Ice storm. 600k w/out power.
Used to happen all the time growing up in MN, but I guess Kentuckians aren’t as prepared for this kind of thing – kind of like DC closing some schools because of a little ice.
Oh, right. We got the tail end of it here but it wasn’t anything remarkable. Sorry to hear it’s sucking so bad in Kentucky, Capt. Wow — I guess at least you have power, right?
We have power now, but we were without for like three days, which doesn’t sound like much to all those people in MN, but we just aren’t used to this kind of thing. It has sucked. There are people in Arkansas that are going to be without for a while. Everyone has at least one tree down in their yard, it’s really sad.
Actually, that’s a long time for MN. When it’s -10 to -30F and you don’t have heat, it’s certain death. Probably another reason the infrastructure in MN is better, it simply has to be.
Glad to hear you have power back and I hope everyone is safe.
Yeah my Mom and Dad will probably stay with me (they’re still without power). Right now it’s just damage control and a lot of people are really cold. I feel for them, really, but I can’t help but be happy that they fixed my so quickly.
Well, the extreme weather some of you are suffering actually made it onto the radio news here in Ireland. Hope the worst of it has passed over with the minimum of human damage (so to speak). It kind of puts the
winter weather we get here into perspective. . .
@ElbieSee thanks for the warm thoughts, they’re paying off. More and more people are regaining power.
@Srab, I’m in central Kentucky, just below Lexington.
@Daffy, the worst has past, it’s supposed to warm up tomorrow to 45 degrees, so hopefully all of this stuff will melt (and not refreeze)!
You know nothing of MN and her ways…
Actually, MN has almost as many rural residents as Kentucky has total people (slight exaggeration).
MN ranks 31st in population density. KY is 22nd.
MN is also more than twice as large.
It’s more that MN is better prepared for that type of weather since there’s quite a bit more of it up there. Lots of snow, bitter cold, severe blizzards, driving winds. Ah, I’m getting homesick
“It’s more that MN is better prepared for that type of weather since there’s quite a bit more of it up there.”
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Which makes it likely that requests to the budget for plows, salt trucks, etc. will be approved.
It’s my observation that in New England and the Northern Tier states, fifth billion snowplows and salt trucks are up and rolling the instant the first snowflake flies — and really, you can see why they would be, because the alternative would be not to leave the house for six months. In the Southern states, they don’t consider it worth their while to budget for plows and salt trucks, so when the inevitable snow/ice storm eventually does hit, it ends up being a week-long emergency instead of something that could have been plowed away in a couple of hours.
We get the exact same thing here in Sweden. I now live in a west-coast city fairly far south, we almost never get snow, but if one flake falls from the sky, me and my bf will look at each other and go “Uh-oh. Traffic chaos.” We’re both from further north and are used to seeing streets ploughed almost before you even noticed it snowed. Here, they do have a few snow ploughs, I think, becuase sometimes you see that typical scraping pattern that indicates a plough has been there. :p
That’s way the hell up there, but you know what? I’ve been in the area. I don’t think I’ve been in Badger, though I may have passed through it.
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The weather isn’t always brutal. Often, it’s wonderful (your results may vary)/
It’s beautiful up there, but if I was going to retire back in MN, it’d probably be on the North Shore of Lake Superior. I spent a lot of time up there gowing up and later as an adult before I moved away.
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You have tornadoes. So does MN, but yours are far bigger and worse. You have thunderstorms (which I really really miss) which are bigger than those in MN. You have hurricanes. None in MN. You have heat waves worse than MN.
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Everywhere has some negatives. CA had earthquakes and seasonal fires. You take the good with the bad.
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Does your friends mom work up there? Are they on a farm or related work?
Oh ya, why was it on Letterman?
[LINK] In 2000, Late Show did a “Biff Henderson’s
America” series wherein Biff traveled to little towns
and field reported to Dave.
My friend’s parents are retired. Her father was
military, then contract-military, then worked for
Polaris (in Grand Forks, IIRC).
What I’ve seen of MN is pretty. I’ve been to Duluth
and a few other places, but most of my time up
north was in ID, MT, WY and the Dakotas.
I’m not in “Tornado Alley,” so that much is okay. It’s
a matter of personal preference, but we only get 8
or so 100º days a year. To me, that’s relatively mild
compared to the weeks of cold up north. I’ve never
had to dig my car out of the heat, but if you beg,
I can probably make up a Texas Tall Tale about
having done so…
I remember having an Ice Storm in MS when I was a lad. Dropped to an obscene negative number during a rain storm and made my yard into an ice rink. Snapped every damn pine tree and kept me out of school for six weeks. It was interesting since it went back to 70 degrees while things were being repaired.
Kentucky has my sympathy since it really did suck to be in an ice storm in the south.
Memphis. No power for about a week at my house, and a lot of my friends had it worse. At least I had a fireplace and a gas stove! I remember it was January because my son was about 2 months old at the time, poor little guy.It was pretty, though.
I remember this big shade tree in the front yard that had a nestled bit of ice crystals in the pine needles. Us kids acted like they were magic. Wow… I was young and with imagination once! @_@
“Memphis. No power for about a week at my house, and a lot of my friends had it worse.”
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North Carolina. No power, which meant no water, because we had a well. The exhausted snowplow guys took turns sleeping on a cot in the office and didn’t go home for a week.
People in DC are sissies. Except the District has classes on Tuesday and boy did they catch h*ll for that! How DARE they continue to offer educational services to one of the most underfunded and underperforming systems in the country? *huff*
However, 60-70 miles west of DC here in West by God Virginia, this is our third snow day. What a waste of time.
While I agree with the DC = sissies, I think so for different reasons.
I was in Anchorage in Feb 1980. I was surprised at
A. they whined about the cold, and it wasn’t even close to cold by MN standards
B. They had very little snow (again, by MN standards) and yet still couldn’t manage to clear the roads.
Because of where they’re situated, they never get as cold or get as much snow as we did in MN, so their infrastructure didn’t need to be as robust. It’s the same with DC, KY and other places that just don’t have to handle it all the time.
When they do have to deal with it, it’s a lot harder and takes a lot more time.
