Here’s some Christmas Eve jazz, with a stellar version of the standard “All Of You,” by one of the greatest piano trios in history: Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, and Jack DeJohnette. Keith is quite … animated in this one.
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elizajane Fri, Dec 24, 2010 4:49:43pm |
Christmas Eve. Music playing. Smells of good food.
We have visitors for the holidays—two kids from my older daughters’ orphanage, and the single mom who adopted them when they were 7 and 8 years old. I met those two when I was in Kazakhstan and knew they needed a family, so I recruited one for them. They were great kids and still are, even though they are American teen-agers now.
The two of them and my three kids are all in the kitchen now, making boiled Chinese dumplings and (no kidding) discussing skin color and race. Way to go, Kazakh teens. You will rock the world!
Tomorrow another family with a girl from their orphanage is coming up from Oakland to have Christmas dinner with us. Between our three families we have children from Russia, China, and Kazakhstan. We will have a great American Christmas with French food and Italian desert and English crackers. We were born and have lived all over the world and are all at home here.
In spite of its moments of insanity, I do love America.
Merry Christmas to Lizards one and all.
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darthstar Fri, Dec 24, 2010 4:54:04pm |
Peace, Love, and Happiness to everyone here at LGF (yes, everyone). That’s it. Be good to yourself, and be good to others.
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Political Atheist Fri, Dec 24, 2010 4:55:21pm |
re: #5 darthstar
Hearty thanks and the same to you and yours.
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Walter L. Newton Fri, Dec 24, 2010 4:56:18pm |
re: #5 darthstar
Peace, Love, and Happiness to everyone here at LGF (yes, everyone). That’s it. Be good to yourself, and be good to others.
Oh hurl.
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albusteve Fri, Dec 24, 2010 4:59:30pm |
re: #7 Walter L. Newton
Oh hurl.
pass the paper towel please…I don’t wish good tidings for everyone either…just a select few
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Charles Johnson Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:02:38pm |
I’m thinking of posting two open Christmas threads — one for the cranky humbug people and one for the sentimental saps. There might be some cross-over, though.
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Walter L. Newton Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:02:54pm |
re: #7 Walter L. Newton
Oh hurl.
Speaking of hurling, Le Monde give Julian Assange “Man of the Year” and read this bullshit reasoning…
Grand, mince, élégant, Julian Assange, fondateur et patron de WikiLeaks, s’impose d’abord à ses interlocuteurs comme un orateur talentueux, à la voix grave et posée, sachant manier la rigueur, l’humour, l’émotion, mais aussi le sarcasme. En le regardant travailler, on découvre un professionnel surdoué, ultra-performant : dès qu’il se lance dans un projet, il s’y consacre totalement, nuit et jour, jusqu’à épuisement.
“… one discovers a and exceptionally gifted, ultra powerful professional…”
Is this what Le Monde considers exceptionally gifted, an immature ego-maniac who whines like a stuffed pig as soon as his privacy is breeched.
Give me a fucking break. (read it all)…
[Link: www.lemonde.fr…]
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albusteve Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:04:43pm |
re: #9 Charles
I’m thinking of posting two open Christmas threads — one for the cranky humbug people and one for the hopeless sentimental saps. There might be some cross-over, though.
I don’t wish any ill will toward anyone, but I maybe a crossover stat…so Merry Christmas to all except Charles….
Manson, that is
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SanFranciscoZionist Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:05:01pm |
re: #10 Walter L. Newton
Speaking of hurling, Le Monde give Julian Assange “Man of the Year” and read this bullshit reasoning…
“… one discovers a and exceptionally gifted, ultra powerful professional…”
Is this what Le Monde considers exceptionally gifted, an immature ego-maniac who whines like a stuffed pig as soon as his privacy is breeched.
Give me a fucking break. (read it all)…
[Link: www.lemonde.fr…]
It requires too much effort for me to read French for me to waste it on a puff piece about Assange. Sorry.
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Walter L. Newton Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:05:04pm |
re: #9 Charles
I’m thinking of posting two open Christmas threads — one for the cranky humbug people and one for the hopeless sentimental saps. There might be some cross-over, though.
Hope not :)
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Dancing along the light of day Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:05:45pm |
That was lovely. Keith might have been animated, but it was recorded, or he played with much less of his singing. Which I have always found distracting.
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Walter L. Newton Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:05:50pm |
re: #12 SanFranciscoZionist
It requires too much effort for me to read French for me to waste it on a puff piece about Assange. Sorry.
I translated the worst part for you… enjoy.
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Political Atheist Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:06:19pm |
re: #10 Walter L. Newton
If I ever get a bird and birdcage, I’ll have a proper use for Le Monde.
