I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
heh
Cuckoo Bananas
Cuckoo Bananas
President Cuckoo Bananas to you, bud.
We don' need no steenkin trooth.
We're not really nazis unless we join the party, right?
You can't compare Newsweek publishing WORDS that incite riots with PHOTOS that may incite riots too! Not the same!
Newsweek=liberal, bad
Rupert Murdoch=neocon, my buddy
See?
CCB
barbaric and backwards.
Well, he just took off the mail gauntlets. Let the Crusades begin for real.
This is a quote from Commander Cuckoo Bananas:
"I think they’re inspired by an ideology that is so barbaric and backwards that it’s hard for many in the Western world to comprehend how they think…”
He's talking about shitbirds like Falwell, Robertson, Dobson, and Wildmon, right?
And speaking of backward barbarians...
Condi does her best Ozzy Osbourne imitation.
Someone mentioned in the last thread (scrolled thru only) the photos may be a distraction so we won't notice the NYTimes piece on the torturing and murdering being done in our name in Afghanistan. Spot on. I read two pages of the NYT story and had to stop reading. It made me ill.
Have I metioned today how much I hate these people? *channeling Mike Malloy*
Condi does her best Ozzy Osbourne imitation.
Condi scares me. Please stop that.
Legends of Satan's Speedway, aka, US Highway 666...It followed a couple of different routes.
through some of the most spectacular landsape in North America...
It's the labial media - they're all pussies.
way ot, but over at kos there is talk that the plame investigation is being folded into the franklin investigation!
Every time I need to get something done, I keep praying that I'll come back to the bar and things will have done a 180 in DC.
Hopeless optimist, I am.
In the meantime, it's cocktail hour.
I have the insane hope that, out of some sense of solidarity to Newsweek and, prompted by the fact that the Koran incident is both part of a lawsuit and published in Harpers that some in the media with the right connections and contacts WILL verify it. Newsweek would then be able to do a follow-up and though I doubt they'd have the guts to actually ask the Whitehouse for an apology... they'd at least be vindicated.
Because, frankly, I find it unlikely, given everything else that's gone on in our detention camps, that the Koran flushing didn't happen.
Buck Fush!
I just want to praise Ba'al that I've made it home from Newark. Smoking a cigar in his honor.
Carry on.
Watertiger, that's awful! Now I'm gonna have nightmares about that Condi picture.
Not sure what's scarier, her teeth or those eyes.
Will someone PLEASE stuff this up Scotties fucking ass at the next fucking clusterfuck known as a press briefing?
ah yes, the demonic route 666!
imagine the carload of christian whackjobs who accidentally happen upon this hwy? hoo haw.
you gotta love it.
NTodd--I just stuck your cake in the oven. Perfect timing.
How's Daddy's Boy?
We're not really nazis unless we join the party, right?
They have such nice lapel pins, tho!
In the meantime, it's cocktail hour.
Sallyh, La Poissoniere
Yes, indeedy it is. Might even help Phila's headache.
Woody I would go thru there on my up and back from Moab.
I forget the name of the town there in Col. that I turned and went into Utah tho.
Great road
Eli--remember, Condoleeza Rice is not a woman. She's a fembot. Just a robot.What else could explain her infatuation with dear leader?
Sallyh - Sam's enjoying freedom. Against my better judgement I let him outside--he's been cooped up all week with Stef traveling and working late (VPR pledge drive's coming up). Eh, I'm so wired I'll be up late anyway, so let him go hunt for a while.
And I'd like an extra big piece of cake with as much whipped cream as you can possibly put on it. Thanks!
Have I mentioned that Blue Dragon is HOT?
Why would anyone make a fembot that looked like *that*???
Welcome home NTodd.
Does that mean we get the other half of the picture of Sam?
Condoleeza Rice is not a woman. She's a fembot.
I wonder if we could pull an ID4 move and infect her with a computer virus that brings down the entire alien GOP invasion.
I just want to praise Ba'al that I've made it home from Newark. Smoking a cigar in his honor.
Carry on.
NTodd
In relief of your salvation, I have mixed my first martini.
Glad you made it home, NTodd
God forgive me, this is off-topic:
Porn site; main-stream-media site. Both have the same story:
When a news release crossed our desk yesterday proclaiming that a porn star named Mary Carey would attend a June dinner with President Bush , we figured it had to be a hoax. But it's true. Porn star and former gubernatorial candidate Mary Carey will be joining her boss, Kick Ass Pictures president Mark Kulkis, in attending a dinner with President Bush in Washington, D.C. on June 14.
What Eli said.
Unless it escaped from some Hollywood horror studio?
Does that mean we get the other half of the picture of Sam?
Not 'til he comes home from stalking in the meadow.
Highway 666 Reinvented
Grover said to Bill The Cat, “Drown me a child.”
Bill said “Grove, now you’re just talkin’ too wild.”
Grove said “Now!” Bill said “Why?”
Grove said “When you run for the White House, I
Will make sure the big money boys give you no more.”
Bill said “Where’d you like me to do this chore?”
Grove said “Do it on the Senate floor.”
Judge Jan Brown lived in perilous times
Fighting the godless and their willful crimes
Denouncing the culture she openly yearned
For the early days when all witches were burned
Humanists might not like that any more
But they’d learn just what those stakes were for
If she could win on the Senate floor.
Now Karl Rove the guru was quite amused
By amateurs wond’ring how to light the fuse
He said “Kids, here’s the tool that we’ll use.
Put TVs in churches and spread this ruse.
We’ll stir up the preachers and make them sure
That the final battle of holy war
Will be fought out on the Senate floor.”
Nevada Harry was a fetus fan
Who dissembled ’til he devised a plan
For a “compromise” to let some judges in
Who agreed that abortion was still a sin.
For this his name later would live in lore
Of his misleading those who allowed his score
Done in plain sight on the Senate floor.
By Ayn Clouter 11:20 am Comedy & Satire
Where has Ba'al been lately? Perhaps he is not getting enough burnt offerings.
Mary Cary looks like Rove's taste...
little geek loves them big-titted, plain-faced, dumb-fuck trailer-trash hos
Just looked at that Condi pic....
MY EYES, MY EYES, SOMEBODY HELP ME !!!!
