I suppose you're now going to claim you didn't realize "Kool-Aid" is a racist slur, as is--no doubt--Filet-O-Fish.

'Ace' is prbably offensive to someone too.

Oliver "Like Bald and Fat to Ugly" Willis claims y'all are slurring him.

What I find amusing about this whole "timing" thing is guys like Joshua Micah Naomi Goldfarb Marshall don't stop to think WHY these alerts [manufactured or not] boost Bush. It's because their Manchurian candidate, Kerry, just isn't credible when it comes to national defense. Saying things like Bin Laden being tried in a US court doesn't help matters either. Instead of these guys claiming something they really can't prove - that these alerts were manufactured - why not instead just improve Kerry's credibility [easier said than done] when it comes to terrorism?

Actually, Sharp, you are correct.

I checked out the "racial slur database" that INDC has posted on his website and "Ace of Spades" is listed as a slur against blacks.

No joke. Go check for yourself.

I meant to include the link in the above post.

http://www.rsdb.org/search?q=ace+of+spades

Stop going so hard on Oliver and Josh. You know that Bush drops a couple of percentage points every time one of these suspiciously timed alerts come out. Bush is desperate and so are you. Take a good look inside yourselves, gentlemen, and ask yourselves why you are so lonely, why women refuse to go out with you. I think I know why, but do you?

Yes, we're lonely and we get no sex. You nailed it, dude.

I, for one, long to possess the raw animal sexual charisma of an Oliver Willis or a -- dare I even dream? -- Josh Marshall.

Akefa, if you're going to try to flame someone on the Internet, you should try insults newer than DARPA's first test run of the thing.

My grandmother throws insults like you, but damn man, she's OLD!

Stop going so hard on Oliver and Josh.

Are you accusing Ace of having a sexual relationship with those guys? We don't believe in gay marriage here, pal.

You know that Bush drops a couple of percentage points every time one of these suspiciously timed alerts come out.

Which is why he does it. See, it's all part of an elaborate but deceptive plan to make his numbers go up.

Take a good look inside yourselves, gentlemen

With a scalpel or through a naturally occurring bodily orifice?

and ask yourselves why you are so lonely

It's because I haven't finished filling out my e-Harmony profile yet, obviously.

why women refuse to go out with you

Well, besides my incomplete e-Harmony profile, Ace is supposedly "going hard" on Oliver and Josh, so he's a bit tied up right now.

Why do i get the feeling that Akefa would like to "go hard" on Oliver and Josh?

Oliver Willis confesses to cannibalistic murder of Alan Keyes

"I know you have more than one bite of crazy in you," Willis bellowed while washing down the last morsel of Keyes, his nonexistent chin dribbling fave beans and a nice red Kool-aid.

That racial slur database rules.

Pardon the empty clue buffer here, guys, but the racial slur database seems even weaker than I'd thought:

Ace of Spades: "Self Explanatory"

Yeah, just as I thought, though what it has to do with racism of any kind is beyond my meager understanding. Having reviewed Bill's short list, I remain amazed at the things people go out of their way to get their panties in a bunch about.

Take a good look inside yourselves, gentlemen, and ask yourselves why you are so lonely, why women refuse to go out with you.

Because that would be adultery.

Idiot.

Take a good look inside yourselves, gentlemen, and ask yourselves why you are so lonely, why women refuse to go out with you.

Actually, it was pointed out to me in the comments to this post that my problems with women are directly related to my increasing dislike of the band Boston. As far as I know, the chicks aren't really on to my acute political desperation.

Might want to look up "ace of spades" in that database ...

Headline from the Sept. 10, 2001, editon of the Alternate Reality Times:

Bush Raises Terror Alert
Dumbass pinko moonbats find timing "suspicious"

Calamari is squid, not shellfish. I'm just sayin.'

lauraw,

1. both mollusks and crustaceans can be considered "shellfish," since shellfish isn't a scientific designation, and since both mollusks and crustacean have shells (clams and oysters are mollusks, just like squid, while crawdads, crabs, lobster, etc. are mollusks, but also shellfish.

2. Mon Calamari definitely have a more crustaceany look than mollusky, despite the name.

3. Dear God, am I really that big a geek?

er sorry, I called crawdads/crabs/lobsters mollusks, I meant crustaceans.

Yeah, I guess I am that big a geek.

Oliver Willis is black?! Why wasn't I informed immediately?

Well, the assumption was that he wasn't Black as in African American, so much as Black as in "So massive not even light escapes his gravity", so noone thought it was an ethnic issue.

Of course, using that rationale, Michael Moore is the blackest man in America.

You know, when I first started reading this site (back in the blogspot days) I actually supposed that you WERE black. Funny how these things work out.

And since no one else has said it, I'll go ahead and take the bait:

IT'S A TRAP!

No shell = not shellfish.

"...shellfish isn't a scientific designation..."

Yet you indulged your need to list scientific designations anyway. Brian, I shall hereafter refer to you as Mr. Oyvin Glavin.

(Sorry. Slow morning at the shop.)

lauraw,

n. pl. squids or squid
Any of various marine cephalopod mollusks of the genus Loligo and related genera, having a usually elongated body, ten arms surrounding the mouth, a vestigial internal shell, and a pair of triangular or rounded fins.

Who the hell is Oyvin Glavin?

Wow, we've managed to go from a Las Vegas bomb plot to discussing Oliver Willis' weight/hypersensitivity problems, to Admiral Akbar, to what precisely constitutes a shellfish.

This is one heck of a thread.

And I've never heard anyone call a squid a shellfish before.

And Oyvin Glavin is not a person, but a sound made frequently by Jerry Lewis and Dr. Frink. And Operation: Hoyven Mayveen was a sinister plot hatched by the Motherloving Sugar Company to supress the results of tests showing the addictive properties of sugar. The strange name of the operation tipped Marge Simpson off to the identity of her otherwise mysterious tipster, the aforementioned Frink.

I hope everyone is up to speed now.

Sobek,

And I've never heard anyone call a squid a shellfish before.

You have now.

thanks for the info about Oyvin Glavin. The animaniacs pronounced it "Freud Layvin".

Indeed I have. And I remember that Animaniacs episode well. I need to grow up.

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