I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Yes. Open thread. Good.
How refreshing.
clean, open air.
Congress considers cutting aid to poor and conservation rather farm subsidies. NapaNews?
Torture blah blah Despoiling Arctic wilderness blah blah Dollar tanking blah blah Bushies fascist blah blah.
Same old, same fucking old. How about some good news. Anyone?
Can I get a fuck Bush?
Don't forget to say hi to Todd.
We should NOT fuck Bush.
Fart in his general direction, yes.
[Bebe Rebozo]Liddy Dole's twat smells of elderberries[/bebe rebozo]
Now, just because Atrios is out for the evening doesn't mean you younguns can run amok.
Okay, who brought the wine?
Fliers Find That Mileage Points Go Only So Far
By MICHELINE MAYNARD
and ERIC DASH
NYT,Published: March 13, 2005
For two decades, travelers enjoyed a golden age of frequent-flier programs, hoarding miles and sometimes becoming intoxicated by them. It was a love affair at 30,000 feet: airlines enticed passengers with promises of free tickets and first-class upgrades, in return for their dollars and loyalty.
To build up their accounts, some fliers zealously boarded flights at odd hours and endured connections even when there was a direct route home, expecting their miles to be valuable currency for vacations and comfort. But passengers are facing the prospect that like free meals and pillows, the golden age for frequent fliers is going away.
Another free lunch bites the dust!
Don't ask the trolls for wine. They will snivel and yeowl. Whhhhiiiiiiine.
Elaine, you would love him, I've posted this a couple times so forgive me if you already heard it. But this is what he told a wingnut caller:
"You people are just so unconscious as to render anything you have to say to be total, just complete, gibberish. It makes no sense. Go back to listening to Limbaugh, go back to Fox News.
There is no reason to try to bring your mind up out of the gutter -- to bring your mind up to where you might be able to get a whif of something, the scent of which you do not recognize...it's called truth. You don't have a clue.
I don't feel sorry for you. I feel nothing. Go away. Go back to the swamp."
Don't know about fucking Bush, but if someone can bend him over, I do have a discount coupon from Roto-Rooter I'd like to see used.
Not OT, b/c this is an open thread ...
Has anyone ever seen "Reds," by Warren Beatty? How come that damn movie is not on DVD yet?
Atrios, please bring Ted Smith with you.
Res Ipsa:
Yes, I've seen "Reds." It's not out on DVD? Dang.
Fluffy ... I thought it was pretty good. I don't know why Warren has not put it out. It's not like he's doing anything else.
Carpbasman sez:
[Bebe Rebozo]Liddy Dole's twat smells of elderberries[/bebe rebozo]
And she farts in your general direction.
That's our Liddy!
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If Ba'al's on this thread, I wanted to find out where he was getting those quotes from the "Christians with sex addictions." Or did you make them up?
I brought wine. It comes in a box. It says "Estates" on it. Mmm.
Anyway, I asked if anyone knew of any good corn soup recipes in an open thread earlier in the week. The thread got troll-infested rather quickly, and I thought I'd ask one last time since this thread seems clean so far (crossing fingers...)
Oh, and have fun with Margaret Cho, Atrios! I hear she's great live.
Hoyt - You can also download the shows over at the Whiterose Society. The person who maintains the site is great at getting the show up early the following morning. Since I don't stay up late, it has been a godsend. He also maintains a file of other lefty radio hosts, including Randi Rhodes and Thom Hartman. I sent him some turkee a few months ago, and am getting ready to send him some more.
Pay a visit, you'll be glad you did. BTW, you owe me a new keyboard for "Humongous Brainfart."
Fluffy - Here
Just cut a sentence from anything someone paste, put it in google...
Go out for the night? And miss Mansquito ?
Charlotte (hopefully not related to Ted) Smith ... What kind of corn soup?
Define "corn soup," Charlotte -- does hominy count?
Is Vicki right that trolls seldom infest an open thread?
Prior - Since most weekend open threads turn to books/music/movies/pets/etc, the trolls usually get bored and go away.
What? Ted thinks corn soup is sex?
chris/tx:
I'm having serious e-mail trouble
for some reason. I resent you
the song but I think something's
fucking up.
I had no trouble with the one
I sent to BillyB. Don't know
what the problem is.
Anyway, I'm sure I'll sort it out
eventually, so you will get the
song at some point.
Old Man:
Mansquito's on twice tonite.
Is there "Old Mansquito"?
QL in NY
I posted this below in response to your comment but that I would repost here since you seem to have moved on
Yeah -- genuine monk -- 30 years in the monastery
Episcopal priest for about half that
Member Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club
Occasional thinker
Constant liberal
I usually agree with DAS
(Does this mean Episcopalians are liberal Jews?)
Mansquito's on twice tonite.
And can I say how psyched I am about that? I'm going to be out during the first airing.
MANSQUITO!
steve - Thanks for trying. Would like to hear it as I use to be a big fan. Will let you know if it comes through.
Old Mansquito had a farm...
Prior A-
Open threads are usually pretty safe.
This will turn into silliness before long. Trolls hate silliness. They really don't get Monty Python quote wars. Or whatever.
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Hahahaha. A 28 year old virgin!
...But Can Sex Talk Be the Bride of Chastity?
By ALEX WILLIAMS
Published: March 13, 2005
HARLOTTESVILLE, Va.
LAUREN F. WINNER comes off not unlike a lot of liberal arts graduate students strolling the campuses of the country's elite universities. She wears retro cat's-eye glasses, has four tattoos, weaves references to the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu into casual conversation and sips Côtes du Rhône over lunch.
The face of the new cultural elite? Not exactly. The face of the new chastity movement? If she has her way, yes.
With her new book, "Real Sex: The Naked Truth About Chastity" (Brazos Press), Ms. Winner, a 28-year-old evangelical Christian, intends to promote chastity among Christians while challenging the prevailing just-say-no approach with an unflinching, soul-searching, distinctly up-to-date alternative that urges people toward a frank assessment and acceptance of their sexuality. Drawing on her own history of premarital sex as a cosmopolitan, liberal single woman and delving into subjects like sodomy and masturbation, she aims her argument at sophisticated young working Christians who know the ways of the world. In her view, people are more likely to abstain from sex once they fully understand its power.
I left the C off of the city name deliberately.
I have a friend who grows hair fairly quickly, the man could truly shave twice in a day, and he has a rather hairy back.
We used to call him MANSQUATCH.
Gone for the night? Oh, no! This open thread will fill up within a couple of hours...
I thought you guys were joking.
First they hunted for a cure.
Now they're hunting for a monster.
Starring
Cornin Nemic
Musetta Vander
LOL
They are really hung up about sex, aren't they, these "Christians".
Like Anne Coulter, never marry. Just lecture the men. To death.
Osama Siblani, publisher of "The Arab American" newspaper, says George W Bush told him in May 2000 - before he was nominated as the Republican presidential candidate - that he is going to "take out" Iraq and Saddam Hussein.
This is dramatic news. Will anyone pay attention?
Hoyt C,
You can blame NYMary, as she took credit for green lighting the Atrocity. 
Well, Prior, I am impressed. We visited Capello di Carlomagno (a/k/a Charlemagne) where he purportedly worshipped, outside Asti, Italy. I was very impressed with the silence and peacefulness. Although, I imagine there are the usual people politics even at an abbey. I vaguely knew a mother superior who told me one of the biggest problems in the convent was getting the nuns to agree on what TV show to watch.
Believe it or not, I first learned Monty Python from inocming novices -- I was more of a Firesign Theater guy myself -- Waiting for the Electrician or Somebody like Him (great account of American history from the point of view of the Indians); All Hail Marx and Lennon (the Moscow Mausoleum with giant pictures of Groucho & John); Don't Crush the Dwarf, Hand me the Pliers -- the good old days when everybody hated the president!
This is dramatic news. Will anyone pay attention?
majowa | Email | Homepage | 03.12.05 - 6:12 pm | #
One Osama, two Osamas, can't keep count. Best to pretend they don't exist!
A double dose of MANSQUITO? Mother, put out the cat and let's partay!
Hahahaha. A 28 year old virgin!
...But Can Sex Talk Be the Bride of Chastity?
By ALEX WILLIAMS
Published: March 13, 2005
HARLOTTESVILLE, Va.
LAUREN F. WINNER comes off not unlike a lot of liberal arts graduate students strolling the campuses of the country's elite universities.
The face of the new cultural elite? Not exactly. The face of the new chastity movement? If she has her way, yes.
i saw wish her luck -- wingers delaying breeding is nothing but good.
Nuns fighting over the TV remote: should be a great reality show!
Prior A -
A question if I might.
I grew up in an Episcopalian school in the 70's before there were many women priests. I lately have an a vague friend who's an Episcopalian priest who's a woman. I can't call her "Father", obviously; "Mother" doesn't seem to work. So what's the hounerific?
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Virgin nuns talking sex talk: the wet dream of the GOP.
Mmm... Nunsquito...
If Ba'al's on this thread, I wanted to find out where he was getting those quotes from the "Christians with sex addictions." Or did you make them up?
Fluffy, Chris already answered your question, but I'd add that inspired by Ba'al (a phrase I now find myself using several times a day) I did a little googling of my own (if ya know what I mean) and discovered that there are many such sites.
If you google "Christian Sex Addiction" you get a whole bag of goodies. It's great fun.
First they hunted for a cure.
Now they're hunting for a monster.
HANDSQUITO
Coming to a State Dept near you..
Spork, just put priest and nun together and you call here a PUN.
i saw wish her luck -- wingers delaying breeding is nothing but good.
bkny | Email | Homepage | 03.12.05 - 6:16 pm | #
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The only upside to the chastity movement.
What is it with these people. Could you imagine committing for fifty years without even knowing if you are sexually compatible. This sounds terrible, but I have always believed that if the sex is good, it is just one aspect of a full relationship. But if the sex is bad, it is a deal breaker. Everything else will fall by the wayside.
have a friend who grows hair fairly quickly, the man could truly shave twice in a day, and he has a rather hairy back.
We used to call him MANSQUATCH.
I think I dated him. Only guy I knew who had 5:00 shadow at 9:00 in the morning.
Uh oh, not more Mansquito jokes. Shouldn't there be a statute dealing with "things far too easy to mock?" (I mean, other than the Busheviks, of course.)
It just seems that Mansquito is barely worthy of the attention of all of the satirical talent that is present on this board.
First they hunted for a cure.
Now they're hunting for a monster.
HANDSQUITO
Coming to a State Dept near you..
Hoyt C. | Email | Homepage | 03.12.05 - 6:19 pm | #
Jeffjimsquito.
Oh QL, and Prior - if y'all haven't read The Corner that Held Them, by Sylvia Townsend Warner, I think you both should. It's about a convent in England during the 14 C. The beauty of it is that it deals with the most prosaic aspects of the actual running of the place.
I love Sylvia Townsend Warner - one of those unique and eccentric British female voices. Y'all would love this book - there's a lot of wry humor and strange magic in it.
Spork, just put priest and nun together and you call here a PUN.
Has anyone offered up Punsquito yet? I've been looking for a vanity project.
Elaine Supkis - do you have a link to this story?
Fliers Find That Mileage Points Go Only So Far
Thanks!
Charlotte,
Corn chowder? If so, think potato soup and add corn kernels (frozen corn if fresh corn is unavailable).
I add either bacon or salt pork to add a little smokey flavor (and cholesterol).
Afternoon, folks.
Diane
aw shit - tags, haloscan - who knows?
Drawing on her own history of premarital sex as a cosmopolitan, liberal single woman
Typical conservative, she had her fun, now she wants to make sure no one else enjoys themselves.
I found out something pretty cool I thought I would share.
My tech savie nephew has been trying to find me the perfect mp3 player for jogging. He called last nite with two suggestions:
Ray Ban (or Oakley) has come out with sunglasses with the mp3 player built into the ear piece that fits behind the ear. Holds 250 songs, and has small speakers that "kinda sit over the ear". Said the sound was great and had plenty of volume.
He also found a wireless mp3 player good for up to five feet distance between player and headphones. The player is smaller than a pack of cig's, but again only holds something like 250-500 songs.
Any of you guys have any experience with either one of these?
Perdita, it is top story in the NYT.
And the kung-fu epic: CHANSQUITO!
Another mass murder today. Look for more of this as people, with no job and no hope reach a level of total despair. Combine that with the harsh rhetoric coming from the right more and more people will start lashing out. Life is not going to be pretty.
spork_incident--
It just takes getting used to -- in this diocese (Western Michigan) it was agreed that if male priests were going to be called "Father" then female priests would be called "Mother" -- I had trouble with it since I think of that title as being for the suprior of a convent, but normal is what you're used to
Of course if a priest doesn't want to be called "Fr" (I'm originally from Southern Ohio & in the old days a lot of priests there didn't like it) or "Mother" then he or she has the obligation to tell you so & give you the benefit of the doubt for good will
Gotta go back to work -- I'm server & dishwasher this week
Elaine Supkis sez:
Spork, just put priest and nun together and you call here a PUN.
Verrry punny!
(OK, I'm no Eli. So sue me.)
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Has anyone offered up Punsquito yet? I've been looking for a vanity project.
You're so vain.
How many mommies does Chimpy need? Glad I don't watch MSM, the site of HANSQUITO makes me ill. Her mug will be on the tube constantly.
"Mother" for women priests is fine. The reason it doesn't "seem to work" is because we've culturally devalued women so we can't imagine "Mother" being a title of respect. It is, though, and it's amazing how easy it is to get used to. I live in Oklahoma and one of the few good things about this place is that we have a decent number of women priests in the Episcopal Church. And yes, they're usually called "Mother".
Carpbasman | Email | Homepage | 03.12.05 - 5:51 pm | #
What do you have against elderberries?
You're so vain.
I bet you think I think this thread is about me.
The Corner that Held Them, by Sylvia Townsend Warner
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Thanks Tena. I wrote it down and will look for it. On your recommendation I read The Robber Bridegroom, Eudora Welty. It was fun.
Frequent fryers plans frail travelers
Travail comes from travel. Ie, going on a trip was a trial.
Ray Ban (or Oakley) has come out with sunglasses with the mp3 player
I think it's Oakley. Men's Health had it in their Tech Guide. They usually only put things they find pretty good in the magazine.
"Another mass murder today. "
QL in NY
Sheesh, I just saw that. I was born and grew up in Wisconsin, and this has been the third time in as many months that this state has been in the news involving murder and or suicide.
Look, this is a smallish Midwestern State where kids grow up in parks and go to summer camp. If this sort of thing is happening there, then the country has really got some problems.
Typical conservative, she had her fun, now she wants to make sure no one else enjoys themselves.
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Exzaaackly what I said about twelve hours ago.
It just seems that Mansquito is barely worthy of the attention of all of the satirical talent that is present on this board.
While you have a point, and it does seem like piling on, some things just suck you in.....there is no choice but to Mock.
WT,
I wonder if your friend and mine are related.
Hansquito blogwhore.
with an asterisk for Eli.
I bet you think I think this thread is about me.
Don't I? Don't I? Don't I now?
the good news is I'm making my house payment only 2 weeks late instead of a month
the bad news is I gotta work tonight in surveillance and can't stay for the party here
but then the good news is that all I do is watch cable until something goes wrong on the casino floor...which means I get to watch BOTH 'MANSQUITO's!!!!! (but alone, in a dark little room, surrounded by tv monitors)
Thanks Snow - That was my nephews recommendation as well, he really liked them. Plus my wife has been hounding me to pick something out for an upcoming bday.
Thanks Elaine! Went to NYT site and for some reason couldn't get to 13 March, only 12 March publication.
Iraq:The lying never stops.
Not statisfied with the lack of any WMD find, here's the latest incarnation of the Iraq threat: Now looters are said by Washington to have "systematically" dismatled equipment capable of producing parts for the bomb.
Fuck them.
QL
I have two responses. Pick which you prefer.
1] Sorry. I have been delinquent in my thread reading.
2] Good comments should be repeated.
Hansquito blogwhore.
There went my appetite......
We used to call him MANSQUATCH.
Now I have a hankerin' for a MANWICH.
Lifted from an earlier thread:
Last year, the federal Government Accountability Office said the Bush administration violated a prohibition against using public money for propaganda when it created videos made to resemble news reports promoting Medicare changes.
Would not that socialinsecurity.gov site fall under that prohibition?
Re: Mansquito
The sad thing is that it stars
Corin Nemec, who I really like.
I think he needs a new agent.
Sheesh, I just saw that. I was born and grew up in Wisconsin, and this has been the third time in as many months that this state has been in the news involving murder and or suicide.
Have you ever heard of a movie called
The Assassin Tour? Is her audience 19 years old?
with an asterisk for Eli.
Asterisker.
Tales from the crypt:
I Got Ejected from a George Bush Event!
Yep, I sat there like a good boy, up in the nosebleed section, clapping for Anne Northup (our Bush clone congresswoman), praying in Jesus' name, and all that good stuff. Then Bush got up and gave his one-sided Social Security talk. I finally couldn't take it anymore, and I stood up and shouted my opinions. "Let's not use Social Security money for private accounts! I like private accounts, I've got two! A 401k and a Roth. But let's not steal from Social Security! How about private accounts outside of Social Security?" People started shushing me with furrowed brows and shocked expressions. "Shhh. That's rude!" I just kept on yelling. "Mr. President, can't you hear me?" I repeated my mantra over and over and he kept on talking, trying to ignore me. He began to stumble a bit on words. I don't blame the guy. It's hard to keep your lies straight when someone is yelling the truth at you. And the acoustics at Whitney Hall are amazing! The truth was echoing from the rafters.
http://www.buzzflash.com/contrib...3/
con05086.html
Dang, assed up the tags on that movie link, apparently. Just check *this* out:
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt02103...389/
plotsummary
____league - Would not that socialinsecurity.gov site fall under that prohibition?
I think it does. I've said so since we found out about it. I wrote a letter to the Dallas paper saying that. I wish to hell someone else would start saying it - like Harry Reid.
but then the good news is that all I do is watch cable until something goes wrong on the casino floor
MGM Grandsquito?
One of the greatest lines in tee-vee history:
(FromWKRP)
Johnny Fever (to Venus): C'mon, Vene, let's go look at some Carly Simon album covers.
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ooooOOoooo
Wisconsin death trip... sounds like a movie I need to acquire.
Thanks, Eli
Now looters are said by Washington to have "systematically" dismatled equipment capable of producing parts for the bomb.
That's much worse than a few hundred tons of unsecured high explosives, right?
Johnny Fever (to Venus): C'mon, Vene, let's go look at some Carly Simon album covers.
Mmm...
("As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.")
You're welcome, Diane! It's pretty minimalist, but creepy and effective.
Tena
Who has the standing to do something about it?
Now looters are said by Washington to have "systematically" dismantled equipment capable of producing parts for the bomb.
What a bunch of bullshit, I thought Syria had them. Oh no, wait they're buried under the sand, etc., etc.
If you don't like reality, create a new one.
Somebody stop this ride, I want to get off.
Eli,
Just as a side note: a poster from my favorite obscure power pop band hung in the WKRP offices.
("As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.")
THEY'RE HITTING THE GROUND LIKE SACKS OF WET CEMENT!
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That's much worse than a few hundred tons of unsecured high explosives, right?
BOMBSQUITO is pretty well contained in Iraq right now, so not much concern....now if he were to get loose and hook up with some tse-tse fly separatists group in the Congo, well then, all bets are off.
I'm gone. Behave all, and if not, at least have a grand time.
Bye, QL!
Off to watch the Spongebob movie (wonder if I'll turn gay)
Just as a side note: a poster from my favorite obscure power pop band hung in the WKRP offices.
The Shoes?
Sorry Hoyt, you can not get off. The ride operator is on meth and he has pushed the speed control into the "DANGER" zone.
C'mon, Vene, let's go look at some Carly Simon album covers.
As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
This series NEEDS to be released on DVD.
NYMary:
I'm assuming 20/20?
bush world:
MEMPHIS, March 11 -- It sounded as if all of Graceland were clamoring for President Bush's plan to restructure Social Security.
The mostly white audience in this mostly black southern city clapped wildly as Bush took what he called the "presidential roadshow" to its 14th state Friday. He was greeted like Elvis -- adoring fans hooting and hollering, and hanging on his every word.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp...-
2005Mar11.html
Eli,
Sans the The, yes. Just Shoes. It was a sort of rainbow zigzag thing, cover of their album Tongue Twister.
I have a mobile of it hanging in the nursery. But I'm not a geek, damn it!
Whoa! Is someone talking about "Wisconsin Death Trip?" I became slightly obsessed with that book back in the day. And now someone has made a film of it! I saw it. Almost as strange and creepy and engrossing as the book.
(hysterical caller) "Arleen, I just found out my fiance has a wooden leg! Should I break it off?!?!"
(Jennifer, as Arleen) "Oh.... don't do that..."
Calling Eli, Watertiger, Attaturk and Holden, I do believe we need a caption...
SteveNS sez:
This series NEEDS to be released on DVD.
Last I heard they couldn't do it because of how much real popular music was used in the series. Copyright and that. Too expensive.
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Greetings, freethinkers. Actually the WP article hadenough links to is not bad. It points out how Bush's roadshow audiences are prescreened before admission. I read it this morning in the Fresno Bee, because I am in sunny California.
Sans the The, yes. Just Shoes. It was a sort of rainbow zigzag thing, cover of their album Tongue Twister.
I tend to add extraneous Thes to the front of stuff, except in my MP3 collection, where I remove them all.
I am a complex man, full of many contradictions and profound thingies.
If anyone hasn't mentioned it yet, Rorschach is (or has gotten) married today. He doesn't have a thread up about it, really, but I hijacked the last post Rory made to wish him the best. Anybody else who wants to, go for it.
NYMary sez:
But I'm not a geek, damn it!
[smothers a chortle]
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conservatives crow over being"self made" and competent,but they are full of self loathing and
fear of inadequacy. this explains the "I got mine so pull up the ladder" attitude,as well as their
unhealthy fascination with other peoples sexual
practices.they are afraid of intellectual competition(limiting college aid),and desparately afraid that in spite of their money someone might be having more fun in life than they do.
BUCK FOOSH!!!!
Calling Eli, Watertiger, Attaturk and Holden, I do believe we need a caption...
Carpbasman
As ridiculous as the expression on Bush's face is in that picture, what really makes me laugh is the look on the face of the woman in the pink sweater.
Calling Eli, Watertiger, Attaturk and Holden, I do believe we need a caption...
Holy shit. I... I got nuthin'. I look forward to watertiger's entry.
Carpbasman
Where am I? This doesn't look like the set for "Grummpy Old Men."
*Ahem!*
I am a complex man, full of many contradictions and profound thingies.
I never suggested otherwise. I just suggested you try the cider.
Oh darn. Link didn't copy right. Here's Rory's blog addy.
As ridiculous as the expression on Bush's face is in that picture, what really makes me laugh is the look on the face of the woman in the pink sweater.
Yeah, I noticed that, and was wondering if she could really see Bush's face from that angle.
Then again, maybe the nice lady on the left just said something along the lines of, "I like to dress my dogs as Star Trek characters."
Damn it, Eli! She's at a kickboxing party! You have to do this!
Dangit. I'll get this right, eventually.
No Capital
Going out for a bit, but rest
assured I will be back well before
the second showing of Mansquito.
L.A. Democrats re-inked votes
City clerk ordered election workers to fill in faintly marked ballots
By Troy Anderson and Rick Orlov, Staff Writers
Los Angeles City Clerk Frank Martinez ordered election workers Tuesday night to use blue highlighter pens to re-ink thousands of voters' ballots that had "bubbles" partially or faintly filled in, the Daily News learned Friday.
Martinez, appointed to his post last September by Mayor James Hahn, who narrowly won the second spot for the May 17 runoff election, defended what he did, saying he was following secretary of state-approved procedures to mark over voters' incompletely filled out bubbles to make sure the InkaVote machines counted them.
But election experts say his action raises a number of troubling questions.
"I've never heard of anything like this before," said Bob Stern, president of the Center for Governmental Studies. "It's unprecedented. You don't tamper with the ballots.
Why is it that every confirmed case of election fraud is perpetrated by democrets?
I never suggested otherwise. I just suggested you try the cider.
Mmm... cider... I'd trade you for some, but I'm pretty sure the SEC wouldn't allow it.
Why is it that every confirmed case of election fraud is perpetrated by democrets?
Republicans are better at it?
Calling Eli, Watertiger, Attaturk and Holden, I do believe we need a caption...
"Shit, you don't like my plan either? I'm gonna cry!"
I sent rorschach a CD with some conjunto, and other music-I sure hope he got it in time for the wedding.
IIRC, the oakley mp3 player shades are well above $400 in price.
I was about to sneer that my lovely little 1G shuffle works in many situations where using The Precious #1 or The Precious #2 might cause them harm, thus reaffirming my Apple-Mac elitism at a reasonable price. Then I remembered I got the B&O earphones that inspire technolust in all who see them. Since the price of the shuffle and the earphones is about the same as the Oakelys, I'll shut up now.
But it is a really nice combination of tech, and should work fine when out in the garden, if I'm ever able to go out in the garden again.
and the juniper pollen count hasn't even reached a thousand yet.
Oh and that doesn't sound like fraud, which implies some sort of malice, but rather rank stupidity and incompetence. You know, wanting to avoid the appearance of impropriety rather than actual impropriety. That sort of thing.
Damn it, Eli! She's at a kickboxing party! You have to do this!
"You talkin' to me? I said, you talkin' to me? I don't see nobody else here, so you must be talkin' to me."
greenspun:
Kenneth Thomas, an economist and part-time lecturer at the Wharton School, has used the Freedom of Information Act to get access to Greenspan’s daybook, documenting the fact that the Fed chief’s White House meetings have more than tripled in frequency.
...
“Simply based on the quantity of the meetings and the level of people he was meeting with, something is going on here that is different than what we’ve seen historically during Clinton’s term,” said Thomas, who said he considers himself politically independent.
“I know he’s a smart guy and has an opinion on a lot of things. But somebody in his position is such a trusted voice. Why is he commenting on things unrelated to monetary policy? It does not sit right with some central banking economists such as myself.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7150364/
Well the NYT slams Bush and his facsimile parade of government doctored media BS.
Under the Bush administration, the federal government has aggressively used a well-established tool of public relations: the prepackaged, ready-to-serve news report that major corporations have long distributed to TV stations to pitch everything from headache remedies to auto insurance. In all, at least 20 different federal agencies, including the Defense Department and the Census Bureau, have made and distributed hundreds of television news segments in the past four years, records and interviews show. Many were subsequently broadcast on local stations across the country without any acknowledgement of the government's role in their production.
