Well, babelicious Sarah says that we’re
unimaginative — along the lines of a flasher running across the lawns of Wimbledon during The Championship in a desperate need for attention; but the level of naked fury, coupled with small-boy spite, pettiness, and malice more than makes up for the lack of depth or maturity of the post. In other words, the enthusiasm of the blogger and commenters more than compensates for the inadequacy of the ideas or language.
…this is standard fare, and it’s a pretty constant and typical level of rhetoric. Matt seems to have earned a high level of attention and an equally high level of emotion.
Most of the time, we don’t point out this sort of stuff here at the StandFirm blog, since it violates our commenting rules regarding the profane and vulgar . . .
Oh Sarah, you have us so wrong… there’s no malice involved in this - it’s good sophomoric humor. See, we think pomposity deserves to be called out for what it is. And I can assure you, we give Matt little attention. Vulgar and profane? You do understand what those words mean, right? I mean, seriously, you do, don’t you? Oh, that’s right, it’s vulgar and profane if you say it is…. just like everything else…
And who is Sarah and why do I give a fig what she thinks anyway?
Whatever
Oh come on, e. Try to keep up with the important news… Saray Hey-hey-hey posted an MP thread at Limpville. Imagine, a Clumber posting there! and we don’t give a fig what she thinks. That’s the point. Imagine thinking clumber to be “vulgar and profane”. Next thing you know they’ll say the same about you! I may be crude, but I’m not vulgar!
Do you ever wonder what they did as sophomores?
Well, in case you ever wondered how you could get a post in over there without registering, now you know.
“unimaginative”? pshaw!
I know who “Hey-hey-hey….she’s FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATMOUTH Sarah” is…
But I still don’t care what she says..
She should go check out the Jesus and Mo cartoon over at my place..that’s the only message I have for them.
Here’s a dog cookie, Clumber…You’re a good, silly boy, no matter what Hey-hey says…
I only understood a few words of this post.
Yay! Vulgar and profane! Exactly what I’m going for! Because being elitist and rareified is just not what I’ve experienced from He Who Came and Will Come Again.
being copied and pasted into that place makes me feel so DIRTY!
That’s exactly it, Dennis… dirty and it just won’t clean off.
Self-righteous indignation from the self-righteous. They obviously envy quality.
Well, I always heard that a bath in tomato juice is what is needed to get skunk smell out of a dog’s coat. I wonder if that might help.
Meanwhile, I just thought of who those wimmin over there remind me of — Nellie Olson from Little House on the Prairie. Thinking of the kinds of faces shown here flashing under “Yes, it was a wig!”
Brother Causticus alludes to an incident similar to this one but it involved people named Little Stone Bridget, Father Mass Progeny, and Dagenham Rector (had to have a Brit explain that one to me), so I’m sure it must be a purely hypothetical musing on his part.
Yes, all of that went over this dog’s head…. care to explain it for us?
Well, I was trying to be arch, but ended up obscure, I think. Here’s my take:
“Little Stone Bridget” is an Anglican blogger (Sarah Hey a/k/a “babelicious”
who rose to reasserter fame by declaring that “little stone bridges” (e.g., parish property) must be fought for to the bloody end, even it makes no rational sense, because… well, because, you should. Especially if you end up dead. I paraphrase, of course.
“Father Mass Progeny” is the resident Calvinist at Stand Firm (Matt Kennedy) who has three children and a fourth on the way.
“Dagenham Rector” is harder. One of the boroughs of London is Barking & Dagenham. “Barking”, of course, is English slang for “crazy”. On the London Underground, the Dagenham/Heathway station is three stops after the Barking station. So to say someone is “Dagenham” is to say they are “three stops past Barking” or completely mad. “Dagenham Rector” is — voila! — MAD PRIEST!
Were I not married to an Englishwoman, I’d have no idea about that last item. Therefore, I suspect Brother Causticus might be a British expatriate for this and other Anglicisms he drops from time to time.
All correct, I believe, except the 4th puppy has arrived, I’m pretty sure. I finally sat down and figured out most of that, except for the exact way that Dagenham fit into MP. I know who BC meant, but couldn’t do the English translation of why that was the case. Thanks!