1) The point isn’t that people recall the specific event, but just that you know people have blamed medications for racist tweeting. Obviously people do, so the joke works even if it hasn’t happened recently.
2) There is a non-zero probability there will come along shortly some celebrity nitwit that posts a racist tweet and make this topical again.
3) Never make a list with fewer than 3 items.
Bill: I think that excuse is marginally better than her new one, that she was actually criticizing anti-Semitism. Admittedly, that’s setting the bar pretty low.
James, not that I’ve been keeping up with my Roseanne newsletter, but I’m pretty sure the “no last name” thing was only a temporary affectation after the divorce.
Agreed, Woozy – especially if they revert back to their original name after a divorce – Courteney Cox, Kaley Cuoco, Meredith Baxter, et al. Though maybe hyphenates are less extreme than a complete change as Roseanne did.
Woozy, it’s sometimes awkward in the case of academic professions. All those bibliographies, are they going to be revised, or will this scholar henceforth have her older and newer works listed in different places?
Although in her later years the philosopher Ruth Barcan Marcus received some wider attention for semi-popular and political writing, she was reknowned professionally for her work in logic. There is even something in the field of Modal Logic named after her. That would be the Barcan Formula (and the less controversial converse Barcan Formula).. Did I say they were named after her? Well, yes ..
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Yeah, I had a couple moments of difficulty recalling which awful tweeter this must be about.
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I didn’t remember right away either: a month-old Twitter scandal is like Geezer territory.
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I thought the same.
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1) The point isn’t that people recall the specific event, but just that you know people have blamed medications for racist tweeting. Obviously people do, so the joke works even if it hasn’t happened recently.
2) There is a non-zero probability there will come along shortly some celebrity nitwit that posts a racist tweet and make this topical again.
3) Never make a list with fewer than 3 items.
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I have to admit that I’m lost as to this refers to.
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Mark M: Roseanne Barr made a racist tweet, and then later blamed it on Ambien.
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I think by now everybody knows that excuse would just be mocked.
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Hmm… It’s still fresh in my mind. But not particularly as pointed as it could be.
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Bill: I think that excuse is marginally better than her new one, that she was actually criticizing anti-Semitism. Admittedly, that’s setting the bar pretty low.
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@ WW – That’s exactly what her style of humor is all about: that might even be the reason why she goes by that last name.
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Ah yes of course. Thanks for the explanation.
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“that might even be the reason why she goes by that last name.”
Huh? Since she divorced Tom Arnold, she goes by no last name at all.
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James, not that I’ve been keeping up with my Roseanne newsletter, but I’m pretty sure the “no last name” thing was only a temporary affectation after the divorce.
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IMDB for what it is worth: ” In the 2000s, she ended the feud with her parents and siblings and went back to being billed as Roseanne Barr.”
I don’t even remember the Roseanne Thomas phase.
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This is irrational of me, but I always thought the was something wrong and weird about a celebrity taking on a married name professionally.
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Agreed, Woozy – especially if they revert back to their original name after a divorce – Courteney Cox, Kaley Cuoco, Meredith Baxter, et al. Though maybe hyphenates are less extreme than a complete change as Roseanne did.
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I think this comic fits this page’s title (but 3-4 months, instead):
https://www.gocomics.com/pickles/2018/06/29
https://assets.amuniversal.com/68b219404c98013639a4005056a9545d
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Oops. Here’s one that should show up in this page:
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Woozy, it’s sometimes awkward in the case of academic professions. All those bibliographies, are they going to be revised, or will this scholar henceforth have her older and newer works listed in different places?
Although in her later years the philosopher Ruth Barcan Marcus received some wider attention for semi-popular and political writing, she was reknowned professionally for her work in logic. There is even something in the field of Modal Logic named after her. That would be the Barcan Formula (and the less controversial converse Barcan Formula).. Did I say they were named after her? Well, yes ..
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Is Roseanne Barr any relation to Candy Barr, the famous Texan lady from the 1960’s?
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Yes, Mark. Ironically, this was before way too many candy bars.
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