Super Military Mind Gary Johnson: What's a Leppo?

Asked what he would do about Aleppo, the smoothly baked Libertarian pothound answered "What's a leppo?"

He now says he was "thinking about an acronym:"

Must admit, a refreshingly human statement here from Gary Johnson: pic.twitter.com/aYnXVhfbhR
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) September 8, 2016

Yes, very "refreshingly human" -- guy humiliates himself on TV then makes up excuses why that's not so bad and then asserts he knows all the important stuff. Why I've never seen a politician run that play after a gaffe!

Just his human honesty coming through, must be!

The reason I rendered it as "a leppo" is that this seemed to me off the bat a case of mistaken parsing; word confusion happens when a hearer doesn't link and sequence words and sounds in the way intended by the speaker. See Garden Path sentence for some fun examples of easily-misparsed sentences, like "The old man the boat."

That's a grammatically perfect sentence, with no errors and no omitted punctuation; if you're not getting it, you're misparsing it.

Anyway, so the sound "a" is usually an article preceding a singluar noun. I figured Johnson heard it as "a leppo," and got confused, as brains fumigated under striped canvas tents with pot smoke tend to get. He now says he was thinking of an acronym, though, stonerishly, fails to tell us what acronym he was confusing Aleppo with.

But that doesn't really get him off the hook, because parsing errors occur when the brain attempts to apply general rules of parsing to new words, sounds, and sentences.

Someone for whom "Aleppo" is part of their active vocabulary, part of their daily reading, is unlikely to misparse it as "a leppo."

So this is the guy some NeverTrumpers are flocking to because they find Trump to be too unserious on military policy. Okey doke!

Funny little thing: The geniuses at the New York Times, who like totally know what A leppo is, first said that "Aleppo is the capital of ISIS." No, Raqqa is the capital of the Islamic State.

Then they corrected, to say that actually Aleppo is the capital of Syria itself.

Um, no.

So their article about this stoner goof and his stoned stupidities features this double correction at its end:

The correction of the correction. pic.twitter.com/jqXWhDiAip
— Jenan Moussa (@jenanmoussa) September 8, 2016

Posted by: Ace at 12:37 PM

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1 Conscience voters take heart

Posted by: nckate at September 08, 2016 12:39 PM (/6xSK)

2 Needs hillary's earpiece.

Posted by: Roland [OMITTED] at September 08, 2016 12:39 PM (QM5S2)

3 A "Leppo" is a brand of pot right?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 08, 2016 12:39 PM (zp+j1)

4 Godamned Leppo's! They're runnin amok!

Posted by: dananjcon at September 08, 2016 12:39 PM (NpXoL)

5 James Comey is a leppo.

Posted by: Mortimer at September 08, 2016 12:40 PM (zu88C)

6 I'm late to the story today, but what is Aleppo? I'm no military expert nor do I aspire to be POTUS...

Posted by: IC at September 08, 2016 12:40 PM (a0IVu)

7 Aleppo? Isn't that the retarded Marx brother?

Posted by: wooga at September 08, 2016 12:42 PM (cbFFB)

8 I find that a vigorous bike ride clears the cannabis cobwebs.

Posted by: Charles Johnson at September 08, 2016 12:42 PM (OZmbA)

9 weren't there two cases of a leppo out in california just this week?

Posted by: nckate at September 08, 2016 12:42 PM (/6xSK)

10 If the media is jumping on Gary Johnson for this gaffe, he must be taking more votes away from Hillary than from Trump.

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at September 08, 2016 12:42 PM (EIB5Y)

11 Those responsible for correcting the correction have been corrected.

Posted by: josephistan at September 08, 2016 12:43 PM (7HtZB)

12 Correction: An earlier version of this article referred to the NYT as a "newspaper" and it's employees "journalists." It is "a propagandist organ of the Democrat Party" and they are "socialist fuckweasles."

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at September 08, 2016 12:43 PM (KUaJL)

13
Its short for a retard leopard. Don't be a leppo.

Wait, thats leptard. Never mind.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 08, 2016 12:44 PM (ODxAs)

14 My understanding of a leppo is that it's a brave new way to consume marijuana via the anus.

Posted by: Gary Johnson at September 08, 2016 12:44 PM (2Mnv1)

15 >>>1 Conscience voters take heart
Posted by: nckate

I really admire you conscience voters. Us pigs who don't vote with our consciences long to be heroes like you.

Posted by: ace at September 08, 2016 12:44 PM (dciA+)

16 A Leppo is a Zippo, modified for lepers. It requires no thumb to operate the flint-wheel. Basically, it stays lit all the time.

Not designed for pocket storage.

Posted by: General Zod at September 08, 2016 12:44 PM (Bdeb0)

17 Never go full stoner, Gary.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at September 08, 2016 12:44 PM (KUaJL)

18 I'm waiting for the Tommy Chung Commemorative Bong, Gary Johnson Edition, Signature Series to come out.

Hey, I'm a collector of oddball memorabilia.

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 08, 2016 12:44 PM (gyKtp)

19 A Leppo? A resident of the aleppo colony on the island of Molokai.

Posted by: Adobe Juan Kenobe at September 08, 2016 12:44 PM (ucB75)

20 I knew where it was from history, and from that figured out it was a question about the Syrian War of Clinton's Choice.

Posted by: Robert Crawford at September 08, 2016 12:45 PM (MucHz)

21 Another in the Johnson greatest hits file: "Let's put Homeland Security under the FBI."

Yeah, ok, dude. Put down the bong.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at September 08, 2016 12:45 PM (B+qrE)

22
Funny little thing: The geniuses at the New York Times, who like totally know what A leppo is, first said that "Aleppo is the capital of ISIS." No, Raqqa is the capital of the Islamic State.

Then they corrected, to say that actually Aleppo is the capital of Syria itself.
___

Please note Americans that Obama and Clinton's checks always come to the right address and on time!

Posted by: ISIS Payments Receivable Department at September 08, 2016 12:46 PM (X7E8f)

23 Gary,

Why dude?

Posted by: Leppos Unified Against Hate at September 08, 2016 12:46 PM (zu88C)

24 A "leppo" is an animal you run from. A question is something you "axe."

Posted by: General Zod at September 08, 2016 12:46 PM (Bdeb0)

25 Remember that these are our "betters" folks. None of them had history of western civilization, Crusades, Roman history, etc. But they are better than we are and much smarter and better educated.

Posted by: Lester at September 08, 2016 12:46 PM (8USec)

26 I was an old man in a boat in Africa when I was chased by a Leppo

Posted by: Sphynx at September 08, 2016 12:46 PM (OZmbA)

27 Beirut? Beirut's the best damned ballplayer I ever seen!

Posted by: Reno Hightower at September 08, 2016 12:47 PM (eEBON)

28
Pot heads have Apple O's for breakfast. So I can see his confusion.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 08, 2016 12:47 PM (ODxAs)

29 This guy gets 7% in polls and the NYT has thousands of subscribers. We're totally screwed and being overrun by idiots.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 08, 2016 12:48 PM (+YTl9)

30 A leppo is a form of weasel.

Posted by: Mortimer at September 08, 2016 12:48 PM (zu88C)

31 What an idiot. He also says defeating ISIS isn't in the cards for a Johnson administration because some other entity would fill the void.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 08, 2016 12:48 PM (1ZOkK)

32 A frica.

What's that?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at September 08, 2016 12:48 PM (B+qrE)

33 Silly Ace -- a "leppo" is medieval slang for "person suffering from leprosy."

As in, "Run away, everyone -- a leppo has wandered into the village!"

Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2016 12:48 PM (jBuUi)

34 I'm glad to see that Gary Johnson has awakened from his comma.

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 08, 2016 12:48 PM (gyKtp)

35
Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Zeppo, Gummo, Leppo!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 08, 2016 12:48 PM (9P3OG)

36 Pot does wonderful things to your transitional memory....

Tell me some more Never Trumpers how Gary "derp" Johnson and Egg "I blew up the Middle East worse than Bush" McMuffin are superior choices to Orange Toupee Weasel who at least grasps Obama's FP is fucked up and anti-American.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 12:48 PM (SzZnW)

37 Aleppo was destroyed during the war between ISIS and the Sybians.

Posted by: General Zod at September 08, 2016 12:48 PM (Bdeb0)

38 THE FUCK, MAN--?!!?!

Posted by: American Legion of Ex-Pat Postal Officers at September 08, 2016 12:48 PM (dciA+)

39 Watson points out several stoner moments by Johnson. Mostly pointing out he is the opposite of a libertarian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW5gQo43ay4

Posted by: illiniwek at September 08, 2016 12:49 PM (ZRaCn)

40 A labama.

A laska.

A ustria.

The list is endless.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at September 08, 2016 12:49 PM (B+qrE)

41 I guess he also missed Barry's red line. Probably thinks it's a type of coke.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 08, 2016 12:50 PM (1ZOkK)

42 Aleppo was destroyed during the war between ISIS and the Sybians.

You owe me one keyboard.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at September 08, 2016 12:50 PM (B+qrE)

43
I'm hurt, call a mbulance.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 08, 2016 12:51 PM (ODxAs)

44 All
Lesbians
Eat
Pink
Pistachio
Omelettes
?

Posted by: Gary Johnson at September 08, 2016 12:51 PM (2Mnv1)

45 He did look stoned. Sez he won't smoke if he's elected president. So there's that.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 08, 2016 12:51 PM (1ZOkK)

46
Gary Johnson also like Italian ISIS when he gets the munchies.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 08, 2016 12:51 PM (9P3OG)

47 What is a Leppo?

Ooh, I love balderdash!

Leppo: n - small species of migratory bird native to south america.

Leppo: n - the architectural term for a crossbeam used to support a structure on an angle.

Leppo: n - a distortion pedal for an electric guitar

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at September 08, 2016 12:51 PM (KUaJL)

48 Gary Johnson talking to his Iphone:

Syria what's A Leppo?

Posted by: Buzzsaw at September 08, 2016 12:51 PM (wrS2o)

49 Gary Johnson: they told me to push the "new, clear" button. But I thought they said "nuclear button". Whoops, I'm human.

The media (actually still alive after the thermonuclear event). " How refreshingly human and honest ".

Posted by: Marcus T at September 08, 2016 12:52 PM (+YTl9)

50 so which of these geniuses was running mariah carey's pr effort when she heard the king of jordan had died and offered her condolences to michael jordan's family, then, after having someone put some knowledge on them that it was king hussein she offered her condolences to the people of iraq.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 08, 2016 12:52 PM (cPsPa)

51 Hey, I'm little, not old, but I am sensitive.

Posted by: Little Man in the Boat at September 08, 2016 12:52 PM (OZmbA)

52 Depends on what your definition of ISIS.

Posted by: General Zod at September 08, 2016 12:52 PM (Bdeb0)

53 So does Johnson have some hearings loss from stoner headbanging music high volume listening? Maybe a little. Maybe a lot.

Posted by: Lester at September 08, 2016 12:52 PM (8USec)

54 43

I'm hurt, call a mbulance.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 08, 2016 12:51 PM (ODxAs)

That's a mberlamps.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 08, 2016 12:52 PM (1ZOkK)

55
I don't see the complaint.
Most of the horde comment on things they know nothing about.

Not that that is a bad thing.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

No need for a vendetta because some moron didn't recognize the name of your two donkey village.

Posted by: Khan Lee at September 08, 2016 12:52 PM (YMJXU)

56 19 A Leppo? A resident of the aleppo colony on the island of Molokai.
Posted by: Adobe Juan Kenobe at September 08, 2016 12:44 PM (ucB75)

Am I the only one who thinks of Andy Sidaris movies when seeing "Molokai?"

Posted by: josephistan at September 08, 2016 12:52 PM (7HtZB)

57 42 Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at September 08, 2016 12:50 PM (B+qrE)

Isis vs the Sybians was my favorite episode of the short-lived 1976-76 TV show....

http://tinyurl.com/hocalvo

SFW picture of the heroine

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 12:52 PM (SzZnW)

58 joe: good stuff. Love that game.

leppo: n. the seam that connects the tongue to the body of a shoe.

Posted by: ace at September 08, 2016 12:53 PM (dciA+)

59 Can you imagine how much press jizz would have been splattered all over the place had Trump given Johnson's answer to that question?

Posted by: JEM at September 08, 2016 12:53 PM (TppKb)

60 This guy gets 7% in polls and the NYT has thousands of subscribers. We're totally screwed and being overrun by idiots.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 08, 2016 12:48 PM (+YTl9)
*
No worries. Leppos have electrolytes and the NYT has David Brooks.

Posted by: dananjcon at September 08, 2016 12:53 PM (NpXoL)

61 well, not especially a gary johnson fan but not knowing aleppo off hand is not the worst thing someone could be guilty of.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 08, 2016 12:53 PM (cPsPa)

62 Heard an interview that Glenn Beck did with Gary Johnson in May. Somehow race relations, refugee placement, assimilation and balkanization came up in the interview. Johnson is totes cool with balkanization because that's what people do man. Doesn't mean that they are assimilated, it just means that they want to live around people like them. Balkanization doesn't have to be a bad thing. Just look at the Mormons.

Okay... Yeah, no.

Posted by: Usedtocould at September 08, 2016 12:53 PM (bYwuM)

63 I think that was a Star Trek episode.

"The Trouble with Leppos"

Posted by: Bruce at September 08, 2016 12:53 PM (8ikIW)

64 What is a Leppo?

Ooh, I love balderdash!

Leppo: n - small species of migratory bird native to south america.

Leppo: n - the architectural term for a crossbeam used to support a structure on an angle.

Leppo: n - a distortion pedal for an electric guitar

7th Marx Brother.
Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Zeppo, Gummo, Stucco, Leppo.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 08, 2016 12:53 PM (gJBE5)

65 Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 12:52 PM (SzZnW)

I was partial to Ruth on Ark II.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at September 08, 2016 12:53 PM (B+qrE)

66 If he doesn't know what he's talking about he couldn't even check Google.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 08, 2016 12:54 PM (+YTl9)

67
leppo: n. a hypothetical quark believed to make up photons.

Posted by: ace at September 08, 2016 12:54 PM (dciA+)

68 62 Posted by: Usedtocould at September 08, 2016 12:53 PM (bYwuM)

Grin Breck and the Mormons will be very productive in whatever they grab when the US goes baby bells.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 12:54 PM (SzZnW)

69 Why did a leppo hate ice hockey?
He was afraid of a face-off.

Posted by: andycanuck at September 08, 2016 12:54 PM (LdMbv)

70 Stewardess, I speak fluent Leppo!

Posted by: TFG at September 08, 2016 12:54 PM (1ZOkK)

71 >> the NYT has David Brooks.

And they can keep him. In a small box in the lobby, preferably.

Posted by: JEM at September 08, 2016 12:54 PM (TppKb)

72 The media (actually still alive after the thermonuclear event). " How refreshingly human and honest ".

Posted by: Marcus T at September 08, 2016 12:52 PM

Only the media and cockroaches will survive the thermonuclear event because of their similar evolution.

Posted by: Lester at September 08, 2016 12:54 PM (8USec)

73 63 I think that was a Star Trek episode.

"The Trouble with Leppos"
Posted by: Bruce at September 08, 2016 12:53 PM (8ikIW)

"A Piece of the Action"

Krako, Teppo, Leppo, Oxmyx.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 08, 2016 12:54 PM (9P3OG)

74

He now says he was "thinking about an acronym:"

Oh is that what they're calling it now?

Posted by: Mortimer at September 08, 2016 12:54 PM (zu88C)

75 Funny little thing: The geniuses at the New York Times, who like totally know what A leppo is, first said that "Aleppo is the capital of ISIS." No, Raqqa is the capital of the Islamic State.

Then they corrected, to say that actually Aleppo is the capital of Syria itself.

Um, no.
***

Every one of these flaccid little dim fucks at the NYT has an iPhone they tote around like the One Ring and they can't be bothered to actually check this shit for accuracy?

Posted by: Azathoth at September 08, 2016 12:55 PM (NhQpw)

76
"Dude. Ya wanna come over to mom's basement and 'think about some righteous acronyms'?"

Posted by: Mortimer at September 08, 2016 12:55 PM (zu88C)

77 well, johnson was probably a little taken aback because he assumed aleppo was the collective noun for lepers.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 08, 2016 12:55 PM (cPsPa)

78 65 Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at September 08, 2016 12:53 PM (B+qrE)

Erin Grey helped me go into puberty....

when I was 8.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 12:55 PM (SzZnW)

79 Wow, the New York Times.

I remember when it was something.

Posted by: mrp at September 08, 2016 12:55 PM (JBggj)

80 I apologize most sincerely for my previous apology...

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at September 08, 2016 12:55 PM (97XyN)

81 Lep-lep-leppo and the ju-ju-ju-ju-jooves!

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 08, 2016 12:55 PM (vWwTn)

82 >>>61 well, not especially a gary johnson fan but not knowing aleppo off hand is not the worst thing someone could be guilty of.
Posted by: yankeefifth

not the worst, no, but not a good look.

Posted by: ace at September 08, 2016 12:55 PM (dciA+)

83
Don't leppos have to wear a bell around their necks and say unclean where ever they go?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 08, 2016 12:55 PM (493sH)

84 Let's ask Neil deGrasse Tyson to 'splain leppos to us.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 08, 2016 12:55 PM (1ZOkK)

85 I saw once on Animal Planet that Aleppo is more dangerous than a lion or tiger.

Posted by: Typical Hillary Voter at September 08, 2016 12:55 PM (H6Ca0)

86 Urban Dictionary has a definition for 'lepo lepo'.

Posted by: Min at September 08, 2016 12:55 PM (g6yUI)

87 Too late, stooge.

Posted by: AoSHQ Stylebook at September 08, 2016 12:55 PM (rwI+c)

88 Johnson needs an earpiece ... not for info, he don't need no stinkin' info ... just for tunes duuude.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 08, 2016 12:56 PM (ZRaCn)

89 dammit

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at September 08, 2016 12:56 PM (rwI+c)

90 Ha! ace, you aren't a pig of a voter. Obviously, you're a supple leppo.

Posted by: nckate at September 08, 2016 12:56 PM (/6xSK)

91 well, not especially a gary johnson fan but not knowing aleppo off hand is not the worst thing someone could be guilty of.
***
If you are running for CinC during a war, you should know something about the war we are fighting.

Hell, I'd love to see each candidate asked if they would rather see Assad or Isis win the war. It should be entertaining to see what they had to say.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2016 12:56 PM (X7E8f)

92 Some days I just sip my coffee and am gob smacked at what DC produces.
We are so boned.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 08, 2016 12:56 PM (r65B3)

93 Spicolli syndrome ....

Posted by: E.T. at September 08, 2016 12:56 PM (c+7Ko)

94 He did look stoned. Sez he won't smoke if he's elected president. So there's that.

Since it's still against federal law, POTUS will have to get weekly piss tests.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 08, 2016 12:56 PM (gJBE5)

95 wait -- what's a cronym?

