I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Free lunch!
Not first. Not last. Early, though.
Free snow!!!
hey!
Seconds away...
D'oh!
I'm not going to post anything on this thread until a theme emerges.
would have been first but was too excited and... that reminds me of...
I'm going to write my name in this fresh thread, and you can't stop me.
Barbara Boxer! I want to have your love child. Wow, did she just wake up one morning and decide, "What the hell, I'll start to act like a patriot" or what? She's been amazing lately. Watched a little of her takedown of Condi and it was beautiful. More like this, please.
Open thread, eh?
I think I'll spam my recentest song: http://bottla.com/whatthehell.mp3
Beats lurkin'.
Eli, I'm right with you. No silly, pointless posts until I know what it is we're talking about.
Oh , Eli, spare us the fucking drama! Just post already.
If I *were* to post something, it would probably be about how bizarre it is to read phrases like "I had doubts about the other sex slave I had purchased" in an NYT op-ed piece...
Reposted from thread below:
CDC health alert!
The Center for Disease Control has issued a warning about a new virulent strain of sexually transmitted disease. This disease is contracted through dangerous and high risk behavior. The disease is called
Gonorrhea lecthim. (Stop and say it again.)
Many victims have contracted it after having been screwed for the past 4 years, in spite of having taken measures to protect themselves from this especially virulent disease.
Cognitive sequellae of individuals infected with Gonorrhea lecthim include, but are not limited to: Anti-social personality disorder traits; delusions of grandeur with a distinct messianic flavor; chronic mangling of the English language; extreme cognitive dissonance; inability to incorporate new information; pronounced xenophobia; inability to accept responsibility for actions; exceptional cowardice masked by acts of misplaced bravado; ignorance of geography and history; tendencies toward creating evangelical theocracies; and a strong propensity for categorical, all-or nothing behavior.
We in California have one great senator and one who is comfortable being rich.
"I'm not going to post anything on this thread until a theme emerges.
guess who this decribes? -
*six-foot tall steaming pile of shit*
yeah i gave up on that piece after 3 sentences.
Why aren't you losers talking about how to save the world, yet! YOU AREN"T LIVING UP TO MY STANDARDS. STOP IT! NO SILLY POSTS ARE ALLOWED!
I'm not going to post anything on this thread until a theme emerges.
I think the theme is "new thread smell" until somebody starts posting about sex slaves they've purchased...
guess who this decribes? -
*six-foot tall steaming pile of shit*
It's not me! I'm 5'10"!
I do seem to recall reading something about said steaming pile in an inaugural context, however...
NBC talking potatoes are telling on their masters on CNBC. And taking it back and covering their tracks.
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California, greatest state in the union, you need one new senator. And then you need to canonize the other one.
Barbara Boxer is my miracle chick.
Thanks, Sweetie, for standing up this week.
We in California also have, according to some of the letters in the paper I've read, some truly blinded people who are just "totally embarassed" by Sen. Boxer's questioning. It's tough when you have to face the truth.
Senator Boxer was re elected with a good margin and is unlikely to run again and thus is free to be herself
soon someone will mention turtles, and bon jovi.
I live for silly posts. I often make them.
That pile shit ain't six feet tall without his damn lifts.
Jennifer,
Heeheeheehee
Now we know why they oppose sex ed, so more people will catch this one.
Hi, y'all. Anybody told the other thread we got a fresh one yet?
I think the theme is "new thread smell" until somebody starts posting about sex slaves they've purchased...
I mean, Kristof's talking about *multiple* sex slave purchases, and I haven't even made my first.
I feel like I've wasted my life.
8:00 EST and I am feeling a strong urge to watch Antiques Roadshow.
See, youngins, that's what happens to you once you've rounded the corner of 40.
Must go watch people oogle over old stuff.
Have a nice thread.
ok i tried to get trailer on a film called Planet of the Arabs and instead saw Arabs a GoGo! check it out. jsalloum.org
What Hecate said about Barbara Boxer. I also dig her hairstyle. I want to see her as President with THAT! That would be an effective Dubya antidote. The Reds would would shit themselves.
guess who this decribes? -
*six-foot tall steaming pile of shit
Why, that would be Dubya, avatar of The Thing in The Pentagon.
8:00 EST and I am feeling a strong urge to watch Antiques Roadshow.
See, youngins, that's what happens to you once you've rounded the corner of 40.
Jeez. I totally understand Peter Pan now.
Barbara Boxer! I saw most of it and she kicked ass.
Ahianne,
They know, but nothin' like bitching about the weather....
I mean, Kristof's talking about *multiple* sex slave purchases, and I haven't even made my first.
I feel like I've wasted my life.
Sure you haven't purchased a sex slave. Show me the receipts to prove it.
Or rather, The Thing that was in The Pentagon...
Did someone say sex-slaves? My Mississippi evangelical church group just got back from a mission jaunt to Thailand.
Man were we lucky we were on the other side of the country. Or we'da been sunk.
Woooo weeee though did we had fun spreading the seed of Jesus! Especially to the 14 year olds. They seemed to really get into it.
Liars,
Why is Boxer unlikely to run again?
Hello Chicago Dyke,
Have started on some of the refs you sent me.
Not easy going.
But interesting.
Thanks again.
Mrs. Ba'al now requests my company.
I will be back in the fullness of time.
From The Beast
50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2004
3. You
Crimes: You gaze idly at the carnage around you, sigh, and go calmly back to your coffee and your People magazine. You can’t stop buying useless crap, though you’re drowning in a deepening pool of debt. You think you’re an activist because you bitch all day on the internet, but you reelect the same gangsters at a 99% rate. You consider yourself informed because you waste a significant portion of your life watching the same three news stories cycle over and over again on your gargantuan, aerodynamic television set while you eat processed food. You really thought everything would be okay if Kerry won. Not only do you believe in an invisible man who magically farted out the universe, you also excoriate and marginalize those who disagree. You have a poorer understanding of your country’s foreign policy history than a third world peasant, but you can’t wait to see what Julia Roberts will be wearing at the Oscars. You cheer as Ukrainians challenge an election based on exit poll data, but keep waiting around for someone else to fix your problems. You can’t think, you can’t organize and you won’t act. This is all your fault.
Smoking Gun: You’re fat.
Punishment: You’re soaking in it.
there's also a film entitled Slingshot Hip Hop about the emerging rap groups in gaza and west bank.
chicago dyke,
How was your party last night?
Sure you haven't purchased a sex slave. Show me the receipts to prove it.
Well, okay, there was the one. But I had to return it when it turned out to be a dude.
Never, *ever* buy sex slaves on the internets.
Is there a lot of yellow snow in the previous thread?
When I wrote to Senator Boxer the other day to thank her for her vote against Condi, I ended the email with: "I want you for my president."
Eli,
Come on a over to my house. I'll teach you about antiques. In a good way. 
You'll never polish the silver the same.
Must go. Now.
*six-foot tall steaming pile of shit
Why, that would be Dubya, avatar of The Thing in The Pentagon.
Agree.
Clearly I am not able to to unselfconsciously use profanity.
Why the fuck didn't anyone tell me it was snowing outside?!
*looking warily around for krsaz*
As I explained yesterday, Bush isn't a six-foot steaming pile of shit, because shit won't pile that high before it starts to flow downhill. Thus, the steaming pile of shit that appeared at the inauguration only measured about 5'10", and we can all attest to the fact that a lot of shit has flowed off of it in the last four years.
You'll never polish the silver the same.
Oh, how I enjoy being snowbound! It's so peaceful, especially since I'm alone, and there is no electronic noise from the neighbors, and I have all the groceries I need, including (most importantly) milk. And the apartment is warm. Bliss!
Never, *ever* buy sex slaves on the internets.
Wiser words were never spoken.
So, about our generous offer to liberate Iraq...If it's so damn dangerous for our soldiers to deliver voting equipment, and it's so dangerous for Iraqis to vote that the polling locations are undisclosed, and the candidates are secret, and Iraqis who are in Great Britian and the US and elsewhere are voting by mail,
Why can't they ALL vote by mail. We'd be saving quite a few lives. Or is that the reason not to do it by mail?
This is for Sue.
A man goes to visit his doctor,
"Doc, I've got a rather embarassing problem, my farts just don't sound right,"
"Well how do they sound?" enquires the doctor.
"They make a HONDA sound"
The doctor looks puzzled, "Hmm, is there anything else I should know?"
"Well I also have a terrible boil on my arse," replies the man
The doctor looks pleased, "Thats it then. We'll lance that boil and you'll see a difference immediately,"
"Why's that then, Doc?" asks the man
"It's well known," laughs the Doctor, "Abscess makes the fart go Honda."
Ann Arbor just got a weather warning (teevee). The girl blew it the first time, and then Iron Chef (love that Food Channel) was interrupted a second time, and she managed to deliver the warning.
Clear as a bell right now.
As I explained yesterday, Bush isn't a six-foot steaming pile of shit, because shit won't pile that high before it starts to flow downhill. Thus, the steaming pile of shit that appeared at the inauguration only measured about 5'10", and we can all attest to the fact that a lot of shit has flowed off of it in the last four years.
But it's been flowing downhill its entire life, and no matter how much flows off of it, it still seems to be in no danger of diminishing.
It's like a neverending horn of plenty, only poop.
I'm gonna write my name in the corner over here, back in a sec.
kent,
No, but they're razzing you. Better get over there.
Is there a lot of yellow snow in the previous thread?
Kent,
There was some mention of it, but oddly enough, not a single troll. I don't remember the last time that happened.
Can this be a book thread? I just finishied John LeCarres new spy book called Absolute Friends.Its awsome. And scary. Especially the end. The endgame is the most important part. Of course, everyone dies in the end. But thats typicle.
Tena, Hecate,
I heart Boxer too. I can't belive all the vile thing the wankers in the press said about her "attacks" on Condisleaza. They are doing a M. Moore on her. Not one incorrect fact was uttered by Boxer so they just attacked out of spite.
I went to the CDC breakfast in Sacramento this morning. I got to shake hands with Howard Dean. In case this gets on TV somewhere (the cameras were on)I was the old lady next to Cruz Bustamante. I didn't know it was Cruz next to me until Howard asked him if he wanted to come up and talk.
Anyway the line of the day was by Al Sharpton "Condelizza Rice is my color, but Barbara Boxer is my kind" he brought down the house.
Yeah, tonight must be the freepers ball. Or else they're all out earning money shoveling driveways.
Can this be a book thread?
No! It's Saturday night! Time to partay.
NYM 
CS, awesome, hows Trout?,
worried about jinxing my team, check in during 'mercials
Sue, Sue, where are you, Sue?
A Ballerina goes to the Doctor,
"Doc I am having terrible trouble with the most awful wind, every time I pirouette I fart" she cries.
"Hmmm," says the Doctor, "I'd like to see that if possible"
The ballerina get up, pirouettes and Phrrrt... Farts loudly.
"Thats amazing, do it again,"
Again the pirouette is accompanied by a loud fart
"Hmmm," says the Doctor "I think I may be able to help" he bends down and picks up a long pole with a curious barbed hook on the end.
The ballerina starts back in alarm, "What the ~&%$*? are you going to do with that?" she asks,
"Opening the window, it stinks in here for Gods sake!"
If it weren't for the way keen video for Snowbound, I probably never would have discovered Donald Fagen's Kamakiriad album, which I like very much.
Eli - Very true. But not surprising when you consider that Karl Rove has been working non-stop to pile the shit ever higher for an uninterrupted span of some eleven or twelve years now.
I got to shake hands with Howard Dean.
Damn. Stef and I were s'posed to go to his un-auguration party in Burlington last week, but I was too ill. The fifty bucks we contributed surely would've gotten us placed at the head table...
The geometries ceased to bind it. It took the form prepared for it. And now, it's free to roam the land feasting on fear + terror like so many scooby snacks.
Lydia,
Great. Another famous poster, maybe? Good for Shapton, too. Never thought I'd say that.
Kent, He's great.
He's got cabin fever just like me. We're both summer people.
I feel like I've wasted my life.
Eli, its never too late to take up a new hobby.
Hmm. Tough crowd. How about this one?
A nervous young man, keen to impress, is visiting his future in laws for the very first time.
After a huge Sunday Lunch they are all relaxing in the lounge when the young man lets off a real ripsnorter. The father gets up and shouts at the dog, "Get out Rex, get out!"
"Phew," thinks the young man, "They thought it was the dog,"
Next time he doesn't even try to hold it in and again the father shouts at the dog, "Rex, Out, Out!"
The third time the young man had grown in confidence and releases a huge rumbling air biscuit at which the father jumps up and shouts,
"Get out Rex, quick before he shits all over you!"
WHAT ARE YOU CHILDREN GIGGLING ABOUT!
I want a five paragraph essya from all of you an a plan of action to get the Democratic Party in power!
If you don't do as I say I'll force you to do a theme on how giggling is the tool of the devil!
DON"T MAKE ME DO IT!
Personally, I took a hiatus from Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet to read Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH on my daughter's say-so. They're both good books!
Good for Shapton, too. Never thought I'd say that.
Sharpton has said a lot of laudable things, many of them during his preznidential campaign. He just happens to be rather difficult to take entirely seriously.
That 6 ft steaming pile of shit would have to come from someone's colon. The steam would come from the energy borrowed from that person's intestines.
This 6 ft hot turd would not bring anything original to this world except stink.
Who da daddy?
Ah Sue, lighten up.
Doctor, "What seems to be the problem?"
Patient, "Doc, I've got the farts. I mean I fart all the time,"
The Doctor nods, "Hmm."
Patient, "My farts do not stink and you can't hear them. It's just that I fart all the time. Look, we've been talking here for about 10 minutes and I've farted five times. You didn't hear them and you don't smell them, do you?"
"Hmm," says the Doctor,
He picks up his pad and writes out a prescription.
The patient is thrilled "Great doc. This prescription, will it really clear up my farts?"
"No," sighs the Doctor, "The prescription is to clear your sinuses. Next week I want you back here for a hearing test."
Later all. Off to watch a DVD.
Keep each other warm and the batteries charged.
Lydia:
How was the Sacramento show? I signed up to go but work got in the way.
Dr. Pedant has made contact with his inner fourth-grade boy. Dr. NYMary approves.
bigvic,
I know what you mean. I've always thought Sharpton was an ass, but he gave a kickass speech at the convention and I certainly agree with him about Boxer. Lately she's just been rocking and rolling.
Central Scrutinizer, that stuff is great. Good work!
NYMary - The Ground Beneath Her Feet was my least fave Rushdie book. Still yet, pieces of things he writes have a weird way of manifesting a few years after he writes them. I'm thinking 9/11 after Fury and the monster earthquake/tsunami (plus another Pacific quake of 6.5 last week) following Ground Beneath Her Feet.
You've probably already read this one, but if you haven't, I personally think it's his best: Midnight's Children.
Eli,
A cornapoopia?
NYMary,
Speaking of the freepers ball, I read a nauseating piece in the Times today about young folks called Maveriks, who raised at least $50,000 for Shrub, and how they really got the politics *bug* now and are pumped. Something so sad about younger folks without souls.
kent, nobody's razzing you. We're just making the obvious point that you got us all into trouble with the Wall Street Journal.
OK, we'll try this...
...I meant to snow-blow the driveway this AM, didn't get to it until 7PM.
Instead, I watched my namesake in WXIII:Patlabor (practically a walk-on, but what the hell, no small parts, only small anime actors), and then I caught something called "A Family Thing" with James Earl Jones and Robert Duvall. In a nutshell, they find out they're half-brothers...tear-jerker near the end. Watching those two go at it was a treat.
