I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
good evening and fuck bush.
Good God -- I'm first.
Ann Coulter deserves.....
I got nuthin'.
Damn. Should've typed something shorter.
die bart die
I'll bet she's all coked out right about now, and Ron Silver is stroking her cock.
In practice, however, the commission would enable the Bush administration to achieve what Ronald Reagan only dreamed of: the end of government regulation as we know it. With a simple vote of five commissioners -- many of them likely to be lobbyists and executives from major corporations currently subject to federal oversight -- the president could terminate any program or agency he dislikes. No more Environmental Protection Agency. No more Food and Drug Administration. No more Securities and Exchange Commission.
http://www.rollingstone.com/
poli...sion=6.0.12.872
Damn people keep wanting to socialize!
What'd I miss?
I thought Atrios was trying to sell us some magazine subscriptions for a sec.
To pay for that Spring Break trip, no doubt.
Gee, you mean to imply that 'history' is something besides the recitation of 'facts' as agreed upon at any given moment?
Nah. How can you pass the exam if that's true?
die bart die
oristo -- 10:24 pm
or die bold die...
i'd settle for that...
Oh, and fuck Cloud, for being such an obsequious fuckwit.
the bart, the
anyone who speaks German can't be all bad...
teh funny.
The satire was poorly done. Coulter should be compared to wannabe-riot-fomenting noisy demagogues, Weiner, Limbaugh, McCarthy, Coughlin or Long, not to heads of state.
Pretty much sums it up.
For Cloud to say something that stupid, he deserves all the ridicule that can be heaped upon him.
now, i was gonna say that ann coulter is not the same as stalin and hitler.... and then i realized...yeah, she is. shit man, they really did say the same things about hitler: "he's not really serious!" it blows my mind that the world didn't just turn inside out and swallow everyone whole during the first 55 years or so of the 1900s.
before hitler was a politician, he was an author. stalin on the other hand... not a scholar.
"To pay for that Spring Break trip, no doubt."
That wasn't Atrios in 'Girls Gone Wild,' was it?
teh funny.
Old Hat | Email | Homepage | 04.22.05 - 10:42 pm | #
God, does anyone still read Atrios? Even Drum's trolls are more interesting.
That wasn't Atrios in 'Girls Gone Wild,' was it?
No, then we'd have Friday Balcony Shot blogging. Sorry, flashbacks of Myrtle Beach there...
OT: Cathy Seipps puffs hatemiester Charles Johnson at NRO, lauding him for being a 'journalist', unlike other bloggers.
You can disagree with her here, on her blog:
http://cathyseipp.journalspace.c...om/?
entryid=533
Ann Coulter = Rectal Noun
kei & yuri: Cloud was the one that initially made the comparison. Overreaching in his reflexive excusemaking, perhaps, but what do you expect? His corporate masters have left him dangling for their little puff project.
Coulter should be compared to wannabe-riot-fomenting noisy demagogues, Weiner, Limbaugh, McCarthy, Coughlin or Long, not to heads of state.
Yeah, well, tell that to Cloud, who made the original derogatory comparison.
Too late. Scooped by underwhelm.
Come on, there's a BIG difference between Ann Coulter and those guys: she lacks a stache...
monica, as long as Cloud's nincompoopery is clear. 
"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it."
-- George W. Bush, Washington, DC, July 26, 2001
We know that George. And we also know you're too lazy to do anything where you know you're not going to get your way.
So naturally a dictatorship would be easier since this way it's like it was back when you were pissing your pants about the thought of going to Vietnam where you worried that if confronted by charging vietnamese soldiers and you threw up a couple 20's there was still a chance the slopes might not be so easily bought off like the police back in Kennebunkport and still go on and shoot your dumb ass.
You need a place where it's safe for you to go down on those white lines even while you were crossing them in the car you wrecked after sucking down all that Jim Beam.
A dictatorship would be easier. But since you don't have one you might as well do the next best thing and delegate all the work to others. It's not a bad idea. You always said it wasn't for you to decide how things got done. You just said go out and do it and let everyone else work out the details. Just like that night you drove your car into that tree. You just walked out and let your daddy's lawyers work it all out.
You are the scum of the human race Mr. Bush. You're proof that evolution isn't true cause if it were you would have starved to death a long time ago.
MYOB'
.
God, does anyone still read Atrios? Even Drum's trolls are more interesting.
Hmmmm.... - 10:50 pm
i'll offer you the same deal as i proffered to a shit-oozing fuckwit on the previous thread:
i just want you and your friends to eat shit and die...i've got four dogs, and need to dispose of a fair amount of dog crap...i'd be happy to feed it to ya, by the shovelful...
gimme a call if you're hungry...
.
GWPDA,
So much for "reality based"...
If history is just bullshit, what the fuck are we arguing about? Sure, FDR favored private accounts! Sure, JFK thought the Pope's dictates should guide American policies!
DENK IMMER!!!!!
parole granted.
behold!
g-dwina, arbiter of fascist comparison appropriateness, speaks!
Coulter is not the same as Hitler.
Give the oracle a fucking break already.
-1-Hitler volunteered for dangerous front-line duty in the First World War, and distinguished himself by taking prisoners; not only is Coulter morally inferior to Hitler and totally certain never to enlist, but if he wanted to he could not because "women" are not allowed into the infantry, and what do you think that means for trannies?
-2-Hitler led a failed revolutionary attempt. Anybody here see Coulter leading a revolution?!
-3-Hitler used his prison time to crystallize his political insanity; does anyone see Coulter doing anything with prison time other than asking permission to clean/service his putative superiors and wimpering "yes, ma'am"?
(that's if anyone will have her, which is extremely doubtful, except as a status thing: positing that some of these gals haven't had cock in years and are partial...)
-4-Hitler was elected following supporting violence by his legions of thugs and appointed to a position where he was able to make himself dictator. Is this remotely comparable to Coulter?
-5-The Holocaust. Sure the worthless inhuman lawyer fantasizes every night about answering the wog question with atomics, but not only has he not the glands, it takes more than stupid hate. Is this really comparable to Coulter?
-6-Suicide. Has Man Coulter the glands? No, he'd botch it like Tojo if anything and kick and scream for special treatment in return for selling out subordinates (similarly Oillie North on this one).
Comparing Coulter and Hilter is NOT a legitimate remembrance of fascism.
God, does anyone still read Atrios? Even Drum's trolls are more interesting.
The fuck? That wasn't me. I've commented like thrice in the past month.
It's weird and sorta sad that someone is imitating me.
"You are the scum of the human race Mr. Bush. You're proof that evolution isn't true cause if it were you would have starved to death a long time ago."
Actually, Bush is proof of mutation that is lethal to others.
Hmmmmm...
Atrios has the waaaay coolest threads on the Internets. AND you and your friends can eat shit and die.
Will you be favoring us with a selection from "H.M.S. Pinafore" tonight, oristo?
Y'know, just as a diversion...
Re: Dee_Dubya Eye
Does anyone remember (i know, i know) how fucked up ya hadda be to get a drunk driving ticket in the '70s?
and Dee-Dubya got two of 'em, whilst Shit-Dick got THREE!
...
SallyH,
Bush is a dissertation on the Origin of the Feces...
NTodd--not being a speaker of Deutsche, could you tell me what a stache is?
Has anyone read the "Behind the Mask of the Lone Ranger" yet?
-
"Bush is a dissertation on the Origin of the Feces..."
Iced tea up the nose!
Bush is a dissertation on the Origin of the Feces...
Fred Woolsey - 11:02 pm
that's right funny, fred...
NTodd--not being a speaker of Deutsche, could you tell me what a stache is?
Just a shortened version of 'mustache'!
I thank old Yale
And I thank the Lord...
And I also thank my father who is chairman of the board
HMS Pinafore by way of the Shermster
um....no.
NTodd--not being a speaker of Deutsche, could you tell me what a stache is?
Sallyh, La Poissoniere ---11:02 pm
"stache" = moustache? i think so...
You went the wrong way ole' King Dubya...
Just a shortened version of 'mustache'!
Like 'za for pizza.
Atrios has the waaaay coolest threads on the Internets. AND you and your friends can eat shit and die.
Don't shoot the fucking messenger, mmkay?
Old Hat,
Glad to hear that wasn't you. Horrors on the prick that stole your name.
Ah, Fred, Fred, feeling a little combative this evening?
Don't want to play boyo. Sorry. Maybe you'll find your bliss somewhere else.
yeah, it turns out he's a revenge-obsessed Texas Ranger masked to conceal himself from a certain outlaw gang not yet entirely apprehended, and he refuses to clarify his relationship with Tonto except to say suede drives him crazy.
Hmmmmmm...
Don't own any guns (although I useta be a deadeye on the archery range)...
No blood, no foul.
Don't shoot the fucking messenger, mmkay?
Yeah, you're a regular Moses coming down from the mountain...
um....no.
GWPDA,
Not combative. Just provocative. Me = pacifist. Bliss may you find also.
Things have been so troll-free of late! Alas that this seems to have ended, if only in a minor way...
Sweet Baby Jeepers. I had no idea. I need a farking shower.
Yeah, you're a regular Moses coming down from the mountain...
Sorry, I just don't like to see anyone dissing Duncan.
I apologize again to Old Hat.
If no one mind, I'll return to Lurkesville....
Can't dispute this statement:
You are the scum of the human race Mr. Bush. You're proof that evolution isn't true cause if it were you would have starved to death a long time ago.
MYOB'
Peace.
Old Hat,
Glad to hear that wasn't you. Horrors on the prick that stole your name.
Then you're also being name-stolen on AmericaBlog, OH. The same comment appeared there about a week ago.
Can't dispute this statement:
You are the scum of the human race Mr. Bush. You're proof that evolution isn't true cause if it were you would have starved to death a long time ago.
MYOB'
Peace.
I have to disagree.
Bush is just further proof that parasitism is a highly functional mode of survival.
Still a disgusting one...
I don't think I really need to be provoked, just now.
I don't find it amusing and I don't find it useful.
But thanks.
Hi Sally! Friday fish fry aux ongles vernis?
Hmmmm - I thought you were the one doing the dissing. I apologize. I blame the fact that my car died [whore!] and I've had waaaaay too much coffee today.
What about Chairman Mao.
"He kills 2 million people in the morning and by noon he's already hungry for more victims. Is he kidding or just lactose intolerant?"
Don't forget Kissinger.
"His Hannakah presents to the North Vietnamese and Cambodians came out of B-52s not Santa's sleigh. Is he trying for the Nobel Peace Prize or a sociopath with a sense of irony?"
Today:
LAST
DAMN
DAY
OF
LAW
SCHOOL
CLASSES!
3 exams and then ... NO MORE!
What about Chairman Mao.
What a nice man. He really liked watching flowers bloom.
Congrats, Res!
I sing the Troll eclectic!
Contrariwise they sputter
Half-formed thoughts they utter
Who hears wingnutter
Nutter
Spewing chyme from deep within
Wiping GOP cum from their chin
Talking points they echo
Bellicose they bellow
God these shits are yellow!
Chickenhawks
Full of talk
Short on courage
Happy to send someone else
To fight their battles
They see the mass of people
like so many cattle
Chattel!
Armiamoci e partite!
Get blowed up while I par-tay!
The gaping maw of hell
Greedily awaits their passing
No more kiss-assing
The devil wants his due!
Fuck you and you and you
All you chickenhawk rethug bastards
You wanna know how I really feel?
And Pol Pot.
"He killed all his countrymen that wore glasses. Was he a big proponent of Lasek surgery or just plain fucking nuts?"
RIL-
Right back atcha. Catching up on some sleep these days.
Woo!
Jeepers H. Christmas. Cloud is mighty thin skinned for a Time *reporter.* He is a ninny. He fucked up and can't admitt it so he now plays abused victim. Typical wingnut.
Don't kid Mao. He'll spew lactose across the room.
GWPDA,
OK...but you need to grow a thicker hide, my friend. A wise man values a rebuke, but a fool reacts with anger.
I come here to relax, sometimes to vent, but always to read the comments of others who know a lot more than I do about what's going on.
It has NEVER felt even remotely like a clique. Everyone is generous and welcoming. It's a source of fun very often in a very un-fun "real" world.
And, btw, looking at the comments on AmericaBlog, I did not see comments in any way superior to the ones at Eschaton. And,. I'm not knocking them! I just don't see the big diff.
I'm certainly no mental giant, and my contributions, if any, are slight to insignifigant, but, gee, I'm never bored here!! And, I always coming away having learned something.
