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Limited to comments beginning with the letter K.
Well, I really was hoping for another j comment thread. But Karl will be pleased.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 04 21 at 01:21 PM • permalinkKwik, Andrea! Wronwright has violated the Mandate of K!
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2006 04 21 at 01:26 PM • permalinkKos -Book review in The Economist of “Crashing the Gates” by raving loon, Zuniga. No mention of “Screw them” in the story.
Posted by Son of a Pig and a Monkey on 2006 04 21 at 01:28 PM • permalinkKurds, Sunnis and Shias would stop their civil war or even start one if they knew that the Tuck Shop has opened in the heart of New York’s theatre district. Myers and Keswick, New York’s konniseurs of kidney and steak, had to shut down because their kat got stuck between its walls. I’d give it a 10 on a scale of One to Four ‘n’ Twenty because the meat was given the tortilla treatment. Boag’s Lager was a nice touch. Having a meat pie shop next to a revival of Sweeney Todd would be ironic if it weren’t so deeply sick.
Posted by chinesearithmetic on 2006 04 21 at 02:10 PM • permalinkKnow what? It’s not to hard to start a komment with a K, ‘K? That’s what.
Plus I koncur w/ Mr Bingley! That Mr Wrongwheel is being rebellious and disorderly and just plain bad. I think he needs to be sent to Ms Andrea’s office, yes I do!
Sigivald too! Troublemakers, them, I know the type!Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 04 21 at 02:23 PM • permalinkKakistocracy would seem to be a useful weapon in anyone’s armory of political invective. Kandidates?
Paco,
Kazakhstan, Kiribati, Kora (North), Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait….
Posted by Monroe Doctrine on 2006 04 21 at 03:32 PM • permalinkKilling starts with K.
And read Ebner’s other two postings from the frontlines too.
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 04 21 at 03:41 PM • permalinkMy apologies: it’s Pat Dollard, not Mark Ebner.
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 04 21 at 03:43 PM • permalinkKierkegaard would never had imposed such a vile restriction!
If he, you know, blogged and all.
Posted by Bill Spencer on 2006 04 21 at 03:53 PM • permalinkKuestion. Klet’s say that moonbats are right that George Bush wasn’t elected in 2000 and has since ruled as king rather than president.
Karn’t they then obligated to grant that the 22nd amendment does not apply and King George should be able to run again in 2008?
Just a kthought.
Posted by tim maguire on 2006 04 21 at 05:03 PM • permalink#4 Kannot konform like all you kutesy kuolas. I’m special. You’re not.
Sorry. Had to be said.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 04 21 at 05:34 PM • permalinkKinman won’t accept money from Michael Totten
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 04 21 at 05:53 PM • permalinkKnow shit, ya gotta read that Totten article linked in #48…
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 04 21 at 06:02 PM • permalinkKenneth never did tell us what the frequency was.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 04 21 at 06:18 PM • permalinkKilojoules. I’m counting kilojoules after our South Pacific cruise holiday.
Kanaks, otherwise known as Melanesians are lovely, friendly people.
—KNora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2006 04 21 at 06:51 PM • permalinkKindly let it be known that I was not the one responsible for letting the bold tags dribble away.
—KNora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2006 04 21 at 07:34 PM • permalink#24 Keeping the Koran link in my bookmarks Paco. An outstanding site.
—KNick
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2006 04 21 at 07:41 PM • permalinkKakoda.
Kitchener (Lord) inventor of the concentration camp in the Boer War. HD (Huge Deal) McIntosh, Aussie wheeler dealer bought his country estate from his widow. Haggling over items of furniture, HD, exasperated, challenged Lady Kitchener “toss you for it”.
Kline (Lindsay) Aussie left arm leggie, survived an interminable time with Slasher Mackay to save a test against the Windies.
Kodak. What will they do in the digital age?
Kant (Emanuel). Second rower (with David Hume) in the philosophers ruggy league dream team.#65 Kodak has struggled but is reinventing itself rather well. It has got out of the reloadable 35mm film camera market although it still makes disposables and its frnachised retail outlets have been repurposed (as have those of other manufacturers) towards greater printing of digital images. There was a good TV ad recently (although it might have been by Fuji) that promoted the idea that it’s not a photo until its a print you can hold in your hand.
