I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Merry Christmas, all!
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And a happy New Year, too!
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Except the trolls. They can go fuck themselves!
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ten!!!!
Happy New Year!
Heh heh. When MisterX gets a grand slam, a neocon goes to Hell!
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ahhh the springtime fresh scent of a new thread.
good going Mr.X
new linen!
Which room is Neil Bush using at Camp David to snort?
Merry Christmas to all and sundry.
(Today is Sundry, isn't it?)
Which room is Neil Bush using at Camp David to snort?
P O'Neill
Why are ya asking? Do you have some friends who've been paid to knock on Neil's door?
Merry Christmas to you too Little Brother. How are you?
Just arrived to wish everyone a Merry Christmas (or winter soltice festival of your choice). Brigid gives her best Christmas smile at my homepage.
So like I mentioned, I saw KING KONG
tonite.
Anybody else see it yet?
Your thoughts?
oh, Otter, what a glorious child!!!!!
It's what Xmas is all about, eh?
What love is all about.
I'm fine, SHG, thanks for asking.
I hope you're the same.
apocalypse?
we've all been there
the same old trips
why should we care?
what can't we do if we get in it?
we'll work it through within a minute!
we have to try
we'll pay the price
it's do or die
"hey, i died twice !!!"
Hey Tom. Merry fuckbushmas.
It's what Xmas is all about, eh?
Amen. Our friends kids are already driven in their Christmas desires by Madison Avenue. Neither d'otter is allowed to watch TV, so Eleanor's Christmas wishes are more simple and pure. When asked what she wanted Santa to bring her, she said "Christmas Present!" She later got specific and added "a balloon" and "mug for hot cocoa" to the request.
Kill your TV.
"hey, i died twice !!!"
You only die twice, Mr. Bond.
oh wow. i thought altmouse was a joke.
m. i think I put that in the wrong haloscan window.
but, anyway
althouse is a nutter
Hey Tom. Merry fuckbushmas.
That's a line that's going to go over really really well tomorrow when the family gathers near to us.
Keep Rumsfeld on the chow line.
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Kill your TV.
Otter | Email | Homepage | 12.24.05 - 11:57 pm | #
Hey -- I love crappy pop culture
shit.
And I'm not ashamed to admit it.
If I had to kill my tv, the hellish
emptiness that is my life would
start to be a real drag, if you
know what I mean.
m. i think I put that in the wrong haloscan window.
but, anyway
althouse is a nutter
Atrios | 12.25.05 - 12:00 am | #
not a creature was stirring
not even an altmouse?
shout out to the peeps
in western PA
we can do better
and we will
;-0
I hope you're the same.
Little Brøther | Email | 12.24.05 - 11:54 pm | #
Fine here too. Wish the dogs would finally go to bed...but here in TX people shoot fireworks at Christmas & New Year so the poor pooches are pretty wrung out.
Jackdaws love me big sphinx of quartz.
My holiday greetings to all you moonbats.
Hey steve simels! Do you happen to have the lyrics to "Xmas at K-Mart" by Root Boy Slim and His Sex Change Band?
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Otter, have faith in your kids and your raising of them. My g'kids have learned to view adverts critically, as well as "news".
If you show them what's going on, they understasnd it pretty quickly.
You're just vaccinating them against the bullshit "Kulture".
The AP is reporting that Hillary and Bill have separated....how sad.
Hey steve simels! Do you happen to have the lyrics to "Xmas at K-Mart" by Root
Boy Slim and His Sex Change Band?
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MisterX | Homepage | 12.25.05 - 12:06 am | #
Never heard it, I regret to say.
BTW -- is it just me, or has Google
been fucked up for the last day or
so?
Hey Tom. Merry fuckbushmas.
Thers, Second Wise Man
And a Happy No-more-Busheviks Year to you too.
The AP is reporting that Hillary and Bill have separated....how sad.
Andrew | Email | 12.25.05 - 12:07 am | #
Why do I strongly doubt this?
The AP is reporting that Hillary and Bill have separated....how sad.
Andrew | Email | 12.25.05 - 12:07 am | #
link? I just checked the AP site and its not there.
Kill your TV.
Otter | Email | Homepage | 12.24.05 - 11:57 pm | #
but what about those fine upstanding 'educational' programs?
Tom...Happy FuckCheneymas! Amurikans you-nited to take 'em out!
Otter, have faith in your kids and your raising of them.
I do. The other side effects of no TV are a voracious appetite for reading and very active play when not reading. I was a couch tater tot with the untoward effect of childhood obesity. I'll stick with no TV
The AP is reporting that Hillary and Bill have separated....how sad.
Andrew
Say it isn't so! Got link?
Otter. I tossed my TV in the trash. I no longer speak the lingo..except for Firefly
If you show them what's going on, they understasnd it pretty quickly.
You're just vaccinating them against the bullshit "Kulture".
Sarah Deere
Get children a subscription to MAD Magazine as early as possible... it is a great learning tool for fine-tuning their cultural bullshit-detectors...
Worked for me.
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The AP is reporting that Hillary and Bill have separated....how sad.
Andrew | Email | 12.25.05 - 12:07 am | #
How sick would you have to be to
want to post a lie like this on
Christmas eve?
I'm guessing really sick.
Also pathetic.
The AP is reporting that Hillary and Bill have separated....how sad.
Andrew | Email | 12.25.05 - 12:07 am | #
link?
MisterX,
I haven't seen MAD in years. Is it much the same? With Don Martin, Mort Drucker, Sergio Aragones, and Dave van Berg gone, I wasn't sure if I would recognize it.
best holiday wishes to all my fellow welfare receiving commie pinko liberal elitists.
Oh and for the trolls...
Jesus is dead.
How sick would you have to be to
want to post a lie like this on
Christmas eve?
I guess even tr00ls got Xmas wishes...
Never heard it, I regret to say.
Rats. I've tried to Google the lyrics, but have had no luck. It's a great song that I remember from the late-'70s that Rhino put on their "New Wave Christmas" compilation, but I can't seen to be able to track down the lyrics...
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Get children a subscription to MAD Magazine as early as possible... it is a great
learning tool for fine-tuning their cultural bullshit-detectors...
Worked for me.
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MisterX | Homepage | 12.25.05 - 12:13 am | #
Absolutely.
And when they get a little older,
give 'em "CATCH-22" to read.
The AP is reporting that Hillary and Bill have separated....how sad.
Andrew | Email | 12.25.05 - 12:07 am | #
Why do I strongly doubt this?
steve simels
....because you have a good bullshit detector, and because you don't fall for uncited posts. There's nothing about this online as far as I have been able to discover in the last five minutes.
Mister X
i had never thought of that. i read a thousand of them growing up. is it an indicator of future political leanings?
is Spy magazine still published? now that was a fun read!
"...and to all, a good night!"
Hiya blogkins! Yet another flying visit while Thers triies to put down the wound-up youngsters so we can do fucking Santa and get to bed.
See you Tuesday steve (and I never heard of that song or band, either....)
went out in the late 80's early 90's. it was amazing.
is Spy magazine still published? now that was a fun read!
SHG | 12.25.05 - 12:18 am | #
It is a major cultural tragedy that
Spy went under just a year or so
before the rise of the internet.
Just about none of their stuff --
which is both screamingly funny
and a priceless history of the
Reagan/Bush years -- is archived
anywhere on-line.
is Spy magazine still published? now that was a fun read!
SHG
Nah, it's down close to a decade.
We find the Simpsons useful for warping children.
