"Get a Brain! Morans": Word is out

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This photo appears in B'nai B'rith Magazine, Spring 2006, p.67, as part of an ad for their "Freeze Frame" caption contest. (Sadly, their web-page about the contest does not include that photo.)

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 10 April 2006 12:22 (eighteen years ago) link

http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/8236/moran6dr.jpg

― ath (ath), Monday, 10 April 2006 12:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Whenever I view this photo I feel a brief sadness for the dude holding the sign that is pretty much totally and immediately usurped by teh roffles.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Monday, 10 April 2006 12:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Didn't see the other two signs before.

Who is that girl trying to free?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 10 April 2006 12:54 (eighteen years ago) link

or freeze?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:02 (eighteen years ago) link

She is offering Free Ritalin.

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:04 (eighteen years ago) link

I was kind of hoping the other half of her sign read:

e Moustache
des

and she was pimping for the other guy.

― phil d. (Phil D.), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:06 (eighteen years ago) link

FREEDOM RINGS

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:07 (eighteen years ago) link

"Get a Brain! Morans"
"Freeze Rice!"
"Go USA"

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Free Cardinals
Riplica Shirts!

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Free the
Riddler!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:23 (eighteen years ago) link

FREE RIMP C

― +++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 13:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Free Ribet

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:32 (eighteen years ago) link

i would like to read an interview with this man

― +++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 13:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Morans, it says "Free Your Mind, Ritards."

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:36 (eighteen years ago) link

"Free Rifles for Kids!"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I love how the photo is EVERYTHING bad about America all in one place: icky summer clothes, fat ankles, mirrored pseudo-Vuarnet shades, people wearing flag shit, spelling errors and misplaced patriotism. All worn by what appears to be an off-duty Embers management trainee.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:39 (eighteen years ago) link

i dunno it was missing america's smug expatriate self-hatred of its own working class until now

― +++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 13:43 (eighteen years ago) link

and there is never anything wrong with fat ankles

― +++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 13:43 (eighteen years ago) link

WHERE IS THE PHOTO SET? AN AIR SHOW?

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:44 (eighteen years ago) link

cf.
http://www.movielowdown.com/reviews/theater/GhostWorld/poster.jpg

― ++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 13:45 (eighteen years ago) link

WHERE IS THE PHOTO SET? AN AIR SHOW?

thank you wikipedia

"Moran": Misspelling of moron, referring to a well-known picture of a redneck holding two signs saying "Get a brain! Morans" and "Go USA", in response to anti-war activists protesting the US invasion of Iraq. The image was originally taken at a Boeing plant in Saint Charles, Missouri (a suburb of St. Louis), shortly after the war began in March 2003, and was originally posted on the web site of the St. Louis Independent Media Center. (The original article and images have apparently since been archived.) A Google image search for "morans" is a useful way to find the picture.

― a.b. (alanbanana), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.random-abstract.com/gm/archives/Morans-2.jpg

― a.b. (alanbanana), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link

http://pages.prodigy.net/phil_abel/Photographs/Fark/morans.JPG

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Trife, I'm sorry, but you just...suck.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:13 (eighteen years ago) link

lol @ poor ppls bad taste in fashion

― +++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 14:15 (eighteen years ago) link

lol @ assumption that person with sign is "poor".

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link

factory workers from a boeing plant

― ++++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link

youre right tho maybe thats the president of boeing

― +++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 14:21 (eighteen years ago) link

because having a laugh at bad spelling combined with nationalism is equivalent to hating all working class people, ofc

― sleep (sleep), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:21 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm sure unionized boeing employees are hurting real bad and are looking to move to work in fast food.

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link

http://members.toast.net/baillod/Ebay/moranwtc.jpg

― Bnad, Monday, 10 April 2006 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Can we get back to making fun of rednecks for fuck's sake? Don't make me get out my Sharpie and make a sign.

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:23 (eighteen years ago) link

why do you hate freedom

― sleep (sleep), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link

It's the use of lower-case for the "et" in "Get" which confounds me most.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.melroseiowa.com/july4/July42001/morans.jpg

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:29 (eighteen years ago) link

http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/5/g/bush_note_morans.jpg

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:29 (eighteen years ago) link

It's the use of lower-case for the "et" in "Get" which confounds me most.

It's in caps - he's shouting:

"Get A BRAIN! MORANS"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:30 (eighteen years ago) link

I love how the photo is EVERYTHING bad about America all in one place: icky summer clothes, fat ankles, mirrored pseudo-Vuarnet shades, people wearing flag shit, spelling errors and misplaced patriotism. All worn by what appears to be an off-duty Embers management trainee.

-- suzy (theartskooldisko@hotmail.com

― +++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 14:30 (eighteen years ago) link

here is your handy guide to a non-classist version of that post-

-- suzy (theartskooldisko@hotmail.com

― ++++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link

haha oops strikethrough didnt work - basically,

I love how the photo is EVERYTHING bad about America all in one place: misplaced patriotism.

-- suzy (theartskooldisko@hotmail.com

― ++++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.clifdenchamber.com/thumbs2/morans.jpg

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:34 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't back you up on the fat ankles love, dude.

― Dan (Cankles = NO) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Ethan, you TRY SO HARD yet you remain POOR MISUNDERSTOOD WIGGA. *Cries*

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:36 (eighteen years ago) link

We're not allowed to have preferences for modes of dress?

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:37 (eighteen years ago) link

embers is a fast food restaurant. she mocked him for looking like a fast food trainee in unfashionable clothes.

― +++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 14:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Also Vuarnet shades are some bullshit, surely we can all agree on that?

(xpost: Dude, once you go out of the house with a tragically-misspelled sign that's utterly pig-stupid, everything about you is fair game for ridicule.)

― Dan (Faux-Bans = Key) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link

On other cardboard signs in the world...
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41544000/jpg/_41544030_rights_afp_203i.jpg

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link

"Sauvons Nos DROITS, MORAN!"

― Dan (Hahaha) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Of course, it should say:
"obtenez les morans d'un cerveau" xpost.

