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plato_451 | 12.31.04 - 5:22 pm | #

Cuties! Meow!
Vicki | 12.31.04 - 5:22 pm | #

YAAAAYYY! CAT blogging!!

Atrios? Ya got some bee-yootiful kitties there.
QuinnLaBelle | 12.31.04 - 5:22 pm | #

Pretty kitties. Love the russian blue.

Happy kitty new year!
John | 12.31.04 - 5:22 pm | #

Yipee!!
BlakNo1 | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 5:25 pm | #

Conrad surveys the wreckage, and Esquivel wishes you a Happy Friday Catbloggin'.
frosty chestnuts | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 5:25 pm | #

Ready to pounce...

Thanks for 12 months of your lovely kitties, Atrios (& all other cat/dog/ferret/miscellaneous bloggers)!

Happy New Year all!
Charlotte Smith (nee Beavers) | 12.31.04 - 5:25 pm | #

FRom my Kitty to your kitties:
HAPPY MEW YEAR!!!!!!!
Fred | 12.31.04 - 5:26 pm | #

Your cats are nearly as cute as my dog, atrios!
Happy New Year to you and yours!
Helga Fremlin | 12.31.04 - 5:26 pm | #

New Year Kitties.

Nice.

But I've got your "CUTE" lifeform right here.
Attaturk | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 5:26 pm | #

looks like someone got a new digital camera for christmes. happy new year!
smiley | 12.31.04 - 5:26 pm | #

All right, friends, I'm off to the party.

Wishing you all a Healthy and Happy New Year!

Thanks, Atrios, for everything you've done for progressives and liberals this year. Sincerely. You helped to keep the hope alive.
Vicki | 12.31.04 - 5:26 pm | #

Ooooh, kitties! Love 'em!

Happy New Year to all Atriots and their assorted two- and four-legged kids. And thank you all for being here.
Lindsay | 12.31.04 - 5:29 pm | #

Happy New Years and best wishes to the people of good will at Eschaton.
Raoul Paste | 12.31.04 - 5:30 pm | #

Happy New Year, Atrios and everyone here and not here today! Lakshmi (my beautiful kitty) and I wish you peace and love in the new year...
Jenny from the Blog • | 12.31.04 - 5:30 pm | #

Montana ensures some benefits for gay couples

A day after an Arkansas circuit judge ruled that homosexuals could adopt children, the Montana Supreme Court delivered a ruling that would also ensure some rights for homosexual couples. The New York Times' Adam Liptak reports in "Gay Employees' Partners":

Montana's public universities must provide their gay employees with insurance coverage for their domestic partners, the state's Supreme Court ruled yesterday.

more here, with analysis
Jonathan Singer | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 5:31 pm | #

Teh Pritteh.

Happy New Year, Eschatonians. Y'all made my 2004 a great one.

A.
Athenae | 12.31.04 - 5:32 pm | #

I thought your cats might be preparing to ring in the new year wearing little tinfoil hats...
My cat was put to sleep yesterday.
Happy New Year anyway...
pat | 12.31.04 - 5:35 pm | #

man, grey kittie looks some kinda pissed off - did you scrooge
him on x-mas day?

happy new year!!
brent kockman | 12.31.04 - 5:38 pm | #

Hugs to all of you. I'm off to spend time with other friends this evening, friends I don't often see; but you are all tremendous, and I thank you so much for your kindness and support.

A very Happy New Year to us all.
filkertom | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 5:42 pm | #

For all of you that will be driving this evening, remember that it is amateur night (all the professional drunks stay home).
chris/tx | 12.31.04 - 5:43 pm | #

Pat, profoundest sympathy.

"When they leave us, they go
To where birds fly low,
Mice run slow,
And rivers of cream flow"
CaseyL | 12.31.04 - 5:43 pm | #

filkertom - have a wonderful evening and I hope your new year brings you great joy and satisfaction.
Tena | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 5:44 pm | #

Happy New Year to all the Eschatonians and Atriosites. I love you all.
Tena | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 5:46 pm | #

Awww, how cute. Tonite, during the festivities for New Years, please make sure to take pictures of the kitties with their little kitty hats and their little kitty noisemakers. I would love to see them celebrating the New Year.

blogwhore scroll down just a little bit to see Sgt Mango Goldstein after 2 weeks of living with me.
oldwhitelady | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 5:46 pm | #

Sure, the cats are cute, but check out that hardwood floor! Nice.
Matt | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 5:46 pm | #

"Happy New Year to all the Eschatonians and Atriosites. I love you all."

Echoed.

(When I first read that, I thought "Atriosites" was "Atrocities" and I was confused.)
Matt | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 5:50 pm | #

If cats are so smart, how come they don't take off their coats inside the house?

runs out of room
MisterX | 12.31.04 - 5:51 pm | #

oldwhitelady

nice quilt!
QuiltLady in NY | 12.31.04 - 5:53 pm | #

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
pb | 12.31.04 - 5:55 pm | #

nice quilt!
QuiltLady in NY |
It does look like a quilt, doesn't it, but it is a comforter someone gave me years ago. Perhaps that is why the pattern is so cool.
oldwhitelady | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 5:58 pm | #

Thank you for the kitty blogging! I love those cats!

Thank you all for the half year I've come here to be informed by some of the best. This site and your comments have enriched my mind. Next year I'll celebrate a full year of your wisdom, puns, factoids, analysis and trolls. Whoo-hoo!

Now to cat blog...

and then party.
weblackey | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 5:59 pm | #

I will not say a word about the oatmeal carpeting....

not a word.

Happy New Year...
Nancy Richardson | 12.31.04 - 6:00 pm | #

Love your kitties. From my kitty Teddy and myself, Happy New Year to all and thanks for a good 2004.....it's been so good to come here.... especially after Nov 2. Thanks Atrios and all Eschatonians.
Scout | 12.31.04 - 6:03 pm | #

Sympathies Pat on your cat's passing.
cgreen | 12.31.04 - 6:03 pm | #

Some day perhaps I will master the skills necessary to publish a pic of my cat at First-Draft. In the meantime:
Ole

I'm sure you'll let me know if the linky is no good. It does load slowly.
Tena | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 6:04 pm | #

Happy New Year to all...from me, and my kitties. My kitties are strictly forbidden to get drunk tonight. They're cheap drunks.
gottalaff | 12.31.04 - 6:06 pm | #

pat: so very sorry about your kitty. There's never really a good time to lose one.

anyway, happy new year to the catriosi from the felines here.
Melic | 12.31.04 - 6:08 pm | #

have you been binding the feet of the grey one?
Ross Kubler | 12.31.04 - 6:09 pm | #

weblackey - Happy New Year

And thank you so much. Unfortunately, 741.com keeps telling me that I am forbidden to link from the page because I'm not a paying customer.
Tena | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 6:10 pm | #

Lovely kitties.

Thanks to you, Atrios, and all the wonderful folks who comment here. Hoping the new year will be better for us all than the last.
mer | 12.31.04 - 6:11 pm | #

The year has ended on a good note. Kudos to your gang Duncan.
EkCenTriK | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 6:12 pm | #

Happy New Year to all the Eschatonians and Atriosites. I love you all.
Tena
I couldn't say it better, either, Tena! and I agree with your sentiments. Happy New Year all!
oldwhitelady | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 6:14 pm | #

Tena:

I won't ask you for code. No I won't. I won't, I won't. I have Google and an actual book on HTML code and I will figure it out and next week, watch out world Ashcroft, cause I will be able to catblog too!

Nice cat you have.
QuiltLady in NY | 12.31.04 - 6:17 pm | #

Have been reading this blog for some months now--You are all very interesting.

Just turned midnight in Austria, so
best wishes for health and happiness to all for the New Year!
RB | 12.31.04 - 6:19 pm | #

If I didn't know any better, I would almost say that floor was walnut. Or, it could have been oiled and/or stained.

And while I have a moment before heading out for prime rib and getting inebriated....(thank God the wife doesn't drink) -

Happy Fucking New Year.

Keep the faith folks. These dumbasses in control are cutting their nuts off a little more each and every day.

Tomorrow brings a new year, and a brand new fire in our guts with which to fight back with.

There has yet to be a governmental agency that impressed me - or an employee of such.

Remember - the preamble says: "WE THE PEOPLE..." not, we the republicans in power.

Never. Back. Down.
Barndog | 12.31.04 - 6:20 pm | #

Happy New Year folks. My New Year's wish is for every wing nut to either get drunk, crash and burn into a telephone on their way home or once there, pass out and chokes to death on their own regurgitated vomit.
Ô¿Ô | 12.31.04 - 6:21 pm | #

Quiltlady - Thank you. I always think whatever cat I have is the cat of cats, but this one really is a standout. He has such a personality.

Quiltlady - I know the fucking code for transferring photos, but it won't work for me, so you are apt to get it right before I am.

Oy and oof!

I have laid off trying for a bit because it was getting really really screamingly frustrated.
Tena | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 6:22 pm | #

Ô¿Ô
Whew! when you hope for a happy new year, you hope for a happy new year
oldwhitelady | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 6:23 pm | #

Maybe if you put li'l kitty-cat contact lenses on 'em, they wouldn't look like someone painted those evil green eyes in the picture.
Or maybe someone can come up with a cat-friendly flash attachment? Or a digital "Green-Eye" remover?
Doozer among Fraggles | 12.31.04 - 6:23 pm | #

Quiltlady - you might try Zoto.com. I like the set up very much. Unfortunately, the zulu image transfer download won't work for me because it is only supported by OS X 10.3 and I'm 10.2. The file transfer won't work for me because the blogging software First-Draft uses won't support it. But zoto will work with most blogging software and Windowws, and I'd give it a try if I was you.
Tena | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 6:25 pm | #

Weblackey;
I get the
40 Meg Limit Exceeded!
This site has exceeded its limit of 40 Megabytes of transfer per day. The account can be upgraded to a paid account to increase the transfer limit up to 15 Gigs of transfer per month in your 741.com user tools section. error, too. I don't know what it means except I couldn't get to your blog.
oldwhitelady | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 6:26 pm | #

must... pet... grey... kitty... MUST...

That cat looks like it's made out of chenille or velvet or something incredibly soft.

A better New Year to all of you, my loves. I gotta split too. But despite looking forward to spending the evening with Fella and His Dog, the latter party needing assurance to get through the Terrorific Fireworks Attack, I am finding it tough to drag my ass away from here and get on with it.

Thank you all for keeping me sane this past year. I adore you guys. And Atrios: May blessings be heaped upon you and yours, for giving us such a great place to congregate (and for puttin' up with our assorted nonsense).
Silleigh | 12.31.04 - 6:28 pm | #

Friday Kitten Blogging
The Kenosha Kid | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 6:29 pm | #

QuiltLady -
My two cents - PhotoBucket.com

I opened an account and posted two pictures in about five minutes. And it was all Greek to me when I started, never had posted a picture before.

Photobucket is geared for Ebay users, so no limit on views per day.
chris/tx | 12.31.04 - 6:30 pm | #

Oh, cat story before I go, in lieu of cat-blogging: The little cat I've been ready to KILL because of the constant yowling lately? ...I woke up yesterday morning, showered, got coffee, came to Compy and wiggled the mouse to kill the screen-saver. And saw this message: "Are you sure you want to delete the folder 'My Music' and remove all its contents to the Recycle Bin?" Kitten on the keys. Caps Lock was on, too.

I could have lost over a gig of music files, had the little bastard stepped on the Enter key and had I not checked my recycle bin before dumping it.

He's got it in for me. He must have overheard the de-balling talk.
Silleigh | 12.31.04 - 6:32 pm | #

Friday Kitten Blogging

I think you need to fix the link - it's got the 127.0.0.1 IP address, meaning it's only viewable on your own PC...
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 6:32 pm | #

Happy New Year to all Eschatonians. Thanks for allowing me to become part of your community this year.

Peace, health, happiness, and prosperity to you all in 2005.
Res Ipsa Loquitor | 12.31.04 - 6:33 pm | #

Yowza, Silleigh. And I thought my girlfriend's cat was a diabolical evil genius...
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 6:34 pm | #

Or rather a telephone pole and not just a telephone.
Ô¿Ô | 12.31.04 - 6:34 pm | #

Yes, the phone POLE would be more useful in causing death.
Barndog | 12.31.04 - 6:35 pm | #

Or rather a telephone pole and not just a telephone.

Perhaps some kind of freak accident where they choke to death on their own cellphone? That would pretty much totally make my day...
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 6:35 pm | #

Thanks all for the advice.
When we first started out (34 yrs ago, but who's couting) we were poor hippies who couln't scrape together the $64 dollars we needed for rent. That's right $64 a month, in Manhattan. East Village. We started a stupid tradition of steak, salad and cheap champaigne on New Year's Eve. And we stopped with the parties, already.

Mr. QuiltLady is busy frying the steaks, the champaigne (good) is uncorked, and so I am off till tomorrow.

Happy New Year all. Keep in mind, there is a chance, maybe a small one, but a chance, that this is the year we get to watch their whole house of cards collapse. I'm not a praying person, but there hasn't been a day that goes by since the selection that I haven't prayed for a miracle to bring these fuckers down.
QuiltLady in NY | 12.31.04 - 6:38 pm | #

I hope those green eyes are the true color. Spectacular! I have a white bunny whose eyes are as blue as the sky. Happy, Happy New Year to the normal part of the population.
Mad as Hell | 12.31.04 - 6:39 pm | #

The Best Way to End the Year with Friday Cat Blogging! We have a bonus picture up today. Your babies are so cute!!

Happy New Year Everyone, in those with four paws and claws.
Scorpy from Stingball | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 6:40 pm | #

Yowza, Silleigh. And I thought my girlfriend's cat was a diabolical evil genius...

I was, to put it mildly and in a ladylike fashion, fucking PISSED.

But then I've suffered through raising one kid who, at about 4 years old, remapped every damn key on my programmable keyboard. She also managed to get into Quicken and write a check to a Mr. ABCDEFG in the amount of, get this, $6,660,000. Good thing we didn't have a bank hook-up. My wasband was doing the books and looked up and said very calmly, "Did you know that we are over six million dollars in debt?"
Silleigh | 12.31.04 - 6:41 pm | #

I was, to put it mildly and in a ladylike fashion, fucking PISSED.

One thought that comes to mind would be to get a USB keyboard, and unplug it when you're not using it...
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 6:44 pm | #

Amid all the flying fur and the hairballs, Happy New Year!
ellroon | 12.31.04 - 6:45 pm | #

Pat, so sorry you lost your love. I lost my ally in may. she was 20. we went looking for a mutty kitten in june to heal our hearts and ended up with a one-eyed, 10 year old persian. she knew just what to do.

and now for christmas we have a new wild kitten/monkey.

your kitty taught you to love for a reason. when you are ready to, do it again.

ps. when i didn't think i could open my heart again, i used this argument, "only a bad liberal wouldn't take in another needy cat when she had a vacancy in her heart and home." that bad liberal argument gets a lot of things done around this house

peace to all of us and them in the new year
Cassandra Complex | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 6:46 pm | #

Never. Back. Down.
Barndog at 6:20 pm

Hell, you got that one right!

And Incog, I hope this country gets better so you don't leave. You must be some incredible person, we need you.
mer | 12.31.04 - 6:49 pm | #

One thought that comes to mind would be to get a USB keyboard, and unplug it when you're not using it...

