Abstract Musings

Stupid and Useless Gestures

It is commentary like this:

It’s reminiscent of the line from Animal House, when Otter says, “I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part.” Bluto answers, “We’re just the guys to do it.” The Democrats have become the party of stupid and useless gestures.

That has put Captain’s Quarters in the realm of higher beings. Congratulations Captain Ed, you deserve it.

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4 Comments

  1. bsp
    Posted February 14, 2005 at 2:46 pm | Permalink

    I’ll bet Al Gore is sorry he invented the internet.

  2. Robby
    Posted February 14, 2005 at 2:49 pm | Permalink

    I’m sure he is!

  3. bsp
    Posted February 22, 2005 at 4:07 pm | Permalink

    And here I was thinking Al Gore was the patron saint of the internet…….

    ISIDORE of Seville

    Also known as
    Isidore the Bishop; Schoolmaster of the Middle Ages
    Memorial
    4 April
    Profile
    Son of Severian and Theodora. Brother of Saint Fulgentius, Saint Florentina, and Saint Leander, who raised him after their father’s death. Initially a poor student, he gave the problem over to God and became one of the most learned men of his time. Priest. Helped his brother Leander, archbishop of Seville, in the conversion the Visigoth Arians. Hermit.

    Archbishop of Seville c.601, succeeding his brother to the position. Teacher, founder, reformer. Required seminaries in every diocese, wrote a rule for religious orders. Prolific writer including a dictionary, an encyclopedia, a history of Goths, and a history of the world beginning with creation. Completed the Mozarabic liturgy which is still in use in Toledo, Spain. Presided at the Second Council of Seville, and the Fourth Council of Toledo. Introduced the works of Aristotle to Spain.

    Proclaimed Doctor of the Church by Pope Benedict XIV in 1722, and became the leading candidate for patron of computer users and the Internet in 1999.
    Born
    c.560 at Cartagena, Spain
    Died
    4 April 636 at Seville, Spain
    Patronage
    computer technicians, computer users, computers, the Internet, schoolchildren, students

  4. John Cunningham
    Posted June 9, 2005 at 11:33 am | Permalink

    Truly, all the wisdom of life can be found in “Animal House.” the lines cited by CQ are great, rivaled by Dean Wormer’s advice to Flounder: “Son, fat drunk and stupid is no way to go through life,” just before Flounder hurls in the Dean’s face.