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Sunday, December 07, 2014
Saturday, December 06, 2014
Friday, December 05, 2014
Malapropisms in The Sopranos
Compiled by By Jack Brummet
"She's an albacore around my neck." - Johnny Soprano, about his wife Livia
"Create a little dysentery in the ranks" -Christopher Moltisanti
"We're in a f***ing stagmire." - Little Carmine Lupertazzi
"Alright, sure. Go ahead. I'm a little miffled but yeah. . ." - Tony Soprano
"My friends have abandoned me. I've been f***ing ostrified." - Little Carmine Lupertazzi
"I agree with that Senator Sanitorium. He says, if we let this stuff go too far, pretty soon we'll be fucking dogs." - Tony
"There's no stigmata connected with going to a shrink" - Little Carmine Lupertazzi
"What with the passing of Vito Senior and all that entrails..." - Tony
"I was prostate with grief." - Tony
"Quasimodo predicted all of this." -Bobby Baccalieri [referring to Nostradamus]
"A guy like that is going out with a woman, he could technically not have penissary contact with her Volvo" - Tony
"You know, Sung Tizzoo! The Chinese Prince Matchabelli!" - Paulie Gualtieri [Sun Tzu and Machiavelli]
"From now on, keep your antidotes to local color, like Dinoflow or Maguire sisters. Otherwise, SHUT THE F*** UP! There's an old Italian saying: you f*** up once, you lose two teeth." - Tony
"He's an old-fashioned kind of guy - very allegorical." - Little Carmine Lupertazzi
"She's an albacore around my neck." - Johnny Soprano, about his wife Livia
"Create a little dysentery in the ranks" -Christopher Moltisanti
"We're in a f***ing stagmire." - Little Carmine Lupertazzi
"Alright, sure. Go ahead. I'm a little miffled but yeah. . ." - Tony Soprano
"My friends have abandoned me. I've been f***ing ostrified." - Little Carmine Lupertazzi
"I agree with that Senator Sanitorium. He says, if we let this stuff go too far, pretty soon we'll be fucking dogs." - Tony
"There's no stigmata connected with going to a shrink" - Little Carmine Lupertazzi
"What with the passing of Vito Senior and all that entrails..." - Tony
"I was prostate with grief." - Tony
"Quasimodo predicted all of this." -Bobby Baccalieri [referring to Nostradamus]
"A guy like that is going out with a woman, he could technically not have penissary contact with her Volvo" - Tony
"You know, Sung Tizzoo! The Chinese Prince Matchabelli!" - Paulie Gualtieri [Sun Tzu and Machiavelli]
"From now on, keep your antidotes to local color, like Dinoflow or Maguire sisters. Otherwise, SHUT THE F*** UP! There's an old Italian saying: you f*** up once, you lose two teeth." - Tony
"He's an old-fashioned kind of guy - very allegorical." - Little Carmine Lupertazzi
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Thursday, December 04, 2014
Poem: The islands from eight miles high
By Jack Brummet
Threading between islands and straits.
They crest the waves
Beneath gathering clouds
As flocks of birds
Circumnavigate the globe,
Shuttling from landfall to landfall.
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Beneath
a chiseled frieze of cerulean blue
Islands recede into the water
To settle on the sea floor
Like an archipelago of Atlantises.
Islands come and go,
Bobbing up and bobbing down
Like lost corks
Drifting seven seas,
Treading continents,
Islands recede into the water
To settle on the sea floor
Like an archipelago of Atlantises.
Islands come and go,
Bobbing up and bobbing down
Like lost corks
Drifting seven seas,
Treading continents,
Threading between islands and straits.
They crest the waves
Beneath gathering clouds
As flocks of birds
Circumnavigate the globe,
Shuttling from landfall to landfall.
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#YouCouldOrderAFewMore: Air Force shares one wrench to attach nuclear warheads between three missile bases (they Fed Ex it back and forth!)
From The New York Times, Nov. 13, 2014:
"Pentagon studies of America’s nuclear missile infrastructure released in November included the revelation that nuclear warheads had to be attached with a particular wrench, even though the Air Force only owned one with which to service 450 missiles housed at three bases. Consequently, one official told the New York Times, 'They started FedExing the one tool' back and forth."
No one had checked in years, he said, “to see if new tools were being made,” typical of maintenance problems that had “been around so long that no one reported them anymore.”
No one had checked in years, he said, “to see if new tools were being made,” typical of maintenance problems that had “been around so long that no one reported them anymore.”
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Wednesday, December 03, 2014
Tuesday, December 02, 2014
Poem: The Grey Ambassador
By Jack Brummet
Flybys,
crop circles, and other maneuvers
Were executed
To demonstrate their capability.
After the flybys, came landings, and contact.
The visitors
Did not appear hostile.
Some say we were softened up
By E.T., Klaatu, and ALF
And thought this was a mission of mercy.
If they figured out how to get here,
And have come to make war,
We can't stop them.
If they "come in peace"
To teach what they learned
The Hard Way,
Let’s get started.
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Were executed
To demonstrate their capability.
After the flybys, came landings, and contact.
The visitors
Did not appear hostile.
Some say we were softened up
By E.T., Klaatu, and ALF
And thought this was a mission of mercy.
If they figured out how to get here,
And have come to make war,
We can't stop them.
If they "come in peace"
To teach what they learned
The Hard Way,
Let’s get started.
Drawing: Faces #960 (scratchboard/reversed scratchboard) - weightless training
By Jack Brummet
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Monday, December 01, 2014
Congressperson Michelle Bachmann covers Macklemore's "Thrift Shop"
By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Ed.
Michelle Bachmann, the soon to be retiring U.S. Representative, posted a video today in which she quotes/covers Macklemore's Thrift Shop. I'm going to miss The Representative.
Michelle Bachmann, the soon to be retiring U.S. Representative, posted a video today in which she quotes/covers Macklemore's Thrift Shop. I'm going to miss The Representative.
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