Comments on: It’s three more things, but that third one is kind of weak

By: Crunchy BC

Crunchy BC — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 15:09:11 +0000

“Bystandards” rules! I will be using it starting immediately.

Merry Christmas.

By: zenchick

zenchick — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 04:21:34 +0000

I *heart* that song. Thanks for putting it in my head (really, I’m not being sarcastic. I think.)

By: Anonymous Coworker

Anonymous Coworker — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 02:50:22 +0000

jwer- Wait until you find out that “gullible” isn’t in the dictionary

Matt- To be honest, I just copied it from some lyrics database site. I didn’t even look at them.

emaleejayne- I do what I can.

Poppy- I know. I was fake insulting your intelligence. The best thing I learned from my English teacher in high school was, “That gentleman doesn’t know his derrière from an excavation in terra firma.”

Pandora- The bladder infection is like a burning badge of honor that proves you had sex recently. I’m glad to be that badge.

By: Pand0raWilde

Pand0raWilde — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 23:47:38 +0000

Joel, if ACW didn’t insult us we wouldn’t feel that special glowing love. You know the one–it resembles a bad bladder infection but in a good way…

By: Poppy

Poppy — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:09:51 +0000

I was giving you a fake hard time. You know that, right? The only reason I know that word is because of the Simple Minds album. Got it Sophomore year of HS when I had an English teacher who was always yelling at us to “LOOK WORDS UP” if we didn’t know them. Thanks, Joe! He also taught us “tempus fugit”. Thanks again, Joe!

By: emaleejayne

emaleejayne — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 20:46:14 +0000

I’m so fed up with that song that as soon as I figured out what it was I gagged, rolled my eyes and skipped to the next paragraph. Unfortunately, the first two lines were enough to get that horrid bit of music stuck in my head for most of the morning. Thanks a lot ACW.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 20:38:44 +0000

…and Joel went down in a cacophony of throat-punching…

Anywho, I do believe it is actually “release your inhibitions“, not innovations… umm… I’m… really not proud I know this… So, to make up for my extreme idiocy (Yes, J-Hole, that is a redundancy), I am going partake in a few AssSpin nog bombs, just fer yew, ACW, to show my sincerity.

By: jwer

jwer — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 20:13:40 +0000

Also, your readers are totally ignorant. I had to look up “noise” and it said “see cacophony” and that entry said “see noise”… I was flipping back and forth for 18 hours, damn you!!!

By: Anonymous Coworker

Anonymous Coworker — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 20:01:16 +0000

SMaiden- Why thank you! Though bourbon would have been better.

Stephanie- I’m glad SOMEONE studied for the SATs.

Poppy- Think?

SoG- “Whorification”!? Bwa ha ha! That’s so awesome. I really hope that was intentional.

Joel- Joel. Buddy. Hombre. I insult my readers because I love them. And I don’t proofread my blog before I post because I love myself, and that would make blogging feel like work. Thanks for the catch though. You can be my editor any day. Cheers!

By: Joel Klebanoff

Joel Klebanoff — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:39:22 +0000

I stumbled onto your blog through Technorati. I don’t want to be rude in any way, so pleased don’t take offense, but, before you imply that your readers are ignorant, you might want to look up “cacophony” yourself. It means loud or annoying sounds or noise. “Noise” is an integral part of the definition of “cacophony”, hence your use of the word “noise” in the phrase “a cacophony of noise” is redundant. You can’t have a cacophony of anything but noise. Your sentence is equivalent to saying “I woke up this morning to a lot of annoying noise of noise.”

OK. Feel free to refer to me as anal retentive now. Or you might be able to come up with some more colorful descriptions of me. Your choice.

By: Smart Ol' Geezer

Smart Ol' Geezer — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:34:01 +0000

Cacophony sounds dirty if you mis-pronounce it.

DJ, congrats on the new kid. I used to hold mine upside down, when he was a few months old, to the whorification of some of my older relatives. But babies are pretty resilient. It just used to make him giggle.

He’s more fun now. The other day, we had a discussion about meta-language. What was real and what wasn’t. Grandma’s real, Cars are real. SpongeBob’s not real. Ghosts aren’t real because you can’t touch them. Your hand goes right through them. I wonder if he really understands the difference between a ghost being not real in the meta-sense as well as the literal sense.

The little weasel makes me laugh almost every day. You have so much to look forward to!

By: Poppy

Poppy — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:42:20 +0000

YOU THINK WE’RE ALL DUMB, DON’T YOU!

Everyone knows what cacophony means! It was part of the title of a Simple Minds album, for crying out loud!

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:31:46 +0000

I didn’t even have to look it up.

By: Shieldmaiden96

Shieldmaiden96 — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:28:47 +0000

Just wanted to say I toasted you last night as I gratefully drained an ice cold glass of nog with a hearty shot of Captain Morgan…hope you have a splendid holiday!