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Dancing along the light of day Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:06:54pm |
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Dancing along the light of day Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:07:48pm |
re: #16 Rightwingconspirator
If I ever get a bird and birdcage, I’ll have a proper use for Le Monde.
Puppy would work too…
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brookly red Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:07:55pm |
re: #9 Charles
I’m thinking of posting two open Christmas threads — one for the cranky humbug people and one for the sentimental saps. There might be some cross-over, though.
ahhh yes… the illusive independent, so rare to take one alive.
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albusteve Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:08:06pm |
re: #10 Walter L. Newton
they are French, after all, oozing with antihero lust…how many times was Napoleon ‘Man of the Year’?
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elizajane Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:08:31pm |
re: #15 Walter L. Newton
I translated the worst part for you… enjoy.
I’d translate the rest for you but having read through it, I’m afraid I would puke. “Fawning” doesn’t begin to describe it.
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Walter L. Newton Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:08:58pm |
re: #16 Rightwingconspirator
If I ever get a bird and birdcage, I’ll have a proper use for Le Monde.
I only start reading Le Monde a few months before I am planning a trip to France, it helps me get a feel of what’s on the mind of the population there, helps give me a sense of the mood of the country on certain issues. Otherwise, it’s just to far left for my tastes.
I don’t like to visit a country in a vacuum.
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albusteve Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:09:52pm |
re: #22 Walter L. Newton
I only start reading Le Monde a few months before I am planning a trip to France, it helps me get a feel of what’s on the mind of the population there, helps give me a sense of the mood of the country on certain issues. Otherwise, it’s just to far left for my tastes.
I don’t like to visit a country in a vacuum.
I prefer trains or taxis myself
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Walter L. Newton Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:10:05pm |
re: #21 elizajane
I’d translate the rest for you but having read through it, I’m afraid I would puke. “Fawning” doesn’t begin to describe it.
I did read through it… I decided that the one sentence summed up the whole slimy piece.
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Varek Raith Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:10:09pm |
re: #9 Charles
I’m thinking of posting two open Christmas threads — one for the cranky humbug people and one for the sentimental saps. There might be some cross-over, though.
This cranky humbug would appreciate it.
:)
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brookly red Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:10:43pm |
re: #22 Walter L. Newton
I only start reading Le Monde a few months before I am planning a trip to France, it helps me get a feel of what’s on the mind of the population there, helps give me a sense of the mood of the country on certain issues. Otherwise, it’s just to far left for my tastes.
I don’t like to visit a country in a vacuum.
yeah, vacuums suck.
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albusteve Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:11:18pm |
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Walter L. Newton Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:11:26pm |
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brookly red Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:11:35pm |
re: #25 Varek Raith
This cranky humbug would appreciate it.
:)
what exactly is a humbug, how are they deep fried?
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albusteve Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:12:26pm |
re: #29 brookly red
what exactly is a humbug, how are they deep fried?
usually with a very hot vegetable oil
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albusteve Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:13:39pm |
more Keith Jarred…something we all know
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brookly red Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:14:04pm |
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albusteve Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:14:45pm |
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Charles Johnson Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:14:54pm |
I have a confession to make — Barrett Brown is actually me. I made him up just to enhance the LGF mystique. That whole meltdown thing was a clever plot.
/
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albusteve Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:15:53pm |
re: #34 Charles
I have a confession to make — Barrett Brown is actually me. I made him up just to enhance the LGF mystique. That whole meltdown thing was a clever plot.
OSCAR!
OSCAR!
Friske?
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brookly red Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:17:34pm |
re: #34 Charles
I have a confession to make — Barrett Brown is actually me. I made him up just to enhance the LGF mystique. That whole meltdown thing was a clever plot.
Barrett Brown? Damit Walter you told me he was Jackson Browne…
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Dancing along the light of day Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:18:32pm |
re: #34 Charles
Uh, oh. I think there’s only 3-4 posters at that stalker site. Is LGF turning into sock-puppet heaven?
Runs around screaming!
//
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Varek Raith Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:19:34pm |
We are all Charles.
Or biscuits.
Or something.
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Dancing along the light of day Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:20:49pm |
My Christmas gift to my sanity, is to stop looking at the stalkerz.
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Skeetghazi Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:21:16pm |
re: #40 Floral Giraffe
My Christmas gift to my sanity, is to stop looking at the stalkerz.
My soup is a chillin. Success! Thanks for the support FG!
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Charles Johnson Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:22:14pm |
You have to admit I had everybody fooled.
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Political Atheist Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:22:25pm |
re: #22 Walter L. Newton
I would too.
Is there a right wing French rag?
