The things ya learn!

[madamesilverspurs]

Sunday morning, I'd just started my second cup of coffee. Went to our newspaper's online edition to see what they had to say about stuff, also to check in on some comment threads I've been following. It bears mentioning that our little paper began getting freeped several years ago, and one of their favorite tools is the thumbs up/down button; it's not unusual to see a swarm of thumb hits on a thread with only three or four comments.

Anyway, I went to a story about the Bennet/Buck senate race and Rove's contribution of ads for Buck. Some of the comments posted to it have verged on the insane. There are some posters, both left and right, who typically present their views in coherent fashion; I enjoy reading their posts even if I don't agree with them. And there are, unsurprisingly, those who screech and yowl from a basis of entrenched and very determined ignorance, and they are usually the instigators of the name-calling and other unpleasantness.

So I was a bit surprised this morning to find that one of the coherent lefties took another coherent leftie to task for using vulgar terminology. Huh??? I looked upthread to find the offense, seeing as how this particular newspaper doesn't even allow the use of the word sleaze on the comments board. Upon finding the post that occasioned the rebuke I took it to Google. My apologies for not copying the offending remark, but the gist of it was this: "Rimjob's minions have been busy with the thumb buttons."

Well, color me pink. I had no idea. When I first saw the term "rimjob" used as a reference to Jim Robinson of Free Republic the word conjured memories of basketball, when my brothers and their friends played it on the driveway; whenever the ball rolled around the rim of the net before falling outside the basket the boys hollered "rimjob!" It seemed appropriate to the gentleman in question, and I really had no idea that it had a more, um, ribald connotation.

Each day I try to learn at least one new thing. Today I have to learn at least two, the second being a faster way to remove certain mental images. Ew.

[jotsy]

1. I employ a comparable euphemism, afraid it's not too catchy though.

Rimnod is the word, folks see it as my tongue leading my brain, but it's intentional. An existing word I transposed some to describe those that stand on the edge and endear themselves to the PTB by nodding avidly while they fleece everyone else, as though doing so will spare them when the time comes. We'll see I guess, but I have my doubts.

Rec'd in the hope that enough of us learn in time to make a better difference.

Edited to check spelling, wasn't sure about euphemism.