August 28, 2013

Peabody Award Alert: ABCNews Proudly Runs Headline, "Twerking: A Scientific Explanation"
— Ace

Parody is dead. You can't parody them.

An ABC Health/Science correspondent wrote this.

If this appeared in the Onion, you'd say "too silly."

Twerking is such a complex, technical subject, only a Ph.D. researcher can explain how the body does what it does to make it happen.

Twerking is a combination movement involving a deep squat and a pelvic tilt, Michelle Olson, a professor of exercise science and a certified strength and conditioning coach at Auburn University in Montgomery, Ala., explained.

“You take a wide stance with your legs turned out at 10 and 2 so your hips are externally rotated,” she said. “Then you pulse up and down as you thrust the pelvis bone forward and back.”

Olson said the booty dancing move is a good “twerkout” for your butt and thighs.

And etc. I'm glad ABCNews' science correspondent is up on all the medical lingo, like "butt."

Via Twitchy, which collects up a lot of goofing on #ABCreports.



Oh and speaking of not being pardoizable, The Onion attempted to parody CNN, writing a column explaining why Miley Cyrus was their Big Top Story all day yesterday, but the parody guest editorial is simply the straight truth.

Now, let's get back to why we put the story in the most coveted spot on our website, thereby saying, essentially, that Miley CyrusÂ’ suggestive dancing is the most important thing going on in the world right now. If you clicked on the story, and all the slideshows, and all the other VMA coverage, that means youÂ’ve probably been on CNN.com for more than seven minutes, which lowers our overall bounce rate. Do you know what that is? Sorry for getting a little technical here. The bounce rate is the percentage of visitors to a particular website who navigate away from the site after viewing only one page. If we can keep that bounce rate low, and show companies that people donÂ’t just go to CNN.com but stay there, then we can go to Ford or McDonaldÂ’s or Samsonite or whatever big company you can think of and ask for the big bucks.

So, as managing editor of CNN.com, I want our readers to know this: All you are to us, and all you will ever be to us, are eyeballs. The more eyeballs on our content, the more cash we can ask for. Period. And if weÂ’re able to get more eyeballs, that means IÂ’ve done my job, which gets me congratulations from my bosses, which encourages me to put up even more stupid bullshit on the homepage.

I donÂ’t hesitate to call it stupid bullshit because we all know itÂ’s stupid bullshit. We know it and you know it. We also know that you are probably dumb enough, or bored enough, or both, to click on the stupid bullshit anyway, and that you will continue to do so as long as we keep putting it in front of your big, idiot faces. You want to know how many more page views the Miley Cyrus thing got than our article on the wildfires ravaging Yosemite? Like 6 gazillion more.

ThatÂ’s on you, not us.

Well it is on them too.

Via @rdbrewer4, from the sidebar, Camille Paglia diagnoses the malady in pop culture. She's still ga-ga for Madonna -- she will never get over that silliness -- but otherwise she's clear-minded about shock without value.

Pop is suffering from the same malady as the art world, which is stuck on the tired old rubric that shock automatically confers value. But those once powerful avant-garde gestures have lost their relevance in our diffuse and technology-saturated era, when there is no longer an ossified high-culture establishment to rebel against. On the contrary, the fine arts are alarmingly distant or marginal to most young people today.

Unfortunately, the media spotlight so cheaply won by Cyrus will inevitably spur repeats of her silly stunt, by her and others....

What was perhaps most embarrassing about Miley Cyrus’ dismal gig was its cutesy toys — a giant teddy bear from which she popped to cavort with a dance troupe in fuzzy bear drag. Intended to satirize her Disney past, it signaled instead the childishness of Cyrus’ notion of sexuality, which has become simply a cartoonish gimmick to disguise a lack of professional focus. Sex isn’t just exposed flesh and crude gestures. The greatest performers, like Madonna in a canonical video such as “Vogue,” know how to use suggestion and mystery to project the magic of sexual allure. Miley, go back to school!

Pornography has always existed in society, but what might be called "mainstream porn" -- thrills and naughtiness that might appear in respectable venues -- used to require merit to excuse it. A Henry Miller book might be trashed as pornographic, but its defenders would point to its literary merit as a reason to keep it off the banned lists.

Incidentally, the fact that it was both pornographic and meritorious made it interesting, as it existed in two categories usually thought to be contradictory; this makes such things compelling, that they actually do "challenge our preconceptions" about the boundary between trash and treasure.

We have now officially dispensed with that requirement. Did Miley Cyrus challenge any preconceptions? Oh Hellz no. She reinforced them. She didn't make things more complicated, and therefore interesting; she made them simpler, and therefore less.

But of course this isn't really Miley Cyrus' fault. There will always be deranged people willing to behave in lunatic fashion in public. The problem is that the... oh, they've called themselves The Gatekeepers before, haven't they? Let's use that word then. The Gatekeepers, the executives and flunkies who have made pop culture their lives, and therefore should be experts in such matters, are simply stupid and without taste or standards.

That Miley Cyrus wanted to perform analingus on a Teddy Bear does not have broader implications. There have always been flashers. There have always been pornographers.

What has a very broad implication is that MTV -- a unit of Viacom, which also owns CBS, once and nevermore called "The Tiffany Network" (update: Nope, Viacom and CBS split in 2006; thanks, BrokenNewsMikey) -- decided this would be a splashy, ratings-boosting bit of naughty fun for the Children of the World.

And make no mistake, adults do not watch MTV; children do. Tweeners. Even when MTV was "cool" -- it was never cool, by the way -- but even when it was new enough that kids thought it was "cool," they learned, as they departed their tweener years and became older teenagers, that the channel was for kids and not for them. And they moved on to stuff that older kids and grown ups liked.

MTV can say "we've always had our critics." Indeed you have. Everyone 16 or older was a critic. Everyone 16 or older soon realized that when MTV called itself a "youth channel" they meant youths of 12 years old. No self-respecting 16 year old wants to be all ga-ga over something his 11 year old kid sister loves.

I wrote about this general, terrible trend over at Breitbart some time ago.


When even a teen girl's magazine is celebrating "'batin'" -- instructing teen girls how to masturbate for older married men -- then our society is now championing an essentially animal-level existence. Not just in terms of morality -- the bien pensants will always scoff at such a bourgeois construction -- but also in terms of intellect. Something the bien pensants once pretended to be interested in championing.

This is lower than moral nihilism -- at least nihilism requires some kind of conscious, intellectual determination at the outset.

This is simply a kind of willful devolution, the human animal deciding to give up the higher functions of its brain and go back to pack-feeding and rutting.
Thinking and standards are difficult and boring.

But Dumb is Easy and Easy is Holy.

It's become a kneejerk response to praise the awful, to binge on guilty pleasures, to feed upon little but the rankest crap.

Isn't this fun? Isn't this terribly naughty? Isn't this thrilling to the spirit, mind, and senses?

It's none of those things.

Correction on that: The magazine I was writing about, XOJane, turned out not to be a magazine for "teen girls" (that was Jane Pratt's earlier magazine, Sassy), but for young women.

Supposedly. You know, the actual audience is always younger than the officially announced audience.

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1 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a malignant traitor.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at August 28, 2013 08:29 AM (/PCJa)

2 Burn it down. Scatter the stones. Salt the earth where it stood.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at August 28, 2013 08:29 AM (/PCJa)

3 Well, Western Civilization, we had a good run...

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at August 28, 2013 08:30 AM (/PCJa)

4

Lets do a 5 million dollar study on twerking.

 

Also whats the over/under on Miley's tongue length?

Posted by: redenzo at August 28, 2013 08:30 AM (vx61Q)

5 Auburn?  Why am I not surprised?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at August 28, 2013 08:32 AM (0HooB)

6 Damn. Stomped Andy hard.

Posted by: RWC at August 28, 2013 08:32 AM (fWAjv)

7 They've got to print something and it's not like they can fill it up with Obama's accomplishments.

Posted by: WalrusRex at August 28, 2013 08:32 AM (XUKZU)

8 Who is this white guy speaking?

Posted by: RWC at August 28, 2013 08:32 AM (fWAjv)

9 >>You take a wide stance .... I'm listening.

Posted by: Larry Craig at August 28, 2013 08:33 AM (g1DWB)

10 Peabody Award Alert: ABCNews Proudly Runs Headline, "Twerking: A Scientific Explanation" "Next up! Mark 1 Eyeball Test! Fact or Fiction?"

Posted by: rickb223 at August 28, 2013 08:33 AM (qc7at)

11 raining on a good mocking we had going...

Posted by: Dept. Of Acuracy at August 28, 2013 08:33 AM (VWfCN)

12 If it is so wonderful, how come you don't see men doing it?

Posted by: Victor/Victoria at August 28, 2013 08:33 AM (+omCY)

13 Mockery.  It's what's for breakfast.

Posted by: kathysaysso at August 28, 2013 08:33 AM (6H6o8)

14 Hey, OWWWW!

Posted by: The Last Post at August 28, 2013 08:34 AM (8ZskC)

15 It's just a jump to the left.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 28, 2013 08:34 AM (knoK7)

16 See! *points wildly* See, Allen, this is why you should start drinking!

Posted by: alexthechick - Commence drinking now. at August 28, 2013 08:34 AM (VtjlW)

17 PhDs in twerking... issued to every ho, ever. 

Posted by: BurtTC at August 28, 2013 08:34 AM (TOk1P)

18 This is has got to be racist as the article is posted on the 50th anniversary of the "I Have A Dream" speech.

Posted by: Penfold at August 28, 2013 08:34 AM (Fbt5B)

19 This post should have a wider stance!

Posted by: Larry Craig at August 28, 2013 08:34 AM (/UB2/)

20 Maori tribesmen on the Lincoln Memorial. This is a comedy, right? Yep, this really remembers MLK.

Posted by: RWC at August 28, 2013 08:35 AM (fWAjv)

21 Mildly OT, following up on an observation Ace made in a post yesterday, in which he had this to say about the Connoisseurs of Racism:


So, it's racist if Black People Don't Win at the VMAs. And also, it appears black people have some degree of ownership over R&B, such that anyone white who works in that medium is "whitewashing" it and stealing from the black man.

People shouldn't think this way, but they do. That's what makes them racist. They have little reason for valuing themselves apart from their race, and therefore they view everything in terms of Stuff My Race Made, rather than Things I Myself Made, which is of course what actually matters.

It is strange and horrifying to see that those who are the most stridently "anti-racist" are in fact those most infected with racism. "This belongs to our tribe. We, The Collective Based Upon Our Slightly-More-Similar DNA, have collective ownership rights to this."


Twenty-four hours later over at HotAir, in the comments...


Beyonce also is not into racial cultural appropriation like Miley Cyrus. Miley is trying on twerking because black culture is *always* the way young white pop stars breaking from their youthful innocence into adulthood. Whether it is Miley or Justin Timberlake, black music is the gateway to being seen as a serious artist. In a few years Miley Cyrus is going to be a white suburban wife who will look back on those days when she tried out twerking, while the black dancers she smacks on the butt on stage are probably out there still trying to make a living.

And for the record “twerking” is a black dance style that is decades old. We are all here cracking up at this notion that Miley Cyrus invented twerking, discovered twerking or is even anywhere NEAR close to being good at twerking. Miley just proves that old adage. Everyone wants to be a n-word, but noboddy wants to actually be a n-word.

libfreeordie on August 28, 2013 at 11:37 AM


Parody gets harder every day, because the folks whom we would parody are doing it to themselves.  >_>  I think I reread this passage three or four times just making sure I was reading it right.

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at August 28, 2013 08:35 AM (HiKm/)

22 She forgot the part where you're  supposed to do it in front of a guy's crotch on television. That's  gotta be good for  burning at least  100  more calories.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at August 28, 2013 08:35 AM (0HooB)

23 Damnit...you can't be  enough around this place.

Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2013 08:35 AM (/UB2/)

24 Gotta admit though, if they did start issuing PhDs in twerking, a lot of people would have their degrees in a much more valid and honest system than is currently found in academia. 

Posted by: BurtTC at August 28, 2013 08:35 AM (TOk1P)

25 OK. Who tripped over the Interwebz cable?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at August 28, 2013 08:36 AM (0HooB)

26 ...and into the void we go!

Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2013 08:36 AM (/UB2/)

27 Twerking is such a complex, technical subject,....


Douglas Adams declared us mostly harmless.

I think he was on to something.

Posted by: eleven at August 28, 2013 08:36 AM (KXm42)

28 Levels Layers Onion Red

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 28, 2013 08:37 AM (IXrOn)

29 “You take a wide stance with your legs turned out at 10 and 2 so your hips are externally rotated,” she said. “Then you pulse up and down as you thrust the pelvis bone forward and back.”

=======

Didn't kids used to call that "spazzing out"?

Today it's just another squirrel.

Posted by: Nighthawk at August 28, 2013 08:37 AM (w/+mR)

30 OK then....
Let me go back to reading the comments that are on the last thread.
You know, the thread that was only seven minutes old before this one popped up.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 28, 2013 08:37 AM (SfGRU)

31 Oh no he di'int!

Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 28, 2013 08:37 AM (P7ej2)

32 I got my PhD in Twerk from U.C. Berkeley, and I am now a professor in The Department of Bootay.

Posted by: zombie at August 28, 2013 08:38 AM (+cx5n)

33 ...and always Twerking, Twerking towards the Future!

