CORRECTION: The post title originally began "Please not..."
I noticed the error when commenter Unknown wrote:
do you mean 'note'?And Birkel said...
Please not to leave that title as it is.... which I originally misread as "Please leave that title as it is," because I instantly became entranced by the accidental phrase "Please not." It's my new motto.
ADDED: I'm reading the Wikipedia article, "Speak of the devil":
"Speak of the devil" is the short form of the English-language idiom "Speak of the devil and he doth appear"... It is used when an object of discussion unexpectedly becomes present during the conversation. It can also be used about a topic that quickly becomes relevant, such as the onset of rain or a car breaking down....The article has a long list of the equivalent expression in many languages. A sampling:
- Libyan Arabic: "آحكي على القط يجيك ينط" (`ihky al ket yajek yanot), which translates to "mention the cat, and he will come jumping"...
- Tunisian Arabic: "اذكر الصيد ياكلك" (odhkour essed yaklek), which translates to "Mention the lion, he eats you"...
- Bulgarian: "Говорим за вълка, а той - в кошарата", translated as "Speak of the wolf and it is in the sheep pen."...
- Dutch: "Als je het over de duivel hebt, trap je op zijn staart", which translates to "If you speak of the devil, you step on his tail."....
- Italian: "Parli del diavolo e spuntano le corna", which translates as "Speak of the Devil and the horns will appear."...
- Swedish: "När man talar om trollen (så står de i farstun)", which translates to "When you speak of the trolls (they stand in the entrance hall)."...
- Yiddish: "מע זאָל דערמאָנען משיחן" (me zol dermonen mshikhn) which translates to "We should have talked about the Messiah," or "אַ שאָד מ'האָט נישט גערעדט פֿון משיח" (a shod m'hot nisht geredt fun mshikh), which translates to "A shame we weren't talking about the Messiah."...
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My thoughts exactly. Would that the entire media complex would see the same thing.
I snoozed a few people on facebook for the same reason. I quit watching tv news long ago and no longer get a newspaper because I'm tired of this stuff being front and center.
Wait... didn't you just blog it?
Whatever you say, say nothing... when you talk about you-know-what.
Concur
do you mean 'note'?
Yep. I wouldn't want to talk about it either, if I had your audience.
Please not to leave that title as it is.
Agree 100%.
Up yours, kingfish.
“ Behind every great man is a great woman.
Just hope she’s not wearing a strap-on.....”
I never learn.
Sorry mother.
I checked Althouse about an hour ago, and thought "she's not touching this. Good for her. It's everywhere and it's hideous."
Behind every great man is a great woman.
Just hope she’s not wearing a strap-on.....”
I never learn.
Sorry mother
Or married to a chandelier or a dolphin.
Raised in Dayton, Ohio. Now living in Texas. Thank you Ann. Too many tasteless ghouls using tragedy for their own purposes.
Your mother was a wise woman. "It only encourages them."
Thoughts and prayers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdWOptGFfjE
"I don't believe in too soon. I'm on a tight schedule."
It's entertainment and a huge industry. The problem is finding the right number of perps.
"Please not." It's my new motto.
Keep Althouse’s Blog Great.
And political lines were drawn to respect the format of the leading blogger.
In respect through patience.
Professor Althouse is very good at taking a point and branching out quite vividly without hesitation or lack of courage. Also show vulnerability as a fellow human if anything is confusing to her personally. That is the format I get from this blog that is also maturing my growth in life.
My shyness is also a complex subject matter to take on out of many.
How does a mother of a 12 year old almost teenager write an erotic novel if she chooses to and never regret anything specifically with her daughter in any future. As a mid-aged only son through my upbringing, I would encourage my mother to accomplish anything in life that she chooses. My mother is to date expecting, wishing, praying for me to be a specific person and that has not worked in the past. My message is not translated to let me be to grow. I take interest in intellect to get by, but my talents can be better used if I was released. Otherwise I agree with rain-man or forest gump. Liberals would not exist without a mutant such as mysel. But a connection on a seesaw of politics can be complex to say the least. Sorry if I offended anyone. Happy Sunday !
Please not to leave that title as it is.
That sounds like that ancient Oriental curse, "Please to be self-biting."
Drudge looks very ugly this morning and the way he plays it up encourages them. He's getting more an more tabloid if that is even possible. I'm getting as down on Drudge as I am on The Economist and other agenda-driven news outlets.
Drudge runs on clicks. Somebody's clicking.
Please not to comment on the not-said thing.
Shark attacks but with fish experts weighing in.
I cannot bear the almost celebratory glee at all the "Gotcha!" opportunities being gobbled on in stereo this morning.
Please, not... Indeed.
The problem is not that publicity encourages it so much as what is taken as entertainment. Being against it is most of the entertainment of it. Everybody likes to run the be-outraged glands.
