Brooks is gonna have a hard time living this one down.
(Yes, I do realize how loaded those sentences are.)
noblejoanie |
07.11.09 - 10:59 am | #
Brooks jumped the shark about three decades ago, but this time he's really jumped it. He may as well just walk around with a dick in his mouth now.
shrimplate |
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07.11.09 - 10:59 am | #
NTodd,
Good on you for your attempts at making contact. I have only had one senator respond to me in 12 years. It was J. Spratt. Everytime I contact L. F. Grahams office nobody there knows anything or where he is!
PeasantParty,MADEINUSA |
07.11.09 - 10:59 am | #
The whole thing unfolded over dinner at a Red Lobster.
Phil Gramm |
07.11.09 - 10:59 am | #
So how soon does Brooks tank the head shot of him at NYT wearing the pink shirt and pink and purple tie?
.
Agent Orange |
07.11.09 - 11:00 am | #
Wonder if Sully will try to feel Bobo up the next time they're on Tweety's weekend show?
plantsman, mad google skillz |
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07.11.09 - 11:00 am | #
At least he didn't (in this comment here anyway) assert that the blight was personally spread by the OFB if not Obama himself, as an act of anti-Hillary mysoginy. Or something.
Reputation is the strongest thing one can have, and its power is never really understood until you smash it all to hell and gone.
Xan | 07.11.09 - 10:27 am | #
That sleazeball is still parading around the internets pretending to be a "progressive" and advancing his "concern" about the Obama administration. I just feel a need now and then to remind people that this is the guy who the week before the general election was recycling RedState stories about how the democratic Presidential campaign was an exercise in money laundering.
rootless-e, appikouros |
07.11.09 - 11:01 am | #
in my view, they’re all emotional freaks of one sort or another.
Brooks tars all politicians with this brush, but I'd say it applies mostly to all Republicans.
Adam Hominem |
07.11.09 - 11:01 am | #
"So how soon does Brooks tank the head shot of him at NYT wearing the pink shirt and pink and purple tie?"
Never! It's all advertisement. It's Lonely up there. He said it over and over. He's looking for some tuuuussssssssh.
PeasantParty,MADEINUSA |
07.11.09 - 11:02 am | #
Look how many threads here it got Bobo.
plantsman, mad google skillz |
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07.11.09 - 11:02 am | #
So how soon does Brooks tank the head shot of him at NYT wearing the pink shirt and pink and purple tie?
And replace it with a shot of him in a Red Lobster bib? Days probably. I'll bet a lobster dinner on it.
Phil Gramm |
07.11.09 - 11:02 am | #
I wonder if Bobo used the same definition for "thigh" that the NFL uses when the teevee announcer sez "thigh injury!"
Troutski, HFM |
07.11.09 - 11:03 am | #
PeasantParty - thanks. Been working on the relationship with Welch for over 2 years, now starting to build one with Leahy's office (I have several contacts on his staff and Judiciary).
Takes time, but I think it's all worth it. And everybody can do it, no matter what party!
NTodd,שלו |
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07.11.09 - 11:03 am | #
who left the tip?
brewing liberally |
07.11.09 - 11:04 am | #
Everytime I contact L. F. Grahams office nobody there knows anything or where he is!
I'm sure he's in the men's room.
NTodd,שלו |
Homepage |
07.11.09 - 11:04 am | #
Ack! Another Singularity!!!!1
plantsman, mad google skillz |
Homepage |
07.11.09 - 11:04 am | #
who left the tip?
The mohel?
NTodd,שלו |
Homepage |
07.11.09 - 11:05 am | #
NTodd,
Yep. Of course, in my state they are all worried about stimulating themselves instead of our economy! Just ask the gov and L.F. Graham!
PeasantParty,MADEINUSA |
07.11.09 - 11:05 am | #
Don't forget, I also enjoy calling people liars since it makes me feel better about my tiny, useless penis.
shorter lambert |
07.11.09 - 11:05 am | #
Seriously, the weirdest part of all of this extremely weird story from an extremely weird person, is that Brooks told that story like it was a normal sort of thing to share.
Maybe in his deviant world ...
Troutski, HFM |
07.11.09 - 11:06 am | #
"Don't forget, I also enjoy calling people liars since it makes me feel better about my tiny, useless penis.
shorter lambert "
I think I scared him away when I told him he was lying about his location.
Anyways, next time we'll just ask him to go ahead and throw it out on the table so we can get past the foolishness.
PeasantParty,MADEINUSA |
07.11.09 - 11:07 am | #
Of course, in my state they are all worried about stimulating themselves instead of our economy! Just ask the gov and L.F. Graham!
Well, think about how many times Bobo had to hear Tucker Carlson's, "I was propositioned in a john by a queer and got so miffed I had someone else gay-bash him" story?
plantsman, mad google skillz |
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07.11.09 - 11:09 am | #
OK off to get some work done then to lunch for my usual weekend smoked fish platter - lox, smoked mackerel, whitefish salad with a bagel, rye bread and a little green salad on the side. Oh and some local beers.
