Sarge’s recent adventure at the movies inspired a couple of questions…
What do these two movies have in common?
That one was easy.
This one is a little less obvious:
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Hair, Pink Panther and Apocalypse Now are color movies. 😉
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G’Morning All
Breast cancer awareness month. (BTW, my sister is a breast cancer survivor)The Ochopee Post office has been painted Pink for the month of October for Breast Cancer. The Ochopee Post Office is the smallest post office in the United States. It is a tiny shed on U.S. Route 41 near Ochopee, Florida, 34141-9998. It is located about 3 miles (5 km) east of the intersection of US 41 and State Road 29. The building used to be a storage facility for irrigation pipes of an adjacent tomato farm. It was turned into a post office, in 1953, after a fire which destroyed Ochopee’s previous post office and general store. The post office is currently fully functional, serving the surrounding populations of Miccosukee and Seminole Indians and Big Cypress Gallery. The local post clerk is often asked for the famous Ochopee post mark. In the USPS it is known as site 1842US.
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Jose Wejebe died earlier this year in a one person plane crash. He was born in Havana and fled Cuba with his family when Fidel Castro took power. In 1970s, he was a diver and animal trainer at the Miami Seaquarium. In recent years, he was host of TV show “Spanish Fly” on the Outdoor Channel.
A most poignant eulogy and tribute from his daughter. RIP Jose.To my father,
Thank you for being you, and teaching us all so much. Your biggest lesson to me was to live, love, and laugh. I wonder what you taught others?https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/251328_426334140756057_1255599882_n.jpg
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U.S. Flag is center piece for Mideast rally.
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A few breast cancer facts collected from the innernets
About 1 in 8 U.S. women (just under 12%) will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime.
About 2,140 new cases of invasive breast cancer were expected to be diagnosed in men in 2011.
White women are slightly more likely to develop breast cancer than African-American women.
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About 39,520 women in the U.S. were expected to die in 2011 from breast cancer, though death rates have been decreasing since 1990 — especially in women under 50. These decreases are thought to be the result of treatment advances, earlier detection through screening, and increased awareness.
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We’ve been watching movies on Netflix of late. I put a laptop next to the TV so the video cable would reach, but it’s inconvenient to get up and pause, etc. So I loaded some remote control software on the laptop and its companion app on my iPhone… Problem solved.
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It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.
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124 shamaal says:
October 5, 2012 at 6:37 pm
Nice drop in the unemployment stats from the household survey from 8.1 to 7.8, the steepest drop since December of 2010 (9.8 to 9.4).WOW!
Four years and five trillion dollars later, Obama has finally gotten our economy back into the shape it that Bush left it in.
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Re: Clear Lake crime wave.
I’m dining at that Denny’s right now. It’s right next to the Chevron store where my daughter’s car was jacked, at gunpoint, in broad daylight. On the same block is the Clear Lake HPD station. -
HPD: fighting the crime that illegal aliens won’t
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If we would just allow two queens to marry each other, it would be safe to get gas at either the Chevron or the Denny’s in Clear Lake.
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The New Yorker is sliding off the reservation a bit.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney announced the search with an air of urgency: “We will use every resource at our disposal to ensure the return of the President’s mojo, and that goes double for his groove.”
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More movie suggestions from yesterday:
The Wild Bunch
Saw the restored directors cut back in the 90’s.
Bridge on the River Kwai.
After thinking about it, yah, its on the list.
How the West Was Won
Saving Private Ryan
The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy)
Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope
Master and Commander
Saw them all in original release. I agree they all deserve big screen resurrection but my list is movies I have not yet seen on the big screen. Kinda of a movie bucket list. Having said that, How The West Was Won is on the list. I saw it in its original Cinerama release when I was young (the only movie my Dad thought would be wortht the extra cost of a Cinerama ticket). If Cinerama could be converted to 3D and shown on wide screens, I’d go see durn near every one of them—except Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.
These two are on the list now, too:
The African Queen
Robin Hood (1938 version with Errol Flynn directed by Michael Curtiz)
This one is an absolutely inspired choice, one I should have thought of. It goes to the top of the list.
So, what movies would be improved enough by converting to 3D that they should see a re-release in that format? Here’s a start:
Das Boot (I think 3D would actually enhance the claustophobic atmosphere of the submarine)
Jaws Just think of the reaction of people who have never seen the movie before when the shark comes out of the water to cew on the chum)
The entire John Ford Cavalry Trilogy (all of which are added to the movie bucket list) (can black and white be converted to 3D—would it be too wierd?). -
Watching College Gameday. The signs are just getting silly. Here are a couple I’ve seen this morning:
My Other Sign Tore Its ACL
I’m Asian
Mark Richt Wears Shorts
Play Freebird
And in the Junior High School division, most clever way to line up words to spell out ESPN:
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Yesterday’s news serge. Try and stay current.
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Good morning Hamsters. Great 62 and more ground fog early on and lately a light northerly breeze has joined in bringing more fresh air and the fingertips of the front.
Update #156 from last night regarding slide rule commentary from Super Dave, I can add that spouse found another slide rule in his ham radio den this morning. It is a Post, constructed on a bamboo base with a plastic caluculation matrix overlay, in a leather case, and is the smallest (maybe oldest?) of the three he has. He is not familiar with the model Super Dave inquired about.
He hasn’t used one at the office for maybe 20 years he tells me this morning, but for the 20 years before that, yes on occasion. 🙂 Imagine that to current HS and college students a slide rule must look as quaint as an abacus or as inscrutable as a quipu.
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Surprisingly, because it was a sweet looking Firebird, daughter’s car was recovered at a Friendswood park about a month later. It had been used in two robberies. I’d guessed that it wound up at a chop-shop the day it was stolen.
I was a bit worried about her safety when she moved to the crime-free Montrose last year, but she seems to get along well with the dangerous gays and lesbians there.
WB, no Grand Slam Gas, yet. But I’ll keep you informed.
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17 shamaal says:
October 6, 2012 at 10:24 am
Yesterday’s news serge. Try and stay current.
There’s more to the American economy than unemployment.Yah.
1.3% GDP
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Trouble in Paradise?
The New Yorker has a cover depicting an empty chair debating Mitt Romney.
And Bill Maher says of the debate:
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No more trouble than there was in July of 2008.
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Trouble in Paradise?
It’s kinda fun to watch the pretzel logic of the HNP and his toadies. Their whole campaign has been to paint a picture of Mittens for the last six months. It was working too. Then the voters got a chance to see the man for himself and are realizing that the HNP flunked art class. Now the Barry Bunch is whining that the real Mittens isn’t complying with their false portrait of him. The new campaign line is he must be a pod person. That’s a keeper, guys! Just like the extinction of Big Bird if Mitt wins. Meanwhile, back at the Swing State Ranch:
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No pretzels at all
The belief that the real Romney is the one shown on television in a two hour debate instead of the one folks have seen in person for six months requires a suspension in logic..
A flip and a shake and voila!
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Haven’t heard much from Hogfan this football season. Where are you Hogfan?
