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24th December 2018, 11:15 AM
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Reverse Midas. Everything he touches goes to crap.
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26th December 2018, 09:46 AM
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Penultimate Amazing
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I saw one in a Twitter comment that I (and several others) immediately liked:
(the auto-censor doesn't work in this case -- I'm not trying to bypass it, but I will put it in a Spoiler) I think it needs descriptor in the front, like "Orange". |
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Science is self-correcting. Woo is self-contradicting. |
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26th December 2018, 11:14 AM
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Philosopher
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Originally Posted by alfaniner
How about an appropriately descriptive as well as endearingly old-timey first name to go along with that? |
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My heros are Alex Zanardi and Evelyn Glennie. |
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26th December 2018, 03:02 PM
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Muse
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How about Draft-Dodging Donald?
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26th December 2018, 08:16 PM
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Muse
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'Nam Spurs.
Back then, in his "personal Vietnam", he *did* get VD -- Vietnam Deferment. |
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26th December 2018, 09:39 PM
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Penultimate Amazing
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Location: Way way north of Diddy Wah Diddy
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Of course officially he's still Mr. Trump, but down at the Turkish bath me and the boys call him "Slats."
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I love this world, but not for its answers. (Mary Oliver) Quand il dit "cuic" le moineau croit tout dire. (When he's tweeted the sparrow thinks he's said it all. (Jules Renard) |
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27th December 2018, 06:24 AM
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There needs to be a term for draft-dodging Boomers who are now wrapped-in-the-flag war hawks.
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"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact." -- Sherlock Holmes. "It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." -- Mark Twain, maybe. |
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27th December 2018, 06:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Upchurch
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"I did not say that!" - Donald Trump |
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27th December 2018, 07:43 AM
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Illuminator
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Originally Posted by Upchurch
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7th January 2019, 10:37 AM
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Penultimate Amazing
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Originally Posted by Stacyhs
http://www.internationalskeptics.com...5#post12365815 http://www.internationalskeptics.com...9#post12365819 http://www.internationalskeptics.com...0#post12365870 http://www.internationalskeptics.com...1#post12366441 Six months in, and there's been zero progress on that. I'd say Fantasy Land is right here in this thread. Certainly it's in keeping with the fantastical aspirations voiced here to opine that won't be having any effect. (There's also this bit of make-believe: http://www.internationalskeptics.com...5#post12404065) |
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7th January 2019, 05:13 PM
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Becoming Beth
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Originally Posted by theprestige
My position has been and remains that Trump has been doing a bang-up job of making his own name a pejorative nickname and object of ridicule with an increasing number of Americans. Dragging "GOP" and Republican" along for the ride. Just in the past couple of weeks he's probably increased that number by a sizable chunk out of some 800,000 people, most of whom I expect are voters, as well as everybody who gains from their paychecks. Family, stores they shop at, mortgage holders and landlords, just to name a few. Keep it up, Trump. 
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"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep." "Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation." |
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7th January 2019, 05:24 PM
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Originally Posted by theprestige
Originally Posted by Stacyhs
Originally Posted by theprestige
2. Your original post and my reply had nothing to do with the claim by some that "finding the right nickname and getting it to stick will undermine Trump's political support". |
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7th January 2019, 06:53 PM
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Penultimate Amazing
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Originally Posted by theprestige
The other aspect of your, er, whimsical post is I'm fairly confident that none of the posters you cited expect that efforts to nickname here in Backwaterville will spill out onto the national stage. In other words, you're doing the rhetorical equivalent of walking up to the edge of a swimming pool wearing dripping wet speedos, and calling out I'll race you to the other side to a person who's lounging under an umbrella in cabana-wear, nursing a cold one. And then you swim a lap and declare victory. I hope this analogy helps get the point across. 
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To survive election season on a skeptics forum, one must understand Hymie-the-Robot.
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7th January 2019, 07:01 PM
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Grammar Resistance Leader
TLA Dictator 
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Originally Posted by Upchurch
(Not why I came to thread..... As to the OP, I suppose "Sandy" is out, now?) |
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Ha! Foolmewunz has just been added to the list of people who aren't complete idiots. Hokulele It's not that liberals have become less tolerant. It's that conservatives have become more intolerable. |
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9th January 2019, 09:08 PM
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I submit "The High Priest of Fraud", inspired by a 1958 episode of this show, called "Trackdown":
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9th January 2019, 10:59 PM
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Bizarro Homer Simpson
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“Impeachment is not about punishment. Impeachment is about cleansing the office. Impeachment is about restoring honor and integrity to the office.”-Sen. Lindsey Graham |
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9th January 2019, 11:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Checkmite
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24th January 2019, 10:06 PM
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Donald Strump.
