I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
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Headline :"Pakistan: Key al-Qaida Commander Killed". I guess they were waiting for a bad day for casualties to roll out another story of #3 being killed.
...paranoid, delusional people are running the country!
SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE!!!!
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Gelertner makes more sense than O'Reilly.
Not Frist!
Curly's going insane, trying to find a bug to play with.
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Not. Even. Close!
Anyone still need info on downloading Zombies? Lemme know and I'll repost.
jonathon larsen posts on the axeing of morning sedition
Contest for shortest grounder?
82.8
Best part of Long Long Trailer! It's why I have never been further than Wisconsin Dells! First time I ever saw this was after driving from Mich to Virginia!
I'm in Maine! Anybody know where Gordo's family lives?
O'Reilly says, "Frankly, the executives who have banished Christmas from their advertising are insane. By doing that, they are offending tens of millions of traditional Americans who respect the Christmas season and want it called exactly what it is - Christmas."
So, but refusing to offend some, I offend others? I have to offend someone to "earn" approval by others?
Fuck that noise.
Also, I wanted to invite everyone to the new bloggie, now that I have abandoned Modblog, for good.
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O'Reilly says--
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
zzzz...
(Not directed at anyone but O'Reilly!)
Abramoff's secretary went to work for Rove!
Check it out.
If anyone's wondering why the RNC's pimping the Dorgan smear so hard, now you know. 
Anybody know where Gordo's family lives?
Under the stairs?
frifthteenthst!
Anybody know where Gordo's family lives?
Under the stairs?
Oh, so the family got "promoted" from the CHUD colony, eh?
So, but refusing to offend some, I offend others? I have to offend someone to "earn" approval by others?
When my brother and I were debating it came down to: Will Wal-Mart employee (or whoever) be fired for wishing a Merry Christmas instead of issuing Happy Holidays?
And the Dorgan smear looks like nothing. I heard an interview with him and he said he just got a $5k campaign contribution from an Indian tribe, no explanation, no solicitation, no favors. If true, that's pretty good insurance for Abramoff: just have your clients, who the Ds aren't on the lookout for, spread a little cash the Ds' way, and it becomes bipartisan!
The part I love best about all this is Ralphie Reed's role. Antigambling activist paid to oppose one tribe's casino at another tribe's behest. Why, I'm starting to think he's not even a sincere Christian!!
Yo, Jeffraham, I hope your real identity is carefully cloaked at The Sweatshop, 'cause I can see all sorts of trouble stemming from that there blog of yours...
Will Wal-Mart employee (or whoever) be fired for wishing a Merry Christmas instead of issuing Happy Holidays?
Free shitty goods for any customer who catches the cashier saying "Happy Christmas"
dave™: Yo, Jeffraham, I hope your real identity is carefully cloaked at The Sweatshop, 'cause I can see all sorts of trouble stemming from that there blog of yours...
Not worried, but thanks.
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Dang! Haloscan must not like Hitchcock.
Rope is a weird film (to pick up a point I've been trying to make since the last thread). The "one-take" approach is a little contrived and disorienting. Not my fave Hitchcock.
Too bad John Dall didn't have more of a career-- he was a really good sleaze. He was in Spartacus and did some good work on Perry Mason. But I think he might have been a lush.
I hope that he will be the democratic candidate in 2008.
"Happy Christmas"
Shades of John Lennon? Doubt it!
Woo hoo!! Record-setting sacrifice grounder!!
65.6 !
Beat that, Central, you overachiever!
Happy Holidays, you brownshirted motherfuckers!
Russ Feingold is a loser
As a Christian, let me say how much I appreciate Bill O'Reilly appointing himself my personal spokesman. Yep, when I look for someone to represent my faith in public, I prefer that it be a loudmouthed jackass who likes to make obscene phone calls with a vibrator up his butt.
Why do you say that Mike? Russ Feingold is a great guy.
nsr: Yep, when I look for someone to represent my faith in public, I prefer that it be a loudmouthed jackass who likes to make obscene phone calls with a vibrator up his butt.
And here I thought I was the only one...!
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Not worried, but thanks.
Well, if you're not worried, neither am I!
FWIW, Atrios, I'm enjoying your Jon Anderson kick.
Did he have a vibrator up his butt? I missed that part.
Yep, when I look for someone to represent my faith in public, I prefer that it be a loudmouthed jackass who likes to make obscene phone calls with a vibrator up his butt.
dave™: Well, if you're not worried, neither am I!
It could certainly lead to my dismissal, but considering the conditions, I'm not convinced it's something to get too worked up about. I'm looking for other employment options as we speak, but I'll stick with this gig until I have something else, or am forced out.
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Wasps Could Replace Bomb, Drug Dogs
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
20051..._sniffing_wasps
TIFTON, Ga. - Trained wasps could someday replace dogs for sniffing out drugs, bombs and bodies. No kidding.
Scientists say a species of non-stinging wasps can be trained in only five minutes and are just as sensitive to odors as man's best friend, which can require up to six months of training at a cost of about $15,000 per dog.
With the use of a handheld device that contains the wasps but allows them to do their work, researchers have been able to use the insects to detect target odors such as a toxin that grows on corn and peanuts, and a chemical used in certain explosives.
Curly's going insane, trying to find a bug to play with.
Well, go outside and freaking catch him one!!
What kind of daddy are you?
Hey, if its okay with you guys I'm going to take the Longhorns and the points!
I don't mind if store clerks wish me "Merry Christmas" as long as they don't mind that my response is: "Bite me."
"Bite Me" is the new "Humbug."
Russ Feingold is a loser...
Gotta problem with Wisconsinites, bitch?
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Am I here yet?
Happy holidays, moonbats!
Penguin whacking is fun, but that thing where the Shrub falls forever, unless he gets caught on the spheres, amuses me no end. Sometimes I leave him falling, sometimes I fold him and jam him into a crevice and abandon him there.
Curly's going insane, trying to find a bug to play with.
Cat have this gene that tells them there are little creatures where there are none.
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Xians really aren't so merry, are they? I mean, they basically hate fun, right?
Penguin whacking is fun
Especially for the penguin, I imagine.
Batistas!
Looks as if we may get snow in DC this evening.
Am I here yet?
Is there a Rainbow in the Dark??!
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Since Atrios was too distracted by patriotic zombies:
Friday Cat Blogging!
(Cats provided courtesy of co-blogger MEC.)
http://story.europesun.com/p.x/c...5fe8fa2e5e0373/
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Al-Jazeera broadcast an insurgent videotape Saturday showing a huge explosion targeting a U.S. foot patrol near Fallujah. However, the tape did not directly link the explosion to Thursday's attacks that killed 10 Marines there.
The Al-Jazeera announcer noted the Marine deaths as the tape aired.
The video from the Islamic Army of Iraq showed ground troops walking down a street on both sides of a Humvee when a huge fireball engulfed the scene, sending terrified Iraqi bystanders scrambling for their lives.
I don't understand how these guerilla groups manage to bury the explosives in such a way that no one notices anything strange.
It's not a rain forest or a jungle. On a dirt road, a dug-up place would show for days even when filled up. On asphalt, a patch on the surface would be even more obvious. Are the roads all covered with gravel, with debris-strewn roadsides, or what? Or do the insurgent bomb planters pass themselves off as road and sidealk repair crews? Or what?
Xians really aren't so merry, are they? I mean, they basically hate fun, right?
Jesus was all about hate, intolerance and misery. Don't you know *anything*???
Gotta problem with Wisconsinites, bitch?
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dieselcreek
Being a Minnesota native, naturally I have one with the Packers.
Other than that ONLY Joe McCarthy.
Penguin whacking is fun, but that thing where the Shrub falls forever, unless he gets caught on the spheres, amuses me no end. Sometimes I leave him falling, sometimes I fold him and jam him into a crevice and abandon him there.
I like to stuff him and leave him too.
I just can't stop with the penguin whacking.....
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" Curly's going insane, trying to find a bug to play with."
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--Jeffraham Prestonian
Send him on over here. I still have some spiders creeping around.
It could certainly lead to my dismissal, but considering the conditions, I'm not convinced it's something to get too worked up about. I'm looking for other employment options as we speak, but I'll stick with this gig until I have something else, or am forced out.
That place sounds completely fucked up.
Why in the world would they make it so difficult? I imagine it's expensive to train workers.
I don't understand how these guerilla groups manage to bury the explosives in such a way that no one notices anything strange.
Maybe the mimic the shape of Bush's hump, since that shape appears to be invisible to almost everyone.
Being a Minnesota native, naturally I have one with the Packers.
Well, a lot of us in Wisconsin have a problem with the Packers.
And as a person born in Green Bay, I can say with some certainty, that G.B. is the heartland of retardation.
hmmmm, I hope I'm not too retarded.
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Trained wasps could someday replace dogs for sniffing out drugs, bombs and bodies.
Drugs etc. maybe, since they're in one location, but I see two potential problems using wasps:
1. Juries aren't going to be as likely to believe a jar of wasps tipped off the cops as a really cute brave dog. Which will cause law enforcement to be "late adopters."
2. For tracking and finding things, dogs kick butt. Our wonderful old dog escaped my folks' garage when we were visiting a year ago, and just disappeared. She had bad hips so she couldn't go far, but we just couldn't find her. Since I'm a search and rescue volunteer, two wonderful people who do K9 search volunteered to come by with a young dog they were training. They spent seveal hours, and finally found my dog, who had fallen into a nearby lake, drowned and washed up on shore several hundred yards away from where we started looking.
Grisly story, but we got closure, I was able to have Eureka cremated, my kids were at least glad to know that I had personally taken care of her.
Their dog was just astounding. He would periodically come over and sniff me, even though I had showered and was wearing newly laundered clothes, and the handler would say, "yes, that's his daddy. Now go find him!"
So I'm going to have a hard time signing on for wasps.
Cool story, though!
Why in the world would they make it so difficult? I imagine it's expensive to train workers.
I believe that a significant dollar figure can be assigned to turnover. And furthermore, I believe that no company has ever attempted to calculate it.
"Bite Me" is the new "Humbug."
SteveLG
Yah, I definitely think they are saying the same thing.
I've mentioned this before, but I am still enjoying it, so...I bought some Unicef Christmas cards last week. The whole card consists of "Season's Greetings" in many different languages. On the front, the writing makes a tree. Inside it just says Season's Greetings in 6 languages.
I've been making our cards for the last few years, just for the hell of it. (I do a collage, and a friend of ours in the printing business prints them - not great, by any means.) But when I saw these, I fell in love. It's just such a shame I don't have many fundies on my card list.
Xians really aren't so merry, are they? I mean, they basically hate fun, right?
See Eddie Izzard's take on Christian singing.
Okay, I have a question:
Thursday morning as the kids were about to enter, I decided to make them a puzzle. I printed it out and in a hurry to get it duplicated before they entered, I caught my foot on my desk and crashed face first onto the floor. My nose burst into a blood explosion and I was generally more nonplussed than hurt.
Yesterday a pain in neck showed up. This day it is much much worse. Is this normal? What am I supposed to do about it? (I filled out an accident report.)
Anyone with any observations, please advise.
(Oh, and FUCK BUSH)
Looks as if we may get snow in DC this evening.
It's 80 degrees here again today. I FUCKING HATE IT!!!!!!
Oh, yeah, happy fucking holidays!
four legs good: Well, go outside and freaking catch him one!!
Allow me to clarify: There's a bug in the house, and Curly's going nuts trying to find it. It was doing a good job of evading his feline hunting skills for a while... now, its dead carcass is on the carpet, somewhere, or it escaped, and Curly got bored with looking for it.
