57. Barack Hussein Obama58. Velveeta
― droit au butt (Euler), Sunday, 4 February 2018 22:51 (eight years ago)
Misuse of the collective clause when referring to sports teams
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Sunday, 4 February 2018 22:52 (eight years ago)
Every nation seems to have its b-list comedy that doesn't escape its borders though
Saturday Night Live is b-list?
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:09 (eight years ago)
'Math'
American comedy is painfully unfunny. There's no real bite, no real cynicism, it always has to be nicey nicey in the end. A or B list, SNL fits that bill surely.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:11 (eight years ago)
today, sure. I think SNL at its best (maybe 80s-early 90s) was good exactly because it captured and spoofed that wide-eyed lack of cynicism. Kevin Nealon comes to mind, and all of the fake commercials. Since at least Will Ferrell and maybe going back to Chris Farley and Adam Sandler though the style of comedy has been very "I AM BEING FUNNY RIGHT NOW! DO YOU SEE ME BEING FUNNY!"
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:15 (eight years ago)
(kind of a dumb comment I guess since Nealon overlapped with Farley and Sandler)
snl national lampoon and mad magazine none funny none ever funny
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:17 (eight years ago)
A or B list, SNL fits that bill surely.
I wouldn't know, I've never seen it.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:18 (eight years ago)
Clips I've seen look dire though.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:19 (eight years ago)
'Mr. President'
59. gunz
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:23 (eight years ago)
60. Patriotism
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:26 (eight years ago)
61. "GET IN THE HOLE!"
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:28 (eight years ago)
'Math'perfect
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:41 (eight years ago)
62. sports63. the hospital64. vacation
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:47 (eight years ago)
The hospital?
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:51 (eight years ago)
65. institutional racism perfected66. bumper stickers67. trailer parks
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:53 (eight years ago)
ItaliansIrish-darraghmac
― infinity (∞), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:54 (eight years ago)
68. 'erbs
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:57 (eight years ago)
69. Missing out u's from words and -er endings instead of -re.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:58 (eight years ago)
70. hispanics
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:59 (eight years ago)
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, February 4, 2018 6:51 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
well if we're contrasting U.S. and UK usage, only we (always) use the definite article
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Monday, 5 February 2018 00:01 (eight years ago)
71. Mexico, central america, south america
― infinity (∞), Monday, 5 February 2018 00:02 (eight years ago)
72. Porches & yards.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Monday, 5 February 2018 00:06 (eight years ago)
73. Bros74. Dudes75. Broads
― calstars, Monday, 5 February 2018 00:17 (eight years ago)
76, Fraternities, sororities.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Monday, 5 February 2018 00:19 (eight years ago)
Terror of the word cunt
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Monday, 5 February 2018 00:57 (eight years ago)
ItaliansIrishi’ve never understood this
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:10 (eight years ago)
Well
U wouldn't
Your lot are all British like proper British the hooligan ones like
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:16 (eight years ago)
Never mind the Irish and the Italians, the real American thing is Germans.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:20 (eight years ago)
xp yeah but i wouldn’t take my heritage to wales and say “hi the welsh! i’m also welsh!” along with assuming all the special powers conferred by being genetically welsh
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:20 (eight years ago)
and citizenship rights
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:21 (eight years ago)
anyway i intended this thread to be light so79. hoagie
Wait do the yanks to that or do we do that
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:22 (eight years ago)
p sure you don’t do that
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:23 (eight years ago)
SNL at its best (maybe 80s-early 90s) was good
80. Arguments about when, precisely, SNL was good
― this machine inconveniences fascists (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:27 (eight years ago)
If ever u mean
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:28 (eight years ago)
Mispronouncing monty python with the confidence of a nation that will eventually decide how to pronounce monty python whatever the fuck anyone thinks
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:29 (eight years ago)
Tomatoes
Tobacco
Potatoes
Pumpkins
Peanuts
― this machine inconveniences fascists (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:36 (eight years ago)
Chocolate
YOU'RE WELCOME
― this machine inconveniences fascists (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:37 (eight years ago)
Yeah look no
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:50 (eight years ago)
Nice try but
Porn? Who invented it idk probably Californians
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:54 (eight years ago)
the Marine Corps Band playing "Hail to the Chief"
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 5 February 2018 06:07 (eight years ago)
35. 99.9% of all "cultural appropriation"― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Sunday, February 4, 2018 4:13 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Sunday, February 4, 2018 4:13 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
hm.
― (the blues version in his Broadway show) (crüt), Monday, 5 February 2018 06:40 (eight years ago)
Cap'n Crunch
― Badgers (dog latin), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 10:16 (eight years ago)
Is this the most active cogh thread ever
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 11:17 (eight years ago)
Lunar landing modulesNukesARPANETICANNSearch enginesWikisBSDUnix
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 11:22 (eight years ago)
Facebook Twitter PRISMTechnoStar Wars
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 11:25 (eight years ago)
On a similar note, saying "on accident" instead "by accident".
That kind of annoys me too but I get why people say it to mirror “on purpose”
― The Immortal Bird of Avon (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 9 June 2026 12:24 (yesterday)
(xp) Fair is not a noun though, unless you mean a county fair or sumthin'
― Tom D, focussed with getting on with the job (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 June 2026 12:29 (yesterday)
Some good discussion here, including the observation that "no fair," especially when used in its own as an interjection, is often associated with children.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 9 June 2026 13:03 (yesterday)
when I saw the initial post my brain went straight to inventing an etymology that came from "nae fair"
― mh, Tuesday, 9 June 2026 13:57 (yesterday)
Yeah, “NO FAIR” immediately makes me think of Our Gang style kids arguing about marbles or whatever.
― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 10 June 2026 10:59 (three hours ago)
It makes me think of the kid in pet sematary
― unclear apocalypse (wins), Wednesday, 10 June 2026 11:02 (two hours ago)