Have I told anyone that Sallyh was placed on this earth just to brighten everyone's day?
"Where has Ba'al been lately? Perhaps he is not getting enough burnt offerings."
Dealing with end of term and NIH competitive review, which is more like being the burnt offering as opposed to receiving it.
MY EYES, MY EYES, SOMEBODY HELP ME !!!!
Hoyt C. |
The only thing that'll help is bleach. It'll sting some in the short term, but you'll be glad in the long run.
Firm event, blah, blah, blah. Decent martini bar, blah, blah, blah. Great caviar bar, blah, blah blah. Mediocre jazz quartet, blah, blah, blah.
Observations:
1. Partners' wives getting fatter and having fewer face lifts. Looking more worried; less likely to get into Manolo-in-the-instep competitions w/ me at the caviar bar. (Latter possibly due to my rep from previous years as winner of all such competitions. Getting between Hecate and the caviar -- not such a good idea.)
2. Fewer trophy wives, more old faithfuls. More tropy husbands, all of whom are artists or chefs.
3. Summer law students no longer look like fifteen-year-olds to me; now look like twelve-year-olds.
4. Scallop satay -- not such a good idea.
5. Latest antitrust lateral is very hot and unattached. Quotes poetry -- good sign.
6. The more one's practice requires one to travel outside the US, the less likely one is to approve of anything the current admin is doing.
Now, I need a drink.
"Have I told anyone that Sallyh was placed on this earth just to brighten everyone's day?"
Good thing you weren't there on the day I was laid off...
ayn clouter is a genius-dare i say on the level of the boy from hibbing.
there wouldn't be a recording of this by any chance?
Have I told anyone that Sallyh was placed on this earth just to brighten everyone's day?
Blue Dragon
Plus bake cakes for her friends at Eschaton......
(slips Hecate a double)
Have I told anyone that Sallyh was placed on this earth just to brighten everyone's day?
Blue Dragon - 8:40 pm
mostly we knew that, brother...
"I think they’re inspired by an ideology that is so barbaric and backwards that it’s hard for many in the Western world to comprehend how they think…”
Wow, the sheer depth of this man's stupidity is utterly amazing......
All is well with the world. They will now sell hot dog buns to coincide with the number of hot dogs in a package. Life is good. Peace is at hand.
President Bush addresses the kids:
http://pptkids.org/
http://pptkids.org/
http://pptkids.org/
Hang on, the linked abcnews story has a slightly different wording which changes the meaning totally.. I can't believe even Bush used "ideology".. the New York Post is a different story. Obviously.
WASHINGTON May 20, 2005 — President Bush said Friday that he did not think photos of imprisoned Saddam Hussein clad only in his underwear would incite further anti-American violence in Iraq. "I don't think a photo inspires murderers," Bush said.
The photos, published in British and American newspapers, prompted an angry U.S. military to launch an investigation; The Red Cross said the pictures may violate the Geneva Conventions.
"These people are motivated by a vision of the world that is backward and barbaric," Bush told reporters in the Oval Office where he met with the prime minister of Denmark, Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
Barbaric, hunh.
Funny. After like, oh, ten years at UCLA and UT and Oxford and Ottawa and wherever, places that oddly enough brought me into contact quite a lot with a lot of 'foreigners' from the impenetrable Middle East, the most infinitely civilised, civil, decent, honourable and nicest folk I met tended to be Iraqis. Persians were pretty nice too - but where these scum apologists get the right to declare people who
I'm sorry, this is too ugly. There are limits.
Hecate - you need more than one.
And I salute your caviar bar athletics. Manolo stomping is an especially rigorous sport.
Flory--in honor of NTodd not being trapped for all eternity in Newark, we're having strawberry shortcake, which is in the oven. Upon seeing me insert the cake, my daughter screamed, "You're baking? Today? At least let me put the AC on, dammit!" (I'm trying to encourage the family to use less AC.)
On topic--one of the oddest things about the Bush bizarro world is that small-gov righties and true libertarians (like Silber) have discovered how much they had in common with decadent anti-imperial lefties. And, vice versa, to a lesser extent.
Off-topic--Is anyone watching "Sweet Charity" on TCM? Fosse was a great director eventually, but this early effort is a bit frenetic--he seems to be stitching together all the things he'd learned from Euro-cimena and NY art films: freeze frames, shaky hand-held cinema verite, quick cuts, impossible jump-cuts, fancy angles, a real goulash of everything he could show off.
But Fosse's choreography is still striking. He really loved slutty poses for women, and managed to let them keep their dignity hitting such poses.
The "Big Spender" number was great, blending static, awkward poses (as if the women had their legs literally bent out of shape from too much illicit sex) with subtly precise finger-work and a series of superficially asymmetrical but carefully balanced tableaux. A bit like Paul Klee, whose compositions threaten to fall apart, but never do.
I meant to add, it still doesn't change the fact that the Post/Sun are being held to a totally different standard.
col patrick lang was on hardball tonite and spoke directly to the 'barbaric' comment chimpy made, chastisizing him that he really needs to be careful about that language because it's interpreted by muslims as condemning them all (which of course numbnuts is doing).
Ayn Clouter
tres brilliant
was on THIS page
couldnt find an audio link
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"I think they’re inspired by an ideology that is so barbaric and backwards that it’s hard for many in the Western world to comprehend how they think…”
The most scientifically sophisticated civilization on earth didn't have an Enlightenment because they never needed one!
Barbaric? I must know all the wrong people, because anyone I've ever met from the ME has been unfailingly polite and kind.
Does anybody doubt that Mary Carey would have done a better job as govenor that the Groppenfuhrer?
As to the MSM "reporting" -- it's all in 1984 (disturbingly prescient)
Hang on, the linked abcnews story has a slightly different wording which changes the meaning totally.. I can't believe even Bush used "ideology".. the New York Post is a different story. Obviously.
Official WH transcript has "ideology".
Bite, me Haloscan!
Sallyh, Thank you! Let the healing begin!
I think they’re inspired by an ideology that is so barbaric and backwards that it’s hard for many in the Western world to comprehend how they think…”
Yeah, Shrub. That would be your admin.
NTodd..Thanks...