Various ways to slam the audience are needed. It might help with pandering to women politics too, the same genre.
Uh oh, I'm being pandered to. By who and why.
clicks, or votes.
Comments on the not-to-comment thing soon become not-comments.
On this, I am no hypocrite.
Choose comment words carefully.
Here is a subject that lures trolls to declare their trollery.
Go where your ugliness is enjoyed, ugly fools.
Can we speak of this devil? Via Insty
The Feds are looking into possible campaign finance misdeeds by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff and lead rainmaker, who suddenly resigned Friday, federal sources told The Post.
The inquiry centers on two political action committees founded by Saikat Chakrabarti, the top aide who quit along with Ocasio-Cortez spokesman Corbin Trent,the sources said. Trent left to join the congresswoman’s 2020 re-election campaign....
The two PACs being probed, Brand New Congress and Justice Democrats, were both set up by Chakrabarti to support progressive candidates across the country.
But they funneled more than $1 million in political donations into two private companies that Chakrabarti also incorporated and controlled, according to Federal Election Commission filings and a complaint filed in March with the regulatory agency.....
I knew there was a reason my mom was wearing her evil eye bracelet yesterday.
Those things are creepy.
Darn it I keep forgetting. I want a Hex sign for my shed.
“Your rule has viewpoint discrimination written all over it.”
Indeed. The hypocrisy is as ugly as Althouse.
Ann, I enjoy your topic selection and it has endured where many have not. Nuff said.
"Roast me! Hang me! Do whatever you please," said Brer Rabbit. "Only please, Brer Fox, please don't throw me into a 'gun-free' zone."
Copycatting exists in politics too and is encouraged by media. How else to explain why each and every Democrat candidate has moved far left of center, advocating such things as Medicare for the Western Hemisphere if they can just get here. Next up will be a unified call for gun confiscation.
“What is your intellectual defense of that”
Bingo! but the blog speaks for itself and gives you your answer.
The answer is because she’s interested in one, and favors the political
Rhetoric that flows from it—but the other, along with it’s political implications, doesn’t interest her.
Not much of an “intellectual defense,” but then, she doesn’t claim it to be.
Blog has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
When the news media gives excessive coverage to some bad things that people do, it encourages others to copycat that so they can get that attention, too. There is a perverse drive in some people to get attention at any cost. It's like those idiots who do something stupid, like tampering with products at the store. They post a video, it goes viral and the news media picks it up and makes it national news. Then you start seeing copycat videos pop up of other idiots doing the same thing.
Comments addressing comment deletion are deleted whenever I see them. Moderation doesn't work if the topic becomes moderation. If you are a good faith commenter, accept my decision and try to post better comments. Don't talk about the moderation or try to post the same kind of comments that got moderated out.
This is my policy on my blog. If you don't like it, go somewhere else. To challenge me on this topic is to identify yourself as deserving deletion. To continue to do so when I'm saying things like this is to brand yourself a troll and to make me shift to always deleting you. If you care about access to this forum, you need to accept ths.
Please not to comment on the not-said thing.
The syntax reminds me of old Charlie Chan movies with Warner Oland.
Ann Althouse said...
Here is a subject that lures trolls to declare their trollery.
Evident all over this page.
'Please not' in the original title conveyed the message as well.
Dated a Japanese exchange student way back when. Not was a regular substitute for don't as in Please not put finger in back passage.
Only oriental i even knew who loved tequila.
Thank you Ann for prompting 5 minutes of wonderful reminiscing on a Sunday morn.
Thank you for your discipline on this.
Let's invoke the Francis Urquhart Rule
Please not to note the nuts.
Our favorite sign in Hong Kong was, "For Your Healthy, Do Not Smoking"
Heh. Ann's mention of trolls brings them down on our heads, just as the Swedish predicted. Ixnay on the olltrays, Ann.
I thought I did a good job pre-following Althouse's 10:51AM.
I disagree with Althouse on quite a number of topics but rise in defense of individual freedom. We must not be cowed. Living amongst the herd is to give in to the bull shit artists. Most of us restrained ourselves. That is a good thing.
Unfortunately, our not talking about it didn't help. But it was the right approach, IMO.
Not talking about what is happening and that it is in direct correlation to Trump rhetoric is cowardly and hypocritical. There will come a day when Trump apologists will hang their heads in shame, but not yet, maybe never.
Not was a regular substitute for don't as in Please not put finger in back passage.
She didn't get the nonassertive context rule. You substitute do or be for verb to carry tense, and add the bare infinitive of the verb.
The version I learned was "Speak of the devil and smell brimstone."
I also like the succinct "Naming calls."
Franki: "There will come a day when Trump apologists will hang their heads in shame, but not yet, maybe never."
I am sorry your East German Stasi-like coup attempt failed and you cant get past it.
Seek counseling.
