it is nice when your lot win an election. It's even nicer, and rarer, if they turn out to be what you thought they were.
Don't kill anyone if you don't have to. We're here to make a deal.
Mal ,'Serenity'
All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American
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Am-Chau Yarkona - Nov 30, 2002 4:42:42 am PST #683 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Theodosia - Nov 30, 2002 6:10:52 am PST #684 of 9843
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Yay, Angus! Yay Labour Party!
John H - Nov 30, 2002 2:53:34 pm PST #685 of 9843
To your work address? Oh wait, didn't you move buildings or some such?
We moved next door kind of thing. Technically I'm in "Building B", but don't sweat it, same address. The sad thing is that we always used the term "Building B" for the pub next door, which was great, and had a good restaurant and a garden/courtyard out the back, plus, did I mention, right next door?. But now the pub has been knocked down to build flats for yuppie scum, so it's an unfortunate name.
Also, I finally saw that you and Thuy set the wedding date, congratulations!
Eleven days and counting. No chance you'll be in Sydney is there? My sister flies in from England soon, and she's so sweet, she's been researching Vietnamese wedding customs and everything online. She's coming via San Francisco.
the labor party (the good guys--well, my guys, anyway) have just won a state election by a landslide
Yay Labour Party!
I am not normally the kind of guy who punches his fist in the air and says "yes!". But last night I did it twice.
OK but what's weird is that Theo's trying to get the spelling of "Labour" right for unamerican English, but the party itself is spelled the American way. Someone will tell me why.
Theodosia - Nov 30, 2002 3:04:10 pm PST #686 of 9843
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Ooops. Hadn't noticed Angus's spelling. Spelling it the 'American' way does strike me as odd.
Angus G - Dec 01, 2002 4:18:46 am PST #687 of 9843
Roguish Laird
I believe it was a brief historical flirtation with American spelling that also gave us Victor Harbor (in South Australia) and a couple of other examples that I've forgotten.
The other famous example of Australia following America rather than Britain was adopting the dollar (to replace the pound) when we went decimal.
There was also that thing where we took part in the Vietnam War, but we try to forget about that whenever possible.
Theodosia - Dec 01, 2002 5:34:03 am PST #688 of 9843
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Meanwhile in America, the historical apologists are still trying to spin the Vietnam War such that they can blame the Democrats for losing it -- this in spite of the fact that quite a great deal of the actual losing and retreating and fucking over allies was during Republican admins.
Noumenon - Dec 01, 2002 5:37:32 am PST #689 of 9843
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
They're running the risk of offending Democratic voters. They really ought to spin things the Australians' way.
John H - Dec 01, 2002 3:13:29 pm PST #690 of 9843
There was also that thing where we took part in the Vietnam War
I'm still lobbying for this to be called "The American War"...
Jim - Dec 01, 2002 3:19:54 pm PST #691 of 9843
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
OK, just seen Supersymmetry. ita, you wrote it, didn't you?
§ ita § - Dec 01, 2002 3:23:28 pm PST #692 of 9843
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Maybe I called in a few favours, sold a few firstborn.
And it was worth it.