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Just a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down!
Feed the birds, tuppence a bag,
Tuppence, tuppence, tuppence a bag.
Just a few trillion helps the tax hikes seem small
(*tax hikes?*)
Hope you’re enjoying that $300,000 dollars a year you’re making. I’m getting by on on less than a sixth of that myself, so I don’t know what y’all are whining about. “Oh Noes! I can’t afford that second vacation home! DAMM YOU OBAMA!!!”
LoL
Shinobi must be shaking his fist at Obama out the window of his Ferrari as we speak!
Nah, I’d say it’s a Lamborghini.
Hook, line, and sinker.
i know, we should tax the well off people even more! you stupid socialists.
Cow.
Now now, I’m sure that Cowlifornia has reason to be so upset. I bet his wife keeps him up at night, and it puts him in a bad mooooood.
froo… that one was questionable. i did the halfway smile. but it was still questionable.
What can I say, I’m at work
Monday tends to kill the spirit a little.
snicker, snicker
That’s a wonderful idea, more taxes on the people who can afford it! Thanks for the input Cowlifornia!
Hehe. Not bad. And since I only work “shifts” at “Burger King” they can’t accuse me of being rich. {/sarcasm}
Talk about a nanny state!
It never gets old
Nope.
It kinda makes you mant to…
Break into song?
Wow these Obama captions are way edgy.
I don’t think he needs the extra wingspan, if you know wha’msayin’. Also, this would be funnier if he didn’t appear to be walking off an airplane. Well, not really.
Are you making a subtle joke at his ears..
They should put this up on Fox and say ”Obama’s a witch!”
Burn the witch!
He turned me into a newt!
A newt?
I got better.
Burn him anyway!!11!!
wondered why ol’ newt was in the news again – he’s been reinsouled!
If Obama were a witch, I doubt he’d turn anybody into THAT Newt. LMAO
i don’t know, you’d be surprised at how active murphy gets when mercury is in retrograde
How do you know he is a witch?
… he looks like one!
he floats!
What else floats?
*gets led by nose into saying this*
Sh!t!
*Banishes HST for not knowing the next line in the movie*
Hey now, I love a MP+HG reference as much as the next guy, but… sometimes you just gotta go for the CCCCCCCCombo Buhraker!
churches!
Very small rocks!
A duck.
LEAD!!! LEAD!!!
Clowns!
Who are you so wise in the ways of science?
Monty Python reference FTW
This just goes to show you elitist he is. Real Americans don’t use umbrellas, they just get stand in the rain and get soaked.
Correction: that would make him a native Oregonian. Here on the west coast, we’re of the opinion everyone else in the country thinks they’re made of sugar and would dissolve in a real downpour. It’s a common saying: “How can you tell someone who isn’t an Oregon Native? The umbrella!”
Oh, please. You wimps stand in the fog and call it a hurricane.
Trolling for attention? It’s ok, I feel lonely, too. *pat, pat*
I know, right? Which 300 lbs football player/wrestler/former bartender is he calling a wimp, anyway?!?
The one behind you.
You, obviously. It’s (mostly) nothing personal — you left coasters just don’t know anything about real weather.
And given how you “embellished” your background last time, I can’t wait to see how your description maps to reality. I’ll get the popcorn.
You have just destroyed the last of your credibility- I have never embellished my background, here or anywhere else. I am insulted on so many levels I just don’t know how to respond.
Wow… I hate to say this but I would have expected a 300lb guy to have thicker skin than to act devastated over what some jack@ss said online…
I do hope you forgot a /sarcasm and I am just hallucenating your response.
Someone’s got a case of the Mondays….
Ya I do and a wad of allergies that I always seem to forget about during the winter because my brain is too busy going F@*# It’s Cold since this is IA.
Oh, you meant PortlandMark, ya, I suppose that would make sense.
Perhaps all of us.
Probably.
Pundit Kitchen is so rough that instead of chatting about weather, we fight over it. Take it to the MAX.
Everyone seems to think that “physically hard to hurt” means “emotionally hard to hurt”. Please to explain the logic behind that?
Besides, having my integrity challenged is about the most insulting thing I can think of.
It means that while you were developing your body, one would hope you spent an equal amount of time on your mind, thus when some jack@ss insults your honor, you don’t act like it is a showstopping event that prevents you from retorting.
He said you were full of shit, nothing less or more than you have said of him, right? He has said I am full of shit, Fester is full of shit, Seth, Froofrou, etc, etc. You’ve attacked him before and questioned his integrity right? Hell, I will even say that it was a warranted attack but the attack here is nothing less than what you have done.
Hell dude, I am rather flabbergasted that we are having this discussion. So I am going to summarize.
He said you are full of shit just as you have said he is full of shit. It is a simple matter of “Suck it up Buttercup.” It isn’t anything special that we haven’t read before on these pages.
Gotta agree- it is only insulting if you consider the criticism valid- otherwise it might as well be a fart. And a fart insults only the nose….
Yes, absolutely, you did — at the top of the last tea party thread, or have you forgotten? As I recall, it was my fault then, too.
Feign injury all you like; cast blame all you like. The solution is simple — if you don’t want to be seen as an embellisher, don’t embellish!
