3 | Taqyia2Me Sat, Mar 6, 2010 12:37:16pm |
Their riff could have been about just about any subject is as far as I can go toward crticizing this one....imho...
4 | ryannon Sat, Mar 6, 2010 12:40:32pm |
Print journalism is already dead.
Like many other institutions and technologies, it just doesn't know it yet.
5 | wrenchwench Sat, Mar 6, 2010 12:42:43pm |
I visited an aunt in Chicago in the summer of 1973. She was saving every article on Watergate, and had stopped cutting them out, she just saved the whole paper. Stacks everywhere. She's still a bit odd, but she has a husband who keeps the dangerous behavior in check....
Modern loons will have old keyboards and mice and printers stacked everywhere.
6 | Mad Al-Jaffee Sat, Mar 6, 2010 12:45:48pm |
I posted that story to the spinoff links, I think yesterday.
7 | ryannon Sat, Mar 6, 2010 12:48:08pm |
re: #5 wrenchwench
I visited an aunt in Chicago in the summer of 1973. She was saving every article on Watergate, and had stopped cutting them out, she just saved the whole paper. Stacks everywhere. She's still a bit odd, but she has a husband who keeps the dangerous behavior in check...
Modern loons will have old keyboards and mice and printers stacked everywhere.
Steampunk has put a beautiful spin on that idea:
[Link: images.google.com...]
8 | ryannon Sat, Mar 6, 2010 12:56:11pm |
It's a bird, a plane - a computer?
[Link: fusionmods.net...]
9 | Tigger2005 Sat, Mar 6, 2010 1:06:13pm |
My mom saved the KC newspapers on the moon landing and the JFK assassination. I saved the papers from the collapse of the Soviet Union and from the KC Royals' pennant chase and eventual World Series victory in 1985. I would hate to think of print journalism ever going away entirely. There's something about holding a newspaper in your hand that makes the past real...this WAS. It happened.
Even if some of it was made up.
10 | Cato the Elder Sat, Mar 6, 2010 1:07:51pm |
re: #4 ryannon
Print journalism is already dead.
Like many other institutions and technologies, it just doesn't know it yet.
And some people.
11 | ryannon Sat, Mar 6, 2010 1:10:06pm |
12 | Cato the Elder Sat, Mar 6, 2010 1:10:22pm |
Can anyone tell me who among the current Lizards lives in Israel? I have a friend there who needs help.
14 | Stanghazi Sat, Mar 6, 2010 1:12:13pm |
re: #5 wrenchwench
Did you see today's Doonsbury? You were called out!
[Link: www.doonesbury.com...]
15 | Killgore Trout Sat, Mar 6, 2010 1:12:48pm |
re: #12 Cato the Elder
I think Allouette has family there.
16 | Cato the Elder Sat, Mar 6, 2010 1:13:20pm |
17 | ryannon Sat, Mar 6, 2010 1:14:30pm |
re: #13 Cato the Elder
Stephen Dedalus, at your service.
Then write me a lovely slim volume of poetry.
You can call it Chamber Music.
18 | ryannon Sat, Mar 6, 2010 1:16:48pm |
re: #10 Cato the Elder
And some people.
Gentle lady, do not sing
Sad songs about the end of love;
Lay aside sadness and sing
How love that passes is enough.
Sing about the long deep sleep
Of lovers that are dead, and how
In the grave all love shall sleep:
Love is aweary now.
19 | Cato the Elder Sat, Mar 6, 2010 1:18:21pm |
re: #17 ryannon
Then write me a lovely slim volume of poetry.
You can call it Chamber Music.
My favorite:
Lean out of the window,
Goldenhair,
I hear you singing
A merry air.
My book was closed;
I read no more,
Watching the fire dance
On the floor.
I have left my book,
I have left my room
For I heard you singing
Through the gloom,
Singing and singing
A merry air.
Lean out of the window,
Goldenhair.
20 | wrenchwench Sat, Mar 6, 2010 1:18:59pm |
re: #14 Stanley Sea
Did you see today's Doonsbury? You were called out!
[Link: www.doonesbury.com...]
Cool! Thanks!
By the way, I was surprised when I first googled "wrenchwench." None of those are me. I only post here. And somebody actually called me that in real life ten years ago. (I have a wrench with my real name on it.)
21 | sattv4u2 Sat, Mar 6, 2010 1:19:27pm |
22 | Cato the Elder Sat, Mar 6, 2010 1:19:52pm |
re: #20 wrenchwench
Cool! Thanks!
By the way, I was surprised when I first googled "wrenchwench." None of those are me. I only post here. And somebody actually called me that in real life ten years ago. (I have a wrench with my real name on it.)
A torque wrench?
