Cluebat

The following are science fiction book series whose label as science fiction embarrasses me, whose continuing popularity puzzles me, and whose fans I feel deserve a smack upside the head with a very large and nail-studded cluebat. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I think you're still going to need a bigger cluebat to get through to them. ❋ Rogers (2008)

You don't want to hit with a cluebat for not knowing what anger is. ❋ Elizabeth Kerri Mahon (2007)

Should I get the cluebat to beat that into your head or will it just fall out like your brains at birth? ❋ Unknown (2005)

I can't help noting that when Helen's husband Glenn Reynolds linked to that post about the bar-fightin' woman -- with its photo of a woman wielding a baseball bat -- he also linked to me and said "This cluebat is actually even scarier than this one." ❋ Ann Althouse (2006)

I'm going to have nightmares about Alan's cluebat tonight. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They need a good sharp whack upside the headbone with the ol 'cluebat! ❋ Unknown (2010)

A cluebat for the Keystone Kops: No matter how DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano might spin it, the "system" is not "working" in any sense of either word. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Time to apply the cluebat: infringing copyright is against the law if The Industry has evidence that copyright has been infringed, they should report it to the police (because laws have been broken, and it's the POLICE who follow up on law breakers) if The Industry does NOT have evidence that copy has been infringed, then they cannot reasonably expect The ISP to do ANYTHING ❋ Unknown (2009)

Iran is using Hezbollah to train Shia militia in Iraq is "news" to you, please meet Wonderboy, my cluebat. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The ranking Republican on the House Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming said Tuesday he is going to attend the Copenhagen conference on climate change to inform world leaders that despite any promises made by President Obama, no new laws will be passed in the United States until the "scientific fascism" ends. [sound of b-slap from cluebat to Conference] ❋ Unknown (2009)

NY Times reporter, held captive by the Taliban, gets hit with a giant cluebat ❋ Unknown (2009)

What CNN didn't show you: the Tea Party crowd wielded the cluebat on hack reporter Susan Roesgen after witnessing her contemptuous and biased coverage of the Tea Party movement. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It looks like my favorite European country is responding to the ka-bonks from the cluebat. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Don Surbernotices Obey's previous bluster, which ran into ye olde cluebat. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I'm not releasing my grip on the cluebat just yet, but they do deserve some modest praise. ❋ Unknown (2008)

[some guy] just tried to [install] 'crack_hotmail_passwords.exe' and he [wonders] why his machine is full of crap. someone needs to beat him with a cluebat. ❋ Lee (2003)

I love [the art] [style] of Cluebat, [inc]. ❋ DetectiveSpade (2022)