Oooh. Good idea, and me with a spare port. Wonder if they make 'em so you can disconnect 'em at the keyboard instead of reaching back into the tangle of wires.

Now make me leave and quit goofin' off here, okay?
Silleigh | 12.31.04 - 6:54 pm | #

Are my Friday Kittens viewable yet?
The Kenosha Kid | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 6:57 pm | #

Unfortunately, the zulu image transfer download won't work for me because it is only supported by OS X 10.3 and I'm 10.2.

Everything's easier when you own a Mac!

Happy new year, kiddo!!! If you make it out Cali-for-naye-ay way in aught-five, let us know!
dave | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 6:59 pm | #

Happy New Year everyone! Be safe and have fun, then come back here and keep me sane a little while longer.

I'm off to have some champagne bubbles tickle my nose!
Tow
TheOtherWashington | 12.31.04 - 7:01 pm | #

The Kenosha Kid
Yes, they are... and so cute!!!!
oldwhitelady | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 7:02 pm | #

Beautiful kitties.

Happy New Year to all.
mena | 12.31.04 - 7:02 pm | #

Happy New Year, everyone! I pretty much dropped out of Eschatonia after the election (due to a mix of whimpering withdrawal from reality plus several major family obligations), but let me just post my two cents' worth and wish you all the best for 2005. We've got a real community here and you guys are great.
Capital J | 12.31.04 - 7:02 pm | #

Wonder if they make 'em so you can disconnect 'em at the keyboard instead of reaching back into the tangle of wires.

That's why you need a PC with front USB ports...

Now go be social and stuff!
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 7:05 pm | #

From a regular lurker and occasional poster-What everybody else said(especially Barndog).

Big dilemma for the new year: Which goddess to worship? Tena, Silleigh, Hecate, Vicki, to name only a few. So many godesses, so little time.

Selah and Peace, everyone.
CAGary | 12.31.04 - 7:06 pm | #

Well my little terror got out through the bottom of the screen door and will not come back in. He keeps running from me when I go out there. Little shit - it's dark and I hate to get him started on going out at night. The reason is that it's fine here, in Colorado - absolutely not. There are owls twice his size around the place, not to mention the mountain lions, bears and the cat's mortal enemy - coyotes.

I can't be having this out after dark thing. Goddamn it.
Tena | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 7:06 pm | #

(you could also get a USB hub, and snake it around to the front, but the aesthetics might leave a bit to be desired...)
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 7:06 pm | #

I rarely comment - am intimidated by you all and your quickness. But, please know that I read the comments often and rely weekly on cat blogging! And, ohhhh, Kenosha Kid - your kittens are precious!!

Happy New Year to All. And, thanks!
Sarah Deere | 12.31.04 - 7:07 pm | #

Yes, they are... and so cute!!!!

I second that.
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 7:07 pm | #

[blogwhore] I left everyone a new year's message over at first-draft.

[/blogwhore]
Tena | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 7:09 pm | #

Tena -

Can you lure him in with tuna?
Snugglebunny | 12.31.04 - 7:10 pm | #

Baby wÒÓ† just walked by the computer, saw Atrios' blog onscreen, and said:

"Ooooh! Pretty kitty!"

Happy new year all.
wÒÓ† | 12.31.04 - 7:13 pm | #

I dunno but I think the Tuxedo kitty still looks pissed about the ear inside-out trick. Watch yourself, A-man.
Dr. Pedant | 12.31.04 - 7:16 pm | #

wÒÓ†

Happy New Year.
Tena | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 7:21 pm | #

Are my Friday Kittens viewable yet?
The Kenosha Kid

Tried to access a little while ago and they weren't.

But yes, they are now. What great markings on their little faces!
mer | 12.31.04 - 7:22 pm | #

How I love everyone's Friday or anyday catblogging pictures. I still miss my kitties, from the diffident Nuit, who used to belong to a horse and had trouble adjusting to humans, to Gloria in Excelsis Deo, Gloria for short, who was from a cleaning order of cat nuns, (both from the early 70's) to Baloney (a/k/a PuffBudget), an orange long hair of dominant ("friendly") personality and low-wattage brain power, to Baloney's slightly older sister Pluie, who was bullied by Ms. Baloney but who had a very subtle and layered sense of humor. Of the two, Ploo was the thinking person's cat. Ms. Ploo died at age 21 two years ago, a year and a half after Baloney. RIP Miss Poo and PuffBudget. And thank all of you for sharing your kitties.
bee | 12.31.04 - 7:23 pm | #

A wish that we come out alive
from the year two thousand and five.

Many thanks to all the Echatonians
who have provided much wit and humor which I have enjoyed nearly every day since mid-2003.

It's been wonderful reading you and our host Mr. Black and as brief as our acquaintance has been, may raise a toast...

And ther's a hand, my trusty friends,
And gie's a hand o' thine;
We'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.
nur al-cubicle | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 7:24 pm | #

Tena,

Ole is absolutely beautiful. Absolutely.

Silleigh: "wasband". Classic. I used to introduce my wife as my "ex-wife-to-be". Now that she is, I don't, any more
Dr. Pedant | 12.31.04 - 7:25 pm | #

Kenosha Kid - those are the most adorable, wonderful looking kittens I've ever seen - especially the one with the black mark in the middle of his face. O I want them all.
Tena | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 7:25 pm | #

Friday Nudibranch Blogging: Good Fucking Riddance to 2004 Edition

And I've said it before, but I'm eternally grateful to Atrios for this blog, and to all of you smart, funny, compassionate people, about whom I often think fond thoughts even when I'm not online!

Here's hoping there are happier times ahead for all of us!
Philalethes | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 7:30 pm | #

Damn, you guys are getting me all
emotional.

And by the way,Quiltlady, we'd love
to meet you next time.....
steve simels | 12.31.04 - 7:31 pm | #

bee - that was a wonderful comment - I love your cats' names. Thank you for that.

Dr, Pedant - thanks. He surprised me. I didn't expect him to look like he does. He was a scrawny, funny looking kitten.

He's really bright for a cat. He's far and away one of the brighter cats I've had. So he caught on quick how to play me. I've never had a cat with quite as much of the upper hand as this one has.

I know his name is going to change. Most of my cats have kitten names and then they sort of grow into another name that fits them better. The last female I had I named Fanny. However, by the time she was about 2 years old, I was calling her Twit most of the time, and that was her name from then on.
Tena | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 7:33 pm | #

When I was in college, I had a roommate
who had two canaries.

One was named George Burn and Gracie
Allen, and the other one didn't have
a name.

True story.
steve simels | 12.31.04 - 7:36 pm | #

Ha - I just had a thought that struck me funny.

NTODD needs to get another kitty and name it PONY
oldwhitelady | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 7:37 pm | #

Tena,

Baby. I know he's a boy, but that's what comes to mind.

Or maybe Sonny.

Simels,

You should catch up with the roomie. He sounds clever and funny, and there ain't nearly enough of that around.
Dr. Pedant | 12.31.04 - 7:38 pm | #

NTODD needs to get another kitty and name it PONY

Pony Todd? Oh dear.

(Candyman... Candyman... Candyman... Candyman...)
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 7:39 pm | #

I want to wish all a wonderful New Years as well and hope that 2005 brings intelligence, wit and compassion into the everyday discourse!
aurora borealis | 12.31.04 - 7:41 pm | #

Dr. Pedant - Sonny crossed my mind once or twice. He looks like a "Baby" in that pic, but he's a little feisty for that name.

It's bound to come to me. I call him all manner of names all the time.
Tena | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 7:41 pm | #

I've tried to think what makes this site so special. Of course, the liberals and progressives are a given. But all the personalities (woot, incog, bebe, backslider, Tena, Athena, pie, Hecate, Jeffers,--damn, I could go on forever), the wisdom and knowledge of individuals who comment, and all the LOLs that I have experienced, have kept me feeling that all is not lost. A toast to all you great souls. Thanks again.
mer | 12.31.04 - 7:41 pm | #

May I just say, for the last time in 2004, how much I absolutely loathe David Brooks? He is on the "Newshour" right now and he makes me sick to my stomach. Can somebody PLEASE find something on this guy in 2005? He needs to be exposed for the idiot he is.
Res Ipsa Loquitor | 12.31.04 - 7:42 pm | #

let me clarify, outside of the intelligence, wit and compassion found here at Eschaton
aurora borealis | 12.31.04 - 7:42 pm | #

Well, I have to go now. We're taking down the tree and then having dinner - pork tenderloin and herb risotto.

I wish you all peace and justice in the new year.

A. and Mrs. A. - many blessings on your house.
Tena | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 7:43 pm | #

BTW, in case anybody was wondering --

at Wednesday's Eschaton regulars
meet and greet, we all turned out
to be different genders than we expected.

I,for example, am apparantly a
Swedish woman.

Who knew?
steve simels | 12.31.04 - 7:46 pm | #

Liddy Dole would like to wish you a happy new year, but she is tied up at the moment.
bebe rebozo | 12.31.04 - 7:48 pm | #

ahhhhh...the kittys have arrived.

i'm feeling so much better now.
jillian | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 7:50 pm | #

herb risotto:

obscure jazz musician?
steve simels | 12.31.04 - 7:50 pm | #

You're a little premature, Atrios. It's not The Year of the Cat until 2011.
charlie don't surf | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 7:51 pm | #

Another constant lurker and occasional poster here. Thanks to all of you for great information, interesting opinions and sometimes weirdness. Just a thought here but how about starting a new tradition with Dog Blogging Mondays?

Anyway here's to a much better 2005!

Hook 'Em Horns
RealTexan | 12.31.04 - 7:51 pm | #

jeezus what were these mf'rs thinking when they voted for dimwit?

We'll just sit tight and wait for the time passages.
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 7:52 pm | #

Another waste of blogtime. Honestly, I don't know why I even come here any more...open threads...cat blogging...well, I guess you need a rest there, Duncan!
Grix | 12.31.04 - 7:52 pm | #

Oops, let's try that again...

It's not The Year of the Cat until 2011.

We'll just sit tight and wait for the time passages.
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 7:53 pm | #

(I'm too sleepy for this blog, too sleepy for this blog, so sleepy, my Go-od...)
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 7:53 pm | #

I hope this isn't "blog taboo" and apologize in advance to Atrios and readers if it is I left my final thoughts of 2004 and on 2005 on my little blog. If you have sometime, I'd love for you to check it out. I hope everyone has a wonderful New Year!

PS- I was going to post some thoughts here on the comments but it went to long. I'll never mention my blog here again!
Samir | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 7:54 pm | #

A cat that looks like the black and white cat of Atrios' visited with his human for a few days. He got on my keyboard every time I used the computer--just to say he knew this game. It was fun having a kitty around a little while. I don't think he deleted any files or withdrew any funds, and he was very good company for my little boy who has a broken leg.

oh and happy new year all!
cgreen | 12.31.04 - 7:54 pm | #

I hope this isn't "blog taboo"

Dude, you must be new. Blogwhoring is a respected tradition here.
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 7:55 pm | #

must... pet... grey... kitty... MUST...

That cat looks like it's made out of chenille or velvet or something incredibly soft.

We've got a grey kitty just like that. Her name is Grapes, because she came home in a box that said "California Grapes" on the side. When the spouse asked, "What's in the box?" I said, "Grapes!"

And the name stuck...
Stinky | 12.31.04 - 7:56 pm | #

Oh, and congrats!
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 7:57 pm | #

Eli-

Al Stewart?
RealTexan | 12.31.04 - 7:57 pm | #

Or maybe, "Greypes"...
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 7:57 pm | #

My late great sainted cat Murray
(who was a tuxedo very much like
the one posted above)
was named because we thought we could
get him a job as a William Morris
agent.

We figured either Murray, Phil, or
Sol.
steve simels | 12.31.04 - 7:58 pm | #

Al Stewart?

Yep. Pretty much the entire extent of my Al Stewart knowledge, right there.
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 7:58 pm | #

because we thought we could
get him a job as a William Morris
agent.

I think you mentioned this before, but you have yet to elaborate on it...
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:00 pm | #

Eli:
Well, of course, it was bullshit.
We just thought that anybody with
a sort of Jewish first name could
get a gig there.

It kind of had something to do with
David Geffen working in the Morris
mailroom as a teenager.

And then taking over the world.
steve simels | 12.31.04 - 8:04 pm | #

And its a play on a riff that Mel
Brooks did as the 2000 Year Old Man.
steve simels | 12.31.04 - 8:05 pm | #

Happy New Year! May it be full of good news for our side, as it's also the side of the environment, humans and all good stuff. May you all have sincere love, meaningful work and robust health.

Blessings,
from Echidne of the snakes
Echidne of the snakes | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:06 pm | #

I see. Of the various Jewish-name alternatives, at least it had the benfit of rhyming with "furry".
(although Sol kinda rhymes with "hairball")
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:07 pm | #

Eli:
I hadn't thought of that, but sure.

It also had something to do with
when Carl Reiner asks Mel Brooks (as
2000 Year Old Man)
if he knew the apostles.

Brooks goes oh yeah. Murray, Phil,
Irving...oh wait, that's the William
Morris agency.
steve simels | 12.31.04 - 8:10 pm | #

hee hee.... made presents for steve today....
NYMary | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:13 pm | #

Happy 2005! New Years blessings to all for a year of health and happiness.

2005 is the Year of the Rooster. According to my Chinese Astrology book:

"This is a time for looking onward and upward. Politically and domestically, the downtrodden make their voices heard, the aggreived or tyrannized will stand up for themselves, and the bullies will get their due comeuppance."

Stinky | 12.31.04 - 8:13 pm | #

Happy New Year to all Atrios Amigos.

My wish for the New Year 2005:

God Bless America

but send Bush back to hell.
giss | 12.31.04 - 8:15 pm | #

yay, Stinky! Go rooster!
NYMary | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:15 pm | #

Never got into the 2000 Year Old Man. Listened to some Newhart, and a lot of Bill Cosby & Tom Lehrer growing up. Also a soupcon of Allan "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah" Sherman, and a generous dollop of PDQ Bach.
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:16 pm | #

BTW, and stop me if I posted this
already:

A friend of mine who's a freelance
editor at TV Guide just gave me
a DVD of the first three episodes
of the new Battlestar Gallactica
that's gonna air on the Sci-Fi
channel in a couple o weeks

Not bad at all. Actually, kind of
interesting.
steve simels | 12.31.04 - 8:18 pm | #

I hope you're right, Stinky. Year Of The Rooster sounds kinda of tailor-made for W, tho. At least it's not Year Of The Banty Rooster, or Year Of The Chickenhawk.

It could also be read as Year Of The Cock, and you could probably make a good case for that being a good omen for BushCo as well...
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:18 pm | #

That may be the first time the phrase "a soupcon of Allan Sherman" has ever been used....
NYMary | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:18 pm | #

That may be the first time the phrase "a soupcon of Allan Sherman" has ever been used....

Maybe I should copyright it before the marketing bonanza passes me by.
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:21 pm | #

Eli:
Seriously, if you don't know the
2000 Year Old Man albums, you're
meta culturally deprived.

Funniest shit ever. Doesn't date,
still incredibly hilarious.
Run, do not walk, and go to Tower
or whatever and buy the Rhino box
set.

