Brooks always has a doozy. And unlike Safire, he never admits it when I catch him in a grammatical or rhetorical mistake. I stopped counting, because there were too many.
Inara: We thought we lost you. Mal: Well, I've been right here.
'Out Of Gas'
Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!
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.
Nutty - Jan 04, 2006 6:47:41 am PST #7233 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Nora Deirdre - Jan 04, 2006 6:48:01 am PST #7234 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
He dicided that running into things is funny so he kept running into the sofa thud and then into the wall THUD.
well, he's not wrong.
Jessica - Jan 04, 2006 6:49:22 am PST #7235 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Brooks has a doozy out now too.
The one where he says that women who claim to prefer having a career to staying at home with the kids are liars because OBVIOUSLY women belong at home?
Yeah, I read that one.
[eta: Actually, Salon has a response article out about it.]
Frankenbuddha - Jan 04, 2006 6:50:36 am PST #7236 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Leif was being funny last night. He dicided that running into things is funny so he kept running into the sofa thud and then into the wall THUD. Then he was demand that I laugh because it was funny. Sort of patter-patter-patter-THUD! whump "You laugh daddy!" repeated about 20 times.
Could be worse - he could be emulating the famed couch flip.
Nora Deirdre - Jan 04, 2006 6:50:51 am PST #7237 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
that's the one.
ETA: I read the Salon analysis, which is what set me down the path that led to searching out Tierny. I was interested because of the Higher Ed references.
Betsy HP - Jan 04, 2006 6:54:12 am PST #7238 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
You can't actually blame this one on the media. A mine foreman was in the room where the families were waiting, and he got a call from mine authorities that 11 people were alive.
Here's the kicker: HALF AN HOUR LATER the mine officials knew the report was wrong. They waited three hours to tell the families.
It ain't the press that did the families down.
le nubian - Jan 04, 2006 6:58:10 am PST #7239 of 10002
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
dang.
Vortex - Jan 04, 2006 7:00:49 am PST #7240 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Those findings jibe with what I've seen. I can't think of any friend who refused to date a woman because she made more money than he did. When friends have married women with bigger paychecks, the only financial complaints I've heard from them have come when a wife later decided to pursue a more meaningful -- i.e., less lucrative -- career.
WHATEVER. Men won't admit it, but they don't like it. they just give some sort of bullshit reason that the friends accept, like. "her boobs weren't big enough"
Rio - Jan 04, 2006 7:03:23 am PST #7241 of 10002
Are you ready to be strong?
Have a doggie yet?
Not yet but getting closer.
Calli - Jan 04, 2006 7:05:40 am PST #7242 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
For about 10 years my mom made more than my dad did. (Out of a 40+ year marriage, so this wasn't exactly the norm for them.) Dad joked about being kept, but he also started contributing rather more around the house. It doesn't seem to have hurt their marriage any.