Both my undergraduate and graduate schools did not have a football team.
River: You gave up everything you had. Simon: [Chinese] Everything I have is right here.
'Safe'
Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds
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.
Tom Scola - Aug 26, 2008 1:14:18 am PDT #5371 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Calli - Aug 26, 2008 1:48:43 am PDT #5372 of 10003
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Occasionally UNC's football team has flashes of competence, but by and large Chapel Hill's a basketball town.
My one proposal was from a drunk whose head I was holding out of the toilet. I declined. The whole lack of love life thing does make me feel like a bit of a freak sometimes—who gets to 40 without one serious proposal? But I look at the story upthread about the person whose spouse cheated on their honeymoon (seriously, what an asshole), and find myself feeling a lot better about not even having a near miss, marriage-wise.
Kat - Aug 26, 2008 3:43:45 am PDT #5373 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Ugh. Football.
I'm visiting my parents in the town in which I grew up which could be the Non-Texan Friday Night Lights. This was exacerbated by the fact that the house is across the street from the high school itself.
Driving in to town there are big signs that announce that the high school was the 1994 Football State Champions. Really? I mean, really? Who cares?!
Emily - Aug 26, 2008 3:50:24 am PDT #5374 of 10003
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
It's even sadder when the signs talk about being, like, 1978 state champions. There should be an expiration date.
Jesse - Aug 26, 2008 4:09:37 am PDT #5375 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That's like restaurants that keep up the sign that says they were Best of Whereever in 1985.
tommyrot - Aug 26, 2008 4:17:20 am PDT #5376 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Dave Barry on the Democratic convention:
Sen. Clinton is scheduled to address the convention Tuesday night, when she will either call on her supporters to unite behind Obama, or attempt to snatch the nomination and escape with it by helicopter to a secret mountain fortress. ''We are fully confident that Sen. Clinton will do the right thing,'' stated a Democratic party official, adding, ``but we have a net.''
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But in the end, the focus of this convention will be on Barack Obama, who on Thursday night will receive the nomination in long-overdue recognition of a distinguished career of seeking the nomination. His goal, in his acceptance speech, will be to win over the undecided voters -- the people who are unsure of what he really stands for, or who have received emailed rumors that he is a Muslim, or a socialist, or a vampire, or a lesbian. His goal will be to show, with no disrespect to the Muslim socialist vampire lesbian community, that he is a regular person just like you, except he has Vision and Leadership. After that, he will lay out his specific policies for building a brighter future. Then he will turn into a bat.
eta: Dave Barry: The DNC's on, let the drama begin
Jessica - Aug 26, 2008 4:20:24 am PDT #5377 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
or a vampire, or a lesbian
Barrack Obama is RILEY???
Theodosia - Aug 26, 2008 4:23:38 am PDT #5378 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Perhaps he was really raised in a lab, programmed, as it were, for Success.
tommyrot - Aug 26, 2008 4:26:48 am PDT #5379 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Nancy Pelosi Convention Speech: Text
OK, I haven't read this. But what strikes me is the whole thing is in ASSCAPS. WTF? Did she shout her entire speech?
GOOD EVENING DEMOCRATS!
GOOD EVENING, CALIFORNIA!
GOOD EVENING, MARYLAND!
WELCOME TO THE CONVENTION THAT WILL NOMINATE BARACK OBAMA AND JOE BIDEN TO BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
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tommyrot - Aug 26, 2008 4:36:42 am PDT #5380 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Hec can skip this post....
The Cat House on the Kings, is no-cage, no-kill, lifetime cat sanctuary and adoption center run by Lynea Lattanzia in Parlier, California. There are currently over 700 cats living on the 12 acre sanctuary and all of them are up for adoption.
There's a cool video of the place and the woman who runs it.
The Cat House on the Kings: A Cage-Free, Lifetime Cat Sanctuary