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Lots of people saw that when black jesus actually went up against someone with a little snap, he doesn’t look so good.
Later on, many probably started thinking that if Romney could slap him around that vigorously and black jesus can’t respond, then how bad would Putin b!tch-slap him? -
No worse than Bin Laden b!tch-slapped the previous clowns in the center ring
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then how bad would Putin b!tch-slap him?
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how bad would Putin b!tch-slap him?
Yabbut what if LLMD liked it?
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No worse than Bin Laden b!tch-slapped the previous clowns in the center ring
Nobody invaded any consulates or killed any ambassadors when the previous clowns were in the center ring. nobody put a bomb in thier pants and flew to Detroit when the previous clowns were in the center ring. Nobody opened fire in a crowded room full of unarmed soldiers inside the border of this country shouting “Allah Akbar!” when the previous clowns were in the center ring. Nobody shot any Army recruiters inside the borders of this country after coming back from a vacation in Pakistan when the previous clowns were in the center ring. The Muslim Brotherhood wasn’t in charge in Egypt when the previous clowns were in the center ring. Al Queda hadn’t penetrated into Egypt and Libya when the previous clowns were in the center ring
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I stayed up late watching a movie last night, and let myself sleep in this morning. I’ve taken my last antibiotic pill and now must indulge in my daily dry-me-up OTC stuff, but I’m not looking forward to feeling loopy again.
I also picked up Clancy’s latest book, “Dead or Alive”. It’s the latest in the Ryanverse series, and it seems he’s taking pot shots at TBO already, with Kealty as the cover for his comments. I love Clancy’s stuff. -
#26 If “black Jesus is Obama, is white Jesus a gay hating social conservative republican?
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And Bobo will always be the last sphincter in the body.
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heterophobe
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First, the New Yorker goes awol.
Now, the intelligence community is speaking out. That’s shocking. I thought the intel weenies pretty much kept their mouths shut. They must be really, really wissed off. -
#30 sarge
Sarge old buddy, it’s too nice a day to feed your selective outrage dementia.
Consider returning to the happy home with trees and flowers and chirping birds and basket weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes.
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Adee,
Imagine that to current HS and college students a slide rule must look as quaint as an abacus or as inscrutable as a quipu.
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I mentioned that particular slide rule because it had the Collins™ name on it and I’m sure that your hubby is familier with that brand. Like THIS HF SSB unit. -
From the goings-on here and the innernets, the evidence is in and it’s looking like the collective “progressive” is discombobulated. Poor One Percenter Big Bird. Where, oh where will his next BMW come from?
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It’s getting pretty cloudy. I may go outside and move some more dirt before it starts raining. I think I need to pick up pecans first, or I’ll have a small forest trying to come up next year. The tree where I’m putting some of the dirt is already dropping rather well.
Strangely, I’m not seeing a lot of squirrels. I usually see them all the time. I guess there’s enough in the upper branches that they’re not coming down closer to the ground yet. -
For those of an artsy-fartsy bent, the Bayou City Arts Festival is next weekend – downtown.
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Tedtam, my Lil’ 100 Lb wife moved 16 wheelbarrow loads of old brick/sand/trash to the ditch beside the barn @ the hold homeplace yesterday. The guy that put up our chimney sent a 20 something year old kid over to help today and he lasted ALMOST 2 hours before he threw in the towel. 😀
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I saw the headline to this story, and thought “And THESE are COLLEGE students?!” Why on earth is it unfair for TBO to not be able to use a teleprompter for the debate?
I thought that if you were in college, you were developing critical thinking skills. Or at least some common sense. I thought, then, that these must be stupid freshmen being interviewed, and then I saw this:More than half the people I asked, who thought the president could have done better, said “it wasn’t fair” that President Obama was not allowed to use his teleprompter in the debate. And while a handful of supporters did say teleprompters had no place in the debate, one thought it was not only unfair to President Obama but both candidates.
/facepalm
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For those of the green/black thumb crowd, the Houston Bulb & Plant Mart is next Friday and Saturday. Aside from bulbs, there is a huge selection of local plants and master gardeners available. A lot of trees also.
There are two premier gardening activities in Houston, the Plant Mart at Mercer Arboretum in the spring and this Bulb and Plant Mart in the fall. -
Superdave: I have just come up with the perfect project for you.
You need to use the old bricks and build a BBQ smoker pit thing. Can’t let those precious artifacts go to waste. -
Haven’t heard much from Hogfan this football season. Where are you Hogfan?
Soooooooooooooieeeeeeee!Roll Tide 😉
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A very fitting lampooning of the number one Obumma-Goebbelsite media propagandist.
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A lot of help you guys are… I left EPO with the $5 worth of capacitors I went after, and a beefy rack mounted APC UPS. I really didn’t need another UPS, but I thought it would look good in the rack.
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#44 Bonecrusher, that is an OUTSTANDING idea, If I can get enough of them cleaned up I may just do that. Since the bricks are a little over 150 years old and were fired on the place using local red clay, we did want to keep them. 😉
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#49 SD: Glad to be of service:>) Mebbe one day I will get to see it. . . . . .
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I have never seen a 3D movie and never planned on it.
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My first 3D movie experience was at the the IMAX in Hermann Park. It was about space, a review had it just about right, it said “only the gov’t could go on location to the moon and shoot a boring movie”.
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I like my cooking shows on Saturday mornings, but some of the hosts shouldn’t do the “reveal” at the end, where they sample their foods. Lydia is one of those. I like Italian cooking, but watching her eat turns me off. For some reason, I don’t have the same reaction from “America’s Test Kitchen” crew. Maybe because they don’t smack or try to put portions in their mouths when I know they haven’t swallowed their first bite.
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I was extremely skeptical of 3D until very recently. Just before Elizabeth died, we went to see one of the kiddie movies in 3D, I forget whcih one—we had gotten to the point where we considered the only good movies were kiddie movies—-
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I wish Lydia would adopt me.
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My dad wants to marry her.
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I’m going to marry Rick Bayliss’ daughter.
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I had a dream about Rachel Ray… Food porn.
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Mmmmm. Giada.
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News you can use.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/9333815/Original-recipe-for-Jack-Daniels-found-in-Welsh-book-of-herbal-remedies.html
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Push marketing of LB?GTH happy people by the networks.
HEADLINE: Study: Number Of Gay And Bisexual TV Characters At Highest-Ever Level
This fall, the number of gay and bisexual characters on television will be the most to date. (Getty Images)
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NEW YORK (AP) — The number of gay and bisexual characters on scripted broadcast network TV is at its highest-ever level in the season ahead, according to the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. The total on cable television is also going up.
The 17th annual “Where We Are on TV” report, released Friday, found that 4.4 percent of actors appearing regularly on prime-time network drama and comedy series during the 2012-13 season will portray lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender characters. That is up from 2.9 percent in 2011, which saw a dip in what had been a growing annual trend.I thought the actual percentage of “happy people” in the US was just under 2%, so this is an over representation.
