Comments on: Limericks of the Damned http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/19/limericks-of-the-damned/ Firedoglake weblog Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:21:58 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Recluse http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/19/limericks-of-the-damned/#comment-1587639 Recluse Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:37:39 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/19/limericks-of-the-damned/#comment-1587639 <p>Oh, you changed it, you sweetheart! Such a relief to those (me) afflicted with spelling OCD which, come to think of it, might just qualify as biddiness.<br /> Another old time slur we young ones would torment our elderly but not a biddy aunt with was calling a woman a broad. For some reason a major slur. And toots. She’d get really angry with that one. Fun!<br /> JC</p> Oh, you changed it, you sweetheart! Such a relief to those (me) afflicted with spelling OCD which, come to think of it, might just qualify as biddiness.
Another old time slur we young ones would torment our elderly but not a biddy aunt with was calling a woman a broad. For some reason a major slur. And toots. She’d get really angry with that one. Fun!
JC

]]> By: victoreador http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/19/limericks-of-the-damned/#comment-1587589 victoreador Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:58:53 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/19/limericks-of-the-damned/#comment-1587589 <p>Don’t be so hard on poor Princess Cokie. She is a born and bred creature of Washington aristocracy, raised in the shadow of her parents, the legendary Loozyana congressman Hale Boggs and his widdah Lindy, who assumed the throne when he passed on.</p> <p>She inherited the precious trappings of nobility and seemingly wears the filigreed raiment of entitlement with sublime comfort and confidence. How could anyone expect her to know of the frightening and mysterious world of ordinary human suffering and striving?</p> <p>Beyond her consorts and cohort in the marbled halls of power and influence lies only an amorphous miasma of filth and stench that no decent habitante of Versailles-sur-Potomac could ever comprehend.</p> <p>In this context it is understandable that she would proclaim Hawaii to be some sort of “foreign, exotic place”. From her perspective, Philadelphia, Miami and anywhere beyond her favored provinces would qualify in the same category. She undoubtedly knows of Myrtle Beach from her tennis partners in Hilton Head, thus the mention of this locale as a suitable vacation spot for brownfolks and rednecks.</p> <p>The ossified remains of whatever journalistic integrity she may once have possessed are ashes and deserve a decent burial. Her specter on the screen is but a tortured soul, condemned to wander the airwaves as a gruesome, cadaverous wretch- desperately wailing for a world that is crumbling around her- lashing out at the usurpers with brown skin and new ideas.</p> <p>For Cokie and her dying dynasty, this is the End of the World. She may not deserve our sympathy, but at least pity her.</p> Don’t be so hard on poor Princess Cokie. She is a born and bred creature of Washington aristocracy, raised in the shadow of her parents, the legendary Loozyana congressman Hale Boggs and his widdah Lindy, who assumed the throne when he passed on.

She inherited the precious trappings of nobility and seemingly wears the filigreed raiment of entitlement with sublime comfort and confidence. How could anyone expect her to know of the frightening and mysterious world of ordinary human suffering and striving?

Beyond her consorts and cohort in the marbled halls of power and influence lies only an amorphous miasma of filth and stench that no decent habitante of Versailles-sur-Potomac could ever comprehend.

In this context it is understandable that she would proclaim Hawaii to be some sort of “foreign, exotic place”. From her perspective, Philadelphia, Miami and anywhere beyond her favored provinces would qualify in the same category. She undoubtedly knows of Myrtle Beach from her tennis partners in Hilton Head, thus the mention of this locale as a suitable vacation spot for brownfolks and rednecks.

The ossified remains of whatever journalistic integrity she may once have possessed are ashes and deserve a decent burial. Her specter on the screen is but a tortured soul, condemned to wander the airwaves as a gruesome, cadaverous wretch- desperately wailing for a world that is crumbling around her- lashing out at the usurpers with brown skin and new ideas.

For Cokie and her dying dynasty, this is the End of the World. She may not deserve our sympathy, but at least pity her.

]]> By: cinnamonape http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/19/limericks-of-the-damned/#comment-1587515 cinnamonape Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:59:46 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/19/limericks-of-the-damned/#comment-1587515 <p>Her liberal heritage, she decided to chuck it<br /> Enticed by the ways of Nantuckit<br /> “Let New Orleans drown”<br /> and let the Boggs down for<br /> fame, cash and face…Nip and Tuck it!</p> Her liberal heritage, she decided to chuck it
Enticed by the ways of Nantuckit
“Let New Orleans drown”
and let the Boggs down for
fame, cash and face…Nip and Tuck it!