Deciding whether or not to brave the roads and tip a few at the ol' waterin' hole.
Peace, all...
Never, *ever* buy sex slaves on the internets.
Wiser words were never spoken.
NTodd, you don't have a brother named Neil, do you?
NYMAry,
Yeah. My ex-wife maintains and maintained that men never mature past the fourth-grade level. It got to the point where we would be out somewhere, I would be my usual vastly amusing self, and she would just look at me, shake her head, and say "fourth grade". Whereupon I would slink away into the corner.
Did I mention that's she's my ex-wife?
I want a five paragraph essya from all of you an a plan of action to get the Democratic Party in power!
BlakNo1: And now, it's free to roam the land feasting on fear + terror like so many scooby snacks.
ScoobySnaks™ feast on fear, terror...?
.
Boxer is my Senator and I've always voted for her. Her personality and style grates on my nerves, but she was the only one willing to speak up for truth last week, and I will never complain about her again.
GO BARBARA!!
Jennifer,
I'll agree on Midnight's Children. Jaw-dropping. I teach it in a course called "Self and Nation" along with things like The Tin Drum. Narratives where the personal journey is the national journey, more or less. Satanic Verses was my first Rushdie, though, and still holds a warm place in my heart.
latest screed to my democratic representation:
The republican scourge that has destroyed America and will continue to further dissemble America into a divided, uncaring, intolerant, and repugnant nation, completely foreign to its founding ideals MUST BE STOPPED. Everyone that cares about America must be enlisted and must participate. You, as my Democratic representatives to the Federal government must spearhead that effort. You must hound republicans at EVERY opportunity, publicly and profusely denouncing their lies and distortions, their hidden agendas, and their double-speak. You should use every tool at your disposal to oppose, impede, delay or slow republican-backed programs, as well as judicial and government agency nominations. You must fight republicans in all branches of government, at every opportunity and you should convince the few remaining “moderate” republicans that it is in their interests, the interests of their constituencies, and most importantly in the best interest of the United States to join with Democrats to rid us of the radical republican pox infecting us.
You should be criticizing and denouncing the main stream media for acting as propaganda machine for republicans, for abrogating their responsibility to democracy and to the people to report the truth, and for not reporting accurately and properly resourced news. Democracy can not survive if the people only hear one-sided republican lies and distortions.
The U.S. Constitution and its implicit right to privacy has been under attack by republicans in their insidious efforts to control the private lives of Americans. Democrats should counter these attacks with an amendment to the Constitution explicitly stating a right to privacy. Put republicans on the spot to denounce such a right. Let America see republicans for the manipulating plutocrats that they are.
America was at a crossroads on November 2, 2004. The republican lie and spin machine, coupled with republican voter suppression dirty tricks won out over the truth. If America is ever to regain its lost noble foundation, Democrats must stand up and be counted; we must shout loudly and continuously. Failure to do so will drive those needing to rally, stand up, and fight for the true America, to other associations, further diluting Democrat capabilities. We must work loudly and tirelessly to reclaim America. I am ready to assist you in this cause.
America is in desperate need of true and honest leaders. I am looking to you to fill that need.
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Central Scrutinizer, that stuff is great. Good work!
Jack,
Do you mean The Beast?
I just linked to it, I couldn't write like that if my life depended on it.
It is some funny stuff.
Yeah, Sharpton has *issues* by the truckload, but he was one of the few to show some balls during the campaign and act like a real Democrat. He gets snaps for that.
AB^3 - Corholapoopia might be the best term to describe the endless ass-reaming the never-ending, almost 6 foot, steaming pile of shit has delivered to the world.
NYMary and Jennifer,
I think I am just too stupid to read Rushdie. I keep trying, but always give up.
Dr. Pedant: "No," sighs the Doctor, "The prescription is to clear your sinuses. Next week I want you back here for a hearing test."
Y'all keep this up, and I will tell the Peg-legged Pig Joke.
.
younger folks without souls.
I ate their souls. They were fresh and tasty. My lap dog, Dubya, gives me more on a daily basis.
Rooby rooby roo!!
Damn haloscan's lack of preview! Make that Cornholapoopia.
hicago dyke,
How was your party last night?
NYMary | Email | Homepage | 01.22.05 - 8:09 pm | #
depressing. people were really uninterested in anything to do with politics...but my dress was a hit!
/end blonde/
America is in desperate need of true and honest leaders. I am looking to you to fill that need.
"While I am on the soapbox, farts will be heard."
--Mel Brooks
bigvic,
If it makes you feel any better, America's Future Rocks Today, the concert hosted by Jenna and NotJenna, was half-empty. And the attendees were empty-headed. One called GWB "hot". Shudder. It's on my blog, if you want to see it.
NYMAry,
Yeah. My ex-wife maintains and maintained that men never mature past the fourth-grade level. It got to the point where we would be out somewhere, I would be my usual vastly amusing self, and she would just look at me, shake her head, and say "fourth grade". Whereupon I would slink away into the corner.
Thank god I made it to the fifth! It's the only way I squeak by.
"A valuable animal like that, you don't want to eat it all at once."
Y'all keep this up, and I will tell the Peg-legged Pig Joke.
Please do!
Personally, I took a hiatus from Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet to read Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH on my daughter's say-so.
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. Wonderful, wonderful book. What happened to my copy? Must go search.
Be careful out there, Captain.
rococco: Absolute Friends is a hell of a book. LeCarre is *pissed* about Bush & his poodle and the book is infused with his anger & frustration.
got Wolves Eat Dogs, the latest Arkady Renko novel by M Cruz Smith, part of it is about the New Russia but a lot of it is about Chernobyl. I sort of identify with the Renko character...
working through His Excellency, the latest George Washington bio, written by Joseph Ellis- and it would not surprise me to learn he is one of *those* Ellises (sp)- as you might notice from the title, it is focused on George's king-like/divine side. According to this guy, America was indeed founded by and for the rich guy with connections- sorta like the George we're stuck with now.
flory,
My husband and I enjoyed the breakfast very much. Three great speakers State Sen Tom Dunn, Sharpton, and Howard Dean and lots of 90 sec testimonials for chair choice all of which were for Howard. We signed up to be observers for the main event but decided we had seen what we came for.
The place was packed. Incredible turn out. We heard that what started out as a couple hundred for breakfast turned into 450 then 600!
It's on my blog, if you want to see it.
Saw it. Never mind slapping the bimbos.
Slap their stupid parents.
I think I am just too stupid to read Rushdie. I keep trying, but always give up.
I think he's an acquired taste. Like you, I've never acquired it.
Thank god I made it to the fifth!
I flunked the entrance exam into fifth grade. I just couldn't get by without a nap in the afternoon anymore. Still can't.
Luckily, my boss doesn't mind, 'long as I don't snore.
Hecate,
Nah. You're a lawyer. You're smart. Read some Indian history online, then take a crack at Midnight's Children. If you don't get stuff, let it fly for a bit. Then go look at pictures of Ganesh, of Shiva, of Parvati. It's a hoot, really!
Corholapoopia might be the best term to describe the endless ass-reaming the never-ending, almost 6 foot, steaming pile of shit has delivered to the world.
Would that make the various inaugural musical performances Lollapooploza? Or possibly Lollapooplosers?
NYMary,
I'll check it OUT. Hahahaha about the Jenna and NotJenna (love Tbogg) party. And they had to stay sober!
will do, bigvic.
We heard that what started out as a couple hundred for breakfast turned into 450 then 600!
Wish I coulda been there.
Dr. Pedant,
I hope you don't think the fourth-grade thing was bad! I didn't mean it that way, certainly.
pie, can I slap both parents and children? Pretty please?
Much funnier than the peg-legged pig joke:
A hunter spots a grizzly bear 1,000 yards away, but he can't get any closer so he aims his rifle and pulls the trigger. He can see he's hit the bear, so he sets off after it. When he finally catches up to the bear, the bear is clutching his shoulder and says, "Was it you who shot me?"
The hunter says, "Yes."
The bear says, "You need to be taught a lesson." The bear strips off the hunter's clothes, bends him over, and has his way with him.
Several minutes later the hunter struggles to his feet, pulls himself together, and vows to find that bear. He searches through the woods, up hill and dale, and then he spots it 500 yards away, aims his rifle, pulls the trigger, and sets off after it. When he catches up to the bear, the bear says, "Did you shoot me again?"
The hunter, trembling, says, "Yes."
The bear says, "Well, maybe this'll teach you," whereupon it grabs up the hunter, rips off his already tattered clothing, throws him violently to the ground, and really rips him a new one.
The hunter eventually gets to his feet, naked and dazed, and he decides he's going after the bear one more time. He trips through dense underbrush, he trudges through soupy swamps, and he treks across vast valleys, and finally he finds the bear only a hundred yards away, across a small opening. He takes careful aim, holds his breath, and pulls the trigger.
The hunter, already exhausted, sprints up to the bear.
The bear says, "Did you shoot me AGAIN?"
The hunter says, "Yep."
So the bear says, "You didn't really come here to hunt, did you?"
I second Nick's recommendation of Absolute Friends. Fabulous book.
can I slap both parents and children? Pretty please?
If my daughters EVER said that...
Nah, too smart.
Go ahead, NYMary. I know kids who are MUCH smarter than their parents.
Dr. Pedant says, "try the veal."
ARRRGH! Damn you haloscan, for eating my post!
Hecate, that's bullshit. Probably it's just that you're not into Rushdie's voice. I personally haven't ever really managed to get with Pynchon for that reason, and with Faulkner I turn it into a marathon of everything Faulkner I think I want to read, because the voice is so damn hard to get in synch. Different writers for different readers and all that.
And NYMary, you're very lucky to get to teach great books like Rushdie and The Tin Drum, another of my all-time favorites.
Eli, I love Fagen - he's a god.
Evening, freethinkers !
kent, nobody's razzing you. We're just making the obvious point that you got us all into trouble with the Wall Street Journal.
Fucking kent, always getting us in trouble with the WSJ. Some of us tried to elevate the discourse over at BloJobCred and he went and ruined everything.
NTodd, you don't have a brother named Neil, do you?
Sorry, but I'm an "only". If you lived with me, you'd understand why they broke the mold when I was born.
NYMary,
That's probably my problem; I'm woefully ignorant about Indian history. Know a little about their deities, but next to nothing about their history.
justfred, I think the Democrat party is finished. Your attempt at using these prepubescent Democratic Party funds to test the blog waters in 2005, after their defeat is kinda funny. It was cool about 2 years ago but it didn't work. Democrats tried to offer an "alternate" imperialism and Kinder and Gentler Corporatism. America chose the REAL imperialistic and Corporatist party. Why go for the fake when you could go for the real.
And half the country (or rather half the eligible voters who actually voted) voted Democrat. I guarantee you they don't get 30% in 2008.
Wanna know who will? Look to 2008 for the first populist independent candidate to give both parties a run for their so-called money and possibly a shot at the White House.
How could it be done? BY STARTING NOW. Challenge every single state of the country to RIGHT NOW institute a 3rd party voting system so that ANYONE can run for state or national office regardless of party. The TWO PARTY system is dead. The repugs won. Fine. That doesn't mean that America, or rather the idea of it, has to lose.
Both parties are dirty and nobody wants to believe it. Someone upthreaet wrote that a "maverick" was a person who who raised $50,000 for the Republican party. These people feel pumped because they helped them "win it for 'Murka" yet they have no care whatsoever that what they helped were imperialists bent on controlling the whole world's people and resources through never ending wars.
"Whooooo hoooo! I'm PUMPED!" the Maverick's say. But I don't call them Maverick's.
I call them Tools with a capital "T".
The dems didn't win, but neither the those who "voted republican" because it doesn't matter anymore. You gave them their "man-date" They don't give a fuck anymore. They now want to complete the cycle and DOMINATE America with one-party rule. That's what this election was about. It was that close and they were duking it out to the DEATH.
One party rule was the goal. I don't call that "Freedom" that's for sure. And the funny thing about this "Tyranny" thing that george now wants to "fight" (Funny, we have the "War on Terra" being replaced with the "War on Terrany")
Didja all catch it? Very sneaky huh. Hey! Look over here! Ha ha. See, I did that switch on ya so fast! "Terra -anyyy!"
Get it now? Yea I thought you would. Now how do you end Terrany? I'm glad you asked.
Freedom. Yup. That's it. You stop Terrany with Freedom.
Who give us Freedom? Why God of course. Yup. God. BUT! Wait! There's more!
"I'm George Bush and I too will give you all freedom from Terranny!" I'm practically working with God on this.
No Really. I am.
Trust me.
flory,
I wish you could have been there too, but maybe it will be on TV somewhere.
Dr. Pendant,
That one made me laugh out loud.
"sources of indian tradition' is a great two volume set that really fills in the gaps in the usual western-centric education. i forget the editor's name, lemme find a link.
I flunked the entrance exam into fifth grade.
The secret is to give Ms Krabapple a nice little squeeze on the right buttock. Works wonders!
NYMary,
That was Hi-Larious. Hoo, boy. At least I got to see Babe-O-Rama before reading about really odious girls.
Hecate,
Thanks. I like it too.
Sorry, but I'm an "only". If you lived with me, you'd understand why they broke the mold when I was born.
I was kidding, nerd.
And everyone who's anyone has the *broke the mold* excuse.
It make you an individual and not one of the...
well, you know.
I'm outta here. Stay warm, well-fed, and ?
i put a link in my homepage for the book, H & NyM.
Laugh, damn you, laugh!
A priest is interviewing three married couples, newcomers to town, who want to join his church.
The first couple has been married 50 years, the second couple has been married 30 years, and the third couple are 20-year-old newlyweds.
The priest says, "To prove the purity of your commitment to our church, you must remain chaste for the next four weeks. If you can, you will be welcome in our church."
Four weeks later they assemble in the priest’s office to report to him.
He asks the couple married 50 years how they did. They say, "It was no problem whatsoever," and the priest says, "You are welcome in our church."
He asks the couple married 30 years how they did, and the husband says, "Well, it was tough, but we managed to do it," whereupon the priest says, "You are welcome in our church."
Then he asks the 20-year-old newlyweds how they did.
The husband says, "Well, Father, the first week was OK. The second week we really wanted to but we managed to get by. The third week the temptation got so bad we had to sleep in separate bedrooms. And I thought we were going to make it through the fourth week, but yesterday, when I saw my wife bent over at the waist to pick up a bag of flour from the bottom shelf, I just lost control and I took her right then and there."
A look of disappointment passes over the priest’s face, and he reluctantly says, "Then you are not welcome in our church."
The newlywed wife says, "Yeah, and as of yesterday we aren't welcome in the Safeway either."
George w. Bush is out jogging one morning, notices a little boy on the corner with a box.
Curious, he runs over to the child and says, "What's in the box kid?"
The little boy says, "Kittens, they're brand new kittens."
George W. laughs and says, "What kind of kittens are they?"
"Republicans," the child says.
"Oh that's cute," George W. says and he runs off.
A couple of days later George is running with his buddy Dick Cheney and he spies the same boy with his box just ahead.
George W. says to Dick, "You gotta check this out" and they both jog over to the boy with the box.
George W. says, "Look in the box Dick, isn't that cute? Look at those little kittens. Hey kid tell my friend Dick what kind of kittens they are."
The boy replies, "They're Democrats."
"Whoa!", George W. says, "I came by here the other day and you said they were Republicans. What's up?"
"Well," the kid says, "Their eyes are open now"
I was kidding, nerd.
No, really? ;-P
That's great news, lydia.
