Late Nite FDL: BOW-Chikka-Wow-Wowww…By: TRex Wednesday November 7, 2007 8:00 pm |
Oh, my goodness.
The Preznint seems to have arrived at a fairly novel diplomatic solution to the mess in Pakistan.
“I just spoke to President Musharraf before I came here, and my message was very plain, very easy to understand. And that is: The United States wants you to have the elections as scheduled and take your uniform off,” Mr Bush said.
Damn, George. Aren’t you going to ask him out to dinner first?
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Hail, muse TRex! My first zed! There’s a Zardoz joke in here somewhere, I’m sure of it…
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howdy, TRex & Firepups!
5?
almost
Evening all. I see Dubya’s thinking with the little dick again.
Bet that cheap bastoid won’t even spring for a movie either.
g’evening TRex
What do you suppose dictators wear under their uniforms?
I cringe every time Bush speaks. How is it possible for someone to mangle their native language every time they speak? Does he do it on purpose, or just not give a shit?
Aw, I left ya a response, Suz…!
What is this shit..I get an error message that I can’t post more than every 15 sec..slowdown cowboy,..
Suzanne is this your doing? Has DSL gone to your head?
OMG, literally laughing out loud. What an idiot.
Carrying on from downstairs . . .
CTuttle @ 135
Why should the M-F daytime firepups have all the liveblogging fun? Sure, Marcy and Jane and Pach can get all the attention at the Libby Courthouse, and Christy gets all the big threads from the various congressional hearings. But can that hold a candle to liveblogging an FDL gathering at Suzanne’s?
I think not.
I can see that I picked the wrong year to move.
Steve-AR @ 12
Sorry, that one is not of my doing and is a wordpress thingie – but I do like it (laughing)
CT – did you see my response downstairs?
Junya, is Musharraf a pants-off first kinda guy or a shirt-off first?
And does he wear socks to bed?
man… just as i get going the thread changes
((((((TRex!)))))))
What a rude bastard! He skipped the toe-tapping, too!
TexBetsy @ 9
Gay potatoes have uniforms?
Those Below have been notified.
radiofreewill @ 18
We learned long ago that Dubya is never one for the niceties or protocol. It’s always full speed ahead, in reverse.
Maybe George needs to get into his Commander Codpiece uniform and fly over to have a little man-on-man moment with Musharraf, look him the eye, you know, that kind of soul gazing thingy he does so well. Just ask Putin!
Peterr @ 14
:( peterr – would have been great to finally meet you but next time i visit kin in kansas, i’m gonna give ya a hollah
radiofreewill @ 18
I think that’s implied.
“I want that uniform off, and I want it off now. (tap, tap, tap) I’m waaiittttiiinnngggg . . .”
Don’t know what it is about that picture, but Bush looks like a real leader there.
Well, if Bush wants Pervez to give his uniform, can we get W to give up the flightsuit/presidential seal socks/etc?
Hmmm. @ 20
thanks hmmm
DrDick @ 21
Along with “Ready, Fire, Aim!”
radiofreewill @ 18
I know. What is the world of closeted republican freaks coming to?
Tsk. Tsk. Tsk.
One teensy Prob, T! I just reported that the newly installed Supreme Court in Pakistan is fixing to rule…
“Musharraf’s new court to give him 5-year term”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new…..pak108.xml
Mad Dogs @ 19
Dictator Tots.
Suzanne if egregious really coming to your party? Doesn’t she live in NoVA?
AZ Matt @ 22
When it comes to Putin (and perhaps Musharraf as well), I think Chimpy may have mis-pronounced it when he said he “looked into his soul…”
CTuttle @ 30
And Bush is taking notes. So that’s how it’s done….
CTuttle @ 30
WOW!!!!!
the pix coming out of pakistan aren’t so nice…..methinks bushco doesnt quite know how to handle this latest shit….
Steve-AR @ 32
Egregious and Teddy SF – two front pagers (woohoo) and yes, she lives in NoVa but has kin in the SF Bay Area she visits.
Where’s Jon Stewart when you need him. That line demands some attention.
Probably way late to the party with this observation, but did no one note the irony of his stern warning to Perv that America believes that a President should not be the leader of the armed forces? Hell-o, Article II on line 1!
Speaking of oppression, this is from cinnamonape’s link, last thread, to the originating principles of the KKK:
***
And to think, Cheetos and video games hadn’t even been invented yet.
juslin @ 35
Why should the latest shit be any different from all the other shit?
Suzanne @ 27
I Live (as you know) To Serve.
Suzanne @ 15
Yes’m, but, you should take the journey too… ;-)
juslin @ 35
..Especially considering that a contigent of those rebelling are pro-Taliban or worse.
CTuttle @ 30
I’m guessing Cheney is watching things very closely and taking notes. It’s quite clever; sack the Court, impose martial law, insert compliant judges, get what you want. Ta da!
If Bush will grab hands with a Sheik, Pervy the Foreign Aid Slut better cover his man boobs.
of course he didn’t say ‘we were greatly bothered by the sight of lawyers demanding constitutional rule of law wearing buddy holly suits being hauled off in paddy wagons to face the prison guard thugs.’
