In 2004, LJ-based fandom had presidential elections. It was awesome, though I don't remember who ended up winning. But people proposed their own candidates -- Boromir and Faramir, Lex and Lionel Luthor, etc.
That was fun. Someone should do it again.
But she was naked! And all... articulate!
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 56: ...we need the writers.
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.
Dana - Jan 03, 2008 9:32:40 am PST #701 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
amych - Jan 03, 2008 9:33:57 am PST #702 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I'd completely forgotten about that, Dana! Good times.
lisah - Jan 03, 2008 9:37:59 am PST #703 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
again, I am lisa.
Sorry! Fortunately I brought some nuts with me for afternoon snack (also some chocolate) because I predicted this would happen.
Kathy A - Jan 03, 2008 9:39:34 am PST #704 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
In the dog's perfect world, probably the couch -- but then that brings out the real problem with the dog running for office, which is, well, running.
So the dog is Fred Thompson?
Miracleman - Jan 03, 2008 9:43:02 am PST #705 of 10001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
In the dog's perfect world, probably the couch
Or a convenient leg.
msbelle - Jan 03, 2008 9:50:13 am PST #706 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I brought clementines, but I think I want something carby.
amych - Jan 03, 2008 10:00:58 am PST #707 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
So the dog is Fred Thompson?
Well, he was born in Tennessee.
tommyrot - Jan 03, 2008 10:05:59 am PST #708 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I can't explain it, but this building is totally awesome: Mitsubishi's elevator-testing tower
Mitsubishi has erected a tall, skinny, hollow tower filled with elevator shafts for testing high-speed lifts:
The 173m-high (567ft) structure is called Solae and dominates the skyline of Inazawa City...
The 5bn-yen ($50m;£25m) project will allow Mitsubishi to test new drives, gears, cables and other lift systems.
Gudanov - Jan 03, 2008 10:13:27 am PST #709 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Don't even get me STARTED on the Electoral College. I went several rounds with my mom last week because I refuse to believe that something the All-Wise Founders thought up in the eighteenth century must necessarily be the best way over two centuries later.
I look at this way. If we had a one person, one vote system would there be any call to go with the electoral college system instead? I grew up in Kansas where voting for the president is for all practical purposes just a waste of time.
tommyrot - Jan 03, 2008 10:32:51 am PST #710 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
You know how presidential election campaigns start earlier and earlier? Here's a guy who started campaigning for the 2008 election back in 1908....
From the April 16, 1908 Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette:
Charles Vaden Barton, "the count," one of the choicest cranks that ever infested the capital, has arrived from Seattle to open his campaign to elect himself president in 2008. He announces that he is the John the Baptist of the millennium, and as he has special arrangements by which he beats the undertakers and cannot die, he can start his presidential campaign a long time ahead and work up sentiment gradually. So he is starting 100 years ahead, and expects that by the time he is elected the millennium will begin coincident with his inauguration.
I wonder how that's working out for him....