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March 31, 2007

QOTD

Chris Kelly on the John Doe Pledge, refutation of Peak Humor Theory:

It’s like Pat Benatar wrote Braveheart.

Posted by Jim Henley @ 11:25 pm, Filed under: Main

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6 Responses to “QOTD”

  1. Comment by Happy Jack
    April 1, 2007 @ 12:17 am

    On my first reading of this, I probably couldn’t see through the tears of laughter. But after reading that commentary, I noticed he points out something.

    That would be the use of the word “lift.” Wasn’t she accused of using a ghostwriter? Isn’t Steyn English? Just wondering.

  2. Comment by Mona
    April 1, 2007 @ 7:10 am

    There just is not a more screamingly funny piece flying around the Intertubes in lo many months now. I can’t get enough of its mockery. There was much to enjoy in this one, and I liked this query about Michelle’s thoughts:

    And it can obviously leave us with only one question: Is there something stronger than Ritalin?

    And Happy Jack, that is an interesting catch about “the lift.” Of course, this ran at NRO and was perhaps edited. (Steyn is Canadian I think — are they “lifts” up there?)

  3. Comment by Thoreau
    April 1, 2007 @ 7:36 am

    Too bad Malkin didn’t post her pledge on April 1.

  4. Comment by Bill
    April 1, 2007 @ 12:18 pm

    I prefer to think of Steyn as ex-Canadian and we call them elevators. Lifts are something short people put in their shoes to make them look taller.

  5. Comment by inchin along inchon
    April 1, 2007 @ 8:18 pm

    Every time I read that, I keep thinking back to the Edward Norton character’s voiceover at the beginning of “Fight Club,” when he’s attending all the support group meetings.

    Given how he turned out in the movie, not so fanciful a comparison, perhaps. Hard to imaging Michelle punching herself in the face, but …

    “First rule of Malkin’s club, there is no Malkin’s club.” Would that it were so.

  6. Comment by derek
    April 2, 2007 @ 8:17 am

    Pat Benatar wrote The Patriot, silly!

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