dominant trope). The particular film is a backhand slap to not only the contrived new age religions, but also a kick at any of this kind of totalizing worldview masquerading as self enlightenment (knuckleheaded politics). He did not invent this critique – Weber did when he noticed about 100 years ago the contradiction of the mass delusion of especially Protestant religion operating in the marketplace of ideas of capitalist civilization. Only, the delusion was the organizing principle of mass exploitation.

Like I said, he hates you. This movie was never intended for you. Do yourself a favor and never watch another movie that this director makes.

At this point, BumperStickerist came into the thread and began A Con. The Con was simple: BumperStickerist began pretending in comment 311 that something so absurd that only erg could believe it had been in the movie:

311 Let's go back to a basic question:

Did you, personally, see the entire movie - from opening credits through the part where the girl gets thrown into the volcano and on to the closing credits?

So: Did. You. See. This. Movie?

btw - With your own eyes and not through some 'by proxy/meta' standard.

-- BumperStickerist

Now if you've watched the trailer you will instantly realize this is not the sort of movie where a girl gets thrown into a volcano. It's ridiculous. It's so ridiculous I wasn't even going to bother trying to convince erg of this.

But then I wondered-- maybe he was this stupid after all.

Could we really make him not only believe there was a volcano in the movie but further get him to pretend to have seen the volcano in the movie? After all, since he's pretending to having seen the film, he'd naturally have to pretend to have seen everything (we claim) is in the film, right?

So I joined in the Con of trying to get erg to "explain" the girl-gets-thrown-into-the-volcano part of the film, which of course doesn't exist. For Science.

You can pick it the thread up at 311 to see how this went. If you don't have the patience for it, or can't take the suspense, I'll link this comment (erg posting as "andrew breitbart," as usual and this one, where erg finally explains to all of us knuckleheads that the volcano which wasn't in the movie symbolized in the movie, and what the director intended by the volcano sequence which doesn't exist.

I know it was a big waste of time. I know we ought to feel ashamed of ourselves for picking on a mentally-unstable, psychologically-unwell imbecile.

But I'm calling it a Big Win for Team Moron anyway.


Trollz Lulz: The Goofening: ...continues.


Posted by: Ace at 02:20 PM | Comments (474)
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1 Moar longbows vs crossbows.

Posted by: Vic at March 03, 2013 02:25 PM (53z96)

2 I know it was a big waste of time. I know we ought to feel ashamed of ourselves for picking on a mentally-unstable, psychologically-unwell imbecile.

Isn't that one of the points of this blog: to point out the intellectual deficiencies of liberals [G-d bless their souls, such as they are].

Posted by: great unknown at March 03, 2013 02:27 PM (ppvp5)

3 Waste of time?   Ace, this is a public frakking service.


Must go read that thread now. XD This is going to be glorious.

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at March 03, 2013 02:29 PM (nUZJW)

4 I think ace is calling erg a vagina.

Posted by: sTevo at March 03, 2013 02:29 PM (VMcEw)

5 Isn't erg the guy who has sex with his dog on the beach? Is that legal?

Posted by: Bubba from County at March 03, 2013 02:29 PM (wQXBk)

6 Erg's always got nuthin'. Serious you guys, he's the lamest poseur we get here. He literally knows nothing. That's why I have generally been in favor of letting his bootless posts stand as a testament. Of course lately he's ranting have become ravings of the foulest words that can arise from his cesspit of fail so I'm becoming more inclined to encouraging his vaporization.

Posted by: toby928© lord of the run-on sentence at March 03, 2013 02:30 PM (QupBk)

7 I like the picture of the sequester at the top of the post.

Posted by: Suffering under sequester at March 03, 2013 02:30 PM (Lxw+T)

8 I saw that takedown this afternoon. Ace. Brilliant and funny work by you and some others. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2013 02:30 PM (C+2eB)

9 "I know we ought to feel ashamed of ourselves for picking on a mentally-unstable, psychologically-unwell imbecile." File that one away in the "if it ever became Thunderdome with identities known by public" file.

Posted by: Random name at March 03, 2013 02:31 PM (hL/zs)

10 Does Team Moron get shirts?

Posted by: MunDane at March 03, 2013 02:31 PM (33dDY)

11 Good morning, ace.

Posted by: Methos at March 03, 2013 02:32 PM (hO9ad)

12 Does Team Moron get shirts? Two word: Platinum Membership

Posted by: toby928© lord of the run-on sentence at March 03, 2013 02:32 PM (QupBk)

13 You know, sometimes a volcano is just a volcano!

Posted by: General Woundwort at March 03, 2013 02:32 PM (zOP5o)

14 They like me! They really like me!

Posted by: Erg at March 03, 2013 02:32 PM (Lxw+T)

15 I know we ought to feel ashamed of ourselves for picking on a mentally-unstable, psychologically-unwell imbecile. Mmm...no. But then, I'm one of that cold-hearted fraction that wouldn't mind less coddling of the foolish...

Posted by: Brother Cavil & His All-Star Sockpuppets at March 03, 2013 02:33 PM (mbxHg)

16 Joe Dirt is a must see.

Posted by: Craig Poe at March 03, 2013 02:33 PM (BVkEs)

17 Here is video evidence of the what happened in his brain when discussing the superego and volcano. http://youtu.be/zim3UtESCQ8

Posted by: Exasperated Expat at March 03, 2013 02:33 PM (qZI6x)

18 I Won.

Posted by: by any means necessary at March 03, 2013 02:34 PM (UkOyb)

19 My God, it's full of lava! And crispy girl.

Posted by: Suffering under sequester at March 03, 2013 02:34 PM (Lxw+T)

20 The word for the erg's of the world is pathetic.

Of course how much Orange Crush was drank before the girl was tossed into the volcano is important.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Pirate Scum of Umbar at March 03, 2013 02:34 PM (gmoEG)

21 In the most directly brilliant exposé to this understanding of the director's works, he has a drunken plutocrat murdering a charlatan evangelist with a bowling pin

There Will Be Blood sucked ass.

My bias may come from being told it was about vampires.

And a lack of desire to murder evangelicals.

Posted by: Methos at March 03, 2013 02:35 PM (hO9ad)

22 Dennehy deserved an Oscar for his portrayal of the violent yet sensitive and troubled lava cauldron.

Posted by: toby928© lord of the run-on sentence at March 03, 2013 02:35 PM (QupBk)

23 I could have done without the Cylon Rape scene.

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 02:35 PM (LCRYB)

24 Is this the "Jesus wept" of posts?

Posted by: Craig Poe at March 03, 2013 02:36 PM (BVkEs)

25 I wonder if ERG has moments of clarity where he snaps out of it, and notices he's fucking the toaster.

Posted by: wattyler1381 at March 03, 2013 02:36 PM (F2Vrz)

26 A curse on people who review movies they haven't seen. The are generally "intellectual geniuses" who think that everyone who has a politically incorrect opinion is "ignorant". They of course know everything, because they are on the side of the leftist smack-talking bullies of academia - even though they literally don't know what they are talking about.

Posted by: Chromoly Man at March 03, 2013 02:36 PM (D8qEV)

27 Really? You want to give that idiot that much attention? Christ, dude. He's loving this shit, you know.

Posted by: MadisonConservative at March 03, 2013 02:36 PM (sb+ta)

28 Gosh, I never before realized that Boogie Nights is a critique of conservative philosophy. It's all so clear now! Dirk Diggler was plainly a stand-in for William F. Buckley with Don Cheadle's character Buck filling Thomas Sowell's shoes.

Posted by: epobirs at March 03, 2013 02:37 PM (kcfmt)

29 I wonder if ERG has moments of clarity where he snaps out of it, and notices he's fucking the toaster.

I wish.

Posted by: erg's toaster at March 03, 2013 02:38 PM (QTHTd)

30 >>>Really? You want to give that idiot that much attention? Christ, dude. He's loving this shit, you know. Yes, MadisonConservative, people who pretend to be smart enjoy being made to look foolish.

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 02:38 PM (LCRYB)

31 3 Waste of time? Ace, this is a public frakking service. - Damn straight.

Posted by: Chromoly Man at March 03, 2013 02:38 PM (D8qEV)

32 "Beasts of the Southern Wild" is about not lettin' those Southern knuckleheadz keep you down

Posted by: JDP at March 03, 2013 02:38 PM (8HhF2)

33 I do think that you should always replace ergy's current nic with ergastularius though. It bugs people when he invokes Breitbart, as he intends.

Posted by: toby928© lord of the run-on sentence at March 03, 2013 02:39 PM (QupBk)

34 OT  Queen Elizabeth II is in the hospital with a stomach bug.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21649494

Lets wish her a speedy recovery.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 03, 2013 02:39 PM (Eg4wq)

35 22 Dennehy deserved an Oscar for his portrayal of the violent yet sensitive and troubled lava cauldron. Did you know he played the part - without makeup?

Posted by: Suffering under sequester at March 03, 2013 02:40 PM (Lxw+T)

36 you can tell it didn't bother him by his three "I was never fooled" comments.

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 02:40 PM (LCRYB)

37 ace making a post to go after a troll? Almost seems like punching down.

Posted by: cm9000 at March 03, 2013 02:40 PM (vfB2N)

38 If you play the volcano scene backwards you can hear Paul saying "erg's mouth". Weird.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at March 03, 2013 02:40 PM (vqDgT)

39 I realize how trivial, off-point and contemptible this point is, but here goes.

When. A. Serious. And. Even. Profound. Argument. Is. Made.  Using. A. Trite.  Unfunny.  Trope.  The. Point. Is Lost. And. Looks.  Ridiculous.


Posted by: Tonawanda at March 03, 2013 02:40 PM (GeFHE)

40 Sounds like he caught the tail end of a film studies class. Just one class, not even the end of the semester/quarter. Once again Ace, it just goes to prove what you said about the Idiocracy, the low-information voters who can't think in anything other than easily digestable bumper stickers and memes, yet like to congratulate themselves on their "intelligence". This, in spite of being unable to think their way critically out of a metaphorical wet paper bag.

Posted by: The Ghost of Flannery O'Connor officially changing her handle to Saber Alter at March 03, 2013 02:40 PM (mMtFx)

41 erg wants to be Ace when he grows up.

Posted by: Helen at March 03, 2013 02:41 PM (93bH6)

42 >>>Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 06:38 PM (LCRYB)

That or he's your prototypical attention-whoring troll.

Posted by: MadisonConservative at March 03, 2013 02:41 PM (sb+ta)

43 Is erg gonna do any subtraction tricks on this thread?  Much hilarity will ensue.

Posted by: Captain Hate at March 03, 2013 02:42 PM (pGRFo)

44 Hilarious. I can't believe I missed it.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 03, 2013 02:42 PM (piMMO)

45 Erg found his calling.  As a paid masochist for Gaylord Focker's benefit.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 03, 2013 02:42 PM (Eg4wq)

46 Oh now Ace I'm certain Erg will say "well the metaphorical volcano is on the cover of dianetics" or some such bullshit...

I'm not gonna derail your thread further than to say, all trolls are Average Joe and Like Reggie Love allegedly does sucks cock by choice.

Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 03, 2013 02:42 PM (LRFds)

47 So what actually constitutes a happy ending? or is that too hard? How can I come to a conclusion?

Posted by: Al gore wants to know at March 03, 2013 02:43 PM (SKoNZ)

48 We had a Con Game Crisis when BumperStickerist went even further and claimed there was some sort of chase sequence on trains that drove into the fiery heart of the volcano as they were throwing the girl into it, but I deleted that, because I could feel we were thisclose to getting him to explain the volcano.

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 02:43 PM (LCRYB)

49 The republicans throwing the girl into the volcano acted stupidly.

Posted by: Barack Obama at March 03, 2013 02:43 PM (AWmfW)

50 Crossbows rule! Longbows drool.

Posted by: Leela at March 03, 2013 02:43 PM (ORGYc)

51 >>> Oh now Ace I'm certain Erg will say "well the metaphorical volcano is on the cover of dianetics" or some such bullshit... I said that myself to sell him on the idea of the volcano being in the movie.

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 02:43 PM (LCRYB)

52 ace making a post to go after a troll? Almost seems like punching down.

Posted by: cm9000 at March 03, 2013 06:40 PM (vfB2N)



The only upside is if I read tomorrow about some severe retard having masturbated himself to death.

Posted by: Captain Hate at March 03, 2013 02:44 PM (pGRFo)

53 I was in this movie too! While Erg was still learning how to spell his name... Well, nothing because Erg still hasn't learned to spell his name without spell-check yet.

Posted by: Terl at March 03, 2013 02:44 PM (EV9p4)

54 Did you know he played the part - without makeup?

Dude, he's been dead for two years. That was a digital Dennehy.

Posted by: Methos at March 03, 2013 02:44 PM (hO9ad)

55 Bravo! I regret not being witness to this first hand. Bravo!

Posted by: 2549 at March 03, 2013 02:44 PM (IlEc3)

56 I skipped the 'Master' Review because I haven't seen the film yet, but I'm damned sorry I missed the fun in the comments because this:

<< If only this happened every day in the Capitol Rotunda, you would learn something important.>>

Juxtaposed with this:

<<It is a condemnation of groupthink posing as the liberation of the self>>

Is just precious.

Bless his (erg's) heart.

Posted by: SGT. York at March 03, 2013 02:45 PM (H1IKD)

57 BTW, that volcano pic needs a caption

Posted by: I think I'm going to kill myself at March 03, 2013 02:46 PM (hO9ad)

58 >>>Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 06:43 PM (LCRYB)

Remember the scene where the trains passed the Capitol, and there were black democratic congressmen having racial epithets slung at them by tea partiers?

Posted by: MadisonConservative at March 03, 2013 02:46 PM (sb+ta)

59 I don't give a damn what erg thinks about anything, and I'm pissed you tried to make me. "I know it was a big waste of time. I know we ought to feel ashamed of ourselves" Yes, yes you should.

Posted by: Shirley at March 03, 2013 02:47 PM (/d0Q/)

60 >>> BTW, that volcano pic needs a caption I added one but not that one.

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 02:47 PM (LCRYB)

61 If its conservatives that long for validation, why do lefties hate Faux News with the heat of a thousand suns?

Posted by: zsasz at March 03, 2013 02:47 PM (MMC8r)

62 Yea Morons!  I'm so happy.  But back to the real world now, I am afraid.  Monday is lurking...

Posted by: dfbaskwill at March 03, 2013 02:47 PM (ndlFj)

63 the troll gets his own post? whatever, it's a Sunday. I'll take it. It's nice to have Ace with us on the weekend. Now, I'll go read.

Posted by: L, elle at March 03, 2013 02:47 PM (0PiQ4)

64 Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 06:43 PM (LCRYB)

--

Legend has it the ancients only threw the ugliest girls into volcanos. Or something.

Posted by: Craig Poe at March 03, 2013 02:48 PM (BVkEs)

65 51 Ace,

I must have missed that Boss.

Masterfully done and not to be a downer why I am joining you in "hopeless" camp.

We're sharing a nation with liars who live in a fantasy world led by godling Obama...

Life is hard enough relatively sober, relatively sane, and relatively lucky...

I don't need defacto bi-polar types nominating themselves my not so silent partner or overlord.

Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 03, 2013 02:49 PM (LRFds)

66 Monday is lurking... Day 4: The Encapitulating

Posted by: toby928© lord of the run-on sentence at March 03, 2013 02:50 PM (QupBk)

67 Can't help thinking about Children Of Men, and a feminist blog post/movie critique I saw when it came out, complaining about teh misogyny and teh patriarchy and how could these MEN come up with such a womyn-hating story, blah, blah. Said story of course, being originally written by PD James........a woman.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 03, 2013 02:50 PM (MBqvE)

68 If its conservatives that long for validation, why do lefties hate Faux News with the heat of a thousand suns?

Because it's an abomination for centrists to have their own network. They should watch something more balanced, like MSNBC.

