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Tonight! Why hasn’t Barack Obama saved the automakers yet? Why can’t he close the deal?! WHY?!

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  • GItheJOE

    QT,Kat,DP,Jane,BroadwayCarl,GYPSY,scribble,Packj,and girl du jour,Thank you for handling the Grammar Nazi last night.

  • ceu

    Who was it that was speculating that the McIck campaign wouldn’t wipe the hard drives of the computers & blackberries they were selling?Well, you guessed RIGHT!ARLINGTON, Va. – Private information at bargain prices. It was a high-tech flub at the McCain-Palin campaign headquarters in Arlington when Fox 5’s Investigative Reporter Tisha Thompson bought a Blackberry device containing confidential campaign information. (snip) When we charged them up in the newsroom, we found one of the $20 Blackberry phones contained more than 50 phone numbers for people connected with the McCain-Palin campaign, as well as hundreds of emails from early September until a few days after election night.http://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/2008/12/mccain-campaign-sells-info-loaded.htmlIdiots.Can you imagine if he’d been eelcted? :(

  • LameDuckHunting

    ceu – Congratulations on your success at your job.I usually have to book it between 7:00 and 8:00, so I couldn’t wish you well last night, since you posted after I’d gone. But I do look back the following morning.I hope that merrys up your Christmas. And health insurance is a valuable benny!Cheers!

  • scribblechic

    No thank YOU! I haven’t Troll spanked since Obama won. It was a treat. ;-)

  • ceu

    Thank you, lame duck. And it does merry things up quite a bit :)

  • ceu

    Interesting news tidbit: Obama apparently asked to move into Blair House early, so the girls could start school when classes resume in January. White House turned him down…

  • dontpanic23

    THE, I was so late from me it was just a footnote. The other guys are your heroes. I was a post-rumble cheerleader. I so love troll-spanking and was devastated to miss the show. It’s one reason (of many) that I so miss Mr. Dingeldein.

  • dontpanic23

    Bastards! Bush Bastard Family. Assholes. Fuckers. Inconsiderate protoplasm.

  • http://www.peacebetweenpeople.blogspot.com OllyOllyO

    I’d like to take this opportunity to personally thank the outgoing shithead Republican Senators for screwing us over one last time. Glad to see you handling the defeat with class guys. Good luck on K Street!We also know now what to expect from the GOP a-holes still clutching to their seats: eight years of whatever it takes to fuck the country over. We know most of them will blindly cling to their ideology no matter what direction common sense may point. And they know that a successful Obama administration might signal the death of their kind. They have no message, no leadership, no new ideas…all they have left is desperation. It ain’t gonna to be pretty, my friends.

  • http://www.peacebetweenpeople.blogspot.com OllyOllyO

    Anyone see the terrorist fist jab Bush gave to Santa Claus at the tree lighting ceremony (saw it last night on the Daily Show). Where you at Fox? Let’s bring in some body language experts and figure out what this means.

  • jane

    Ceu, I saw that on Laffy & Paddy‘s place earlier, about the Blackberry they didn’t wipe.Dipshits.PS. I think I’d been making Kat’s Jack Daniels cookies before I ranted on Mary whatsername last night, but she (it?) still got less than she deserved…It was fun though.

  • GItheJOE

    Someone please define “Troll”.I am under the impression it is someone who just says shit to piss other people off. As well as a tiny person who lives under a bridge and eats babies.I was calling Mary N. a sniper.He/She came in took a shoot and ran away.You guys really did spank them for me again thank you.This is my happy place where everything is free game and no hurt feelings.

