Monday, July 15, 2013

Open Thread

James Bond Jagt Dr. No (Soundtrack)

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rhhardin said...

Instapundit says Obamacare, and now FACTA, are train wrecks.

Doesn't anybody fly these days?

edutcher said...

It has its moments, but it was a run of the mill thriller for the time.

rhhardin said...

Dr No was impressively low budget.

Icepick said...

Hey, I'm not the two hundredth comment! A novelty these days!

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

That video is proof positive that eye candy is not a recent invention.

Coincidentally, yesterday afternoon I was watching TV, idly flipping back and forth between 300 and the latest Casino Royale. The impotance of looks, is my point.

I think it's in Dr. No where James Bond checks into a hotel and the desk clerk checks out his ass, approvingly. It's sort of like watching a foreign movie, in that respect. It being way before my time, I really don't know the extent to which that was considered risqué.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

Not impotance. IMPORTANCE!!! Whata difference an "r" makes.

Anonymous said...

I First Saw "Dr. No" In Germany as a Child.

Dr. Nein.

I Wondered What Happened to Doctors One through Eight.

(insert Bond Theme here)

Icepick said...

Lem, I've been trying to email instructions on how to eliminate anonymous commenting and embedded comments. I'm having trouble with that account for some reason, so here's what I was going to send:

I know people (including me) have been asking for the removal of anonymous commenting. I believe that this is something you want to do and I know you’ve put out feelers to El Pollo Raylan about technical help. If you do want to disable anonymous commenting, the following instructions should help. I’ve also included the instructions for ending embedded comments. Both can be changed in the same place.

If you don’t want to do that, you can stop reading.

1. Go to your site. (Duh.)
2. Once signed in, click on the “Design” link, which should be along the top tool bar.
3. Click on “Settings” on the left-hand side of the screen.
4. Click on “Posts and comments”.
5. Under “Who can comment” it should show that the “Anyone” radio button is checked. Check on “Registered User” or “User with Google Accounts” radio buttons to disallow anonymous commenting. I use “Registered User” as that casts a somewhat wider net than just those with Google accounts. Trooper York uses “Only members of this blog” to restrict commenting to permitted commenters.

If you want to eliminate embedded comments here’s how that is done. Follow the first four instructions above. Then

6. Under Comment Location change the drop down menu item from “Embedded” to “Full page”. This should eliminate embedded comments. It will look like the commenting page at Althouse or Trooper York afterwards.

So that’s how it’s done, should you care to do it. Good luck and happy blogging!

Regards,
Icepick

Icepick said...

Naturally, as I post this, the email goes through.

Aridog said...

I was late to the party on the last open thread vis a vis comment formats and the like. For my pissing & moaning on the subject, see the link.

Yeah, Icepick I seem to be perpetually late these days too.

sakredkow said...

Anyone have a favorite Bond song? I was listening to The World Is Not Enough by Garbage yesterday - not bad, maybe not the best. Definitely in the tradition.
Shirley Bassey killed it at the Grammys this year with Goldfinger. Nice to see the love.
Live and Let Die is probably the most famous, I don't know if it's the best. Seems to me Sheena Easton did one but I can't remember what it was. I'll bet it was good though.

Icepick said...

Even funnier, right before I sent the email Lem had already disabled anonymous commenting, as announced in the previous post.

Also, Lem, if you remove embedding it will remove the embeds from all previous comment threads too. The comments shouldn't be removed, just put into the order in which they were made.

Evi L. Bloggerlady said...

The classic Bond riff into never grows old...

Icepick said...

The best is Goldfinger, for the combination of the dramatic musical arrangement, Shirley Bassey's awesome singing, and some of the most awful lyrics ever recorded.

edutcher said...

Live and Let Die is probably the most famous?

Where?

The only three that ever did anything on the charts were "Goldfinger", which helped the new, improved Bond flicks generally, and was a huge hit, popularizing the John Barry sound and using Shirley Bassey's jazz stylings, LALD, and "You Only Live Twice", which did OK, largely because of its composer, Leslie Bricusse.

Icepick said...

Ari, I largely agree with everything you wrote. The only problem with embedded comments happens with very long comment threads. Other than that I love them, but then I remember usenet boards, and web-based boards that emulated usenet boards in the early days of the blogosphere. The first group blog I was on used such comments, and that was great for us, but we were almost exclusively blogging at each other and didn't have or give a fuck about a larger audience.

rhhardin said...

There's a problem with names and languages.

Is it correct to say that Londres is a translation of London, or is it just what the French call it without being a translation.

Perhaps a nuance is lost and it's a bad translation.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

I really liked the Chis Cornell one from Casino Royale so I got his solo album.

Sounded like a weak imitation of late-period Rod Stewart and that's not a good thing at all.

Just awful.

sakredkow said...

...the combination of the dramatic musical arrangement... awesome singing, and some of the most awful lyrics ever recorded.

Ha ha! That is a description of so much of the great music of the fifties and sixties (a favorite example, "There Goes My Baby" Ben E. King, both sublime and ridiculous).

sakredkow said...

For years I remember the Casino Royale soundtrack album was extremely valuable to collectors, the most highly valued LP IIRC. Not sure why.

chickelit said...

Nice new look, Lem!

Dust Bunny Queen said...

Dr No was one of the first movies that I was allowed to go and see at the local drive in without my parents! Ooooh that was a big deal. Out in a car with a friend who had an actual drivers license AND a car!!! At night. What were my parents thinking? LOL.

I had very cool parents, btw.

Drive in movies were great. It is such a shame we don't have those anymore. I should reminisce about this on my own blog

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

DON'T CLICK ON THIS LINK!!!

Original Casino Royale.

Once it's stuck in your head it'll take days to get it out.

chickelit said...

Now that the random, anonymous, unprotected commenting has been disabled, it will be interesting to see who shows up.

The Dude said...

This looks familiar - and I like it.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Nice new look, Lem!

I got a warm fuzzy feeling when I hit comments, like I was back somewhere very familiar.

Not like Post Stigmata Stress Reorder or nothing as sensational like that.

I've also purchase the minimum storage compartment so that Betamax can have a least a little to maneuver the car with no breaks.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Room to maneuver. and more over the rainbow.

Meade said...
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edutcher said...

