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Last updated on August 8th, 2017 at 04:50 pm
Mark Steyn critic Troy Marquis supplies the line of the month:
You come across like someone running around in a circle screaming inarticulably.
(Via Kathy Shaidle)
UPDATE:
• Fidens: “And with incoheretude.”
• Jim Treacher: “Idubitabastic!”
• The Mild Colonial Boy: “‘Inarticulably’ is a perfectly cromulent word.”
• AlburyShifton: “Convulentedly platitable!”
- Yeah, I’ve noticed that about Steyn. So totally screamingly inarticulable.Posted by anthony_r on 2006 12 05 at 11:40 PM • permalink
- Don’t forget the update:Troy wrote to Kathy to say:
Dear Kathy Shaidle,
Please remove my writing from your website.
Also, if you would be so kind as to tell me how you acquired the email I sent to Mr. Steyn I would appreciate it.
Thank you,
Troy Marquis
Her answer is here.
Posted by James Fulford on 2006 12 05 at 11:43 PM • permalink
- HAW, HAW, HAW!!! I haven’t laughed so hard since the last time Habib posted! As the saying goes, “read the whole thing”. What’s really rich is that Troy – Marquis of Malaprop – laid that egg after delivering himself of the following pretentious twaddle: “In fact, your title has nothing to do with your article and your article reads more like Simulacra and Simulations by Jean Baudrillard (if you do not know who he is you can go on wikipedia).” Ass steps on banana peal; hilarity ensues!
You do not really merit a proof read before the send…
Hmmm, I would bet that, You do
notreally merit a proofreadbefore thesendtyping…I’m guessing a 151.Twerp, bastard. You’re just the kind of little man, whose parents came screaming to my parents home, for beating you senseless…HEY, maybe that’s still your problem…Ummm, did they ever put that eye back in, Sammy?
I mean Troy…wink, wink….LOL.
- He needs a dose of of either the Marquis de Queensberry or Marquis de Sade on his sorry arse.Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 06 at 12:23 AM • permalink
- If you visit the URL attached to the email, http://www.troymarquis.com, you get a blank page. But if you look at the code for that page you see a (non-working for me) redirect to http://www.troymarquis.com/pageholder.pdf.
The pdf is… well, you can guess.
- RIP Parody
Died of a broken heart 6.12.2006
From his pdf: “Critiquing writing for elements of style, diction, grammar and clarity.”
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 06 at 12:32 AM • permalink
- #9
Ha!He of the pornoname is creating his site.
He provides “…high quality English text for: Print/Online ads, Sales letters, Brochures, Annual Reports, Investor relations materials, Newsletters, Websites, Marketing, Online email sales, Marketing, B2C, B2B correspondence, Ghost writing”
It’s a joke, right?
- O/T – Letter to The West Australian today.
Please tell my two infant sons why they cannot go to sleep, Mr Carpenter? I will vote you and your Hitler regime out next election. I will not change my clocks until a referendum.
Trevor Jackson, Maddington.
Writer has strong views on daylight saving. Writer is less aware of Hitler and voting.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 06 at 01:28 AM • permalink
- It reads like an entry in Pseud’s Corner.Posted by walterplinge on 2006 12 06 at 02:15 AM • permalink
- Idubitabastic!Posted by Jim Treacher on 2006 12 06 at 02:30 AM • permalink
- It appears that Troy has gone into a battle of wits armed with a faulty water pistol. Fancy trying that on Steyn of all people….. sensible people wouldn’t take him on without a brain as capable as an Abrams tank. Well, at least they need to be as thick skinned as an Abrams. The strange thing is that Troy seems to be generally agreeing with Steyn but accusing him of sloppy work. The irony is so thick it tastes like the terminals on a battery.
- “Inarticulably” is a perfectly cromulent word.Posted by The Mild Colonial Boy on 2006 12 06 at 04:30 AM • permalink
- Convulentedly platitable!Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 12 06 at 05:59 AM • permalink
Dr. Johnson: (places two manuscripts on the table and picks up the top one) Here it is, sir: the very cornerstone of English scholarship. This book, sir, contains every word in our beloved language.
Prince George: Hmm.
Blackadder: Every single one, sir?
Dr. Johnson: (confidently) Every single word, sir!
Blackadder: (to Prince) Oh, well, in that case, sir, I hope you will not object if I also offer the Doctor my most enthusiastic contrafribularities.
Dr. Johnson: What?
Blackadder: `Contrafribularites’, sir? It is a common word down our way…
Dr. Johnson: Damn! (writes in the book)
Blackadder: Oh, I’m sorry, sir. I’m anispeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulation.
- Lol, that is funny. A great way to start the day 😀Posted by Andrew Ian Dodge on 2006 12 06 at 06:54 AM • permalink
- I think you are all being too hard on poor Troy: I don’t think you recognize the usefulness of his last line:
“PS: Sorry if there are errors in my email. You do not really merit a proof read before the send…”
I could use that for EVERYTHING! Anything I write to anyone ever! It’s not that I am an incompetent maroon, it’s that you are not worthy of my massive proofreading skills!
From the PDF at his website:
critic :
– Critiquing writing for elements of style, diction,grammar and clarity.
– Ensuring what you want to say is communicated in your text.
– Reviewing existing documentation and
proposing correctionsHa, ha, ha, thanks Tim I needed the laugh!
Posted by Not My Problem on 2006 12 06 at 08:44 AM • permalink
- Here’s another excerpt from Troy’s email that has been referred to by others but deserves to be preserved in its entirety in the archives for posterity. Thus, the wisdom of this man will be of benefit to untold generations yet to come.
Also, your name implies that you are Jewish. Whether or not you are is irrelevant, but that because your names sounds Jewish, you have no credibility when you speak about Christianity or the Christian world, which, in case you did not get my point, robs you of credibility.
- Troy’s story is an old one, an oft told tale overheard by a deaf man and repeated by a mute. Full of misspelled words and faulty grammer, signifying an idiot, nothing more.Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2006 12 06 at 10:49 AM • permalink
- Tis a sadful day, indeedy: not only parody, but satire, sarcasm and sardony, each and all foulishly murthered and renderated extinctish by the inimitatable Marquis of Fooktardia.Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2006 12 06 at 01:00 PM • permalink
- I see there’s a certain amount of disfladulent procrofulation concerning Mr. Marquis’ reprindunant morcronkulisity.
But I would offer for your consideration a saying common in the States: “Don’t bring a knife to a gunfight.” I’m not sure how it goes into Strine, since only criminals are permitted to possess firearms there, but perhaps this reworking makes more sense:
“Never bring Troy Marquis to a debate with Mark Steyn.”
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2006 12 06 at 07:12 PM • permalink
- Well, frettle my gruntbuggles…Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 12 06 at 09:24 PM • permalink
- #44, okay, but leave the turlingdromes out of it!Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2006 12 06 at 09:57 PM • permalink
- Okay, so Mr. Marquis’ point was unarticulatamlocutionarily put but that’s no reason to make jokes.Posted by Christopher Johnson on 2006 12 07 at 03:03 AM • permalink
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