Tim @ 186: And inevitably....
This is just to say
that I have eaten
the plum soup
that was in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving for between
the appetizer
and the fish
Forgive me
it was delicious
so vivid
and so cold
Xopher, in that case I'd go with an alternate reality scenario in which Jersey City grew into a proper twin city to New York, the Minneapolis-St. Paul of the east coast. (Which would mean that in The Dark Knight all those Gothamites were evacuating to Metropolis. Hmmmm.)
Jacque @ 52 re: cargo hauling bikes, your Google term (per abi in OT131) is bakfiets. Go!
Wesley, now I often see those pictorial instructions labeled BACON DISPENSER: Push button, bacon dispensed below.
Ever notice how, once you say or type something amusingly wrong once, you have to fight with yourself not to make the same mistake every time?
Magenta, I think I can muster an 'amen' to that.
Look, God. You know we haven't been on the best of terms....
Linkmeister @ 903: The Church brings its own fund raising to bear as well as using government grant money, so it's not an entirely meaningless threat. Childish, hypocritical and quintessentially un-Christian, but not entirely meaningless.
David Wald @ 24: A similar sign visible from the highway in Hartford read, for a long while, ELF ST RAGE. It always made me think happy thoughts in Will Shetterly and Terri Windling's directions.
David Goldfarb @ 893: I'd be more impressed if it returned the result for the next person's search.
nerdycellist, if you're casting about for a liquor to add to your brother's ganache, I can speak very highly of the way Wild Turkey 101 interacts with chocolate. My mum's chocolate bourbon balls have been a holiday staple for time out of mind.
Terry and P.M. Lawrence: You're talking straight past each other. I think P.M. Lawrence is saying that the US government, until the AEF structures were in place, could have aided and encouraged civilians to enlist in the British and French armed forces. A very different proposition from the logistical nightmare of twenty-fold expansion of existing US army infrastructure, as Terry points out.
I will leave it to other, more diligent students of the era to further elucidate, but a policy such as P.M. Lawrence suggests strikes me as profoundly out of place.
This Is Just To Say
that I have googled
Williams parodies
on Making Light
just nine hits
short of three thousand
if you include this one
forgive me
they were irresistible
so terse
and so wry
Wyman Cooke @ 62: You saw harassing instead of debating. I saw a devastatingly effective cross examination.
Grayson has trial experience and it shows: the essential point of cross examination is forcing an obtuse witness to admit that what he just said a minute ago was full of shit, and part of doing that is cutting evasive answers off at the knees. (Now and then Chris Matthews will do this on Hardball, ask a straightforward question that a commentator doesn't want to answer, and just keep asking it until they stop ducking and make the embarrassing admission.)
What kind of school project, emily?
If you're talking about Jim Macdonald's very informative flu post, your teachers probably won't be pleased with you. That's a secondary (possibly a tertiary) source, which is to say Jim pulled information together from a bunch of original and/or authoritative sources and put it in a more convenient and/or entertaining summary format. Your teachers would no doubt prefer you went to the kinds of sources from which Jim learned his stuff originally.
If you're talking about the poetry here in this thread, most of it is pastiche, works of parody derived from copyrighted material (the original songs). I'm very curious as to what sort of school assignment it would be useful for.
But I'm not getting all exercised about it.
Wow.
That was...that was....
Joycean in its splendour.
Michael I, was that due to unforeseen circumstances?
Jim @ 6: WSJ cheated by counting online subscriptions. (After reading their op-ed page, who'd be surprised that they cheat?)
Kidlet is going to a Halloween and NaNoWriMo kickoff party with out of state friends and I haven't gotten trick or treaters here to speak of. I think I'll turn off the lights and lay low.
...and the skies are grey (and the skies are grey)
I've been for a walk on a winter's day
I'd be safe and warm if I was in L.A.
California dreamin' on such a winter's day....
(sorry man, but you tripped a trigger)
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