I found Rushdie difficult also, but when I heard him doing a reading from The Moor's Last Sigh(on CSPAN) it was amazing. Much better than reading it on the page.
Here. Wanna laugh?
Army Prepares 'Robo-Soldier' for Iraq
By MICHAEL P. REGAN, AP Business Writer
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J. - The rain is turning to snow on a blustery January morning, and all the men gathered in a parking lot here surely would prefer to be inside. But the weather couldn't matter less to the robotic sharpshooter they are here to watch as it splashes through puddles, the barrel of its machine gun pointing the way like Pinocchio's nose. The Army is preparing to send 18 of these remote-controlled robotic warriors to fight in Iraq beginning in March or April.
(snip)
The newlywed wife says, "Yeah, and as of yesterday we aren't welcome in the Safeway either."
OMG, that made me disturb the cats!
Hecate,
You can't know everything. God knows I don't (what I don't know could fill libraries). The older I get, and the longer I've been away from academia, the less I remember. I envy those of you who are able to teach and write about the subjects you love ~ the connections are wonderful, and I learn from you every day.
In some respects, it's painful. In other respects, it took years to get a clue about life, but I'm feeling really good about that angle of things now...
Anyway, Hecate, what you know comes out in the wise way you address life. I love what you have to say ~ I learn from you. You're not only an ornament to the conversation ~ you're the star on the tree.
Thanks.
Good one, Central!
I am only going to post on all blogs "WHOOPEE,we're all going to die" or "Jesus Wept".I think this covers it all...........Yours In Peace''''R.L.
Yeah,that's sort of my issue too, only they broke the mold first, nade me, then hid me on the inventory list and shipped me out of order.
Thanks, chidyke! I'll check it out.
Dr. Pendant,
OMG that was funny. I can never tell a joke. I'll blurt out the punchline or something right off the bat and ruin it. Hoo, that was good.
Yeah,that's sort of my issue too, only they broke the mold first, nade me, then hid me on the inventory list and shipped me out of order.
See, that shit wouldn't happen today, what with e-commerce on the internets...
Thanks, chicago dyke! Cool!
Did anyone else have a hard time accepting Alberto Gonzales' statement, "America is a nation of law, not a nation of men"?
Call me a bleeding heart but c'mon... I realize that BushCo doesn't have much repsect for the dignity of humanity outside their slightly misanthropic sphere of Yes-men and all... but we're not a nation of men? (No offsense to the ladies)
Related topic - do you think that BushCo and their corporate cronies lie awake, sweating in bed, worried that someone will screw them over? I'd be looking over my shoulder and guzzling Pepto Bismol 24/7 if I had to work around that crew.
I can't tell a joke to save my soul, bigvic.
I can make 'em up, but I can't tell them.
A first grade teacher in the Midwest is explaining to her class that she is a Republican and how nice it is that a new Republican president has taken office. She asks her students to raise their hands if they, too, are Republicans and support George Bush. Everyone in class raises their hands except one little girl.
"Mary," says the teacher with surprise, "why didn't you raise your hand?"
"Because I'm not a Republican," says Mary.
"Well, what are you then?" asks the teacher.
"I'm a Democrat and proud of it," replies the little girl.
The teacher cannot believe her ears. "My goodness, Mary, why are you a Democrat?" she asks.
"Well, my momma and papa are Democrats, so I'm a Democrat, too."
"Well," says the teacher in an annoyed tone, "that's no reason for you to be a Democrat. You don't always have to be like your parents. What if your momma was a criminal and your papa was a criminal, too, what would you be then?"
Mary smiled, "Then we'd be Republicans."
Hey, Atrios - you out there? Hows the cable situation? Don't you still owe us some felines? I hear the late fees on past due kitty blogs are wicked fierce.
PS - there's a fake e-bay spam letter going around, asking for credit card info.
Pie,
Hello AND Goodbye! Hurry back.
Vicki,
!00% with you on that.
Young couple are killed a few days before their wedding in a terrible car accident. They get to heaven and tell God that they still want to get married. God tells them they must wait one year. A year later they come back and again ask God for a wedding. He makes them wait yet another year. A year later, there they are again, wanting a wedding and God makes them wait yet one more year. Finally, at the end of three years, God allows them to have a wedding and it's glorious with angels playing harps and everything. A few days later, the husband sheepishly approaches God and says that the marriage didn't work out and the couple want a divorce, and they need it right away. God throws up his hands: "It took us three years to find a priest! How long do you think it will take us to find a lawyer?"
Jokes? Where? Maybe under the couch?
President Ventures Out in Snow for Dinner
By SHARON THEIMER, Associated Press Writer
"WASHINGTON - Even the capital's heaviest snow of the season couldn't keep President Bush away when there were jokes to be told.
The president and his wife, Laura, braved snow-covered downtown streets in their motorcade to attend to the Alfalfa Club dinner Saturday, an annual event where Washington political and business leaders gather to give humorous speeches.
(snip)
The event was closed to news media coverage."
wouldn't want the media reporting on the President tellin' them "poor people" jokes.
Hecate,
Now *that's* funny!
Ok, this one has been told before but here goes:
A tourist in Washington DC goes into a Georgetown antique store and finds a really intriguing statue of a rat in bronze. Being quite taken with it, he asks the clerk for the price. "The statue itself is $15," the clerk replies, "but if you want the story behind it too, it's $115."
The tourist finds it a curious response but is only interested in the statue; he pays $15 and leaves with it.
When he's only about half a block from the store, however, he notices that he's being followed by a rat. And by the end of the block, by several rats. And they start coming quicker and quicker, so that after a few more blocks, he's now being followed by thousands of rats, and he's running to stay ahead of them. He keeps running and running until he runs up to the edge of the Potomac. He looks behind him, and sees the thousands and thousands of rats bearing down on him and there's no way to escape. Frantic, not knowing what to do, he throws the statue into the river...and all of the rats jump into the river after it.
After the ordeal, he trudges slowly back through Georgetown, finally arriving at the antique store. The clerk says, "Oh, I see you're back for the story about that statue." "No," the tourist replies, "actually, I was wondering - would you happen to have a brass statue of a Republican?"
George W. Bush was out jogging one morning when he tripped, fell over a bridge railing and landed in the creek below. Before the Secret Service guys could get to him, three kids who were fishing, pulled him out of the water. He was so grateful he offered the kids whatever they wanted.
The first kid said, "I sure would like to go to Disneyland." George said, "No problem. I'll take you there on Air Force One."
The second kid said, "I really need a new pair of Nike Air Jordan's." George said, "I'll get them for you and even have Michael sign them!"
The third kid said, "I want a motorized wheelchair with a built-in TV and stereo headset!!" George Bush is a little perplexed by this and says, "But you don't look like you are injured."
The kid says, "I will be after my dad finds out I saved your sorry ass from drowning!"
'A government of laws, not of men' is a meme that has to be at least two hundred years old. And I'm too tired to explain it right now. But look in any decent Civics book.
President Ventures Out in Snow for Dinner
Couldn't they just send the robosoldier out to shoot something and drag it back to the WH?
Did anyone else have a hard time accepting Alberto Gonzales' statement, "America is a nation of law, not a nation of men"?
Ripley, yes. But everything about his confirmation hearings, OK, entire career bothers me.
An Israeli doctor says "Medicine in my country is so advanced that we can take a kidney out of one man, put it in another, and have him looking for work in six weeks."
A German doctor says "That is nothing, we can take a lung out of one person, put it in another, and have him looking for work in four weeks.
A Russian doctor says "In my country, medicine is so advanced that we can take half a heart out of one person, put it in another, and have them both looking for work in two weeks."
The Texas doctor, not to be outdone, says "You guys are way behind, we recently took a man with no brain out of Texas, put him in the White House for four years, and now half the country is looking for work."
Even the capital's heaviest snow of the season couldn't keep President Bush away when there were jokes to be told.
Three inches, at most four.
What a hero.
And incidentally, the absence of trolls indicates that the sacrifices that were made to the WSJ were worthwhile.
Hecate, Indian history is interesting - at almost any point actually. My favorite bits were when Richard Burton was out and about and discovered that -if only the damned white women hadn't shown up- the economics and politics which led to British domination would have been forever altered. Lots of neat stuff. John Masters is always fun to read too.
Couldn't they just send the robosoldier out to shoot something and drag it back to the WH?
Eli
Heh. A manly man like Shrub don't need no robosoldierized nuttin'. He'd take robot out with his bare hands. Hahahaha.
What the heck is a Civics book? hehehe
a nation ruled by laws, not men, meaning one with principles rather than whims. in other words,
Ok, the robosoldier is reminding me of the "robot insurance" offered by the insurance company on that SNL spoof with Sam Waterson.
"Robots are everywhere", he gravely intones, "and they eat old people's medicine for fuel", while tape of a robot attacking an old man - and eating his medicine - runs.
Sweet Jesus, that's about the level of bullshit discourse where we are right at this moment in this country. If Bush narrated a claim this absurd, a full third of the people would swallow it.
26. Terry McAuliffe
Crimes: Chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Said, "This is the best election night in history" on November 2, 2004, just before 8pm EST. Not only presided over the pathetic Kerry defeat, but held the same position in the 2000 fiasco. A driving force in the Republicanization of Democrats, he personally saw to it that the charismatic Dean campaign was crushed to make way for Kerrybot. Doesn’t understand that winning is not necessarily about copying what winners do, but more often not doing what losers do.
Punishment: Hillary Clinton as a cellmate for life.
Smoking Gun: Said the party will spend "whatever it takes" to study complaints from Ohio voters that included uncounted votes, long lines, shortages of ballots, understaffed polling stations and voting machine errors. Still studying, apparently.
Hilarious. Somebody give this man's job to Howard Dean. Please.
wouldn't want the media reporting on the President tellin' them "poor people" jokes.
watertiger
Projectile vomit alert. I detest that worm.
GWPDA,
Ireland is really where I begin, but once you start looking at the British Empire, you end up in all sorts of peculiar places, intellectually. Barbados, East Africa, India, Ireland... prt of the beauty of it is seeing the similarites and differences in colonial administration, how something which worked like a charm in one local bombed in another, etc.
Damn, I love history. I'm a literature scholar, but for my purposes the distinction is almost meaningless.
Well, of course... that makes perfect sense coming from the current administration.
Bush and Cheney are walking down GWB Memorial Ave when they come upon a dog licking himself.
Bush turns to Cheney and says, "Boy, Dick, I sure wish I could do that."
Cheney turns to Bush and says, "Maybe you should try to pet him first to see if he bites."
Not only did Boxer give Killa Sleazy (Bartcopism) the twat-punching she deserved, she looked just dreamy. And that punked-out hair! Mmmrrrowll!
If Bush narrated a claim this absurd, a full third of the people would swallow it.
Good God, woman! We *must* invade Robotistan right away! Think of the children! And the old people!
I'm supposed to read Rushdie's Satanic Verses for my book group next month. Veeery tough going. I just don't get it. Is there a Cliff's or something?
So three old Jewish ladies are sitting around having lunch in Boca. The topic turns to their respective sons.
"My son," the first says, "loves me so much, he bought me a full-length mink coat."
"Feh," says the second. "My son loves me so much, he bought me a Mercedes."
The third waves her hand dismissively. "I've got you all beat. My son loves me so much that he goes to his therapist twice a week and all he talks about is me!"
I Only Praise Satan.
Satan is way cool
Everybody likes Satan
Everybody wants to hang out with him
Anything he wants to do, he does
He turns water into wine
And if he wants to
He could turn wheat into marijuana
Or sugar into cocaine
Or vitamin pills into amphetamines
And if he wants to
He could turn wheat into marijuana
Or sugar into cocaine
Or vitamin pills into amphetamines
Or low-wattage failed businessmen into two-term preznits...
NYMary - I'm guessing you must be a huge fan of Mario Vargas Llosa. Tell me you've read his hilarious kinky books, In Praise of the Stepmother and The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto. I can just tell that you and Thersites would both enjoy those.
NTodd,
If you were counting on our ignorance of King Missle, woe to you....
Missile. Shit.
"It took us three years to find a priest! How long do you think it will take us to find a lawyer?"
Hecate
Lawyers always have the best lawyer jokes. Good one.
just today I watched the video of GW at the prayer something or other at the inaugeration during the song The Star Spangled Banner. I couldn't believe it. Than man didn't even know where he was or what was going on let alone sing the first verse of a song that nobody gets out of third grade without knowing.
There is some serious impairment here and this is what the repugnicans have given us--first Alzheimers and now---what the hell? Trouble in River City in more ways than one I'd say.
The third waves her hand dismissively. "I've got you all beat. My son loves me so much that he goes to his therapist twice a week and all he talks about is me!"
watertiger | Email | Homepage | 01.22.05 - 9:07 pm | #
Kind of scary though that her son is talking about his therapist with her.
AB, that's a strange book. I still haven't figured out what the big fuss was about, but I'm pretty thick skinned (skulled) so I don't notice points of offense, sometimes.
I notice that the reports of Rumsfeld's cancelling of his visit are being reported by AlJazeera and Deutsche Welle, but still don't seem to have been picked up by the US media. Interesting.
Damn, Eli! You're smokin'!
at the British Empire, you end up in all sorts of peculiar places, intellectually. Barbados, East Africa, India, Ireland... prt of the beauty of it is seeing the similarites and differences in colonial administration, how something which worked like a charm in one local bombed in another, etc.
Yep. That's why I picked it. Anywhere, anytime, just about. I could go from Argentina to Ireland to India to the US to all of Africa and still be well within the discipline. Not to mention the Middle East and then the Far East. All you had to do was concentrate on the fundamentals - the relationship between the metropolitan and the colonial structure and you were tikh hai. 'Course the drawback was that my orals consisted of five subjects and British Empire (white Settlement Colonies and Middle East) which gave me like 15 subjects at the table? Linkages are everything anyway - one way we did it customarily was to trace the military. From around 1870 to 1910, the same guys get sent out, over and over and over.... Same families, same fellows, same places, same reasons. Fun!
When Batteries Finally Run Down...
Did you like the democrats radio address today?
Let BUSDRIVERMIKE be the first to say it.
Richardson/Gregoire 2008!
Scaroow those pansy-assed eastern liberals who couldn't sink that four foot putt called the presidential election.
BTW, NYM, sci-fi geek that I am, I couldn't help thinking of some of A.A. Attanasio's works, like Radix and Wyvern, when you mentioned your focus on personal journeys.
His stuff is pretty hard to describe, but it's seriously intense and out-there. But in both cases, the protagonist builds himself up from nothing into something powerful and mystical.
"Hmm, don't mind if I do!"
watertiger |
Gee whiz, I think Cheney stole my tray! What the hell is he scooping there?
Funny thing, my dad just called from South Texas and told me this joke:
A woman sees a man masturbating on a street corner and immediately calls the police.
"There's a Democrat masturbating in front of my house!", she exclaims.
The operator asks, "How do you know he's a Democrat?"
"Because", the woman explains, "If he he was a Republican he'd be fucking somebody!"
GWPDA,
Ireland and India is my fave connection, though. You can see India watching Ireland in the 20's and 30's, assessing the process of cultural nationalism. And in the Irish press of the 30's and 40's, an overweening concern with Gandhi and how things are going in India. They understood how they were connected, that's for sure.
I swear, I never touch the stuff, Jennifer.
Did any of you hear about this?
On Your Feet
Shorter: VA school district wants to pass code requiring parental permission/notification for kids under 18 to sit down during the Pledge. Ah, Virginia - where freedom reigns like... like a... thing... that's free... and stuff...
