Listener comments!

Mon. 11/10/08 9:02am From: max

that zebra is just asleep...right?

Mon. 11/10/08 9:03am From: annie

pinin for the fjords

Mon. 11/10/08 9:05am From: beet so

who the heck are those bozzo's

Mon. 11/10/08 9:06am From: hangover

MORNING. HU-HU

Mon. 11/10/08 9:11am From: BW

hu-hu?? who says that? Bumble bees?

Mon. 11/10/08 9:11am From: C

did anyone else see that the jersey city councilman got arrested for pissing on people at a dark star orchestra concert in dc this weekend?

Mon. 11/10/08 9:11am From: Parq

RIP, Miriam Makeba.

Mon. 11/10/08 9:13am From: annie

yeah parq, i just heard on weru, she played a song.. pata pata..

Mon. 11/10/08 9:13am From: bw

dear C
oh yes
it is a hot topic
he rained down on the grateful dead tribute band!

Mon. 11/10/08 9:14am From: hangover

drunken bumble bee.

Mon. 11/10/08 9:16am From: Parq

Very interesting. Elected officials routinely piss on the voting public, but usually not literally.

Mon. 11/10/08 9:17am From: bw

I think it was the music.. but according to the news, he is a regular drunk and disorderly at this place...

Mon. 11/10/08 9:18am From: C

maybe the show was so good he didn't want to miss any of it. why is he coming down to dc for all his shows? does nj not book quality acts like gd tributes?

Mon. 11/10/08 9:18am From: cosmic

that poor horsey

Mon. 11/10/08 9:19am From: GP

Morning all.....wow Benjamin..trying to stir things up early...but really, I mean, c'mon,.....how sporting is that? Might as well shoot my pony,...I guess they did not like the black and white stripes being so intermixed like that.

Mon. 11/10/08 9:20am From: annie

very likely a canned hunt, too

Mon. 11/10/08 9:20am From: bw

when I was young there was a kid in my skool who was famous for pissing himself rather than lose his place at some bon jovi concert! Is there some sort of music pee connection?

Mon. 11/10/08 9:20am From: paw

go Cave go! nice track BW

Mon. 11/10/08 9:21am From: bw

sorry about the image.. just that Sarah Palin wasn't sure if Africa was a country or a continent.. so I typed in Alaska and Africa in google image search and this is what came up!

Mon. 11/10/08 9:22am From: Bad Ronald

Steve Lipski is a douchebag!

Mon. 11/10/08 9:23am From: dc pat

It wasn't that she was unsure--she flat out thought Africa was a country!

Mon. 11/10/08 9:25am From: rdL

Is Sarah Palin a zebra ?

Mon. 11/10/08 9:25am From: bw

here is some 411 on Josh Glenn and his wonderful book - he will join us for a few momentos at 11 am
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/10/15/the-idlers-glossary-1.html

Mon. 11/10/08 9:26am From: cosmic

they look hungry, i bet they had no choice

its either that fucking horse or us, doug

Mon. 11/10/08 9:27am From: Parq

Um, guys, not to say that Sarah P is anything less than a a complete moron, but you do know that Africa thing was a Borowitz piece, right?

Mon. 11/10/08 9:28am From: Bad Ronald

BW - Do you have XTC's "It's nearly Africa" handy?

Mon. 11/10/08 9:29am From: GP

Cool BW...I saw that book on Boing Boing ......also, in regards to Sarah..her party is dropping her into the fire...I would not be surprised if she becomes an independent soon....or even a *gasp* Democrat.

Mon. 11/10/08 9:29am From: max

ben if you're interested in catching up with sarah newsweek has an incredible seven part series behind the scenes on both campaigns: http://www.newsweek.com/id/167582 really worth reading if you have a moment

Mon. 11/10/08 9:33am From: bw

thanks max!

Mon. 11/10/08 9:33am From: bw

bad ronald.. can't find it! grrr

Mon. 11/10/08 9:34am From: cosmic

doug, did ya brung the tomato sauce?

Mon. 11/10/08 9:34am From: Bad Ronald

tx anyway...

Mon. 11/10/08 9:35am From: PG

Something from Miriam Makeba would be much appreciated! Maybe "Kilimanjaro"?

