Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Post Election: We Welcome Our New Insect Overlords

Hang onto your wallets, purses, and piggy banks, people!

PS: How about welcoming our new potted overlords too?

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

Insect? I actually don't get that.

Gee, lose an election and suddenly the world stops making sense. Or is it that I haven't had my coffee yet?

Mad Minerva said...

Oh, you're fine. It's an in-joke with some other friends. I'd thought about writing instead "our new Cylon overlords," but then I thought that's too geeky! ;-)

Mad Minerva said...

Blogfriend James Chen had thought of the insect overlord idea a while back, too:

http://jameschen.blogspot.com/2006/11/i-for-one-welcome-our-new-insect.html

Of course, he was referring to Nancy Pelosi!

Margaret Larkin said...

But The One was editor of the Crimson--why are you such haters?

Anonymous said...

Well, that's good then.

And thanks for the link! But, you know, you covered that as well ...

Pat Patterson said...

Lumpenscholar-Think Kent Brockman, Kang and Kodos.

Anonymous said...

Okay, but what should I think about them?

(That's because I have no idea who they are. I'm hoping they entered the cultural lexicon in the mid-90s to mid-00s so I can say, "Oh, I was out of the country" and sound romantically adventurous instead of stupid.)

(And you know, I seem to be ending this thread the same way I began it: clueless.)

Mad Minerva said...

Try this, Lumpen-san:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_Homer

Indeed, it's from the mid-1990s -- 1994, to be exact! Simpsons-mania!

For an example of use in pop culture, here's just one example:

http://www.newscientist.com/blog/space/2007/06/british-government-welcomes-our-new.html

Mad Minerva said...

Aw, MJ, are we really haters? Or just obsessed with the Simpsons? ;-)

Mad Minerva said...

Lumpen-san, video here!

http://www.videosift.com/video/I-for-one-welcome-our-new-insect-overlords

Pat Patterson said...

Well, The One may have only been president of the Harvard Law Review but some other One was the editor or the Daily Crimson! Or would the latter be The Two?

Anonymous said...

Thanks, MM! Never say you aren't a true Educator!