Posted by: Kodos at August 28, 2013 08:38 AM (/UB2/)

34 Does mockery fom Ace of Spades matter?

Posted by: Deafdog at August 28, 2013 08:40 AM (tMb67)

35 PhDs study all sorts of useless stuff, even in respectable fields.  How'd you like to be the PhD in Biology that spends her life studying a mudskipper that only appears in some mudflat in Dubai, only to see the thing die out? 

It would take a heart of stone not to laugh at that person.  

Posted by: bonhomme at August 28, 2013 08:42 AM (yKTI2)

36 Hmm, I could maybe paint this place since I'm in here all   by  myself.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at August 28, 2013 08:44 AM (0HooB)

37 I'm totally going back to school for Twerk Studies.

SCOAMF will pay off my loan, right?

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at August 28, 2013 08:44 AM (/kI1Q)

38 It's called the rump shaker, the beats is like sweeter than candy I'm feelin manly and your shaker's comin in handy Slide em across from New York down by your Virginia Ticklin you around Delware before I enter Turn to seduction from face hips to feet A wiggle and a jiggle can make the night complete Now since you got the body of the year, come and get the award Here's a hint - it's like a long sharp sword Flip tail, so let me see you shake it up like dice The way you shake your rump is turnin mighty men to mice But A Plus got a surprise that's a back breaker Now let me see you shake your rump like a rump shaker All I wanna do is zoom-a-zoom-zoom-zoom and a poom-poom - JUST SHAKE YA RUMP (rump shaker)

Posted by: Wreckx-N-Effect at August 28, 2013 09:17 AM (/Crba)

39 Why did no one consult with Katie Couric?  That old dog was twerking like a fucking champ what seems like a decade ago.

Posted by: Fritz at August 28, 2013 09:18 AM (UzPAd)

40 And we're back!

Posted by: rickb223 at August 28, 2013 09:19 AM (qc7at)

41 but even when it was new enough that kids thought it was "cool," they learned, as they departed their tweener years and became older teenagers, that the channel was for kids and not for them. And they moved on to stuff that older kids and grown ups liked. Yep, VH1.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at August 28, 2013 09:19 AM (XIxXP)

42 Twerking; New Olympic Event?

Posted by: Chelsea THTG at August 28, 2013 09:19 AM (QM5S2)

43 C'mon Ace, how bad can dancing Teddy Bears and vagine be?

Posted by: The Stupid Hurts at August 28, 2013 09:19 AM (oDCMR)

44 Check baby check baby one-two.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 28, 2013 09:20 AM (ZPrif)

45 Ah for the days when Lucy and Ricky had to sleep in separate beds wearing full pajamas and keep one foot on the floor at all times.


And Genie could not show her bellybutton.


We have this crap on TV now and no, it is not artistic.  It is simply trashy.

Posted by: Vic at August 28, 2013 09:20 AM (zZbNF)

46 Even when MTV was "cool" -- it was never cool, by the way -- Martha Quinn was hawt though...

Posted by: General George Washington at August 28, 2013 09:20 AM (7ObY1)

47

When even a teen girl's magazine is celebrating "'batin'" -- instructing teen girls how to masturbate for older married men -

 

You're kidding me.  You have to be kidding me, Ace.  Are you serious?  There actually is such a thing?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 28, 2013 09:21 AM (zF6Iw)

48 Oh you longified the post Ace.

Posted by: L, elle at August 28, 2013 09:21 AM (0PiQ4)

49 If there's one thing I look for in a women, it's the ability to snap my dick in half with a pelvic thrust.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 28, 2013 09:21 AM (ZPrif)

50 You put your right boob in.
You take your right boob out.
You put your right boob in and
You shake it all about.

Posted by: WalrusRex at August 28, 2013 09:22 AM (XUKZU)

51 Mr. Peabody? Are Sherman and the Wayback Machine in on this, too?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars[/i][/b][/s] at August 28, 2013 09:22 AM (XvQlt)

52 Like so many pop sheilas, Miley's just following the Madonna formula for success. They'll keep doing it till we stop buying it.

Posted by: Caliban at August 28, 2013 09:22 AM (DrC22)

53 The USGS is reporting that Michelle Obama was twerking earlier today. You're racist if that doesn't turn you on.

Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2013 09:22 AM (FcR7P)

54 I don't understand why they call it MTV still.  There is no music.

Posted by: Vic at August 28, 2013 09:23 AM (zZbNF)

55 Mr. Peabody? Are Sherman and the Wayback Machine in on this, too? Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at August 28, 2013 01:22 PM (XvQlt) Hold on boys while I break out my 3D BB.

Posted by: Mr Whoopee at August 28, 2013 09:23 AM (XIxXP)

56 I'm hardly a conspiracy theorist... and as fucked up as former child stars are all on their own.... I do believe strongly that Leftist higher ups are responsible for pushing these once "innocents" (from Drew Barrymore on) into outlandishly bawdy sex stuff to promote and mainstream their next favored group: pedophiles

Prove me wrong.

Posted by: The Mega Independent at August 28, 2013 09:23 AM (4/o9U)

57 Krebs did blood doping. Carnot was on TRT.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 28, 2013 09:23 AM (ZPrif)

58 This was called 'freaking' in the 90's. Why did we need a new term? WTF decided we needed a new term? I reject this totally.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at August 28, 2013 09:24 AM (SX6wc)

59 Why did no one consult with Katie Couric? That old dog was twerking like a fucking champ what seems like a decade ago.
Posted by: Fritz


That was twerking?!

http://tinyurl.com/yed5j26

Posted by: Dang at August 28, 2013 09:24 AM (Hx2XA)

60 Martha Quinn was hawt though...

Kennedy is surprisingly milftastic.  I've probably mentioned that before.




Posted by: eleven at August 28, 2013 09:24 AM (KXm42)

61 Also, any news on GatewayPundit? Is he still in the hospital?

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 28, 2013 09:24 AM (ZPrif)

62 As usual, AllenG has the most pertinent comments.

Posted by: baldilocks at August 28, 2013 09:24 AM (Tnlh/)

63 like Madonna in a canonical video such as “Vogue,” know how to use suggestion and mystery to project the magic of sexual allure. Miley, go back to school! ********** Here Miley! Let me school you!! See--this Coke Bottle!!!

Posted by: Madonna Now With Old Coke!! at August 28, 2013 09:25 AM (r2PLg)

64 And here I was told last night by Eboni Williams on "Hannity" that as a conservative who happens to be black, that I have radical religious views because I don't subscribe to this shit.

Posted by: I Be That Chick On Her iPad at August 28, 2013 09:25 AM (kVw0W)

65 Resist We Much is on.

Posted by: RWC at August 28, 2013 09:25 AM (fWAjv)

66 Madonna was talented?


Posted by: dananjcon at August 28, 2013 09:25 AM (jvd3N)

67 Science is dead.

Posted by: George Orwell at August 28, 2013 09:25 AM (6xhLc)

68 Also, yeah, nothing Miley did was new. At least not for 20 years, probably longer.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 28, 2013 09:25 AM (ZPrif)

69 Prove me wrong. Posted by: The Mega Independent at August 28, 2013 01:23 PM (4/o9U) I agree that is certainly a demographic. I'm sure many a pedo spilled seed to Sabrina the teenaged witch. However, the largest portion of disposible income in the country is held by tweenies.

Posted by: Mr Whoopee at August 28, 2013 09:25 AM (XIxXP)

70 Thank you Andy for the help. I was missing the place.














Oh I'm back.

Posted by: Joethefatman™ (@joethefatman1) at August 28, 2013 09:25 AM (MnSla)

71 The comments at the ABC site are something else.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 28, 2013 09:26 AM (yE6xT)

72 45 Ah for the days when Lucy and Ricky had to sleep in separate beds wearing full pajamas and keep one foot on the floor at all times. And Genie could not show her bellybutton. We have this crap on TV now and no, it is not artistic. It is simply trashy. Posted by: Vic at August 28, 2013 01:20 PM (zZbNF) And downstairs Fred was in the gimp mask and Ethel had on her leather merrywidow holding a riding crop in one hand and a 12 inch vibrating dildo in the other. :sniff: I miss the good old days.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at August 28, 2013 09:26 AM (BXLPR)

73 When is twitter going to fucking die?

Posted by: ASK21 at August 28, 2013 09:26 AM (8lB0x)

74 Come on you guys,, Twerking???  I mean really what difference, at this point, does it make?!?!?!??!?!?!?  

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 28, 2013 09:26 AM (GjPnA)

75

Ever since this administration came into being our country has been twerking.

Obama is doing a major twerk dance now with Syria, China, Russia, and Iran with Israel stuck in the middle.  I have complete faith that while Obama is squating and thrusting his girlie pelvis, that this Admin. will totally fuck everything up and we will be lucky to live through it.

 

My heart goes out to anyone serving in our Armed Forces with this band of idiots at the helm.  God bless you and save you.\

 

 

Posted by: Cheri at August 28, 2013 09:26 AM (G+Wff)

76 What does it say about a society when it must take things that are so base (titillation) and try to pretend they are complex? It's easy to stoop lower. It's easier to write 'I Like Big Butts' than Beethoven's Fifth. Going for shock is easier, especially for the less talented. And when you've got a society that holds fewer and fewer values on restraint, it's inevitable that there will be a downward spiral. The ABC news thing is a perfect example that it's not limited to music. It's easier to sell the Cosmo-style 'Seven Sex Secrets' headlines rather than real journalism.

Posted by: zsasz at August 28, 2013 09:26 AM (MMC8r)

77 freaking was a fine term. twerking is just annoying. It's a type-word. You can type it easily but when you say it you sound like an idiot. -- let alone when you do it!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 28, 2013 09:26 AM (2up3Q)

78 The greatest performers, like Madonna in a canonical video such as “Vogue,” know how to use suggestion and mystery to project the magic of sexual allure.

Oh yes, Madonna is all about the subtlety.

Shut the fuck up forever, Camille.

Posted by: Waterhouse at August 28, 2013 09:27 AM (uYaYO)

79 Like so many pop sheilas, Miley's just following the Madonna formula for success. They'll keep doing it till we stop buying it. Over/under on TBT happening before Honey Boo Boo twerks?

Posted by: rickb223 at August 28, 2013 09:27 AM (qc7at)

80

OK twerkers, I gotta go do stuff.

 

Y'all have  fun and try not to trash the place,    'k?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at August 28, 2013 09:27 AM (0HooB)

81 68 Also, yeah, nothing Miley did was new. At least not for 20 years, probably longer. --- This. The cheerleaders at a predominately black rural HS in our district used to do this kind of crap back when I played football in the 90s. As a result, our camera guy and all the opposing teams who had game footage of this school tended to record the halftime show as well.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at August 28, 2013 09:27 AM (/Crba)

82 I tell you what...if I had EVER attempted what these young girls are doing now...both my mother and father would have beat my ass. But you can't be a parent to your kids...you have to be their friend now. And I keep being told by modern feminists that this is sexually liberating for your girls...to be sexualized at an early age.

Posted by: I Be That Chick On Her iPad at August 28, 2013 09:28 AM (kVw0W)

83 Yeah, it was nearly 25 years ago that Madonna was showing off her lack of a gag reflex in Truth or Dare. This shocking stuff .... isn't.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 28, 2013 09:28 AM (ZPrif)

84 It's easy to stoop lower. It's easier to write 'I Like Big Butts' than Beethoven's Fifth. --- What's your problem with stodgy old songs about the buttocks?

Posted by: Bender Bending Rodriguez at August 28, 2013 09:28 AM (/Crba)

85 yeah, you know - Camille just had the hots for Madge back in the day. God I hated Madonna but then again I wasn't a lesbian. such is nostalgia, the things we loved in our prime just stick with you

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 28, 2013 09:28 AM (2up3Q)

86 Kennedy is surprisingly milftastic. I've probably mentioned that before. Kennedy was always fap-worthy, and a Repub to boot. Saw her on Red Eye recently. Yep, I'd still hit that.

Posted by: General George Washington at August 28, 2013 09:28 AM (7ObY1)

87 twerking, when performed by Shrillary, shall be referred to as the Miley Cyrus Vance Dance

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars[/i][/b][/s] at August 28, 2013 09:29 AM (XvQlt)

88
That was twerking?!

http://tinyurl.com/yed5j26

***

Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.

Posted by: WalrusRex at August 28, 2013 09:29 AM (XUKZU)

89 Vic  --  funny video "why doesn't MTV play music videos anymore"

http://tinyurl.com/q987v8f

Posted by: eleven at August 28, 2013 09:29 AM (KXm42)

90 74 Come on you guys,, Twerking??? I mean really whatdifference, at this point, does it make?!?!?!??!?!?!? Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 28, 2013 01:26 PM (GjPnA) ************* GROSS!! Thanks for that image. *If* Hillary twerked--hell it could mean-- Peace in The Middle East.

Posted by: Madonna Now With Old Coke!! at August 28, 2013 09:29 AM (r2PLg)

91 One Twerk Vasili, one Twerk only

(new meme at HQ)

Posted by: Captain Miley Ramius at August 28, 2013 09:29 AM (zZbNF)

92 When is twitter going to fucking die?

Posted by: ASK21 at August 28, 2013 01:26 PM (8lB0x)


Around the same time as the human penchant for self-absorption and narcissism. We take the most detailed and powerful communication technology the world has ever seen and turn it into a giant fucking mirror to lick ourselves in - with this dopey "social media". Amazing.