  • jane

    For those that ain’t seen it, Kat’s forwarded Jack Daniels cookie recipe (apologies Bush-Doctrine stylie for the length):Jack Daniels Christmas Cookies1 cup of waterLemon juice1 tsp baking soda4 large eggs1 cup of sugar1 cup of nuts1 tsp salt2 cups of dried fruit1 cup of brown sugar1 cup Jack Daniels Whiskey1. Sample the Jack Daniels to check quality.2. Take a large bowl, check the Jack Daniels again to be sure it is ofthe highest quality, pour one level cup and drink.3. Turn on the electric beater.4. Beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl.5. Add one teaspoon of sugar….6. Beat again. (At this point it’s best to make sure the Jack Daniels isstill okay. Try another cup, just in case.)7. Turn off the mixerer thingy.8. Break 2 leggs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of driedfruit.9. Pick the frigging fruit off the floor.10. Mix on the turner. If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaterers,just pry it loose with a drewscriver. (Sample the Jack Daniels fortonsisticity.)11. Next, sift two cups of salt, or whatever. Who giveshz a sheet.(Check the Jack Daniels.)12. Now shift the lemon juice and strain your nuts. Add one table. Add aspoon of sugar, or somefink. Whatever you can find.13. Greash the oven. Turn the cake 360 degrees and try not to fall over.Don’t forget to beat off the turner.14. Finally, throw the bowl through the window, finish the Dack Janielsand make sure to put the stove in the dishwasher.CHERRY MISTMAS

  • http://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/ Paddy

    Trolls scare me. My grandmother would tell me that fairy tale ALOT, I think she was trying to intimidate me into being good.

  • jane

    Don’t forget to strain your nuts, folks.

  • jane

    So Paddy, guess it didn’t work? ;)

  • PackyJ

    GI the Joe,Frankly, I try to use good grammar myself. However, in this venue, after thinking about stuff, I often restructure my sentences, cut and paste my phrasing, and often don’t catch what amounts to inconsequential crap errors before I hit “post.”I noticed Mary N ended a sentence with a preposition. As Churchill said (to underscore the absurdity), that is something that “up with which I will not put.”Mary N claimed to be a 2nd-grade teacher.I’d hate to be one of her students.Rather than encouraging 8 year-olds to think critically and express those thoughts, she’s hung up on whether or not they spelled something right or if used an intransitive verb correctly.She needs to find another line of work.Screw her.And also.

  • GItheJOE

    Holy shit! Republicans were playing partisan politics with millions of American workers because they didn’t vote for the party that wants them to take a pay cut and give up health care.This doesn’t sound like a winning strategy.

  • PackyJ

    Jane,I strained my nuts once. All the guys know how painful THAT can be.

  • jane

    GI, the difference is, you have things to say. Furthering a discussion. Making an observation. Contributing, if you will.A troll, or whatever you call it (sniper is a good word for it), someone like that is…only subtracting from the discussion.Not a hard choice, one would think.

  • GItheJOE

    Amen Packy!

  • GItheJOE

    I wish I could find the article I was reading on the Huffpo yesterday about job loss in the month of December.Anyway the US lost 575,000 jobs in the first week of December and it is predicted we could lose 2 million jobs in the month of December alone.Somebody check my madness I was drinking a lot yesterday because of finals week.For the record, I am not a traditional student and it has taken me eight years to get a B.S. which happens in May.

  • http://obamaproject.windonwater.net QueenTiye

    Joe: you’re right. But here are the potential sh*tstirrings: “Colon” for “Colin,” telling you to get educated instead of simply making the correction, and her reaction to me calling her out for “Colon”. Mary could yet turn out to have had good intentions, but it doesn’t look good from here.QT

  • jane

    Packy, remember Up With Which I Shall Not Put?I also lurved Double Meat, Sir.

  • GItheJOE

    Trust me I tried very hard last night not to be an asshole to Mary.I didn’t want Bob to kick me off. I needs me some GDAB.

  • jane

    QT, you hit that shit head on. “She” disappeared. Goddamn awesome. Oh sorry.

  • GItheJOE

    Jane, thank you I just shot beer out my nose. That was fucking hilarious.I hate it when keith is gone.

  • PackyJ

    Congrats on the degree, Joe!QT: I don’t think Mary had good intentions.She expressed no opinions or original thoughts about the topics discussed, she merely acted as a grammar Nazi.If she truly is a teacher as she said she is, she needs to go into another line of work, instead of stifling children’s creativity.

