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.
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.
Mine, too, though I bought it myself. I was 17, I think. Finally ruint it by usint a sewing needle after the stylus wore out, but I had to hear it again. And again...
Funny thing about Music Appreciation; First time I heard Revolution, I thought WTF is that noise?! And I got up and changed from WLS to WCFL. Didn't find out for a week or so who it was, and my opinion swung through 180 degrees like magic.
More proof of the coming apocalypse:
John Tesh is there.
How the fuck did that happen?
Sweet Jesus. Maybe it's because he was a "two-sport" star, like Bo Jackson?
Definitely going to start calling it the Walk Of Lame now.
"Todd's "A Wizard/A True Star"
Did that have a wierd shape? I remember the graphic, somewhat...tickticktick.
Tom - Daai Tou Laam - Saw Kansas open for Queen about 1976, unforgettable show.
Remember, folks, all we are is dust in the wind....
i can't stand the eagles.
A farmer goes out one day and buys a brand new stud rooster for his chicken coop. The new rooster struts over to the old rooster and says, "OK, old fart, time for you to retire."
The old rooster replies, "Come on, surely you cannot handle ALL of these chickens. Look what it has done to me. Can't you just let me have the two old hens over in the corner?"
The young rooster says, "Beat it! You are washed up and I am taking over."
The old rooster says, "I tell you what, young stud. I will race you around the farmhouse. Whoever wins gets the exclusive domain over the entire chicken coop."
The young rooster laughs, "You know you don't stand a chance old man, so just to be fair I will give you a head start."
The old rooster takes off running. About 15 seconds later the young rooster takes off running after him. They round the front porch of the farmhouse and the young rooster has closed the gap. He is already about 5 inches behind the old rooster and gaining fast.
The farmer, meanwhile, is sitting in his usual spot of the front porch when he sees the roosters running by. He grabs up his shotgun and BOOM!, he blows the young rooster to bits. The farmer sadly shakes his head and says, "Darn it...third gay rooster I bought this month!"
John Tesh is part of the Pat "Miracle Man" Robertson crowd, so it can only be a Miracle !
I saw Squier in 88 and it was the loudest crowd I ever heard, I think. Saw BOC at a $3 show, Jane's Addiction at a $3 show. Molly Hatchett and Foghat used to come thru GR all the time when I lived there.
Cheap Trick was my first-ever concert! It was a good choice. They had a lot of great songs, they did Beatles covers, and the guitarist had guitar with five necks! That was so fucking rock and roll.
Self-Hating Imbeciles Touting Bad Ass Garbage?
(I have had a wee bit)
Good ones, Eli and mena... I think I'll have a wee bit more now...
Nire, Ba'al.
Please have pleasing sleep.
Sadly, my second concert was Genesis. That was the absolute antithesis of rock and roll. Come to think of it, I don't know what the fuck that was. I mostly remember a lot of dry ice and wailing synthesizers.
Sex-Hungry Imitating Trolls Babbling Asinine Gibberish?
Todd's "A Wizard/A True Star" - Did that have a wierd shape?
(At least) the first release did... the corners and maybe even the blocks that spelled out Todd's name were cut around cover here.)
Speaking of album packages, let's not forget the box that housed Alice Cooper's "Muscle of Love," nor the paper bag that contained the Airplane's "Bark." Those were the days!
"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."
That is one very, very cool mom.
The first album that really opened me to the potential of music wasn't one I bought, but one from the library. I think I was about 10 and poking thru the misc. bins and I find this album with a wierd looking dude wearing suspenders and a tee shirt that says 'pipco'. FZ's Lumpy Gravey.
How it ever got there...what sort of subversive librarian ordered it, or perhaps some subversive donor or just someone that bought it and had no clue and gave it to the library, I don't know. But to find it in white-bread Parma, Ohio was a miracle of sorts. Changed my entire outlook on music.
I think my brother eventually stole it, but we were the only people that checked it out anyway. It was a revelation.
Eli,
No Duh. Sweet Jesus. Maybe it's because he was a "two-sport" star, like Bo Jackson?
Definitely going to start calling it the Walk Of Lame now.
And the zipper on the Sticky Fingers album -scandalous !
Ok ok ok, hope this is still relevent.
Save Me.
Best. Queen. Song. Ever.
*I'm naked, and I'm far from home*
Eli - what about changing that to Sex-Hungry Idiot Teenagers, hm?
SpongeBob Haters In Texas Being Aggravating Gits?
I always liked the Led Zeppelin record that came in a plain brown wrapper. Except that, when you opened it, you were disappointed because instead of the expected raunchy tableau (this was Led Zeppelin after all) you were greeted with a rather uninteresting photograph of some guy sitting on a barstool being waited on by a surly bartender.
Sadly, my second concert was Genesis.
Post Peter Gabriel?
If so, I understand. Phil Collins sucks ass.
Anyone see this before?:
http://www.conservativematch.com/
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All I can say is LOL.
Sweet Jesus. Maybe it's because he was a "two-sport" star, like Bo Jackson?
Ohmygod. Between listening to Somerby and seeing that, I think I just had a brain hemorrhage.
Neither one were really stars at either thing they did!
The Eagles have a star.
Fred, Ginger, Kenny, Roy and Will Rogers...
Mom and dad (Broderick and Joan) are there.
Paderewski is there
I need a drink, and some warm covers.
Journey, The Steve Miller Band and The Eagles and The Monkees have a star on the same walkway as Ignace Paderewski.
God Bless the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce.
Eli - what about changing that to Sex-Hungry Idiot Teenagers, hm?
Suits me.
Maybe I should rephrase that...
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...
Sappy songs is something the Moodies were transcendant at. Sticky, treacly lyrics with sublime music.
They're down to three, now, but still going!
Ba'al,
Nire is a little know language of deities for Nite. Peace.
Must edit.
Wow! That Pipco album would be worth a lot of money now, maybe even more with a Parma, Ohio stamp on it!
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I know I was always afraid that I might be out on a date with some girl, and she might, like, try to have sex with me or something.
Man, that would have totally sucked.
Post Peter Gabriel?
If so, I understand. Phil Collins sucks ass.
Yes, I'm pretty sure it was Phil Collins. Whoever it was acted like a jackass onstage, so it must have been him.
Yep, Bolo - sweethears not bleeding hearts...
Is that what the country's come to?
I saw Gabriel and Springsteen last year. Springsteen was surprisingly good (I'm not a fan, really). Also saw Roxy Music, which was pretty wild.
However, the greatest album package I ever owned was the British box that came with "Let It Be." A slipcover housed a shell that held the album and the "Get Back" photo book with the notoriously lousy binding. I picked this up for $2.99 at Tower Records in San Francisco in 1972. They had a whole fucking stack of them sitting on the floor right next to a whole fucking stack of John and Yoko's "Two Virgins" in the cover-up slipcover which they were selling for $1.99!
If I had a time machine, I'd go back and buy 'em by the palette!
" Join the ConservativeMatch.com community and find thousands of conservative singles just like you.'"
I thought they went to their radical, neo-conservative, evangelic, bible thumping, aryan church for that sort of thing.
(Had to put it that way to differentiate from other churches.)
Rofl, Eli... have you ever read World o' Crap? He just tears the Uptight Right's advice to teenagers to shreds. It's definitely a good read if you're feeling snarky.
I just think it makes sense for a sex-hungry teenager to be babbling a bunch of asinine garbage.
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My girlfriend, a liberal Dem, used to date a Bush-loving Republican. When I found out about this, I felt nauseous. It still gives me the hoobie joobies. Yecch.
Cheap Trick was my first-ever concert!
Man, I saw Cheap Trick like, three times, and never a bad show. One of the better live acts out there. Better than they are in the studio, to be honest.
What's sad is that, even though I'm not all that knowledgeable about music, I was always the "music freak/expert" in the redneck towns where I lived. Classmates would come to my house and gawk at my ever-expanding record collection. Of course, I was just enough of an audiophile that my bitch reputation got cast in cement by 9th grade because I wouldn't lend my precious albums to other people. And I explained why: I didn't trust other people to take care of my LPS. I saw how other people treated their LPs. No fucking way would I lend an LP to a person who didn't keep the plastic sleeves over their albums, didn't store them standing up (alphabetical by artist, no less!), who stacked records on a turntable (THE HORROR!), who hadn't mastered the trick of letting the disc slide out of the sleeve into your hand without getting fingerprints on the record. Ohmigod, seeing someone holding a record like a frisbee was enough to make me want to throw up! And to not use disk cleaner everytime you listen to an album, AND clean off the stylus, too? You don't change your stylus every six months? What kind of barbarian are you?!
Okay, so I was a wee bit anal about my records...
"Wow! That Pipco album would be worth a lot of money now, maybe even more with a Parma, Ohio stamp on it!"
Yup. And just for kicks I did a search to see if I could re-create my first drum set, a made up affair that started with a vintage 1940's Slingerland Radio King snare drum that I traded in when I upgraded(argghhh!!) to a Pearl set in the 70's. I saw a couple in vintage stores for $1,500 and up....
I was at the Beatles Shea Stadium concert, but I couldn't hear a damn thing because the stupid girls around me were screaming their fool heads off.
Sociopathic Headjobs Imitating (Irritating?) True Bloggers with Asinine Garbage?
someone should explain to the snl writers that in order to be funny you need to make fun of actual stuff that exists.
" Join the ConservativeMatch.com community and find thousands of conservative singles just like you.'"
I now have a profile:
My Appearance
Eye Color: Other
Hair Color: Other
Height: 4 feet 1 inches
Weight: 381 - 390 pounds
Race: Middle Eastern
My Background
Religion: Islam
Attend Services: Daily
Body Type: Heavyset
Marital Status: Never Married
Have Children: No
Education: Doctoral degree
Occupation: Food Service
Drinking: Regularly
Smoking: Regularly
I got my first job at age 14. Best job in the world for a kid, and kept it all through high school.
I was an usher for Andy Frain, and I got to see every concert from Elvis to Dan Hicks for free, just for "guarding exits" and showing folks to their seats. Got promoted to a receptionist job and got to meet all kinds of stars moms and celebs, since I showed them to the VIP lounge. Nicest mom and band of all was Poco. Remember "Crazy Eyes?"
have you ever read World o' Crap? He just tears the Uptight Right's advice to teenagers to shreds. It's definitely a good read if you're feeling snarky.
No, I probably should. A friend of mine had a tape with a bunch of lesser-known SCTV (the era with characters like Otis Fluker & Happy Marsden), as well as some very odd short films whose origins we could never quite pin down.
One of the short films was a parody of 50s cautionary films, starring Paul Reubens as the guy who Makes Unwise Choices ("I know how to handle chicks!"). It was brilliantly funny, including a super extreme closeup of a woman's nipple that turned into stock footage of swarming roaches or maggots or something similarly nasty. It also had an animated short along the lines of "My name is Mr. Penis, and this is just between us, we must reduce our self-abuse, the price is much too stiff..."
Man, I wish I knew where to find that damn thing.
I always liked the Led Zeppelin record that came in a plain brown wrapper. -
Buzz Bomb
Was that "In Through the Out Door"? That was the record album that was printed in water-soluable-type inks... the pictures on the inner sleeve were printed in large black-and-white dot-matrix type prints... but when you applied a moistened rag or paper towel, the dots released colors. For example, the ashtray came out blue, the coins came out yellow, the dollar bills came out green, etc.
It must be hard now to find a non-"developed" copy of that album...
Ripley, I believe s.z from world of crap is a woman.
At least I think so.
I just think it makes sense for a sex-hungry teenager to be babbling a bunch of asinine garbage.
mena | Email | Homepage | 01.23.05 - 12:32 am | #
Sorry, Eli. You just got bumped. Mena, you win.
The weenies on CSPAN (replay) were just talking about how the President's Balls were arranged.
God! George and Laura can barely stand each other. If that dance didn't say it all...
jdw: OUCH!
I think a complete 40's Slingerland Radio King set is on display at Guitar Center in Sherman Oaks.
Didn't Krupa play that set?
Lmao In all honesty, I'm surprised they even offer Islam as a choice. What would Mother think???
SWR: "you" sound like the highly sought-after type. Exactly what are "you" looking for in a match?
I thought they went to their radical, neo-conservative, evangelic, bible thumping, aryan church for that sort of thing.
Hell, they left cozy warm England and braved scurvy and sea monsters to be be with their own kind. The first ship to a new planet will probably be built with Baptist Church money. These folks really have no use for the rest of us. Except as cannon fodder, maybe.
"Sadly, my second concert was Genesis."
Haha. Maybe this can mutate into worst concert ever. The first show I saw was Jeff Beck opening for Jefferson Starship, which was a total travesty as Beck blew them off the stage, down the street and outta the state. They were pathetic, drunk, outta tune, outta synch and sounded like mud...and as much as I wanted to like them, could never get.