At least Atrios won't be there this week glomin' free beers.
And climate change could move much faster than cork oaks can spread northward trying to outrun it.
plantsman, mad google skillz | Homepage | 07.11.09 - 10:53 am |
I'm trying to figure out how far north I need to move.
Here's the happy, uplifting report on Illinois turning into East Texas, weather-wise.
I wonder how Judith Fucking Miller is taking the Bobo ThighMaster news? She would never have allowed it I'm sure, what with all the journamalism & integrity at stake.
Phil Gramm |
07.11.09 - 11:09 am | #
I have only had one senator respond to me in 12 years. It was J. Spratt.
Well, Spratt *should* be a US Senator but alas is instead sometimes my favorite member of the US House of Representatives, SC fifth district.
A guy with whom I would totally trust my money because he understands it well.
-
QuentinCompson, Retributionary |
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07.11.09 - 11:10 am | #
OT but I think Barack could sharpen the debate on health care by issuing a signing statement that suspends government provided health care for all of our elected officials.
Let the market operate efficiently.
Shared Humanity |
07.11.09 - 11:11 am | #
"what with all the journamalism & integrity at stake.
Phil Gramm"
Ohhhh! That's what Chuck Todd was up to! He is trying out for Access Hollywood!
PeasantParty,MADEINUSA |
07.11.09 - 11:11 am | #
The Beltway Bubble has turned into Caligula's Rome. This kind of thing is perfectly normal to Brooks. That's why the DC types are always so stunned that their perversions shock the outside world.
Gummo |
07.11.09 - 11:11 am | #
"A guy with whom I would totally trust my money because he understands it well.
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QuentinCompson, Retributionary "
Good for you. I wish he understood my situation better. We need jobs and bridge repairs done in my area. Serious work to be done here.
PeasantParty,MADEINUSA |
07.11.09 - 11:13 am | #
Caligula's Rome? Um, closeted gay men have been cruising like this for much longer than that.
plantsman, mad google skillz |
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07.11.09 - 11:14 am | #
I would presume that was the impression Brooks wished to give.
GWPDA yclept Damaged Historian |
07.11.09 - 11:14 am | #
deep thought: tobes is always calling the current prez a marxist so it's been a while and I looked it up. marxism is about creating a classless society and it could be argued that is gwb jr's legacy - a lot of classless americans - tobes tops the list
bush is from the stalinist branch
Obama the Lennon branch not to be confused with lenin
msm is full o' shit |
07.11.09 - 11:14 am | #
Brooks is very effeminate. Just sayin'.
fred |
07.11.09 - 11:15 am | #
GWPDA! What's up with the kumquat?
plantsman, mad google skillz |
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07.11.09 - 11:15 am | #
I must say that nothing I have read here or anywhere else provides me with a satisfying explanation for why Bobo would cut loose and admit to a thing like that.
slartibartfast |
07.11.09 - 11:16 am | #
OT but I think Barack could sharpen the debate on health care by issuing a signing statement that suspends government provided health care for all of our elected officials.
Exactly right. How bad again is that Gov't Healthcare system? The whole 'debate' makes SS look like a stroll in paradise.
Phil Gramm |
07.11.09 - 11:16 am | #
My guess is Strom Thurmond. He was both senile and uncontrollably randy. I could see him mistaking Brooks for a 20-year-old female intern.
R. McGeddon |
07.11.09 - 11:16 am | #
Caligula's Rome? Um, closeted gay men have been cruising like this for much longer than that.
plantsman, mad google skillz
But it's so much more than that.
You have Congressmen boasting of sex with farm animals. You have guys with wives, mistresses, girlfriends, every combo of the 3; you have Diaper Dave and Taptap Craig.
It's a place where conventional rules of conduct don't apply anymore.
Gummo |
07.11.09 - 11:17 am | #
I'll give you one hour to stop.
Comrade NSA |
07.11.09 - 11:17 am | #
OT but I think Barack could sharpen the debate on health care by issuing a signing statement that suspends government provided health care for all of our elected officials.
Except for those who support such an option for all citizens.
rootless-e, appikouros |
07.11.09 - 11:17 am | #
Hell, the SC even made a chimp emperor!
Gummo |
07.11.09 - 11:18 am | #
Depends upon what color dress Brooks was wearing at the time.
Comrade NSA |
07.11.09 - 11:18 am | #
Seriously, the weirdest part of all of this extremely weird story from an extremely weird person, is that Brooks told that story like it was a normal sort of thing to share.
That's what struck me. I think the response of the others took him off guard - "you mean you don't get felt up by Senators all the time?"