But it loses something in trans, as it's spelled that way in fr.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:45 (eighteen years ago) link

(xpost: Dude, once you go out of the house with a tragically-misspelled sign that's utterly pig-stupid, everything about you is fair game for ridicule.)

I love how Americans hate pigs.

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Aww yeah!! I think we have a CLASSIC thread in the making

― Le Baaderonixx de Benedict Canyon (baaderonixx), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Dan, you clearly didn't get the memo Ethan sent from Wigga World where it says I'm not allowed to pick on anyone.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:53 (eighteen years ago) link

(Also why is it okay to make fun of rich people but not poor people? cf the Katrina trailer home thread; repellent people should get called out regardless of their income.)

― Dan (True Equality Means It Sucks For Everyone) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Also why is it okay to make fun of rich people but not poor people

Thank you very much Kate St.Perry.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:56 (eighteen years ago) link

suzy would you care to etymologize your term 'wigga' for me

― ++++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 14:56 (eighteen years ago) link

hey how come chris rock can joke about black people liking fried chicken but when i do it i get my ass kicked? how come my mailman can kiss his wife on the neck but when i cant?? whats the DEAL!

― ++++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 14:57 (eighteen years ago) link

(minus 'when')(yall get the idea)

― ++++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 14:59 (eighteen years ago) link

(Um, I know this is superhypocritical coming from me but can we back off on the "HAHA ETHAN IS A WIGGA" stuff, especially when he's not talking about black issues?)

(xpost: Try harder, Dom)

(xxpost: Are you SERIOUSLY comparing this to kissing someone else's wife or are you just typing too quickly to think about what you're writing?)

― Dan (Eek) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Ethan: no, I think I've patronised you enough as it is, and I might have so much fun in persisting that I might explode or something. And ETYMOLOGISE! Such a big, big word! Diddums!

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Also why is it okay to make fun of rich people but not poor people? cf the Katrina trailer home thread; repellent people should get called out regardless of their income.)

It's different to make fun of rich people because of the way they act than to ridicule (suppossedly poor) people for their appearance (which isn't exactly the case here, but still).

Also, it's always different to ridicule those in power than those that have little power.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link

(many xposts)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link

dan considering i am at work (gasp - poverty wage!) i am definitely NOT thinking about what im writing but my point is the same as always is when ppl trot out the 'how come you can joke about rich/white/male/christian/etc ppl but not poor/black/female/muslim/etc ppl' (last seen on the cynthia mckinney thread - 'would you still be calling racism if she was white and the cop was black?'!!??!) omg difft circumstances for difft sitations!!! especially when its those in a position of elite moneyed status mocking those who arent!!

― +++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link

and yeah blind patriotism is ALWAYS worth mocking, my problem is that only represented about 1/16ths of suzy's post the rest was her usual class snobbery and contempt for fast food employees and people who dont have iD magazine choosing their wardrobe

― +++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 15:08 (eighteen years ago) link

basically 'how come theres no united CAUCASIAN college fund?? thats REVERSE RACISM!!'

― +++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 15:09 (eighteen years ago) link

btw suzy maybe chill w/ the condescension towards somebody who's seen your baggy-ass acid wash jeans & tacky frieda kahlo prints

― ++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 15:12 (eighteen years ago) link

wow, this gets better and better. ethan remember you're arguing about how respectful it's appropriate to be towards "The Moran Guy"

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:17 (eighteen years ago) link

im arguing about how respectful its appropriate to be towards large groups of disenfranchaised people in attacking and using elitist stereotypes in attacking someone who may be from that group - if he was jewish would it be ok for suzy to say that hook-nosed kikes are whats wrong with america?? dont use or invent poverty to demean someone

― ++++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link

*gasp*

― Le Baaderonixx de Benedict Canyon (baaderonixx), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, military industrial complex, gutting of social programs, unchecked corporate rapacity, crisis in health care, lack of environmental protection--don't worry about any of those because:

"EVERYTHING bad about America" = fast-food workers' t-shirts don't fit 'em right

― Martin Van Buren (Martin Van Buren), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link

"if the situation was totally different and suzy said something totally different i bet you'd be shocked!"

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm with Ethan here, if only because Suzy wasn't ridiculing the dude, but making Wal-Mart fashion sense & food-service employment the exemplar of EVERYTHING BAD WITH AMERICA.

So yeah, fuck that, fight the real enemy etc.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link

remember youre arguing about in defense of sneering at fast food employees for their unattractive clothes

― +++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link

actually, dehumanizing factory workers by comparing them to fast food employees

― +++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link

poor people wearing clothes they can afford are whats wrong with america!!

― +++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 15:22 (eighteen years ago) link

wow, that is so condescending i have no idea what to say.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:23 (eighteen years ago) link

uh let me clarify its suzy who was seeking to dehumanize - ive been a fast food employee, it was the best job i ever had

― +++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 15:25 (eighteen years ago) link

While I basically agree with you, Trife, I think we all got the message.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:25 (eighteen years ago) link

poor people wearing clothes they can afford are whats wrong with america!!

didn't you get the memo ethan, they're the ones who start the wars!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Being a fast food employee isn't so bad, but living in your mom's basement means you can post on ILX all day. Keep saving for that caps lock key, Ethan!

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:27 (eighteen years ago) link

he's not the one with his own board on ilx dude

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:28 (eighteen years ago) link

jw, you of all ppl posting in defense of fashion sense?

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:28 (eighteen years ago) link

this thread is rich indeed.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:29 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah i got kicked out the house at 18 & have not taken a single dime since but keep trying you yankee yuppie fuck

― +++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 15:29 (eighteen years ago) link

http://w1.1396.telia.com/~u139602049/nut.jpg

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:30 (eighteen years ago) link

I wish I could afford a star-spangled do-rag...

