Slowly Going Bald

"Look, we're gonna spend half the night driving around the Hills looking for this one party, and you're gonna say it sucks, and we're all gonna leave and we're gonna go look for this other party. But all the parties and all the bars, they all suck. I spend half the night talking to some girl who's looking around the room to see if there's someone who's more important she should be talking to, and it's like I'm supposed to be all happy 'cause she's wearing a backpack."

Thursday, February 10, 2005

Oh, Korea. I Thought You Said "Iraq." No? My Mistake.

Hey, I found the WMDs. I thought I'd already looked everywhere, but apparently I missed a few places. That's always the way, I guess; things are always in the last place you'd expect.

Here they are.

At least Iraq's elections will provide some stability to the region. After all, as the New York Times reported in 1967, U.S. officials were encouraged when South Vietnam held presidential elections, and the trouble surely couldn't have gone on much past 1967, right?

[Here's a link to the Times page, or you can read the article here in its entirety.]

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This is why I think that we should just blanket bomb a lot of countries and set up resort areas. I want to vote for a president that will at least promise me that.

I bet after the nuclear fallout Korea could become like a cheap Hawaii, although I don't know what we would do with the middle east. Hunting safaris?

By Master Baron Von Tuckenstein the First Esquire, at 6:14 PM, February 10, 2005

We may have just discovered how to unite liberals and conservatives. How about it Daniel? Will you represent the conservative side?

We know ya'll don't like the pesky foreigners :o)

By Master Baron Von Tuckenstein the First Esquire, at 11:28 AM, February 11, 2005

It's "y'all." Contraction of "you all."

By Dan Carlson, at 12:03 PM, February 11, 2005

I think I might be detecting a little sarcasm here.

By Azathoth100, at 1:53 PM, February 11, 2005

No sarcasm about "y'all" versus "ya'll." The latter just doesn't exist. I don't kid about grammar.

As for Korea having nuclear weapons all along while we fought a desert war against guys who fought back with guns we sold them a few years back: I plead guilty to all charges of sarcasm.

By Dan Carlson, at 2:44 PM, February 11, 2005

No I was right. I don't know anyone who says "you."

How ya doin?
we know ya all don't like pesky forners.
do ya know how to spell forners?

I can think up more examples if ya'll want.

By Master Baron Von Tuckenstein the First Esquire, at 8:44 AM, February 14, 2005

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O waste of loss, in the hot mazes, lost, among bright stars on this most weary unbright cinder, lost! Remembering speechlessly we seek the great forgotten language, the lost lane-end into heaven, a stone, a leaf, an unfound door. Where? When?

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Slowly Going Bald

Thursday, February 10, 2005

Oh, Korea. I Thought You Said "Iraq." No? My Mistake.

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