I think the second was Starz opening for Bob Seger. Starz had some wierd song, semi-hit about some girl with brain damage and the guy pulls the plug on her. "I pulled the Plug on My Love".
Lmao In all honesty, I'm surprised they even offer Islam as a choice. What would Mother think???
This is just scary.
crawford: The weenies on CSPAN (replay) were just talking about how the President's Balls were arranged.
Reminds me... other nite, saw a rerun of the X-Files episode with Gary Shandling (playing Mulder in a ridiculous movie) asking Mulder "do you dress left or right?"
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Was that "In Through the Out Door"? That was the record album that was printed in water-soluable-type inks... the pictures on the inner sleeve were printed in large black-and-white dot-matrix type prints... but when you applied a moistened rag or paper towel, the dots released colors. For example, the ashtray came out blue, the coins came out yellow, the dollar bills came out green, etc.
It must be hard now to find a non-"developed" copy of that album...
Yeah, that was it. It took me a couple of years before I figured that trick out. It must have cost a fortune to mass-produce that cover, but then those guys had more money than God.
In all honesty, I'm surprised they even offer Islam as a choice. What would Mother think???
Hey, Wahhabis are pretty damn conservative. I don't see the problem.
This little right-wing hottie definitely has a thing for older men.
Sigh. Don't they know how to prevent you from directly linking their shit.
Feral - That sounds like it was quite the show. Envious.
Buzz Bomb - If ya check the photos section on my homepage you;ll find photos of my friends going side building pre-show and mugging it up with Rick Nielsen. Cheesy cartoonish and wonderful...
Time for me now to go off and do some Sunday afternoon family time. A few bows to Tin Hau to keep the folks on the waters back in Boston safe.
Okay, so I was a wee bit anal about my records...
And I bet they're still playable as opposed to the ones owned by the frisbee players. So much has been released on CD but some things never will and are irreplaceable.
"Didn't Krupa play that set?"
Yup, he played Slingerland, I think right to the end. IIRC, Buddy did also. I'm glad that out of that made up set, the snare was the only Slingerland Radio King...had the whole set matched I'd have slit my wrists.
God! George and Laura can barely stand each other. If that dance didn't say it all...
crawford
You are correct. The entire family seem to barely able to tolerate one another. The girls act repulsed every time they need to be seen kissing daddio. GWB looks like he touched fire every time LaLa tries to hold his hand for a photo-op.
SWR, is that her date or her chaperone?
Because I'm single, and if that's her date then I've got a date with the bottle tonight.
In all honesty, I'm surprised they even offer Islam as a choice. What would Mother think???
Hey, Wahhabis are pretty damn conservative. I don't see the problem.
Eli | Email | Homepage | 01.23.05 - 12:43 am | #
Look. Any site that allows me to pretend I'm a 4 foot tall, 400 pound Muslim born in 1914 who drinks and smokes can't be all bad.
Look here no dog sex.
Okay, so who the hell *is* this wingnut groupie? Should I recognize her?
So, I'm signing up on conservativematch.com with a fake email address...
Under religion, they do not allow for 'atheist' or 'agnostic.' Only 'other.' This isn't a big surprise... and at least they allow for Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, etc.
SWR, is that her date or her chaperone?
That's Pete Coors.
It must be hard now to find a non-"developed" copy of that album...
Mister X,
My best friend has two of (almost)everything he's ever purchased. He has albums, concert tees, U mame it, he's got it.
Sealed in plastic and stored away, and he'll never part with any of it.
Slitting your wrists would have made a paradiddle a little more difficult, jdw!
Mena, you win.
I'd like to thank all the little people...
Anyone who is conservative, catholic, and likes to have fun. Someone who can handle a crazy Republican girl. If your not catholic, thats ok too. If you believe in God and the Republican party, then you're ok.
As a 400 pound, 4 foot tall heavy drinking and smoking Muslim, I certainly believe in God.
And I probably also give lots of money to politicians in DC.
I wonder if this blond, infidel conservative young lady would like to join my stable of wives in Saudi Arabia.
SWR, little Miss Repub sure gets around, doesn't she?
Oh, Newwwwwwwwt !
Someone who can handle a crazy Republican girl.
That just makes my brain hurt.
SWR | Email | Homepage | 01.23.05 - 12:47 am | #
Ok, I'll assume that's some american guy that I would know of if I was american. Cool. My self respect can stand a little longer.
But fuck it, that bottles looking good anyway.
Tom - Daai Tou Laam,
Wow, keep forgetting the time zone thing. When we were in Australia a while back, it was hard to keep up with the 12 hour difference in time. You are the only person I can wish Good afternoon to at 1:oo AM, U.S. time. Have a fine day!
But we mustn't only pick on the women.
Okay, so I was a wee bit anal about my records...
And I bet they're still playable as opposed to the ones owned by the frisbee players. So much has been released on CD but some things never will and are irreplaceable.
Sadly, no, they aren't playable. During my first separation from Mr. LJ #2, thought it wouldn't be a big deal to leave my record collection outside--in June--in California--until I was able to arrange to have them shipped to me. He also allowed my books and furniture to sit outside for nearly a month. I kid you not. It rained twice in the week before the movers were to pick them up. The furniture--eh, so what? But my books and records...The records all got warped. The books got soaked. I cried when I got them. I cried and cried. Then I got revenge. Don't ask how.
Okay, so I was a wee bit anal about my records...
LJ
Hey, I still buy Discwashers™ and bottles of D4™ at yard sales! In the olden days, I would buy a record and only play it to create a master cassette tape to play... *sigh*.
Er, Mr. LJ #2 left them outside. Not I.
Ripley: SWR, little Miss Repub sure gets around, doesn't she?
She wants to knock on Neil's hotel room door
That's for sure
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What exactly is a "crazy Republican girl"? Whooooa, stop the crazy fun, Mary - I can't handle it!
Don't you liberal women see what you're missing?
After going through college and not finding "the one", it's time to swallow my pride and take a risk by trying this out. I'm a devout Christian that just graduated from college and looking for a job. I'm not sure if I'm going to go into the military (Air Force if I do--with my degree, I'd start out as an officer) or keep looking at private companies. I can be somewhat reserved when I first meet someone--sometimes it just takes a while to warm up to someone. I don't take friendship lightly and therefore picky about who I make friends with.
I'm simply looking for a strong Christian woman that will be a loyal, devoted wife and mother. Proverbs 31 is a good start. I really don't like it when a woman does some things that are usually considered unfeminine (drink, cuss, smoke, extremely short haircuts, etc..---they're immediate turn-offs). I really want a woman that will let me put my chilvary to work and treat her as a proper lady (open doors, etc), yet she is not afraid to break a couple of nails in the process. Although I feel like I'm ready to start a family of my own, I don't want to start in the middle of someone else's--so if you already have children, please don't respond.
That's Pete Coors."
I thought it was Gary Bauer. Either way, that young woman needs a liberal dose of...
Then I got revenge. Don't ask how.
How?
Buzz Bomb - If ya check the photos section on my homepage you;ll find photos of my friends going side building pre-show and mugging it up with Rick Nielsen. Cheesy cartoonish and wonderful...
HOLY CRAP! THAT IS THE EXACT SHOW I WENT TO!!! That is too weird. You have totally made my night.
That's just...NO FUCKING WAY!!!
Hey, I still buy Discwashers™ and bottles of D4™ at yard sales! In the olden days, I would buy a record and only play it to create a master cassette tape to play... *sigh*.
I used to do all that, too!
I wonder which troll this one is.
I am Traditional in both the practice of my Faith and my Politcal views. I attend the Latin Tridentine Mass and have consistently voted Republican. I can be serious and passionate when it comes to morality and the preservation of our sacred institutions, but I have a light and humerous side as well. I confess that I am poor at driving in unfamiliar or densely populated areas, so initially, it would be helpful if the Lady prefers to do the driving
The extravagance of the celebretation on January 20th gives a whole new meaning to the term "inaugural balls".
Don't you liberal women see what you're missing?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Lotta loooong faces on Eschaton tonight...
"Mr Coors is it okay if I just stick with my wine coolers?"
Wow, this is good acid. I am all fucked up.
I wonder which troll this one is.
Good Lord. He picked that picture himself? Voluntarily???
4Legs:
Talk to me about old Motown! Actually went to see the latest version of the Temptations a couple of months ago. Yeah, it's not the same, but loved it anyway.
Yeah, I found that guy too, SWR... LOL.
Good one, Vinnie,
And good nite, Princes of Eschaton. etc.
Peace
extremely short haircuts? Wait, that's right - sure sign of the devil in a woman
Sign up over at C-Watch as Goldy Cuervo; 3 ft tall, no teeth, and a flat head to set yer drink on. I bet you get offers you can't refuse.
Houston radio trivia;
Goldy was a Moby & Matthews in the Morning bit that Matthews hated. He would go "no! no! no!" all through it, every time. Jon Matthews later became an extremely Conservative Houston Talker. He was arrested last year on weenie-wagging charges (she was 11). Now 11 yrs old is a bit over 3 ft, but not all that much. You can just imagine the mental image (and the woody) ol' Jon was getting every time Moby started that shit.
Good Lord. He picked that picture himself? Voluntarily???
Eli | Email | Homepage | 01.23.05 - 12:56 am | #
I likee my gun.
Tolerance for my hunting and shooting is a must. I would prefer someone who would go shooting and hunting with me. Tolerance for my classical music is appreciated. She must be willing to talk about any subject and express her views as they are. Average or higher intelligence is desired. As far as her figure is concerned, she may be aver age or average plus a few pounds. A supermodel is not expected, and a "fuller" girl is too much for me (no offense). I prefer a girl with no former boyfriends, but am willing to accept the past. She must also be aware that I have no dating skills whatsoever, so she must be patient. I just want someone to love and be loved by
The extravagance of the celebretation on January 20th gives a whole new meaning to the term "inaugural balls".
But we've got the biggest Balls of them all
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Hey, I still buy Discwashers™ and bottles of D4™ at yard sales! In the olden days, I would buy a record and only play it to create a master cassette tape to play... *sigh*."
Did that sometimes also, but to vcr tape. Had a wife that couldn't handle lps properly... or anything else for that matter. She gone, me happy
SWR: that guy pic was very scary in an underexposed, haunting dark coridors for little kids kinda way.
I bit the bullet and went and looked. This one, I do not grasp. It is a 40ish Woman.
"Poultry in motion, walking blonde moment, paradoxial enigma, genius with no common sense. Optimist (otherwise why would I be here?), compassionate, passionate, and having come to full realization of my limitations I do need someone to watch over me...."
Eli:
Let's say that Mr. LJ#2 was in the Air Force. An NCO. With a Top Secret clearance. He was also kinda not fulfilling his separation agreement, financially. And he was committing adultery. With another Air Force member. And he had lied to the Air Force about his true residence. The military does not look kindly upon these matters, if someone decides to make a case of them. A few calls to his commander (and his commander's commander when I wasn't satisfied with the results), and Mr. LJ #2 realized I could fuck him over a hell of a lot more than he had me. We're talking Bad Conduct Discharge, at the minimum, for the adultery, something that would have prevented him from ever getting a decent job again.
But those calls made enough of an impact. His "career progression" ever since has lagged far behind what it should be by this time. Yes, he's still in the AF. But he's making grade only through seniority alone. And he knows I did it to him.
SWR | Email | Homepage | 01.23.05 - 12:57 am | #
The desperation is palpable.
SWR: How do you link directly to the pics?
Couldn't she have said she is a bit ditzy?
"Poultry in motion, walking blonde moment, paradoxial enigma, genius with no common sense. Optimist (otherwise why would I be here?), compassionate, passionate, and having come to full realization of my limitations I do need someone to watch over me...."
The mind reels...
So this is what happens when Republicans try to be "quirky"? They should stop. Now.
Poultry in motion???? lmao paradoxial?
This one's got an appealingly slutty look.
But my God:
A Christian Republican living in an extremely liberal city. I am loyal,kind,fun, nice, reliable, honest,funny, and sincere. I love to go to the gym, read Ann Coulter books, talk, eat, go out, music, reading the Bible,going to church and talking about politics and God. I live a healthy lifestyle and always strive to be a better person. I support George W. and I only want to talk with others who feel the same.
I do not think my Islamic faith would appeal to her.
Hey folks, it's time to tune up that dour liberal attitude and paint your outlook with optimism!
Be sure to congratulate your right wing friends. Any time you see one, congratulate them heartily and perhaps add a friendly pat on the back!
No, not for winning the election. That's over. I mean when stuff happens. We're getting news by the day - everything's turning to shit - and yet YOU haven't taken the time to congratulate your hard working right wing companion.
"Another 40 dead in Iraq? GOOD JOB, MAN!"