How good is it? I wouldn't accept
a blow job from a woman who didn't
think it was funny.
steve simels | 12.31.04 - 8:22 pm | #

Happy New Year all,
from my family and of course from our overweight feline Scylla. May all of the cats here share her dream of a bird occasionally falling into her mouth as she dozes under the feeder.
mcinma | 12.31.04 - 8:22 pm | #

My best to all of you guys, and happy fucking new year!

New Years resolutions anyone?

Mine is to think about getting a job, not that I'll get one, but at least I'll think about it. Baby steps...
chris/tx | 12.31.04 - 8:22 pm | #

How good is it? I wouldn't accept
a blow job from a woman who didn't
think it was funny.

Rather curious choice of incentive, Steve...
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:24 pm | #

I wouldn't accept
a blow job from a woman who didn't
think it was funny.

I'll bet you wouldn't ask until after, though.
NYMary | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:24 pm | #

Happy New Year's all - have fun, stay safe...
9toed nihilist | 12.31.04 - 8:25 pm | #

The proof that there
are infinitely many primes is very simple and known since Euclid. You
don't have to be a philosopher of mathematics, much less a
mathematician to understand it. Goes roughly as follows:

Suppose you have a list of all the primes. Multiply them together
now and add 1. Call that number P. Well, since P cannot (by hypothesis)
be a prime (remember, we started with a list of all the primes), it
must be a composite number, thus divisible by a prime number. Call that
prime factor p. Well, p cannot be on the list of all the primes that
you started from, unless p divides into 1 (the difference between P and
the number that comes from multiplying together all the primes). But if
p was not on the original list, then we contradict the initial
assumption: that we had a list of all the primes.
b | 12.31.04 - 8:26 pm | #

Primes... are flowing like a river...
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:27 pm | #

No no! DOG blogging (And blog whoring!)
mary | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:27 pm | #

Primes... are flowing like a river...
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:27 pm | #

No no! DOG blogging (And blog whoring!)
mary | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:27 pm | #

Eli:
Just saying...I couldn't have
a relationship with anybody who
didn't think those albums were funny.

To my shock, such people exist.
steve simels | 12.31.04 - 8:27 pm | #

Personally, I couldn't handle a serious relationship with a person who didn't think the original Bedazzled was comedy genius.

And the remake utter crap.
NYMary | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:27 pm | #

(all your primes are belong to us)
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:28 pm | #

Personally, I couldn't handle a serious relationship with a person who didn't think the original Bedazzled was comedy genius.

And the remake utter crap.

Well, one outta two ain't bad.

(how could you not be amused by the Dawson's Creek parody, or the hyper-sweaty cliche-spouting hoopster?)
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:29 pm | #

Now I wonder, Steve, when was the last time you actually had a blowjob? Does reciting dinosaur rock lyrics get you laid? Stop me if you've heard this one...
jh | 12.31.04 - 8:29 pm | #

(Good evening, ma'am! We're the Froony Green Eyewash men!)
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:29 pm | #

NYMary:

I hear ya, babe....
steve simels | 12.31.04 - 8:30 pm | #

Good Lord, that's an enormous dog, mary!
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:31 pm | #

Has anyone seen the 1931 movie 'M' from Fritz Lang?
Anonymous | 12.31.04 - 8:31 pm | #

Has anyone seen the 1931 movie 'M' from Fritz Lang?

Oh yes. Excellent stuff.

I cannot control this evil thing inside me! The fire, the voices, the torment!
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:32 pm | #

Now I wonder, Steve, when was the last time you actually had a blowjob? Does
reciting dinosaur rock lyrics get you laid? Stop me if you've heard this one...
jh | Email | Homepage

Oh Christ.
A disgruntled boyfriend.
steve simels | 12.31.04 - 8:33 pm | #

Eli,
Fraser's fine, and a hottie. Though I do think they depended too much on makeup and effects for the various personae. But Elizabeth Hurley is execrable. Though also a hottie. But not smart, just a smartass. Confusing these two qualities is a common problem in our society, ergo the current administration.
NYMary | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:33 pm | #

Yet another faithful lurker here, to say thanks to Atrios and the many, many erudite Atriots who have helped me keep my sanity this past year in spite of the Bushbots. I seldom post because by the time I get there one of you has said it better. It is a wonderful community. So thanks again, and Happy New Year!
RebelGranny | 12.31.04 - 8:34 pm | #

Cute, and you wish. Next you'll be telling me to fuck off and get out of here per your usual response.
jh | 12.31.04 - 8:35 pm | #

Oh Christ.
A disgruntled boyfriend.

steve, you crack me up.
NYMary | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:35 pm | #

Obviously every cat blogged here is remarkable and smarter than average.
mag | 12.31.04 - 8:36 pm | #

Mmm... Liz Hurley...

I was entertained, and Liz Hurley wasn't really what made the movie funny, although she's always nice to look at.

I guess I just got a kick out of the outlandishness of the scenarios (and I love parodies of cliches), and the effective deployment of Orlando Jones. And for some reason, the line "Thank you, Dr. Ngeketty-Ngeketty Baa Baa," just totally killed me. What can I say.
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:38 pm | #

NYMary:
I heart you too.

Thank god I'm secure in whatever
the hell my sexuality is.
steve simels | 12.31.04 - 8:38 pm | #

Wow, I sure am awfully stimulated by jh's provocative and challenging posts. What a great addition to the Eschaton community!
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:39 pm | #

I,for example, am apparantly a
Swedish woman.
steve simels

Isn't Steve a Swedish woman?
oldwhitelady | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:39 pm | #

oldwhitelady,
In a bikini. In a basenment bar in Manhattan. In December.
NYMary | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:41 pm | #

In a bikini. In a basenment bar in Manhattan. In December.

Ya! Go to work! Good dag por day!
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:41 pm | #

happy new year to all of you. thank you for being an outlet for my rage and horror since 11/3/04. i might have shot someone if I didn't get to laugh at your crazy comments.
M | 12.31.04 - 8:42 pm | #

(It just occurred to me how I've dated myself. The Swedish Bikini Team has to be over 15 years ago. Wow.)
NYMary | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:43 pm | #

Chocolate frosted raised donuts. I couldn't have a relationship with a woman who didn't love chocolate frosted raised donuts.
Dr. Pedant | 12.31.04 - 8:43 pm | #

Wow, I sure am awfully stimulated by jh's provocative and challenging posts. What a great addition to the Eschaton community!
Eli

Yea, well, unlike you and Steve I'm heading out now to have real and meaningful interactions with real people in real social settings. You can stay here thinking you're among "real" friends. Goodnight and Happy New Year, asshole.
jh | 12.31.04 - 8:43 pm | #

Chocolate frosted raised donuts. I couldn't have a relationship with a woman who didn't love chocolate frosted raised donuts.
Dr. Pedant | 12.31.04 - 8:43 pm | #

i might have shot someone if I didn't get to laugh at your crazy comments.

There's still time!
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:43 pm | #

I am not enjoying the Peach Bowl very much so far. A very sloppy game so far.

Also, E. Hurley in the short skirt in Bedazzled Remade was kinda nice.
Thersites | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:44 pm | #

Poor me. I wish *I* could spend New Year's in the corner bar.
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:45 pm | #

Got back from the Music City Bowl game, a close-fought battle between the Minnesota and Alabama teams, won by the Gophers 20-16. About two seconds after the clock ran out the Gopher band, apparently wishing to play a tribute to the Nashville hosts, launched into a spirited rendition of a country music classic. Unfortunately that song was "Rocky Top" which is also the in-your-face fight song of Alabama's bitter rival the University of Tennessee. I sat among a horde of incredulous 'Bama fans who thought they'd just been razzed. It didn't help that the Gopher band wore uniforms almost identical to Tennessee's. Sweet Thang, a rabid Crimson Tide fan, was still grousing about it an hour later. I did manage to keep from laughing until she left for work.
parsec | 12.31.04 - 8:46 pm | #

OK, I'm off to make a special late supper for clan Thersites. Delmonicos, mushrooms, potatoes, broccoli.

Cheers, folks! And many happy returns! Here's to a less horrifying 2005!
NYMary | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:46 pm | #

Yea, well, unlike you and Steve I'm heading out now to have real and meaningful interactions with real people in real social settings. You can stay here thinking you're among "real" friends. Goodnight and Happy New Year, asshole.

We can see why you are so popular.
Thersites | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:47 pm | #

Yea, well, unlike you and Steve I'm heading out now to have real and
meaningful interactions with real people in real social settings. You can stay
here thinking you're among "real" friends. Goodnight and Happy New Year,
asshole.
jh | Email | Homepage

Yeah, jh, what are you really gonna
do?

C'mon, seriously, what????
steve simels | 12.31.04 - 8:47 pm | #

I love your kitties, Mr. A.
J.Ro | 12.31.04 - 8:48 pm | #

In a bikini. In a basenment bar in Manhattan. In December.
NYMary

oldwhitelady | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:49 pm | #

Wow. It never ceases to amaze me when someone like jh drops by, shouts a few insults, then gets stroppy when someone points out how assholish they are.
I wonder if they behave the same way in 'real' social settings with 'real' people etc?
j. henry | 12.31.04 - 8:50 pm | #

jh seems a bit panda-like:

Eats, shits, and leaves.
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:50 pm | #

Also, E. Hurley in the short skirt in Bedazzled Remade was kinda nice.

I didn't say she was unattractive. I said she was smug and unfunny.

You do plan on having a relationship with me in the future, right?
NYMary | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:51 pm | #

Eats, shits, and leaves.
Eli

Or Eats and shits leaves...
j. henry | 12.31.04 - 8:52 pm | #

Yeah, jh, what are you really gonna
do?

C'mon, seriously, what????

Regret, sadly, how he lost the love of dear Edna Krabappel at that convention?
Thersites | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:52 pm | #

Well, I think they're sulking from when they (supposedly) tried to post provocative and thought-provoking posts on the issues of the day, and were (supposedly) rudely shouted down by the (supposed) Eschatocracy, either as reader or one of their previous aliases.

Of course, they never actually provided examples of this, so I'm thinking we've just seen a demonstration of the full extent of their (supposed) provocative thought-provokingness.

I suppose.
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:53 pm | #

Yesterday evening I remarked, while watching the UNM Lobos irresistably crumble to the Middies, and considering the fact that UNM had not won a bowl game in dog years, that there was a difference between hope and optimism. This is precisely how I feel confronting 2005. My hope for you and yours, us and ours--as for the hapless Lobos--knows no bounds.

I am not optimistic, however.

Glass half full? Glass half empty? Does it matter if, when you try to sip, you slice your lip?

But, anyway, cheers, chers.
Salud!
And good luck.
WoodyGuthrie'sGuitar (aka kono | 12.31.04 - 8:54 pm | #

As the saying goes: Hope for the best, plan for the worst.
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:55 pm | #

Let's toast those who departed in 2005. Artie Shaw, talented old bastard.
Jerry Orbach, we grew accustomed to your face.
Spalding Gray: damn!
Mary McGrory: much woman, much reporter.
Brando.
Rick James, bitches!
Anyone care to add more?
mag | 12.31.04 - 8:56 pm | #

Elliot Smith.
NYMary | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:57 pm | #

Yea, well, unlike you and Steve I'm heading out now to have real and meaningful interactions with real people in real social settings.

Wow...visiting a glory hole has never sounded so pretentious!

Don't choke on it, pal.
Philalethes | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 8:57 pm | #

Mr. Johnny Ramone

Anderson Cooper just did a little "who died this year" retrosopective.
J.Ro | 12.31.04 - 8:59 pm | #

Brother Ray!
mag | 12.31.04 - 8:59 pm | #

...Pardon my "o"
J.Ro | 12.31.04 - 9:00 pm | #

Jack Paar, Janet Leigh, Tony Randall.
t | 12.31.04 - 9:01 pm | #

Now I have the Jim Carroll Band stuck in my head...
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:02 pm | #

Nearly a thousand American Soldiers.
t | 12.31.04 - 9:05 pm | #

Tug McGraw, Helmut Newton, Cap'n Kangaroo, and someone named Bernard Punsly (sniffle).
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:05 pm | #

Nearly a thousand American Soldiers.
t | 12.31.04 - 9:05 pm | #

Tug McGraw, Helmut Newton, Cap'n Kangaroo, and someone named Bernard Punsly (sniffle).
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:05 pm | #

Minny Challanges Ahed
Wildebeest | 12.31.04 - 9:06 pm | #

With all due respect, who was Elliot Smith???
Dr. Pedant | 12.31.04 - 9:06 pm | #

Philalethes, maybe you can send some of that gourmet food and wine you're always talking about to the 100k dead in southeast asia.
Anonymous | 12.31.04 - 9:07 pm | #

Wow, I didn't realize Mary-Ellis Bunim died this year. Pity she didn't take the reality TV genre with her...
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:07 pm | #

Ronnie Raygun...about 30 years too late.
j. henry | 12.31.04 - 9:09 pm | #

On this News years Eve lets try to remember that,in the old Rolling Stones song "Gimme Shelter"-Love.......is just a smirk away,smirk away,smirk away.........
notch | 12.31.04 - 9:09 pm | #

Also 1,331 U.S. soldiers, unknown and uncounted thousands of Iraqis, and now, unknowable thousands of tsunami victims. Whew. Death had a banner year.

It's civil of we, the living, to mourn them. But my plan for 05 is to live honorably, speak truth both to power and minor, irritating non-thinkers (let's educate the 'enemy' every time we speak). I'll stay a proud liberal, a bushco opposer, an activist whenever possible - it's our new year too, damn it.

It's a hopeful thing that the Orange Party elected THEIR man. Maybe democratic ideals have inspired others in the world even as they decline here...
mag | 12.31.04 - 9:09 pm | #

Philalethes, maybe you can send some of that gourmet food and wine you're always talking about to the 100k dead in southeast asia.

Back from your real interactions with real people in a real social setting already, jh?
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:10 pm | #

three stooges on amc, 8 more till 05
bluesman | 12.31.04 - 9:10 pm | #

a nod to bluesman - also lost Son Seal.
mag | 12.31.04 - 9:12 pm | #

Philalethes, maybe you can send some of that gourmet food and wine you're always talking about to the 100k dead in southeast asia.
Anonymous

What on earth are you talking about? Has anyone else noticed me talking inordinately about gourmet food?

As for sending aid to SE Asia, I gave what I could. I hope you did the same.
Philalethes | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:12 pm | #

Yea, well, unlike you and Steve I'm heading out now to have real and meaningful interactions with real people in real social setting............................Wow,you must be a real special person.Why dont you suck your car battery dry for New Years ?
notch | 12.31.04 - 9:12 pm | #

too bad we couldn't be speaking to the same amount of dead in Iraq (approx) as the tsunamis in South Asia? Well I guess they had it coming to them in the minds of our right wing nutjobs ... then again, the Westboro Baptist Church has its own spin on the tsunami disaster:

BOP News: Compassion

wait til you see the image of the news release ... amazing that these guys aren't locked up for hate crimes ... thinking again, if you are a religious organization can you be found guilty of hate?

< your responses will be very interesting, to be sure >
syntallic | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:14 pm | #

Residing here in a purply but mostly red state, I'm familiar with a redneck tradition on drinking occasions... "fuck or fight by 11:30."
How about we don't fight?
mag | 12.31.04 - 9:15 pm | #

You know who I'll miss in '05?

Bernie Kerik.
Thersites | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:15 pm | #

"fuck or fight by 11:30."