(excluding ace and a select few others who have turned it into an absolute art form)

Posted by: The Mega Independent at August 28, 2013 09:29 AM (4/o9U)

93 Twerking is a totally retarded word for what this

Posted by: L, elle at August 28, 2013 09:30 AM (0PiQ4)

94 I must ask again: if TFG does it, should it be called "twerping?"

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at August 28, 2013 09:30 AM (/PCJa)

95 Miley, go back to school! Go back to school. To learn how to use your sexuality correctly, Miley. You're doing it wrong. Madonna is your mentor.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 28, 2013 09:30 AM (Fauor)

96

The greatest performers, like Madonna in a canonical video such as “Vogue,” know how to use suggestion and mystery to project the magic of sexual allure.

 

Just saw a recent picture of 55 year old Madonna with a gold grill in her teeth.  Pretty pathetic when you get to that age and try and be gangsta.

Posted by: Cheri at August 28, 2013 09:30 AM (G+Wff)

97 Prediction:  Teh Hilldawg will twerk whilst on the campaign trail.

Gotta cater to the base, you know.

Posted by: Jaws at August 28, 2013 09:30 AM (4I3Uo)

98 We watched MTV through the end of college. It was something nice to have on while reading or doing homework; the distractions were in short bursts of interesting. This was around 1985-1986. I think weÂ’ve already seen this, but itÂ’s worth watching again: Why DoesnÂ’t MTV play music videos any more? http://youtu.be/9ysyZF-DZFY

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 28, 2013 09:30 AM (QF8uk)

99 Yeah, it was nearly 25 years ago that Madonna was showing off her lack of a gag reflex in Truth or Dare.

There are loads of side by side pictures with Madonna and Lada Gaga doing the exact same thing with the exact same costumes.  Gaga being carried onto the stage by a bunch of litterbearers where the litter is an odd egg thing ... yep, Madonna did it.

They're not even hiding it.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 28, 2013 09:31 AM (yKTI2)

100 Ya Camille thinks with her dick--a lot. Explains why she loves gay boys on Bravo exposing Housewives and shaming the religious ones. \ Yeah!!! Go Team Gay!!!

Posted by: Madonna Now With Old Coke!! at August 28, 2013 09:31 AM (r2PLg)

101 You want an scientific explanation of twerking?

Go to YouTube and watch some old videos of 2 Live Crew from around 1989 or 1990.

Revel in the awesome authentic African dance traditions and bask in the scholarly appreciation of modern dance.  At least that was the story yesterday about what twerking was.

Hint to ABC:  It's fucking.  Word to your mother.


Posted by: B at August 28, 2013 09:31 AM (twiRb)

102 Just scientific enough not to get mocked, that's what we were going for.

Posted by: ABCNews at August 28, 2013 09:31 AM (FcR7P)

103 It's easy to stoop lower. It's easier to write 'I Like Big Butts' than Beethoven's Fifth.

***

Maybe it used to be easy to stoop lower but Sodom and Gomorrah have nothing on us now.

Posted by: WalrusRex at August 28, 2013 09:31 AM (XUKZU)

104 81 68 Also, yeah, nothing Miley did was new. At least not for 20 years, probably longer. --- This. The cheerleaders at a predominately black rural HS in our district used to do this kind of crap back when I played football in the 90s. As a result, our camera guy and all the opposing teams who had game footage of this school tended to record the halftime show as well. Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at August 28, 2013 01:27 PM (/Crba) The teddy bear thing was new...and disturbing. As many others have said, it screamed "I have been molested." And, yes, it didn't get started until the 90s or so. I graduated from a predominantly black high school in the late 70s and our cheerleaders wouldn't have been caught dead doing anything like that.

Posted by: baldilocks at August 28, 2013 09:32 AM (Tnlh/)

105 And, then, there's Rush's take, which is classic Rush. Why are Feminists Judging Miley Cyrus? http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/08/27/why_are_feminists_judging_miley_cyrus

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 28, 2013 09:32 AM (Fauor)

106 95 I must ask again: if TFG does it, should it be called "twerping?" 

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at August 28, 2013 01:30 PM (/PCJa)


AllenG has moved to add "twerping" to the AoS style guide.   I'll second it.   All in favor?  

Posted by: ChelseaMonster at August 28, 2013 09:32 AM (oY6Yp)

107 Twerking is actually something that crack whores invented. Since most crack whores could only charge about as much as it took to buy a rock, they couldn't rent a hotel room, so they had to "conduct business" in an alleyway. Thus to get the customer to nut, they invented twerking to help finish the guy up. Probably not true, but it makes it easier for me to prove that Miley acts whorelike.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac, Sociologist at August 28, 2013 09:32 AM (BXLPR)

108 Listen I am TALENTED. Fat Gals like Adele can STICK IT!!!!!

Posted by: Madonna Now With Old Coke!! at August 28, 2013 09:32 AM (r2PLg)

109 Yeah nothing Cyrus did was new.  Being scantily clad?  Definitely not new.  Simulating sex acts?  Regular at these shows.  Her 'dance' moves?  Regularly performed by back up dancers and much better at that.  I put it at the bizarre nature of the act that its generating anything.  You eliminate the Pedo bears and its really a nothing performance other than asking how much meth she took before cutting her hair and going on stage.

Posted by: buzzion at August 28, 2013 09:33 AM (LI48c)

110 And downstairs Fred was in the gimp mask and Ethel had on her leather merrywidow holding a riding crop in one hand and a 12 inch vibrating dildo in the other.

:sniff: I miss the good old days.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at August 28, 2013 01:26 PM (BXLPR)

 

You should have seen what Alice and Trixie got up to when Ralph and Ed were down at the lodge meeting.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 28, 2013 09:33 AM (zF6Iw)

111 This was called 'freaking' in the 90's. Why did we need a new term? WTF decided we needed a new term? I reject this totally. Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 28, 2013 01:24 PM (SX6wc) At the risk of revealing just how old I am, 'freaking' was the dance of choice in LA in 1983. This would be when the song "I'll be your Freakazoid (come on and wind me up)" reverberated through the Fort MacArthur Youth Center every weekend. I was wondering if twerking wasn't a new raunchier version of it but couldn't bring myself to research it.

Posted by: Ragamuffin at August 28, 2013 09:33 AM (fzFF6)

112 Yo Miley,
Put you tongue back in your mouth,  this one licked a president's butt hole. *pointing to her tongue with a sassy, self-confident smirk*

Posted by: Monica Lewinsky at August 28, 2013 09:33 AM (Hx2XA)

113 Paris Hilton sex tape is over ten years old.   I think that is the beginning.  Prior to that  you had outrageous acts relative to the norms of the day but making a porn tape released to the public skipped a number of steps and  went  straight to the top of the most outrageous thing you could do.    Since Paris Hilton was rewarded instead of shamed  out of existence by the public,  anything is fair game now.  

Posted by: polynikes at August 28, 2013 09:33 AM (m2CN7)

114 You should have seen what Alice and Trixie got up to when Ralph and Ed were down at the lodge meeting. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 28, 2013 01:33 PM (zF6Iw) Prolly up to their wrists.

Posted by: Mr Whoopee at August 28, 2013 09:34 AM (XIxXP)

115 92 One Twerk Vasili, one Twerk only (new meme at HQ) Posted by: Captain Miley Ramius at August 28, 2013 01:29 PM (zZbNF) Thread winner.

Posted by: baldilocks at August 28, 2013 09:34 AM (Tnlh/)

116 "Hope I die before I get old..."

Posted by: Daybrother talkin' about at August 28, 2013 09:34 AM (/ppSe)

117 "Michelle Olson, a professor of exercise science and a certified strength and conditioning coach at Auburn University in Montgomery, Ala." She's an expert--she's got a degree in phys. ed.

Posted by: Furious George at August 28, 2013 09:34 AM (P85Pz)

118 I really feel the end times are here.The world has gone insane.

Posted by: steevy at August 28, 2013 09:34 AM (9XBK2)

119 In academia, originally (centuries ago) only "high culture" was deemed worthy of study. "High culture" meant stuff like literature, classical music, the history of nations, etc. Then, fairly recently, it became also OK to compare and contrast "high culture" with "low culture" - -in this context, "low culture" referred to stuff like folk music (as opposed to classical music), unedited and unpublished first-person writings like notes, graffiti, curses, personal letters etc. (as opposed to literature), the history of the unimportant "average person" (as opposed to the history of kings and nations), etc. That was fine -- academia had been becoming dry and boring without including low culture in the mix. Ah, but now -- now -- we have taken the next step, and dropped high culture completely. Things have progressed in academia where the ONLY things meriting study are "low culture." Whereas "high culture" is only dissected as the racist detritus of patriarchal old dead white Christian men. Their creations are only analyzed in order to discredit them. Low culture has triumphed. And Miley Cyrus is its Joan of Arc.

Posted by: zombie at August 28, 2013 09:34 AM (+cx5n)

120

>>Damn. Stomped Andy hard.<<

 

Good.  I'm behind a corporate firewall that allows a lot of generic horde-ness, even some pretty ripe moronicity, but sometimes says enough is enough and blacks out comment threads.

 

Andy's thread went black in minutes.  What were you clowns up to?

Posted by: Chelsea Bandersnatch at August 28, 2013 09:34 AM (A0sHn)

121 Yo Miley,
Put you tongue back in your mouth, this one licked a president's butt hole. *pointing to her tongue with a sassy, self-confident smirk*

Whore-off!

Posted by: bonhomme at August 28, 2013 09:34 AM (yKTI2)

122 The problem with cultural debasement is it doesn't stop. I'll admit to being pretty ok with it when the first date bj became a cultural norm. And if it had stopped there I would have been fine. But it doesn't. Saw We're the Millers the other day. Funny. Recurrent anal sex gags. Recurrent joke about how the trampy 15 year old chick doesn't get pregnant cause she sticks to anal. First date bjs are awesome. 3rd date anal, not so much. That's where poop comes from. There's no need to check that off your personal sexual exploration bucket list.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 28, 2013 09:34 AM (ZPrif)

123 90 Posted by: eleven at August 28, 2013 01:29 PM (KXm42)

LOL, but true

Posted by: Captain Miley Ramius at August 28, 2013 09:34 AM (zZbNF)

124 I've been to a few sporting events at the local HBCU. There was what might be called mild Twerking by the cheerleader/dance squads, but nothing like what I saw Miley do. No simulated analingus, for instance.

Posted by: Lincolntf at August 28, 2013 09:34 AM (ZshNr)

125 "You twerkin' at me?  You twerkin' at me?  You twerkin' at me?  Then who  the hell  else  are you  twerkin' to?"

Posted by: Travis Bickle at August 28, 2013 09:35 AM (4I3Uo)

126 And, yes, it didn't get started until the 90s or so. I graduated from a predominantly black high school in the late 70s and our cheerleaders wouldn't have been caught dead doing anything like that. Posted by: baldilocks at August 28, 2013 01:32 PM (Tnlh/) Ha! My step-mother, who graduated from high school in 1972...good ole Centennial High School in Compton, said the same thing. I went to a predominantly white high school in the 'burbs...so would not have happened there. I personally think it's gross and degrading.

Posted by: I Be That Chick On Her iPad at August 28, 2013 09:36 AM (kVw0W)

127 dropped high culture completely.

***

Dead white male slave owners.

Posted by: WalrusRex at August 28, 2013 09:36 AM (XUKZU)

128 Put your hands on your hips, you bring your knees in tight. But it's the pelvic thrust, That really drives you insa-ay-ay-ay-ay-ane

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at August 28, 2013 09:36 AM (7ObY1)

129 The parrot's not dead; he's just resting.

Posted by: adams python porn at August 28, 2013 09:37 AM (gQKHE)

130 At the risk of revealing just how old I am, 'freaking' was the dance of choice in LA in 1983. This would be when the song "I'll be your Freakazoid (come on and wind me up)" reverberated through the Fort MacArthur Youth Center every weekend. I was wondering if twerking wasn't a new raunchier version of it but couldn't bring myself to research it. Posted by: Ragamuffin at August 28, 2013 01:33 PM (fzFF6) Makes sense. Coincides with the beginning crack epidemic in LA, which, thankfully, I missed due to having enlisted in the military in 81.

Posted by: baldilocks at August 28, 2013 09:37 AM (Tnlh/)

131 The funny thing about Camille is she can say EXACTLY the same thing countless other people have been saying for decades but because of her--uh, bona fides--people fall all over her and act like she's a frigging genius. Best sentence from her article: But more important, Madonna, a trained modern dancer, was originally inspired by work of tremendous quality — above all, Marlene Dietrich’s glamorous movie roles as a bisexual blond dominatrix and Bob Fosse’s stunningly forceful strip-club choreography for the 1972 film Cabaret, set in decadent Weimar-era Berlin. The sad thing is I doubt Camille has any idea of how wooden and old-fashioned this sounds.

Posted by: Caliban at August 28, 2013 09:37 AM (DrC22)

132 Revealing my age here, but doesn't anyone else remember "Soul Train" and their dancers?  I'm not particularly shocked by the modern incarnation and the kids of my acquaintance (and my own) laughed at current attempts of twerk/tweeting after they saw old "Soul Train" shows. Suitable revenge for my youthful musical tastes; like one of my kids knowing and playing every 70s metal hit on his electric bass.

Posted by: Mustbequantum at August 28, 2013 09:37 AM (MIKMs)

133 I really feel the end times are here.The world has gone insane.

Posted by: steevy

Hey there, sad mad. Cheer up! It gets funny once you realize this is average for the balance of history.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at August 28, 2013 09:37 AM (SX6wc)

134 119 "Michelle Olson, a professor of exercise science and a certified strength and conditioning coach at Auburn University in Montgomery, Ala."