OK.. more proof he's an insensitive idiot. I fucking give up...
"Does anybody doubt that Mary Carey would have done a better job as govenor that the Groppenfuhrer?"
Mary Carey's not a stupid woman. It wouldn't be difficult for her to do a better job than Herr Gropenfuhrer.
GWPDA - content yourself that for the most part, the people who believe cuckoo bananas take on the world have never traveled more than thirty miles from their place of birth - even in their imaginations.
They don't read.
They watch Survivor and think they understand the peoples of Africa and the South Pacific.
Unfortunately, they're calling the shots at the moment. But they've done so in the past and reason and enlightenment win out in the end.
DON'T THEY?!?!??!!!
Hecate--we'll keep the liquor flowing. I just made a Trader Joe's run earlier today.
Sallyh..
yep, I hit TJs..
cheers
Bush's comment is likely to make the Newsweek fiasco pale by comparison.
Barbaric? I must know all the wrong people, because anyone I've ever met from the ME has been unfailingly polite and kind.
I would agree with you except for the Saudi's. Think it may go back to the Wahhabi roots that don't seem to affect the rest of the Arabs in the region.
"The tradition of Memorial Day reinforces our Nation's resolve to never forget those who gave their last full measure for America. As we engage in the war against terrorism, we also pray for peace. When America emerged from the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln called on all Americans to 'cherish a just and lasting peace.' In these extraordinary times, our Nation has once again been challenged, and Lincoln's words remain our guiding prayer."
--George W. Bush
http://pptkids.org/
Maranatha!
http://pptkids.org/
NTodd--how soon can you pick up the Ramset of Virtue watch? No worries, Eli and Jeffraham are on the job.
Had lunch today w/ a friend who just got back from two weeks in Paris. She said the French were unfailing kind and polite and not paying much attention to US politics one way or the other. Said they were very concerned about whether or not to sign EU constitution and about British elections.
Has the rest of the world already written us off?
"I think they’re inspired by an ideology that is so barbaric and backwards that it’s hard for many in the Western world to comprehend how they think…”
I think Bush was just channeling Nathaniel in Last of the Mohicans.
I think they’re inspired by an ideology that is so barbaric and backwards that it’s hard for many in the Western world to comprehend how they think…”
He was caught off guard, with no script and just said what's in his heart, this is what he really thinks of all Muslims.
Chris/TX--one of my favorite colleagues is from SA, and not Wahhabi in the least. He's not only pleasant, he's hysterically funny.
Spot on. I read two pages of the NYT story and had to stop reading. It made me ill.
spot on. I got ill last night after I waded through 9 onlines pages of it. just another victory over taxi drivers everywhere on the march towards TortureFreedom.
and knowing this was a minor death, in a minor litterature, of a minor daily deployment of my tax dollars. on this day, in this place. added to the catalogue.
even my vomit is hip hip hyppocritical now, complicit.
Sallyh - no Ramsets in my hands tonight. Too wired, tired, and rapidly becoming too drunk. I'll likely end up nailing my foot to the floor...
if my son becomes an artist or a chef when he grows up, maybe he can marry an affluent litigator. there may be hope.
Lemme See Sumthin...da chimp reams the ass outa newsweak and Rupture Murdoch’s Sun gets a free pass...da wingers hang together
MEMORIAL DAY SCRIPTURE CHECK FROM LORD BUSH:
"In the same way that God wants us to remember the great things He has done for us, our president wants us to remember those who have sacrificed and given their lives for our freedom. That's what MEMORIAL DAY is all about! It's a special time when we remember the dedication and service of the members of our military. We stop to thank God and to thank them for the way they gave themselves so that we could continue to enjoy our freedom. By remembering, we get a bigger appreciation of the blessing of freedom."
Thank God for His True Son and Our Savior -- Lord Bush!!
http://pptkids.org/
Maranatha!
http://pptkids.org/
GWPDA,
Wish you could see my rhododendron, which is magnificant this year! How hot did it get there today? Did you let Arthur go swimming?
Flory--I believe all events are essentially Gaussian; the Bush regime is the first instance where that theory is being sorely tested. That being said, I believe the shape of the curve at this point is narrow and steep. Once they reach the apex, it's going to be a quick slide down the right of the slope.
Has the rest of the world already written us off?
Hecate
I think the rest of the world is enjoying watching us stew in our own juices. We're reaping what we've sown and they're enjoying the show.
Other than that - we're not as farkin' central to the smooth running of the universe as certain Washingtonians would like to believe.
Has the rest of the world already written us off?
Well, DUH! Wouldn't you, seeing a so-called first world country being run by a brutal moron?
it's going to be a quick slide down the right of the slope.
Sallyh, La Poissoniere
But, will the brainless one take us all with him?
Heacte --
Have another drink
I promise not to get between you & the caviar (in fact, you can have all my salty fish eggs)
Maybe the French not apying attention to US politics is just a way to avoid further depression
(have ANOTHER drink)
Redneck Maranatha Kid--is your sister drunk yet? Better get some Bud in her; I know you're really horny.
Well, I'm glad THAT'S out in the open! Let the Great Extermination begin!
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Once they reach the apex, it's going to be a quick slide down the right of the slope.
Sallyh, La Poissoniere
Quick is good.
Can we start now?
Has the rest of the world already written us off?
No, they're all laughing too hard at what a giant sphincter this country's become under Bush.
Sally - I use to do some work in Saudi, it was the only country I could never leave soon enough. The rest of the Arab countries, no problem. Your friend sounds unique, at least in my experience.
Has the rest of the world already written us off?
Not to be redundant, but we are now irrelevant to the rest of the world. They are moving on with their own alliances.
Hoyt C--that really is the question, isn't it? Unfortunately, they've built such critical mass that the most likely response is yes.
Sweet Charity update, courtesy of lyricist Dorothy Fields:
"If they could see me now,
My little dusty group,
Traipsin' 'round this million dollar chicken coop.
I'd hear those thrift shop cats say:
"Brother, get her!
Draped on a bed spread made from three kinds of fur."
I challenge even the Garbage woman to top that.
