And the winner of ruby’s xmas carol extravaganza is:
Fairytale of new York featuring the one and only shane mcgowan.
Fairytale of new York was selected based on its unpretentious depiction of xmas showing both the noble aspirations of mankind and also showing the imperfections and frailties of the human condition. Of course i realize that 99.99% of people on this planet would not select shane’s honest and soulful vision of all things festive but as ruby’s ambassador to the human race it is my pleasure to thank shane for all the pleasure he has brought into my life.
Merry feckin xmas and please remember that a very flawed and fragile person loves you sons of bitches.
97 comments:
Hi, Billy,
Surprise, surprise...I see that you're still a big fan of The Pogues. Didn't want to spoil the fun, yesterday - had an inclination they'd be your choice.
Take Care & Stay Lucky,
Steve...
I see my name floated here so goddamn often I thought I'd briefly (very) come out of retirement to wish you Happy Holidays, Pilgrim! Have a large one, as they down round these neck of the woods! xoxoxoxox
Merry Christmas, y'all!
There goes my theory... I thought Utopia was Omar.
It might be more popular than you think. I've come across quite a few people who've eulogised this song at Xmas.
yes steve, the sun still rises and sets on all things mcgowan in my world. i bought a new bike this summer and it's a trek UTOPIA! small world, merry feckin xmas.
omar - the legend of omar will never die! i expect to see a picture of justin holding a reefer with his finger nails painted black in your profile one of these days. merry feckin xmas.
thims - confusion reigns supreme around here. old mr cook still thinks aqaurian is you know who.
it's like the old show, to tell the truth with orson bean and kitty carlisle.
gb - we're a bit backward in the colonies but it's nice to hear that shane is appreciated. merry feckin xmas.
Great choice, Billy! Love the Pogues - reminds me of sitting in the Irish pub and throwing back Jameson's!
thimscool said,
"........There goes my theory... I thought Utopia was Omar........"
How could you possibly have thought that?
Utopia is a congenital dullard and does not deserve such praise and Omar, despite his obvious impediments, does not deserve the insult.
Omar said,
".......I see my name floated here so goddamn often I thought I'd briefly (very) come out of retirement to wish you Happy Holidays, Pilgrim! Have a large one, as they down round these neck of the woods! xoxoxoxox......"
We were/are referring to Mr. Khadr, actually. After all, he's the only true patriotic loving Canadian I've seen these last 10 years. Only he, and he alone, sought righteous revenge against the vile Yankee for that infamous Tarnak Farm Incident of April 17, 2002. The rest of Canada just took it up the arse!
The score so far:
US 4 - 1 Canada
C-A-N-A-D-A
Tell me, what's a Douglas Fur?
C-A-N-A-D-A
Bet you never heard a Bobcat purr
C-A-N-A-D-A
Have you ever seen a Lobster crawl?
In Canada we get to see them all.
Should be re-written:
We-Are-Fuck-Ing-Cow-Ards
neither mrs c.j. nor i got to where we are today by taking one up the arse.
Billy - Got Deadwood for Christmas...the entire series. I can thank you for that. Can't wait to start watching!
doc - be careful it's addictive!!
Is this Aquarians?
Is she my fantasy?
Caught in her handcuffs
No escape from perversity
Open your eyes
Look up at the cunt and see
She's just a rich girl, she needs no sympathy
Because she's quick to post, rather slow
Rarely high, often low
Anyway the words blow, doesn't really matter to me (to me)
ALTF just killed a man
Held a shake against his head
Struck it hard and now he's dead
ALTF's life had just begun
But now she's gone and thrown it all away
ALTF, oo-oo-oo-ooo
Didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on, because spelling really matters
Too late, my time has come
The pilgrim's's now online
And his writing's rather fine
Goodbye everybody - I've got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
ALTF, oo-oo-oo-ooo (anyway the words blow)
I don't want to post
I sometimes wish I'd never been here at all
I see a little silhouetto of a girl
Like to fuck? Like to fuck? It's the forbidden tango
Riding-coat and helmet, jewel-studded godemiché!
Obscure reference, obscure reference,
Obscure reference, obscure reference,
Obscure reference - erudite. One cornetto-o-o-o-ooo!
But I'm just a rich boy and most people love me
(He's just a rich boy from a rich family)
Bored with a book on this shite holiday
Quick to post, rather slow - will I let her go?