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http://www.booktv.org/General/
in...eral+Assignment
On Saturday, December 3 at 2:40 pm
2005 Southern Festival of Books--Hal Crowther "Gather at the River"
Description: From the 2005 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, Tennessee, Hal Crowther discusses the southern half of the United States. In "Gather at the River," the author discusses the war in Iraq, racial tension, and professional sports from a southern perspective. Mr. Crowther offers information, reflections, and theories on the history of the South and what the region can expect for the future.
Author Bio: Hal Crowther is the author of "Unarmed but Dangerous" and "Cathedrals of Kudzu: A Personal Landscape of the South." He was the winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award and the Fellowship of Southern Writers Award for Nonfiction. Mr. Crowther is a syndicated columnist, essayist, and critic.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press P.O. Box 25053 Baton Rouge, LA 70894
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This just ran on c-span2. Too bad I don't see it coming up again soon on the schedule.
It was some of the most captivating tv I've eyeballed in months. Yes, get out more, I know.
Crowther's interchanges at the end with host Jim Egerton and the audience about the South morphed into the martial aspect of the region into Eyerack into condemning Rove as a Stalinist hack in a gang that lacks the shame not to character assassinate Cindy Shehan while the slashing veterans' benefits.
Christ Jesus it was good.
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See Eddie Izzard's take on Christian singing.
Xtian hyms make me want to slit my wrists.
Hey watertiger, I tried all day yesterday to give you a plushy fix.... do you still want one?
the new bloggie,
Oh wow, Jeffraham, it looks great! I really like it.
I think the IED-planters put them in debris. There's garbage strewn all over the roads there -- there was a war and, what, are YOU gonna walk down the road picking up stuff so it looks nice? -- and they never know if a cardboard box or paper bag is trash or an IED.
dieselcreek: Cat have this gene that tells them there are little creatures where there are none.
Oh, you'd be surprised how acute their eyesight and hearing are. I think Curly gets pissed at large bacteria, waving their flagella in his face, daring him to strike them down with great vengeance and furious anger.
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"So I'm going to have a hard time signing on for wasps." T2
Me too. Since I'm allergic to them. At least I can pet a dog.
So its snowing much harder than predicted here in Iowa this afternoon. Looks like the Dog and I are a trapped.
So.......
Work?
MST3K Marathon?
or
LOTR Marathon?
Dog is leaning toward the later...she thinks hobbits look like squeeky toys.
Oh, you'd be surprised how acute their eyesight and hearing are. I think Curly gets pissed at large bacteria, waving their flagella in his face, daring him to strike them down with great vengeance and furious anger.
Hm. I recall actually picking up a cat and holding it up in front of a small bug crawling on the wall, and seeing absolutely no reaction whatsoever.
Maybe it was just a really lazy cat - not entirely implausible...
DWD
See a doctor. Maybe you can get out on workman's comp!
4LG,
I saw those photos yesterday! I even showed them to co-workers.
CNN has no business calling itself a news network. All they
have Saturday is news magazine shows.
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I believe that a significant dollar figure can be assigned to turnover. And furthermore, I believe that no company has ever attempted to calculate it.
Just think how great the world would be if thinking folks like you and me were in charge of things.
Xtian hyms make me want to slit my wrists.
I am so relieved that someone else feels this way. I don't like hymns/church music. I never have. They are uniformly awful songs, IMO, from all standpoints.
And to think that the great mind I'm thinking alike with is Eddie Izzard's. You cannot have him, watertiger.
I saw him first.
attaturk,
Go with LOTR. Because the dog wants it.
We're supposed to get snow, such as it will be, tonight. Crap all day tomorrow.
YAY! I get to stay inside and watch footba. . . oh, wait. My team is the Jets.
I saw those photos yesterday! I even showed them to co-workers.
Okay.
Just didn't want you to miss out on your boyfriend.
Just think how great the world would be if thinking folks like you and me were in charge of things.
Um, in my case, I would probably make things worse...
Yesterday a pain in neck showed up.
Assuming you're not talking metaphorically?
I used to think whiplash was baloney. I was a litigatin lawyer working mainly for insurance companies at the time. Then I got rear-ended in a hit and run. Got to the police station to make a report, and suddenly had a headache. And my neck started hurting, I got dizzy, and I was sick to my stomach.
Went to an orthopedist who said that since nothing showed on the xray, nothing was wrong. He came close to saying, you're not in pain because it doesn't show on the xray.
To add the final insult to injury, the guy who made me finally feel better was a chiropractor.
Eye-opener. I wasn't quite as hardnosed in settling whiplash cases after that. (Hardnosed, but not quite as.)
(As for the litigation lawyer part: I got better!)(Sorry, Nim)
And to think that the great mind I'm thinking alike with is Eddie Izzard's. You cannot have him, watertiger.
Man, you women are tough. Marcia Brady snaps up Keith Olbermann AND Jon Stewart, you've got Eddie.
You all lose. I get attaturk. So there. :P
YAY! I get to stay inside and watch footba. . . oh, wait. My team is the Jets.
watertiger
Could be worse, you could be a Univ. of Colorado fan.
They are only down 70 to 3 in the 3rd Quarter.
Please repost zombie info. Thank you
I am so relieved that someone else feels this way. I don't like hymns/church music. I never have. They are uniformly awful songs, IMO, from all standpoints.
Ya know, I am not a fan of Churchy shit, but I really really love Gospel music. Not for the Jesus joy stuff, but just the melodies and punch....
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I am so relieved that someone else feels this way. I don't like hymns/church music. I never have. They are uniformly awful songs, IMO, from all standpoints.
Absolutely.
I asked my step mother once why we have to sign those fucking songs in church. (she's a soloist and has a fabulous voice) She looked at me like I was out of my mind.
"I feel closer to god when I sing," she said.
I said, "but can't you get closer by singing songs that were actually good?"
Man, you women are tough. Marcia Brady snaps up Keith Olbermann AND Jon Stewart, you've got Eddie.
You all lose. I get attaturk. So there. :P
I see how it is.
Tena: Oh wow, Jeffraham, it looks great! I really like it.
Thanks -- I hate it, but that's why I rejected a move to Blogger all along -- sucky templates.
Had ladyfriend not called earlier to let me know that she's not coming over tonight, I probably wouldn't have even had time to add the links... I'll work on the visuals sometime in 2006...
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Just didn't want you to miss out on your boyfriend
thank you! so thoughtful.
In fact, once my co-worker in the office next door saw him, she was fascinated, so I took her on an internet spin through the world of cat breeds. She'd never heard of Maine Coons or Norwegian Forest cats.
Russ Feingold is a loser
Mike, what makes you say that?
I think Russ is OK: he is only one of 22 Senate
Democrats who had the balls to tell Bush to fuck off
when he asked Congress to invade Iraq.
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Man, you women are tough. Marcia Brady snaps up Keith Olbermann AND Jon Stewart, you've got Eddie.
You all lose. I get attaturk. So there. :P
watertiger
Suddenly my collar is choking me. 
They are only down 70 to 3 in the 3rd Quarter.
I'm watching that game. It's flat out embarrassing.
And I'm a texas fan.
In fact, once my co-worker in the office next door saw him, she was fascinated, so I took her on an internet spin through the world of cat breeds. She'd never heard of Maine Coons or Norwegian Forest cats.
Please tell me you showed her Scottish Folds. Teh Cuteness!
I don't like hymns
Buxtehude and Bacchh did some nice ones.
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I see how it is.
Darlin', you have the delectable, inscrutable, mysterious and shadowy Codename V.
I respect her authoritay.
Please tell me you showed her Scottish Folds. Teh Cuteness!
She freaked on 'em! "But their ears!" she kept saying.
Darlin', you have the delectable, inscrutable, mysterious and shadowy Codename V.
I respect her authoritay.
Fair enough.
But I didn't even make the list of desirable unavailables.
*pout*
I see how it is.
Eli, women are trouble. Trouble!
he he
I've heard Thomas Tallis in the sound of a creek.
In fact, once my co-worker in the office next door saw him, she was fascinated, so I took her on an internet spin through the world of cat breeds. She'd never heard of Maine Coons or Norwegian Forest cats.
Another plushy convert.
He is the most seductive of kitty cats. He's outside- I'll see if I can get some shots of him enjoying the afternoon.
I don't like hymns.
I'm crazy about Humus.
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They are uniformly awful songs, IMO, from all standpoints.
Not uniformly. Cat Stevens' "Morning Has Broken" is a hymn, found in some Protestant hymnals and everything.
The ones that make me want to slit my wrists are the ones with lyrics talking about singing a new song and shouting and exuberant praise and exploding with joy and all that stuff, set to dour, 400 year old Lutheran tunes, sung by white Presbyterians with rhythm deficiencies.
That, and the same white people singing gospel tunes the same way.
And I'm a PCUSA elder.
Suddenly my collar is choking me
Here, let me loosen that for you.
Fair enough.
But I didn't even make the list of desirable unavailables.
*pout*
Eli
Eli, if I wasn't taken and straight, I'd be all over you.
...better?
I've heard Thomas Tallis in the sound of a creek.
So did Thomas Tallis.
But I didn't even make the list of desirable unavailables
Me neither.
Somethings never change. Not even a kick-ass familiar can make me attractive.
Eli, women are trouble. Trouble!
I had a weird roommate who had a mantra that started out that way. Something like:
Women... are trouble.
I'm not looking for trouble.
But if trouble troubles me...
I trouble trouble.
Or something.
Yes, I *only* talked to strange people through most of high school and college.
But I didn't even make the list of desirable unavailables.
Those were *entertainment industry* desirables.
You head the list of *industry outsider* desirables.
(swims desperately against the current)
Kent,
Pit vs porcupine pics that I mentioned last thread- Here and here.
Warning: Ouch.
I don't like hymns.
I'm crazy about Humus.
I'm crazy about penguins, and that reuben sandwich which is on the schedule.
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There was a funny story from Australia I saw recently about sniffer dogs.
Apparently, this one dog had not been trained with proper drugs. Instead , they had used talc powder. As a result the dog kept barking at well turned out middle class businessmen. When the police searched them they could find no drugs, but just talc in there suitcases.
In some cases the talc was only physically on the individual person, so it was very embarrassing for the police chief.
What gets me about the pit is that you said earlier he went "several rounds" with the porcupine. Wouldn't a clever dog have quit after one?
Thanks Central!
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I'm in Maine! Anybody know where Gordo's family lives?
NTodd
I'll buy you a beer at Gritty's in Freeport if you're there around 5:00. I'm the solemn old bat sitting at the bar trying to do the NYT Saturday crossword, sipping Best Bitter from mug 52.
Eli, if I wasn't taken and straight, I'd be all over you.
...better?
I dunno. Would the fez get in the way?
I've heard Thomas Tallis in the sound of a creek.
Yes, and in the sound of a cannon, as well. Oh, wit . . . .
Pit vs porcupine pics that I mentioned last thread- Here and here
Why those pics look like my crotch. Strom used to love saying that my quills gave him thrills.
-Liddy Dole
Holy freaking Cow. Central.
Lord have mercy.
OK note to self: Never fuck with a porcupine, ever!
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Warning: Ouch.
Jeebus.
I had a weird roommate
Oh thank you, you're so kind...
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the ones with lyrics talking about singing a new song and shouting and exuberant praise
Yeesh, the ones that sound like a bad half-time show...
ok, found the zombie torrent for myself: http://www.mininova.org/tor/167794
Pit vs porcupine pics that I mentioned last thread- Here and here.
holy fuck!
I've been out all afternoon; what the hell was the backstory?
I'm assuming the porcupine is an ex-porcupine?
I'm crazy about penguins, and that reuben sandwich which is on the schedule.