Posted by: some liberal at March 03, 2013 02:50 PM (hO9ad)

69 BumperStickerist went even further and claimed there was some sort of chase sequence on trains that drove into the fiery heart of the volcano That was just after the Scientologist in the phony naval uniform and mustache tied the blonde Thetan to the railroad tracks.

Posted by: Suffering under sequester at March 03, 2013 02:50 PM (Lxw+T)

70 Legend has it the ancients only threw the ugliest girls into volcanos. Or something.

Posted by: Craig Poe at March 03, 2013 06:48 PM (BVkEs)


Is that why they were virgins?

Posted by: Methos *ducks* at March 03, 2013 02:51 PM (hO9ad)

71 This reminds me of the "Friends" where Chandler sleeps through the premiere of Joey's WWI movie.  After the movie, Joey asks him about the kangaroo in the movie.  OF course, Chandler, not wanting to admit that he slept. is forced to say that he thought the kangaroo was an unusual choice for a WWI movie.

Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at March 03, 2013 02:52 PM (1hekh)

72 Or someone is confusing the history of the Delphic Oracle.  At first they were young and pretty.  Until one supplicant did a Paris and ravished one.  After that the Oracles at Delphi were old women.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 03, 2013 02:52 PM (Eg4wq)

73 I approve of this thread. Nothing to add, really, just wanna chime in with my approval.

Posted by: Truman North at March 03, 2013 02:52 PM (I2LwF)

74 Oh and one last thing Ace, I was hardly kidding about my adventures on usenet.

I used to hang on alt.rec.scientology and was friends with Brandy Alexander and Bob Minton....

When I found this place I found myself wishing I'd had you guys around back in the heady days of jousting with the OSA goons online.

"Do the clam!" used to be a lot funnier, I guess in the end I've lost that fight as well.

Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 03, 2013 02:52 PM (LRFds)

75 If we can just save one girl from republicans throwing her into a volcano, we must hastily act now.

Some say ban volcanoes , other say ban republicans , but I demand a balanced approach banning both.

So vote now for  Throwing Women into Volcano act.

Posted by: Barack Obama at March 03, 2013 02:53 PM (AWmfW)

76 The only upside is if I read tomorrow about some severe retard having masturbated himself to death. Posted by: Captain Hate at March 03, 2013 06:44 PM (pGRFo) Who you calling "severe"???????

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 03, 2013 02:54 PM (MBqvE)

77 Some say ban volcanoes , other say ban republicans , but I demand a balanced approach banning both.

Yeah, come say that to my face.

Posted by: Mt. Vesuvius at March 03, 2013 02:54 PM (hO9ad)

78 That was the funniest shit this side of EoJs comments on the vagina thread. I'm sorry I missed the hilarity in real time.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 03, 2013 02:54 PM (OevbG)

79 I still don't know where Gondor is ... and I watched all 3 Master films ...

Posted by: Adriane at March 03, 2013 02:55 PM (TvO05)

80 Thank you ace and the moron horde for keeping me sane. Speaking of volcanoes, I often see us perched on the side of a sort of digital volcano during the Burning Time. Gristle Encased Head is Samwise and Maybe Larry David's Cervix can be Frodo, or whatever the fuck. You get the idea. I'm just saying that Empire of Jeff better be flying to our rescue on a giant fucking eagle.

Posted by: Eaton Cox at March 03, 2013 02:55 PM (q177U)

81 Gondor?  That is where Mothra takes you.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 03, 2013 02:56 PM (Eg4wq)

82 Dear God that thread is hilarious.  It's like watching old editions of Siskel and Egbert where ergie plays the fat fuck being a witless imbecile who got a movie reviewing gig by sucking Hollywood cock.

Posted by: Captain Hate at March 03, 2013 02:56 PM (pGRFo)

83 I'm just saying that Empire of Jeff better be flying to our rescue on a giant fucking eagle. Oh come on now ... Hell'll freeze over before the Eagles get back together ...

Posted by: Adriane at March 03, 2013 02:56 PM (TvO05)

84 Where the Locusts Are: a Movie Review of Every Movie Ever, by Erg What has been going on in Tanzania is unique, and it has been on my mind ever since this movie burst on the scene. What's important, however, is that we focus on what this means to the creators themselves. The current administration seems too caught up in dissecting the macro-level situation to pay attention to how their people are doing. Just call it missing the tables for the wood. When thinking about the ongoing ethnic strife, it's important to remember three things: One, people don't behave like computer programs, so attempts to treat them as such inevitably look foolish. Computer programs never suddenly set up a black market for Western DVDs. Two, Tanzania has spent decades being batted back and forth between colonial powers, so a mindset of peace and stability will seem foreign and strange. And three, freedom is an extraordinarily powerful idea: If authoritarianism is Tanzania's ironing board, then freedom is certainly its faucet. When I was in Tanzania last January, I was amazed by the level of Westernization for such a closed society, and that tells me two things. It tells me that the citizens of Tanzania have no shortage of potential entrepreneurs, and that is a good beginning to grow from. Second, it tells me that people in Tanzania are just like people anywhere else on this flat earth of ours. So what should we do about the chaos in Tanzania? Well, it's easier to start with what we should not do. We should not ignore the problem and pretend it will go away. Beyond that, we need to be careful to nurture the seeds of democratic ideals. The opportunity is there, but I worry that the path to stability is so poorly marked that Tanzania will have to move down it very slowly. And of course Dar es Salaam needs to come to terms with its own history. Speaking with a small business entrepreneur from the large Catholic community here, I asked her if there was any message that she wanted me to carry back home with me. She pondered for a second, and then smiled and said, ahim bin tal, which is a local saying that means roughly, "A bus is a vehicle that runs twice as fast when you are after it as when you are in it." I don't know what Tanzania will be like a few years from now, but I do know that it will probably look very different from the country we see now, even if it remains true to its basic cultural heritage. I know this because, through all the disorder, the people still haven't lost sight of their dreams.

Posted by: Truman North at March 03, 2013 02:56 PM (I2LwF)

85 I think the real question to ask ace is, how did beating off to the Pink haired girl on King of the Nerds go?

Posted by: buzzion at March 03, 2013 02:57 PM (GULKT)

86 when it comes back, the troll has some 'splainin to do.

Posted by: L, elle at March 03, 2013 02:57 PM (0PiQ4)

87 buzzion, not this pink-haired girl?
http://www.cosplay.com/photo/3356657/

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 03, 2013 02:58 PM (Eg4wq)

88 Bitch, I didn't do anything wrong. Lay off me bro

Posted by: Mitt Romney at March 03, 2013 02:58 PM (8HhF2)

89 >>>I think the real question to ask ace is, how did beating off to the Pink haired girl on King of the Nerds go I decided she was far too annoying for that. In related news, I love that show. I just watched like four episodes last night.

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 02:58 PM (LCRYB)

90 Guess you had to be there.

Posted by: T. Tek Nilp at March 03, 2013 02:58 PM (mAm+G)

91 That was fun to read. Well done.

Posted by: Prepositions Fists And A Fish at March 03, 2013 02:58 PM (YLeM7)

92 I thought the director showed the essential moral bankruptcy of individualist and conservative thinking in that scene where L. Ron Hubbard was face down on a desk covered with cocaine and machine guns. Or maybe that was in "Sleepless in Seattle."

Posted by: Suffering under sequester at March 03, 2013 02:59 PM (Lxw+T)

93 I think they are doing auditions for a second season of King of the Nerds.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 03, 2013 02:59 PM (Eg4wq)

94 LOLOL. I love when our genius betters inadvertently expose their drooling, window-licking cretinism. Kind of like the time when Buttfuck Chuck saw the Tennessee state flag a tea party rally and thought it was a "white supremacist symbol".

Posted by: ol_dirty_/b/tard at March 03, 2013 02:59 PM (qYKBf)

95 I like the part where L. Ron Hubbard had the flying DeLorean at the end and said something about not needing roads.

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 02:59 PM (LCRYB)

96 YOU ONLY HATE THIS FILM BECAUSE YOU'RE DESPERATE FOR VALIDATION AND YOU CAN'T STAND THAT IT'S ACTUALLY AGREEING WITH ME ON EVERYTHING!!!!!

Posted by: eRG, who's got nothin' but a volcano complex at March 03, 2013 02:59 PM (MMC8r)

97 Has anyone told ace that Iowahawks "I want to kill myself" bit for captioning New Yorker pages is an old joke, that started many years ago as "Christ, what an asshole" I like the original better, so I'm guessing that either ace has no idea of the original, or it is some kind of self referential joke that is picking up on some other meme of which i am unaware. (meme's are like coke, i either have to do more, or less. I am not sure which.) Personally, my second favorite all purpose caption is: "anal too?" which ace inadvertently used in one of his bold bottom of the post bits a few weeks ago and I think fits our times pretty well.

Posted by: Endeavor to Persevere at March 03, 2013 03:00 PM (zZJJp)

98 Now THAT was some funny shit.  Though, hearing about the actual movie, it almost sounds like they tried to do a serious version of Monty Python's Upper-class Twit Olympics.  And then Erg decides to make this his hill to die on?  Wow.  Circles within circles man...

Posted by: JQP at March 03, 2013 03:00 PM (GVL0g)

99 Couldn't it have been Average Joe Versus the Volcano?

Posted by: AmishDude at March 03, 2013 03:00 PM (xSegX)

100 For a parallel to erg, remember Barney Fife explaining the Preamble to the Constitution? Yeah, that.

Posted by: zsasz at March 03, 2013 03:00 PM (MMC8r)

101 63 the troll gets his own post? whatever, it's a Sunday. I'll take it. It's nice to have Ace with us on the weekend. Now, I'll go read.

Posted by: L, elle at March 03, 2013 06:47 PM (0PiQ4)

 

Too bad you weren't around for the where he asked all the morons to refer to the troll as palin steele as Dum Dum.   http://minx.cc/?post=290333

Posted by: buzzion at March 03, 2013 03:01 PM (GULKT)

102 >>>I think they are doing auditions for a second season of King of the Nerds. I know it got picked up for season 2. This interview with Curtis Armstrong (Booger) and Robert Carradine (the nerd whose name I don't know) is really good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opM-klvXa2Q They own the show, because they thought it up and pitched it. I like them. They're good hosts. Particularly Booger, but Robert Carradine adds a nice soft shy presence.

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 03:01 PM (LCRYB)

103 Producer Keyser Sose!

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 03, 2013 03:01 PM (piMMO)

104 102 Ace

You been watching Elementary? 

I'd love to have a Season One overview from you or one of the COBs if any of you are fans....


Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 03, 2013 03:02 PM (LRFds)

105

My  favorite  scene  from  The  Master  was  the  one  before  the  volcano. You  know,  the  one  where  Kate  Upton  got  out  of  the  pool  wearing a skimpy bikini? 

 

They  must  have  filmed  that  one  on  a  cold   day.  

Posted by: Ernie McCracken - Film Critic at March 03, 2013 03:03 PM (ZETiK)

106 >>>You been watching Elementary? yup. it's one of the only shows I watch night-of. I watch most things later but for whatever reason I always watch Elementary when it's on.

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 03:03 PM (LCRYB)

107 Posted by: Endeavor to Persevere at March 03, 2013 07:00 PM (zZJJp) Christ, what an asshole.

Posted by: Meme Worker's Union Local 282 at March 03, 2013 03:04 PM (I2LwF)

108 Facepalm And I thought that i had annoying trolls! John Travolta is nothing next to erg...

Posted by: Xenu at March 03, 2013 03:05 PM (Vk2pI)

109 >>>Has anyone told ace that Iowahawks "I want to kill myself" bit for captioning New Yorker pages is an old joke, that started many years ago as "Christ, what an asshole" >>>I like the original better, so I'm guessing that either ace has no idea of the original, or it is some kind of self referential joke that is picking up on some other meme of which i am unaware the Warden mentioned that to me. Apparently that was even mentioned on the blog, years ago, but I'd completely forgotten. I like the kill myself one.

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 03:05 PM (LCRYB)

110 Even though erg is an idiot who deserves to be slowly dismembered and burned, he's not nearly as irritating as palin/steele.

Posted by: Captain Hate at March 03, 2013 03:05 PM (pGRFo)

111 liars gotta lie. bullshitters gotta bullshit.  Obama has to lie and shit.


Posted by: Al at March 03, 2013 03:05 PM (V70Uh)

112 I know it got picked up for season 2. This interview with Curtis Armstrong (Booger) and Robert Carradine (the nerd whose name I don't know) is really good:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opM-klvXa2Q

They own the show, because they thought it up and pitched it.

I like them. They're good hosts. Particularly Booger, but Robert Carradine adds a nice soft shy presence.

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 07:01 PM (LCRYB)

 

Characters name was Lewis.  And let's face it the character Lewis is The King of the Nerds.

Posted by: buzzion at March 03, 2013 03:05 PM (GULKT)

113 Our  readers  are  pretentious  douches  like Erg (aka Gerg).  As  with  Soetoro  supporters   their  opinions  are  facts.

Posted by: Film Comment Magazine at March 03, 2013 03:06 PM (ypzqs)

114 Couldn't it have been Average Joe Versus the Volcano?

Posted by: AmishDude at March 03, 2013 07:00 PM (xSegX)



Better yet Average Joe Versus the magma of Exploded Volcano.

Posted by: cm9000 at March 03, 2013 03:06 PM (vfB2N)

115 "There Wiil Be Blood" explored similar populist, liberal themes. For example, Daniel Day-Lewis embodied the spirit of the progressives' sociological nemesis in the scene where he dynamites the golf course to eliminate the gopher.

Posted by: Suffering under sequester at March 03, 2013 03:06 PM (Lxw+T)

116 >>>Even though erg is an idiot who deserves to be slowly dismembered and burned, he's not nearly as irritating as palin/steele. i disagree. palin/steele had that cloying thing which was really annoying but erg is just nasty. He always has to comment on Andrew Breitbart being dead, for example. I hate erg, and if I ever see him in public, he's going to get fucked up.

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 03:06 PM (LCRYB)

117 >>Obama has to lie and shit. No wonder everything he touches stinks

Posted by: Truman North at March 03, 2013 03:06 PM (I2LwF)

118 Somewhere Captain America is laughing....

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living... at March 03, 2013 03:07 PM (tRHND)

119 That scene in The Breakfast Club where Bender offers to show Claire the picture of the guy with elephantitis of the nuts was an indictment of the sort of self-made right-wing hero who offers to show girls pictures of guys with elephantitis of the nuts, knuckleheads. Because the director despises you, knuckleheads.

Posted by: Erg, super-genius at March 03, 2013 03:07 PM (qYKBf)

120 I'm looking forward to Viking since I read that Gabrial Byrne is in it.

Posted by: Bubba from County at March 03, 2013 03:08 PM (wQXBk)

121

Funny stuff.  Good job, Ace, Pendragon and A-hole, and a salute to Bumperstickerist.

Posted by: Gem at March 03, 2013 03:08 PM (zw+pb)

122 Erg doesn't understand why "Jedi-mind meld" is funny.

Posted by: buzzion at March 03, 2013 03:08 PM (GULKT)

123 The greatest trick I ever pulled, was convincing the blogs that the treat of trolls does not exist...

Posted by: Keyser Söze, Producer at March 03, 2013 03:08 PM (Vk2pI)

124 119 That scene in The Breakfast Club where Bender offers to show Claire the picture of the guy with elephantitis of the nuts Huh. I thought that was in "Punch-Drunk Love."

Posted by: Suffering under sequester at March 03, 2013 03:09 PM (Lxw+T)

125

You know.

 

Had you guys merely said "the volcano"  I would have thought we'd have had some CGI/drawing rending of the summary of Scientology beliefs (which IIRC involve souls being trapped in a volcano. (I haven't seen the movie.)