In Denver back in 1982, we had a huge blizzard that dumped about two feet of snow everywhere. Mayor Bill McNicol lost re-election the next year because he couldn’t get the streets cleared of snow fast or thoroughly enough. I was amazed.
There may have been more to it than that, but still….
It was just over 30 years ago for me, but the strange thing is that in some ways, it feels like yesterday. Of course maybe that just means I’m getting senile already.
Happy Birthday to your daughter.
BTW, were you asking about study leave? It’s when you get time off school for the duration of exams/prelims to revise at home. However, I only have one prelim left so basically it’s skive leave.
And yeah, there have been plenty worse lols…
Sort of. My kids got what is called “exam exemptions”. In order to qualify, you must have no more than 5 unexcused absences and at least a B average in your class. More absences or lower average and you are required to take the test. Exceed the grade average and meet the attendance requirement, and you can be exempt from the final exam. I believe Loudoun County (Northern Virginia) has this as well. My kids have been in school for about a week and a half since the Christmas break. Okay,
maybe two and a half weeks. They sure have been home a lot lately.
For your birthday, I present:
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“Welcome to All Things Scottish – if it’s not Scottish, it’s craaaapp!! Can I help ye?”
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And speaking of it’s craaaapp!! — yeesh!
Yeah, sorry, I figured that out after posting by reading other comments.
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So how does one celebrate 17 in Scotland? Hagis, bagpipes and a little sheep nookie?
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Oh wait, no, I’m thinking of Tennessee.
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So any big plans for the celebration?
*stops dancing long enough to look at startled co-workers*
What?! Like YOU’VE never done the timewarp in the semi-privacy of your own office…AND FOR CRISSAKE’S KNOCK NEXT TIME!!!!
Red, Blue, and Yellow are the primary colors, printers use cyan and magenta because there is no “White” ink, instead they count on the white of the paper to make lighter hughes of red and blue. They can then mix black with Magenta and Cyan to make red and blue.
Green is not a primary color in anything….Yellow+Blue=Green
I hope that is a midget, because at least that is laughable.
Small kid? Not laughable, just wrong.
This picture is becoming more & more funny to me every time I look at it now…
“Al Fesco”
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It’s a little-known fact that when Fester needs a change of pace from his usual persona, he opens the top three buttons on his shirt, puts on a bunch of gold chains, and assumes his secret identity:
Al Fesco!
(voice dubbed in by Joe Pesci)
The Afghan front was always a valid target, due to solid Al Qaida links among the tribes … it’s the Iraq one that isn’t… but Afghanistan, as been pointed out before, is the grave yard of Empires… no one is going to win that one.
While I agree that Afghanistan is the graveyard of Empires; I do see the need for us to be there. I hope that Obama sets clearly defined outcomes…then supports the effort to reach those outcomes swiftly and decisively. I also hope that if it begins to bog down after this surge, that he won’t be stubborn about it and allow it to drag on and on…
But look at the “Posse” he rounded up…it wasn’t the Massive Coalition that he had hoped for (or the coalition his father raised in GW1)…And I remember thinking at the time that it seemed to me Bush II had postured himself into the position where he had no option but to go to war in Iraq regardless of the whole “Your with us or against us” rhetoric he was spouting at the time. It’s almost like when most of the world said, “No, George, we’re not going into Iraq”; he’d gotten his “Texas” up and had no choice but to save face…
as I tell most of the Adjudicated Youth I work with, Bush had a case of “terminal vocal overload”; then had no choice but put up, or shut up. Unfortunately, he chose poorly.
Testosterone… I’ve known too many people fuelled by it to be
overly impressed. Havign said that, most of them have the
good taste to be dead or crippled now. Problem is they
always take a good man with them, sometimes several…
I’m sure that’ll bring AF out from under his bridge…
“Testosterone…Why when me and my dead comrades were fighting off Charlie…”
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My problem is that I expect the kids I work with to talk all that macho $hit, then do something stupid…I hope this President has learned something about it from the previous regime and won’t fall into the same trap.
That would be nice… won’t happen while ever the old Chicago-Austrian model is on place, since this mess it exactly what it supposed to happen in Anarcho-Capitalism.
Rachel Maddow had D-Sen. Pete DeFazio (sp?) on last night, and he has been making the case that the Stim Package does not have anywhere near enough of an emphasis on infrastructure…I’ve gotta say the case is overwhelming that we need to spend more in that area…haven’t most great Empires crumbled from within????
Oh, don’t worry. Obama is so cool, no one will ever hate us again. It’s all gonna be smooooooooooth sailing. We should just quit having elections anymore and make him king. Don’t worry, be happy.
Kuro darling, sure it’s cute now, but it’ll grow up to be a snivelling, snarling, ball of intollerance that spouts out anything it hears from the Ann Coulter-Rush Limbaugh-Bill O’Reilly voices it hears in it’s tiny little head. I’ve seen it before, dear, completely untrainable…now put it down before it’s freepery rubs off on you.
“[while holding a freep] Intriguing. It’s trilling noise seems to produce a tranquilizing effect on the human nervous system.”
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I thought that was the HypnoToad.
Okay, since when was Pundit Kitchen a conservative website? I swear, all the LOL’s that either uphold Obama or diss on former president Bush all have low ratings, regardless of how funny they are. What, are the elephants all trolling the internets now?
I think there might be quite a few people who are just raaaaather fed up with any Bush and/or Obama lols, simply because there’s been too many, and they’ve been quite predictable.
What Danbala said, plus, if you’ll read the comments above before posting you might have a clue that a lot of us just didn’t think it was that funny. A vote on a lol isn’t (for myself, anyway) a judgment on whether or not I like or approve of the person in the picture; it’s a matter of whether or not it makes me laugh.
Yeah, totally agree…the “LOL” humor seems to appeal more to the lolcat crowd. Don’t get me wrong, I love the lolcats, but those fans seem to be much easier to entertain and think anything with a LOL in it is freakin hilarious. Retards.
But I was very, very good at it. I suggest is head first so he has more control and can focus on their orgasm. Real easy to do as a teenager. Gods, I miss that stamina…
i completely agree with you! I’m sick of all this “with obama, the world we be all flowery and peaceful” bullshit.
honestly, the people here are so naive.
