Comments on: Renton, Washington Doubles Down

By: croaker

croaker — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:02:40 +0000

@33 Too short a range

By: Cyto

Cyto — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:37:29 +0000

In a brilliant marketing ploy, German political activists hand out free T-Shirts to neo-Nazis during a rally. When washed, the T-shirt's nationalist logo washes away to reveal a message: "If your T-shirt can do it, so can you. We'll help to free you from right-wing extremism." Pretty clever idea... If only the Kochtopus hadn't forgotten to give me my stipend I could get them to fund a T-shirt handout at leftie political rallies... we could have nice liberty friendly messages with a DNC logo and have it fade out to a libertarian message.

By: JS

JS — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:46:17 +0000

homeboy, lol

ktc, it looks cool but thats the trouble with not living under rule of law anymore. No one knows weather it is incitement to violence until the judge decides whether it is or not. If the NSA forwards your post to the FBI let us know.

By: ktc2

ktc2 — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:40:43 +0000

This is not an incitement to violence. It is however cool.

http://gizmodo.com/5829744/send-your-local-rep-a-message-the-old-fashioned-way-with-this-tar-and-feather-gun

By: GaryM

GaryM — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:02:32 +0000

Let’s declare “Everybody draw Renton cops day”!

No, wait, I remember the last time somebody suggested something like that…

By: Windy

Windy — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 06:09:30 +0000

Update:
Judge halts search for cartoonist who embarrassed cops.
http://ow.ly/5ZjZv

By: homeboy

homeboy — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 05:09:34 +0000

@ #22, Mo

That definition is correct; it merely notes that the adjectival (a pretend word I just made up ;-)) form of the word may be used to refer to the noun form.

@ #27, JS

How fantastically regsmiffened of you guys! You’re damned lucky that I don’t report you to the local constabulary for your acts of kabeebleschnorpery and picklelillyism!

By: JSL

JSL — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 04:57:23 +0000

Ken, you might be thinking of Southpark’s Superfriends “Seaman” (Superlawyer) and his pet bird, (Justice) Swallow.

By: johnl

johnl — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 04:50:52 +0000

We need a new simple phrase for increasing the steaks on a losing bet. “Doubling down” refers to an action in blackjack that can be a correct move. What Renton is doing is more like “betting double or nothing”, or “averaging down”. I prefer “averaging down”, because losers use that expression to describe their behavior, in advance of their loss.

By: JS

JS — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 02:10:43 +0000

Thomas me and ClubMedSux were making fun of the guy who wrote Radley all pissed off because he used the word fantastical.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 02:04:59 +0000

Actually now that I think about it some more, putting those two lawyers in different universes might have been the correct thing to do.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 02:02:16 +0000

I guess The Living Tribunal or the Spectre are not as well know as Galactus is.

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:58:05 +0000

I thought the “Aquaman sucks” meme was sufficiently popular to support the joke. I might have been wrong.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 23:25:56 +0000

#13 | Stephen | August 10th, 2011 at 4:37 pm

Way to go Ken!

I love the comic book reference. Only quibble is that you got Marvel and DC universes tangled up. Galactus is Marvel and Aquaman is DC. :)

No no. The comparison is fully legit. Hell, it’s not like he compared Batman to Fixer. Geeze. We could argue about that for weeks.

But Galactus and Aquaman? Ok.

By: Mo

Mo — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 23:17:18 +0000

Wait that definition is nonsense. A Constabulary is of or relating to a constabulary? Though I will note that Firefox does not think constabulary is a misspelled word in the chat box and the dictionary is pretty limited.

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 23:08:43 +0000

Thomas: That’s a rather fantastical statement.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:14:08 +0000

Constabulary – Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster …
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/constabulary – Cached1con·stab·u·lary. adj \kən-ˈsta-byə-ˌler-ē, -ˌle-rē\. Definition of CONSTABULARY. : of or relating to a constable or constabulary …

I would google a word before saying it does not exist…but that is just me

By: Andrew S.

Andrew S. — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:52:22 +0000

@Laura: Usually when I say that I’m the old guy in the room, not the young whippersnapper.

By: Helmut O' Hooligan

Helmut O' Hooligan — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:50:06 +0000

#16 Michael Chaney:
“Re: #9 – The passive voice rules.”

Lol, yeah. With its overuse, passive voice is one of those things I just have to laugh at so I don’t get angry. It is the ultimate tool of government and corporate PR hacks. Yuck.

By: ClubMedSux

ClubMedSux — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:50:01 +0000

Constabulary? That must be something like constable, except that it isn’t a word. Someone needs a dose of reality strong enough to pull them back from the brink of Pulitzer-wannabe ambition to the reality of red-shirt team, sometimes-contributor to Huffpost, the most feeble excuse for journalism on the planet…