That's at least somewhat believable.

But then I read the post (shocking I know) and went "wait, what, girl in the fucking volcano, they're screwing with this guy."

 

I'm impressed actually, I usually give up after post 2.

Posted by: tsrblke at March 03, 2013 03:09 PM (GaqMa)

126 196 Ace,

I have an idea that is non "crazy sven mania" and would be good for Horde Morale....

Let's have a contest for Season DVD sets of Horde Approved Series.

I'll kick in a donation for your main or a designated paypal account for this purpose for the cost of the DVD set and that way we can maybe brighten one of our membership's day for a change.

I do not want to run it, I want to fund it.  I am so tired, and I am so hurt I just want to smile and/or make someone else smile for a change.  Consider it and grab me, or get in touch with Allen G I am going to give him my e-mail Point of Contact data.

My life is going to be pretty turbulent for about six months starting in June but I want to do something, and I want it to work.

I've tried a lot and I have failed at a lot of what I have tried but I have never felt the dread i feel now in my life.  I rehabbed my hip with more hope than this.  I just want a win Ace, and I want to feel like I did something that was good, right, and made people I like happier.

Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 03, 2013 03:10 PM (LRFds)

127 I'm still embarrassed that I got Crispin Glover confused with Kevin O'Connor, but at least I can take comfort in the fact that Erg never did account for the boiling eels scene, let alone the significance of the ferraiolo.

Posted by: A. Pendragon at March 03, 2013 03:10 PM (wJliR)

128 Epic takedown, Ace.

And, could anybody on Team Moron do me a solid and back me up on going after this tenured asshole at UCI? I've never seen such a huge pile of anti-gun excrement. Thanks in advance...

http://tinyurl.com/ankztt6

(link is to OCWeekly.com)

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2013 03:10 PM (7B7jB)

129 Volcano = Dyanetics.


Posted by: Al at March 03, 2013 03:11 PM (V70Uh)

130 115 suffering under sequester,

You win the internet sir.

Thanks, first smile I've had since I hopped back on after work today.

God bless you

Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 03, 2013 03:11 PM (LRFds)

131 I hate erg, and if I ever see him in public, he's going to get fucked up.

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 07:06 PM (LCRYB)



I've never seen this physically threatening side of Ace before, but I gotta say I like it.

Posted by: cm9000 at March 03, 2013 03:11 PM (vfB2N)

132 Think of a robot. Now think of a thousand of them, dancing on the head of a pin. This is the secret to the modern miracle we call Erg. He's a pinhead getting beat down by a thousand robots.

Posted by: Truman North at March 03, 2013 03:11 PM (I2LwF)

133 Ace's review was amazing.  The point about color saturation (for example) was informative and humbling (for the non-informed reader), even as speculation.  It was pleasurable speculation.
 
Nothing personal to Bumperstickerist. But.  The .  Period.  Trope.  Is.  A.  Bumpersticker.  Style. 

Ace's review is the sort of thing non-Leftists need to reclaim our country.

We need NPR, NYT, New Yorker style approach to our culture and politics.

It is not the low information segment we need,  it is the high information sector.   No one is making this point.  Everuyonr is making the opposite, totally misguided point.  We need intellectuals, we need those who are curious, delightful, and familiar with the great books.

Non-leftists have adopted the Leftist style of things, including Ridiculous.  Stylings.

Pat Condell,  Mark Steyn, Victor Hansen,  and precious few others.  Ace.

The success of the Left can be found in the fund-raising sessions of public tv and radio starting in the 60's.  "Pay us to be validated" was the message.

The low information folks do not run things. 

Raunchy can be wonderful.  Irreverent can be fun. 

Trite is deadly.   

Posted by: Tonawanda at March 03, 2013 03:11 PM (GeFHE)

134 The sensitive treatment of our original sin, slavery, could not have been handled better than Mark Wahlberg did in the final scene of "Boogie Nights."

Posted by: Suffering under sequester at March 03, 2013 03:13 PM (Lxw+T)

135 I liked the part in the movie where Hubbard looks directly at the camera, and in doing so speaks directly to erg, and says;

"NOBODY puts Ace's movie reviews in a corner!"

Posted by: kbdabear at March 03, 2013 03:13 PM (mCvL4)

136 That scene in Fast Times at Ridgemont High where Brad jacks off while watching Phoebe Cates is a metaphor for the war-lust of reich-wing rethugliKKKan knuckleheads who stroke their throbbing death-erections while Chimpy McHitlerBurton drops white-phospherous-laced cluster-bombs on villages full of innocent Iraqi babies, knuckleheads.

Posted by: Erg, super-genius at March 03, 2013 03:14 PM (qYKBf)

137 You know the worst thing about erg? His vote counts Ugggh

Posted by: Navycopjoe loves snow!! at March 03, 2013 03:16 PM (pR5YY)

138 Troll gets his own post? What am I?? oh wait

Posted by: Chopped Liver at March 03, 2013 03:16 PM (jEX9b)

139 erg:ridicules the knucklehead fantasies of the monad-hero-self-made-man. ************ I wonder what erg thinks a "monad" is?

Posted by: tasker at March 03, 2013 03:16 PM (r2PLg)

140

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2013 07:10 PM (7B7jB)

 

I wish I could but sadly you'd be throwing poo at a wall.

What we got here is failure to accept fundamental first premises of "good."

In such situations, theoretically, the freedom that doesn't impose upon a 3rd party should give way to the implementation of good perceived by either of the two warring parties. (See: John Grey, Modus Vivendi Theorems, etc. Basically Pluralism in a nutshell.)

 

But despite claiming the left doesn't actually believe in true pluralism (only fake pluralism..) but you'd never get them to admit this.

Posted by: tsrblke at March 03, 2013 03:16 PM (GaqMa)

141 Was The Master a prequel or sequel to Master and Commander? There was a boat in The Master, but the ones in Master and Commander seem a lot older.

Posted by: Cicero, Semiautomatic Assault Commenter at March 03, 2013 03:16 PM (FrYMY)

142 as I mentioned yesterday, I walk around dog poop, I do not talk to it.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 03, 2013 03:16 PM (8dspl)

143

Ace, anger leads to the Dark Side.

 

The Dark Side of what, we can't be sure.  But I heard it in a movie, the one with the Jedi mind - meld.

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch and the Ides of/ at March 03, 2013 03:16 PM (Md8Uo)

144 That scene in The Breakfast Club where Bender offers to show Claire the picture of the guy with elephantitis of the nuts

Huh. I thought that was in "Punch-Drunk Love."

Are you sure that wasn't Donkey Punch?

Posted by: Methos at March 03, 2013 03:16 PM (hO9ad)

145 A baseball hit me in the monads once. Boy, did it hurt.

Posted by: joey biden at March 03, 2013 03:17 PM (ORGYc)

146 I hate erg, and if I ever see him in public, he's going to get fucked up. Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 07:06 PM (LCRYB) ____________ Okay--now that would not be.... Listen--the erg--is just not worth it.

Posted by: tasker at March 03, 2013 03:18 PM (r2PLg)

147 WTF  Erg gets a thread?  What about me?

Posted by: Palin Steele at March 03, 2013 03:18 PM (wR+pz)

148 I've come to the conclusion that 75% of trolls are pimply faced virgins.

Posted by: Y-not at March 03, 2013 03:18 PM (5H6zj)

149 146 tasker,

I dunno...maybe we could exert Jury Nullification...I mean it would be the most literally racist trial ever...

Know Ewok Know Peace, no Ewok no peace....

Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 03, 2013 03:18 PM (LRFds)

150 There are worse ways to go.

Posted by: dog poop at March 03, 2013 03:19 PM (ORGYc)

151 erg having a brain cloud really explains a lot. 

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Totes waiting until after March Madness. at March 03, 2013 03:19 PM (Gk3SS)

152 63 the troll gets his own post? whatever, it's a Sunday. I'll take it. It's nice to have Ace with us on the weekend. Now, I'll go read.
Posted by: L, elle at March 03, 2013 06:47 PM (0PiQ4)

Too bad you weren't around for the where he asked all the morons to refer to the troll as palin steele as Dum Dum. http://minx.cc/?post=290333

Posted by: buzzion at March 03, 2013 07:01 PM

Dum Dum must be furious that another troll was the subject of a thread by Ace himself

I now see palin steele going through a book of bus passes to slowly pass by ergie's house every half hour


Posted by: kbdabear at March 03, 2013 03:19 PM (mCvL4)

153

tsrblke @ 140

 

I used to work for Vivendi, and let me tell you, their shit got all fucked up and their finances went into the toilet.  The CEO, Jean-Marie Messier ended up being the CFO for "Teen Magazine", or something like that.

 

Otherwise, I agree with what I think you were trying to say.

 

Is that validation?  

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch and the Ides of/ at March 03, 2013 03:19 PM (Md8Uo)

154 Was the name of the volcano the Big Woo?

Posted by: Joe Banks at March 03, 2013 03:20 PM (c4IBC)

155 I wanted Paul Thomas Anderson to direct one of the Star Trek movies, but he said there were not enough elevated sociological themes available to make a compelling and subtle critique of individualist and right wing philosophical ideas. I say he was just jealous of my penis.

Posted by: James Tiberius Kirk at March 03, 2013 03:21 PM (Lxw+T)

156 Reminds me of that flailing ninny, what was his name? Proud Liberal Vet? Something like that. Vietnam, Antarctica.

Posted by: Dave in Texas at March 03, 2013 03:21 PM (pUqSw)

157 154 Joe banks,

yes sir...know have an orange crush sir we're out of nehi...

Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 03, 2013 03:21 PM (LRFds)

158 In  'The  Godfather'  I  represented   Abe  Vigoda.  Abe.  Fucking.  Vigoda.  Did  the  same  in  'Barney  Miller'.

Posted by: Abe Vigoda represents! at March 03, 2013 03:21 PM (ypzqs)

159



I doubt if erg exists in the outside world other than halfway houses or other sketchy rehabilitation facilities.

Posted by: Captain Hate at March 03, 2013 03:21 PM (pGRFo)

160 Erg exists only to come in here, shake the beehive, and fap to the buzzing. He will not be embarrassed, nor ashamed of his beclowning. He'll come in and drop some shit to see the Morons spin.

Posted by: zsasz at March 03, 2013 03:21 PM (MMC8r)

161 149. Ha Ace went to the dreaded law school Lawyers never ever get to serve time

Posted by: Navycopjoe loves snow!! at March 03, 2013 03:21 PM (pR5YY)

162 I don't engage trolls.If they really aggravate me I'll throw a comment at them without mentioning their name or post number.If I get really angry I will sockpuppet them.Mostly I completely ignore them.

Posted by: steevy at March 03, 2013 03:22 PM (9XBK2)

163 153 CJ Burch,

Heh I consulted for Matrix

Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 03, 2013 03:22 PM (LRFds)

164 I just went back and read the back and forth. Beautiful takedown, Ace and BumpetStickerist. To throw a bone to the troll, the line about Ace should just watch 8mm film of his grandmother undressing for her shower was slightly amusing. It would have worked if he laced the line with a lot of profanity. The troll, if nothing else, has mastered the art of bullshit. Too bad he hasn't figured out that it only works with people more stupid than himself.

Posted by: L, elle at March 03, 2013 03:22 PM (0PiQ4)

165 When the Titanic hits the volcano, that is Cameron's metaphor for Chimpy McHitlerburton going to war against science

Posted by: Roger Ergbert at March 03, 2013 03:23 PM (mCvL4)

166 161 NCJ,

well unless they make it to governor in some states...or Congress Critter...

once you hit Senator though you're pretty much in the clear it seems

Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 03, 2013 03:23 PM (LRFds)

167 I doubt even erg believes his pretentious gibberish. It's just part of his routine here.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2013 03:23 PM (C+2eB)

168 eggmcmuffin embodies irony for instance, he hates all you Haters, and makes sure you know you're a h8r by being extremely hateful towards you

Posted by: soothsayer at March 03, 2013 03:24 PM (BUcLz)

169

The Dread Lawyer Ace.

 

Would you really want him after you?

 

I mean, you could get away from Frank Nitti, but would you really want The Dread Lawyer Ace after you?

 

Just thinking about it.......I think I shit myself.

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch and the Ides of/ at March 03, 2013 03:24 PM (Md8Uo)

170 Question:there was a porn director Paul Thomas who porn fans hated because he thought he was actually a film maker and had plots and shit(I've heard)I wondered if this guy is the same guy.

Posted by: steevy at March 03, 2013 03:24 PM (9XBK2)

171 Who was the moron who wrote a diary on dailykos about a year ago and caused an uproar? That was epic

Posted by: Navycopjoe loves snow!! at March 03, 2013 03:24 PM (pR5YY)

172 I was a bit tired, but the God-bothering went well this morning. fwiw, in my recollection, the single funniest thing ever written by a commenter was one word. One. Word. (glances at Towanda) that word? Weehauken. I still chuckle over that.

Posted by: BumperStickerist at March 03, 2013 03:24 PM (9P+hO)

173 tsrblke: correct, trying to teach that professor anything is going to be a waste of time. He himself is nothing but another Stalinist campus enforcer.

Having said that... I *loved* it when Rubio turned the water gaffe into a fundraising tool, and that's the kind of out-of-the-box thinking I want to see instilled throughout either the GOP or its replacement. As much as it might sadden me to a certain extent, I've found it's true: RIDICULE WORKS. F*ck civility. And I want to see the future conservative movement become the absolute, er MASTERS of the Universe when it comes to ridiculing and marginalizaing the left and what it's become.

The success of shows like "Red Eye" and other conservative media give me a lot of hope for the future, for instance. Young conservatives are finally "getting" that you can't argue in good faith with too many libs. They don't hear it, and they don't respect it. All they respect is their own immediate, selfish wants.

So, as was done with the erg-roach last night, let's do it. Let's ridicule and dehumanize these fucktards all the way to the (hopefully only rhetorical) re-education camp gates.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2013 03:25 PM (7B7jB)

174 Yet there are thousands of erg's on political websites, hell in the media every day. Look at this Scalia kanipshin fit the left is having, "Racist!!!!" There isn't one thing Scalia said that even could be considered as controversial but the group think hysteria ruled the day, all without anyone on the left reading or understanding what Scalia said.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 03, 2013 03:25 PM (Fz2C7)

175 I really should have brought up this "volcano" idea when I was arguing with him about the works of John Locke which he obviously hadn't read. Oh well, something for next time.

Posted by: AD at March 03, 2013 03:26 PM (zXUhC)

176 "Magnolia" was a thinly disguised remake of "Judgment At Nuremberg." Still, it was part of Anderson's early work, so his fine nuance hadn't emerged.

Posted by: Suffering under sequester at March 03, 2013 03:26 PM (Lxw+T)

177 166. Shit Let me make a note ***run for senate, not house****

Posted by: Navycopjoe loves snow!! at March 03, 2013 03:26 PM (pR5YY)

178 OT top thread at market-ticker.org: David Brody and Jonathan Alter joining the chorus of Obama's abused press corps/harem.

Posted by: Methos at March 03, 2013 03:26 PM (hO9ad)

179 167 Fenlon Spoke,

I dunno it is hard telling.  Were my only contact with occutard nation the web I'd be happy to believe it was mostly schtick but I work with a few at the pizza delivery gig I use for table money....

They are true believers in "something"...kid today a new hire was spouting off about "we need to tap into the shale" so I was thinking "aha this kid gets it" of course he wants all oil companies nationalized first because "it is the poor people's turn"...

weapons grade occutard...I pointed out that he was discussing a one party state in the making of the energy sector is the big prize and patronage is the new normal...

"huh?' look...yeah son it's okay leave that small shit to the pros and just dream of nuking the energy sector.

Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 03, 2013 03:27 PM (LRFds)

180

From the NYPost article he links:


“There is a kind of threatening tone that, from time to time — not all the time — comes out of these guys,” Alter said this week. During the 2008 campaign swing through Berlin, Alter said that future White House press secretary Robert Gibbs disinvited him from a dinner between Obama and the press corps over it.

“I was told ‘Don’t come,’ in a fairly abusive e-mail,” he said. “[It] made what Gene Sperling wrote [to Woodward] look like patty-cake.”

“I had a young reporter asking tough, important questions of an Obama Cabinet secretary,” says one DC veteran. “She was doing her job, and they were trying to bully her. In an e-mail, they called her the vilest names — bitch, c--t, a--hole.” He complained and was told the matter would be investigated: “They were hemming and hawing, saying, ‘We’ll look into it.’ Nothing happened.”

Posted by: Methos at March 03, 2013 03:27 PM (hO9ad)

181 If you punch erg--he probably subdivides and then you could end up with a-- monad of ergs.

Posted by: tasker at March 03, 2013 03:28 PM (r2PLg)

182

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch and the Ides of/ at March 03, 2013 07:19 PM (Md8Uo)

 

Meh, I'm tired, and I forget sometimes that this is not my philosophy forum.

 

Let me summarize thusly: Even though liberals claim to be inclusive, they are not.

Arguing with them to the contrary is a futile endeavor, as they will merely reject the necessary unprovable stipulations you bring to the table (while failing to acknowledge that their stipulates are merely the same.)

Taking it one more level up the "meta" chain and pointing that out to them usually results in them sputtering and objecting heavily (without being able to say why they're objecting, it's humorous to watch.)

I know this first hand, I had this exact same discussion with a founder of my field to which he just stared at me and said "interesting suggestion" he then called one of his colleagues (who was receiving a lifetime achievement award "an idiot" for basically proving what I had said in her acceptance speech. (I think he was more angry that she had provided a concrete example of what I was talking about than he was critiquing her approach.)

Posted by: tsrblke at March 03, 2013 03:28 PM (GaqMa)

183 Look, it's simple: Bella = America Edward = Barack Obama the crazy vampire chick who wants to kill everyone = Sarah Palin I can't believe I need to explain this crap to you knuckleheads!

Posted by: erg at March 03, 2013 03:29 PM (2jQGY)

184 179. Speaking of occutards The occupy Honolulu is still there and going strong I'm amazed and you know, credit where credits due

Posted by: Navycopjoe loves snow!! at March 03, 2013 03:29 PM (pR5YY)

185 Reminds me of that flailing ninny, what was his name? Proud Liberal Vet? Something like that. Vietnam, Antarctica. Posted by: Dave in Texas at March 03, 2013 07:21 PM (pUqSw) wasn't that johnryan? same troll I had fun with for years mocking his Intrade shit.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 03, 2013 03:29 PM (MBqvE)

186 Is erg his real handle or did it morph into that from something else? "Erg" sounds the noise a cat makes when coughing up a hairball-Erg!! Erg!! Erg!! Ewwwwww.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2013 03:30 PM (C+2eB)

187 hey Buzzion, thanks for that! People here have mentioned Palin Steele and I was always "Huh?". thanks for filling in the blanks for me. much appreciated.

Posted by: L, elle at March 03, 2013 03:30 PM (0PiQ4)

188 Hey everybody, by the way, I heard the erg-roach got his IQ test renewed the other day.

His score was a negative number.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2013 03:30 PM (7B7jB)

189 no, it's no act erg is like a lot of Left Wing radicals who are so self-righteous they feel have a licence to treat non-Leftists as sub-human jerkoffs like erg are all for tolerance and co-existence and diversity except for those who don't think like he does -- then it's permitted to be a hateful intolerant prick After all, the world needs out-group cleansers, too, to create that tolerant utopia.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 03, 2013 03:31 PM (FC8Yl)

190 184 NCJ,

it's a lot easier to endure year round in Hawaii than in Illinois bud I know you know...

add in the nice shadow economy there and it is not hard to fund your Occutard lifestyle on the fly I'd wager...

Thank God they're running the nation now I am sure they'll do great things with it.

Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 03, 2013 03:31 PM (LRFds)

191 183. Sarah palin as a crazy vampire who wants to kill everyone? Whoa Ill be in my bunk

Posted by: Navycopjoe loves snow!! at March 03, 2013 03:31 PM (pR5YY)

192 120 I'm looking forward to Viking since I read that Gabrial Byrne is in it.

Posted by: Bubba from County at March 03, 2013 07:08 PM (wQXBk)



You and my husband.  He's asked me several times what time it comes on.

Posted by: Tami[/i] at March 03, 2013 03:31 PM (X6akg)

193 I really should have brought up this "volcano" idea when I was arguing with him about the works of John Locke which he obviously hadn't read.

Oh well, something for next time.

Posted by: AD at March 03, 2013 07:26 PM (zXUhC)

 

SHHHH, you'll reveal that very few of us who comment upon Locke have actually read him .

(Most of us know him via Jefferson I think and other secondary interpreters of Locke.)

Posted by: tsrblke at March 03, 2013 03:31 PM (GaqMa)

194 I can't believe I need to explain this crap to you knuckleheads! No shit. Everyone with two or more neurons knows Twilight is an allegory about racist Republicans and their Koch Brothers puppet masters. Just like most movies.

Posted by: Suffering under sequester at March 03, 2013 03:31 PM (Lxw+T)

195 156 Reminds me of that flailing ninny, what was his name? Proud Liberal Vet? Something like that. Vietnam, Antarctica. Posted by: Dave in Texas at March 03, 2013 07:21 PM (pUqSw) That would be Raykon.

Posted by: Erg, super-genius at March 03, 2013 03:32 PM (qYKBf)

196 is it time to give erg his own name? 1) Dum-Dum (used before, but apparently very effective) 2) Professor Science (I like this one but he's so stupid he'll take it as a compliment) 3) Something else? Volcano or something?

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 03:32 PM (LCRYB)

197 "I wonder what erg thinks a "monad" is?"

Well his favorite ditty is "One-Ball Riley"

Posted by: TANSTAAFL at March 03, 2013 03:32 PM (VS514)

198 192 Wearing the tight leather outfit Kate Beckinsale wears in the Underworld movies.

Posted by: steevy at March 03, 2013 03:32 PM (9XBK2)

199

tsrblke @ 182

Dude, I was just pulling your leg.  This is Sunday night, and nothing important really happened to day except those inexplicably evil Michigan Wolverines beat Michigan St in  basketball at the buzzer, after the Spartans had made a miraculous comeback to almost win.

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch and the Ides of/ at March 03, 2013 03:33 PM (Md8Uo)

200 erg = ergastularius

Posted by: zsasz at March 03, 2013 03:33 PM (MMC8r)

201 The success of the Left can be found in the fund-raising sessions of public tv and radio starting in the 60's. "Pay us to be validated" was the message. This is very very true. It's worldwide though. The EU is all about making a government that is amenable to the self-important academics and others of the well-connected. They've dumbed down the arts and humanities, making these people think they're geniuses for shallow Marxist-style blather.

Posted by: AmishDude at March 03, 2013 03:33 PM (xSegX)

202 - Erg-roach.
- Shit-for-brains.
- Gerbil molester.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2013 03:33 PM (7B7jB)

203 1) Dum-Dum (used before, but apparently very effective)

2) Professor Science (I like this one but he's so stupid he'll take it as a compliment)

3) Something else? Volcano or something?

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 07:32 PM (LCRYB)

 

Super-Ego .

Posted by: tsrblke at March 03, 2013 03:33 PM (GaqMa)

204 Ace: oh, I've got it!

Volcano Chow.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2013 03:33 PM (7B7jB)

205 Lava Lunch

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 03:33 PM (LCRYB)

206 Occupy Honolulu? Must be pretty harsh there now in the dead of winter.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at March 03, 2013 03:34 PM (jEX9b)

207 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2013 07:30 PM (C+2eB) It started out as "ergastilarious" or some such stupid shit. Teh Morons started addressing him/her/it as "erg" so they didn't have to type the whole stupid thing.

Posted by: ol_dirty_/b/tard at March 03, 2013 03:34 PM (qYKBf)

208 194 TSRBike,

If Ace and i ever get the "prize of the fortnight" thing going maybe I can offer "Wealth of nations"  or some Locke studies....

I have read him...

http://www.johnlocke.org/

I was a "loser" early on I guess...

this nation was once a very beautiful place.

Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 03, 2013 03:34 PM (LRFds)

209 191. Actually you can smell them driving by The rich liberals keep them supplied with their fear and money but alas after the election it stopped The cops took down their crap last week and now they have old shitty tents up They never figured out they're just tools

Posted by: Navycopjoe loves snow!! at March 03, 2013 03:34 PM (pR5YY)

210 Square in the Monads

Posted by: Pug Mahon, So Very Tired at March 03, 2013 03:34 PM (6rcHp)

211 Gerbil molester What would he use to do that?

Posted by: Suffering under sequester at March 03, 2013 03:34 PM (Lxw+T)

212 superego's pretty good, as is volcano chow.

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 03:34 PM (LCRYB)

213 198 "I wonder what erg thinks a "monad" is?" Well his favorite ditty is "One-Ball Riley" Posted by: TANSTAAFL at March 03, 2013 07:32 PM (VS514) ______________ LOL! So that's it!

Posted by: tasker at March 03, 2013 03:34 PM (r2PLg)

214

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch and the Ides of/ at March 03, 2013 07:33 PM (Md8Uo)

 

No, really TIRED.  Seriously.

Sarcasm meter doesn't have enough battery power to function.

Birthday party last night.

Laser tag, beer, more beer, brunch this morning with some friend who stayed over.

REALLY TIRED.

Oh also, Go Billikens .

Posted by: tsrblke at March 03, 2013 03:34 PM (GaqMa)

215 throw all of them--all the ergs--into volcanoes.   ASAP


otherwise, they'll throw us in.  Simple, innit?

Posted by: living precariously in the Sequester World at March 03, 2013 03:34 PM (Dll6b)

216 I just meant the movie critiques are pretentious and perhaps he doesn't believe then. I'm sure he can be quite as nasty as other anonymous liberals I've seen posting on politics boards.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2013 03:35 PM (C+2eB)

217 We are Monad. You are the Kirk?

Posted by: Monad at March 03, 2013 03:35 PM (MMC8r)

218 Monaddled

Posted by: Suffering under sequester at March 03, 2013 03:35 PM (Lxw+T)

219 Thanks ace!

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2013 03:35 PM (7B7jB)

220 Is erg his real handle or did it morph into that from something else? "Erg" sounds the noise a cat makes when coughing up a hairball-Erg!! Erg!! Erg!! Ewwwwww. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2013 07:30 PM (C+2eB) Early on, he used to comment near exclusively as ergastularius, which is a type of sea grouper. I briefly tried to get The Horde on board with calling him fish-boy, but it never caught on.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 03, 2013 03:36 PM (MBqvE)

221 “She was doing her job, and they were trying to bully her. In an e-mail, they called her the vilest names — bitch, c--t, a--hole.” Posted by: Methos at March 03, 2013 07:27 PM (hO9ad) In other words, things the tolerant left, including Obuttfuck's million dollar bundler Bill Maher, call Michelle Malkin and Sarah Palin every single fucking day without fail?

Posted by: ol_dirty_/b/tard at March 03, 2013 03:36 PM (qYKBf)

222 219 We are Monad. You are the Kirk? If you can't tell by the bulge in my crotch, you're not much of a judge.

Posted by: James Tiberius Kirk at March 03, 2013 03:36 PM (Lxw+T)

223 I thought a monad was that atom symbol thingy.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at March 03, 2013 03:36 PM (jEX9b)

224 Lava lamp.

Posted by: steevy at March 03, 2013 03:36 PM (9XBK2)

225 qpdsteve - I read that article and your comment. The easiest way to shut him up is ask him to post the original exchange, so that the audience can judge for themselves whether the Rep has a valid point. Then say, if you don't, well you're just is just a prat. and use that word, 'prat'. _ I'm not going to go through the hassle of registering an account there.

Posted by: BumperStickerist at March 03, 2013 03:36 PM (9P+hO)

226 Yes, Ace, it is time to give erg his own name. I don't like that he uses Breitbarts name. that upsets me.

Posted by: L, elle at March 03, 2013 03:37 PM (0PiQ4)

227 how about megma like smegma?

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 03:37 PM (LCRYB)

228 Nuke him from space. It';s the only way to be sure.

Posted by: TANSTAAFL at March 03, 2013 03:37 PM (VS514)

229

Ace - would "Volcanic Id" work for the Erg-Meister?

 

Alternatively, "The Vulcanologist" has a certain ring to it.

Posted by: A. Pendragon at March 03, 2013 03:37 PM (wJliR)

230 Ergomaniac? EreIgoagain!!?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2013 03:37 PM (C+2eB)

231 Lots of good ideas for what to call the erg-roach here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lassen_Volcanic

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2013 03:37 PM (7B7jB)

232 So...Abe Vigoda doesn't reprise his role as Chief of the Waponis in this film? Crap!

Posted by: somebody else, not me at March 03, 2013 03:38 PM (nZvGM)

233 230 Ace,

Or Flowy like chloe?

I do think socking Andrew Breitbary should be a Valu-Rite drowning offense...

Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 03, 2013 03:38 PM (LRFds)

234 Alan Smithee.

Posted by: Monad at March 03, 2013 03:38 PM (MMC8r)

235 For Fuck's sake - Andrew Tonkovich is not listed as a professor at UCI. He's on their website as a Lecturer in composition. Here: http://www.humanities.uci.edu/english/people/faculty.php I started with "Core Faculty" and then kept moving down the line of tabs until I finally got to the one with Tonkovich. _ What the living hell is it with Lefties and credential inflating.

Posted by: BumperStickerist at March 03, 2013 03:38 PM (9P+hO)

236 Way back in the beginning, erg used to use the names of semi-obscure historical figures. I believe he did so to pretend he was well-read.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 03, 2013 03:38 PM (+oin+)

237

Erg/evil munchkin/whatever  can be Lava Boy.

 

And "curious" or whatever she is playing this month can be "Shark Girl".

 

That there is from a very compelling kid's movie, which was very surrealistic and yet, satisfying.

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch and the Ides of/ at March 03, 2013 03:38 PM (Md8Uo)

238 >>>I believe he did so to pretend he was well-read. wikipedia counts as "reading"

Posted by: erg at March 03, 2013 03:39 PM (LCRYB)

239 Ergo-gnome-ick ?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2013 03:39 PM (C+2eB)

240 "Dr. Benway" was one I recall.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 03, 2013 03:39 PM (LVtr+)

241 Morons, Epic. I have not laughed so hard since the comment about Guiliani dragging a corpse around the arena. Or someone beating a piece of anatomy as if it owed substantial coin.

Posted by: Bob, Henchman at Large at March 03, 2013 03:39 PM (1efte)

242 What the living hell is it with Lefties and credential inflating. Careerism

Posted by: Suffering under sequestered at March 03, 2013 03:39 PM (Lxw+T)

243

Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 03, 2013 07:34 PM (LRFds)

 

Meh, I don't think it's that you're a "loser"

I'd love to read Locke.  But currently less it's less important to me than secondary interpretations of Locke (and to a lesser extent bastardizations of Locke.)

 

Thusly, I've only read about Locke.  The people who give me summaries to read have read tons of Locke, and I trust them, so I'm fairly certain I have a reasonable grasp of it. (Also I've read Aquinas, which arguably* Locke follows from.  So that helps.)

 

*Note: arguably and "follows from" not "certainly" and "is directly related to."  There are trends between the two, Locke of course though dropping the religious nature that was ever present in Aquinas's work.  "Follows from" probably isn't the right phrase though.  "Related to?"  "Said in the same breath as?" I'm not sure which works.

Posted by: tsrblke at March 03, 2013 03:40 PM (GaqMa)

244 by the way the Silly Little Bitch hasn't been here today.

