August 23, 2000

7:18 AM

"And you're little dog, too!"(via Taken Outtacontext in an unrelated post). Finally someone puts this whole Survivor nonsense into terms I can understand. The PC-types are going to be all over Stuever on this one, but damn it's funny!
posted by m.polo (4 comments total)

That should read "And your little dog, too!"

Sorry. Grammatical Nazi.
posted by solistrato at 7:30 AM on August 23, 2000

Actually, it was a post modern linguistic pun, implying that the reader and the word and the author are all just dogs underneath their civilized veneer...

Or, it was a typo...

(Damn those GrammatiNazi's and their QuickError tools!)
posted by m.polo at 7:33 AM on August 23, 2000

The "Evil Queen"? Funny yes, but any stereotype that can include Survivor's Richard Hatch, David Geffen and J. Edgar Hoover is so generalized as to be virtually meaningless. My personal real-life experience with "gay authority figures" has been overwhelmingly positive, except for one supervisor who everybody knew up front was brought in to "clean house", and yet he actually made the process less painful, and fought (unsuccessfully) for those of us who were doing a good job in spite of the dysfunctional work environment (but then, maybe that's just what he WANTED us to believe - the Evil Queen...). Still, if Richard had not been so willing to reveal his strategies to the cameras behind the other contestants' backs, he might have just been perceived by most Americans as an "interesting, quirky character". It's kind of like the villain telling James Bond his entire evil plan before (unsuccessfully) killing him.
posted by wendell at 10:09 AM on August 23, 2000

SPOILER SPACE!!!
If
You
Live
on
the
West
Coast
and
It
Hasn't
Aired
Yet
And
You
Really
Want
To
Keep
The secret
From
The
37
People
You
Invited
Over
To
See
It
On
Your
Big
Screen
TV
from
Phil's
The
King
Of
Big
Screen
And
You're
Wondering
Because
You
Only
Got
16
People
Over
For
The
Super
Bowl...

Anyway...
The Evil Queen won the million.
posted by wendell at 7:11 PM on August 23, 2000