Tuesday, August 15, 2006

no ekphrasis available

I just don't understand. I'm sorry. Sorry about this, folks.


And if we're all being honest with each other, I'm having trouble with this photo of Lech Walesa plying the paddles as well:


SOLIDARITY MY ASS.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is that his tongue or a cigar? Bloody communists, smoking cigars and playing ping pong when they could be having absurdist conversations at home.

palinode said...

That's his tongue. He's mocking his hapless non-Poland-ruling opponent.

I really like the spectators in the background, especially the guy with the crossed arms and the sunglasses.

cenobyte said...

it's probably a good thing there is solidarity in your ass. But not too much solidarity, because then you'd need some kind of stool softener.

I wonder if they named stool after poop or the other way 'round.

Anyhow, great news about your ass.

There is a rather frightening picture similar to that leopard-legged lady one in my high school yearbook. It is of a cheerleader. Someone has crossed out her name/title and written SLUT-WHORE in its stead. I always thought one could be *either* a slut *or* a whore until I looked through my yearbook.

I'm so glad I only talk to three of those people anymore. Not the slut-whore ones; the ones from high school.

If any of my high school mates are reading this, I mean all those *other* assholes, not you of course.

palinode said...

The leopard-legged lady is Christina Applegate.

The use of 'stool' as a synonym for excrement apparently dates from the early 1500s. It originally referred to a privy. 'Poop,' on the other hand, comes from the mid-1700s. Its original meaning, "to make a short blast on a horn," dates from the late 1300s.

It looks like Christina Applegate is trying to make a short blast on a horn in that picture, if you know what I mean.

kari said...

If you look reeeeeeally close, I think you can see she's succeeded.

Anonymous said...

dude. she has Talent with a capitol T.