Can't we do both?
Philalethes | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:16 pm | #

Thersites - good one!
mag | 12.31.04 - 9:17 pm | #

You know who I'll miss in '05?

Bernie Kerik.
Thersites

good choice, because there are so many to select from .. but for my money I would have to take Pastor General John Asscraft - at least he had a bullseye on his chest
syntallic | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:17 pm | #

Residing here in a purply but mostly red state, I'm familiar with a redneck tradition on drinking occasions... "fuck or fight by 11:30."
How about we don't fight?

Damn, I need to go to more redneck drinking occasions. But maybe with body armor.
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:17 pm | #

Thersites - I'll take my sex without violence please, but your mileage may vary.
mag | 12.31.04 - 9:18 pm | #

I'll take my sex without violence please, but your mileage may vary.

I'll take it any way I can get it, with as much mileage as possible...
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:20 pm | #

doesn't fucking and fighting come out of the same sensory impulse? at least that's what freud considered, but he was a notorious coke freak so that might explain a lot of the gray area
syntallic | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:20 pm | #

Eli - that's my boy!
mag | 12.31.04 - 9:20 pm | #

Eli - that's my boy!

I like the sound of that...
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:21 pm | #

any port in a storm, eli?

watch out, son! sometimes those things bite back and getcha when you least expect it .... ha
syntallic | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:21 pm | #

The one, the only, Rodney Dangerfield.

Selah.
CAGary | 12.31.04 - 9:22 pm | #

any port in a storm, eli?

watch out, son! sometimes those things bite back and getcha when you least expect it .... ha

That's never really been a big problem in my life...
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:24 pm | #

Its still early here in the west,and Im a bit goosed on white wine trying to determine if I should wear my beret and steel toed birkenstocks,or just carry a .38 like most folks around here.And remember,if you run into any uppity native americans-just tell em to go back to india.
notch | 12.31.04 - 9:24 pm | #

(hopefully not a scuzzy port)
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:25 pm | #

Its still early here in the west,and Im a bit goosed on white wine trying to determine if I should wear my beret and steel toed birkenstocks,or just carry a .38 like most folks around here.

I don't see why those should be mutually exclusive.
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:25 pm | #

I'll take it any way I can get it, with as much mileage as possible...
Eli

A fine funny fellow like yrself ought to be considered a catch, I'd think...
Philalethes | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:26 pm | #

Women like big long dicks, unless they like assfucking. For those with smaller pricks, my advice would be to find a woman that is indifferent between. pussy-fucking, pussy-licking, and ass-fucking. Then, even though you have a smaller penis, you can still meet her needs.
Anonymous | 12.31.04 - 9:26 pm | #

i hear ya, eli .. been a fortunate son myself in that department -- but sometimes a scuzzy port can be fun for voyeurism, science fair projects and good old fashioned capitalism
syntallic | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:27 pm | #

I'll take it any way I can get it, with as much mileage as possible...

mileage is a very underrated conceptual phenomenon -- a little mileage never hurt ... unless, of course, you're near the valley in LA and you run into a porno queen .. and there are tons of them out here ... run, boys, run for the exits! ha
syntallic | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:29 pm | #

jeez ... the anonymous post is enough to make you throw away the porn industry contacts and claim ignorance
syntallic | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:30 pm | #

Wrong idea about what? That women like big dicks? My mother told me that it wasn't true, but I didn't believe her. I asked my girlfriend if I had a big dick and she smiled and said," it'll get the job done."
Anonymous | 12.31.04 - 9:31 pm | #

Women like big long dicks, unless

Yeah, I know women love to have their cervix pounded.

The whole big dick thing, I believe, came from gay men. Not women.

The very average
Dr. Pedant | 12.31.04 - 9:31 pm | #

I don't see why those should be mutually exclusive.
Eli | Email | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:25 pm | # ......Right,nothing like a revolver belly gun.Autos are for experts or kids who watch too much tv.If I wear the beret,Im sure to get into trouble since I "might be french".
notch | 12.31.04 - 9:31 pm | #

My mother told me that it wasn't true, but I didn't believe her.

Well, she's your mom, after all. I imagine she faked some orgasms with you too.
Philalethes | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:33 pm | #

Beret and gun, you could have the whole Resistance partisan thing going on.
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:33 pm | #

All this talk about big dicks makes me wonder if there's a Dame Mix-A-Lot...
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:35 pm | #

About 30 yars ago, I went way up in the mountains to go white water kayaking. The small motel where we stayed had the only lounge for 50 miles. I met one of the local maroon-neck ladies. I asked her what they did for fun around there. She said, "we don't do nuthin' but fuck and fight,an I ain't seen a fight in 3 or 4 years". I never got on the water. fight is pronounced "fit" in that part of the mountains.
Sailbad The Sinner | 12.31.04 - 9:35 pm | #

Yeah, I know women love to have their cervix pounded.

Oh yeah. And ones with diaphragms really like to have it prodded and dislodged, too. Especially when they get pregnant afterwards.

I'll tell ya, the goddamn sluts can't get enough of that action!
Philalethes | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:36 pm | #

What on earth are you talking about? Has anyone else noticed me talking inordinately about gourmet food?

Well, you probably don't realize it, and it's not your fault. I think what's happening is that glitchy old Haloscan is messing up your posts by screwing with your pronouns. Here, look:

"What on earth are truffle talking about? Has escargot else noticed shallot talking inordinately about gourmet food?"
Thersites | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:37 pm | #

hey .. have any of you folks been getting linked by euro and asian blogs?

my linkto page says over 385 suddenly ... pretty interesting development - getting email too
syntallic | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:38 pm | #

The whole big dick thing, I believe, came from gay men. Not women.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here, and say that women vary a great deal in what they do and don't like.

That's my experience, anyway.
Philalethes | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:39 pm | #

I'm gonna go out on a limb here, and say that women vary a great deal in what they do and don't like.

i think that would be called BINGO ...
syntallic | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:40 pm | #

Jeez,I never thought of that.That explains why I have no right wing friends.I guess a leftist with a gun is a little too intimidating for them.Poor things.We will sing a chorus of "Kumbaya Or Death,Motherfucker" for the lost wingnuts.
notch | 12.31.04 - 9:40 pm | #

I'm gonna go out on a limb here, and say that women vary a great deal in what they do and don't like.

I'm sorry, I just can't believe such a thing.
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:41 pm | #

Doc Pedant: Elliot Smith was a young pop-folk kind of musician - if you saw the movie "American Beauty", his cover of "Because" from Abbey Road was featured. His stuff is sweetish, lush, good with a blunt...a suicide this year like, probably, another of my favorite artists, Spaulding Gray.
waterspeakblood | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:42 pm | #

"What on earth are truffle talking about? Has escargot else noticed shallot talking inordinately about gourmet food?"
Thersites

Maybe you're right...although this troll is that same obsessive one who keeps files on what certain people post. I outraged his proletarian sensibilities several months ago by mentioning that I'd made a pesto with pumpkin seeds instead of pine nuts...he's brought it up a couple times since then. I think the whole meal cost me about five dollars.

Tonight we're doing a shepherd's pie and a salad. No wine, sorry!
Philalethes | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:43 pm | #

The Hallmark channel is running a Walton's marathon.
Anonymous | 12.31.04 - 9:44 pm | #

I'm gonna go out on a limb here, and say that women vary a great deal in what they do and don't like.

Now I'm picturing myself walking up to various women with my hands held a certain distance apart, going "Yes? No? Yes? No?"
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:44 pm | #

The Hallmark channel is running a Walton's marathon.

i think the three stooges marathon trumps john boy any day of the week
syntallic | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:45 pm | #

I'm gonna go out on a limb here, and say that women vary a great deal in what they do and don't like.

That's my experience, anyway.
Philalethes

That shows you've got experience. The things women like...well, if you get to the point where you learn what they are with a particular woman, then you are somewhere. You've been seen the second veil drop.
waterspeakblood | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:46 pm | #

my linkto page says over 385 suddenly ... pretty interesting development - getting email too
syntallic

I did a post on the tsunami that got some sort of attention...I had dozens of links from all over the world, but I couldn't quite figure out what caused it...it was like it was suddenly in all these different places at once...didn't feel like the usual word-of-mouth thing.

On the other hand, my current nudibranch hasn't generated as much excitement as I hoped. On the other hand, it IS New Year's Eve. Or, as we Irish types call it, "Amateur Night."
Philalethes | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:47 pm | #

i think the three stooges marathon trumps john boy any day of the week

Wait... they're *not* the same thing? It's not Larry, Curly, and John Boy?

I am sooo out of touch with the pop culture.
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:47 pm | #

I did a post on the tsunami that got some sort of attention...I had dozens of links from all over the world, but I couldn't quite figure out what caused it...it was like it was suddenly in all these different places at once...didn't feel like the usual word-of-mouth thing.

if true, that would explain it .. because I used the "tsunami" reference as well ... must have hit a keyword thing
syntallic | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:49 pm | #

You've been seen the second veil drop

Did I write that? I am too far into the MD2020 if that's what is coming out of me.
waterspeakblood | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:49 pm | #

have them pull straws, eli ... the long or short stick gets the hotel room key a la tom jones (depending on your actual physical prowess, of course) and i really don't need the details or the name you have for it

Well, I'm just saying, since "right-sizing" is such a hot topic in the corporate world, why shouldn't it be in the romantic world as well? Why not match women up with the sizes they prefer? *Everyone's* happy!
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:49 pm | #

waterspeakblood,

Thanks for the info re. Elliot Smith. Think I'll check him out.
Dr. Pedant | 12.31.04 - 9:49 pm | #

That shows you've got experience.

Well, whether or not I do, the main point is that troll-boy doesn't. That thing about "ass-fucking"...sheesh!
Philalethes | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:50 pm | #

I'm not sure we have all that much standing to complain about anal sex references...
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:51 pm | #

(now, *unfunny* anal sex references, on the other hand...)
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:51 pm | #

I'm gonna go out on a limb here, and say that women vary a great deal in what they do and don't like.............................Hint: girls just want to have fun,and a fillup means more fun.And something to talk about.Until love rears its ugly head and she cannot think of anything else,she thinks of big dicked guys.Sorry if I offended anyone.
notch | 12.31.04 - 9:53 pm | #

Incognito went on for 2 days in here about how proud he was of his ass. And you're calling me a troll?
Anonymous | 12.31.04 - 9:53 pm | #

(now, *unfunny* anal sex references, on the other hand...)
Eli

Yeah, that's preceisely my complaint. It's one of those things I'm kind of anal about.
Philalethes | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:54 pm | #

Merry New Year and a Happy Impending Impeachment!
Elaine Supkis | 12.31.04 - 9:55 pm | #

Excuse me, is this the anal sex thread?
Central Scrutinizer | 12.31.04 - 9:56 pm | #

Merry New Year and a Happy Impending Impeachment!

From your lips to the Goddess's ears! If it's not "Goddess", we're probably screwed, though.

Mars, impeaches!
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:57 pm | #

You're right. What was I thinking, suggesting that women have varied tastes and personalities? I take it all back.

It'd make life easier, yet not as much fun...
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 9:59 pm | #

The whole big dick thing, I believe, came from gay men. Not women.

Well, the old joke, way, way back was a big dick is just a pain in the ass.
EPT | 12.31.04 - 10:00 pm | #

Excuse me, is this the anal sex thread?

It is now! So far, we've learned that women like big dicks in front, and little ones in back. There are no exceptions to either rule.
Philalethes | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:00 pm | #

Excuse me, is this the anal sex thread?

Yes. Yes it is. This is the anal sex thread. Now make up some imaginary guitar notes to go with that!
waterspeakblood | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:00 pm | #

The attribution of an invariable preference for big dicks among women is a covert way of calling them sluts.
Anonymous | 12.31.04 - 10:00 pm | #

This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere.
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:01 pm | #

Frottage is more taboo than anal sex, isn't that funny?
EPT | 12.31.04 - 10:01 pm | #

Excuse me, is this the anal sex thread?
Central Scrutinizer

truth, CS .. i was wondering when the wingnut erotoxin machines start picking up the keywords and our email accounts start getting spammed from Lynchburg .... you know that racist radical cleric jerry fallwell will not stop until we all stop committing acts of sodomy .. which brings up the interesting point, why does the religious right hate all the fun sexual endeavors?
syntallic | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:02 pm | #

I tried frottage once, but it just didn't rub off on me.
waterspeakblood | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:02 pm | #

Frottage seems kind of cheesy to me.
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:03 pm | #

It just rubbed you the wrong way.
EPT | 12.31.04 - 10:03 pm | #

This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere.
Eli

As well it might. And hark to this cold inexorable logic: If a woman likes how you feel in one hole, it's impossible for her to like it in the other. It's like Goldilocks and the Three Bears, only with throbbing penises.
Philalethes | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:04 pm | #

frottage ... doesn't that mean cheesy sex in french?
syntallic | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:04 pm | #

Told ya it's more taboo.
EPT | 12.31.04 - 10:05 pm | #

Frottage is more taboo than anal sex, isn't that funny?
EPT | Email | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:01 pm | # ............What is frottage?Am I missing something nice?
notch | 12.31.04 - 10:05 pm | #

Frottage is more taboo than anal sex, isn't that funny?
EPT

No one likes doing it with rubbers.
Philalethes | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:05 pm | #

It's like Goldilocks and the Three Bears, only with throbbing penises.

Um, yes. Of course. That's what I've always thought, too...
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:05 pm | #

yikes .. i have the same thought pattern as eli - i must wash myself immediately and get another glass of champagne immediately
syntallic | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:06 pm | #

OT but Ahnold, of all people, gets Bush with a verbal right cross.
Dr. Pedant | 12.31.04 - 10:06 pm | #

Would this be a good time to mention the film "Cornhole Armageddon," reviewed on NPR?
wÒÓ† | 12.31.04 - 10:06 pm | #

Also, I'm pretty sure my penis doesn't actually throb. Does that mean it's defective?
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:06 pm | #

The attribution of an invariable preference for big dicks among women is a covert way of calling them sluts.

HHmmmmm.....

A wise man once told me that if a woman tells you that your penis is small, the proper reply is "No, it's just that your vagina is too large."
Central Scrutinizer | 12.31.04 - 10:07 pm | #

No one likes doing it with rubbers.
Philalethes

Some do like waders though. Is the Mackintosh Society still in existence? That goes way back.
EPT | 12.31.04 - 10:07 pm | #

The sci-fi channel has a twilight zone marathon. I'm looking for the episode where a black man incites a lynch mob by directing a white mob to a 'nigger' at a drinking fountain.
Anonymous | 12.31.04 - 10:07 pm | #

Also, I'm pretty sure my penis doesn't actually throb. Does that mean it's defective?

slam it in a drawer ... it will last for hours .. then do it with the left hand - it will feel like somebody else is doing it
syntallic | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:08 pm | #

Frottage is not fromage.

Just sayin'
Dr. Pedant | 12.31.04 - 10:08 pm | #

My eagle's sore.
waterspeakblood | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:08 pm | #

Cornhole. Armageddon.

just sayin.
wÒÓ† | 12.31.04 - 10:08 pm | #

Also, I'm pretty sure my penis doesn't actually throb. Does that mean it's defective?
Eli

Depends. When you use it to probe the molten core of someone's womanhood, does it feel like screaming electric snakes in a warm barrel of furry honey? Does something doughnut-like begin clamping rhythmically on your monstrous engine?

