zing

Hitchens: Anyone who's studied what's happening in either of those countries now knows that the whole of American policy -- and by the way a lot of your own future, ladies and gentlemen -- is staked on the hope that federal secular democrats can emerge from this terrible combat. We can protect them and offer them help while they do so. We know that they're there, that we are -- I've met them, I love them, they're our friends. Every member of the 82nd Airborne Division could be a snake-handling congregationalist, for all I know, but these men and women, though you sneer and jeer at them, and snigger when you hear applause and excuses for suicide bombers -- and you have to live with the shame of having done that -- these people are guarding you while you sleep, whether you know it or not. And they're also creating space for secularism to emerge, and you better hope that they are successful.

Hedges: I feel like I should be reading Kipling's White Man's Burden.

(audience laughter)

Hitchens: What you mean is you wish you had read it.

MARTIN AMIS: YOU ASK THE QUESTIONS

The phrase "horrorism", which you invented to describe 9/11, is unintentionally hilarious. Have you got any more? JONATHAN BROOKS, by email

MA: Yes, I have. Here's a good one (though I can hardly claim it as my own): the phrase is "fuck off".

hahahaha

martin amis review of 'red dragon' is full of classic zings

anybody got that plz post for the lolz

i think it was "hannibal" from talk magazine/collected in "the war against cliche"

^^that book is full of classic zings. amis on a margaret thatcher bio: "the early years form a tale of almost macbre banality"

i remember he asks his good friend chris hitchens about thatcher's sexuality with hilarious results

amis can be totally hilare but stuff like "horrorism" and "the war on cliche" makes me cringe all the way to the cringe bank.

or like when he said that saul bellow's name should be soul bellow

i dont think a dude who uses phrases like 'totally hilare' can bitch about horrorism or war on cliche

POW

shazam

http://www.cinemablend.com/images/news_img/4881/4881.jpg

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/PYR/PP30677~Oh-Shit-Hydrant-Posters.jpg

what's it called when you get zinged on the zing thread itself?

http://www.wauwausisters.com/images%208_21_03/Studio4-cutout3.jpg

holy

is that hot dog and... honey?

oh dear god i had to suffer through those wau wau lesbians every monday night when i got free drinks

well, no more MtGhotes shows for me (I'll have my divorced friends sing to me on the phone to fill void)

-- Dr Morbius, Thursday, December 27, 2007 11:17 AM (53 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

omg

are you Chino Moreno stunt double?

-- carne asada, Friday, December 28, 2007 2:47 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

thats a COMPLIMENT

Couldn't resist a little jab at the guys niggers we're liberatig

-- moonship journey to baja, Friday, December 28, 2007 1:07 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

yeah, basically. The "n" was stuck on my keyboard so I couldn't type the "n" word.

-- Hurting 2, Friday, December 28, 2007 1:08 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

add me to the list

Martin Amis, an admirer of the early books, is one of several notable writers who believes that Harris is in the process of destroying his literary reputation; that, as he put it, he has 'gone gay on' Lecter.

Baseball is basically a long stream of statistics in search of a sport, right?

-- Dom Passantino, Friday, December 28, 2007 11:19 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

NO, you evil man

-- Dr Morbius, Friday, December 28, 2007 11:20 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

as opposed to a long stream of zings in search of an original thought?

-- El Tomboto, Friday, December 28, 2007 11:21 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

snap

http://members.airsoftcanada.com/digital_assasin/Forum%20Stuff/Misc/oh_snap.gif

"Perhaps you're about even. Does Cosby care that Ghost Dad was a vexing experience to some?"

Well since he hasn't starred in a movie since, maybe.

-- Matt Armstrong, Monday, 31 December 2007 04:16 (8 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Why are you retarded?

-- HI DERE, Monday, 31 December 2007 04:20 (8 hours ago) Bookmark Link

the first ad hominem. ILM is so disappointing sometimes.

-- Matt Armstrong, Monday, 31 December 2007 05:58 (6 hours ago) Bookmark Link

The first, but probably not the last.

