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Blogger Humiliates Town Councillors Into Resigning

Dr_Barnowl writes "In an occurrence first postulated in sci-fi and later lampooned by stick figures, it seems that a blogger has actually been responsible for the mass resignation of elected officials — a British town council — largely by calling them 'jack***es' and Nazis. What's next? The deposition of a president with 'your mom' smacktalk?"

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  1. You LIE! by Zarf · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm going to let you finish but...

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  2. Re:Can we get rid of the US Congress so easily? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    to elect sympathy (no pun intended).

    If you'd said 'elicit' there would've been no pun anyway...

  3. Re:CounCILLors! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ---Counsellors are a different breed of people altogether, like Troi.---

    I think you misspelled "prostitute."

    How DARE you insult my lovely large-breasted empath. Just because she is a people person with lots of cleavage and not a geek like you doesn't give you the right to call her and her bosom names. LEAVE TROI ALONE!

  4. Re:CounCILLors! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't feed the Trois!

  5. Re:They've had the chance by Anne+Thwacks · · Score: 2, Funny
    how are they going to respond?

    Can I suggest sacrificing some virgins to the local dragon? It has often worked in the past!

    After all, our beloved government has just demonstrated their opposition to the concept of science, so logical responses are clearly politically unacceptable.

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  6. Re:Can we get rid of the US Congress so easily? by Daniel+Dvorkin · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think all rational people realize that when someone whips out the Nazi comparison that they're just behaving irrationally

    Normally you'd be right, but you know, when the council voted to invade Poland, someone had to dare to speak the truth!

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  7. Re:It finally happened! by hedwards · · Score: 2, Funny

    Which is why he should be encased in carbonite, duh. That way he makes a handle lair decoration and isn't helping the good guys.

  8. Re:Can we get rid of the US Congress so easily? by tkw954 · · Score: 2, Funny

    [Writing a resignation letter] does take several minutes, at least, and requires a word processor and a printer.

    Yeah, before the C64, it was impossible for anyone to quit their job!