(The quotes above are from men's responses to a 1970s survey on what female orgasms felt like to them.)
Philalethes | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:09 pm | #

Sorry, but I've been hanging around with musicians all month. Longshoremen have more propriety than a bunch of sleep deprived musicians.

I'm about to go back to work. Have a safe night and a happy new year.
EPT | 12.31.04 - 10:09 pm | #

A wise man once told me that if a woman tells you that your penis is small, the proper reply is "No, it's just that your vagina is too large."

Or as a musician once told me, if she criticizes the size of your organ, tell her you never played before in such a large auditorium.
Dr. Pedant | 12.31.04 - 10:10 pm | #

screaming electric snakes in a warm barrel of furry honey

Talk about Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test ... if this does not epitomize the book title ... color me stupid
syntallic | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:12 pm | #

The advantage of a big dick is that it is fail safe. It can give pleasure without being perfectly rigid. A small dick must achieve an optimal erection on every occasion.
Anonymous | 12.31.04 - 10:12 pm | #

A wise man once told me that if a woman tells you that your penis is small, the proper reply is "No, it's just that your vagina is too large."
Central Scrutinizer | Email | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:07 pm |.............If you are a guy who gets around alot you will certainly run run into a large vagina woman.This is no reason to complain.She wants to give you her love,so just squeeze her legs together and go at it.
notch | 12.31.04 - 10:13 pm | #

The advantage of a big dick is that it is fail safe. It can give pleasure without being perfectly rigid. A small dick must achieve an optimal erection on every occasion.

You know nothing.
waterspeakblood | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:13 pm | #

Well, I'm going to go eat some gourmet food, drink some extra-fancy-grade wine, and then I guess I'll try fruitlessly to satisfy my cock-starved wife with my tiny pecker (or "Ol' Yeller," as I call him).

Happy new year, y'all!
Philalethes | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:14 pm | #

The advantage of a big dick is that it is fail safe. It can give pleasure without being perfectly rigid. A small dick must achieve an optimal erection on every occasion.

Oy vey. Conversation like this I don't need.

Happy New Year, everyone!
Dr. Pedant | 12.31.04 - 10:15 pm | #

Oh, oh. One last thing. Does it strike anyone else as odd that Laura Bush is the one in the marriage who is called "Pickles"?
EPT | 12.31.04 - 10:15 pm | #

You know nothing.
If they ever perfect a penis enlarging procedure it will be a billion dollar industry.
Anonymous | 12.31.04 - 10:16 pm | #

The advantage of a big dick is that it is fail safe. It can give pleasure without being perfectly rigid.

Sounds like someone whose experience with sex is limited to viewing monsterfuckingdicks.com.
Central Scrutinizer | 12.31.04 - 10:16 pm | #

The advantage of a big dick is that it is fail safe.

Oy. The last time I heard someone say stuff like this, he was drunk and coked up, and ended up jerking off all over my sofa while my room-mates and I ran for the exits.

As I intimated earlier, he was a 22-year-old virgin.
Philalethes | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:17 pm | #

The advantage of a big dick is that it is fail safe. It can give pleasure without being perfectly rigid. A small dick must achieve an optimal erection on every occasion.

You know nothing.

No, I have both, and it's true.
Thersites | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:17 pm | #

My cats play "ding dong ditch" when I have my bedroom door closed. I go to open it after they scratch and they run away.
jr | 12.31.04 - 10:19 pm | #

I thought this was what you guys wanted to talk about? Sex, drugs and rock n' roll. Meanwhile, rome burns.
Anonymous | 12.31.04 - 10:19 pm | #

I gotta find me a 70s woman. Dayumn.
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:20 pm | #

Eli,

When you find one, does she have a sister?
Central Scrutinizer | 12.31.04 - 10:21 pm | #

Here's a hint: If you want to change the topic, introduce a new one rather than criticizing the current one. It very well may not work, but at least it's not *guaranteed* not to.
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:21 pm | #

No, I have both, and it's true.

I have always thought that if women selected mates on the basis of sexual pleasure, males would have evolved a secondary organ that would squeeze the clit during penetration - I call this organ the fuckwad and I am selling a guaranteed method of extruding one from the lower abdomen. I'm going to make a million!
waterspeakblood | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:23 pm | #

When you find one, does she have a sister?

Do you want the furry honey or the clamping doughnut? Or should we try to work out which one of us has the electric snakes and which one of us has the monstrous engine?
(is it even possible to find two guys who will not *both* insist that they're the one with the monstrous engine?)
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:23 pm | #

Damn, how many times do we have to summon Nipple Clamp Jesus?
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:25 pm | #

Well, I gotta go soon -but if any guys have sex hangups about their member size,just fuck her in the armpit and she wont mention your size to anyone.However,be prepared to live the rest of your as the "armpit fucker".
notch | 12.31.04 - 10:25 pm | #

I thought this was what you guys wanted to talk about? Sex, drugs and rock n' roll. Meanwhile, rome burns.

Well, what I meant was that Never forget that tenure by sochemaunce seisined by feodo copyholds in gross and reseisined through covenants of foeffseignory in frankalpuissance is alienable only by droit of bonfeasaunce subsisting in free-bench coigny or in re-vested copywrits of seisina faci stipidem, a fair copy bearing a 2d. stamp to be entered at the Court of Star Chamber.

Furthermore, a rent seck indentured with such frankalseignory or chartmoign charges as may be, and re-empted in Mart Overt, subsists thereafter in graund serjaunty du roi, eighteen fishing smacks being deemed sufficient to transport the stuff from Lisbon.

I can turn off the tap whenever you say, bwana.
Thersites | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:25 pm | #

Huh huh huh - you said frankalpuissance.
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:28 pm | #

Do you want the furry honey or the clamping doughnut? Or should we try to work out which one of us has the electric snakes and which one of us has the monstrous engine?

I say we should let the ladies decide.

It's not like we're getting married.
Central Scrutinizer | 12.31.04 - 10:29 pm | #

....Not that I don't think you're a great guy, because you are. I'm just not ready for anything serious.

Central Scrutinizer | 12.31.04 - 10:30 pm | #

I am a bit concerned that "electric snakes" is plural. Could one of the respondents have suffered some kind of horrible injury at the string-cheese factory?
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:31 pm | #

I'm just not ready for anything serious.

Right, me neither. Or with a guy.
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:32 pm | #

I tried to ignore the eggs that were lounging in the walk-in, topless and uncooked, but the cave cricket pilots keening and lost in butter unpalavered since creation were stretched out real thin, like credit, soughing and sucking on their oversized teeth.

Take two tons of crystal matter, collapse it and reside in the Mariana trench for ages, singing over the heat vents, bloom of plankton, cancel the mailbox.
waterspeakblood | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:32 pm | #

monstrous engine

Yeah, that's the ticket, my montrous engine!

It's like a Cummings Desiel!

Get outta the way,
Nothing can stop it!

But a doughnut thing can clamp on it.

What a joke.

.
agave | 12.31.04 - 10:32 pm | #

I say we should let the ladies decide.

It's not like we're getting married.

perhaps we are sensing the beginnings of thursday dick blogging? I am way too modest to exchange dick pics, but I could start a write-in campaign?

they'd probably just called me "shorty" or "lefty" out of spite now that I think about it more
syntallic | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:33 pm | #

chas......

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of
foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of
Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we
had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we
were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that
some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the
superlative degree of comparison only.
.
.
tale of two nations | 12.31.04 - 10:33 pm | #

Take two tons of crystal matter, collapse it and reside in the Mariana trench for ages, singing over the heat vents, bloom of plankton, cancel the mailbox.
waterspeakblood

That true, but you forgot to mention the windshield chimney grass.
Wildebeest | 12.31.04 - 10:34 pm | #

Yeah, that's the ticket, my montrous engine!

okay now . no more cheney jokes
syntallic | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:34 pm | #

Well,its been fun,but remember that if you're drunk dont drive-get one of your drunk friends to drive.Afterall,what are friends for?
notch | 12.31.04 - 10:35 pm | #

Back to the fact I'm the mack and I know that
The way I kick the rhymes, some would call me a poet
Funky flowin goin on with the sweet sound
Caught in the groove in Fantasia I'm found
Trip the tour upon the rhymes they soar
To an infinite height to the realm of the hardcore
Here we go off I take ya
Dip trip - flip fantasia
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:35 pm | #

Right, me neither. Or with a guy.

AAAAaaaaggghhhh!

That's what the is for!
Central Scrutinizer | 12.31.04 - 10:35 pm | #

And I forgot the secret ingredient: bacon.
waterspeakblood | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:35 pm | #

I just wanted to say Happy News Year.
Upcoaster | 12.31.04 - 10:35 pm | #

Rancid veeblefetzer Stalin.
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:36 pm | #

vootie!
waterspeakblood | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:36 pm | #

My cats play "ding dong ditch" when I have my bedroom door closed. I go to open it after they scratch and they run away.
jr

Kinda like the frig lite

.
agave | 12.31.04 - 10:36 pm | #

Interesting news article.

Earthquake: Coincidence or a Corporate Oil Tragedy?
December 28, 2004 By: Andrew Limburg
Independent Media TV

Hmmm . . . who do we know that is big in the oil business, and wouldn't care if he risked 100,000 lives or so? Maybe he was slow to react because he was quaking in fear at his Crawford Ranch, afraid that he would be found out - until Daddykins reasured him that these ignorant island people would never know.

I put the link in the homepage because I don't know how to put it in the body of this message.
scaryshit | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:37 pm | #

Carotid nose martian. Anthropophagous gummy wrangling. Shelf android nose mixer.

Forgotten laundry cream. Haircupine rhinoceros jelly.
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:38 pm | #

Here's a hint: If you want to change the topic, introduce a new one rather than criticizing the current one. It very well may not work, but at least it's not *guaranteed* not to.
Eli
But, I thought the topic on this thread was about the Atriocats?
oldwhitelady | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:38 pm | #

Potrzebie!
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:38 pm | #

I like this thread now. But I'm an idiot.
waterspeakblood | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:39 pm | #

Well, I'm gonna have me some dessert now.

I'm thinking maybe some Lime Schubert.

Or maybe a chocolate shake.

I'd ask you to join me but I don't have two Strauss.
Wildebeest | 12.31.04 - 10:39 pm | #

But, I thought the topic on this thread was about the Atriocats?

Well, true, but that can be a bit hard to sustain for five hours...
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:39 pm | #

Huh huh huh - you said frankalpuissance.

'Taint every night I break out the frankalpuissance, Bane of Trolls. Beats the stuffing out of the gold and myrrhnpuissance, I swear by the stuff.
Thersites | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:41 pm | #

Vibrating Linta Claus. Howitzer walnut minstrels. Bumbling ovarian pixie clips.
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:41 pm | #

Sorry Eli;
I was just trying to catch up
oldwhitelady | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:42 pm | #

Well, true, but that can be a bit hard to sustain for five hours...

Not without medical assistance, anyway.
Thersites | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:42 pm | #

Sorry Eli;
I was just trying to catch up
oldwhitelady | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:42 pm | #

Well, true, but that can be a bit hard to sustain for five hours...

Not without medical assistance, anyway.
Thersites | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:42 pm | #

'Taint every night I break out the frankalpuissance, Bane of Trolls.

Well, if you want to talk about 'taint, you're probably in the right thread...
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:42 pm | #

Here is the perfect fusion of the two topics.
dkl | 12.31.04 - 10:42 pm | #

Not without medical assistance, anyway.

Cialis.
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:43 pm | #

Strained tiny alice. Overarching striated minx naps. Trained clapping niners. Wrong friebaden bone bubbles.
waterspeakblood | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:43 pm | #

Steamroller!
(Talk about yer hemorhoids, baby!)

All groupies must bow down
In the sacred presence of the Latex Solar Beef

Ah, the immortal Frank Zappa. What a sensitive guy...
Doozer among Fraggles | 12.31.04 - 10:44 pm | #

I've figured it out. Anonynous was making a political statement. Let me rephrase:

The advantage of having a big dick {i.e., being the Terrorist] is you only have to be right once. Those who have little dicks [e.g. Bush administration, Homeland Security, etc.] have to be right every time.

Now I have to figure out where I've heard this before. Don't tell me, hold on, I'll get it...
Libby Sosume | 12.31.04 - 10:45 pm | #

.
New Years Resolution
.
cosa nostradamus | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:45 pm | #

What Kind of Girl Do You Think We Are?
waterspeakblood | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:45 pm | #

Babbleblogging! I love it!
RebelGranny | 12.31.04 - 10:45 pm | #

Sterile lemming dances. Nubile shirtamuffin bagwiches. Filtered chrome asparagusto and blanket sherbet.

Wizard of rakish memes.
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:45 pm | #

i say a li'l prayer for everyone in 2005
n69n | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:46 pm | #

Pools of early warning nozmachers. Obsolete gefeltin nose worms. Ethel was a tree growing out of his shoulder! Shitr on your hook keeps the filthy fish away! I want to see both of you in my office first thing tomorrow morning!
waterspeakblood | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:49 pm | #

Foley catheter smart bombs.
Wash-n-wear radial hammer plugs.
Push button collar grilles.
Wildebeest | 12.31.04 - 10:49 pm | #

The Peach Bowl is getting better. The 'Gator offense seems to be successfully holding the 'Gator offense to a mere 10 points. Begob.
Thersites | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:50 pm | #

well i seem to have arrived a bit late here and into the uh, goofier part---nonetheless

my best wishes to you all. may we enjoy a better year. thanks for a good time this past year.

yr faithful correspondent, the
Rexroth's Daughter | 12.31.04 - 10:51 pm | #

Ok I make one slightly lewd pacifist comment about not fighting and when I return, you guys have grafitti-ed the whole thread. Me n'oldwhitelady are present now. Straighten up!

(not that it wasn't pretty funny)
mag | 12.31.04 - 10:51 pm | #

Fuck, is that game still on? Chris Leak was looking rookieish. Sliding down too early, throwing into insane coverage.
waterspeakblood | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:52 pm | #

well now igotta apologise all over the plac efor using the wrong computer and not payin attention to the name
dread pirate roberts | 12.31.04 - 10:52 pm | #

Robotic cozy bench. Self-referential tesseractress wart enstainment.

Vorpal containment lice. Warthog teacup wishing seminar. Rehoboth.
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:53 pm | #

Sterile lemming dances. Nubile shirtamuffin bagwiches. Filtered chrome asparagusto and blanket sherbet.

Isn't there an encryption program that does that with plain text; substitutes verb for verb, noun for noun, something like that?
Doozer among Fraggles | 12.31.04 - 10:54 pm | #

(not that it wasn't pretty funny)
And it isn't over! Gazackstahagen!
waterspeakblood | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:54 pm | #

Fuck, is that game still on? Chris Leak was looking rookieish. Sliding down too early, throwing into insane coverage.

Yup. He just threw a tight spiral into the first down marker.
Thersites | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:55 pm | #

I have no idea. I got the Holy Ghost Power! Hallelujah!
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:55 pm | #

Isn't there an encryption program that does that with plain text; substitutes verb for verb, noun for noun, something like that?

It's the Folklife generator.
waterspeakblood | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:55 pm | #

'twas brillig and the slithy toves..."?
mag | 12.31.04 - 10:55 pm | #

"Robotic cozy bench. Self-referential tesseractress wart enstainment.