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“Impeachment is not about punishment. Impeachment is about cleansing the office. Impeachment is about restoring honor and integrity to the office.”-Sen. Lindsey Graham |
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25th January 2019, 12:08 AM
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Philosopher
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May as well get used to calling him Master Trump, Americans.
Don't look now, but he's got your government. He is systematically choking it down. Nothing is being done to stop him. And he's got all your nukes too. They go or don't go on his say-so. You should be thinking of stupid names to call yourselves. All you had to do was swarm to the polls and landslide that crazy bastard, and none of this crap would be happening now. But you couldn't even do that. |
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"I did not say that!" - Donald Trump |
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26th January 2019, 01:37 PM
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Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning
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President No Clothes.
I think it has a nice ring to it. |
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Continually pushing the boundaries of mediocrity. Everything is possible, but not everything is probable. For if a man pretend to me that God hath spoken to him supernaturally, and immediately, and I make doubt of it, I cannot easily perceive what argument he can produce to oblige me to believe it. Hobbes |
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27th January 2019, 11:23 AM
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Penultimate Amazing
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Carlsbad. It's a cave.
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Cum catapultae proscribeantur tum soli proscripti catapultas habeant. |
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27th January 2019, 12:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Trebuchet
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27th January 2019, 01:41 PM
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Penultimate Amazing
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Cave Jefe.
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7th February 2019, 11:43 AM
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Philosopher
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The Part-time President.
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8th February 2019, 01:59 AM
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I recently read Marmalade Manchild somewhere...
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I've got to get to a library...fast Robert Langdon 
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8th February 2019, 04:59 PM
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Philosopher
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I'm thinking of him as Donny Dimwit.
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8th February 2019, 05:13 PM
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Penultimate Amazing
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My favorite remains Benedict Donald.
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Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty. Robert Heinlein. |
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8th February 2019, 06:09 PM
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Penultimate Amazing
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I gotta say, I'm kind of partial to Mister President.
It has a certain "reality based community" ring. |
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8th February 2019, 07:18 PM
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Grammar Resistance Leader
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Originally Posted by theprestige
(When running interference for Trump, it's a bit of a stretch to leapfrog into "reality"!) |
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Ha! Foolmewunz has just been added to the list of people who aren't complete idiots. Hokulele It's not that liberals have become less tolerant. It's that conservatives have become more intolerable. |
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8th February 2019, 07:24 PM
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Originally Posted by theprestige
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8th February 2019, 07:25 PM
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Penultimate Amazing
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Originally Posted by Foolmewunz
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 It must be fun to lead a life completely unburdened by reality. -- JayUtah I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. -- Charles Babbage (1791-1871) 
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8th February 2019, 07:26 PM
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Penultimate Amazing
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Originally Posted by Foolmewunz
In which to have some fun. But if "Mister President" is souring your mood, how about "Orange Man Bad"? |
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8th February 2019, 07:29 PM
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Penultimate Amazing
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Originally Posted by WilliamSeger
Originally Posted by PhantomWolf
Or maybe you do. What is the point, again? |
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9th February 2019, 07:27 AM
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Harassment Victim in Chief.
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/dann "Stupidity renders itself invisible by assuming very large proportions. Completely unreasonable claims are irrefutable. Ni-en-leh pointed out that a philosopher might get into trouble by claiming that two times two makes five, but he does not risk much by claiming that two times two makes shoe polish." B. Brecht "The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness. The demand to give up the illusion about its condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions." K. Marx |
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9th February 2019, 08:05 AM
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Originally Posted by PhantomWolf
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9th February 2019, 08:06 AM
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Penultimate Amazing
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How about "Missed her President"?
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11th March 2019, 12:22 PM
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Uncritical "thinker"
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Tim Apple - we know it gets to him, and reminds people of his stupid lies
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OECD healthcare spending Expenditure on healthcare http://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/health-data.htm link is 2015 data (2013 Data below): UK 8.5% of GDP of which 83.3% is public expenditure - 7.1% of GDP is public spending US 16.4% of GDP of which 48.2% is public expenditure - 7.9% of GDP is public spending |
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11th March 2019, 12:30 PM
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Originally Posted by jimbob
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11th March 2019, 02:43 PM
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Originally Posted by WilliamSeger
I'm thinking a creating a Twitter account for @JeffAmazon and use it to torment Trump.
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11th March 2019, 03:39 PM
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Penultimate Amazing
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Currently I'm leaning towards ORANGE MAN BAD.
The main advantage, I think, is that it's catching on with some right wing bloggers. So it actually has a chance of making it out into the larger culture. |
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