Can we take away Tom Delay's bad crack and ship him to Iraq, where he'll travel WITHOUT full military escort in armor plated vehicles and body armor? 'Cause it might be fun.
Wesley: Illyria can be...difficult. Testing her might be hard without getting someone seriously hurt. Angel: We'll make Spike do it. Wesley: Good.
'Underneath'
Natter 36: But We Digress...
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.
Cashmere - Jun 22, 2005 2:07:02 pm PDT #3886 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
DXMachina - Jun 22, 2005 2:10:18 pm PDT #3887 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I wonder if L. Ron goes/went by that name because of Tolkien's Elrond.
IIRC, L. Ron had been published years before before LotR was published.
The funny thing about the flag burning amendment is that the preferred way to discard an old flag is to burn it.
DavidS - Jun 22, 2005 2:14:28 pm PDT #3888 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The funny thing about the flag burning amendment is that the preferred way to discard an old flag is to burn it.
Skipper.
megan walker "Natter 36: But We Digress..." Jun 22, 2005 3:39:36 pm PDT
Steph L. - Jun 22, 2005 2:16:49 pm PDT #3889 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
The funny thing about the flag burning amendment is that the preferred way to discard an old flag is to burn it.
There's a very specific, proscribed, almost ritualized way to burn an old flag -- you don't just fling it in a fire pit with some kerosene and a Zippo.
(I learned how to properly dispose of a flag as a Girl Scout. I am very useful in many situations, including the dreaded "Oh NO! Our flag is too old!" situation.)
DXMachina - Jun 22, 2005 2:16:54 pm PDT #3890 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Hey, at least I knew who Buddy Bell was.
DXMachina - Jun 22, 2005 2:21:26 pm PDT #3891 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
ION, Apparently, you can't even smoke in your own apartment anymore. [link]
Jessica - Jun 22, 2005 2:23:39 pm PDT #3892 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Prohibitions against flag burning always make me think of the RSC rant in History of America (Abridged). (One of them goes off on a rant about how free speech is actually curtailed in all sorts of obscure ways, like how you can't yell "fire!" in a crowded theatre, and eventually gets around to flag burning, and why can't I light this flag on fire anyway? And of course the answer is, "because that would be fire in a crowded theatre.")
The side bar listed all of the things that shouldn't be done to the flag -- print it on paper, wear it as clothes, etc.
I thought that what we currently had was a list of Ways It Is Appropriate To Treat The Flag, rather than an explicit list of don'ts. (I remember after 9/11 reading an article that detailed exactly how one is supposed to display the flag on one's vehicle, if one chooses, and pointing out that most of the available flag bumper stickers are Right Out.)
DavidS - Jun 22, 2005 2:24:57 pm PDT #3893 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Hey, at least I knew who Buddy Bell was.
An excellent fielder too, as I recall from some old Bill James abstract. Probably one of his curious surveys noting the upsurge in third base talent that happened in the immediate historical vicinity of Mike Schmidt's and George Brett's emergence.
Connie Neil - Jun 22, 2005 2:28:51 pm PDT #3894 of 10001
brillig
pointing out that most of the available flag bumper stickers are Right Out
How so? (she asks, considering that unaugmented flag sticker on the bumper that she got in the wave of "dammit, not my country" feeling after 9/11)
bon bon - Jun 22, 2005 2:30:40 pm PDT #3895 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
My poor BF was just unceremoniously dumped back into Detroit's airport after flying all the way here on a plane delayed because of thunderstorms...the plane had to turn around when all the other planes delayed by the storms were attempting to land at the same time. So they flew back and told him that all the other flights out tonight were booked. Lovely.