Vorpal containment lice. Warthog teacup wishing seminar. Rehoboth.
Eli"

Real Time Poison Spam?
EkCenTriK | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:56 pm | #

Screen pass indifference, foolish blitz appendage, in the grasp of velvet shambling toes.

Second down and rosebud, bleak harridan of latter fame and knishes.
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:56 pm | #

I thought I'd stop in and say hi. But maybe not.
mena | 12.31.04 - 10:57 pm | #

I have a PHD in literature. Whenever someone challenges me I start babbling in medieval languages in the hope of scaring them away.
Anonymous | 12.31.04 - 10:57 pm | #

Don't call us groupies that is going too far
giss | 12.31.04 - 10:57 pm | #

My toves are slithy because I haven't washed them. And my gyre is out of balance. And the mome raths...are pounding on my door. I need some more Mad Dog now.
waterspeakblood | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:57 pm | #

And did Gimbels close? Or did they get bought out by Macy's?
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:58 pm | #

Anyone want to clue me in or has everyone started speaking in tongues?
EkCenTriK | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:59 pm | #

waterspeak - frabjous!
mag | 12.31.04 - 10:59 pm | #

I have a PHD in literature. Whenever someone challenges me I start babbling in medieval languages in the hope of scaring them away.

Do you have a mansion and a yacht?
Thersites | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:59 pm | #

Crankinator Hopi shell dance.
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 10:59 pm | #

Anyone want to clue me in or has everyone started speaking in tongues?

I'm pretty sure it's all Mr. Frank L. Puissance's fault...
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:00 pm | #

It is true, that which I have revealed to you: there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream-a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a THOUGHT - a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn amongst the empty eternites.
Sam | 12.31.04 - 11:00 pm | #

Junk drunks,
Leather weather,
Austere beer,
Willow pillows,
Dirt shirt.
Central Scrutinizer | 12.31.04 - 11:00 pm | #

Now see here Eli. I knew Crankinator Hopi. I worked with Crankinator. And never did I see him shell dance.
mag | 12.31.04 - 11:01 pm | #

The Crankinator! Oh, the soft smooth nights, velvet cigars...I could never forget you!

And I could never forgive you neither, Nick!
waterspeakblood | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:01 pm | #

And if you're not getting enough nonsense *here*, check out www.timecube.com!

Vapid cow of optic mongering!
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:01 pm | #

Now see here Eli. I knew Crankinator Hopi. I worked with Crankinator. And never did I see him shell dance.

Sorry, I left out an apostrophe. I was assuring Crankinator Hopi that his prospects were good.
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:03 pm | #

No, not more TimeCube! One life is enough...four times the time is too much.
waterspeakblood | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:03 pm | #

Ah, the immortal Frank Zappa. What a sensitive guy...
Doozer among Fraggles

Poodle bites
Poodle chews it
.....
Little legs sticking up

or

I am the slime oozing out of your TV set.

Frank Zappa

Wheres Backbiter when you need him
agave | 12.31.04 - 11:04 pm | #

All I know is no good could come from that Twilight Zone marathon. I come here and what do I see.

Actually I didn't watch, we just finished Resident Evil 2.
EkCenTriK | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:04 pm | #

Florida gagged up a horrible game. I like my 'Canes, but Sweet Football Jesus, Florida must have spent their whole time on the sidelines kicking each other in the nuts for the pure hell of it.
Thersites | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:04 pm | #

wutdid the freepers put in the Kool Aid in here tonight?

Whatever, can i put some in the Bong?

Thanks, A, and all you Eschatonians, for making 2004 bearable...

or was that bareable?

Cheers!!
portly | 12.31.04 - 11:05 pm | #

Backbiter=Backslider

I think that was unintentional

.
agave | 12.31.04 - 11:05 pm | #

Poodle bites
Poodle chews it

Not a speck of cereal...
waterspeakblood | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:05 pm | #

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL YOU LIMOUSINE LIBERALS!
Anonymous | 12.31.04 - 11:05 pm | #

>Anyone want to clue me in or has everyone started speaking in tongues?

I'm just arrived and am a bit baffled myself.

But after the TV guide channel informed me that there actually is such a thing as "New Year's Eve with Ryan Secrest" I'm willing to give this a shot!
doesn't matter | 12.31.04 - 11:06 pm | #

Fnord Jesus anteater behemoth, roping snails of antic bespasm.
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:07 pm | #

It is true, that which I have revealed to you: there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell.

He learned too late that man is a feeling creature, and because of it, the greatest in the universe.
Thersites | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:07 pm | #

did a vehicle
did a vehicle
did a vehicle come?
Z | 12.31.04 - 11:07 pm | #

The Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl?

Why not the Maxi-Pad Absorbent Cotton Bowl?
Wildebeest | 12.31.04 - 11:08 pm | #

Thank God I have three days to re-learn English before I have to go back to work...

"Dear Boss: The project armpit has slowly derided the murky filth of the target date, and the nucleus is over budget."
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:08 pm | #

There I was
There I was
There I was...
*IN* the Congo!
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:09 pm | #

from somewhere out there did the Indians, first on the bill, carve up the hill?
waterspeakblood | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:11 pm | #

The Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl?

Why not the Maxi-Pad Absorbent Cotton Bowl?

I'd pay to see the Agent Orange Bowl...
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:11 pm | #

All the sports news you've just been heard, is having been copywritten.
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:12 pm | #

The Agent Orange Bowl: The Anniston, Alabama Fightin' Sarin Burners versus the Nevada Glowing Dump Crack!
waterspeakblood | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:13 pm | #

Well diving in ... Cricket happiness is provided by the reality of there being a cricket wife and a cricket mistress. You may tell which of the two is being wooed at the moment by the distinguishing sounds provided by the male cricket. The normally anticipated sound of the chirp, the rubbing of the legs together is heard for the cricket wife. However, when the six legged mistress is on deck, the male cricket changes to a new and distinct tne vaguely reminicent of a Barry White concert.
EkCenTriK | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:14 pm | #

So, um... I like cats! Anyone else like cats? Cats are cool because they're soft and furry and smell nice, and they can bend spoons with their minds!
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:14 pm | #

Anyone want to clue me in or has everyone started speaking in tongues?
Not quite, everyone finally decided to let it all hang out. Call it the Bush-inspired Tower of Babble.
RebelGranny | 12.31.04 - 11:14 pm | #

I'm pretty sure it's all Mr. Frank L. Puissance's fault...

It's Myles na Gopaleen.

Begob.
Thersites | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:15 pm | #

"So, um... I like cats!"

Check the home page. that is just one of the gang.
EkCenTriK | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:15 pm | #

Ok, that's it for me. I have a copy of Bladerunner to watch. I asked around at work and one of my co-workers (I guess I could call my co-workers my friends, because they are that) had a copy and brought it in. I am watching it for the first time, because it seems to be a movie that should be seen.
Happy New Year's everyone - You made 2004 a lot better than it could have been.
oldwhitelady | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:16 pm | #

everyone finally decided to let it all hang out

Eatin a Reuben sandwich with sauerkraut/Too much man, let it all hang out
waterspeakblood | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:16 pm | #

Yes, I saw earlier. Is very handy, and appears to be putting his mentalist powers to (literally) constructive use!
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:17 pm | #

oldwhitelady

Happy News Year to you and enjoy the movie, it is a keeper.
EkCenTriK | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:17 pm | #

oh yeah. EVERY year I forget that in my purple-ish state, the redder folk shoot off their fire irons at midnight.
mag | 12.31.04 - 11:17 pm | #

and a special Happy New Year and a huge THANK YOU to Atrios!
oldwhitelady | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:17 pm | #

Eatin a Reuben sandwich with sauerkraut...
waterspeakblood

Not a Paul Reuben sandwich with sauerkraut I trust.
Wildebeest | 12.31.04 - 11:18 pm | #

So news years comes to some of you folks in about 45 minutes? East Coast?
EkCenTriK | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:18 pm | #

Amen on Blade Runner. Excellent stuff.

Happy New Year! Don't take any wooden replicants!
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:19 pm | #

Wildebeest, it's New Year's, why aren't you gigging?
waterspeakblood | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:19 pm | #

Whew! Miami pulled it out in the waning minutes by 17 points in the Happy Peach Fuck a Chicken Noodle Bowl. Oddly enough, that translates into Japanese as the Have a Slice Night.
Thersites | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:20 pm | #

Furthermore, a rent seck indentured with such frankalseignory or chartmoign charges as may be,

I always wondered if F O'B cribbed that bit from Hogg's "Confessions of a Justified Sinner," which has a couple paragraphs of the oddest legalisms imaginable...
Philalethes | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:20 pm | #

Not a Paul Reuben sandwich with sauerkraut I trust.

Or worse yet, mayonnaise.
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:20 pm | #

So who is drinking what?
EkCenTriK | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:20 pm | #

So who is drinking what?

I am drinking in the sweet breath of life in America! Will probably hurl in a few minutes, should probably switch over to Dr. Pepper...
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:22 pm | #

CC & 7
Craig | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:22 pm | #

So who is drinking what?
Just plain old beer, but I'm a West Coaster, so there's lots of time for more before I hoist that salute to the new year. Hope I can still lift one by that time.
RebelGranny | 12.31.04 - 11:24 pm | #

Blunt soaked in Mad Dog. Looks like I'll be waking up behind the dumpster again...
waterspeakblood | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:24 pm | #

Alyson Bechdel of Dykes to Watch Out For knows how happening people spend their holidays.
kei & yuri on soros' lap | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:25 pm | #

mmm...Melbourne Bitter
j. henry | 12.31.04 - 11:25 pm | #

Wildebeest, it's New Year's, why aren't you gigging?
waterspeakblood

The strangest thing!
All the clubs around here told me there wasn't any New Year's party this year.
I don't understand it.
Wildebeest | 12.31.04 - 11:26 pm | #

I always wondered if F O'B cribbed that bit from Hogg's "Confessions of a Justified Sinner," which has a couple paragraphs of the oddest legalisms imaginable...

Very possible. I know Myles nicked it, but I forget the source. I know the very book to check for it too, but as it's behind a box or two I'll let you know tomorrow. Much of what he lifted came from the Encyclopedia Britannica, as a rule...
Thersites | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:26 pm | #

Ek,

Dom Perignon tonight for me, and no shit. We've been saving it for the right time and finally decided that making it through this year is occasion enough.
mena | 12.31.04 - 11:26 pm | #

Chinaco and ... glass.
Wildebeest | 12.31.04 - 11:27 pm | #

So who is drinking what?

(Looking around) Labatt's Light, root beer, apple cider, and human breast milk.

And that's EACH, not as a cocktail. Sicko.
Thersites | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:28 pm | #

mena

That is why I have a bottle of Glenfiddich. Something a bit different for the most surreal of years.
EkCenTriK | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:29 pm | #

All the clubs around here told me there wasn't any New Year's party this year.
I don't understand it.

Me, too! I don't understand it, either...I was going to break out the Danba and sing some Vietnamese folk songs, but damn! Some people got no kultcha.
waterspeakblood | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:29 pm | #

And least it's better than Election night.

I was beer-bonging hemlock and with an absinthe chaser.
Wildebeest | 12.31.04 - 11:29 pm | #

They started speaking in tongues because they are all laced on marijuana.
And probably other illegal drugs.
Anonymous | 12.31.04 - 11:30 pm | #

Oh, *that* Anonymous...
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:31 pm | #

Hate to break it to ya, but I'm like this naturally.

*shudder*
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:32 pm | #

Here's the Hogg legalese I mentioned above:

...by the consent of his right trusty cousins and councillors hereby grants to the said George Colwan, his heirs and assignees whatsomever, heritably and irrevocably, all and haill the lands and others underwritten: To wit, All and haill, the five merk land of Kipplerig; the five pound land of Easter Knockward, with all the towers, fortalices, manor-places, houses, biggings, yards, orchards, tofts, crofts, mills, woods, fishings, mosses, muirs, meadows, commonties, pasturages, coals, coal-heughs, tennants, tenantries, services of free tenants, annexes, connexes, dependencies, parts, pendicles, and pertinents of the same whatsomever; to be peaceably brooked, joysed, set, used, and disposed of by him and his aboves, as specified, heritably and irrevocably, in all time coming: And, in testimony thereof, his Majesty, for himself, and as prince steward of Scotland, with the advice and consent of his foresaids, knowledge, proper motive, and kingly power, makes, erects, creates, unites, annexes, and incorporates, the whole lands above mentioned in a haill and free barony, by all the rights, miethes, and marches thereof, old and divided, as the same lies, in length and breadth, in houses, biggings, mills, multures, hawking, bunting, fishing; with court, plaint, herezeld, fock, fork, sack, sock, thole, thame, vert, wraik, waith, wair, venison, outfang thief, infang thief, pit and gallows, and all and sundry other commodities. Given at our Court of Whitehall, &c., &c. God save the King.
Compositio 5 lib. 13.8.
Registrate 26th September 1687.
Philalethes | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:32 pm | #

work...

Aaaaarrrrgthhh
(the Dean scream lives on)

forgot about that.

Stupid, but it made me think, for about 15 secs (that's my max anymore).

What if there is a god, and he created every thing 1/2 second ago. Every thing you know and believe and remember, created just now.
Can you dissprove that?
Does it matter?
Is evolution still valid?

Or is it just a stupid fucking ploy by a pretty smart xcian?

.
agave | 12.31.04 - 11:32 pm | #

Laced.
Didn't Ozzie Nelson use that word?
Like, you outta sight!
Wildebeest | 12.31.04 - 11:32 pm | #

Wildebeest: "beer-bonging?"

Does this mean I've missed out on a new thrill all these years? Damn. I know I've missed a lot, but I tried to hit all the important ones. Can you elucidate? Or will that bring down the Ashcroftians?
RebelGranny | 12.31.04 - 11:33 pm | #

his heirs and assignees

His hairs and ass 'n knees.
Wildebeest | 12.31.04 - 11:33 pm | #

Eatin a Reuben sandwich with sauerkraut/Too much man, let it all hang out
waterspeakblood

Best song of...whatever year that was.
Doozer among Fraggles | 12.31.04 - 11:34 pm | #

They two passages have nothing to do with each other. One precedes the other by 500 years. That much is obvious.
Anonymous | 12.31.04 - 11:34 pm | #

from a scan of the latest comments it appears that liftoff has been achieved!!
congrats to all from the
dread pirate roberts | 12.31.04 - 11:34 pm | #

Much more of a bourbon sort of a girl myself, but break out that glenfiddich and enjoy. Honest people, smoke 'em if you got em at this point, ya know?
Happy New Year everybody.
mena | 12.31.04 - 11:35 pm | #

"Or will that bring down the Ashcroftians"

Or the Lovecraftians?
EkCenTriK | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:35 pm | #

Beer bong is a large funnel attached to a tube.

Fill funnel.
Place other end of tube in mouth.
Drain funnel.

Sort of a misplaced enema.
Wildebeest | 12.31.04 - 11:35 pm | #

"Or will that bring down the Ashcroftians"

Or the Lovecraftians?
EkCenTriK | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:35 pm | #

Beer bong is a large funnel attached to a tube.

Fill funnel.
Place other end of tube in mouth.
Drain funnel.