Hmmmmmmmmm, reuben sandwiches.
With a side of tater salad and a pickle.
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If a man could understand a woman,
he wouldn't believe it.
Christ Jesus it was good.
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QuentinCompson
Yup, I was listening while trying to beat my personal best of 323. What made it so good, was that it was so surprising.
Wouldn't a clever dog have quit after one?
T2
My limited experience with pit bulls suggests that pain doesn't seem to bother them much.
Hot damn. My local conservative evening paper's editoral came out today against drilling in ANWR. They rip the Repukes arguments point by point. The article says that Republicans ignore a basic truth: There is not much oil there and it would take a long time to get it.
White House press secretary Scott McCellean said an "environmentally responsible" ANWR initiative remains a Bush priority: "It's vital to helping us reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy and helping to reduce high energy prices."
My paper suggests if it cheaper, domestically produced energy is the goal of this administration, then they ask the following questions:
1. Why not buy hybrid and biodiesel cars and trucks for the government fleets?
2. Why not a green tax on gas guzzlers, like the Hummer?
3. Why risk the wilderness for an amount of oil that is not negligible.
4. Why pick the same old fight about the Alaskan wilderness - one you may never be able to win?
My paper provides the answer to these questions to a quote by fired head of Amtrak, David Gunn:
"This administration is more interested in striking ideological poses than than solving problems."
They end by saying the way things are going, voters may decide the president needs a guard dog, not a lapdog, and give the Congress back to the Democrats.
After their endorsing Bush twice, this Fox newspaper of our area shows there is a lot of hope around this great country for 2006.
Hecate, I will see the doctor on Monday unless it continues to deteriorate. But I am having the same symptoms h2 describes: a sickness to the stomach and I am experiencing discomfort trying to turn my head.
(Plus I feel stupid, you know?
I had heard, though not experienced, that pain can show up several days later. I think that is why I filled out the accident report. This is very very disconcerting.
Was the dog blinded?
Eli, if I wasn't taken and straight, I'd be all over you.
...better?
Same here!!!
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Kent,
Pit vs porcupine pics that I mentioned last thread- Here and here.
Oh man...that poor, poor -- stubborn dog.
...How were his eyes, that would be what I'd really be worried about.
That is a horrible scene.
for those looking for variety in smacking your penguins:
http://penguin.omnihosts.net/
Must put wash in dryer.
back shortly.
Gotta problem with Wisconsinites, bitch?
dieselcreek
To add to list:
I have a problem with Congress creep Sensenbrenner and the Cheeseheads that vote for and support that pig.
I'm in my parish choir, and there's a lot of stuff I'd as soon pass on. On the other hand, we do things by Bach and Mozart too. And some of the modern stuff is good - I think Marty Haugen and David Haas have written quite a few things worth singing. I like Gregorian Chant. I wish we had the noive to try some of Hildegard von Bingen's stuff.
I'm in my parish choir, and there's a lot of stuff I'd as soon pass on. On the other hand, we do things by Bach and Mozart too. And some of the modern stuff is good - I think Marty Haugen and David Haas have written quite a few things worth singing. I like Gregorian Chant. I wish we had the noive to try some of Hildegard von Bingen's stuff.
Sorry T2 - got distracted with Hummers and such.
Same here!!!
My hypothetical cup runneth over...
I've been out all afternoon; what the hell was the backstory?
I'm assuming the porcupine is an ex-porcupine?
watertiger
I don't know the entire story but I'm assuming the porcupine didn't survive.
Yeah, I like von Bingen too. Mystics rock; they're what salvage "church Christianity" for me, even though as I get older and wiser I've become more of a Jesusian than a Christian.
And Gregorian chant proves there's space for the dharma in Western tradition.
I like Gregorian Chant. I wish we had the noive to try some of Hildegard von Bingen's stuff.
My girlfriend has found compilations with Gregorian Chant covers of Smells Like Teen Spirit, Wicked Game, Hurt, and, of all things, Blasphemous Rumors.
Very, very strange.
~Quote of the Day~
On the December 1 edition of MSNBC's Imus in the Morning, CBS Evening News anchor and Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer noted that while the reason given by the Bush administration for invading Iraq "proved to be wrong," he still gives the administration "the benefit of the doubt," adding, "I don't think they deliberately misled people."
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: rolling eyes :
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I demand that O'Riley be followed every Sunday to see if he attends church.
If he does not attend, he must be put in the stocks and have rotten eggs thrown at him for being a heretic.
for those looking for variety in smacking your penguins:
That one might be added to the lexicon of masterbation.
My hypothetical cup runneth over...
And how lucky you are!!!!
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Sorry T2 - got distracted with Hummers and such.
Why are you sorry?
(Insert Love Story reference here)
(Insert Rules of hacky sack reference here)
Come on, Dartanyon, who you gonna believe: their words or your lying eyes?
I have a problem with Congress creep Sensenbrenner and the Cheeseheads that vote for and support that pig.
Are you comparing Russ to Senseless?
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he must be put in the stocks and have rotten eggs thrown at him
Where do I sign up?!?
Man, you women are tough. Marcia Brady snaps up Keith Olbermann AND Jon Stewart, you've got Eddie.
As long as you girls keep your mitts off Fitzy, it's all fine by me.
BTW, Hecate seems to be losing interest, so I guess I get him all to myself.
DWD - I have frequently had the pain occur a day or two after the incident. Since we're talking about the neck, see a doctor. Muscle relaxants won't kill the pain, but will prevent other incidents. Get some painkillers cause you're probably gonna need them.
Interestingly, I'm listening to "Chant" right now. Gregorian chant is very calming and relaxing for me. I also have a CD of some of von Bingen's stuff.
I'm in Maine! Anybody know where Gordo's family lives?
NTodd
Gorham. I'd give you the address but I don't want to make trouble for the host.
You can see the Delta Chi house on Preble st. Unmistakable.
Oh, that poor damn dumb dog! Ouch indeed.
We're a musically sophisticated group.
Wait, my Cheetah Girls CD is skipping...
Interestingly, I'm listening to "Chant" right now. Gregorian chant is very calming and relaxing for me. I also have a CD of some of von Bingen's stuff.
Hecate Malificent
Anonymous 4 does chant very well. Their St. Nicholas album is excellent and seasonal. And more than a bit pagan.
My girlfriend has found compilations with Gregorian Chant covers of Smells Like Teen Spirit, Wicked Game, Hurt, and, of all things, Blasphemous Rumors.
Eli,
April Winchell has the Gregorian Chant cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit.
I'd link directly to the song but the site won't allow it. It's in the first category.
Wait, my Cheetah Girls CD is skipping..
I got LCD Soundsystems on the turntable.
...ok it's just a CD.
199.5. Damn.
...that thing where the Shrub falls forever, unless he gets caught on the spheres, amuses me no end. Sometimes I leave him falling, sometimes I fold him and jam him into a crevice and abandon him/
Ah, Ahianne, I do love it too!
I like to grab the little Chimp figure with the mouse and shake it/him like a cat shaking a mouse.
Cat torture!
Hey, we did walkies without me hurting myself or Arthur being successful in his goal of eating the next door cat!
Small steps, triumphs....
DWD,
Sending light and healing thoughts your way. Hope you feel better soon.
Pit vs porcupine pics that I mentioned last thread- Here and here.
I'm sorry, but what a fucking STOOOPID dog.
You think he'd have quit after getting stuck with a couple quills.
199.5. Damn.
Thats damn close, keep swingin' T2.
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Hey, we did walkies without me hurting myself or Arthur being successful in his goal of eating the next door cat!
Ahhh! good Arthur.
Maxx says to tell him kitties don't taste good anyway.
Jeffraham, is there something I need to buy from you to assure that you're offered permanent employment?
Eli, if I wasn't taken and straight, I'd be all over you.
If I wasn't old enough to be your mother, married, and in love with Fitz, I'd be all over you too.
321.1.
Okay, so where's this whack a penguin game?
I was actually working yesterday so I missed the link.
Can we all agree here that DWD should see a doctor sooner rather than later? Please.
Never known a dog that wouldn't attack a porcupine more than once.
Oh and by the way, anyone here living in New York, I fucking envy the music coming outta there right now.
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If I wasn't old enough to be your mother, married, and in love with Fitz, I'd be all over you too.
Woohoo!!!
I'm nowhere near as adorable as Mr. QL, but thanks.
So has anyone gotten a skid shorter than my 60 whatever it was?
Jeffraham, is there something I need to buy from you to assure that you're offered permanent employment?
I'm not sure he wants permanent employment in that sweatshop.
Parable For A Certain Virgin
Dorothy Parker
Oh, ponder, friend, the porcupine;
Refresh your recollection,
And sit a moment, to define
His means of self-protection.
How truly fortified is he!
Where is the beast his double
In forethought of emergency
And readiness for trouble?
Recall his figure, and his shade—
How deftly planned and clearly
For slithering through the dappled glade
Unseen, or pretty nearly.
Yet should an alien eye discern
His presence in the woodland,
How little has he left to learn
Of self-defense! My good land!
For he can run, as swift as sound,
To where his goose may hang high—
Or thrust his head against the ground
And tunnel half to Shanghai;
Or he can climb the dizziest bough—
Unhesitant, mechanic—
And, resting, dash from off his brow
The bitter beads of panic;
Or should pursuers press him hot,
One scarcely needs to mention
His quick and cruel barbs, that got
Shakespearean attention;
Or driven to his final ditch,
To his extremest thicket,
He’ll fight with claws and molars (which
Is not considered cricket).
How amply armored, he, to fend
The fear of chase that haunts him!
How well prepared our little friend!—
And who the devil wants him?
Online text © 1998-2005 Poetry X. All rights reserved.
From Sunset Rope
Merry Christmas AND Happy Holidays to all of you. So there!!!!
There was one piece we did for Confirmation this fall - "The Flame and the Fire" I think, possibly by Kevin Keil - that would do just about as well for Pagans as Catholics. A matter of what spirit you might have in mind.
"http://n.ethz.ch/student/mkos/pinguin.swf">here you go FLG
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I hope NTodd visits me. I'll trick him onto nuying me lunch.
I'm hungry.
My health food store always has some great music playing and I discovered World Music by Putumayo there. I just received a Putumayo flyer today and one CD that looks interesting is Swing Around The World. Anyone listened to it?
here you go FLG
lets hope this one works
No cat is stupid enough to attack either a porcupine or a skunk.
http://n.ethz.ch/student/mkos/pi...kos/
pinguin.swf
Parable For A Certain Virgin
Dorothy Parker
Yes.
Oddly the title reminds me of X.J. Kennedy's famous "In a Prominent Bar in Seacaucus N.J".
You think he'd have quit after getting stuck with a couple quills.
It's the rush of the hunt- put a couple of dogs together and set em loose in the woods and group-think takes over.
I've seen dog go after the same porky on different days. Each times getting quills in the nose.
We'd have to shoot the porkies who wouldn't move along to other land...
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dieselcreek - gospel isn't what I'm talking about.
I'm talking about that How Great Thou Art shit.
220 the first time I actually connected.
So has anyone gotten a skid shorter than my 60 whatever it was?
I am not gonna say anything!
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"Never known a dog that wouldn't attack a porcupine more than once."
You never had a husky.
p, plan is to go to the doctor's on Monday unless this continues to get worse.
Damn! I do not want to do this, it is painful.
oh my god, Jeffraham. did he take the dog to the doctor? is he ok now?
No cat is stupid enough to attack either a porcupine or a skunk.
four legs good
amen.
http://n.ethz.ch/student/mkos/pi...kos/ pinguin.swf
205.2 outta the gate....
