I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
I find the "no comments" claim dubious, despite seeing none...
Hillary is just finishing up on c-span. A speech that is... and she is taking questions on everything. Crowd is pretty happy and fired up. Wonder where the she is not inspirational comes from?
But I still see none!
Evening all
Lousy single. Of course my first hit ever iirc, that should count for something.
/kicks rock, morosely
I'm now on Face-Thingy.
Find me if you can.
Hey all, thought you'd be interested in seeing the latest internet buzz:
Are you a child of privilege?
I think the survey is slanted to under 30-year-olds.
Yowsa, good rocking tonite!
Don't even think about trying to take his toy away
No comment.
Nice evening.
if it say no comments, can i still claim first?
This space intentional left blank.
FVW Hillary questioner: When and how are you gonna bring the troops home.
So did you wear orange today?
rocking under advisement
zap,
email me your link.
watertiger10@yahoo.com
>i>So did you wear orange today?
Echidne
it's not St Patrick's Day yet. 
I wore an orange polo shirt today.
Echidne,
I did but I only went to the 7-11 and the Indian lady there was probably impressed. (But I did more than an hour on the treadmill. . . .)
"The Day the Earth Stood Still" coming up on AMC at 11:00.
"Rocking is advised"
Would it pose a problem if I rolled instead?
Chair or horse?
oreobama
Don't even think about trying to take his toy away
JR, kerosene and a match | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 9:59 pm | #
That. Is. Weird.
Yikes!
FVW Hillary questioner: When and how are you gonna bring the troops home.
GET THE TASERS! TAKE THIS RAVING ANTISEMITE OUT OF THE ROOM! THIS WILD EYED VIRULENT CONSPIRACY THEORIST CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO SULLY THE SERIOUSNESS OF OUR DEBATE!
I don't own any orange.
Should I have worn bronzer?
I did Echidne.
Zap I don't know how to find people so send me an invite @ gmail.
oh cool, im a sucker for robots, robbie or otherwise.
Done, WT.
Wow,
?iref=mpstoryview">this must have sucked:
Unknowing twins marry each other
LONDON, England (CNN) -- British twins who had been separated at birth learned they were related only after they had become husband and wife, a senior British lawmaker said. The marriage has been annulled.
"The Day the Earth Stood Still" coming up on AMC at 11:00.
watertiger |
"Ben Casey, Ben Casey, Ben Casey."
-Sam Jaffe
someone didn't get milk & cookies before beddybye, did they...
So did you wear orange today?
Echidne | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 10:01 pm | #
no dem candidate wore an orange necktie (or scarf).
"So did you wear orange today?"
In spirit.
I wore an orange polo shirt today.
DWD,
I am absurdly proud of my good workout today. The machine kept telling me I should go faster, with more of an incline, to get my desired heartrate.
Definitely getting healthier & stronger.
Answer to VFW question: Planning isn't being done. Will start planning before first day. Start within withdrawal first 60 days. 1 to 2 brigades a month.
No more detail than that.
-- Start Copy Here --
I can definitly tell Hillary hates those people and they hate her. And she is sooooo boring.
-- End Copy Here --
Sweet, WT!
HBK.
Arrrgh! I can't remember your last name! Do you remember mine?
That. Is. Weird.
I have known a couple of pet octopuses tht are quite fond of their toys.
And they are pretty intelligent little blobs.
I don't own any orange.
Should I have worn bronzer?
Molly Ivors, b. 11/6
The retired 'Agent Orange' has lots!
Oh, crap. Let's do that again.
I wore an orange polo shirt today.
I had an orange turtle neck on and when I got warm in my meeting and took it off, I had an orange T-shirt underneath!!!
"I am absurdly proud of my good workout today. The machine kept telling me I should go faster, with more of an incline, to get my desired heartrate."
You should be. Look at those pipes in your gravatar.
I realized I don't own a single piece of orange clothing. Not even underwear.
Hillary should choose Broder as her running mate. Obama takes Brooks, youth vote and all that.
Hillary says she'll end the Iraq war and make 250k plus pay the old tax levels.
There's the vote that had Edwards' name on it prior...
""So did you wear orange today?"
i'm gonna have some grand marnier.
Unknowing twins marry each other
There was a case like this in Sweden many years ago. Two siblings married each other. The facts about their birth only came out after they already had two or three children. I don't remember what the outcome was.
So did you wear orange today?"
In spirit.
Econ 102, Owner of Moe | 01.11.08 - 10:07 pm | #
Evening, all.
I've been away all fricking day and this toad still hasn't offed himself?
DWD,
I am absurdly proud of my good workout today. The machine kept telling me I should go faster, with more of an incline, to get my desired heartrate.
Definitely getting healthier & stronger.
Molly Ivors, b. 11/6
Yes, you should be. I am fairly proud of mine as well. Last year at this time I could not walk from the car to my classroom without stopping to rest. I do it in ten minute intervals with a rest period to let my heart rate go back down to normal. But it is increasing the requisite amount and that is good.
Sadly no Steve.
oreobama
- pud
Wonder what pud has against Alabama?
no, i do wonder why he hangs around here.
I have known a couple of pet octopuses tht are quite fond of their toys.
And they are pretty intelligent little blobs.
JR, kerosene and a match | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 10:08 pm | #
Interesting. I didn't know their perceptual capabilities were that strong.
But then, I once went on an underwater walk, where the guide's "pet" grouper swam over and turn upside down so he could stroke its belly, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
I've been away all fricking day and this toad still hasn't offed himself?
steve killfile is your friend.
I realized I don't own a single piece of orange clothing. Not even underwear.
Brooklyn Girl, sane again | 01.11.08 - 10:09 pm | #
Let's go shopping.
"no, i do wonder why he hangs around here."
why has the dog burner hung here forever?
molly,
i already added HBK.
Have any of you folks seen a pair of running shoes tied together and haging from either a power line or phone line?
Does that have any special meaning?
Lying is a bad habit.
Done, HBK.
Steve J, it used to be a calling card for drug dealers. Sort of like, shop here.
Let's go shopping.
slutty jewish girl | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 10:11 pm | #
Good idea! Perhaps some orange elbow-length gloves.
It means someone hsd to walk home in their socks.
Have any of you folks seen a pair of running shoes tied together and haging from either a power line or phone line?
I've seen those quite often, but have no idea what they mean, if anything.
OK, I got sopme rock
Echidne safe.
Have any of you folks seen a pair of running shoes tied together and haging from either a power line or phone line?
Does that have any special meaning?
School is in session.
yeah, ive seen that running shoe thing. seems like i read it has something to do with gangs, but that may just be urban legend.
I signed up for my first 5k of the year. It will be Feb. 2. Wish me luck.
Have any of you folks seen a pair of running shoes tied together and haging from either a power line or phone line?
-----------
Sneaker fruit.
Have any of you folks seen a pair of running shoes tied together and haging from either a power line or phone line?
I've seen those quite often, but have no idea what they mean, if anything.
Echidne | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 10:12 pm | #
Drunk jocks?
Steve J, it used to be a calling card for drug dealers. Sort of like, shop here.
trifecta
Thanx. I had thought it was the result of bullies...
Hillary/Gore
[Running from room...]
The liberals would shit their pants and the 'liberals' heads would explode and Liberals would move to France.
it does make it harder to walk a mile in that person's shoes.
Have any of you folks seen a pair of running shoes tied together and haging from either a power line or phone line?
Does that have any special meaning?
Urban legend has it that it signifies a house where drugs are sold but I think in my neighborhood it signifies a place where bullies throw tennis shoes out of reach of their owners.
"Have any of you folks seen a pair of running shoes tied together and haging from either a power line or phone line? Does that have any special meaning?"
Yes. WalterNeff missed.
Echidne safe.
Nothing is Echidne-safe these days. I'm running three fights on three different listserves simultaneously.
See, school kids grab each others gym shoes and play keep away until someone tosses them over a line. At least that's what it was 30 years ago or so...
Interesting. I didn't know their perceptual capabilities were that strong.
There was an octopus named "Fugly" who loved his plastic spatula. He'd crawl out of his tank for it. If he was bored he'd climb to the top of the tank and shoot you with water through his siphon.
They are better pets than tarantulas, IMO.
"I'm running three fights on three different listserves simultaneously."
Ha. What topics?
well, it's not hard to be a better pet than a tarantula.
running three fights on three different listserves simultaneously.
Echidne
Fighting on the internet?
I have a *little* experience there, if you need a hand....
Watch Friday.
Have any of you folks seen a pair of running shoes tied together and haging from either a power line or phone line?
Air Franklins?
Gotcha, HBK.
well, it's not hard to be a better pet than a tarantula.
they don't bark...
Have any of you folks seen a pair of running shoes tied together and haging from either a power line or phone line?
Those are all over Camp Pendleton barracks areas, but we always assumed it was a prank on some poor bastard who'd left his go fasters out .
I have known a couple of pet octopuses tht are quite fond of their toys.
And they are pretty intelligent little blobs.
JR, kerosene and a match |
I have a Nat'l Geo video on my iPod of an octpus killing a shark in an aquarium.
Have any of you folks seen a pair of running shoes tied together and haging from either a power line or phone line?
Does that have any special meaning?
Steve J.
Used to mean drug sales.
US military names the 6 killed in IED attack. Look at the ages.
http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.ph...6385&
Itemid=128
well, it's not hard to be a better pet than a tarantula.
pretzelattack
Well, they recognize their owners and scare the bejeebus out of a number of folks, so they have their pluses.
They tend to be really cranky just after moult, though. The opposite of snakes.
Fezbook seems like it would have limited appeal.
Nothing is Echidne-safe these days. I'm running three fights on three different listserves simultaneously.
Echidne
Being a Feudal Feminist Empress, Effete Political Hack and Snake Goddess simultaneously must be a challenge.
Have I mentioned how great my kid is?
Peace to all.
Speaking of Al Franken, he won't cross the WGA picket line, not even for Colbert.
Used to mean drug sales.
gullycat
I swear people make this shit up just to look "hip".
Look at those ranks. A company lost a good chunk of their NCO's there. This had to be from several platoons.
There was an octopus named "Fugly" who loved his plastic spatula. He'd crawl out of his tank for it. If he was bored he'd climb to the top of the tank and shoot you with water through his siphon.
They are better pets than tarantulas, IMO.
JR, kerosene and a match | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 10:15 pm | #
Cool! I would never have thought that an octopus could get bored and play games with humans.
Tarantulas aren't high on my list anyway ... they're fascinatingly beautiful, but not for me.
Being a Feudal Feminist Empress, Effete Political Hack and Snake Goddess simultaneously must be a challenge.
Isn't it just! I can hardly lift the chocolate bar to my mouth.
Fezbook seems like it would have limited appeal.
You've gotta think of it in terms of those little cars they drive.
MPG, baby.
A gal at work the other day said she didn't like Edwards because he was "too elitist".
Someday I'm gonna jump off a bridge.
Good idea! Perhaps some orange elbow-length gloves.
Brooklyn Girl, sane again | 01.11.08 - 10:12 pm | #
Great idea.
Ooh...got the vapors thinking about it. Must off to bed....
They are better pets than tarantulas, IMO.
Octopi rock but they're also at the very top of the home aquaria world for expense, delicacy, difficulty and short lifespan. Lobsters and crawdads on the other hand are cheap, forgiving and hardy, and once they get over their new home they do all kinds of strange things. But both octopi and lobsters are escape artists and must be watched.
I swear people make this shit up just to look "hip".
That's how I came up with the myth of the Green M&M.
Tarantulas aren't high on my list anyway ... they're fascinatingly beautiful, but not for me.
