You can always tell when Barry has had his buttons pushed particularly effectively. There's a direct relationship between how upset he is and the incoherence of his response. This post is a perfect example.
I made fun of the newspaper for having used the term "perennial" for "perianal," but Barry, demonstrating his desperate need for things to be All About Barry, interpreted this, somehow, to be an attack on *him*-- even though he had also made fun of the article. My comment had nothing whatsoever to do with Barry. Raunchy's hilarious take made fun of both the article and of Barry. His response did not, let us say, do anything to exemplify his frequently expressed contention that people should be able to laugh at themselves. Finally, Barry practically drowns in incoherence by suggesting that raunchy and I, as purportedly "wannabee Hindus," uncritically embrace Indian culture, and that this is why we made fun of the Indian newspaper--entirely oblivious to the contradiction. (Of course, Barry's brain goes even further in the toilet in his grateful response to navashok this morning for having, he assumes naively, shown him that what raunchy and I were ridiculing was an entirely proper and even intentional mangling of words. Pushing Barry's buttons is more than worth the effort for the amusement value. Good work, raunchy. ;-))
