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August 26, 2004

Special Ace of Spades HQ Guest Editorial

For some time, I've been casting about looking for guest contributors who could help shoulder the blogging load. Recently I received the following essay in an email, and I think the writer's words are important for all of us.

If You Touch My Hoagie One More Time, I Will Fucking Kill You

by Rich "Psycho" Giamboni
Special Guest Columnist for Ace of Spades HQ

If you touch my hoagie one more time, I will fucking kill you. I don't mean that metaphorically. I mean I will fucking reach across this table and literally, physically kill you.

You had your fun. You thought you were cute. You thought it was clown-time, and you were driving the little car. You touched the top of my turkey and provolone hoagie, and now I've had to rip off the piece of bread that you fucking contaminated.

Well I've got news for you, Chuckles. Clown-time is over. Now it's Psycho-Time. And if you touch my goddamned hoagie one more time, I'm going to fuck you up so bad you'll end up looking like Kuato from Total Recall.

Don't believe me? Think I'm joshing with you? Look at my face: I am not joshing with you, pal. I am deadly serious, and if you so much as fucking lay another finger on this sandwich you'll enter a world of hurt of beyond your very capability to conceive. No fuckin' foolin', you touch this hoagie one more time and I will spill life's blood all over this fucking Quizno's.

You finished your fucking cobb salad and now you're still hungry. Well, Poindexter, who the fuck told you to order that fucking cobb salad? I sure as shit didn't. You looked up at all the delicious, filling sandwiches you could have had and instead you went all queerbait on me. That was a mistake, amigo. That was a very bad mistake.

But I implore you-- if you value your very life, don't compound your error by touching my hoagie again. I shit you not, that will be the very last mistake you ever make.

Okay, okay. Now you're getting "funny" again. Now you're holding your hand a couple of inches away from my hoagie. Well aren't you cute? You're like a sixteen-year-old girl who just got her tits looking all sweet and ripe in her party dress. You're a doll, Susan. You're an absolute plum.

But if your fucking hand actually crosses the sandwich Rubicon, I am going to go apeshit up and down your spine. I am going to punch your fucking kidneys until you piss blood out of your fucking eyeballs.

Think I'm being farcical? Think I'm just "pulling your leg"? Right now I'm a 747 filled with only flying elbows and head-butts and I'm running an ad that says "Fly Me." You want to fly me? I offer Frequent Flyer Miles for fuckers who touch my sandwich. I'll take you to hell and back-- no extra charge.

You want to know how serious I am? You know that part in Dirty Harry when he says, "Go ahead, make my day?" Well imagine Clint Eastwood with a fucking turkey and provolone hoagie he's been looking forward to since 10:30 AM.

That's how fucking shit-serious I am, baby. You touch my hoagie again, I'm going to Dead Pool your grinning fucking face until I turn your brain into a slushing mess resembling gray applesauce.

I've got a little switch in my head. I call it my "Psycho Switch." And you're about to flip it. You flip that Psycho Switch, and I go into Full Retard Berserker Mode. I'll come at you with 100% retard-strength. I'll be all over you like a whirlwind of spazz-slaps and drool.

We don't have to go down this road, Chester. If you want a sandwich, they'll make you another one. Don't let your urge to nosh lead you into the grave. But if you want to play, we can play. I consider myself a bit of a "gamer."

So go ahead. Roll the dice. Let's see how all this plays out. But I warn you: This isn't Yahtzee. You won't be collecting pairs of fives. You'll be collecting your fucking teeth out of the Condiments Bar.

You're pulling your hand away now. Congratulations -- you chose wisely, my friend.

And now you're looking up at the menu-display over the cashier's heads. You're smartening up by the minute, Chief. Buy yourself a nice toasted ham and swiss sandwich. Ain't no lie, a nice toasted ham and swiss sandwich beats a trip to the morgue every day of the week, hands down. And that's the name of that tune.

Oh, and-- while you're up? Do me a solid and and grab me a pack of barbeque-flavor Ruffles. I forgot to get them. Thanks.

Rich "Psycho" Giamboni is an award-winning columnist for Hearst Newspapers. His most recent book is Take Back What You Said About Kevin McHale Or I Will Take a Shit in Your Jeep. His column appears here while Helen Thomas is vacationing.

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah: This set-up is Onion-esque. So friggin' what? Psycho Giamboni can write what he wants.

posted by Ace at 06:09 PM

Comments

I bet Kuligan wouldn't talk that way to Bob "Anka's a Pussy" Dole.