Anybody interested in my NFL playoff predictions?
Here's a hint: The liberal media will try to make the team with the black quarterback look good.
kent, nobody's razzing you
figgered that
u got us all into trouble with the Wall Street Journal.
Now thats funny. Sorry watching one of the things i derive pleasure from during the colder dubyafied months.
good defence played by IU
AB,
If you want a thumbnail postcolonialist reading of Satanic Verses from a genuine, PhD-bearing geek, you can have one. But you might not want it...
"And the attendees were empty-headed. One called GWB "hot". Shudder."
How can someone without a chin and empty, bovine eyes be at all attractive?
What were THEY putting up THEIR noses?
I called a disgruntled customer a couple of weeks ago, and was rewarded with this gem:
A mother accidentally walks in on her teenage son masturbating. She's horrified, and tells him that he must save it until he turns 21.
So when the kid turns 21, he has ten jars.
No big surprise about Chimpy not knowing the words to the national anthem. Here's how he recites the pledge:
"I plead alliance,
to the flakes,
of the untitled snakes of a merry cow.
And to the Republicans, for which they scam,
One nacho, underpants, invisible, with licorice and jugs of wine for owls.
Amen."
Ripley,
I saw something about that on tv earlier this week. I'm so sick of the religious and politcal martyr fundies.
So when the kid turns 21, he has ten jars.
Eli | Email | Homepage | 01.22.05 - 9:19 pm | #
Of what?
What were THEY putting up THEIR noses?
I think I saw the answer to that in Star Trek: The Wrath Of Khan. Apparently the ears are just *one* option.
So when the kid turns 21, he has ten jars.
Of what?
Open one and find out.
Heh.
Eli,
Ewwwwwww!!!!!
I'm sorry. I just can't come up with anything for this. His expression is just too fucking stupid.
One called GWB "hot".
I'm George Bush - and I approve that description.
I'm sorry. I just can't come up with anything for this. His expression is just too fucking stupid.
Look at me! I'm suave like James Bond! Or Coolio!
Ah, NYMary, you're so close, so close!
The genesis is in fact in the Senior Dominion, and their measured actions in withdrawing/altering their relations with GB. Their actions, along with those taken by Oz and South Africa formed a pattern of action that was closely followed by the remaining white settlement colonies and by India. But it was the Senior Dominion who bellied up to the bar first for all the reasons you might imagine and a great many you might not.
Always loved the fact that during the Great War the Canadian PM, Borden, distrusting every element of British activity, moved himself as the Canadian government to London, where he stayed, watching like a hawk over every action that affected Canada. And, whilst there, received any number of backchannel co-respondences from Billy Hughes, PM of Oz which all amounted to "Hey! Us too Mate!" Westminster of course. Great fun tho to watch the maturation of a state and its exceedingly delicate machinations.
You'll never polish the silver the same.
Vicki
"Polishing my precious china"
and
"the bullet boys rearanging your facial design"
from E. Costello's 'Hand in Hand'
Speaking of quotes,
"He does not brake for Anomolies"
Bush, ofcourse.
From an article in a post on a blog I can't remember right now.
.
Lmao, Jennifer - that so totally sounds like him
When Batteries Finally Run Down...
watertiger
Hello...is there anybody IN there?
Nod if you can hear me.......
Ooooooh, Cyd Charisse is dancing on TCM!
"Why I oughta...Woo woo woo woo woo!"
(I'm shameless, what can I say?)
Bush Announces Candidacy for Governor of New Texas
White House Tenant Bush, riding high on public approval in the Nov 2 election, has already announced plans to run for Governor of New Texas as soon as his current presidential term ends, barring a Congressional repeal of the 22nd amendment.
"The American people have spoken, and they've said We Want Bush as long as they can have me. I don't intend to disappoint the American people."
When asked if he intended to campaign actively before the 2008 election, Bush replied, "I know a thing or two about campaigning. I've been campaigning in New Texas since March of 2003, you know, putting up fliers, meeting the people, serving some meals on holidays, lending my expertise to some urban rebuilding initiatives. I just want the people of New Texas to know that even though I'm the president of the United States right now, I'm a man of vision. And I'm always thinking about the good people of New Texas and how I can bring my style, my... leadership, my... I think the French call it jenny sea gull, to the state."
Bush has been actively working the fundraising circuit, as well. Republican supporters fortunate enough to get tickets were able to join the White House Tenant at a $6,000 a plate dinner featuring dolphin tartare, darter escargot, and Iranian wheat pasta with a wonderful ragu (constituents unknown). Entertainment was provided by musician John Tesh and comedian Yakov Smirnoff, and the evening's gala was emceed by Dennis Miller, who called Bush, "probably the greatest living man who will ever govern our 51st state".
As to the question of Karl Rove directing the gubernatorial campaign, Bush gave a sly wink and said, "I know a lot of people and Karl Rove is one of them. But if you ask Karl, he'll only tell you that we know each other and that I'm.. if you ask him about knowing me... he'll tell you that of all the people I know... or that he knows, I mean... let me finish.. Karl will tell you that the American people know me... and if I know Karl, that's good enough for the American people."
GWPDA,
Yes. One of the problems with literary scholars is that they're often sloppy about history. I try not to be. But I confess I tend to leave out those nations which had successful plantations and stayed in the Commonwealth. (And, you know, whose lit tends to be less fun...) But something I need to look into, definitely! Thanks!
So watertiger, y'think yer attaturk?
And for the last one:
"Ba'al demands a posterior kiss"
OK
Sara and Ester are out in the garden digging potatoes. Sara sits down and stairs at a large potato in her hands until Ester asks, Whats wrong Sara.
Sara says, oh dis potato just reminds me of my John. My gawd says Ester, is his balls that big! No, says sara. Dheir dat dirty.
intellectual Amish. I thankyou.
"Hahahaha! Look, poor people!!"
If you were counting on our ignorance of King Missle, woe to you....
On the contrary, I was counting on your knowledge of King Missile! If I could've figured it out, I would have worked in a ref to Detachable Penis, too...
I'll never be Attaturk or Holden. I just found this series of photos, and they're fascinatingly bad.
If I could've figured it out, I would have worked in a ref to Detachable Penis, too...
If only the POTUS was detachable...
Nod if you can hear me.......t
Your fingers type but I can't hear what you're saying.....
"which had successful plantations and stayed in the Commonwealth. "
Keep in mind that the Commonwealth doesn't exist until the concept of Dominion does - and that the key time period really and truly is roughly 1910-1938. That Ireland, ancient in days and society is actually quite new within the Dominion as a separate place, whilst India has always and forever been a different place altogether - half colony, half Dominion, half kingdom, half heritor state - "I have Sind" was a pun for both India and France after all.
And who could forget the economic empire for good times? Argentina? Venezuela? My lord, Hong Kong?
Or at the very least, Margaret Atwood, Leslie Nielsen and Raymond Massey.
Bush looks (!) like an idiot, but, take it from me, the missus has had the weekend face lift and skin resurfacing.
Imagine making yourself beautiful for King Tutanmoron!
I just found this series of photos, and they're fascinatingly bad.
Well, as long as we're inflicting fascinatingly awful photos on each other...
Take that!
If only the POTUS was detachable...
I woke up this morning with a bad hangover
And my POTUS was missing again.
This happens all the time.
It's detachable.
This comes in handy a lot of the time.
I can leave it home, when I think it's gonna get me in trouble,
or I can rent it out, when I don't need it.
But now and then I go to a party, get drunk,
and the next morning I can't for the life of me
remember what I did with it.
First I looked around my apartment, and I couldn't find it.
So I called up the place where the party was,
they hadn't seen it either.
I asked them to check the medicine cabinet
'cause for some reason I leave it there sometimes
But not this time.
So I told them if it pops up to let me know.
I called a few people who were at the party,
but they were no help either.
I was starting to get desperate.
I really don't like being without my POTUS for too long.
It makes me feel like less of an American...
While waiting for the presidential press conference to begin, the reporter approached a man standing alone in a corner.
"So," said the journalist, "have you heard the latest joke about that dumbass President Bush?"
The man pinned him with a steely gaze, "Before you tell it, I should inform you that I work for the White House."
"Thanks for the warning," rejoined the reporter. "I'll tell it very slowly and explain it to you afterwards if neccesary."
Okay, last one. I promise.
"I can't even smile competently!"
H20Tiger
Hahaha
That "poor people" one made me spit tea. It is Sooo Jenna.
Well, as long as we're inflicting fascinatingly awful photos on each other...
Take that!
My eyes! My eyes!
NTodd,
Oh for the day when we find GWB for sale on a blanket on St. Mark's Place for 30 bucks. I won't pay even 17.50 fo him, though...
"I can't even smile competently!"
Heh heh heh...
The lady in red totally looks like she's getting felt up, too.
Eli,
THAT was uncalled for.
Which is precisely why I'm forwarding it.
gotDAMN!
And what about Martin Scorsese? He makes the best films !
Eli, that was not fair...
If anyone gets bored here, I have some interesting posts on my Blogwhore
Eli, aaahhhh!...it just keeps coming...!!!
Oh for the day when we find GWB for sale on a blanket on St. Mark's Place for 30 bucks. I won't pay even 17.50 fo him, though...
I'd pay 3,000,000 bucks to the guy to keep my POTUS, or maybe to put it in the toaster...
My eyes! My eyes!
Oops, wrong one. I meant to link *this one*
I wouldn't want you to think I'm some kind of inhuman monster.
"smile competently?"
Is Ridge reaching for the turgid zone? Or just declaring code orange?
Oops, wrong one. I meant to link *this one*
That is soooo hot!
Oops, wrong one. I meant to link *this one*
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*sitting dumbstruck*.......
That is soooo hot!
Hopefully that will be me in 30-40 years.
Oops, wrong one. I meant to link *this one*
I wouldn't want you to think I'm some kind of inhuman monster.
I liked the first one better. At least David H is popular in Germany.
Take that!
Eli
I run screaming from the computer, as if my hair was on fire (as if I had hair) Make it stop! Make it stop!
I liked the first one better. At least David H is popular in Germany.
Hey, give the old guy a chance. He just needs a little more... exposure.
Hopefully that will be me in 30-40 years.
Now that's funny!
Am I the only one whose hot oldster quickly morphed into a Hello-Kitty-wearing, gun-toting kindergartener?
Hey, give the old guy a chance. He just needs a little more... exposure.
Well, his codpiece is better than Bush's...
Eli.
Eeeeuuuuuuccckk.
Ummm... what exactly do you mean by "hot oldster"?
Great fun tho to watch the maturation of a state and its exceedingly delicate machinations.
Well, Ireland wasn't exactly in this category, as was techincally not a colony. But Ireland makes up for it in fun by having kept for-shite archives...
This is Donald Trump, Jr.
NYMary, whacha drinkin? Sounds good!
Anyway, y'all probably need to thank my girlfriend. She was bombarding me with Hasselhoff photos and other weirdness earlier today. There was a good reason for it, I'm sure.
Why is it okay to call someone a liar and wrongheaded, but not okay to say she's a puppet?
Colbert King seems to have fallen for Condoleeza Rice. Either that or he's gone stark blooming bonkers. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp...-
2005Jan21.html
In a column in the Washington Post entitled "Why the Crass Remarks about Rice?", King says that Rice:
"one of the principal architects of the administration's Iraq policy, was clearly vulnerable to charges of helping produce a misguided, if not misleading, rationale for the Iraqi invasion, as well as poor postwar planning". But Senator Barbara Boxer " rather than sticking to Rice's performance as national security adviser and her qualifications to direct U.S. foreign policy, [Boxer] chose instead to gratuitously characterize [Rice] as a Bush loyalist who was blindly parroting pro-Iraqi war lines without regard for whether they were true".
Then King attempts to come to the Secretary-Designate's rescue:
Boxer said to Rice: "I personally believe -- this is my personal view -- that your loyalty to the mission you were given, to sell the war, overwhelmed your respect for the truth." Loyalty to the mission you were given, to sell the war. Ponder the weight of that statement. It comes close, at least in spirit, to the picture of Rice sketched by political cartoonist Pat Oliphant a few weeks ago. In case you missed it, Oliphant drew a big-lipped, bucktooth Rice perched like a parrot on President Bush's arm. Bush was speaking to Rice in baby talk, with Rice replying: "Awwrk!! OK Chief. Anything you say, Chief. You Bet, Chief. You're my HERO, Chief.
The key is the magic words "It comes close at least in spirit..."
In other words, King has a little beef with Boxer but he's really pissed at Oliphant and also some talk-show knucklehead in Wisconsin named "Sly":
"But slurring her as a hollow-headed marionette controlled by Bush? What's that all about? It calls to mind John Sylvester, a white radio talk show host in Madison, Wis., who recently went Boxer and Oliphant one better -- or worse. "Sly," as he calls himself, went on the air and caricatured Rice as a servile black, laboring slavishly for the Bush White House. He called her, of all things, an "Aunt Jemima."
The Boxer-Oliphant-Sylvester take on Condoleeza Rice stands in sharp contrast to the assessment offered by Dorothy Height, chair and president emerita of the National Council of Negro Women, who wrote in a letter to The Post this week: "Despite the challenges she will face, Ms. Rice's appointment is a time for women of color to smile."
Of course, Height's grouping didn't include folks such as the senator, the cartoonist and "Sly."
"It comes close at least in spirit..." and "It calls to mind..." WTF? Somehow Boxer's questioning the Secretary of State Designate on her unbounded loyalty to the President links Boxer with a cartoon portraying Ms. Rice as "big lipped & bucktoothe
"Look what I got on eBay!"
Billy Joel clearly shopping on different internet from mine...
Go freep this poll on CNN international:
Do you believe George W. Bush can achieve his stated goal of trying to expand freedom around the world?
No, I'm not kidding.
Don't tell me that's Billy Joel...Good Lord.
Do you believe George W. Bush can achieve his stated goal of trying to expand freedom around the world?
Shouldn't that be, "Do you believe George W. Bush will even *attempt* to achieve his stated goal of trying to expand freedom around the world?"
Golden State Chiens Bleus: Anybody out there see Feinstein becoming the next Alan Dixon?
Anybody remember what we did to him in Illinois after Clarence Thomas?
2004's Top 10 Hacks During the Election.
http://www.buffalobeast.com/63/
top10hacks.htm
I like the headline over at cnn.com:
• Boston probe woman 'in custody'
watertiger,
Worth noting that Thers considers Billy Joel concrete proof that evil exists in the world...
Found out today that Armadillos in the coastal regions of Texas and Louisianna can and do carry Leprosy.
Only a hop from where were we live. The affected areas are the swampy hard wood forests, we're more in the sandy piney woods.
But I was only a foot or so from one two nights ago.
10 fingers, right?
.
Boston probe woman 'in custody'
Dang. Her custody's gonna be sore for a week.
"Look what I got on eBay!"
If I were her, I'd ask for my money back.
ok. seems like this is sort of a joke thread so here's one. i couldn't think of any about farts. this one is about balls. it will have to do.
a man had been having terrible headaches for years. finally he consulted a specialist who informed him that he had a rare disorder. his testicles were pressing against the base of his spine, causing the headaches. the only treatment: castration.
naturally he did not want the procedure. after a while though, the headaches just got to bad to take any more, and he had it done.
after his recovery from the procedure, he actually felt good for the first time in years, like a whole new man, and decided to celebrate by purchasing some new clothes.
he walks into a haberdasher and an old man is the proprieter. the old man glaces at him and says "46 long, right?"
the man say "wow, you're good. that's exactly my size."
the old man says "well, i've been in this business for 60 years after all. how about a new shirt, too. 16 1/2- 35, right?"
the man says "damn, you really know you're stuff."
the old man says "well, i've been in this business for 60 years, after all. how about a new pair of shoes? size 12."
the man buys all this stuff and finally the old man says "how about some new underwear too? size 36."
the man says "ha! missed that one. i wear a 34. same size since i was in school."
the old man says "that's impossible. i've been in this business for 60 years. if you tried to wear a 34 your testicles would press up against the base of your spine and give you a terrible headache."
