I was always both baffled and amused by the One of our Fifty is Missing column.
We actually made the column by something that happened to my grandmother! I think she was trying to mail us something, but I don't recall the details.
The girl's not playing with a full deck, Giles. She has almost no deck. She has a three.
Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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.
sarameg - Oct 20, 2008 12:02:27 pm PDT #5565 of 10001
Connie Neil - Oct 20, 2008 12:04:39 pm PDT #5566 of 10001
brillig
From the "Small towns in Utah are odd" column
MORGAN, Utah (AP) - A Utah sheriff's office has found that it shouldn't underestimate the golf cart as a getaway car. A suspect in a souped-up cart managed to elude officers who pursued him last month through an alfalfa field _ but only for a while. He was arrested the next day at his grandmother's house.
Officers started pursuing the driver after he was spotted spinning out in a city park in Morgan. He took off into an alfalfa field and jumped irrigation ditches that the sheriff's cruisers couldn't cross.
Morgan County Sheriff's Sgt. Scott Peay suspects the cart was fitted with a car engine instead of the original electric motor.
No word on whether the kid yelled "Yee-hah!" as he jumped the ditches. Or if there's a Confederate flag painted on the awning.
Gudanov - Oct 20, 2008 12:05:58 pm PDT #5567 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Did his opponent raise a fuss? I'm surprised stuff like this almost never gets to be hugely controversial.
There were a bunch of editorials and stuff along the lines of this one:
But it never really got into the media much. It was a close election, but there wasn't a lot of controversy afterwards. Nonetheless, having people involved in a campaign being in charge of the election is bad enough, but having an actual candidate in charge? At that point the system is just broken.
Gudanov - Oct 20, 2008 12:07:31 pm PDT #5568 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
No word on whether the kid yelled "Yee-hah!" as he jumped the ditches. Or if there's a Confederate flag painted on the awning
It's the Dukes of Sand Hazards.
Barb - Oct 20, 2008 12:08:12 pm PDT #5569 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”
Thank you-- I have now been earwormed with "Just some good ol' boys..."
GAH!
tommyrot - Oct 20, 2008 12:09:34 pm PDT #5570 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.
No word on whether the kid yelled "Yee-hah!" as he jumped the ditches. Or if there's a Confederate flag painted on the awning
Pro'lly good that they got away, as they were probably armed with exploding arrows... I mean, no outhouse would be safe.
Connie Neil - Oct 20, 2008 12:13:37 pm PDT #5571 of 10001
brillig
Thank you-- I have now been earwormed with "Just some good ol' boys..."
Heh.
aurelia - Oct 20, 2008 12:23:11 pm PDT #5572 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Actually at the demolition? I meant to go, but ended up not.
No, but I could see the dust cloud from the top floor of Old Main.
I'm still aghast at the Missouri 2004 election, the Secretary of State was running for Governor and continued in his capacity of running the election.
Matt Blunt? Didn't Roy Blunt do the same thing?
Dana - Oct 20, 2008 12:23:29 pm PDT #5573 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Palin also claimed religion and God had been "mocked" during the campaign, although she offered no evidence to support that.
"Faith in God in general has been mocked through this campaign, and that breaks my heart and that is unfair for others who share a faith in God and choose to worship our Lord in whatever private manner that they deem fit," she said.
Unless, of course, you're a Muslim.
Barb - Oct 20, 2008 12:27:07 pm PDT #5574 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”
This made me snort Diet Coke up my nose:
Sen. Barack Obama on Monday denounced the "say-anything, do-anything politics" by Sen. John McCain's camp, but said "careless, outrageous comments" won't distract him from addressing the nation's ills.
...
"It's getting so bad that even Sen. McCain's running mate denounced his tactics last night," Obama said at a campaign event in Tampa, Florida. "As you know, you really have to work hard to violate Gov. Palin's standards on negative campaigning."