"The Black Derbyshires"
attaturk |
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03.03.07 - 9:39 am | #
Have I mentioned lately how much I adore watertiger's and attaturk's blogs?
They fucking rock...
rorschach, 5th-Tier Atriot |
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03.03.07 - 9:39 am | #
Have I mentioned lately how much I adore watertiger's and attaturk's blogs?
And then there is mine . . .
Snow |
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03.03.07 - 9:40 am | #
Oh, i see on HuffPo the top story is headlined "Nobody would think the Army would treat its soldiers this way" re Walter Reed.
Admittedly, i might think they might from my experience. But it's more what i said would be the big theme of the spin - that it was all a MILITARY scandal, and the cure is more private corporations. The fact that the entire clusterf is BECAUSE of privatizations - that maybe the Army wouldn't treat its soldiers that way, but a Bushco Halliburton spin-off crony sure the hell would - glossing over that will be a consuming priority for Bushco and the Mighty Wurlitzer.
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Cynicus |
03.03.07 - 9:40 am | #
There is still a dead rat on the kitchen floor.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar |
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03.03.07 - 9:41 am | #
MoDo is just a politer (M)ann.
res ipsa loquitur
I gave up on her a couple of years ago.
Moe Szyslak |
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03.03.07 - 9:41 am | #
MeowDo is a wretch!
plantsman, lowercase |
03.03.07 - 9:41 am | #
Why is it that, of all the other horrors which aggravate and horrify me, the fact that Shrub is the worst dressed creature in the world sometimes seems the most awful? Where does he get those garments? How can anyone in his position look so completely ill-kempt and yes, -Dutchy-?
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar |
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03.03.07 - 9:44 am | #
This demonstration of good taste and insanity is why Rorschach should be on everyone's blogroll.
attaturk | Homepage | 03.03.07 - 9:42 am | #
That's "bad taste" and "good insanity," I think you meant to say...
rorschach, 5th-Tier Atriot |
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03.03.07 - 9:44 am | #
The only thing worse than a dead rat is a live rat.
Karin |
03.03.07 - 9:44 am | #
NTodd?
Barry from AK in Seoul |
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03.03.07 - 9:45 am | #
and, of course, a willing male (other than Arthur) to haul away the carcass?
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NO. I AM AN OLD WIDOW WOMAN AND I HIRE THIS SORT OF THING DONE. THE RATTERS HAVE NOT YET ARRIVED.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar |
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03.03.07 - 9:45 am | #
Conservative ringtone?
Theme from The Dukes of Hazzard.
Jennifer |
03.03.07 - 9:45 am | #
Conservative Ringtone?
What the hell is a conservative ringtone anyway?
Snow |
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03.03.07 - 9:46 am | #
The only thing worse than a dead rat is a live rat.
Karin
Isn't the only good thing about a dead rat is it has a convenient handle (tail) upon which it can be lifted and disposed of?
attaturk |
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03.03.07 - 9:46 am | #
Proving southern gentility is still alive.
[smiles broadly, sees president on tv, now not so much with the smiling]
Snow |
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03.03.07 - 9:47 am | #
The only worse thing than a dead rat is a live Dick Cheney.
Jennifer |
03.03.07 - 9:47 am | #
People in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been scratching their heads over the brief career of a minister who, it now seems, does not exist.
The case came to light when Prime Minister Antoine Gizenga began to appoint ministers to his new cabinet.
Andre Kasongo Ilunga got the post of trade but resigned before taking it up.
One explanation is his party's leader, when asked for two candidates to choose from for the post, invented Mr Ilunga to ensure his own appointment.
in the old days, when military regiments were formed by nobles and mercenaries, a common fraud was to have more names on the payroll than there were actual troops. the leader would then collect pay and support for all, and pocket the difference. The result was the creation of "musters", where the regiment would be forced to parade and be inspected, to prove they had all the men and gear they were supposed to, and weren't collecting for what wasn't there - they would "pass muster".
Given politics today, we need to resume this custom, with every gubmint agency and ESPECIALLY with every modern mercenary agency providing 'privatized' government services.
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Cynicus |
03.03.07 - 9:47 am | #
There is still a dead rat on the kitchen floor.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar | Homepage | 03.03.07 - 9:41 am
As a property owner, I found myself confronted with the need to dispose of a dead 'possum, once miriam ran across it in our backyard and freaked out.
Like the good man of the house I am, I did it while drunk, and while miriam was out with friends. I hunted the carcass down one night with a flashlight and tossed it with a shovel.
I learned later than my neighbor was on the very verge of calling the cops on my freakish activities...
rorschach, 5th-Tier Atriot |
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03.03.07 - 9:47 am | #
A couple well placed fragmentation devices would end that rat issue.
