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	<title>Comments on: Is this the douchiest press release&#160;ever?</title>
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		<title>By: Beth Morgan</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2013/01/25/is-this-the-douchiest-press-re.html#comment-1639429</link>
		<dc:creator>Beth Morgan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t even get what you&#039;re supposed to do with this press release. Write about their awesome party? Mocking it or ignoring it are basically the only potential reactions.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t even get what you&#8217;re supposed to do with this press release. Write about their awesome party? Mocking it or ignoring it are basically the only potential reactions.</p>
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		<title>By: Albie Farinas</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2013/01/25/is-this-the-douchiest-press-re.html#comment-1639323</link>
		<dc:creator>Albie Farinas</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>No...  It&#039;s total pompous &quot;douchebaggery&quot;...   Is that a word...?   </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No&#8230;  It&#8217;s total pompous &#8220;douchebaggery&#8221;&#8230;   Is that a word&#8230;?   </p>
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		<title>By: ImmutableMichael</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2013/01/25/is-this-the-douchiest-press-re.html#comment-1639244</link>
		<dc:creator>ImmutableMichael</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 08:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>St Onan accepts your prayers in many different ways.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>St Onan accepts your prayers in many different ways.</p>
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		<title>By: Kerouac</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2013/01/25/is-this-the-douchiest-press-re.html#comment-1639172</link>
		<dc:creator>Kerouac</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 04:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You think Alfred doesn&#039;t already know twice as much about wine as these asswipes?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You think Alfred doesn&#8217;t already know twice as much about wine as these asswipes?</p>
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		<title>By: Antinous / Moderator</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2013/01/25/is-this-the-douchiest-press-re.html#comment-1639101</link>
		<dc:creator>Antinous / Moderator</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There&#039;s not really any room for customization in a morning suit or other garment that would be made by a bespoke tailor.  It&#039;s made to measure for you, but it&#039;s not designed for you.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There&#8217;s not really any room for customization in a morning suit or other garment that would be made by a bespoke tailor.  It&#8217;s made to measure for you, but it&#8217;s not designed for you.</p>
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		<title>By: Lupus_Yonderboy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lupus_Yonderboy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Replying to I_Mariachi (wish that we had infinite threaded comments, btw):