Insha'Allah, no! I will not let her go (let her go)
Insha'Allah, I will not let her go (let her go)
Insha'Allah, I will not let her go (let me go)
Will not let her go (let me go) never
Never let her go (let me go)
Never let me go (ooo)
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
United Nations, Petawawa, laissez-passer! let me go!
The Queen of Cunts has a chamber with a bed for me
For me
For meeeeee!
That is just adorable, SR.
Look forward to an extra-special kissy-face, smootchy-bear, huggy-bug tonight.
What every happened to that BBC bloke?
I for one miss him and his hourly updates, regaling us as only he can, concerning the ever so exciting minutiae of his wonderfully complex life.
Don't you?
I don't miss Leslie though.
She's a cunt.
what ever happened to bbc??
you and your band of merry men/ladies have scared the living bejesus out of him. his confidence is sapped and his cognitive abilities have decreased to the level where he will not listen to the voice of reason, me!
i think you should resolve to treat him with a tad more respect in 2013.
billy pilgrim said,
"........i think you should resolve to treat him(BBC) with a tad more respect in 2013......."
If my band of merry girls/boys and I were to treat him with more 'respect' in 2013, our confidence would be sapped and our cognitive abilities would disappear entirely.
I should think that you, pilgrim, of all people, being the Hedonistic Utilitarian that you are, would abide the maxim of our friend and mentor, Jeremy Bentham and pronounce:
"An action is good when it maximises the amount of the greater good of the greatest number of people."
The extinction of BBC is such an action.
Besides.....
The BBC confidence was mere bravado with no real basis in fact and his cognitive abilities(this is a joke, right?) were nowt but phantasm - both born as they were in the myth of white male cultural superiority.
i guess the question would be, is he a coporeal lump of flesh or an omnipresent spirit watching over us and dispensing justice or benevolent compassion as the need arises?
Woe to those what respect only intellect for theirs is the kingdom of backstabbery.
Why must 'dispensing justice' and 'benevolent compassion' be mutually exclusive?
They need not be.
The eradication of Small Pox and subsequently, BBC, was both, yes?
You got the 'lump' part right though.
Woe to those what respect only stupidity for theirs is the Constitutional Republic of Stabbackery.
Some people say the great US of A is a Constitutional Republic and NOT a Democracy after all.
Can you believe it?
backstabbery?
i've seen nothing but full frontal attacks.
does anyone know the secret of defeating angry birds? some fucknut familiar with backstabbery gave me the game and my confidence is also compromised. that fucking pig is making a fool of me.
By appending the suffix "-ery" to the verb "backstab" and thus creating a wonderfully evocative neologism, Thimscool is again making reference to, by underhanded means this time, the much maligned (and deservedly so) Leslie.
Don't ask me how though. I just KNOW he is.
It is best that the attacks are the only thing which possess the expressive quality of 'Full Frontalness'. I reckon if nudity was to be considered, the initialism "BBC" and the word "naked" in the same thought "done scares the livin' bejesus out of me".
That fucking pig is making a fool out of you.
He stole your nest egg by investing it in MBS and funded the construction of his concrete and steel tax shelters from the proceeds he earned by shorting your portfolio.
What are you going to do about it, ya wee chicky? I know! Elect the party not in power and surely they will outsource your revenge for you, wholesale.
mbs? shorting an individual portfolio?
all i can say is takes a real talent to lose money in the enquity markets these past few years.
and it would take and even greater talent to swith the $ into the bond market at this stage of the cycle.
"......all i can say is takes a real talent to lose money in the enquity markets these past few years......"
Tell that to those folks who bought NASDAQ:RIMM in the summer of 2008 when it was $140 - and still hold it!
Granted, The Tutor has doubled his money after buying it in September and selling it two weeks ago so he could buy me a new car.
Day Trading is the way to go now, pilgrim.
Mortgage Backed Securities... and I wasn't really talking about you, Pilgrim, since you had the wisdom to invest in my ditch-digging enterprise. I really meant the rubes who's nest eggs were in, for example, the California pension fund. You would think they would have gotten wise after the whole Enron debacle, but like Charlie Brown kicking a football, they just keep on believing.
Enquiry is an interesting typo. Did you mean inequity, or maybe iniquity (as in a den thereof)?
Stupid droid corrected my transcription of your typo. Pilgrim, maybe you should get a droid. But it will autocapitalise your dross.
i'm assuming that you've read the big short by michael lewis.
