With only one choice, winning is assured! Hurrah!
"Aiyah!" has this all sewed up, easy-peasy. The Squeam may have amusing references to the DsotM memberbase, but "Aiyah!" has the creeping existential dread of the subtly strange. Squeam is the weirdness inherent in clowns and monkeys and lesbian footballs, Aiyah is all about the fingernails on the chalkboard and the stares of strangers,
Bob Dole knows where he stands. Doesn't he, Bob Dole?
" *schrickt* kill kill speech smile speech kill kill programming offline *schrickt* reverting to basic personality matrix *schrickt* pepsi pepsi kill kill brittany spears kill bah bah bah bah *schrickt* bah bah bah joy of pepsi joy of cola rah rah smile kill smile *schrikt* "
See? Half-machine, half-mandard. All "Aiyah!".
Edited by: The Ray at: 9/25/02 3:13:51 pm
Actually, this was exactly how he got on the 1996 ballot
No no no. You were all supposed to say, "Ack! Too close to call, Toby! OMFGVB4J!!!" And, then we discuss. Like newbies at a Star Wars messageboard with way too much enthusiasm for a pointless topic, we discuss...
Let us consider the two captioning strategies in question: Squeamism and Aiyahology!. How do they function? What do they reveal about the nature of existence? How would each paradigm be applied to the same subject? What does paradigm mean, anyway?
According to The Squeam:
Colossus Bob, leader of subterranean Take That! Squad, reluctantly gave the order to retreat from the terrible invasion of the Squeamweasels, who had so thoroughly chased them out of their cozy tunnels. The bitter memory of his father's demise -- a betrayal of his reluctant alliance with The Squeam -- would continue to haunt him, and his spirit would go unavenged.
In the realm of Aiyah!:
[The more you consider the cause of this reaction, the more Aiyah! the possibilities become. A finger poke? A rubberband? Lemon juice? Taken one at a time, they're all quite managable. But, when you stack 'em up and up until you're tickling the undercarriage of Infinity... well... A-I-Y-A-H spells OMFG!!!!]Edited by: Old Toby at: 9/25/02 8:48:27 pm
I call upon the power of Goog-L, mighty search engine!
Obviously, there's only one way to resolve this. Following in the grand tradition of egosurfing and oracling, we shall look to the greatest of online tools to solve our problems for us.
Hah! Not only do the sheer numbers come out in favour of "Aiyah!", but the pictures themselves adequately illustrate the very concept they are meant to signify! Whereas a search for Squeam returns a few measly canine scar wounds, a sushi cookbook, and Scooby Doo, Aiyah! features a host of examples fitting to it's own nature. Leg fetishism, eerie faces, Maple Leaf tattoes, and above all, foreigners! Aiyah seems to play a definite part in the lives of the japs, the gooks, the chinks, and the smitch. While to them, Squeam is nothing more than distant onomatopoeia, the sound the mud makes as the heel of their shoe grinds down upon it amidst the muck and grime.
And, if that sound were somehow captured, it would over time come to resemble...
The Squeam vs. Aiyah!
Dammit, Bob
With only one choice, winning is assured! Hurrah!
Actually, this was exactly how he got on the 1996 ballot
I call upon the power of Goog-L, mighty search engine!
I choose to ignore the cold hard facts placed before me.
Therefore, by default, victory is mine. So mote it be.
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