Sort of a misplaced enema.
Wildebeest | 12.31.04 - 11:35 pm | #

"Or will that bring down the Ashcroftians"

Or the Lovecraftians?

There's a difference?
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:36 pm | #

Tom Wolfe mentioned 'beer bongs' in his recent book. Wolfe has put his finger on some dangerous new trends among our youth. We've never seen anything like this before. It's unprecedented.
Anonymous | 12.31.04 - 11:37 pm | #

mena,

feel ya on the stash of perfect champagne -- hitting our third bottle of cristal already out here in LA ... just making it through this disgusting year is worth the investment
syntallic | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:37 pm | #

parody troll?
waterspeakblood | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:37 pm | #

beer-bonging

It involves a large funnel and a piece of 3/4" hose. Stick the end of the hose in your mounth and have a full can of beer dumped in the funnel. The magic of gravity will deliver the beer into your gullet in a single shot. Variations on the technique include the "upside down" and the "self-inflicted."

I learned this in the delivery room at the birth of my son.

Ot maybe in college. One or the other.
Thersites | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:37 pm | #

also ... hit the chronic, kiddies ... it's about time
syntallic | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:38 pm | #

"I was listening to a rock n'roll station in my car on the way over here. There was a passage in one of those tribal songs, that I think sets the tone for this evening:
'Everybody Have Fun Tonight, Everybody Wang Chung Tonight.'"
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:38 pm | #

LA is the porno capital of the world.
Anonymous | 12.31.04 - 11:38 pm | #

dependencies, parts, pendicles, and pertinents of the same whatsomever;

Pendicles. That what they used ta call 'em?
Doozer among Fraggles | 12.31.04 - 11:39 pm | #

Thanks, Wildebeest. I can go for the beer part, but frankly, the "bong" reference brought up different memories and I'm a tad disappointed.
RebelGranny | 12.31.04 - 11:39 pm | #

LA is the porno capital of the world.
Anonymous

ummm .. and does the pope live in the vatican? be original, at least ... say something like women in LA have been implanted by more plastic than Mattel or something?
syntallic | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:40 pm | #

Thanks, Wildebeest. I can go for the beer part, but frankly, the "bong" reference brought up different memories and I'm a tad disappointed.

What *would* happen if you put beer in a water pipe? I don't know squat about such things, but I'm guessing there's a damn reason no-one does it (flammability?).
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:41 pm | #

parody troll?
waterspeakblood

All Trolls are parroty. It's in their nature.
Doozer among Fraggles | 12.31.04 - 11:42 pm | #

Because tomorrow is theme day at my blog, I must point out the wretched bleatings of Bobo tonight.

He loves the Natalists
He hates the Naturalists

But he's stupid all around.
Attaturk | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:42 pm | #

Started my night at a bar two blocks from me.Im a big tipping liberal so they tolerate my rhetoric,which make me hate them even more.
notch | 12.31.04 - 11:42 pm | #

"Or the Lovecraftians?

There's a difference?"

I respect the former?
EkCenTriK | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:42 pm | #

Word to your mama Synatallic.
mena | 12.31.04 - 11:42 pm | #

LA is the porno capital of the world.

My cat's breath smells like cat food!
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:42 pm | #

And speaking of New Year's Rezzes, mine atarts tomorrow. No more fuckin' Trolls. Scroll right past the fuckers.
Doozer among Fraggles | 12.31.04 - 11:43 pm | #

I respect the former?

Well, the Lovecraftian gods sound really cool on paper, but would you really like to have them running your country?

No, you don't.
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:44 pm | #

The doctor says I wouldn't get so many nosebleeds if I kept my finger outa there...
mena | 12.31.04 - 11:44 pm | #

I respect the former?

Well, the Lovecraftian gods sound really cool on paper, but would you really like to have them running your country?

No, you don't.
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:44 pm | #

The doctor says I wouldn't get so many nosebleeds if I kept my finger outa there...
mena | 12.31.04 - 11:44 pm | #

Happy New Year, everyone.

Even you asshole-loving trolls!
SnifflingBearded1 | 12.31.04 - 11:44 pm | #

the "bong" reference brought up different memories and I'm a tad disappointed.
RebelGranny

If you are talking about a real bong and you have memories of the experience, then you weren't doing something correctly.
Wildebeest | 12.31.04 - 11:44 pm | #

Frst installments of the Commies tomorrow, by the way. Many winners!
Thersites | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:45 pm | #

we used to put brandy in a waterpipe for taste or something. never had a fire.
dread pirate roberts | 12.31.04 - 11:45 pm | #

If the left doesn't try reaching out to the trolls, they will never win another election.
Anonymous | 12.31.04 - 11:45 pm | #

new year's resolution: i will no longer speak to trolls unless they type
syntallic | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:46 pm | #

Amen, Doozer. I got the troll repellant right here: I don't SEE you. I don't SEE you. I don't SEE you...
RebelGranny | 12.31.04 - 11:46 pm | #

He loves the Natalists

Natalists? Natalistas? Nativitators?

Oh, the you're-pregnant-too-bad-you're-fucked crowd. Fuck 'em.
Doozer among Fraggles | 12.31.04 - 11:47 pm | #

Only a matter of time before election pundits start talking about "the all-important NASCAR troll demographic"...
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:47 pm | #

Adopt-a-troll!
mena | 12.31.04 - 11:47 pm | #

Eli

I didn't say I would like them. Look at it this way, The Cthulu deities are evil, will turn mankind to their needs or destroy us if real, but they are not idiots. On the other hand we have non-sentient creatures running our government mucking things up across the board. Who would you respect?
EkCenTriK | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:47 pm | #

If you do not learn to master the trolls, then the trolls will become your master.
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:48 pm | #

we used to put brandy in a waterpipe for taste or something. never had a fire.
dread pirate roberts

Once at a party that was quickly veering out of control, my friends has to tell me that my lip was on fire from a flaming shot of 151 Rum.
Wildebeest | 12.31.04 - 11:48 pm | #

If you do not learn to master the trolls, then the trolls will become your master.
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:48 pm | #

If we reach out to the Trolls, we should have a running chainsaw in our hands...
Doozer among Fraggles | 12.31.04 - 11:48 pm | #

Adopt-a-troll!

Only if we can get them neutered and declawed.
EkCenTriK | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:49 pm | #

If you are talking about a real bong and you have memories of the experience, then you weren't doing something correctly.

Ah, but those were the days when I believed in moderation. I have since discovered that old folk saying, "Moderation is for monks." My life might end up being shorter, but it will be a hell of a lot more fun.
RebelGranny | 12.31.04 - 11:50 pm | #

The Trolls are already our masturs. Our masturbaters.
Doozer among Fraggles | 12.31.04 - 11:50 pm | #

The bong in the group was always filled with Booneshill Strawberry.
EkCenTriK | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:50 pm | #

Look at it this way, The Cthulu deities are evil, will turn mankind to their needs or destroy us if real, but they are not idiots.

Isn't Azathoth the A-Number-One primo Cthulhu god? The blind idiot god?
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:50 pm | #

To the tune of Auld Lang Syne:

May this ol' preznit be forgot
and sent to Gitmo jail
And may his little dick fall off
And may he get no bail.
Cuz he's a piece of slimy snot
Cuz he's a piece of crap
Let's take away what he has got
And wipe him off the map.

Anonymoouse
haloscan | 12.31.04 - 11:51 pm | #

Frst installments of the Commies tomorrow, by the way. Many winners!
Thersites

Oooh! I hope my execrable Satre pun from last night isn't too late for review!
Philalethes | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:52 pm | #

If you do not learn to master the trolls, then the trolls will become your master.
Eli

They'd be easier to tolerate if they didn't all remind me of Eric Cartman.
Wildebeest | 12.31.04 - 11:52 pm | #

If the left doesn't try reaching out to the trolls, they will never win another election.

oh, here some curious logic by a person who likes to speak from the shadows .. when 30% plus dont even bother to show up to vote?

ummm ... i think not ... the troll vote is lost to democrats and it's not exactly a sad event to me. I would love to be at the kitchen table 20 years from now when a rethug explains why he/she/it actually voted for dubya twice ... that oughta be like a fart in church ...

reach out the silent 30% and keep the young voters engaged ... i'll let the actuarians figure out the rest
syntallic | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:52 pm | #

Eli

Okay Eli, you have got me, it has been many many years since I read them. But then again, take Azathoth and compare him to GWBushathoth. Who would you respect then. (Upping the ante)
EkCenTriK | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:53 pm | #

+acknowledge enjoyment
+bye
waterspeakblood | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:53 pm | #

But then again, take Azathoth and compare him to GWBushathoth. Who would you respect then. (Upping the ante)

I was more suggesting that they were one and the same...
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:55 pm | #

The holiday season is about to come to an end.
Anonymous | 12.31.04 - 11:55 pm | #

Ten bucks says I get the Frist '05 comment on Eschaton.
Wildebeest | 12.31.04 - 11:56 pm | #

Ten bucks says I get the Frist '05 comment on Eschaton.

I wager 800 quatloos on the Wildebeest!
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:57 pm | #

Eli

I don't think so, GWBushathoth makes me mad and irrational, but he doesn't make me quake in my shoes at the concept as would Azathoth.

Face it, Bush isn't even a demigod, he is more of a McGod Trainee who is really fucking up the order.
EkCenTriK | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:57 pm | #

Wildebeest, if you go for frist, I'm going to aim for tooth.
RebelGranny | 12.31.04 - 11:58 pm | #

Redeye! Redeye! That's the name!

Catch the red spike and win the game!

Happy New Year, everybody!

(Christ, I hope this year is better than the last four put together ... )

|
K-tel | 12.31.04 - 11:58 pm | #

You realize Eschatonia hits the New Year 4 minutes ahead of the real world, don't you? And just WTF does that mean, hmmm?
Doozer among Fraggles | 12.31.04 - 11:58 pm | #

Oooh! I hope my execrable Satre pun from last night isn't too late for review!

I give nothing away; the Price-Waterhouse goons are freaking everywhere. But there is a Labored Punchlines category!
Thersites | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:58 pm | #

happy gnu year, y'all.

I’m gonna tell all you fascists you may be surprised
The people in this world are getting organized
You’re bound to lose, you fascists are bound to lose

Race hatred cannot stop us this one thing I know
Your poll tax and jim crow and greed have got to go
You’re bound to lose, you fascists bound to lose

All of you fascists bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose
All of you fascists bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose
You’re bound to lose! you fascists!
Bound to lose

People of every colour marching side by side
Marching ’cross these fields where a million fascists died
You’re bound to lose, you fascists bound to lose

I’m going into this battle, and take my union gun
We’ll end this world of slavery before this battle’s won
You’re bound to lose, you fascists bound to lose
sunzoo/cdelia | 12.31.04 - 11:59 pm | #

I don't think so, GWBushathoth makes me mad and irrational, but he doesn't make me quake in my shoes at the concept as would Azathoth.

I dunno, man. As I recall from Deities & Demigods, you had a high risk of going insane if you got within a certain radius of Azathoth. Seems to me like Bush has that same kind of power...
Eli | Homepage | 12.31.04 - 11:59 pm | #

friends at eschaton .... minus the obvious pathetic trolls, of course ... there is an old saying that what you do at midnight on new years eve is what your destined to repeat over and over in the new year

ummm ... i'll keep coming back here to type meaningless drivel, but there are two women here who i better pay attention to or i'm gonna be shit outta luck before long (with about three hours to go out here on the Left Coast) ... have a great new year ... it HAS to be better than 2004 (red sox and patriots, notwithstanding) ... other than that, don't let 2004 hit your ass on the way out the screen door tonight ... drink, smoke, fuck, suck, hit, fight, laugh, scream, dance, smack, pinch, lick ... whatever .. just let it all go! we never have to live through another 2004 again, so with that be happy you survived it ... 2005 is the beginning of the end for dubya ... change is in the air at last ... best wishes and many good fortunes to you all tonight!
syntallic | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:00 am | #

syntallic wins.
Wildebeest | 01.01.05 - 12:00 am | #

dick
Wildebeest | 01.01.05 - 12:00 am | #

If there is a sliding measure of time, for those who the earth is just rotating into the new year, Happy New Year and may it bring only good things.
EkCenTriK | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:00 am | #

Jeebus. I remember the days when only us little bloggers did catblogging (well, us and Kevin Drum). Boggles the mind that Atrios gets 500+ comments just when he posts pics of the cats. That's more than I get in total daily visits...
NTodd

500+osts is more because Atrios has gone off to have a good time and left the blog parked and unattended.
Doozer among Fraggles | 01.01.05 - 12:01 am | #

Pucker up syntallic!
mena | 01.01.05 - 12:02 am | #

They are playing 'Love Train' in Times Square. I can hear it on my television set.
Anonymous | 01.01.05 - 12:03 am | #

I know I can't win
But my heart just won't give in
dylan | 01.01.05 - 12:05 am | #

All around the country and coast to coast
People always say, what do you like most?
Well, I don't wanna brag and I don't wanna boast...
I always tell 'em, I like posts!
Yeah, posts!

With apologies to Heywood Banks.

Happy New Year, everybody!!!
Eli | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:05 am | #

west philly -- are those gunshots or fireworks?

never can tell..

happy new year, for what it's worth.
sunzoo/cdelia | 01.01.05 - 12:06 am | #

west philly -- are those gunshots or fireworks?

Funny, I had the same thought. Don't really want to get close enough to a window to find out...
Eli | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:07 am | #

Eli: you in the hood?

Sirens going off now...
sunzoo/cdelia | 01.01.05 - 12:09 am | #

west philly -- are those gunshots or fireworks?

East Texas Pineywoods; definitely gunshots.
Doozer among Fraggles | 01.01.05 - 12:09 am | #

Eli: you in the hood?

Kinda *near* the hood.
Eli | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:10 am | #

Happy New Year fellow Atriots!!! thanks for being my happy place for the last 6 months.

thanks atrios for this wonderful site!
cake or death | 01.01.05 - 12:11 am | #

Okay, so it's 2005.

Now what?
Eli | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:12 am | #

The west coast thanks Atrios 3 hours in advance for the site.
Memento Mori | 01.01.05 - 12:12 am | #

Happy New Year, Eschatonians.

2004 is on the ash heap of history.

I hope 2005 sees us get the fuck out of Iraq.
Wildebeest | 01.01.05 - 12:12 am | #

Eli: you in the hood?

Kinda *near* the hood.

In England, they call it a "bonnet."
Thersites | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:13 am | #

And I might add, New Year is still an hour away down here. They's jes' warmin' up.
Doozer among Fraggles | 01.01.05 - 12:13 am | #

Okay, so it's 2005.

Now what?

Stock up on coat hangers. Harry Reid is the leader of the Dems.
Memento Mori | 01.01.05 - 12:13 am | #

"Okay, so it's 2005.

Now what?
Eli"

I thought you knew what to do with it. Brand new year and I bet not a single person reading this site has the updated owners manual.

And how the heck do I put the seat back?
EkCenTriK | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:14 am | #

A bicycle repairman's a person in your neighborbonnet, in your neighborbonnet...
Eli | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:14 am | #

Happy New Year, east coastianites!
mena | 01.01.05 - 12:15 am | #

Okay, so it's 2005.

Now what?

Pun! Quick! Pun!
Thersites | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:15 am | #

now the air raid siren is going off

sounds like a godddamn invasion out here
sunzoo/cdelia | 01.01.05 - 12:15 am | #

I thought you knew what to do with it. Brand new year and I bet not a single person reading this site has the updated owners manual.