  • jane

    So I just found out *exactly* how they used to do Chlamydia tests (or some STD) in men, or something.Sorry about that fellas.(at my age! How did I not know?)

  • ceu

    And why did you have cause to find out now?? (rhetorical!)

  • jane

    And because it deserves repeating,CONGRATULATIONS CEU!Yay you!

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    Hell GI, if Travis and Mary N won’t get kicked off, I’m sure you’ll have no problem. But yes, kudos to QT for smacking Mary N with that “Colon” fuck up. And Jane! You fucking rock! Love the grammatical smackdown on someone who thought they were smarter than they were. If I weren’t married…

  • dontpanic23

    Packy, my mother has always used that preposition quote from Churchill. She also will not end a sentence in a preposition.Joke: southern girl says “where you from?”. Yankee girl jumps all over her about ending a sentence in a preposition. Southern girl says, “Ok, where you from, bitch?”. I always loved that one. I hope I didn’t botch it. Extra meds today.

  • GItheJOE

    Jane,It isn’t old. That is how they test all male soldiers for anything wrong with the PeePee in the US Army.Last time I was in Iraq they got me with that test because I had a bladder infection.It is commonly referred as “Getting Rodded Off the Range”.

  • ceu

    Watch it, Carl. For some reason she’s finding out about the procedure involved in testing men for venereal diseases…

  • dontpanic23

    Everybody has Jane as her dream girl. Except Kat, who has Rachel.

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    I’m sorry if I missed something. What are we congratulating ceu for?

  • dontpanic23

    And not that she doesn’t deserve it.

  • ceu

    Heh, Jane. thanks.

  • GItheJOE

    DP, I have a southern girlfriend and she just fell of the couch with that joke, thanks.

  • jane

    Ceu, I have a crew, a literal crew of (younger) guys working for me now, who know they can pretty much say anything around me.And though none of us makes much money, I still feel bad worrying that I can’t give them all full-time jobs. We’re a pretty small company eleven months a year.But for now, it’s certainly livened up the conversation.

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    Watch it, Carl. For some reason she’s finding out about the procedure involved in testing men for venereal diseases…

    Ooooh…. kinky. I’m clean… last time I checked.

  • GItheJOE

    Carl,Ceu got a new job or at least more hours and therefore more money. It was a good day for her.Plus she gets to hit some stupid woman at a furniture store with a leg of furniture.

  • kansasdem

    Well, I’m losing my fucking mind here!I’ve tried and tried to get anyone and everyone to pay attention to the last “bailout”!Buy big was the plan! Fuck your mini-van, buy a Suburban! So when dickhead Republican’ts say “we can’t”, well FUCK THEM!Even Corker said earlier today that congress had nothing to do with this. Well, fuck him! He’s either stupid or he’s a liar!I’m going to have a fucking stroke if I don’t get someone to report the truth about the last “bailout”!The last bailout said, “build ‘em big buddy”! And they really meant “buddy”!Google: Bandar Bush!

  • PackyJ

    DP,I loved that joke, though the variation I heard had an “O.K., can you tell where the library’s at, asshole?” punch line.My mom & dad were the same way, always encouraged good grammar. But they realized that even though proper English is important, actually thinking is even more important, and GItheJoe seems to be pretty damned good at thinking.

  • ceu

    Oh…yesterday one of my parttime jobs (one I’ve been at for 4 years) asked me to increase my hours to 30 (from 20) per week – meaning that I’m now eligible for health insurance and life & disability insurance. Plus they said some really flattering things about me (I don’t take compliments very well) and such as. Naturally, I blurted it all out here.

  • PackyJ

    Kansasdem – Have you considered the possibility that Corker is both stupid AND a liar? It doesn’t HAVE to be one or the other… GWB is an excellent example.

  • jane

    Well, Joe, what I meant by old is that apparently they don’t have to do it that way anymore.(So don’t let ‘em!)Geniuses figgered out how to prick yer finger or somethin.(Sheesh. And men direct Research & Development for medical improvements!)