As I recall, you claimed that managing a multi million dollar fine dining establishment wasn’t really experience in the real world; there was never any assertion that I did *not* have that experience. Just because you make stuff up in your head doesn’t mean it’s true in the real world. You’re delusional.
You recall incorrectly. When you jumped in and started throwing around your “management” experience, the context clearly implied that you had experience beyond your own. An embellishment of omission, yes, but an embellishment nonetheless. And I wasn’t the only one who thought so.
The righteous indignation act is wearing a wee bit thin by now, don’t you think? Just own up to your BS and move on.
If I was PM, my first thought would be (if I had and BS to own up to), “You first..”
Sorry.. *any BS*
I’m sure you would. Proving once again that only people with the “correct” opinions are allowed to cheat. Seth will back you up on that, I’m sure.
Dhoti, in all my days on God’s green earth I have to meet a person who hasn’t ‘embellished’ on something, myself included. I don’t know if PM was embellishing, I don’t live my life looking over his shoulder. But to suggest that you haven’t I suspect is a falsehood on your part.
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‘Let him without sin cast the first stone.’
Ed’s is right. He isn’t really in the land of horrid spiders and Aborigines. He is in the Immature Insult capital of the world, Urgay. Diss lives in the Matrix. Seth is the black sheep in a family of abino mountain goats. Maxwell didn’t disappear, he watches us from his secret moonbase shaped like a flaccid penis. Rhorho isn’t really an evil botanist hellbent on killing the world, she just does that on the weekends. Charro doesn’t like drugs, she just plays one on television. Jane isn’t really a school teacher, she is really a top secret professor in the disguise of a school teacher to find out more about idiots and how they raise their kids. Uncle Fester isn’t really mean, he is just contracted to bother people as a research paper into the psychology of idiocy, reporting to the same department as Jane.
And as for outting nearly everybody, I would apologize but you are all just imagining this and will wake up in a pool of your own secretions wondering if all that questionable white fluid will ever wash out and why you are in a Stay Puff’d Marshmallow Man outfit with convenient holes placed for easy access…
So this is really all just academic and I was never here.
Wow. That was perfectly transparent — and yet utterly hilarious. I am *impressed*.
Eddie’s, I mean. Dwn’s was just lame. But no surprise there.
Eds is a master of humor like that…
Thanks Dhoti.. I do try and find humor in most situations. Your’s has me rolling on the floor. Aside from that, here’s your next challenge in life. The next time you apply for a job, remove everything from your CV that is an embellishment so that you come across as the trite and mundane person you really are.
Hold on a second — do you really believe that you successfully sidetracked the conversation? That I really forgot I was taking PM to task for not acting like a man and owning up to his mistake, and thought instead it was about us?
Sorry, but while you were worth a chuckle, you’re not that good. Feel free to try again, though.
Sidetracked the what now? Dhoti, if you want to whack at straw men, no one is going to stop you, but you whinging about someone else’s omissions or embellishments or whatever you’re calling it is not a ‘conversation.’ It is you frothing at the mouth and flinging poo again. You have not shown that you are even capable of a conversation, and I’m beginning to wonder why I keep giving you the benefit of the doubt.
So, what do you do for a living, Dhoti?
Seth, you might as well wait for the 2nd Coming. Dhoti has never once answered that question.
Seth, I don’t know why the phrase “proof by authority” sends you and the other regulars into such an emotional tizzy. I’ll leave it to your therapist to work that one out, but I’ll repeat — again — that if you end your argument with “Trust me, I’m a manager”, then “What kind of manager?” is a perfectly valid follow-up question. You’ll notice I never made that kind of statement, precisely because I didn’t want to have that kind of discussion.
But, in your hypocritical little mind, PM’s butt-hurt offended reaction is perfectly OK, because he’s one of the good guys and doesn’t have to prove anything, yee haw, but I’m supposed to answer your completely unrelated questions because you don’t like me and I’m eeeeeeeevil.
Pathetic. (As is the reply to come, I’m sure.)
Absolutely right, Eddie. And I won’t, until I say my job means that I’m right. Honestly, I don’t see why you have such difficulty understanding that — it couldn’t be any simpler. (Well, I do — it’s because you’d rather be an emotional hypocrite than a rational human being — but you see what I’m getting at.)
I told you, Dhoti, I don’t dislike you, I don’t think you’re evil, I have said, again and again, that I think you are smart and articulate. So what is your problem?
PM is a manager. He has management experience. Managing a large restaurant is more challenging than most management jobs. Do you have any food service or management experience?
Oh, and Dhoti? Could you link to a previous post of yours that you consider to be ‘rational?’ You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.
Another unrelated question — now I have to ignore them on principle. Let me try the abbreviated, PowerPoint-friendly explanation:
* We were using “management” to talk about senior managers
* PM showed up and said “I’m in management, so I know what I’m talking about”
* PM revealed he wasn’t actually in senior management, so he was trying to mislead us into thinking he was
* Butt hurt
I can link to plenty, Seth — but none *you* will think are rational, because they don’t agree with *you*.
I’ve yet to hear how I implied anything that wasn’t true, Dhoti. I’ve yet to hear how I implied a level of authority above what I actually claim. I have, in fact, been 100% honest, and you’ve been nothing but a lying, abusive, expletive.