I haven't seen MAD in years. Is it much the same? With Don Martin, Mort Drucker, Sergio Aragones, and Dave van Berg gone, I wasn't sure if I would recognize it.
Otter
It's still just as crude, puerile and subversive as it always was. There's some new artist mixed in with the old... the most jarring thing to me is that it has COLOR!
And Sergio would be very upset to hear he was dead!
MAD actually helps me keep up with youth culture, as they still skewer whatever is popular at the moment...
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Oh, steve! But you're wrong!
See you Tuesday steve (and I never heard of that song or band, either....)
NYMary | Email | Homepage | 12.25.05 - 12:19 am | #
Actually, I knew the band, but not
the song. Saw them once, actually.
Anyway, have a cool yule and I
remain yours faithfully til we
meet again on Tuesday.
Best to thers as well...
It's still just as crude, puerile and subversive as it always was. There's some new artist mixed in with the old... the most jarring thing to me is that it has COLOR!
And ads.
spy had an article '1000 reasons not to vote for the george bush'(the first). if you can find that, i bet you would chuckle once or twice
I still have all the SPY magazines...
Favorite "soundbite": Short-fingered Vulgarian.
In referene to Trump, natch.
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so we can do fucking Santa
Whoa. Irish Christmas *is* different!
Speaking of Spy Magazine, they
had Judith Miller's number over
a decade ago.
Scathing shit about her in their
press column. Totally prescient
about what she pulled more recently...
Andrew=asshole
unless you got a link
Whoa. Irish Christmas *is* different!
Not until the munchkins go to bed. Did I mentioone that Thers got a bottle of Jameson's from my relations?
Sergio Aragones is very alive -- we live in the same town, and I saw him two days ago.
He is a true gentleman, and a quiet genius.
My cats got their presents from Santa in person. They're going to have a catnip hangover.
Get children a subscription to MAD Magazine as early as possible... it is a great
learning tool for fine-tuning their cultural bullshit-detectors...
Worked for me.
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MisterX | Homepage | 12.25.05 - 12:13 am | #
Absolutely.
And when they get a little older,
give 'em "CATCH-22" to read.
Don't forget, Bugs Bunny and Groucho Marx
still have all the SPY magazines...
Favorite "soundbite": Short-fingered Vulgarian.
In referene to Trump, natch.
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MisterX | Homepage | 12.25.05 - 12:23 am | #
I used to like "bosomy dirty-book
writer." I forget the woman's name,
but I think she was married to
Abe Rosenthal, who they also skewered
a lot.
The funniest article they ever did,
however, was by a guy who used to
deliberately get himself on junk-
mail lists under idiotic names.
My faves were Lanolin R. Fruitbat,
and Hugo Z. Scuminasuit.
Hey, Moonbats! Back from dinner and too stuffed to sleep.
Fuck Bush and all his spies.
Don't forget, Bugs Bunny and Groucho Marx
Left Lane
The six-year-old is obsessed with Harpo.
MAD's longevity is puzzling.
the fifties kid has so little in common with the 05 kid.
Hiya Hecate! I, on the other hand, am forcing myself to stay awake. I knew it was a mistake to let them sleep in.
the fifties kid has so little in common with the 05 kid.
There was a very popular photoshop of W morphed into Alfred E. Newman with the trademark line, "What? Me worry?"
RE: Andrew the dumbass troll.
Smarter Monkeys, please!
I dunno. I think the ten year old sense of humor is probably pretty stable.
the fifties kid has so little in common with the 05 kid.
gary in fl | 12.25.05 - 12:28 am | #
The original Harvey Kurtzman-edited
comic book version of Mad was the
most revolutionary magazine in
publishing history.
Totally sui generis and subversive.
Plus, it still makes you laugh out
loud.
NYMary,
Do what my mom used to do. Tell them that Santa can't come until they're in bed and asleep.
There was a very popular photoshop of W morphed into Alfred E. Newman with the trademark line, "What? Me worry?"
Left Lane
I saw a good one with the usual tagline replaced simply with "Worry."
The six-year-old is obsessed with Harpo.
NYMary | Email | Homepage | 12.25.05 - 12:27 am | #
Well, sure.
Harpo is pure id.....
Lanolin R. Fruitbat
OK, now I have to wipe the monitor off. That hasn't happened in a while.
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Do what my mom used to do. Tell them that Santa can't come until they're in bed and asleep.
Hecate Malificent
Tried that. They assume that Santa will drive around the block until they get ready to go to bed.
Oh and for the trolls...
Jesus is dead.
Not only is he really dead,
he's most sincerely, truly dead.
BTW:
A certain left-coast Atriot who
hasn't been around in a while
sends holiday greetings to all
you fine folks.
So Simels, did you like King Kong?
There was a very popular photoshop of W morphed into Alfred E. Newman with the trademark line, "What? Me worry?"
Left Lane
That was a cover to The Nation...
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Dunno if this is a joke, but in the most recent copy of MAD we have (Thers buys it for the boy), they're advertising MAD Kids, one year for 12.99, featuring Spy vs. Spy Jr. and whatnot.
I sort of hope this is a joke, actually.
MisterX:
I'd kill to find a copy of that
article. I don't think I've ever
laughed out loud at anything so
hard except for the first time
I saw "Blazing Saddles."
Thanks for the passed along greetings, steve. Tell her she's missed.
You know someone was here the other day posting as Executive Mansion Prostitute? Hmmmm......
Tried that. They assume that Santa will drive around the block until they get ready to go to bed.
Yeah, but he may have given away all the cool toys by then.
Dunno if this is a joke, but in the most recent copy of MAD we have (Thers buys it for the boy), they're advertising MAD Kids, one year for 12.99, featuring Spy vs. Spy Jr. and whatnot.
I loved Spy v. Spy when I was a kid.
I don't think I got the subversiveness of it.
Jesus is dead.
Not only is he really dead,
he's most sincerely, truly dead.
How can a myth be dead?
Jesus is Santa Claus.
Nope, not a joke, apparently.
First cover: Wallace and Vomit.
Tried that. They assume that Santa will drive around the block until they get ready to go to bed.
NYMary | Email | Homepage | 12.25.05 - 12:32 am | #
you could do what we always did...we told them that Santa was on a schedule and had to be in other parts of the world pretty quickly. They didn't want to get passed by just because he couldn't hang around waiting for them to go to sleep, did they? It usually worked.
No, Santa is alive and well.
Jesus is Santa Claus.
Central Scrutinizer
Well, I suppose if people could accept a Fat Elvis, they can accept a Fat Jesus.
Goddamn,
Can the good guys finally win one?
I am sooooo tired of having it stuffed up our ass for the last 25 fucking years I could just shit.
shit.
Nope, not a joke, apparently.
First cover: Wallace and Vomit.
I'm not sure what I think about that.
what, me president?
So Simels, did you like King Kong?
four legs good | Email | 12.25.05 - 12:33 am | #
Yeah, I did, actually. It's a bit
longer than it needs to be, and
the Kong/Naomi Watts love affair
is laid on a bit thick (there were
several moments when I wanted to
scream "Just get a room, already")
but other than that it was funny,
scary (I wouldn't let a young kid
see it), spectacular, kinetically
exciting, nicely faithful to the
original without being slavish
about it, rather touching, and just
generally tons of fun.
A couple of good in-jokes, too.
My only regret is they didn't
use the Dickies' "You Drive Me
Ape, You Big Gorilla" over the
closing credits.
Anybody else see it?
If you see Santa on your roof, kill him.
There is no Santa.......
fuck.
Jameson's is OK but get a bottle of that 12 year old Bushmills if you can.
