Just met Want and Ignorance in the hallway. Ignorance was wearing red fuzzy slippers.
I happen to be very biteable, pal. I'm moist and delicious.
Xander ,'Bring On The Night'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
aurelia - Dec 05, 2018 8:56:28 am PST #2740 of 30019
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Toddson - Dec 05, 2018 8:58:59 am PST #2741 of 30019
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Ignorance of the dress code?
bennett - Dec 05, 2018 9:12:22 am PST #2742 of 30019
There was a day or mourning for Reagan complete with government closure. Only good thing that man ever did for me.
Amy - Dec 05, 2018 9:26:12 am PST #2743 of 30019
Because books.
I think the fanfare over GHW Bush might be because he is the most recent president to die. When Reagan died, or Nixon, they had been out of office for longer.
Was Jimmy Carter not at the service? I didn't see him. I did notice that the camera went close-up on all of the former presidents except the asshole in chief, who looked bored, confused and pissed off in equal measures.
-t - Dec 05, 2018 9:35:04 am PST #2744 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
NPR said all living former presidents were there
Toddson - Dec 05, 2018 9:38:11 am PST #2745 of 30019
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
From what I've heard, Carter was there.
EpicTangent - Dec 05, 2018 9:55:37 am PST #2746 of 30019
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Glanced at the video; Carter's there. They're seated in chronological order, so he and Rosalyn are the farthest from 45 (lucky them).
Jesse - Dec 05, 2018 9:57:37 am PST #2747 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Is this what we always do when someone who used to be president dies, the Day of Mourning and lying in state?
When I had this question earlier today, I found this article from Nixon's death that says yes, that's what we always do.
The Clinton administration's decision to close the federal government Wednesday in honor of Richard M. Nixon will cost taxpayers millions of dollars, but it follows the precedent of at least the past four presidential funerals.
Administration officials yesterday said the government was shut down for the funerals of John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harry S. Truman and Lyndon B. Johnson, citing those closings as the basis for President Clinton's decision to do the same for the Nixon funeral.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 05, 2018 10:09:55 am PST #2748 of 30019
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Glanced at the video; Carter's there. They're seated in chronological order, so he and Rosalyn are the farthest from 45 (lucky them).
Lucky everyone; there might have been a matter-antimatter reaction if they got too close.
-t - Dec 05, 2018 10:19:59 am PST #2749 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Thanks, Jesse! I guess if we're averaging less 1.5 a decade it's going to always seem old-fashioned, even if we say next time it will be different. And we don't tend to say next time it will be different. So there you go.