  • ceu

    Ya know, Packy…while you were flying around the globe, we all had to tell personal shit here….like, when you shuffle your iPod, what 10 songs pop up, and what’s on your DVR. YOU seem to have avoided answering those questions. So….

  • GItheJOE

    Kansas,Calm down step away from the laptop, go smoke a J, come back to computer, drink beer and start blogging again.I am with you man. I just watched “Who killed the electric car?” last night and really believe every employee at GM has dirty hands to include the UAW.Congress knows who killed the electric car (them) and feel obligated to help GM for their mistake.

  • Mary N.

    OMG! Did I get a major slap-down or what?? I come back to this site groveling, with my head hung low…can I be forgiven for my previous transgressions? I do realize that my grammar was not perfect and I shouldn’t have spouted off. I love this site and will try again, with nothing but humble submission.

  • PackyJ

    ceu:I only went to New Mexico for a week… Ireland will be January or February.I don’t own an iPod, and most of the music I listen to is pretty old (although age is relative).What do you want to know? I’m an open book.

  • jane

    So if we ever see a sniper (thanks GI), the code word is “Where you from, bitch?” or “Where’s the library at, asshole?”.Or such as.

  • dontpanic23

    I think we should line up behind Ceu with the chair leg of our choice and go at here “Airplane” style.THE, I’m glad I could spread that one to someone who could truly appreciate it. *wave to your girlfriend*My mom was a college English teacher but wasn’t a nazi about it to me. She tried to set examples and when I said something stupid-wrong she gently gave me a way to remember it correctly. My best lesson early was him-and-me/her and it type stuff. She said to take out the second one and make a sentence with only the first. Bingo. My junior high got a bit easier. I wish it had all stuck with me, especially, punctuations, and, such. I try but sometimes, have trouble, with commas.

  • jane

    Holy shit. Don’t Nobody Move.

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    @ ceu – Well holy fuckballs! CONGRATULATIONS! A 50% increase in hours, hence pay AND health benefits. YOU ROCK! I haven’t been around the last few days. Thanks for the update.

  • GItheJOE

    Jane,I didn’t know any better and the US Army does that to young soldiers to teach them a lesson even if they got a bladder infection from living in the dirtiest country on the planet.”Remember flies spread disease, so kept yours closed”Great quote GO!

  • dontpanic23

    Packy, you’re going to Ireland? Oh, man. Can you stuff me in your bag? I won’t be any trouble. Drop me off at any live performances by Wolfetones, Pogues, all the good ones. I’ll crawl back in when it’s time to go. I got to do Scotland but not The Teddy Bear.

  • ceu

    Hmmm, Packy, that’s a bit too easy. You could at least pretend to play along – even Carl did that inspite of his iPod being loaded with obscure show tunes.Besides, mine were all old. Most of the young ‘uns here listen to artists people my age have never heard of …of whom people my age have never heard.So…IF you had an iPod, what would it have played as you drove home from work?

  • GItheJOE

    Mary N,Welcome to the Thunder Dome!No hard feelings. I have never been corrected for my horrible grammar on this site and it was bound to happen.Come and join the conversation.

  • dontpanic23

    Ah, group grope/hug now that THE has expressed forgiveness. He was the injured party. If he can forgive, I’m there.

  • jane

    (resisting the urge to link to the Jeopardy! theme again)

  • dontpanic23

    Jane! NO! I will get violent.

  • jane

    said I was resisting

  • ceu

    History lesson from Rachel :)

  • PackyJ

    ceu-If I HAD an iPod… probably Warren Zevon, Jackson Browne (his new Time the Conqueror is great), Steve Earl, Dylan, Stones, Petty (with his new/old band Mudcrutch), Buddy Guy, BB King, John Mayall, Bonnie Raitt… see? OLD people like me.Actually, I listen to all those on the way home… via CD.

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    Cool, Mary N. We’re not in the business of correcting grammar. That’s not why we come here. It’s water under the bridge. If GI the Joe is cool with it, who am I to argue? ;)

  • jane

    DP,Let’s jump in Packy’s bag and escape to Ireland.love,Jane

  • dontpanic23

    Ah, Zevon. One of my first LP-to-mp3 projects. Guess I’ll start at the end of the alphabet.