I found a PDF file, but it was for 2004. There was some pretty good stuff in there, but I don't think anyone ever actually read it.
Eli | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:17 am | #

Everbody is putting of fireworks here.

I gave my dog a treat and he went running up to the office under my desk with it.

He no likee the loud noises.

What's funny is he weighs 100 lbs.
Wildebeest | 01.01.05 - 12:17 am | #

Pun! Quick! Pun!

Pun for your lives! Pun like the wind!
Eli | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:18 am | #

Eli, y'all have much trouble with the bonnetlums in the Big City up thar?
We don't have that down here.
Doozer among Fraggles | 01.01.05 - 12:18 am | #

Okay, so it's 2005.

Now what?

ask john titor... of course, from his account it sounds like we're on the losing side.

personally, I'd prefer getting nuked to ashes rather than giving in..
sunzoo/cdelia | 01.01.05 - 12:18 am | #

Whew! Glad THAT's over. Welcome to 2005. James "Focus on the Family" Dobson is targeting the following democratic senators for defeat in 2006, Daschle style: Ben Nelson (MN), Robert C. Byrd (WV), Kent Conrad (ND), Jeff Bingman (NM), and Bill Nelson (FL).
Filibuster | 01.01.05 - 12:18 am | #

What's funny is he weighs 100 lbs.

Sounds like you may not be the rightful owner of your moniker...
Eli | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:19 am | #

I'm jealous of you East Coast bastards...I've still got three hours to go. On the other hand, I've broken out the 16-year Lagavulin.

Hey Thersites, did I ever bend your eye with Sir Thomas Urquhart's classic hardcore sex description? I must've, I figure, but I don't remember doing it...
Philalethes | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:20 am | #

Eli, y'all have much trouble with the bonnetlums in the Big City up thar?
We don't have that down here.

Not too much. I find if I wear a bonnetie sweatshirt or jacket and keep my head down, I don't get any trouble.
Eli | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:20 am | #

Out on the African plain, an antelope is having a Gnu Years Party. A local reporter has called in saying his herd is acting wild and the antelope's wife has just accused him of beestly behavior.
EkCenTriK | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:23 am | #

I think someone's lion.
Eli | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:24 am | #

May the Quatloos reign down upon all of Eschatonia in this new provider year, may your drill thralls be patient and generously endowed.
Provider one | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:25 am | #

Actually, I don't just think so; rhino so.
Eli | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:26 am | #

Great the east coast always gets to break open the shrink wrap on a new year. ANd not to say Microsoft is in control of everything, but I just received a eula to read before the new years hits here.
EkCenTriK | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:26 am | #

Damn, that's the third time I've typed *Everbody* lately.

I'm unwillingly morphing into Ernest.
Wildebeest | 01.01.05 - 12:26 am | #

Mmm... drill thralls...

I wonder what Liz Hurley is doing this year?
Eli | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:26 am | #

Adopt-a-troll!

Yes, punish them with kisses.
Shoving leopard 7 | 01.01.05 - 12:28 am | #

Damn, that's the third time I've typed *Everbody* lately.

I'm unwillingly morphing into Ernest.

Or Dr. Nick.

("Well, if it isn't my good friend, Mr. McClegg! With a leg for an arm, and an arm for a leg!")
Eli | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:28 am | #

(Call 1-800-DOCTORB!)
Eli | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:28 am | #

James "Focus on the Family" Dobson is targeting the following democratic senators for defeat in 2006, Daschle style: Ben Nelson (MN), Robert C. Byrd (WV), Kent Conrad (ND), Jeff Bingman (NM), and Bill Nelson (FL).

I, Thersites, am targeting Rick "Buttsex" Santorum, and I guarantee Hillary Clinton's reelection. These are two fights I want in the worst way.
Thersites | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:29 am | #

Eli

Well one group at the party is refusing to panther any questions. In the meantime they are all giraffing it up at eveyone elses expense.
EkCenTriK | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:29 am | #

Great the east coast always gets to break open the shrink wrap on a new year.

You're not missing much. It's buggy as hell. AGAIN.
Eli | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:29 am | #

Thersites ... I'm with you on Santorum and Clinton. When the time comes, I'll be there to help in the fight.
Filibuster | 01.01.05 - 12:31 am | #

Eli,
Well they never did release the 2004 Service Pack 2.
EkCenTriK | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:31 am | #

That's okay. We'll find out whose behyenad it, and gather enough circumstantial elephants to make a case.
Eli | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:31 am | #

Eh, what the hell...I'll just post it anyway...

Thus for a while their eloquence was mute and all they spoke was but with the eye and hand, yet so persuasively, by vertue of the intermutual unlimitedness of their visotactil sensation, that each part and portion of the persons of either was obvious to the sight and touch of the persons of both. The visuriency of either, by ushering the tacturiency of both, made the attrectation of both consequent to the inspection of either. Here was it that passion was active and action passive, they both being overcome by each other and each the conqueror. To speak of his hirquitalliency at the elevation of the pole of his microcosme or of his luxuriousness to erect a gnomon on her horizontall dyal, will perhaps be held by some to be expressions for of obscoeness and offensive to the purity of chaste ears; yet seeing she was to be his wife and that she could not be such without consummation of marriage, which signifieth the same thing in effect, it may be thought, as definitiones logiicae verificantur in rebus, if the exerced act be lawful, that the diction which suppones it can be of no great transgression, unless you would call it a solaecisme or that vice in grammar which imports the copulation of the masculine with the feminine gender.
Philalethes | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:32 am | #

Well they never did release the 2004 Service Pack 2.

There was a Service Pack 1? Where the hell was *that*???
Eli | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:32 am | #

Hubba hubba, Phil! It just needed a little "party of the first parts shall enter into the party of the second parts", and it would have been truly perfect!
Eli | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:34 am | #

Ek, Eli, who let you two paronomasiac's loose? Don't you know puns are a lower case of humor? Unless you have caps lock on, of course.
RebelGranny | 01.01.05 - 12:35 am | #

I'm not usually that type of guy, really. I'm just a little keyed up tonight.
Eli | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:36 am | #

Hey Thersites, did I ever bend your eye with Sir Thomas Urquhart's classic hardcore sex description? I must've, I figure, but I don't remember doing it...

I canna recall. Am off to ransack my vaults of the obscure...
Thersites | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:36 am | #

Eli,
Well they never did release the 2004 Service Pack 2.
EkCenTriK

But they did release the 2004 Butt Pack Special Edition.

For backwards compatibility to 1950's software.
Wildebeest | 01.01.05 - 12:36 am | #

But they did release the 2004 Butt Pack Special Edition.

For backwards compatibility to 1950's software.

Oh yeah. So it would work with the main frame.
Eli | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:38 am | #

The gray cat looks like it's going to kill you, Atrios. Don't fall asleep!
Monica_A | 01.01.05 - 12:38 am | #

"
For backwards compatibility to 1950's software.
Wildebeest"

Its worse than I thought, I was thinking it was looking a little 16 bit and a touch 8 bit this year.
EkCenTriK | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:40 am | #

It must be the camera angle, but the gray cat's back three legs look substantially undersized for the job.
Wildebeest | 01.01.05 - 12:40 am | #

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!!!!!

We made it to 2005.

sigh.
QuinnLaBelle | 01.01.05 - 12:41 am | #

maybe it's the Chinaco
Wildebeest | 01.01.05 - 12:41 am | #

Its worse than I thought, I was thinking it was looking a little 16 bit and a touch 8 bit this year.

Hey, how did you know how much I made this week?
Eli | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:41 am | #

RebelGranny, we may not caps lock, but we always are loyal to our homie keys.
EkCenTriK | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:43 am | #

No. The cat's just shooting Atrios a "I'll kill you" look.
Monica_A | 01.01.05 - 12:43 am | #

i have to work in the morning. FUCK!!

this the last glass of wine. I can't stand working hung over.
sunzoo/cdelia | 01.01.05 - 12:43 am | #

Hey man, what if the rest of us want our fucking eyes bent with fucking Sir Thomas Urquhart's fucking classic hardcore fucking sex video..

I mean, you know?!?
mena | 01.01.05 - 12:44 am | #

Just give us some space, and we won't try to escape. A little Tab wouldn't hurt either - we need to keep our weight under control.
Eli | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:45 am | #

one more wass of gline... C'MON!!!
Wildebeest | 01.01.05 - 12:45 am | #

unless you would call it a solaecisme or that vice in grammar which imports the copulation of the masculine with the feminine gender.

That is The Shit.

Good Lord, it does NOT get better than that.
Thersites | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:45 am | #

Ek, I'd come back with a goodie, but I've had too much beer--my brain has gone into numlock.
RebelGranny | 01.01.05 - 12:46 am | #

unless you would call it a solaecisme or that vice in grammar which imports the copulation of the masculine with the feminine gender.

That is The Shit.

Good Lord, it does NOT get better than that.

Someone really needs to run that whole passage through the Shizzolator. Someone with more courage than I.
Eli | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:47 am | #

Just pound the table a little, untilde your brain comes backspace.
Eli | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:48 am | #

May the Quatloos reign down upon all of Eschatonia in this new provider year, may your drill thralls be patient and generously endowed.
Provider one

Mmm, can I have mine in Euros?
Doozer among Fraggles | 01.01.05 - 12:49 am | #

In the news there was a horrible misunderstanding in China this week. It brought both domstic and internation crime forces to the Chinese nation. After days of coordinating the special mob action teams, they went hunting for Japanese Syndicate members. It wasn't until much later, that knee jerk remark was found to be the catalyst for this display of law enforcment. Seems a tourist from Alabama was walking through a village when his wallet was nicked. Looking about, all he saw near him was a lowly beast of burden. He then pointed his finger and shouted Yak, ah accuse ya. Thinks went downhil from there.
EkCenTriK | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:49 am | #

solaecicizzle?
mena | 01.01.05 - 12:50 am | #

Hey man, what if the rest of us want our fucking eyes bent with fucking Sir Thomas Urquhart's fucking classic hardcore fucking sex video..

Bring it on.

Central Scrutinizer | 01.01.05 - 12:51 am | #

Well, that was pretty abominable...
Eli | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:51 am | #

For all of the Gnu*ts* out there I am presently enjoying FreeSBIE a live cd version of Free BSD, it is actually looking Rocktacular, like Kirk's silver suited Thrall.

Provider one offers the previous, for your examination.
Provider one | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:52 am | #

I tried that, but it didn't work. I'll have to call my bf over and see if he can help me choose between insert and enter.
RebelGranny | 01.01.05 - 12:53 am | #

Goodnight, friends, and a blessed New Year. To all, I quote from Yeats's "The Municipal Gallery Revisited," and I speak of you:

You that would judge me, do not judge alone
This book or that, come to this hallowed place
Where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon;
Ireland's history in their lineaments trace;
Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
And say my glory was I had such friends.
Thersites | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:54 am | #

You should probably alt right there, and try to comma down.
Eli | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 12:56 am | #

Absolutely right--it is time to shift to another subject.
RebelGranny | 01.01.05 - 12:58 am | #

the gray cat's back three legs look substantially undersized for the job

There will be a lot of distortions like that as we approach 2012 and the novelty wears off.
Shoving leopard 7 | 01.01.05 - 12:59 am | #

I think I'm losing control.
RebelGranny | 01.01.05 - 12:59 am | #

You should probably alt right there, and try to comma down.
Eli

I ain't gonna ASCII ag'in to cut it out!
Wildebeest | 01.01.05 - 1:00 am | #

Good Lord, it does NOT get better than that.

It could have, if Dr Seuss had been of a bit randier bent...
Like, maybe,

The Billy Goat in the Coat

The 500 Blowjobs of Bartholomew Cubbins

And to Think That I Saw it on 7th Avenue

Horton Blows a Who

Hilda The Dildo

If I Ran The 'Ho House

etc. I won't attempt any XXX Seussisms; I am not worthy.
Doozer among Fraggles | 01.01.05 - 1:00 am | #

Do these pants make my penis look huge?
Central Scrutinizer | 01.01.05 - 1:01 am | #

"I tried that, but it didn't work. I'll have to call my bf over and see if he can help me choose between insert and enter"

If he were any kind of a romantic he would return by carriage. But it is the computer age and all us guys do is feed their SOs a line.
EkCenTriK | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 1:01 am | #

Quote right. Time to end, or at least pause this.
Eli | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 1:01 am | #

Central Scrutinizer

You are wearing pants?
EkCenTriK | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 1:01 am | #

I ain't gonna ASCII ag'in to cut it out!

You sound a little ANSI there.
Eli | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 1:02 am | #

EkCenTriK,

Doh!
Central Scrutinizer | 01.01.05 - 1:03 am | #

I looked out the door, there is a big line in the sky. It is coming. I can hear the whooshing as it gets closer.
EkCenTriK | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 1:03 am | #

Happy Midwest New Year, everyone!

Damn, what a fucking long thread!

That Piper-Heidseck was DELICIOUS!

Later!
Daddy-O | 01.01.05 - 1:04 am | #

Happy New Year, Central!
ATablaRasa | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 1:05 am | #

Whoo It is hear! The dishes rattled a bit but all is well.

Happy New Years again folks.
EkCenTriK | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 1:05 am | #

Happy NY, Ek and Central Timezone Scrutinizer.
Eli | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 1:06 am | #

Doozer, Suess actually did adult material at one time. We have a book of his under his real name that my in-laws have had for centuries, ah I mean decades.
EkCenTriK | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 1:07 am | #

It's time to escape before I run into more backslash from you guys.
RebelGranny | 01.01.05 - 1:07 am | #

Lady Chatterly's Lorax?
Eli | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 1:08 am | #

ATablaRasa,

Right back atcha!

(But doesn't it feel like spring?)

Anyway, Happy New Years to all of us.
Central Scrutinizer | 01.01.05 - 1:08 am | #

Those are pants?!?
mena | 01.01.05 - 1:08 am | #

It is now officially 2005 in Texas. Happy Noo Yeer!
I vcan barely hear for the audio effects outside.
Doozer among Fraggles | 01.01.05 - 1:08 am | #

Sorry you have to dash.
Eli | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 1:09 am | #

Eli, I was thinking The Thorax, but then I thought better. So I din.
Doozer among Fraggles | 01.01.05 - 1:09 am | #

RebelGranny, it is all the rage. didn't you ever notice that Star Trek folks were always paging to go up or down.
EkCenTriK | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 1:09 am | #

RebelGranny, if you do backslash you might be accused of a whack job in these parts. Or at least that's the best percentage...
ATablaRasa | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 1:10 am | #

Anyway, Happy New Years to all of us.

Father Time bless us, every one!
Eli | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 1:10 am | #

As a cat own first, a typist second, it took me a long time to understand that a * was called an asterisk.
EkCenTriK | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 1:11 am | #

Those are pants?!?

Mena!!

You're weren't supposed to tell anyone.
Central Scrutinizer | 01.01.05 - 1:11 am | #

EkCenTriK; Dare I axe, is the prose style comparable?
Doozer among Fraggles | 01.01.05 - 1:12 am | #

I don't drink much anymore, now I rembember why.
EkCenTriK | Homepage | 01.01.05 - 1:12 am | #

And right back @ ya!
RebelGranny | 01.01.05 - 1:12 am | #