"Bin Laden alive and releasing videos faster than Mary Kate and Ashley? WAY TO GO, DUDE!"
"The economy is tanking and the country is torn in half and the fundies have submitted the New Testament as their party platform and demand action now and our soldiers are dying to fight a war that has no end and the government as it stands is making big strides to shred the last vestiges of any program that might have improved lives of the lesser, the weaker and the stranger among us? WAY TO FUCKING GO, DUDE!"
"YOU'RE DOING GREAT! FANTASTIC JOB! THIS IS JUST LIKE YOU SAID IT WOULD BE! DAMN, I COULDN'T EVEN SUGGEST AN ALTERNATIVE COURSE!"
"Yeah, we sure suffered in the 90s - but now, MAN, IT'S FUCKING GREAT! AND WE ALL IT ALL TO YOUUUUUUUUU!"
Try it out sometime. They'll appreciate the attention.
It must be hard now to find a non-"developed" copy of that album...
Mister X,
My best friend has two of (almost)everything he's ever purchased. He has albums, concert tees, U mame it, he's got it.
Sealed in plastic and stored away, and he'll never part with any of it.
Central Scrutinizer
OK, but I think they "rotated" the colors that you would get if you moistened the sleeves... for some reason, I remember my friends' albums came out with different colors than mine when we rubbed them with the wet cloth... there were something like three different variants, IIRC. And you didn't know which one you had without activating it...
Speaking of 80's music - I found a webradio station that finally stays onnected.
Who's ready to get boppy with some Sheena Easton? Yeah ! errrr... nevermind
SWR: How do you link directly to the pics?
Right click. Link the .jpg file.
Ek - nothing like some baggage.
Hey, I still buy Discwashers™ and bottles of D4™ at yard sales! In the olden days, I would buy a record and only play it to create a master cassette tape to play... *sigh*.
I used to do all that, too!
LJ
Gee, I hope when I mentioned playing SPLHCB with a sewing needle I didn't cause y'all any pain, or induce a siezure or anything.... everybody all right?
Most excellent, LJ. I'm really sorry about your records and books, especially since you treated them like your babies.
It's important that assholes learn that their actions have consequences. Preferably well *before* adulthood. And certainly well before entering into marriage or presidency.
LJ - Sorry to hear about the records, music to some people (like me) is life blood, and to lose access to meaningful songs is a loss that many cannot understand.
This one's got an appealingly slutty look.
I'm pretty sure that's Anne Coulter in a wig.
Or maybe with her natural hair color.
Honey. Doesn't your Islamic faith approve of my being on top. Why can't you come. It's been hours now.
I am a christian female. I am an Licensed Vocational Nurse going to school to become an RN. Which is why I am doing this online buisness. I have no time to get out and meet people. I am 28 years YOUNG!! I'm really not to good at talking about myself.
Seeking
I am looking for a christian, marriage minded man who wants to roll through life with their best friend. I am not looking for someone who has already been married. I believe that love is a choice and if you choose not to love you spouse AFTER you told God and everyone else that you would, I think this says something about your character. I am also not looking for someone who has kids. I am not looking to be an instant Mom. Last but not least...... I am not looking for a daddy! I am looking for someone who is close to my age not someone close to my fathers age. well that should narrow it down for you... sorry if i upset anyone but the question asked who i was seeking. now ya know..
A. Moses
It was like I was asaying yesterday. They own it. Maybe Dave or is it Filker can set up a bumper sticker to that effect.
She's Poultry in motion,
Blinded by repugnants..
apologies to thomad dolby
Hmm... ok, got it. Don't know how to make the link into nice text (i know it's easy though...)
Here's a winner:
http://www.conservativematch.com...s/users/
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'It's hard to find anyone happier with the reelection of George Bush than I am. Politics is my passion. I have other typically male interest, but nothing beats a strong debate on foreign policy and military strategy. I work as a forklift driver for the local sugar factory during the winter months. It's heavily unionized, so it goes without saying I encounter serious opposition to my political views. Fortunately, like typical liberals they can't form coherent arguments to offer as rebuttals to the well informed statements I make.'
She's Poultry in motion,
Blinded by repugnants..
apologies to thomas dolby
Bin Laden alive and releasing videos faster than Mary Kate and Ashley? WAY TO GO, DUDE!"
That's fucking hilarious !
SWR - is it me or does that profile just Have to be complete snark?
jdw
That is perfect. Its running in my head now.
ROFL
This one's got an appealingly slutty look.
Whoa. It's like a cross between Ann Coulter and Lara Flynn Boyle, with knee transplants from a baby elephant...
Sorry to rain on your parade(thread) but I've got some news. al-Zarqawi may have been captured. There has been no official word and this could just be a big rumor but as we near the election(Iraq) we have no idea what kind of crap they are going to pull. It hasn't been widley reported yet. Here is one link and here is the AP story.
OMG. SWR, methinks the slutty Xian Republican put a fake photo up.
LOL:
http://www.conservativematch.com...users/
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'I'm seeking an old fashioned girl who is comfortable with being a woman. If you're an overly independent, career-driven feminist type person who doesn't appreciate patriarchal values, then we're most likely not going to get along very well. You must not be afraid of masculinity, and must recognize the differences between the sexes. Someone who is family-oriented and not obsessed with her career. A healthy sense of humour is essential, since dry wit is a big part of my character. If you can't appreciate really bad jokes and obscure references, you probably won't understand me very well. Someone who can take joy in the simple things in life, and doesn't need to do crazy things in order to feel as though she is alive.'
and the fundies have submitted the New Testament as their party platform
New Testament?
This one's got an appealingly slutty look."
Bleach her hair, you got Coulter II.
That entry gave me one more reason to tell my wife I love her. With those folks running about, the dating game is even scarier.
Wow. If she ever divorces me or if she goes before me. Its a monastery life for me. Well, I have a few problems starting with belief or not, but I am sure its just a technical detail.
Gee, I hope when I mentioned playing SPLHCB with a sewing needle I didn't cause y'all any pain, or induce a siezure or anything.... everybody all right?
Doozer, I broke out in hives, but I'll...get...over...it. Maybe. Now I'm twitching... OMG...
Ever notice how male freepers feel the need to constantly remind people how great they are?
Someone who is family-oriented and not obsessed with her career.
OMG--It's Mr. LJ#1 combined with Mr. LJ #2!
Translation: You can work, as long as you bring that paycheck home for me to decide how to spend, but don't be gettin' no ideas about spending it yourself, or making more than me, woman. I won't have a woman who decides how to spend my money, and who does better at me than anything. So no, you can't became shift supervisor at McDonald's.
I'm starting to feel bad about this:
http://www.conservativematch.com...users/
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'I am 18, I want to one day be a political leader. I want to join the Armed Forces of America to protect the homeland of America. I hold very conservative views, the same our forefathers held. I believe that America is the greatest nation in the world. I believe that Native American casinos need to be abolished.'
Now that you mention it, Ripley, that would go along with them being compensating weiners....
I like the forklift driver/military strategerist who's too smart for liberals to argue with. Not sure exactly what look he was going for with the sailor suit and that expression. Sultry, maybe?
Bolo | Email | Homepage | 01.23.05 - 1:09 am | #
I like my wimmen meek, that way I can concentrate on beating the kids.
I likee my gun.
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SWR | Email | Homepage | 01.23.05 - 12:57 am | #
"i would prefer someone who would go hunting and shooting with me."
what a dumbass. the whole point of going hunting is to get away from your wife. the whole point of "putting up with" your husband's hunting is to get him out of the damn house.
And we're absolutely *sure* this is not a parody site?
That's a tough call, Pete. If they got him, great - but I'm not sure if it will make things better or worse, esp regarding the election.
"i would prefer someone who would go hunting and shooting with me."
what a dumbass. the whole point of going hunting is to get away from your wife. the whole point of "putting up with" your husband's hunting is to get him out of the damn house.
Maybe he doesn't believe in divorce, and wants to make sure he always has an exit strategy available.
It sounds to me that the "being under authority" concept is alive and well in conservative land.
I begin to suspect the Promise Keepers did their tasks well.
"Gee, I hope when I mentioned playing SPLHCB with a sewing needle I didn't cause y'all any pain, or induce a siezure or anything."
Heck, with the equipment I owned as a kid they didn't last anyway. 'Genuine ruby' styli that were probably 3/$1.99...flip it over, one for 45's the others for 33 1/3? Heck, when they skip you'd just affix quarters to the tone arm.
I like the forklift driver/military strategerist who's too smart for liberals to argue with.
I got a kick out of him, too. I know this type. We have some of them in the postal service. Newsflash, freepi: The second you say "Islamofascist" you pretty much demonstrate that you know jack shit about foreign policy.
Oh. My. God.
Hobbies: can i count spending time playing with my dog in the dog run? i do it everyday and it's one of the best things in my life.
'And we're absolutely *sure* this is not a parody site?'
Yeah. There's a physics major from my school on it.
Feel bas as in guilty, Bolo, or bad as in scared for the future of the country?
LJ,
You put up with that kinda shit, even short term?
LJ; That's a relief! I didn't really mean to....but I had to hear it again...and...
You know what's funny though; I never had much of a record collection--OK, partly for obvious reasons--but when I went digital in '94, I started buying CDs left and right, and gave Best Buy a whole lotsa my hard-earned. I now have almost 200 CDs...and only 3 of 'em are the Beatles. I really think it's because I heard all those songs on the radio--and through a sewing needle--so many times I just don't need to hear them any more.
Oh, SPLHCB is one of 'em.
I tend to agree with Ripley. I am curious as to why they would permit this sort of rumor to get out. He is not the only insurgent, and the majority are local to Iraq, I am sure he has a number two.
I wonder who they are manipulating? The populace? or the insurgents? I suspect the insurgents will strike in retaliation with a great deal of ferocity if true.
I likee my gun.
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SWR | Email | Homepage | 01.23.05 - 12:57 am | #
Gonna try this one again.
I don't even know where to start on this guy... like maybe when I closed his pic right away because I was afraid he was going to jump out of the powerbook and bite my ears off.
http://www.conservativematch.com.../users/
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'I am a generally traditional guy who has enjoys taking care of a woman, taking her out, spending quality time getting to know each other better through conversation, going on walks, etc. I've grown frustrated by too many relationships in which women don't appreciate romance and simply wont allow me to treat them as a gentleman would.'
Oh. My. God.
Hobbies: can i count spending time playing with my dog in the dog run? i do it everyday and it's one of the best things in my life.
Mwah hah hah hah hah... Took a few secs to make the connection on that one.
Define "playing".
'Feel bas as in guilty, Bolo, or bad as in scared for the future of the country?'
Both.
Bad, also
Me, I'm scared for the future of the country...
It sounds to me that the "being under authority" concept is alive and well in conservative land.
I begin to suspect the Promise Keepers did their tasks well.
Ever see any of these PromiseKeeper losers? Or, even more humorously, their wives?
They're the people nobody with working brains wants to go out with.
BWWWAAAA
It says that I can't go on without telling you something about me. I really wanted to come back and do this part later because I've been working on this profile for about an hour now and I want to do something else. Something that I don't think came out in the basic questions is that I have a good sense of humor. I'm also learning how to be a lady and trying to re-program and re-learn how to live after 28 years of feminist propaganda. It's hard work but I believe it will be worth it. Hmm.. my parents are both deceased and the only family I keep in touch with is my brother (but that's limited right now because he's about to be deployed). We are very close. And I like to write on my blog. And I like my cat.
Found a possible troll:
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'...One of my favorite things to do is go on a liberal forums and argue with them.'
"I like the forklift driver/military strategerist who's too smart for liberals to argue with."
Yup, that one is great. And he's working in a union shop. Wonder if he'd be willing to take minimum wage, just so he didn't benefit from union membership?
When you think about it, he ain't any less qualified in matters military then Wolfowitz.
Reality filter on Bolo's post above.
'I am 18, I want to one day beat an intern to death in my office. I want to join the Armed Forces of America to protect the homeland of America, but I am pervert with sociopathic tendancies and they won't let me in, the liberal lefty loonies. I hold very conservative views, the same my father held, and which he bet into me at a young age. I believe that America is the greatest nation in the world, and I don't like black people. I believe that Native Americans need to be abolished.'
'I am a generally traditional guy who has enjoys taking care of a woman, taking her out, spending quality time getting to know each other better through conversation, going on walks, etc. I've grown frustrated by too many relationships in which women don't appreciate romance and simply wont allow me to treat them as a gentleman would.'
Oh yeah, "Republicans Like It On Top" - *very* chivalrous.
As a general rule, I try to keep my mouth closed when being photographed...
Dooger:
Don't ask how many CDs are floating around my house, most of them acquired since 1996. Between Mr. LJ and the LJ spawn and me... We're talking a lot more than 200 per person.