Don Martin drops 13 Stories.
I'd almost vote republican for a copy.
No, Santa is alive and well.
Does Bill O'Reilley know?
Yeah, I did, actually.
Oh good. I'll go see it this week. Was just too busy last week.
Does Bill O'Reilley know?
He will when Santa pokes him between the eyes with the pitchfork I left for him tonight.
(thought it was more useful than one more plate of freaking cookies)
If you see Santa on your roof, kill him.
No, no. You're confusing Santa with the Buddha. Just because they're both fat is no excuse.
No, Santa is alive and well.
Does Bill O'Reilley know?
Hecate Malificent
Our agents found him hiding in a spider hole and are holding him in an undisclosed location until he can be tried fairly by a North Pole court of our choosing.
Jackdaws love me big sphinx of quartz.
My holiday greetings to all you moonbats.
Central Scrutinizer | 12.25.05 - 12:06 am | #
Same to you at 31 letters. At 32 letters, we have "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs," at least as apt a holiday sentiment.
No, no. You're confusing Santa with the Buddha.
You shouldn't shoot the buddha either.
Save your bullets for the rethugs.
Mad for Kids?? Awesome, anything to get my 7 year old son to read.
I'll stick with no TV
Otter
Yeah - you know what you're doing, and you know your kids. Your way is, no doubt, the best for your situation
We found, though, that what we deny, they will find a way to out of simple curiosity, so with my kid and g'kids, we have tried homeopathy. It worked (so far) for them.
when Santa pokes him between the eyes with the pitchfork I left for him tonight.
Go, Santa, it's your birthday . . .
Oh, wait, that's Jesus.
You're confusing Santa with the Buddha. Just because they're both fat is no excuse.
Hecate Malificent |
Oh Fuck!!! Don;t kill the Buddha, either!!!!!
At 32 letters, we have "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs," at least as apt a holiday sentiment.
Much more festive! The extra letter doesn't bother me at all.
Anyhoo, one last time, just cause I love all you guys...
Everyone... have yourselves a plushy little christmas!!
Good night and Merry Christmas.
I killed the Buddha years ago and we're all the better for it.
You're confusing Santa with the Buddha. Just because they're both fat is no excuse.
Hecate Malificent |
Oh Fuck!!! Don;t kill the Buddha, either!!!!!
Sarah Deere
Feel free, however, to take out Dick Armitage or Karl Rove.
4LG he looks very much like my cat Feigenbaum, is he a Maine Coon?
Okay, think they've been bludgeoned to bed. I'm off. Have a lovely set of holidays!
Feel free, however, to take out Dick Armitage or Karl Rove.
NYMary | Email | Homepage | 12.25.05 - 12:45 am | #
And Celine Dion.
Please!!!!!!
Sarah Deere,
If you meet the Buddah on the road, you're supposed to kill him.
I'm out too.
Peace and be well lovely moonbats.
4LG he looks very much like my cat Feigenbaum, is he a Maine Coon?
SHG | 12.25.05 - 12:46 am | #
You have a cat named Feigenbaum?
That is so cool....
Bite me, Haloscan
I killed the Buddha years ago and we're all the better for it.
Central Scrutinizer
then where does all this Buddha-Thai come from?
Santa's a commie. Red suit, free stuff, commune, environmentalist...and what's in that pipe?
Have a lovely set of holidays!
NYMary
Thanks, NYMary. Same back atcha. May 2006 bring more karma than some can accommodate.
Sergio Aragones:
http://www.lambiek.net/artists/a.../a/
aragones.htm
Find almost any other cartoonist --dead or living -- at the same site.
http://www.lambiek.net/artists
my sister in law took her dog to be photographed with santa.
my brother said: everyone does it.
And Celine Dion.
Please!!!!!!
steve simels | Email | 12.25.05 - 12:47 am | #
Feed Celine
http://egomania.nu/celine.html
then where does all this Buddha-Thai come from?
That's what I'd like to know!
Anyways,
Peace and love to all of you, and goodnight.
Dunno if this is a joke, but in the most recent copy of MAD we have (Thers buys it for the boy), they're advertising MAD Kids, one year for 12.99, featuring Spy vs. Spy Jr. and whatnot.
NYMary
No, it's quite real... a little less with the innuendo and more with the boogers. The coolest thing about issue #1 is that the back cover folds back and wraps around the magazine and is camouflaged as a composition book so you won't get caught with it! Perfect!
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Anybody else see it yet?
Your thoughts?
Juat got back from seeing it , Steve. It could have been cut down about 30 minutes (chase scenes cut down, close ups cut down a bit)
Other than that, it was visually perfect. Even the overexposed scenes. The photography was smashing.
I enjoyed all the art history references, and the story, of course.
Peace and love to all of you, and goodnight.
Central Scrutinizer
peace out- good goods to you & yours
You have a cat named Feigenbaum?
That is so cool....
steve simels | Email | 12.25.05 - 12:48 am | #
They are Mandelbrot, Feigenbaum, Grusendorf, Peaches, Spookie, Sweetie and Frieda Kahlo.
Good evening, all!
I'm posting from my (future) sister-in-law's house; as Zapette and I are dog sitting.
I hope that you folks have a great rest of the year; and I will be back and bitter in no time...
Peace!!
Don Martin drops 13 Stories.
I'd almost vote republican for a copy.
Super Toast Man
Got it. /geek
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I enjoyed all the art history references, and the story, of course.
Occasional Poster | Email | 12.25.05 - 12:54 am | #
Did you notice they used the
original Max Steiner music in the
scene at the theater before Kong
escapes?
I loved that.
And all the 30s period detail was,
for want of a better word, smashing.
Be sure when you are drinking Christmas punch that it's not the Koolaide, or you may end up being polydactyle like this.
http://static.flickr.com/43/
7689..._7e41b2f1de.jpg
Peace!!
Zap Rowsdower | 12.25.05 - 12:54 am | #
Right back at you, pal!
Good lord... the 6-Year-Old is going to wait us out...
Santa is 6-Year-Old crack...
Pray for us...
Dunno if this is a joke, but in the most recent copy of MAD we have (Thers buys it for the boy), they're advertising MAD Kids, one year for 12.99, featuring Spy vs. Spy Jr. and whatnot.
NYMary
No, it's quite real... a little less with the innuendo and more with the boogers. The coolest thing about issue #1 is that the back cover folds back and wraps around the magazine and is camouflaged as a composition book so you won't get caught with it! Perfect!
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MisterX
i think the illustrators of the simpsons have some mad magazine influences. like when homer tippy toes around. isn't there alot of just that sort of tippy toeing in one of the regular cartoons in Mad?
Good lord... the 6-Year-Old is going to wait us out...
Santa is 6-Year-Old crack...
I had the same problem, my son when he was little would never go to sleep on Christmas eve night.
Santa is 6-Year-Old crack...
Thers, Second Wise Man
considered blackmail?
I'd kill to find a copy of that
article. I don't think I've ever
laughed out loud at anything so
hard except for the first time
I saw "Blazing Saddles."
steve simels
HA! Well, the water heater died here at ChezX two days ago and I had to move the box with the Spys in it... now I think I'll re-read them! When I run across that artice, I'll send you scans or something...
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Filthy email in my inbox on Christmas Eve.
Thers,
Ambien.
Either that, or tell him to go to bed and remind him that Santa doesn't bring toys for children who don't mind their parents.
Santa, the bringer of presents.
It just gets deeper and deeper.