Anonymous |
07.11.09 - 11:18 am | #
A chimp would have been better than Dumbya.
plantsman, mad google skillz |
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07.11.09 - 11:18 am | #
...It just makes him look so weak and pusillanimous. I really wonder how this will play out for him.
slartibartfast |
07.11.09 - 11:18 am | #
I must say that nothing I have read here or anywhere else provides me with a satisfying explanation for why Bobo would cut loose and admit to a thing like that.
slartibartfast | 07.11.09 - 11:16 am | #
My guess: Ambien.
rootless-e, appikouros |
07.11.09 - 11:19 am | #
Hell, the SC even made a chimp emperor!
Gummo | 07.11.09 - 11:18 am
Which tops Caligula, who made a horse a senator.
R. McGeddon |
07.11.09 - 11:19 am | #
.My guess: Ambien.
rootless-e, appikouros
...or maybe too much Zoloft, or both, even.
slartibartfast |
07.11.09 - 11:20 am | #
Too bad Gail Collins has to pretend to be Bobo's friend since she "works" with him at the NYT -- she could write a great column off of this.
plantsman, mad google skillz |
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07.11.09 - 11:20 am | #
Which tops Caligula, who made a horse a senator.
R. McGeddon
Here's the happy, uplifting report on Illinois turning into East Texas, weather-wise.
I've lived in the Chicago area for 40 years. I consider myself fairly informed about plants. ( I am no plantsman) My yard has always reflected this expertise. I see the effects of warming everywhere in Chicago.
Over the past decade, my forsythia have bloomed in January at least 5 times. Plants that use to thrive are struggling. I am about to plant a tree in my front yard and have spent a lot of time trying to figure out what to plant. 40 years from now what kind of tree will thrive?
Shared Humanity |
07.11.09 - 11:21 am | #
The Beltway Bubble has turned into Caligula's Rome. This kind of thing is perfectly normal to Brooks. That's why the DC types are always so stunned that their perversions shock the outside world.
"The members and residents at the "C Street Family" home and spiritual warrior center forgive each other all sins, because they believe themselves supermen. They are the Leopold and Loebs of modern evangelical fanaticism, which absolves individuals who believe that they have been absolved by God from responsibility for their behavior.
In fact, they even consider that they suffer for their sins because they are attacked for simply living the life without limits that God allows them in turn for their "enlightened-divine" leadership of "strength and conviction.""
billy b |
07.11.09 - 11:21 am | #
Damn Yeller Bar!
plantsman, mad google skillz |
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07.11.09 - 11:21 am | #
Ever hear of The C Street Family?
billy b
I'd heard of'em, but not that stuff.
Jebus on a cracker.
It's official: We're being ruled by madmen.
Gummo |
07.11.09 - 11:22 am | #
My guess: Ambien.
I've only read the transcript, but wasn't O'Donnel asking Bobo if he'd been drinking before the interview? Or maybe he meant before the dinner. One of those.
Phil Gramm |
07.11.09 - 11:22 am | #
Brooks is very effeminate. Just sayin'.
fred | 07.11.09 - 11:15 am | #
I don't really give a crap about that. What does cheese me off is that he's one of my co-religionists and he desperately wants to be Episcopalian. It's fricking embarassing.
Earth to Dave: You're Jewish. Deal with it.
steve simels |
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07.11.09 - 11:23 am | #
Was the Senator a member of the I Felta Thi fraternity?
(I Know, i know. That joke's older than I am.)
Chris Tucker: GOP Delenda Est! |
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07.11.09 - 11:23 am | #
That was my first reaction when my wife pointed out the story to me.
billy b |
07.11.09 - 11:24 am | #
SH, something with a wide range of zonal adaptation that will barely make it through one of your winters now, would by my suggestion.
plantsman, mad google skillz |
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07.11.09 - 11:24 am | #
Delta's uniforms have union seeing red.
In navy blue, the Delta Air Lines female flight attendants' uniform dresses go up to size 28.
But in the attention-getting signature red, the uniform dresses by designer Richard Tyler are available only up to a size 18.
That doesn't sit well with the flight attendants' union at Northwest Airlines, which filed a grievance in May.
fred |
07.11.09 - 11:24 am | #
I don't really give a crap about that. What does cheese me off is that he's one of my co-religionists and he desperately wants to be Episcopalian. It's fricking embarassing.
Earth to Dave: You're Jewish. Deal with it.
steve simels
Better yet, convert.
We have enough problems.
Gummo |
07.11.09 - 11:24 am | #
David Brooks is a Sumerian too?
trifecta |
07.11.09 - 11:25 am | #
A self-respectin gay man would have had the guts to firmly thwart the senator's pass if it was unwelcome and never to talk about it if it was welcome. This just makes him look like a squealing toady punk.
slartibartfast |
07.11.09 - 11:25 am | #
BROOKS: I can only imagine what happens to you guys.
??? Like, you let YOUR Senator feel your leg all night, so these other guys must have...what? Dived under the tablecloth?
Actually, I get the feeling--pun intended--that Bobo's trying to send a little massage to his Senator Thighman. I mean, did this necessarily happen 10 years ago? Might it not have been last week?
