one, one, one one

re: #1 NJDhockeyfan

Sneaky!

re: #2 jaunte

Sneaky!

It's the ultimate New Years number.

Stay scaly in the coming new year.

My predictions for this coming year:

Pamela Geller's spelling and grammar will continue to slide.

Barrett Brown will produce at least three more entertaining videos.

The President and Congress will not get along, particularly.

War will go on, in multiple places. In Africa, horrible things will happen to people. Nobody will have any idea how to stop this.

People will starve. Other people will try to stop this.

Someone will publish a PhD on the lolcat phenomenon.

An interesting fossil will be unearthed.

A starlet will go to rehab. It won't work.

I will eat my body weight in chocolate.

re: #5 EmmmieG

My predictions for this coming year:

Pamela Geller's spelling and grammar will continue to slide.

Barrett Brown will produce at least three more entertaining videos.

The President and Congress will not get along, particularly.

War will go on, in multiple places. In Africa, horrible things will happen to people. Nobody will have any idea how to stop this.

People will starve. Other people will try to stop this.

Someone will publish a PhD on the lolcat phenomenon.

An interesting fossil will be unearthed.

A starlet will go to rehab. It won't work.

I will eat my body weight in chocolate.

And Hillary Clinton will go on a diet.

/// ///

Happy New Year Charles. One thing we noted around my home is how far the blog has come in the last year. Pages and constant upgrades. How it appeals across the most reasonable spectrum of politics and opinions. How it draws the ire of the extremists and theocrats. Well done. Very well done.

I have my shot glass full of Vodka ready. Let the ball drop!

Live stream Times Square:
[Link: www.livestream.com...]

I am from the future and I bring you WAR!!!
MUHAHAHAHA!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

May conservatism grow and wingnuttery decrease.

The Perfect New Year's Resolution.

St. Francis, who's father always called him "Asissi"

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury,pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Amen

Woot! Finally the ball has descended.

Stoli tastes so much better when the year changes for some reason.

Happy New Year Lizards!
/who the heck sang Imagine a minute ago..It rocked

re: #11 blueraven

Happy New Year!

Actually I have another hour...where's my drink?

People down the street and their firecrackers.
GET OFF MY LAWN!
What?

Happy New Year, may we be entertained with many new and interesting nontroversies in the eleventies.

Just stopping by to say Happy New Year from the East Coast!

re: #19 Varek Raith

People down the street and their firecrackers.
GET OFF MY LAWN!
What?

Sith have lawns? Really?

A toast to our eastern coast!

re: #21 CuriousLurker

Happy New Year to you, too; we have another hour to wait for the major celebratory gunfire to start up here.

re: #5 EmmmieG

You left out the possibility that I will make phalli jokes or references to onanism.

/But I guess some things are so certain that you can't really call them "predictions".

Happy New Year, everyone!!!

re: #15 jaunte

Woot! Finally the ball has descended.

That's what she said.

re: #7 Rightwingconspirator

Happy New Year Charles. One thing we noted around my home is how far the blog has come in the last year. Pages and constant upgrades. How it appeals across the most reasonable spectrum of politics and opinions. How it draws the ire of the extremists and theocrats. Well done. Very well done.

QFMFT!

re: #15 jaunte

Woot! Finally the ball has descended.

Shouldn't that be "WOOT!"?

re: #29 Slumbering Behemoth

wOOt!

re: #26 CapeCoddah

Happy New Year, everyone!!!

Glad to have you for the celebration. Finally got to see True Grit tonight and it was well worth it. Not sentimental at all, but very well done.

re: #24 jaunte

Happy New Year to you, too; we have another hour to wait for the major celebratory gunfire to start up here.

Heh, some guy outside just screamed "Happy New Year " at the top of his lungs. Lots of firecrackers. Hope you have a great one, jaunte. ;o)

re: #22 EmmmieG

Sith have lawns? Really?

Yes.
All forms of deadly plants.
In fact...
All are welcome on my lawn!
MUAHAHAA!

Got 2 hours and 49 minutes to go here.

Going to bed... before someone breaks out in a drum circle or something.

re: #33 Varek Raith

Yes.
All forms of deadly plants.
In fact...
All are welcome on my lawn!
MUAHAHAA!

Venus fly traps do not constitute a lawn.

Actually, they are hard to keep alive.

Just ask the Princess.

re: #32 CuriousLurker

I'm planning to keep a roof between my head and falling objects for the next few hours.

re: #30 jaunte

wOOt!

Both descended then, eh?

Perfect time to see this...This is the Amazing Criswell on the New Years Eve 1965 Tonight Show.

re: #5 EmmmieG

My predictions for this coming year:

Pamela Geller's spelling and grammar will continue to slide.

Barrett Brown will produce at least three more entertaining videos.

The President and Congress will not get along, particularly.

War will go on, in multiple places. In Africa, horrible things will happen to people. Nobody will have any idea how to stop this.

People will starve. Other people will try to stop this.

Someone will publish a PhD on the lolcat phenomenon.

An interesting fossil will be unearthed.

A starlet will go to rehab. It won't work.

I will eat my body weight in chocolate.

Israel will be blamed for global warming. :)

re: #38 Slumbering Behemoth

2010-2011

re: #31 Dark_Falcon

Nice to be here! I have not seen the new one yet, but it is on my list. I have heard nothing but rave reviews, so I want to see it.
Hope you have a wonderful New Year, DF!

re: #41 jaunte

One always hangs lower than the other, for some reason.

re: #42 CapeCoddah

And you.

G'night Knuckleheads!

Don't drive like my brother!

re: #43 Slumbering Behemoth

Not talking about NY anymore, are we?

re: #43 Slumbering Behemoth

? ^?

Night, FBV, Happy, Happy!

re: #46 jaunte

? ^?

