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DOING FINE RIGHT HERE
How about you?
Crowded House on the stereo, a beer in hand and about to leave to watch the Borat movie…
Life is good.
Posted by Villeurbanne on 2006 11 16 at 12:55 PM • permalinkReady to hit the sack- I’m a renowned insomniac here in my Chez Aussiemagpie
Even all the cats are sleeping - and the lefty lawyer (my partner) who unfortunately loves Algore, votes Labor, hates PM Howard and Pres Bush and he’s all for carbon credits - a total waste of a human been I reckon
And I just had my 3am snack - Vegemite on toast with plenty of butter - mmmm
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2006 11 16 at 01:02 PM • permalinkYep. Great. Just having a laugh over at Anonymous Lefty‘s*.
You?
I feel like a pint with some like minded individuals.
How about a London blogger pissup? Anyone?
*Oh god he does look like Edmund Blackadder…pity for him that he’s got the mental capacity of Baldrick.
Pretty good, thank you. The weather is dismal - grey, wet, cold - but fortunately, Al Gore is down under, so we’re not having really bad weather. I don’t know what he did to piss of Gaia, but it must have been really bad.
On another note, Newt Gingrich has a commentary in today’s (11/16) Wall Street Journal. It’s must reading for anyone interested in the future of the GOP, or winning the GWOT. In brief, he says that Dubya can take either of two courses in dealing with the Democratic majority: he can reach out to the liberal leadership, or he can reach out to the conservative rank-and-file. If he does the former, he splits the GOP and hamstrings the GWOT. If he does the latter, he splits the Democrats and builds support for the GWOT.
My guess is that he’ll do the former: because he’s whipped and has lost the stomach for any sort of fight. Not that I blame him, but there it is. I hope I’m wrong, but I don’t think so. The next couple weeks will tell the tale.
Posted by Urbs in Horto on 2006 11 16 at 01:03 PM • permalinkBig Storm coming here in DC.
Trees will be downed. The lawn will be buried under a ton of leaves.
The dog will tremble for the next eight hours.
But if the winds sweep those democrats off the streets, I’m going out for a walk.
Posted by lumberjack on 2006 11 16 at 01:06 PM • permalinkDave S: I never knew there was such a thing as “a little Sabbath.” That’s like “a tiny volcano!”
Ozzy, Tony, Geezer and Bill: Forever!
PS: I’m doing fine, right here.
Posted by Bill Spencer on 2006 11 16 at 01:09 PM • permalink#8 murph
Thanks! I enjoy your posts too
Talking about Kangaroo Point - we stayed at a dreadful motel there on our way to Noosa - our fault as we didn’t book anywhere but it was Christmas holidays and there were no vacancies from Sydney to Brissie - so we ended up in this dive right near the bridge at Kangaroo Point
Sorry - no point to this tale except it brought back memories of a bad smelling room, two tired cranky kidlets and an extreme need for a drink or four at around 4am
But Noosa was there later that morning thank heavens
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2006 11 16 at 01:16 PM • permalinkBreaking down the Viking range for a good cleaning before the holidays.
Or must we eat the pumpkin raw?
Posted by Janis Gore on 2006 11 16 at 01:18 PM • permalinkI just had this nightmare that the Democrats took over Congress and Rumsfeld resigned.
Glad I’m awake now.
Posted by Rittenhouse on 2006 11 16 at 01:19 PM • permalinkQuite warm, very rainy, with a tornado watch and flood warning in place here in Virginia. I’m running out now to buy some carbon credits in the hope that Gaia will direct any twisters and flooding away from my place.
Posted by Polish Frizzle on 2006 11 16 at 01:30 PM • permalinkFine, fine. Getting ready for the Match of the Century, pitting the fine lads of the #1 team of the land, Ohio State University Buckeyes, vs. the #2 punk asses, the University of Michigan Wolverines.
Even if OSU was #359 and Michigan was #401, it would still be a major battle. Being that Michigan lies to the north of Ohio and we hate them and they hate us. At least during college football season.
Please wear clothes that are scarlet and gray and eschew any clothes that are dull navy blue and that revolting maize. And feel free to frequently shout, even if in an important business meeting, SCREW THE BLUE!
Go Bucks!
Posted by wronwright on 2006 11 16 at 01:31 PM • permalinkI had read in the paper that Al Gore was coming to town, so I assured myself that the snow shovels were handy, and I enrolled Bogan in dog-sled school. Sheila made a point of leaving fur coat catalogues lying around the office. Politicians are an expensive habit.
Just how expensive, I was about to find out. The intercom buzzed.
“Paco, there’s a . . . gentleman here to see you. Says he might have some important work that would be right up your alley.”
“Send him in.”
The door to the office opened and a large, elderly fellow lumbered in. He had a shock of white hair atop a face that looked like a big ball of red Playdo some kids had left out on the sidewalk on the hottest day of august. But fat as he was, his eyes had a shrewd, hungry look.
“Detective Paco, I’m Representative Jack Murtha. Glad to meet you.”
We shook hands, and then I furtively checked to make sure I still had my ring and wristwatch. “Take a chair. Er, I mean to say, please sit down.”
He stopped feeling behind the cushion in a fruitless search for loose change - I had already been over that ground - and parked himself.
“Detective Paco, I’ll get right down to business. I’ll be taking over as leader of the House shortly, and as part of my plan to root out corruption, I need a man to help me find out where all the skeletons in the closets are.”
I almost choked on my unfiltered Camel. Murtha’s own closet must resemble the one from that movie, The Lady from Shanghai , with a whole Democratic Caucus-full of skeletons in place of the infinitude of Rita Hayworths. But I figured I’d play him along.
“So who are your primary targets, Congressman?”
“Well, the obvious ones, of course: Karl Rove, Donald Rumsfeld, the President. But there’s also a lotta small fry, people like Tom Davis, Mike Pence, John Boehner, and so forth.”
“Uh huh. I seem to see a common thread here. The guys you mentioned are all Republicans.”
Murtha gave me his patented angry stare. “Naturally. That’s where the rot is.”
He was getting warm and he fished a white handkerchief out of his coat pocket to mop his face. Unbeknownst to him, several c-notes fluttered to the floor.
“Pardon me, Congressman” – I pointed at the bills scattered on the floor – “but your principles are showing.”
He was old and fat, but he snatched up the bills with the alacrity of a large iguana in a small terrarium shooting his tongue out to catch crippled flies.
