Massive prior no-Pope confusion x-post....
Oz is the highest-scoring person ever to fail to graduate.
Willow ,'Him'
Natter 34: Freak With No Name
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Apr 19, 2005 7:34:18 am PDT #6876 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Fred Pete - Apr 19, 2005 7:35:12 am PDT #6877 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
(ETA: Eh, bell-related snark really not worth it.)
Emily - Apr 19, 2005 7:35:54 am PDT #6878 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
You'll talk about math, and I will slounge and say, "Huh." And then we will let ita fight crime for us.
Can we kick some heads, too?
Susan W. - Apr 19, 2005 7:36:39 am PDT #6879 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I knew that McKinley was assassinated because I did Scholar's Bowl all through middle and high school, and we tried to learn interesting factoids that came in fours, because they were popular bonus questions. (Lincoln, Kennedy, and Garfield being the other three. And I had to look up Garfield just now.)
Daisy Jane - Apr 19, 2005 7:37:39 am PDT #6880 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Wasn't he also the one who screened Birth of a Nation on the lawn?
amych - Apr 19, 2005 7:37:46 am PDT #6881 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
And I had to look up Garfield just now.
I remember this one because of Johnny Cash.
brenda m - Apr 19, 2005 7:37:59 am PDT #6882 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Also they mention it [McKinley assasination] in the opening of Canadian Bacon as one of Niagra's (I think) few claims to fame.
Edited to make sense.
Topic!Cindy - Apr 19, 2005 7:38:35 am PDT #6883 of 10001
What is even happening?
The date stamp on ita's link indicates exactly what amych said. Think it was the first vote this morning.
Yes. But the text states it happened on Monday, which was the 18th.
Posted April 19, 2005 10:42am
There was confusion Monday in the Vatican as cardinals gathered to select a new pope.
Thousands of people thought they saw 'white smoke,' the signal of a successful vote.
But the smoke later turned black, signaling the conclave will resume tomorrow.
I'm calling it for Ratzinger. I have no actual clue, but it was too quick for me to think it could be anyone else. I don't suppose tommyrot's Marian apparition means it's Chicago's own Andrew Greeley (who's not a cardinal anyhow which already makes it highly unlikely, never mind his liberalism and Americanism).
Betsy HP - Apr 19, 2005 7:38:48 am PDT #6884 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
t re-confuses ita
tommyrot - Apr 19, 2005 7:38:54 am PDT #6885 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
OK, who were all the presidents that survived assassination attempts?
Reagan and Ford come to mind, but I think there were a couple in the 19th century.