Amazing Spider-Man #62, July 1968: The Name of the Dame is … Medusa!

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Here’s another amazingly well-preserved comic book from the Lizard Collection: Spider-Man #62, published in July 1968. Our copy is in near mint condition, with unfaded inks and white pages, and a beautiful cover by the great John Romita Sr.

(I guess Aunt May never told Spidey he shouldn’t get a redhead mad at him.)

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(Camera: Nikon D90 with 18-105mm Nikkor zoom lens and polarizing filter.)

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457 comments
1 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 5:48:56pm

if that is an actual scan the colors are near perfect...

2 spikester  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 5:50:46pm

"Not everyone is meant to make a difference. But for me, the choice to lead an ordinary life is no longer an option."
---P Parker

3 jamesfirecat  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 5:50:49pm

Tonight on thread jack theater we present yet another episode of "what the f*** has James Firecat been reading lately?"

I would like to suggest all of you consider looking into a web comic named "Ow My Sanity"

Why do I suggest this? Because where else are you going to find a "magical girlfriend" romantic comedy set in a Lovecraftian universe?

Its a very amusing series that you can probably read all of what has so far been put up on the web in about an hour or so.

I think it does a great job bringing to the forefront the nature of why Cthulhu and his ilk were frightening in the first place as well, not because they were actively malicious, but simply because they completely and utterly failed to understand (or even bothered to try and understand) what humanity /human life is all about, assuming we ourselves know the answer to that question.

Give it a look after all there are worse things you could be reading in your spare time, like my offbroadway production of The Sultan in Saffron, its gotten rave reviews so far, in the sense that every single critic who has watched it can indisputably be described as "raving" by the end of the third act.

4 Charles Johnson  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 5:51:35pm

re: #1 brookly red

if that is an actual scan the colors are near perfect...

It's a RAW image straight out of my Nikon D90. Natural light on a sunny day, in a room with all the windows open.

5 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 5:54:22pm

re: #4 Charles

I assume I was stored in the dark.

6 Varek Raith  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 5:55:42pm

Damn good quality!

7 Charles Johnson  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 5:56:18pm

re: #5 brookly red

I assume I was stored in the dark.

Stored for 40 years inside this tightly sealed wooden crate:

Image: TheCrate.jpg

8 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 5:58:38pm

re: #7 Charles

Stored for 40 years inside this tightly sealed wooden crate:

Image: TheCrate.jpg

Once the crate is cleaned out, you should use it to punish trolls with sensory deprivation.

/kidding

9 Cato the Elder  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:00:10pm

re: #7 Charles

Stored for 40 years inside this tightly sealed wooden crate:

Image: TheCrate.jpg

Somebody was very prescient to do that. How many people knew 40 years ago that vintage comics would one day be worth more than lots of faded stocks and bonds?

10 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:00:14pm

re: #7 Charles

Stored for 40 years inside this tightly sealed wooden crate:

Image: TheCrate.jpg

40 years... *sigh*

11 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:01:30pm

re: #9 Cato the Elder

Somebody was very prescient to do that. How many people knew 40 years ago that vintage comics would one day be worth more than lots of faded stocks and bonds?

as Stan Lee would say " True believers"

12 What, me worry?  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:06:11pm

re: #9 Cato the Elder

Somebody was very prescient to do that. How many people knew 40 years ago that vintage comics would one day be worth more than lots of faded stocks and bonds?

He had a smart mama.

13 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:06:20pm

My neighbors have a dog named bigfoot.

Bizarre to hear them calling "bigfoot! bigfoot!"

weird.

14 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:07:28pm

re: #13 Stanley Sea

My neighbors have a dog named bigfoot.

Bizarre to hear them calling "bigfoot! bigfoot!"

weird.

at least they didn't name the dog "Fire"...

15 Varek Raith  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:08:27pm

re: #14 brookly red

at least they didn't name the dog "Fire"...

Bandit! Bandit!

16 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:09:28pm

re: #15 Varek Raith

Bandit! Bandit!

they never did make a Johny Quest comic did they?

17 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:09:28pm

re: #14 brookly red

at least they didn't name the dog "Fire"...

lol, in my neighborhood, that wouldn't work.

18 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:11:05pm

NASA recently uploaded a bunch of photos

link is on page 3, that's where I'm at.

[Link: www.flickr.com...]

19 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:11:18pm

re: #18 Stanley Sea

NASA recently uploaded a bunch of photos

link is on page 3, that's where I'm at.

[Link: www.flickr.com...]

Old photos.

20 Varek Raith  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:11:34pm

re: #16 brookly red

they never did make a Johny Quest comic did they?

They did.
[Link: www.classicjq.com...]

21 Cato the Elder  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:11:42pm

If I ever get two more dogs, I'm going to name one of them "Wingnut" and the other "Moonbat".

Fun times.

22 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:12:27pm

[Link: www.flickr.com...]

23 Varek Raith  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:12:43pm

re: #21 Cato the Elder

If I ever get two more dogs, I'm going to name one of them "Wingnut" and the other "Moonbat".

Fun times.

That would be funny as hell.

24 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:13:23pm

re: #21 Cato the Elder

If I ever get two more dogs, I'm going to name one of them "Wingnut" and the other "Moonbat".

Fun times.

Moonbat! stop humping Wingnut! Now! (couldn't resist)

25 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:14:09pm

check this one out!

Little Joe

[Link: www.flickr.com...]

26 Cato the Elder  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:14:19pm

re: #24 Stanley Sea

Moonbat! stop humping Wingnut! Now! (couldn't resist)

Sounds like a Carville-Matalin joke to me.

27 reine.de.tout  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:16:03pm

re: #21 Cato the Elder

If I ever get two more dogs, I'm going to name one of them "Wingnut" and the other "Moonbat".

Fun times.

CuriousLurker wants to get a cat and name it "Sharia".
LOL.

28 Varek Raith  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:16:08pm

re: #26 Cato the Elder

Sounds like a Carville-Matalin joke to me.

That's funny and wrong at the same time.
I didn't need that image.

29 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:17:43pm

Is that a physics book in front of Apollo Director Phillips?

Imagine, looking down at a huge book for info at this time.

[Link: www.flickr.com...]

30 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:18:05pm

re: #27 reine.de.tout

CuriousLurker wants to get a cat and name it "Sharia".
LOL.

That is a huge LOL.

31 Cato the Elder  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:19:55pm

re: #28 Varek Raith

That's funny and wrong at the same time.
I didn't need that image.

Here's a good one.

32 Varek Raith  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:20:25pm

re: #27 reine.de.tout

[Link: t2.gstatic.com...]

33 reine.de.tout  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:22:38pm

re: #32 Varek Raith

[Link: t2.gstatic.com...]

Aw.
You're sweet.
Wasn't you.
Here.

34 Irenicum  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:25:08pm

I like getting red heads mad at me. It's more fun that way.

35 Cato the Elder  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:26:30pm

re: #27 reine.de.tout

CuriousLurker wants to get a cat and name it "Sharia".
LOL.

Where is she these days, by the way? I miss her.

One of the minor characters in "Diva" (the gripping 1982 French thriller, not the Beyoncé abortion) has a cat named "Ayatollah".

36 reine.de.tout  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:27:26pm

re: #31 Cato the Elder

Here's a good one.

Link no work for me.

37 Irenicum  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:27:36pm

I always wanted to get a collie and call it melon.

38 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:29:35pm

re: #35 Cato the Elder

Where is she these days, by the way? I miss her.

One of the minor characters in "Diva" (the gripping 1982 French thriller, not the Beyoncé abortion) has a cat named "Ayatollah".

I hate elevators :)

39 Eclectic Infidel  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:33:03pm

Daaamn. Medusa is drawn with quite the visible rack. Gotta say, since I'm on the 'subject,' that the illustration has a sort of bondage theme to it. Just sayin'.

40 What, me worry?  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:33:49pm

re: #39 eclectic infidel

Daaamn. Medusa is drawn with quite the visible rack. Gotta say, since I'm on the 'subject,' that the illustration has a sort of bondage theme to it. Just sayin'.

She's having a good hair day.

41 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:36:32pm

re: #39 eclectic infidel

Daaamn. Medusa is drawn with quite the visible rack. Gotta say, since I'm on the 'subject,' that the illustration has a sort of bondage theme to it. Just sayin'.

Hips, Lips, and Tits. There isn't a single female in any comic book universe that is "plain". [citation needed]

42 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:36:56pm

re: #39 eclectic infidel

Daaamn. Medusa is drawn with quite the visible rack. Gotta say, since I'm on the 'subject,' that the illustration has a sort of bondage theme to it. Just sayin'.

well as you can imagine in any office there are pranksters... Marvel was no different. Images were often err shall we say altered for the sake of humor.

That one had it share of abuse.

43 Eclectic Infidel  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:39:21pm

re: #40 marjoriemoon

She's having a good hair day.

That too.

44 What, me worry?  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:41:28pm

re: #41 Slumbering Behemoth

Hips, Lips, and Tits. There isn't a single female in any comic book universe that is "plain". [citation needed]

That's probably the reason I read The Archies, Dot, Baby Huey and Johnny Quest.

45 What, me worry?  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:43:13pm

re: #44 marjoriemoon

That's probably the reason I read The Archies, Dot, Baby Huey and Johnny Quest.

Of course, there was Betty and Veronica.

46 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:45:02pm

re: #41 Slumbering Behemoth

Hips, Lips, and Tits. There isn't a single female in any comic book universe that is "plain". [citation needed]

well after the penciler did the initial sketches the editor & head art directors would mark their comments on a tissue paper overlay before handing them over to the inker... the comment BB (bigger boobs) would appear often.

47 Cato the Elder  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:46:12pm

re: #41 Slumbering Behemoth

Hips, Lips, and Tits. There isn't a single female in any comic book universe that is "plain". [citation needed]

There isn't a single female character in today's Hollywood films that is "plain". Even the "nerdy" grrrls are cuter than most people you see on the street.

And in medieval romances, even the peasants have teeth.

Yeah, right.

48 What, me worry?  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:46:42pm

re: #46 brookly red

well after the penciler did the initial sketches the editor & head art directors would mark their comments on a tissue paper overlay before handing them over to the inker... the comment BB (bigger boobs) would appear often.

You sound like you speak from experience. Did you work in this biz?

49 darthstar  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:47:15pm

re: #41 Slumbering Behemoth

Hips, Lips, and Tits. There isn't a single female in any comic book universe that is "plain". [citation needed]

Image: nancy.gif

50 Varek Raith  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:47:20pm

re: #48 marjoriemoon

You sound like you speak from experience. Did you work in this biz?

He stayed at a Holiday Express.
/

51 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:47:21pm

re: #45 marjoriemoon

Of course, there was Betty and Veronica.

L O L

You chose a classic.

52 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:47:27pm

re: #48 marjoriemoon

You sound like you speak from experience. Did you work in this biz?

Many years at Marvel...

53 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:48:29pm

re: #47 Cato the Elder

There isn't a single female character in today's Hollywood films that is "plain". Even the "nerdy" grrrls are cuter than most people you see on the street.

And in medieval romances, even the peasants have teeth.

Yeah, right.

same as it ever was... I have a feeling Cleopatra looked nothing like Liz Taylor.

54 What, me worry?  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:49:34pm

re: #52 brookly red

Many years at Marvel...

The BBs are brookly's doing. Your secret is out!

55 Varek Raith  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:52:06pm

re: #54 marjoriemoon

The BBs are brookly's doing. Your secret is out!

You sure that wasn't SB or FBV?
/

56 What, me worry?  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:56:06pm

re: #53 brookly red

same as it ever was... I have a feeling Cleopatra looked nothing like Liz Taylor.

Speaking of which, I thought of Cato earlier today.

Found this on the Daily Mail, a three dimensional face "mask" of The Bard, part of a History Channel documentary later this month.

57 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:56:58pm

re: #55 Varek Raith

Wasn't me. I favor more modestly endowed women.

58 elbruce  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:57:03pm

re: #39 eclectic infidel

Daaamn. Medusa is drawn with quite the visible rack. Gotta say, since I'm on the 'subject,' that the illustration has a sort of bondage theme to it. Just sayin'.

Early Wonder Woman comics were all pretty much PG-rated bondage porn:

Wonder Woman's world is one that practically begs for analysis: coming from a utopian island inhabited only by women, she wears heavy manacles on her wrists and carries a rope everywhere she goes; she spent many of her early stories in bondage or restraining others, and even disciplined villains on Transformation Island, an Amazonian rehabilitation center that trained its all-female prison population to submit to "loving authority."

*wink*
Image: babyspank.jpg

59 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:58:18pm

re: #58 elbruce

Early Wonder Woman comics were all pretty much PG-rated bondage porn:

*wink*
Image: babyspank.jpg

Not a surprise. People sometimes have odd urges, and they'll look for ways to gratify them.

60 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:58:44pm

re: #56 marjoriemoon

Speaking of which, I thought of Cato earlier today.

Found this on the Daily Mail, a three dimensional face "mask" of The Bard, part of a History Channel documentary later this month.

No thats Carlos the deadbeat... he got his ears cut off when he couldn't make the vig.