Kodak also does industrial and medical applications of film and imaging so I doubt they’ll disappear though they might hold a smaller share of the consumer market as time goes by.
- KNick
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2006 04 21 at 08:24 PM • permalinkKobblers! I was also going to make the point that Ferranti used to be a big name in TV manufacture (we had one of their sets in the ‘60s and my father worked for the company) but they didn’t disappear just cos they got out of televisions and consumer electronics. Ferranti International plc is a major player in aerospace and defence electronics these days as they were back in the 60s (my father visited Woomera while working for them to do work on the guidance systems of Bloodhound missiles).
—KNick
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2006 04 21 at 08:31 PM • permalinkKennedy (Senator Edward) was being run on ABC news radio this morning, saying that those noble military types knew that if they made a stuff up their careers were in tatters - whereas this administration made so many mistakes and did not pay for them!
I had hoped that the ABC virus would not spread to the usually fairly straight ABC News Radio team, but that was a vain hope.
As demonstrated in the Alito hearings, Ted Kennedy’s usefulness as a commentator on anything is zero, and choosing to run his opinions as news is an indicator of ignorance, dementia, or propagandist intent.
Politically, Liberal in Australia means something different to liberal in America. Unfortunately, Democrat seems to mean exactly the same thing in both places.Karl Rove is behind this, isn’t he?
Kyser Sose? Kiefer Sutherland?
Kip Keno?
Ken and Barbie?
Kris Kristoferson?
Kermit the Frog?
Krikey, this is madness…Posted by Holden McGroyn on 2006 04 21 at 08:51 PM • permalink#73 Kilograms count for fewer than either kilojoules and calories, but somewhat more dispiriting to contemplate. Although a big thank you for your encouragement Geoff.
Kilometres of pavement pounding is probably the best remedy after dear Nicky talked me into buying one of these while in Vila.
—KNora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2006 04 21 at 09:04 PM • permalink#80
Keep your hat on old chap. It was the ‘kini not the kontents.—KNick
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2006 04 21 at 09:12 PM • permalinkKINNIKINNIK.
It’s a palindrome as well.
Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2006 04 21 at 09:34 PM • permalinkKan’t listen to ABC News Radio any more, Blogstrop (#72). Like you I had hoped the ABC virus would not spread to the NR team. Until recently, they seemed to be fully occupied gathering and reporting, with no time available to inject spin into their reports. These days there is as much leftie
Krap on News Radio as there is on the rest of Auntie.
KRudd a few days ago, just before 5 pm, was given about seven minutes live to rabbit on about the AWB or Papua or something. Not a word from the government, so
KRudd was allowed to make all his wild claims unchallenged and like they were, you know, facts.
Kick ass idea, Tim.
K is underappreciated, and often misunderstood.
It’s a nice letter, actually. And should often replace the overused C. I mean, look in the dictionary. C has over 120 pages. The poor little K has, like, 10 pages. And most of those words are unusable in conversation.
When was the last time you heard someone use the word kakemono in a conversation!
Or karyogamy. Well, maybe if you’re talking to a molecular biologist.Up with K!!
Kollective Nouns, people. What’s the collective noun for a moonbat?
A kook of moonbats.
A krispiness.
A knell.—KNick
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2006 04 21 at 10:06 PM • permalinkKajongwe’s keen kitty killer - besy dog I’ve ever had.
#89 Klearly, the kollective knoun for moonbats is:
“a lunacy of moonbats”
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 04 21 at 10:10 PM • permalinkKaraoke. Did you know that Nick is very good at it? His Billy Idol is brilliant.
KNick is reading over my shoulder and wishes to add karaoke to the list of collective moonbat nouns.
Karaoke, he says, because they are all singing the same tune.
—KNora
PS Kava. We drank Kava on our holidays too.
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2006 04 21 at 10:11 PM • permalinkKorrection at the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/ref/pageoneplus/corrections.html:
An article in Business Day on Wednesday about investors in The New York Times Company who withheld their votes for directors misspelled the name of the family that has controlled the company since 1896. It is Ochs-Sulzberger, not Ochs-Sulzburger.
