raquel - I will be sending you an email. I have friends that are headed to greece and have some questions... but I won't be sending it until after 10 am board time.

thank you, moderates on both sides of the aisle, for avoiding the craxy

Dobson is going to be soooo pissed off.

If you just were in New Orleans you would appreciate the weather in New York.

I bet. Like when I went to San Francisco a couple of Augusts ago -- after a hot hot NYC summer, it was GREAT to be in 50s SF.

Once again, it's supposed to be rainy and in the 50s in DC.

This is not late May weather.

Dobson is going to be soooo pissed off.

He's blaming Frist (for caving in) along with the moderates. Yes James, please, burn those bridges - the quicker the better.

I Hate Dimes

Dimes are the stupidest form of currency ever invented. This web site is dedicated to my utter hatred for Dimes. My goal is to eliminate Dimes from society. I ask that you send me all your Dimes so that I can use them to fund an anti-Dime movement.

The Cambodian midget mutilation link is a Fakey McFakeypants of Fraudsville, which the creators themselves admitted -- they got so much flak for what they meant to be a private joke shared among three or four people (yes, just three or four people. On the internets. They were possibly a wee bit delusional.) that they've since changed the header from bbc.co.uk to FAKEbbc.co.uk, but apparently the original version is still out there in force.

Anyhow, no actual midgets were mutilated. It was all just a bunch of goofy craxy metastasizing from a fierce cavemen-vs.-astronauts type quarrel about angry lions and four dozen midget martial artists.

Aw, tavella, how inexpressibly irritating. You're in good company, though; at least one of the very finest Buffistas in Buffista history has been banned from TWOP for an equally eye-rolly infraction.

Ah, gods, Raquel, Greek sunsets are ravishing, and your description even more so. And the history, so much of it often borne so lightly and easily; some places accumulate so many centuries, so much life, that instead of crushing you with all that history they slide right into timelessness, and standing in them looking out is like floating in the heart of time. So amazing.

Stoopid young baby U.S., and little zygote California.

Ach, Lyra, much, much jobma to you. How disheartening and frustrating. From what you've said before, it sounds like this job was much better, less grinding and awful than your previous job; may this lead you to something better still. But even so, gah, how frustrating in the short term. All kinds of -ma to you.

I was just talking the other day about how dimes were so much more aesthetically pleasing than nickels, because their size more closely approximates their value. Nickels suck! Dimes rule!

And I'm sure I'm not the only person who would be pleased to see the last of pennies.

Nickels are totally the worst coins ever. Who could work up a hate-on for dimes when NICKELS still plague us?????

Yeah, I like dimes much more than nickles. Except digging out dimes from a pocketfull of change can be annoying, as the dimes tend to be almost invisible between pennies and nickles.

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