61 Cato the Elder  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 6:59:46pm

re: #57 Slumbering Behemoth

Wasn't me. I favor more modestly endowed women.

I had the total hots for the Cleopatra in the HBO "Rome" series.

62 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 7:00:31pm

re: #57 Slumbering Behemoth

Which is not to say I don't like big girls as well.

63 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 7:00:49pm

re: #61 Cato the Elder

I had the total hots for the Cleopatra in the HBO "Rome" series.

She managed to pull off being sexy without being "actressy pretty".

64 Varek Raith  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 7:00:57pm

re: #61 Cato the Elder

I had the total hots for the Cleopatra in the HBO "Rome" series.

Image: HBO%20Cleo.jpg

65 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 7:01:37pm

re: #62 Slumbering Behemoth

Which is not to say I don't like big girls as well.

fear not, we still put growth hormones in beef.

66 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 7:02:22pm

re: #61 Cato the Elder

Never seen it.

67 elbruce  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 7:05:15pm

re: #63 Dark_Falcon

She managed to pull off being sexy without being "actressy pretty".

In other words, she got Cleopatra exactly right.

68 Cato the Elder  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 7:07:59pm

re: #64 Varek Raith

Image: HBO%20Cleo.jpg

"I'll be in my bunk."

69 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 7:08:48pm

re: #67 elbruce

In other words, she got Cleopatra exactly right.

True that.

70 Varek Raith  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 7:10:37pm

Later gators.
(What kind of jerk schedules someone to work on a Saturday night when no trucks are coming in?!?!)

71 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 7:11:33pm

re: #70 Varek Raith

Later gators.
(What kind of jerk schedules someone to work on a Saturday night when no trucks are coming in?!?!)

the kinda jerk that has an OT budget to spend?

72 What, me worry?  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 7:11:51pm

re: #65 brookly red

Btw, did you work with Stan Lee? I bet that would be amazing. He seems like such a great guy. I don't think I've ever seen a picture of him without a smile.

73 reine.de.tout  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 7:13:53pm

re: #70 Varek Raith

Later gators.
(What kind of jerk schedules someone to work on a Saturday night when no trucks are coming in?!?!)

Reine?
hehehehe.
Evil, I am, in getting my revenge.

74 prairiefire  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 7:16:18pm

Patricia Highsmith of "Ripley" fame started in the comics biz.

75 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 7:18:21pm

re: #72 marjoriemoon

Btw, did you work with Stan Lee? I bet that would be amazing. He seems like such a great guy. I don't think I've ever seen a picture of him without a smile.

Stan Lee is a cool guy... he used to fly in from the west coast to play softball with the mail room team, in his seventies mind you. He has his own company now Pow Entertainment (POWN) which is going for about 18 cents a share...

I recommend buying some even though it goes up and down he has a lot of licensed characters linked to it and even one movie would send them over the top.

76 prairiefire  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 7:19:29pm

re: #75 brookly red

How old is he now?

77 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 7:21:40pm

re: #76 prairiefire

How old is he now?

I don't know for sure, late 80's I am guessing...

78 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 7:23:17pm

re: #75 brookly red

Stan Lee is a cool guy... he used to fly in from the west coast to play softball with the mail room team, in his seventies mind you. He has his own company now Pow Entertainment (POWN) which is going for about 18 cents a share...

I recommend buying some even though it goes up and down he has a lot of licensed characters linked to it and even one movie would send them over the top.

hey at 18 cents a share you can by a bunch for fifty bucks...

79 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 7:27:20pm

[Link: www.daytondailynews.com...]

Thriving Dayton Mosques welcome visitors of all faiths.

I think it should be a possibility in our well rounded minds to consider taking the time and visiting a local mosque.

80 What, me worry?  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 7:28:11pm

re: #75 brookly red

Stan Lee is a cool guy... he used to fly in from the west coast to play softball with the mail room team, in his seventies mind you. He has his own company now Pow Entertainment (POWN) which is going for about 18 cents a share...

I recommend buying some even though it goes up and down he has a lot of licensed characters linked to it and even one movie would send them over the top.

Cool beans! Will do!

He was born in 1922? He's really an amazing fellow.

81 Mocking Jay  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 7:30:07pm

Movie night with Pam...

Tonight's feature, Suddenly (1954) starring Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden. "The tranquility of a small town is jarred when the U.S. President is scheduled to pass through and a hired assassin takes over the Benson home as a perfect location to ambush the president."
82 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 7:31:55pm

re: #80 marjoriemoon

Cool beans! Will do!

He was born in 1922? He's really an amazing fellow.

he loves what he does... God bless him.

83 Sheila Broflovski  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 7:33:49pm

re: #61 Cato the Elder

I had the total hots for the Cleopatra in the HBO "Rome" series.

She wasn't really all that hot.

84 What, me worry?  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 7:34:27pm

re: #82 brookly red

he loves what he does... God bless him.

So I could go to ETrade and do that on my own?

85 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 7:35:05pm

re: #72 marjoriemoon

Btw, did you work with Stan Lee? I bet that would be amazing. He seems like such a great guy. I don't think I've ever seen a picture of him without a smile.

oh and btw, I got some of his original art... he used to give it away as a perk to employees

86 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 7:35:55pm

re: #84 marjoriemoon

So I could go to ETrade and do that on my own?

if you type in POWN you should get it...

87 What, me worry?  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 7:38:14pm

re: #85 brookly red

oh and btw, I got some of his original art... he used to give it away as a perk to employees

How cool is that!

88 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 7:38:37pm

re: #83 Alouette

She wasn't really all that hot.

hey any chick that has her face on money is smokin hot to me...

89 darthstar  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 7:40:24pm

re: #88 brookly red

hey any chick that has her face on money is smokin hot to me...

or that can lift money off your face...

90 darthstar  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 7:40:44pm

re: #89 darthstar

no hands, of course.

91 prairiefire  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 7:41:14pm

re: #83 Alouette

She wasn't really all that hot.

On the coins used by Romans, she had her likeness "Romanized."

92 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 7:42:26pm

re: #89 darthstar

or that can lift money off your face...

you know this is the first time I have ever told anyone that they need to go out less often

93 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 7:43:42pm

re: #91 prairiefire

On the coins used by Romans, she had her likeness "Romanized."

Some fellas look at the eyes
Some fellas look at the nose
Some fellas look at the size
Some fellas look at the clothes
I don't care if her eyes are red
I don't care if her nose is long
I don't care if she's underfed
I don't care if her clothes are worn
First I look at the purse!

94 darthstar  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 7:45:19pm

re: #92 brookly red

you know this is the first time I have ever told anyone that they need to go out less often

Oh, it's been a good 25+ years since I did anything like that...

95 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 7:46:32pm

re: #94 darthstar

Oh, it's been a good 25+ years since I did anything like that...

heh.

96 prairiefire  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 7:47:02pm

My brother recently went to a batchelor party at a strip club. When he was asked if he wanted a personal dance, he said he said "No thanks, honey, but here is $10 for gas and go straight home after work."

97 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 7:47:39pm

re: #94 darthstar

Oh, it's been a good 25+ years since I did anything like that...

well then maybe you do need to go out more often... and hey being your wife :)

98 What, me worry?  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 7:52:24pm

re: #89 darthstar

Did you ever see Priscella, Queen of the Desert?

100 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 7:54:23pm

re: #99 Ojoe

The end of the daylight arrives upon the San Gabriel Mountains of California, and it all goes purple. The Telescope dome may open too. The Towercam, Pacific time zone.

Tonight's nature view for lizards.

I live in NYC: Nature ? ewwww

101 prairiefire  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 7:55:24pm

re: #98 marjoriemoon

Did you ever see Priscella, Queen of the Desert?

John Leguizamo played the hottest drag queen/gay guy I have ever seen.

102 reine.de.tout  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:02:16pm

re: #100 brookly red

I live in NYC: Nature ? ewww

I don't have quite that reaction to nature.
Except when I'm using scissors to trim overgrown grass from the stepping-stones, and cut some critter in half. Which I did today. Which I'm still not over.
Ew.

103 reine.de.tout  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:05:29pm

re: #101 prairiefire

John Leguizamo played the hottest drag queen/gay guy I have ever seen.

I thought that was in "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar".

104 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:05:47pm

re: #102 reine.de.tout

I don't have quite that reaction to nature.
Except when I'm using scissors to trim overgrown grass from the stepping-stones, and cut some critter in half. Which I did today. Which I'm still not over.
Ew.

if the guy in charge wanted us to live with nature why did he/she give us thumbs?

105 laZardo  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:07:41pm

I don't believe God created the universe or human life, but I do believe miracles can happen.

/also good moarning.

106 reine.de.tout  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:09:10pm

CuriousLurker, you here?
Just a shout out before I talk el doggo for a walk, then crawl into bed - howdy!
Wish you'd come around more . . .
Was thinking today of our e-mail exchange on "conscience" and "jihad" and how much I enjoyed it . . .

107 prairiefire  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:11:38pm

re: #103 reine.de.tout

I thought that was in "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar".

Yes! I bow to your superior knowledge of drag queens. ; )

108 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:12:50pm

re: #107 prairiefire

Yes! I bow to your superior knowledge of drag queens. ; )

eww just a little bit...

109 What, me worry?  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:12:52pm

re: #103 reine.de.tout

I thought that was in "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar".

Unfortunately, To Wong Foo was a rip off of Priscella. Wong Foo was made (in my view) to bring the gay lifestyle to a wider audience in a way they would accept it. It turned out kind of silly and not all that serious.

If you like Wong Foo, go get Priscella. It's an art movie, a comedy and a heartfelt drama.

110 reine.de.tout  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:13:08pm

re: #107 prairiefire

Yes! I bow to your superior knowledge of drag queens. ; )

I loved that movie

111 reine.de.tout  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:13:26pm

re: #109 marjoriemoon

Unfortunately, To Wong Foo was a rip off of Priscella. Wong Foo was made (in my view) to bring the gay lifestyle to a wider audience in a way they would accept it. It turned out kind of silly and not all that serious.

If you like Wong Foo, go get Priscella. It's an art movie, a comedy and a heartfelt drama.

OK!

112 Varek Raith  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:13:51pm

Grrr...
Get to work and the boss says, "You can go home, I messed up on the schedule"
:/

113 What, me worry?  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:14:09pm

re: #109 marjoriemoon

Unfortunately, To Wong Foo was a rip off of Priscella. Wong Foo was made (in my view) to bring the gay lifestyle to a wider audience in a way they would accept it. It turned out kind of silly and not all that serious.

If you like Wong Foo, go get Priscella. It's an art movie, a comedy and a heartfelt drama.

The reason I mentioned it because Darthstart said something that reminded me of the ping pong ball scene, but it was rather naughty.

114 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:14:39pm

re: #112 Varek Raith

Grrr...
Get to work and the boss says, "You can go home, I messed up on the schedule"
:/

unbelievable. but true.

115 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:14:40pm

re: #112 Varek Raith

Grrr...
Get to work and the boss says, "You can go home, I messed up on the schedule"
:/

4 hour minimum?

116 elbruce  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:14:41pm

re: #109 marjoriemoon

If you like Wong Foo, go get Priscella. It's an art movie, a comedy and a heartfelt drama.

Agent Smith was awesome in that.

117 prairiefire  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:14:43pm

Yes, "Priscella" is very good. And there is this part with ping pong balls...

118 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:15:06pm

re: #113 marjoriemoon

The reason I mentioned it because Darthstart said something that reminded me of the ping pong ball scene, but it was rather naughty.

LOL

119 laZardo  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:15:51pm

re: #112 Varek Raith

Grrr...
Get to work and the boss says, "You can go home, I messed up on the schedule"
:/

At least he didn't say you got laid off.

120 prairiefire  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:15:53pm

re: #113 marjoriemoon

Raaaathaar!

121 Varek Raith  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:16:15pm

re: #114 Stanley Sea

unbelievable. but true.

Heh.
He always gets the truck offloads mixed up.
XD

122 Varek Raith  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:16:37pm

re: #119 laZardo

At least he didn't say you got laid off.

This is very true.

123 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:17:04pm

re: #119 laZardo

At least he didn't say you got laid off.

they have't figured the health care costs in yet... oh it will be bad.

124 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:18:06pm

re: #121 Varek Raith

Heh.
He always gets the truck offloads mixed up.
XD

thats why he is the boss...

125 Varek Raith  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:18:24pm

re: #123 brookly red

they have't figured the health care costs in yet... oh it will be bad.

Nah.
See, they already schedule us in a way not to offer us HC benefits.

126 laZardo  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:19:06pm

re: #124 brookly red

thats why he is the boss...

Youtube Video
127 What, me worry?  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:20:18pm

re: #111 reine.de.tout

OK!

Oh and it's get Elrond before he knew of his Elven heritage.

I mean really.

128 Varek Raith  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:21:27pm

Image: agent-elrond.jpg

129 laZardo  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:22:01pm

re: #128 Varek Raith

"Image hosted by Tripod."

130 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:22:02pm

re: #125 Varek Raith

Nah.
See, they already schedule us in a way not to offer us HC benefits.

oh then your cool... right about now companies are looking at the healthcare bill costs & saying OMG. The 4th Q is going to be ugly.