Barndog, dangerously abusing |
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03.03.07 - 9:47 am | #
My old GTE Western Electric knock-off desk phone has an actual bell!
plantsman, lowercase |
03.03.07 - 9:48 am | #
GWPDA,
My parents reside in Apache Junction, has that's part of the "valley" is it not?
My dad is absolutely terrified of rats.
attaturk |
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03.03.07 - 9:48 am | #
Have I mentioned lately how much I adore watertiger's and attaturk's blogs?
They fucking rock...
rorschach, 5th-Tier Atriot | Homepage | 03.03.07 - 9:39 am | #
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the rest of you? Meh.
watertiger | Homepage | 03.03.07 - 9:45 am | #
Harsh. I am crushed!
rorschach, 5th-Tier Atriot |
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03.03.07 - 9:49 am | #
you think removing a dead rat from the kitchen floor is gross? Try removing a drowned, bloated mouse wedged in your toilet bowl right before you're scheduled to sell your house.
watertiger |
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03.03.07 - 9:49 am | #
man, bad sentence above,
Apache Junction, AZ is part of the "valley" is it not?
attaturk |
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03.03.07 - 9:49 am | #
A couple well placed fragmentation devices would end that rat issue.
Wouldn't that just spread the rat around the kitchen a bit. At least it is contained at this point,
Snow |
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03.03.07 - 9:49 am | #
Harsh. I am crushed!
I only just saw that. Mwah!
watertiger |
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03.03.07 - 9:49 am | #
Try removing a drowned, bloated mouse wedged in your toilet bowl
OK. Won't ask about that one.
Snow |
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03.03.07 - 9:50 am | #
Apache Junction is at the far eastern end of the contiguous valley floor, iirc.
plantsman, lowercase |
03.03.07 - 9:50 am | #
CNN shows Bush once agains surrounded by people, not one of them BLACK
attaturk |
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03.03.07 - 9:51 am | #
Harsh. I am crushed!
I only just saw that. Mwah!
watertiger | Homepage | 03.03.07 - 9:49 am | #
One wonders how it feels to kiss the crushed.
rorschach, 5th-Tier Atriot |
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03.03.07 - 9:51 am | #
attaturk, Apache Junction is a fine place. What it isn't is an orange grove. There, it is wise to be concerned about scorpions, tarantulas doing the tarantella and javelinas. Rats - not so much.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar |
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03.03.07 - 9:51 am | #
Gee, I don't know. Seeing two of the giant fucking flying roaches copulating on the front porch, while another waited in line for "his turn", may well be the sickest fucking thing I've ever seen.
I went back out armed with a flyswatter in each hand, and took care of three with two blows ... and god knows how many of their unholy issue.
Jennifer |
03.03.07 - 9:52 am | #
you think removing a dead rat from the kitchen floor is gross? Try removing a drowned, bloated mouse wedged in your toilet bowl right before you're scheduled to sell your house.
watertiger
Lesson:
Don't take part in gross fraternity pranks just before selling your home.
attaturk |
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03.03.07 - 9:52 am | #
Cliff hasn't been "all right" since the Lunar War...
Ignignokt |
03.03.07 - 9:52 am | #
CNN shows Bush once agains surrounded by people, not one of them BLACK
Then it IS working out very well for THEM, innit?
plantsman, lowercase |
03.03.07 - 9:52 am | #
CNN shows Bush once agains surrounded by people, not one of them BLACK
Hah! Black man right there, blue sweater vest.
Nevermind. That was a secret service dude.
Snow |
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03.03.07 - 9:52 am | #
OK. Won't ask about that one.
Heh. It was my weekend house, and I arrived to find that somehow a mouse had fallen into the toilet. Must have been there for about a week and a half.
watertiger |
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03.03.07 - 9:52 am | #
It's a cold snowy day on the meadow,
It's a cold snowy day on the meadow,
The drifts are as high as an elephant's eye,
And the snow is still pouring down out of the sky.
Oh, what wintery morning,
Oh, what a blizzardy day.
I've got a certain sure feeling,
The roads will be ghastly today.
-apologies to Rodgers and Hammerstein.
And son is post-op and must have dressing changed today - 45 miles away.
Good morning, everyone.
clio |
03.03.07 - 9:53 am | #
completely ill-kempt and yes, -Dutchy-?
I haven't heard that expression in 20 years. Our age is showing.
Ralphie |
03.03.07 - 9:53 am | #
Try removing a drowned, bloated mouse wedged in your toilet bowl
"Do remove the drowned, bloated mouse wedged in your toilet bowl, or do not remove the drowned, bloated mouse wedged in your toilet bowl.
There is no try."