Then you’ve yet to read, PM. See 12:57, 2:23, 2:39, all of which are just me repeating what I said before.
Froo does the same exact thing — selectively ignore posts to pretend it’s an unsourced personal attack. Which one of you is the master and which one is the apprentice?
See, Mark, that’s where you’re wrong. Dhoti is the only honest one here, he’s the only one who actually knows what’s going on in the world, he’s the only one who understands the current administration, the economy, or global warming, he’s the only one who has proven time and time again that he’s right, and he’s the only nice one around here. All the rest of us are lying idiots who can’t tell our asses from holes in the ground, and he’s just trying to show us the error of our ways. Just because we can’t see that, he can’t help it that we’re stupid.
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Or something.
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Do you get your material from the book of 8th grade insults? Would you like to explain to the class how I am an emotional hypocrite? Or how my ability to be rational is wanting?
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Trite, mundane, and irrelevant (you can add that to your CV as well free gratis.)
Eddie, it won’t make any sense unless you first understand how your question was hypocritical. So, do you understand?
Eds, the only thing we can do at this point is starve him out. He’s clearly better than we are, smarter, brighter, more eloquent, better at math, and probably has both larger tits than I do and a bigger pecker than you do. So we might as well let him bask in his own glory and just talk with those on our own level, as we are obviously worms that don’t deserve to be in his presence.
Froo, I think you’re unclear on the whole “starvation” thing. (Unless you’re pulling a Sideshow Bob in the blimp, in which case you should have quoted the line.)
If you weren’t so willfully ignorant and duplicitous, none of this would even have happened. But no…playing nice doesn’t apply to right-wingers, does it?
Apparently not, as I am but a worm in your presence. Please, allow me to wash your holy feet.
What do you do for a living Dhoti?
Charro, ask me again the first time I say “trust me on this, it’s my job”. I’ll be more than happy to tell you.
I think Dhoti is a professional interwebs kind of guy. How else do you explain his vast knowledge on every blessed discussion?
Do you suppose he was one of those who lost his job in the DotCom bubble? That kind of professional interwebs person?
I was actually thinking a troll type..
That’s a natch, but I meant professionally. He’s admitted to being in management, or at least told an “anecdotal story” about shuffling things around for the higher ups, but other than that, he may live under a bridge.
So, that’s *crickets* from PM, then. No surprise. (Hope he’s not crying into his protein shake.)
Froo, PM, all you losers, when you’re presented with proof, you slink off.
You’re right, of course. I don’t know what I was thinking, trying to go against your proof. My apologies.
Dhoti, quit being a twat.. when YOU’RE asked for any type of reference, you hem and haw and provide squat.
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Oh wait, a new interwebs nickname of those that refuse to answer questions.. a squat-twat!
A picture for Dhoti. Link.
So I am lame but Dhoti can’t even state his job without some kind of negotiated condition, one which can’t be negotiated so far?
I could understand hesitation if we were asking for specifics like location and company name but we are basically asking for title and responsibilities.
Froofrou is HR for a chicken factory. PM stated he is a restaurant manager. I am a customer service drone for a finance company where I hold the hands of those who should know better and walk them through their contracts. Seth is some IT guy last I checked. Uncle Fester is retired. AC is fresh meat on the chopping block. Diss works in a legal office. (apologies love, your exact title eludes me at the moment)
So come on Dhoti, you’re a big boy now. Feel free to share.
um… Thanks…
I didn’t do anything worth thanking me for. Just telling the truth love.
And for what it’s worth, I’m some sort of IT guy as well. I suspect Dhoti won’t say because he’s afraid we’ll point and laugh.
Ah, cool. Also, I doubt Dhoti would give up his possible deniability for actual integrity. It is more fun to deride others than prove your own worth or lack thereof.
It’s really kind of tragic that he doesn’t seem to understand that the reason behind all of the ire directed his way is that he slapped someone for no reason. And then when olive branches are extended, he slaps at those as well. Or if we dare try to speak gently or reason with him, he slaps back again.
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The only thing I can figure is that he’s playing obtuse just to get a rise out of as many people as possible. He can’t possibly be dumb enough to believe his own rhetoric.
If he just happened to be a college professor teaching sociology he would be. But then, I cringe at the thought of Dhoti teaching sociology. That would be an oxymoron extremis.
froo – can we just take those olive branches he ignored and build a bonfire with them? i’m in the mood for roasted troll
The only fun part would be watching it turn on the spit.
Oh for the love of… Can’t you confine your trolling to politics? Do you have to make EVERYTHING personal? You catch more flies with honey: if you want to change people’s minds, try being sweet, not sour. If all you are doing here is venting your rage, well, I can respect that. Just don’t try to pretend you are here for anything else. Be consistent, or we get to heap ‘hypocrite’ on top of all the other labels we have for you.
Seth, it should be painfully obvious by now that I don’t care about your labels — just ask froofrou how that’s working out, mkay?
But, for your edification, an actual hypocrite would be defending someone’s behavior just because you like them (or because you dislike the person they’re talking to), when you wouldn’t tolerate that same behavior from anybody else. Sound familiar?