131 Dancing along the light of day  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:23:03pm

re: #102 reine.de.tout

I don't have quite that reaction to nature.
Except when I'm using scissors to trim overgrown grass from the stepping-stones, and cut some critter in half. Which I did today. Which I'm still not over.
Ew.

Did you figure out, just WHAT you cut in half?
*waves*
Worms are less icky than snakes or legless lizards, or other critters...
IMHO.

132 Dancing along the light of day  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:24:12pm

re: #128 Varek Raith

Image: agent-elrond.jpg

OK.
Elrond, not Elrod!
LOL!

133 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:25:50pm

re: #116 elbruce

Agent Smith was awesome in that.

? I know you mean Hugo Weaving, but please don't ID an actor solely by a role he played. It diminishes the actor, IMO.

134 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:25:53pm

re: #125 Varek Raith

Nah.
See, they already schedule us in a way not to offer us HC benefits.

Exactly! Good ole small business looking out for the worker.

BS

135 Dancing along the light of day  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:26:50pm

Later, Lizards!

136 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:27:00pm

re: #130 brookly red

oh then your cool... right about now companies are looking at the healthcare bill costs & saying OMG. The 4th Q is going to be ugly.

full of shit. they were doing this before the bill, er I mean law. cover cover cover.

137 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:28:46pm

re: #130 brookly red

oh then your cool... right about now companies are looking at the healthcare bill costs & saying OMG. The 4th Q is going to be ugly.

Oh, and bottom line, how is Varek "cool" without heath care benefits?

138 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:31:17pm

re: #136 Stanley Sea

full of shit. they were doing this before the bill, er I mean law. cover cover cover.

sorry it is what it is... and just telling you that should be good for 11 to 15 downdings (based on past performance) but the numbers are what they are and the rising health care cost will necessitate a reduction in the work force.

sorry it is what it is.

139 Ojoe  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:35:47pm

re: #123 brookly red

It should be called "Ilness Care."

Health care is getting off your butt, eating right, and avoiding risky or foolish behavior.

Which would be WAY WAY cheaper.

No politician will say this.

Good Night All.

140 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:39:28pm

re: #139 Ojoe

It should be called "Ilness Care."

Health care is getting off your butt, eating right, and avoiding risky or foolish behavior.

Which would be WAY WAY cheaper.

No politician will say this.

Good Night All.

Sleep well, Ojoe.

141 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:39:48pm

re: #139 Ojoe

Health care is getting off your butt, eating right, and avoiding risky or foolish behavior.

They're would be no US of A if everyone adhered to that bolded part. Just sayin'.

142 darthstar  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:41:56pm

re: #109 marjoriemoon

Yep...love that movie. Ping pong ball scene had me falling out of my seat in the theatre.

re: #98 marjoriemoon

Did you ever see Priscella, Queen of the Desert?

Priscilla is a much better movie than Tu Wong Fu, I agree. Though Tu Wong Fu wasn't bad...it was just a little forced. Priscilla was a true journey film, with character development you actually cared about.

143 laZardo  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:44:57pm

re: #139 Ojoe

Health care is getting off your butt, eating right, and avoiding risky or foolish behavior.

Unfortunately, nobody's really done that since Johnny Knoxville made that sort of behavior a national pastime.

144 prairiefire  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:47:20pm

In "Wong Fu", John was more smoldering sexy than a lot of real women.

145 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:48:26pm

re: #143 laZardo

It's been a national pastime since before Knoxville. I am sure there were plenty of people back in the day who thought telling the King of England to fuck "risky and foolish behavior", including perhaps some who were in favor of it.

146 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:49:31pm

re: #145 Slumbering Behemoth


I am sure there were plenty of people back in the day who thought telling the King of England to fuck off

PIMF!

Damn my lousy typing!

147 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:52:05pm

re: #145 Slumbering Behemoth

It's been a national pastime since before Knoxville. I am sure there were plenty of people back in the day who thought telling the King of England to fuck "risky and foolish behavior", including perhaps some who were in favor of it.

shot & powder, shot & powder... oh my.

148 darthstar  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:52:48pm

re: #129 laZardo

"Image hosted by Tripod."

That's my nickname.
///

149 What, me worry?  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:53:11pm

re: #144 prairiefire

In "Wong Fu", John was more smoldering sexy than a lot of real women.

He used to do standup in drag. The same little Puerto Rican gal. It was hysterical.

150 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:53:15pm

re: #138 brookly red

re: #137 Stanley Sea

Oh, and bottom line, how is Varek "cool" without heath care benefits?

151 prairiefire  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:54:24pm

re: #149 marjoriemoon

He used to do standup in drag. The same little Puerto Rican gal. It was hysterical.

I will have to look for that on you tube.

152 What, me worry?  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:56:24pm

re: #151 prairiefire

I will have to look for that on you tube.

Oh hey, what a great idea! It was Showtime or HBO, I think. Probably Showtime.

153 prairiefire  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 8:59:48pm

re: #152 marjoriemoon

Thanks, marj.
Night, lizards.

154 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:00:06pm

re: #150 Stanley Sea

re: #137 Stanley Sea

OK if you must... V is cool cause V will not get laid of because V's employer can no longer afford to pay for V's healthcare. Now other factors like payroll taxes my may V's services an unfordable luxury, but for now V is safe. I am sorry that you emotionally do not like what I am saying but it is what it is.

155 Killgore Trout  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:01:36pm

Hail to the Geek

Youtube Video

Namaste, y'all
156 darthstar  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:02:36pm

I don't know if Ace has seen this, but it looks to me like the younger guy was guilty of nothing more than talking shit before the woman's husband decided to try and clock him.

Youtube Video
157 Varek Raith  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:05:15pm

Yay!
I get to have a normal night's sleep!
Night all!
:)

158 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:07:04pm

re: #154 brookly red

OK if you must... V is cool cause V will not get laid of because V's employer can no longer afford to pay for V's healthcare. Now other factors like payroll taxes my may V's services an unfordable luxury, but for now V is safe. I am sorry that you emotionally do not like what I am saying but it is what it is.

And Varek needs to respond, because Varek is the one in this American Situation.

Right here in front of our eyes.

159 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:10:24pm

re: #154 brookly red

OK if you must... V is cool cause V will not get laid of because V's employer can no longer afford to pay for V's healthcare. Now other factors like payroll taxes my may V's services an unfordable luxury, but for now V is safe. I am sorry that you emotionally do not like what I am saying but it is what it is.

But V has no health care.

But I highlighted the positives you see.

Your post ranks zero in the empathy column. But what the hell. Empathy?!! It costs me money! somehow.

160 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:12:13pm

re: #158 Stanley Sea

And Varek needs to respond, because Varek is the one in this American Situation.

Right here in front of our eyes.

No you need to un-respond because your feelings have no effect on the economic reality of this American Situation right in front of our eyes... it is about money/numbers and your personal feeling don't change it. Sorry. Now deal with it.

161 fat bastard vegetarian  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:14:04pm

Spiderman, Spiderman,
Does whatever a spider can
Spins a web, any size,
Catches thieves just like flies
Look Out!
Here comes the Spiderman.

Is he strong?
Listen bud,
He's got radioactive blood.
Can he swing from a thread
Take a look overhead
Hey, there
There goes the Spiderman.

162 Eclectic Infidel  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:15:31pm

Be obsequious, purple and clairvoyant.

163 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:15:42pm

re: #161 fat bastard vegetarian

Spiderman, Spiderman,
Does whatever a spider can
Spins a web, any size,
Catches thieves just like flies
Look Out!
Here comes the Spiderman.

Is he strong?
Listen bud,
He's got radioactive blood.
Can he swing from a thread
Take a look overhead
Hey, there
There goes the Spiderman.

you forgot the copyright line... Stan Lee now owns your house.

164 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:18:05pm

He's a bad mutha (watch yo mouth!) I'm just talkin' 'bout Spidey...

165 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:18:54pm

re: #162 eclectic infidel

People ask me, "Steve... How are you so fucking funny?"

166 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:19:59pm

For those of you who didn't see earlier... The boyfriend left the hospital today... is home.

167 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:20:53pm

It's alright--
Nobody rides for free
Nobody gets it like they want it to be
Nobody hands you any guarantee
Nobody
The hearts are hard and the times are tough
Down on the boulevard the night's enough
And time passes slow
Between the store front shadows and the street lights glow
Everybody walks right by like they're safe or something
They don't know--
Nobody knows you
Nobody owes you nothin
Nobody shows you what they're thinking
Nobody baby
Hey, hey, baby
You got to watch the street, keep your feet
And be on guard
Make it pay baby
It's only time on the boulevard

Jackson Brown

168 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:25:59pm

re: #162 eclectic infidel

Be courteous, kind and forgiving,
Be gentle and peaceful each day,
Be warm and human and grateful,
And have a good thing to say.

Be thoughtful and trustful and childlike,
Be witty and happy and wise,
Be honest and love all your neighbors,
Be obsequious, purple, and clairvoyant.

Be pompous, obese, and eat cactus,
Be dull, and boring, and omnipresent,
Criticize things you don't know about,
Be oblong and have your knees removed.

Be tasteless, rude, and offensive,
Live in a swamp and be three dimensional,
Put a live chicken in your underwear,
Get all excited and go to a yawning festival.

169 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:27:26pm

re: #168 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

there again no credit line... how many law suites you want?

170 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:29:04pm

re: #169 brookly red

there again no credit line... how many law suites you want?

I dunno. Do the suites come with a mini-fridge? What's in the mini-fridge?

171 laZardo  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:30:22pm

re: #167 brookly red

First song that came to mind with those lyrics...

Youtube Video

/They predicted Justin Bieber with that second verse.

172 What, me worry?  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:30:30pm

re: #166 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

For those of you who didn't see earlier... The boyfriend left the hospital today... is home.

Oh yeah! How's he feeling?

173 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:31:45pm

re: #170 EmmmieG

I dunno. Do the suites come with a mini-fridge? What's in the mini-fridge?

greif

174 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:32:25pm

re: #172 marjoriemoon

Oh yeah! How's he feeling?

Frankly? I don't know.

He's home. Guessing it feels great.

175 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:33:02pm

re: #169 brookly red

Dude... the Spelling Police are worse.

176 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:34:55pm

re: #173 brookly red

greif

‘i’ before ‘e’ except after ‘c’
and when sounding like ‘a’
as in neighbor and weigh
and on weekends and holidays
and all throughout May
and you’ll always be wrong
no matter what you say.”

-Brian Regan

177 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:35:52pm

Gosh it's late.

G'night Knuckleheads.

178 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:35:55pm

re: #175 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Dude... the Spelling Police are worse.

phuc dem I got's a publik skool diploma, certifyed by union instructkors.

badd to da bone.

179 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:37:33pm

re: #178 brookly red

phuc dem I got's a publik skool diploma, certifyed by union instructkors.

badd to da bone.

I only bug people if it's funny.

180 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:39:33pm

re: #179 EmmmieG

As always...

Avatar ding.

181 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:40:09pm

re: #167 brookly red

It's alright--
Nobody rides for free
Nobody gets it like they want it to be
Nobody hands you any guarantee
Nobody
The hearts are hard and the times are tough
Down on the boulevard the night's enough
And time passes slow
Between the store front shadows and the street lights glow
Everybody walks right by like they're safe or something
They don't know--
Nobody knows you
Nobody owes you nothin
Nobody shows you what they're thinking
Nobody baby
Hey, hey, baby
You got to watch the street, keep your feet
And be on guard
Make it pay baby
It's only time on the boulevard

Jackson Brown

HA! He's a communist in your view.

The Boulevard is his WORST song ever.

How bout this one?

Youtube Video
182 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:40:13pm

re: #179 EmmmieG

I only bug people if it's funny.

we need more funny round these parts... some folk might crack there assholes if they laughted

183 Eclectic Infidel  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:41:27pm

Life is skittles and life is beer.

184 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:42:06pm

re: #181 Stanley Sea

Your Bright Baby Blues

Gah, I felt like Jackson was just blasphemed.

185 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:43:02pm

re: #182 brookly red

we need more funny round these parts... some folk might crack there assholes if they laughted

Is that bait, or are you just tired?

186 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:43:37pm

re: #181 Stanley Sea

HA! He's a communist in your view.

The Boulevard is his WORST song ever.

How bout this one?


[Video]

no he's not a communist in my view...

you could not understand my view if you tried.

187 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:44:24pm

re: #185 EmmmieG

Is that bait, or are you just tired?

No I like funny haven't you noticed ? bring it

188 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:45:16pm

re: #186 brookly red

Did you watch the vid?

189 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:47:00pm

re: #188 Stanley Sea

Did you watch the vid?

Lindley, even.

190 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:47:33pm

Hmmm...

All I got today is what the Princess gave me at dinner.

Knock knock.

191 reine.de.tout  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:49:03pm

re: #131 Floral Giraffe

Did you figure out, just WHAT you cut in half?
*waves*
Worms are less icky than snakes or legless lizards, or other critters...
IMHO.

Hey, Flo!
Was gone for a bit.
No, I never figured it out.
Don't really want to, either.