Mitchell the Bat said...

DON'T CLICK ON THIS LINK!!!

Original Casino Royale.

Once it's stuck in your head it'll take days to get it out.


The original melody line was Bacharach/David - who had a gazillion hits in their time. Hal David inflicted a lyric on us for all eternity.

PS The movie has it moments.

Not many, but it has them.

Anonymous said...

yashu: Just a short morning response to your comments from last night's Open Thread. (I'm not sure how fast old threads go stale in the new Lem world. Besides we just got unnested -- thanks Lem! -- and the continuity is a mess in previously nested threads.)

Rashomon or perhaps my shorter tenure on Althouse, but I don't rememmber Althouse showing much gratitude or appreciation for commenters. She'd occasionally promote a comment to a new topic, but that was about it. Other than that I remember a whole lot of "I'm putting so much time in, why can't I make real money off this blog?", "cruel neutrality!" and near-constant lecturing, hectoring and condescending.

But yes, I do give Althouse credit for attracting and maintaining (until a week ago anyway) a smart, thriving commenter community.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...
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rhhardin said...

The worst Bond theme was For Your Eyes Only, musically speaking.

Unfortunately it was a hit and turned up all over.

A tune written by a three year old.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Lem, how do we hit your PayPal. I'd like to send you some cash.

That's what I'm trying to work out.

I have a personal pay pal.

Anonymous said...

Another thought I have about Althouse v. Commenters is that I doubt she had a mostly conservative community in mind when she started. She is mostly standard-issue feminist/liberal as one would expect from an academic, though with enough open-mindedness and rationality to see through the more obvious shortcomings of that.

I wonder how much of a strain it was for her to live and work in the progressive Madison world, while blogging in a conservative one. It wouldn't just be the dissonance of whipping her head from one mindest to the other several times a day. Her colleagues and students must have noticed that Althouse was, from their point of view, enabling a wild, insane bunch of Republicans, conservatives and Tea Party types.

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chickelit said...

My dad owned the original "Thunderball" vinyl LP with the original soundtrack. He collected anything SCUBA-related in the popular culture from the 1960's onwards.

The Tom Jones theme song was not the best Bond Theme, but it's one I heard frequently growing up. Some of the other tracks are more memorable, like the Death Of Fiona.

sakredkow said...

The worst Bond theme was For Your Eyes Only, musically speaking.

That's the one...that's the Sheena Easton one. I think.

chickelit said...

@Meade: I'm trying a lawn experiment -- applying dried rabbit waste to trouble spots directly with a Scott's fertilizer spreader to maximize coverage. I'll take before/after photos and report back any positive results.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Can you email it to me?

Just did. I created a widget code for the blog page from the pay pal site but I'm having trouble adding it to it.

rhhardin said...

dried rabbit waste

The final product or the intermediate product?

The rabbits normally process it twice.

bagoh20 said...

Girl: "My name is Plenty"

Bond: "Of course it is."

Girl: "Plenty O'Toole

Bond: "Named after your father, no doubt."

Anonymous said...

The early Bonds hold up for me until Thunderball, when the big budget action and gimmickry take over.

I like the new Daniel Craig Bonds very much except the second one. Craig may become to Connery what Jeremy Brett did to Basil Rathbone's Sherlock -- the new standard.

I looked through Wiki and noticed that however forgettable the in-between Bonds and Bond films were, they all made money and usually big money.

chickelit said...

I mixture of both I suppose, rh. When she runs free in the fenced yard, she goes over to "poo-corner" to do her thing. She's housed in a hutch at night and does her duty in a litter box. It's mixed with urine. I dump the litter box in the same corner outdoors and there's quite a pile. I'm really not up for "sorting".

chickelit said...

@rhhardin: Rabbit feces seem odorless, though the urine is pretty rank.

Anonymous said...

Good morning Lem! I like the new look and new identity options.

Icepick said...

The early Bonds hold up for me until Thunderball, when the big budget action and gimmickry take over.

That's when Sean Connery stopped liking them, too, BTW.

I like the new Daniel Craig Bonds very much except the second one. Craig may become to Connery what Jeremy Brett did to Basil Rathbone's Sherlock -- the new standard.

Craig was great in Casino Royale, but I haven't seen the other two. I loved that they left the hardcore aspects of the Casino Royale book in the movie. (The torture, Bond's line "The bitch is dead", etc.) And it was a good choice to save the "Bond, James Bond." until the end of the movie.

But Brett's Sherlock may not be the standard anymore. Benedict Cumberbatch's work in the "Sherlock" series of TV movies is really, REALLY good!

"Bored."
BLAME!
"BORED."
BLAME!
"Bored!"
BLAME!
"BORED!"
BLAME!

And Creeley, if you like Sherlock Holmes, you should check out Neil Gaiman's story "A Study in Emerald". I'd especially recommend getting the audio book version that he narrated himself - excellent stuff. It's a mix of Sherlock Holmes and the CTHULHU stuff from Lovecraft, and it works really well together when Gaiman does it.

Aridog said...

El Pollo Raylan said...

Now that the random, anonymous, unprotected commenting has been disabled, it will be interesting to see who shows up.

And equally interesting to see who does not :-)

rhhardin said...

I think the Bonds are good as formula schtik, occasional great quips, and priced-wrong magnificence by being way under (early) or way over (rest).

The plots are pretty indecipherable but there are nice chases in all sorts of over-the-top mechanisms.

The latest ones are dark and stupid owing to psychological drama PC, foreshadowed perhaps by Bond's supposed love for his brief wife in an early film, a completely unmotivated intrusion at the time and regrown into awful psychological agony in the late Bonds. Maybe there's money in it. Women, you know.

rhhardin said...

The important facts about Bond:

1. He sees a clear way to a woman's pants no matter what feminist line she offers;

2. His detective plan is confront and fight.

2a. Which is why being incredibly cool is motivated by the plot.

2b. Incredibly cool in turn is the attraction.

Aridog said...

rhhardin said...

The important facts about Bond:

3.) He is totally fictional.

Swifty Quick said...

Meade said...

Lem, how do we hit your PayPal. I'd like to send you some cash.


Would that really be Althouse's cash?

bagoh20 said...

"The important facts about Bond:

3.) He is totally fictional."



