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Lamplighter

11-16-2012 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by infinite monkey (Post 839151)

Feather not dot?

Yes.

And isn't it ironic that now the feathers not dot are taking in scads of $
in whitee-only casinos, and using it to provide free health care for their flocks.

Spexxvet

11-16-2012 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by infinite monkey (Post 839143)

(dot not feather.)

:rotflol::notworthy

Clodfobble

11-16-2012 06:04 PM

I wonder if any literary phrase gets unknowingly used more often than "unmitigated temerity."

The OJ trial was during my junior year in high school, and the prosecution used the phrase in their closing arguments. Since the class was reading "To Kill A Mockingbird" at the time, the teacher made us write an essay on whether we thought the usage was deliberate, and why the reference was appropriate or mismatched. That teacher was totally awesome.

footfootfoot

11-16-2012 06:50 PM

Hence, the ®. I was hoping someone would get the reference which I feel in this case was warranted.

Please tell me you were in college during the OJ trials.

Clodfobble

11-16-2012 07:06 PM

:lol: Sorry, it was high school. Also, my parents started me in school a year early, so really I should have been a sophomore. I'm just a baby.

footfootfoot

11-16-2012 07:41 PM

:facepalm:

Lamplighter

11-16-2012 10:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by footfootfoot (Post 839193)

Hence, the ®. I was hoping someone would get the reference which I feel in this case was warranted.

<snip>

I Googled the phrase to see how else it has been used, and found this blog from 2008.

Shakesville
Today in Unmitigated Temerity
Posted by Melissa McEwan
Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Quote:

Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-NC) proposes renaming an appropriations bill
funding AIDS prevention after recently deceased homobigot Jesse Helms.

Some of the comments were...

Quote:

That's like the Strom Thurmond Affirmative Action bill, isn't it

Quote:

For her next act, Dole will introduce the Henry Hyde Freedom of Choice Act.

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In other news, David Duke's going to have a mosque named after him in Mississippi.

toranokaze

11-17-2012 06:11 PM

I guess no one knew there were black people in Main.

footfootfoot

11-17-2012 08:25 PM

Thanks Lamp. I love the idea of "Today in unmitigated temerity" full to the brim with win.

infinite monkey

11-18-2012 12:30 PM

Unmitigated gall. Gall.

footfootfoot

11-18-2012 12:54 PM

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Originally Posted by infinite monkey (Post 839364)

Unmitigated gall. Gall.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird:

And so a quiet, respectable, humble [man] who had the unmitigated temerity to ‘feel sorry’ for a white woman has had to put his word against two white people’s.”

infinite monkey

11-18-2012 02:23 PM

Atticus WHO?

I don't even.

SamIam

11-18-2012 03:38 PM

"To Kill a Mocking Bird," i m. Book by Harper Lee and movie starring Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch. Atticus Finch is a lawyer in a small southern town and ends up defending a black man who is actually innocent of any wrong doing. But try to tell that to the town's dog fearing white folk who are longing for a lynching but willing to make do instead with a mockery of a trial just so long as the verdict comes in "guilty."

"To Kill a Mockingbird" is a classic and a great read as well.

infinite monkey

11-18-2012 03:44 PM

Yeah, i know.

Somewhere in these vast pages I've lamented the loss of gregory peck. When he died i called my mom and wailed 'atticus died.'

I was being sarcastical, which i do to hide how dumb i am. ;)

A damn disappointment, really. :lol:

footfootfoot

11-18-2012 03:56 PM

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Originally Posted by SamIam (Post 839398)

Well, in the town's defense the dog did have rabies. ;)

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