“It is vital for networks to weave complex and diverse story lines of LGBT people in the different programs they air,” said GLAAD President Herndon Graddick. “More and more Americans have come to accept their LGBT family members, friends, co-workers and peers, and as audiences tune into their favorite programs, they expect to see the same diversity of people they encounter in their daily lives.”
Why is it that commercials tend to always have the best of friends as a group that consists of 3 different races? That does not reflect my life nor anyone I know. I have friends of all races but I can not recall a time when there were 3 different races in a group I was in. This push for diversity for diversities sake is starting to get out of hand. We have strength through unity of common purpose, everything else is just noise.
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I’ve never heard of Giada, but a little google search and all I can say is that she sure is easy on the eyes. 😀
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Dang. Put on my music and started trying to clean house. I’m starting to get shaky.
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On a lighter note: Out of Order
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Great commercial: Cullman Liquidation
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That’s great!
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In case you want to educate yourself on something, I found a website that seems to have it all.
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Their “Butt Drugs” ad is good too.
On the smoker today, A couple of Beer Butt chickens, with bacon beneath the skin, along with some beans.
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#15 Sarge:
So, what movies would be improved enough by converting to 3D that they should see a re-release in that format?
NONE!!!! Converting movies from 2-D to 3-D is a blasphemy even worse than Ted Turner (/spits) “colorizing” movies that were shot as black and white.
For 3-D to work properly the movie must be shot to begin with as a 3-D movie (ie using 2 cameras in a proper 3-D rig with adjustable IO distance and convergence). Even more importantly, a successful 3-D movie needs to begin, in the minds of the director and the cinematographer, as a 3-D movie, so that the 3rd dimension serves to work with and support the story. Otherwise it’s just some afterthought that is better left off. -
Leno better watch out straying off the Hollywood plantation and making jokes about Obumma and the Spitter. The jackboots may come for him next.
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Hubby and I were having a conversation about something similar just yesterday: Validation
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For 3-D to work properly the movie must be shot to begin with as a 3-D movie (ie using 2 cameras in a proper 3-D rig with adjustable IO distance and convergence). Even more importantly, a successful 3-D movie needs to begin, in the minds of the director and the cinematographer, as a 3-D movie, so that the 3rd dimension serves to work with and support the story. Otherwise it’s just some afterthought that is better left off.
From what I understand, with the new technology movies originally filmed in 2D can and have been converted to 3D. A while ago I read that the release of several movies had been delayed while the studios converted them to 3D.
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Obama inherited the Bush economy. When Romney wins, he will too.
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Looks kinda chilly in Lubbock.
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I think I might smoke some chicken too.
How do you light the dayaam thangs? 😉
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From what I understand, with the new technology movies originally filmed in 2D can and have been converted to 3D.
You can use technology to turn a male into a female – that doesn’t make her a lady.
Studios are busy doing 3-D conversions because they can charge a $5 to $6 premium for the tickets. NO serious filmmaker wants to have the movie they shot in 2-D converted to 3-D.
3-D is about far more than just have an image occasionally appear to stick out from the front of the screen.
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One thing nice about Turner colorizing the old B&W movies was that the process needed pristine B&W copies to begin with. They spent most of their time & energy restoring the B&W prints before even starting the colorization process.
If you get one on DVD, you’ll get a really good copy, then you can turn the color level on your TV down to 0 and watch in B&W. -
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Choice ones. Amusement while we all wait for that cold front to come in. -
Looks like the front is somewhere around Aggieville.
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Watching old show “Emergency”. It always amazed me at how little traffic there was in that ER. I guess that was when they were used for emergencies.
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Julie London
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I took my prednisone that was prescribed. It didn’t go down the first time.
I’m so glad I had some mints laying around. That stuff tastes like crap. The prednisone, that is.
Barf Kitty has been spending a lot of time in her bedroom lately, since I moved her warm blankie in there. She came out this afternoon, wanting to play. I found her fuzzy pony tail holders and tossed one on the couch. Never fails to get her riled up.
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Watching old show “Emergency”.
Reminds me of an old Tubes song what Do You Want From Life. “No, you can’t have that that but you can have….an autographed picture of Randy Mantooth!”
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Super Dave, with the same propane torch I use to fire up the hickory.
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Getting some housework done while tripping down TV memory lane. Hogan’s Heroes is next.
My sister and I both had a crush on Bob Crane when we were younger. And the two paramedics. Robert Conrad from Wild Wild West. David Cassidy. I even liked Micky Dolenz. I liked them either handsome or goofy, I guess.
Ah, the days when all seemed possible!
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GO LSU! (sowwy Hammy)
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Yeah, we’ll see. Barkevious Mingo???
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I had the hots for the a fore mentioned Julie London, Honey West, Stefanie Powers, Diana Rigg and Barbara Feldon.
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Speaking of Barkevious…
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THe wackyness in Californication is really catching up to them. Not only are the stoopid enviro-regs causing more pain, it apparently has infected the brains of the reporters and their editors:
One of the disruptions involved a power outage on Monday at the Exxon Mobil plant in Torrance, which normally produces 150 millions barrels of gas per day.
150 million bbls of gas per day?!?
The stupidity in CA is causing them to pay more than $1 per gal more than here and they are still in trouble.
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Hots wimminzes of my yute:
Barbara Eden
Suzanne Pleschette
The chick that played opposite Rock Hudson in McMillian and wife. -
#77 Pyro
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This sucks, guy declines use of his business as a campaign stop by Governor Romney and receives death threats.
The owner of a Denver restaurant who has received death threats after declining a visit by Mitt Romney said Friday that he “could feel the hate in the air” at his business recently.
“On Thursday, it was horrible,” Oscar Aguirre, the owner of Rosa Linda’s Mexican Cafe, told POLITICO. “It was dead. Yesterday during lunch, you could feel the hate in the air.” -
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#95: Yeah, her :>)
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Hubba Hubba
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“I have gotten two death threats,” said Oscar Aguirre, who owns the restaurant with his parents. “Somebody just called in, said, ‘Go back to Mexico.’ “
Given the unabated violence in Mexico that might be considered a death threat I guess, but that’s stretching it a bit. Makes for good campaign fodder for the “all Republicans are racist” meme.
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Makes for good campaign fodder for the “all Republicans are racist” meme.
Not all Republicans, just the ones who believe Mexicans are a race 😉
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And the so called Obama Justice Department does nothing ……………….
Hocking County Prosecutor Laina Fetherolf will not discuss the exact whereabouts of her panties.
But they most certainly were not on the judge’s bench.
Yes, she concedes there was a “wardrobe malfunction” in which she retreated from the courtroom and resolved the unspecified problem.
But no, she did not deposit her intimate apparel before Common Pleas Court Judge John T. Wallace and proclaim, “Problem solved.”Wasn’t the Case of the Prosecutor’s Panties a Perry Mason episode?
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Well Hammy them Gators are lookin mighty dang TUFF no doubt about it
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Uh oh, more evidence for those of us who believe abortions should be eliminated, instead of outlawed.
Providing birth control to women at no cost substantially reduced unplanned pregnancies and cut abortion rates by 62 percent to 78 percent over the national rate, a new study shows. The research, by investigators at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, appears online Oct. 4 in Obstetrics & Gynecology.