Huh, I&#039;m willing to believe that you&#039;re correct but I used to get custom tailored suits (pick out all the fabrics, choose where you wanted pockets, etc.) from a guy in NYC and he only referred to himself as &quot;semi-bespoke&quot; because he was using existing patterns.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Replying to I_Mariachi (wish that we had infinite threaded comments, btw):</p>
<p>Huh, I&#8217;m willing to believe that you&#8217;re correct but I used to get custom tailored suits (pick out all the fabrics, choose where you wanted pockets, etc.) from a guy in NYC and he only referred to himself as &#8220;semi-bespoke&#8221; because he was using existing patterns.</p>
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		<title>By: L_Mariachi</title>
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		<dc:creator>L_Mariachi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Anything made-to-measure involves altering an existing pattern but is considered bespoke. (Also, they don&#039;t destroy the pattern, they keep it (or at least the measurements) on file for your future purchases. If you have an account with a Hong Kong or Savile Row tailor, you can call in advance of your visit so they can get to work without having to take your measurements all over again.)  What you&#039;re talking about -- full-custom top-to-bottom one-offs -- exists for costumes and such but isn&#039;t really the way suits are done. No idea about women&#039;s wear.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anything made-to-measure involves altering an existing pattern but is considered bespoke. (Also, they don&#8217;t destroy the pattern, they keep it (or at least the measurements) on file for your future purchases. If you have an account with a Hong Kong or Savile Row tailor, you can call in advance of your visit so they can get to work without having to take your measurements all over again.)  What you&#8217;re talking about &#8212; full-custom top-to-bottom one-offs &#8212; exists for costumes and such but isn&#8217;t really the way suits are done. No idea about women&#8217;s wear.</p>
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		<title>By: Lupus_Yonderboy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lupus_Yonderboy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>No, you see, these people exist so that Bruce Wayne can have all the fancy trappings of being super-rich without spending his valuable time chosing wines, etc.  They&#039;re actually facilitating his cover identity and assisting with freeing up time to fight crime.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No, you see, these people exist so that Bruce Wayne can have all the fancy trappings of being super-rich without spending his valuable time chosing wines, etc.  They&#8217;re actually facilitating his cover identity and assisting with freeing up time to fight crime.</p>
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		<title>By: Lupus_Yonderboy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lupus_Yonderboy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If I&#039;m remembering correctly something truly &quot;Bespoke&quot; would be designed from the ground up for just one client. The tailor/watchmaker/software engineer/whatever else can take contracts from anyone and as many as they can handle but if they&#039;re claiming that the suit/watch/program/whatever that they&#039;re making is &quot;bespoke&quot; they can&#039;t make a 2nd one with the same design for anyone else. Custom is different - custom-made means that it was individually made for you but that doesn&#039;t indicate that it was *designed* specifically for you or that you&#039;re the only one in the whole world who might have one exactly like that (i.e. with a &quot;bespoke&quot; suit the patterns themselves are created just for you and destroyed afterwards, while a custom suit can use pre-existing patterns or if they&#039;re created for you can be used for other suits later.)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If I&#8217;m remembering correctly something truly &#8220;Bespoke&#8221; would be designed from the ground up for just one client. The tailor/watchmaker/software engineer/whatever else can take contracts from anyone and as many as they can handle but if they&#8217;re claiming that the suit/watch/program/whatever that they&#8217;re making is &#8220;bespoke&#8221; they can&#8217;t make a 2nd one with the same design for anyone else. Custom is different &#8211; custom-made means that it was individually made for you but that doesn&#8217;t indicate that it was *designed* specifically for you or that you&#8217;re the only one in the whole world who might have one exactly like that (i.e. with a &#8220;bespoke&#8221; suit the patterns themselves are created just for you and destroyed afterwards, while a custom suit can use pre-existing patterns or if they&#8217;re created for you can be used for other suits later.)</p>
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		<title>By: Preston Sturges</title>
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		<dc:creator>Preston Sturges</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 18:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>http://youtu.be/QvBAEp3Znn4

&quot;........TRY GETTING A RESERVATION AT DORSIA NOW YOU FUCKING STUPID BASTARD! YOU, FUCKING BASTARD!....&quot;</description>
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<p>&#8220;&#8230;&#8230;..TRY GETTING A RESERVATION AT DORSIA NOW YOU FUCKING STUPID BASTARD! YOU, FUCKING BASTARD!&#8230;.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Snig</title>
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		<dc:creator>Snig</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And when it gets googled, it will be found to be married to the concept of douche.  </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And when it gets googled, it will be found to be married to the concept of douche.  </p>
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		<title>By: Snig</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2013/01/25/is-this-the-douchiest-press-re.html#comment-1638899</link>
		<dc:creator>Snig</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjIH1jdx2_A</description>
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		<title>By: C W</title>
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		<dc:creator>C W</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 07:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot; the &quot;bespoke&quot; part of it means &quot;exclusive to one client&quot; like a bespoke tailor, for example&quot;

In reality, it doesn&#039;t mean exclusive, nor &quot;unique&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220; the &#8220;bespoke&#8221; part of it means &#8220;exclusive to one client&#8221; like a bespoke tailor, for example&#8221;</p>
<p>In reality, it doesn&#8217;t mean exclusive, nor &#8220;unique&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: C W</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2013/01/25/is-this-the-douchiest-press-re.html#comment-1638848</link>
		<dc:creator>C W</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 07:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s always bizarre how much effort people will go through to support corporations and the Captains of Industry they will never become.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s always bizarre how much effort people will go through to support corporations and the Captains of Industry they will never become.</p>
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		<title>By: C W</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2013/01/25/is-this-the-douchiest-press-re.html#comment-1638846</link>
		<dc:creator>C W</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 07:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Some wine is ethereal.  So, these people are pretentious.&quot;

Pretentious != possessing and expressing taste. Having and blowing lots of money != possessing taste.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Some wine is ethereal.  So, these people are pretentious.&#8221;</p>
<p>Pretentious != possessing and expressing taste. Having and blowing lots of money != possessing taste.</p>
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		<title>By: C W</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2013/01/25/is-this-the-douchiest-press-re.html#comment-1638845</link>
		<dc:creator>C W</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 07:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The adage &quot;it&#039;s not what you say, but how you say it&quot; comes in to play.