Thanks, all.
I blame the fact that my car died [whore!] and I've had waaaaay too much coffee today.
No need to apologize, I wasn't exactly clear in my communications.
Either your battery isn't taking a charge or your alternator is failing to supply the charge. Your solenoid is probably fine.
Pol.... Pot. Pol.... Pot. Pol.... Pot!
Jay Carolina ... Congrats.
Exams: how many and when?
Me: 04-27, 05-03 & 05-04
Then you're also being name-stolen on AmericaBlog, OH. The same comment appeared there about a week ago.
Trolls are whack.
Res Ipsa-
4-27 Decedent's Estates/Trusts
5-3 Agency
5-5 Sales
Then a few weeks to wander before taking on that little test...
He fucked up and can't admitt it so he now plays abused victim.
I think it goes considerably beyond "fucked up" - it's pretty clear it was a deliberate whitewash.
Hey Res Ipsa Loquitor, what did you score on the LSAT? I'm studying for that bitch right now. Where do you go to law school?
Pol.... Pot. Pol.... Pot. Pol.... Pot!
Give me convenience or give me death...
Sara Great and Tall,
We is all midgets individually. Together, however, we are one f'in big giant.
Late to the party....did I miss
anything essential?
Jay Carolina, same questions...
It has NEVER felt even remotely like a clique. Everyone is generous and welcoming. It's a source of fun very often in a very un-fun "real" world.
Yes, because you're not a horse's ass. It's shameful, this double standard that we have.
Late to the party....did I miss
anything essential?
We're a clique and Atrios sucks troll ass, apparently. And I'm told I prolly don't need a new solenoid, though I'm skeptical (and hopeful).
Oh, and Pope John Paul II is still dead.
Avoid the solenoid!
Give me convenience or give me death...
Observer
How about some cake?
(((RIL))))
For a change I use this as hugs, not screams. Congrats, baby! Have a rest and enjoy the peace.
RIL and Jay:
Congrats to you both!!!
NTodd,
Your solenoid just needs unwinding.
Too much reluctance.
C'mon, it's Friday night!!!!
Cheers RIL & JC. I just finished classes meself (postgrad certificate program in Museum Management and Fundraising). Time to drink!
Some really, really bad news:
Warren Buffett believes that Americans are going to need to stay very drunk to endure the immediate future (and he also believes we like crap beer):
Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. said today that billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has acquired a "significant" stake in the nation's largest beermaker. The brewer's shares soared more than 6 percent on the news.
Eli - avoid the hemorrhoid.
Late to the party....did I miss
anything essential?
Just friday night trolling. SSDD.
Thanks, all. xxx...RIL
Good on all you law skool grads to be: congratulations!
May you go on to afflict the likes of Dobson no end.
Your solenoid just needs unwinding.
Or maybe my rubber band needs to be tightened?
Late to the party....did I miss
anything essential?
We're a clique and Atrios sucks troll ass, apparently. And I'm told I prolly don't need a new solenoid, though I'm skeptical (and hopeful).
Oh, and Pope John Paul II is still dead.
NTodd |
===
Oh, see, now that just totally cheeses me off. I asked the same question up top, and did anyone respond? Noooooooooo!!
Damn clique!
NTodd,
Does rubber band tightening involve any screwing?
Old Hat ...
Either 163 or 165 (I can't remember).
I go to school in NYC.
Are you absolutely sure you want to do this? Because it really, really sucks.
I installed a new solenoid in Ann Coulter's vibrator last night. She plugged 'er in and last I saw her, she and Liddy were racing like a tornado to the Witchita border. 'dja see her, Woody?
Rorschach - the most depressing thing about the Buffett story is that he expects us to be drinking fucking budweiser.
Mena,
Mena mena tekel upharsin...
Yeah, but mena - if you ask the question at the TOP of the thread, you can't have missed anything.
Charlotte Smith-
Congrats! Time to drink indeed.
Hopefully this won't end like that nite I came home late, checked the thread, and ended up watching Mansquito at 3am out of curiosity...
mena - sorry. I came in midthread myself and missed your query. Same answer.
Fred - alas, no screwing.
NTodd,
It's most likely the brushes in your starter motor. Bad solenoids usually do a very light *thunk* thing, not a *click click click*.
(I'm not a mechanic, but I've worked on cars for 40 some years so I play one on the internet.)
Mena mena tekel upharsin...
Fred Woolsey -- 11:37 pm
Are you related to Arthur Gordon Pym?
Thank you Fred, flory. I feel all validated now.
ended up watching Mansquito at 3am out of curiosity...
Speaking of which - sallyh, we got any reptiles on offer tomorra' night?
Mena mena tekel upharsin...
LOL!
Swollen solenoids can cause real problems. You'll be neeeding to mix gallons of antibiotics into the vehicle's transmission fluid. Stir it into some mashed potatoes to mask the bitter taste.
You owe me $50 for this expert advice.
It's most likely the brushes in your starter motor. Bad solenoids usually do a very light *thunk* thing, not a *click click click*.
Thanks for the info!
Rorschach - the most depressing thing about the Buffett story is that he expects us to be drinking fucking budweiser.
mena
Agreed. No, wait.
The most depressing thing is that he's probably right, for most Americans.
Are you absolutely sure you want to do this?
Do I want to sue the fuck out of some Republicans? Yes.
Thomas Frank: What's the Matter With Liberals?
Thers - I thought you were a psychiatrist...
Well, hey there Mr. Birthday Boy Thers,
Finally getting to enjoy your Atrios party? Many happy returns of the day to you.
ah, law school. i remember it well. i miss it terribly. it's hard being a thinker AND an attorney.
I second everything RIL says (including the score 
. Except I'm in NC of course.
I just had a very long talk with my college-junior sis on the subject of going to law school. Just be sure it's what you want to be doing for 3 years (and for a career).
But that's all the spookiness I have in me right now, good luck with everything, Old Hat!
'dja see her, Woody?
spinnin' like a dredl?
The most depressing thing is that he's probably right, for most Americans.
rorschach
==
Now I'm even more depressed.
How about more beer?
Rorschach - the most depressing thing about the Buffett story is that he expects us to be drinking fucking budweiser.
mena
Agreed. No, wait.
Well fuck that Parrothead anyway, then. At least he could score us some goddamn margaritas.
Does anyone remember (i know, i know) how fucked up ya hadda be to get a drunk driving ticket in the '70s?
I vividly remember my dad driving 75 mph, with a smoke and a can of beer in hand, as the three of us crawled around the seats (car seats and seat belts?! In the 70s?!)
No way would a cop have ever pulled my dad over.
You'd have to practically be assasinating people on a highway to get pulled over for "drunken driving" in the 70s.
Old Hat ...
WHen is the test? Are you applying for fall 2005? Where do you want to go?
You might as well take a class. I think when I took my first practice LSAT I scored in the low 140s. I almost cried.
Oy vay.
Mena mena tekel upharsin...
Fred Woolsey -- 11:37 pm
Are you related to Arthur Gordon Pym?
Good question. This sounds like a Case for Charles Dexter Ward!
Swollen solenoids
Sounds painful.
NTodd,
No worries... a close brush with screwing (especially with swollen parts) can't be all bad. But I hope your engine cranks without major outlay of Das Kapital.
Do I want to sue the fuck out of some Republicans? Yes.
I might just hang that one over my desk this summer. A little light at the end of the tunnel and all.
there's an eclipse tonight, right? Or is that only visible in the Pacific NW...?
If anyone knows, I'd appreciate the info. Think it begins at 1AM PST.
Well, hell, never mind! I'm not yet so lazy that I can't google for myself....
(Never Mind...in Emily Latella voice)
you know, i think people are just jealous of the amount of discourse that goes on here at eschaton. it can be a little intimidating at first, but that's the way it is at any place with active comments. you have to get to know people first, and then you can pop in and say something stupid, get made fun of, and then eventually you fit right in.
NTodd,
If you are going to talk about my profession, at least have the decency to spell it correctly. I, bigvic, am a praktising sykiattrist. Thank you.
Thers - I thought you were a psychiatrist...
Damn straight I am.
If I were a mechanic, I'd'a charged you a hundred.
Either 163 or 165 (I can't remember).
I go to school in NYC.
Cool. I will to go to school in either NYC or NorCal. I've always, always wanted to do the NYC (specifically Manhattan) thing, I think this might be the right time to do it.
Now it's just a matter of getting into Fordham or Columbia.
Awwww fuck.
How about more beer?
mena
In the immortal words of Che Guevara: "The people require Leffe, therefore Leffe shall be provided to the people!"
Well fuck that Parrothead anyway, then. At least he could score us some goddamn margaritas.
Hilarious, Birthday Thers! Oddly, I have a bit of grudge against that other Buffett, because he bought Storyville on Decatur in New Orleans and turned it into Margaritaville and then fired me then-best friend's mother, who was the manager!
Plus: crappy margaritas there.
Swollen solenoids
Sounds painful.
flory |
==
(whispering)Shhh, bebe might hear you!
It's most likely the brushes in your starter motor.
Sorry Ntodd, I meant the alternator.
I'll bow out now.
PoppieProng - that's the stupidest fucking thing I've ever seen written here!!! You must be a troll...
Hey Sarah Deere, long time no see
Poppie,
Eschaton is, like, the End.
Old Hat .... YOu could go to NYU, too, if you wanted to be in Manhattan.
Thersites - whaddyaget? whaddyaget? whaddyaget?
(whispering)Shhh, bebe might hear you!
mena-those labia are flapping.
Old Hat:
Now it's just a matter of getting into Fordham or Columbia.
That covers NYC, what about NoCal?
Sarah my dear,
there's an eclipse tonight, right? Or is that only visible in the Pacific NW...?
If anyone knows, I'd appreciate the info. Think it begins at 1AM PST.
I have a new telescope I'm itching to use, but every event is marred by a thunderstorm or tornado warning. Oy!
Anybody but a friend, the door today woulda cost $250-$300...
162 lsat, 3.459 undergrad... went to indiana--bloomington. passed the texas bar and now i work in houston. i hate houston, but i'm also not litigating, which makes me happy.
"Thers - I thought you were a psychiatrist..."
NTodd 04.22.05 - 11:41 pm
There are many psychiatrists that roam these halls.
That'll be $250.00 and you'll need to see the receptionist for validation.......parking validation.
Sarah Dear - According to Sky and Telescope:
Saturday, April 23
Full Moon tonight (exact at 6:06 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time Sunday morning). A slight, penumbral lunar eclipse is visible before dawn Sunday morning from the western parts of North, Central, and South America; from Hawaii around midnight tonight; and from New Zealand and eastern Australia early Sunday evening local date.
bigvic - psorry, I'm pso pstupid psometimeps.
Hmmm - heh, I read what you said as being about the alternator for some reason. My brain is mush, but knew exactly what you meant!
In practice, however, the commission would enable the Bush administration to achieve what Ronald Reagan only dreamed of: the end of government regulation as we know it. With a simple vote of five commissioners -- many of them likely to be lobbyists and executives from major corporations currently subject to federal oversight -- the president could terminate any program or agency he dislikes. No more Environmental Protection Agency. No more Food and Drug Administration. No more Securities and Exchange Commission.
I can just see the State of "X" making its own agencies and protections....then being emulated by 19 more states. The other 30 would be mostly red states with quality of life going into the toilet.
Damn, mena, too late. He heard me - sorry.
hahahahahhahahahaha! je l'aime!
Bad news, the transmission will have to be replaced.
BTW, before we continue our discussion, shouldn't we all be doing the Secret Atrios Handshake to verify we're part of the clique?
Just be sure it's what you want to be doing for 3 years (and for a career).
Jay Carolina ...
This girl that was blowing my hair out at the salon told me she was thinking of going to law school but wasn't sure. I said, "Do you like to read?" And she said, "Oh no!" So I asked, "Do you like to write?" And she said, "Oh no!" So I begged her to keep doing hair and not to go to law school under any circumstances.
God, I hate the Alternator. Worst governor ever. What? Oh, sorry. Nevermind.
but i've got great news! nah.. nagandoit.
The local ABC story Atrios linked to last night "This will be ignored" has been, ahem, edited. Video link is gone too.
Mike Malloy mentioned the story and the change. Un-fucking-believable.
He's talking about it now, if you can get AirAmerica.
Eschaton is, like, the End.
It hurts to set you free
But you'll never follow me
The end of laughter and soft lies
The end of nights we tried to die
How about more beer?
mena
Well, if you insist!
