February 25, 2014

Piers Morgan Wasn't Rejected Because He Comes from England.
He Was Rejected Because His True Nationality Is The Isle of Smug.
— Ace

Jim Geraghty objects to the silly notion that Americans "reject" British people for their Britishness. This is of course silly; Americans tend to love British people. As someone (perhaps Geraghty) notes, we automatically assign an additional 20 points of IQ to anyone speaking with a British accent.

Charles C.W. Cooke has a simpler reason for Americans not liking Piers Morgan: For the same reason British people don't like Piers Morgan. He's an insufferable twit (sp?).

[I]nsofar as Morgan has made an impression on the country at all, his brief foray into American television appears to have served primarily to extend the territory in which he has thus far rendered himself unpopular. Back in the old country, Morgan’s name is synonymous with arrogance and with overreach, and he is known less for his interviewing skills and show-business acumen than for allegedly hacking the telephones of celebrities; for retaliating against even minor criticism by siccing paparazzi on the speaker; for having published “calculated and malicious” fake photographs of British soldiers abusing prisoners; and for considering nothing whatsoever to be more sacred than his insatiable ambition.

On a British talk show, guests were playing a game in which they were invited to define words. Steven Fry was offered the word "countryside."

This is a home-run slow pitch; the only question is whom you wish to make the target of the joke. Fry chose Piers Morgan.

Thanks to @slublog for that.

Back to Cooke:

The definition of “countryside,” Stephen Fry once quipped on the BBC, is “to kill Piers Morgan.” The audience roared. Americans are merely coming late to a story at which the Brits have been rolling their eyes for years.

...

Given that Morgan is an obviously repugnant personality, that he willfully fails to grapple with the topics at hand, and that he is physically incapable of allowing a guest to upstage him, he was always going to have his work cut out.

In some sense, he always did. Confused as to why people weren’t laughing at his ill-timed joke on the television series, Have I Got News for You, Morgan complained in 1996 that “last week Eddie Izzard said it and everyone roared with laughter as if it was hilarious.” “Yes,” the satirist Ian Hislop retorted, but “people like him.”


Piers Morgan was a tabloid editor, more notorious than famous. That's... something. It is a job. It is a competitive field. So it's something, to be the top editor at a London tabloid.

But is that really enough to justify this level of arrogance?

John Lott noted how very rude and arrogant Morgan was during his interviews with him-- so rude, in fact, a pro-gun-control liberal wrote Lott to tell him he had behaved with admirable restraint, and he'd be buying Lott's book to read the arguments Morgan hadn't permitted him to make.

Who is this guy? What the hell has he done, exactly, to justify this level of self-regard?

There are people who are on TV because they are accomplished in some other field; then there are people who are on TV because they went into TV.

Piers seems to be of the latter sort. Yes, he was a tabloid editor; but his career there is marked by scandal. The hacking scandal, the faked pictures.

Even if he were a great tabloid editor, I think most people would say that being such is not precisely the summit of human aspiration.

But he wasn't even that.

So he's one of those guys who's on TV who wants you to take him very seriously because he's on TV.

His backup argument would be: You should listen to me, because I'm not just on TV, but I'm good at TV. Like Rush Limbaugh is, undoubtedly, good at talk radio.

But he's not good at TV. He never was. His ratings have been disappointing throughout his term, before they turned downright bad.

So why exactly does Piers Morgan think anyone should listen to him?

I've linked the below about five times already but here we go again: Below, Adam Carolla goofs on Piers Morgan, just as his show was starting.

Carolla's problem is that Piers Morgan is filled with swagger and arrogance, but actually has very little to swagger about.

Related: The Daily Caller reports that Tommy Christopher has been fired from Mediaite, though they don't know why.

I'm not a fan but I take no particular pleasure in him losing his job. He was more of an annoyance than a threat.

Mediaite now confirms Christopher is out, without saying if he was fired or chose to leave, and without explaining anything about the why of it, whoever it was who made the decision. They wish him luck, and seem to imply that they're just pursuing a general changing-of-the-guard sort of strategy, as they welcome aboard some new writers while saying farewell to Christopher.


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1 Piers Morgan = Pierced Organ

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 25, 2014 10:27 AM (olDqf)

2 I can see Peruvia from the Isle of Smug...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 25, 2014 10:28 AM (olDqf)

3

Jeff Zucker will replace him with someone who gets even lower ratings. 

Posted by: rd at February 25, 2014 10:29 AM (D+lxs)

4 Country-cide. More like what the left has done to America.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 25, 2014 10:30 AM (olDqf)

5 Unless I can find someone to willing to permit me to impregnate her, I fear that I am doomed to be the First and Last Earl of Cornhole.

Posted by: Piers Morgan, 1st Earl of Cornhole at February 25, 2014 10:30 AM (8ZskC)

6 if Piers Morgan was an amusement park, it would be called "Six Flags Over Nothing"

Posted by: redc1c4 at February 25, 2014 10:31 AM (q+fqH)

7 Snotty Leftys all seem to have the uncanny ability to fail upward. Morgan will land some lucrative job somewhere in Progger Land within a month.

Posted by: toby928© at February 25, 2014 10:31 AM (QupBk)

8 The fact that Americans assign 20 IQ points to those with British accents is what got Morgan into positive territory.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at February 25, 2014 10:31 AM (0Jb7F)

9 .....we automatically assign an additional 20 points of IQ to anyone speaking with a British accent.


This concept is ancient history.  Maybe in the 70's or 80's.

When I hear a British accent now I automatically deduct 20 IQ points.  They  really  are  fucking   stupid.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2014 10:31 AM (KXm42)

10 I like the Alex Jones interview with Morgan because Jones did to Morgan what Morgan normally does to the guest.  He said what he wanted to say, then repeated it smugly and loudly. 

Morgan kept entreating him to have a "proper debate".  That's not possible given Morgan's format.  There is no moderator, and nobody calls Morgan out for non-responsiveness or logical fallacies like one would in a proper debate.


Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at February 25, 2014 10:32 AM (4QSOR)

11 Due to recent adjustments in Piers Morgan's career trajectory, he may now be seen at better children's birthday parties and supermarket openings across America.

Posted by: The Douchebag Agency at February 25, 2014 10:32 AM (8ZskC)

12 This from the Charles C.W. Cooke link about Piers Morgan is pretty damn gross: for having published “calculated and malicious” fake photographs of British soldiers abusing prisoners; Seems as if Piers was "inspired" by Dan Rather.

Posted by: tasker at February 25, 2014 10:32 AM (RJMhd)

13 >>>As someone (perhaps Geraghty) notes, we automatically assign an additional 20 points of IQ to anyone speaking with a British accent.

That was Weigel over at Slate:
Morgan was the beneficiary of a curious American habit. We assign 20 extra IQ points to anyone who speaks with a British accent, redistributing them from the people who speak with Southern accents.
http://tinyurl.com/m4jb7hs

Stacy McCain quoted it at his place, so you may have saw it there first.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 25, 2014 10:32 AM (IN7k+)

14 9 When I hear a British accent now I automatically deduct 20 IQ points. They really are fucking stupid. Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2014 02:31 PM (KXm42) With a number of notable exceptions such as Daniel Hannan and Lord Monckton.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 25, 2014 10:32 AM (olDqf)

15 This is the country that has put up with Baba Wawa on TV for a century so why not Pierce?

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 25, 2014 10:32 AM (9qilP)

16 He's a smarmy twit. His Leftism pales in comparison to his smug superiority. Like a lot of Lefties I've known, insufferable people.

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2014 10:33 AM (YEQ2h)

17 I loooooove Stuart Varney. Take that, Piers.

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at February 25, 2014 10:33 AM (bCEmE)

18 When I hear a British accent now I automatically deduct 20 IQ points. They really are fucking stupid.

I think your rule of thumb is not widely employed.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at February 25, 2014 10:33 AM (4QSOR)

19 I think that in fairness, it's the Aussies we like. John Bull is merely tolerated.

Posted by: toby928© at February 25, 2014 10:33 AM (QupBk)

20 Shorter, Piers Morgan is a dick.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 25, 2014 10:33 AM (g1DWB)

21 Oh, and the Scots. We like them too.

Posted by: toby928© at February 25, 2014 10:34 AM (QupBk)

22 17 I loooooove Stuart Varney. Take that, Piers. Posted by: Tami at February 25, 2014 02:33 PM (bCEmE) I always thought Stuart Varney's accent was somewhat affected (wrong, I know). And then there's Mark Steyn.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 25, 2014 10:34 AM (olDqf)

23

 

CNN will pick someone that the smug provincial Manhattan / DC / LA crowd is familiar with.  Someone who goes to the right parties and has the right views.  Someone who is "their" kind of people.  Someone they see in the Hamptons and at Tina B.'s parties. 

 

Even if they pick a minority, it will be someone from the Harvard-Columbia-NYU crowd. 

 

After all, these people are "safe" picks.  If Jeffrey Zucker picks someone else, they might not invite him to their parties anymore. 

Posted by: rd at February 25, 2014 10:35 AM (D+lxs)

24

Yes, this is early for an o/t, but I'm spun up.

 

When you cancel your cable service, there is an 'early-termination' fee.  I paid it ($180) because you aren't going to blackmail me into keeping your product, but fuck you anyway.  The lady on the phone (who was, for the record, as nice as can be) informed me of this fee and then asked why I was cancelling.

 

"Precisely because of this," I told her.  "You're basically extorting me in order to keep my business."

 

I then suggested she ask why people were cancelling before informing them of the fee to get a more accurate data set.

 

Cable's cancelled.  I'll miss sports dearly, but fuck all that noise. 

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at February 25, 2014 10:35 AM (fwARV)

25 The Isle of Smug Is that in the vicinity of the Isle of Lucy?

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 25, 2014 10:35 AM (7ObY1)

26 Piers Morgan - insufferable pillock.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at February 25, 2014 10:36 AM (euACX)

27 for having published “calculated and malicious” fake photographs of British soldiers abusing prisoners; ********* When did Piers do that? Most likely before CNN hired him--right? Think about that for a minute---in a normal situation that would be fraud, criminal but in our Liberal Ruled Media Land it could be a "credential" that gets you -- HIRED!!--by CNN.

Posted by: tasker at February 25, 2014 10:36 AM (RJMhd)

28 21 Oh, and the Scots. We like them too. Posted by: toby928© at February 25, 2014 02:34 PM (QupBk) My ancestral bunch, plus some insane Irish. Been doing a lot of the heavy lifting for the Brits for a loooong time.

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2014 10:36 AM (YEQ2h)

29 CNN will pick someone that the smug provincial Manhattan / DC / LA crowd is familiar with. Someone who goes to the right parties and has the right views. Someone who is "their" kind of people. Someone they see in the Hamptons and at Tina B.'s parties. - I understand Alec Baldwin is available.

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 25, 2014 10:36 AM (9qilP)

30 speaking of smug... South Park did a good smug Prius driver episode . And... I asked in thread below if anyone runs across these bumper stickers: NOT A REPUBLICAN The drivers of these cars are way beyond smug. Theyre beyond tribalists, too. They're Nazis.

Posted by: soothi with justice at February 25, 2014 10:36 AM (YCQeq)

31 As someone (perhaps Geraghty) notes, we automatically assign an additional 20 points of IQ to anyone speaking with a British accent. I wouldn't go that far. More like subtract 10 for giving up their guns.....

Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2014 10:36 AM (p9JxP)

32 25 The Isle of Smug Is that in the vicinity of the Isle of Lucy? Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 25, 2014 02:35 PM (7ObY1) Just south of Splaynandudu...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 25, 2014 10:36 AM (olDqf)

33 The whole Piers Morgan story is OBVIOUS - yet no one is saying it. Here's what happened: Simon Cowell brought "Pop Idol" to the US and renamed it American Idol, and then got famous and popular by verbally abusing the contestants. "You know the squealing noise a dog makes when they castrate it? Well, that's sounds better than your singing." So network exec thought: Hey: People like watching losers being verbally abused by snobby Brits! So they launched Hell's Kitch, in which Gordon Ramsey hurled insults at budding chefs. Guess what? Another ratings hit. So CNN said to themselves: The Is A Thing. The thing being: Asshole Brits are entertainin, apparently! So they searched the UK for the biggest asshole they could find and came up with Piers Morgan. Seriously, he was hired BECAUSE he was an abrasive jerk. And he was told to amp up the asshole quotient. And then: Flop. Why? Because Abusive Brits was never really a "thing." It was just the individual personalities of Simon Cowell and Gordon Ramsey. Corporations always try to do that: Replicate an unexpected success with a copycat which reproduces an irrelevant attribute of the original thing.

Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2014 10:36 AM (+cx5n)

34 Piers Morgan is part of the Poofter Agenda.

Posted by: Realist, Man. I'm a REALIST! at February 25, 2014 10:36 AM (8ZskC)

35 His real problem? That he thought he could come over here and tell US how to live. Note, the successful Brit commentators here, are PRO American...

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 25, 2014 10:37 AM (84gbM)

36 Isle of Smug is in the same Archipelago that the Isle of Misfit Toys, right?

Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2014 10:37 AM (mIAI5)

37 So they launched Hell's Kitch + en

Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2014 10:37 AM (+cx5n)

38 Think about that for a minute---in a normal situation that would be fraud, criminal but in our Liberal Ruled Media Land it could be a "credential" that gets you -- HIRED!!--by CNN. - MSKGB hired Al Sharpton.

