The "Calamari comeback state" of Rhode Island caught viewers' attention during its turn on the #DemConvention roll call across America 🐙🇺🇸 https://t.co/6tjma19Dq4 pic.twitter.com/4jp0thiAir— Bloomberg (@business) August 19, 2020
I mean, really, is there any competition? I found "Top 12 Quotes About Calamari." It includes one by Scott Adams: "If you think it's easy to write jokes about fried calamari, you've probably never tried."
I don't trust this list, though, because it includes, as #10: "I want to be a poet, from head to toe, living and dying by poetry" — by Federico Garcia Lorca. Maybe if you're a poet — from head to toe (from fin to tentacle) — you can visualize how that's about calamari.
If we extend our tentacles into "squid" quotes, we've got Aldous Huxley:
The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace,There's also this insight from Marlon Brando: "The most repulsive thing you could ever imagine is the inside of a camel's mouth. That and watching a girl eat octopus or squid."
The prurient ape's defiling touch:
And do you like the human race?
No, not much.
And here's something Clare Boothe Luce said about the Democratic Party: "Its leaders are always troubadours of trouble; crooners of catastrophe ... A Democratic President is doomed to proceed to his goals like a squid, squirting darkness all about him."
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So, this guy is trying to brand RI away from its shameful past as "plantations." Nice try.
Other than being The First State, what is Delaware famous for?
Nebraska will always be about corn and beef. And the home of DDB!
Please, commenters, leave the Japanese out of this thread.
Calamari: Onion rings with the texture of rubber bands.
Typical. The worker has to wear a mask while the politician gets to talk and spray without a mask. The rules really are only for the little people.
We called them French Fried Whale Assholes.
I could not have described the Democrats of today any better than Clare Boothe Luce did when she made that statement.
I have to say, I love calamari, but if I'm in Rhode Island, it's the steamers I'm going for. That, and Black Pearl chowdah.
Rhode Island is a nice little place. Do Democrats loot and destroy stuff there, or is it too quaint a region?
Wisconsin: Beer and cheese.
Now if you extend it to "Squidward"..
A Democratic President is doomed to proceed to his goals like a squid, squirting darkness all about him.
If his goal is to escape from predators.
"Other than being The First State, what is Delaware famous for?"
As a native-born Delawarean, I can say:
1. Better living through chemicals
2. Corporate law
3. Swede's landing
4. Blue hens
5. Being the second-smallest state
6. Border that looks like it was drawn with a compass
4. ?
Even a blind squid wins a Democrat Presidential nomination once in a while.
Ling cod and white bass love fresh calamari from Monterey Bay.
When you drive over spilled squid waste (overflowed from a truck from a processing plant) that is on a hot blacktop road (to Pt Judith) in Rhode Island, speaking of calamari and Rhode Island, you will decide that this is the worst possible smell that you will ever encounter.
There is one quote that stuck in my mind, I can’t remember which movie, but the scene was an American man sitting down to dinner with Sophia Loren, I think, at a Spanish restaurant and she asks him what he would like, he tells her, and then she says to the waiter “The *tourist* will have the calamari.”
Federico.
Bay Area Guy:
Rhode Island is a nice little place. Do Democrats loot and destroy stuff there, or is it too quaint a region?
That you even ASK the question implies you don't know much about Rhode Island. Rhode Island is and has been, I suspect, one of the most corrupt states. Look up Buddy Cianci, long-time Mayor of Providence, who spent some years in the pen. He's just the tip of the iceberg.
Mafia is big there- or was, at least. Back in the day I worked the counter at a greasy spoon restaurant. One of the owners- 1 of 3 brothers- got into trouble with a BIG gambling debt in NYC's Chinatown. One of the brothers called in a favor with a Rhode Island Mafia he knew from Army days and got the debt cancelled. The gambler had to sell his interest in the restaurant, as the favor was one time only.
Two good things about Rhode Island: fried clams and Scarborough Beach. Good separate, and better combined.
Cousins used to live in Rhode Island. One cousin told me that the state's name was Road Island, as the state was all built up.
"That and watching a girl eat octopus or squid."
Sexist! Anyway, done it and survived.
"And here's something Clare Boothe Luce said about the Democratic Party: "Its leaders are always troubadours of trouble; crooners of catastrophe ... A Democratic President is doomed to proceed to his goals like a squid, squirting darkness all about him."
Racist! But true. (If racist statements are true, are they still racist?)
Blogger Ann Althouse said...
"Other than being The First State, what is Delaware famous for?"
