Althouse: "The 4 Clods."

September 3, 2019

"The 4 Clods."

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A drawing from when I was twelve. Going through old stuff. "Clod" = loser and I knew that's what I was
A post shared by @ rozchast on Aug 25, 2019 at 7:24pm PDT

43 comments:

Ralph L said...: Olive Oil needs a little anatomic help. Some physical theiopy.; 9/3/19, 10:35 AM
Mr. Groovington said...: They look English.; 9/3/19, 10:45 AM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: The knees. She needs some nylons.; 9/3/19, 10:49 AM
Bay Area Guy said...: I think, by definition, if you can draw like that, you're not a clod.; 9/3/19, 10:53 AM
Lucien said...: OT: Dorian now Cat. two — so President Trump’s decision to play golf yesterday proved decisive.; 9/3/19, 10:54 AM
Fernandinande said...: M.K. Brown does the best slightly funny-looking gals.; 9/3/19, 11:09 AM
Fen said...: OT: Dorian now Cat. two

Democrats on suicide watch, as there are no dead Americans for them to use as props to bash Trump with. Losers. Here, let me pick out a shotgun for you.; 9/3/19, 11:10 AM
pacwest said...: We were all clods at age 12, or thought we were. I may be gradually becoming a clod again at age 68. What goes around comes around.

Coming from a rural community the word clod, when used derogatorialy, meant backwards, out of it, definitely not part of the in crowd, and not worthy of consideration. City folk and rural folk seemed to be the dividing line mostly. The first year of high school in the big city was painful. The way you dressed had a lot to do with it too. No no overalls! (I wound up All State in 2 sports and carried a 3.8, so fuckem).; 9/3/19, 11:13 AM
TML said...: I'm worried about Mabel's left knee; 9/3/19, 11:15 AM
exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil said...: Democrats on suicide watch, as there are no dead Americans for them to use as props to bash Trump with. Losers. Here, let me pick out a shotgun for you.

9/3/19, 11:10 AM

The people on Twitter hoping for Mar-A-Lago's destruction are very disappointed. Sure, innocent people who live in the vicinity might have been killed or injured, but that's a minor detail if you have TDS.; 9/3/19, 11:28 AM
MayBee said...: Don't all 12 year olds hate themselves?; 9/3/19, 11:32 AM
Rosalyn C. said...: I came from a very "dysfunctional" family and was estranged for decades. However during a visit, shortly before he died, my father asked me if I were Roz Chast. I was shocked. He really thought if I had become massively successful I wouldn't have wanted him to know? Talk about sad.; 9/3/19, 11:34 AM
rcocean said...: Synonyms:

fool, idiot, ass, halfwit, nincompoop, blockhead, buffoon, dunce, dolt, ignoramus, cretin, imbecile, dullard, moron, simpleton; dope, ninny, chump, dimwit, nitwit, goon, dumbo, dummy, dum-dum, dumbbell, loon, jackass, bonehead, fathead, numbskull, dunderhead, chucklehead, knucklehead, muttonhead, pudding-head, thickhead, wooden-head, airhead, pinhead, lamebrain, peabrain, birdbrain, zombie, jerk, nerd, dipstick, donkey, noodle-head; numpty, twit, clot, goat, plonker, berk, prat, pillock, wally, git, wazzock, divvy, nerk, twerp, mug, muppet; balloon, sumph, gowk;gobdaw; bozo, boob, lamer, turkey, schlepper, chowderhead, dumbhead, goofball, goof, goofus, galoot, dork, lummox, klutz, putz, schlemiel, sap, meatball, gink, cluck, clunk, ding-dong, dingbat, wiener, weeny, dip, simp, spud, coot, palooka, poop, squarehead, yo-yo, dingleberry; wing nut; dill, alec, galah, nong, bogan, poon, boofhead; mompara; knobhead; noddy, clodpole, loggerhead, spoony, mooncalf; 9/3/19, 11:37 AM
Fernandinande said...: A comic co-starring Inga, who looks different in person.; 9/3/19, 11:39 AM
Drago said...: Fen: "Democrats on suicide watch, as there are no dead Americans for them to use as props to bash Trump with. Losers. Here, let me pick out a shotgun for you."

Democrats and LLRs.; 9/3/19, 11:46 AM
Yancey Ward said...: Synonyms:

fool, idiot, ass, halfwit, nincompoop, blockhead, buffoon, dunce, dolt, ignoramus, cretin, imbecile, dullard, moron, simpleton; dope, ninny, chump, dimwit, nitwit, Ritmo, goon, dumbo, dummy, dum-dum, dumbbell, loon, jackass, bonehead, fathead, numbskull, dunderhead, chucklehead, knucklehead, muttonhead, Chuck, pudding-head, thickhead, wooden-head, airhead, pinhead, Howard, lamebrain, anti-Desitter space, peabrain, birdbrain, zombie, jerk, nerd, dipstick, donkey, noodle-head; numpty, twit, clot, goat, plonker, berk, prat, pillock, wally, git, wazzock, divvy, nerk, twerp, mug, muppet; balloon, sumph, gowk;gobdaw; bozo, boob, Inga, lamer, turkey, schlepper, chowderhead, dumbhead, goofball, goof, goofus, galoot, dork, Once written..., lummox, klutz, putz, schlemiel, sap, readering, meatball, gink, cluck, clunk, ding-dong, dingbat, wiener, weeny, dip, simp, spud, coot, palooka, poop, squarehead, yo-yo, dingleberry; wing nut; dill, alec, galah, nong, bogan, poon, boofhead; mompara; knobhead; noddy, clodpole, loggerhead, spoony, mooncalf

FIFY.; 9/3/19, 11:49 AM
Sebastian said...: "I knew that's what I was"

Really? Why?

