February 11, 2008
Amateur hour: Maggie Williams takes over
as the campaign manager for SWMNBN. She has never run a campaign, much less a national one. Vince Foster was unavailable for comment. Via Drudge.
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February 10, 2008
Hmmm....
Read this article about reshuffling the management team at Clinton HQ.
Then read it while playing this on a parallel window:Posted by: Steve-O at 06:18 PM | Comments (17) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Teh funniest thing. Ever.
Why I love the intertubes, vol. XLII:
To: National Football League; Commissioner Roger GoodellThe Truth is out there. I, for one, blame Cheney and Halliburton. And the Illuminati. This is for you, Roger Goodell and Eli Manning, you rat bastards:
We the fans of the New England Patriots demand that the National Football League and Commissioner Roger Goodell review the last 1:40 minutes of the Super Bowl held February 3rd 2008. At 1:22 in the fourth quarter, after Jacobs attained a first down the clock was stopped. The following are the rules regarding clock management in a game. 1. The stadium game clock is official. In case it stops or is operating incorrectly, the Line Judge takes over the official timing on the field.
2. Each period is 15 minutes. The intermission between the periods is two minutes. Halftime is 12 minutes, unless otherwise specified.
3. On charged team time outs, the Field Judge starts watch and blows whistle after 1 minute 50 seconds, unless television does not utilize the time for commercial. In this case the length of the time out is reduced to 40 seconds.
4. The Referee will allow necessary time to attend to an injured player, or repair a legal player’s equipment.
5. Each team is allowed three time outs each half.
6. Time between plays will be 40 seconds from the end of a given play until the snap of the ball for the next play, or a 25-second interval after certain administrative stoppages and game delays.
7. Clock will start running when ball is snapped following all changes of team possession.
8. With the exception of the last two minutes of the first half and the last five minutes of the second half, the game clock will be restarted following a kickoff return, a player going out of bounds on a play from scrimmage, or after declined penalties when appropriate on the referee’s signal.
9. Consecutive team time outs can be taken by opposing teams but the length of the second time out will be reduced to 40 seconds.
10. When, in the judgment of the Referee, the level of crowd noise prevents the offense from hearing its signals, he can institute a series of procedures which can result in a loss of team time outs or a five-yard penalty against the defensive team.
Nowhere in the above rules does it state that in the conditions of what was happening on the clock should be stopped. Also in addition to this six seconds were added to the game clock. Had this illegal clock stoppage not occurred there would have been 40 seconds less time on the clock, 46 seconds less if you consider the six seconds added on after the play. This means that after that play, if the clock was running the way it is supposed to by the rulebook, there would only be 42 seconds left on the clock. Furthermore if this was not enough on the subsequent play time was not taken off during the play followed by a random flashing of numbers on the clock.
The following drive took the Giants a total of 52 seconds on the game clock from the point that six seconds were added to the clock. However if the time was managed the way it was supposed to be there would have been no time left on the clock after Eli Manning was tackled at :50 seconds on the game clock. This irrefutable proof demands that Super Bowl XLII be reviewed from the point of the first illegal stoppage.
We the fans of the NFL demand that Commissioner investigate this matter as it is in his ability and it is his responsibility. The following is what the commissioner may do in this matter. Commissioner’s Authority
The Commissioner has sole authority to investigate and to take appropriate disciplinary or corrective measures if any club action, nonparticipant interference, or emergency occurs in an NFL game which he deems so unfair or outside the accepted tactics encountered in professional football that such action has a major effect on the result of a game.
No Club Protests
The authority and measures provided for in this section (UNFAIR ACTS) do not constitute a protest machinery for NFL clubs to dispute the result of a game. The Commissioner will conduct an investigation under this section only to review an act or occurrence that he deems so unfair that the result of the game in question may be inequitable to one of the participating teams. The Commissioner will not apply his authority under this section when a club registers a complaint concerning judgmental errors or routine errors of omission by game officials. Games involving such complaints will continue to stand as completed.
Penalties for Unfair Acts
The Commissioner’s powers under this section (UNFAIR ACTS) include the imposition of monetary fines and draft choice forfeitures, suspension of persons involved, and, if appropriate, the reversal of a game’s result or the rescheduling of a game, either from the beginning or from the point at which the extraordinary act occurred. In the event of rescheduling a game, the Commissioner will be guided by the procedures specified above ("Procedures for Starting and Resuming Games" under EMERGENCIES). In all cases, the Commissioner will conduct a full investigation, including the opportunity for hearings, use of game videotape, and any other procedures he deems appropriate. Please do the right thing and investigate this game.
