"If there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll do anything you say."
― badpee pooper (Eric H.), Monday, 22 January 2024 15:09 (nine months ago) link
I wonder if Haley will be able to buffalo Trump into debating her, now that its down to the two of them.
― o. nate, Monday, 22 January 2024 18:05 (nine months ago) link
I've never heard "buffalo" as a verb, but I like it.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 22 January 2024 18:18 (nine months ago) link
Buffalo Trumperhe's the ass of America
― Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Monday, 22 January 2024 18:19 (nine months ago) link
Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo is a classic bit of language dorkery. (I confess I am okay with four but six is too many.)
I am more comfortable with the sequence "Chad, while Brad had had 'had,' had had 'had had.' 'Had had' had had a better effect on their grammar teacher."
― Wine not? (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 22 January 2024 18:26 (nine months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/hBRnzWd.jpg
― Boris Yitsbin (wins), Monday, 22 January 2024 18:32 (nine months ago) link
Canonical buffalo buffalo is x7
― Boris Yitsbin (wins), Monday, 22 January 2024 18:33 (nine months ago) link
wins, yeah, I know! I have never been able to get there. And I have tried! I have a degree in English and significant coursework in linguistics and after four or five buffalos my brain just shuts down. I admire people who get to seven. Take the W.
― Wine not? (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 22 January 2024 19:07 (nine months ago) link
Sorry to drone on but there is another bit of geekdom where you try to end a sentence with as many prepositions as possible. It involves a parent who wishes to read a book about Australia to a child.
The hypothetical child says something like "Why did you bring that book that I don't want to be read to about Down Under up for?"
After that it gets recursive and it's tedious to reenact, so I will spare you.
― Wine not? (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 22 January 2024 19:15 (nine months ago) link
Y'all are just off the chain.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 22 January 2024 19:16 (nine months ago) link
The form of the 7 buffalo version is "Adjective noun verb noun (adjective noun verb)" where the part in parentheses is a dependent clause with an implied "that". So it's like: "California children eat cookies California children eat" but just replace all the words with "Buffalo".
xxp
― o. nate, Monday, 22 January 2024 19:18 (nine months ago) link
Apologies to ilxors who prefer thread topic discipline to thread topic anarchy. We can redirect these digressions to more appropriate places if needed.
― Wine not? (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 22 January 2024 19:22 (nine months ago) link
I was just about to say how I parse it differently to o nate & realised the version I know is actually x8
― Boris Yitsbin (wins), Monday, 22 January 2024 19:23 (nine months ago) link
xp I love digressions. I also love nerdiness. Carry on.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 22 January 2024 19:24 (nine months ago) link
I figured since we've all now settled on Trump is gonna win, may as well start fiddling with rapid-fire topic changes
― badpee pooper (Eric H.), Monday, 22 January 2024 19:27 (nine months ago) link
threads with 2900 posts are allowed to shape their own interior symmetries
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 22 January 2024 19:27 (nine months ago) link
to be fair, I'd much rather spend my energy parsing that buffalo sentence than thinking about the titular dipshit any further.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 22 January 2024 19:31 (nine months ago) link
If Trump wins, I am going to spend the following four years just saying "buffalo buffalo buffalo" to anyone who tries to talk to me
― badpee pooper (Eric H.), Monday, 22 January 2024 19:34 (nine months ago) link
Titular dipshit's name is also a noun and verb, so we might be able to do something similar there. But I don't want to think about it.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 22 January 2024 19:38 (nine months ago) link
Well, he'll be renaming the country Trump, so that may work well
― badpee pooper (Eric H.), Monday, 22 January 2024 19:38 (nine months ago) link
Trumpopia
(And my prior post should have gone "Why did you bring that book that I don't want to be read to from out of about Down Under up for?")
― Wine not? (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 22 January 2024 19:51 (nine months ago) link
Getting close to Smurf-talk, then. Trump trumped the trump trump by trumping the trump.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 22 January 2024 19:52 (nine months ago) link
I'm trumped, Trump, I meant to trump the trump but trumped the trump trump before I could trump the trump. It won't trump again.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 22 January 2024 19:53 (nine months ago) link
Trumps trump Trumps Trumps trump.
