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Tenny thuggin’

by DougJ

This is a slap in the face to Rudyard Kipling or maybe Rudyard’s just been thrown under the bus:

He (Blagojevich) ended the news conference by quoting a poem from “Ulysses” by Lord Alfred Tennyson, ending with: “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”Blagojevich was arrested Dec. 9 and accused of scheming to sell off Illinois’ vacant Senate seat.

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43 Responses to “Tenny thuggin’”

  1. 1
    January 9th, 2009 at 4:15 pm Reply to this comment

    John Cole

    So help me god, I will kick you in the junk and demote your posting privileges if you say slap in the face again. And then I will throw you under the bus.

  2. 2
    January 9th, 2009 at 4:16 pm Reply to this comment

    Joshua Norton

    More Kipling – updated for Blago’s edification:

    If you can keep your head while all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you – you probably weren’t listening

  3. 3
    January 9th, 2009 at 4:16 pm Reply to this comment

    Scott de B.

    One of my colleagues and neighbors is a renowned Kipling scholar and mentioned Blago’s appeal to Kipling’s ‘If’ yesterday. Hey, at least he’s a cultured crook.

  4. 4
    January 9th, 2009 at 4:16 pm Reply to this comment

    demkat620

    I don’t know who’s more delusional, Blago or Palin.
    Just think of the kids those two would produce together.

  5. 5
    January 9th, 2009 at 4:17 pm Reply to this comment

    MikeJ

    Telemachus sneezed.

  6. 6
    January 9th, 2009 at 4:18 pm Reply to this comment

    Joshua Norton

    I will kick you in the junk and demote your posting privileges if you say slap in the face again. And then I will throw you under the bus.

    Ooops.

    Cue the circular firing squad.

    And then pass the popcorn.

    /brain numbing cliche mode

  7. 7
    January 9th, 2009 at 4:19 pm Reply to this comment

    R-Jud

    @demkat620:
    I did, and I just saw lots of helmet-haired newborns, winking. In expensive tracksuits.

    Thanks a lot.

  8. 8
    January 9th, 2009 at 4:20 pm Reply to this comment

    John Cole

    @R-Jud: Named Kip and Kam and Tif.

  9. 9
    January 9th, 2009 at 4:21 pm Reply to this comment

    MikeJ

    Cole threatens "next time", "next time".

    Why can’t John Cole seal the deal?

  10. 10
    January 9th, 2009 at 4:21 pm Reply to this comment

    Keith

    Sounds like he slapped Kipling in the face with a large trout (mIRC joke) by making Tennyson his new, personal war correspondent.

  11. 11
    January 9th, 2009 at 4:21 pm Reply to this comment

    Person of Choler

    Yapping about Sarah Palin in the 4th comment on a post about Blago as Kipling scholar. Still Derangement Syndrome Central.

  12. 12
    January 9th, 2009 at 4:21 pm Reply to this comment

    jibeaux

    @demkat620:

    Tristol Palin-Blagojevich, the world demands your existence.

  13. 13
    January 9th, 2009 at 4:22 pm Reply to this comment

    demkat620

    And they will definitely have more teeth than brain cells as my grandpa would say.

  14. 14
    January 9th, 2009 at 4:22 pm Reply to this comment

    ksmiami

    Is it just me or is "scheming" to do something (at least non-violent somethings) not really a crime? This whole thing seems really stupid and Blago is going to win out in the end even though he maybe corrupt and an asshole.

  15. 15
    January 9th, 2009 at 4:23 pm Reply to this comment

    DougJ

    Named Kip and Kam and Tif.

    I’m thinking Rud, Algebra, Myers, and Squibb.

  16. 16
    January 9th, 2009 at 4:26 pm Reply to this comment

    Joshua Norton

    Rud, Algebra, Myers, and Squibb.

    and Chlamydia and Tyrone.

    /bourbon

  17. 17
    January 9th, 2009 at 4:28 pm Reply to this comment

    bend

    I think he just sullied RFK’s good name:

  18. 18
    January 9th, 2009 at 4:29 pm Reply to this comment

    Cris

    @ksmiami: Is it just me or is "scheming" to do something (at least non-violent somethings) not really a crime?

    Get with the GWOT times, man.

  19. 19
    January 9th, 2009 at 4:30 pm Reply to this comment

    MikeJ

    Is it just me or is "scheming" to do something (at least non-violent somethings) not really a crime

    When you scheme with other people it’s called conspiracy. You can think about robbing a bank all day long, and as long as you make no preparations to put that plan into action or plan with other people you’re within the law.

  20. 20
    January 9th, 2009 at 4:33 pm Reply to this comment

    Cris

    You can think about robbing a bank all day long, and as long as you make no preparations to put that plan into action or plan with other people you’re within the law.

    What about organizing a raid with my guild?

  21. 21
    January 9th, 2009 at 4:44 pm Reply to this comment

    amorphous

    officially requesting "slap in the FACE!" tag

  22. 22
    January 9th, 2009 at 4:44 pm Reply to this comment

    HyperIon

    @bend: that’s what i thought.

    but i really don’t care for Tennyson. lots and lots of completely tedious verse.