Posted by: Gary Johnson at September 08, 2016 12:56 PM (dciA+)

96 No need for a vendetta because some moron didn't recognize the name of your two donkey village.
Posted by: Khan Lee

If you're going to say Trump is disqualified because he's ignorant on foreign policy, then the NeverTrump "vessel" had better have some basic knowledge of these hotspots around the world.

Posted by: Maritime at September 08, 2016 12:57 PM (x32Kb)

97
From Abe Rosenthal to Beanie Baibies' "Chocolate The Moose". What a story!

Posted by: mrp at September 08, 2016 12:57 PM (JBggj)

98 I prefer a good BJ but every now and then a leppo is a nice change of pace.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 08, 2016 12:57 PM (/tuJf)

99
Def Leppo covering "Isis Isis, Baby."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 08, 2016 12:57 PM (9P3OG)

100 Well at least he picked Bill Weld as VP!

Gravitas!

Posted by: blaster at September 08, 2016 12:57 PM (tewYv)

101 http://hotair.com/archives/2016/09/07/mitt-romney-let-gary-johnson-debate/

That Romney magic! Everything he thinks about doing, much less says, just ends up bad. At least in the political world...I am sure his investment tips are probably good.

Posted by: William Eaton at September 08, 2016 12:57 PM (KhJh8)

102 "Every one of these flaccid little dim fucks at the NYT has an iPhone
they tote around like the One Ring and they can't be bothered to
actually check this shit for accuracy?"

Well, since what passes for fact-checking with them is reflexively limited to Wikipedia and Snopes, they may get a mulligan on that one.

Posted by: Qoheleth at September 08, 2016 12:57 PM (iIzG7)

103 I'm I weird that I've known about Aleppo since the start of the Syrian conflict?

And there's Hillary! at a "historic" black college.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 08, 2016 12:57 PM (1ZOkK)

104 84 Let's ask Neil deGrasse Tyson to 'splain leppos to us.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 08, 2016 12:55 PM (1ZOkK)

The world is so large that if you started walking at a pace of 3 miles an hour, it would take you 17 years to get from New York city to Allepo.

Posted by: Neil deGrase (euphamism for weed) Tyson at September 08, 2016 12:57 PM (KUaJL)

105 I don't fault Gary Johnson for being a silly fool. Of COURSE he's a silly fool.

I fault the supposedly stone sober people on the so-called right who seem to want to encourage him.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 08, 2016 12:57 PM (TOk1P)

106 Dude, a leppo is what you call a group of leopards.

Posted by: Liberals Everywhere at September 08, 2016 12:57 PM (tvyXw)

107 Night of the Aleppo (1972)

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at September 08, 2016 12:57 PM (rwI+c)

108 "Aleppo!" is what you say right after you ask a mumbling linguist who is reciting the first letter of the Semitic abjads responds to your request to enunciate more clearly.

Posted by: General Zod at September 08, 2016 12:58 PM (Bdeb0)

109 Dude, I smoked a leppo last night and can't remember my name! Awesome!

Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at September 08, 2016 12:58 PM (RD7QR)

110 A leppo was an off-brand toy building block. Lego sued and they are now out of business.

Posted by: Dang at September 08, 2016 12:58 PM (k0G44)

111 A leppo? What's a leppo?

*bong rip*

Posted by: Gary Johnson at September 08, 2016 12:58 PM (6Ywyt)

112 >>>61 well, not especially a gary johnson fan but not knowing aleppo off hand is not the worst thing someone could be guilty of.
Posted by: yankeefifth

not the worst, no, but not a good look.
Posted by: ace at September 08, 2016 12:55 PM (dciA+)

heh. did not see any video of the look.

within reason I am more concerned over the candidates moral compass than their depth of knowledge on subjects. knowing the detail of everything is less important than knowing what the right thing to do is.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 08, 2016 12:58 PM (cPsPa)

113
Leppo Zeppelin is one of my favorite bands

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 08, 2016 12:58 PM (493sH)

114

What did the Leppo say to the prostitute?

Keep the tip.

Posted by: Sphynx at September 08, 2016 12:58 PM (OZmbA)

115 If you are running for CinC during a war, you should know something about the war we are fighting.

Hell, I'd love to see each candidate asked if they would rather see Assad or Isis win the war. It should be entertaining to see what they had to say.

Posted by: 18-1

Hell, I'd like to see them get asked to explain the basic difference between Shite and Sunni.
More popcorn!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at September 08, 2016 12:58 PM (r65B3)

116 \
He now says he was thinking of an acronym, though, stonerishly, fails to tell us what acronym he was confusing Aleppo with.

A
Lesbian
Engaging
Post
Pan-sexual
Orientation

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at September 08, 2016 12:58 PM (lKyWE)

117 I didn't know what it was either. I try not to think about Syria.

Plates already full of countries to worry about in that neck of the woods. Past eight years the stack keeps getting higher and higher.

Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at September 08, 2016 12:58 PM (ZFUt7)

118 Most of the horde comment on things they know nothing about.

Uh yeah, we're not running for the next POTUS, who ya know, should know something about ISIS and Syria.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 08, 2016 12:58 PM (ODxAs)

119 Lepposuction?

Posted by: Bigbys Olive Fingers at September 08, 2016 12:58 PM (piuBT)

120

Hillarys Earpice is a good nic

Posted by: ThunderB at September 08, 2016 12:58 PM (EzPgj)

121 Aleppo comes every four years on the Gregorian Calendar.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at September 08, 2016 12:58 PM (rwI+c)

122 "The old man the boat" is a good one! But here's my favorite grammatically sound sentence:

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

Posted by: Sausage McMuffin at September 08, 2016 12:58 PM (T9DQN)

123 maybe it's just me, but I sure remind myself of steven wright

the other day I -- wait, that was someone else.

maybe steven wright

Posted by: Gary Johnson at September 08, 2016 12:58 PM (dciA+)

124 96 Posted by: Maritime at September 08, 2016 12:57 PM (x32Kb)

The whole charade of "these fucks should have encyclopedic minds" is hilarious and funny.

1) Emperor Urkle X is quite literally the dumbest fuck to sit in that office in my lifetime.

2) they all have aides and Urkle has AIDS

3) Grammy's tongue scratcher admits that gram gram by golly gets confused.

ONLY Orange Toupee Weasel's "ignorance" is allowed to be mocked.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 12:59 PM (SzZnW)

125
Aleppo walks into a bar and asks for drink. The bartender says, "Syriansly?!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 08, 2016 12:59 PM (9P3OG)

126 >>95
wait -- what's a cronym? Posted by: Gary Johnson at September 08, 2016 12:56 PM (dciA+)

Progeny of Hume Cronym (RIP)

Posted by: General Zod at September 08, 2016 12:59 PM (Bdeb0)

127 Johnson probably thinks Los Angeles is a band.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 08, 2016 12:59 PM (+YTl9)

128 Actually, isn't "aleppo!" what they say at the Greek restaurant after they set something on fire? (Admittedly, I was usually slammed on retsina at that point in the dining experience.)

Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at September 08, 2016 12:59 PM (RD7QR)

129

Of course we could call Huma Hillarys Ear Piece

Posted by: ThunderB at September 08, 2016 12:59 PM (EzPgj)

130 104
84 Let's ask Neil deGrasse Tyson to 'splain leppos to us.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 08, 2016 12:55 PM (1ZOkK)

The world is so large that if you started walking at a pace of 3
miles an hour, it would take you 17 years to get from New York city to
Allepo.

Posted by: Neil deGrase (euphamism for weed) Tyson at September 08, 2016 12:57 PM (KUaJL)

You forgot 'Fact!' and 'have a nice day'. You pluto killer you.

Posted by: Tami at September 08, 2016 12:59 PM (Enq6K)

131

Doesn't anyone in Syria realize how easy it would be to mistake Allepo for Alpo?

They should sue Purina for that name as an insult against Islam.

Posted by: Khan Lee at September 08, 2016 12:59 PM (YMJXU)

132 I thought a leppo was a Romulan unit of measure.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 08, 2016 12:59 PM (gJBE5)

133

Leppo?

Yeah, I'm not proud of that.

I got drunk one night and there was this hawt looking hippo...so...

Posted by: Leopard at September 08, 2016 12:59 PM (0cMkb)

134 New York Times and Gary Johnson - Alpo for brains.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2016 12:59 PM (EEnVQ)

135 Just lol

Posted by: thathalfrican - at work at September 08, 2016 01:00 PM (SOXF6)

136 Duuuuuuuuuude......

Posted by: eleven at September 08, 2016 01:00 PM (qUNWi)

137 Sounds like a set up for a joke-What's a Leppo?
I guess, though the Gary Johnson was a punchline.

If Donald Trump made such they'd be on it for weeks-it wouldn't be endearing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 08, 2016 01:00 PM (EnGQE)

138 84 Let's ask Neil deGrasse Tyson to 'splain leppos to us.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 08, 2016 12:55 PM (1ZOkK)

Allepo is one of the oldest cities in the world. If you were born when it was founded and lived till today, you would live one year for every day of the average person alive today.

Posted by: Neil deGrase (euphamism for weed) Tyson at September 08, 2016 01:00 PM (KUaJL)

139 Don't try to explain to Johnson what a "Cronut" is. His head might explode.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 08, 2016 01:00 PM (+YTl9)

140 So, basically, to sum it up, they're none of them ("elite" candidates and the "elite" journalists who "keep them honest") any brighter than the average AOS commenter.

Posted by: AMartel at September 08, 2016 01:00 PM (WWgnZ)

141 So what is a leppo.

One of the Marx brothers, what?

Posted by: eleven at September 08, 2016 01:00 PM (qUNWi)

142 That being said, I suppose all the really good Aleppo jokes have already been said?

Best I could come up with: Yes, I feed my dog Aleppo, because she deserves the very best.

Yes... that is the best I could come up with. Lack of really good mind altering drugs is my excuse.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 08, 2016 01:00 PM (TOk1P)

143 I'm sure all the corporate whores, politely known as republicans, mocking Johnson today did the same to Bush back in '99 when he could only name one world leader.

Posted by: All Teh Meh at September 08, 2016 01:00 PM (1FRap)

144 I wonder what Bill Kristol sounds like on weed?

I mean this alliance of Neo-Cons and Libertarians was bound to end well...Right?

Posted by: William Eaton at September 08, 2016 01:01 PM (KhJh8)

145 I saw a picture of Hope Solo's leppo.

Posted by: wooga at September 08, 2016 01:01 PM (cbFFB)

146 If you are running for CinC during a war, you should know something about the war we are fighting.

Hell, I'd love to see each candidate asked if they would rather see Assad or Isis win the war. It should be entertaining to see what they had to say.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2016 12:56 PM (X7E8f)

yeah but we have whole departments filled with thousands of people who are responsible for knowing the details and giving the president the information he neds to make decisions. it is more important that the president be someone who will make the right decisions / provide his team with direction.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 08, 2016 01:01 PM (cPsPa)

147 I thought a leppo was a Romulan unit of measure.

One Leppo of Romulan Ale will put you on your ass.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at September 08, 2016 01:01 PM (rwI+c)

148 Aleppo is a hairstyle similar to an afro, but it has tiny bits of candy in it. Usually Skittles or Razzles.

Posted by: Dang at September 08, 2016 01:01 PM (k0G44)

149 Must admit, a refreshingly human statement here from Gary Johnson:

As opposed to an insect statement from him?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 08, 2016 01:01 PM (493sH)

150 I heard they have leprosy in California schools now.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at September 08, 2016 01:01 PM (Nwg0u)

151
Now, had he been asked to expound on the topic of bong water, is there any doubt that he could have gone on for a full half hour on that subject?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 08, 2016 01:01 PM (BK3ZS)

152 Gary should look into the whole earpiece/brain implant thing. It's all the rage with teh eleets.

Posted by: AMartel at September 08, 2016 01:01 PM (WWgnZ)

153 Reading that "Garden Path Sentence" link -- I still can't figure out "The horse raced past the barn fell" -- and I studied linguistics. All the rest of the examples I grok instantly. But this one...hmmmm.

Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2016 01:01 PM (jBuUi)

154 This post seems a little unfair to potheads. Maybe Johnson is just dense. It happens.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at September 08, 2016 01:01 PM (s/EUv)

155 I'm more appalled by that snippy old woman Barnicle. Check out his reaction. What man responds like that? Was he having a hot flash?

Posted by: spongeworthy at September 08, 2016 01:01 PM (mrfTe)

156 #nevertrump conservatives like me can be dissuaded from voting for Johnson by having an alternative who isn't promising to run conservatives from office and isn't a perpetual thin skinned carnival barker. Telling people who already refer to Johnson as that lovable dumb*** aren't going to suddenly have the sudden realization that he isn't qualified for office over an Aleppo flub.

Besides.... I've got $5 that says neither Trump nor Clinton could beat Wolf Blitzer at jeopardy.

Besides..... Aleppo? The dude is an isolationist. It's like complaining that a vegan doesn't know that Kobe beef is awesome.

Posted by: m-zero-x at September 08, 2016 01:02 PM (zWTYO)

157 "I'm I weird that I've known about Aleppo since the start of the Syrian conflict?"

The nice thing about all these wars in these out-of-the-way places, is we all get a free geography lesson.

I remember back during the first Gulf War, when is was said that the difference between a Tomahawk missile and an average American high school student, was that the Tomahawk could find Baghdad on a map.

Posted by: Qoheleth at September 08, 2016 01:02 PM (iIzG7)

158 A leppo is between a four finger lid and an OZ.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at September 08, 2016 01:02 PM (rwI+c)

159 146 Posted by: yankeefifth at September 08, 2016 01:01 PM (cPsPa)

Which brings us back to "influence peddler", "pot dealer", "communist", and lord help me "Casino Mogul"....

I'll happily pull for the least retarded retard in the race.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 01:02 PM (SzZnW)

160 400 aleppos on the new comers.

Posted by: pulsating giant brain with green as its team color at September 08, 2016 01:02 PM (LdMbv)

161 Hillary! has her hair covering her ears today. Someone will be found "accidentally" hanging from a curtain rod for exposing the earpiece last night.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 08, 2016 01:02 PM (1ZOkK)

162 Thats one small step for man and one giant leppo for mankind

Posted by: Gary Johnson Armstrong at September 08, 2016 01:02 PM (c+7Ko)

163
heh.

Leppo Name Meaning
Finnish: unexplained.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names �2013,

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 08, 2016 01:03 PM (ODxAs)

164 I first came across Aleppo in reading ancient history.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Defeatism, Despair, and Dismay - The Outrage Outlet for Sports and Elections at September 08, 2016 01:03 PM (hLRSq)

165 To be fair, I could see Brick Top calling someone "a leppo".

Posted by: Chupacabra at September 08, 2016 01:03 PM (UC5Sf)

166 Who was talking to her in that ear piece

Posted by: ThunderB at September 08, 2016 01:03 PM (EzPgj)

167 A leppo is a zippo knock off made by the Chinese.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 08, 2016 01:03 PM (/tuJf)

168 Well, at least he didn't vandalize a bulldozer, like another preezy candidate just did (allegedly).

*waves at Jill Stein*

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 08, 2016 01:03 PM (gyKtp)

169
A leppo can change its spots but only if you Damascus to

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 08, 2016 01:03 PM (493sH)

170 All I can say is...eh. So what?

It's was a trap. They could (and should) have asked him "what about Syria", not "what about Aleppo."

Posted by: George Orwell's Ghost at September 08, 2016 01:04 PM (VPvxh)

171 Telling people who already refer to Johnson as that lovable dumb*** aren't going to suddenly have the sudden realization that he isn't qualified for office over an Aleppo flub.

I'm sticking with Johnson is a One-World statist with totalitarian inclinations.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at September 08, 2016 01:04 PM (rwI+c)

172 I'm tellin' ya: Never date a girl who's had a Leppodectomy.

Posted by: mrp at September 08, 2016 01:04 PM (JBggj)

173 Oh, to have access to a transmitter set to the frequency of Earbud One --

"You just wet yourself."

"Bill's bangin' Huma backstage right now!"

"They just found the missing laptop."

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 08, 2016 01:04 PM (gyKtp)

174 *cough cough hack sput wheeze cough*

My earpiece tells me that *cough* Donald Trump is a leppo.

*WHEEZE hack cough horkcough hack cough*

Posted by: H-> at September 08, 2016 01:04 PM (zu88C)

175
"I have lusted in my heart for the Leppo people."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 08, 2016 01:04 PM (9P3OG)

176 The dude is an isolationist.>>>

Don't isolationists usually want borders?

Posted by: Buzzsaw at September 08, 2016 01:04 PM (wrS2o)

177 He thought they were asking him about "a lesbo," and it made him get nostalgic about his hippie mommy, and lose his train of thought.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at September 08, 2016 01:04 PM (NnYnv)

178 You say Aleppo, I say a leppo, let's call the whole thing off.

Sing it.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 08, 2016 01:04 PM (+YTl9)

179 One last thing (sort of) re: Comey. The past 2 nights, PBS has run the Frontline episode, "The Man Who Knew" about FBI agent John Oneil. It's probably the best piece of journalism I've seen. If someone described the story to you as a fictional plot, you'd say: "Nahhh, that's not believable."
You can watch it here:
http://tinyurl.com/ManWhoKnew
BTW, his girlfriend is amazingly sexy...

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at September 08, 2016 01:05 PM (SeD0w)

180

Hillarys Leppo was talking her through last night

Posted by: ThunderB at September 08, 2016 01:05 PM (EzPgj)

181 A leppo is between a four finger lid and an OZ.

Down under what??

Posted by: rickb223 at September 08, 2016 01:05 PM (gJBE5)

182 I would rather Johnson had just riffed on whatever he thought Aleppo was. For ten minutes.

Posted by: Bigbys Olive Fingers at September 08, 2016 01:05 PM (piuBT)

183 171 I'm sticking with Johnson is a One-World statist with totalitarian inclinations.
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at September 08, 2016 01:04 PM (rwI+c)

I'm sticking with he's an uninformed imbecile.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 08, 2016 01:05 PM (9P3OG)

184 >>>"The horse raced past the barn fell"

commas below show how to group the words. remember, raced can be a past participle.

The horse, raced past the barn, fell

Posted by: Gary Johnson at September 08, 2016 01:05 PM (dciA+)

185 Is there some kind of electronic earphone-signal-jammer Trump could pocket before the debates?

Because that would be awesome. I'd love to watch Cankles shart her enormous white granny-panties while she hears "bzzzzt-bzz-bzz-bzzzt" in her earphone.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at September 08, 2016 01:05 PM (s/EUv)

186 This is just the opening Egg McMuffin needed to kick his campaign into high gear. Rick Wilson must be so stoked.

Posted by: Dr. Shatterhand at September 08, 2016 01:06 PM (Uy8SG)

187 If you're going to say Trump is disqualified

I never said that.