FOXNews Anchor Tony Snow Tied to White Supremacy Group.
http://intoxination.blogspot.com...-for-
white.html
While digging around trying to find more dirt on FOX news and their ties to white supremacy, I uncovered something real interesting. This time it comes from one of their national hosts and not an affiliate.. That host is none other than Tony Snow, FOX news host and political analyst.
Kinda fits the whole FOXNews MO.
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Hi, Incog!
i think the illustrators of the simpsons have some mad magazine influences. like when homer tippy toes around. isn't there alot of just that sort of tippy toeing in one of the regular cartoons in Mad?
pukebot
Don Martin drew the most amazing HINGED feet and hands with pinkys fully extended...
EVERTHING flows from MAD Magazine...
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Kinda fits the whole FOXNews MO.
Dartanyon, it's a very easy stigmata to look for, and sort of funny in a gallows humor way, that they are too stupid to hide this.
"Santa is 6-Year- Old Crack"
weird... I don't remember believing in Santa- or at least the discovery of the truth wasn't traumatic... our parents had kind of an ironic attitude toward all that kind of thing.
Hey Hecate.
The AP is reporting that Hillary and Bill have separated....how sad.
Andrew | Email | 12.25.05 - 12:07 am | #
Sorry, "Dave" -- you incompetent namestealing troll, you!
Everybody: If you remember "Dave" from his appearances earlier this evening, his assumed e-mail addy (probably fake) is "dexter@msn.com". But he forgot to change it just now, when he put on his "Andrew" sock puppet.
Atrios: Please publish this fool's IP address, so we can have some fun with him later. In the meantime, have a Cool Yule, Everyone! I'm off to bed.
In Louisiana, Santa Claus is known as Papa Noel.
HA! Well, the water heater died here at ChezX two days ago and I had to move
the box with the Spys in it... now I think I'll re-read them! When I run across
that artice, I'll send you scans or something...
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MisterX | Homepage | 12.25.05 - 1:01 am | #
Dude, if you find it, I will
move heaven and earth to find
something cool to reciprocate you with.
HoHoHICA!
Merry Xbox!
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thanks for the schoolin'. and if you get around to reading spy articles, the faustian bargain one i remember as being very funny.
Sorry, wrong seasonal cusp.
http://lambiek.net/artists/c/cob.../
cobb_jesus.gif
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oh, that Plushy kitty.....makes me feel all holodaisical.....
Incog, longtimenoread- were you burnt out on all this?
And if no one is here to talk to me, I will commit ritual suicide by eggnog!
.
"ritual suicide by eggnog!"
Yule regret it.
whoa, that Mr. Potter is one mean-ass punk...
Sarah Deere,
If you meet the Buddah on the road, you're supposed to kill him.
Hecate Malificent |
oh, gee, really....??? Why? (ignoramus)
hey, JeffP!!! Merry Xmas!!
Sorta, nick.
Dude, if you find it, I will
move heaven and earth to find
something cool to reciprocate you with.
steve simels
Hey, no biggie... I'd rather someone got some fun out of it rather than the magazines sitting there all alone in a box for another ten (has it really been that long?) years...
I'll keep you posted.
And with that, I bid all you fine folks auf wiedersehen! The little Xs will be up at the break of day no doubt, and MissusX is laying out a fine feast for 14 tomorrow at 1PM... so I'd best better be gettin'.
Thanks for the grand company all year, Atrios and those who post here! Many happy returns of the day!
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Only after you first grow a golden fist.
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Hi, Jeffraham!
I will commit ritual suicide by eggnog!
If you drink the nogg
don't forget the grog!
Sarah Deere: hey, JeffP!!! Merry Xmas!!
Merry Xbox to you and yours, Dear Sarah Deere! How's the fambily's new PC, btw?
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Jeffraham: sounds like Curly's been keeping you on your toes... nothing quite like being Doorman To The Pets...
Hecate Malificent: Hi, Jeffraham!
Howdy, Hecate! What creatures are stirring all through your house?
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the faustian bargain one i remember as being very funny.
pukebot
Whoops! I will keep my eyes peeled for that one...
Now I'm leaving.
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If you meet the Buddah on the road, you're supposed to kill him.
oh, gee, really....??? Why? (ignoramus)
Sarah Deere
me too, why?
Well popped in for another quick looksee and then off to bed. So goodnight and y'all have a good Xmas morn.
nick carraway: Jeffraham: sounds like Curly's been keeping you on your toes... nothing quite like being Doorman To The Pets...
Heh -- fo' sho'. Curly's spending far too much time in my bed these days, actually. Not sure whether it stems from jealousy of the ladyfriend, or what... but he wanted to snuggle throughout the Titans game today. And truth be told, except for my brief foray this morning to get online, I've been in bed all day long.
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Jeff, they are ecstatic re: new pc - and you recall the old one was primordial, glacially slow. They think they have died and gone to heaven
You're supposed to rub his belly for good luck, not kill him.
Zen Master Lin Chi spoke thus, "If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha. If you meet a Patriarch, kill the Patriarch." Lin Chi isn't condoning murder, he is using a metaphor to explain the nature of Buddhism. Don't believe what some one says, no matter how holy they are, just because they say it. Listen to their words and then explore them yourself.... Kill Buddha.
Now I'm really leaving, Buddhadammit!
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They are Mandelbrot, Feigenbaum, Grusendorf, Peaches, Spookie, Sweetie and Frieda Kahlo.
SHG
Yeesh! I've got four and I feel
like I've spent most of the day letting them in and out. It seems catdoors to the litterbox and the outdoors are out of vogue this season.
If you google "kill the buddha" there's a lot out there. Here's a snippet:
The Zen Master warns: "If you meet Buddha on the road, kill him!" This admonition points up that no meaning that comes from outside ourselves is real. The Buddhahood of each of us has already been obtained. We need only recognize it. Killing the Buddha on the road means destroying the hope that anything outside of ourselves can be our master. We must each give up the master without giving up the search. The importance of things lies in the way we have learned to think about them. How often we make circumstances our prison and other people our jailers! At our best we take full responsibility for what we do and what we choose not to do. The most important struggles take place within the self.
"Once, in the Orient, I talked of suicide with a sage whose clear and gentle eyes seemed forever to be gazing at a never-ending sunset. 'Dying is no solution,' he affirmed. 'And living?' I asked. 'Nor living either,' he conceded. 'But who tells you there is a solution?'"
Merry Christmas, Sweet Batties.
I left you all a present at First Draft.
Good night and lovely lovely dreams.
4LG he looks very much like my cat Feigenbaum, is he a Maine Coon?
I think so. He's a rescue kitty so it's hard to be sure.
I just think of him as being of the "cattus plushius" breed.
steve simels: BTW -- is it just me, or has Google
been fucked up for the last day or
so?
Not so fux0r'd that I couldn't sign up for all their Googlicious advertisement stuffage, anyway (which I'm doing as a precursor to a bidness venture with the fabulous Dave Demay, Star Search Male Vocalist of the Year, 1989).
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And all the 30s period detail was,
for want of a better word, smashing.
HScan ate my first reply
The art historical references (The Ashcan School, Charles Scheeler, Nighthawks) are all from right around that period. Nighthawks maybe a little later.
The Dali references on the island are from one of his later periods, I think around 1960 or later.
thanks Hecate,
thanks Tena,
happy anything your hearts desire.
If you meet the Buddah on the road, you're supposed to kill him.
Hecate Malificent |
oh, gee, really....??? Why? (ignoramus)
Sarah Deere
Because you can't gain enlightenment thru dogma.
Merry Christmas incog-
hope things are good in your neck of the woods.