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 25, 2014 10:37 AM (9qilP)

39 The Unbearable Lightness of Piers' Intellect. It would easily be outweighed by a canary feather. As for ascribing IQ points by intellect, no can do for the Brits, they have sold their birthright for a mess of hummus and burkhas.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at February 25, 2014 10:37 AM (7by30)

40 Again, as much as I hate to defend Carr, I am. He didn't state that Americans hate Brits for having an accent. He said that we hate smug, snotty, know-it-all, Brits who lecture and insult us. His point being that you can't be BOTH an outsider and an insider with the rights to trash our way of life.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 25, 2014 10:37 AM (DmNpO)

41 They told me it was called La Isla Bonita?

Posted by: Madonna at February 25, 2014 10:37 AM (mIAI5)

42 Gutfeld had some good lines last night. He was Morgan in reverse when he worked in England...an American in England who got fired after 3 years. But, as Gutfeld noted, he wasn't fired for being a failure. His firing had more to do with midgets and donkeys, as I recall.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 25, 2014 10:38 AM (7ObY1)

43 As intended DRUDGE REPORT ‏@DRUDGE_REPORT Small Banks Disappearing Under Dodd-Frank... http://drudge.tw/1mwG02c Since Dodd-Frank, There Are 29 Percent More Big Banks and 24 Percent Fewer Small Banks

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 25, 2014 10:38 AM (ZPrif)

44 33 Yep. See also: Piers Morgan on America's Got Talent.

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at February 25, 2014 10:38 AM (GmTxn)

45 When I hear a British accent now I automatically deduct 20 IQ points. They really are fucking stupid.
Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2014 02:31 PM (KXm42)


With a number of notable exceptions such as Daniel Hannan and Lord Monckton.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 25, 2014 02:32 PM (olDqf)



Benny Hill is third rate Three Stooges (with Shemp) except for wimmenz with nice cannz.  So many times I've wanted the little bald guy to just frag that fat fuck into bloody meat shards.

Posted by: Captain Hate at February 25, 2014 10:38 AM (+ywjg)

46 (sp?)

I approve.

Posted by: red sweater at February 25, 2014 10:39 AM (oATMN)

47 It is quite astonishing to see the level of vitriol heaped on this wanker. Is there ANYONE who likes him? Doesn't seem like it.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 25, 2014 10:39 AM (oFCZn)

48 Rachel Maddow must hail from the Isle of Smug. I always thought she had Smuggish cheekbones.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 25, 2014 10:39 AM (7ObY1)

49 plus some insane Irish BYRY.

Posted by: toby928© at February 25, 2014 10:39 AM (QupBk)

50 His firing had more to do with midgets and donkeys, as I recall. Brit pr0n?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2014 10:39 AM (p9JxP)

51 Piers Morgan's accomplishments consist of one thing: being a hardcore liberal.  That's all he needs to get his own TV show. 

I'm sure he'll be offered his own spot on MSNBC within a couple of days.  He's too "edgy" and "unbeholden to the Right" and "speaks too much truth to power" for him to be off the air.

Leftists never fade away.

Posted by: Null at February 25, 2014 10:39 AM (P7hip)

52 43 As intended DRUDGE REPORT ‏@DRUDGE_REPORT Small Banks Disappearing Under Dodd-Frank... http://drudge.tw/1mwG02c Since Dodd-Frank, There Are 29 Percent More Big Banks and 24 Percent Fewer Small Banks Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 25, 2014 02:38 PM (ZPrif) Piers Morgan Chase???

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 25, 2014 10:39 AM (olDqf)

53 Since the financial crisis, US banking assets and deposits have continued to consolidate in a handful of large banks. As the charts show, the five largest banks by assets now hold 44.0 percent of US banking assets and 40.1 percent of domestic deposits—up from 23.5 percent and 19.5 percent, respectively, in early 2000. Correspondingly, small banks’ share of domestic deposits has fallen from 40.4 percent to 23.0 percent since early 2000, and their share of US banking assets has declined from 35.8 to 19.5 percent.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 25, 2014 10:39 AM (ZPrif)

54

Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2014 02:36 PM (+cx5n)

 

Good One !

Even if this is not correct, it sounds like every idiotic corporate decision I have experienced in the last 25 years. 

Posted by: rd at February 25, 2014 10:40 AM (D+lxs)

55 I never saw Simon Cowell as being mean for the sake of being mean. He was brutally honest but at least he was honest.

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 25, 2014 10:40 AM (9qilP)

56 And then there's Mark Steyn.

And Thomas the Tank Engine.

What?

Posted by: HR, watching scripts run at February 25, 2014 10:40 AM (ZKzrr)

57 Piers Morgan buys his clothes from Jimmy Saville RowÂ…

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 25, 2014 10:40 AM (olDqf)

58 So this happened Editor sacked over 'hoax' photos The Mirror board said Morgan would be stepping down immediately Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan has been sacked after the newspaper conceded photos of British soldiers abusing an Iraqi were fake. In a statement the Mirror said it had fallen victim to a "calculated and malicious hoax" and that it would be "inappropriate" for Morgan to continue. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3716151.stm The date on the article is May 14, 2004. And CNN hires Piers the fraudster in 2011. How is what Piers did in 2004 not a career ending event? In any other career--save journalism-- Piers would have been finished.

Posted by: tasker at February 25, 2014 10:40 AM (RJMhd)

59 Benny Hill is third rate Three Stooges (with Shemp) except for wimmenz with nice cannz. So many times I've wanted the little bald guy to just frag that fat fuck into bloody meat shards. Monty Python. Totes cool.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2014 10:40 AM (p9JxP)

60 man, i hates that james bonds, cuz the guy speaks so funnuh, an i justc aint take lisnin to that all the tahm. get me some good hip hop music, i cain unmerstann that stuff! liberals are so pompous.

Posted by: rev dr der commisar miller at February 25, 2014 10:40 AM (gbBDc)

61 More good news. Tommy Christopher at Mediaite is gone.  But I'm sure they'll hire two more liberals to replace him.

Posted by: lowandslow at February 25, 2014 10:41 AM (IV4od)

62 Dessert:

Tommy Christopher out at Mediaite

Posted by: weft cut-loop[/i] [/b] at February 25, 2014 10:41 AM (xrX4n)

63 56 And then there's Mark Steyn. And Thomas the Tank Engine. What? Posted by: HR, watching scripts run at February 25, 2014 02:40 PM (ZKzrr) I love Mark Steyn, and he's got a Brit accent. That's why I posted that remark, hello!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 25, 2014 10:41 AM (olDqf)

64

This is of course silly; Americans tend to love British people.

 

 

Ayuh.   For examples, see:  Hiddleston, Tom;  Cumberbatch, Benedict; Doctor Who (any); Are You Being Served?; Monty Python; etc, etc.

 

 

As someone (perhaps Geraghty) notes, we automatically assign an additional 20 points of IQ to anyone speaking with a British accent.

 

I'm convinced, btw, that this is why,   at a subconscious level,    I tend to put on a British accent whenever I'm asking a question or else speaking to a group.     Every damn time.   I can rein it in when I'm speaking, but when I'm asking a question?   Not a chance.   I cannot get my tongue to speak in my everyday, average, boring, Kaboom! cereal accent.  

 

I blame my wee British mum.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 25, 2014 10:41 AM (4df7R)

65 Brit pr0n? Something about a Maxim magazine party that got out of control and shocked the Limeys. Gutfeld was the editor and was responsible for the party, and he took the fall.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 25, 2014 10:41 AM (7ObY1)

66 Benny Hill


Posted by: dananjcon at February 25, 2014 10:41 AM (NpXoL)

67 Is there any news reader / opinion talker on NBC who is not a raging idiot with the IQ of a snail?

Posted by: Vic[/i] at February 25, 2014 10:42 AM (T2V/1)

68 Okay, I'll finally go listen to the Carolla clip. I probably agree with most of what he says and he is usually funny, but he has that nasally voice that borders on nails on a chalkboard.

Posted by: L, elle at February 25, 2014 10:42 AM (0xqKe)

69 57 Piers Morgan buys his clothes from Jimmy Saville RowÂ… Where boys pants are always half off! #rimshot

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 25, 2014 10:42 AM (7ObY1)

70 I love Mark Steyn, and he's got a Brit accent. That's why I posted that remark, hello!

How can you not love Thomas the Tank Engine?!

Posted by: HR, watching scripts run at February 25, 2014 10:42 AM (ZKzrr)

71

How is what Piers did in 2004 not a career ending event?

In any other career--save journalism-- Piers would have been finished.

 

Posted by: tasker at February 25, 2014 02:40 PM (RJMhd)

 

It would have been career-ending for a conservative, or even (over there) a liberal democrat.  Here though, for a progtard-socialist nutbag, it's equivalent to the Pulitzer. 

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at February 25, 2014 10:42 AM (fwARV)

72 Gordon Ramsey's  show about helping people with their  failing   restaurants  was really good but   sometimes I wondered how authentic it was.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2014 10:42 AM (KXm42)

73 >>> His True Nationality Is The Isle of Smug.

Heh.

And the fact that Piers entertains the notion that he on the same intellectual and comedic level of Eddie Izzard...beyond hubris. Cannot descend into irrelevancy soon enough.

Posted by: LizLem at February 25, 2014 10:43 AM (BF+2f)

74 It is quite astonishing to see the level of vitriol heaped on this wanker. Is there ANYONE who likes him? Doesn't seem like it. - Alec Baldwin tweeted his support for Pierce and expressed his confidence that Pierce would bounce back.

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 25, 2014 10:43 AM (9qilP)

75 61 More good news. Tommy Christopher at Mediaite is gone. So, what is Christopher's new position in the Obama administration?

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 25, 2014 10:43 AM (7ObY1)

76 Piers Morgan bit my horse's teeth.

Posted by: Sol Rosenberg at February 25, 2014 10:43 AM (J6JcG)

77 And Thomas the Tank Engine. There is only ONE conductor. I choked when they pushed Carlin into that role. Effin Carlin on a tiny tots show. It's enough to make Sir Topham Hatt cry.

Posted by: toby928© at February 25, 2014 10:43 AM (QupBk)

78 Killer rabbits and hemorrhaging knights...what's not to like?

 

Posted by: dananjcon at February 25, 2014 10:43 AM (NpXoL)

79 Something about a Maxim magazine party that got out of control and shocked the Limeys. Gutfeld was the editor and was responsible for the party, and he took the fall. That's only because they are so far away from Tiajuna.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2014 10:43 AM (p9JxP)

80 zombie, true. and cowell is apparently a friend of Morgan's, who advised him, I read, that he should go to America to make his fortune. Cowell, by the way, has no justification at all for his level of swagger. He was a minor pop producer whose credits include producing World Wrestling Federation records with wrestlers singing or rapping stupid songs. I guess he gets away with it because what he's talking about is pretty trivial, and usually, Cowell's critiques of singers, while barbed, are usually sort of true. He also gets away with it because people tend to be Over-Nice in such situations, making for bad TV; Cowell's nasty honesty is at least Something Interesting. Cowell's nastiness is at least confined to his field of expertise (disposable pop contrivances). Ramsey, of course, is one of the greatest chefs in the world (i'm told) and he talks only about cooking and restaurant business management and so I think he's earned his arrogance in those fields. What Morgan has done to justify his Simon Cowell act, I don't know.

Posted by: ace at February 25, 2014 10:43 AM (/FnUH)

81 Fact is, Simon Cowell and Gordon Ramsey weren't derogatory to Americans or American culture as a whole. They were attacking individuals, those who the imbicilic American TV viewer could look at and laugh because mygawd they'd never make such fools of themselves on TV. Then Piers comes along with his condescending, better-than-you attitude towards America and her people as a whole and even the average mouthbreather viewer sits up and says, "who the fuck does this Limey asshole think he is?"

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at February 25, 2014 10:44 AM (jlm/B)

82 Isn't "Piers" a Scandi name? British came from Scandi's, fairly sure of that. He should be a brand ambassador for lutefisk.

Posted by: Mooch at February 25, 2014 10:44 AM (611Rk)

83 I love Mark Steyn, and he's got a Brit accent. He's an anthropomorphic global warming denier who needs to be sued into silence.

Posted by: Micheal Mann [/i] at February 25, 2014 10:44 AM (CnA98)

84 Britain may be going to hell in a handbasket, it may be full of utterly hopeless Leftist loons, and it may be the home of Piers Morgan, but on a positive note, it is also the home of Lucy Pinder.


tinyurl.com/bfe7oby


We forgive you, Britain.


Posted by: Kinley Ardal at February 25, 2014 10:44 AM (9LuAk)

85 Whatever.  Piers Morgan got his time slot ass kicked by A GIRL!

Posted by: huerfano at February 25, 2014 10:44 AM (bAGA/)

86 It's a shame that some people deduct 50 IQ points if you have a southern accent. Bless their hearts.

Posted by: See You Next Tuesday at February 25, 2014 10:44 AM (DAevm)

87 Hey! Wasn't it the Brits who originally Rick-Rolled us??


Limey Bastards.

Posted by: dananjcon at February 25, 2014 10:44 AM (NpXoL)

88 People who hate Piers like Mark Steyn.




Next question.

Posted by: typo dynamofo at February 25, 2014 10:44 AM (IVgIK)

89 So, basically, now that CNN is done attempting to punish us for not being Europeans they are throwing aside their instrument of torment.

Posted by: joncelli at February 25, 2014 10:45 AM (RD7QR)

90 64 I'd like to add : Laurie, Hugh to the list. Because yummy.

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at February 25, 2014 10:45 AM (GmTxn)

91 Cable's cancelled. I'll miss sports dearly, but fuck all that noise.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at February 25, 2014 02:35 PM (fwARV)



There's always streaming service separate from cable.


Posted by: EC at February 25, 2014 10:45 AM (GQ8sn)

92 "So, what is Christopher's new position in the Obama administration?"

I hate to say it, but even the Obama Administration knows Christopher is such a colossal fuck up that they wouldn't even touch him.

Posted by: lowandslow at February 25, 2014 10:45 AM (IV4od)

93

How is what Piers did in 2004 not a career ending event?

