Trite Nonsense Thread, Part Deux

Places

or

Cat

Maybe not exactly trite nonsense, but Dr Seuss was a literary genius of the nonsensical.

I am re-posting this so as not to lose the data. Last I checked it was 4 Places, 4 Cat and 1 undecided. Who was undecided? Anyway, I need votes one way or another.

Do you want us to vote again?

Revote!

No, altho I know that will not stop some of you. My not-very-well-thought-out plan is to add the new votes to the old.

It'll all turn out alright, I'm sure. :S

I think that there may be better furniture than that.

Robert

Mr. Durick, you are a genius! Altho those high chairs are a little scary.

But the co-sleepers are right up my alley!

oops, revoted. strike a "no" from the new list. uncancelled

hmmm ... I am beginning to think CG may have been behind the numbering ruckus at the tail end of the last thread.

We got a fancy high chair with Thing 1 - then switched to a cheap stable easily washable high chair from Ikea for Thing 2. I recommend Ikea. Not as extravagant but a whale of a lot better.

> 5, I looked at "better than that." They have thingys called co-sleepers. Being a baby has gotten a lot more complicated since I was little.

When wee goat#1 graduated from a baby bottle to a big baby bottle, I sent Beloved off to the store to purchase "your basic baby bottle." I knew that the baby bottle market had become hideously complex so I wanted to make sure he got the right kind. Nothing doing. He brought home five extremely complicated baby bottles.

Err...Slick,

I am going to assume that Thing 1 & Thing 2

are NOT Goats nor are they Whales.

Like goats, they will eat almost anything. Like whales, they communicate in high-pitched bursts. Like the Cat in the Hat's helpers, they are small and make messes. But, they are boys.

Well, one's inspirational and slightly preachy, IMO, and the other one is anti-authoritarian and slightly scary to a young child. I voted for the cat.

Oh dear, slick, the "suppressed class"

i was out drinking

Dear group,

Having stumbled onto you, and having taught you ancient and arcane skills, I want more "votes".
Democracy in action? or "inanity?

Thus: Don't think, just vote!

Places is a much higher level, adult oriented tome.

It pains me to say this, but I need to go with the classic, the Cat.

There's always the Dante's Inferno line. I hear that is quite popular now amongst the better sort (whoever they are).

We still have voted for tritest triteness on the last thread.

So far, Ur, you're ahead on this one.

What!!!!????

Me??? Trite???? I am never trite. I have goats.

I don't think we can use the "yes/no" thing to vote for the tritest triteness. We will have to reread over 300 purportedly trite posts and then actually post a vote here. Someone will have to keep a tally. It sounds terribly tedious. Maybe we should just start a "tedious" thread.

Voting is tedious. I'll get enough of it this year, 4 times if I'm not mistaken.

There's a tedious thread now.

http://www.citizenside.com/en/photos/natural-disasters/2009-05-12/16069/indonesi...

I know it looks cruel, but it works, the volcano is much calmer after the offering

I'm sorry, but there are people I would throw into the volcano rather than a goat. Although those people would probably be thrown back out by the volcano.

#26, were you just trying to get Urania's "goat"?

27 LOL, I know some people like that too

28 Urania knows I don't mean her goats, but bad republican goats ...

Mac, those are elephants.

It seems that many politicians, on both sides of the aisle here, and everywhere abroad, are goats.

U, are goats as randy as this age old slur woud seem to suggest?

If the mud volcano was a man made disaster, would it have a God assigned to it? Was that goat sacrified in vain?

slick,

I suppose it depends on how on how one defines "randy."

Goats appear to enjoy sex and would if given the opportunity engage in this activity more frequently than they do. However, they do not want an over-population of wee goats - not a good thing. Bucks have been known to die from having too much sex. This usually occurs when human pimps oblige them to service too many does at one time.

Dan,
Goats should never be sacrificed. They don't like it and neither do I.

P.S. My goats have expressed great annoyance at the denigration of goats taking place at Le Salon. They said if this is what a salon is like, they prefer not to partake in its conversations, which they find distinctly tedious and trite.

Those who want their animals to enjoy sex without limit are advised to collect bonobos.

Why does the salon almost close down over the weekends and especially saturdays, when very few people post. Do you all post at work? and lead such exciting lives over the weekend that you have no time for LT?

Lol , i noticed That too. While days are fully booked with 4 kids, there are enough ipads, blackberry and webbooks hanging around in THE house to check blogs feeds etc every few hour or so

I try not to be too plugged in on the weekend, since I work at a computer all week.

Knock Knock whose there? c'mon out Rick you must be there.

I finally got internet at home, don't know if I told you. But I'm keeping a strict limit on my internetting, otherwise it eats my life.

I have more important things to do on weekends, which I know are weekends by sometime on Saturday when I realize my children are not late for school, but staying home for there is no school. At that point I adjust to the fact that there are witnesses and do all my editing. Unless they go out, then I drop in here and watch movies and generally fart around.

I heard a story about a Zulu singer escaping from zombies on the BBC World News this morning (I kid you not!) as I was driving to work. Had to find out more:

http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/cops-question-resurrected-singer-1.122781...

http://m.iol.co.za/article/view/s/8/a/172895

jane,

I am confused were the zombies at the BBC World News studios? Did the BBC capture an unsuspecting Zulu singer off the street and sic the zombies on him/her? I always suspected the BBC was a naughty crowd.

oh the perils of misplaced modifiers!

