"When I'm here, people call me Mr. Congressman. When I'm home, people call me 'Jack, you stupid SOB, why did you vote that way?' It keeps me grounded."
I'm sure there are lots of people in Washington who would be willing to call him a stupid SOB on a regular basis. Problem solved.
ok, details.. & I MEAN DETAILS
Just the usual stuff -- you know: quickies under the bleachers at the volleyball tournament, orgies with her and her twin sister, fellatio on the hood of the cheerleaders' convertible during the homecoming parade...
Seriously, Cathy Bachman moved into town when she was a junior and I was a senior. We had a movie date and I took her to the Senior Kegger at graduation. When she became famous, someone had to tell me it was the same girl at our school.
My other brush with fame was wandering into a pizza place with a couple friends and discovering the Huron High School cheerleading squad. We invited the six of them to a local dance and I spent most of the evening dancing with a very pretty blonde named Cheryl Jean Stoppelmoor. You know her today as Cheryl Ladd.
Angela Cartwright
roryk, don't mean to hurt you, but I didn't need a crush on Catherine Bach -- I actually went out with her a couple of times in high school.
Wow. Another REMF playing at being a real soldier. If that printer was paid for using government funds, that man deserves an Article 15. If it was his own printer, then why shouldn't HP charge him for support?
"Hey, HP, my mom's hairdresser's cousin lives near a Coast Guard base, so we're protecting you from all them terruristics. Give me a free computer."
weezel I was disremembering, so I Googled both versions of that line before I posted. The version I quoted had 3 times the hits as yours, so I went with it. Maybe we've got another "Play it again, Sam" or "We don't need no stinkin' badges" on our hands.
I really wish y'all would name the movies.
Mine in order:
The Big Lebowski
Alien
They Live
Candy
DC Cab
Support Your Local Sheriff
Usual Suspects
The Warriors
Animal House
"The Dude abides"
"I say we take off and nuke the site from space"
"I've come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubblegum"
"Hey, you can't bring a frozen guru into California"
"What do women want? They have half the money and all the pussy"
"Pooberty hit her hard"
"I believe in God, and I fear Keyzer Soze"
"War-ee-ors, come out and play-ay"
"You fucked up. You trusted us"
We used to play several chess versions, all based on variations of how pieces could move:
Superking -- King has added capability of moving like a knight.
Superpawn -- Pawns move like the king, but can only capture diagonally.
Naked Chess -- No pawns except for king's and queen's. Those can move like the king and capture in any direction.
Dynasty -- Any piece reaching the opponents baseline may be promoted to the next higher value piece providing that higher value piece has already been captured. If a king is in checkmate, the queen moved to the opponent's baseline may be promoted to king unless the baseline move would put her in check.
Assassin -- Once a game, any single piece can move like any other piece provided the move produces a check. After the opponent moves, the piece must be removed from the board.
Traitor -- Once a game, you may replace any of your opponent's pieces (excluding the king) with one of your own providing the exchange doesn't place your opponent in check. The exchange counts as a move.
1) Safari now has RSS. You can even map an RSS feed to your screen saver. Does anyone know if you can pipe an RSS feed to a text-to-speech function?
2) Spotlight may redefine how you organize files. If you set up Smart Folders with searches for pertinent keywords, you can have the equivalent of one file being in multiple folders at one time. Spotlight also updates the Smart Folders in realtime. Does anyone know if Spotlight can index MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint yet?
3) Xgrid is flying under the radar right now. This is the network utility that allows clustered computing. You can distribute large tasks across the network to other Macs. If developers take advantage of this, you could shave serious time off all those CPU-intensive tasks.
A) Dashboard loses a lot of its functionality if you don't have an always-on connection or if your firewall blocks certain sites.
B) I don't like the new Mail UI. YMMV.
C) At times, Tiger seems peppy, but at other times everything slows down to molasses speed. I haven't had enough patience to open any Help files yet (either that or the Help Viewer crashes every time I use it -- it just sits there with the Spinning Beachball of Contempt mocking my ignorance of the topics it's protecting.)
The price is fair for this type of upgrade. Apple backed themselves into a corner with the OS "X" thing -- OS "XI" isn't as sexy, so all new versions have designators that look like incremental point upgrades. This is not a patch; it's as much an upgrade as Longhorn is to XP (with the exception that, you know, Tiger has actually shipped).
