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OK, I wouldn't normally say this, but sometimes there's something that demands a specific kind of analysis, and this practically cries out for a little of that Momus touch.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Monday, 16 June 2003 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

a new signified calls for new signifiers

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Monday, 16 June 2003 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

NB this is most emphatically not me calling Momus racist again. It's just that there's a disorienting confluence of factors in this item - the fact that it's bubblegum AND a temporary tattoo AND there's this weird intercontinental shifting of blame so that nobody knows nothin'...I smell Boyd Rice here, I think. Anyhow the point is it's an accident that only a committed postmodernist-by-way-of-high-modernism is qualified to explain.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Monday, 16 June 2003 22:40 (twenty-two years ago)

invented by the aztecs btw

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 16 June 2003 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

haha Boyd Rice.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 16 June 2003 22:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Holy shit.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 16 June 2003 22:59 (twenty-two years ago)

WTF?!

― Francis Watlington, Tuesday, 17 June 2003 00:30 (twenty-two years ago)

The most interesting sentence in the whole thing is

"I don't sell anything that's ever offensive to people, dangerous to kids, or offensive in any way to any individual," Valk said.

Jesus fucking Christ.

― JesseFox (JesseFox), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 03:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Let's not forget that the name of the bubblegum company is also that of a Palestinian refugee camp where a massacre may or may not have taken place last year.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 17 June 2003 03:58 (twenty-two years ago)

My god, that's horrible!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 10:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I talked about this story on my radio show today and said don't get me wrong, the Klan is awful, but isn't this so fucked up it's funny? And a listener wrote me a long email telling me I was racist. :(

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

(did we ever talk about this mixup last xmas?)

― jones (actual), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it's fucked up funny teeny.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 20:15 (twenty-two years ago)

six years pass...

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y5/lumpwagon/1238848987072.jpg

― omar little, Thursday, 6 August 2009 00:50 (sixteen years ago)

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