***

I don't even have to see her to know what she looks like.

Posted by: B at August 28, 2013 09:38 AM (twiRb)

135 117

Thread winner.

Posted by: baldilocks at August 28, 2013 01:34 PM (Tnlh/)


I copied the thought from the last thread.


Posted by: Vic at August 28, 2013 09:38 AM (zZbNF)

136 One toke over the line

vs

One twerk over the line

I'll take the toke.

Posted by: Joethefatman™ (@joethefatman1) at August 28, 2013 09:38 AM (MnSla)

137 There's only so many ways to simulate sex while dancing. Human body does not have infinite possibilities. Pretty much all mild variations on humping and grinding. To be honest, the only "new" dance style I've seen in my entire life was when popping/locking was invented.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 28, 2013 09:39 AM (ZPrif)

138

A special report about the Missing M from MTV.  Special guest appearance by Buzz from Home Alone.  Along with the most disturbing thing I have ever seen at the 3:20 mark.

 

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

Posted by: buzzion at August 28, 2013 09:39 AM (LI48c)

139 Bob FosseÂ’s stunningly forceful strip-club choreography for the 1972 film Cabaret, set in decadent Weimar-era Berlin.

****

Because you just know everyone has seen that...

Posted by: B at August 28, 2013 09:39 AM (twiRb)

140 WaitÂ’n for the train to twerk me home, sweet Miley, hopinÂ’ that the train twerks on timeÂ… I donÂ’t know, I think it loses something in the update.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 28, 2013 09:39 AM (QF8uk)

141 Saying that we OUGHT to live lives on a higher rational plane than a groundhog is Morally Judgmental.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 28, 2013 09:40 AM (C8mVl)

142 She's super twerk, super twerk She's super twerkaaaaaaay!

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at August 28, 2013 09:40 AM (/PCJa)

143 ABC reports applies a more rigorous scientific method to Twerking than to Climate Change.

Posted by: AmishDude at August 28, 2013 09:40 AM (T0NGe)

144 Do I have to point out the Feudalism angle, here? Or can we just assume I already have?

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at August 28, 2013 09:41 AM (/PCJa)

145 I don't even have to see her to know what she looks like. You might be surprised: http://www.micheleolsonphd.com/

Posted by: chelsea blaster at August 28, 2013 09:42 AM (W6bkf)

146 Good. I'm behind a corporate firewall that allows a lot of generic horde-ness, even some pretty ripe moronicity, but sometimes says enough is enough and blacks out comment threads.

Andy's thread went black in minutes. What were you clowns up to?

Posted by: Chelsea Bandersnatch at August 28, 2013 01:34 PM (A0sHn)

 

The real question is how crappy is your firewall that this thread isn't getting blocked?

Posted by: buzzion at August 28, 2013 09:42 AM (LI48c)

147 Saying that we OUGHT to live lives on a higher rational plane than a groundhog is Morally Judgmental. DonÂ’t post twerky. DonÂ’t post twerky!

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 28, 2013 09:42 AM (QF8uk)

148 Posted by: I Be That Chick On Her iPad at August 28, 2013 01:36 PM (kVw0W) Ha! I graduated from LA High in 78. The school was considered rather "bougie" if you get my drift. Many of my classmates are very successful now.

Posted by: baldilocks at August 28, 2013 09:43 AM (Tnlh/)

149 The real question is how crappy is your firewall that this thread isn't getting blocked? And the other one did? It was positively tame by Horde standards.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at August 28, 2013 09:43 AM (/PCJa)

150 and now featuring Twerkies! tasty cream filled buns...

Posted by: Mallfly at August 28, 2013 09:43 AM (bJm7W)

151 So where do they go from here?  Basically the only thing they can do is push this same crap further into other venues of "entertainment".  As long as the FTC prevents actual sex acts, the furthest they can go is simulated sex acts.  So they're at a dead end.

If the FTC ever is steamrolled/destroyed, actual sex acts will be followed by unwilling sex acts, followed by murder in many forms. 

Posted by: bonhomme at August 28, 2013 09:43 AM (yKTI2)

152 Every infant is a blank slate...some never get written on though.

Posted by: Chelsea Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at August 28, 2013 09:44 AM (2BHYC)

153 133 At the risk of revealing just how old I am, 'freaking' was the dance of choice in LA in 1983. This would be when the song "I'll be your Freakazoid (come on and wind me up)" reverberated through the Fort MacArthur Youth Center every weekend. Posted by: baldilocks at August 28, 2013 01:37 PM (Tnlh/) Made even more popular by Whodini's "Freaks Come Out at Night" in 1984. Still love the song.

Posted by: I Be That Chick On Her iPad at August 28, 2013 09:44 AM (kVw0W)

154 Well ok Mika, we'll just ban entertainment.

Posted by: jwest at August 28, 2013 09:44 AM (u2a4R)

155 Great Twerkspectations

Posted by: adams Dickensian porn at August 28, 2013 09:44 AM (gQKHE)

156 If the FTC ever is steamrolled/destroyed, actual sex acts will be followed by unwilling sex acts, followed by murder in many forms. And then the vast majority even of LIVs turn off the TV and the MFM goes down in flames. So what you're saying is we should defund the FTC (or is it FCC? Whichever)

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at August 28, 2013 09:44 AM (/PCJa)

157 Joethefatman, I'm glad you got everything straightened out and that you're back.

Posted by: L, elle at August 28, 2013 09:45 AM (0PiQ4)

158 "What has a very broad implication is that MTV -- a unit of Viacom, which also owns CBS, once and nevermore called "The Tiffany Network" -- decided this would be a splashy, ratings-boosting bit of naughty fun for the Children of the World."

They made that decision a few decades ago and have been racing to the find the lowest level ever since. Miley and Jersey Shore are just the latest examples.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2013 09:45 AM (WoYoH)

159 I'd like to amend the masthead with: "Cut a club and start going Buford Pusser." I mean, what the hell is wrong with our culture that THIS is even a subject for discussion?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at August 28, 2013 09:45 AM (659DL)

160

>>
The real question is how crappy is your firewall that this thread isn't getting blocked?<<

 

That's kind of the point.  I got this far in this thread.  I could find out where it crosses the line and the firewall hamsters put their pants back on and do their jobs by looking up banned threads when I get home.  But that would take work.  And a functioning memory.

Posted by: Chelsea Bandersnatch at August 28, 2013 09:45 AM (A0sHn)

161 I am NOT a hump. I'm a twerk.

Posted by: Navin R. Johnson at August 28, 2013 09:45 AM (Ze8oh)

162 OT: Just got the new OFA.  Everyone living East of the Mississippi better buy some long johns and you folks in the North buy double fuel oil.


The SE will be cold and snowy.  The NE half will be dry and cold.

So it will be twerky cold as a frozen gyrating butt. 

Posted by: Vic at August 28, 2013 09:46 AM (zZbNF)

163 from twitter Cuffé ‏@CuffyMeh 5m Pop culture nutshell --> http://imgur.com/Ql2QQlR

Posted by: sir hillary clinton at August 28, 2013 09:46 AM (La2fr)

164 Their work – and the Peabody Award – stand as model and measures for their peers and for those who will follow them. For these reasons we will continue to hold these individuals and these industries to the high standards of the Peabody Award, standards representing the highest mark of excellence in electronic media. As in, Excellent, dude! followed by Way... Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure Trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrGWooNDPiE "Put them in the Iron Maiden." "Excellent!" *air guitar* "Execute them." "Bogus!"

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 28, 2013 09:46 AM (Fauor)

165 Not allowing the NYT to be the Connoisseurs of the Truth--that is everything. Run away from that because you are a New Yorker where the chase after the material is--everything and you ultimately lose all that really mattered. Those status symbols of "class" the right wine, the right art, the right purse -- de rien/

Posted by: tasker at August 28, 2013 09:46 AM (r2PLg)

166 Dammit, which one of you mothertwerkers stretched out the comments???

Posted by: L, elle at August 28, 2013 09:46 AM (0PiQ4)

167 well that right there was an old dirty sock

Posted by: phoenixgirl at work at August 28, 2013 09:46 AM (La2fr)

168 All you need to know about twerking can be found in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgoyVRO0A0E But ABC News cannot beat E! Online in hard hitting journalism. . . maybe they can split the Peabody and Pulitzer sure to follow? http://preview.tinyurl.com/ofghwlb

Posted by: LizLem, sadly too young to start telling twentysomething hipsters to get off her lawn at August 28, 2013 09:46 AM (8wqqE)

169 If the FTC ever is steamrolled/destroyed, actual sex acts will be followed by unwilling sex acts, followed by murder in many forms.

And then the vast majority even of LIVs turn off the TV and the MFM goes down in flames.

So what you're saying is we should defund the FTC (or is it FCC? Whichever)

As a religious guy, what I'm saying is that when the people become so debased that they are hungry for "entertainment" that contains real murders, the real burning time is upon us.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 28, 2013 09:46 AM (yKTI2)

170 Auburn? Why am I not surprised? Look, ace chastised me for being an academic snob, but the key phrase was "professor of exercise science". Clearly, physical therapy is important, but why do we keep pretending these are philosopher kings?

Posted by: AmishDude at August 28, 2013 09:46 AM (T0NGe)

171 To be honest, the only "new" dance style I've seen in my entire life was when popping/locking was invented.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 28, 2013 01:39 PM (ZPrif)

 

 

------------------------------------------

 

 

The "robot" will be making a comeback.  So will hoola hoops.

Posted by: Soona at August 28, 2013 09:46 AM (vGlNi)

172 let's try this again from twitter Cuffé ‏@CuffyMeh 5m Pop culture nutshell --> http://imgur.com/Ql2QQlR

Posted by: phoenixgirl at work at August 28, 2013 09:47 AM (La2fr)

173 152 Posted by: I Be That Chick On Her iPad at August 28, 2013 01:36 PM (kVw0W) Ha! I graduated from LA High in 78. The school was considered rather "bougie" if you get my drift. Many of my classmates are very successful now. Posted by: baldilocks at August 28, 2013 01:43 PM (Tnlh/) I know what you mean. My step-mother married well. The bulk of her classmates didn't do so well in life. As a matter of fact...her close group of girlfriends all married well.

Posted by: I Be That Chick On Her iPad at August 28, 2013 09:47 AM (kVw0W)

174 Bob FosseÂ’s stunningly forceful strip-club choreography for the 1972 film Cabaret, set in decadent Weimar-era Berlin.

***

I love that movie and it was about something.  The theme was the degradation of Germany which, the audience knew, eventually resulted in Auschwitz and the total destruction of the Reich.  You know, kinda like what's happening today.  My favorite scene is where they are are at some out door restaurant or something and a sweet voice starts singing "Tomorrow Belongs To Me" and camera pulls back to reveal a bunch of Hitler Youth are doing the singing.

Posted by: WalrusRex at August 28, 2013 09:47 AM (XUKZU)

175 149 I don't even have to see her to know what she looks like.

You might be surprised:

http://www.micheleolsonphd.com/

****

Nooo...I have to say that's about right, actually. 

Posted by: B at August 28, 2013 09:48 AM (twiRb)

176 "You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals
So let's do it like they do on the discover channel'

Except we meant it to be ironic.

Posted by: The Bloodhound Gang at August 28, 2013 09:48 AM (WoYoH)

177 I have to admit, if Miley wanted to lick my ass, and call me Tedddy, I'd probably let her.

Posted by: Invictus at August 28, 2013 09:48 AM (OQpzc)

178 Has anyone else watched that video game clip on YouTube yet linked in the sidebar? I think my head's about to explode from laughter...

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at August 28, 2013 09:48 AM (/Crba)

179 Twerking in the USA

Posted by: Old Worn Out Singer Who Uses American "brand" for $ at August 28, 2013 09:48 AM (Fauor)

180 You guys are missing the poetry and your shit is all fucked up.

Posted by: Miley at August 28, 2013 09:48 AM (oDCMR)

181 As a religious guy, what I'm saying is that when the people become so debased that they are hungry for "entertainment" that contains real murders, the real burning time is upon us.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 28, 2013 01:46 PM (yKTI2)

 

 

--------------------------------------------------

 

 

I seem to remember reading about  a civilization that did just that.  Once it happened, it didn't last very long.

Posted by: Soona at August 28, 2013 09:49 AM (vGlNi)

182 A. I doubt it was ironic that her performance epitomized the tweener generation (or whatever they be called) in which laziness and entitlement inform their every action, including Miley's lazy sexuality. B. That is shit will get old real quick, she's not always going to be a tight 20 year old. And doing this at 30 will be sad. C. Her message seems to be I am a dog in heat and I will grind on any surface or person reasonably suitable to simulate sex with. Because sexy. Nope, that's not sexy, it's like monkey or other subhuman species going through mechanical ovulation. But we get it, you are down (not even like) for the sex. D. Camiglia tried to make this point and here it is: Madonna had hits. Miley has a song. She's a perfect tweener lab experiment in which she autotuned herself over someone else's track singing someone else's words. Miley's greatest hits album will have to be padded with Saturday Night Live's parody of her. E. Pitchy stripper indeed. Except strippers are sexy. Go to a strip club. I'll wait...Ok, they were most likely pretty. Make up, hair, lingerie. Sexy moves, maybe eye contact. Miley? Nope. Just a train wreck, but hey she's sorta naked, so score! Summary: I am not amused by this Miley person.

