I know - you’re tired of updates, you want CONTENT. You hunger for it.
Not tonight. I’m studyin’ up for my return to “Wait Wait,” putting young master Sebastian to bed, and working on my Marvel comic book.
Yes, you read that right. I shall explain anon.
Meanwhile, I’ll leave you with some recent work. I wrote… well, a lot of this. The rules and the ensuing editorial. Mainly I enjoyed the below finale because it wasn’t terribly issue-oriented - it was silly, and silliness is a luxury. We’d fought long, fought hard, and we felt pretty damned good about things. Not smug, just… good.
Fanny Roborat
66 comments
It's Pat!
November 19, 2008 at 7:47 pm
1Well, I liked it.
“The first democracy to elect a black guy”….I am still in awe.
BTW, go to change.gov, it’s pretty cool.
madbard
November 19, 2008 at 9:35 pm
2Marvel comic book? Pray tell more….
madbard
November 19, 2008 at 9:39 pm
3Also,,,, South Africa anyone? Or does that not count as a democracy?
Chris Harlan
November 20, 2008 at 12:20 am
4Well, I have to say that was pretty dang funny. And tight. A good close for the season wrap. Except maybe the scotch tape joke, which was first applied in the mid sixties and has stuck around ever since. Burump-bump. The equality bit and the Hitler stuff were lol, as actually, was too much else to mention. Nice close! And, yeah, it did have a good–almost healthy–vibe.
Very glad to hear about WWDTM. And really curious about Marvel.
Boon
November 20, 2008 at 4:42 am
5“Forget it,” madbard, “he’s rolling.”
dee
November 20, 2008 at 5:44 am
6Adam wrote, and Bill read, “We are the first majority white country to elect a black president.”
‘Tis true.
piglet
November 20, 2008 at 11:02 am
7Ha. I knew that was you. Good stuff!
Jake
November 20, 2008 at 12:03 pm
8I like the inflective nuisance in the phrases - “God Damn America” and “Goddamn!!!!, America”. I think that helped put to an end to Rev. Wright as the conservative’s boogie man. What say we let go of him now and move on.
Dave von Ebers
November 20, 2008 at 1:53 pm
9I’ve never gone to the grocery store high, but, yeah, I imagine that’s kinda what it’s like.
Sheriff Lugar Axhandle
November 20, 2008 at 3:07 pm
10Let me get this straight, Dave. Are you saying you’ve never gone to a grocery store or are you saying you’ve never been high. Think carefully before you answer, boy!
hedera
November 20, 2008 at 3:17 pm
11Great - thanks for the laugh, I needed that. It hasn’t been the best couple of months.
jerry
November 20, 2008 at 6:28 pm
12Is schadenfreude a dish best served cold or is it a pie in the face that’s best served cold? I have trouble keeping that straight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6Y_ncOVlDw
Zee Man
November 20, 2008 at 7:53 pm
13In case you missed this, Sarah Palin did the requisite corny pardoning of the Thanksgiving turkey today in Wasilla and then gave a news conference outside the shed while the farm workers continued to slaughter turkeys in the background. The gross parts have been blurred out. With this video, I hereby end any and all associations with the losing VP candidate of 2008. She is now a part of our distant past, America. Rest easy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJd_vm9VhpU
Chris Harlan
November 21, 2008 at 12:26 am
14Wow. I am a carnivore, I will be eating turkey, and I’m just a generation from a farm/ranch past, so I’m not totally booged by those images, but man, that is some poor political planning. I’m pretty certain she was set up–the camera framing (the whole thing is a two shot, if it were a sincere interview it would be a medium close up with Palin center), the chopping block question, and, well, even the butcher seems in on it. They probably got her coming out of the pardoning ceremony, asked her if they could do a few quick questions, and, bam, got themselves a salable piece of–I hate to say it–gotcha journalism. But those kind of video opportunists are legion. And at this point, she’s wounded enough that she is nearly carrion to them.
You’d think somebody on a Governor’s staff would be quick-witted enough to get her back to a wall.
Sharon Hussein
November 21, 2008 at 6:58 am
15Terrific rules and editorial, Adam! I especially liked the image of the kick-ass “black ninja” President. My personal estimation of Obama went even higher when I found out–after the election–that he is a geek and a Star Trek fan. But I repeat myself.