Suzanne @ 23
Agreed.
I’m just over the border to the east of KS, so I’ll keep an ear out for your hollah.
Twain @ 34
Pervez-a-palooza learned from the Shrub! Remember 2000? Our SC annointed the boy-king.
madmommy @ 45
And he doesn’t even have to worry about the court now.
Gee, George could send Rice over there to straighten out Musharraf. She is soooo good at that kind of thing.
madmommy @ 45
But, they’ve already installed the compliant judges… 8-(
Hhmmm, don’t ya just love the smell of “freedom” being spread in the morning.
DrDick @ 50
Sadly true. It could happen so easily here it’s frightening.
Elections in Pakistan don’t matter Musharraf will lose.
Or the election will be a Kathrine Harris special and the unrest will continue. Pakastani’s unlike us are already rioting, their Supreme Court is not even being allowed to decide if Musharraf can legaly run.
Al Quieda took over a town yesterday. Who cares! its the inteligence services with their Al Quieda ties who are part of the government and can get close to Musharraf that matter.
Bush is ignoring the real threat while he obsesses about Iran. Holy Joe is going to be so hated when the proof that Musharraf has fallen is a mushroom cloud.
madmommy @ 45
Less of a problem here, the SCOTUS already certified one coup and now they have a more solid 5/4 majority.
TexBetsy @ 9
Whatever they want …
king george is just waiting for them halliburton reeducation camps to be finished so he can toss lawyers in jail just like his buddy moustache man.
i hear he’s whined to dick about the camps going over budget and schedule. /snark
and i know bushco would LOVE to do this here as his term is almost up – but i’m sure he has more shit to do to the country before he’s done – all the more resaon for dems to man the fuck up!
burnspbesq @ 57
Wrapped in the Flag, carrying a Cross…!
G’nite, all.
(A good night, that is, if I can get that darkblack image out of my head. How’s a guy supposed to get to sleep after looking at that?)
It’s been speculated that Cheney has had a hand in this. I think it’s possible.
Night Peterr. Try Bushmills for the image.
I’ve been thinking for a while now that it just doesn’t make sense for a president to accrue this much power to the Executive only to hand it off quietly and ride off into the sunset.
Peterr @ 61
Easy, don’t look! Aloha, Peterr!
Just watched Jon Stewart’s “rerun” featuring Condolezza “King Tut” Rice, our resident Secretary of Mummy State, in regards to Karen Hughes’ resignation. Condi is the consummate “mummy” image for the Homeland. After having recently seen images of the real King Tut, his mummy sef, I think they are related…it must be dawn of the dead or somethin’. Perhaps in Tut’s time, the facials were more effective…olive oil and all, ya know.
AZ Matt @ 51
I know. They’re practically building campfires and singing Kum Bah Yah all over Gaza as we speak.
madmommy @ 64
With the economy headed for the tank, the Plutocrats may cut Bush and the Thugs off at the knees.
juslin @ 59
*Snort!*
Don’t hold your breath on that one, jus.
I don’t think a protest led by lawyers is going to fall for the Puppet Supreme Court ruling act.
The Law breaks down when it gets used unfairly by those in power – it only works as an agreement to civility between principled people.
The Paks will tear right through it to get to Pervy if he acts like a barbarian dictator.
Bush is lower than Nixon in the polls but I wonder if he has also been at below 50% longer than Tricky Dick?
DrDick @ 21
Cannot stop laughing! That is the funniest comment of the day/night!
No, TRex; he’s not going to ask him out to dinner. He’s going to (quietly) give him two more squadons of F-16’s; a squadron of Apache Helos, and a “naughty boy!”-finger-wag.
Oh. IF, in Pakistan’s insane political scene, someone—ANYONE—kills Bhutto, the shit will hit the fan, and guess what that will lead to?
Thaaaat’s right. We’ll see martial law that will make what’s happening now in Islamabad look like the essence of Jeffersonian Democracy.
And then junior will really have to “tsk-tsk” with a vengeance.
If we step back and look at what things were like when Bill Clinton left office, and compare them with what’s going on now, it’s like a bunch of idiotic but homicidal “Jasons” and “Freddys” took over the government and have decided to say “fuck it!” with exporting food or DVD’s or Boeing airplanes, and are just going for it, as they spread the gospel of chaos and firepower.
Our long national nightmare is over.
Just when baseball withdrawal becomes unbearable, college basketball starts up.
Thank you mask man!
Finally, Ron Paul was discussed on FDP. Good on you.
Ron Paul is a force to be reckoned with in the coming elections and deserving of our attentions.
Burma, Pakistan, Georgia in rapid succession… where next?
TRex @ 31
Probably got a nickname like…Spud.
Tanbark @ 73
And don’t forget, Pakistan HAS nukes, unlike Iran, which is just THINKING about nukes. What a freaking nightmare the policies of our government have wrought.
Hmmm. @ 76
coming to a town near you…
madmommy @ 64
Especially since it seems that the next pres is going to be a democrat.
Wham! Bam! Thank you, Islam…muhh bad
Things Come Undone @ 71
There is one “poll” that is always below Bush’s 50%. Shrub’s very own Tricky Dick.