“I tell you what, Jack. Now’s your chance to try out your cut and run strategy on a very personal basis.”
“Whaddaya mean?”
“You leave now – and take that onyx ashtray out of your coat pocket and put it back on my desk – and I’ll give you a hundred-yard start.”
“You can’t talk to me that way! I’m a veteran!”
“So was Benedict Arnold.”
“Hah! I’ve got you there! He actually took the money!”
I picked up my “letter opener”, pushed the button, and when the blade flicked open began to casually open a letter.
“Jack, I’ve got a letter here from a Mr. Abramoff. Hmm, wonder what it’s about? Says here, he wants to cut some kind of deal, maybe less prison time if he spills a few more names of high-profile bribe takers. Says maybe I can serve as go-between with the Feds.”
Oh, he didn’t like it. He didn’t like it at all. The color drained from his face and he rose from the chair, silently placing the ashtray back on my desk. Without a word, he turned and stomped off, like a disgusted bear at Yellowstone Park who had encountered a group of tourists who took seriously the signs saying, “Please don’t feed the animals.”
I got Sheila on the intercom. “Say, baby, I’ve got a note here from the dog-sled school. Bogan’s been expelled for getting too friendly with the lady huskies. Better swing around and pick him up.”
Not so hot. Installed new clutch in a Peterbilt, now it sounds like shit. Think I got the flywheel side facing backward, a true rookie move. So gotta climb back under and wrestle out a half ton gearbox just to flip the damn thing. Also Gaia is sure pissed off here in Central Virginia, word is her boytoy is down carousing in Oz. So, rain and tornados til Al gits back.
yojimbo
Unfortunately I’ve missed the boat as far as the Richie Benaud lifestyle. Having to give up my seat for first day of the first Ashes test at the Gabba members because of work commitments was tough to swallow.
Anyhow, at least I’ll be in a target-rich gloating environment when we stuff the Poms. C’MMMMOOOORRRNNN PIDGE!!!!
Two comments following up another brilliant detective Paco story:
First-the Dems have elected Steny Hoyer as majority leader (screw you Murtha!!!).
Second-despite the above-this is how Nancy Pelosi will deal with the “culture of corruption”:
So, we have a major land transfer with the Army and Navy spending money to rehabilitate the land as a result of major contamination. And there is Nancy Pelosi on the front end involved in the land transfer – her son in the middle involved with zoning – and a nephew bringing up the rear with the developer. Coincidence? And how much pressure did Pelosi exert on the military to put money into this, or grant concessions on the land?
Things are pretty much back to normal around here. Little Billy had to use his club foot to stop persons of no description from going through with that sacrifice in the microwave, or whatever it was. Mary’s still in Colorado waiting for the Pacific Ocean to make her condo beachfront, and don’t you believe that paco person; I was NOT screaming “Self pollution is the devil’s phone booth” when the mead still exploded.
Other than that, how’r you?Posted by Gary from Jersey on 2006 11 16 at 02:31 PM • permalinkDoes this sound legitimate to ya’ll? I’m skeptical.
To: Paco-at-PacoEnterp.pac
From: cccvx!!ool778@scammo.lagos.com
Message: Urgent Reply Requested Lukrative BusinessesDear Friend:
My name is Al Gore and until recently I was President of the United States. However, unethical Republicans led by George Bush, Karl Popper and Jake Murtha stormed the white House at the head of an army of cowboys and I had to leave. However, OUR GREAT PRESIDENT Bill Clintoon, feeling in his heart great sadness at how I was treated, gave me a cigar factory in Cincinatti, florida, very first rate worth at least $100 million U.S. But I now have found a job with Congressman Hastings and am filled with ethics so I must sadly dispose of it. Although the cigar factory is worth at least $100 million or maybe even $300 million, I am willing to transfer it to you for only $100 thousand dollars in carbon credits. please reply most confidential for satisfactory business.
Your sincerest servant,
Al Gore
Alright, stop with the backchannel shit. I can’t help it that Gaia lives in Washington DC, if you’d read Arriana Huffington once in a while, you’d know it too.
To quote: “Gaia is a thin, demure, middle-aged Bennington grad (1978: Art History/French). She lives in a modest walkup in Adams-Morgan, and works as the assistant benefits coordinator for a leading eco-foundation. Her twin daughters, Bitch and Fertility, attend the National Cathedral School. Close friends have trouble telling them apart, but note that Bitch has a new nose ring, while Fertility has perkier tits. Gaia maintains a chic but restrained personal style, and shows a strong preference for established designers and quality fabrics. Her only risque choice are boyfriend Al Gore’s balls, which she wears as earrings to set off more conservative evening ensembles. Small and delicate, the jewels hang on a pendant and resemble the sort of arty trinket one might find on a vendor’s table at an urban street festival. Gaia is quite publicity shy, but does make conference appearances for a modest fee and private jet transport (G-V or Citation X with synthetic seatcovers STRONGLY preferred).”
So now you know.
Tim, you’re trying to change the subject. When do you start at Fairfax and what is your title?
Posted by Some0Seppo on 2006 11 16 at 03:07 PM • permalinkOh, and Al-Jihad, Al-The Time is being shown in the U.S.
If our side used suicide bombers, I’d sign up now.
19 RebeccaH
Did James Waterton just say he had a birthday yesterday?
Well hell, a belated Happy to ya’ Mr. Waterton.
So did I and so did my granddaughter…I’ll be damned. AND yes, having a birthday, beats the alternative. At least until I see the alternative.
27 91B30
Second-despite the above-this is how Nancy Pelosi will deal with the “culture of corruption”
Yeah well, first she has to pass the William Jefferson $90,000 found in his freezer SMELL test.
Milton Friedman, Rest in Peace.
As to me, I’m just finer then Frog’s hair, especially since those storms last night caused no damage to property nor me.
It’s five hours until happy hour. Life is good!
Posted by swassociates on 2006 11 16 at 03:59 PM • permalinkWell, with Paco and Stokes, I’m waiting out Gaia’s temper tantrum in Central Virginia. Being sick as a dog for a week with a sinus infection that the
little bratsgrandchildren gave me makes me appreciative of finally getting up enough strength to come in to work.But, I’ve got a business proposition for all ya’ll down under. I’ll guarantee at least $20.00 for
a bribean incentive for you to keep Algore.Now, if someone will lend me $20.00?