Yes, it sounds familiar. You’ve just described yourself again. I don’t know what you are trying to accomplish by posting here, but convincing others that your point of view is sane and rational certainly isn’t it. Whatever you are trying to do, I hate to tell you, it isn’t working. Unless you are trying to amuse people, that, you are doing.
I don’t dislike you. In fact, I wish you’d grow up and actually join the conversation here, instead of swinging from the chandeliers, flinging poo. You are smart and articulate, and at times even intentionally funny. You could do a lot for your cause if you just lightened up.
As it is, you might as well be a Democratic operative pretending to be a Republican in order to make them all look bad, for all the good you’re doing your party.
Really? “I know you are, but what am I” is the best you can do? I’ll at least grant you the benefit of the doubt and assume you’re actively ignoring the tactic, rather than actually being incapable of seeing the distinction.
Funny, I was going to suggest you’d grow up and rise above the “conversation” here. But hey, if you’d rather throw around mean adjectives and soak up the group polarization, that’s your call.
Your offering doesn’t deserve any more effort than that, sorry. I can tell you are totally disappointed, but I am not your Uncle Fester, and I am not here to give you a spanking.
I’m TRYING to help you and your cause, but all you want to do is fright. That’s okay, I understand your feelings of powerlessness and rage. I understand how you must feel like a complete outsider. But you know that you are choosing to be the outsider, right? You could hold and express all the same opinions you do now, and be accepted, if you would just stop being so confrontational. If I can do it, so can you.
“Left coasters just don’t know anything about real weather…”
Oh please. Volcanoes, earthquakes, floods, windstorms, the massive amount of snow we just had this winter…I think the east coast is sitting mighty pretty right now.
I think all of us have our own brand of bad weather to deal with depending on the part of the country we’re in. I laugh at Native Texans for not knowing what actual waist-deep snow looks like, but then, when I lived elsewhere, I didn’t have to deal with tornadoes. So we’re all screwed in different ways
True enough.. I’ve always said I would rather go through 30 seconds of sheer terror from an earthquake than dealing with a tornado or a hurricane.
For us to get a damn hurricane in Texas, especially as far north as Rita went, was just mind boggling. You should have seen all of the scrambling around and doomsday stuff that was going on! Now the coast is used to it, but Rita went up into East Texas, and was felt as far north as Arkansas. So it was weird.
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I’ve only been through one earthquake, a 4.0 that lasted about 5 seconds. Of course, at age 10 I immediately freaked out, but since then I’ve learned that it wasn’t all that bad
I’ve never had to deal with a hurricane, or a tornado. Until this year, I’d never had to deal with a snow storm that lasted for days, and lingered for weeks. I’ve had to worry about ice storms that shut the city down, a couple volcanic eruptions (though far enough away that I was never in danger), and several earthquakes, both here and in California. Earthquakes always wake me up thinking, “Damn, that couple in the next room are gonna bring down building, they’d better knock it off…” Oh, and floods- we’ve had a hundred year flood and a couple fifty year floods in the last fifteen years.
Tornadoes scare the ever lovin’ sh!t out of me. Honestly. Those nasty green clouds, the ominous feeling, the pressure building up everywhere, the wind, lightning, thunder……..and the worst is when it suddenly gets quiet. That’s when you know it’s coming. Nine times out of ten all of this is going on in the dead of night, so you can’t see the tornado coming if you wanted to. I can deal with hurricanes and the like, but tornadoes have my number and they know it.
Me too!!! I have a wretched fear of tornadoes! All summer long, everytime we have a thunderstorm, I stress about it.
Those storm chasers must be really crazy then!
I bring it where ever I go—100 yr flood in CO, 500 yr flood in NE, Hurricane Rita and Wilma in Texas, 9 tornadoes in 10 square miles in less than 2 hours in NE, Earthquake (mild) in CA, worst wildfires of record, CA….what have I not had—I guess no major earthquake, that is it I think. Oh and MANY snow storms in NE where we had enough ice or snow to knock out electricity. I will say most pp in CA are clueless as to what real weather is though- they get cold at 65 degrees (cold is when the nose hair freezes as you breathe).
Earthquakes and volcanoes are now weather? LOL! Unless you’re talking about “airquakes” and “aircanoes…” (But I’ll make an exception for ash — that sh!t is nasty.) And compare that “massive amount of snow” to an nor’easter, never mind a Midwestern blizzard.
Sam – see my response below. Weather occurs in the atmosphere, volcanoes and earthquakes have their origins underground.
Floods are also not weather.
What it comes down to is that Dhoti hates everything that’s “Left.” Left wingers, left coasters…hey, I’m left-handed, do you hate me too, Dhoti? (Uh, probably not a good example actually)
LOL, now that I know you’re left handed, I hate you…
Devil hand!
No, the Devil Hand is what you use at night because your wife won’t let you touch her.
Define “massive amounts of snow”.
I live in Wisconsin. We measure it in feet here, not inches.
Nesting Fail. This was for Sam down below…
Really? Left coasters know nothing of weather?
So volcanoes, earthquakes, windstorms, floods, the amount of snow we had this winter… give me a break. I think the east coast is sitting mighty pretty right now.
