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Isn't that one of the obscure rules of "South Park"? I think a character is allowed to say "fag" if that character is gay, but they bleep it out if a character who is not gay says "fag." And there's some kind of in-joke where Jimbo, who's ostensibly straight, doesn't get his "fag" bleeped out.

I kinda like how it evokes "Sturm und Drang" for meatheads, but not enough to use in casual conversation.
Is that "Mean Girls"?

I'm really enjoying these articles, and I still listen to "Muddy Banks of the Wishkah" a lot.
But what the f*ck do I know? I'm unemployed.

LOL: I have no problem with YOUR grammar (or the grammar of any other caliph of whom I can think). It's the people getting paid …

Really, guys?
"The latest Belgium import … "
"Heavy drinkers tend to view other's sobriety … "
I might be unemployed, but I know how to make a plural possessive.

"Portentous" - adjective
1. of the nature of a portent; momentous.
2. ominously significant or indicative: a portentous defeat.
3. marvelous; amazing; prodigious.
—Can be confused: portentous, pretentious.

Silly Reverend: Everybody knows that copy editors don't have souls!

"Portentous" …
… not "pretentious"?
Is this like that one time "apropos" transmutated into "appropriate," debasing both words?

In a related story, Seltzer and Freidberg just got "8 Grams Off" green-lighted.

Man, if they taught small-arms training in J-school …
(… I think if I finish that sentence, the FBI's gonna put me on a list.)

I did a Google Image seach on the machine gun, and it does appear that she fires one in the movie. I stand corrected, or cockpunched, or whatever censure the kids are meting out these days.

Nor is it a .50-caliber machine gun. But I haven't actually seen the movie, so WTF do I know? I'm unemployed.

I am the Avenging Unemployed Copy Editor, and I approve of this thread.

Really?
Smithers, release the hipsters.

"Vertigo"
I've come to think of it less as a U2 song and more as a ripoff of Sonic Youth's "Dirty Boots."
Oh no wait: I realized that the first time I heard it.

I really hope he registers that alias, and I hope with equal fervor that it becomes an Ozzy song.