In not-particularly-mature news I'd have to admit I'd browbeat the hell out of New Guy if he were younger than me. As is I just try different methods to get the best out of our interactions.
See how I'm not punching him? I think I've grown.
Mal ,'Shindig'
Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Jan 22, 2010 5:18:31 am PST #3455 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 22, 2010 5:20:03 am PST #3456 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
It's be cool if New Guy had a blog or something, so we could find other stuff to criticize him for. I mean, for when Tino's not busy....
Maybe we should just start calling New Guy "Tino".
Or "Schmacky".
tommyrot - Jan 22, 2010 5:21:40 am PST #3457 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Or "Schmacky".
ita, I dare you to call New Guy "Man-pony."
Tom Scola - Jan 22, 2010 5:37:00 am PST #3458 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I left home, took the A and the Air Train to the airport, and made it through security in about an hour! It's a record! I couldn't have done much better if I cabbed it!
tommyrot - Jan 22, 2010 5:37:31 am PST #3459 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
'Oath Keepers' Leader Arrested for Child Rape; Cops Find Stolen Grenade Launcher In His House
We first noticed Marine Sgt. Charles Dyer, aka "July4Patriot," back in March, when we ran one of the first reports on the "Oath Keepers" bloc of the Tea Party movement -- an organization devoted to recruiting military and police-force veterans into a Patriot-movement belief system predicated on a series of paranoid conspiracy theories, especially the notion that the federal government intends to begin rounding up citizens and putting them in concentration camps.
Dyer played a prominent role in connecting the Oath Keepers to the Tea Party movement, speaking at a July 4 Tea Party rally in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. And he's been involved in organizing militia "maneuvers" in Oklahoma.
Dyer cropped up again in the news -- this time in the police blotter for allegedly raping a 7-year-old girl:
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Meanwhile, unsurprisingly, the folks at American Resistance Movement -- a group Dyer was also prominently involved in -- are claiming that Dyer was set up, and the girl who accused him was "programmed" to do so. Accordingly, they've set up a "Free July4Patriot" fund, with a little button on their front page so you can donate.
tommyrot - Jan 22, 2010 5:43:10 am PST #3460 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
So someone sent in a photo purporting to be of large hail that hit his house.
Note that the 'hail' appears to be ice cubes.
Ginger - Jan 22, 2010 5:44:22 am PST #3461 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Every time Tom writes that he's taking the A Train, I end up humming Duke Ellington.
Jesse - Jan 22, 2010 5:50:07 am PST #3462 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Every time Tom writes that he's taking the A Train, I end up humming Duke Ellington.
Oh yeah. And when I lived on 107th, I was singing "Across 110th Street" every time I grocery shopped!
Tom Scola - Jan 22, 2010 5:52:58 am PST #3463 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I was once walking past the corner of 53rd and 3rd when that Ramones song came up at random on my iPod. Didn't see any male prostitutes, though.
Jesse - Jan 22, 2010 5:54:08 am PST #3464 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I love when stuff like that happens. I was walking in the Public Gardens the other day when I heard that Augustana song "Boston," and almost cried in public!