Posted by: oeJay44incday at August 28, 2013 09:49 AM (QxSug)

183 Made even more popular by Whodini's "Freaks Come Out at Night" in 1984. Still love the song.

When they step they strut!

Posted by: bonhomme at August 28, 2013 09:50 AM (yKTI2)

184 O/T Ted Cruz on with Rush at 2:06.

Posted by: RushBabe at August 28, 2013 09:50 AM (qkZxk)

185 I love that movie and it was about something. “Do you still think you can control them?”

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 28, 2013 09:50 AM (QF8uk)

186 Posted by: The Bloodhound Gang at August 28, 2013 01:48 PM (WoYoH) You may have, but the producers who let the song be released as a single (and have a music video made) didn't. The Political Class (who see themselves as the God-Ordained Gentry) and the Media (who see themselves as the Church) want you reduced to an animal.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at August 28, 2013 09:50 AM (/PCJa)

187
Posted by: L, elle at August 28, 2013 01:45 PM (0PiQ4)

Thank you. I *think* it was my isp and pixy don't like each other.
But what ever it was , Andy took care of it.

Posted by: Joethefatman™ (@joethefatman1) at August 28, 2013 09:50 AM (MnSla)

188 This is new to some people. Humans have been fucking since Day One but every generation of young idiots think they invented sex.

Posted by: soothsayer at August 28, 2013 09:50 AM (LQOY/)

189 B. That is shit will get old real quick, she's not always going to be a tight 20 year old. And doing this at 30 will be sad.

What are you trying to say?

Posted by: Madonna's knees at August 28, 2013 09:51 AM (twiRb)

190 One used to    have     to visit a carnival of poor repute to see a geek biting the head off of a chicken.  Now, we have 250 channels of literal trash to choose from, and often of lower quality.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at August 28, 2013 09:51 AM (a3/N/)

191

>>>Andy's thread went black in minutes. What were you clowns up to?

 

Punching Down

Posted by: Bigby's Opposable Thumbs at August 28, 2013 09:52 AM (3ZtZW)

192

I think I get it now.  Obama is twerking Assad with his cruise missle.  Right?

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at August 28, 2013 09:52 AM (EGPJQ)

193 E. Pitchy stripper indeed. Except strippers are sexy. Go to a strip club. I'll wait...Ok, they were most likely pretty. Make up, hair, lingerie. Sexy moves, maybe eye contact. Miley? Nope. Just a train wreck, but hey she's sorta naked, so score!

Summary: I am not amused by this Miley person.

Posted by: oeJay44incday at August 28, 2013 01:49 PM (QxSug)

 

They're not sticking their tongue out like Gene Simmons or fake masturbating with a foam finger either.

Posted by: buzzion at August 28, 2013 09:52 AM (LI48c)

194 Ask Your Singer About Her Chlamydia!

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 28, 2013 09:52 AM (CJjw5)

195 My guess is that guys can't twerk.  Which led me to this thought.
 
With all of the gender reassignment stuff going on, with even which bathroom to use now becoming a 'choice', I have a solution. The chair test and a related one, the pushup test:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBn3s-BMbJs
 
The video claims it's all about center of gravity, but I've seen other stuff about the differing structure of the pelvis too. One of the comments about this video mentions that.
 
The (ex)wife and I did the chair test many years ago, and she could stand up easily whereas there was no way I could.

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 28, 2013 09:52 AM (ccXZP)

196 178 Bob FosseÂ’s stunningly forceful strip-club choreography for the 1972 film Cabaret, set in decadent Weimar-era Berlin. *** I love that movie and it was about something. The theme was the degradation of Germany which, the audience knew, eventually resulted in Auschwitz and the total destruction of the Reich. You know, kinda like what's happening today. My favorite scene is where they are are at some out door restaurant or something and a sweet voice starts singing "Tomorrow Belongs To Me" and camera pulls back to reveal a bunch of Hitler Youth are doing the singing. Posted by: WalrusRex at August 28, 2013 01:47 PM (XUKZU) Oh my goodness...get out of my head! The first time I saw that movie, that scene stuck out to me. I read some background on the movie, watched it again...it is still a very dramatic scene. I also like the end where the camera shows a mirror image of the audience and it's filled with Nazis. You can see the transition of the Nazi takeover throughout the movie.

Posted by: I Be That Chick On Her iPad at August 28, 2013 09:52 AM (kVw0W)

197 The Fellatio Fraternity in the media want everyone to join in the Obamalingus.

Posted by: soothsayer at August 28, 2013 09:53 AM (LQOY/)

198 Camille sounds like nothing quite so much as an old lez with a long-simmering crush on Madonna.

Posted by: zsasz at August 28, 2013 09:53 AM (MMC8r)

199

>>>>As a religious guy, what I'm saying is that when the people become so debased that they are hungry for "entertainment" that contains real murders, the real burning time is upon us.

 

But that's what people did for entertainment when Christianity was founded, so I guess a kinda time for heroes thing?

Posted by: Bigby's Opposable Thumbs at August 28, 2013 09:55 AM (3ZtZW)

200

"If the FTC ever is steamrolled/destroyed, actual sex acts will be
followed by unwilling sex acts, followed by murder in many forms."

 

This was cable.  You pay to have cable and no one forces you to watch.  Miley should have incorporated rimming a few ex-convicts just to drive home the point she no longer worked for Disney.  That would have been just fine.

 

Because it's cable.

 

Same with death.  Executions should be on pay per view.

 

Time was when a good hanging was a community event, with food vendors, music, perhaps a dance afterwards.  Now, it's hidden from view like something to be ashamed of.

 

Information and entertainment shouldn't have a lot of boundaries.   

Posted by: jwest at August 28, 2013 09:55 AM (u2a4R)

201 Bootlicking the stars keeps you on the invitation lists.

Posted by: eleven at August 28, 2013 09:55 AM (KXm42)

202 Just catching up to this story, but I would like to point out     that Cyrus' father is a total failure at parenthood.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at August 28, 2013 09:55 AM (a3/N/)

203 And make no mistake, adults do not watch MTV; children do. Tweeners. Even when MTV was "cool" -- it was never cool, by the way -- but even when it was new enough that kids thought it was "cool," they learned, as they departed their tweener years and became older teenagers, that the channel was for kids and not for them. And they moved on to stuff that older kids and grown ups liked.

--There was still 120 Minutes and Headbanger's Ball, unless you're being broad with the term "kids" and including college students as well.

Posted by: logprof at August 28, 2013 09:56 AM (bufJH)

204 There is no excuse for pi.


Posted by: eleven at August 28, 2013 09:57 AM (KXm42)

205 193 B. That is shit will get old real quick, she's not always going to be a tight 20 year old. And doing this at 30 will be sad. Miley may be skinny (scrawny is more like it), but she is already flabby.

Posted by: baldilocks at August 28, 2013 09:57 AM (Tnlh/)

206 Ted Cruz on with Rush at 2:06. I hope they do "Subdivisions", I love that tune.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at August 28, 2013 09:57 AM (7ObY1)

207 OT:  Piers Morgan is displaying his arrogant ignorance yet again.  In a tweet about his hopes for a future of racial understanding, he tweets that he wants to see the day when a black man will win the Masters at Augusta.

Posted by: WalrusRex at August 28, 2013 09:58 AM (XUKZU)

208 >> Just catching up to this story, but I would like to point out that Cyrus' father is a total failure at parenthood. He beat you to it. http://www.ijreview.com/?p=75166

Posted by: Andy at August 28, 2013 09:58 AM (aTC5U)

209 199 My guess is that guys can't twerk. Which led me to this thought. Posted by: GnuBreed at August 28, 2013 01:52 PM (ccXZP) The photo of BHO "bowing" to the King of Saud disputes this notion.

Posted by: baldilocks at August 28, 2013 09:59 AM (Tnlh/)

210 193 B. That is shit will get old real quick, she's not always going to be a tight 20 year old. And doing this at 30 will be sad. What are you trying to say? ********** I know, right? Britney Spears in 2007. What a difference 6 years makes.

Posted by: oeJay44incday at August 28, 2013 09:59 AM (QxSug)

211 121 ---"...That was fine -- academia had been becoming dry and boring without including low culture in the mix. Ah, but now -- now -- we have taken the next step, and dropped high culture completely. ..." Posted by: zombie at August 28, 2013 01:34 PM (+cx5n) ------------------ Well, that wasn't fine, for many reasons that I won't go into here. But, as you point out, Gresham's Law has worked it's wonders and the bad money has thrown out the good, as it always must. I think back to a letter F Scott Fitzgerald wrote his daughter when she was in college. She wanted to take a course on the modern novel and he forbade it. He said she should be reading contemporary fiction for pleasure. It's easy. She knew the language and the references. Why did she need an academic course on it? He wanted her to master the Graeco-Roman classics, British literature up to Byron, foreign literature, things that require some study and scholarship to appreciate on a basic level. That's what SCHOOL is for. The other stuff you chat about with your friends at a cafe.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 28, 2013 09:59 AM (C8mVl)

212 I'm begining to think the Luddites aren't so stupid after all. At least they would make all TV images of Miley Cyrus go away.

Posted by: The BBC at August 28, 2013 09:59 AM (G74SD)

213 Miley may be skinny (scrawny is more like it), but she is already flabby.

Not a good combination.  And stay away from the freaking latex.  For the love of God.

Posted by: eleven at August 28, 2013 09:59 AM (KXm42)

214 I hope they do "Subdivisions", I love that tune.


What would Ted Cruz play?  WWTCP?

Keyboards?  Nah, that's Geddy's job. 

Triangle?

Posted by: EC at August 28, 2013 09:59 AM (GQ8sn)

215 Miley may be skinny (scrawny is more like it), but she is already flabby. Posted by: baldilocks at August 28, 2013 01:57 PM (Tnlh/) I'm thinking she has a lot of "medical" help with maintaining her weight, even at her age.

Posted by: AmishDude at August 28, 2013 09:59 AM (T0NGe)

216 Madonna was the highest paid entertainer on the planet last year. In her 50s. This shit works.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 28, 2013 09:59 AM (ZPrif)

217 I'm blaming all this twerking on Kevin Bacon and Footloose.  See what happens when we let those damn kids have a dance party. 

Posted by: polynikes at August 28, 2013 09:59 AM (m2CN7)

218 >>he tweets that he wants to see the day when a black man will win the Masters at Augusta

Yeah, because having black dominate the NBA, the NFL, the entertainment business, and elected president is Just.Not.Enough.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2013 10:00 AM (WoYoH)

219

Miley may be skinny (scrawny is more like it), but she is already flabby.

 


 

Posted by: baldilocks at August 28, 2013 01:57 PM (Tnlh/)

 

-----------------------------

 

Yeah, but at least she's  got pale skin, a clammy sheen of whore-sweat, a sprinkling of white trash tattoos and a  lesbian haircut that looks like it was applied with a butterknife.

 

Penis Mood:  INCREDULOUS

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 28, 2013 10:00 AM (CJjw5)

220 How many people die from twerking every year? TWERK KILLS !!

Posted by: Victor/Victoria at August 28, 2013 10:00 AM (+omCY)

221 >>OT: Piers Morgan is displaying his arrogant ignorance yet again. In a tweet about his hopes for a future of racial understanding, he tweets that he wants to see the day when a black man will win the Masters at Augusta. Personally, I hope for the day when Piers Morgan gets hit by an asteroid.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2013 10:00 AM (g1DWB)

222 Paglia has a (figurative) hard-on for La Palin too, you know.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at August 28, 2013 10:00 AM (7ObY1)

223 This was cable. You pay tohave cable and no one forces you to watch. Miley should have incorporated rimming a few ex-convicts just to drive home the point she no longer worked for Disney. That would have been just fine.

Because it's cable.

Same with death. Executions should be onpay per view.

Right.  Did you read the part of my comment where I said they've reached a dead end?  The only thing they can do is push simulated sex acts into other venues.  Right now Pay Cable.  Later, Basic Cable.  Later still, shows made for younger and younger people.  As long as the FTC prevents them from crossing the simulated sex line they're at a dead end.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 28, 2013 10:00 AM (yKTI2)

224

A twerking class hero is something to be.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 28, 2013 10:00 AM (zF6Iw)

225 New Rush re-mix of Working Man to be redone as "Twerking Man".


Posted by: EC at August 28, 2013 10:01 AM (GQ8sn)

226 Don't wanna twerk with no big fat woman

Posted by: WalrusRex at August 28, 2013 10:01 AM (XUKZU)

227 >>Yeah, because having black dominate the NBA, the NFL, the entertainment business, and elected president is Just.Not.Enough. Tiger Woods has won the Masters 4 times. The first was almost 20 years ago.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2013 10:01 AM (g1DWB)

228 OT: Piers Morgan is displaying his arrogant ignorance yet again. In a tweet about his hopes for a future of racial understanding, he tweets that he wants to see the day when a black man will win the Masters at Augusta. Wait, what? Seriously? Did I miss something, or is Tiger as much (or more) Black as (than) TFG?

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at August 28, 2013 10:01 AM (/PCJa)

229 221 Madonna was the highest paid entertainer on the planet last year. In her 50s. This shit works. --- Not everyone is cut out to be a gay culture icon like that aging whore.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at August 28, 2013 10:02 AM (/Crba)

230

>>>TWERK KILLS !!

