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2019-09-27 Home Front: Culture Wars
Here is a Charles Bukowski poem relevant to all today's stupidity
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Posted by  Herb McCoy 2019-09-27 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 Shouldn't poems rhyme?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-09-27 01:08||   2019-09-27 01:08|| Front Page Top

#2 ^ Not an absolute requirement anymore. Or so I've heard. Anyway, it's all about lines now!
Posted by Bob Smiter of the Swedes5172 2019-09-27 02:26||   2019-09-27 02:26|| Front Page Top

#3 I shall attempt to bend with the times.

Ein Kapitan
opened
a diner:
"Amerikan Kochen,
kein finer!"
The crew
had
great legs
From
delivering
eggs
And Frankfurters
the length of
his liner.
Also
Hamburgers.
Posted by Bob Smiter of the Swedes5172 2019-09-27 02:34||   2019-09-27 02:34|| Front Page Top

#4 An odd business model, perhaps, but in its prime streetside location at teh bottom of the Common, convenient to both Beacon Hill and Back Bay, and tolerably handy for Harvard men, the place thrived until April 1917, when the structure was hauled back across the peninsula by gangs of navvies and relaunched as USS [Achtung! Herb, please notice difference!] America.

Seriously though, I swear I've never heard that poem (or much CB at all), but when I saw it -- closed up, mind you -- I thought, "That's not teh usual grom...," and then, "Dammit, Herb, I want to hate you, but I just can't!" And then it turned out to be your post, which ends the way it ends. Wooo-wooo stuff there innit? Thanks.
Posted by Bob Smiter of the Swedes5172 2019-09-27 02:46||   2019-09-27 02:46|| Front Page Top

#5 BS. You slander this white man, I will make sure your fake news sh!t for brains learns never to pull that stunt again, "playground" style.
Posted by Varmint Splat1454 2019-09-27 04:27||   2019-09-27 04:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Gosh, it's almost like I'm a red-blooded patriotic American who loves his country. Whoda thunk it? And gosh, maybe starting wars with other countries is a bad idea. Iraq was a total disaster and Iran or Venezuela or whoever the neocons want to target next will be no better.

American lives matter.
Posted by Herb McCoy  2019-09-27 06:37||   2019-09-27 06:37|| Front Page Top

#7 Norway is now a target of the Guardian and EUSSR.
Posted by Dale 2019-09-27 08:41||   2019-09-27 08:41|| Front Page Top

#8 #6 - Nahhhh. You're a poser. NeoCons. Pffft.
Posted by Frank G 2019-09-27 08:51||   2019-09-27 08:51|| Front Page Top

#9 Paleocons don’t like those they perceive as neocons, Frank G.
Posted by trailing wife 2019-09-27 10:39||   2019-09-27 10:39|| Front Page Top

#10 P'tit con, neocon, connerie, SeanConnery : ça m'est égal
Posted by Lex 2019-09-27 11:04||   2019-09-27 11:04|| Front Page Top

#11 Little con, neocon, bullshit, SeanConnery: I do not care

"Little con"
Is that like 'tiny Elvis"?
Posted by Skidmark 2019-09-27 12:16||   2019-09-27 12:16|| Front Page Top

#12 con = French for asshole

French President Nicolas Sarkozy was famous for using "p[e]tit con" to describe particularly annoying opponents
Posted by Lex 2019-09-27 13:05||   2019-09-27 13:05|| Front Page Top

#13 We're always told that the c-word's too strong a translation, but I wonder (lacking background to assert) whetehr, in Englishes that constantly, casually use the c-word in every social setting, it might not be a pretty good fit? I mean, maybe not as good a fit as... awww, shaddup, self! You know you don't go for none of that funny stuff. Seriously, though?
Posted by Bob Smiter of the Swedes5721 2019-09-27 23:01||   2019-09-27 23:01|| Front Page Top

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