Let's not forget all the pups and kitties in New Orleans who had it so rough this year.
If you see the Buddha in the bath house, blow him.
peace to all, especially the trolls.
Happy Holidays, four legs.
Tena....
Merriest of Xmases, happiest of holidays!!
and the bestest of regards.
I think most of the posters here today have been smashed.
"But who tells you there is a solution?"
Therefore, I would argue, kill not the Buddha.
Incog: I think most of the posters here today have been smashed.
I'm working on it. Nap, followed by coffee = need a few beers!
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So it's Christmas now, right?
Good luck with that.
That Buddha character is getting on my last nerve.
The Kill Buddha {or kill master} thing is a way to look at El Topo.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067866/
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The Kill Buddha {or kill master} thing is a way to look at El Topo.
Or you could just take some drugs.
Let's not forget all the pups and kitties in New Orleans who had it so rough this year.
Barry, a happy holidays to you and magoo too.
(that sounds like a Dr. Seuss rhyme.)
I'd rather not kill Buddha.
Back at you and Maxx too, 4 legs.
Looks like he had fun with the wrapping paper.
Therefore, I would argue, kill not the Buddha.
Sarah Deere
Attached to him, are you?
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Looks like he had fun with the wrapping paper.
Everyday is a holiday to him.
Christmas is just another day to me. Too commercialized and now the wingnuts have turned it into another wedge issue so I'll be glad when it's over. But I am getting 'holiday pay' for it at work right now.
I'm worried that the Buddha might turn out to be bulletproof and possibly in possession of deadly heatvision.
Hohoho!
Merry Everyone!
Hee hee, Comedy Central is doing a South Park Xmas episode marathon.
And yes, this is me, I'm just a bit tired and loopy.
If I were a namestealer, would I be blogwhoring my random posts about nothing?
(Well, some photos too...)
And on that note, off to see
visions of sugarplums dance in
my head.
In other words, my acid's
kicking in.
I kid, I kid.
Talk to you guys later....and
a Happy Holidays to all!
Barry from AK in Hawaii (I hope he got lei'd): Hee hee, Comedy Central is doing a South Park Xmas episode marathon.
I've never been sadder to be shackled to rabbit ears.
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GEORGE BUSH DOESN'T CARE ABOUT MUPPETS.
So far, Santa got shot down over Baghdad, Jesus got killed trying to save him, and now we're getting to meet Mr Hanky for the first time.
Ah, memories.
Tomorrow's talk show dreck
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
wp...2400773_pf.html
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Buddha as superhero, eh?
"There are no answers- seek them lovingly"-- don't know where that comes from
Happy/Merry Whatever Floats Your Boat, friends...I'm just glad to see the days getting longer.
as ever
No "l"
No "l"...
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Merry War On Christmas, everybody!
Now DEA agents will be chasing gingerbread men.
Prague Med Rep. 2005;106(1):27-38. Related Articles, Links
Christmas gingerbread (Lebkuchen) and Christmas cheer--review of the potential role of mood elevating amphetamine-like compounds formed in vivo and in furno.
Institute of Pharmacology of the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. jidle@lf1.cuni.cz
The typical spices used in winter include nutmeg, cinnamon, clove and anise. These spices contain two groups of chemicals, the allylbenzenes and their isomers, the propenylbenzenes. It was suggested 40 years ago by Alexander Shulgin that these substances act as metabolic precursors of amphetamines. The biotransformation of these precursors to nitrogen-containing metabolites is reviewed. These reactions have not been reported in humans. Whether or not the pharmacology and toxicology of spices such as nutmeg can be explained on the basis of their allylbenzene or propenylbenzene content is speculative. Humans may be exposed to amphetamines derived from these precursors in forno, the formation during baking and cooking, for example in the preparation of Lebkuchen, or Christmas gingerbread. It is possible that this may be responsible, in part, for uplifting our mood in winter. However, the role of these aromatic substances, acting simply as odours, evoking old memories of winters past, cannot be ignored. Whether spices have a true pharmacological effect or they act as aromatherapy remains to be elucidated through clinical and laaboratory studies.
PMID: 16007907 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
entr...l=pubmed_docsum
Geez, that as almost as bad as the Lost actor's joke on Kimmel last night: "What do you call a deer with no eyes?"
"No-eye deer."
Groan.
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Still, I must say that getting to see kiddie pix of Wiley and Gizmo made quite the Xbox gift for me.
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"If you see buddha on the road, kill him."
"Don't follow leaders, watch your parkin' meters."
Don't forget to think about this the next time you go to Crack Ho' Barrel, either.
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I posted this last night and got reamed, but WTF; I never learn.
It's the last two paragraphs from A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas....and it's Christmas-y, and I like it, and a friend just gave me a beautifully bound print copy of it tonight.
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, best of life to you all.
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Bring out the tall tales now that we told by the fire as the gaslight bubbled like a diver. Ghosts whooed like owls in the long nights when I dared not look over my shoulder; animals lurked in the cubbyhole under the stairs and the gas meter ticked. And I remember that we went singing carols once, when there wasn't the shaving of a moon to light the flying streets. At the end of a long road was a drive that led to a large house, and we stumbled up the darkness of the drive that night, each one of us afraid, each one holding a stone in his hand in case, and all of us too brave to say a word. The wind through the trees made noises as of old and unpleasant and maybe webfooted men wheezing in caves. We reached the black bulk of the house. "What shall we give them? Hark the Herald?"
"No," Jack said, "Good King Wencelas. I'll count three." One, two three, and we began to sing, our voices high and seemingly distant in the snow-felted darkness round the house that was occupied by nobody we knew. We stood close together, near the dark door. Good King Wencelas looked out On the Feast of Stephen ... And then a small, dry voice, like the voice of someone who has not spoken for a long time, joined our singing: a small, dry, eggshell voice from the other side of the door: a small dry voice through the keyhole. And when we stopped running we were outside our house; the front room was lovely; balloons floated under the hot-water-bottle-gulping gas; everything was good again and shone over the town.
"Perhaps it was a ghost," Jim said.
"Perhaps it was trolls," Dan said, who was always reading.
"Let's go in and see if there's any jelly left," Jack said. And we did that.
Always on Christmas night there was music. An uncle played the fiddle, a cousin sang "Cherry Ripe," and another uncle sang "Drake's Drum." It was very warm in the little house. Auntie Hannah, who had got on to the parsnip wine, sang a song about Bleeding Hearts and Death, and then another in which she said her heart was like a Bird's Nest; and then everybody laughed again; and then I went to bed. Looking through my bedroom window, out into the moonlight and the unending smoke-colored snow, I could see the lights in the windows of all the other houses on our hill and hear the music rising from them up the long, steady falling night. I turned the gas down, I got into bed. I said some words to the close and holy darkness, and then I slept.
"If you see buddha on the road, kill him."
What about if he's at the mall or something? I mean, there's all those witnesses.
Cool video JP.
fondookhills: I posted this last night and got reamed, but WTF; I never learn.
Shit, man! There's a War On Christmas! Which side are you on?!?
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Shit, man! There's a War On Christmas! Which side are you on?!?
I'm cheerfully hiring out my services to both sides.
Shit, man! There's a War On Christmas! Which side are you on?!?
My side.
Barry from AK in Hawaii (still hope he got lei'd): Cool video JP.
10-Q verry much! It wasn't meant to be slam poetry (the original would have been 2-3 minutes long, easily, but the PFAW requirements were
It wasn't meant to be slam poetry
It didn't really come across as slamming.