Brooklyn Girl
I have them under "cute, but boring".
I wouldn't have a snake, except it's a rescue and my SO insisted on keeping it.
I'm pretty sure it's a him, now.
Speedy, you must be proud of her. Charmer.
Have any of you folks seen a pair of running shoes tied together and haging from either a power line or phone line?
Does that have any special meaning?
Steve J. | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 10:11 pm | #
its supposed to mean that drug dealers live on that block
but i think this was 30 years ago since the police would have figured this out by now...
.
Have I mentioned how great my kid is?
Oohhh great pic!
Ooh...got the vapors thinking about it. Must off to bed....
slutty jewish girl | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 10:19 pm | #
So early? Some slut you are!
Definitely getting healthier & stronger.
Molly Ivors, b. 11/6
I am 100% in support of a healthier, stronger Molly Ivors.
Lobsters and crawdads on the other hand are cheap, forgiving and hardy,
Filed under "dumb, but tasty."
Local aquarium place says they can get blue-rings as pets.
Heh heh heh.
She is a very old Jewish slut. She knew Simels when he was a wee lad.
I doubt the drug deal explanation for the places where I've seen the sneakers over the wires. But they take a long time to come down so it could have been the original reason, I guess.
Tarantulas are not pets. They are furry but they are still spiders. Nothing with 8 legs can be a pet.
Stick with the cats and dogs, peeps.
but i think this was 30 years ago since the police would have figured this out by now...
.
Tacitus Voltaire
Funy how drug dealers always live right next door to elementary schools, init?
Although the month-to-month changes in job openings, hires, and turnover data are often small, some over-the-year changes are significant. From November 2006 to November 2007, the job openings, hires, quits, and total separations rates all fell significantly for total nonfarm and total private employment.
Over the year, the job openings rate rose significantly only in federal gov- ernment (to 1.4 percent). The rate fell over the year in natural resources and mining (1.0 percent), durable goods manufacturing (1.7 percent), information (2.6 percent), arts, entertainment, and recreation (2.7 percent), and state and local government (1.9 percent). Regionally, the job openings rate fell over the year in the Northeast (2.2 percent) and in the West (2.7 percent).
From November 2006 to November 2007, the hires rate decreased over the year in retail trade (to 4.9 percent), information (1.5 percent), the South region (3.3 percent), and the West region (3.1 per-cent). The hires rate did not increase significantly in any industry or region over the year.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/...e/
jolts.nr0.htm
slutty jewish girl | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 10:19 pm | #
So early? Some slut you are!
She said to bed, not to sleep!
maybe the slutty jewish girl is a morning person...
She is a very old Jewish slut. She knew Simels when he was a wee lad.
trifecta
Lilith?
Speaking of Al Franken, he won't cross the WGA picket line, not even for Colbert.
Good on Al. Let's hope that Mike Cerisi knows his way out.
I find keeping four year olds as pets very challenging.
12 week olds aren't so bad
Have any of you folks seen a pair of running shoes tied together and haging from either a power line or phone line?
Does that have any special meaning?
'Old Shoe' from "Wag the Dog"
it could have been the original reason, I guess.
Echidne
Not where I lived, and that was 30-40 years ago.
Drug dealers don't live that far from customers.
She said to bed, not to sleep!
lipreader, Edwards supporter. | 01.11.08 - 10:22 pm | #
Good point.
Nothing with 8 legs can be a pet.
Why do you say that, 2 Dogs Fucking?
She is a very old Jewish slut.She knew Simels when he was a wee lad.
Redundancy. Simels and slut in the same conversation...
Ooh...got the vapors thinking about it. Must off to bed....
Don't forget the Jergens!
time for me to go make a libation to ceres
later...
.
maybe the slutty jewish girl is a morning person...
nick carraway | 01.11.08 - 10:23 pm | #
Oh, I think that's definitely true.
Don't mess with cephalopods. They are biding their time to take over the earth once our species offs ourselves.
zap. so what's the line on franken vs cerisi?
'Old Shoe' from "Wag the Dog"
Gilly Gonzylon
go willy
So early? Some slut you are!
To be fair, there are three others already there waiting.
Tarantulas are not pets. They are furry but they are still spiders. Nothing with 8 legs can be a pet.
What she said. Things with eight legs are things that require squishing, crushing, or in some cases, flamethrowering.
I'm now on Face-Thingy.
Not me. I don't wanna make friends.
Octopi rock but they're also at the very top of the home aquaria world
for expense, delicacy, difficulty and short lifespan. Lobsters and
crawdads on the other hand are cheap, forgiving and hardy, and once
they get over their new home they do all kinds of strange things. But
both octopi and lobsters are escape artists and must be watched.
kei & yuriThe aquarium in Seattle had an octopus that would climb out of its tank, move, slither, whatever, to a neighboring tank. It would pig out on the delicacies, and then return to its tank. A video camera finally caught it in the act.
Tarantulas are not pets. They are furry but they are still spiders.
Southern Beale
One person's EEKitude is another person's EEPitude.
See: 4 year olds, above.
Things with eight legs are things that require squishing, crushing, or in some cases, flamethrowering.
Or, in the case of lobsters, hot butter and lemon.
Tralfaz | 01.11.08 - 10:24 pm | # [X]
Don't mess with cephalopods. They are biding their time to take over the earth once our species offs ourselves.
Oh. By the way, what species are you?
turn Molly
http://mnpublius.com/2007/11/col...n-and-ciresi-2/
Watch Friday, that movie made the prank of throwing sneakers over power lines so popular.
It's a way of marking your turf.
I am 100% in support of a healthier, stronger Molly Ivors.
Sure you say that, but once I destroy downtown Tokyo, it'll be bith, bitch, bitch.
To be fair, there are three others already there waiting.
JeffCO, weirdly intolerant
again, this violates the rule of eight enumerated above ...
If anyone is considering renting the DVD, SUNSHINE, IMHO, don't bother. It features Astronauts deeply in need of remediation. They make George Bush look smart. (And they were our best hope to save the planet!) But, I can recommend SHOOT 'EM UP. It not only jumped the shark, it roped it, put a saddle on it and rode it for two hours. Absolutely, sublimely ridiculous but entertaining.
Or, in the case of lobsters, hot butter and lemon.
Southern Beale
Also acceptable.
Southern Beale | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 10:25 pm | #
I like lobsters and tarantulas. I can't eat them or squish them...
what's the line on franken vs cerisi?
Don't you dare!
I'll say this, though: one of those men has raised more money than Norm Coleman.
Springsteen has Chuck Connors sneaks hanging from his Fender guitar on Born to Run but I don't think it was drug related. He is a tequila man from all accounts.
What she said. Things with eight legs are things that require squishing, crushing, or in some cases, flamethrowering.
doncjesuis, Tina Fey fan
Live and let live.
Really!!
I swear people make this shit up just to look "hip".
JR,
Like dressing "ghetto" in Bethesda.
I have a theory. The Japanese are freaked out by Godzilla.
We never understood the spiders and scorpions as pets thing. Lots of morons who deserve to die attempted to bring scorpions back from the sand in emptied out little talc bottles.
Things with eight legs are things that require squishing, crushing, or in some cases, flamethrowering.
doncjesuis
Click me, tough guy
but once I destroy downtown Tokyo, it'll be bith, bitch, bitch.
I'm also in support of a Molly Ivors who uses Preview with greater frequency.
She is a very old Jewish slut. She knew Simels when he was a wee lad
She taught Steve everything he knows.
i'm going to invest somewhat heavy in franken.
Did y'all ever see that Daily Show where Stewart runs the decontextualized clip of Bush saying something weird and then it cuts back to Stewart looking stupefied? It's fucking hysterical!
Speaking of movies, that Bucket movie with Jack Nicholson and whatshisname who was on Letterman this week is getting some bad reviews as overly schmaltzy.
It not only jumped the shark, it roped it, put a saddle on it and rode it for two hours.
good evening, by the way
She is a very old Jewish slut. She knew Simels when he was a wee lad
She taught Steve everything he knows.
watertiger | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 10:28 pm | #
I'll bet she did.
I thought Godzilla was supposed to be the Great Satan.
You'd be wise to do so, fokowi.
But, obviously, I'm only good at predicting football.
Trade gap widens in Nov on higher oil
The U.S. trade deficit jumped in November to its highest level in 14 months as surging oil prices overpowered a ninth consecutive month of record exports, the Commerce Department said on Friday.
The trade gap widened 9.3 percent to $63.1 billion, the largest month-to-month gain in more than two years.
The trade data added to pessimism about the U.S. economy, which many analysts believe is teetering on the edge of recession because of a severe housing market downturn.
"It's negative for fourth-quarter GDP, pushing us back below the 1 percent level," David Wyss, chief economist at Standard and Poor's Rating Services in New York.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Thursday all but guaranteed the Fed would cut interest rates later this month, saying it stood ready to take "substantive additional action to support growth."
The wider-than-expected deficit dragged the dollar lower against the yen, although traders remained focused on developments in the financial sector.
again, this violates the rule of eight enumerated above ...
Don't knock eight arms to hold you.
Click me, tough guy
JR,
Eeeeeekkkkk!!!!!!
I won't be able to sleep now. THANKS A LOT!!!!!
We had a tarantula for a class pet. It lasted three years. It was okay. The kids liked it. One of the other teachers had a son who was working with them in a lab and they were done with them and needed a place for them rather than destroy them. The only problem with them is that they are fragile and one day a student bumped the glass cage and it fell . . . .
She taught Steve everything he knows.
watertiger | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 10:28 pm | #
I'll bet she did.
Brooklyn Girl
does she speak mayan?
not nearly as hysterical as the idea of taking Toby seriously though...
Click me, tough guy
JR, kerosene and a match
I saw a Nature special on that thing. One of the most frightening things I've seen, and it was only on the teevee. If I ever met one in real life, I'd die on the spot. Watching a chicken being dragged off by this invisible thing is eerie.
I wore my orange turtleneck today, Southern Beale. When I got to work, I realized it had a spot on it, but what the hey.
TEBB | 01.11.08 - 10:29 pm | #
Not surprising. The poster looks schmaltzy.
We never understood the spiders and scorpions as pets thing.
kei & yuri
I understand spiders, because many of them are as pretty as all get out. Scorpions not so much. They don't do anything and they are sand coloured. Meh.
To be honest, I can't eat lobsters, with butter or lemon or anything else. They look like giant sea cockroaches.
Basically, crustaceans are sea insects. It kinda grosses me out.
Don't knock eight arms to hold you.
JeffCO, weirdly intolerant
Help's working title?
My Sudanese friend said that people there keep chickens in their houses because chickens kill scorpions, supposedly as a gang.
Is that cladistically so?
I wore my orange turtleneck today, Southern Beale. When I got to work, I realized it had a spot on it, but what the hey.
Good for you, Karin! I wore my orange turtleneck, too. I didn't see anyone else wearing orange, though.
Basically, crustaceans are sea insects. It kinda grosses me out.
Southern Beale
Ugly on the outside, delicious on the inside.
Years ago when she was a nurse my sister got stung by a scorpion. She had taken the newspaper out of one of those mailbox type things, threw it on the bed, changed clothes and laid down to read the paper. Scorpion was on the paper and it bit her. She called the hospital where she worked and they said not to bother driving back to go to the ER because she wouldn't die unless she was allergic and if she was allergic she wouldn't make it the 30 minutes to the hospital. So she called me to chat while she waited.
I'm also in support of a Molly Ivors who uses Preview with greater frequency.
Less red wine would probably help.
Thers just returned with the boy. Apparently the hockey game was "So. Cool!"
