I am still having to explain Angry Birds references to people. SIGH
Whoa. Good myth.
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Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Theodosia - Mar 02, 2011 7:25:07 am PST #25949 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
sumi - Mar 02, 2011 7:25:30 am PST #25950 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
It's only a matter of time, Theo.
Vortex - Mar 02, 2011 7:38:09 am PST #25951 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Is it now that I confess that I've never seen Angry Birds? I mean, I know what it is in concept, but I've never actually seen the game.
Fred Pete - Mar 02, 2011 7:41:20 am PST #25952 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
when was the last time we in the US have had a major news media outlet that constantly makes up the news in order to further a partisan agenda? Was it the yellow journalism of the 1890s?
I don't know about "making up," but partisan/ideological bias lasted long after that. The Chicago Tribune of the FDR era comes to mind.
tommyrot - Mar 02, 2011 7:41:24 am PST #25953 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.
A commercial in which cats have opposable thumbs: [link]
Is it now that I confess that I've never seen Angry Birds? I mean, I know what it is in concept, but I've never actually seen the game.
But how will the Angry Birds get revenge against the pigs who stole their eggs if you don't play the game?
Vortex - Mar 02, 2011 7:44:28 am PST #25954 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Um, what?
§ ita § - Mar 02, 2011 7:45:18 am PST #25955 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Noah showed me Angry Birds, I think. I don't get it.
DavidS - Mar 02, 2011 7:46:42 am PST #25956 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Speaking of Fox, when was the last time we in the US have had a major news media outlet that constantly makes up the news in order to further a partisan agenda? Was it the yellow journalism of the 1890s?
Certainly into the 30s. Back then there were so many newspapers that they covered the entire political spectrum. It wasn't just one or two papers per city. I think NYC had nine different dailies at one point.
Hil R. - Mar 02, 2011 7:50:42 am PST #25957 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Because in Germany you can offset charitable donations against tax?
(I've no idea if that was the case in the 1860s, though).
I seriously doubt that Germany in the 1860s (or, well, I guess it was Prussia then) gave tax breaks for contributions to Jewish community charities.
I can see someone somewhere keeping a list of this stuff, but I can't figure out how it would make it into a published book. And this had to be an expensive book to print -- just about every paragraph has one or two words in Hebrew, usually "May his memory be a blessing" after a mention of someone who had died, so they had to have a printing press and a printer who could deal with that. I can't read it well enough to figure out what the rest of the book is -- it's something like 18 volumes, so it can't just be a list of donations, but I can't figure out much beyond that.
Connie Neil - Mar 02, 2011 8:17:46 am PST #25958 of 30001
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It could be an archive of a group of charities, some people get inspired to publish the oddest things--even before e-publishing! It's like all the books that are publishes with the passenger lists of ships that landed in Colonial America.