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A little Sunday parsing
The Clinton camp is braced for Mr Obama to win a series of primary elections over the next three weeks, which they fear could hand the Illinois senator unstoppable momentum in the race for the White House. Mr Obama has begun calling those "super delegates" - 795 congressmen and senior party officials who could break a dead heat - who are committed to Mrs Clinton, asking them to change their minds and help him wrap up the nomination. As of tonight, the two candidates were neck and neck but Mr Obama appeared to be gaining momentum. "He's saying: 'Hey, I won your state and I won your congressional district, why are you supporting her?'" a Democrat strategist revealed. The Clinton camp hopes to stop the Obama bandwagon by winning Texas and Ohio primaries on March 4, after which Mrs Clinton is planning to call on party grandees including Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives and Harry Reid, the party's leader in the Senate, to persuade Mr Obama to stand down. Clinton aides have privately admitted that Mr Obama would only consider such a move if offered the position of vice presidential running mate, something Mrs Clinton has always been reluctant to consider. A senior Democrat who has discussed Clinton campaign thinking with a member of her inner circle said: "The Clintons are in a state of panic. She has to win both Texas and Ohio." But he added that this might prove impossible if Mr Obama maintains his momentum and wins most, or all, of the nine contests which come before that.This piece from The Telegraph is a wonderful bit of flim-flammery of Vintage Clinton. To quote Joe Mantegna's character in House of Games, "That's a dinosaur con. You have to go to a museum to see a frame like that." First is the set-up: somehow, Hillary (or much more likely Bill) is going to corral Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid into forcing the Messiah from pulling out of the race when it enters into the March 11-April 22 Dead Zone. The delivery: He would of course be more than willing to do so because the Queen is now willing to deign Him eligible to be her VP. Hilarity. First of all, who else in the party right now---let alone Nancy and Harry, who share a popularity approval level that, when added together, is still lower than the Chimperor---can make that call? Dean-O? The story's almost so preposterous to sound like it was planted by one of Obama's people. The more likely scenario is that going into the Dead Zone Hillary's going to be on the receiving end of those type of calls. And we can look forward then to five weeks of the buzzards slowly circling the Clinton campaign. The only thing that could potentially save her? Heck, a state funeral or something. The grieving widow's tears cannot be mocked. If I were Bill, I'd be staying out of the vicinity of Ft. Marcy Park from now on.
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Dumbassery from the pulpit
My text for today is “Hold fast that which is good”: 1 Thessalonians 5:21. These are words I heard so regularly in prayers at my Anglican girls’ school that I have been unable to forget them. I draw them to the attention of the Archbishop of Canterbury, who seems to have forgotten them. At least, he seems to be losing his grip on what is good in this country and, indeed, to be throwing it away with both hands in his curious suggestion that aspects of sharia should be recognised in English law. In an interview on Radio 4 last Thursday, Rowan Williams said that the introduction of parts of Islamic law here would help to maintain social cohesion and seems unavoidable. Sharia courts exist already, he pointed out. We should “face up to the fact” that some British citizens do not relate to the British legal system, he said, and that Muslims should not have to choose between “the stark alternatives of cultural loyalty or state loyalty”. What he went on to say was more astonishing. He explained to the interviewer, in his gentle, wordy way, that a lot of what is written on this confusing subject suggests “the ideal situation is one in which there is one law and only one law for everybody”. He went on: “That principle is an important pillar of our social identity as a western liberal democracy.” How true. However, he continued: “It’s a misunderstanding to suppose that that means people don’t have other affiliations, other loyalties, which shape and dictate how they behave in society, and the law needs to take some account of that.” Stuff like this is bad for the blood pressure, but I listened on. “An approach to law which simply said there is one law for everybody and that is all there is to be said . . . I think that’s a bit of a danger.” What danger? And to whom? The danger, surely, is rather the archbishop and those who think like him, who seem unwilling to hold fast that which is good. What is good and best and essential about our society � it isn’t merely a matter of “social identity” � is the principle of equality before the law. That principle and its practice have made this country the outstandingly just and tolerant state it is; it is one of