]]> By: techmom http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/19/limericks-of-the-damned/#comment-1587409 techmom Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:05:47 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/19/limericks-of-the-damned/#comment-1587409 <p>Cokie and Libby and Hale<br /> and sister Barbara as well<br /> a democrat family<br /> and liberal homily<br /> that Cokie for some reason failed </p> <p>Barbara Boggs Sigmund (her sister) was my HS history and sex ed teacher and a role model. She was an incredible person, a great Mayor for Princeton, and a firm liberal democrat. She would have made a great Governor of NJ had she lived. I believe she would have kept her little sister on the right track. It is hard to believe how Cokie has dishonored her family by accepting rethug framing and smearing democrats over the last decade.</p> Cokie and Libby and Hale
and sister Barbara as well
a democrat family
and liberal homily
that Cokie for some reason failed

Barbara Boggs Sigmund (her sister) was my HS history and sex ed teacher and a role model. She was an incredible person, a great Mayor for Princeton, and a firm liberal democrat. She would have made a great Governor of NJ had she lived. I believe she would have kept her little sister on the right track. It is hard to believe how Cokie has dishonored her family by accepting rethug framing and smearing democrats over the last decade.

]]> By: MarkusQ http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/19/limericks-of-the-damned/#comment-1587404 MarkusQ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:01:06 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/19/limericks-of-the-damned/#comment-1587404 <p>Say ‘em out loud and count syllables people. Watch the beat too. It usually doesn’t take too much to fix them up, but you need to do it if you want them to sound right. For example:</p> <p>There once was an anchor named Cokie<br /> Whose bias we all found quite hokie:<br /> Barak was “exotic”<br /> Michelle was neurotic<br /> But she found McCain okie dokie</p> <p>– MarkusQ (hitting submit the morning after, Doh!)</p> Say ‘em out loud and count syllables people. Watch the beat too. It usually doesn’t take too much to fix them up, but you need to do it if you want them to sound right. For example:

There once was an anchor named Cokie
Whose bias we all found quite hokie:
Barak was “exotic”
Michelle was neurotic
But she found McCain okie dokie

– MarkusQ (hitting submit the morning after, Doh!)

]]> By: Hugh http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/19/limericks-of-the-damned/#comment-1587394 Hugh Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:46:08 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/19/limericks-of-the-damned/#comment-1587394 <p>Old Cokie used to be tongue in cheek<br /> But the new Cokie’s become quite weak<br /> All she does now is shills<br /> But hey it pays the bills<br /> Although now she is more tongue in cheeks</p> Old Cokie used to be tongue in cheek
But the new Cokie’s become quite weak
All she does now is shills
But hey it pays the bills
Although now she is more tongue in cheeks

]]> By: cleanth http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/19/limericks-of-the-damned/#comment-1587371 cleanth Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:26:15 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/19/limericks-of-the-damned/#comment-1587371 <p>Now there’s a good’un.</p> Now there’s a good’un.

]]> By: DoubleD http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/19/limericks-of-the-damned/#comment-1587348 DoubleD Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:03:07 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/19/limericks-of-the-damned/#comment-1587348 <p>I think that I shall never see<br /> A sight more shameful than Cokie.<br /> Her run on PBS was charm’d,<br /> But now her words have truly harm’d<br /> Our one great hope - this one’s not white -<br /> Who’ll lead us from George Bush’s night.<br /> So kindly heed this left-wing pup:<br /> Ms. Roberts, please, STFU.</p> I think that I shall never see
A sight more shameful than Cokie.
Her run on PBS was charm’d,
But now her words have truly harm’d
Our one great hope – this one’s not white -
Who’ll lead us from George Bush’s night.
So kindly heed this left-wing pup:
Ms. Roberts, please, STFU.

]]> By: cbl2 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/19/limericks-of-the-damned/#comment-1587337 cbl2 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:57:45 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/19/limericks-of-the-damned/#comment-1587337 <p>there once was a maven named Cokie<br /> her teabagging skillz were no jokey<br /> she was always <em>concerned</em><br /> ah those weenies she’s earned<br /> she thinks balls on her face okie dokie !</p> <p>there . . . much better</p> there once was a maven named Cokie
her teabagging skillz were no jokey
she was always concerned
ah those weenies she’s earned
she thinks balls on her face okie dokie !

there . . . much better

]]> By: cleanth http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/19/limericks-of-the-damned/#comment-1587335 cleanth Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:56:11 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/19/limericks-of-the-damned/#comment-1587335 <p>Yes!</p> Yes!

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