Ignore him.
;)

re: #1 NJDhockeyfan

OT... lucky bastard.

re: #45 CapeCoddah

I thought we were talking about descending balls. What's going on in NY?
/

re: #49 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

OT... lucky bastard.

I already report him...

re: #46 jaunte

? ^?

?^?_?

re: #50 Slumbering Behemoth

Well, we were...

re: #44 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

And you.

G'night Knuckleheads!

Don't drive like my brother!

And don't drive like my brother!

re: #48 Varek Raith

Ignore him.
;)

I warn you, you do so at your own peril.

re: #52 Gus 802

?^??_?

At 12:06 am on 1/1/11, North Korea announced that it wants dialogue with the South .

Six minutes into the new year and the Earth has already spun off its axis.

re: #15 jaunte

Woot! Finally the ball has descended.

I said that after my hernia healed.

re: #52 Gus 802

?^?_?

?^???

re: #5 EmmmieG

My predictions for this coming year:

Pamela Geller's spelling and grammar will continue to slide.

. . ..

Have you checked Atlas today? Charles mentioned it in the previous thread. She must have been writing that thing all year long. Good grief.

re: #51 Walter L. Newton

I already report him...

You bastard!
/

re: #56 NJDhockeyfan

Damn you!

/

re: #52 Gus 802

?^?_?

Dr. Evil, izzat you?

re: #42 CapeCoddah

Nice to be here! I have not seen the new one yet, but it is on my list. I have heard nothing but rave reviews, so I want to see it.
Hope you have a wonderful New Year, DF!

Hey, CC - I bet it's the New Year where you are! I still have 45 minutes to go. Fireworks at all the neighbor's houses now, it will go on 'til midnight and beyond, driving all the animals nuts.

re: #59 Varek Raith

?^???

How do you do that?

The new year has brought an unprecedented escalation of superscripts

re: #65 reine.de.tout

He's got a keyboard with one of those glissando buttons.

Watch the violinist on Fox News right now. Incredible.

re: #67 jaunte

He's got a keyboard with one of those glissando buttons.

LOL.
I gotta find one of those.

re: #64 reine.de.tout

It is the New Year here, Reine, My big dog is already in the closet, fireworks next door... big ones. Little dog sawing wood on the couch. She is sleeping like she went wading in the punchbowl.
Happy New Year to you! Hugs!

re: #65 reine.de.tout

witchcraft. burn him.

/if his teeth start to elongate, that is just further proof he is a witch, so... burn him more.

re: #70 CapeCoddah

It is the New Year here, Reine, My big dog is already in the closet, fireworks next door... big ones. Little dog sawing wood on the couch. She is sleeping like she went wading in the punchbowl.
Happy New Year to you! Hugs!

{{hugs}} all the way around!

re: #65 reine.de.tout

How do you do that?

With HTML.
[Link: www.w3schools.com...]

Black Cats

lit down the block

hop at the curb
pop^{poppoppoppoppoppoppop}

_? ^?
Like so?

re: #74 jaunte

Black Cats

lit down the block

hop at the curb
pop^{poppoppoppoppoppoppop}

ELEVENTY^{ELEVENTYELEVENTYELEVENTYELEVENTYELEVENTYELEVENTYELEVENTY}

re: #76 Gus 802

Nice trajectory!

pop ^poppop
aha!

^{I think I've got it now.}

re: #77 jaunte

Nice trajectory!

No, he was off by eleventy.

re: #79 Varek Raith

No, he was off by eleventy.

ELEVENTY^{ELEVENTYELEVENTYELEVENTYELEVENTYELEVENTYELEVENTYELEVENTY}

ELEVENTY_{ELEVENTYELEVENTYELEVENTYELEVENTYELEVENTYELEVENTYELEVENTY}

re: #57 Max D. Reinhardt

At 12:06 am on 1/1/11, North Korea announced that it wants dialogue with the South .

Six minutes into the new year and the Earth has already spun off its axis.

That's just what the Norks do: They fire on the South, scream about provocations, and then ask to talk. What they really want is free food and fuel, which they won't get without making some form of substantive concession.

re: #78 reine.de.tout

pop ^poppop
aha!

^{I think I've got it now.}

☃

re: #82 Varek Raith

☃

show-off.

Too bad we don't do the Fiskie anymore: A late but worthy entry....

End human rights imperialism now

Groups such as Human Rights Watch have lost their way by imposing western, 'universal' standards on developing countries

Founded by idealists who wanted to make the world a better place, it has in recent years become the vanguard of a new form of imperialism.

Want to depose the government of a poor country with resources? Want to bash Muslims? Want to build support for American military interventions around the world? Want to undermine governments that are raising their people up from poverty because they don't conform to the tastes of upper west side intellectuals? Use human rights as your excuse!

This has become the unspoken mantra of a movement that has lost its way.

Human Rights Watch is hardly the only offender. There are a host of others, ranging from Amnesty International and Reporters Without Borders to the Carr Centre for Human Rights at Harvard and the pitifully misled "anti-genocide" movement. All promote an absolutist view of human rights permeated by modern western ideas that westerners mistakenly call "universal".

re: #83 reine.de.tout

show-off.

:)
[Link: www.fileformat.info...]

YOU^{KIDSGETOFFMYLAWNNOW!}

re: #85 Varek Raith

:)
[Link: www.fileformat.info...]

um.
Do I use all of that? Or choose one?

Christopher^{Walkendancesupanescalator}

☃

OK, I don't drnk, and I feel drunk reading the new script.
Going to bed!
Everyone enjoy your upcoming celebration!
Please dont drive if you have been drinking, and don' let anyone else.
So not worth it.