The Bush doctrine of endless misinformation (propaganda) to pretend to be what he's really NOT.
Sort of like Washington Post and it's endless merciless updates of DeLay Gate. The story of an Increasingly unethical looking Republican Party.
And it's odd that Lieberman is so concerned with his vote against the Bankruptcy bill - it's like that angel is changing the direction of the wind and isn't blowing in Bushie favor any more. Even the spineless Mark Shields on PBS is starting to find a little courage of all things as well as Paul Krugman not wanting Hillary Clinton to run for Prez.
It's like Americans are starting to wake up or something. Jeebus, it's about time.
Oh and that doesn't sound like fraud, which implies some sort of malice, but rather rank stupidity and incompetence. You know, wanting to avoid the appearance of impropriety rather than actual impropriety. That sort of thing.
Carpbasman
Yes, of course not.
Are you interested in buying a bridge?
diane - it's not the small town rural nature that's to directly blame for this.
it's that Nazarene death cult again, somebody went nuts because of they're besotted with Jesus and Yahweh.
I'd bet money on it.
excuse me for a while, the dogs and servants have mysteriously vanished and the cats are demanding food and worship...
I do believe we need a caption.
"How do you like that? A black Republican! Uniquely American, isn't it?"
Who has the keys? This needs to be posted.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/20...3/12/171749/
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"Why is it that every confirmed case of election fraud is perpetrated by democrets?"
Now isn't THAT a special post.
Thursty, the LA mayoral race is non-partisan. No Dem or Repug tags.
Moron.
I'm not much of a tech geek (preferring to concentrate my geek efforts elsewhere), but I love my little Creative MuVo flash drive mp3 player for exercising, snow shovelling, yard work, commuting -- you name it.
Mine only holds 256MB of tunes (but there's a very reasonably-priced version out now that'll hold 1GB), and they run on 1 AAA battery. Earbuds come with it, but you'll probably want to replace them. (Don't get me started on trying to find good running earphones, though...)
Well, here's a confirmed case from the Republican side:
Jacobs v. Seminole County Canvassing Board and Taylor v. Martin County Canvassing Board involved similar allegations.
They alleged that thousands of absentee voters sent in incomplete applications to receive the ballots from election officials.
After initially rejecting the applications for lacking the voter registration numbers as required by Florida law, Goard and Martin County elections supervisor Peggy Robbins illegally allowed Republican Party workers to include the registration numbers, according to the lawsuits.
Under Florida law, only voters, their legal guardians or immediate family members may request ballot applications, according to the lawsuits.
And here was the Republican response:
"The judges found properly that these were hypertechnical violations of the statutes and ... that they did not in any way interfere with the will of the people," Richard said. "The law of this state is hypertechnical violations of the statutes do not warrant invalidating ballots."
So it's hypertechnical when Dem's question Republicans marking up ballots, but, when Dems do it, it's fraud. Uh huh.
Without a blog, I suffer from blogwhore envy, so here's a dKos diary to quench my need. It's about avant-garde Spanish cooking, and this is the land that brought us Gaudi, Bunuel and Almodovar.
I only got two responses 
but one of them provvides a great link to funky Weight Watchers recipe cards from '74.
Crazy Spanish food
"Why is it that every confirmed case of election fraud is perpetrated by democrets?"
Now isn't THAT a special post.
Thursty, the LA mayoral race is non-partisan. No Dem or Repug tags.
Moron.
Priceless.
I have no idea where that second frownie came from. Haloscan gremlins, explain yourselves!
How about Bushquito? Both involve bloodsucking pricks.
So it's hypertechnical when Dem's question Republicans marking up ballots, but, when Dems do it, it's fraud. Uh huh.
LJ | Email | Homepage | 03.12.05 - 7:09 pm | #
And back in Michigan. When we left Little Rock, it was cruising toward 80 degrees.
Snowing here last I looked.
But spring is just around the corner, right?
RIGHT?!!!!
Why is it that every confirmed case of election fraud is perpetrated by democrets?"
Now isn't THAT a special post.
Thursty, the LA mayoral race is non-partisan. No Dem or Repug tags.
Moron.
Priceless.
pie
Hee hee hee.
Why is it that every confirmed case of election fraud is perpetrated by democrets?
I see stupidity. Where is the fraud? It appears to me that rather than counting those ballots by hand, the workers made sure that they could be read by the machine. There is no indication that any particular candidates were favored.
Glad you're back safe and sound. It's way up in the 80's here today. It's dry, however, and thus it's pleasant.
It's spring here, anyway.
PIE and everyone else. I apologize for feeding the troll. I know better.
As soon as Prior A returns, I will seek his guidance for the proper penance.
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So it's hypertechnical when Dem's question Republicans marking up ballots, but, when Dems do it, it's fraud. Uh huh.
Well, sure, you silly moonbat. It's not like exit polls disagreed in anything important or there's no paper trail or the machines are owned by Republican contributors.
Oh, wait....
"non-partisan"
Priceless!
NMRed - I just went and looked up those Oakley's with a mp3 player here. You are right $400-500. My nephew told me they were $250, which is about the most I was going to spend. Apparently they caught on when Lance Armstrong was snapped wearing a pair.
Guess I'll look into the wireless or those SteveNS has.
Never mind the ballots - who are the democrets?
Ummm, What I meant to say was Exactly,
Tena,
Whereas we had three inches of snow last night!!
Oh, and could our little brownshirt friend just pick ONE fucking handle and stick to it?
What's it up to now - four? Five?
We know who it is, so quit pretending...
One of the greatest lines in tee-vee history:
(FromWKRP)
Johnny Fever (to Venus): C'mon, Vene, let's go look at some Carly Simon album covers.
.
spork_incident | Email | Homepage | 03.12.05 - 6:41 pm | #
that was my favorite all time tv show. i especially loved it when johnny ran from the "phone cops"
Hey, Tena! Jennifer and I can't wait to have a little party in AR with you and all available Eschatonians. That girl is a double-plus spitfire!
We're in good company.
It's spring here, anyway.
Tena
80's means spring? Holy crap. I'm certain that one Texas summer would just kill me dead.
Meanwhile, tonight I have to suffer through another heavy snowfall and blowing snow warning.
Trade ya?
Sigh. I'm envious of all of you who have seasons.
We have four here in San Antonio, if you want to call them that:
Mild, with an occasional cold snap.
Hot.
Damn, it's hot.
Hotter 'n' hell.
Thurstie Dash, keep digging, doll.
It's been snowing all day here in East Bumfuck, VT. Should have about a foot by tomorrow morning. Too bad it's not fluffy snow--it could be a couple feet!
Cheryl, I saw that NYT report on Bush administration public relations efforts. My question is, they mention that it was a tactic started in the first Clinton administration, but they cite no examples of those attempts. Do you know of any?
NYMary - I knew y'all were getting hit again. I'm sure sorry - I'd send some of this up there if I could. I have to admit that it's been beautiful here for the last several days. It's been just like Colorado in the summer: no humidity, 70's-80's days, 40's & 50's at night.
"Why is it that every ignorant comment is perpetrated by Thurston?"
i especially loved it when johnny ran from the "phone cops"
(Venus)"Then I realized he was driving away in MY car! I had to chase him across half a cornfield!"
Actually, I think I might want to join the Democrets.The Democrats are just too big an embarrassment. Part of the Democret charter will exclude Lieberman and Biden from ever joining
i especially loved it when johnny ran from the "phone cops"
LOL! One of my favorites. Johnny hiding behind the couch and all. Now that I'm in the telecom industry, it has even more meaning for me, and I use that as a joke in class all the time.
Hello from New Orleans. Mid 70's and sunny today. I'm so not going to be happy to be back in cold Philly on Monday.
snowing here, their predictions of 4-5 inches is way off, we have over a foot.
Pol:
It's probably the "war room" Clinton set up to focus on devising their message for the health care issue.
Saint Reid:
Sen. Harry Reid Statement on Budget as a Moral Document
...
Mr. President, America is a country that values everyone -- the worker just as much as the CEO. And most Americans would agree that it’s not right to cut health care for kids and the elderly, cut education, cut veterans benefits, and cut law enforcement –while handing out a wide variety of giveaways to special interests and the powerful. That’s not just bad policy. It’s wrong.
...
I think we can do better. And next week, as we take up the budget resolution, Senate Democrats will work to make it better. Our goal is to turn this budget into a moral document of which we can all be proud. A document that truly reflects our nation’s priorities and the values of the American people.
http://www.buzzflash.com/alerts/...3/
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NTodd i wish that show was still on, i miss it. (sigh)
NTodd - Are you anywhere near Shelburne?
We know who it is, so quit pretending...
How's it going this evening?
You are right $400-500. My nephew told me they were $250
Sorry, I would have warned about the price. But Oakley doesn't have that many sunglasses under $200, so I thought expensive was implied.
LJ - True dat about San Antonio.
Whatever has been going on here lately, it's not the usual thing - it's been very very dry. Heaven - just like being in New Mexico or Colorado - except without the altitude.
"Why is it that every ignorant comment is perpetrated by Thurston?"
Yoshimi
Was that supposed to be irony?
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!
Looks like the Democrats are succeeding at derailing SS reform. No problems with that, but where is their plan?
Now that I'm in the telecom industry, it has even more meaning for me, and I use that as a joke in class all the time.
If you have not seen The President's Analyst, you must. Trust me on this.
Blergh on Lauren Winner. Her book Girl Meets God drove me crazy. I admit, I did not buy it, but I did leaf through it at the bookstore, and determined that this young woman had gone from some sort of Christian to some sort of Jew, to some sort of Orthodox Judaism, and then onward to some sort of fundievangelical Christianity. And she was something like 25 by then. My gut reaction was that she should have waited another 10-20 years before telling us that she'd found the way, the truth and the life.
As for this business about chastity, and abstaining about sex once they know about it's power , let me tell you the reason sex has such great power for Ms. Winner and her fundievangelical friends is because they've invested it with huge power. It is the most important thing in their lives--which, oddly enough, has little to do with what Jesus put his emphasis on. You compare all this twaddle about the "power of sex" with Jesus' emphasis on "love God and love your neighbor as yourself", well you come away with the feeling that people like Ms. Winner don't get Jesus at all.
I'm 44 years old, never married, and I'll be damned if I say I'm sorry I had sex out of wedlock. I'm tired of this crap about the "power of sex". The only reason it has power is because people like Lauren Winner give it power through trying to make sex something that isn't normal and natural for human beings. Instead, sex has to be chained up, put behind walls and purified of all taint. There's something twisted about that, but then again, Lauren Winner's just a dumbed down version of Augustine of Hippo, who saw sex as the root of original sin. Not much has changed in 1600 years.
Tena:
It's not nearly as humid down here as it is where you are. And we get more wind.
I tell people all the time that I don't need to go to hell. I'd been there every summer I ever spent in North/East Texas.
I don't care much for sunshine, but it's been real pretty all day long here in Austin.
NTodd - Are you anywhere near Shelburne?
We live about 45 minutes north of Shelburne, so I guess that counts as 'near'. We go down there quite often.
my other favorite episode is when andy had to fool the analyst mother carlson sent in to see how the station was doing. jennifer acted like a twit, bailey acted stoned, venus had johnny at knifepoint in the hallway, and les and herb looked smart. it was the best...
Yes, it's worth wondering why the "vote fraud" epidemic concerning hundreds of votes is on Dems, while the voting machines responsible for millions and millions of votes are all owned by Repigs, who promise to deliver their states to Texas Jesus the Executioner. Of course, it wouldn't have anything to do with the repig-owned and operated media, either. Aren't we all sick and tired of the beating the repigs are taking over wholesale vote-stealing and disenfranchisement? I mean, lay off, already, librul media. There are other things going on, like Michael Jackson and Paris Hilton. How about some war reporting? Nah, we've had enough. I can't stand to see any more video footage of coffins coming home from Iraq. And the networks should stop picking on Bushco for their failure to prevent 9/11 and their failure to capture Osama Bush Laden. Not to mention the merciless razzing of the White House press corps over the appointment of sub-humans as AG, ambassador to UN, and SoS. And I don't wonder that W is being booed off stages across the country as the media points out how he is doing his level best to destroy the most successful and efficient anti-poverty program in human history with his lies and manipulative bullshit. Why with this treatment, America is in danger of becoming a liberal democracy, as the founders designed. Or not.
No, wait -- just remembered the funniest part of that episode -- Johnny, wondering about what had been happening at the station, says it's funny that Andy hadn't called with any news. Venus turns and throws Johnny the rotary dial off the phone Johnny had pulverized with the toolbox, "Here, John, why don't you call him?"
NTodd, my daughter saw the forecast for Boston this morning, and we had to bribe her to get on her connecting flight back there.
Kidding. Actually, she and her roomie have an apartment in South Boston that overlooks the St. Paddy's Day parade route, and there's going be a big party there next week. Ya gotta have something to look forward to when the weather is uncooperative, and drinking liberally usually helps.
Looks like the Democrats are succeeding at derailing SS reform. No problems with that, but where is their plan?
I'm not sure if you noticed, but they're the oppo party. Their main function is to oppose. You guys want something done? You figure it out. You've got all the levers of power.
But they do have a plan: it's called NOT FUCKING UP SOCIAL SECURITY. Oh, they also suggest raising the FICA cap. Pretty simple.
SteveNS 
she and her roomie have an apartment in South Boston that overlooks the St. Paddy's Day parade route, and there's going be a big party there next week.
Get out. A big party? In Boston? On St. Paddy's Day?
It appears Joe Biden spent up to half a million dollars on gay male prostitutes from his campaign warchest. This is gonna be huge.
But they do have a plan: it's called NOT FUCKING UP SOCIAL SECURITY.
Ah, it's too complicated. The American people will never go for it.
Tena,
It's been a brutal winter, truly. ANd though the Farmer's Almanac assures me this is its last gasp, it's not much comfort. I really feel sort of beaten up by the never-ending winter.
It appears Joe Biden spent up to half a million dollars on gay male prostitutes from his campaign warchest. This is gonna be huge.
I heard he spent the money on hair plugs.
pol,
"My question is, they mention that it was a tactic started in the first Clinton administration"
No they don't. So, your "question" is bogus.
Two mentions of the clenis:
"The practice, which also occurred in the Clinton administration"
"Federal agencies have been commissioning video news releases since at least the first Clinton administration."
Doesn't say it started there paly.
surely ready for spring. and then glorious summer. yup. sure am. damn snow.
and damn bush and the media whores too.
my other favorite episode is when andy had to fool the analyst mother carlson sent in to see how the station was doing. jennifer acted like a twit, bailey acted stoned, venus had johnny at knifepoint in the hallway, and les and herb looked smart. it was the best...
her eyes
Total agreement here. In fact, any episode where Mother Carlson appeared was a flat-out classic.
The look on her face that time she mused aloud to her son, "Arthur, do you realize that if I had had an abortion when I was carrying you, I...." (thousand-yard stare, smile starting to form)
Anon:
Scroll down, and you'll see that Atrios already addressed this today. In addition, it wasn't Biden who used the money. Read carefully:
A former campaign worker for U.S. Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., was sentenced in federal court today to three years and one month in prison for stealing more than $412,000 from the senator.
Roger D. Blevins of Elsmere was accused of raiding Biden’s re-election fund to pay for dates with, and buy lavish presents for, performers on a gay pornographic Web site.
Blevins told U.S. District Judge Kent A. Jordan that his actions were “stupid, ignorant and wrong,” and he apologized for his behavior.
Biden is a lot of things I don't like, but he is not at fault here.
Draco, the Spanish avant-garde food brings Jean-Paul Sartre's Cooking Diary to mind again.
October 3
Spoke with Camus today about my cookbook. Though he has never actually eaten, he gave me much encouragement. I rushed home immediately to begin work. How excited I am! I have begun my formula for a Denver omelet.
October 4
Still working on the omelet. There have been stumbling blocks. I keep creating omelets one after another, like soldiers marching into the sea, but each one seems empty, hollow, like stone. I want to create an omelet that expresses the meaninglessness of existence, and instead they taste like cheese. I look at them on the plate, but they do not look back. Tried eating them with the lights off. It did not help. Malraux suggested paprika.
October 6
I have realized that the traditional omelet form (eggs and cheese) is bourgeois. Today I tried making one out of cigarette, some coffee, and four tiny stones. I fed it to Malraux, who puked. I am encouraged, but my journey is still long.
Remember kids - you're in the middle of another Ignore the Moronic Brownshirt Fucks Million-Dollar Weekend!
When rates of taxation are too high, hungry capital gets starved.
so I thought expensive was implied.
Snow - Yes, that's why I was shocked when he told me $250 since Oakley sunglasses by themselves usually start at about $200. But the good thing about expensive sunglasses is (ie Maui Jim), when mine broke after a year, they sent me a free new pair. Same thing happened years ago with some Armani's.
NTodd - My wife's cousin has the fly fishing store in Shelburne the last 15-20 years or so (and yes, it's the store you probably know). They are always asking us to come visit but I'm too lazy and got sick of flying after doing it for so many years.
Funny, isn't it, how two "different" brownshirts on two different threads are commenting on the "nice" weather, though... kinda makes you think...
Get out. A big party? In Boston? On St. Paddy's Day?
Hey, they don't have to stand out in the cold to watch the parade.
Besides, on March 17th, everyone is Irish. It's a lovely excuse for a party when we in the north are wishing for spring.
I'll be making corned beef and colcannon.
It appears Joe Biden spent up to half a million dollars on gay male prostitutes from his campaign warchest. This is gonna be huge.
See two threads ago.
Also, we are meanies. And Thersites bested Ted Smith many times because Ted Smith used ad hominem.
Also, the Democratic platform should be "Abortion is icky."
[/Synopsis of the day at Atrios]
Atrios out for the night?
I just got here.
Whatta ya got to drink?
SteveNS, i don't remember that one. do you know of any place i can catch those reruns?
Scroll down, and you'll see that Atrios already addressed this today.
The brownshirt knows that. It's just tossing out test lines from Unka Karl to see what might stick.
Funny, isn't it, how two "different" brownshirts on two different threads are commenting on the "nice" weather, though... kinda makes you think...
I know - it's terribly suspicious. How likely is it that the weather is nice in two locations on the planet?
Must be a Rovian plant sent here to destroy this place. No other possibility.
Keep on the job.
Carpa:
That pretty much says it all.
When the government spends borrowed money on poor people, it crowds out lucrative investments in the private sector.
NTodd, please don't encourage Old Man Winter!
do you know of any place i can catch those reruns?
TVLand used to run them after midnight on Saturdays.
Don't hold your breath waiting for 'em on DVD. Apparently, those little snippets of then-popular records they used to play have the whole project tied up in clearance limbo. RIAA demands its pound of flesh, no matter what!
'Fraid not, her eyes -- sorry. If I could find a channel that aired them now, I'd be a happy little man.
But if I do come across one, I'll tape 'em for you!
Must be a Ro--
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Evening, freethinkers
Anyone know if Karen Hughes needs Senate confirmation for this new position?
SteveNS
Then Les goes "on the air" to break the story that their transmitter was blown up.
Kidding. Actually, she and her roomie have an apartment in South Boston that overlooks the St. Paddy's Day parade route, and there's going be a big party there next week. Ya gotta have something to look forward to when the weather is uncooperative, and drinking liberally usually helps.
pie
pie,
If you ever visit your daughter, come visit me. I have a place in the North End, and I'd love to make you a plate of clams oreganata! Or rizotto with porcini! Delisiozo!
Ah, the Tower Theater -- I was just thinking about that place today, mostly because I watched a few monster movies this week.
You see, like many a kid, I loved going to the movies...but in the late 50s-early 60s, with movies facing stiff competition from TV, there was a short period where indoor theaters seemed to be dying and drive-ins were the wave of the future. (Don't laugh.) The one indoor theater within walking distance of my house, the Wendy in Darby, PA, burnt to a crisp in 1958 and a boring bank was built on its site.
But a year or two after that, my parents decided I was old enough to take the trolley 5 miles into Upper Darby, where there were 3 still-operating indoor theaters: the 69th Street, the Terminal and the Tower. I have fond memories of The Tower, which was the most ornate of the three, with a classy lobby and an icon of the Eiffel Tower above the marquee. A real old-fashioned movie palace, certainly the nicest theater I'd ever been in outside of downtown Philly. Among other cinematic delights, I saw a number of monster movies there, including the world premiere of "Gorgo," which was roughly Godzilla's cousin goes to London.
The indoor theater wasn't dying though; it was evolving. The shopping center/mall theater became the coming thing, and theaters like the three in Upper Darby were suffering by the mid 60s -- they just weren't as accessible by car as the new theaters. The 69th St. closed sometime around the mid-late 60s, the Terminal degenerated into a sleazy, cheap grind house, and I think the Tower may have closed or converted to something like a Greek film format. (There was a large Greek community in Upper Darby.)
Finally, sometime around the early 70s, Larry Magid of Electric Factory started using the Tower for rock concerts, and it became the Philly area's premier venue for mid-level acts. I saw a number of memorable shows there myself: Lou Reed, Patti Smith, the Ramones. And David Bowie recorded a classic live album there.
Glad to hear that the Tower is still alive and kicking -- it'll certainly be kicking tonight with Margaret Cho onstage.
Another reminder about Rory's big day. I love weddings. < sniff >
Biden is a lot of things I don't like, but he is not at fault here.
LJ, didn't you get the memo? People like Guckie and the Plame blabbers and the Abu Ghraib nazis can be naughty little boys, but georgie is not responsible. He's not his brothers' keeper.
But Biden is supposed to keep track of every move that's made by anyone connected to him.
Get it?
Annual PR funding has more than doubled under this administration.
http://tinyurl.com/5mlrq
For what it's worth.
thanks dave and SteveNS-- i don't watch much teevee, so i only like what i like.
The efficient market theorem dictates that risk totally disappears after ten years.
BTW, with spring break coming up, expect the annual infusion of moronic brownshirt fucks here as this site traditionally becomes an internet Fort Lauderdale for trolls. Better start practicing some serious ignoring or you'll never make it through Easter...
Apparently, those little snippets of then-popular records they used to play have the whole project tied up in clearance limbo. RIAA demands its pound of flesh, no matter what!
dave
Yeah, even the last go-round of reruns I saw a few years back had had most of the music either excised totally, or replaced with poor susbstitute tunes. A cryin' shame.
It appears Joe Biden spent up to half a million dollars on gay male prostitutes from his campaign warchest. This is gonna be huge.
Anonymous
Anonymous,
Lets be honest here - Someone in his campaign staff stole campaign funds to pay for gay pornography. Funny that Biden is a Delaware Senator and a certain Republican gay prostitute/pornographer is from Delaware.
You are right. This will be huge.
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Can I be straightforward with you for a moment? From what I see, you pretty much just say something about brownshirts, trolls, Karl Rove, and "ZZZZZ". Correct me if I'm wrong, but you do this over and over and over again.
It's a classic display of obsessive-compulsive behavior. That sort of thing can be debilitating.
I sure hope you realize you have a problem and get it treated soon.
Dang, pie. I guess I missed that one. Could you fax it to me? 
'Fraid not, her eyes -- sorry. If I could find a channel that aired them now, I'd be a happy little man.
Ever try eMule or eDonkey?
Just sayin'...
Shaw Kenawe--i used to have dinner at the north end all the time...just the smell of walking down the streets...ahhh...heaven!
Then Les goes "on the air" to break the story that their transmitter was blown up.
Lumpenproletariat
Well, of course! That was his lead story!
chris/tx - small fucking world! I'll have to drop by the store and introduce myself. Or maybe not: "Hi, I know your cousin's husband virtually from a blog. We're practically family! No, there's no need to call the police--please put down the shotgun..."
pie - my mom always makes corned beef and cabbage and Boston Cream Pie for me on the 17th. A tradition I *demanded* we begin when I was about 6. Her side of the fam has the Scot-Irish blood (where the Cherokee comes from, actually), so it's not too much of a stretch.
Remember kids - you're in the middle of another Dave's A Moronic Repetitive Village Idiot Dumb Fuck who has Narcoleptic Seisures When He's Forced to Think Weekend!
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NYMary - I really feel sort of beaten up by the never-ending winter.
I can understand that. When I spent summers here, by September I generally thought I would go mad, and it doesn't really cool off much until late October.
Spring will be very sweet for y'all. Hope it comes very soon.
If you ever visit your daughter, come visit me. I have a place in the North End, and I'd love to make you a plate of clams oreganata! Or rizotto with porcini! Delisiozo!
Heaven.
She's graduating in June, but I think we'll be too busy. But she's staying and working there for the summer. If I get back there, I will definitely take you up on that offer!
Ever try eMule or eDonkey?
Just sayin'...
Eli
I haven't, but maybe I'll have to give it a shot. Thanks!
The efficient market theorem dictates that risk totally disappears after ten years.
Bunk - don't be absurd.
And, really - it's kind of pathetic that you post as Anonymous, when one would have to actually modify the Javascript of any given thread to get away posting under that name.
You won't get me to respond to you again, just so you know.
Wow! Yet another handle!
Good luck keepin' 'em all straight...
I sure hope you realize you have a problem and get it treated soon.
Oh my lord, you were just bested in an argument by dave.
"Anyone know if Karen Hughes needs Senate confirmation for this new position?"
From what I understand,yes. The committee hasn't scheduled hearings because the nomination hasn't officially been made.
Also, from what I understand, Sen. Barbara Boxer is on that committee. I will call in naked on the day hearings start so I can watch CSPAN
What I can't believe is how the Wrepublicans think anyone outside the USA is going to take Man-hands seriously.
Half the people here don't.
What's she going to do?
Try to convince the Italians that Negroponte's guards were trying to rescue the hostage?
Try to convince the Lebanese they're better off with IDF troops than Syrian?
Try to convince the Iranians that they're safer trusting Bu$hCo-Cheneyburton than their alliance with Syria and Russia's assurances they'll countenance no invasion?
Ted, I think you're projecting. And yes, before anybody asks, I *am* a psychiatrist.
Elaine, I'm sorry about the Old Man Winter thing. I love him. Although, to be honest, I am jonesing to ride my bike.
You won't get me to respond to you again, just so you know.
Oooooh! Can we all get in on this deal?
her eyes,
I've been on the west coast in SoCal visiting my family since Jan.
I've yet to find one decent Italian restaurant (at least where I am). I do miss the North End.
Some of my favorite restaurants:
Bricco
Lucca
Prezza
Dolce Vita
Piccolo Nido
Cafe Paradiso (best cappucino in the North End)
Best place for pizza:
Bruschetta's Bakery, at the end of North Bennett St. Every day at around 11:30 la signora makes deep dish Sicilian pizza for $1 a slice (last year at this time it was $.75 a slice). It is the best pizza in the North End. Then there's Pizzeria Regina. In East Boston, nothing can beat Santarpio's.