Sam, volcanoes and earthquakes aren’t weather. Floods can be caused by weather – generally are – but they are not weather themselves. Droughts can be caused by lack of rain – rain is weather – but droughts aren’t weather.
Weather happens in the atmosphere and earthquakes & volcanoes are things that occur due to activity beneath ground. Ash can get into the atmosphere thanks to volcanoes, but that doesn’t make the ash weather. It can affect weather, but in and of itself is not weather.
While you’re absolutely right, it does seem that on many weather stations that I’ve seen, such things as volcanoes and occasionally earthquakes get lumped in there. So does the allergy index, and for some reason, astronomy. While Sam isn’t right in lumping those things in with weather, I can see how that mistake could be made.
That’s why I tried to be thoughtful and educational in my reply instead of being rude. I hope I succeeded.
You did. I just wanted to say I saw his POV for saying that. Know what I mean?
the allergy index gets lumped in because it is tied to the weather conditions – rain lowers the pollen index, an inversion layer holds dirt in the air and if the air is stagnant, the same cr@p that was there yesterday is worse today. for those who suffer from various allergies, it makes sense to lump with the weather forecast, especially in mold country.
@Dhoti
“You, obviously. It’s (mostly) nothing personal — you left coasters just don’t know anything about real weather.”
somehow this gave me a flashback to jindal saying we don’t need volcano/earthquake monitoring out west…. so ask again how we west coasters don’t know much about “real weather” the next time you hear about things like the continental record for most consecutive rainy days in any given 12 mo period, longest stretch without seeing the sun and again in the continental us, or how about the next time we deal with solid precipitation that isn’t water based (ash)
and in the mean time try doing something truly archaic and crack a real book and learn something other than spewing playground trash talk
Sysiphus, your boulder is ready…
boulder my @ss, more like the whole west coast would be more like it… *headdesk*
and just to admit to how stupid i am today, i had to look that reference up… actually my greco-roman stuff has been devoured by my brain eating companion….at least that’s my excuse and i’m sticking to it
No worries, I sprained something remembering to use the reference. You’re fine. *hugs*
And let us not forget the fallout from the weather on the West Coast such as fire storms…
Yes, it’s a yearly event in Tucson when the mountains catch fire.
It’s pretty freaky when Cali’s fire season gets started in early May!
I think it was April this year- Santa Barbara started really close to April…
You know it rains more in New York City than in Seattle and Portland, right? I mean, if you’re going to pull out the playground stats, at least grab the impressive ones.
and how many consecutive days does that take i didn’t notice that inches of precipitation was ever mentioned (however leave it to a man to want to discuss inches…)
and have you ever heard of the hoh rainforest? the only temperate rainforest in the world as far as i can remember and averages 150 inches of rain – does new york top that? didn’t think so….olympic national forest, spitting distance from seattle – so dhoti, stick that in your hookah and…
Of course he’s heard of all of that, Bad Fairie. He’s all wise and all-knowing! He’s just indulging you as you are clearly not smart enough to know what you’re talking about.
Stalking is better than your usual pulling accusations out of your ass, I guess…
You’re the one answering a post not directed at you. Who’s stalking who, Oh Great One?
froo — see link
Sorry, should have known better.
and for diss too. what in blazing hades that the xians believe keeps me indulging this trog? what is my character flaw that i continue doing the same thing and expecting different results? i know he’s not going to change, yet here i am, again sucked into his psychotic games… *headdesk*headdesk*headdesk*headdesk*headdesk*
any chance there is a 12 step program for this?
Yes, join me
i’m about ready to drive myself totally insane and try my hand at writing code to philter unwanted posters so their comments are just a small blank box….or even just a post-it dead center on my monitor screen with a short (single name) list of pkers not to waste time even reading
Who cares about consecutive days? Spread out a hurricane over a month and all you have is a bird pissing.
Yes — I’ve been hiking over there. But you don’t get the cred unless you actually live there. Like the Fifth Avenue kid who thinks he’s hardcore because he can see the Bronx from the window of his family’s penthouse, close doesn’t count.
i don’t know, you go 8 months without seeing anything but drizzle and gray sky, then tell me how it ain’t all that. and i have lived over there just outside the hoh forest, along with many other places on this planet that has equally great/nasty weather. and hurricanes in ny – give a flippin break – now if you want to discuss hurricanes or tornadoes, try living where they really are, instead of the dying edges….
You’re clearly making that story up to make friends. Admit it, you’ve never left the apartment where you were tied to a chair as a child.
how’d you know? (except the chair was a tree in the back yard cause mama didn’t like us kids in the house making noise you know….)
Tornado Alley and South Florida — lived in both. You too? (At least FL is interesting. OK was *boring*.)
I know the gray bothers a lot of people, but I spent a couple winters out that way, and it didn’t phase me. Honestly, I don’t think it’s all that different than a Boston winter — overcast rolls in at the end of fall and disappears by April or May. Sure, you have it a little longer, but it’s still enough to trigger SAD, if you’re prone to that sort of thing.
Earthquakes and volcanoes I’ll give you — that’s some wrath of God stuff right there.
And since the gray doesn’t bother Dhoti, then it shouldn’t bother anyone, right?
