So Ford can also be blamed for setting up the takeover of the Reagan White House by Baker and GHWB.
Blamed? Despite voting against Bush senior, I didn't really regard their coming to power as a bad thing for the country.
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial
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.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 28, 2006 8:14:13 am PST #8366 of 10007
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Steph L. - Dec 28, 2006 8:16:54 am PST #8367 of 10007
I look more rad than Lutheranism
servicable champagne like Veuve Cliquot yellow label
Oh, man -- Veuve Cliquot is my favorite champagne! WAY more than serviceable. It's just so creamy. Mmmmm.
Last year's NYE was lots of fun, though it was fraught with what we thought was a visit from the police, and that's all I'm going to say in a public forum.
juliana - Dec 28, 2006 8:21:43 am PST #8368 of 10007
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
You should totally do the karaoke with Juliana. I bet Daisy Jane is a karaoke queen too.
Oh, lord. This would be SO MUCH FUN. I love the karaoke.
servicable champagne like Veuve Cliquot yellow label
Dude, what Steph said. It is most tasty. It's not my favorite champagne/sparkling wine, but it's definitely in my Top 5.
Announcement: I have been eating muffaletta for breakfast and lunch for the past few days.
Analysis: I will be approximately 5 million pounds by the time this sammich is gone. Also, the olive tapenade is the Way and the Light.
Sean K - Dec 28, 2006 8:27:26 am PST #8369 of 10007
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Did anyone post that erinaceous was quoted here: [link]
Cool!
For Christmas, I got S a book called Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies, and erinaceous is name-checked fairly early on in the book. I haven't read it all the way through, so I don't know if she's mentioned again, but it was neat seeing her name there.
shrift - Dec 28, 2006 8:27:47 am PST #8370 of 10007
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Elbows are a wonderful thing.
Elbows won't work since I'm usually still trapped in the door, although I probably could kick their shins.
New Yorkers aren't rude, Tourists are slow.
Oh my god, downtown Chicago has been dead in the morning this week, but by afternoon it's filled with tourists who walk too slowly and talk too loudly and cluster together, clogging the sidewalks and doorways. Taking public transit is an event, and they won't shut up and let people read in peace.
They keep asking me for directions. They're lucky I'm not more malicious. And two guys stopped me in the grocery store last night for help locating things, and not in a hitting-on-me way. I feel like a shepherd this week, or some shit.
juliana - Dec 28, 2006 8:28:01 am PST #8371 of 10007
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Also, Trudy if you make that shirt, I will buy it. I will also make one that says: In San Francisco, they're not tourists, they're obstacles.
Strix - Dec 28, 2006 8:28:34 am PST #8372 of 10007
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Oh, juliana. Dear, dear, dear. DON'T, for the love of all things holy and unholy, start the OLIVE TAPENADE smackdown again.
It's 'ffiista Argument #3671.
And Tep, now I am DYIN' to know about the po-po last NYE.
juliana - Dec 28, 2006 8:29:32 am PST #8373 of 10007
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
It's 'ffiista Argument #3671.
I know, but the Internets are slow and I need an excuse to not do my filing!
Strix - Dec 28, 2006 8:30:43 am PST #8374 of 10007
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I like the tapenade. And cilantro.
shrift - Dec 28, 2006 8:31:57 am PST #8375 of 10007
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
It's been a really long time since I've lived anywhere that had a tourist industry. So I find this very surreal.