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http://catandgirl.com/?p=517

nwspirit on April 4, 2012 at 11:58 PM

Sigh. That's what I get for criticizing the staff.

Ovidius on April 5, 2012 at 7:04 AM

Thanks for the laugh Thomas G. Mcree. I didn't realize it, but I definitely needed a healthy, full-bellied gut laugh to get through my morning.

Fruit Cup on April 5, 2012 at 9:20 AM

[Wm.] Steven [Humphrey], if you are chilling with Hammer and he said, "We got to pray just to make it today. I say we pray," would you refuse? I think you will pray with Hammer and his bodyguards.

geyser on April 5, 2012 at 10:01 AM

I don't need to pray, Thomas. If the plane I'm on ever starts to go down, I will whistle for Falcor and escape unharmed.

on April 5, 2012 at 11:00 AM

Yet you felt the need to use both "egregious" and "thesaurus", thereby ensuring we know that you have a big vocabulary and went to a liberal arts college. Awesome! I think Ovidus's point is that (I personally have not problem comprehending the sentence, but I agree) why not review food without attempting to rewrite Hamlet, or is Chris's (or your own) sense of intellectual snobbery such that you cannot eschew doing so (_

on April 5, 2012 at 2:47 PM

On that note, I am fine as long as Hammer does not write me a check:(

on April 5, 2012 at 2:48 PM

"Thesaurus" is a really big word to you or something? I think most people learn that one in elementary school, not liberal arts college, but hey, let yourself think I'm being a showoff if it helps you feel better about yourself.
Sorry about saying "egregious." I'll try extra hard to dumb down my comments next time. And yet you say "eschew"? Get fucked. Seriously.

geyser on April 5, 2012 at 3:18 PM

My point was that the sentence is a rhetorical muddle and not easily digestible. As are large portions of all of his reviews. I have no problem with creative diction or imaginative writing in any of the Merc's articles, I just don't like Onstad's style and think it's unpleasant to read. De gustibus non est disputandum, etc. etc.

Ovidius on April 5, 2012 at 3:51 PM

I used the word to prove a point, you are obviously intelligent therefore I am surprised you did not get it. If it pleases Chris to write in this fashion so be it, I just don't feel it is the best application of said style of prose given the subject matter. But what do I know, I am a History Major. And don't be emo. I do not leave any kind of comment to "feel better about myself", I am well over 18 and do not posses low self esteem. Not that it's perfect mind you.

on April 5, 2012 at 5:40 PM

Nope, I didnt get that. And will try to be less emo.

geyser on April 5, 2012 at 5:54 PM

And I will try and have less of a knee jerk reaction to what I perceive to be an attempt at snobbery when perhaps it is simply how someone communicates.

on April 6, 2012 at 11:53 AM

Dear Thomas G. Mcree,
Are you for reals? That was the greatest review I have ever read by that halfwit Humphrey (RE:Dear Jeff Foxworthless). I had to check if that Southern twit was really involved with what appears to be the dumbest fucking idea ever proposed to television. For starters, what frame of reference and which Bible are these "scholars" using and citing? Which books of this "Bible" do they believe is correct and has a definitive answer? But besides all that questionable "right" and "wrong" answers and the fact Jeff Foxworthy is neither funny nor the appropriate person to mediate a religious debate on the "Bible"...what kind of assumption is your assertion that the person next to you on a plane would be praying to your God? Which brings us to one of the many point Dr. Humphrey was speculating on...what makes these so-called Christians think the average American is one of these "Bible" banging Evangelical idiots?
More specifically, I shouldn't have to point out that the Mercury is "offensive and vulgar". That is precisely the reason I for one read it. To paraphrase the parable, "You knew I was a snake when you picked me up."
-seanfuckingjones

seanfuckingjones on April 9, 2012 at 11:13 PM