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:31 (eighteen years ago) link

And so, my son, began the "War of Morans" that shook the very foundation of ILE... that is, the camraderie felt in laughing at ugly and illiterate people.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:31 (eighteen years ago) link

don't use or invent poverty to demean someone

You did, Ethan, with your Wal-Mart drops and your slander, but the straw woman thing is waaaay boring! And you will not leave it alone! Did you make THAT much of a fool of yourself in London that picking on someone else is easier than, for instance, dealing with your extreme lack of social skills? Don't answer, just think awhile about what it might be like on the day you get a life.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:48 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm just trying to figure out if it's intentional that ethan accuses people of things on this thread just prior to engaging in exactly the behavior he decries (cf. "saggy-ass acid wash"; cf. supposedly demonstrating hypocrisy by nonsensically recasting the ethnicity in a power dynamic)

i'm goina get lunch

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:53 (eighteen years ago) link

you're getting lunch!

(i'm gonna get some too)

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:57 (eighteen years ago) link

I think he may acually be referring to the Moran family of Greenville, south Carolina.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:57 (eighteen years ago) link

go USA

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:01 (eighteen years ago) link

I am getting lunch 3

GO [to lunc] USA

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:02 (eighteen years ago) link

look i dont know what all the arguing on this thread is about or whatever and frankly i don't care. i get the sense that some people ITT are talking shit about america and i just felt like i needed to make it clear that AMERICA IS THE #1 BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD and if you don't like it, then perhaps you ought to go to iraq and see if you like it there

― ath (ath), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Jel, stop ruining the fun.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:06 (eighteen years ago) link

It's too early for lunch here. Let's keep going with the ad hominem attacks. I was just starting to like this thread.

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:06 (eighteen years ago) link

I like how that wigger ethan uses "yankee" as pejorative to set himself up as this unassailable authentic southern self-made man.

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Jon I would call you a yankee too. Because you are. :)

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Maybe it was addressed to Caitlin Moran and family, in which case I can't help but agree with the guy.

― My Psychic Friends Are Strangely Silent (Ex Leon), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Yankee GO HOMO!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:11 (eighteen years ago) link

You're not helping.

― My Psychic Friends Are Strangely Silent (Ex Leon), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:12 (eighteen years ago) link

embers is a fast food restaurant.

Embers is hardly a fast-food restaurant. More like a low-tech Perkin's.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:13 (eighteen years ago) link

yankee (no homo)

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:13 (eighteen years ago) link

"perhaps you ought to go to iraq and see if you like it there"

Ath, if you love America so much why do you parrot the liberal media's lies about Iraq? Why don't you talk about all the good things that have happened since we liberated the Iraqis? Traitor!

― Martin Van Buren (Martin Van Buren), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Let's polarize this argument between the Yankees and the Southerners. That's an interesting twist.

Really.

So, like, I'll start. I'm from Tennessee originally.

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:14 (eighteen years ago) link

http://homepage3.nifty.com/minnesota/nomo.jpeg

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link

who is caitlin moran?

― gear (gear), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:17 (eighteen years ago) link

i mentioned suzy's clothes in a taste-your-own-medicine kinda way. i did not mention wal-mart once - that was 'elmo argonaut'

― +++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 16:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Ath, if you love America so much why do you parrot the liberal media's lies about Iraq? Why don't you talk about all the good things that have happened since we liberated the Iraqis? Traitor!

i don't really understand so i'm gonna just go ahead and tell you to go to iraq again.

― ath (ath), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:18 (eighteen years ago) link

I think it turned when all of a sudden it turned into a let's bash ethan thread. I mean this is a roffle thread, not a racial one!

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:18 (eighteen years ago) link

who is caitlin moran?

Ask any UK person from the early nineties. Alternately, ask rabid/recovering Anglophiles. (Nicole and I being obvious candidates.) Some basics.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link

What about Erin "Joanie" Moran? How does this make HER feel?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link

It's awfully easy to poke fun, but if this sage fellow convinced even one moran to get A BRAIN, I feel like he's done mankind a great service.

CONTINUE TO HEAL THE WORLD WITH YOUR PLEA FOR ENLIGHTENMENT, MY BROTHER.

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:20 (eighteen years ago) link

So, Ned, are you rabid or recovering?

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Yankee.

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:22 (eighteen years ago) link

But Ath, Iraq is now a free democracy. Are you saying I wouldn't like it there?

"The fact of the matter is, there are good things happening in Iraq. There are good people working hard every day to make a difference for the future of Iraq."

http://www.kmax.ws/b/goodnewsiniraq.htm

― Martin Van Buren (Martin Van Buren), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:23 (eighteen years ago) link

JUST GO IRAQ NOW AIRPLANE USE FOR FLY

STOP BAD TALK AMERICA

GO IRAQ NOW HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN 9/11 DAY

― ath (ath), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:24 (eighteen years ago) link

i like when jon and ethan fight because they're so close to the same person it's scary

― strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:24 (eighteen years ago) link

What part of Tennessee are you from, Martin M.?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:24 (eighteen years ago) link

"it's like we grew up in the same house...and one day i went out the front door, while he went out the back."

― strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Hahaha I love this board. Also Jess OTM.

― Dan (Let's Fight Over Something Really, Really Stupid!) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link

im not the williamsburg hipster spawn of wealthy new england republicans

― ++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 16:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Jess, yes!!!

Also WTF why was Padgett looking at my arse in the first place?

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Nashville! Of course!

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:29 (eighteen years ago) link

well you remember how drunk i was

― +++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 16:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah but Ethan you don't say or do much to make that distinction very meaningful to anybody.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:30 (eighteen years ago) link

im not the williamsburg hipster spawn of wealthy new england republicans

Yet somehow you've managed to develop almost exactly the same value set and rhetorical style, which is the point being made here.

― Dan (Narcissism Of Tiny Differences) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:31 (eighteen years ago) link

does that value set include not accepting the demonization of the poor, instead of going to trucker hat white trash parties or whatever

― ++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link

i saw there were 127 new answers on this thread, and i knew it wouldn't be pretty.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Hahaha Ethan you're really only digging the hole deeper here!

― Dan (Hahaha) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:34 (eighteen years ago) link

as far as rhetorical style plz note my last post was not in css style sheets or whatever and did not reference philip k dick or dr mario

― +++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 16:34 (eighteen years ago) link

well sorry if im wrong here but that is williamsburg right, 'white trash' parties & all that

― +++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link

jon's parents == employed by the state == rolling is dough$$$ obviously.

also, not sure, but i don't think they are republicans either!

