Althouse: At the Pinker Café...

April 30, 2013

At the Pinker Café...

... you can talk all night.

45 comments:

edutcher said...: Is that the name of the flower of the shade?

PS It sounds like Barry these days.; 4/30/13, 9:10 PM
Dante said...: I feel clever with my oompah loompa song, and wanted to share it in the pink forum (P.S. I'm a denotative math type computer science person, so small achievements like kind of rhyming excite me):

Oompa Loompa doompadee doo
I've got another puzzle for you
Oompa Loompa doompadee dee
If you are wise you will listen to me

Who do you blame when Chris Brousard's a brat
saying that gays are sinners and crap?
Blaming the black is a lion of shame
You know exactly who's to blame:
It's got to be society!

Oompa Loompa doompadee dah
We only need one rule for all
Then we'll live in harmony too
Like the Oompa Loompa doompadee do; 4/30/13, 9:14 PM
Tim said...: I have to spray Round-Up tonight, but it's windy outside.

And tomorrow is going to be hot, so that doesn't work so well either.; 4/30/13, 9:18 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: ... you can talk all night.

Sorry...

They weren't lying when they said... "And I'll never have that recipe again".; 4/30/13, 9:31 PM
Unknown said...: Pretty good Dante.
I'm a math incompetent and kind of rhyming excites me too. In fact I'm not sure I can do it.; 4/30/13, 9:34 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: ... you can talk all night.

That's a direct quote from the new and improved Martha Stuart Match.com profile.; 4/30/13, 9:37 PM
William said...: I saw Les Miserables. Not my idea of a musical comedy. At this point in human history, why do they show young men waving red flags in such heroic and photogenic poses.....Anyway, Anne Hathaway got a really bad haircut. She's really serious about her art.; 4/30/13, 9:48 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: I don't use or like Twitter much.

Like someone else said the other day, Iowahawk's Twitter feed is about the only one I view weekly.

Maybe ace too.

In any event, why don't Twitter users have a "shakespearepithywit" hashtag when people attack Twitter for the forced pithiness?

Make it the Twitter haters versus Shakespeare.

Force that, do not acknowledge any other possibilities unless to be used to mock and abuse verbally.; 4/30/13, 9:52 PM
kentuckyliz said...: Yeah, and she had her teeth pulled too!

"I have suffered for my art;
Now it's your turn."

I found a couple of hours of Hugh Jackman's tonsils barely bearable.; 4/30/13, 9:53 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: Brevity: not the same as pithy.

Close...; 4/30/13, 9:54 PM
Meade said...: Tim, hot is what you want with R.Up.; 4/30/13, 9:58 PM
Irene said...: Feeling sleepy.; 4/30/13, 10:01 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: ... you can talk all night.

Let me put some water nearby.; 4/30/13, 10:11 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: ... you can talk all night.

“I will speak until I can no longer speak,”

I'm just going to have to hold it... hmmm... can I break the record w/o picking my nose?...

Don't pick your nose... don't pick your nose... but but picking your nose its good for you... no it isn't... no it isn't... I want to be president... don't pick your nose... don't pick your nose... I want to be president... I want to be president.; 4/30/13, 10:24 PM
William said...: Unlike Anna Karenina, I got through the whole movie. I kept hoping there'd be a catchy tune, but no such luck. The special effects were pretty good. It really did look like the old city of Paris. I don't think Hathaway really had her teeth pulled. She probably used a stunt double.; 4/30/13, 10:28 PM
Chip Ahoy said...: Iron Man 3 trailer; 4/30/13, 10:31 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: The code, being there is no code, then must be one of "notice my dictionary" versus "the dictionary."

This distinction is well put.

Secret Knowledge and whatnot.; 4/30/13, 10:52 PM
Anonymous said...: The need to Urinate can Decide the Mind into a Funneled Ending.

Do NOT drink liquids before making your Point.

It Burns when I Emphasize.; 4/30/13, 10:55 PM
Bob Ellison said...: Dante, it needs editing.

I do melodies and chords, not lyrics.

Interestingly, most great lyricist/melodist teams have started with the melody first. I find that baffling. Think Elton John and Bernie Taupin.; 4/30/13, 11:05 PM
Icepick said...: And now for the traditional "Goodnight, and fuck you."

So good night, and fuck you already.

XOXO; 4/30/13, 11:15 PM
Basta! said...: Serendipitously combing two of our favorite topics --- gaiety and F. Scott --- two photos of the man himself in drag; 4/30/13, 11:46 PM
Known Unknown said...: I saw Les Miserables. Not my idea of a musical comedy. At this point in human history, why do they show young men waving red flags in such heroic and photogenic poses.....Anyway, Anne Hathaway got a really bad haircut. She's really serious about her art.

I couldn't handle the cockney kid.

Must ... remember ... this ... is ... France.; 4/30/13, 11:59 PM
Dante said...: Dante, it needs editing.