Certain kinds of events she won't blog huh? What does she have against Collegiate wrestling? I've never seen a Collegiate wrestling post.
Vaulty: "What does she have against Collegiate wrestling? I've never seen a Collegiate wrestling post."
Competitors wear variations of shorts.
'Nuff said...
"Competitors wear variations of shorts"
A singlet is not a pair of shorts it is a one piece uniform, closer to a unitard but with more upper leg coverage. I would think she of all people would appreciate additional leg coverage in men.
The Vault Dweller,
I think the Penn State team is set for another year of dominance.
What say you?
Vault: "A singlet is not a pair of shorts it is a one piece uniform.."
You can see the dudes legs.
Thats all it takes.
I think the Penn State team is set for another year of dominance.
What say you?
Oh I don't know. I only ever pretended to care about it. And the level of my pretense dropped considerably after Gable stopped.
What is the subject of this post? Can I even ask that?
What is the subject of this post? Can I even ask that?
Well currently it is about Collegiate Wrestling. But I think originally it was about not talking about something horrible that happened in the last day or so.
I thought the post was about Althouse's editorial decision making and her freedom to ignore the mass media barrage within the confines of her own blog.
Comments denying her editorial control and personal freedom to speak as she wants have been deleted.
But I don't know that that is how Althouse would represent these things.
The full "Speak of the Devil" quote was used in the underrated thriller "Malice" in which Alec Baldwin gives a great performance.
My mother always said, Speak of the devil and his image appears.
what is piggier by syllable
or letter
olltrays or rolltays
Still learning.
I listen to Amazon Music at work, and a couple of days ago I came across a song on one of their recommended playlists by Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, and it was so good that I went and listened to their entire new album. It really appealed to me and I highly recommend it. Lukas is Willie Nelson's son, by the way. This is the album's title track and it is very appropriate today:
Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real - Turn Off The News (Build A Garden)(lyric video)
Nobody inclined to this kind of atrocity is reading this blog, ever has, or ever will.
Both sides have an argument to make which these tragedies can be used to advance.
My side is this: I want the right to stop a murderous asshole, to shoot him immediately when he threatens me or others, to stop him as soon as he shows a weapon. Not to hide and wait for someone with the right uniform to show up too late. These tragedies strongly reinforce my belief that the right to self-defense is above all other rights, absolutley essential and not to be infringed.
The opposing argument is for limiting the right to self-defense, even to zero if possible. Some advocate total submission by law to allow my execution or that of others if the bad guy so desires. That is the law in London, and many places in the U.S. None of them are safe places.
"Overall London has so far in 2018 seen fewer killings than New York City: 47 versus 54. Both cities have similarly sized populations of about 9 million.
In London, the homicide rate has increased as the British capital experiences a rise in knife-related crime responsible for 31 deaths this year — while New York City's murder rate has steadily dropped for almost three decades. Of the 54 murders in New York City this year, 32 people died by a firearm."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/04/03/londons-murder-rate-higher-than-new-york-citys/480860002/
As bad as these shootings are, they are far from what is possible with other means, but how do we stop it? We can't. We can only defend ourselves with force, which is also the only possible deterrent to this kind of determined evil. Clearly laws have no effect on such a mindset.
Delete if you want, but I'm still out here, and if this happened in my Walmart with me there, there would have been a lot fewer casualties even if I was one of them. If such an asshole did read this blog, maybe this information would make him reconsider, but even if not, at least the people around me have a much better chance of survival.
I don't think we have the same location in Spanish
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/08/can_we_please_have_something_normal.html
Mr hingest (Delaney from the debate engages in category error)
"Speak of the devil and smell brimstone."
I like this one. I've usually heard a version similar to the Italian one Althouse quotes (which I think might be excessively literal): "Speak of the devil and you'll see his horns."
This is what I mean:
https://mobile.twitter.com/JohnDelaney/status/1158054934765539330
A pollster asked a woman who she planned to vote for. She replied, “oh! I don’t vote. It just encourages them.”
last reference in the Professors post was to the Yiddish translation. American English would be so barren and lifeless without Shakespeare and Yiddish.
I wish I knew what we weren't talking about, so I could avoid the subject.
I live in a county with a population of maybe 2 million people. I had reason to be watching the death reports at the county morgue a couple of years ago, waiting for the coroner's ruling on the cause of death of someone I knew. One little summary is posted for every death.
The number of deaths every day shocked me, and the variety of horrible circumstances that could be discerned from the few words posted for each of the deceased. Ten or twenty more deaths on any given weekend would not have been a noticeable increase, just in my county alone.
Only a handful of these deaths make the newspapers. I have wondered how the reporters and editors choose the few which get some publicity. I assume the decision by the media has to do with the possibility to attract attention. Media companies are businesses who sell a few minutes of their viewer's time to the highest bidder, and some of the hired help make millions of dollars per year. The media companies have to generate millions upon millions to pay the expenses and provide a financial return to the investors. Every business I have worked for had financial targets and expected every department to pitch in and help.