You want interesting midwestern weather? Move to St. Louis. It’s always a fun day when you get to use the furnace and the AC in the same day. And nothing messed me up more than when Ike made a right turn in Texas and came screaming up to the Midwest. It wasn’t a hurricane anymore, but it caused enough flash flooding to destroy my garage and try to float my propane tank away. What a fun day that was.
We’ve had to use the heat and A/C on the same day in Texas as well. I believe there was a day a month or so ago where Texas had every single type of weather possible on one day. It snowed in the panhandle, rained down south, was about 100º in one part of the state, flooded, there was drought in the western reaches, and so on and so forth. Texas is fun.
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By the way, I loved St Louis the few times I’ve been there. I just remember the “traditional” feel of the city, with all of the bricks and autumn colors. And the way the Arch sways in the wind….
first time my niece and nephew were out this way since they were spudlets they got snowed on. no biggy, except it was the 4th of july weekend and we only in north idaho, but they loved it – they were from va beach. of course the icing was when they rolled the canoe over that day – way too cold to go swimming, but we didn’t tell them that
haven’t lived in fla yet, but texas, bayou country, several other so called tornado alleys, mich, mo, wa dc, la, al, ga, puerto rico (if you want to talk hurricanes!) id, wa, cali….
and it isn’t so much that gray bothers people, but when your toddler goes from being a spudlet to talking/being aware of beyond the immediate vicinity without ever seeing blue sky, and the weathermen talk about 198 days of rain/gray sky and not breaking the local record yet, it gets old fast. here it isn’t the end of fall, it is fall, winter, and spring. we’ll get a few breaks in the clouds in oct & maybe nov, but we don’t see real sunlight again sometimes until the end of may/early june. and that drizzle just kind of wears away at the brain & soul because some weeks it just doesn’t let up. i’d much rather have an honest rain that dumps all at once and then goes away, but here the clouds pack up against the mountains and just fester.
@froo
What was great was last month where we had 80 degrees one day and two days later it snowed and the day after that it was back in the 60s and the snow was gone. Dressing the kids appropriately for school is a total crap shoot in a St. Louis spring. It seems that every time the jet stream moves it makes sure to bitchslap St. Louis. And makes it very hard for me to mow my lawn.
And frankly, St. Louis natives about the age of 10 couldn’t give a crap less about that hunk of metal sticking out of the ground. We hardly notice it’s there anymore, except it’s about the only tourist attraction we have. :-X
“Who cares about consecutive days?”
Spoken as someone who’s never lived through it.
and an arrogant sob who is probably xenophobic to boot
How can you say that about Dhoti? He just wants to show us all the error of our ways and make sure that we understand that he’s the only one who understands how!
noes! running screaming into the dark. can’t listen to his variety of ‘right’ logic – it hurts what brain i has lefts!
PM, you just lost whatever little credibility you had left with that wild accusation. I am shocked — shocked! — that you would stoop so low. I’m so offended on every possible level that I can’t possibly respond.
your boss is taking away your internet privileges dhoti?
More inches of rain, fewer days of rain. From Wikipedia:
One city that is known for rain is Seattle, Washington. Rain is common in the winter, but mostly the climate is cloudy with little rain. Seattle’s average rainfall is 942 mm (37.1 in) per year,[5] less than New York City’s 1173 mm (46.2 in),[6] but Seattle has 201 cloudy days per year, compared to 152 in New York. Seattle’s neighbor to the south, Portland, Oregon, gets more rain with an average of 1143 mm (45 in) a year. [7] However, it should be noted that Seattle lies in the rain shadow of the nearby Olympic Mountains, with some locations on the windward sides of the mountains receiving close to 3300 mm (about 130 in) per year.[8] The wettest city in the 48 contiguous United States is Mobile, Alabama, which average 1702 mm (67 in) of rainfall per year.[9] Ketchikan and other locations in the temperate rainforest of southeast Alaska get an average of 4064 mm (160 in) of rain a year,[10] sometimes receiving over 5000 mm (about 200 inches) in a year.
yup, seeping in, fungus growing between the toes dampness that just moves in and like any visitor, overstays its welcome. it’s not the amount of rain, it’s the constant semi-solid damp. not heavy enough to be rain, but too heavy to be fog….
In East Texas it’s a little bit like that, but it’s more humid than anything. Some days you feel as though you’re in a tropical jungle, with the heat just pressing you down to the ground, and the moisture in the air making it hard to breathe. I’ve never dealt with the type of damp you’re talking about, though. Is it wet? Hot? Give me something I can understand here
bone chilling cold, but not freezing – just soaks in your bones and doesn’t go away. think your jan/feb but for 4 months and no sun and no snow at the lower elevations …. except as that glowing spot that might show up for an hour or so (like a lightbulb through a quilt)
there is a reason fake and bake places are so popular here – it’s easier to fake tan to get enough vit d than it is popping pills everyday, lol.
but if it’s any consolation, it stays green here most of the year – some years the decidious trees don’t lose all their leaves until spring. i hate it – child of the high desert – i miss brown, 4 seasons, and dry….
we rarily have to shovel snow at my elevation (350 ft) but i spend 9 months scraping mud off the porch, cleaning the carpets, and bathing puppy feet before bed…
e Tx has WAY more sun- thank god- 6 yrs without sun in addition to how much I thought it SUCKED would have killed me. I like SUN. Denver- 310 days a year…SoCal- many days a year, but not the past 2
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Or record breaking heat with sundowner winds leading to above-said precipitation that ain’t water…
Praise whatever deity you desire (or random fluxations of the universe if you prefer) that Santa Barbara finally got a break this weekend!
that’s good news. i hope the weather breaks this year, cali can certainly use a summer of rain instead of drought conditions. ain’t gonna happen, but still one can hope.