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link

rolling in dough*** duhh

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes yes yes BUT Jon uses style sheets DO YOU SEE?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link

sorry i just skimmed the noize board emails from your mom thread & it seemed like everybodys parents were waspy old money republicans talking about painting their yachts

― +++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Nashville?

http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/6708/yankee4xj.jpg

You Yankee.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link

For what it's worth, in Finland we apply the word "raddish" for people who are Red on the surface, but White in the core.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:38 (eighteen years ago) link

ethan my last post to the noize board mom thread was an IM conversation where she said she was drunk on box wine at 3:48 pm. c'mon.

― strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:39 (eighteen years ago) link

hahaha to all.

you guys shouldn't be shamin' your moms and shit.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:39 (eighteen years ago) link

haha speaking of long lost twin siblings

― +++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 16:39 (eighteen years ago) link

listen, i don't care who any of you voted for, just as long as i get to shoot something

― gear (gear), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link

i love my mom! shes usually drunk on box wine!!

― +++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link

MY MOM IS MORE WORKING-CLASS THAN YOURS!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link

tuomas shouldnt you be posting pictures of your pasty sac to TITWIST or something

― ++++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link

my last communique with moms:

KD******: Are you still in a bad mood?
Dubplatestyle: Yes.
KD******: Well I'm in an I DONT GIVE A FUCK mood. What you think about that?

― strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link

'SMOOTH AS EGGS!'

― +++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link

here in slovajkia we have name for persons who have less than 20 potato. they are the called "holuksikcz petiosn" and are ridicule of town. just FYIs

― ath (ath), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link

here we call them the irish

― gear (gear), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link

ethan, leave TITTWIS out of this.

My mom never calls or emails me. She's one of those hands off types.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link

man im red on the surface after being outside all weekend

― +++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link

i don't even know what "red on the surface" is supposed to mean in finland!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:45 (eighteen years ago) link

it refers to the v on tuomas's chest after a day in that wetsuit

― +++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 16:45 (eighteen years ago) link

he ends up looking like a trivial pursuit piece

― +++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 16:46 (eighteen years ago) link

We had a civil war between the Reds and the Whites (i.e. the Left and the Right), and the whole country was divided for a long time.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:46 (eighteen years ago) link

"that wetsuit"?

Ethan, your mind is a strange, dark place.

― Dan (Where Angels Fear To Tread) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:47 (eighteen years ago) link

In Mother Russia, BRAIN gets you! MORANS

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:48 (eighteen years ago) link

dan it was on the what do you look like thread!!!! somebody post the jpg plz!!!!! jaymc, file > open!!!!!

― ++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 16:49 (eighteen years ago) link

The "raddish" thing was actually an insult hurled at communists that came from wealthy families, and I don't really think it's that appropriate at all. Should your parents define what you are? My folks are working class, but I'm an academic leftie elitist, albeit a poor one.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Everyone from New England went to Yale and lived on a yacht.

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Everyone in Williamsburg goes to Kill Whitey

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Hahahahaha! I stopped reading the "What do you like like?" threads a long time ago.

(xpost: I'm from MN and I sometimes wish I'd gone to Yale but I'd probably be a lot poorer if I had.)

― Dan (No Thanks) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:54 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.groovymachine.com/funny-pictures/images/housewive.jpg

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:55 (eighteen years ago) link

"What do you like like?"

What do you lick like?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:57 (eighteen years ago) link

"What do you, like, like?"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:58 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.clipartreview.com/_gallery/_TN/3031376.gif

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:01 (eighteen years ago) link

"What do you Like Like?"

http://www.algonet.se/~longbow/zelda/like.gif

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:01 (eighteen years ago) link

what do you like, like, like. you mean

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:05 (eighteen years ago) link

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:05 (eighteen years ago) link

the the the death.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:06 (eighteen years ago) link

I love Paris in the the spring time

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:07 (eighteen years ago) link

???

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:07 (eighteen years ago) link

i love punching a girl in the the face

― ++++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 17:07 (eighteen years ago) link

http://a-blast.org/~drx/net/moveit/

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:08 (eighteen years ago) link

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y148/Juror8/i_love_paris_sign.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:09 (eighteen years ago) link

i love punching a girl in the the face

-- ++++++ (...), April 10th, 2006. (later)

Look you, schtum. This thread has proven you are nothing but a cheap imitator of Jon Williams. Now please e-mail me some stuff from that Bo$$ Hogg Barbarian$ album because I can't find it anywhere.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:14 (eighteen years ago) link

dom you misspelled teh.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link

'weight debate' is song of the year

― +-+, Monday, 10 April 2006 17:20 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.rockstar.it/img/Matt_Johnson.jpg
"Don't try it, sunshine!"

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:21 (eighteen years ago) link

(It was funnier with the pic and three posts ago)

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:21 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm still trying to figure out if more +'s in ethan's sig line equals higher levels of outrage.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link

fuck the Cardinals!

next time they come to Houston I'm gonna bring a sign that says "Get a Brain! Morans" and see if anyone gets it.

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 10 April 2006 18:53 (eighteen years ago) link

If you're doing that at MinuteMaid, you'll probably just entice the crowd to go "USA! USA!". Maybe George Washington and her husband behind home plate will join in ...

― Pleasant Plains Adores Bruce Sutter (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 10 April 2006 19:05 (eighteen years ago) link

haha, well that will be equally funny in a peverse kind of way...

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 10 April 2006 19:07 (eighteen years ago) link

haha free mustache rides!

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 10 April 2006 19:27 (eighteen years ago) link

u wish gaywad ;)

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Monday, 10 April 2006 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link

only margaret cho and will & grace can make gay jokes, you homophobe.