In any other career--save journalism-- Piers would have been finished.

Posted by: tasker at February 25, 2014 02:40 PM (RJMhd)

 

The idiots that run the MSM in NYC do not know how to hire anyone other than friends and acquaintances.  They are so insular and cut off it is amazing.  If it is not NYC, LA or DC, it is Terra Incognito.   

Posted by: rd at February 25, 2014 10:45 AM (D+lxs)

94 There is only ONE conductor. I choked when they pushed Carlin into that role. Effin Carlin on a tiny tots show.

It's enough to make Sir Topham Hatt cry.

Posted by: toby928© at February 25, 2014 02:43 PM (QupBk)

Most episodes I see have Alec Baldwin. Are you suggesting that was better? Or are you thinking of another?

Posted by: red sweater at February 25, 2014 10:46 AM (oATMN)

95 toby - BYRY the website?....

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2014 10:46 AM (YEQ2h)

96 Isn't "Piers" a Scandi name? It's where seamen dock.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2014 10:46 AM (p9JxP)

97 How is what Piers did in 2004 not a career ending event?

In any other career--save journalism-- Piers would have been finished.

Posted by: tasker at February 25, 2014 02:40 PM (RJMhd)

 

Joe Biden plagiarized a speech from Niel Kinnock    during his 1988    Preezy campaign.

 

Today he's VP.

 

The left protects their own.   Failure is not censured; it's sanctioned.   You never fail   down; you fail up.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 25, 2014 10:46 AM (4df7R)

98 He's an anthropomorphic global warming denier who needs to be sued into silence.

Posted by: Micheal Mann at February 25, 2014 02:44 PM (CnA9

Eh?


Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 25, 2014 10:47 AM (QFxY5)

99 Monty Python. Totes cool.


I  don't want to burst your bubble   but they really hate you.

Palin and  Funny  Walk  hate your   guts.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2014 10:47 AM (KXm42)

100 I'm convinced, btw, that this is why, at a subconscious level, I tend to put on a British accent whenever I'm asking a question or else speaking to a group. Every damn time. I can rein it in when I'm speaking, but when I'm asking a question? Not a chance. I cannot get my tongue to speak in my everyday, average, boring, Kaboom! cereal accent.

I blame my wee British mum.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 25, 2014 02:41 PM (4df7R)



BC told me about you and your subtle Brit accent.  

Posted by: EC at February 25, 2014 10:47 AM (GQ8sn)

101 ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh Countryside. I just got it.

Posted by: CAC at February 25, 2014 10:47 AM (6kusz)

102 I can attest to ACE's words. Don't have a Brits' accent, but even what I have does great. (Come on guys, who doesn't like a good Boris impersonation?).

Will only add that this is not an American phenomenon. People all over the world love accents.


Posted by: Comrade J at February 25, 2014 10:48 AM (6kkPP)

103 Apologies in advance to any morons from Boston, but if there's one accent I hate more than any other, it's that one. They can sit in their pahked cahs and shove their chowdah up their asses as far as I'm concerned.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 25, 2014 10:48 AM (7ObY1)

104 There is only ONE conductor. I choked when they pushed Carlin into that role. Effin Carlin on a tiny tots show.

It's enough to make Sir Topham Hatt cry.

Posted by: toby928© at February 25, 2014 02:43 PM (QupBk)

Most episodes I see have Alec Baldwin. Are you suggesting that was better? Or are you thinking of another?

Posted by: red sweater at February 25, 2014 02:46 PM (oATMN)


There was Ringo, George, and Alec. 


Who else did it?

Posted by: EC at February 25, 2014 10:48 AM (GQ8sn)

105 Most episodes I see have Alec Baldwin Good Lord no! Are you pulling my leg? The ONLY Conductor is Ringo Starr.

Posted by: toby928© at February 25, 2014 10:48 AM (QupBk)

106 I would have had said he was a denizen of the "Country of Shitlandia" and I'm even an Anglican priest!

Posted by: zombie dean johathan swift at February 25, 2014 10:48 AM (Eiwo7)

107 Isn't "Piers" a Scandi name? British came from Scandi's, fairly sure of that.

Posted by: Mooch at February 25, 2014 02:44 PM (611Rk)


"Scandinavia and The World" has that covered: http://tinyurl.com/pcq93p8

Posted by: Country Singer at February 25, 2014 10:48 AM (uCYHf)

108 What Morgan has done to justify his Simon Cowell act, I don't know. Posted by: ace He has inhernent superiority because he is British and European and because We Are Rubes In Comparison. His accent, all by itself, is more than sufficient justification for snobbing on America.

Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2014 10:48 AM (+cx5n)

109 Monty Python. Totes cool. I don't want to burst your bubble but they really hate you. Most people hate me. No biggie.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2014 10:49 AM (p9JxP)

110 I'd like to add : Laurie, Hugh to the list. Because yummy.

 

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at February 25, 2014 02:45 PM (GmTxn)

 

Oh HELL yes.   I was crushing on Hugh Laurie back during "Blackadder Goes Forth" and never looked back.  

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 25, 2014 10:49 AM (4df7R)

111 I liked Stuart Varney in the Ernest movies.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 25, 2014 10:50 AM (kVfSG)

112 Oh, to set the record straight....


Mark Steyn is in fact, Canadian.


Posted by: EC at February 25, 2014 10:50 AM (GQ8sn)

113 81 Fact is, Simon Cowell and Gordon Ramsey weren't derogatory to Americans or American culture as a whole. They were attacking individuals, those who the imbicilic American TV viewer could look at and laugh because mygawd they'd never make such fools of themselves on TV. Then Piers comes along with his condescending, better-than-you attitude towards America and her people as a whole and even the average mouthbreather viewer sits up and says, "who the fuck does this Limey asshole think he is?" Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) Pure truth. Nothing more needs be said.

Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2014 10:50 AM (+cx5n)

114 I would love to eat at a Gordon Ramsey restaurant, and I'm no Foodie, just a guy who likes delicious food. You can tell that his commitment to quality is not an act. Dude gets apoplectic at the site of a dirty cutting board, that's who I want cooking my steak/fish/poultry. I ate at Tom Colicchio's (sp?) restaurant in Vegas, it was great, probably as close to Ramsey as I'll get.

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 25, 2014 10:50 AM (ZshNr)

115 "The Isle of Smug" Didn't Martin Bashir have a summer place there?

Posted by: jwest at February 25, 2014 10:50 AM (u2a4R)

116 Mark Steyn is in fact, Canadian. But he's like Scots-Canadian, right?

Posted by: toby928© at February 25, 2014 10:50 AM (QupBk)

117 Gordon Ramsey's show about helping people with their failing restaurants was really good but sometimes I wondered how authentic it was. I know a restaurant that signed on the dotted line for 'Restaurant Impossible'. There is a huge contract involved, a ton of non-disclosure stuff, and pricing agreements (much, much higher) to make the gross sales numbers look good in the months after the 'makeover'. I think Robert Irvine is another Brit, but not nearly as obnoxious as some of them. He never finished HS, went into the military, iirc.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron [/i] at February 25, 2014 10:50 AM (CnA98)

118

BC told me about you and your subtle Brit accent.


 

Posted by: EC at February 25, 2014 02:47 PM (GQ8sn)

 

Except when I'm cursing.  Then I go full New Jersey.

 

For that, I blame my dad.  

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 25, 2014 10:51 AM (4df7R)

119 How come we don't get many Welshmen over here?

Posted by: toby928© at February 25, 2014 10:51 AM (QupBk)

120 As someone (perhaps Geraghty) notes, we automatically assign an additional 20 points of IQ to anyone speaking with a British accent.


How much do you add for Scottish accents?


Posted by: EC at February 25, 2014 10:51 AM (GQ8sn)

121 2 million viewers down to 270,000 viewers in a few years time....


Rating:  VERY IMPRESSIVE

Posted by: phreshone at February 25, 2014 10:51 AM (Q6pxP)

122 Good Lord no! Are you pulling my leg? The ONLY Conductor is Ringo Starr.

Posted by: toby928© at February 25, 2014 02:48 PM (QupBk)

Thanks for clearing that up. I had to do some research. Yeah, Ringo is the original. I'll have to see if I can pull some episodes of that up sometime. Our collection is somewhat limited. Mostly Alec, as I said.

Posted by: red sweater at February 25, 2014 10:51 AM (oATMN)

123 Mark Steyn is in fact, Canadian.

Posted by: EC at February 25, 2014 02:50 PM (GQ8sn)

I think he grew up in England.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 25, 2014 10:51 AM (QFxY5)

124 "but if there's one accent I hate more than any other, it's that one."

Notice how on Cheers, only Cliff had a bit of an accent. If they would have went full Boston on the show, it would have never succeeded.

Posted by: lowandslow at February 25, 2014 10:51 AM (IV4od)

125

Mark Steyn is in fact, Canadian.

 

Canadian, but educated in England.   Hence the accent.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 25, 2014 10:52 AM (4df7R)

126 What Morgan has done to justify his Simon Cowell act, I don't know. Posted by: ace He has inhernent superiority because he is British and European and because he doesn't have to speak German...... Some think they are superior. Pisses off those of us who are.....

Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2014 10:52 AM (p9JxP)

127 Cable's cancelled. I'll miss sports dearly, but fuck all that noise.


I got sick of paying that bill and just let it run out .  Haven't missed it in years except for a sporting event here and there.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2014 10:52 AM (KXm42)

128 Jeremy Clarkson took that trash out along time ago...

Posted by: LiveFromRussianHill at February 25, 2014 10:52 AM (kDMxL)

129 Then I go full New Jersey.

----

Speaking of annoying accents....... ;-)

Posted by: fixerupper at February 25, 2014 10:52 AM (nELVU)

130 93 How is what Piers did in 2004 not a career ending event? In any other career--save journalism-- Piers would have been finished.Posted by: tasker at February 25, 2014 02:40 PM (RJMhd) The idiots that run the MSM in NYC do not know how to hire anyone other than friends and acquaintances. They are so insular and cut off it is amazing. If it is not NYC, LA or DC, it is Terra Incognito. Posted by: rd at February 25, 2014 02:45 PM (D+lxs) **** 97 How is what Piers did in 2004 not a career ending event? In any other career--save journalism-- Piers would have been finished. Posted by: tasker at February 25, 2014 02:40 PM (RJMhd) Joe Biden plagiarized a speech from Niel Kinnock during his 1988 Preezy campaign. Today he's VP. The left protects their own. Failure is not censured; it's sanctioned. You never fail down; you fail up. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 25, 2014 02:46 PM (4df7R) ************* Honestly I do not get it. In the old days like just twenty years ago what Piers did would be considered treasonous or nearly so--now it is meritorious and-- "Fake but accurate!" Plus I read about it for the first time in Charles C. W. Cooke's piece--only after Piers Morgan is fired. Depressing.

Posted by: tasker at February 25, 2014 10:52 AM (RJMhd)

131 It's a shame that some people deduct 50 IQ points if you have a southern accent. Bless their hearts. That's not true at all. We only deduct 30 points. /TheWinningSide

Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 25, 2014 10:53 AM (SY2Kh)

132 Except when I'm cursing. Then I go full New Jersey.

For that, I blame my dad.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 25, 2014 02:51 PM (4df7R)



He said you can hear a hint of it and it makes you sound like a proper Englishwoman straight out of Pride and Prejudice or Downton Abbey.



Posted by: EC at February 25, 2014 10:53 AM (GQ8sn)

133 How come we don't get many Welshmen over here?

 

Posted by: toby928© at February 25, 2014 02:51 PM (QupBk)

 

Because    our    visa applications require names with at least one vowel  for every five letters.

 

 

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 25, 2014 10:53 AM (4df7R)

134 Posted by: Lincolntf at February 25, 2014 02:50 PM (ZshNr)

It's that attention to the last detail that separates the great restaurants from the rest.

Oh, and adds another $400 to the bill.....

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 25, 2014 10:53 AM (QFxY5)

135 How much do you add for Scottish accents? Posted by: EC Three sheep.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2014 10:54 AM (p9JxP)

136 Notice how on Cheers, only Cliff had a bit of an accent. If they would have went full Boston on the show, it would have never succeeded. Cliffie always sounded more "South Buffalo" to me. Which is also an Irish-American accent, a variation on Bah-ston's. In South Buffalo, you cook in pats and pans.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 25, 2014 10:54 AM (7ObY1)

137 I think he grew up in England.


Born Canadian though.

Posted by: EC at February 25, 2014 10:54 AM (GQ8sn)

138 70 I love Mark Steyn, and he's got a Brit accent. That's why I posted that remark, hello! How can you not love Thomas the Tank Engine?! Posted by: HR, watching scripts run at February 25, 2014 02:42 PM (ZKzrr) That's Ringo!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 25, 2014 10:54 AM (olDqf)

139 Now Piers Morgan can go to Sandra Fluke's Island of Misfit Toys

Posted by: phreshone at February 25, 2014 10:54 AM (Q6pxP)

140 The Pentagon’s new proposal to drastically reduce commissary funding goes too far, says an association representing companies that supply products to commissaries. In unveiling his proposed 2015 defense budget Monday, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel emphasized that the Defense Department “is not shutting down commissaries.” But the American Logistics Association says that in effect, that’s what will happen. “Make no mistake: pulling the funding rug out from under these operations will shutter these stores over time,” the association said in a statement issued Tuesday. Every part of the defense establishment should share in belt-tightening, the association stated, noting that the Defense Commissary Agency has “dramatically reduced” its required funding over the last 20 years, cutting $700 million from its annual operating budget. The ALA noted that the commissary program is one of the few DoD programs that has had a clean audit for 13 years. “This means they can account for where each and every dollar goes … something that can’t be said for many DoD programs.”

