Althouse: At the Imp Café...

June 9, 2019

At the Imp Café...

... be an imp, each of you.

46 comments:

Fernandinande said...: "On my altar at home, I keep a copy of the United States Constitution next to my candles and talismans, as a way of asking Spirit to protect our country from nefarious forces."; 6/9/19, 5:30 PM
Tommy Duncan said...: Impossible?
Impetuous?
Impeachable?
Impractical?
Imperfect?
Improper?
Impertinent?; 6/9/19, 5:34 PM
dustbunny said...: Please Don't Eat the Daisies is in TCM for anyone so inclined; 6/9/19, 5:34 PM
h said...: Impecunious.; 6/9/19, 5:35 PM
Churchy LaFemme: said...: Imps Just Wanna Have Fun

(And she does..); 6/9/19, 5:40 PM
wild chicken said...: Watching Please Don't Eat the Daisies now. It really is good. I didn't realize.

But I wanna go outside..; 6/9/19, 5:48 PM
wild chicken said...: Yikes, that scene where no one wants to talk to her sure hit home.; 6/9/19, 5:55 PM
Narr said...: My imp is perverse.

Narr
But not very impressive; 6/9/19, 6:08 PM
Original Mike said...: One of my favorite U.P.campgrounds is at Imp Lake.; 6/9/19, 6:19 PM
Achilles said...: I think it is time to start recognizing the supporters of Islam are complicit with the genocide that is currently occurring across the world targeting Christians and Jews.

That would be the Democrat party who currently has Muslim members in it's party and anyone that votes for the democrat party.

The levels of persecution currently occurring and being covered for are disgusting.; 6/9/19, 6:50 PM
narciso said...: 1984 is not a how to manual for them, why do you ask:

https://irancommentary.wordpress.com/2019/06/09/my-twitter-account-has-been-suspended/; 6/9/19, 7:01 PM
traditionalguy said...: Doris Day moves on up to the Rock Hudson romances. Pillow Talk is on TCM next.; 6/9/19, 7:02 PM
traditionalguy said...: Mankoweitz on TCM says Day had a wholesome sexiness. The good old days of Day.; 6/9/19, 7:04 PM
chickelit said...: @Achilles: I predict that the Dems will have a repeat of their 2012 fiasco, but this time the anti-Semites will prevail. They have only gathered strength over time. Trump has recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and the Left badly wants to undo that.; 6/9/19, 7:13 PM
narciso said...: The anti semites and God haters did prevail:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/05/facebook-gave-data-access-to-chinese-firm-flagged-by-us-intelligence.html?fbclid=IwAR30DSfcefWV9q_5gCAhEQjVGu5UvsBw-XEOSxoJFg2mmS8FaRlL1Q-U5Sw; 6/9/19, 7:18 PM
narciso said...: Tuesday will be the anniversary of the terrorist attack in Orlando, of course every squirrel was deployed so the threat isnt identified,; 6/9/19, 7:28 PM
narciso said...: And a year earlier:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/06/09/iran-linked-terrorists-caught-stockpiling-explosives-north-west/; 6/9/19, 7:39 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: Imppeach !!; 6/9/19, 7:48 PM
narciso said...: This is even more cloying than the journal obit:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/opinion/articles/2019-06-06/herbert-sandler-of-golden-west-and-propublica-didn-t-like-crooks; 6/9/19, 7:57 PM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: Rachel Maddow is a delusion asshole.; 6/9/19, 7:59 PM
effinayright said...: How soon we forget.

For two and a half years we read Inga's harpyish screeching about the EEEvil miscreant Trump, who would be revealed to have engaged with treasonous conspiracy with the Russkis.

Thousand of her comments here.

Today? After the Mueller report? Nothing.

I'd say that she's just been licking her wounds, but I suspect deep down she's been dealt a mortal blow to her crazed, radical soul. "Orange Man Bad" isn't a stirring political theme.

Next election she will find herself a tsunami-scale political obliteration.

Inga, you need to move to much higher ground....NOW.