I read an article where Nicholson makes this joke about playing a man dying of cancer, "and I didn't lose a pound"
I remembered that when I read Roger Ebert's evisceration of that "bucket list" movie... when is the last time Nicholson *tried* in a movie?
Bonsoir!
memories of Iowa...it sems sucg a long time ago now.
http://www.cnn.com/video/?/
video...otato.head.kwqc
Word on the street is that Obama's going to work a big diplomatic deal between the Kenyans right before the South Carolina primary.
My Sudanese friend said that people there keep chickens in their houses because chickens kill scorpions, supposedly as a gang.
Echidne
I'd keep the chickens away from any spiders, though.
Apparently the hockey game was "So. Cool!"
There's no such a thing!
Things with eight legs are things that require squishing, crushing, or in some cases, flamethrowering.
doncjesuis
Black widow where I work...
http://thumbsnap.com/v/q6NGptJN.jpg
does she speak mayan?
::matthew | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 10:30 pm | #
Hebrew. Much older.
In case anyone missed it, George W. Bush is a moron.
Okay kids. I'm off. Have a great night!
evening plum
True dat: tarantulae freak me out.
yeah right. i was 1 - 1 going with the zap gut feel. but i was 9 - 5 when i felt the urge...
i'm going to look into what sort of um... committment it takes to do a house party with franken. i'll keep you posted. i have a sister that lives just south of st paul. might be cool to have him stop by for a chit chat.
I understand spiders, because many of them are as pretty as all get out.
Our conceptions of beauty differ greatly.
nite peeps
one of those streets where the sneakers hang forlornly off the power lines, no doubt...
The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index Improves Moderately in December
December 27, 2007
The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index, which had been declining since the summer, posted a slight increase in December. The Index now stands at 88.6 (1985=100), up from 87.8 in November. The Present Situation Index, however, decreased to 108.3 from 115.7 in November. The Expectations Index rose to 75.5 from 69.1.
"This month's slight gain in Confidence was due solely to an increase in the Expectations Index. Consumers' short-term outlook regarding business conditions, employment, inflation and stock prices improved marginally. However, while consumers are less negative about the near-term future, they remain far from optimistic. Furthermore, persistent declines in the Present Situation Index indicate the economy is still losing momentum. In fact, in assessing the current job market, pessimists now outnumber optimists. Regarding business conditions, the gap between the two is almost nonexistent."
Consumers' appraisal of present-day conditions continues to paint a dismal picture. Those claiming conditions are "good" decreased to 20.3 percent from 22.5 percent. Those saying conditions are "bad" increased to 20.0 percent from 18.9 percent. Consumers' assessment of the job market was also less positive. Those saying jobs are "hard to get" rose to 23.5 percent from 21.4 percent, while those claiming jobs are "plentiful" declined to 22.7 percent from 23.3 percent in November.
Consumers' short-term expectations, while reversing a four-month slide, remain at levels that bear watching. Those expecting business conditions to worsen in the next six months decreased to 14.1 percent from 16.6 percent. Those anticipating business conditions to improve increased to 13.8 percent from 12.4 percent.
The outlook for the labor market was also less pessimistic. The percent of consumers expecting more jobs in the months ahead inched up to 11.2 percent from 10.6 percent, while those anticipating fewer jobs edged down to 19.9 percent from 22.8 percent. The proportion of consumers expecting their incomes to increase in the months ahead decreased to 19.0 percent from 19.4 percent.
Help's working title?
I'd tell you, but the cult wouldn't approve.
-Ryan Adams- "Halloween head"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p...h?v=pd-
Z1zjlf8g
Wore an orange polo today (with a black cardigan sweater and jeans) but I don't think anyone made a connection with Gitmo.
evening plum
::matthew
hey! kitten?
http://icanhascheezburger.com/20...ind-real-mouse/
Black widow where I work...
They are only in some parts of the U.S., right?
does she speak mayan?
Ask Steve how to spell "lube" in cuneiform.
one of those streets where the sneakers hang forlornly off the power lines, no doubt...
'Evening all.
So she called me to chat while she waited.
Damn. What do you talk about while you're waiting to see if you might die or not?
Did she say it hurt like hell?
This one was huge...
http://thumbsnap.com/v/eWoHyT0T.jpg
nick carraway | 01.11.08 - 10:32 pm | #
Kubrick's The Shining. He had to work at that film. Stanley did like 80 takes and upwards on everything.
GeorgeM |
01.11.08 - 10:25 pm |
We love that story, but our favorite is the single most compelling argument for octopus sentience. Their favorite food is lobster and lobster spoils almost immediately after slaughter so it often happens that the octopi at aquaria are fed less than perfectly fresh meals. One handler reported that when this happened, one octopus would hold the offending item at "arm's length" with one tentacle, jet back to the drain while maintaining deadpan eye contact with the human, and dump the thing down the drain (the equivalent of its toilet) with minimal movement. She noted it was hard to not think of them as sentient after an experience like that. This comes from a great general audience science book called "The Octopus' Brain," which by the way debunks the octopi intelligence idea since they don't live long enough to develop that much. They still only have lifespans of about a year, so their advanced capabilities are sort of an indictment of intelligent design and an illustration of random selection.
They are only in some parts of the U.S., right?
Echidne
they're in my mailbox...right now
allergic and if she was allergic she wouldn't make it the 30 minutes to the hospital. So she called me to chat while she waited.
TEBB
were you aware of that at the time you were talking?
Ryan Adams- "Halloween head"
Ya knowah,
D00d's my current music hero, and I love that video, but, dammit all, that song's terrible.
if she was allergic she wouldn't make it the 30 minutes to the hospital
No ambulance service? That'd be medical attention in under 30 minutes.
Okay kids. I'm off. Have a great night! Molly Ivors
I didn't get to sing you my Herman's Hermits tribute: "She's A Muscular Girl!"
Stanley did like 80 takes and upwards on everything.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin | 01.11.08 - 10:36 pm | #
Modus Operandi
Watertiger: one more for your collection (but you must have seen it already)
http://icanhascheezburger.com/20...ible-slam-dunk/
They are only in some parts of the U.S., right?
Echidne
Welll ...... True story, organic grape farms use black widow spiders to eat insect pests, instead of chemicals. And a couple years ago customers buying organic grapes at local grocery stores here in Nashville were finding black widows in their bags of fruit. A couple people got bit when they reached in to grab a grape.
So I'd say black widows are nationwide now, thanks to the organic grape farms!
Southern Beale - I don't remember if she said how much it hurt. Its been a lot of years. I was freaked thinking my sister might die while on the phone with me, 1200 miles apart. In hindsight, I'm betting the number of people that die from Florida scorpion bites is pretty low and is mostly those with medical problems or children. I'm also guessing that the hospital told her it wasn't likely she'd die or she'd have been on the phone with her husband instead of her siste.r
Where the sneakers have no name.
Is that cladistically so?
Toby Petzold
Different subphylums of arthropoda.
D00d's my current music hero, and I love that video, but, dammit all, that song's terrible.
Zap Rowsdower | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 10:37 pm | #
I think the melody is catchy, in a Weezer kinda way
Black widow where I work...
http://thumbsnap.com/v/q6NGptJN.jpg
Ugh! [reflexively checks ceiling]
There was a huge-ass (for NJ anyway) spider hanging around outside the door to my office building. One night after work I worked up enough nerve to chuck a water bottle at the thing and knocked it down. I wouldn't have been able to get in or out of work otherwise.
Don't knock eight arms to hold you.
they'd need at least eight and that goes double for wings if 'n any chicken gang out there wants a go ...
This is the coolest comment on the campaign you will read today.
So I'd say black widows are nationwide now, thanks to the organic grape farms!
eek! I better learn to tell them from my other spiders then.
nona - yes, she told me while we were on the phone. she's a bit of a female drama queen, so she was probably told the allergy that would result in her dying was pretty rare and just didn't share that with me.
by the way, Tweety is a vile sexist pig.
80 takes and up on everything?
well, no wonder... burned ol' Jack out, eh?
don't know what it is, I know everybody's supposed to like him, but I don't much...
The Rise and Fall of the College Graduate Wage Premium
"Simple supply and demand specifications do a remarkable job explaining the long-run evolution of the college wage premium."
The wage premium for workers in occupations requiring high levels of education was exceptionally high in 2005. But this is not the first time that the gap has been so wide. In 1915, for example, the premium for a college education was also large. In the decades in between, the United States saw the earnings gap between the more educated and the less educated narrow dramatically, up until the early 1950s, and then begin to widen rapidly again after 1980.
What caused these changes? In The Race Between Education and Technology: The Evolution of U.S. Educational Wage Differentials, 1890 to 2005 (NBER Working Paper No. 12984), co-authors Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz conclude that "strong secular growth in the relative demand for more educated workers combined with fluctuations in the growth of relative skill supplies go far to explain the long-run evolution of U.S. educational wage differentials."
Using this supply-demand framework, the authors find that from 1915 to 1940, the relative demand for college graduates (those with 16 or more years of schooling) grew at an average rate of 2.16 to 2.41 percent per year. But the supply of college-educated workers grew at an average 3.19 percent annually during the same period. Not surprisingly, the wage premium for college graduates over high school graduates narrowed dramatically during the period.
Starting in 1980, the supply-demand picture flipped, the study shows. The rise in the supply of college-educated workers slowed to 2.00 percent per year while demand increased to somewhere between 3.27 to 3.66 percent per year. That's a major reason behind the rise in the premium back to the levels of 1915. "Overall, simple supply and demand specifications do a remarkable job explaining the long-run evolution of the college wage premium," the authors write, with the exception of two periods.
I think the melody is catchy, in a Weezer kinda way
I like to think of Weezer as what would happen if you spread Al Franken's talent across an entire band.
Spiders digest their food first, then eat it.
Everything about them grosses me out, except the fact that they rid the world of pests like mosquitoes. I just wish they could do it somewhere where I don't have to see them.
and one more advantage to living in Michigan. No Black Widows, No scorpions, and the only poisonous snake is the Michigan Rattler and it is rare and won't kill you . . . .
They are only in some parts of the U.S., right?
Echidne
This is in southern NJ, the Pinelands area
don't know what it is, I know everybody's supposed to like him, but I don't much...
nick carraway | 01.11.08 - 10:40 pm | #
He gets on my nerves. I'm really tired of that demonic grin.
typical backporch spider
the banana spider, or Golden Silk Orb Weaver
If anyone is considering renting the DVD, SUNSHINE, IMHO, don't bother. It features Astronauts deeply in need of remediation. They make George Bush look smart. (And they were our best hope to save the planet!) But, I can recommend SHOOT 'EM UP. It not only jumped the shark, it roped it, put a saddle on it and rode it for two hours. Absolutely, sublimely ridiculous but entertaining. DWD - Yuppie Hollow Guru
Thanks. I was gonna do the opposite, but I'll take your recommedation and do the 2nd first. The reason I even thought about renting "Sunshine" is I thought it might be as mildly entertaining as "Mission To Mars." In this day and age of filmmaking, low expectations are the norm.
eek! I better learn to tell them from my other spiders then.
Look for the bright-orange hourglass. If a black spider has one of those, it's a black widow.
DAMMITJANET!
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So I'd say black widows are nationwide now, thanks to the organic grape farms!
Southern Beale
My understanding is that solitary black widow bites aren't that dangerous, butoften folks stumble into a colony and get multiple bites.
And Cray's big iron architecture is called Black Widow, BTW.
Amorphous.
by the way, Tweety is a vile sexist pig.
It was ever so, but finally it has become too embarrassingly glaring to ignore by those who usually ignore such things.
eek! I better learn to tell them from my other spiders then.