Definitely don't ask about the book collection.
LJ
Yes I have, I worked with one over the top son of a gun. And it is interesting where the influence pops up as well. Go back to the prez and work backwards on his religious affiliations.
"al-zarqawi may have been captured. . .this may just be a big rumor. . ."
-pete q
put me down for 100 quatloons on rumor.
I'm cryin here.... lmao
One of my favorite things to do is go on a liberal forums and argue with them.
Message for troll:
Please watch Monty Python's Argument Clinic. Because you're the Clinic worker. Not the guy wanting an argument. He knows what one is, and defines it quite well.
Hobbies: can i count spending time playing with my dog in the dog run? i do it everyday and it's one of the best things in my life.
Oh, Ricky, you're so fine
You're so fine
You blow my DOG
Hey Ricky!
Hmmmmmmm.
I believe that true men of God and warriors for truth still exitst. I am a literary minded soul who is looking for a kindred spirit who desires to see every day as a new adventure, a step along the journey God has planned. I was raised in a Christian conservative home that has listened to Rush Limbaugh for the past 10 years. I am a teacher and am passionate about pro-life, school choice (I find it ironic that the same people who are so in favor of choice when it comes to abortion are so against it when it comes to education), and protection of family and marriage issues. I am a believer in freedom and free enterprise. And I believe the most important freedom is the freedom to worship God and profess your convictions in the public arenas. I love to travel, to read, and to laugh. My heroes include G.K. Chesterton, Eric Liddel, Joshua L. Chamberlain, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien. I am a follower of Jesus Christ and am transformed daily by His love and grace in my life.
Ever see any of these PromiseKeeper losers? Or, even more humorously, their wives?
No, but there was some kind of Christian Women convention at the arena a few blocks from my house. I was out walking to or from work or something when they were out & about. Not a single attractive one in the entire bunch. I mean, not even *close*.
Yup, that one is great. And he's working in a union shop. Wonder if he'd be willing to take minimum wage, just so he didn't benefit from union membership?
This is the one that always ends ALL arguments with the postal freepi: Yeah, you bash the union, but you damn well know that you wouldn't be making $20/hr if it weren't for that union you hate and refuse to support. And boy do you suddenly love the union when management fires your sorry ass and the union gets you your job back.
This almost seems cruel.
I'm a mother of infant twins. My husband abandoned us when they were newborns. I am a traditional girl. I stride to be a moral, honest, loving and kind person. I believe husbands and wives each have their own roles in a family. I can be a pretty silly person at times and love children.
I was raised in a Christian conservative home that has listened to Rush Limbaugh for the past 10 years
Oh. my. god.... that explains a few things. I'm not satisfied with the explanations but there they are...
This almost seems cruel.
That one doesn't sound so bad. More brainwashed than evil or crazy.
I should note that I'm just cherry-picking the worst... there are plenty of normal looking and thinking people on the site...
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'The first and biggest requirement is that her faith must be at least as strong as mine. Relationships are nothing without God, absolutely nothing. Second is a moral lifestyle; no smoking, drinking, drugs, sex, etc, and bonus points for avoiding movies with sex and nudity in them.'
Heck, when they skip you'd just affix quarters to the tone arm.
jdw
In the early '80s I finally broke down & bought a real whizbang Marantz Stereo (still have the speakers). Came with it's own quarters. Strooth! Sliding steel weights on the tone arm. No more coin-op! What will these crafty engineers think of next?!
How can you read those without joining?
I believe husbands and wives each have their own roles in a family.
Translation: The husband makes the money and I spend it!
Wait...that's the Zsa Zsa Gabor theory of husband/wife roles!
Doctor Dave had sex with one of his patients and felt guilty all day long.
No matter how much he tried to forget about it - he couldn't. The guilt and sense of betrayal was overwhelming.
But every once in a while he'd hear an internal, reassuring voice that said:
"Dave, don't worry about it. You aren't the first doctor to sleep with one of their patients and you won't be the last. And you're single. Just let it go."
But invariably another inner voice would bring him back to reality, whispering..............
"Dave, you're a veterinarian."
Second is a moral lifestyle; no smoking, drinking, drugs, sex, etc, and bonus points for avoiding movies with sex and nudity in them.
OMG. No sex? Not even after you're married?
Wait... We need to convince them that this is a GOOD thing. Then they won't reproduce!
bonus points for avoiding movies with sex and nudity in them.
Wait, do you have to accumulate a certain number of "points" before this guy will date you? Do frequent flyer miles count?
I'm sure this isn't specific to freepers but one thing that drives me crazy is people that say and type things using the wrong word because it's phonically close.
I stride to be a moral Stride? Jeebus Christ on a dogsled !
We had a trainer at work that kept saying "get the just of it" instead of "gist". I wanted to slam my head on the desk by the end of the 1st day of training.
On the plus side, Mr Roboto is on the radio... lol
What's up with this?:
I agree that I am using this service for the purpose of meeting other conservative singles to date, create friendships, or communicate with. In good faith I consider myself a conservative and typically represent myself as such when expressing my ideological views. I understand the term "conservative" in the context of this service to mean "someone who embraces values typically associated with political parties or ideologies such as Republicans, Libertarians, Constitutionalists, 'Reagan Democrats' or similar parties from other countries."
Jesus the things you find.
Being the daughter of a powerful man has given me more than a few father issues, I must admit. How do you tell the old man you're not as much of a Christian as he is, and that you wish he would get back to his old drinking ways? How do you tell him that while Marines look really cute in those dress blues, you don't exactly want to see them sent to Iraq and get their heads blown off?
So what am I doing here? Believe it or not, it's not easy for me to find a date so I'm throwing the door open to some of you fine Christian, Republican men. Can you please me? Can you meet my standards? Well, time will only tell. And if you can't, oh well, I'll just have some of daddy's guys in the dark suits beat you to within an inch of your life.
MisterX; Good one! Dr Demento would be proud .
Lmao yeshai
Regan Democrats counts as conservative? Wtf...
"liding steel weights on the tone arm."
I don't remember those but do remember when they starting coming out with the counterweights...it was like, hmm..maybe putting ounces of weight on top of a diamond point on plastic ain't the best idea for record longetivity..haha...and the litle strobe light thingys so you could get it just right at 33 1/3.
I freaking feel ancient.
Looks like it's my night for translating all this nonsense.
bonus points for avoiding movies with sex and nudity in them.
Translation: I don't want you to get any ideas that will make you realize that I'm really lousy in bed and will never, ever be any better because I can never get past the idea of sex being "icky."
'I believe that true men of God and warriors for truth still exitst, usually late at night when I am by myself. I am a literary minded soul who is looking for a kindred spirit who desires to see every day as a new adventure, a step along the journey God has planned. I was raised in a Christian conservative home that has listened to Rush Limbaugh for the past 10 years, and I am currently in therapy for this. I am a teacher and am passionate about pro-life, school choice (I find it ironic that people who want control of their bodies also want decent education, lol, roflmao), and protection of family and marriage issues, because my last boyfriend ran off with an asian woman, the bastard, just because she would go down on him. I am a believer in freedom and free enterprise, and I don't like black people very much. And I believe the most important freedom is the freedom to worship God and profess your convictions in the public arenas, because I am a hyprocrite like Jesus mentioned in the bible. I love to travel, I even crossed state lines once, to read, and to laugh at the misfortune of others. My heroes include G.K. Chesterton, Eric Liddel, Joshua L. Chamberlain, R. Hess, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien. I am a follower of Jesus Christ and when I take a lot of tranquilisers I see angels.
What will these crafty engineers think of next?!
Doozer among Fraggles
I have recently found a Harmann-Kardann(sp?) DIRECT DRIVE turntable at a yard sale IN THE BOX for $25... those damn things used to be $150-$250 back when I was making $1.90 an hour!
Love it.
...I can be a pretty silly person at times and love children.
With a little salt and pepper, I bet.
Dunno, maybe a little butter and chive thing.
To me, this one says, "I am the daughter of a lunatic, controlling Pentecostal minister who makes me wear something black every day. My "husband" left me before my kids were born because my father threatened to drown him in the baptistry and put him in the freezer..."
litle strobe light thingys so you could get it just right at 33 1/3.
Oh. My. God. I had a turntable that had one of those. Spent a fortune for it. Loved it. Want to feel really old? Remember the belt-drive vs. direct drive debates?
I believe husbands and wives each have their own roles in a family
You don't remember this little gem from Ayatollah Jerry?
“God made men to take care of women, to protect them, to help them with their jackets and make sure nobody else messes with them.” – Jerry Falwell
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'I am a conservative Protestant/Evangelical. Non-denominational fundamentalist. I grew up in a country which went thru a revolution, when the country's currency, being the strongest in the world, turned into 0 value overnight. So I've come not to put my trust in any world government or in any currency or economic system anymore. I like compassionate capitalism, though I don't like democracy, I prefer a country having a king rather than a democratic process that comes up with outrageous laws such as the abortion law that slaughters the innocents, tolarance toward sodimites which leads to more homosexuality, fornicators that degrade and trash a father's dignity, adulterers that destroy the family(If you can debate this then I am ready to listen). I do still believe in free speech.'
"liding steel weights on the tone arm."
I don't remember those but do remember when they starting coming out with the counterweights...it was like, hmm..maybe putting ounces of weight on top of a diamond point on plastic ain't the best idea for record longetivity..haha...and the litle strobe light thingys so you could get it just right at 33 1/3.
I freaking feel ancient.
And Mister X mentions direct drive almost at the same time. It's like, karma. Or something.
I still prefer music played on records. It had a "warmer" sound than CDs have. I mean, I tolerate CDs, and mp3s on my puter & iPod, but they sound colder than the old LPs did.
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'I absolutely HATE liberalis and the secularist movement that can unfortunately be heard due to the rise of stupidity being taught in public schools by leftist teachers that don't want to teach the truth but their own distorted views of how communism is 'freedom'. Well anyways, that's enough of my rambling.'
SWR | Email | Homepage | 01.23.05 - 1:27 am | #
Man, that one is sad, because she looks young as well. Abandoned when they were infants means she got knocked up and then he ran. Poor girl.
"help them with their jackets"????
I have recently found a Harmann-Kardann(sp?) DIRECT DRIVE turntable at a yard sale IN THE BOX for $25... those damn things used to be $150-$250 back when I was making $1.90 an hour!
My brother would drool over something like that. He's still a vinyl head. I just can't see it, though. Or hear it, rather. Every record I ever heard on vinyl sounds better on CD, especially with headphones. And you can polish out the scratches, or make an absolutely perfect copy. This is true progress. And what's this about CDs only lasting a few years? Lots of mine are 10 years old, and they all still sound great.
I have recently found a Harmann-Kardann(sp?) DIRECT DRIVE turntable at a yard sale IN THE BOX for $25.."
Got ya beat, maybe. Got a Technics, direct drive, linear tracking, VERTICAL turntable. Not new, but I still gots the box! Musta bought that around 1978-79, I think.
Ripley:
Problem with Dr. Falwell's little quip? Um, the supposed big guy didn't create man to help women. Seems I recall the thing about Adam being kinda lonely with nobody like him around, just a bunch of animals and plants. Unless, Mr. Falwell is willing to admit the possibility that his so-called god first created woman...
Man, that one is sad, because she looks young as well. Abandoned when they were infants means she got knocked up and then he ran. Poor girl.
WKD | Email | Homepage | 01.23.05 - 1:41 am | #
29 for age.
I wonder if any of those nice, Christian conservative men are going to be willing to date a woman with children.
Or will their "Christian" desire for a virgin give them an out on this one.
The Iraqi Interior Minister is playing cutesy regarding al-Zarqawi, so we may as well keep dissecting these lovelorn Republicans til we have real news.
so... what would notJenna's profile look like? Or would she rely on the Cheney daughter doing a little informal matchmaking?
'I absolutely HATE liberalis and the secularist movement that can unfortunately be heard due to the rise of stupidity being taught in public schools by leftist teachers that don't want to teach the truth but their own distorted views of how communism is 'freedom'. Well anyways, that's enough of my rambling.'
Gah! He looks like the guy in The Hills Have Eyes. Michael Berryman, I think it was.
Technics is still putting out turntables and they're actually the preferred tools for a lot of scratchers. I don't remember the model but they call them "tanks" and say they're basically indestructible.
Real audiophiles still use microwatt tube amps and deabte over proper tube break-in and warm up. My ears have probably seen their better days for that level of aural sophistication, those years playing in metal bands wasn't my brightest choice. Then again, that whole period of my life... nevermind... lol
The Iraqi Interior Minister is playing cutesy regarding al-Zarqawi, so we may as well keep dissecting these lovelorn Republicans til we have real news.
And when they capture Zarqawi (or whatever poor sap gets pegged as him) and things in Iraq still keep going boom, what's the excuse going to be this time?
