zed

pfft lolo

Nice shot, kirk!

oh happy zed

You know the drill, km. Go back to the other thread to wave your “0″ in the air.

“when the Lake zed”

Did you meet this guy at Hartsfield or Bradley? And just how hot was he?

Hello, honey! Sounds like a damn good day!

Ma cher TRex!! (apologizing in advance for the no-doubt fractured French)

Mr. TRex, Sir, Welcome Home.

Thanks TRex!

Welcome back

and welcome back to Juan Carlos …

hope the poodle withdrawal eases

off to gl0at help

Suzanne, left you a note downstairs - it’s all fixed :-)

LoudounLib @ 9

Ma cher TRex!! (apologizing in advance for the no-doubt fractured French)

“Mon cher”, dearie. Except, now that I think about it, I’m not sure of the appropriate case for theropods..

Hi TRex. Glad you got back safely. Tell us more about the man. You make a date with him?

What kind of French lyrical fuckery is this?!?!

No, seriously. I don’t speak a word of French.

see conniption, I told ya it was fractured! ;-)

Thanks, LL. :)

burnspbesq @ 6

Did you meet this guy at Hartsfield or Bradley? And just how hot was he?

Bradley, but he was flying to Atlanta.

Smokin’ hot, baby. Salt and pepper hair, sharp suit, chiseled features, square jaw.

We met for coffee.

But (sigh) nothing else.

J’ai besoin du zed. (assuming a zed is masculine)

EvilDrPuma @ 15

What kind of French lyrical fuckery is this?!?!

No, seriously. I don’t speak a word of French.

Make that a ditto here. Welcome back, Oh Glorious Theropod.

Aaaack! The francosphere attacks. My little soldier must close his eye to this.

TRex @ 18

burnspbesq @ 6

Did you meet this guy at Hartsfield or Bradley? And just how hot was he?

Bradley, but he was flying to Atlanta.

Smokin’ hot, baby. Salt and pepper hair, sharp suit, chiseled features, square jaw.

We met for coffee.

But (sigh) nothing else.

Exchange phone numbers? Do either of you travel much?

No place like home.

TRex @ 5

You know the drill, km. Go back to the other thread to wave your “0″ in the air.

And make sure you let lolo know about it! Bwhahaha… Oops, TRex!!!

Somewhat OT, but potentially of interest.

If anyone thinks that the USA scandal isn’t having an impact on morale at DOJ, I got first-hand evidence to the contrary today.

I’m sitting at my desk in my home office this morning, trying to decide what I’m going to do with a rare day off, when my cell phone rings. It’s a good friend of mine, a former IRS colleague who later moved on to become an AUSA in the Central District of California.

My friend was about five when her parents emigrated to the US from Vietnam. She loves this country like only an immigrant can. This is someone I would have bet a mortgage payment would be a Government lifer (for the record, I would never have left the IRS if one could raise a family in OC on a GS-15 salary).

Nope. She’s out. She and three other ex-AUSAs are starting their own firm, to do white collar defense and civil tax controversy. So far, all I’ve gotten out of her are some vague statements about “the climate changing in the office.” I hope to have the opportunity to pump her full of dry white truth serum sometime soon.

The Bushies trash everything they touch.

Oilfieldguy @ 23

No place like home.

…Dammit.

Hey, handsome! Glad to know you’re home safely. Everyone behaved very well in your absence — but we sure missed you tonite! Glad to know you’ve got a travel tale to tell….

PS

TeddySanFran @ 242

WaPo chatz tomorrow; questions accepted anytime!

White House reporter Michael Abramowitz at 11am eastern

Opiner Eugene Robinson at 1pm eastern

Former Baghdad bureau chief, author of Emerald City, and onetime FDL Book Salon guest Rajiv Chandrasekaran at 1pm eastern

WTOP Commentator Mark Plotkin on Local Politics at 2pm eastern.

TRex @ 18

burnspbesq @ 6

Did you meet this guy at Hartsfield or Bradley? And just how hot was he?

Bradley, but he was flying to Atlanta.

Smokin’ hot, baby. Salt and pepper hair, sharp suit, chiseled features, square jaw.

We met for coffee.

But (sigh) nothing else.

Yet. Optimism, mon ami.

CT, left you a message downstairs.

Sorry for the repost, but we’re fighting against moneyed interests here, and the more the word gets out, the better.