Oh, you are talking about those other people who do that. Ok then. Point taken.

And I think there are a number of morons in the horde here who could be president if they weren't so lazy.

Posted by: Khan Lee at September 08, 2016 01:06 PM (YMJXU)

188 Bake those fucking Nazi cakes, maggots!

Or I will wield the immense power of the Libertarian state to crush your very livelihood.

Posted by: Max Power at September 08, 2016 01:06 PM (q177U)

189 100 Well at least he picked Bill Weld as VP!

Gravitas!
Posted by: blaster at September 08, 2016 12:57 PM (tewYv)

---------------------------------------------------------------

Exactly...

Weld will be the "serious" foreign policy guy and Johnson will deal with the domestic stuff like weed agriculture and the porn industry.

Posted by: William Eaton at September 08, 2016 01:06 PM (KhJh8)

190 fie! cometh h're and englut mine own coxcomb thee distemperate leppo

Posted by: Mortimer of York at September 08, 2016 01:06 PM (zu88C)

191 You say Aleppo and I say Leppo... .... Let's call the whole thing off...

Posted by: donna at September 08, 2016 01:06 PM (O2RFr)

192 that's a cheap one because it's relying on English's habit of dropping "that" or "which"

putting the that back in:

"The horse that raced past the barn fell."

Posted by: Gary Johnson at September 08, 2016 01:06 PM (dciA+)

193 Someone should ask him to pronounce "corpsman."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 08, 2016 01:06 PM (1ZOkK)

194 Hillary!'s earpiece, meet Weird Science.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2016 01:06 PM (EEnVQ)

195 78 65 Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at September 08, 2016 12:53 PM (B+qrE)

Erin Grey helped me go into puberty....

when I was 8.
Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 12:55 PM (SzZnW)

Oh my, yes. I got to meet her at a comic-con a few years ago & told her I wanted to marry her since I was in grade school. She laughed & gave me a hug.

Posted by: josephistan at September 08, 2016 01:06 PM (7HtZB)

196 My Aunt Olympia Mustufacockis is from the Greek Isle of Aleppos. Every year she sends me a post card of the sheep fucking. Uncle Gus Mustufacockis always looks so happy.

Such a peaceful peaceful place.

Posted by: dananjcon at September 08, 2016 01:06 PM (NpXoL)

197 Oh, to have access to a transmitter set to the frequency of Earbud One --

"You just wet yourself."

"Bill's bangin' Huma backstage right now!"

"They just found the missing laptop."

"Now bark"

Posted by: rickb223 at September 08, 2016 01:06 PM (gJBE5)

198 27
Beirut? Beirut's the best damned ballplayer I ever seen!

RACISSS!!!1!!i

Posted by: Colon Kaeperdink at September 08, 2016 01:06 PM (5nIe1)

199
Asking about a leppo is totally cromulent.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 08, 2016 01:06 PM (ODxAs)

200 The whole charade of "these fucks should have encyclopedic minds" is hilarious and funny.

1) Emperor Urkle X is quite literally the dumbest fuck to sit in that office in my lifetime.

2) they all have aides and Urkle has AIDS

3) Grammy's tongue scratcher admits that gram gram by golly gets confused.

ONLY Orange Toupee Weasel's "ignorance" is allowed to be mocked.
Posted by: sven10077

I don't necessarily think this qualifies as an "encyclopedic" knowledge considering what a hotspot Syria is.

It would almost be like W. Bush in 2004 being asked about Fallujah or Baghdad and having no clue.

Of course, the Libertarian candidate doesn't actually study foreign policy because it's a joke candidacy.

Posted by: Maritime at September 08, 2016 01:07 PM (x32Kb)

201 I believe it's the hippocampus where Aleppo is produced in the brain. One of the areas, ironically enough, most affected by long term maryjane use.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 08, 2016 01:07 PM (TOk1P)

202 D17.9
Benign leppo.

Posted by: Bigbys Olive Fingers at September 08, 2016 01:07 PM (piuBT)

203 We are the feeders of Aleppo.

Posted by: Akuta at September 08, 2016 01:07 PM (rwI+c)

204 100 Well at least he picked Bill Weld as VP!

That's Bill "Tuesday" Weld

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at September 08, 2016 01:07 PM (s/EUv)

205 Between this and Jill Stein having a warrant out for her arrest (or was she arrested?), it's getting harder to claim that you're going to vote for someone other than Hillary or Trump because you'd rather give your vote to someone who is not an idiot or a law-breaker.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 08, 2016 01:07 PM (NOIQH)

206
Besides..... Aleppo? The dude is an isolationist. It's like complaining that a vegan doesn't know that Kobe beef is awesome.
Posted by: m-zero-x at September 08, 2016 01:02 PM (zWTYO)

He is running to be president, not manage a high end grocery store. Aleppo, ISIS, they are kind of a big deal with regards to the hordes of unvetted "refugees" pouring into our country, so the candidates who are going to deal with these problems better damn well know about them. His handlers should have briefed him better, and he should have damn well listened.

Now, had Trump-or Hillary for that matter- made that mistake, the MFM would be screaming about their unfitness for office. Okay, maybe not Hillary. But still, she was SecState, so she better damn well know where Aleppo is.

Posted by: Moki at September 08, 2016 01:07 PM (VnCI9)

207 Not Johnson's finest moment, nor a good look at all.

But Trump supporters criticizing another candidate's verbal gaffes or lack of specific knowledge about a relevant issue is surely the textbook definition of owners of glass houses hurling stones, right? You must know this.

Posted by: Fred at September 08, 2016 01:07 PM (2El4P)

208 Is there some kind of electronic earphone-signal-jammer Trump could pocket before the debates?

Because that would be awesome. I'd love to watch Cankles shart her enormous white granny-panties while she hears "bzzzzt-bzz-bzz-bzzzt" in her earphone.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at September 08, 2016 01:05 PM (s/EUv)

don't jam it hijack the signal and give her misinformation.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 08, 2016 01:08 PM (cPsPa)

209 wait you don't need the that.

It's using "raced" in its "made" sense. Instrumentative?

Anyway, a dog can race. And a man may race a dog.

a horse races. And you race a horse.

Race can apply to both the thing racing and the people making it race.

so here the horse is BEING raced-- raced where? past the barn.

and he fell.

So, making it less confusing:

The horse, which had been raced past the barn, fell.

Posted by: ace at September 08, 2016 01:08 PM (dciA+)

210 Who was talking to her in that ear piecePosted by: ThunderB�

I suspect big, bald, black dude who rubs her shoulders when she has brain freeze. He has a nice comforting voice.

She probably tried it out with him once. You know what they say.

Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at September 08, 2016 01:08 PM (ZFUt7)

211 Meanwhile Jill Stein is so mad at loggers she went and spraypainted their equipment at a logging site and got arrested.

Best and brightest folks. That's who we have running for office. Only the finest.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 08, 2016 01:08 PM (39g3+)

212 "Is there some kind of electronic earphone-signal-jammer Trump could pocket before the debates?"

It would be even more fun to send an EMP signal, or better yet, induce an overvoltage and make it ignite in her ear. I'm picturing something out of Kingsmen: The Secret Service here.

Posted by: Qoheleth at September 08, 2016 01:08 PM (iIzG7)

213 Asked what he would do about Aleppo, the smoothly baked Libertarian pothound answered "What's a leppo?"

It's a single example of leppi, the plural.

Since he's a pothead, I'll make it more accessible to him: it's like a Dorito is a single example of Doriti.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 08, 2016 01:08 PM (SRKgf)

214 183
171 I'm sticking with Johnson is a One-World statist with totalitarian inclinations.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at September 08, 2016 01:04 PM (rwI+c)

I'm sticking with he's an uninformed imbecile.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 08, 2016 01:05 PM (9P3OG)

I'm sticking with he's high.

Posted by: Tami at September 08, 2016 01:08 PM (Enq6K)

215 153 Reading that "Garden Path Sentence" link -- I still can't figure out "The horse raced past the barn fell" -- and I studied linguistics. All the rest of the examples I grok instantly. But this one...hmmmm.

Zombie: add "that was" between "horse" and "raced" in your head.

Posted by: Sausage McMuffin at September 08, 2016 01:08 PM (T9DQN)

216 >>Oh, to have access to a transmitter set to the frequency of Earbud One --

"Your pants are on fire - RUN, RUN, RUN!!!"

Posted by: Lizzy at September 08, 2016 01:09 PM (NOIQH)

217 But Trump supporters criticizing another candidate's verbal gaffes or lack of specific knowledge about a relevant issue is surely the textbook definition of owners of glass houses hurling stones, right? You must know this.
Posted by: Fred at September 08, 2016 01:07 PM (2El4P)

----------------------------------------------------------------

But this is NeverTrump's last stand guy...the guy who will give conservatives a "serious" candidate.

Posted by: William Eaton at September 08, 2016 01:09 PM (KhJh8)

218 Johnson won't get high if he's President? So what's the attraction.

Which makes me think: Can you see Hillary stoned? "Huma, I've got a Jones for a cup of Earl Gray and a bag of Cheetos. Fetch that for me, dear. . . And turn on Hulu for me -- I want to catch a re-run of the Beverly Hillbillies -- they remind me so much of me and Bill."

Posted by: Trouser Trout in a Barrel at September 08, 2016 01:09 PM (8Dorb)

219 Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Zeppo, Gummo, Leppo!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 08, 2016 12:48 PM (9P3OG)

Somebody once asked Groucho, "You introduced verbal byplay and rapid-fire wit to the act and Harpo contributed the art of mime. What did Chico do?"

Groucho answered, "Chico introduced gonorrhea to the Orpheum circuit."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 08, 2016 01:09 PM (X6fMO)

220 Jamming Hillary's earpiece would cause her to panic and space out then she'd just repeat whatever anyone said near her, so Trump could have fun with that.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 08, 2016 01:09 PM (39g3+)

221
The perpetrators sped away from the scene in a sunset-orange Nissan Leppo.

Posted by: Mortimer at September 08, 2016 01:09 PM (zu88C)

222 the horse raced past the barn fell?

what man?

that's so fucking weeeird, man. what are you talking about?

horse is a weird word. Horrrrrse. sounds like the wind.

Posted by: Gary Johnson at September 08, 2016 01:09 PM (dciA+)

223 Is there some kind of electronic earphone-signal-jammer Trump could pocket before the debates?

Because that would be awesome. I'd love to watch Cankles shart her enormous white granny-panties while she hears "bzzzzt-bzz-bzz-bzzzt" in her earphone.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at September 08, 2016 01:05 PM (s/EUv)

Like that a scene in Goldfinger where Goldfinger is cheating at cards using an earpiece and Bond leaning over Shirley Eaton's wonderful body taps the mic a few times causing all kinds of static in Goldfinger's earpiece

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 08, 2016 01:09 PM (493sH)

224 I suspect big, bald, black dude who rubs her shoulders when she has brain freeze. He has a nice comforting voice.

I bet he can bring dead mice back to life too.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at September 08, 2016 01:09 PM (s/EUv)

225 Why is Raqqa not a pile of rubble by now? Isn't it the ISIS 5 star official retreat?

I forgot the government created and is backing ISIS.

Posted by: Pepe, founder of the fn-right at September 08, 2016 01:09 PM (P5U01)

226 Look, we don't have all the "big money" stuff the other campaigns have like, "internet" and... stuff. Wait, I think I'm getting a signal... *shakes Palm Pilot*

Posted by: Gary Johnson at September 08, 2016 01:09 PM (k0G44)

227
7th Marx Brother.
Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Zeppo, Gummo, Stucco, Leppo

I thought Brawndo was the 7th brother.

This is so confusing!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 08, 2016 01:10 PM (BK3ZS)

228 A leppo is one of those people they send to colonies because their noses and ears are falling off.

Posted by: steevy at September 08, 2016 01:10 PM (fA75F)

229 161 Hillary! has her hair covering her ears today. Someone will be found "accidentally" hanging from a curtain rod for exposing the earpiece last night.
________________

She can just explain that she placed her pearl necklace inside her ear because, as her aide Huma explained in her e-mail, Hillary is "often confused" and needs things explained to her, and nobody explained to her that necklaces don't go inside the ear.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at September 08, 2016 01:10 PM (NnYnv)

230 See Garden Path sentence for some fun examples of easily-misparsed sentences, like "The old man the boat."

-
Shortly after I was married, I showed my bride a pan washing technique. (Did I mention that I'm super cool?) My friend Mike's wife had taught it to me. My wife asked where I'd learned it and I said, "Mike's wife taught me." My wife got all pissed of and said, "Your ex-wife taught you?"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at September 08, 2016 01:10 PM (Nwg0u)

231 So what is a leppo.

One of the Marx brothers, what?

Posted by: eleven at September 08, 2016 01:00 PM (qUNWi)

slang for leprosy, which is coincidentally now threatening Kalifornia

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2016 01:10 PM (c6/9Q)

232 Appears I need to update my list of bug out countries to include Italy.

Italy's highest court rules public masturbation not a crime.

http://tinyurl.com/hpapac8

Posted by: JackStraw at September 08, 2016 01:10 PM (/tuJf)

233
"Allepo."

"..."

"In Syria..."

"..."

"..."

"Dave's not here, Man."

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 08, 2016 01:10 PM (kdS6q)

234 Ryan out with a statement saying Hillary "obviously" obstructed justice.

Of course he can say it without having to actually do anything about it, so maybe not so shocking.

Posted by: MTF at September 08, 2016 01:10 PM (/m8T6)

235 putting the that back in:

"The horse that raced past the barn fell."

That that that you put back in makes the sentence make sense.

Or there is a thing called a "barn fell".

Posted by: eleven at September 08, 2016 01:10 PM (qUNWi)

236 >>But Trump supporters criticizing another candidate's verbal gaffes or
lack of specific knowledge about a relevant issue is surely the textbook
definition of owners of glass houses hurling stones, right? You must
know this.

It's MSNBC who is all over this, breathlessly reporting it since Johnson made the gaffe on today's Morning Joe.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 08, 2016 01:10 PM (NOIQH)

237 Hillary's earpiece: "It's coming from INSIDE YOUR HEAD! HIDE!"

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 08, 2016 01:10 PM (1ZOkK)

238
And over at Reason.com, real quote:

bassjoe
Dude. There's no way to spin Johnson's fuck-up. Not knowing what Aleppo is is completely disqualifying.

robc
No it isnt. Out of context, I was thinking some FDA drug controversy.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 08, 2016 01:11 PM (kdS6q)

239 "Your pants are on fire - RUN, RUN, RUN!!!"

"And, for the love of God, don't shart this time!"

Posted by: Qoheleth at September 08, 2016 01:11 PM (iIzG7)

240 I suspect big, bald, black dude who rubs her shoulders when she has brain freeze. He has a nice comforting voice.

Dennis Haysbert?

Posted by: rickb223 at September 08, 2016 01:11 PM (gJBE5)

241 184 >>>"The horse raced past the barn fell"

commas below show how to group the words. remember, raced can be a past participle.

The horse, raced past the barn, fell
Posted by: Gary Johnson

I considered that possibility, but for that sentence as written to be grammatical requires the commas, whereas none of the other examples require commas.

If that is the intended meaning of "The horse raced past the barn fell," then it needs to be removed as an example from that wikipedia page, but unlike the other examples it actually is ungrammatical as written, and requires the addition of punctuation to make sense.

Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2016 01:11 PM (jBuUi)

242
Isn't a barn fell a thing? - the collapsed barn.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 08, 2016 01:11 PM (ODxAs)

243 Like that a scene in Goldfinger where Goldfinger is cheating at cards using an earpiece and Bond leaning over Shirley Eaton's wonderful body taps the mic a few times causing all kinds of static in Goldfinger's earpiece
Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 08, 2016 01:09 PM (493sH)

so you are saying abedin is going to be found covered in gold paint?

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 08, 2016 01:11 PM (cPsPa)

244 But this gaffe probably does seal up the stoner vote for Gary Johnson.

That has to be a net loss for Hillary and Democrats.

Posted by: Maritime at September 08, 2016 01:11 PM (x32Kb)

245 If you go to Amsterdam, you can see where Anne Frank was arrested by Aleppo officers and sent to a concentration camp.

Posted by: General Zod at September 08, 2016 01:11 PM (Bdeb0)

246 I'm sticking with he's high.

Touche.

Posted by: Akuta at September 08, 2016 01:11 PM (rwI+c)

247 Rambo Marx....now that's confusing.

Posted by: eleven at September 08, 2016 01:11 PM (qUNWi)

248 don't jam it hijack the signal and give her misinformation.Posted by: yankeefifth�

Misinformation? Give her the truth.
'Yes, the night of Benghazi I took three sleeping pills and gave specific instructions not to be disturbed. I knew the YouTube video was a bullshit story. '

Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at September 08, 2016 01:12 PM (ZFUt7)

249 but unlike the other = BECAUSE unlike the other

Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2016 01:12 PM (jBuUi)

250 Posted by: Buzzsaw at September 08, 2016 01:04 PM (wrS2o)

Point. Meant non-interventionist.

Posted by: m-zero-x at September 08, 2016 01:12 PM (zWTYO)

251 Aleppo? I saw them open for Air Supply in '83! Air Supply was so loud! *shudders and winces like a little girl*

Posted by: Gary Johnson at September 08, 2016 01:12 PM (k0G44)

252 Nah, it's like The horse, who was raced by his rider too briskly past the barn, toppled over.

Posted by: spongeworthy at September 08, 2016 01:12 PM (mrfTe)

253 By the way Ace, I believe you meant "a" is an article, not a "particle". Most likely an indefinite article.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 08, 2016 01:12 PM (+YTl9)

254 From Abe Rosenthal to Beanie Baibies' "Chocolate The Moose". What a story!

The late Spy magazine, which coined the phrase "short-fingered vulgarian" for Teh Donald, would routinely call him "Abe 'I'm writing as bad as I can!' Rosenthal" and his wife "bosomy dirty book editor Shirley Lord."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 08, 2016 01:12 PM (X6fMO)

255 Aleppo, the grandfatherly woodcarver of Pinnoccio.

Posted by: Possible answers Drug-addled Gary Johnson thought of at September 08, 2016 01:12 PM (ndGCC)

256 "Aleppo, that's like... killer weed from Egypt, right?"

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 08, 2016 01:12 PM (39g3+)

257 This is silly. Especially if the question came out of context but even if in. Aleppo, LPO, whatevs. Easy mistake and I'm no fan of Johnson or potheads in general.

Let's say there was an actual thing you never heard of called a LPO and someone verbally asked you about it, and you presumed they meant Aleppo, the two-donkey town, and responded that way. You'd look mighty stupid as well. Plenty of reasons to mock Johnson, up to and including his name. This barely means squat.

