* * * DUzy Awards: Week ending May 24, 2013 * * *

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[center] Welcome to the DUzy Awards . . .
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To nominate a post for a DUzy, simply reply to the post with "DUzy"
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[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=#800080] OP by bigtree

As feared, the scandals are taking a toll on the President

[font color=black] . . . sike!

tweeted by Jan Burch ‏@LiberallyJan 17m
Gallup: Obama Poll BOUNCE Since Fake Scandals http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/18/1210049/-Gallup-Obama-Poll-BOUNCE-Since-Fake-Scandals … via @dailykos


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[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=#800080] OP by trusty elf

"Most Americans hold their own umbrellas."



[font color=#FF0000] (Cropped and reduced for cell phones - much better picture at link!) [/font][/center]


[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=#800080] [center] OP by grasswire [/font]

Mitt Romney guest on Leno tonight

Which Mitt will show up?

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [center] [font color=#800080] Reply 1 by Enrique

[font color=black] is he the musical guest? [/font]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=w9v0Yf9wHlQ

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [center] [font color=#800080] Reply 4 by Initech

[font color=black] Oh please please let the Tonight Show band play "America The Beautiful" as his entrance music!

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[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [center] [font color=#800080] Reply 8 by Nye Bevan

[font color=black] My guess would be, the one who isn't President of the United States (nt) [/font] [/center]

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=black] On an OP by Cha:

A Right-Wing Mole at ABC News



Conservatives don’t just complain loudly, endlessly and inaccurately about liberal media bias. They also train right-leaning journalists to make their way into the supposedly hostile terrain of Beltway media. And one of the most famous alums of a conservative media training program is now a major star at a network news outlet: ABC’s senior political correspondent Jonathan Karl.

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by Ferretherder

[font color=black] 'Spell check' is your friend, friend...

...the last time I checked, TURD was spelled t-u-r-d, not m-o-l-e!

...other than that, great article.

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 36 by Doctor_J

[font color=black] Mole?

You think the All Bush Channel didn't know he was a right-winger?

they got caught

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=black] On an OP by nadinbrzezinski:

Could Wind Turbines Be Toxic To The Ear?

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 85 by pintobean

[font color=black] My fan made me impotent.

Who do I sue?





[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 98 by SidDithers

[font color=black] You're not supposed to stick your willy in it...



[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 143 by Brickbat

[font color=black] If you do, it could fly up to a mile.

Warn the neighbors.

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 125 by SidDithers

[font color=black] BLADLESS TURBINE MAKERS CLAIM TURBINES COULD PRODUCE MORE POWER WITH LESS PROBLEMS

http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/node/13250

Yes, that's the actual headline, copied directly from the East County Magazine.

Bladless.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 142 by backscatter712

[font color=black] Is that related to bladderless?

I didn't think wind turbines had bladders.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 150 by pintobean

[font color=black] It would give new meaning

to the term "pissing in the wind" if they did.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 159 by Generic Other

[font color=black] Here's Trump's reason for hating them



[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=#800080] OP by Buzz Clik

How many "Star" DUers currently have you on their ignore list?

[font color=black] I happened to be browsing through my various account settings and clicked My Profile, clicked the transparency tab, and then clicked the "Show me my Transparency page" link.

I was kind of amazed at the number of Star members who have me on full ignore. I realize that my manners on this board are generally lacking, so it makes sense that some people have decided to tune me out.

What's typical? How many do you have ignoring you?

Another question: can you tell when someone is ignoring you? Does the DU software give you any clues that you are about to respond to someone who will be incapable of seeing your response? [/font]

[font color=#FF0000] This was a funny thread with plenty of DUzy-worthy comments and pictures that I was much too lazy to pick out...

(Yes, it's true - 5 "star" members are currently ignoring The DUzy Awards!) [/font][/center]

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=black] On an OP by olddots:

do you post from the bathroom sometimes ?

be honest ......

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by winter is coming

[font color=black] No. My posts are shit for other reasons. n/t
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 5 by ohiosmith

[font color=black] No! The web stinks enough!


[center] [font color=#FF0000] Speaking of funny smells...

This next post on the web by ohiosmith was a tad fishy: [/font][/center]
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=#800080] OP by ohiosmith

Ever wonder why there are no dead penguins on the ice in Antarctica?

[font color=black]Where do they go? Wonder no more!!!

It is a known fact that the penguin is a very ritualistic bird which lives an extremely ordered and complex life. The penguin is very committed to its family and will mate for life, as well as maintain a form of compassionate contact with its offspring throughout its life.