Anybody read the entire notice? Especially this part: "The law firms representing the Plaintiffs and the Settlement Class intend to apply to the Court for an award of attorneys' fees and for approval of reimbursement of out-of-pocket litigation costs not to exceed $2,700,000." Man, that $7 looks like a really sweet deal.
I saw the change fairly quickly -- maybe 3 or 4 flashes -- but I had to go back and look for several minutes to find the rabbit. I guess I'm suffering from Fudd Syndrome or something.
I decided to remove everything that was snark, self-righteousness, self-promotion, and sophistry from the article. The only thing left was the byline. If I had ever heard of this guy before, I would have had to remove that on grounds of name-dropping.
If I were Apple, I'd be against Harmony because it restricts design decisions. What happens if Harmony becomes widespread and a future iPod breaks it? Will Real get blamed when all those songs no longer play? If Apple wants to implement something new that would break Harmony, would they have to consult with (or even pay) Real to develop a new version of Harmony? While it might be a good feature for owners of songs from RealNetworks, Harmony is a parasite from Apple's point of view.
It might have been the ghosts that provided the impetus for his record. I have this vision of him doing a "Feet, don't fail me now" and rocketing up and over the tip of the mountain like it was a ski jump, followed by a diminishing yowl all the way down the reverse slope.
"When I'm here, people call me Mr. Congressman. When I'm home, people call me 'Jack, you stupid SOB, why did you vote that way?' It keeps me grounded." I'm sure there are lots of people in Washington who would be willing to call him a stupid SOB on a regular basis. Problem solved.
posted by afj 17 years ago
In "Curious George wants to play house."
ok, details.. & I MEAN DETAILS Just the usual stuff -- you know: quickies under the bleachers at the volleyball tournament, orgies with her and her twin sister, fellatio on the hood of the cheerleaders' convertible during the homecoming parade... Seriously, Cathy Bachman moved into town when she was a junior and I was a senior. We had a movie date and I took her to the Senior Kegger at graduation. When she became famous, someone had to tell me it was the same girl at our school. My other brush with fame was wandering into a pizza place with a couple friends and discovering the Huron High School cheerleading squad. We invited the six of them to a local dance and I spent most of the evening dancing with a very pretty blonde named Cheryl Jean Stoppelmoor. You know her today as Cheryl Ladd.
posted by afj 17 years ago
Angela Cartwright roryk, don't mean to hurt you, but I didn't need a crush on Catherine Bach -- I actually went out with her a couple of times in high school.
posted by afj 17 years ago
In "Thank you choosing HP."
Wow. Another REMF playing at being a real soldier. If that printer was paid for using government funds, that man deserves an Article 15. If it was his own printer, then why shouldn't HP charge him for support? "Hey, HP, my mom's hairdresser's cousin lives near a Coast Guard base, so we're protecting you from all them terruristics. Give me a free computer."
posted by afj 17 years ago
In "The most horrific car crash you'll ever see"
bernockle, I think we should make a movie outta your description there We can call it "The Aristocrats".
posted by afj 18 years ago
In "Chop chop!"
These have worked well for me.
posted by afj 18 years ago
In "Is Bill Watterson working undercover?"
...saying 'Family Circus is terrible' might be trite Not trite. Redundant. And understated.
posted by afj 18 years ago
In "The American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest movie quotes of all time."
weezel I was disremembering, so I Googled both versions of that line before I posted. The version I quoted had 3 times the hits as yours, so I went with it. Maybe we've got another "Play it again, Sam" or "We don't need no stinkin' badges" on our hands. I really wish y'all would name the movies. Mine in order: The Big Lebowski Alien They Live Candy DC Cab Support Your Local Sheriff Usual Suspects The Warriors Animal House
posted by afj 18 years ago
"The Dude abides" "I say we take off and nuke the site from space" "I've come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubblegum" "Hey, you can't bring a frozen guru into California" "What do women want? They have half the money and all the pussy" "Pooberty hit her hard" "I believe in God, and I fear Keyzer Soze" "War-ee-ors, come out and play-ay" "You fucked up. You trusted us"
posted by afj 18 years ago
In "Fairy Chess"
We used to play several chess versions, all based on variations of how pieces could move: Superking -- King has added capability of moving like a knight. Superpawn -- Pawns move like the king, but can only capture diagonally. Naked Chess -- No pawns except for king's and queen's. Those can move like the king and capture in any direction. Dynasty -- Any piece reaching the opponents baseline may be promoted to the next higher value piece providing that higher value piece has already been captured. If a king is in checkmate, the queen moved to the opponent's baseline may be promoted to king unless the baseline move would put her in check. Assassin -- Once a game, any single piece can move like any other piece provided the move produces a check. After the opponent moves, the piece must be removed from the board. Traitor -- Once a game, you may replace any of your opponent's pieces (excluding the king) with one of your own providing the exchange doesn't place your opponent in check. The exchange counts as a move.
