Comments on: Well, you’ll make a rope of words and strangle this business! http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/11/well-youll-make-a-rope-of-words-and-strangle-this-business/ \"...a somewhat popular blogger\" Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:07:52 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: jackd http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/11/well-youll-make-a-rope-of-words-and-strangle-this-business/#comment-25375 jackd Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:32:04 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/11/well-youll-make-a-rope-of-words-and-strangle-this-business/#comment-25375 <p>Shorter (O please god let it be so) Bill Whittle. And everyone else at Big Hollywood: </p> <p>Movies showing myths I like are way better than movies showing reality that I hate.</p> Shorter (O please god let it be so) Bill Whittle. And everyone else at Big Hollywood:

Movies showing myths I like are way better than movies showing reality that I hate.

]]> By: PierceNichols http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/11/well-youll-make-a-rope-of-words-and-strangle-this-business/#comment-25182 PierceNichols Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:04:18 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/11/well-youll-make-a-rope-of-words-and-strangle-this-business/#comment-25182 <p>Your history is off, too. The reasons the Spartans and Thebans ended up alone at Thermopylae was because the rest of the city-states either fucked around too much to make it to the party or their armies beat feet as soon as they saw how big the Persian army really was. The drama at Thermopylae gave the Athenian fleet time to muster and defeat the Persians at Salamis, ending the invasion.</p> Your history is off, too. The reasons the Spartans and Thebans ended up alone at Thermopylae was because the rest of the city-states either fucked around too much to make it to the party or their armies beat feet as soon as they saw how big the Persian army really was. The drama at Thermopylae gave the Athenian fleet time to muster and defeat the Persians at Salamis, ending the invasion.

]]> By: PierceNichols http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/11/well-youll-make-a-rope-of-words-and-strangle-this-business/#comment-25181 PierceNichols Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:55:07 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/11/well-youll-make-a-rope-of-words-and-strangle-this-business/#comment-25181 <p>I had to go to urban dictionary… and I wish I hadn’t.</p> I had to go to urban dictionary… and I wish I hadn’t.

]]> By: PierceNichols http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/11/well-youll-make-a-rope-of-words-and-strangle-this-business/#comment-25180 PierceNichols Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:54:27 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/11/well-youll-make-a-rope-of-words-and-strangle-this-business/#comment-25180 <p>The real story of the Battle of Thermopylae is amazing… the Spartans who held the pass for nearly a week while outnumbered by more than a thousand to one were pretty damn heroic. Their stand gave the Athenian fleet time to obliterate the Persian fleet at Salamis (also against very long odds). That said, the movie <i>300</i> is painfully lame in the ways only Frank Miller can manage.</p> The real story of the Battle of Thermopylae is amazing… the Spartans who held the pass for nearly a week while outnumbered by more than a thousand to one were pretty damn heroic. Their stand gave the Athenian fleet time to obliterate the Persian fleet at Salamis (also against very long odds). That said, the movie 300 is painfully lame in the ways only Frank Miller can manage.

]]> By: Julia http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/11/well-youll-make-a-rope-of-words-and-strangle-this-business/#comment-25173 Julia Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:55:53 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/11/well-youll-make-a-rope-of-words-and-strangle-this-business/#comment-25173 <blockquote><p>One thing in common these patterns bear: the rise slow, the fall seemingly precipitous, and in every case we find the loss of nerve and strength and will comes not from the bottom</p></blockquote> <p>Backward run the sentences, till reels the mind.</p> <p>You wouldn’t think someone would take the time to construct a literary style out of what they took away from Ender’s Game and the Fountainhead, but wrong I guess you would be.</p>

One thing in common these patterns bear: the rise slow, the fall seemingly precipitous, and in every case we find the loss of nerve and strength and will comes not from the bottom

Backward run the sentences, till reels the mind.

You wouldn’t think someone would take the time to construct a literary style out of what they took away from Ender’s Game and the Fountainhead, but wrong I guess you would be.

]]> By: joel6653 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/11/well-youll-make-a-rope-of-words-and-strangle-this-business/#comment-25170 joel6653 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:46:45 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/11/well-youll-make-a-rope-of-words-and-strangle-this-business/#comment-25170 <p>Funny, your footnote saying “You really don’t want to know.” Unfortunately, I already knew. Have never met anyone else who did, but figured it just wasn’t discussed “in polite company.”</p> Funny, your footnote saying “You really don’t want to know.” Unfortunately, I already knew. Have never met anyone else who did, but figured it just wasn’t discussed “in polite company.”

]]> By: katymine http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/11/well-youll-make-a-rope-of-words-and-strangle-this-business/#comment-25145 katymine Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:57:36 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/11/well-youll-make-a-rope-of-words-and-strangle-this-business/#comment-25145 <p>The comments are working on PW’s post</p> The comments are working on PW’s post

]]> By: neurophius http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/11/well-youll-make-a-rope-of-words-and-strangle-this-business/#comment-25144 neurophius Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:56:46 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/11/well-youll-make-a-rope-of-words-and-strangle-this-business/#comment-25144 <p>I’m still here katymine, are you?</p> I’m still here katymine, are you?

]]> By: neurophius http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/11/well-youll-make-a-rope-of-words-and-strangle-this-business/#comment-25143 neurophius Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:54:38 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/11/well-youll-make-a-rope-of-words-and-strangle-this-business/#comment-25143 <p>It’s beginning to look like technical difficulties at FDL Central…</p> It’s beginning to look like technical difficulties at FDL Central…

]]> By: neurophius http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/11/well-youll-make-a-rope-of-words-and-strangle-this-business/#comment-25142 neurophius Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:54:10 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/11/well-youll-make-a-rope-of-words-and-strangle-this-business/#comment-25142 <p>where is everybody? apparently they aren’t here, and they sure aren’t at the Franken-Coleman post…</p> where is everybody? apparently they aren’t here, and they sure aren’t at the Franken-Coleman post…

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