I’m grateful for the link, but…
I was browsing through the list of incoming links to this site and spotted one at CougarBoard.com, a discussion site for fans of BYU sports. Here is a screen grab of what the person wrote:
What? Not the “lightly liberal but still funny” part (though I am amused by the implication that usually liberals aren’t funny). I mean the subject line: “Anybody Recall Eric D Snyder’s ‘Snyde Remarks’?” Really? Snyder and Snyde Remarks? You’d expect the link to read http://www.ericdsnyder.com, but somehow he got that right.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
At least he didn’t say “lightly-loafered liberal.”
May 9th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
I guess I should say “lyghtly-loafered lyberal.”
May 9th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Maybe he meant “lightly liberal but still funny [even if you're a good, conservative Mormon].”
The misspelling is more baffling, though. How did he get the correct URL in the first place?
May 9th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
By the way, Eric, today there was a spider in my office and I quoted to my boss your line about spiders and ballerinas, and she laughed out loud. So the appreciation of your lightly-liberal funniness continues to spread!
May 9th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Do you think he meant ’slightly’ liberal? How is one ‘lightly’ liberal? By being skinny and liberal? Or does that mean Eric is liberal, but he doesn’t take his liberality too seriously? It’s a good thing he can be funny anyway!
May 9th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
You’re merely ‘lightly liberal’ because you hate PETA.
May 10th, 2008 at 6:15 am
Liberal Light! Same great taste as regular Liberal, but without the intolerance of Conservatism.
May 10th, 2008 at 6:37 am
Liberals are some of the funniest people around. Just not when they talk about politics. Then the comedy is merely unintentional. But seriously, most writers are liberal.
May 10th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
I will say that BYU is not the first thing I thought of when I saw “CougarBoard.com.”
May 10th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Eric Snyder is a staunchly conservative writer, so you know he’s funny.
May 11th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
I tend to think the snyde part was a joke, or kind of a play on “The Y.” And new readers can’t say they weren’t fairly warned.
Although how I raised a “lightly liberal” and an ultra-conservative, born only 15 months apart, is not clear, but it sure makes me glad they love each other!
May 11th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Paul wrote:
“Liberals are some of the funniest people around. Just not when they talk about politics. Then the comedy is merely unintentional. But seriously, most writers are liberal.”
I think you meant to write “Politically-oriented jokes are only funny when I agree with them.”
May 11th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
I thought they banned liberals in Utah…..or at least made them wear a big “L” on their chests, like Hester Prynne in “The Scarlett Letter”…….
Not that I would know, because apparently since I live in Utah I have to vote Republican or they’ll shun me…..
May 11th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Jenn, what does Utah have to do with anything? Eric lives in Portland.
May 12th, 2008 at 8:34 am
Somehow, I would have expected something very different on cougarboard.com, but that’s just me.
May 12th, 2008 at 11:51 am
Well, apparently not JUST you, since thejoeinme said the same thing in his comment.
May 13th, 2008 at 1:02 am
Mikey…Eric may be in Portland, but last time I checked, BYU was in Utah……..I could be wrong about that though….
May 13th, 2008 at 10:24 am
peptide farmer wrote:
I think you meant to write “Politically-oriented jokes are only funny when I agree with them.”
That’s funny I don’t remember meaning to write that, or ever thinking along those lines. What I did write is that I think liberals are unintentionally funny when they talk politics. Why? Because I don’t agree with their politics.
Do I think conservatives are automatically hilarious? No. Actually very few have a quality sense of humor.
May 13th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Your name looks funny spelled with a Y. I mean, it’s not like you’re a pretzel craftsman from Hanover or something. But if you were, you would be lightly salted, not lightly liberal (zzzzzing!).