Wow, that's really interesting. By the way, Mr. Whittington, I wish you a speedy recovery from your injuries!

(Oh wait, wrong blog. I meant to post that to Shot in the Face.)

Don't you have some snow to shovel?

There's always something that needs to be shoveled when AC comments, and it usually ain't snow.

Hey, you guys would know. Any truth to the rumor that Halliburton is getting a $7 billion, no-bid contract to do the reconstructive surgery?

Yes, it's true. They're going to make him look just like Ken Lay and do a switch after the conviction.

AC just lives to stir the pot, no matter how off topic. Most of the East coast on Sunday could have been powered by AC just based off the electricity coming off him in anticipation of making a Cheney-face-shooting comment here. In fact, he probably wrote several drafts before deciding on that "Shot in the Face" howler.

Yeah, Ryan, nothing funny here. Just Cheney shooting a guy. I guess he got tired of Aaron Burr being the biggest VP badass.

So you think I should have waited for Mitch to put up a "Cheney Shoots Some Dude" topic, eh?

Cheney's got a gun...

*sigh*

Yeah, AC. . . carry on.

I notice the "Aaron Burr" nonsense is practically drawn verbatim from a Daily Kos comment thread. Have you ever attempted to think for yourself? It's a liberating experience, really.

Like pretty much everything else the Left has gotten into a twitter over the past five years, this too will pass.

"So you think I should have waited for Mitch to put up a "Cheney Shoots Some Dude" topic, eh?"

Well, no, not exactly, but I would suggest a blog of your own, but we all know that's never going to happen.

Many of us have learned to rely on Angryclown for pure entertainment value, and not take him excessivly seriously. He is an accomplished yanker of chains. It is best to yank back.

Apropos nothing/

Just the two Mitch?

Seems rather unsophisticated to me.

A man of your worldliness should know at least 4, with one being a non-romance language.

How about 1 language for every 6 instruments you play?

Haha, yeah Ryan. I go to Daily Kos to crib jokes!

Ryan intoned: "Like pretty much everything else the Left has gotten into a twitter over the past five years, this too will pass."

Ryan, get down to Wal-Mart and buy yourself a sense of humor. You're about as much fun as a junior high vice principle.

If I were Cheney, I'd claim Whittington just choked on a pretzel. That happens to lots of people, you know.

Sigh.

No, JB, not just the two.

In high school, I took German (3 yrs), Latin and Spanish (1 each), which is a 1 language/3.3 instrument ratio. Minored in German in college. As noted, I learned to get around in Dutch, and also (via Latin and Spanish), held my own in France (as long as I spoke my 'orrible French with a German accent, so I didn't get made as a Yank - which, by the way, I never did).

Which is about the norm, in terms of raw numbers and ratios, for a person who should rationally be considered cultured.

And, er, German is a non-romance language.

Next: either Russian or Polish.

"I go to Daily Kos to crib jokes"

Heh.

But Janeane Garawful and Barbara O'Brien do...

"Shot in the Face"

I'd imagine our old friend Mr. James is having a field day with this?

Janeane Garawful? Mitch, it's not nice to make fun of people, even if they do choose not to remove unsightly body hair.

Oh I bet he is!

Hey, is that really Mrs. Doubtfire posting, as you predicted, to cast doubt on your modest linguistic claims? Or somebody pretending to be him to make fun?

Oh, that's the real thing. JB thinks that anyone that don't hang out at tractor pulls and walk around in a seed cap and grunt "more like hardly workin'" when someone asks if yer workin' hard is jist puttin' on airs.

Even though he grew up in the subs of the Twin Cities and didn't know which end of a cow to tip until he got engaged to a NoDak grrl.

"As noted, I learned to get around in Dutch, and also (via Latin and Spanish), held my own in France (as long as I spoke my 'orrible French with a German accent, so I didn't get made as a Yank - which, by the way, I never did). "

Nice to know some people were able to get away with it. When the DH and I lived in Germany we traveled to Monte Carlo via Nice (long story). We had a long layover in Nice and we wanted to know what platform our train would be arriving at, but the only person working the ticket counter did not want to acknowledge that we were there. After nicely trying to get his attention in a couple of different languages (including French which the DH speaks) I called the "gentleman" a not so nice name in German. THAT finally got his attention.....

Didn't somebody once claim on this blog that the Angry Clown was a lawyer?

What law school did he graduate from?

One with no principles?

Or no principals?

You might think a person who trained to be a professional wordsmith would know the difference.

You'd be wrong.

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Some French dude carped:

"One with no principles?
Or no principals?
You might think a person who trained to be a professional wordsmith would know the difference."

Spelling errors? That's the best you've got to take down Angryclown? That's your A-game?

Please. You waste my time.

Not spelling errors: ignorance. Ignorance and cowardice.

Ignorance of basic grammer that would be shameful in a sixth grader, much less a college grad.

And the cowardice of taking potshots while hiding behind an alias. Some of us are old enough to remember the same behavior when CB radios were all the rage. Plus ca change, don't you know.

I don't believe the Angry Clown ever went to law school - day school or night school, ever sat for a bar exam, ever passed a bar exam, or ever was admitted to practice law in any jurisdiction.

Prove me wrong.

Or fail to prove me wrong, and thereby prove my point.

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That's "plus ça change," with a cedille, Pierre.