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Dancing along the light of day Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:22:32pm |
re: #41 Stanley Sea
Melinda’s great. She’s on the radio weekend mornings.
You can mail me some soup!
LOL!
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Dancing along the light of day Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:23:06pm |
re: #42 Charles
LOL!
You had BB fooled too!
Merry Christmas, Charles.
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prairiefire Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:23:26pm |
re: #42 Charles
You have to admit I had everybody fooled.
He has my email addy from the Project PM effort. I decided against contributing to that. I’m hoping he is not a completely vindictive person.
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Aceofwhat? Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:24:44pm |
re: #12 SanFranciscoZionist
It requires too much effort for me to read French for me to waste it on a puff piece about Assange. Sorry.
I like the part where he crisscrosses the world and discovers that free speech doesn’t exist everywhere, then comes to believe that full transparency is the most effective weapon against tyranny.
So, according to them…Obama is a tyrant? Strange. Here, all this time, i thought he was a socialist/
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Dark_Falcon Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:25:00pm |
re: #10 Walter L. Newton
Speaking of hurling, Le Monde give Julian Assange “Man of the Year” and read this bullshit reasoning…
“… one discovers a and exceptionally gifted, ultra powerful professional…”
Is this what Le Monde considers exceptionally gifted, an immature ego-maniac who whines like a stuffed pig as soon as his privacy is breeched.
Give me a fucking break. (read it all)…
[Link: www.lemonde.fr…]
I wonder if they’d say that about Dick Cheney, who fits that description far better.
Nah, they reserve that sort plaudit for those on the left.
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Charles Johnson Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:25:56pm |
re: #46 prairiefire
He has my email addy from the Project PM effort. I decided against contributing to that. I’m hoping he is not a completely vindictive person.
All seriousness aside, I apologize for promoting that. I didn’t know he was the kind of person who would reveal private emails out of sheer malice. Mea culpa.
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Aceofwhat? Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:26:30pm |
re: #34 Charles
I have a confession to make — Barrett Brown is actually me. I made him up just to enhance the LGF mystique. That whole meltdown thing was a clever plot.
/
so, technically…this is carrying through on your threat to out your personal information. nice.
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rwdflynavy Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:27:43pm |
Merry Christmas Lizards!
Just finished a great London Broil (if I do say so myself), salad and some good wine with great company. Kids are pretty much ready for bed and tomorrow morning will be here too soon.
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!!!
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Dancing along the light of day Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:28:49pm |
re: #49 Charles
No way to know that, or much else, when it’s just on the intertoobes.
People present themselves, in a deliberate way.
Might or might not be true.
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prairiefire Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:29:20pm |
re: #49 Charles
It’s cool. He seemed like such a nice young man./
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albusteve Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:29:27pm |
re: #49 Charles
All seriousness aside, I apologize for promoting that. I didn’t know he was the kind of person who would reveal private emails out of sheer malice. Mea culpa.
the truth may not be what you see before you, it may be what the other person sees before himself….the truth can be very illusive
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rwdflynavy Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:29:30pm |
re: #49 Charles
All seriousness aside, I apologize for promoting that. I didn’t know he was the kind of person who would reveal private emails out of sheer malice. Mea culpa.
I was up on the thread when he first popped up a couple months ago. He introduced himself and made a big deal about what a big deal he was. I remember being underwhelmed. Seems I was about right!
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Charles Johnson Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:29:41pm |
I have people over, and we’re making potato salad and candied yams and a bunch of other goodies, so if I fade in and out you know why…
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Aceofwhat? Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:30:12pm |
re: #52 Floral Giraffe
No way to know that, or much else, when it’s just on the intertoobes.
People present themselves, in a deliberate way.
Might or might not be true.
yup. even in meatspace, people can fool us. it’s impossible on the toobs. better to be enough of a good person to be occasionally burnt than be completely closed off, i say.
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Political Atheist Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:30:38pm |
re: #49 Charles
For all that went wrong with BB, I do hope to see more writers and bloggers from other big sites register and contribute. More sharp minds are a good thing.
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albusteve Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:34:25pm |
I’ve posted this before, nobody cared then either
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Political Atheist Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:34:57pm |
re: #57 Aceofwhat?
The best point Zuckerman had in the Time article is the web may come full circle and discourage anonymous web identities. Via social media we will post as who we are, not some pretend other person. Open style not anon.
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Killgore Trout Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:37:38pm |
re: #58 Rightwingconspirator
For all that went wrong with BB, I do hope to see more writers and bloggers from other big sites register and contribute. More sharp minds are a good thing.
