tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post8494903614146672773..comments2024-03-29T05:45:43.031-05:00Comments on Althouse: "I felt like an oyster in a slot machine."Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-87348993085280645102010-02-07T04:14:33.566-06:002010-02-07T04:14:33.566-06:00Florida said...
It's pretty clear she mix...<i>Florida said...<br /><br /> It's pretty clear she mixed up her metaphors.<br /><br /> She was the slot machine.<br /><br /> He was depositing oysters therein.</i><br /><br />So he gave her a pearl necklace?Methadrashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07828014989470539375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-44712968639373749142010-02-07T04:11:44.710-06:002010-02-07T04:11:44.710-06:00His first scalp was the (gay) playwright William I...<i>His first scalp was the (gay) playwright William Inge, author of “Come Back, Little Sheba” and “Picnic,” who hoped to cast him in the part of a man so sexually confident that “he feels a wreath has been hung on his penis.”</i><br /><br />Now I know where the term "hanging wreathes" comes from. Yeah, I know that feeling.Methadrashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07828014989470539375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-45084140087625771942010-02-06T09:21:52.172-06:002010-02-06T09:21:52.172-06:00"I would want carnal knowledge of Julie Chris..."I would want carnal knowledge of Julie Christie 12,775 times"<br /><br />Amen, brother! Amen.Linushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03051266981797903460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-2774931987470184762010-02-06T08:44:06.880-06:002010-02-06T08:44:06.880-06:00... and then there is the pearl necklace... and then there is the <em><b>pearl necklace</b></em>paul a'bargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08854004347728185047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-44177230908273926282010-02-06T08:42:47.534-06:002010-02-06T08:42:47.534-06:00Oyster is an old, old euphemism for the vagina.<em><b>Oyster</b></em> is an old, old euphemism for the <b>vagina</b>.paul a'bargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08854004347728185047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-69993062073463722722010-02-05T20:16:05.300-06:002010-02-05T20:16:05.300-06:00I suspect that after 12,770 or so the novelty star...I suspect that after 12,770 or so the novelty starts to wear off.Ignorance is Blisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17351664545145783244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-45933288537977255642010-02-05T19:07:28.870-06:002010-02-05T19:07:28.870-06:00I don't know as I would want carnal knowledge ...I don't know as I would want carnal knowledge of 12,775 women, but I would want carnal knowledge of Julie Christie 12,775 times....Warren Beatty seems to have had a significantly better than average life. I would be grateful if someone could come up with a really killing wisecrack to dismiss the vacuity of his life.Williamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07837540030934495651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-50184300573287201322010-02-05T18:32:53.828-06:002010-02-05T18:32:53.828-06:00"Harry Frankfurt, On Bullshit"
Along wi...<i>"Harry Frankfurt, On Bullshit"</i><br /><br />Along with <i>On Truth</i>, two of my favorite books. They should be required reading in school.The Crack Emceehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08366101526773588864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-4136227853072270062010-02-05T15:47:11.420-06:002010-02-05T15:47:11.420-06:00If that's what it was like, why were they doin...If that's what it was like, why were they doing it so often?Freeman Hunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16202310075717963694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-71154885473275625152010-02-05T14:20:06.077-06:002010-02-05T14:20:06.077-06:00Apparently, she liked having the arm pulled. It se...Apparently, she liked having the arm pulled. It seems she pulled quite a few arms in her time.<br /><br />And may still be doing so.edutcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15589958656028023357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-47754397564501162612010-02-05T14:15:19.456-06:002010-02-05T14:15:19.456-06:00Wittgenstein's take:
This comes out in an ane...<a href="http://www.gwinnettdailyonline.com/articleB5BD6D4417AF444DBD8F9770AA729B26.asp" rel="nofollow">Wittgenstein's take</a>:<br /><br /><i>This comes out in an anecdote related by Fania Pascal, who knew [Wittgenstein] in Cambridge in the 1930s:<br /><br />'I had my tonsils out and was in the Evelyn Nursing Home feeling sorry for myself. Wittgenstein called. I croaked: "I feel just like a dog that has been run over." He was disgusted: "You don't know what a dog that has been run over feels like."'<br /><br />....<br /><br />Pascal's Wittgenstein does not intend to accuse her of lying, but of misrepresentation of another sort. She characterizes her feeling as "the feeling of a run-over dog." She is not really acquainted, however, with the feeling to which this phrase refers. Of course, the phrase is far from being complete nonsense to her; she is hardly speaking gibberish. What she says has an intelligible connotation, which she certainly understands. Moreover, she does know something about the quality of the feeling to which the phrase refers: she knows at least that it is an undesirable and unenjoyable feeling, a bad feeling. The trouble with her statement is that it purports to convey something more than simply that she feels bad. Her characterization of her feeling is too specific; it is excessively particular. Hers is not just any bad feeling but, according to her account, the distinctive kind of bad feeling that a dog has when it is run over. To the Wittgenstein in Pascal's story, judging from his response, this is just bullshit.