Oh, I am soooooo hungry.
Oh my lord, you were just bested in an argument by dave.
Yeah, about as much as blabbering child with autism "bests" someone in an argument by rocking back and forth and saying the same thing a million times over.
I've said it many times in my life, but I fucking hate winter.
Oh my lord, you were just bested in an argument by dave.
That's gotta hurt!
Oooooh! Can we all get in on this deal?
dave | Email | Homepage | 03.12.05 - 7:44 pm | #
Apparently if we just cut and paste random economic jargon...
Ted, I think you're projecting.
And you're being predictable and foolish.
Did you get your illustrious Colby degree scanned in for us yet?
Guess spring break's started early...
Blak:
Where are you from, hon?
I used to live on Prince St long long ago.
Yeah, about as much as blabbering child with autism "bests" someone in an argument by rocking back and forth and saying the same thing a million times over.
Ted Smith | Email | Homepage | 03.12.05 - 7:46 pm | #
Twice!
I'm from Somerville, MA. It's right next to Boston.
Splitting hairs, there, hadenough, but I will admit, I used the wrong term.
So there may have been some use before the Clinton administration. I was just interested in knowing if anyone had found examples of such "news" created by the Clinton administration. I don't know of any, but as LJ mentioned, the war room thing might have been one. Seems like, if he used it, it didn't work too well. And, seems like if they were going to name Clinton in the story, they would cite evidence. Oh, I forgot. We're talking about the SCLM here.
NYMary - I have to admit that I think it is probably harder to have to deal with a whole lot of really cold weather than it is to deal with the heat.
Prince St? Um... Why do I have a picture now of you with curls and a frilly shirt and high heeled boots and on a motorcycle?
thanks shaw, i'll check those places out. i haven't been to boston in the north end in years.
Hey, they don't have to stand out in the cold to watch the parade.
Besides, on March 17th, everyone is Irish. It's a lovely excuse for a party when we in the north are wishing for spring.
I'll be making corned beef and colcannon.
pie
We had our parade today and it had to be in the twenties. I was amazed at the kids in t-shirts. It must have been all of the alcohol in their systems.
Twice!
ZZZZZ
Brownshirt
Fuck
Karl Rove
Look at how well I can debate.
Blak:
Ooh. Okay. Er, how about them Red Sox?!
I should clarify: I don't dislike winter. I dislike winter in March. I dislike winter when both Thers and I have crashed cars into ditches/curbs, doing $2500 worth of damage. I dislike winter when the heating oil guy chuckles when we call.
It's time to be done, winter.
Just for the record, I'm putting the sharp stick away, and going back to ignoring.
It seems the humane thing to do...
And you're being predictable and foolish.
Did you get your illustrious Colby degree scanned in for us yet?
Ted Smith | Email | Homepage | 03.12.05 - 7:47 pm | #
It must be hard losing all these arguments to people you so obviously hold in contempt...
my mom always makes corned beef and cabbage and Boston Cream Pie for me on the 17th.
Boston Cream Pie. I used to make it all the time.
Yum.
(I think you're spoiled )
Since "someone" made a reference to autism, I'll take the opportunity to ask if anyone read the article in the Sunday Telegraph a couple weeks ago, about Kim Peek -- the basis for Rain Man? He's a megasavant, expert in at least 15 different subjects. Totally astounding brain, both structurally (no corpus callosum, and the right hemisphere is in 8 or 9 smaller pieces) and what he is able to do with it.
The guy can read each page of an open book simultaneously, left page with the left eye, right page with the right eye, and remember every word.
at least you can do stuff outside in the heat. i still do stuff outside in winter, but there are limitations. you can't ride your bike or go camping, but snowshoeing can be beautiful.
it is just that by now, enough is enough. bring on the heat!
Tena,
Having lived in Miami, I think it's a wash. There's six months of the year when you rarely wander outside, is all.
I've said it many times in my life, but I fucking hate winter.
The storm early this week was the last straw for me. I found an America West flight to SanFran for $164.50, and off I went.
Just for the record, I'm putting the sharp stick away, and going back to ignoring.
The beauty of the Ad Hominem Automatic Forfeiture Rule is that you can win arguments without even opening your mouth!
Apparently if we just cut and paste random economic jargon...
Oh, I see - you're nuts, too, thinking I'm using more than one handle.
I guess when you can entertain any paranoid delusion, anything is possible.
Actually, I'm you. Really.
Twice!
It's kinda like when Homer met Frank Grimes, ain't it?
I think we should all call our little troll "Grimey" from now on...
A Pic
http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/...st/
i7310id.html
From a nice site with amazing pics
http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/
Stratf...ed_titmouse.htm
The Tufted Titmouse is small bird, about six inches long. It has gray coloring on the upper parts of its body, with white below. There is some rust-coloring on its sides. The titmouse also has a small crest of feathers sticking up on its head.
Titmice prefer to live in swampy, moist woods, however they have becomed accustomed to people and will live in parks and yards. These birds stay in our area year-round.
Tufted Titmice breed from early April to early July. Once a pair gets together, they mate for life. Titmice build their nests in tree cavities. These holes may have been made by woodpeckers, fungus, or other causes.
They construct their nests with a wide variety of materials, including: dead leaves, moss, bark strips, grass, hair, fur, feathers, string, cloth, and snakeskin. Titmice have been known to pull hair or fur from squirrel's tails, woodchuck's or opossum's backs, and even the heads of humans.
Central and south TX is home to Black Crested Titmice, which some experts believe was once a separate species.
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From what I understand,yes. The committee hasn't scheduled hearings because the nomination hasn't officially been made.
Also, from what I understand, Sen. Barbara Boxer is on that committee. I will call in naked on the day hearings start so I can watch CSPAN
Thanks Diane, that's exactly what I wanted to hear. She's on my top 10 list of people I want to see get hit with a chair repeatedly. Barbara's just the woman to do it.
brownshit! Squawwwwk! ZZZZ!
Israel! What was the question!?
Curly hair? Yuk!!!
I usually party like it's 1999 though.
It must have been all of the alcohol in their systems.
Tomorrow, they will experience St. Patrick's Day revenge.
Karin--That's a funny link about Sartre's cookbook, but I feel compelled to be a bit pedantic. Sartre was never troubed by "the meaningless of life." On the contrary, he found it a great opportunity to rescue meaning from the priests and politicians and capitalists. With their oppressive meanings gone, individuals were free to assign life meaning according to their own desires and ethics.
Dammit < /b >
I'm from Somerville, MA. It's right next to Boston.
BlakNo1
We should have a Boston area/Eschaton meeting sometime this summer. Our own Drinking Liberally night.
The storm early this week was the last straw for me. I found an America West flight to SanFran for $164.50, and off I went.
Are you here now?
If people come out here, I wish they'd let me know! I'd'a baked a cake...
Her eyes. Sorry. You can't do anything outside in Texas heat. You can take off only so many clothes, because you need the clothes to prevent sunburn.
Give me cold. Anytime. I can go out in -30 if I'm bundled up good and the wind isn't too bad. But 105 in East Texas? Kill me.
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It must be hard losing all these arguments to people you so obviously hold in contempt..."
Caprbasman, another prize dope! My money is on community college or a correspondence course at air conditioning school.
The efficient market theorem dictates that risk totally disappears after ten years.
Tell that to the Japanese.
And you're being predictable and foolish.
Actually, I was being snarky and making an allusion. Please keep up.
Did you get your illustrious Colby degree scanned in for us yet?
No, as I said on the other thread, I found some online refs to my being an alum--I really don't want to go into my office. But if you give me your home addy, I'll have the school send you my transcript.
Confession: sophomore year was my best grade-wise because I got an A+ in First Year Russian (Russian/Soviet Studies was my other major), but I mostly fucked around and skipped class, which is why I didn't make Phi Beta Kappa (the faculty head of the Colby chapter told me I had developed a reputation as being "extremely bright and completely unmotivated", which I certainly couldn't argue), much to my PBK father's chagrin. Ah, youth.
I hate having to put on 3 layers of clothing just to go to the corner store.
You may not roast alive here in the summer, but you stand a good chance of drowning in your own sweat when you walk outside.
"snarky "
this is an idiotic web/blog neologism. it identifies the user as a webtrend fashion victim. cease and desist!
Shaw, Blak, her eyes,
I highly recommend it, seriously. Someone names a bar, and everyone shows up. The confused looking people by the bar are the Eschatonians. After that, it's just a rollicking Saturday night thread.
dave, I stopped off to have lunch at Original Joe's and take a stroll down by the Embarcadero, but now I'm down in Madera. There's nothing going on here, it's a family visit, but at least the weather is sunny.
Just for the record, I'm putting the sharp stick away, and going back to ignoring.
Oh, yeah - that OCD babling sure is lethal.
But 105 in East Texas? Kill me.
but i hear it is a *dry* heat.
we new englanders yak a lot about the weather. just wait until august, and then we'll all be yakking it up about how hot and humid it is and that god himself must have sent hell down upon us.
Give me cold. Anytime. I can go out in -30 if I'm bundled up good and the wind isn't too bad. But 105 in East Texas? Kill me.
LJ
It was beautiful today in SE TX.
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It must be hard losing all these arguments to people you so obviously hold in contempt...
Yeah, I really worry about people with deep inadequacies judging my rhetorical skills.
Take care now.
Mission Accomplished via TPM:
I was remiss in not providing an update on whether Sen. Lugar (R) called for the hearing on John Bolton's nomination yesterday.
The State Department leaned on them heavily. But the calls made by concerned citizens from around the country made the difference. He didn't do it.
Steve Clemons has the details.
http://
www.talkingpointsmemo.com...3_06.php#005132
I you made the call yesterday good on ya, if you didn't you are part of the problem.
pie - I'm not spoiled. I, uh...am just drawn that way.
Okay, look, it's not my fault I'm an only child. Okay, it is, or rather my AD/HD's fault. Oh, and the sun was in my eyes.
Gee, NTodd. I like your snark.
Oh, I see - you're nuts, too
Ohhh, that's three arguments.
thinking I'm using more than one handle.
And you missed my point.
Curly hair? Yuk!!!
Hey, curly hair can be way cool on guys. My son has the most gorgeous head of hair I've ever seen: It's that fire shade of red, in big loose curls. Total babe magnet hair. We can't go anywhere without girls wanting to touch his hair. When they're not grabbing his ass. I swear, these women in San Antonio...
I never complain about the heat, seriously. I did 2 days in a row at Ozzfest in 100 degree heat(even hotter in the parking lot) and not once did I catch myself wishing for winter.
Sartre was never troubed by "the meaningless of life."
ah, but i am, along with beckett and camus.
and NTodd is too smart.
man, that pesky fly story is fuck'n disturbing. sadly, i am not surprised.
I'll take hot weather over cold, because you can't garden or swim outdoors in the snow.
this is an idiotic web/blog neologism. it identifies the user as a webtrend fashion victim. cease and desist!
Yeah, using words that people understand is so silly. Oh, and you're not the boss of me.
Gee, NTodd. I like your snark.
NTodd is the king of snark.
A couple of months ago, right after the summer solstice in the Southern Hemisphere, a Long Island size chunk of the Ross Ice shelf broke off.
That's a lot of water into the ecosystem.
There's no way to prove the torrential rains and tornados on the West coast, or the record snowfalls in the Midwest or the Northeast were due to that.
But maybe it's worth noting that even with the record precipitation, even though we're at the bottom of the 11 year solar cycle, this has been one of the warmest winters on record in the Northern hemisphere.
Like hot weather? Like hard winters? They'll be plenty of both, soon enough, as the world tries to reach an equilibrium.
"snarky "
this is an idiotic web/blog neologism. it identifies the user as a webtrend fashion victim. cease and desist!
efficient troll hypothesis
BWAAAHAHAHA
That to
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Here in the pacific northwest, it's sunny and dry. Sounds good, right? Not really. The rain we were supposed to get all went to southern California causing flooding, and the snowpack here is 20-40% of normal. Hard to generate power thru the dams with no water. WA has already declared a drought and they're trying to plan how to fight the huge forest fires that are expected.
National Guard? Hello, is anyone there? No? Everyone's in Iraq. Shit.
And everyone's allergies started acting up in February.
LJ, Backslider is your kid?!?
i could make several curly hair comments right now, but i won't
my kid make chocolate chip cookies today. mmmmmm....
I'll take hot weather over cold, because you can't garden or swim outdoors in the snow.
Karin
A-frickin'-men!
No, her eyes, it isn't dry heat. It's humid. Wretched, horrible place.
Gee, NTodd, that's wonderful. I'm glad that Colby degree makes you proud.
Now, what does all that have to do with the fact that equating Republicans getting a 60 seat Senate majority to six million humans being killed in a genocidal attempt?
Oh, right - nothing. If in doubt, go off on irrelevant tangents to get away from the fact that the topical debate has been lost.
He's the King Of Snark
There is none higher
Sucka MC's
should call him "Sire".
Those beers I drank knocked out my flu but left me really wiped out.
Oh, and you're not the boss of me.
Indeed. I am the boss of NTodd.
Now, what does all that have to do with the fact that equating Republicans getting a 60 seat Senate majority to six million humans being killed in a genocidal attempt?
I don't think any amount of edjamacation would make this sentence make any kind of sense.
NYMary - Yah, you're right - 6 of one, half a dozen of the other.
I stopped off to have lunch at Original Joe's and take a stroll down by the Embarcadero, but now I'm down in Madera.
See, I could have met you down there, too, as I have family in Fresno!
Weird world, ain't it?
Another confession (damn only children Leos, already trying to bring attention on themselves, even if they are actually introverts): I am the least educated person in my immediate family. My wife has a BA and MS; Dad has a BA and MS; Mom has a BA, two MS' and a Doctorate. I just have a stinking BA. My friend and mentor for whom I teach at Champlain College is pushing me to get an MS, but I'm resisting.
Ted, don't forget that mailing address...
NYMary:
Heh. Nope. The LJ spawn's hair isn't that long. YET.
Is Elaine still here?
She's usually spot-on with weather / climate changes and what the large pollution producing corporations are doing to the planet.
"Yeah, using words that people understand is so silly. Oh, and you're not the boss of me."
It means nothing! What does it mean? Sarcastic? Why not say that? It's a stupid word. Anyone who uses it is a dope.
Oooh. Ted Smith.
He used ad hominem argument against me two threads ago, so I defeated him.
SteveNS:
It's coming from someone who didn't know the difference between a strawman and a slippery slope. What can you say?
...I really worry about people with deep inadequacies judging my rhetorical skills.
And yet, you keep trying.
Good for you, Grimey!
It's coming from someone who didn't know the difference between a strawman and a slippery slope. What can you say?
Now my strawman's all slippery. But I think I kinda like it.
Incog sez:
Those beers I drank knocked out my flu but left me really wiped out.
Huh.
When I'm sick and I drink I always feel different but not drunk. No matter how much I drink I only feel slightly off.
Best to stay off the booze when you have a virus. You're only wasting good alchohol.
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Here in the pacific northwest, it's sunny and dry. Sounds good, right? Not really. The rain we were supposed to get all went to southern California
Maybe central California too, because driving south from San Francisco,past San Jose and into the Central Valley, I've never seen it so green here. The hills were Kelly green, and I've never seen the reservoir level so high.
If in doubt, go off on irrelevant tangents to get away from the fact that the topical debate has been lost.
It's certainly missing, if that's what you mean by "lost." I swear, I've looked through most of the damn thread and can't see any point being debated except "My pee-pee is bigger than yours."
Must be fascinating. Tell me later how it turned out.
Or not.
105 in East Texas? Kill me.
Try Fresno (or Madera). For 30 days in a row. Typical summer.
And yeah, dry heat does make a difference!
does anyone know if we signed or are entertaining the idea of signing the kyoto treaty?
Okay, I'm determined to get this scene finished in my novel. Wish me luck. You freethinking moonbats have fun.
And, one last time: Congrats to Rory on his wedding day!
He used ad hominem argument against me two threads ago, so I defeated him.
Thersites | Email | Homepage | 03.12.05 - 8:08 pm | #
Yes he's been subsequently vanquished by dave, NTodd, and I.
It must suck constantly losing arguments you aren't really having on a technicality like that. But he can't seem to help himself.
Oh well.
Gee, NTodd, that's wonderful. I'm glad that Colby degree makes you proud.
Thanks, man. I really appreciate that.
Now, what does all that have to do with the fact that equating Republicans getting a 60 seat Senate majority to six million humans being killed in a genocidal attempt?
Oh, right - nothing. If in doubt, go off on irrelevant tangents to get away from the fact that the topical debate has been lost.
Wow, you really are fucking stupid and/or insane. I don't s'pose you recall that I first brought up my education as an example of appeal to authority so you could see what a real fallacious argument was. Then you mentioned that for all you knew I'd gone to Bofo State (or something), so for fun I noted I went to Colby (which, of course, wasn't my main point and took all of a couple lines in my post). And now I respond to your prodding about scanning my degree, and you say I'm going off on a tangent?
To paraphrase my very good, dear friend Hamlet (we both are depressives, and I met him at a retreat once years ago):
What a piece of work is Ted! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals!
Sorry for the "appeal to authority", but you make me feel so good about myself, I can't even express it in words.
AHAGGERT99 whens that shitty blog of yours gonna start accepting comments?
Now my strawman's all slippery. But I think I kinda like it.
I am also the boss of Eli.
I am so enjoying this thread.
It's delicious.
It's certainly missing, if that's what you mean by "lost." I swear, I've looked through most of the damn thread and can't see any point being debated...
Well, it is an open thread.
As has been pointed out many times before, they just disintegrate after the first 100 posts, anyway...
i don't think "snark" is a weblog neologism anyway. i'm pretty sure the term predates the internet.
It's coming from someone who didn't know the difference between a strawman and a slippery slope. What can you say?
LJ
Hmmm -- if I'm trolling, then I say "what does the fact that the difference between a straw man and a slippery slope have to do with anything?"
NTodd, the beauty of not relying on appeal to authority and other logical fallacies is that one's argument is judged on its own merits. I could tell you all about how my education is superior to yours and whatnot, and then of course we could hear endless amounts of sniping about how I was lying and so forth... but why go to the trouble?
Either you can or cannot handle the debate within the confines of avoiding fallacies, or you can't.
And you're still wrong about appeal to authority - you can be the authority you're appealing to, eg, saying that your degree is what makes your argument or opinion more valid as opposed to the strength of the argument as it stands on its own. Your supposed expertise means nothing unless you can demonstrate it.
"I am also the boss of Eli."
You are the boss of wanking off to your own blog-emissions. Get lost, joker!
It means nothing! What does it mean? Sarcastic? Why not say that? It's a stupid word. Anyone who uses it is a dope.
I give you the author of the next Newspeak Dictionary. Congrats on becoming the linguicop of the New PNAC Century. And thanks for correcting me on my improper thinking and word usements that I structure. I promise to be good in the future. Double plus good, in fact. Just please don't sic the rats on me.
...driving south from San Francisco,past San Jose and into the Central Valley, I've never seen it so green here. The hills were Kelly green...
They're like that every year for about three months. By the end of May, they're tinderbox brown, and stay that way 'til the next winter.
Hey, curly hair can be way cool on guys.
I'll second that.
I just have a stinking BA
ok, maybe not as smart as i thought, but he takes pictures, that's gotta be worth something, right?
Anyone read the MY Times article :
"News or Public Relations? For Bush It's a Blur"
Pretty damning. And not unanticipated.
Kyoto? Ha, ha ha! No we haven't signed, and aren't going to either. Bush backed out of it in 2001. It's a reality based agreement, so it's repulsive to the Bushies. Like holy water to a vampire.
I am also the boss of Eli.
I want a raise.
BTW, on your way back from Madera, stop at Ryan's Place in Los Banos if you like good pie.
I'd avoid Casa de Fruta if I were you...
Hey, curly hair can be way cool on guys.
i don't like it, but i would take it anyway.
isn't someone going to post the lyrics to ...
Send in my overpaid eye candy!
her eyes--There's not a chance in hell the US will ever ratify Kyoto. The Senate under Clinton rejected it 97-0 because every US pollutathon industry hated it.
The Busheviks zapped it outright and withdrew from the process. Clinton was hoping to remain in process and offer another plan, but the thugs wouldn't even do that. So the world's biggest polluter nation won't even engage.
can we please get NTodd to talk about something other than himself?
i keed, i keed.
``Just the place for a Snark!'' the Bellman cried,
As he landed his crew with care;
Supporting each man on the top of the tide
By a finger entwined in his hair.
``Just the place for a Snark! I have said it twice:
That alone should encourage the crew.
Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice:
What I tell you three times is true.''
Hunting the Snark - Lewis Carroll (excerpt)
Not related, but nevertheless, fun.
Girls:
Downside to guys with curly hair: a reasonable chance of giving birth to children with same. And somehow, unruly kid hair is suddenly a mom problem.
I could tell you all about how my education is superior to yours and whatnot...
I think you just did, Wile E.
You guys be nice to Grimey! Someone ate his special dietetic lunch...
Good morning moonbats...
Could we please just ignore Ted Smith and the other trolls? When we want their opinions we'll go visit their blogs and leave comments there.
Ntodd, snarky is the sort of word used by that cox lady, who thinks she is sexy but isnt, thinks she is cool but isnt. If it means sarcastic, say that. otherwise it just seems desperate, like you're trying super hard to sound like a web dork. Which you might very well be, so go ahead and use it, what do I care, dork.
What a piece of work is Ted! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals!
Not only that, he's walks in complete fucking darkness, like the night.
I am also the boss of Eli.
I want a raise.
And a corner office with a window?
It's coming from someone who didn't know the difference between a strawman and a slippery slope.
Gee, you sound like a real authority. An argument can be both a strawman argument and a slippery slope argument.
And you also seem to have some confusion about what I was labeling strawman (ie, a misrepresentation of my position) and the fact that I didn't formally label the argument others were making.
...can we please get NTodd to talk about something other than himself?
What if he just stands there in silence?
He's dreamy!
I am also the boss of Eli.
I want a raise.
And a corner office with a window?
Must I ask again for my overpaid eye candy?
When we want their opinions we'll go visit their blogs and leave comments there.
And when we want yours, etc etc etc. I love the guys who try to play band leader. You were on student council, werent you, bossy little twit?
And a corner office with a window?
It's my due.
Jeepers, doesn't anyone use the internets for looking up stuff anymore?
First off, there's this:
"The Hunting of the Snark: an Agony in Eight Fits" by Lewis Carroll. The Snark, which may also be a Boojum, is the creature sought by the Bellman & crew.
And of course:
snark·y ( P ) Pronunciation Key (snärk)
adj. Slang snark·i·er, snark·i·est
Irritable or short-tempered; irascible.
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[From dialectal snark, to nag, from snark, snork, to snore, snort, from Dutch and Low German snorken, of imitative origin.]
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snarki·ly adv.
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
NTodd, the beauty of not relying on appeal to authority and other logical fallacies is that one's argument is judged on its own merits. I could tell you all about how my education is superior to yours and whatnot, and then of course we could hear endless amounts of sniping about how I was lying and so forth... but why go to the trouble?
I never relied on appeal to authority. If you can't tell the difference between anecdote and fallacy, then I guess I won't waste any more time with you.
Either you can or cannot handle the debate within the confines of avoiding fallacies, or you can't.
So lemme get this straight: your "argument" was that saying something about ovens in the context of eroding civil rights and the lessons of history is an "insult" to the dead is somehow logical? See, I would call that "assertion", for which you have provided nothing to support, whereas I brought in history both personal and global, a citation from Hitler himself that illustrates my point exactly, amongst other things.
So tell me, if you're so keen on logic, maybe you could express your original "argument" symbolically? That way maybe I can check to see if it's valid and cogent. You do know what those words mean, right?
And you're still wrong about appeal to authority - you can be the authority you're appealing to, eg, saying that your degree is what makes your argument or opinion more valid as opposed to the strength of the argument as it stands on its own. Your supposed expertise means nothing unless you can demonstrate it.
Dude, you really need to learn how to read. I never denied that an appeal to authority could be about oneself. In fact, I brought up my faux appeal about my education to illustrate precisely that point.
What's more, often an appeal to authority in fact does involve a bogus claim of authority. In other words, I might claim that there are canals on Mars and assert I am a NASA engineer. I am not, but hey, I'm just appealing to ersatz authority.
If only trollz had a sense of humor (and weren't either crazy or stupid).
But then, what fun would it be?
NTodd | Email | Homepage | 03.12.05 - 8:12 pm | #
so indeed, NTodd really is smart.
ted, shut the fuck up, no body really cares what you think anyway.
Must I ask again for my overpaid eye candy?
Oh, when you said overpaid, I figured you were talking about NTodd.
Thers, I thought I was your overpaid eye candy!
Without the overpaid part....
I never thought it was up for debate whether long curly hair was nice on guys--that was after all the Greek ideal of youthful beauty, as seen on the statues. The Renaissance artists thought the same--look at the ignudi and the Sistine chapel ceiling. And then there were the '70s rock stars, most of whom had some variation on the Greek ideal. And what of Samson? Thick healthy curly locks show that a man has excess life force (and protein) to devote to his hair
Could we please just ignore (Brownshirt T) and the other trolls?
Once, I was like you...
I blame NTodd!
Does anyone find Margaret Cho funny? is atrios actually paying money to see her speak?
good gawd.
but i hear it is a *dry* heat.
we new englanders yak a lot about the weather. just wait until august, and then we'll all be yakking it up about how hot and humid it is and that god himself must have sent hell down upon us.
her eyes
What LJ is talking about isn't dry heat.
It's that so humid you can see it in they air, oppresive heat.
You're thinking west TX, NM, AZ heat where 100 is bareable.
And you literally can't do anything outside, but sit and sweat, and pretend your relaxing in a sauna.
Which isn't all bad.
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Tom - Daai Tou Laam sez:
Good morning moonbats...
Get a new time-zone ya freak.
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Irritable or short-tempered; irascible.
hmm well it seems to be pretty chronically misused, if that's what it means.
In other words, I might claim that there are canals on Mars and assert I am a NASA engineer.
Waitasec -- are you saying there AREN'T canals on Mars?
Then what the fuck did I buy this amphibious space shuttle for?
God DAMN it!
my kid was born with a full head of curly hair. in one of his pictures, he looks positively ethereal.
love the curly locks.
eg what the fuck is a snarky comment?
BTW, on your way back from Madera, stop at Ryan's Place in Los Banos if you like good pie.
Thanks for the tip. I love pie. Baking and eating it is my hobby.
