Posted on 10/23/2001 3:43:22 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
I am a recent graduate of Claremont McKenna College in Claremont (not that low class Montclare) where I studied the Classics and PPEE (Pomposity, Punditry, Excess, and Egocentricity). Currently I am traipsing around Europe from where I am condescending to post my remarks to you.
This year I am a Thomas J. Watson Fellow (and just to rub it in that is why my screen name is watsonfellow) studying Catholic (in the original Latin) and Islamic (in the originial squiggly lines) culture in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East (and if you're not impressed yet there's more).
I am a traditionalist Catholic who wakes up every morning to an alarm clock doing Gregorian Chants in the original Latin. I believe that scratching your crotch during Interleague Baseball games should be abolished and that Evelyn Waugh is the greatest snob of the century (I read all the Cliff Notes about him and saw the video of "The Loved One" 537 times.) I also support the idea that redundancy can be quite catchy as well as contagious.
First of all to prevent all the flamings, I should say that I am better than you because I am a traditional conservative, not one of you low-class populist conservatives. That being said, I thought it the height of rudeness for these firemen and policemen to boo and yell at the Senator this weekend. It lacked dignity and class. They should have kept their low-class populist mouths shut and have allowed the Senator to continue to believe that everybody loved her.
I wonder what Burke et al (I learned to quote Burke and et al in my PPEE classes to impress you ignorant populists) would have said about this conservative embrace of very questionable manners. Even my butler found this to be quite quite rude. In fact I'll never forget how he tut-tutted over it for a full 5 minutes.
The policemen and firemen should have just done nothing when she appeared on stage. Remember, we as traditional conservatives must not ever ever show our emotions in public. Much better for the Senator to just roll over the peons. Remember, the important thing is not to express your true opinions but to act in a dignified way.
Thank you and did I tell you that I speak fluent Latin, drink port wine, and did a lot of PPEE PPEE in college after drinking too much of that port wine (the labels were in Latin)?
Humourless? Us? Here? Naw! Just tell you you're telling a joke first, that's all! Bob Hope himself always did it (or else he wouldn't be funny!) Or provide a laugh track like telibision does (or else it wouldn't be funny!) But no, we be humourous!
Some folks can't hold their cheese...;-)
What I really wish to know, good sir, is the following: Where or where does one find a decorator of true Continental training and taste in Chicago??? Can such be found in the Heartland, as they colloquially call it here in the Colonies? My family may have been here for over 275 years, but we have never succumbed to the bourgoise tendencies of the unwashed. Nay, I suffer my sleep and pace endlessly in my worry about proper table manners, window treatments, the "right" guest list for my dinner parties, and china patterns. Prithee, good sir............can you help a kindred spirit?
Fare thee well..........and cheers, a wink, and a nudge to Trey should you see him before I.....!
He would p*ss on her.
The followup sentence is a correct statement. By just booing, they were insulting all those that died on 09/11.
THEY SHOULD HAVE THROWN ROCKS ! (after all it was a rock concert !)
naw, farting.
They booed Hillary! THOSE DASTARDS!
(Hey, somebody had to bring South Park into this...)
Pip pip. Or something.
}:-)4 (graduate of a "low-rent" state university and damn proud of it)
Actually I am quite modest. I could have mentioned that I am also a world class traipser. I've traipsed in Holland, I've traipsed in the Carpathians, and I've traipsed all over Europe. I've even performed the near impossible Andorra traipse. And I'll have you know that I hold an Olympic Gold medal in the traipsing event.
CAN WE ALL JUST STOP WHINING ABOUT HILLARY GETTING BOOED ALREADY!!! IT'S A FREE COUNTRY!!!
THE BASTARD LIBERALS CHEERED WHEN KATHRYN HARRIS WAS BOOED. WE GET TO CHEER NOW TO!
as jj59 so poignantly pointed out in post #74, it was the fugs. sheesh, i barely
remember college, much less zappa. he came to my (small private protestant) college
in the early seventies, and did a wonderful concert with our (renowned) jazz
musicians... great stuff. suzi creamcheese. bowtie daddy...
But TELLING you that I'm telling a joke takes all the fun out of it! When you go to a party, do you stand up and say to the crowd "Hey, I'm going to tell a joke now. It's REALLY funny. Trust me."
Or do you just launch into your joke, funny story, or bon mot and let the chips fall where they may?
sorta like Here, hold my beer. Watch this!”
It could not. ALL of us well-bred types know and adore the Fugs - who could forget the "skoosh-goosh" of the infamous Tomato Orgies? Or...(thump thumpa thump thumpa thumpa thumpa thump) "Saran Wrap!"
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