“Americans Are Bonkers”
This from a guy who lives below sea level, whose nation’s, excuse me, continent’s response to Islamo-terrorism is increasingly appeasement, and who gets his Euro-shorts in a twist every time I lump all Euros in one basket. Hey Clogboy! Find a hill!
I think what MVDG is trying to say is, “Dennis Kucinich and Fyfe Symington are bonkers.” Unless, that is, they’re right, and there is something flying around out there …
Seriously, though, if the Gouda-gobbler were to absent himself from Legoland and spend any time out west, I guarantee you the light and space would really put the zap on his head, as someone said once about something else,* and he’d probably start seeing weird stuff flying around in the middle of the night, too.
That said, Van der Galien is absolutely right. Not only are Americans bonkers, we’re also undiplomatic cowboys. Watch out! We’re gonna come lasso you and have a hootinanny or a hoedown or a Eurodeo or something. Whatever the heck cowboys do. How would I know? I live in New England.
* Apocalypse Now, 1979 cinematographic study of American cowboy bonkerism, Capt. Williard, re “Clean.”
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:42 am on Saturday, November 10, 2007
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November 10th, 2007 at 10:53 am
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November 10th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
Hootinannies are a heyday. I reckon.
November 10th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
I love the smell of IMDB in the morning:
Willard: Clean, Mr. Clean, was from some South Bronx $#;+#01&. Light and space of Vietnam really put the zap on his head.
November 10th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
“Americans are bonkers” and yet it is in the streets of Amsterdam that Theo Van Gogh, riding his bicycle, was shot at close range and had his throat slit and a note pinned to his body ?
For political ideology and making a movie ?
Also Pim Fortuyn shot dead ?
I really don’t think Hollanders should be getting off on calling Americans “bonkers” on the basis the remarks of a few way far out there (possibly deranged) individuals like Dennis Kucinich.
At least Dennis hasn’t (yet) taken to slaughtering those who think him nuts.
Holland itself is becoming so “bonkers” many longstanding long term residents are deciding to live somewhere else.
November 10th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
I think that saying Americans are bonkers is just another way of saying that Americans are complete mysteries to the rest of the world.
November 10th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
No actually Rebecca, I see it as (yet another) euro- pean attempt at playing the “we’re better than you are” élitist card.
(sorry to belaboUr this point)
November 13th, 2007 at 9:19 am
The denizens of the continent that came up with nazism, fascism and communism are saying that WE’RE bonkers, eh?
My irony-meter just exploded.
November 13th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
Yes, we are bonkers.
And yet, they keep wanting to piss us off. What does that say about their ability to think things through?