Hell no. I only own stock in two companies: my ditch digging enterprise and my day (and night) job.
I have become somewhat of a real estate mogul recently, tho. I choose the route of investing in long term debt at a low fixed rate, because those bonds will only buoy until it becomes clear that we can't and won't repay them in equivalent value (in spite of leaping off the fiscal cliff to get our house in order).
thimscool plagiarised,
"......But it will autocapitalise your dross......"
It is a good thing Leslie is not here. She would assuredly ream your arse for using my cacophemism 'dross'without paying me a user's fee.
And spell like the filthy Yankee that you are!
It's "auto-capitalize" - with a "Z". There is a reason you Yankees call it "zee", so use it or lose it!
Zed's dead. Lived in Stratford upon Avon as a lad, during my formative year of spelling practise. Leamington Spa, Warwickshire doncha know. I's a cultural mosaic!
Summon your barrister, and I shall summon my barista from Hahvahd, MA!
Forgive me thimscool, I did not know.
I trust you have undergone the necessary blood transfusions to get that horrid Brit-ness out of you?
If there is anything worse than a Yankee, it's a Brit. And a combination of the two would be insufferable. Not altogether unlike a Masshole - like Leslie!
Oh, and you must summon a Solicitor first. The Solicitor then summons the Barrister on your behalf.
So much for your Brit-ness! I reckon the transfusions worked!
Well, I'm forbidden to donate blood now. I might have mad cow disease, like my barista!
Seriously?
That shite was horrid back then.
The fecking Brits were sure slow to react to that in the late 80's and early 90's.
Variant CJD ain't pretty.
Am I in your will?
Do you want to inherit my massive pile of debt at low fixed interest? Or perhaps a pint of blood? It's rare and valuable.
are admitting to not reading the big short?
Billy...I'm watching Deadwood and I think I just figured out your profile picture...am I right?
Yes. I don't have time because this site is more important to me. You are all more important to me than The Big Short.
Is that wrong?
thimscool said,
"......Do you want to inherit my massive pile of debt at low fixed interest?....."
It depends.....would you be considered by your Government, "Too Big To Fail"?
If yes, I'll take your debt.
thimscool said,
".....Is that wrong?....."
And where, pray tell, do I place in the iteration of these important things in your life?
Please tell me it is above Leslie.
OK, done! But my wife and children get the collateral.
Your wife and children ARE the collateral!
Who is Leslie?
Hear me now and believe me later: there is nothing fixed about the costs associated with my wife and children.
aquarian - did the doc ask me a rhetorical question?
fuck me, that would make them marginal!
billy pilgrim said,
"......aquarian - did the doc ask me a rhetorical question?......"
I don't think so Mr. pilgrim, she does not strike me as the kind that deals in rhetorical devices, or double entendres.
Best to take her at her word.
thimscool said,
".....there is nothing fixed about the costs associated with my wife and children......"
Don't think of it as 'costs' but as 'investments'. And don't sell yourself short, thimscool, your wife has good taste and the fruit of your loins can'r be all that bad. At least Variant CJD is not inheritable.
Then again, your family are not cannibals are they?
Only my wife.
Should we all hum a specific Hall & Oates tune?
And to answer your previous question, "What is Leslie", I do not know for sure.
Is she some red-frocked chick who has a predilection for spooning road-kill Vulpes vulpes on the shoulder of an interstate highway without even the benefit of ingesting Bath Salts?
Poor Leslie, banished by our skinflint Scottish host, who's been off his meds for over 5 years.
All she did was call you out on your pirate tendencies. After all, what if people just started copying dollar bills?
Oh wait, that is basically what banks do, except that they're very efficient. And ever since Billy Jeff Clinton and his clever sidekick Bobby Ed Rubin killed Glass-Steagal, they take those efficiently copied dollars and invest them wisely!
It's been great! These days, they invest a lot of the copied dollars into treasury bills so that we can copy more dollars! It's awesome! A rising tide truly lifts all ships, doesn't it? But I digress...
Say, Pilgrim, why have you banished Leslie?
she ceased to amuse me.
don't worry, you still amuse me.
OK, Caligula!
I will note that BBC did not cheer for her dismissal as she cheered for his. Good on ya, BBC.
old mr cook thinks she's still here so the high road is vacant.
Old Mr. Cook thinks cedar shakes and shingles are interchangeable and that particle/chip board is a 'righteous' building material.
Wait.......