The only live ones of those we saw were out at the less populated areas at Camp Pendleton and they were huuuuge. Apparently they can get big.
Cateye
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eek! I better learn to tell them from my other spiders then.
They've got that red hourglass marking on their bellies, iirc.
Are the brown recluse spiders more dangerous than black widows? I think we have more brown recluse than black widows in Texas.
Insanity:
Obama Giving Clinton a Race in Her Backyard
With Senator Barack Obama vowing to challenge Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on her home turf, the Democratic presidential primary in New York on Feb. 5 is shaping up as the state’s most competitive since 1992, when Bill Clinton took up a rival’s mantra of change to all but cinch the nomination.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/1...ics/
12york.html
"shaping up as the state’s most competitive"
Clinton Obama
SurveyUSA 1/9-10/08
56% 29%
Quinnipiac 12/4-10/07
55% 17%
http://www.pollster.com/08-NY-De...res-
Primary.php
It's early and the polls will change but shouldn't a reporter have at least a shred of evidence before writng a story?
nick carraway | 01.11.08 - 10:40 pm | #
On some shots, over 100, for all the actors and actresses.
Funny story. Scatman Crothers, who played Halloran in The Shining, did Eastwood's Bronco Billy shortly after finishing The Shining. On the first day of shooting, Scatman did his acting, Clint said we got it. One take. He nearly broke down and cried from the relief of not having to do something over and over and over again.
So I'd say black widows are nationwide now, thanks to the organic grape farms!
Southern Beale
Evil bastards!
Small spiders don't bother me.
Daddy Long Legs, otoh ...
Crap. I just gave myself a nightmare.
TEBB: Are the brown recluse spiders more dangerous than black widows? I think we have more brown recluse than black widows in Texas.
Yes -- they're the baddest critter in the U.S.
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I think the melody is catchy, in a Weezer kinda way
Perhaps.
I'm just so entrenched with his country stuff now, that any excursion outside of that vain is, well, weird.
This one is a current favorite of mine. Sweet and soft.
I like to think of Weezer as what would happen if you spread Al Franken's talent across an entire band.
Of course, by that I meant Weird Al, not Al Franken.
Too much fun and beer...
Jeffraham: Love those firey orbs.
No flirting intended!
Nicholson just plays Nicholson these days. Has for years.
He once said the only directors he respected were Kubrick and Antonioni.
If you don't like highly poisonous spiders, never visit Australia.
it's amazing how much the trolls care about the democratic candidates. maybe they should care a bt more about their own candidates, non?
Small spiders don't bother me.
Daddy Long Legs, otoh ...
Crap. I just gave myself a nightmare.
Brooklyn Girl
not that they could bite you if they tried, but they're among the most poisonous
yes, she told me while we were on the phone.
damn. it's such an awful experience -- just sitting there waiting for something to happen or not.
ya know, that actually sounds like a good plotline for a short story...
Look for the bright-orange hourglass. If a black spider has one of those, it's a black widow.
Southern Beale
If I'm ever close enough to see that marking, I'd probably have fainted already.
Oh, now I owe Southern Beale 2 drinks-one for the spider skilz, & one for remembering the Gitmo protest day.
Listening to Why Can't We Be Friends? by War.
Actually, the daddy longlegs spider has a more potent venom than the brown recluse, but it is harmless. Why? Its fangs cannot penetrate human skin.
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janeane: to go from Kubrick to Eastwood would require a decompression chamber to prevent the bends... maybe actors do earn the right to be weird...
it's amazing how much the trolls care about the democratic candidates. maybe they should care a bt more about their own candidates, non?
plum p,better democrats please | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 10:44 pm | #
They care about ours because theirs suck.
I liked Sunshine. There certainly is a standard element to the plot, but the cinematography is stunning, IMO.
Bobby, Who ♥ Kucinich |
01.11.08 - 10:41 pm |
By the way, there is an excellent 1997 film called Sunshine which traces a Jewish Hungarian family through the major events of the late 19th and early 20th centuries as the empire collapses around them, and features Ralph Fiennes in one of his best performances. It is in no way related.
Sunshine the space serial killer movie looked to us like a turnoff for the same reasons Saw is a turnoff; why see a number of people die horribly but variously? Everything that can go wrong does, to include crews going insane.
When Taxpayers Ignore Less Visible Taxes
stop talking about spiders, or i'm going to leave, dammit! I itch all over now, dammit! I'll have nightmares too!
House centipedes bother me, in a "nothng above water shoudl move that way" way. Not eekitude of homicide, just "erm... no."
These critters are usually minding their own business, they won't mess with you unless you mess with them.
Actually, the daddy longlegs spider has a more potent venom than the brown recluse, but it is harmless. Why? Its fangs cannot penetrate human skin.
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Myth, no?
Are the brown recluse spiders more dangerous than black widows?
I've heard that they are, actually. We have a lot of brown recluses here in Tennessee, too. They can take a huge hunk out of your skin, because when they bite you they are basically rotting your flesh, which they hope later to suck up with their little straw-like proboscis.
This is the coolest comment on the campaign you will read today.
kei & yuri
Sublime.
stop talking about spiders, or i'm going to leave, dammit! I itch all over now, dammit! I'll have nightmares too!
plum p
you want me to get that one off your back?
they rid the world of pests like mosquitoes
Dragonflies devour enormous numbers of mosquitos, and they're awesome insects. We need more dragonflies.
not that they could bite you if they tried, but they're among the most poisonous
::matthew | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 10:44 pm | #
Actually, it's not the idea of being bitten that creeps me out. It's the way they look ...
I've got over 30 snakes.
well, it is nice of the troolies to be interested in the next President, it ain't likely to be one of *their* mutts...
Ryan Adams- "Halloween head"
what's he getting at, exactly?
nick carraway | 01.11.08 - 10:44 pm | #
As much as I like Kubrick, I don't like the shooting methods he employed. He always shot a lot of takes, but The Shining was astronomical.
Eastwood (like Fassbinder and Ford) hardly shot that much. Liked to work fast. They generally shoot/shot the stuff they needed, editing "in the camera", so to speak.
They still only have lifespans of about a year, so their advanced
capabilities are sort of an indictment of intelligent design and an
illustration of random selection.
kei/yuri
Why would an Intelligent Designer arrange things so that His/Her creations would have to kill each other in order to survive?
the pedes, of all metric varieties, give me the heeby jeebies...the crunch when stepped on just about makes me throw up
Zapette's got Jane Eyre on now.
How's that for some fun Friday entertainment? I suppose when we have kids, we'll watch this every Saturday morning...
If you don't like highly poisonous spiders, never visit Australia.
JR, kerosene and a match
I could see Australia from a spider-free cruise ship.
not that they could bite you if they tried, but they're among the most poisonous
::matthew
Urban legend.
Afghan Whigs in their prime - Letterman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r...h?
v=rveiOYZvpzw
BURP!
Huge gas cloud will hit Milky Way
A giant cloud of hydrogen gas is racing towards a collision with the Milky Way, astronomers have announced.
Smith's Cloud, as it is known, may set off spectacular fireworks when it smacks into our galaxy in 20-40 million years.
It contains enough hydrogen to make a million stars like the Sun, say experts, and its leading edge is already hitting gas from our galaxy.
When it does hit, the cloud could indeed set off a new burst of star formation in the Milky Way.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/t...ech/
7184521.stm
Speaking of spiders, anyone remember that old Night Gallery (or maybe it was Twilight Zone) episode about the writer who hears the faucet dripping and there's a spider in the sink, so he flushes it down the drain ...
.. and it happens again, but this time the spider is bigger ...
... and it happens again, and the spider is BIGGER still ...
and they get BIGGER and BIGGER and BIGGER! Until it's as big as his living room! And he's coming to get him!
AGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bobby, Who ♥ Kucinich,
That SUNSHINE movie just made me nuts. I couldn't even finish watching it. Without giving too much of it away the central plot line they were pushing was that the sun was in need of more energy and they were delivering a giant bomb to do this (they never really explained HOW this was going to work) but regardless. They were the second mission. The first failed. On the way they found the original ship and decided to change course to intercept it. They did this but FORGOT to change their shields??????? (And they are nearly at the sun and they FORGOT their SHIELDS?
Remediation is too good for these people. That plot hole is too large for ANYONE to accept.
Michael Barone on cspan says the idea that an election outcome is a decision about the state of the economy is a relic of the Great Depression.
He says the percentage of voters in 2004 who remembered the Great Depression was 4%.
JR = do all centipedes sting or only some of them?
Nona - how about this, the sister who was stung is a lapsed catholic and has some horrible crime on her conscience. out of fear that she might die and go to hell she confesses to sister on the phone. then sister survives and the one who heard the confession has to decide whether to tell the police, or maybe its something horrible but not a crime and sister who heard confession must decide if she is so appalled that she will end her relationship with her sis now that she knows.
Stuck at home, being under the weather, gloriously blogging the night away...
man, did i fancy Greg Dulli in the mid-'90s
When it does hit, the cloud could indeed set off a new burst of star formation in the Milky Way.
I can hardly wait!!!
SoBe just creeped me out...
Afghan Whigs in their prime - Letterman
*sigh*
Why did he give up heroin?
(not Letterman, but lead singer-guy..Greg something(?)
A giant cloud of hydrogen gas is racing towards a collision with the Milky Way, astronomers have announced.
OMG. It's the end of the world as we know it! In 20-40 million years.
I ain't waiting around for it.
We need more dragonflies.
puppethead
Plant caraway, it attracts them for some reason.
On some shots, over 100, for all the actors and actresses.
That is simply callous unproffessionalism. Look at the Shining: does any of it look like a one in a hundred performance?! There was a director working on BSG who likes to redo shots, and the story goes that he redid one for a scene where an actor did wind-sprints up a hill to be really tired for the scene, not knowing he'd have to repeat it. We are totally on the side of Verhoeven: we owe the producers directing and you owe them acting. The time for fooling around ends once the shooting begins. We are not here to fish around for some chance performance. Plan and practice the hell out of it and then nail it in one and move on.
the Afghan Whigs should have been a big success... I only saw/heard a couple of their songs in the old satellite tv video days, but they could be *fierce*.
AGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Southern Beale
you're dead to me!
Bad news everyone, I just blogger about a woman whose husband is waiting for someone not in the race. They're New Yorkers, so its gotta be Bloomberg, right?
And he's going to be taking more votes from the Democratic nominee than the Republican, we all know.
I could see Australia from a spider-free cruise ship.
doncjesuis
That isn't exactly "seeing" Australian.
How do you feel about sharks?
They did this but FORGOT to change their shields???????
They were tired - it's hard to sleep with the sun in your window all the time.
"Why would an Intelligent Designer arrange things so that His/Her creations would have to kill each other in order to survive?"
Because God's a fan of Wild Kingdom?
(not Letterman, but lead singer-guy..Greg something(?)
Zap Rowsdower
DULLI. one sexy motherfucker on stage. meow.
so their advanced capabilities are sort of an indictment of intelligent design and an illustration of random selection.
Sounds like our elections.
Friday Late Night Thread
Rocking advised.
Not gonna rock.
Gonna sit and wonder why Marion Jones is going to jail and Scooter Libby isn't.
Happy GitmoDay moonbats.
Funnel web spiders in Australia.
Naaaaaasty.
man, did i fancy Greg Dulli in the mid-'90s
plum p,better democrats please | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 10:50 pm |
Yeah, all the ladies like Greg
And he's going to be taking more votes from the Democratic nominee than the Republican, we all know.
David Weisman
no.
do all centipedes sting or only some of them?
All centipedes are venomous hunting carnivores, although some may be too small to matter. Millipedes are herbivores.