If a penguin is found dead on the ice surface, other members of the family and social circle have been known to dig holes in the ice, using their vestigial wings and beaks, until the hole is deep enough for the dead bird to be rolled into, and buried.



The male penguins then gather in a circle around the fresh grave and in penguin language sing:
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Freeze a jolly good fellow!

Freeze a jolly good fellow!

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[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=black] On an OP by Humanist_Activist:

To the people asking why they don't have basements or tornado-proof...

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 17 by ErikJ

[font color=black] Make Tornado Alley a National Park. Give it back to the buffalo.

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 20 by n2doc

[font color=black] Um...


[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 21 by scarletwoman

[font color=black] Well, that'd be a heck of a lot of buffalo flying around...

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 20 by SoCalDem

[font color=black] Giving real meaning to ...... wait for it..... Buffalo wings



[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=black] On an OP by skip fox:

The two hands of God. Please come CAPTION Pat Robertson!!!



Pat, Messiah of the Mind, Robertson is saying: "It's clear that Super-Storm Sandy was the result of God's wrath due to Eastern liberals pushing an unholy agenda replete with gay marriage, flag burning, and support of terrorists. . . . But the tornado in Oklahoma yesterday was an example of God's gracious mercy since so few were killed, and that was due to Oklahoma's pro-Christian leanings. . . . God's ways are a wonder!"

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 4 by Mnemosyne

[font color=black] Pull my finger. nt
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 5 by demwing

[font color=black] Pull my finger!

Oops...too late!

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 7 by Phentex

[font color=black] Just as funny

as the first one I read!



[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 9 by Turbineguy

[font color=black] Verily I say unto thee

thou who art stupid enough to believeth in me art fucked. But send me some money anyway.

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 12 by Major Nikon

[font color=black] Robertson seen flashing "sign of the horns" to devil worshipping fans

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 14 by Bucky

[font color=black] God killed 285 people with Sandy. But the storm in Oklahoma killed only 24 (or 91).

The tipping point between God's Wrath and God's Mercy is some number between those two values. Officials are still estimating a final fatality count of 91, but the number of officially confirmed deaths has been downgraded from 51 to 24. We can represent the scientific measurement of God's Wrath/Mercy with the mathematical formula:

285 > WG > MG > ~ X | {24 < killed innocent people < 91}


Where "WG" represents those killed because god was capricious in this holy wrath and "MG" designates those innocents killied inadvertantly by God's storms attacks while He was showing how proud of us he was.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 16 by VOX

[font color=black] Dear Lord: Please, please help me recollect the phone number of my dominatrix.

I'm in need of some of Your precious discipline.

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=black] On an OP by Tansy_Gold:

STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Thursday, 23 May 2013



[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by Demeter

[font color=black] National Catastrophe Fund?

You mean the SuperPACs, don't you? They fund all our national catastrophes.

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=black] On an OP by DonViejo:

Rove says his super PAC is same as NAACP because it's for 'social welfare'

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 6 by Blue Owl

[font color=black] How about social warfare, more like

n/t
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 10 by Addison

[font color=black] He meant to say "socialite welfare" n/t

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=black] On an OP by DonViejo:

Boehner: Obama Administration Displaying 'Arrogance Of Power'

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 2 by Enrique

[font color=black] i.e. Obama beat him at golf


[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 3 by Cracklin Charlie

[font color=black] This is hard work...

You think it's easy trying to find new ways of saying "uppity" all the time? Boehner hardly has any time for tanning!


[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=black] On an OP by ProSense:

Peggy Noonan jumps the shark

Peggy Noonan jumps the shark

by Hunter

It seems more and more people are noticing that Peggy Noonan is losing her mind. Or rather, that she's making it a bit too obvious to shrug off anymore. The whole purpose of the Sunday shows, after all, is to showcase Important People who have lost their minds, an endless spring break of the soul in which a few dozen highly paid alcohol abusers all tell us to hold their gin and tonics and to watch this, America—then they do a nice swan dive from a third floor balcony into the shallowest end of the idea pool. Thwap.


The dog whistle quote came via NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday from Peggy Noonan, who can no longer be taken seriously as a writer or pundit. When host David Gregory pressed her on the lack of evidence for her claims that the IRS scandal was worse than Watergate, Noonan insisted that the president “was giving a dog whistle to people who could launch this thing.” The former Reagan-Bush speechwriter vividly summed up, in her thousand points of crazy style, where the IRS “scandal” went over the last few days: Obama didn’t need to order the tax agency to harass Tea Party groups (and his critics don’t need proof that he did so): his criticizing the group during the 2012 campaign, as well as blasting the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, represented an implicit order to do so.

