Los Angeles Times Fulfills Its Proper Function (Photo)
My deepest thanks to reader Steve L. for the finest email I have received in recent memory:
Attached are two photos taken 30 minutes ago at the pet store in Fashion Island, Newport Beach.
You will no doubt notice the correct use of the LA Times.
Let me also take this opportunity to extend my warmest wishes to you for the holiday season, and to let you know that you are always welcome at my new home in [redacted by Patterico].
Keep up the outstanding work.
Here is one of the attached photos:
Above: The L.A. Dog Trainer fulfills its true function
Let’s always remember that the term “Dog Trainer” for this paper was coined by Harry Shearer. All I did was steal it and, in my own small way, help popularize it.
Thanks again to Steve L.
What dogs do to the Dog Trainer is way more interesting and artistic than the musings of Robin Abcarian or Michael Hiltzik.
JVW (d60453) — 12/5/2015 @ 12:58 pmthis makes sense cause of if the dog makes pee pee (and you just know it will) then the propaganda fibers will soak up the urines and then it’s way easier to clean
happyfeet (831175) — 12/5/2015 @ 12:58 pmmaybe i should work for vox
happyfeet (831175) — 12/5/2015 @ 1:04 pmI was recently at Fashion Island, and surprised to see a well-dressed, middle-aged male standing on the exit/entry median to the high-end center, holding up a placard seeking work. Of course, it being South OC, his message was spelled correctly on a white poster-board, and he was dressed in ready-to-work wear, business trousers and button-up. Surprising for a number of reasons…
Dana (86e864) — 12/5/2015 @ 1:13 pmPardon my ignorance but what’s a button-up?
Rev. Barack Hussein Hoagie™ (f4eb27) — 12/5/2015 @ 1:24 pmI guess dogs can’t read. Otherwise they would know that the LA Times isn’t hardly fit to be a dog trainer.
Tom (1e059e) — 12/5/2015 @ 1:27 pmI wonder if that is recycled paper?
papertiger (c2d6da) — 12/5/2015 @ 1:37 pmI would check on the dogs in a few days and see how they are. They might be dead or they might have escaped.
Mike K (90dfdc) — 12/5/2015 @ 2:03 pmClearly you wouldn’t want that to come in contact with any fish you might eat.
As to it’s idiotic speaking truth to power older brother, the NYT, we can all await that hard-hitting investigative report about media oligarchs who build fortunes on the backs of immigrants in the shadows on every wire transfer, remittances and phone card fees back to their home country.
Bugg (fa64ec) — 12/5/2015 @ 2:21 pmIt is now, papertiger.
Rev. Barack Hussein Hoagie™ (f4eb27) — 12/5/2015 @ 2:25 pmyou public-school-educated failmericans misuse the idea of “coining” a phrase or term so often it’s kinda weird to see it used correctly
i don’t drink but sometimes i need a stiff drink
happyfeet (831175) — 12/5/2015 @ 3:11 pmPardon my ignorance but what’s a button-up?
It’s what you call an Oxford shirt when it’s not from Oxford.
JVW (d60453) — 12/5/2015 @ 3:17 pmoxford or brogue
i’ve googled this like 10 million times
then i buy another pair of docs
happyfeet (831175) — 12/5/2015 @ 3:20 pmThe Oxford is a button down shirt. A button up shirt (or button up lady’s blouse for that matter) is just one that buttons all the way to the collar. So you can have a button up that’s a button down (Oxford) or a button up that’s a tab collar.
And this guy is full of Cambridge. http://mensfitclub.com/button-up-button-down-what%E2%80%99s-the-difference/ Lots of people wear button down shirts with suits and ties.
nk, (dbc370) — 12/5/2015 @ 4:15 pmWow. I’m gonna be 65 Jan. 7 and I fancied myself a nice dresser but I never heard the term button-up. I figured it was some regional thing, here we call them button front shirts. There’s button down but that’s a collar. Oxford is a fabric like cotton twill, chambray, poplin or broadcloth and can be straight collar, button down, spread, varsity spread, Windsor spread, snap, tab, collar bar Piccadilly, or many more.
Rev. Barack Hussein Hoagie™ (f4eb27) — 12/5/2015 @ 4:27 pmSorry nk, button down is a collar style, hot a shirt fabric. I have oxford button downs but I also have broadcloth button downs. Similarly, I have oxford straight and spread collar shirts. Now I’m not trying to be a show off but I get my dress shirts custom made because I like Windsor spread, collar bar or button downs with a high back (about 1/2″ above my jacket collar) and I always wear French cuffs plus I like to pick out the fabric and design. I pretty much know my shirts. Of course all summer long all I wear are Tommy Bahama Hawaiian’s off the rack. They are “button-ups” too but to me they are “camp style” shirts.
Rev. Barack Hussein Hoagie™ (f4eb27) — 12/5/2015 @ 4:36 pmThe LA Times had a large number of top staffers agreeing to a buyout offer a few weeks ago and quitting their long-time jobs with the paper. I’m sure office morale is really good there, perfectly in alignment with the era of Obama’s America.
Meanwhile, there’s talk (twittered by Rupert Murdoch a few days ago) that the LA Times is finally going to be sold by the Tribune Co to a group of local investors headed by billionaire Eli Broad, whose profile is that of a limousine liberal (although, admittedly, he at least has donated lots of his wealth and been good to the community).
What really stunned me was also reading that the circulation of the Times has plummeted so much it has gone from around 1 million subscribers to the 300,000s, which is a figure more in keeping with small-town periodicals.
Pardon me while a wipe away a tear (and stifle a guffaw).
Mark (74fce8) — 12/5/2015 @ 4:51 pm