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Way To Go Gators!!
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I made a comment the first game of the season, when Florida was struggling with Bowling Green. They’ve done nothing but improve every week. I must retract my statement. Go Gators!
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My huntin’ buddy and I just got back from riding the 4 wheelers down the pipe line and when I was at his house earlier he was watching the game. He’s from Mississippi but went to high school in Lafayette where he met his wife. He can’t stand LSU, like me, we have never known an LSU fan that wasn’t a first rate A$$,…. well U know. Where I work, we have a lot of Auburn fans/alumni which usually aren’t too bad but we have quite a few from LSU and they are as bad as Dallas fans. 🙁
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1. 2001 Pontiac Aztek
( General Motors )
Drive one and you quickly realize that the Aztek’s exterior design is its best feature. It’s the very worst car of all time because it’s the only car on the list to kill an 84-year-old car company. It’s undeniable that the Aztek’s utter hideousness drove the biggest and last nails into Pontiac’s heavily side-clad, plastic coffin. -
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I’ll never forget the first time I saw an Aztek, my first thought was that it came already wrecked! The back end looked like someone had rear ended it and shoved the tail gate into the passenger compartment. ❓
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Doesn’t methanol also have a non-visible flame?
YUP! I remember seeing an Indy racer years ago running around and flailing about because he was on fire and the emergency crew didn’t know it, couldn’t see the flames.
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#108 yup
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Space-Ex to launch tomorrow at 1935 from Cape Canaveral.
This is the first of contracted regularly scheduled flights that reduce reliance on Russians for resupply.
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I remember seeing an Indy racer years ago running around and flailing about because he was on fire and the emergency crew didn’t know it, couldn’t see the flames.
Ricky Bobby? 😉
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I read this in the paper this morning. There’s a special place reserved in Heck for these type of folks.
The travel agency the club used turned out to be a fake run by a Dallas-area man and woman, who allegedly scammed the families out of more than $105,000. The pair, Andrea Dawn Maxwell, 38, of Bedford, and Donald Lagrone, 49, of Plano, were arrested Tuesday and charged with felony theft from a nonprofit. Authorities believe they used travel scams to steal from people in other cities and states.
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Hambone, Daughter has two Pole Cats and one is named “Ricky Bobby”. 😀
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Wow South Carolina 21-0 in the 1st quarter.
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Hambone, Daughter has two Pole Cats and one is named “Ricky Bobby”. 😀
Is the other one named Walker or Texas Ranger?
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oh good GRIEF – another “bright idea” by anti gun BOZOS that wouldn’t help prevent crime one whit
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They are currently battling a pending move by the state government which would force them to put laser etched microstamps on the firing pins of all their weapons, driving costs through the roof.
Welcome to Texas, Remington!
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Welcome to Texas, Remington!
As far as I know Sturm, Ruger is still located in Southport Connecticut but it does most of it’s manufacturing in Arizona now because the north east has become so “anti-gun”.
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Is the other one named Walker or Texas Ranger?
Rodney 😉
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Ain’t nobody even attempted to answer the questions what I posed at the beginning.
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First two – James Earl Jones
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I never saw Hair. Didn’t know Beverly D’Angelo was in it. She has crazy eyes. But, do the clips contain the commonality?
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After a fashion… 😉
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You know, ordinarily I don’t like to see a Texas school get one-upped by a school back East, but…
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You got me doing Six Degrees now.
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Did you know that Britt Ekland was married to Slim Jim Phantom (Stray Cats)?
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Amazing. Especially when it’s Legos.
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Another clue – There’s nothing intrinsic to the movies to connect them.
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Why yes, I do know that some chemicals prevent implantation. I also know that they can be administered to prevent ovulation and any conception.
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Another Medicare Fraud bust, this time for $430M.
Now, some folks will look at this and think cracking down on theft and fraud is a good thing.
While others will look at it and think, crime is rising during the Obama administration. This kind of enforcement action didn’t occur during the previous administration.A federal strike force has charged 91 people, including a hospital president, doctors and nurses, with Medicare fraud schemes in seven cities involving $429 million in false billings.
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Years ago, the Sealy Pontiac dealer was also an RV dealership. A salesman was escorting us through the new car parking lot right past the Aztecs towards the RVs. I started giggling and cracking jokes about the ugly Aztecs and telling my wife that that was the car the late night comics were making fun of.
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A bit of filmmaking trivia about Stanley Kubrick – he was well known in the industry for taking unreasonable amounts of time to shoot his films. This habit culminated with Eyes Wide Shut which took more than 400 days in production – Almost as much time as Peter Jackson took to film all three of the “Lord of the Rings” films.
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The only car that could equal the uglyness of an Aztek was the AMC Pacer.
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A Dog’s Purpose: from a 6-year-old.
Being a veterinarian, I had been called to examine a ten-year-old Irish Wolfhound named Belker. The dog’s owners, Ron, his wife Lisa, and their little boy Shane, were all very attached to Belker, and they were hoping for a miracle.
I examined Belker and found he was dying of cancer. I told the family we couldn’t do anything for Belker, and offered to perform the euthanasia procedure for the old dog in their home.
As we made arrangements, Ron and Lisa told me they thought it would be good for six-year-old Shane to observe the procedure. They felt as though Shane might learn something from the experience.
The next day, I felt the familiar catch in my throat as Belker’s family surrounded him. Shane seemed so calm, petting the old dog for the last time, that I wondered if he understood what was going on. Within a few minutes, Belker slipped peacefully away.
The little boy seemed to accept Belker’s transition without any difficulty or confusion. We sat together for a while after Belker’s Death, wondering aloud about the sad fact that animal lives are shorter than human lives.
Shane, who had been listening quietly, piped up, “I know why.”
Startled, we all turned to him. What came out of his mouth next stunned me. I’d never heard a more comforting explanation. It has changed the way I try and live.
He said, “People are born so that they can learn how to live a good life — like loving everybody all the time and being nice, right?” The Six-year-old continued,
“Well, dogs already know how to do that, so they don’t have to stay as long.”
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My #148 I bet ole Belker used to take Shane for a drag.
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I got up to an outside air temp that is truly Autumn. We’ll take it!
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Having to get more tissues, and not for nose-blowing, either. What a great pic.
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Now this is interesting; The Pedal Pub.
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Dan Patrick on Ch 2
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#140 tedtam
It looks like the Code Pinkies won’t be entering Waziristan after allA protest march against U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan, led by former cricket star turned politician Imran Khan, came to a halt on Sunday when authorities blocked access to the demonstration’s final destination in the tribal region, officials told CNN.
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Without a shred of modesty, I’ll admit that yesterday’s attempt at slow smoking was a tasty success. The steam from the beer and the bacon beneath the skin kept the bird moist.
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Bob, when do we eat?! We usually cook two beer chickens on bambi opening weekend, cook them for about 2-3 hours real slow on the grill.
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Watching Krugman on the talking heads this morning is either painful or priceless, or both. I can’t believe his reasoning. TBO did poorly in the debate because of his natural inclination to try to unite everyone? He wants to be president of everybody, so that’s why he looked so unprepared and disengaged?