Oh, when you said overpaid, I figured you were talking about NTodd.
Curse that Spiderbabe!
And for those who enjoy the online books, you may find the Lewis Carroll Snark opus here.
They hunted till darkness came on, but they found
Not a button, or feather, or mark,
By which they could tell that they stood on the ground
Where the Baker had met with the Snark.
I never relied on appeal to authority. If you can't tell the difference between anecdote and fallacy, then I guess I won't waste any more time with you.
Here we go again. Your argument rested on "empathy" with your relatives. That's not an argument - that's second hand sourcing of opinion and pretty muich beyond any relevancy. I can come up with a similar anecdote from a Jewish friend or relative that supports my position, but it's also irrelevant.
If you can't just answer the simple question of "Does a Republican 60 seat majority in the Senate equate to murdering 6 million Jews in an attempted genocide?" (which is the thesis I was challenging and you were defending), then what's the point of all this sidetrack nonsence?
You know you can't defend it and you know it's offensive, so instead of simply ceding that point and moving on to something else, you go into overdrive with tangent after tangent and insult after insult.
hi, Saturday night, why isn't everyone at the movies? Saw *Merchant of Venice* last night. Wonderful flick. Although for trolls here, don't go, bare breasted ladies.
There are two kinds of people on eschaton. Functional nerds and dysfunctional nerds.
can we please get NTodd to talk about something other than himself?
What the hell else is there to talk about?
Ntodd, snarky is the sort of word used by that cox lady, who thinks she is sexy but isnt, thinks she is cool but isnt. If it means sarcastic, say that. otherwise it just seems desperate, like you're trying super hard to sound like a web dork. Which you might very well be, so go ahead and use it, what do I care, dork.
1) I am a web dork. Been a dork, nerd, dweeb, geek since I was in my mother's womb, have been using the Internet since 1987 (and before that, my friend Andy and I hung out on software pirating BBS's like "Pirate's Cove), and the web since the Mosaic beta was released.
2) Snark is not the same as being sarcastic. Snark is a level above and slightly to the side of snark.
3) I don't try super hard to do anything. Haven't you been paying attention? I'm fucking lazy and happen to be lucky enough to skate through life very successfully without putting any effort into anything. That's one of my greatest qualities, next to my immense modesty and wonderfully self-effacing humor. Oh, and the bean dip that I make. Mmm...
4) I made up that part about the bean dip.
5) A moose once bit my sister.
I prefer my long, semi-straight, reddish blond hair.
it is a nonsense word as used by carroll. like jabberwock. it meant nothing then and it means nothing now.
i like charley. so to the point.
Now they're trying to regulate our language? Telling us we can't use snarky?
fuck that.
snarksnarksnarksnarksnarksnark -
it's a great damned word. Almost onomatopeaic.
He's the King Of Snark
There is none higher--BlakNo1
Yes there is.
The Emperor of Ice Cream.
Snark is a level above and slightly to the side of snark.?
Take it up with the dictionary. they seem to think it means 'irascible.'
instead of simply ceding that point and moving on to something else
Ted Smith: least self-aware troll ever.
Ross ice shelf comment, if it broke off, did it also melt? Is that why more water in our world?
Yeah? Well, frumious vandersnatch to you too, motherfucker!
tena, you can use any word you like, if you want to sound stupider than you already are (which is plenty stupid, dont worry.)
i once sent my daughter out to hunt for snipes. you know, you instruct the little one to get a brown paper bag and run around the yard yelling, snipe, snipe, snipe, and the snipe bird will run into the bag. captured.
i got in a lot of trouble for that one.
of course i guess that really has nothing to do with snark.
why isn't everyone at the movies?
Well, I went to see "Hostage" last night (appropriately enough, since it was against my will), and during the climactic scene the reel snapped. They tried to splice it together, and the whole finale was missing. All I saw was 30 seconds of denouement.
Frankly, it made little difference to me.
Got movie money out of the deal, though! I'll use it on a better picture sometime in the future.
If you can't just answer the simple question of--
Hey, Grimey, lighten up!
And your mumrath's outgrabe, too.
There are two kinds of people on eschaton: Functional nerds, dysfunctional nerds, and people who are numerically challenged.
Could we please just ignore Ted Smith and the other trolls?
Ted Smith is starting to post so obsessively I'm beginning to wonder if it's not America's Memory returning under a new name.
NTodd, i hope you know i was only being, well, snarky.
No interest in the Tufted Titmouse, I see.
Probably a bunch of Brown-Headed Nuthatch fans.
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There are 10 types of people on Eschaton - those who understand binary and those who don't.
Yeah? Well, frumious vandersnatch to you too, motherfucker!
Caloo! Calay!
NTodd,
Did you play the original Adventure?
charley - I got sent out on a snipe hunt when I was a kid. I never quite forgave the people responsible.
I'm off to watch a DVD.
The Emperor of Ice Cream.
let be be finale of seem
No interest in the Tufted Titmouse, I see.
Au contraire! Start linking to titmouse photos a la Woot... bam! Instant celebrity!
Getting me into a movie theater is like getting a stubborn mule to pull a cart, next to impossible.
NTodd, remember that with great power comes great responsibility. I hope you pledge to only use your snark powers for good.
Like this:
Titmouse!
Plus it'll make the brownshirts giggle in that little Japanese schoolgirl way they have...
i once sent my daughter out to hunt for snipes. you know, you instruct the little one to get a brown paper bag and run around the yard yelling, snipe, snipe, snipe, and the snipe bird will run into the bag. captured.
When we were kids, my father had a way of curing our hiccups. He would turn on the kitchen faucet, hand us a butter knife, and tell us to cut the water with the knife.
There are 10 types of people on Eschaton
Excellent nerd humor!
Newsflash: The English language is adaptable and generative!
Shhh! Don't tell the traditionalists.
No interest in the Tufted Titmouse, I see.
Probably a bunch of Brown-Headed Nuthatch fans.
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agave
Neither, really. I am, however, hoping to get an Indigo Bunting visiting my feeders this spring.
Had a big Bald Eagle soaring overhead on my run this morning.
Evening, Free Thinkers!
Tena, we used to send people searching for grunion.... Occasionally, they'd find it. The joys of LA!
No interest in the Tufted Titmouse, I see.
Probably a bunch of Brown-Headed Nuthatch fans.
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agave
I have a pen and ink drawing of a tufted titmouse, that a friend of mine made for me, hanging in my house.
I also have a life-time record of birds I've seen. The tufted titmouse was one of the first I recorded back in the day when I was a little older than a rug rat.
Could we please just ignore (Brownshirt T) and the other trolls?
We could. We don't. Alas...
[pitch pipe] *hermm*
Scroll scroll scroll yer blog
Gently past the Troll
Wankety wankety wankety wank
They think they are so droll
everybody!!
uuuh...
This must be what the Simon & Garfunkel song was about.
...remember that with great power comes great responsibility.
And if your Spiderbabe, a great rack.
I refused to comment on the snark thing.
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Oh, yeah, baby.
Obsessive.
34 minutes to MANSQUITO!
Au contraire! Start linking to titmouse photos a la Woot... bam! Instant celebrity!
Uh-oh, I sense a tit vs. booby rumble in the offing...
I blame NTodd!
dave, we've talked about this before: you need to own your issues. Either that or blame Bush. Come on, be reasonable!
Irritable or short-tempered; irascible.
hmm well it seems to be pretty chronically misused, if that's what it means.
I totally forgot that language is static, and colloquial usages are wrong. I also forgot that I am never short-tempered. NOW WHERE THE FUCK DID I PUT MY PROZAC?
Waitasec -- are you saying there AREN'T canals on Mars?
Then what the fuck did I buy this amphibious space shuttle for?
Well, if you're a fan of Kim Stanley Robinson, you'll know that Mars will be terraformed and liquid water will eventually flow, so you're just getting ahead of everybody else and stand to make a bundle by the 22nd century.
Your argument rested on "empathy" with your relatives.
It did not. My comment began with a story. My argument rested on the historical fact that Hitler implemented a plan to incrementally destroy the rights of "the vanquished".
Futher, my argument was in response to a mere assertion on your part. Give me an argument to respond to and I will.
If you can't just answer the simple question of "Does a Republican 60 seat majority in the Senate equate to murdering 6 million Jews in an attempted genocide?" (which is the thesis I was challenging and you were defending), then what's the point of all this sidetrack nonsence?
Hmm...I don't remember when you asked that specific question before you did here (twice). I recall your saying that talking about ovens is an insult to the dead.
But here, lemme not bring in my family history at all:
* The dead cannot be insulted.
* A 60 seat GOP majority is not the same as the Shoah in 1944.
* Germany in 1933 was not cooking Jews.
* Somehow Germany went from 1933's policy of Not Cooking Jews to 1944's policy of Cooking Jews.
* I submit that is because NOBODY FUCKING TRIED TO STOP IT, hence, today we are being ever vigilant.
No interest in the Tufted Titmouse, I see.
But don't get me started on the Rose-breasted Grosbeak!
No interest in the Tufted Titmouse, I see.
You are making me feel guilty about my poor birds back in New Jersey. I filled up the feeder and threw extra on the ground, but they're probably out of food by now.
thre are six types of people on Eschaton:
Iraqi's
Music fans
Those who collect aphorisms
Big people
Dipthong users
The Masses
and no one else.
"Thers, I thought I was your overpaid eye candy!
Without the overpaid part....
NYMary"
I hate to say this but I think you just got outsourced.
34 minutes to MANSQUITO!
Who's gonna liveblog that fucking train wreck?
Meanwhile, I've missed the start of "Lady from Shanghai" on TCM.
Well, you really only want to see the last ten minutes...
Evening, Free Thinkers!
Don't call me that. I'm in an intellectual straightjacket, and proud of it!
In other news, I saw some greylag geese today. And a number of widgeon.
When discovered asleep in her own vomit in a bar in Anocostia with a little brown bat suckling on her auxilary nipple, Liddy Dole was taken to a detox unit where it was discovered her diaper was full of santorum. And Jesus snarked.
Mrs. Ibrahim, what about the moonbats!?!
Had a big Bald Eagle soaring overhead on my run this morning.
Was it soaring like it never sought before?
Well, you really only want to see the last ten minutes...
dave
Jesus H. Christ, is that the truth.
i like charley. so to the point.
her eyes
i was once talking with a prof. of philosophy from fordham. he was my AA sponser. i started to protest some point he was making. he responded laconically "ah, um, charley, it really doesn't matter what you think"
man, i was pissed, but upon further consideration i realized he was right.
The Emperor of Ice Cream
Call the roller of big cigars,
The muscular one, and bid him whip--
Get a new time-zone ya freak.
spork_incident
Now now... we don't change time zones here. Unlike y'all... or at least most of y'all.
Can we hope that the Busheviks get lost in a time warp while springing ahead an hour this year?
I also have a life-time record of birds I've seen. The tufted titmouse was one of the first I recorded back in the day when I was a little older than a rug rat.
Shaw Kenawe
What the it sound like.
The ones here follow the peter peter with rapid cheew cheew cheew cheew cheew, repeated various no of times.
I read that some don't.
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Who's gonna liveblog that fucking train wreck?
Plenty by what I'm reading here, especially the second showing at 1AM.
Ek,
I hate to say this but I think you just got outsourced.
And by freakin' Spiderbabe!
Was it soaring like it never sought before?
Thersites
No, seemed like a pretty routine flight, from my perspective anyway.
Guess even the birds think Ashcroft's full of shit.
Jesus H. Christ, is that the truth.
Actually, I've always had a certain fondness for Glenn Anders' part, esp. when someone mentioned he was imitating Nelson Rockfeller...
Call the roller of big cigars,
The muscular one, and bid him whip--
in kitchen cups concupiscient curds
Titmouse!
Mantitsquito!
it is a nonsense word as used by carroll. like jabberwock. it meant nothing then and it means nothing now.
It has meaning here. Why don't you break out your Wittegenstein (oh, shit, there he goes about Luddy again), then get back to us, Herr Duckspeak.
NTodd, i hope you know i was only being, well, snarky.
I'm sorry, but you must be in error. There's no such thing as 'snarky'. In the future, please use approved terminology only.
- Thank you. The Mgt.
Did you play the original Adventure?
That was the very first game I bought for my Apple II+ with my paper route money. Finished it in a marathon session, and completed all the Scott Adams sequels over the years. Even when games like Zork and other more sophisticated stuff came along, I still liked the old stuff the best.
And if your Spiderbabe, a great rack.
She was so hot! And I ain't snarking there (see, Thers, I can use my powers responsibly).
Ashcroft once spent 20 minutes looking for nipples on the chicken breasts his wife was serving for dinner. He wanted them covered up before being brought into the dining room. But it turns out his favorite piece was the pop's nose.
Well, I was just dropping in to see how you folks are doing...I'll be rolling along now.
I never did figure out who the eye candy was, I thought he was talking about Eli, but I was not going to comment.
Not in a million years.
34 minutes to MANSQUITO!
Last 4 hours on Sci-fi have been dragon movies, which my daughter loves. 'Course two of those hours involved Dean "King of Straight to Video" Cann using a Hong Kong shotgun on a cloned dragon in an old fallout bunker--
Mantitsquito!
Thersites
Photoshop! Stat!
BTW, Phila, you might be interested in this (from imdb.com):
Welles' original rough cut of this picture ran 155 minutes. Numerous cuts made by Columbia Pictures executives included a shortening of the famous "funhouse" finale.
Like this:
Titmouse!
Plus it'll make the brownshirts giggle in that little Japanese schoolgirl way they have...
dave
Cool
.
Unless someone wants to beg me to stay, that is. Ted Smith, maybe?
"Now now... we don't change time zones here. Unlike y'all... or at least most of y'all."
Thank you for noticing. Yet another year's worth of explaining to newcomers that we don't set the time back an hour in Arizona because WE DON'T EFFING WANT ANOTHER HOUR'S WORTH OF 120F HIGH NOON, Thank you very much.
And, coming home from learning all about CO exemptions, hardship exemptions, how to most efficiently send your drafted asses into horrible military conflicts, I noticed that one of the bank signs was declaring it was 93F. Gee - and I really liked spring last week too....
Ok, last bit of metasnark via The Word Detective (and yes, I'm sure many of us never metasnark we didn't like):
Dear Word Detective: Could you please explain the meaning of the word "snarky." It was used in the first presidential debate this year. -- Joy.
Really? I checked the official transcripts of all three debates, plus that of the Edwards-Cheney pas de deux, and couldn't find a single occurrence of "snarky." My guess is that you actually heard one of the talking heads appearing afterwards use the word. Incidentally, as one who actually watched all four debates, I must say that my favorite moment occurred after the second debate, when a panel of professional bloviators was discussing it on MSNBC. In the crowd of spectators behind the panel suddenly appeared a large placard on a pole reading "I have to go to the bathroom."
"Snarky" is an adjective meaning "critical in a sly, sarcastic, cynical but humorous way." Much of modern humor, especially political humor, is snarky. David Letterman and Jon Stewart are routinely "snarky," for instance. "Snarky" humor is often said to be a recent development, but I remember Johnny Carson and even Bob Hope being fairly "snarky" in their days.
"Snarky" the word, however, is a fairly recent import from Britain to America, common in the British press for much of the 20th century but only rarely heard before the early 1990s over here. The root of "snarky" is, as one might suspect, the word "snark," but there are actually two sorts of "snark."
The first sort of "snark" is found (or, more precisely, not found) in the Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) poem "The Hunting of the Snark," a tale of a hunt for a snark, a non-existent creature. This is not the "snark" of "snarky," although Carroll's poem did popularize "snark hunt" as a term for a fruitless search.
The other sort of "snark" is a British dialect word meaning "to criticize or nag," related to "snore" and "snort," the most likely connection between "snark" and "snort" being the derisive snort of contempt that accompanies many "snarky" comments.
in kitchen cups concupiscient curds
Let the wenches dawdle in such dress
As they are used to wear, and let the boys
Bring flowers in last month's newspapers.
snarky. snarky. snarky. snarky.
take that, NTodd!
Ooh, I would so love to see a fight between NYMary and Spiderbabe...
dave--The Lady from Shanghai is a great movie well before the flashy ending. The scheming lady, the corrupt old husband, the claustrphobia on the boat where everyone is languidly plotting the next double-cross. And the great thematic camerawork where the viewer is usually in a god-like position looking down on the characters, knowing more of them than they know of each other. My only complaint is Welles' "Irish" accent, whicch could cancel St. Patrick's Day.
Good evening, fellow moonbats!
submit that is because NOBODY FUCKING TRIED TO STOP IT, hence, today we are being ever vigilant.
One can be vigilant without being hysterical. In fact, hysteria impedes vigilance.
And yes, you can insult the memory of the sacrifices and suffering people went through - don't start playing narrow semantic games.
When you overuse something extreme (like referencing Hitler), you diminish the reality of it. Either you grasp the self-evidence of that or you do not.
Welles' original rough cut of this picture ran 155 minutes. Numerous cuts made by Columbia Pictures executives included a shortening of the famous "funhouse" finale.
dave
Oy. Sounds like rough going, though I'd love to see more Playland footage at the end.
I don't know...I absolutely love "The Magnificient Ambersons," even in its debased form. And I kind of admire "Citizen Kane." But other than that, Welles leaves me sort of cold...
I DECLARE THERE IS NO SNARK.
That is all.
When we were kids, my father had a way of curing our hiccups. He would turn on the kitchen faucet, hand us a butter knife, and tell us to cut the water with the knife.
Karin
oh man, i have an anecdote for that, but i better not tell it. i got in really big trouble for that one. my daughter told the her psycholigist about that one.
damn, i sound like a hideous father.
She was so hot! And I ain't snarking there...
Make sure to check out the whole Seduction Cinema ouevre...
Ted Smith's been posting all day. I guess that little walk with his girlfriend didn't work out.
"Touch Of Evil" rules!!!
nymary,
moonbats, "you people" and concern trolls would be the "other" Other.
The ones here follow the peter peter with rapid cheew cheew cheew cheew cheew, repeated various no of times.
I read that some don't.
.
agave
The ones in my neighbor say
"buck te fush, buck te fush"
followed by a rapid
"shitshitshitshitshit"
Such a sweet sound.
The Emperor of Ice Cream
Call the roller of big cigars,
The muscular one, and bid him whip--
Big Daddy Mars
"Let the lamp afix its beam
the only emperor is the emperor of ice cream."
Uh-oh, I sense a tit vs. booby rumble in the offing...
Eli
I never even saw that coming.
It was of the first birds I had never seen (or noticed) before when we moved here, that I identified.
A cool little bird.
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Bring flowers in last month's newspapers.
and if her horny feet protude they come
to show how cold she is
and dumb
when first i learned of it, i knew it to have been an assassination effort that failed.
xymphora gets it as accurately as you will ever learn of it.
http://xymphora.blogspot.com/
Has this thread jumped the snark yet?
Watch it, NTodd, or it's into the garbage can with you!
Then we can play Endgame!
When Liddy Dole got vaginal hiccups, she has found the only cure is to fill the thing with musilix and have Strom lick it out.
TCM is all noir tonight, and Ibrahim got the laptop to work wirelessly. this is fun, Internet and noir on the couch, all snug and happy
"Touch Of Evil" rules!!!
Touch of Evil is a great fucking movie. One of those I can view over and over and never get tired of it.
I was looking for grosbeaks, but I stumbled across some great boobys instead, here and here.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy sez:
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
-1962
Just sayin'.
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Take from the dresser of deal,
Lacking the three glass knobs, that sheet
On which she embroidered fantails once
And spread it so as to cover her face.
If her horny feet protrude, they come
To show how cold she is, and dumb.
Let the lamp affix its beam.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.
OK, I'm out of here. I've been working for the weekend, after all. I'm gonna go out on the town with my lady of the eighties. So turn me loose, 'cause the kid is hot tonight.
I hope you're with me when it's over!
fight between NYMary and Spiderbabe...
I have plenty of popcorn.
Welles leaves me sort of cold...
Love "Touch of Evil!"
Someone mentioned earlier that "F is for Fake" is finally coming out on DVD. That's a fun one (though technically, mostly an editing job).
Hiya Hecate! How go things in the land of the goddess?
But don't get me started on the Rose-breasted Grosbeak!
JeffCO
Dammit, ain't got none here in TX.
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Church shooting in Wisconsin
Care to weigh in, Bobo?
Has anyone seen the revised Touch of Evil? I like the old one better, and miss Henry Mancini from the opening credits. And I'm not a phillistine--Mancini did a great job.
rats! i knew i would forget some of it...
Catch ya later, Phila! If you think of it, drop by No Capital and wish Rorschach the best on his nuptials.
ntodd,
I was thinking of your "NOBODY..." above and agreed, but then thought that wasn't really fair to all those German (c)Communists who did fight the Nazi's, and did die for it. just saying.
she has found the only cure is to fill the thing with musilix and have Strom lick it out.
Wouldn't you know I just bought a box of mueslix this afternoon. Guess what's going to be staying in the cupboard...
Looks like it's cookies for breakfast tomorrow!
One can be vigilant without being hysterical. In fact, hysteria impedes vigilance.
Great, another assertion. I submit, then, that using even the most hyperbolic language does not qualify as hysteria.
And yes, you can insult the memory of the sacrifices and suffering people went through - don't start playing narrow semantic games.
I disagree. They're dead.
But if you want to honor their memory, then fight to make sure that we never let the Shoah happen again.
When you overuse something extreme (like referencing Hitler), you diminish the reality of it. Either you grasp the self-evidence of that or you do not.
You're retreating to that last refuge already? Wow. "Don't overuse Hitler" and "it's self-evident" coming from Mr. You Have To Argue Logically.
We are not overusing the Hitler comparisons. Hitler in 1933 didn't throw Jews in ovens. It was years of legal machinations that allowed him to do that in the 40s. People say that it could never happen here, but our point is that it can if we do nothing to prevent it.
If after the USA PATRIOT Act, a war launched based on false pretenses, revelations of torture, and all the other shit, you still can't see the "self-evidence" of that, you are a fool.
i wonder how may people misquote it by saying "let it be finale of..."
"How come it ain't workin' on him?"
"Because those are Loverboy lyrics Err, and Loverboy has always sucked."
I guess that little walk with his girlfriend didn't work out.
Just a cover story for when he slipped into that empty utility room and emerged as several other people...
Touch of Evil is a great fucking movie. One of those I can view over and over and never get tired of it.
Big Daddy Mars
I'm not crazy about it. Kind of overstylized faux noir, IMO. Such an unsatisfactory last line from Dietrich, too.
OK, I'm out of here. I've been working for the weekend, after all. I'm gonna go out on the town with my lady of the eighties. So turn me loose, 'cause the kid is hot tonight.
I hope you're with me when it's over!
Phila
You Loverboy, you.
Has this thread jumped the snark yet?
No, we're hopping the jabberwock.
"What's that?"
"A Poem. It's from a poem about death."
"Sounds more like the Good Humor man to me."
Oh, and for the anti-snark scholars out there, here's what Wikipedia says:
Snark (speech) also refers to a style of speech/writing that could loosely be described as "snidely derisive"; hence, 'snarkish', 'snarky', 'to snark at somebody'.
So I guess you're right, I never snark, because I am NEVER snidely derisive.
I submit, then, that using even the most hyperbolic language does not qualify as hysteria.
If that comment were made in isolation, you may have a point. But you must be joking if you think it isn't part of a pattern of hysteria on these threads.
"Because those are Loverboy lyrics Err, and Loverboy has always sucked."
BlakNo1
They suck like nobody's business. I had the misfortune of seeing them live circa 1981. An absolute nightmare.
Still here...the wife's being lazy about getting up.
Phila,
If'n yer still around, I'm begging!!
After an hour away for provisions and chilli making related activities, it's been a bear to catch up.
Hi, NYMary! It was almost springlike today; I got a ton of yardwork done. Unfortunately, Bush is still president, the environment is still in trouble, and the Dems still seem spineless. But I do have crocus and daffodills!
Dammit, ain't got none here in TX.
I'm also rather fond of the Pileated Woodpecker!
Such an unsatisfactory last line from Dietrich, too.
I still love it. And the line that Dietrich gives Wells when they last meet--that one gives me shivers.
And, coming home from learning all about CO exemptions, hardship exemptions, how to most efficiently send your drafted asses into horrible military conflicts, I noticed that one of the bank signs was declaring it was 93F. Gee - and I really liked spring last week too....
GWPDA
So you're saying that you're not feeling a draft?
And I have to do some checking, but apparently US State spokesman Ereli has endorsed the lack of democracy in Hong Kong. I told you that the Busheviks have no love of democracy beyond its agitprop value for the masses in the homeland.
Watch it, NTodd, or it's into the garbage can with you!
Um. I need to go away for just a couple minutes...
Big Daddy Mars--and that is exactly where I learned it!
The Emperor of Ice Cream is about a dead person. Weird.
SALEM'S LOT is the story where that poem is mentioned, correct?
ut you must be joking if you think it isn't part of a pattern of hysteria on these threads.
There's a pattern of Ted Smith being boring.
But he used ad hominem on me, so I am still Flush with Victory over his feeble maunderings.
BTW, "Touch of Evil" is really one twisted motherfucker of a movie. That scene at the motel when Mercedes McCambridge wants to join in on the gang rape of Janet Leigh - solid! And Dennis Weaver as the precursor to Norman Bates - tell me Hitchcock didn't watch this movie and start drooling in envy!
If that comment were made in isolation, you may have a point. But you must be joking if you think it isn't part of a pattern of hysteria on these threads.
I see. How many times are we allowed to repeat something before you think it qualifies as 'hysteria'?
So I guess you're right, I never snark, because I am NEVER snidely derisive. - NTodd
I don't think I like the tone of your voice, young man.
Diane--
I would love to give you a penance for feeding trolls but I can't think of anything dreadful enough -- having to read their responses, I guess
Will you have lunch with me?
But he used ad hominem on me, so I am still Flush with Victory over his feeble maunderings.
Thersites
Gee, that doesn't sound like something he'd do.
Damn, I know I did that booby link right. Here again
No, we're hopping the jabberwock.
Thers, that twas brillig.
If after the USA PATRIOT Act, a war launched based on false pretenses, revelations of torture, and all the other shit, you still can't see the "self-evidence" of that, you are a fool.
He is a fool. He believes Bush. And what's really humorous is that this self-proclained smarty-pants drolls at the foot of the stupidest, most worthless piece of shit that ever occupied the Oval Office. The troll plays word games here, but overlooks georgie's numerous gaffes.
It is to laugh.
Hey kent! What atrocity am I responsible for? (mentioned waaaaay upthread)
You're retreating to that last refuge already?
No, you're the one repeatedly using ad hominem attacks and other logical fallacies.