Hi y'all. I'm watching 'Ali' with Will Smith. Never seen it before. He just had a great line when asked about the Vietnam War: "I ain't got no problem with no Viet cong. No VietCong ever called me nigger."
I think the current administration is as close as some of us will come to experiencing the 60's.
Swollen Solenoids:
Apply capacitive compress.
Wait until flux decays to imperceptible levels.
Administer degaussing laxative until return is clear.
Apply Preparation-S to solenoid area as needed.
Take two Assburns and call physician in AM.
NTodd... doesn't go something like bop bop bip bop bop beep beep bup bop bop beep?
Thersites - whaddyaget? whaddyaget? whaddyaget?
For my birthday? A cake. I want for no material things, really. Except a water neutralizer; ours needs replacing.
I can just see the State of "X" making its own agencies and protections....then being emulated by 19 more states. The other 30 would be mostly red states with quality of life going into the toilet.
Welcome to the 1950's.
Please be sure your seatbelt is secure and your tray table is in the upright and locked position.
Buffet buying Bud.
Let's see,... does drinking crappy beer increase when there's a bad economy or a good economy?
Before anybody asks, yes, I AM a psyaikyaiatrisssmist.
Poppie - mine does, but only when I don't get enough sleep.
Some music for you, if anyone else likes Louis Armstrong:
http://www.supermasterpiece.com/...It%20Again!
.mp3
I want for no material things, really.
Cool! I've got this guy who can get me immaterial things, like, cheap!
I think the current administration is as close as some of us will come to experiencing the 60's.
True enough. Every time Scottie McLellan opens his mouth, I feel like I've just taken bad acid.
BTW, before we continue our discussion, shouldn't we all be doing the Secret Atrios Handshake to verify we're part of the clique?
Handshakes?
How dorky!!
The kewl kids have the atriotat.
des, i think you're right. i keep asking my parents, who were pretty active in the civil rights movement, well at least my mom was, if this is anything like the 60s. they are of the opinion that it is quite possibly worse in that the media doesnt report the horrible things that are happening. do we have rioting and marching in the streets? not as much, but the media is far more complicit in the power grabs than it used to be. i guess, there could very well be tons of protests--we just dont hear about it, apart from the RNC last year.
I just saw Lewis Black @ Alice Tully Hall. He was pretty amusing, although not nearly as hard on Fredo as I'd hoped he be.
Anyone notice that John Kerry was a war hero in Vietnam but was pilloried by wingnuts because he later spoke out forcefully against an immoral war.
Anyone notice that the Pope was in the fucking Wermacht, but he is somehow considered a hero of moral rectitude for wingnuts, mostly because he served as the leader of the Vatican's later day inquisition.
Buffet buying Bud.
Let's see,... does drinking crappy beer increase when there's a bad economy or a good economy?
Martian Mandater
Point made. Obviously bad economy.
Poor economy=misery. Misery=desire for escape from reality. Poor economy=no money.
Solution: Cheap beer! Buffett's onto something...
True enough. Every time Scottie McLellan opens his mouth, I feel like I've just taken bad acid.
LOL!
hey, speaking of atriotat... whatever happened to the Atrios logo thing a while back? Whatever became of that.
Yeah RIL, that's what I always stress. Plenty of people (like me, for example) see school as kind of a necessary evil that you pass through to go do something interesting. But there's definately a price to be paid in time and toil, as they say.
Old Hat, it's definately worth your while if you're as fired-up as you sound. I have some friends at Cal and UC Hastings, you can't go wrong in the Bay Area from what I hear...
Satchmo, Satchmo...
One night the farmer Todd
Was checkin' the air
She locked up the barnyard with the greatest of care
Allasudden heard a noise an' she hollered, "Who dat?"
And this is what she heard...
"Ain't nobody here but us chickens..."
NTodd: hahahahahahahah!
Cool! I've got this guy who can get me immaterial things, like, cheap!
Dude, uh, you might want to get a second opinion on that contractor you've hired....
"Geez, Mr. Rorschach, the contract you signed specifically stated that the foundation work was existential, the flooring would reflect the instability of the logocentric signifier, and anyway the whole project would be non-teleological, except for the bill. You want I should call my lawyer?"
do we have rioting and marching in the streets? not as much, but the media is far more complicit in the power grabs than it used to be.
Ya think maybe there's a connection here?
the sucky economy is why you an buy gallon-sized plastic jugs of vodka at the grocery store in downeast maine: there aint much else to do in the dead of winter when you dont make shit.
The kewl kids have the atriotat.
We just mean to establish the dictatorship of the atriotariat.
Dude, uh, you might want to get a second opinion on that contractor you've hired....
"Geez, Mr. Rorschach, the contract you signed specifically stated that the foundation work was existential, the flooring would reflect the instability of the logocentric signifier, and anyway the whole project would be non-teleological, except for the bill. You want I should call my law?yer?"
Thersites
Damn you, deconstructionist contractor!!
What was I thinking!?
Congrats to the folks finishing law school. I'm just starting in August... Tena said "I loved 2L and 3L," which I didn't take as very encouraging.
But I'm still going through with it.
Buffet buying Bud.
Let's see,... does drinking crappy beer increase when there's a bad economy or a good economy?
Martian Mandater | Email | Homepage | 04.22.05 - 11:53 pm | #
Who's to say that Dobson & pals won't try and bring back Prohibition?
Welcome to the 1920s.
PoppieProng
It's nothing like the 60s. The campuses are peaceful (why??) and you are seeing nothing of the war in Iraq on TV.
I saw Vietnam in my living room every night. I have never been there -- I graduated from high school the year the war ended -- but I could tell you in a second what Saigon looked like in those days and I have a very accurate mind's eye view of what the Vietnamese countryside looks like in many different parts of the country. Because of the nightly news. You see almost nothing of Iraq these days.
Also, the Rethugs are much more openly fascist now then they were in the 60s.
And journalism has completely died.
flory: hmmmmm... i wonder.... *ponders*
Brad Delong has posted a computer program that solves quadratic equations. Wow, the world IS flat!
Your solenoid just needs unwinding.
Or maybe my rubber band needs to be tightened?
No. Take two trolls. Have each put their tongue on one of the battery cables. Start the car. If the trolls survive, they are evil and you must put the car in drive and let it do what it will. Tell the insurance co. 2 clowns tried to steal your car. ;
We just mean to establish the dictatorship of the atriotariat.
==
An Atriocracy!
Flory and Poppie Prong: the problem with the Sheople is that there is no defining issue. The media does not report anything even approaching the truth: the bankruptcy bill is a good example. Locally and nationally the part about the millionaires getting to keep their stuff was simply not reported. If it is not reported, then it did not happen: right?
Secondly the sheople have no idea of what is actually going on. They are perceiving the world through the filter of corporate America. They do NOT read Juan Cole or Riverbend. They believe that Iraq is going well. (When you cannot even use the roads . . .)
So, yes there is a connection but we sorely need a leader
You see almost nothing of Iraq these days.
That's because we all know what a nice, peaceful desert looks like.
God, Joe Scarborough is SUCH an asshole!
He's talking about the Democrats not wanting Bolton because he slammed down a phone.'
And this senile fuck, Alan Simpson.
"Anyone notice that the Pope was in the fucking Wermacht, but he is somehow considered a hero of moral rectitude for wingnuts, mostly because he served as the leader of the Vatican's later day inquisition."
All the more reason to worship Ba'al today.
des - thanks for the practical suggestion. I'll try it tomorrow...
But I'm still going through with it.
underwhelm ...
Once I got it through my thick head that it was going to suck 100% of the time it was a bit easier. It still sucked, but I wasn't sitting around like a dope for things to get better.
Good luck.
Atrios, Atrios puddin' and pie
Dissed the wingers and made 'em cry
When the Dems came out to play
Shitstain wingers ran away.
An Atrio-theocracy!
Worship Ba'al today and often.
"That's because we all know what a nice, peaceful desert looks like."
I'd like to know what one looked like before Del Webb got his hands on ours.
WHen is the test? Are you applying for fall 2005? Where do you want to go?
You might as well take a class. I think when I took my first practice LSAT I scored in the low 140s
June 6, 2005, baby. I'm applying for Fall '06.
Picks:
Columbia (Bwahahahahaa, yeah right...)
Fordham
University of San Francisco
UCLA
UC Berkeley (Bwahahahahaa, yeah right...)
UC Hastings
UC Davis
USC
Dunno, maybe some other schools. Any suggestions?
You raised your score 20 pts? That's amazing! Much respect. I'm taking TestMasters and it's helping a lot.
An Atrio-theocracy!
What if I don't believe in Atrios?
For just one second I want to thank all of the future scholars of this thread for their due diligence in mastering their educational goals. Much praise and respect for your real HARD WORK. Well nourished minds make for a better world. My heart sings for you.
Peace.
I just saw the Time cover.
I can understand why TrAnn's threw such a hissy fit.
She would've looked SO much more natural had she had been photographed with her legs wide open.
(PS - those are some UGLY ass shoes she's got on!)
Okay--a brilliant line from Bill Maher on the price of gas:
"I know, you hear about the price of gas going over $2 a gallon and you choke on your $4 latte!"
Well done.
NTodd,
Then believe in solenoidocracy...
2 things... 1) your 1L year will kill your soul. you won't be able to watch a movie without going "who's gonna be liable for that." and you will turn into a prick. you will argue all the time, and you will spend all your time (unnecessarily) in the library studying for one set of exams which will pretty much determine your ability to get a job. Then, your 2L and 3L years, you become human again. That said, I so totally miss law school.
2) i realize the violence aspect is not the not the same as the 60s, and that the campi are peaceful and we see no war on teevee--it's just that the governmental lies remind my parents very much of the 60s.
"I think the current administration is as close as some of us will come to experiencing the 60's."
My father in law says it's more reminiscent of the McCarthy era but with worse manners.
underwhelm, where are you going? What did you score on the LSAT?
/standard
Jay, yeah, UC Hastings and Boalt sound good like good fits. And they're relatively cheap. I'd be happy there but NYC sounds so cool...
Dunno, maybe some other schools. Any suggestions?
Old Hat ...
You're forgetting NYU, which is also in Manhattan.
Yeah, when I took my first practice test I think I scored 143 and went home crying. Taking Kaplan helped me get through the test. (And that sucked, too.)
What if I don't believe in Atrios?
NTodd
That makes you an atriopostate.
Perhaps a Matri-os-archy?
Thanks Res. This group provides good support. Without it I'd have given up on all professionals as corrupt and soulless.
NTodd
If you don't believe in Atrios you are going to hell because belief is the entire basis for this giant cosmic game.
Believe or hell. Very simple.
Also, there are stories about talking snakes.
And Old Hat and underwhelm ...
Guess what I am doing between posts (on a Friday night)?
I am OUTLINING. This, too, can be yours.
Solution: Cheap beer! Buffett's onto something...
rorschach
Jimmy or Warren? Wait, Jimmy knew that a long time ago...
I think I'm going to Hell. It will be one where I keep trying to start my car...
PS:
If I could type or spell for shit I'd be OK. Or not.
Any residual flap over there on the Scalia business, Res Ipsa?
(I've had several professor state in class how giddy the whole thing made them)
(PS - those are some UGLY ass shoes she's got on!)
Terry, you are so not kidding. If she's trying for the dom look, she could at least try to do it with a bit of style.
BigVic,
As one who has slaved under the lash of academia while earning a living...
GOD BLESS YOU, EVERYONE!!!
All ye students and fellows slaving tirelessly in the mines...MAY ALL YOUR GRADES BE "A"
And...
MAY YOUR LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION BE GLOWING!!!
Poppie Prong,
Government lies now are a bit like the 60s, but there are more of them now and about everything. Everything.
Even Nixon told the truth once in awhile about some things. And Agnew was more or less harmless being up to his armpits in his little graft schemes.
Hell, Nixon created the EPA.
Also, there are stories about talking snakes.
==
And burning bushes!
Plus, you have to believe EVERY WORD is the goddam Truth, or you are a cafeteria heathen!, or some such.
Damn you, deconstructionist contractor!!
Hee hee. Nothing will turn you into a textual literalist New-Critical sonofabitch faster than signing with a contractor. Cleanth Brooks, motherfucker!
Fred Woolsey--may I say how much I enjoyed your skewering of Popperian paradigms?
Believe or hell. Very simple.