I would bet money that Bush doesn't know anything about Islam, or about the Iraqi culture, or the culture of any of the peoples of the Middle East. I bet if you gave him a pop quiz, he would flunk overwhelmingly. And yet he thinks it's all right to pontificate about their backwardness.
Shoot me now.
we're not as farkin' central to the smooth running of the universe as certain Washingtonians would like to believe.
flory
Sadly, you are correct. Boosh has destroyed the reputation of our country.
Have I said this lately? FUCK BUSH!
Let's just say that as soon as the Chinese and Japanese stop propping up our economy, the slide down is going to be sick and dizzying.
Dear Prior Aelred,
Oh, thank you! Salty fish eggs are the best thing in the world, especially with a little chopped egg and chopped cornichons, on rye toast points; say, you're not going to finish that vodka, are you? Ok, don't mind if I do.
Did your rain ever let up?
Chris TX--most likely--he couldn't get to school in England fast enough when he was younger!
Will someone PLEASE stuff this up Scotties fucking ass at the next fucking clusterfuck known as a press briefing?
I don't know if it would make a difference. I don't know if anything would make a difference. Here's Scottie's typical answer to a direct question about "X":
Start off with:
Well, we already adressed X in the previous response regarding X.
Followed by:
You'll have take that up with the Department of Y, that is something that they have firsthand knowledge of, and they have already addressed X anyway.
Continued with:
I'm not going to repeat myself, we've already addressed X in depth. Next?
Barbaric? I must know all the wrong people, because anyone I've ever met from the ME has been unfailingly polite and kind.
Of course the ME, the epicenter of civilization, is not barabaric. However the fundamentalist ideology that drives the Wahabis and the Bin Ladens IS. That mindset, however, is the exact same mindest that drives the core base of the Republican Party.
The only difference is that the barbarians in the US already have power & they have an established military to kill people with, the barbarians in the ME have to improvise with car bombs and hijacked planes.
They are two sides of the same coin, and I contend that the homegrown side is far more dangerous to our civilization than those in the ME.
Not to be redundant, but we are now irrelevant to the rest of the world. They are moving on with their own alliances.
chris/tx
That is interesting, isn't it? South American countries have an historic meeting with Middle Eastern countries?
Buh buh but I didn't see anything about that on my teevee...
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(slips an entire fifth of Grey Goose in Hecate's direction)
Shoot me now.
No, sorry, first you're put in a ghetto, then a work camp, THEN a death camp. Please get with the pogrom, er, program.
sallyh - and to ensure that very outcome, we have cuckoo bananas threatening the Chinese about the yuan's dollar peg.
Go, Chimpy!!!
And as for that article in the Times this morning, I read it and was sickened. I was telling my husband about it tonight and I couldn't describe some of the things without breaking down. Those poor innocent people.
My husband asked if the Bush administration wouldn't put pressure on the Times, a la Newsweek, to disavow the story. I explained that the story comes from a 2,000 page government report of the government's investigation. For some reason, he didn't think that would be much of a barrier.
To prove you all wrong, I posit the following: Condi CAN be beautiful...
"I think they’re inspired by an ideology that is so barbaric and backwards that it’s hard for many in the Western world to comprehend how they think…”
I think Bush was just channeling Nathaniel in Last of the Mohicans.
NTodd
If I was coming into this blind, I'd think he was talking about the prep school and legacy admissions class. You know, his people. The inebriated chasing after the in-bedable.
Well, DUH! Wouldn't you, seeing a so-called first world country being run by a brutal moron?
da chimp is hauling our ass to the third world status
Very, very OT: Anyone have any experience with a terrier who has had a seizure? My mother's did tonight and she's very upset about it.
I am presently enjoying a fine olive soup. ingredients include: fistfull of olives, chilled vodka, a bit of vermouth, dry.
I'm gonna work on perfecting the mix this fine eve.
Sorry I'm late today, folks.
Friday Baby Blogging!
"I would bet money that Bush doesn't know anything about Islam, or about the Iraqi culture, or the culture of any of the peoples of the Middle East. I bet if you gave him a pop quiz, he would flunk overwhelmingly."
Remember back when he had some Iraqis in & was surprised to learn that there were Sunnis & Shiities & they had not gotten on well -- this would be truly scarey if I weren't already numb!
(& Hecate -- I do know how to spell your name -- it's my fingers that have the problem)
This Greg Palast article sums it up pretty well.
Donald Rumsfeld pointed the finger at Newsweek and said, "People lost their lives. People are dead." Maybe Rumsfeld was upset that Newsweek was taking away his job. After all, it's hard to beat Rummy when it comes to making people dead.
And just for the record: Newsweek, unlike Rumsfeld, did not kill anyone -- nor did its report cause killings. Afghans protested when they heard the Koran desecration story (as Christians have protested crucifix desecrations). The Muslim demonstrators were gunned down by the Afghan military police -- who operate under Rumsfeld's command.
(slips an entire fifth of Grey Goose in Hecate's direction)
Sallyh, La Poissoniere
Totally OT - but I was reading on my flight back from Dallas that the guy who founded Grey Goose sold it to one of the big liquor companies for $2 billion. For a vodka company? Holy distillery, Batman!!!
watertiger, that wasn't very nice....
Hecate here is a photo of a rhododendron bush I had at one time.
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jo...375.jpg&
.src=ph
Sally - Ah, that explains it. The one's that spent most of their formative years going to school in the UK were fine.
MisterX - That SA meeting, I think not only did the US not attend, but IIRC we were not invited.
Hecate --
You've got mail -- in which you are informed that yesterday's torrential downpour turned into today's glorious sunny day (people were in a panic all over Michigan wondering what that ball of fire in the sky was) -- expect good weather for Saturday
Otter -- nice to see you! (& the babies, of course -- reminds me -- I ought to slip over to Powerpop to see Rosie)
Aguatigre--after that photo, any restraint I vowed to employ in alcohol consumption tonight has been utterly abandoned.
WT:
As much as I detest the stuff - Condi could use a little Botox. The reptilian lizard scales on her forehead are getting waaay pronounced.
Otter:
The D'Otters are adorable.
How are you feeling these days?
watertiger, that wasn't very nice....
nobody ever accused me of being very nice, hoyt.