It's the last two paragraphs from A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas....and it's Christmas-y, and I like it, and a friend just gave me a beautifully bound print copy of it tonight.
There's also a recording of Dylan reading this, or there used to be.
I'm not dead.
Which side are you on?!?
This is kind of like whenever I get asked which is my favorite NFL team is.
"That depends, who are the Cowboys playing today?"
Which side in the war on Christmas? "Which side is O'Liley on, I'm on the other."
Eli: I'm cheerfully hiring out my services to both sides.
So, you're like those dudes who sold weapons to both the Bajorans and the Cardassians during the occupation, eh?
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I'm not dead.
Are you alive, or in some in between state?
Alive. But wasis busyness comloaded.
what we've all worked so hard for- presents under the tree.
gary in fl: what we've all worked so hard for- presents under the tree.
I was always workin' for the weekend.
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Hey Seebach.
Hi, Incog.
FUCK! Guys, the Buddha is right here. The sister in law dates him. What do I do?
The Buddha is over by the damn onion dip right now...
There's also a recording of Dylan reading this, or there used to be.
Steve J.
Hey! There still is! Thanks for pointing out the possibility.
http://www.harpercollins.com/
glo...isbn=0060514671
Thers: The Buddha is over by the damn onion dip right now...
One well-placed RPG...
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Merry Christmas, one and all.
Although I'm a tad skeptical about any organization whose insurance policy reads "Just do as I say, and it's money in the bank for you when you're dead."
Whatever brings friends and family together in a peaceful manner it's quite good in my estimation.
Hey! There still is! Thanks for pointing out the possibility.
Good and your welcome. It's great to hear him read it.
One well-placed RPG...
But I like onion dip too...
oh, the horns of this ethical dilemma...
A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas, in streaming audio format. I'm not sure which. As soon as it loads Dylan Thomas began saying this, so I must have that type of audio gismo loaded.
http://www.undermilkwood.net/
pro..._christmas.html
dylan thomas is dead.
Harold Bloom has read every book in five new york public libraries.
Visions of sugarplums (or imaginary flagella)
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Both Homer and John Milton were blind.
Don't tell me everyone's done Christmas shopping already...
Don't tell me everyone's done Christmas shopping already...
Nah, Christmas is weeks away. No worries.
Don't tell me everyone's done Christmas shopping already...,
I'm still working on my Christmas catapults.
Thers: But I like onion dip too...
Onion dip is a $1.99, workaday issue. Killing the Buddha, however...
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DOUG - TY
dylan thomas is dead.
Thread's dead baby, thread's dead.
Am I the only one who thinks Alito looks just like Col Klink? (hogans heros)
Great nickname for he
No thread is ever dead.
Some of us still live in the Corrente basement too.
Am I the only one who thinks Alito looks just like Col Klink? (hogans heros)
I'm thinking he's looking more and more like toast lately.
Nah, Christmas is weeks away. No worries.
Thers, Second Wise Man
The 14-yr-old is too funny. She was messing with her presents and getting excited over the ones that are obviously books.
So, you're like those dudes who sold weapons to both the Bajorans and the Cardassians during the occupation, eh?
Exactly. But without the gills.
Not sure where the outlets are in this room, so I should probably shut it down.
Hopefully I'll have a picture or two of my Christmas Roommate to post tomorrow.
G'night and Merry War On Christmas, everybody!
Marc: Am I the only one who thinks Alito looks just like Col Klink? (hogans heros)
I think he looks like an older version of the actor who play Wil Bailey on The West Wing.
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Well, I'm out.
Happy happy to all.
Actually, I'm finding that I cannot sleep until I scream "Ashlee Simpson is a dirty lip-synching whore!", but I'm not entirely sure why.
Okay, really going now...
I'm not as drink as you thunk I am!
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Holy Moly! I'm waiting for the kids to go to bed so I can play Santa and eating some gingerbread and drinking my first eggnog. Hope to God the streudel is not as bad as the gingerbread.
God, I could really go for some Buddha dip right about now...
I'm not as drink as you thunk I am!
But I'm working on it.
Tomorrow's talk show dreck
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ wp...2400773_pf.html
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QuentinCompson
well, merry fucking christmas, and why the fuck even bother...?????
Eh?
Barry from AK in Hawaii: But I'm working on it.
You, too...? Izzit out of a coconut shell?
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Am I the only one who thinks Alito looks just like Col Klink? (hogans heros)
Nope, don;t see that.
I just see someone who believes his excrement has no odor and who relishes the smell of his own farts.
You, too...? Izzit out of a coconut shell?
Nope, Steinlager from New Zealand.
Did the fruity drinks with umbrellas this afternoon.
Thanks for the Dylan Thomas Christmas story link. I enjoyed that.
A pre-Christian Santa Claus via the laplanders.
The heraldic symbol of Lapland, the wildman — a hairy, reddish, bestial character dressed in leaves, wielding a gnarled club.
The Wildman
THE WILDMAN OF THE MIDDLE AGES WAS described as a grotesque, bestial, ape-like creature, dark, filthy and bearded. Its body was covered in thick, matted hair and gave off a foul odor. (In later depictions of the wildman, his fur was often replaced by leaves.) Sometimes horned, with a prominent sex organ or wielding a club, he was considered frenzied and insane, and was the personification of lust and debauchery. He was known to mate with humans. The habitat of the wildman was the northern woods where he lived in a cave or den. His traditional beast of burden was the reindeer. The wildman shares all these traits with the yeti as well as the devil. (Satan would often appear to Martin Luther as an ape-like entity with filthy, matted hair exuding a heinous odor.) In the 17th century, Pope Gregory I set the specifications of Satan, describing him as dark in color, with horns, hooves and a terrible stench. The devil is also known as Nikolas, or Old Nick for short, while nickel is a term for a demon. In various regions, the wildman is known as Chläus, Div, Djadek, Jass, Kinderfresser (child eater), Klapperbok, Old Scratch, Thomasniklo and Schrat. http://www.laweekly.com/images/
i...lgsm05lede5.jpg
Barry from AK in Hawaii:Did the fruity drinks with umbrellas this afternoon.
It's awl good, 's my theory.
I'm watching/listening to the Jiminy Glickert retrospective at C&L right now... what a hoot! Good times.
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Saw the retrospective, John got a lot of face time.
too late now....
shirley horn singing, playing.
m&hny
Nothing like a gay male prostitute to bring out the true meaning of xmas.
albert, I've been taking some notes recently re: your musical choices.
If you have a list of preferences, I would love to have it.
Thanks,
SD
Howdy,
Just dropping in to say Merry Xmas. What's going on here tonight?
Y'know... I'm not much of a drinkee whisker.
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Ooops, didn't notice how late it was. Probably no one here...never mind.
Phila -- I'm here! Save me from ritual suicide-by-nog!
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What's going on?
Beer, South Park Xmas Special marathon.
nothing much really.
Just dropping in to say Merry Xmas. What's going on here tonight? Shhhh, go to bed, or Santa won't come.
--WAIT! You are... grownups?
Do you bear whiskey?
Be Welcome!
I'm still waiting for my 19 year old to head off for Santa to do magic.
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Btw, I think I'm in love. At 42. I thought this was unpossible. But there it be.
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Good for you JP.
Btw, I think I'm in love. At 42. I thought this was unpossible. But there it be.
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Please. You're on the precipice of wonderfulness.
Barry from AK in Hawaii (is there a REASON for you to be posting from the 50th State whilst being from the 49th?): Good for you JP.
Thankee, much -- it's just one reason not to consume too much nog, and die.
