[Phil1]

'Oh, c'mon now. Michael Feldman (Whaddya Know host) is only a little bit left of Karl Marx.'

Ditto for The Tappet Bros, always working on rusty T34 tanks.

Car Talk

[Blue]

'Oh, c'mon now. Michael Feldman (Whaddya Know host) is only a little bit left of Karl Marx.'

Ditto for The Tappet Bros, always working on rusty T34 tanks.

Car Talk

I listen to Kim Commando when I'm out on the weekends. I also like Juan Williams. However, NPR is screwing up by harassing him and allowing the a$$clowns to put pressure on. I just informed the local NPR that I won't be making a contribution this year unless they get their head out of their a$$.

[Green_Manelishi]

'Oh, c'mon now. Michael Feldman (Whaddya Know host) is only a little bit left of Karl Marx.'

Ditto for The Tappet Bros, always working on rusty T34 tanks.

Car Talk

Those two lugnuts have particularly irritating voices and laughs.

[Ratmagiclady]

Those two lugnuts have particularly irritating voices and laughs.

Sounds kinda like home to me. Don't know how they laugh where you come from, Swamp Thing.

[Mike Cash]

Those two lugnuts have particularly irritating voices and laughs.

As much as the typical Damned Yankee manner of speech grates upon my genteel Southern ears as a general thing, I like those two enough to overlook it. They happen to have the ONLY program on NPR worth listening to. After all, it is hard to work an overt socialist slant into a program about (mostly) car repair.

I recently downloaded a bunch of podcasts from "How Stuff Works" and the whiny nasal Yankee sorority girl voices and speech patterns are such fine approximations of fingernails slowly screeching their way down a chalkboard that I'm not entirely sure I'll be able to listen to many more of them. Plus the fact that they often manage to work their Global Warming Kool-Aid Swilling into them somehow.....

Thank God I have somewhere around 30,000 episodes of radio programs from the 1930s ~ 1960s.....back when people still knew how to make good audio programming.

[Green_Manelishi]

Sounds kinda like home to me. Don't know how they laugh where you come from, Swamp Thing.

LOL

Been called many interesting names, Swamp Thing is a first.

[Ratmagiclady]

LOL

Been called many interesting names, Swamp Thing is a first.

Hee, I looked at your little cartoon there.

[Ratmagiclady]

I recently downloaded a bunch of podcasts from "How Stuff Works" and the whiny nasal Yankee sorority girl voices and speech patterns are such fine approximations of fingernails slowly screeching their way down a chalkboard that I'm not entirely sure I'll be able to listen to many more of them. Plus the fact that they often manage to work their Global Warming Kool-Aid Swilling into them somehow.....

You do realize, of course, that the world doesn't actually think much of climate change denials?

I haven't seen that show, but I think I know what you're talking about, ...that annoys everyone in New England, too. (Thinking of randomly-assigned roommates my first semester at college. My. Gods. That was a sitcom waiting for the webcam to be invented. I figure, I'd probably whine a lot, too, if I were from that Connecticut-Newport rich people scene.

Nice girl, but I don't think I heard a level tone of voice all semester. It's hard for distant memory not to make a cartoon of her, though. I presume that goes both ways. And, I can only imagine what kind of life made her voice into like a constant plaintive wail for attention. Went through my head like a nail, that whine: Must have been more than an embarrassing 'Valley Girl-wannabe' phase.

It's like, 'Why sound like that when you could be doing Hepburn?' I dunno.

'Yankee accents' are actually pretty varied: it took a while before they really started blending together, like when a lot of the old neighborhoods kinda broke up, people went to suburbia, got big TVs, all that.

Thank God I have somewhere around 30,000 episodes of radio programs from the 1930s ~ 1960s.....back when people still knew how to make good audio programming.

Definitely good stuff, lots of that. People have no attention span, these days.

[Parallax]

Sounds kinda like home to me. Don't know how they laugh where you come from, Swamp Thing.

Oh, don't tell me you are one of those that "stahts the ca', shifts it out of Pahk,
and then backs it out of the ga'age.