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Did you know our tax dollars pay for this website? Former (and I hope future) mayoral candidate Fernando Herrera answers a question as to where the money would be better spent:
How about those 15,000 rape victims that don’t have closure because the city didn’t place enough priority on testing the rape kits containing evidence.
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Well Paul Krugman has been in Bob’s stash, he just said on This Week with Snottnufflegus, that the press was against Obama!?!?
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I’m loving watching Carville’s wife. He’s sitting there spouting off, and her eyes are at the ceiling and I can see the blood dribbling from the corner of her mouth as she bites her tongue off.
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Well “This Week” is certainly “Fair and Balanced” four guys for obama and two ladies for Romney. The crazy cajun alien is quiter than normal though.
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Krugman just got called a liar on national TV!
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By whom? I had to turn it off when I saw he was on.
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My #161, to be fair, the combined IQ of the two ladies is at least 280 and the fours guys about 300,…maybe? 300 is prolly pushing it just a little. 😉
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Had a great day in Mass today. A former priest in our parish came back to visit. He’s one of my favorite people. He was back to baptize a new baby and bring her into our family.
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Bob, when do we eat?! We usually cook two beer chickens on bambi opening weekend, cook them for about 2-3 hours real slow on the grill.
I’m a novice at grilling and especially at slow smoking, but I quickly learned that to make it worth the time, trouble, and hickory, it’s good to smoke in big batches. We had two birds, two bacon/bean bowls, and a few links of sausage. Daughter stopped by and helped put a dent in it and took some home with her. Half of the remaining bird is going to a friend in Dickinson that’s been having medical issues.
Another lesson quickly learned was that the thermometer on the pit itself is woefully inaccurate, off by as much as 100 degrees. I MacGyvered a rig to hold the digital meat thermometer such that it measures the temperature of the air in the smokestack. I think I’ll buy myself a Guinness… -
#158 Hummus
No I did not know that, but then, I suppose that there are a lot of internet sites that I don’t visit with ties to civic and municipal organizations
Many metropolitan cities sign contracts with promotion entities. The GHCVB was created in 1963. The last audit I can find was instituted by Mayor Parker in 2006, perhaps it is time for another one.
If Mr. Herrara wishes to run on an limited Houston Business promotion platform, I wish him well. His points about the sad funding state of the HPD laboratory is well taken. I’m not sure though whether he can direct the revenue stream from the visitor taxes towards the lab. I wish him luck.attractions: Museums, Farmers markets, houston culinary tours, Historic Sites, shopping, performing arts, art galleries, parks & outdoors, golf courses, spas, sports & tours.
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I’m a novice at grilling and especially at slow smoking, but I quickly learned that to make it worth the time, trouble, and hickory, it’s good to smoke in big batches.
One of my guys at work smokes a week’s worth of food on Sunday in is big wood smoker. Sometimes he brings some to work. 😀
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Good morning Hamsters. Snoopy Happy Dance today is in part to stay warm when outside. Yea. Woke up to 55 and breezy, overcast moved in early, and it’s all of 58 right now. How nice to get out some fall clothes at last. And what a change from yesterday afternoon’s 85.
Went pumpkin shopping in Faith United Methodist Church’s annual pumpkin patch on FM 359 at Homes Rd. Have been buying there ever since they began doing it some 10 years ago. They buy from a Navajo reservation in New Mexico, the sale proceeds go to local charities, and if you pay by check and mark it donation in the memo line it’s tax deductible. Just copy the cancelled check for your files. 🙂 A triple win situation. The selection is very good, the pumpkins are fresh, and they usually last well into or through November if bought for decoration but not carved. Some years we’ve had one or two still good in January. The rotten ones go on the compost pile, and again this June we had pumkin vines producing little ones all over the compost pile–some large enough to be edible. -
Heh heh. Here it is:
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We’re even dying the fountains pink now?
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Splendid walk on the pipeline this a.m.
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As far as I know Sturm, Ruger is still located in Southport Connecticut but it does most of it’s manufacturing in Arizona now because the north east has become so “anti-gun”.
Ruger moved to Newport, NH a short while ago. NH is definetly NOT anti-gun.
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The Sesame Workshop made $123 million in profits last year. Big Bird’s a One Percenter!
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Governor Romney’s not just after Big Bird but PBS. I hear Occupy Sesame Street is being led by a grouch.
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As I recall, it was the Romney campaign that made an issue of federal funding of PBS, at the recent debate. All the opposition is making is fun of is Romney and the 200+ delusional republican hypocrites in the house that attempted to defund the network.
The federal government spends ~$430 Million funding 15% of PBS’s operating expenses, and in return the public receives quality programming with little commercial influence or interruption.
The federal government alone spends ~$25 BILLION per year on Richard Nixon’s 42 year old political war on a plant, which has failed in every possible measure, and is responsible for a horrific number of needless deaths and draconian levels of incarceration for non-violent “offenders.”
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Without a shred of modesty, I’ll admit that yesterday’s attempt at slow smoking was a tasty success. The steam from the beer and the bacon beneath the skin kept the bird moist.
That looked pretty tasty.
I’ve never cooked a whole chicken; always seemed to be not worth the trouble especially since the roasted ones at the grocery store are pretty good. And cheap.
I’ve also never smoked a turkey. All my efforts at smoking in general have been somewhat less than stellar.
I do cook a mean turkey via traditional roasting, though. The white meat stays as juicy as the dark meat usually is. Brining is the key. For extra flavor, I’ve found that bacon is too overwhelming so I use herbs and aromatic veggies. And more herbs – sage, rosemary, & thyme (no parsley, S&G fans) under the skin, in the space between the thighs & body, in the cavities, and in the pan. I grow all these, so I can use lots and lots. If I bought them fresh right before Thanksgiving, they’d prolly run me about $50. The house smells totally awesome while everything’s cooking.
I learned another trick for herbs when my thyme plant drowned because the drain hole in the pot clogged one year. I was at the grocery store getting dinner stuff and almost fainted when I saw how much fresh thyme was. I then noticed they had some in 6″ pots next to their other potted plants for like $4. So I just used that.
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Ah yes. It always comes back to the stoner constituency.
The federal government spends ~$430 Million funding 15% of PBS’s operating expenses, and in return the public receives
quality programming“progressive” indoctrination with little commercial influence or interruption.Maybe Big Bird can help fund PBS a bit with his $123 million. And perhaps billionaire George Soros could pitch in a little and give the taxpayers a break. Here’s an example of how it’s done:
In addition to his taxes, Romney has given around 16.4 percent of his income over the past two years to charity through his family charity, the Tyler Foundation. In addition to donations to the Mormon church, here’s where else Romney and his wife Ann donated money: the Boys and Girls Club of Boston, the Center for the Treatment of Pediatric MS, the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Homes for Our Troops, and the Inner-City Scholarship Fund, among others.
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That’s sounds like good spicing. I just used pepper and a little poultry seasoning rubbed inside and out. The bacon made it plenty salty for me. I thought about a dash of nutmeg too, but wisely decided against it.