Either that, or he had a snootfull...
Meanie-meanie, tickle a person |
07.11.09 - 11:25 am | #
DiFi is what you get when a nice Jewish girl goes to Catholic Schools.
plantsman, mad google skillz |
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07.11.09 - 11:26 am | #
It's official: We're being ruled by madmen.
Gummo | 07.11.09 - 11:22 am | #
Oooh yeah.
Seriously, despite Rachel and Keith giving it play, the mainstream media won't touch that story with a barge pole, precisely because it's the big Emperor's New Clothes moment, and they can't have that.
This one has to be flogged over and over and over and over and over.
Until it scares the living shit out of everybody....
steve simels |
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07.11.09 - 11:27 am | #
How could a size 28 anything make it down the skinny aisle of a 757?
plantsman, mad google skillz |
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07.11.09 - 11:27 am | #
...do you suppose then that all the Villagers will just ignore this like a ripper fart in an elevator, and Bobo will just go on as before, as if he had never said it?
slartibartfast |
07.11.09 - 11:28 am | #
What does cheese me off is that he's one of my co-religionists and he desperately wants to be Episcopalian.
He should cut to the chase and just sign up with that 'C Street Family' thang. They're making their own weather over there.......
Phil Gramm |
07.11.09 - 11:28 am | #
It's official: We're being ruled by madmen.
Gummo | 07.11.09 - 11:22 am | #
The final death throes of the Republic.
Long live the empire!
Shared Humanity |
07.11.09 - 11:29 am | #
I think it has too many views and comments at HuffPo for that now, slartibf.
plantsman, mad google skillz |
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07.11.09 - 11:29 am | #
Damn Yeller Bar!
What yellow bar> Aint seen that in weeks.
Firefox, "aint" is a word. You can look it up...
Meanie-meanie, tickle a person |
07.11.09 - 11:30 am | #
How could a size 28 anything make it down the skinny aisle of a 757?
plantsman, mad google skillz
I saw that article. I didn't even know they had a size 28.
MP |
07.11.09 - 11:30 am | #
Re: Global warming. Goodbye to Smokey Mountains NP...
A place of amazing bio-diversity. Flora and fauna that managed to outrun the last ice age.
GeorgeM |
07.11.09 - 11:31 am | #
In fact, they even consider that they suffer for their sins because they are attacked for simply living the life without limits that God allows them in turn for their "enlightened-divine" leadership of "strength and conviction.""
billy b
Last night Rachel played a creepy video of the founder giving a sermon about how true followers were supposed to be like the Red Guard and Hitler.
JT |
07.11.09 - 11:31 am | #
I still see it in Firefox 3.5 on a Mac, but it doesn't work half the time. Ain't has an apostrophe.
plantsman, mad google skillz |
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07.11.09 - 11:31 am | #
GWPDA! What's up with the kumquat?
Gone.... Too much for it, puir thing. Going to be 116 today, but the last week was over 105 and it just didn't have the strength. Today I've got to go get a stand in order to set up a big umbrella to shade the new grapefruit - it's more than alive, but is being scorched. The things we have to do in this town!
GWPDA yclept Damaged Historian |
07.11.09 - 11:32 am | #
Earth to Dave: You're Jewish. Deal with it.
steve simels
Yeah, I heard him on NPR yesterday praising John Calvin as the creator of capitalism and the idea that Americans are good people because they follow god's will.
cosmic tumbler |
07.11.09 - 11:34 am | #
I was afraid it couldn't take the transplant after that much root and top damage at this time of year.
plantsman, mad google skillz |
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07.11.09 - 11:34 am | #
Morning every one. What a bee-ut-ti-ful day! I just saw this lead-in on MSN.com:
Paula Deen's bacon-wrapped, grilled corn
Isn't America a great country?
dmark |
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07.11.09 - 11:34 am | #
David Brooks is a Sumerian too?
trifecta
A Sumerian would have whipped out his sword, and split Senator Sweetfingers from crown to crotch...
Meanie-meanie, tickle a person |
07.11.09 - 11:34 am | #
I was born in the south an had a strong Southern accent, which I ditched as soon as I could when we moved to Arizona; but the older I get the less I can stand Southern Accents.
plantsman, mad google skillz |
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07.11.09 - 11:37 am | #
There are "elegant" accents and there are "ignorant" accents from various regions, eh?
shrimplate |
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07.11.09 - 11:38 am | #
Accents are interesting. The Mainers' "heeah" and "theyah" can also be found in the Virginia Tidewater region.
MP |
07.11.09 - 11:40 am | #
think it has too many views and comments at HuffPo for that now, slartibf.
plantsman, mad google skillz
Is the Huffpo in the Village now? I thought they were still ignoring it.
slartibartfast |
07.11.09 - 11:40 am | #
It isn't the accent, it's the words spoken.