I don’t begrudge McCain a place in the national spotlight–he is after all still a US Senator. My feeling is that he is basically a good guy who fell in with the wrong crowd, and that the real John McCain will return to the Senate in January, ready to be all bi-partisany. Ms. Palin, on the other hand, is still going around flogging the old “pallin’ around with terrorists” meme. What part of “lost” is she not understanding? And why does she hate America so? Doesn’t she know she’s talking about our President-Elect?
Roadstergal
November 21, 2008 at 10:34 am
16We got HBO just in time to watch the season finale. D’oh!
But there’s always online. As an athiest who is a little tired of the bum rap we get for behaving decently towards other people without having to be coerced into it by the promise of a big party once we’re dead, I’m a big fan of Mr. Maher. Nice job on The Rules. The political ones were good, but I also enjoyed the Following Around The Parking Lot. Especially when I’m wearing my motorcycle gear. “If you think you can wedge your SUV in a six-by-two space, I’d like to watch.”
I agree with Chris about the scotch tape, though.
Rev. Billy, The Church of Stop Shopping
November 21, 2008 at 1:00 pm
17Roadstergal, I hope you’re not one of those secular consumerists. (rimshot!!) Can I have a witness? Hallelujah! Come on children, say it now along with Rev. Billy - “Stop shopping, dammit!” Amen and amen!!!
Dave von Ebers
November 21, 2008 at 1:59 pm
18Sheriff Lugar: Yes.
Sharon Hussein
November 21, 2008 at 3:07 pm
19The first elementary school to change its name to Barack Obama Elementary:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/11/yes-we-can-stud.html
Roger
November 21, 2008 at 3:49 pm
20Some municipal entities get renamed for politicians and some don’t. I guess it’s the thought that counts.
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_10897516
just plain Hussein
November 21, 2008 at 5:01 pm
21Hey, patriots. Good job on 4 November! I just had a feeling that things would fall into place with the election. Everyone back home thinks Army personnel are all flag waving gung-ho Republicans. Not true. Some of the officers and soldiers are free thinkers. Many more than I could have guessed. Maybe it has something to do with this war.
My squad and I are referred to by the grunts as fobbits - that’s someone who never leaves the Forward Operations Base and is considered a derogatory. That’s okay. We’re here saving lives by re-wiring the buildings formerly constructed by KBR. Even the Iranian contractors that work with us seem to be appalled. Jafar, one of the more outgoing Persians, suggested the insurgency must have infiltrated KBR. His English is very good, by the way; much better than my Farsi.
All the Hajis over here are breathing easier now that Bush and Cheney will soon retire. Whatever the Arabic equivalent of “Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out” is their mantra now.
Not to worry about Capt. Jack and friends. We’re out of harm’s way for the most part and living large (by war zone standards). If I could just come up with a way, short of duct tape, to keep the sand out of my
assshoes…Fran
November 21, 2008 at 9:38 pm
22It’s good to hear from you, Jack. My partner/wife’s brother’s about to head your way for his third tour. I can’t wait until you’re all home safe.
SeattleDan
November 21, 2008 at 11:34 pm
23Amen, Fran.
jack*
November 22, 2008 at 1:01 am
24Great work! That was really “laugh out loud” funny .. which is sometimes a stretch for Maher. In fact he seemed like he was cracking up at some points like he’d never read it before.
Is it a coincidence that you have the first name alphabetically of the whole writing staff, or was that a carefully planned campaign of — murrrder!
gregory
November 22, 2008 at 9:24 am
25“Bambo”, indeed. Good one. Also, Peter’s slip calling them FUV’s. I’ve been referring to them as SUC’s for several years now (and getting great guffaws from my audiences), but I have to say I like FUV’s better.
I felt you should have gotten credit for the “Dalcapone Alpacino” answer - obviously you knew the story. You could have thrown your red flag and called for an instant replay. Anyway, good to hear your voice again on the radio. Funny show.
David the non-Theist Obamacommie
November 22, 2008 at 10:37 am
26First today’s WWDTM, and then this video. Goddamn Adam Goddamn got it going with a comedic vengeance. Goddamn, Adam, you’re good.
Aunt Sam
November 22, 2008 at 1:51 pm
27jpH!!
Good to hear from you.
Here’s my mom magic-trick for getting sand out of inconvenient places: Take a handful of baby powder, rub it briskly over the afflicted area, and voila! The sand will fall off you. Here are two- maybe three- caveats: I don’t know what it will do for the sand that is still blowing wildly towards you, it may not be so effective on your shoes, and you may smell like a baby, but at least a clean one.
