Thursday, August 5, 2010

The power of mockery

Lexington Green ("Which", the judge intoned, "I strongly suspect is an alias")* has an interesting post at Chicago Boyz on the absolute necessity of tearing down the sham superiority and the absurd pretensions of the ruling class.

Incidentally, I heard about Green's post on Mark Levin's show this evening, as I drove home from work - more than an hour later than usual, courtesy of the #&**@ Washington Metro.

*The parenthetical remark will be familiar to readers of P.G. Wodehouse.

8 comments:

  1. "Code of the Woosters"?

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  2. If I ever started a blog, I'd use the name Orlando Maltravers.

    Or possibly A.L. Disher.

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  3. Mojo: Quite possibly, I don't recall. But the formula was used in several stories.

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  4. Mojo/Steve: It's Augustus "Gussie" Fink-Nottle for me.

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  5. Sure thing, Bob, and I'd be happy to provide you a pitcher of "orange juice."

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  6. Wodehouse wrote the same story about 90 times and it was hilarious every doggoned time.

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  7. JorgX: That's pretty close to the mark - and also a sign of his genius.

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  8. Varying "mcguffins", as Hitchcock would have said. A cat, a pitcher, whatever. It's the action that's important, not the trigger.

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