Shared Humanity |
07.11.09 - 11:40 am | #
I sat next to a Republican senator once at dinner and he had his hand on my inner thigh the whole time. I was like, ehh, get me out of here.
"Dear Washington Post Forum: I never thought something like this would happen to be, but..."
Dr. Wu |
07.11.09 - 11:40 am | #
Strong southern dialects are really dissapearing.
When I lived in Louisiana, the heavy cajun dialect was basically gone in those under 40. It's just all about done for those under 25.
Same here in North Carolina. It's honestly the product of cable tv. The bland midwestern dialect has infected the country.
trifecta |
07.11.09 - 11:40 am | #
There are -- but when I hear Liddy Dole or Paula Deen I think "big time phony"; when I hear Jeff Sessions I think "big-time racist cracker."
plantsman, mad google skillz |
Homepage |
07.11.09 - 11:40 am | #
Paula Deen's accent grates on me to no end.
dmark |
Homepage |
07.11.09 - 11:41 am | #
I wonder how many generations it took to lose the British accent most colonists arrived here with.
MP |
07.11.09 - 11:41 am | #
Bobo will try to play with his TV and print friends, but Jon Stewart will have his ass over this.
plantsman, mad google skillz |
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07.11.09 - 11:42 am | #
I have heard that the Boston dialect of present is actually more similar to an English dialect from colonial times than modern UK English.
trifecta |
07.11.09 - 11:43 am | #
"Hey Y'all, Eat Smithfield Pork!"
plantsman, mad google skillz |
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07.11.09 - 11:43 am | #
Yeah, I heard him on NPR yesterday praising John Calvin as the creator
of capitalism and the idea that Americans are good people because they
follow god's will.
Which is something only a non-Calvinist would say. Whether 'Americans are good people' has absolutely nothing to do with G_d's will. We cannot know G_d's will. And we're all damned anyway, probably. Now me, I find this comforting.
GWPDA yclept Damaged Historian |
07.11.09 - 11:43 am | #
I can say some pretty ignorant things in a softspoken midwestern voice.
Deserved or not, the biggest political thorn in Sonia Sotomayor's side has been one Frank Ricci of New Haven, CT. Ricci is a firefighter who sued the city claiming reverse discrimination in 2003 after officials there discarded the results of a firefighter's promotion test after the test was revealed to have a disparate impact on blacks and Hispanics.
But flash back, if you will, to January 25, 1995, when, according to the Hartford Courant Ricci was singing the opposite tune: "A decorated firefighter has filed a lawsuit against the city, saying he was not hired because he is dyslexic."
Brooklyn Girl, shady dame |
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07.11.09 - 11:44 am | #
Strong southern dialects are really dissapearing.
Outside of a few urban pockets of Ebonics, the Deep Deliverance zones, and maybe the Cajuns, there really aren't any dialects of American English. And even those examples are mostly intelligible to standard English speakers. German and English in the British Isles have far more diversity in the way of dialects.
slartibartfast |
07.11.09 - 11:45 am | #
I admire your restraint, John. Heaven forefend that something rude be said on this wonderfully civil blog.
But the incident does say something about Gooper's utter lack of taste. Bobo's thigh? Eewwwww.
bo, apostate |
07.11.09 - 11:45 am | #
but the older I get the less I can stand Southern Accents.
I have a southern accent -- mainly comes out on certain words, like river/rivah.
Toonscribe: domestic shorthair |
07.11.09 - 11:45 am | #
I live in southeastern Virginia, and "y'all" is all but gone here.
Do people still say "you'uns" in Pennsylvania?
MP |
07.11.09 - 11:45 am | #
...Damn, Blogger/Haloscan seems afflicted with suckitude this morning. Did Atrios take half the hamsters on vacation with him or something?
slartibartfast |
07.11.09 - 11:46 am | #
Do people still say "you'uns" in Pennsylvania?
MP
If your over 75.
cosmic tumbler |
07.11.09 - 11:46 am | #
Let me try my question from last night again, as that seemed a fairly ignorant and trollish crowd, unlike today:
Let me suggest a couple of things that we all know, deep in our hearts, are true:
1) There's not going to be any real health care reform. Sorry, but sick people are just too valuable.
2) The government isn't going to do anything real about climate change. Civilization will collapse or at the least suffer dearly with hundreds of millions dead.
Mike |
07.11.09 - 11:46 am | #
I think it's totally inappropriate of Sessions to bring Ricci to Sotomayor's confirmation hearings -- one of the SCOTUS justices might have been apt, but not Ricci.
plantsman, mad google skillz |
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07.11.09 - 11:47 am | #
Accents are interesting. The Mainers' "heeah" and "theyah" can also be found in the Virginia Tidewater region.
MP |
I don't remember where I read this, but aren't there some islands off the east coast, maybe the Carolinas, where the accent is still almost 18th century?