Getting baby powder whilst in Iraq may be a bit of a challenge too. Maybe we can start including that in care packages we send over?
Glad you’re getting to celebrate the elections with like-minded folks. Be well.
becca (and brian)
November 22, 2008 at 1:53 pm
28J.P. Hussein-
Great to hear from you as always! Glad to have you safe as a fobbit and to hear you’re making others safer fixing the wiring. (I remember first reading about the multiple shower electrocutions at different bases months ago and being …aghast/disgusted…neither are strong enough words).
Anyway, if you get the chance/have the time, I’d love to hear more about what it was like on the base around the election…leading up to it, day of, and once the results were known. Any anecdotes you could share would be really interesting.
Good luck keeping the sand out!
jerry
November 22, 2008 at 5:26 pm
29Adam, when you asked the caller in today’s show that attended law school @ UCLA if he knew Susannah, were you referring to Chris’ wife? She’s in law school? Wouldn’t she be of more use to society as an actress? Wouldn’t they all?
Jerry, The King of Comedy
November 22, 2008 at 5:41 pm
30I’m just glad the election is finally over and there’s nothing more to be arguing about.
http://www.236.com/video/2008/get_your_war_on_the_day_traito_10364.php
hedera
November 22, 2008 at 8:58 pm
31OK, since I wasn’t following GYWO regularly before the election, I thought it was just the election, but I see that Accounts Payable is a wacko even without an election to argue about….
Chris Harlan
November 23, 2008 at 11:40 am
32Adam, it was great to hear you on WWDTM. Truly, you ARE Bambo!
Kathi
November 23, 2008 at 4:08 pm
33Adam, this is hilarious. I am enjoying your work right now. [Schrodinger’s Ball is Xmas reading list.] Thanks for kicking out so much!
Dirk's Diary
November 23, 2008 at 7:58 pm
3411-23-08
Dear Diary,
I’ll be so glad when I’m out of DC (Have I ever mentioned that this town sucks canal water?). I bought one of those countdown until the inauguration time pieces, but it has a picture of Obama, so I have to keep it in my wallet. It’s circular in shape, about the same size as a packaged condom and when I paid for breakfast the other day, the waitress saw the round bulge when I pulled out my wallet. She gave me a wink and said “Mr. Secretary!!!!!!”, so I had to tip her 30% to keep her quiet. I must say though, just having a twenty-something think that about me puts a spring in my step.
Cheney has been scarce around here for the last week. I’ve heard rumors that he is in one of the newer bunkers that has the latest in hyperbaric oxygen therapy chambers. They put him inside and pump it up to 3.5 atmospheres of pure oxygen and leave him there for up to six hours at a time. It helps with his circulatory problems and also has done wonders on his near chronic oozing hypoxic hemorrhoids. Now there’s a nasty clinical condition, if there ever was one. OKAY!!! I hope I never summon that mental image again. Jeez! The horror!!
And with that cheery thought, I’ll say good night, diary. Tomorrow is another day closer to fleeing the asylum.
Dirk
Chadwyke
November 24, 2008 at 4:28 am
35Just when we thought that electing Obama would cure all that is wrong on this planet. It’s baaaack!….
http://www.physorg.com/news146723086.html
jerry
November 24, 2008 at 7:30 pm
36I’d say Obama has kept at least one of his campaign promises.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/cartoonsandvideos/toles_ main.html?name=Toles&date=11182008&type=c
becca (and brian)
November 24, 2008 at 9:22 pm
37JPH-
Finally a litlte more MSM coverage of the faulty wiring you’re dealing with:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/24/soldiers.electrocuted/index.html
Does this Corrective Action Request actually mean anything?
Samuel
November 25, 2008 at 7:22 pm
38Hi, guys. I’m communicating with you today from sunny Country X on the Continent of Y. Sorry about the secrecy, but several former customers are requesting refunds, so I’m maintaining a low profile.
I was curious about what is happening in the world these days, so I streamed The Diane Rhem Show this morning and they had a most interesting panel member - Douglas Holtz-Eakin. That man is such a weenie! Felicity says I’m really cute when I rant at the radio, so she was giving me whistles and fanny pinches the whole time during that program.