Elizabeth
Imperial KeeperPosted by Elizabeth Imperial Keeper on 2006 11 16 at 04:29 PM • permalinkOK thus far. Just finished a trip to Boise, attended a disaster exercise (the exercise was about a disaster, not a disaster in and of itself. Fortunately).
Lovely drive back through the Blue Mountains, just an occasional rain shower. But lots of blue sky, and great views of the snow covered mountains. Said snow being early, since Algore was in Seattle a few weeks back. Heck, we had unusual flooding and snowfall all through the northwest since then! I’m hold off on thanking him, as a wet winter is always appreciated around here. But that won’t be known until next spring.
Looking forward to the weekend, truth be told.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 11 16 at 04:33 PM • permalinkI haven’t slept for two days. Thanks for asking. Nice story paco.
Posted by Daniel San on 2006 11 16 at 04:37 PM • permalinkJust heard of the death of Paul Rigby. Doubt if anyone in Australia, let alone anywhere else, remembers him, but I rate him as Australia’s greatest satirical draftsman and political cartoonist. His only rival to the title might be Bruce Petty (despite what you might think of his politics). The rest, nowhere (look at poor old Pryor in the Canberra Times!!).
BTW, Rigby as a stylist was clearly the inspiration for Adelaide born Pat Oliphant (described by Wikipedia as the most widely syndicated cartoonist in the world), even down to the trademark little figure in the corner making a sarcastic aside (Oliphant’s is a penguin, Rigby’s was a dog). As far as I know, Oliphant has never acknowledged this.
Posted by Consuela Potez on 2006 11 16 at 04:39 PM • permalinkThat’s US dollars.
Elizabeth
Imperial KeeperPosted by Elizabeth Imperial Keeper on 2006 11 16 at 04:50 PM • permalinkWell, now that you ask.
I was sitting in McDonald’s at lunch today reading the newspaper (although you can’t call the Atlanta Journal Constitution much of a newspaper) when I overhead a couple of Nation Of Islam types talking about the weather machine that the U.S Government has in Alaska that caused Hurricane Katrina to miss Miami (because of the Jews, they nodded in agreement)and to hit New Orleans.
You just can’t make this stuff up.
Well, Paco and Wronwright can, but you know, they’re Paco and Wronwright so you kinda expect it.
Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2006 11 16 at 05:04 PM • permalinkI’m wondering whether I should hit the boss for another raise. Chances are small, considering that he’s just spent five thousand dollars on a new whizzbang scanner gun for the storeroom; said toy not really being much use until we buy a new label printer to replace the 1980’s model we’re using now. That’s probably another $2K. Still I might give it a shot. If nothing else I’ll have the unworthy pleasure of watching his eyes bug out of his head.
Major plans for the weekend include going to see THE PRESTIGE and reading some more of JOURNEY TO THE END OF NIGHT. Celine reminds me of LLL with his endless rambling, but he throws in a few sharp lines now and then.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 11 16 at 05:36 PM • permalinkCould be better.
I was hoping to celebrate making 1,000 posts by treating myself to an apostrophe, but can’t seem to manage it. Ain’t life a bitch?
Re #39
I don’t think Tim will mind if I let the Timbonauts in on his little secret.
On Monday he starts as the new Dating Blogger with Fairfax. The blog is to be known as “Tim and the City” in which he explores love, sex, romance, flirting, and all that stuff.
The first topic will be “Plastic turkeys: does size matter?” soon to be followed by “Speed dating - I went waaaay over the limit”. I understand that he welcomes further suggestions…
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 11 16 at 05:39 PM • permalinkIt’d be funny if 1.618 was actually Margo Kingston.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 11 16 at 05:49 PM • permalink#64: Interesting hypothesis, but I doubt there’s anything to it. 1.618 has a certain indefinable . . . something, a sort of exhuberant charm, a non-euclidian view of the world that is quite striking, albeit a bit baffling at times. Margo is only too dreary and predictable. And I’m not just saying this on the chance that 1.618 may look like the young Lana Turner and we may bump into each other some day and she might be the sort of girl who’s turned on by fedoras. I’m not. Honestly.
I’ll say another thing positive about the storm that passed through last night having already mentioned, no harm to property or me.
Looking down onto the Gulf of Mexico from my upper deck, the residual effect of the storm has produced some of the most stunning waves and breakers, I’ve ever seen.
Unreal, beautiful and awesome.
Hello everybody. I am not a very regular poster but just want to say to everybody thanks for a great read. Every so often at lunch time I get strange looks over the partition as I burst out laughing after reading some post.
As to a little anonoyance. A bit pissed off because Battlestar Galatica is not on but I donot think the season (2) has finished. Or if it is on, I cannot find it. Only thing I can cling to is that we finally get a SciFi channel on FOXTEL (cable). As a close to 40 y.o. who likes Star trek (loved NG, has fallen a bit since then, still the child) It is bit like being a Human induced Global warming sceptic, feeling like I am the only one.
But to all the much more quick witted and sacrastic than I ....keep it up. It helps.
Posted by The Big Fish on 2006 11 16 at 06:25 PM • permalinkGreat picture of the Democratic triumvirate over at Confederate Yankee, post-announcement.
#53 Consuela
I remember Paul Rigby. He was funny.
Rigby cartoon: Segovia.
Australian cartoonist, Rigby, depicted Massie’s sensational assault on the English batsmen (scroll down to cartoon)I can’t find any more. I remember his cartoons from the newspapers and that he was funny, and I remember the little dog in his cartoons.
#48 Alright Imperial Keeper, a little arm twisting and subtle intimidation round the shop has established a credit line not exceeding US$17.50 for the purposes of bribing the Aussie nation to keep and maintain Al Gore in the style to which he is accustomed. If we can cook this deal before the snoozers down under wake up it might avoid some backpedaling and carping from his new owners. So, first step, you get hold of Rupert Murdoch to grease the headline writers, I’ll call INS and have ‘em yank the passport. Later.
Doing fine here in NJ, Tim. The weather’s a bit icky…50+mph gusts and rather warm (I hope AlGore gets back from Oz soon and cools us down). Heading out in a few minutes to choir practice and then after that I’ll head to Basil T’s Brew Pub in Red Bank and down quite a few ales. Yum!
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2006 11 16 at 07:24 PM • permalinkIt’s getting better all the time, now that the people have spoken and democracy has come to save America from it’s renegade boy President.