I most certainly am not.

rhhardin said...

Late Bond films are rated PG for smoking.

edutcher said...

creeley23 said...

The early Bonds hold up for me until Thunderball, when the big budget action and gimmickry take over.

I like the new Daniel Craig Bonds very much except the second one. Craig may become to Connery what Jeremy Brett did to Basil Rathbone's Sherlock -- the new standard.


Can't get into Craig's ones at all. Timothy Dalton was better, you could see him as a Naval officer.

No, Brett played Holmes was as he needed a hysterectomy.

Which turned out to be the case.

There is only one movie Holmes - the man from Johannesburg.

I think the Bonds are good as formula schtik, occasional great quips, and priced-wrong magnificence by being way under (early) or way over (rest).

When Saltzman and Broccoli split is when they became truly formularized.

Something of a miracle the franchise survived.

PS I have to say Tball is the last of the good ones for me.

Icepick said...

The plots are pretty indecipherable but there are nice chases in all sorts of over-the-top mechanisms.

You know, I think Goldfinger is the only Bond _film_ that improves a plot point from a Bond _book_. Blowing up Fort Knox with a nuclear weapon makes fuck-all more sense than actually trying to steal tons and tons of gold from the middle of the USA.

Meade said...
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rhhardin said...

I got the Bond DVDs (except Never Say Never Again, too pricey) to review, having seen only Goldfinger in the original.

I remembered a decoy duck at the beginning covering a snorkel top, and a tuxedo under a wet suit. More great gags are probably around, I thought.

Anne Hathaway's Get Smart is better than any of them, in a modern genre; with some citations of Bond films in it too. It's less Get Smart than Bond, actually.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

You people need to back off hounding my friend Meade.

He helped me add the pay pal widget and the first one to use it.

He has been very supportive.

If it hadn't been for his wife Althouse, the most intelligent woman in the world, I wouldn't have gotten this far with any of you, the unhappy ones and the happy ones.

I have to show some gratitude here.

Meade said...
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Ignorance is Bliss said...

Meade said...

That is how marriage works.

Of course... now it's Lem's cash.


Wait... You guys got married? I must have missed the engagement post. Meade- this is a bad habit you're getting into...

Maybe I need to start a blog.

Anonymous said...

Lem, your loyalty and kindness are a sight for sore eyes. It takes courage to speak ones mind, even on ones own blog. Especially if it goes against the grain.

Althouse displays such courage occasionally.

Meade said...
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Icepick said...

You people need to back off hounding my friend Meade.

Well, dang. I haven't bothered with any of that so far, but now I feel compelled to. It's like all those anti-smoking ads making want to light up.

As with the smoking, I'll just have to restrain myself.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Wish I could stay and chat but I was called in to work on one of my days off. go figure.

thanks again everybody. will follow on the phone now and again.

Dust Bunny Queen said...

As I said. Lem is a true gentleman.

Anonymous said...

No, Brett played Holmes was as he needed a hysterectomy.

I rather enjoyed Jeremy Brett's bitchiness as Holmes. That's what I remembered from the stories.

The BBC has a complete line of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories as radio dramas which is excellent. I'm working my way through them slowly.

Darcy said...

Amen, DBQ.

Trooper York said...

My favorite lines in a James Bond film:

James Bond: Do you expect me to talk?

Auric Goldfinger: No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!

Anonymous said...

Icepick: I'll check out the Cumberbatch and Gaiman Sherlocks.

The Craig "Casino Royale" was much closer to the books than the first Casino (which was a sixties send-up) and the other Bond films.

I like that. Fleming wasn't much of craftsman as a novelist, but he wasn't nearly as dumb as most of the movies made in his name.

edutcher said...

creeley23 said...

No, Brett played Holmes was as he needed a hysterectomy.

I rather enjoyed Jeremy Brett's bitchiness as Holmes. That's what I remembered from the stories.


No, I remember him as sometimes impatient with people because he was just so far ahead of them, intellectually, but he was always a gentleman (one of the things I hated about the Robert Downey Holmes).

And, occasionally, he did give a sotto voce, "Doc, I didn't mean it the way it came out", to Watson.

PS The line was supposed to be,

Brett played Holmes as if he was in need of a hysterectomy.

Some logistical problems with the pups at the time.

Swifty Quick said...

That is how marriage works.

Partly. That's how it works when the man is the breadwinner. When it's the other way around, not so much. But, tell yourself what you need to.

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bagoh20 said...

Let me see: the Althouse commentariat makes her mad as hell. Meade has to live there too. Ann thinks genital mutilation of males is kinda cute, and there are sharp knives in the house.

$50 bucks to keep your gonads out of the duck pond is a damned good deal.

Just sayin.

Anonymous said...

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Arizona
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Idaho
Louisiana
Nevada
New Mexico
Texas
Washington
Wisconsin

Ignorance is Bliss said...

Meade said...

Where none of your guests bothered to bring a small gift of appreciation - a bottle of wine, chocolates, cheese...?

I brought my stunning wit and dazzling intellect, payment in kind for what the Professor provided.

bagoh20 said...

Maybe it takes a single person to handle us. It's not fair to a relationship to bring us in. Meade knew we were trouble, and we were in first. I feel jilted, and tossed aside. Sure he has madd gardening skills, but what about those cold winters. In January when the garden is asleep, she'll be buying us back from Lem. She'll miss our warm fuzzy personal insults and rabid misogyny like a warm clean snuggie fresh out of the dryer.

Trooper York said...

Allison Capuletti: [as Monty is walking her down the aisle during her wedding ceremony] He's everything I ever wanted.
Monty: You don't ask for much do you?
(Easy Money, 1983)

bagoh20 said...

"Folks, I just tested it and it is possible to donate as little as $1 through PayPal."

Ok then, I'm gonna start saving up. It's gonna take a while, but when I get that dollar, I'm gonna send it all. The whole damned thing. That's how I roll, bitches!

Trooper York said...

