Very hot discussion, what does daen means in your post?
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Cool - hope your visit goes well, daen...
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And I will just add that I can unreservedly recommend Paul as tour guide and host. :)

When your host announces your presence. :^P

Your type, eh? Canadians? Librarians? Women willing to sneak into your house?

The scary thing is that I can give you the real titles of some of those books. We have them in the library, and they're well-circulated.
All of my co-workers loved the improved covers.

is still "Lord of the Hissy Fit".

Although Scotty McMullet gets honorable mentions as well.

i prefer the lord of the tube socks, i think. and scottie mcmullet made me choke on my salmon. that place is dangerous!

"how could he tell her he had no friggin' clue where they were?" heeeeeee....

let me just specify that "choke on my salmon" was not, repeat, NOT a euphemism.

naaahhhhhht.

For the record, I'm glad you recognized the covers, too. I have one of them on my shelf at home.

I once bought my (now) ex-girlfriend a Wal-mart gift card in part so that she could buy herself some new romance novels. Whilst she was making use of of it on our next trip to Wally world, I perused the summaries on the back. Just incredible, really.

(Actually, it was her influence that led me to read one of those J.D. Robb books, the one that combines both that author's universes... and caused my mom to ask me what I was doing reading a romance novel.)

Hmmm, since it's now Friday, and on topic (more or less), even though I may have posted it before, time for a song:


I do have a cause though. It is obscenity. I'm for it. Unfortunately the civil liberties types who are fighting this issue have to fight it owing to the nature of the laws as a matter of freedom of speech and stifling of free expression and so on but we no what's really involved: dirty books are fun. That's all there is to it. But you can't get up in a court and say that I suppose. It's simply a matter of freedom of pleasure, a right which is not guaranteed by the Constitution unfortunately. Anyway, since people seem to be marching for their causes these days I have here a march for mine. It's called...

Smut!
Give me smut and nothing but!
A dirty novel I can't shut,
If it's uncut,
and unsubt- le.

I've never quibbled
If it was ribald,
I would devour where others merely nibbled.
As the judge remarked the day that he
acquitted my Aunt Hortense,
"To be smut
It must be ut-
Terly without redeeming social importance."

Por-
Nographic pictures I adore.
Indecent magazines galore,
I like them more
If they're hard core.

(Bring on the obscene movies, murals, postcards, neckties,
samplers, stained-glass windows, tattoos, anything!
More, more, I'm still not satisfied!)

Stories of tortures
Used by debauchers,
Lurid, licentious, and vile,
Make me smile.
Novels that pander
To my taste for candor
Give me a pleasure sublime.
(Let's face it, I love slime.)

All books can be indecent books
Though recent books are bolder,
For filth (I'm glad to say) is in
the mind of the beholder.
When correctly viewed,
Everything is lewd.
(I could tell you things about Peter Pan,
And the Wizard of Oz, there's a dirty old man!)

I thrill
To any book like Fanny Hill,
And I suppose I always will,
If it is swill
And really fil
thy.

Who needs a hobby like tennis or philately?
I've got a hobby: rereading Lady Chatterley.
But now they're trying to take it all
away from us unless
We take a stand, and hand in hand
we fight for freedom of the press.
In other words,

Smut! (I love it)
Ah, the adventures of a slut.
Oh, I'm a market they can't glut,
I don't know what
Compares with smut.

Hip hip hooray!
Let's hear it for the Supreme Court!
Don't let them take it away!

-There's someone in my head, but it's not me.-

The other Tom that I idolize! Or rather, used to until I heard his comments on the shuttle explosion... Lileks is right. Childhood idols stay around just long enough to really disappoint you.

But his songs are still first rate.

It's simply a matter of freedom of pleasure, a right which is not guaranteed by the Constitution unfortunately.

It may not be in the constitution, but isn't there something about the pursuit of happiness in your "Declaration of Independence" ?

Well, now I've posted something I might as well put up a friday song of my own. I'm not sure whether I posted it before, but it's very British, so probably no one knows it anyway.