If I, as a white person, get offended because a black person calls me "cracker", then say my treatment is no different from the entire history of African slavery, since I can sense that him calling me "cracker" will lead to certain ruin of all white people via slavery, then I am being an hysterical ass, as well as a jerk for diminishing real suffering that happened to hypothetical suffering.
Sure, maybe one day all whites will be enslaved by blacks, and it all starts with a man calling me "cracker" - but I wouldn't bet on it, and I certainly wouldn't worry about it. And most of all, I wouldn't make that absurd argument, because then no one will take me seriously.
Yes, Blak. Stephen King
JeffCO - I have no response to that.
SALEM'S LOT is the story where that poem is mentioned, correct??
Yes, it is. Those were the lines right after Ben quotes the poem while looking at the dead body.
man, last nite i thought Spider Babe was just one of NTodd's contrived fantasies, so of course the google.
Misty Mundae (Play-mate of the Apes) is Patricia Porker, a shy and studious high school girl with sweet dreams of tender romance and passion with the handsome boy next door.
When bitten by her science teacher's genetically engineered spider, she gets more than she could have ever wished for! Suddenly transformed into a wall-climbing, building-bounding beauty with superhuman strength and an erotic appetite to match, Patricia takes the name SpiderBabe and quickly warms to saving lives, fighting crime and seducing the grateful citizens of New York City.
But little does SpiderBabe know that a sinister arch-enemy is plotting her downfall. Her name is Lucinda Knox, a.k.a. The Femtilian (Julian Wells) - a lithe, deadly and delectable evil genius with her own taste for lustful adventure - and she will stop at nothing in her mad quest for world domination.
Curvaceous editor of The Daily Bungle, J.J.J., also has it in for our web-flinging friend, and she employs a macho reporter and a gorgeous spy (Kelli Summers) to dig deep and get the dirt on SpiderBabe. As superhero and supervillain come to blows, they learn of a shared characteristic - a heightened attraction to luxurious females.
Will the climactic battle between SpiderBabe and Femtilian be a vicious showdown to save Manhattan, or will their superhuman desires for one another pave a path to destruction?
Karen Hughes and Condi Rice? nah...
Trivia re Touch of Evil--Janet Leigh had a broken arm in that movie and the shots are all designed to disguise it. They even filmed some scenes mirror-image with the intent of reversing them.
And has there ever been a less plausible Mexican than C Heston? My only nominee is Henry Fonda in The Fugitive.
Gotta love that Dietrich, though. "You've been eating too many candy bars"
I can't keep up with all the weak arguments and insults. I will now leave for the evening folks and you can talk about music and save the world or whatever you believe you think you do.
Bye.
WHERE IS THE ESCHATONIAN PATTERN OF HYSTERIA???
SURELY WE WILL DESTROY IT, BEFORE IT GETS US!!!
(and, Ntodd is rather boringly and simply right, albeit with al-Jaafari's PKDickish point re Germans being the first the die trying to stop Nazism)
But you must be joking if you think it isn't part of a pattern of hysteria on these threads.
Speaking of a pattern of hysteria.
Oy.
I saw Margaret Cho a few years ago in D.C. Laughed so hard I could hardly breathe. She's got a great sense of timing.
Speaking of poetry. Anyone here from western Massachusetts (Hadley area?)
Several other poets and I will be giving a reading from an anthology we were published in on May 7 at the Barnes and Noble in Hadley, Mass.
Bye.
But Ted, I will miss scrolling past your
posts.
GREAT NEWS FOLKS!
This is the IGNORE TED SMITH DAY.
You lucky, lucky people have the chance to ignore Ted Smith. It is so much fun, because the idiot talks to himself. So you don't have to!
Those were the lines right after Ben quotes the poem while looking at the dead body.
er, not so dead body.
That scene at the motel when Mercedes McCambridge wants to join in on the gang rape of Janet Leigh - solid!
Even more twisted--she just wanted to watch. Yeah, baby!
I'm giving you all one shot at this and one shot only. There's a newborn crescent moon in the sky, now. Before dawn, make sure to go outside and shake your purses at it in prayer an expectation that the New Moon will increase your silver.
Hey, my Grandmother was pure-dee Irish, this is one of her thingies. Does it work? What's the harm. Otherwise, I'll start talking about combing and long tresses and fire and Hecate will have to step in.... Mostly, I end up finding extra dimes and quarters along my path. Good enough for me.
BTW, "Touch of Evil" is really one twisted motherfucker of a movie.
Yeah, but it tries so goddamn hard to be twisted, by borrowing from all these low-budget flicks that are way more hard-edged and disturbing, like "Detour" or "The Hitch-Hiker" or "Tension" or "The Prowler." It's got ten times the atmosphere and half the substance.
Not that you can't like both, of course. I'm just spouting off...no offense intended.
OK, apparently I can't embed booby links in California. Here's the whole url:
http://www.mobirds.org/Galleries...0%20(Small)
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And the blue footed booby in display:
http://www.mobirds.org/Galleries...0%20(Small)
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You know, after four fingers of sctoch, Ted Smith still doesn't make much sense and is even less interesting.
Onwards to Mansquito.
Jebus, thank God that awful Ted Smith is gone. What a weirdo.
You know what they were saying about him yesterday?
Wow.
Just wow.
Just for information's sake: I am NOT Femtilian.
If you're curious, which, I realize too late, you might not be.
according to B Fowkes, Communism in Germany under the Weimar Republic (London, 1984), p171., by the end of 1933 130,000 KDP members been arrested by the Nazi's and thrown into concentration camps and 2,500 murdered.
so Nobody resisted is both true and not true.
OK, I'm out of here. I've been working for the weekend, after all. I'm gonna go out on the town with my lady of the eighties. So turn me loose, 'cause the kid is hot tonight.
I hope you're with me when it's over!
Well, I guess we'll have to turn and head our separate ways. Don't know where I'll be tomorrow, but, sure as the sun will cross the sky, I know that we gotta keep on rockin', and someday we're gonna make it to the top.
Sure, maybe one day all whites will be enslaved by blacks, and it all starts with a man calling me "cracker" - but I wouldn't bet on it, and I certainly wouldn't worry about it.
OMG, the charlie manson argument.
did i ever mention charlie manson was my teenage idol?
er, not so dead body.
Yes, quite correct. My mistake.
Sure, maybe one day all whites will be enslaved by blacks, and it all starts with a man calling me "cracker"...
Actually, if I recall my 3 decades old future history correctly, it is the plague that wipes out all the cats and dogs that will eventually bring about the enslavement of all humans by the apes, leading irrevocably to the development of Friday-afternoon human-blogging.
No, you're the one repeatedly using ad hominem attacks and other logical fallacies.
Hmmm...you don't think calling someone's use of a word that has personal meaning 'hyterical' and 'melodramatic' qualifies as ad hominem?
And I wonder what other fallacies I have committed. I clearly did not fall into the Appeal to Authority trap, despite how many times you keep saying I have. You were absolutely, positively wrong about what a Strawman is. Did I mistakenly pull a Hey, You Can't Do That?
If I, as a white person, get offended because a black person calls me "cracker", then say my treatment is no different from the entire history of African slavery, since I can sense that him calling me "cracker" will lead to certain ruin of all white people via slavery, then I am being an hysterical ass, as well as a jerk for diminishing real suffering that happened to hypothetical suffering.
You really are obtuse, aren't you? Nobody is saying that the United States of America circa 2005 is anything like Germany circa 1945. We are saying that if we don't fight the obvious erosion of civil rights that is happening NOW ala Germany circa 1933, we might find America circa 2017 to be an unpleasant place.
BTW, what you just did? Strawman.
Good work, my angels of light.
Remember, never let a fucking troll get the last word.
pie, i heard what they were saying, and i could hardly believe it myself.
And that scarecrow over there? Also strawman.
I'm giving you all one shot at this and one shot only. There's a newborn crescent moon in the sky, now. Before dawn...
Can you shake a purse and yell my name while you're out there?
GWPDA,
And by the time the full moon's here, it will be Spring Equinox! So this should be a very potent new moon.
Shaw, share one of your poems with us -- please!
NYMary,
the "atrocity" was your admission to the greenlighting of "MANSQUITO". I believe that you did take credit for it in answer to WT's Querie about who would greenlight such a thing, on another thread a few days ago.
I might however been trolling for a little love.
Well, I guess we'll have to turn and head our separate ways. Don't know where I'll be tomorrow, but, sure as the sun will cross the sky, I know that we gotta keep on rockin', and someday we're gonna make it to the top.
Thersites
Now I'm not even sure if we're going out. On the one hand, I'm hot-blooded. On the other, I've got double vision.
I'm not trying to play head games, but I want to know what love is.
Well, I guess we'll have to turn and head our separate ways. Don't know where I'll be tomorrow, but, sure as the sun will cross the sky, I know that we gotta keep on rockin', and someday we're gonna make it to the top.
You know, folks, I live with this.
I just had a hilarious vision of someone standing out in the middle of the street at 3AM, shaking a purse in the air and yelling "PIE!!!"
But Ted, I will miss scrolling past your posts.
Ok, I'm no webgeek, but shouldn't it be possible to move the address tags to the top of the post rather than have them anchored at the bottom? Seems like that would greatly speed up my scrollthroughs.
Oh, that's not a word, is it? Darn! Darn! Darn!
I will now leave for the evening
Gee, I hope it wasn't anything I said. Goodnight, Sweet Prince. Just remember something else my good, dear friend Hamlet once said to me:
There are more things in heaven and earth, Ted, than are dreamt of in your philosophy
'course, he also used to tell me the moon was made of green cheese, but that was only when the wind wasn't southerly. Now where the hell'd I put that handsaw?
Jebus, thank God that awful Ted Smith is gone. What a weirdo.
He is such a tiresome fuck. What's worst: reading his gibberish, or smashing your genitals with a mallet. So hard to decide. Well, no, really . . . just pass him up and ignore the waste of bandwidth.
MANSQUITO!
NYMary--
I am tired of the snow -- I postponed my morning run because of the snow -- I ran thorugh it this afternoon -- I am tired of the snow -- I am ready for spring
I like the seasons, I really do, but I am always ready for the next one before it gets here
BTW --- my email inbox is full of Atriots
I'm giving you all one shot at this and one shot only. There's a newborn crescent moon in the sky, now. Before dawn, make sure to go outside and shake your purses at it in prayer an expectation that the New Moon will increase your silver.
GWPDA
Thanks for waiting 'til long after dawn, buddy!
I keed, I keed. (though I wouldn't have seen the moon last night anyway.)
Phila-love is like oxygen. i hope you have fun and that your wife comes to you with open arms. you could ask her by saying "come to me."
the "atrocity" was your admission to the greenlighting of "MANSQUITO". I believe that you did take credit for it in answer to WT's Querie about who would greenlight such a thing, on another thread a few days ago.
Yeah, sounds like something I'd do. But here's your love anyway.
Mua! Besos!
He is such a tiresome fuck.
I'll drink to that!
The worse thing of all, her eyes, was that this little boy had no knowledge of history and doesn't understand that it repeats itself on a regular basis.
And as long as the Ted Smiths of the world have their way, humankind is doomed.
So we're not going to let that happen.
Prior A
With great pleasure. Given the dates, though, it will have probably have to be a weekend, although...as I think on it, if that's impossible for your travel schedule, I could maybe take a mental health day.
Entrepreneurship is alive and well. I'm walking two blocks to my house in small-town Ohio and a car stops and two guys inside want to know if I want to buy coke. Scared the bejesus outta me...
You know, folks, I live with this.
I'm so, so sorry. If you ever need a refuge...
What's worst: reading his gibberish, or smashing your genitals with a mallet.
Well, see, ever since that mallet accident when I was in highschool, I've had a sort of, oh, phobia about using them in my genital region, so maybe I'm biased or appealing to authority or something, but I have to say reading Ted is much more fun.
"BTW --- my email inbox is full of Atriots"
Border collies make terrific secretaries. They just shred meaningless stuff....
Mua! Besos!,
,
xoxoxo to you.
WooooooooHooooooootio
MANSQUITO IS ON.
here's the headphones I'm using, they adjust in three directions, great fit and the ear cuff means they don't they don't fall off when I bend, rake, sweep or do other yard and house chores. Got me through many travels in February when I could adjust them to block out almost all sound, or open up so I could hear some sounds and voices when needed.
http://tinyurl.com/4jez4
they are exquisite in design and function
Damn, in the spiritof this thread I suppose I'll have to rename my recent babyblogging Hot Children in the City!
http://powerpop.blogspot.com/
Phila as a start courtesy of Tom T. Hall
Love is :
little baby ducks
old pick-up trucks
slow-moving trains
rain
little country streams
sleep without dreams
sunday school in may,
hay
leaves in the wind
pictures of my friends
birds in the world
and squirrels
coffee in a cup
little fuzzy pups
bourbon in a glass
grass
open smiles
kisses from a child
tomatoes on the vine
onions
winners when they cry
losers when they try
music when it’s good
life
my email inbox is full of Atriots
My hovercraft is full of eels.
dave sez:
tell me Hitchcock didn't watch this movie and start drooling in envy!
Well, Hitchcock might've. But it was Orson Welles who made it.
(I wrote that before I saw the rest of the thread.)
[petulent] I was all over F for Fake[this morning [/petulent]
But it's coming out on DVD!
.
MANSQUITO IS ON.
It's real! It's happening! I'm so happy!!!
Somethin' about babes in full body ghostbuster suits handlin' beakers bull o' Coomassie blue...
Musetta Vander: Least. Convincing. Scientist. Ever.
Entrepreneurship is alive and well. I'm walking two blocks to my house in small-town Ohio and a car stops and two guys inside want to know if I want to buy coke. Scared the bejesus outta me...
Paul
Swear to God, I read that and thought, "Must be pretty desperate if you're selling pop out of your car."
Then I switched my brain on.
Now I'm not even sure if we're going out. On the one hand, I'm hot-blooded. On the other, I've got double vision.
I'm not trying to play head games, but I want to know what love is.
Brrr! Well, it may be cold as ice outside, so take a scarf! And wear sunglasses, even at night, to keep out any dust in the wind. Of course, it might be nice out, as clear as the sun in the summer sky. I'm not sure about that, but it is more than a feeling.
Phila-love is like oxygen. i hope you have fun and that your wife comes to you with open arms. you could ask her by saying "come to me."
her eyes
Thanks. I'm sure it'll work out fine, 'cause she's once, twice, three times a lady. Although lately, I've noticed that her eyes have a mist from the smoke of a distant fire.
Phila-love is like oxygen.
Quite right--love is like oxygen, love is a many splendored thing, love lifts us up where we belong, all you need is love!
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be love loved in return.
Good night, you delusional moonbats!
the spat between Susan Estrich and Michael Kinsley over whether the LAT runs enough women op-ed writers (a.k.a. enough of Estrich's friends) keeps getting nastier. Estrich has revealed herself as a poorly read, though well-connected, hack--people who are interested in ideas know who Charlotte Allen is--while Kinsley has demonstrated why magazines are generally more interesting than newspapers: Magazine editors (and Kinsley is one, despite his current job) are paid to have vision and confidence, not to bend to pressure groups.
good night fellow moon bats..
when you don't feed the trolls, they get all bollixed up in their circular logic and then they get angry because nobody is paying them any attention, and then leave by saying something moronic about why they are leaving.
it is quite amusing, really.
Anybody else expecting any hot scientist-babe-on-scientist-babe action?
NYMary - here's a tip from an old blogwhore: provide a permalink to your posts (yeah, I know your pics were in separate posts, but you can also put them all together).
[/totally unsnarky blogpedanticification]
full, not bull.
sorry, jeebus.
Eli
own up, Russ Myers was your mentor right?
On what channel would I watch Mansquito, assuming I don't want to replay Supermonkeys' "Sugar Cane" for the umpteenth time today? I don't see Mansquito in my admittedly defective cable guide. Or is this some web thing?
The anthology is "Kiss Me Goodnight" and it includes poems by women who lost their mothers when they were young. I was lucky to have three of my poems accepted. Here is one of them: (for the goddess, Hecate, who requested it)
Her Blue Robe
I was never a bishop, but the world's
a dream we die in. I breathe
into a blue robe, take day lilies
from a jar out of her room
to the pail in the yard. Who would
believe the grass growing so quickly
between the bricks, the purslane
spreading like rash over the patio.
We're done with her dresses, hangers
and plastic bags, the trunk of yarn.
Stepping over collapsed boxes of shoes,
I carry the last collection of holy cards
to the yard and slaughter the saints
with scissors, that from these may grow
in full sight of her, in pure stone,
the other life, continuing long.
NMRed -- Where'd you get them, and (if you don't mind my asking) what'd you pay for them? I don't see a price on that page.
My hovercraft is full of eels.
And so is Liddy Dole's manhole.
And as long as the Ted Smiths of the world have their way, humankind is doomed.
He's too dumb to live, and does his damnedest to drag us down with him.
Draco, SciFi.
It's on Sci-Fi Channel.
Oh, just back for a minute.
Ted? Since you're probably still lurking...
Gee, you sound like a real authority. An argument can be both a strawman argument and a slippery slope argument.
1) You were the one who said this, as an explanation of a strawman argument:
osh, you're right, we should never speak of what could happen should we let our nation waltz down the path of destruction.
This is a strawman argument. Being a "chicken little" refers to repeatedly making panicky arguments about some sort of doomsday. It can also be called "crying wolf".
These were your words in that thread, yes? Hm. Nothing there about NTodd's assertion having TWO fallacies. Just your contention that it was a strawman argument. You didn't address what made it a strawman--in fact, you offered nothing that indicated it was one. What you DID address was a potentially slippery slope argument, but you called it a strawman. And, on that, I called you.
2) Where did I ever say I was an authority? Now, if you want to know, your doing that IS an example of a strawman. You erected a false argument to kick at, rather than addressing the point.
Anybody else expecting any hot scientist-babe-on-scientist-babe action?
Why, yes, as a matter of fact I am. See, I'm a scientist myself, and I've invited over a few incredibly attractive scientists to run some experiments regarding human physiology and psychology and stuff. Fortunately, I run a clothing-optional laboratory.
"And by the time the full moon's here, it will be Spring Equinox! So this should be a very potent new moon." True enough. And a breath before my birthday as well. An always bluidy interesting damned time. Just do me a favour, eh? Either offer me a proper job, true love or great wealth just at that moment, or leave me alone and go to hell.
I say that in the most respectful way possible you understand....
Remember, my brothers & sisters DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS -- if you do, the will respond -- this is an open thread -- they are supposed to stay away --- if you feed them they will come
so don't m'k?
Diane -- we will work something out -- I can coordinate this -- timing is everything (lighting is the rest -- unless it's real estate -- then the top three items are location, location & location)
OK -- one thing I can't manage is convincing the monks to get a border collie -- switching to Satanism might be easier
Hi Hecate! you still 'round? (or at the office?)
Love is like oxygen.
Chronically toxic unless cut with an inert gas.
Requires some carbon dioxide to avoid hyperventilation.
Ooooh, the evil convict has kidnapped a scientist babe...
Uh, whose great idea was it to put the major research facility inside the penitentary? Or am I missing something?
Thank you Shaw.
I am so uncool. Right up to 10 seconds ago, I honestly thought the whole "Mansquito" thing was an inside joke.
I finally googled the name and it is a REAL television program.
Oh, Eli. How could you?
LJ - you know that whole post of yours about the brain being a sex toy? You. Make. Me. So. Horny.
I'm not sure to what that's an Appeal, but I'm sure Ted will tell me how phallic, er...fallacious it is.
An Escaping criminal is about to bolt himslef to a mosquito, become bolted to a mosquito, I think, now I am sure.
This is bad, really bad. Looks like there will be him and hersquito's now.
Allegations that University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill plagiarized and threatened a professor in Canada scuttled negotiations Friday for a financial settlement that would have ended Churchill's employment at CU. . . .
The News has also learned that a prominent American Indian artist told law enforcement authorities in New Mexico that Churchill threatened violence against him.
I don't understand why people laugh us off as a bunch of moonbat lunatics, do you? I mean, sometimes we can be dangerously deranged.
Looks like a set up to have Mansquito versus SkeeterChick.
Sci-Fi, AKA the "Giant Bug/Lizard/Shark/Dragon/Alien Creature of the Week Network."
OK, Prior A, I read the whole thread.
That should do it, right? That and a shower, right?
Hey, there's a guy coming out of that mansquitohole...
Ted? Since you're probably still lurking...
Sure, kick 'em when they're up, kick 'em when they're down, kick 'em when they're up, kick 'em all around...
Uh oh, he's transforming!!
This movie is so fake.
Fortunately, I run a clothing-optional laboratory.See, I'm a scientist myself, and I've invited over a few incredibly attractive scientists to run some experiments regarding human physiology and psychology and stuff.
When suddenly an experiment goes awry, the resultant power surge blacking out all the equipment -- including the air conditioning unit!
Under the amber glow of the emergency lighting, nothing is taboo...
Snugglebunny,
Don't blame Eli. I greenlighted the film, but only because they promised I'd get to play a babe scientist. After all, I am a Serious Actress.
Any bets we see her in a bikini later?
Bad isn't the word for it...
Let moonbats sing you to sleep tonight.
Tommorow, all.
.
NTodd
I thought it looked real.
So where is the mosquito that's part big slab of bald convict?
That's a lovely poem, Shaw Kenawe
pie | Email | Homepage | 03.12.05 - 9:17 pm | #
Why does someone have to steal my name for that comment?
It's been a long day.
See you on the morrow, my darlings.
BlakNo1 - for a minute there, I thought you were referring to Ted.
Oops, sorry for the snark. Or the ad hominem. Or whatever the fuck that was. Damn, I'm feeling irascible all of a sudden...
Blogwhore: Another tragedy.
"OK -- one thing I can't manage is convincing the monks to get a border collie -- switching to Satanism might be easier"
Then, um, maybe I should cancel the arrival of the Greater Michigan Border Collie rescue group who were all set to position puppies around the priory and instruct them to 'herd'?
What do I do with the requisition for
'Satanists 'r' Us'?
How the hell did we never before notice xymphora?
xymphora rocks!
NTodd:
Mm. Me so turned on. Show me that Amygdala, baby.
Thanks NYMary--I only hope this lives up to Jeff Goldblum as The Fly. Back when I had AOL, the movie chat rooms synchronized everyone to the same movie. I wound up watching shit like Rudy, starring Sean Astin as a near-retarded bad athlete who only wanted to play football for Notre Dame. It was presented heroically, with Rockyish music and brooding shots of Sean/Rudy doubting himself, but never doubting his mission. And plenty of reaction shots of fans (like you and I) cheering Rudy on even as the coach kept him on the bench
Last night, on Bill Maher's HBO show, Maher had two conservatives and a liberal, Richard Belzer, on his panel. One of the conservatives, Andrew Breitbart, who assists with The Drudge Report, fractured the English language by claiming that liberals engage in something called "antiwarmongering". Belzer looked at him, perhaps thinking that Orwell was rolling over in his grave a number of times when he heard that remark. The other panelist, a woman writer of Asian Indian descent, I believe, later praised the fact that Iraqi's were able to vote {despite the fact that most Iraqi's did not know who they were voting for and that the minority party in Iraq had a very low turnout in the election}. Belzer questioned how democratic the election, and Iraq, actually are but received no help from his alleged liberal host, Maher, who, for the third week in a row, was still singing the praises of Bush for allowing freedom to allegedly march through Iraq and the rest of the Middle East. Last week Maher had no reply when Tim Robbins tried to explain that a country cannot force democracy upon another country at the point of a gun {and be thought of as democratic}. Perhaps by doing so the U.S. should simply abolish the post of Secretary of State. Nor can it be looked upon as the right thing to do, or the right example to set, when the good guys {the U.S.} humiliate and torture the prisoners of an occupied country. Belzer was in a tough position trying to argue against the foreign policy of the administration while being outnumbered three to one.
oooh, tough call NYMary. I do not actually have cable, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say... "ripped shirt".
A bikini would be SO early 80s. I'm thinking she will fight a nefarious villian in a sewer, while wearing a thin white "professional" blouse.
And it's COLD in the sewer.
"I dislike winter when the heating oil guy chuckles when we call."
I am envious that you have to call. Our's is just on automatic delivery at this point, pretty much every 2 weeks. The driveway was just plowed for either the 10th or 11th time this winter. I went by the snowplow guy's house the other day to pay him, and his wife said that she was going to divorce him because he's never home.
On the bright side, as long as there's snow on the ground I can ignore the big piles of leaves in the back yard that I was too lazy to cary away last fall before the first snowfall.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Not since An American Werewolf in London have we seen a transformation scene so deeply stupid.
pie | Email | Homepage | 03.12.05 - 9:23 pm | #
Oh, so he could steal it for that piece of shit comment.
I AM LEAVING, you stoopid, crazy troll.
Get help.
Uh, whose great idea was it to put the major research facility inside the penitentary? Or am I missing something?
It's a brilliant cost cutting strategery. That, or a horribly written movie.
Ohhh jesus, Transformation time.....
SteveNS - who have you been talking to?
EkCenTriK - see, you lay people don't know what looks real and what doesn't. As a recognized expert in mansquito biology, I find it incredibly hard to suspend my disbelief during this movie. For one thing, there is totally not enough scientifically accurate babe-on-babe action. Pathetic.
These special effects ROCK.
"Ray! Stop it! Stop turning into a mosquito! Ray! I think we need to talk about our relationship!"
"University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill plagiarized and threatened a professor in Canada"
Oh well, Dalhousie..... It's not like it's Lethbridge or anything.
From the Boulder Daily Camera
Professors unite against CU probe
March 5, 2005
A group of 141 faculty members from around the nation signed a plea this week urging University of Colorado officials to end an investigation of professor Ward Churchill.
"It appears that the university has bowed to political pressure by putting professor Churchill's vast body of scholarship, as well as his entire personal life, under a public microscope," the academics said in the letter sent Wednesday.
The statement called for CU to foster academic freedom and said officials should not attempt to "silence dissenting voices."
"Ad hoc investigations of the sort you have initiated abrogate the protections of well-established tenure and review procedures, as well as the First Amendment," it said. "This sets a dangerous precedent for us all."
CU administrators are expected to complete their review of Churchill's academic record as soon as next week.
Gov. Bill Owens and other lawmakers called for Churchill's dismissal after an essay on the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks ignited protests. On Feb. 3, two days after Owens' remarks, CU's regents backed the examination of Churchill's writings, speech and conduct to see if he should be fired.
Monday, nearly 200 members of CU's faculty signed a similar statement in a full-page ad in the Daily Camera.