192 Eclectic Infidel  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:49:14pm

And here's one for the lizardettes among us tonight:

Youtube Video
193 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:50:17pm

re: #184 Stanley Sea

Your Bright Baby Blues

Gah, I felt like Jackson was just blasphemed.

I order to feel blasphemed one would need to believe...

194 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:51:13pm

re: #188 Stanley Sea

yes... I do remember him back before he had to shave.

195 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:54:21pm

*Rummages around in bag some more*

How about this video? The baby sister posted in on facebook.

Youtube Video

Warning: Mild bad language.

196 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:54:36pm

re: #194 brookly red

I thank you very very much for making me listen to these songs via youtube (Jamaica Say You Will is playing now)

Ahh, I'm loving it. Thanks Brookly!

197 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:56:22pm

re: #196 Stanley Sea

I thank you very very much for making me listen to these songs via youtube (Jamaica Say You Will is playing now)

Ahh, I'm loving it. Thanks Brookly!

it is what it is

198 Cato the Elder  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:57:09pm

re: #83 Alouette

She wasn't really all that hot.

Never confuse numismatic portraits with portraits.

Besides, you can't see her bust in that bust.

199 jordash1212  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:58:10pm

Finally got to go see "Lebanon." That movie is heavy to say the least.

200 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:58:20pm

re: #198 Cato the Elder

Never confuse numismatic portraits with portraits.

Besides, you can't see her bust in that bust.

From what I've read, she fell into the category of not actually beautiful, but very attractive in how she comes across. There are a number of modern actresses that fall into that category.

201 laZardo  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 9:58:40pm

Headin out for a bit. Cheers.

202 brookly red  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 10:02:50pm

later folks gotta bail out the beotch... again.

203 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 10:03:13pm

re: #200 EmmmieG

Bonus points if you can tell me the Jane Austen book in which one of the protagonists is broken up with in a badly written letter.

204 Eclectic Infidel  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 10:09:00pm

re: #203 EmmmieG

Bonus points if you can tell me the Jane Austen book in which one of the protagonists is broken up with in a badly written letter.

Pride and Prejudice? This is almost a random guess. I read it a very long time ago.

205 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 10:09:42pm

re: #204 eclectic infidel

Pride and Prejudice? This is almost a random guess. I read it a very long time ago.

Sense & Sensibility. But good try.

206 Catttt  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 10:10:57pm

Hi. I am sooooo out of the loop. Charles - thank you for linking Gillian Welch on Twitter. HOLY SHIT - she is awesome.

Hi guys. So anyway - hi.

207 Eclectic Infidel  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 10:11:17pm

re: #205 EmmmieG

Sense & Sensibility. But good try.

*nods* I vaguely remembered a letter of importance but couldn't recall if it deal with the subject matter you mentioned.

208 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 10:11:25pm

Well, I've killed the thread, it seems. Good night, everyone.

209 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 10:12:55pm

re: #207 eclectic infidel

*nods* I vaguely remembered a letter of importance but couldn't recall if it deal with the subject matter you mentioned.

During that time, socially, only women could break up with men. Men were considered bound by any marriage proposal they made.

Edmund was stuck like this, and the break-up letter he received was apparently very poorly written.

210 Eclectic Infidel  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 10:15:07pm

re: #209 EmmmieG

During that time, socially, only women could break up with men. Men were considered bound by any marriage proposal they made.

Edmund was stuck like this, and the break-up letter he received was apparently very poorly written.

Was it an honor thing, for the men? Was that why they couldn't dissolve the marriage proposal?

211 Eclectic Infidel  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 10:23:42pm

Yes indeed, zee thread is dead.

212 lostlakehiker  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 10:24:55pm

re: #53 brookly red

same as it ever was... I have a feeling Cleopatra looked nothing like Liz Taylor.

We actually know something about Cleopatra's looks. There are coins with her likeness, and there are contemporary accounts. Not Sophia Loren.

213 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 10:59:24pm

re: #211 eclectic infidel

Yes indeed, zee thread is dead.

Sorry, the other thread is taking up much of the time and energy.

214 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 11:39:33pm

ok, here is Jackson Browne and David Lindley:

Call it a Loan:

Youtube Video
215 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 11:53:36pm

Abbas flips off Achmedinejad.

216 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Sep 4, 2010 11:58:38pm

OK, I'm to bed.

217 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 12:19:41am

anyone here?

218 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 12:29:50am

re: #217 Stanley Sea

no

219 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 12:31:27am

re: #218 Slumbering Behemoth

no

haha, you poor thingy

220 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 12:40:04am

re: #219 Stanley Sea

haha, you poor thingy

Thingy? Thingy?!? I'm just some hunk of meat to you, ain't I? Something to be objectified?

/imcoolwiththat

221 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 12:43:34am

re: #220 Slumbering Behemoth

Thingy? Thingy?!? I'm just some hunk of meat to you, ain't I? Something to be objectified?

/imcoolwiththat

I'm still listening to old Jackson Browne, very sweet, and everyman is a thingy at this point. ?

222 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 12:49:51am

re: #221 Stanley Sea

To be used and abused, I assume?

223 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 12:55:10am

re: #222 Slumbering Behemoth

To be used and abused, I assume?

My dream! I'm unfortunately more into the love part, ya know, the hard part. Chick thing.

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224 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 1:01:49am

re: #223 Stanley Sea

That part's the hardest, even for chick thingys.

225 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 1:05:58am

re: #224 Slumbering Behemoth

We are pretty much screwed in the whole thingy. You know what I'm meaning.

226 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 1:13:08am

re: #225 Stanley Sea

Yeah, sometimes it's kinda like trying to make a PB&J using chop sticks.

227 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 1:14:01am

Gah, I just realized that fantastic song by Jackson Browne "Of Missing Persons" was about Lowell George from Little Feat. Written for Lowell's daughter. oh my. I'm so far behind, but damn glad I'm not dead.

Youtube Video
228 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 1:15:52am

re: #227 Stanley Sea

Gah, I just realized that fantastic song by Jackson Browne "Of Missing Persons" was about Lowell George from Little Feat. Written for Lowell's daughter. oh my. I'm so far behind, but damn glad I'm not dead.


[Video]

And Lowell was in the Mothers of Invention.

late night learning

229 freetoken  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 1:21:38am
Youtube Video
230 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 1:22:16am

re: #228 Stanley Sea

And Lowell was in the Mothers of Invention.

And Dale and Terry Bozzio of the band "Missing Persons" used to work with Frank Zappa.

Give me a minute and I might remember why I know this.

231 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 1:27:01am

re: #229 freetoken

[Video]

Nice!

232 freetoken  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 1:30:16am

re: #231 Stanley Sea

Few people on this board are probably familiar with the Lennon sisters. They were part of Welk's show for years - they essentially grew up on the show.

233 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 1:30:27am

re: #229 freetoken

What modern perversity is this? Clearly under-age girls singing of "lovers". Disgusting. This sort of immoral, provocative garbage would not have been acceptable in my grandparents time, I tell you what!
/wait, what?

234 freetoken  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 1:32:08am

Time to let the hair grow out...

Youtube Video
235 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 1:32:54am

re: #232 freetoken

Few people on this board are probably familiar with the Lennon sisters. They were part of Welk's show for years - they essentially grew up on the show.

I totally watched. Love how the more risque parts were sung by the eldest, and the bird was sung by the little one.

236 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 1:35:00am

re: #233 Slumbering Behemoth

What modern perversity is this? Clearly under-age girls singing of "lovers". Disgusting. This sort of immoral, provocative garbage would not have been acceptable in my grandparents time, I tell you what!
/wait, what?

Probably verbatim from the complaints of the day. prude!

and now the girls are almost naked or if they release a sex tape they will be!

237 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 1:37:51am

re: #235 Stanley Sea

Pervert! The acceptance of this immoral culture is exactly why we have hangnails and stubbed toes in this now godless country. Y'all better git rite wit teh Lord before it's too late!

238 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 1:41:07am

Oh, geez. I walked in the wrong time.

239 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 1:41:20am

re: #237 Slumbering Behemoth

Pervert! The acceptance of this immoral culture is exactly why we have hangnails and stubbed toes in this now godless country. Y'all better git rite wit teh Lord before it's too late!

I am so happily SCREWED with the lord in that sense.

I'm onto Jason Mraz. I'll spare you all the posts, but damn, I love him!

240 freetoken  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 1:43:52am

re: #238 Cannadian Club Akbar

Oh, geez. I walked in the wrong time.

On the contrary, you're just in time for some Ligeti:

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241 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 1:49:36am

re: #234 freetoken

I have to take only one look at that godless hippie to know he has nothing to offer proper society. You have no right to bludgeon me so with such obvious deviancy.

This sir is religious persecution, plain and simple. Mark my words, the ACLJ will hear of this offense, and you shall rue this day. Rue it, I tell you!

242 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 1:52:05am

re: #239 Stanley Sea

I am so happily SCREWED

Wish I could see that footage. :)

/see how quickly I can switch hats from pious to pervert? Almost as quickly as Pat Robertson, thankyouverymuchtrytheveal.

243 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 1:53:52am

re: #242 Slumbering Behemoth

Wish I could see that footage. :)

/see how quickly I can switch hats from pious to pervert? Almost as quickly as Pat Robertson, thankyouverymuchtrytheveal.

weareallone

really!!

244 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 1:57:37am

re: #243 Stanley Sea

If that were true I'd be swapping sweat with Sandra Bullock right now.

245 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 1:57:55am

Just wow.

Youtube Video
246 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 2:05:31am

Time to split. Figure I should leave you with something METALish. It was my first love, after all.

Youtube Video
247 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 2:13:33am

re: #246 Slumbering Behemoth

Love ya. but I'm still into Mraz right now. That would kill it.

248 bratwurst  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 2:18:12am

CNN seems to be in danger of dislocating their shoulders patting themselves on the back over the "adult services" section of Craigslist now coming up as "CENSORED" across the country:

[Link: www.cnn.com...]

*clap clap*

Next stop: the back pages of every free "alternative" newspaper and the "escort" section of every phone book in America.

249 Darth Vader Gargoyle  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 3:52:29am

re: #248 bratwurst

CNN seems to be in danger of dislocating their shoulders patting themselves on the back over the "adult services" section of Craigslist now coming up as "CENSORED" across the country:

[Link: www.cnn.com...]

*clap clap*

Next stop: the back pages of every free "alternative" newspaper and the "escort" section of every phone book in America.

Why the hell can't Foxnews just mind their own damn business!!! Oh wait, CNN?
//

Good Morning Lizards!

250 EdDantes  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 4:20:52am

Why do they call it Labor Day when nobody works?

251 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 4:24:34am

Good Sunday morning to ya!

252 EdDantes  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 4:26:41am

re: #251 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Good Sunday morning to ya!

Good morning, FBV!

253 Darth Vader Gargoyle  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 4:27:29am

re: #250 EdDantes

Why do they call it Labor Day when nobody works?

Except all the stores!

254 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 4:29:54am

re: #250 EdDantes

Why do they call it Labor Day when nobody works?

I guess tomorrow is a cool day to work in a Maternity Ward... I wonder how many people think they are making the joke for the first time...

255 EdDantes  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 4:29:57am

re: #253 rwdflynavy

That's true. The sales.

256 EdDantes  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 4:33:27am

re: #254 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I guess tomorrow is a cool day to work in a Maternity Ward... I wonder how many people think they are making the joke for the first time...

Probably way to many. Like the people who ask a baker if he makes a lot of bread.

257 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 4:36:28am

re: #256 EdDantes

Probably way to many. Like the people who ask a baker if he makes a lot of bread.

Or the Elevator Operator, "What's up?"

258 EdDantes  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 4:49:57am

FBV. How can a vegetarian be an FB? Just asking.

259 Darth Vader Gargoyle  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 4:53:00am

re: #258 EdDantes

FBV. How can a vegetarian be an FB? Just asking.

Click his avatar for a clue....
//

260 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 4:53:01am

re: #258 EdDantes

Because beer is a vegetable.

261 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 4:53:20am

re: #259 rwdflynavy

Well... that too...

262 EdDantes  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 4:55:26am

Ah... Cake. And beer. The two food groups. Say no more.

263 Aye Pod  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 4:56:41am

Good Morning LGF

Youtube Video
264 Darth Vader Gargoyle  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 4:56:56am

Later Lizards. Time to muster the troops for church.

265 Aye Pod  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 4:57:32am

re: #258 EdDantes

FBV. How can a vegetarian be an FB? Just asking.

Image: cheese.jpg

266 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 4:58:42am

re: #265 Jimmah

There's that too...

267 EdDantes  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 5:05:06am

re: #265 Jimmah

Image: cheese.jpg

I will not make a cheese shop reference. I...promise...!

268 Aye Pod  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 5:11:40am

re: #267 EdDantes

I will not make a cheese shop reference. I...promise...!

Heh. Try some apples instead:

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269 RogueOne  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 5:18:46am

re: #248 bratwurst

On the sidebar of the craigslist story:

Iran orders 99 lashes for woman facing execution, rights group says
[Link: www.cnn.com...]


(CNN) -- An Iranian woman who'd already been condemned to death faces another sentence of 99 lashes because of a case of mistaken identity in a photograph, according to foes of the execution.

