Comments on: A PROUD TASTE FOR ORANGE AND MINIVER

By: Sparrow

Sparrow — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:11:02 +0000

@ robert – you’re only half right

@ NCT – tout a fait

By: DC Trojan

DC Trojan — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:05:44 +0000

Et tu, Cato Ursus? Non USC, sed Berkeleium delenda est!

By: Bergwood

Bergwood — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:04:15 +0000

Ivan Drago? This is Rocky all over again.

By: Cato the Bear

Cato the Bear — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:06:18 +0000

Moreover, I advise that USC should be destroyed.

By: DC Trojan

DC Trojan — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:08:11 +0000

That’s slightly less transparent than the Germans just skipping over the “Deutschland uber alles” verse of their national anthem and going on to the slightly less Anschluss-like sections. But it’s still implied.

By: Holly

Holly — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:19:19 +0000

Weep no more—I’m pretty sure it’s still Russia’s anthem; they just changed the words.

By: Other Chris

Other Chris — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 02:36:54 +0000

I knew this was Holly when I read the headline. Not just the orange, but also the Konigsberg reference.

By: NCT

NCT — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:08:57 +0000

@63:

You’ve definitely got a point. Those who would mock your opinion quite obviously have never paid attention to the words. Anyone who can’t appreciate a song that’s about people who want to engorger vos fils and calls for us all to marcher until un sang impur abreuve nos sillons has no idea what “kick-ass” means.

Aux armes. citoyens!

By: robert

robert — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:42:27 +0000

@63:

Jacobin asshole?

And Holly, it’s all done for The People.

By: Sparrow

Sparrow — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:36:56 +0000

@ 46

Alas, “Advance Australia Fair” is the national anthem of Oz, not “Waltzing Matilda”.

Also, call me what you will, but in my book no national anthem can beat “La Marseillaise”.

By: DC Trojan

DC Trojan — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:31:36 +0000

[puts on kilt, paints self blue, tops off with jaunty Trojan helmet]

By: Harris

Harris — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:20:40 +0000

Sure, but think of how great midwestern and northeastern teams were in the early- and mid-20th century. Clearly, we're being punished for our failure to incinerate more southern cities the farther we get from Sherman's march on Atlanta. I can't in good conscience destroy Memphis, but Dallas? Charlotte? Say your fucking prayers. Now where did I leave my scalping hatchet, fertilizer gun and asbestos socks?

By: MikeLew

MikeLew — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:55:59 +0000

Harris, DC, and sb- we already did that once, and the CFB gods are taking it out on us by making us deal with that 0-9 in Bowl Games crap.

By: DC Trojan

DC Trojan — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:24:17 +0000

Harris, I’m really rather ashamed about the Nashville episode in its entirety. Not so much about the demolition of Staples, in itself, but I had no idea that a collapsing wall of printers could take on guillotine-like properties, and in retrospect we should have been more careful with both that poor woman’s head and her lifeless body…

Still, no-one can tell me that I could plausibly have expected that [country singer redacted] would appear on the scene to snag the corpse, screaming that it was more animated in flagrante delicto than [Australian actress redacted]. It’s no wonder that the angry mob really kicked off at that point. Frankly, the mayor’s lucky that he got away with necrophiliac puppetry, because what the crowd did to [country singer redacted]… let’s just say when you get served pulled pork made from the long pig, it’s best to say thanks and chow down, but my digestive tract really hasn’t been the same since.

Of course, I can’t rule out the Waffle House as the underlying cause either.

By: www.southbendblarney.com

www.southbendblarney.com — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:06:00 +0000

Hey go big or go home. It’s better to fail miserably than to be average all your life. If fail is the answer, you can learn from it.