Yeah CA could stand a year of not being on fire.
This would never be clever or funny. *sigh*
correction: “will never be” not “would never be”
correction 2: yes it is
No, it’s really not. Really.
it kinda is, in a silly sort of way. it makes a joke of the whole messiah thing by referencing something goofy, i enjoyed it.
Looks Like Its Photoshoped:S
Who would ’shop an umbrella in the president’s hand?
Do we engage with the Fotochop trolls here then? I’m sort of new, and wasn’t too sure of the etiquette.
I think in this case, Tov was making fun of the shop trolls, so it’s okay.
As I said, I’m sort of new here (but it’s the same person behind the handle as on ICHC and ROFLAZZI) so I didn’t recognise Tov as a regular poster.
Oh yeah, and I’ve been having problems with WierdPretzel eating comments too.
Hmm, pk is eating my comments again.
Hmmmmm. This caption make me crave milque with my morning toast.
Ya know, I am up for a good blowjob as much as the next guy but I don’t think even Clinton got this much head as Obama gets with the fawning.
I like the guy and am glad he got elected but there is only so much of his ego wang I can tolerate in a year… Can we please stop stroking it?
/rant in vain
Aw, come on, surely you recognize a play on the “you guys think he’s the second coming warglbarghl!” don’t you?
BTW, anyone catch his routine @ the Correspondents dinner? The man knows funny!
I didn’t watch it but I read the jokes on CNN and didn’t quite get the chuckles. I am blaming the lack of delivery to give him the benefit of the doubt but I found them rather meh, not bad but not great.
Then again, I am fighting spontaneously combusting allergies this morning so perhaps that has killed a lot of funny in me.
Agreed. The man’s writers didn’t bring teh funneh for me, either.
And as charismatic as everyone claims he is, his delivery was MEH.
Well I didn’t see it, so I can’t comment on the delivery which is why I will give him the benefit of the doubt.
As for charisma, Eh, his is focused to getting people to believe him, not to get a chuckle. He managed to get people to believe him so that is charismatic enough for me. I am just making sure to be patient to see how we are doing at the end of the year before I consider pitchforks or laurels.
Man, you’re a hard one to please. I particularly liked:
“Sasha and Malia aren’t here tonight because they’re grounded,” Obama said. “You can’t just take Air Force One on a joy ride to Manhattan. I don’t care whose kids you are.”
About Boehner:
“We have a lot in common: He is a person of color,” Obama joked. “Although not a color that appears in the natural world.”
And:
“He’s warm, he’s cuddly, loyal, enthusiastic; you just have to keep him in on a tight leash – every once in a while he goes charging off and gets himself into trouble. Enough about Joe Biden.”
I really liked most of it, especially the self-deprecating humor.
He’s the president, not a stand-up comedian.
Good thing, or his family would starve.
Yeah, but they all do it for the WH Correspondent’s Dinner. He didn’t start the tradition, he just continues it. Remember the infamous Bush jokes? “No weapons of mass destruction here. None here either!”
Didn’t his wife stand up and roast him for a while or am I just imagining things I call memory again?
Don’t worry — I’m not denigrating anyone. Humor is a subjective, slobbering minion… I picture it as Salacious Crumb at the feet of Jabba.
But I’m a geek/freak, anyway.
I still find you funny and lovable though for what that is worth…
One thing I’ll definitely give Bush. The man is a laugh riot when he wants to be.
Like I said, I am already a cranky @ss today due to spontaneous allergy assault, so it is probably more my fault than the jokes itself.
I actually thought his delivery was spot-on, but the jokes themselves were very meh. If Obama doesn’t have anything else going for him, the man can work a crowd, and has almost as much charisma as the Great Politician, Bill Clinton. He can make vinegar taste like honey, at least for the five minutes he’s speaking to you.
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I just wish he’d use that power for good and not evil
Well there is always tomorrow and we have yet to see if the straw remains straw or if it will be spun into gold. However, either way, I feel it will cost us a firstborn unless he spins enough gold to satisfy that requirement too.
So less rambling version is that I am withholding comment until after the year is up unless he does something really spooky and immediate.
I’ll withhold judgment, but I refuse to withhold comment
How would I make the night at work go by without trying to whip something up?
Not a clue so far be it for me to infringe on your hobbies.
*sigh* Too tired for hobbies, but my boredom gets the best of me at night, thus the recent troll baiting. I want to apologize to everyone for that.
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On a lighter note, my daughter went to church with Nana yesterday, and came back holding out a rose and a poem for me. I cried like a baby!!!!
Ahhh, that is adorable. My youngest is now learning to toddle run… Things are going to get interesting soon.