What, the hyphen is correct? It isn’t there on the masthead http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/help/webmasthead.html. And I recall seeing just plain unhyphenated “Ochs Sulzberger” many a time on the hardcopy.
What gives? Will the correction need a correction? Or has the NYT been cheating us out of the hyphen since before all of us were born?
K’mon Pinch hey whaddaya?
Kwap! Forget the link for Kwadrant and also Peter Coleman’s story of the appointment of James McAuley as the first editor.
Knoxville tomorrow-Cav troopers to march in parade
I’ll send Tim pictures of me in my Stetson in case anyone wants to see.
Kvetch this act…Kharlie Sheen kaught again
Kharlie Sheen Divorce Bombshell
Wife: Drugs, hookers, threats, gambling, porn on actor’s plate…Mr. Konspiracy.
APRIL 21—In a searing court attack on Kharlie Sheen, actress Denise Richards alleges that her estranged husband is unstable, violent, addicted to gambling and prostitutes, and visits pornographic web sites featuring young men and girls who appear underage.
Sounds like a hell of a man, heh?
Kriminal (but as yet unprosecuted) leaker kanned at the CIA. Should Dana Priest return the korrupted Pulitzer?
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 04 21 at 10:56 PM • permalinkNo, really!
K is a powerful letter. It’s acute angles and rigid backbone give a it regal bearing not found in the curvy, mushy looking C. C looks like it has a bad case of scoliosis. Which is why C is used in the word curvature. Just look at the word. That spineless C tells you everything you need to know. If it were spelled with that upright example of good posture, which is the K, the word would have a completely different meaning.
Sure. Some have misused the power of K. Like the racism mongers, the KKK. The letters struck fear in the hearts of innocent African-Americans for many years. Do you really think *CCC* would do the same? Blacks would be rolling on the ground laughing if someone shouted “Here comes the CCC, run for your lives!” “What’s that? Cappa Crappa Commode?” Just not the same, is it?
So, stand up for K, and let’s work for a
ConstitutionalKonstitutional Amendment giving K it’s due!K for President in ‘08
</b>Kindred! Tim Lambert is koming it the kompulsive again…!
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 04 22 at 12:34 AM • permalinkKandrew Bolt, and even - wonders will never cease! - Paul Kelly, have got v. good articlees today.
Posted by Susan Norton on 2006 04 22 at 01:09 AM • permalinkKwestion: I’ve lived in Oz 16 years now…can someone tell me; who the hell is Larry and why is he so happy?
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 04 22 at 01:30 AM • permalinkKnowing that something of some importance to someone has happened on every calendar day over recordered history, why is it that Google reserves funkified mods to its logo for only “selected” anniveraries (or memorials)?
I’m starting not to like them.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 04 22 at 01:36 AM • permalinkKoala bears have not yet been used in this thread to begin the post, so… zeppenwolf wins. Again.
And those lazy-butts of you pretending that merely spelling a ‘c’ word with a ‘k’...
That is simply unakseptable, mmm’kay? Other topiks uneksplored:
Key Largo
Key Lime Pie (Yum! Support red states!)
King George
King Larry
King Et Ketera
Kindergarten
Kabbalah (Quick segue to Madonna’s breasts!)
Knights of the Round Table
Knights of the Cardiod Table
KopeksPosted by zeppenwolf on 2006 04 22 at 01:49 AM • permalinkK is the only letter in Scrabble with a value of 5.
This makes it easier to use than only J, X, Q and Z.
And slightly harder than H, F and Y. This is clearly wrong. K is much harder to use than Y, F and H predominantly because there are few, if any two letter words (OK doesn’t count because it is an abbreviation)which can be made with K. Most words need four letters and one of these often needs to be C.
For this reason I believe K should be worth 6 points. Maybe even 7.
This is something which has bothered me for a long time and I thank Tim for his K themed thread to finally let me air my concerns.