Hitchens lol (part 2)

☃^{☃☃☃☃☃☃☃}

re: #90 CapeCoddah

OK, I don't drnk, and I feel drunk reading the new script.
Going to bed!
Everyone enjoy your upcoming celebration!
Please dont drive if you have been drinking, and don' let anyone else.
So not worth it.

Take care. happy new year.

re: #84 Killgore Trout

Too bad we don't do the Fiskie anymore: A late but worthy entry...

End human rights imperialism now

Groups such as Human Rights Watch have lost their way by imposing western, 'universal' standards on developing countries

That one is indeed worthy of a Fiskie. We should do a 'Fiskie' for the left, and a 'Becker' for the right. But that piece is truly rancid. The human rights movement comes from the left, but now its being called "imperialistic". Truly a case of the left eating its own.

re: #91 Killgore Trout

Hitchens lol (part 2)

BOOBIES!

re: #88 jaunte

Christopher^{Walkendancesupanescalator}

[Video]

I'm ^{always surprised by how good a dancer Christopher Walken is.}

Not working. How do I get each section to go up?

re: #84 Killgore Trout

The Guardian is very reliable.

Reminds me of this clip from "Yes, Prime Minister" wherein the different London dailies are explained to viewers.

re: #96 reine.de.tout

Just put a < sup > in between each word (without the space).

re: #91 Killgore Trout

Hitchens lol (part 2)

LOL!

Dick Clark's Rockin' New Years Eve has gone ahead for the 107th consecutive year, if memory serves.
Earlier tonight, vandals briefly changed Clark's date of birth to "November 30 1889" in his Wikpedia bio. (screenshot)

I'm ^always _surprisedre: #98 jaunte

Just put a < sup > in between each word (without the space).

Ah. thanks!

I'm ^{alwayssurprisedby howgood a dancerChristopherWalkenis}

re: #101 reine.de.tout

I'm ^always _surprised

Ah. thanks!

I'm ^{alwayssurprisedby howgood a dancerChristopherWalkenis}

Fun, no?
:)

re: #94 Dark_Falcon

That one is indeed worthy of a Fiskie. We should do a 'Fiskie' for the left, and a 'Becker' for the right. But that piece is truly rancid. The human rights movement comes from the left, but now its being called "imperialistic". Truly a case of the left eating its own.

Leftism is intrinsically Western.

re: #102 Varek Raith

Fun, no?
:)

*snort*
More fun to read than to do.

re: #94 Dark_Falcon

That one is indeed worthy of a Fiskie. We should do a 'Fiskie' for the left, and a 'Becker' for the right. But that piece is truly rancid. The human rights movement comes from the left, but now its being called "imperialistic". Truly a case of the left eating its own.

It would be tough to do both properly. As bad as that Guardian piece is it's an opinion. It's wrong and morally bankrupt but it's still an opinion. Fox is reporting a completely different reality based on lies and conspiracy theories. It's hard for me to get worked up about a lefty with a stupid opinion while the wingnuts are reporting on a fictional paranoid fantasy that exists only in their heads.
I wish stupid lefties were still worth picking on.

re: #104 reine.de.tout

*snort*
More fun to read than to do.

True, true.

re: #105 Killgore Trout

It would be tough to do both properly. As bad as that Guardian piece is it's an opinion. It's wrong and morally bankrupt but it's still an opinion. Fox is reporting a completely different reality based on lies and conspiracy theories. It's hard for me to get worked up about a lefty with a stupid opinion while the wingnuts are reporting on a fictional paranoid fantasy that exists only in their heads.
I wish stupid lefties were still worth picking on.

Some are.
BB for instance.
You were a master.

re: #105 Killgore Trout

It would be tough to do both properly. As bad as that Guardian piece is it's an opinion. It's wrong and morally bankrupt but it's still an opinion. Fox is reporting a completely different reality based on lies and conspiracy theories. It's hard for me to get worked up about a lefty with a stupid opinion while the wingnuts are reporting on a fictional paranoid fantasy that exists only in their heads.
I wish stupid lefties were still worth picking on.

Spoken like someone who has been drinking fluoridated water for too long!

/

re: #105 Killgore Trout

I wish stupid lefties were still worth picking on.

Or even being concerned with.
/FML :(

re: #104 reine.de.tout

Remember the text to image games we played with the old golfball IBM Selectric's?

re: #22 EmmmieG

Sith have lawns? Really?

As a matter of fact...

Varek, I need a unicode something to put up on my FB page.
Suggestions?
I have a friend I need to one-up.

re: #107 reine.de.tout

I'm not sure that dude is so much a "lefty" type, as he is a "left reality behind" type.

re: #110 Rightwingconspirator

Remember the text to image games we played with the old golfball IBM Selectric's?

yep.
Hell, I could probably still do those.

re: #107 reine.de.tout

Some are.
BB for instance.
You were a master.

He would have melted down on his own without me. He's having some sort of meltdown or identity crisis or something.

re: #113 Slumbering Behemoth

I'm not sure that dude is so much a "lefty" type, as he is a "left reality behind" type.

You got that right.

re: #110 Rightwingconspirator

You're drunk, grandpa. Go home.
///

re: #113 Slumbering Behemoth

More of a royalist; 'le monde, c'est Moi!'

re: #117 Slumbering Behemoth

You're grandpa, home. Go drunk.
///

re: #84 Killgore Trout

Too bad we don't do the Fiskie anymore: A late but worthy entry...

End human rights imperialism now

Groups such as Human Rights Watch have lost their way by imposing western, 'universal' standards on developing countries

Bleh. I've always known there are people like this around.

re: #115 Killgore Trout

He would have melted down on his own without me. He's having some sort of meltdown or identity crisis or something.

I suspect it was there, always, just right below the surface.

