DrBB
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Tue Jan-20-04 01:40 PM
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It's not the SOTU that I'm dreading |
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Edited on Tue Jan-20-04 01:42 PM by DrBB
It's not the speech that's the problem; I can always watch "Mythbusters" or some appropriate substitue.
No, what I'm really dreading will be the three or four days of not being able to listen to any news media or any of my favorite NPR shows (a dwindling category already) without running into clips from it and starry-eyed worshipful discussions about it.
There's one word, in particular, that I am not looking forward to hearing repeated ad infinitum in approving tones. If someone gave me sweeping--one might say, Ashcroftian--editorial authority over all news media over the next 76 hours, and I could only institute one tyrannical style rule, it would be as follows:
The adjective "bold" is not to be used except in referring to typefaces.
Acceptable substitutes are to be found in this list:
"unfunded" "radical" "right-wing" "loopy" "dangerous" "ill thought-out" "blue-sky" "incoherent" "self-contradictory" "jingoistic" "bank-breaking" "deficit-ballooning" "anti-middle-class" "megalomaniacal" "belligerent" "bullying" "prohibitively expensive" "fanatical"
Suggested additions may be submitted to the Supreme Editor In Chief of the Universe for consideration; otherwise, under no circumstances deviate from the list, under pain of permanent banishment from the scribbling class. ------
I just sent this to a few friends as an email. If you feel the way I do, why not spread it around? Maybe we can get an anti-"bold" viral meme going.
Oh, and do feel free to submit additions here for consideration by the SEICU.
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Tue Jan-20-04 02:00 PM
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1. How about "bushian"? Oh great SEICU. |
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As in his tax cuts for the wealthy at the expense of all others will result in a bushian deficit.
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Tue Jan-20-04 02:04 PM
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crack-brained juvenile half-baked oligarchic hypocritical arrogant mendacious laughable
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King Coal
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Tue Jan-20-04 02:07 PM
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3. Is Helen Thomas still grounded? |
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Tue Jan-20-04 02:14 PM
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the republican Frist and others were whining about all the media coverage that the Democratic party was getting these past few weeks and how bush was cut down...
.seems to me we are always subject to having bush on the news either walking to and from his copter or in Crawford shoveling sh**.....
what a whine ass bunch these people are...
oh yes it'll be bush for a day or so...but it'll go back to the attack by the media on the Democratic runners to oust his ass!
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Tue Jan-20-04 02:17 PM
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Excellent replacements for bold!
here's some more:
irresponsible implausible bordering on the realm of science-fiction Decidely Christianly triumphalistic Hitleresque Pol Pot-ian hatefilled oppressive machiavellian ridiculous self-serving onerous reckless unaccountable wildly alcoholic-like malodorous ungodly (this is the one to use constantly!) foolish farcical-if-the-idiot-wasn't-so-serious unconvincing fishy suspect ethereal weak grievous inhuman anti-human anti-earth burdensome
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DrBB
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Tue Jan-20-04 09:07 PM
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...for the start of the SOTU itself. Which I'm not watching. Great Cohen brothers flick on--"Miller's Crossing." Quality culture trumps bad liars any day.
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