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 03:40 PM (LCRYB)

245 how about Silly Little Bitch?

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 03:40 PM (LCRYB)

246 What's this about Jabbo?

Posted by: Jasper at March 03, 2013 03:40 PM (dSE0q)

247 subduction off the Northern California coast of the Gorda Plate diving below the North American Plate. Okay, that's Hawt.

Posted by: A horny geologist at March 03, 2013 03:41 PM (Lxw+T)

248 how about megma like smegma? Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 07:37 PM (LCRYB)


I think Mergma is the best mash up of that.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Totes waiting until after March Madness. at March 03, 2013 03:41 PM (Gk3SS)

249 I must admit,I expected gloating after the election but I thought the trolls would than move on.

Posted by: steevy at March 03, 2013 03:41 PM (9XBK2)

250 In other words, things the tolerant left, including Obuttfuck's million dollar bundler Bill Maher, call Michelle Malkin and Sarah Palin every single fucking day without fail?

Posted by: ol_dirty_/b/tard at March 03, 2013 07:36 PM (qYKBf)


Yup. Though the causality may flow the other way. The verbal abuse keeps their own flying monkeys in line, so they figure it will eventually work on us.

Posted by: Methos at March 03, 2013 03:41 PM (hO9ad)

251 BumperStickerist: thanks for checking/correcting that. Nice to know Andrew Tonkovich ain't getting as big an inflated salary/calpers retirement that way (or at least, I'd hope).

Still, every cent that palace guards like him make from the State of California is purely wasted.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2013 03:41 PM (7B7jB)

252 Just so I can keep the plot straight--is the volcano jump before or after the scene where they all think Yeager is dead, but he comes walking out of the smoke with parachute in hand? Or maybe you didn't realize that part was in the script?

Posted by: Random name at March 03, 2013 03:41 PM (hL/zs)

253 What the living hell is it with Lefties and credential inflating. Institutionalism sets their pecking order. You don't know shit if some bureaucrat didn't give you a certificate.

Posted by: zsasz at March 03, 2013 03:42 PM (MMC8r)

254 What the living hell is it with Lefties and credential inflating. They only have credentials, not accomplishments.

Posted by: AmishDude at March 03, 2013 03:42 PM (xSegX)

255 Magma Anus Opus.

Posted by: andycanuck at March 03, 2013 03:42 PM (ORGYc)

256

@ace,

 

So can you force someone into a nick on this thing? Is that the plan, or is this just us calling him that?

(Hey, I'm relatively new here and don't know all the rules yet . )

Posted by: tsrblke at March 03, 2013 03:42 PM (GaqMa)

257 >>>So can you force someone into a nick on this thing? Is that the plan, or is this just us calling him that? I mean coordinated bullying. Like how Palin-Steele was ultimately forced to respond to "Dum-Dum" and "Dummy." (Two very underrated insults, by the way.)

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 03:43 PM (LCRYB)

258 there is no way to force him to take a nick. I can't even ban him, because he's apparently a homeless man who uses starbuck connections and stuff.

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 03:44 PM (LCRYB)

259

ah I see.

 

Well keep me posted I'm going to watch TV. And drink .

Posted by: tsrblke at March 03, 2013 03:44 PM (GaqMa)

260 PMDum Dum must be furious that another troll was the subject of a thread by Ace himselfI now see palin steele going through a book of bus passes to slowly pass by ergie's house every half hour

Posted by: kbdabear at March 03, 2013 07:19 PM (mCvL4)

 

It is funny how they both have an unhealthy obsession with ace.  Erg clearly has that violent stalker vibe about him.  Dum Dum had that unrequited love obsession about him, such as when he urged ace to "use your powers for good!"

Posted by: buzzion at March 03, 2013 03:44 PM (GULKT)

261 (Hey, I'm relatively new here and don't know all the rules yet . ) Posted by: tsrblke at March 03, 2013 07:42 PM (GaqMa)


Remember, the very very best thing you can do when you run across a reference here to something you don't understand is to scurry off to google to look it up.   That can never ever go awry. 

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Totes waiting until after March Madness. at March 03, 2013 03:44 PM (Gk3SS)

262 is the volcano jump before or after the scene where they all think Yeager is dead, but he comes walking out of the smoke with parachute in hand? It's just after the part where the Tigerfish busts through the ice and surfaces a mile from Ice Station Zebra.

Posted by: Suffering under sequester at March 03, 2013 03:44 PM (Lxw+T)

263 Oh also Bumper: thanks for reading that.

I understand if you don't want to comment, but just FYI: you can post anonymously, in which case they only ask for an email address (which I believe you can fake) and a screen name before they post your comment.

I consider myself friends with OCWeekly's editor-in-chief, Gustavo Arellano, who is liberal but (as far as I can tell) not absolutely crazy. He's even pro-gun ownership, and wrote recently something about his Mossburg. But some of the folks he's hired since becoming editor to write... well, let's just say I don't think he's checking everybody's references, to say the least.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2013 03:44 PM (7B7jB)

264 Throw his own words back at him. Call him 'knucklehead'.

Posted by: Meghan's McCans at March 03, 2013 03:45 PM (xfWVe)

265 >>>Erg clearly has that violent stalker vibe about him. Dum Dum had that unrequited love obsession about him, such as when he urged ace to "use your powers for good!" erg's in love with me too. I'm not baiting; he is.

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 03:45 PM (LCRYB)

266 Rex Dinkweed? (for Rex Reed the movie critic)

Posted by: soothsayer at March 03, 2013 03:45 PM (1WM2H)

267 by the way the Silly Little Bitch hasn't been here today.

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 07:40 PM (LCRYB)



Ace, stop taking the trolls so seriously you have a lot of good commenters.

Posted by: cm9000 at March 03, 2013 03:46 PM (vfB2N)

268 269 Beat me to it. 'Knucklehead.'

Posted by: zsasz at March 03, 2013 03:46 PM (MMC8r)

269 I have this other imbecile on twitter who's in love with me. I asked him the other day: "Are you trying to get my approval? You won't have it."

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 03:46 PM (LCRYB)

270 Igneous rock is rock formed by volcanic action right?How about Igneous.

Posted by: steevy at March 03, 2013 03:47 PM (9XBK2)

271 he's apparently a homeless man who uses starbuck connections and stuff. Probably Panera, and nurses a small tea for seven hours.

Posted by: Suffering under sequester at March 03, 2013 03:47 PM (Lxw+T)

272 Let's see volcano...Vulcan + something insulting?

Got it.

Sybok

Posted by: Methos at March 03, 2013 03:47 PM (hO9ad)

273 Hillbillies = the Republican Party (Duh!) Ned Beatty = America I can't believe you knuckleheads don't get this symbolism.

Posted by: erg at March 03, 2013 03:47 PM (2jQGY)

274 In keeping with Horde culture, you should have broken out the Firefly stuff about the psychotic dictator Shan Yu. "Live with a man 40 years. Share his house, his meals. Speak on every subject. Then tie him up, and hold him over the volcano's edge. And on that day, you will finally meet the man."

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 03, 2013 03:47 PM (MBqvE)

275 Sybok GAAAAAHHH!!!

Posted by: James Tiberius Kirk at March 03, 2013 03:48 PM (Lxw+T)

276

This was beautiful. Ace not only not only beat the troll, he disembowelled erg and planted his head on a spike outside the city gates.

 

Bravo. *golf clap*

Posted by: Donna V. at March 03, 2013 03:48 PM (7FqJH)

277 Viper fighter = penis Cylon Raider = boob battlestar = vaigzsh & tubes base-star = butthole it's all very simple, knuckleheads

Posted by: erg the explainer at March 03, 2013 03:48 PM (LCRYB)

278 I hate to say this--went and read the thread. You guys could have really sucked him in --should have held your fire like just one minute longer. He actually came in with the volcano=superego b.s. after one of you had already 'fessed up to the con.

Posted by: tasker at March 03, 2013 03:48 PM (r2PLg)

279 197 is it time to give erg his own name?

1) Dum-Dum (used before, but apparently very effective)

2) Professor Science (I like this one but he's so stupid he'll take it as a compliment)

3) Something else? Volcano or something?

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 07:32 PM

Roger Ergbert?

Cliff Clavin?

Erg Clavin?

Posted by: Roger Ergbert at March 03, 2013 03:49 PM (mCvL4)

280 247 TSRBike,

wasn't aiming that at you or saying you felt it...some 19 year old pizza maker who can't afford a car implied I was a loser last night when I missed this takedown b/c A manager and I were discussing the idiocy of claiming a positive bill of rights was superior to a 'negative one."

Kid said "when did you learn that?' and called me a loser when I said I started reading on the founding at ages 5-7 and economics by 9-11.

I prefer reading the founders interpretations and applications of Locke's ideas on humanity because of course those ideas are, or at least were the basis for our system.

My point being I would love to help spread some source materials from Locke, Smith, and Hamilton as well as lighter fare such as Seasons of Justified and Elementary as well as things Ace and the Cobs chose.

I donated way too much money to Romney this cycle, and now it appears Boehner is going to roll over for Obama and Reid which flies in EVERY goddamned interpretation of proper role and relative strength of powers I have ever seen.

I do not recall quite simply Tip O'neill  or Dick gephardt caving for Reagan or Bush even when we held the Senate and Presidency....once again the GOP "unilaterally" disarms.

I'm tired of it and would be better served throwing the money away than paying Boehner to have the best seat in the house to enact Obama's agenda.

Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 03, 2013 03:49 PM (LRFds)

281 how about megma like smegma?

Might cause confusion

Posted by: meggie mccain at March 03, 2013 03:49 PM (hO9ad)

282 What does God want with a Starbucks connection?

Posted by: James Tiberius Kirk at March 03, 2013 03:49 PM (Lxw+T)

283 This is so hilarious, I can't stop laughing. THIS is what we're up against?

Posted by: beach at March 03, 2013 03:49 PM (XYSwB)

284 >>>He actually came in with the volcano=superego b.s. after one of you had already 'fessed up to the con. I know but he was obviously 5-10 minutes behind, he was always that long behind in all of his previous comments.

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 03:50 PM (LCRYB)

285

Ace, you seem to be guarded with the amount of validation which you hand out.

 

Are you as careful with your vital bodily fluids, or is that too personal a question?

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch and the Ides of/ at March 03, 2013 03:50 PM (Md8Uo)

286 unless you google Lemon Party or bukkake, tsrblke

Posted by: L, elle at March 03, 2013 03:50 PM (0PiQ4)

287 He did not invent this critique – Weber did when he noticed about 100 years ago the contradiction of the mass delusion of especially Protestant religion operating in the marketplace of ideas of capitalist civilization. Only, the delusion was the organizing principle of mass exploitation.

Yeh, whatever ..

Posted by: Penny at March 03, 2013 03:51 PM (mCvL4)

288 Well, he did fall for a con, so why not call him 'Mark'.

Posted by: Meghan's McCans at March 03, 2013 03:52 PM (xfWVe)

289 maybe just go with his Ultimate Insult, Ace call him Knucklehead?

Posted by: L, elle at March 03, 2013 03:52 PM (0PiQ4)

290 Remember, the very very best thing you can do when you run across a reference here to something you don't understand is to scurry off to google to look it up. That can never ever go awry.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Totes waiting until after March Madness. at March 03, 2013 07:44 PM (Gk3SS)


I have no idea what you're talking about

Posted by: tub girl at March 03, 2013 03:52 PM (hO9ad)

291 any one of Anderson's films, cocksucker. You have absolutely nothing to say about the film, except that you don't understand. This seems to me a week reason to write a 2000 word film review. (but, maybe I missed something from your "review." I'll admit I only read the first three opening and closing words of each paragraph of everything you write in order to "understand" you – sort of like reading Harold Robbins novel, in which every other chapter closes with the fuck scene, in order to "understand" Harold Robbins). And then, you asserted some puerile nonsense about "Volcano dream sequence." For whatever reason, you pleasure yourself that I did not see the film, because I did not immediately play your game. It's your blog, and your cohort of idiots. You can believe whatever you want. I'll admit that the first post about "Volcano" was remotely plausible as some endcredit feature – after all, Anderson does the same thing in Punch Drunk with outtakes. and yes, I did not watch the end credits to the film. But no, I didn't fall for your bullshit. if I was really stupid, I would believe, as you do, that Steve Colbert is one of your fellow traveler knuckleheads (and yes, you really believe it), or that the Sex Pistols rose antiabortion songs. Your reoccurring homage to early 90s hairbands is also pleasing in a homoeroticism for autistics kind of way. There are other examples. You are an idiot when it comes to the examination of anything that exists in our common culture. This is why you are a knucklehead, with a vast public record of your stupidity.

Posted by: andrew breitbart at March 03, 2013 03:53 PM (BfXv+)

292 The Zombies in 'Warm Bodies" had a lot more personality and depth of character development than any of the characters in "The Master" did.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 03, 2013 03:53 PM (hTDbY)

293 >>>He actually came in with the volcano=superego b.s. after one of you had already 'fessed up to the con. and plus he had already bought in earlier... I was looking for something even better, but I began suspecting he'd keep hedging on it so that we wouldn't get better than we already had. And then he said "volcano=superego." yeah, I wish I had waited 5 mintues. But, again, he was 5 minutes behind. The acknowledgement of the burn didn't happen for another 5 minutes after that.

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 03:53 PM (LCRYB)

294 BTW, Ace, your RT got me featured on Twitchy during the #seriousyouguys thing (serious you guys, tear down this wall). Thanks!

Posted by: ol_dirty_/b/tard at March 03, 2013 03:54 PM (qYKBf)

295 Ooooooo. Fish-boy's angry.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 03, 2013 03:54 PM (MBqvE)

296 is it time to give erg his own name? lascivious lava, or, lala for short

Posted by: beach at March 03, 2013 03:54 PM (XYSwB)

297 Ooh, the roach is crawling on the furniture again!

Who's going to get to spray the Raid this time?

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2013 03:55 PM (7B7jB)

298 what's that, knucklehead? You play with your own feces? Well, I didn't ask, but okay, I guess you felt the need to share.

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 03:55 PM (LCRYB)

299 Erg is a pretty stupid name to start with, so a new name might not be necessary. Maybe Urd - rhymes with Turd. Ard - short for 'tard. But, Erg is still pretty bad.

Posted by: Joejm65 at March 03, 2013 03:55 PM (UZuc4)

300 "the Sex Pistols rose antiabortion songs. ?!! A rose by any other name would smell as (un) sweet?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2013 03:56 PM (C+2eB)

301 so, knucklehead, the Volcano WASN'T a symbol for the superego?

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 03:56 PM (LCRYB)

302

dearest ace ,
    True love is not how you forgive, but how you forget, not what you see but what you feel, not how you listen but how you understand, and not how you let go but how you hold on.



sincerely yours ,

               erg

Posted by: ette at March 03, 2013 03:56 PM (nqBYe)

303 Nice work ace. The volcanic spew stayed up for what, about 17 seconds this time?

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2013 03:57 PM (7B7jB)

304 298 >>>He actually came in with the volcano=superego b.s. after one of you had already 'fessed up to the con. and plus he had already bought in earlier... I was looking for something even better, but I began suspecting he'd keep hedging on it so that we wouldn't get better than we already had. And then he said "volcano=superego." yeah, I wish I had waited 5 mintues. But, again, he was 5 minutes behind. The acknowledgement of the burn didn't happen for another 5 minutes after that. Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 07:53 PM (LCRYB) _____________________ Oh well. I think you screaming at Bumper is funny as hell. TAKE THE KILL SHOT!!! oy. I'm getting a headache laughing at that thread. too bad no one mentioned that Brian Dennehy played the volcano--I guess that would have been over the top.

Posted by: tasker at March 03, 2013 03:58 PM (r2PLg)

305 tell me more about the Volcano Imagery in The Master, Silly Little Bitch. Explicate it for me.

