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Alex Heichelbech
05/03/09

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In response to the poster Theological Song I have a few small bones to pick. While your use of prose and your Dickensian turn of phrase do indeed make your posts both intelligent sounding as well as increasingly hard to read it does absolutely nothing for the self indulging smut you choose to drivel on about.

We get it... You like to use big words to explain your comically simple ideas while attempting to make other people feel inferior to your massive intellect. Indeed your ability to memorize obscure vocabulary can be match only by a thesaurus (A book the less obsessed use to make themselves sound smart) and in the end it simply makes for ghastly long posts that I find myself too bored to read fully. This post was about a coloring book... Not Proust... So jeep it light, no need to go swinging your ego about hoping for a killing blow.

Also, finishing each of your posts by thanking or wishing luck to people who obviously don't like you becomes not only repetitive but also startlingly annoying. If you are going to preach to everyone about open discussion and listening to others viewpoints don't spend your time talking down to them and making derisive comments.

And lastly, the one that really sets me off is your playing some sort of martyr. Your comment stating "I think it means something. like maybe you ought to consider being a little more sensitive to someone with my background." is not only entirely without merit but so ludicrous that I could not immediately formulate a response. Expecting someone to be "sensitive to your background" because you "Come from a family of Holocaust survivors" is like expecting someone to carry me around because my father lost his foot. Nobody owed you anything, "Johnny Potatoes" didn't line your relatives up and march them into a gas chamber. Playing a card based on your relatives experiences is a sign of pure ego and idiocy, maybe spending less time memorizing pages of SAT words and more time actually putting thought into a response so you answer... i don't know... means something would be a better use of your time.

But thats just me... Good luck though... Cheers... You Twat
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TheologicalSong
05/05/09

@Alex Heichelbech: sorry, there, AH. the suffocatingly acrid tone of your post only reaffirms the appropriateness of my rather tempered and easygoing response to a series of unwarranted, and frankly, bizarrely hostile expulsions from the depths of the sallow hearts and puerile sensibilities of those who, like yourself, don't know me and have little to actually add to the conversation beside their neanderthal critiques from their apparently dank caves of isolation (again, no offense, I'm only surmising from what I have to glean from. feel free to prove me wrong and suddenly evince your effusion and ebullience). you don't know me, you don't know who I am or what I've accomplished (generally those who devote themselves this obsessively to maligning someone's character tend to find themselves egregiously lacking, deep inside. I can assure you I don't. that's what I make nice. because it comes naturally. try it. you might find it transformative). so, yeah, I feel bad for you, and yeah, like my father the Holocaust survivor, and because of all the humbling, useful, nurturing experiences I've had in life, I inevitably incline toward forgiveness. it's not derision coming from me, it's just a certain sadness for the stultifyingly morose place people like you occupy (and I'm still willing to give you the benefit of the doubt, operating so relentlessly and insistently as you are behind your anonymous wall), and the fact that you're exerting your energy toward some insufferable thing you imagine I represent to you, undoubtedly due to whatever slights or disappointments you've suffered, instead of actually trying to exert some positive impact, some transfiguration on this world.
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nirreskeya
05/01/09

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Albert Lea invented and produces SPAM (the meat-derived product, not the email). Where's the coloring book dealing with its dangers? (full disclosure: I love fried SPAM sandwiches.)
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liberalelite
05/02/09

@nirreskeya: No, that's Austin, not Albert Lea.
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nirreskeya
05/03/09

@liberalelite: Oh hell, you're absolutely correct. I can't believe I made that mistake.
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allyzay
05/01/09

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ok the first one is just taking that ridiculous xhibit theme way too far. you CAN'T put 9/11 in your 9/11 so you can 9/11 while you 9/11. it doesn't make sense.
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leonleonleon
05/01/09

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Hah, by far my favorite page is the lady reading a newspaper with the image of 9/11 while watching 9/11 on tv while 9/11 is happening RIGHT OUTSIDE HER WINDOW

it's so surreal
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El Matardillo
05/01/09

@leonleonleon: It's the future of journalism.
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fileunder
05/01/09

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I hope that last girl finds her missing cow. That's absolutely heartbreaking.
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Midge
05/01/09

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"late Leonard Cohen"? Did I miss something?
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allyzay
05/01/09

@Midge: as in "late period"

themoreyouknow.jpg
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PandoraSpocks
05/01/09

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You're laughing, but the folks who brought you this are the same kind of people designing school curriculum all over the country.
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pooks
05/01/09

@PandoraSpocks: How can a coloring book with 9/11 images be therapeutic? Kids who are old enough to remember 9/11, are too old for coloring books, and kids who are at the coloring book age, have no idea what 9/11 is (nor should they until they are old enough to comprehend it).
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PandoraSpocks
05/01/09

@pooks: I'm in complete agreement. My point was that someone actually thought this was a good idea, and that same someone formed a committee to design and produce this atrocity of logic -- probably at taxpayers expense --and all of these jerks have doctorates in education and/or social work.
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SkipToMyLou
05/01/09

@PandoraSpocks: I'm pretty sure you can get an Ed.D. out of a cereal box these days.
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MisterBoomBoom
05/02/09

@PandoraSpocks: Okay, so how would you talk with your 4~6 year old about disasters?
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PandoraSpocks
05/02/09

@MisterBoomBoom: Wait until if and when they happen, then talk.
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jasonelias
05/01/09

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They should have included a pic of George W. Bush hiding under a desk, with My Pet Goat on top of his head.
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MisterHippity
05/01/09

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Where's Osama Bin Waldo?
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meechybee
05/01/09

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where's the gay marriage page?
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Kitten_Witawip
05/01/09

@meechybee: It's the page where it's raining, the storm has arrived.
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mmstk101
05/01/09

@Kitten_Witawip: Haha. Well played.
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lobstr
05/01/09

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The absolute worst thing about this is their copious usage of Comic Sans -- the go-to font for children's dentist offices and whimsical neighborhood newsletters.
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LatestBy
05/01/09

@lobstr: Least it's not fuckin' Celebration. That font can go to hell.
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Mary Mouse
05/01/09

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Text in Comic Sans, naturally.
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flossy
05/01/09

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Oh noes, the giant spinning laptop is about to crush that half of a sad one-room house! I guess this proves that God hates thumb-print rugs.
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El Matardillo
05/01/09

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A similar book is being prepared for the release of Windows 7.
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Nic Fit
05/01/09

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That picture of the person watching 9/11 on TV and out the window could have been drawn in my apartment that day.
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Pareene
05/01/09

@Nic Fit: but where did you get THE MAGAZINE ABOUT IT??

BUSH KNEW
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friend_of_a_friend
05/01/09

@Pareene: Some of us had 9/11 trompe l'oeil windows painted in our apartments so we would NEVER FORGET.
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lobstr
05/01/09

@Pareene: naturally, he subscribes to BBC Monthly...
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