Comments on: The Vagina Dialogues

By: Sander

Sander — Tue, 22 May 2007 21:20:45 +0000

This puts me in mind I had over 20 years ago while driving with my younger sister through Harvard square.

Me: I’ll meet you after I go to this seminar I’m auditing on Kant.

Her: On what?

Me: Kant, Immanuel Kant.

Her: What, as opposed to automatic?

By: John Holbo

John Holbo — Tue, 22 May 2007 07:20:49 +0000

Maybe I should edit the comments. There actually does seem to be a pick-up in the level of obscene spam I’ve been deleted in the last few days. OK, I’ll do that. Nothing personal, but maybe it will help cut down on spam. Sheesh.

By: bi

bi — Mon, 21 May 2007 20:07:35 +0000

The c-word seems to be stuck in the comments for good.

By: derek

derek — Mon, 21 May 2007 19:24:05 +0000

i read both the original uncleaned up version and the cleaned up version: have to disagree with you that the cleaned up version is funnier than the original

By: jay bee

jay bee — Mon, 21 May 2007 08:37:54 +0000

Similarly uncomfortable moments on my first visit to Boston. I hadn’t quite adjusted to the local accent when my host (a native) asked the waitress for a “fork”.

By: Yan

Yan — Sun, 20 May 2007 22:22:32 +0000

“Unfortunately, it was a largely wasted summer. The prof I was working with explained that Kant defended objectivity in morals without having to posit a world of moral facts: he was, I was told, a de-ontologist, that is, someone who removes ontology from morality by grounding moral truths in human reason.—No, I’m not kidding.”

Was it a wasted summer simply because the prof didn’t know the etymology of “deontological”? (Philosophical prowess is, of course, contingent upon verbal pedantry.) I think it’s a lovely and creative explanation of a silly piece of jargon. And a very effective explanation in spirit, if not the letter.

By: John Holbo

John Holbo — Sun, 20 May 2007 03:36:34 +0000

Actually, one of the reasons I used it – at first – was I thought: what are the odds that dsquared hasn’t already called someone a ‘silly c-word’ on the front page? only I’m forgetting for the moment’. The odds seemed about even, so I went with it.

By: Jon H

Jon H — Sun, 20 May 2007 00:16:11 +0000

Was your visitor named Chris Muir, by any chance?

By: dsquared

dsquared — Sat, 19 May 2007 18:43:32 +0000

Of all the people who might have claimed the title of “first to use the c-word on the front page of Crooked Timber”, I don’t think many would have picked John.

By: Richard J

Richard J — Sat, 19 May 2007 04:09:31 +0000

Hell, I once had an uncomfortable few moments when a South African was telling me, through the haze of my hangover, that she’d been to Kent for the weekend.

By: (too ashamed to use my regular name)

(too ashamed to use my regular name) — Sat, 19 May 2007 02:09:14 +0000

“I gotcher crooked timber of humanity right here!”

By: John B.

John B. — Sat, 19 May 2007 01:37:21 +0000

Tom Cruise’s speech in Magnolia is what sprang to mind by way of a possible response . . .

By: trialsanderrors

trialsanderrors — Fri, 18 May 2007 22:17:20 +0000

You should’ve told him he needs to go study a broad.

By: copernicus

copernicus — Fri, 18 May 2007 21:04:25 +0000

Peter’s Friends is shite. A wank-in, luvvie fest.

By: garymar

garymar — Fri, 18 May 2007 20:56:45 +0000

Wittgenstein was all over the question of whether it was possible to have a privates language.

Sorry I couldn’t help myself.