Meanie-meanie, tickle a person |
07.11.09 - 11:47 am | #
Do people still say "you'uns" in Pennsylvania?
I knew a young woman from East Tennessee who said that. Really got on my nerves.
Toonscribe: domestic shorthair |
07.11.09 - 11:47 am | #
Do people still say "you'uns" in Pennsylvania? - MP
The yaller snow? That's ur'rins.
bo, apostate |
07.11.09 - 11:47 am | #
I have a southern accent -- mainly comes out on certain words, like river/rivah.
South Boston?
Phil Gramm |
07.11.09 - 11:47 am | #
Make that "you're".
cosmic tumbler |
07.11.09 - 11:48 am | #
HaloScan has been devolving for a few days, which always happens when "Internal Server Errors" start cropping up.
plantsman, mad google skillz |
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07.11.09 - 11:48 am | #
I don't remember where I read this, but aren't there some islands off the east coast, maybe the Carolinas, where the accent is still almost 18th century?
Meanie-meanie, tickle a person
I think that the most well-bred of Southern accents actually bears a more than passing resemblance to speech one might hear in England.
slartibartfast |
07.11.09 - 11:49 am | #
I've read that regional accents are getting stronger, not weaker. That's certainly my experience as well.
Moe Szyslak |
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07.11.09 - 11:49 am | #
I live in southeastern Virginia, and "y'all" is all but gone here.
Do people still say "you'uns" in Pennsylvania?
MP | 07.11.09 - 11:45 am | #
I have a friend who grew up in western New Jersey who uses "y'all".
Drives me crazy. It sounds really phony coming from her.
Brooklyn Girl, shady dame |
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07.11.09 - 11:49 am | #
Haloscan is screwed up again. I'm going to go out and play in my garden.
cosmic tumbler |
07.11.09 - 11:49 am | #
I wonder how many generations it took to lose the British accent most colonists arrived here with.
MP | 07.11.09 - 11:41 am | #
I don't know if this is true or not, but I have heard that the accent we think of as Brooklynese -- toity toid and toid -- is actually a remant of a British dialect.
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07.11.09 - 11:49 am | #
There's an island off the Delmarva coast of Virginia that appears in a Patricia Cornwell novel that's like that.
plantsman, mad google skillz |
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07.11.09 - 11:50 am | #
The Islands off NC, comprising the Outer Banks, don't have so much of a Southern accent, IIRC. Lots of people living there came from someplace else.
slartibartfast |
07.11.09 - 11:50 am | #
"A decorated firefighter has filed a lawsuit against the city, saying he was not hired because he is dyslexic."
Brooklyn Girl, shady dame
I'm looking forward to one of the Dems acting affirmatively on his ass over that...
Meanie-meanie, tickle a person |
07.11.09 - 11:50 am | #
I don't know if this is true or not, but I have heard that the accent we think of as Brooklynese -- toity toid and toid -- is actually a remant of a British dialect.
steve simels | Homepage | 07.11.09 - 11:49 am | #
I think of that as Da Bronx, actually ...
Brooklyn Girl, shady dame |
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07.11.09 - 11:50 am | #
"I think it's totally inappropriate of Sessions to bring Ricci to Sotomayor's confirmation hearings "
I hope Franken brings up Ricci's "dyslexia" suit.
Nothing like serving notice on the fucktards that SOMEONE is on to their little game.
Chris Tucker: GOP Delenda Est! |
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07.11.09 - 11:50 am | #
Moe, I just know born and raised natives of the rural mountains of North Carolina who would fit in fine in California.
But, then again, 20 miles west out of Asheville, people out of town have thick country dialects who are even as young as in their 30's.
trifecta |
07.11.09 - 11:51 am | #
There's an island off the Delmarva coast of Virginia that appears in a Patricia Cornwell novel that's like that.
plantsman, mad google skillz
If it's one of her older ones, that might be where I read it.
Meanie-meanie, tickle a person |
07.11.09 - 11:51 am | #
My uncle, who's a professor emeritus at UNC Chapel Hill has a very cultivated English-y Southern Accent.
plantsman, mad google skillz |
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07.11.09 - 11:52 am | #
The thought of someone sexually desiring David Brooks repels me more than I can say.
David Ehrenstein |
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07.11.09 - 11:52 am | #
I think that the most well-bred of Southern accents actually bears a more than passing resemblance to speech one might hear in England.
slartibartfast
It's weird. I've been watching some 40's and 50's movies, and many of the actors share a sort of "finishing school" lilt to their speech.
MP |
07.11.09 - 11:52 am | #
On my out I noticed that there is a fresh Atrios thread above.
cosmic tumbler |
07.11.09 - 11:52 am | #
I live in southeastern Virginia, and "y'all" is all but gone here.
Do people still say "you'uns" in Pennsylvania?
MP
Still alive and well in Texas, along with "Howdy!" and "Fixin' to get around to it," a favorite of Baptists preachers who love to hand out wooden "round to its."