LGF is a pretty unique place and most pundits/writers from other big sites on both the right and the left probably see us as the enemy. I’m kind of surprised Frum hasn’t reached out to lgf but other than that I don’t think many other people are interested in us.
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Dark_Falcon Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:37:43pm |
re: #56 Charles
I have people over, and we’re making potato salad and candied yams and a bunch of other goodies, so if I fade in and out you know why…
Enjoy yourself, Charles. You deserve it.
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Political Atheist Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:40:41pm |
re: #61 Killgore Trout
Well, that’s too bad.
Reine.de.tout, you may be interested in this gives recent shenanigans.
Oh and in California internet news we have a new law-Impersonate a person inline to deceive and you have committed a misdemeanor. I favor this new protection.
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brookly red Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:40:47pm |
re: #54 albusteve
the truth may not be what you see before you, it may be what the other person sees before himself…the truth can be very illusive
I thought it was what the other person sees before you?
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albusteve Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:41:01pm |
re: #61 Killgore Trout
LGF is a pretty unique place and most pundits/writers from other big sites on both the right and the left probably see us as the enemy. I’m kind of surprised Frum hasn’t reached out to lgf but other than that I don’t think many other people are interested in us.
I have to disagree…I’d bet my paychech that all sorts of bloggers,TV heads and others surf LGF, or their staffs do…especially with regard to the events of the last couple of years concerning the GOP and Charles’ changing political attitude…I may be wrong, but I’d still bet on it
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albusteve Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:41:54pm |
re: #63 laZardo
For Christmas, I’m gettin’ a bigger brush.
;D
the huge covered lump under my tree has the shape of a Hummer3…could it be?
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albusteve Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:43:31pm |
re: #65 brookly red
I thought it was what the other person sees before you?
same thing…I have spoken
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Political Atheist Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:44:22pm |
re: #64 Rightwingconspirator
PIMF
Impersonate a person online…
New ergo keyboard. Mistyping like crazy today.
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Skeetghazi Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:44:53pm |
re: #69 Rightwingconspirator
PIMF
Impersonate a person online…
New ergo keyboard. Mistyping like crazy today.
Is this your new ipad? LUCKY
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Walter L. Newton Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:44:56pm |
If I fade in and out it’s because we are fixin’ to sit down to my birthday dinner (I asked for lamb, this is not a lamb family, I miss lamb)… and then… A Christmas Story… believe it or not, the family has never seen it before… I have, they haven’t…
BB later if I can.
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albusteve Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:46:16pm |
okay, nobody likes Clapton…
so try this Over the Rainbow
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Political Atheist Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:46:43pm |
re: #70 Stanley Sea
She has the new Ipad I have a new keyboard on my tower PC. No two keyboards alike in my home. Confounds my muscle memory.
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Aceofwhat? Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:47:01pm |
re: #72 albusteve
it’s not that i don’t like Clapton. it’s just that i don’t love him.
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PhillyPretzel Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:47:23pm |
I wish all of my fellow Lizards a very Merry Christmas.
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Killgore Trout Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:48:26pm |
re: #66 albusteve
I have to disagree…I’d bet my paychech that all sorts of bloggers,TV heads and others surf LGF, or their staffs do…especially with regard to the events of the last couple of years concerning the GOP and Charles’ changing political attitude…I may be wrong, but I’d still bet on it
Oh, sure they check out lgf for stories but I most blogs/pundits are interested in advancing their ideology. The left is jealthier and more accurate than the right these days but the lefties at HUffpo or media matters probably still see LGF as a neocon site for Zionist shills. They’ll lift stories about Beck and the John Birch Society from LGF but I’m not sure if they’re interested in us beyond that. A lot of us soured on Bush after a while but we aren’t seething with hatred towards him.
I can think of very few (if any) right wing pundits who would come here to discuss things because they’ll be fact checked and challenged about silly shit like Death Panels. That’s the last thing they want.
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Dark_Falcon Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:49:15pm |
re: #61 Killgore Trout
LGF is a pretty unique place and most pundits/writers from other big sites on both the right and the left probably see us as the enemy. I’m kind of surprised Frum hasn’t reached out to lgf but other than that I don’t think many other people are interested in us.
I’m actually not surprised that Frum hasn’t reached out. Charles goes after the GOP too much for him to be attractive to Frum. Frum would lose any chance of getting back in by teaming with Charles.
This is my analysis, not a knock on Charles.
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Killgore Trout Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:49:40pm |
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Charles Johnson Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:49:42pm |
re: #61 Killgore Trout
LGF is a pretty unique place and most pundits/writers from other big sites on both the right and the left probably see us as the enemy. I’m kind of surprised Frum hasn’t reached out to lgf but other than that I don’t think many other people are interested in us.