A bit of success and celebrity (without much financial remuneration, apparently) and he couldn't figure out what to do with it. Or, he just started to really believe he's as brilliant as everyone was telling him he was.

re: #112 reine.de.tout

Varek, I need a unicode something to put up on my FB page.
Suggestions?
I have a friend I need to one-up.

♕

re: #122 Varek Raith

♕

[Link: www.ask.com...]

re: #100 Shiplord Kirel

Dick Clark's Rockin' New Years Eve has gone ahead for the 107th consecutive year, if memory serves.
Earlier tonight, vandals briefly changed Clark's date of birth to "November 30 1889" in his Wikpedia bio. (screenshot)

Sadly, the show also included Jenny McCarthy this year. I don't really like having Bad Craziness with my New Years.

re: #105 Killgore Trout

It would be tough to do both properly. As bad as that Guardian piece is it's an opinion. It's wrong and morally bankrupt but it's still an opinion. Fox is reporting a completely different reality based on lies and conspiracy theories. It's hard for me to get worked up about a lefty with a stupid opinion while the wingnuts are reporting on a fictional paranoid fantasy that exists only in their heads.
I wish stupid lefties were still worth picking on.

Well, I still thank you for bringing it up. It's important to smack down that kind of insanity as soon as it pops up.

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That's what I have to one-up.

re: #126 reine.de.tout

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That's what I have to one-up.

Ah, you meant a big old unicode message.
Neat.

re: #127 Varek Raith

Ah, you meant a big old unicode message.
Neat.

hehehe.
Yep. She does this all the time.
Time for me to take her down a peg or two.

re: #111 SanFranciscoZionist

As a matter of fact...

"Do not worry, young Sith," said Yoda. "Sunday this is, work for Wal-Mart I do now. Meet me Monday, lightsaber your ass I will. Today, show you quality merchandise at low low prices I must. What need you?"

"The grass mocks me," said Darth Maul. "I will have revenge."

Yoda shook his head and clucked softly. "I sense much anger in you, young Sith. Careful you must be. Anger leads to hatred. Hatred leads to divots. And bald spots. How big this field of grass is, that mocks you so?"

re: #119 Varek Raith

Oh, I would kick your ass if I could make a fist.
:P

I just went outside. It's completely dark and I can see all the stars. It's beautiful. Fireworks & guns are going off in the distance.

re: #131 NJDhockeyfan

I just went outside. It's completely dark and I can see all the stars. It's beautiful. Fireworks & guns are going off in the distance.

Damn Paulians...
/

Alrighty - midnight here, finally!
Happy New Year, all!
and goodnight!

re: #117 Slumbering Behemoth

Heh. Rookies.
///

re: #133 reine.de.tout

Happy New Year to you and the Roi, Reine.

Happy new year and Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
Night!

Heh...Duck Soup is on TCM.

Be well Varek, & of Course Reine & Roi. "See" ya next year.
Hmm. New indulgence discovered. M&M Mint chocolate and Irish Cream. Guaranteed to enliven the taste buds.

re: #137 NJDhockeyfan

Heh...Duck Soup is on TCM.

Classic, and still uproariously funny.

re: #139 Dark_Falcon

Classic, and still uproariously funny.

The classics never age.

re: #84 Killgore Trout

So... hate to sound all ignorant and everything. But what was the Fiskie?

Happy New Year Lizards!

re: #140 NJDhockeyfan

The classics never age.

Thank you.

re: #141 Escaped Hillbilly

So... hate to sound all ignorant and everything. But what was the Fiskie?

It was our award for left wing stupidity. Inspired by an article by British journalist Robert Fisk where he tells about how some Muslims beat him up but he understood his attackers' rage because he was part of an evil imperialist culture.

re: #5 EmmmieG

"Someone will publish a PhD on the lolcat phenomenon."

ROTFLAMO!

Gonna need a bigger lighthouse.

re: #145 Killgore Trout

It was our award for left wing stupidity. Inspired by an article by British journalist Robert Fisk where he tells about how some Muslims beat him up but he understood his attackers' rage because he was part of an evil imperialist culture.

It should be taken out of the closet, dusted off, and returned. The amount of nominees must be huge by now.

Off to drink more Bailey's -- and munch peppermint bark from Williams-Sonoma. Happy 2011!
Bliss.

re: #149 wee fury

Off to drink more Bailey's -- and munch peppermint bark from Williams-Sonoma. Happy 2011!
Bliss.

mmmmmmmm, peppermint bark!

re: #134 Rightwingconspirator

Heh. Rookies.
///

I loaded up early (with beer) and hunkered down. I don't go out on amateur night unless I've got a hot date, a hot suit, and a thick wad of cash.

/it's been a while...

☸^☸☸☸

^{The wheel turns for another year, a mere spec in the maha kalpa. Eternity.}

re: #145 Killgore Trout

Oooh. Ok, the whole thing makes sense now.

What will various Lizards being doing in 2011.

Not asking for resolutions, but personal predictions.

I think I'll be using my Kindle ALOT.

re: #152 Rightwingconspirator

☸^☸☸☸

^{The wheel turns for another year, a mere spec in the maha kalpa. Eternity.}

4.32 billion years? I don't think I can count that high.

Coby Kyros Android Tablets Come Stocked with X Rated Content

Oh dear, oh no. It appears that in Marion, southern Illinois a couple of parents are pretty disturbed at the stock contents of the Coby Kyros tablets they gave their 12 and 15 year old daughters for Christmas. Actually only one of the devices, as opposed to both, had a few apps that were, well, less than appropriate for anyone opening the package for the first time – much less a young person such as this young lady in Illinois. One of the apps found right there on the home screen was called “Boobs! Butts! Babes!” and the other was called “Undress Me.”

