OK the Magistrate just called Barnicle a turd

[grantcart]

You know that your station in life has been reduced to ashes when this gentle giant of DU makes a scatological reference.

The Magistrate graces these threads with brief stinging comments that are sharp, witty and to the recipient, devastatingly on target.

And always the rapier thrust is delivered with politeness, Sir.

Mike Barnicle you have just been tagged like the side of a Denny's one block from the Hollywood exit off of the 405. And, Sir, its going to last longer than a prison tattoo embossed on your forehead.

Once the Magistrate has labeled you a turd, it is a life sentence and there is no appeal.

From now on you will be referred to as Turdicle.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=7693735&mesg_id=7693811


Barnicle, Sir, Is A Turd

Bailiff, next case please.

[Touchdown]

1. You are Correct, Sir!

:patriot:

[cliffordu]

2. Sheesh. I thought I was rough on people.

:rofl:

[opihimoimoi]

3. Oh NOES...not the Dreaded Turdicle...a Fate worse than Death...oh noes.....

[lonestarnot]

4. Let the proclamation go out throughout the land! Turdicle!

[Starry Messenger]

5. The Magistrate, Sir...

Has been getting mighty punk rock these last few weeks. I'm really starting to doubt that he's actually 86 years old and wears plaid slippers like I imagine him to.

[grantcart]

7. A recent photograph, Sir!

[Starry Messenger]

8. And then there is this scandalous Proclamation, Sir

[Aloha Spirit]

15. hahaha, that's a keeper.

[Aloha Spirit]

16. .

[Beausoir]

22. Priceless!

[Jersey Devil]

6. So let it be written, so let it be done - "Mike Turdicle" it is

Too bad he doesn't have his own TV show like Tweety so we could read daily accounts of just how turdacious he is.

[phrigndumass]

9. LOL, Sir!

I haven't known The Magistrate to be incorrect about anything yet :D

If it walks like a turd, talks like a turd, smells like a turd ... It's probably a turd.

[grantcart]

14. In Palinspeak its Turdicle the Plagiarist

[NanceGreggs]

10. Once The Magistrate has passed judgment ..

... one can expect no mercy.

[CreekDog]

11. he's called me a turd

well, he should have. :rofl:

[AuntPatsy]

12. Lol so true..i loved this....

[Aloha Spirit]

13. Disgraced celebrities go on cable news to regain their status. Normally the stations go along with

the joke. Not so this week on Hardball, when Chris Matthews allowed Tom Delay to walk neck deep into some smelly sh*t. Matthews has Debbi Wasserman-Schultz respond.
Approzimately:
"With all due respect to Tom Delay I think we have to consider the source. We're talking about someone who left the Cpngress in disgrace and presided over the biggest culture of corruption that's ever hung over the Capitol of the US house of Representatives."
Matthews chuckles.

I was very pleased.

youtube here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzOX0tsK9uI&feature=related

[Olney Blue]

17. When the Magistrate talks, people listen.

[grantcart]

29. and some tremble

[ChiciB1]

18. I'm A Wreck... But WHAT IS The Magistrates Court?? Something Made Up

here at DU?? I've been here a long time, what did I miss??

[kestrel91316]

23. Watch for The Magistrate's posts here at DU. He's our resident

legal eagle, from what I can tell. And he's a hoot!

[ChiciB1]

25. Okay, Thank You.... I'm Still A Mess!! And I Have Meetings Tomorrow

and campaign work on Monday, and poll watching on Tuesday! May my "spirits" guide me til Wednesday!

[monmouth]

27. Uh-Oh, bet he was the judge at my last divorce....n/t

[grantcart]

26. We don't really know what it is - it just hovers over DU keeping it safe.

It delivers pizza, it scolds and then it disappears like a wisp of smoke.


Who was that masked man? He isn't masked but we can't see him so the TV reference seems about right.


All that is known is that you don't want to get on the Magistrate's bad side or you will feel his weight, Sir!





(The Magistrate is a moderator who is known as being something of a counter institution at DU because in a networld with little civility the Magistrate is always brief and painstakingly polite. I just took the Magistrate's comments and gave it an official sounding platform to rub the point in with some humore.)

[mopinko]

19. if the magistrate said it, you can take it to the bank.

not sure what you do with a turd once you get to the bank with it, but....

[rasputin1952]

20. LOL...Barnicle is indeed a turd...

:rofl:

[The Magistrate]

21. Thank You, Sir!

I appreciate this very much, though you make me blush like a schoolgirl....

[grantcart]

41. lol, Sir!

[Tracer]

24. You may have called him a turd, Sir ...

... but I'm sure that you did it quite politely.

[Kurovski]

28. Good heavens!

Good gracious!

Fuckin' A!

[Hissyspit]

30. So many people are so right - no pun intended - to think Mike Barnicle is a piece of shit.

[intheflow]

31. Updated the glossary to include "Turdicle."

What a fitting tribute to an unfit-for-prime-time turd like Barnicle. And what a beautiful tribute this thread is to The Magistrate, grantcart. God, I'm getting all verklempt with the love he inspires. Now I need a hanky.

[The Magistrate]

34. Thank You, Ma'am

[grantcart]

38. lol

[bluedawg12]

32. Oh, turdicle- thy middle name is plager

they named plagerism in thy honor:

Barnicle worked for The Boston Globe for 25 years and wrote nearly 4000 columns as their 'metro" columnist. In 1998 he was forced to resign from the Boston Globe amid questions about two of those columns. The first column, more than 80 lines of humorous observations dated August 2, 1998, contained a handful of observations that resembled jokes in the 1997 book Brain Droppings by George Carlin.

Controversy
A complete review of all of Barnicle's thousands of Globe columns revealed an alleged fabrication in a column from three years earlier, dated October 8, 1995. The column recounted the story of two sets of parents with cancer-stricken children. When one of the boys, a black child, died, the parents of the other boy, a white child who had begun to recover, sent the dead child's parents a check for $10,000 USD. When the Globe could not locate the people in the story, who had not been publicly identified, Barnicle insisted that the story was true. He said he did not obtain the story from the parents, but from a nurse. Days after Barnicle resigned over the controversy, Patricia Shairs stepped forward to say that the 1995 column was the story of her son and another child at Children's Hospital, but as she had not spoken directly with Barnicle, the column contained some factual errors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Barnicle#Controversy

[Blue_Tires]

33. case closed!

[DearAbby]

35. the Magistrate just called Barnicle a turd..SIR

get it right :evilgrin:

[butterfly77]

36. Recommended...

[Ikonoklast]

37. Mr. Turdicle, The Magistrate Is Not Amused.

Please Refrain From Issuing Further Nonsense From Thy Piehole, Sir.

[grantcart]

40. great pic

[proud patriot]

39. LOL

turdicle it is

[Rowdyboy]

42. The issue, sir, has been settled....

Declaratively.....

[grantcart]

46. appeal denied

[Lil Missy]

43. This is a DUzy if I've ever seen one! K&R!

[chill_wind]

44. LOL! K & R :-)

eom

[grantcart]

45. tks

[grantcart]

47. a last kick so people can see the official pronouncement

[Swamp Rat]

48. pwned!

:D

[grantcart]

49. great but we need an official one for the Turdicle