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Usually I have enough thyme and rosemary to cook about 10 turkeys…
What about the ….. 😉
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The veggies I use are the traditional ones – celery, onions, garlic, & carrots – because they work so well. I cut mediumish onions into eighths, carrots into 2″ chunks, cut a couple heads of garlic in half crosswise, and use the top & bottom quarters of a couple heads of celery cut into big chunks. Cram those into the cavities and fill the pan up with the remainder instead of a roasting rack. I also cut a couple apples into quarters and stuff those into the cavities.
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I did catch another theme this morning, especially from Gibbs. It seems that Romney gave a “theatrical performance” during the debate, and that’s why he cleaned Obama’s clock.
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Governor Romney’s not just after Big Bird but PBS. I hear Occupy Sesame Street is being led by a grouch.
That means we get to add in the profits Ken Burns has made in the past 30 years too. Abd Austin City Limits.
Not really going to be all that hard to convince people that if the folks we are actually PAYING to put on the hour long commercials for thier products and projects that appear on publicy funded airwaves that the recipients of all that money can afford to pay the share the government is currently putting in to continue to allow them to cash in on the opportunity.
PBS has become the worst kind of crony capitalism and corporate welfare. It uses you children and your guilt to extort money from you. If our “investment” of $430 million a year allows corporations to garner profits in excess of $123 million, the costs far excede any benefit we’re getting from them. -
It’s a valid, fact based comparison of two federal expenditures. Deal with it.
Ah yes. It always comes back to the stoner constituency.
There’s a “constituency” of reasonable people that think other policies would be more beneficial and less costly than prohibition, and they have a mountain of facts on their side. The social conservative political war on a plant is blatant example of the duplicitous pricks that control your party sacrificing fiscal conservatism at their hallowed alter of social conservatism.
Any politician of any party that supports continuing to wiss away billions every year on a failed policy while making a big deal out of funding Big Bird is a hypocritical, immoral liar. I actually agree with the small government philosophy of letting CPB go it alone these days, but do to that while continuing to support funding needless violence at an order magnitude greater than public broadcasting is just plain stupid. Is the social conservative base so willfully ignorant that they don’t know the difference between Millions and Billions? Maybe they’re just brainwashed by government propaganda or blinded by their instilled hate of social liberals.
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At least Bonecrusher is honest about his motivations for ending the funding.
Ah, so my motivations are dishonest? My motivation is that the federal government has no mandate to be in the broadcasting business. Period. In fact, such an enterprise is rife with opportunities for the government to use it as a propaganda tool and there are many examples of it doing just that. Funding CPB is merely a symptom of out-of-control spending by the feds. Taken separately, it’s small potatoes. Put them all together (on the chopping block) and they’re significant.
This a completely separate issue from your stupid war on a war on a silly plant. In other words it’s a red herring, but I have no doubt you’ll continue to serve us rotten kippers. -
We could probably do without the infamous “Mohair Subsidy” too.
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Don’t the balding mens need that one, Hammy?
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Only the ones insecure in their manliness 😉
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Any politician of any party that supports continuing to wiss away billions every year on a failed policy while making a big deal out of funding Big Bird is a hypocritical, immoral liar. I actually agree with the small government philosophy of letting CPB go it alone these days, but do to that while continuing to support funding needless violence at an order magnitude greater than public broadcasting is just plain stupid. Is the social conservative base so willfully ignorant that they don’t know the difference between Millions and Billions? Maybe they’re just brainwashed by government propaganda or blinded by their instilled hate of social liberals.
So let me get this straight.
Its OK to defund PBS. But the people who want to defund PBS but don’t want to legalize pot are bad people.
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You too must be brainwashed by government propaganda or blinded by your instilled hate of social liberals. Apparently those are the only two choices to explain your irrational war on Big Bird.
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Put on some man pants. I was talking about the politicians.
Ah, so my motivations are dishonest?
You’re not dishonest, you’re just hypocritical.
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It was the longest low-speed police chase in history, but finally his batteries wore down. Never the quitter, the Energizer Bunny managed to get up and run another half mile after police tazed him.
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Mmmm mmmm. Rotten kippers.
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You’re not dishonest, you’re just hypocritical.
so let me get this straight.
If there are two ideas on the table, you agree with both of them, but i agree with only one, I’m a hypocrite.
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#192 Hammy
Howz about this role model?
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Sarge, show me how cannabis prohibition makes any fiscal sense. Otherwise, if the shoe fits…
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I just got back from visiting Mom at the nursing home. I was with her for almost an hour before I had to leave, and she only gave me 2 or 3 moments where I wished I wasn’t there. I actually enjoyed most of my visit.
Of course, that makes up for her disappointment that I didn’t stop in to see her last week when I was sick. She never asked how I was doing, nor did she thank me for trying to avoid making her sick. She was just angry that I didn’t come personally get her dirty laundry and her shopping list.
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October 7, 2012 at 3:58 pm
Sarge, show me how cannabis prohibition makes any fiscal sense. Otherwise, if the shoe fits…No, dipschizzle, I don;t need to show you a freaking thing to have an opinion which disagrees with yours.
And it doesn’t make me a hypocrite if I disagree with you on the value of anything.
You logic is this:
We both want to buy a car, and you like both the Toyota Camry and the Ford Fusion because you think each hold the same value.
I don’t like the Ford because I think I get more value out of the Camry than I do the Fusion.
To you, that makes me a hypocrite—merely because I do not agree with you on the value of an item or idea.
That does not make me a hypocrite.
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#203 Perfect explanation of libertine logic.
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October 7, 2012 at 4:35 pm
#203 Perfect explanation of libertine logic.Its not logic at all.
The goal is to find out any way possible to label the other person as a bad one. That’s it. Its the only goal. Bobo does not really beleive in gay marriage or legalizing pot. His only goal, because he is a liberal and a democrat partisan, is to find as many ways as possible to make conservatives look like bad people.
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From the News Junkie at Maggie’s Farm via Ed Driscoll:
Here’s one heck of an ad. Real, heartbreaking, and far better than LBJ’s daisy girl ad. Mom is beautiful, worried. She wants to say something, decides not to. He’s depressed, she feels sorry for him and wants to reassure him. He doesn’t want pity, wants to be a proud male, can’t handle her compassion and concern. And the kids…
If I were on Mitt’s team, I’d ask to have this 30-second drama run nationwide.
This is happening out there, all over. Best political ad I’ve ever seen.
My comment at Maggie’s Farm:Stunning and powerful. The silence is profound.
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I dunno what those three movies have in common, but I didn’t know until now that R. Lee Ermy was in Apocalypse Now.
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#206 Texpat, I saw that ad a few days ago and YES it is GREAT, and it’s what’s happening all over the country right now. The guy in the ad is like you and I, he wants to work,
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Well the “Village Idiot” is cramming for the debate. 😉
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Sarge your car buying analogy is nonsensical. I don’t care what car you like. It’s your money. You support spending other people’s money via government force. That requires factual justification.