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 03:58 PM (LCRYB)

306 When I think of Ace's old thread about Dum-Dum and the transference of Captain America's strengths and virtues to Obama, well ... tears of nostalgia well up ..

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/290333.php
 

Posted by: kbdabear at March 03, 2013 03:58 PM (mCvL4)

307

You pulled the pin at the right moment, but part of me does regret that he didn't have more buy-in time on the pot of eels bit, because I have a feeling that would be right in Erg's interpretational wheelhouse.

Posted by: A. Pendragon at March 03, 2013 03:59 PM (wJliR)

308 eggmcmuffin, you write the same comment over and over. You havent said anything new in years. You regurgitate here what you read at Mother Jones. And get back under the stairs, Thing That Lives Under The Stairs.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 03, 2013 03:59 PM (yVBJI)

309 what's that, knucklehead? You play with your own feces?

The erg-roach LOVES to recycle.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2013 03:59 PM (7B7jB)

310 Really? His best response is a poop joke?

Really? You're surprised?

Really? You're talking to yourself?

Posted by: MadisonConservative at March 03, 2013 04:00 PM (sb+ta)

311 volcano=superego Sometimes a volcano is just a volcano.

Posted by: Freud at March 03, 2013 04:00 PM (MMC8r)

312 knucklehead, you're so fucking stupid, and all the leftist cant in the world can't raise your IQ from the mid-eighties. NO ONE -- NO ONE -- with half a brain could miss the game that was going on. Everyone who came into the thread INSTANTLY GOT IT, instantly understood the Tsunami of Bullshit that was crashing on the shore, and played along. No one emailed or DM'd each other. Everyone just "got it." Everyone, of course-- except you.

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 04:01 PM (LCRYB)

313 the transference of Captain America's strengths and virtues to Obama That's a bit like a Vulcan having sex with a Horta. Even when I saw it I didn't believe it

Posted by: James Tiberius Kirk at March 03, 2013 04:01 PM (Lxw+T)

314 LOL! Someone added this: 421 Volcano? Serious you guys! Posted by: Erg, Ergo, ass-clown at March 03, 2013 07:18 PM (PKRPm)

Posted by: tasker at March 03, 2013 04:01 PM (r2PLg)

315 True love can be felt more in the silence than in the words.

Posted by: ette at March 03, 2013 04:01 PM (nqBYe)

316 Too bad the erg-roach "volcano" is only about 1.75 inches in elevation, if ya know what I mean.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2013 04:01 PM (7B7jB)

317 sorry, giggling.

Posted by: ette at March 03, 2013 04:01 PM (nqBYe)

318 Sheesh is it safe to come out yet?

Posted by: esch at March 03, 2013 04:02 PM (9XVgh)

319 oh shit. the Ultimate Knucklehead is here? for real? this time I get to watch it Live?

Posted by: L, elle at March 03, 2013 04:02 PM (0PiQ4)

320 the fact that you watched Steve Colbert waited he premiered his show, and you actually believed he was a conservative, is shockingly stupid. But, I really think your theories about the sex pistols was the most hilarious. Actually, "Ronald Reagan made conservatism cool," is your crowning achievement of knucklehead culture critique. must've been the Bitburg graveside prayer is that turned you toward the light. But mostly, I think you fulfilled your oedipal destiny too literally, listening to post-coital chit chat from right-wing Mommy

Posted by: andrew breitbart at March 03, 2013 04:03 PM (BfXv+)

321 Maybe next knucklehead will explain that the feces is a metaphor for the metaphysical dichotomy of a complete cretin calling others knuckleheads and then posting as a knucklehead after having been pointed out to be a knucklehead, and subsequently speaking as he feels knuckleheads tend to speak, yet fails to realize that the knucklehead runs deep within the core of knucklehead's being.

Serious You Guys.

Posted by: MadisonConservative at March 03, 2013 04:03 PM (sb+ta)

322 eggmcmuffin, you're the worst kind of stupid person -- a stupid person who thinks he's smart. You are our Joe Biden.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 03, 2013 04:03 PM (hA+ft)

323 Wish I had seen The Master, already, now. We watched Looper, Bourne Legacy, and Men in Black 3 over the past few days. Such crap. Didn't understand why MIB3 got any good reviews, at all. Until I saw who obama's top donors were (will smith & wife). Now, it makes perfect sense.

Posted by: beach at March 03, 2013 04:03 PM (XYSwB)

324 When Palin Steele posted his comment #104, I knew we were in for an epic. I called my wife over to watch.

Posted by: zsasz at March 03, 2013 04:03 PM (MMC8r)

325 "volcano=superego" larf larf larf arf larf larf arf larf larf arf larf larf arf larf larf arf larf larf arf larf larf arf larf larf arf larf larf arf larf larf arf larf larf arf larf larf arf larf larf arf larf larf arf larf larf arf larf larf arf larf larf arf larf larf arf larf larf arf larf larf arf larf larf arf larf larf arf larf larf arf larf larf arf larf larf arf larf larf arf larf larf arf larf larf arf larf larf arf larf larf arf larf larf arf larf larf arf larf larf arf larf larf arf larf larf arf larf larf arf larf larf arf larf larf

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 04:03 PM (LCRYB)

326 tell me more about the Volcano Imagery in The Master, Silly Little Bitch.

Explicate it for me.

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 07:58 PM (LCRYB)



I'm sure there is a blog-history that would explain and clarify this. I just wish I knew it.

Posted by: cm9000 at March 03, 2013 04:03 PM (vfB2N)

327 >>>the fact that you watched Steve Colbert waited he premiered his show

>>>Posted by: andrew breitbart at March 03, 2013 08:03 PM (BfXv+)

English is hard.

Posted by: MadisonConservative at March 03, 2013 04:04 PM (sb+ta)

328

I always thought as erg as Mr. Stupid.

Posted by: YIKES! at March 03, 2013 04:04 PM (mETGQ)

329 Okay, I know most of the memes on this Smart Military Blog, like Val-U-Rite, hobos, pudding, and the barrel. I know that the guys get shirts, and that Allen G allegedly has a blog. But how did the Brian Dennehy thing start?

Posted by: Meghan's McCans at March 03, 2013 04:05 PM (xfWVe)

330 >>>Posted by: soothsayer at March 03, 2013 08:03 PM (hA+ft)

I tell my wife, I tell her, Jill, baby, if you hear some nut trying to review a movie, you just watch the movie through a door. Those volcanoes will scare 'em away.

Posted by: MadisonConservative at March 03, 2013 04:06 PM (sb+ta)

331 >>>he fact that you watched Steve Colbert waited he premiered his show this is all bullshit, by the way. The only thing I said about Steve Colbert was "LOVE his volcano effects."

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 04:06 PM (LCRYB)

332 ooh, and there goes ANOTHER pathetic spew.

Richard Simmons in his pantyhose is more of a man.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2013 04:06 PM (7B7jB)

333 hahaha @ oedipal destiny! See, this is the same sophomoric campus clap trap youve always spouted from your tiny brain. You dont even realize how idiotic you sound.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 03, 2013 04:06 PM (DlaLh)

334 "volcano=superego" giggle giggle giggle titter guffaw larf giggle giggle giggle titter guffaw larf giggle giggle giggle titter guffaw larf giggle giggle giggle titter guffaw larf giggle giggle giggle titter guffaw larf giggle giggle giggle titter guffaw larf giggle giggle giggle titter guffaw larf giggle giggle giggle titter guffaw larf giggle giggle giggle titter guffaw larf giggle giggle giggle titter guffaw larf

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 04:07 PM (LCRYB)

335 Knucklehead's got a lot of mommy issues, doesn't he? Oh, and erg? Just so you know, Nietzsche is pronounced 'Nee-Chee.' All the koffeehouse kidz think you're talking about some Klingon.

Posted by: zsasz at March 03, 2013 04:07 PM (MMC8r)

336 qpd steve sagree with the axioms you use, Mr. Tonkovich, as the underpinnings of your tendentiousness. It is apparent that you are able only to apply your gimlet eye and reasoning skills in one direction. But, that is a different argument, and you have no demonstrated facility with those critical reasoning skills needed to come to the conclusion. You - clearly - just accept premises if you happen to agree with the source. That is a discussion for another time. In the here-and-now, Mr. Tonkin, please post the original exchange. You could ask the Representative for permission, if you deem it necessary. Given your demonstrable self-congratulatory nature it seems appropriate that the readers to judge for themselves Rep. John Campbell's assessment of, in your words, the "rhetorical situation." Certainly, we should be able to gauge for ourselves your assessment of Rep. Campbell's, in your words "epistle." And whether his tone was "totally inappropriate." Whether there is a "total lack of evidence." Whether Rep. Campbell's "epistle" lacks "citation" or if he makes "appeals based on credibility or fact." And, lastly, whether or not Rep. Campbell fails to "construct an actual argument." Bear in mind, my good UCI Lecturer, that these judgments will be made in comparison to your effort. So, when can we - the audience - see this document, this "epistle" that you reviewed? Or are you in the habit of not allowing people to judge for themselves? - In case it gets deleted or if Tonkovich responds in an erg-like manner. I, for one, don't much care what Tonkovich feels at the moment.

Posted by: BumperStickerist at March 03, 2013 04:07 PM (9P+hO)

337 Whered he go? The Knucklehead must be googling. Show up, Knuckelhead. You got some 'splainin to do.

Posted by: L, elle at March 03, 2013 04:08 PM (0PiQ4)

338 Erg begins to sound like he's going to lapse into word salad any minute. The sad soul may indeed be a homeless and mentally ill person.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2013 04:08 PM (C+2eB)

339 "volcano=superego" HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 04:09 PM (LCRYB)

340

What this reminded me of: Once I was in a bar with an old boyfriend and the old hippie sitting next to us horned in on our conversation. He clearly wanted someone to talk to, so we put up with him for a while. He told us that he had been born in East Berlin in '40, his dad had been a soldier killed on the Eastern Front and he remembered the air raids over Germany like they were yesterday. He then told us he had escaped over the Berlin Wall when he was 18. Now the guy sounded completely American, but I've met other foreign born citizens who completely lost their accents so that in and of itself didn't convince me he was bullshitting us. The fact that the Berlin Wall didn't exist in 1958 did.

 

 In the meantime, my boyfriend was holding his trump card - he had spent his junior year in Germany and later spent a few years working for Siemens over there, so he's fluent in German. After a while, he had enough and started speaking to the BSer in German. The guy couldn't speak a word. He said, with a perfectly straight face, that he had blocked out his native language entirely because his life over there was just so traumatic. Bill said, "Yeah, I'm sure climbing over a nonexistent wall is a real traumatic experience." Then the phoney paid his bill and got out of there in a hurry.

Posted by: Donna V. at March 03, 2013 04:09 PM (7FqJH)

341 I saw this movie.  At the beginning I was worried about this movie.  Phoenix plays a weirdo.  And for the next two hours, its a movie of weirdos.  The only interesting part of the movie is Phoenix's ability to make hooch from every toxic chemical possible.  Eventually that is dropped, for no reason. 

This movie was a muddled mess and you never really know what is going on or even how much time is passing.  At one point Amy Adams is preggers and by the end she is not.  Did she have the baby?

Ultimately, this movie is not worth seeing.  Its a waste of two hours. 

Posted by: Jcelephant at March 03, 2013 04:10 PM (TYm2g)

342 Heh dude doesn't even know the volcano is a freaking metaphor.

Bet he's a classic 1.1 SP. Most 'progressives' are.

Posted by: esch at March 03, 2013 04:10 PM (9XVgh)

343
I miss you a little, I guess you could say, a little too much, a little too often, and a little more each day.

erg

Posted by: ette at March 03, 2013 04:10 PM (nqBYe)

344 >>>Ultimately, this movie is not worth seeing. Its a waste of two hours. but during the credits there's a SICK volcano scene

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 04:10 PM (LCRYB)

345 And I'm now 100% sure Knucklehead is a 'brony.'

Posted by: zsasz at March 03, 2013 04:11 PM (MMC8r)

346 Shouldn't we at some point stop lying and tell him that there was a volcano in the movie? I mean it's like drowning a retard at this point.

Posted by: Dr Spank at March 03, 2013 04:11 PM (4cRnj)

347 he left?

I could fill a thousand pages telling you how I felt and still you would not understand. So now I leave without a sound, except that of my heart shattering as it hits the ground

erg

Posted by: ette at March 03, 2013 04:11 PM (nqBYe)

348 well, a "superego" scene actually, with the volcano standing in for the superego.* * As of course the volcano is frequently used as a metaphor for the superego. After all, the superego represents repression, suppression, control, rules, and reason. Of course you use a volcano to symbolize it.

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 04:12 PM (LCRYB)

349 "I hate erg, and if I ever see him in public, he's going to get fucked up. " You're pathetic. You're an epileptic pussy. I'll meet you in a dark alley with a strobe light.

Posted by: andrew breitbart at March 03, 2013 04:12 PM (BfXv+)

350 he's going to lapse into word salad Bones had Spock try programming that into the food synthesizers. That was one of the best pranks McCoy ever pulled on Lt. Pointy Ears.

Posted by: James Tiberius Kirk at March 03, 2013 04:12 PM (Lxw+T)

351 346 Donna V,

heh...all the world loves a lover...

It's like the Hurricane bullshit...


Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 03, 2013 04:13 PM (LRFds)

352 lint licker

Posted by: ette at March 03, 2013 04:13 PM (nqBYe)

353 Brain cloud. It makes one confuse a movie in which a character jumps into a volcano with one in which no character jumps into a volcano.

Posted by: somebody else, not me at March 03, 2013 04:13 PM (nZvGM)

354 In Erg's defense, every movie has girls getting chucked into volcanoes if you squint hard enough while watching, and do enough acid beforehand. 

Posted by: @PurpAv at March 03, 2013 04:14 PM (/gHaE)

355 SERENDIPITY sucked and Joan Cusack is a goof. But there's one scene with Cusack and Catherine Zeta Jones. CZJ is rambling on and on with a bunch of trite shit and Cusack says, to himself, can you believe this?? "She thinks she's the first person ever to think of that stuff." That's you, eggmcmuffin. You never had an original thought in your life. You're a goddam parrot for what you read in Mother Jones.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 03, 2013 04:14 PM (KwX0v)

356 You're pathetic. You're an epileptic pussy. I'll meet you in a dark alley with a strobe light.

And a disco ball, no doubt.

"We're gonna have a dance-off!!1!"
The only thing dancing will be ace's foot on the erg-roach's ample ass.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2013 04:14 PM (7B7jB)

357 way to change the subject, Knucklehead.

Posted by: L, elle at March 03, 2013 04:14 PM (0PiQ4)

358 354 well, a "superego" scene actually, with the volcano standing in for the superego.* Ze volcano represents ze vagina, ze big hole vis ze deadly hot magma zat vill burn your svanschtucker clean off.

Posted by: Freud at March 03, 2013 04:14 PM (MMC8r)

359 that's probably it, somebody else, not me. meanwhile I forgot to say: "volcano=superego" LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 04:14 PM (LCRYB)

360 Is the master worth watching? I read somewhere it was not so good.

Posted by: ab at March 03, 2013 04:14 PM (U665Z)

361

Erg is just going with Huizinga's Hermeneutic Psycho-Typology of Geological Features and applying them to film- to wit:

 

Volcano:  Superego

Geyser:  Id

Caldera:  Ego

Artesian Well:  Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Tectonic Plate:  Uncontrollable Flatulence/Hysterical Pregnancy

 

Very, very straight-forward.

