Comments on: Oh, Those Severed Heads

Oh, Those Severed Heads

mreleganza — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:13:19 -0800

Planning of Municipal Bus Line 11A Three Weeks Into the First Ron Paul Administration. "Stop 3: Union Street to Walk Hill Street – It depends on your definition of "impassible." Since the Postal Service was disbanded and PCP was legalized on the same day, roving bands of rival mail carriers seem to behead each other a lot in this area. I guess I'm saying it depends on any given driver's tolerance for driving around severed heads."

The piece was written by Andrew Golden, who had an earlier McSweeneys piece looked at by Language Log.

By: zamboni

zamboni — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:18:34 -0800

It depends on your definition of "impassible." impassible (comparative more impassible, superlative most impassible) (chiefly theology) Unable to suffer, or feel pain. Unable to feel emotion; impassive. Incapable of suffering injury or detriment. impassable (comparative more impassable, superlative most impassable) (of a route, terrain, etc.) Incapable of being passed over, crossed, or negotiated. (of an obstacle) Incapable of being overcome or surmounted. (of currency) Not useable as legal tender.

By: Halloween Jack

Halloween Jack — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:20:32 -0800

You don't want to know. Let's just leave it at this: it has something to do with the 14th Amendment no longer applying to the states, child labor in anthracite mines, and that pulsating orb that reads minds found in the basement of the Federal Reserve before they blew it up.

Cute--it reads like a combination of what Paulistas believe and what anti-Paulistas believe an actual Paul Administration would be like.

By: filthy light thief

filthy light thief — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:21:48 -0800

mreleganza: The piece was written by Andrew Golden, who had an earlier McSweeneys piece looked at by Language Log.

"He was wrong on all counts. This is not the first evidence that McSweeney's needs a joke checker. I know, it's just a joke. But if a joke make obviously factual assumptions in passing (say, that Kansas is east of Missouri, or that Jacques Chirac is a leader of the socialist party), and these assumptions have nothing to do with the funny part of the joke, then it kind of spoils the fun. Especially if the funny part is supposed to be about how some people are ignorant of elementary facts and skills."

Burn! And it's true! Double burn!

By: mephron

mephron — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:43:52 -0800

I see that McSweenys has joined the growing number of sites that hate people on tablets and phones who visit their sites occasionally. I have learned this through their method of mentioning they have an app. Which is saying they have an app in some kind of ridiculous notifier that appears, shouting (in a visual manner) "HEY WE HAVE AN APP DOWNLOAD IT NOW, DAMN YOUR EYES, NOW!!!" McSweenys is slightly less annoying than some (Rupert Murdoch's Pits of Voles earned him at least a spare millienium in Hell for his), but I don't know anyone so dedicated to McSweenys they go there repeatedly, daily, to read things there. Also, this piece: mildly amusing but the writer has never really ridden buses in Newark, NJ, where that kind of stuff was normal in the late 80s/early 90s.

By: filthy light thief

filthy light thief — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:22:22 -0800

mephron: "HEY WE HAVE AN APP DOWNLOAD IT NOW, DAMN YOUR EYES, NOW!!!" Wait, are those websites run by Sam Hall?

By: vibrotronica

vibrotronica — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:29:08 -0800

GOOGLE RON PAULOCALYPSE!

By: ook

ook — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:29:25 -0800

Hey zamboni, now do "hording"

By: jnnla

jnnla — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:33:48 -0800

I want to like this...but the writing style is hard to digest. This persons whole website seems like some sort of inside joke to which I am not privy. For that, i do not like it....but the wifi article is funny.

By: michaelh

michaelh — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:43:23 -0800

Which is saying they have an app in some kind of ridiculous notifier that appears, shouting (in a visual manner) "HEY WE HAVE AN APP DOWNLOAD IT NOW, DAMN YOUR EYES, NOW!!!" Yeah, but in their defense their ipad app has a pretty cool easter egg art piece (skip to ~2:30) in it that almost justifies the and and halfway justifies their flippant disregard for the HiG.

By: michaelh

michaelh — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:44:09 -0800

Typo: almost justifies the ad* and halfway

By: Trurl

Trurl — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:45:37 -0800

The lion's share of political contributions by servicemembers and defense industry workers is going to anti-war, "soft on Israel," also-ran candidate Ron Paul. In fact, the battle for their dollars isn't even close: Paul has raised at least $282,868 from individual active-duty servicemembers and Pentagon employees—more than four times what the other three Republican presidential candidates have raised, combined. ... "Clearly there's something about Paul that appeals to some members of the military," says Viveca Novak of the Center for Responsive Politics, which provided Mother Jones with the most recent tally of military contributions. "Whether it's that he speaks his mind, wants to end foreign engagements, has a libertarian's view of the world—we can't say."

By: Lentrohamsanin

Lentrohamsanin — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:49:56 -0800

"Hey did you ever notice how McSweeney's kind of approaches humor with like a lab coat and a pair of tweezers?" Ironically the only time Molly came even close to being funny.

By: EmpressCallipygos

EmpressCallipygos — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:11:45 -0800

By: mreleganza

mreleganza — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:27:29 -0800

Is there some particular information I'm missing that I'm not quite getting here? I mean, I know who Ron Paul is, but I'm not seeing how any of the rest of what they're talking about fits into....whatever this is. Well, since he's the most libertarian candidate, this is a sendup/parody of a libertarian administration quickly descending into Mad Max-style quasi-anarchy. I thought it was quite funny and I still like McSweeney's. (blows raspberry)

By: jsr1138

jsr1138 — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:39:35 -0800

I thought it was quite funny and I still like McSweeney's. (blows raspberry) Hear, hear!

By: Panjandrum

Panjandrum — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:23:12 -0800

I'm curious as to why the bus went by the interstate on the way from Edgewood to the CDC, when everyone knows it goes up Briarcliff.

By: uberchet

uberchet — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:33:22 -0800

This is sort of a near-perfect example of what Chris Onstad was talking about in Achewood nine years ago.