Last Tuesday’s Columbus Dispatch had an article about the B.R.E.A.D. Assembly I attended on Monday, May 7. It’s a pretty decent overview of the meeting, attended by 2000 central Ohioans. My quibble is that the people representing the payday lending industry get the “last word” in the article, but I can counterbalance that by sharing the transcript of the part of the meeting where a B.R.E.A.D. representative answered those claims.

After sharing the story of one central Ohio resident who borrowed $500 to help her son in a time of financial hardship and ended up in a cycle of increasing debt, the article by Sherri Williams outlines what B.R.E.A.D. is trying to accomplish with this issue:

(Click for the rest)

DrDick @ 20

EvilDrPuma @ 15

What kind of French lyrical fuckery is this?!?!

No, seriously. I don’t speak a word of French.

Make that a ditto here. Welcome back, Oh Glorious Theropod.

Double Ditto, pardon my French!!!

burnspbesq @ 25

Somewhat OT, but potentially of interest.

If anyone thinks that the USA scandal isn’t having an impact on morale at DOJ, I got first-hand evidence to the contrary today.

I’m sitting at my desk in my home office this morning, trying to decide what I’m going to do with a rare day off, when my cell phone rings. It’s a good friend of mine, a former IRS colleague who later moved on to become and AUSA in the Central District of California.

My friend was about five when her parents emigrated to the US from Vietnam. She loves this country like only an immigrant can. This is someone I would have bet a mortgage payment would be a Government lifer (for the record, I would never have left the IRS if one could raise a family in OC on a GS-15 salary).

Nope. She’s out. She and three other ex-AUSAs are starting their own firm, to do white collar defense and civil tax controversy. So far, all I’ve gotten out of her are some vague statements about “the climate changing in the office.” I hope to have the opportunity to pump her full of dry white truth serum sometime soon.

The Bushies trash everything they touch.

This suprises you? It’s like the opposite of the Midas touch. Everything the Bushies touch turns to sh-t.

Suzanne @ 29

CT, left you a message downstairs.

Wilco!!!

Exchange phone numbers? Do either of you travel much?

Yes and yes.

TRex @ 34

Exchange phone numbers? Do either of you travel much?

Yes and yes.

Airport/plane meets are the best. Compressed time, all that possibility…

Renee,
Been there, had horrible experience with them. Thanks for posting about this.

TRex, tell us — how happy was Juan Carlos when you got back home?

Juan Carlos is velcro-ed to my side, purring like a logging truck on a steep hill.

Suzanne, I had asked you, when your mom had called your room at 6:00 pm, if she had disturbed you!!! ;)

TRex @ 38

Juan Carlos is velcro-ed to my side, purring like a logging truck on a steep hill.

Excellent ;-) that sounds like a little calico cat of my acquaintance!

About that time-good nite, everybody! The best of the best to you all.

CT, a lady never discusses such matters *wink*

Thanks, TRex.

Now I’m gonna have to send the lyrics to Pam’s son Jim’s wife in Bordeaux (yes, she’s French) for a translation.

RonD @ 41

About that time-good nite, everybody! The best of the best to you all.

good night ron d. sleep well

G’night Ron

RonD @ 41

About that time-good nite, everybody! The best of the best to you all.

Nite RonD

TRex @ 38

Juan Carlos is velcro-ed to my side, purring like a logging truck on a steep hill.

Ecrivez. Le. Livre!
That is a wonderful description.

TRex @ 34

Exchange phone numbers? Do either of you travel much?

Yes and yes.

Ooh, La, La!!!

I already miss Jane and the dogs, though.

I always worry a little bit when I go to hang out with someone for a few days if we haven’t hung out like that before. It’s one thing to have someone visit. It’s entirely another if they start really getting on your nerves and you can’t get rid of them until their plane ticket home.

Jane and I just kind of fell into a natural rhythm with each other like we’ve been hanging out off and on for years. It was great.

Unless of course, she was actually fiercely irritated the whole time and was just being really good at hiding it.

New Wilco album out tomorrow. Can’t wait!

Suzanne @ 42

CT, a lady never discusses such matters *wink*

Roger that, Ma’am!!! Nuf’ said!!! :)

burns, do you have XM? They’ve been playing a lot of the new Wilco…sounds really good.

SteveAudio @ 42

Thanks, TRex.

Now I’m gonna have to send the lyrics to Pam’s son Jim’s wife in Bordeaux (yes, she’s French) for a translation.

Hey, Steve!