Otter, your kids are so gorgeous, and I'm guessing Big Sister is gorgeous, too.
Haha - VH1 is running the cornholio episode from Beavis & Butthead. I know, I am easily entertained.
Flory, I'm feeling most excellent. Details on the whole family's recovery are available at a update I posted a couple of days ago.
Thanks for asking.
NTodd--cake out of the oven!
I need to whip the cream. And yes, it's a double container.
The inebriated chasing after the in-bedable.
I'm stealing that, in Oscar's name.
Totally OT - but I was reading on my flight back from Dallas that the guy who founded Grey Goose sold it to one of the big liquor companies for $2 billion.
My brother loves Grey Goose. Even has a special pouring gizmo.
As a joke, I got him miniature bottles that had been made into salt and pepper shakers.
Ah, marketing.
Chris TX--hey, that ep is a classic!
Q Sir, are you worried that the publication of the Saddam photo, along with the Newsweek story, will further inflame tensions and inspire the Iraq insurgency and anti-Americanism in the Middle East?
PRESIDENT BUSH: I think the Iraq insurgency is inspired by their desire to stop the march of freedom. Remember, these are ideologues of -- that murder innocent people in order to spread their dark vision of hate. And, therefore, when light begins to show up in the form of democracy, it frightens them. There is no future for these haters in a free world. And so they're inspired by the fact that they see democracy emerging in Iraq. That's what causes them to want to kill. They're frightened by the fact -- and inspired the wrong way, by the way -- by the fact that Afghanistan is free. They're seeing the people in Lebanon demand free and fair elections. And their ideology cannot survive in a democratic society. See, the only way they can survive is to -- is to try to shake our will by killing innocent life.
They hate our democracy!
Freedom is on the march!
Sweet Jesus this guy is a fraud.
sallyh,
Big Sis is beautiful, but she's also shy about having her picture on the web. We have to settle for this one from 1990.
I need to whip the cream. And yes, it's a double container.
Don't you have one of those super-duper whipped cream dispensers that need the little canisters?
watertiger,
Is it me, or has Condi aged about five years in the last three weeks? I know, she's Laura's portrait of Dorian Gray!
Otter - it sounds like you've got the right attitude for a long a happy life with those little charmers of yours.
Pie--nothing tastes as good as the real thing, whipped by hand. Just ask NTodd
Otter,
You just make beautiful little girls. May the Goddess guard them.
Otter, your offspring are beautiful.
PRESIDENT BUSH: I think the Iraq insurgency is inspired by their desire to stop the march of freedom. Remember, these are ideologues of -- that murder innocent people in order to spread their dark vision of hate. And, therefore, when light begins to show up in the form of democracy, it frightens them. There is no future for these haters in a free world. And so they're inspired by the fact that they see democracy emerging in Iraq. That's what causes them to want to kill. They're frightened by the fact -- and inspired the wrong way, by the way -- by the fact that Afghanistan is free. They're seeing the people in Lebanon demand free and fair elections. And their ideology cannot survive in a democratic society. See, the only way they can survive is to -- is to try to shake our will by killing innocent life.
This is the worst piece of tripe I've ever read.
To think that last night, some were complaining about Harry Potter.
Good grief.
flory,
I've found a compromise position. I'm currently typing with Brigid on my shoulder.
Maybe the sort of publisher the GOP likes is Judith Regan of the nooners with (urgh) Kerik...
Honey Bear--do you have a link for that post?
To think that last night, some were complaining about Harry Potter.
Good grief.
pie
Well, obviously, George Bush ain't no Encyclopedia Brown...
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Is it me, or has Condi aged about five years in the last three weeks? I know, she's Laura's portrait of Dorian Gray!
Whooooo! Nail, meet head of hammer.
Trying to be serious and not laugh too much here.
I guess they'll spin Bush's comment by pointing out that:
1. Photos are not words and that words can have more effect than photos (they'll find examples somewhere).
2. The photo, being of Saddam:
(a) not being tortured, so there's
no comparison with words about
someone being tortured.
(b) no-one with any decency likes
Saddam, therefore anyone
protesting against the photos
is an indecent barbarian
by definition.
Except that he's already said photos can't have an effect on anyone.
Aw shit... my head hurts.
There is no future for these haters in a free world.
Don't play da hate, yo.
Otter,
You just make beautiful little girls. May the Goddess guard them.
Hecate | Email | Homepage | 05.20.05 - 9:21 pm | #
Otter, your offspring are beautiful.
Karin | Email | Homepage | 05.20.05 - 9:22 pm | #
More importantly, they turn out beautiful on the inside, too.
Pie--nothing tastes as good as the real thing, whipped by hand. Just ask NTodd
Um, okay. (Is this a sex thread?)
Actually, you can't add *flavorings* to those gizmos.
Photos are not words and that words can have more effect than photos (they'll find examples somewhere).
And here I was, under the impression that a picture was worth a thousand words.
MORE PRO-DEMOCRACY EFFORTS IN SYRIA:
One dissident who spent years in prison and who preferred to stay anonymous told Koring that, "If the outside pressure continues, then the barriers of fear will be broken . . . The regime is losing its grip because of outside pressure, but that pressure must be maintained."
So let's keep it up.
GodDAMN, Jake Gyllenhaal is cute.
Just sayin.
Otter.
Awww, hell. You're gonna make me blubber.
I prefer to think of a word as one millipicture.
This is a few days old, but I'm trying to catch up on a whole week of blog reading:
Now print journalists are trying for crossover appeal in the blogosphere–and finding it ain’t so easy.
Arianna Huffington, she of untold millions and blowing-in-the-wind loyalties, tried opining at great length about this and that in successive fits of electronic bloviating–let’s call it “blovioging.” Evidently she wasn’t having the knock-‘em-over impact she expected, so she called in a rogue’s list of big print names, the heavyweights whose work appears regularly, repeatedly in newspapers and magazines across the country.
Picture a Saudi prince buying up all the horse flesh in sight and expecting to win the Triple Crown.
So what happened when Arianna tried to corner the blog world? Once again the hits didn’t come in the hoped for numbers, and bloggers are having a hearty haha.