Anyone think this Democrat vs. Republican shit will ever end? People don’t have their own opinions anymore. It’s us v. them, regardless of the issue. Each side has talking heads and mouth pieces to worship unquestionably and the entire purpose of a democratic government is lost in this ridiculous struggle.
People think they’re smart because they’re liberal or conservative when in reality you’re just a sheep. A number. A brain-dead, fat mouth, hate-regurgitating, closed minded, soldier of an invisible army.
A brain-dead, fat mouth, hate-regurgitating, closed minded, soldier of an invisible army.
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Like Bruno….who thinks everyone on this site is a Democrat or a Republican. Since I claim to be neither will you shut your fat, hate-regurgitating, closed minded mouth?
Now, now, I liked the sentiment. I read it as any party political animal is just
a zombie who mostly acts on faith and reacts with fear to anything that
challenges its world view.
I have a few people I like here but still nobody I would trust with my normal personality. They’re just nice and my humor isn’t work appropriate anyway.
I have a similar problem… people often think I’m crazy because I snicker to myself about seemingly nothing. If only they could hear the voices in my head…
I mostly just let them think I am a tad odd and don’t give them any details. A good bit like here though I obviously don’t censor myself as much here as I do there.
My coworkers just think I am odd and sweet. I plan to keep it that way though I did manage to find a couple of acquaintances worth swapping secrets and ideas with.
@dis: They think I’m crazy because occasionally when they ask me what I’m laughing at I actually tell them. Then anything I laugh at after that is just a reminder of my twisted sense of humor.
No not suprised, just learning more about you every day…
It’s funny, I hated you at first- but the more I see your posts, the more I like your smart ass.
I was trying to avoid the race slant… TBH, it looked to me like he was laying down something classic by Motorhead, but somehow, Obama does ‘The Ace of Spades’ seemed to have the ‘wrong’ vibe, even though that was what it looked like he was doing… I still like the idea of Obama laying down Motorhead tracks but to get anything other than other Head fans amused, it would have to be heavy handed…
To me, there’s something intrisically funny about Obama doing metal.
Have a new Obama concert lol [link]
And what was your trade if I may ask.
I’ve considered changing careers this late in life and if being a piece of human excrement can be part of a new career, so much the better.
Luckily or unluckily, I lack the appropriate amounts of antipathy to ever have meteorological or geological events happen when I agree with somebody. Usually I just have some spite and ignore them.
Someday though, I hope to have a properly worthy nemesis and then when we finally agree, something… I dunno… Nifty will happen.
Wow, that’s probably the best description I’ve ever heard for having religious beliefs, even if that’s not how you meant it. Do you mind if I use that?
That only works if you’re talking about someone raised that way. What do you use when you’re talking about someone who wasn’t raised with a religion, and later in life decided to obtain one? Or make one of his own?
Absolutely true.
I shouldn’t have said just religious since it works for any belief held from a young age where the person hasn’t put thought into it.
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I can respect lots of things, but I can’t respect it if when asked why a person believes ‘A‘, their best answer is “because that’s what I was taught”.
In my opinion, you can get away with that answer until you’re about 12 years old. After that, if you’re going to hold onto a belief, you’d better be able to defend why.
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I’ve heard that as the one and only reason for all sorts of hate and stupid ideas.
One of my main gripes is with religious people who will say things like (this particular example I have heard on more than one occasion): “Well. Me, I don’t mind homosexual people, they’re nice and all, I am not a homophobe. But my Bible/Church* says that it is not what God wants, so therefore i think they should not be allowed to act homosexually.”
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*) (Probably replaceable with quite a few non-Christian terms as well)
That would make some interesting ‘Open Mike’ nights…
“…and I was covered in my buddy’s brains, then I looked at Sarge, and he’s sobbing and trying to hold his guts in, but they’re oozing out from between his fingers like the Blob, and stinking, then I realise I can only see out of one eye and hear this high pitched noise…”
Yes, laugh you retards- just wait until Obamaboy starts the draft.
What’s it like to be a coward? Does it hurt to look in the mirror everyday?
Do you cry when little girls beat you up and take your lunch money?
Has Rhorho EVER posted anything funny in her toady sucking-up-to-Fester dribble? What pathetics farts you are- I think I shall take a dump in the halls of Windsor castle in honor of Fester- the English have pissed on the Scots enough already.
This site used to have intelligent people- and then the Democrats came…..
the English have pissed on the Scots enough already.
Ah, you’re “defending” a country whose capital city you can’t even spell…
You’ve been watching Braveheart, haven’t you?
*kills Fester’s rogue apostrophe*
The Meths would help, but I think it’s from watching an Australian running around Ireland in a sentimental film that’s about 20% historical fact… Makes him feel like he’s in touch with his great-granny’s sister’s neighbour who was a Scot…
You really are a sad, empty, little man, aren’t you?
You’ve now got to the stage where you’re just an embarassment
to the country you claim to love…
You have no wit
You have no point
All you do is bluster how patriotic you were in Cessner cleaning.
Wow. I just wanted to be the 42nd person in the world to tell you you are batshit insane. One, how many times in history have we had a draft and how many years ago was the last one? Two, I love how you can tell what people are like from text on a screen and no other means of contact with limited conversation most of which are taken up by rampant insults, assumptions, and hatred of an almost ridiculous degree. Three, Your the one so obsessed with making Fester’s life miserable (er?) that would go off and make a name in commemoration of your hatred of him. Almost stalker-ish of you.
@ElbieSee thanks for the warm thoughts, they’re paying off. More and more people are regaining power.
@Srab, I’m in central Kentucky, just below Lexington.
@Daffy, the worst has past, it’s supposed to warm up tomorrow to 45 degrees, so hopefully all of this stuff will melt (and not refreeze)!
Ooooohh! Ken whit? Ken whit? Ken whit?
I’m now 17!
Old enough to drive -mwahahaha!
The roads are no longer safe……..
Irrelevant, but I thought I’d share it…
Also Irrelevant, Obama just declared Kentucky a Disaster Area. It’s horrible here!
Is there a weather issue, or was that just in general?
*ducks*
Ice storm. 600k w/out power.
Used to happen all the time growing up in MN, but I guess Kentuckians aren’t as prepared for this kind of thing – kind of like DC closing some schools because of a little ice.