The BBC is revolting!

It's about time!

Perils before swine.

I remember the good old days of basic cable and no internet. Shaka Zulu marathon on channel 11, a miserable Saturday afternoon in February. Ah, what a different time it was! I have The Washing of the Spears somewhere...

Shaka Zulu marathon! Alas, I experienced mine with a video...

Oh boy, it's on Hulu.

Speaking of British imperialism, will there be another war over the Falklands?

I doubt it, but it does keep the mind of Israel/US v. Iran for a few seconds every day.

On the other hand, nations behave very strangely when they are economically down, when they would be best off keeping their heads down and money in pocket, they get aggressive and triggerhappy, blow the inheritance...

48 Could well be. Tories in charge. Same as last time. Cameron following that stinking bitch Maggie's footsteps. Worked for her. Start a war. Win next election.

50 Ah, too late...but Cristina Fernández de Kirchner seems nutty too. But oil is involved, so.

"David Cameron: we will defend the Falklands properly"

Argentina should be in no doubt that Britain will ''defend the Falkland Islands properly'' against any threat to its inhabitants' right to self-determination, Prime Minister David Cameron said today.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/falklandislands/9072091/D...

Trite, people! Trite!

For example,

I like the new Salon logo, but I think it is sexist. The mustache is fab, but it is not a look I think I can pull off. I mean, I want to be elitist philistine scum like the rest of you, but I cannot grow such a 'stache.

What should I do? And the rest of the distaff Salonistas? (Altho, I don't want to assume that any of them cannot grow a large mustache should they choose.)

I've never used the word "distaff" out loud before.

CG,

Would you settle for the classic blue beehive hairdo?

Always look on the trite side of war

Just because you have a blue beehive hairdo and a mustachio doesn't give the the right to trite.

Even claiming the right to trite is trite, if not right or a right, but trite can well be a rite and a rite well be trite.

Rite on.

Or is that tripe?

Ripe tripe.

The ripe trite tripe tripped on the rights of the right, who righted the tripe with a rite which rendered the tripe not quite tripe.

The wrong tripe tripped into your sentence upending the right tripe, the tripe of the rite of trite, a sad nonending indeed.

The Rite of the Tripe was trite indeed though not to the tripe who found beheading not right but after the rite found no redress for his rights.

Yes, the new picture is less sexist, and may be a look I can pull off. I'll give it a shot.

Send us a pic

Trust the French to eat it. Tripe that is.

à la mode the Can ?

Tago Mago or Ege Bamyasi

But why do they eat it?

Because its there.

Beloved says it takes ten years to chew a piece of tripe to the point that you can swallow it. Beloved will eat anything. I trust him on this one.

Beloved says it is considered a great delicacy.

Somewhere in my Italian heritage there is a recipe for tripe. It involved cooking it for ten years.

At the risk of being rude, I am not sure it was a delicacy. In the part of southern Italy from which my forebears escaped it was almost certainly a necessity. You got hold of a cow and you ate every single part of it. You never knew if you would see a cow again in your lifetime.

I would rather read Lord of the Rings than eat a plate of tripe

Now that puts it all in perspective!

Tripe stew, yum yum.

Robert

>75 Mr.Durick: in Austria that's a hangover cure. Whaaaa??

Eating everything is an ecological attitude. No waste !

>73 baswood: One Lord of the Rings on the way to your house.

Said Bas, "I will take the ringed tripe although I do not know the way."

It seems like I have always had a copy of Lord of The Rings in the house, as every partner I have lived with has always brought a copy with them. Just when I get rid of one set of LOR another one turns up.

I dont know where this should go.. but ...

I wonder if there are any appropriate contexts in which to earnestly use the words
cornucopia or plethora? One thing I know, it isn't the contexts I have just read them in.

Couldn't one say there is a plethora of tripe in the cornucopia?

Couldn't or shouldn't? One can say many things...

One can plainly see that they are copulating in there in for-for time

Who?

besides the tripe?

I believe it is scientifically impossible for tripe to copulate, so, yes, besides the tripe.

I googled images of copulating tripe and got:

https://www.google.com/search?q=copulating+tripe&hl=en&rlz=1T4TSNF_enUS4...

Robert

What are those things? What kind of sick porn is that?

Peter,

I did not say we should or should not. Conscientious grammar requires the following: Might not one say there is a plethora of tripe in the cornucopia?

Dear ur,

The aforementioned question asked for appropriate which to my mind suggests shoulds and shalls rather than coulds or cans...but yes might is probably most appropriate. I do hope there is never a need to ask such a question however. Carry on.

Could you please position the cornucopia so that the tripe does not show when we take a photo of our beautiful Thanksgiving dinner table?

Mr. Durick: WOW!

Dogs apparently love green tripe, a sashimi if you will, for your pooch...

Ur, they're finally listening...

http://moneyland.time.com/2012/02/15/obama-wants-to-make-cheaper-pennies-and-nic...

But, looks like they want a cheaper penny. Might be tougher than it seems.

I have inspected this thread & previous and found grad-A Trite Nonsense throughout.

*STAMP! OF APPROVAL*