the last remaining forces for unity as well. What is also good and essential to this country is the law itself. It has evolved over centuries from medieval barbarities into something, for all its faults, that is civilised. Our law expresses and maintains the best virtues of our society. Anybody who does not accept it does not belong here. When other legal systems or other customs clash with ours, we prefer ours, to put it mildly. At least we should; what has troubled me for years is the way that exceptions and excuses tend to be made, in the name of multiculturalism, for practices of which we do not approve. Victoria Climbié’s terrible bruises were ignored because of assumptions about the cultural norms of African discipline. Last week it emerged that someone in government has sold the moral pass on polygamy: husbands with multiple wives in this country are now to get benefit payments for each wife. In the midst of all this moral confusion and relativism, is the premier prelate in the land holding fast that which is good? Far from it. He is recommending multiculti legal cherry-picking, in which individuals would be free to choose the jurisdiction they preferred for certain matters. He even admits that his proposal introduces, “uncomfortably”, the idea of a market in the law, “a competition for loyalty”. One encouraging sign is the almost universal fury that our foolish archbishop has aroused: he has miraculously united the irreconcilable in opposition to himself, from Christian extremists to mainstream Muslims, from Anglican vicars to godless Hampstead liberals, from Gordon Brown to backwoods Tories. The archbishop and his few supporters insist that the media have misrepresented him and not many people have actually read the learned speech that he gave to a learned audience after his inflammatory radio interview. They are wrong. I haven’t seen any serious misrepresentation in the media, and reading his speech several times doesn’t exonerate him. Nor does it increase respect for his judgment, his command of English or his powers of ratiocination; he is woolly of face and woolly of mind. In any case, you do not need to follow anybody’s argument to understand that legally recognising aspects of sharia is either unnecessary or undesirable. If the aspects in question accord with English law (the Anglican archbishop is speaking of England, presumably), there is no need to offer any extra provision or recognition for religious courts. They are of no interest to the law. If they don’t accord with English law, they are unacceptable and should be repudiated, or even prosecuted. All this has nothing particularly to do with it being Islamic law at issue. The same would apply to any other religious law: Hindu, Mormon or wiccan. However, there is a lot to be said against sharia and the desire of a reported 40% of British Muslims to live under it. That explains, in part, the present outrage. Sharia is rightly feared here: it is disputed, sometimes primitive, grievously in need of reform and wholly unacceptable in Britain. So what possessed this troublesome priest to stir up this predictable fury with his divisive and unnecessary suggestions? Why did he choose to speak not just in a quiet academic meeting but also in the public glare of The World at One? And cui bono? It has most certainly not been good for ordinary British Muslims, as they well understand. It has, however, given comfort to Muslim extremists, who will see this as the thin end of their Islamist wedge. Williams’s behaviour looks like vainglorious attention-seeking, but it is also something much worse. To seek to undermine our legal system and the values on which it rests, in a spirit of unnecessary appeasement to an alien set of values, is a kind of treason. It is a betrayal of all those who struggled and died here, over the centuries, for freedom and equality under the rule of law and of their courage in the face of injustice and unreason. Theirs is the good that we should hold fast and so of all people should the Archbishop of Canterbury. Otherwise, what is he for?Not much to disagree with there: on this type of thing, he is, as Bugs Bunny would say, a maroon. (And no, this isn't a change of views on the Archbishop from the other day when Robbo first posted on this: I went with a joking response, dipping into the 6MB Secret LLama Archives of Goofy Pontiff Pics, and everybody got their panties in a wad. Geez.) What can I say, it's Wabbit Season. Yips! from Robbo: Perhaps my very favorite Bugs/Daffy 'toon. And, because it's too good not to use somewhere, I give you this:
"I. AM. OOOOOOOZZZZZ!!!!!" PAY no attention to that Quisling behind the curtain!!!
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Maverick v. The Huck
I had planned to cast a protest vote for Romney in Tuesday's Virginia primary but I will reluctantly punch the ballot for Maverick. Primaries are low turnout affairs and a vote for anyone else is effectively a vote for Huckabee, despite the substantial lead in the polls.
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February 09, 2008
Primary Math
McCain is losing tonight in a caucuses in Kansas, Washington, and LA.
