Making Baby Jesus Cry

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Spanky
I posed that before I read your top ten.

I think some of the most entertaining posts come from Sebastian. How ever the problem with him is that you have to insult him to get him to fully commit to his posts. SS is also kind of lazy. Like Sebastian you have to get personal before you get to see his best work.

I agree, I am just not sure either one of them makes sense, which was my criteria. Sebbestianne makes my entertaining list.

SS is mostly a hack. In a good way. Like Gore to the Democrat party.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Spanky
I posed that before I read your top ten.

I think some of the most entertaining posts come from Sebastian. How ever the problem with him is that you have to insult him to get him to fully commit to his posts. SS is also kind of lazy. Like Sebastian you have to get personal before you get to see his best work.

you should hear the stories SS's sex partners have to tell about that

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Good times.

New board motto!

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by bilmore
Legitimacy is a concept rooted in the belief that power is derived from the governed, not the governing, and Castro derives next to nothing from his people.

No. Legitimacy has to do with acceptance, not consent. Medieval monarchs were legitimate, even though they were not elected.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Why is it that everyone on NPR has to use a forced, contrived, shrinking violet tone and affectation? I like NPR, but I want to slap almost all of the commentators/hosts. I don't want them to use shrill Hannity or Limbaughesque voices, but why can't they just talk normally? On the ride in this morning, I switched between Howard, some local radio and NPR. Howard talks normally, and the local talk radio people talk normally. Why does everyone on NPR talk like such wimpering fucking simps? I don't understand it. Does everyone on NPR talk that way, or just the morning and late night crews which I tend to hear?

[dtb]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Why is it that everyone on NPR has to use a forced, contrived, shrinking violet tone and affectation? I like NPR, but I want to slap almost all of the commentators/hosts. I don't want them to use shrill Hannity or Limbaughesque voices, but why can't they just talk normally? On the ride in this morning, I switched between Howard, some local radio and NPR. Howard talks normally, and the local talk radio people talk normally. Why does everyone on NPR talk like such wimpering fucking simps? I don't understand it. Does everyone on NPR talk that way, or just the morning and late night crews which I tend to hear?

The Car Talk dudes speak at a normal decibel-level. You should tune in!

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Why is it that everyone on NPR has to use a forced, contrived, shrinking violet tone and affectation? I like NPR, but I want to slap almost all of the commentators/hosts. I don't want them to use shrill Hannity or Limbaughesque voices, but why can't they just talk normally? On the ride in this morning, I switched between Howard, some local radio and NPR. Howard talks normally, and the local talk radio people talk normally. Why does everyone on NPR talk like such wimpering fucking simps? I don't understand it. Does everyone on NPR talk that way, or just the morning and late night crews which I tend to hear?

This may be exactly what you mean, but I've always like Carl Kassel's voice. Very old school. Very reassuring in reading he news. His voice is popular enough that one of the weekend NPR gameshows gives away him leaving messages on people's answering machines as a prize.

[Sparklehorse]

Originally posted by baltassoc
This may be exactly what you mean, but I've always like Carl Kassel's voice. Very old school. Very reassuring in reading he news. His voice is popular enough that one of the weekend NPR gameshows gives away him leaving messages on people's answering machines as a prize.

At the same time, NPR kicked Bob Edwards to the curb in a most unceremonious way and replaced his distinctive and mellifluous voice with non-descript yet smarmy voices which cause Sebby (and me) to complain.

ETA: Jeez Louise, I never post over here and I've now killed the board.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by baltassoc
This may be exactly what you mean, but I've always like Carl Kassel's voice. Very old school. Very reassuring in reading he news. His voice is popular enough that one of the weekend NPR gameshows gives away him leaving messages on people's answering machines as a prize.

2. And I have a thing for Corey Flintoff. And Sylvia Poggioli. And Rob Gifford. And as far as I'm concerned Anne Garrolds can do no wrong.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Why is it that everyone on NPR has to use a forced, contrived, shrinking violet tone and affectation? I like NPR, but I want to slap almost all of the commentators/hosts. I don't want them to use shrill Hannity or Limbaughesque voices, but why can't they just talk normally? On the ride in this morning, I switched between Howard, some local radio and NPR. Howard talks normally, and the local talk radio people talk normally. Why does everyone on NPR talk like such wimpering fucking simps? I don't understand it. Does everyone on NPR talk that way, or just the morning and late night crews which I tend to hear?

The tone of voice/affectation that you reference is known as the faux-intellectually effette ivory tower elitist tone. It is the kool-aide tone of the most rarified of the liberal media elistists (and those too ugly to appear on CNN on a regular basis).

When they try to affect a tone that appeals to the patriotic heartland an odd psycho-physical reaction occurs. See below the examples of the same:

[dtb]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
Can someone else handle the Huey Lewis part?

I kissed Huey Lewis when I was in high school.

He went to the Lawrenceville School.

Huey Lewis is not my father.

That's all my Huey Lewis archive of facts contains.


ETClarify: Huey and I were NOT in high school at the same time. I am old, but not that old.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Spanky
I hate to admit it but I have a good long time friend that believes this stuff. So does my sister. My friend really believes (he is a really successful DJ in Tokyo) that the Republicans have used some sort of mind control on me. He is still trying to figure out how they did it so he can cure me (not joking).

They put it in the claret.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Spanky
I posed that before I read your top ten.

I think some of the most entertaining posts come from Sebastian. How ever the problem with him is that you have to insult him to get him to fully commit to his posts. SS is also kind of lazy. Like Sebastian you have to get personal before you get to see his best work.

Actually, I'm just not that interested in politics.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
The tone of voice/affectation that you reference is known as the faux-intellectually effette ivory tower elitist tone. It is the kool-aide tone of the most rarified of the liberal media elistists (and those too ugly to appear on CNN on a regular basis).

No, I don't think so. The effete faux-intellectual thing is an attempt to sound like Gore Vidal. I kinda like that pompous tone; its amusing to see anyone who thinks so much of himself that he'll try it (and he if he fails at it, its great humor).

The tone I’m annoyed with is that asexual, soft-toned whisper the hosts use. Its like they’re afraid to use any volume because that might offend a segment of audience with overly-sensitive ears. The women who do this sound like they’re talking to babies. The man who do it sound like nasally dweebs. But worse than the auditory waste they piss all over the airwaves is the fact that its all contrived.* These people don’t talk like a bunch of Casper Milquetoasts in real life. They’re just doing it because it’s the way they think their audience wants them to sound - utterly unoffensive and void of every human emotion. They seem to think any spirited rhetoric is a sign of aggression... and Go Help Us, but we cannot seem aggressive. They categorize that as “male patriarchal power speaking,” or some other shit term some professor taught them.

Talking like a scared shitless eunuch doesn’t make you an intellectual or open minded. All it does is put the listener to sleep.

But then, they probably don't want people like me listening anyway.

* Not the substance, just the sound of it.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
The women who do this sound like they’re talking to babies. The man who do it sound like nasally dweebs.

1. They are talking to babies, figuratively. Their audience is largely made up of intellectually immature infantlike adults who seek to avoid personal responsibility and also seek acceptance and support from the Nanny State.

2. The men are dweebs, nasally or otherwise, like many in the demo party.