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 12 by winter is coming

[font color=black] Noonan jumped the shark so long ago it's a megalodon. n/t
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 15 by mysuzuki2

[font color=black] Peggy jumped ths shark? What an understatement.

She has been in a low earth orbit around the shark for the last 40 years!

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=#800080] OP by cui bono [/font]

LOL! Trending on Twitter: #ConservativeBandNames

Some of these are really funny.

my FAV: benghaZZ top


Thought these were good too:

System of a trickle Down economics

LMFAO at Minorities

Guns 'n' Hoses

Simple Minds (didn't even have to change that one)

Moron 5

There's also #LiberalBandNames but a lot of those are just dumb and also confused about what is liberal, conservative, socialism, communism... you get the picture.

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[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=#800080] OP by Loup Garou [/font]

Get A Brain! Morans guy has a Twitter account



https://twitter.com/birdsonbats06

Josh "Randy" Sullivan is a Cardinals fan and the author of the wildly offensive and little-read Twitter feed Birds On Bats. But you might recognize him from this photograph, taken at an Iraq War counter-protest in 2004, which shortly thereafter became an internet sensation.

http://www.baseballnation.com/2011/7/17/2279239/get-a-brain-morans

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [center] [font color=#800080] Reply 17 by cui bono

[font color=black] OMGZ! "After some prodding, he agreed to an interview on the condition that I buy him

two KFC Famous Bowls™."



Wow. Doesn't get much better than that! Hahaha...
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [center] [font color=#800080] Reply 2 by NYC_SKP

[font color=black] LOL, he want's to "sue somebody":

from the baseball nation article link in the OP:

As I'm sure you know, the photograph of you at the --

-- I can't talk about that. I'm in the process of suing that photographer and a bunch of internet people, if I can find a lawyer who'll represent me. If anyone listening to this is a lawyer or an attorney, please contact my twitter so I can sue somebody.

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [center] [font color=#800080] Reply 11 by LeftofObama

[font color=black] LOL!

I was going to go dressed as him for Halloween one year. I had everything but the Cardinals T shirt and I didn't think the outfit would work without it.
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[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [center] [font color=#800080] Reply 22 by tanyev

[font color=black] I put that together for my husband one year!

We went to a DU Halloween get together in Dallas. Hubby was a saint to wear that get-up in public. I couldn't find the exact Cardinals tshirt, but got pretty close.


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[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=#800080] OP by ucrdem [/font]

Weiner handles himself expertly in YouTube released Tuesday night

[font color=black] Admitting that he has a hard road ahead and showing a firm resolve, former House Member Anthony Weiner announced his bid for Mayor of New York in a video released on You Tube Tuesday night. Weiner is trying to make a political comeback, two years after he resigned after posting raunchy pictures on Twitter. (May 22)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=FwDPBkdXDns

more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/22/anthony-weiner-2013-mayoral-race_n_3316704.html [/font]

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [center] [font color=#800080] Reply 3 by Nye Bevan

[font color=black] There's certainly a vas deferens between him and Mike Bloomberg (nt) [/font]
[font color=#FF0000] (ucrdem gets a perhaps unintentional DUzy, for the wording of the OP) [/font]


[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=black] On an OP by madokie:

Elephant stomps on a poacher who tried to shoot him

A few weeks ago, Noluck Tafuruka was arrested by police in Zimbabwe for possessing a rifle without a license. But he’s doing better than his partner, Solomon Manjoro. The two men allegedly snuck into Zimbabwe’s Charara National Park with the intention of bagging some valuable wild animals.

But one elephant that they tried to take down had had it up to here with poachers — and when you’re an elephant, “up to here” is pretty high. The elephant charged Manjoro and trampled him.

In recent years, poaching of elephants and rhinos in wildlife reserves in Africa has spiked dramatically, fueled largely by demand for their prized tusks and horns. Meanwhile, both conservationists and wildlife officers have struggled to protect these animals from hunters, a daunting task given the vast areas to be protected and the stealthiness of poachers who often enter the parks under cover of darkness.

Given the lack of human protection, the elephants are doing it for themselves.

http://grist.org/list/elephant-stomps-on-a-poacher-who-tried-to-shoot-him/

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by Scootaloo

[font color=black] The guy who got trampled is named "Noluck?"