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Phila -- I'm here! Save me from ritual suicide-by-nog!
How do I do it? Stomach pump? The frowning of a lifetime? What?
Thank Father Christmas they're all in bed now. Merry Christmas to all and to all a goodnight! And Happy Holidays to everyone else!
Why would you think love is impossible at 42? Why would it be any different than any other age?
Btw, I think I'm in love. At 42. I thought this was unpossible. But there it be.
I swear, it seems like everyone I know finds love only after they've reconciled themselves to being alone forever. It's happened to like a dozen people I know...
How do I do it? Stomach pump? The frowning of a lifetime? What?
Calisthenics.
Do you bear whiskey?
Be Welcome!
Thers, Second Wise Man
I've got nog myself...but don't tell Jeffraham!
george: Why would you think love is impossible at 42? Why would it be any different than any other age?
I dunno. It takes longer now, and although it may have something to do with testosterone levels, I'm sure it has nothing to do with prostate size.
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The 14-yr-old is too funny. She was messing with her presents and getting excited over the ones that are obviously books.
Marcia Brady ∞
Jeez, that's almost enough to make you think there's still hope...
Calisthenics.
Thers, Second Wise Man
Include me out, then. I've run footraces in Death Valley's sand dunes in summertime, and I've hiked up Zion Canyon barefoot, but I'll be goddamned if I'll do calisthenics.
Have some more nog, JP!
Love at 42? Douglas Adams would've approved.
I swear, it seems like everyone I know finds love only after they've reconciled themselves to being alone forever. It's happened to like a dozen people I know...
It toally sucks to be stuck with this love shit. It just pisses me off I won't ever get to experience being lonely and unloved.
Nuts.
Phila: How do I do it? Stomach pump? The frowning of a lifetime? What?
Just be here for me until Zardoz Man comes in with a load of laundry, will ya?
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The 14-yr-old is too funny. She was messing with her presents and getting excited over the ones that are obviously books.
Marcia Brady ?
I got about 25 books per Xmas growing up, and the main effect of that was to make me try to recreate the feeling weekly, by draining my bank account at bookstores and on ABE.
(is there a REASON for you to be posting from the 50th State whilst being from the 49th?)
Yes there is. I'm a cargo pilot, on layover here. Not senior enough in my base to be home, so someone has to haul the rubber dog shit.
footloose: Please. You're on the precipice of wonderfulness.
A gift of perfect prose. Thank you.
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Barry from AK in Hawaii: Yes there is. I'm a cargo pilot, on layover here. Not senior enough in my base to be home, so someone has to haul the rubber dog shit.
Have some nog, on me. In a dirty coconut shell.
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It just pisses me off I won't ever get to experience being lonely and unloved.
I'm actually feeling kind of unsettled right now, 'cause I just got an e-mail from someone I know strictly through bloggery, who's feeling exactly that way, despite being - as far as I can tell - an interesting and exemplary person. It's hard to know what to do, other than spout a bunch of palliative cliches...
Phila,
My folks have always given me books for Christmas and birthdays, as well. Not this year, though. However, I did score a gift certificate from Barnes & Noble. Which is nice.
Have some nog, on me.
Nog body shots? Served by a 42-year-old man?
Hell, I'll try anything once.
Open Thread
There's nothing we can't face except for threads.
I can't face another year of Cheney's hatred of everyone, Biden's bad hair (and worse voting record), and O'Reilly's bullyboy logic.
But there is no choice here.
The funniest article they ever did, however, was by a guy who used to deliberately get himself on junk-mail lists under idiotic names.
I'm subscribed to Oral Robert's newsletter (even got a free prayer cloth) as Ress E. Rection!
Merry Fucking Christ Ass, y'all!
(is there a REASON for you to be posting from the 50th State whilst being from the 49th?)
Humph. I've never posted from anywhere BUT the 50th state, though I don't bring the subject up much...
Nog body shots, disturbing mental pictures.
Ah, the neverending miracles of xtianity.
CHRISTMAS IS A FESTIVE HOLIDAY in Sàpmi, the Saami homeland. The Saami await a Yuletide visit from a giant, horned and hairy wildman named Stallo. In Lappish, stallo means "metal man." Sometimes Stallo is dressed in stylish, all-black clothes like an MIB (man in black) or in a metallic suit (as conspiracy theorists conjecture, a robot or ancient astronaut in a space suit). Most likely the metal suit was the chain-mail armor of the berserker Vikings. The amoral Stallo delights in macabre acts of genital mutilation of his innocent victims. (Stallo pokes his staff up the skirts of young girls.) On Christmas Eve, Stallo rides around in his sleigh looking for something to drink. Traditionally, the Saami drive a stake into the ground near a fresh-water supply so Stallo can tie up his sled while having a refreshing gulp of water. If Stallo cannot find anything to drink, he will bash in a child's skull, sucking out the brains and blood to satiate his thirst. The most dangerous night for Lapp children is Christmas Eve, when Stallo lurks about looking for naughty victims to cram into his sack.
Phila: Nog body shots? Served by a 42-year-old man?
Hell, I'll try anything once.
SO glad I had no beer in my mouth when I read that. My notebook has enough issues without getting a beer enema, tonight.
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Humph. I've never posted from anywhere BUT the 50th state, though I don't bring the subject up much...
Pitchforks and Torche
I just tag my location on my handle so I can remember where I am.
late, christmas eve...it provokes one funny memory.
so many years ago[50?].
probably christmas day, 1955. my 'rents were beat christmas morning. they had been up all night.
what had they been doing until dawn?
well, they had become entranced by the erector set that they were giving me. so they stayed up all night constructing a whirligig.
they were so beat christmas morning.
even more beaten when they unveiled my gift, their creation, which i promptly began to dismantle.
when they were alive, we would recall this sty. i would laugh. they wouldn't.
my best christmas memory was the very cold december when i gave them polypro longies and camo watch caps.
i wish i had taken a photo of their wearing those raiments. such a hoot.
wishing you all the finest memories
Phila,
My folks have always given me books for Christmas and birthdays, as well. Not this year, though. However, I did score a gift certificate from Barnes & Noble. Which is nice.
Matt T.
Sounds good to me! I got a book from my half-brothers (my only other close living relative couldn't afford to give me a newspaper if they were half-price). Fine by me, though...I'm gonna go on a long drive in the next few days, and pick up a bunch of stuff for trade...
Barry from AK in Hawaii
Is Christmas even more sureal in a place that's always tropical?
Btw, we're workin' on 48+ hrs. of continuous use of Toshi-San without a display failure... perhaps the sky will not fall, after all!
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I'm actually feeling kind of unsettled right now, 'cause I just got an e-mail from someone I know strictly through bloggery, who's feeling exactly that way, despite being - as far as I can tell - an interesting and exemplary person. It's hard to know what to do, other than spout a bunch of palliative cliches...
O begob.
What to do is easy. Have another drink.
Is Christmas even more sureal in a place that's always tropical?
You should ask Pitchforks and Torche that since he lives here.
But pretty odd here in Waikiki, trollys are running around full of people yelling and carrying on like it was New Year's or they just won the Super Bowl.
And the cops seem to be pretty busy too.
What to do is easy. Have another drink.
Thers
I thought that kind of advice was discouraged on suicide hotlines...but maybe the Internets are different. I guess I could have a little more wine...