Arianna, if readers had been totally happy with established print writers, they wouldn’t have turned to blogs for information, analysis and entertainment. If established print gatekeepers had exerted themselves to find room for countless new voices, some silly, some sensible, some close to indispensable now, bloggers would have had little incentive to explore the potential of a new communications medium.
George Bush ain't no Encyclopedia Brown
George has never been anywhere near an encyclopedia, brown or other colors.
The Apology Scorecard:
- Newsweek: 1
- CBS News: 1
- GW Bush: 0
Sallyh here ya go!
It's the White House transcript.
FVC™!
FVC™!
FVC™!
FVC™!
FVC™!
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GodDAMN, Jake Gyllenhaal is cute.
Just sayin.
watertiger
Uh huh.
Day After Tomorrow sucks though.
George Bush ain't no Encyclopedia Brown
George isn't even Lenny Small.
HoneyBear,
Ain't watching it for plot.
Arianna, if readers had been totally happy with established print writers, they wouldn’t have turned to blogs for information, analysis and entertainment. If established print gatekeepers had exerted themselves to find room for countless new voices, some silly, some sensible, some close to indispensable now, bloggers would have had little incentive to explore the potential of a new communications medium.
Karin
What is your model? What are your p values? What is your confidence interval? How large was your sample? How was it conducted? What criteria did your research have to meet? What was your null hypothesis?
When you can answer those questions, come back and talk to us.
I hear you watertiger.
Putting Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhall in the same movie was genius.
BTW, i have a copy of Jeffraham's Video Cat Blogging collection and the music CD. Both are wonderful. Curly is guaranteed to make you smile!
I'm currently typing with Brigid on my shoulder.
Otter
There ya go. What could be better than merging two great loves in your life?
George Bush ain't no Encyclopedia Brown
More like Bugs Meanie.
Thanks, Sallyh!
FVC™! FVC™! FVC™! FVC™! FVC™! FVC™! FVC™! FVC™! FVC™! FVC™! FVC™! FVC™! FVC™! FVC™! FVC™! FVC™! FVC™! FVC™! FVC™! FVC™! FVC™! FVC™! FVC™! FVC™! FVC™! FVC™!
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GodDAMN, Jake Gyllenhaal is cute.
Just sayin.
watertiger
Uh huh.
Day After Tomorrow sucks though.
HoneyBearKelly
Donnie Darko ruled.
Don't ask me if Jake is cute.
Donnie Darko ruled.
Agreed, and not just for Jake Gyllenhaal.
There is no future for these haters in a free world.
Don't play da hate, yo.
watertiger
Word.
Why do I suspect this sentiment by Bush is followed by: "Because we will bomb them out of existence, and that won't cause their children to hate us. They hate our freedom." Like our freedom to kill with impunity.
The man is completely clueless.
yeah well this thing in iraq is going so well that i don't see that anyone can say that the syria thing will go badly!? right fake holden?
and you atr posting this from your post in iraq, aren't you?
heh heh heh
So what happened when Arianna tried to corner the blog world? Once again the hits didn’t come in the hoped for numbers, and bloggers are having a hearty haha.
Give me a break. She's only been up for sevral days. Puleez.
she's Laura's portrait of Dorian Gray!
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
The Dead and the Undead...
…She stood in the crowded room as her drove of minions stood around her...…A huddling mass trying to draw closer to her aura of evil. The lights flashed against her fangs as her cruel lips curled into a grimace. It was meant to be a smile but it wouldn't reach her cold, lifeless eyes… It was a leer- the leer of the undead before a feeding...
The above was not a scene from Buffy the Vampire Slayer- it was just Condi Rice in Iraq a day ago. At home, we fondly refer to her as The Vampire. She's such a contrast to Bush- he simply looks stupid. She, on the other hand, looks utterly evil.
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/
Speaking of Condi
The Dead and the Undead...
…She stood in the crowded room as her drove of minions stood around her...…A huddling mass trying to draw closer to her aura of evil. The lights flashed against her fangs as her cruel lips curled into a grimace. It was meant to be a smile but it wouldn't reach her cold, lifeless eyes… It was a leer- the leer of the undead before a feeding...
She's only been up for sevral days.
How many is that?
Arriana Huffington? Puleez.
So, how may trolls tonight?
It seems like a Friday infestation, and I've just glanced in while waiting for a ride.
EPTXoloitzcuintle
GMTA
sallyh - I think your namestealer is back.
And its repeating itself word for word.
They hate our freedom." Like our freedom to kill with impunity.
The man is completely clueless.
Indeed. What freedom, Georgie? You're taking it all away and selling it out to corporate Murika. Thanks, bub.
Sallyh dear, you're going to get as big as Aunt Pitty Pat if you keep cooking all those cakes.
RMJ--just bring up sex or science and they make themselves scarce. Apparently they have no knowledge in either area.
Scarlett--that's why I share with my friends.
FuxEmAll -- trools are stoopit, and live under continual involuntary celibacy.
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pie,
I'm talking about her official new group blog. It IS new. Who knows if it will be the "shit" or the bomb?
If I've been chosen for namestealing, someone seriously has no life
They hate our freedom." Like our freedom to kill with impunity.
The man is completely clueless.
Indeed. What freedom, Georgie? You're taking it all away and selling it out to corporate Murika. Thanks, bub.
RMJ--just bring up sex or science and they make themselves scarce. Apparently they have no knowledge in either area.
Right. The science of sex it is.
Cookies? Because, like, I haven't eaten much today, and it's WAY past dinner time here....(gonna organize my life and send you some recipes soon. Soon as I can figure out which are worthy of sharing, that is.)
Did I mention FVC™?
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sallyh - I think your namestealer is back.
And its repeating itself word for word.
Maybe we have been looking at the namestealing all wrong. Maybe we should just look on it as fan fiction.
It might not be accurate but it would drive the more OC among them up the friggin' wall. Which is the point of having trolls, isn't it?
ok, so arianna huffington has only been up for several days. has she ever had anything interesting to say though? why would she be worth reading on a website if she never was before?
*bigvic*, double posting?
Or are you into the grey Goose?
pie,
I'm talking about her official new group blog. It IS new. Who knows if it will be the "shit" or the bomb?