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 25, 2014 10:54 AM (t3UFN)

141 This horse is dead.

Posted by: rrpjr at February 25, 2014 10:54 AM (s/yC1)

142 "He's an insufferable twit (sp?)." I see what you did there.

Posted by: holygoat at February 25, 2014 10:54 AM (ewrgV)

143 @94 - Ringo Starr was the original conductor.

Posted by: Null at February 25, 2014 10:54 AM (P7hip)

144 Re your "sp?" Yes, Ace, you did misspell "twat."

Posted by: Major Major Major Major at February 25, 2014 10:54 AM (5kC4w)

145 Why did it take this long to fire him?

Posted by: Judge Pug at February 25, 2014 10:55 AM (6Nj7A)

146 I don't get the attraction to the Gordon Ramsey treatment. It's the same with Bobby Knight. You can be good at your job without being an asshole and proud and unapologetic about it.

Posted by: See You Next Tuesday at February 25, 2014 10:55 AM (DAevm)

147 Speaking of annoying accents....... ;-)


Posted by: fixerupper at February 25, 2014 02:52 PM (nELVU)

 

I always tell my dad that, when he leaves a message on my voicemail, it sounds like I'm getting a call from the mob.

 

"M-dubya-R, it's ya faathar."

 

It's like the next sentence   should be,   "Pick up the phone or I'm gonna breaks ya kneecaps."

 

 

He said you can hear a hint of it and it makes you sound like a proper Englishwoman straight out of Pride and Prejudice or Downton Abbey.

Posted by: EC at February 25, 2014 02:53 PM (GQ8sn)

 

lol!   I don't think I'd go THAT far.   At least I don't think so.   I honestly can't hear it, except when I'm asking a question.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 25, 2014 10:55 AM (4df7R)

148 It's actually spelled Isle of Smuge. Brits love tacking on extra e's.

Posted by: mugiwara at February 25, 2014 10:55 AM (WzR1i)

149 Because Abusive Brits was never really a "thing." It was just the individual personalities of Simon Cowell and Gordon Ramsey.

With how bad a lot of contestents on Idol were it wasn't his nationality that made Cowell a thing, it was that someone was Speaking Truth To Special Snowflakes.

That latter bit is a genre with serious growth potential.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 25, 2014 10:55 AM (B/VB5)

150 This horse is dead. Neigh!

Posted by: The Supine Equine at February 25, 2014 10:55 AM (QupBk)

151 129 Then I go full New Jersey. Speaking of annoying accents....... ;-) Posted by: fixerupper Someone should produce a definitive chart: The Hierarchy of Accents At the top would be upper-crust British, Back Bay Boston, romantic French, etc. Near the bottom would be New Joisey, Brooklyn, Appalachian, Ebonics, 1950s Chop Suey diner chef, etc.

Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2014 10:55 AM (+cx5n)

152 I was quite suprised to learn that actress Laura Fraser ("Lydia Rodarte-Quayle" on Breaking Bad) is Scottish and speaks with a heavy brogue. You couldn't tell at all on the show. She's on some of the commentary tracks, and I was thinking "who's the Scottish chick?" She did a nice job of hiding a heavy accent. Nice gams, too.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 25, 2014 10:56 AM (7ObY1)

153 They can sit in their pahked cahs and shove their chowdah up their asses as far as I'm concerned.

::snerk::

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2014 10:56 AM (KXm42)

154 Cowell, by the way, has no justification at all for his level of swagger. He was a minor pop producer whose credits include producing World Wrestling Federation records with wrestlers singing or rapping stupid songs.

I don't think you're right ace.  He sold his half share of S Records to BMG for $42 million.  He was also a producer at BMG and his bio says he produced 70 chart-topping singles and sold 150 million records while there.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at February 25, 2014 10:56 AM (9PrpA)

155 It's back to the Island of Misfit Boy Toys for you, Piercing!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at February 25, 2014 10:56 AM (9WUFT)

156 148 It's actually spelled Isle of Smuge. Brits love tacking on extra e's. Posted by: mugiwara at February 25, 2014 02:55 PM (WzR1i) Smuge would be pronounce "smew" in Brit.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 25, 2014 10:56 AM (olDqf)

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

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at February 25, 2014 10:56 AM (PYAXX)

158 Brits love tacking on extra e's.

Posted by: mugiwara at February 25, 2014 02:55 PM (WzR1i)


----


I did not realise that.....

Posted by: fixerupper at February 25, 2014 10:56 AM (nELVU)

159 "Who is this guy? What the hell has he done, exactly, to justify this level of self-regard?"

Nothing. He is white-Obama.  We (everyone, regardless of skin color) are free to openly hate the guy for his flaws, his condescension, his arrogance, and for his stated policies, because he is white.  In addition to getting his own deserved hate, he may also be getting some Obama-hate by proxy. But it is likely deserved hate, mostly.

Posted by: flounder at February 25, 2014 10:56 AM (Kkt/i)

160 Notice how on Cheers, only Cliff had a bit of an accent.

He and Carla were the only main characters originally from Boston.  Coach and Sam moved there for baseball, Diane for school, Fraiser and Norm for their jobs, Woody to get out of Indiana...

Posted by: HR, watching scripts run at February 25, 2014 10:56 AM (ZKzrr)

Posted by: flounder at February 25, 2014 10:57 AM (Kkt/i)

162 Heh. EVERYone in my family sounds like they're in the mob.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 25, 2014 10:57 AM (7ObY1)

163 we have always gotten rid of smug brits. he should have known

Posted by: thunderb at February 25, 2014 10:57 AM (zOTsN)

164 https://twitter.com/JobsiteUK/status/438221845720862720 Brits hate the guy too. Why can't we hate him?

Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 56% more DOOM! at February 25, 2014 10:58 AM (09o/X)

165 At the top would be upper-crust British, Back Bay Boston, romantic French, etc.

Near the bottom would be New Joisey, Brooklyn, Appalachian, Ebonics, 1950s Chop Suey diner chef, etc.

Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2014 02:55 PM (+cx5n)

 

 

Can we get "Kpop Korean Ballad" on there   as an accent?    Korean sounds frigging GORGEOUS, especially when sung.   It's better than Italian.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 25, 2014 10:58 AM (4df7R)

166
Except when I'm cursing. Then I go full New Jersey.

For that, I blame my dad.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 25, 2014 02:51 PM (4df7R)



That reminds me, Jerry O'Connell of Sliders fame had an English father and a New York or New Jersey mother.  His father spoke the upper crust dialect of English, while his mother could cut you down to size with curse words never heard before.  He did an impersonation of his father and mother...


Mother:  "Hey you retards!!!!!   Get out of bed and get your asses down here for breakfast!!!"


Father:  "Beg your pardon, Jeremy, but your mother believes you are in a state of mental retardation and wishes to convey to you that breakfast is served and that you must make your presence known at the table posthaste."



Hahahaha....

Posted by: EC at February 25, 2014 10:58 AM (GQ8sn)

167 Eh? Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 25, 2014 02:47 PM (QFxY5) You questioning the spelling of a NOBEL PRIZE WINNER? Despite the three lawsuits I am currently engaged in I could add you to the list.

Posted by: Micheal Mann [/i] at February 25, 2014 10:58 AM (CnA98)

168 Holy hell Piers Morgan was too much for CNN viewers--think about that one. America voted him off the island--and it was CNN viewers that did it! Wow.

Posted by: tasker at February 25, 2014 10:58 AM (RJMhd)

169 Buffalo is Spanish for whale's vagina.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2014 10:58 AM (KXm42)

170 we have always gotten rid of smug brits. he should have known So you're saying he should be happy not be getting a Hessian Christmas?

Posted by: toby928© at February 25, 2014 10:58 AM (QupBk)

171 127 Cable's cancelled. I'll miss sports dearly, but fuck all that noise. I got sick of paying that bill and just let it run out . Haven't missed it in years except for a sporting event here and there. I'm thinking about taking that plunge. Probably going to do it this year.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 25, 2014 10:59 AM (7ObY1)

172
Piers Morgan smokes fags!

Posted by: Doctor Fish at February 25, 2014 10:59 AM (nQjHM)

173

148 It's actually spelled Isle of Smuge. Brits love tacking on extra e's.


Posted by: mugiwara at February 25, 2014 02:55 PM (WzR1i)

 


More like the Isle of Smoug,  where the "ou" is pronounced as in "colour."

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 25, 2014 10:59 AM (4df7R)

174 Piers Morgan less viewers than Ed Schultz wow

Posted by: thunderb at February 25, 2014 10:59 AM (zOTsN)

175 My accent is not a Boston accent, but you'd probably hate it more. The Wustah accent, embodied by Denis Leary, is the strain I inherited. Even other MA residents don't know what the fuck we're talking about half the time.

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 25, 2014 11:00 AM (ZshNr)

176 It shouldn't be called the Isle of Smug. It should be called the Desolation of Smug.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at February 25, 2014 11:00 AM (kwc/t)

177 But Piers won The Apprentice! He's BRILLIANT!!! Eleventy!!!

Posted by: Typical O Voter at February 25, 2014 11:00 AM (25HWz)

178 How come we don't get many Welshmen over here?

Posted by: toby928© at February 25, 2014 02:51 PM (QupBk)

Because our visa applications require names with at least one vowel for every five letters.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 25, 2014 02:53 PM (4df7R)



Heh, I get to pimp my favorite comic again: http://satwcomic.com/welsh-smash

Posted by: Country Singer at February 25, 2014 11:00 AM (uCYHf)

179 I don't think you're right ace. He sold his half share of S Records to BMG for $42 million. He was also a producer at BMG and his bio says he produced 70 chart-topping singles and sold 150 million records while there. Posted by: bonhomme at February 25, 2014 02:56 PM (9PrpA) ********** Ya--I thought he "found" some boy band or something like that.

Posted by: tasker at February 25, 2014 11:00 AM (RJMhd)

180 Even other MA residents don't know what the fuck we're talking about half the time.

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 25, 2014 03:00 PM (ZshNr)

But why do you write that way too?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 25, 2014 11:00 AM (QFxY5)

181 170 we have always gotten rid of smug brits. he should have known So you're saying he should be happy not be getting a Hessian Christmas? Posted by: toby928© at February 25, 2014 02:58 PM (QupBk) You responded to some inane shit I wrote earlier " BYRY".... pardon my OCD - but what does that mean?

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2014 11:01 AM (YEQ2h)

182

Except when I'm cursing. Then I go full New Jersey.

For that, I blame my dad.

 

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 25, 2014 02:51 PM (4df7R)

 

Except when you're cursing AND?....

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at February 25, 2014 11:01 AM (fwARV)

183 Worst two English accents are  Kiwi and Baltimore (shudder).

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2014 11:01 AM (KXm42)

184

Posted by: EC at February 25, 2014 02:58 PM (GQ8sn)

 

lol!   I can relate to that, but vice versa!   Although  my mother, for all that she's got a British accent,  would still swear like a sailor when she got really angry.    "Oh pissass!"  (which comes out sounding like, "Oh, piss awws!")

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 25, 2014 11:01 AM (4df7R)

185 Piers Morgan is a boor, and not worth responding to. look for him to disappear into that black hole called al Qaeda News Network, where anything above a zero rating is a tremendous success.

Posted by: NotCoach at February 25, 2014 11:01 AM (rsudF)

186 BYRY But You Repeat Yourself

Posted by: toby928© at February 25, 2014 11:02 AM (QupBk)

187 Carolla's problem is that Piers Morgan is filled with swagger and arrogance, but actually has very little to swagger about. His story is much like that of Obama.

Posted by: rickl at February 25, 2014 11:02 AM (zoehZ)

188 Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2014 03:01 PM (YEQ2h) "But You Repeat Yourself" Probably.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at February 25, 2014 11:02 AM (PYAXX)

189 Except when you're cursing AND?....

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at February 25, 2014 03:01 PM (fwARV)

 

Why whatever are you implying?  *halo*

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 25, 2014 11:02 AM (4df7R)

190 He was also a producer at BMG and his bio says he produced 70 chart-topping singles and sold 150 million records while there.

Yeah, Cowell does have genuine producer chops, if primarily with acts that were only big in the UK.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 25, 2014 11:03 AM (B/VB5)

191 176 It shouldn't be called the Isle of Smug. It should be called the Desolation of Smug. Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at February 25, 2014 03:00 PM (kwc/t)

*golfclap*

Posted by: LizLem at February 25, 2014 11:03 AM (BF+2f)

192 Sort of like Knife wielding Finn, BIRM.

Posted by: toby928© at February 25, 2014 11:03 AM (QupBk)

193 Can we get "Kpop Korean Ballad" on there as an accent? Korean sounds frigging GORGEOUS, especially when sung. It's better than Italian. P.J. O'RoUrke on the Korean language (from his book "Holidays in Hell): "Korean sounds like ack-ack fire, every syllable has a primary accent: YO-YO CAMP STOVE HAM HOCK DIP STICK DUCK SOUP HAT RACK PING PONG LIP SYNCH!!!!"

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 25, 2014 11:03 AM (7ObY1)

194 Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch actual Welsh village name

Posted by: thunderb at February 25, 2014 11:03 AM (zOTsN)

195 But the American Logistics Association says that in effect, that’s what will happen. “Make no mistake: pulling the funding rug out from under these operations will shutter these stores over time,” the association said in a statement issued Tuesday.

This will absolutely kill retirees, including my parents.

My Mom still shops at the Commissary once a week minimum.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at February 25, 2014 11:03 AM (9PrpA)

196 Was Cowell's show already huge when the old maid whose name escapes me became an international star, or did that boost him as much as her?

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 25, 2014 11:04 AM (ZshNr)

197

So.  Guinness.