Mon. 11/10/08 9:37am From: Bad Ronald

Diggin Low Red Center!

Mon. 11/10/08 9:44am From: bw

got something comin up PG

Mon. 11/10/08 9:45am From: PG

Thanks!

Mon. 11/10/08 9:45am From: annie

that's great ben

Mon. 11/10/08 9:51am From: bw

she had a heart attack after a concert

Mon. 11/10/08 9:52am From: annie

:(

Mon. 11/10/08 9:53am From: Bad Ronald

Well, at least she finished the show. Not like Entwistle...

Mon. 11/10/08 9:54am From: max

that song was great, sorry to hear about it. can somebody recommend an album to start with?

Mon. 11/10/08 9:55am From: max

i'm still chewing over hugh masekela, which i also found through your show ben

Mon. 11/10/08 10:06am From: bw

that wasn't the Africa connection I wanted to make today folks... RIP Makeba -

Mon. 11/10/08 10:09am From: annie

i was in eugene oregon when bob marley died, all over the city, wherever you went, you could hear his music. blaring from houses and businesses..

Mon. 11/10/08 10:13am From: cosmic

which country are we in doug?

africa!

oh yeah.

doug, im so hungry i could eat a.. uhh

Mon. 11/10/08 10:16am From: Cecile

Aw, missed Budos Band!

Who passed on recently? i can't tell from the convo.

Mon. 11/10/08 10:16am From: paulthepostman

Salutations one and all, just back from...what the fuck....Bungalow Bill and his bro:(

Mon. 11/10/08 10:17am From: Cecile

Hunting tigahs out in Indiah, Paul.
Out in, out in, out in Indi-yah!

Mon. 11/10/08 10:17am From: annie

cecile it was miriam makeba

Mon. 11/10/08 10:19am From: Cecile

Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.

Mon. 11/10/08 10:21am From: annie

after a concert

Mon. 11/10/08 10:21am From: stingy d

bumble beers

Mon. 11/10/08 10:22am From: Cecile

Oh, jeez.

Mon. 11/10/08 10:23am From: annie

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7719056.stm

i think that's a good link to bbc

Mon. 11/10/08 10:23am From: suzy

yeaaa

Mon. 11/10/08 10:23am From: Cecile

wow, this is scarily reminiscent of early B-52s. But with less zazz.

Mon. 11/10/08 10:23am From: Bad Ronald

"Hunting Tigers":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz6KHhRGVKs

Mon. 11/10/08 10:25am From: paulthepostman

That pic speaks more than words dare utter, but mov'n on...

Mon. 11/10/08 10:25am From: Cecile

Now, to be fair - I don't like Palin, but the McCain camp was playing kind of dirty, too.

Mon. 11/10/08 10:26am From: roger

if you get her on ask her her views about the nailin palin movie

Mon. 11/10/08 10:26am From: Parq

I say, J.L., it's jolly frightening out here in the jungle.

Mon. 11/10/08 10:27am From: Bad Ronald

"I refuse to dress up this week"!

Mon. 11/10/08 10:27am From: stingy d

not for nothin... i saw some of the nailin paylin video... you might be surprised to hear... not so entertaining

Mon. 11/10/08 10:28am From: bw

stingy! did you um rent that one? or purchase?

Mon. 11/10/08 10:29am From: stingy d

internet theft

Mon. 11/10/08 10:30am From: tommy flanagan

i mean rent... rented it.

Mon. 11/10/08 10:30am From: Cecile

AWESOME, Bad Ronald. That bonzos vid made my day.

Mon. 11/10/08 10:31am From: Cecile

"Im not shaking, I'm doing the shimmy!"

Mon. 11/10/08 10:32am From: Bad Ronald

Glad to hear it Cecile, I'm a huge fan too!

Mon. 11/10/08 10:32am From: Cecile

Can you play Scorpio by Grandmaster Flash?

Mon. 11/10/08 10:33am From: Cecile

"hunting tigers" is the mister's and my song.

Mon. 11/10/08 10:35am From: Parq

Cecile, how damn marvelous! Did you have it performed at your wedding? (I am assuming that you and the "mister" are in fact married; if not, never mind.)