The Boulder Faculty Assembly approved a resolution Thursday in defense of academic freedom but removed a statement supporting Churchill's specific case.
So I guess JeffCO was #666.
Congrats!
Shaw,
Thank you!
Meanwhile, on TCM, Orson Welles is hiding out in the Chinatown theatre...
And then there's this (not that it was intended to intimidate any non-tenured faculty...):
TO: Boulder Campus Teaching Faculty, Deans, Directors, Dept Chairs, System Administration
FROM: Chancellor Phil DiStefano
Dear Colleagues:
I am writing to let you know that the University has begun an administrative review of the records for tenured and tenure-track faculty, senior instructors and instructors, to determine whether signed copies of a loyalty oath are maintained for these employees, as required by Colorado law. Under this law, all university teaching faculty must sign an oath to uphold the Constitutions of the United States and Colorado.
Recent requests for information have indicated that copies of the oath for some of our teaching faculty may not be readily available. In order to assure full compliance with the law across all campuses, each CU chancellor has instituted a general administrative review of records for teaching faculty. If signed copies cannot be found, teaching faculty will be asked to sign a new oath, as required by law.
Thank you for your cooperation on this important matter.
Chancellor Phil DiStefano
5000 Quatloos that Provider One, with the assistance of NTodd's eel laded Hovercraft™, the good Priors Atriot laden inbox, and a preternaturaly hideous trainweck of a production, that we can make it to 1000 comments.
Any takers.
One of my friends just called and she found out that this neighbor lured trapped and euthanized a her two pet cats. They had microchips that identified them. Is there anyone that knows what do do about it?
How come I never heard of Ward Churchill before 2 months ago?
Parker Lewis Can't Losquito!
NTodd
Next thing I know you are going to tell me that Barney is just a guy in a purple suit. I hate cynical people, they get on your nerves after a while.
Hey everyone, gotta leave.
Clean up after yourselves so Atrios won't be pissed. And don't drink and drive.
Great party.
Later.
Oh My God, the Boulder Daily Camera. I think my dad wrote for that paper about a billion years ago. Didn't know it was still around.
How long before the scruffy cop nails the babe scientist?
OK, guys, it's the end of "Lady from Shanghai"... switch on TCM!
Is David Brooks the columnist in America in most dire need of a cock-punching?
Upset:
Call the cops. Call the local ASPCA, too. That's about all I can recommend. Any of you lawyers know more, have at it.
There are some sick people in this world.
Isn't it mandatory he rescues her once?
Not since An American Werewolf in London have we seen a transformation scene so deeply stupid.
I dunno.
Ever seen Lieberman try to pose as a Democrat?
House of mirrors!
Jesus, JeffCO, Loyalty oaths for college faculty? WTF?
Thing is, the job market's so bad, I'll bet a bunch of people would sign...
Thers - did you see the proboscis on Ray?
EkCenTriK - I'm sorry to dispel any illusions you might have had. It's just that we Recognized Experts in Mansquito Biology and Scientifically Precise Babe-on-Babe Action™ get a bit defensive when we see our profession so awfully portrayed in movies.
SteveNS - who have you been talking to?
Hey man, it was all anyone could talk about at the mansquitology conference. I had a lengthy chat about it with Drosophilalethes.
that we can make it to 1000 comments.
At which point Hell-o-scan would asplode like fer sure.
Provider One - I raise your bet 10,000 Quatloos!
How come I never heard of Ward Churchill before 2 months ago?
BlakNo1
'Cause about 2 months ago some Wrepublican strategerist decided to scapegoat him as a typical democrat...
I Peeked in the door and saw...
Slippery strawmen? Snarks & Boojums! (Man, I love them Boojums. They’re the hamsters on the wheel in the heart ((Wow, Ezekial and both Shirley Muldowny just rolled over in their graves to fart at me)) of the Preznits Awesome Deficit Plan; it’s just gonna slip softly & silently away.) Pythonia & ‘KRP. Binary humor?! Mexican Heston!)
And then comes Victor Borgia and the Missleheads and the second damned-but-oblique Heston reference and I knew I was at Escatonia.
Hey, make it a Heston trifecta and a happy Omega Manquito to you all.
Hot babe scientist bathrobe database checking action! Right now, in MANSQUITO!
Excuse me, but as far as I can tell, Mansquito is a pretty normal crappy TV movie. If I don't see some dense camp soon, I'm going to hold a grudge against those who recommended it. Even the mosquito music on the soundtrack isn't drony enough to be annoying; they've opted for melodic buzzing up and down.
One of my friends just called and she found out that this neighbor lured trapped and euthanized a her two pet cats. They had microchips that identified them. Is there anyone that knows what do do about it?
Upset In llinois
Well, yes.
Resist the impulse to painfully kill the neighbor, and call the police, the SPCA, ect...
.
Cats? Lured to where? "Euthanized" how? Is "euthanized" a euphemism for thumped with a ball bat?
"You mean we can't win?... Then we can't lose either. Only if we quit."
""I dislike winter when the heating oil guy chuckles when we call."
I am envious that you have to call. Our's is just on automatic delivery at this point, pretty much every 2 weeks. The driveway was just plowed for either the 10th or 11th time this winter."
BWAAAHAHHHHHHAAHHHHAHHHHA....
93F at 5.15pm chickens, THAT'S NINETY-THREE DEGREES FAHRENHEIT.....
77F now. Do not even think of leaving your rotten cold places for my nice, warm, comfy place. Remember, there are 'Minutemen on the Border.'
Sorry, "Eschatonia.'
Hooked On Phonyks Didn't Werk For Me.
BTW, where Orson Welles comes out of the funhouse is where a Safeway now stands...
Some of the old timers you see drift in at times tell me if 1000 comments are ever hit, the world will end and the Republicans will be in control. Its just a legend, but they seem so serious about it talking as their dark, sunken eyes go wide with fright.
GWPDA --
Anything to share from your meeting today?
I think Scientist Babe is about to metamorphose, or "change".
SteveNS - oh, yeah, I forgot my paper was floating around out there. Forgive me for being paranoid. It's just that a couple months back somebody pretending to be a Hot Science Babe tried to seduce me in order to steal some of my mansquito research. I've been a bit touchy ever since. I've also been craving human blood for some reason...
"Looks like he's changing his style."
Best line of the movie so far.
NTodd,
I'll take it.
"looks like she's a couple of pints low"
Hardeeharr har.
"we have nothing if we don't have results"
Jesus, JeffCO, Loyalty oaths for college faculty? WTF?
Here was the response from one of the University lawyers to one of our Psych dept faculty who was a bit outraged by the demanding tone:
All faculty must sign the loyalty oath; it is required by state law (Colorado Revised Statutes § 22-61-104). It should have been signed when you very first came to CU since it's a requirement that's been in effect since the 1920s. Chances are your signed oath is already in your personnel records. The problem is that faculty who don't sign the loyalty oath can be summarily dismissed with no process. Colorado’s requirement of a loyalty oath and the termination of faculty with no due process have been upheld by the US Supreme Court (Ohlson v. Phillips, 304 F. Supp 1152 (D. Colo. 1969); cert. denied 397 U.S. 317 (1970). (The US Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal of the Colorado case, which affirmed the decision.)
While we would wish that enterprise status would exempt us from this requirement, it doesn't and probably never will. I think almost every Colorado state employee takes such an oath in one form or another, and it's common in other state systems as well. There can be criminal sanctions against the university for failure to comply with this law.
Would someone please explain to me what "appeal to authority" is.
I was under the impression that it meant we had to asked Pres. Bush for permission to questionor criticize his policies in his august presence.
LJ,
Considering all the issues with the animal shelter (nice name eh?), call the news. Chips, intentional and no one checked anything? They might make this into a mountain for you and your friend.
(I am presuming local to us)
BTW, I've given up on actually listening to Mansquito, what with all its inaccuracies. I'm still watching it in the vain hopes that Hot Science Babe will accidentally lose her lab coat, but I've got Jesus Christ Superstar playing on the iPod, which is making this an interesting experience.
Eli--Of course she's doomed--she was scratching her arms with atonal harp music playing.
It's just that a couple months back somebody pretending to be a Hot Science Babe tried to seduce me in order to steal some of my mansquito research.
It really bugs me when that happens. When will these bad girls learn to stop using insects as a weapon?
Air quotes!
Why does the latter part of this thread make me think of this?
200 Quatloos,
After "Hersquito" transforms herself she kills the Boss.
"Anything to share from your meeting today?"
Snuggliepoo, I've got the rulebook now. What I'm considering doing is feeding it thru my new, shiny Automatic Document Feeder on my fancy new scanner and making a nice PDF for consultation. There are whole sections on CO's which may be interesting. My belief emerged unchanged however. This ramp-up is a preliminary activity. If the Shrubbery decides to take out one more country there will be a draft. I found nothing to dissuade me in this.
Her boss is really mean! I don't like him!
Boo, hiss!
breaking protocol! the BASTARD!
Odd,
I am watching it in closed caption, muted sound. Listening to Vangelis (Direct) while reading this.
oooP's Mansquito beat hersquito to it,
That bet is off the table.
Now where are the comely thralls.
I will say that the representation of administrators is chillingly accurate. Whoops, just got whacked by a giant Manquito. Well, that'll happen.
EkC:
Oh, it wasn't anyone I knew. It was someone upthread that I was responding to.
"Appeal to authority": It must be so because (insert "authority" here) says so.
When will these bad girls learn to stop using insects as a weapon?
Maybe it's the Fermented Human Blood talking, but that has got to be the funniest fucking thing I've read in a long time.
Ooh, Bruce Campbell!! That'll be worth actually turning up the volume for!
Hi, Prior Aelred! I didn't work today; spent the whole day in the yard. But I'll pay for it tomorrow. I think I am the only one not watching Mansquito...
Why does the latter part of this thread make me think of this?
Are you working in a lab right now?
What are you wearing?
Why does the latter part of this thread make me think of this?
That's such a bogus, unfair representation of the male brain. The most glaring error is the inclusion of ironing in the circuitry. What's more...oh, excuse me, I need to think about, uh...something else for a minute.
Hey! My toilet aiming cell is at least twice that size, thank you very much!
Why does the latter part of this thread make me think of this?
Are you working in a lab right now?
What are you wearing?
Me likey the scientist babes.
And watching Hootie totally humiliate himself.
Are you working in a lab right now?
What are you wearing?
Theri:
If I answered, Mary would hit you. Someplace you don't wanna be hit. M'k?
I'm back! What did I miss? Is Mansquito living up to all that I expected thus far?
What are you wearing?
I'm wearing a lab coat and Spiderbabe Underoos.
OK, how come I'm watching "The Minority Report" and the live Mansquito Action Alerts are plot-matching perfectly? Is this one of those "Dark Side of the Moon"/"Wizard of Oz" thingies?
I'm...afraid.
I think I am the only one not watching Mansquito...
Somehow, I'd be willing to bet that Prior A is not watching Mansquito either.
Oh, Hecate, you lucky woman! I did not put Mansquito on, but I'm trying to make the best of it.
On the other hand, this afternoon I watched Spellbound, which was wonderful sad, poignant, scary.
They needed a segment for Refusal to Ask for Directions When Hopelessly Lost.
watertiger! baby! we're all getting nekkid and conducting science experiments. come on and join the fun!
I want to know who is responsible for the "tender crisp bacon cheddar ranch" commercial.
Someplace you don't wanna be hit. M'k?
On the couch?
I'm back! What did I miss? Is Mansquito living up to all that I expected thus far?
Have you ever considered a position in the fast-paced and exciting field of Science?
I'm wearing a lab coat and Spiderbabe Underoos.
I'm so embarrassed! We wore the same thing!
GWPDA--
No real surprises, then. Well, there is something to be said for consistency, I suppose... (our President is consistently an idiot, which brings a certain odd stability to our lives.)
I recommend a good sit in a good chair.
LJ - this is the 21st century. Why should I ask for directions when I've got a GPS?
nekkid? you're all nekkid? sweeeeet. I'm in.
I must say -- from the two minutes Ive watched, this is stellar.
And it looks like it's dubbed.
Fortunately, I run a clothing-optional laboratory.
NTodd
bullshit, you're not a scientist, you're a photographer.
I want to know who is responsible for the "tender crisp bacon cheddar ranch" commercial.
Instead of pork bellies for the bacon, use Liddy Dole bellies.
Someplace you don't wanna be hit. M'k?
On the couch?
That's where you'd end up sleeping AFTER she hit you, dear. Next time, it would be the doghouse. If you don't have one, don't worry. She'll build one just for you.
Mary, haven't you trained him yet?
How much do you think a cheddar bacon ranch would go for these days? Would it come with, mmmmm, like stalls? Do I need a paddock, or is just an enclosed forage okay?
Ooh, Bruce Campbell!! That'll be worth actually turning up the volume for!
Now there is a fine bad movie leading man. In fact I was thinking along the same lines.
OOOOOOOh scary, blood on the disco ball.
Blood splatter on the disco mirror ball!
NYMary - don't worry, I just took the Underoos off. I was starting to get a wedgie.
BTW, make sure to vote in the Boulder Daily Camera poll on Churchill!
Check out the comments - God bless Amerikkka!
Home heating oil
Been meaning to mention to the Atriots (and forgetting -- early onset Alzheimer's no doubt) that the monastery is switching to biodiesel for farm equipment & heating the church) -- only 2% (please control your laughter) so far, but it is a start -- the company will doubtless keep increasing the percentage) -- eventually we will be pure soybean (& probably eating nothing but tofu -- better than salt cod)
Fellow citizens of the male gender, I must note that certain members of this thread are having fun at our expense. Please be forewarned. Thank you, that is all.
Wait, a note has been passed just now, it asks to remind us all to put the toliet seat lid down and flush always.
Critics...
Ironically, one of CU's most illustrious historical figures (not counting Trey Parker and Matt Stone) is blacklisted screenwriter (e.g., Spartacus) Dalton Trumbo. Actually, he didn't graduate either. The 'free speech plaza' outside the student union is named for him.
This has been another Boulder Moment. Thank you.
jeffco,
The lawyer is wrong to say that a denial of cert. affirms a decision. It neither affirms nor overturns the decision. It simply lets it stand. The court can deny cert for all sorts of reasons that have nothing to do with whether or not the court agrees with the lower court's decision.
The R&B club?
THE R&B CLUB?
bullshit, you're not a scientist, you're a photographer.
Dammit Jim...
Damn you Provider One
How much do you think a cheddar bacon ranch would go for these days? Would it come with, mmmmm, like stalls? Do I need a paddock, or is just an enclosed forage okay?
I only eat free-range cheddar bacons.
bullshit, you're not a scientist, you're a photographer.
Ixnay on owingblay my overcay. I've got some Hot Science Fillies convinced I'm a Doctor.
NTodd:
You know you don't actually use that GPS thing. You just have it to say you have it and admire the pretty lights. Admit it.
I do not drink... vine.
This is funny as Hell. I was going to drop in and let you all know that this crappy Mansquito movie was on SciFi, and it looks like everybody's watching it already.
No wonder I love this place.
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"we will be pure soybean (& probably eating nothing but tofu -- better than salt cod)"
Damn, you really make your guys go thru hell for salvation, eh?
Well, not without an assload of sugar, anyway...
BTW, didn't Atrios call this a few weeks back?
The University of Colorado’s attorneys are attempting to negotiate with embattled professor Ward Churchill’s attorney over a retirement settlement that could head off an expensive legal battle.
CU Regent Michael Carrigan confirmed Wednesday that a settlement is one of the options "on the table."
Churchill's attorney, David Lane, has said the professor would consider retiring for the right price. Wednesday evening, Churchill said there was "nothing to report" on a buyout.
A source close to the process, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that if CU fired Churchill, the court challenge that would inevitably ensue would cost the school $750,000 to $1 million in legal fees alone, even if the university prevailed. That amount, the source said, will have to be considered in any settlement offer the university makes.
Churchill, 57, is under review following a controversial essay he authored that compared some victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to infamous Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann.
A tenured professor who makes about $94,000 a year, Churchill has promised to sue if he is fired, citing academic freedom rules.
The dialogue.
The acting.
The crowd scenes.
I smell Oscar.
Of course, that could just be the hot dog I had at the fights.
Heck, I've even been known to ask cops for directions.
Oooh, the hot scientist chick wanted a VERY RARE STEAK and likes FLOWERS.
Soon, soon, she will be topless.
Her Mansquito-Sense is tingling!
Do dance clubs even have mirrored balls these days? And that druggie who got violent mansquito death looked awfully well-scrubbed and well-coiffed with good teeth for his druggie role.
"Can't you smell it?"--now there's a plot-leader theme
Well, not without an assload of sugar, anyway...
Eli
"Eli, Full of Grace" -- in select theatres, Summer 2005.
Soon, soon, she will be topless.
Hopefully not like Mansquito is topless...
Is it my imagination, or does Mansquito have some buck teeth?
Erroll, what you say confirms my decision to stop watching Bill Maher. The first program of the season raised my blood pressure more than it made me laugh, and who needs that?
"Blood on the disco ball"
I smell album/CD title.
"How much do you think a cheddar bacon ranch would go for these days? Would it come with, mmmmm, like stalls? Do I need a paddock, or is just an enclosed forage okay?"
What about free range tomatoes? Chiles? Where do I stable the cheddar bacons? What about the bac-os? Is soy involved?
well i looked it up, i too am now watching mansquito. this isn't going to be like spiderbabe is it? i really want to see spiderbabe.
shaw, excellent poem.
GWPDA, i'm irish, i never heard about that purse thing, but they haven't drawn the lottery yet, i'm gonna shake it like a polaroid.
well, this thread is about 700 posts long, i only have 56K so till the next time. peace.
Is it my imagination, or does Mansquito have some buck teeth?
That's his hillbilly cousin, Manskeeter.
The first program of the season raised my blood pressure more than it made me laugh
*inhale deeply and sigh wistfully*
LJ,
GPS is tricky for guys. On the one hand, it's directions. On the other, it's a technological toy.
What a dilemma!
Is it my imagination, or does Mansquito have some buck teeth?
Damn that thoracic scoliosis!
Heck, I've even been known to ask cops for directions.
Blak, honey, check out yesterday's Sex Toy post's comments for the joke about men asking for directions. Oldie but goodie.
Watch--there are going to be bursts of posting during the Mansquito commercials.
You know you don't actually use that GPS thing. You just have it to say you have it and admire the pretty lights. Admit it.
Actually, I'm am such a geek that I really do use it. Got my first handheld (heh) GPS back in '97. I actually called Stef up when I was in Atlanta and asked her if she thought it was stupid to buy one--this was when we first started dating, mind--and she said yes it was. After class a few students and I went over the REI and I bought one right then (IIRC, we also went to see Alien Resurrection in Buckhead). Got another back in 2000 for street nav. I've got DeLorme's topo maps for the entire US, as well as their street atlas CD. And I actually use both my units (heh) for either driving or hiking (and it's saved my ass out in the Vermont woods at least twice).
Say it with me now: I'm a loser with a capital "LOSE".
"Blood on the disco ball"
I smell album/CD title.
Isn't that John Melloncamp?
I've never been a Bill Maher fan.
GPS is tricky for guys. On the one hand, it's directions. On the other, it's a technological toy.
Yes, but we never have to subject themselves to the humiliation of asking another person for directions.
"
GPS is tricky for guys. On the one hand, it's directions. On the other, it's a technological toy.
What a dilemma!"
Gee. Kinda like the toity.
Draco
GMTA,
Fielding Mellish, Glad you made it in.
400 Quatloos that Hersquito will be inexorably drawn to the charms of Mansquito and after nuptials, honeymoon, avoiding moonbats on the mosquito coast.
Mansquito?
This is not a joke?
Hecate -- you really have to read Jared Diamond's "The Third Chimpanzee" -- realy -- "Guns, Germs and Steel" won lots of awards, but this was an earlier work -- it is really outstanding
So we have a buffet talking meal tonight because today is St. Gregory's day (& this IS St. Gregory's Abbey) & afterwards Br Cuthbert says to me, "I see you've got a new girlfriend." So I say, "She's talking about her kids, but she doesn't have a wedding ring."
So I'm a celibate -- I'm not dead!
As poor Oscar Wilde said, "I can resist everything except temptation."
Mary:
I think of it this way:
Do we really want them having that kind of gew-gaw at hand when they're supposed to be driving?
Not that I don't do all the car driving...
I actually use both my units (heh) for either driving or hiking (and it's saved my ass out in the Vermont woods at least twice).
but is it detachable and +8 cut?
Damn the English for confiscating the gunpowder!
"Perhaps the governor can explain..." Oh, give it up! He's a limey toad!
Oh, sorry... I'm still on TCM...
Ooo! The Mickey Rooney commercial!
Wait, is it a new one? Where's the pantomime dishwashing?
oh yeah, there is a commercial on so a subtle blogwhore. GENERATION OF SWINE! scroll down, click on the image.
BTW, I'm shocked, shocked I say, that you all are completely ignoring Heather Langenkamp tearing it up with Freddy Krueger over on Bravo! Introducing Johnny Depp indeed.
Comment-o-meter just passed 765!
The hull can't take much more of this, Captain!
Wasn't Simels the one pushing this movie? Where the hell is he???
I've never understood this bit about male vanity preventing us from asking for directions. The rasons I'm reluctant to ask are A--I don't like getting rude rejections and B--The people you ask might be ignorant and hard to talk to, or they'll just pretend to be knowledgeable and give you bullshit directions. I have no problem admitting I'm lost.
but is it detachable and +8 cut?
Oh, no, that's my Swiss Army Penis.
Just lost her shirt!
The dialogue is like a freshman film student's attempt. Please tell me that one of them hangs him or herself at the end.
Oh, heeeeeeeeeere's the "sex scene."
Mansquito softcore alert!!
Woo hoo!!
driftglass - what if we generate a pre-warp bubble by injecting some mansquito santorum into the dilithium crystals?
That's his hillbilly cousin, Manskeeter.
Off with the clothing oooh yeah. She would make a nice Drill Thrall.
Lab girl's on top and lusty for the sex scene--mosquito-hood can't be far away for this doomed hottie.
I actually use both my units
Why did that comment make me think of this?
ooh, coitus interruptus. not even womansquitoes like that very much.
TAKE IT OFF, HERSQUITO!
And we have Hersquito!
Told ya so
Soon, soon, she will be topless.
Close - only for the European version. I was wondering what happened to Musetta Vander after Oblivion. Now, that was a good, cheap Scifi flick. This, not so much.
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Remember, ladies, if you're about to transform into a giant mosquito, be sure to remove *all* your clothes first.
"The rasons I'm reluctant to ask are A--I don't like getting rude rejections and B--The people you ask might be ignorant and hard to talk to, or they'll just pretend to be knowledgeable and give you bullshit directions."
This is why the US Army never -quite- made it to Baghdad in the first place, whilst the French Foreign Legion, oblivious of their responsibility to maledom, simply kept going, counting on the probability that they'd eventually be able to call Tag, You're It.
Oooh, looky, the Constitution is being ratified....!
what if we generate a pre-warp bubble by injecting some mansquito santorum into the dilithium crystals?
You know...that's just crazy enough to be, well, signed into law I suppose.
Why did that comment make me think of this?
What is the sound of one unit clapping?
Well, now she's acting more like a responsible scientist by writhing around in her underwear. However, she is not doing well on the making out with other hot scientist chicks front. Shocking.
Draco:
Silly, if you're hopelessly lost, most people you ask will give you fairly good directions. Those can't be any worse than driving around and around and around and...
Remember, ladies, if you're about to transform into a giant mosquito, be sure to remove *all* your clothes first.
I took off all my clothes just to watch the damned show.
I took off all my clothes just to watch the damned show.
A very sensible precaution. You should come over to my place for movie night sometime.
The pacing.
The cinematography.
The art direction.
Say it with me: gold statuette in the shape of a man.
Or a golden dildo.
Whatever.
Mansquito would be much better with Bruce Campbell, a shotgun, and a chainsaw.
Oh yeah, and a few Evil Dead.
I took off all my clothes just to watch the damned show.
Hope you bought some netting and a really big can of Off.
"I took off all my clothes just to watch the damned show."
Damn, I didn't get the memo.
I took off all my clothes just to watch the damned show.
And that is the completely appropriate Scientific Method for watching this movie.
Hey, whatcha doin' aftah?
Has anyone seen a bottle of Deet yet?
"I took off all my clothes just to watch the damned show."
Damn, I didn't get the memo.
If your eyes haven't turned red yet, it's not too late.
"Bullets cannot harm me! I am MANSQUITO!"
I's love to see the script for this. Half of it would be "ah! AHHHHGG! No! Ahhh! AHHHHHHHHHG!"
Mansquito would be much better with Bruce Campbell, a shotgun, and a chainsaw.
Hail to the King, baby.
Haiku moment
Watertiger nude?
Oh the mise-en-scene of it.
Such ‘squito goodness.
Fight,Fight,Fight,Fight,Fight,Fight,Fight.
Now how did Nemic keep from bein' killed.
Oh, man, I've got to go clean my proboscis again...
OK opening a bottle du vin rouge is long overdue.
Come and get some.
MoDo's column on women columnists is total crap. She can really write shit sometimes.
GWPDA--Excuse my denseness, but I don't quite get the US Army/ French Foreign Legion bit. My experience has been that asking for directions is as hazardous as not asking. I tend to go to gas stations and buy maps. I still don't get the comment, s'il vous plait.
Now how did Nemic keep from bein' killed.
I think he activated his Primary Character Aura Of Invincibility. Works every time.
I've got to go clean my proboscis again
Mom told me it'd make me go blind.
HA HA!! Hootie is a jackass!!
He must've needed money really bad.
Elisha Cook, Jr, and the Big Sleep coming on now on TCM!
Oh, and Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, directed by Howard Hawks.
Elisha Cook!!!
So it turns out a .45 really doesn't work on Mosquitos. Well I will have to apologize to the neighbors later. It has been a long standing debate.
Now how did Nemic keep from bein' killed.
He routinely bathes in citronella?
MoDo, now there's an Evil Dead chick.
I took off all my clothes just to watch the damned show.
Nah, start out with something relevant, THEN take it off. Make 'em WORK for it!
And that is the completely appropriate Scientific Method for watching this movie.
Hey, whatcha doin' aftah?
I thought a quick game of ultimate frisbee, and then ... who knows?
Darius Rucker should be consigned to the remainder bin of life.
Happy feast day Prior A. I trust you had some festive fare and not cod or tofu, for this occasion?
I stayed at a Benedictine abbey on the bluffs of the Missouri River last weekend, in the guest house. Doors locked at 10 pm! or I would have had to wake up the monk on door duty, so I was in early. No tv. Peace and quiet.