Posted by: A. Pendragon at March 03, 2013 04:15 PM (wJliR)

362 An ergastulum was a Roman building used to hold in chains dangerous slaves, or to punish other slaves. The ergastulum was usually subsurface, built as a deep, roofed pit - large enough to allow the slaves to work within it and containing narrow spaces in which they slept. They were common structures on all slave-using farms (latifundium). The etymology is disputed between two possible Greek roots 'ergasterios' (workshop) and 'ergastylos' (pillar to which slaves were tethered). The ergastulum was made illegal during the reign of Hadrian. The term is also used to describe any small Roman prison. You may now continue.

Posted by: @SOEarpiece at March 03, 2013 04:15 PM (QupBk)

363 Bumper: thanks!

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2013 04:15 PM (7B7jB)

364 197 is it time to give erg his own name? Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 07:32 PM (LCRYB) My favorite internet name of all time is Master Sergeant Soup Sandwich. Erg deserves a nom du net like H.R. Puffenpecker, Esquire, or Sir Bullshitsalot of the Volcano.

Posted by: Minuteman at March 03, 2013 04:15 PM (dSE0q)

365

vaginas tend to be more discriminating than erg.

 

The thread was hilarious.  The more he complains, the better it gets

Posted by: thunderb at March 03, 2013 04:16 PM (Dnbau)

366 For some reason erg reminds me of the punk-ass guard in "The Green Mile." -

Posted by: BumperStickerist at March 03, 2013 04:17 PM (9P+hO)

367 A. Pendragon, Ah, I see. "Volcano" DOES symbolize "superego," then. LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 04:17 PM (LCRYB)

368 BumperStickerist: from what I can tell, Tonkovich is already in the process of responding to your comment. You must have hit a nerve. Good work!

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2013 04:18 PM (7B7jB)

369 Erg was completely safe in the Occupy RapeTent. And he's still pissed about it.

Posted by: zsasz at March 03, 2013 04:18 PM (MMC8r)

370 Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2013 07:10 PM (7B7jB).  WOW!  Had to read it twice just to understand it.  Can see why you ask for help!

Posted by: t-dubyah-d at March 03, 2013 04:18 PM (hhsyr)

371 372 For some reason erg reminds me of the punk-ass guard in "The Green Mile."

-

Posted by: BumperStickerist at March 03, 2013 08:17 PM (9P+hO)

 

You mean the one that went out and started banging the 16 year old that looks like she's 45?

Posted by: buzzion at March 03, 2013 04:19 PM (GULKT)

372 *EVERYONE* In the thread realized what a ridiculous GOOF was going on and started playing against knucklehead... ONLY this one imbecile couldn't see it. It was obvious. Friggin' A. Pendragon started talking about Crispin Glover coming in wearing some kind of weird cape and quoting from an ancient tome. But the knucklhead rose to the bait and pretended he'd seen the volcano that wasn't there... LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 04:19 PM (LCRYB)

373 Mash it into "Igneo-ramus"

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at March 03, 2013 04:19 PM (qqZuQ)

374 And he's still pissed about it.

"Guys? Guys? GUYS?! I'm lubed and ready... hey, GUYS??? Oh thank god, a gerbil..."

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2013 04:19 PM (7B7jB)

375 It hurts when you have someone in your heart but canÂ’t have in your arms.

erg

Posted by: ette at March 03, 2013 04:20 PM (nqBYe)

376 I think the superego is best symbolized by a volcano, as in The Master. Also, by the ejaculating cock of my lord and savior Barack Hussein Obama, as in my mouth.

Posted by: knucklehead at March 03, 2013 04:20 PM (/g1AE)

377 Wow this next one is taking a while. It's going to be one of those hippo-fart kind of posts.

Posted by: esch at March 03, 2013 04:20 PM (9XVgh)

378 Posted by: A. Pendragon at March 03, 2013 08:15 PM (wJliR) LOL.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2013 04:20 PM (C+2eB)

379 The guard that gets shot by friendly fire right after the flash-bang gets tossed in by the assault force. His death by his own side was a remonstration of Vietnam-era tactics, a war which Dick Cheney opted not to go four time. His cock, though, served two terms in Khe San and is still referred to as "Beaucoup!Beaucoup!Ow!" by the local prostitutes.

Posted by: BumperStickerist at March 03, 2013 04:21 PM (9P+hO)

380 BumperStickerist: wow, you did it. Tonkovich posted the letter.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2013 04:21 PM (7B7jB)

381 >>>ONLY this one imbecile couldn't see it. It was obvious. Friggin' A. Pendragon started talking about Crispin Glover coming in wearing some kind of weird cape and quoting from an ancient tome.


Hah!

Posted by: Dr Spank at March 03, 2013 04:21 PM (4cRnj)

382 Knucklehead, I'm concerned about you. Your love crush on Ace is becoming unhealthy. I know it's hard, but you've got to find another guy with a Big 10 inch. Ace likes women. Just accept it and move on. There's love for you out there somewhere. I'll pray for you, Knucklehead.

Posted by: L, elle at March 03, 2013 04:22 PM (0PiQ4)

383 poor knucklehead. two semesters of community college down the drain. LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 04:22 PM (LCRYB)

384 two semesters of community college down the drain.

Well, those baskets ain't gonna weave themselves underwater.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2013 04:24 PM (7B7jB)

385 what was that comment you made, A. Pendragon? Crispin Glover wearing a feraglio??? What's that word? And carrying a swagger-stick (I remember that) and quoting from some book I never heard of. Meanwhile, here's knucklehead, reacting to this: "volcano=superego" LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 04:24 PM (LCRYB)

386 Knucklehead, I'm concerned about you. Your love crush on Ace is becoming unhealthy. I know it's hard, but you've got to find another guy with a Big 10 inch. Ace likes women. Just accept it and move on. There's love for you out there somewhere. I'll pray for you, Knucklehead. Posted by: L, elle at March 03, 2013 08:22 PM (0PiQ4) Meh, Knucklehead gets all the ten-inch cock he can swallow at his glory-hole. I think he's just a masochist who likes the abuse he gets here.

Posted by: ol_dirty_/b/tard at March 03, 2013 04:24 PM (/g1AE)

387 I have an image of a Michael Moore like visage, wallowing in corpulent putrescence and mashing the keyboard in rage.

Posted by: esch at March 03, 2013 04:25 PM (9XVgh)

388 Meh, Knucklehead gets all the ten-inch cock he can swallow at his glory-hole.

Wow, I didn't even know Friendly's HAD those!

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2013 04:26 PM (7B7jB)

389 178 OT top thread at market-ticker.org: David Brody and Jonathan Alter joining the chorus of Obama's abused press corps/harem. Posted by: Methos at March 03, 2013 07:26 PM (hO9ad) James Taranto had a funny twit about this.. James Taranto ‏@jamestaranto Why does Rihanna keep going back? Oops, I meant @jonathanalter.

Posted by: madamex at March 03, 2013 04:26 PM (iqWMW)

390 I dropped a verb in the comment. I'm quite certain he'll LEAP on that. If you care to continue the discussion with him, ask him if he's working enough hours to qualify for the UCI Core Benefits program. It's something like 17.5 hours. - Then ask him about his skillz with statistics. Also, the guy pulled an "erg" - -- hey! an Internet Meme - Boy! I really erg'd that one. Fucking guy just went and erg'd about that book - ---- and referenced several books "Erroneous Zones" among them. I'm reasonably certain that Our Lecturer has only a "Jeopardy!-Level" of familiarity with the works. Nor is he aware of their utility - form following function and all that. Have fun with him. Glad he's in California. Also - ask him why, in God's name, based on what the Lecturer has demonstrated, would Rep. Campbell choose to spend money for the Lecturer's services? -

Posted by: BumperStickerist at March 03, 2013 04:26 PM (9P+hO)

391 Geesh, did he bug out or is Knucklehead just slow?

Posted by: L, elle at March 03, 2013 04:26 PM (0PiQ4)

392 You didn't like the part where Crispin Glover came in wearing the weird cape and quoted from an ancient tome? I thought that was a highlight of the film-a great use of graphic imagery for the shadow side of the personality. I bet erg loved it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2013 04:26 PM (C+2eB)

393 The Crispin Glover bit was undeniably risky, but it was just too compelling not to throw that in to increase Erg's buy-in on the initial absurdity.  And once he'd accepted the premise of the ferraiolo and the Mozarabic Rite, the lad had fully consummated his beclowining.

Posted by: A. Pendragon at March 03, 2013 04:27 PM (wJliR)

394 I'm picturing Erg as either Otto from 'A Fish Called Wanda' or Kent from 'Real Genius.'

Posted by: zsasz at March 03, 2013 04:28 PM (MMC8r)

395 Meanwhile I'm playing the part of Graham Chapman telling people "This has gotten far too silly" and knucklehead STILL doesn't pick up on the fact he's being taken for a ride to Gooftown. "volcano=superego" ROFLMAO LOL larf larf giggle giggle laugh laugh-fart giggle ROFLMAO LOL larf larf giggle giggle laugh laugh-fart giggle ROFLMAO LOL larf larf giggle giggle laugh laugh-fart giggle ROFLMAO LOL larf larf giggle giggle laugh laugh-fart giggle ROFLMAO LOL larf larf giggle giggle laugh laugh-fart giggle ROFLMAO LOL larf larf giggle giggle laugh laugh-fart giggle ROFLMAO LOL larf larf giggle giggle laugh laugh-fart giggle ROFLMAO LOL larf larf giggle giggle laugh laugh-fart giggle ROFLMAO LOL larf larf giggle giggle laugh laugh-fart giggle ROFLMAO LOL larf larf giggle giggle laugh laugh-fart giggle

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 04:28 PM (LCRYB)

396 I'm not sure I want to go take a look. There's a every chance that Rep. Campbell was a moron - but, that does not negate the balance of my points. . Have fun with him.

Posted by: BumperStickerist at March 03, 2013 04:28 PM (9P+hO)

397 You'll rue the day!

Posted by: Kent at March 03, 2013 04:29 PM (9XVgh)

398 Show up with the strobe light already, Knucklehead! I've got things to do.

Posted by: L, elle at March 03, 2013 04:29 PM (0PiQ4)

399 Is erg doing the Creepy Gay Stalker thing again?

Posted by: runninrebel at March 03, 2013 04:30 PM (sL+oi)

400 BumperStickerist, thanks yet again. Let me know if I can ever do you a solid, like flash-freeze you an In-n-Out Double-Double and send it your way. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2013 04:30 PM (7B7jB)

401 Man, I always miss the good stuff.

Posted by: Assault Citizen Anachronda at March 03, 2013 04:31 PM (1c58W)

402 405 runninrebel,

we call that "sunday funnies"

Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 03, 2013 04:31 PM (LRFds)

403
*sniff*
*sniff* *sniff*

I'm smelling a vast right wing conspiracy here!

Posted by: @PurpAv at March 03, 2013 04:31 PM (/gHaE)

404 Yeah - I raised an eyebrow when the SuperEgo showed up relative to the volcano. I went and re-read erg's comment twice looking for the "not the" which should have been there. I guess Psych 101 was missing from erg's formal education. Well, time to go get ready for 'Walking Dead' ... they're finally doing actual stuff. Doing. Actual. Stuff. (looks at Towanda) rather than just talking and describing. g'night.

Posted by: BumperStickerist at March 03, 2013 04:32 PM (9P+hO)

405 by the way knucklehead, If I don't ban you, or edit your remarks to say "I play with my feces," guess what? The reason I'm not doing that is that I'm waiting for you to say something embarrassingly stupid. Did you really think I wanted to talk with you? How sad.

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 04:32 PM (LCRYB)

406 Erg doesn't even like film. He only pretends to like film to get closer to ace.

Ew.

Posted by: runninrebel at March 03, 2013 04:33 PM (sL+oi)

407 PurpAv: it's a vast-right wing DANCING conspiracy!

We're competing to see who can tap dance longest on erg's ass.
Also, how many runs we can snag in his tights.
Thus far, ace and BumperStickerist are the grand champs.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2013 04:33 PM (7B7jB)

408 "volcano=superego" It doesn't even make sense. Volcano=id. Exact opposite of the superego. LOL. Dummy!

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 04:33 PM (LCRYB)

409 Gotta go pick up a pizza at Papa John's. Be right back. LOVING this thread.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2013 04:34 PM (7B7jB)

410 I do think SuperEgo saved the film when he flew around the Earth backward real fast to keep the nukes from blowing up the volcano.

Posted by: zsasz at March 03, 2013 04:34 PM (MMC8r)

411 .. and A. Pendragon and A-Hole. It's a pack, not a herd. fwiw, I showed up as Internet Fight Announcer and College Sociology Major figuring that erg would be revved up to look at hashtags. Blood roaring in his ears and his fingers crackling with electricity and all that.

Posted by: BumperStickerist at March 03, 2013 04:35 PM (9P+hO)

412 poor knucklehead... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD0EUQnElEE

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 04:35 PM (LCRYB)

413 Wow.  The Beclowning continues?  God I hope there's multiple sequels to this.  The first 2 are awesome.  Someone get Pete Jackson on the phone. 

Posted by: JQP at March 03, 2013 04:35 PM (GVL0g)

414 Erg doesn't even like film. He only pretends to like film to get closer to ace. This place gets creepy, 'wanna-fuck-your-garbage' type trolls.

Posted by: zsasz at March 03, 2013 04:35 PM (MMC8r)

415

Wait...

Why would you post about arguing with an idiot on the internet? How can anyone 'win' here?

Posted by: jt2 at March 03, 2013 04:36 PM (KYo3C)

416 >>> For some reason erg reminds me of the punk-ass guard in "The Green Mile."

You mean the lowlife that married the seventeen-year-old-going-on-forty whore? 

Excellent recollection.

Posted by: Fritz at March 03, 2013 04:36 PM (WM+rJ)

417 as the control tower said to the scrambled fighters in Jurassic Park II -- "Remember, FoxFire, target lock will fuck you up"

Posted by: BumperStickerist at March 03, 2013 04:37 PM (9P+hO)

418 Ace, I don't speak French so I don't know, but did erg tell us that Henri the Existential Cat spoke to the rejection of the bourgeois primitivism of right wingers?

I'm just a simple knucklehead, so I thought Henri was just coughing up a hairball

Posted by: kbdabear at March 03, 2013 04:37 PM (mCvL4)

419

"Erg" is like those guys who will tell you that, eg, Robert Bork is a fascist and when you ask for their reason(s) for saying that, they will repeat that Bork is a fascist, only louder. (From an actual "conversation" c 1990 when I was wasting time and money in an MFA program. (All the money in the world won't buy you talent. Ask Kane's Ex.)

But more important, it's time for the ONT. Why? BECAUSE IT'S TIME FOR AN ONT!!

Posted by: mallfly354 at March 03, 2013 04:37 PM (jDjlM)

420 One night while riding the number 6 train to the bronx a wild man was going on much like knuckle head, on and on, for what seemed like forever, he then began to walk between the cars of the train, every time he would reappear he would have one less article of clothing until he was completely naked. When the train stopped an older man who could stand this spectacle no further got up and kicked the man in the chest and threw him trough the doors of the train. Someone needs to kick knucklehead in the chest. Metaphorically of course.

Posted by: General Woundwort at March 03, 2013 04:38 PM (zOP5o)

421 At some point I'd have to google "The Master Plot Summary"...

Posted by: CBrown at March 03, 2013 04:39 PM (oef2I)

422 Agony: being used and played by someone you trusted and never stopped loving unconditionally

sigh, erg .

Posted by: ette at March 03, 2013 04:40 PM (nqBYe)

423 he's still reading even if he isn't posting. you know that he can't help himself. being shit on hete is probably the most attention he gets in life. he probably likes that too. new post up which I guess Ace will probably disagree with.

Posted by: L, elle at March 03, 2013 04:40 PM (0PiQ4)

424 For Erg: I don't know I don't know I don't know where I'ma gonna go When the Volcano blows ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSNxu_405Mk ... with a real calypso beat ...