I predict that you guys are going to luurrrrrve tonight’s Late Late Nite song. It is a righteous R&B explosion of glory.
solai @ 79
I’m still waiting to hear the dem candidates promise to roll back the executive power grab of the Bush administration.
If they really wanted to flip us the bird, after Mukasey gets confirmed they would nominate Yoo to be head of OLC. And Feinstein would probably vote for his confirmation.
Pakistan is looking like Iran 1978..I remember when Reza Pahlavi was our BFF and indispensable ally..that turned out well.
TRex @ 83
You finally paying off with some of you singing, big guy?
TRex @ 82
Tease!
Suzanne @ 79
Wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. Gonna need a bunch of these or else these.
madmommy @ 10
CBC national news had a clip of Bush trying to speak French. Now that was one for the archives.
So, how about Sarkozy asking the USA to be a LEADER of environmental protection? I heard this on NPR at 5:00 (in the car) and gasped. Did I miss anything else?
madmommy @ 78
24 of them… By the way, June Jones is up for the ‘Bear’ Bryant award, deservedly so…! ;-)
Suzanne @ 87
Suzanne, I had totally forgotten; the NOLA kittehs.
FYI, Marcy at TNH has more on the Iran v. Pakistan WMD threat analysis…
Fern @ 89
“Umm … jeh sweeze luh Dayceedurur.”
Suzanne @ 86
Speaking of which, what ever happened to the video from the kitty medical fund raiser?
punaise @ 81
punaise enters with a wide Pakinstance
Steve-AR @ 93
ask either of my ex-husbands or my girls – i have this ability to remember stuff like this
Christine Edmonson @ 90
Sarko took one too many hits on that big spliff of Maui Wowie, methinks.
Fern @ 89
What! WHAT? How can I see this?
Fern @ 89
The mind just boggles.
Suzanne @ 87
Big guy doo-wop or purr?
Australian scientists decode whale sounds
do-si-do @ 94
Marcy has been exceptionally productive, her bear-hunting expedition must’ve bagged something…
CD @ 40
And to think that people can go to some kind of a meeting and take this nonsense seriously.
Let’s start a group of our own.
Section One: The top officer of this order will consist of one lollipop of this order and ten tootsie rolls…
Eureka Springs @ 97
ES has been giving you quite the challenges lately to the punmaster title – his rage of aquariums still gets me chucklin.
Okay, okay. This weekend I will get my music video together, I promise. I have the song recorded, but like I said all the video we shot was useless. But I will put together some kind of photo montage or something.
Cross my heart.
PLovering @ 75
Yo P,
What’s with the Ronald’s appearances at and support from “white power” groups? And this whole government out of our lives, and support the Constitution talk is great, but why does he want to government to force a woman who has been raped to grow that zygote into a child against her will. I think those issues deserve some attention.
Suzanne @ 105
madmommy.. Hows that aquarium toe?
madmommy @ 101
Heh, his English is atrocious enough… ;-)
Suzanne @ 98
I know about ex’s with long memories..my last planned for ten years..I was out of town and had just paid the final bill for landscaping on the new house, when I was served with the D-papers.
I hate days like this. Started working at 6:15 a.m. and still have stuff to do. Back in an hour or so.
bonkers @ 107
Dave Neiwert is all over it here.
Credit markets are crumbling, gas is going up, governments with nukes are staging Kabuki Supreme Court rulings – the one common factor is Bush.
That’s the problem with Ideologies – Bush and his supporters can’t do anything other than ‘hang on’ to their own ‘Holier Than Thou’ Narrative – because they can never be wrong.
They aren’t smart, but they are stubborn. Long after the wheels of the Bus leave the ground, a Gooper will look back and say, “Hey, what Bush is saying isn’t matching what’s happening!”
How much more madness before the Goopers that want to get re-elected break with Bush?
TRex @ 106
uh huh
Eureka Springs @ 107
It’s gone from technicolor purple and blue to a somewhat sickly yellowish green. Still quite sore, but I guess it will heal eventually. Thanks for asking!
Suzanne @ 114
Ruh roh. Think you better follow through on that one big fella. I’ve heard that tone of voice before and the alternatives won’t be pretty.
DrDick @ 116
Is that the one where she starts to talk in a voice that only therapods can hear?
MM, did you see my remark at 92?
The answer lies is in the fact that the first thing Bush/Cheny did (waaay before 9/11) was to start tapping everyone’s phone.
TexBetsy @ 117
It’s the one that sends dread chills up the spine of every male within earshot.
PLovering @ 75
He is deserving of a kick in the head and he’s going to get it.
We can’t let another Regean with the racist code words slip by. When all the other GOP presidential candidates try and out Iraq war, out Conservative each other fail it will be Ron saying I told you so.
It will be Ron saying always appear moderate, always play down the racism. Say what you have to to get elected and blame the minorites for everything ussing code words like immigrants. Ron is the true successor to Regean!
All Ron needs is a failed economy like Nixion and Ford left Carter. History will replay itself unless we get a real Lefty who will work to raise living standards for the middle class at the expense of the rich and get the economy working.