The saying that familiarity breeds contempt is certainly true. The best part of the Palin/McCain 2008 Campaign (besides achieving what appears to be a new Guinness record for skimming campaign accounts) was hacking into Dougie’s American Excess Card account (one last thanks, Gidget!) and running it over the limit on that shopping spree at Bubba’s Truck Stop and Sex Toy Emporium in Newport News, VA. We filled up the back of the van with Yuengling’s Traditional Lager - the pride and joy of Pottsville, PA - and a variety of conjugal aids which we’ve only now begun to sample. So far, so good (wink!).
Time to fade into the shadows again. Once the Obama Administration gets it’s collective hands on both sides of the Big Tit and is clearly in charge, we’ll probably mosey back to the states. Afterall, I’m in line for a Medal of Freedom award for my selfless duty behind enemy lines. Ciao.
SeattleDan
November 26, 2008 at 12:37 am
39Whatever happened to that Adam, guy. Help me out here. You know who I mean. He sometimes blogged here. Adam, Adam…damn….what’s his last name….he wrote a book….he’s on a major NPR show….what the hell is his name? C’mon, folks, help me out. You know who I mean. Adam, something, I swear it.
B. Manilow
November 26, 2008 at 4:37 am
40Earworm anyone?
“You know I can’t smile without you
I can’t smile without you
I can’t laugh and I can’t sing
I’m finding it hard to do anything
You see I feel sad when you’re sad
I feel glad when you’re glad
If you only knew what I’m going through
I just can’t smile without you”
God, who wrote these pathetically lame lyrics (Oh, that’s right, I did.). I tell you, if I weren’t the consummate entertainer, this never would have made it to Number One (OK, Number 26). Who has the mirror? I sense my hair is insufficiently perky and lacks gloss and full body. My God, will someone just bring me a mirror?
Rob Allen
November 26, 2008 at 11:57 am
41Did someone say Marvel Comics?
I started reading Marvel Comics in 1963. I don’t follow the superheroes anymore, but I’m still heavily involved in the online fan community. I can help publicize the book when it comes out.
Looking forward to it!
becca (and brian)
November 26, 2008 at 1:06 pm
42Hey all-
Just wanted to wish the FanAp community a Happy Thankgiving. After all that we’ve been through together in the last 8 years, we truly have much to be thankful for.
Thanks for being out there when I needed a sane voice.
Original Ann
November 26, 2008 at 3:47 pm
43Dan, I know who you’re thinking of. Used to be a regular contributor here. I think he got too successful to remember the little people who helped put him where he is today. Wherever that is…
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Although as a vegan atheist who doesn’t live near family, I don’t have much regard for this particular holiday. Still, I’ll be heading to a vegan potluck tomorrow. Such decadence!
dee
November 26, 2008 at 4:59 pm
44Ann, we have a church full of vegan atheists, so in addition to the traditional poultry, we’ll be serving the traditional tofurkey at the UU Fellowship Thanksgiving potluck. Did I mention I managed to get out of organizing it this year? Yay, me! I just get to bring my dish, eat and leave like everyone else for a change. Cooper (and anyone else) if you’re in the neighborhood stop by for round 2 of dinner or dessert. Just take a left at Peacehaven onto Robinhood. Dinner starts at 4 PM.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Isn’t it wonderful to have something that happened at the beginning of November that we can be thankful for at the end of November for a change?
(And Obama’s first statement regarding torture should cover the syntax of that last sentence.)
David the non-Theist Obamacommie
November 26, 2008 at 5:22 pm
45Yes, Happy Thanksgiving all around to the greatest support group in American political history. I swear to Lobster I would not have made it, certainly not with my sanity intact, without FA, which is in the top tier of things I’m thankful for. Never mind MasterCard, the Bill Maher presentation of Adam’s celebration of our political resurrection is priceless (I think Adam is his name, SeattleDan).
hedera
November 26, 2008 at 6:26 pm
46I beat you, Rob Allen - I started reading Marvel Comics in 1961, with #1 Fantastic Four. I don’t read them anymore either, but I remember them with respect and affection. I wonder what Adam (what’s his name??) will do for Marvel, or with them??