Mon. 11/10/08 10:35am From: stingy d

how abotu some early rammellzee... not beat bop though.

Mon. 11/10/08 10:36am From: stingy d

yo parq-- personal space.. cut it out

Mon. 11/10/08 10:38am From: paulthepostman

Parq, keep your pith helmet on at all cost

Mon. 11/10/08 10:38am From: Cecile

No, I didn't have it performed at our wedding. Although we did have a good friend play ukelele on my mom's front porch. He performed a mix of ragtime, bad filk songs, and was just generally amatuerishly great.

Mon. 11/10/08 10:38am From: Parq

Sorry. I'll be good. [Winks in Cecile's direction] Hey, for some reason, I've got Inflatable Boy Clams' "Skeletons" stuck in my head this morning. Damn sight better than when I hear some LCD crap in the deli and have *that* stuck in my head all morning.

Mon. 11/10/08 10:39am From: Cecile

We picked it mostly because we liked to sing it in the car together, and the alternative was "Nights in White Satin". Ugh.

Mon. 11/10/08 10:39am From: Cecile

Parq, oh your trials and tribulations. Uh huh huh.

Mon. 11/10/08 10:40am From: annie

hey cecile, did you get any homework done??

Mon. 11/10/08 10:42am From: Doug in D.C.

Bad Ronald - If Lipski is a regular at 9:30, then, yes, he's probably a d-bag.

Mon. 11/10/08 10:42am From: Cecile

I started reading the compost stuff and the usual fear arose.
I think, though, I may try the wire cage match version of the compost bin.

Mon. 11/10/08 10:43am From: annie

cool, i'm just decding this week which to use, i think i'm going with two. one for the house and one closer to the garden for "finishing off"

Mon. 11/10/08 10:44am From: Swami

I ain't marchin anymore? Beefheart style?

Mon. 11/10/08 10:45am From: annie

i'll be emailing you anyway

Mon. 11/10/08 10:45am From: stingy d

i hear captain beefheart got the name captain beefheart because his uncle referred to his (uncle's) penis as "captain beefheart".

Mon. 11/10/08 10:45am From: Cecile

That makes sense. I'm working on a much smaller scale.

Hurray, Captain Beefheart!

Cool!

Mon. 11/10/08 10:46am From: cosmic

hhey! captain beefheart!! yeah!

Mon. 11/10/08 10:47am From: Cecile

Wow, stingy.
I just though Don was way into anticuchos.

Mon. 11/10/08 10:48am From: paulthepostman

BR, nice to see the bonzo's coming out in India! Btw, several years ago - 40 in fact - I met Mr Slater's Parrott.

Mon. 11/10/08 10:51am From: Bad Ronald

"Allo"

Pulling stiff shirts, hanging w/Mrs. Slater's parrot - man you get around Pthe P!

Mon. 11/10/08 10:51am From: stingy d

its within reason that i heard a rumor or a general falsehood... but anyway, bust how i'm going to fish's eddy and then going home and makign arepas.... in like 7 hours.

Mon. 11/10/08 10:52am From: Cecile

Arepas are teh awesome!

Mon. 11/10/08 10:53am From: Bad Ronald

No work today Stingy? What are you gonna pick up at Fishes Eddy?

Mon. 11/10/08 10:53am From: dc pat

Beefheart: I read he dropped out of school in 2nd grade and never went back.
Compost: I use a galvanized steel trash can w/ holes punched in it. Rat-proof.

Mon. 11/10/08 10:54am From: Cecile

DCP, that sounds good. Where do you punch the holes?

Mon. 11/10/08 10:54am From: annie

yeah pat, i'm leaning towards that, we are on top of a mountain, want to avoid critters.

Mon. 11/10/08 10:55am From: stingy d

yea i have work... but i am in need of some stuff... a roommate moved out and took some liberties with the kitchen items.

Mon. 11/10/08 10:56am From: Bad Ronald

Damn, that sucks!

