Happy Birthday, aurelia!
Cordelia: I get it now. You're all spies. Probably all Russian. And you've brainwashed me, and want me to believe we're friends so I'll spill the beans about some nano-technology thingy that you want. Gunn: So I look Russian to you? Cordelia: Black Russian. Angel: That's a drink.
'Hell Bound'
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.
Fred Pete - Oct 28, 2008 6:13:34 am PDT #6992 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Strega - Oct 28, 2008 6:50:11 am PDT #6993 of 10001
The problem is that it's hard to spot actually satire because of all the crazy out there.
That's Poe's Law.
Totally unrelated, but: the BBC site for the new Last Chance To See series (with Stephen Fry replacing Adams) is up: [link] (And paging Allyson: the latest entry on Mark's page features fruit bats!)
tommyrot - Oct 28, 2008 7:18:06 am PDT #6994 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.
If Obama gets elected, what are all these right-wing nuts gonna do?
Rep. Steve King: Obama Will Make America A ‘Totalitarian Dictatorship’
On Saturday, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) gave little-noticed remarks at Sioux City’s West High School during an appearance by Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK). King went beyond the traditional right-wing talking points — which brand Obama a “Marxist” who adheres to “socialism” — and said that he would turn the United States into a “totalitarian dictatorship.” From a report by the Iowa Independent:
King, known for provocative, partisan remarks, suggested Obama actually could be classified as even more extreme than a socialist. King also said his party is the only one with a legitimate claim on representing freedom as Americans know it.
“When you take a lurch to the left you end up in a totalitarian dictatorship,” King said. “There is no freedom to the left. It’s always to our side of the aisle.”
Words fail me....
Trudy Booth - Oct 28, 2008 7:18:51 am PDT #6995 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
DavidS - Oct 28, 2008 7:34:14 am PDT #6996 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I got the yoga one, missed the meatball one.
Me too. But I think I'm right, because you can have fancy meatballs but they'd never be airy.
bon bon - Oct 28, 2008 7:40:10 am PDT #6997 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I'm having post-partum depression, you guys! I don't know what to do with myself now that the wedding is done. Aside from procrastinating on the bar exam.
JZ - Oct 28, 2008 7:41:03 am PDT #6998 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Happy birthday, aurelia! The show you came to San Francisco to pretty up is getting awesome reviews, and I do a wee fist-pump every time I see an ad for it in one of the papers.
ION, IA Rep. Steve King makes my brane hurt. There's so much wrong in that one quote tommyrot gave that it's impossible to even know where to begin; the wrong is just too big.
What the fuck is wrong with the Colts this season?
Football makes me sad. Matilda has decided that she really likes to watch it, due to all the Pop Warner games at the stadium across the street, and I've come to realize that it is the most blah blah Ginger blah blah game ever to my brain. Two lines face each other. A burly guy in a stripey shirt blows a whistle. The two lines sit on each other. The ball moves a few inches. Everyone stands up and dusts off their knees and the guy in the stripey shirt examines the ball for a while and moves it another few inches. Then he blows the whistle again and everyone sits on everyone else again.
Also, sometimes a skinny guy runs away from the pack and then everyone tries to sit on him, except for one guy who tries to throw him the ball. In Pop Warner, usually that guy misses, so everyone lines up where the ball fell down and they sit on each other again. Repeat, forever.
It makes me mournful that Matilda seems to enjoy all this and I can't share in her delight even a little tiny bit.
Barb - Oct 28, 2008 7:41:51 am PDT #6999 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”
Food note: leftover chili with spicy white queso makes a pretty happenin' burrito.
Trudy Booth - Oct 28, 2008 7:45:52 am PDT #7000 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Me too. But I think I'm right, because you can have fancy meatballs but they'd never be airy.
I don't think you can have fancy meatballs.
I suppose you could construct them of something fancy, but, say, a fois gras meatball is really just fois gras in a weird shape and some sauce.
Barb - Oct 28, 2008 7:46:22 am PDT #7001 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”
It makes me mournful that Matilda seems to enjoy all this and I can't share in her delight even a little tiny bit.
Kind of how I feel about video/console/personal player games. But at least the kids have something they share exclusively with their Dad. With me, they have music since Lewis lives under a rock where current music is concerned.
It all balances out.