IN SWEDEN, SANTA (JULTOMTEN) lives in Tomteland, also known as Santa World. Three hundred sixty million years ago, a gigantic meteor struck central Sweden with the impact of a thousand atomic detonations, blasting out a crater that eventually filled with water, becoming Lake Siljan. The high mountains around the lake are actually sides of the crater, and here at the base of Mount Gesunda, Swedish Santa built his workshop. Jultomten is akin to the King of the Foresttype wildman: stout, bearded, dressed in furs. He cares for animals and has shamanistic powers over the elements. According to legend, Jultomten lived deep in the forest long before he showed himself to humans. It is said that Santa used to roam around the Swedes' farms during the night. He would creepy-crawl into children's rooms, touching them to bestow prophetic dreams. To this day, on Christmas Eve Swedes still leave porridge, milk or tobacco to appease the mischievous little elf, similar to Americans leaving milk and cookies for Santa.
My parents are impossible to shop for. They've gotten themselves to a position in life where they want or need for not much of nothing. Seriously. If it weren't for the fact they're both fairly shakey health-wise, they'd be all set up. Get Momma the new housecoat she gets every year, and she's like a kid in a candy store.
My brother...well, eventually, one of us will be short and the other will have to spring for the whole bag of herbal goodness. So it's all cool.
I thought that kind of advice was discouraged on suicide hotlines...
I'm thinking of starting a punk rock/crisis counseling/conneisseur magazine, called Suicide HotWine.
If I were to make like a Holiday DJ, and see how much I could drink on the air... would anybody stick around for that?
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IN SWEDEN, SANTA (JULTOMTEN) lives in Tomteland, also known as Santa World.
I used to have a little book about a tomten....a household god, kind of like a diminuitive Santa. I liked the illustrations, and I've always wanted to find a copy of it...haven't seen a copy since kindergarten, and I can't remember the title or author...
The homes here on Maui can be decorated quite fantastically. My neighbor even put down sheets to make the lawn look like real snow, a'la Scott of the Antarctic from Monty Python, except Vanilla Hoare is not standing in a trench.
Otherwise people have the same spirit, it's just not all that cold unless you drive up to the top of Haleakala at 10,000 feet.
I believe I'll roll along now. Goodnight, all. Treat it gentle, as Sidney Bechet would say.
I'm glad I had you folx for company, tonight. I needed it.
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Mele Kalikimaka to all. Tired eyes here, time to put the parents to bed.
See ya Phila.
I should quit too, but South Park just did my favorite xmas song, Christmas Time in Hell.
String up the lights and light up the trees
We're gonna make some revelry..
Spirits are high, so I can tell
It's Christmas time in hell!
Demons are nicer as you pass them by
There's lots of demon toys to buy
The snow is falling, and all is well
It's Christmas time in hell!
There goes Jeffrey Dahmer
With a festive Christmas ham..
After he has sex with it
He'll eat up all he can..
And there goes John F Kennedy
Carolling with his son..
Reunited for the holidays
God bless us, everyone!
Everybody has a happy glow
Let's dance in blood, and pretend it's snow..
Even Mao Tse Tung is under the spell
It's Christmas time in hell!
Satan: Adolf, here's a present for you!
Adolf: Oh? Ein Tannenbaum!
Satan: Yes, Ein Tannenbaum!
God cast me down from heaven's door
To rule in hell forever-more
But now i'm kinda glad that I fell
'Cos it's Christmas time in hell!
Here's a rack to hang the stockings on
We still have to shop for Genghis Khan
Michael Landon's hair looks swell
It's Christmas time in hell!
There's Princess Diana
holding burning mistletoe
Over Poor Gene Siskel's head
Just watch his weenie grow!
For one day we all stop burning
and the flames are not so thck
All the screaming and the torture stops
As we wait for old St Nick!
So, String up the lights and light up the trees
We're damned for all eternity..
But for just one day, all is well
It's Christmas time in hell!
Get a toast together and make it quick
We've gotta make room for Andy Dick..
Wake his mother and ring the bell..
It's Christmas time.. [christmas time x3]
Christmas time.. [christmas time x3]
It's Christmas time in hell!
Well, just maybe...
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Yes. It is time.
Merry Xbox to All, and to All, a good fight!
♥
G'nite JP
All the problems with children that won't go to sleep on Christmas night, could be solved by telling them some of the more traditional Santa stories. Now what you do about the 110 years of therapy that they'd need to get over the childhood Sant tramas I have no answer for.
Now what you do about the 110 years of therapy that they'd need to get over the childhood Sant tramas I have no answer for.
Ritalin
America Forgets Peace Message of Christmas
On my drive through New York City and on up North I had some time to think about the past few weeks. And I noticed a glaring absence in the messages from the Right Wing. And that is Peace. To be a person of faith is to be a walking antidote to hate and violence. To truely reflect on the Season then one must reflect on Peace.
Peace is an answer to many of the problems facing our nation right now. Our military is fighting a war for corporate interests that has nothing to do with 9-11 and would be better served by police authorities being allowed to do their jobs.
In the past few weeks we have seen videos from Security Companies operating in Iraq indiscriminately attacking innocent civilians. We have heard of illegal spying by our President on American Citizens and perhaps political opponents. We have seen New Orleans struggle to deal with the toughest Holiday they will ever face. We have seen the needs of workers in NYC get trampled by a three ring circus of Billionaire Politicians, Bought Out Press, and Blow-Hard Disc Jockeys.
But we have not seen, heard, recognized, felt anything related to Peace from this administration. I put forth that his is their goal. They do not want Peace in any way shape or fashion. Not only do they want the world to be fighting with eachother, they want Us to be fighting with eachother.
My real fear tonight is what godawful thing will happen this Christmas Eve. How many elderly people will close the door to their homes they can no longer afford to own and walk into the streets? How many kids will not have food, let alone presents on their table? How many soldiers will be stuck in a desert waiting to be blown up rather than being able to care for their loved ones. How many schools will decide the can no longer fund Sports or Arts or Field Trips? How many people will not be able to afford a trip home to be with their loved ones? How many people have become so lost in dispair that they not seek help and will simply fade away?
Instead of an unending war and the new Kremlin in Washington DC I NEED something else to look forward to.
I need Peace.
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medrol and coffee.......
wired.
so, my recollections have been restored.
i recall when i first read john flynn and his assault on the fdr.
flynn got it accurately.
sorry for typos
I swear, it seems like everyone I know finds love only after they've reconciled themselves to being alone forever. It's happened to like a dozen people I know...
Maybe there's hope for me then.
albert, happy holidays.
Since all the moonbats will be getting for "fitzmas" is a rise in Bush's poll numbers, I read that they have already coined a new term to represent the approaching Easter holiday: Fitzster.
That term will certainly be more appropriate for the moonbats to use, because when Rove isn't indicted for anything, Bush isn't impeached for anything, and even the looniest of moonbats realize they aren't gonna take over the House or Senate in '06, these anti-American, troop-hating, treasonous bastards will be having "shit fitz" and other such fitz. By summertime, they'll be so pissed at Fitzgerald that they'll actually be calling Independence Day the "4th of Ju-Fitz."
biz markie, wassamatter? didja just get coal in your stocking?
Is that why you're so bitter?
Shhhhh, biz markie, Saint FitzNick he know's you're still awake
He knows if you are sleeping......
He knows if you've been bad or good.
So,
fuck off.
Z - I thought it was the NSA that knew if we are sleeping or awake and whether we've used a falafel or something solar powereed while talking on the phone?
And if the Busheviks think this spying on Americans thing isn't going to destroy the Glorious CONServative Cultural Revolution and put The Party out for history, then they really don't know Merkins very well and are whistling past the graveyard.
Thanks for 2005, wingnuts and Many returns like Virginia for 2006.
Since all the m--
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