Posted by: Wtp at September 08, 2016 01:12 PM (KQsIx)

258 You say Aleppo, I say a leppo, let's call the whole thing off.

Sing it.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 08, 2016 01:04 PM (+YTl9)

Sing a leppo? Without an orchestra? No thanks, I'll just be over here dancing. If you can drag that bleach blonde bimbo away from her bottle of Aleppo, maybe she can join me.

Posted by: F. Astaire at September 08, 2016 01:13 PM (TOk1P)

259 the horse raced past the barn fell

what's a 'barn fell'?

Posted by: Khan Lee at September 08, 2016 01:13 PM (YMJXU)

260 This is the biggest non-gaffe i've ever heard of. 5% of the population has heard of Aleppo. Who gives a crap. It was a stupid Gotcha! question. Trump wouldn't have known, either. He could have asked the same question saying Aleppo, Syria. Or just Syria. Do we really need our Presidential candidates to know the name of EVERY single city in the world? Before they become President? Why?

Posted by: rexbatt at September 08, 2016 01:13 PM (woA40)

261 Why is Raqqa not a pile of rubble by now?

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Speaking of which, I just saw a sight walking down the street her in God's country. Someone is a burqa designed to look like the U.S. flag except in black and white.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at September 08, 2016 01:13 PM (Nwg0u)

262
I saw Flaccid Little Dim Fucks open for Lollipop Guild in Oz in '39.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 08, 2016 01:14 PM (BK3ZS)

263 192 that's a cheap one because it's relying on English's habit of dropping "that" or "which"

putting the that back in:

"The horse that raced past the barn fell."
Posted by: Gary Johnson

That's also a very dodgy explanation. The "that" is not really optional in this situation, as it is in other situations.

I think wikipedia blew it with this example.

Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2016 01:14 PM (jBuUi)

264 Aleppo is also a type of pepper. For realz.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 08, 2016 01:14 PM (1ZOkK)

265 Plenty of reasons to mock Johnson, up to and including his name. This barely means squat.
______________

Does he wear a piece? Because in some of those photos, it sure looks like he does.

That alone would be reason to disqualify him.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at September 08, 2016 01:14 PM (NnYnv)

266 68 Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 12:54 PM (SzZnW)

All I know about Mormon's is pop culture based. I think why Johnson's response has stuck with me is due to several of Ace's posts regarding tribalism, signaling, etc.

Just how many schisms will it take and where does balkanization breakdown into tribalism? I really don't think there is a true center to hold to anymore.

(probably should not post when tinfoil hat is loose)

Posted by: Usedtocould at September 08, 2016 01:14 PM (bYwuM)

267 What a stupid time to be alive.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at September 08, 2016 01:14 PM (RFeQD)

268 He should have blamed it on a concussion that erased all his memories. That'd be Okey Dokey with the media, right?

Posted by: West at September 08, 2016 01:14 PM (1Rgee)

269 I might be late to the game on this one, but...

... I have a female friend who said she didn't like Johnson. She says she thinks she might be a leppo.

Posted by: johnd01 at September 08, 2016 01:14 PM (ukNFU)

270 I see your 500 quatloos and raise you a leppo.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at September 08, 2016 01:14 PM (IqgOY)

271 A bearded, Lefty prof I had in college back in the early '80's had a sign on his office door: " Be alert. We need more lerts."

That's what I thought of when I saw the massively baked Johnson make an ass out of himself.

Posted by: JoeyBiden at September 08, 2016 01:15 PM (eQZ2h)

272 This is the biggest non-gaffe i've ever heard of. 5% of the population has heard of Aleppo. Who gives a crap.

-
Yeah, let's get Syrias.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at September 08, 2016 01:15 PM (Nwg0u)

273 Trump supporters criticizing another candidate's verbal gaffes or lack of specific knowledge about a relevant issue is surely the textbook definition of owners of glass houses hurling stones, right?

Yep, although Trump handles it better and usually has some idea rather than just being deer-in-the-headlights unable to even formulate a response.

Johnson's proud pot use just leaves him wide open to mockery, though. Seriously, this is the best the Liberarians can do?

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 08, 2016 01:15 PM (39g3+)

274 >>>By the way Ace, I believe you meant "a" is an article, not a "particle". Most likely an indefinite article.

right.

but particles are things too! though I don't know what they are exactly. I know Japanese has a particle "o" which you put before a noun being used as an object. (Kind of intuitive for english speakers.) I don't know how a particle is defined, though.

I should look that up.

maybe a particle is a word particle that has absolutely no meaning as a free standing word except for its grammatical function.

though articles seem to fall into that category too

Posted by: ace at September 08, 2016 01:15 PM (dciA+)

275 Let's say there was an actual thing you never heard of called a LPO and someone verbally asked you about it, and you presumed they meant Aleppo, the two-donkey town, and responded that way. You'd look mighty stupid as well. Plenty of reasons to mock Johnson, up to and including his name. This barely means squat.
Posted by: Wtp at September 08, 2016 01:12 PM (KQsIx)

well, sure, but then there is follow up video of someone asking him about the gaffe and he says "well, I need to get smarter", so he is admitting he did not know what aleppo is.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 08, 2016 01:15 PM (cPsPa)

276 7th Marx Brother.
Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Zeppo, Gummo, Stucco, Leppo

I thought Brawndo was the 7th brother.

This is so confusing!

Brawndo was their cousin. Brawndo's dad, their uncle, actually got them into show business.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 08, 2016 01:15 PM (gJBE5)

277 From the spoof movie Go Columbus

(Indian giving names of fellow indians)

Him, Pocahontas

Italian: Oh. What's a Hontas?

Posted by: Tilikum KAW at September 08, 2016 01:15 PM (m3iiU)

278

E Leppo was the band headed by Jeff Lynne

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 08, 2016 01:15 PM (493sH)

279 The sad, impractical anti-Trump simpletons like Fred and mzerox oughta consider gaffes and knowledge gaps - common to almost all public figures - vs. actual stated policy positions.

Johnson's policy ideas are idiocy on stilts, even worse than the Dems'. So in his "sober" and deliberate moments, he's an idiot.

And somebody online used to track the increasingly humorous NYT corrections, and corrections-to-corrections, over recent years. Forget who.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 08, 2016 01:15 PM (QDnY+)

280 Can Aleppo change it's spots?

Posted by: JoeyBiden at September 08, 2016 01:15 PM (eQZ2h)

281 A leppo is a Latin slang for a male with leprosy.

Posted by: Pepe, founder of the fn-right at September 08, 2016 01:15 PM (P5U01)

282 Posted by: William Eaton at September 08, 2016 01:09 PM (KhJh

Good Lord, is anybody saying that? Anybody? He's the least corrupt/despicable leftist running. A Bidenesque genius, but he's not a Trump or a Clinton.

Posted by: m-zero-x at September 08, 2016 01:15 PM (zWTYO)

283 Next, let's ask him what he'd do about Ahenway.

*giggle*

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 08, 2016 01:15 PM (JO9+V)

284 LEAVE GARY ALONE!

Posted by: Cheetos and Weed Libertarians at September 08, 2016 01:16 PM (zu88C)

285
Aleppo, the two-donkey town, and responded that way. You'd look mighty stupid as well. Plenty of reasons to mock Johnson, up to and including his name. This barely means squat.
Posted by: Wtp

"the two-donkey town"

Aleppo - City in Syria

For centuries, Aleppo was the Syrian region's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third-largest, after Constantinople and Cairo. Wikipedia

Population: 2.302 million (2005)

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 08, 2016 01:16 PM (kdS6q)

286 Beginner's guide to Syria: put as simply as possible, think of Aleppo as "the front."

Posted by: gm at September 08, 2016 01:16 PM (4ueYo)

287
Weird, where I grew up in a small town we used fell as a noun. So the sentence made total sense to me.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 08, 2016 01:16 PM (ODxAs)

288 266 Posted by: Usedtocould at September 08, 2016 01:14 PM (bYwuM)

The parties are and have always been coalitions of tribes going back to Roman antiquity.

I am willing to embrace "American" becoming an anachronism is it means I get to exert punitive retribution to the left where the right holds power. There is no effort by the left to have a unified American identity anymore, so why live the lie? "Change" can happen from my side too.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 01:16 PM (SzZnW)

289 I know it was you, Aleppo. You broke my heart!

Posted by: M. Corleone at September 08, 2016 01:16 PM (TOk1P)

290 209 wait you don't need the that.

It's using "raced" in its "made" sense. Instrumentative?

Anyway, a dog can race. And a man may race a dog.

a horse races. And you race a horse.

Race can apply to both the thing racing and the people making it race.

so here the horse is BEING raced-- raced where? past the barn.

and he fell.

So, making it less confusing:

The horse, which had been raced past the barn, fell.

Posted by: ace

I get all that, but this intended interpretation NECESSITATES the addition of commas to the sentence for it to have that meaning.

As written in the example (with no commas), it cannot be interpreted that way.

Some grammatical formulations absolutely need punctuation to be correct and parsable. This is one of those situations.

Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2016 01:16 PM (jBuUi)

291

Def Leppo has a drummer with one arm.

Posted by: Mortimer at September 08, 2016 01:17 PM (zu88C)

292 Particle man, Particle man,
He can do anything a leppo can...

Posted by: Lincolntf at September 08, 2016 01:17 PM (2cS/G)

293 Aleppo is a type of surgery, right? My mom got aleppo suction on her tummy and I had to rub cold cream on her for weeks afterward. Poor thing. She was sore all over. And under! *giggles*

Posted by: Gary Johnson at September 08, 2016 01:17 PM (k0G44)

294 that's a cheap one because it's relying on English's habit of dropping "that" or "which"

And let's not forget about punctuation:

"Let's eat Grandma!"

"He helped his uncle Jack off a horse."

Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 08, 2016 01:17 PM (SRKgf)

295 A barn fell on Gary Johnson? How the fuck did that happen?

Posted by: Joe Biden at September 08, 2016 01:17 PM (97XyN)

296 Just how many schisms will it take and where does balkanization breakdown into tribalism?

Let #BLM & LaRaza start getting uppity.

In the suburbs.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 08, 2016 01:17 PM (gJBE5)

297 dammit Sefton!

Posted by: Mortimer at September 08, 2016 01:18 PM (zu88C)

298 >>>But that doesn't really get him off the hook, because parsing errors occur when the brain attempts to apply general rules of parsing to new words, sounds, and sentences.>>>

Not sure I buy this given the example of "The old man the boat."

Posted by: gm at September 08, 2016 01:18 PM (4ueYo)

299 If you asked Gary Johnson about "multi-level marketing", would he know who Amway is?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 08, 2016 01:18 PM (jxbfJ)

300 Plenty of reasons to mock Johnson, up to and including his name.

-
Carlos Perilous.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at September 08, 2016 01:18 PM (Nwg0u)

301 "The horse raced past the barn fell"

Fell.
1. Chiefly British An upland stretch of open country; a moor.
2. A barren or stony hill.

Posted by: Min at September 08, 2016 01:18 PM (g6yUI)

302 I don't care whether Johnson knows where Aleppo is, as long as there's a staff sergeant in the Artillery who does.

Posted by: Qoheleth at September 08, 2016 01:18 PM (iIzG7)

303 Slang for a leper?

Posted by: gm at September 08, 2016 01:18 PM (4ueYo)

304 Speaking of irrelevance, has McNever found someone to run with him on the Genuine Stupid Party ticket yet?

Posted by: RioBravo at September 08, 2016 01:18 PM (NUqwG)

305 This is the biggest non-gaffe i've ever heard of.

You're high right now, aren't you?

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at September 08, 2016 01:18 PM (rwI+c)

306 Yo!

Posted by: Yo! at September 08, 2016 01:18 PM (uPt3V)

307 I was wrong...a "leppo" is a medical procedure, whereby doctors use a hose suck the fat out of one's...well wherever it resides

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2016 01:19 PM (c6/9Q)

308 Def Leppo has a drummer with one arm.

Posted by: Mortimer at September 08, 2016 01:17 PM (zu88C)

Oh really? Is he available?

Posted by: Michelle Fields at September 08, 2016 01:19 PM (ukNFU)

309 " so he is admitting he did not know what aleppo is."

God forbid a pol admit they didn't know something. Of course it's ENTIRELY POSSIBLE by "getting smarter" he meant by being on guard against stupid BS gotcha games. Not many people know everything and I severely distrust those who do.

Posted by: Wtp at September 08, 2016 01:19 PM (KQsIx)

310

Horse is slang for heroin.
So the heroin raced through the veins passed

Let me check the urban dictionary

barn fell

no entry, can anyone define it.
you could be an urban legend.

Posted by: Khan Lee at September 08, 2016 01:19 PM (YMJXU)

311 Hi,

Posted by: rhomboid at September 08, 2016 01:15 PM (QDnY+)

"279�The sad, impractical anti-Trump simpletons like Fred and mzerox oughta consider gaffes and knowledge gaps - common to almost all public figures - vs. actual stated policy positions."

Not nice. And: you /really/ think we haven't?

Posted by: m-zero-x at September 08, 2016 01:19 PM (zWTYO)

312 Ok, I'm stupid. What is the alternative phonetic parsing of "The old man the boat"?

I've tried saying it several times quickly. It doesn't stimulate me to hear a different parsing.

Posted by: Yuimetal at September 08, 2016 01:19 PM (ZKlDy)

313 I'm sticking with he's high.
Posted by: Tami at September 08, 2016 01:08 PM (Enq6K)

I'm so high right now, I don't even know what's going on.

Posted by: Gary 'Towlie' Johnson at September 08, 2016 01:19 PM (KUaJL)

314 The real issue is not that Johnson was unaware of what Aleppo is, it's that he was unable to disguise his ignorance, such as by discussing the Syria/ISIS situation in general, or just changing the subject.

Even Trump has better instincts than that.

Posted by: West at September 08, 2016 01:19 PM (1Rgee)

315 306 Posted by: Yo! at September 08, 2016 01:18 PM (uPt3V)

'sup?

Posted by: 'sup? at September 08, 2016 01:19 PM (SzZnW)

316 OK, I knew Aleppo is a city in Syria. But that's all I know about it. Is there something else I should know about it?

Posted by: rickl at September 08, 2016 01:19 PM (zoehZ)

317 "The horse raced past the barn fell" -- you can't just add a "that." The implied phrase is "that was raced" -- as in the horse is the *object* of the verb "raced," turning it into an adjectival phrase. "The car driven past the barn exploded."

It's an intentionally awkward sentence, of course, but it's one of the classic examples of a garden path sentence and absolutely belongs on the Wiki page.

Posted by: Sausage McMuffin at September 08, 2016 01:19 PM (T9DQN)

318 Yo!

Posted by: Yo! at September 08, 2016 01:18 PM (uPt3V)

Yo-Yo-MA!

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2016 01:19 PM (c6/9Q)

319 Just realized, if Trump is elected he'll be the first POTUS since Poppy who has never used illegal drugs.

I heard Trump rarely even drinks. Back in his so-called playboy days, they say he and Ivana would show up to parties and events early and leave early, preferring to spend time working on their various projects (Ivana did much of the interior design work.)

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at September 08, 2016 01:19 PM (s/EUv)

320 This is the biggest non-gaffe i've ever heard of. 5% of the population has heard of Aleppo. Who gives a crap. It was a stupid Gotcha! question.

I'm hoping the president of the United States is better informed than 95% of the population. But I think you'd find most people have heard of Aleppo because of recent news. They may not know exactly without context but they'd know its a place, and many would know its somewhere in the middle east if not Syria.

This dude didn't even know what kind of word it was.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 08, 2016 01:19 PM (39g3+)

321 Yes, very "refreshingly human" -- guy humiliates himself on TV

Translation: "refreshingly stupid." Actually, it's not refreshing at all. It's depressingly common.

Quick ask him how many states there are. Or what language is spoken in Austria.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 08, 2016 01:19 PM (SRKgf)

322 >>>263 192 that's a cheap one because it's relying on English's habit of dropping "that" or "which"

putting the that back in:

"The horse that raced past the barn fell."
Posted by: Gary Johnson

That's also a very dodgy explanation. The "that" is not really optional in this situation, as it is in other situations.

I think wikipedia blew it with this example.

..

yah i effed up on that. I totally Gary Johnsoned it.

See my subsequent explanation. Another commenter said the same thing.

Posted by: ace at September 08, 2016 01:20 PM (dciA+)

323 Oh never mind. It's the idiom "man the boat".

Posted by: Yuimetal at September 08, 2016 01:20 PM (ZKlDy)

324 305
This is the biggest non-gaffe i've ever heard of.

You're high right now, aren't you?

>>>>> >>>

"Um."

...

...

"No."

Posted by: Cheetos and Weed Libertarian for Johnson at September 08, 2016 01:20 PM (zu88C)

325 I went over to Memeorandum to see what Democrat media people are saying about Hillary's performance, but the whole page is full-on Lauer hate. Matt won't be welcome at the Round Hill Club ever again, if the tsunami of lefty disgust is any indication.

Posted by: MTF at September 08, 2016 01:20 PM (/m8T6)

326 OK, I knew Aleppo is a city in Syria. But that's all I know about it. Is there something else I should know about it?
Posted by: rickl at September 08, 2016 01:19 PM (zoehZ)
------------------------
It was a better place before it was a worse place.

Posted by: RioBravo at September 08, 2016 01:20 PM (NUqwG)

327 >>Who gives a crap. It was a stupid Gotcha! question.

Not really. Aleppo has been in the news a lot because of ISIS, and ISIS *is* a big issue for the next president. This isn't a gotcha using some random cityin some small, irrelevant country.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 08, 2016 01:20 PM (NOIQH)

328 Posted by: Yo! at September 08, 2016 01:18 PM (uPt3V)

'sup?

Posted by: 'sup? at September 08, 2016 01:19 PM (SzZnW)

Oy!

Posted by: Oy! at September 08, 2016 01:20 PM (rwI+c)

329 My thitheh ith a leppo. Heh an heh pahpmeh got mawweed lath yeah in Camifawmyah.

Posted by: Lithpy the Lisper at September 08, 2016 01:21 PM (TOk1P)

330 Its kinda sad watching libertarian stoners try to act like this is no big deal. Syria is kind of a major foreign policy concern right now. Bust out a map between bowls, Johnson.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 08, 2016 01:21 PM (39g3+)

331 "He helped his uncle Jack off a horse."
Posted by: Jay Guevara

Now THAT's a great example!

Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2016 01:21 PM (jBuUi)

332 OK, I knew Aleppo is a city in Syria. But that's all I know about it. Is there something else I should know about it?

Been under siege for, what, four years? Center of the ISIS v. Assad fighting.

And of course the "Free Syrian Army".

Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 08, 2016 01:21 PM (mgbwf)

333 A Leppo: Crude name for one suffering from leprosy. Soon to be in common usage in the schools of S. Cal.

Posted by: Tuna at September 08, 2016 01:21 PM (JSovD)

334
That's the nice thing about the Big Lie -- it can always be adjusted.

Posted by: M Magoo's at September 08, 2016 01:21 PM (UVCy2)

335 -
Speaking of which, I just saw a sight walking down the street her in God's country. Someone is a burqa designed to look like the U.S. flag except in black and white.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at September 08, 2016 01:13 PM (Nwg0u)

A black and white US flag? Is there some symbolism with that, or is that the aesthetic they were going for?

