{"id":192710,"date":"2009-03-02T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T01:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/02\/belgium-just-belgium\/"},"modified":"2009-03-02T20:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T01:09:00","slug":"belgium-just-belgium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/02\/belgium-just-belgium\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium*, Just Belgium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Rod Blagojevich<\/span> gift that keeps on giving, Roland Burris, has  <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/politico\/20090302\/pl_politico\/19496;_ylt=AjysQHsnx6LiIEBnRJp7eVKs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFlZDIxZ3RqBHBvcwM4NQRzZWMDYWNjb3JkaW9uX3BvbGl0aWNzBHNsawNidXJyaXNsYXVuY2g-\">launched a web site dedicated to his reelection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Great googley moogley, please make it stop.<\/p>\n<p>Roland Burris not only thinks that he can win a primary, but that he can win a general, but at this point, I think that <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Dick Cheney<\/span> is more likely than he is to win a state wide election in the state of Illinois.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">I mean this in the meaning of the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy<\/span>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:78%;\" >Less offensive words have been created in the many languages of the galaxy, such as joojooflop, swut and Holy Zarquon&#8217;s Singing Fish.<\/p>\n<p>The use of bad language can have unforseen circumstances. One example is the war between the G&#8217;gugvunts and the Vl&#8217;hurgs, caused by a casual remark made by Arthur Dent being mistaken as a terrible insult.<\/p>\n<p>Simultaneous Babel Fish translation also means that any being can be rude to any other being without the need for extensive explanations. This has also started many wars.<\/p>\n<p>The reason the Earth has been shunned for so long is also due to a language problem. On Earth, Belgium refers to a small country. Throughout the rest of the galaxy, Belgium is the most unspeakably rude word there is.<\/span><sup>\u2020<\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><sup>\u2020<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Rumor has it that this came from Douglas Adams&#8217; experience hitchhiking across Europe.  He got where he needed to generally, but not in Belgium, so he had to walk across the whole country.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rod Blagojevich gift that keeps on giving, Roland Burris, has launched a web site dedicated to his reelection. Great googley moogley, please make it stop. Roland Burris not only thinks that he can win a primary, but that he can win a general, but at this point, I think that Dick Cheney is more likely &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}