Death, please. I mean, cake!
i like the term sheople. it's so... appropriate. my wife is a grad student still at IU, and she teaches freshman composition. she despises it because the vast majority of her students are so ignorant! they're smart kids, they've just been brainwashed. and they have no desire to learn anything contrary to their already solidified worldview. it's so disheartening. on the end of semester teacher reccs, some even called her nasty things and complained that she was a liberal and that it wasnt fair because she was raised in a liberal household. uh... no. yes, she's a liberal (more so than me!) but she was raised in a southern baptist household and up to the age of 15 went to katy first baptist. then she met me!
des - thanks for the practical suggestion. I'll try it tomorrow...
Yeah, I don't know where that came from. Blame it on the moon.
Mena--if you don't like everything on the restaurant menu, does that make you a restaurant heathen?
Cat blogging over at BlondeSense:
I hate Bush so much I shaved my cat!
Heh.
Mena,
One word...
Hermeneutics
Ba'al, shouldn't Atrios take a pope name? Blog the I'st? Poster the LX'er? Whore the XXXXXXXX'd (well, it is the oldest profession).
"Death, please. I mean, cake!'
Did someone say CAKE?
We have cake. With fresh strawberries and lots of whipped cream.
Hee hee. Nothing will turn you into a textual literalist New-Critical sonofabitch faster than signing with a contractor. Cleanth Brooks, motherfucker!
Thersites
Ach! If I had only not foregone the virtue of contractual close-reading in favor of my insane newfangled materialism! I suffer for my sins against the aesthetic object!
Fred Woolsey--may I say how much I enjoyed your skewering of Popperian paradigms?
Hey! I started that train!
San Antone,
Who shaved her pussy?!?
I'm actually in a pretty ideal spot. Moved to Iowa City a year ago and don't know anyone outside of work. So I'm not going to miss any social life when I start at the U of Iowa.
I got a 172, but I'm afraid I probably can't make however I did that "portable." I guess I osmosed something useful as an analytic philosophy major, so at least I have something to tell my family about that particular decision.
I just cancelled my subscription to Time. I've been renewing simply out of habit for years, it long ago lost relevance or an ability to actually give me any news.
Damn, that felt good.
ba'al, it's stunning isn't it? and the worst thing? there are bastards in our government right now that are even more intemperate than w.
Wow, that "Cathy's World" site has to be the most fucking idiotic piece of shit I've read in ages.
I won't be going back...
What if I don't believe in Atrios?
Get thee behind me Satan!!!
Pope Heh-Indeedy IX?
Evening sonorous moonbats.
underwhelm
I hope you enjoy the city where I grew up and my alma mater. Tom Tommorow and I both graduated from Iowa City High School.
Ror,
How many fingers am I holding up?
Rorschach--if i offer you an extra big slice of cake, will you forgive me?
Mena--if you don't like everything on the restaurant menu, does that make you a restaurant heathen?
==
Sally, I think it makes you an Ala Descartes, where it's all about pickin 'n' choosin, you know, "I Select, therefore I Am". Weirdo new-agers.
Stalin, Hitler, bin Laden, Bush, and now TrAnn.
TIME sure does like those evildoers!
I know the theological aspects of that last post are a bit bizarre, but no more than some other religions.
I just saw Lewis Black @ Alice Tully Hall. He was pretty amusing, although not nearly as hard on Fredo as I'd hoped he be.
My family, including *love interests* saw Lewis Black at the Pallace Theator 3 weeks ago. A great show!
Ba'al, shouldn't Atrios take a pope name? Blog the I'st? Poster the LX'er?
Pope John-Paul-George-Ringo the First!
There's cake?
underwhelm... just remember: the first year sucks. it's like the first year of marriage. it just sucks. (of course, my first year of marriage correpsonded to my first year of law school, which is probably why my grades sucked!)
I feel like I'm at confessional. Papa Ratzi? Will you hear my sins?
Mena--but of course. I bake daily. NTodd wouldn't have it any other way.
Ror,
How many fingers am I holding up?
Fred Woolsey
Look at the inkblot, and tell me how many fingers YOU see!
Rorschach--if i offer you an extra big slice of cake, will you forgive me?
Sallyh
Well, it's better than death, so, yes!
I WANT CAKE!
Darn it, out again, another phone call. Save me some cake sally!
Cake? As in, cake, them let eat?
Marie Antoinette the Headless, 1789
Pope Goldblum I.
I just liked the sound of it.
May the Schwartz be with you.
Pope His-Comments-Suck I
Cake be not proud.
I WANT CAKE!
NTodd
Well we've had a bit of a run on cake, so your only choice is "or death."
Eddie. Izzard. Rocks.
NTodd,
Robespierre will save some cake for vous, sans guillotine...
2 things... 1) your 1L year will kill your soul. you won't be able to watch a movie without going "who's gonna be liable for that." and you will turn into a prick.
No worries. I already am a pushy, argumentative prick.
I've heard lots of couples break up if one goes to law school. I hear "It changes people" often. I'm planning on asking my girlfriend to come with me and move in. Good idea? What have been your experiences and observations of classmates?
NTodd--you didn't say the magic word.
BTW, anyone catch the LA Times article where Dobson claims that the legislature can dismantle the Supreme Court?
I guess I osmosed something useful as an analytic philosophy major, so at least I have something to tell my family about that particular decision.
I was a classics major- you'll have the last laugh when you realize that half the people in law school can barely read or write. Oh, and my family can't give me guff for studying dead languages anymore...
/bitterness
Any residual flap over there on the Scalia business, Res Ipsa?
Jay...You should ask Red State Refugee next time he's on. I think he was there. Only 1K tix were distributed.
Atrios should take the name Pope Felix VI. Wonder if anybody will get that--10,000 quatloos says Thers will...
If I can get anywhere near an oven or ten at Eschacon, I will be baking.
Cake Expectations was great! But The Cakes of Wrath was rather depressing.
I regret I have but one cake to give for my country.
Ba'al: I'm humbled, and will have my classmates make offerings for your continued favor.
just remember: the first year sucks. it's like the first year of marriage.
underwhelm ... Sorry to tell you, but the second and third year suck, too.
Rorschach--if i offer you an extra big slice of cake, will you forgive me?
Sallyh
Well, it's better than death, so, yes!
rorschac
But, if the cake--I mean The Cake--is to die for, then what kinda choice is that, I ask you.
Fred--Robespierre had a red robe. I have red hair. There's a difference
San Antone,
Who shaved her pussy?!?
It was never a question as to whether this would be said - only how long it would take.
2 minutes.
BTW san antone - that cat and wiley are planning the revolution.
One word...
Hermeneutics
I went to high school with Herman Eutics. Good people. Works as a freelance phenomenologist out in Weehawken now, I think.
"I regret I have but one cake to give for my country."
I'm assuming you're keeping the rest for yourself.
I went to high school with Herman Eutics. Good people. Works as a freelance phenomenologist out in Weehawken now, I think.
Thersites
Herman's a drunk. And far too focused on the ex o' Jesus.
"I know the theological aspects of that last post are a bit bizarre, but no more than some other religions.
Ba'al"
Larry King had some "theologians" on tonight, including Deepak Chopra, and also some "talks to the spirits" faith healer broad. The fundie guys and the priest were acting like she had 3 heads and they were going to get cooties from her, but can they seriously think that what she says is any crazier than the shit THEY are preaching? Chopra was the voice of reason on that panel, scary as that is.
just remember: the first year sucks. it's like the first year of marriage.
underwhelm ... Sorry to tell you, but the second and third year suck, too.
Res Ipsa Loquitor
____________________________________
But the 13th and 14th years....sweetness baby! By then you don't sweat the small stuff.
NTodd--you didn't say the magic word.
Tee hee. That means there's prolly still cake left.
sallyh - pretty please may I have a piece?
Works as a freelance phenomenologist out in Weehawken now, I think.
Damn freelancers are screwing it up for the rest of us working...oh...never mind.
I thought you said "phrenologist."
Old hat: I almost got divorced. but we were both under terrible stress. she was just beginning grad school and me law school. there were two or three law school divorces, a few close calls, and a couple of big breakups. one the whole, however, it can work out. you just have to figure out your priorities. i decided that my wife was going to come before my grades. in the long run, though it was hellaciously hard to find a job because i was not in the top 10-15%, it was worth it. as cheesy as it sounds, it was mainly because i developed a strong sense of "fuck it, i'm gonna do it my way," and i decided i wasn't going to do the kill-myself-for-a-stupid-job-that-
makes-me-work-80-hours-a-week bullshit.
BTW, happy birthday, Thersites.
It's also Prior Aelred's birthday, whom I shall see for lunch tomorrow with Diane.
Sallyh - I'll let Randy have one. And the rest are mineminemine.
I just found the coolest link. No idea what I'm gonna do with it, but you never know when the theme songs from the Simpsons might come in handy!
http://www.simpsoncrazy.com/down...ads/
music.shtml
NTodd--you didn't say the magic word.
Tee hee. That means there's prolly still cake left.
I thot I *did* say the magic word(s): I WANT!
NTodd--You really should stop dissing your country, founded on the right to cake, bakeries, and the pursuit of flakiness!
Herman's a drunk. And far too focused on the ex o' Jesus.
I see pun-o-palooza is starting up.
Where's Eli?
I know not what course others may take,
But as for me,
GIVE ME CAKE (preferably with whipped cream and strawberries--fresh strawberries; they're so perky)
or
GIVE ME
...uhh... a condo in Florida?
No, wait...a sinecure at AEI?
Nah...too obvious...
A post as ambassador to BFE?!?!???!!!
[That's Bum Fuck Egypt to you philistines...]
YES!!!!!!!
Flory--plenty o'cake. Enjoy!
i'm late. went down to the bottom and then scrolled up a bit and found a post referring to new criticism/materialism applied to contracts regarding rorschach's house. someone probably already said something along these lines, but i can deal with most contractors regardless of the critical theory that they embrace. as long as they aren't hard core deconstructionists anyway.
Fred--I can only offer you cake. But the Tut exhibit is in LA right now, if you need a Walk Like an Egyptian sort of event in your life.
Herman's a drunk. And far too focused on the ex o' Jesus.
rorschach
That would be Mary Magdalene, right? The one with the Slippers?
Proppy, thanks for the observations. Two or three divorces? Wow, law school is no joke...
"NTodd--You really should stop dissing your country, founded on the right to cake, bakeries, and the pursuit of flakiness!'
Liberte. Egalite. Pate.
Words for a new republic!
Have a good weekend all. I'm calling it a night.
I've heard lots of couples break up if one goes to law school. I hear "It changes people" often. I'm planning on asking my girlfriend to come with me and move in. Good idea? What have been your experiences and observations of classmates?
Dunno about law school, but I don't know of a single relationship personally or of anyone I've ever met that survived grad school. Including marriages with kids.
Just saying.
now, see, i have to disagree a little with RIL here. the very last semester does blow something fierce because you just want to get the hell out. (you do end up missing it though!) but, at IU at least, you can finally take some badass classes. So i didn't take trusts, or family law, or any of that crap. hell no. i took international law, international trade, weapons of mass destruction, internet law, copyright, information privacy, information security, antitrust... and i still passed the bar!
...sittin' downtown in a railway station...one cake over the line..
Herman's a drunk. And far too focused on the ex o' Jesus.
I see pun-o-palooza is starting up.
Where's Eli?
Not sure. Hopefully he is sleeping peacefully. Unlike me, trying to pursue the only vehicle to quell my Witt. Gin. Preferably in a stein. (not to play language games or anything.)
Alas, poor Herman Yootics!
I knew him, Horatio...
Piglet II
From the Collected Worls Shake's Beer
Does anyone listen to a word I say or am I just flapping my gums here?
Yeah, I thought so.
oh yeah, entertainment law and seminars on globalization and on Congress vs. the President
Spoided brats are demanding their cake. It will happen. Starving folks can demand bread and be left barren. Is this a just and Jeebus world? I don't think so.
Must sleep. Bu$hWorld leaves me exhausted. Nite, friends.
Rorsch - how could any of us forget these immortal words:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Oven, establish Recipes, insure domestic Satiation, provide for the common Eatery, promote the general Snacking, and secure the Blessings of Baking to ourselves and our Hunger, do ordain and establish this Cake for the United States of America.
Flory--plenty o'cake. Enjoy!
Mmmmm. strawberries. fresh whipped cream.
and a glass of amaretto to wash it down.
life is good.
yeah. i guess i should have scrolled up a little further. i thought i was so damn clever too. btw, rorschach, your contractor sounds like a hack to me. i used to be in that business. never hire him again and never recommend him to anyone.