I think several people posted links to the penguin thing next thrad down.
311.6, and I have no idea what I'm doing.
Okay, is there any point to this game other than hitting the penguin?
Can we all agree here that DWD should see a doctor sooner rather than later? Please.
p
yup.
INTENTIONAL skids is what I'm talkin' bout. Hit 'em in the neck and see how short a grounder you can get.
Gordon the Unemployed
I thought he was hustling in Las Vegas.
Tina
I'm talking about that How Great Thou Art shit.
I knew, but just the mention of church shit got me all Evis-like.
I got 277.
I dunno what I'm doing either.
Eli, you should try for a hole in one at the 200 mark.
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Afternoon batsies.
I told a story on the thread below about my parents' two dogs, when they lived on the trout farm in the Sierras in California in the late forties. One was a shepherd mix, Prince. The other was a beagle, Tippy. It only took one noseful of quills for Prince to get it. He never confronted another porcupine.
Little Tippy was an idiot. He came home regularly with his nose full of quills. Dad would have to hold him down and pull them out with pliers. Tippy never learned.
AHHHH
322.9 with skip!
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Has anyone noticed that the Paki missile strike that Killed the al Qaeda biggie was fired into Pakistan from an Afghan bases drone?
Ummm, is it just me or is anyone else noticing that Pakistan and Afghanistan are names that sound mighty different from the name Iraq?
Why in hell are we fighting a terror war in Iraq when the action is in Afghanistan and Pakistan?
To think, there are those that think the Iraq fiasco is going according to some sort of elaborate "Wily Coyote-super genius" sort of Dubya "faith based" plan.
I don't like hymns/church music.
I'm late, but I wanted to chime in that I'm Lutheran, so we've got all the Bach stuff, which is great. "O Sacred Head Now Wounded" is beautiful, and Paul Simon nicked it for "An American Tune."
Believe it or not, the Starland Vocal Band, the very same one that brought you "Afternoon Delight," did a gorgeous a capella version of that song.
'Course my church uses these real Baptist-y hymns all the time, which I don't like. A few weeks ago, we sang "What a Joy Divine," aka "Leeeeaning, leeeeeaning...."
I kept looking for Robert Mitchum to leap out from behind the baptismal font.
I'm not sure he wants permanent employment in that sweatshop.
four legs good
Well, there is that. Still. But it's not as tho I didn't sympathise.... As one who has the date 31 March 2006 circled in gold on my next year's collander.
I don't mind if store clerks wish me "Merry Christmas" as long as they don't mind that my response is: "Bite me."
"Bite Me" is the new "Humbug."
SteveLG | Email | 12.03.05 - 3:50 pm | #
Rubbing hands together, "Eeeexxxellent!"
Okay, 316.3
"Merry Christmas AND Happy Holidays to all of you. So there!"
To hell wth your CHRISTmas dogma.
Eli, you should try for a hole in one at the 200 mark.
I seem to be pretty good at burying them up to the neck at around the 192 mark...
Frankly? I don't know what a doctor is going to do, besides offer muscle relaxants and maybe a script for hydrocodone (maybe with refills!). And I wouldn't want a chiropractor working on me before the muscle tears had a little time to start healing.
Lots of ibuprofen, hot toddies, alternating warm and cold compresses, AMC on TV.
Our cat, Archimedes (RIP) was always getting sprayed by skunks -- he was clever enough to force his adoption by begining able to stick his claws in the sliding screen door of our old common room & entering -- could was certain of how tough he was, however, and could never resist a fight -- even with a skunk (thankfully, we have no porcupines)
What's with DWD?
No cat is stupid enough to attack either a porcupine or a skunk.
four legs good
Years ago I had a cat that went after copperheads on several occasions. His head would swell up double in size, he'd be effectively blinded from the swelling. He lay around a few days until he healed up and then he'd do it again.
He wasn't very bright.
I think 58 point something is the low bar so far.
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Faceplant at 199.5...
Well, while I post, several others more usefully post links.
Tena, we do "How Great Thou Art" every now and then. Bores me no end. That and the Lawrence Welk-ish "Just a Closer Walk".
As one who has the date 31 March 2006 circled in gold on my next year's collander.
I am not sure what the significance of a day 5 days after yer birthday........
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Okay, is there any point to this game other than hitting the penguin?
four legs good
Nope, but Kent tries to hit a hole in one by having the penquin land bill down exactly at the 200 flag. I've done it once by accident.
My high score is 323. And I think we all ought to give Moonbootica a sterm talking to for forcing us to waste an afternoon playing this silly game. Tetrus is really much better.
I heard that someone was ditto-complaining about "Happy Holidays,". The person who was listening said, "What do you want them to say? Bite me?".
Four legs good: points of the game are:
1. How far can you get it to skip. Record is 366 something, I think.
2. Hit a beak-planter exactly on 200.
3. (My game) Shortest intentional grounder.
Am I forgetting anything?
Sorry, 326 something.
I seem to be pretty good at burying them up to the neck at around the 192 mark...
Keep trying, after getting 199.8 I have holed out at 200 5 times now.
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Am I the only one to start enjoying the music your parents listening to while you were kid and you turned your nose up to it? My parents enjoyed big band, swing and Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Bass and I hated it all. Although I am mostly a smooth jazz fan, I love all their old music now.
OK --
scanned back --
my recommendation -- see someone & get X-rays ASAP -- so far you arte not paralyzed -- let's keep it that way -- neck injuries are nothingt to be casual about -- I was almost paralyzed by noe almost 20 years ago & still see a chiropractor regularly
317.1
This stupid game is addictive.
Prior, in a fit of grace the other morning I tripped over my desk drawer and caught the floor with my face. Bled like a stuck pig but was essentially unhurt. Now my neck is bothering me and appears to be moving into my upper back.
Live and learn, eh?
321 on the first shot...
Am I the only one to start enjoying the music your parents listening to
I put on the Perry Como CD for my mother, then run the other way.
Got to go and be mildly entertaining for increasingly drunk people for the next few hours. Hope eveyone here has a good evening, tacit trolls.
Tena, we do "How Great Thou Art" every now and then. Bores me no end. That and the Lawrence Welk-ish "Just a Closer Walk".
Oh, that stuff. I don't think of it as hymns so much as white, er, "Traditional" gospel.
Well, I managed the 200 faceplant, anyway...
320.5
GWPDA: Jeffraham, is there something I need to buy from you to assure that you're offered permanent employment?
Oh, no -- not unless you need a 'puter. My numbers are good; just not good enough, yet. That "total-margin-per-unit" figure I have is really stellar by their standards for a new rep -- that's caused by doing serious needs-based questioning, and then explaining what the customer won't be able to do if they try to save money by eliminating one or more of my recommendations.
My close rate is impacted by things such as "ghost calls," where there's no one on the line when I pick up (I had five in a row on Thu.), and calls from folx who've already ordered, and just want to check on something, or have a question.
However, I'm not too concerned about whether I get offered a permanent position there... it's a bit of a sweatshop, so I'll hang in there until they say otherwise, but I'm already looking for a replacement gig, just in case.
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Gosh, yes, DWD, by all means see a doctor.
I can't think of one good reason not to and a whole bunch of excellent reasons why you should.
Don't feel badly about falling down. I caught my foot on the edge of my deck last summer and fell flat. The only think that stopped me from falling on my face was my shin hitting the edge of the deck.
I'm royally pissed about the scar.
About 6 people saw me fall - I was so embarrassed. But it was an accident, just like yours.
I'm so sorry you did it and hurt yourself.
I hope that he will be the democratic candidate in 2008.
Blue Wind
Hey, I like him.
BUT he's Jewish (I don't have a problem with that) and divorced MORE than ONCE.
SOME folks ain't gonna like either of those things.
Now, Clark/Feingold? That has possibilities!
Live and learn, eh?
DWD
a pinched nerve?
hamletta, "O Sacred Head Surrounded" (Catholic version of words) is not by Bach, though he did an arrangement of it. Damned if I recall who did write it though. Ed Stauff did a set of words explaining this and taught them to the Filk Choir at OVFF several years back. If I knew where my copy was I'd be able to tell you who wrote it.
DWD - a lot of injuries hurt worse a day or so later. But this is your neck. Take no chances.
I don't like hymns/church music.
latin hymnals are beautiful. even more so once you've deciphered it into english. the type of devotion people used to have is pretty amazing viewing it from a historical context.
Whoo hoo. Another hole in one.
Prior, in a fit of grace the other morning I tripped over my desk drawer and caught the floor with my face. Bled like a stuck pig but was essentially unhurt. Now my neck is bothering me and appears to be moving into my upper back.
Live and learn, eh?
DWD - Listener in the Snow
Oooooh!
See a doctor, please.
Nose down at 200.2
Am I the only one to start enjoying the music your parents listening to ....
Nope. I figure my affection for all things mod 'n' swinging stems from the fact that I was 4 in 1967 (Alpert, Brasil '66, Fifth Dimension), and that was what the magical, mystical adult world was about. Or maybe Mike Myers planted that idea in my head.
The Tijuana Brass makes me especially happy because about the only memory I have of my little sister is teaching her to do the twist to one of their singles.
fy had better hope that I never get my hands on him.
He's dead meat!
I'm talking about the songs in the standard middle of the road Methodist church hymnal.
Those church songs. The ones no one can sing.
DWD -- alternate hot and cold compresses...to remove the toxins and reduce any swelling. If its not getting better in a couple days...or continues to get worse, go see a doctor.
Am I forgetting anything?
T2
How many "0 ok"'s in a row can you get.
Russ Feingold is a loser
Mike | 12.03.05 - 3:44 pm
Takes one to know one?
OK how about bunts?
I got a 68...
zeros don't count, cheaters.
Oh, and freedom of speech?
Doesn't mean freedom to annoy everyone.
jello: oh my god, Jeffraham. did he take the dog to the doctor? is he ok now?
I dunno -- I got that from a link someone else provided in this thread, or the last (and damn me for not attributing it). I'd assume this is gonna be a long healing process -- the quills are barbed, and difficult to remove, and infection would be a risk from so many puncture wounds, I'd assume. Poor doggie.
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The Tijuana Brass makes me especially happy because about the only memory I have of my little sister is teaching her to do the twist to one of their singles.
hamletta
The Tijuana Brass brings happy memories back to me as well. While it was playing, it is the only time that I ever saw my father dance with my mother. My two siblings and I would join in with them.
Just called my doctor, he says to have it x-rayed. Guess I will be back later, moonbats.
200.5 followed by 199.4.
Moonbootica must be made to answer for this.....
hamletta, "O Sacred Head Surrounded" (Catholic version of words) is not by Bach, though he did an arrangement of it.
Oops. You're absolutely right! (Warning: MIDI file)
Music: “Passion Chorale,” Hans L. Hassler, Lustgarten neuer teutscher Gesäng, 1601; harmony by Johann S. Bach, 1729 ). Hassler originally set this tune to the secular words Mein Gmüt ist mir verwirret, das mächt ein Jungfrau zart.
Just called my doctor, he says to have it x-rayed. Guess I will be back later, moonbats.
DWD - Listener in the Snow
Good luck,
Better to be safe than sorry......
Yeah, one of my occasional tasks for the choir is to take home something we're singing in Latin and try to translate it into English, just so we know what we're singing. I never took Latin, but I have a basic grammar book (Latino pro Populo, which is also informative and funny) and a Cassel's, so I usually can muddle through.
The Tijuana Brass brings happy memories back to me as well.
They do that, don't they? Kinda hard to be sad when you're listening to 'em.
DWD --
PLEASE SEE A DOCTOR!