  • dontpanic23

    Jane, it’s a date. He’ll never know as long as you don’t whistle Jeopardy.

  • GItheJOE

    Rachel is killing the GOP forever tonight. They are now the Hoover Party. It is great.I am a combat vet and if I am not bleeding from my neck than I don’t consider it a big deal.Please forgive Ms./Mr Mary N. for their trespass.

  • PackyJ

    Jane & DP,I would love the company. It’s fun to play tour guide.

  • Ursus Major

    Gosh, All this saucy banter!Well, Obama question. He aint pres. yet.Cars. I’ll show my age here, but I bought into the whole “Buy American” spiel a few years back. My cousin and sister came back from Iraq and went to work for(Christ!) BMW in SC. They were telling me that the politicos(some congressmen from Alabama, Ole`Miss, SC paid ‘em a visit) weren’t intrested in the Big Three anymore; foreigners kicked more money into the political machine than our car companies. So much for brand loyality!

  • GItheJOE

    18 asshole GOP senators voted for the white collar bailout but not the blue collar auto maker bailout.This is fucked up and they were protecting their hedge funds.

  • Mary N.

    Thanks GI. I truly appreciate that you have accepted my sincere apology. Now… What the hell is the deal with Buchanan’s comments today about Pres-elect Obama not saying the exact right thing that he wanted to hear, even though P.E.Obama had a press conference stating that he had NO knowledge of the Gov.Blago’s attempt to try to sell Obama’s senate seat.Seriously?!? What the hell else do they need?? Is this another case of the media trying to spin an Obama downfall or what?I am sick of this already. We don’t need another 4 years of the bullshit associated with the Clinton impeachment!!

  • PackyJ

    Ursus,For many politician types, it’s always about the money, which explains the existence of pond scum like Blagojevich.The current crop of Republicans doesn’t want to give the UAW anything… and they’ll ruin the lives of hundreds of thousands of people to stick to that position.

  • dontpanic23

    Pat wants his head on a stick so he can scream at him. Pat is an asshole.

  • dontpanic23

    And thanks, Packy. Bet we’d be fun if you knew we were in the bag. I love to sightsee but have a tendency to break a bone when I get in that general area. So bring a bag with a cast-extension. And make Jane shut the fuck up with the Jeopardy theme or I’ll eject her from the plane.

  • ceu

    Hmmm…seems that more went on in the auto bailout discussions than we were aware of. Senator Stabenow said that the Senate GOP wanted to sit down with just the UAW and pretty much force concessions from them. Doesn’t appear that they wanted to sit down with the upper management, or board of directors, or stockholders, or suppliers. Just the UAW.I understand Kansas’ anger.

  • Ursus Major

    Well, Mr. “Take the money and run” has probably taken care of hedge fund investers! My aunt in Queens sent me some cam phone pictures of ‘em banging on his brokerage office.Play some Steve Miller as the soundtrack of their demise.

  • http://www.peacebetweenpeople.blogspot.com OllyOllyO

    Rachel Maddow is a gift from from the gods.

  • PackyJ

    Mary,Thanks for coming back. I won’t say any more mean things, I promise, and I’m sorry for being snarky.Pat Buchanan loves to hear himself talk. His idea of listening is waiting for his turn to talk.He sees himself as the “loyal opposition,” I think.In the larger sense, the barbecue media does it’s damndest to create controversy, especially where there is none. If you have no news, make some up.After all, it’s obvious they’re all in the tank for Obama, right?

  • ceu

    Packy, I’ve seen 40% of them in concert – and I haven’t been to a concert in….longer than I can remember.

  • ceu

    [oh yeah, I'm sure it would be a hardship for Packy to play tour guide to two young chicks] [oh shit. my eye just got stuck from rolling it. Ma was right....]