Dale
November 26, 2008 at 6:32 pm
47Happy Thanksgiving from the Big Apple. And Ann and all the other vegan/vegetarian atheist/agnostics out there (I am one too)–thankfulness and sweet potatoes are universal!
cooper
November 26, 2008 at 6:47 pm
48Marvel Comics? No actually, I was more of a DC Comics guy. “Sgt. Rock’s” WWII adventures complemented my favorite TV show as an impressionable youth - “Combat!”. Fortunately, I had all that war worshiping foolishness out of my systems by the time I was finally old enough to be drafted. I doggedly pursued a college education instead and managed to stay out of the Asian rice paddies. Hip, hip!
cooper
November 26, 2008 at 7:13 pm
49dee, thanks for the invitation. I have no idea how the day will go, but that sounds like good fun. If I’m able to, I’ll see you there. But do go ahead and start without me, okay?
I’m glad to hear you’re not saddled with the whole reserve the hall, make sure everyone doesn’t bring hot dogs, get keys to the kitchen, arrive 4 hours early to made sure the ice machine is up and running, then go out & buy ice anyway since the ice machine never is up to the task in these situations, make gallons of coffee and ice tea, be in charge of kitchen clean-up, and finally, mop the floor after the feeding frenzy thing again this year. “No” is a very small but powerful and quite useful word, no? I hope I can make it. It will be good to see you again.
hedera
November 26, 2008 at 8:18 pm
50Well, I’m an agnostic myself, but not a vegan or vegetarian, so we’ll have turkey tomorrow - just the two of us, as the guest we invited was unable to come. Two people and a turkey is one definition of eternity (the original definition was two people and a ham). But we can all be thankful, regardless of religious or dietary preferences; as Jon Carroll of the San Francisco Chronicle says every year, Thanksgiving as a holiday requires belief in only 3 things: thankfulness, friendship, and good food. Nobody ever argues with any of those.
I’m thankful for this stellar collection of individualists, whose opinions constantly delight me. Lobster bless you all.
SeattleDan
November 27, 2008 at 12:29 am
51Coop, I was DC guy myself and God Bless Sgt.Rock, who just about won the European front on his own!
Happy Thanksgiving to my good friends here. Eat well, and enjoy the company of your friends and families.
Vinnie
November 27, 2008 at 6:11 am
52Yo, Doc, I’m at least one o’ dose v/v, a/a kinda guys, but since I don’t nevuh even t’ink about what I eat (I just eat), I guess you figured out it’s one of dem “A” woirds. Dis can make it dicey when I’m breakin’ legs fa da Vatican, but I hab a stric’ rule ta nevuh mix business wit’ da poisonal. Anyways, Happy T’anksgivin’, kiddo.
Zee Man
November 27, 2008 at 6:34 am
53Just so you can know your chances of survival to the end of this day, threat level is yellow for most citizens and orange if you choose to fly. Be well, comrades and sleep tight knowing that DHS has your back.
BTW, we have a pool going in the office. that Michael Chertoff will get a turkey bone stuck sideways in his throat again this year. I got ten bucks that says he will.
Jerry, The King of Comedy!!!
November 27, 2008 at 7:52 am
54http://www.236.com/video/2008/get_your_war_on_thanksgiving_d_10444.php
… and hilarity ensued. Happy Thanksgiving, hockey pucks.
Chris Harlan
November 27, 2008 at 9:49 am
55Happy Thanksgiving, y’all, from unsunny SoCal. I have so enjoyed corresponding with you folks over the last year. I have such respect for the minds and hearts of the people who regularly log in here. Happy Thanksgiving. (And SeattleDan, if memory serves it is a geological name you’re looking for, isn’t it? Feldspar? Anon Feldspar?)
dee
November 27, 2008 at 4:07 pm
56Just got back from the all-you-can-eat-and-carry-home potluck, where I was delightfully surprised by a visit from my pal, cooper. We couldn’t talk for long because he needed to get on the road and I needed to carve the turkey, but it was great to see him. Being the fine Southern gentleman that he is, he helped one of our members carry in her stuff for the dinner, and his charm and good looks so discombobulated her that she left her lights on and the engine running. Fortunately, I stepped out to empty a garbage can and noticed, so everything worked out fine. She told me that this very nice man had helped her but she didn’t see him after that to thank him. I was happy to tell her that was my pal, cooper.
cooper
November 27, 2008 at 4:55 pm
57dee #44
Don’t you believe it for a second. When I walked into the fellowship hall this afternoon, dee was at the center of the vortex. There was never any question about who was in charge. dee, thanks for taking a few moments to chat. My in-laws’ house is only about 5 minutes away from your church. I should stop by sometime and attend one of the services. I felt very much at home there. (And folks, dee looked terrific!)
