It has double the awesome!
Exactly!
Hell, I don't know. If I had wanted schooling, I'da gone to school.
Jayne ,'Ariel'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
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.
-t - Oct 23, 2009 1:38:35 pm PDT #15052 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Jessica - Oct 23, 2009 1:45:09 pm PDT #15053 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
But then, I find it funny that many of my Republican family/friends think he's so lefty. IMO, he's pretty centrist, really. He's certainly not as lefty as I am.
This was one of the things I found most annoying during the primary, honestly - that Obama's undeniable cool factor was almost universally misinterpreted as his being an extreme liberal. (Both from the young, hip left-wing supporters AND the craxxy-as-hell right-wing attack dogs.)
Jesse - Oct 23, 2009 1:47:00 pm PDT #15054 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The left/center thing is funny right now with one of the people running for Ted Kennedy's seat -- my parents' congressman, also their former mayor any my father's former boss. Anyway, in the greater Boston area, he's fairly conservative, and definitely had that kind of reputation. When he got to Washington, he realized he's a raging liberal in the rest of the country, and is now running for Senate as the "real liberal." Good times.
Hil R. - Oct 23, 2009 1:49:23 pm PDT #15055 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I have to admit that it softened me a wee, tiny bit toward GHWB to find out that (a) he was actually named for the poet Herbert Walker, and (b) he's at least vaguely familiar with Walker's work. Not quite enough for me to forgive him all his horrid offspring, but just a wee, tiny bit.
I'm pretty sure he was named for his mother's father, George Herbert Walker. [link]
smonster - Oct 23, 2009 2:02:29 pm PDT #15056 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
That was Dubya.
I know. I was riffing on HIS lack of foreign policy.
Another fan of the Judgment Day soundtrack here.
Steph L. - Oct 23, 2009 2:15:23 pm PDT #15057 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Now The Boy is in the shower, and I keep hearing "Woo hoo! Woo hoo!"
He's so entertaining.
JZ - Oct 23, 2009 2:19:40 pm PDT #15058 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Totally my brain fart, Hil. I meant George Herbert, and I'm pretty sure (though I can't dig up a link right now) that the poet's name is a family tradition (not an ancestor, just beloved by someone way back, and tradition maintained until Sr. named Jr. and dropped the "Herbert").
javachik - Oct 23, 2009 2:24:12 pm PDT #15059 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
JZ, you are/were correct.
JZ - Oct 23, 2009 2:26:58 pm PDT #15060 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Good God, the things I remember, and yet I STILL don't know the names of half my coworkers (not for lack of trying, either...maybe if they were all named after poets I'd be marginally less awful at it?).
javachik - Oct 23, 2009 2:29:41 pm PDT #15061 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
We could just totally rename them all after poets. For instance, anyone you really loathe could be called McGonagall.