Iranian authorities imposed the sentence after they saw the photo of a woman without a head scarf in a newspaper, the International Committee Against Stoning, a human rights group, said Friday.
.....
Iranian law requies all women, regardless of their faith, to wear garments that cover their hair and bodies.

According to the Times, one of Ashtiani's former lawyers, Mohammed Mostafaei, gave the paper the photo.
.....
The Times said Mostafei told it that Ashtiani's son, Sajjad, 22, had e-mailed him two photographs three months ago and told him both were of his mother.

Ratted out by her son and her attorney. It's not bad enough she's going to die for "adultery" but they have to beat her first.

270 EdDantes  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 5:19:43am

re: #268 Jimmah

Oh. My.

271 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 5:22:14am

re: #269 RogueOne

Wow.

272 EdDantes  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 5:24:14am

re: #269 RogueOne

Somebody better investigate soon- Bob dylan.

273 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 5:25:05am

re: #267 EdDantes

I will not make a cheese shop reference. I...promise...!

"I want the kids in bed by 9, I want the dog fed, the yard watered, and
the gate locked. And get a note to the milkman: NO MORE CHEESE!"
-Airplane!

274 ryannon  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 5:28:16am

re: #269 RogueOne

A disgusting situation, but people around the world are trying to do what they can. This is the main petition - it could very well make a difference:

[Link: freesakineh.org...]

275 EdDantes  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 5:28:55am

re: #273 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Ha. Steve McCroskey. LMAO!

276 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 5:31:57am

re: #274 ryannon

Okay, I signed it... When Dinnerjacket sees my signature, he'll make them let her go, I'm sure.

277 EdDantes  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 5:33:32am

re: #274 ryannon

I do wish there was something I could do. Will a petition really help? Iran is not the open of nations.

278 ryannon  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 5:33:40am

re: #276 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Okay, I signed it... When Dinnerjacket sees my signature, he'll make them let her go, I'm sure.

That's exactly why I posted it.

Good man!

279 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 5:35:03am

re: #277 EdDantes

I do wish there was something I could do. Will a petition really help? Iran is not the open of nations.

Like wetting my pants in a dark suit... It'll gives me a warm feeling, but no one notices...

280 ryannon  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 5:35:36am

re: #277 EdDantes

I do wish there was something I could do. Will a petition really help? Iran is not the open of nations.

There are a lot of high-profile signers there, and yes, these things do make a tremendous difference - when they work.

I'm hoping this one will.

And it's marginally better than sitting on one's hands and saying "What a shame."

281 RogueOne  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 5:36:33am

re: #280 ryannon

True, but if Sharia specifically calls for stoning as punishment for adultery then wouldn't signing a petition like that be considered intolerant of another persons religion?

282 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 5:37:39am

I have a feeling that if you are a sadistic rapist at heart, a woman's prison in Iran is a great place to work.

If there was a real Spiderman? Those are the first fucking places he should visit.

283 ryannon  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 5:37:49am

re: #281 RogueOne

True, but if Sharia specifically calls for stoning as punishment for adultery then wouldn't signing a petition like that be considered intolerant of another persons religion?

You win the thread!

(time for me to sign out)

/

284 RogueOne  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 5:39:41am

re: #282 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I have a feeling that if you are a sadistic rapist at heart, a woman's prison in Iran is a great place to work.

You might be surprised about what is going on in your local county jail.
[Link: twitter.com...]

285 EdDantes  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 5:42:14am

re: #283 ryannon

I signed it. I hope it helps.

286 ryannon  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 5:43:01am

re: #284 RogueOne

You might be surprised about what is going on in your local county jail.
[Link: twitter.com...]

Unfortunately, there are many people out there who would be just fine with publicly burning people at the stake or public stonings. What we call civilization always hangs by the thinnest of threads. (As we often see even in LGF threads...)

Think "Lord of the Flies"

287 ryannon  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 5:43:49am

re: #285 EdDantes

I signed it. I hope it helps.

It does.

FBV told me so.

288 EdDantes  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 5:47:39am

re: #287 ryannon

Despite my cynical nature, I sometimes think miracles happen if enough people believe.

289 ryannon  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 5:48:50am

re: #288 EdDantes

Despite my cynical nature, I sometimes think miracles happen if enough people believe.

I think they used to call it consciousness-raising. Or prayer. Or something like that....

290 prairiefire  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 5:50:04am

re: #274 ryannon

A disgusting situation, but people around the world are trying to do what they can. This is the main petition - it could very well make a difference:

[Link: freesakineh.org...]

Signed it, Ryannon.

291 prairiefire  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 5:50:25am

re: #289 ryannon

I think they used to call it consciousness-raising. Or prayer. Or something like that...

Prayer works.

292 EdDantes  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 5:52:36am

re: #289 ryannon

Whatever it is called, I am for it.

293 ryannon  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 5:52:48am

re: #290 prairiefire

Signed it, Ryannon.

It's strange, but I get a warm feeling and a wave of positive energy every time one of you says that. And for most things, I can be as cynical as the best of them.

I do wonder if the brain is hard-wired for altruism....

294 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 5:54:34am

re: #284 RogueOne

True... but there? It's legal...

295 EdDantes  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 5:56:52am

re: #293 ryannon

My brain is hardwired for cynicism. It is people like you who give me hope.
Thank you.

296 RogueOne  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 5:57:32am

re: #293 ryannon

It's strange, but I get a warm feeling and a wave of positive energy every time one of you says that. And for most things, I can be as cynical as the best of them.

I do wonder if the brain is hard-wired for altruism...

hippie/

297 prairiefire  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 6:06:36am

re: #296 RogueOne

hippie/

human

298 EdDantes  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 6:27:27am

Good night, lizards.

299 cliffster  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 6:33:51am

I awoke this morning from uneasy dreams and found myself transformed in my bed into a gigantic insect.

300 NJDhockeyfan  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 6:36:59am

Good morning lizards!

301 darthstar  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 6:42:45am

re: #274 ryannon

A disgusting situation, but people around the world are trying to do what they can. This is the main petition - it could very well make a difference:

[Link: freesakineh.org...]

Signing now

302 EdDantes  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 6:44:11am

re: #299 cliffster

I awoke this morning from uneasy dreams and found myself transformed in my bed into a gigantic insect.

I love a Kafka reference. Good night for real.

303 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 6:44:39am

re: #299 cliffster

Good morning, Mr. Kafka.

304 NJDhockeyfan  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 6:44:55am

Hamas calls women and children 'military targets'

The Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas on Saturday said that all Jews living in Judea and Samaria (the so-called "West Bank") are legitimate military targets, regardless of whether they are men, women or children.

Hamas spokesman Azat al-Ghashek told the London-based Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat that it is "natural" to want to harm any Jew that is found in these areas, as they are "the reserve force of the occupation army on Palestinian land."

Al-Ghashek was interviewed following last week's brutal execution of four Jewish civilians near the Judean town of Hebron that left seven Israeli children without parents. Hamas claimed credit for that attack and organized street rallies in Gaza City to celebrate the slayings.

Palestinian terror groups have long argued that even killing Israeli women and children constitutes legitimate military activity since all Israeli Jews eventually serve in the army.

Peace!
/

305 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 6:45:26am

re: #299 cliffster

"I dreamed last night I ate a giant marshmallow. When I woke up, my wife's head was gone."

-Forgot the comedian

306 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 6:45:50am

Time to get pretty for church...

307 RogueOne  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 6:55:17am

Gov. Barbour Breaks with GOP on Immigration
[Link: www.cato-at-liberty.org...]


Let me just tell you, I’ve had a different experience than perhaps some other governors. I don’t know where we would have been in Mississippi after Katrina if it hadn’t been for the Spanish speakers that came in to help rebuild, and there’s no doubt in my mind some of them weren’t here legally. Some of them were, some of them weren’t. But they came in, they looked for the work—if they hadn’t been there, if they hadn’t come and stayed for a few months or a couple of years, we would be way, way, way behind where we are now.
.....
So there’s gotta be a way—a) we gotta secure the border, but b) we’ve got to work through how are we gonna make sure we’ve got the labor we need in the United States. H1B visas—a huge, huge thing. My idea is everybody from Stanford who’s from India that gets a PhD, we oughta stamp citizenship on his diploma, so instead of him going back to India and starting a business that employs 1,800 people, that he’ll start a business that employs 1,800 people in Des Moines, Iowa, instead of India. A lot of this is just common sense, and common sense tells us we’re not gonna take ten or twelve or fourteen million people [currently here illegally] and put them in jail and deport them. We’re not gonna do it, and we need to quit—some people need to quit acting like we are, and let’s talk about real solutions.

308 ryannon  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 6:57:08am

re: #295 EdDantes

My brain is hardwired for cynicism. It is people like you who give me hope.
Thank you.


You're quite welcome.

The idea itself has been the object of research:

[Link: artscience.org...]

309 Digital Display  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 6:59:38am

The Little green football prayer list
On this day in History..

On Sept. 5, 1972, Palestinian terrorists attacked the Israeli Olympic team at the summer games in Munich; 11 Israeli athletes and coaches, five terrorists and a police officer were killed.

AlbuSteve: Lord give Speedy healing and strength to Steve.
Buck: Father has a tumor and has little time left.. Comfort his family and welcome him in your arms.
Thanos: Grant healing and strength to our dear friend
Obdicut: My friend Pam, who's ovarian cancer has returned. She's going into chemo again. And she believes in the power of prayer.
Dark_Falcon: His Mother had a stroke..She is getting better.. Please heal her Lord
Jadespring: Dear Lord bring healing to a Sister.. Bring grace and strength to the Family.
We pray for your tender mercies
Wlewisiii: If you would pray as appropriate to your beliefs for John Freuh, his step-mother, my sister Elisabeth & his father Rick, I'd appreciate it.
Dear Lord..We ask you this day you bring healing and grace to SFZ’s Father and Mother-in-law..
Help her in the Job search and finding her a new Career. .
We know your love brings healing and life.
Ausador: Parents
Irenicum: Lord heal this family and bring comfort to them..
Guanxi88: Best wishes and lizard mojo to my wife's best friend. her father committed suicide not two weeks after her mother succumbed to cancer.
Reine: Health and Family.. Lord we ask you grant Reine’s Daughter a Special blessing..Look after her and grant grace.
gregb - 4 year old son who suffered a head injury last Friday and spent the
weekend in the ICU with some lingering effects all week.Jadespring: Our prayers go out to your sister…May she be healed
Baseballmom57: My God grant grace and healing to her son…
lurking faith… prayers for an aunt
Beekiller: Sister has been diagnosed with Cancer…We pray for a speedy recovery
FBV: Add my friend Jeff. Recently diagnosed with ALS. His family will watch him fade and die over the next three to five years. Wife and two kids (kids are young adults).
Veggie Update: For the prayer list, my daughter's boyfriend is going to be moved out of intensive care and into rehab (we hope!) next week... beginning of a long journey.
I want to add thanksgiving that they will be able to do his rehab locally. There was talk that he was going to be moved three to five hours away from his family.
Update: He moved his feet! This will be a long journey for the boy..Walk with him Lord
Prairiefire: Health for Family and friends
Mcspiff: if you could add my uncle to the list. He went in for surgery today and it didn't go so well. Extra organs had to come out, etc. Still just hearing bits and pieces now. But any prayers would be greatly appreciated.
Alouette’ Dear Father..His name in Hebrew is Pinhas ben Rivka. , and he is in congestive heart failure. He is 91 years old, and a WW2 Pacific vet.
Reloadingisnotahobby: Could add my parents?
They're in their 80's and slipping in to ALZ...Simultaneously
HoosierHoops: Bring peace and strength to Joe and his family
Thank you Lord..
Amen

310 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 7:05:09am

Hey Hoosier! The Boyfriend is out of the hospital and home.

311 Digital Display  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 7:15:19am

re: #310 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Hey Hoosier! The Boyfriend is out of the hospital and home.

Great news Veggie!

312 darthstar  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 7:15:41am

Windsock McCain gets a little smack-down after making his 24th appearance on the Sunday talk shows since President Obama's inauguration:

[Link: www.washingtonmonthly.com...]

And just think what our discourse would be missing if we didn't have these brilliant insights on the airwaves. "Class warfare"? How clever and fresh. The Bush tax cuts that McCain voted against now need to be extended? How compelling.

For those keeping score -- and you know I am -- this was McCain's 24th appearance on a Sunday morning talk show since President Obama's inauguration. That's an average of more than an appearance a month, every month -- more than any other public official in the country.

...

McCain lost a presidential election; he's not in the GOP leadership; he's not especially influential with anyone; he's not playing an active role in shaping any legislation; his re-election appears secure; and he doesn't appear to have any expertise in any area of public policy. The Sunday shows seem to book him out of habit. It remains farcical.

There's a bit more...

313 darthstar  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 7:16:25am

Okay...time to pack my bags, prep the dogs for the planet, and head to the airport...going to SD for two days to hang with friends.

Have a great day, everyone.