Somebody told me that a Moslem friend of his on Wednesday night found himself surrounded by 72 virgins. He was concerned that he had suddenly died and gone to paradise until he realized that he had just stumbled into the advance line for Revenge of the Sith tickets.
Maybe we have been looking at the namestealing all wrong. Maybe we should just look on it as fan fiction.
It would just reinforce the fact that I have no fans.
Of course, I say that, and someone will do me the flattery of stealing my moniker. It's such a delicate thing, fishing for compliments. Or being sarcastic.
Two conditions that often appear alike.
If we just did what the terrorists said to do, then they wouldn't hate us.
Why can't Bush understand such a simple truth?
Love the idea of trolls as fanfic. As long as they don't start writing slash. Not that I don't enjoy good slahs. I just don't think our trolls can write good slash.
surrounded by 72 virgins.
Bennie Shapiro and his posse go see it?
Olaf glad and big: why would she be worth reading on a website if she never was before?
Didn't she say, "Don't be picking new drapes for Iraq when North Korea is on fire?" Goddamn prescient, that.
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Hecate, you have the advantage of me. I'm so weirded out by fan fiction that I'm not that familiar with the form. What is slash?
*bigvic*, double posting?
Or are you into the grey Goose?
pie
heehee.
OK, I keed, I keed. I was double posting ya'll.
...and then NTodd took Thersites in his...
I think I'm halucinating...
bleh. maybe i haven't been keeping up. i just can't remember ever being impressed by anything arianna huffington has said.
hell-o-scan is outdoing itself tonite...
I did NOT double post that last comment...
RMJ--just bring up sex or science and they make themselves scarce. Apparently they have no knowledge in either area.
Sallyh
Well, yeah.
They're all virgins and saving themselves for marriage - so sex is out. (Plus they're ugly and stupid and nobody likes them, so sex is not a realistic hope)
And once you understand the intracacies of genesis, whaddya need that funky ol' science stuff for?
Well, my wish came true.
And as poor of job of mimicking my style as can be imagined.
Give that troll a cookie!
Wow. I have an email address.
Who knew?
Troll, you're hilarious!!
Good Lord, my mother has fallen asleep in front of the TV again and a bunch of people are singing the praises of Merv Griffin. What the hell is that about. Jesus, it's Ronald Reagan.
You know it's time to go to bed when you hear Merv Griffin called a genius.
Good night, everyone. Well, not EVERYone.
pie: Wow. I have an email address.
Who knew?
It better work, too, now that I've sold it to every pr0n spammer in the universe!
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Donnie Darko ruled.
Agreed, and not just for Jake Gyllenhaal.
Any flick that contains an exegesis on Smurfette's origins and a character who laments never getting Hungry Hungry Hippos is tops in my book.
The elevator killer?!
Thank you Hecate. That should keep my mind off of Merv Griffin.
I can't stand it when they go outside the cannon. That is except when it's Gone With the Wind. Then I demand that they go outside the cannon.
Was "The Wind Done Gone" any good at all?
NTodd--I was a bit too old as a kid for Hungry Hungry Hippos, but fortunately, I had a kid and got to enjoy them then! Shark Attack Bowling was fun, too.
thanks otter!
i just spit beer all over the screen.
i am going to see that movie tomorrow.
don't you say a word.
Oh, dan. Don't mistake me. I make fun of the fans because I are one. (I don't dress up, though.)
It better work, too, now that I've sold it to every pr0n spammer in the universe!
What kind of porn spam do women get?
Or would I get the *enlarge your penis* hilarity?
NTodd: Any flick that contains an exegesis on Smurfette's origins and a character who laments never getting Hungry Hungry Hippos is tops in my book.
Isn't it strange what endears us to popart? I was too old by the time "Hungry, Hungry Hippos" hit the shelves, but I can see that as being a serious bone of psychological contention in my childhood needs-basket, were I but a few years younger. Which would, of course, make Donnie Darko just that much more of a memorable flix, were it so.
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and then NTodd took Thersites in his...
Eschaton slash! That's so pomo, I may have to have another drink!
Any flick that contains an exegesis on Smurfette's origins and a character who laments never getting Hungry Hungry Hippos is tops in my book.
NTodd
By the way, have you seen my copy of "The Philosophy of Time Travel"?
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I have no style. Just a lot of whining.
Otter--I'm considering dressing up. Still have my costume
...and then NTodd took Thersites in his...
In his what? NTodd took Thers in his what? Damn it, tell me!
EPTXoloitzcuintle: I can't stand it when they go outside the cannon.
Well, the same can be said of dogs and cannons. Outside of a dog, there's no better friend. Inside a dog (or cannon), it's too dark to read.
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Pie--you can get penis enlargement and Viagra along with breast enhancement, plastic surgery, and every wrinkle cream that doesn't work.
Take thatTheocrat Facists.
AP Poll: 78% of Americans want Senate to scrutinize judges.
Jeffraham, NTodd--coolest thing about being a parent is that you get to be a kid again.
Pie--you can get penis enlargement and Viagra along with breast enhancement, plastic surgery, and every wrinkle cream that doesn't work.
And offers of millions of dollars from very sincere xian gentlement in Nigeria...
Olaf Glad and Big,
I was stuck in (another) a stupid teachers's meeting (A triple redundancy, but you have to work on it.)in the library and the unabridged was open. I decided to look up blond. My theory is that poets very seldom use words that have a simple meaning. I found it, in about the sixth definition: blond refers to a particularly brave and fierce group of Teutonic Warriors. So, at the end of the poem, ee is referring to a band of fierce and brave warriors.
...and then NTodd took Thersites in his...
In his what? NTodd took Thers in his what? Damn it, tell me!
NTodd
Has anyone told NYMary about this?
What will she tell the children?
re: hungry hippos, shark attack bowling
the most memorable stupid manufactured kids game for me was "battling tops"
have you seen my copy of "The Philosophy of Time Travel"?
God, I hope this time loop starts over anew on November 6, 2000. BTW, in case people missed it, Salon had a wicked cool article last summer about Darko.
Sallyh: Jeffraham, NTodd--coolest thing about being a parent is that you get to be a kid again.
The coolest thing about not being a parent is that you can easily borrow others' rugrats, with whom you can be a kid, again.