― o. nate, Monday, 22 January 2024 20:02 (nine months ago) link
It's just Trumps all the way down.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 22 January 2024 20:03 (nine months ago) link
You wanna Trump— What? Trump up and get TrumpedIf you're feeling Trumpy Trump then press your Trump
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 22 January 2024 20:13 (nine months ago) link
Trumpception, Trumpocalypse, Trumptopia, Trumpaloopa
― Wine not? (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 22 January 2024 20:14 (nine months ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/11/07/a-preelection-trumpalooza/
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 22 January 2024 20:15 (nine months ago) link
for some reason I keep thinking of
snorgsnorgsnorgsnorgsnorgsnorgsnorg aaaargh my day is ruined
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, May 23, 2007
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Monday, 22 January 2024 20:16 (nine months ago) link
trump up volume
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Monday, 22 January 2024 20:23 (nine months ago) link
Shake ... your ... Trump ...
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 22 January 2024 20:31 (nine months ago) link
Ain't nothing wrongWith a little Trump'n'Grind
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 22 January 2024 20:33 (nine months ago) link
Pull up to the Trumper baby
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 22 January 2024 20:33 (nine months ago) link
Apparently Trump's lawyer has covid, or at least people suspect she has covid. So there's at least one potential upside to covid sticking around.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 22 January 2024 22:24 (nine months ago) link
and she was sitting right next to him
O Lord, please hear my prayers
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 22 January 2024 22:44 (nine months ago) link
Guys guys, calm down. We all know how disappointingly his last bout of covid turned out.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 22 January 2024 22:45 (nine months ago) link
From what I remember he probably would have died without the presidential level care (and by now he's presumably replaced his medical team with 100% quacks).
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 22 January 2024 22:56 (nine months ago) link
I heard it was a jury member with covid, but hopefully they were within infection distance
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 22 January 2024 22:58 (nine months ago) link
This is the second time I'm rooting for the virus.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 22 January 2024 23:08 (nine months ago) link
xpost Habba apparently had dinner with her parents a couple of days ago, and now they have covid, and she herself, despite testing negative this morning, has a fever and isn't feeling well. So whether it's covid, RSV, flu, herpes, pneumonia, a cold, cooties, whatever, here's hoping she gives him whatever it is she has.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 22 January 2024 23:27 (nine months ago) link
I was just about to say how I parse it differently to o nate & realised the version I know is actually x8― Boris Yitsbin (wins), Monday, January 22, 2024 1:23 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Same!
adj noun adj noun verb verb adj noun
London dogs ([that] Paris cats chase) eat Berlin rats.
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 01:16 (nine months ago) link
🚨 New @SusquehannaPR poll is out!*POTUS*Biden: 46.8%Trump: 39.3%Biden+7.5*PA SEN*Casey (D-Inc): 45.9%McCormick (R): 42.1%Casey+3.8Told you guys it’d be spicy. 👀🔥— Joshua Smithley (@blockedfreq) January 23, 2024
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 15:15 (nine months ago) link
yea it's not really getting talked about but the last few weeks of Trump/Biden polling has looked better for Joe
I have noticed the media has started paying attention to the fact that Trump is even more incoherent than usual, it's not even the weird rambling he usually does
Trump: Which is incapable of solvin’ even the sollest problem. We are an institute in a powerful death penalty. We will put this on pic.twitter.com/eM7dTV8iHe— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) January 23, 2024
― frogbs, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 15:35 (nine months ago) link
Part of the reason for Trump's low poll numbers is just Republicans supporting Haley or whoever who aren't ready to come around to Trump just yet. But they will.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 15:37 (nine months ago) link
some of the polls only give Biden and Trump as options
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 15:38 (nine months ago) link
In our new Pa poll, McCormick (in Senate race) is overperforming Trump (in POTUS race) w/ GOP voters because Trump is showing signs of GOP defections as a result of the divisive GOP nomination battle in Iowa/NH. Haley is the elephant in the room PUN INTENDED.— SP&R (@SusquehannaPR) January 23, 2024
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 15:38 (nine months ago) link
well sure some of those folks will wind up backing Trump but idk I kinda feel like committing 100 felonies and quoting Hitler may actually be a dealbreaker for some people
― frogbs, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 15:42 (nine months ago) link
"We are an institute in a powerful death penalty"--that's Norm-Crosby level.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 16:10 (nine months ago) link
We will put this on
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 16:12 (nine months ago) link
Trump Attempts to Describe Missile Defense: ‘Ding, Ding, Ding, Boom, Whoosh!’
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-attempts-describe-missile-defense-055659606.html
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 16:17 (nine months ago) link