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 10 April 2006 20:06 (eighteen years ago) link

not for long...
Through the looking glass.
-- Ned Raggett (ne...), April 11th, 2006. (1 trackback)

― dr lulu (dr lulu), Monday, 10 April 2006 20:20 (eighteen years ago) link

wasn't me

― dr lulu (dr lulu), Monday, 10 April 2006 20:21 (eighteen years ago) link

couldn't be

― latebloomer: someone's been drinking my youth! (latebloomer), Monday, 10 April 2006 20:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Ethan OTM. Much love, & forgiveness for what you said about GA Tech on the other thread.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 10 April 2006 21:27 (eighteen years ago) link

the people in the original pic don't look poor to me. they just look dumb.

― josh in sf (stfu kthx), Monday, 10 April 2006 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link

embers isn't fast food it's casual dining. you have a waitress at embers. some embers have really good breakfast and i'm a big fan of their coffee cake.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 10 April 2006 21:56 (eighteen years ago) link

That's an Embers that Jerry Lundegaard and his father-in-law eat lunch at in Fargo.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 10 April 2006 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link

all embers are individually owned and operated, so they can really vary in quality.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 10 April 2006 22:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Trife: Yo Tuomas, we're gonna boycott your fat lutefisk ass!
Tuomas: You're gonna boycott me? You haven't got the *balls* to boycott me! Here, here's your boycott!

http://www.globalhermit.com/ilx/tuomas-sundae.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 10 April 2006 22:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Holy shit I just blew diet dr. pepper out of my nose and onto my laptop! Damn you gabbneb! @#$!!$

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 10 April 2006 22:18 (eighteen years ago) link

convenient

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 10 April 2006 22:22 (eighteen years ago) link

good lord.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 10 April 2006 22:28 (eighteen years ago) link

This thread is incredible. I love all you people. Dan P OTM all the way.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 09:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Pash speaks my mind.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 11:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Lutefisk is not Finnish, I don't even know what exactly it is.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 11:56 (eighteen years ago) link

i had to go dark, but thought i'd check up on ilx. wow!

― enrique's new pseudoyn, Tuesday, 11 April 2006 11:58 (eighteen years ago) link

lutefisk is norweigian (sp?) it's cod soaked in lye until it resembles snot. served with butter and potato dumplings.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 19:07 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah, i questioned it but a very quick google gave me confidence i was in the ballpark.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 19:15 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/07/07/1057430135661.html

― S- (sgh), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 13:53 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.austwidenegotiators.com.au/images/signature.gif

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 14:00 (eighteen years ago) link

http://marasma74.altervista.org/KINO/M/M_800x600/moran.jpg

― autovac (autovac), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 14:40 (eighteen years ago) link

when ever I see this picture I always think of the genius of that guy's sense of irony. He is totally laughing at any response people have to this picture.

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link

tuomas is funny like that.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 20:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Why have i never noticed the girl on the right's cutie smile before??

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 20:35 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/chakisaki/519.jpg

― ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ (chaki), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/chakisaki/Picture4.jpg

― ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ (chaki), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link

[Insert one picture of Pat Morita with caption "Wax On, Wax Off"]

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

http://imagesource.allposters.com/images/pic/PF_New%5C452006/PF_1940398~The-Sin-of-Nora-Moran-Posters.jpg

― gershy, Sunday, 5 August 2007 03:08 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.mrc.org/stillshots/2005/TMoran050630.jpg

― iiiijjjj, Sunday, 5 August 2007 03:13 (sixteen years ago) link

she's not a dunce, nora moran

― Hurting 2, Sunday, 5 August 2007 03:14 (sixteen years ago) link

http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2003/ALLPOLITICS/03/11/moran.jews/story.moran.file.ap.jpg

― daria-g, Sunday, 5 August 2007 03:42 (sixteen years ago) link

congressman jim moran (D - virginia)

― daria-g, Sunday, 5 August 2007 03:43 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoUYG44BQhs

― gershy, Sunday, 5 August 2007 03:49 (sixteen years ago) link

I can't believe everyone ganged up on trife in defense of Suzy.

― milo z, Sunday, 5 August 2007 05:38 (sixteen years ago) link

Yeah, fun thread. ++++++ was OTM, but ran it into the ground. I am a lurker and don't know anyone here, but I often enjoy his contrarian debates.

I loved that she used the word "wigga" like it was okay.

― rockapads, Sunday, 5 August 2007 06:07 (sixteen years ago) link

http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&q=taqueria+moran&near=Chicago,+IL&fb=1&cid=0,0,11452252158261628803&z=17&iwloc=A&om=1

― dan m, Sunday, 5 August 2007 06:09 (sixteen years ago) link

milo z otm

― RJG, Sunday, 5 August 2007 13:49 (sixteen years ago) link

I loved that she used the word "wigga" like it was okay.

omg n00b

― ☪, Sunday, 5 August 2007 14:46 (sixteen years ago) link

eight months pass...

http://cache.jalopnik.com/cars/assets/resources/2007/01/Morans-Sign.jpg
http://www.themoransband.com/morans.jpg

― sleep, Thursday, 24 April 2008 19:10 (sixteen years ago) link

Awesome. Just awesome.

― B.L.A.M., Thursday, 24 April 2008 19:44 (sixteen years ago) link

Very much a 'fine line' situation there.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 24 April 2008 19:46 (sixteen years ago) link

is that a band?

― chaki, Thursday, 24 April 2008 19:46 (sixteen years ago) link

good find

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 24 April 2008 20:14 (sixteen years ago) link

and a new pic of the dude!

― Mark G, Thursday, 24 April 2008 20:16 (sixteen years ago) link

eleven months pass...

http://www.thismodernworld.com/blog/descent.jpg

― tuppence b. bag (roxymuzak), Monday, 20 April 2009 01:39 (fifteen years ago) link

LOL

― someone who is aware how stupid the net is (harbl), Monday, 20 April 2009 01:40 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.glidos.net/large/descent.jpg

― Doctor Casino, Monday, 20 April 2009 01:46 (fifteen years ago) link

http://i44.tinypic.com/34pnrr4.jpg

― asplundh tree expert co. (iiiijjjj), Monday, 20 April 2009 01:50 (fifteen years ago) link

The Dissent of Man

― excuse me, brutality here? (Hurting 2), Monday, 20 April 2009 02:09 (fifteen years ago) link

Tuomas really makes this thread! It is a delight.