Well... can't say you didn't see it coming, dude
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 2 by Bonobo

[font color=black] No, it was his partner that got trampled

Consequently he is changing his last name from "Noluck" to "Luckyfuck".
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 5 by Historic NY

[font color=black] Meanwhile the other guys' name is Sh-t out of Luck...

elephants never forget.

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=black] On an OP by East Coast Pirate:

Women Say God Told Them To Walk Down Road Naked

http://kplr11.com/2013/05/14/women-say-god-told-them-to-walk-down-road-naked/

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina —Drivers did double takes as a traffic jam began to form on Providence Road.

That’s because, in plain view, a family of four was strolling down the street —stark naked.

“Like freshly-born baby naked,” said Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Capt. Rod Farley, according to WCNC. “This was Adam and Eve stuff, not even a loincloth.”

Two women, described as being in their 20s and 40s, and two children, were eventually stopped by police.

They allegedly told officers, “the Lord told them to get naked and walk down the street.”

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by Javaman

[font color=black] confusing meth with god never really works out well. nt

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 2 by tanyev

[font color=black] That God. Such a prankster.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 3 by shenmue

[font color=black] I never heard anything like that...

and I go to church.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 8 by Orrex

[font color=black] They were naked and they were not ashamed.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 9 by marmar

[font color=black] I love the graphic at the link ..............


[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 13 by Demoiselle

[font color=black] This thread is useless without pictures.

(I've waited a long time to say that.)

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=black] On an OP by cynatnite:

NASA awards grant for 3-D food printer; could it end world hunger?

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 8 by naaman fletcher

[font color=black] I hope they go light on the carbs. nt
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 2 by warrior1

[font color=black] aahh the replicator


[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 14 by yodermon

[font color=black] tea, earl gray, hot n/t


[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=#800080] OP by Mr. David [/font]

Guess who's for background checks for guns and said NRA has it wrong?



Ted's sane brother.

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [center] [font color=#800080] Reply 1 by Mnemosyne

[font color=black] Is that Ted on the ground? He's such a bore. nt [/font]

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=#800080] OP by Lizzie Poppet [/font]

3D printed pitbull uses AR15 to prop open door for female bicyclist fleeing drone attack.

[font color=black] Did I miss anything...?

[center] [font color=#FF0000] DUzies Galore in this thread! [/font][/center]

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=#800080] Locked OP by WillyT

Oh... NOOOOO.... Calling SalmonChantedEvening... What Do We Do ???

[font color=black]The Latest Inexplicable Meme? Cat Bearding!
The Internet has spoken once again -- and it wants more cats!
By Courtney Thompson - ivillage
May 23, 2013

Considering Grumpy Cat just became the president of the Internet (well, sort of), it's clear that the world's demand for online felines is insatiable. Fat cats, sleeping cats, business cats, cats playing the piano, cats playing cards -- they all go viral, reeling in hundreds of thousands of page views, and even more importantly, lots of "oh my gaaawd!" and "awwwww!" reactions. Oh, and lots and lots of sharing, too.

It's hard to keep up with all the kitty content being churned out daily, but the latest meme to surface, cat bearding, is pretty amazing. The concept is simple: Photograph someone holding up a cat over their mouth, so that the cats furry under-mouth and neck are covering the person's mouth and neck -- thus creating a cat beard!

Here are our five favorites out there (so far):

Shocked Beard



Disinterested Beard



The Bald and the Beautiful Beard



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More: http://www.ivillage.com/latest-internet-meme-cat-bearding/7-a-537082





[font color=#FF0000] Lots more DUzies in this thread, including the locking comment: [/font]

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [center] Reply 39 by bettyellen

[font color=black] what to do? repost fun cat memes in the lounge.

sorry Willy T, but as newest host, I have been assigned kitty patrol. Locking.
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[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=#800080] OP by EarlG [/font] [font color=#FF0000]

(Who knew a Pic of the Moment could qualify for a DUzy?
Certainly not I !) [/font] [/font]

Pic Of The Moment: Michele Bachmann Details New GOP Plan To Repeal Affordable Care Act



Bachmann: God will 'answer our prayers' and repeal Obamacare with a 'miracle'

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [center] [font color=#800080] Reply 17 by Stonepounder

[font color=black] In other words....

it will take a miracle for the Republicans to repeal Obamacare. LOL [/font]

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=black] On an OP by Galraedia:

Gohmert IRS speech veers into rant about owls mating 'like crazy' on Kmart signs

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/23/gohmert-irs-speech-veers-into-rant-about-owls-mating-like-crazy-on-kmart-signs/

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by Chipper Chat

[font color=black] My life's goal has been

to see owls mating on a K-Mart sign.
Thanks, Louie. Now I know I'm not alone.