These things don't just get better on their own (in my experience)
Music -- Br Abraham's Pentacostel grandmother once asked him if we did "the OLD hymns" (meaning the atrocious gloop from the 19th century) -- Br Abraham told her, "Oh, yes, Grandma" (meaning the hymns from the 5th & 6th centuries)
Gotta go to Vespers to sing some of them now -- I LOVE the Advent music!
Terry C: Doesn't mean freedom to annoy everyone.
Any real Green would realize that pissing off the 5-15% of the audience here inclined to vote Green is not a winning strategery. It ain't a real Green, but whatever it is, it's only driving votes to Dems. If it had a couple of brain cells left to rub together, it'd figure that out.
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I just went and checked the temp here - it's 87.
Herb Alpert. Now THAT's some good bossa nova!
and a blogwhore.
once more to the laundromat...
I just went and checked the temp here - it's 87.
Yeah, it's pissing me off.
I just went and checked the temp here - it's 87.
Good for you. We are at 18 here in Madison.
This winter holiday season, make it Baby Bush™ Toys!
Y'all, I am such a putz. Remember how I was saying you could get "Homecoming" on the OnDemand thingie? I was looking in the wrong place. It's up in the section for current subscribers, not the teaser section.
Sorry.
I am so bummed. Guess I'll have to break down and learn to use Bittorrent. :-P
The Tijuana Brass brings happy memories back to me as well.
I used to play "Spanish Flea" and "Tijuana Taxi" on trumpet in my junior high "pep band."
True story!
This stupid game is addictive.
Yes it is. It is keeping me from my appointment with a Reuben Sandwich.
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I just went and checked the temp here - it's 87.
Eek!
Isn't it December down there yet?
They do that, don't they? Kinda hard to be sad when you're listening to 'em.
hamletta
Very true. Yet the exact reverse has happened to our family as well. I did a surprise visit to my parents house once and caught my seventy year old mother listening to Grand Funk Railroad. She was hugely embarrassed and said she played all of our music that she had hated over the years because it reminded her of when all her kids were at home.
She was hugely embarrassed and said she played all of our music that she had hated over the years because it reminded her of when all her kids were at home.
First of all: Awwwww!
Second: Notice how this train of thought has gone full-circle?
hamletta: I am so bummed. Guess I'll have to break down and learn to use Bittorrent. :-P
Well, the good thing to come out of it is that I don't have to carry a grudge against your housepride, now.
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I think Statcounter's stats are much, much more accurate than Modblog's ever were, btw...
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Second: Notice how this train of thought has gone full-circle?
hamletta
I guess it just shows how much music connects us all even through different generations.
And a flawless 70F in Phoenix, Arizona. A windchill factor of - oh look - 70F. Humidity at 25%. Tonight? Expect something around 45F or so. Cool enough to be cool and trigger plant activities - cool enough to grab the quilt - not so cold as to kill the homeless and the Gentlemen of the Road who frequent my city. Lovely. At some stage I'll get my films developed and you can see the gorgeous oranges and reds and golds of the Chinese pistache.
Lovely.
At some stage I'll get my films developed and you can see the gorgeous oranges and reds and golds of the Chinese pistache.
I could show you the lovely black sooty snow piled along the street in front of my house. Mingled with beer cans, socks and old shoes. You see, I live in a college neighborhood.
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flory - It's going to get cold again, according to the forecast. Haven't you spent any time here in the winter? This is what it does. One day it's hot, then a front comes through. Usually after a front there will be 1 really cold day and subsequent warming. Then it gets really warm, and another front comes through.
The difference so far this winter is that usually when it gets really warm before a front, it's also humid. It's dry as a bone here today. I could be in Phoenix.
I'll take it - if it's going to be this warm, having it this dry really helps the way it feels. It's not uncomfortable today, because it actually feels cooler than it is.
good afternoon bats
not you fy
Dave, love the terror alert xylophone
Well, let's shower up and head out for some barbequed pig and some fixins.
Brb...
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I'll have you know that you're missing "Chupacabra: Dark Seas" on Sci Fi right now.
Well, the good thing to come out of it is that I don't have to carry a grudge against your housepride, now.
The Bangladesh Bathroom is safe from your prying eyes!
Another futile attempt to ban and censor me. When will you learn- Wanker - that I will never stop posting here. You must now I am a determined person and I will be here everyday until November 2008. I like to remind people how pitiful and gutless the Democrats(Repug-lites) are.
Crazy Howie Scream
Worst Chairman ever
Another futile attempt to ban and censor me. When will you learn- Wanker - that I will never stop posting here. You must now I am a determined person and I will be here everyday until November 2008. I like to remind people how pitiful and gutless the Democrats(Repug-lites) are.
Crazy Howie Scream
Worst Chairman ever
Another futile attempt to ban and censor me. When will you learn- Wanker - that I will never stop posting here. You must now I am a determined person and I will be here everyday until November 2008. I like to remind people how pitiful and gutless the Democrats(Repug-lites) are.
Crazy Howie Scream
Worst Chairman ever
Another futile attempt to ban and censor me. When will you learn- Wanker - that I will never stop posting here. You must now I am a determined person and I will be here everyday until November 2008. I like to remind people how pitiful and gutless the Democrats(Repug-lites) are.
Crazy Howie Scream
Worst Chairman ever
Another futile attempt to ban and censor me. When will you learn- Wanker - that I will never stop posting here. You must now I am a determined person and I will be here everyday until November 2008. I like to remind people how pitiful and gutless the Democrats(Repug-lites) are.
Crazy Howie Scream
Worst Chairman ever
Another futile attempt to ban and censor me. When will you learn- Wanker - that I will never stop posting here. You must now I am a determined person and I will be here everyday until November 2008. I like to remind people how pitiful and gutless the Democrats(Repug-lites) are.
Crazy Howie Scream
Worst Chairman ever
I'm really scared
Terry moonbat
You see, I live in a college neighborhood.
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dieselcreek
Tee-hee! I don't! Wah-hoo, I'm old, I'm rich and I'm surrounded by people who plant trees!
O'Reilly says, "Frankly, the executives who have banished Christmas...
...COCKPUNCH!
I see that Arby's is offering a pretty fair approximation of a Reuben.
I shall, tomorrow, go.
GWPDA - I checked the humidity at the NOAA site just now - we have 11% here today.
dieselcreek
Where are you in relation to the football obelisk/Camp Randall---I'm nearby. Did you see the Isthmus comment that suggesting someday Madison might be invaded by the US Army who would pull down the statue and we could all beat it with our shoes.
(The great university had $250K donated to commission a statue for the newly renovated football field. It's a phallic pile of footballs, controversial for any number of reasons.)
79% humidity here...yummy! and 61 degrees
As much as it aggravates me to even comment on fy, I'll say again that in my opinion, it's pointless to try to figure out what its politics really are, or to argue with or insult it in an attempt to defeat or reform it.
It is primarily a mere disruptor troll-- a vicious, self-indulgent entity that may or may not seek attention, but certainly derives satisfaction from wantonly interrupting (reasonably) civil discourse.
There's no way to decipher a consistent rationale from its manifestations, except that it delights in disrupting and disturbing for its own sake.
There is no reason to credit the content of its disruptions. Although it purports to be a hero in the course of behaving villainously, its bombast and sneers about how irrepressible it is would only make sense if directed to a sympathetic audience. Jeering at its victims is... tauntological.
Perhaps I should say tauntillogical.
It's unfortunate that it can't be eliminated permanently, because it clearly cannot be engaged constructively. It is perverse and abominable-- thus, best shunned.
Little Brøther,
Well, and thoroughly said...
200.5 followed by 199.4.
Moonbootica must be made to answer for this.....
flory, keeper of the VIP keys | Email | 12.03.05 - 4:53 pm | #
yes, she must! We will have to go to Wales and do ... something. Meanwhile I'll keep Googling for more modifications.
And, if someone would come up with a variation called smack-the-troll I'd play that as well.
Another fu--
Dear Moronic Brownshirt Fuck,
Nobody's interested and nobody cares.
Happy Holidays!
Tena - 20+% is enough to make my hairy curly and my skin moist and dewy. Also Arthur, shiny.... Much above that - nah.
Little Brother - I concur. I don't think politics is even the point. I think it's just a vandal.
"Freedom of speech?
Doesn't mean freedom to annoy everyone."
TerryC puts conditions on the freedom of speech?
Not very American of her.
I see that Arby's is offering a pretty fair approximation of a Reuben.
Fair is about right. I hope they actually toast the bread in your neck of the woodlands.
I must off to the Reuben that is sweetly calling my name, then back for more whack a penguin, and then Basketball Game.
.
Evening, all.
Anything egregious happen since
last night?
(The great university had $250K donated to commission a statue for the newly renovated football field. It's a phallic pile of footballs, controversial for any number of reasons.)
Saw that in the UW Alumni magazine.
It's a tongue in cheek thing, the artist says. I say it really fucking weird looking (and I was an art student at UW-Madison)
I live just past State Street on Johnson. 2 blocks down from Pinkus (the corner store)...
.
oops...guess the FBIs got some splainin' to do
My 'roids are tearing my ass up today.
Damn, damn, damn, I have got to check into this blog more often! That thread on racism seemed really interesting, but everyone's probably sick of the subject by now.
AND I'm missing Chupacabra: Dark Seas. Damn, damn, damn.
Anyway, hi, moonbats. I've missed you, and never more than over Thanksgiving when my family informed me that the problem with this country is that the CIA is full of liberal democrats. Who knew?
Hey, APS re-calculated my power bill - I win! $80 in my favour. Challenge authority, mijos, always.
GWPDA - Tena - 20+% is enough to make my hairy curly and my skin moist and dewy. Also Arthur, shiny.
A couple of times I've gone from Lake City down to Santa Fe for a weekend during the summer and I've found the humidity in Santa Fe disconcerting. I've told people that and they think I'm crazy. But there's a qualitative difference between 21% humidity at 9200 ft and 21% humidity at 6000 ft., where it is much warmer in general.
I hear ya.
Or do the insurgent bomb planters pass themselves off as road and sidealk repair crews? Or what?
Longview |
The way I see it it's intel.superiority that's the problem.
With a simpathetic populace the
"rebels" know every move we're going to make. Meanwhile we don't have enough folks on the ground to watch,
much less secure,much of the country at any one time.
They know we're coming,and they,re
prepared when we do.
30,000,000 of them,160,000 of us.
And disturbed dirt drys fast in the desert.
I'm surprised we are not using the "dud" method.
"looks like a possible I.E.D,over there."
"Yeah,have Ahmed and Saddam check it out."
it's time for some good old-fashioned Injun justice for all of these crooks:
http://blogdebogs.blogspot.com/2...-raze-
reed.html
Hey, APS re-calculated my power bill - I win! $80 in my favour. Challenge authority, mijos, always.
Hey pass that onto us poor people in college neighborhoods!
Ok, I'm not poor- just a life-long college student wanna-be..............yes, I wanna be a prof.
Snow tonight and more snow on Monday.
Puts Christians in the Christmas Spirit do they'll spend money buying stuff in malls to celebrate the birth of baby Jesus.
I seem to be stuck at 323.5. I'll never beat Central Scrutinizer's score.
I love it when a mouth-breathing
moronic troll comes here,
posts the same idiotic
catch-phrases over and over and
over again,
and then calls us wankers.
I seem to be stuck at 323.5. I'll never beat Central Scrutinizer's score.
I think 322.9 is my best. I don't see how it's physically possible to get much farther than that - it seems to be a matter of how high & far you can get it without faceplanting, and that limit seems to be a little bit shy of 190.
Hey pass that onto us poor people in college neighborhoods!
Ok, I'm not poor- just a life-long college student wanna-be..............yes, I wanna be a prof.