Ron is betting that we won’t end the war before the economy is broken. He’s betting the Democratic Center types will mess up again.
He thinks somebody will loan America money like they loaned Regean money so he can save the economy.
He thinks that America will get lucky and survie what Bush has done to the economy.
He thinks that whites still have the majority they did in the 80’s.
I fear he will rebuild the GOP on based on our failures to act today.
TRex @ 83
Old?
New?
Borrowed?
Obviously blue
Ya know what – we have a pantless place. It’s called Les Enrages. I crosspost there. The Unruly Mob!
We talk often of going pantless in betwixt important political issues.
Uh.
Mah.
Gawd.
I just did the thing that every fledgling radio announcer dreads. I turned on the microphone and started to talk and suddenly had to sneeze.
I thought I could wait, but the more I talked the worse it got until I finally had to pull back the fader and let it fly, then come back on and excuse myself and start over.
Ahhhh, live radio. It can be an adventure.
DrDick @ 112
I can never understand how OB/Gyn’s like Ron Paul and Tom Coburn can take such punitive stands against choice. I guess when you look below the surface, you will find a male who is afraid and/or hates women.
DrDick @ 120
Cuff’em Suz!
Christine Edmonson @ 100
Sorry – it was on radio. And I checked on the CBC website for the clip and didn’t find anything.
CTuttle @ 117
Yes, good for him. Mom faxed me a cartoon from the Tuscaloosa paper today: Big Al the UA mascot reading the sports pages. Headlines are Dennis Franchione in trouble at Texas A&M, and Tubberville’s job is on the line at Auburn. Thought bubble says “looks like a win-win”
Steve-AR @125,
Or someone who is catering to votes..
madmommy @ 128
Ain’t it, tho? ;-)
Steve-AR @ 125
Or wants to control them. OB/GYN would be very good for that.
Loo Hoo. @ 122
New!
DrDick @ 119
See, if ya’ll would just do what we ask the first time we ask it, then we wouldn’t have to use that tone. It’s really quite simple, and life is so much better for everyone. /s
CTuttle @ 126
dang, good thing i was sitting down – first time CT has not asked to be cuffed himself but asked that someone else be
i’ve re-read it 3 times and that’s what it says – dang, ct, changing your strategy?
Fern @ 126
Just the thought of W trying to speak French gives me shudders. He can’t even speak English.
Suzanne @ 134
Shoot, must be the kool-aid…! ;-)
Suzanne @ 134
I think he is sneaking himself into Dr D’s computer.
Suzanne @ 105
missed the build-up to that one – just saw the (excellent) punch line
Christine Edmonson @ 135
It was fairly horrifying.
Yes, well, Theropods have our own special Tone of Voice for certain occasions. And failing that, very large, very sharp teeth.
TexBetsy @ 136
Or maybe Mrs. CT is reading over his shoulder.
TRex, you got a cold?
CTuttle @ 136
Have you been eating Cheetos? Thought you would know better after last night’s discussion of Gavin at Sadly, No!
Steve-AR @ 110
Now that’s got to be a mofo.
madmommy @ 142
Ahhh! This might be the answer.
TRex @ 140
and never evah take your eyes off the large tail or tha-wack
goopers not scared of bush – its cheeny they fear – that bastard is subject to do anything evil – its why i fear as bushco winds down
DrDick @ 131
Ronnie just wants to practice his “lovering” for women. P! No defense for yer boy?!? Maybe P had to go donate more money to the campaign.
madmommy @ 142
She has on occasion, like lahoma, but, a lot shyer…!
CTuttle @ 149
notice that was not a denial
Bush’s life-long MO, without exception, is that he avoids Accountability for his mistakes.
He personally gets bailed-out by his Daddy before it gets too uncomfortable for him, and his supporters – from whom he demands unquestioning loyalty – get left holding the bag.
Every time.
So, we’re left with Trillion Dollar Mistakes like Iraq just festering – Our Citizens dying for No Known Reason.
The rank and file Goopers haven’t yet realized the comedian’s line “You know, saying my Country Wrong or Right” is like saying “My Mother, drunk or sober.”
Suzanne @ 150
Perceptive, aren’t we? :P
CTuttle @ 152
highly trained professional observer
bonkers @ 107
Ron Paul will eliminate the Federal Reserve System.
The Fed is killing our economy by wasting time and money trying to save bankrupt NY banks, financial houses, and hedge funds.
Do away with the Fed, freeze the paper, keep people in their homes, and restore the printing presses to the U.S. Treasury.
Reason enough to vote for Ron Paul.
radiofreewill @ 150
Sad but true. And this time it’s not just us, but future generations who will have to clean up his mess.
Fern @ 138
Hi Fern — are you a French speaker? Or a Francophile?
Just remember, ‘K’ is for ‘Karma’. And I’ve met Karma. She’s a bitch and a half.
And she always knows where you live.
Loo Hoo. @ 144
Can’t really blame her..accumulated resentment of me working 100 hrs. a week.