posted by afj 18 years ago
In "Curious George - Tiger, Mac's new operating system"
1) Safari now has RSS. You can even map an RSS feed to your screen saver. Does anyone know if you can pipe an RSS feed to a text-to-speech function? 2) Spotlight may redefine how you organize files. If you set up Smart Folders with searches for pertinent keywords, you can have the equivalent of one file being in multiple folders at one time. Spotlight also updates the Smart Folders in realtime. Does anyone know if Spotlight can index MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint yet? 3) Xgrid is flying under the radar right now. This is the network utility that allows clustered computing. You can distribute large tasks across the network to other Macs. If developers take advantage of this, you could shave serious time off all those CPU-intensive tasks. A) Dashboard loses a lot of its functionality if you don't have an always-on connection or if your firewall blocks certain sites. B) I don't like the new Mail UI. YMMV. C) At times, Tiger seems peppy, but at other times everything slows down to molasses speed. I haven't had enough patience to open any Help files yet (either that or the Help Viewer crashes every time I use it -- it just sits there with the Spinning Beachball of Contempt mocking my ignorance of the topics it's protecting.) The price is fair for this type of upgrade. Apple backed themselves into a corner with the OS "X" thing -- OS "XI" isn't as sexy, so all new versions have designators that look like incremental point upgrades. This is not a patch; it's as much an upgrade as Longhorn is to XP (with the exception that, you know, Tiger has actually shipped).
posted by afj 18 years ago
In "Quality Film Making"
Anybody read the entire notice? Especially this part: "The law firms representing the Plaintiffs and the Settlement Class intend to apply to the Court for an award of attorneys' fees and for approval of reimbursement of out-of-pocket litigation costs not to exceed $2,700,000." Man, that $7 looks like a really sweet deal.
posted by afj 19 years ago
In "An image, a flash, then a slightly altered image. Repeat."
I saw the change fairly quickly -- maybe 3 or 4 flashes -- but I had to go back and look for several minutes to find the rabbit. I guess I'm suffering from Fudd Syndrome or something.
posted by afj 19 years ago
In "The Liberal Case Against John Kerry"
I decided to remove everything that was snark, self-righteousness, self-promotion, and sophistry from the article. The only thing left was the byline. If I had ever heard of this guy before, I would have had to remove that on grounds of name-dropping.
posted by afj 19 years ago
In "Convergence Kills. "
If I were Apple, I'd be against Harmony because it restricts design decisions. What happens if Harmony becomes widespread and a future iPod breaks it? Will Real get blamed when all those songs no longer play? If Apple wants to implement something new that would break Harmony, would they have to consult with (or even pay) Real to develop a new version of Harmony? While it might be a good feature for owners of songs from RealNetworks, Harmony is a parasite from Apple's point of view.
posted by afj 19 years ago
In "Curious George"
Damnation Alley by Zelazny (also a movie) Testament (movie) The Drive-In by Joe Lansdale (a very different kind of apocalypse)
posted by afj 19 years ago
In "Spirits of dead climbers haunt Mount Everest "
It might have been the ghosts that provided the impetus for his record. I have this vision of him doing a "Feet, don't fail me now" and rocketing up and over the tip of the mountain like it was a ski jump, followed by a diminishing yowl all the way down the reverse slope.
posted by afj 19 years ago
In "Curious George: Action Movie Villains"
Zod from Superman. (And now that I think about it, Neal from the same film -- because you gotta put Neal before Zod.)
posted by afj 19 years ago
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