James Bond: What do you know about gold, Moneypenny?
Miss Moneypenny: Oh, the only gold I know about is the kind you wear... you know, on the third finger of your left hand?
James Bond: Well, one of these days we really must look into that.
Miss Moneypenny: How about tonight? You'll come over for dinner...
[playfully tosses Bond's hat onto the hat rack]
Miss Moneypenny: and I'll cook you a wonderful angel cake.
James Bond: Well, nothing would give me greater pleasure, but I'm afraid I have a... business appointment.
Miss Moneypenny: [laughing] That's the flimsiest excuse you've ever given me. Oh, well, some girls have all the luck. Who is she, James?
M: [over intercom] "She" is me, Miss Moneypenny. And kindly omit the customary byplay with 007. He's dining with me and I don't want him to be late.
Miss Moneypenny: [to Bond] Then there's hope for me yet.
James Bond: [gives Moneypenny a playful peck on the cheek] Moneypenny, won't you ever believe me?
(Goldfinger, 1964)

Methadras said...

Well, looks like Althouse brought back comments but with the Team Member twist. I'm not a member of that team it looks like. :D

chickelit said...

gnorance is Bliss said...

I brought my stunning wit and dazzling intellect, payment in kind for what the Professor provided.

Pushing back on "wit guilt"

Anonymous said...

Where none of your guests bothered to bring a small gift of appreciation - a bottle of wine, chocolates, cheese...?

Meade: Invite me over to Chez Althouse and I will. But as Ignorance is Bliss said, "I brought my stunning wit and dazzling intellect, payment in kind for what the Professor provided."

That's exactly how I see it. I've hosted online groups and I put more work into it than the commenters, however it was my name in lights on the marquee, not theirs.

I would have thrown some Amazon bucks Althouse's way, but her attitude of entitlement put me right off that idea.

There are millions of near-empty blogs out there. For the most past a blog without commenters is just a vanity project with a URL.

Trooper York said...

Tanner Boyle: All we got on this team are a buncha Jews, spics, niggers, pansies, and a booger-eatin' moron!
Ogilvie: Tanner, I think you need to be reminded from time to time that you are one of the few people on this team who is not a Jew, spic, nigger, pansy or booger-eating moron. So you'd better cool it or we may be disposed to beat the crap out of you.
(Bad News Bears, 1976)

Anonymous said...

Well, looks like Althouse brought back comments but with the Team Member twist. I'm not a member of that team it looks like. :D

So that's what's at the bottom of all the making nice Meade's been up to here.

I was pretty sure Meade was doing recon for something like that, especially when he was demanding that I explain exactly how I thought Althouse was cruel and contemptuous.

Ignorance is Bliss said...

To expand on my previous comment-

While I thought the Professor did a great job with the blog over an extended period, her greatest contribution was as a conversation starter. She was not hosting a dinner party where she provided the food. She hosted a pot-luck, and often it was another of the guests who brought the best dishes.

I showed my appreciation by bringing the best dish that I was able to prepare. If it wasn't always to her taste, so be it.

Note: I never had any problem with her ( or Meade ) pushing the Amazon portal. I never bought anything through it, largely because I've never bought anything from Amazon. ( My wife enjoys buying things more than I do, so I leave most buying to her. )

ampersand said...
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Rabel said...

On the issue of the closing of comments I have two reactions.

1. My gentlemanly nature (which can be mistaken for Betaism by those with little sense of the continuing relevance of chivalry in our evermore feminist society) precludes me from saying anything more than that it appears to be unsportsmanlike.

2. When a very important female such as Professor Althouse seemingly lapses into one of the common but repugnant stereotypes which have for so long enabled the oppression of women in American society (in the present case, that stereotype would be the tendency towards a selfish and emotional overreaction to a minor problem), it could be seen by those who resist our progress towards a truly free and equal America as a verification of the truth of those stereotypes. Thus, it may be a setback to the cause.

Please note my studied use of qualifying and limiting terminology which allows me to voice an opinion while maintaining a course of deniability. I learned at the painted and pedicured foot of a Master Practitioner.

Not you, Master Beta Max.

Methadras said...

Okay, I spoke to soon. Althouse removed team member only comments again.

Meade said...
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Methadras said...

Meade said...

Folks, I just tested it and it is possible to donate as little as $1 through PayPal. I hope you will all show Lem some amount of monetary support for the time and effort he is making here.

Have you ever provided, at your own expense, a social space, real or virtual, for people to enjoy themselves - maybe you even offered food and drink or ideas and information - and none of your guests even offered to stay late and help you clean up? Do a few dishes? Where none of your guests bothered to bring a small gift of appreciation - a bottle of wine, chocolates, cheese...?

I know firsthand my $51 is a tiny token of appreciation for what Lem is doing here.

Come on now - let's pass and keep passing that hat.


Meade, first of all blogger is free to use and setup. Second of all, I have zero issue supporting Althouse with my presence. I never used the Althouse Amazon portal because frankly, I never thought to use it. Also, we are talking about virtual spaces of entertainment, not actual physical spaces of peoples homes or a place to meet. I understand the example of wanting to support, but going out of your way to ask for it seems unseemly.

Chennaul said...

Well good finally some sort of detente has been achieved.

Although I think plenty of bloggers would love comments and do it al for the love of it--but basically you have to blog about your real interests.

Darcy said...

I think Lem will be fine without people shaming others on his behalf into contributing to his finances.

It's manipulative, passive-aggressive bullshit.

(Sorry, Lem. I hope you rake it in, truly.)

chickelit said...

Meade wrote The selfish and emotional overreactions to minor problems came from homo-haters and self-identifying members of the Men's Victimology Movement. I got sick of them and so did she.

Well that ought to be good for 200-300 comments.

What Meade wouldn't do to help out Lem.

Rabel said...

"I got sick of them and so did she."

Obviously, but it's bad form to burn down the slave quarters without proper notice because of the actions of a few renegades.

Chennaul said...

Meade, first of all blogger is free to use and setup. Second of all, I have zero issue supporting Althouse with my presence. I never used the Althouse Amazon portal because frankly, I never thought to use it. Also, we are talking about virtual spaces of entertainment, not actual physical spaces of peoples homes or a place to meet. I understand the example of wanting to support, but going out of your way to ask for it seems unseemly.

*********

Some of us would love to be bus drivers.

Hell when I was a kid I always wanted to be a truck driver.

Having a busload of commenters is a gift--who would want to get paid for that--if they loved it?

Evi L. Bloggerlady said...

Meade, did Ann take your penis and balls and not give them back to you again?

