Overthinking the comedy in Hesgeth's tweet, but I really think this is a "greater than the sum of its parts" deal.
"Rough Rider" could go either way, and "Midnight Hammer" sounds like somebody just put "manly" words in a hat and picked out two. But put the two by each other and you get a real "Rob Halford songs about manly gay sex" vibe... and then you top that off with Southern Spear, which sounds like an Austin Powers bit.
There was a point in the late 2010s when her articles on NYMag started to annoy me with their stupidity. She's always written like this, and the weird undertones from those power networks were seeping through. Somehow this post was the first I'd heard of what happened, but I'm not surprised in the least.
"Nuzzi walked through hell and she took notes." This seems like a very mild version of hell to include a book deal, excerpts in Vanity Fair, and a gently scathing NY Times profile.
No normal person saw double entendres in those operation names. Because most people genuinely care about obliterating hostile nuclear sites and diminishing narco-terrorist states. The joke is on you.
I was wondering whether Nuzzi wrote her own book description, because it reads like a parody and I would expect a professional to write a book description that is plausibly believable. But after reading the excerpts, I hope the book description is printed on the back cover because it’s likely better writing than anything else in the book.
How could you possibly miss OPERATION HARD WORKING STAFF?
Oh damn. OH DAMN!!!
Shame!
I’m on Amtrak. In the quiet car. And dying! 🤣🤣🤣
Gives new meaning to a staff job. But anyway…. OPERATION BACKDOOR. OPERATION MISSLE PROBE. OPERATION TANGLED SHEETS
OPERATION PILE DRIVER
Operation Strap-On
Operation Leather Whip
Operation Backdoor Man
Operation Hard Drive
So many more…
Operation ball-gag
Operation gimp-mask
Overthinking the comedy in Hesgeth's tweet, but I really think this is a "greater than the sum of its parts" deal.
"Rough Rider" could go either way, and "Midnight Hammer" sounds like somebody just put "manly" words in a hat and picked out two. But put the two by each other and you get a real "Rob Halford songs about manly gay sex" vibe... and then you top that off with Southern Spear, which sounds like an Austin Powers bit.
I honestly laughed at "in a literal sense, he used not a bullet but a bird".
There was a point in the late 2010s when her articles on NYMag started to annoy me with their stupidity. She's always written like this, and the weird undertones from those power networks were seeping through. Somehow this post was the first I'd heard of what happened, but I'm not surprised in the least.
"Nuzzi walked through hell and she took notes." This seems like a very mild version of hell to include a book deal, excerpts in Vanity Fair, and a gently scathing NY Times profile.
FLACCID HAMMER
ACTIVE SHAGGER
MEAT HAMMER
MASSIVE DAGGER
And last, but certainly not least. . .
ERECT SENTRY
Oh, that WAS fun, thanks for this much- needed comic relief.
No normal person saw double entendres in those operation names. Because most people genuinely care about obliterating hostile nuclear sites and diminishing narco-terrorist states. The joke is on you.
If that's supposed to be deadpan humor, you take the cake, buddy!
So she went for a hike on the Appalachian Trail? Does Rusty of "Today in Tabs" fame know about this?
OPERATION MIDNIGHT HAMMER
OPERATION MIDNIGHT THRUST
I was wondering whether Nuzzi wrote her own book description, because it reads like a parody and I would expect a professional to write a book description that is plausibly believable. But after reading the excerpts, I hope the book description is printed on the back cover because it’s likely better writing than anything else in the book.
I don’t want to totally dismiss the book; it might become the next https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eye_of_Argon