  23. 23
    January 9th, 2009 at 4:53 pm Reply to this comment

    Notorious P.A.T.

    When I look at Blagojevich’s hair, I think "now THAT’S a white man’s burden".

  24. 24
    January 9th, 2009 at 4:54 pm Reply to this comment

    demimondian

    @DougJ: Not Algebra, Calc.

    And her new grandson, Bi.

  25. 25
    January 9th, 2009 at 4:54 pm Reply to this comment

    Zifnab

    @amorphous:

    officially requesting "slap in the FACE!" tag hot button on the comments bar.

    Seriously, who the hell even uses "Table" or "Footnote"?

  26. 26
    January 9th, 2009 at 4:55 pm Reply to this comment

    Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist

    @Joshua Norton: /brain numbing cliche mode

    BZZZZT! Thanks for playing.

    On behalf of brain numbing clichés everywhere, I demand an apology.

  27. 27
    January 9th, 2009 at 4:56 pm Reply to this comment

    The Moar You Know

    OT: I hope Obama’s mother-in-law is not as bad as mine.

  28. 28
    January 9th, 2009 at 4:56 pm Reply to this comment

    Notorious P.A.T.

    Yapping about Sarah Palin in the 4th comment on a post about Blago as Kipling scholar. Still Derangement Syndrome Central.

    LEEEEEEEAVE SARAH ALOOOOOOOONE! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

  29. 29
    January 9th, 2009 at 4:56 pm Reply to this comment

    Punchy

    I take your fuckbookery and give you bookfuckery. The money shot:

    The reason for closing this venerable institution located at one of America’s most cherished retail addresses is a simple, albeit familiar one: the rent, which is due in September, is rising, from 360,000 dollars to a million dollars per year.

    3x increase in 1 year. Yep, looks like the Rocky really has the economy figgy’d out.

  30. 30
    January 9th, 2009 at 5:00 pm Reply to this comment

    demimondian

    @Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist: You must be new here.

    [/clichedot]

  31. 31
    January 9th, 2009 at 5:01 pm Reply to this comment

    Palooza

    @ksmiami: Thought crime is all the rage.

  32. 32
    January 9th, 2009 at 5:01 pm Reply to this comment

    The Moar You Know

    When I look at Blagojevich’s hair obvious rug, I think "now THAT’S a white man’s burden".

    @Notorious P.A.T.: Fixt.

  33. 33
    January 9th, 2009 at 5:03 pm Reply to this comment

    Perry Como

    @Zifnab: I have Greasemonkey and I’m not afraid to use it…

  34. 34
    January 9th, 2009 at 5:07 pm Reply to this comment

    Punchy

    Blago ought to encourage Fitz to post the entire set of charges against him on this website. That way, with Cole’s mod filter, nobody would ever see them.

    /shakes fist at currently unmoddied comment

  35. 35
    January 9th, 2009 at 5:14 pm Reply to this comment

    Comrade Some Guy Named Mattski

    Jeebus, I have been gone for a while. When did dougj get to start posting? And yes I know I can go back and look, I’m just lazy

  36. 36
    January 9th, 2009 at 5:22 pm Reply to this comment

    Roza Hussein

    Silly me, I’ll just wait for the play.

  37. 37
    January 9th, 2009 at 5:24 pm Reply to this comment

    Cris

    @Comrade Some Guy Named Mattski: When did dougj get to start posting?

    On Epiphany. Coincidence? I think not.

    And tom jones’ first comment in that thread put my fears to rest. I seriously thought John had decided to give Dug Jay posting privileges.

  38. 38
    January 9th, 2009 at 5:25 pm Reply to this comment

    gnomedad

    This is a slap in the face.

  39. 39
    January 9th, 2009 at 5:50 pm Reply to this comment

    Perry Como

    John will kill me for this, but…

    It’s a slap in the face!

    Just look under "Leave a Reply" for lulz.

  40. 40
    January 9th, 2009 at 5:54 pm Reply to this comment

    Will

    Is it just me or is "scheming" to do something (at least non-violent somethings) not really a crime? This whole thing seems really stupid and Blago is going to win out in the end even though he maybe corrupt and an asshole.

    It’s not a crime to casually discuss the possibility of committing a crime. It becomes a crime of conspiracy if you then go out and begin to take material steps towards committing the original crime discussed.

  41. 41
    January 9th, 2009 at 5:58 pm Reply to this comment

    Will

    What about organizing a raid with my guild?

    Capital offense, warranting extraordinary rendition. Do you like Poland in the winter?

  42. 42
    January 9th, 2009 at 6:29 pm Reply to this comment

    mapaghimagsik

    I guess you’d need to be a plastic surgeon to throw someone under the face.

    Or be in the ending of North By Northwest.

  43. 43
    January 9th, 2009 at 7:16 pm Reply to this comment

    Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist

    @demimondian: You must be new here.

    Just contributing a couple more mind-numbing cliches.