A site-specific search function can be very handy in confirming (or not) one's first impressions about a blogger's vocabulary. For the fourth time in the last eight months, and the third time in the last four, the blogger who calls himself 'Hesiod Theogeny' has referred to opponents as "urine-stained". (I won't link to him, but the post is dated April 24th, 7:23:38 PM.) It's an unusual locution, and his use of it is beginning to seem a little obsessive. It may be worth asking why he is so fond of it. Here are some possibilities:
More likely it just shows his lack of imagination - recycling lame insults.
Posted by: Robin Roberts on April 29, 2003 11:17 AMHesiod's urine-stained prose appears to be a product of an adolescent mind. If men are from Mars and women from Venus, teen-agers are from Uranus.
Posted by: Joanne Jacobs on April 29, 2003 06:32 PMOnce long ago, I frequented Usenet newsgroups as "research." After months of observing the various permuations of insult and invective, I devised a Projection Chart that delineates the flamer's innermost sexual obsessions, fears and/or fantasies. It's pretty rude. If you'd like, I'll send you a copy.
Suffice to say that Hesiod's repeated use of the term "urine-stained" correlates to what is commonly referred to as Golden Showers.
lol, rebecca, i would like a copy of that.
its definitely a case of lazy prose, but he should be tested a bit before he is ladened with a claim of a fixation on urine.
I find it fascinating that you can do search functions to find this type of info....
Imagine how far the NSA is into our collective heads.
Joel,
My "research" was in response to the rantings and flame-outs of one particularly obnoxious denizen of alt.california. It was really pretty silly.
Send me an e-mail, and I'll send you the list.
Hmmmm, I'm gonna have to ask Joanne's royalty rate to steal that great line above.
Posted by: Robin Roberts on May 1, 2003 12:56 AM