Posted by: Moki at September 08, 2016 01:21 PM (VnCI9)

336 312 Ok, I'm stupid. What is the alternative phonetic parsing of "The old man the boat"?
I've tried saying it several times quickly. It doesn't stimulate me to hear a different parsing.
Posted by: Yuimetal at September 08, 2016 01:19 PM (ZKlDy)

The old "man the boat."

Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 08, 2016 01:21 PM (SRKgf)

337 >>>Ok, I'm stupid. What is the alternative phonetic parsing of "The old man the boat"?

Man is being used as a verb, not a noun.

The old are manning the boat.

Posted by: ace at September 08, 2016 01:21 PM (dciA+)

338 Leppo is an offensive term these days. Victims of leprosy prefer to be called "post-nostril citizens".

Posted by: Lincolntf at September 08, 2016 01:21 PM (2cS/G)

339 El Leppo is the opposite of El Nino. It's where when you flush the toilet and the water spins the other direction. But just for a little while. And then it all goes back to El Nino. Which in English means, "The Nino".

Posted by: Gary Johnson at September 08, 2016 01:21 PM (k0G44)

340 This is a video of all the forum interruptions ... (per Cernovich) ... 7 nice ones for Hillary, 13 argumentative against Trump.
http://tinyurl.com/h85wfm8

Posted by: illiniwek at September 08, 2016 01:21 PM (ZRaCn)

341 Ok, I'm stupid. What is the alternative phonetic parsing of "The old man the boat"?

Clitoris.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 08, 2016 01:21 PM (gJBE5)

342 it's not phonetic parsing, though. It's parsing according to whole word meaning.

Posted by: ace at September 08, 2016 01:21 PM (dciA+)

343
Alexios

1. Johnson doesn't know what Aleppo is
2. NYT confuses Aleppo w/ Raqqa
3. NYT corrects, confusing Aleppo w/ Damascus

"No words. Poetry. They should have sent a poet!"

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 08, 2016 01:22 PM (kdS6q)

344
Weird how they never say Trump says 'refreshing' things.

Posted by: M Magoo's at September 08, 2016 01:22 PM (UVCy2)

345 Gary Johnson would fall for "A sphincter says 'What'" every single time.

Posted by: buzzion at September 08, 2016 01:22 PM (bMG0w)

346 THE FUCK, MAN--?!!?!

Posted by: American Legion of Ex-Pat Postal Officers at September 08, 2016 12:48 PM

Could be worse, bro...

Posted by: National Association of Marlon Brando Look Alikes at September 08, 2016 01:22 PM (bzd8I)

347 He has a nice comforting voice. (In a Lou Rawls bass): "Easy now lady. Everything gonna be ok...what's that you always say: ain't no ways tahhrrd? That's right. Got the mojo in my hand like I always do...need a little bump? Yeah...gonna be all right."

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at September 08, 2016 01:22 PM (SeD0w)

348 Aleppo was the name of an obscure Italian '70's Prog-rock band....

Posted by: JoeyBiden at September 08, 2016 01:22 PM (eQZ2h)

349 Yo!

Posted by: Yo! at September 08, 2016 01:18 PM (uPt3V)

Yo-Yo-MA!

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2016 01:19 PM (c6/9Q)

I knew this election would come to this.

Posted by: George Will at September 08, 2016 01:22 PM (b6FQn)

350 " so he is admitting he did not know what aleppo is."

God forbid a pol admit they didn't know something. Of course it's ENTIRELY POSSIBLE by "getting smarter" he meant by being on guard against stupid BS gotcha games. Not many people know everything and I severely distrust those who do.
Posted by: Wtp at September 08, 2016 01:19 PM (KQsIx)

you seem to have missed the point of my comment. the oint of my comment was that the explanations for why he did not understand the question are wrong. he did no get it confused with something else, he did not have a clue what it was.

besides, asking someone about aleppo is not really a gotcha game.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 08, 2016 01:22 PM (cPsPa)

351 It's like this:

The old (people) man (verb, not noun) the boats.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at September 08, 2016 01:22 PM (s/EUv)

352 If it keeps on rainin aleppo's gonna break.
When aleppo breaks, mama you got yo move.

Posted by: Lep Zeppelin at September 08, 2016 01:22 PM (NpXoL)

353 >>>331 "He helped his uncle Jack off a horse."
Posted by: Jay Guevara

Now THAT's a great example!

..

poetry!

Posted by: ace at September 08, 2016 01:22 PM (dciA+)

354 Aleppo is a type of surgery, right? My mom got
aleppo suction on her tummy and I had to rub cold cream on her for weeks
afterward. Poor thing. She was sore all over. And under! *giggles*

Posted by: Gary Johnson

That there is genuine frontier political gibberish, friends.

Posted by: Howard Johnson, with two flavors of ice crea, at September 08, 2016 01:22 PM (RFeQD)

355
I like my a leppo on the rocks....

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at September 08, 2016 01:23 PM (HSmrB)

356 My understanding is that particles are words that only have a use in association with other words. They have them in Russian, FWIW.

Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at September 08, 2016 01:23 PM (RD7QR)

357 309 Posted by: Wtp at September 08, 2016 01:19 PM (KQsIx)

I'm more wary of people who sell themselves as eidetic minds who are lazy bugfuck nuts red diaper types.....

like Grammy H

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 01:23 PM (SzZnW)

358 I support Johnson to the extent that he takes voters from Hillary.

Posted by: Yuimetal at September 08, 2016 01:23 PM (ZKlDy)

359 Ok, I'm stupid. What is the alternative phonetic parsing of "The old man the boat"?

Mulva?

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at September 08, 2016 01:23 PM (rwI+c)

360 HOLY FUCK!

The FAB held a "press conference" where a planted question was asked if there was a press double standard that favored Trump.

You have got to be shitting me.

Posted by: Kreplach at September 08, 2016 01:23 PM (jzUL/)

361 Now THAT's a great example!

Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2016 01:21 PM (jBuUi)

Used to use that one in teaching to illustrate the importance of punctuation. Of course, I used the version with the commas. But alluding to the version without commas never failed to bring down the house.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 08, 2016 01:23 PM (SRKgf)

362
@301

That's what I was thinking. I just couldn't work it into a sentence.

Posted by: Khan Lee at September 08, 2016 01:23 PM (YMJXU)

363 Meanwhile Jill Stein is so mad at loggers she went and spraypainted their equipment at a logging site and got arrested.

Best and brightest folks. That's who we have running for office. Only the finest.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 08, 2016 01:08 PM (39g3+)

She did that at a pipeline site too.

This is by far the worst set of candidates ever. The Libertarian doesn't even have Libertarian views.

SMOD is our only hope. Or secession.

Posted by: stace...TEXIT at September 08, 2016 01:23 PM (ozZau)

364 I heard Trump rarely even drinks. Posted by: WhatWhatWhat?�

Don't think he drinks, period. I believe he had an alcoholic brother who died young.

Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at September 08, 2016 01:23 PM (ZFUt7)

365 Sweet Lord, I can picture a future where Americans becomes so enraged that they attack government agents in the same manner, ferocity, and exactly how The Alien. Features attack the host attaching itself to the agents face. The Blood is acidic from all the rage of being fucked, lied to, and mocked.

Posted by: Pepe, founder of the fn-right at September 08, 2016 01:23 PM (P5U01)

366 "He helped his uncle Jack off a horse."
Posted by: Jay Guevara

Now THAT's a great example!

Waving to a TSA agent named John at the airport and saying in a loud voice "hi Jack!"

Posted by: rickb223 at September 08, 2016 01:24 PM (gJBE5)

367 341 Ok, I'm stupid. What is the alternative phonetic parsing of "The old man the boat"?

Clitoris.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 08, 2016 01:21 PM (gJBE5)

Oh. So that's why I couldn't find it.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at September 08, 2016 01:24 PM (KUaJL)

368 "layers" of fact-checking

Posted by: brak at September 08, 2016 01:24 PM (MJuTN)

369 it's fun watching people who usually say "I could never vote for that ignorant know-nothing trump!" suddenly arguing that knowing what "Aleppo" is is some kind of Pointdexter nerd thing that Real People don't bother knowing.

Posted by: ace at September 08, 2016 01:24 PM (dciA+)

370 356 My understanding is that particles are words that only have a use in association with other words. They have them in Russian, FWIW.

Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at September 08, 2016 01:23 PM (RD7QR)

Nihongo wa also.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 08, 2016 01:24 PM (SRKgf)

371 Would not have been 'refreshingly human' coming from Trump. In fact, he's been whacked by the press for a couple of things in a similar vein from the primaries. What a joke.

Posted by: K-E at September 08, 2016 01:24 PM (Ks+nh)

372 332
Been under siege for, what, four years? Center of the ISIS v. Assad fighting.

And of course the "Free Syrian Army".
Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 08, 2016 01:21 PM (mgbwf)

Sucks to be them, I guess. Right now my working assumption is that all sides are bad guys, including the side Obama is supporting. Maybe especially them.

Posted by: rickl at September 08, 2016 01:24 PM (zoehZ)

373 Dude,hear that(knocks on his head).That's my skull,I'm so wasted!

Posted by: steevy at September 08, 2016 01:24 PM (fA75F)

374 "Heh an heh pahpmeh got mawweed lath yeah in Camifawmyah..."

"Mawwaiage... Mawwiage is what bwings us tugevvah tuday. Mawwiage, that bwessed awwaingement... that dweam wivvin a dweam..."

Posted by: Qoheleth at September 08, 2016 01:24 PM (iIzG7)

375 348 Aleppo was the name of an obscure Italian '70's Prog-rock band....

Hmmm. I know Le Orme, Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, PFM, Balletto di Bronzo, Osanna, Semiramis, Musea Rosenbach, Alphataurus, Maxophone...but not Aleppo. I'll have to check them out.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at September 08, 2016 01:24 PM (s/EUv)

376 Ok, I'm stupid. What is the alternative phonetic parsing of "The old man the boat"?

Clitoris.

Posted by: rickb223

>>>>> >>>

Mulva.

Posted by: Mortimer at September 08, 2016 01:24 PM (zu88C)

377 Clitoris.
Huh...I would have said "The angry man in the boat."

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at September 08, 2016 01:24 PM (SeD0w)

378 I prefer paprica.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleppo_pepper

Posted by: bergerbilder at September 08, 2016 01:25 PM (27WlQ)

379 A leppo is when Kirk talks a computer into a logic loop and it self destructs.

Posted by: x at September 08, 2016 01:25 PM (nFwvY)

380 OK, I knew Aleppo is a city in Syria. But that's all I know about it. Is there something else I should know about it?

Posted by: rickl at September 08, 2016 01:19 PM (zoehZ)

No, unless you are running as the "serious" candidate on the right for President of the United States.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 08, 2016 01:25 PM (TOk1P)

381 U.K. Daily Mail has a pic of an Obama daughter with a bong in it

Posted by: Yo! at September 08, 2016 01:25 PM (uPt3V)

382 301 "The horse raced past the barn fell"

Fell.
1. Chiefly British An upland stretch of open country; a moor.
2. A barren or stony hill.
Posted by: Min

Now we're getting somewhere. Perhaps this is the intended interpretation.

Though it's still a bit of a stretch to construe "barn fell" sensibly -- it would have to be dependent on local knowledge, like -- in the region where the horse was racing, there were several fells, one overlooked by a barn, known to locals as the "barn fell," and another one overlooked by a church, known as the "church fell," and so forth.

Even so, I prefer this solution!

Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2016 01:25 PM (jBuUi)

383 Aleppo or not Aleppo.

His statement about understanding the Syrian conflict is pretty much BS, because I don't really think anyone understands the dynamics of the Syrian conflict, including the principles that are fighting it.

It's just slaughter and killing of each others tribes and identity groups, which Muslims and their predecessors were doing for a long time anyways.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative...pondering the future at September 08, 2016 01:25 PM (RFeQD)

384 I always knew where Aleppo was. All the Syrian Catholics who started coming to the US in the 1880's and settled in my NJ town came from there after the Muslims made life miserable fot them....

Posted by: JoeyBiden at September 08, 2016 01:25 PM (eQZ2h)

385 She took four questions, all were about media bias against her and that she was facing unprecedented attacks because she has a vagina.

Posted by: Kreplach at September 08, 2016 01:25 PM (jzUL/)

386 That would have worked better if I remembered to put in the Gary Johnson sock...

Posted by: steevy at September 08, 2016 01:25 PM (fA75F)

387 The young are fishing while the old man the boat.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at September 08, 2016 01:25 PM (s/EUv)

388 Not really. Aleppo has been in the news a lot because of ISIS, and ISIS *is* a big issue for the next president. This isn't a gotcha using some random cityin some small, irrelevant country.
Posted by: Lizzy

Exactly

And the idea that because "average man on the street doesn't know either" is a piss poor test for someone running to be Commander in Chief.

My guess is most Americans also don't know how a bill becomes a law. If a guy running for President doesn't know wither, he deserves mocking.

And the question wasn't like "what's the largest city in Uzbekistan?", it was in the context of a front and center conflict on the global stage that the next President will have to face.

I honestly don't care all that much, but don't point to Gary Johnson as your answer to "idiot" Trump.

Posted by: Maritime at September 08, 2016 01:25 PM (x32Kb)

389 >>>356 My understanding is that particles are words that only have a use in association with other words. They have them in Russian, FWIW.

ah. my sense that they were words that had no other meaning besides a grammatical funciton is right then.

Apache has 'em too.

Posted by: ace at September 08, 2016 01:26 PM (dciA+)

390 >>Posted by: ace at September 08, 2016 01:15 PM (dciA+)

All true. A "particle" in grammar can be words that are not nouns or verbs in some languages. In English, a particle generally is a function word used to display a grammatical relationship with other words.

So- "he ruled out". "Out" is the particle.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 08, 2016 01:26 PM (+YTl9)

391 dammit Grumpy.

My brain is slower than a leppo this morning.

Must be all the weed.

Posted by: Mortimer at September 08, 2016 01:26 PM (zu88C)

392 Well, at least more Americans know what Aleppo is today thanks for Johnson and Google.

Posted by: IC at September 08, 2016 01:26 PM (a0IVu)

393 369 it's fun watching people who usually say "I could never vote for that ignorant know-nothing trump!" suddenly arguing that knowing what "Aleppo" is is some kind of Pointdexter nerd thing that Real People don't bother knowing.

Posted by: ace at September 08, 2016 01:24 PM (dciA+)

Bingo.

Posted by: Moki at September 08, 2016 01:26 PM (VnCI9)

394
*walks out, slams door*

Posted by: Deloris at September 08, 2016 01:27 PM (ODxAs)

395 "Drop your bombs between the minarets
Down Aleppo-way"

"What's a leppoway?"

"Oh, about 7 pounds"

Christ, we still laugh our asses off over that.

Posted by: The Clash at September 08, 2016 01:27 PM (BYSrJ)

396 381
U.K. Daily Mail has a pic of an Obama daughter with a bong in it

phrasing..

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 08, 2016 01:27 PM (1ZOkK)

397
He helped his uncle Jack off a horse." Posted by: Jay Guevara

Why did uncle Jack off a horse? Was it lame?

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at September 08, 2016 01:27 PM (lKyWE)

398 Leppo was the Marx brother who went into real estate.

Posted by: Lincolntf at September 08, 2016 01:27 PM (2cS/G)

399 A leppo is when Kirk talks a computer into a logic loop and it self destructs.

Posted by: x at September 08, 2016 01:25 PM (nFwvY)

i remember that one, and then the doc yells : " I am a doctor, not a leppo !!"
classic

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2016 01:27 PM (c6/9Q)

400 Hillary coughing and limping to the podium fell.

Posted by: Soona at September 08, 2016 01:27 PM (Fmupd)

401 374 "Heh an heh pahpmeh got mawweed lath yeah in Camifawmyah..."

"Mawwaiage... Mawwiage is what bwings us tugevvah tuday. Mawwiage, that bwessed awwaingement... that dweam wivvin a dweam..."

Who let the Welsh in?

Posted by: rickb223 at September 08, 2016 01:27 PM (gJBE5)

402 U.K. Daily Mail has a pic of an Obama daughter with a bong in it

Posted by: Yo! at September 08, 2016 01:25 PM (uPt3V)

The apple doesn't fall too far from the tree

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 08, 2016 01:27 PM (493sH)

403 Don't talk like one of them. You're not! Even if you'd like to be. To
them, you're just a freak, like me! They need you right now, but when
they don't, they'll cast you out, like a leppo!

Posted by: the Joker at September 08, 2016 01:27 PM (H9MG5)

404 I was talking to an Eskimo
Said he was hoping for a FALL of snow....

That's from McCartney's "Junior's Farm." I never heard that phrase before. Must be British. We say "snowfall."

Posted by: JoeyBiden at September 08, 2016 01:27 PM (eQZ2h)

405 There's a very small town in Loudoun, Virginia. Name of the town: Amissville. Locally, it's pronounced "AY-mus-vll."

When Mrs. Zod and I pass through on the way to Skyline, we pronounce it "AMISS-ville" and joke about cows on houses, ladies living in shoes, cats and fiddles, etc.

Posted by: General Zod at September 08, 2016 01:28 PM (Bdeb0)

406 392 Posted by: IC at September 08, 2016 01:26 PM (a0IVu)

There's ~ 25-50% of the horde who understands the GWoT better than the politicians running.

Not hyperbole, fact....what is charming is the people who understand in DC live in a fantasy land where the same shit that failed in Vietnam will work against Jihadi Jim.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 01:28 PM (SzZnW)

407 What's a pache?

Posted by: Gary Johnson at September 08, 2016 01:28 PM (ODxAs)

408 The old motorboat the young.

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at September 08, 2016 01:28 PM (Z1U+Q)

409 "He helped his uncle Jack off a horse."

Hey man, do that in the boat! Last time you knocked the barn over.

Posted by: Gary Johnson at September 08, 2016 01:28 PM (k0G44)

410 397
He helped his uncle Jack off a horse." Posted by: Jay Guevara

Why did uncle Jack off a horse? Was it lame?

No opposable thumps.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 08, 2016 01:28 PM (gJBE5)

411 As a small "L" libertarian this shit embarrasses me.

It's hard to talk small government and individual liberty when everyone just yells "Stoner!" and this doesn't help.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 08, 2016 01:28 PM (mgbwf)

412
cough
cough
cough
cough
argha argha gluph
cough
cough
hagruph

*hocks a lappo into water glass*

Posted by: Hillary at September 08, 2016 01:28 PM (9mTYi)

413
Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson on Thursday brushed off criticism from those who said his Aleppo gaffe is disqualifying in the race for the presidency.