314 cliffster  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 7:21:58am

re: #310 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Hey Hoosier! The Boyfriend is out of the hospital and home.

that's great news, man

316 Killgore Trout  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 7:32:00am

Tea Party Senate Candidate Opposes Masturbation

Delaware Tea Party Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell is opposed to masturbation because the Bible says "lusting in your heart" is the same as committing adultery and, as O'Donnell so correctly pointed out in a past MTV interview, "you can't masturbate without lust.
317 sattv4u2  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 7:36:42am

re: #316 Killgore Trout

Tea Party Senate Candidate Opposes Masturbation

"you can't masturbate without lust.

or a good lube!

((ooopppsss,, did I just type that out loud!))

318 sattv4u2  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 7:37:51am

re: #310 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Hey Hoosier! The Boyfriend is out of the hospital and home.

You have a boyfriend??

//

j/k ,, saw that in the top 10 comments,,,

319 sattv4u2  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 7:38:40am

re: #309 HoosierHoops

wow ,, haven't seen that in awhile

Thanks for keeping it going

320 Digital Display  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 7:45:37am

re: #319 sattv4u2

wow ,, haven't seen that in awhile

Thanks for keeping it going

Every Sunday Morning at 10am EST..It has been my privilege to post the Prayer list..It's the nice one calm minute before we go to war With Meet The Press every Sunday

321 sattv4u2  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 7:48:37am

re: #320 HoosierHoops

Every Sunday Morning at 10am EST..It has been my privilege to post the Prayer list..It's the nice one calm minute before we go to war With Meet The Press every Sunday

:)

I get into work on Sundays at 10 a.m.

depending on how much stuff I have to check and/or set up for the day, I don't get to log into LGF till 10:30-45 ish, and I usually don't scroll back far enough to see.
Today I got in a tad earlier and there's nothing happening for a couple of hours

So again, thank you for keeping it going

322 NJDhockeyfan  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 8:05:12am

Work accident reported in Lebanon...

Hezbollah weapons depot blows up

Taped footage showed Hezbollah operatives removing arms from a house in southern Lebanon following a blast that rocked the building.

An Israeli surveillance drone took pictures of the site minutes after a blast rocked the building, Israel's Channel One network reported Saturday.

The house was used by Hezbollah to store arms in an area under the control of the U.N.peacekeeping force, Lebanese officials said. The explosion occurred on Friday afternoon.

The blast tore through a three-story building in Shehabiyeh south of the Litani River, the Lebanese newspaper The Daily Star said Saturday. It was not clear if there were any casualties.

Israeli security officials said the building where the blast occurred is owned by a Hezbollah operative and is a known weapons storage facility used by Hezbollah in violation of U.N. Security Resolution 1701

323 sattv4u2  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 8:07:32am

re: #322 NJDhockeyfan

Work accident reported in Lebanon...

Hezbollah weapons depot blows up

How do you spell OSHA in Lebanon?
/

324 Cathypop  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 8:09:19am

re: #323 sattv4u2

How do you spell OSHA in Lebanon?
/


Oh Shit

325 _RememberTonyC  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 8:14:08am

re: #322 NJDhockeyfan

hopefully a similar "work accident" is planned for iran's nuclear reactors

326 Mr. Crankypants  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 8:15:15am

Good morning....Wife just went to get coffee. Took the rotten little dog with her, and she's not making me go to her all school reunion this afternoon. Life is good.

327 _RememberTonyC  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 8:16:57am

re: #320 HoosierHoops

Every Sunday Morning at 10am EST..It has been my privilege to post the Prayer list..It's the nice one calm minute before we go to war With Meet The Press every Sunday

Hoopster .... the tennis was good last night ... we did get to meet Martina, although only for a few minutes. James Blake was hammered by Novak Djokovic and Svetlana Kuznetzova won her match too. My wife said Kuznetzova was so ugly she looked like an East German swimmer from the early 1980s .... OUCH!

328 Killgore Trout  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 8:32:56am

Still no further updates on Steve?

329 _RememberTonyC  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 8:34:07am

re: #328 Killgore Trout

Still no further updates on Steve?

what happened to him?

330 allegro  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 8:35:24am

For your Sunday morning enjoyment, Carrie and Jose...

Youtube Video

(thanks to PZ for posting this and making my day... this is amazing and hilarious)

331 Killgore Trout  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 8:37:24am

Macho Salad

Youtube Video
332 Killgore Trout  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 8:37:59am

re: #329 _RememberTonyC

what happened to him?

He had a leg amputated about 2 weeks ago.

333 reine.de.tout  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 8:46:32am

re: #328 Killgore Trout

Still no further updates on Steve?

He popped in a week or so ago, for a short time.

334 sattv4u2  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 8:48:44am

re: #333 reine.de.tout

He popped in a week or so ago, for a short time.

Popped ,, or Hopped!!!

BAS SATT ,,BAD BAD BAD !

LUV YA , STEVE!!

335 What, me worry?  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 8:49:11am

Morning lizards!

What the heck happened here last night after 2am?

336 harlequinade  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 8:50:16am

re: #335 marjoriemoon

The same thing that happens every night. WE TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!

337 sattv4u2  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 8:50:31am

re: #335 marjoriemoon

Morning lizards!

What the heck happened here last night after 2am?

UMMM,, 2:30 A.M, followed by 3:00 am, etc etc !?!?!?

338 What, me worry?  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 8:51:14am

re: #336 harlequinade

The same thing that happens every night. WE TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!

"We" minus one...

Reine, did you stay up later?

339 sattv4u2  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 8:52:26am

re: #338 marjoriemoon

"We" minus one...

Reine, did you stay up later?

ruh roh.. someone feel the Wrath Of Mr. Beaumont!?!?

340 What, me worry?  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 8:53:18am

re: #339 sattv4u2

ruh roh.. someone feel the Wrath Of Mr. Beaumont!?!?

Yes, apparently so :(

341 Walter L. Newton  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 8:53:26am

re: #332 Killgore Trout

He had a leg amputated about 2 weeks ago.

I call him right now. I was going to do it toady or tomorrow, since it's been a week since or so since I last talked to him.

Let me get my morning coffee.

342 sattv4u2  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 8:53:51am

re: #340 marjoriemoon

Yes, apparently so :(

by the name of ,,,???

343 What, me worry?  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 8:54:45am

re: #342 sattv4u2

by the name of ,,,???

I'm not saying... check the profiles.

344 What, me worry?  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 8:55:26am

re: #341 Walter L. Newton

I call him right now. I was going to do it toady or tomorrow, since it's been a week since or so since I last talked to him.

Let me get my morning coffee.

Please say "Howdy!" for me.

345 Killgore Trout  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 8:56:12am

re: #341 Walter L. Newton

I call him right now. I was going to do it toady or tomorrow, since it's been a week since or so since I last talked to him.

Let me get my morning coffee.

Thanks.

346 Walter L. Newton  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 8:56:57am

re: #250 EdDantes

Why do they call it Labor Day when nobody works?

I know... they should call it Obama Day.

347 Surabaya Stew  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 8:58:05am

re: #346 Walter L. Newton

I know... they should call it Obama Day.

"Bush Day" gets my vote.

:-D

348 sattv4u2  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 8:58:12am

re: #346 Walter L. Newton

I know... they should call it Obama Day.

:( ,, I'm working tomorrow ,, 12 hours,,, 10-10

349 sattv4u2  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 9:00:09am

re: #343 marjoriemoon

I'm not saying... check the profiles.

:( how can I check a profile of someone whose not here anymore,, ESPECIALLY not knowing who that someone is!

350 Walter L. Newton  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 9:02:16am

re: #345 Killgore Trout

Thanks.

Steve... Ok... no answer on his phone, which I find a little strange, since he always has it with him, but, I left a message, told him to call or email any time, just to let us know he's still ok.

I'm on a 8 hour shift today 3:30 to midnight, so, if he tries to contact, I may not know it until I get home tonight. I'll post info as soon as I have it, and if I don't get something from him today, I will try to hunt him down tomorrow.

I have 4 days off straight this week, I will have the time.

351 sattv4u2  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 9:02:52am

re: #350 Walter L. Newton

Thanks Walter

352 harlequinade  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 9:03:11am

re: #349 sattv4u2

Hang on - did someone go last night?

353 What, me worry?  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 9:03:48am

re: #349 sattv4u2

:( how can I check a profile of someone whose not here anymore,, ESPECIALLY not knowing who that someone is!

I don't want to contribute to the drama of the blog masses. Consider it a puzzle to figure out then.

354 reine.de.tout  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 9:03:56am

re: #341 Walter L. Newton

I call him right now. I was going to do it toady or tomorrow, since it's been a week since or so since I last talked to him.

Let me get my morning coffee.

Tell him hi from me!
And wishing him the best.

355 sattv4u2  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 9:05:03am

re: #352 harlequinade

Hang on - did someone go last night?

Apparently so. And apparently it's a double super secret !

356 reine.de.tout  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 9:05:59am

re: #338 marjoriemoon

"We" minus one...

Reine, did you stay up later?

No.
What happened?

357 Walter L. Newton  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 9:06:08am

re: #348 sattv4u2

:( ,, I'm working tomorrow ,, 12 hours,,, 10-10

I work 3:30 to midnight today, then 4 days off, they've pile all my hours onto the weekends this week.

Corporate cut hours this coming week, summer over, holidays over, they must think everything shuts down up here after labor day.

So, same people will be working less hours, less people overlapping on shifts, same amount of customers as always, customer get screwed, employee gets slammed.

358 sattv4u2  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 9:08:01am

re: #356 reine.de.tout

No.
What happened?

Shhh ,, it's a mystery wrapped in a riddle covered by a secret!!
//

359 harlequinade  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 9:08:04am

re: #355 sattv4u2

I know it was getting pretty lively with the Israel thing, but nothing that looked like it was banning. What thread was it in?

360 harlequinade  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 9:09:28am

re: #358 sattv4u2

Downstairs will tell you who - but I have no idea when/where

361 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 9:10:15am

re: #316 Killgore Trout

Tea Party Senate Candidate Opposes Masturbation

Well, at least that should put paid to her. Mike Castle is a strong candidate and this is one teabagger the GOP is actively attacking. They'll pay for it, but this should help hammer her into the ground and clear the way for a Republican victory in November. Making it even better will be that we'll be beating Biden's son.

362 sattv4u2  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 9:11:14am

re: #360 harlequinade

Downstairs will tell you who - but I have no idea when/where

I left my super sleuth secret decoder ring at home.

damn!

363 Walter L. Newton  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 9:11:23am

What the fuck... it was Cato... ok... are we dealing with a bunch of school kids here... we're adults... I think... Cato is banned... I don't know why, go up this thread and click on his name... I wasn't here last night so I know nothing more...

364 sattv4u2  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 9:11:59am

re: #363 Walter L. Newton

What the fuck... it was Cato... ok... are we dealing with a bunch of school kids here... we're adults... I think... Cato is banned... I don't know why, go up this thread and click on his name... I wasn't here last night so I know nothing more...

fuk!

365 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 9:12:52am

re: #352 harlequinade

Hang on - did someone go last night?

Cato's been blocked.

366 harlequinade  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 9:14:45am

re: #365 Dark_Falcon

Was it about Gus's page? Or fall out from the Israel thing?

(Also - is a block a time out or a ban?)

367 Walter L. Newton  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 9:16:35am

re: #366 harlequinade

Was it about Gus's page? Or fall out from the Israel thing?

(Also - is a block a time out or a ban?)

Ban.

368 Walter L. Newton  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 9:17:16am

re: #365 Dark_Falcon

Cato's been blocked.

But Dark was there... what happened?

369 Charles Johnson  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 9:19:21am

Cato is not blocked - that was a mistake. But I really am getting tired of the continuing tantrums.

370 sattv4u2  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 9:21:30am

re: #369 Charles

Cato is not blocked - that was a mistake. But I really am getting tired of the continuing tantrums.

Thanks for the clarification Charles
Does Cato know he's not blocked? Seems as if the impression from people who were "here" when it transpired is that he was

371 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 9:21:49am

re: #368 Walter L. Newton

But Dark was there... what happened?

Cato got very frustrated about Charles' posting selection. He felt that event in the middle east were far for important than "Sarah Palin's tweets", a point I agree with. But he also said "I am gone" regarding that. I think Charles may have blocked him for that, in view of his threats to leave earlier.

372 Charles Johnson  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 9:22:13am

re: #370 sattv4u2

Thanks for the clarification Charles
Does Cato know he's not blocked? Seems as if the impression from people who were "here" when it transpired is that he was

You know what, I'm beginning to be past caring. He's done this routine several times now, and it's getting old.

373 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 9:22:25am

re: #369 Charles

Cato is not blocked - that was a mistake. But I really am getting tired of the continuing tantrums.

Thanks, please disregard my #271.

374 Charles Johnson  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 9:23:04am

re: #371 Dark_Falcon

Cato got very frustrated about Charles' posting selection. He felt that event in the middle east were far for important than "Sarah Palin's tweets", a point I agree with. But he also said "I am gone" regarding that. I think Charles may have blocked him for that, in view of his threats to leave earlier.

You know, if you don't like what I post, you can easily start your own blog. In fact, you could post it RIGHT HERE, in the Pages.

What a completely bullshit accusation.