Pray for her.; 6/9/19, 8:04 PM
etbass said...: I'm worried about the election. Trump's record is a winner but a lot of Republicans still hate him. And Obama's record was a loser but he still won a second term. The electorate, I think, just yawns about the economy. We really do need an impeachment.; 6/9/19, 8:09 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: now that Wendy's is promoting adoption

how will the Lefties shit on them like they did Chik-Fil-A ?

What's The Beef?

hmmm. Anti-gay?? Demeans women and minorities?? White privilege?

maybe some sort of 'privilege' beef; 6/9/19, 8:12 PM
traditionalguy said...: Give them an imp and they will take a mile.; 6/9/19, 8:26 PM
gilbar said...: wholelottasplainin' said about Igna...
suspect deep down she's been dealt a mortal blow to her crazed,

My guess is she was laid off; the people that were paying her to post here decided to quit it; 6/9/19, 8:49 PM
Bay Area Guy said...: @elbass,

"I'm worried about the election. Trump's record is a winner but a lot of Republicans still hate him."

It's gonna be a close election. Both the electoral college and pop vote practically require a close election. Recall, in 2016, Hillary got 66 Million votes, Trump 63 Million.

Also, NY & Cal are in the bag for the Dems. Lotta bi-coastal knuckleheads in our great land.

But, the good news is a lotta diffuse voters across the land, know that the economy is good, and credit Trump for it.

Also, a lotta mushy middle voter simply go for the incumbent. And he's gonna raise a ton of money.

So, he's got a real shot, slightly better than 50-50.; 6/9/19, 9:19 PM
narciso said...: Hey were going to do a drama where we paint you as the most evil white woman since Simon legrees wife. Want to help out?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/variety.com/2019/tv/news/central-park-five-prosecutor-linda-fairstein-wouldnt-consult-netflix-1203237218/amp/; 6/9/19, 9:24 PM
wildswan said...: The Imp and the Peach - Somewhat like the good old Frog and the Peach?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuE_a1pTsO4; 6/9/19, 9:31 PM
Mark said...: Please Don't Eat the Daisies is in TCM for anyone so inclined

Comet has been running a marathon of The Prisoner.

Number 6: Where am I?
Number Two: In the village.
Number 6: What do you want?
Number Two: Information.
Number 6: Whose side are you on?
Number Two: That would be telling. We want information... information... information
Number 6: You won't get it!
Number Two: By hook or by crook, we will.
Number 6: Who are you?
Number Two: The new Number Two.
Number 6: Who is Number One?
Number Two: You are Number Six.
Number 6: I am not a number. I AM A FREE MAN!
Number Two: Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha; 6/9/19, 9:33 PM
stephen cooper said...: TCM has been on a roll lately; 6/9/19, 9:39 PM
narciso said...: Yes I caught the episode where he makes it to England after a Bourne identity type encounter and meets basque?? shepherds before
Meeting with his old superiors; 6/9/19, 9:50 PM
rhhardin said...: My third suggestion for reading Poe's tale is that the presiding image collecting the ideas I have cited and setting them in play is given in its title. The title names and illustrates a common fact about language, even invokes what one might think of as an Emersonian theory of language: the possession of language as the subjection of oneself to the intelligible. The fact of language it illustrates is registered in the series of imp words that pop up throughout the sixteen paragraphs of the tale: ``impulse'' (several times), ``impels'' (several times), ``impatient'' (twice), ``important,'' ``impertinent,'' ``imperceptible,'' ``impossible,'' ``unimpressive,'' ``imprisoned,'' and, or course, ``Imp.'' Moreover, ``imp.'' is an abbreviation in English for ``imperative,'' ``imperfect,'' ``imperial,'' ``import,'' ``imprimatur,'' ``impersonal,'' ``implement,'' ``improper.'' and ``improvement.'' And ``Imp.'' is an abbreviation for ``Emperor'' and ``Empress.'' Now if to speak of the imp of the perverse is to name the imp in English, namely as the initial sounds of a number of characteristically Poe-ish terms, then to speak of something called the perverse as containing this imp is to speak of language itself, specifically of English, as the perverse. But what is it about the imp of English that is perverse, hence presumably helps to produce, as users of language, us imps?