You can imagine the shape yourself.
Rmj, Love Stupid Theologist |
07.11.09 - 11:52 am | #
I hear tons of 20-somethings who all talk like Valley Girls ... all their sentences go up at the end. Even the smart ones sound really stupid.
Brooklyn Girl, shady dame |
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07.11.09 - 11:52 am | #
South Boston? - Phil Gramm
Heh. When I was in the CG and stationed on Long Island, let myself be lead astray by the fact that one of the other guys wore cowboy boots with his civies. After about 4 months, I realized that the accent was Basstan, not somewhere South.
bo, apostate |
07.11.09 - 11:52 am | #
The thought of someone sexually desiring David Brooks repels me more than I can say.
David Ehrenstein | Homepage | 07.11.09 - 11:52 am | #
Well it was a Senator, so more of a "something" than a "someone".
rootless-e, appikouros |
07.11.09 - 11:53 am | #
"Chowda! Say it, Frenchy! CHOWDA!"
Chris Tucker: GOP Delenda Est! |
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07.11.09 - 11:53 am | #
The Islands off NC, comprising the Outer Banks, don't have so much of a Southern accent, IIRC. Lots of people living there came from someplace else.
slartibartfast
Some claim the locals say "Hattras" and not "Hatteras".
MP |
07.11.09 - 11:54 am | #
People fall into and outta accents. I know when I visit my family back in Virginia, I pick up that southern drawl. I suspect people have one house accent, one professional accent, as it were.
It'd be a sad thing, to lose regionalisms and local accents, imo.
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07.11.09 - 11:54 am | #
toity toid and toid
Latin Louie's Lovely Little Liquor Locker!
Meanie-meanie, tickle a person |
07.11.09 - 11:54 am | #
South Boston?
Middle Tennessee.
Interesting. Similar to river/rivah up heah, would be:
Car = cah
Bizarre = bizzahh
Shorts = shots
All the missing/misplaced R's
Drawing = drawring
I was in Philly for a decade or so, and lost some, but you never totally lose it. Good or bad.
Phil Gramm |
07.11.09 - 11:54 am | #
I have never heard an American who wasn't somehow debilitated speak English that I did not find at least mostly intelligible. I can definitely not say that of all British speakers of English. In German, it's even more so. I can hardly understand a word of my mother's indigenous Austrian dialect, to say nothing of whatever strange language the Swiss speak and call German.
slartibartfast |
07.11.09 - 11:54 am | #
I think that the most well-bred of Southern accents actually bears a more than passing resemblance to speech one might hear in England.
slartibartfast
It's weird. I've been watching some 40's and 50's movies, and many of the actors share a sort of "finishing school" lilt to their speech.
MP
All accents in the South can be traced to the British Isles.
This is neither accident nor affectation. There were isolated groups in the Appalachians still speaking Elizabethan English, at one time.
Rmj, Love Stupid Theologist |
07.11.09 - 11:54 am | #
You can imagine the shape yourself.
Rmj, Love Stupid Theologist | 07.11.09 - 11:52 am | #
when i lived there, rural and semi-rural arkansans used to use "lord willing" as an all purpose qualifier.
"Driving home?"
"Lord willin'"
"See you tomorrow?"
"Lord willin'"
rootless-e, appikouros |
07.11.09 - 11:55 am | #
People fall into and outta accents. I know when I visit my family back in Virginia
Northern Virginia is probably not a representative sample for southern accents, because so many folks from all over the place mover there to work in DC.
MP |
07.11.09 - 11:56 am | #
"See you tomorrow?"
"Lord willin'"
rootless-e, appikouros
We prefer to be a bit more florid: "Good Lord willin' 'n' the creeks don't rise!"
Rmj, Love Stupid Theologist |
07.11.09 - 11:56 am | #
The thought of someone sexually desiring David Brooks repels me more than I can say.
Bobo was mesmerized because the repuke Senator kept saying, "You naughty, naughty, bad, bad boy."
JT |
07.11.09 - 11:57 am | #
Brooks wanted to stand up and complain right then and there but he couldn't stand up in front of everyone with that raging hardon in his pants...
The Fool |
07.11.09 - 11:58 am | #
Senator Inhofe can, after all, be very seductive.
ok, now I grossed myself out.
rootless-e, appikouros |
07.11.09 - 11:58 am | #
I hear tons of 20-somethings who all talk like Valley Girls ... all their sentences go up at the end. Even the smart ones sound really stupid. - Brooklyn Girl
Tewnty-somethings? It's endemic amongst the Thirtiers of Silicon Valley male and female.
Even people our age are picking it up.
bo, apostate |
07.11.09 - 11:58 am | #
Northern Virginia is probably not a representative sample for southern accents
I grew up in Norfolk. I had a very thick accent as a kid, and re-acquire it when visiting.
Moe Szyslak |
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07.11.09 - 11:59 am | #
What was that line JFK had for DC? Something about Northern charm and Southern efficiency?
