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No Snark Necessary Here, But I’ll Try Anyway

It always amazes me when people try to fight out elections here on my blog. Maybe I’m a moron, but I thought that elections were won by, you know, communicating with actual voters. For one reason or another, there are people that think that posting the same poorly constructed tired rants over and over again in the comment section is going to sway someone. Folks that do this inevitably come across as unhinged, especially after their candidate comes close to being bested by some upstart. Not that I am refering to anyone in particular, of course.

Written by: Tedski
This was written by Tedski. Posted on Monday, March 16, 2009, at 8:31 am. Filed under Marana Politics. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

12 Comments

  1. T. Stephen Cody wrote:

    Ted, please enlighten us on the etymology, and your definition of, snark. None of the entries below from dictionary.com fits your usage.
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    snark   
    –noun a mysterious, imaginary animal.

    Origin:
    1876; coined by Lewis Carroll in his poem The Hunting of the Snark
    Dictionary.com Unabridged
    Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
    ***
    snark

    n. [Lewis Carroll, via the Michigan Terminal System]
    1. A system failure. When a user’s process bombed, the operator would get the message “Help, Help, Snark in MTS!”
    2. More generally, any kind of unexplained or threatening event on a computer (especially if it might be a boojum). Often used to refer to an event or a log file entry that might indicate an attempted security violation. See snivitz.
    3. UUCP name of snark.thyrsus.com, home site of the Jargon File versions from 2.*.* on (i.e., this lexicon). Jargon File 4.2.0
    ***
    snark (n.)

    imaginary animal, coined 1876 by Lewis Carroll in “The Hunting of the Snark.”
    Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper

    Monday, March 16, 2009 at 9:22 am | Permalink
  2. Tom Prezelski wrote:

    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=snark

    Monday, March 16, 2009 at 9:35 am | Permalink
  3. Appleblossom wrote:

    No Ted, you are not a moron. A goober possibly (likely) but not a moron.

    Monday, March 16, 2009 at 10:08 am | Permalink
  4. Snarkolicious wrote:

    Hey Ted,
    I think it is lame to post meaningless crap on a blog with the agenda of personal self-aggrandizement and unwarranted fame.
    Signed, Perez Hilton

    Monday, March 16, 2009 at 10:35 am | Permalink
  5. Andrew helped maslyn break election law wrote:

    I know, Andrew needs to be more thorough.

    Monday, March 16, 2009 at 12:46 pm | Permalink
  6. Tucson Vice wrote:

    It’s like they just vomit on the keyboard and hit “submit comment.”

    Monday, March 16, 2009 at 2:30 pm | Permalink
  7. Donna wrote:

    I haven’t helped a single Maslyn violate any election law and I am pissed about it! Geez gawd, what’s a Diva got to do to help a Southern Arizonan circumvent your silly “rules”??!? I mean, really.

    Monday, March 16, 2009 at 11:30 pm | Permalink
  8. I Am A Coward Who Makes Sh*t Up and Posts It Anonymously on Someone Else's Blog wrote:

    Donna did help Maslyn violate election law, as did Tedski, Rod Blagoyevitch, and Wo Fat, the nemesis of Detective Steve McGarrett.

    Andrew Myers regularly steals ice cream from small children just to make them cry.

    Patti Comerford is so pure and free of sin that Comcast billboards have been reported to have disintegrated as she passes them.

    Tuesday, March 17, 2009 at 8:51 am | Permalink
  9. Tucson Vice wrote:

    Dude give me some cred….he said I was guilty of it too.

    Tuesday, March 17, 2009 at 9:57 am | Permalink
  10. I Am A Coward Who Makes Sh*t Up and Posts It Anonymously on Someone Else's Blog wrote:

    Tucson Vice goes into Carol McGroray’s refrigerator late at night and drinks milk straight out of the carton.

    Tuesday, March 17, 2009 at 1:53 pm | Permalink
  11. Tucson Vice wrote:

    And I would do it again!!

    Tuesday, March 17, 2009 at 2:55 pm | Permalink
  12. Andrew & TV & IAACWMSUandPIASEB helped maslyn break election law wrote:

    Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful.

    Tuesday, March 17, 2009 at 5:19 pm | Permalink