- Cavell, _In Quest of the Ordinary_; 6/9/19, 9:51 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: the Dems think he's imperious
--but to them, he's impervious

C'est la 'V'; 6/9/19, 10:00 PM
Randolf said...: Well, the Hillman Imp was a pretty neat little car - it did after all have a Coventry Climax engine - but I wouldn't want to be one. And anyway, the Mini Moke used in The Prisoner was even cooler!; 6/9/19, 10:02 PM
Lewis Wetzel said...: I did something political on Facebook the other day. A liberal man I know, a one-time coworker, posted a comment to the effect that Trump did not know that mars and the moon are not the same thing. Trump had been babbling on about the space program. I echoed another comment to his post and replied that Trump must have meant that a moon mission was part of a greater plan to get to Mars (that's one of the scenarios embraced by the NASA types).
His one word response?
"Nope."
The man has a bachelors in physics and a graduate degree from Saint Johns. He believes that Trump does not know that the moon and mars are not the same thing.
I thought about responding by saying that trump has gotten as far as he has because the people who hate him underestimate him, but I thought better of it. My education is not as good as his.; 6/9/19, 10:03 PM
narciso said...: Yes well he probably thought moslem outreach was the proper objective of nasa,; 6/9/19, 10:06 PM
Kevin said...: What happened to Howard Schultz?

A. Book wasn’t selling like last one, time to get out.
B. Initial poll numbers not appreciative enough, time to get out.
C. Oppo research much worse than expected, time to get out.
D. Left-wing death threats unexpected, time to get out.
E. Country more far gone than realized, time to get out.; 6/10/19, 4:58 AM
Kevin said...: A liberal man I know, a one-time coworker, posted a comment to the effect that Trump did not know that mars and the moon are not the same thing.

Did he also think Trump colluded with the Russians?

If so, you really can’t trust him on anything Trump-related.

No matter how many degrees he has.; 6/10/19, 5:02 AM
Kevin said...: So, he's got a real shot, slightly better than 50-50.

Shhhh. Too many people can only function with the belief Trump has “no shot” at getting re-elected.

All their blue-State neighbors assure them it’s so.; 6/10/19, 5:06 AM
Kevin said...: Dems on election night are going to be like gambling addicts at a craps table.

“Come on, Michigan! Mommy needs a new President!”; 6/10/19, 5:08 AM
Kevin said...: Authorities say [Big Papi] Ortiz was ambushed by a man who got off a motorcycle and shot him in the back at nearly point-blank range around 8:50 p.m. local time Sunday at the Dial Bar and Lounge in Santo Domingo.

Ortiz, 43, was taken to the Abel Gonzalez clinic, where he underwent surgery.

According to Dominican National Police Director Ney Aldrin Bautista Almonte, the gunman was captured and beaten by a crowd of people at the bar. Bautista said police are waiting until the man undergoes treatment before questioning him.

Quite a difference from Broward County.; 6/10/19, 5:13 AM
tim in vermont said...: On this day in 1692, Bridget Bishop was executed by hanging in Salem Massachusetts. Cotton Mather wrote, “there was little occasion to prove the witchcraft, it being evident and notorious to all beholders.”

CLEARLY the witch was guilty.; 6/10/19, 5:23 AM
rehajm said...: Number Two: The new Number Two.
Number 6: Who is Number One?
Number Two: You are Number Six.
Number 6: You didn’t answer my question.

Always bugs me...; 6/10/19, 5:43 AM
Michael McNeil said...: Number 6: “Who is Number One?”

Number 2: “You are, Number 6.”; 6/10/19, 6:44 AM
Anonymous said...: wholelotta: I'd say that she's just been licking her wounds, but I suspect deep down she's been dealt a mortal blow to her crazed, radical soul. "Orange Man Bad" isn't a stirring political theme.

Oh ye of little faith. As soon as the Hive gets its new narrative solidified, she'll be back in form, all adamantine refusal to acknowledge any reference to yesterday's dismantled certitudes.

One thing you have to hand to progs, they are indefatigable, and their religion impervious to any corrections from experience.; 6/10/19, 7:23 AM
Narr said...: The Prisoner seemed great, but I wonder if I'd still think so.

Narr
Progs: Numb and Number; 6/10/19, 10:32 AM