375 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 9:23:37am

re: #374 Charles

You know, if you don't like what I post, you can easily start your own blog. In fact, you could post it RIGHT HERE, in the Pages.

What a completely bullshit accusation.

Sorry, sir.

376 What, me worry?  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 9:23:46am

re: #369 Charles

Cato is not blocked - that was a mistake. But I really am getting tired of the continuing tantrums.

Oh thank goodness.

And to that, I understand.

As much as I love Cato and value his input, his major issue seems to be personal attacks, and to that, he's not alone. And I hope he reads this. One can stay on topic without the biting sarcasm. At least I try, as aggravating as topics can get, not to personally attack. Other than the nastiness, the worst part is that it draws away from the subject at hand.

377 Charles Johnson  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 9:25:44am

And what a coincidence - this morning, blogger Dan Collins is defending Robert Stacy McCain and attacking me -- and he just happens to use the same article posted by NJDHockeyfan, about a mistaken bombing report at a Planned Parenthood clinic.

Strange coincidence indeed.

378 Interesting Times  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 9:33:18am

re: #377 Charles

Besides which, I think (based on what I've heard of that story so far) the charges are BS - to the point of being police/prosecutor misconduct. That clinic was bombed before in the late '90s, so for the director to panic and assume the "suspicious box" was a bomb is perfectly reasonable. And she's being accused of planting it herself and staging the whole thing? o_O Yet another black mark for The Handmaid's Tale-style theocracy-wannabes in Oklahoma politics.

379 Charles Johnson  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 9:39:05am

re: #378 publicityStunted

The Oklahoma state government is heavily dominated by religious right fanatics. I agree -- this story looks like prosecutorial misconduct, by people with a very obvious agenda.

380 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 9:42:28am

re: #379 Charles

The Oklahoma state government is heavily dominated by religious right fanatics. I agree -- this story looks like prosecutorial misconduct, by people with a very obvious agenda.

Very clumsy and very stupid of them. A case like this is just begging to be thrown out of court. Of course, when that happens they can wqhine to their base about how their "brave attempts to expose the abortionist's fraud were thwarted by a corrupt judiciary". So maybe its not so dumb. Still hateful and crazy, though.

381 Walter L. Newton  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 9:45:55am

re: #380 Dark_Falcon

Very clumsy and very stupid of them. A case like this is just begging to be thrown out of court. Of course, when that happens they can wqhine to their base about how their "brave attempts to expose the abortionist's fraud were thwarted by a corrupt judiciary". So maybe its not so dumb. Still hateful and crazy, though.

Well... she has her first court date this coming Thursday, perhaps we will get more info on the charges and the case.

382 What, me worry?  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 9:50:27am

re: #378 publicityStunted

Besides which, I think (based on what I've heard of that story so far) the charges are BS - to the point of being police/prosecutor misconduct. That clinic was bombed before in the late '90s, so for the director to panic and assume the "suspicious box" was a bomb is perfectly reasonable. And she's being accused of planting it herself and staging the whole thing? o_O Yet another black mark for The Handmaid's Tale-style theocracy-wannabes in Oklahoma politics.

And worst thing about it is the precedent being sent. You shouldn't report suspicious looking boxes? They'll put her in jail for that? What is this world coming to?

383 Mr. Crankypants  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 9:50:49am

re: #379 Charles

The Oklahoma state government is heavily dominated by religious right fanatics. I agree -- this story looks like prosecutorial misconduct, by people with a very obvious agenda.

Better if it's out in the open where people can keep an eye on it, though.

384 Mr. Crankypants  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 9:52:44am

Hey Marg..how's it going? Things working still?

385 What, me worry?  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 9:54:46am

re: #384 PT Barnum

Hey Marg..how's it going? Things working still?

Morning PT. I'm still having a few issues. My system froze up a couple times. Hubby thinks it could be the bad port, but I don't know. Otherwise, I'm truckin away.

386 RogueOne  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 9:56:18am

re: #382 marjoriemoon

And worst thing about it is the precedent being sent. You shouldn't report suspicious looking boxes? They'll put her in jail for that? What is this world coming to?

The only thing I can find referencing the initial story says she told the police there was a ticking box in the trash.

[Link: www.tulsaworld.com...]

387 Gus  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 9:57:31am

re: #366 harlequinade

Was it about Gus's page? Or fall out from the Israel thing?

(Also - is a block a time out or a ban?)

No on the former and probably on the latter. And just in case I did not send any emails about it. I just deleted the page making no demands and fell asleep around 9 PM.

388 What, me worry?  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 9:58:42am

re: #386 RogueOne

The only thing I can find referencing the initial story says she told the police there was a ticking box in the trash.

[Link: www.tulsaworld.com...]

That looks like an unconfirmed report.

After 9/11, there was a box found near our office building and they evacuated some 40 odd floors. That's what you're supposed to do. To be brought in on charges for such a thing is beyond my comprehension.

389 RogueOne  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 9:58:45am

re: #386 RogueOne

Actually, I misread that:

Reports that the employee heard a ticking sound coming from the box before she called police were unconfirmed, Tulsa Police Officer Leland Ashley said at the time.

390 Mr. Crankypants  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:02:12am

Larison has a good article on another conservative that left the flock.

Money Quote:

As I have said before, I don’t think the GOP will win the House, but if that did happen it would primarily be bad news for the Republican Party and the conservative movement. If that seems a little too counterintuitive for you, let me explain. Should the GOP somehow win the House, they will not have earned it and they will not deserve it, and they will proceed to destroy themselves in very short order. Arguably, there was nothing worse for the American right than to be given the free gift of winning the 2002 midterms, because this win encouraged them to pursue the policies that proved to be their undoing, and a similar win in 2010 would have the same effect of enabling Republicans’ most destructively self-indulgent impulses. As one horrified by the prospect of Republicans in power, Erik should look forward to this.

After all, even if the Republicans won the House there would not be much that they could do once in office, except waste their time as they did in the ’90s hauling executive branch officials before committees to testify on this or that outrage of the week. They would likely be stymied by the Democratic majority in the Senate on any major legislation, and Obama would veto just about anything they passed if it somehow got to his desk. At the same time, Obama would make them into a much more effective foil for his arguments once they had some hold on power, and out of frustration they would become increasingly obsessed with “getting” Obama and become even less interested in representing the interests of their constituents.

391 Mr. Crankypants  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:03:42am

re: #385 marjoriemoon

Morning PT. I'm still having a few issues. My system froze up a couple times. Hubby thinks it could be the bad port, but I don't know. Otherwise, I'm truckin away.

Cool...I got my Windows 7 box running yesterday with 4 GB or Ram and a 5570 Radeon card. DDO runs fabulously at highest settings. Discovered I may have to buy a new keyboard and mouse, though because the one I had doesn't seem to like USB 2.0

392 What, me worry?  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:03:42am

re: #389 RogueOne

Actually, I misread that:

Yea.

5 years in prison she faces. Absolutely absurd. That article also mentions that the FBI has reported an upsurge in criminal activity at abortion clinics since the murder of Dr. Tiller.

393 Mr. Crankypants  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:04:57am

re: #391 PT Barnum

Cool...I got my Windows 7 box running yesterday with 4 GB or Ram and a 5570 Radeon card. DDO runs fabulously at highest settings. Discovered I may have to buy a new keyboard and mouse, though because the one I had doesn't seem to like USB 2.0

oh..and a terabyte of storage... I have two Lightscribe drives coming still, but everything still has that new computer smell.

394 b_sharp  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:05:32am

re: #391 PT Barnum

Cool...I got my Windows 7 box running yesterday with 4 GB or Ram and a 5570 Radeon card. DDO runs fabulously at highest settings. Discovered I may have to buy a new keyboard and mouse, though because the one I had doesn't seem to like USB 2.0

What mobo did you get?

395 Charles Johnson  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:06:28am

re: #390 PT Barnum

Daniel Larison also links to VDARE, Lew Rockwell, and other racist hate sites, and has attacked LGF and defended Pat Buchanan.

It's amazing to me that some people want to claim this guy as a rational conservative.

396 Varek Raith  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:06:44am

re: #393 PT Barnum

oh..and a terabyte of storage... I have two Lightscribe drives coming still, but everything still has that new computer smell.

And yet, you still have a floppy drive.
*Shakes head*
///

397 b_sharp  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:07:28am

re: #396 Varek Raith

And yet, you still have a floppy drive.
*Shakes head*
///

Don't they have pills for that?

398 Mr. Crankypants  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:07:43am

re: #395 Charles

Daniel Larison also links to VDARE, Lew Rockwell, and other racist hate sites, and has attacked LGF and defended Pat Buchanan.

It's amazing to me that some people want to claim this guy as a rational conservative.

Sorry Charles, I don't know the guy...I just thought the quote in question was apropo.

399 What, me worry?  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:07:46am

re: #391 PT Barnum

Cool...I got my Windows 7 box running yesterday with 4 GB or Ram and a 5570 Radeon card. DDO runs fabulously at highest settings. Discovered I may have to buy a new keyboard and mouse, though because the one I had doesn't seem to like USB 2.0

I don't really have the mind for D&D now. It tends to consume me, but I may change my mind! heh you never know. Has anyone else got on?

400 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:09:23am

re: #395 Charles

Daniel Larison also links to VDARE, Lew Rockwell, and other racist hate sites, and has attacked LGF and defended Pat Buchanan.

It's amazing to me that some people want to claim this guy as a rational conservative.

Indeed. Going after Buchanan should be a no-brainer. Hell, even some wingnuts do that. Some with Larison's profile sounds like a extremist to me.

401 Mr. Crankypants  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:09:38am

re: #397 b_sharp

Don't they have pills for that?

No...I had to disable that to get Windows 7 to load.

I got a Gigabyte M68M-S2P. Was the only AM2 board they had in stock and I didn't think my wife would be too excited about me spending another 200 on top of what I had already spent. I ended up buying another stick of RAM because only one stick of the ram I got on Ebay was any good. I'm returning the rest and reselling the two video cards so it's all good.

402 Killgore Trout  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:10:04am

re: #395 Charles
Here's a direct link to Kain's post....
Why I am Not a Conservative

by E.D. Kain

403 Varek Raith  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:11:40am

re: #401 PT Barnum

No...I had to disable that to get Windows 7 to load.

I got a Gigabyte M68M-S2P. Was the only AM2 board they had in stock and I didn't think my wife would be too excited about me spending another 200 on top of what I had already spent. I ended up buying another stick of RAM because only one stick of the ram I got on Ebay was any good. I'm returning the rest and reselling the two video cards so it's all good.

You should go quad SLI just for the fun of it.
:)

404 Mr. Crankypants  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:12:18am

re: #399 marjoriemoon

I don't really have the mind for D&D now. It tends to consume me, but I may change my mind! heh you never know. Has anyone else got on?

Not so far...but that's okay.. I got my wife on last night and she's getting into it, so if nothing else I'll have at least one other person to play with. DDO tends to lend itself to grouping since it's more quest based than grinding based, so you tend to make friends faster and find people you like to run with more easily. It still has the knuckleheads who take it way too seriously.

405 harlequinade  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:14:18am

re: #387 Gus 802

I saw bits of the result. Thanks for clearing that up :)

406 Walter L. Newton  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:14:34am

re: #402 Killgore Trout

Here's a direct link to Kain's post...
Why I am Not a Conservative

by E.D. Kain

Wow... looking into this guys "career" he's a real hard hitter... sorry to see him go.

407 Mr. Crankypants  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:14:40am

re: #403 Varek Raith

You should go quad SLI just for the fun of it.
:)

Do you have a sofa I can sleep on? I was already in the doghouse for the $300 I spent on what I got.

Youtube Video
408 b_sharp  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:14:41am

re: #401 PT Barnum

No...I had to disable that to get Windows 7 to load.

I got a Gigabyte M68M-S2P. Was the only AM2 board they had in stock and I didn't think my wife would be too excited about me spending another 200 on top of what I had already spent. I ended up buying another stick of RAM because only one stick of the ram I got on Ebay was any good. I'm returning the rest and reselling the two video cards so it's all good.

Looks like a decent board. I noticed it has USB ports with constant power flow for charging USB devices. Perhaps that is giving your older KB fits.

409 harlequinade  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:16:48am

re: #404 PT Barnum

I have an imac. Should I wine/dual boot for DDO. I hear good things about it. I still smoke the WoW pipe, but something more casual would be great

410 b_sharp  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:19:15am

re: #409 harlequinade

I have an imac. Should I wine/dual boot for DDO. I hear good things about it. I still smoke the WoW pipe, but something more casual would be great

Just run Windows in a virtual machine. If your iMac uses Intel, virtual support is built into the chip, and I think VirtualBox will run on Mac, although I should really check.

411 What, me worry?  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:19:59am

re: #404 PT Barnum

Not so far...but that's okay.. I got my wife on last night and she's getting into it, so if nothing else I'll have at least one other person to play with. DDO tends to lend itself to grouping since it's more quest based than grinding based, so you tend to make friends faster and find people you like to run with more easily. It still has the knuckleheads who take it way too seriously.

Ooo your wife plays? I'm always on the look out for women gamers.

Sometimes it ends up feeling like a second job so I have to have the time and inclination to start up, which I sadly admit, I'm not there now.

