Sometimes you shut up even when you are right. This is a heavy burden for me, because of course I am right all the time.
Betsy.
Whoa! I... I think I'm having a thought. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a thought. Now I'm having a plan. Now I'm having a wiggins.
Xander ,'First Date'
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.
Sue - Mar 27, 2008 7:12:55 am PDT #7580 of 10001
hip deep in pie
erikaj - Mar 27, 2008 7:13:21 am PDT #7581 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Well, yes, Tep, but my point was, did anyone ever seriously make that comparison? "Wow, you look like this other guy who used to stand at a podium and have nice hair...what was that dude's name again?" I probably wouldn't be impressed now anyway, now that I've seen Olbermann substitute "sir" for, well, fuckcake.
bon bon - Mar 27, 2008 7:13:23 am PDT #7582 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I'm out of guesses for the RuPaul one, but right all the time-- Angus or PMM?
Dana - Mar 27, 2008 7:14:22 am PDT #7583 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Points to Jessica and Sue. It was Betsy.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 27, 2008 7:15:55 am PDT #7584 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
"Sometimes you shut up even when you are right. This is a heavy burden for me, because of course I am right all the time."
Sounds like ita.
eta Guess not.
Steph L. - Mar 27, 2008 7:16:29 am PDT #7585 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Well, yes, Tep, but my point was, did anyone ever seriously make that comparison? "Wow, you look like this other guy who used to stand at a podium and have nice hair...what was that dude's name again?"
I wasn't dissing you, erika; I didn't mean to come off that way.
Throughout the campaign, Quayle had been publicly comparing himself to Kennedy because of his age, etc. And Bentsen's staff decided to jump on it, so that when Quayle was dumb enough to actually say it during the debate, Bentsen could knock it out of the park.
It's a great line, but people tend to think it was spontaneous and shit, but it wasn't. Totally rehearsed. (Also totally deserved, but it's not the paradigm of extemporaneous speaking that people like to claim that it is.)
msbelle - Mar 27, 2008 7:20:03 am PDT #7586 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
was the RuPaul quote Aimee?
Aims - Mar 27, 2008 7:21:12 am PDT #7587 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Hollywood might come to the newly closed Jackson, Michigan prison: [link]
This part cracks me up though:
But he said he worries about the long-term impact and stigma the movie would create about Jackson and a community that many already identify as a prison town.
Fleming said he was working in Detroit in the late 1980s when the film "RoboCop" was made, and he doesn't want that to be Jackson's fate.
"That had a negative impact," he said.
Right. RoboCop gave Detroit a bad image. Not the actual, real life corrupt cops and murders. The fake Robot Guy and Kurtwood Smith did it.
Dumbass.
erikaj - Mar 27, 2008 7:21:25 am PDT #7588 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
And it was the one good line he ever got anyway. That's probably why it stuck.ETA: The Detroit comments reminded me of Baltimore getting a new slogan cause "The Wire" is shot there.
tommyrot - Mar 27, 2008 7:23:11 am PDT #7589 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.
And it was the one good line he ever got anyway. That's probably why it stuck.
Well, it perfectly epitomized all that was wrong with Quayle as a vice-president. That and potatoe.