I guess it depends on what the meaning of knew is.; 9/3/19, 12:21 PM
Lucid-Ideas said...: Who in the hell names their kid (boy or girl) Zelda?; 9/3/19, 12:24 PM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: Now I get it. It's "the Squad," right?; 9/3/19, 12:39 PM
RichardJohnson said...: Lucid-Ideas
Who in the hell names their kid (boy or girl) Zelda?

In the early 1960s, there were two examples of Zelda being used in pop culture. The first is from the TV comedy show "Dobie Gillis, which ran from 1959-1963.Sheila Kuehl discusses her "Dobie Gillis" character Zelda Gilroy.

Another is from the comedian Alan Sherman. Allan Sherman: My Zelda from My Son the Folksinger album. Takeoff on calypso song, Matilda. Harry Belafonte: "She took the money and run Venezuela." Allan Sherman: "She took the money and run with the tailor."; 9/3/19, 12:45 PM
Mr. Groovington said...: Lucid: Who in the hell names their kid (boy or girl) Zelda?

It's not bad. The video heroine is aggressive and competitive. It's not vacuous, like John or Sally.; 9/3/19, 12:53 PM
traditionalguy said...: Sally is hot. But the Clod family should take Americanized version of that Germanic name.; 9/3/19, 1:07 PM
n.n said...: Now I get it. It's "the Squad," right?

A poignant observation that will aid Chast to reconcile the dissonance in her life.; 9/3/19, 1:08 PM
Darrell said...: Self hate. Almost always deserved.; 9/3/19, 1:15 PM
tcrosse said...: Lucid: Who in the hell names their kid (boy or girl) Zelda?

The people whose daughter married F. Scott Fitzgerald.; 9/3/19, 1:24 PM
RichardJohnson said...: traditional guy
But the Clod family should take Americanized version of that Germanic name.

Klutz?; 9/3/19, 1:28 PM
Bilwick said...: When I was a teenager and very much under the influence of MAD magazine, I often used the word "clod," as MAD did; but I never knew it meant "loser," except in a very broad sense. I thought it meant "stupid person."

I love the work of the adult Roz Chast.; 9/3/19, 1:33 PM
madAsHell said...: My wife drove us home from the beach this morning, and insisted on listening to Taylor Swift. A lot of teenage girl angst.; 9/3/19, 1:50 PM
rhhardin said...: This was before the website on how to draw breasts.; 9/3/19, 2:01 PM
Narr said...: Frankly, I like my Germanic, indeed wider-than-Germanic family name.

Carl Spaatz changed his from Spatz because he didn't like the sound of "General Spats."
We're OK with the single middle -a-, which gets Englished anyway.

Narr
We're not Kranks, or those uppity de Kranqs; 9/3/19, 2:01 PM
Ignorance is Bliss said...: rhhardin said...
This was before the website on how to draw breasts.

Never draw to an inside breast.; 9/3/19, 2:10 PM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: OT:

but...but...but.. Antifa

Three of the 36 anti-Straight Pride Parade protesters being arraigned Tuesday were ordered to “stay out of Boston” by a judge who said he wouldn’t even allow one of them to visit relatives in Jamaica Plain.

All three were accused of assault and battery on police at Saturday’s downtown parade, with two of them also arraigned in Boston Municipal Court on disorderly and resisting arrest charges. Others also arraigned Tuesday were told to stay out of downtown.; 9/3/19, 3:09 PM
Maillard Reactionary said...: madAsHell said: "My wife drove us home from the beach this morning, and insisted on listening to Taylor Swift."

Foam ear plugs. That's what I use when my wife puts on the TV show about the fake small claims court judge who likes to yell at stupid people. (They're all stupid. Some are dishonest, too, but they're all stupid.)

Blessed relief.; 9/3/19, 3:54 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: are they wearing Clod-Hoppers ?

He used to plow them rows straight and deep
And I'd come along near behind
A-bustin' up clods with my own bare feet
Old Rivers was a friend of mine.

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was 'Zelda" the trans-Clod ?; 9/3/19, 4:47 PM
James K said...: In always liked Roz Chast. Too bad Remnick turned the New Yorker into just another shrill Orange Man Bad propaganda rag. Even the cartoons have deteriorated.; 9/3/19, 5:06 PM
chickelit said...: Democrats on suicide watch, as there are no dead Americans for them to use as props to bash Trump with. Losers. Here, let me pick out a shotgun for you.

I can't get over how bad it looked when Trump said that Dorian might hit Alabama. Chuck was the only one who kept hammering away on that gaffe -- a gaffe that could cost Trump reelection.; 9/3/19, 5:18 PM
D 2 said...: My mind went to Debussy, Monet, Rains and Lemieux.; 9/3/19, 5:32 PM
madAsHell said...: I perhaps over-looked something here, but what's up with the names? Are they meaningful?? Were they girlfriends?.....or were you just going Sybil??; 9/3/19, 6:18 PM
Mr. Majestyk said...: The Clod Squad; 9/3/19, 6:20 PM
Mark said...: Speaking of clods, I see that RFK Jr. is now doing commercials for some class action law firm.; 9/3/19, 6:23 PM
Narayanan said...: Fen said ... Here, let me pick out a shotgun for you.
_______
Please don't, unless you want them to kill innocent bystanders.

Now : Rope or roof-edge should be ok.; 9/3/19, 6:30 PM
Fen said...: I can't get over how bad it looked when Trump said that Dorian might hit Alabama.

Didn't Katrina stall off of Florida and then loop back around to Louisiana?

Given Trump's record (I'm being bugged, etc) I would not tempt Fate by mocking him ;); 9/3/19, 8:46 PM
chickelit said...: And here I thought I was mocking Chuck.; 9/3/19, 11:32 PM