I'm reminded of Leslie Fish's song, "Serious Steel"
http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/songs/serious-steel.html
Vicki, I'm actually hard-pressed to think of ANY time that Bush did the honorable thing.
Does feeding him single malt count as "keeping him safe" then?
I think the worst names I ever came up with in stories (unpublished all) were "Anna Polis, MD" and a very-old-money character named "Arch St. Greenwich" (which makes more sense if you've ever driven north of NYC o Connecticut on I-95)
Kip, I don't know that I like the idea of Solomon as quarterback. "Divide the ball in half, and give one half to each of the wide receivers..."
I can't imagine that there are as many as 50% of New Yorkers who want the Games held in NYC.
My vote is "Please God Not New York"
As has been pointed out by many people, I'm Jewish so I can at least ignore him.
Oh lord..I JUST got the second, and then the third.
#2 is BRIL. That is SO going out to all relatives to be included in the seder...
Oh, ick. Feel better, you too. Like Graydon, I can't take anything with pseudephedrine in it as it keeps me awake for days and days. Sadly, that's the only OTC oral decongestant in the US these days.
Thankfully, I stocked up on Lemsip the last few time I was in the UK; it contains a different decongestant.
Hot liquids work; I'd suggest big steaming mugs of jasmine green tea for the both of you. And, if you have a tub, a nice hot bath with eucalyptus oil in it.
The big appeal of the Last Unicorn audiobook is the music, to me.
::drooooool::
Mris, I'm not sure about that. I didn't read, frex, His Dark Materials as a young adult (since I'll be 43 in March, that would have been difficult), and it did, indeed, command my full attention. (As did The Dark is Rising, which I also didn't read as a child.)
My son, who's 13, read them within the past year or two, and they engrossed him thoroughly, just about as thoroughly as Lord of the Rings did when he read that at age 9.
Paula, stores have been doing that here for ages.
Which doesn't stop the kids who go to the fridge. It's still a trivial misuse of a tool, and I don't think that going after the manufacturer is going to help much.
Even better would be legislation making the OS vendor liable for damages.
Graydon: I think this is tricky. Among other things, it doesn't cover the people who use Linux or FreeBSD. And, second, I don't see how it can be a good thing to sue the makers of a tool for misuse of that tool.
Do we sue egg farmers because kids throw them at cars on Hallowe'en?
Not that I would ever do any such thing myself, or suggest that anyone else try it either.
Will no-one rid me of these turbulent spammers?
What's possibly sad is that, as a suburban boy, I don't have a go-bag or anythng similar to it.
I'd likely carry my leatherman, a flashlight and spare batteries and a small radio and spare batteries. Space blanket I have, and I should probably start squirrelling away spare currency.
It's not like anything is going to happen in Levittown, but if NYC has a real problem, Long Island is in REAL trouble.
Maybe I should get that pilot's license sooner rather than later.
I'm told that horses also eat poison ivy; apparently the guides where I go riding had to stop riding bareback because the horses would eat the stuff and then have urshinol-laced sweat. I suspect this isn't quite true, but I'm sensitive enough to the stuff that I don't want to risk it; when I go riding, I swap out of my jeans pretty much ASAP.
Some day I expect to understand how people can get so worked up over sporting events.
Soon after that, I expect to discover a way to turn base metal to gold.
If nothing else, it's makes my cow-orkers wonder why I'm sitting in my chair at work and doing the hokey pokey.
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