Mon. 11/10/08 10:56am From: annie

geez, stingy what do you want? i have stuff out opf my house i want to get rid of

Mon. 11/10/08 10:56am From: stingy d

defnitely need just one of these...
http://www.fishseddy.com/browse.cfm/4,1728.html

Mon. 11/10/08 10:57am From: paulthepostman

Yeah, I know. The parrot was Slater's dads; he was our local athletic club's president and the parrot was not dead!

Mon. 11/10/08 10:57am From: dc pat

Cecile/Annie: Punch holes all over the freakin place with a nail but not the lid. My current one needs more because they get plugged up w/ worms and such. The rats are my big concern but our cat eats most of 'em.

Mon. 11/10/08 10:57am From: stingy d

i really wanted glasses with naked tiki girls... but i need a little of everything.... especially knives and a can opener.

Mon. 11/10/08 10:58am From: Bad Ronald

PtheP - Did you get a chance to meet Viv?

Mon. 11/10/08 10:58am From: Cecile

Get a Swing Away opener. You will never be sorry.

Thanks, Pat!

Mon. 11/10/08 10:58am From: annie

sorry, i brought the tiki glasses with me ;)

Mon. 11/10/08 10:59am From: Ken

Parq - Not to beat a dead horse, (like *some* people), but Borowitz was not the source of Palin not knowing that Africa was a country. That came from Fox News, citing unnamed McCain aids, as reported on the O'Reilly Factor. Palin herself came close to repeating it later herself even while trying to deny i t.

Mon. 11/10/08 10:59am From: paulthepostman

Gary Newman meets the bonzos, wooo

Mon. 11/10/08 11:00am From: paulthepostman

Gary Newman meets the bonzos, wooo

Mon. 11/10/08 11:01am From: stingy d

what makes a can opener a swing away? as far as i'm concerned you are telling me to get a can opener that is not electric... i'm confused.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:01am From: Bad Ronald

IGGY!

Mon. 11/10/08 11:01am From: Parq

Thanks for the heads-up, Ken. Borowitz is not the first to learn the futility of trying for way-out political satire in these times.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:01am From: dc pat

Yeah I thought it came from Fox news -- HOLY SHIT, IGGY!!! This song/album rules!

Mon. 11/10/08 11:01am From: cosmic

IGGY!! what a set

Mon. 11/10/08 11:02am From: ATQ

love this song!!!

Mon. 11/10/08 11:02am From: Ken

Best boredom song ever: Destroy All Monsters, "Bored." In the CD library under D. With Asheton brothers..

Mon. 11/10/08 11:02am From: Cecile

Swing away brand non-electric can opener. Swing Away is the brand. they last forever.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:03am From: Cecile

I think the Short Fuses had a great song about boredom.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:03am From: dc pat

I never understood electric can openers--my parents were so in to theirs. I would think you only need one of those if you were missing an arm.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:03am From: Bad Ronald

I think "African Man" is on this LP...

Mon. 11/10/08 11:03am From: Cecile

You can never get them as clean as you like. Once my mom discovered the Swing Away, she never looked back

Mon. 11/10/08 11:03am From: dc pat

Right you are Bad R.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:03am From: stingy d

yea i got two complete arms. so i will be on the lookout for a swing away brand can opener.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:04am From: annie

my favorite can opener is the little camp-size one. i'm the only one that liked it so it never got lost or stolen

Mon. 11/10/08 11:04am From: Cecile

good for you!

Mon. 11/10/08 11:05am From: paulthepostman

NOW now, BR!. But once, a mates girlfriend ran off with Stanshal's son to live in a light-house on the east coast!

Mon. 11/10/08 11:05am From: stingy d

idling? why's he lettign the car run for?

Mon. 11/10/08 11:06am From: cosmic

hes talking bout doing it

Mon. 11/10/08 11:06am From: Cecile

shiftless when I'm idle

Mon. 11/10/08 11:06am From: dc pat

What about the Boredoms. Greatest band EVER.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:07am From: cosmic

im scared to be on my own with my thoughts because theyre so funny ill kill myself

Mon. 11/10/08 11:08am From: stingy d

i could idle some sea drums out this radio show. ya heard. wait ... meta philosophical! gimme a hand brake.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:08am From: Cecile

dcp, I must concur.

cosmic, you'll die laughing?