As a native-born Delawarean, I can say:"
You are too modest.
1. Ann Althouse.
"Rhode Island is a nice little place. Do Democrats loot and destroy stuff there, or is it too quaint a region?"
When I lived there in the late sixties it was mostly the Mafia that looted the local and state governments and some businesses. The R.I. Democrats were (still are?) a subsidiary of the R.I. Mafia, but the Mafia frowns on wholesale destruction, unlike the subsidiary. As I recall, there were sometimes "accidents" that happened to non-conforming businesses or folks who failed to live up to their obligations to the mob, but the neighborhoods were generally safe because the Mafia owned them and profited from them.
what is Delaware famous for?
I don't know about "famous," but it's got the best looking license plates.
Don't forget CornPop. He was a famous Delaware gangsta at some point in the 60s.
As another native Delawarean allow me to add, The Diamond State...
& its dynamite Hagley Museum.
& its decorative Winterthur museum.
is the Home of Tax-free Shopping.
has the fewest counties (New Castle, Kent, Sussex) of any state, one less than RI.
is the only state that still uses the medieval division of those counties into "Hundreds."
was the last state to outlaw public flogging as a punishment.
GO HENS!
"Other than being The First State, what is Delaware famous for?"
As a native-born Delawarean, I can say:
1. Better living through chemicals
2. Corporate law
3. Swede's landing
4. Blue hens
5. Being the second-smallest state
6. Border that looks like it was drawn with a compass
4. ?
I think you lost most of us after #2. Swede's landing? Blue hens??? No idea what the border looks like...
One word: Kamalari.
AA - I also watched the Convention last night - and "Clare Boothe" is correct "about the Democratic Party: "Its leaders are always troubadours of trouble; crooners of catastrophe..."
As I watched this "Conclave" it dawned on me that the Democratic Party had no idea why Mr. Trump was elected President. There are so many people in our country's higher structures of society who don't talk to the forgotten person. That's an absolute heresy. That's where Mr. Trump comes in - Democrats are not talking to these people. Consequently, Mr. Trump was elected President. More power to him for addressing their issues. He's talking to them. Mr. Trump is not the cause of these things. He's the result of these things. The Democratic Party I saw last night needs to move more to the 'Center' and away from its 'Radical Fringe'. People who hate the Democratic Party (many Democrats) have pulled out their hair because the 'Party' has proved itself incapable of generating a presidential candidate who can actually take on Mr. Trump - a flawed person. The Dems system is so flawed it can't find a 'Centrist' who can offer himself as a viable alternative to Mr. Trump. The Dems have come up with candidates whose a 'new age spiritualist' and someone who wants to dissolve the border - thereby our Nation. Every study/poll I've seen exhibits that our country is 'Center/Right'. These forgotten people/voters, who are 50%+ have been walked all over and pushed aside for identity politics. Today, the 'Riots', 'Defund Police', 'Impeachment', etc., have shown these voters that the Democratic Party refuses to address their issues. This contempt by Elites are not just here in the USA. Brexit is another example and attempt to break society. Australia also lost confidence in its 'Political Parties'. So like in the USA other countries' 'Political Elites' sometimes confuse the health of their democracy with their dominance of it. That's the 'Democratic Party' whose love for identity politics, open borders, and hate for Mr. Trump are irrelevant. The election of Mr. Trump was an attempt by these voters to break it. The societal pressure which has been building up for some time continues in 2020. Such pressures will result in voters reelecting Mr. Trump.
Calamari is like breaded, deep-fried asshole. Eww.
I've been scouting around Delaware for a place to retire. The property taxes are really low, which is nice for someone on a fixed income. But the state is flat as a pancake (highest point is 447.8 feet above sea level) which militates against any locale being scenic. You need elevation to see things. And unless you can afford a place on the shore in someplace like Lewes or Rehoboth Beach, your inland community is likely to be dull, a little run down, and just down the road from a chicken farm. Truly, in Delaware, there is no "there" there.
That northern border was dead easy to draw on a map, but quite difficult to survey on the ground, especially with the technology of the time.
Ann Althouse said...
"Other than being The First State, what is Delaware famous for?"
As a native-born Delawarean, I can say:
1. Better living through chemicals
2. Corporate law
3. Swede's landing
4. Blue hens
5. Being the second-smallest state
6. Border that looks like it was drawn with a compass
4. ?
Based on that list; Delaware must be the only state with two 4's in their numbering system.
No wonder Dopey Joe Biden is always confused!
Ann Althouse said...
"Other than being The First State, what is Delaware famous for?"