23 | ryannon Sat, Mar 6, 2010 1:20:04pm |
re: #19 Cato the Elder
My favorite:
Lean out of the window,
Goldenhair,
I hear you singing
A merry air.My book was closed;
I read no more,
Watching the fire dance
On the floor.I have left my book,
I have left my room
For I heard you singing
Through the gloom,Singing and singing
A merry air.
Lean out of the window,
Goldenhair.
Mine also.
But not tonight.
I hear an army charging upon the land,
And the thunder of horses plunging, foam about their knees:
Arrogant, in black armour, behind them stand,
Disdaining the reins, with fluttering whips, the charioteers.
They cry unto the night their battle-name:
I moan in sleep when I hear afar their whirling laughter.
They cleave the gloom of dreams, a blinding flame,
Clanging, clanging upon the heart as upon an anvil.
They come shaking in triumph their long, green hair:
They come out of the sea and run shouting by the shore.
My heart, have you no wisdom thus to despair?
My love, my love, my love, why have you left me alone?
24 | wrenchwench Sat, Mar 6, 2010 1:21:30pm |
re: #22 Cato the Elder
A torque wrench?
A cone wrench. A pair of them, actually. One is nailed up on my office door.
25 | Stanghazi Sat, Mar 6, 2010 1:22:21pm |
re: #24 wrenchwench
A cone wrench. A pair of them, actually. One is nailed up on my office door.
Don't have to answer but I've wondered - bikes or motorbikes?
26 | Cato the Elder Sat, Mar 6, 2010 1:22:24pm |
re: #24 wrenchwench
A cone wrench. A pair of them, actually. One is nailed up on my office door.
I'll date any woman who knows how to use a torque wrench.
27 | Cato the Elder Sat, Mar 6, 2010 1:22:58pm |
re: #23 ryannon
"I wrote Chamber Music as a protest against myself." --JJ
28 | sattv4u2 Sat, Mar 6, 2010 1:23:46pm |
re: #26 Cato the Elder
I'll date any woman who knows how to use a torque wrench.
wouldn't it be cheaper and easier just to buy one for yourself?
(umm,,, a torque wrench that is ,,, not a woman!!)
29 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Mar 6, 2010 1:23:51pm |
This is the end, Beautiful friend
This is the end, My only friend, the end.
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end...
30 | SixDegrees Sat, Mar 6, 2010 1:24:00pm |
Wow.
We bought a new washer and dryer a few months ago, when our faithful, 15 year old pair finally bought the farm. Sprang for a front loader, mostly because of it's claimed water and energy efficiency.
I just got our quarterly water bill. It's less than half what it was a year ago.
31 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Mar 6, 2010 1:25:03pm |
re: #21 sattv4u2
My favorite
There once was a woman from Nantucket ,,
Who kept all his gold in a bucket
His daughter named Nan
Ran off with a man
And as for the bucket? Nantucket.
//
32 | ryannon Sat, Mar 6, 2010 1:25:16pm |
re: #27 Cato the Elder
"I wrote Chamber Music as a protest against myself." --JJ
Being James Joyce was far from an easy job.
Lots of incipient (and not so incipient) madness in those genes.
33 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Mar 6, 2010 1:25:26pm |
re: #30 SixDegrees
Front loaders are the shinizzle.
34 | wrenchwench Sat, Mar 6, 2010 1:25:41pm |
35 | sattv4u2 Sat, Mar 6, 2010 1:26:12pm |
re: #30 SixDegrees
Wow.
We bought a new washer and dryer a few months ago, when our faithful, 15 year old pair finally bought the farm. Sprang for a front loader, mostly because of it's claimed water and energy efficiency.
I just got our quarterly water bill. It's less than half what it was a year ago.
Cool,,, I have a pair of new LG's being delivered Tuesday. I can't beleive I'm excited about a washer/ dryer delivery. The ones we have now ar OVER 20 years (Maytags). I've donated them to a homeless shelter
36 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Mar 6, 2010 1:26:37pm |
37 | Varek Raith Sat, Mar 6, 2010 1:30:11pm |
re: #36 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Oh crap. You said woman. My bad.
Didn't notice.
(runs away crying)
*Hands FBV a pie*
38 | sattv4u2 Sat, Mar 6, 2010 1:31:46pm |
re: #37 Varek Raith
*Hands FBV a pie*
don't ,, pie is a REWARD ,,, he screwed up!!
NO PIE FOR YOU,,,,, ONE YEAR!!
39 | Cato the Elder Sat, Mar 6, 2010 1:32:23pm |
re: #28 sattv4u2
wouldn't it be cheaper and easier just to buy one for yourself?
(umm,,, a torque wrench that is ,,, not a woman!!)
I have two.