There are plenty of sports douchebags, the &quot;IT guy&quot; can also be douchey as well.

I like good food and booze, but that doesn&#039;t preclude me from thinking a PRESS RELEASE could have sounded prickish. I&#039;m sorry we&#039;ve insulted a corporation, this will surely never happen again.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The adage &#8220;it&#8217;s not what you say, but how you say it&#8221; comes in to play.</p>
<p>There are plenty of sports douchebags, the &#8220;IT guy&#8221; can also be douchey as well.</p>
<p>I like good food and booze, but that doesn&#8217;t preclude me from thinking a PRESS RELEASE could have sounded prickish. I&#8217;m sorry we&#8217;ve insulted a corporation, this will surely never happen again.</p>
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		<title>By: Lemoutan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lemoutan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 07:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Or maybe someone&#039;ll&#039;ve got &#039;em reservations on the B-Ark.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Or maybe someone&#8217;ll&#8217;ve got &#8216;em reservations on the B-Ark.</p>
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		<title>By: Antinous / Moderator</title>
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		<dc:creator>Antinous / Moderator</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 06:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Isn&#039;t Eau de Vie always artisanal?  Making delicately flavored liquor from fruit seems incompatible with mass production techniques.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Isn&#8217;t Eau de Vie always artisanal?  Making delicately flavored liquor from fruit seems incompatible with mass production techniques.</p>
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		<title>By: Kerouac</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2013/01/25/is-this-the-douchiest-press-re.html#comment-1638805</link>
		<dc:creator>Kerouac</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 04:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I read &quot;artisanal eaux-de-vie&quot; and almost spit up my Boone&#039;s Farm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I read &#8220;artisanal eaux-de-vie&#8221; and almost spit up my Boone&#8217;s Farm.</p>
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		<title>By: Preston Sturges</title>
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		<dc:creator>Preston Sturges</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 03:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>....and then there are people who really are douches. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230;.and then there are people who really are douches. </p>
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		<title>By: Teresa Nielsen Hayden</title>
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		<dc:creator>Teresa Nielsen Hayden</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 03:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>No, that is not the world&#039;s douchiest press release. This week&#039;s award for DPR goes to the &quot;Sugar daddies for coeds&#039; student loans&quot; press release that got turned in to a shambling pretense of journalism by dozens of outlets. It&#039;s most evident in this one -- 

The Daily Californian
http://www.dailycal.org/2013/01/22/campus-sees-surge-in-sugar-babies/

-- but its bones are detectable in stories in the Huffington Post, Fox Business News, the Christian News Network, MSN Money, KITV.com/ABC News, KCTV 5/Kansas City, NewsOne, TMDaily Post, Above the Law, and other supposed news sites. All of these write-ups are functioning as advertisements for an online site that charges fees to supposedly match coeds to potential sugar daddies.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No, that is not the world&#8217;s douchiest press release. This week&#8217;s award for DPR goes to the &#8220;Sugar daddies for coeds&#8217; student loans&#8221; press release that got turned in to a shambling pretense of journalism by dozens of outlets. It&#8217;s most evident in this one &#8211; </p>
<p>The Daily Californian<br />
<a href="http://www.dailycal.org/2013/01/22/campus-sees-surge-in-sugar-babies/" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailycal.org/2013/01/22/campus-sees-surge-in-sugar-babies/</a></p>
<p>&#8211; but its bones are detectable in stories in the Huffington Post, Fox Business News, the Christian News Network, MSN Money, KITV.com/ABC News, KCTV 5/Kansas City, NewsOne, TMDaily Post, Above the Law, and other supposed news sites. All of these write-ups are functioning as advertisements for an online site that charges fees to supposedly match coeds to potential sugar daddies.</p>
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		<title>By: dnebdal</title>
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		<dc:creator>dnebdal</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 02:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingvar_Kamprad&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1993 Volvo 240&lt;/a&gt;, actually.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingvar_Kamprad" rel="nofollow">1993 Volvo 240</a>, actually.</p>
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		<title>By: Chas F Laframboise</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chas F Laframboise</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 02:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Buddy can you paradigm? &#039;Cuz, y&#039;know.. shift happens!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Buddy can you paradigm? &#8216;Cuz, y&#8217;know.. shift happens!</p>
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		<title>By: OriGuy</title>
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		<dc:creator>OriGuy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 02:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>“Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.”
-- Socrates
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.”<br />
&#8211; Socrates</p>
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		<title>By: Preston Sturges</title>
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		<dc:creator>Preston Sturges</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 02:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>From &quot;Naked Lunch:&quot;

