Dis one seems so much smarter than dat one.

[shereads]

President Bush: "{prisoners who complain of abuse} are people who, in many cases, have been trained to dis-assemble, which means to not tell the truth."

Jon Stuart on Comedy Central: "No, Mr. President. Dissemble means to not tell the truth. Dis-assemble is what we did to Iraq."

 

[cantdog]

Yeah, what do prisoners know about the subject, anyway? I'd like more information about the Lie School, too. I should like to have some training myself. I'm self-taught, and sometimes I wish I'd done a better job.

 

[carsonshepherd]

dis-assemble.

We elected this man president.

and most of the people who voted for him don't know that this is the wrong usage of this word.

 

[cantdog]

I don't believe that's in evidence, carson.

 

[LadyJeanne]

Does anyone else get the feeling that someone wrote that out for Bush to memorize, and he accidentally memorized the part they put in parentheses too (means to not tell the truth)?

Shades of Joey on Friends memorizing scripts...

 

[carsonshepherd]

I don't believe that's in evidence, carson.

you're right... i didn't vote for him.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."

—Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005​

I believe that Incurious George has passed beyond the ability to dissemble.

There is nothing left for him, but to be disassembled.

 

[Guest]

President Bush: "{prisoners who complain of abuse} are people who, in many cases, have been trained to dis-assemble, which means to not tell the truth."

Jon Stuart on Comedy Central: "No, Mr. President. Dissemble means to not tell the truth. Dis-assemble is what we did to Iraq."

I'm so glad The Daily Show was back this week. We were suffering withdrawal during the two weeks of reruns. And Stewart missed so much good stuff from the Shrub!!!

How about (during the press conference about his not funding future stem cell research) "We all started off as fetuses."

My husband and I had to give each other those patented looks - the deadpan, the raised eyebrows, the incredulous sneer, the hand to the chin hmmmmm -

 

[impressive]

Does anyone else get the feeling that someone wrote that out for Bush to memorize, and he accidentally memorized the part they put in parentheses too (means to not tell the truth)?

Shades of Joey on Friends memorizing scripts...

PMSL!!!!!

 

[shereads]

Does anyone else get the feeling that someone wrote that out for Bush to memorize, and he accidentally memorized the part they put in parentheses too (means to not tell the truth)?

At age 12, George lost the lead role in the school play because he kept starting his monologue with, "Enter laughing."

That's why he hates thespians.

 

[impressive]

That's why he hates thespians.

She shoots. She SCORES! *applause*

 

[LadyJeanne]

That's why he hates thespians.

...and that is why he won't allow thespians (that means women who like to have sex with women) to get married...

 

[cantdog]

I hope we can settle on Civil Unions as a compromise. A decade or two of that, and the semantic change will be very easy. The trouble with them-- civil unions, I mean, here-- is that the states are constitutionally required to recognize marriages contracted in other states, but not so bound for civil unions. Thus they have to be passed state by state. If this hurdle can be leapt, we'd have something.

 

[shereads]

I hope we can settle on Civil Unions as a compromise. A decade or two of that, and the semantic change will be very easy. The trouble with them-- civil unions, I mean, here-- is that the states are constitutionally required to recognize marriages contracted in other states, but not so bound for civil unions. Thus they have to be passed state by state. If this hurdle can be leapt, we'd have something.

Are you talking about thespians? Or dis-assemblers?

 

[cantdog]

Thespians and Homonyms, I think.

 

[impressive]

Are you talking about thespians? Or dis-assemblers?

The dis-assembling thespians are the ones ya REALLY gotta watch out fer. They're evil and will subvert your children when you're not looking.

 

[cantdog]

What I really want to see is the doors open to line marriages. But I'll never see that.

 

[impressive]

What I really want to see is the doors open to line marriages. But I'll never see that.

Amen. Or just standard contractual marriages. Instead of vows, contract terms.

 

[cantdog]

I perform civil marriages all the time, or at least, whenever they want me to. Remind me to tell you about the chickens with the bows sometime. Marriage is no more a religious state than breathing.

 

[TheEarl]

<laughs> Some crackers let off in here tonight.

The Earl

 

[cantdog]

Put the crackers back on their bus. Don't be lettin' no crackers off 'round this neighborhood.

 

[impressive]

Marriage is no more a religious state than breathing.

Ah, but it IS. It's the word -- the semantics -- that cause heartburn. Extract the word "marriage" from civil lingo and a large part of the problem just disappears. Let's have NO "marriage" in the eyes of the government. Strictly civil unions. Period. Give "marriage" back to the churches. Let 'em do with it what they choose -- with pomp and ritual and good riddance.

 

[Edward Teach]

Does anyone else get the feeling that someone wrote that out for Bush to memorize, and he accidentally memorized the part they put in parentheses too (means to not tell the truth)?

Shades of Joey on Friends memorizing scripts...

You know, Jeanne, what said makes as much sense as anything else. He probably thinks those little curved things mean to place emphasis on the enclosed words.

But the thing that puzzles me over and over is why they write speeches for him using words like dissemble in the first place.

They have to know the chance they are taking. Is it some big inside joke? Do they know that it really doesn't matter what he says so they just see how far they can push the envelope -- maybe place bets on how badly he will fuck up or something?

I mean why not just say, "some prisoners lie"?

On the other hand, the really scary possibility is that 43 may truly be in charge and writes his own speeches just to prove that he is as smart as his daddy and his daddy’s new buddy Bill.

Someone dial 911. I think my left arm just went numb.


Eddie The A-fibber

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[Quiet_Cool]

dis-assemble.

We elected this man president.

and most of the people who voted for him don't know that this is the wrong usage of this word.

Yeah, but he ran against a man who couldn't spell "Potato." Think it over...

Q_C

 

[Edward Teach]

Yeah, but he ran against a man who couldn't spell "Potato." Think it over...

Q_C

QC, I think that was Dan Quale who misspelled the P word.

I saw Quale speak once. He was the warm up speaker for Bart Starr -- no shit.

Quale spoke for almost 20 minutes and never said a positive thing other than he was glad to be there. He even criticized Clinton's golf swing. He was so bad that the overwhelmingly Republican audience was audibly grumbling.


Ed

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