Posted by The (WHMECDM) President on 2006 04 22 at 01:54 AM • permalink*The Palestinians are a people with far less claim to historical legitimacy than the Klingons. The Klingons were created by TV scriptwriters in 1966-67 as the alien nemesis to the crew of the Starship Enterprise. This was a full TV season before scriptwriters at the Kremlin invented the equally fictitious “Palestinians” right after the 1967 Israeli victory.
Free Klingon!
Killed in Iraq ... Australian soldier dies in Iraq
#133 saltydog:
Knights who say “Ni”! If you’re going to mention knights, you can’t leave these guys out either.
Posted by Mr Snuffalupagus on 2006 04 22 at 02:57 AM • permalink‘kn ‘ell. Start every comment with a ‘kn K? Tim, what’s the ‘kn story?
Posted by StuartSkelton on 2006 04 22 at 03:50 AM • permalinkK, iowahaw is again hosting his special guest,Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi.
Yikes! Imagine being taught by this guy.
Also, I know why Tim’s not posting - he’s out shopping with all his newly acquired Blogad riches.
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 04 22 at 04:17 AM • permalink-Previous link not safe for women and Chev/Ford enthusiasts .
Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2006 04 22 at 04:24 AM • permalink#124
Kobber, blind freddy can tell you that if you’re as fit as a mallee bull after having shot through like a Bondi tram and gone walkabout on the wallaby track to the back of Burke or somewhere, then even if things are crook in Tallarook you have to be as happy as Larry, which is better than a poke in the eye with a burnt stick any day. So don’t come the raw prawn with me or it will on for young and old.#140 - K, I hope Tim’s shopping for a new rear quarter panel to replace the shagged one on his Miata/MX5 - ;)
Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2006 04 22 at 04:37 AM • permalinkKhe Sahn is not a great song.
Other things beginning with K which aren’t great are:
Khmer Rouge
KGB
Kryptonite (for Superman)
KFC (their chicken pieces are awful)
Kamikazi - unless you’re talking about this cocktail:
1 1/2 oz vodka
1 oz lime juice
1 oz triple sec
lime wedge for garnish
Shake well with ice and put into cocktail glasses.—KNora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2006 04 22 at 05:01 AM • permalinkO/Y I have no way of introducing a decent K into it. SBS has a show on at 1930 that may be worth watching on the Turkish genocide of the Armenians.(their words) Could it be SBS doesnt allways worship the mussies?
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 04 22 at 06:01 AM • permalinkKrusty the Clown?
“In recent weeks, scanning the political coverage in the mainstream US media and sampling the blogs has been to watch a flood tide ebbing to reveal a rotting, skeletal hulk. It is the George W. Bush ship of fools, stuck in the mud for the world to see in all its mendacity, its incompetence, its faith-based stupidity.It is possible, at this late stage, that even Bush himself has begun to realise something is wrong. That oddly simian face is ashen, the eyes leaden. The voice is shrill and its tone defensive.”
No, just Mike Carlton again.
Kooooooool…No telll me I am not the first to write that?
Posted by The Big Fish on 2006 04 22 at 07:32 AM • permalinkKimono….A wise “my little pony”.
Hey I have kids…
Posted by The Big Fish on 2006 04 22 at 07:34 AM • permalink#137: Kind of you, Salty Dog, to express your good wishes! Yes, I am rid of the loathsome stomach bug now. Unfortumately, my son - who has flabbergasted one and all by deciding to join the Marine Corps once he graduates high school, and was to begin some pre-entry training today - has the stomach bug even worse. Kindly pray for his deliverance from this foul virus. God’s mercy on the Aussie soldier.
Texas Bob: Kubla, Fran and Ollie? Was that the show with the Mongol warlord puppet?
Katja Schuman, a nearly faultless circus horse performer, once complained to her father about the audience’s lack of comprehension of what she was doing when she did her act.
Her father said, ``Yes, but in every audience there is one guy who knows what you are doing. And he paid for his ticket.’‘
And there is Goethe : ``The presence of a decent lad out there / Amounts to something, I should say.’‘
(via Vicki Hearne ``Comment’’ _Raritan_ X:3 Winter, 1991)
Which reminded me of the left’s incomprehension of Iraq and what the military is doing.
