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Wednesday, September 10. 2008

More fun with Vanderleun

Vanderleun's American Digest is one of our favorite and most-admired websites. Thus sibling rivalry drives us to try to make him insane, permanently if possible. He apparently is neither a fan of the outer Cape nor of the t-shirt, kite, and beach towel stores along Route 6 - which is his loss. This t-shirt image might do the job, for good (sorry, it's soiled from farm chores and kinda stinky):

 

Posted by Bird Dog in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 09:31 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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So, is this alluding to anybody's "old fish in a newspaper" comment, or have I read too many Obama gaffes today?

Vanderleun is also one of my favorite/admired writers on the internet. I leave his site thinking I've been given a complete and compelling thought, honestly and eloquently written.

Having once owned a seafood restaurant, I love the t-shirt. The neon touristy business displays along the coast, any coast, not so much.
#1 twolaneflash on 2008-09-10 11:12 (Reply)
We love Gerry. Just enjoy yanking his chain.
#2 bd on 2008-09-10 11:15 (Reply)
"sorry, it's soiled from farm chores and kinda stinky"

You don't fool me a second, Monkey Boy. Those stains are Booty Sweat.

You gotta quit guzzling those Wellfleet Oysters.

Some day..... some day..... I will tell you about my Cape Vacation in a lovely and expensive apartment attached to barn's woodshop where a klugmaster just like you -- Stumpy -- was building a large wooden boat with power tools. Day and night.
#3 vanderleun on 2008-09-11 01:22 (Reply)
And, by the way, that is not your Booty Sweat, or those of you paramour. Scientific cybernetic analysis reveals it to be Barnyard Booty Sweat.

Just the sort of thing one would expect from you rural inbred "craftsmen."

It can truly be said that the regional motto of the Cape is, "Hide your sheep.... or at least rent them out in Capetown."
#4 vanderleun on 2008-09-11 01:25 (Reply)
We hardly ever mess with our sheep.
Obviously, this effort has failed.
#5 Bird Dog on 2008-09-11 11:12 (Reply)
"We hardly ever mess with our sheep."

Okay, but are the rams safe?
#6 vanderleun on 2008-09-11 14:51 (Reply)

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