Thers:
just for props, i did wish you a fond bthththdy this am...you were still asleep, according to Mary...
cheers cher...across zodiacal distances, we're in the same week.... go fuckin figger
NTodd--damn, that's going on the fridge.
I know a couple that are both finishing grad school this year. They were married last year and are still together...
they're swingers.
Law school isn't the answer. Just be a bum, you're going to die anyway.
I don't know of a single relationship personally or of anyone I've ever met that survived grad school. Including marriages with kids.
My parents went to grad school when I was an infant. Then my mom went back to grad school when I was in highschool (another masters). Then she went back again when I was in college (doctorate). And my folks are still together!
Ba'al was at the U of I! I thought I saw you on one of the acid trips I took there back in the early 80s.
PoppieProng -
I'm gonna have to agree with you there.
I tended to split 3L between snoozer bar classes and things more in the kickass vein (comparative con law, death penalty, etc.), which made things pretty fun. Just a completely different attitude at that point, like the inmates are no longer running the asylum.
(and yes, I'm scrolling through 600 slides on wills and trusts right now. But my heart isn't in it, I swear)
steve: hahahahahahaha! there is much truth to what you say!
Dunno about law school, but I don't know of a single relationship personally or of anyone I've ever met that survived grad school. Including marriages with kids.
I can think of 3 (2 with kids) that survived in my B-school class. Course that was back in the dark ages - different world then.
they're swingers.
Hmm...
"Dunno about law school, but I don't know of a single relationship personally or of anyone I've ever met that survived grad school. Including marriages with kids."
Thersites, meet your first couple. Monsieur and I both completed our doctoral programs after the wedding, and with the kid.
NTodd--Well quoted.
And Olaf--Thanks for that. I'm one hair away from breaking out lawyers on his ass to hold him liable for the hotel charges incurred because he estimated 3 weeks and it's now 3 months...
GIVE ME...
your Dirty Cake
Like some moldy little Twinkie in your Daddy's bottom drawer
Give me, your Dirty Cake
I don't believe you've never seen those snacks before
And my folks are still together!
Uh, NTodd, there's, um, something we've been meaning to tell you...
Sallyh - you really should refrigerate it...
I must away
'ere break of day
Cuz if I don't
There's hell to pay!!!
'Night, all! As always, it has been an uplifting experience...
(and the Greek chorus coughs "BULLSHIT!!!")
Seriously...may the good Lord--however you envision Him/Her--grant you peace and joy.
BTW, happy birthday, Thersites.
It's also Prior Aelred's birthday, whom I shall see for lunch tomorrow with Diane.
Sallyh, La Poissoniere -- 12:30 am
please convey to the padre my esteem, friendship, and the best wishes of which i am capable...much as I remarked to Thers mere moments ago, across an uncalculable, zodiacal distance, we share the same week for birthdays...
who gnu...
knotty...
Uh, NTodd, there's, um, something we've been meaning to tell you...
What? WHAT?!
Not listening. Not listening. Mary had a little lamb, little lamb, little lamb...
Rors:
trying to pursue the only vehicle to quell my Witt. Gin. Preferably in a stein.
Subtle. Lovely and subtle.
SallieH: my best to my co-4/22ist, the good Prior. Ask him about the theology of cake for us.
jay carolina: damn that's dedication! i gave up studying hard core after my first year. oddly enough, my grades went up.
and as far as couples staying together, so far my wife and i have not divorced, though we do live 1000 miles apart (which is why i have the time to talk with everyone!)
and just to clarify, the divorces at the law school were of the one spouse is in lawschool and the other isnt and neither could compromise enough to work it out variety
Thank you flory!
Thersites--cake has theology? Systemic or phenomenological?
Ask him about the theology of cake for us.
I'm pretty sure it turns into the body of Christ when we eat it.
...now, see, i have to disagree a little with RIL here.
Disagree all you want. I hated the whole experience. Might have something to do with the fact that I am an, ahem, "mature" student in a sea of 22-year-olds. By the middle of second year I'd hear them speak and think to myself, "SHUT UP NOW!" I took a elevator ride today with a girl who said "like" thirteen times between the first and fourth floors. I wanted to shoot her -- or myself.
My favorite classes were con law I & II, and constitutional theory. I think they gave me a much better understanding of the way our country works ... for better or worse.
Monsieur and I both completed our doctoral programs after the wedding, and with the kid.
Sallyh, La Poissoniere
So shouldn't that be Sallyh, Docteur la Poissoniere?
rorschach, lawyers won't help you. the guy probably has no money or assets. you could hire a lawyer i guess, but all the lawyer could do would be to explain the legal doctrine of nihil sangre ex pedra (you can't get blood from a stone).
Thersites--that was supposed to be systematic.
I feel that cake is composed of an infernal concatenation of windowless monads!
Except for cheesecake. It's just tasty.
Flory--only on papers.
hi, DWD,
I'm lurking.
"I'm pretty sure it turns into the body of Christ when we eat it."
This is why I don't let people in my kitchen while I'm cooking.
ril: i had a couple of *mature* friends at IU who felt the same exact way you do. they were so frustrated by the vapidity of some of the students!
Oh, my wife went to grad school when we were living together, before we got married...
sally, give aelred a bottle of single malt for his birthday. i know for a fact that he yearns for it tragically.
Flory--only on papers.
Ah. The informal handle amongst the atriocracy?
rorschach, lawyers won't help you. the guy probably has no money or assets. you could hire a lawyer i guess, but all the lawyer could do would be to explain the legal doctrine of nihil sangre ex pedra (you can't get blood from a stone).
Olaf glad and big
Agreed that going to court might not help. I do however believe that the recalcitrant contractor receiving legal notice on legal letterhead can have significant effect.
I'm pretty sure it turns into the body of Christ when we eat it.
NTodd
____________________________________
I hate Christ cake. 'cept when there's fluffy icing. Mmmmmmmmmm.
Olaf--do you know what his preferred brand is?
And my folks are still together!
Freaky. And cheers, SallyH!
My thesis still stands. However, I should caution you that merely because there are facts that stand in opposition to my thesis, that is a very weak reason for considering it "wrong."
...i gave up studying hard core after my first year. oddly enough, my grades went up...
Poppie ... There has never been a relationship between the amount of studying I do and the grade I receive. Never. Unfortunately, it took four semesters to come to grips with this.
Dunno about law school, but I don't know of a single relationship personally or of anyone I've ever met that survived grad school. Including marriages with kids.
dunno bout that...it is/was tough, 'specially if the spouse is not discursively prepared...
the last(in all respects)ex-MRS/DR WGG and I met when she was beginning her ph.d. program in 1980. we were married in '83; she finished in '84; we went to her first job, and i got admitted to grad school then, too. I finished my MJ in '85, phd in '89, and we stayed married til 98. separated the night princess di bought it in that Paris tunnel...
how's that for dharma and drama?
it wasn'tr grad school that did us, although one damaging i njury occurred for both of us at similar stages...
my marriage to the last ex-M/D W was probably a casualty of paradigm incommensurabiltity...
I'm lurking.
Sarah Deere
SD:
If you lurk, NTodd will eat all your cake.
rorschach: I always found windowless monad cake difficult to eat. It didn't interact at all with my digestive tract.
Thers - you should join the Bush administration!
Flory--the informal is used everywhere. Won't hide the honorific, I earned it, but don't feel the need to flaunt it.
I hate Christ cake.
I prefer the Christ souffle myself. Takes so damned long to rise though.
Thanks for the tips, law school and grad school people.
Read this week's New Yorker article on global warming if you're not gloomy enough about the prospects of human survival.
Laterzzzz...
ah yes, the dreaded legal letter. it's surprising how much that really does work. my friend was getting dicked around by Geico and she went to her torts professor who got a NASTY lawyer to write her a demand letter. whooooeee did Geico ever respond quickly!
I'm pretty sure it turns into the body of Christ when we eat it.
Not for you. Get your own damn intolerant Pope.
Okay:
Full disclosure: When my present wife and I first got together, I was one year into the PhD program and she was leaving the MFA program to move far away, and our first year together was actually spent 850 miles apart. And we bought a house together before ever having lived together. And then moved in together.
Top that!
Thersites--I'll confess that Monsieur and I are something of an outlier. Regrettably, the phenomenon you've described is all too often the more common outcome.
RES??????????
SHITS@#$*($%()&^^$%()(@>>>...
congratulations...end in view...
keep on kickin ass...i'll probably need a GOODE lawyer someday...purt' near gay-ron-teed, come t' think of it...
sally, the prior has mentioned to me that he enjoys laphroigh.
My thesis still stands. However, I should caution you that merely because there are facts that stand in opposition to my thesis, that is a very weak reason for considering it "wrong."
Mr. President? Rev Dobson? Mr. O'Reilly?
and Happy BDay to Thersites and Prior A.
Olaf--Laphroaig it is. Thanks for the heads up! Trader Joe's actually has it for a reasonably decent price.
I prefer the Christ souffle myself. Takes so damned long to rise though.
driftglass
+++++++++++++++
Look, I've been waiting >2000 years and I'm A LITTLE HUNGRY!!!!!
RIL: hahahahahahah! faring middlingly after my first semester, i determined i was not destined for memorization-based greatness and just rolled the dice! luckily it pretty much worked out.
SD:
If you lurk, NTodd will eat all your cake.
flory
Damnit!!!! Okay - to the fore: may I please have the cake that NTodd is trying to purloin???
BMR--sorry, Passover starts tomorrow night. No rising allowed.
"the last (in all respects) wgg/aka. . ."
i believe that wgg and gwpda will be married within the next 2 years. anyone want to open up a book?
Sarah D--but of course. NTodd thinks it's all for him, but that doesn't mean he gets all the cake. Don't tell him, though--it's that tantrum thing, y'know.
D'oh! Almost forgot.
Anyone who really wants to go to law school would be well advised to suck up to Judge Smails: but you MUST also win the Caddy Tournament!!!!
rorsch: i can't!
A Happy Birthday indeed. I don't suppose there's a reliable bday list floating around?
...keep on kickin ass...i'll probably need a GOODE lawyer someday.
Thanks, Woody. But if you need a good lawyer, you probably ought not call me. I'm a lover, not a fighter.
Flory--the informal is used everywhere. Won't hide the honorific, I earned it, but don't feel the need to flaunt it.
Sallyh, La Poissoniere 12:51 am
gal-pal, Dr. Sal:
FUCKIN-AHY!
ya can never have too many honorifics...
i encourage my friends--and requested my students, in deference to my complicated Eastern European surname-- to recall me as "dr.J"...
which usually elicits a comment from GWPDA, who is ALSO "dr.J", though in another state...
but yeah...i took the degree. they weren't 'giving' them that year, iirc...
I am watching "End of the Century," a documentary about the Ramones.
It's a lot of fun. Netflix has it.
Anyone who really wants to go to law school would be well advised to suck up to Judge Smails: but you MUST also win the Caddy Tournament!!!!
Thersites
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You'll get nothing and like it!
Olaf--Laphroaig it is. Thanks for the heads up! Trader Joe's actually has it for a reasonably decent price.
If you can get any 12-year single malt The Balvenie, do so! The one time I've experienced it, though, was the result of a wedding gift of friends who came over for the wedding from Derbyshire, so I have no idea how available it is over here. But it's delicious!
Dear GEICO,
Are you sure you want piece of this, bitch?
Sincerely,
believe that wgg and gwpda will be married within the next 2 years. anyone want to open up a book?
Awwww. The first Atrio-match.com.
I'm lurking.
How can you be lurking if your posting? Now I'm a real lurker...
Oh Damn!
man all this talk of cake and scotch is making me hungry and want to get drunk. scotch scotch scotch... i love scotch.. OH MAN, I love scotch. I first tasted it in scotland, and i haven't looked back. gonna go get me some!
I'm a lover, not a fighter.
Res Ipsa Loquitor - 12:57 am
ummmmm, funny you should mention that...i am sorely wanting one of the former, even as we speak...i am more and more wanting the random embrace that lovers do...
King Tort: hahahahahahahahahahahhaha! i hate you! scotch burns nostrils!
Woody G--My surname is Alsatian (I use my married name), so I'm Dr. H to my university students.
My community college students, many of whom are closer to my age than my daughter's, use my first name and I'm good with that. I'd use it in my other environment but our dept. chair discourages that kind of familiarity.
it's that tantrum thing, y'know.
Sallyh, La Poissoniere
not to mention the Only Child Thing.....
Top that!