Oh dear, lock up the china! Leia walked about 5 feet the other night just holding onto one of my hands, so I’m sure that walking isn’t far off.
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Did the Chthulhu get finished?
Yes, yes. I reported an update in the other thread. It got finished and even spent a day at my desk staring at me from beside my keyboard.
Yay!!! I’m sorry I missed that thread. My work/home schedule makes it difficult for me to be here when PK is hoppin’. I usually get online ’round about the time that it dies.
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I’m glad it’s finished and teh kyewtness! (can Chthulhu be kyewt?)
It is adorable. I will see about emailing you pictures tonight if I can keep conscious. Stupid allergy meds…
*hugs*
My allergies have wrecked me today too. I just want to hole up somewhere and whimper, but instead I had to go to two of my three jobs today.
My allergies just went into hyperdrive. I’m allergic to cats. We have two cats I’m “used to.” We just got a 3rd cat. My eyes are so swollen I can barely see the screen. (Yes, I know I’m asking for it. Don’t rub it in. Unless you’re rubbing in Visine, in which case yeah, rub it in.)
DWN – since i like my first born and want to keep her, can i substitute my ex since he was also a firstborn?
I will see what I can do to broker a deal for you but my services aren’t cheap…
it’s ok, disposing of that would be worth the expense….especially since the aliens seem to have quit sucking idjits up to their space ships ever since bush became president.
Hmmm, now I have to ask myself… Chains or silk?
I mean, cash or check… Yea, I accept money, that’s right…
since it’s the ex, i’ll pay extra for chains (and a bonus if you stick them in the freezer at some point *g*)
while you’re at it, just charge it all to his credit card and add a nice tip for good service too
Heh, I am not the one processing the ex. That is left to the government and their need for firstborn blood. The chains and silks were consideration for YOUR payment.
However, I will just charge his card and go on with my day.
Got hand it to Wanda though—Oxycontin- HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH I almost passed out!
Delivery is terrible.
But it is not delivery… It’s Dijorno… (sp?)
DiGiorno. Which I’m not a big fan of, at least the regular “rising crust” ones. Their thin crust is ok, though.
DiGiorno…
Thus proving why I included the (sp?) I knew I was getting it wrong. :/
I lol’d
Thank you. I do try.
Win.
What is the difference between God and Obama? God doesn’t think he IS Obama.
See, DWN? *This* is what the joke is supposed to play off of.
I get the joke, my good man. I am just not finding that funny. O_o
Would it be funnier if it was Nancy Pelosi?
That would just make it very odd for me. You see, the comparisons of Obama to God or any joke relating to the comparison have become very, very, very old and stale to me.
If anything, they were stale to begin with. It is the whole Obama is epic schtick, from being Superman to being able to fly like Practically Perfect in Everyway Marry Poppins, it just didn’t make me chuckle to begin with.
Sure, he made jokes about being from Krypton, but I didn’t laugh then either. So I dunno, the Obama is epic just doesn’t work for me. And Pelosi with Umbrella flight powers sounds like Resident Evil Meets Mary Poppins level of horror. That woman is just… Ick.
No, I meant the joke upthread. The idea of Nancy Pelosi flying (with or without an umbrella) is giving me Wizard of Oz wicked witch flashbacks. Eeep.
Ah, apologies. There, there hun. She doesn’t fly, she burrows through the ground to eat the misplaced dead. *pats head* There, all better, yes?
You wouldn’t believe the stuff I’m finding under my desk!!
That’s not an earthquake, that is Pelosi grumbling because she can’t find her lunch.
Monica?
Okay, you have my attention…
hey, hey now, i almost resent that comparison! if that d@mned house had never fallen on my sister….i’ve just never been the same, but to compare pelosi to moi….that hurts *bwahaahaahaa*
Pelosi is about as funny as flesh-eating bacteria.
Bush is waiting in line at the Pearly Gates. There’s a pretty long line, and being an ex president, he thinks he should be able to cut to the front. SO he asks St. Peter, who tells him to get in line and wait like everyone else.
Just then, Obama walks up, waves to St. Peter, and walks right in. Bush is livid. “How come you let Obama in and not me? I was president too!”
St. Peter says, “Oh, that wasn’t Obama, that was God. He just likes to pretend he’s Obama.”
*facepalm*
You will be shot at sunrise for that one, Seth.. seriously, shot.. as in dead forever shot..
i’m gonna go ahead and agree with you on that one.
I laughed, but in my own defense, I’m on allergy meds like DWN today.
*comforts and nibbles*
Yay! My family’s way of comforting sick people is to say, “Don’t breath on me!”
Lynn and I are cuddly people and when you are sick is when you need at least one person to remind you that you’re loved.
Thanks. My mom is bringing me peanut butter m&m’s, but she’ll probably try and slide them under the door or something.
It’s the thought that counts, I suppose. Start oinking and see if she freaks.
BOOOOOO!!!!
(quietly laughs to myself)
*laughs*
*feels ashamed of sense of humour*
*laughs loudly*
*absolutely no shame over sense of humor*
*must be because of the missing ‘u’*
I heard that joke once only it God was pretending to be Bono.
That’s funnier.