JR = do all centipedes sting or only some of them?
All of them have venemous bites, but the house centipede is harmless to humans.
BTW, even the garter snake has a poisonous bite.. just not going to harm a people.
And he's going to be taking more votes from the Democratic nominee than the Republican, we all know.
Past your bedtime I see.
hell, they even got poisonous kangaroos in australia
Michael Barone on Cspan2, 'Bill Clinton is a liability. Americans have not worked there way through this particular set of issues. When it appeared Hillary was finished, I heard sighs of relief from bot Republicans and Democrats.'
Bad news everyone, I just blogger about a woman whose husband is waiting for someone not in the race. They're New Yorkers, so its gotta be Bloomberg, right?
Are you talking about the US election?
you're dead to me!
plum p,
Ooops. Sorry. Well, sweet drams everyone!!!
geez, that Barone guy is stupid.
when will they *canidates(really discuss iraq ....the new efforts and focus on surge and money will not work . sunni or latter
That isn't exactly "seeing" Australian.
How do you feel about sharks?
Jellyfish. Snakes. Poisonous grasses.
now wait a minute, how do tell the diff betw a millipede and a centipede?
This comic is cooler than Kubrick's directing, and it's all true too.
hell, they even got poisonous kangaroos in australia
::matthew | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 10:53 pm | #
Not to mention the murderous koalas ...
Zapette's got Jane Eyre on now.
Zap Rowsdower
watched it last sunday. i prefer the mid-'90s film version with Charlotte Gainsbourg and William Hurt. It was darker.
That isn't exactly "seeing" Australian.
How do you feel about sharks?
Jellyfish. Snakes. Poisonous grasses.
giant crocodiles.
must decide if she is so appalled that she will end her relationship with her sis now that she knows.
TEBB
damn, that could be a screenplay...
... for those with hbo -- bill maher is back tonite at 11p
Jellyfish. Snakes. Poisonous grasses.
watertiger | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 10:54 pm | #
Poisonous GRASSES???
I've got over 30 snakes.
lipreader
Share.
Peter Beinart on Cspan2 talking too fast and too loud.
now wait a minute, how do tell the diff betw a millipede and a centipede?
The centipede is evil looking, flat, light colored, and its legs are pointy. The millipede looks like an office supply, it's fat, dark and round and its legs are contained within the armor.
Huge gas cloud will hit Milky Way
You believe that bullshit?
God won't let it happen.
How do you feel about sharks?
JR, kerosene and a match
Compared to spiders, sharks are cute and cuddly.
fit for Prince: Polaris Dust Nebula
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod...d/
ap080111.html
How do you feel about sharks?
Jellyfish. Snakes. Poisonous grasses.
giant crocodiles.
Ali
Teeny highly venemous octopuses.
The world's most toxic snake.
Drop bears.
If you smash a centipede about 20 of it's legs will keep twitching and haunt you for days.
Last 10 minutes of Animal Planet's "Animal Cops Miami" is on. This is the good part where they show you footage of the animals in their new homes with the people who adopted them and love them!
... for those with hbo -- bill maher is back tonite at 11p
nona
Oh yea, it's Friday. Thanks, you saved me from being all pissed off when Jon Stewart didn't come on in 10 minutes.
Poisonous GRASSES???
okay, I exaggerated. spinifex will cut your shit up, though.
Well, sweet drams everyone!!!
I'll probably be needing several of those now...
Compared to spiders, sharks are cute and cuddly.
doncjesuis
Give us a hug!
How do you feel about sharks?
Jellyfish. Snakes. Poisonous grasses.
giant crocodiles.
Ali
Teeny highly venemous octopuses.
The world's most toxic snake.
Drop bears.
JR, kerosene and a match |
Watery beer
One of the stupidest sci-fi/horror movies I ever saw was Mimic with Mira Sorvino. First off, the cool street hustler kids who helped her character got offed while this extremely odd kid who played spoons was saved. Just didn't seem fair.
Then you had the government scientist and an MTA security guard going into the subway tunnels where the creatures were with no hazmat suits or other protection, only a couple of glowsticks and the security guard's handgun.
Finally you had Mira Sorvino, the "hero," down in the tunnels blubbering her eyes out. I barely refrained from yelling at the screen: "Channel Ellen Ripley, damn you!"
WTF is a drop bear?
Drop bears.
They real and not just in Discworld?
kei & yuri | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 10:50 pm | #
I think that shooting lean (the one take method you describe) is what works the best.
Bill Bryson's book on Australia ("In a Sunburned Country") tells you all about the many nasty ways you can get stung, poisoned, bitten, and eaten in Oz. But it's hysterically funny. Highly recommended.
I'm gonna quote you on my blog, Barry from Alaska, if it's ok.
How do you feel about sharks?
Jellyfish. Snakes. Poisonous grasses.
giant crocodiles.
Ali
Teeny highly venemous octopuses.
The world's most toxic snake.
Drop bears.
JR, kerosene and a match |
Watery beer
Vegemite
Enough playing with facebook.
Buenas noches.
Last 10 minutes of Animal Planet's "Animal Cops Miami" is on. This is the good part where they show you footage of the animals in their new homes with the people who adopted them and love them!
TEBB
People who mistreat animals should be horsewhipped and then put in the stocks with a big sign that says "I Am Cruel To Animals" around their necks.
I would be most happy to have the horse manure and rotten tomatoes concession for those events.
They real and not just in Discworld?
Echidne
Real joke. The Australians have been warning tourists about drop bears for decades.
lipreader, Edwards supporter. | 01.11.08 - 10:57 pm | #
I thought I got that image out of my mind....now it's back.
Michael Barone on Cspan2 says he attended the Cranberry school outside Detroit.
I'm gonna quote you on my blog, Barry from Alaska, if it's ok.
Echidne
What did I say now? I just got started
Vegemite
lipreader, Edwards supporter. | 01.11.08 - 10:59 pm | #
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Uncle!
a woman whose husband is waiting for someone not in the race. They're New Yorkers, so its gotta be Bloomberg, right?
It's probably Gore. A lot of Democrats were holding out for Gore to enter the race.
Peter Beinart on Cspan2 talking too fast and too loud.
Reese Witherspoon lecturing Congress on tbs.
Ebenezer Le Page | 01.11.08 - 11:01 pm | #
Gore would have entered by now.
What did I say now? I just got started
This:why Marion Jones is going to jail and Scooter Libby isn't
Would be a good deep thought for the day
Finally you had Mira Sorvino, the "hero," down in the tunnels blubbering her eyes out. I barely refrained from yelling at the screen: "Channel Ellen Ripley, damn you!"
sister of ye
The first Batman movie?
I wanted to slap the shit out of Vicki Vale (Kim Bassinger) for the constant screaming she was doing.
WTF is a drop bear?
doncjesuis
Wikipedia
Michael Barone is a nutter.
Bill Bryson, In a Sunburned Country
Of the world's ten most poisonous snakes, all are Australian
Would be a good deep thought for the day
Echidne
Ohhhh.
You could ask the same about Martha Stewart too.
The Australians have been warning tourists about drop bears for decades.
Australian humor is a lot like making love to George W. Bush...
...fucking stupid.
Hey...peeps that know the Magnetic Fields better than me:
What's that song with the chorus: 'as I walk across town'?
I'm trying to find it. I think it was after 69 Love Songs...
why do americans hate America?
AMERICANS BOUGHT MORE Toyota Priuses last year than Ford Explorer sport-utility vehicles.
http://
articles.moneycentral.msn...rdExplorer.aspx
Honestly, the only fields we can think of where you reattempt something 100 times and are not just doing it wrong are in science and engineering where you're trying to invent or discover something. It's completely unprofessional and you can see the kind of results all the trouble gets you. If that's what it takes to win Jack Nicholson's respect well then we guess we'll never be able to borrow his hot tub to share LSD with underage crotchfruit of stage moms.
Echidne | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 11:02 pm | #
No. He's a middle of the road, bipartisan centrist who hates liberals and adore conservatives.
So may I quote you, Barry? With link, of course.
I don't really care for the Nicholson screen personna of at least the last decade.
Michael Barone on Cspan2, 'Another name I would put forward as a potential candidate is Lou Dobbs.'
Australian humor is a lot like making love to George W. Bush...
...fucking stupid.
doncjesuis, Tina Fey fan | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 11:03 pm | #
Nah ... there's a difference. Australian humor may be stupid, but making love to Bush is disgusting.
Drop bears are kind of like that SciFi channel show where the dork go chasing ghosts in the dark . . .
Wikipedia
JR, kerosene and a match
I don't really care for the Nicholson screen personna of at least the last decade.
Bobby, Who ♥ Kucinich | 01.11.08 - 11:04 pm | #
I like the Easy Rider Jack - "That was a UFO beamin' back at cha..."
AMERICANS BOUGHT MORE Toyota Priuses last year than Ford Explorer sport-utility vehicles.
The Prius is made in Idaho while the Explorer is made in Surinam.
well, it is nice of the troolies to be interested in the next President, it ain't likely to be one of *their* mutts...
nick carraway
They're not interested.
They just want attention and don't care if it's negative.
Of the world's ten most poisonous snakes, all are Australian
GeorgeM
But they aren't neccessarily dangerous.
The inland taipan, the most toxic snake, is only responisle for one death, ever, and that was someone who was handling a zoo specimen, IIRC.
rare, isolated and would rather just slither in the opposite direction from any humans.
rubs eyes, shakes off nap
who's ready to go dancing?
Wikipedia
JR, kerosene and a match
Slanties. The wild haggis is funny. Drop bears, not so much.
Hey...peeps that know the Magnetic Fields better than me:
Magnetic Fields: great, great music but I'm afraid I can't help you.
The first Batman movie?
You can pick up the ridiculously racist 1943 Batman serial collection at Big Lots for $3.
Would be a good deep thought for the day
Echidne
I agree.
someone didn't get milk & cookies before beddybye, did they...
nick carraway
Mommy forgot to get him more Cheetos.
So may I quote you, Barry? With link, of course.
Echidne
Sure, that's OK
Drop bears: Speaking of...
http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
Gore would have entered by now.
Yes, but maybe the person doesn't want to vote for anyone else. I just didn't see any reason to believe that the man is holding out for a Bloomberg candidacy just because the couple live in New York.
Local news shows Dallas cops arresting panhandlers. I'd much rather they spend their time arresting drunk drivers and patrolling my neighborhood.
There's a Cranbrook school in the northern Detroit 'burbs that's known as being elite. From that comment, I'd guess Barrone really did attend a cranberry school, however.
Luongo time I'm afraid.
See yaz later.
This:why Marion Jones is going to jail and Scooter Libby isn't
And why hasn't George Bush and Dick Cheney been impeached?
This surge anniversary is a good example. Nothing they said would happen has happened and yet, here we are a year later and the same old same old. More bombings, more killings, more wasted lives and money: illegal war, illegal use of gas, private armies, illegal detentions: and what the fuck is congress doing about it?
crickets.
Local news shows Dallas cops arresting panhandlers. I'd much rather they spend their time arresting drunk drivers and patrolling my neighborhood.
TEBB
Look on the bright side: at least they're not tasing them. Yet.
I also find it somewaht amusing that snake venom is measured in mouse units.
The inland taipan's bite is 250,000 MUs.
The first Batman movie?
Was watching it yesterday. Had to check if the firmware patch got rid of region crap on the DVD player in my computer.
It was at sea. Sea? that can only mean catwoman. See?
"no, i do wonder why he hangs around here."
No life
No friends
No brains
No shame
going to bed with nighmares of spiders. Thanks!
bonne nuit all.