 

Discuss.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 25, 2014 11:04 AM (4df7R)

198 186 BYRY But You Repeat Yourself Posted by: toby928© at February 25, 2014 03:02 PM (QupBk) Heh... .. seems obvious now, but I am... well At least I'm not Piers Morgan.

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2014 11:04 AM (YEQ2h)

199 Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

That's what I call my  wiener.   Weird.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2014 11:04 AM (KXm42)

200 Jeremy Clarkson had a famous spat with the esteemed Mr. Morgan, and called him an immoral Twit.

He's oft made ref to this in his Some Say comments...


I'd call him a complete anus, but that would befoul anuses everywhere...

Posted by: fred zeppelin at February 25, 2014 11:04 AM (zL/eJ)

201 Never saw him.  Only know about his gun animus thru the HQ.  Only see CNN for two minutes a day at 6AM when I get coffee at a local shop.  Usually the weather is on.

I know a veddy veddy upper crust brit that is very pro-gun (shoots at Bisley), ex public school boy, ex military officer (Major), married to an ex Olympian with an Admiral for a father-in-law. 
Can't get more Brit than that...and very pro-American.  Guys like Morgan are not on my radar.

Posted by: trainer's looking for a Militia to join... at February 25, 2014 11:04 AM (n4ArD)

202 The name means: [St.] Mary's Church (Llanfair) [in] the hollow (pwll) of the white hazel (gwyngyll) near (goger) the rapid whirlpool (y chwyrndrobwll) [and] the church of [St.] Tysilio (llantysilio) with a red cave ([a]g ogo goch).

Posted by: thunderb at February 25, 2014 11:04 AM (zOTsN)

203 Was Cowell's show already huge when the old maid whose name escapes me became an international star, or did that boost him as much as her?

That was Britain's Got Talent, wasn't it? 

He was already huge by that time. 

Posted by: EC at February 25, 2014 11:05 AM (GQ8sn)

204 183 Worst two English accents are Kiwi and Baltimore (shudder). Posted by: eleven You forgot about "Bangalore tech support operator" and "traitorous future senator and ketchup heir undermining his fellow soldiers at Senate hearing."

Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2014 11:05 AM (+cx5n)

205 Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch actual Welsh village name I googled Welsh surnames and they don't seem that funny. I was expecting Dwyrty and Whrtmnyrt.

Posted by: toby928© at February 25, 2014 11:05 AM (QupBk)

206 Remember, the "siliogogg" is silent.

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 25, 2014 11:05 AM (ZshNr)

207 This will absolutely kill retirees, including my parents. My Mom still shops at the Commissary once a week minimum. Posted by: bonhomme at February 25, 2014 03:03 PM (9PrpA) But the dems and liberals lover the Military, don't ya know? And the Republicans have been strangely silent on this.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 25, 2014 11:05 AM (t3UFN)

208

Ioan Gruffudd is   Welsh.   Note that  "Gruffudd" is pronounced "Griffith," because Welsh.

 

*trying   to think of others*

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 25, 2014 11:06 AM (4df7R)

209 Okay, OT. Let me just say, I hate Regular Expressions with the heat of 1000 ^ 1000 suns.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at February 25, 2014 11:06 AM (PYAXX)

210 Ioan Gruffudd is Welsh. Note that "Gruffudd" is pronounced "Griffith," because Welsh.

*trying to think of others*

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 25, 2014 03:06 PM (4df7R)



Catherine Zeta Jones.



brb



Posted by: EC at February 25, 2014 11:06 AM (GQ8sn)

211

The accent that drives me up the wall is the Great Lakes Vowel Shift.  From Buffalo to Chicago and and even South Canuckistan.  You go to work at your "jab".  Ugh.

 

Southerners don't sound annoying, just a little dim. 

Posted by: the guy with no accent at all at February 25, 2014 11:06 AM (A0sHn)

212 199 Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch That's what I call my wiener. Weird. Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2014 03:04 PM (KXm42) I'm trying to imagine what Welsh pron is like"...... or phone sex.....

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2014 11:06 AM (YEQ2h)

213 199 Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch That's what I call my wiener. Weird. I had that tattooed on my wiener...in 4-inch letters. There was still lots of room left, so I added "supercalifragilisticexpeallydocious."

Posted by: Guy Who Doesn't Give a Shit at February 25, 2014 11:07 AM (7ObY1)

214 Sort of like Knife wielding Finn, BIRM.

Posted by: toby928© at February 25, 2014 03:03 PM (QupBk)


Of course: http://satwcomic.com/no-invitation

Posted by: Country Singer at February 25, 2014 11:07 AM (uCYHf)

215 The name means: [St.] Mary's Church (Llanfair) [in] the hollow (pwll) of the white hazel (gwyngyll) near (goger) the rapid whirlpool (y chwyrndrobwll) [and] the church of [St.] Tysilio (llantysilio) with a red cave ([a]g ogo goch).

Posted by: thunderb at February 25, 2014 03:04 PM (zOTsN)



So....St. Mary's it is.



Posted by: EC at February 25, 2014 11:07 AM (GQ8sn)

216 196 Susan Boyle

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at February 25, 2014 11:08 AM (7by30)

217 You go to work at your "jab". Those are the same Buffalonians who cook in pats and pans. Not all of us talk like that. It drives me up the wall too, and I live there!

Posted by: Guy Who Doesn't Give a Shit at February 25, 2014 11:08 AM (7ObY1)

218 Tweet Of The Day: DonÂ’t Think Of Piers As Fired, Think Of Him As Free To Explore Career Choices Weasel Zippers

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 25, 2014 11:08 AM (t3UFN)

219 Il Divo is an English multinational operatic pop vocal group created by music manager Simon Cowell. Formed in the United Kingdom, they are signed to Cowell's record label, Syco Music. ***** It also looks like his dad was in the record making industry.

Posted by: tasker at February 25, 2014 11:08 AM (RJMhd)

220 And the Republicans have been strangely silent on this.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 25, 2014 03:05 PM (t3UFN)


-----


I would like to think its part of their "let it burn" strategy.


Then I remember... "Republicans".

Posted by: fixerupper at February 25, 2014 11:08 AM (nELVU)

221 I'm trying to imagine what Welsh pron is like"...... or phone sex.....

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2014 03:06 PM (YEQ2h)

 

Imagine two people being phlegmy to each other over a rotary phone.   That's pretty much it.

 

(I joke, but I love Welsh.  It looks awful, but it sounds beautiful)

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 25, 2014 11:08 AM (4df7R)

222 Morgan has a bright future ahead of him as the headliner on MSNBC. Someone has to replace Olbermann there!

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at February 25, 2014 11:08 AM (zfY+H)

223 Tweet Of The Day: DonÂ’t Think Of Piers As Fired, Think Of Him As Free To Explore Career Choices


Un-joblocked!

Posted by: EC at February 25, 2014 11:09 AM (GQ8sn)

224 Thanks, now I'm going to YouTube to watch that video of the Brit lady, haven't seen it in a while. At least one person was happy for one moment, it's nice to remember that as we spiral into nowhere.

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 25, 2014 11:09 AM (ZshNr)

225 Welsh by reputation are very good looking, and very good singers.

Posted by: thunderb at February 25, 2014 11:09 AM (zOTsN)

226 Southerners don't sound annoying, just a little dim.

Posted by: the guy with no accent at all at February 25, 2014 03:06 PM (A0sHn)



I beg to differ.

Posted by: Shelby Foote at February 25, 2014 11:09 AM (uCYHf)

227 Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch That's what I call my wiener. Weird. Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2014 03:04 PM (KXm42) I'm trying to imagine what Welsh pron is like"...... or phone sex..... A serious bitch.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2014 11:09 AM (p9JxP)

228 Welsh? Yikes, and I'm worried about learning a *normal* language like German. (Just 'cause, no other reason).

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at February 25, 2014 11:09 AM (PYAXX)

229 The accent that drives me up the wall is the Great Lakes Vowel Shift. From Buffalo to Chicago and and even South Canuckistan. You go to work at your "jab". Ugh.

You wouldn't like the St George, UT accent.  They pronounce their a's like o's and vice versa.  The fun phrase to get them to say is "gorgeous organdy". 

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at February 25, 2014 11:09 AM (4QSOR)

230 Welsh by reputation are very good looking, and very good singers.

Posted by: thunderb at February 25, 2014 03:09 PM (zOTsN)

 

I always say that the reason they're so good at singing is because they have to work so hard just to SAY anything that everything comes out like music.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 25, 2014 11:10 AM (4df7R)

231 Il Divo are actually quite good. There's an Italian-language AM radio show here that plays them a lot. I listen to it on weekend mornings when I'm working around the house.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 25, 2014 11:10 AM (7ObY1)

232 I'm always willing to come back. HELLO, SHINGLES ARIZONA!

Posted by: Larry King at February 25, 2014 11:10 AM (oFCZn)

233 Welsh by reputation are very good looking, and very good singers. And bad at repaying debts/bets.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at February 25, 2014 11:10 AM (PYAXX)

234 Many years ago I went on a camping trip from SC to Maine. Oddly, the yankee accent that was most understandable to me was the Mainer. The sound of it was strange but the meter was the same as the Southern drawl. Long pauses and the like. The Massachusetts runeverthingtogetherinacontinuousstream might as well have French to me.

Posted by: toby928© at February 25, 2014 11:10 AM (QupBk)

235 How is "Ioan" pronounced? Like "Eon" or "John"?

Posted by: lowandslow at February 25, 2014 11:10 AM (IV4od)

236 Southern girls sound like sex with honey, to me at least. Love that accent, and in my experience, they really know how to treat their man well. Unless they get mad, then they know how to make your life hell.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at February 25, 2014 11:10 AM (zfY+H)

237

Mangier Pros

Remaps Groin

Pro Smearing

Porn Mirages

Grips Moaner

Sperm Oaring

Ripen Orgasm

Grasp Merino

Spongier Ram

Prime Sarong

Sir Anger Mop

Posted by: Anagrams at February 25, 2014 11:10 AM (SO2Q8)

238 The other day a man tried to put my face on his foot. He claimed he thought it was one of his old construction boots. The big doofus.

Posted by: Jan Brewer, Another Worhtless GOP Cunt at February 25, 2014 11:10 AM (Cs2tJ)

239 YOU'RE ON DEPENDS, CALIFORNIA!

Posted by: Larry King at February 25, 2014 11:11 AM (oFCZn)

240 119 How come we don't get many Welshmen over here? Posted by: toby928© at February 25, 2014 02:51 PM (QupBk) Because Tom Jones came over here and emptied out the Welsh queue for ages and ages to come, that's why.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at February 25, 2014 11:11 AM (9WUFT)

241
**sigh**  

I come from Iowa.   Land of No Accent.

Posted by: fixerupper at February 25, 2014 11:11 AM (nELVU)

242 Welsh by reputation are very good looking, and very good singers. I was fuckin' robbed!

Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2014 11:11 AM (p9JxP)

243 Speaking of idiots in the media:

NYPost.com via TruthAboutGuns.com
"Struggling New York Knicks point guard Raymond Felton allegedly pointed a powerful, body armor-piercing handgun at his estranged wife during a domestic dispute and was arrested Tuesday morning on weapons possession charges, sources said.

Ariane Raymondo-Felton – who recently filed for divorce - brought the Belgian-made pistol, an FNH 5.7 28mm handgun, to the 20th Precinct on the Upper West Side, and the starting point guard later turned himself in for questioning, sources said."

*  *  *

WABC differs:
" Sources say Felton's wife, who filed for divorce last week after just 19 months of marriage, brought the gun to the police precinct and told authorities she had found it in her West 63rd Street home.

The weapon is reportedly a .28-mm Belgian pistol, a large gun capable of firing armor-piercing bullets.

Posted by: weft cut-loop[/i] [/b] at February 25, 2014 11:11 AM (xrX4n)

244 How is "Ioan" pronounced? Like "Eon" or "John"?

Posted by: lowandslow at February 25, 2014 03:10 PM (IV4od)

 

 

"Yo-un."

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 25, 2014 11:11 AM (4df7R)

245 Welsh singer Kim Seviour of Prog-rockers Touchstone is pretty hawt. And she's my facebook friend. Don't have a pic handy.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 25, 2014 11:11 AM (7ObY1)

246 Tom Jones baby...its not unusual...

Posted by: thunderb at February 25, 2014 11:11 AM (zOTsN)

247 And not nearly drunk enough for my brethren.

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2014 11:11 AM (YEQ2h)

248 It's back to the Island of Misfit Boy Toys for you, Piercing! Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ at February 25, 2014 02:56 PM Nobody wants to play with a Pierce in the box.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 25, 2014 11:12 AM (/o+xv)

249 Posted by: Christopher Taylor at February 25, 2014 03:10 PM (zfY+H) Well, that's because to know the first really enables knowledge of the second.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at February 25, 2014 11:12 AM (PYAXX)

250 224 Susan Boyle has a nice career going. She had a breakdown from the stress of her new found fame and success, nut, she's recovered.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at February 25, 2014 11:12 AM (7by30)

251

OK, it's not a place name, but if you are a steamship captain on the Donau you can wear a Donaudampfschifffahrtslinieseekapitänsmütze. 

 

And if you kill the chief of the Hottentots, you are a Hottentottenpotentatenattentatentäter. 

 

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at February 25, 2014 11:12 AM (A0sHn)

252 Was Cowell's show already huge when the old maid whose name escapes me became an international star, or did that boost him as much as her?

Susan Boyle.  And Cowell was already huge, although that was not Pop Idol she was on.

I love to rewatch that original audition on occasion just to Cowell's face go from thinly disguised contempt to brief confusion over what he's hearing to full-on dollar signs appearing in his eyes.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 25, 2014 11:12 AM (B/VB5)

253 Southern girls sound like sex with honey, to me at least. Love that accent...

Depends on where they're from.  I'd be willing to bet you wouldn't like the "Honey Boo Boo" southern accent, or the Florida Cracker accent.