<br /><br />Now assuming that Wittgenstein does indeed regard Pascal's characterization of how she feels as an instance of bullshit, why does it strike him that way? It does so, I believe, because he perceives what Pascal says as being -- roughly speaking, for now -- unconnected to a concern with the truth. Her statement is not germane to the enterprise of describing reality. She does not even think she knows, except in the vaguest way, how a run-over dog feels. Her description of her own feeling is, accordingly, something that she is merely making up. She concocts it out of whole cloth; or, if she got it from someone else, she is repeating it quite mindlessly and without any regard for how things really are.<br /><br />It is for this mindlessness that Pascal's Wittgenstein chides her. What disgusts him is that Pascal is not even concerned whether her statement is correct.<br /></i><br /><br />- Harry Frankfurt, _On Bullshit_rhhardinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06901742898653890646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-36015943797912588042010-02-05T14:11:20.434-06:002010-02-05T14:11:20.434-06:00"There's a definite resemblance between a..."There's a definite resemblance between a woman's, ahem, a part of her anatomy, and a raw oyster."<br /><br />I think a clam is more apt.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-61426552276821014442010-02-05T13:59:59.756-06:002010-02-05T13:59:59.756-06:00I hope that one doesn't get deleted by the blo...I hope that one doesn't get deleted by the blog adminstrator.<br /><br />That Meade is such a prude.Trooper Yorkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978703998566102194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-62686940220558672242010-02-05T13:59:18.036-06:002010-02-05T13:59:18.036-06:00Hey the main thing is she always kept her oyster ...Hey the main thing is she always kept her oyster <a href="http://trooperyork.blogspot.com/2009/02/gratuitous-bath-tub-photo-is-sister-of.html" rel="nofollow"> clean!</a>Trooper Yorkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978703998566102194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-19543576852038981212010-02-05T13:48:50.306-06:002010-02-05T13:48:50.306-06:00Pearl Jam would have something to say (or sing abo...Pearl Jam would have something to say (or sing about) here.<br /><br />/Even flow...EnigmatiCorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00596092527748619763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-88107646196118421902010-02-05T13:33:54.460-06:002010-02-05T13:33:54.460-06:00There's a definite resemblance between a woman...There's a definite resemblance between a woman's, ahem, a part of her anatomy, and a raw oyster.<br /><br />PeterAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-49545871683757116012010-02-05T13:15:19.733-06:002010-02-05T13:15:19.733-06:00"Shuck Me, Suck Me, Eat Me Alive"
PICK ...<i>"Shuck Me, Suck Me, Eat Me Alive"</i><br /><br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6329595&postID=8494903614146672773" rel="nofollow">PICK EM, LICK EM, STICK EM</a>Peter V. Bellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04209902525167395224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-31503009107599476492010-02-05T13:03:01.540-06:002010-02-05T13:03:01.540-06:00A 26 year old Joan Collins? Yeah, I'd have shu...A 26 year old Joan Collins? Yeah, I'd have shucked it.Tiborehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07360541843865827271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-13036564164904337872010-02-05T12:53:04.876-06:002010-02-05T12:53:04.876-06:00It's curious that this line made such an impre...It's curious that this line made such an impression on Ms. Collins as she aparently didn't get the joke.JackOfClubshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10453616863781646015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-33230809941477575032010-02-05T12:50:36.740-06:002010-02-05T12:50:36.740-06:00Thought of the day: You have to shuck lots of oys...Thought of the day: You have to shuck lots of oysters before you find the Pearl of Great Price.traditionalguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05706120413005530014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-70629980696375228102010-02-05T12:47:03.973-06:002010-02-05T12:47:03.973-06:00Pearls.Pearls.rhhardinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06901742898653890646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-8075336284141075192010-02-05T12:38:37.283-06:002010-02-05T12:38:37.283-06:00Yes, but did Beatty score with Madonna? Did his ...Yes, but did Beatty score with Madonna? Did his oyster hit three cherries? This post may attract lots of traffic as the subtle metaphor is analysed fore and aft.The Guardian will soon have a Scientific report about the role of oysters and the slot machines causing evolutionary survival of only the fittest oysters, which in turn makes all men sex addicts.traditionalguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05706120413005530014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-19068152354808971282010-02-05T12:38:33.033-06:002010-02-05T12:38:33.033-06:00That was a long time ago. She should have let slee...That was a long time ago. She should have let sleeping oysters lie.marinerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03435598676103731157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-27650973190665267582010-02-05T12:35:10.383-06:002010-02-05T12:35:10.383-06:00Why the need to show her innards in public? I can ...Why the need to show her innards in public? I can understand dissing the ex male lover. That's a female given. But why so graphic? Spirit of the age, that's why.ricpichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01321511130788764861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-29403730794078048812010-02-05T12:15:41.421-06:002010-02-05T12:15:41.421-06:00Carl Reiner, on George Burns giving advice on gett...<i>Carl Reiner, on George Burns giving advice on getting old: “Have you ever tried to put an oyster in a slot machine?”</i><br /><br />Remembering that Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway had perhaps the most famous and moving "oyster in a slot machine" portrayals in all of cinema in <i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh9LqAAEAFg#t=2m20s" rel="nofollow">Bonnie and Clyde</a></i>.<br /><br />(Sorry about the sound quality.)Wincehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15002449963597087316noreply@blogger.com