 

I'VE TWERKED AND I CAN'T GET UP

Posted by: Bigby's Opposable Thumbs at August 28, 2013 10:02 AM (3ZtZW)

231 I blame hoe-downs because HOE! See?

Q to the E to the D, mf'er.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at August 28, 2013 10:02 AM (SX6wc)

232 What would Ted Cruz play? WWTCP? Keyboards? Nah, that's Geddy's job. Triangle? They could do "2112" (fittingly inspired by Ayn Rand's ANTHEM) with Cruz doing the computer voice at the end. "We have assumed control, we have assumed control..." That would be teh awesome.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at August 28, 2013 10:02 AM (7ObY1)

233 hey at least madonna and spears had songs

Posted by: oeJay44incday at August 28, 2013 10:02 AM (QxSug)

234 Whoops. Wrong Masters.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at August 28, 2013 10:02 AM (/PCJa)

235 --There was still 120 Minutes and Headbanger's Ball, unless you're being broad with the term "kids" and including college students as well.

Posted by: logprof at August 28, 2013 01:56 PM (bufJH)

 

 

College students?  Then, yes, they're just kids.  Besides, it's now official government policy.  You're a kid until the age of 26.

 

Too many "kids" in this nation.

Posted by: Soona at August 28, 2013 10:02 AM (vGlNi)

236 Where's the delete button on these posts?

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at August 28, 2013 10:02 AM (/PCJa)

237

twerk on

twerk off

the twerker

Posted by: Bigby's Opposable Thumbs at August 28, 2013 10:03 AM (3ZtZW)

238 Right next to the edit button.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 28, 2013 10:03 AM (ZPrif)

239 she-bop a we-bop

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 28, 2013 10:03 AM (ZPrif)

240 FACT: Camille Paglia is the only genuinely worthwhile self-identified "Feminist" writer/thinker in America.  She really seems to hail from a different era of American public intellectual life, where people were unafraid to be thoughtfully provocative (as opposed to mindlessly provocative, Miley-style) and authentically heterodox.  Just saw an old PJ Media discussion between her and Glenn Reynolds about conservative rejection of the visual arts (and how the fault lies with the art world's suffocating orthodoxy rather than with conservative beliefs) and it was a bracingly interesting back-and-forth.

Paglia is, to my mind, living proof that I don't have to agree with everything a person says or every position they take in order to still find real value in what they contribute to the discourse.

Oh, and that Twitchy page on ABCNews was fucking hilarious.

Posted by: Jeff B., what has finally had it with this RINO shit at August 28, 2013 10:04 AM (n/+FT)

241 Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 28, 2013 02:03 PM (ZPrif) I guess that comes with the Super Double-Secret Platinum membership, huh? The one where formatting other than old BBS codes works?

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at August 28, 2013 10:04 AM (/PCJa)

242

Piers Morgan is displaying his arrogant ignorance yet again. In a tweet about his hopes for a future of racial understanding, he tweets that he wants to see the day when a black man will win the Masters at Augusta.

This has got to be fake because 9 out of 10 participants in the Special Olympics knows that  Woods has  won the Masters .   Is is also hoping for the day when America  can elect a black man President?

Posted by: polynikes at August 28, 2013 10:05 AM (m2CN7)

243 yawn

Posted by: Bigby's Opposable Thumbs at August 28, 2013 10:05 AM (3ZtZW)

244 I think back to a letter F Scott Fitzgerald wrote his daughter when she was in college. She wanted to take a course on the modern novel and he forbade it. He said she should be reading contemporary fiction for pleasure. It's easy. She knew the language and the references. Why did she need an academic course on it? He wanted her to master the Graeco-Roman classics, British literature up to Byron, foreign literature, things that require some study and scholarship to appreciate on a basic level. That's what SCHOOL is for. The other stuff you chat about with your friends at a cafe. Yes. I guess the problem people have with my attitude is that I grew up with the vulgar as the coin of the realm in the humanities (and social sciences). There's so little classical education or education that requires a class to learn, that I want the humanities done away with. Entirely. Especially at state-funded institutions. They've gone from simply not being elevating to being damaging. To get back to your point: You don't need to pay tuition to belong to a book club.

Posted by: AmishDude at August 28, 2013 10:05 AM (T0NGe)

245 Yeah, but at least she's got pale skin, a clammy sheen of whore-sweat, a sprinkling of white trash tattoos and a lesbian haircut that looks like it was applied with a butterknife. Penis Mood: INCREDULOUS Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 28, 2013 02:00 PM (CJjw5) Dude, you left out the best part. The giant banana slug looking thing trying to crawl out of her face so as to avoid being involved in the "singing". Also to avoid be stuck up some random 300lb back up dancer's ass.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 28, 2013 10:05 AM (da5Wo)

246 To paraphrase Peggy Hill, edit and delete buttons are crutches.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at August 28, 2013 10:06 AM (7ObY1)

247 You take a wide stance... You don't have to ask me twice!

Posted by: Larry Craig at August 28, 2013 10:06 AM (FcR7P)

248 Oh goody. Now Oprah is going to tell us how racism made her a billionaire.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2013 10:06 AM (g1DWB)

249 Maybe Woods isn't black enough for Piers.

Posted by: eleven at August 28, 2013 10:06 AM (KXm42)

250

@heartiste  Is Miley Cyrus' tongue ever not sticking out? She looks like she swallowed a bad load. Or like a dog that took a mouthful of sand and PB&J.

Posted by: InternationalANSWER at August 28, 2013 10:07 AM (Bv9qa)

251 Piers Morgan is displaying his arrogant ignorance yet again. In a tweet about his hopes for a future of racial understanding, he tweets that he wants to see the day when a black man will win the Masters at Augusta. Are you shitting me? Do you know how many times Tiger has won at Augusta?

Posted by: chelsea blaster at August 28, 2013 10:07 AM (W6bkf)

252 Barrel!

Posted by: zsasz at August 28, 2013 10:07 AM (MMC8r)

253 Posted by: InternationalANSWER at August 28, 2013 02:07 PM (Bv9qa) --- Barrel.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at August 28, 2013 10:07 AM (/Crba)

254 221 Madonna was the highest paid entertainer on the planet last year. In her 50s.
This shit works.

Nope.  Dr Dre tops the Forbes highest-paid entertainer in 2012 list.

Madonna's not even in the top 25.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 28, 2013 10:08 AM (yKTI2)

255 >>This was cable. You pay to have cable and no one forces you to watch.

Once it's out there it has a widespread, corrosive effect. Even if you didn't watch it, you could not have avoided it this week.

-Clips were shown on the local and national news during daytime programming.
-Pictures and links were available from general websites, such as aol home page.
-People, including our kids' classmates and older siblings are talking about it.
-It will likely make one or more magazine covers

It pollutes our culture so thoroughly that one's cable subscription is irrelevant.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2013 10:08 AM (WoYoH)

256 ACT: Camille Paglia is the only genuinely worthwhile self-identified "Feminist" writer/thinker in America. She really seems to hail from a different era of American public intellectual life, where people were unafraid to be thoughtfully provocative (as opposed to mindlessly provocative, Miley-style) and authentically heterodox. Just saw an old PJ Media discussion between her and Glenn Reynolds about conservative rejection of the visual arts (and how the fault lies with the art world's suffocating orthodoxy rather than with conservative beliefs) and it was a bracingly interesting back-and-forth. Paglia is, to my mind, living proof that I don't have to agree with everything a person says or every position they take in order to still find real value in what they contribute to the discourse. ITA. Back when I bothered to seek out opposing viewpoints, Paglia was always one of my go-to's. I just don't bother anymore, ever since the Left replaced reasoned debate with RAAAAACIST!!!!!!

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at August 28, 2013 10:08 AM (7ObY1)

257

Posted by: InternationalANSWER at August 28, 2013 02:07 PM (Bv9qa)

 

Did you think this was an actual website with working functions?

 

Silly fuck.

Posted by: jwest at August 28, 2013 10:08 AM (u2a4R)

258

I'm picturing RuPaul now.

 

You better TWERK!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 28, 2013 10:08 AM (zF6Iw)

259 >>>Piers Morgan is displaying his arrogant ignorance yet again. In a tweet about his hopes for a future of racial understanding, he tweets that he wants to see the day when a black man will win the Masters at Augusta.

You have got to be kidding me.  Seriously?  SERIOUSLY?

Posted by: Jeff B., what has finally had it with this RINO shit at August 28, 2013 10:09 AM (n/+FT)

260 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Did ee cummings write that?

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at August 28, 2013 10:09 AM (7ObY1)

261 I hope I live to see the day when a black man is allowed to play Major League Baseball.

Posted by: Piers Morgan, history buff at August 28, 2013 10:10 AM (n/+FT)

262 Why is Kim Kardashian *still* looking at me every time I got to the checkout line.

Will no one rid me of this bothersome twit?

Posted by: eleven at August 28, 2013 10:10 AM (KXm42)

263 Posted by: InternationalANSWER at August 28, 2013 02:07 PM

Enjoy your stay in.the.barrel.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at August 28, 2013 10:10 AM (SX6wc)

264

>>>It pollutes our culture so thoroughly that one's cable subscription is irrelevant.

 

The whole point of it was to crap in the punchbowl, so no surprize at the pollution.

Posted by: Bigby's Opposable Thumbs at August 28, 2013 10:10 AM (3ZtZW)

265


"Once it's out there it has a widespread, corrosive effect. Even if you didn't watch it, you could not have avoided it this week.

-Clips were shown on the local and national news during daytime programming.
-Pictures and links were available from general websites, such as aol home page.
-People, including our kids' classmates and older siblings are talking about it.
-It will likely make one or more magazine covers

It pollutes our culture so thoroughly that one's cable subscription is irrelevant."

 

The only reason anyone knows about it is because people are playing the shock value. 

 

It simply wasn't a big deal.

Posted by: jwest at August 28, 2013 10:10 AM (u2a4R)

266 I wish people would understand that Tiger Woods isn't considered "authentically black" by the black community. We see him as black, but the black community shuns him. He didn't share in their experiences and he dates and marries white women. Just wanted to point that out. And Piers Morgan is an ignorant ass anyways.

Posted by: I Be That Chick On Her iPad at August 28, 2013 10:11 AM (kVw0W)

267 No idea if this has been posted previously..... Why Arnold Palmer is still the man... http://tinyurl.com/q8mh69g

Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 28, 2013 10:11 AM (da5Wo)

268 I hope I live to see the day when a black man can rise to be head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Posted by: Piers Morgan, history buff at August 28, 2013 10:11 AM (n/+FT)

269 I know, right? Britney Spears in 2007. What a difference 6 years makes.

Posted by: oeJay44incday at August 28, 2013 01:59 PM (QxSug)

 

Brittney. School girl uniform. Nuff said.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-u5WLJ9Yk4

Posted by: Invictus at August 28, 2013 10:12 AM (OQpzc)

270

Yes. I guess the problem people have with my attitude is that I grew up with the vulgar as the coin of the realm in the humanities (and social sciences).

 

-------------------------

 

No, I think  it's because you're  constantly pimping mathematicians as the Supreme Evolution of  Human Learning, and acting like  a dick to anyone in a different  field of endeavor.  And you're  always going on about  "proofs".  Here's one for you.

 

Smart   +  Arrogant  +  Aloof   -  Humor   =  No Pussy

 

Lighten up, Archimedes.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 28, 2013 10:12 AM (CJjw5)

271 Why Arnold Palmer is still the man...

http://tinyurl.com/q8mh69g

Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 28, 2013 02:11 PM (da5Wo)


Dude....


...Caddyshack 3 with Kate Upton as Lacey Underalls!

Posted by: EC at August 28, 2013 10:12 AM (GQ8sn)

272 >>The only reason anyone knows about it is because people are playing the shock value. >>It simply wasn't a big deal. When almost nobody across the social and political spectrum agrees with you it might be time to rethink your position.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2013 10:12 AM (g1DWB)

273 Youse guys are really bringin' Teh Funneh today!

Guess it doesn't occur to anyone that the Big Winner from all this hooraw about Moral Decline and OMG how could she!!11!! and We're all Going to Hell! is...Miley Cyrus.

She is getting attention Bill Gates's fortune couldn't buy. She is the center of attention.

She may have, as some commenters seem to think, sold her soul to the Devil, but she's getting a damn good payback right now. Most likely she's now a household word in places where they don't even have teevees, thanks to the roiling billows of Outraged Outrage encircling the globe.

Yeah, I think it's funny as hell. I bet it would have cracked Lenny Bruce up, too.

Posted by: MrScribbler at August 28, 2013 10:12 AM (kaGpp)

274 WWTCP? Ted will man the cannons for the 1812 Overture. Or any other song.

Posted by: irright at August 28, 2013 10:12 AM (Ze8oh)

275 -Clips were shown on the local and national news during daytime programming.
-Pictures and links were available from general websites, such as aol home page.
-People, including our kids' classmates and older siblings are talking about it.
-It will likely make one or more magazine covers

It pollutes our culture so thoroughly that one's cable subscription is irrelevant.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2013 02:08 PM (WoYoH)

 

 

-------------------------------------------------

 

 

Thank you.  Well stated. 

Posted by: Soona at August 28, 2013 10:12 AM (vGlNi)

276 Did ee cummings write that? Posted by: BlueStateRebel at August 28, 2013 02:09 PM (7ObY1) No... There's capitalisation. Clearly this was a later 'poet' trying to retool cummings' style and make it his own.