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 2 by riqster

[font color=black] I'm sure it would be a hoot.


[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 6 by pacalo

[font color=black] Louie gets another aspersion cast upon his asparagus...


[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 10 by Deep13

[font color=black] Glad someone is telling it like it is about those goddamned owls!


[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 27 by Plucketeer

[font color=black] Cryin' shame

that owls don't fancy Walmart signs. Those things are sprouting everywhere.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 15 by jtuck004

[font color=black] Every time I hear his name I think of this dog...




[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=black] On an OP by trumad:

Why do Bat Shit crazy people always look like Bat Shit crazy people?

Seriously--



[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by dixiegrrrrl

[font color=black] to warn sane people?

sorta like stripes on a skunk?
or bright colors on a poisonous frog?
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 12 by The Velveteen Ocelot

[font color=black] You can't. That's why so many of them get away with it for so long.


[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=black] On an OP by silverweb:

Earthquake in Sacramento?

Sitting here, minding my own business, and it sure felt like a roller -- about 5 seconds' worth.

Anybody else feel it?

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 58 by warrior1

[font color=black] We Will Rebuild



[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=black] On an OP by alp227:

Hmm Free Republic has been down at least the past 4 hours

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by XemaSab

[font color=black] Probably the earthquake knocked the hamster wheel off its tracks


[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 2 by octoberlib

[font color=black] Did you see this one?

[center] Bad news jimrob May 23, 2013 9:38 pm
Something is down on our front end. Can't reach it at all, not even with our maintenance system. John may have to drive up to the data center to fix. If so,...

'drive up to the data center" ? Jimrob is full of shit. I think he does this to bring in more donations.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 6 by A HERETIC I AM

[font color=black] I found it!

Behold, the Free Republic "Data Center"..


[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 8 by octoberlib

[font color=black] Bwahaha!

I wonder if they share that with Drudge.

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 10 by PD Turk

[font color=black] I don't doubt that

I don't doubt he can't reach something that is down on his front end.... I'm sure he hasn't even seen it in decades
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 16 by Warren DeMontague

[font color=black] "something is down on our front end"

Oh, lord, please. Please don't make it so easy.


[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 14 by sakabatou

[font color=black] The hamster died.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 19 by n2doc

[font color=black] yep


(it was just playing dead to get a raise in its food quota)
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [center] [font color=#800080] Reply 27 by Tommy_Carcetti

[font color=black] Damn socialist hamster. nt [/font]
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [center] [font color=#800080] Reply 15 by Fearless

[font color=black] It's back.

Like herpes it never really goes away. [/font]
[font color=#FF0000] (Ed. note: FreeRepublic went down on my birthday.
Coincidence? You decide...) [/font][/center]

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [center] [font color=#800080] OP by A HERETIC I AM

This is cool. Astronaut Chris Hadfield does a cover of "Space Oddity" by David Bowie from the ISS

The colonel is back on Earth now, but he did this in the last days of his time aboard the International Space Station.

Take 5 minutes and enjoy. It's really rather good;


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=KaOC9danxNo

'til next week!

[Curmudgeoness]

1. Thanks. I love to laugh.

You have renewed one of my favorite things about DU.

[Buzz Clik]

2. So much work! So very much appreciated!! Now about those cat beards:

My cat would NOT cooperate.

[hrmjustin]

5. I got 5 of them and they have a mind of their own.

[winter is coming]

8. Just two more and you can join the Cat Beard of the Day Club!! n/t

[winter is coming]

3. Five star members have The DUzy Awards on ignore??

I think we've just encountered a new definition for "can't take a joke".

[hootinholler]

14. I didn't know about the 5 star members

I thought we only got one.

[Voice for Peace]

36. how do you become a Five Star Member??

[winter is coming]

37. Your journal has to include premium cable channels and coin-operated massage beds. n/t

[sakabatou]

4. Yay! DUzys!

And i won one!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. You brought some laughter to me, and I badly needed it!

Thank you!

K&R

[Buzz Clik]

7. +1

I missed the DUzy awards during their absence.

When people know that injecting humor might get them recognized, they lighten up just a bit. DU will be a more fun place to be thanks to the DUzies!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. That is exactly right!

[UtahLib]

10. So much fun - a DUZY of a list. n/t

[BainsBane]

11. Happy Birthday, Flying Squirrel!

Thanks for another great collection of DUzies!