  • PackyJ

    Ceu – Yeah… getting old sucks, but for now, it beats the alternative.When Bob the Cesca mentioned his birthday earlier this year, it was a shock to realize he was born the same year I graduated from high school.Around here, I’m a relic.

  • PackyJ

    BBL – got to get outta here for a bit.

  • Ursus Major

    The position of the dittohead Repubs is bizzare to me, because my relatives get health, auto, life insurance, and are netting about 55 an hour?! Who da` fuck told congress that it was less? Don’t tell me its because they are with a German corp? I’m a nurse and my paycheck is a raping straight from “Deliverance”!

  • jane

    Hey! The Old guy left!

  • dontpanic23

    Bob has an age? Care to share? Just curious. His Huffpo shot makes him look 28 but his book picture put him more like 40. So I’m probably way off in both directions.’Xausted, folks. Long, grueling and uncomfortable day. Worse one this Tuesday and we’re not talking dentist, either. G’night, gang ‘o buds and budettes.(And Jane, the old girl is leaving too. It does seem more than coincidental).

  • GItheJOE

    Packy,What year was the legendary Bob the Cesca born?

  • jane

    I wanted to hear more about going to Ireland. When are we leaving?

  • jane

    Hey, Don’t Packy, you kids behave. Don’t do anything us wouldn’t do!

  • GItheJOE

    U.A.E nuclear? Really? This isn’t going to go well.

  • ceu

    bob’s age

  • GItheJOE

    Packy, Shit! I forgot to thank you.

  • GItheJOE

    Ceu, Packy,One of you knows the answer to the age question. I think he is 33.

  • http://obamaproject.windonwater.net QueenTiye

    Hey…hang on now… I heard a call for group hugs! I darned sure need some, so I’m giving some:{{{{{{{{{{GItheJoe}}}}}}}}{{{{{{{{{{MaryN}}}}}}}}{{{{{{{{{{Jane}}}}}}}}{{{{{{{{{{DP}}}}}}}}{{{{{{{{{{Packy}}}}}}}}{{{{{{{{{{Kat}}}}}}}}{{{{{{{{{{BJ}}}}}}}}{{{{{{{{{{Carl}}}}}}}}{{{{{{{{{{Scribbles}}}}}}}}{{{{{{{{{{GDAB!}}}}}}}}Sorry for leaving anyone out… but it’s hard to do the whole huggy thing on a handheld!QT

  • ceu

    Something he said once – I don’t know if it was his birthday or before – about the year he was born….and I, also, graduated from high school that year. It’s kind of an odd feeling, actually.And then Elvis started in on old people using computers…

  • GItheJOE

    QT,Why in Jesus’ name would you be on a handheld at this time of night. Are you working or at the bar?

  • ceu

    Bzzzz…wrong, Joe. But thanks for playing our game! :)

  • jane

    Oh, if anyone’s going to the kitchen could you grab Kansas a beer or two?TX QT ((()))

  • http://obamaproject.windonwater.net QueenTiye

    iirc, Bob is 4 years and a few days younger than me, which makes him 37.QT

  • jane

    Next up: Guess Bob’s weight!

  • ceu

    ding, ding, ding. We have a winner!

  • Kat

    What’s up, kids! I go to a party for a couple hours, and look what I miss! We’ve forgiven Mary (welcome to the fold), nuts are being strained, and a trip to Ireland is being planned! I wanna go! I look more Irish than either Jane or DP anyways.And I’m younger than Bob. That makes a girl feel better. :)

  • jane

    My favorite “guess your age or weight” scene appears briefly in this trailer for The Jerk.They just don’t make ‘em like that anymore.

  • jane

    Kat! Your cookies went over well, I think everyone has had some now.Pack yourself in a bag. We’re stowing away in January or February.

  • Kat

    Glad everyone enjoyed the cookies. A friend said they work just as well with tequila, if you prefer that over Jack.Ireland, here we come!And THEJoe…the UAE is going nuclear? I missed that somewhere. That could be interesting.

  • GItheJOE

    Kat,I don’t know the full details but the US(Bush) is selling the U.A.E. nuclear weapon technology.It was on Maddow.