― Gravel Puzzleworth, Monday, 20 April 2009 02:42 (fifteen years ago) link

Suggest Permaunbannable!

― Mark G, Monday, 20 April 2009 03:17 (fifteen years ago) link

― suzy (suzy), Monday, April 10, 2006 9:39 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i dunno it was missing america's smug expatriate self-hatred of its own working class until now

― +++++, Monday, April 10, 2006 9:43 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

one of the all-time great ilx exchanges, RIP +++++

― Just one thing I was thinking about as I was getting on the copter (J0hn D.), Monday, 20 April 2009 03:17 (fifteen years ago) link

definitely an all time zingbombarooski

― Bald, optimistic, spirited...and cruising the streets for trouble (latebloomer), Monday, 20 April 2009 03:21 (fifteen years ago) link

Has this guy ever surfaced anywhere since this photo was taken?

― joygoat, Monday, 20 April 2009 03:24 (fifteen years ago) link

this is one of my favorite threads, it's really got it all

― tuppence b. bag (roxymuzak), Monday, 20 April 2009 03:27 (fifteen years ago) link

That Patriotic Descent picture will show up on all sorts of I Love NFL threads over the next season. It is too perfect for anything dealing with Bill Belichick or the Patriots.

ttp://www.scoopsnoodle.com/adam_schefter/adam_schefter9d.jpg

― earlnash, Monday, 20 April 2009 05:14 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.scoopsnoodle.com/adam_schefter/adam_schefter9d.jpg

― earlnash, Monday, 20 April 2009 05:15 (fifteen years ago) link

Fantastic!

(But where the hell's Andrei Arshavin??)

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 20 April 2009 06:04 (fifteen years ago) link

LOLX

― #/.'#/'@ilikecats (g-kit), Tuesday, 21 April 2009 08:12 (fifteen years ago) link

two months pass...

http://8.media.tumblr.com/Bin9w3ABVpmdh2ol3WkDmNWno1_500.jpg

― just sayin, Friday, 10 July 2009 13:45 (fourteen years ago) link

wow. for a sec i thought he may have done that intentionally.

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Friday, 10 July 2009 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link

looool

kind of a long-winded, awkward zing anyway, moraon

― circa1916, Friday, 10 July 2009 14:50 (fourteen years ago) link

xpost my first reaction was the same, but then i realized, no, he didn't have enough paper/brain to make a right one.

― Sookeh, I vant to suck your titties (stevienixed), Friday, 10 July 2009 14:54 (fourteen years ago) link

one month passes...

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y49/pspauld/BlogPix/puboptionnc.jpg

― Id rather dig ditches than pull another dudes string (Pancakes Hackman), Monday, 17 August 2009 19:18 (fourteen years ago) link

^^ Classic!

― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Monday, 17 August 2009 19:53 (fourteen years ago) link

What that really needs is someone holding a sign saying "Where's the Birth Certificate" ...

(oh, wait..)

― Mark G, Monday, 17 August 2009 19:58 (fourteen years ago) link

Why didn't Republicans turn Get A Brain, Morans Man into a Joe The Plumber type?

― ice cr?m paint job (milo z), Monday, 17 August 2009 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link

one year passes...

http://s-ak.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/terminal01/2010/10/30/16/enhanced-buzz-3287-1288471892-10.jpg

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-100-best-signs-at-the-rally-to-restore-sanity

― like an ant to a crumb (DavidM), Sunday, 31 October 2010 20:44 (thirteen years ago) link

black guy kills this pick imo

http://s-ak.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/terminal01/2010/10/30/17/enhanced-buzz-3281-1288472576-0.jpg

― O holy ruler of ILF (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 31 October 2010 22:37 (thirteen years ago) link

he's not gay, he's British.

― 2+2 is 4 (Spinspin Sugah), Sunday, 31 October 2010 22:57 (thirteen years ago) link

eight months pass...

http://i52.tinypic.com/swcoes.jpg

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 13:36 (twelve years ago) link

Chrotle.

― The New Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 14:36 (twelve years ago) link

isnt the get a brain morans guy protesting an actual congressman named "morans"? or am i misremembering

― ☂ (max), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 14:39 (twelve years ago) link

no max don't ruin it!

― $^o$ (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 14:41 (twelve years ago) link

Moran, a female Irish Quidditch player in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

― ☂ (max), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 14:42 (twelve years ago) link

http://foundationcenter.org/grantmaker/moran/

― rip nyc chicken (am0n), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 14:42 (twelve years ago) link

The Moran Family Foundation supports innovative programs that promote healthy development of at-risk children and at-risk families whose lives are impacted by the challenges of poverty.

― rip nyc chicken (am0n), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 14:43 (twelve years ago) link

omg

so the "Get a brain! Morans" guy is actually clever and we are the ignorant ones

― ȣ_ȣ Ȣ_Ȣ ȣ_ȣ Ȣ_Ȣ ȣ_ȣ (absolutely clean glasses), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 14:45 (twelve years ago) link

he sure fooled us

― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 14:50 (twelve years ago) link

on the other hand he gave us some of the greatest ilxor-on-ilxor zings of all time so thanks dude who weirdly looks like my uncle if he had long hair

― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 14:51 (twelve years ago) link

okay my research is unfruitful, this guy may actually be an idiot, please continue

― ☂ (max), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 14:52 (twelve years ago) link

Apparently he was part of a contingent of pro-Iraq War demonstrators at a peace rally.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 15:02 (twelve years ago) link

i think my family are members of the moran family foundation

― Gary Numan, or Gary Fletcher (ken c), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 16:16 (twelve years ago) link

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/images/moron-DF-ST-97-02160.jpg

― rip nyc chicken (am0n), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 16:28 (twelve years ago) link

http://3973cds.com/images/Moron-Air-Base-early-1960.jpg

― rip nyc chicken (am0n), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 16:29 (twelve years ago) link

get a plane, moran

― brazenly frog (bnw), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 16:33 (twelve years ago) link

You guys! I can't believe you've fallen for such an obvious piece of image manipulation! "Get A BRAIN! MORANS" and "Go USA" is not what the guy's signs were originally saying, they've been photoshopped. Here's the original, untouched picture:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/moranis.jpg

The man is actually protesting against the disrespectful parody of Darth Vader in Spaceballs. And "OSA" stands for "Organized Starwarsfans of America".

