Damn you, Patrick, for making me laugh out loud at my desk. Can't stop, either...

Makes us sound like so many patriotic zits. [Truly icky red-white-blue joke omitted here out of good taste.]

Reminds me of a selection from Dr. Seuss's Fox in Sox. After all this fantasizing about how cool it would be to be blogging from the DNC and trying to find my vicarious experience in the con blogging going on, it amuses me to think of this recited from the podium. Try it in your most stately voice:

We'll find something new to do now. Here is lots of new blue goo now. New goo. Blue goo. Gooey. Gooey. Blue goo. New goo. Gluey. Gluey. Gooey goo for chewy chewing! That's what that Goo-goose is doing. Do you choose to chew goo, too, sir? If, sir, you, sir, choose to chew, sir, with the Goo-Goose, chew, sir. Do, sir.

Or better yet, recite in the voices of various of the DNC speakers as they instruct us in the proper consumption of patriotism.

she's a total MILF, but that was an awful, cheese-filled speech.

I was about to ask you to define MILF, but I looked it up instead and I don't think I'll post the definition. So, praktike, are you saying she should be seen and not heard?

Now all I can think of is John Belushi in Animal House:

"I'M A ZIT!"

I just Googled it too. Ick, praktike. I suppose I should now say that Edwards is a DILF? But no, that'd be tacky.

Now now. Leave the misbehavior and huffy taking-of-offense to the hosts.

Your pardon, PNH. Didn't mean to step on your prerogatives.

So you folks have been on the intarweb for how long and you're just learning what MILF means now?

hmm, I thought praktike was a female. Also uhm, praktike, is there any meaning to your name? are you scandinavian. although then I guess you'd be missing the e.

I don't hang out in Internet circles in which people express their innermost desires.

on the intarweb nobody knows you're faking your innermost desires.

"MILF" (which I didn't have to look up) is an increasingly used term. I remember a short discussion about its use and propriety last year at [popular urban weekly]. I'm really surprised it isn't familiar to various of my acquaintances above. I guess I just travel in sleazier circles....

Kathryn Cramer wrote: Reminds me of a selection from Dr. Seuss's Fox in Sox.

I desperately hope that I'm not the only person who read that and thought, "Someone did a Seussian parody of Fox News? I want to see that."

I think the election year is causing my brain some serious damage . . .

I certainly wasn't aware of the term MILF, but then the sleazy circles I travel in tend to be rather more interested in reading about two (or more) blokes slapping their bits together.

It occurs to me that my lack of interest in the gogglebox means that I don't actually know whether Edwards is a DILF, because I haven't the faintest idea what he actually looks like. I assume he's good-looking - he's an American politician...

And here all I wanted to do was second Patrick's "EEEUW" and I get a lesson in Web acronyms. You just never know what you'll find when you climb down the stairs to "Comments."

And here all I wanted to do was second Patrick's "EEEUW" and I get a lesson in Web acronyms.

Web acronyms? Didn't anybody here see American Pie?

Well, Granholm is really a Canadian you know.

Also, the MILF Dem of today is Stephanie Herseth of South Dakota. She just married some hot Texas Dem though, ruining her chances of screwing her way up the ladder of power like Chenoweth did. (If she just got married, does that make her a non-MILF? Probably. If it's her first marriage.)

I think one's marital status is irrelevant to being a MILF. If I remember American Pie (and its sequels) correctly, it was never stated whether Stifler's Mom was still married. I mean, the whole idea is that you're some young guy and your pal's mother is so hot that you'd like to nail her...And I suppose there are SILFs as well--a friend of mine, well into her forties and still quite attractive, was complaining to me about various of her female friends' husbands coming on to her. "And I want to say to them, If I were going to go there, I'd be much more interested in your son...."

Huh? The Governor of Michigan is a member of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front?

On the remote chance that the reference to Chenoweth is to Helen Chenoweth (Idaho) I suggest more properly like Chenoweth didn't. She certainly acknowledges an on going steady relationship with a man not Nick Chenoweth (they were divorced) but whatever she got out of it wasn't public power. Some who know the folks were entirely puzzled by the whole thing.

Melanie, I just googled "EEEUW" but didn't find any references to what it might stand for. Can you enlighten us? The best guess I can come up with is "Entity Engineered for Exploration and Ultimate Warfare".

Jimcat, it's Enterically Everted Excrescence of Undigested Webposts, as any fool can plainly see.

In other words, barf city, dude.

jimcat, Xopher: Checked for EEEUW in Wikipedia, but it didn't have:

EEEUW = Enterically Everted Excrescence of Undigested Webposts (OR barf city, dude)
nor even = Entity Engineered for Exploration and Ultimate Warfare

D'you think someone should update it? :)

Xopher: Your pardon, PNH. Didn't mean to step on your prerogatives.

Was that "on", or "in"?

you know I never would have thought a nice guy like praktike a mofo would like to be.

MOFOLB?

CHip - Patrick's prerogatives were scurrying around the metaphoric floor like so many pre-Combat cockroaches; my most gingerly stepping did not allow me to avoid stepping on one or two. Ever try to clean metaphoric prerogative-guts off your metaphoric shoe? It's disgusting.

Metaphorically.

I'd seen "MILF" before, but "intarweb" is a new one on me.

Intarweb: from the people who parody the people who brought you `webinar' (yuck)

I should think 'intarweb' would be a web that looks just like a real one, but is actually non-lethal. You can identify it by the little red glowing crystal on the bottom.

Xopher, are you implying that the real web is lethal?

abby, it usually only bites when you poke at it.

[Well, that applies to nearly all the local venomous animals, and some of the poisonous plants.]

Xopher, are you implying that the real web is lethal?

[thinks about Neuromancer and suchlike] Why yes. Yes I am.