Our story is so involved and sordid... that it cannot be blogged.
man all this talk of cake and scotch is making me hungry and want to get drunk. scotch scotch scotch... i love scotch.. OH MAN, I love scotch. I first tasted it in scotland, and i haven't looked back. gonna go get me some!
PoppieProng
Among the gifts I gave my wife for her recent birthday (and may I say that I managed to pull of the first surprise party of her life?) is a little wooden case of six different scotches, all from different distilleries, all differently aged...
i hate you! scotch burns nostrils!
Sound's like you're drinking it all wrong
...i am more and more wanting the random embrace that lovers do...
Well, Happy Desperado ... I am booked through my exams. After that we'll see ...
Where are you again?
FeralLiberal ...:-D
Okay, long week, long day, going to bed.
Sweet dreams, no bedbugs, to you all.
Have a lovely weekend.
Top that!
Our story is so involved and sordid... that it cannot be blogged.
Thersites
I know the feeling. I've Bowdlerized myself.
Re: Aqua Vitae/i>
That's what the Romans called scotch...
my best ever Scotch war story:
i am now in possession of just over 3 liters of a wonderful, fruit-peaty. 10-yr-old single malt called Speyburn...i was skeptical, but is fuckin NECTAR...had i the cash, i'd buy the whole stash (as opposed to 'stache') at just over $30/1.75L, and be the happiest camper in the (not exactly) Highlands...
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the prior would be happy with any single malt, actually. we have talked about it. there is a retreat house at his monastery and i have encouraged him to tell people who use it that it is traditional to give the prior a nice bottle of scotch when one uses the retreat house. it is an episcopal monastery, so it should work. if it doesn't i recommended that he tell people that in england it is traditional to give the prior a nice bottle of scotch. episcopalians love tradition and are anglophiles, so eventually he should have a steady supply, once word gets out. right now it's still pretty dry though.
You'll get nothing and like it!
You wanna earn $14.... the hard way?
Geico is owned by Warren Buffet. The company is legit.
Thersites ....
Tell NYMary that Not-Mister-Res is going to London for 30th anniversary of Motorhead show at the Hammersmith Odeon.
Olaf--is this book going on poolitics or are we keeping it in house?
a little wooden case of six different scotches, all from different distilleries, all differently aged...
Whiskey Heritage Society. Royal Mile, Edinburgh.
I still have one bottle left.
well, i was taking a little sip see, and swirling it around on my tongue, and then I saw King Tort's post and snorted with laughter; unfortunately for me... up came a little, through my nose! his humor was the proximate cause of my pain! but for his funniness, i would not have lost some scotch!
thers:
Our story is so involved and sordid... that it cannot be blogged.
You're just saying that so we'll beg, aren't you?
Not-Mister-Res is going to London for 30th anniversary of Motorhead show at the Hammersmith Odeon.
Ooooh, that's fun. I'm irked at missing the Pogues reunions.
Do they make whiskey in Scotland? Hmmmm. live & learn, I guess.
Well, my sugar crash from all the cake I hoarded is hitting me hard, so I can't even throw a good tantrum. Goodnight fellow Atrio-clique members.
Thersites -
On your deathbed, I grant you total consciousness.
Olaf--Laphroaig it is. Thanks for the heads up! Trader Joe's actually has it for a reasonably decent price.
Sallyh, La Poissoniere ==12:54 am
oh laphroaig...my pop introduced it to me 40 years ago, and my palate has never been the same...
thanks Dr.H, another reason i gotta go to go to santa fe...i really needed that...
/snark
ah the Whisky Heritage Society. lovely. pretty fun little tour, in that cheesy fun kind of manner! what were some of the labels?
Question for all the lawyers. How often did the Chicago version of law and economics creep up in your courses. Posner, Coase, etc.
You're just saying that so we'll beg, aren't you?
Good grief, no. Sordid means sordid..
Goodnight Sarah, I'll keep lurking for you,,,,
Damn again!
Also, the Rethugs are much more openly fascist now then they were in the 60s.
Yeah, cause the Soviets aren't around anymore to put a multiple-warhead ICBM up their ass.
Albuquerque...Springtime in the southern Rockies...
ever been to Taos?
Chaco Canyon?
the Grand Canyon?
Monument Valley?
we could do all of 'em in a week...i know 'em pretty well, mebbe sleep out in the clear desert night sky... ya can still find a camp spot hereabout
...just sayin
sallyh, i don't know. i'm not going to keep the book. i will place a bet though.
How often did the Chicago version of law and economics creep up in your courses. Posner, Coase, etc.
He came up most often in torts. But my school sort of pooh-poohs theory and focuses on the practical and so any mentions were brief. I know more about Posner from reading the newspaper.
On your deathbed, I grant you total consciousness.
So I got THAT going for me...
I christen thee: the Flying Wasp!
Ooooh, that's fun. I'm irked at missing the Pogues reunions.
Do they make whiskey in Scotland? Hmmmm. live & learn, I guess.
Thersites
I still feel a tad guilty that I smuggled scotch, rather than Irish whiskey, into the Pogues concert when I was there in London in 1991. Ah well...
i'm thinking sometime within the next two years. i'll probably have to narrow it way down to get any kind of odds though.
Noonan!
SDF: quite often. my torts prof was a big fan of Posner, and a big fan of everyone carrying personal liability insurance to reduce litigation. he did concede that since insurance companies blow, that wasn't a cure all. to be honest, though, i toned Posner out. pretty sacriligious, i guess, since i was in the 7th circuit, but... eh, whaddya gonna do?
Woody G ...
I have been to Albuquerque but was stuck inside the whole time owing to a blizzard.
Have been to Grand Canyon (no photo does it justice).
I really want to go to Monument Valley and Grand Teton Nat'l Park.
Caddyshack and Happy Gilmore -- Cinema of the Devine!
I recorded and am now watching the crapfest final death throes of Enterprise. Meet the new Captain, same as the old Captain. I've always hated the parallel universe plots. Ugh!
Battlestar Galactica is so much better.
The fix is in to cut the Bugman off at the knees. Bwaahahahahaha!
Democrats agree to gentlemanly primary against DeLay
HOUSTON Democrats who want to seek the nomination against House Majority Leader Tom DeLay agreed today to a gentlemanly contest.
Two of the candidates - Richard Morrison and former U-S Representative Nick Lampson - said they could eventually bow out when a front-runner emerges.
...
Morrison and Lampson said the men met for more than an hour and agreed not to have a primary slugfest.
Quentin: Lloyd Doggett persists, and Bugman goes down in flames!? I must be in heaven.
NTodd--night, and when I wander over to your blog, there better be some new Sam.
wow. see, i live in houston and didn't realize that 42% went for Morrison. election night the numbers were like 65-35. So that's heartening. I know Delay has a 40-something% approval rating, so he's in some trouble for sure. *Please Sugarlandians...grow some fucking brains!*
Res...
one of the best days on earth is surise at Monument Valley and sunset at Grand Canyon, and it's an easy day, across the canyon of the Little Colorado...Grand Teton's a fur piece, and I do believe it'll still be winter there...
winter sorta crimps my alfresco style, knowudahmean...
just saying
what were some of the labels?
Hmmm....most of it 'mysteriously' disappeared years ago, but as I recall:
Oban
Talisker
Bowmore
Laphroaig
Lagavulin
Isle of Jura
I still feel a tad guilty that I smuggled scotch, rather than Irish whiskey, into the Pogues concert when I was there in London in 1991. Ah well...
That's fourteen Hail Marys and a feckin' Rosary, y' gobshite heathen.
Flory--Talisker's still around.
i like albuquerque. it's sort of a miserable burg in a lot of ways, but it looked to me like the kind of place where you could get a job. and it is in new mexico. and new mexico is the land of enchantment. that isn't an empty slogan. it really is.
i heart lloyd doggett. and sheila jackson lee. and ann richards. and lloyd bentsen... speaking of bentsen, i think it is very sad that one of houston's worst freeways is named in his honor. i think that's insulting.
eally want to go to Monument Valley and Grand Teton Nat'l Park.
Res Ipsa Loquitor |
Res, the Grand Tetons are mag-nif-i-cent. I could stare at those massive, rugged, gorgeous tetons forever. And a truly beautiful national park. The Jenny Lake ride is nice as is the trail leading up from it.
There are also some nice trails leading out to the beaver ponds -- I saw my first baby moose there, he was munching on various greenery growing on top of a beaver dam.
Oban
Talisker
Bowmore
Laphroaig
Lagavulin
Isle of Jura
i've seen all of 'em 'cept mebbe Bowmore within the last 5 years...
I still feel a tad guilty that I smuggled scotch, rather than Irish whiskey, into the Pogues concert when I was there in London in 1991. Ah well...
That's fourteen Hail Marys and a feckin' Rosary, y' gobshite heathen.
Thers
Plus one two three four five six seven eight nine ten bottles of gin!
flory, i have the same problem with my scotch stash... it keeps disappearing. mysteriously. i've come to the point where i buy this insanely cheap stuff called "The Lismore," which is only $15, but is actually pretty good; gets the job done, and i keep the good stuff for special occasions. i cracked open a 15-year MacAllan to celebrate getting a new job. that list, though, sounds marvelous. i wish i was obscenely rich. i would relocate to scotland, open a distillery and raise sheep, all the while sitting on top of some big "fookin'" hills.
When the world is too dark
And I need the light inside of me
I walk into a bar
And drink fifteen pints of beer
Are you GOOD, Danny?
feck is a great word.
"plus 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, bottles of gin"
-rorschach
or as they say in dublin:
uno!
dos!
tres!
catorce!
i like albuquerque. it's sort of a miserable burg in a lot of ways, but it looked to me like the kind of place where you could get a job. and it is in new mexico. and new mexico is the land of enchantment. that isn't an empty slogan. it really is.
A friend of mine once said that Albuquerque has no soul.
I contradicted, saying that ABQ does have a soul, but it is the soul of a hibernating beetle.
ABQ, where I lived before, is the opposite of Austin, where I live now. ABQ has nothing, but a 30 minute drive puts you into fascinating and beautiful country. Austin is very cool, but it takes hours and hours to get anywhere worth going...
LOL, olaf!
i buy this insanely cheap stuff called "The Lismore,"
Y'know - Waterford makes a crystal pattern called Lismore - you could buy a glass or two and pretend you were drinkin' the good stuff.
i>Olaf, et al: re-"Burque"
i have lived lots of worse places...LOTS (Norman OK comes quickly to mind)
the 300th anniversary of the establishment of Albuquerque (it was spelled Alburquerque in the day) is next year. a friend is editing a book designed to be an anniversary artifact. he called me up cuz he was looking for odd, or quirky, things about the town...
i sent him the following list:
per recent conversations:
1) Shady Lakes: A fish and water-plant farm where folks also picnic while fishing--for a modest fee and the necessity of keeping everything they catch--the acres upon acres of ponds...located about a mile north of the village of Alameda on the west side of Hiway 133 (?not sure the hiway number)
2) The Sandia Bison: Sandia Pueblo keeps a small herd of bison/buffalo in a pasture just off the south shoulder of Tramway Blvd, just east of the Casino...btw: Just driving tramway from the I-25 exit toward the mountains is quite pleasant, and makes one glad the planners didn't decide to build a city-circling by-pass...
3) East-Side/Foothills parks: There is a network of both state and county parks extending from the furthest northern extremities of the City proper, east of the Tramway big bend, along through the foothills, southwards, terminating at about Copper Ave...
4) Coronado State Monument: Though properly considered part of Bernalillo, in Sandoval County, it's got museum-like features, but is not usually very busy. It is therefore a good place to take dogs for a river frolic...
5) Sunrise in the Valley: It's still semi-rural on any number of streets. Roosters crow, the occasional bray of a goat resounds. The sheep safely graze in several pens along Griegos, between 12th and Rio Grande...
6) The Ditches: RGCD (Rio Grande Conservancy District) administers about 200 miles of waterways throughout Bernalillo County. Along with providing water to numerous small, urban gardens and orchards during the growing season, the ditches have broad banks along which a fair amount of foot traffic traverses the Valley districts. Joggers, strollers, dog-walkers share the banks pretty equanamously with a community of assorted homeless, displaced, and vagrant folks. I suppose it's an acquired taste...
7) Mt. Taylor: About 60 miles west as the crow flies, the snowy peaks of NM's highest mountain stand out in high relief almost any time of day from almost anywhere in the Heights. If one squints just right, Albuquerque's signature three volcano cones may be thought (or imagined) to be the only notable features on the vast landscape in-between...
