Weekly Standard Right Wing Geek Picture of the Day

Dennis Perrin dperrin at comcast.net
Wed Feb 5 12:15:49 PST 2003



>The real tragedy in U.S. culture is that a
> man's love for a man can only be understood as homosexual love.
>
> Joanna

Reminds me of an exchange from the early 80's Brit show, "The Young Ones":

RICK [A student anarchist]: God, I'm bored! I might as well be listening to Genesis! [Walks to drawing room] Marrow...

Meringue...

Boomerang...

Long blue boomerang...

VYVYAN [an orange-haired thug]: Oh, shut up!

RICK: I'm trying to free form!

VYVYAN: I'm trying to read!

RICK: OH, REALLY! I learned how to do that years ago! [snort] And what is it you're reading, Vyvyan? A bit of Pretarkian verse, is it? Little bit of French drama?

VYVYAN: It's called, 'SS Death Camp Criminal Battalion go to Monte Casino for the Massacre'.

RICK: [snatching comic] That's MY bloody comic!

VYVYAN: Give it back!

RICK: No, Vyvyan! It's mine! [sits down and reads] Anyway, there's no point in reading comics, they're stupid! They treat the kids is if they we're...well, as if they were, you know, kids! Nothing but war in them! War! War! Bloody war! Why can't they have stories about love and peace?

VYVYAN: Because it's sissy, you girly!

RICK: I'm not being girly, Vyvyan. Longing for a peaceful world is not being girly.

VYVYAN: It is! It's being soppy and very very girly!

RICK: I AM NOT BEING G...Look, this entire discussion is completely sexist anyway and I don't intend to continue it! [pause] But, for your information, it is not soppy of me to long for a world where a man will love his brother.

VYVYAN: Poof!

RICK: You're deliberately trying to provoke me, aren't you?

VYVYAN: Yeah!

RICK: For one man to love another, Vyvyan, is not poofy. It's actually very beautiful. It's only when they start touching each others bottoms that it gets poofy.

VYVYAN: I'm going to tell Mike and Neil [their rommates] that you said you love men. Hey, Mike...

RICK: Look, all I said was this comic is a reactionary militaristic pamphlet! All they ever do is fight all the time!

VYVYAN: And what's so wrong with that? I suppose you think we should all go around touching each others bottoms! 'Dan Dare touches Algie's bottom!' 'Exciting new story: Batman gooses the Joker's crack!'

DP



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