Oh, right. We got the tail end of it here but it wasn’t anything remarkable. Sorry to hear it’s sucking so bad in Kentucky, Capt. Wow — I guess at least you have power, right?
We have power now, but we were without for like three days, which doesn’t sound like much to all those people in MN, but we just aren’t used to this kind of thing. It has sucked. There are people in Arkansas that are going to be without for a while. Everyone has at least one tree down in their yard, it’s really sad.
Sorry Cap…hope all is well..
Just another reason to invest in our Infrastructure, I’m afraid…
Actually, that’s a long time for MN. When it’s -10 to -30F and you don’t have heat, it’s certain death. Probably another reason the infrastructure in MN is better, it simply has to be.
Glad to hear you have power back and I hope everyone is safe.
Yeah my Mom and Dad will probably stay with me (they’re still without power). Right now it’s just damage control and a lot of people are really cold. I feel for them, really, but I can’t help but be happy that they fixed my so quickly.
Sending you and yours warm thoughts…
We had some ice and snow here – not enough in my neck of the woods to take out power, but enough to cancel school for 2 days.
are you in the paducah/western kentucky area? i have some friends who are having to stay in hotels right now because they lost power over there.
Well, the extreme weather some of you are suffering actually made it onto the radio news here in Ireland. Hope the worst of it has passed over with the minimum of human damage (so to speak). It kind of puts the
winter weather we get here into perspective. . .
@ElbieSee thanks for the warm thoughts, they’re paying off. More and more people are regaining power.
@Srab, I’m in central Kentucky, just below Lexington.
@Daffy, the worst has past, it’s supposed to warm up tomorrow to 45 degrees, so hopefully all of this stuff will melt (and not refreeze)!
I would think terrain and rural % would make it more difficult to
resolve power issues in KY than in MN.
You know nothing of MN and her ways…
Actually, MN has almost as many rural residents as Kentucky has total people (slight exaggeration).
MN ranks 31st in population density. KY is 22nd.
MN is also more than twice as large.
It’s more that MN is better prepared for that type of weather since there’s quite a bit more of it up there. Lots of snow, bitter cold, severe blizzards, driving winds. Ah, I’m getting homesick
“It’s more that MN is better prepared for that type of weather since there’s quite a bit more of it up there.”
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Which makes it likely that requests to the budget for plows, salt trucks, etc. will be approved.
Yup, funding is part of the preparation. It’s just a part of life there. Nothing special.
It’s my observation that in New England and the Northern Tier states, fifth billion snowplows and salt trucks are up and rolling the instant the first snowflake flies — and really, you can see why they would be, because the alternative would be not to leave the house for six months. In the Southern states, they don’t consider it worth their while to budget for plows and salt trucks, so when the inevitable snow/ice storm eventually does hit, it ends up being a week-long emergency instead of something that could have been plowed away in a couple of hours.
We get the exact same thing here in Sweden. I now live in a west-coast city fairly far south, we almost never get snow, but if one flake falls from the sky, me and my bf will look at each other and go “Uh-oh. Traffic chaos.” We’re both from further north and are used to seeing streets ploughed almost before you even noticed it snowed. Here, they do have a few snow ploughs, I think, becuase sometimes you see that typical scraping pattern that indicates a plough has been there. :p
My best friend’s mother lives in Badger, MN, population
200ish. The town was featured on David Letterman once.
I enjoy winter as a resting period from lawn mowing and
bugs, but can’t fathom what people see in all of that
brutal weather…
That’s way the hell up there, but you know what? I’ve been in the area. I don’t think I’ve been in Badger, though I may have passed through it.
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The weather isn’t always brutal. Often, it’s wonderful (your results may vary)/
It’s beautiful up there, but if I was going to retire back in MN, it’d probably be on the North Shore of Lake Superior. I spent a lot of time up there gowing up and later as an adult before I moved away.
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You have tornadoes. So does MN, but yours are far bigger and worse. You have thunderstorms (which I really really miss) which are bigger than those in MN. You have hurricanes. None in MN. You have heat waves worse than MN.
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Everywhere has some negatives. CA had earthquakes and seasonal fires. You take the good with the bad.
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Does your friends mom work up there? Are they on a farm or related work?
Oh ya, why was it on Letterman?
[LINK] In 2000, Late Show did a “Biff Henderson’s
America” series wherein Biff traveled to little towns
and field reported to Dave.
My friend’s parents are retired. Her father was
military, then contract-military, then worked for
Polaris (in Grand Forks, IIRC).
What I’ve seen of MN is pretty. I’ve been to Duluth
and a few other places, but most of my time up
north was in ID, MT, WY and the Dakotas.
I’m not in “Tornado Alley,” so that much is okay. It’s
a matter of personal preference, but we only get 8
or so 100º days a year. To me, that’s relatively mild
compared to the weeks of cold up north. I’ve never
had to dig my car out of the heat, but if you beg,
I can probably make up a Texas Tall Tale about
having done so…
It is much harder because there are SO many more trees, and the utility companies didn’t trim them back.
You mean, “so many more trees, until very recently,”
right?
I remember having an Ice Storm in MS when I was a lad. Dropped to an obscene negative number during a rain storm and made my yard into an ice rink. Snapped every damn pine tree and kept me out of school for six weeks. It was interesting since it went back to 70 degrees while things were being repaired.
Kentucky has my sympathy since it really did suck to be in an ice storm in the south.
Although being a kid and having your yard turn into an ice-rink had to have some advantages!!!
Well I was horridly destitute at the time so it basically meant a day of freezing my flesh off. It was cool looking though.
January 94?
Oooooooh, were you down there? I can’t remember the month but I do recall the shirts saying “I survived the Ice Storm of 94.”
Memphis. No power for about a week at my house, and a lot of my friends had it worse. At least I had a fireplace and a gas stove! I remember it was January because my son was about 2 months old at the time, poor little guy.It was pretty, though.
Oh yes and the ice stayed forever!
I remember this big shade tree in the front yard that had a nestled bit of ice crystals in the pine needles. Us kids acted like they were magic. Wow… I was young and with imagination once! @_@
“Memphis. No power for about a week at my house, and a lot of my friends had it worse.”