Chennaul said...

Darcy said...
I think Lem will be fine without people shaming others on his behalf into contributing to his finances.

It's manipulative, passive-aggressive bullshit.

(Sorry, Lem. I hope you rake it in, truly.)

**************

Damn it--C'est ca.

Gawd Darcy thanks for having the balls a couple of times now.

You get out of Althouse world and there are plenty of people who see things more clearly from a more distant perspective.

rcocean said...

I love the new look. Thanks Lem!

Trooper York said...

Roy Dillon: Maybe I like it where I am.
Myra Langtry: Well, maybe I don't! I had ten good years with Cole, and I want them back! I gotta have a partner! I looked and I looked and believe me, brother, I kissed a lot of fucking frogs, and you're my prince!
(The Grifters, 1990)

The Crack Emcee said...

"I understand the example of wanting to support, but going out of your way to ask for it seems unseemly."

This gets to the heart of the matter:

Ann and Meade should look in the mirror as they scream about bad faith commenters.

Considering the origin of we all being here, what's the point of Meadehouse supporting Lem financially, telling us they're doing so, and even telling us how much, in Lem's comment section - because theirs are closed to us?

"Unseemly"?

It's more than that,...

rcocean said...
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Ignorance is Bliss said...

The selfish and emotional overreactions to minor problems came from homo-haters... I got sick of them and so did she.

That's all well and good. However, in responding to them, she lashed out at all opponents of SSM.

Or do you believe that anyone who opposes SSM is a homo-hater?

Aridog said...

Bagoh20 said [response to my "fictional" comment about "bond"]

I most certainly am not.

My bad. I'd forgotten about your gravity defying skills.

Anyone who wants to qualify must leap off cliffs or out of perfectly good aircraft...which was AllenS's inclination.

It's good to have some fun-crazy mo-fo's around. Really.

Paddy O said...

I wouldn't mind people shaming others on my behalf into contributing to my finances.

Or, shame is probably a strong word. I wouldn't mind people asking others on my behalf into contributing to my finances.

If I had the wherewithal I'd contribute to Lem, as a way of saying thanks for this place and for being the sort of person who keeps bringing people together.

bagoh20 said...

It would be cool if you could pay individual commenters real easy by just clicking a button as for "like or dislike". You could set up how much your clicks are worth each, and then just click each comment to send that amount to their account. The host would get some cut of the total. That would be great, and some commenters and some hosts would do quite well.

I have donated to Althouse, and used the portal a lot out of appreciation for what I got from it from the blog, but the commenters were 90% of what I came for.

It's a community, a kind of informal club or pub group without the dirty glasses and restrooms.

I gave more in total to individual commenters who I liked, who needed it, and who had a way to do it, but I wish I could reward everyone I enjoyed. Just like if we were in a bar, and I'd say: "Let me buy you a drink, you asshole." Maybe once in a while say: "A round for everyone on me." And yes, of course, plenty of tips for the barmaid. But I wouldn't show up if she was the only one there. Well, maybe if she was single, I come near closing time.

Just my take, and mine only.

Paddy O said...

Meade has long shown support to people through active expressions, and that's a huge encouragement when he does so. It says a lot about his character and what is says is good.

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rcocean said...

Homo haters = man haters.

Paddy O said...

"homo-haters"

Down with sameness!!!

rcocean said...

Some of my best friends are Homos.

Paddy O said...

I'm a homoi-hater. I hate people who are similar to me, but not exactly the same. Freakin' wannabees.

Trooper York said...

Violet Beauregarde: Well, they can't be real people.
Willy Wonka: Why, of course they're real people.
Mr. Salt: Stuff and nonsense!
Willy Wonka: No, Oompa Loompas.
Or commenters as I call them.
The Group: [turning around] Oompa Loompas?
Willy Wonka: From Loompaland.
It's on the Internet. Check Google maps.
Mrs. Teevee: Loompaland? There's no such place.
Willy Wonka: Excuse me, dear lady, but...
Mrs. Teevee: Mr. Wonka, I am a teacher of geography. I am very smart. You must bow before my superior knowledge of all things at all times.
Willy Wonka: Oh, well, then you know all about it and what a terrible country it is. Nothing but desolate wastes and fierce beasts. Homo haters and misogynists. And the poor little Oompa Loompas were so small and helpless, they would get gobbled up right and left. A Wangdoodle would eat ten of them for breakfast and think nothing of it. And so, I said, "Come and live with me in peace and safety, away from all the Wangdoodles, and Hornswogglers, and Snozzwangers, and rotten, Vermicious Knids."
Mr. Salt: Snozzwangers? Vermicious Knids? What kind of rubbish is that?
Willy Wonka: I'm sorry, but all questions *must* be submitted in writing. By email. And so, in the greatest of secrecy, I transported the entire population of Oompa Loompas to my factory here.
Veruca Salt: Hey, Daddy, *I* want an Oompa Loompa! I want you to get me an Oompa Loompa right away!
Mr. Salt: All right, Veruca, all right. I'll get you one before the day is out.
Veruca Salt: [whining] I want an Oompa Loompa now!
Violet Beauregarde: Can it, you nit!
(Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, 1971)

Anonymous said...

Obviously I have no problem with contributions to Lem or anyone else.

But I have no interest in any further lectures or nudges from Meade/Althouse.

Along the lines of I-Bliss, I did take Althouse's ravings as including pretty much everyone who disagreed with Althouse on SSM and gender rights.

Darcy said...

@Paddy O

Noted.

I don't believe for a second that is the whole agenda going on. But your mileage obviously varies.

With regard to giving, I prefer the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing. And I don't believe in shaming.

deborah said...

"No, I remember him as sometimes impatient with people because he was just so far ahead of them, intellectually, but he was always a gentleman"

Not always. I haven't seen many of the movies, but my fave clip is when he and Watson have been called to the house of a man who has been terribly frightened. Holmes stoops down to eye-level and gazes for a few seconds into his shaken, shocked face and then bursts out a short, sharp laugh. It was perfect.

Chennaul said...

Man some of you guys are waaaaaaay to nice.

Jezzuz my dad is ghetto almost makes me want to invite you all to a shell game.

LOL!

--btw--I like te last Bond so either I'm gay or a chick.