Where can I find this book? It sounds great.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:09am From: stingy d

aphorisms are those tiny bugs right?

Mon. 11/10/08 11:09am From: bzul

MICKY
But if there's a God, then wh-why
is there so much evil in the world?
(shrugging)
What-- Just on a simplistic level.
Why-why were there Nazis?

MOTHER
(offscreen in the bathroom)
Tell him, Max.

FATHER
(offscreen)
How the hell do I know why there
were Nazis? I don't know how the
can opener works.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:10am From: Bob Dobbs

Achieve total slack!

Mon. 11/10/08 11:10am From: cosmic

ive got some procrastinating to do, ill have another tea ang then ill start

Mon. 11/10/08 11:10am From: stingy d

hey bob! how the hell are ya!

Mon. 11/10/08 11:11am From: uhoh

this guy should remember the deinition of SLACK from the church of the subgenius

Mon. 11/10/08 11:12am From: annie

it would explain how i can get so much done here.. i have no work, therefore i build..

Mon. 11/10/08 11:12am From: Bob Dobbs

Well my friend well, is it pronounced stinGy or stinJy?

Mon. 11/10/08 11:13am From: annie

............obviously making sure to think it all out by sitting on the couch ar listening to the radio

Mon. 11/10/08 11:13am From: cosmic

cecile- yeah! ill do myself the last damage!

laying in bed is lazy

Mon. 11/10/08 11:14am From: dc pat

he's like a bee, he stings a lot so he's sing-ee

Mon. 11/10/08 11:14am From: stingy d

stingy d like anthony mason... don't give up much on the defensive end.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:14am From: Doug in DC

I loaf and invite my soul...

Mon. 11/10/08 11:15am From: stingy d

hahaha he just called boston a city.... what a maroon!

Mon. 11/10/08 11:15am From: cosmic

i love my work, i still piss about and distract myself!

Mon. 11/10/08 11:15am From: uh oh

I idle, therefore I am

Mon. 11/10/08 11:16am From: cosmic

ill read this book later

Mon. 11/10/08 11:17am From: stingy d

yea this actually sounds like somethign i want to read. plug it again so i can write down the name.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:17am From: shmurf

ill finish typing this later

Mon. 11/10/08 11:17am From: Carmichael

I work best with deadlines I can miss.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:17am From: Eric Idle

I've Idled all my life an it's paid off!

Mon. 11/10/08 11:18am From: cosmic

i even put off doing it later

Mon. 11/10/08 11:18am From: stingy d

wamp wamp waaaaaaa

Mon. 11/10/08 11:18am From: Joshua Glenn

idleness: "Idleness so called, which does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognized in the dogmatic formularies of the ruling class, has as good a right to state its position as industry itself," insisted a young Robert Louis Stevenson. Idleness [from the Old English word for "useless," which came to mean "lazy"] may involve lying in bed... but it can also involve a great deal of concentrated effort. That's because idleness is not (unlike slackness), the opposite of "work," but is instead a hard-won mode of existence in which whatever one does is an act of creativity. See: FREE TIME, IDLER, INDOLENT, LEISURELY, USELESSNESS, WAITING FOR GODOT.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:19am From: bw

thanks Josh!

that was fun

Mon. 11/10/08 11:19am From: Michael Palin

Michael Palin, were NOT related.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:20am From: cosmic

the truth is i cant be arsed to be lazy

Mon. 11/10/08 11:20am From: manny ramirez

i messed some of that-it sounded good. what was the book?

Mon. 11/10/08 11:20am From: bzul

"It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence."
(Referring to Prince of Wales in The Madness of King George)

Mon. 11/10/08 11:20am From: annie

i get my best work done staring out the window.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:20am From: Joshua Glenn

Thanks for listening, Stingy D and everyone else. Here in the CITY of Boston we miss Ben's old WZBC show a lot. Ben asked me to post more definitions from The Idler's Glossary (Biblioasis), so I will do so.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:21am From: John Lydon

I'm a lazy sod!

