Word: jackassable
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...going to write something that isn't going to be thrown out with, the coffee grounds, you have to tell it like it is. Look, I'm a very people-oriented person. I grew up without any unhappiness. And I just love people. But if some jackass picks his nose, I'm going to write...
...Year of the Monkey sure made monkeys out of U.S. (that's us-you and me, Mr. John Q. Citizen). Hope next year is not the Year of the Jackass...
...finally possible to create intelligent "machines," surely we will try to make them a little better, not a little worse. As for his arguments that animals are just animals, what will he say when biologists, through artificial genetic alteration, bring him face to face with an intelligent jackass? I'm sure the stables will be reversed...
Poking the Foibles. One of his most satiric series was his dozen oils of Hu-dibras, the central figure in Samuel Butler's scathing poem on puritanical hypocrisy. Hudibras was ignorant, conceited, preachy, distempered, vain-a cocksure jackass. Butler used him to poke fun at reformers, and so did Hogarth...
...bulldog idea never quite lets go, and the last scene has real comic bite. When the Kremlin finally twigs the Trojan dog, poor Stanley is captured by some nasty-looking Russian agents and, while still in a coma, transformed by Russian surgeons into history's first Trojan jackass...