Suzanne @ 153
Most Indubitably…!
burnspbesq @ 95
ca, c’est pas mal…
Christine Edmonson @ 156
No just someone who has heard enough of the language to know really really really bad French pronunciation when she hears it. It is an official language here, so there is a certain amount of exposure to the language.
TRex @ 124
As long as you said “Excuse me”, I think you’re safe. Who doesn’t sneeze? I listen to the top guy (Bill Handle) on KFI in LA every morning while getting ready for work (the only station that comes in well) and he sneezes or coughs with no apology. People get it.
And just for the record…Handle has shifted way to the LEFT in the last year. Top LA station.
Right then, headed home.
See you in a bit.
Fern @ 160
Are you then, Canadian? Sorry for my ignorance, but nice to meet you…
Steve-AR @ 158
Wow … Indian wives actually encourage their husbands to
stay the f*ck awaywork 100 hours a week … *g*Evenin’ all !
Loo Hoo. @ 162
left nostril: just blame it on Norm Achoom-sky
Think I will call it an early night again. Still more to do at work tomorrow. Take care and enjoy the snark.
Christine Edmonson @ 164
Yup, Canadian.
Totally OT-tonight while flipping through channels I landed on the country awards show. Diwght Yoakam was doing a Porter Waggoner tribute and he had on the most fabulous jacket. It was sparkle-plenty. Had to be a Nudie or a Manuel, it probably weighted 20 pounds.
Hi Petro.
OMG … Pat Robertson has endorsed Giuliani ?!!
LOL !!!
I am feeling a bit under the weather this evening. Dizzy and not much interested in food. Someone else want to find us a snack?
TexBetsy @ 170
Hiya Betsy, how’re you feeling ?
Petro, you’ll love stories 1 & 4.
TexBetsy @ 170
Uh-oh, somebody left the barn door open again…
Fern @ 167
Let’s stay in touch about the future of France and America– what do you think will happen?
TexBetsy @ 172
Who wants to volunteer?
TexBetsy @ 174
Thanks Betsy … off to read now …
Credit markets are crumbling, gas is going up, governments with nukes are staging Kabuki Supreme Court rulings – the one common factor is Bush.
That’s the problem with Ideologies – Bush and his supporters can’t do anything other than ‘hang on’ to their own ‘Holier Than Thou’ Narrative – because they can never be wrong.
The day after they get their asses handed to them in the ‘08 elections would be my guess.
CTuttle @ 175
Hey Buddy … any more snow ?
Hey, San Franciscans…
“Fuel spill closes San Francisco beaches”
http://www.reuters.com/article…..8920071108
Petrocelli @ 171
Well, looks like Pat Robertson has fairly flexible ethical principles.
How about Armenian? After Jane said she had Armenian food coming out of her nose; I order two Armenian cook books.
Petrocelli @ 180
Hey, I got to throw a snowball before ya…! :P
Petrocelli @ 179
Ooh, where are you?
Suzanne @ 177
I cab offer “wild” mussels and pommes frites
CTuttle @ 181
ship hit the bay bridge, bridge ok, 140 gallons spilled ct – hit the barrier around the concrete post and tore a 160′ gash in the ship. barrier did exactly what it was designed to do.
Fern @ 127
I think Keith had the video, so when tonight’s Countdown is available, you should be able to see it there.
(Honestly, though, it doesn’t seem as embarrassing when he speaks a language badly if it’s not one he claims to know, like English or Spanish.)
Suzanne @ 177
Here’s what happens when you leave this job to amateurs, Betsy…
Rocky Mountain Oysters
CTuttle @ 149
Ms. CT, we welcome you, totally! Don’t be shy.
newtonusr @ 189
you first
Suzanne @ 187
some bar pilot is sh*ttin’ bricks right about now
Good thing I’m not hungry Newton. Those don’t sound kosher.
Christine Edmonson @ 185
I’ll never tell … *g*
PLovering@153
Unfortunately, right now that would be a recipe for mass unemployment and bread lines, and an even bigger war.
Much as I despise the mass interference by the Fed, since corporations and China have a dual choke hold on us, it’s what’s holding us upright at the moment.
some worm and dirt cake to go with them oysters?
Christine Edmonson @ 185
Hilo, Hawaii! Yee-haw!
http://www.hawaiitribune-heral…..ocal01.txt
Went to Paris when I was a HS senior. After 4yrs of French, I thought I could speak the language. The French were insulted. Met up with some French students who begged us to stop trying to speak their language. We laughed, they didn’t. I’m betting that no one was amused by our pres.
Nevorick @ 179
It was reported that on one Tv show today, Bush was called a Democrat. The GOOPER plan now is to say Bush is a Dem and if you want a change from the totally fucked up situation; vote Republican.
With 50% of the American adult population considered functionally illiterate, just might work.
ahem:
“wild” mussels and pommes frites
Steve-AR @ 183
Um…that’s what prompted you to try Armenian food?
punaise @ 200
frites sauvages are the same as pommes frites?
Petrocelli @ 193
I never said any of this — kinda creepy.
solai @ 198
Same thing happened to a friend in HS. She got top grades and went to France after graduating. She said it was somewhat humiliating to realize that she was not speaking as well as she thought. I wonder if it is a difference between conversational language as natives speak it, and what a student learns who takes a foreign language.
solai @ 201
Could Jane be wrong?
