Ginger: The problem with the yahoos who are always nattering on about the founders is that they don't know who the hell the founders were or what the Constitution says. They have a vague notion that the Pilgrims wrote the constitution to create a Christian government that protects their rights while abusing the rights of people not like them.
You two carried me through that war. Now I need you to carry me just a little bit further. If you can.
Tracy ,'The Message'
Coffee On My Monitor Again
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Trudy Booth - Aug 05, 2010 9:43:43 am PDT #488 of 1328
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
smonster - Aug 05, 2010 10:42:11 am PDT #489 of 1328
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Cashmere in Natter, and ain't it the truth:
Buffistas are so smart that they've ruined everyone else for me.
flea - Aug 06, 2010 6:16:43 am PDT #490 of 1328
information libertarian
Jars:
Also, oy. I just sent a report in where I'd used 'find and replace all' and ended up with 'opium poopy' all over one section.
DavidS - Aug 07, 2010 1:38:04 pm PDT #491 of 1328
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Consuela: I am writing and listening to my iPod and thinking about going into the city, which will require me to get changed and all that. But I must go, because I made a pie, and simply cannot keep it at home. However carrying a pie on mass transit is never all that easy: I need a pie-carrier.
Tom Scola: I will take the pie — though I do not know the way.
Trudy Booth - Aug 11, 2010 6:42:34 pm PDT #492 of 1328
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
ita: CIO sent me a "Welcome to the team!" card. I doublechecked, and she is still spelling my name in all caps. I feel obliquely chastised.
tommyrot: Does she think you're an acronym?
ita: I hope she thinks I'm the right one. Continual total agreement would be useful.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 12, 2010 6:03:17 am PDT #493 of 1328
"You should never say bad things about the dead, only good… Joan Crawford is dead. Good.” —Bette Davis
Tom Scola regarding The Departed in Movies:
That movie goes on forever. Just when I thought that Scorsese couldn't possibly have any more ass to pull endings out of, he went and proved me wrong.
Vortex - Aug 16, 2010 1:25:18 pm PDT #494 of 1328
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Aims, in Natter
I love that picture of the Gabor sisters. I can't decide if Zsa Zsa is telling Sinatra to call her, or throwing some strange Swedish gang sign.
WindSparrow - Aug 17, 2010 3:16:36 am PDT #495 of 1328
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Tom Scola, in Bitches:
Thanks to Fox News, there are SO many people out there who sincerely believe that trolling is an acceptable form of discourse.
Aims - Aug 17, 2010 11:39:01 am PDT #496 of 1328
Shit's all sorts of different now.
It's just funny.
amych in Natter re: FB shenanigans:
You are not to blame for the vikings. Your interesting facebook companion is like "BUT THE VIKINGS!" and other people are like, bzuh? And then he's like "JFK! VIKINGS!" and other people are, here, have some trufax. And he's all "CIVIL WAR! VIKINGS! WILL NOBODY THINK OF THE VIKINGS!!!"
Polter-Cow - Aug 17, 2010 11:51:43 am PDT #497 of 1328
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
A conversation about interracial marriages turns to geology in Bitches:
Shir: Actually, thinking about it for a second: I have Hungarian, Polish, English, Lebanese, Israeli and German blood in me - and that's just up to the grandfathers' generation. One more up and there are countries which don't even exist today.
Mixing rocks.
Jessica: Mixing rocks.
Anyone else just have a Willow moment?
(Mix rocks? Why would anyone want to - oh.)
Jars: No! No mixing rocks! Sedimentary rocks with sedimentary rocks. Volcanic rocks with volcanic rocks. Metamorphic with metamorphic!
Shir: Racist!
Ginger: Rockist!
Polter-Cow: Geologist!
Ginger: But sedimentary rocks are already mixed.
Aims: NO EXCEPTIONS!
amych: I am shocked and saddened by this display of Tectonic Supremacism in our midst.
Jars: See what can happen? It's a slippery slope! And do sedimentary rocks last? Do they? A few million years and they weather away!
Ginger: They don't stand by their principles! Under pressure, they become entirely different rocks.