David did ask me to reconsider after I posted my infamous “Why I parted ways etc.” post.
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Killgore Trout Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:50:24pm |
re: #77 Dark_Falcon
I’m actually not surprised that Frum hasn’t reached out. Charles goes after the GOP too much for him to be attractive to Frum. Frum would lose any chance of getting back in by teaming with Charles.
This is my analysis, not a knock on Charles.
I think that’s accurate. His loyalty is ultimately to the party.
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Killgore Trout Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:52:00pm |
re: #79 Charles
David did ask me to reconsider after I posted my infamous “Why I parted ways etc.” post.
Ah, I forgot about that.
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albusteve Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:52:26pm |
re: #74 Aceofwhat?
it’s not that i don’t like Clapton. it’s just that i don’t love him.
I’m just surfing the song…I do that every now and then…I don’t expect any feedback, I do it for myself, like this
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Skeetghazi Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:54:04pm |
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Charles Johnson Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:54:24pm |
And if anything, the situation with the right wing and the GOP has gotten even worse since I posted that last year.
| 85 |
Charles Johnson Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:55:36pm |
Question for the foodies amongst us: should potato salad have olives?
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Mr Pancakes Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:56:24pm |
re: #85 Charles
Question for the foodies amongst us: should potato salad have olives?
Green or black?
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albusteve Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:56:50pm |
re: #76 Killgore Trout
Oh, sure they check out lgf for stories but I most blogs/pundits are interested in advancing their ideology. The left is jealthier and more accurate than the right these days but the lefties at HUffpo or media matters probably still see LGF as a neocon site for Zionist shills. They’ll lift stories about Beck and the John Birch Society from LGF but I’m not sure if they’re interested in us beyond that. A lot of us soured on Bush after a while but we aren’t seething with hatred towards him.
I can think of very few (if any) right wing pundits who would come here to discuss things because they’ll be fact checked and challenged about silly shit like Death Panels. That’s the last thing they want.
all true, especially the right actually posting here..it would be a death trap for them…and for the record, I voted for Bush and was disappointed to the point of real anger during his second term…but then again I’m not a republican and see no reason to defend any politician on those grounds (not to change the subject)
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Charles Johnson Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:57:04pm |
re: #86 Mr Pancakes
Green or black?
I insisted on green onions, but the olives seem to be a point of contention.
Kalamata’s what we got.
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albusteve Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:57:19pm |
re: #85 Charles
Question for the foodies amongst us: should potato salad have olives?
NO!…save them for mac salad, green ones
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Mr Pancakes Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:57:33pm |
re: #88 Charles
I insisted on green onions, but the olives seem to be a point of contention.
Kalamata’s what we got.
Yea…… that works.
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Aceofwhat? Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:57:52pm |
re: #85 Charles
Question for the foodies amongst us: should potato salad have olives?
dunno if it should. but it can.
then again, i like mine with extra hard-boiled eggs…
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PhillyPretzel Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:57:55pm |
re: #85 Charles
Most potato salads do not have olives. But if you want to have them by all means add them. Kalamata sounds good.
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albusteve Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:59:01pm |
re: #80 Killgore Trout
I think that’s accurate. His loyalty is ultimately to the party.
ugh!..the downfall of America and the rise of AmIdolism
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Wozza Matter? Fri, Dec 24, 2010 5:59:49pm |
Merry Christmas from the United Kingdom of Britianland to all Lizardoids.
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albusteve Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:01:35pm |
re: #88 Charles
I insisted on green onions, but the olives seems to be a point of contention.
Kalamata’s what we got.
fine, but skip the pineapple
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albusteve Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:02:02pm |
re: #83 Stanley Sea
[Video]Oh my, check out the Gator guitar.
whoo!
way cool song, the git is okay too
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prairiefire Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:04:02pm |
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prairiefire Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:04:50pm |
re: #94 wozzablog
Merry Christmas from the United Kingdom of Britianland to all Lizardoids.
Happy Christmas, Wozza. {{Wozza hug}}
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Dark_Falcon Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:04:54pm |
re: #94 wozzablog
Merry Christmas from the United Kingdom of Britianland to all Lizardoids.
Hello, wozza. How’s things over there?
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Aceofwhat? Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:05:20pm |
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Killgore Trout Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:05:52pm |
re: #85 Charles
Question for the foodies amongst us: should potato salad have olives?
That sounds good to me. I make mine with olive oil mayo and mustard powder.
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Dancing along the light of day Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:06:04pm |
re: #85 Charles
NO!
That’s like pineapple on pizza.
