Monday, May 25, 2009

Etymology

Who destroyed the word "hero"? Jimmy Carter, that's who.
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20 comments:

Another Kiwi said...

Well, as the root of all evil AND not being nice to the Iraelis, I would be very surprised if it wasn't Jimmy Carter.
Jimmy you too bad man!!!

5/25/2009 11:56:00 a.m.
zombie rotten mcdonald said...

So Burt is agreeing that calling GWB a hero for wearing a flightsuit incorrectly is not deserved?

I think the ragin grannies are finally getting to old Burp.

5/25/2009 12:44:00 p.m.
Righteous Bubba said...

You know, "Etymology" is a silly title.

Captcha "abent" so there you go.

Support the unheroic troops!

5/25/2009 01:04:00 p.m.
tigris said...

Sure, Burt's wicked old so you'd think he'd have a vast treasure trove of knowledge from which to draw examples, but the whole "examples based on early memory" thing is a moving target at this point. Today the Carter administration is the fount of all that is wrong with the world, tomorrow it'll all be Clinton's fault.

5/25/2009 01:04:00 p.m.
Rusty Shackleford said...

Heroism is a finite good

5/25/2009 01:13:00 p.m.
mikey said...

It is on this most solemn of days when we gaze about in reflection, and thank all that we hold holy for the Grannies, who stomped tyranny, scowled at fascism and rolled back the global advance of evil with nothing but a pair of sensible shoes and a bingo dabber.

Always remember: The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for the Grannies to just stand there.

And pygoss....

mikey

5/25/2009 02:04:00 p.m.
herr doktor bimler said...

"examples based on early memory"
Where, then, are the examples drawn from the Napoleanic wars?

#4 Cat (the feral one) reports that raging grannies and eyebrows on the screen are irresistible.* They must be defeated. OK, the keyboard was in the way, but that's just collateral damage.

* And adrestbl.

5/25/2009 02:27:00 p.m.
Righteous Bubba said...

#4 Cat (the feral one) reports that raging grannies and eyebrows on the screen are irresistible.* They must be defeated.

Then you get granny feet all over the place.

5/25/2009 04:08:00 p.m.
herr doktor bimler said...

At least that would make a change from the butt-ends of rodents and the dead stick-insects that we usually find in the kitchen in the morning.

Not to mention the live wetas.

5/25/2009 04:42:00 p.m.
Righteous Bubba said...

Wow. Why do you need a cat?

5/25/2009 05:10:00 p.m.
herr doktor bimler said...

Apparently, we need cats so they can catch the wetas alive and bring them inside, where they turn up some time later inside people's boots, or -- on one memorable occasion when the Frau Doktorin left her swimming bag by the kitchen door -- inside her swimsuit, several hours later.

5/25/2009 05:16:00 p.m.
Righteous Bubba said...

Can the wetas be trained to perform all the wonderful tricks your cats perform?

5/25/2009 06:32:00 p.m.
mikey said...

I'm thinking that in launching strikes on the Wetas, the cats might very well find themselves unfortunate collateral damage.

At the end of the day, we could apologize to cat families and sleep without vacuum sealing our pillows...

mikey

5/25/2009 06:33:00 p.m.
herr doktor bimler said...

Wonderful tricks? No, I have not yet heard of a weta learning to knock valuable objects off the mantle-piece.

5/25/2009 06:48:00 p.m.
tigris said...

Oh Smut, don't be silly, of course he doesn't remember what happened in the Napoleonic wars. He forgot all that midlife stuff AGES ago.

Now excuse me while I go shake out every item of clothing I own. *shudder*

5/25/2009 06:54:00 p.m.
herr doktor bimler said...

You know, "Etymology" is a silly title.

Particularly when the thread turns out to be about entomology.

5/25/2009 07:46:00 p.m.
a different mikey said...

You know, "Etymology" is a silly title.What about gastro-etymology?

(burp) Excuse me.

flogess

5/26/2009 11:17:00 a.m.
Righteous Bubba said...

Castroetymology has a certain fidelity to it.

5/26/2009 11:59:00 a.m.
Another Kiwi said...

Whoever hacked RB's name and posted that pun is just awful

5/26/2009 04:55:00 p.m.
Another Kiwi said...

When, in fact, it was those Aucklanders who destroyed the Hero thing.

Capcha tells us to stay sanesod

5/27/2009 02:20:00 a.m.

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