NYMary,
I knew Thers was wise.
And all I want to know is, how does Trump get his hair to do this?
Watertiger, Eli,
Hahahahaha. Dang, don't you folks know how expensive adult diapers are? Eli, I posted on the site where the man was wearing green rubber. "Is this the LGF Homepage?"
watertiger,
Worth noting that Thers considers Billy Joel concrete proof that evil exists in the world...
NYMary
I'm not a Billy Joel fan, but I am curious about his link to evil.
His attempt at punk rock was lame, to be sure...but what else did I miss about him in pop culture?
Shellack.
evil is an awfully strong word for someone as bland as billy joel.
Olaf, Olaf, Olaf. I bow.
Vicki,
oh, just about everything Mr. Joel does can be considered "evil."
Man, whole lotta probin' going on:
Paris Hilton Said Probed in Petty Theft
We'll see if she captures it on video and sells it.
Guy walks into the doctor's office, and in this unbelievably deep voice, says, Doctor, you've got to help me. This super-deep voice of mine scares women off, and I can't get a date. The sexual frustration is just driving me crazy.
So the doctor examines him, and finally says, "A-ha! I see the problem! You have an abnormally large penis, and it's so heavy that its weight is pulling on your vocal cords, and elongating them unnaturally. All I have to do is remove the excess penis, and your voice will be perfectly normal!"
"Well, okay, Doc, whatever you say. I'm desperate."
So the doctor performs the procedure, and a month later the guy comes back and says, "Doc, I've made a terrible mistake! I can talk to women now without them running away, but whenever I've managed to get them to bed, they just laugh at what's left of my penis! I want to go back to the way I was before - please, just sew the rest of my penis back on!"
Doctor shakes his head sadly and says, I threw it away.
watertiger, that isn't hair. it's some sort of polymer.
Olaf, that's hilarious.
Bush is having his ass handed to him in the CNN poll.
Why can't they ALL vote by mail.
a "going postal" punchline is not appropraite here...but it would happen.
Olaf,
Mediocrity is a form of evil.
Ya'll know Trumpy's new wife is counting the days till she can leave with a huge chunk of his cash.
Nobody could stay married to hair like that.
Billy Joel was good enough for Christie Brinkley. Then he wasn't. Then the next guy wasn't, either. Then... hmmm
Good one, Olaf.
I'd contribute, if I only could. But no one here would want that, really.
Vicki,
Thers is from Queens, went to high school at Stonybrook. He has been to far too many parties where drunk people staggered around slurring "Piano Man" as if it were philosophy. I think it's a saturation/familiarity thing. I don't have his recoil, myself.
Read a two part joke, can't remember the first part.
The second goes:
A buddist monk goes up to a hot dog vender and asks for a hot dog. The vendor asks what he wants on it and the monk replies, "Make me one with everything"
The first had a pastor in it, but for the life of me, I can't remember it.
Any help?
.
The NYT is giving valuable op-ed space to Charles Murray??
Founding Fathers Treaty Explicitly States United States is NOT a Christian Nation
Unlike governments of the past, the American Fathers set up a government divorced from religion. The establishment of a secular government did not require a reflection to themselves about its origin; they knew this as an unspoken given. However, as the U.S. delved into international affairs, few foreign nations knew about the intentions of America. For this reason, an insight from at a little known but legal document written in the late 1700s explicitly reveals the secular nature of the United States to a foreign nation. Officially called the "Treaty of peace and friendship between the United States of America and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli, of Barbary," most refer to it as simply the Treaty of Tripoli. In Article 11, it states:
Joel Barlow
U.S. Consul General of Algiers
Copyright National Portait Gallery Smithsonian Institution/Art Resource NY
"As the Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Musselmen; and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries."
The preliminary treaty began with a signing on 4 November, 1796 (the end of George Washington's last term as president). Joel Barlow, the American diplomat served as counsel to Algiers and held responsibility for the treaty negotiations. Barlow had once served under Washington as a chaplain in the revolutionary army. He became good friends with Paine, Jefferson, and read Enlightenment literature. Later he abandoned Christian orthodoxy for rationalism and became an advocate of secular government. Barlow, along with his associate, Captain Richard O'Brien, et al, translated and modified the Arabic version of the treaty into English. From this came the added Amendment 11. Barlow forwarded the treaty to U.S. legislators for approval in 1797. Timothy Pickering, the secretary of state, endorsed it and John Adams concurred (now during his presidency), sending the document on to the Senate. The Senate approved the treaty on June 7, 1797, and officially ratified by the Senate with John Adams signature on 10 June, 1797. All during this multi-review process, the wording of Article 11 never raised the slightest concern. The treaty even became public through its publication in The Philadelphia Gazette on 17 June 1797.
So here we have a clear admission by the United States that our government did not found itself upon Christianity. Unlike the Declaration of Independence, this treaty represented U.S. law as all treaties do according to the Constitution (see Article VI, Sect. 2).
Although the Christian exclusionary wording
Thersites is trashing Billy Joel, and I missed it?
That'll teach me to go birdwatching.
NYMary, for me, the weat coast equiv. is Steve Miller. I break out in hives.
justfred, soapbox or not, I agree with you completely.
Olaf,
Didn't you ever see that MST routine?
"Evil is much more dangerous when it works through mediocrity. For example, what do you think of Hitler?"
"I hate him, obviously."
"Okay. What do you think of Journey?"
"Well they had a couple of good songs and... oh god, you're right!"
When I used to sing, make a spectacle of myself in public with a pianist or guitar player and all of that, one of the most requested songs was "Piano Man."
sigh.
And you know, it is "ten" o'clock on a Saturday.
The NYT is giving valuable op-ed space to Charles Murray??
Valuable? I use mine to wrap used cat litter.
Ya'll know Trumpy's new wife is counting the days till she can leave with a huge chunk of his cash.
Something tells me you're right.
I hated Journey.
Not much of a Miller fan, either. Although my ex-husband used to play them on occasional rotation.
Wee Neil Schon!!!
I'm loving your photos, watertiger.
Anyone else notice how not Jenna doesn't look like a Bush? Could Laura have done the milk man and GW within the same 24 hours?
The regular crowd shuffles in-to Eschaton of course 
/smacks self in head for keeping the Billy Joel joke going
mena,
I once woke up to Steve Miller every day for a solid year. I shared a bedoom with my older sister, and "Jet Airliner" was the first thing she put on every morning. Bad, but not as bad as the year I woke up to Styx's The Grand Illusion. Bleah!
Eli,
I'd stick to posting pics.(smiley face)
.
watertiger,
Ha!
It just occured to me that Trump's hairstyle would best be described as a "comb around."
this guy staggers drunk out of a bar one night and immediately this mormon begins to witness to him, telling him how he shouldn't drink and should come to mormon services instead. they argue for a while and finally the drunk agrees to go to a mormon service if the mormon will have a drink with him. the guy heads back into the bar and the mormon says. "i'll have the drink, but i refuse to go into that den of sin. you'll have to bring it out to me."
the drunk says "oh, alright." and goes to the bar and orders two double bourbons. and he asks the bartender to please put them in paper cups instead of glasses.
the bartender looks at him suspiciously and says
"is that mormon out there AGAIN?"
I hated Journey.
Not much of a Miller fan, either. Although my ex-husband used to play them on occasional rotation.
Journey was lame & overrated, although their air-instrument video for Separate Ways is hilariously lame. I do have a soft spot for Foreigner, especially Jukebox Hero.
The Joker is one of my least favorite songs, although I think there are some Steve Millers I like.
The one I'm truly allergic to is Frampton. The talking wah-wah guitar - ick.
I hated Journey.
Don’t stop believin’
Hold on to the feelin’
Olaf, you're on fire.
Anyone else notice how not Jenna doesn't look like a Bush?
Are you *kidding*???? Her alarmingly uncanny resemblance to Dubya is precisely what makes her so incredibly unattractive.
Oops. "Not Jenna." Yes, quite so. She's actually sort of cute, although I think I've seen a resemblance on occasion.
I do have a soft spot for Foreigner, especially Jukebox Hero.
Damn, I miss junior high. Oh wait, no I don't...
BTW Eli,
Anonymous confirmation of NotJenna's NotStraight-ness on my blog.
Good Quick Time video from the protests
Here
mena,
Steve, The Pompatus of Love, Miller?
He's one of those one good albumn dudes
.
but not as bad as the year I woke up to Styx's The Grand Illusion. Bleah!
(in Cartman voice) "Come sail away, come sail away..."
This is probably old news, but for any democrats living in Maine, please visit Sam Spencer’s website, and his blog. He is taking advice via email and his blog on whom to vote for in the DNC chair race. Read this Tapped post providing a bit more of a bio on Mr. Spencer.
I hope this starts a trend whereby more and more DNC balloters contact their constituents using the internet. On top of the obvious benefits of including the democratic voting public in the DNC decision-making process, it will further legitimize netroots tactics, which are still gleefully mocked and ridiculed in DLC circles.
Envision a political landscape where U.S. senators and representatives used these same methods to gauge their constituents on specific legislative issues. Applying this netroots paradigm to the current social security debate, it would be interesting to see if it would make it harder for representatives in heavy retiree districts to vote for Bush’s privatization scheme. Josh Marshall has already done the yeoman work in identifying such politicians in this “Faint Hearted Faction/Conscience Caucus” blog campaign. Instead of having Josh Marshall turn up the heat these politicians, image if the constituents themselves could quickly apply pressure via existing blog/email outlets. I think Sam’s current efforts are a step in the direction of a legitimized netroots infrastructure accepted by all factions of the DNC.
i like "the joker". mainly because it's stupid though.
NYMary ~
Aaaawwwwhhhh....
Being your age and having to wake up to that shit is pure horror.
If you had been my younger sister, you would have heard Elvis Costello or the Talking Heads every morning.
I shared a room with three of my four sisters...the youngest one had her own room.
It's the Joker. It puts me right back in high school, listening to the mexican girls in the bathroom shrieking and popping their gum when he starts singing about peaches. Gah!
Central S - thedonald looks to be working on a hair turban.
Is it too late to uncork a cornball joke?
*appropriate* late editing
What great jokes. I wish there was someone I could share them with in this horrible red state. I'll save them just in case.
uncork please, bgk
Vicki,
My sis would have been 46 now. She passed away in 1997. The Styx thing got to be a joke eventually. (Luckily!)
BGK,
fire away. we're a liberal group, remember? we let everyone have a say.
Wee Neil Schon!!!
watertiger
Damn it, was gonna say something like that, remnants of Santana, or something.
.
thedonald looks to be working on a hair turban.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking when "comb around" popped into my head.
I'd hate to be remembered for having really awful hair.
I wonder if he realizes that's his fate?
How odd! Journey just got awarded stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame yesterday.
lthough I think there are some Steve Millers I like.
Early Miller had some good moments such as "Going to the Country" and " Your Saving Grace" which had a bit of a Traffic flavor to it.
OK, well, since mediocrity was being savages a few minutes back, this one may just earn me the lasting emnity, or at least the label of "complete lamer," from there regulars herein.
I never fail to find this one screamingly funny, but everyone else to whom I've told it, to a number, finds it unbelieveably bad. Here goes:
I took a vacation to China, and while I was there, I took a cruise down the Yangtze River. Rounding one of the river bends, I saw an enormous building right at the river's edge. As we drew near, I saw it was festooned with a great many slogans and signs. Not being able to read Chinese characters, I was no nearer to figuring out what this impressive structure was. I sought out one of the guides on the boat and asked him what this amazing structure might be. He replied, "it's Yangtze Stadium."
Vicki, I wish you'd been my big sister and saved me from myself. I was young enough to think Styx and Journey were good, until I grew up and learned what real music was.
It's not my fault though. My parents only listened to Lawrence Welk and Liberace, so I had a LOT of learning to do!
This one is just plain damned funny...
This is probably old news, but for any democrats living in Maine, please visit Sam Spencer’s website, and his blog. He is taking advice via email and his blog on whom to vote for in the DNC chair race. Read this Tapped post providing a bit more of a bio on Mr. Spencer.
I hope this starts a trend whereby more and more DNC balloters contact their constituents using the internet. On top of the obvious benefits of including the democratic voting public in the DNC decision-making process, it will further legitimize netroots tactics, which are still gleefully mocked and ridiculed in DLC circles.
Envision a political landscape where U.S. senators and representatives used these same methods to gauge their constituents on specific legislative issues. Applying this netroots paradigm to the current social security debate, it would be interesting to see if it would make it harder for representatives in heavy retiree districts to vote for Bush’s privatization scheme. Josh Marshall has already done the yeoman work in identifying such politicians in this “Faint Hearted Faction/Conscience Caucus” blog campaign. Instead of having Josh Marshall turn up the heat these politicians, image if the constituents themselves could quickly apply pressure via existing blog/email outlets. I think Sam’s current efforts are a step in the direction of a legitimized netroots infrastructure accepted by all factions of the DNC.
Anonymous confirmation of NotJenna's NotStraight-ness on my blog.
Well, I guess that clinches it, right? I just hope she gets outed in a way that causes maximum embarrassment for daddy.
NYMary,
I'm sorry to hear you lost your sister. May you find peace and comfort in your memories of her.
"Lawrence Welk and Liberace"
The horror of it all. I had to sit through Mitch Miller as well.
ok. one more. i think i posted this one here before, but i like it.
this guy is taking care of his young daughter one saturday morning. she is five years old. he has several errands to run and he takes her along. first thing he wants to do is get a haircut. on the way to the barber shop he stops at a bakery and buys his daughter a cupcake.
at the barber shop the little girl gets bored and goes over to the barber chair and watches the barber cut her dad's hair.
it's ok for a while but then she starts getting in the barber's way. he doesn't want to be mean to her and tell her to get the hell out of his damn way. so he just says "you know, you're gonna get hair all over your cupcake."
she says "yeah, i know. and i'm gonna get boobs too."
In case you didn't click or read
from the beast
7. Donald Trump
Crimes: Hopelessly addicted to narcissism. Shares Saddam Hussein’s compulsion to have gaudy structures named after himself. Is to dignified wealth what Michael Jackson is to competent childcare.
Smoking Gun: The hair alone justifies violence.
Punishment: Forced to expose his tiny penis before crowds of laughing celebrities on “Who Wants to See Donald Trump’s Penis?”
50. Ann Coulter
Crimes: Coulter plummets down the list as she slips into irrelevance. As her columns degenerate further into absurd, incoherent attacks against her own personal paranoid fantasy of fanged, drooling, Saddam-loving liberals who hate America and childish France-bashing, we find our outrage slowly giving way to a baffled “I can’t believe I used to go out with you” feeling. Her arguments are ridiculous, her vitriol forced, her hatchet face even harder to look at. Still, she insulted a one-armed war veteran, called reports of the hundreds of tons of missing munitions in Iraq false, claimed Wesley Clark was pro-infanticide, and blamed Abu Ghraib on the presence of women in the armed forces—they’re not all like you, Ann—and on and on. It’s just not worth debunking someone who has no credibility in the first place.