"remember the belt drive vs direct drive debates?"
i came really close to buying a turntable with linear tracking once. good thing i didn't because cds came out like an hour later.
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'I like this site because I'm tired of arguing about politics on the first date. I can't help it, it's my life, and I'll be the first one to admit that I often let my strong opinions (about almost everything) cloud my judgement of others. But I've gotten a lot better with that. All I want is a woman who can think for herself and has a good head with some common sense on her shoulders - she don't have to always agree with me. I like women who have a more traditional view on the roles of men & women in the home, society, and life. I also gravitate towards older women. Don't be fooled by my age - I'm mature far beyond my years.'
SWR:
Methinks the nice Christian conservative men ('scuse me while I hurl) will see her as a bit of tail. Hey, she's fair game now that she's impure. But marry her? Never! This is how most of those sick fucks think. Not all. But enough of them.
And when they capture Zarqawi (or whatever poor sap gets pegged as him) and things in Iraq still keep going boom, what's the excuse going to be this time?
Obviously, the loss of their leader has made the terrorists even *more* desperate.
"...and the litle strobe light thingys so you could get it just right at 33 1/3.
I freaking feel ancient.
jdw
Well, without a turntable, how else are you gonna physically spin Pink Floyd's "The Wall" backwards right before the song "Young Lust" and hear the Pink Floyd Secret Message? Remember THAT?
Falwell and Miracle Man Pat are both screaming ninnies about the "man is the head of the family" doctrine.
I can't even imagine growing up in families and communities that some of these people keep - no offense to them, it just makes me queasy....
I wonder if any of those nice, Christian conservative men are going to be willing to date a woman with children.
Or will their "Christian" desire for a virgin give them an out on this one.
Good god man, have you been paying attention to the pictures of those fine young repuglicans?
If anything, it's what mom and pop would have to say that keep them from jumping on it.
but they sound colder than the old LPs did."
Only because they can reproduce treble, the first thing that went when the stylus wore the groove to hell(and the sytule also wore), plus IF you even had a tweeter in your box back then it was crap. Just EQ all your upper frequencies flat or below flat..instant 'warmth', or buy speakers without tweeters, if you can even find them.
Real audiophiles still use microwatt tube amps and deabte over proper tube break-in and warm up.
I can remember that one, too! It was a bit beyond my understanding, but I do remember how crazy some folks got about it.
And yes to whoever said it, I remember the linear drive tables.
By the way, 750+ posts with only 8-10 trollposts! That's gotta be a new record!
Atrios, can we have a new thread as a gift for the home audience?
i remember the backwards masking stuff. i tried it on every record that i heard had it. never heard any of it though.
Good god man, have you been paying attention to the pictures of those fine young repuglicans?
If anything, it's what mom and pop would have to say that keep them from jumping on it.
Central Scrutinizer | Email | Homepage | 01.23.05 - 1:49 am | #
I don't know. You'd be surprised at the number of them who are probably "holding out" for the perfect woman and wouldn't touch something impure enough to have given birth.
But real conservatives don't look for their women on sites like that. They spend their time on sites for East European mail order brides or Thai hookers.
Even Republican American women are probably not "traditional" enough for them.
By the way, 750+ posts with only 8-10 trollposts! That's gotta be a new record!
You'd think some of them would at least show up to say "Hey, don't make fun! My mom picked that picture out for me!"
Been gone for a while. Watched Kill Bill 2. Ah, the Bride. But I digress
One good thing about being older is that I still remember waking up and hearing 3 specific new songs (at the time of course) for the first time on the radio when I turned it on: "Light My Fire", "Let it Be" and "Purple Haze". Ah, I especially remember "Purple Haze" it was like a new language or something.
Oh well. On to the future. Im rather new to this world. Having previously only frequented mobile phone, frequnt flyer and watch web forums. But in this little web world (internets?) is it considered bad form to go onto right wing blogs and well, for lack of a better term, "fuck up their shit". This is a nice community but sometimes I must admit to feeling wicked. I would so adore some verbal jousting with some mouth breathers. Im I am bad person for this? If not, any suggestions as to where to find such folks?
'I am a conservative Protestant/Evangelical. Non-denominational fundamentalist, so I don't really like women very much. I grew up in a country which went thru a revolution, when the country's currency, being the strongest in the world, turned into 0 value overnight. It's called America. So I've come not to put my trust in any world government or in any currency or economic system anymore, even though no world government has ever existed. I like compassionate capitalism, which I think means not laughing at poor people though I don't like democracy, I prefer a country having a king
(because that works much better for my power fantasies) rather than a democratic process which comes up with outrageous laws such as the abortion law that slaughters non-sentient cells in someone elses body, tolarance toward sodimites which leads to more hot sweaty forbidden homosexuality, fornicators like that bastard that my wife left me for, adulterers that destroy the family like that slut that my father ran away with (If you can debate this then I will put my fingers in my ears and shout I"M NOT LISTENING as hard as I can). I do still believe in free speech, although how I reconcile this with my other beliefs is beyond comprehension.'
" and hear the Pink Floyd Secret Message? Remember THAT?"
Oh yeah, and the end of Abby Road for the secret Paul clue? Or the subliminal messages in metal music....kill yer mama!! haha.
i remember the backwards masking stuff. i tried it on every record that i heard had it. never heard any of it though.
Try ELO's "Face the music."
"The music is reversible."
al-Zarqawi's capture this close to the selection over there is just plain scary to me. I imagine there's going to be a lot of blood in the streets this week, ours and the Iraqis.
Was it PJ O'Rourke that said, "What the fuck? What the fucking fuck???"
Thanks, G.... you fuck
Only because they can reproduce treble, the first thing that went when the stylus wore the groove to hell(and the sytule also wore), plus IF you even had a tweeter in your box back then it was crap. Just EQ all your upper frequencies flat or below flat..instant 'warmth', or buy speakers without tweeters, if you can even find them.
Nah. I had a good system Marantz for a while, then a high-end Technics, good tweeters, and CDs just sounded colder to me, on the same exact systems. I tried different CD players. Same result. It's just the sound of them. But my ears are sensitive to that stuff.
LOL. This one's clearly fake:
'I like to drive my pickup truck all over the place. I love the sound of my gun firing at 5AM. I love to come home and watch reruns of full house while sipping some brew. I can't stand those hippies who go off and get an "education" at one of those schools out in those blue states. Except if you're a Bush. Or any other republican for that matter.'
'I want to meet someone who is not afraid to talk about their faith in the Lord and Christ our Savior, who lived to forgive our sins and preached nothing but hatred towards the middle east and decried the acts of homosexuality. I'm particular about my ladies though.'
Got ya beat, maybe. Got a Technics, direct drive, linear tracking, VERTICAL turntable. Not new, but I still gots the box! Musta bought that around 1978-79, I think.
jdw
OOoooooooooohhh. Nice.
SWR | Email | Homepage | 01.23.05 - 1:43 am | #
Yeah, I think she is pretty much fucked in that respect. I still feel sorry for her, can't help it.
Oh, and on new and old albums. Same thing. I've read that it has something to do with the analog wave pattern vs. digital.
Hiya, Sent - go fuck 'em good... hehehe
To the tunrtable discussion - most amps, esp compact systems, have a built in sub-amp for the turntable inputs because the turntables don't push much power thru. If you've ever hooked another device into the t/t input you sometimes notice that it sounds funny. It depends on the manufacturer but IIRC that was pretty common.
I'm sure he's a hit with the ladies:
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'Fun-loving person looking to get out more and just have some fun. I hold my beliefs with great passion and sometimes it's so passionate that I can get myself into a rut. I believe abortion is the defining social issue of are time and the only way we as a people can rid ourselves of this holocaust of the unborn is to stop unelected judges from thwarting the will of the people. I do have a few vices like real good or bad horror movies that I probably watch to much but hey, nobody's perfect. My idea of a perfect date would be dinner and a movie. In the end I guess I'm kind of old fashioned in many way's but I was luck to have parents who helped me form my opinions about life.'
central scrutinizer, to be fair i could never figure out how to get power to the speakers while the record was playing backwards. the way i tried to do it was by spinning the record backwards with my finger with the needle on the record and the power off, holding my ear very close to the recored. looking back it is probably just a matter of switching a couple of wires to make it spin backwards.
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Excuse me while I've a psychotic breakdown and wind up on the floor in a fetal position in a puddle of my own vomit.
And they bitch about the secular school systems? Maybe you should shut up and listen so you can learn grammar and spelling !!!
LJ | Email | Homepage | 01.23.05 - 1:47 am | #
Well, if she's had children then she's had sex, so she must be a goer, know what I mean? Know what I mean?
SWR, I'm.. so.. confused... ummm.. is that... no... I... no, just no...
Excuse me while I've a psychotic breakdown and wind up on the floor in a fetal position in a puddle of my own vomit.
Man, was that a great come-hither look or what?
Sentenza
just to weigh in on the issue, I really do not feel we should "troll" the "other" side. I realize some folks would disagree, but to me it is stooping to their level. Outside of personal satisfaction what does it accomplish but to give us a bad name.
"Nah. I had a good system Marantz for a while, then a high-end Technics, good tweeters, and CDs just sounded colder to me, on the same exact systems."
I'd agree with that, side by side they would sound colder because the lp's lack treble(which for cd's you can eq out) and I also think it has to do with how distinctly the cd technology can render various instruments/voices...ie clarity over muddiness.
holocaust of the unborn
Never mind the women (and, of course their unborn children) who died from illegal abortions, you fuckwit.
I was going to say something about how terribly pathetic you all are, but i'll refrain from my full speech because i realize it would be a total waste of energy. I, like any other level-headed person trying to get you to see the total idiocy of your thinking processes, would be exorciated and marginilized and any argument i would have made would be completely ignored. I dont want to contribute to the eventual heat death of the universe any more than i already am (if any of you know what that means, ill be surprised). I will adress one major point, however. You wonder why there arent any "trolls" here. Thats because they realized, as i did, that there is nothing worth taking apart here, it is all useless blather and idiotic political jokes (btw, its not hard to replace the names and parties with that of the other sides in those political jokes.....but i guess thats beyond you all.) You pollute the internet with your mindless chattering, and even when you try to put forth an idea, its nothing that we havent heard a million times before. There is no disscusion, discourse, or debate here. Only your side, and anyone else who might think differently is obciously a gay-hating bigot from a red state. Good luck in accomplishing exactly nothing with the rest of your wasted lives.
winl wink.. say n'more say n'more
A blogger:
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'I am extremely conservative. I run a web-blog called "The (vast) Right Wing Conspiracy".'
Oh, and on new and old albums. Same thing. I've read that it has something to do with the analog wave pattern vs. digital.
LJ | Email | Homepage | 01.23.05 - 1:57 am | #
If NTodd is here, maybe we can start up the digital vs. film debate again.
For anybody who's nostalgic for the old days (1990s) of digital cameras.
lj, i can only think of 2 disadvantages of cds compared to vinyl. compact discs have:
1. compact cover art.
2. compact liner notes.
I love you too Lyceum.
"Excuse me while I've a psychotic breakdown and wind up on the floor in a fetal position in a puddle of my own vomit."
ya gotta admit that on the whole, the lady pics you've posted are much more attractive then the men. No wonder they're dried up bitter shrews, if that's the available dating material.
>Ooops. He forgot his picture.
I was going to say something about how terribly pathetic you all are, but i'll refrain from my full speech because i realize it would be a total waste of energy. I, like any other level-headed person trying to get you to see the total idiocy of your thinking processes, would be exorciated and marginilized and any argument i would have made would be completely ignored. I dont want to contribute to the eventual heat death of the universe any more than i already am (if any of you know what that means, ill be surprised). I will adress one major point, however. You wonder why there arent any "trolls" here. Thats because they realized, as i did, that there is nothing worth taking apart here, it is all useless blather and idiotic political jokes (btw, its not hard to replace the names and parties with that of the other sides in those political jokes.....but i guess thats beyond you all.) You pollute the internet with your mindless chattering, and even when you try to put forth an idea, its nothing that we havent heard a million times before. There is no disscusion, discourse, or debate here. Only your side, and anyone else who might think differently is obciously a gay-hating bigot from a red state. Good luck in accomplishing exactly nothing with the rest of your wasted lives.
Lyceum | Email | Homepage | 01.23.05 - 2:03 am | #
Ba'al damn, SWR 2:00, that is an extreme reaction- should we don our hazmat suits before going into that site?
'SWR, I'm.. so.. confused... ummm.. is that... no... I... no, just no...'
Was there something about the picture that I missed? Aside from the obvious not-so-great looks combined with the anti-abortion rant?
"how terribly pathetic you all are"
So much for giving your audience a chance for an open mind. You have convicted and are sentencing as you write.