Christine Edmonson @ 203
when quoting comments that quote comments, the software truncates it – and sometimes not as accurately as it should
Suzanne @ 202
pommes frites comes from pomme de terre (”ground apple” = potato). frites sauvages exist only in that picture.
Steve-AR @ 158
Well, that left 68 hours a week. Let’s say 7 hours of sleep…
49 hours per week.
That left 19 hour per week for eating/shopping/paying bills…you’re right. It gets tough. BUT, what benefit was there for her? (and assuming the sleeping! time was with her)
solai @ 198
That would be my guess.
Rude-E’s gonna need a press sec’y… Here’s one:
FEMA press secretary submits resignation, official says
Boy, you can say that again…
Hey, make them work out of these…
Katrina Victims Warn CA Fire Survivors about Toxic FEMA Housing
What about the FEMA victims — all 102,000 of them?
madmommy @ 204
Well, the French are a little snooty about language. Same thing happens when Quebecers travel in France.
Suzanne @ 205
Help Suzanne — I see, and I should go to bed. Thanks for the heads up.
Fern @ 211
I think the rest of France is not as bad as Paris in this respect.
madmommy @ 204
I’ll tell ya from personal experience, an attempt, however, atrocious, melts the ice… Expecting responses to English questions shuts many doors… ‘Cepting in Shrub’s case…
Which show did that?
Let me give this a whirl … Late Nite Snack for the Lasses *g*
Fern @ 211
Several years ago my mom had a foreign exchange student from Sweden. She spoke excellent English when she arrived, with a Swedish accent. Within 6 months, you could not tell the difference between her and my step-sister, who has a southern accent you could cut with a knife. When she went back to Sweden her parents were quite surprised, to say the least.
I wanna thank ya falettin’ me FEMA self, agin
(inspired by the Rolling Stone 40 year anniversary trivia quiz)
solai @ 198
In my very limited experience, the French appreciate you making the effort — they’d have been insulted if you hadn’t — nevertheless, your feeble efforts offend their ears, and suddenly their more than happy to help and, in fact, speak excellent English. And, i sort of get their point, and have been treated exceptionally well when I followed that policy.
perfect petro
Petrocelli @ 216
needs a shave – what else you got pet that is actually food
Petrocelli @ 216
Hubba hubba. The man just gets better looking every year!
Loo Hoo. @ 208
She also worked..liked to ski..got to ski year round..never screwed around when married..
newtonusr @ 189
Good job, newtonusr! For a rookie.
TexBetsy @ 220
My pleezure … *g*
… takes a bow …
madmommy @ 204
I guess it’s less humiliating if you know you’re speaking it badly. *g* I was in Paris about ten years ago, which was more than ten years after my last French class. I knew enough French that people could tell I was trying to speak French and would ask me to speak English, but they didn’t seem at all insulted.
I learned from Rick Steves that much of the Parisien reputation for being rude and unhelpful is mostly because they don’t think they speak English very well, and they’re embarrassed to try. Therefore, if you at least try to speak French first, your bad French makes them more at ease with speaking bad English (though often their English is actually just fine.)
That certainly fit my experience, but as I said, I think it helps if you’re not surprised to find out your French isn’t very good, which is something HS students and recent graduates are less likely to realize. (In addition to being rusty, I had the previous experience of learning from college French classes that my HS French wasn’t nearly as good as I thought it was.)
Suzanne @ 221
Heh, Petro, eye-candy alone, just doesn’t cut it with Suz!
Loo Hoo. @ 224
Thanks, Loo Hoo!
You read the recipe, right?
… and for the rest of us … A Spicy Indian Dish
madmommy @ 204
I found that in France you just admit that you speak English and enjoy the day. No pretenses. a
Suzanne @ 221
Un moment … scurries away to the kitchen …
madmommy @ 169
I ain’t seen him for a few years, but if I recall correctly, Dwight Yoakam is Teh Hawt.
Speaking of hot, THANK YOU GOD THAT THE ONLY PROBLEM WITH MY HEATER LAST NIGHT WAS THAT THE PILOT LIGHT HAD GONE OUT OVER THE SUMMER. My landlord came and looked at it today. I got home last night and after Neighbor Robin left, as the temperature outside dipped below freezing, I realized that it was just getting colder and colder and colder in here, even though the heat was running. I went and stuck my hand above a vent, and discovered that the heater was blowing ICE COLD FREEZING FUCKING AIR!
It was a very long night. Juan Carlos and I hunkered down all the way up under the covers together. Lot and lots of covers.
Petrocelli @ 229
again, not real food – come on pet, real candy, not eye candy
Isn’t this the line he used with Jeff Gannon?
Petrocelli @ 216
Who are you calling a Lassie, then, mate?
Back to labeling Bush a dem, who did that? IIRC, they did something like that with Michael Steele (with the opposite intent). Had signs made up labeling him a democrat. People were carrying them right outside the polling place. Didn’t work.