“She touched it once to switch screens, and all of a sudden something that shouldn’t have been there came up,” Jay Hardin, the father of the family, said, “I actually thought she was kidding me. I walked in there and I looked at the screen of this thing and, sure enough, there were some things on there that should not have been on there for any kid.” – WSIL TV added that he said his daughters did not even have them long enough to connect to the internet.

re: #154 ggt

I will be completing three novels I have had half finished for about four years. New jobs sometimes have real perks! Time, beautiful time. Too bad it ends when the deployment ends.

re: #154 ggt

What will various Lizards being doing in 2011.

Not asking for resolutions, but personal predictions.

I think I'll be using my Kindle ALOT.

Gardening, cooking and eating more fish.

Well I have an hour and a half before midnight. So, a little music. You can't get this anywhere else.

re: #136 Varek Raith

Happy new year and Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
Night!

Open your own damn portals! I'm taking the night off.

re: #156 NJDhockeyfan
I just relayed that to my Soldier and he is angry he didn't get one for Christmas! There was also an article about a kid's video being sold at Walmart with some bad language in it. Every year it happens. Old news.

re: #161 Escaped Hillbilly

I just relayed that to my Soldier and he is angry he didn't get one for Christmas! There was also an article about a kid's video being sold at Walmart with some bad language in it. Every year it happens. Old news.

Wasn't there some hoopla last year about some talking toy saying something it shouldn't? I remember listening to the video and thinking . . huh? I guess if I played the Beatles vinyls backwards enough times, stoned, I'd hear things too.

I'm exhausted.

Have a great first day of 2011 all!

re: #162 ggt

Wasn't there some hoopla last year about some talking toy saying something it shouldn't? I remember listening to the video and thinking . . huh? I guess if I played the Beatles vinyls backwards enough times, stoned, I'd hear things too.

I played Alice Cooper backward and he said "Mind your parents and do your homework." Actually it really did. It was a joke. I'm not sure that was the actual line he inserted. But we messed a lot of records up after that, even burned out a turntable.

Goodnight, all.

re: #156 NJDhockeyfan

Heh.

Walked in there? This seems suspicious. In one sentence he says they didn’t have enough time to connect to the internet, and in the other he says he “walked in there and looked at the screen.” We’re a teeny bit suspicious of this fellows knowledge of how fast kids understand technology and can connect to the internet with a device such as this.

Of course the Coby group responded instantly to the news. Coby Senior Product Manager Michael Paladino said in a written statement: “There is nothing pre-programmed from Coby. Like any other internet device with an open platform, a wide range of content is available which may require parental oversight. Coby is always looking for ways to improve our offerings.”

Object lesson? Parents: If you can't wrap your head around it, don't hand it to your kids and expect someone else to do your job for you. Get your head in the game, and make your children your responsibility.

re: #166 Slumbering Behemoth
They may have had time to connect, but not download 2 apps! It takes a minute. First you find it, then you download it. And why would the kid call dad to show him the app if they were tee-heeing behind his back? Nah, probably one someone returned and got put back on the shelf. Nobody would bother to check to see if someone had downloaded an app before returning it.

re: #167 Escaped Hillbilly

They may have had time to connect, but not download 2 apps! It takes a minute. First you find it, then you download it. And why would the kid call dad to show him the app if they were tee-heeing behind his back? Nah, probably one someone returned and got put back on the shelf. Nobody would bother to check to see if someone had downloaded an app before returning it.

Oh, but they should. It is a new era we live in. Pleading ignorance and pointing fingers just shouldn't cut it anymore.

Buying your kids an internet ready device and handing it over to them without engaging in "due diligence" is parental negligence.

re: #145 Killgore Trout

It was our award for left wing stupidity. Inspired by an article by British journalist Robert Fisk where he tells about how some Muslims beat him up but he understood his attackers' rage because he was part of an evil imperialist culture.

I never knew that was where the title came from. Anyone got a link for the article?

re: #154 ggt

In no particular order...

Drinking beer.
Masturbation.
Making dick jokes.

re: #1 NJDhockeyfan

one, one, one one

The ONLY time, ever, that anybody will get away with a first post that says nothing but "first". Bravo!

re: #168 Slumbering Behemoth

I would say, buying them such a device at that age is a little ridiculous anyway. But expecting parents to peer over their children's shoulder as the open the package is silly. You got a kid? Do you hover over them as they flip through the channels or turn on their computer...constantly? Come on. No sane person is that diligent. He was right in the next room and came in immediately. Sounds pretty responsible to me. It's not really that big an issue. Kids get peaks of adult stuff all the time. It was nipped in the bud. I'm sure he returned it right away. No big deal. But I don't think you should make it sound as if he's a negligent parent because they got a peak at a booby. I remember sneaking in to cut up my dad's Playboys for paper dolls. Kids get into things. Parents do what they can within reason and without smothering. I don't even see why this made the news.

We're one hour into it in CST. Happy run-up to the 2012 elections. 'Nite, all.

re: #171 lostlakehiker

The ONLY time, ever, that anybody will get away with a first post that says nothing but "first". Bravo!

No, it says 'one'. There is a difference ;)

re: #174 NJDhockeyfan

Binary. You could say positive, positive, positive positive.

This day in history 1944:

* In the south Pacific, the airfield of New Britain is captured by US Marines. [522.2004]
* (evening) 421 British bombers attack Berlin, Germany. [84.212]

I love reading about us kicking Nazi & Japanese ass in WWII.

re: #175 Escaped Hillbilly

Binary. You could say positive, positive, positive positive.

'One' was easier to spell.

Happy New Years from MDT.

Just heard a guy barking like a dog during the fireworks. The weird part is that he sounded like a real dog. A small sized dog too with a short quick bark.

re: #172 Escaped Hillbilly

I would say, buying them such a device at that age is a little ridiculous anyway.

Disagree. Today's kids are far too savvy for the "See 'N Say" type toys that you or I had in our youth. The need greater intellectual challenges.

