Bruce Cohen @91: Next year we'll have to try to get both of them on a panel with Zeta Vincent.
Ethical and Practical Pitfalls of Participatory Journalism
Lois Lane
Peter Parker
Sarah Jane Smith (moderator)
Tintin
Raoul ("Uncle") Duke
I'm not sure whether the fifth member of the panel had actually been invited to participate, or whether he simply showed up. In any case, the smaller version of himself that popped out of his head was a great deal more lucid than he was, and regaled the audience with stories about parties he had thrown while writing for Rolling Stone and governing Samoa. The moderator, always keenly sensitive to matters of time, eventually had to cut him off in order to allow the other panelists to speak. While Mr. Parker rather diffidently talked about the usefulness of mirrors in photojournalism, Mr. Duke made several passes at Ms. Lane. This continued until Mr. Duke was accosted by a wire fox terrier brought by another of the panelists; the dog tugged vigorously at Mr. Duke's trouser leg, eventually dislodging a rather impressive selection of controlled substances. Mr. Duke was arrested on the spot, not without difficulty, by two detectives in bowler hats and bushy moustaches, whereupon Ms. Lane was able to speak unmolested about her experience with workplace relationships and kidnapping.
I subsequently learned that the moderator had been simultaneously participating in a panel on virology, where she had been asked at the last minute to fill in for her aunt.
Aye, down with the bug! Up with Patrick and Teresa!
Not for nothing do they call him Burlesconi.
t’s interesting to note that, although conservatives frequently talk as if the Catholic vote is theirs by right, the Republican Party has put a Catholic on the ticket only once in its entire history—Barry Goldwater’s running mate Bill Miller.
The generalization here seems to be (as long as we're forcing things into patterns) that the Republicans think Catholics belong on the Supreme Court, not in the executive.
#10 - There's a game to play: coming up with the worst prez/vp combo evar. heh.
Isn't that the Republican Party's standard procedure for selecting their nominees? (And if it isn't, then what the hell happened in 2000?)
Dieub ha par en o dellezegezh hag o gwirioù eo ganet an holl dud. Poell ha skiant zo dezho ha dleout a reont bevañ an eil gant egile en ur spered a genvreudeuriezh.
Not only do "we" not have Baghdad, I don't think "we" have a clue what "we" would do with it if "we" had.
I have trouble seeing economics and mythology as opposites. But perhaps the counterpart to geology is Phish?
Annals of You Can’t Make This Stuff Up
...and even if you could, they wouldn't believe that you had.
A recent article in my local paper quotes someone who more or less explicitly advocates security-in-appearance-only:
Roaming armed police officers and dozens of sniffing dogs need to be deployed at Pearson International Airport, an expert on aviation terrorism says. Putting these measures in place not only would make passengers feel safer, but also would send a strong message to would-be terrorists, Gunnar Kuepper said yesterday.
Shouldn't we be working on ways to make passengers be safer, and to thwart would-be terrorists? Strong messages are all very well, but....
Well, of course it's something that has to happen: the rice pudding, the almond, the present; exactly as you describe it, except after dinner rather than before. (We pour rødgrød over the rice pudding; did you do this, too?) This is a tradition in my family, too (and we also have a straw Yule goat), but I had never heard about the elf business, either.
Well, if you were in Canada, I'd suggest PhoneBusters, but I don't know if there's anything comparable in the States.
I like John Houghton's idea of attributing the motivational aphorisms.
By the way, am I a Bad Person for hallucinating an extra y in this one?
—It is the size of one's will which determines success.
I would never have imagined it was possible to mistake Housman for Nash. In Nash's world, of course, the infant child devours the bear.
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