Comments on: The thick end of the wedge http://www.dustbury.com/archives/3433 I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:36:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mark Alger http://www.dustbury.com/archives/3433/comment-page-1#comment-8364 Mark Alger Sun, 30 Mar 2008 03:43:59 +0000 http://www.dustbury.com/archives/3433#comment-8364 Speaking of Crocs ... (and I'm sorry to be peppering your comments tonight, but so many of your posts are piquing my snark) ... did you see the news item about how some charity or other is donating brazilians of red Crocs to Ethiopia? (Or Darfur, or one of those African hell-holes.) So that the poor refugees won't have to flee barefoot across the bleak terrain. A better use for a cast-off fad I cannot think. But why all red? Maybe they could get a good price on them? Slow seller? The factory in China had a bad day that day and has a bunch of seconds to unload? Dunno. And the guy doing the announcing (looked like a young Strom Thurmond with a bad comb-over) (by "bad" I mean worse than Strom's -- with or without the bad henna job) managed to do his pitch for funds (to buy the Crocs -- no matching plea for donations of the old ones, though it seems imminent and inevitable, dunnit?) with a straight face. Well, no. Not straight. Smug. Self-satisfied. But not laughing and gibbering like Daffy Duck under the influence of some Bugs-created cognitive disonnance. M Speaking of Crocs … (and I’m sorry to be peppering your comments tonight, but so many of your posts are piquing my snark) … did you see the news item about how some charity or other is donating brazilians of red Crocs to Ethiopia? (Or Darfur, or one of those African hell-holes.) So that the poor refugees won’t have to flee barefoot across the bleak terrain.

A better use for a cast-off fad I cannot think.

But why all red? Maybe they could get a good price on them? Slow seller? The factory in China had a bad day that day and has a bunch of seconds to unload? Dunno.

And the guy doing the announcing (looked like a young Strom Thurmond with a bad comb-over) (by “bad” I mean worse than Strom’s — with or without the bad henna job) managed to do his pitch for funds (to buy the Crocs — no matching plea for donations of the old ones, though it seems imminent and inevitable, dunnit?) with a straight face.

Well, no. Not straight. Smug. Self-satisfied. But not laughing and gibbering like Daffy Duck under the influence of some Bugs-created cognitive disonnance.

M

]]> By: McGehee http://www.dustbury.com/archives/3433/comment-page-1#comment-8363 McGehee Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:31:11 +0000 http://www.dustbury.com/archives/3433#comment-8363 <i>kicking daisies</i> Better kickin' 'em than pushin' 'em up, I always say. kicking daisies

Better kickin’ ‘em than pushin’ ‘em up, I always say.

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