A. J. once reserved a table a year in advance Chez Robert where a huge, icy gourmet broods over the greatest food in the world.  So baneful and derogatory is his gaze that many a client, under that withering blast, has rolled on the floor and pissed all over himself in convulsive attempts to ingratiate.

So A. J. arrives early with six Bolivian Indians who chew coca leaves between courses. And when Robert, in all his gourmet majesty, bears down upon the table, A. J. looks up and yells: “Hey, Boy!  Bring me some ketchup!”
(Alternative: A. J. whips out a bottle of ketchup and douses the haute cuisine.)
Thirty gourmets stop chewing at once.  You could have heard a soufflé drop.  As for Robert, he lets out a bellow of rage like a wounded elephant, runs to the kitchen and arms himself with a meat cleaver.  ...  The Sommelier snarls hideously, his face turning a strange iridescent purple. ... He breaks off a bottle of Brut Champagne ... ’26.  ...  Pierre, the Head Waiter, snatches up a boning knife.  All three chase A. J. through the restaurant with mangled, inhuman screams of rage. ...  Tables overturn, vintage wine and matchless food crash to the floor.  ...  Cries of “Lynch him!” ring through the air.  An elderly gourmet with the insane bloodshot eyes of a mandril, is fashioning a hangman’s knot with a red velvet curtain cord.  ...  Seeing himself cornered and in imminent danger of danger of dismemberment at least, A. J. plays his trump card. ...  He throws out his head and lets out a hog call; and a hundred famished hogs he had stationed nearby rush into the restaurant, slopping the haute cuisine.  Like a great tree Robert falls to the floor in a stroke where he is eaten by the hogs: “Poor bastards don’t know enough to appreciate him.” says A. J.

Robert&#039;s brother Paul emerges from retirement in a local nut house and takes over the restaurant to dispense something he calls the “Transcendental Cuisine.”  ...  Imperceptibly, the quality of the food declines until he is serving literal garbage, the clients being too intimidated by the reputation of Chez Robert to protest.

SAMPLE MENU:
The Clear Camel Piss Soup with boiled Earth Worms

The Filet of Sun-Ripened Sting Raybasted with Eau de Cologne and garnished with nettles

The After-Birth Suprême de Boeuf,cooked in drained crank case oil,served with a piquant sauce of rotten egg yokesand crushed bed bugs

The Limburger Cheese sugar cured in diabetic urineand doused in Canned Heat Flamboyant