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North Carolina. No power, which meant no water, because we had a well. The exhausted snowplow guys took turns sleeping on a cot in the office and didn’t go home for a week.
People in DC are sissies. Except the District has classes on Tuesday and boy did they catch h*ll for that! How DARE they continue to offer educational services to one of the most underfunded and underperforming systems in the country? *huff*
However, 60-70 miles west of DC here in West by God Virginia, this is our third snow day. What a waste of time.
While I agree with the DC = sissies, I think so for different reasons.
I was in Anchorage in Feb 1980. I was surprised at
A. they whined about the cold, and it wasn’t even close to cold by MN standards
B. They had very little snow (again, by MN standards) and yet still couldn’t manage to clear the roads.
Because of where they’re situated, they never get as cold or get as much snow as we did in MN, so their infrastructure didn’t need to be as robust. It’s the same with DC, KY and other places that just don’t have to handle it all the time.
When they do have to deal with it, it’s a lot harder and takes a lot more time.
In Denver back in 1982, we had a huge blizzard that dumped about two feet of snow everywhere. Mayor Bill McNicol lost re-election the next year because he couldn’t get the streets cleared of snow fast or thoroughly enough. I was amazed.
There may have been more to it than that, but still….
He should have called in the army like Toronto did in 1999
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Yes, those DC people are definitely defective. *glares across the beltway at DC from Herndon*
In fact, we folk of the DC Metro Area are not sissies… we’re just lazy bastards who will take any excuse for a day off.
You old git
Congrats!
Natal anniversary felicitations to you, AC!
Happy Happy 17 AC!
Happy Birthday!
*quietly stays off the roads. And sidewalks, just to be safe*
sidewalks? you better watch out in your front yard…
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happy bday ac!
17?! God, to have to try and remember back that far….
It was just over 30 years ago for me, but the strange thing is that in some ways, it feels like yesterday. Of course maybe that just means I’m getting senile already.
Happy Birthday, AC! In honor of your birthday, I’ll refrain from using the smiley that freaks you out for today.
*puts out freshly baked Birthday Cake for AC*
Congrats! *hugs* How’s 17 treating you?
(I’m resisting the urge to make a reference to REPO! The Genetic Opera, because I’m not sure how many people would get it…)
I can assure you that at least one person here would! DO IT.
17’s good so far… I’m on “study” leave….
Is this something that happens when you turn 17 in Scotland? My daughter will be 17 on Sunday. BIG hugs for you both!
OT and BTW, what’s with the severely low Abe score for this lol? It doesn’t suck that bad.
Happy Birthday to your daughter.

BTW, were you asking about study leave? It’s when you get time off school for the duration of exams/prelims to revise at home. However, I only have one prelim left so basically it’s skive leave.
And yeah, there have been plenty worse lols…
AH! That explains the “quotation” “marks” around the word “study”. I get it now.
American kids get study leave, right?
Um, not when I was a boy.
I still aced my exams, no worries.
…in bed. With an electric glow-in-the dark d!ldo.
Um what? I don’t need to know anything about AC’s study habits…
Me either. Time off to study? That’s what nights and weekends were for .
Sort of. My kids got what is called “exam exemptions”. In order to qualify, you must have no more than 5 unexcused absences and at least a B average in your class. More absences or lower average and you are required to take the test. Exceed the grade average and meet the attendance requirement, and you can be exempt from the final exam. I believe Loudoun County (Northern Virginia) has this as well. My kids have been in school for about a week and a half since the Christmas break. Okay,
maybe two and a half weeks. They sure have been home a lot lately.
That’s the way it works at my school, more or less. Central Virginia.
For your birthday, I present:
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“Welcome to All Things Scottish – if it’s not Scottish, it’s craaaapp!! Can I help ye?”
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And speaking of it’s craaaapp!! — yeesh!
Oh, I meant to say — Happy B-Day, and [LINK]
Ahhhh, Congrats!
Aaand, Cheers!
Apply Cake!
“Apply cake”?
You must host very interesting parties…… The cleaning crew receives very large bribes not to tattle, yes?
Where’s my invitation?
YAY!! Happy Birthday, you driver, you!!
Happy B’Day!
Where are you that you can’t drive until you’re 17?
Scotland
Yeah, sorry, I figured that out after posting by reading other comments.
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So how does one celebrate 17 in Scotland? Hagis, bagpipes and a little sheep nookie?
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Oh wait, no, I’m thinking of Tennessee.
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So any big plans for the celebration?
*Haggis*
Because I care.
Oh Jings! That’s nasty…..
I think “twisted” may be the word you’re looking for there…
Only the best for the birthday girl.
It reminds me of my cat
OMG WORST RATED EVER!!
Why the bad rating? I don’t see anything bad about it. O_o
It’s bland, it’s trite, it’s hero-worshipping a temp, he’s black, there are a lot of sore losers…
The list could go on, but I think that covers the primary reasons…
Yellow, Red and Blue.
I think that covers the primary colours.
I thought it was magenta, yellow and cyan in pigments and red, blue and
green for light.
Red, Blue and Yellow are more an acti of faith as primary colours,
rather than true primaries. I blame Newton.
You have interesting theories.
Someone should be writing these down.
*looks for stone and chisel*
’tis the Word according to Fester…
You can mix Magenta and Yellow to make red… it’s not primary
But it’s more fun to mix Magenta and Columbia. (Or Magenta and Riff Raff….)
*Time Warp now stuck in head*
Dammit!
And a step to the riiiii-iiight….
*stops dancing long enough to look at startled co-workers*
What?! Like YOU’VE never done the timewarp in the semi-privacy of your own office…AND FOR CRISSAKE’S KNOCK NEXT TIME!!!!
Red, Blue, and Yellow are the primary colors, printers use cyan and magenta because there is no “White” ink, instead they count on the white of the paper to make lighter hughes of red and blue. They can then mix black with Magenta and Cyan to make red and blue.
Green is not a primary color in anything….Yellow+Blue=Green
Believe it or not, green takes the place of yellow in light’s primary colors. I always thought it was weird too, but it works.
Magenta + cyan = blue…. magenta + yellow = red
And all black does is make black.
Green is a primary colour of light. Look at the tiny lights in a CRT or plasma screen.