I don’t think some of these lyrics are entirely accurate, so send a link to the video!

Basically, she found some letters from an old girlfriend in a cookie tin in her boyfriend’s room and it sparked a huge fight.

TRex @ 49

Unless of course, she was actually fiercely irritated the whole time and was just being really good at hiding it.

Nah, if she was annoyed, you’d know it. She’d tell you with a smile on her face.

TRex @ 49

Unless of course, she was actually fiercely irritated the whole time and was just being really good at hiding it.

Well, she’s usually pretty reserved with her opinions, at least in writing.

[/sarcasm]

TRex @ 53

SteveAudio @ 42

Thanks, TRex.

Now I’m gonna have to send the lyrics to Pam’s son Jim’s wife in Bordeaux (yes, she’s French) for a translation.

Hey, Steve!

I don’t think some of these lyrics are entirely accurate, so send a link to the video!

Basically, she found some letters from an old girlfriend in a cookie tin in her boyfriend’s room and it sparked a huge fight.

I will, thanks. Gaelle (her name) turned me on to some very cool French pop during the year she lived with us, like this:

Mylene Farmer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo0k5vsiZwk

TRex @ 49

I already miss Jane and the dogs, though.

I always worry a little bit when I go to hang out with someone for a few days if we haven’t hung out like that before. It’s one thing to have someone visit. It’s entirely another if they start really getting on your nerves and you can’t get rid of them until their plane ticket home.

Jane and I just kind of fell into a natural rhythm with each other like we’ve been hanging out off and on for years. It was great.

Unless of course, she was actually fiercely irritated the whole time and was just being really good at hiding it.

T, I was getting concerned all this talk of veggies and pesto salads, etc… Where’s the carnivorous instinct, we all know and love???

I think my cooking went a long way toward mitigating any inconveniences or annoyances that my presence may have spawned. I am fiercely proud of the giant pot of chicken soup I made. And the pesto.

And the dogs and I got along famously. I think they’re going to be kind of sad when I don’t come “home” tonight.

Geez, CT, he was on vacation! Perhaps he felt like taking a break from all those rethugs he’s been chewing on lately. (/snark)
edited to close snark tag

TRex @ 58

I think my cooking went a long way toward mitigating any inconveniences or annoyances that my presence may have spawned. I am fiercely proud of the giant pot of chicken soup I made. And the pesto.

And the dogs and I got along famously. I think they’re going to be kind of sad when I don’t come “home” tonight.

Did you leave her with a well-stocked fridge? Little packages ready to heat and serve?

LoudounLib @ 52

burns, do you have XM? They’ve been playing a lot of the new Wilco…sounds really good.

I do have XM, but I use it primarily to listen to Mets games. What channel has been playing Wilco? 45?

Suzanne @ 59

Geez, CT, he was on vacation! Perhaps he felt like taking a break from all those rethugs he’s been chewing on lately.

What we must know: do Republicans taste like chicken?

Sounds like a wonderful time you had together; doubt Jane would have held back had things been going badly. Plane tickets can always be changed.

We’re all glad you are home safely.

Suzanne @ 59

Geez, CT, he was on vacation! Perhaps he felt like taking a break from all those rethugs he’s been chewing on lately.

Needed a change of diet, I suspect. Those Rethugs will give you heartburn every time, and even worse if you eat too many.

Mutant Poodle @ 62

Suzanne @ 59

Geez, CT, he was on vacation! Perhaps he felt like taking a break from all those rethugs he’s been chewing on lately.

What we must know: do Republicans taste like chicken?

Far too sour for eating.

Suzanne @ 59

Geez, CT, he was on vacation! Perhaps he felt like taking a break from all those rethugs he’s been chewing on lately.

My Bad!!! (sheepishly slinks away) LOL

DrDick @ 64

Suzanne @ 59

Geez, CT, he was on vacation! Perhaps he felt like taking a break from all those rethugs he’s been chewing on lately.

Needed a change of diet, I suspect. Those Rethugs will give you heartburn every time, and even worse if you eat too many.

And bad for the cholesterol, I hear…

burns, IIRC it’s mostly been playing on The Loft (sorry, can’t remember the channel numbers, only the names!)

TexBetsy @ 65

Mutant Poodle @ 62

What we must know: do Republicans taste like chicken?

Far too sour for eating.

Tough, stringy and kind of fetid as well.

