MEChOB
I am pleased to announce a new organization, MEChOB. “MEChOB” stands for Movimiento esnarqui de chicanos y otros de Blogotlán which is Spanish for “Snarky Movement of Chicanos and Others of Blogistan.” OK, so I made up the noun “esnarqui,” so sue fisk me. A popular slogan for MEChOB, which appears at the top of this blog, is
¡Por la esnarca todo! ¡Fuera de la esnarca nada!
MEChOB’s critics allege that this means “For the snark everything! For those who don’t snark, nothing!” MEChOB apologists like yours truly counter that this is an inaccurate translation, as the phrase really means “Do all things in solidarity with the snark. Do nothing without the snark.” When all else fails, we can deny that this is our official motto at all, and argue that our real motto is:
La esnarca hace la fuerza
Which, in turn, merely means that snark makes you powerful. Or maybe it means “Use the Force, and be snarky.” I forget, my once-stellar Spanish has gotten a bit rusty over the years.
Unlike some other organization with a confusingly similar name, MEChOB emphatically disclaims any affiliation whatsoever with La voz de la esnarca, an extremist, separatist organization that considers snarky people superior to non-snarky people, and which has the express aim of “liberating” the entire blogosphere of any non-snarks. We reject such ultra-snarky supremacy. While our focus is decidedly pro-snark, this does not mean we are anti-non-snark. Non-snarks are welcome in our group also, provided they support our general goal of promoting snarkdom.
If you would like to join MEChOB, simply drop me a line, post a comment here, or best of all, link and TrackBack to this entry. As stated above, we do not require would-be members to actually post snarky remarkies, or even to have blogs at all. All we require is you show appreciation, solidarity if you will, for the snark. Membership is voluntary for everyone except Venomous Kate. In her case, membership is mandatory.
Last and least, if anyone more artistic than moi would like to design a logo for MEChOB to use, I’d be delighted to display it here. One approach would be a badly-wounded, barely-able-to-fly sparrow, carrying a small book of matches. I’m sure there are other possibilities as well. Have at it!
September 7th, 2003 at 7:02 pm
Beautiful. Truly beautiful.
September 7th, 2003 at 7:11 pm
Fnord.
September 7th, 2003 at 8:11 pm
Would that be an Central American or a South American swallow?
September 7th, 2003 at 8:51 pm
Splunge.
September 7th, 2003 at 9:30 pm
But what will you rename California when we take it back?
September 7th, 2003 at 10:11 pm
I’ll join, but only if you rename it to the “Sharky Movement of Chicanos and Others of Blogistan.”, with the motto “For the Shark everything, for everybody else, bupkiss”
September 7th, 2003 at 10:46 pm
¡VIVA LA MEChOB!
Doing what he does best, Xlrq has a wonderfully snarky post announcing the arrival a snarky organization named “MEChOB.” Of course, this shouldn’t be confused with another similar-sounding organization which may or may not be racist, and which a certai…
September 8th, 2003 at 12:06 am
XRLQ is on a mission
XRLQ is on a mission. I think it’s a mission about getting a new word “esnarca” to be snarky, or something like that. Personally, I think he just made up the word “esnarca”. You never know.
September 8th, 2003 at 10:21 pm
Absolutely brilliant!
And funny, too!:-)
I got so cranky with my computer as I put together my report on you that by the time I sorted out all of my editing errors I was snapping at my screen. :-)
September 10th, 2003 at 5:36 am
Good grief. Snarking in Spanish!
Consider me in, but Snarka Ingles, por favor.
September 10th, 2003 at 9:20 am
¡Viva MEChOB! ¡La muerte a los perros del puerco que negan a reconocer nuestra superioridad!
September 11th, 2003 at 12:04 pm
May the Snark be with you . . .
September 18th, 2003 at 2:01 am
I e-mailed a friend traveling in South America and asked him to conduct some “man on the street research and this was his reply:
“i still am in the land of spanish speakers. i ran your phrase past a few folks and the translation was, not surprisingly, something like:
“(i’ll do)everything for my people(friends,family,country). nothing for
anyone else.”
one person mentioned it has discriminatory connotations.”
For what is worth.
Politics it would seem, is largely about the competing interests from the narrowest to the broadest - special to insignificant, if you will. Interesting that bribes are not as taboo in politics as gender, culture, orientation, language, race religion and ethnicity? All politics is local indeed. What does that say about the “social currency” in America?