Sorry, baby, but it's going to St. Vincent de Paul. If you want to live in my shed tho, that's okay.
I seem to be stuck at 323.5. I'll never beat Central Scrutinizer's score.
Me too! 
.
posts the same idiotic
catch-phrases over and over and
over again,
Huh, I thought those was just mouse farts.
I'll be damned.
Man, I had forgotten just how creepy the low-rent gigolo in Chupacabra: Dark Seas was...
Afternoon all.
Let me just get two things off my chest.
Hook 'em Horns.
Fuck Bush.
Sorry, baby, but it's going to St. Vincent de Paul.
Cool, good vintage clothes finds at St. Vinnies, usually much better than Goodwill.
.
Man, I had forgotten just how creepy the low-rent gigolo in Chupacabra: Dark Seas was...
I'm trying to figure out his hair.
I think 322.9 is my best. I don't see how it's physically possible to get much farther than that - it seems to be a matter of how high & far you can get it without faceplanting, and that limit seems to be a little bit shy of 190.
So thats where you have been.
OK Reuben! Now!
.
missy's brother,
I love Putumayo! check their website to see if their radio show is played in your area. Also, check with your local library. I'm lucky, ours carries most of Putumayo's stuff.
http://www.putumayo.com/
I hear ya.
Tena
"I'm the best insurance you've got!"
hello moonbats
"Cool, good vintage clothes finds at St. Vinnies, usually much better than Goodwill."
Why are you buying charity clothes?
Moonbootica - you got me hooked on this dang game!
Tena what can i say i am a bad influence
Why are you buying charity clothes?
Cause vintage clothes blows most shit around today away. In both style and fit.
I buy everything from cheapo stuff to very expensive- but the older stuff I find at thrift stores always last longer.
Plus you don't look like every other rube on the street.
So, why not?
.
Moonbootica - you got me hooked on this dang game!
Tena
I had to force myself to stop yesterday when the link was first posted. I go to around 320 or so, and realized that it wasn't going to go any further.
Ok, I'm not poor- just a life-long college student wanna-be..............yes, I wanna be a prof.
dieselcreek
Eep!
God be with you!
Kidnappers threaten to kill Western hostages in Iraq
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Kidnappers threatened to murder four Western peace activists abducted in Iraq last week as the unrelenting insurgency claimed the lives of 19 Iraqi troops who were killed in a bomb blast north of the capital.
The assault on Iraqi forces came a day after a rebel bomb attack killed 10 US troops in the deadliest strike on the military in several months.
In a video that appeared on Al-Jazeera television, the kidnappers said that unless all detainees in Iraqi and coalition prisons were released by December 8, they would kill the American, British and Canadian hostages.
The 19 Iraqi troops were killed in a bomb attack and ensuing clashes in Adhaim, 100 kilometers (65 miles) north of Baghdad, on Saturday, police said.
"So, why not?"
The money goes to a good cause, but the intent of the clothing donations are so that those who can't afford decent clothing can.
Unless you're economically challenged, you have no business buying clothes at a charity store.
God be with you!
he he...I know. On the plus side- I am still very good friends with everyone in the design dept. at UW-Madison. They would take me as a grad student in a minute. And there are some in that dept. who are ready to retire. They all know my plan- and will do what they can. They key was to get out into the "real world" and pay my dues...
Glad to see DWD is going to get an X-ray of his neck. You don't want to ignore neck pain. Some years my wife had a student miss class for a couple of weeks. When he showed up he was wearing a neck brace. Turns out he was in an auto accident. His neck hurt so after a while he went to a chiropracter. The doc took an X-ray and told him to go straight to a neurologist. Turned out he had a cracked vertebra.
So thats where you have been.
Actually, I was taking a shower... And once I fall behind on a thread, I'm not real enthusiastic about trying to catch up again.
I buy everything from cheapo stuff to very expensive- but the older stuff I find at thrift stores always last longer.
Plus you don't look like every other rube on the street.
That was my philosophy throughout college and several years after, but my job requires me to look a little more conventional now. I did get a whole bunch of shirts at Goodwill a coupla months ago - the five that fit look like they'll work out pretty well.
i've brought a few items from charity shops here in Britain.
and my mother has furnished much of her warddrobe from charity shops.
and its ideal if your a peniless student like I am , cause high street retailers like like River Island or Oasis are pretty expensive.
Unless you're economically challenged, you have no business buying clothes at a charity store.
The Goodwill I went to did not appear to be in any danger of running out of inventory...
The money goes to a good cause, but the intent of the clothing donations are so that those who can't afford decent clothing can.
Unless you're economically challenged, you have no business buying clothes at a charity store.
So I can't buy cheap shit at Walmart? Same damn price.
And I give these places MORE clothes than I buy every year.
East side Madison is all about thrift. Try telling your creed to the many many people who shop these places and have decent jobs.
Watch out for nose bleeds up on that horse.
The best 'thrift store' in the world is the Assistance League of Phoenix. They have everything and every penny goes to clothe little kids who don't have any money - couldn't be finer. Today I saw an absolutely gorgeous London Fog coat, WITH furry liner - for $10.... Got some additional juice glasses that just exactly match the ones I already had, for .35/ea, a really grand metal bowl to whip egg whites in, and then, simultaneously donated two pairs of shoes I never wear and two dresses I 'can't' wear any more.
Grand. The General Mercantile of us all.
"Challenge authority, mijos, always.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar | Email | Homepage | 12.03.05 - 5:26 pm | #"
Well, that WAS the motto of my generation -- "Question authority!" (of course we also had, "Better living through chemistry" & "Hell, no, we won't go!", etc.)
funny...
I was watching "Airplane II" and at the point where the hero disarms the bomber (played by the late Sony Bono) in the runaway space shuttle, the ground crew are all saying "He got the bomb!" "He got the bomb!", and the gay guy steps in and, I swear, says "Isn't this exciting? It's just like an election in Iraq!"
Did I dream this?
charity shops are for everyone.
i do volunteer work for Oxfam when i am home during the holidays and we get a cross section of community.
you guys probably already know about robert scheer's new website, truthdig.
but if not, it's worth a check.
but my job requires me to look a little more conventional now
I'm a designer. I'm expected to look a little odd.
you guys probably already know about robert scheer's new website, truthdig.
yep- looks great, I've been passing along word.
Great site, thanks charley!
I'm a designer. I'm expected to look a little odd.
I really miss it. I still have a lot of the clothes, for when opportunities present themselves.
Prior!
I AM your 'generation'.
Didn't you know?
I personally don't see what the problem with anyone shopping at a Goodwill, or other charity shop is.
Every Goodwill or other shop I have been in is not lacking in stock to sell others. They also didn't seem to be selling all that much as well, eventhough the Wal-Mart down the street was full of people.
"Today I saw an absolutely gorgeous London Fog coat, WITH furry liner - for $10.... Got some additional juice glasses that just exactly match the ones I already had, for .35/ea,"
how decent of you to profit from the donation of another and take an oppurtunity for someone with low income to afford a respectable jacket.
Happy holidays huh Scrooge?
Ah -- DWD is getting his neck X-rayed -- super!
You don't want to take risks with your neck!
Ah -- DWD is getting his neck X-rayed -- super!
You don't want to take risks with your neck!
Unless you're economically challenged, you have no business buying clothes at
a charity store.
Grilling Bill | 12.03.05 - 5:43 pm | #
Eau de Troll.
N'est-ce pas?
Wow -- from three Lord of the
Rings flicks straight into
a Chupacabra movie for the
Sci-Fi channel.
Rhys-Davies must be fricking thrilled
with the arc of his career......
Robert - One of my favorite teachers in public school was my 8th grade English Lit teacher. She was an attractive woman in her 40s or 50s.
They stupidly decided that year to try an experiment. They divided the English classes into to 2 one hour courses: grammar, then lit, divided by lunch. I had read the lit. book completely by the end of the first week, and the teacher knew that. I could not stay awake after lunch. She used to let me sleep. She was a friend of my mom's. She and her husband belonged to St. Andrews - our church.
I saw her husband ordained there when I was in 9th grade. He went back to become a priest at about your age, I'd say.
I always thought it was really cool that he'd done that.
I assume "Grilling Bill" is the same wanker who ranted and raved about EschaCon taking place in an ee-vil anti-union hotel, and about how we were yukking it up while NOLA suffered.
So nice to know the Republicans care so deeply about these things.
how decent of you to profit from the donation of another and take an oppurtunity for someone with low income to afford a respectable jacket.
Happy holidays huh Scrooge?
Grilling Bill
Ok, you have drifted from principled, to troll.
i always thought charity shops were egalitarian.
anyone can shop there.
G'dafternoon, folks!!
Check out the new comic at the Hollywood Liberal!!
Boycott Domino's.
BuckFush!!
Kidding. How's everyone's afternoon? I'm listening to (hopefully) my wedding dance song right now. Purdy.
South Dakota Grain tower implosion takedown fails!
Wow- looks like Pisa now...
There was the ultimate 2d hand clothing store out on the old Jacksboro Highway when I lived in Ft. Worth. I shopped heavily at that place, along with several of my friends.
I love used clothes. I always have, from the time my mother gave me some of her old things to play dress-up in.
how decent of you to profit from the donation of another and take an
oppurtunity for someone with low income to afford a respectable jacket.
Happy holidays huh Scrooge?
Grilling Bill | 12.03.05 - 5:51 pm | #
This is the same wingnut mindset
that believes
it's hypocritical for
rich people to have a social
conscience.
Can somebody please ask this
guy to blow me?
Thank you.
Who the flying fuck is dissing thrift stores?
how decent of you to profit from the donation
what? you think we have our own thrift stores? Undercutting Goodwill?
Bravo, that is the Business Plan of the Year!
i volunteer at a charity shop, and from my observations all types of people buy stuff.
there is no one type who shops there.
we get middle class elderly people right down to young working mothers.
i don't think grilling bill has ever worked for or been in a charity shop.
fucking tosser.
Of course anyone can shop at charity shops. It helps keep them in business.
Giancarlo Esposito has trapped the chupacabra before, and he can trap it again.
Grilling Bill, please blow Steve Simels. Your welcome.
Buckeye, Dealer of Rare Coins
Thanks for the link! I see most of the stations around here play their music on Sunday nights. I'll check it out.
I'm listening to (hopefully) my wedding
dance song right now. Purdy.
Zap Rowsdower | Email | Homepage | 12.03.05 - 5:54 pm | #
And that would be....????????
Don't leave us in suspense....
Do we have a tedious ted sighting?
take Oxfam as an example.
yes they do take in second hand cloathing, books, bric a brac etc.
but they also produed Fair Trade items.
just check out their christmas products
i like to steal things out of the goodwill bin.
but i'm just fucked up that way.
but i give to the veitnam vetrans of america so i figure it evens out.
I brake for thrift shops!
Best are in NYC on the upper east side. Incredible deals. I have found excellent antique furniture, clothes and buy a lot of books there. Ebay is also a huge thrift store and the number after my name is 286!
It's an incredible way to recycle!
fucking tosser.
Moonbootica, Hetaera | Email | Homepage | 12.03.05 - 5:56 pm | #
That's one of my all-time
favorite Brit phrases that Americans
don't use.
My fave, however, is "gormless."
I love that word.
GWPDA --
The greatest generation, to be sure (at least we Baby Boomers are so numerous that we make everyone else take notice -- the antelope moving through the anaconda)
Tena --
You are letting your Episcopalian origins show! (You are welcome back at any time)
Growing up we were poor and always bought our cloths at thrift stores. I still do. They don't care why you buy the cloths, they're looking to make money. Thrift stores in NYC are ridiculously expensive. Once I retire, I will probably never buy anything new again. Now because time is limited, I buy some new stuff, but I really don't get the same pleasure as I do finding a Jones of NY suit, almost never worn, for 10 bucks. Now that is a thrill.
i like to steal things out of the goodwill bin.