Mommy protects her chickencucks from explaining their active encouragement leading to the first shot in the civil war they so crave in their wet dreams of a white race war Helter skelter style.
At church this morning we sang "A Mighty Fortress is Our God," written by Martin Luther in the early 1500's.
I was struck by these words which refer to Satan.
"his craft and power are great,
and armed with cruel hate,
on earth is not his equal."
I was reminded that what we read in the papers is often the result of Satan's cruel hate.
I know we don't have official state churches like the American colonies did, but I am glad that every prison I have visited has a chapel and a religious program available. Changing hearts still works to change behavior.
From Central America: "Hablando de Roma, y el Papa se asoma." (there should be a few accent marks in there, but I'm too lazy to look them up and put them in.)
American translation: "Speaking of Rome, and here comes the Pope!"
Yiddish: "מע זאָל דערמאָנען משיחן" (me zol dermonen mshikhn) which translates to "We should have talked about the Messiah," or "אַ שאָד מ'האָט נישט גערעדט פֿון משיח" (a shod m'hot nisht geredt fun mshikh), which translates to "A shame we weren't talking about the Messiah."...
This is the best one; so hilariously dry and turns the whole idea around.
I was reminded that what we read in the papers is often the result of Satan's cruel hate.
What we read in the papers is America's taste in entertainment.
no there's no accent in that instance,
Did not know wrestlers wore a “unitard.” Great comedy word but likely unusable, better than Walla Walla or Tarzana.
A Mighty Fortress is one of my favorite hymns, right up there with How Great Thou Art.
Look within, there crouches the real troll. Viewpoint discrimination cannot be hidden behind the veneer of controlling trollery. Be brave enough to admit what you’re doing.
Mommy protects her chickencucks from explaining their active encouragement leading to the first shot in the civil war they so crave in their wet dreams of a white race war Helter skelter style.
I have one word for you, Benjamin. I mean Howard. That word is ...
Prozac.
I once had a Australian Shepherd, Mick, who at 10 years old injured his shoulder pretty bad. None of the proposed solutions were good, so the plan was to keep him comfortable (opiates) while I spent some time saying goodbye.
I was once on opiates for a motorcycle accident, and it stopped me up pretty bad, so I walked Mick twice a day to keep things moving.
At first, our walks were to the bottom of the driveway, and then a very slow and careful walk back up.
I began praying for him during our walks.
Our walks got a little longer each day, and so my prayers got longer. I decided to research the best way to pray, and someone said it is best to thank God for the blessings you have before asking for anything more, so that's what I did.
Each day we walked a little farther, though I never pushed him, and so each day I had to come up with more things to be thankful for.
Six months later, I received a postcard in the mail from the vet asking that I bring him in for shots and whatnot, so I did. At the appointment, the vet asked how Mick was doing, and I said we were walking 2.5 miles, twice a day. The vet insisted it was time to wean him off of the opiates, and so I did.
He never ran again, nor cought a Frizbee, but we walked every day, rain or shine, until one day he passed in his sleep seven years later.
I learned three things. Never let an old dog jump out of your car, sometimes prayers are answered, and that I can come up with thousands of blessings to be thankful for. I think too many of us concentrate on what's missing, or what has not gone our way, and too often forget the gifts we already have, and let that depression cloud our judgement.
GOD Bless you MtM, that was beautiful; Our lives are wondrous, if we would just notice
Here's me running through the thread with scissors. Not falling for the troll bait. And playing by the rules laid out by our hostess even when I don't agree with them.
Although I think I can understand why she is not doing that thing she is not doing. Everyone is going nuts online everywhere else and they're all saying the same thing in different ways.
Boring.
Howard said...
Mommy protects her chickencucks from explaining their active encouragement leading to the first shot in the civil war they so crave in their wet dreams of a white race war Helter skelter style.
Delete this or delete nothing Althouse.
You want to keep a certain topic off of here fine.
But you better be even handed and that means deleting the leftists garbage and their lies.
Someone who was arrested in El Paso wants:
1. Universal Health care
2. Universal Income
3. The US broken up into confederations by race.
Knowing this Howard the piece of shit is screaming white nationalist at the top of his lungs and blaming us for trying to start a race war.
Michael, at 5:54, wrote.
...each day I had to come up with more things to be thankful for.
Thanks for that thought. Reading your story is a satisfying way to end the day.
I’ve always seen Howard as a poor stand in for Ritmo who at least had real talent for writing the English language. Howard is a scientific dunce as well — though he has some people fooled with his geology schtick. I probably know about recyclable polymers than he does and I’m not even active in the field.
Quite positive Althouse will just ignore Achilles, as her cruel neutrality only seems to cut one way.
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