A week later, I've spent my day cleaning basement. And that has left me just mindless, but I'm enjoying reading the comments. Like being at a lively party but sitting in the corner.
Mansquito?
who or what, praytell, is a mansquito?
Mann Coulter?
Karen "Man Hands" Hughes?
JimJeff "MansquitoGannon?
huh? what's the deal?
Hey, folks. May I ask an off-the-wall question of this erudite crew? Mrs. Otter and I have picked a name for our impending baby, a girl, but it has multiple variant spellings. We have narrowed it down to the gaelic form and the irish-gaelic form. Which do y'all think sounds better "Brigid" or "Bridget"?
Thanks.
Elisha Cook, Jr, and the Big Sleep coming on now on TCM!
Awesome movie. Faulkner script. Chandler book. Bogey mackin' on every woman in sight. Dead porn kings. Drugs. Catamites.
Love it like a milkshake.
GWPDA
No gain without pain
We used to joke that the old second collect at Vespers during Lent was a variation on "O God, grant that by our severe physical penance we may earn our salvation!"
But only the Abbot preaches for over twenty minutes (I aim for 7 1/2 minutes, myself - there is a wonderful story about King George V...)
Oooh, a Naughty Nurse.
OK opening a bottle du vin rouge is long overdue.
Thanks for the reminder. Now were did I secret that bottle of laphroaig?
LJ
wasn't that Julie Strain.
wait no I didn't look at your link.
Never mind.
Make 'em WORK for it!
(starts waving twenties hopefully)
I'm looking forward to Tibor's next big effort.
"Hey Tibor - what's my motivation?"
"You're a guy in a big rubber suit and you're hungry, OK? I don't wanna get stuck in rush hour traffic, so move it already!"
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Darius Rucker should be consigned to the remainder bin of life.
He's starring in the sequel - Hootie and the Blowfly.
I's love to see the script for this. Half of it would be "ah! AHHHHGG! No! Ahhh! AHHHHHHHHHG!"
"Yeah, but what's my motivation when I'm scratched by my saucy girlfriend?"
ARMOR PLATING?
Bridget, definitely.
But then, I'm biased.
And excuse me- I have to retract my statement. MoDo is an Evil Dead babe, not chick.
Yes, put out an APB on the armor-plated giant mansquito right away, Charlie.
Otter,
I like it best without the "t".
Make 'em WORK for it!
(starts waving twenties hopefully)
Um, no, Blak sweetie, but you're getting warm.
Darius Rucker stars in Crapsquito, next week on SciFi!
Speaking of getting nekkid, does anybody remember the SNL episode right after Aliens came out when Sigourney Weaver hosted? They had an Alien-esque skit in which Ripley had to strip down to her underwear before taking action, as it were.
ooo the scientist babe just relaised she's in areally crappy movie!
"noooo this can't be happening!"
otter -- Me, I prefer Bridget.
Brigid, seems a bit more lively than Bridget.
Plus she will be able to correct almost every teacher that calls on her in class. Power.
Euthanized as in an animal control service he hired in Northbrook, Illinois Did whatever they like to do and then cremated them.
Ba'al speaks,
For hours of fun google Christ and Masturbation, and behold what emerges.
Ba'al has spoken. A revelation as it were.
Nah, start out with something relevant, THEN take it off. Make 'em WORK for it!
LJ, it's just that's what I usually do when I come home. I have to take off all my clothes before I don my Spiderbabe outfit.
And notice: No capes.
Ahhh yes,
here begins the beguine, I mean the dance of amour.
Um, Draco.... In the first Gulf War, the majority of the US Forces waited, tapping their collective feet, whilst the Marines were urging them onwards, towards Baghdad. There are many reasons for this strange hesitancy - but in the meantime, the French, who had authorised the engagement of the Foreign Legion, had unleashed the Legion and told them to do what needs must. So, the Legion, keeping a Marine Corps like silence, simply eliminates itself from the procession and moves, generally, north. To Baghdad. The story is, the rumour is, that the Legion reached Baghdad and counted coup, ultimately returning to the initial location, where they found the US forces still, still, tapping their feet and waiting....
Sometimes you just have to go see, with a compass or by a star.
I thought a quick game of ultimate frisbee, and then ... who knows?
I'll be right over. Right after the manquito/hersquito sex scene.
(starts waving twenties hopefully)
Um, no, Blak sweetie, but you're getting warm.
So am I...
Charlie seems a bit lackadaisical about his job, doesn't he?
you're getting warm.
Yes, I certainly am.
We are looking for a strong name (her sister is Eleanor, for Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. of Aquitaine). I'm sure Prior A would agree that Brigid of the Gael was a strong woman.
Which do y'all think sounds better "Brigid" or "Bridget"?
I prefer Brigid. Looks more Celtic to me. Plus I love Brigid Boden.
I hope my wife never cheats on me with a giant mosquito.
Something's wrong?
Ya THINK?
You're in an absolute SHITBUCKET of a movie, good sir!
duncan black's lonely hearts club spam?
How bout Siobhan?
I hope my wife never cheats on me with a giant mosquito.
Thersites
What a buzzkill that would be.
cgreen
Conception Abbey?
I've been there -- before the crazy guy came in & starting shooting -- I think that is an extreme reaction, myself -- one of my friends was shot up & will be in a leg brace for the rest of his life (which he is fortunate to have)
As we say of the monastic life, "It's a great life if you can stand it."
I suppose you can say that about almost anything...
I'll be right over. Right after the manquito/hersquito sex scene.
Hmmm...looks like you're gonna have to wait, ami.
(puts the Coronas back in the fridge...notices a strange cocoon-like object behind the butter...ohmigod, it's a mansquito egg!)
CHRIST ALL FUCKING MIGHTY DO THEY PLAY THIS GODDAMNED COMMERCIAL AT EVERY BREAK?
google Christ and Masturbation
Ba'al,
So in other words, just have a regular weekend
In thanks, let me off this: may the aroma please you muchly.
http://www.angelfire.com/home/ff...e/ffc/
index.htm
I like Siobhan, but my wife really doesn't care for names that require transliteration into English.
Darius Rucker stars in Crapsquito, next week on SciFi!
We aught to be hitting 800 perty soon.
GWPDA--Thanks for the explanation. I'd never read that story, not being a scholar of that war. I'd always (naively?) thought that the US forces hadn't gone to Baghdad because Bush 41 knew it was a disastrous destination, as in "post-war." I still agree with that naive assessment.
I like Siobhan, but my wife really doesn't care for names that require transliteration into English.
Name her Jack. That's a nice, strong name.
Hmmm...looks like you're gonna have to wait, ami.
Stupid fucking script. It's ruining everything. REWRITE!
In the spirit of mansquito, comic heroes we will never see:
The Human Tape Worm. His secret identity and job will shock you, but hey you might lose a pound or two at that.
Definitely Brigid.
And it would depend on what kind of car the giant mosquito drove. Absolutely no more Pintos for this girl.
We aught to be hitting 800 perty soon.
Yeah. I logged on to ask my question with 769, so I didn't read the thread like I usually do. Later I thought it would be funny if I asked a question about baby names in the middle of a thread like we had last night.
Brigid derives, I'm pretty sure, from Bride (pronounced Breed) who was the goddess of fire, poetry, and smithcraft. Gotta love a woman who inspires both poets and blacksmiths! Had a sacred well in Ireland. The xians, as they were won't to do, built a church there and tried to transform the goddess into St. Brigid. Pagans still honor the goddess on Imbolc, celebrated in early February.
Brigid, for a certainty. She's my favorite saint, except of course for St. Anne, the patron saint of sailors.
Name her Jack. That's a nice, strong name.
Hilarious.
Jackie's perty kewl, too.
In lieu of Bridget, may I suggest a simple, plain Mary? Or even Moira? But then, I was reminded today that I could easily have been named by my seriously Irish Grandmother, (Eliza Jane Berenice), and I'm telling you, life with a name reminiscent of an Irish serving girl is not really conducive to, say, life as an atomic physicist.....
And Prior - "We used to joke that the old second collect at Vespers during Lent was a variation on "O God, grant that by our severe physical penance we may earn our salvation!""
I'm a Presbyterian. Isn't this the way it's supposed to work?
the Big Sleep coming on now on TCM!
Now that's screen chemistry! They ran To Have and Have Not a couple nights ago. I'll take Bogie and Bacall's sizzle to the ZZZzzzzt from the bug zapper on Sci-Fi anytime.
Vivian: I don't like your manners.
Marlowe: And I'm not crazy about yours. I didn't ask to see you. I don't mind if you don't like my manners, I don't like them myself. They are pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. I don't mind your ritzing me drinking your lunch out of a bottle. But don't waste your time trying to cross-examine me.
Vivian: You go too far, Marlowe.
Marlowe: Those are harsh words to throw at a man, especially when he's walking out of your bedroom.
Yowza!
What about Katherine.
I could tell you all about how my education is superior to yours and whatnot...
I think you just did, Wile E.
Carpbasman
Huh? You must mean two other Wile E's.
Mosquitoes don't have emotions & motivations, Tom!
Well, isn't our hero Mr. Sensitivity! Woman's lying in bed, sedated, getting a blood transfusion before she turns in Chicksquito, and he's pumping her for information?
MANSQUITO WANTS TO MATE!
Prior Aelred, I was only a few miles from there-- at St. Benedict's, in Atchison. Unfortunately just as I felt myself slipping into the peace of the place I remembered that awful shooting in Conception Abbey and knew there is no place on this earth we are completely safe.
"Mosquitos don't have emotions or motivations... He wants to mate, tom, that's why he's looking for me!"
Apparently LJ's map applies specifically to the Mansquito brain.
"He's more mosquito then man by now...They're simple creatures...He wants to mate--that's why he's looking for me"
comic heroes we will never see: The Human Tape Worm
Oh, I beg to differ. I loved the little 8-page Human Tapeworm stories they used to publish in Wolfman & Colan's "Tomb of Dracunculiasis".
Otter --
Brigid if you are Irish
Bridget if you don't want everyone mispronouncing it
Sure and is it that you want her to love you then?
Otter,
We have a Seamus and a Roisin. We have, on a certain level, doomed them to a life of saying their names out loud, spelling them over the phone. But they're beautiful and connected to our history and the literature we love. Screw everyone else.
Oh, and congrats.
COPSQUITO or is that PIGSQUITO or just soon to be skeeterchow™
I never expected to learn this much about mosquito psychology in such a short time!
Now all I need is some tight pants and a lab coat, and I can be a mosquito scientist too!
Mansquito drives a minivan?
This is how my conversation will go with Stef when she comes home tomorrow:
"How was your weekend, Stef?"
"Great! I played with horses, rode snowmobiles, and all the other wicked cool stuff I always do. How was your weekend?"
"I watched Spiderbabe on Friday, then watched Mansquito on Saturday. Oh, and I hung out at Atrios arguing with trolls, synchrocommenting about the movies I was watching, and injecting as many sexual innuendoes as I could get away with."
"Wow, you were productive for a change."
"Yeah, it was a good weekend."
Wow SteveNSquito
I didn't know that existed.
An abbey guest house might be the closest thing to feeling safe though! No room keys! No fee, just an envelope for donations. They would probably even take in a mansquito, too.
So why don't they just have a big black light with an electric cage and kill this turkey before it makes a lotta little wigglers, already.
So much for Morrison outside, unless he's got a 200 gallon drum of calomine lotion.
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As for strong names for daughters, I'm partial to Hatshepsut. The first great woman of history.
"Mosquitos don't have emotions or motivations... He wants to mate, tom, that's why he's looking for me!"
Apparently LJ's map applies specifically to the Mansquito brain.
You're all mansquitos? Eek!
Mansquito drives a minivan?
Minivansquito?
GWPDA,
Not Mary. Trust me.
Prior A, you sound like my wife. If you can't tell, I like the old form and my wife the more modern. Your point is well taken, though. I called a friend who emigrated from Dublin. She lives in Colorado and has kids named Fergus and Maeve. SHE said Briget would cause fewer problems.
cgreen - oh sure there is. My tomato patch, with Arthur utterly asleep nearby and I lolling on the chaise longue with the newest Harper's. I can say this because I've instaled REALLY HIGH WALLS around the property, all my bills are up to date and my local supermarket had this terrific deal on frozen pizza to the point that I must have ten of them in the deep freeze. What could be more secure?
He's got wings!
Just like a panty liner!
We also have a Molly, which is ethnic, easily spelled and pronounced, and not very common.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Hecate, I think St. Brigid's Day is February 1st. She is also a patroness of students and she travelled alot for the times, too, opening convents all over Ireland. But my favotie story of St. Brigid is the one that St. Patrick, when he heard of her taking her final vows, was so moved, that he started using those vows in ordaining priests.
She also has a strong connection to art, such as stained glass and metals I think.
Mansquito molting now with wingly goodness.
Oh Crap, This movie has officially jumped the shark.
Minivansquito?
SUVsquito?
We already have a Molly in the immediate family. Otherwise, it would be in the running.
I Was Face-to-Face with the Creature From Planet X!
My question--I'd read, though I'm no expert, that male mosquitoes don't bite at all; they tend to mate and die like bee drones. Only the females need blood to propogate. I'm sure I've seen this on PBS too, and in a David Brenner routine. Is there anyone else who knows better? Are male mosquitoes even capable of sucking blood?
No matter how bad "Mansquito" is, it can't possibly be as bad as anything that's on Fox News.
My dream is that Sci-Fi starts consistently beating Fox in the ratings. Sci-Fri Friday is a good first step toward that goal, but they gotta get some better writers and directors for their movies, and maybe a second night of quality series.
Remember, the only real SFX in one of the great sci-fi classics of all time, the original "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," is the papier-mache body figures developing in the pods.
Paging Dr. Giant Fucking Mosquito...
Now all I need is some tight pants and a lab coat, and I can be a mosquito scientist too!
Well, here's the lab coat , for ya, Eli. We can take in the pants.
I tuned in late to the Big Sleep on TCM. Anybody know if this version is the confusing one they released to theaters--confusing because they cut plot stuff to concentrate on the chemistry between Bogie and Bacall--or the restored version?
Oh Crap, This movie has officially jumped the shark.
It jumped the sharksquito about 2 minutes in...
I didn't know that existed.
EkCenTriK
Yep - those parasite comics were huge in the late '70's. I have an unbroken run of True Schistosome, issues 1 -123.
Draco,
He also seems to have an ovopositor. Not a very manly Mansquito, obviously.
But my favotie story of St. Brigid is the one that St. Patrick, when he heard of her taking her final vows, was so moved, that he started using those vows in ordaining priests.
I read about this, but the account I read was that he used the form for consecrating bishops. When his error was pointed out, he basically replied, "That was not an error--she will be a bishop."
Well, here's the lab coat , for ya, Eli. We can take in the pants.
I don't think they like the direct linking, LJ. I'm sure I would be quite fetching, though.
I think Haloscan's counter is tapped. It's now counting backwards.
This movie has officially jumped the shark.
Sharksquito?
So confused.
Damn.
Serves me right for never learning Esperantsquito.
Oh Damn the scotch is wearing off.
It jumped the sharksquito about 2 minutes in...
What set-ups are made for.
This is just like the ending of Hardboiled, only with a giant mosquito instead of mobsters! And, um, Parker Lewis instead of Chow Yun Fat.
The Big Sleep only gets bwttwr on the 13th viewing.
Minivansquito?
SUVsquito?
When Mansquito tires of Hersquito, he'll divorce her and get a Porschesquito.
The first area of history I really wanted to study was Tudor England - where I learnt that there were really just a handful of girl's names. But how many do you really need? There was Mary, Catharine (etc.), Jane, Frances, Margaret and Elizabeth.
Jumped the shark? In the first 2 minutes!
I think Haloscan's counter is tapped. It's now counting backwards.
Don't you mean Haloscansquito?
Also, PriorA, I have a gaelic name, my sister who is a therapist, has a gaelic name which means passionate unveiler. Mine means courageous truth teller, Brigid mean fiery arrow. Beyond that,my other two sister also have gaelic names. Sure, we spell our names, but I have always liked having a name that means something and that was strong. I know my sisters feel the same way.
Not that anyone asked me of course...
I should have thought a SWAT team would be very effective against a Mansquito. They could have really Offed him.
Are male mosquitoes even capable of sucking blood?
No, I don't believe so. And yes, before someone asks, my uncle is an entomologist. Really.
Well, here's the lab coat , for ya, Eli. We can take in the pants.
Fittingly, it came up with a "bad image" message.
Argh. Stupid link. Have no fear. I can find another.
(Don't I always...?)
Damn you NTodd!
Damn your squito-speed.
Damn your counter-inverting powers too.
I loved the detective's total LACK of reaction as the SWAT team member landed 20 feet away from him in the parking lot.
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Money we get a shot of Mansquito holding the unconscious Shesquito.
Which would, I guess, make it the money shot.
Don't forget when the Irish were starving, as was typical, St. Bridget stormed up to the apple trees and demanded them to bear fruit. They did.
GWPDA, now you mention it, in my garden I always feel safe. mmmm the tangy smell of brushing past tomato vines. (still a long time til that here.)
I loved how that one security dude's head got sliced.
Sure, we spell our names, but I have always liked having a name that means something and that was strong. I know my sisters feel the same way.
That's the way I feel (although my name is the modern version of an otherwise unpronouncible gaelic name).
Otter | Email | Homepage | 03.12.05 - 10:38 pm | #
In my catchism, I heard the response was, she is a woman of destiny, or something like that.
money shot, wt.
Haloscansquito!
I'm curious to see how, exactly, this mating will occur.
In names I'm partial to Medusa and Cerberus myself. Echidne would be nice, too.
St. Brigid was a liberal.
My skeeter sense is tingling. Oh wait, that's just my proboscis. Well, nothing says "mate with me" like killing dudes in your hersquito's hospital room.
Wait Mansquito Don't do it, your child support requirements will be hell!
Otter, You're a Dermot?
Sorry, but Echidne is her grandmother's name.
COPS=REDSHIRTS
No, my name is the modern spelling of Coinnach.
"Oh, what do you do?"
"I'm an actor."
"Really! Would I have seen anything you've been in?
"Um...I played a terrified police officer in 'Mansquito' recently."
I loved how that one security dude's head got sliced.
Totally. That was the only genuinely cool thing in the entire movie. Except maybe Womansquito in her underwear.
Hm. Same picture. Different site. Let's see if it works..
I'm curious to see how, exactly, this mating will occur.
He'll tryto get her tanked on sloe gin fizzes and blood smoothies.
"GWPDA, now you mention it, in my garden I always feel safe. mmmm the tangy smell of brushing past tomato vines. (still a long time til that here.)"
Ah, macushla, where else could anyone ever feel any better? Years and years ago, my mother would pinch back the tomatoes, just to find that scent on her fingers.... A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot - and the place God made safe and sound.
Goodnight darlings - a long day and for now, it's necessary I go mind the home place. Soyez sage. Dormez bien.
Hm. Same picture. Different site. Let's see if it works..
Excellent... Which one is me?
mmm...blood smoothie...
Otter,
I've always liked Clotho and Lachesis, although maybe if you went with Atropos, it might be close enough that Mr. Duncan Black'd give you some sweet turkee...
The first area of history I really wanted to study was Tudor England - where I learnt that there were really just a handful of girl's names. But how many do you really need? There was Mary, Catharine (etc.), Jane, Frances, Margaret and Elizabeth.
GWPDA
You forget Anne. As in Boleyn and of Cleves.
Uh-oh, the cleancut cop has a big gun.
Atchison Abbey--
It's the former abbot I knew & loved
& there is Br Dominic -- we bonded -- what can I say -- he was a Navy Seal & I'm a Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club member -- we just bonded -- so he says to me, he says, "When the pigeons were nesting on the roof covering the porch of the dormitory they gave me a BB gun & told me to kill the pigeons. That's the only time my Navy training has been of any use to me."
There are no locks on the monastery doors -- some of the chalices are kept in a safe -- the bursar locks the door to his office -- that's it --
entry to the monastery is free -- all you have to give up is everything (which will be the price you pay to leave)
Hey! Mansquito!
Wow, when I logged into Eschaton there were 666 comments on this thread. So I refreshed them and there were 777 comments. So, I got Satan and then I got lucky?
Cleancut cop doesn't seem to be the brightest...
Okay, maybe that *wasn't* such a great idea...
Hecate, what did Hatshesput (sp!!!) do??
The cop that couldn't shoot straight.
sheesh.
Told ya it would get full and the night is still young.
Eli:
Call me.
Oh goodie. I just found a site for men's PVC thongs. Woo hoo!
Eli,
That skirt's a bit short for March. Wait a couple of months.
"I think Haloscan's counter is tapped. It's now counting backwards."
watertiger
Uh-oh...we broke it. Atrios is gonna be piiiiissed.
"You forget Anne. As in Boleyn and of Cleves. "
You're right - absolutely. That was the last and best name of all.
And goodnight again. God bless all here.
Guinness. Brilliant!
So was cleancut cop not actually aiming for the big honking mosquito?
That skirt's a bit short for March.
Not in San Antonio.
...and before you ask, yes I am a psychiatrisquito.
So.. are we meeting here in two weeks for the Bruce Campbell flick?
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GodZella pimping himself with the Rev. Teletubby
Orior Aelread,
Where are you, in the US?
Call me.
Oh goodie. I just found a site for men's PVC thongs. Woo hoo!
Are these two items related?
One thing I have learned from tonight:
I want to see Darius Rucker eaten by a giant mosquito.
Sarah,
Hatshepsut was a woman pharo of Egypt. Really a fascinating character. I once read a biography of her that called her "the first great woman of history."
"Hey, Mansquito"
might not be a money shot, but certainly the money line.
Provider One is not interested in handcounting this thread, erm Haloscansqiuito, fix that abacus and maybe some quatloos yer way m'kay?
Uh-oh...we broke it. Atrios is gonna be piiiiissed.
Quick! Diane, you take care of the beer bottles. Eli, put the furniture back in order. I'll get rid of the cops. I think we can pull this off before Atrios gets back.
THe post counter often runs backward. Countin' over 700 is hard, its hard work.
G'night, GWPDA!
82 here today. Eli would have been quite fetching in that skirt.
Otter,
So was cleancut cop not actually aiming for the big honking mosquito?
No, he was trying to pull a Roy Scheider, I think.
Call me.
Oh goodie. I just found a site for men's PVC thongs. Woo hoo!
Are these two items related?
Guess what you wear under the skirt, sweetie?
Genosail,
Yes?
Question:
Best brandy?
Thanks.
Haloscan ate all of my post. That has never happened.
Hecate, don't you have the keys to the castle. Can't you give us a new thread. Is there no balm in Gilead?
82 here today. Eli would have been quite fetching in that skirt.
We still haven't worked out the details of exactly *what* I would be fetching.
No, he was trying to pull a Roy Scheider, I think.
Quite an homage, really.
We still haven't worked out the details of exactly *what* I would be fetching.
I'd like you to fetch me a beer. I ain't going out in this blizzard.
Guess what you wear under the skirt, sweetie?
I thought black underwear under white skirts was a no-no? Or is that just for work? (Learned *that* the hard way!)
We still haven't worked out the details of exactly *what* I would be fetching.
Whatever I commanded, darling. Never forget it.
NOw he has de-squitofy the Scientist Babe.
Aha! bullet proof AND explosion proof.
Here is a nice telling of the St. Brigid story, complete with her beginnings as a Celtic vestal virgin under the goddess Brid, and through her druid childhood to her conversion to Christianity.
You won't find that in Butler's.
So.. are we meeting here in two weeks for the Bruce Campbell flick?
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Mellishquito
It does seem to drive off the trollsquitos...
Hecate can eddicate us on herstory.
And the grown-ups can even talk about what to name the kids.
No, he was trying to pull a Roy Scheider, I think.
Damn. Can't see. Jaws Roy or Blue Thunder Roy?
NOw he has de-squitofy the Scientist Babe.
That will require a lot of his mantorum.
All you 'squito's out there are making me laugh my ass off, which is scaring the cats and the Thralls.
Good work all.
Ladies, do you ever sometimes have that... not-so-vertebrate feeling?
Hatshepsut was a woman pharo of Egypt. Really a fascinating character. I once read a biography of her that called her "the first great woman of history."
Hecate
Will Cuppy also did a funny essay on her in the Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody.
I have a theory about mosquitoes. They do our blood letting for us and because we have started killing them we have insufficient blood letting and we get sick and die young.
That's all.
Otter, that bit about Brigid was for you.
Haloscan is grazing tonight I see.
Wow. Shesquito looks like shit.
I gotta get me some of those red contacts...
Hot Science Babe is looking less fetching than Eli right now...
Aelred means wise counsel
Glidden means good neighbor
My failure to live up to my names is a source of great sorrow to me
My greatgrandmother was called Moolie (actually she was a Mary Sullivan & a Methodist, but always called Mollie -- after she died everyone forgot her legal name until her daughter Georgie reminded them) -- the first good word I hear of her will be the first -- she sold my father's dog!
Well, we are all God's walking wounded
Damn. Can't see. Jaws Roy or Blue Thunder Roy?
Jaws: "Smile, you son of a bitch!"
What's with all this mansquito nonsense?
I'm holding out for the classic of the genre, Roger Corman's The Wasp Woman. Turner's Atlanta station must have run that thing at least 100 times when I was a kid. And it was educational too. For instance, I learned that when transforming from a woman into a wasp, magically the wardrobe changes, too. One minute a June Cleaver dress with pearls, the next a predatory clingy black bodysuit, cinched at the waist with a wide leather belt (no doubt to heighten the "wasp waist" look).
This is like really low-rent MST3K...
I get to be Crowsquito!
...not-so-vertebrate feeling?
Eli,
OK now that's just damned funny
NTodd,
It's *still* snowing?
My proboscis is a bit limp all of a sudden.
Damn! That is one LONG old movie. But not too bad anyway. (RAY)
Ladies, do you ever sometimes have that... not-so-vertebrate feeling?
Nope, but I saw something not-so vertebrate from Mr. LJ #2 after I told him about that time I--
Never mind.
"Honey, I'm home!"
Nothing like *angry* mansquito sex.
Are we about to witness a menage e troisquito?
I like that the research lab has a dungeon. That's good architecture.
I get to be Crowsquito!
Damn it. I always have to be Servosquito.
It's *still* snowing?
Yup. But the winter storm warning has expired early (was s'posed to go until tomorrow afternoon). Disappointing.
Why can't she just be submissive like a proper mansquitowife?
Hi, I'm back from an early dinner. Anything get accomplished in the last, nearly 800 posts?
This is getting kinda kinky.
Ooh, skeeter fight!