"For those that believe this is a disqualifier, so be it," Johnson said Thursday on "The View."

"But I've been really well-served in my life by always telling the truth. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. I think the one unforgivable in life is hypocrisy, saying one thing and doing another."

The Hill

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 08, 2016 01:28 PM (kdS6q)

414 Hillary and the ear pearl, says Drudge. What was it? Some kind of weird accessory?

Posted by: IC at September 08, 2016 01:29 PM (a0IVu)

415 Posted by: ace at September 08, 2016 01:24 PM (dciA+)

Can't speak for anybody else, but my problem with Trump isn't now, nor has it ever really been, that he's a dunce. In fact I used to think and argue the opposite.

Posted by: m-zero-x at September 08, 2016 01:29 PM (zWTYO)

416 This is why conservatives lose. You live in a bubble of constant news/politics and expect that anyone who does not is an ignoramous. For the record, I personally know quite well tha Aleppo is an important town in the current context. But making an issue of this just turns people who have lives and stuff to do off from politics and the news. And yes, i realize this started with a journal/lefty's question, but people are put off by them as well. Get out of your bubbles and go out in the real world and work with people. Help them, don't mock and look down on them like arrogant Marxist douchebags do.

Posted by: Wtp at September 08, 2016 01:29 PM (KQsIx)

417 Aleppo or not Aleppo.

His statement about understanding the Syrian conflict is pretty much BS, because I don't really think anyone understands the dynamics of the Syrian conflict, including the principles that are fighting it.

It's just slaughter and killing of each others tribes and identity groups, which Muslims and their predecessors were doing for a long time anyways.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative...pondering the future at September 08, 2016 01:25 PM (RFeQD)

what's important to know is that under Fredo both Syria and Iraq have ceased to be soveriegn Countries and have dissintergrated into lawless States that spawn the worst type of Terror and Terrorists the World has ever seen.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 08, 2016 01:29 PM (zp+j1)

418 Who let the Welsh in?

Posted by: rickb223 at September 08, 2016 01:27 PM (gJBE5)

Cromwell, the bastard.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 08, 2016 01:29 PM (TOk1P)

419 "fell" can also mean "evil" or "ill-looking," and english does permit the french practice of adjecltives following nouns to sound poetical or important (though obviously this isn't the norm).

So if you really can't accept the correct parsing -- "the horse (which had been) raced past the barn, fell" -- then you can say the horse was raced past the "barn fell," meaning "fell barn," meaning evil barn.

Posted by: ace at September 08, 2016 01:29 PM (dciA+)

420 "Who let the Welsh in?"

Surely you remember. Fezzik... jog his memory.

Posted by: Qoheleth at September 08, 2016 01:30 PM (iIzG7)

421
I have forgotten more about Aleppo than I could ever remember.

Posted by: Khan Lee at September 08, 2016 01:30 PM (YMJXU)

422 U.K. Daily Mail has a pic of an Obama daughter with a bong in it
>>>

She apparently does not read Rolling Stone. Hanging out with white frat boys is very dangerous.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at September 08, 2016 01:30 PM (wrS2o)

423 The Little Man In The Boat

Posted by: by Cli Toris at September 08, 2016 01:30 PM (ndGCC)

424 411 Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 08, 2016 01:28 PM (mgbwf)

When 95% of their mental effort is aimed at making their intoxicants legal and they have in fact rejected the idea that the welfare state is an enemy of liberty and now argue the regulatory superstate trumps personal property rights what else is left?

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 01:30 PM (SzZnW)

425 371 Would not have been 'refreshingly human' coming from Trump. In fact, he's been whacked by the press for a couple of things in a similar vein from the primaries. What a joke.
Posted by: K-E at September 08, 2016 01:24 PM (Ks+nh)

Time to rehabilitate D-Lamp?

Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 08, 2016 01:30 PM (SRKgf)

426 >>>"Heh an heh pahpmeh got mawweed lath yeah in Camifawmyah..."
"Mawwaiage... Mawwiage is what bwings us tugevvah tuday. Mawwiage, that bwessed awwaingement... that dweam wivvin a dweam..."

Who let the Welsh in?
Posted by: rickb223 at September 08, 2016 01:27 PM (gJBE5)<<<

Whyb doob youm day dabt?

Posted by: Marlee Matlin at September 08, 2016 01:30 PM (H9MG5)

427 ace you're deepening my frustration over my faded Russian. I do believe it has particles, but I can only think of one.

"lyi" (the y is that crude way of transliterating the soft palatization after Russian consonants, a "ya" sound at the end of the consonant sound)

Inserted into sentences with a question, or uncertainty.

Oh, and there's "bwee" (close enough), a particle indicating ...... hmm, forget, exactly. Time for more coffee.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 08, 2016 01:30 PM (QDnY+)

428 This is why conservatives lose.
--------

And this , my friends, is how you can instantly spot a leppo.

Posted by: Mortimer at September 08, 2016 01:30 PM (zu88C)

429 People ask me if I win, will I disclose what the government knows about a liens. And I tell them, all the liens are in Africa, that's not a secret.

Posted by: Gary Johnson at September 08, 2016 01:30 PM (lRwmz)

430 Aleppo? You're soaking in it.

Not really, but that doesn't mean some muzzie scum isn't going to kill you.

Posted by: Madge at September 08, 2016 01:31 PM (97XyN)

431
kismet

Posted by: Khan Lee at September 08, 2016 01:31 PM (YMJXU)

432 Ugh I get it. Time to start drinking.

Posted by: Yuimetal at September 08, 2016 01:31 PM (ZKlDy)

433 U.K. Daily Mail has a pic of an Obama daughter with a bong in it

"Activate the asset."

Posted by: Michelle, talking into her lapel at September 08, 2016 01:31 PM (SeD0w)

434 Obama is out today with a statement saying he's "terrified".

About stuff. Lots of stuff. Now he won't come out of his room. Just sitting in there, watching ESPN and texting his friends.

Posted by: MTF at September 08, 2016 01:31 PM (/m8T6)

435 369 it's fun watching people who usually say "I
could never vote for that ignorant know-nothing trump!" suddenly arguing
that knowing what "Aleppo" is is some kind of Pointdexter nerd thing
that Real People don't bother knowing.

Posted by: ace at September 08, 2016 01:24 PM (dciA+)

Bingo.

Posted by: Moki

OH! I KNOW THIS ONE! Bingo is a game! Really fun! It's a fun game!

(I got one! I totally got one!)

Posted by: Gary Johnson at September 08, 2016 01:31 PM (k0G44)

436 Super Military Mind Gary Johnson: What's a Leppo?

Yes! Let's elect this man right away! He'd be sooo much better than Trump!

Posted by: OregonMuse at September 08, 2016 01:31 PM (0cbf9)

437 389 >>>356 My understanding is that particles are words that only have a use in association with other words. They have them in Russian, FWIW.

ah. my sense that they were words that had no other meaning besides a grammatical funciton is right then.

Apache has 'em too.

Posted by: ace at September 08, 2016 01:26 PM (dciA+)

Russian also has symbols for pronunciation, for example one that instructs you to hold your tongue one way as opposed to another. Took me a while to get used to that.

Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at September 08, 2016 01:31 PM (RD7QR)

438 She apparently does not read Rolling Stone. Hanging out with white frat boys is very dangerous.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at September 08, 2016 01:30 PM (wrS2o)

Yeah, she should stay safe and hang out in the 'hood.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 08, 2016 01:31 PM (SRKgf)

439 416 Posted by: Wtp at September 08, 2016 01:29 PM (KQsIx)

The fucking retards graced this nation with Urkle.

They can GF themselves.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 01:32 PM (SzZnW)

440 Posted by: ace at September 08, 2016 01:24 PM (dciA+)

They're arguing, "dude, we don't want to know foreign stuff *inhale*. Trump and nuclear triad, whatever that is."

Posted by: dagny at September 08, 2016 01:32 PM (brElc)

441 There's a very small town in Loudoun, Virginia. Name of the town: Amissville. Locally, it's pronounced "AY-mus-vll."

When
Mrs. Zod and I pass through on the way to Skyline, we pronounce it
"AMISS-ville" and joke about cows on houses, ladies living in shoes,
cats and fiddles, etc.

Posted by: General Zod at September 08, 2016 01:28 PM

You think they have it bad?

Posted by: All the residents of Athol, MA at September 08, 2016 01:32 PM (bzd8I)

442 357 309 Posted by: Wtp at September 08, 2016 01:19 PM (KQsIx)

I'm more wary of people who sell themselves as eidetic minds who are lazy bugfuck nuts red diaper types.....

like Grammy H
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Yeah, that's a subset.

Posted by: Wtp at September 08, 2016 01:32 PM (KQsIx)

443 Acronyms? Johnson is a Lawflower;

Libertarian is just
Another
Word
For a
Liberal
Whinging
Establishment
Republican

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at September 08, 2016 01:32 PM (LVbmi)

444 >>>it's fun watching people who usually say "I could never vote for that ignorant know-nothing trump!" suddenly arguing that knowing what "Aleppo" is is some kind of Pointdexter nerd thing that Real People don't bother knowing.

Indeed, it's just delightful.

Posted by: Max Power at September 08, 2016 01:32 PM (q177U)

445 Aleppo? Oh, you must be talking about Alotta's sister. You know, Alotta Fagina.

Posted by: Gary Johnson at September 08, 2016 01:32 PM (lRwmz)

446 Russian also has symbols for pronunciation, for example one that instructs you to hold your tongue one way as opposed to another. Took me a while to get used to that.

Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at September 08, 2016 01:31 PM (RD7QR)

Studying Russian now, and still trying to master palatalization.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 08, 2016 01:32 PM (SRKgf)

447

the h'rse wast did race past the barn hath fallen

Posted by: Mortimer of York at September 08, 2016 01:32 PM (zu88C)

448 So Gary Johnson doesn't know what/where Aleppo is. He gets crucified for this.

Hillary Clinton thinks wiping a server means you dust it off and she gets a free pass?

WTF?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 08, 2016 01:33 PM (jxbfJ)

449 Even so, I prefer this solution!
Posted by: zombie

I thought of it meaning 'alpine meadow', but had to look it up. Another good topographic feature name is 'holt'. A small hill surrounded by swamp.

Posted by: Min at September 08, 2016 01:33 PM (g6yUI)

450 425 Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 08, 2016 01:30 PM (SRKgf)

Matt Lauer has a nice truck...

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 01:33 PM (SzZnW)

451 Studying Russian now, and still trying to master palatalization.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 08, 2016 01:32 PM (SRKgf)

couple of shots of vodka with get you on your way

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2016 01:33 PM (c6/9Q)

452 McCartney always wrote weird shit. "Ah Mater want Jet to always love me-Ah Mater much later"?

Mater is like mother, right? Still makes no sense. But we all thought he was singing "I'll mate her much later" anyway.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at September 08, 2016 01:33 PM (s/EUv)

453 well, not especially a gary johnson fan but not knowing aleppo off hand is not the worst thing someone could be guilty of.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 08, 2016 12:53 PM (cPsPa)

It's only a major city in Syria, and has been in the news a lot lately.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 08, 2016 01:34 PM (oqkO3)

454 Wtp sounds really concerned, you guys.

Posted by: Gary Johnson at September 08, 2016 01:34 PM (k0G44)

455 The big story from last night was that they used the 'military sexual assault' stats that were pushed by Sabrina Erdely in Rolling Stone of the UVA rape hoax. They also didn't bother to note that most military sex assualt complaints are male on male with the giant leap occurring after the repeal of DADT.

Posted by: dagny at September 08, 2016 01:34 PM (brElc)

456
OH! I KNOW THIS ONE! Bingo is a game! Really fun! It's a fun game! <<<<<

No. Its a dog. That I ate.

Posted by: B Obama at September 08, 2016 01:34 PM (ODxAs)

457 453 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 08, 2016 01:34 PM (oqkO3)

Now now the rules are ONLY Trump's idiocy is to be mocked....

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 01:34 PM (SzZnW)

458 Cromwell, the bastard.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 08, 2016 01:29 PM (TOk1P)
------------------------------------------------------

That was his baptismal name, if I'm not mistaken

Posted by: MTF at September 08, 2016 01:35 PM (/m8T6)

459 Gary Johnson is People Smart, not Book-Smart!!!!

Posted by: Gary Johnson's Girlfriend/Pot-dealer at September 08, 2016 01:35 PM (dciA+)

460 It's only a major city in Syria, and has been in the news a lot lately.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 08, 2016 01:34 PM (oqkO3)

"What's a Syria? Is that like granola or something?" - LIV

Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 08, 2016 01:35 PM (SRKgf)

461 "I'm still high from last night."

Posted by: PJ at September 08, 2016 01:35 PM (cHuNI)

462 317 "The horse raced past the barn fell" -- you can't just add a "that." The implied phrase is "that was raced" -- as in the horse is the *object* of the verb "raced," turning it into an adjectival phrase. "The car driven past the barn exploded."

It's an intentionally awkward sentence, of course, but it's one of the classic examples of a garden path sentence and absolutely belongs on the Wiki page.
Posted by: Sausage McMuffin

Huh, I didn't realize that "The horse..." sentence was a well-known example of the genre.

I STILL think it's a piss-poor examplar, but having pondered ""The car driven past the barn exploded," I'm beginning to accept it now as potentially technically passable, though still even in your "car" example it would be better with commas. But are the commas ABSOLUTELY grammatically necessary? Perhaps not.

One needs to think of the situation of there being several horses being raced past several different types of structures. It is only with this prior knowledge setting up the utterance that it can be properly parsed, e.g.

"The trainers were exercising several horses for the upcoming Kentucky Derby, having them run through the countryside. One trainer raced a horse past a haystack, but it was slow. Further along, the horse which was raced past a silo managed to escape. And finally, the horse raced past a barn fell."

There. That solves it.

Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2016 01:36 PM (jBuUi)

463 The Little Man In The Boat
Posted by: by Cli Toris

It's a little woman

Posted by: Sara Paulson doing Marcia Clark at September 08, 2016 01:36 PM (ZKlDy)

464 It's only a major city in Syria, and has been in the news a lot lately.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

What channel are you guys watching? *adjusts rabbit ears - bangs side of tv*

Posted by: Gary Johnson at September 08, 2016 01:36 PM (k0G44)

465 Hey man, shuttup about Gary Johnson!

Gary is the finest , most principled dude... that

Posted by: Cheetos and Weed Libertarian for Johnson at September 08, 2016 01:37 PM (zu88C)

466 well, not especially a gary johnson fan but not knowing aleppo off hand is not the worst thing someone could be guilty of.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 08, 2016 12:53 PM (cPsPa)

It's only a major city in Syria, and has been in the news a lot lately.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 08, 2016 01:34 PM (oqkO3)

yeah I understand that, but how important is the president's geographic knowledge of syria? hopefully he is getting briefed from people who know syria inside and out and who are giving him options based upon their experrtise, not asking him for guidance.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 08, 2016 01:37 PM (cPsPa)

467 Hey Concerny Concernyton, I am not an arrogant Marxist douchebag. I'm just an arrogant douchebag. Let's leave the Marxism out of it.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at September 08, 2016 01:37 PM (s/EUv)

468 >>>I thought of it meaning 'alpine meadow', but had to look it up. Another good topographic feature name is 'holt'. A small hill surrounded by swamp.

I would love to do a thread on this, and plan to later.

I really love these topographical words, many of which I've heard but never bothered to look up (until recently).

Like a "coll." A coll is the saddle between two peaks in a range of mountains.

or an arrete.

anyway, i'm going to do a post on this to learn your favorite obscure topographical words so don't waste them here.

Posted by: ace at September 08, 2016 01:37 PM (dciA+)

469 OH! I KNOW THIS ONE! Bingo is a game! Really fun! It's a fun game!

No. Its a dog

Oh come on. Doug Stanhope's girlfriend is cute.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 08, 2016 01:37 PM (mgbwf)

470 The big story from last night was that they used the 'military sexual assault' stats that were pushed by Sabrina Erdely in Rolling Stone of the UVA rape hoax. They also didn't bother to note that most military sex assualt complaints are male on male with the giant leap occurring after the repeal of DADT.
Posted by: dagny at September 08, 2016 01:34 PM (brElc)

That's an excellent point, and I wish the candidates knew that. it doesn't help that Trump suggested the military get a court system, which they already have.

Posted by: stace...TEXIT at September 08, 2016 01:38 PM (ozZau)

471
Yes! Let's elect this man right away! He'd be sooo much better than Trump!
Posted by: OregonMuse

He's like David French, in an Evan McMullin-ish sort of way.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 08, 2016 01:38 PM (kdS6q)

472 466 Posted by: yankeefifth at September 08, 2016 01:37 PM (cPsPa)

Like the Obama paradigm that has served us so well these last 7.75 years?

A"Er uh I am smahtuh than my Syria advisers, and more militaryily military than mah generals derp"

//Bronk

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 01:38 PM (SzZnW)

473 454 Wtp sounds really concerned, you guys.

It's Billy Dee Kristol, slumming.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at September 08, 2016 01:38 PM (s/EUv)

474 'Handler' whispering in Hillary's earpiece..."I've heard people say that Too much of anything is not good for you, baby Oh no but I don't know about that There's many times that we've loved we've shared love and made love It doesn't seem to me like it's enough There's just not enough of it There's just not enough Oh oh, babe"

Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at September 08, 2016 01:38 PM (ZFUt7)

475 Gary Johnson, EggMcMuffin, and that Stein broad are all side show freaks. But how about them Yankees? When are we gonna have a thread about them Yankees?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 08, 2016 01:38 PM (zp+j1)

476 Yeah. Just horrible.
But remember, Mr. Bigly Brain had no idea what the Nuclear Triad was. He wasnt even in the ballpark with his "nuclear is good" answer during the debates.

Posted by: Derptastic at September 08, 2016 01:39 PM (b8jcS)

477 I guess it's surprising to me that in this educated bunch we can't all agree that Johnson is not very bright, smokes too much weed, has terrible international and domestic social policies, and is still light years ahead of both Trump and Clinton.

If your vote alone could put one of those three in office, who would you cast it for? The obvious criminal, not to mention Soros stooge? The real state mogul who rips people off with fake degrees, kicks little old ladies out of their homes, who has Russian FSB ties, and who likes to stiff small contractors because he knows they can't fight back? Or the other guy?

Vote for Trump and own it if you want. I have to live with myself though.

Posted by: m-zero-x at September 08, 2016 01:39 PM (zWTYO)

478 They also didn't bother to note that most military sex assualt complaints are male on male with the giant leap occurring after the repeal of DADT.

"ON YOUR KNEES, PRIVATE!"
"Ummm, my recruiter didn't mention this..."

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at September 08, 2016 01:39 PM (SeD0w)

479 This is by far the worst set of candidates ever. The Libertarian doesn't even have Libertarian views.

Yeah, at least they could have picked a libertarian to run for them?