Those theories are pretty commonly used – CMYK for printing, RGB for light displays. Stone and chisel not necessary
Not that I rely on the text solely, but the Enc Brit is pretty unequivocal on the topic, and Wiki is in agreement…
But feel free to fact check me.
<seinfeld>Newton!</seinfeld>
Hmm… I think I just had an idea for a sitcom. Newton, DaVinci, and Galileo have to share an apartment…
Oh the things I would give up just to sit at the TV.
Leonardo… or it’s Newton, DaVinci, and Galilei… take your pick
I’ll take Larry, Moe and Curly…
I do believe those are the primary colors in painting.
Every colour is a primary colour. It’s all just waves… and your puny cones trying to make sense of them.
Fester, yeah I think “he’s black” and “sore losers” pretty much sums it up.
I just don’t think it’s that funny or clever. It’s more of a “yawn…next lol, pleae,” than something I really dislike.
Definately not funny or clever. I wouldn’t say it sucks though, but definately yawn…next.
It’s pick and mix…
Perhaps it just is not a funny or anything but ridiculous photo?
…or fellatio with small girls….see the bottom
LMFAO I just noticed that..haha!
Obama Al Fesco midget Porn! excellent…
I hope that is a midget, because at least that is laughable.
Small kid? Not laughable, just wrong.
This picture is becoming more & more funny to me every time I look at it now…
“Al Fesco”
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It’s a little-known fact that when Fester needs a change of pace from his usual persona, he opens the top three buttons on his shirt, puts on a bunch of gold chains, and assumes his secret identity:
Al Fesco!
(voice dubbed in by Joe Pesci)
0-o
Actually the poster tried to edit that part out apparently. The source picture shows alot more of the girl’s head.
That’s not the funny thing about this pic at all – its funnier as a whole pic with no comment!
yet Biden just announced a “troop surge” for Afghanistan……
The Afghan front was always a valid target, due to solid Al Qaida links among the tribes … it’s the Iraq one that isn’t… but Afghanistan, as been pointed out before, is the grave yard of Empires… no one is going to win that one.
While I agree that Afghanistan is the graveyard of Empires; I do see the need for us to be there. I hope that Obama sets clearly defined outcomes…then supports the effort to reach those outcomes swiftly and decisively. I also hope that if it begins to bog down after this surge, that he won’t be stubborn about it and allow it to drag on and on…
If a President wasn’t limited to two terms, then there probably wouldn’t have been the Rush to Iraq, and the whole mess settled now…
If only El Bush had stuck to his 1999 pose, and simply fortified the US, rhater than rounding up a posse and going after the bad guy…
But look at the “Posse” he rounded up…it wasn’t the Massive Coalition that he had hoped for (or the coalition his father raised in GW1)…And I remember thinking at the time that it seemed to me Bush II had postured himself into the position where he had no option but to go to war in Iraq regardless of the whole “Your with us or against us” rhetoric he was spouting at the time. It’s almost like when most of the world said, “No, George, we’re not going into Iraq”; he’d gotten his “Texas” up and had no choice but to save face…
as I tell most of the Adjudicated Youth I work with, Bush had a case of “terminal vocal overload”; then had no choice but put up, or shut up. Unfortunately, he chose poorly.
*addendum*
I’m not defending George here, I’m just trying to figure his mindset….wait, did I just say that?
Testosterone… I’ve known too many people fuelled by it to be
overly impressed. Havign said that, most of them have the
good taste to be dead or crippled now. Problem is they
always take a good man with them, sometimes several…
I’m sure that’ll bring AF out from under his bridge…
“Testosterone…Why when me and my dead comrades were fighting off Charlie…”
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My problem is that I expect the kids I work with to talk all that macho $hit, then do something stupid…I hope this President has learned something about it from the previous regime and won’t fall into the same trap.
“Testosterone…Why when me and my dead comrades
were fighting off Charlie… we had so much we were
making the VC bald in a 200 yard radius.”
I can hardly contain the thrill of the anticipation….:roll:
In bed… With various sheep costumes…
I just wish he had the tongue of a Falkland sheep…
I’ll defer to your wisdom in such matters while I claim blissful ignorance.
@Unc: Isn’t a sheep’s tongue a little…um…coarse? Or am I just that naive…
Make sane economic decisions, not bailouts.
That would be nice… won’t happen while ever the old Chicago-Austrian model is on place, since this mess it exactly what it supposed to happen in Anarcho-Capitalism.
Rachel Maddow had D-Sen. Pete DeFazio (sp?) on last night, and he has been making the case that the Stim Package does not have anywhere near enough of an emphasis on infrastructure…I’ve gotta say the case is overwhelming that we need to spend more in that area…haven’t most great Empires crumbled from within????
Oh, don’t worry. Obama is so cool, no one will ever hate us again. It’s all gonna be smooooooooooth sailing. We should just quit having elections anymore and make him king. Don’t worry, be happy.
Is that more sarcastic snarling from the Right Wing…or the prozac talking?
He’s been snorting Xanax again.
[while holding a freep] Intriguing. It’s trilling noise seems to produce a tranquilizing effect on the human nervous system.
*slaps the freep out of Pitty’s hands*
Don’t grab it by the tail!! It’ll pi$$ all over you then tell you it’s raining!!!
But it’s so fuzzy and adorable! Can I keep it, please? *shimmery puppy-dog eyes*
Fortunately, I am, of course, immune.
Kuro darling, sure it’s cute now, but it’ll grow up to be a snivelling, snarling, ball of intollerance that spouts out anything it hears from the Ann Coulter-Rush Limbaugh-Bill O’Reilly voices it hears in it’s tiny little head. I’ve seen it before, dear, completely untrainable…now put it down before it’s freepery rubs off on you.
…and they multiply at alarming rates.
Kinda like Tribbles…
I want to know who put the freeps in the quadrotritecale
and what was in the grain that killed them!
and don’t forget… don’t feed them after midnight and never EVER get them wet.
*pouts* Fine… *throws the freep over a cliff* Oopsies…
So are Tribbles. And Blagojevich’s toupee.
MG, it’s not urine, but glands just inside its ass…
“[while holding a freep] Intriguing. It’s trilling noise seems to produce a tranquilizing effect on the human nervous system.”
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I thought that was the HypnoToad.