Wolfowitz To Appear Before Bank Board After Report Concludes He Broke Rules

Did you leave her with a well-stocked fridge? Little packages ready to heat and serve?

There was still a big container of chicken soup, a loaf and a half of fresh French bread, a bowl of pesto in the fridge, and some other miscellaneous odds and ends. I wish I’d been disciplined enough to really lay in a whole slew of pre-made meals.

Still, I think she’ll do alright until Marcy comes.

Mutant Poodle @ 62

Suzanne @ 59

Geez, CT, he was on vacation! Perhaps he felt like taking a break from all those rethugs he’s been chewing on lately.

What we must know: do Republicans taste like chicken?

I thought all reptiles taste like Chicken(Hawk)!!!

Wolfowitz Blames Girlfriend For Forcing Him To Grant Her Salary Increase

TRex, you’re a good friend.

Ahhhhh, french and a squeeze box…

Beatles - Michelle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBwGmOexmNo

and, in major breaking news that will surprise all …..

Lieberman To Raise Money For The GOP

TexBetsy @ 76

and, in major breaking news that will surprise all …..

Lieberman To Raise Money For The GOP

Say it ain’t so!!!

TRex @ 71

Did you leave her with a well-stocked fridge? Little packages ready to heat and serve?

There was still a big container of chicken soup, a loaf and a half of fresh French bread, a bowl of pesto in the fridge, and some other miscellaneous odds and ends. I wish I’d been disciplined enough to really lay in a whole slew of pre-made meals.

Still, I think she’ll do alright until Marcy comes.

Marcy’s popping in, right on!!! A dynamic duo!!!

TexBetsy @ 73

Wolfowitz Blames Girlfriend For Forcing Him To Grant Her Salary Increase

Wasn’t that a hoot of a headline. I read that at work and couldn’t stop laughing. Had to tell everyone.

Must be a typo.

KM, thanks for your kind words downstairs.

Texas Betsy -

You’re on a roll here. Poor little Wolfie. Nobody told him there was a rule that said he had to follow the rules and now its really his mean old girlfriends fault (sounds like she and you have something in common Suzanne). I really enjoy seeing him hung out to dry. As for Lieberman, the less said the better.

AAAHHHH! (Loud shrieking and jumping on chair!) Having a little spring rain here. My $#@$^# kitty, having just come inside and catfooted in, siddled up on me all unsuspecting and rubbed his cold wet self on my naked legs (shorts here). Brrr. Do cats laugh?

TeddySanFran @ 62

Sounds like a wonderful time you had together; doubt Jane would have held back had things been going badly. Plane tickets can always be changed.

We’re all glad you are home safely.

Thanks. And thanks again for covering Late Nite for me, Teddy. You’re the best.

What we must know: do Republicans taste like chicken?

No, they taste just like pigs.

conniptionfit @ 83

AAAHHHH! (Loud shrieking and jumping on chair!) Having a little spring rain here. My $#@$^# kitty, having just come inside and catfooted in, siddled up on me all unsuspecting and rubbed his cold wet self on my naked legs (shorts here). Brrr. Do cats laugh?

Constantly (at us).

TexBetsy @ 73

Wolfowitz Blames Girlfriend For Forcing Him To Grant Her Salary Increase

Evil harlot!

Sadly, the headline has changed to “Bank Rebukes Wolfowitz on Ethics.”

Me, I blame Clinton.

conniptionfit @ 83

AAAHHHH! (Loud shrieking and jumping on chair!) Having a little spring rain here. My $#@$^# kitty, having just come inside and catfooted in, siddled up on me all unsuspecting and rubbed his cold wet self on my naked legs (shorts here). Brrr. Do cats laugh?

At us? ALL the time.

conniptionfit @ 83

AAAHHHH! (Loud shrieking and jumping on chair!) Having a little spring rain here. My $#@$^# kitty, having just come inside and catfooted in, siddled up on me all unsuspecting and rubbed his cold wet self on my naked legs (shorts here). Brrr. Do cats laugh?

Yes, they do ;-)

conniptionfit @ 83

AAAHHHH! (Loud shrieking and jumping on chair!) Having a little spring rain here. My $#@$^# kitty, having just come inside and catfooted in, siddled up on me all unsuspecting and rubbed his cold wet self on my naked legs (shorts here). Brrr. Do cats laugh?

Only at you, not with you.

Unless of course, she was actually fiercely irritated the whole time and was just being really good at hiding it.