Posted by Miranda Divide on 2006 11 16 at 07:25 PM • permalinkI am thinking of starting a petition to require getup.org to spend any money they make out of this project on something more worthwhile.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 11 16 at 07:27 PM • permalink#74 Kae. Thanks. Rigby and Petty. Every Australian political cartoonist now drawing derives their style in one way or another from either of these two greats. No Petty, no Leunig.
Posted by Consuela Potez on 2006 11 16 at 07:27 PM • permalinkI’m broke as usual and frustrated because I can’t do things I want to right away (patience was never one of my virtues), but I’m in a pretty good mood nonetheless. This probably has to do with the fact that we’re going to have some nice cold, New Australian-style weather tomorrow. Well, no snow, but at least it will be nice and chilly. Yay!
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 11 16 at 07:34 PM • permalinkJust caught a glimpse on Fox of a news conference with Nancy announcing Hoyer is the man. What struck me was the forced smile which continued while walking past the press and others.
As an outsider trying to figure out US politics I can’t help but suspect the lady is thinking “how the hell did I talk myself into this job”.
Re #80
Here’s a good cause.
I wonder if they could use $61,000?
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 11 16 at 07:46 PM • permalinkAhhh… what a weekend of decisions. I was going to go and get arrested for screaming socialist slogans at the ‘neo-liberal capitalists’ with the Stop G20 crowd.
Then I remembered that I am a neo-liberal capitalist, so I think I’ll go to a weekend drinking session at a former catholic nunnery in vineyard country instead.
Life is good when you’re with the Illuminati.
PS. Great tale detective Paco
Not bad, since you ask.
I’m in central Mexico at the moment. The Gore Effect has cut in here, too, despite the fact that he probably wouldn’t darken the sidewalk. They’ve had so much rain that there are beginning to be serious worries about the brush when the dry season fires start.
Fortunately my contract was prepaid, so the fact that no Government official in Mexico can spend a dime until Dec. 1st (when the new President is inaugurated) doesn’t affect me.
The sky is clear, temperature around 18-20C, the room is comfortable, the food is good. I have such companionship as my personality has earned, but I’m used to that. Saturday, back to the salt mines.
I’m pretty sure I can stretch the expense account to the extent of contributing another $20 US to the “Oz keeps Al” campaign. The return address on the envelope gives me a bit of pause, but perhaps “paco & wronwright charities LLP” refers to somebody else…
Regards,
RicI’m a bit sad to hear about Paul Rigby passing.
Rigby was a great friend of Australa’s military men, especially in the 60’s and 70’s, and drew many cartoons both funny and political in support of Australian soldiers in the face of widespread anti-Vietnam protests directed at the Diggers.
His watering hole was the Ocean Beach Hotel (the ‘OBH’) in Cottesloe, also a favourite waterhole for the SAS soldiers as it is close to their barracks at Swanbourne just up the road, and he was an honorary member of the SAS Officer’s Mess.
The saloon bar walls were covered with murals drawn by Rigby.
Rigby went on to international fame as a syndicated cartoonist and was based in the US for many years.RIP Paul.
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2006 11 16 at 08:11 PM • permalinkWell, I had the day off today, so that’s good.
My car just failed its smog check for the third time after spending $700 to fix it. Not so good.
But the mechanic told me that if I drove it around for a while to settle things down it would probably pass, so I took myself off to Pasadena for lunch at Pie ‘N’ Burger. Excellent.
Overall the glass is still half full.
#67 - El Cid, yeah, absolutely right.
I never was one for getting things in the right order. I was seven years old before I realised that ‘put your shoes and socks on’ is not a phrase to be taken literally.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 11 16 at 08:28 PM • permalinkA cool and overcast morning here in Hong Kong, which is welcome after a long, hot and humid summer. Pollution is at the “Cut with Knife” level and as usual I can hardly see Victoria Harbour from my balcony let alone the Tsing Ma Bridge (of which I sometimes get a decent view - or did, until someone plonked a 50-story building in my line of vision).
Saddened to hear of Paul Rigby’s death. When I was boy he drew a great cartoon for our school magazine; a generous gift given his fame at the time (mid-70s). I grew up looking for the little dog in his cartoons and always admired the detail he could pack into a small space. One of the absolute greats and an Aussie who made it big in the US long before anyone had heard of Hogan, Gibson, Men at Work…
RIP Mr Rigby.
85 Spag_oz
Just caught a glimpse on Fox of a news conference with Nancy announcing Hoyer is the man. What struck me was the forced smile which continued while walking past the press and others.
Ummm, Spag, if I may call you that, all or most all of us in the U.S. have seen that forced smile, over and over and over again. Kind if like, when you have to go, say to take a shit, and you just can’t get to a crapper.
As an outsider trying to figure out US politics I can’t help but suspect the lady is thinking “how the hell did I talk myself into this job”.
Ahhh, this one is simple. No one has figured out US politics. The closest was a person that had American blood coursing his veins, but wasn’t. Sir Winston Churchill, who once said….You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they’ve tried everything else.
Paco, yes have two decks…one looks onto the Gulf, the other the Sand Dunes.
Apparently pollution has its upside.
Similarly, I’d imagine, a few carefully managed nuclear winters. Is there no environmental problem that the nuclear industry cannot solve?
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 11 16 at 08:42 PM • permalink#1 Patricia, I know what you mean. The first battle was Pilosi NOT getting Murtha. This is good abd bad. Good for the country but had he been there, he would have exacerbated the Demos self-destruction.
Whatever happens politically in the US, the war must still be fought.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 11 16 at 08:49 PM • permalinkWent out with a girl named Fine once. Didn’t work out. Everywhere I went, people told me they were doing her.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 11 16 at 08:50 PM • permalinkAussiemagpie, leave him for me - I’ll be there in a month. Unless, of copurse, you are in some terrible place like Melbourne, with all those lefties. How about a trip to Darwin?
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 11 16 at 08:51 PM • permalink#5, I see this man “Admitted to practice” on 6 Nov 2002. What was his penalty for the plea bargain? Later, I see he performs vandalism on 10 Nov 2005 when he “signed the bar roll”.
