In Bitches:
Erin
You know, reading Fay's post re: her student and the newspaper made me realize how utterly WEIRD it was to think MR. McCain/MR. Obama.
Daniel C. Jensen
No! No slashing!
Who died and made you Elvis?
Cordelia ,'Storyteller'
Coffee On My Monitor
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SailAweigh - Oct 02, 2008 7:25:50 am PDT #9865 of 10000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Trudy Booth - Oct 03, 2008 6:31:58 am PDT #9866 of 10000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Daniel C. Jensen: Can Sarah Palin say the word "maverick" more? I keep expecting James Garner to come onscreen and tell her to stop.
Calli - Oct 03, 2008 8:49:49 am PDT #9867 of 10000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
In Natter:
Billytea: I suspect the GOP's polling says [Cheney]'s about as popular as scrapie right now. He needs to do something to make the people fear and respect him again. Maybe he should shoot a man in Reno just to watch him apologise.
Trudy Booth - Oct 03, 2008 10:27:03 am PDT #9868 of 10000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Tom Scola:
Whenever I get a label maker, the first thing I usually do is make a label that says "label maker".
Trudy Booth - Oct 06, 2008 7:38:16 am PDT #9869 of 10000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Daniel C. Jensen: I also bought Windsparrow some grease fittings, sway bar links, and bushings for her car suspension.
Not so much romantic as whiligigs.
Oh, and a dome light lamp.
WindSparrow: And it really isn't as romantic as spending your days sitting by the hospital bedside of my car-crash-comaed body after I lose control of the steering on an icy road, veer off into a ditch, have both front wheels fall off, and still have enough of the tail of the car sticking out on the road to be crunched by the Semi that couldn't stop in time. But I'll take what I can get.
Trudy Booth - Oct 06, 2008 11:13:21 am PDT #9870 of 10000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
tommyrot: It's sad when comedians make more sense than politicians and political commentators. Or is that always the case?
Matt the Bruins fan: ... there is a fine tradition of that running back at least as far as Will Rogers.
SailAweigh: Personally, I'd take it back to Mark Twain.
Frankenbuddha: I'd say Mark Twain. More of a comedic writer, but he made fairly non-stop speaking appearences, didn't he?
SailAweigh: We are Twains that met, Frank!
tommyrot: So East is West and West is East?
Liese S. - Oct 06, 2008 11:21:47 am PDT #9871 of 10000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Better without context from tommyrot in Natter:
I have to admit - it's nice that the Cylon mice don't require their balls to be cleaned....
NoiseDesign - Oct 06, 2008 7:38:03 pm PDT #9872 of 10000
Our wings are not tired
Context be damned. Erin in Bitches
"FEEL MY ASS! TOUCH EEEEEET!" Then burn it, and drink copiously.
These are my official funeral instructions, btw.
Pix - Oct 06, 2008 8:36:20 pm PDT #9873 of 10000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
In Natter:
Tom Scola: One of our servers at work just crashed with a "PCI streaming byte hole error".
msbelle: Tom, this isn't Bitches, please keep it family friendly.
tommyrot: Heh. Next time a computer crosses me, I'll have to threaten to tear it a new byte hole.
Gudanov: Sounds like the PCI bus streamed too much data into one place and it collapsed into a digital singularity (not to be confused with The Singularity) where not even assembly code can escape out.
tommyrot: Or maybe just the bit bucket was full....
Frankenbuddha: There's a hole in the bucket, dear Linux, dear Linux There's a hole in the bucket, oh Linux my dear.
Kate P. - Oct 09, 2008 5:47:36 am PDT #9874 of 10000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
From F2F, discussing Seattle's South Lake Union Trolley:
Pete: Meara, if it's called a streetcar now, that is only their attempt to change the acronym because, yes, they did manage to launch the service as a SLUT.
And the damage is done. It'll always be known as the SLUT so their attempts to change it are doubly feeble. Then again that sounds like our city council to a tee.
Fay: I am reminded Tesco's decision to rename Spotted Dick "Spotted Richard".
I mean, yes, okay, dick, ho ho - but it's so totally well-known that mostly you don't think "Penis! Penis! Ho ho ho!" ...until you find yourself staring at "Spotted Richard", think "WTF???" and then make a mental translation, and then think "OMGWTFSPOTTEDPENIS!"
As successful renaming ventures go, it's akin to Dick Van Dyke deciding to change his name to Richard Van WomanWithComfortableShoes.