412 Mr. Crankypants  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:20:10am

re: #409 harlequinade

I have an imac. Should I wine/dual boot for DDO. I hear good things about it. I still smoke the WoW pipe, but something more casual would be great

yeah...dual boot. My wife is using bootcamp and playing that way. Works great. She has a usb headset I bought her and we play together that way.

413 Boondock St. Bender  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:24:24am

re: #406 Walter L. Newton

It is an interesting time,once upon a time if you were a civil liberties liberal/fiscal conservative,or a sane libertarian type you felt more at home with the rep.party
With the advent of the tea party types taking over,that has changed greatly.
If the rep.continue down this road,they are going to marginalize themselves to a regional party.(i realize that they will probably gain seats in the midterm,and they will take precisely the wrong message from it,much like they did in the last presidential election)

414 Boondock St. Bender  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:26:28am

re: #409 harlequinade

have you ever played fallout 3?
for me it's like crack.....

415 Mocking Jay  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:30:23am

re: #414 Boondock St. Bender

have you ever played fallout 3?
for me it's like crack...

Mine is so heavily modded you probably wouldn't recognize it.

416 Varek Raith  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:31:07am

re: #415 JasonA

Mine is so heavily modded you probably wouldn't recognize it.

I only use the unofficial patch.

417 Boondock St. Bender  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:31:27am

the other day someone had posted a story about(i think it was ron paul)a politition wondering if there was really any gold left in ft knox or the fed.
i was inagining one of the guards reading this,and looking over his shoulder at the moutain of ingots and saying"yep,still here...."

418 Mocking Jay  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:32:00am

re: #416 Varek Raith

I only use the unofficial patch.

You're so cute.

419 Boondock St. Bender  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:33:23am

re: #415 JasonA

mines on the x-box 360(i know i know)
got the game of the year addition...now i can't wait for new vegas!
different group is making the new one.

420 Varek Raith  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:33:42am

re: #418 JasonA

You're so cute.

:P
I only mod games once I've beaten them.
Unless the mod is a bugfix mod that StupidBethesdaJerks won't fix.

421 Boondock St. Bender  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:34:04am

re: #419 Boondock St. Bender

edition....damn my public school education!

422 Mocking Jay  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:34:29am

re: #419 Boondock St. Bender

mines on the x-box 360(i know i know)
got the game of the year addition...now i can't wait for new vegas!
different group is making the new one.

Yeah, but the guys making Vegas had more of a hand in making the originals, I think. Definitely looking forward to it.

423 Mocking Jay  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:35:16am

re: #420 Varek Raith

:P
I only mod games once I've beaten them.
Unless the mod is a bugfix mod that StupidBethesdaJerks won't fix.

You haven't beaten FO yet? The main quest is really short, you know.

424 Boondock St. Bender  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:35:47am

re: #420 Varek Raith

there are some bugs that are a pain.between that and fawkes getting stuck in small entrances.still love it though.

425 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:35:53am

I've gotta go. BBL

426 Varek Raith  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:36:29am

re: #423 JasonA

You haven't beaten FO yet? The main quest is really short, you know.

I tend to mess around. A lot.
Main quest?
Haven't touched it.
:P
I like sandbox.

427 Boondock St. Bender  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:36:48am

re: #423 JasonA

wait they have quests???i just blow shit up...interesting gotta look into that
/

428 Mocking Jay  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:37:45am

I can't believe this isn't photoshopped.

[Link: andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com...]

429 Walter L. Newton  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:37:55am

BAGHDAD — An Iraqi reality television program broadcast during Ramadan has been planting fake bombs in celebrities’ cars, having an Iraqi army checkpoint find them and terrifying the celebrities into thinking that they are headed for maximum security prison.

[Link: atwar.blogs.nytimes.com...]

430 Boondock St. Bender  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:38:15am

gotta say the music (galaxy news radio)is very good.

431 William Barnett-Lewis  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:38:36am

re: #409 harlequinade

I have an imac. Should I wine/dual boot for DDO. I hear good things about it. I still smoke the WoW pipe, but something more casual would be great

I've been fighting with the DDO installer and Wine for a couple of weeks. It's not working. I've pretty much given up hope for getting that running. I'll try VMWare instead and see if that works.

(macbook, 2ghz, dual core, 3gb, 10.6.4)

432 Varek Raith  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:39:21am

re: #430 Boondock St. Bender

gotta say the music (galaxy news radio)is very good.

Am I the only one who thinks that Glenn Beck's radio program would fit perfectly alongside Eden's radio propaganda???
:)

433 Mocking Jay  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:39:46am

re: #430 Boondock St. Bender

gotta say the music (galaxy news radio)is very good.

Yeah, that game certainly gave me a deeper appreciation for that 40's and 50's music.

434 Boondock St. Bender  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:41:05am

re: #429 Walter L. Newton

Nooo...i thought i had a sick sense of humor...
didn't an egyption version of candid camera do something similar?
i seem to remember guys going to bus stops and train stations droppimg briefcases and running away.

435 Varek Raith  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:41:57am

re: #433 JasonA

Yeah, that game certainly gave me a deeper appreciation for that 40's and 50's music.

It made me go out and get an Ink Spots CD.

436 Boondock St. Bender  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:42:06am

re: #432 Varek Raith

Totally! stolen quotes and all!

437 Varek Raith  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:43:00am

re: #429 Walter L. Newton

BAGHDAD — An Iraqi reality television program broadcast during Ramadan has been planting fake bombs in celebrities’ cars, having an Iraqi army checkpoint find them and terrifying the celebrities into thinking that they are headed for maximum security prison.

[Link: atwar.blogs.nytimes.com...]

The invasion was, indeed, a success.
They're now like us.
///

438 sattv4u2  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:43:34am

re: #429 Walter L. Newton

BAGHDAD — An Iraqi reality television program broadcast during Ramadan has been planting fake bombs in celebrities’ cars, having an Iraqi army checkpoint find them and terrifying the celebrities into thinking that they are headed for maximum security prison.

[Link: atwar.blogs.nytimes.com...]

There are no words to describe what I think!

439 Boondock St. Bender  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:43:59am

re: #435 Varek Raith

mighty mighty man,and chop that meat wouldn't sound bad with some eighties guitar blended in.

440 Mocking Jay  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:48:02am

re: #435 Varek Raith

It made me go out and get an Ink Spots CD.

I thought you did want to set the world on fire???

441 harlequinade  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:51:28am

re: #412 PT Barnum

re: #410 b_sharp

Thank you both. I'll get right on that

442 Mr. Crankypants  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:52:15am

re: #411 marjoriemoon

Ooo your wife plays? I'm always on the look out for women gamers.

Sometimes it ends up feeling like a second job so I have to have the time and inclination to start up, which I sadly admit, I'm not there now.

She's been playing Wizards 101, but she decided she wanted to play DDO so she wouldn't feel so much like a widow.

443 Boondock St. Bender  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:52:57am

re: #440 JasonA

nah,he just wants to light a little flame...(size being relative and all...)

444 harlequinade  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:54:30am

re: #414 Boondock St. Bender

I haven't got my mitts on Fallout 3 yet. I'll add that to the "todo" list

445 Mr. Crankypants  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:54:43am

re: #431 wlewisiii

I've been fighting with the DDO installer and Wine for a couple of weeks. It's not working. I've pretty much given up hope for getting that running. I'll try VMWare instead and see if that works.

(macbook, 2ghz, dual core, 3gb, 10.6.4)

You might try Parallels if you don't mind the $70 pricetag.

I just loaded bootcamp and a copy of Windows XP (Make sure it's service pack 2. Service pack 1 won't work).

446 William Barnett-Lewis  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:58:18am

re: #445 PT Barnum

You might try Parallels if you don't mind the $70 pricetag.

I just loaded bootcamp and a copy of Windows XP (Make sure it's service pack 2. Service pack 1 won't work).

I already have VMWare so it's not that big a deal. I just dislike having to run windows at all. I left IT happily behind to get away from windows. It seems the DDO installer won't run on the W2K installation I have which means I'll have to reinstall XP. Such a thrill. Not.

447 Mr. Crankypants  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 10:58:49am

re: #445 PT Barnum

You might try Parallels if you don't mind the $70 pricetag.

I just loaded bootcamp and a copy of Windows XP (Make sure it's service pack 2. Service pack 1 won't work).

BTW, Bootcamp comes with Snow Leopard and you can pick up a copy of XP with Service Pack 1 on Ebay for about the price of VMWare or Parallels. (Don't order from anyone who sounds like their selling from China, though. I've gotten burned with counterfeits several times that way. Look for people who will guarantee that the software will load)

Otherwise it works great. DDO runs in the lowest graphic quality but the way the graphics are drawn the low graphic quaility isn't that much of a downgrade from the highest. If you're interested in more info, email me at my blog page (not terribly active but has my address on it)

448 Mr. Crankypants  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 11:00:06am

re: #446 wlewisiii

I already have VMWare so it's not that big a deal. I just dislike having to run windows at all. I left IT happily behind to get away from windows. It seems the DDO installer won't run on the W2K installation I have which means I'll have to reinstall XP. Such a thrill. Not.

So what are you doing now? I'm still in IT and still tied at the hip with Microsoft (I'm mostly an Access developer (lots of single user databases)).

449 Boondock St. Bender  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 11:04:30am

re: #444 harlequinade

for me it was money well spent!

450 William Barnett-Lewis  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 11:08:40am

re: #448 PT Barnum

So what are you doing now? I'm still in IT and still tied at the hip with Microsoft (I'm mostly an Access developer (lots of single user databases)).

Stay at home dad (wife is an RN) and working on getting my photography to an acceptable level. I did drive semi for awhile but my wife couldn't deal with that.

451 Mr. Crankypants  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 11:10:51am

re: #450 wlewisiii

Stay at home dad (wife is an RN) and working on getting my photography to an acceptable level. I did drive semi for awhile but my wife couldn't deal with that.

Cool! My wife is the editor for our local paper. Fun part is helping her write editorials (I'm her private sounding board) and giving her column ideas when she's stuck.

Otherwise I'm a gypsy programmer. Never want to work for anyone as a full time employee again.

452 lostlakehiker  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 11:12:43am

re: #47 Cato the Elder

There isn't a single female character in today's Hollywood films that is "plain". Even the "nerdy" grrrls are cuter than most people you see on the street.

And in medieval romances, even the peasants have teeth.

Yeah, right.

Bad teeth are an artifact of today's wealth of sugar. A news story recently about a mass grave discovered somewhere around PA or OH or so argued that it must have been Irish railroad workers who had been reported at the time to have died of cholera. But forensic examination showed they'd been shot.

Anyhow, one point of the evidence that it was indeed Irish was that they had all their teeth. Having your teeth was proof of poverty, because it meant you couldn't afford sugar, and thus couldn't get cavities.

453 What, me worry?  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 11:37:29am

re: #442 PT Barnum

She's been playing Wizards 101, but she decided she wanted to play DDO so she wouldn't feel so much like a widow.

lol My advice, it's always better to marry a geek. I'm sure she would agree.

454 _RememberTonyC  Sun, Sep 5, 2010 3:14:27pm

re: #332 Killgore Trout

He had a leg amputated about 2 weeks ago.

ah jeez .... I didn't know. Hey Steve ..... good luck, man.

455 ClaudeMonet  Mon, Sep 6, 2010 12:50:41am

re: #79 Stanley Sea

[Link: www.daytondailynews.com...]

Thriving Dayton Mosques welcome visitors of all faiths.

I think it should be a possibility in our well rounded minds to consider taking the time and visiting a local mosque.

The Islamic Center of Cincinnati, mentioned in the DDN article, is about five miles from the "Touchdown Jesus" that was hit by lightning and burned to the ground a little while back. Perhaps the center was what God was trying to hit? Such a target-rich environment--Jesus, the Islamic Center, Hustler Hollywood, and John Boehner's house.

This weekend, I passed by the Islamic Center of Greater Toledo, which like that of Cincinnati is right by I-75. What a beautiful building!

456 ClaudeMonet  Mon, Sep 6, 2010 1:04:29am

re: #291 prairiefire

Prayer works.

Work works better. "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition" or "Pray for rain, but keep on hoeing."

re: #93 brookly red

Some fellas look at the eyes
Some fellas look at the nose
Some fellas look at the size
Some fellas look at the clothes
I don't care if her eyes are red
I don't care if her nose is long
I don't care if she's underfed
I don't care if her clothes are worn
First I look at the purse!

Upding for the J. Geils reference. Best damned party band I've ever seen.re: #233 Slumbering Behemoth

What modern perversity is this? Clearly under-age girls singing of "lovers". Disgusting. This sort of immoral, provocative garbage would not have been acceptable in my grandparents time, I tell you what!
/wait, what?

When I was very young and my father's mother would come to visit us, we were always forced to watch The Lawrence Welk Show with her. The woman was not universally loved in our house.

457 ClaudeMonet  Mon, Sep 6, 2010 1:17:47am

re: #323 sattv4u2

How do you spell OSHA in Lebanon?
/

To build on what cathypop said in #324,

Oh Shit Happened Again
O Sama Hell Awaits


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