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PhillyPretzel Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:06:05pm |
I found it. A potato salad with olives. [Link: www.cooksillustrated.com…]
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Wozza Matter? Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:06:53pm |
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albusteve Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:06:55pm |
flying around is almost impossible toward the east all the way to Europe…climate change rears it’s ugly face again while I sit on my NM butt enjoying the beautiful weather
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albusteve Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:08:22pm |
re: #101 Killgore Trout
That sounds good to me. I make mine with olive oil mayo and mustard powder.
the exact amt of mustard is crucial….my salad is world class IMO
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Killgore Trout Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:08:22pm |
re: #103 PhillyPretzel
I found it. A potato salad with olives. [Link: www.cooksillustrated.com…]
I like the fennel idea.
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Killgore Trout Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:09:05pm |
re: #106 albusteve
the exact amt of mustard is crucial…my salad is world class IMO
Curry powder works reall well too but that’s probably not to everyone’s taste.
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Aceofwhat? Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:09:39pm |
re: #102 Floral Giraffe
NO!
That’s like pineapple on pizza.
oh, girlfriend, that is not the same thing! olives in potato salad is a casual indulgence…pineapple on pizza is a sacrilege.
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Mr Pancakes Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:11:04pm |
re: #105 albusteve
flying around is almost impossible toward the east all the way to Europe…climate change rears it’s ugly face again while I sit on my NM butt enjoying the beautiful weather
Living here in San Diego I found the recent rains to be beautiful weather…… some folks in Mission Valley didn’t…….. Mission Valley is a flood plain…. hello?
| 112 |
reine.de.tout Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:11:11pm |
re: #64 Rightwingconspirator
Well, that’s too bad.
Reine.de.tout, you may be interested in this gives recent shenanigans.
Oh and in California internet news we have a new law-Impersonate a person inline to deceive and you have committed a misdemeanor. I favor this new protection.
That is interesting.
Though I suspect if the law is written properly, a great deal of proof and evidence would be required (as it should) to make a charge and have it stick. Not sure the silliness re: me would qualify.
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reine.de.tout Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:11:52pm |
re: #85 Charles
Question for the foodies amongst us: should potato salad have olives?
Black or green?
Black might be OK, green olives, good gawd no.
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albusteve Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:12:01pm |
re: #108 Killgore Trout
Curry powder works reall well too but that’s probably not to everyone’s taste.
save that for goat….mmm, savory roast goat…ja mon!
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albusteve Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:13:06pm |
re: #111 Mr Pancakes
Living here in San Diego I found the recent rains to be beautiful weather… some folks in Mission Valley didn’t… Mission Valley is a flood plain… hello?
I absolutely love it when it rains here…too infrequent
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reine.de.tout Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:13:24pm |
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Aceofwhat? Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:13:36pm |
re: #112 reine.de.tout
That is interesting.
Though I suspect if the law is written properly, a great deal of proof and evidence would be required (as it should) to make a charge and have it stick. Not sure the silliness re: me would qualify.
you ok??
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reine.de.tout Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:14:14pm |
What I would do, is split the potato salad in half, and put olives in one half, leave them out of the other half.
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albusteve Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:14:30pm |
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reine.de.tout Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:14:38pm |
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Aceofwhat? Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:14:52pm |
re: #118 reine.de.tout
What I would do, is split the potato salad in half, and put olives in one half, leave them out of the other half.
Solomon! Genius.
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reine.de.tout Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:15:46pm |
re: #121 Aceofwhat?
Solomon! Genius.
*snicker*
Just accustomed to trying to please every damned body’s individual taste.
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Charles Johnson Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:16:03pm |
re: #118 reine.de.tout
What I would do, is split the potato salad in half, and put olives in one half, leave them out of the other half.
In this, you are like the wise king Solomon. Also, that’s exactly what the crowd just settled on.
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Aceofwhat? Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:16:09pm |
re: #120 reine.de.tout
Other than a really bad cold, yes!
mine has passed…but Mon-Wed i had a James Earl Jones thing going, which was fun. my voice always comes back bass after all of the coughing and sore throat.
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Varek Raith Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:17:07pm |
re: #124 Aceofwhat?
mine has passed…but Mon-Wed i had a James Earl Jones thing going, which was fun. my voice always comes back bass after all of the coughing and sore throat.
Did you walk up to random people and state that you are their father?
XD
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reine.de.tout Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:17:26pm |
re: #124 Aceofwhat?
mine has passed…but Mon-Wed i had a James Earl Jones thing going, which was fun. my voice always comes back bass after all of the coughing and sore throat.
Mine too.
LOL.
In fact, it’s about what I sound like right now.