And you allow these people out on the street in Oz? Maybe PNG will be safer :-)
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 11 16 at 08:54 PM • permalink#17 Yojimbo, if you are considering a visit to the ashes, if I go, I will carry a Canadian gflag on a hockey stick as a flag pole so all can reckognise and avoid me.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 11 16 at 09:00 PM • permalinkPretty good. I’m taking a hillbilly vacation. I took the last half of the week off to relax and hang out with my sister who is in town from Germany. I’m reripping all of my CDs because they were only 128kbps. I ripping them all in lossless. Went and drank some mead and beers at the local brewery with a friend and then had some Guiness and legs at BWs last night. Got back from yoga an hour ago, going again in the morning. Michigan:Ohio State game Saturday. Saturday night my friend is singing at a bar downtown so I will probably go see her (Buzz Bar, downtown Detroit, Greektown area).
#38 Stokes, wasn’t that a typo and shouldn’t it have read:
“.....the jewels hang on a pendant anPosted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 11 16 at 09:16 PM • permalink#105 Rats, the joke should ahve been “hanging on a PEDANT”
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 11 16 at 09:17 PM • permalink#91 Pie and Burger, Dr. Alice? It may be like screwing a cork into your aorta, but - That. Sounds. Awesome!
Got a letter from Paco, Jr., today. If I didn’t know better, I’d think he was actually starting to enjoy boot camp. He’s run the obstacle and confidence courses, qualified in martial arts (tan belt), qualified for swimming (levels 4 & 3, and is set to qualify for combat swimming), and is undefeated in the pugil stick matches. They got a huge feast on the Marine Corps birthday. He says his senior DI is “awesome” (not sure what that means in this context). As to the combat swimming, it sounds like he’s got to stay afloat with more stuff than I could push in a wheelbarrow down a gentle incline. The Corps must be having a good effect on him; he’s become a lot more communicative - a lot more recognizably human - than the rebel with an attitude I knew a month ago.
Can’t wait for displays of apoplexy caused by this article from straight-shootin’ John Stone.
Islamists: But nooooooooo!
Warmists: But yeeeeeeeees!A hilarious example of Democratic amity at Wuzzadem.
Also, forest fires may not only prevent bears, but global warming.
#91 Pie and Burger, Dr. Alice? It may be like screwing a cork into your aorta, but - That. Sounds. Awesome!
Yes and yes. My personal opinion: the best burgers in the L.A. area, bar none. Even better than In-N-Out. Of course that is a completely subjective rating.
I do love me a burger. I predict I will die young but happy.
Oh my god Kim Beazley is such a dufus:
Mr Beazley began a press conference in Sydney today by expressing his sympathy - but to the wrong Rove.
“The first thing I want to say is this - today, our thoughts and the thoughts of many, many Australians will be with Karl Rove as he goes through the very sad process of burying his beloved wife,” Mr Beazley said.
“And I just want him to know that my thoughts and the thoughts of my colleagues are very much with him today.”
Kim is toast.
#113 - Karl Rove, you magnificent bastard! And they said mind control didn’t work!
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 11 16 at 09:48 PM • permalinkMr Beazley went on to offer his condolences to the family of Paul Rigby, saying he had for many years enjoyed his “Believe It Or Not…”
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 11 16 at 09:58 PM • permalinkTim just doesn’t want to admit he’s migrating the blog over to Huffington.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 11 16 at 09:59 PM • permalinkThanks for asking, Tim. And since you ask: not so good. I’ve got this pain in my shoulder. Well,it started when I benched 250 for 4 sets. I was feeling real good at breaking my record, when this awful spasm of pain suddenly hit my shoulder. I was in agony!I went to the doctor, but did he help, well did he help? No such luck. It was: take one of these tablets three times a day; and Nurse! next patient please.
So, then I went to the physio and she was much more accommodating. Well extremely accommodating, really.
What’s that, Tim? Youv’e gotta go? Bbut I haven’t finished yet, I…..
Gee, the bugger’s pissed off. What a wimp, pretending to be interested!
damn, rbresca beat me to it. But it’s worth re-iterating:
Bomber Beazley’s Big Bungle - Beautiful!
Even ABC radio is playing it!
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 11 16 at 10:11 PM • permalinkGeneral Abizaid administers a karate chop to Hillary Clinton . Er, the Danish bikini video ain’t bad either, but definitely NSFW.
#125, my vote’s for a thread dedicated to Danish bikini vidoes.
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 11 16 at 10:39 PM • permalinkSpeed Control Bikini Bandits. Hmmph. All we got are stupid metal signs.
I Brake For Boobs!
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 11 16 at 10:42 PM • permalink#135 - Things that would stand out at a cricket match:
A sober Pom.
A Pom wearing a shirt and sun burn cream.
A Pom who couldn’t eat an apple through a picket fence.
A Pom who didn’t wish his fore father’s had been petty thieves.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 11 16 at 10:52 PM • permalinkI went to a Canadian match at the Rugby World Cup in Melbourne a couple of years ago.
I supoorted the Canadians, too. But the other Canadian supoporters seemed to be a bit miffed at my warcry:
Je me souviens
and my waving the ‘ol bleu-and-white fleur de lys.
No pleasing some people.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 11 16 at 11:02 PM • permalinkGeez…don’t any of you guys have jobs?
Is there any chance we’ll ever get a thread dedicated exclusively to gratuitous islamofascist bashing?
No. My company was bought by a huge multinational and it was decided a couple of weeks ago that my department was extra to the needs of the company. Forkers.
No. It’s too high class around here. For that we go to f***france.com. I post as trainer.
Pay no attention to Wronwright as he is in pre-fustration mode as he knows that the Maize and Blue are going to dot his I on Saturday.
Hmf. I think not.
he’s become a lot more communicative - a lot more recognizably human - than the rebel with an attitude I knew a month ago.
It’s amazing how much more likeable children become when they have to put on that new maturity suit. And it almost never happens until after they’ve left the nest, which makes it somewhat bittersweet.
Not that anyone else cares, or even should, but this is a personal news thread, so:
I have persuaded tight-fisted Mr. H to spend a little more money on our plane tickets to Vegas in April (mid-afternoon departure from Cincinnati, direct flight with no layover, four hours in transit, as opposed to cheaper oh-dark-thirty departure from Dayton, mad dash through Atlanta International, seven hours in transit). Yay me.
133 yojimbo
El Cid Are you still at the beach? I thought you lived in Tennessee?
Ummm, let’s see now…
Question one, answer yes.
Question two, answer, A caveat, yes.
AND there are diametrically opposed reasons, as to why, both are answered, yes.
One, is save money by having property taxes capped and insurances lessened (to a degree), both went straight through the friggin’ roof after 2005 (need three separate insurance policies casualty, windstorm and flood) as an in residence, resident of my property in Florida OR… Two, piss everything I have away, in divorce proceedings.