I don't shed a tear for Marion Jones. How many times did she hold press conferences professing her complete innocence?
But more importantly, how many little girls was she a role model for, and then to betray them like she did?
Lunchtime!!!
http://thumbsnap.com/v/wCQbdJiG.jpg
Hey...peeps that know the Magnetic Fields better than me: What's that song with the chorus: 'as I walk across town'?
They do have a new album coming out - The Nun's Litany is pretty good.
You can pick up the ridiculously racist 1943 Batman serial collection at Big Lots for $3.
JeffCO, weirdly intolerant
Never saw it.
I've seen the Superman serial with Kurt Allyn on TCM
No Luongo tonight, Bobby. It's Sanford.
"AMERICANS BOUGHT MORE Toyota Priuses last year than Ford Explorer sport-utility vehicles."
Its sales increased 69% over the prior year. It's now Toyota's 4th best selling vehicle.
I don't really care for the Nicholson screen personna of at least the last decade.
He was terrible, completely ridiculous, in The Departed. But he was well cast for Carnal Knowledge and Terms of Endearment.
Hey...peeps that know the Magnetic Fields better than me: What's that song with the chorus: 'as I walk across town'?
Is it "I Looked All Over Town" from i?
Got a self-directed retirement plan or like small cap stocks? Buy as much as you can or will of Biosolar (BSRC) before they get UL approval of their plant-based plastic backing for solar panels. It's already gone up 3x price since I first bought a month and a half ago. Probably will double when the UL tests are through. I'm no investing expert, just sayin'. Check the 6 mo. and 1 year trends at Schwab or wherever. It's a goodun'.
Oh, never mind, here's Deee-Lite!
Thanks, Barry.
Good night and wet dreams, all.
But more importantly, how many little girls was she a role model for, and then to betray them like she did?
puppethead
And all that time, never compromised one single CIA operation.
Curse her to hades.
This:why Marion Jones is going to jail and Scooter Libby isn't
Would be a good deep thought for the day
Echidne
this makes me so sad.
marion came up just a few years behind my glory days, and i still recall feeling so proud of her, when she finished 4th or 5th in the olympic trials...as a high school student. i don't think she made the cut that year, but she reminded me of my sister so much. i'm so sorry that money has corrupted my former sport of choice. i don't even blame her for 'doping,' most athletes these days face really hard choices, and it's silly to me that it's A-OK for them to use oxygen tents and take vitamins, but not do other things that we've arbitrarily decided are "bad drugs."
seconding on the "and martha stewart too" line.
bonne nuit plum!
Just think, this is the second year in a row that we kept our wimdows open the second week in January.
But, there is no global warming!
*Sigh*
This surge anniversary is a good example. Nothing they said would happen has happened
I don't believe Bush and Cheney ever cared about Iraq meeting any benchmarks but one - signing over their oil assets to American oil companies. I cheer the Iraqis for not accomplishing that one.
They continued to have their excuse to cut back on domestic civil liberties, made money hand over fist and had enough explosions to maintain their little hard-ons. Mission accomplished.
maher's done 10 straight minutes mocking and bashing hillary clinton.
I think you're right, JeffCo.
Thanks.
maher's done 10 straight minutes mocking and bashing hillary clinton.
nona
Bill Maher is a misogynistic jackass.
I hate his attitude towards women.
maher's done 10 straight minutes mocking and bashing hillary clinton.
nona
It's the necktie, makes him feel all punditish.
Bill Maher,'Obama said in his book he loves to do drugs.'
Okay, I've had enough of spiders, drop bears and poisonous grass for ce soir.
Good night and spider-free dreams everyone
A coworker bought a Honda Insight a few years ago. Basically a two-seater. The Prius is way way better.
Bill Maher is a misogynistic jackass.
I hate his attitude towards women.
Terry C - Edwards 2008 | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 11:14 pm | #
Took the words I was trying to type right outta my fingers.
You can pick up the ridiculously racist 1943 Batman serial collection at Big Lots for $3.
Was that the one where Batman has a press conference with a family tree sort of diagram documenting the crime organizations, and his car looks like ... a car?
Terry C - Edwards 2008 | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 11:14 pm | #
The smug, know it all attitude doesn't help either.
Lunchtime!!!
GeorgeM
I like this one better
Safe. Does not contain any spiders, scorpions, snakes, centipedes, solfugids, or millipedes.
He was terrible, completely ridiculous, in The Departed. But he was well cast for Carnal Knowledge and Terms of Endearment.
Ebenezer Le Page
I love the scene in Carnal Knowledge where he's going off on Ann Margret:
"I'M taken by ME!"
I think you're right, JeffCo. Thanks. Zap Rowsdower
It's a good album - all the songs start with the letter i. I got to see them when it came out. Great show.
"I'M taken by ME!"
Terry C - Edwards 2008 | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 11:16 pm | #
That was played on a loop on Stern in the 1990s
And all that time, never compromised one single CIA operation.
Conflating two unrelated things is good GOP trollie talking point behavior, but it's completely irrelevant.
Might as well ask why bank robbers are going to prison while murderous governments still exist. The connection doesn't exist.
Terry C - Edwards 2008 | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 11:14 pm | #
The smug, know it all attitude doesn't help either.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin
An member of this community once said "smug white asshole really isn't funny."
See, also: Miller, Dennis
Maher was a big one in 2001 on the "get over it" bandwagon. He lost me completely then. Fine if occasionally he gets something right - stopped clocks and all - but he has no credibility for me.
He was terrible, completely ridiculous, in The Departed. But he was well cast for Carnal Knowledge and Terms of Endearment.
Ebenezer Le Page
Nobody has ordered toast like he did in "5 Easy Pieces", that was the best ever.
Bill Maher confronting citizens of Iowa. This is a solid piece of comedy.
See, also: Miller, Dennis
Terry C - Edwards 2008 | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 11:17 pm | #
I've always hated Miller, even when he was "hip" in the 1990's. Ugh....
Smarm personified.
Nobody has ordered toast like he did in "5 Easy Pieces"
thank you for the 'tree octopus' link. that's so cool, and i didn't know about them.
is anyone else really, really tired of "batman?" i mean, there are only about 10000000 graphic novels and comix to choose from; are americans really so brain dead that we need another bloated, corporate movie franchise on a subject who's been feted since the 40s?
the old men making "comics" movies are so out of touch. wake up stan, no one wants to be "supergirl" or "black vulcan" anymore, yo.
Bill Maher to 7 year old girl, 'Don't shit a shitter.'
JR, kerosene and a match--
Mantises are kinda creepy. Their head swivels around to watch you. If you get too close, they'll attack.
Bill Maher confronting citizens of Iowa. This is a solid piece of comedy.
june
Errrr..... that was behind the studio in the Farmers Market, Los Angeles.
No snow was the give away.
It's hard out there for a woman both uppity and honest.
thank you for the 'tree octopus' link.
Check out where the link comes from!
What is the point of "get over it"?
s anyone else really, really tired of "batman?"
Batman, Superman, Spiderman... All good Jewish boys.
But yeah. Overload.
Alright, I'm losing concentration on account of the Simpsons and the cats and the booze.
Goodnight, folks!
"Nobody has ordered toast like he did in "5 Easy Pieces", that was the best ever."
Careful. That was a misogynistic scene.
I've hated Bill Maher and his self-indulgent libertarian me-ism since Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death.
Jack Nicholson is just too much of a Christian Slater rip off for me.
I'm seeing Cloverfield on Tuesday - cool
This is cute.
Am I the only trying to get in and out without touching anything?
"is anyone else really, really tired of "batman?""
Not at all.
Mantises are kinda creepy. Their head swivels around to watch you. If you get too close, they'll attack.
GeorgeM
Well, it's more of a "back off, jack!".
I love playing with wolf spiders tht way, they'll rear up and follow a pencil tip. It's so cute when they rub their chelicerae together.
I really cannot stand Jack Nicholson. The ONLY movie I ever actually enjoyed that he was in was about werewolves and costarred Michelle Pfieffer (And I really like her) But I don't remember the name of the movie - but it was decent)
In general, he just overacts the same role over and over)
The centipede is evil looking, flat, light colored, and its legs are pointy. The millipede looks like an office supply, it's fat, dark and round and its legs are contained within the armor.
Then the centipedes are the ones that I hate, give me the heebie-jeebies. Millipedes curl up in a ball, kinda cute.
Check out where the link comes from!
Ooooopppssss! It's not obvious from my link.
Got it from Conservapedia.
An endless source of guffahs!
Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death.
puppethead | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 11:21 pm | #
Was he really in that?
I remember him in a Married with Children episode.
no one wants to be "supergirl" or "black vulcan" anymore, yo.
I didn't exactly want to *be* Helen Slater....
"Nobody has ordered toast like he did in "5 Easy Pieces", that was the best ever."
That waitress WAS a pain in the ass, wasn't she?
In general, he just overacts the same role over and over
True, but what about his early days? One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?
here's a Cranbrook school in the northern Detroit 'burbs that's known as being elite
or as we used to call at DCD: "Crackbrook." heh.
cranbrook: spoiled, old money kids pretending to be new money
ligett: old money pretending to be east coast establishment money
roper: where all the good drugs were
DCD: home of those who actually studied, as well as girl's high school track and field coach of the year! and with more black, brown and yellow people than any other private school in the metro area. almost worth the 12K/yr in 86. because of the 100% college acceptance rates for grads, dog.
...sorry, old high school habits die hard.
Maybe it was a scene about a misogynist rather than a misogynistic scene.
DWD - Yuppie Hollow Guru | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 11:22 pm | #
Have you seen The Passenger, Antonioni's film? Nicholson is excellent in that, and incredibly subdued.
An understated performance that works brilliantly in the film.
Building your self esteem and learning to love yourself isn't all that difficult, but it does take effort on your part. Start by realizing that no amount of downing another person will resolve whatever issues are plaguing you. To try and berate others doesn't hurt anyone but you. It only keeps you in the cycle of low self esteem and prevents you from healing and loving yourself.
I've hated Bill Maher and his self-indulgent libertarian me-ism since Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death.
puppethead
His slobbering all over Ann Coulter...ugh!
Check out where the link comes from!/i>
Wait, someone took that seriously?
I still want the ribbon magnets.
As a former nightshift diner waitress, I don't find the toast scene in 5 ez pieces amusing AT ALL.
Was that the one where Batman has a press conference with a family tree sort of diagram documenting the crime organizations, and his car looks like ... a car?
Iknow it's hard to appreciate these days, but there was a war on, and people were actually expected to make sacrifices. The Batmobile was fighting the Gerries.
There are many different kinds in the area where I work. Only one (excepting the black widow) rears up , prepared to fight. The rest run away.
Might as well ask why bank robbers are going to prison while murderous governments still exist. The connection doesn't exist.
puppethead
Actually, it works for me. Moral equivalency works for me for this reason. When George Bush decided to go to war with Iraq it was necessary for him to break laws to do so. He did not have the right to go to war without break laws. Bank robbers break laws. George Bush breaks laws. There is no excuse for breaking laws. There is NO interpretation here. Releasing partial information. Lying to Congress. Faking information. These are treasonous acts and CRIMES.
Same thing.
Have you seen The Passenger, Antonioni's film? Nicholson is excellent in that, and incredibly subdued.
I was just thinking that - saw it a couple years ago.
aangus, i thought that was too cool to be true. still, i love the idea- octopuses are as smart and sensitive as dogs, i'm told.
i don't eat them at sushi places anymore, after i heard that.
econ- of course you're not. because you're lame.
As a former nightshift diner waitress, I don't find the toast scene in 5 ez pieces amusing AT ALL.
Karin
You probably would have just sold him some toast and been done with it.