All hail the HypnoToad
I, for one, welcome our warty overlord…
Not warts, Obama is just going a bit gray on top…
umm, wrong show…
Okay, since when was Pundit Kitchen a conservative website? I swear, all the LOL’s that either uphold Obama or diss on former president Bush all have low ratings, regardless of how funny they are. What, are the elephants all trolling the internets now?
I think there might be quite a few people who are just raaaaather fed up with any Bush and/or Obama lols, simply because there’s been too many, and they’ve been quite predictable.
What Danbala said, plus, if you’ll read the comments above before posting you might have a clue that a lot of us just didn’t think it was that funny. A vote on a lol isn’t (for myself, anyway) a judgment on whether or not I like or approve of the person in the picture; it’s a matter of whether or not it makes me laugh.
what they said.
Yeah, totally agree…the “LOL” humor seems to appeal more to the lolcat crowd. Don’t get me wrong, I love the lolcats, but those fans seem to be much easier to entertain and think anything with a LOL in it is freakin hilarious. Retards.
We do have our own stellar collection of retards though… a better class than on Lol Cats…
I hold myself to high standards of retardation before I post.
True, but that leads to the question: If my posting is retarded, why do I get the error message that says I’m posting too quickly?
Excessive efficiency…
*chokes on her coffee* Pundit Kitchen conservative??? Now that does make me lol.
Is your name a Rider Haggard reference?
Could also be a Green Day reference. (You can see which of us has been in school more recently, AC!)
[LINK] If you’re not familiar with the song, AC!
BULL SHIT. If anyone thinks that we will be more peaceful with Obama than with any other president, then I’m afraid you’re a naive fool.
People hear “Pulling out of Iraq” and they seem to think the soldiers are coming home. You’re in for a surprise.
This has got to be the stupidest nation on earth.
I always told my daughters that it’s very important to never trust a guy who says he’s going to pull out.
But I was very, very good at it. I suggest is head first so he has more control and can focus on their orgasm. Real easy to do as a teenager. Gods, I miss that stamina…
Somehow, that came out way more boastful than I ever intended…
And yet it cracked me up.
Good then I accomplished my goal.
lol.
i completely agree with you! I’m sick of all this “with obama, the world we be all flowery and peaceful” bullshit.
honestly, the people here are so naive.
Anyone think this Democrat vs. Republican shit will ever end? People don’t have their own opinions anymore. It’s us v. them, regardless of the issue. Each side has talking heads and mouth pieces to worship unquestionably and the entire purpose of a democratic government is lost in this ridiculous struggle.
People think they’re smart because they’re liberal or conservative when in reality you’re just a sheep. A number. A brain-dead, fat mouth, hate-regurgitating, closed minded, soldier of an invisible army.
Remember when people thought for themselves?
A brain-dead, fat mouth, hate-regurgitating, closed minded, soldier of an invisible army.
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Like Bruno….who thinks everyone on this site is a Democrat or a Republican. Since I claim to be neither will you shut your fat, hate-regurgitating, closed minded mouth?
Now, now, I liked the sentiment. I read it as any party political animal is just
a zombie who mostly acts on faith and reacts with fear to anything that
challenges its world view.
Fester, your link picture is evil!! I had to go clear out my internet history because I didn’t want to get struck by lightening after seeing that
I just hope nobody at work saw that over my shoulder…
They’d lynch you?
I was thinking terminate me on the spot but lynching is such a nicer word.
Employers are such big girlies…
That I noticed… So are coworkers which is why I am very reserved at work with only a hint of silly.
Except for a very small percentage, I don’t consider my coworkers my friends. Just people I have to work with.
I have my own business and am a staff of one.
At Christmas I get drunk and say lascivious
things to myself and then hop up on the
copy machine…
… And where do you work again?
Just fit a web cam…
Don’t bogart all the bandwidth Fester!!! I wanna see drunken work antics too, dammit!
I have a few people I like here but still nobody I would trust with my normal personality. They’re just nice and my humor isn’t work appropriate anyway.
I have a similar problem… people often think I’m crazy because I snicker to myself about seemingly nothing.
If only they could hear the voices in my head…
I mostly just let them think I am a tad odd and don’t give them any details. A good bit like here though I obviously don’t censor myself as much here as I do there.
One of my coworkers told me recently that I always look like I’m thinking about something funny.
@Aedriel: They probably don’t think you’re crazy, they’re probably worried you’re snickering at them!
My coworkers just think I am odd and sweet. I plan to keep it that way though I did manage to find a couple of acquaintances worth swapping secrets and ideas with.
@DWN: You are odd and sweet. Just also kinda twisted. In a good way.
Careful Diss, them’s cuddling words…
*hugs*
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*hugs* Mmmmm, I do love the smell of cuddly woman in the evening. *big squeeze*
And it ate the rest of that again… *makes mental note not to hump Diss*
I didn’t eat any part of your post.
And it’s quittin’ time at work, so I’m out for the night.
*smacks DWN on the a$$ on her way out*
Gotcha!
O_o… I knew I liked her…
@dis: They think I’m crazy because occasionally when they ask me what I’m laughing at I actually tell them. Then anything I laugh at after that is just a reminder of my twisted sense of humor.
Jesus loves little children…
I feel guilty, as a mother, for just VIEWING that picture. lol you are one sick bastard…
You say that like you’re surprised…
No not suprised, just learning more about you every day…
It’s funny, I hated you at first- but the more I see your posts, the more I like your smart ass.
Like a cuddly mildew, he grows on you.
LOL @ “cuddly mildew”.
Have a new Obmama Lol
Brilliant!!
What, you don’t have an Oreo rap?
I was trying to avoid the race slant… TBH, it looked to me like he was laying down something classic by Motorhead, but somehow, Obama does ‘The Ace of Spades’ seemed to have the ‘wrong’ vibe, even though that was what it looked like he was doing… I still like the idea of Obama laying down Motorhead tracks but to get anything other than other Head fans amused, it would have to be heavy handed…
To me, there’s something intrisically funny about Obama doing metal.
Have a new Obama concert lol [link]
In that pic (2nd) he looks to me more like a revival tent preacher / faith healer.
I just don’t see him as a singer I guess.