You're probably thinking of GA or somewhere similar.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at February 25, 2014 11:12 AM (4QSOR)

254 Welsh singer Kim Seviour of Prog-rockers Touchstone is pretty hawt. And she's my facebook friend. .....I am Welsh and I agree. Also I would submit to you. Daido, Mmmmmm

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 25, 2014 11:12 AM (/o+xv)

255 236 Southern girls sound like sex with honey, to me at least. From your lips to God's ears. I love love love the way southern girls talk.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 25, 2014 11:12 AM (7ObY1)

256 Unless they get mad, then they know how to make your life hell. Posted by: Christopher Taylor at February 25, 2014 03:10 PM

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

That comes standard with ovaries.

Posted by: irright at February 25, 2014 11:13 AM (8GKDa)

257 Many years ago I went on a camping trip from SC to Maine. Oddly, the yankee accent that was most understandable to me was the Mainer. The sound of it was strange but the meter was the same as the Southern drawl. Long pauses and the like. The Massachusetts runeverthingtogetherinacontinuousstream might as well have French to me.

 

Posted by: toby928© at February 25, 2014 03:10 PM (QupBk)

 

The Northern New England accent (Maine, VT, NH for the most part) is a lot nicer than the Mass accent.  The Mass accent is very hard and brittle.  The Mainer accent is more of what I consider the real New England accent, which is sort of slow and rounded and very airy.   I always wished I had a New England accent.  *sigh* 

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 25, 2014 11:13 AM (4df7R)

258 Howie Carr: Michael Sam is a victim of 'homophobic' stopwatches.

Posted by: soothi with justice at February 25, 2014 11:13 AM (YCQeq)

259 Are you gay? For being friends with a hot chick? No.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 25, 2014 11:14 AM (7ObY1)

260 I always think it's funny when someone from outside of Texas talks to me on the phone (did phone customer service for a while)- they'll always ask, "How long have you lived there?" Apparently I have no accent.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at February 25, 2014 11:14 AM (PYAXX)

261

236Southern girls sound like sex with honey, to me at least. Love that accent, and in my experience, they really know how to treat their man well. Unless they get mad, then they know how to make your life hell.

---

i missed out on that. Maybe Manila is too far south...

 

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at February 25, 2014 11:14 AM (SO2Q8)

262

And the Republicans have been strangely silent on this.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 25, 2014 03:05 PM (t3UFN)

-----
I would like to think its part of their "let it burn" strategy.
Then I remember... "Republicans".

Posted by: fixerupper at February 25, 2014 03:08 PM (nELVU)

 

 

They are more worried about their defense contractor pals and whether they can extort another campaign contribution from them.

 

Posted by: rd at February 25, 2014 11:14 AM (D+lxs)

263 BALONEY.

Morgan wasn't fired for his accent (hasn't hurt Simon Cowell), ratings (been in the dumper since the start, if it were that he'd be long gone), his anti-gun attitude (probably shared by most at CNN, if less obnoxiously), or his smug arrogance towards guests (they knew who they were hiring).

CNN is just trying to avoid embarrassment when he is charged and convicted of multiple crimes in the UK phone hacking scandal.  They didn't want an on-air personality frog-marched off to prison.

Simple enough.

Posted by: Adjoran at February 25, 2014 11:14 AM (QIQ6j)

264 I love love love the way southern girls talk. Sure, but I guy gets tired of hearing, "That's not how my brother does it.".

Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2014 11:14 AM (mIAI5)

265 Depends on where they're from. I'd be willing to bet you wouldn't like the "Honey Boo Boo" southern accent, or the Florida Cracker accent. You're probably thinking of GA or somewhere similar. Bama or Texas.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2014 11:14 AM (p9JxP)

266 I love love love the way southern girls talk.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 25, 2014 03:12 PM (7ObY1)


----


.... especially the deep south.... Georgia or Alabama.  


Kentucky or Tennessee.... not as much.

Posted by: fixerupper at February 25, 2014 11:14 AM (nELVU)

267

Nobody wants to play with a Pierce in the box.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 25, 2014 03:12 PM (/o+xv)

 

 

I feel that this would be an appropriate time to link a YouTube video of Justin Timberlake's SNL skit, "Dick in a Box."    But since I can't get to YouTube from work, just consider it linked.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 25, 2014 11:15 AM (4df7R)

268 "Yo-un."   Really?

BTW isn't Christian Bale Welch?  But then again he probably spent most his youth in Hollywood.

Posted by: lowandslow at February 25, 2014 11:15 AM (IV4od)

269 traveling with English friends into Wales sightseeing. Its very beautiful countryside. English friends told us our car might be stopped by the locals when we crossed to border into Wales. He said they would be asking us to read their letters to them The joke being the Welsh are not very literate, as a group. I think the English think of Wales as the West Virginia of England

Posted by: thunderb at February 25, 2014 11:15 AM (zOTsN)

270 Stewart Varney never complains of how he is/was treated by Americans. In fact, he intends to die here I believe.

Posted by: maddogg at February 25, 2014 11:15 AM (xWW96)

271 Sure, but I guy gets tired of hearing, "That's not how my brother does it.".

Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2014 03:14 PM (mIAI5)



They only say that when talking about car repair or deer skinning.

Posted by: Country Singer at February 25, 2014 11:15 AM (uCYHf)

272 Sacre bleu! I make it into yet another thread!

Posted by: fabrique nationale d'armes de guerre at February 25, 2014 11:16 AM (Eiwo7)

273 Years ago here at AoS we used to joke about doing gay sex to other men like a Viking! It's funny how Michael Sam might be a Vikings.

Posted by: soothi with justice at February 25, 2014 11:16 AM (YCQeq)

274 The Mass accent is very hard and brittle.

I dated a girl from near Boston.  She was a nut and I'm glad I didn't marry her.  Anyways, she thought the accent was low-class so she self-policed it away.  But if she got talking fast enough it would come out.  I liked that, I thought "down cella" or "bubblah" were cute.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at February 25, 2014 11:16 AM (4QSOR)

275 Also, Mainers can hunker down. Hunkering is a required skill in the South. Preferably with straw chewing affection.

Posted by: toby928© at February 25, 2014 11:16 AM (QupBk)

276 "As someone (perhaps Geraghty) notes, we automatically assign an additional 20 points of IQ to anyone speaking with a British accent." This explains how Americans arrived at the conclusion that Piers' IQ rating is....20.

Posted by: Meremortal at February 25, 2014 11:16 AM (1Y+hH)

277 I feel that this would be an appropriate time to link a YouTube video of Justin Timberlake's SNL skit, "Dick in a Box." But since I can't get to YouTube from work, just consider it linked. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 25, 2014 03:15 PM ..I got Mrs. Minnfidel that for Valentines day.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 25, 2014 11:16 AM (/o+xv)

278 @242 28mm? Seems unlikely. Should work against light armored vehicles. Can I buy an x?

Posted by: Beagle at February 25, 2014 11:16 AM (sOtz/)

279 Mississippi or Alabama girls accents, you bet. Dewy sheen on a warm night.... oh yeah.

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2014 11:17 AM (YEQ2h)

280 I feel that this would be an appropriate time to link a YouTube video of Justin Timberlake's SNL skit, "Dick in a Box." But since I can't get to YouTube from work, just consider it linked.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 25, 2014 03:15 PM
..I got Mrs. Minnfidel that for Valentines day.


Same here!  I mean for my wife, not yours.


Posted by: EC at February 25, 2014 11:17 AM (GQ8sn)

281 Mmm. Tom Jones.

Posted by: marge simpson at February 25, 2014 11:17 AM (Eiwo7)

282 Welsh by reputation are very good looking, and very good singers. Donna Lewis. First time I heard her sing I was like 'who the hell is that?'. Fantastic voice and easy on the eyes.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron [/i] at February 25, 2014 11:17 AM (CnA98)

283 btw, one time a long time ago I repped 225#s 22 times, which is 5 more than Michael Sam he's pretty weak for a defensive end

Posted by: soothi with justice at February 25, 2014 11:18 AM (YCQeq)

284 I have so little time left!' Jane Fonda, 76, reveals she can't stop crying as she comes to terms with her own mortality Drop dead

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 25, 2014 11:18 AM (t3UFN)

285 ..I got Mrs. Minnfidel that for Valentines day.

 

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 25, 2014 03:16 PM (/o+xv)

 

 

...

 

I hope it wasn't     Justin Timberlake's.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 25, 2014 11:18 AM (4df7R)

286 I am pretty sure Susan Boyle has Aspergers.

Posted by: thunderb at February 25, 2014 11:18 AM (zOTsN)

287 Dick in a Box works best if the Box is Tiffany Blue.

Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2014 11:18 AM (mIAI5)

288 Apparently I have no accent.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther)

I've always thought I DIDN'T have an accent, then I went to Europe with my parents when I was in college. They'd peg me as being from Texas after I spoke only a few sentences. Guess I do have a slight one...

Posted by: Hobbitopoly at February 25, 2014 11:18 AM (fk1A8)

289 283 I have so little time left!' Jane Fonda, 76, reveals she can't stop crying as she comes to terms with her own mortality Drop dead Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 25, 2014 03:18 PM (t3UFN) I'm strangely unmoved.

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2014 11:19 AM (YEQ2h)

290 In my younger days, a good looking guy with the right British accent could induce panty melting.

Now... not so much. I tend to think of most of them as inbred retarded liberals. But the accent is still pleasing to the ear....

Posted by: shibumi at February 25, 2014 11:19 AM (25HWz)

291 Just so you know, Dick in a Box also works for Christmas and birthdays.


Posted by: EC at February 25, 2014 11:19 AM (GQ8sn)

292

I have so little time left!' Jane Fonda, 76, reveals she can't stop crying as she comes to terms with her own mortality

 

The dark, nihilistic, sarcastic part of my soul says, "Good."

 

Unfortunately, the dark, nihilistic, sarcastic part of my soul is rapidly outgrowing the rest of it.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 25, 2014 11:19 AM (4df7R)

293 I hope it wasn't Justin Timberlake's. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 25, 2014 03:18 PM Nope, a home made gift That is one of the funniest SNL skits ever.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 25, 2014 11:19 AM (/o+xv)

294 The Left worships anyone who is famous that validates their Worldview. Doesn't matter how or why they became famous. It is even more exciting when the celebrity blows their nose on all the little people. If Obama ordered the public shooting of GOP House members along with 'moderate' democrats half the Country would orgasm. When Brian Williams presented it live on the Network men and women in the Bay Area would wet their panties.

Posted by: Daybrother at February 25, 2014 11:19 AM (J3d2/)

295 he's pretty weak for a defensive end

Posted by: soothi with justice at February 25, 2014 03:18 PM (YCQeq)



It's because he has expressive wrists.

Posted by: Country Singer at February 25, 2014 11:19 AM (uCYHf)

296

A failed tabloid editor who somehow got on to tv.

 

 

You know I am really having difficulty right now figuring out how one makes the switch from teh one to the other.  Doesn't going on tv usually mean the presenter has charm or charisma or something like that?

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Winter of Discontent will End! The Flowers of Fury will be here for Spring Planting at February 25, 2014 11:19 AM (hLRSq)

297 Make a Southern Chick mad enough and with her own soft white hands, she will delicately remove your liver, fry it up with some onions, and serve it to you with fried okra, grits, biscuits, and sweet tea. And you will thank her kindly for it.. You will never know what hit you.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at February 25, 2014 11:20 AM (7by30)

298 btw, one time a long time ago I repped 225#s 22 times, which is 5 more than Michael Sam he's pretty weak for a defensive end Going to quietly step away from the tight end joke........

Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2014 11:20 AM (p9JxP)

299 Dick in a Box works best if the Box is Tiffany Blue.

Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2014 03:18 PM (mIAI5)


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Or a popcorn box.   In a dark theater.


That's what I heard anyway.

Posted by: fixerupper at February 25, 2014 11:20 AM (nELVU)

300 Just so you know, Dick in a Box also works for Christmas and birthdays. Posted by: EC at February 25, 2014 03:19 PM ( It's the gift that keeps on giving!

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 25, 2014 11:20 AM (/o+xv)

301 @252 How is the Florida Cracker distingishable from South Georgia? Excluding jorts.

Posted by: Beagle at February 25, 2014 11:20 AM (sOtz/)

302 I have so little time left!' Jane Fonda, 76, reveals she can't stop crying as she comes to terms with her own mortality


Soon.


Don't worry Jane, soon you'll be off to the big antiaircraft gunner's seat in the sky....



Posted by: EC at February 25, 2014 11:20 AM (GQ8sn)

303 Jane Fonda is likely pondering an eternity of being drenched with piss as millions line up to drain their bladders on her grave.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 25, 2014 11:21 AM (oFCZn)

304 I am not ashamed to say how happy I was that my parents outlived Edward Kennedy (they're the same age).

Posted by: soothi with justice at February 25, 2014 11:21 AM (YCQeq)

305 When I lived in Germany, my friends there couldn't get enough of my Deutsch mit Southern Drawl.

Posted by: toby928© at February 25, 2014 11:21 AM (QupBk)

306 Just watched the Boyle video, of course Piers Morgan features heavily, kind of detracts from the feel-good vibes.

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 25, 2014 11:21 AM (ZshNr)

307 Don't worry Jane, soon you'll be off to the big antiaircraft gunner's seat in the sky....




Posted by: EC at February 25, 2014 03:20 PM (GQ8sn)

 

 

Wrong direction, EC.  

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 25, 2014 11:21 AM (4df7R)

308

283 I have so little time left!' Jane Fonda, 76, reveals she can't stop crying as she comes to terms with her own mortality

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I cry when i think of how much time she's had....