The math going forward is pretty clear: he needs to win in Virginia and Maryland on Tuesday, then Wisconsin, Texas and Ohio by March 4th. This will put him about 60 votes short of the nomination. Early March is crucial because both parties intentionally put a "Dead Zone" into the race: there are NO primaries between March 11th in Mississippi, and April 22 in Pennsylvania. There intention was to give the nominees--who were supposed to have been picked last Tuesday--the chance to decompress, raise money, and gear up for the general election. Instead, it's going to be a five week version for politics what the "off" week is before the Super Bowl: a chance for the entire Washington press corps to go absolutely bonkers. No news will be able to move the central narrative on the Democratic side---who's up or down in the delegate horserace--so it's going to be five solid weeks of hyperventilated non-story stories. McCain's going to want to be in the clear before this happens, and the press would like nothing better than to drag the Republicans into the uncertain nomination story, if only to give it more dimensions.Posted by: Steve-O at 10:27 PM | Comments (11) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Oh, more of THIS please
Read THIS article, I implore you, and hear me cackling in wicked laughter all the way to my bowling night for the local Sith Lords lodge.
The angry left has a fever, and the only cure is.......purging their leadership in Congress as well as the "bums" they elected in 2006. And maybe, just maybe, if we're lucky and don't immolate ourselves first and worst, we can take Rahm Emanuel's triumphant fist and shove it completely up his arse.Posted by: Steve-O at 09:53 PM | Comments (17) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Ipod Nation: Resistence Is Futile
The Missus got herself an Ipod not too long ago, with which she and the Llama-ettes have been delightedly fiddling, while introducing such terms into the household "syncing" and suddenly becoming the latest experts on the subject of downloads, memory upgrades and playlists.
This has awakened the Luddite in me (never a sound sleeper to begin with), and until a few days ago, I scoffed at the whole business. That is until they sidled up to me and casually announced that they had downloaded "Silly Hat" from the Blue's Clues album, a song to which they know I am hopelessly addicted. Newman! Well, I gave the Ipod a whirl while going for a run the other evening, but discovered it was NBG, as I could barely hear anything - evidently, my ears are not shaped in a way to get the speakers aligned properly. Nonetheless, I have been taking it off on the sly and indulging in a porkpie, pillbox, panama, tiara, turban, fez and sombrero.Posted by: Robert at 01:14 PM | Comments (12) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Boxer at the Baby Gate
Mrs. LMC brought two tabbys into our marriage, know affectionately as either "The Girls" (by Mrs. LMC) or "The Orange Menace" (by yours truly). These felines are refugees from her days working in the admissions office at a certain woman's college in central Virginia, and now are about thirteen years old, fat and cantankerous, and never worked out an understanding with either our dog or her sainted predecessor. We are convinced the cats torment the dog when we are out, telling her things such as: "We are going to eat you when you are dead" and "The humans are going to replace you with a stuffed golden retriever any day now." Recently, they developed the annoying habit of tracking kitty litter bits everywhere in our room, not to mention walking on our heads in the middle of the night. Mrs. LMC finally moved them upstairs with the litter box a few days ago, blocking the stairs with a baby gate to keep the boxer from imposing The Final Solution on her tormentors. The dog spends an inordinate amount of time watching the gate, waiting patiently to make her move. Stay tuned to see if the cats understand their predicament and go "feline 300" .
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"Good Morning! Good Morning! Good Morning-ah!" ***
At crack of dawn this morning:
"Mom! Dad! There's a dead mouse in the kitchen and it's beheaded! Blood everywhere!" Yum. I should note I am very proud that instead of panicking, the gels dealt with the mess themselves, picking up the remains with paper towel and swiffering the entire area. This is the second mouse in three nights. We usually have a little grey variety living within the walls and floorboards of Orgle Manor, but these two have been larger and browner. First time I can recall field mice in the house. Must be Global Warming or sumpin'.***Spot the quote. My apologies if the transcription isn't completely accurate. CAN I HAZ MOWSBRGRZ? UPDATE:
Yes, Mother of Gawd, it's cat-blogging. This is Bella, the younger of our two cats and the principal mouser of the household. I've been having problems with the comments all morning, so I'll just repeat here that although she's cute in an ugly way, and although she loves to curl up in my lap and purr loudly, I never lose sight of the fact that she would cheerfully take my head off if I were the size of a mouse.