That’s why he’s doing 20 to life in Lompoc
Medium security? What do you think I am? A wuss?
You? I was commenting on your comment, not on you.
If I was talking about you, I would have mentioned going fishing in the lake of fire.
Oh, sorry… monstrous ego fail on my part…
Actually, I think that was a monstrous ego win, but a human fail.
I pride myself on being a crap human being. It made my trade so much easier…
And what was your trade if I may ask.
I’ve considered changing careers this late in life and if being a piece of human excrement can be part of a new career, so much the better.
Lompoc is a disproportionately hispanic prison… I leave it to you to make sense of it from there
Hey! Zeus!
For dinner they’re serving Mary on the half shell. [link]
It does bear a striking resemblance to a half-shell mussel, doesn’t it? Almost enough to make me want to eat one out of sheer insolence.
It got me hot…
wow. the world is about to end… fester and i agree on something…
Nah, some mild earthquakes and a few crickets farting. However Froofrou and Fester agreeing did cause a violent storm in the Pacific.
haha… nice one dwn…
Luckily or unluckily, I lack the appropriate amounts of antipathy to ever have meteorological or geological events happen when I agree with somebody. Usually I just have some spite and ignore them.
Someday though, I hope to have a properly worthy nemesis and then when we finally agree, something… I dunno… Nifty will happen.
i can pretend to hate your guts and then agree with you out of the blue if that will help you feel more responsible for global catastrophes….
It wouldn’t be the same. -_-
Steve,
I’m with you!
Brain-dead, fat mouth, hate-regurgitating, closed minded, soldiers of an invisible army UNITE! lol
Dyslexic soldiers of an invisible army UNTIE!!!
Ahem, that’s ‘lysdexic’
I choose to believe what I was programmed to believe.
Wow, that’s probably the best description I’ve ever heard for having religious beliefs, even if that’s not how you meant it. Do you mind if I use that?
That only works if you’re talking about someone raised that way. What do you use when you’re talking about someone who wasn’t raised with a religion, and later in life decided to obtain one? Or make one of his own?
Absolutely true.
I shouldn’t have said just religious since it works for any belief held from a young age where the person hasn’t put thought into it.
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I can respect lots of things, but I can’t respect it if when asked why a person believes ‘A‘, their best answer is “because that’s what I was taught”.
In my opinion, you can get away with that answer until you’re about 12 years old. After that, if you’re going to hold onto a belief, you’d better be able to defend why.
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I’ve heard that as the one and only reason for all sorts of hate and stupid ideas.
One of my main gripes is with religious people who will say things like (this particular example I have heard on more than one occasion): “Well. Me, I don’t mind homosexual people, they’re nice and all, I am not a homophobe. But my Bible/Church* says that it is not what God wants, so therefore i think they should not be allowed to act homosexually.”
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*) (Probably replaceable with quite a few non-Christian terms as well)
It’s from Futurama – a robot peasant in episode 1, season 3, says it. So, as I stole it from there I certainly have no objections.
I don’t know why I didn’t recognize the quote. Thanks for the info!
I can only assume making LOL consists of taking troops out of Iraq and redeploying them in Afganistan
Quite probably… and your point?
I think it involves redeploying the troops to comedy clubs.
That would make some interesting ‘Open Mike’ nights…
“…and I was covered in my buddy’s brains, then I looked at Sarge, and he’s sobbing and trying to hold his guts in, but they’re oozing out from between his fingers like the Blob, and stinking, then I realise I can only see out of one eye and hear this high pitched noise…”
…and AF laughs, then takes notes for the next day at PK.
Yes, laugh you retards- just wait until Obamaboy starts the draft.
What’s it like to be a coward? Does it hurt to look in the mirror everyday?
Do you cry when little girls beat you up and take your lunch money?
Has Rhorho EVER posted anything funny in her toady sucking-up-to-Fester dribble? What pathetics farts you are- I think I shall take a dump in the halls of Windsor castle in honor of Fester- the English have pissed on the Scots enough already.
This site used to have intelligent people- and then the Democrats came…..
the English have pissed on the Scots enough already.
Ah, you’re “defending” a country whose capital city you can’t even spell…
You’ve been watching Braveheart, haven’t you?
How did the Scot’s appear in that tirade?
He’s been on the Meths (Methylated Spirit, not Meth Amphetamine)…
*kills Fester’s rogue apostrophe*
The Meths would help, but I think it’s from watching an Australian running around Ireland in a sentimental film that’s about 20% historical fact… Makes him feel like he’s in touch with his great-granny’s sister’s neighbour who was a Scot…
Nice sniping, AC! Headshot!
Sorry for the apostrophe…
UF … apologizes … :8O:
*dies of toxic shock*
*last gasp …
You really are a sad, empty, little man, aren’t you?
You’ve now got to the stage where you’re just an embarassment
to the country you claim to love…
You have no wit
You have no point
All you do is bluster how patriotic you were in Cessner cleaning.
…starts the draft?
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I filled out my Selective Service card when I turned 18. It just hasn’t been acted upon.
*drafts Steve in intricate scheme to clean her house*
Deploy him my way when you’re done, won’t you?
I’ll tell him he’s on a “mission.”
Wow. I just wanted to be the 42nd person in the world to tell you you are batshit insane. One, how many times in history have we had a draft and how many years ago was the last one? Two, I love how you can tell what people are like from text on a screen and no other means of contact with limited conversation most of which are taken up by rampant insults, assumptions, and hatred of an almost ridiculous degree. Three, Your the one so obsessed with making Fester’s life miserable (er?) that would go off and make a name in commemoration of your hatred of him. Almost stalker-ish of you.
GRAH!! *leaps on the paragraph and staples a few comma’s in there*
Yes. Democrat’s are sooo unintelligent, durr. *rolls eyes*
Ignore this post. <__>
Should we leave him thinking that the word “dribble” is correct
there?
@ElbieSee thanks for the warm thoughts, they’re paying off. More and more people are regaining power.
@Srab, I’m in central Kentucky, just below Lexington.
@Daffy, the worst has past, it’s supposed to warm up tomorrow to 45 degrees, so hopefully all of this stuff will melt (and not refreeze)!
i lovee obama, but this is kinda LAME
Make LOL @ http://thelolmaker.com!