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at February 25, 2014 11:21 AM (SO2Q8)

309 Jane Fonda, 76, reveals she can't stop crying as she comes to terms with her own mortality About 500,000 names on a granite wall in Washington DC would love to help wash her tears away with a steady stream of urine.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron [/i] at February 25, 2014 11:21 AM (CnA98)

310 related:
Ukrainian citizens and gun owners are demanding their own Second Amendment in the countryÂ’s constitution.

Piers Morgan hardest hit.

ht gateway pundit

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 25, 2014 11:21 AM (n0DEs)

311 Just watched the Boyle video, of course Piers Morgan features heavily, kind of detracts from the feel-good vibes.

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 25, 2014 03:21 PM (ZshNr)



I love what Simon says when Boyle finishes: 


"Susan, the moment you stepped on stage, I knew exactly what we were in for."




Posted by: EC at February 25, 2014 11:22 AM (GQ8sn)

312 Just an FYI. We don't all sound like the movie Fargo up here. Which as a side note always bothered me that Fargo is in ND and the movie was set in MN. I mean what the hell?

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 25, 2014 11:22 AM (/o+xv)

313 Doesn't going on tv usually mean the presenter has charm or charisma or something like that?

Casting couch.

Someone at CNN is depraved.

Posted by: HR, watching scripts run at February 25, 2014 11:22 AM (ZKzrr)

314 How is the Florida Cracker distingishable from South Georgia?

Excluding jorts.

Posted by: Beagle at February 25, 2014 03:20 PM (sOtz/)


One of them is on all fours barking at the the other; this most often happens around the time of the "World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party."

Posted by: Country Singer at February 25, 2014 11:22 AM (uCYHf)

315 I have so little time left!' Jane Fonda, 76, reveals she can't stop crying as she comes to terms with her own mortality... It will be such a great loss to the world when I'm gone... *sobs*

Posted by: Jane-a-rella at February 25, 2014 11:22 AM (1Y+hH)

316 Jane Fonda is likely pondering an eternity of being drenched with piss as millions line up to drain their bladders on her grave.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 25, 2014 03:21 PM (oFCZn)

 

I for one intend to bottle my urine so that I can    pour a good   gallon or two on her grave.   No way my poor bladder can hold that much, and less than that wouldn't do it justice.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 25, 2014 11:22 AM (4df7R)

317 Jane Fonda is likely pondering an eternity of being drenched with piss as millions line up to drain their bladders on her grave. Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 25, 2014 03:21 PM (oFCZn) I volunteer to stand on line for any and all Vietnam Vets

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 25, 2014 11:22 AM (t3UFN)

318 Wrong direction, EC.


D'oh!

Posted by: EC at February 25, 2014 11:22 AM (GQ8sn)

319 But English girls are so creamily, hooterly scrumptious! And so easy!!

Posted by: J. Moses Browning at February 25, 2014 11:23 AM (6SZYN)

320 Jane Fonda, 76, reveals she can't stop crying as she comes to terms with her own mortality.

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Isnt pushing 80 a little late for a midlife crisis???

Buck up Jane.  The world hates whiney people.

Posted by: fixerupper at February 25, 2014 11:23 AM (nELVU)

321 Drop dead

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 25, 2014 03:18 PM (t3UFN)

Of a disease that requires steroids to treat, so she gets really puffy and fat and a series of photos of her in this state is published across the world in every major magazine and newspaper.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 25, 2014 11:23 AM (QFxY5)

322 Scottish singing sensation Susan Boyle says she was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome last year, according to a report in Sunday's editions of The Observer newspaper. The singer told The Observer that she went to a specialist in Scotland because she thought she had a more serious condition than the diagnosis she had received when she was a child. "I was told I had brain damage. I always knew it was an unfair label," she said. "Now I have a clearer understanding of what's wrong and I feel relieved and a bit more relaxed about myself."

Posted by: thunderb at February 25, 2014 11:23 AM (zOTsN)

323 I am one-eighth Welsh in heritage (Griffiths and Jones, TFA). The Welsh are reputed to be great singers and poets. Can't prove it by me - my three-quarters filthy Scandi heritage smothered it.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at February 25, 2014 11:23 AM (9WUFT)

324 I have so little time left!'

The narcissism of the modern 76 year old.

Posted by: lowandslow at February 25, 2014 11:23 AM (IV4od)

325
Just imagine what would happen to the world if lefties could ever comprehend Carolla's wit.


Won't happen in this lifetime.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at February 25, 2014 11:23 AM (BZAd3)

326

Ukrainian citizens and gun owners are demanding their own Second Amendment in the countryÂ’s constitution.

 

AWESOME.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 25, 2014 11:24 AM (4df7R)

327

302Jane Fonda is likely pondering an eternity of being drenched with piss as millions line up to drain their bladders on her grave.

---

I want to see a girl scout with the water bottle concession at that graveyard.

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at February 25, 2014 11:24 AM (SO2Q8)

328 Now, sweet tea is something I do NOT miss about the south. That shit is TOO damned sweet.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 25, 2014 11:24 AM (7ObY1)

329 Jeff Foxworthy had a funny bit about accents. He said let's be honest. The last thing you want to hear when meeting your brain surgeon is this. "Na, wut were fixin to do hear yall is to cut in tha and cut that there out".

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 25, 2014 11:24 AM (/o+xv)

330


NYPost.com via TruthAboutGuns.com
"Struggling New York Knicks point guard Raymond Felton allegedly pointed a powerful, body armor-piercing handgun at his estranged wife during a domestic dispute and was arrested Tuesday morning on weapons possession charges, sources said.

Ariane Raymondo-Felton – who recently filed for divorce - brought the Belgian-made pistol, an FNH 5.7 28mm handgun, to the 20th Precinct on the Upper West Side, and the starting point guard later turned himself in for questioning, sources said."

* * *

WABC differs:
" Sources say Felton's wife, who filed for divorce last week after just 19 months of marriage, brought the gun to the police precinct and told authorities she had found it in her West 63rd Street home.

The weapon is reportedly a .28-mm Belgian pistol, a large gun capable of firing armor-piercing bullets.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 25, 2014 03:11 PM (xrX4n)

 

 

FYI it is a 5.7 x28 mm round.  the 28 refers to case(?) length.  (For example, 9mm is 9 x 19 mm)  the actual bullet is about .23 caliber, or a little wider than the good old .22.

 

It was designed to be an armor piercing pistol round for a new NATO pistol.  In order for it to be armor piercing, they need to use an armor piercing bullet with a steel core.  You cannot buy that ammo here in the US. 

Posted by: rd at February 25, 2014 11:25 AM (D+lxs)

331 Minnfidel they sound like that in ND and MN. Fer sure. You betcha.

Posted by: thunderb at February 25, 2014 11:25 AM (zOTsN)

332 Ukrainian citizens and gun owners are demanding their own Second Amendment in the countryÂ’s constitution.

Which shows that they Get It.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 25, 2014 11:25 AM (B/VB5)

333 The narcissism of the modern 76 year old.

Posted by: lowandslow at February 25, 2014 03:23 PM (IV4od)

 

If you want to   confront the unfairness of the world, consider this:  that Jane Fucking Fonda is still alive, and Andrew Breitbart isn't.

 

That'll make you cry.   And Cry and Cry and Cry.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 25, 2014 11:25 AM (4df7R)

334 Jane Fonda is likely pondering an eternity of being drenched with piss as millions line up to drain their bladders on her grave.

Moron meetup.  We'll pass the hat, get a couple dozen kegs.

Posted by: HR, watching scripts run at February 25, 2014 11:25 AM (ZKzrr)

335 Just imagine what would happen to the world if lefties could ever comprehend Carolla's wit.

----

Well... they wouldnt be lefties anymore now would they....

Posted by: fixerupper at February 25, 2014 11:25 AM (nELVU)

336 I have so little time left!' Jane Fonda, 76, reveals she can't stop crying as she comes to terms with her own mortality... Not to worry, Jane. You can take turns playing hide the pineapple with your buddy, Ho Chi Min, in hell.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 25, 2014 11:26 AM (0cMkb)

337 *Removing Jane-a-rella sock with plastic gloves and burning in trash barrel*

Posted by: Meremortal at February 25, 2014 11:26 AM (1Y+hH)

338 76 is the new 6.

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 25, 2014 11:26 AM (ZshNr)

339 Ukrainian citizens and gun owners are demanding their own Second Amendment in the countryÂ’s constitution.

AWESOME.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 25, 2014 03:24 PM (4df7R)


To head off any future lefty graby-hands bullshit, they should explicitly write in that ANY type of arms can and will be kept for the express purpose of defending the rest of their rights.



Posted by: EC at February 25, 2014 11:26 AM (GQ8sn)

340 Think Ace will threaten to kick our ass with puppies, again?

Posted by: Judge Pug at February 25, 2014 11:26 AM (6Nj7A)

341 Casting couch.

Someone at CNN is depraved.

Posted by: HR, watching scripts run at February 25, 2014 03:22 PM (ZKzrr)

 

 

Well thanks, I'll be off amputating my imagination - be right back.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Winter of Discontent will End! The Flowers of Fury will be here for Spring Planting at February 25, 2014 11:26 AM (hLRSq)

342 I mean when *Jeremy Clarkson* thinks you're an arrogant idiot who speaks without thinking.... Whenever I get angry with Clarkson, I think about how he punched Piers Morgan, and I want to hug and kiss him all over again.

Posted by: Filly at February 25, 2014 11:26 AM (gr/p1)

343

Jane Fonda, 76, reveals she can't stop crying as she comes to terms with her own mortality.

----

We have cried over ours for decades

Posted by: 58,000 zombie viet nam soldiers at February 25, 2014 11:26 AM (SO2Q8)

344 Y'all fixin' to set that down rat cheer? #TexasAccent

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 25, 2014 11:27 AM (7ObY1)

345 Send us your resume Piers. I'm sure we can find a slot for you to boost our ratings.

Posted by: MSNBC at February 25, 2014 11:27 AM (mETGQ)

346 [iJeff Foxworthy had a funny bit about accents. He said let's be honest. The last thing you want to hear when meeting your brain surgeon is this. "Na, wut were fixin to do hear yall is to cut in tha and cut that there out".

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 25, 2014 03:24 PM (/o+xv) [/i]

 

lol!   I remember that bit!  I used to listen to it on one of his cassette's years ago, back before the Atlanta Olympics.

 

"Now wut we're gonna do is,   saw the top o' yer head off,    root around in there with a stick and see if we  cain't find that dagburn clot."

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 25, 2014 11:27 AM (4df7R)

347 Its a pity Al Gore sold his media kingdom to the Muzzies, I think Pierce and Al would have made a charming couple. Smug Snake Handling Fundamentalism is rarely seen.

Posted by: Chaos the other dark meat at February 25, 2014 11:27 AM (oDCMR)

348 I am mostly of Welsh descent. Never heard the legend that we were supposed to be good singers but my whole family has musical talent. And not that it's worth anything but I think Daido is SMOKING hawt.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 25, 2014 11:27 AM (/o+xv)

349 If you want to confront the unfairness of the world, consider this: that Jane Fucking Fonda is still alive, and Andrew Breitbart isn't. That'll make you cry. And Cry and Cry and Cry. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 25, 2014 03:25 PM (4df7R) I still remember reading that he died and immediately rolling my eyes and thinking "Buddy, you better have cleared faking your death on the Internet with your wife or it won't be fake". And then. And then.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at February 25, 2014 11:27 AM (VtjlW)

350 Moron meetup. We'll pass the hat, get a couple dozen kegs.

Posted by: HR, watching scripts run at February 25, 2014 03:25 PM (ZKzrr)

I'm in.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 25, 2014 11:27 AM (QFxY5)

351 It was designed to be an armor piercing pistol round for a new NATO pistol. In order for it to be armor piercing, they need to use an armor piercing bullet with a steel core. You cannot buy that ammo here in the US.


Someone here supposedly has some that is now at the bottom of a lake.

Posted by: EC at February 25, 2014 11:27 AM (GQ8sn)

352 They are saying the kid who raped and killed his teacher in Mass also tortured and killed cats. If they knew he did shit like that, why wasn't he in deep therapy and why weren't teachers warned?

Posted by: Judge Pug at February 25, 2014 11:28 AM (6Nj7A)

353 349 Moron meetup. We'll pass the hat, get a couple dozen kegs. Posted by: HR, watching scripts run at February 25, 2014 03:25 PM (ZKzrr) I'm in. Absolutely. I'll bring the Hate Sammiches.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 25, 2014 11:28 AM (7ObY1)

354 they sound like that in ND and MN. Fer sure. You betcha. Posted by: thunderb at February 25, 2014 03:25 PM ............I've lived here all of my life. Up north you get some of that but it was sooooo exaggerated it just drove me crazy.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 25, 2014 11:29 AM (/o+xv)

355 I thought it was Dido not Daido. Or are we talking about someone other than the chick on that Eminem song.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 25, 2014 11:29 AM (7ObY1)

356 I still remember reading that he died and immediately rolling my eyes and thinking "Buddy, you better have cleared faking your death on the Internet with your wife or it won't be fake". And then. And then.

 

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at February 25, 2014 03:27 PM (VtjlW)

 

 

I   was the same way.   I was convinced it was a terrible hoax.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 25, 2014 11:29 AM (4df7R)

357 only the good die young

Posted by: thunderb at February 25, 2014 11:29 AM (zOTsN)

358

Ukrainian citizens and gun owners are demanding their own Second Amendment in the countryÂ’s constitution.

---

Yes, they could use a well regulated militia. Too many individuals over there running around with guns.