So the clients are quietly dying of botulism.  ...  Then A. J. returns with an entourage of Arab refugees from the Middle East.  He takes one mouthful and screams:“Garbage God damn it.  Cook this wise citizen in his own swill!”</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From &#8220;Naked Lunch:&#8221;</p>
<p>A. J. once reserved a table a year in advance Chez Robert where a huge, icy gourmet broods over the greatest food in the world.  So baneful and derogatory is his gaze that many a client, under that withering blast, has rolled on the floor and pissed all over himself in convulsive attempts to ingratiate.</p>
<p>So A. J. arrives early with six Bolivian Indians who chew coca leaves between courses. And when Robert, in all his gourmet majesty, bears down upon the table, A. J. looks up and yells: “Hey, Boy!  Bring me some ketchup!”<br />
(Alternative: A. J. whips out a bottle of ketchup and douses the haute cuisine.)<br />
Thirty gourmets stop chewing at once.  You could have heard a soufflé drop.  As for Robert, he lets out a bellow of rage like a wounded elephant, runs to the kitchen and arms himself with a meat cleaver.  &#8230;  The Sommelier snarls hideously, his face turning a strange iridescent purple. &#8230; He breaks off a bottle of Brut Champagne &#8230; ’26.  &#8230;  Pierre, the Head Waiter, snatches up a boning knife.  All three chase A. J. through the restaurant with mangled, inhuman screams of rage. &#8230;  Tables overturn, vintage wine and matchless food crash to the floor.  &#8230;  Cries of “Lynch him!” ring through the air.  An elderly gourmet with the insane bloodshot eyes of a mandril, is fashioning a hangman’s knot with a red velvet curtain cord.  &#8230;  Seeing himself cornered and in imminent danger of danger of dismemberment at least, A. J. plays his trump card. &#8230;  He throws out his head and lets out a hog call; and a hundred famished hogs he had stationed nearby rush into the restaurant, slopping the haute cuisine.  Like a great tree Robert falls to the floor in a stroke where he is eaten by the hogs: “Poor bastards don’t know enough to appreciate him.” says A. J.</p>
<p>Robert&#8217;s brother Paul emerges from retirement in a local nut house and takes over the restaurant to dispense something he calls the “Transcendental Cuisine.”  &#8230;  Imperceptibly, the quality of the food declines until he is serving literal garbage, the clients being too intimidated by the reputation of Chez Robert to protest.</p>
<p>SAMPLE MENU:<br />
The Clear Camel Piss Soup with boiled Earth Worms</p>
<p>The Filet of Sun-Ripened Sting Raybasted with Eau de Cologne and garnished with nettles</p>
<p>The After-Birth Suprême de Boeuf,cooked in drained crank case oil,served with a piquant sauce of rotten egg yokesand crushed bed bugs</p>
<p>The Limburger Cheese sugar cured in diabetic urineand doused in Canned Heat Flamboyant</p>
<p>So the clients are quietly dying of botulism.  &#8230;  Then A. J. returns with an entourage of Arab refugees from the Middle East.  He takes one mouthful and screams:“Garbage God damn it.  Cook this wise citizen in his own swill!”</p>
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		<title>By: juepucta</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2013/01/25/is-this-the-douchiest-press-re.html#comment-1638741</link>
		<dc:creator>juepucta</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 01:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>well in this case &quot;nouveau riche&quot; and &quot;douchey&quot; are overlapping</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>well in this case &#8220;nouveau riche&#8221; and &#8220;douchey&#8221; are overlapping</p>
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		<title>By: DJBudSonic</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2013/01/25/is-this-the-douchiest-press-re.html#comment-1638721</link>
		<dc:creator>DJBudSonic</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 00:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As usual, you had me at the first &#039;bespoke&#039;.  Everyone be sure and MAKE THAT CALL 310.313.6374 to fake-book your next event.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As usual, you had me at the first &#8216;bespoke&#8217;.  Everyone be sure and MAKE THAT CALL 310.313.6374 to fake-book your next event.</p>
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		<title>By: DevinC</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2013/01/25/is-this-the-douchiest-press-re.html#comment-1638694</link>
		<dc:creator>DevinC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 23:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I didn&#039;t even reach the end of the italics before I figured your case was made.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I didn&#8217;t even reach the end of the italics before I figured your case was made.</p>
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		<title>By: Sekino</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2013/01/25/is-this-the-douchiest-press-re.html#comment-1638683</link>
		<dc:creator>Sekino</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 22:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah but he&#039;s a miser; he only drinks cheap swill.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah but he&#8217;s a miser; he only drinks cheap swill.</p>
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		<title>By: signsofrain</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2013/01/25/is-this-the-douchiest-press-re.html#comment-1638680</link>
		<dc:creator>signsofrain</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 22:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>BERSMERCH THE RERCH!
BERHERDING&#039;S ERSERER!
ERMAGHERD, THEY&#039;RE WERN PERCERNTERS!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BERSMERCH THE RERCH!<br />
BERHERDING&#8217;S ERSERER!<br />
ERMAGHERD, THEY&#8217;RE WERN PERCERNTERS!</p>
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