every aghast diplomat was secretly wishing they'd said the same thing to someone they disliked at one time or another.
I can tell you I'm going to be saying it from now on.
Every nightmare I have that doesn't revolve around academic failure or public nudity is about that thing. In fact, once I dreamt that it attacked me while I was late for a test and naked.
Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
brenda m - Mar 05, 2003 10:25:33 am PST #6898 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
§ ita § - Mar 05, 2003 10:29:00 am PST #6899 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
At least he said it to a Kuwaiti delegate. I hate to think what would have went down had he called the Nigerian delegate that.
brenda m - Mar 05, 2003 10:29:27 am PST #6900 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Oh, yeah, that crossed my mind, ita.
Trudy Booth - Mar 05, 2003 11:49:32 am PST #6901 of 10001
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
Bureaucracy II: Shut up, Monkey!
Connie Neil - Mar 05, 2003 11:53:46 am PST #6902 of 10001
brillig
Trudy has a winner. Plus, it ties in with the Buffista monkey obsession.
edit: numbah!
Laura - Mar 05, 2003 12:06:11 pm PST #6903 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
BWAH! t natter
Wolfram - Mar 05, 2003 12:36:54 pm PST #6904 of 10001
Visilurking
Just to prove that we're not the only ones who get a little worked up in bureaucratic discussions comes this morning's quote from the Iraqi delegate to the UN, in response to remarks made by the Kuwaiti delgate:
Shut up, monkey!
Actually it was not the the UN but at an emergency summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, and the quote was "Shut up, sit down you small agent [of the U.S.], you monkey! Curse be upon your mustache (honor), you traitor." Apparently the Iraqi delegate had been calling Kuwait a traitor for helping the U.S. in the previous Gulf war (after Iraq invaded Kuwait.) The Kuwaiti foreign minister made some inaudible comment and the Iraqi delegate went off on him. The Kuwaiti information minister leapt up and waved a small Kuwaiti flag, and the entire Iraqi delegation stormed out of the room. "The Iraqis always behave like this," the Kuwaiti information minister said.
I'd like to nominate Saddam as an honorary Buffista.
I think he's already a lurker. You gotta admire his ability to get over 90% voter turnout, and 100% of the vote in the Iraqi elections. We should try having armed guards drag you from your homes and then look over your shoulder as you fill out your ballot. Enforcement of democracy.
Java cat - Mar 05, 2003 1:14:08 pm PST #6905 of 10001
Not javachik
John H - Mar 05, 2003 2:36:03 pm PST #6906 of 10001
Can anyone Nilly me the point where all this stuff about voting actually started? Is it just "when we got back online"? I guess there's stuff on WX too, but it essentially started around the time when the board went down, right?
Fay - Mar 05, 2003 2:45:19 pm PST #6907 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
knocks tentatively on door
Hello? I must admit that I'm not following the intricacies of the present bureaucratic debate - I don't have strong feelings about the red tape of it all either way and I don't feel confident that I can predict what kind of things are liable to crop up that need addressing. I apologise to any and all people who find this attitude infuriating - I do appreciate that this voting thing is something many people feel strongly about, but my online time is very limited right now & I'm trusting that we'll all continue to treat one another with respect and affection, and that as and when particular issues crop up, we'll be able to work things out together.
t /Pollyanna-with-Masterpiece-Theatre-accent
Anyway, just nipped in to ask a slightly random question: for some reason there seems to be some weirdness going on with the way my screen shows people's tags at present. It's not a big issue, but I just thought I'd mention it in case anyone else was having the same thing? But it may well be a my-end problem, rather than a board-related problem.
We return you to your regularly-scheduled debate.
vanishes in puff of pink smoke