But expecting parents to peer over their children's shoulder as the open the package is silly.

Certainly. The parents should educate themselves on the internet ready devices they intend to give their kids, and give those devices a good "once over" before giving them to their kids.

Much the same would have been done back in the day with "Assembly Required" bicycles and the like. No responsible parent would have sent their kid down the road on one of those without giving that a good "once over".

You got a kid?

Irrelevant to the topic.

Do you hover over them as they flip through the channels or turn on their computer...constantly? Come on. No sane person is that diligent.

Agreed.

He was right in the next room and came in immediately. Sounds pretty responsible to me.

His story, and it seems hinky to me.

It's not really that big an issue. Kids get peaks of adult stuff all the time. It was nipped in the bud. I'm sure he returned it right away. No big deal. But I don't think you should make it sound as if he's a negligent parent because they got a peak at a booby.

Not at all. Perhaps I worded it poorly, but it seemed to me that he was trying to blame his lack of due diligence on the manufacturer.

I remember sneaking in to cut up my dad's Playboys for paper dolls.

No comment. :P

Kids get into things. Parents do what they can within reason and without smothering. I don't even see why this made the news.

Word.

re: #169 SanFranciscoZionist

I never knew that was where the title came from. Anyone got a link for the article?

My beating by refugees is a symbol of the hatred and fury of this filthy war

Report by Robert Fisk

Oh Great Atom of the Sky Crane. Please make 2011 a better year than the shit hole that was 2010.

re: #180 Slumbering Behemoth

Hah! We not only rode the bikes without our parents checking them out first... We didn't wear a helmet! Without shoes! The good ol' days eh?

I'm tired & drunk & have to get the house ready for guests tomorrow afternoon. I have to get some sleep now. Happy New Years lizards!

re: #179 Gus 802

One neighborhood I used to live in, there was a stray cat that sounded like Froggy from the Lil Rascals, crying out in pain.

Seriously, it sounded like a hoarse throated child in jeopardy. Made me cringe every time.

re: #181 Killgore Trout

They started by shaking hands. We said "Salaam aleikum" – peace be upon you – then the first pebbles flew past my face. A small boy tried to grab my bag. Then another. Then someone punched me in the back. Then young men broke my glasses, began smashing stones into my face and head. I couldn't see for the blood pouring down my forehead and swamping my eyes. And even then, I understood. I couldn't blame them for what they were doing. In fact, if I were the Afghan refugees of Kila Abdullah, close to the Afghan-Pakistan border, I would have done just the same to Robert Fisk. Or any other Westerner I could find.

I miss the days when the left was crazier than the right.

re: #185 Slumbering Behemoth

One neighborhood I used to live in, there was a stray cat that sounded like Froggy from the Lil Rascals, crying out in pain.

Seriously, it sounded like a hoarse throated child in jeopardy. Made me cringe every time.

Yeah. I don't mind the screaming on New Years Eve. But the barking thing had me about ready to say WTF? Seriously, that was kind of freaky to see coming out of grown man.

re: #186 Killgore Trout

I miss the days when the left was crazier than the right.

They still are.

re: #183 Escaped Hillbilly

Our parents sucked donkey balls.
///

Heh. In this day and age, I guess the motto should be "If you ain't smarter than your kids, just get them socks for Christmas. Dumbass."

/Red Forman

re: #181 Killgore Trout

My beating by refugees is a symbol of the hatred and fury of this filthy war

Report by Robert Fisk

I couldn't read it all the way through. Disgusting. No recognition at all that his style of reporting was at least partly to blame for the anger at all Westerners the refugees felt. Sensationalism and blame American first has real consequences for America guy! Go figure. But of course, what he is really saying isn't "I'm at fault for this." But rather, "Those terrible war mongers in power are at fault for this. See, I told you!" False modesty, hypocricy, and martyrdom. Blech. I see why you named the "award" for him.

re: #188 NJDhockeyfan

I can't tell the difference anymore.

Alex Jones, once a pariah on the right, now linked to by the likes of Matt Drudge and Rush Limbaugh, and often imitated without attribution by Glenn Beck.

I can't tell the difference anymore.

re: #190 Escaped Hillbilly

I couldn't read it all the way through. Disgusting. No recognition at all that his style of reporting was at least partly to blame for the anger at all Westerners the refugees felt. Sensationalism and blame American first has real consequences for America guy! Go figure. But of course, what he is really saying isn't "I'm at fault for this." But rather, "Those terrible war mongers in power are at fault for this. See, I told you!" False modesty, hypocricy, and martyrdom. Blech. I see why you named the "award" for him.

Yes, we have our disagreements with Mr. Fisk. Nevertheless, if Fisk shows up in your community, please extend him every courtesy due a distinguished visitor, show our tolerance and enlightenment by listening patiently to his dissident but beautifully expressed views, praise him afterward for his sagacity and moral vision and ensure that he is the center of attention at the tasteful gathering of cognoscenti that will surely follow.
Then beat him up.

re: #192 Shiplord Kirel

Yes, we have our disagreements with Mr. Fisk. Nevertheless, if Fisk shows up in your community, please extend him every courtesy due a distinguished visitor, show our tolerance and enlightenment by listening patiently to his dissident but beautifully expressed views, praise him afterward for his sagacity and moral vision and ensure that he is the center of attention at the tasteful gathering of cognoscenti that will surely follow.
Then beat him up.

30 Quatloos on the other guy.

re: #188 NJDhockeyfan

They still are.

Not even close. Today's wingnuts have gone so far beyond Fisk, Rather, and Moore that it's not even close. Fox news and Republican leadership are further removed from reality than the old liberal loony left ever was.

Sooo.. 'bout half an hour 'til the New Year arrives in my time zone.

Meh, gonna finish this beer and play a vid-yuh game.