U.K. Daily Mail has a pic of an Obama daughter with a bong in it

I learned it from you dad! OK? I learned it from YOU!

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 08, 2016 01:39 PM (39g3+)

480 anyway, i'm going to do a post on this to learn your favorite obscure topographical words so don't waste them here.

-----

Once again proving that commenting and fapping are one and the same.

Posted by: Mortimer at September 08, 2016 01:39 PM (zu88C)

481 I would love to do a thread on this, and plan to later.

I really love these topographical words, many of which I've heard but never bothered to look up (until recently).

Like a "coll." A coll is the saddle between two peaks in a range of mountains.

or an arrete.

You need to check out a henway.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 08, 2016 01:40 PM (gJBE5)

482 >>>OH! I KNOW THIS ONE! Bingo is a game! Really fun! It's a fun game!

Bingo is the gorilla on the Banana Splits who played the drums. Voiced by the great Allan Melvin, Navy vet and Barney on All in the Family and Sam on the Brady Bunch.

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at September 08, 2016 01:40 PM (Z1U+Q)

483 475 Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 08, 2016 01:38 PM (zp+j1)

What's hilarious is the Billy Dee Kristol types thinking there will be a party they will swoop in and "save" in 2017 if they fuck us this cycle.

I will make it my mission to make sure I am part of the GOP losing by 27 million votes forever.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 01:40 PM (SzZnW)

484 I know 500 brands and sub-brands of pot, and you're asking me something about a leppo?

Please ask me something about the quality of pot in the U.S. Let's get our priorities straight.

Posted by: Gary Johnson at September 08, 2016 01:40 PM (Fmupd)

485 Like the Obama paradigm that has served us so well these last 7.75 years?

A"Er uh I am smahtuh than my Syria advisers, and more militaryily military than mah generals derp"

//Bronk
Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 01:38 PM (SzZnW)

well, yeah that's my point, pres should not be down in the weeds and in the syria situation, he has bigger concerns than aleppo.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 08, 2016 01:40 PM (cPsPa)

486 389 >>>356 My understanding is that particles are words that only have a use in association with other words. They have them in Russian, FWIW.

ah. my sense that they were words that had no other meaning besides a grammatical funciton is right then.

Apache has 'em too.

Posted by: ace

That's a whole nother story.

Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2016 01:41 PM (jBuUi)

487 "You need to check out a henway."

What's a henway?

Oh, about four pounds.

I denounce myself.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at September 08, 2016 01:41 PM (97XyN)

488 A black and white US flag? Is there some symbolism with that, or is that the aesthetic they were going for?

-
Your guess is as good as mine.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at September 08, 2016 01:41 PM (Nwg0u)

489 But how about them Yankees? When are we gonna have a thread about them Yankees?

Ace of Spades HQ gave up baseball for lent.

not knowing aleppo off hand is not the worst thing someone could be guilty of.

Well sure, its not as bad as, say, letting ambassadorial staff die and then lying about it, or leaking classified secrets over an illegal personal server, or having troublesome people whacked, just to pick random things. But still, not a good thing for a presidential candidate to stumble on.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 08, 2016 01:41 PM (39g3+)

490 Context is the issue. If A Leppo came out of the blue, say just after discussing FDA drug issues, confusion could be somewhat excused. If it was mentioned in a foreign policy context that is close to damning.
Maybe he is getting the chronic that contains too many seeds and stems. That's where the residual paraquat shows up.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at September 08, 2016 01:42 PM (FtrY1)

491 Aleppo is a chain of stores like Aldi but even cheaper. They have knock-offs of knock-offs of knock-offs of Hostess baked goods. Mom gets them for my lunch.

Posted by: Gary Johnson at September 08, 2016 01:42 PM (k0G44)

492 >>yeah I understand that, but how important is the president's geographic
knowledge of syria? hopefully he is getting briefed from people who
know syria inside and out and who are giving him options based upon
their experrtise, not asking him for guidance.

It demonstrates that Johnson is not all that aware of ISIS news.

My 13 year old son knows where and what Aleppo is, but then, he likes watching the news and has kept up with what ISIS is doing.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 08, 2016 01:42 PM (NOIQH)

493
what's important to know is that under Fredo
both Syria and Iraq have ceased to be soveriegn Countries and have
dissintergrated into lawless States that spawn the worst type of Terror
and Terrorists the World has ever seen. Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 08, 2016 01:29 PM (zp+j1)
=====

Let's not forget Libya. So, under BHO admin, with HC as front(wo)man, Syria, Iraq and Libya have become lawless terror-exporting failed states. Egypt saved itself somehow, even with the MoBro influence.

Not the kind of record anti-colonialists would want to emphasize.

Posted by: mustbequantum at September 08, 2016 01:42 PM (MIKMs)

494 >>Vote for Trump and own it if you want. I have to live with myself though.

If you had a leppo you could live apart from yourself.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 08, 2016 01:42 PM (/tuJf)

495 There are masculine, feminine, and neutron words.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at September 08, 2016 01:42 PM (Nwg0u)

496
hopefully he is getting briefed from people who know syria inside and out and who are giving him options based upon their experrtise, not asking him for guidance.
Posted by: yankeefifth

If the candidate doesn't understand the subject, handing him over to a set of puppetmasters with their own agenda doesn't seem like such a great idea.

Quite enough of that already in the DC lobbying community and structural bureaucracy as it is.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 08, 2016 01:42 PM (kdS6q)

497 The Little Man In the Boat according to urban dictionary. The Internet does not lie.

Posted by: Patriarchy Privelege at September 08, 2016 01:42 PM (ndGCC)

498
Dude, Gary Johnson is the only

Posted by: Cheetos and Weed Libertarian for Johnson at September 08, 2016 01:42 PM (zu88C)

499 Context is the issue. If A Leppo came out of the blue, say just after discussing FDA drug issues, confusion could be somewhat excused. If it was mentioned in a foreign policy context that is close to damning.
Maybe he is getting the chronic that contains too many seeds and stems. That's where the residual paraquat shows up.
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at September 08, 2016 01:42 PM (FtrY1)

he later admits he did not know what aleppo was

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 08, 2016 01:42 PM (cPsPa)

500 If your vote alone could put one of those three in office, who would you cast it for? The obvious criminal, not to mention Soros stooge? The real state mogul who rips people off with fake degrees, kicks little old ladies out of their homes, who has Russian FSB ties, and who likes to stiff small contractors because he knows they can't fight back? Or the other guy?

Vote for Trump and own it if you want. I have to live with myself though.
Posted by: m-zero-x at September 08, 2016 01:39 PM (zWTYO)

I disagree with Johnson's isolationism, but as far as I know he's not in love with Putin as Trump is, and Hillary is just evil.

Posted by: stace...TEXIT at September 08, 2016 01:43 PM (ozZau)

501 478 They also didn't bother to note that most military sex assualt complaints are male on male with the giant leap occurring after the repeal of DADT.

"ON YOUR KNEES, PRIVATE!"
"Ummm, my recruiter didn't mention this..."
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at September 08, 2016 01:39 PM (SeD0w)
The reason there are so many and not so many convicted is that, immediately on getting rid of DADT unhappy guys could say they'd been sexually assaulted, get moved elsewhere and, in some cases, end their enlistment early. Regardless, it got them a change of assignment.

Posted by: dagny at September 08, 2016 01:43 PM (brElc)

502 yeah I understand that, but how important is the president's geographic knowledge of syria? hopefully he is getting briefed from people who
know syria inside and out and who are giving him options based upon their expertise, not asking him for guidance.

And get some economics/finance advisors to teach him it's "price to earnings ratio," NOT "profit to earnings," so we don't have a replay of the present dunce's gaffe.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 08, 2016 01:44 PM (SRKgf)

503 Correction: Sept. 8, 2016

An earlier edition of the newspaper referred to Barack Obama as "King of the Whole Wide World". He is, in fact, just some guy we met at a frat party and took home because Oprah said he had pretty eyes.

Sincerely,

Posted by: The New York Times Eleventy at September 08, 2016 01:44 PM (LVbmi)

504 Bingo was a piker, couldn't drum for shit.

Management just thought he had the right personality for the band.

Posted by: Fleagle at September 08, 2016 01:44 PM (mgbwf)

505 Leppo = disgraced Leprechaun

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 08, 2016 01:44 PM (R+30W)

506 Perhaps Aleppo is a stretch for someone who aims for the highest office.

After all, the USA is composed of 57 states. POTUS

Posted by: gracepc at September 08, 2016 01:44 PM (OU4q6)

507 499

I slouch corrected.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at September 08, 2016 01:45 PM (FtrY1)

508 Denial. It's not just a river in a leppo

Posted by: Joe Biden at September 08, 2016 01:45 PM (ZKlDy)

509 Dude, Gary Johnson is the only

Posted by: Cheetos and Weed Libertarian for Johnson at September 08, 2016 01:42 PM (zu88C)

"You know, man, like ... uh ... that's heavy."

Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 08, 2016 01:45 PM (SRKgf)

510 He says he "blanked". Maybe he needs some Diazepam.

Posted by: scovilleunit at September 08, 2016 01:45 PM (hWh8W)

511 500 Posted by: stace...TEXIT at September 08, 2016 01:43 PM (ozZau)

The US and Russia aligned could dominate the globe.

I hated the USSR more than anyone, our unwillingness to bite the bullet and use Ivan as a hedge against China is unforgivable.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 01:45 PM (SzZnW)

512 I thought it was a couple of Aleppo students that caused a health scare in a southern CA town?

Posted by: Lizzy at September 08, 2016 01:45 PM (NOIQH)

513 Time to reprise my story about a corporate memo that included the eternal phrase "polo bear?"

Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 08, 2016 01:46 PM (SRKgf)

514 The Little Man In the Boat according to urban dictionary. The Internet does not lie.

Posted by: Patriarchy Privelege

It's gay sex, isn't it? I KNEW it! I'm getting that on a cake for my birthday! They have to do what I say and I say, "PUT SOME GAY SEX ON MY CAKE!!!"

Posted by: Gary Johnson at September 08, 2016 01:47 PM (k0G44)

515
Vote for Trump and own it if you want. I have to live with myself though.
Posted by: m-zero-x

"Here I stand; I can do no other"

MUSIC CUE: Bonnie Tyler - Holding Out For A Hero

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 08, 2016 01:47 PM (kdS6q)

516 what's important to know is that under Fredo
both Syria and Iraq have ceased to be soveriegn Countries and have
dissintergrated into lawless States that spawn the worst type of Terror
and Terrorists the World has ever seen. Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 08, 2016 01:29 PM (zp+j1)
=====

Let's not forget Libya. So, under BHO admin, with HC as front(wo)man, Syria, Iraq and Libya have become lawless terror-exporting failed states. Egypt saved itself somehow, even with the MoBro influence.

Not the kind of record anti-colonialists would want to emphasize.
Posted by: mustbequantum at September 08, 2016 01:42 PM (MIKMs)

get your programs Here! Programs! Can't keep track of the Fredo Failures without a Program! Get your Programs!

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 08, 2016 01:47 PM (zp+j1)

517 Libertarians:
"yeah he's an idiot stoner who doesn't know crap about foreign policy. Yeah he said he's 75% in agreement with the Communist crank Bernie Sanders. Yeah he says its fascist to deport illegal immigrants. Yeah his running mate is a gun grabbing fanatic. But he's not TRUMP!!!!1!1!!"

Gotcha.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 08, 2016 01:47 PM (39g3+)

518 It demonstrates that Johnson is not all that aware of ISIS news.

My 13 year old son knows where and what Aleppo is, but then, he likes watching the news and has kept up with what ISIS is doing.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 08, 2016 01:42 PM (NOIQH)

well, actually, it demonstrates that he doe not know what the syrian government is doing, since they are considered responsible for the most recent chlorine attack.

besides, the internals of syria require less presidential attention than the externals. you have russia, turkey, iraq, iran, the jurds in iraq and turkey, all involved. keeping this from spinning out of control at the international level is more of a presidential level concern than what is happening in aleppo.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 08, 2016 01:48 PM (cPsPa)

519 There are numerous aspects of libertarian though, or more generally the classic liberal aspects, that I agree with. Unfortunately, the "pure" and fully extreme academic libertarian ideology has the same fundamental issues as marxism--real people are ultimately involved. Real people who have greed and selfishness and know how to game the system and find loopholes and eventually special advantages.

Reasonable antitrust is one area I support. Because my ability to go out and take on a monopoly or oligopoly even if I have a better mousetrap and business plan is virtually nill given the numerous artificial market pressure that can be brought to bear to crush my initiatives. Of course unreasonable regulation sucks just as bad... but life isn't perfect.

Posted by: Keith at September 08, 2016 01:48 PM (nFB1w)

520 Reading that "Garden Path Sentence" link -- I still can't figure out "The horse raced past the barn fell" -- and I studied linguistics. All the rest of the examples I grok instantly. But this one...hmmmm.

Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2016 01:01 PM (jBuUi)

The horse which raced past the barn fell. Makes sense? Now remove the "which". Sentence is still grammatically correct, with the same meaning.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 08, 2016 01:48 PM (oqkO3)

521 Johnson doesn't pass the Me Test as a presidential candidate. If a presidential candidate of any political party seemingly knows less than I do about basic civics-level knowledge of government, foreign and military affairs, American history, economic issues and current events, then he or she isn't qualfiied to be President.

Why? Because I'm a nobody from Nowhere, Indiana. I'm not qualified to be President. You're dumber than me? Nope, sorry, you can't be President, either.

It's a very simple, very low bar kind of thing.

Posted by: troyriser at September 08, 2016 01:48 PM (fnCax)

522 get your programs Here! Programs! Can't keep track of the Fredo Failures without a Program! Get your Programs!

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 08, 2016 01:47 PM (zp+j1)

Program? It's a multi-volume set.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 08, 2016 01:49 PM (SRKgf)

523 325 I went over to Memeorandum to see what Democrat media people are saying about Hillary's performance, but the whole page is full-on Lauer hate. Matt won't be welcome at the Round Hill Club ever again, if the tsunami of lefty disgust is any indication.

Posted by: MTF at September 08, 2016 01:20 PM (/m8T6)

My prog FB friends are doing the same thing. They seem to have expected Lauer to light up Trump, Tim Russert-style. I think anyone who's watched Lauer for any length of time would have known he wasn't capable of that (and I think it requires a certain amount of mental acuity to do his job), nor did he probably ever want that kind of role anyway.

I had trouble with the horse example as well, although I can see it. Googling it brings up discussions about past participles and the like. I could always write naturally without making those errors, but could never explain it.

Posted by: El Skippito Friskito at September 08, 2016 01:49 PM (XiVKO)

524 The US and Russia aligned could dominate the globe.

I hated the USSR more than anyone, our unwillingness to bite the bullet and use Ivan as a hedge against China is unforgivable.
Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 01:45 PM (SzZnW)

Perhaps. that doesn't mean that Trump should personal praise the dictator, or justify Putin's murders of reporters by saying "well, the US does it too".

Posted by: stace...TEXIT at September 08, 2016 01:49 PM (ozZau)

525 Aleppo manufactures Kersplat breakfast cereal.

Posted by: Lincolntf at September 08, 2016 01:50 PM (2cS/G)

526 Next, let's ask him what he'd do about Ahenway.

*giggle*

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 08, 2016 01:15 PM (JO9+V)

If it weighs as much as a duck it is made of wood, and we all know how that one goes!

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Defeatism, Despair, and Dismay - The Outrage Outlet for Sports and Elections at September 08, 2016 01:50 PM (hLRSq)

527 O/T but...why can't i use TOR to comment on AoSHQ ? something abt ip banned ....is TOR verboten ?

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2016 01:50 PM (c6/9Q)

528 And get some economics/finance advisors to teach him it's "price to earnings ratio," NOT "profit to earnings," so we don't have a replay of the present dunce's gaffe.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 08, 2016 01:44 PM (SRKgf)

not a johnson guy, not defending him in general, simply saying that in this instance it is not necessarily a big deal.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 08, 2016 01:50 PM (cPsPa)

529 524 Posted by: stace...TEXIT at September 08, 2016 01:49 PM (ozZau)

We deal with the world we live in and not the one we want.

If able we try to meld this world into one we want.

Emperor Urkle X and Gram Gram have handed billions of dollars worth of US kit to ISIS and in fact helped create it.

I want that stopped and a TRUE "reset."

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 01:52 PM (SzZnW)

530 Why? Because I'm a nobody from Nowhere, Indiana. I'm not qualified to be President. You're dumber than me? Nope, sorry, you can't be President, either.

Yeah that's kind of my attitude, too.

The way I look at a presidential race is that its the candidates for a job, and we're hiring. Its the toughest, most dangerous, most important job in the world. I'm not gonna hire you unless you clearly know your stuff or are able to demonstrate great ability to learn and adapt on the fly.

Seriously, people act like its a reality show or some contest. Its a job interview. Don't hire the idiot.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 08, 2016 01:52 PM (39g3+)

531 Far funnier than Johnson was the NYT perpetual Correction.

Posted by: Lincolntf at September 08, 2016 01:52 PM (2cS/G)

532 Posted by: Moki at September 08, 2016 01:07 PM (VnCI9)

My point in saying that I'm not that affected by Johnson's ignorance is that - even if he knew a sweet place to get mello that isn't too far from the downtown Aleppo taco hut - it wouldn't matter a great deal since he's not an interventionist.

Note that I didn't say I think it's a good thing.

Posted by: m-zero-x at September 08, 2016 01:52 PM (zWTYO)

533 "Hillary and the ear pearl, says Drudge. What was it? Some kind of weird accessory?"

Someone is feeding her info as she answers questions. I hope Trump calls her out on this at the first debate.

"Crooked Hillary step away from the earpiece."

Posted by: Tuna at September 08, 2016 01:52 PM (JSovD)

534 I still can't figure out "The horse raced past the barn fell" -- and I studied linguistics.

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Barnfell is a city in Syria.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at September 08, 2016 01:52 PM (Nwg0u)

535 i think a guy who runs a billion dollar empire knows what a P/E is

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2016 01:52 PM (c6/9Q)

536 The horse which raced past the barn fell. Makes sense? Now remove the "which". Sentence is still grammatically correct, with the same meaning.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 08, 2016 01:48 PM (oqkO3)

Strictly speaking that should be "the horse that raced."

"That" introduces restrictive clauses (i.e., defining which one), whereas "which" introduces parenthetical clauses (i.e., adducing further but not defining information), and should be set off with a comma (or enclosed in parentheses).

"I opened the door that was blue" implies that there was only one blue door, and that's the you opened, as opposed to one of the other, non-blue ones.

"I opened the door, which was blue" says only that you opened a door, and it happened to be blue, but that's not important.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 08, 2016 01:53 PM (SRKgf)

537 Everyone just relax. This whole thing is like the time I got a job at the movie theater after I admitted I'd never, ever, had POPCORN! Still nailed the interview and got the job! So there! Ate TONS of popcorn and barfed in the car on the way home. Mom was SO mad. Spent the next day cleaning the Subaru floor mats, dash, seats... everything. So gross. It smelled like b-u-t-t-e-r.