Smoking Gun: Has credibility in the minds of more people than we can stomach acknowledging.
Punishment: Skull crushed with rock.
Ah. Wee Neil Schon.
Q. What's brown and sticky?
A. A stick
BGK,
Any laugh is a good laugh. I owe you an email.
Journey just got awarded stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame yesterday.
Shit, they'll give those to anyone now, right?
When do I get mine?
Shit, they'll give those to anyone now, right?
When do I get mine?
I think you have to reach a certain age, then it's automatic. The bad news is, yours'll be next to Carrot Top's.
Sorry about that... here it is
QuickTime movie
(more like Walk Of Lame, really...)
Lawrence Welk...ahh yes. Every Saturday night.
Same with Rem Walt. He was a country performer from Michigan, and my parents never failed to watch his show.
"Have fun."
Ok;
VOTE FRAUD (and MURDER) by dems.
http://www.stltoday.com/
stltoday...om+voting+probe
Morons.
I think you have to reach a certain age, then it's automatic. The bad news is, yours'll be next to Carrot Top's.
Eli, I think Reigis (sp?) got one too. Give it UP.
I was young enough to think Styx and Journey were good, until I grew up and learned what real music was.
Hey, I wasn't into Journey but I loved Styx and still enjoy the old tunes (even Mr Roboto--what a gas!). As Duke said, if it sounds good, it is good.
"john f. kerry" still thinks he can break haloscan that way.
moron.
Journey was lame & overrated, although their air-instrument video for Separate Ways is hilariously lame.
That video's hysterical. Although I sure didn't see the humor in them at the time. I had a handmade poster in my room that said "Journey sucks." I also had a Styx LP I'd melted with a blowtorch.
It's kind of funny, given the ghastly stuff that was going on in my life back then, that I bothered to take the time. But that's being a teenager for ya...
"Lawrence Welk and Liberace"
The horror of it all.
EkCenTriK - I fondly remember a night (long ago) when my father dragged me out of my room to listen to some "good music" (Lawrence Welk) on TV. As I entered the room, Welk introduced a tribute to a current TV opener and proceeded to play their version of the theme from "Batman" complete with "Zonk" and "Biff" graphics on the screen.
He never made me watch it again.
.
"john f. kerry" still thinks he can break haloscan that way.
moron.
Olaf glad and big
I don't give a fuck about how shitty haloscan is. Read the fucking article, moron.
"john f. kerry" still thinks he can break haloscan that way.
moron.
Olaf glad and big
I don't give a fuck about how shitty haloscan is. Read the fucking article, moron.
NYMary, for me, the weat coast equiv. is Steve Miller. I break out in hives.
mena
So did Miles Davis, who used to open for Miller at the Fillmore on occasion (I'm surprised I could type that without hurling).
Miles refers to Miller, in his autobiography, as "that non-playin' mothafucka."
That said, I rather liked "Brave New World," when it came out. I was sixteen, so cut me some slack.
One of my best friends, Matt, who plays several instruments (he hangs with my hippie group of musicians) LOVES Styx. I've known Matt for close to 30 years, and he has ALWAYS loved Styx. First song he could play on his guitar was "Come Sail Away."
Me, not so much. But still, like NTodd, if it sounds good, it is good.
Read the fucking article, moron.
I read it. Your fucking point, moron?
Uh, guys - we'd better do what she says and read that article before someone gets hurt....
NYMary,
I'm sorry to know My sis would have been 46 now. She passed away in 1997.
Peace.
Please ignore the troll.
It's been such a nice day up to this point.
I should come clean: I also love Queen. And Prince. And Asia. And Yes. And Barenaked Ladies (the band, not the...oh wait...).
Kelvin Ellis, a top administrator at East St. Louis City Hall, plotted to kill a witness in a federal vote fraud investigation, according to indictments opened Friday, which also accuse Police Chief Ron Matthews of apparently unrelated crimes.
..........
Ellis, 55, who once served a prison term after abusing a city post, is now the director of regulatory affairs, which puts him in charge of housing inspections. He also is a precinct committeeman with close ties to the community's Democratic Party leaders.
........
As the weeks passed, the conversations turned more sinister, with Ellis saying on Nov. 19, "I want her ... taken out, however we have to do it."
That was one day after Ellis had been called before the grand jury.
OUCH! Who is in charge of vote fraud?
The dems. And murder too now.
As I entered the room, Welk introduced a tribute to a current TV opener and proceeded to play their version of the theme from "Batman" complete with "Zonk" and "Biff" graphics on the screen.
I remember that!!!!! Oh my God, that is so funny!
And now for some bubbles...
FeralLiberal
I never got that lucky. My dad went through the Ferrante and Teischer (sp?) phase as well. Not sure if it was them, but same effect. Thing that scares me is now at this age, some of the F and T stuff sounds ... soothing. I am scared, very very scared.
Please ignore the troll.
It's been such a nice day up to this point.
Central Scrutinizer
It's nice to ignore reality, until it slaps you in the face (again).
Ana one, ana two, ana...
I also enjoy Marilyn Manson, Metallica, and the Moody Blues. And Mozart. But my main man is Beethoven, 'specially the 9th, 'specially von Karajan's version (I have his complete cycle).
I should come clean: I also love Queen. And Prince. And Asia. And Yes. And Barenaked Ladies (the band, not the...oh wait...).
NTodd
Me too, especially Queen and BNL.
Asia ~ one album. Prince, not so much. He lost me when he turned into a symbol.
Guy and Ralna....
OUCH! Who is in charge of vote fraud?
The dems. And murder too now.
I'm sorry, but the topic was fart jokes and bad 80s bands that we are ashamed to admit we love. But thanks for playing.
I have a blog to tell everyone who I love. How deeply shallow is that? (And I fixed the Shoes link, Eli.)
Ana one, ana two, ana...
Central Scrutinizer
A.K.A.; Plugging your ears and saying, "LA_LA_LA_LA...."
No comment on a dem in a vote fraud and murder scandal, Duncan?
Queen was one of my favorite bands when I was a youngster.
I still love "Sheer Heart Attack."
"Killer Queen" rulz.
But my main man is Beethoven, 'specially the 9th, 'specially von Karajan's version (I have his complete cycle).
Huh.
(What a DORK! God, nobody sit next to NTodd in the Eschaon lunchroom, OK?
God, these cheerleader outfits seem to really run up in the crotch. Not in an unpleasant way, mind.)
I'm sorry, but the topic was fart jokes and bad 80s bands that we are ashamed to admit we love. But thanks for playing.
NTodd
I'm sorry you had to take your head out of your ass to reply to me.
NYMary,
I echo Vicki and Bicvic's sentiments.
No comment on a dem in a vote fraud and murder scandal, Duncan?
John F. Kerry
Still angry that your "drilling" problems made your wife run off with a liberal, huh?
I should come clean: I also love Queen. And Prince. And Asia. And Yes. And Barenaked Ladies (the band, not the...oh wait...).
So has this become a "Guilty Pleasures" thread?
(Not than any of the above mentioned haven't had their moments)
He lost me when he turned into a symbol.
The overly pretentious and self-aware "rock critics" in my alma mater's campus newspaper had one very witty tick, in that they always referred to Prince during his symbol period as, "Thingy!!!"
It's nice to ignore reality, until it slaps you in the face (again).
Reminds me of one of the best scenes in Platoon:
Ya smoke this shit so to escape from reality? Me, I don't need this shit. I am reality.
So, JFK, I'm still struggling to figure out your point. Oh, nevermind...Hotline is on Cinemax...
Ripley,
This is embarrassing, but when I was in my teens, and working in a department store selling lingerie, old ladies would come up to me on a regular basis, grab my hand, and tell me I looked just like Ralna.
Seriously.
Read the fucking article, moron.
===========
Eat your fucking cornflakes!
Asia's keyboardist was from the Buggles. The vocalist was from another obscure band, too - and Steve Howe, of course, but I forget where the drummer came from.
As usual, those who are hard-core dems have no comment, on their own up on charges of vote fraud (and murder).
What a fucking crowd you have, Duncan.
Good night, fuckwits.
Vicki,
We used to crack our kids up by playing "Bohemian Rhapsody". What a hoot.
Thanks, guys. My sis died because we hate poor people in this country, and because we ritually degrade women. Her tale is long and sad, but I won't share it here lest real human sadness get troll spooge on it.
Eat your fucking cornflakes!
mena
I brought fact, you people have nothing but personal attacks.
Nice, Duncan.
You trained your debate team well. ;o)
Fuckits, good night.
Ripley,
Wasn't Asia's drummer Carl Palmer? Of Emerson, Lake, & Palmer? Think so
boy the Senator is bitter about the election, isn't he?
This one is just plain damned funny...
Ripley
Will someone give Ripley CPR?
Or splash some ice cold vodka in his face.
Drunk walks into a bar, and yells, "Give me a beer!" The bartender says "Sorry you seem to be inebriated, I can't serve you".
The drunk stagers outta the bar, only to return 5 mins later thru the side door, and sits down, and yells, "Give me a beer!".
The bartender says, "Look, I can't serve you, please leave!"
The drunk stagers outta the bar, only to return 5 mins later thru the backdoor, and yells, "Give me a beer!".
Now the bartender is pissed and tells him to leave or he's calling the cops.
The drunk scwints thru one eye and says "What the hell, you work in every bar in town?"
.
Prince, not so much. He lost me when he turned into a symbol.
Check him out after emancipation.
"Killer Queen" rulz.
Recommended at the price
Insatiable an appetite
Wanna try?
I was so sad when Freddie died in '91.
God, nobody sit next to NTodd in the Eschaon lunchroom, OK?
No worries. I'm used to being a pariah.
I'm sorry you had to take your head out of your ass to reply to me.
Yeah, me too. It was so warm and cozy in there.
So has this become a "Guilty Pleasures" thread?
Oh, then I might as well admit that I like whipped cream. Lots of it.
Was it him? I suppose I could go look this up, eh? Lol Cozy Powell from Rainbow fame joined ELP several years ago - the name was just a coincidence, they said.
The funny thing about this "Dem vote fraud and murder" thing is, I think we all agree that if the guy's guilty, he ought to be locked up. Killing one person's not as bad as killing tens of thousands, but it still deserves punishment.
That's the difference between us and the GOP...we can actually conceive of Democrats being corrupt, and needing punishment. (Particularly those of us who aren't even Democrats.)
But Republicans, of course, are innocent even after being found guilty. Fucking little kids? No problem. Dead intern in your office? Could happen to anyone? Caught lying on a daily basis? "Don't question my integrity!"
I'm sorry, Mary. Sounds like a lot of pain there. Too young.
Did anyone have a brother like I did that played any Kate Smith record over and over and when he diversified he bought the record with the Legend of the Green Berets" and began playing that over and over again.
ntodd, Ludwig's 7th. It's this far away from being blue.
Good night, fuckwits.
Fuckits, good night.
Here's your hat, was lovely having you, sure you won't stay, good, uh, bye.
The overly pretentious and self-aware "rock critics" in my alma mater's campus newspaper had one very witty tick, in that they always referred to Prince during his symbol period as, "Thingy!!!"
I never take the word of "rock critics." They are more pleased by their voices/typing than the music they review. Ask your best friends what they are listening to if you want a good critic, I always say.
Asia's keyboardist was from the Buggles. The vocalist was from another obscure band, too - and Steve Howe, of course, but I forget where the drummer came from.
The incest among Yes, King Crimson, Asia, GTR, and Moody Blues, et al, has always fascinated me.
NYMary,
Say no more. Just know that my compassion is with you, and in regard to the comments you've made.
Here's your hat, was lovely having you, sure you won't stay, good, uh, bye.
Thersites
He's going so soon? I want to ask him his opinion of the rat-trap pedal.
I think it's a power for the hills.
I was so sad when Freddie died in '91.
Man, I remember the local radio station's "tribute." I think it was, like three Queen songs in a row, and two of them were those two songs that always get played back to back - "We Are The Champions" and something else (brain not working well today). I was pretty fucking pissed off. Wankers.
One guilty pleasure among many: "Freezeframe."
Ek,
No, but my bro collected 45's, had a few thousand. And we'd get a whole day of the 1910 Fruitgum Company, for example, or "Hot Child in the City." Comparable, anyway.
Thanks, guys. My sis died because we hate poor people in this country, and because we ritually degrade women.
My condolences, also. There are some similar-sounding stories among my family and friends. I shudder to think...
Here's your hat, was lovely having you, sure you won't stay, good, uh, bye.
It's beautiful when sort-of-ignore-the-troll works.
He's going so soon? I want to ask him his opinion of the rat-trap pedal.
I think it's a power for the hills.
The rat trap pedal is a chancy conundrum, a certain killer, an inexorable pancake.
EK,
You cannot be serious. Can you? Hahaha. OMG.
We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions, Eli.
ntodd, Ludwig's 7th. It's this far away from being blue.
The 2nd and 7th are tied for 3rd on my list, behind the 6th and 9th. That's not to say they aren't wonderful, 'specially the glorious 7th. But how can you go wrong with an ode to freude/freiheit?
The rat trap pedal is a chancy conundrum, a certain killer, an inexorable pancake.
Thersites
All of that is lies.
Guilty Pleasure:
Nazareth's "Love Hurts."
Yikes.
The guy always sang like he was having nails driven through his fingertips.
We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions, Eli.
That was it! Thanks!
I really, really like "Crazy Little Thing Called Love." And "Who Wants To Live Forever" is just haunting, because you know he was dying when he sang it.
Wasn't Asia's drummer Carl Palmer? Of Emerson, Lake, & Palmer? Think so
Yes he was, and the vocalist was John Wetton who had done time with King Crimson and Uriah Heep.
With Howe and Palmer on board I wondered why Asia was so relatively mainstream, but of course you have to make a living...
The guy always sang like he was having nails driven through his fingertips.
Or wrists...
I always like Fat Bottomed Girls.
LOL!!!!
NYMary
Well, I was too young to analyze it, but when I think about it now, my brother must have been very conflicted. He did play guitar and had a traditional 60's rock 'n roll band off and on. But I never did hear much of that music on his turntable. Only heard it when he practiced, and other things when his guitar would short out.
Man, I remember the local radio station's "tribute."
Remember when Wayne's World came out and all of a sudden "Bohemian Rhapsody" shot to the top of the charts? I lost it when I heard a caller request "that new song by Queen" on the radio--stopped listening to the radio about that time, in fact.
Nazareth's "Love Hurts."
Ahhhhh... "Hair of the Dog."
I burned through a lot of brain cells while listening to that.
OK, I admit it.
"Come On, Eileen."
Happy now? Happy?
I always like Fat Bottomed Girls.
LOL!!!!
Vicki
I dislike the song, but I share the sentiment.
The rat trap pedal is a chancy conundrum, a certain killer, an inexorable pancake.
Thersites
All of that is lies.
(Winking broadly) If that is then true and a soluble collacation than I suppose it would be no puzzler nor snorter nor a wonder to tell of to the old folks at home that it is your discernible handlebars visible in that bush yonder, and not any sort of (HA!) an American gold watch?
whooo! Parrrrr-TAY!
PRAGUE (Reuters) - A Czech man is being taken to court after he hid in a restaurant washroom until the employees had left and then hooked up beer kegs directly to his mouth.
Cleaning staff found him drunk and lying on the floor of the bar at the restaurant in the city of Brno, about 200km (120 miles) east of Prague, the CTK news agency reported on Thursday.