If it is your opinion that the war on a plant is fiscal conservatism, then you should be able to support that opinion with facts. That you so childishlisly refuse to is pretty good evidence that you can’t.
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Blah blah blah. Let’s hear about how conservatives torture teh ghey for a while.
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#206 Texpat, I saw that ad a few days ago and YES it is GREAT, and it’s what’s happening all over the country right now.
And it could have been posted at the end of 2008, I would add an overlay with
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The goal is to find out any way possible to label the other person as a bad one. That’s it. Its the only goal. Bobo does not really believe in gay marriage or legalizing pot. His only goal, because he is a liberal and a democrat partisan, is to find as many ways as possible to make conservatives look like bad people.
That pegs my irony meter. 😉
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…then you should be able to support that opinion with facts.
In case you haven’t noticed, no one bothers to present facts anymore when dealing with you. You never dispute their facts. You just ignore them and trot out your same old amoral blather ad nauseum.
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Jonathan Tobin at Commentary’s blog on the threat to religious liberty in this election:
Just as significant is a referendum battle in Florida that will not only help determine the future of religious liberty in this country, but whether we are capable of facing up to our troubled past. Florida’s Amendment 8 is an effort to formally allow the state to legalize aid to religious institutions providing social services as well as education. It was made necessary by a lawsuit launched by left-wingers determined to prevent religious groups from providing aid to prisoners in the state’s jails who say the Florida Constitution bans the flow of state money to any religious institution, group or individual. They are right, since Florida was one of many states to pass a so-called Blaine amendment in the late 19th century as part of a campaign of discrimination against Catholics. Though the left looks to such Blaine amendments to enforce their ideas about an impenetrable wall of separation between church and state, it is nothing more than a holdover from an era of religious hate. Repealing it via the passage of Amendment 8 will not just make things easier for religious social service and education providers in Florida. But it could also be a turning point for the battle to defend religious liberty in America.
Tobin links this NY TImes article on the amendment battles in Florida.
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Bobo and shamaal are fireants on the scrotum of this blog.
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#214 My stash must be affecting my memory. How could I forget all those times that the drug warriors have trotted out a litany of solid facts supporting the the absurd notion that cannabis prohibition is consistent with fiscal conservatism, or small government.
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I dunno what those three movies have in common, but I didn’t know until now that R. Lee Ermy was in Apocalypse Now.
The thing they have in common is that they comprised a triple feature at a movie theater in SW Oklahoma City in May of 1982.
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Bobo and shamaal are fireants on the scrotum of this blog.
I can’t speak for B42, but I’m flattered, I think.
Care to elaborate?
Continuing the analogy, I’m looking forward to hearing which one of the other hamsters that you think is the left nut and which one is the right. 😉
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#216 You know those gnats that are always buzzing around Max the beagle’s peter?
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The thing they have in common is that they comprised a triple feature at a movie theater in SW Oklahoma City in May of 1982.
That’s a bit more than “esoteric”, bubba. Jeez.
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#218 wagonburner
That was a tough one.
But I would point out my answer from #1 is correct also.Hair, Pink Panther and Apocalypse Now are color movies.
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Max the beagle
I thought the beagle was named Jill and was therefore without said equipment.
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My beagle was named Jill. Shannon’s is Max.
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If we would only end the war on a silly plant, we could cut out any unneeded or not Constitutionally mandated program regardless of the relative savings involved without being called a hypocrite.
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You support spending other people’s money via government force. That requires factual justification.
No, it doesn’t.
It requires MORAL justification because, as you said, the issue is taking other people’s money. I can factually say that my neighbor needs a new lawnmower, but I cannot morally justify taking your money to provide him with one, especially if he has the means with which to buy it himself. This is at the heart of the PBS argument: Is it moral for me to take money from you in order to give it to another who s going to use it to make a profit, especially when he can very easily make that profit without government funding.
However.
The majority of the people in this country think the issue of denying the use of consciousness altering substances has moral justifications. Among these is safety on the roadways, in the workplace, and the welfare of the children of habitual drug users.
These arguments are powerful, much more so than yours, so you resort to change the moral argument by saying that people who oppose you are doing so only because they are bad people. You pay no attention to thier motives and you applaud those you claim to be your own.
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They don’t demoralize me. They make me laugh, usually preceded by the question, “Is this all you got???”
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If it is your opinion that the war on a plant is fiscal conservatism, then you should be able to support that opinion with facts. That you so childishlisly refuse to is pretty good evidence that you can’t.
Now, the reason why I know your actual purpose is demonizing Conservatives and Conservatism is strawman arguments like this. Nobody has ever said that the illegality of pot has anything to do with fiscal Conservatism.
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He just wants to get stoned! Is that so wroooooong???
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#216 Shannon
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Half the people in this country are below average intelligence.
The majority of the people in this country think the issue of denying the use of consciousness altering substances has moral justifications.
I’m not sure how stupid one has to be to believe that simply declaring a plant to be “bad” and passing laws criminalizing its possession will stop people from doing it, but I’m certain that it takes a self-delusional degree of irrationality to witness the myriad failures of the war on a plant, and still maintain that it’s worth the costs and has a chance of attaining its stated goals.
Your sorry excuse of an argument in favor of perpetuating the insane plant prohibition is equally applicable to alcohol prohibition. Why don’t your delusional control freak hero’s try to prohibit that dangerous substance too?
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The elitist snobbery always oozes out sooner or later.
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Texpat
If so, is this a hermaphroditic forum ?
No, but the evil-satan-worshiping-librul-gay-agenda will not be complete until it is.
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If we would only
end the war on a silly plantallow teh ghey to marry each other, we could cut out any unneeded or not Constitutionally mandated program regardless of the relative savings involved without being called a hypocrite by an elitist know-it-all. -
I’m satisfied to say I have wasted only about a thimble full of pixels responding to Bob42 recently.
It’s just not worth my time or using up the the very low tolerance I have for morons. -
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If we would only
end the war on a silly plant allow teh ghey to marry each other,prohibit gay bears wearing clown suits from singing show tunes, we could cut out any unneeded or not Constitutionally mandated program regardless of the relative savings involved without being called a hypocrite by an elitist know-it-all. -
OMG! Didn’t watch any football today and I just checked the scores. Quick somebody check on Ms Adee!
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Changing the topic, a few thoughts on WAF …………………
Take ’em or leave ’em
The next word starting with the last letter of the current word may be to restrictive. Perhaps using any letter from the current word will provide flexibility with the e and y endings
That might also cut back on folks having difficulty with rule number one1. Reply with a word associated with word in previous comment
Clearly this rule is on the honor system and, as SD discovered, googling some of the bi-related terms may identify unpleasant associations. One can only speculate what unpleasant experience with a 13 and a half inch globe lead to the ossified one’s associating longitude with enema. (46/47)
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On the other hand, I must make a defense, however wobbly it may be, of our feeble friend, Shamaal.
The difference, and it is well defined, between Shamaal and Bob42 is one of honesty. Shamaal has never pretended to be anything other than what he is – a deeply partisan liberal. He is unequivocal about it and takes a lot of invective goodnaturedly here knowing his snarky bulls**t has provoked it. Fair is fair and he doesn’t complain.