"useless blather and idiotic political jokes"
As is 99 percent of most discussions when people are chilling and just having fun.
But when the 1 percent gets going here, it is germaine and riveting.
"You pollute the internet"
Right. This site and these people are responsible for the said pollution of the internet. Come on folks, lets own up, we disabled our IP based catalytic converters and we are on pass through pipes.
"the rest of your wasted lives"
Define wasted? I am perfectly sober.
just to weigh in on the issue, I really do not feel we should "troll" the "other" side. I realize some folks would disagree, but to me it is stooping to their level. Outside of personal satisfaction what does it accomplish but to give us a bad name.
Gotta agree with EkC about not going to another site, maybe from a slightly different perspective.
Me, I don't believe in going places where I'm not welcome. I don't believe in going into someone else's house and telling them how to do things, either. Both are just bad manners. That's always my biggest problem with the trolls, the lack of manners.
"I love you too Lyceum."
Get his brother here, and we got a pair-a-lyceum.
G'night folks!
Olaf,
If I remember correctly, I had a Kenwood direct drive turntable that would spin backwards without any kind of alteration.
"If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now
It's just a spring clean for the May Queen."
"The one will be the sad one, who makes me sad, who's power is Satan."
Something like that.
'ya gotta admit that on the whole, the lady pics you've posted are much more attractive then the men. No wonder they're dried up bitter shrews, if that's the available dating material.'
I'm just posting the uglier guys I find.
ya gotta admit that on the whole, the lady pics you've posted are much more attractive then the men. No wonder they're dried up bitter shrews, if that's the available dating material.
It has more to do with the fact that most conservative (and American men in general) aren't interested in actual women so much as in their media inspired fantasies.
I'd guess that conservative men are just a bit more repressed and less likely to overcome their mother issues. That's why they're sooooooo afraid of "turning gay" and sooooo afraid of women sleeping around.
SWR | Email | Homepage | 01.23.05 - 2:07 am | #
I love you SWR.
Ummm, Lyceum, it's an open thread and we're just fucking about.
Also, you spelled "marginalized" incorrectly, you forgot several apostrophes and if that's not your full speech, then aren't We the lucky ones?
What exactly is the idiocy of our thinking process? Not believing in God?
And heat death? That's a little beyond our control, isn't it? Pollute the internet? Better than polluting the air and water, don't you think?
" and hear the Pink Floyd Secret Message? Remember THAT?"
Oh yeah, and the end of Abby Road for the secret Paul clue? Or the subliminal messages in metal music....kill yer mama!! haha.
jdw
Errm. No, actually, there is a "secret mesage" on the Pink Floyd album "The Wall", right before the song "Young Lust", where the lyric "What shall
we use
to build
the final..." runs.
Right before this, there is some garbled talking/gibberish... actually, it is a backwards recording of something like "You have just dicovered the secret backwards message on Pink Floyd's "The Wall". Send your answer/letter(?) to: and it gives an address that you would write to and they would send you something...
No shit.
"I love you SWR.
WKD "
The secret love life of Initials?
"What exactly is the idiocy of our thinking process? Not believing in God? "
Is there a presumption that no one on this blog believes in a god or diety?
This guy is brainwashing his poor kid:
http://www.conservativematch.com.../users/
1383.jpg
'I'm a goofy kind of guy who likes to spend time with my son, time with friends, travel when possible (not very often lately), try and see new things. My son and I like camping, Cedar Point, his hockey games, and discussing how liberalism is contrary to this country's best interests. Ok, I like talking about the last one. He doesn't get a choice...he has to listen!'
'Is there a presumption that no one on this blog believes in a god or diety?'
No, no presumption at all.
EkCenTriK | Email | Homepage | 01.23.05 - 2:11 am | #
It's kinda like the Masons.
Oh good grief. Not knowing heat death? Get real. Phila and Backslider can--and will--talk physics, all night long if you let them.
Lysceum, your brain has reached its own heat death. Go to Free Republic. You'll fit right in there.
I, like any other level-headed person trying to get you to see the total idiocy of your thinking processes, would be exorciated and marginilized and any argument i would have made would be completely ignored.
Why do half-educated morons always think that big words and convoluted sentences = smart?
Short, Anglo Saxon words and clear, declarative sentences are better than channeling the spirit of William F. Buckley through cheap beer and sexual frustration.
No, Ek but I seem to get that a lot. "All liberals are god hating homosexuals that can't think straight because they don't believe in god".
I'm not gay and I couldn't care less if people believe in god, as long as they don't try to ram it into one of my many human holes.
Bolo
check out the door frame on that last pic you put up.
Why do half-educated morons always think that big words and convoluted sentences = smart?
They're even more impressive when misused and/or misspelled.
And one more word to the wise...
Paragraphs.
Sultry:
http://www.conservativematch.com.../users/
7276.jpg
...
God, I'm going to Hell for this...
"It's kinda like the Masons.
WKD"
The Initialatti?
Sultry:
Colin Quinn?
That is an engaging little sermon from our visitor, and while it casts a keen eye on our flaws, fails to recognize the image in the mirror.
Really- someone's going to "level-headedly" tell *him* he's a "total idiot" and he's going to smile shamefacedly and say "gee I guess you got a point there, let's have a discourse"?
yeah, right
Gee, Lieseeum thinks we're the ones with faulty thinking processes. Compared to...?
People who believe WMDs have been found in Iraq?
People who believed the Iraqis would greet us with flowers as the great liberators?
That Social Security is in crisis?
Yeah. We're the ones with screwy thinking.
'Bolo
check out the door frame on that last pic you put up.'
I see the master of home repair uses packing tape to weatherproof his doors. Way to impress the ladies.
First Album; Buffalo Springfield. Much much later first "real" turntable- BIC (yeah, I know not too swift). Most interesting find (swap meet/garage sale) Sharp RP-117, front loading turntable with 2 stylus, capable of playing both sides of the vinyl without turning it over. Not exactly audiophile grade stuff, for sure. Didn't make it to my first concert until mid 80's at the local university- Jean-Luc Ponty. Wow! What a mean violin, with wah-wah, echo, and fuzz box! Got hooked into "fusion" jazz, am listening to Pat Metheny right now.
Bolo
I was thinking the duct tape and plastic sheet approach...
btw, am i the onlt one who suspects that ba'al's secret identity is robert m. jeffers?
I'm ashamed to admit that my first concert was Jerry Jeff Walker.
LJ, you false patriot ! They found the SS fund money and there is no WMD crisis !
Wait.. that can't be right... umm... wmds.. and ss..hmmm crisis...lemme see... saddam... mission to mars...
Well... you know what I mean, you bad American !!
EkCenTriK | Email | Homepage | 01.23.05 - 2:17 am | #
Yeah, pretty much.
Why do half-educated morons always think that big words and convoluted sentences = smart?
paging konopelli....
Olaf glad and big
I was sort of thinking it was Duncan, but Jeffers hmmmm has anyone seen them in the same thread at the same time? And Jeffers does wear those funny glasses and is always edging towards the phone booth just when Babylonian dieties become appropriate to the conversation. Hmmmmm...
btw, am i the onlt one who suspects that ba'al's secret identity is robert m. jeffers?
Olaf glad and big
==========
Well, now you're not.
I'm ashamed to admit that my first concert was Jerry Jeff Walker.
Will there be any up in Heaven?
Will there be any, I've got to know...
Remember honey, God comes first:
http://www.conservativematch.com...users/
14617.jpg
'I'm 30, divorced, have custody of my 4 yr old son, own a telecom business here in oklahoma. very active in church. i want to find someone that holds the same beliefs, such as sticking in a marraige even when it gets tough, knowing that god comes first, things like that.'
goat dot cx,
WWG is actually educated.
Pay attention, you might learn something.
Actually, I got some of the details wrong.
Heh.
pat metheny rocks. i think he must have listened to tons of zappa.
Remember honey, God comes first:
Can't God just think about baseball every once in a while?
Dumass, I'm a Scofield fan. He's just a mean mofo for a "jazz" guitarist. I'm having a hard time finding decent fusion in the stores and I always forget about it when I'm online so I never order any.
The library has been a pretty good source to get some obscure stuff, oddly.
goat dot cx,
Ah goatse.cx. An old classic Slashdot troll's tool that was taken down by some moralistic conservative who wrote one too many letters.
'Bolo
I was thinking the duct tape and plastic sheet approach...'
Don't think there's any plastic sheet on there... but you might be right about it being duct tape. Anyhow...
Pay attention, you might learn something.
no he isn't, and I doubt it.
knowing that god comes first, things like that.'
God always was a selfish bastard.
Thank you for your response(s). You make my case, so I don't have to.
PS: Not many people use apostrophes on the net.
I hope this post contained enough short, Anglo Saxon words and declarative sentances for you to understand, Ripley.
i am half educated.
i am half educated.
I am half uneducated. And half Welsh.
Bolo, I went back and looked at it again and you are right. That is mold work, not a door I think. It looks like it must have fallen down or such. Weird.
Lyceum, you didn't really have a point, other than you don't like us talking here. And if you don't use apostrophes, then aren't you polluting the net with bad english?
And if that's some slam about my ability to read... oh my, guess I'm going to my angry chair now....
lyceum, we understood your first post. we just thought it was really pretentious, that's all.
Ah, Lycscum. SentAnces? Really.
PS - you spelled "sentences" incorrectly, and are you an angry ex-girlfriend of mine?
Last one:
'It's hard to find anyone happier with the reelection of George Bush than I am, because now my war porn will never end. Politics is my passion, as is shouting in the mirror to to drown out my long dead father. I have other typically male interests like gladiator movies, but nothing beats putting on a sailor suit and masturbating to foreign policy and military strategy pundits like Andrew Sullivan. I work as a forklift driver for the local sugar factory during the winter months. It's heavily unionized, so it goes without saying I encounter serious opposition to my political views about killing more darkies. Fortunately, like typical liberals they can't form coherent arguments to offer as rebuttals to the well informed statements I make, like "Liberl loony lefties!" and "I'm going to take a shotgun and kill your fucking family!".
I hope this post contained enough short, Anglo Saxon words and declarative sentances for you to understand, Ripley.
Lyceum | Email | Homepage | 01.23.05 - 2:26 am | #
So Lyceum. Are you married?
Why not scroll up and be a supportive, manly Christian and help that nice young Republican single mother find a husband.
There are a lot of women like that in the "red states". Wouldn't it be better to think about that than obsessing about homosexuals in NYC?
"Lyceum" - You made your point, as far as you know.
Snickering at myself. Bolo is puttin gup these weird personals and I am being picky at the quality of the home repair work. Bet you can't guess what I have been doing all day.
I looked at that guys picture while listening to Missing Persons. It has had a well, sobering effect on me. Let me first say I am having a really hard time believing that isnt a parody site everyone is posting from. But back to that guy on the odd chance it is real. So my advice to that guy.
1) Drop the rhetoric, I dont see the galaxy of feminine pulchratude at your disposal. Try something like:
"Im lonely. And a nice person (lying is okay on these, everyone does it). If you can put fog on a mirror, I would like to know you.
2) Clothes.
3) Im not sure how adjustable head shape is but try.
4) Assuming 3 isnt really much of an option try a NEW FUCKING HAIRCUT. The woman who used to cut my hair at Fekkai could do wonders for you. She isnt there anymore but I could try to find her for you. But dont talk politics with her. She would cut your throat by "mistake" if you did. I doubt the guy I go to now could deal. He would probably throw you out the window of the shop and watch you be run over by the cabs down on Madison.
5) Get to like the DiVinyls greatest hits, the Vapors greatest (only) hits and "Pictures of Lily" by the Who.
Ripley:
Bingo! People like LikesCum doesn't want us to speak about anything but what he wants us to talk about. We're supposed to just shut up if we can't say exactly what he's saying.
This is just like the people who went into a writer's social chat room where I used to hang out and bitch because writers weren't discussing publishers and agents and narrative structure problems, but instead talking about goofy things, and flirting, and all the usual silliness that people tend to do when they're just hanging out. Like we are now.
Lyceum: It's 2AM on a Saturday night. This is an open thread on Eschaton. We're making fun of the way desperate people look and think and are also talking about music.
Get over yourself.
And isn't Anglo-Saxon hyphenated? I mean, really...
Oh sure, it *starts out* as "just hanging out." But it always ends up turning into a massive anal sex orgy. I know what you liberals are like.
'Let me first say I am having a really hard time believing that isnt a parody site everyone is posting from.'
No, it's real. There's a guy on it who goes to my university.
Well, I certainly have "narrative structure problems" myself, but, there you go.
Eli
I always leave when that happens.
Eli:
Alas, you are right. We sodomites want to make sure that everyone on the planet gets some in the end.
I always leave when that happens.
I'm pretty sure I always leave right *before* that happens.