Only one (excepting the black widow) rears up , prepared to fight. The rest run away.
GeorgeM
Oh, if they see the pencil tip and don't notice you, they don't realize that it's not potential food/mate/rival. It's not really looking to fight you, it's just the pencil tip is more its size.
Same thing.
DWD - Yuppie Hollow Guru
I agree. But my point is you don't let bank robbers get away with it just because Bush can. You need to figure out how to fix the system so Bush faces justice as well.
I liked Jack in Ironweed
OT: For some reason this song by the Hives really resonates with me right now...
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okay, okay, i'll bite: what are you pissed about tonight WalterNeff?
For some reason this song by the Hives really resonates with me
Look for them to break out this year.
aangus, i thought that was too cool to be true. still, i love the idea- octopuses are as smart and sensitive as dogs, i'm told.
I wouldn't say that they are as smart as dogs.
great white sharks are at least as smart as rats, and we keep then as pets. Well, people other than I keep them as pets.
You probably would have just sold him some toast and been done with it.
Well yeah, there is that.
JeffCO, weirdly intolerant | 01.11.08 - 11:27 pm | #
Just came out on DVD in a restored, special edition.
It was the last film I saw in a theater in Chicago before I moved, if that has any significance. Probably just for me.
econ- of course you're not. because you're lame.
Ooh.
anybody remember the movie 'dc cab'? maher was basically himself in that one.
funny fucking movie.
Easy Rider
Chinatown
Look for them to break out this year.
Faith Popcorn, is that you?
Gov Huckabee, when your daughter is screaming in pain from the breast cancer that has spread into her bones, do you want a witch doctor clasping his hands and squinching his eyes while he mumbles 3000 year old spells over her writhing body or do want a Doctor whose scientific training included the theory of evolution as a matter of simple reality.
You grinning dick.
nicholson is reputed to have the biggest (white) cock in hollywood. fwiw. i liked him in his earlier stuff, cuckoo's nest in particular. older jack? feh. although i could see him and mom having some formerly-hip geezer fun in the sack, he's just her type.
maher? exactly what's wrong with political "discourse" today. why do we care what he says, again? oh, that's right- because he's on TeeVee, and other people on teevee say he's "a liberal." because we all know "liberals" are sexist, smug pigs who care more about playing 'gotcha' with guests than policy analysis, history, ideology, etc.
so long as bill and his ilk "represent" us, we're doomed.
DWD- i hear you, bro. we really need to hook up sometime, you and the wife and kidz and whatnot. perhaps at the next MI atriotic gathering, or suchlike.
"okay, okay, i'll bite: what are you pissed about tonight WalterNeff?"
He didn't clear the telephone wire.
The Bush junta always makes me think of Sheriff Fatman.
Well Maher tonight... I'd like to hear more from Marc Cuban, but Pony Blow is gonna hog the time with blathering and talking points.
jack was excellent in 'something's gotta give'.
Jack just wants his toast!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6w...h?
v=6wtfNE4z6a8
Kei went to Roper for one year (too expensive). It has the coolest campus of any school in the state, with geodesic domes (one of these is the gym), lots of Nature with a capital N, and a creepy white house on a hill for the administration. The playground has a Trojan horse. The science teaching was amazing.
JR, kerosene and a match
Is this a wolf spider? It's lost a leg.
http://thumbsnap.com/v/jwzdwBea.jpg
ChiDy - I'm a city kid and never knew any of the private school kids. I knew some kids who went to Catholic high schools, but not the "elite" ones.
I went to Cass Tech and had a wonderful time. I just wish I'd been able to do something with my life that lived up to my time there.
Pony Blow is gonna hog the time with blathering and talking points.
Chripes, he's still alive?
Look for them to break out this year.
JeffCO, weirdly intolerant
I've always admired their energy... reminds me of my early twenties...
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Maher has unhealthy fixations on Anne Coulter and Camille Paglia.
do you want a witch doctor
Familiar with the Church of Christ, Scientist? They don't believe in medicine, figure God will heal them.
Same thing as witch doctors, but with crucifixes.
Look for them to break out this year.
JeffCO, weirdly intolerant
But I always waited for the Ramones to "break out" too...
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Trolls seem to have a long half-life.
Chripes, he's still alive?
Terry C - Edwards 2008
Was sleeping when the "bring out your dead" wagon went by.
Gov Huckabee, when your daughter is screaming in pain from the breast cancer that has spread into her bones, do you want a witch doctor clasping his hands and squinching his eyes while he mumbles 3000 year old spells over her writhing body or do want a Doctor whose scientific training included the theory of evolution as a matter of simple reality.
You grinning dick.
gullycat
What a disgusting excuse for a human being.
"Familiar with the Church of Christ, Scientist? They don't believe in medicine, figure God will heal them."
Silly them. Without the pharmaceutical industry, we'd all get sick and die immediately.
Easy Rider
Chinatown
Econ 102
I rest my fucking case.
Republican Coins.
http://blip.tv/file/520347
Very funny infomercial spoof.
Building your self esteem and learning to love yourself isn't all that difficult, but it does take effort on your part. Start by realizing that no amount of downing another person will resolve whatever issues are plaguing you. To try and berate others doesn't hurt anyone but you. It only keeps you in the cycle of low self esteem and prevents you from healing and loving yourself.
Econ 102 | 01.11.08 - 11:25 pm | #
let me try that out:
I need a new job say nothing about Utah mine owners I need a new job say nothing about depleted uranium I need a new job say nothing about contra death squads
When fundies are sick, they ALWAYS go to the hospital, not the church. Funny, that.
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Maher has unhealthy fixations on Anne Coulter and Camille Paglia.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin ''
(Shudder)
CD,
Yes, we seem to have an awful lot in common, don't we? (I mean, even besides the Greenville thing)
Oh, my aching head.
I wouldn't say that they are as smart as dogs.
this comes from a pro diver/marine biologist friend of mine. he's recounted many tales of playing with them, as well as one he kept in his home for a while. perhaps dogs are smarter, but anything that is "playful" with humans must be too sentient for me to feel comfortable eating.
I agree. But my point is you don't let bank robbers get away with it just because Bush can.
strawman. how is taking suppliments to win in a sporting event in any way on the same moral/ethical plane as bank robbing? she hurt no one. it's wrong that she goes to jail for what is essentially nothing more than breaking an arbitrary rule in a sporting environment. racism plays a role in all this too, i'm sure.
Trolls seem to have a long half-life.
Shhhhhh!
"I rest my fucking case."
What's your "case" this evening? Last night it was the belief that we should jack up interest rates.
Is this a wolf spider? It's lost a leg.
Looks like one of the wolf spiders, but I can't see how many eyes it has.
Wolf spiders have eight eyes in three rows.
oh, and i can't spell. but you knew that.
Chripes, he's still alive?
Terry C - Edwards 2008
Was sleeping when the "bring out your dead" wagon went by.
Barry from Alaska
THEY didn't even want him.
Thanks for the nudibranch blogging plug, ChiDyke!
Trippi just nailed all the reporters covering the campaign, "These guys can run any shit up the pole, and the reporters will repeat it."
Silly them. Without the pharmaceutical industry, we'd all get sick and die immediately.
Econ 102
Not bad for someone who is always complaining about other people jumping to conclusions (otherwise known as "strawmen")
These guys can run any shit up the pole
NO KIDDING!
I switched on Maher for a couple of minutes.
Pony Blow is still a sleazy, arrogant little fuck.
good evening.
saw a great exhibit tonight of an east german ceramics artist (clay)-
born and raised in dresden- teenager by end of world war 2- saw the destruction of her city- etc...
stayed in 'east' germany- created sculptures of people etc...using old pieces of glass/crockery/wire etc with clay
gorgeous fragmented expressively realistic and not realistic art
Maher making the only relevant point about the surge. That if it was a success it's because of the firing of Rumsfeld, which was because of the 2006 election. And that it took Bush 5 years to make one necessary adjustment.
Why are comics/commentators of Maher's ilk so smug and condescending?
Perhaps the age old adage of self-loathing.
I've always admired their energy... reminds me of my early twenties...
Saw The Kooks a few weeks ago - those kids had the youthful energy.
maher is smug cuz he's raking in the dough and he's '''famous'''....
Econ (in need of remediation)
As my friend Steve often says,
Just blow me, okay?
Jack just wants his toast!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6w...h? v=6wtfNE4z6a8
Terry C - Edwards 2008
Is that an edited version? Because I remember something about Jack telling her to "hold it" between her knees or something... at least that's the bleeped TV version I remember seeing as a kid. But I could be wrong. Memory's funny that way.
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Hey, Barry, you actually home tonight?
maher is smug cuz he's raking in the dough and he's '''famous'''....
no no nsense | 01.11.08 - 11:43 pm | #
I think he was probably smug before he started makin' some dough.
Why are comics/commentators of Maher's ilk so smug and condescending?
Perhaps the age old adage of self-loathing.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin
Smug, condescending and very UNfunny.
I just read the story. So Marion Jones is being separated from her 4 4 yo child, & a 7mo baby,that she is still mursing, because she took fucking flaxseed oil?
Oh excuse me, not for that, but for lying about it to investigators. Will Bush pardon her?
"Not bad for someone who is always complaining about other people jumping to conclusions (otherwise known as "strawmen")"
"Always" complaining? I'd say that's not accurate. I point out strawmen when they arise, much like you were right to point out the one I just made.
It was more to respond to the strawman that believing in the body's inherent ability to heal itself is the same as going to a witch doctor.
Saw The Kooks a few weeks ago - those kids had the youthful energy.
Those wacky kidz. Loves The Kooks.
MisterX | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 11:43 pm | #
He told her to hold the chicken between her knees. That's the original version.
Will Bush pardon her?
Karin
Of course not.
She's not a rich, white Repugnican male who kisses his ass.
Hey, Barry, you actually home tonight?
aangus
Yea, got home about 1 am this morning.
Easy enough semi annual simulator check ride, did some successful politicking for a "check airman" position.
Then got drunk, and told off all the current check airmen just how they had managed to keep their jobs, so *poof* all the politicking for naught.
Just blow me, okay?
DWD
Most excellent. Please, get in the habit of saying this.
I just read the story. So Marion Jones is being separated from her 4 4 yo child, & a 7mo baby,that she is still mursing, because she took fucking flaxseed oil?
Oh excuse me, not for that, but for lying about it to investigators. Will Bush pardon her?
Karin | 01.11.08 - 11:44 pm | #
good god.
a lie about a supplement.
who cares.
Took the 8-Year-Old to a minor league hockey game tonight. Whooo-hooo! Fuckin' great.
Jack just wants his toast!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6w...h? v=6wtfNE4z6a8
Terry C
fuck people like that.
look- don't give your waitress/waiter a hard time because they can't bring you "exactly" what you want. if you want something specific to your personal hangups, stay home and cook it yourself.
waitresses don't cook, and they don't make the menu. they *do* have to put up with threats from managers, who will get all over their asses if they so much as attempt to accomodate some fucked in the head self important customer who wants to add expensive, time consuming extras onto their orders. seriously, it's a lose-lose situation for food servers, and scenes like that just piss me off. he didn't eat anything, he didn't tip her...who does he think is going to clean up after his little temper tantrum? and how is she going to make any money, while no customers sit at that booth now that's he's trashed it in his hissy fit?
/former waitress wrath/
being in food service is as stressful as being in the infantry. no, really. it is.
I think he was probably smug before he started makin' some dough.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin | 01.11.08 - 11:44 pm | #
note to self:
consider 'smugness' as a lifestyle choice...
riches may follow!