I'm done with Mansquito, as it seems the doomed hottie might turn into Jeff Goldblum any second now.
Back to tunes, specifically Beck's Midnite Vultures. If a killer can turn into a mosquito, then Beck can turn into a soul loveman.
Oooh, now he's stabbing the Mansquito with his electric razor. Go Gilette!
Evening Moonbats. This is one long thread. This is like the one I downloaded and counted the words: got up to 60,000 That is the size of a small novel.
Why can't she just be submissive like a proper mansquitowife?
Yeah, she should just lie back and think of Skeeterland.
Mansquito's secret weakness is electricity!
Don't they all?
Finally: somebody uses a fucking BUG ZAPPER!
"Mansquito" just screams "Alert! Guy in a rubber mosquito suit!!!"
It's such a hokey come-down after watching one of the greatest giant bug movies of all time earlier this week: "Starship Troopers."
"Them" -- a 50s movie which features giant ants roaming L.A.'s storm sewer system -- ain't bad either. And the SFX in that 50-year-old movie are better than those in "Mansquito." C'mon, Sci-Fi, even on a tight budget you can do better than "guy in rubber mosquito suit plus lots of squirting red fluid (ketchup?) that's supposed to be blood."
Friedsquito!
At last!
"Time for Me to Fry" - by REO Mosquitowagon
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That is some SERIOUS writhing!
Cleancut cop is thinking: "She never writhed like that on me."
this guy is never working in Hollywood again.
Mansquito, I mean.
prior Aelred, tried to send you mail but it bounced back. I'll try another day.
Is the asshole still in the White House or has he been frog-marched to Abu Grahib?
"Evening Moonbats. This is one long thread. This is like the one I downloaded and counted the words: got up to 60,000 That is the size of a small novel."
DWD
You actually counted the words?? God, I thought I had no life.
/joking
Robbie Fulks Rules!
That was one hell of a fucked-up bugzapper right there.
*Sigh* OK, I'll be Gypsquito....
I guess there won't be any more shots of her in her underpants now. Oh well.
He was probably a radical conservative.
Vaya con Dios NeoConsitos.
It's such a hokey come-down after watching one of the greatest giant bug movies of all time earlier this week: "Starship Troopers."
"Them" -- a 50s movie which features giant ants roaming L.A.'s storm sewer system -- ain't bad either.
Ah yes I remember "Them" can't go wrong with giant ants. And I just love Starship Troopers.
I guess there won't be any more shots of her in her underpants now.
Whew! Turns out, that's my secret weakness.
Thanks for the opinions, guys. It's time for bed.
got up to 60,000 That is the size of a small novel.
DWD,
"No great novel has ever been written on a flea..." -- Herman Melville
...but of course, Melville had never heard of the you-know-what-squito.
If this had been a more quiet, reflective, spiritual giant bug movie, it would have been Monksquito.
OK. I'll just be audience then.
I just love Starship Troopers.
Not a bad Yes song, but I'm still partial to Roundabout.
Prior, I have a cottage on a lake near Coldwater. That is almost like being neighbors, eh?
Atrios is going to be completely baffled when he sees this after he gets back from seeing Margaret Chosquito.
Heart of the Sunrise.
I just love Starship Troopers.
Not a bad Yes song
I thought it was ABBA?
I just love Starship Troopers.
And Diz should never have been female, but I'm so glad she was, and Dina Meyer was a great casting decision. Oh my. Yessss, precioussss...
Eli
Watch Duncan close the site down. ANd it will be your fault.
I think. don't hold me to that.
"She saved us all."
Um, is that the kind of writing one usually sees in a police report?
Eli,
You mean Atriosquito?
Serves him right: leave the kids alone with the language too long & you're gonna get nicknamed.
I hesitate to add any variations, I will say that, in the interest of science, once you are securely in Northern Michigan - Keewenaw Peninsula specifically - there are not mosquitos. Might be Yoopskitos, but they would just hang around the bars all day talking about hockey and fishing.
Not a bad Yes song, but I'm still partial to Roundabout.
That song unfortunately lacks any hot shower scenes.
Watch Duncan close the site down. ANd it will be your fault.
I'm sorry, I meant Atriosquito.
Ba'al--since your latest hobby appears to be exploring perversion, Christian style, might I suggest the following:
Christian submissives, take note!
I just love Starship Troopers.
Not a bad Yes song
I thought it was ABBA?
It's really sad that I get that. But you spelled 'super' and 'trouper' wrong.
Heart of the Sunrise.
[shivers up my spine]
Only half-way through Fragile right now, but I feel the rush already...
D'oh!
Well, if that ending wasn't grounds for a sequel, I don't know what is.
Mansquito II - Bitten by Love
Oh well, since everyone else is doing it, I am getting down with the Skeeter
Audiencsquito?
at least we know how many comments haloscan can take before it flips. It's sadly much much lower a number than it took to flip space invaders.
and I loved Parker Lewis Can't Lose. Sorta glad I don't have cable now...
I meant Atriosquito.
Or "Duncan Blacksquito" as the trollsquitos call him.
OK, time to get some rest. I could swear I just saw a commercial with a guy blowing into a dog's butt. Night, moonsquitos!
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That song unfortunately lacks any hot shower scenes.
True. But now South Side of the Skeeter is playing, and there's lots of Hot Science Babe action on that track.
SO, has anyone asked where Incognitoskito is?
So will the sequel be Kidsquito? Cry Babysquito?
Margaret Chosquito.
now to attempt a count of the thread, as Providersquito One has quatloos on the outcome.
Rats well fixed it.,
Eli, NTodd, Dave--on your grocers' shelves now: Troll Helper! Sauce mix and pasta--just add troll and hot water for a complete, tasty meal!
Ooooh, cool. Spawn is on!
BTW, the DirecTV description for Mosquito is brilliant:
Feeding on an alien corpse makes mosquitoes big, aggressive and thirsty for human blood.
Looks like it has language, nudity and violence! A must see...
Yay another horrible "Mosquito's Gone Wild" Flick with alien overtones.
"I don't know.. A bird or something, you are the animal expert why dont you take a look."
Feeding on an alien corpse makes mosquitoes big, aggressive and thirsty for human blood.
Oops.
Sorry, everybody.
Sallyh - mmm...I love Troll Helper! I grew up on that stuff--Mom wasn't much of a cook, see...
Just counted the thread (I have no life_ 1130 separate posts.
Thing is, that "giant" mosquito isn't much bigger than the ones we get here in Vermont. They've been known to carry away small children.
But I do approve of the gratuitous boob shots.
Just counted the thread (I have no life_ 1130 separate posts.
Counting that one?
Sallyh,
Oh, dear. "Taken in Hand"?
Given that the focus here is on relationships in which the man is dominant, wears the trousers, or is in control, is this site advocating a return to times past in which many women had no choice? Is it about lifeless, stereotypical relationships?
No, it is actually about stepping into a future free from prescriptions and proscriptions about the sort of relationships deemed acceptable.
Oh, dear.
Caving to peer pressure.
Those "Just Say No" After School Specials about were lost on me.
Momsquito would be filled with shamed.
Shame, and yummy yummy blood, but mostly shame.
I missed the start of "Freddy v. Jason" for that piece of crap?
45,894 Words if anyone is counting
9588 lines
DWD that means per predictions, the world has now ended and the Republicans are in charge. Can anyone look out the window and see if anything is happening?
Thing is, that "giant" mosquito isn't much bigger than the ones we get here in Vermont. They've been known to carry away small children.
"Flies? With beaks?"
Yeah...the natives had a name for 'em too, "Jose Greccos Di Muertos". "Flemenco Dancers of Death."
All fans of Starship Troopers
Read ARMOR
It is simply the greatest "humans in armor dropping down on alien planets to fight bugs novel" ever conceived by the human mind (trust me on this -- this book by John Streakey has never bee out of print since it was first published -- that is not an accident)
I'm holding out for the classic of the genre, Roger Corman's The Wasp Woman. -Jennifer
My sister was permanently scarred by that one. I bought her a DVD copy a couple years ago to help her overcome her fear of insect people and she still won't watch it.
Hey, McNabb's in this one! Dollars to doughnuts he gets killed really early. The black dude always buys it first.
45,894 Words if anyone is counting
DWD,
I cheated: skipped to the end and peeked.
Apparently John Galtsquito gathers the larvae in Colorado and the world goes dark.
If you are in a relationship and you want your husband to take you in hand, there is a lot to consider. Taken In Hand means very different things to different people. You need to get sorted out with your husband exactly how much control you are both comfortable with for a start. Some women like having their husbands in charge of the finances, for instance; others might find this tiresome, or might have a husband who, like mine, is appalled at the very idea. Some women like to be very closely controlled, but I would find it very irksome if I thought my husband was watching my every move. You need to decide how much control you want, and how much your husband is prepared to use.
wow, sounds like Sharia Spirit is catching on with you infidels. excellent.
Yeah...the natives had a name for 'em too, "Jose Greccos Di Muertos". "Flemenco Dancers of Death."
"There are FLAMES on my CAR!"
Alan Smithee. Well done. One redeeming quality of this movie.
Near as I can tell Whiskey Tango at 10:44 came in at the 1000th comment, we were up to 1127 or thereabouts at my last comment.
WooooHoooo
This is for MoDo. If she is still reading along. (To get the joke, I guess you have to read her column http://www.nytimes.com
I'm a girl, and by me that's only great!
I am proud that my silhouette is curvy,
That I walk with a sweet and girlish gait
With my hips kind of swivelly and swervy.
I adore being dressed in something frilly
When my date comes to get me at my place.
Out I go with my Joe or John or Billy,
Like a filly who is ready for the race!
When I have a brand new hairdo
With my eyelashes all in curl,
I float as the clouds on air do,
I enjoy being a girl!
When men say I'm cute and funny
And my teeth aren't teeth, but pearl,
I just lap it up like honey
I enjoy being a girl!
I flip when a fellow sends me flowers,
I drool over dresses made of lace,
I talk on the telephone for hours
With a pound and a half of cream upon my face!
I'm strictly a female female
And my future I hope will be
In the home of a brave and free male
Who'll enjoy being a guy having a girl... like... me.
When men say I'm sweet as candy
As around in a dance we whirl,
It goes to my head like brandy,
I enjoy being a girl!
When someone with eyes that smoulder
Says he loves ev'ry silken curl
That falls on my iv'ry shoulder,
I enjoy being a girl!
When I hear the compliment'ry whistle
That greets my bikini by the sea,
I turn and I glower and I bristle,
But I happy to know the whistle's meant for me!
I'm strictly a female female
And my future I hope will be
In the home of a brave and free male
Who'll enjoy being a guy having a girl... like... me.
What are you doing later tonight, DWD?
The black dude always buys it first.
Except in Anaconda... I was thinking that Ice Cube would bite it any second for that very reason.
Near as I can tell Whiskey Tango at 10:44 came in at the 1000th comment,
Oh, word?
I'd like to thank the Academy...
Can I put my clothes back on now?
If you were a low-rent horror movie monster, what low-rent horro movie monster would you be?
Ooooo there's an idea for a movie: "Anacondasquito"
DWD,
at least that makes a couple of us and our numbers are close enough. I did a handcount, howd you come up with yer figure?
Oh, word?
I'd like to thank the Academy...
Can I put my clothes back on now?
No.
OOOO an open thread. Time to vent my anger at commercials that play old pop/rock music to sell their shite. I felt personally hurt, nearly to tears when I first heard "The Weight" by the Band being used to sell cell phone service. Now tonight, I heard a semi obscure song from my teen years, The Yardbird's "Over-UNder-Sideways-Down" used to sell some gawddam Ford car. It was one of my favorite songs when I was growing up. It feels like stolen private memories to me, like USAnext stealing and using the picture of those two guys. I wish there was a 10th circle of hell. That's where I'd put modern TV advertizing people.
Hecate, who wrote the bio of H you read?
Thanks.
Alan Smithee.
Its an Alan Smithee movie? for real?
OMFG This taken in hand (ahem) site is a hoot.
A strong woman might want might well want to be cherished by a stronger man, and she might well not be generally submissive or want to be treated like a servant.
When I find a man stronger than I, the world will truly end.
From the article:
I prefer to be the feminine-energy partner in a covenant relationship. That means that I am gratefully receptive to Mike; I am available to receive whatever and whenever he wishes to give, whether positive or negative (I am a woman with a career, not a career woman: he comes first!); and respectful of him. It also means I give up my natural right to present my wants, opinions, and directions freely to him. If I wish to offer a suggestion or opinion to him, I get his permission first – that is, I don't ambush him by suddenly turning into a Yang masculine-energy competitor for leadership. It also means that unless he suggests something that's illegal, immoral, or unethical, I follow his lead – no whining about what restaurant I want to go to, or what color I want to paint the living room.
Can we say...DOORMAT? Excuse me while I vomit.
If you were a low-rent horror movie monster, what low-rent horro movie monster would you be?
The Killer Eye. Although I don't get to have quite as much tentacle sex, or with as many different women.
From MoDo, "This job has not come easily to me. But I have no doubt there are plenty of brilliant women who would bring grace and guts to our nation's op-ed pages, just as, Lawrence Summers notwithstanding, there are plenty of brilliant women out there who are great at math and science. We just need to find and nurture them."
Geez, Maureen, off the top of my head may I suggest, Sallh? Her Eyes? Watertiger? Hecate? Tena? Vicki? QL in NY? GWPDA? Pie? NYMary? Chicago Dyke? (and if I forgot ANYONE, please! I am fifty four years old and it is past my bedtime.)
Quite frankly I would rather read their words than ANYTHING you have ever written or probably will ever write.
Can I put my clothes back on now?
No.
Then can I close the fucking window? It's cold in here!
BTW, blogwhoring while naked.
Can I put my clothes back on now?
Noooooooooooooo!!!!!!!
The black dude always buys it first.
Except in Anaconda... I was thinking that Ice Cube would bite it any second for that very reason.
Yeah, but Anaconda was a great monster flick. It defied a lot of convention.
OMG!! ELaine and LJ (I am just going to make people mad, I will shut up now. )
Sharp! Distance!
I prefer to be the feminine-energy partner in a covenant relationship.
If I were human, there could be... joining?
Geez, Maureen, off the top of my head may I suggest, Sallh? Her Eyes? Watertiger? Hecate? Tena? Vicki? QL in NY? GWPDA? Pie? NYMary? Chicago Dyke? (and if I forgot ANYONE, please! I am fifty four years old and it is past my bedtime.)
DWD,
Amen!
(squito.)
DWD:
I will determine your punishment later.
I would be Bed-Girl, controller of the powers of sleep.
'Night moonbatitos!
BTW, blogwhoring while naked.
Mmm...
Its an Alan Smithee movie? for real?
Nah, Gary Jones takes credit, but a newscaster on the TV a while back was named Alan Smithee. I say it's a cry for help from Mr. Jones...
Then can I close the fucking window? It's cold in here!
No. I like party hats.
I await your command M LJ
I will determine your punishment later.
I'll get the popcorn ready!
Dear ones
It is 2 hours after lights out -- I will turn into a punkin if I stay up to discourse with you
DWD -- Coldwater -- I got a pair of shoes htere once, as I recall -- a long time ago -- Shaw shoes -- the son of the owner is now (Episcopal) bishop of Massachusetts --- former superior of the Society of St. John the Evangelist in Cambridge (right across the street from Harvard) -- I couldn't manage that -- cities are places to visit for movies & ethnic restaurants but they are not places to live
Hecate -- please read Diamond's "The Third Chimpanzee" -- I don't agree with all his has to say, but the man is a bloody genius
'night NYMary.
Don't let the somethingsomethings bite.
or a Crab Monster.
the first time I got sober I was hired as a carpenter at Corman's Horizon/Concorde studio. a few blocks away, and a pal was construction coordinator, and it allowed me to take night classes at West LA College, so I could finish up my BA, eventually.
those were the days. good surf, good work, good pals. and building/demolishing/rebuilding sets, on the soundstage or in the parking lot.
how I miss Venice.
I don't know what horror-flick movie monster I'd be, but I know which movie kid I once was: Wednesday Addams. I was just like her. Serious, plain-spoken. Out to murder her younger brothers.
Favorite line (don't remember the exact quote):
I wouldn't kill my husband. I'd scare him to death.
'night, Prior Aelred.
Oh thank god, some human sex...
Oh my god.
There really is a movie called mansquito.
Right now "Mosquito" is on. This has to be the worst film I've ever seen.
I guess I should go to bed. My work is done here.
Night Prior, Peace
Welcome, my friends, to the thread that never ends, come inside, come inside
Good evening liberal brownshirts!
If you were a low-rent horror movie monster, what low-rent horro movie monster would you be?
Anything in the 1963 Hammer Film's Dr Terror's House of Horrors.
Ditto on the goodnightishness of the hour.
Keep my tab open.
If I were a low rent horror movie...
I'm not sure. I'm pretty short, so anything with Amazons is out.
Oh gawd there goes the neighborhood.
I just want to be a part.
The Old Mansquito From Scene 2??
Hm. Mr. LJsquito just asked if I wanted to watch his proboscis dance. I think I might have to check that out!
Later my freethinking moonbats!
What about a Liddysquito? hangs out around auxilary nipples.
I'm sad. My husband is suffering from the flu, and like a nice wife, I gave him control of the remote. My mistake. He chose VH1's "Most Awesomely Bad Love Songs."
What did I ever do to deserve this?
Free thinking?
Ha!
but the man is a bloody genius
-PA
Agreed, Guns Germs and Steal was Brilliant. Haven't read and did not know about the third Chimp' so it has been added to my list
By the way this movie pales in comparison, but the black guy doctor guy with the gieger counter might figure somnething out.
Sallyh,
That's poor headwork.You never surrender the control of the remote.
What did I ever do to deserve this?
Did you make him watch Mansquito?
Is it just me or are the commenters at DailyKos really quick to take offense with another poster and snap at them? They're a little more tightly wound than the people here.
Update on alleged brownshirts activity in Memphis here.
http://thepeskyfly.blogspot.com/
Gordon--it's the only thing he has control over, anyway. He lives with two women who always need the last word--if only we could get to it.
Update on alleged brownshirt activity in Memphis here.
http://thepeskyfly.blogspot.com/
Eli--I did not. He was asleep.
Incogsquito--we have a better bar over here. I think that has something to do with it.
Eli--I did not. He was asleep.
Did you do the thing with the warm water?
Howdy, Incogsquito,
have you been hanging out at Kos?
It has been a while for me, but some folks over there can get jumpy at times.
Nowhere near as free and easy as this place to be sure.
Eli--actually, I ran to Target to get him Tylenol Flu, tissues and Snapple. No warm water was involved. No animals were harmed.
"another one, killed just like the last one"
Eli--actually, I ran to Target to get him Tylenol Flu, tissues and Snapple. No warm water was involved. No animals were harmed.
It's probably just Sick Person Prerogative, then.
I watched most of Mansquito.
It wasn't that bad.
I've seen bad movies.
Remember "Supergirl"?
Allegations about Mark McGwire and steroids?
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Why, I guess they'll just HAVE to put asteriks on baseball records now!
I suspect the media will continue to go after Barry Bonds and they'll give McGwire a pass.
I need to bake a large pan of brownies. Is Backslider around? I'm missing a crucial ingredient.
Bakeslider?
Fine. Leave me out again. 
Eli--Sick Person Prerogative seems to involve a lot of really bad TV.
Mena--I'd never leave you out! Even if you're not on the 6th circle.
Fine. Leave me out again.
Huh? What's the problem, menasquito?
Eli--Sick Person Prerogative seems to involve a lot of really bad TV.
Then I must be sick aaallll the time.
curt schilling had bloody red sox, and shilled for Chimpy, and is testifying before Congress. he won't be available for the Opening game, when the World Champions take on the NY Yankees.
haha
when eddie mars gets it, now that's noir.
Evening, Moonbats!
So Bake(?)slider is the go to brownie man? Hmm. Must be related to Betty.
I just got back from seeing Lewis (Back On) Black at the Palace Theater. My face is sore from laughing. Hoo boy, he's GREAT.
Has this thread reached a milestone as being the longest in Moonbat history?
Free thinking?
Ha!
I know - ridiculous, isn't it?
Is anyone watching SNL? The Woomba commercial was bloody brilliant.
More wacky goodness from the jeebusites. This may be helpful in case any of y'all are having these kinds of problems with your Precious Bodily Fluids.
A Guide to Self-Control
1. Never touch the intimate parts of your body except during normal toilet processes. Avoid being alone as much as possible. Find good company and stay in this good company.
2. If you are associated with other persons having this same problem, you must break off their friendship. Never associate with other people having the same weakness. Don't suppose that two of you will quit together, you never will. You must get away from people of that kind. Just to be in their presence will keep your problem foremost in your mind. The problem must be taken out of your mind for that is where it really exists. Your mind must be on other and more wholesome things.
3. When you bathe, do not admire yourself in a mirror. Never stay in the bath more than five or six minutes -- just long enough to bathe and dry and dress and then get out of the bathroom into a room where you will have some member of your family present.
4. When in bed, if that is where you have your problem for the most part, dress yourself for the night so securely that you cannot easily touch your vital parts, and so that it would be difficult and time consuming for you to remove those clothes. By the time you started to remove protective clothing you would have sufficiently controlled your thinking that the temptation would leave you.
5. If the temptation seems overpowering while you are in bed, get out of bed and go into the kitchen and fix yourself a snack, even if it is in the middle of the night, and even if you are not hungry, and despite your fears of gaining weight. The purpose behind this suggestion is that you get your mind on something else. You are the subject of your thoughts, so to speak.
6. Never read pornographic material. Never read about your problem. Keep it out of mind. Remember -- "First a thought, then an act." The thought pattern must be changed. You must not allow this problem to remain in your mind. When you accomplish that, you soon will be free of the act.
7. Put wholesome thoughts into your mind at all times. Read good books -- Church books -- Scriptures -- Sermons of the Brethren. Make a daily habit of reading at least one chapter of Scripture, preferably from one of the four Gospels in the New Testament, or the Book of Mormon. The four Gospels -- Matthew, Mark, Luke and John -- above anything else in the Bible can be helpful because of their uplifting qualities.
8. Pray. But when you pray, don't pray about this problem, for that will tend to keep it in your mind more than ever. Pray for faith, pray for understanding of the Scriptures, pray for the Missionaries, the General Authorities, your friends, your families, but keep the problem out of your mind by not mentioning it ever -- not in conversation with others, not in your prayers. keep
#
# If the temptation seems overpowering while you are in bed, get out of bed and go into the kitchen and fix yourself a snack, even if it is in the middle of the night, and even if you are not hungry, and despite your fears of gaining weight. The purpose behind this suggestion is that you get your mind on something else. You are the subject of your thoughts, so to speak.
# Never read pornographic material. Never read about your problem. Keep it out of mind. Remember -- "First a thought, then an act." The thought pattern must be changed. You must not allow this problem to remain in your mind. When you accomplish that, you soon will be free of the act.
# Put wholesome thoughts into your mind at all times. Read good books -- Church books -- Scriptures -- Sermons of the Brethren. Make a daily habit of reading at least one chapter of Scripture, preferably from one of the four Gospels in the New Testament, or the Book of Mormon. The four Gospels -- Matthew, Mark, Luke and John -- above anything else in the Bible can be helpful because of their uplifting qualities.
# Pray. But when you pray, don't pray about this problem, for that will tend to keep it in your mind more than ever. Pray for faith, pray for understanding of the Scriptures, pray for the Missionaries, the General Authorities, your friends, your families, but keep the problem out of your mind by not mentioning it ever -- not in conversation with others, not in your prayers. keep it out of your mind!
Update on alleged brownshirt activity in Memphis here. PeskyFly
So the coffee house was the only business "pranked"? That's somewhat reassuring. But I still think the Bush administration deserves the "F-word"...
Fascist.
There. I said it.
And, as an aside, please ignore the Useless Timewasters™.
Has this thread reached a milestone as being the longest in Moonbat history?
Hiya, vic! No.
Longest that I'm aware of (and I've not been around that long) is the one where Iron Fist & his buddies dropped in from LGF to try to entice us to contribute to some dodgy Iraq charity. It went on for *days*, and I think it might have hit the 1500 mark.
Sallyh,
If you were a cruel gal you'd put his hand in warm water and make him wet the bed. Oh, what kind of animals am I playing with here? I blame Eli, of course. He runs with a bad crowd, I'm told.
I actually use both my units
Why did that comment make me think of this?
LJ | Email | Homepage | 03.12.05 - 10:07 pm | #
'Asphixiation blue?'
And, as an aside, please ignore the Useless Timewasters™.
I try to avoid you, but sometimes it's too tempting.
weird double post. almost.
pray for the Missionaries
I pray for any position.
dress yourself for the night so securely that you cannot easily touch your vital parts, and so that it would be difficult and time consuming for you to remove those clothes. By the time you started to remove protective clothing you would have sufficiently controlled your thinking that the temptation would leave you.
Oh. My. God.
Never read about your problem.
Except right here, bitches!
"A Guide to Self-Control" - Ba'al
Reading all that gave me a great stirring in my loins... excuse me while I go ejaculate into the sink.
Double Indemnity up at TCM.
The Postman Always Rings Twice on deck.
NTodd,
you are far to unrepentant.
You should pray to the General Authorities.
Then the missionary position will be yours.
He runs with a bad crowd, I'm told.
I think some of them might even [stage whisper]masturbate.[/stage whisper]
1233 posts. 49,000 words
Double Indemnity up at TCM.
Edward G on the mic.
The Postman Always Rings Twice on deck.
That flcik was totally underrated. I mean, sure Costner is a crappy actor, but I love post-Apocalyptic movies.
Why can so few of you debate well? You spend a lot of time yacking. You'd think you'd get good at it, considering the time investment you make.
BlakNo1 knows how to debate well. Why don't you all emulate him?
The Postman Always Rings Twice on deck.
That flcik was totally underrated. I mean, sure Costner is a crappy actor, but I love post-Apocalyptic movies.
Yeah, but their sequels generally suck. I mean, the world's already destroyed, what can you do for an encore?
You should pray to the General Authorities.
Do I have to genuflect when I do that? 'cause that usually gets me into trouble, if you know what I mean.
1233 posts. 49,000 words
And it's not just quantity, but quality.
The Postman Always Rings Twice on deck.
That flcik was totally underrated. I mean, sure Costner is a crappy actor, but I love post-Apocalyptic movies.
If Costner's not drinking his own pee, I am just-not-interested.
Eli,
I guess the pure trauma made me forget the LGF thread. I skip all that crap.
Ba'al,
That was too long for my poor head, but the unwanted self-touching warnings crack me up. Who ya gonna love if you're all ya got?