It is in fact understood by others
#153 Kooyong, Re: - that will be a shame, yarraside.
Georgiou belongs in the Aust Democrats, not the Libs.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 04 22 at 09:11 AM • permalinkKlintonistas strike again—CIA fires source of leaks for prize-winning stories:
The CIA has fired a senior officer for leaking classified information to the media, including material for Pulitzer Prize-winning stories in The Washington
Post that said the agency maintained a secret network of prisons overseas for high-ranking terrorism suspects.snip
[Mary] McCarthy began her career in government as an analyst at the CIA in 1984, public documents show. She served as special assistant to the president and senior director for intelligence programs at the White House during the Clinton administration and the first few months of the Bush administration. She later returned to the CIA.
The executive editor of the Post said, “The reporting that Dana did was very important accountability reporting about how the CIA and the rest of the U.S. government have been conducting the war on terror.” So, I guess it’s up to the media now to decide what remains classified information and what does not. Our national security couldn’t be in better hands.
Knaves. McCarthy is good pals with Sandy “Scissorpants” Berger. They need to fire all former Clinton White House officials still working in government. Now.
#150—who is this Mike Carlton jerk? “Oddly Simian face”?? Just look at this paragraph:
It is arrogant, Nixonian trampling of the law to order the wiretapping of American citizens and the leaking of national security secrets. It is the rape of the environment to enrich big business, especially big oil. And resonating with ordinary Americans most of all, it is the loss of the city of New Orleans - not by Hurricane Katrina but by the bottomless incompetence of the feds’ post-apocalypse response.
Yes indeedy. If only the feds had arrived in time to hold the massive flood waters back, New Orleans wouldn’t have been “lost”. Don’t “journalists” kinda sorta hafta ever get their facts straight?
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 04 22 at 10:51 AM • permalinkKimono is a pony and a style of dress. I want both.
El Kid reports: “APRIL 21—In a searing court attack on Kharlie Sheen, actress Denise Richards alleges that her estranged husband is unstable, violent, addicted to gambling and prostitutes, and visits pornographic web sites featuring young men and girls who appear underage.
Sounds like a hell of a man, heh?”
Sounds like a knave to me.
Kiosk
Knockwurst (for PW)
(Lord) Kitchener
“Got the right key but the wrong keyhole”Karma: Charlie Sheen married to Denise Richards. They were made for each other by sick narcissistic forces beyond our ken.
Karma deluxe: Charlie Sheen married to then gruesomely divorced from Denise Richards, with cameras and microphones in close attendance.Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 04 22 at 11:54 AM • permalinkKilling yourself in the U.S. Army is katching on. 12.9 soldiers per 100,000 kommitted suicide last year, up from 11.0 per 100"K” last year. Reuters reports:
“We’re not alarmed,” said Col. Joseph Curtin, a senior Army spokesman at the Pentagon.
That sounds kallous! Kare to elaborate, Kolonel?
“Although we are not alarmed by the slight increase, we do take suicide prevention very seriously,” said Army spokesman Col. Joseph Curtin.
Oh. Po-tay-to, po-tah-to.
Kidding aside, these open threads don’t seem as much fun when we’re allowed to take them over. (Slips a jimmy from his sleeve and heads for the liquor cabinet…)
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 04 22 at 03:20 PM • permalinkKuck off and leave meee aloene, you bad spelkers! I’m a war hewrow!
and a lousy tipper like all youse transportees…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 04 22 at 03:23 PM • permalinkTex — Kowabunga! Have you seen the new Buell on/off road bike?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 04 22 at 06:36 PM • permalinka multiplicity of vowels does not a dipthong make
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 04 23 at 12:01 AM • permalinkKa-ching!
When lawyers go chauffered to court again,
Ka-ching! Ka-ching!
Testing the law out case by case,
Ka-ching! Ka-ching!
They’ll patent each way you use a commode,
Sue doctors for briss when they’re growing old,
And they’ll sue their schools too,
When lawyers go chauffered to court.And those are six dipthongs. Spelt using Spanish phonetics:
kaud koud kiud; keid klaid kloid
(cowed code cued; cade Clyde cloyed)
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