Laters all.

Sleepy time. Good night.

Happy New Year to all from the left coast.

re: #194 Killgore Trout

Not even close. Today's wingnuts have gone so far beyond Fisk, Rather, and Moore that it's not even close. Fox news and Republican leadership are further removed from reality than the old liberal loony left ever was.

Balogne. They just were never allowed the free reign the loonies today have. If you make that kind of excuse for them, they will soon be the next wackos annoying you on satelite tv. Remember, the right wing said the exact same thing such a short time ago. Ignore it, excuse it, or say it's not as bad as someone else, and it gets bigger and ugglier. Wish the right had realized that before the complete takeover by the utterly insane. Hopefully, they can still pull back from it.

re: #197 Bobibutu

Happy New Year to all from the left coast.

Happy fucking New (hic) Year.......

"Auld lang syne" is Scottish (English literally as "old long since") ... and the minimalist English translation, according to Wikipedia, is as follows:

Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind ?
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and days of old lang syne ?

CHORUS:
For auld lang syne, my dear,
for auld lang syne,
we'll take a cup of kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.

And surely you’ll buy your pint cup !
and surely I’ll buy mine !
And we'll take a cup o’ kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.

CHORUS

We two have run about the slopes,
and picked the daisies fine ;
But we’ve wandered many a weary foot,
since days of auld lang syne.

CHORUS

We two have paddled in the stream,
from morning sun till dine ;
But seas between us broad have roared
since auld lang syne.

CHORUS

And there’s a hand my trusty friend !
And give us a hand o’ thine !
And we’ll take a right good-will draught,
for auld lang syne.

CHORUS

Sounds very British Isles - the reference to seas and streams.

New Year Boogie!

Happy New Year's all!

re: #201 freetoken

Can't have a New Year's in the English speaking world without at least one round of 'Auld lang syne'.

To all of my fellow Lizards and their families and friends: A Joyous Prosperous and Happy New Year.

Happy new year from Hawaii. Fireworks show on the beach was sweet.

Happy new year! Life can be crazy, but you must always believe the year to come will be better than the year that has passed.

Heh, just saw Barrett Brown's videos at RSM's and DD's places, with respectful comments from both of them. Now that's a 180.

Pope is off his rocker.

"In his traditional Christmas address yesterday to cardinals and officials working in Rome, Pope Benedict XVI also claimed that child pornography was increasingly considered “normal” by society.

“In the 1970s, paedophilia was theorised as something fully in conformity with man and even with children,” the Pope said."

re: #210 Amory Blaine

Pope is off his rocker.

People are shaped by their environments, so I guess his perspective is skewed.

////

_ducks

"Harrngpy Nuuuugh Yeaarrgh!" - Zombie Dick Clark

re: #210 Amory Blaine

Pope is off his rocker.

Projection and deflection on behalf of the Vatican.

I was making a playlist, picking the top songs of last year, and noticed 2010 was a lousy year for music. Here's hoping 2011 is a better year.

Fav New Band/Album for 2010: Taddy Porter

re: #212 RogueOne

"Harrngpy Nuuugh Yeaarrgh!" - Zombie Dick Clark

That's cold.

But pretty funny.

re: #213 Varek Raith

Projection and deflection on behalf of the Vatican.

Yeah, he'll be calling that back by tomorrow.

re: #212 RogueOne

"Harrngpy Nuuugh Yeaarrgh!" - Zombie Dick Clark

He's not dead, Jim.
:P

re: #215 researchok

That's cold.

But pretty funny.

Poor Dick. I couldn't stop laughing but I'm blaming the drugs. I'm pretty sure he died somewhere around 2008 and Ryan Seacrest keeps his zombie animated corpse in his basement and only brings him out for New Years.

re: #218 RogueOne

Poor Dick. I couldn't stop laughing but I'm blaming the drugs. I'm pretty sure he died somewhere around 2008 and Ryan Seacrest keeps his zombie animated corpse in his basement and only brings him out for New Years.

Weekend at Dick's?

Clark's ghost will haunt you.

On an episode of America's Most Haunted.

Nomination for Fav song of the year:

If It Wasn't For Hate, We'd Be Dead By Now
LostProphets

Calling George Costanza! and other top 10 oddball golf stories from 2010

Golf in 2010 had its share of moments -- from the memorable (Phil Mickelson’s shot from the pine straw on 13 at the Masters) to the bizarre (Dustin Johnson’s gaffe from the yup-it’s-a-bunker at the PGA Championship).

And then there were the truly weird stories involving golf courses, carts, clubs, balls, an oil spill, an assortment of body parts, and even some stiffs. Here, then, are 10 of the somewhat golf-related oddball stories from the year about to pass (viewer discretion is advised):

re: #221 RogueOne

Nomination for Fav song of the year:

If It Wasn't For Hate, We'd Be Dead By Now
LostProphets

[Video]

Better than I thought it would be.

re: #223 researchok

I'm a big fan of Lostprophets. I really liked this album too:

Middle Class Rut
New Low

Here's a vid that makes you think you're trippin'

re: #225 Varek Raith

An asian metal band, gotta like that.

Okay ,, so here we are

1st newspaper of rthe New Year,,, but same old (incompentent) proof reading!!

[Link: www.boston.com...]

Origami for a good cause helps Hamilton food panty

hmm,,, i usually keep extra food in a pantry, but I'm willing to try something new!!

Hava Nagila:

Texas style:

Played by the IDF Orchestra on the Red Square:

By Iosif Kobzon and the Academical Song-and-Dance Ensemble of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation:

Turetsky's choir:

Artsy Japanese rendering:

re: #228 Sergey Romanov

Hava Nagila:

Texas style:

[Video]

re: #229 Walter L. Newton

[Video]

Это видео содержит материалы от партнера Sony Music Entertainment. В вашей стране доступ к этим материалам не предоставляется.