[Ratmagiclady]

Oh, don't tell me you are one of those that "stahts the ca', shifts it out of Pahk,
and then backs it out of the ga'age.

Pretty much, actually. Trying to type my own accent as I imagine others must hear it ends up sounding like Burns and Twain got ripped one night and wrote some collaborative fiction, though.

In 'Our Fair City,' you'd keep hearing some tourist come up and say, "KiNN yeEew like, totally, say, 'Paak the caa in Havard Yahd?" (No, people really can't do Boston accents.)

I'd occasionally ham up the Southie and be like, "Whattayah, some kinda retahd, Ya can't pahk theah.."

Sounds a lot more extreme when I try and type it. A lot of that kind of talk is actually considered pretty lowbrow: I actually tried to file a lot of that off in younger days, and I got a mix of different neighborhoods when growing up.

I'm a bit of a well-traveled accent chameleon, though, so it's always strange to hear myself when something more local comes out.

Basically, Ben Affleck sounds pretty normal for my generation to me, the Car Talk guys sound like Italian Bostonians that age. I probably have a fairly strong accent, myself: when I was younger, I tended to listen to people that age a lot more.

[Blue]

You do realize, of course, that the world doesn't actually think much of climate change denials?

Who elected you and Albert Arnold Gore (Water Polluter of the Decade) spokespeople for the world? That's a rhetorical question and I don't remember an election other than the one where he got his butt beat in his home state due to his excesses.

[Ratmagiclady]

Who elected you and Albert Arnold Gore (Water Polluter of the Decade) spokespeople for the world? That's a rhetorical question and I don't remember an election other than the one where he got his butt beat in his home state due to his excesses.

If that's what you think defines science, or responsible behavior, well. QED.

Whatever you think of 'beating his butt.' If he's a bit above the curve regarding what you think of his 'home state,' I don't consider that a point against his spokesmanship. He's *not* a prophet or originator of the science. (He's also not a 'tree-hugging dirt worshipper:' Being one of those, myself, I know he's not.

[Parallax]

.................... (He's also not a 'tree-hugging dirt worshipper:' ..............

No, he certainly isn't. He is one of those evil, money grabbing rich capitalists that you like to vilify. He is, in true Lib fashion, gaining power and recognition, and making huge amounts of money by preying on peoples fears.

[Ratmagiclady]

No, he certainly isn't. He is one of those evil, money grabbing rich capitalists that you like to vilify. He is, in true Lib fashion, gaining power and recognition, and making huge amounts of money by preying on peoples fears.

So, someone who lies to you and does the same thing is 'better,' so you can say "Make it worse, it's not who *I* support, it's actually *him!* And *You!* Who's doing this thing that I'm trying to discredit him for saying is happening! College grants! Corruption! Never mind that the deniers are all corporate think tanks trying to pretend they aren't entirely funded by the doomed old-energy-industry and myths of infinite economic expansion in a zero-sum 'competitive' scheme where Making money is Good, Unless We can Accuse a Libural of Drawing a paycheck!'

He's a spokesman, not a scientist. Not a 'prophet.'

Someone's gotta do it. And whoever it was, you'd treat them the same way. You want capitalism, there's someone who you could listen to to keep your beloved capitalism from eating itself.... I'm more 'capitalist' than *you,* you know. I don't even have a *credit card.*

You accuse Gore of these unsubstantiated things... To defend overt greed and irresponsibility and willful ignorance?


No.

I call Busshit.

Pardon my accent.

[Parallax]

So, someone who lies to you and does the same thing is 'better,' so you can say "Make it worse, it's not who *I* support, it's actually *him!* And *You!* Who's doing this thing that I'm trying to discredit him for saying is happening! College grants! Corruption! Never mind that the deniers are all corporate think tanks trying to pretend they aren't entirely funded by the doomed old-energy-industry and myths of infinite economic expansion in a zero-sum 'competitive' scheme where Making money is Good, Unless We can Accuse a Libural of Drawing a paycheck!'

Anybody know how to set one of these things?