Nah, I'd never get around to that. Besides, I have a perfectly servicable (and covered in crap) coffee table and footstool.
It's called a blaster, Will, a word that tends to discourage experimentation. Now, if it were called the Orgasmater, I'd be the first to try your basic button press approach.
Xander ,'Get It Done'
Natter 58: Let's call Venezuela!
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.
sarameg - May 28, 2008 7:28:20 am PDT #9353 of 10001
Allyson - May 28, 2008 7:35:08 am PDT #9354 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
Maybe my Something will come today!
Sue - May 28, 2008 7:41:36 am PDT #9355 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Do people know that there's a 10th Anniversary Edition DVD set of Sports Night coming this fall?
tommyrot - May 28, 2008 8:09:11 am PDT #9356 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.
So, former Bush press secretary Scott McClellan has written a book sharply critical of Bush.
Scott McClellan, one of the Texans who came to Washington with President George W. Bush, spent a long time defending the administration but now has concluded this his longtime employer misled the nation into an unneeded war in Iraq.
"History appears poised to confirm what most Americans today have decided -- that the decision to invade Iraq was a serious strategic blunder," Scott McClellan, the former White House press secretary, writes in his book, What Happened, which will be released on Monday. Subtitle: Washington's Culture of Deception.
"No one, including me, can know with absolute certainty how the war will be viewed decades from now when we can more fully understand its impact,'' he writes in the preface of the book. "What I do know is that war should only be waged when necessary, and the Iraq war was not necessary.''
This from a son of Austin who served Bush as governor of Texas, campaigned with him through two elections and served as press secretary into the second term.
Ken Herman, another Texan who came to Washington with this crew as a correspondent for the Austin newspaper, notes that McClellan becomes "the first longtime Bush aide to put such harsh criticism between hard covers,'' with Herman calling the tome " an extraordinarily critical book that questions Bush's intellectual curiosity, his candor in leading the nation to war, his pattern of self-deception and the quality of his advisers.
OK, I'm sure Scott McClellan is very sorry for all the bullshit he helped foist on the American people. Whatever. But this bit struck me:
McClellan traces Bush's own penchant for self-deception back to an overheard incident on the campaign trail in 1999 when the then-governor was dogged by reports of possible cocaine use in his younger days. The book recounts an evening in a hotel suite "somewhere in the Midwest." Bush was on the phone with a supporter and motioned for McClellan to have a seat.
"'The media won't let go of these ridiculous cocaine rumors,' I heard Bush say,'' McClellan writes, recounting these words: 'You know, the truth is I honestly don't remember whether I tried it or not. We had some pretty wild parties back in the day, and I just don't remember.'"
"I remember thinking to myself, How can that be?" McClellan writes. "How can someone simply not remember whether or not they used an illegal substance like cocaine? It didn't make a lot of sense."
Do you suppose it's possible to not be able to remember cocaine use? Maybe if he was really drunk? Maybe he lost memories of coke use after doing all that smack, crank and crack....
Matt the Bruins fan - May 28, 2008 8:11:48 am PDT #9357 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Happy Birthday Sean!
I guess I'm going to go see Indy today. I'll just keep repeating the mantra "At least they got Karen Allen back!"
Frankenbuddha - May 28, 2008 8:12:54 am PDT #9358 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I guess I'm going to go see Indy today. I'll just keep repeating the mantra "At least they got Karen Allen back!"
"And there's no Short Round."
Scrappy - May 28, 2008 8:13:54 am PDT #9359 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Just remind yourself going in that instead of seeing a cheesy '30s serial, you are seeing a cheesy '50s drive-in movie, and you'll be all set.
Jessica - May 28, 2008 8:16:35 am PDT #9360 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
From a PR perspective, if you were high enough that you can't remember what substances you took to get there, does it really matter whether or not it was cocaine?
Jesse - May 28, 2008 8:21:22 am PDT #9361 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Do you suppose it's possible to not be able to remember cocaine use?
In a black out? I don't see why not.
From a PR perspective, if you were high enough that you can't remember what substances you took to get there, does it really matter whether or not it was cocaine?
Right.
tommyrot - May 28, 2008 8:21:23 am PDT #9362 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.
From a PR perspective, if you were high enough that you can't remember what substances you took to get there, does it really matter whether or not it was cocaine?
Well, if he was just drunk then he didn't do anything illegal.
Still, it's an odd defense.
"Mr. President - is it true you did cocaine in your past?"
"Dude, I was so wasted back then I can't remember."
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