Pope Benny 16
November 27, 2008 at 6:40 pm
58Franco Zeffirelli just emailed over a page about me in some new Wikipedia, whatever that is.
http://www.dickipedia.org/dick.php?title=Pope_Benedict_XVI
Hmmm…for some reason that didn’t prove to be as flattering as I had imagined. Maybe it was something that I said to Franco. I’ll have invite him over for coffee tomorrow morning and get to the bottom of this.
Pope Benny 16
November 28, 2008 at 7:24 pm
59Oy! as my Jewish brethren say. Franco Zefferilli is gay? Who knew. Apparently everyone but me, though cluelessness about everyday ordinary life seems to be my cross to bear. Franco took exception to one of my recent homilies about going forth and multiplying in a heterosexual way - only. Also, the computer internets tube connection thingie was not actually from a wikipedia site. Except for Vinnie and Guido, Franco is my dearest friend and I fear I’ve hurt his feelings. I’ll ask Archbishop Anselmo to have Franco over for coffee again tomorrow. Oy bist mir! I can be such a schmuck!
Zee Man
November 28, 2008 at 7:53 pm
60http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/cartoonsandvideos/toles_ main.html?name=Toles&date=11252008&type=c
Dirk's Diary
November 29, 2008 at 7:34 am
6111-29-08
Dear Diary,
Patricia showed me this article over breakfast this morning.
I pretended this was all news to me and I questioned if that was really being fair to Bolivia. Of course,
vicePresident Cheney was having great fun with this at the last cabinet meeting. He was describing this affront to Bolivia as “one final shiv up the chute” (a bad mental image here!) before he leaves office. As a rare show of patriotism over politics, Lynn Cheney promised to up Dick’s lithium dosage through the end of the term. A little know fact - members of the executive wing of the government can get all the drugs they want, whenever they want them. It’s probably a good thing that Cindy McCain did not wind up in the White House.Dirk
Rev. Billy
November 29, 2008 at 10:09 am
62Today, November 29, 2008, is International Buy Nothing Day and we at the Church of Stop Shopping would like to appeal to all within the sound of my voice to stop shopping, dammit. Yea, I wish that Sister Savitri D had not bought all that Mad Dog 20-20 in anticipation of this global day of righteous celebration. Or more accurately, I wish I haven’t found all those bottles of it while looking in the pantry for something to eat last night. Lord have mercy! (Ow! My head….)
David the Root Cause Liberal
November 29, 2008 at 10:23 am
63The Bushies are “national interests in our sphere of influence” asshole bastards to the very end. Morales is so morally superior to Bush as to render comparison as pointless as comparing Einstein intellectually to Sarah Palin.
God I hate our foreign policy toward any nation who would dare exercise self-determination other than what we think they ought to determine, foreign policy that all too often turns industrial homicidal, or as some apologists would have it, surgically homicidal, as was claimed regarding our military assault on Iraq.
I also loathe, of course, the utterly immoral misuse of our military, which does comprise many, many very decent Americans whose motivations are to try to do the right thing wherever they find themselves.
The AnnFan Club
November 29, 2008 at 1:28 pm
64Hey. Wait a minute! Does dee have a fan club now?
Binkey, she’s had one for years now.
Well, I just bet that club doesn’t have the caliber of members that our club has.
That would be a safe bet.
….
Chadwicke is bummed that the Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antarctica is crumbling like a sugar cookie and it’s not even summer down there yet.
Yeah, well, Chadwyke should spend more time worrying about the things he can have a direct impact upon - like personal hygiene, for instance.
As diplomatic and subtle as Ann is, even she has noticed and mentioned that in passing.
Maybe we should just keep that to ourselves. After all, Chadwyke does have the advantage of owning a classic K&E slide rule and he sports plastic protectors in all his pockets. You know what a sucker Ann is for scientific gadgets.
Actually, I think she prefers not to be embarrassed by the people around her.
We’re doomed, aren’t we?
Doomed.
….
David
November 29, 2008 at 8:54 pm
65Piglet’s Ducks romped, and my Gators are headed for Atlanta and the biggest event since Sherman paid a visit.
David
December 1, 2008 at 10:03 pm
66K&E slide rules. One of those beauties got me through an hour-and-a-half physics lab final to which I was one hour late, because they had changed the time and I had failed to note same, in 30 minutes - and damned accurately, providing me with a 95. They are to me what the New Testament in the shirt pocket that stopped a bullet to the heart is to a soldier. My college ass needed that 95.