Posted by: Ragamuffin at August 28, 2013 10:13 AM (fzFF6)

277 181 I have to admit, if Miley wanted to lick my ass, and call me Tedddy, I'd probably let her. Posted by: Invictus at August 28, 2013 01:48 PM (OQpzc)
You and 22,000 other men on Ashley Madison, better get in line now (remove spaces): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/ 08/02/miley-cyrus-cheat_n_369 5648.html

Posted by: LizLem, sadly too young to start telling twentysomething hipsters to get off her lawn at August 28, 2013 10:13 AM (8wqqE)

278 (Well, don't you know) That's the sound of the men twerking in the choom ga-a-ang That's the sound of the men twerking in the choom gang All day long they're singin' (Hooh! aah!) (hooh! aah!) (Hooh! aah!) (hooh! aah!)

Posted by: RWC at August 28, 2013 10:13 AM (fWAjv)

279

>>>Tiger Woods isn't considered "authentically black" by the black community.

 

Because whites like him too much. j/k

Posted by: Bigby's Opposable Thumbs at August 28, 2013 10:13 AM (3ZtZW)

280 Piers Morgan is displaying his arrogant ignorance yet again. In a tweet about his hopes for a future of racial understanding, he tweets that he wants to see the day when a black man will win the Masters at Augusta. I dream of the day the Congressional Black Caucus has a chinese member.

Posted by: zsasz at August 28, 2013 10:13 AM (MMC8r)

281 Ah, a barrel candidate.

Posted by: baldilocks at August 28, 2013 10:13 AM (Tnlh/)

282 Nice post! I can agree with Ace and with Paglia at the same time!
I saw as much of Miley as I could stand. I don't think she really has rhythm. Jus' sayin'.
Also she got no back.
(I'd still hit it, but I've been in a p***y drought lately.)
But here's the issue: "twerk" comes from "stripper dance" which comes from crunk, which comes right out of Nubia. (See the Hip Hop Clowns.) As such, it is tribal merely, in the sense that at root it has no aspiration to mere art.
When Cyrus combined the artless dance element with anilingus, we get shock value... a geek act.
Miley the geek.

Posted by: Cretin, high-grade moron ions in hundreds of centrifuges at August 28, 2013 10:14 AM (isp3C)

283 So. Ace.

When we gonna start seeing those Ford or McDonaldÂ’s or Samsonite ads here?

You DO have a low bounce rate, NO?

Of course we morons are all right wing extremist terrorist hobbits and icky and stuff so maybe we're not the right demo.

I'd look into this if I was you.

Or maybe you already have and are planning a Casa de La Ace somewhere.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at August 28, 2013 10:14 AM (28TG+)

284 I dream of a day when a young boy can recite cowboy poetry while twerking his elderly benefactor

Posted by: Harry Reid is a pederast at August 28, 2013 10:14 AM (Pr6hk)

285 I pray that the day will someday come when Asian children can point to a successful Chinese-American point guard and say "I can be just like him!"  The dream must never be allowed to die.

Posted by: Piers Morgan, history buff at August 28, 2013 10:14 AM (n/+FT)

286 When almost nobody across the social and political spectrum agrees with you it might be time to rethink your position.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2013 02:12 PM (g1DWB)

 

The overnight host on WBZ (a MA radio station) agreed that it was no big deal.  A woman, too.  I just shook my head and went back to bed.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 28, 2013 10:14 AM (zF6Iw)

287

Martha Quinn was hawt though...

--

Martha was girl-next-door-cute you take home to mama. Nina was drugged out freak-girl who you knew'd do all them nasty things.

come one, which one can you imagine twerking you in a coke-haze threesome?

 

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at August 28, 2013 10:14 AM (SO2Q8)

288 I wish people would understand that Tiger Woods isn't considered "authentically black" by the black community. We see him as black, but the black community shuns him. He didn't share in their experiences and he dates and marries white women. Maybe he should run for the White House. Except for the "white women" bit, you described Obama to a "T". Except that Obama was raised by a bank vice president, went to insanely expensive private schools and had Ph.D.s for parents. Tiger had nothing close to those advantages.

Posted by: AmishDude at August 28, 2013 10:14 AM (T0NGe)

289 Maetenloch put me out in the cornfield. He hates me.


Posted by: FUBAR at August 28, 2013 10:14 AM (Cs2tJ)

290 278 Yes, as promotion it works. That's because we no longer have a shared value that ostracizes.

Posted by: zsasz at August 28, 2013 10:15 AM (MMC8r)

291 Lighten up, Archimedes. Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 28, 2013 02:12 PM (CJjw5) *chokes on dt mtn dew* I have small children. Who love the original Sword In The Stone. I immediately pictured the owl "Who-who?! What-what?!"

Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 28, 2013 10:15 AM (da5Wo)

292 I spent last night in the barrel.  I desperately wanted to sleep, but every so often I heard a squishing sound.  It was pitch black, and I sure as heel did not want to feel my way around to investigate.  I'll sleep well tonight.

Posted by: logprof at August 28, 2013 10:15 AM (bufJH)

293 She may have, as some commenters seem to think, sold her soul to the Devil, but she's getting a damn good payback right now. Show me how this sells one additional album or gets one additional endorsement deal. No one who wasn't already a fan is saying "Hey, that Miley chick can twerk! I really need to hear more of her music!" No one who wasn't already a fan thinks she knows dick about peter. So, sure, this probably makes her "feel good" in an "I'm the center of attention" sort of way, but it's not actually good *for her*- either personally or professionally.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at August 28, 2013 10:15 AM (/PCJa)

294 I am of the mind that Miley Cyrus has taken twerking to where twerking has never been. She punched it up, innovated, and mainstreamed with the tongue wag.  

That's gotta stand for something.

Posted by: Fritz at August 28, 2013 10:15 AM (UzPAd)

295 I dream of the day the Congressional Black Caucus has a chinese member.
Posted by: zsasz at August 28, 2013 02:13 PM (MMC8r)

Hell. Even a Black conservative member would be progress.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at August 28, 2013 10:16 AM (28TG+)

296 Regarding the Gatekeepers of pop culture. I don't much care what adults do with their lives. If they're willing to go on national tv and make themselves look like imbeciles in order to get attention, I don't give a rat's ass. People watch this junk on reality shows because there is entertainment value in watching a train wreck. But what pisses me off is when the moms feed their attention whore needs by exploiting their children. All you have to do is watch one episode of Toddlers and Tiaras or Dance Moms to know how these kids are being used. All you have to do is see one episode of Toddlers and Tiaras where a 3 year old is screaming while extreme stuff is being done to the child's hair. Any woman will tell you how uncomfortable some of these hair and make-up routines are. Worst of all are the employees of the tv networks who know how disgusting the behavior of the moms is, but choose to capitalize on the bad parenting, and even encourage it by training a camera on these freaks. They edit the video to show the worst behavior of the parents, and seem to have an air of superiority because, of course, those executives and employees would never put their own children through that crap. But they're more than willing to encourage other parents to put their children through it.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 28, 2013 10:16 AM (3EA7Y)

297 One day, the Republican Party transcend its racist heritage and finally elect a Hispanic, an Asian, or an African-American to the U.S. Senate.  But I fear that day will be long in coming.

Posted by: Piers Morgan, history buff at August 28, 2013 10:16 AM (n/+FT)

298 249 ---Posted by: AmishDude at August 28, 2013 02:05 PM (T0NGe)--- I understand where you're coming from and I also despair of reform, i.e., restoration of the true liberal arts. Yes. It might be better to have nothing than the crap passing as "humanities" right now. No culture leaves a vacuum that will be filled with dreck, but bad culture force-fed is probably worse.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 28, 2013 10:17 AM (C8mVl)

299 I'm sorry, I thought MTV was cool when it played Music Videos. I was a fan of Friday Night Videos too. Putting images to songs was cutting edge and cool. Now, MTV plays no music, videos are sex and crap and the youth of America and the world is lost.

Posted by: © Sponge at August 28, 2013 10:17 AM (xmcEQ)

300 262 Posted by: InternationalANSWER at August 28, 2013 02:07 PM (Bv9qa) Did you think this was an actual website with working functions? Silly fuck. Posted by: jwest at August 28, 2013 02:08 Typepad does the same thing if one pastes from Microsoft Word into the HTML field.

Posted by: baldilocks at August 28, 2013 10:17 AM (Tnlh/)

301 Martha was girl-next-door-cute you take home to mama. Nina was drugged out freak-girl who you knew'd do all them nasty things. come one, which one can you imagine twerking you in a coke-haze threesome? But Nina Blackwood looked like she had a hell-stew of STD's a-brewing in her torn, stained panties. Martha Quinn for the win!

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at August 28, 2013 10:18 AM (7ObY1)

302

I have small children. Who love the original Sword In The Stone.

 



I immediately pictured the owl "Who-who?! What-what?!"

 

-------------------

 

Heh.  Haven't seen that one in  over  a year.  They're growing up - my twins,  Pig Pen and The Barnacle turn seven tomorrow, and they're my youngest.  What happened  to all my babies?!

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 28, 2013 10:18 AM (CJjw5)

303

I was a fan of Friday Night Videos too. Putting images to songs was cutting edge and cool.

 

 

I loved Much Music!

Posted by: Ted Cruz at August 28, 2013 10:19 AM (4xoq5)

304 And now, OFF SOCK.

Posted by: Jeff B., what has finally had it with this RINO shit at August 28, 2013 10:19 AM (n/+FT)

305 >>The only reason anyone knows about it is because people are playing the shock value. It simply wasn't a big deal.

Oh, please. This shocking people to get attention game has been going on for too long for us to just sniff and pretend it only matters if you, personally, react to it (Epater la bourgeoise!).

Fine, you're not shocked, and I don't watch MTV.. Regardless, the line has been moved, and MTV will be there to support the next "artist" when they decide it's their turn to pull off the next big shock.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2013 10:19 AM (WoYoH)

306 284 >>>Tiger Woods isn't considered "authentically black" by the black community. Because whites like him too much. j/k Posted by: Bigby's Opposable Thumbs at August 28, 2013 02:13 PM (3ZtZW) Incidentally, I went to high school that was in the same sports league as him. I was a senior and he was freshman blowing fools out during the golf season. It was funny to listen to the golfers talk about him.

Posted by: I Be That Chick On Her iPad at August 28, 2013 10:19 AM (kVw0W)

307 She may have, as some commenters seem to think, sold her soul to the Devil, but she's getting a damn good payback right now. Most likely she's now a household word in places where they don't even have teevees, thanks to the roiling billows of Outraged Outrage encircling the globe. If you had (now) teenaged girls, you'd know exactly who she is and your house drowning in Hannah Montana shit would be a testament. She had enough fame and she would have had Annette Funicello-level fame for the rest of her life due to nostalgia. I think you are too in the old mode. Nobody was "shocked" (except Will Smith) by the display itself. It was pathetic. It was sad. And if she gets attention for it, fine. She deserves it and all it brings.

Posted by: AmishDude at August 28, 2013 10:19 AM (T0NGe)

308

Martha Quinn was hawt though...

 

Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper, Stuffin' Martha's Muffin:

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPts1cPQRh8

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 28, 2013 10:19 AM (zF6Iw)

309 You know the joke about a constipated mathematician?

He worked it with a pencil.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at August 28, 2013 10:19 AM (28TG+)

310 299 I dream of the day the Congressional Black Caucus has a chinese member. Posted by: zsasz at August 28, 2013 02:13 PM (MMC8r) Hell. Even a Black conservative member would be progress. Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at August 28, 2013 02:16 PM (28TG+) Allen West was a member, iirc. It's one of the reasons he had to be "voted" out.

Posted by: baldilocks at August 28, 2013 10:20 AM (Tnlh/)

311 damn screwed the punchline

Worked it OUT with a pencil.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at August 28, 2013 10:20 AM (28TG+)

312 303 249 ---Posted by: AmishDude at August 28, 2013 02:05 PM (T0NGe)---

I understand where you're coming from and I also despair of reform, i.e., restoration of the true liberal arts.
Yes. It might be better to have nothing than the crap passing as "humanities" right now.
No culture leaves a vacuum that will be filled with dreck, but bad culture force-fed is probably worse.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 28, 2013 02:17 PM (C8mVl)


--Has anyone else here read Steven Pinker's recent essay, "Science is Not Your Enemy."  Sure, I think he leans leftward, but he blasted the state of humanities, and used the delicious phrase "dogmatic relativism" to describe post-modernism.  It's worth a read.

Posted by: logprof at August 28, 2013 10:20 AM (bufJH)

313 Posted by: baldilocks at August 28, 2013 02:20 PM (Tnlh/)

I thought he applied and got rejected by vote?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at August 28, 2013 10:21 AM (28TG+)

314
Martha Quinn for the win!

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at August 28, 2013 02:18 PM (7ObY1)


--Nowadays Quinn hosts a show on Sirius's '80s channel.

Posted by: logprof at August 28, 2013 10:21 AM (bufJH)

315 She may have, as some commenters seem to think, sold her soul to the Devil, but she's getting a damn good payback right now. Many people get payback from things that are highly questionable. I have never listened to Miley Cyrus and wouldn't know her from a hole in the ground. I don't have Cable, don't have TV and cannot do anything about people I know who watch her or care what she says. I don't.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2013 10:21 AM (gTN+E)

316

damn screwed the punchline

 

funnier the first time

Posted by: Bigby's Opposable Thumbs at August 28, 2013 10:22 AM (3ZtZW)

317

"...Oh and speaking of not being pardoizable..."

Pardoizable: The condition of being transformable into Don Pardo, the famous TV announcer.  E.g. "Gilbert Gottfried might like to do voiceovers for Saturday Night Live, but his voice is not pardoizable.