I’m cheap…OK, OK… not cheap, but ‘thrifty’, yeah thrifty, sounds much better. Although, divorces….ahhh, never mind…:).
paco
And if a guy named Vinnie the Blade asks for me, tell him I moved to Bosnia. Thanks.
No, No,the familyour associates, stopped that stuff a long time ago. We aremusicanspoliticians now.Hey, it’s much better than what Capone’s business cards read…used furniture dealer. More money, less hassle…lol.
It’s that time of year again. If the channel bill cuckoo (click on the soundfile) will just shut up at night so I can get some sleep.
kae
Good Oh, we should talk. Somehow.
Excellent idea…lol.
paco
El: I think I read somewhere that Al was a good Republican, too
Yeah, wonder what he’d think of a paisan
oa, Pelosi?Chicago really pays its mayors well
Always did, always will, Chicago is kinda’, sorta’ like Allstate Insurance, the “good hands people”, as long as those hands are filled with cash, you are in good hands.
Love the thread, sad and depressing that there are people who have died, some so young either through terrible disease, fighting terrorists, or death by unnatural cause, it is to deal with on a serious basis, but humans need good things in life as well, humor, banter, waking every morning, company of others, real or virtual and a good martini…all keep one, well….healthy and SANE, usually.
My martini olive, just hit my nose, so goodnight all. May your tomorrow bring you more of life’s good things, then your today.
kae, my dear lady
So, what do I have to do to be a mayor and have a couple of million smackers
stashed away (but while I’m alive)of disposable income?Run for election. You would have my vote.
Hands down. Didn’t sound, that way I wanted…I’d pull the lever for you...shit, that sounded just as bad, as it looked…lol.Ummmm, I’d place my X on the line, next to your name….GOD finally, no innuendo. This time for real…night.
My Beccy Cole CDarrived today, and I am listening to it now…..good stuff!!!!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 11 17 at 01:09 AM • permalink#79 Ah, in the immortal words of Kim Bensley, Carmen Miranda (aka Miranda Divide), would look great with a bowl of fruit on her stupid head. She could even go ‘bananas’.. with a pineapple shoved where the sun don’t shine, sucking a lemon. Haw haw haw - boofhead laugh emanating from deep inside the Kimster.
Miranda Divide henceforth known as Carmen Miranda, “The Ultimate Fruitloop”.
Nu? How am I, you ask?
Not so good.
My wit has lost its edge of late, to my eternal embarrassment.
The scholarship of my posts suffers from haste, as paid work presses so and access to my library is limited thereby.
I haven’t had sex in nine years, despite (or perhaps because of) being married for ten.
The femoral head in my hip joint is necrotic, so titanium and teflon will soon become an integral part of my physiology.
I am surrounded by idiots who can’t tell a digital signal from an analog, informing me a valve is closing when I’ve asked them for a pressure reading.
After a salary review, a %4 raise leaves me %5.5 worse off than this time last year (this insult to a man who could take down the power grid, cause sewers to run backward and blow every gas compressor in Southeastern Australia and parts of Southern Queensland with a few keystrokes).
Finally, some twat dressed as a clown accosted me today on Collins St., burbling inanities about “the dangers and lies of capitalism” as 16 kilos of computer equipment dug its strap into my shoulder, slowly turning me into a hunchback (said clown was knocked on his ass by said bag of capatilist-enabling technology).
I could go on…
Next time you ask, Tim, may I have better news.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 11 17 at 04:24 AM • permalinkGood for you Zoe, did you get all the citizenship stuff worked out?. *hands over bunch of grapes*
Posted by Daniel San on 2006 11 17 at 05:57 AM • permalinkI guess every cloud has a titanium lining, kae. Thanks.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 11 17 at 07:00 AM • permalinkThanks for the good wishes all. I never did get an Australian passport, still refused, but I managed to find another way home. I’ll see anyway just before Xmas.
I just wish OBL had had the same experience I had about 55 hours ago. I suspect he wouldn’t be quite so happy as I am.
“Free at last, Free at last, Thank G_d I’m Free at last!” The body fits now, and I’m already starting to enjoy feeling normal for the first time in my life.
Hugs to all well-wishers, and a special one to Mental Floss, may his troubles decrease.
#170 Mentalfloss, dear fellow. You write, “The scholarship of my posts suffers from haste”. I ask you, now: how would we know? I continue to be amazed at how I never read one of your comments without learning something new. Also, you write, “My wit has lost its edge of late, to my eternal embarrassment.” Pardon me, but the “lickety-split” joke would have used up six months of my wit reserves.
“I am surrounded by idiots who can’t tell a digital signal from an analog.” Er . . .yes, yes, of course, exactly; that’s the kind of thing that sets me off, too. That same thing happened to me in traffic the other day. A guy in a truck carrying a load of timber cut me off, and I gave him a digital signal, and he shouted something suggesting the painful introduction of a log into my nether regions, and then I gave him two digital signals and . . . well, I can see how that could make anybody angry.
I do hope you rouse yourself from the doldrums. Try whistling and rubbing the backstays; that’s what Patrick O’Brian’s characters always do when becalmed and trying to raise the wind.
Wow. May all your troubles decrease, all of you.
Congrats, Zoe, and welcome to the world of feeling right. Sympathies for your hip troubles, Mental, I can see that in my future. Texas Bob, keep your head down and your trigger finger ready, and come home safe.
Meanwhile, it’s another day here in the Great Satan, so I’m just going to feel grateful that the sun is out for the first time in days.
Texas Bob
Please do take care. I mean the Texas Bob Beer Fund is now over 30 bucks.
Besides what the hell would I do with all that money, if say I had to do something rash?
Then, I’d have do something more rash, if ‘they’ (to read, the law) tried taking it. Then I really would be in deep shit, you’d be home and I would have no way, well…to do anything.
No sireeeee Bob…Sorry, no sireee Texas Bob. So it behooves both of us that you be safe there and return here, the same way.
Great, thanks. Slogging through “The Fatal Shore” by Robert Hughs. It actually is pretty interesting. Young socialist son is finishing up his finals and looking forward to the Thanksgiving break. Hubby is pleased with his 82 round, which means that we’re all happy! Princess had the lead in the play yesterday and did quite well.
Thanksgiving reminds me that I am thankful for this blog and the erudite posters here. Tim and Andrea as well. Lucky me for having discovered this jewel.