The Re-Store: Habitat for Humanity maintains a resale store for donated or used construction stuff; it's on San Mateo, behind the copper-front bldg, between Central and Zuni SE...it's a totally cool place for anyone with a hardwired hardware habit...
just fyi...
sallyh and WGG:
the scotch mysteriously disappeared from my liquor cabinet (it WASN'T me!!) - not the world at large.
i like albuquerque
It's the armpit of the U.S.
I lived there for 14 years and I'll never go back to that shit pit.
New Mexico is wonderful, as long as one stays arms length from Albuquerque.
I vividly remember my dad driving 75 mph, with a smoke and a can of beer in hand, as the three of us crawled around the seats (car seats and seat belts?! In the 70s?!)
I vividly remember my dad doing the same thing on many occasions. I also vividly remember one time when he and my Uncle were in the front seat smoking a joint, speeding down a canyon road, with us kids in the back seat! Yikes!
Ok, that may have been early 80's but same smell... LOL
Flory--hmm, mysteriously disappearing whiskey. It appears to be a common phenomenon.
Maybe Nessie got thirsty and raided your liquor cabinet?
FVC™
Weather bad here, must go to protect PC gear. Tomorrow, boonmats! Hedonia!
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albuquerque looks good to me. i am not career oriented. i don't want to be a lawyer or an instructor in literary studies or anything like that. albuquerque strike me as a place where i could probably get a job driving a forklift or something. and i would be in new mexico. and new mexico is sublime.
Must sleep. Good night, Eschaton.
Tonight's dream: Fredo resigns tomorrow.
Re: Aqua Vitae
the best deal in scotch, here, is Teacher's Highland Cream, 86 proof, for $30 for 1.75L...it is sooooo much better than JW Red or Dewars, or Cutty, or Scoresby, or any of the other comparably priced blends that is is simply ridiculous...
did i mention 86 Proof?
just askin...
Maybe Nessie got thirsty and raided your liquor cabinet?
That's it!!
Dammit, and the bitch prolly brought Sasquatch with her!!!!
i like albuquerque
It's the armpit of the U.S.
I lived there for 14 years and I'll never go back to that shit pit.
New Mexico is wonderful, as long as one stays arms length from Albuquerque.
Jimmy Jazz
True in general.
But: The Frontier!? Jack's Lounge?
There were oases.
sallyh: lol! when i was 14 or 15, my parents went to maine for the summer and i stayed in the TRUE armpit of america--houston--and drank all of my parents' canadian whiskey. they dont drink hard liquor at all... but they still found out. i tried to blame my older brother, but he ratted me out. :-D
Flory--hmm, mysteriously disappearing whiskey. It appears to be a common phenomenon.
Maybe Nessie got thirsty and raided your liquor cabinet?
Sallyh
Wracked by guilt, I admit: I drank your whiskey!
flory: that's a super great idea! there's even a waterford outlet in san marcos... road trip!
is it still a road trip if its just me?
albuquerque looks good to me. i am not career oriented. i don't want to be a lawyer or an instructor in literary studies or anything like that. albuquerque strike me as a place where i could probably get a job driving a forklift or something. and i would be in new mexico. and new mexico is sublime.
Olaf glad and big --1:35 am
you can get work here if you have a craft...i live in the north valley, in an old hispanic vecinidad, one of the first 'middle class' hispanic neighborhoods, circa 1950...
Burque can be a pretty bourgeois town, but fuck it's so easy to gety away... hiways go everyfuckingwhere
...you can spend a day in santa fe easily, or in the mountains, or the afternoon in Taos, or head up into the Jemez for hotsprings...
New Mexico is "Road-Trip Heaven."
"it's the armpit of the u.s.
i lived there for 14 years and i'll never go back to that shit pit."
-jimmyjazz
well, yeah. that's sort of why i called it a miserable burg. i'll tell you one thing though. it isn't the armpit of the u.s. it may be the armpit of new mexico, but the competition for "armpit of the u.s." includes places like camden, n.j., bridgeport, ct., phoenix city, al. albuquerque wouldn't even finish in the top 500 in an armpit of the u.s. competition.
re the re-store. austin has one, too, iirc.
keep in mind, when i say i want to live in albuquerque, what i really mean is that i want to live in new mexico and have a job.
If you even try to pretend to know the location of the armpit of the US without having gone to Pine Bluff, AR, or Port Arthur, TX, then I've got nothin' to say to you.
sallyh and WGG:
the scotch mysteriously disappeared from my liquor cabinet (it WASN'T me!!) - not the world at large.
flory - 1:32 am
sumBITCH, that happened to you too???
Somewhere last week somebody rau off with about a third of a 1.75L bottle of Teacher's, loke overnight, and it warn't ME! ( i don't think...erm..um...i mean...)
i still think houston is the armpit of the us. or pasadena. or beaumont. southeast texas is pretty nasty. i'll throw round rock in there, too. they're totally houston-izing central texas and that blows. damn you michael dell!
olaf, i have to admit, i'm impressed that you spell albequerque consistently correctly each time!
rors:
Wracked by guilt, I admit: I drank your whiskey!
I take back every compliment on your mastery of the pun.
poppie:
there's even a waterford outlet in san marcos... road trip!
sounds like karma to me.
is it still a road trip if its just me?
Does it further your appreciation of uisge baugh?
Then the answer is yes.
see? i couldnt even do it once!
olaf, i have to admit, i'm impressed that you spell albequerque consistently correctly each time!
PoppieProng/em>
Oh, the irony!
i'm not praising albuquerque at all. the only thing it has going for it is the fact that it is in new mexico. anyone who would characterize it as the armpit of america has not travelled much in this great land of ours. that's all i'm saying.
Come on, there's a BIG difference between Ann Coulter and those guys: she lacks a stache...
Well, NTodd, only "her" waxer knows for sure.
well, christ on a stick, it's late. i'm-a-going to bed.
The armpit of the US? The motherfucking state of Florida.
WGG:
Somewhere last week somebody rau off with about a third of a 1.75L bottle of Teacher's, loke overnight, and it warn't ME! ( i don't think...erm..um...i mean...)
Somebody needs to smack that Nessie beeyotch upside the haid.
rors:
Wracked by guilt, I admit: I drank your whiskey!
I take back every compliment on your mastery of the pun.
Rory to flory: I'm hurt.
Burque's 1000 times the town
that OKC is, for example...
Or Baton Rouge, too,
i'd WAY rather be in Abq than Spokane, or SaltLakeCity, or anywhere within 100 miles of Denver...
Rory to flory: I'm hurt.
A sad story. Can all be somehow made hunky-dory?
denver is an awful place. my people are coloradans. denver is a nightmare.
The armpit of the US? The motherfucking state of Florida.
Thersites
C'mon, now Thers. We all know that the motherfucking state of Florida is America's wang.
The armpit of the US? The motherfucking state of Florida.
Absolutely. The place is a cesspool. It represents all that is wrong with America. Its only redeeming value is that it gives me an atrocity to write about on an almost weekly basis.
Provo Utah is Stepford People Heaven, but even it can't compete with Florida.
hmmmm.... anybody here can give me a mailing address for the Prior?
I am going to Scotia this summer, and would be willing to bring back a flask or two of something unique for a favorite Prior....
Nytol, moonbats...
golden slumbers fill your eyes...
my best regards to all y'all...
i'm tired, and the Speyburn has done its work...the mothership beckons...
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Rory to flory: I'm hurt.
A sad story. Can all be somehow made hunky-dory?
Thersites
I suspect the outcome may be gory.
Rory to flory: I'm hurt.
I dunno rory - I'm a forgiving sort. But drinkin' up a girl's whiskey - that's cold.
What say you, atriots? Should I forgive him? Restore him to his rightful place in the pantheon of punsters?
thers:
A sad story. Can all be somehow made hunky-dory?
Its in your hands.
suspect the outcome may be gory.
rorschach - 1:59 am
oh rory don't spoil the story...
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on my last trip west, i became accustome to wide open spaces and natural beauty. then i got to denver. it is basically chicago in the foothills of the rockies. i also saw 5 fatal accidents on the highways around denver. and i was only there for a few hours. it was rushour, but you won't see 5 fatal accidents on the highways around dc in a month.
ok. you will se like 7 million non-fatal ones.
A sad story. Can all be somehow made hunky-dory?
Its in your hands.
So flory & rory, it's maturbatory? I need more whiskey...
suspect the outcome may be gory.
rorschach - 1:59 am
oh rory don't spoil the story...
Oy.
I dunno rory - I'm a forgiving sort. But drinkin' up a girl's whiskey - that's cold.
Sorry. Sorry.
olaf, thinking about how to get a job and make a living in New Mexcio is a good place to start, because we've got people with postgraduate degrees working for poverty wages in book stores here.
I generally discourage people from moving here, we got enough problems as it is, and the water is running low, but for you, I'd change out the last 7 gallon toilet in the casa for a low flow American Standard...
(a comment only a New Mexican will understand)
The armpit of the US? The motherfucking state of Florida.
Absolutely. The place is a cesspool. It represents all that is wrong with America.
Oh man is that ever true. Frankly, I'm not entirely sure it's ever really got beyond banana republic colonial posession reality, its statehood be damned.
Of course, my college football team is the Hurricanes. So I mean apart from that...
Here are some words that rhyme with Cory. Allegory...
A sad story. Can all be somehow made hunky-dory?
Its in your hands.
So flory & rory, it's maturbatory?
Dammit thers. That was really good wine I just snorted!!
What's maturbatory, exactly?
Is that like senior-citizen hand jobs or somethin?
nmred. i'm not even looking for a good job. i will drive a forklift for a living. i am not accustomed to making lots of money. that's what i do here in the east. i make big money and it allows me to afford my big bills.
when i say "big money", i mean $12/hr. woo hooo! i'm rich, bitch!!
rory:
provisional absolution.
but if you're gonna be at eschacon - you better bring the good stuff.
okay: two posts have vanished. Am I exiled?
apparently not. Strange.
Actually, NMRed, a Californian will understand the low flow toilet thing. The DWP gives you $100 to swap the old ones out.
Despite what Arnold may think, water's a huge problem in this state and it's going to be a real political hand grenade soon.
What's maturbatory, exactly?
I could explain it... but then I'd have to kill you.
I hide many dark mysteries within my inscrutable demeanor.
Some of them... stupid.
olaf, $12 an hour would allow you live modestly in the valley, if you can find that wage. We've got a lot of problems in this state, and brutally low wages in most industries.
Maybe you could get a job at CostCo, they do pay ok, and if you know how to drive a forklift, that would help.
But our construction trades are all suffering from low wages because of the pressure from illegal immigrants who will put up a block wall for $6 an hour.
We have a contractor who has done several remodels and renovations for us. His dad ran the business for 30 years, and he's got a great reputation.
We're about to start some major work here, during a meeting about the project, he said he'd lost a couple of jobs because the other contractors underbid him. He said he knows that the others contractors are using illegals, but he won't. He pays workman's comp, his core crew have modest health bennies, and he supplies them with work clothes. His competitors do nothing for their crews but pay them lousy wages.
Just sayin', no desire to start an argument about immigration.
Thersites--University of Miami?
I must get my bad old self to bed, then.
some of the litrature professor types here will be surprised, i guess, that i am a professional forklift operator and thomas pynchon enthusiast. i have actually turned quite a few of my colleagues on to "the crying of lot 49". most of them got a kick out of it, but were also mystified to some extent. i am mystified by it to some extent also. i doubt if i could get any of them to read "gravity's rainbow" though.
The 'Canes, yes.
Sleep... I must. Until tomorrow, 'bats.
here in Santa Fe, a builder has to retrofit X amount of high flow toilets to get permits to build new houses. We still have one high flow we're 'saving' for when our contractor needs it. My next door neighbor isn't just wanting new toilets, she's holding out for cash money. She figures in another couple of years, she'll be able to make a few hundred on the side.
I just sent in the proofed text of my essay on "Mason & Dixon" by the by!
Night all batties!
olaf, a Pynchon reading forklift operator..... yep, you're gonna fit right in. Give me call when you hit the Big I.
G'night all then.
Night. folks, off to put on the head phones and take a second listen to the new Bruce...
sallyh:
Despite what Arnold may think, water's a huge problem in this state and it's going to be a real political hand grenade soon.
And I'm still waiting to meet the politician, of either party, who's going to be willing to take on CA agriculture and price water at its market price - which is the only way to save any appreciable amount of water in this state.