[tandot]

12. Hey ... I live in Sacramento AND I felt it

at first, though, I thought I shouldn't have had the last martini ...

[flamingdem]

13. Good ones.. Sacramento he he nt

[Demeter]

15. I can't believe it!

Haven't seen this thread in years, and here it is, with my quip listed...I am honored!

By the way, I am Ignored by 15...count them...15 members, while I'm only Ignoring 12. There are a few so dangerous, I keep them visible so's I can keep an eye on what they are up to....and I've served on jury duty 112 times as of right now.

[siligut]

16. So much laughter, so many funny people

Thank you for putting them all in one place.

[LeftInTX]

17. Kick - gotta have a sense of humor or

the Rethugs will make me go

I got a panic attack this week watching a documentary about the Bill Clinton impeachment - LOL
I gotta stop taking this stuff seriously. The DUzy's are just the medicine.

Thanks a bunch!!!!!!!!!!!

[alp227]

18. awesome, some DUZY's on my post? cool! n/t

[Hekate]

19. LOL--> Kick the DUzys!

So glad they are back.

[LeftofObama]

20. YEAH!

I the DUzy's!

[surrealAmerican]

21. k & r

[HappyMe]

22. k&r

[Festivito]

23. I had an enjoyable chuckle out of the co-in-key-dink of being down.

Time taken for a trip to the store and he's up having raised more than funds.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

24. K&R

[scarletwoman]

25. *Kick* for the DUzys!

And not just because I won one...

[Generic Other]

26. I do not appreciate being implicated by association in a pile-on directed at Nadin

My post was not posted on that thread. In fact in that thread, I questioned the ethics of posting as a DUzy a thread where all the people are making fun of an OP who has them on ignore. To me, that seems unfair. Just more of the same bullying tactics many of us have begun to take notice of.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2863211


And I am not the only one who has noticed.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2875936

[Flying Squirrel]

29. I did notice the pile-on, but

Some of the non-mean-spirited posts were funny enough that I thought I'd add it in anyway. I didn't mean to implicate you directly in reporting that particular thread, was just giving blanket credit to everyone who used the word "DUzy" to encourage people to continue doing so, as that really helps in the search for funny material. I dislike pile-ons as well.

[Generic Other]

31. Sniping is so ongoing it's hard to ignore

and some at DU really do feel justified in continuing to post snark in Nadin's threads when she has banned them for being so nasty to her in the past. They have made her experience on DU very negative if you ask me. And mine too. And for no good reason.

Sorry I snapped at you over it. It just gets old. Seems like people at DU could be more civil to one another.

I just have to remind myself that most people on DU support each other and seem like they are above that kind of behavior. They don't stalk and swarm for kicks.

[Grateful for Hope]

27. Thank you for posting these

and, thank you for taking the time to compile all this.

Only one comment - it might be good to refrain from posting obvious 'making fun of' posts like those from Sid Dithers.

Otherwise, excellent job!

On edit: I couldn't rec because of the mean-spirited posts I mentioned above.

[Flying Squirrel]

30. Thanks for the feedback..

I have, of course, noticed Sid's somewhat sour disposition and I don't like pile-ons either. I included that thread because there were some genuinely funny comments which were not directed at the OP (and though Sid's comment was directed at another poster, it seemed to be in fun). I gave Sid a DUzy because I think it's good to encourage humor that is NOT mean-spirited and I don't want to discriminate against any DU member when giving out DUzies - Principles before personalities, as the saying goes.

[Grateful for Hope]

41. As has been said

Whatever floats your boat.

[SidDithers]

35. ...

Sid

[pintobean]

38. Sid can make fun of me all he wants

I don't mind.

[Grateful for Hope]

40. Good for you.

[Scurrilous]

28. K & R

[LongTomH]

32. Thanks for the memories.......as Bob Hope used to sing!

Yeah, I know. That makes me older than dirt!

[annabanana]

33. YAY!.. I LOVE the DUzy Awards. We have some 1sr Class minds around here...

Smart & Funny is the sexiest thing on Earth!

[wryter2000]

34. I didn't realize the DUZY's were back

Must thank God in church tomorrow.

[malaise]

39. Great stuff

Thanks

[GoneOffShore]

42. We'll keep a light on for you.

[lunatica]

43. Very good ones!

[Snake Plissken]

44. There is one thing in this thread I can not wrap my head around

How did Josh "Randy" Sullivan manage to avoid being tapped by the GOP as a VP candidate thus far?