Well, a gathering is brie, mellow song stylings; shindig, dip, less mellow song stylings, perhaps a large amount of malt beverage, and hootenanny, well, it's chock full of hoot, just a little bit of nanny.

Oz ,'Beneath You'


Natter 57 Varieties  

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.


megan walker - Mar 18, 2008 8:48:54 am PDT #5706 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

I loved Obama's speech, and y'all know I'm a supporter, but I have to admit that lines like this in anyone's campaign speech make me roll my eyes a little:

It's things like this that get my eyes rolling:

I will never forget that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible.


erikaj - Mar 18, 2008 8:49:10 am PDT #5707 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

I've heard Eisenhower was close. But they edited him a lot, so people wouldn't know.


Susan W. - Mar 18, 2008 8:51:07 am PDT #5708 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Do they mean the Puritan theocracy or do they mean people like Jefferson, Franklin, Paine, Adams and Hancock, whose religions were Deist, Deist, atheist, Unitarian and money.

From what I've read of that crowd? Puritan theocracy, in some cases explicitly so. Ugh.


lisah - Mar 18, 2008 8:52:56 am PDT #5709 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

Do they mean the Puritan theocracy or do they mean people like Jefferson, Franklin, Paine, Adams and Hancock, whose religions were Deist, Deist, atheist, Unitarian and money.

Kind of off the point but Hancock will now always be John HOTcock in my mind now that Justin Theroux has played him.


Frankenbuddha - Mar 18, 2008 8:56:40 am PDT #5710 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I only meant that he's articulate compared to the drooling slack-jawed yokel currently in the White House.

OMG, I just realized Shrub isn't the POTUS, he's the CLETUS.

The fact that he's a faux-yokel makes it worse.


Ginger - Mar 18, 2008 8:57:05 am PDT #5711 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I agree that that crowd seems to yearn for a theocracy in which everything that is not compulsory is forbidden, but they say they're talking about the Constitution. I think it's rather remarkably self-centered to believe that it's going to be your religion that's running the show in a theocracy. In Massachusetts, most of them would be in the stocks.


brenda m - Mar 18, 2008 8:58:44 am PDT #5712 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

Heh. A senior person in the firm just sent out a letter announcing his imminent departure that begins thusly:

Dear Colleagues,

I am sick of you all.


shrift - Mar 18, 2008 8:59:34 am PDT #5713 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

John HOTcock

It's terribly unfair of you to put that in my brain. I'm going to slip and say that at a VERY inopportune moment, I can already tell.


Nutty - Mar 18, 2008 9:00:14 am PDT #5714 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Ironically, the Puritan theocracy had... really high rates of out-of-wedlock childbirth, flogging, and people constantly moving away in a snit to found Providence, RI. Also, for most of the time that it was straight-up theocratic, those people were po'. Like, cornmeal for supper kind of po'. I don't think anybody who's actually thought it through really wants the Puritan theocracy back, unless they have a kooky fetish for short pants and cornmeal.


Allyson - Mar 18, 2008 9:01:52 am PDT #5715 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

I had a friend who frequently wished that things would go back to "the way it was 100 years ago."

And I'd say, "you know you'd probably be dead, right?"