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Ah yes, a rare vintage indeed. The boquet it swipes at your nose with sharp points with just a hint of the tiniest of mews.
Bunch of wanna blessed-bes. Nowadays every girl with a henna tattoo and a spice rack thinks she's a sister to the dark ones.
Willow ,'Bring On The Night'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
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.
tommyrot - Jun 25, 2009 6:12:06 am PDT #25757 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Gudanov - Jun 25, 2009 6:13:12 am PDT #25758 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
After hearing it on my computer, I've got my daughter listening to Within Temptation as well. I wonder when she'll start be embarrassed to listen to anything I do?
Trudy Booth - Jun 25, 2009 6:13:40 am PDT #25759 of 30000
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
Sanford may be a hypocrite, but unlike the guys who have fleeting serial booty calls with lust objects, it appears he did at least pursue what I'd call a love affair.
Very true. On the other hand, we don't have "I was just overcome by the heat of the moment blah blah uncontrollable passioncakes." Carrying on an intercontinental affair takes some in depth long-haul deception.
lisah - Jun 25, 2009 6:14:20 am PDT #25760 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
I'm getting ill-advisedly getting into it on the blog of the main restaurant critic here. man, it's pissing me off though. She posted asking people to list "overrated" restaurants because "So what's on my list of overrated restaurants? Are you crazy? Do you think I'm going to tell? I'm a coward."
Such a freaking cop-out. All she's doing is giving people a forum for griping. ugh
At least the comments aren't racist.
ion, sarameg, we'd love to come by sometime!! And, please, go ahead and put my name down as emergency contact at the vet. What dates are you going? (You can email.) After monday I'm mostly around for the next month and a half though.
Jessica - Jun 25, 2009 6:18:32 am PDT #25761 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I may get kicked out of Brooklyn for saying this, but...flat bagels are AWESOME for breakfast sandwiches. They've got the regular chewy bagel crust, but not the half-pound of bready interior to bite through before you get to the egg. So you get all the advantages of having your sandwich on a bagel instead of a roll, plus the ability to actually fit the dang thing in your mouth. Nom nom nom.
Barb - Jun 25, 2009 6:22:28 am PDT #25762 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
And now I'm hungry.
billytea - Jun 25, 2009 6:32:19 am PDT #25763 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I'll bet your political scandal didn't have erotic e-mails.
It's so true. Politics here is so dull compared to what you guys can pull. On the other hand, you don't have wallabies under the influence of narcotics trying to contact aliens. I call it a draw.
Kathy A - Jun 25, 2009 6:33:07 am PDT #25764 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Re: anchors reading the Sandford e-mails. Countdown had fun with them yesterday, including some really sappy music while Keith was full-bore emoting. Rachel Maddow, however, refused to read them, and only put the text on the screen while she spoke about them in the sidebar. She said if she started reading them aloud, she'd blush so hard they'd have to take her to the hospital, break for commercial, and then come back to find a new anchor sitting in the chair.
I'm just waiting for both TDS and Colbert to have more scripted stuff than they were able to write in the few hours before they taped last night.
Burrell - Jun 25, 2009 6:35:43 am PDT #25765 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Now I want bagels for breakfast.
It was a pretty heavenly way to start the day, msbelle. Now the kids are up too. Luckily they seem to have taken their cute pills this morning. I'm sure it helps that we aren't in a rush now that school is over.
Gudanov - Jun 25, 2009 6:45:33 am PDT #25766 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
It's so true. Politics here is so dull compared to what you guys can pull.
One of my favorite scandals where 'shot himself in the foot' could almost be taken literally.
Returning to his mobile home in Austin, the Republican representative was struck in the left arm by three buckshot pellets from a twelve-gauge shotgun, and his car was riddled with dime-sized holes. At various times since then, Martin, 29, has said his arm was raised to protect himself, to yawn and to check the time. Wayne House, then a legislative aide to Martin, took him to a hospital. But even then, House started to wonder: Had Martin staged his own shooting?
As time passed, evidence mounted that he had. Martin, a conservative Baptist, had set his sights on a state senate seat, and the assassination try sounded suspiciously like a p.r. gambit. Before the shooting, he had composed an "emergency list" of people to contact should anything happen to him; at the top, above his family, was his public relations man. Associates also noticed tiny discrepancies every time Martin recounted the shooting.
Martin ignored a subpoena to appear before a grand jury on Aug. 11, and then hatched a more outlandish version of what had happened: a black-masked member of "the Guardian Angels of the Underworld" had carried out the ambush to prevent him from exposing the satanic cult. On Aug. 17, Martin ducked another grand jury appearance—for his own safety, he said.
A few days later Martin's cousin, Charles Goff, 29, swore to police that he not only fired the shots, but also made three threatening telephone calls to a Martin aide to bolster the satanic cult story. The next day Texas Rangers found Martin hiding in a stereo cabinet in his mother's house and arrested him on an old assault charge. Free on bail, Martin denies everything. The grand jury will hear more evidence this week. If Martin is charged, it will probably be with a misdemeanor. Two possibilities: reckless conduct and making a false statement to police.
It's an oldie, but it's hard to beat.