Musk’s Parting Gift: The Construction of a Surveillance State.

Jake and Unseen,

The lists of bad guys is both bigger and smaller than we think.

Jews do have the listed gangsters plus the Irgun and Stern Gangs and Kahane Chai.

Asians do have the listed gangsters plus the Virginia Tech Shooter, the Aum Cult terrorists who attacked Tokyo, and Chang-Kai Shek, Mao-Tse Tung, and Pol Pot, plus followers.

But we…[Read more]

Ambrose? Make room for Reg, will ya?

Very good. Excellent even.

jakelafort wrote:
Jews and Asians seem to make great citizens wherever they go.

Jewish gangsters. Asian gangsters.

Both lists are long.

Just sayin’ that nobody’s perfect.

Here’s a dictionary I started to compile recently.

Famous Jewish sports legends?

Funny.

Well lets see. Max Baer. Not sure of spelling. Hank Greenberg. And the biggest is Sandy Koufax.

Ya want a shorter list? Indian sports legends. I can’t think of any in USA. Maybe cricket or soccer. But wow there are a great many Indians and i don’t think sports is there thing.

Age 8 i bet a quarter against Tommy Doucette’s soft dictionary in a best of ten from the foul line. Used the heck out of that dictionary. Started reading from letter A.

So now there are two words in last two days that are courtesy of AZ added to the list of word licker linguistics. Mondegreen and cromulent. To remember cromulent just think of…[Read more]

@ Enco  – If I were using a hard copy dictionary…..I did and my parents made me eat it!  We used to get a new or uncommon word to learn every few days. I am addicted to cryptic crosswords and have done at least one but usually 2 or 3 every week since I was 18. I average about 35 books a year. So I am very good at sophisticated blasphemy 🙂

Funny, before I looked it up, I thought jejune was when SeSummer began.

Enco, please take a seat at the front of the class 🙂

Reg, you’ve confused me with Enco…

Apologies to you both…..I was thinking that you Jake, would appreciate the word when you read it.  Not quite a mondegreen though. Mrs. Malaprop, you have a rival in Lisa Simpson, but don’t worry Lisa, iconoclasts are very welcome here 🙂