  • PackyJ

    Back.To anyone wondering, Bob the Cesca was born in 1971, which makes me very old.

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    OK, so we know Bob is about 37. Is anyone on this comment thread under 30? Just curious.

  • Kat

    *sigh* I missed Rachel tonight – I was off drinking with my co-workers. I’m sure she was as beautiful and amazing as always.

  • GItheJOE

    Packy,Agreed. I didn’t know the word sleuth was 37. Jesus I am the youngest person on this blog.They say that every combat tour adds ten years to your life so my two tours make me 47 or I will be on the 16th.

  • ceu

    Oh, just shy of being a Capricorn, Joe.Happy Birthday in advance :)

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    Does anyone else have the incredible urge to take a baseball bat to Mitch McConnell’s head at the very sight of him, or is it just me?

  • PackyJ

    Rachel Maddow makes my socks go up and down.

  • GItheJOE

    Ceu, Thanks.Carl, yes I am under the big 3 zero for a couple years.

  • Kat

    Happy almost birthday, Joe. And you may be the youngest currently on the thread. I think Theo was in his 20s, but I haven’t seen him around for a while. Ashby too, perhaps. I’m safely ensconced in my 30′s. Oh, well. :)

  • GItheJOE

    Carl, again fuck yes! Mitch McConnell is a fucking asshole with a fake southern accent.How in the hell he won his reelection is beyond me.

  • Kat

    McConnell is a total douchebag.

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    For the record, 42 years young, with the liver of a 65 year old sot.

  • PackyJ

    Kat,You haven’t been ensconced until you’ve been ensconced by an Irishman.

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    Just kidding about the liver thing – although I never refuse a beer and I do loves me some good wine.

  • GItheJOE

    Kat, thanks for the birthday greeting.Wow, Carl I would have never guessed.Bob’s weight: 185 lbsI know he slaves behind the computer for 8 hours a day but he is a mountain bike fan so he is in good shape.

  • Kat

    Goodness, Packy, that sounds positively thrilling! I’ve been ensconced by a Scotsman, but never an Irishman. I consider myself an adventurous sort, however.

  • jane

    Carl, I’ll trade you my liver for yours. Heh.

  • PackyJ

    Joe, I was going to guess Bob at 175-180, for the same reason. Muscle weighs more than fat.

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    @ GI – Is it my childish writing or my immature potty mouth that makes me seem younger? Or did you think I was a curmudgeonly geezer?

  • jane

    Joe, did you really weigh Bob? (And did he mind?)

  • PackyJ

    Well, Kathleen, I’m just imagining you with your freckled complexion…Somebody asked when was the Ireland trip… I haven’t made up my mind. Late January or early February.My sis has been nagging me of late to come visit.

  • GItheJOE

    Sorry, I had to look up “ensconced”. You are all in luck I happen to be a scotsman and an irishman.I will trade my liver for a healthy set of lungs. I have been a smoker for awhile and was exposed to asbestos for a whole year in Iraq.

  • PackyJ

    Carl, Watch what you say about curmudgeonly geezers…

  • jane

    Whereabouts is she, Packoyevich? (Roughly.)

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    @ Packy – I didn’t mean it in a negative way. ;)

    Goodnight all. Having a quick beer with a friend before I head home. Maybe I’ll sign on a little later, if anyone is still around, that is.

  • Kat

    Freckles and green eyes, Packy. And occasionally red hair – that sort of depends on my mood. I hated the freckles when I was a kid, but now I think of them as a board game – connect the dots.And I’ll put my chips on 175 for Bob.

  • PackyJ

    Jane, she lives in Longford town, Co. Longford. I have nieces in Dublin and Cork City, and a passel of cousins strewn all about the place.

  • CycloCynic

    According to his book, Bob’s height is 6’4″ and his weight is 230 lbs. He claims to have avoided the miltary because, among other things, he’s afraid of being used as a “bullet-blocker.”

