This a little bit different from my usual quotes of the day(s). Usually, I quote something deep, pithy, or at least witty. But this one gets the honor because it is simply unparseable:
”I hope that he will understand, if he is the nominee, the degree of disillusionment that will happen if he doesn't become a greater man than he will ever be.”Wow.
Just ... wow.
I'm having a devil of a time trying to find a grammatical term for that.
UPDATE: I just realized that I hadn't put in a link. Sorry Dave!
Posted by Ken S at May 14, 2008 08:17 PM | TrackBack (0) |"Backhanded compliment" works for me.
Posted by: Kate P at May 14, 2008 08:44 PMI was going to go with "batshit crazy" but okay...
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at May 14, 2008 09:07 PMI believe the technical term is "brain damaged".
Posted by: Dave E. at May 14, 2008 09:11 PMUpon my second reading, my official diagnosis is "attempted mysticism coming off as threat."
(O.K., I just looked up the quote now--hasn't anybody figured out that those people are impossible to please?)
Posted by: Kate P at May 14, 2008 09:41 PMsetting up failure.
he has to be better than he could ever actually be.
Posted by: KG at May 14, 2008 11:12 PMHow about "unrealistic expectations"?
Or maybe "cognitive dissonance"?
Posted by: The_Real_JeffS at May 15, 2008 06:42 AMThis is actually (and literally) a basic formula:
10 set x = "hero worship"
20 set y = "reality"
30 if y>x then "temper tantrum"
40 goto 10
Yeah, the loop is key there, 'Fly.
Posted by: Kate P at May 15, 2008 08:37 AMI'm glad you posted on this Ken. I saw it and was gobschmacked.
It's too funny.
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at May 15, 2008 09:00 AMThis from the same crowd that ridicules President Bush's communication skills.
Talk about the pothead calling the kettle black.
Posted by: Boy Named Sous at May 15, 2008 09:33 AMIt's poser intellectualism at its worst. People like Penn listen to morons like Deepak Chopra and his ilk and think the bullshit way they ramble in circles to disguise the fact that they have no beeping CLUE what they are talking about is actually profound. It vomits itself out in the form of statements like that. At least it's good for a laugh.
Posted by: Emily, Xenu's Handmaiden at May 15, 2008 09:46 AMIt occurred to me that I said "attempted mysticism"--wasn't he in a movie called Mystic River or something like that? I seem to remember a former co-worker raving about it. Of course, she was a raving lunatic, so. . .
Posted by: Kate P at May 15, 2008 11:40 AMWhy, yes he did. But I wonder if his, um, rather tenuous connection to reality might be from getting a little too much into character earlier.
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at May 15, 2008 11:45 AMI think he was talking about Mr.Hand from
Fast Times at Ridgemont high.Maybe,that's what
the two Russian girls said to him after they were all caught in bed together by his wife.
One of the major problems encountered in time travel not that of becoming your own mother or father. There is no problem involved in becoming your own mother or father that a broad-minded and well-adjusted family can’t cope with. There is no problem about changing the course of history- the course of history does not change because it all fits together like a jigsaw. All the important changes have happened before the things they were supposed to change and it all sorts itself out in the end.The major problem is quite simply one of grammar…
God bless DNA.
Posted by: Cullen at May 16, 2008 06:25 AM