Posted by: Arbalest at March 03, 2013 04:40 PM (zbCnI)

425 God Gawd.....I take the day off and I miss the greatest con job since TFG's nomination.

Posted by: EC at March 03, 2013 04:41 PM (doBIb)

426 *sigh*

Think he rage quit.

Posted by: Kent at March 03, 2013 04:41 PM (9XVgh)

427 ot/ the post on the sidebar  ,
How Euro-socialism Set off a Fascist Bomb

is  a pretty decent  article

Posted by: ette at March 03, 2013 04:42 PM (nqBYe)

428 432 Kent,

or plateaued and is now in afterglow...it's hard to tell the difference with trolls.

Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 03, 2013 04:42 PM (LRFds)

429 So knucklehead was all, 'Obviously, the volcano was a manifestation of the superego, and the Crispin Glover cameo was a non sequitur that was completely derivative in a MacFarlaneian sense. It was not remotely irreverent as intended.' And we were all, 'your fly has been down for like twenty minutes. Derp.'

Posted by: Meghan's McCans at March 03, 2013 04:43 PM (xfWVe)

430 Oh, ergie. You never should have come back. Ace, Bumper Stickerist and A. Pendragon didn't just eat your lunch. They took liberties with your lunch. They took pictures of themselves with their ass and balls rubbing all over your lunch. And then we all watched as you ate that lunch. And now you're back for dessert? Sometimes, I don't think you come here for the trolling, erg. I think you like the taste.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at March 03, 2013 04:43 PM (JDIKC)

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Posted by: @PurpAv at March 03, 2013 04:45 PM (/gHaE)

432 there is truly no better snark anywhere in the known universe

Posted by: thunderb at March 03, 2013 04:46 PM (Dnbau)

433 i can't say i've ever understood the lure of hanging out with people (blogs)that are so politically  or ideologically opposed to your own   i can understand reading their opinions , but not to troll.

it seems somehow soulless

unless you are doing  so for money.



Posted by: ette at March 03, 2013 04:47 PM (nqBYe)

434 436 - erg, once EoJ hammers you with the Metaphors of Death, you're finished. At that point, you're Luke in the boxing ring with Dragline


Posted by: kbdabear at March 03, 2013 04:48 PM (mCvL4)

435 I was there; saw it happen in real time, I did.

Posted by: A-Hole at March 03, 2013 04:53 PM (7BF56)

436 Holy shit - "Amos Keeto" posed these questions for erg in the original thread: :::"1- In James Cameron's Titanic, what is the significance of the colossal ape, chained in the engine room, that powers the ship's propellers? Is this, as I have often said, a symbolic representation of the thwarted ambitions of the working class? 2- In Gone with the Wind, why does the notorious card cheat and prostitute Sally Three Fingers chase Dorothy's dog, Toto, into a storm cellar and lock the door, with the declaration that 'now it is I who have all the Funions?' 3- In the recent Smurfs feature film, what is the symbolic significance of the phrase 'The black blood burns like living fire' spoken by a depairing Papa Smurf in darkness, as he is finally compelled to look inward and confront the desolation wrought by his insane hubris?"::: Laughed my balls off.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at March 03, 2013 04:56 PM (JDIKC)

437 I would watch that smurf movie in a heartbeat. Who am I kidding; I would watch any smurf movie.

Posted by: A-Hole at March 03, 2013 05:00 PM (7BF56)

438 Aaand EoJ closes the thread,as it should be.

Posted by: L, elle at March 03, 2013 05:01 PM (0PiQ4)

439 Unlike most other people here, I actually saw The Master.  And I happened to be reading the thread last night when BumperStickerist dropped in that "volcano" bit which made me go "um, what?"  I was about to drop in to say "DUDE NO WAI WAS THAT IN THE DIRECTOR'S CUT I DON'T REMEMBER THAT!" and blow the whole schtick when I saw Ace and the others chipping in and realized they were working The Con.

From that point on it was a delightful night of occasionally hitting 'refresh' on my browser to watch the new developments.  I realized that it was better if I just shut up and let the other Morons work their magic.

Good times, people, good times.  Maybe my favorite thread of the year so far.

Posted by: Jeff B. at March 03, 2013 05:03 PM (/COnL)

440 I was going to mention it in the ONT as it was going on but I figured I didn't want a lot of Wildcards coming in mid-con. I thought it was more important to get the scalp.

Posted by: ace at March 03, 2013 05:05 PM (LCRYB)

441 Ace, please: on the contrary, make tonight's ONT the "bathing in Erg's delicious tears" edition.

Thanks in advance...

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2013 05:07 PM (7B7jB)

442 446 Ace,

*boom* maximum kinetic transferal good night Irene

Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 03, 2013 05:07 PM (LRFds)

443 I guess he got his beat down, but what an anti-climax --- which I'm sure it's used to. This was good, Ace. Especially for a Sunday!

Posted by: L, elle at March 03, 2013 05:10 PM (0PiQ4)

444 Erg insists upon himself.

Posted by: toby928© presents at March 03, 2013 05:11 PM (QupBk)

445 Ace: can you add some background calypso music to the ONT... "Volcano" by Jimmy Buffet ... for effect?

Posted by: Arbalest at March 03, 2013 05:11 PM (zbCnI)

446 So we dropped the troll into the volcano, and what did we get?

A libtard that's made an ash of himself.

[/rimshot]

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2013 05:12 PM (7B7jB)

447 The original Master thread and tonight's follow through were works of true masters

Ace was Henry Gondorf and ergie was Doyle Lonnigan

Posted by: kbdabear at March 03, 2013 05:16 PM (mCvL4)

448 ______________________________________

qdpsteve's comment 452 was sweet.






Posted by: _Dave_ at March 03, 2013 05:17 PM (J+Q+d)

449 :::"1- In James Cameron's Titanic, what is the significance of the colossal ape, chained in the engine room, that powers the ship's propellers? Is this, as I have often said, a symbolic representation of the thwarted ambitions of the working class?

Laughed my balls off. Posted by: Empire of Jeff at March 03, 2013 08:56 PM

Me too. This and so much else is why I love you guys in a non theatrical major kind of way.

You just don't find this anywhere else

Has anyone ever thought of creating a Hall of Fame for threads? This thread belongs there if there ever is ibe

Posted by: kbdabear at March 03, 2013 05:19 PM (mCvL4)

450 Thanks _Dave_!

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2013 05:20 PM (7B7jB)

451 Has anyone ever thought of creating a Hall of Fame for threads? This thread belongs there if there ever is ibe

Right on kbdabear...

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 03, 2013 05:22 PM (7B7jB)

452 I have many more questions. For example:

WHO is the masked man who robs Frodo at knife-point in the alley behind the Prancing Pony, in Peter Jackson's Fellowship of the Ring, threatening to 'dick him up, prison-style'? Is he a symbolic representation of Sam's hopeless homosexual fixation on his beloved master?

WHY was Godfather 3 so dark? Is that because darkness is symbolic of not having enough light? But what does that have to do with the mafia????

WHERE IS the Country for Old Men, if that one isn't it? After all, there WAS  an old man in it, the dude (I forget the character's name) who sent dreams into people's heads from his control room at the center of the mountain. And why did the Cohen brothers cast resentful circus clowns in all the lead roles? They weren't professional actors!

WHAT is the significance of that famous scene in Wizard of Oz where Dorothy silently mouths the words 'I hate you cunts' in the background of the Scarecrow and Cowardly Lion dance number? Is this a comment on the rapid post-war industrialization of America?



help us, erg!!

Posted by: Amos Keeto at March 03, 2013 05:47 PM (Wf8bk)

453 My wife says "Threads like these and the erg-smash are why Breitbart only read the comments."

Posted by: Steve the Pirate at March 03, 2013 05:55 PM (/o5zX)

454 Sorry, can I just make a correction? I have just been informed that The Godfather 3 was a buddy flick about bowling, not the mafia, as I had originally stated.

I feel the only thing to do is come clean and admit I didn't see the film. My rash statements arose from a need to impress a bunch of strangers on the internet because I have a medical condition know as 'microphallia' and it has devastated my self esteem. Most excruciating  is the knowledge that I have exposed my ignorance before Erg himself.

I'm sorry. I'm so so so so sorry.

Posted by: Amos Keeto at March 03, 2013 06:18 PM (Wf8bk)

455 Take heart, Amos - it was about bocci ball, as adopted by a rogue branch of the Amish Mafia to pass the time, so you're not as mistaken as you might have thought.  And the traditional volcano imagery in that one is confined to a brief fleeting shot of a cinder cone, so missing it is understandable.  It's not like it took up a significant part of the movie, like with The Master.

Posted by: A. Pendragon at March 03, 2013 07:29 PM (wJliR)

456 Volcanos, lava, marimbas... "Taboo" you guys!

Posted by: Arthur Lyman at March 03, 2013 08:58 PM (UIzi0)

457 I think youo're supposed to spell it "nyucklehead".

Posted by: Ghost of Curly Howard at March 04, 2013 03:34 AM (ZFTpm)

458 Did someone say something about erg  being  thrown into a volcano?  With a trebuchet?


I gave it two snaps up in a circle.

Posted by: eleven at March 04, 2013 06:30 AM (KXm42)

459 Ironically, though erg is correct in theory, he's only correct in terms of what directors of movies think they are doing. However, attempts to undermine the trope of the heroic are usually failures.

Here's the typical setup: selfless, closest-to-leftwing hero possible (we'll call him J'onn Smyth) needs to show Joe Average that heroism is not only impossible, but unthinkable. Now, Joe Average wouldn't watch a movie where nothing heroic happened; and if J'onn Smyth dies tragically in his heroism, it's even worse: he becomes the most heroic of all heroes, since heroism arises out of that tragic realist part of a culture - the martyr. And not the psychological martyr, the honest-to-God praying the Lord's Prayer in the watchtower while sniping dudes until you're killed kind of 'belief as strength' instead of 'belief as stupidity'. Even the Muzbooms have this going more than the liberals.

Instead, JS is set against a right-wing power, or right-wingish; the Nazis are somewhat overdone and anyway, are only ambiguously right wing based on a traditional American perspective. So it has to be the Corporation. We'll call it the Umbrage Corporation, who doesn't care who they offend so long as they get their profits.

Now JS has some kind of tragic flaw, but not so tragic that magic/science/magic-science/beautiful or handsome doctors/radiation/genetic anomalies can't make it somehow work into a strength. JS doesn't want to fight, he doesn't want glory, but he wants to fight for, well, it can't be communism but it can be 'freedom', so long as specific freedoms like the freedom to keep your own earnings or protect yourself with deadly arms isn't mentioned. Freedom of speech *might* figure in, but realistically it doesn't create dramatic tension like, say, being Spawn and just wanting to be Human again if the evil rightwing forces of heaven and hell would let you. (Note: Heaven and Hell are right-wing in different ways, but in Spawn, essentially equally malevolent. The only way this works out is if you're a rogue demon/condemned soul.)

Now, the writer/director will try to work in a bunch of clever things to make the irony of heroism real to the reader, (or he might not; some writers just write within the genre and don't care about this shell game) but if he writes either good characters or effective heroes/villains, his attempts to ironize (as opposed to lionize) the heroic are overshadowed by the monadic heroic figure himself/herself.

The only thing I think that was ever successful at erg's vaunted and over-believed trope is Watchmen, but this is only because all of the 'heroes' are either ineffective heroes or characters you can't identify with. After all, who does everyone seem to really love? Isn't it the intentionally right-wing vessel of wrath Rorshach?

Thought employed to prevent psychological change is remarkably effective at doing just that. 

Posted by: RiverC at March 04, 2013 07:15 AM (El+h4)

460 By the way, unconscious mimicking of this trope is what ruined Voyage of the Dawn Treader. In the original story, their voyage is purely for glory and discovery. The addition of bizarre 'green mist' as an enemy somehow driving their voyage ruins the acts of ordinary heroism that make a travel story like VotDT enjoyable to read. Additionally, in exchange for some silly special effects and a supposedly powerful and spiritual enemy, we lose some of the most imaginatively intense sequences in the book. Even Walden, ostensibly a right-wing by American standards being Christian and all, can't escape forcing everything into a 'freedom loving heroes versus enslaving megapower' story. Give me Odysseus.

Posted by: RiverC at March 04, 2013 07:24 AM (El+h4)

461 "I hate erg, and if I ever see him in public, he's going to get fucked up. " Yeah, tough guy. You're an epileptic pussy. I'll meet you in a dark alley with a strobe light.

Posted by: andrew breitbart at March 04, 2013 10:15 AM (SrCwM)

462 You have a lot of fun here making stuff up. Basically, you still don't have anything to say about the movie, except that you don't understand the film. Fucking ace. When Stephen Colbert debuted, you wrote that you thought he was a Republican. You got the sex pistols wrote antiabortion songs. And my favorite: "Ronald Reagan taught us that conservatism is coolÂ…" Must have been the Bitburg graveside prayer he delivered for fallen SS comrades.or maybe it was "deficits don't matter."

Posted by: andrew breitbart at March 04, 2013 10:24 AM (SrCwM)

463 One of these days, you'll be totally fucking dead, like me. And that's good.

Posted by: andrew breitbart at March 04, 2013 10:26 AM (SrCwM)

464 I think erg meant to say "One of these days, you'll be totally fucking brain-dead, like me. And that's good."




Posted by: Pakimon at March 04, 2013 10:48 AM (ZFTpm)

465 And erg waddles off into the sunset, having put Ace and his nefarious moron (and moronette) minions in their place with his "intellect" and trusty strobe light.

Too bad.

I really wanted to ask him about the political and cinematic implications of the Scooby Doo and the Alvin and the Chipmunks films.

Oh well...

Posted by: Pakimon at March 04, 2013 11:09 AM (ZFTpm)

466 I think erg meant to say "One of these days, you'll be totally fucking brain-dead, like me. And that's good."

He talks like a fag and his shit's all fucked up.


I think he may have been abused as a child.

Posted by: eleven at March 04, 2013 11:11 AM (KXm42)

467

 

I wasn't around for this epic take-down.

Heh....pretty hilarious. 

 

It's too funny that erg sneaks back in to try to have the 'last word'.

Funny...and pathetic.

 

Posted by: wheatie at March 04, 2013 11:29 AM (QPnFm)

468 Must have been the Bitburg graveside prayer he delivered for fallen SS comrades. -------------------- So, you've heard the 'graveside prayer' that Reagan gave at Bitiburg? Yourself? Really?

Posted by: BumperStickerist at March 04, 2013 12:15 PM (9P+hO)

469 What did you, andrew breitbart, think about the part during the ceremony when the torch Reagan used to relight the Eternal Flame at the memorial was ignited by means of a magnifying/fresnel lens as Reagan began speaking? Quite impressive, wasn't it?

Posted by: BumperStickerist at March 04, 2013 12:17 PM (9P+hO)

470 BumperStickerist - Intriguing as that part of the ceremony was, I suspect its significance completely soared over Erg's head, just as I'm reasonably certain he didn't see the relevance of the extended quote from Schiller delivered by Kinski in the graveside homily.

Posted by: A. Pendragon at March 04, 2013 12:41 PM (wJliR)

471 I was especially intrigued by the Oktoberfest beer maid contingent gyrating in unison to the mournful "oompa" rendition of  Stairway to Heaven.

Posted by: Boob Nazi at March 04, 2013 01:19 PM (ZFTpm)

472 erg hasn't answered any of my questions. I need to understand about movies and only erg can inform me

Posted by: Amos Keeto at March 04, 2013 01:43 PM (Wf8bk)

473 German author/peace advocate Gunther Grass being able to still fit in his Waffen SS uniform proves an old adage: you can never be too Nazi or too thin.

Posted by: BumperStickerist at March 04, 2013 02:36 PM (9P+hO)

474 &&&&&&&&

Posted by: Some Cancer-Riddled Midgets at March 04, 2013 03:23 PM (KrBzt)

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