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albusteve Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:17:35pm |
I’d keep a sharp eye on anybody that wants olives in their potato salad…jus sayin
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Mr Pancakes Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:17:36pm |
re: #123 Charles
In this, you are like the wise king Solomon. Also, that’s exactly what the crowd just settled on.
I do that with pizza all the time……. no but me likes anchovies.
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Aceofwhat? Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:17:58pm |
re: #125 Varek Raith
Did you walk up to random people and state that you are their father?
XD
no, i told them that they had failed me for the last time!
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Dancing along the light of day Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:18:29pm |
re: #120 reine.de.tout
Other than a really bad cold, yes!
Passes the box of kleenex.
And a mug of hot tea.
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Dancing along the light of day Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:19:15pm |
re: #126 reine.de.tout
Mine too.
LOL.
In fact, it’s about what I sound like right now.
Hello, Kermit!
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Wozza Matter? Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:19:18pm |
potato and olive can co-exist in salad.
I’m imagining a nice greek meze style dish (nom, nom, nom) - also great bed fellows in a Nicoise.
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albusteve Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:19:32pm |
re: #128 Mr Pancakes
I do that with pizza all the time… no but me likes anchovies.
not worth paying for IMO…as if pizza is not salty enough, but to each his own…double cheese and pepperoni is all I want
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SpaceJesus Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:20:04pm |
enjoy my birthday, earth dwellers. meanwhile i have some cheap rum and manischewitz to slay
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Mr Pancakes Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:20:42pm |
re: #133 albusteve
not worth paying for IMO…as if pizza is not salty enough, but to each his own…double cheese and pepperoni is all I want
I just like the salty little cretins for some reason…….
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reine.de.tout Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:21:17pm |
re: #130 Floral Giraffe
Passes the box of kleenex.
And a mug of hot tea.
My daughter goes to this place called Teavana to buy tea, very expensive tea.
however,
I just blended two of them (Samurai Chai Mate and White Avurvedic Chai), and I can’t describe just how sooothing it’s been to my throat. About to make another cup.
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Aceofwhat? Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:22:26pm |
re: #134 SpaceJesus
enjoy my birthday, earth dwellers. meanwhile i have some cheap rum and manischewitz to slay
well, if you wake up hung over, you’re not Him…good luck…
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Dancing along the light of day Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:25:01pm |
re: #134 SpaceJesus
enjoy my birthday, earth dwellers. meanwhile i have some cheap rum and manischewitz to slay
And some stalkerz, but they can wait until after you open your presents!
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Mr Pancakes Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:25:03pm |
re: #134 SpaceJesus
enjoy my birthday, earth dwellers. meanwhile i have some cheap rum and manischewitz to slay
Jesus….. when are you returning?
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Varek Raith Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:25:41pm |
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Wozza Matter? Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:25:52pm |
re: #134 SpaceJesus
enjoy my birthday, earth dwellers. meanwhile i have some cheap rum and manischewitz to slay
Mazel tov.
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Kronocide Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:28:18pm |
re: #85 Charles
Question for the foodies amongst us: should potato salad have olives?
That’s more offensive than pineapple on pizza.
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Aceofwhat? Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:28:56pm |
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celticdragon Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:29:01pm |
I’m just going to let this one speak for itself…
Bristol Palin Pays $172,000 Cash For Foreclosed Tract House In Arizona
Nothing says “Merry Christmas” like the exciting news that 20-year-old Bristol Palin — known for getting pregnant as a teenager and not knowing how to dance at all — has bought a house! Hooray, Bristol! Times are tough for everyone, but somehow she scraped up $172,000 from under Sarah’s burrito wrappers on the couch and now Bristol is the proud (?) owner of some utterly random foreclosed tract house in some abandoned Arizona exurb. We cannot even begin to make sense of this.
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albusteve Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:29:04pm |
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Varek Raith Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:29:17pm |
People take their potato salad real serious like, don’t they???
:)
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Wozza Matter? Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:29:23pm |
re: #136 reine.de.tout
My daughter goes to this place called Teavana to buy tea, very expensive tea.
however,I just blended two of them (Samurai Chai Mate and White Avurvedic Chai), and I can’t describe just how sooothing it’s been to my throat. About to make another cup.
PG Tips with milk and two teaspoons of sugar……… (tis ambrosia)
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albusteve Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:30:19pm |
re: #145 celticdragon
I’m just going to let this one speak for itself…
Bristol Palin Pays $172,000 Cash For Foreclosed Tract House In Arizona
good grief?….it’s voyeuristic, leave her alone
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Mr Pancakes Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:30:35pm |
re: #143 BigPapa
That’s more offensive than pineapple on pizza.
Not even…….. Olives work fine in potato salad….I’d agree with you if you said maraschino cherries.