"He had broken the door of the cooling mechanism ... and detached the hoses leading from the keg, squashed them in his mouth and literally filled himself up with beer," CTK quoted a police official as saying.
The man will be charged with damaging property because he caused 8,000 crown ($340) damage to the beer cooling box.
" but I forget where the drummer came from."
I think it was Carl Palmer of ELP, while the UK drummer was Bill bruford of Yes, Kinf Crimson, etc.
Brian May is a fantastic guitarist
I always like Fat Bottomed Girls.
Hell, I still do!
bigvic
Seriously. "Put silverwings on...."
Fortunately, time has removed most of the words from my head. Damn, no it hasn't.
NYMary,
What's Thersites drinking?
Queen got very little airplay in the the US except for "We will rock you" and "Bohemian Rhapsody", and maybe "Crazy little thing called love" but there were many other songs you had to buy the albums to hear. There are very few Queen songs I don't like. But what can I say? I'm a sucker for big obnoxious guitars.
(I heart Brian May)
One guilty pleasure among many: "Freezeframe."
Fun tune, but early J Geils totally Rocked.
.
Christopher Hitchens doing stand-up on CSPAN-1 now. PST
I always like Fat Bottomed Girls.
LOL!!!!
Vicki
I dislike the song, but I share the sentiment.
Good song, but I prefer Sir Mix-A-Lot's take on the subject.
My favorite song of the early 70s was Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On."
No wonder the 70s was pinnacle of the sexual revolution.
But before that, my favorite song was "I Think I Love You."
And now, my favorite retro song is Dylan's "And The Times They Are A Changing."
But my tune changes every week...
freaking typos...sheesh...
And "Who Wants To Live Forever" is just haunting, because you know he was dying when he sang it.
Well, I find WWTLF haunting because of the Highlander movie (another guilty pleasure). But was Freddie really dying in '86? He certainly was while recording Innuendo--IIRC, he recorded one of the videos (The Show Must Go On?) just before he died.
Ah, "Bohemian Rhapsody." I remember when that tune first aired; I was 13 and we were singing it on a field trip to Sandy Hook, NJ.
I think I was stoned at the time. I spent a *lot* of time staring at a starfish.
What's Thersites drinking?
(Sulking) Phila started it!
And this ntime I got to play Pluck, too. Hmmph.
watertiger,
red,red wine. (one red would do, but we're doing the 80's, soooo....)
Christopher Hitchens doing stand-up on CSPAN-1 now. PST
Oh bullshit.
Hitchens can't stand up.
Preposterous!
NYMary!
I LOVED Come on Eileen!
Color me easily amused...
But before that, my favorite song was "I Think I Love You."
Heartbeat, it's a love beat...
I know it's the DeFranco Family, but same era.
Guilty pleasures? Hmmm.
'Love, Love, Love' by Paula Cole.
(Winking broadly) If that is then true and a soluble collacation than I suppose it would be no puzzler nor snorter nor a wonder to tell of to the old folks at home that it is your discernible handlebars visible in that bush yonder, and not any sort of (HA!) an American gold watch?
Thersites
My watch had no handlebars, nor did it have a high seat or timber rims or a bell for ringing at negroes and strangers in the path. It had neither tyres nor tubes nor wheels and would not carry your own weight let alone the groceries or a load of peat.
"red,red wine."
Whose version?
I always like Fat Bottomed Girls.
Dreamer's Ball is my fave from the album, and Bicycle Race is a close second (despite, or perhaps because of, the line "Jaws was never my scene and I don't like Star Wars").
I saw UB40 open for the Police and really don't remember much about them. Police were good - amazing bunch of musicians. I heard that Copeland has profanity written on all his drum heads
IIRC, he recorded one of the videos (The Show Must Go On?) just before he died.
Hmm. It's possible *that* might be what I was thinking of. I remember seeing one or two videos where he looked near death, and I was sure Who Wants To Live Forever was one of them, or at least contemporaneous. Dang.
How about Fat Boy Slim's
Joker?
Sorry in advance if anyone else already posted this... saw it yesterday here.
I do believe that Barbara Boxer's daughter is married to Hillary's brother.
Really guilty confession:
I still love Bohemian Rhapsody. Audrey and I sing it all the time.
I loved Freddie.
I remember what I was doing when I first heard that he had died...
it was in the early morning and it was with another person.
No details. Ended the mood, though.
And now, my favorite retro song is Dylan's "And The Times They Are A Changing."
Vicki, always loved that song, I only wish I could believe that it was true.
I think Bohemian Rhapsody was the first record I ever owned.
The guitar that Brian May used on all of Queen's albums, "Red Special", was built by Brian and his father when he was a boy.
I've always thought that was too cool.
Good song, but I prefer Sir Mix-A-Lot's take on the subject.
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did you ever hear the parody version by some white guy? equally funny,
golden earing & flock of seagulls. i'm not ashamed. queen and freddy in particular have always rocked.
I'm not drunk enough to listen to Hitchens. *shudder*
admission of guilty pleasure? Ridin the storm out-REO Speedwagon
/going to refill glass, brb
I remember Heart Beat It's a Love Beat...
In fact, I can remember back when ('72?) the De Franco family was just embarking on their "world" tour, and they played at the local mall. North Kent Mall, Grand Rapids, MI.
I was there.
Tony DeFranco was tiny.
BTW, I think Steve Howe played on Queen's Innuendo.
about 15 years ago probably, one of the last times i smoked weed, some friends and i got quite baked and reconstructed "bohemian rhapsody" from memory. none of us had heard it in a long time and we got it mostly right. if i smoke weed again i would like to do it with the same group of people and attempt to reconstruct "ziggy stardust and the spiders from mars". that would be a blast.
I went to a Dokken, Whitesnake, Scorpions concert almost a year ago and was a little creeped out by how many people are still living the 80's clothes and hairstyles.
In the last couple years I've seen Marshall Crenshaw, Rick Springfield, Frampton, Davey Jones... just in the spirit of cheesy older music...
"I also had a Styx LP I'd melted with a blowtorch."
You are a good person.
chicago dyke,
I was once nearly killed in a crowd crush between Flock of Seagulls and The Go-go's.
When I was a kid, I had a crush on the little girl in The Cowsills.
Didn't they have a variety show for a few weeks?
Seems like I remember that.
NYMary,
Were you on Vacation?
Sounds like it!
that line about the screwed down hairdo makes me laugh even without weed.
golden earing & flock of seagulls. i'm not ashamed. queen and freddy in particular have always rocked.
Golden Earring has a *lot* of lesser-known songs which are really good. Ditto Sisters Of Mercy, Sparks, and Oingo Boingo.
"Frampton"
Wow, there's a blast. Saw him during the Frampton's Camel days, before he hit it with the live LP.
Show sucked.
that line about the screwed down hairdo makes me laugh even without weed.
Don't even get me started on Bowie....
"i was once nearly crushed in a crowd crush between flock of seagulls and the go-gos."
-nymary
i'd step on you
to see the who
Vicki,
That was the tour, indeed....
I should say I was almost crushed by the crowd, between their sets, no the bands themseles, actually. Though Jane Weidlin was my role model for much of my youth.
admission of guilty pleasure? Ridin the storm out-REO Speedwagon
If you grew up in the Midwest in the 70's you had to have been an REO fan. Saw them locally before they hit it big, then saw them locally after they faded, but they always put on a good show.
Central,
You are correct. And I understand.
I hated Oingo Boingo. I had a real life stalker for a while...(ex-boyfriend's ex-wife), and she would quote Oingo Boingo in letters to me.
I'm not drunk enough to listen to Hitchens. *shudder*
Hitchens was drunk enough for all of us.
I laughed a couple of times, though.
Olaf,
This was only a few years after Cincinnati, so still a bit scary. And I was just a slip of a thing.
NYMary, Vicki,
We would all try to sing that song (Bohemian Rhypsody) in the car but could never quite make out some of the absurd words, which made it even better.
Hey, here's something new: Tommy Lee Jones playing a cop/FBI type who's chasing another misunderstood character through wilderness and cityscapes.
Doesn't he get tired of these roles?
Okay, as you were.
I have to admit right now that I hate with a passion hate REO.
I never understood.
"Heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend who..."
Sorry. I just can't do REO.
I've always thought that was too cool.
Central Scrutinizer
Yeah, my sister and I were big Queen fans... "Tie Your Mother Down" still completely rocks.
Lost interest pretty much after "News of the World" (with that great Frank Kelly Freas cover...)
I had a real life stalker for a while...(ex-boyfriend's ex-wife), and she would quote Oingo Boingo in letters to me.
That's pretty damn bizarre. Am reminded of Bill Pullman's obsession with REO Speedwagon in Mr. Wrong (very underrated movie, BTW).
I saw Queen twice in concert. Great live show.
Yup, FeralLiberal, lived in the midwest in the 70's. Otherwise known as Flat Land. That may also account for some of the Styx popularity too, since they recorded Grand Illusion in one of the SW suburbs of Chicago. Some relatives lived near there, and everytime we walked by the building we looked to see if they were there recording anything else. Ha! It was fun to be young and stupid.
I think I heard that Jane Wiedland is on the Surreal Life...???
I saw Oingo Boingo in high school.. and Night Ranger, The Waitresses, Huey Lewis (he slapped my hand, and man, can those guys sing a capella), KISS, Judas Priest, Pure Prairie League, ARS, Wendy O and the Plasmatics...
Not all at one show, of course
"If you grew up in the Midwest in the 70's you had to have been an REO fan."
Had to be? Not! We called them reoshitwagon. They said we were suppossed to love Michael Stanley, too. And Eric Carmine...all midwestern half talents that for some inexplicable(hah) reason never made it big.
Maybe because they sucked.
Oh god. Wendy O. Williams.
chicago dyke,
I was once nearly killed in a crowd crush between Flock of Seagulls and The Go-go's.
NYMary
Musta been part of the same tour I saw them both on at on City Island in Harrisburg, PA in '81 or '82... I smuggled a couple of js past the friskers and was quite popular there for a while.
Eli, I have a checkered past.
My spending the evening on a blog is like being cloistered nun. It's a good thing.
In that I am not in any trouble with anyone.
OK, I'll go to bat for Eric Carmen before about 1975. With The Raspberries. After that, he's on his own.
I had a real life stalker for a while...
Vicki,
I wonder if that's a common thing?
For several years I had a woman that became obsessed with me and made my life a living hell. It's been a few years now, but I'm still afraid she'll turn up some day.
roll with the changes is a great fucking song.
reconstruct "ziggy stardust and the spiders from mars". that would be a blast.
Olaf glad and big
"and smash his sweet hands, oh"
.
Don't be too hard on yourself Vicki. I would bet you could find some pretty interesting pasts right here right now. This sounds like a ..diverse..group of folks.
Mister X,
Yeah, that sounds about right. Rumor was that Weidlin was, uh, well-ventilated under her miniskirt. The crowd chant was "Jump, Jane, Jump!" I was on Charlotte Caffey's side and cannot speak to this, however.
Yup, Hitchens sat his sweaty ass down, took a swig from a half-pint and told some jokes he musta picked up at a gin joint that afternoon.
Your MC: Tony Snow
Now featuring the comedy stylings of Rep. Brad Sherman!
(I think it was Steve Simels who mentioned earlier that there's nothing on TV tonight and HE WAS RIGHT! )
"i'd step on you
to see the who"
ooooh, nasty. About a week after Cinci, they did Cleveland. A friend and I were tripping, and got down in front of the stage for the encore and the crush began...talk about freak out.
Wish I coulda seen them when Keith was alive. Kenny Jones just couldn't fill the throne.
Michael Stanley? "He can't love you like I love so let me prove it to ya" One of the early videos on MTV when they grabbed anything they could get their hands on.
Yea, Wendy O was like a 17 yr old's wetnightmare. Elec tape on her nipples, spiky mohawk, chainsawing thru TVs and guitars...
Most REO songs suck, it's just that one I'm still fond of. I think they hated themselves and the crap they put out, and realizing it all had to end, named an album "You Can Tuna a Piano But You Can't Tuna Fish". There can't be any other reason for doing something that dumb.
Unless it was the drugs...
Just wondering:
If you owned the business I walked past on the way home tonight where someone had printed a sign on the computer and posted it on the door, saying:
CLOSED DO TO WEATHER
...you'd fire the person who did it, right?
I mean, I could kill 'em and feel justified, but I'm taking into account that it was a tanning salon....
I have another guilty pleasure, too.
Hall and Oates. I fucking love Daryl Hall. And Kenny Loggins, but Daryl Hall, especially.
When I mentioned this to my friends in Philly, they say, "not so much."
To Daryl Hall: Take me away, baby.
Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was.
Speaking of Steve S, I hope he made it back from the bar OK.
Well, I give this movie credit for the Johnny Cash tune playing over the closing credits: "When the Man Comes Around."
That may also account for some of the Styx popularity too
They actually played at my high school in the early 70's, but I have to admit I was never really a fan.
"My spending the evening on a blog is like being cloistered nun. It's a good thing."
Jeebus, Vicki. Work it out. Can someone give Vicki a hand?
Has anyone heard from steve simels lately? He usually calls by now
There is nothing on TV. We're watching a Superchunk DVD here at Chez Thers.
Ripley - electrical tape? I thought the band-aids were her trademark. But then, I never did see her live.
SNL starting skit was good
jdw,
Vick's got it taken care of, we hear. Remotely, anyway.
Doh ! I was way too slow on that, Central
Your MC: Tony Snow
Now featuring the comedy stylings of Rep. Brad Sherman!
(I think it was Steve Simels who mentioned earlier that there's nothing on TV tonight and HE WAS RIGHT! )
Lou_Tullio
Come on, Lou... you're staying tuned to see Grover Norquist in a little while, aren't you?
Not kidding. Wish I was kidding, but I'm not. Grover Norquist doing standup.
Wish I had The Dish so I could watch The Traffic Accident channel instead...
jdw,
I'm fine. Trust me on this one.
Ripley,
When we went out with steve, he seemed to know an endless number of people. It was quite impressive, really. I expect that's where he is.
GWPDA - And who could forget the economic empire for good times? Argentina? Venezuela? My lord, Hong Kong?
I'm confused why you include Hong Kong as economic empire with Argentina instead of with India or Rhodesia?
Yep, mena - two little pieces crossed over each nipple. She died a couple years ago, IIRC; I forget the cause of death but I heard her body was payin back for her lifestyle.
NYMary ~
It's up to me if it happens. And I'm thinking it will.
Glad to have a break from it these last couple of days...
Doesn't change the course, however.
"Most REO songs suck, it's just that one I'm still fond of."
This one?
Riding the storm out
Waiting for the thaw out
On a full moon night in the
Rocky Mountain winter
My wine bottle's low
Watching for the snow
blahblahblah...the live version they used to play on the radio? With the cheesey intro with the cheesey synth? It's spinal-tap-ish.
I was on Charlotte Caffey's side and cannot speak to this, however.
NYMary
Well, I never witnessed that... damn it. I do remember vividly that A Flock of Seagulls were on at twilight and they did "Wishing", and it seemed to carry us on and on... they really filled up that outdoor space with sound. Of course, that could be the joints.
Guilty pleasure: Adam Ant. Saw him at some college... he seemed tired, but Marco was spot on! Desperate, but not serious indeed.
steve said he was going to a bar 7 blocks from home a few threads back.
he may be out trying scrounge up a burnt offering for Ba'al.
Most relevant retro song for 2005? My pick is Bob Dylan's, Idiot Wind (you're an idiot, babe. It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.) I dedicate that tune to GWB.
Second pick would be the Beatles, "I'm Looking Through You."
