Did everyone hear that ITC of CedrRapids had their employes? They did. Chuck Grassley was there. What else did he see? Why, a giant Nrg! You don’t come across a lot of those in Cedar Rapids, let your editor tell you. Not exactly the most diverse place.
Though Grassley is routinely criticized by teenagers for his poor use of the English language, he is politically astute. He provided a second tweet, within an hour, after realizing he said the “word” “Nrg”:
This may be the first time in history Grassley has provided a Grassley-to-English translation for his tweets. With this Rosetta Stone, experts may one day be able to figure out the language of all his messages. [Twitter]
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Aren't they all "big?"
"They're all the same size, but the black ones last longer."
Shirley Temple to the candy-store owner when he wonders why she asked for a black candy-stick in particular. (I think the movie was Captain January but wouldn't bet on it. Right now I'm too distracted by Megan Fox's, um, necklace.)
It's true, it's true!
Twue! (RIP Madeline K.)
Fifteen is my limit on schnitzenbruben.
I am genuinely shocked that after 125 comments, no one has said "The sheriff is a nrg!"
Everybody please steer clear of Grassley's hindquarters. It's not clear what the threat is, but it's big and includes the letters N, R, and G.
Oooh, sorry. the clue is "People who annoy you," and the correct answer is NAGGERS.
I think you mean "niggling".
One letter on each cheek.
Uh…energy? Did he fat-finger 'Erg'?
Shoulda typed "julz".
Nrg Big–also known as The Notorious N.R.G.
I wish the editor of Huck Finn had realized this – "Energy Jim" has a nice ring to it.
Energee Gym is the location Senator Herb Kohl provides for the Milwaukee Bucks dancers so they can train.
Sounds like the rebranding of 4 Loko.
They had their employees? Was it with some fava beans and a nice chianti?
Or at least a cigarette when they were done.
I wonder how many employees they had? I need to know exactly how impressed I should be.
Silly Grassley, energy = erg, not nrg. The Senator looses $500 in the Wonkbot Jeopardy Phizzics category.
Good thing he didn't get dyslexic with that and go talking about his worries about a big NGR, too, also.
That was the title of the great Richard Pryor album: "NGR Must Be Crazy."
Just because linux hates vowels doesn't mean they're haters. fsck me.
2 late 2 edit: "That NGR's Crazy" is the correct title. Sometimes memory doesn't serve. It double faults.
Is Grassley twatting about basketball again?
Chuck's hindquarters and the Big Nrg? Sounds like a porn flik.
All this tweeting is a sad mistake.
Sometimes the Olds need to stay old and not try to join the Youngs.
I'm doing my part to stay with my age group. It's all I can do to answer my daughter's cell phone when I borrow it and every time I try to call out is like the first time. Who knows why all that other stuff is in there too.
We know you have a certain amount of contempt for your constituents, Chuck, but the least you could do is capitalize the name of your friggin' state!
And it's even got an abbreviation that doesn't require translation.
How you gonna keep 'em down on the farm once they've gone NRG?
Once you've gone NRG, you never go back.
Just so there's no further confusion…
Spc = special
Chnk = chunk
Bnr = Boehner
Mck = mock
Kyk = ??? (help me out here)
Eric Cantor?
Kyk = KickinIt.
KY n' Kok. He's getting old, and chafe-y.
kyk = those two nrg brothers who fund all the nrg wingnuts, Koch and Koch.
The Twats who say Nrg.
Or Ne!
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I would upfist you a thousand times for that if I could, but not in a dirty way.
NRG with an Attitude? In Cedar Rapids?
I think he's on to something — this can be his new theme song.
NRGs with an attitude. Constituents who are in the mood. C'mon don't just stand there, let's get to it. Strike a pose, there's nothing to it. GRASSLEY!
ITC=Idiot's Twitter Communications
Uh, Chuck, Energy does not = Nrg; it =mc^2
That's exactly the kind of thinking that leads to communism! I read it on conservapedia.
I'm from Cedar Rapids (well, Marion, the "Manassas Park of the West")
"ITC" is really "IBTC," which is really the "Itty Bitty Titty Committee." And it is their "hindquarters" that were getting all the "NRG" from their employes also, too.
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Jsus H. tity fukng chrst.
So it should read, "Lots of issues energy big", correct?
Makes sense now.
Chuck needs to quit bragging about scoring all that 4 Loko.
So he's trying to say that NGR really is an NRG? Had no idea he was such a PIL fan.
I could be wrong
I could be right
I could be black
I could be white
Anger is an energy
Anger is an energy
Anger is an energy
May the road rise with you
May the road rise with you
May the road rise with you
You Wonks will dance to anything by Public. Image. Limited.
I cd b wrng
I cd b rt
I cd b blk
I cd b wt
ANGR S N NRG!
Trying to stave of GCC (global climate change) I'm all for GRN NRG.
"Chuck Grassley" is really an anagram for his real name, "Gassy Chuckler."
He sits in his own pew at church.
Where he's known as Senator Silent But Deadly.
Dingo – You are the salvador dali of fart jokes. No matter the topic you are able to paint it into a melting, surreal fart reference. There are many here who can make the good buttsechs joke, but to have so perfectly mastered the intellegent, relevant fart joke is a real gift.
It pleases me greatly, and I am humbled by your talents.
Whenever I see Big Energy walking down the street, I cross to the other side and clutch my purse. Eyes diverted, slightly downward with a freakish half smile / grimace on my lily white face.