--Yodi, Jedi Knight and Merry Maid
rorschach, 5th-Tier Atriot |
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03.03.07 - 9:53 am | #
George W. Bush--The most superlative administration in the history of the United States:
The worst vice president
The worst attorneys general
The worst secretary of state
The worst national security advisor
The worst secretary of defense
The worst army secretary
The worst house majority leader
The worst senate majority leader
Shaw Kenawe |
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03.03.07 - 9:54 am | #
CNN shows Bush once agains surrounded by people, not one of them BLACK
What, Dubya got into Atrios' music collection?
Barry from AK in Seoul |
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03.03.07 - 9:54 am | #
attaturk, Apache Junction is a fine place. What it isn't is an orange grove. There, it is wise to be concerned about scorpions, tarantulas doing the tarantella and javelinas. Rats - not so much.
GWPDA
Last time I was there I saw a bobcat or something take down a javelina on the hill right across from my parents front yard. The squealing really added to the visceral effect.
attaturk |
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03.03.07 - 9:54 am | #
W's fashion sense is amply matched by Pickle's!
plantsman, lowercase |
03.03.07 - 9:54 am | #
Heh. It was my weekend house, and I arrived to find that somehow a mouse had fallen into the toilet. Must have been there for about a week and a half.
Excerpted from an early draft of the final chapter of "Who Moved My Cheese?" that never made it into print.
driftglass |
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03.03.07 - 9:55 am | #
Try removing a drowned, bloated mouse wedged in your toilet bowl right before you're scheduled to sell your house.
I just realized, Allison Morrissette had a line in her song about you didn't she?
attaturk |
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03.03.07 - 9:56 am | #
MoDo is just a politer (M)ann.
res ipsa loquitur
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thanks for the tip RIL!
Nancy Willing |
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03.03.07 - 9:56 am | #
I also am terrified of rats. Snakes, bees, hornets, crawly insects, worms, not so much. I wouldn't want to look at the dead rat, much less dispose of it, even if you offered me roundtrip tickets to Phoenix.
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03.03.07 - 9:56 am | #
Excerpted from an early draft of the final chapter of "Who Moved My Cheese?" that never made it into print.
Last time I was there I saw a bobcat or something take down a javelina on the hill right across from my parents front yard. The squealing really added to the visceral effect.
attaturk
See, this is why I am unnerved. Bobcats and javelinas, quail, roadrunners, scorpions, geckos, -Gila monsters- - all these things I can deal with. They don't come into the house.
I blame people from Ohio moving into town.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar |
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03.03.07 - 9:56 am | #
There, it is wise to be concerned about scorpions, tarantulas doing the tarantella and javelinas. Rats - not so much.
Speaking of nasty beasts in nature, has anyone read about that crazy bastard who's determined to swim the length of the Amazon?
I could have lived happily never having heard of toothpick fish.
SteveNS |
03.03.07 - 9:56 am | #
I just realized, Allison Morrissette had a line in her song about you didn't she?
Was that one of the lines from Isn't it Moronic?
Jennifer |
03.03.07 - 9:57 am | #
Why is it that, of all the other horrors which aggravate and horrify me, the fact that Shrub is the worst dressed creature in the world sometimes seems the most awful?
There's still a Robert Hall clothing store in business, that chimpy shops at?
Doug |
03.03.07 - 9:57 am | #
I just realized, Allison Morrissette had a line in her song about you didn't she?
Religion is a mouse in your bowl.
watertiger |
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03.03.07 - 9:57 am | #
(If I could spell Alannis, I'd be bitchy, but I can't)
plantsman, lowercase |
03.03.07 - 9:57 am | #
I just realized, Allison Morrissette had a line in her song about you didn't she?
attaturk | Homepage | 03.03.07 - 9:56 am | #
I have to remove dead rodents from the back porch on a regular basis. Because Eartha Katt keeps depositing them there. It's not that bad usually, unless she decapitates them, which she does about half the time. I finally figured out that the ones she doesn't dissect are the ones she intends to be mine. So nice of her to share.
Anyway, procedure for non-disarticulated rodent corpses is to put on the gardening gloves, insert hand into several layers of plastic grocery bags, grasp rodent and turn the bags inside-out with the other hand. Then dispose in the outdoor garbage can.
Then scrub hands until they are raw.
Jennifer |
03.03.07 - 10:00 am | #
Scorpions do too come into the house.
plantsman, lowercase
Yes, they do, but they are shy and don't like to bother anyone.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar |
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03.03.07 - 10:08 am | #
Sure, everyone knows the Wisconsin mascot is the badger. But have you ever taken a closeup look at the statue on top of the Wisconsin State Capitol? Moedeled by Edie Sedgwick’s great aunt, she has a badger perched in her hair. Getting carried away with this whole badger thing.
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03.03.07 - 2:47 pm | #