(Your lips are moving, but the words aren't clear...I'm looking through you, but you're nowhere.) Dedicated to the GOP at large.
So sue me. Heh.
Even though I hate REO, the poet in me says, "let it go..."
Queen got very little airplay in the the US except for "We will rock you" and "Bohemian Rhapsody", and maybe "Crazy little thing called love"...
Actually, I remember hearing "Killer Queen" all over the local AM radio when it came out... also "Bicycle".
I hated Journey.
I still do.
Most REO songs suck
After they made it big they played for hits, but in the early days they played rock more influenced by Chuck Berry than the power pop that they later became known for.
If you had ever seen them at the Brat Stop you would know....
I think Bohemian Rhapsody was the first record I ever owned.
The first albums I ever owned came on my 11th birthday (1973). I was just getting into music, and my clueless mother went to a record store, told them I liked "modern" music but she didn't know where to start, whatever the clerk recommended would probably be fine. She couldn't even name a single song from the radio that she knew I liked. Back then, my mom was working 16 hour days and a single mother to three bratty kids. She simply didn't have the energy to notice music on the radio. But I got lucky. My mother must have hooked up with a clerk who wanted to set me on a righteous musical path.
I can still remember Mom handing me the wrapped present, and being so uncertain. "I don't know if you'll like this. The clerk said this was popular, but if you don't like it, we can take it back."
I opened the present with dread. Then I started screaming and dancing in sheer bliss: Seventh Sojourn by the Moody Blues. Not Donny Osmond or the Jackson Five (what most of my friends were getting from their parents and what I'd expected her to get me)--but the Moody Blues. I loved them! Still do, to be honest.
I also got Goat's Head Soup by the Rolling Stones, and it was okay. Not the Moody Blues, but livable.
Her relief that she hadn't completely fucked up and shown that she was so unhip that she couldn't even buy music for an 11-year-old was just priceless.
steve went out drinking, ripley.
stevelg, i don't know if nyc is still like this, maybe watertiger could say, but in the late 80s/early 90s pretty much every sign in the city was spelled wrong. there was a psychic shop by me that offered
pam readings
tarrot readings
astrolagy
all on one sign.
"I'm fine. Trust me on this one."
Phew. Man, it sounded so bad thought about driving up to GR...sounded pretty bad there, and we ain't talkin snow.
And "Who Wants To Live Forever" is just haunting, because you know he was dying when he sang it.
And it has the added bonus of being the theme song to Highlander, the series.
I like far too much silly pop music from the 70's and 80's to list here. I'm too old to be embarrassed about it anymore. I'll cop to liking old disco too.
Oh well, I think my taste for Ravel and Mozart probably redeems me.
Thank goodness for my iPod. I can be a geek in private.
hey, MisterX!
You didn't answer my question from before. Do you really have a wife who'd troll here? Her handle was MisterX's Wife, as I recall.
steve said he was going to a bar 7 blocks from home a few threads back.
he may be out trying scrounge up a burnt offering for Ba'al.
Ba'al
That was hilariois! Wine all over the screen!
She runs, cackling into the night!
I nearly burned the pizza Ba'al, I hope I didn't get your hopes up.
I associate Riding the Storm Out with fond memories of the time and place in my life, what my friends and I were doing at the time, much more than the song itself.
Awwwwwwwwright! Grow-ver!
Can't wait, SteveLG!
"Jim Morris" currently doing quite a weak Shrub with a "kill the demonstrators" punch line!
Maybe it's time to floss and brush.
Jim Morris as Dubya: "There's a fresh breeze blowin'. We're breakin' new wind."
...this after screeching and miming shit-slinging, in Full Chimp Mode.
Eli Shouldn't that be, "Do you believe George W. Bush will even *attempt* to achieve his stated goal of trying to expand freedom around the world?"
Bush Sr says Son's speech equals no shift in foreign policy. Didn't take long for that "freedom on the march" crap to be dropped like a hot potato.
I'm still laughing! Needed to clean up screen and scrounge for a new mousepad.
Why do the troops hate the troops?
...He was a given a rifle that was not personally calibrated for him — so it probably wouldn't shoot straight — and an ill-fitting gas mask. Base commanders could not confirm that Guard and Reserve units would be supplied with personal body armor in Iraq, so Resta took out a $1,500 loan, went to the local police supply store in Columbia, S.C., and bought a ceramic-plated body vest capable of stopping an AK-47 round. He paid off the bank loan six months into his tour. It is common practice for reservists to buy their own body armor. Resta, a medic, also had to fuss to get basic medical supplies he needed for the deployment. "The day before we moved into Iraq," he remembers, "I found out that they were putting me into a vehicle with three other guys and that we would be riding scout, about 200 meters ahead of the convoy. The odds were that we would get hit first. I still had no medical supplies at this point. I'm talking basic stuff: bandages, IV fluid. I was thinking along the lines of us getting hit and us being cut off with no medical supplies, and I'm in a situation where I got guys bleeding to death and I can't do a thing about it."
Resta says he was given the supplies after announcing that he would not get in the truck without them.
...Once in Iraq, Resta's brigade was assigned to the Army's 1st Infantry Division and stationed in northeast Iraq. Insurgents attacked the camp with rifle and mortar fire two or three times a week. One time, an 8-year-old Iraqi girl was riding in a vehicle that bypassed an Iraqi National Guard checkpoint. An AK-47 round passed diagonally through her stomach, shredding her internal organs. She was brought into Resta's camp for treatment. He remembers her long, brown hair laying across her lifeless body.
Resta says that aside from treating these kinds of injuries, his commanders would not allow the medics to treat everyday ailments of Iraqi citizens they came across during patrols.
"We were told that the Army did not have enough money to be giving out free medicine," says Resta. "And that the Iraqis would have to get used to their own health-care system anyway."
Feral, the Brat Stop is still bringing in bands from the 80's. Night Ranger was there last summer or the summer before. I've only been there once but I remember thinking it was pretty small for a band.
I am going to start making two comments on all blogs"WHOOPEE we're all going to die" and "JESUS WEPT". I think these will cover it all.........Yours In Peace......R.L.
god i hate you white folks, do you ever shut the fuck up?
Seems like everytime Kirshner's Rock Concert was on, REO Speedwagon was the band on tap. They had a much different sound in the mid 70s than they would have later. I couldn't believe it was the same band when the Tuna Fish (or whatever it's called) album came out.
Seventh Sojourn by the Moody Blues
Ooo, yes. "For My Lady" is one of my favorite sappy songs. I like a bunch of Moody Blues, although somehow I feel like I shouldn't...
"I hated Journey.
I still do."
Ditto. And Queen.(ducking)
LJ: great story. My parent's were totally amusical. The first album they bought me was some Beatles rip off. But some years later they got me Paul's Ram for Xmas, so that was forgiven but not forgotten.
Yea, Wendy O was like a 17 yr old's wetnightmare. Elec tape on her nipples, spiky mohawk, chainsawing thru TVs and guitars...
Ripley
Hey, don't forget Annabelle(?) from BowWowWow! Mohawk, squeaky/perky/rich voice, exotic lineage... and naked on an album cover at 15! Yikes!
First 45rpm record ever bought with own money: "Theme From 'The Sting'" by Marvin Hamlish, after viewing the movie of the same name.
Second 45rpm record ever bought with own money: "Rock and Roll" b/w "Rock and Roll Part 2" by Gary Glitter, purchased from a schoolmate with lunch money. (I still have this one.)
I'm trying to get Thers to plan next summer's vacation around a Cheap Trick appearance at a state fair....
Atomic Dog
no, no, better. A county fair! A SMALL county!
LJ - what a great story. My first was Abbet Road, Which my mother bought me at the May Co. one afternoon. I can stil remember doing my homework at the dining room table with the boys going at the B side on my little portable turntable.
I think Bohemian Rhapsody was the first record I ever owned.
The first real album I ever owned was Sgt. Pepper, the Beatles. I was 8 or 9 and my mom got it for me for xmas.
Hey, I'll cop to liking the Monkees when I was the same age.
And Vicki, I like Hall and Oates too, and I've been liking some of Daryl Hall's solo work lately.
I'm re-reading this thread and laughing that the trolls don't get it.
Night Ranger. Memorable. (NOT!)
RL,
You might be onto something, there. And it's 1 2 3...
Mister X, that would be Annabelle Lwin, who was 16 when "I Want Candy" was recorded. She was Maltese, as I recall.
You want mustard on that, Ba'al?
D'oh!
Ripley
Just the thought that you might have burnt your pizza is pleasing to Ba'al.
However, Ba'al and Mrs. Ba'al have just gorged on sushi, and the Horned One is not sure he would have done justice to your offering even if it had happened.
Four legs Good ~
Cop all you said. Same basic experience. We must be about the same age.
The stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame are bought and paid for. Not exactly the honor it's made out to be.
What it is, baby.
How the heck KISS, Michael Bolton AND Billy Joel made it before Journey is, well, hard to imagine.
Steve Miller Band is there, as well. Proof of a Deity: STYX is not.
Night Ranger. Memorable. (NOT!)
Hey, I really liked "Don't Tell Me You Love Me", and, to a lesser extent, "Sing Me Away." "Sister Christian" is total dreck, however.
hey, MisterX!
You didn't answer my question from before. Do you really have a wife who'd troll here? Her handle was MisterX's Wife, as I recall.
NYMary
HAH! No, that was some Supreme-Pussy Name-Stealing Shitass Troll™, apparently. I laughed at some LGF gourdhead and called him a few choice names, then he "adopted" that handle. I did ask him if I should put my wife on to talk to him, but he declined. She would have torn the little creep a new one...
Guilty pleasure- The Ramones.
But only in small doses. I once saw them live in Austin Texas- loudest damn thing I've ever experienced.
And if there's nothing on TV, there's always the Weather Channel. They'll be hopping tonight.
My first musical love was Elvis, then I started asking for Van Halen and KISS albums. Now I'm just a confused pre-middle aged guy
Gotta go in a sec, but 4legs, you still on 3 legs or 4? Wicked crashed foot story. Dropped a cast iron skillet on my foot once. Cried like a baby. Peace!
I think Wendy O. Williams committed suicide. IIRC. Very sad.
She scared me but I liked her because she didn't give a shit what anyone else thought.
Sign we're getting old: some time ago I was poking around the attic, and came across some ticket stubs from concerts in the 70's. Here in Cleveland, they open up the Stadium for The World Series of Rock. It was an all day deal..they might have Todd, Bob Seger, Fleetwood Mac, Nazereth, Aerosmith, etc all on one bill.
You could take a cooler and sit right in front of the stage, general admission. Something like $5 for the day.
Ba'al likes this song by George Clinton:
Yeah, this is a story of a famous dog
For the dog that chases its tail will be dizzy
These are clapping dogs, rhythmic dogs
Harmonic dogs, house dogs, street dogs
Dog of the world unite
Dancin' dogs
Yeah
Countin' dogs, funky dogs
Nasty dogs (Dog)
Atomic dog
Atomic dog
Like the boys
When they're out there walkin' the streets
May compete
Nothin' but the dog in ya
Bow-wow-wow-yippie-yo-yippie-yeah
Bow-wow-yippie-yo-yippie-yeah
Bow-wow-wow-yippie-yo-yippie-yeah
Bow-wow-yippie-yo-yippie-yeah
Ripley - Yeah it is but it was on the circuit for alot of midwest bands in the past. And Wis allowed 18 year olds to drink before Ill, so places like that had a big over the border business in the early 70's.
well, time to hibernate. 'Night all!
Ripley, which Elvis? The fake one or the real one?
Cuz I love me the fake one.
Cop all you said. Same basic experience. We must be about the same age.
I think so, I'm 46. I grew up in California and the music was just amazing.
We loved everything from the Stones to the Beach Boys.
I also love old Mo-Town.
Yeah, and I used to go watch the Cubbies play at Wrigley for $1.75. Box seat.
Feel like Mefuckinthusela
Ooo, yes. "For My Lady" is one of my favorite sappy songs. I like a bunch of Moody Blues, although somehow I feel like I shouldn't...
Why not? They were an awesome band.
HAH! No, that was some Supreme-Pussy Name-Stealing Shitass Troll™, apparently
SPNSST...
Can we come up with an acronym that goes something like... SHITBAG?
It was being praxos and a couple other names (along with mine) the other day.
First LP I bought with my own money was the Stones Through The Past, Darkly. I think it was (oct-)hexagonal cover that got to my early consumer sensibilities...
bigvic, back on four.
It only hurts when I wear shoes. Just a wicked bone bruise on top of my arch.
A cast iron skillet, owwwieeeee!
That would hurt like a bitch.
Somehow George Clinton doesn't seem so funky without the funk to go with it.
Oh well.
First 45 bought with my own money: "Pleasant Valley Sunday" by the Monkees.
With "Words" on the flip - I played that as much, if not more!
My parents got me some good albums over the years - the first three Monkees elpees, Chicago 1, McCartney's solo album... but I think Don McLean's "American Pie" was the first one I bought with my own money. Mainly because I had seen him open about six months earlier for Blood, Sweat and Tears (!)...
The real one - I was an Elvis nut! Lip synchin in front of the mirror and everything. My parents didn't find the Kiss and Van Halen and Judas Priest quite as charming. Nor my elec twang box... lol
Mister X, that would be Annabelle Lwin, who was 16 when "I Want Candy" was recorded. She was Maltese, as I recall.
NYMary
MmmmmmmMalcom's finest!
"Do Ya Wanna Hold Me?"
Yes... yes, I do.
Great video, too!
Speaking of Journey, I saw them many times in their pre-Steve Perry formation... they fucking rocked!
Feel like Mefuckinthusela
Hey, me too.
Oh well, I wouldn't trade living through the 60's for anything.
Why not? They were an awesome band.
I have no idea. I'd say they didn't fit in with my other tastes, but I'm just about omnivorous...
Goodnight all.
I am summoned.
The munificence of Ba'al on all non-troll Eschatonians until we meet again in the fullness of time.
And I hope Steve makes it back ok.
NYMary - Saw Cheap Trick a couple of times. Saw Queen at Kemper Arena with Billy Squier opening. Saw Hall and Oates opening for ELO at Kemper as well. Hall and Oates had GE Smith and TBone as part of their backing band.
The band that always seemed to have the worst opening acts was Kansas {speaking of Midwestern bands from the 70s}... different tours saw Loverboy and Survivor.
...the Stones' "Through The Past, Darkly." I think it was (oct-)hexagonal cover that got to my early consumer sensibilities...
Love those die-cut album covers! "Low Spark" by Traffic and Todd's "A Wizard/A True Star" come to mind...
Can we come up with an acronym that goes something like... SHITBAG?
Supremely Hapless Idiot Troll Being Annoying & Gutless?
Bob Somerby up on CSPAN1 pst
HOWL!
Robin Zander..*sigh*....
He would have done it for me, but then I found Tom Petty at the whiskey-a-go-go...
More on the Walk of Fame.
Chicago is there. Monkees, too.
You know Elvis is there.
Both David Bowie and Bing Crosby are there.
Don McClean is not. I would expect that.
Harry Chapin isn't either. Neither Seeger (Pete and Bob) will be found on the Walk of Fame.
More proof of the coming apocalypse:
John Tesh is there.
How the fuck did that happen?
Shit Heads In Training Behave Atrociously, Gang
E-A-G-L-E-S EAGLES!!!!
Supremely Hapless Idiot Troll Being Annoying & Gutless?
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That's a winner.
i don't know how the eagles got so popular. i can't stand any of their stuff.