I think it has the same number of syllables and rhymes as the original Veruca Salt lesson. But, I'm no musician.; 5/1/13, 12:00 AM
Guildofcannonballs said...: It ain't being ceded super anytime soon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxaZeGGYji4; 5/1/13, 12:24 AM
Dante said...: Bob:

Interestingly, most great lyricist/melodist teams have started with the melody first. I find that baffling. Think Elton John and Bernie Taupin.

Isn't the melody the creative part? There is a lot of theory behind the chords, I understand, and while perhaps not quite formulaic, lends itself to formula.

For those who love beautiful music, here is Bach's Prelude #1, which was adapted from some kind of religious music. It seems so simple, yet there is a message in there.; 5/1/13, 12:30 AM
Guildofcannonballs said...: Why is the Master of Puppets Still Feeling Blue?

How does a porn star owe money to her producer?

Well, Jackie Treehorn deals in publishing.

Just think about that, Lebowski.

Fucking deadbeat.; 5/1/13, 12:33 AM
Guildofcannonballs said...: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amLungGziP0

Very well might being the best of anything ever, all I ask of you, is please, upon my behalf, don't fuck up the listening.; 5/1/13, 12:46 AM
Guildofcannonballs said...: you ev been so good to me.

Help out you I will: will I.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adkTrPJJWnM

Don't you be wantin' to be thankin' and whatnot cause that ain't why we be here and shit.; 5/1/13, 1:14 AM
Guildofcannonballs said...: This is the best link I've linked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9gK2fOq4MY

I hope not this summarizes me.; 5/1/13, 1:26 AM
Escort said...: Thank you for this post. I like this flower. Elite London Escorts provide a quality companionship service to clients. The Booking fee and the Booking process taken by the agency ensure that high quality. London Escort; 5/1/13, 1:35 AM
pm317 said...: My front yard is a beautiful pink carpet of pear flower petals. My pink and white azaleas are blooming, waiting for the pinkish red roses.; 5/1/13, 6:00 AM
Paco Wové said...: Dear London Escorts–

Do you have anything available for the discerning older woman?

Sincerely,
M. Stewart; 5/1/13, 6:06 AM
Sydney said...: Dante's Bach piece with the religious music.; 5/1/13, 7:12 AM
lincolntf said...: Is that hooker spam? Nice.; 5/1/13, 7:19 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: It looks more and more like Holder may have had other reasons for shutting up Tamerland... that is, other than looking out for Tamerland rights not to incriminate himself.

Such a civil rights champion our attorney general is.; 5/1/13, 7:20 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Suddenly, yesterday's muddled illogical presser starts to develop some features... maybe?... those in a position to dig... dig... but they probably wont.

Saudi foreign minister, national security chief both met with Obama in the oval office in early 2013.; 5/1/13, 7:28 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: I have very little confidence that our press will hold this president accountable.

I'm predicting this is going to end up covered up like fast & furious and Benghazi.; 5/1/13, 7:32 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Now if anybody wants to ask him questions all he has to do is say I just gave a press conference... or... we have to let the investigation process move forward... if the noise level is raised high enough he will appoint a panel to investigate (make the cover up official) and write recommendations... that will take the rest of the term... by then people will have moved on and forgotten about it.

I should write a fucking manual.; 5/1/13, 7:49 AM
Penny said...: Before you write that manual, Lem?

Consider this?

Is there anything Americans love more than an underdog?

You just might have witnessed the most masterful shape shifting performance of a lame duck president of all time.

I say we met UNDERDOG! And in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 ....

The press, and the people will do what?

Awwwwwwwwwwww; 5/1/13, 8:16 AM
Penny said...: Watch out for the crowds, Lem. All those fools rushing in, you just might get trampled, buddy.; 5/1/13, 8:17 AM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: Chip - that was a surprise.

We do need back up.; 5/1/13, 8:28 AM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: Happy May 1st.

It's snowing here.; 5/1/13, 8:32 AM
edutcher said...: Lem said...

It looks more and more like Holder may have had other reasons for shutting up Tamerland... that is, other than looking out for Tamerland rights not to incriminate himself.

Such a civil rights champion our attorney general is.

I think you meant Joker, but the point is well-taken. Everybody was screaming at us about these psychos, but Choom & Co. were only concerned with livin' large and turning the country into Occupied Bohemia and Moravia.

"Maybe he should just pack up and go" someplace. That new estate Pritzker built for him when everything said he was going to lose, f'rinstance.

Hardly makes all that effort to steal the election worth it.; 5/1/13, 8:42 AM
Ignorance is Bliss said...: Happy May-Day.

Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your liberty!; 5/1/13, 8:48 AM
George M. Spencer said...: Nigel Farage

20 minute speech.

If you have never heard of this UK politician, he is going to be one of the very great statesmen of this century.; 5/1/13, 11:11 AM