They should film that story and show it every Christmas.

Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'


The Crying of Natter 49  

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.


Aims - Feb 01, 2007 7:32:40 am PST #7436 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

I had granola, yougurt, and a nanner! Does that count??


juliana - Feb 01, 2007 7:35:29 am PST #7437 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

I had a banana & a Fig & Flax waffle w/organic PB. 'Twas tasty.


DavidS - Feb 01, 2007 7:38:33 am PST #7438 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I had granola, yougurt, and a nanner! Does that count??

Does that sound like oatmeal? No. Still points for the dairy to fend of osteoporosis, and the handful of rolled oats (rolled in butter!) in your granola. Plus points for potassium in the nanner. It's not oatmeal, but it's not waffles either. You'll live an extra ten minutes.


Dana - Feb 01, 2007 7:40:31 am PST #7439 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I bought some bulk steel-cut oats, but now I have to figure out how to cook them. Boiling water? Do I boil the water and pour it on the oats and let it soak up? What's the proportion of water to oats?


Typo Boy - Feb 01, 2007 7:41:13 am PST #7440 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

On the Aqua Hunger Marketing campaign, August Pollack has similar thoughts to Wheaton.

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Menino is going on TV and insisting he's going to send a 27-year old artist to jail for not breaking any law, because his police department overreacted and wasted a million dollars feeding a media frenzy and terrorizing the population of his own city. That's a cowardly act of self-preservation, and were he not threatening the life of an innocent young man it would be laughable.

Let's get a few facts straight on the Aqua Teen Hunger Force sign fiasco:

1. Attorney General Martha Coakley needs to shut up and stop using the word "hoax." There was no hoax. Hoax implies Turner Networks and the ATHF people were trying to defraud or confuse people as to what they were doing. Hoax implies they were trying to make their signs look like bombs. They weren't. They made Lite-Brite signs of a cartoon character giving the finger.

2. It bears repeating again that Turner, and especially Berdovsky, did absolutely nothing illegal. The devices were not bombs. They did not look like bombs. They were all placed in public spaces and caused no obstruction to traffic or commerce. At most, Berdovsky is guilty of littering or illegal flyering.

3. The "devices" were placed in ten cities, and have been there for over two weeks. No other city managed to freak out and commit an entire platoon of police officers to scaring their own city claiming they might be bombs. No other mayor agreed to talk to Fox News with any statement beyond "no comment" when spending the day asking if this was a "terrorist dry run."

4. There is nothing, not a single thing, remotely suggesting that Turner or the guerilla marketing firm they hired intended to cause a public disturbance. Many have claimed the signs were "like saying 'fire' in a crowded theater." Wrong. This was like taping a picture of a fire to the wall of a theater and someone freaked out and called the fire department.

As they say - read the whole thing:

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Cashmere - Feb 01, 2007 7:41:17 am PST #7441 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

It's not oatmeal, but it's not waffles either. You'll live an extra ten minutes.

Hey! We had blueberry waffles this morning!


Dana - Feb 01, 2007 7:43:06 am PST #7442 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

The NY Times actually used the word "oops" in their headline for this story:

Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, who announced his candidacy on Wednesday with the hope that he could ride his foreign policy expertise into contention for the Democratic nomination, instead spent the day struggling to explain his description of Senator Barack Obama, the Illinois Democrat running for president, as “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”


Nutty - Feb 01, 2007 7:44:19 am PST #7443 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Didja' know that blasphemy is a crime in Massachusetts?

This is the state where blue laws just survived a referendum-attempt to kill them. It would not surprise me if prostitutes were still formally called "fallen women" in the state law code.

Old-fashioned is the nicest word I can think of for it; but at least I know that other states have much more embarrassing spaghetti code in their legislative histories.


Aims - Feb 01, 2007 7:44:27 am PST #7444 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

It was low-fat granola!!


DavidS - Feb 01, 2007 7:44:44 am PST #7445 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Hey! We had blueberry waffles this morning!

::bumps Cash down on the actuarial table::