If you were a Republican, G-Bill would just say you were a resourceful forager.
i like to steal things out of the goodwill bin.
Wait a second! Isn't there an alt-kid with black rimmed glasses, bell bottoms and a cowboy shirt on guard duty?!
Damn Alt. kids.
Grilling Bill is just being an ass.
It probably resents "charity stores" being patronized democratically because it would be easier to stigmatize and embarrass customers if only the demonstrably poor were welcome.
I haven't heard of too many instances where some impoverished customer lost a tug-of-war for a recycled garment with an affluent jerk. And I don't think we're anywhere near the Peak Recycled Clothes point.
And that would be....????????
Well, it's not for certain. So, I don't want to let the cat out of the bag.
steve, I know you know that song "A Song for You", by Gram Parsons & Emmy Lou. That was my first choice...
I'll just say that it's a modern-ish country-ish band, with a band name that has to do with sewing.
/being difficult for difficulties sake
Grilling Bill, please blow Steve Simels. Your welcome.
Little Boots | 12.03.05 - 5:57 pm | #
Heh.
i like to steal things out of the goodwill bin.
I like to "make change" out of those donate to the poor cans when I'm not siphoning gas out of poor peoples cars or stealing food from those xmas donation bins.
ql - I shop frequently at Buffalo Exchange, which is not a thrift shop, but part of a chain (started in Phoenix, GWPDA) of used clothing stores. They have some new stuff, too.
Can't beat it for tee shirts
I personally don't see what the problem with anyone shopping at a Goodwill, or other charity shop is.
Unless you've fallen on hard times, you have no business there, unless it's to donate.
That is, unless you're a greedy asshole.
I'll just say that it's a modern-ish country-ish band, with a band name that has to do with sewing.
Grilling Bill fuck off.
I'll just say that it's a modern-ish country-ish band, with a band name that has to do with sewing.
Big And Stitch?
That is, unless you're a greedy asshole.
I'm soo greedy I shop at Goodwill.
HA HAH AH AH HA HA HA HA!..
WHEW!...that was funny.
Grilling Bill i've worked for a charity shop and let me tell you all types shop there and nobody has a problem except you, jeebus get a fucking hobby.
"jeebus get a fucking hobby."
Sadly, I fear this is it.
Big And Stitch?
I said country-ish, not absurd...
I kinda doubt that you'd hear them on any country music station (not that I listen to new country)
And I don't think we're anywhere near the Peak Recycled Clothes point.
When we had the Katrina victims at the astrodome, the news urged people to stop bringing clothes. Within 48 hours they had enough clothes to clothe a small army. It was amazing to look at the pictures of all the clothes and food people brought.
That is, unless you're a greedy asshole.
Grilling Bill | 12.03.05 - 6:02 pm | #
Are you a Republican?
If so, shut the fuck up about
greed.
It's your religion.
Grilling Bill i've worked for a charity shop and let me tell you all types shop there and nobody has a problem except you, jeebus get a fucking hobby.
Bill doesn't give a shit about the poor, he just wants to make us liberals feel guilty for Living Our Lives. When he's not here, he probably trolls PETA and vegan sites accusing them of being bacteria-killing hypocrites.
My fave, however, is "gormless."
I love that word.
And the earth was without gorm, and void....
That is, unless you're a greedy asshole.
Grilling Bill
Heehee. That's me.
Ask grilling bill why 90% of divorces are initiated by women.
So when did the army move to bicycle helmets?
(watching sci fi movie)
ql in ny
what happened to the huge weekend outdoor flea markets down on 25/26 street? I heard it was no longer there?
Hey Grilling Bill, whats your apron say? Let me guess.....
Ask grilling bill why 90% of divorces are initiated by women.
chris/tx
ding!
I'd say that's the magic question, alright. For verily, this one doth smelleth like Ted.
Lord. That's the funniest thing I've read all day. I started the a bit depressed, but have way cheered up by now. I will have Mongolian Beef delivered soon, and have a couple glasses of nice red wine.
Is there anything on teevee?
Of course anyone can shop at charity shops. It helps keep them in business.
Tena, always the calm voice of reason.
btw, i don't really steal out of goodwill bins, tho i woudn't put it past me.
my daughter likes to buy retro t shirts. from the 70s and 80s. she has a cool one from the harford co. fire dept. with a skull on it. fireman and goths are into skulls. but the new ones are all four color and gay. hers is just yellow ink on blue. tres cool.
I'm with stupid
Arrow up
Nappy time perhaps turning into bedtime. Need to rest my brainx.
later
Well I love vintage clothes and bags. And no matter how much money one makes, it's a good idea to save as much of it as you can. So I'm not sure what this person's point is supposed to be.
Tena - When it's tedious, it's always Ted.
Oh well, off for a afternoon walk.
Now, Moonbootica, don't be flogging that Oxfam site again!
You know how perplexed I become about British currency.
In fact, I'll give you half-a-sovereign and a fistful of shillings to leave off at once!
Incidentally, regarding the matter of charity shops, I should have used your word, "egalitarian", instead of "democratic". But we both had the same thought-- as did everyone except the instigator.
Odd being in the majority on a question.
what happened to the huge weekend outdoor flea markets down on 25/26 street? I heard it was no longer there?
missy's brother
Last time I went, it was there in a garage. But that was about a year ago. Our problem is that we really just don't need anything, and have accumulated way too much stuff from our families. We rarely go shopping for anything other than a new coffee maker or sheets.
Iraqi groups condemn kidnappings
Several Sunni Muslim groups have issued a statement condemning the kidnapping of Briton Norman Kember and three other men and called for their release.
Iraq's largest Sunni party, the Iraqi Islamic party, said such kidnappings tarnished the image of Islam.
"The kidnapping will have a grave negative effect among those who call for ending occupation," it added.
The move by around five groups follows talks with envoy Anas Altikriti, said the Muslim Association of Britain.
Mr Altikriti has been sent to Iraq by MAB, Stop the War and CND.
So I'm not sure what this person's point is supposed to be.
That we're hypocrites who hate poor people!
Um, or something...
Little Brøther thats very true.
trolls are getting more weird'n'strange everyday.
I started the day a bit depressed,
but have way cheered up by now. I will have Mongolian Beef delivered soon, and
have a couple glasses of nice red wine.
Enjoy!
Nothing on TV, though, except
the The Hulk movie on Sci-Fi.
And BTW -- now I know I'm really
old -- I have no idea who either
the host or the musical guest
on tonight's SNL are.
Dane Cook? James Blunt?
so we hate poor people, are sexists, rascist, atheistic featus killing secularists commie pinko overlords who want to destory christmas?
OK!
Does anyone know if those elf shuffleboard and bowling games were ever made to operate on a Mac? The penguin game reminded me.
my daughter likes to buy retro t shirts. from the 70s and 80s. she has a cool one from the harford co. fire dept. with a skull on it. fireman and goths are into skulls. but the new ones are all four color and gay. hers is just yellow ink on blue. tres cool.
SWEEEEET! I've recently got into silkscreening (fro about a year now) doing posters and T-shirts. Basically I look for old Popular Science, Science Fiction, Popular Mechanics magazine (and I have a decent collection 1930-60s) and use images I find to make strange collages.
Fun fun hobby- for fun and profit! - he he
oh i forget islamofasicts as well.
ql, greedy asshole
I am always trying to upgrade my thrift finds. I know the one you speak of in the garage but the one outside across the street was really great at its prime. Someone told me that a new high rise had gone up in its place and I was wondering if it had relocated.
Hey Grilling Bill, whats your apron say? Let me guess..... bill - 6:10 pm
Kiss the Cook?
Hey, thrift store hater....
Never mind. Not worth it.
I think buying stuff from Goodwill benefits, well, Goodwill. Which I believe helps people with handicaps so they won't be, wait for it, poor. Why is logical thought so unknown to the trolls? Do our schools no longer teach it?
when will he finally y
Why is logical thought so unknown to the trolls? Do our schools no longer teach it?
I think it's more that it doesn't really help them to advance their cause. Quite the opposite, really.
Bush hopes for lift from upbeat reports
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush, trying to lift his sagging approval ratings, has launched a push to take credit for recent positive economic news the public has largely shrugged off.
In one example of the pessimism, an ABC/Washington Post poll taken in the month ended November 13 showed 64 percent of Americans described the economy as poor or not so good, with only 36 percent judging it to be good or excellent.
That dovetails with November 17-20 Gallup poll that found just 36 percent of Americans thought the economy was getting better while 58 percent saw it as getting worse.
Grilling Bill, please blow Steve Simels. Your welcome.
Project much, Homophobe?
Moonbotica,
You forgot that some of us are Hetro Pukes as well
Oh, how I love "The Streets of Baltimore". When I met Zapette, some crappy musician was playing that song...
(really Zappy today)
Project much, Homophobe?
Very rarely. And no, I'm definitely not a homophobe.
Project much, Homophobe?
Very rarely. And no, I'm definitely not a homophobe.
well blow jobs are done by both hetrosexuals and homosexuals.
so i don't see how saying 'blow me' is homophobic.....
Oral Sex
(really Zappy today)
Enjoy this. Hold on to it, and it will get you through the hard part of raising kids, etc. Then you two will be on your own again, and it will still be sweet.
Oh I like to go in Goodwill and the Salvation Army, buy up the best stuff, take it home and burn it.
I just don't want the poor people to have anything at all at all.
[/sarcasm]*
*for the humor impaired
Project much, Homophobe?
Grilling Bill | 12.03.05 - 6:19 pm | #
Are you a Republican?
If so, shut the fuck up about
homophobia.
It's your religion.
Thank you.
Stop feeding the fucking trolls. They enjoy the economy of scarcity and will die in gratitude.
-
I like to "make change" out of those donate to the poor cans when I'm not siphoning gas out of poor peoples cars or stealing food from those xmas donation bins.
Damn, You too? I though I was the inventor of that m.o.
Of course, it is, in my blood as it were!
Yo Steve!
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Ah, of course, "I'm With Stupid".
In any case, I'm sure he keeps the price tags on the apron, and all of his garments, so people will know that he paid full retail price in a respectable store.
It's all part of setting an example.
Hey, you don't spoze that this Grilling Bill could actually be William "Bill" Bennett himself, do ya?
Steve-- that's what we like: consistency in snark.
Stop feeding the fucking trolls. They enjoy the economy of scarcity and will die in gratitude.
Greedy bastards keep grabbing up all the scorn that we're trying to heap on the poor.
Moonbootica
Thanks. I thought I was too old to learn anything new but you just taught me what "teabagging" is from your link. lol
While we're talking about clothing and poor people, one organization I really like is Dress for Success. They accept donations of business clothing for women, help them draft a resume, teach them how to interview, etc. They have branches in a number of cities.
Salvation Army guy outside the grocery store, however, is not very happy with me. I told him no change for him since the SA hates on gays.
http://www.realcities.com/mld/kr.../
printstory.jsp
State Department using ideological litmus tests to screen speakers
By Warren P. Strobel and Jonathan S. Landay
Knight Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON - The State Department has been using political litmus tests to screen private American citizens before they can be sent overseas to represent the United States, weeding out critics of the Bush administration's Iraq policy, according to department officials and internal e-mails.
In one recent case, a leading expert on conflict resolution who's a former senior State Department adviser was scheduled to participate in a U.S. Embassy-sponsored videoconference in Jerusalem last month, but at the last minute he was told that his participation no longer was required.