Mon. 11/10/08 11:21am From: uh oh

i have A_D_D so Idleness is my normal state

Mon. 11/10/08 11:21am From: Joshua Glenn

PS: The book is coauthored by me (Joshua Glenn) and Mark Kingwell. The cartoonist Seth designed and illustrated it.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:21am From: annie

hey josh, tell jeremy at the tea house i said hi

Mon. 11/10/08 11:22am From: John of Leyden

I abolished time!

Mon. 11/10/08 11:22am From: Ken

Stingy D - can you email me off-playlist at ken at wfmu dot org? Somethin I have to ask you.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:22am From: cosmic

ive even been for therapy for procrastination- today!

aw now nobody knows if im joking

Mon. 11/10/08 11:22am From: Bernie Mac

I had a lazy eye!

Mon. 11/10/08 11:23am From: stingy d

too soon bernie

Mon. 11/10/08 11:23am From: Parq

People in Boston hardly ever even think about New York. And they will tell you that every chance they get. And you will see it at least once a day somewhere in a page one piece in the Globe. And every Boston souvenir shop sells tee-shirts that say it. And . . .

Mon. 11/10/08 11:23am From: Joshua Glenn

idler: "There are plenty of lazy people and plenty of slowcoaches, but a genuine idler is a rarity," writes idling expert Jerome K. Jerome. "He is not a man who slouches about with his hands in his pockets. On the contrary, his most startling characteristic is that he is always intensely busy." Despite the dictionary definition, then, although the idler might not "work" in any recognizable fashion, he is neither shiftless nor lazy. His energies, having been freed from the merry-go-round of the working life, are channeled into the pursuit of wisdom and pleasure. See: IDLENESS, OTIOSE.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:23am From: dc pat

stingy is about to get spanked again.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:23am From: Pivi

I really dont get the idea of "self-help"-books.. cous, when you need a book written by someone else to get better, its not really self-help.. is it?

Mon. 11/10/08 11:24am From: Joshua Glenn

free time: Free time, in the sense of "freedom to," is electrifying and beautiful. Free time in the sense of "freedom from," however, is merely restful and relaxing. The former is another way of saying "leisure" or "idleness," that state of being in which actions are performed for their own sake; the latter is another way of saying "vacation," or "recess," which are simply those scheduled (and mandated) periods during which work is suspended, so we androidized human beings can recharge our batteries. The former, then, is true freedom; the latter, slavery under the guise of freedom. See: IDLENESS, LEISURELY, RECESS, RECUPERATE, RELAX, VACATION, WORK.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:24am From: Bad Ronald

Stingy - What'd you do now?

Mon. 11/10/08 11:24am From: stingy d

never heard of this "boston"

Mon. 11/10/08 11:24am From: GP

Love Holly's voice..thanks BW.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:25am From: dc pat

People in DC all wish they lived somewhere else...like New York.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:25am From: Joshua Glenn

Cosmic, this one is for you.

procrastinator: Procrastination in artists, muses the great literary critic Cyril Connolly, "is always a symptom of an acute inner conflict... all true artistic indolence is deeply neurotic; a pain not a pleasure." In the procrastinator [from the Latin for "put forward until tomorrow"] that lamentable failure of body and will which is languor, or torpor, becomes inextricably imbricated with artistic perfectionism. It can be impossible, however—for anyone, including the procrastinator—to tell these apart. See: LANGUID, LAZY, TORPID.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:25am From: bzul

What is the sound of one self helping?

Mon. 11/10/08 11:25am From: Bad Ronald

You can get banned for dissing a city or band?

Mon. 11/10/08 11:26am From: Cecile

uh oh, I'm ADD as well, the femme dreamy, distracted version. *stares at ceiling*

Pivi, a good self help is like buying a good crochet instruction book. It gives you the basic projects and stitches, but it's up to you to start making the scarves and hats.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:26am From: Cecile

book I meant

Mon. 11/10/08 11:26am From: stingy d

i may have proposed the idea that boston is somehow not a city... what do people do in boston? watch whales? no wonder they write books about idling... it takes time awa from pocking all those damned cahs

Mon. 11/10/08 11:27am From: dc pat

dammit... just missed Holly and gang. I was too sleepy to go out...