  • GItheJOE

    Carl, I automatically think everyone on the intertubes is under the age of 40 because of my age.It is wonderful to be holding a conversation with mature adults and not school children.You would all be disgusted with the college students currently attending our fine institutions.

  • PackyJ

    Ok, Kat, I’m officially enamored. The green eyes and occasional red hair put me over the top.I’m nuts about green-eyed redheads with freckles.

  • PackyJ

    Bob’s 6’4 and 240, huh? Jeez. He’s a big fella.

  • CycloCynic

    Which makes GItheJOE the winner of whatever contest that was.

  • Kat

    6’4″? Miaow. A man you can actually wear heels around.

  • jane

    Peejeroyevich, Cork and Dublin (and Longford!) are pretty far apart, aren’t they? When can we climb out of the luggage?Signed,Getting Worried in NC

  • GItheJOE

    Cyclo,What did I win? Is it a new car? How about a new President that believes in science? What about a new Congress that aren’t ideological assholes?

  • GItheJOE

    Alright, I will get on the Bob love train. I likes me a big guy that can carry my equipment and stop bullets.

  • PackyJ

    Janerino – Ah hell, the whole country is only about 400 miles long and 200 miles wide. ‘Tain’t big atall.You can climb out of the luggage anytime.Hmm. That sounds strangely obscene.

  • Kat

    Wouldn’t we be safe climbing out of the luggage as soon as we get out of the airport? I may have to buy a bigger suitcase.Signed,Also Worried In NC

  • PackyJ

    I would think that you two would be safe climbing out of the luggage anywhere.

  • PackyJ

    Carl, No offense taken. I just resemble that remark.

  • gypsysoul

    cookies with t-killa…people being smuggled into foreign countries…qt’s ability to see the kind honest side of shitty situations and people…everyone elses ability to say fuck anywhere from two to five times in one sentence…forgiving foes and kicking ass like family…ahhh…i love this blog and you guys/gals who make me laugh through the crazy!p.s. – i just turned 29 nov 29th…i am close to 30 can i still play?

  • ceu

    alas, I no longer have red hair & my freckles have faded so I’m moving on to a new topic…t-shirt shopping. I have done nothing about Christmas (shit, I hate shopping except for fabric..and lamps)this one always cracks me up:http://store.cottonfactory.com/cf-401.htmlnone of my kids gets it – but then they’ve never raised kids so….at any rate – where else sells t-shirts that appeal to the whippersnappers these days?

  • ceu

    Belated happy birthday, Gypsy!

  • Kat

    Are you looking for a store, like Old Navy, or an online place, ceu?I like that shirt, by the way. That’s pretty funny.

  • ceu

    oh god no. Not a brick store. Blech.online. definitely online.Although there’s a good store in Northamptom that I don’t mind going to….but I don’t feel like driving to Northampton. so there’s that.

  • Kat

    Speaking of shirts, one of these days I’m going to pick up this one for myself:http://t-shirts.cafepress.com/item/wellbehaved-women-womens-dark-tshirt/121675263

  • GItheJOE

    Good recap Gypsy.Happy belated as well.Please come and play. I am lost in the whole Ireland trip thing because I am watching Cold Mountain with my lady friend.

  • Kat

    Depending on your kids and their style, Crazy Dog has some fun shirts:http://www.crazydogtshirts.com/servlet/StoreFrontAnd snorgtees:http://www.snorgtees.com/

  • http://obamaproject.windonwater.net QueenTiye

    {{{{{{{{{{Gypsy}}}}}}}} Thanks.Oh, and NOW everybody wants Bob. I’m generally speaking a little daunted by men over 6’2, but Bob’s sufficiently hot to get over it…QT

  • ceu

    Oh Kat! LOL! My daughter has that one. She went to a woman’s college. Also has one that says “It’s not a girl’s school where men aren’t allowed. It’s a woman’s college with no boys”

  • PackyJ

    Ok, all my online community pals: I have to go. Sleep well, take care.Welcome aboard, Gypsy!

  • GItheJOE

    Nite Y’all. I am out for the evening.

  • ceu

    Thanks, Kat. I’ll check them out. :)

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