And on that note, the long quiet drive home beckons

re: #230 Sergey Romanov

Ok... so, that video is blocked in your location... It's Kate Smith singing "God Bless America" ... I'll reserve comment and let the obvious speak for itself.

re: #225 Varek Raith

Here's a vid that makes you think you're trippin'

[Video]

Is that the infamous "Barrett Brown and his girlfriend argue" video?

In Soviet Russia Auld Lang Syne sing you!

Happy New Year everybody!

(Ens Chekov) - Everybody knows that eggnog was invented in Russia.

re: #186 Killgore Trout

I miss the days when the left was crazier than the right.

˙ǝɹoɯʎuɐ ssɐןb buıʞooן ǝɥʇ ʇou sı sıɥʇ 'ǝɔıןɐ 'dnʎ

Seriously, though, when was that? The Right was crazy all along and I don't remember the left being crazier, unless you're talking decades ago.

Happy new year, everyone. Sure hope this year is better than the last.

re: #232 Walter L. Newton

re: #230 Sergey Romanov

Ok... so, that video is blocked in your location... It's Kate Smith singing "God Bless America" ... I'll reserve comment and let the obvious speak for itself.

Was that too nuanced of an answer?

re: #236 Sionainn

Happy new year, everyone. Sure hope this year is better than the last.

It's only going to be as good as you make it for yourself.

re: #237 Walter L. Newton

Was that too nuanced of an answer?

What is this, I don't even

re: #238 Walter L. Newton

It's only going to be as good as you make it for yourself.

Well, that's true to a certain extent, but I have no control over things like a parent dying.

happy new year from the UK.

I hope it makes more sense than last year.
I left 2010 with no job but the most awesome Girlfriend in the whole world - who unfortunately lives half a world away.

Fate is a cruel, cruel cruel mistress.

Well, I'm starting off the new year the same as ending last year... at work.

I guess my wish for 2011 is continued employment, since not being employed will massively increase my stress levels among other things. And may the Lizards seeking employment/better positions be successful in finding them.

Walter, you working on a musical about grocery store employees yet?

re: #241 wozzablog

happy new year from the UK.

I hope it makes more sense than last year.
I left 2010 with no job but the most awesome Girlfriend in the whole world - who unfortunately lives half a world away.

Fate is a cruel, cruel cruel mistress.

You want me to bring her with me in two weeks... I can drop her off at the Gare de L'Est... you can take over from there?

Poor Helen, she just wants to be loved....

Helen Thomas: Thrown to the wolves
At a time of forgiveness, why is Helen Thomas still being ostracized?
[Link: english.aljazeera.net...]

re: #244 RogueOne

Poor Helen, she just wants to be loved...

Helen Thomas: Thrown to the wolves
At a time of forgiveness, why is Helen Thomas still being ostracized?
[Link: english.aljazeera.net...]

When was this time of forgiveness you're talking about?

re: #244 RogueOne

Poor Helen, she just wants to be loved...

Helen Thomas: Thrown to the wolves
At a time of forgiveness, why is Helen Thomas still being ostracized?
[Link: english.aljazeera.net...]

Love how he frames the issue: "angry remarks she made about Israel".

re: #245 Walter L. Newton

When was this time of forgiveness you're talking about?

Not me, I was just quoting the header. I'm full of forgiveness year round because I care.

re: #243 Walter L. Newton

You want me to bring her with me in two weeks... I can drop her off at the Gare de L'Est... you can take over from there?

We had been pondering meeting in Paris for her birthday, alas, she can't get here for her birthday now.

*sigh*

Thanks though. How is CO this morning?

re: #244 RogueOne

Poor Helen, she just wants to be loved...

Helen Thomas: Thrown to the wolves
At a time of forgiveness, why is Helen Thomas still being ostracized?
[Link: english.aljazeera.net...]

Wow... that article was right out of the Al-Jazeera playbook.

Not to toot my own horn (when did that ever stop me), I remember during the Democrat Convention in Denver, I was part of a 3 panel round robin on Al-Jazeera English. We were watching Bill Clintons convention speech, his subject was on the economy. After the speech, the reporter when around the table asking us opinions on the speech and the content.

The live, impromptu (my ass) spin that the reporter was putting on out answers was poetic propaganda in motion. And yes, he managed to slip something in there about Israel, even though the content of the speech was mainly about domestic affairs.

Side note : The reporter was a ex-marine information officer now working for Al-Jarzeera.

re: #248 wozzablog

We had been pondering meeting in Paris for her birthday, alas, she can't get here for her birthday now.

*sigh*

Thanks though. How is CO this morning?

Minus 3 degrees (f) right now, has been as low as -30 to -45 wind chill in some areas in the mountains. we had a low of about -11. Denver has been hovering just below zero. In general, most of the state has been below zero for the last 24 hours.

re: #248 wozzablog

We had been pondering meeting in Paris for her birthday, alas, she can't get here for her birthday now.

*sigh*

Thanks though. How is CO this morning?

Addendum... I should have said "Gare de Nord," that's where the connections to England run.

re: #249 Walter L. Newton

Wow... that article was right out of the Al-Jazeera playbook.

Not to toot my own horn (when did that ever stop me), I remember during the Democrat Convention in Denver, I was part of a 3 panel round robin on Al-Jazeera English. We were watching Bill Clintons convention speech, his subject was on the economy. After the speech, the reporter when around the table asking us opinions on the speech and the content.

The live, impromptu (my ass) spin that the reporter was putting on out answers was poetic propaganda in motion. And yes, he managed to slip something in there about Israel, even though the content of the speech was mainly about domestic affairs.

Side note : The reporter was a ex-marine information officer now working for Al-Jarzeera.