Mon. 11/10/08 11:27am From: Joshua Glenn

Amazon page for The Idler's Glossary:
http://tinyurl.com/5dffdo

Mon. 11/10/08 11:29am From: Joshua Glenn

Bob Dobbs and uhoh -- I do reference the Church of the Subgenius...

slackness: Not to be confused with Lin Yutang's notion of "The Noble Art of Leaving Things Undone," slackness [from the same Latin word for "loose" which gives us "languish" and "relaxation"] refers to a blameworthy lack of due or necessary diligence, precision, or care. It's one thing not to care about work which is forced upon you, but an apathetic response to the prospect of any kind of sustained effort whatsoever is something else entirely. Despite the Church of the Subgenius's attempt to appropriate this word for idlers and skivers, then, "slack" ought to go on being used as a synonym for "lazy." See: APATHETIC, BLASÉ, COMPLACENT, LAZY, SLACKER.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:29am From: Cecile

thanks, josh.
I always say the American workplace lost out when workplaces lost their charming "underperformers "- the guys who always made sure to bring a box of donuts once a week, and kept cracking you up with stupid jokes. I'd rather one of those dudes than 1000 consultants.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:31am From: Joshua Glenn

Cecile, I worked for several years, until this past June, at The Boston Globe. Let me reassure you, the underperformers are still with us! I didn't bring any donuts in, but I spent a LOT of time walking around...

Mon. 11/10/08 11:31am From: bzul

"1000 consultants" is as winceworthy as the harshest imaginable profanity.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:32am From: Joshua Glenn

Loving this Sol Hoopi tune, Ben! I have to post my definition of Ukulele-Iked.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:32am From: Cecile

LOL!

Mon. 11/10/08 11:32am From: stingy d

in all honesty though... i do appreciate the collective of like-minded individuals comign together day by day and fostering a coomunity in which we can freely express our ears and desires, and i say this from my heart.... you pain in the ass you! get back in the truck, and deliver those sweaters! lahd and taylor ah gonna be wicked pissed!

Mon. 11/10/08 11:32am From: annie

they perform a n important role... morale booster in the form of the court jester

Mon. 11/10/08 11:32am From: Cecile

bzul, I chose my words carefully.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:32am From: Joshua Glenn

Ukulele-Iked: Before musician Cliff Edwards became a character actor (and the voice of Pinocchio's Jiminy Cricket), he performed under the pseudonym Ukulele Ike. His wistfully happy plinking has rendered many a person—including, in particular, a friend of the author of this glossary—absolutely paralyzed by beauty and emotion. See: DO-NOTHING, INACTIVE, INDOLENT, VOLUPTÉ.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:32am From: cosmic

cheers joshua, my job is an artist- did you guess or...?

i have real probs with the p. but then again its the same energy as when its all happening and im 'in it'. in the element and creating.

ill probably sort it out one day.

that WAS a joke.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:33am From: annie

and the court jester actually, in any form of"the fool" had to be the smartest to know how the dance was played..

Mon. 11/10/08 11:34am From: Cecile

Exactly, Annie. The modern court jester knows exactly how much effort to expend to keep their pension, and yet not strain themselves.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:35am From: Joshua Glenn

200 comments -- wish I could take credit for all of 'em. Nice one, Ben!

Mon. 11/10/08 11:36am From: annie

cecile, word ...i adopt this knowledge watching morris dancers..

Mon. 11/10/08 11:36am From: Joshua Glenn

Here's one last definition. Very timely, like it or not.

unemployed: "I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement," remarks one of Wilde's characters, "if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life." To be unemployed doesn't just mean "not engaged in a gainful occupation"; it also means, etymologically, "not being used": Keep that in mind. See: QUIT, TRUANT, WORK.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:37am From: Cecile

AWESOME! I am all about the mall remote.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:37am From: Joshua Glenn

Amazon page for The Idler's Glossary:
http://tinyurl.com/5dffdo

Mon. 11/10/08 11:38am From: stingy d

my professional title is "experimental orthographer" in case you were wondering.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:38am From: bzul

If 1000 meters is a kilometer and 1000 grams is a kilogram, 1000 consultants is a a kill-a-soul or a kill-a-buzz.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:39am From: bzul

..though they be plenty comical, too.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:39am From: cosmic

stingy, wassatt then?