Posted by Kathy from Austin on 2006 11 17 at 10:51 AM • permalink#76
Cool! From what I’ve read, he’s still down there. Have one of the lower level minions™ let the air out of his airplane tires while we negotiate.
Elizabeth
Imperial KeeperPosted by Elizabeth Imperial Keeper on 2006 11 17 at 11:03 AM • permalinkOn the thread topic: Doin’ just fine.
Aside to Zoe: I must confess to having had at one time a less than charitable opinion of people in your predicament. That has changed, due to your posts, for which I thank you. Dittoes to El Cid’s post above. I add my congratulations and best wishes, and I’m sure that I speak for the whole gang here.
188 yojimbo
I shot an 82 once
Well me too. But my attorney managed to convince the prosecutor, that he fired first and I was cleared of all charges.
Seriously, love the game and I did in fact shoot that score, but now I don’t practice nearly enough to even be at a driving range (beside the fact that when I do go, ‘they’ get pissed, because I burn a donut or two, while driving, especially when it’s wet).
Oh and I have a collection of 15 (OK, OK 20) or so putters….something tells me, that it’s ME, not those putters, that don’t work well.
Thanksgiving reminds me that I am thankful for this blog and the erudite posters here. Tim and Andrea as well. Lucky me for having discovered this jewel.
Mega ditto’s to what Kathy from Austin, posted.
Especially this coming Thanksgiving, for I will be spending this one alone. AND I don’t fly, arms get to tired.
Driving, well I think Florida has installed a shut off switch on my vehicle, so the attempt at crossing the State line will fail. That’s just to make sure I fulfill every last word and part of Florida’s Homestead Act.
Doin’ pretty good; gotta laugh at seeing Pelosi get bitch-slapped by her own party.
Well, in my neck of the woods, its OSU-UM weekend. Thankfully I don’t have a dog in that fight, being from more southern climes.
Thanksgiving!! Stuffing myself with turkey and watchin’ them Cowboys - boo-yah!!
Posted by Tex Lovera on 2006 11 17 at 02:34 PM • permalink193/194 yojimbo
Yeah, the putters…damn things. It really is getting to be, like a busy NYC Deli…NEXT!
You won’t be spending Thanksgiving alone as you have all of us turkeys(plastic and otherwise!). So just pass the cranberry sauce.
Thanks, my friend. You got it, on the cranberry sauce…and a finer bunch of us, there could never be…Well next to and along with, ALL the brave men and women protecting us and making sure we do have, A Thanksgiving Holiday.
#191: Can identify with the golf toy thing. For Pete’s sake, how many gadgets and rejects are possible?? We must have two full EXTRA bags of clubs that are in the penalty box for some real or imagined slight. Well, on the flip side, gift giving is pretty easy. Dull, but easy.
Posted by Kathy from Austin on 2006 11 17 at 05:03 PM • permalinkAfter a salary review, a %4 raise leaves me %5.5 worse off than this time last year (this insult to a man who could take down the power grid, cause sewers to run backward and blow every gas compressor in Southeastern Australia and parts of Southern Queensland with a few keystrokes).
MentalFloss, all I can say is I am glad you ar in charge. Hand over to a VERY good Austrlalian, pleeease!
Oh, and I understand why the pseudonym is essential.Morning all.
#188, #191
I played golf once. At the Bulimba Golf Course. They had browns, not greens. They had potholes. They had a concreted spoon drain near one tee. One of my balls went into the spoon drain and fired back at me.
I don’t play golf.(But I’d learn… maybe.)
My father used to win trophies at golf. I wrote to him of my game of golf. He loved the letter.
#204, kae: No turkey??? Are you kidding me? Has to be: turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, giblet gravy, green bean cassarole, waldorf salad and….rolls!
Does Australia have a Thanksgiving holiday?
Posted by Kathy from Austin on 2006 11 17 at 07:08 PM • permalinkVicki my Doberman 8mo pup shows the secret of boomerang return
200 Kathy from Austin
We must have two full EXTRA bags of clubs that are in the penalty box for some real or imagined slight.
Welcome to the club…Oh my a play on words, is that?
OH and mine extra’s are in for a REAL
slightslice.203 kae
Mornin’.
They had browns, not greens.
I’ll tell Mr. Norman, (Greg) should I ever get to meet him, when he’s in town for a big deal at his course up the road, that you don’t like his course…LOL.
HI Kathy
No, we don’t have thanksgiving (Thanks Mother England for transporting us? Nah, don’t think so - but maybe we should; thanks for being born in Australia! as an aside, my family isn’t descended from convicts - not that there’s anything wrong with that). We never used to have Halloween, either, but it’s catching on.
For Christmas dinner we may have turkey (sorry, I think it’s overrated I tend to pass on turkey - maybe our turkey cookers can’t cook it well, it can be dry). We may also have all kinds of summer dishes. Remember, Christmas over here is in the summer! (And it can be over 40 degrees F here!)
Our family tradition was to have lunch on Christmas day, Mum’s family all together (three pairs of aunts and uncles, their seven kids, Mum’s mum (grandad died many years ago), Dad’s mum (Nanna M - Dad was an only child and we were Nanna M’s only family). The aunts used to take it in turns to host and would share the cooking. Then after Christmas lunch the uncles and aunts and their kids would spend the evening Christmas day meal with theirother familyoutlawsinlaws.
It’s sort of fallen by the way now, but up until recently, I moved away in 1986, the rest carried on. Most of my cousins are in their 30s now (I’m, the eldest), some are married with kids. It’s changed slightly.For Christmas lunch we have a smorgasboard of seafood, roast meats, salads, etc. You’d be surprised at the similarities - and the differences!
Oh, we do have Christmas in July in some places where some people get together and have the really traditional Christmas hot dinner by a fire. A lot of resorts where the climate is cold cater for this. I also know that the Sydney Speleological Society has a “Christmas party” BBQ in July because there are usually fire bans on at Christmas, and it gives everyone an excuse to have a piss up by a roaring outdoor fire!El Cid, I think the greens at Bulimba were supposed to be green, but were brown and dead looking.
It was a hoot having a hit and giggle.