If I'm driving, I lock the doors. Obviously.
If I'm feeling brave I say, "Loved you in To Kill A Mockingbird."
Careful, don't get your chiffarobe busted up!
For fuck's sake Chuck, just use two tweets.
~IA
HQ
staff
He's not very efficient with the letters.
Everyone knows that Energy=mc2.
I had a big Nrg once. But I went to the dermatologist, and he gave me this ointment that cleared it up.
I can't stand texting abbreviations. Grassley is old enough to be able to write properly. Shame on him (or his intern).
He's also old enough for his thumbs to starting hurting after about 60 characters. Hence the wait for an hour to clarify his earlier tweet. Had to wait for the Motrin to kick in.
I suppose there might come a day when they actually want to do that, but I certainly can't image it.
can't img it?
Oh, no he di'nt!
Nice to see the New Rhythm & Blues Quartet (trio? (didn't Gerald Levert die, awhile ago?) has ended Soul Train's proscription of service to Iowa.
Negro= my knee is growing. "lots of issues nrg big" is a fag-ment.
Chk md doody boombm in Dpends = big.
Just so everyone is clear on this. I copyrighted the tag "elected ruminant" when referring to Grassley hundreds of years ago.
Thank god I had a good ju lwyr.
Lawyr's clsg arg 2 jry: "Rumen abomasum, yet reticulum omasum."
'ITC of Cedar Rapids had their employees' is the kind of thing you might hear come out of the mouth of an overweight Southern Baptist woman at a coffee klatch. Flower print cotton dress, etc. You guys get the picture?
Some people just shouldn't tweet.
Chuck, put the tweetcom down.
It's for your own good.
I thought Nrg was related to the British lurgy
So sad when a geezer tries to be cool. Believe me, I know…
Word!
Wheez!
Throw the Ju down the well.
Ju = joules, a unit of Nrg.
Brother of a physicist gives you a +1.
So my electrons can be free!
Only if the valences match the drapes!
First they came for the joules and I said nothing…
Yo, is that gov'mnt Chedda Rapids.
Fucking Twitter. How does it work?
Someone tweet Chuck and inform him the negroes stole his dates.
This is what they found scratched into the walls of Chuck's office, right before the walking dead came for him.
Grassly's intern had enough characters space to spell energy (only 125 or so characters) A whole 3, count'em 3 extra characters would have saved a morning's worth of ridicule.
Fucking Twitter Twats.
Yes, but Republicans almost always are penny-wise and pound-foolish, always willing to follow ideology and habit no matter what the cost.
NRG in the hindquarters? Kobe's at it again.
Don't forget: his wife is Mexican, making their daughters… ANCHOR BABIES!
Chuck's biggest "Nrg" issue right now is the one sitting in the WH.
You people have got to stop! I have been laughing my hindquarters off!
A Crips Libel?
N* would require 1 less character?
Sometime in the past a group of nerds were sitting around designing what would become the Internet, saying to themselves, "We can connect the whole world!" Nobody stopped to ask, "Do you really think we should?"
Believe me, things were WAY WAY BETTER when it was difficult to use the Internet.
Indeed, I think we made it too easy to use. In the old days someone would have given this guy a series of tubes – cardboard tubes, taped together – and said, "Speak into this to broadcast your tweets." And that would have been the end of it.
Hey, I remember back before the internet was easy to use, and what happened when AOL made it so any idiot could get online. "Now every month is September".
But what about garage and dubstep?
I'm just hoping he didn't mean NGR….that would be rather urban and inappropriate.
Speling iz hard.
Once you go Nrg, you never go back.
Beat me to it.
It is appalling that someone would use such an abbreviation, which apparently refers to the offensive term "Negro."
Anyone using such a term should be imprisoned immediately — save for, of course, our dear friend Negropolis.
Cordially,
Eleanor
Man–you really love Negropolis.. If I tell you to eat shit, will you post an unfunny form letter addressed to me?
Is he really a "Negro"? Franklin insists that he is Greek? Because of the last name? Or perhaps Franklin is re-living experience an experience he shared with Mr. Polis in the Men's Room of the Harvard Club?
Cordially,
Eleanor
Are we sure this isn't Neilist? Perhaps one of the personalities he normally stores under the bed along with his death arsenal?
There hasn't been a detailed description of the Glock auto-loading mechanism in every post, so, no.
OU812
Yes Chuck I'll agree: you have lots of issues.
The Nrgs are plotting their revenge as he tweets.
NRG, Please!
If he had to use two tweets anyway, why couldn't he just split the message in two and express himself clearly in 280 characters?
Hengh?
You just won the day by saying "express himself clearly" about a Republican senator.
Of course NRG = Energy. Have you ever seen a big NRG on the dance floor?
Mooden Raus!
Many Cedrrapidians knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Nrg this day.
As an Nrg-lovin' do-good NY ju lbrl, J-Dog, u shld b ashmd of urslf for bringin' dis up!
I also began my celebration of MLK Day with a few cocktails a few days early, but at least I had the good sense to stay away from Twitter.
The death of the English Language is on his hands, aka Blood Libel.
Dear Chuck:
I M 1. R U 2?
XOXO,
Z-P the PnHd
The translation actually doesn't make any more sense than the original tweet. But, that is to be expected of Chuck "Corns-for-Brains/Children of the Korn" Grassley.
BTW, I think the correct abbr. is "the n-word".
Y-tee/YT, please.
As is gravity.
I have to admit, I just sort of assumed someone did.
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