Comedy Goldmine & Robin

[The Mikado]

Hopefully the climax will come far far away on page... 190.

No Morgan vs. BRTD allowed.

Hopefully, this thread will last long enough for the next to be named after the third part of the trilogy.

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I'm back on said chat right now and probably will be for another hour.

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http://whatthehasobamadonesofar.com/

Was it intentional for that link to not work?

I'm a Democrat, but I can appreciate gallows humor as well as the next person.

[The Mikado]

He's like a drunk uncle at a wedding. The one who tries to grope the bride. Who's his own niece.

[The Mikado]

Was Churchill a Trotskyite-Yes. In America we call them neocons
Was Churchill for global governance under a socialist system- he was
Was Churchill for wealth redistribution- Yes

Seriously?

Best response possible.

This new, Protestant Libertas is just as bad as the old, Catholic one.

[The Mikado]

God.. she's so ugly, it actually makes me angry.

Ugly, you say?

Well yes, her looks are certainly much improved when her face is mostly covered.

[The Mikado]

That's fine. I'm not bitter. I understand.

Now, if you excuse me, I'm going to go away and give you a ten point infraction for something you wrote in 2004.

[The Mikado]

I can't remember the last time I actually found something in the Goldmine funny.  I literally laughed at this.

[The Mikado]

guys again I think you are missing the point of the poll. It was a wide ranging poll on various issues, but with regards to the GOP 2012 they were testing if people could name someone they support. The real result is that only half of them could. I think that is interesting. I would like to see a national poll that did the same. I think other polls are overstating the 'support' for these candidates based mostly on name recognition.

^^^

This isn't a hard concept, guys.  They asked an open-ended question, "Who would you vote for?" and let the people submit names themselves.  It's a really interesting idea in that it shows how closely or not people are following the race (note the 9% for "Others").

I hear you but why would they poll Petraeus instead of Huntsman?

I do not know this "Joementum" guy, but he's witty.

[The Mikado]

Why do you put every sentence on a new line?
It looks like you're writing in verse, yet I detect no meter.
Also, there is no rhyme.  It cannot be blank verse,
For there is no meter.  Then what is it?
Perhaps it is one of those rebellious modern forms of poetry.
You know, the ones that require neither meter nor verse.
I do not know whether I approve of this: I've always been old-school
When it comes to verse.  I mean, I don't want to sound judgmental
But it seems to me like the whole point of poetry was to condense
Your message into a strictly-defined form governed by meter and rhyme.
If this is no longer the case, what rules poetry?
Perhaps, at the end of the day, poetry is only governed by
The box-like shape its lines form.  When you see the constant line break
As in the piece you are currently engaged in, the author clearly does not intend
For you to read it like prose.  You need to take the breaks between lines
And reflect on what you have just read.  Perhaps poetical form
Is just a way to make you slow down and appreciate the wording
Rather than ripping through and seizing the message by itself.
After all, is that not the point of it in the first place?

I call it "Response to Milhouse," by The Mikado.

[The Mikado]

According to A Study in Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes eschewed all learning that wasn't directly related to his field, professing to not even know that the Earth went around the Sun, in order to maximize the brainpower spent on investigation.  I think Derek followed that model through the first part of clearing his brain of extraneous knowledge, then forgot to do the second part.

(Arthur Conan Doyle swiftly abandoned that plot device, and Sherlock Holmes became a Renaissance Man able to quote Goethe and Flaubert in the original)

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http://www.healthystrokes.com/

This page is full of WTF. I do hope it's some sort of internet joke.

EDIT: okay, it's not really funny, just bizarre (to me and my bourgeois sexuality at least)

It actually is (sadly) not a joke.  Male inability to orgasm is never mentioned in pop-culture, for whatever reason.

[The Mikado]

This is an updated version of the classic Ben-post:

Is Azerbaijan even considered a country?

Which classic Ben post? 

[The Mikado]

Guys, focus.  You're getting dangerously close to needing "Comedy Goldmine Rising."

[The Mikado]

To be honest, I'm pretty amazed that a mere statement of opinion like that got so many people excited.