*reminder*
I will be hosting a SF Bay Area Nor Cal Central Cal fire pup meet up at the little cottage by the creek in the redwoods on 11/17, Sat afternoon until it is over. Since I live in the temperate rain forest known as Boulder Creek, I thought an hors d’oeuvres potluck would be a good event to be able to transition indoors from the deck in case of rain. Soft drinks provided – bring other beverages of choice with you.
RSVP by email to: ten67x at gmail dot com
Suzanne @ 233
Something Southwestern perhaps ?!!
Shadowstalker @ 195
We are in a depression right now. The dollar has lost 50% of its value in the last five years. Two million foreclosures by this time next year. Maybe more.
Do nothing, and we will have mass employment and bread lines.
TRex @ 232
Dwight is still teh hawt. How does he get into those pants, anyway. The jacket was completely divine, and I can’t find a picture anywhere.
Poor Trex and kitteh, snuggling up for warmth ain’t so bad. My kittys used to scootch down into the corners of the waterbed and snooze the winter days away.
TRex, I take it that you live in a building that has a mass heater/ac unit? Otherwise, I just know you’d have checked this yourself, right?
I loves my electronic starter on my central heat. No pilot light to worry about, no gas smell when the dern thing goes out….
Bob In Pacifica @ 234
I do believe we have a winner.
Petrocelli @ 238
finally, after weeding the chaff, real food! thanks pet
Honestly, it’s not that hard to get snack together.
Bob In Pacifica @ 234
Or, our favorite movie, The Unbearble Lightness of Being, — “Take off your clothes”
We are in a depression right now.
Havin’ some fun..havin sum fun…havin…
The $2.5 trillion bond insurance problem:
Just in time for the holidays…
TexBetsy @ 243
these men just did not grasp the concept, tex – sorry you fixed something when not feeling good
i had offered up oreo dirt cake (with gummyworms) but no one wanted any of that
TRex @ 235
Escuse voi, your Kingship … This Bud’s For You ! *g*
Shadowstalker @ 241
Malheureusement, the crawl space under the house is padlocked and the landlord has never given me a key. Couple years ago, when it was two women living here, they discovered during the winter that a homeless guy was sleeping in the crawl space under the house. The old tenants wouldn’t stay unless the landlord locked it up.
He keeps saying he’s going to get me a key, but I don’t think he wants to. Mainly because I think said previous tenants also were very bad about storing all their excess crap under the house and not leaving any room for the neighbors.
Suzanne @ 237
It is really starting to work on my mind that egregious is traveling 3,000 miles. I have never been to death Valley and Nov is a good time to go. I’m on jury duty but was called last week..hmmmm..1900 miles to the little house
PLovering@238
You still working? When we get to the real depression, most of us won’t be working anymore. Then all those credit card bills will pile up, and Bushco has made bankruptcy next-to-impossible. That debt will follow us forever, even when we’re trying to get a job. They do credit checks on us when we’re trying to get jobs, too.
B-b-b-b-baby, you just ain’t s-seen nothin’ yet….
Suzanne @ 242
Oui, Oui!
Off to bed for me. I’ll be snuggling under extra blankies tonight as well. Have to wait for tomorrow morning to see TRex’s late late post.
good night all!
madmommy @ 252
Aloha, MM!
g’nite mm stay warm and snuggled
sleep well madmom
Pffft. She flies to Russia all the time. 3000 miles is “down yonder on the left” to our Flame-Haired Angel of the Russian Steppes.
TexBetsy @ 244
Sorry Betsy, I was reading your blog, watching KO and googling “Hot Snacks” … *g*
Petrocelli @ 258
Heavy pupus are what we call it here…
so your sneezing had nothing to do with having no heat last night trex?
Petrocelli @ 258
If you were reading my blog, then all is forgiven.
Psst — Next time give the link!
I don’t know what it is but eat it anyway … It’s Good for You ! *g*
Thankee kindly, sir. Although I think I am more in the Affleck camp.
TRex @ 257
Yea..but I would be driving..
Petrocelli @ 216
Pretty good. But Lake Como? Totally. I’ll even accept Lake Magiorri.
I seem to be a little sharp tonight…it’s the bronchitis, mein freunds. I’m taking steroids for it, so now I can’t eat lest my blood sugar go ballistic. Therapod, my apologies. Dinosaurs are the last folks I want to offend.
TexBetsy @ 261
Thanks Betsy, I was laughing really hard at Bush’s
(mis)statement – If I Were Iraqi, I’d Be Saying, ‘God, I Love Freedom’Hmmm… the Dixie Chicks are back in contention for a CMA Award… potential progress?
trex, that link doesn’t work… site does not allow direct linkage sign comes up
I’m off to bed, too. But before I go, let me tell you how ticked I am that they offered Rosie a job. This proves to me that MSNBC is not seriously becoming liberal. They just want a shock-jock. Someone to anger the right. Not a serious commentator with great speaking skills, a persuasive argument, an off the charts IQ….no, they ask someone who’s liable to say something so far left that Fox can play the clips all day. There are a host of liberals that would enhance our position, further our point of view, draw more citizens to the democratic party. That’s not who they went after. After Imus left, we bombarded MSNBC with requests for a liberal….they chose Joe Scarborough. Now, when they decide that they want another liberal, they choose the most divisive one they can find. Fuck them.