Shakes and shingles are interchangeable and Leslie and yours truly are equally so. At least he is consistent.
thimscool?
You're calling pilgrim Gaius Germanicus? Which aspects of the Emperor are you insinuating are reflective in pilgrim?
Surely pilgrim has not also slept with his three sisters; Julia pilgrim, Agrippina pilgrim and Drusilla pilgrim?
My doppelgänger has been kind enough to direct me to many of the various other blogs our beloved BBC haunts.
Is it just me, or does the fair BBC ALWAYS seem have some related anecdote, or a direct/indirect experience of, every fucking topic/observation discussed in any given blog post?
I reckon if one of the few who still allow him to post comments wrote a piece concerning the events of December 7, 1941, our brave BBC would reveal that he actually heard the order "Tora Tora Tora" when listening to his Crystal Radio in Seattle at the time.
He's like our very own, personal Forrest Gump I reckon - present at, or connected to, everything!
Of course there are other similarities - Stupid is as a box of chocolates does - Innit?
http://neuroticaneurotica.blogspot.ca/
I for one am very frightened about this.
pilgrim?
BBC?
Omar?
thimscool?
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
thanks aquarian, mr thims is a tough one to figure. at times he's a fun loving guy and at times i sense a great deal of bitterness ruminating in his nether regions.
i sense he resents happiness in his perceived intellectual inferiors. i guess that's the price he pays for never being able to experience the bliss of the ignorant.
so it goes.
Do you really have a sister named Drusilla?
That's sooooooo GOTH!
Agrippina is just weird.
FRAGILE - Must be Italian.
I'm still in denial about my flaws and fragility.
I don't have inferiors, and I am generally in favor of happiness.
But it is true that I harbor a lot of bitterness. When I was younger I was sold a bill of goods by trusted mentors, but it was never deliverable and I later apprehended that they knew it all along.
So I found a another way... but yes, I'm bitter about what is, and what should be. Sometimes you remind me of one of my mentors, Pilgrim. Please accept my apologies if I have transferred my resentment onto your docket. You have never harmed me.
".....I don't have inferiors,....."
This, thimscool, is simply not true.
The fact that you do not recognise these folks as such is a credit to your sense of humanity and proof you have been sold the bills of goods known as the "Age of Enlightenment" and "Western Liberal Democracy".
As I am sure you are quite aware, I was not sold any bills of goods when young and therefore I am very much able to affirm that you have many inferiors - most of the Eastern Seaboard and a large section of NOLA as a matter of fact.
Adopt the Darwinian construct of 'survival of the fittest' and the moral framework of 'might makes right' and you'll get along nicely. Especially if you move to Israel for some gawd-awful reason.
No... AoE was not the bill of goods. My focus was coveted by those mentors, and many before them. They employed the notion of superiority as part of their sales pitch, but it was not their object.
One lesson I learned from my troubles, is that I have no inferiors. It was humbling to realize this at first, but I quickly detected that it is actually the most liberating realization one can have.
It definitely limits my earnings potential to feel this way, but I consider money to be a mere tool. The great benefit is that it permits me to deal honestly with anyone, including those that you think are not worth your time.
I get the feeling that Pilgrim was born knowing this simple truth. You have no inferiors.
well said thims.
here is one of the great truths i wish i had learned when i was a lot younger:
humility is the greatest freedom of all.
have you ever heard of marissa nadler? i picked up a few of her albums from the library and they did the energy's proud.
"......including those that you think are not worth your time......"
As I am of Homo Sapiens sapiens, all humanity is worth my time. And the inability to derogate and belittle even just one diminishes me greatly.
The relevant question, however, to ask is, "Am I worth their time?"
Normally, the answer is "no".
I am not bitter.
"......humility is the greatest freedom of all......"
This is true.
BUT.....
Those who are humiliated and then find themselves willing to sacrifice the attendant freedom this humiliation originally fostered in them for further security of person are mistaken. Engaging in this transaction will prevent future freedom-making-humility creation and, accordingly, these folks deserve neither security nor freedom.
But humiliation is still warranted.
This is where I come in.
pilgrim!
You wretched too proud cunt - humility my Asian arse! Why have you not visited the Daemonic One's new blog?
She's offering ten free pirated downloads from iTunes (- NO DRMs!!!!!!) to the first 10 commenters!
I snagged me some righteous Ricky Martin property!
BBC got a 78 speed version of William Shatner singing "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds".
i now get all my free music at the library. it's free. just select what you want and pick it up at the branch of your choice.
unfortunately, the fish isn't free.
