Over-Teaing It

George: "I'm hoping this Earl Grey will do the trick."

Definitive Interlocutor: "That isn't Earl Grey; it's black tea."

George: "Well. Whatever. I like it. Especially the black part."

(Pause)

George: "I wonder if I am over-teaing it."

On Canada

George: Is there a Tim Horton's in your town?
Palindromic Interlocutor: Yes.
George: Then you're from Canada.

Guest Observation: On Telling it like it Is.

George: Actually, I find an early Teddy Roosevelt sexy.
Palindromic Interlocutor: George would want Teddy because he wants a lover who speaks softly and carries a big stick.

On Sexy Time

1: Just because you bang things doesn't make it sexual.

2: There's a correlation, a correlation I would like to have sex with.

Guest(s) Observation: On Lewd Co-mments

Palindromic Interlocutor: How do I make it bigger?
Ammoral Interlocutor: Touch it.
--Awkward pause--
PI: Stop looking at me!
AI: Actually, that would do it too.

Cajun Cooking

Fashionable Interlocutor: "I can get 150 lbs of live crawfish shipped to me for the low, low price of $643.50."

Delicious Platonist: "Gross and scary."

In Rhetoric Class

No. I'm just labeling it more derisively.

What is phronesis? It sounds like something House would diagnose.

Guest Observation: On Sexy Time

Guest Interlocutor: It's not like the clitoris has armor.

On Potent Potables

If I wanted to face reality I wouldn't be drunk.

On Logic

Maybe my words grounded it in truth.

On Drama

There aren't just problems in my life; there are varying degrees of crisis.

Meditations on a Debate Tournament, Part Two

On the Differences between Worlds and US Policy Debate:
"It seems like we debate, but actually we live in some bizarre parallel universe."

Meditations on a Debate Tournament

Theories of Translation:
1) "Nipun, I changed your name out of love... And imperialism."
2) "E pluribus unum": That's like an orgy, right?

Theories of a Winning Smile:
Stop giving him things.

Theories of Credibility and Rhetorical Adaptation:
Colonel Sanders has ethos when it comes to chicken, but I don't know about other debate topics.

Pot Calling the Kettle George

Interlocutor: "The first step is admitting you have a problem."

George: "No, the first step is to stop having the problem and annoying the crap out of all of us."

On Noverbal Negation

I will squint at you derisively.

I'm with George

This is a blog dedicated to the painfully perceptive commentary of our friend, George. We are going to catalogue his statements as we go because we think you ought to be privy to them, as well.

The first one is an oldie but a goodie:
"You summarily dismissed my arguments with the truth."