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Post number 6439

bison — Mon, 19 Mar 2001 11:37:09 -0800

Salon is not known for their satire, but this "Bushonics"article gives the Onion a run for its money. Or at least, I hope it's satirical: "Among the military's top brass, the dialect is considered to be the unofficial language of the Pentagon."

By: tiaka

tiaka — Mon, 19 Mar 2001 11:42:40 -0800

Ohh yeah, serious run for their money. Microsoft goes bankrupt, Oscar-Meyer Inc. gives run for money, film at 11.

By: RightWinger

RightWinger — Mon, 19 Mar 2001 11:50:41 -0800

OH puhlease, these is just another democrat attempt to discredit president Bush, He speaks fine, quit exaggerating verbal misques. Id rather he mispronounce than lie straight face like Clinton.

By: terrapin

terrapin — Mon, 19 Mar 2001 11:53:24 -0800

RightWinger: I am sure Bush can do both at the same time. And will. Remember that campaign promise about carbon dioxide?

By: solistrato

solistrato — Mon, 19 Mar 2001 11:56:54 -0800

Troll.

By: wiremommy

wiremommy — Mon, 19 Mar 2001 12:06:39 -0800

Soli, plenty of anti-Clinton stuff found its way to MeFi during his administration, including humorous Onion articles and the like. No one cried "troll" back then...

By: revbrian

revbrian — Mon, 19 Mar 2001 12:12:24 -0800

Salon making fun of a republican? Inconcievable!

By: crunchland

crunchland — Mon, 19 Mar 2001 12:12:37 -0800

these is?

By: solistrato

solistrato — Mon, 19 Mar 2001 12:39:09 -0800

No, I meant RightWinger. Sorry, should have been more specific.

By: silusGROK

silusGROK — Mon, 19 Mar 2001 12:53:24 -0800

Funniest thing about the satire was that it had to actually be labelled "satire"... I half believed it. Of course, that's the trick, isn't it. =)

By: wiremommy

wiremommy — Mon, 19 Mar 2001 12:57:38 -0800

Soli - sorry. I thought it was kinda weird that you'd be calling the thread a troll, but it's getting hard to keep track of individual posters. :-/

By: briank

briank — Mon, 19 Mar 2001 13:07:42 -0800

Let's let our Fearless Leader speak for himself. Slate has "Bushism of The Day", whereby Dubya hoists himself by his own petard. Who needs to make this stuff up?

By: anapestic

anapestic — Mon, 19 Mar 2001 13:16:18 -0800

whereby Dubya hoists himself by his own petard snicker

By: donkeymon

donkeymon — Mon, 19 Mar 2001 13:17:19 -0800

Don't you mean, "He speaks well," or "His speech is fine," RightWinger? I will assume you also meant "This is" instead of "These is" and "straight faced" rather than "straight face" as well. Or is this article not as satirical as we may have thought?

By: quirked

quirked — Mon, 19 Mar 2001 13:19:23 -0800

I can't believe the way peoples always post commentarity on the President's abilitude to speakify. They are all just enviable of his intellijuice.

By: RightWinger

RightWinger — Mon, 19 Mar 2001 13:21:19 -0800

donkeyman, youre just sore Bush is in the white house, you bed wetting liberal! The democractic crybabies need their diapers changed!

By: Sapphireblue

Sapphireblue — Mon, 19 Mar 2001 13:24:17 -0800

donkey: my understanding are that RightWinger was satiricizing additionally like with the previously aforelinked article. when are we going to see a Bushonics version of AYBABTU? Come on, people, you're disappointing me here.

By: owillis

owillis — Mon, 19 Mar 2001 13:24:48 -0800

Wow, one day and you've pulled a mini-Freep. Troll.

By: john

john — Mon, 19 Mar 2001 13:29:47 -0800

We have doublepostguy, maybe we need TrollOMeterguy?

By: dhartung

dhartung — Mon, 19 Mar 2001 13:33:47 -0800

I say we give RightWinger a little Free Republic schooling: "Tweet! Disruptor! Disruptor! Call Jim Robinson! Must not disagree with site consensus! Tweet!" Is a verbal "misque" anything like a tomato "bisque"? Ah, hell, just another troll. (Hoisting oneself by one's own petard makes more sense if you realize that a "petard" was a bomb. It's about a demolitions expert blowing himself up.)

By: daver

daver — Mon, 19 Mar 2001 13:52:46 -0800

Strange, I was thinking it was a lance-like weapon. However, you and bartlebys prove me wrong. I wouldn't have posted, except the etymology is even funnier than a bomb: French pétard, from Old French, from peter, to break wind, from pet, a breaking of wind, from Latin pditum from neuter past participle of pdere, to break wind.

By: anapestic

anapestic — Mon, 19 Mar 2001 13:56:31 -0800

People, people, people. It's hoist upon one's own petard. That way it makes real sense. Read the Bard.

By: MarkAnd

MarkAnd — Mon, 19 Mar 2001 14:05:39 -0800

I'm never going to get the opportunity to tell this joke, and it's almost appropriate here: In college, I was in a Latin class translating Petronius' Satyricon. At one point, a character in the story is ordered "dextro pede!" This is easily translated as "with/on the right (as opposed to left) foot." (The person was crossing a threshold and they were being ordered to do it with the right foot...) My friend, though, didn't realize that "pede" should be translated as the ablative of "foot" and instead thought that it was the imperative of the above verb "pedeo" - "break wind," so he translated it as "break wind on the right!" Grammatically, there is nothing wrong with this translation... (Sorry, I've been waiting to tell that story for 5 years.)

By: daver

daver — Mon, 19 Mar 2001 14:27:55 -0800

Bushonics: I don't care if those sci-fiction peoples hoist up their own Picards, we're still having a tax cut.

By: chaz

chaz — Mon, 19 Mar 2001 14:44:34 -0800

quirked is that bush or don king? :) actually they're similar, except Don King is more euphonicallistically talentacious.

By: swank6

swank6 — Mon, 19 Mar 2001 15:59:19 -0800

I wonder what the ramepercussions of having such a mispeeched president will be. Surely he has some kind of valid strategery.

By: john

john — Mon, 19 Mar 2001 17:06:04 -0800

I can't tell whether the misspellings and bad grammar in this thread is on purpose or not. Ack.

By: briank

briank — Mon, 19 Mar 2001 18:11:57 -0800

It's hoist upon one's own petard. That way it makes real sense. Read the Bard Gasp! I am shamed to have ruined my esoteric witticism by misquoting the Bard. Perhaps dear RightWinger can give us some immortal words from the Shrub to lessen my faux pas. (thanks to dhartung and anapestic for explaining my remarks to the trollish folks and pointing out my error)