I thought it amusing that the bloody golf course fired back at me (when the ball came flying back out of the spoon drain at me).I have to go now, take back the video which won’t play (grrr), and start hoiking
shitvery valuable treasures whichclutter upoccupy space in my house. Have to get it ready for sale and I am a hoarder… inherited that from my Grandma, she lived thru the depression and the family calls it a geneticthingytrait that skips a generation (my mother is an avowed chucker-outer of most stuff, she’s even chucked out/given away some of my treasures!).Sorry for dumping on y’all like that, but it’s been a bad decade for me and Friday was the bitter end of a bitter week.
I look back on the past ten years with pride in but one thing: my little girl and her seemingly unending supply of energetic goodness, simple but thoughtful wisdom and artless, uncontrived humour.
I must have done something right.
You guys and gals are the greatest! Thank you for your good wishes and heartening comments. I’ve told Tim before how much this place means to me, and now I’m telling you: Thanks so much, one and all. I can’t imagine a day without you—my friends.
And a special shout-out to Zoe! May good health and happiness be yours forever.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 11 17 at 08:09 PM • permalinkFloss
I must have done something right.
You are wrong. You’ve done many things “right”. One of which is fathered a lovely child.
My silly life philosophy has been and always will be.
When I open my eyes in the morning, I’ve already won.
To me, that is all that is necessary, the rest is the bullshit, we all muddle through.
Every morning at the local post office, under a big, shady tree, sit a group of men.
Some have those little electric motorised chair things, others get around as best they can on shank’s ponies.
When I used to pick up my morning paper I would always say “Hello, lovely day, isn’t it.”
One of the wags replied “Any day you wake up is a good day”.Mental Floss: you’ve done more than fathered an excellent child. You’ve given us endless hours of wonderful humor and analysis. You, by breathing air and sharing your thoughts are a gift to us.
kae: thanks! Great to hear about your traditions. Traditions often define a culture and their peoples. After an embarassing post a year or so ago (I wondered aloud that God had given such articulate, funny and smart people a whole freakin’ continent to inhabit that they had only managed to come up with 30 mil or so. I was informed that water was a huge issue with Australia.), I committed to learn Australian history with more detail than the paragraph they included in World History. I am a history major and it seemed ridiculous that a country I respect the most outside of my own was essentially foreign to me, save the Geico commercials, Steve Irwin, “Finding Nemo”, “Lost” and finally this blog.
So I am reading a long book on Australian history. Tough start for your colony, very harrowing. Pretty tragic, but like our Pilgrims you rose above that. Sounds like had we Yanks not thrown the bastards out Australia might have been French. Brrrrr. That made my blood run cold.
Posted by Kathy from Austin on 2006 11 17 at 09:41 PM • permalinkkae: 20 million is too little. Get to work, girl! Go forth and prosper!
Posted by Kathy from Austin on 2006 11 17 at 10:50 PM • permalink#221
Hmm. I think at my age I’m past it - kids I mean… I never had any, and I wanted them, too.
But I still have all my bits, so who knows what can happen in the future… (maybe I’ll just have to settle for going forth and having some fun.. except for one, minor, tiny, technical hitch. It takes two to tango.)kae
In and outer back and forthYou little devil, you…:).
to drop off some ice cream
She gave me eight (home laid chicken) eggs
Right neighborly of you folks. I imagine that those kinds of things still happen in our land, in rural area’s…obviously to include farms and farmers. I’m sure that will be missed. I know I would.
Tradin’, swappin’ and just being nice to each other, doesn’t sell newspapers, nor does it make stars of complete nincompoops, such as A Katie Couric.
But Katie sure can sell a death, rape or misfortune, “with a gleam in her eye” as Don Henly said with his “Dirty Laundry” tune.
I have good neighbours, mostly. Across the street are a pensioner couple who are very helpful. One day I accidentally backed the Cox ride-on mower into the dogyard gate, popped the little latch thingies outside the fence post. My neighbour came over and pushed the gate back through and straightened the latch tongue things.
Yeeargh, just remembered, I have to clean out the gray water pump before it gets dark. Yucky, yucky job. Procrastination’s not so bad in this situation. Thank heaven I remembered to buy more disposable rubber gloves yesterday.
MentalFloss @210
“It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.”
“No matter how great and destructive your problems may seem now, remember, you’ve probably only seen the tip of them.”
When encouragement is just not enough.Cheers
Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2006 11 18 at 12:42 AM • permalinkI’m watching a video I taped during the week. A programme on ABC about Europe and the ice age. The narrative held a few interesting snippets of information.
Why did neanderthal die out? Was it disease? Was it competition with homo sapiens? Was it an inability to cope with climate change?
My thought was “Damned industrialised homo sapiens, all that CO2 they emitted caused the extinction of neanderthal.” And then this:
Temperatures rose rapidly. As much as 10 degrees in 100 years, melting the ice which had been frozen for thousands of years.
So, where are all the factories, cars, farting and belching cows?
The world didn’t end with this natural phenomena.
Some people still don’t get it.
Poop. Now I’m not feeling OK.
I knew there was a reason that I was procrastinating about sorting out the grey water pump.
As I was undoing the pipe it cracked and the blue goop on the PVC pipe let go. Now I have to get a plumber. He can’t come until Monday. Grrr. Ah well. Postpone the washing, etc. I’m going to get him to put the new pump in.
*sigh*#232 The Stone Age didn’t end because we ran out of stones, either…nyuk nyuk.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 11 18 at 05:51 AM • permalinkMentalFloss,
I hope you know, you’re one of the reasons I come to this blog. I look for your comments. Tim is a great host and a brilliant and witty poster. But he simply doesn’t post as much as I wish he could. Yet there is brilliance in that scarcity of posts. He allows others to fill the void.
Although I’m very happy for him, I hate the idea of crittenden opening up his own blog and posting here less. If several others were to similarly go away, I would probably do the same. I include you on that list.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 11 18 at 11:46 AM • permalinkWronwright, you are too kind—also prescient.
Look in the very near furtue for a new blog (like there weren’t enough already) with the (still tentative) title “View from Ararat”.
Nothing could stop me making trouble here, though. I credit this site with waking me from a very long sleep…
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 11 18 at 06:21 PM • permalink...and if you ain’t got no “furtue” handy, look in the very near “future”...
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 11 18 at 06:23 PM • permalinkWell, I only go to one blog. Tim Blair’s. I used to go to 10 or more, but I don’t have time for it. I’ll probably be a regular visitor to crittenden’s blog. And if you open doors to one, I’ll come to yours each day.
But I can’t see me starting a blog. I’m a visitor, not a proprietor.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 11 18 at 09:08 PM • permalink
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