― Tuomas, Thursday, 7 July 2011 07:16 (twelve years ago) link

I thought you all might like to see this:

http://mlb.sbnation.com/2011/7/17/2279239/get-a-brain-morans

― Mark C, Monday, 18 July 2011 15:49 (twelve years ago) link

How do you respond to the criticism of Tony La Russa, that he has a history of enabling steroid users, both in Oakland and St. Louis?

He has a history of enabling your mom. Interview over!

LOL

― Josef K-Doe (WmC), Monday, 18 July 2011 15:52 (twelve years ago) link

suggest ban nation

― Gary Numan, or Gary Fletcher (ken c), Monday, 18 July 2011 16:00 (twelve years ago) link

He hates that photo so much (sueing the photographer), he has it as his profile picture on Twitter.

http://twitter.com/#!/BirdsOnBats06

― Mark G, Monday, 18 July 2011 16:18 (twelve years ago) link

"enabling your mom" is all-time

― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 18 July 2011 16:21 (twelve years ago) link

What do you mean by "the little things"?
For a perfect example, just look at one of the greatest teams ever assembled: the 2006 World Champion St. Louis Cardinals. That team had David Eckstein, Yadier Molina, So Taguchi, and Aaron Miles. That's a Jew [sic], a Mexican [sic], a Chinaman [sic], and a regular American. It was a variable [sic] "League of Nations" of doing the little things. They hustled like all get out, they bunted all the time, and they weren't afraid to move the runner over. And most important, they got it done in the clubhouse, by which I mean, they created something I refer to as "a winning atmosphere."

this is... this is wau

― Spotify, Spotify me (DJP), Monday, 18 July 2011 16:21 (twelve years ago) link

This can't be real, can it? For one thing isn't the That's a Jew [sic], a Mexican [sic], a Chinaman [sic], and a regular American bit part of an Archie Bunker joke?

― The 700 KKKlub (lpz), Monday, 18 July 2011 19:09 (twelve years ago) link

for some, it is a mantra

― a variable (sic) "League of Nations" (DJP), Monday, 18 July 2011 19:09 (twelve years ago) link

helluva scoop that interviewer got

― didn't even have to use my akai (Hurting 2), Monday, 18 July 2011 19:12 (twelve years ago) link

Archie: What’s the matter with this? I call this representative government. You’ve got Salvatori, Feldman, O’Reilly, Nelson–that’s an Italian, a Jew, an Irishman and a regular American there. That’s what I call a balanced ticket.

― The 700 KKKlub (lpz), Monday, 18 July 2011 19:19 (twelve years ago) link

one month passes...

https://twitter.com/#!/AppIebees

― Puff Daddy, whoever the fuck you are. I am dissapoint. (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 1 September 2011 18:29 (twelve years ago) link

one year passes...

http://i.imgur.com/2igdf.jpg

― Alba, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 22:59 (eleven years ago) link

that is perfect

― wtf where's my chapbook (DJP), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 23:18 (eleven years ago) link

missing IT'S idiot, jeez.

― Psy Psperling (get bent), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 23:25 (eleven years ago) link

I think she forgot the comma:

A Village Somewhere in Kenia Is Missing There, Idiot!!

― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 23:26 (eleven years ago) link

You know, to raise awareness about how a whole village is missing while idiots just go about their business.

― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 23:27 (eleven years ago) link

a toilet somewhere down the hall is missing its frightful turd

― free-range chicken pox (Matt P), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 23:28 (eleven years ago) link

http://kristinhoppe.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/dodge_challenger_appears.gif

― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 23:29 (eleven years ago) link

a toilet somewhere down the hall is missing its frightful turd

― free-range chicken pox (Matt P), Tuesday, September 18, 2012 7:28 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol otm

― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 23:29 (eleven years ago) link

So much about that photo is gross. The room is a pigsty, she looks like she shat herself, and just... WTF, sign.

― frances boredom coconut (Trayce), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 23:30 (eleven years ago) link

speaking of which, from today:

BFIB ‏@BirdsOnBats06
Hey @TonyLaRussa will you're new book be available on audio cassette? If not, are their lots of pictures?

― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 23:31 (eleven years ago) link

BFIB ‏@BirdsOnBats06
During WWII their where chicks playing baseball #neverforget

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is he doing this on purpose?

― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 23:32 (eleven years ago) link

btw Alba I stole a link to that picture and put it on Facebook

― wtf where's my chapbook (DJP), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 00:18 (eleven years ago) link

that dodge challenger is pretty sweet.

― sriracha bishop (get bent), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 00:30 (eleven years ago) link

otm

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 00:32 (eleven years ago) link

So much about that photo is gross. The room is a pigsty, she looks like she shat herself, and just... WTF, sign.

Gross but perfect.

― controversial cabaret roommate (Nicole), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 00:56 (eleven years ago) link

http://www.lynchnet.com/tp/tpcards/tpsp11.jpg

― Broney, Pt. 1 (Pillbox), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 01:51 (eleven years ago) link

Let me save you some trouble:

Adolfo Moran, Spanish famous architect
Bill Moran (disambiguation)
Brad Moran, Canadian hockey player
Brad Moran, Australian rules footballer
Brendan Moran, American television personality
Bugs Moran, Chicago prohibition-era gangster
Caitlin Moran, British journalist
Charley Moran, baseball player, football coach
Chris Moran, Royal Air Force officer
Chris Moran (ice hockey), American ice hockey player
Colin Moran, Dublin Gaelic footballer
Crissy Moran, American former pornographic actress & model
Daniel Keys Moran, science fiction writer
Denis Moran, Irish Gaelic footballer
Dennis Moran, American computer hacker
Dennis Moran, British rugby league footballer
Diana Moran, British model
Dylan Moran, Irish comedian, star of Black Books
Edward Moran, American artist
Edward C. Moran, Jr., American politician
Erin Moran, American actress
Frank Moran, Heavyweight boxer, actor
Hap Moran (Francis Dayle), professional football player
Hugh Moran, Manitoban politician
Ian Moran, professional hockey player
James Moran, British screenwriter
Jason Moran, Australian criminal, 1967–2003
Jason Moran, jazz pianist
Jerry Moran, United States Representative from Kansas, b. 1954
Jim Moran, American automotive entrepreneur/philanthropist
Jim Moran, United States Representative from Virginia, b. 1945
Jim Moran, publicist
Joe Moran (social historian)
John Moran, American composer, b. 1965
John Moran, American musician and musicologist
John E. Moran (soldier), 1856–1930
Judy Moran (mother)
Julie Moran, United States television personality
Kenneth Moran, New Zealand boxer
Kevin Moran, Irish footballer, b. 1956
Kevin Moran (hurler)
Lewis Moran, Australian criminal, 1941–2004
Lindsay Moran, former Central Intelligence Agency officer
Lois Moran, American actress
Lord Moran, Winston Churchill's physician
Malcolm Moran, American sportswriter
Margaret Moran, British politician, b. 1955
Maria Margarita Moran-Floirendo, former Miss Universe
Mark Moran, Australian criminal, 1964–2000
Matt Moran, Australian Chef
Mayo Moran, dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Toronto
Michael P. Moran, American actor and playwright
Michelle Moran, American author
Mike Moran, English keyboard musician and producer, b. 1948
Nancy Moran, American singer/songwriter
Nick Moran, British actor, b. 1968
Paddy Moran, Canadian hockey goaltender
Pat Moran, American baseball player and manager, 1876–1924
Pat Moran (statistician), 1917–1988
Patrick Moran (disambiguation)
Paul Moran (American soccer), b.1983
Paul Moran, photojournalist, 1963–2003
Paul Moran, English footballer, b. 1968
Pauline Moran, English actress
Polly Moran, American actress and comedian
Robert Moran, American composer, b. 1937
Robert Moran, American shipbuilder, 1857–1943
Rocky Moran (race car driver), b. 1950
Roger Moran, British hillclimb driver
Ronnie Moran, British football coach
Sam Moran (entertainer), b. 1978
Shawn Moran (speedway rider), b. 1961
Shlomo Moran, Israeli computer scientist
Steve Moran, English football player
Terry Moran, television news correspondent
Terry Moran, Australian senior public servant
Thomas Moran (1837–1926), artist of the Hudson River School
Thomas Moran (author)
Thomas P. Moran, engineer
Tommy Moran, British Fascist
Tony Moran, remixer/producer
William Joseph Moran, American Roman Catholic bishop
William L. Moran, Assyriologist (1921–2000)
"Mr. Moran", alias used by Salvatore Gravano, underboss of the Gambino crime family

Fictional characters

Jacques Moran, second narrator and seeker of the eponymous Molloy in the novel by Samuel Beckett
Lucy Moran, character in Twin Peaks
Michael Moran, the central character in John McGahern's novel Amongst Women
Moran, a female Irish Quidditch player in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Sebastian Moran, the villain from the Sherlock Holmes short story "The Adventure of the Empty House"
Summer Moran, a recurring character in Clive Cussler's novels featuring Dirk Pitt
Mullin Shetland, a character in the anime series Last Exile, whose original Japanese name is Moran Shetorando

Traicy Moran

― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 02:10 (eleven years ago) link

Get a brain, Morans!

― Broney, Pt. 1 (Pillbox), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 02:11 (eleven years ago) link

Get a brian, Morans!

― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 04:52 (eleven years ago) link

Get bran, Moranis!

― Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 05:12 (eleven years ago) link

Lyndsey de Paul and Mike Moran

― Mark G, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 06:21 (eleven years ago) link

Get Dylan, Moran!

― Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 06:28 (eleven years ago) link

Get a disambiguation, Patrick Moran

― Mark G, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 06:43 (eleven years ago) link

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pargon/sets/72157623594187379/

― barthes simpson, Thursday, 27 September 2012 17:25 (eleven years ago) link

Get a Mraz, Jasan!

― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Thursday, 27 September 2012 19:08 (eleven years ago) link

What did the tea partier say to the aquatic superhero who was running around with livestock?

Get a Barn, Merman!

― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Thursday, 27 September 2012 19:13 (eleven years ago) link

^ zings so deep bcz there's no superhero called Merman

― ┐(´ー｀)┌ (sic), Thursday, 27 September 2012 23:42 (eleven years ago) link

pwn pwn pwn

― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Thursday, 27 September 2012 23:45 (eleven years ago) link

Get a brain, Erin Moran.

― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Italo Night at Some Gay Club (Mount Cleaners), Friday, 28 September 2012 00:31 (eleven years ago) link

one year passes...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BeyMXQ7CUAAmw6A.jpg

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 26 January 2014 01:23 (ten years ago) link

two months pass...

Lost on the road to Seville, I took a picture of my husband beside the road sign when we came to Moron for the second time.
Mary Milne-Day, London

http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2014/apr/18/moron-near-seville

Guardian endorsing sexism shocker.

― mohel hell (Bob Six), Saturday, 19 April 2014 12:15 (ten years ago) link

two months pass...

From Weird Al's "Word Crimes" video:

http://oi57.tinypic.com/nqy7ls.jpg

― jaymc, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 16:28 (nine years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/kGXEluc.jpg

― 龜, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 11:14 (nine years ago) link

RIP Christopher Hitchens

― Barry Gordy (Neil S), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 11:41 (nine years ago) link

one month passes...

http://i.imgur.com/Fj8bAFP.jpg

Phone numbers in the United States, even 1-800 numbers, only have 11 numbers total, idoit

― 龜, Monday, 25 August 2014 21:17 (nine years ago) link

does it offend you, yeah?

― clouds, Monday, 25 August 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link

hmph, the number doesn't work when i call it - probably because of obama's phone care cuts

― Karl Malone, Monday, 25 August 2014 21:25 (nine years ago) link

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