UPDATE DEUX: Still having trouble with the quote? Here's a hint: Who would out-rank Corporal Salt?
CHAGRINED ANSWER-REVEALING UPDATE:
Good Lord - Am I that old?
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Oh, It's On!!
SWMNBN has declared war on MSNBC for a certain (and, yes, offsides) comment from the network about her daughter.
What's that "whipping" sound I hear? Could it be a BACKLASH? Yep. Sit back. Watch. Do NOT interfere. Keep you hands at all times inside the compartment. This is going to be interesting.Posted by: Gary at 12:44 AM | Comments (13) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
February 08, 2008
Stop the presses
Friday afternoon stupid:
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What's the carbon footprint created from burning a heretic at the stake?
This would be hilarious if he wasn't actually quite serious:
David Suzuki has called for political leaders to be thrown in jail for ignoring the science behind climate change. At a Montreal conference last Thursday, the prominent scientist, broadcaster and Order of Canada recipient exhorted a packed house of 600 to hold politicians legally accountable for what he called an intergenerational crime. Though a spokesman said yesterday the call for imprisonment was not meant to be taken literally, Dr. Suzuki reportedly made similar remarks in an address at the University of Toronto last month. The proposal has lit up many conservative blogs since it was first reported by the McGill Daily on Monday. Addressing the McGill Business Conference on Sustainability, hosted by the Faculty of Management, Dr. Suzuki's wide-ranging speech warned against favouring the economy to the detriment of the ecology -- the tarsands in Northern Alberta being his prime example. "You have lived your entire lives in a completely unsustainable period," he told students and fans. "You all think growth and [climate] change is normal. It's not." Toward the end of his speech, Dr. Suzuki said that "we can no longer tolerate what's going on in Ottawa and Edmonton" and then encouraged attendees to hold politicians to a greater green standard. "What I would challenge you to do is to put a lot of effort into trying to see whether there's a legal way of throwing our so-called leaders into jail because what they're doing is a criminal act," said Dr. Suzuki, a former board member of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. "It's an intergenerational crime in the face of all the knowledge and science from over 20 years." The statement elicited rounds of applause. "He sounded serious," said McGill Tribune news editor Vincci Tsui, who covered the event. "I think he wanted to send home the message that this is very crucial issue." When asked for further comment, Dan Maceluch, a spokesman for Dr. Suzuki, said that he did not mean the statement to be taken literally. "He's not advocating locking people up, but he is pulling his hair out." How a law concerning climate-change denial could be enforced baffled at least one leading criminal-law expert. "We used to have an offence of spreading false news," said Kent Roach, the Prichard-Wilson Chair of Law and Public Policy at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. "But that was struck down by the Supreme Court." Yet there could be a better blueprint for Dr. Suzuki's legal scenario. The Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act, a Liberal-sponsored private member's bill that passed and was given Royal Assent last year, legally requires the Conservative government to abide by the international pact's short-term environmental targets. In the event that conditions are not met, government officials are held liable. "Every person who contravenes a regulation made under this Act is guilty of an offence punishable by indictment or on summary conviction, as prescribed by the regulations," the act reads, "and liable to a fine or to imprisonment as prescribed by the regulations." The act adds that there are further legal measures in the event of subsequent and continuing offences, but does not specify the penalties.Blasphemy against St. Alban will not be tolerated. Except how does Apollo fit into the cosmological theology of the Gaia worshipers? Angry male god, anybody?
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I picked a bad year to give up meth and Red Bull for Lent, part Deux
You know what we need this year?
We've had Youtube sponsor debates, politico, all the rest. Now it's time for CNN to co-sponsor a debate with.............World of Warcraft. Just think of it: a candidate debate on the big screen featuring their WofW avatars. Finally, a debate I would watch.Posted by: Steve-O at 03:15 PM | Comments (11) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
I picked a bad year to give up meth and Red Bull for Lent
Woke up with this song in my head:
Question: is it just me, or does Bono look here a little bit too much like the chick singer for the Pretenders? Which leads me to this part of Friday Stupid: the derivative music video genre, where yahoos with too much time on their hands reenact famous music videos:I've always had a chuckle that Rush uses this song as his main theme: it's a bitching song with a great hook. Here's the antidote: Aiiiiiie, that's the good stuff. FRIDAY PENANCE UPDATE: Obviously, I didn't give up being a snarky jackass for Lent this year, but I'm trying to make amends. So I just ordered this for Mrs. P. to make up for my impertinent posting of the Pope dressing like a cowboy:
The Abbot? He's getting the JP2 bobblehead:
You know I love you guys, even though I scored a "B-UTT-HD" on Meyers Briggs.