You left out tax haven.
Delaware also has a little bit of territory on the other side of the Delaware River which should logically be part of New Jersey. No one lives there.
https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/new-jersey/nj-delaware-border/
Delaware is also famous for harboring credit card companies. Senator Biden (D-MBNA) exists for a reason.
Rush said that the DNC looked like a retirement party for a mid-level executive on Zoom.
I wish I had said that.
Also, apropo of our compass drawn northern border, the only semi-circular state border in the US, or indeed in the World, ambiguities arising from the Mason & Dixon's 12 Mile Circle have embroiled Delaware in two of the longest running border disputes in our nation's history. First, from 1632 till 1921, the various claims of the Calverts, Penns and the Duke of York resulted in uncertainty over the ownership of "The Wedge". Secondly, because the Circle extends the DE border across the Delaware River and into NJ, Delaware was granted the rights to the whole of the river, up to mean low water in NJ. From 1682 to 1905 this was the cause of much costly legal wrangling, culminating in the Delaware-NJ Compact of 1905, only to rear its ugly head again in 2008's Supreme Court Case NJ v DE, a 6-2 victory for Delaware and all right thinking people.
Marquise Love isn't going to arrest himself.
Calamari? I thought it was pronounced “Comma la.” Now I’m confused.
Re: The Clare Booth Luce quote, some things never change.
Earnest Prole said...
One word: Kamalari.
8/19/20, 12:00 PM
Difference is: people eat calamari; people like calamari.
Better living through CHEMISTRY
Rhode Island has beautiful beaches and providence is fun.
Rhode Island is a nice little place. Do Democrats loot and destroy stuff there, or is it too quaint a region
Still way corrupt, They have that asshole Whitehead or whatever what wants to jail scientists for not preaching leftie climate change religion. Other than that, some nice old golf courses, boating in the bay, Block Island a good stop on the way to Montauk, Providence has some good dining when there's no covid.
@ policraticus
LOL
I did almost include “only 3 counties” on my list.
Could also say: State song has separate verse for each county.
“ Better living through CHEMISTRY“
LOL. You’re right. I’ve been gone too long. My father and grandfather worked for DuPont.
Wife and I were on a trip to Scotland a few years ago, and we stopped in a grocery store to get some munchies. The checkout lady asked where we were from (quickly deducing we were Yanks) and when she learned we lived in Rhode Island, she said "Och, they have a lovely chicken there, been raising them for years." She was referring to the Rhode Island Red, a breed developed in the town of Little Compton, RI, just down the road from here. More famous than calamari. But our #1 culinary treat is the stuffie, a huge quahog clam, meat chopped, mixed with onion and other stuff, breaded and broiled. Summer = stuffies.
A surprising amount of calamari is counterfeit. Washed, treated pig intestine is imported from China. Also known as pork bung.
I don't know about you, but whenever I think of spineless and slimy creatures that aren't really good for anything beyond consumption, I can't help but think of certain LLR's.....
Blogger Ann Althouse said.."Other than being The First State, what is Delaware famous for?"
Eastern shore Marylanders retire there for income and estate tax reasons.
Tommyesq - Haven't you ever heard of the Twelve Mile Circle?
Delaware, RI, and Vermont should all be eliminated as states. In return, Texas and Calf should be made into 2 states, and NE new jersey, NYC and Long Island made into a separate state.
Its so typical of how brain dead the D's are, that they want DC to be a separate state, but don't want Calf to be made into 2 states.
If we must pretend that cephalopods are the most newsworthy item on the current agenda, let's agree the phrase that made Matt Taibbi's career is the sole king of the mountain:
"The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it’s everywhere. The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money."
Silly fools.
Delaware, RI, and Vermont should all be eliminated as states.
And while we’re at it, give Vermont to Canada — and Bernie Sanders and Pat Leahy with it.
The Kraken
Below the thunders of the upper deep,
Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth; faintest sunlights flee
About his shadowy sides; above him swell huge sponges
Of millennial growth and height;
And far away into the sickly light
From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
Unnumber'd and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
There hath he lain for ages, and will lie,
Battening upon huge seaworms in his sleep,
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep,
Then once by men and angels to be seen
In roaring he shall rise, and on the surface -- die.
(I believe that's Tennyson. I think I've got all the text right; it ought to be a sonnet, but it's got an extra line. I'm remembering from Benjamin Britten's Nocturne, and didn't look up the text. Imagine sung by a tenor, with a lurid and very difficult bassoon obbligato.)
Big Mike,
As long as we get to keep New Hampshire.
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