It was more to respond to the strawman that believing in the body's inherent ability to heal itself is the same as going to a witch doctor.
Econ 102
That's not what Christian Scientists believe, even though it is also wrong.
Oh excuse me, not for that, but for lying about it to investigators.
RULE OF LAW!!!!! RULE OF LAW!!!! /Apoplectic Henry Hyde
Yea, got home about 1 am this morning.
How dat "pirate" doing?
a lie about a supplement.
There was also the lying about a check kiting ring. You know, obstruction of justice.
I think if Maher's show was allowed to become a free for all, Cuban would take Pony Blow to pieces in 5 minutes.
Just what I think.
no no nsense | 01.11.08 - 11:47 pm | #
People mistake smug for smart a lot these days. Maher's fans, for one.
I'm tired of smug, know it all comics/commentators.
jack nicholson ordering toast was just a metaphor.
not really a license to make life hell for waitresses.
just a metaphor.
(unless I'm deluding myself-- in which case GET ME THE FUCKING GRAPE JUICE WITH 12 STRAWS YES 12!!!)
"she hurt no one."
What about her teammates in the relays in which she got medals?
"I just read the story. So Marion Jones is being separated from her 4 4 yo child, & a 7mo baby,that she is still mursing, because she took fucking flaxseed oil? "
No, she's going to prison for perjury and check fraud.
Saw The Kooks a few weeks ago - those kids had the youthful energy.
JeffCO, weirdly intolerant
Well, that was pretty enjoyable! Thanks!
How about Sons and Daughters - Gilt Complex? Pretty cool...
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How dat "pirate" doing?
aangus
She's doing just fine, was the first kitty to say hello when I got home.
People mistake smug for smart a lot these days. Maher's fans, for one.
I'm tired of smug, know it all comics/commentators.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin
I DID like what he said about the neo-cons and their "creepy" obsession with Reagan.
No, she's going to prison for perjury and check fraud.
Econ 102
Perjury, same as Scooter.
Only Scooter got to attend another Xmas Dinner.
This is a really good example of British Sea Power, if you like that sort of thing.
was the first kitty to say hello when I got home.
Say no more.
I hate it, too, when it's time to sentence rich and/or connected crooks who really fuck up the country or rip off millions, and pundits wring their hands and talk about how they and their families have suffered enough. Excuse me?! You've screwed up the lives of thousands or even millions, and you want sympathy?
Somehow "you should't have done the crime if you couldn't do the time" never seems to apply to them.
I'm tired of smug, know it all comics/commentators.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin | 01.11.08 - 11:48 pm | #
yep I knows whats you means!
people who would never ever hear Dylan's song 'Idiot Wind' and think..........'hmmm......me?'
Terry C - Edwards 2008 | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 11:49 pm | #
The neocons/GOP/DLC have a secret programme that's attempting to clone Reagan.
Barry:
Then he would catch hell for picking on a "sick" man.
"Econ (in need of remediation) As my friend Steve often says, Just blow me, okay?"
So I guess Professor Wombat, who shares my position, is in need of remediation as well? Should the good doctor "blow" you as well?
Being wrong isn't a problem. Not being able to admit to it is.
if it say no comments, can i still claim first?
pretzelattack
u can haz frist
The neocons/GOP/DLC have a secret programme that's attempting to clone Reagan.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin
That wouldn't surprise me.
Peggy Noonan is STILL waiting for his glorious resurrection.
karin- the state just lurvs separating black wimminz from their chillens! any excuse is a-ok, esp if those wimmin have been financially and socially successful!
flax seed oil. fuck. some kid's life is going to be ruined b/c of this. but nevermind, she's a lying whore!!!1! or something.
nono s: links are always nice. got any?
i dont know anything about flaxseed oil or cheque 'kiting' or whatever she did but unless it's pretty fucking serious there's no reason to take her from her baby.
jesus. what's wrong with 'house arrest?'
Night all.
Peace, I swear it's not too late.
I think he was probably smug before he started makin' some dough.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin
It's pretty easy to be smug, as we all are here too, when talking about Bushco et al.
We've called em wrong on every decision they have made, and been proven right.
Smugness, I'll take it for now.
Lee Hazlewood is playing....The Girls in Paris..
I would change the title to The Girls Always Smile in Paris.
They don't, but I like it anyway.
Hee, Cuban just hit the creator of the Big Shitpile and Countrywide.
People mistake smug for smart a lot these days.
I'm still smarting over my smug "Hives breaking out" comment.
He told her to hold the chicken between her knees. That's the original version.
Janeane The Acerbic Goblin
YES! That's it. Thanks!
Oh, and I waited professionally for four years at a fine hotel, so I have that going for me.
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People mistake smug for smart a lot these days. Maher's fans, for one.
Verily. I think the toast/diner rudeness to the help in 5 Easy Pieces, was borne of something deeper than water-cooler jocularity. Or was supposed to, anyway.
Plus, the waitress was kinda bitchy too, IIRC.
Tony Snow says the reason John Edwards message isn't selling is because it's false.
Minor league hockey is the shit.
Dealing with food service customers ought to pay more. As in most service jobs, no one knows what you do and all they're sure of is that they're better. A lot of Desis, coming as they do from a country with modern day slavery, expect to be able to demand all kinds of things. Brainless white rich twits ask for things for the sake of Being Commanding without understanding what they're asking for. Passive aggressive hausfrau bitches look for a way to get you fired and speak in incomprehensible sneering implications that never quite go anywhere honest, like the narration on Desperate Housewives. Angry drunken men demand things like they're about to cut you.
Why are comics/commentators of Maher's ilk so smug and condescending?
Could never figure out the right posters on the wall thai stick combo to get their ugly asses laid in 1971?
ROCKING ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 0400 EST
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Thers | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 11:53 pm | #
Old time hockey....
i'd like to hear that lee hazelwood song.
he did some good stuff.
speaking of which: I rarely hear
'just walk away renee'
by the left banke
but love that song
TonySnow says every metric shows the economy is booming.
"jesus. what's wrong with 'house arrest?'"
It is a little hard to get a two bedroom ranchette with curb appeal into a holding cell.
Tony Snow says the reason John Edwards message isn't selling is because it's false.
cow
jack:
Pony Blow will go to his grave parroting right bullshit and lies.
jesus. what's wrong with 'house arrest?'
no no nsense
Prosecutors did ask for 0-6 months, her judge went for the maximum.
Tony Snow says the reason John Edwards message isn't selling is because it's false.
Tony Snow, the man brave enough to defend us from Kwanzaa.
This one's for me & Terry C & Monica.
"I will tell you that when I said Jersey girls will pump gas, (my staff) couldn't answer the phones,'' fast enough, Corzine said.
Gov. Jon S. Corzine expects to get an earful when he holds his first public meeting Saturday on his plan to increase tolls to solve state fiscal problems.
The most complaints ever received by Corzine's office related to the case of Congo, a Princeton dog ordered to be euthanized after mauling a gardener. The office received more than 10,000 communications trying to save the dog.
The office also received about 5,000 calls as part of an organized state worker protest when the governor refused to close state government on the day after Thanksgiving.
""On the days it was organized, you knew that,'' Corzine said of the state worker effort. "But even that wasn't the level of Congo the dog and none of them even got
close to Jersey girls pump gas.''
Man, Pony lives on a different planet, I hope Duncan is catching all of this.
"ROCKING ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 0400 EST"
Does this mean Duncan is actually posting real music?
"Perjury"
Yes, she denied doing what she was accused of. Which, in a civilised country, should be any defendant's right.
Crime of the fucking century.
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I'm not known for being smug. More typically. I am praised for my amiable perspicacity.
The language people need to outlaw "metric" being clumsily used by citizens of countries that aren't on the metric system.
Hee, Cuban just hit the creator of the Big Shitpile and Countrywide.
Alan Greenspan? I was surprised to hear the money show on NPR today have someone rip into Greenspan for creating the mess. They were defending Helicopter Ben, saying Greenspan caused the problem.
Oh, and favorite movie waitress line of all time:
From FIRE WALK WITH ME
"Wanna hear about our specials? We don't HAVE any specials."
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How about Sons and Daughters - Gilt Complex? Pretty cool...
I like Sons and Daughters, but no more kids since Daddy's Gone.
Jesus.
Here are three better things to do than talk to Econ 102.
marion jones: iranian agent
story at 10:00
EkCenTriK: Does this mean Duncan is actually posting real music?
Is this another in the series of "Simple Answers..."?
Someone got a towel? Thers left his perspicacity on the weight bench, again.
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There was also the lying about a check kiting ring. You know, obstruction of justice.
puppethead
justice. right.
it's "justice" to spend all that time and effort going after someone because she "stained" the "pure" reputation of sports on teevee. don't kid yourself, that's why they are going after her, and also b/c some aggresive prosecutor need to run for DA or the like.
c'mon- are you really ok with this expenditure of your tax dollars? do you really think that there is no political/racial/self serving motivation behind going after her? do you think there are no other "crime" in that area more worthy of attention?
cough, brittney gets off all the time and keeps her kids, cough.
this is why i hate money in sports. no one would've cared, if not for the money behind the teevee narrative created about her. but no! we can't have bob hostas (sp) looking bad after doing an hbo sports special on her, no no. she Must Be Punished.
MisterX | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 11:56 pm | #
I actually liked that film a bit. Most despised it.
"That's not what Christian Scientists believe, even though it is also wrong."
Semantics. They believe in using prayer to heal, which still doesn't change the fact that they believe in their God-given body to take care of itself without medicine.
They also don't forbid the use of medicine, contrary to popular notions.
"I will tell you that when I said Jersey girls will pump gas, (my staff) couldn't answer the phones,'' fast enough, Corzine said.
I've only lived in NJ for the past 11 years (originally from Philly) and I don't drive so I won't be pumping gas.
Maher says he loves his writers and says we need unions more than ever BUT an atmosphere of threats and violence has taken over Hollywood due to the unions.
cough, brittney gets off all the time and keeps her kids, cough.
She lost her kids.
NOT that K Fed having them is any great improvement.
cow | 01.11.08 - 11:57 pm | #
Nice way to triangulate, Bill.
"Most excellent. Please, get in the habit of saying this."
Good idea. DWD clearly can't defend her ideas when challenged.
Peace, I swear, it's not too late.
http://video.google.ca/videoplay...earch&
plindex=2
Maher says he loves his writers and says we need unions
Maher is very, very rich.
You have to listen to what he says, knowing that he is very, very rich.
I'm not known for being smug. More typically. I am praised for my amiable perspicacity.
Thers | Homepage | 01.11.08 - 11:56 pm | # [kill][hide comment]
You are also exceedingly retiary, in my view.
Thers is just waiting for some high sticking. Same reason he loves Nascar.
Tony Snow says we live in an age of unglued people.
"Perjury, same as Scooter.
Only Scooter got to attend another Xmas Dinner."
Two wrongs make a right?
Firefly marathon
They believe in using prayer to heal, which still doesn't change the fact that they believe in their God-given body to take care of itself without medicine.
They also don't forbid the use of medicine, contrary to popular notions.
Econ 102
Actually, they believe that the body is an illusion, and that illness is a projection of a failure of the spirit.
Mark Cuban says tax the rich don't tax the corporations.
When did DWD have a sex change?
Tony Snow says we live in an age of unglued people.
Starting with Bush and Cheney.
jack, why do you think it's necessary to give a running commentary on whatever you're watching?
We CAN see and hear.
Seriously, if George W. Bush wasn't the President, and a scion of a very wealthy family, he'd be fucked.
When did DWD have a sex change?
watertiger
I was wondering about that myself.
Fuck off, jack.
Perhaps he'd be a more well