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"...and then NTodd took Thersites in his...
playroom, and they spent the afternoon playing Hungry Hungry Hippos, Operation, and Shark Attack Bowling.
Maybe we have been looking at the namestealing all wrong. Maybe we should just look on it as fan fiction.
It would just reinforce the fact that I have no fans.
Well, Robert, apparently I have a number of *fans* that I discovered after looking up a recipe on a late night thread. Some kid must think it's funny to namesteal me after I go to bed. I started looking at a number odd late night threads and some ass actually fake posted me and argued with me for at least an hour. OMG. How nuts is that? At least I'm fairly comfortable that nobody thinks it's me. Sad that lots of us have to state that any further commment belongs to us after retiring to Bedlam are trolls. Sick-os.
the most memorable stupid manufactured kids game for me was "battling tops"
Nope....Rock'em Sock'em Robots
Sallyh, La Poissoniere, um, don't need any of that. Which is good and bad.
So, hilarity.
Anyway, goodnight.
The coolest thing about not being a parent is that you can easily borrow others' rugrats, with whom you can be a kid, again.
And you can give them back when you're done. Especially handy if they start getting out of control, or start to smell funny...
You are so not bigvic.
Night, troll.
Come on, everyone already knew Smurfette is a golem. Right?
Re: People from thre ME
The Circle K near our apt in Albuquerque closed. An Egyptian couple reopened it.
They were kind and friendly, beyond the call of duty, except for one of thier employees, a young male (son?). If he said hello or thank you, it was oviously because it was part of the job.
He seemed angry to the point of tears.
One day I got the nerve to ask him if he was OK, did customers give him shit?
He said, "Almost every day".
The neighborhood we lived in, I believed it.
And I'm sure every single ass that made some rude comment to him, thought they were a good christian patriotic American.
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Come on, everyone already knew Smurfette is a golem. Right?
But then the inherent goodness of the Smurf way of life turned into that hot piece of blue ass.
and they spent the afternoon playing Hungry Hungry Hippos, Operation, and Shark Attack Bowling.
Sallyh, La Poissoniere
Geez - when I was a kid, we had Candycaneland and Twister.
I'm feeling deprived.
"Now" has a program on the Nuclear Option now, CST.
"How would you like to wake up and discover that the Republicans gained 9 seats in the Senate?"
how could i have forgotten rockem sockem robots?
who among us does not love rockem sockem robots?
Take thatTheocrat Facists.
AP Poll: 78% of Americans want Senate to scrutinize judges.
Hoyt C.
What is your model? What are your p values? What is your confidence interval? How large was your sample? How was it conducted? What criteria did your research have to meet? What was your null hypothesis?
When you can answer those questions, come back and talk to us.
Look, I was just having a little fun double posting ya and a couple of others. Ya'll need to lighten up.
I'm going to guess this woman with the "eyebrows" isn't a liberal.
And you can give them back when you're done.
I'm especially fond of winding them up like little toys and making them all hyper and crazy and THEN handing them back to their parents.
who among us does not love rockem sockem robots?
"You knocked my block off"
"My block is knocked off?"
Operation was a fun game, but the first time I played it at a friend's house and told me dad we'd been playing doctor, I got in so much trouble. The next time we played, I was careful to remember the game's real name.
how could i have forgotten rockem sockem robots?
who among us does not love rockem sockem robots?
I'm going to guess this woman with the "eyebrows" isn't a liberal.
She's scary. At least she's not pretending to be reasonable.
"Lighten up!"
But I'm not a troll.
Night, troll.
pie
HA! For some weird reason, I just imagined a bottle of cheap fortified wine and sleazy dates...
Night Troll©!
Now in the convenient two-handled jug!
Night Troll©!
Guaranteed to pop your cork!
Night Troll©!
Wherever cigarettes are sold!
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FUCKI!!!!!!!
What ass is posting as bigvic? I'm so sick of this crap. Some teen figures I've gone to bed and posts pure, unadulterated crap. Good lord. Bite me, faker.
I use this moniker when I'm at work so ya'll know.
Had to change it from NOW. Don't understand how reasonable people can talk to these lunatics and behave as if they're part of our society.
And then all the Eschatonians moved onto clean sheets and continued their bacchanale...
FUCKI!!!!!!!
That reminds me of the old Eliza AI therapist program. As a kid (and, well, as an adult) I always thought it was funny to tell her "fuck you" and she would say "why do you want to fuck I?" or something to that effect.
Ok, I'll stop being annoying. I can tell some aren't in the mood. But it's been a pretty good week, all and all, for our side.
NTodd, has Sam come back inside yet? I worry about these things.
And then all the Eschatonians moved onto clean sheets and continued their bacchanale...
And yea, verily, it was good.
Goodnight, reality based peoples of the internets.
new sand box
NTodd: Ever have an old Soundblaster? Came with an Eliza-type prog called Dr. Sbaitso.
He was hilarious. If you swore at him he'd reduce your screen resolution to 40 columns as punishment.
NTodd, has Sam come back inside yet? I worry about these things.
He has indeed, and is cleaning himself right now.
The boy had a run in with our on-again, off-again orange cat (whom we call Buddy and haven't seen in over a year). They were involved in a yowling standoff on the deck when I brought Sam inside and then I had a nice reunion with Buddy for a little while. He's a very sweet cat, likely a barn cat from down the road. Tried to adopt him a coupla years ago, but he didn't take to it--just drops by to say hello, usually on holidays or right when we start to think he might be dead.
Fresh air above.
Ever have an old Soundblaster?
YES! And now I feel wicked old for some reason...
Good news all around, NTodd! Funny how the cats like the orange one show up 'out of the blue,' isn't it? Always makes me feel better when I spot the ones around here like that.
I think the rest of the world is enjoying watching us stew in our own juices. We're reaping what we've sown and they're enjoying the show.
Not enjoying it. Averting their eyes, as one does after rubbernecking and realising there are bodies strewn across the road.
What is your model? What are your p values? What is your confidence interval? How large was your sample? How was it conducted? What criteria did your research have to meet? What was your null hypothesis?
You are an embarrassment to your profession, whatever it is, lady. I am guessing sixth grade math teacher.
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