And, good night.
CTuttle @ 268
And Toby Keith will present…
Shadowstalker @ 251
Oh, I’ve seen it.
Rock’n roll.
PLovering @ 239
Let them eat gateau.
-GSD
Suzanne @ 247
Suzanne @ 260
You know, a couple of times over the last week or so my body has started to whisper to me that it’s catching a cold, and then I eat a bunch of good food, drink a whole bunch of water, and sleep 8-10 hours, and wake up good as new.
One of these nights, that trick isn’t going to work.
Steve-AR @ 223
Well, sounds to me like something got all screwed up. Did you love her, Steve? Did you try to make it work?
TRex @ 275
I am there!
solai @ 270
Yes the deal is dead, but, I’d prefer Rosie’s Shock over Stern’s or Imus’s any day of the week…
Shadowstalker @ 266
Dutch: We’re a rescue team. Not assassins.
If George Bush was an Iraqi, he’d be dead. I don’t think that feckless rich boys with room-temperature IQ’s tend to make it very far in a war zone.
TexBetsy @ 9
Maybe it’s like a kilt?
TRex @ 280
Used to be they didn’t get far here either.
Hmmm. @ 39
You’re not kidding? He really said that – I sit agape!
TexBetsy @ 282
*sigh* Used to be…!
TRex @ 280
I think Stephen Colbert is writing his speeches now …
Oh, thank god.
That was one albatross I did not want around my neck, trying to defend her ill-informed rantings to Right Wingers.
Now if we could just get Teh Hillary Show canceled, we’d be all set.
Petrocelli @ 285
But who is writing colbert’s speeches what with the writers’ strike and all?
Petrocelli @ 283
stephen’s not writing anything right now… strike yanno
CD @ 40
Sort of makes ya wonder if the fundamentalists were opposed to Dungeons & Dragons and Halloween because it was cuttin’ into their business!
no one is writing tex – is why tds and sc are in reruns until the strike is over
TRex @ 286
Alright,T, I’ll settle for that…! ;-)
newtonusr @ 228
OMG. No. You are one sick individual! *G*
It’s so toasty warm in my house.
Yay!
TexBetsy @ 287
Nobody, they’re in repeat mode until it’s settled…
TRex @ 293
No heat on here, but I am in long sleeve pajamas and under two blankets.
Yes, go to Talking Points Memo, they have the Bush Moron on tape saying that you can’t lead the military and be president at the same time.
I mean, we know he can’t be Prez and wipe his ass, but egads.
I think the world is finally wising up to Bush, except for the dimwitted French munchkin.
-GSD
New thread
Loo Hoo. @ 275
Yes and she came in second to my job..I am surprised that she hung in for 27 years. Of course the last 10 were planning the pay back. It all worked out for the best, she was happy with her boyfriend and six months later I got picked up by a 28 yo blond.
Suzanne @ 237
I wish…No can do. I think maybe we need to plan long term for a major meet up. I would so love to meet everyone! Maybe at Yellowstone? Someplace central for a Major Meet-up. Before the 2008 election…hee hee.
Loo Hoo. @ 299
My house is pretty central. Central texas.
Petrocelli @ 262
Not hungry, thanks…
Loo Hoo. @ 301
one thing it isn’t is cooked
Steve-AR @ 125
I just met a very nice guy last week on my travels. Turned out he was a Catholic Priest of the Benedictine Order.Somehow the conversation turned to the issues of faith and reason…and things got a bit dark. He started trying to suggest that only the Catholic faith actually had a rational “faith”. And that “relativism” was the major problem in the world. I said that while there might be universal “truths” one had to realize that others had different experiences and facts and backgrounds that influenced what they considered truth. You could try to enlighten them by providing additional information and reason with them…but one still had to give them the freedom to make their own judgements. I gave as an example a woman’s right to choose…to decide.
He then reached into a bag…pulled out a pair of tiny silver feet on a silver chain. He said “THAT’s A Six WEEK OLD Foetus”.
I then opened my laptop, pulled up a site that showed actual embryological images of human foetuses…found the six week level…and displayed it. I said, “NO THIS IS A SIX WEEK FOETUS”. You’ve shown my some feet…at a later stage.”
http://connection.lww.com/Prod…..e15-21.jpg
He strutted away…conversation over.
I can just imagine the shrub-general conversation: “So, Mushy-boy, look, I’m gettin’ so much flack from the bleedin heart libruls here an’ they want me to tell ya to take that uniform off and hold elections. K’.. now that we’ve gotten that out of the way… and don’t ya worry about all this posturin’.. it’ll all blow over in a few, lemme ask you a question ’bout coups, in case I have to carry one out. Well, actually I kinda already have, but usin’ guns an’ secret police an’ stuff is so much fun than just doin’ whatever it is Karen and Karl used to do for me… anyway.. can you gimme some advice? I mean, just in case. I mean, this military coup thing, is there a coups for dummies guide I might be able to borrow from you?”