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Failed to get a clear picture from it. The context is a post by Setanta in the thread "Has The Supreme Court Ever Used The Declaration Of Independence To Decide A Case?"

It seems to mean "those nitpickers, those non-serious-thinkers and those fun-seekers can do nothing here - their efforts will doom to be futile." But I am not sure.

Thanks in anticipation.

Setanta wrote:

The important point is that the proposed constitution was ratified as written by the original 13 states. All other states have been admitted under the terms of that constitution. Them jokers can go pee up a rope.

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@oristarA,

oristarA wrote:

Failed to get a clear picture from it.

It seems to mean "those nitpickers, those non-serious-thinkers and those fun-seekers can do nothing here - their efforts will doom to be futile." But I am not sure.

Thanks in anticipation.

Setanta wrote:

The important point is that the proposed constitution was ratified as written by the original 13 states. All other states have been admitted under the terms of that constitution. Them jokers can go pee up a rope.

It aint clear because it aint bein used right to begin with, eh, Ori?

Basically it means they can **** off.
Go kick rocks.
Go pound sand.
Go to hell.

Go do something, anything, however senseless, just get the hell out of here.

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@layman,

What does "them jokers" exactly mean?

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@oristarA,

Just what it says, nothing special or unusual.

Those clowns.

Best I can tell, that's all that's intended, anyway.

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@layman,

So, what does "Those clowns" mean.

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@roger,

Heh, Rog.

Ya mean who is it referring to, that it?

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@layman,

Just being a jerk. It's 3:30 a.m. and who's going to know?

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@roger,

roger wrote:

Just being a jerk. .

OK, that's what I figured. Good work!

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Eh... I see five guys before Setanta: Walter Hinteler, Roger, Layman, Jespah, Tsarstepan. Who are Setanta's jokers?

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@oristarA,

You'll have to ask him, Oris. I aint read the thread--just the sentence you posted here.

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@oristarA,

I took a look at the thread, Oris. I suspect the reference was to those mentioned in the original post:

Quote:

Talking to some internet Confederates on YouTube. They seem to believe that the Constitution derives its legitimacy from the Declaration of Independence... Then I got to thinking, I wonder if, by chance, these latter-day Confederates might be right in at least a few cases.

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@oristarA,

oristarA wrote:

Eh... I see five guys before Setanta: Walter Hinteler, Roger, Layman, Jespah, Tsarstepan. Who are Setanta's jokers?

I am sure they are the "latter-day Confederates" discussed in the post which started the thread.

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Oristar, your failure to comprehend a very obvious thing is puzzling.

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@oristarA,

One thing I probably should have added, eh, Oris.

Guess what happens when you try to piss up a rope?

It all comes back down, that's what.

If ya catch my drift.

It's kinda like sayin: "Go **** yourself," but it's different.

It's "Go piss on yourself," see?

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@roger,

roger wrote:

Just being a jerk. It's 3:30 a.m. and who's going to know?

I will...although A2k is usually too heady for me at that hour. I'm not suffering from erectile dysfunction, or needing to buy a kitchen, so I usually just walk around the house, being a jerk to the cats.

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@centrox,

centrox wrote:

oristarA wrote:
Who are Setanta's jokers?

I am sure they are the "latter-day Confederates" discussed in the post which started the thread.

I concur with this.

Apparently Blickers was talking with some people who want to secede from the union today like the South did during the American civil war.

And much like the crazy people who say it is illegal for the government to make you pay taxes, I suspect they have some unusual interpretations of the law that probably will not be accepted in court.

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@layman,

layman wrote:

Basically it means they can **** off.
Go kick rocks.
Go pound sand.
Go to hell.

Go do something, anything, however senseless, just get the hell out of here.

I concur.

Picture the rope dangling from a ceiling, and someone at the bottom of the rope trying to pee upwards. Gravity being what it is, things will not work out well for anyone who tries to do this.

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@chai2,

Yeah, but you've known that about me for ages, right?

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@centrox,

centrox wrote:

Oristar, your failure to comprehend a very obvious thing is puzzling.

I want to know nuance.

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A limerick from my youth:

There was a young man from Nepal,
Who had a mathematical ball.
The cube of its weight
Plus five, over eight,
Gave the height he could piss up a wall.

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