MP |
07.11.09 - 11:59 am | #
Even people our age are picking it up.
bo, apostate
Fer sure?
Rmj, Love Stupid Theologist |
07.11.09 - 11:59 am | #
I think of that as Da Bronx, actually ...
Brooklyn Girl, shady dame | Homepage | 07.11.09 - 11:50 am | #
Well, New York City, in any case.
Or Bugs Bunny.
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07.11.09 - 11:59 am | #
...Even I wouldn't accuse Bobo of being turned on by some withered, superannuated senator. I'm sure he dreams of strapping young football players, maybe several at a time.
slartibartfast |
07.11.09 - 11:59 am | #
I grew up in Norfolk. I had a very thick accent as a kid, and re-acquire it when visiting.
Moe Szyslak
I live in Va Beach. Just the pronunciation of Norfolk says something about where you are from.
MP |
07.11.09 - 12:00 pm | #
...Even I wouldn't accuse Bobo of being turned on by some withered, superannuated senator. I'm sure he dreams of strapping young football players, maybe several at a time.
slartibartfast
Not that there's anything wrong with that!
Rmj, Love Stupid Theologist |
07.11.09 - 12:00 pm | #
Having a SCOTUS justice testify would not be apt. They are her colleagues-in-waiting; it would be inappropriate for one of them to testify in her favor, and especially inappropriate if one would testify against her.
DJ |
07.11.09 - 12:00 pm | #
Even people our age are picking it up.
bo, apostate | 07.11.09 - 11:58 am | #
I was meeting someone in the valley a couple of years ago and realized that I was starting to speak like that? You know? And, like? I had, um? Unconsciously started talking like him? It was a strange? experience? You know?
rootless-e, appikouros |
07.11.09 - 12:01 pm | #
Close. Definitely the "fuck" part-- which embarrasses visitors to no end.
Moe Szyslak |
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07.11.09 - 12:01 pm | #
We prefer to be a bit more florid: "Good Lord willin' 'n' the creeks don't rise!"
Rmj, Love Stupid Theologist
That saying has always kinda bugged me. I mean, if the Good Lord is willin' that creek won't rise, if it knows what's good for it...
Meanie-meanie, tickle a person |
07.11.09 - 12:03 pm | #
That saying has always kinda bugged me. I mean, if the Good Lord is willin' that creek won't rise, if it knows what's good for it...
Meanie-meanie, tickle a person
We like to cover our bases.
Rmj, Love Stupid Theologist |
07.11.09 - 12:04 pm | #
I'd say it's more Nahfik.
MP |
07.11.09 - 12:06 pm | #
I was meeting someone in the valley a couple of years ago and realized that I was starting to speak like that? You know? And, like? I had, um? Unconsciously started talking like him? It was a strange? experience? You know? - rootless-e
Cornelia Otis Skinner wrote an essay called "The Ape In Me" about her habit of picking up other people's accents. That was back in the day when "to ape" could mean "to imitate". If anyone picks it up to read it now, it's probably someone who expects it to be beastiality porn.
bo, apostate |
07.11.09 - 12:06 pm | #
Cornelia Otis Skinner wrote an essay called "The Ape In Me" about her habit of picking up other people's accents. That was back in the day when "to ape" could mean "to imitate". If anyone picks it up to read it now, it's probably someone who expects it to be beastiality porn.
bo, apostate
Rmj, Love Stupid Theologist |
07.11.09 - 12:08 pm | #
Stupid tags.
Cornelia Otis Skinner wrote an essay called "The Ape In Me" about her habit of picking up other people's accents. That was back in the day when "to ape" could mean "to imitate". If anyone picks it up to read it now, it's probably someone who expects it to be beastiality porn.
bo, apostate
My daughter had a dead-on British accent for a while, picked up from listening to a British actress on a Peter Rabbit video she loved. Very RP.
Completely gone, now. Destroyed by exposure to Texas twang and southern drawl.
Rmj, Love Stupid Theologist |
07.11.09 - 12:08 pm | #
true followers were supposed to be like the Red Guard and Hitler
We must not allow an obeisance gap! /xtianistas
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QuentinCompson, Retributionary |
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07.11.09 - 12:26 pm | #
i dont get that brooks story either. Why would he let that Senator keep his hand there the WHOLE meal?
I think Brooks liked it. There I said it.
Chris from Maine |
07.11.09 - 12:54 pm | #
So David's full, pouty lips didn't rebuke the rampant Senator???
The shameless flirt must have been gooey with Mitch drool...
Rob Mule |
07.11.09 - 3:28 pm | #
"NTodd,"
"Yep. Of course, in my state they are all worried about stimulating themselves instead of our economy! Just ask the gov and L.F. Graham!"
PeasantParty,MADEINUSA
-The only thing Mark Sanford has done in the last 6 and a half years is get himself a mistress (but he outsourced the poontang).
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