Posted by: Steve in Greensboro at August 28, 2013 10:22 AM (Dq8Uc)

318 Sorry, don't do the whole faux outrage thing.

Posted by: D. Hopper at August 28, 2013 10:22 AM (fxN9x)

319 Heh. Haven't seen that one in over a year. They're growing up - my twins, Pig Pen and The Barnacle turn seven tomorrow, and they're my youngest. What happened to all my babies?! Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 28, 2013 02:18 PM (CJjw5) 7??? Mine are 6 and 3. Pretty sure the 6 year old thinks she's 16. The 3 year old said she was going to do something the other day as she was walking out of the room. 6 year old has her back turned, doesn't even hesitate and doesn't stop what she's doing, "Yeah. Can't wait to see how that's gonna turn out." Btw, Happy Birthday to your kiddos!

Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 28, 2013 10:23 AM (da5Wo)

320 "My guess is that guys can't twerk."

Can too twerk!


Posted by: Barney Frank at August 28, 2013 10:23 AM (4I3Uo)

321 If you had (now) teenaged girls, you'd know exactly who she is and your house drowning in Hannah Montana shit would be a testament. She had enough fame and she would have had Annette Funicello-level fame for the rest of her life due to nostalgia. I think you are too in the old mode. Nobody was "shocked" (except Will Smith) by the display itself. It was pathetic. It was sad. And if she gets attention for it, fine. She deserves it and all it brings. Posted by: AmishDude at August 28, 2013 02:19 PM (T0NGe) This. My sister took her girls to a Hanna Montana concert. It seems so long ago. And you know Cyrus' act was raunchy (and awful) when Rianna (sp) was shocked.

Posted by: baldilocks at August 28, 2013 10:23 AM (Tnlh/)

322 Show me how this sells one additional album or gets one additional endorsement deal. Your point is valid but there is no such thing as an album anymore, really. She might have gotten a flurry of downloads, but that will dissipate quickly. She might get more attention at her concerts, maybe, but guys won't go to Miley Cyrus concerts without a girl and girls won't be intrigued. But I was thinking about endorsement deals. I think she's likely to be the first celebrity with a corporate logo. Some skateboard company or something is going to finally get a celebrity to get a tat of their logo.

Posted by: AmishDude at August 28, 2013 10:24 AM (T0NGe)

323 But yes, the envelope will be pushed for the next stunt Miley or anyone else wants to pull for attention-we'll get live sex on stage on MTV awards.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 28, 2013 10:24 AM (gTN+E)

324

But Nina Blackwood looked like she had a hell-stew of STD's a-brewing in her torn, stained panties.

Martha Quinn for the win!

---

Think of how much thrilling that'd make the sex. The anticipation of learning if/what disease she'd shared with you. That's real living.

And you'd never get a sniff of Martha's panties. The girl was married to Bobby Brady...

 

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at August 28, 2013 10:24 AM (SO2Q8)

325 I hope I live to see the day when a black man wins a F1 championship.

Posted by: Piers Morgan, history buff at August 28, 2013 10:25 AM (6xhLc)

326

I wish people would understand that Tiger Woods isn't considered "authentically black" by the black community. We see him as black, but the black community shuns him. He didn't share in their experiences and he dates and marries white women.

If he would have just cut a record about cop killing he could get a pass to marry a white woman. 

Posted by: polynikes at August 28, 2013 10:25 AM (m2CN7)

327 Twerking me softly, with his song...

Posted by: Lincolntf at August 28, 2013 10:25 AM (ZshNr)

328 Incidentally, I went to high school that was in the same sports league as him. I was a senior and he was freshman blowing fools out during the golf season. It was funny to listen to the golfers talk about him. We had a nationally-ranked high school team (3rd in the nation) in my town that played LeBron's high school team. All we heard for freakin' weeks was about how this LeBron James was a one-man wrecking crew who was going to single-handedly destroy our undefeated local team. Which made it all the sweeter when our local boys won the game.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at August 28, 2013 10:25 AM (7ObY1)

329 317 Posted by: baldilocks at August 28, 2013 02:20 PM (Tnlh/) I thought he applied and got rejected by vote? Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at August 28, 2013 02:21 PM (28TG+) No, he was a member. I remember that he decided to join and (then) Rep. Tim Scott decided not to.

Posted by: baldilocks at August 28, 2013 10:26 AM (Tnlh/)

330 "Charlie Don't Twerk" - The Clash (1980)

Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2013 10:26 AM (4xoq5)

331

I saw a cable show last night that would have shocked Mayor Blumberg more than the Miley Cyrus episode.

 

It's a series of cooks making "Fair food", competing for a trophy by deep frying new things to be sold from trailers at State Fairs.

 

Looks delicious.

 

 

Posted by: jwest at August 28, 2013 10:26 AM (u2a4R)

332

She may have, as some commenters seem to think, sold her soul to the Devil, but she's getting a damn good payback right now.

 

Imagine how much more money Myrna Loy could have made if she'd advertised crotchless panties.  Or if Marion Anderson fingered herself on stage.


Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 28, 2013 10:27 AM (zF6Iw)

333 I liked Miley Cyrus in Bolt but then again I did not have to look at her. 

Posted by: polynikes at August 28, 2013 10:27 AM (m2CN7)

334 But I was thinking about endorsement deals. I think she's likely to be the first celebrity with a corporate logo. Trojan or KY.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 28, 2013 10:28 AM (qc7at)

335 322 Sorry, don't do the whole faux outrage thing. Posted by: D. Hopper at August 28, 2013 02:22 PM (fxN9x) Who created this bullshit idea of "faux outrage?"

Posted by: baldilocks at August 28, 2013 10:28 AM (Tnlh/)

336 I hope I live to see the day when an effeminate brit can score decent ratings on basic cable.

 

Posted by: Piers Morgan, history buff at August 28, 2013 10:28 AM (SO2Q8)

337 I don't know why you guys think this is so funny. It is very important that our children are properly educated about things like twerking and buttseks and Cleveland steamers, and such. A good future Democrat is a perverted one.  

Posted by: A liberal at August 28, 2013 10:28 AM (Dwehj)

338 And to be serious you guys,  the song Cyrus did for Bolt was a nice tune.  

Posted by: polynikes at August 28, 2013 10:28 AM (m2CN7)

339 Lmao. Dana Loesch is going fucking off on her show. First time I've ever listened and she's going postal. All about raising the minimum wage.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 28, 2013 10:29 AM (da5Wo)

340 Posted by: logprof at August 28, 2013 02:20 PM (bufJH) Thanks, I haven't read that. I do remember the little dustup when the physicist published the scientific paper saying gravity was a construct.

Posted by: AmishDude at August 28, 2013 10:29 AM (T0NGe)

341 336 She may have, as some commenters seem to think, sold her soul to the Devil, but she's getting a damn good payback right now. Imagine how much more money Myrna Loy could have made if she'd advertised crotchless panties. Or if Marion Anderson fingered herself on stage. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 28, 2013 02:27 PM (zF6Iw) As subtle as ever, MP3 and/or 4.

Posted by: baldilocks at August 28, 2013 10:30 AM (Tnlh/)

342 Seems to me that "twerking" is just a new, and stupid-sounding, name for what they used to call "the bumps and grinds" back at the old college of Bur-lee-que knowledge.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2013 10:30 AM (60Q+L)

343 325 If you had (now) teenaged girls, you'd know exactly who she is and your house drowning in Hannah Montana shit would be a testament. She had enough fame and she would have had Annette Funicello-level fame for the rest of her life due to nostalgia. I think you are too in the old mode. Nobody was "shocked" (except Will Smith) by the display itself. It was pathetic. It was sad. And if she gets attention for it, fine. She deserves it and all it brings. Posted by: AmishDude at August 28, 2013 02:19 PM (T0NGe) This. My sister took her girls to a Hanna Montana concert. It seems so long ago. And you know Cyrus' act was raunchy (and awful) when Rianna (sp) was shocked. Posted by: baldilocks at August 28, 2013 02:23 PM (Tnlh/) No...Rihanna wasn't shocked it was raunchy and awful...she was shocked that Miley Cyrus was doing it. Rihanna, Beyonce, Trina, Janet Jackson and others have been doing that for years at concerts. Hell, when Destiny's Child was still a group, they all did a lap dance during the BET Awards show in 2005. Beyonce gave actor Terrence Howard one that was explicit during the performance.

Posted by: I Be That Chick On Her iPad at August 28, 2013 10:30 AM (kVw0W)

344 Who created this bullshit idea of "faux outrage?"

Posted by: baldilocks at August 28, 2013 02:28 PM (Tnlh/)

 

I don't know who created it but I know Michelle Malkin  perfected it.  

Posted by: polynikes at August 28, 2013 10:30 AM (m2CN7)

345 "Charlie Don't Twerk" - The Clash (1980) "Charlie Don't Twerk" - Apocalypse Now (1979)

Posted by: rickb223 at August 28, 2013 10:31 AM (qc7at)

346 @316 Even the history of science is relative with that crowd, the dogmatic relativists.
The too pat reductio is turning Quine on Quine, but it works. Think about it.











(And, yes, that is one of my original ideas.)

Posted by: Cretin, high-grade moron ions in hundreds of centrifuges at August 28, 2013 10:31 AM (isp3C)

347 348 Who created this bullshit idea of "faux outrage?" Posted by: baldilocks at August 28, 2013 02:28 PM (Tnlh/) I don't know who created it but I know Michelle Malkin perfected it. Posted by: polynikes at August 28, 2013 02:30 PM (m2CN7) Perfected a non-existent concept. Right.

Posted by: baldilocks at August 28, 2013 10:31 AM (Tnlh/)

348 @350 OOPS!!!!
Kuhn on Kuhn.

Posted by: Cretin, high-grade moron ions in hundreds of centrifuges at August 28, 2013 10:32 AM (isp3C)

349 Guess it doesn't occur to anyone that the Big Winner from all this hooraw about Moral Decline and OMG how could she!!11!! and We're all Going to Hell! is...Miley Cyrus.

She is getting attention Bill Gates's fortune couldn't buy. She is the center of attention.

Know who else gets lots of attention?  Lindsay Lohan.  All the attention doesn't appear to advancing Miss Cyrus's career any more than it is Miss Lohan's.

Posted by: Department of Redundancy Department at August 28, 2013 10:32 AM (ymovd)

350 Twerkin' for a livin' (twerkin') Twerkin' for a livin' (twerkin') Twerkin' for a livin', livin' and twerkin' I'm taking what they giving 'cause I'm twerking for a livin'.

Posted by: Miley Cyrus and the News at August 28, 2013 10:33 AM (Ze8oh)

351

But I was thinking about endorsement deals. I think she's likely to be the first celebrity with a corporate logo.




Trojan or KY.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 28, 2013 02:28 PM (qc7at)

 

Sani-Flush.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 28, 2013 10:33 AM (zF6Iw)

352 Pedobears on the VMA awards?!


Thanks Obama.

Posted by: No There There at August 28, 2013 10:33 AM (rCS6C)

353 Perfected a non-existent concept. Right.

Posted by: baldilocks at August 28, 2013 02:31 PM (Tnlh/)

 

You think false outrage is non existent? 

Posted by: polynikes at August 28, 2013 10:34 AM (m2CN7)

354 You think false outrage is non existent?

Posted by: polynikes at August 28, 2013 02:34 PM (m2CN7)

 

I meant fake outrage.  

Posted by: polynikes at August 28, 2013 10:36 AM (m2CN7)

355 That's the sound of the men twerking in the choom ga-a-ang

That's the sound of the men twerking in the choom gang

All day long they're singin'

(Hooh! aah!) (hooh! aah!)
(Hooh! aah!) (hooh! aah!)

Posted by: RWC at August 28, 2013 02:13 PM (fWAjv)


Well played!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2013 10:43 AM (60Q+L)

356 Barry loves it when I twerk him.

Posted by: Reggie Love at August 28, 2013 10:43 AM (6S4Ai)

357

The Mere-Wife is pretty apolitical, though she has a healthy distaste for Bambi. Yesterday I read her the headline from here, "Oh Look Who's Mr. Bombypants Now" and she laughed hard.

 

 

And you know the old saying, "A maid laughing is half-won." 

Posted by: Meremortal at August 28, 2013 11:09 AM (1Y+hH)

358 LOOSE SHIT: Viacom hasn't owned CBS since 2006. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Corporation

Posted by: BrokenNewsMike at August 28, 2013 11:16 AM (XYUuL)

359 Miley had me at analingus.

Posted by: The Teddy Bear at August 28, 2013 12:14 PM (nbGZj)

360 Speaking of MTV and the Miley thing... isn't this the same channel that banned Howard Stern for showing his butt and farting at the award show? That was horrible behavior, and yet simulating licking a butthole and fingering is acceptable? These ex child stars really go overboard trying to break away from their Disney squeaky clean image. This is the only way she can show she is grown up? If so, it ain't working. She is merely doing adult things in a childish way. A true adult has the wisdom to know when to show some restraint.

Posted by: brian448 at August 28, 2013 01:00 PM (DXxi3)

361 Some chick on the FoxSports network is pretty hot. British accent, blonde. Also I see Regis Philbin on set. Show is called "Crowd Goes Wild", a sports panel with a few unrecognizable faces, I guess their answer to the ESPN afternoon talk shows.

Posted by: Lincolntf at August 28, 2013 01:11 PM (ZshNr)

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