I don't have inferiors, and I am generally in favor of happiness.
But it is true that I harbor a lot of bitterness. When I was younger I was sold a bill of goods by trusted mentors, but it was never deliverable and I later apprehended that they knew it all along.
So I found a another way... but yes, I'm bitter about what is, and what should be. Sometimes you remind me of one of my mentors, Pilgrim. Please accept my apologies if I have transferred my resentment onto your docket. You have never harmed me.
Ruby’s ambassador to the human race did an excellent job, and hope you have a wonderful weekend and a Happy New Year, BP.
Hey Billy - actually, the question wasn't rhetorical. Tim and I figured it out in the sense of watching a DVD and saying, "Hey, I think I KNOW that guy..." :-)
is that an apology from leslie?
thanks aquarian, mr thims is a tough one to figure. at times he's a fun loving guy and at times i sense a great deal of bitterness ruminating in his nether regions.
I've shared beers and a campfire with him, if it's hard for the rest of you to figure him out it's because you are fucking idiots.
Well, Pilgrim, it's right there in black and white, elegantly put... she has apologized.
Are you man enough to accept? Are you woman enough to see your part? Are you tortoise enough to know what really matters?
I know I am.
billy pilgrim said,
"......is that an apology from leslie?......"
Why I think it just might be, pilgrim.
I'm so bored
Hm, I'm bored
Hm, I'm bored
I really want to see you
Really want to be with you
Really want to not be bored
But it takes so long, I'm bored
I'm so bored
Hm, I'm bored
Hm, I'm bored
I really want to know you
Really want to go with you
Really want to not be bored
That it wont take long, so bored (where is Billy?)
I'm so bored (where is Billy?)
Hm, I'm bored (where is Billy?)
I'm so bored (where is Billy?)
I really want to see you
Really want to see you
Really want to not be bored
Really want to not be bored
But it takes so long, I'm bored (where is Billy?)
I'm so bored (where is Billy?)
Hm, I'm bored (where is Billy?)
My, my, I'm bored (where is Billy?)
I really want to know you (where is Billy?)
Really want to go with you (where is Billy?)
Really want to not be bored (aaah)
That it wont take long, so bored (where is Billy?)
thimscool said,
".....Are you(billy pilgrim) tortoise enough to know what really matters?...."
I do not know about 'tortoise enough' but I can attest to his predilection not to 'turn turtle' when he should find himself amidst a tempest in a tea pot.
Pot?
BBC, aka Billy, said,
"......I've shared beers and a campfire with him(thimscool), if it's hard for the rest of you to figure him out it's because you are fucking idiots......"
OMG!
Shared beers?
Get tested thimscool! Get tested now!
It's not too late!
Who do you think gave him mad cow?
thimscool?
The two of you must have been sharing body-part consumption.
Is this the source of BBC's fantasies for "Reverse Prolapsed Fellatic Copraphagia" about which he is on about constantly?
I remember nothing.
Slipped you a Roofie did he?
The man is such a card, Innit?
well, it looks like leslie is back in my good books.
however, old mr cook just called me a fucking idiot. this is a double insult since he's been on his best behavior since he's been smitten with the doc.
oh well, c'est la vie.
"Smitten?" Damn, I'm flattered. Didn't know anyone "smitted" any longer.
You were right about Deadwood...been watching it for the past several hours. It is addictive.
On the up side, I haven't had a cigarette during that time, either...so maybe it'll cure me...
pilgrim?
For BBC, calling someone a 'fucking idiot' is a term of endearment.
The only thing worse than a 'needy' BBC is a needy, well, you know.
doc - and it gets even better the second and third time through when you pay more attention to the dialogue rather than getting caught up with the action.
you've been a great influence on bbc.
aquarian - does that also extend to my wife calling me a fucking idiot?
pilgrim said,
".....aquarian - does that also extend to my wife calling me a fucking idiot?....."
I'm not sure, does your wife have Spirit?
Although many might not believe it, underneath it all, BBC's a good man, a good friend...he's been great to me and my friend who's battling cancer. I may draw fire for saying so, but there it is.
Deadwood is calling...damn near Season 2!!!
aquarian - does the lovely mrs myshkin have spirit?
she has all her teeth and indoor plumbling so probably not.
doc - yes, bill has many fine points. he could probably use a wee bit more tolerance but so could we all.
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