the zinger games
― diafiyhm (darraghmac), Sunday, 29 April 2012 23:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
most of [Nabokov's] interviews have the exact same 'voice' as most of his fiction.
iirc, he'd require the interviewer's list of questions be submitted to him, with his responses entirely written rather than spontaneous.
― "Fourvel - it's like Fievel, but one less." (R Baez), Sunday, 29 April 2012 23:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
ahead of his time with that one
― Number None, Sunday, 29 April 2012 23:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
then he would revise his answers!
xpost
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 April 2012 00:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
lot of amazing zing scholarship itt... not
― lag∞n, Sunday, April 29, 2012 11:50 AM
lock thread pls
― am0n, Monday, 30 April 2012 00:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
irc, he'd require the interviewer's list of questions be submitted to him, with his responses entirely written rather than spontaneous.
Cf., Nat Hentoff's 1966 Dylan interview in Playboy, espcially Dylan's explanation of how he became a rock and roll star. From the same interview:
PLAYBOY: Did you ever have the standard boyhood dream of growing up to be President?DYLAN: No. When I was a boy, Harry Truman was President; who'd want to be Harry Truman?
― clemenza, Monday, 30 April 2012 00:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
no im srs lock the thread
― am0n, Monday, 30 April 2012 00:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
:-/
― flopson, Monday, 30 April 2012 00:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
someone zing amon
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 30 April 2012 00:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
unzingable
― arsenio and old ma$e (m bison), Monday, 30 April 2012 00:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
I will zing him
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 30 April 2012 00:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
...
― flopson, Monday, 30 April 2012 00:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
zinging mt. everest
― dayo, Monday, 30 April 2012 00:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's always some zing.
― clemenza, Monday, 30 April 2012 00:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
hello anon
― The Startrekman, Sunday, April 29, 2012 4:19 PM (Yesterday)
― the sunno)))boys (electricsound), Monday, 30 April 2012 00:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 30 April 2012 00:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
AH SAY HEY MON
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 April 2012 00:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol Startrekman
― am0n, Monday, 30 April 2012 00:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
sick burn
lol that tom waits quote reminds me of casey kasem's 'these guys are from england and who gives a shit'
― balls, Sunday, 29 April 2012 04:59
p sure that was prof. wgw of this parish tho?
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Sunday, 30 September 2012 00:57 (7 months ago) Permalink
This thread will belong to Mitt Romney come Wednesday.
Symmetry required it: 2012 american general election thread #2
― clemenza, Sunday, 30 September 2012 01:05 (7 months ago) Permalink
Noel Gallagher on Jack White“He looks like Zorro on doughnuts.”
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Sunday, 30 September 2012 02:32 (7 months ago) Permalink
"As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that."[21]
RIP big man
― things that are jokes pretty much (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 28 December 2012 03:17 (4 months ago) Permalink
was Rummy ever this zingy?
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 December 2012 03:18 (4 months ago) Permalink
no but he was a better epistemologist
― things that are jokes pretty much (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 28 December 2012 03:21 (4 months ago) Permalink
zinging saddam just seems too easy
― iatee, Friday, 28 December 2012 03:28 (4 months ago) Permalink
and i had the best present i was going to send you
http://www.ebay.ie/itm/G7199-Modern-Postcard-4x6-General-Norman-Schwarzkopf-/370526552767
― things that are jokes pretty much (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 28 December 2012 03:34 (4 months ago) Permalink
tbf a few other dudes with those qualifications were more successful than norm
― mookieproof, Friday, 28 December 2012 03:37 (4 months ago) Permalink
― 乒乓, Thursday, 21 March 2013 17:22 (2 months ago) Permalink
In 1958 Winston Churchill broke his spine in a fall and was required to sleep with a bedrest, which he hated. He and nurse Roy Howells got into a heated argument in which the two swore at one another.In making up afterward, Churchill said, “You were very rude to me, you know.”Howells said, “Yes, but you were rude too.”Churchill said, “Yes, but I am a great man.”“There was no answer to that,” Howells remembered later. “He knew, as I and the rest of the world knew, that he was right.”
In making up afterward, Churchill said, “You were very rude to me, you know.”
Howells said, “Yes, but you were rude too.”
Churchill said, “Yes, but I am a great man.”
“There was no answer to that,” Howells remembered later. “He knew, as I and the rest of the world knew, that he was right.”
http://www.futilitycloset.com/2013/03/22/detente/ (!)
― s.clover, Saturday, 23 March 2013 01:56 (1 month ago) Permalink
Those guys grew up in L.A. and they don't have cow-shit on their boots - they just got dog shit from Laurel Canyon. - Tom Waits
accidental self zing imo
― wk, Saturday, 23 March 2013 04:36 (1 month ago) Permalink
XP it doesn't really work so well as a zing if the person saying it seems like a d-bag who's hard to sympathize with
― Poliopolice, Saturday, 23 March 2013 05:41 (1 month ago) Permalink
yeah remember all those country rock albums tom waits made
― balls, Saturday, 23 March 2013 05:54 (1 month ago) Permalink