'Snickering at myself. Bolo is puttin gup these weird personals and I am being picky at the quality of the home repair work. Bet you can't guess what I have been doing all day.'
Duct taping? With sheets?
interests: dime-sized holes & flowery prose
Alas, you are right. We sodomites want to make sure that everyone on the planet gets some in the end.
And this is *exactly* why we had to remove Sodom Hussein from power.
*Oh sure, it *starts out* as "just hanging out." But it always ends up turning into a massive anal sex orgy. I know what you liberals are like.*
So, butt sex anyone?
Yeah, once they get going here on that sort of thing all they ever talk in are analogies. Nothing is ever the present but always done in hindsight at that point.
Oh look, how cute. Lyceum has created a second personality to use as a like-minded trollbot.
"Duct taping? With sheets?
Bolo "
No. It would have been simpler tho.
Later, gators...
Thanks for the snowbound fun!
Or maybe this is akin to that bit in SW:TPM about there always being two, the master and the apprentice?
Lyceum is trolling for anal sex.
He ain't gettin' it at home.
Yeah, once they get going here on that sort of thing all they ever talk in are analogies. Nothing is ever the present but always done in hindsight at that point.
That totally bums me out. It's ass if the hole thing is just one big O-ring circus.
Lyceum is trolling for anal sex.
He ain't gettin' it at home.
Central:
And can you blame whatever he has at home for saying no? Although I'm amazed that blow-up dolls have that much gumption...
He's going to have trouble with... life:
http://www.conservativematch.com...users/
15818.jpg
'I am an electrical engineer living in Alabama. I biggest pet peeve are people who tell me what I think is wrong and will not listen to what I have to say.'
I asked Lyceum a serious question.
There are a lot of women like that single mother in the "red states". They get completely fucked over by men and wind up living extremely isolated lives struggling to bring up their kids.
Why aren't Republican, Christian men more worried about that than they are about some gay men in New York they'll never meet?
That's what I don't get.
Or maybe this is akin to that bit in SW:TPM about there always being two, the master and the apprentice?
Maybe they're trying for some kind of Good Troll/Bad Troll thing? It's more like Awful/Very Slightly Less Awful Troll, though.
He's going to have trouble with... life:
That may very well be the most ill-fitting suit in recorded human history. Or else one severely misshapen Republican.
SWR:
Because that stupid B*tch had it coming, y'know. She wasn't woman enough to keep her man, so she reaps what she sows, baby!
I only WISH this wasn't the way some of these wankers out in the real world think, but it is.
Good nite folks. Just remember, the repubs may have *tuccus* to the cleaners on the election, but when it comes to our humor and music, we kick ass and take names afterwards.
EkC:
And post them on the internets with the pictures!
I like the 2nd sentence:
'I'm seeking an attractive and vibrant young conservative woman who shares my view of the world. Gay French Muslims need not apply.'
we kick ass and take names afterwards.
I find it to be good form to get names beforehand. Just a tip. And wear some nice colon.
Oh, and nitey-nite, EkC. Did it cold enough for you here in SA today? That wind was a major bitch. Strong enough to push equipment off our sidewalk at work...
I'm out too.
Sweet dreams and be well ya'll.
Because that stupid B*tch had it coming, y'know. She wasn't woman enough to keep her man, so she reaps what she sows, baby!
I only WISH this wasn't the way some of these wankers out in the real world think, but it is.
I'm just wondering because most people who don't want to meet gay men don't really have to.
Do you think that woman with two kids who was abandonned by the guy who knocked her really has (as her biggest problem in life) some "liberal" pushing Sponge Bob Squarepants cartoons on her kids?
Night all. I'll check back in the morning to see if this thread breaks 1000.
Remember to have lots of buttsex.
That asshole EE from Alabama stole David Byrnes suit!! Call the Brain Police!
SWR | Email | Homepage | 01.23.05 - 2:43 am | #
Because they hate women, themselves, everyone?
Yeah, that lyceum dude was pretty stupid. I like the way you all made fun of his name tho. And especially the way you picked apart his spelling and sentence problems. I mean, if someone can't spell, that totally invalidates their entire argument, right?
That asshole EE from Alabama stole David Byrnes suit!! Call the Brain Police!
Dammit, I *knew* that looked familiar!
SWR:
They don't put those ideas in the same basket, so to speak. It goes into the same hate pantry, but it's something they gnaw on separately.
I mean, if someone can't spell, that totally invalidates their entire argument, right?
Since his argument seemed to be U PEOPLE ARE STUPID!!! I'd have to say it does.
But how about you? Why don't you go to that site and find some nice, conservative Republican woman (who probably doesn't meet up with your porno virginal ideal) and make an honest woman of her.
Boxor/Lyceum:
He (you) didn't make an argument. He (you) made generalized statements without providing any examples to discuss. And you (he) just made the same stupid mistake.
Try again.
I'm just wondering because most people who don't want to meet gay men don't really have to.
But... they're everywhere! And one could be right next to you without you even knowing it! And they might try to, like, look at you or *shudder* touch you or something! They might even talk to your children!
Why does the God who created homosexuals hate America?
b0x0r r0x0rz! | Email | Homepage | 01.23.05 - 2:48 am | #
Sorry, which argument were you talking about?
'Why don't you go to that site and find some nice, conservative Republican woman (who probably doesn't meet up with your porno virginal ideal) and make an honest woman of her.'
He could start here:
http://www.conservativematch.com...users/
10102.jpg
SWR:
They don't put those ideas in the same basket, so to speak. It goes into the same hate pantry, but it's something they gnaw on separately.
LJ | Email | Homepage | 01.23.05 - 2:50 am | #
I've never quite understood why there are homophobic women.
For men, yeah, it's that whole "fear of penetration and domination" thing.
But for women? Are they really afraid all of the desirable men are going to "turn gay" or something?
He could start here:
She could clean up pretty good, actually. She reminds me of the "ugly" girl in the teen movies who was actually a really hot girl with horn-rim glasses, bad clothes, and bad hair.
SWR:
Actually, it's pretty simple, sweetie. More homosexual men = fewer husbands. Women who are homophobic are usually of the ilk who already have enough handicaps in the mating game. Homosexuals are just one more threat to their chances of ever getting a husband.
*He could start here*
Man, the desperation on these people's faces is hard to deal with.
Still, I wouldn't say no.
'She could clean up pretty good, actually. She reminds me of the "ugly" girl in the teen movies who was actually a really hot girl with horn-rim glasses, bad clothes, and bad hair.'
Except that she's a walking skeleton...
Eli,
The more I look at her the more she seems kinda cute.
I have mixed feelings about trolling on conservative sites. The closet I ever did to it was troll trolling on the Howard Stern site which was mostly anti Bush but had a lot of Bush supporters as well.
I had a regular character there who was alledgedly an RNC consultant. Some guy posted about how Saddam Hussein had killed thousands of people in Iraq and Bush was saving them. So I posted thanking him for his support for the president but suggesting that in the future he say Hussein had killed hundreds of thousands of people since we had killed 10s of thousands and it really wouldnt do to remind people we were killing more than he was in the process of "saving" them.
So sure enough in the guys next post he changes it. What an idiot. The would be RNC consultant advising him was named Reinhard Heydrich. I guess he didnt know how to use Google.
Homosexuals are just one more threat to their chances of ever getting a husband.
It's really that simple?
One of the Dobsonites I spoke to at the Seattle anti-gay hatefest bragged that he was a virgin until he turned 31. He had this controlling looking wife with him. And he was totally normal looking.
Now what would cause a completely normal looking man to be a virgin until he turned 31?
Sever mother issues? Not confronting his own gayness?
Whatever it was, I guess his Christian faith finally pushed him into marrying that woman he was with so she probably had Dobson to thank for her husband.
It will be a bitch for her though if he starts having doubts about his decision in a few years and starts sneaking into bathhouses.
Ok, fine... he could start HERE:
http://www.conservativematch.com...users/
10059.jpg
Sever mother issues? Not confronting his own gayness?
Hmm. "Sever" mother issues. Trolls are invited to speculate on the causes of my Freudian slip.
Women who are homophobic are usually of the ilk who already have enough handicaps in the mating game.
not phyllis schlafly. I would love to get in them granny-undies.
Ok, fine... he could start HERE:
Eep.
this one too. You'd hit that, don't lie.
Homosexuals are just one more threat to their chances of ever getting a husband.
It's really that simple?
I'm not saying that some of them aren't homophobic from conditioning to hate just for the sake of hating whoever. That's in there, too. But, ultimately, this is what it boils down to for most homophobic women. Even if they'd rather die than admit it.
thank you
Bolo, isn't that a guy?
I make it a point never to click on troll links. Besides, if you're implying that I would hit on any woman, then what kind of conservatard are you? I'm a woman, you know. You wouldn't really encourage a heterosexual female like me to engage in homosexual sex, would you? Unless you're one of those freepi who get off to lesbians?
I'm not saying that some of them aren't homophobic from conditioning to hate just for the sake of hating whoever. That's in there, too. But, ultimately, this is what it boils down to for most homophobic women. Even if they'd rather die than admit it.
Wouldn't it be better if homosexuality would be openly approved of by society then?
That would almost completely eliminate your chances of winding up with a closeted gay husband who won't satisfy you in bed, wouldn't it?
Wouldn't it mean that the guy hitting on you is actually attracted to you and not just trying to prove he ain't no fag?
You'd hit that, don't lie.
It kinda looks like someone already is...
"this one too. You'd hit that, don't lie."
goat dot cx
Miss America! Pass the juice you twit.
She's just looking to be told what to do by her man!:
'I'm a pretty strong person and I need someone stronger than me. I'm a firm believer that the man is the head of the household, so I'm very traditional. He would have to be first and foremost, a Christian. In addition, he must demonstrate the following qualities: intelligence, good justdgment, strength, honesty, responsibility, sensitivity, tenderness, excitement, romance, cleaning abilities, cooking abilities, telepathy (for when I'm mad at him), creativity, and humor. (* List of character qualities may increase without notice). After passing these tests, I will introduce him to my father, who will no doubt have additional testing which will need to be completed. I dare you to see if I'm joking. Muhahhahahha!!'
'Bolo, isn't that a guy?'
No. There are other pictures of her. Don't be fooled by short hair and strong jaws.
Goat,
Maybe, maybe not. Are we talking then or now (assuming it's an old photo.
*I will introduce him to my father, *
Pretty much says it all.
Hey Bolo, show us some other pictures of her.
http://www.conservativematch.com.../users/
6135.jpg
http://www.conservativematch.com.../users/
6133.jpg
and the 1st one again:
http://www.conservativematch.com...users/
10059.jpg
SWR:
Yes, it would. I'm a product of a family that lived that lie. My mother's second husband came out shortly after I turned 17 (1979). I didn't have a problem with what he was. But the lie--that hurt. It caused so much pain and upheaval, for our family, and for his. It really did a number on my mother, for a long time. You can imagine what went through her mind, the doubts and all that. Plus, she had just turned 40, which, for her generation, was already one of those things that gave her self-esteem a sickening blow.
All I could think was that, if he had been able to be who he was, without fear or shame, everyone would have been happier. A lot of people wouldn't have been hurt.
Unfortunately, these folks don't see the world through that filter. They'd rather try to force gay people to be what they're not, so certain that it's a phase, or they'll learn to find joy in heterosexual relationships, that homosexual urges are something to "unlearn." But they are wrong. And, every day, they create another family like mine to be torn apart over the same lie.
Are we talking then or now
I'm talking then. anita bryant was
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Lot's of abandonned women in Republicanland.
Oh shit. My bad. Her husband was probably killed. Yikes.
But I'm still curious as to why she thinks feminists are the enemy.
First off, I'm a military widow. I have moved on from it but I'm passionate about other military families and making sure they get the best. I also have a child, but I don't think it's proper to talk about your chldren on the internet. , I like to find humor in most things. I'm not a very serious person unless I need to be and I avoid drama at all costs. I'll tell you how it is and I don't sugar coat things. I don't have any secrets or skeletons in the closet, so if you want to know something about, ask. I'm very old fashioned. Chivalry is not dead at least not in my world. I also have an ideal about the way women should be....the feminists hate women like me.
Seeking
I would like to find a man that is okay with the fact that I have a child. If you aren't okay with it, please don't pretend you are. You'll only waste mine and your time. I don't get out a lot, I'm more of a homebody so I'd like to have someone that is the same way. Someone that will go fishing with me in the mornings or on a little weekend get-away camping or river rafting. I am in desperate need of intellegent coversation. Also, if you're still in love with your ex please don't bother writing me, I don't want to be your rebound girl.
Wow. There are some 70+ year old people on the site too...