State Department officials explained the cancellation as a scheduling matter. But internal department e-mails show that officials in Washington pressed to have other scholars replace the expert, David L. Phillips, who wrote a book, "Losing Iraq," that's critical of President Bush's handling of Iraqi reconstruction.
"I was told by a senior U.S. official that the State Department was conducting a screening process on intellectuals, and those who were against the Bush administration's Iraq policy were not welcomed to participate in U.S. government-sponsored programs," Phillips said.
etc.
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Freedom apparently is very expensive in some value systems.
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Yo Steve!
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UppityNegro™Embigulator | Email | Homepage | 12.03.05 - 6:24 pm | #
Yo right back at you, my man!!!
Yeah, so how is Project Homophobe going anyway?
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And by the way, God bless Knight-Ridder and keep them safe from things that go bump in the night.
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"Hey, you don't spoze that this Grilling Bill could actually be William "Bill" Bennett himself, do ya?"
I'm saying ten to one against. Any takers?
Afternoon, pinko moonbats
I see our little scroll troll is at it again.
Stop trying to ban and censor me.
What a little bitch. If he were being "banned and censored," wouldn't he actually have to state some kind of opinion first? Is it banning and censorship to paint over drawings of ejaculating penises in a rest room stall?
my recent act of charity was giving £5 to the Kashmir International Relief Fund (KIRF) towards the Pakistan Earthquake disaster
Will do, ql!
Talked about unbuckling that old bible belt,
And ride it out for some desert town
Just love that line...
State Department using ideological litmus tests to screen speakers
Karen Fuckng Hughes
Having the annual viewing of Lawrence of Arabia. I forgot that the guy who won't give a cig to the arab boys also played the Beatles road mgr in Hard Days Night.
i watched High Society earlier this evening.
I don't know why exactly, but it smells a little like SwampAss™ in here.
Though not as Methusalicious as you are SS, I got nothing on those SNL guests either.
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Ah, belly's full, Curly's on the dirty clothes pile (I'll wait until he wakes up before I gather them up for tonight's laundry adventure), and they ain't shit on the TeeBee set, so... I'm settlin' in for the evening, I think. May have to run out for beer in a while.
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I told him no change for him since the SA hates on gays.
Good for you, Hecate. Guy say anything?
I told him no change for him since the SA hates on gays.
Hecate
One of the funniest and nicest people I have met, was a transgender person who was the manager of the local SA store. They would have me in tears by the time I left. Always made me look forward to going there and when they were fired because of SA gay policy, I never went there again.
Though not as Methusalicious as you are SS, I got nothing on those SNL guests either.
How you people can diss Dennis Rodman's co-star like that is beyond me.
SWEEEEET! I've recently got into silkscreening (fro about a year now) doing posters and T-shirts. Basically I look for old Popular Science, Science Fiction, Popular Mechanics magazine (and I have a decent collection 1930-60s) and use images I find to make strange collages.
Fun fun hobby- for fun and profit! - he he
dieselcreek
i have that book,(t-shirts for fun and profit, great book) and i built and awesome four color press. designed one t shirt (naked devil chick dancing in flames) made a name guerilla republic printed about 4 shirts which are all now full of holes and fading, and haven't touched it since. but...
it sits there waiting and all the sudden i am inspired. i think i lost interest when i saw how the pro shops run. jebus, everything is digital these days. ya don't even need to burn screens any more. can just coat 'em with a computer.
What a little bitch. If he were being "banned and censored," wouldn't he actually have to state some kind of opinion first? Is it banning and censorship to paint over drawings of ejaculating penises in a rest room stall?
I like the cut of yer jib sir!
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"State Department using ideological litmus tests to screen speakers"
Are you now or have you ever been an Islamofascist? Do you have any idea what that means? Do you acknowledge that there is one God and George W. Bush is His prophet?
Gee what's wrong with a little test?
Is it banning and censorship to paint over drawings of ejaculating penises in a rest room stall?
Buzz Bomb - 6:28 pm
OK, I was in that stall. But I didn't have anything to write with in there, I swear.
And it couldn't have been me. Because I don't know what an ejaculating penis looks like. I always keep my eyes closed.
So how could I have done it? And don't say the drawings were daubed in shit, because I only pee-peed when I was in there.
I just had delivered a baby grand piano as a gift to my wonderfully talented wife.
Good God that is a large musical instrument.
Tena,
He told me he didn't hate gays; he prayed for them all the time. Jesus loves gays but hates their sin. Same old shit. My change stayed in my pocket.
josh has a link to a very funny article in the missoulan. the hometown paper is holding mr burns accountable for his curious voting pattern re certain legislation -- and it is headspinning:
“Not always can it be assumed that a piece of legislation that passes on unanimous consent can you definitely say, ‘That's a yes vote,' ” said Burns.
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/
'A Huey P. Newton Story' is on Movieplex.
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I just had delivered a baby grand piano as a gift to my wonderfully talented wife.
Did it have a big ribbon on top?
Which one of you is responsible for feeding and changing it?
The Wobblies used to call the SA, the "The Starvation Army".
I try not to hate on them; since they were the only source of my Dad's x-mas when he was growing up, but they don't make it easy.
steve - Mr. Tena turns to me more often than not anymore when the following week's SNL guest host and music act are announced and asks me if I've ever heard of them. Sometimes I have, but mostly not. And I haven't a clue about tonight's.
I get the feeling I'm not riding the crest of that wave any more.
[ruefully]
Which one of you is responsible for feeding and changing it?
Eli
It took several big sweaty mens to put it where it neeed to be.
Why couldn't my wife have chosen the piccolo?
Tena, it's your call-- but I would've ended your last post with a 
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How you people can diss Dennis Rodman's co-star like that is beyond me.
OK dude, you watch too many movies.
I was gonna say something about having taste..........but that would be a lie.
And I certainly don not wish to sully my froth hole.
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Good God that is a large musical instrument.
Large, but smells good. Like - discipline.
And, congratulations all! Radiate the eighty-eight.
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Forgive me for being all over the place tonight,
But listening to Ryan Adams and Norah Jones sing together makes me cry...
So pretty.
Hi moonbats ~
I just went out and bought a *ahem* water pipe. First one I've ever owned. It's colored glass...beautiful.
Now, what shall I do with it?
It took several big sweaty mens to put it where it neeed to be.
Wait'll it's all grown up and wants to go to college.
Now, what shall I do with it?
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Now, what shall I do with it?
Vicki
If you find out, let me know. I removed one from my nephew and his friends on their way to Canada. It's beautiful and I have it on the mantle.
It took several big sweaty mens to put it where it neeed to be.
Why couldn't my wife have chosen the piccolo?
Max Planck
"This one time, at band camp..."
Tena, it's your call-- but I would've ended your last post with a
Well, it's not all bad and I was joshing steve, so I didn't want to put a sad face on it.
Why couldn't my wife have chosen the piccolo?
Max Planck
Compromise: drums!
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I can dig it, Zap.
Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy.
It's beautiful and I have it on the mantle.
I bet it looks lovely in the mirror.
The mantle, yeah, that's it. That's what I need to do with it. Put it on the mantle next to the manger of the baby Jeebus.
I just went out and bought a *ahem* water pipe. First one I've ever owned. It's
colored glass...beautiful.
Now, what shall I do with it?
Vicki | Email | Homepage | 12.03.05 - 6:41 pm |
Find a hookah-smoking caterpillar?
Kreen sheetes!
Are you comparing Russ to Senseless?
dieselcreek
No fucktard. Can't you read?
lol, Vicki
I had never seen one like this before. A beautiful blue swirl in the glass. I remember back in my days, tin foil with a straight pin under a regular drinking glass.
I get the feeling I'm not riding the crest of that wave any more.
[ruefully]
Tena
Did you hear? I got hit on twice at a company dig. Lordy, it had been so long, I nearly forgot how to react. But, we're not telling Mr. QL.
Find a hookah-smoking caterpillar?
steve simels
You're a cool cat. Now we just need to find you a pillar.
fresh air
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I just had delivered a baby grand piano as a gift to my wonderfully talented wife.
What a wonderful husband you are! That's a lovely gift and an even lovelier sentiment attached.
ql - twice - wow!
No fucktard. Can't you read?
Awwww, you're so sweet!
British currency? You've come to the right monk!
Two farthings = One Ha'penny. Two Ha'pennies = One Penny. Three Pennies = A Thrupenny Bit. Two Thrupences = A Sixpence. Two Sixpences = One Shilling (or Bob). Two Bob = A Florin. One Florin and One Sixpence = Half a Crown. One Crown = Five Shillings. Four half Crowns = Ten Bob Note. Two Ten Bob Notes = One Pound (or 240 pennies). One Pound and One Shilling = One Guinea.
The British resisted decimalizing the currency for a long time because they thought it would be too complicated. This is true.
The British resisted decimalizing the currency for a long time because they thought it would be too complicated. This is true.
Prior Aelred
12 inches to the foot and 3 feet to the yard and 1760 yards to the mile.
I understand.
Oh - and yes, Atrios has lost it. It happened about the time he got back after having Athenae, Holden, pie & Tena watching the dump. dKos is slowly heading that way as MaryScott O'Connor, PastorDan, and others spin off their own blogs and form voices I find far more interesting than what's becoming a straight-line Democratic hangout. If it wasn't for Bill Tuesdays-Fridays, I wouldn't dKos at all.
Fuck it. Duncan is just phoning it in these days. Open thread, my bleeding ass. What a gig. What a scam.
well blow jobs are done by both hetrosexuals and homosexuals.
so i don't see how saying 'blow me' is homophobic.....
Oral Sex
Moonbootica, Hetaera | Email | Homepage | 12.03.05 - 6:22 pm | #
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Moonbootica
Thanks. I thought I was too old to learn anything new but you just taught me what "teabagging" is from your link. lol
missy's brother | 12.03.05 - 6:26 pm | #
It would appear that missy's brother and I were not the only ones who clicked on that link.
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As one who has the date 31 March 2006 circled in gold on my next year's collander.
I am not sure what the significance of a day 5 days after yer birthday........
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UppityNegro™Embigulator
I've been out working the fields, so am late to the game.
Howcome you remember this? You little old sweet thing you?
No! It's the six month anniversary of my second employment with organisation with whom I am employed - and the date on which I am comfortably able to QUIT!
how decent of you to profit from the donation of another and take an oppurtunity for someone with low income to afford a respectable jacket.
Happy holidays huh Scrooge?
Grilling Bill
Nonsense.
Profit? Rot. The Assistance League is an organisation that rotates every bit of money it receives into money to clothe little kids - little kids that otherwise wouldn't have jeans and t-shirts and snazzy backpacks and nice socks to go to school and study and think and dream and learn and hope. If I give my stuff to them and other people buy my stuff and the Assistance League Ladies turn all of that into pencils how am I the vile loser? How are they? If I end up with some juice glasses and a really nice selection of quilt batting and a couple of paperbacks in exchange for some snazzy dresses and shoes - how is this inappropriate? I could walk my money down to the homeless school - but it walks just as fast thru the Assistance League and we all benefit. Re-use, re-make, re-claim and in the end, we all do very well indeed.
Jackass.
I was being name stolen upstairs.
By a real misogynistuc dickhead.
Unless you're economically challenged, you have no business buying clothes at
a charity store.
Grilling Bill
Excuse me?
Who died and appointed YOU god?
Grilling Bill i've worked for a charity shop and let me tell you all types shop there and nobody has a problem except you, jeebus get a fucking hobby.
Moonbootica, Hetaera
I don't think the people running those stores give a rat's ass who is paying for the merchandise.
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