Yips! from Robbo: That's our Steve-O! Yip! Yip! Yip!Posted by: Steve-O at 11:19 AM | Comments (14) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Aiiiiieee!!!! My Eyes!
They burn! They buuuurrrrn!!!!
What would it be like to walk into Oprah Winfrey's consciousness? You can get close by walking into the new Oprah Store, a mishmash of the star's sayings, passions, gurus and even her closet, right down the street from Harpo Studios on Chicago's Near West Side. Perhaps you'd need to make a purchase and delve deeper into the experience. In that case, feel stress-free in an Oprah nightgown and baby-soft socks, writing in your "Passion" journal while sipping hot tea from a mug emblazoned with one of Oprah's favorite quotes. "Live Your Own Dreams" is always a heart-warmer. It's all about comfort and self-expression -- and lots of attention from hovering salespeople -- at the store at 37 N. Carpenter, set off by large acrylic O's that light up at night on the entry walkway. Inside, bamboo, pastel colors and a brightly lighted loft set the tone. Oprah fans have had a week to browse the 5,500-square-foot store. The most popular item? On Thursday morning, 70 shoppers snapped up $13 cosmetics bags decorated with blue, yellow, pink and purple O's. The setting ranges from subtle messages -- small O's hardly visible on the pockets of workout shirts and pants -- to out-and-out Oprah worship, with photos of Oprah and her favorite causes on the walls, and a TV mounted on a wall rerunning "The Oprah Winfrey Show's" 20th anniversary special.
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Gratuitous Scrooge McLlama Posting
Since it appears my family is officially capped out of the Guv'mint's tax rebate scheme, I hereby announce my opposition to it.
Now pardon me while I go toss a couple more bundles of hundreds on the fire. Or better yet, I'll get the second footman to do it.Posted by: Robert at 10:12 AM | Comments (14) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
"A Brilliant Idea!"
"Yes?"
"That's what we need, a brilliant idea." *** This morning the Missus and I were chatting about her curricular plans at St. Marie of the Blessed Educational Method. Specifically, we were discussing her upcoming science topics. (She is incorporating science into her general classroom package this year. Next year she is going to be the o-fficial floating science teacher for the elementary kids.) Among those topics are a lot of what they call "Earth Sciences" matters - geology, biology, meteorology and so on. And among the projects she mentioned for her students was one involving composting. This started a train of thought clanking out of its siding in the cluttered and confused depot of my head. Why couldn't the Earth Sciences curriculum include a project or projects in the gardens and grounds of Orgle Manor itself? I mean, surely such tasks as laying sod in the side yard, clearing out deadwood from the azalia hedges, pruning back rosebushes and weeding the garden (all of which will need to be done), would be educational? Furthermore, most parents in our rayther snooty corner of Northern Virginia would pay thousands of dollars for such a hands-on experience for little Liam and Ashtyn, so long as it was packaged with a name like "Potomac Reserve Eco-Immersion Experience for Gifted Young Adults". Heck, if the little blighters were to show up ready to work, I'd pay them. I brooded on this idea all the way in on my commute and frankly, I still can't find anything wrong with it.(***Spot the quote. The post title is included as part of the exchange in the original.) UPDATE: We have a winner! The quoted exchange is between Pseudolus and Hysterium in the movie A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum. Incidentally, the name Pseudolus, which means the "lying slave" was lifted from a play of that name by the Roman comic playwrite Plautus, as was much of the plot of AFTHOTWTTF. The character Miles Gloriosus, a braggart soldier, was also lifted from a play by Plautus called Miles Gloriosus, which means, well, "the braggart soldier" and is, well, about a braggart soldier.
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They'll Do It Every Time
How is it that the only time the Llama-ettes remember to flush the potty in their bathroom is when I'm trying to take a shower in mine?
My scalded llama backside asks merely for information.....Posted by: Robert at 09:16 AM | Comments (14) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
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