MsGuy

English is a tasty dish but I agree, you can't go wrong with a tongue like that.

There's a bit of discreet mumbling among the talking heads on ESPN that the Yankees may be taking a dive against the Rays in order to oust the Red Sox.

Add $172 to the bill?

After all the prompting, I decided to check out Inspector Morse. I do remember the show! I think I didn't make the connection because Lewis looks so much different now. Or maybe I really am just loosing it.

ahahahahaha

Bright, from a theatrical family, hates toffs, prone to fights and skirt chasing (expelled from Harrow for the latter two traits ). Now happily married, one kid. Or the casting couch of my local little theater. Hey, I can dream, can't I?

Didn't know that. Maybe the TV gods will re-run them for me some day. Me too, so just for the two of us, Dectective Sargent Hathaway (Lawrence Fox) in another incarnation:

Masterpiece Theater on PBS is currently running the Inspector Lewis series (BBC import). I meant to reccomend this to y'all last year but kept forgetting. Sometimes I think I'm losing it; others I just wonder what it is I lost. Set around Oxford, the series plays off the relationship between Lewis (short tempered, blunt, middle aged traditional copper and his junior, Sgt. Hathaway (tall, lanky, educated blond, cute if you like that raw boned narrow skulled English type ). If you like those convoluted Brit murder mysteries, give this a try. It's worth it just for the intelligent writing and the assortment of provincial English accents on offer.

Cat must have been declawed.

Just discovered this piece of bureaucratic insanity. It seems that, while gays separated from the services under DADT were being given honorable discharges, by fiat of the Sec. of Def. they were entitled to only 1/2 the severance pay due others in like circumstances. A certain Staff Sgt. Richard Collins, feeling that adding economic injury to insult was just a bit too much, engaged the ACLU to help him recover $12,351 the Air Force gypped him out of. Judge Christene Miller, the Federal Claims Court judge assigned the case, is questioning the wisdom of the Justice Department lawyers in pursuing their efforts to have the case dismissed in light of the recent demise of DADT. One can only hope that, just this once, common sense and common decency will prevail over bureaucratic inertia, even within the bowels of the Justice Department. Stick it to 'em, Staff Sergent!!

What is the world coming to? If you can't trust professional poker players who make their living separating folks from their money, who can you trust?

Shows what you know, lookin: 1) The Ottoman Sultan (remember him?) held theoretical title to all land in the Mid-East not specifically conveyed to some private party. The state of Israel is successor in title to the Sultan (Sultan>England>Jordan>Israel). As much of the land of the West Bank is held by tradition rather than written title, many Pals are actually just squatters on Israeli land and subject to being turfed off all legal like. Not buying that? Then: 2) The Pals already have their own country (Jordan is majority Pal). If they don't like the way Israel runs things, they should move to Jordan. Refusal to leave is prima facia evidence of malicious intent. Still don't get it? How about: 3) What about all the poor heredim who need somewhere cheap to live? Rents in Israel proper are sky high. They want move to settlements, they move to settlements. It's impossible to stop them. Still puzzled? 4) G-- gave Judea and Samaria to the Jews. How is a policy keeping Judea and Samaria free of Jews any different than the Nazi policy of a Judenrein Europe? ---- All of the above and more can be found on the pages of the online versions of The Jerusalem Post (center-right) and Haaretz (leftish), the two largest newspapers in Israel. This kind of stuff passes for serious political debate in Israel. So who's asking them to agree to anything? They had their chance, they blew it and now Israel is through with asking. ---- The reality is that the political discourse on the Pal side is clogged with equally insane rubbish. To quote KMEM, "The whole situation makes my head hurt."

About 20%, give or take, KMEM. It would have been around 35% by now but for massive immigration in the last 2 decades, mostly from Russia and the Ukraine under the 'right of return'. Yes!

My understanding is that discarged gays can apply for re-enlistment on the same basis as any other honorably discharged former serviceman. Re-enlistment applications are judged on the basis of age, need for particular military skill sets, prior service record, etc. No special allowance for being involutarily separated, no compensation for lost years and no re-instatement at prior rank. ---- Anton: The missing word is "men".

So as of 12:01 AM, Sept. 20, 2011, DADT is is dead. I had to post something to memorialize the day. When I was young, it wasn't so much that I didn't believe I would live long enough to see this day as that I couldn't conceive a world where it was even thinkable. I have good reason to believe that my father (WWII marine, decorated, battle field promotion to sgt., refused to accept a battle field promotion to lieutenant) was gay. Don't know for sure because by the time I was mature enough to put all the clues together, he had died and I couldn't ask. I wish he had lived long enough to share this day with me.

Are we talking Nancy Grace the dead baby ghoul? That gal seriously creeps me out.

Big, big if. I think we can all agree on that, Hito.

lookin, that has to be one of the most deliciously well-written comedic posts I've ever had the delight of reading. I begin to suspect you wrote professionally in some prior incarnation. ---- oh, by the way: zaftig "alluringly plump, curvaceous, buxom," 1937, from Yiddish zaftik, lit. "juicy," from zaft "juice," from M.H.G. saft "juice".

OZ, have I told you lately that you're my hero?

Not at all. I learned months ago to cover everything in Saran Wrap before reading Epi's posts.

Don't forget Dodger Stadium. Dodger Stadium's worst showing ever Earlier this week, about 30 minutes before a Dodgers game, a picture of the near-empty stands at Dodger Stadium made the rounds on Twitter, and things got worse Wednesday. It's the smallest crowd I've seen in my 23 years of following the Dodgers. It might be the smallest crowd in the 49-year history of Dodger Stadium. The official attendance is 27,767, the second-lowest of the season, but that accounts for the number of tickets sold, not the number of actual people in seats. This is surely the worst. This is surely not even close. Eleven sections are completely vacant. Most of the pavilion sections are in single digits. The left-field corner section, previously known as Mannywood, is Deadwood, inhabited by precisely 20 people. Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/morning-jolt/09/01/0901/index.html#ixzz1YBT6Wkpu Probably more the result of the McCourt fiasco more than anything else.

So that's what a slide is...too fashion forward for around here.

You might want to think that over a bit, BBB. I ran across some really hinky stuff in their Anti-Torrorism Act while I was looking for the above link. ---- Err, TY, you do understand we're talking about the English here... hee hee hee

Surprisingly intriguing question. I found a foto dated September this year but no occasion mentioned. Might be the dated posted, rather than taken. I'm not too good at this stuff. Other than that, the only photographic evidence of the two of them together was taken at some Saudi official function back in February.

Oh! Boy do I feel dumb...