Territorial Bloggings

This — Top 100 Fundamentalist Chat Room Quotes — falls into the category of “uncomfortably” funny. It’s funny in a sad way, even as it’s frustrating, infuriating, and just downright disheartening. The sheer ignorance on display is stunning, even as it’s bothersome to see a (very) few solid points lumped in with, and equated to, heterodoxy & outright heresy. By and large, though, there is so much sinful ignorance & hate running through the quotes that it boggles the mind.

It’s worth a brief look (warning for, shall we say, salty language…), if only to see just what Christians are up against as a result from “friendly” fire. With “friends” like those, who needs enemies!

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Let me preface this by clearly stating that I am not a cat person. I don’t like them thar furry little devil-beasts. I like dogs. Boston Terriers, to be more precise (in case you hadn’t noticed…).

That said, for some inexplicable reason, I just cannot get enough of the lolcats phenomena, as found at I Can Has Cheezburger?

I don’t know exactly why, but these things are just laugh-out-loud funny to me. I think it has something to do with the tortured syntax that is often used by ‘teh kittehs’. Per Wikipedia, “Lolcats are images combining photographs of animals, most frequently cats, with a subjectively humorous and idiosyncratic caption in broken English referred to as Kitty Pidgin, Kitteh, or lolspeak.”

Funny, funny stuff — although, somewhat typically, the Territorial Wife doesn’t get it & just looked at me like I was a nutjob when I showed her some lolcats. I think my sense of humor must be too sophisticated for her… ;^)

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Only six years? Piker! I’m at just about 40…

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This is why Charles Schulz was a genius, and why I identify so strongly with Charlie Brown…

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Nice…

[HT: PTM]

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Those of you who are of a certain age, having (like me) come of age during the 80′s, know the power & impact (he said only half-facetiously) that The Karate Kid (IMDB Page, Wikipedia Entry) had on American culture in the years since 1984. Heck, the saga of Daniel-san & Mr. Miyagi practically makes ESPN SportsGuy Bill Simmons get all weepy with joy…

I still remember the day in 1984 when I first saw the movie — it happened to be the day that my 2nd niece (who is about to make big sis into Mother-of-the-Bride in just over a month!) was born. It’s a great flick. Even today, it holds up as a great piece of cheezy Americana.

But my main reason for bringing it up now is this: Check out this video — Sweep The Leg by No More Kings. If you ever wondered what became of Johnny & the rest of the Cobra Kai, then this is the video for you! Seriously though, it’s a great video for a really good song that was inspired by the movie – a video that has the benefit of having been written & directed by William Zabka. That’s right, the quintessential mid-80′s teen movie rich-kid bad-guy bully himself!

About the only down-checks are that they didn’t get Elisabeth Shue in the video, and that they had to settle for Mr. Belding as a replacement for Pat Morita (RIP).

Here’s the YouTube version of the video (but you really should just go to iTunes & drop the $1.99 to get the high quality version!):

Tres cool…

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