Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.

'Time Bomb'


Natter 61*  

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.


Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 15, 2008 7:04:16 am PDT #4647 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

Madonna and Guy Ritchie are getting divorced. Whoops.

I figured it was the death knell for them when Ritchie made an announcement to the press that everything was fine a few weeks ago.


Steph L. - Oct 15, 2008 7:04:44 am PDT #4648 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

There's no reason McCain can't win this thing. It is pretty easy to imagine he can get FL, OH, NC, VA, IN, WV, and MO.

Well, except for the polls.

(Yes, I know that polls do NOT equal guaranteed votes, but Obama is polling exceedingly better at this point in the campaign than Kerry did at the same point in 2004.)


tommyrot - Oct 15, 2008 7:05:30 am PDT #4649 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 figured it was the death knell for them when Ritchie made an announcement to the press that everything was fine a few weeks ago.

I'd like to make an announcement to the press that everything is fine between McCain and the American people....


tommyrot - Oct 15, 2008 7:06:13 am PDT #4650 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.

Well, except for the polls.

I think Gud was being a wee bit sarcastic....


amych - Oct 15, 2008 7:08:51 am PDT #4651 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

It is pretty easy to imagine he can get FL, OH, NC, VA, IN, WV, and MO.

No, it's really not. It's easy to imagine that he'll get at least some of them, but all of them would be a huge stretch at this point. And he'd really need all.

(Usual disclaimers, polls vs votes, no desire to tempt fate, yadda yadda)

(eta; oh, duh, sarcasm. Time to recalibrate the meter -- sorry!)


Gudanov - Oct 15, 2008 7:14:02 am PDT #4652 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

Not entirely sarcastic. Those are all winnable states, but there needs to a momentum change. Not an easy path to be sure. If Obama pulls away in any of those states (except WV), I can't see a path unless there is an amazing turnaround in PA or MI.


Steph L. - Oct 15, 2008 7:20:14 am PDT #4653 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

(eta; oh, duh, sarcasm. Time to recalibrate the meter -- sorry!)

I totally missed it, too. I apparently need broad, vaudevillian measures in order for me to pick up on it.

Or possibly more caffeine.


amych - Oct 15, 2008 7:21:17 am PDT #4654 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Or possibly more caffeine.

Always an excellent plan. t jitterjittershake


Barb - Oct 15, 2008 7:25:13 am PDT #4655 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”

IOcookingN:

Not that I'm a proponent of unnecessary packaging, but wouldn't you think if you have an item like say... split peas, that have the potential to go 'splodey, that rather than tightly pack them into a box, with nothing else restraining them, you might just put them in their own little bag within the box?

Or hey-- how about do away with the box and just use a bag? Especially if you have a seasoning packet buried deep within the dried split peas.

That can go 'splodey when a box is opened.

::goes off in search of Dirt Devil::


Kathy A - Oct 15, 2008 7:46:01 am PDT #4656 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

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