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Friday, June 30. 2017Pee In The Sink In The Break Room At Work. Apologize To No One
Well, Bird Dog is worn out. He's weary of finding fascinating links every day. He's gone off to get his groove back. He's going to get his covfefe sharpened. Er, I mean, he's getting his covefefe trimmed. That is to say, his covfefe needed a world class overhaul. Bigly. He's left me in charge of finding a Yuge set of morning links for the Maggie's Farm morning roundup. I'm Haile Salassie to help out. I found it amusing that everyone in the reglar media pretended that they didn't know that covfefe was simply a typo of the word coverage. In context, it couldn't mean anything else. They like to cast Trump as a vicious bumpkin, so it had to be gibberish, not fat thumbs. And unlike all the misspelled words I see on the internet, covfefe really was just a typo. Everyone claims that they made a typo when they misspell a word, or more usually, use one word when they mean another. Mis-keyed words you're trying to spell correctly are typos. Misspelled words, because you don't know how to spell, aren't. Back when I was in school, and Galileo used to cheat off me, the teachers instructed us that if you can't spell a word, then you don't know what it means, and you shouldn't use it. I can spell covfefe. I know what it means. It means you're an idiot if you think a sentence fragment typed with your thumbs delivered via mass email is an actionable piece of information. Covfefe away, you Twits! Photobooth.net is the most comprehensive photobooth resource on the internet. Selfies are nothing new. The booth was just too big and heavy to drag into the ladies room with you back in the day. I think they allow four minutes of commercials inside of infomercials now, so I guess the point is moot. Researchers Found They Could Hack Entire Wind Farms Um, no. Vandals found they could call breaking and entering "hacking," and magically become "researchers." Why are so many digital nomads becoming “e-Residents” of Estonia? I dunno. Is it because it sounds trendier than saying you're incorporated in Delaware? Five Boroughs for the 21st Century
Bird Dog claims to like New York City. Me? I think it's a trailer park with a subway. The yokels there marry their own relatives (Hi Woody!), are all tattooed and drug-addicted (Xanax is a drug), and mostly piss outdoors. They can reassemble their five deck chair burrows, er, boroughs, any way they like. It's their covfefe. Google Fined $2.7 Billion by the EU
The persons in charge of all large internet companies are idiots. They have no idea how they ended up with all that cash. Not one of them can get a repeat success no matter how hard they try, because they ascribe to genius what was dumb luck. They build up huge cash hoards overseas, occasionally fritter them away on pointless boondoggles, refuse to pay taxes so they can distribute them to shareholders, and then childishly think that socialist governments will let them keep it. Take Naps at Work. Apologize to No One.
Yes, by all means, take productivity and career advice from the New York Times. I'm fairly certain that the monthly federal unemployment numbers is no longer issued in percentage form, and consists solely of a list of the names of people laid off from the New York Times, and the occasional FBI director. Governor declares state of emergency for NYC transit system The state of the subway system “is wholly unacceptable,” said Cuomo, who wholly accepts it 364 days out of the year. Growing concerns over great white shark boom off Cape Cod
Awareness and education? Look fellas, let's be reasonable, huh? This is not the time or the place to perform some kind of a half-assed autopsy on a fish. And I am not going to stand here and see that thing cut open and see that little Kintner boy spill out all over the dock. Jameis Winston closing in on Buccaneers career TD pass record Winston has 50 touchdowns through his first two seasons and Josh Freeman has the franchise record with 80 touchdown passes during his time in Tampa. He's only 50 touchdowns ahead of me. Does that put me in the running?
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It's Friday! It's high summer! And it's Ro-zhay Dote V time again! I'm settling in with a cup o' covfefe and enjoying the view.
QUOTE: {Bird Dog's} gone off to get his groove back. Bully for him! Three cheers for all of Bird Dog's hard work. In context of how Trump used it, covfefe was a typo. In the context of the media's response to this typo, I came up with the following definition
covfefe - "the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television" in the shrill manner of the fife to lead people away from reality and into a constant state of agitation. In regards to NYC and other anachronistic cities, I found this recent Federalist Podcast interview with "Urbanfile", Aaron Renn, to be refreshing. He's the first urban commenter to make the point that the cities held up as urban examples grew into their dense configuration in a prior time, often when barely running water was available and thus are not good examples for urban development elsewhere in the country/world.
Sure are a lot of potential euphemisms in that first paragraph. In my circle, if somebody's "trying to find himself", passed out on the bathroom floor is usually a good guess.
"The state of the subway system 'is wholly unacceptable,' said Cuomo, who wholly accepts it 364 days out of the year."
Politicians across the Anglosphere do love that virtue-signalling adjective unacceptable, don't they? Occasionally they'll ramp up the hyperbole by further qualifying it as totally unacceptable. But, as you note, no matter how "totally unacceptable" the outrage might be deemed - a murderous terrorist attack, a catastrophic fire in a block of flats - no real accounting occurs and the politicians sail on merrily to the next news bite. "Three cheers for all of Bird Dog's hard work."
Yes indeed. I think you've said something there that no one who visits Maggie's Farm could possibly ever disagree with. I see COVFEFE is already starting to pop up as a vanity licence plate in a few states!
Windfarms
These were NOT vandals, they worked with permission of the management. Penetration testing is critical to security. re: Jameis Winston
That's really more an indictment of the fact that in their 40 years of existence, the Tampa Bay buccaneers have never had a true franchise quarterback ProTip: if he's not here, he doesn't see you brownnosing.
Why does Cuomo care? Shouldn't it be DeBlasio who cares? And ought he be DOING something about it (like, say, raising taxes or fees)? For that matter, why should I care enough to comment? I don't are that much. Blather, OFF.
The other day I saw a bumper sticker with COVFEFE done up in the COEXIST style. It made me laugh out loud.
RE: EU & Google Fine
The EU's action is an example of ruinous envy. Instead of admiring productive US companies and learning from the success of capitalism in the US, the EU has opted to stick with socialism and to blame its problems on the "evil deeds" of US companies. Instead of increasing its wealth by increasing its productivity, it has chosen to increase its wealth through plunder. The socialists refuse to admit that their system is the problem. ..."Bird Dog claims to like New York City. Me? I think it's a trailer park with a subway."...
That's not fair. I've seen some really nice (clean) trailer parks. Just wait a minute! I have never misspelled a word. My keyboard does quite often.
And, after decades of playing golf, I have never missed a putt. But my putter has missed hundreds. I never miss a putt, though sometimes they dig the hole in the wrong place
I always like the comments that go with your links Mr. Bosso.
You should post more than annually. |
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