Chennaul said...

too nice

La grammar est pour le Nazis estee.

Icepick said...

The selfish and emotional overreactions to minor problems came from homo-haters and self-identifying members of the Men's Victimology Movement. I got sick of them and so did she.

And there it is in a nutshell.

Icepick said...

Or do you believe that anyone who opposes SSM is a homo-hater?

Isn't that clear?

Dust Bunny Queen said...

I don't believe for a second that is the whole agenda going on

Ditto Darcy. It is, as you clearly stated, passive aggressive bullshit.

Paddy O said...

Darcy, my publisher has no marketing budget (they got hit hard with the economy and barely keep going). So, whenever someone supports or points to my books, I am extremely appreciative.

Instapundit linked to it, though I sent him a book and he's good about doing that. Meade highlighted it and even bought a couple of copies. That goes well beyond expectations, and sometimes it's encouraging not just to have someone do something nice, but to be a voice of active support.

It was a great encouragement to me, when I'm doing a whole lot of work for very, very little income these days.

And I think it's a nice, rather than shaming, gesture to highlight others in a similar way.

Though, maybe my years at church have made me see encouragements for giving as less about shaming and more about potential opportunities to support others.

Shaming is about doing something or you're a bad person. I don't see that attitude in Meade at all. He's a generous guy, and extroverts that generosity. That's my perspective at least.

Trooper York said...

Police Chief Mark Dutton: Let's make with the pants.
(Cape Fear, 1962)

Chennaul said...

I actually tried to back and figure it out--haven't been there in a long time.

Got to the public humiliation of edutcher--"we are laughing at you" and really couldn't get past that--even though I didn't drill all the way down, I know this:

The selfish and emotional overreactions to minor problems came from homo-haters and self-identifying members of the Men's Victimology Movement. I got sick of them and so did she.

is a t best an oversimplification.

I also got to the part where Freeman made the same argument and there was discussion about the delivery and I know two things--

Freeman is unusually unemotional and Althouse is unusually emotional--so in a weird way both of them will have blind spots.

Freeman will not "see" the emotional aspect--and Althouse will have a hard time with the rational or logical.

Ignorance is Bliss said...

Icepick said...

Isn't that clear?

I prefer to not make assumptions about other people's beliefs when I can just ask them. Even when it seems obvious.

Chennaul said...

Kind of like an episode of Star Trek or something.

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Trooper York said...

Max Cady: [to Diane Taylor] Go on, tell me some more about that time when you were Queen of the Veiled Prophet's Ball.
(Cape Fear, 1962)

Darcy said...

I'm glad you were helped, Paddy O. I'll be happy for Lem if he makes money here as well.

Icepick said...

And snail facials. As if the Japanese didn't have enough weird porn, they're forcing innocent snails into giving facials. This is the kind of perversity you get when you allow hominids to just run around a planet willy-nilly with no adult supervision.

Trooper York said...

Karras' Mother: [to Karras] Why you do this to me, Dimmy?
(The Exorcist, 1973)

Icepick said...

SO homo-hatred isn't just for bigots, it's a good idea for everyone. Especially poor, molested snails.

chickelit said...

A secret voice recorder at Meadehouse captured Meade's full 2:49 retort as he ran it by Althouse before he posting it. chirbit

Chennaul said...

Oh--holy hell I've been at Ace's place to long but--

LMAO!

Chennaul said...

too long--damn laughing so hard I no canna type.

Anonymous said...

People are strange. Pointing out passive aggressiveivness in others, yet not recognizing that those whom they hold most dear engage in far more than passive aggressive behavior, so much so to be actual hostilty and offense. Where is the scolding that addresses aggression by one's "group" members? Is it willful blindness or a flaw in discernment capabilities?

One simply must shake one's head.

The Dude said...

Darce, you are correct, but then again, Meade is AlthouseLite. That is how they roll. Well, that and drunk, but that's between them and their fatty livers.

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Chennaul said...

fionamcgee said...
People are strange. Pointing out passive aggressiveivness in others, yet not recognizing that those whom they hold most dear engage in far more than passive aggressive behavior, so much so to be actual hostilty and offense. Where is the scolding that addresses aggression by one's "group" members? Is it willful blindness or a flaw in discernment capabilities?

One simply must shake one's head.

*****


What must #2 do--now that you've covered what #1 must do?

Chennaul said...

male movementists

****

So--it's like self help for guys with constipation?

Couldn't you just spray yourself or something- to get free of them?

Plus didn't you allude to the fact that these people you wish to be free of are like --

Here!

bagoh20 said...

The truth can be embarrassing.
Sometimes lies can be too.

The way to deal with that is to address the thing. Is it true or not?

If you are shamed by the truth then you can either fix it or accept it.

Trooper York said...

They used to tell me I was building a dream
And so I followed the mob
When there was earth to plow or guns to bear
I was always there, right on the job

They used to tell me I was building a dream
With peace and glory ahead
Why should I be standing in line
Just waiting for bread?

Once I built a railroad, I made it run
Made it race against time
Once I built a railroad, now it's done
Brother, can you spare a dime?

Once I built a tower up to the sun
Brick and rivet and lime
Once I built a tower, now it's done
Brother, can you spare a dime?
(EY "Yip" Harburg and Jay Gorney, 1932)

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Dust Bunny Queen said...

Plus didn't you allude to the fact that these people you wish to be free of are like --

Here!


Logic is obviously not the long suit.

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Icepick said...

Now, would a buck or two for Lem's administrative efforts really kill you?

No, but a buck or two thrown Palladian's way or Ron's way might do someone more good. Hey, those guys don't have jobs or homes, while Lem seems to be okay in that department.

deborah said...

Also, Crack has an Amazon box that I think he should move to the top of his sidebar.

Anonymous said...

Lem is hosting this blog. Lem gets traffic because he's a good man and never went out of his way to harm any Althouse commenters. People trust him. Why is there not an equal amount of commenters on the other spinoff blogs?

Contributions for his efforts are not charity, he's doing something here. Palladian and Ron obviously need help, but they aren't hosting a successful spinoff blog that I know of.

yashu said...

Meade, here's the thing.

