So, Trump actually thought staging this photo at the concierge desk of the Mar-A-Lago (which itself appears to have been modeled after some 13th Century Moorish seraglio - figures) would make him look thoughtful and presidential, got it.
Why then am I imagining that legal pad is filled, not with somber and weighty words, but rather with crude depictions of the female anatomy, and flying daggers shooting towards a stick-figure rendition of CNN's Jim Acosta sporting devil horns?
Love the dissection of the latest Trump distraction. The perfectly relevant Susan Sontag and Socrates references, the parody pic.
I hadn't noticed the eagle until Mr. Mudede pointed it out. And suddenly I was brought back to the eagle in Stephen Colbert's Wonderful Pistachios commercials. Speaking of camp... Or I guess Colbert doesn't count as true camp.
@8: Well, if his goal is recreating a photo (which I assume he was doing), I find it odd he would choose to add a prop on his own, since it was not in the original photo.
I could most certainly be wrong, but it seems the simplest answer is that Mudede is drinking a big ass glass of wine early in the morning. I married an alcoholic, so perhaps I am simply more sensitive to such things.
Anyone notice the tiles with the Latin inscription? Plus Ultra? It means roughly "more more" ...how fitting to have that phrase repeated over and over on the wall of a greedy man.
You almost nailed it, Mudede. If you had instead stared past the camera, with a vaguely disinterested look in your eye, you would have matched it perfectly.
@16: Projection is when you apply your own undesired feelings or impulses to someone else, not when you wonder if someone who appears to be drinking a lot of wine early in the morning may have a problem with alcohol.
Try using Google if you don't know what a word means, you can just type it in, and it usually gives you a definition right there!
@27 I beg to differ your differing! The only reason I see for capitalizing "mimosa" in those links is that it's the first word of the sentence.
Take it away, Grammergirl:
"Some cocktail names are easy to figure out because they go by the standard capitalization rules. If they don’t include something that would be a proper noun, such as a person’s name or a city name, don’t capitalize them. So “mimosa,” “mudslide,” and “pina colada” are all lowercase." http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/educati…
and so it goes...
Why then am I imagining that legal pad is filled, not with somber and weighty words, but rather with crude depictions of the female anatomy, and flying daggers shooting towards a stick-figure rendition of CNN's Jim Acosta sporting devil horns?
I am much more concerned with how much Mudede drinks in the morning, considering with how haggard he looks.
Not sure if serious...?
I'm guessing Charles staged the photo, browbeaten look and all, to satirize Trump's staged photo.
I hadn't noticed the eagle until Mr. Mudede pointed it out. And suddenly I was brought back to the eagle in Stephen Colbert's Wonderful Pistachios commercials. Speaking of camp... Or I guess Colbert doesn't count as true camp.
If Trump had a drink in his photo, I would assume it was there as a prop.
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I could most certainly be wrong, but it seems the simplest answer is that Mudede is drinking a big ass glass of wine early in the morning. I married an alcoholic, so perhaps I am simply more sensitive to such things.
That is bullshit.
Try using Google if you don't know what a word means, you can just type it in, and it usually gives you a definition right there!
(Should M in mary be capitalized?)
They should both be capitalized, as they are titles.
I beg to differ - and so does everybody else.
Take it away, Grammergirl:
"Some cocktail names are easy to figure out because they go by the standard capitalization rules. If they don’t include something that would be a proper noun, such as a person’s name or a city name, don’t capitalize them. So “mimosa,” “mudslide,” and “pina colada” are all lowercase."
http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/educati…