Wednesday, briefly

Posted on 05/04/2011 by Meryl Yourish

Just recycle my last fifty posts on Carter: Unity agreement, yadda yadda, Israel should accept, yadda yadda, Hamas will moderate, yadda yadda, I certified free and fair elections, yadda yadaa. Blahblahblah, Carter is an imbecile, yadda, yadda, yadda.

If bin Laden was a Zionist puppet, why did the Iranian regime allow so many al Qaeda—including bin Laden family members—to hide out in Iran? See title.

Whoops, Hamas made a big boo-boo: I think even Barack Obama is getting the point that Hamas hates the U.S. as much as it hates Israel. The State Department is maaaaad….

What? Hypocrisy on “targeted assassinations”? The deuce you say! (I actually have no idea what that saying means, but it sounds cool, so I’m using it.)

Signing of unity agreement begins: Countdown to its falling apart begins.

Dear Mike Huckabee: You have always creeped me out. I was never going to vote for you. Now, I’m REALLY never going to vote for you, because you’re a thin-skinned asshat. And for the record? Taxes and the Holocaust are two completely separate issues that should never be conflated. Here’s a hint on where to use them: In actual genocide references. Like, say, Sudan.

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3 Responses to Wednesday, briefly

  1. Soccerdad says:
    05/04/2011 at 10:55 am

    Not just Bin Laden, Al Jazeera too! Those hidden Zionists are everywhere. Why they even control the anti-Zionists! How shrewd.

    As far as a countdown goes, you’ll have to count backwards.

  2. Sabba Hillel says:
    05/04/2011 at 12:45 pm

    The deuce you say is a slang term for “the devil you say” as a phrase of astonishment or disbelief. I found the following explanation with a google search

    http://www.proz.com/kudoz/english/poetry_literature/1132287-the_devil_you_say.html#2713657

    Response from Russ Cable (Dallas, TX – U.S.A.)
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    Greg, The word ‘deuce’ is a euphemism for the devil and dates back to the late 17th century (the similarly used ‘dickens’ dates from the late 16th century) and has been used in oaths, especially, ‘what (who, why, etc.) the duece,’ usually expressing impatience or irritation, and in ‘ the deuce to pay.’ ‘Deuce’ derives from Low German ‘duus,’ and probably from the sense ‘a throw of two at dice (the lowest-scoring throw with two dice), and hence denoting the embodiment of bad luck. It was used as a mild substitution for devil back when it was considered profane to speak the name.

    I’m not sure when ‘the deuce you say’ first appeared, but the following is an example used by Dumas in his ‘Count of Monte Cristo’ (1844), Chapter 9: “Then give me a letter to him, and tell him to sell out without an instant’s delay, perhaps even now I shall arrive too late.” “The deuce you say!” replied the marquis, “let us lose no time, then!

    From what I can gather from the Google contexts in which it appears, ‘the deuce (devil) you say’ means ‘really’ or ‘you’re kidding me (or no kidding),’ or ‘is that a fact?’

    A refrigerator magnet distributed at the 2004 “Sound Of The Baskervilles’ Master’s Dinner” read: “Watson, I’m afraid I’m 150 this year.” “The deuce, you say, Holmes! Why you scarcely look 100!!”

    (Oxford Dictionary of Slang) ”

  3. Meryl Yourish says:
    05/04/2011 at 1:29 pm

    You know, I did know that it means “The devil you say!” and I knew it connoted disbelief, but I never really understood why it means that. It’s a bit strange. (I know a lot more than I let on, in most cases.)

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