I would and will contribute willingly, happily, gratefully to Lem. Thanks for the encouragement/ reminder to do so, not that I needed it. But being too self-righteously pushy about it sort of ruins that pleasure-- the pleasure of gratitude to Lem-- for the rest of us.

That's what Darcy was reacting to; I felt it too.

You're a good generous guy with good generous intentions; I appreciate that. But you're acting awful bossy in someone else's house.

This is someone *else's* house, isn't it? (You sometimes make gestures of quasi-appropriation toward it, which are offputting, too.)

Someone else's house, where you're just a guest like any other, just like the rest of us.

Now let's grab some beer from Lem's fridge, put an LP on the turntable, and boogie. Watch out for that lamp--

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His blog is young--almost as new as you!

chickelit said...

I have a sponsor...I have a patron...this is art!

Pete Townshend upon first hearing "I Can't Explain" on commercial radio.

@Meade: When Lem considers himself an artist, I'll consider supporting his art.

deborah said...

Yashu, you remind me of a list I tore from a magazine once, about favorite party strategies. My favorite one was good drinks, good music, and lowered lights, so you don't have to worry about dusting :)

Trooper York said...

[Rod has just told Jerry he will keep him as his agent]
Jerry Maguire: That's, that's Great. I'm very... happy.
Rod Tidwell: Are you listenin'?
Jerry Maguire: Yes!
Rod Tidwell: That's what I'm gonna do for you: God bless you, Jerry. But this is what you gonna do for me. You listenin', Jerry?
Jerry Maguire: Yeah, what, what, what can I do for you, Rod? You just tell me what can I do for you?
Rod Tidwell: It's a very personal, a very important thing. Hell, it's a family motto. Are you ready, Jerry?
Jerry Maguire: I'm ready.
Rod Tidwell: I wanna make sure you're ready, brother. Here it is: Show me the money. Oh-ho-ho! SHOW! ME! THE! MONEY! A-ha-ha! Jerry, doesn't it make you feel good just to say that! Say it with me one time, Jerry.
Jerry Maguire: Show you the money.
Rod Tidwell: Oh, no, no. You can do better than that, Jerry! I want you to say it with you, with meaning, brother! Hey, I got Bob Sugar on the other line; I bet you he can say it!
Jerry Maguire: Yeah, yeah, no, no, no. Show you the money.
Rod Tidwell: No! Not show you! Show me the money!
Jerry Maguire: Show me the money!
Rod Tidwell: Yeah! Louder!
Jerry Maguire: Show me the money!
Rod Tidwell: Yes, but, brother, you got to yell that shit!
Jerry Maguire: Show me the money!
Rod Tidwell: I need to feel you, Jerry!
Jerry Maguire: Show me the money!
Rod Tidwell: Jerry, you got to yell!
Jerry Maguire: [screaming] Show me the money! Show me the money!
Rod Tidwell: Do you love this black man!
Jerry Maguire: I love the black man! Show me the money!
Rod Tidwell: I love black people.
Jerry Maguire: I love black people!
Rod Tidwell: Who's your motherfucker, Jerry?
Jerry Maguire: You're my motherfucker!
Rod Tidwell: Whatcha gonna do, Jerry?
Jerry Maguire: Show me the money!
Rod Tidwell: Unh! Congratulations, you're still my agent.
(Jerry Maguire, 1996)

Anonymous said...

I worked with a Chinese programmer, who would never consider any suggestions changing or improving his software.

Everyone referred to him as Dr. No.


I just ran across a great Chinese open source project, Clonezilla, which ghosts hard disks and partitions. I needed it as a replacement for Acronis, whose DRM had rendered it flaky -- the last thing I want with recovery software.

Anyway Clonezilla does the job, albeit with a horrific MS-DOS-style interface. Unfortunately you have to be something of a hacker, or have someone like that nearby, to use it.

FWIW -- I do recommend saving images of one's Windows system. I don't know how people get by relying on virus protection alone. Plus Windows eventually corrupts itself one way or another.

You may now return to your regularly scheduled programming.

Freeman Hunt said...

Freeman is unusually unemotional

Aw, have a hug.

A virtual one, of course.

{{{{{{}}}}}}

I love the Internet.

Heh.

Freeman Hunt said...

Where are little girls learning that one leg straight, one leg turned out with knee bent, hands on hips pose? Often one hand is sticking up. I keep seeing that pose on Facebook. It seems to cross socioeconomic and educational boundaries.

Does Mickey Mouse do that or something?

Icepick said...

Contributions for his efforts are not charity, he's doing something here. Palladian and Ron obviously need help, but they aren't hosting a successful spinoff blog that I know of.

Well, just so long as we keep things in perspective.

yashu said...

My favorite one was good drinks, good music, and lowered lights, so you don't have to worry about dusting :)

Heh, that recipe has always worked for me.

deborah said...

Creeley, do you mean a making a recovery disk?

Freeman Hunt said...
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deborah said...

Freeman, sounds like Heidi Klum.

Rabel said...

Sometimes shaming is proper.

And sometimes it isn't.

Trooper York said...

Ma Joad: How am I gonna know about ya, Tommy? Why they could kill ya and I'd never know. They could hurt ya. How am I gonna know?
Tom Joad: Well, maybe it's like Casy says. A fellow ain't got a soul of his own, just little piece of a big soul, the one big soul that belongs to everybody, then...
Ma Joad: Then what, Tom?
Tom Joad: Then it don't matter. I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be there when the start a successful spinoff blog. When a rich teacher needs more money to rent dogs and buy pancake batter. I'll be there in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready, and when the people are eatin' the stuff they raise and livin' in the houses they build - I'll be there, too.
Ma Joad: I don't understand it, Tom.
Tom Joad: Me, neither, Ma, but - just somethin' I been thinkin' abou
(The Grapes of Wrath, 1940)

Freeman Hunt said...

I googled news for Klum to make sense of that. Most recent news is that she tweeted a picture of her bottom. Hm.

Freeman Hunt said...

Is the Internet not the best venue for unemotional people to give hugs? I submit that it is.

Chennaul said...

Freeman Hunt said...
Freeman is unusually unemotional

Aw, have a hug.

A virtual one, of course.

{{{{{{}}}}}}

I love the Internet.

Heh.

July 15, 2013 at 4:22 PM


*********

Hey it's probably a good trait but it's true.