Posted by: Brian B on August 26, 2004 06:49 PM

I have a bad feeling that not getting the joke means that I flunked pop culture 101. Again. For the who-knows-how-many'th time.

Sigh.

Posted by: Dianna on August 26, 2004 06:52 PM

Don't feel bad, Dianna. Just do like me -- pretend you get it, make an oblique reference to Bob Dole, Paul Anka, or Johnny Coldcuts, and hope nobody notices.

Posted by: Brian B on August 26, 2004 06:57 PM

Lemme tell you something: read this as if Christopher Walken were delivering it in a monologue. It takes it to a whole 'nother level.

Posted by: Senator PhilABuster on August 26, 2004 07:04 PM

Simply fucking beautiful.

Posted by: Sortelli on August 26, 2004 07:18 PM

Bob Dole knows one thing, ain't no way Bob Dole's gonna get anybody any potato chips after gettin' talked to like that. Bob Dole would've had to step over our guest commentators rigo corpse to leave the establishment.

Posted by: Birkel on August 26, 2004 07:37 PM

Correction

commentator's

Posted by: Birkel on August 26, 2004 07:37 PM

"Psycho" looks an awful lot like Jake the Snake

Posted by: krakatoa on August 26, 2004 07:54 PM

Sounds like how I used to bitch slap the trolls out in California. ABSOLUTELY SNOT-SLINGING!!!lol

Posted by: The Moose on August 26, 2004 07:58 PM

Just briliant. I'm hungry.

Posted by: RS on August 26, 2004 08:15 PM

So, if these are the same things that go through my mind whenever I take a call at work, only without the sandwich references, just how crazy am I?

Oh, and Rusty: In & Out rules, my friend.

Posted by: ccwbass on August 26, 2004 08:19 PM

Dianna,

Well there's not a lot to get. It's not a pop-culture reference. It's just sort of funny (I think) that this guy is writing an "editorial" telling you not to touch his hoagie.

Krakatoa,

Yuhp, it is.

Posted by: ace on August 26, 2004 09:30 PM

Great stuff Ace! Although, I didn't appreciate the cobb salad bashing.

Posted by: Golden Boy on August 26, 2004 11:56 PM

I didn't tell you to order the fucking cobb salad, Golden Boy. Don't try to pin that one on me.

Posted by: ace on August 27, 2004 12:47 AM

"Right now I'm a 747 filled with only flying elbows and head-butts and I'm running an ad that says "Fly Me"

I'm dying right now man! Where does this 'ish come from ace? damn you a foo..

lol

Posted by: Arvin Wallace on August 27, 2004 01:07 AM

What's 'ish? Is that some slang I need to know?

Posted by: ace on August 27, 2004 01:10 AM

Our local "wacky morning DJs" have used the word "ish" as a secret code word for "shit".

I think it's from how some colorful songs have been defanged by dubbing the curse words in backwards.

Posted by: Sortelli on August 27, 2004 01:16 AM

Ah.

I've got to start listening to more wacky morning DJ's.

Posted by: ace on August 27, 2004 01:17 AM

Uhhhhh. . . you sure about that?

Posted by: Sortelli on August 27, 2004 01:48 AM

Do me a solid, Ace - make Fridays "Psycho" Giamboni day.

Posted by: seahay on August 27, 2004 07:47 AM

That's the funniest thing I've read all week. Thanks, Ace.

Full Retard Berserker Mode.

Priceless.

Posted by: Trevor on August 27, 2004 11:32 AM

That was really fuckin' funny. I'll second the "Psycho Fridays" idea.

Posted by: BAM on August 27, 2004 10:04 PM

I take back what I said about Kevin McHale.

I'm sorry.

Posted by: sonofnixon on August 29, 2004 07:14 PM

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Correction: I wrote that Labour is losing 88% (now 87%) of the seats it is "defending." I think that's wrong. The right way to say it is the seats they are contesting -- that is, they don't necessarily already hold these seats, but they have put up a candidate to run for the seat. It's still very bad but not as bad as losing 87% of the seats they already held.

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🚨ED MILIBAND [a Minister in Starmer's government] SAYS KEIR STARMER WILL RESIGN AS PRIME MINISTER

He has reportedly reassured Labour MP's that Starmer will be resigning following the disastrous results tonight

It's over

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Cataclysmic

Update: They've now lost 88% of the seats they're defending. As I mentioned earlier, I think I heard that London will not bail them out, as many of those Labour seats will probably flip to "Muslim Independent" or Green. Detroit's 5am vote will not save them.

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br> If this continues, Keir Starmer will be out of office next week.

Reform has surged and projected to pick up between 1700-2100 seats.

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