Oh she was totally hiding it. She would call me when you were in the bathroom and tell me how fiercely irritated she was. In fact, she even said those words. “I am so fiercely irritated at Trex I think I might go mid-evil on his ass.”
(Funny how she talks like shes’ a character in a Tarantino movie instead of a character from one of hers. Odd that.)

Suzanne, you are most welcome.

Trauma sucks.

TRex @ 84

No, they taste just like pigs.

Hey now. We’re both southern boys here and we know that pig meat is God’s gift to humanity. Rethugs, I am sure, taste much more like ‘possum or rancid armadillo.

Dr (long pause) Dick!

Mutant Poodle @ 86
TexBetsy @ 73

Evil harlot!

Sadly, the headline has changed to “Bank Rebukes Wolfowitz on Ethics.”

Me, I blame Clinton.

Of course you do.

Wolfowitless said Iraq would be able to finance our “intervention” and their own reconstruction with its own oil revenues. So Dubya appoints him to head the World Bank?

Isn’t there, like, math involved in a job like that?

oh dear. i think that was me. sorry suzanne. off to find you a snack offering

Oilfieldguy @ 94

Wolfowitless said Iraq would be able to finance our “intervention” and their own reconstruction with its own oil revenues. So Dubya appoints him to head the World Bank?

Isn’t there, like, math involved in a job like that?

That’s why he appointed him.

DrDick @ 82

Texas Betsy -

You’re on a roll here. Poor little Wolfie. Nobody told him there was a rule that said he had to follow the rules and now its really his mean old girlfriends fault (sounds like she and you have something in common Suzanne). I really enjoy seeing him hung out to dry. As for Lieberman, the less said the better.

In true Neocon fashion; “It’s not my fault!”, whew, how did they get in power??? Anyone???

..And with that (and safe in the knowledge that citizens of the lake know their cats), I am off to sleep. Up in less than 7 hours.

Welcome home, TRex. Thanks for taking care of Jane.

G’nite, firepups, and good luck.

GODDAMN MARGINS, EVERYONE!!

HELLOOOOOOOO!!!

Nite MP. Sleep well and wake knowing that your cat is laughing at you.

for Suzanne, a full meal. Dessert madame?

Thanks guys, now I gotta go to bed wondering how republicans taste (eewww!), and knowing that my cat is laughing at me.

Why did my page get supersized all of a sudden?

TRex @ 100

GODDAMN MARGINS, EVERYONE!!

HELLOOOOOOOO!!!

You are welcome to share the lovely meal I just prepared for Suzanne, or else tell me what you’d like for Therapod Midnight snack.

Mutant Poodle @ 99

..And with that (and safe in the knowledge that citizens of the lake know their cats), I am off to sleep. Up in less than 7 hours.

Welcome home, TRex. Thanks for taking care of Jane.

G’nite, firepups, and good luck.

I’m out as well. Sleep well, with dreams of a Bush-free world.

Oilfieldguy @ 104

Why did my page get supersized all of a sudden?

Hit f5

Has something to do with me quoting a quote with a URL inside it all. :(

burns, I’m down with that. G’night, and a happy Wilco tomorrow!

Good night to those departing.

Oh, there was at least one other offender TexB. I won’t mention any names but it rhymes with DR. DICK!!

Okay, it was Dr. Dick.

Bueno, fixed. Good job sooper sekrit protektor of margins and troll throttlers.

THOSE are broken margins, folks…. am looking for it now…

Proctor Prick?

I think that I too shall join the exodus. Be good to each other until we meet again. Now I am going provide further entertainment for my cats.

Everyone reload (not refresh) your page and the margins should be fixed now

DrDick @ 114

I think that I too shall join the exodus. Be good to each other until we meet again. Now I am going provide further entertainment for my cats.

Have a good evening Dr D

Thanks for fixing em TRex. No wonder I couldn’t find em :)

I’m out, too…good night all!

TRex @ 110

Oh, there was at least one other offender TexB. I won’t mention any names but it rhymes with DR. DICK!!

Okay, it was Dr. Dick.

Sorry, T. (Looks down and shuffles feet). Won’t do it again and I’ll just go to my room now and not bother anyone.

Suzanne @ 117

Thanks for fixing em TRex. No wonder I couldn’t find em :)

He even yelled at us for you. Bold and all.

TexBetsy @ 105

TRex @ 100

GODDAMN MARGINS, EVERYONE!!

HELLOOOOOOOO!!!