Someone late at night left a nasty screed for you--and I've been on the nets a long time--it was a scorcher.

I spent about a half hour trying to figure out how to respond to it--and you handled it--in unusually emotion free manner.

It's a good trait but it's unusual.

You're response to emotion is outside the norm--and I think you have a blind spot to Althouse's emotion, delivery--method.

chickelit said...

*googling Heidi Klum tweets...*

Swifty Quick said...

I'm having a hard time connecting thr dots between Alhouse's green-eyed jealousy of Instapundit and Dr Helen, and supposed homo haters amongst Althouse's commenters.

It seems to me Althouse made up thr latter to try to hide the former.

Bushman of the Kohlrabi said...

This is getting really weird. It's like being kicked out by the Omega's, and then moving to Delta house only to have Kevin Bacon still trying to paddle your ass every day.

btw Lem, I think an Amazon portal is a must-have. It would allow readers to show you appreciation while continuing to fund their current obligations.

Trooper York said...

Uncle John: He is telling the truth... the truth for him.
(The Grapes of Wrath, 1940)

Freeman Hunt said...

Someone late at night left a nasty screed for you--and I've been on the nets a long time--it was a scorcher.

I don't remember this at all. Maybe that goes to your point...

Or maybe my thinking is that immediate internal states are something you have but external states, immediate or otherwise, are something you choose.

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deborah said...

I misread you Freeman. I was thinking you meant how Heidi stands with her toes in when she's in high heels. I always thought it was to keep from keeling over. I seem to have an image of her with one arm staight up at the very end of one of the Project Runway show openings. I have not seen what you are asking about.

Woohoo! New season starts Thursday at 9PM

theribbonguy said...

"I just ran across a great Chinese open source project, Clonezilla..."

I have used this for a few years now...freakin' great utility.

Not sure where you made the Chinese connection though..it's a SourceForge project as far as I know. Under the GNU/GPL licensing.

As for it being DOS...BZZZZT..it's linux.

Loves me some linux.

Anonymous said...

Creeley, do you mean a making a recovery disk?

deborah: Yes and no. Not as most people use the term.

It's a disk, or these days a flash drive, that you can boot from and then copy an exact image of your system -- with the OS, all your apps, preferences, and anything else -- to your hard disk.

No muss, no fuss. It only takes ten minutes, and you're back in business.

theribbonguy said...

"I just ran across a great Chinese open source project, Clonezilla..."

I have used this for a few years now...freakin' great utility.

Not sure where you made the Chinese connection though..it's a SourceForge project as far as I know. Under the GNU/GPL licensing.

As for it being DOS...BZZZZT..it's linux.

Loves me some linux.

Chennaul said...

I don't remember this at all. Maybe that goes to your point...


[ good observation]


Or maybe my thinking is that immediate internal states are something you have but external states, immediate or otherwise, are something you choose.

[Do you have that backwards?]

IOW you can control your internal state but you should have less control of your environment, right?

Also do you think of emotions as good or bad?

Darcy said...

Hey, madawaskan! Nice to see you.

And thank you.

Anonymous said...

As for it being DOS...BZZZZT..it's linux.

BZZZZT. I didn't say it was DOS. I said its interface was MS-DOS-style because readers here might have some idea of what that looks like.

Darcy said...

You too, yashu.

Freeman Hunt said...

Emotions are wonderful.

And no, I'm not talking about oneself versus the environment. I'm talking about how you feel inside versus what you express outside.

Freeman Hunt said...

Internally, people have immediate reactions to things. That's tough to choose at the moment of an event, but the pattern can be affected over time. Long term internal states are mostly chosen, I think. External states, apart from true reflexes, can be almost entirely chosen, in my opinion. (Then those go to affecting the pattern of internal states and so on.)

Trooper York said...

I am what I am, Leila, and if there are self-made purgatories, then we all have to live in them. ( Mr. Spock in 'This Side of Paradise' 1967)

Beta Rube said...

I would definitely support an Amazon Portal here.

Also, it's nice to see Trooper again. He was particularly decent to me after the Giants beat the Packers in the playoffs a couple years ago, foregoing the beating I so richly deserved for various pre-game chest thumping and whatnot.

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theribbonguy said...

"BZZZZT. I didn't say it was DOS. I said its interface was MS-DOS-style because readers here might have some idea of what that looks like."

My bad..so you did (hangs head in shame).

I'll work on my reading comprehension skills.

Chennaul said...

Darcy said...
Hey, madawaskan! Nice to see you.

And thank you.

July 15, 2013 at 4:47 PM

****

Hey ! Thank you Darcy.

Have you listened to El Pollo's thing upthread--funny as hell.

Man if you need a laugh....

Icepick said...

(The Grapes of Wrath, 1940)

Um, I don't quite remember it that way....

deborah said...

Thanks, creeley. Hey, I completely crashed (blue screen of death) may Dad's Inspiron One 2305. Do you imagine someplace like safer networking forum could talk me through it, or will I have to take it to Staples (is that safe?) or call Geek Squad?

chickelit said...

External states, apart from true reflexes, can be almost entirely chosen, in my opinion.

The stewing Stoic syndrome?

Anonymous said...

It's a rare gift to be able to see the world beyond one's own political identity. Freeman Hunt does this so well. No wonder she is much admired.

chickelit said...

Icepick wrote Um, I don't quite remember it that way...

It's because Troop is trying to recast it as the "Wrath Of Grapes"

rcocean said...

I like Meade, but I'm getting tired of this "You'd better believe in advanced Liberal position X,(which we just thought of last year) or you're a hater" nonsense.

No doubt in July 2014, liberals will be telling us to support Polygamy or be called a "hate filled bigot".

yashu said...

Hi, Darcy!

Real nice to see you too.

chickelit said...

@Madawaskan: If you liked that, you'll like the one I did of Cedarford: link

In fact, there are over 70 highly collectable Althouse-related chirbits. Just follow the links.

Icepick said...

It's because Troop is trying to recast it as the "Wrath Of Grapes"

I don't remember it this way either. Damnit, I think I've slipped into another reality again. Am I married in this one? Does anyone know that?

Freeman Hunt said...

The stewing Stoic syndrome?

No, if someone is a stewing Stoic, he has no control over his long term internal states.

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