Hard News: Public Address Word of the Year 2016
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mark taslov, in reply to
Another that comes to mind:
"If a woman takes her clothes off and walks around in a group of men, what are we supposed to do if one of them tries to touch her [...] It's not nice and perhaps the stripper shouldn't have been hired, but I'm reluctant to say that the boys were out of line."
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
hoofwanking bunglecunt
The Musical is waiting in the wings…
…or an illustrated moral tale for voters.
at worst a lesser demon of the ninth circle…the cadence of the name reminds me of the early Fantagraphics comic book Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy (borrowed from Huxley )
Tom Tomorrow started there…
the strip above is from there – it also seems to nicely capture the innate spirit of the Trump campaign and presidency…. -
Oh noes they stole our word
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/15/post-truth-named-word-of-the-year-by-oxford-dictionaries -
Hilary Stace, in reply to
Bumble Puppy is the name of a game whereby a ball is tied by string to a central pole and players (one or many) try to hit it with a bat.
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coprophilia
Nailed by Pope Francis.
"Pope Francis compared the spreading of fake news to "the sickness of coprophilia," the condition of being aroused by feces." -
Late-breaking write-in vote for "unpresidented".
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Calling it for 2017
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jacindamania
or however the hell you're meant to spell it -
What about whataboutism
- Cognitively dissonant yet resonant & redolently blameless, if not a little noisome.
2017 - such a good year to be on the gravels, on your knees! -
I went away for the weekend, returned to find this thread was top of the recents list and thought damn, how did I miss it. Relieved to discover it's last year's thread.
Rob is clearly trying to get an unfair advantage for this year's competition. -
Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Rob is clearly trying to get an unfair advantage for this year’s competition.
aaah it's 2016 not 2017 - WOTY usually comes round early to mid December dunnit - Damn! Will Russell accept our premature extrapolations or have we spilled our seed on barren ground ?
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Tom Ackroyd, in reply to
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