I have half a dozen friends in Texas and New Jersey who fit the Shamaal mold and they are some of my closest friends. We all understand where we stand and there will be no changing of minds. My position is there is much more to life than politics and those who don’t understand that severely limit their horizons. My liberal friends know, without question, I would do anything on earth for them and I know they would do the same for me.
Conversely, we’ve had Bob42 prance around and through this site and LST for years pretending to be a Libertarian (his biggest fraud), a dopehead, a rights advocate, a homosexual, a heterosexual, transsexual and who remembers what else ? None were convincing or even transparent. He is simply not a serious person.
Bob42 is a dallying fool, a pretender to the court jester.
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Oh yeah? Well unless you present some facts to back that up you’re a hypocrite!
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#239 shamaal
Good ideas. I’ll try to incorporate something like that.
I instituted that rule to try to make people think a little harder and be more clever. It didn’t quite work out that way, but it has produced some interesting results.
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#241 Hamous
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Speaking of entertaining adversaries, Daily Kos has the O’Reilly/Stewart debate from yesterday. No registration, it will be up to until they discover the copyright violation.
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#240 texpat
Prance???
He’s prolly sashayed, frolicked, gamboled, cavorted, paraded, flounced, skipped, and/or bounced, but I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a prance. -
Shamaal has never pretended to be anything other than what he is – a deeply partisan liberal.
In my defence I see myself more as a deeply flawed conservative.
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The Space Ex Dragon capsule is up and has deployed its arrays. There’s still maneuvering and capture to go, but doggone it; that’s twice in a row!
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Sigh, sorry to witness another one point loss for Green Bay. Spouse and I left to go for early supper around 4, and when we came back I had plants to water and a few other things to do before checking in here. Thank you for the kind thoughts about the game.
I seem to have arrived in the midst of a multilateral jihad, pies flying hither and yon, food fight breaking out once the pies are used up, quite something to witness here. Wow.
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Yes, I did.
He’s prolly sashayed, frolicked, gamboled, cavorted, paraded, flounced, skipped, and/or bounced, but I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a prance.
..while wearing my ex-wifes panties. I’m surprised you don’t remember. Have you been in my stash?
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Hamous and I have been through some unbelievably nasty commenters like Wil Barnes and Anti-Fascist.
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In my defence
I’ve noticed you use the English spelling of several different words over the years. Are you an expat?
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Ooh, I forgot about anti-fascist. That was one weird dude.
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No, merely an affectation. 😉
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#248 Ms Adee, I’m with you! I was going to talk about the great day that I had with my boy, but it would just be a waste of time. Let the food fight continue, later gang. 😀
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No, merely an affectation.
Uh huh. Sorta like Barry & Joe’s affectation to sound like black preachers.
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Some may remember the story a few months ago of a man who claimed his cat died in an automobile accident and filed an insurance claim. He was busted when the picture of the faded feline was discovered to be stock photos off the internet and is now up for sentencing.
At the time these were simple (and, admittedly, humorous) allegations. But these days use of the word “alleged” is no longer required – as Samsonov is scheduled to be sentenced for his crime Monday in Pierce County court.
But it gets better, a previous claim was for a demised parrot.
Representatives for the Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner say this isn’t the only fake-dead-animal related claim Samsonov has been involved with. Rich Roesler, who handles public affairs for the Insurance Commissioner, says Samsonov tried the exact same scheme with a fictional dead parrot.
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You may not know this but my great Uncle was a famous veterinarian. No, it’s true! There was a popular television show made from his memoirs – All Creatures, Great and Shamaal.
Anyway one day a lady takes her parrot into my Uncle’s surgey. My Uncle takes one look and says, “I’m afraid your parrot is dead.”
“That’s terrible,” says the woman, “How can you know that. You haven’t examined it or anything.”
My Uncle heaved a long-suffering sigh, places the parrot on the examination table, opens the door and whistles. At this, a labrador dog bounds into the room, hops up onto the table, sniffs at the parrot, looks up and shakes its head sadly. My Uncle gives another whistle and a cat comes into the room, springs up onto the table, sniffs the parrot and then shakes its head sadly.
“Well I’m terribly sorry Mrs Jones but there can be no doubt about it. Polly is dead.”
“Well, it’s devastating news but thank you. How much do I owe you?”
“That will be $650 please.”
“How much?” cried the woman in shock. “That’s far too much money!”
“Well it’s your own fault,” Said my Uncle, “If you had believed me in the first place it would only have been $25.
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OK, I’m not much on PRO ball but the boy says that Houston is doing good, I LQQked it up and Houston 4-0-0, Hotlanta 5-0-0, the only two teams that are undefeated, Houston plays on Monday, so who knows, maybe they have a shot?! I HAVE no idea. 😉
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Hamous and I have been through some unbelievably nasty commenters like Wil Barnes and Anti-Fascist.
And then there was Feagan—a thoroughly detestable being.
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#216 Shannon
Bobo and shamaal are fireants on the scrotum of this blog.
The wimminz don’t care for fireants either.
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Come on Super Dave, tell us about your day. I bored everyone with Gypsy’s gamboling. 😉
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#218 Pyro
triple feature at a movie theater in SW Oklahoma City in May of 1982.
How could anyone know that? Reminds me of a quiz bobo ran one time where we had to guess what the subway stops were in Noo Yawk City, or maybe it was what color his underpants were. Tedtam commented that no one wanted to be in a position to know the answer.
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I put out some ant poison earlier today.
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Sarge
And then there was Feagan—a thoroughly detestable being.
That’s an understatement.
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So …..
What’s the difference between a saxophone and a lawn mower?
Lawn mowers sound better in small ensembles.
The neighbors are upset if you borrow a lawnmower and don’t return it.
You can tune a lawnmower
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And to be fair, a few for the percussionists
Why are orchestra intermissions limited to 20 minutes?
So you don’t have to retrain the drummers.
What do you call someone who hangs out with musicians?
A drummer.
What did the drummer get on his IQ test?
Drool.
How do you get a drummer to play an accelerando?
Ask him to play in 4/4 at a steady 120 bpm.
Why do bands have bass players?
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Amusing.
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#262 mharper42,….Amen,..Sigh
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on Drudge: Hissssssss
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Yet perhaps the reason for Obama’s reluctance to face questions and counter-argument was not just that Obama is not very good at it and resents doing his homework (“a drag”), and not just that his economic and foreign policy records are dismal and would be hard to defend under scrutiny, but largely that he has had scant need to work on debating or sharpening his analytical skills — given the investment of the media and popular culture in his success.
An often distracted and diffident Obama has astutely understood that his own fortunes were in some strange way a referendum on the liberal sensibilities of legions of neurotic but influential elites. That realization had excused him from much of the mundane worries of other politicians — almost as if problematic things like polls, government statistics, laws surrounding lay-off notices, or controversies (from Fast and Furious to the Libya consulate disaster) would all be properly adjusted by others more interested in his success than he in his own. -
Always the victim, how sad …………………..
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