This is when I think DU is at it's best.

[trumad]

You simply can't lay a load of bullshit in DU.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=907237&mesg_id=907395

[rinsd]

1. You can certainly lay a load of bullshit on DU.....

...you just have to make sure the flavor is right.

On Edit: I wanted to add one huge caveat, you can never lay a load that smells sweetly to all of DU.

[mark11727]

2. I ran out of there before things got too "ad hominum" for me...

:eyes:

[notadmblnd]

3. That should be recommended and posted on the greatest page

just to show everyone how it works here. Loved the smack.

[The Wielding Truth]

4. I think, Binka sharing the time she found out her son was wounded in

Iraq,the way many DU'rs had to send their appreciation to Helen Thomas in organic roses,the returning service people who have to speak out to us, when Will Pitt says anything,and the letter from Elizabeth Edwards reassuring us that she is fine. Those are some of the times when I think DU is at it's best.

[spuddonna]

5. Well said... n/t

[bobbieinok]

6. threads on Andy, Kephra, and the other long-time DU member who died

[LaPera]

7. Happens all the time...dude...No shit!

[guinivere]

8. A most enjoyable thread.

"Popinjay" is my new favorite word. :D

[Jose Diablo]

9. A perfectly good word

This deeply insulting word is now rather dated or literary. A good example can be found in Joseph Conrad’s short story The End of the Tether of 1902: “When he looked around in the club he saw only a lot of conceited popinjays too selfish to think of making a good woman happy”.

Dictionaries say a popinjay was also at one time the usual name for a parrot, and in that lies the origin of the derogatory term. What could be more gaudily and squawkingly in your face than a parrot? What more perfect term for an empty chatterer, fop or coxcomb? Who’s a pretty boy, then?