Susan -- sorry, didn't mean to offend. I was just trying to think of people who volunteered and worked hard, and your name was the first I thought of. Please substitute anyone you like.
... Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth and household words,
Webb and Pelosi, Dean and Hillary,
Lamont and Susan in Connecticut,
Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb'red...
And folks across the land who stayed in bed,
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Election Day.
Chris Clarke @ 137 Here's how seriously I took the strategic straight ticket thing just now: I voted for Jerry Brown for California Attorney General. It took a moment and a hard swallow and a conscious attempt to steel my resolve, but I did it.
Funny, I was just going to post the exact same thing. I really really dislike the man. When he was mayor of Oakland about all he seemed to do was try to get the homeless out of downtown so developers would come in. And I met him once, and he seemed extremely humorless -- though, of course, that doesn't make him a bad politician, just made me dislike him more. And damn if he isn't here on the ballot again, running for Attorney General, and damn if I didn't vote for him, though very much under protest.
I really wish there was another way to do this, one that involved voting for instead of against.
James D. Macdonald @ 14 -- Y'know, I realized that was probably the reason just after I hit Post.
This mnemonic never helped me a whole lot. You could put any number from first to tenth (except second and seventh) in there and fit the meter just as well.
But to add something useful to the conversation -- I just found out that Guy Fawkes wasn't even the mastermind behind the plot -- he was just the one they caught first. Which I guess is a longer way of saying what abi said about details missing.
James D. Macdonald -- Sorry, but my inner proofreader took over when you said you were getting together a complete version of "Come and Be a Soldier" -- "yokle" should be "yokel." Otherwise, great job.
Xopher @ 2: Someone posted "Happy Samhain" on another site. If your Samhain is happy, you missed the point!
Perhaps slightly off-topic, but this reminds me of the time my parents dropped me off at the baby-sitter and went to Yom Kippur services. (Yom Kippur is the Day of Atonement, very solemn.) The baby-sitter knew only that Yom Kippur is the Jewish new year, and when they came back she said, "Did you have a fun time?"
And a happy new year tomorrow to those who celebrate the day!
Re: Scrabble -- There's a terrific site that lets you play it online: http://thepixiepit.co.uk. (I have no financial connection here -- I just like it.)
As for bingos -- I assume someone somewhere made a seven-letter word and shouted "Bingo!" and it caught on.
Chris Clarke -- That was a terrific poem. Zeke deserves a biscuit, at the very least. (Link at #27)
rhandir @ 50, about my comments -- God bless you, that's the nicest thing anyone's said to me all day!
Wow. Rough day?
rhandir @ 38 -- Finding space to put the thing might not be that important -- you just use the space where all the books used to be. You'd keep one copy of each book on the shelf, and people could look at them and decide which one(s) they want, and the clerk would fire up the POD machine.
That's the way I'd always imagined it, anyway. The rest of your arguments are pretty compelling, though, so I don't think it's going to happen.
I've quoted this from LOTR before, but it seems to apply more than ever. Theoden says to Saruman: "Even if your war on me was just -- as it was not, for were you ten times as wise you would have no right to rule me and mine for your own profit as you desired -- even so, what will you say of your torches in Westfold and the children that lie dead there?" This does put Theoden in the place of Sadddam Hussein, unfortunately, but I'll put it up against Santorum's analogy any day.
But -- but -- if Iraq is the place where the Eye of Mordor is looking, and the United States is the place where it isn't looking, then that makes the United States Mount Doom. But no one in the United States is making anywhere near the heroic effort the hobbits made, or is even sacrificing in any way -- except in Iraq. Boy, I'm confused.
I hate this argument anyway. Santorum and his ilk are saying that it's okay for people to die and sh*t to get blown up in Iraq, as long as we're all right.
Clifton Royston @ 252 -- You know, I think you're right -- someone must have edited out some meaningful word or phrase. Because the first thing I thought of when I read the obit was -- Clute -- very smart guy -- what the hell?
I have planters on my balcony for the first time and now I'm looking at the oregano and sage (they're right next to one another) and wondering if I will wake up one morning and find that there's been a fight in the night and Only One Remains.
The person who lived in our house before we did planted about eight herbs in a planter about two feet across (thus proving she knew about as much about gardening as I do) -- and the winner was ... oregano. Well, it smells nice, anyway.
Susan: Am I the only X-Men fan ever who has always thought Wolverine is just not particularly interesting, no matter how decorative the actor playing him is? (And he is, oh yeah.)
Well, as Ebert or Roeper (can't remember which) pointed out, what's the big deal about having retractable claws? Wouldn't, say, the ability to control the weather be more useful? (Haven't seen 3 yet, so I don't know if this is addressed. Please don't tell me if it is.)
Still, I'm firmly in the camp that likes the guy. And it sure doesn't hurt that he's fun to look at. How many times did he take his shirt off in this movie?
Xopher: That was Anthony Babington. Dunno who this other guy is. And I agree with you on Elizabeth.
My first thought at hearing about Bush's marine sanctuary was that this was more Bushspeak -- Clean Air Act = pollution; No Child Left Behind = poor education; marine sanctuary = oh, shooting fish in a barrel?
Karl Rove seems to have got off scot-free. Dang.
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