November 24, 2015
"Man kicked out of Camp Randall pranks UW police with 240 coconut doughnuts."
"This was meant as a harmless way to both show general gratitude for the job you do (which is awesome) but slight disdain for my treatment Saturday (which was not so awesome)," said the anonymous man. "Donuts are awesome, but coconut donuts are not so awesome."
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I was checking out the donut story (I love cocnut donuts!) when I ran across a link to this story disparaging Trump: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chapman/ct-chris-christie-wimps-out-20151124-story.html
I thought I would comment on it here because it seems like it has the kind of malformed syntax/usage that Althouse finds interesting.
Donald Trump is getting lots of attention for his invented claim that "thousands and thousands" of Muslims in New Jersey cheered and celebrated after the attacks on the World Trade Center.
What is an 'invented claim'? It would make more sense if Chapman had written 'Donald Trump is getting lots of attention for his claim that "thousands and thousands" of Muslims in New Jersey cheered and celebrated after the attacks on the World Trade Center.'
Why do people think that they can just jam an adjective into a sentence wherever they like? In context 'invented' doesn't work as an intensifier or a qualifier.
I can't figure if this sentence is true or false.
Three comments:
1) Good sports all around -- really nice to see that.
2) I love coconut *anything*. Shocked at the widespread agreement that coconut is gross -- is that a Wisconsin thing?
3) Slightly creepy that the Wisconsin State Journal wants me to answer questions of value to advertisers in order to access their content. I see how they can monetize that, but I'd really rather they didn't.
I love coconut on my donuts.
Dumb.
Well-played by the Californian.
Coconut: Bleah.
the Wisconsin State Journal wants me to answer questions of value to advertisers in order to access their content.
My home-town paper also does that. I just click -- I don't even read the question. Value to advertisers? Debatable.
The prank would have been lost on me. I like coconut doughnuts.
I think that it would be great to have a coconut donut, a side of coconut custard, and a glass of coconut water to wash it down with.
Maybe coconut cream pie for dessert.
The only problem with coconut donuts is that if a person sees that you have one, they might kill you so they can take it away from you and eat it.
Coconut? I'd starve to death on a tropical island.
I didn't know that coconut doughnuts were universally despised.
Coconut donuts, no big thing.
Coconut cronuts, though, now you're talking.
I kind of like coconut doughnuts! I mean, there are better doughtnuts out there but coconut is pretty good. There's only two types of doughnuts that suck: lemon-filled, and the powdered sugar kind that gets all over everything.
Go 'Cats!
The man had a ticket. He was ejected while trying to access his proper seat.
I see a lawsuit against the police for loss of that property without due process, and for jerk policing without cause.
Coconut is delicious!
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