MsGuy

OK, I see there's general agreement to pay the taxidermist for a full cape & shoulders mount. Now let's have a show of hands on the position of the head: traditional straight stare or tilted to his left like the deer?

Sometimes it's hard to untangle an honest effort to honor vets from an effort to brainwash young males on the glory of dying in some god-awful hellhole in furtherance of old man's notions of geopolitical strategy. Dolce et decorum est pro patria mori. Taken from a poem by the Roman poet Horace. To suffer hardness with good cheer, In sternest school of warfare bred, Our youth should learn; let steed and spear Make him one day the Parthian's dread; Cold skies, keen perils, brace his life. Methinks I see from rampired town Some battling tyrant's matron wife, Some maiden, look in terror down,— “Ah, my dear lord, untrain'd in war! O tempt not the infuriate mood Of that fell lion I see! from far He plunges through a tide of blood!” What joy, for fatherland to die! Death's darts e'en flying feet o'ertake, Nor spare a recreant chivalry, A back that cowers, or loins that quake

You stepped on one of my sore corns, AS. I have a clear memory of being irritated by that last comma even as far back as 9th grade English. It serves no purpose other than to interrupt the flow of the sentence. NONE, I tell you N-O-N-E!! So some dried up academic parroting the dicta of a 19th Oxford don he's spent the last 20 years studying in the most minute detail says that last serial comma is proper? Well I say to that. ----- Seriously, please explain the logic behind the comma.

LOL, one could also argue that carping against such a common and popularly accepted usage as "based on" evinces a curmudgeonly academic soul determined to squeeze every last drop of life out of the English language. Not that I would ever be so judgemental, AS.

Matthew 7:1-3 KJV 1 Judge not, that ye be not judged. 2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. 3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

Try as I may, I can't top the caption already provided.

Too bad about the play. I, too, had a thing for Sal Mineo even before I was real clear exactly what it meant that I had a thing for Sal Mineo, lol.

LOL, remember the old styptic pencils?

I'd suggest adding this one too: But I don't want to be called as a material witness in our very first banning trial.

LOL, who the hell still uses those old Gillette double bladed face slicers? I still remember reading about Gillette's invention of the first twin blade razor and waiting impatiently for over a year until they were finally released retail. 1968, maybe? I'm pretty sure there's nowhere in my home town that even sells the two sided blades any more. I think the old timey single edge blades are still sold in hardware and craft stores; some kinds of cutters uses the things as a disposable edge.

So I gather you didn't much care for the play?

Billie Holliday http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=rVwxCRy2jfI

OK, I found a couple of him taking off his shirt but nary a one of him reaching for those black pants. Anybody have any better luck?

What they said. Plus I'm using firefox or foxfire or whatever the fuck it's called. See... Change is Bad. But then I already told you that. Several times. ---- Anyways, I blame Oz. How many times do I have to tell him: you shouldn't select your programmers by how cute their asses are, Well, not ALL of them.

Does this mean I'm no longer Lord High Executioner? So what shall I tell Eric, my new headsman? Hmmm... Eric, sweetie, I think Mr. TY wants to see you this afternoon. Don't forget to take your best axe.

TY, darling, proposing moi as Lord High Executioner shows an appalling lack of judgement on your part. OFF WITH YOUR HEADS! BOTH OF THEM!

AS, near as I can tell, the old bulls (& their pay masters) are just about fed up with tea party. And more than a little scared of them too. Seems to be another case of "Don't conjure up demons you can't control." Good article, by the way, although it requires a bit of reading between the lines.

hahahahahahahahahaha...

I think it's more fundamental than that EXPAT. I suspect the monied wing of the party fears they are losing control; that the freak show wings of the party, useful if somewhat noisy in the past, have gotten completely off the reservation. What good does it do Silicon Valley to elect Republicans when the nativists block an immigration bill that would give them the tens of thousands of new visas they need to recruit top software engineers? What good does it do Wall Street and Big Business types to elect Republicans only to see them make a serious run at defaulting on the US debt. Whooping it up about Gays or aborted babies or Sharia law is all well and good and no doubt provides good entertainment for the great unwashed, but extending sequester another year instead of passing a budget has real consequences for the American economy. As I mentioned in another post, some of the traditional funders of the Republican party are seriously debating whether they should deliberately sabotage the 2014 Congressional elections in order to regain control of the party. The folks with money haven't been challenged for control of the Republican party since Teddy Roosevelt's Bull Moose days (LOL & that time they blew up the party & elected Woodrow Wilson president rather accomodate the Progressives).

In sub-saharan Africa circumcision is the rule in many areas. I'm under the impression that it's customary with some Arabs, although I could well be wrong about that. It used to be the custom to whack it off the first born son in one or two provinces of western France; can't remember which ones (odd the tidbit factoids one collects over the years , isn't it?). (Sorry, just added for comic relief) One additional factoid: You can be a good (observant) Jew and retain your foreskin. First one to post the circumstance under which this is allowed wins; 2 extra points for citing the relevant verse of the Torah.

Oddly enough, in classical times, getting face fucked was considered the vilest possible activity; getting butt fucked, not so much. The Romans even had a special word for it: irrumator...one who submits to fellate another man. I supposing the reverse would be true today so it's largely a cultural thing. Or maybe it's just that head cheese was more common way back then, circumcision being relatively rare amongst Romans and Greeks.

One interesting takeaway from this race is that many traditional party moneybags took a walk as a way of firing a shot across the bows of the radical wing of the party. For months donors from finance, big business and high tech have been kvetching that tea party types were behaving irresponsibly on immigration and fiscal issues (read: costing them money). There's been a (somewhat) organized movement to pull a cash boycott of tea party candidates during next year's election cycle. Some of the more irate fat cats are even talking of taking a page out of the tea party play book and sponsor primary opponents against congress critters who get too far off the reservation. Given the shift to the right in the party base, they might not have too much luck with more moderate pro-business candidates but could be successful in forcing incumbents to exaust limited funds and leaving them with a tarnished image with which to wage the general election.

hahahahahahahaha... Wait! Are you trying to tell me something, lookin?

Hmm... So what are you gonna do when some nasty whack-a-doodle starts high jacking threads & spouting racist non-sense but it's a slow week and you can't round up enough votes to deep 6 the guy? Say you can email enough of us to form a quorum to vote the guy off the island, it's still a 3 or 4 day process...what do we do in the meantime? And what the hell do we (meaning I) do when a couple of posters go to the mattresses over some nonsense, set their allies on each other and start bombarding us (meaning me) with PM's and e-mails demanding I (oops...we) join the brawl or be forever consigned to outer darkness? Why set up a procedure in the first place that just begs to be converted into a BN style meltdown? Personally, I liked the old benevolent dictatorship just fine, thank you very much. Seriously, some systems just do not lend themselves to overly democratic procedures. This is Oz's site and, if he's going to have a forum, then he's just going to have to put up with some occasional kvetching by posters who have taken a dislike for each other. Or maybe delegate the headache to you, LOL.

RA1, I would have thought that the Libertarian candidate pulling 6.5 % of the vote would have cheered you up. That's got to be a record (or damn near it).