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Mr Pancakes Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:31:14pm |
re: #146 albusteve
when the Cubs win the World Series
So never?……….. I need to come to grips with this.
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Skeetghazi Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:31:46pm |
re: #145 celticdragon
I’m just going to let this one speak for itself…
Bristol Palin Pays $172,000 Cash For Foreclosed Tract House In Arizona
I.Love.Wonkette.
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albusteve Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:31:48pm |
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celticdragon Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:31:49pm |
re: #149 albusteve
good grief?…it’s voyeuristic, leave her alone
Not on your life. Too much comedic potential after she entered a cheesy dance reality show…
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celticdragon Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:32:16pm |
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albusteve Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:32:37pm |
re: #155 celticdragon
Not on your life. Too much comedic potential after she entered a cheesy dance reality show…
that you watched, no doubt…whatever blows your skirt up
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reine.de.tout Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:33:09pm |
re: #149 albusteve
good grief?…it’s voyeuristic, leave her alone
Why the heck is anybody interested in that?
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brookly red Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:33:28pm |
re: #143 BigPapa
That’s more offensive than pineapple on pizza.
Huh?! contact! surface range 14,000…
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Wozza Matter? Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:33:31pm |
re: #155 celticdragon
Not on your life. Too much comedic potential after she entered a cheesy dance reality show…
I have the opinion that voyeurism is only in play when the subject doesn’t actually want to be watched…………….. *nationally televised celeb dance fest reject/assorted campaign spokesbod/tabloid star……*
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Kronocide Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:33:44pm |
re: #151 Mr Pancakes
Not even… Olives work fine in potato salad…I’d agree with you if you said maraschino cherries.
Only if there’s onions too. It’s usually the canned black olives which should be eaten straight.
You’re probably one of those pineapple and olive on pizza people.
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reine.de.tout Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:34:24pm |
re: #155 celticdragon
Not on your life. Too much comedic potential after she entered a cheesy dance reality show…
Along with many other folks, who I also never watched.
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Kronocide Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:34:35pm |
re: #151 Mr Pancakes
Not even… Olives work fine in potato salad…I’d agree with you if you said maraschino cherries.
You’re probably a latent abrosia lover too.
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Mr Pancakes Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:34:53pm |
re: #161 BigPapa
Only if there’s onions too. It’s usually the canned black olives which should be eaten straight.
You’re probably one of those pineapple and olive on pizza people.
Pineapple no….. sliced black olives yes.
| 166 |
Aceofwhat? Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:35:07pm |
re: #159 brookly red
Huh?! contact! surface range 14,000…
i say we launch the whole bunch. we’re bound to hit something…
| 167 |
albusteve Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:35:15pm |
re: #158 reine.de.tout
Why the heck is anybody interested in that?
because they have an obsession?…welcome to People Mag/LGF
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reine.de.tout Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:36:21pm |
re: #167 albusteve
because they have an obsession?…welcome to People Mag/LGF
Seriously - I have a hard time thinking of anyone duller or less relevant than Bristol Palin, fer gawd’s sake.
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Aceofwhat? Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:36:56pm |
re: #168 reine.de.tout
Seriously - I have a hard time thinking of anyone duller or less relevant than Bristol Palin, fer gawd’s sake.
everyone else on dances with the stars. but i don’t care where any of them are buying a house either.
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albusteve Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:37:45pm |
re: #168 reine.de.tout
Seriously - I have a hard time thinking of anyone duller or less relevant than Bristol Palin, fer gawd’s sake.
I think it degrades the blog, just my opinion, but I hate that petty shit
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brookly red Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:38:26pm |
re: #166 Aceofwhat?
i say we launch the whole bunch. we’re bound to hit something…
wait, see the next thread is about Hawaii, yup the belly of the beast… coincidence? I think not.
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Mr Pancakes Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:41:01pm |
re: #163 BigPapa
You’re probably a latent abrosia lover too.
… do you mean Ambrosia? I love Ambrosia.
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Walter L. Newton Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:42:10pm |
re: #168 reine.de.tout
Seriously - I have a hard time thinking of anyone duller or less relevant than Bristol Palin, fer gawd’s sake.
I wholeheartedly agree… why waste time on Bristol when there is so much more obsessing available for Sarah… it like have a grand mal seizure instead of just a piddling petit mal seizure .
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albusteve Fri, Dec 24, 2010 6:43:30pm |
re: #173 Walter L. Newton
I wholeheartedly agree… why waste time on Bristol when there is so much more obsessing available for Sarah… it like have a grand mal seizure instead of just a piddling petit mal seizure .
nosy people are part of a larger problem, but they need their fix eh?
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