Posted by: Gary Johnson at September 08, 2016 01:53 PM (k0G44)

538
Meanwhile, over on the #NeverTrump bug world of Red State:

Gary Johnsons Aleppo Flub Is Being Made a Much Bigger Deal Than It Is
by Brandon Morse

As a guy who has openly stated I'm voting for Johnson.....

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 08, 2016 01:53 PM (kdS6q)

539

*shuffles off to fry potato*

Posted by: Khan Lee at September 08, 2016 01:53 PM (YMJXU)

540 get your programs Here! Programs! Can't keep track of the Fredo Failures without a Program! Get your Programs!
Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 08, 2016 01:47 PM (zp+j1)

Program? It's a multi-volume set. Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 08, 2016 01:49 PM (SRKgf)
=====

Heh. I read it as 'pogroms' -- especially considering the Irani and Turkish winners of BHO/HC 'foreign policy'.

Posted by: mustbequantum at September 08, 2016 01:53 PM (MIKMs)

541 "polo bear?"

"IT WAS SPELL CHECK! HOW MANY FUCKING TIMES DO I HAVE TO SAY IT? SPELL CHECK! SPELL CHECK! SPELL CHECK!"

Posted by: Humiliated Middle Manager at September 08, 2016 01:54 PM (SeD0w)

542
Perhaps. that doesn't mean that Trump should personal praise the dictator, or justify Putin's murders of reporters by saying "well, the US does it too".
Posted by: stace...TEXIT at September 08, 2016 01:49 PM (ozZau)

George Bush said he looked into Putin's eyes and saw a trustworthy man deeply commited to his country.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at September 08, 2016 01:56 PM (lKyWE)

543 I want that stopped and a TRUE "reset."
Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 01:52 PM (SzZnW)

sure, I'll vote for whomever has the best chance of beating Hildemort, but that person is unfortunately a dictator-loving freak show. I'll vote for him but no one can make me like it.

We're complaining, rightly, that Johnson doesn't know what Aleppo is, but Trump doesn't even know the military has a court system.

Posted by: stace...TEXIT at September 08, 2016 01:56 PM (ozZau)

544 468 >>>I thought of it meaning 'alpine meadow', but had to look it up. Another good topographic feature name is 'holt'. A small hill surrounded by swamp.

I would love to do a thread on this, and plan to later.

I really love these topographical words, many of which I've heard but never bothered to look up (until recently).

Like a "coll." A coll is the saddle between two peaks in a range of mountains.

or an arrete.

anyway, i'm going to do a post on this to learn your favorite obscure topographical words so don't waste them here.

Posted by: ace

My favorite?

A ha-ha.

What is a ha-ha?

When the British nobility built country estates long ago, they wanted to have uninterrupted views of their landholdings, to show off how wealthy they were to visitors. But at the same time, they wanted a fence around the manor to keep the cattle and the peasants from wandering too close. But often the fence itself blocked the view! On dear! What to do?

Well, the solution was to build a massive trench cutting sideways across a down-sloping hill, and then build the fence at the bottom of the trench, so that the top of the fence exactly matches the existing prior ground-level -- and thus doesn't block the view from the manor house looking down from the hill above it. Yet it would still function to keep the cattle and wild animals out.

That trench-to-hold-a-fence was called a "ha-ha," apparently named after the exclamations of amazement from people seeing the unobstructed view. "Ha! Ha!" in the manner that a modern person might say "Ooooh!"

Centuries later, however, the fence would often fall into ruin and disrepair and cease existing.

But -- the surviving sideways trench, now perceived by passersby as an odd natural topographic feature, retained the name "ha-ha"!

Truly my favorite topographic derivation.

I know you told us not to squander them here, Ace, but I may not be around for that later thread, so I'm posting it now just in case. Feel free to repost this comment in my absence.

Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2016 01:56 PM (jBuUi)

545 Statements that Trump "loves" Putin are just asinine, but he's like a lot of tycoons in that he's less troubled by the horrible stuff tyrants do than normal people. When your life is structured around gaining power and having more, what other people do to get there isn't as much of a concern as it is to most folks. That doesn't mean you agree with, admire, or will emulate that -- in fact it almost certainly does not mean so. But it means that you don't have as much of a problem when others do so.

The richest, most powerful businessmen on earth got there because their ethics are more... flexible than most. When it comes down to "is this right" vs "will I win" then win is going to be the choice in most cases. That's how they got there.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 08, 2016 01:56 PM (39g3+)

546 541 "polo bear?"
"IT WAS SPELL CHECK! HOW MANY FUCKING TIMES DO I HAVE TO SAY IT? SPELL CHECK! SPELL CHECK! SPELL CHECK!"
Posted by: Humiliated Middle Manager at September 08, 2016 01:54 PM (SeD0w)

Nobody pointed it out, because that one came from the top. We just chuckled behind closed doors.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 08, 2016 01:56 PM (SRKgf)

547 If it weighs as much as a duck it is made of wood, and we all know how that one goes!
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Defeatism, Despair, and Dismay - The Outrage Outlet for Sports and Elections at September 08, 2016 01:50 PM (hLRSq)

-------------------

Which weighs more? A pound of feathers or Gary Johnson's brain?

Posted by: Soona at September 08, 2016 01:56 PM (Fmupd)

548 Strictly speaking that should be "the horse that raced."

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Using "that" instead of "who" is speciesist.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at September 08, 2016 01:57 PM (Nwg0u)

549 Posted by:�Christopher Taylor�at September 08, 2016 01:52 PM (39g3+)

Agreed. There are no candidates worth hiring now, so hire the one least likely to empty the safe and change the locks while you pee.

Posted by: m-zero-x at September 08, 2016 01:58 PM (zWTYO)

550 Well, the solution was to build a massive trench cutting sideways across a down-sloping hill, and then build the fence at the bottom of the trench, so that the top of the fence exactly matches the existing prior ground-level -- and thus doesn't block the view from the manor house looking down from the hill above it. Yet it would still function to keep the cattle and wild animals out.

That's what we should do on our southern border, and for the same reason.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 08, 2016 01:58 PM (SRKgf)

551 George Bush said he looked into Putin's eyes and saw a trustworthy man deeply commited to his country.
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at September 08, 2016 01:56 PM (lKyWE)

Ok, so that makes it ok that Trump does the same, after 15 more years of power grabs by Putin.

Posted by: stace...TEXIT at September 08, 2016 01:59 PM (ozZau)

552 Another thought about tycoon mentality:

These guys all tend to respect each other. If you can win in the game, you get their nod. However, they will destroy each other to win even more at the drop of a hat. They're alphas, and they snarl at another wolf, even if that wolf gets their respect.

Also if you watch Trump's responses through the years, he will almost always find a neutral/wiggle-room way to answer questions about people that aren't his current target, ways to seem to praise or admire them that aren't really. That way he is more or less on their good side without committing.

Like his alleged support for the Iraq war that someone dug up. Trump is asked if he's behind the Iraq invasion in 2003. He answers "I guess so" but wishes it had been done right the first time. That's not exactly support, but it sounds like it and works well for him either way.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 08, 2016 01:59 PM (39g3+)

553 548 Strictly speaking that should be "the horse that raced."
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Using "that" instead of "who" is speciesist.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at September 08, 2016 01:57 PM (Nwg0u)

I denounce myself!

Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 08, 2016 02:00 PM (SRKgf)

554 No but seriously, all the wonderful reasons I've been given to vote FOR Trump aren't mindlessly tribalist at all.

Posted by: m-zero-x at September 08, 2016 02:00 PM (zWTYO)

555 No but seriously, all the wonderful reasons I've been given to vote FOR Trump aren't mindlessly tribalist at all.
Posted by: m-zero-x at September 08, 2016 02:00 PM (zWTYO)

you should have only needed one.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 08, 2016 02:01 PM (cPsPa)

556 I saw some mention of it upthread, but my first thought was that a fell is a type of topography. The google says "high moorland".

So the horse may have raced past the fell where the barn is, known locally as the barn fell.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 08, 2016 02:02 PM (mgbwf)

557 And get some economics/finance advisors to teach him it's "price to
earnings ratio," NOT "profit to earnings," so we don't have a replay of
the present dunce's gaffe.

Posted by: Jay Guevara

Pretty sure P/E ratio is how many boys and girls there are in PE class. Might want to check your facts.

Posted by: Gary Johnson at September 08, 2016 02:02 PM (k0G44)

558 556 I saw some mention of it upthread, but my first thought was that a fell is a type of topography. The google says "high moorland".

So the horse may have raced past the fell where the barn is, known locally as the barn fell.
Posted by: Bandersnatch

Bingo -- see my comment #382 above, which explains this fully.

Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2016 02:03 PM (jBuUi)

559 Anybody know what the over/under is for sitters during the anthem at tonight's NFL game and does it include knee/squatters?

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at September 08, 2016 02:04 PM (FtrY1)

560 Fell is another term for "evil" or "demonic" as World of Warcraft loves to use. The Fell Horse would be a demon steed.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 08, 2016 02:04 PM (39g3+)

561 Fossick. Snood. Coign.

Nope, not Canadian first names. Actual words.

Posted by: General Zod at September 08, 2016 02:08 PM (Bdeb0)

562 Posted by: yankeefifth at September 08, 2016 02:01 PM (cPsPa)

"Not Hillary" is a vote against Hillary. I'm there. So, Trump vs. Johnson - I need a reason to support Trump that outweighs his negatives enough to put him ahead of the dope. I'm serious.

Posted by: m-zero-x at September 08, 2016 02:08 PM (zWTYO)

563 Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 08, 2016 01:59 PM (39g3+)

I know some Texas tycoons, and/or went to school with their kids.

Some, not all, were brash. Some were down to earth. Few were the neurotic attention whores that Trump is.

Posted by: stace...TEXIT at September 08, 2016 02:09 PM (ozZau)

564 I need a reason to support Trump

You're the only one that can decide that, but anyone that cannot see Johnson as at least as bad a choice has questionable judgment in my mind.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 08, 2016 02:09 PM (39g3+)

565 562 Posted by: m-zero-x at September 08, 2016 02:08 PM (zWTYO)

The next President will be Gram or Orange Toupee Weasel....

YOU are with HER....embrace it comrade.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 02:09 PM (SzZnW)

566
Ok, so that makes it ok that Trump does the same, after 15 more years of power grabs by Putin.
Posted by: stace...TEXIT at September 08, 2016 01:59 PM (ozZau)

Trump isn't the guy that has enabled Putin's power grab,Obama did that.Trump if elected is the one who'll have to deal with it.Trump last night stated the truth,Putin is popular in Russia and slapping him down pubicly would be seen as an insult by the Russian people.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at September 08, 2016 02:10 PM (lKyWE)

567 candidate is down to seeds and stems again.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at September 08, 2016 02:12 PM (ggZRr)

568 If you don't like Gary Johnson , you can't

Posted by: Cheetos and Weed Libertarian for Johnson at September 08, 2016 02:13 PM (zu88C)

569 Is this really a mark against Johnson, in context? I doubt most of the people pretending today that they always knew what Aleppo was didn't, and there's no way in hell Trump, who couldn't explain what Abraham Lincoln did (something almost any 2nd grader can do) and who's recounting of the Iran-Iraq war involves nothing approaching a coherent idea, knew the word before this story came out. Trump can't even do the basic parroting of policy specifics that Palin, for one example, had no problem doing for her VP debate. Why does Trump get to be graded on the "just don't shit your pants at the podium, and we're good" curve, when (unlike Johnson) he has a pretty damn good shot at winning the presidency?

Posted by: reform highlander at September 08, 2016 02:14 PM (jCH/T)

570 Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 02:09 PM (SzZnW)

And yet Trump is the driving force keeping her candidacy alive.

Posted by: m-zero-x at September 08, 2016 02:14 PM (zWTYO)

571 Putin is popular in Russia and slapping him down pubicly would be seen as an insult by the Russian people.
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at September 08, 2016 02:10 PM (lKyWE)

If you put it that way, it makes sense to me.

Instead, Trump praises his leadership.

Whatever. I'm going to vote for the SOB regardless.

I just really don't want people to be naive about him, if he wins. Just because he's on "our team" doesn't mean we can't try to hold him to some standards.

Posted by: stace...TEXIT at September 08, 2016 02:15 PM (ozZau)

572 They're alphas, and they snarl at another wolf, even if that wolf gets their respect.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 08, 2016 01:59 PM (39g3+)

Please. We're not talking 'wolves' here. That 'alpha' business is nonsense on stilts. They are, for the most part, grandiose little fuckwads consumed by greed, spineless wimps who liken themselvesto warriors and quote at length from the 'Book of Five Rings' and some such. Whatever those are, those aren't 'alphas'. They're themerchant class, which throughout the millenia of human history and civilization has never been known--as a class--for its bravery or wisdom.

Posted by: troyriser at September 08, 2016 02:16 PM (fnCax)

573 If we had a proper gift shop tied to this website, we could sell the shit out of those "leppos".

Posted by: jwest at September 08, 2016 02:21 PM (Zs4uk)

574 Instead, Trump praises his leadership.

C'mon. That could well be just talk. How often do you hear politicians refer to "my good friend" when you know perfectly well they hate each other's guts?

There's no cost to making nice, and sometimes it's advantageous to do so.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 08, 2016 02:22 PM (SRKgf)

575 Some, not all, were brash. Some were down to earth. Few were the neurotic attention whores that Trump is.

Their personalities vary in terms of camera attitude but their instincts and attitudes are pretty consistent: win. The money isn't the goal, its just a way of keeping score.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 08, 2016 02:23 PM (39g3+)

576 RINO sock off.

Posted by: Golfman at September 08, 2016 02:24 PM (b6FQn)

577 You think they have it bad?

Posted by: All the residents of Athol, MA at September 08, 2016 01:32 PM (bzd8I)

There's an Athol in Idaho, too. But most of them wind up in DC.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 08, 2016 02:24 PM (oqkO3)

578 A lesbo.

A leppo.

Alpo.

I'd wipe it off the map, like with a cloth.

I mean, what difference at this point does it make?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 08, 2016 02:24 PM (KCQo0)

579 I gather Gary Johnson didn't have an ear pearl

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at September 08, 2016 02:24 PM (cL7hj)

580 They're themerchant class, which throughout the millenia of human history and civilization has never been known--as a class--for its bravery or wisdom.

Just because someone isn't a warrior or a fighter doesn't make them any less dominant in their field or attitude. An alpha football player might be a pants-pissing coward in combat, but that doesn't make them any less dominant and alpha in their area.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 08, 2016 02:25 PM (39g3+)

581 Still better than Trump.

Posted by: rfichoke at September 08, 2016 02:27 PM (vLCft)

582 Vote for Trump and own it if you want. I have to live with myself though.

Posted by: m-zero-x at September 08, 2016 01:39 PM (zWTYO)

Good. because no human would care to live with you.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 08, 2016 02:29 PM (oqkO3)

583 582 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 08, 2016 02:29 PM (oqkO3)

Hi bottom dweller/internet troll, nice to see you here. Care to answer my question about non-tribal reasons to vote for your guy?

Posted by: m-zero-x at September 08, 2016 02:33 PM (zWTYO)

584 What's the over/under on Gary Johnson's campaign chances?

1 percent of the vote? Maybe 2 percent?

My god, Pat Paulsen should run again. He'd get more voters.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 08, 2016 02:33 PM (KCQo0)

585 I feel that it is too directly bound to its own anguish to be anything other than a cry of negation, carrying within itself the seeds of its own destruction. However, to get to the meat of the matter, I will come right to the point, and take note of the fact that the heart of the issue in the final analysis escapes me.

Posted by: Pat Paulsen at September 08, 2016 02:36 PM (KCQo0)

586 I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.

Posted by: Zombie Pat Paulsen at September 08, 2016 02:38 PM (KCQo0)

587 Hi bottom dweller/internet troll, nice to see you here. Care to answer my question about non-tribal reasons to vote for your guy?

Posted by: m-zero-x at September 08, 2016 02:33 PM (zWTYO)

Dude! You're talking to your mirror. I'm over here.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 08, 2016 02:45 PM (oqkO3)

588 See, no matter what, he is so much superior to Hillary that I could never criticise him for this

Posted by: Albert Horton at September 08, 2016 04:34 PM (M6dGx)

589 A leppo is a hippo with leprosy.

Posted by: Fred at September 08, 2016 04:42 PM (QBvMB)

590 To be fair, since we have a report of leprosy in California school districts, my first thought my first thought was someone with Leprosy as well. Who gives a crap about Syria we're arming both sides so both sides will lose.

Win Win for everyone, right?

Posted by: Sharkman at September 08, 2016 05:42 PM (K+57x)

591 Johnson is sucking votes off the dying Clinton and her campaign, so the left-wing press and its dwindling #NeverTrump "amen" lapdogs have decided to go after Johnson. Same-o, same-o. I'm sure there will be hit pieces on weed smoking and younger voters to follow.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at September 08, 2016 06:12 PM (OBLka)

592 So this is the guy some NeverTrumpers are flocking to because they find Trump to be too unserious on military policy. Okey doke!

While i am not nevertrump, i have pointed on out on several occasions that Mr. Trump, when asked on multiple occasions by Hugh Hewitt (first in a radio invterview in August 2015 and then in Repub primary debate no less last winter) to discuss around the nuclear triad, had absolutely no f******* clue what Hugh Hewitt was talking about. Sorry, but i would think not understanding what stands between us and WWIII and nuclear holocaust is a wee bit more important for someone running for US President than a city in Syria however bad conditions there might be, no?

So yeah, I still have a huge problem with Mr. Trump and his foreign policy stupidities he utters on occasion. Still most likely will vote for him, but if you ask me what worries me most, its him saying something truly stupid in a bad way at say, North Korea's Kim Jung Un that leads the President of NK to do something truly stupid, like launch a nuclear strike against South Korea or Japan.

Posted by: JeffreyL at September 08, 2016 09:48 PM (M0TCd)

593 Since Johnson seems to hurt Hillary's numbers more than Trump's I expect to see the trashing of Johnson by the MSM to continue. I originally thought the MSM would jack up Johnson's poll numbers to get him on stage for the first debate but since he hurts the wrong candidate...well, that won't happen now.

Posted by: Star Tripper at September 08, 2016 11:41 PM (qZ/rV)

594 And Obama said there were 57 states and called the military "corpsemen" and Trump, who doesn't even know whether he was for or against Iraq, has an awesome beachfront development peace plan for Syria that involves Chinese factories.

But sure, let's bash the most conservative and least crooked candidate left because he was momentarily confused about a relatively obscure city in a conflict he wants us out of.

Gary Johnson: When I'm President You Won't Have To Know Where Aleppo Is, Because We're Not Sending Troops There

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