Ok, It's getting pretty late. Off to bed. Goodnight everyone.
dumass librual: Didn't make it to my first concert until mid 80's at the local university- Jean-Luc Ponty. Wow! What a mean violin, with wah-wah, echo, and fuzz box! Got hooked into "fusion" jazz, am listening to Pat Metheny right now.
Did you ever seek out any of the Holdsworth stuff? I'm guessing you heard him on Ponty's Enigmatic Ocean, f'rinstance...
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Future Sean Hannity Stalker.
I am a conservative student at NYU majoring in Information Systems Management, with a concentration in E-Commerce. I'm looking to go on to law school within the next couple of years, and possibly politics after that. I worked at the RNC this summer, with the Executive Producer and had the experience of a lifetime.. having the same type of clearance as the secret service was definitely something to remember!! I'm one of the most easy-going people you'll probably ever meet (and the first thing people notice about me is that my hair is down to my waist).. I'm also the only girl I know who would prefer to go to a Yankees game or a sports bar when I'm out with friends! And being a conservative white girl in NYC? I've learned to defend/protect myself against the "crazies" of the city..
Conservative white girl in NYC?
Ugggh.
Bolo,
You know, I don't actually mind chubby women (I have broad tastes) but there is something about her I wouldn't touch with a fucking barge pole. Can't put a finger on it.
People (including me) have been having fun with this, but it is really incredibly sad. The thing I find most sad about it is that some of these people are so set upon being with someone exactly like them. While I understand compatibility, I dont understand homogeneity.
SWR:
Ha! That NYU con girl is a power-seeker. She doesn't care about politics, really. She's looking for a rich, powerful husband. Period. And she knows where they are.
SWR | Email | Homepage | 01.23.05 - 3:18 am | #
Funny, I would have thought she would have no problem hooking up again.
And yeah, I don't see why she dosn't like feminists. Perhaps she's scared sexually liberated women will steal her man.
LJ: Ha! That NYU con girl is a power-seeker. She doesn't care about politics, really. She's looking for a rich, powerful husband. Period. And she knows where they are.
So, you're saying she poses as a 13-year old girl on the Internets, too?
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The thing I find most sad about it is that some of these people are so set upon being with someone exactly like them. While I understand compatibility, I dont understand homogeneity.
Well, it's kinda the whole premise of the site, innit?
And MR. Goat, yeah, I would.
Ha! That NYU con girl is a power-seeker. She doesn't care about politics, really. She's looking for a rich, powerful husband. Period. And she knows where they are.
So did Hannity try to tap some of it while he was there?
Will any of these conservative girls pull an Andrea Mackris when they get dissed?
While I understand compatibility, I dont understand homogeneity.
me neither.
"I want to meet people who actually read good books and are simply mad about Belle and Sebastian."
blechh!
Eli, yea of course it is. I just said I didnt understand it. And I dont understand why people who are struggling with the pretty hard task of being a person decide to make it harder on themselves.
JeffP:
No, I think she's probably 100% real. But I know her type. I've seen her enough times. That bio is screaming that she's looking for a rich, powerful man. Information systems = chance to meet guys who will make good money. Law school = chance to meet guys who will make good money. Looking to go into politics--with the Republicans? As a woman, she'd know she could go a looooong way. Then bragging about her connections. The girl is on a serious power/money trip.
Ha! That NYU con girl is a power-seeker. She doesn't care about politics, really. She's looking for a rich, powerful husband. Period. And she knows where they are.
So is she afraid that the general pool of single, rich men in NYC will contain too many homosexuals she might be wasting her time on?
Got to go. To bed with my ass. Not with my ass sex, but just my ass.
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Come on trolls. Step up to the plate.
Plenty of single mothers out there who need your attention more than gay men do.
Im outta here too. Laters.
SWR:
Her ambition is such that she's reasonably certain she'll be powerful one day through her own efforts (and she has a good chance of being just that, since she'll mow down anybody in her path, good little freepita that she is). However, she is also of the mentality that a woman as ambitious as she is deserves a man even more powerful than herself.
I nominate her as the next Liddy Dole. Where's bebe when we need him?
Eli, yea of course it is. I just said I didnt understand it.
I can understand it to an extent. I would have a pretty hard time dating a seriously conservative woman, so a little pre-filtering could be useful. And it *is* nice to have some interests in common. But to look for a female clone of yourself, or a woman who fits some elaborate ideal construct you have in your mind, that's pretty much courting disappointment.
Gosh, Eli, if they can't tolerate opposing viewpoints from a newspaper or TV, how could they handle dissent in their own homes?
Gosh, Eli, if they can't tolerate opposing viewpoints from a newspaper or TV, how could they handle dissent in their own homes?
A taste of the lash, I imagine.
LJ | Email | Homepage | 01.23.05 - 3:39 am | #
Physical violence maybe?
Oooh, synchronicity.
Torments of going to NYU?
NYU doesn't really exist. It's just part of New York. Can't she just troll preppie bars on the Upper East Side?
am currently a student at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts majoring in Film and Television production. I hope to one day produce TV shows. I am one of the few conservatives at my school and in my field and it can be frustrating. I really love music and would like to share that with someone. I also work out often and would like to find someone athletic.
Seeking
I am seeking someone who likes to have a good time, who isn't too straight laced, but yet still shares the same values as I do. I need someone to talk to who can save my sanity from the daily torments of going to one of the most liberal schools in the country, NYU. I would prefer someone who likes the same type of music and who likes sports and is in good physical shape.
I got drunk on chinaco and re-recorded bruce cockburn's 'if i had a rocket launcher.' it's here. Hope y'all like it...
Eli & WKD:
Actually, I don't believe that's how most of them would handle it. I'm thinking more along the lines of they can't handle somebody who disagrees with them. They're afraid of the growing process that dealing with different ideas presents, and, unfortunately, that will wreak untold havoc when they get married. And, apparently, already has for some of these people. It might result in physical violence. It might not. You don't have to be conservative to be an abusive monster. Mr. LJ #1 was a liberal who was a mean-ass bastard.
Anyway, these people are living in a fantasy of marriage as perfect agreement. It's not that way, because no two people are 100% alike. It's something we in the reality-based community accept and understand. We know that marriage takes a hell of a lot of work, for BOTH parties, if it has any chance of surviving.
Well, since they're so completely convinced that Christianity & conservatism is the Only Truth, then logically, if they hook up with another true believer, they'll be sharing the same One Truth, so there won't have to be any major differences to deal with. More like toilet seat-up-or-down kind of stuff.
I really must sleep now. It's been fun, as always.
SWR:
That poor girl who actually thinks she'll ever work in the entertainment industry. I would just love to be on a set the first time she bashes a homosexual, only to learn she's surrounded by lots of 'em. Or the Jews. If I were really lucky, she would go on a rant about how immoral all the Hollywood liberals are, right in front of a Susan Sarandon or Sean Penn.
She might as well get out of film school now. They're gonna eat her alive out there.
Niters, Eli
That poor girl who actually thinks she'll ever work in the entertainment industry. I would just love to be on a set the first time she bashes a homosexual, only to learn she's surrounded by lots of 'em. Or the Jews.
I thinks that's the point of why she's "tormented" at NYU, all of those homosexuals, Jews, and liberals.
LJ | Email | Homepage | 01.23.05 - 3:55 am | #
I'm sure she will have a rewarding career producing cartoons about anatomically correct horny toads.
Or maybe she will one day direct a new installment of BIBLE MAN!
Or maybe she will one day direct a new installment of BIBLE MAN!
WKD | Email | Homepage | 01.23.05 - 3:58 am | #
Or maybe she'll hook up with Hannity or O'Reilly, spend a few years as coffee and copy intern/sex slave, before getting disillusioned with the whole thing and suing for big bucks.
SWR | Email | Homepage | 01.23.05 - 4:00 am | #
It's good to see a young woman with ambition.
SWR:
That's what I don't get. If you hate those kinds of people, what the HELL are you doing to want to work in an industry swarming with them? Does she REALLY think that she has a chance in hell of succeeding when she clearly is so intolerant of others? She won't get to producing until she's proved she can successfully deal with the myriad of people who work on a film. And those people won't put up with her shit for one minute. Not even the camera crews or best boys.
And when they capture Zarqawi (or whatever poor sap gets pegged as him) and things in Iraq still keep going boom, what's the excuse going to be this time?
I imagine they'll blame it on the Mothman.
LJ | Email | Homepage | 01.23.05 - 4:03 am | #
Even at Fox?
fourlegsgood | Email | Homepage | 01.23.05 - 4:04 am | #
I hear there are a lot of mothmen in Iran.
No one talked about anything important for this ENTIRE THREAD. How will liberals ever win when the comments thread to a prominent liberal blog are consumed with frivolity?
Silliness is for peasants!
WKD:
Fox News? She might be okay there, but most people who want to go into producing news programs go through the polisci/journalism/communications route to become a producer.
At Fox's "artistic" wing of the house (movies/tv)? She's dead meat.
Sue, congratulations. You're a liberal troll.
Hey, it happens.
Liddy Dole was out in Georgetown tonight. She has trouble sucking off Frist because his brass piercing stuck to her tongue. Santorum helped.
Eli - I like the forklift driver/military strategerist who's too smart for liberals to argue with. Not sure exactly what look he was going for with the sailor suit and that expression. Sultry, maybe?
I think that description sounds like most of the Little Green Raelians and the commander in chimp. Not really military grade, but boy don't they like to play dress up?
Night people.
No one talked about anything important for this ENTIRE THREAD. How will liberals ever win when the comments thread to a prominent liberal blog are consumed with frivolity?
1. Those of us who cared enough were occupied elsewhere defending the idea that women are a long ways short of brain dead at birth.
2. What's wrong with frivolity? As Krushchhev is reported to have said, Life is short. Live it up!
There are certain advantages to being liberal, if you know how to use them.
Be a leader not a follower
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the name of the webpage says it all...
770 Comments!
Holy Boredom Batman!
We are having one helluva snowstorm here.
Last night, on Timmy's cable show he had reporter's round table that included Jim Mikleshefsky (sp?), Andrea Mitchell, and the guy that pissed w off by speaking French. They all, including Timmy, sounded scared shitless by the maladministration's hints that it is going after Iran next. They even mentioned the back door draft and how it isn't fair to limit it to the current reservists. They even - hold on to your hats - critisized w!
Course it would have been nice if they had read the PNAC paper before the election, but wtf, better late than never.
I may watch the network show this morning just to see if it carries over. I really think the tide is turning, and I will be gracious and not say "I told you so." I'll think it though.
Still snowing.
I dig the rude pundit...i can read it all day.
I dig the rude pundit...i can read it all day.
Quiltlady, what show? I want to watch it to, as this war on Iran they are planning has me out of my mind with worry.
I'm in MA and we are in a state of emer. here. snow is at over a foot and falling at 3-4 inches an hour
here's a sample:
Of course, since every Democrat on the committee opened his or her remarks with some variation on "Of course, you're going to be confirmed," much like in the Alberto Gonzales "hearing," the uselessness of the questioning was just this side of pathetic. With confirmation-denial off the table, why in the world would Rice bother fully answering a question? It's like a cop telling a dope dealer, "You're gonna walk out of here today, but tell us who your supplier is."
Beth - It was CNBC, I believe. Shares time here with the Family Channel.
Yeah - it is scary shit happening. They really sounded timid in their remarks, like they were afraid of being struck dead it they continued.
It is about time they started to criticize! The press should always be critical in a sense that it will make the average person stop and think. !!!
go here
can you believe this asshat?
Her Eyes - He is indeed an asswipe. I won't criticize his spelling cause I have been known to misspell a word or two, however, there is a difference between posting a comment here and publishing ar article on your blog. He should know the difference between "herd" and "heard" though.
Quiltlady, I agree, I misspell quite a bit, especially when I get excited or upset. (my handle, however, was intentional as I am a feminist). But yes, if you are putting up a blog or a web page, and you want to be taken seriously--know the difference between "herd" (moooooo) and "heard."
Richardson/Gregoire 2008!
let a long-time New Mexican be the first to tell you:
No matter what you've heard, you do NOT want Bill Richardson to leave New Mexico for the national stage...NOT! NO! Do.No.Even. THINK Such.A.Thing
WGG- why?
No way that i am signing up at conservativematchdotfascist to spoof 'em; did you read their TOS? i think that you are agreeing to be shipped to Gitmo for a genital cattle-prodding if you are not a True Konservative....
And the entire conservative world has never come up with one hottie worthy to wash Janeine Garofalo's panties on a flat rock in the river.
comments just went from 700 to 400?
go here
can you believe this asshat?
His "Describing Women" is priceless. I really hate the term "rack."
if you look at his bio--he was born in the year of the "sheep"
nuff said.
Good morning, freethinkers ! The thread stopped working last nite so I decided to print up some socialist flyers, eat some babies, ruin the economy by not supporting Bush, and go to bed. Did I miss anything?
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