Mon. 11/10/08 11:42am From: GP

Stingy..I like the way you thnik...expescially the eggsperimental part.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:43am From: stingy d

i make lists of words, mispelled and otherwise. and give them to clients. its kinda great because i look at potica and shit like that all day and just figure out reasonable ways to describe it. meta data... nonsense... they asked me for a title of my job (because i created this division)... and thats it.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:43am From: Ken

Stingy, insult Boston to your heart's delight. Just don't run out of meds. And email me.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:44am From: Joshua Glenn

Stingy -- "meta data"! Give me a hand brake.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:44am From: ok...

it was all a don rickles impression... can i blame him? whats your emai;?

Mon. 11/10/08 11:45am From: Bad Ronald

Ahhhh, it's the pills!!!!

Mon. 11/10/08 11:45am From: stingy d

ha - zinged me

Mon. 11/10/08 11:46am From: Joshua Glenn

Your job sounds cool, Stingy. Tell us more.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:46am From: stingy d

haha... i am still grinning like a lunatic over that one.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:47am From: gerald

ça c'est du rock du vrai c'est pas de la rigolade ton truc là !!

(nicolas sarkozy sucks!)

Mon. 11/10/08 11:48am From: Carmichael

The lunatic fringe .... I know you're out there.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:48am From: Ken

Here's what stingy does I think.. he compiles lists of misspellings that must be of interest to certain parties... take me for example..

Mon. 11/10/08 11:49am From: Ken

It burns me up no end that people constantly refer to WFMU as WMFU.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:49am From: stingy d

i'm taking it that this is ken the station manager?

Mon. 11/10/08 11:50am From: Ken

So if I had enough money I would buy all the WMFU domains out there... but some companies have 1000 terms like that to worry about..

Mon. 11/10/08 11:50am From: dc pat

Great set. God I love WMFU!

Mon. 11/10/08 11:50am From: Dogu ni CD

WUMF?

Mon. 11/10/08 11:51am From: Liz B.

Please please let us change WXHD's call letters to WMFU!

Mon. 11/10/08 11:51am From: Ken

WUMF is not a concern. WMFU is. No radio station has those letters due to the motherfucker connotation. just google WMFU and you'll see what I mean.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:53am From: Ken

Liz, that is the actual solution. And Stingy D's solution is a big needle of fentanyl popped right into his spinal column. actually that's the solution to everything.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:54am From: Mark Kingwell

Sorry I'm late to the list -- been sleeping in. Josh and I hope you like The Idler's Glossary. It is stocking-sized for easy stuffing!

Mon. 11/10/08 11:54am From: Cecile

the NPR station in our hometown was WGGL.
W - We've
G - Got
G - Good
L - Legs
I am told it was the least filthy acronym they could come up with. Of course it's at Michigan Tech University, which until the mid-90s was known as a place where "men were men, women were scarce, and sheep were nervous"

Mon. 11/10/08 11:55am From: Bad Ronald

Wow, Stingy has gone from villain to hero!

Mon. 11/10/08 11:56am From: GP

Ken,
WMFU = W muther****kin U!!! Yeah baby!!

Mon. 11/10/08 11:56am From: stingy d

whewf... ken knows me too well apparantly... i feel all melty suddenly

Mon. 11/10/08 11:56am From: stingy d

whewf... ken knows me too well apparantly... i feel all melty suddenly

Mon. 11/10/08 11:56am From: Cecile

I sense a bromance a brewin'

Mon. 11/10/08 11:56am From: Bad Ronald

Take that Frangry!

Mon. 11/10/08 11:57am From: GP

Dangit, Ken missed your earlier comment....auto-update running slow today..as am I.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:58am From: stingy d

i made nice with andy and frangry

Mon. 11/10/08 11:59am From: stingy d

ken... seriously lets inject drugs sometime, Bro.

Mon. 11/10/08 11:59am From: Bad Ronald

Oh man, you're losing your edge...

Mon. 11/10/08 11:59am From: dc pat

Last comment! OOW OOH!

Tue. 11/11/08 4:19pm From: Andi Arroganti

Krank und pervers, erhh?
Andi

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