If it's yellow let it mellow.
re: me (in re: pynchon enthusiasm) i actually did go to college and pursued a degree in english. didn't read any pynchon or anything else interesting for classes though. mostly read tennyson and robert browning and dreck like that. god i hate robert browning. what an awful poet he was. so i quit.
maturbatory
The state of an old era British Politician when away from the home fires.
Or the state of a current era Republican politician listening to Tom DeLay give a speech.
Olaf--Your description of college English puzzles me, unless you were at a tiny college with just one Barret and Browning specialist.
You mean you couldn't take classes in Shakespeare or The Modern Novel or Survey of Japanese Literature?
And you couldn't take criticism courses where you read the French hotshots like Barthes and Derrida, perhaps dispensing with the original texts altogether?
I'm picturing you on a cold winter night at some Upper Peninsula dorm with nothing but a stack of Browning bios to read.
Barrett, not Barret. Typo--I swear, but she's not very good. "Let me count the ways"--then she counts them.
this just cheeses me off big time.(from brad delong):
Greenspan reminded lawmakers that government economists at the time predicted budget surpluses 'as far as the eye can see.' Yet Greenspan had warned then in congressional testimony that the forecasts might be wrong, and he recommended some 'trigger' mechanism that would limit the tax cuts if certain budget targets were not met. Greenspan said he thinks 'it's frankly unfair' for critics to blame him now for the fact that Congress chose to 'read half [his] testimony and discard the rest.'
Yeah. ok.
So you made one quiet objection 4 fucking years ago and haven't had word one to say about deficits since.
And we're supposed to applaud your deficit fighting credentials.
I really fucking hate these people.
Good Morning.
Where's the John Bolton one? His mustache alone would certainly appear to qualify him.
So you made one quiet objection 4 fucking years ago and haven't had word one to say about deficits since.
And we're supposed to applaud your deficit fighting credentials.
I really fucking hate these people.
flory
Oh he has downplayed worries about the deficit within the last couple of months as part of his Green-spin for the markets. I had one bookmarked, but yahoo seems to be expiring news much more quickly than before.
Needless to say that Greenspan has become a complete political hack, who his fighting to maintain his place in history as his 15 minutes of fame come to a spiraling close.
Oh dear, another insular conversation about poetry. I guess I'll have to read another blog.
What choice have I got? Atrios won't post on biofuels and you guys won't talk the way I want.
Therefore, carpbasblog (doesn't actually exist) deserves all of your traffic.
QED
Now which of you subliterate morons is following me over to my blog?
draco, no, believe it or not. the way it worked was that i had to pick my english classes pretty carefully and i also had to fulfill my core requirements. it was almost impossible for me to fit an interesting lit class into my schedule ever, even though my major was english. that is why i quit.
Olaf, I think you had the wrong major.
If your going to get a BA, at least from a state school, it might as well be in "things I enjoy bullshitting about."
Not to say you went to a state school, but having a BA in philosophy from a state school, that was my take on it...
Carpbasman, did you go to a state school?
Maybe
And thanks for calling me out on the intentional quirk. I appreciate it.
By the way, you might appreciate it if Atrios wasn't so insular.
If so I'd appreciate it if you visited my blog atrioscommentsareinsularand theydontlikeme.blogspot.com
Oh. so I'm here all by my lonesome, huh?
Well, I don't disclose this to everybody, but my degree isn't even from a land grant college. Nope.
It's from the Carpbasman School of Self Development.
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C -- As long as I don't have to draw Skippy, or anything.
Well, well, well. You kids had quite the party here last night. What a mess. Don't expect the morning crew to clean up after you. You'll just have to explain all the cake tins and empty scotch bottles to Atrios yourselves.
My word.
Morning moonbats.
Morning, QL. I just got here. The sofa was on fire when I walked in, and I still haven't gotten an explanation for the goat in the dining room.
Somebody's gonna get it . . .
Goddess help us. The new prez of PBS thinks the Newshour is slow and wants a more People type program. He hopes to attract more conservative viewers. Well, I hope he has better luck than CNN that is losing viewers faster than a high flush toilet (in keeping with the meme). He also better hope that they will be willing to pony up the cash at pledge time, cause I certainly will not.
Morning Virginia:
I'm betting everyone else will be nursing a sore head this morning. All that Scotch being swilled. Wait, maybe it was just being virtually swilled.
Ack. More coffee needed to deal with dual realities.
i'll tell yall about my confrontation with the acadeny sometime, if you want to hear it. it was awful. they wanted me to write a detailed paper aboult robert browning. i refused, of course. but i paid a price.
NPR has been getting on my nerves of late. I've been sensing a subtle shift toward the new meaning of "balance" -- not being too critical of the lunatics, for fear of earning the Liberal Media label.
Or maybe Air America has spoiled me rotten.
The sofa was on fire when I walked in
Sure it was....
But, if you give me money, I might be able to figure out a way that the burning couch was indicative of your future success.
And your free gift would include a season with Anne Coulter at the South Pole!
And your free gift would include a season with Anne Coulter at the South Pole!
Carpbasman
For "free gift," read "sentence."
hairyfishnuts has a really good summary of the "desperation" of the insurgency in Mission Accomplishedland --
The Year(s) of Lying Desperately
In case the coffee's not strong enough to get your adrenaline going.
You know how sometimes you wake up with a horrible cold and "Wells Fargo Wagon" from The Music Man stuck in your head?
I hate that.
NPR has been getting on my nerves of late. I've been sensing a subtle shift toward the new meaning of "balance" -- not being too critical of the lunatics, for fear of earning the Liberal Media label.
Rene Montagne sucks ass. She has been having at least one sympathetic segment on the fundies it seems like every day. It really is getting to the point where all my news is coming from the internet. I still read the Times in morning. But, other than the Newshour, I don't get any news from the TV at all.
I don't get any news from the TV at all.
QL in NY
Me too, either. I can't stomach the circus atmosphere. Will Michael Jackson wear pajamas again? Are Paris and Nicole on the outs for good? And the coverage of "actual" news: Critics say DeLay is a corrupt piece of shit; DeLay says they're just out to get him because they hate Jesus and Freedom. Ta-da! Two sides of the story!
Yeeecccccchhhh.
We are a coalition of former friends and co-workers of Ann Coulter who are upset by her vicious anti-gay, anti-Muslim, anti-feminist rhetoric and feel the truth should be told. Our organization, Strap-On Veterans For Truth, is dedicated to exposing the true past of America’s number one hatemonger.
Ann Coulter is actually a former drag queen from Key West named Pudenda Shenanigans. Ms. Shenanigans was famous for her renditions of “Dude Looks Like a Lady” “I Will Survive” and “You Shook Me All Night Long” as well as an extensive Barbra Streisand repertoire. We who used to work with her are concerned for her as well as upset by the vile hatred she has spewed towards her former friends in the gay community. We feel that by bringing the truth to light perhaps Ann will come to grips with her past and change her wicked ways.
As Pudenda Shenanigans, she was well known on the drag circuit in Key West. Whether she actually had a full sex change or not is a matter of debate, although her adam’s apple is still visible in photos, under the appropriate light. We who laughed, cried, worked and danced with her feel her story should be told. We are not out to punish her, but feel it’s time she owned up to what she really is.
The person known today as Ann Coulter was born Jeremy Levinsohn in the village in New York in 1960. His parents were typical latte-drinking liberals, religiously conservative, but socially and politically radical. His father taught Russian Literature at CUNY and his mother was a social worker. His childhood friend Rodger Mihalot described him, “The Levinsohns were nice people, but his father was distant, so Jeremy seemed to seek a strong male figure in his life. Although they were Jewish, he often hung out at our church, and really seemed to spend a lot of time with Fr. Donatella Nowunn. I also think he was really looking to rebel against his overly liberal parents. Otherwise he was a typical kid, he liked to play cowboy, sailor and gladiator a lot. His favorite movie was always The Sheik, he really seemed to have a fascination with Arabs, I don’t know why.”
mikke
heehee
Ta-da! Two sides of the story!
Gosh, ya mean that isn't "fair and balanced?" I always thought that offering both sides equal time revealed the truth. Does that mean that if we offer a lie on one side and the truth on another that the balance is (gasp) a_a LIE?
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Just keep on believing in freedom, democracy and the Murcan dream. Oh yeah, and buy a bigger SUV.
and buy a bigger SUV.
And don't forget the giant tv for your tiny apartment.
a must for this years fashion
Virginia sez:
You know how sometimes you wake up with a horrible cold and "Wells Fargo Wagon" from The Music Man stuck in your head?
Now it's stuck in my head. Thanks a lot.
I will get my revenge.
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AAR is replaying an interview with Robert Reich. Why I love him:
The preznit doesn't want to put out an actual Social Security plan, because "you don't want to put out a plan and have people, you know, vomit."
I used to think it was unfair to comment on Ann's adam's apple but she wouldn't hold back on someone's appearance. Who'd have known that the attack bitch of the neo-fascists would turn out to be a whining crybaby over being the Time covergirl. Especially since the article was a sustained billy do from an obviously besotted keyboard boy. If Cloud benefits from that piece of crap it's the QED that our print media is as useless as broadcast.
mikke, very good. Only one thing, others might have a different memory but I don't remember anyone drinking latte in leftist circles before the 1980s.
OK so now I have four horrible songs stuck in my head because I'm trying to trump the Ron Howard version of Wells Fargo. This could go postal
Sheeet. I have the theme from the Newshour floating around my head.
bill sez:
Does that mean that if we offer a lie on one side and the truth on another that the balance is (gasp) a_a LIE?
"We are not judging the credibility of Kerry or the (Swift Boat) Veterans, we just print the facts."
-WaPo editor Len Downie as quoted in Salon .
.
I don't get any news from the TV at all.
QL in NY
NO ONE gets any news from the TV. Especially those who go there looking for news.
Rene is just awful but Inskeep, Wellna, etc. essentially, the whole staff couldn't find work as message boys in a real news operation.
The news that the new head of PBS is looking to increase their CONSERVATIVE viewers is the nail in the coffin of that shell game.
Let's look,
Tucker, Ifel, Lehrer (who the fathead seems to think is a liberal), etc.
Just where are those liberals at PBS hidden? This Old House? Is Norm a pinko? The Old Junk Roadshow? Radical recyclers?
If we had a real public television service the first requirement for it's head should be that they watch the damned thing.
I want to know if Pat Mitchell is going to profit from their new kiddies station, the one in collaboration with Disney. If she cares about her reputation she will make it public that it doesn't amount to a sweetheart deal of some kind.
I used to respect Pat Mitchell.
What you have to do QL - is work on it so that the Daily Show theme is floating in your head.
I got that down. It's sweeeet.
I don't remember anyone drinking latte in leftist circles before the 1980s.
EPTropy
They did drink espresso, though.
bill -- I tried "I've Got a Horse Right Here" for a while, but Wells Fargo came back. I have the worst case of earwormitis of anyone I ever knew. Sometimes I get them for days. One time I had this little riff from a James Taylor song for 5 days, morning, noon and night:
In line, in line
It's all in line
My ducks are all in a row
They do not shift, they do not move
They have nowhere to go . . .
(Repeat until you stick a wire coathanger in your ear to kill it.)
How about Hey There Georgie Girl riding Up and Away In Her Beautiful Balloon?
I need mental novacaine
Ba®ndog sez
What you have to do QL - is work on it so that the Daily Show theme is floating in your head.
I got that down. It's sweeeet.
The original version was written and performed by Bob Mould.
Just sayin'.
.
Oh.
All else fails the Sesame Street theme is pretty potent.
morning moonbats
new thread up yonder.
One of the funniest things I've ever seen was on The Daily Show BJS (Before Jon Stewart). On a Christmas show Kilborn and Mould were on a homey set standing around a piano singing "The Little Drummer Boy" a la Bowie and Crosby. Mould was even wearing a powder blue cardigan.
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Espresso, absolutely but only when we repaired to the coffee house. I never knew anyone with a maker in their home back then.
The Hitler cover text: "The controversial goosestepper is shaking Europe up as he shakes it down for liebensraum. But, what about world jewry?"
great job on the Time covers.
I feel real out of it when it comes to the magrags - this woman should be over already. Why does she keep holding attention? Vampire teeth or what? I want that little fatboy couch warrior Goldberg to have a chance at a cover -imagine him photographed with that special lens/angle. You could frighten small children! hell, you could frighten ME!
'just a shortened version of 'mustache'
N Todd
Der Schnurrbart is German for mustache. Learned that in Berlin from my waitress at a steakhouse on the K'dam.
Ja, es braucht ihm nur ein Schnurrbart.
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