Posted by: John Paul Stevens at February 25, 2014 11:29 AM (SO2Q8)

359 @341 Having owned a Camaro I am torn between liking Clarkson and wanting to murder him (Top Gear inside joke)

Posted by: Beagle at February 25, 2014 11:29 AM (sOtz/)

360

Whenever I get angry with Clarkson, I think about how he punched Piers Morgan, and I want to hug and kiss him all over again.

 

Why on earth would you get angry with Jeremy Clarkson?

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at February 25, 2014 11:30 AM (A0sHn)

361 Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 25, 2014 03:29 PM (7ObY1)

The Queen of Carthage?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 25, 2014 11:30 AM (QFxY5)

362 "Now wut we're gonna do is, saw the top o' yer head off, root around in there with a stick and see if we cain't find that dagburn clot." Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 25, 2014 03:27 PM Jew Eat? Naw Jew? Naw, want to?

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 25, 2014 11:30 AM (/o+xv)

363 Oops. I was off in the 500,000 number. That wasn't how many died, but the number deployed every year. Year after year, the f*cking North Vietnamese fought on, emboldened by her support and the likes of that other shit-for-brains, John F'n Kerry. There must be millions of men who served in the military who can't wait to wash her tears away with warm bodily fluids.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron [/i] at February 25, 2014 11:30 AM (CnA98)

364 Minnfidel I lived in Fargo until I was 27. Adults in the 60s and 70s all sounded like that. Perhaps less so now

Posted by: thunderb at February 25, 2014 11:31 AM (zOTsN)

365 ----Or a popcorn box. In a dark theater.
That's what I heard anyway.

Posted by: fixerupper at February 25, 2014 03:20 PM (nELVU)


Gets 'em every time!


Posted by: Harry Reid at February 25, 2014 11:31 AM (Kkt/i)

366

Moron meetup. We'll pass the hat, get a couple dozen kegs.

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Then pass the couple of dozen kegs...

 

Posted by: John Paul Stevens at February 25, 2014 11:31 AM (SO2Q8)

367 I thought it was Dido not Daido. Or are we talking about someone other than the chick on that Eminem song. Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 25, 2014 03:29 PM ....Ooops Dido. Mmmm She's teh hawt.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 25, 2014 11:31 AM (/o+xv)

368 He should have claimed to be gay, thus becoming one of the CNN/MSNBC protected class.

Posted by: wth at February 25, 2014 11:32 AM (wAQA5)

369

Moron meetup. We'll pass the hat, get a couple dozen kegs.

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FWIW i prefer to be bathed in wine-urine rather than beer-urine. Good socialist wine.

Posted by: Not quite zombie Hanoi Jane at February 25, 2014 11:32 AM (SO2Q8)

370 I heard they sealed the results of the cellphone forensics in the teacher killer case, but not about the cats. I do know the kid was new in town, moved in from out-of-State.

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 25, 2014 11:32 AM (ZshNr)

371 Minnfidel I lived in Fargo until I was 27. Adults in the 60s and 70s all sounded like that. Perhaps less so now Posted by: thunderb at February 25, 2014 03:31 PM .Maybe living here all my life I don't even notice it. When I travel. People ask me what part of Canada I am from.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 25, 2014 11:32 AM (/o+xv)

372
Piers Morgan likes guns just fine, especially machine guns......as long as he can use them to brutally murder Jeremy Clarkson.

http://tinyurl.com/opn4b4t

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 25, 2014 11:32 AM (TIIx5)

373

They are saying the kid who raped and killed his teacher in Mass also tortured and killed cats. If they knew he did shit like that, why wasn't he in deep therapy and why weren't teachers warned?

---

IOW, he wasn't all bad....

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at February 25, 2014 11:33 AM (SO2Q8)

374 I think I heard that a volcano just erupted somewhere near Peruvia. BRB...

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 25, 2014 11:33 AM (7ObY1)

375 That shit is TOO damned sweet.

McD's has that here in Tejas.  Makes you stomach hurt.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2014 11:34 AM (KXm42)

376 the ND accent is handy. When you travel in the ME, you tell them you are from Canada.

Posted by: thunderb at February 25, 2014 11:34 AM (zOTsN)

377 lol! I remember that bit! I used to listen to it on one of his cassette's years ago, back before the Atlanta Olympics. "Now wut we're gonna do is, saw the top o' yer head off, root around in there with a stick and see if we cain't find that dagburn clot." Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 25, 2014 03:27 PM (4df7R) It's hilarious being down here and now suddenly I'm the one with the accent. Considering that I don't think I have an accent apart from Generic Midwest, I think it really funny to get "oh I can tell you're not from around here due to your accent".

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at February 25, 2014 11:34 AM (VtjlW)

378 Jane Fonda is likely pondering an eternity of being drenched with piss as millions line up to drain their bladders on her grave.

There ain't enough piss on this planet...

Posted by: tu3031 at February 25, 2014 11:34 AM (nsQhi)

379
Unfortunately, the dark, nihilistic, sarcastic part of my soul is rapidly outgrowing the rest of it.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 25, 2014 03:19 PM (4df7R)










How are YOU doin'?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 25, 2014 11:35 AM (TIIx5)

380

They are saying the kid who raped and killed his teacher in Mass also tortured and killed cats. If they knew he did shit like that, why wasn't he in deep therapy and why weren't teachers warned?

Posted by: Judge Pug at February 25, 2014 03:28 PM (6Nj7A)

The geniuses in charge of his treatment just thought it was part of his culture.  And who are we to judge another culture? 

 

Besides everyone at his OLD school knew all about it.  Why tell anyone at his NEW school?

 

Posted by: rd at February 25, 2014 11:35 AM (D+lxs)

381 A kid who kills  cats  is seriously F'ed up. 

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2014 11:36 AM (KXm42)

382 Ugggghhh.....



I just saw on imdb that Lena Dunham is set to host SNL.  Wtf?


Lorne Michaels needs to tell her to keep her clothes on.


Posted by: EC at February 25, 2014 11:36 AM (GQ8sn)

383 ....Ooops Dido. Mmmm She's teh hawt. She's a cutie all right! Welsh singer Kim Seviour: http://tinyurl.com/jw3wo5p yeah. a ginger. no soul and all that.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 25, 2014 11:36 AM (7ObY1)

384 FWIW i prefer to be bathed in wine-urine rather than beer-urine. Good socialist wine.

Tough shit.

Posted by: HR, watching scripts run at February 25, 2014 11:36 AM (ZKzrr)

385 VFWs around the country will prolly have a party when she kicks

Posted by: thunderb at February 25, 2014 11:36 AM (zOTsN)

386

[iThey are saying the kid who raped and killed his teacher in Mass also tortured and killed cats. If they knew he did shit like that, why wasn't he in deep therapy and why weren't teachers warned?

 

Posted by: Judge Pug at February 25, 2014 03:28 PM (6Nj7A)
[/i]

 

 

*pulls CYA excuse out of hat*   Because FERPA.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at February 25, 2014 11:37 AM (4df7R)

387 @359 Clarkson uses Americans and our cars as the butt of about half his jokes. Just guessing that is a factor. The other half are split between Germans, French, and everyone else really.

Posted by: Beagle at February 25, 2014 11:37 AM (sOtz/)

388 newd up

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 25, 2014 11:37 AM (7ObY1)

389 Lena Dunham is set to host SNL.

Posted by: EC at February 25, 2014 03:36 PM (GQ8sn)

Then I will be sure not to watch it.

Of course...I never watch, and haven't in about 30 years.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 25, 2014 11:38 AM (QFxY5)

390 Masshole killer's family moved him around cause they must have known he was a freak.

Posted by: thunderb at February 25, 2014 11:38 AM (zOTsN)

391

Jane Fonda is likely pondering an eternity of being drenched with piss as millions line up to drain their bladders on her grave.

There ain't enough piss on this planet...

Posted by: tu3031 at February 25, 2014 03:34 PM (nsQhi)

 

You are forgetting the Hydraulic Cycle.  The water will cycle through rivers, seas, evaporation, clouds and rain. 

SO

By Pissing on her grave, You Are Environmentally Friendly and Aware.  GO GREEN!!!

 

 

Posted by: rd at February 25, 2014 11:38 AM (D+lxs)

392 Serious animal abuse is the best predicter of a future as a serial killer.

Posted by: Beagle at February 25, 2014 11:39 AM (sOtz/)

393
Jane Fonda is likely pondering an eternity of being drenched with piss as millions line up to drain their bladders on her grave.

There ain't enough piss on this planet...

Posted by: tu3031 at February 25, 2014 03:34 PM (nsQhi)










$10 says she'll have her ashes scattered, just because she knows what'll happen. Cowardly scrunt.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 25, 2014 11:39 AM (TIIx5)

394 You cannot buy that ammo here in the US. --------- You cannot buy that ammo here in the US legally. Every TV report of an arms raid in the last ten years by a SWAT team has on display an 'armor piercing' FNH. The 5.7 has gotten the undeserved 'cop killer' label because someone noticed it was fast enough to defeat some very very light vests. Just like the .50 BMG is now the next terrorist threat that will take down an airliner because someone noticed it goes through aircraft aluminum. Duh. Piers has contributed so much to firearms knowledge. One can only hope he is hired by HHS to promote ObamaCare next.

Posted by: Daybrother at February 25, 2014 11:41 AM (5jJ0l)

395 Re: Texas accent I have a stronger Texas accent than anyone else in my family and was teased mercilessly about it as a kid. I used to try to deny it and make myself talk like everyone else. My dad loves to tell a story about me at age 7 or so, trying to say "no I don't have an accent", and clapping my hand over my own mouth as I heard myself saying "No, Ah...".

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at February 25, 2014 11:41 AM (GmTxn)

396

Clarkson uses Americans and our cars as the butt of about half his jokes. Just guessing that is a factor.

 

But he's hilarious when doing it.  "That added 600 lbs to the car, which is nearly as much as a whole American". 

 

He loves our guns and our muscle cars.  He's allowed to poke fun at us, because he's really a big American with a funny accent.

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at February 25, 2014 11:41 AM (A0sHn)

397 For all the criticism of Brits, they've never been stupid enough to elect someone like me. Twice.

Posted by: Barack Obama at February 25, 2014 11:42 AM (6Pu5I)

398 373 I think I heard that a volcano just erupted somewhere near Peruvia.

BRB...

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 25, 2014 03:33 PM (7ObY1)


Muwa ha ha ha!

Posted by: GW Boooosshhh!! at February 25, 2014 11:44 AM (Kkt/i)

399 Nood.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2014 11:46 AM (69+WC)

400 NOT A REPUBLICAN

The drivers of these cars are way beyond smug. Theyre beyond tribalists, too. They're Nazis.

Posted by: soothi with justice at February 25, 2014 02:36 PM (YCQeq)


That begs for an "addendum" sticker that reads: " , JUST AN ASSHOLE"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2014 11:58 AM (0yhH4)

401 I'm actually more elated about the Tommy Christopher news than the Piers Morgan news.  Morgan was insufferable, but Christopher was perhaps the most reliably intellectually-dishonest writer I've come across.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at February 25, 2014 12:09 PM (WtVhX)

402 In the spirit of MSNBC giving Al Sharpton a show, CNN should compete by giving Andy Kaufman a show.

Posted by: Z Ryan at February 25, 2014 12:12 PM (fMK2m)

403 I hate the British more for Piers Morgan than I hate Morgan for being British

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at February 25, 2014 12:12 PM (z+4T3)

404 Shakespeare wrote of Tommy Christopher; Nothing so became his job as his leaving of it

Posted by: kbdabear at February 25, 2014 12:33 PM (aTXUx)

405 "Women ask me why I punched Piers Morgan. Men ask me where I hit him" - Jeremy Clarkson

Posted by: kbdabear at February 25, 2014 12:34 PM (aTXUx)

406 "When you press this button here, the whole car shimmies. It's like a shiver of excitement, like if someone had just given you permission to set fire to Piers Morgan" - Jeremy Clarkson

Posted by: kbdabear at February 25, 2014 12:36 PM (aTXUx)

407 Piers Morgan: useless even at being useless.

Posted by: Chas C-Q at February 25, 2014 12:46 PM (6U+/4)

408 Isle of Smegma, more likely.

Posted by: kathysaysso at February 25, 2014 01:12 PM (6H6o8)

409 Re: Robert Irvine: He was put on super secret probation (originally I thought he was fired) by the Food Network for lying on his resume about working in the White House. Irvine's an ass, as far as I'm concerned. I never watch Cowell and American Idol, after all I have President If You Like Your Plan, and that's enough American Idol for me. As for Ramsey, I remember him talking on one of his shows about how, when he opened his first restaurant in London, he thought he was 'the dog's bollocks'. The restaurant failed. Like many others who've failed, he turned that personal humiliation into a major positive. Ramsey may be abrasive, but he knows of what he speaks when it comes to food and restaurants.

Posted by: RickZ at February 25, 2014 01:16 PM (6eqwX)

410 Piers Morgan is a perfect representation of the British left: self righteous, smug and wrong. His show was exactly like that campaign by his Fabianist brothers ( and sisters, mustn't forget them) to influence the presidential election by writing letters to voters in Ohio telling them not to vote for Bush. Both were cases of massive fail by people who thought opening a dialog from a presumed and conveyed position of intellectual and moral superiority is a winning strategy. Of course , in neither case was the presumed audience the target audience. It's always done to show other members of the enlightened how you were willing to sow pearls before swine and the sods were unwilling to accept and/or unable to perceive the wisdom with which you were so selflessly trying to enrich their lives.

Posted by: Donavon PfeifferJr at February 25, 2014 03:51 PM (w/J7i)

411 "327 Now, sweet tea is something I do NOT miss about the south.

That shit is TOO damned sweet."

Nuthin' wrong 'bout squeaky teeth,

Posted by: The Little Grey Men at February 25, 2014 04:33 PM (XO6WW)

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