-- HI DERE, Monday, 31 December 2007 06:04 (6 hours ago) Bookmark Link

No I'm not saying that there's not a wide range in metal...I was saying your examples didn't really stretch very far.

Of course there's a lot of range in metal. Among other things, I listen to Mercyful Fate, Bathory, Celtic Frost, Candlemass, Malignancy, older Dying Fetus, Pain of Salvation, Atheist, (all eras of) Death, Cynic, Symphony X, My Dying Bride, Cathedral, older Ulver, Mayhem (all eras), Immolation, Darkthrone, Blind Guardian, Hypocrisy, Morbid Angel, Thought Industry, thrash-era Sepultura, Annihilator, Nuclear Assault, Black Sabbath, Strapping Young Lad, Cryptopsy, Gorguts, Opeth (pre-Blackwater Park), November's Doom, Helloween, Angra's first two albums, Deicide, Type O Negative, Katatonia, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Cradle of Filth (mostly just Cruelty and the Beast), Bal-Sagoth, Impaled Nazarene, Savatage (all eras), Emperor, Cryptic Slaughter, Immortal, Rage (not against the Machine), Satyricon, Witchery, Sigh, Megadeth, Metallica, Crowbar, Iced Earth, Slayer, Exodus, Kreator, Skyclad, Possessed, Rhapsody (first two albums), W.A.S.P., Amon Amarth, older God Dethroned, Pantera, Exhorder, Fates Warning, Carcass, Fear Factory, Testament, Queensryche, Nile, Meshuggah, Mastodon, Stormtroopers of Death, Soilwork, Cannibal Corpse, Anathema, Sodom, King Diamond, Nevermore, Sanctuary, Coroner, Anthrax, Ocean Machine, Brutal Truth, Krisiun, Diabolical Masquerade.......

you know, just the stuff the Big 215 put out

-- Bo Jackson Overdrive, Tuesday, January 1, 2008 10:26 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

A lot of range for bad, it seems.

-- Pål Útlendi, Tuesday, January 1, 2008 10:27 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

haha!

gasface for laffing at own joek

Pål Útlendi on fire today

Oh, please.You know what I mean, stop playing dumb.People fart whether they have butholes or claim *not* to have butholes.ffs.

-- becky lucas (becky_lucas), Monday, January 27, 2003 12:28 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link

U R a moron.

-- RJG (RJG), Monday, January 27, 2003 12:29 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link

with initials such as 'R.J.G'....How can you possibly call *ME* a moron?!?!?!?!?!

-- becky lucas (becky_lucas), Monday, January 27, 2003 12:31 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link

Well, my only advice for you is GERSHY.

Gentlemen
Effect
Revivals
So
Have
Yours!

-- Just got offed, Wednesday, January 2, 2008 8:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

Well, this is nonsense. So, thanks.

-- Pål Útlendi, Wednesday, January 2, 2008 8:36 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

are you reading this thread on a typewriter morbs?

-- gabbneb, Friday, January 4, 2008 9:21 AM (Friday, January 4, 2008 9:21 AM) Bookmark Link

^^^ 10/10

It's because he's old.

seriously chunki, don't you have some very important donuts you should be eating or something?

-- chicago kevin, Friday, January 4, 2008 2:44 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

i don't even eat donuts.

i don't even eat donuts.

-- chaki, Friday, January 4, 2008 2:49 PM (Friday, January 4, 2008 2:49 PM) Bookmark Link

orly?

http://a373.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/50/l_a0d2d1318eebd7dcdd7182564e27674c.jpg

thats a cocktail, kevin.

ned raggett is no donut, filled with sweet sweet jelly though he may be

lolololololololololol

shorty got lolololololololol

both dudes be stylin

1. Post endless lazy snarky zings at the same targets week in, week out
2. ????
3. PROFIT

-- Dom Passantino, Tuesday, January 1, 2008 11:37 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark Link

dont reveal your business plan to ilm, dom!!!

-- max, Tuesday, January 1, 2008 2:58 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Link

That doesn't work.

who died and made you mr. zing thread chieftan

oh wait