40 | sattv4u2 Sat, Mar 6, 2010 1:33:04pm |
42 | SixDegrees Sat, Mar 6, 2010 1:37:50pm |
re: #35 sattv4u2
Cool,,, I have a pair of new LG's being delivered Tuesday. I can't beleive I'm excited about a washer/ dryer delivery. The ones we have now ar OVER 20 years (Maytags). I've donated them to a homeless shelter
Yeah - my old ones were Magic Chefs, which were made by Maytag. Used to be a great company, but I understand that's no longer true.
The front loaders are sweet, although they're somewhat louder than the old style because they spin so fast. You could probably use them to enrich uranium.
43 | sattv4u2 Sat, Mar 6, 2010 1:39:28pm |
re: #42 SixDegrees
Yeah - my old ones were Magic Chefs, which were made by Maytag. Used to be a great company, but I understand that's no longer true.
The front loaders are sweet, although they're somewhat louder than the old style because they spin so fast. You could probably use them to enrich uranium.
Well,,, the ones we bought aren't "THE" top of the line,, but pretty close. I also bought the padding and pedastal to put underneath them
44 | Varek Raith Sat, Mar 6, 2010 1:40:43pm |
re: #42 SixDegrees
Yeah - my old ones were Magic Chefs, which were made by Maytag. Used to be a great company, but I understand that's no longer true.
The front loaders are sweet, although they're somewhat louder than the old style because they spin so fast. You could probably use them to enrich uranium.
....how the hell did you know I was enri....uh...never, uh, mind. Yeah.
;)
45 | reine.de.tout Sat, Mar 6, 2010 1:42:56pm |
re: #5 wrenchwench
I visited an aunt in Chicago in the summer of 1973. She was saving every article on Watergate, and had stopped cutting them out, she just saved the whole paper. Stacks everywhere. She's still a bit odd, but she has a husband who keeps the dangerous behavior in check...
Modern loons will have old keyboards and mice and printers stacked everywhere.
And site bookmarks all over their computers, with so many categories they can't even find anything. (I'm close to being there myself, right now! But at least I don't have stacks of paper).
Wrenchwench-
I bought and kept Time, Newsweek, USNews magazines for:
1. Nixon
2. the assassination attempt on Reagan
3. Some other events through time.
I figured some day it will be interesting to look back at the coverage of things then, compared to whatever is current.
46 | SixDegrees Sat, Mar 6, 2010 1:44:15pm |
re: #43 sattv4u2
Well,,, the ones we bought aren't "THE" top of the line,, but pretty close. I also bought the padding and pedastal to put underneath them
The pedestals are pretty much required. I wouldn't want to schlep clothes out of the washer if it was at floor level. Makes the dryer much easier to address, as well.
Enjoy.
48 | wrenchwench Sat, Mar 6, 2010 1:51:57pm |
re: #45 reine.de.tout
And site bookmarks all over their computers, with so many categories they can't even find anything. (I'm close to being there myself, right now! But at least I don't have stacks of paper).
Wrenchwench-
I bought and kept Time, Newsweek, USNews magazines for:
1. Nixon
2. the assassination attempt on Reagan
3. Some other events through time.I figured some day it will be interesting to look back at the coverage of things then, compared to whatever is current.
I kept my Letter to the Editor that got published in the LA Times in 1976. I was in high school. I was chastising some Dow executive for an editorial he wrote about how we don't need to worry about air pollution.
50 | Stanghazi Sat, Mar 6, 2010 1:55:37pm |
re: #48 wrenchwench
I kept my Letter to the Editor that got published in the LA Times in 1976. I was in high school. I was chastising some Dow executive for an editorial he wrote about how we don't need to worry about air pollution.
Bravo!
51 | sattv4u2 Sat, Mar 6, 2010 1:57:09pm |
re: #44 Varek Raith
...how the hell did you know I was enri...uh...never, uh, mind. Yeah.
;)
He could tell you, but then theres that whole have ta kill ya part after !
52 | The Sanity Inspector Sat, Mar 6, 2010 2:08:29pm |
The Juice Control American Foreign Policy, the Dubai hit edition...
53 | Aceofwhat? Sat, Mar 6, 2010 2:14:00pm |
54 | keloyd Sat, Mar 6, 2010 2:47:59pm |
re: #52 The Sanity Inspector
I got a kick out of their proof of CIA involvement. Their logic - since so many Israelis have dual US citizenship, the fact that none of these suspects have US citizenship is suspicious and proves that they were handpicked with CIA help to look as if we weren't pulling the strings. We are cunning, but were too clever by half this time, and they figured it out!
/stroking my long curling waxed mustache like Snidely Whiplash
55 | Liberal Classic Sat, Mar 6, 2010 4:04:07pm |
I disagree. The internet has been a boon to loons.