The Divine Comedy - Generation Sex

Generation Sex respects the rights of girls
Who want to take their clothes off
As long as we can all watch that's okay
And Generation Sex elects the type of guys
You wouldn't leave your kids with
And shouts off with their heads if they get laid

Lovers watch their backs as hacks in macks
Take snaps through telephoto lenses Chase Mercedes Benzes through the night
A mourning nation weeps and wails
but keeps the sales of evil tabloids healthy
The poor protect the wealthy in this world

And Generation Sex injects the sperm of worms
Into the eggs of field mice
So you can look real nice for the boys
And Generation Sex is me and you And we should really all know better
It doesn't really matter what you say

I once read that that phrase actually means something more to the effect of "job/career of choice", in other words, the right to choose your own career path, not the right to engage in hedonism.

-There's someone in my head, but it's not me.-

Gee I just thought it meant you could chase your dream...
But how come there's no Danish "Pursuit of Happiness" huh, bunky? Where's the logic in that? What do Scandanavian countries do for a constitution/guiding principle?
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Hmm, I think the "pursuit of happiness" is so prominent in American culture, because a lot of the people that emigrated to the US were rather unhappy with the place they left behind. Emigrating was the pursuit of happiness. Danes have pretty much always been in Denmark. Also the Danish outlook on society can be perceived to be rather socialistic, meaning the common good is just as important as individual freedom, which is even reflected in parts of the constitution. Other than that the constitution of Denmark mostly talks about the rights of the monarch (Denmark is a constitutional monarchy), the parliament and certain inalienable democratic rights of the individual.

Perhaps Denmark is best summed up by this.

Didn't the Danes conquer England? And discover America? What do you mean happy where they are?
But the pursuit of happiness I've always interpreted as meaning that people are free to be who they want to be, no class/caste distinctions. If a poor 'white trash' boy from Arkansas can grow up to be President than anyone can do anything. I don't think a poor person could become a self-made politician in Europe enough to win their Prime Ministership or whatever. (And obviously not King).
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Back in the days the Danes would conquer just about anything that moved, but it didn't last. They discovered Greenland, Iceland and allegedly America(Vinland), but hey, they were a curious folk and they always came back. I think class distinctions are no more outspoken in Europe than they are in the US, but still money matters here as well. Poor white trash might grow up to be President in the US, but I think it's the exception. And Europe has their share too. For example Margaret Thatcher, former prime minister of the UK, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, former prime minister of Denmark, and Gerhard Schröder, prime minister of Germany, all hail from working class backgrounds. Not everyone can become king, but everyone can marry into royalty and of course royalty in Europe has no real power, i.e. if they would try to exert the power they formally have, they would lose it immediately. Consider royalty a gimmick to save us the effort of doing those nasty superstar casting shows to find subject matter for the tabloids.

That I do recall a case about ten (??) years ago where there was an attempted coup in Spain that essentially folded when the King refused to support it. So Royality have some uses, besides touristy ones. And never underestimate the importance of symbolism. Men have died to save Flags in battle.
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Which is just about the stupidest thing I've ever heard. A flag, really, is nothing more than a piece of cloth with a design on it. If your ability to fight, as a soldier, is hinged emotionally or mentally on where your flag is, then taking yourself out of the gene pool by being a solider is probably exactly the job for you.

Ugh. I'm venting here, but the warrior-culture meritocracy the government of my country has implemented thoroughly disgusts me.

Your boxers are bunching again. Just saying. But, hey, that's one of the reasons I like you.

:^P

Brian, I love that story!

I forgot to post the translation of the old Irish on those colors..."Who never retreated from the Clash of Spears."

That was a different time, and a very different kind of war. During the US Civil War (War Between the States, War of Northern Aggression, what have you) the colors of your unit were at the center front of your unit. Due to the powder used at that time, after a very short amount of fighting, the entire battlefield would be obscured in smoke. The regimental colors were a guide for the soldiers, stay with the colors, stay with your unit. The cry Rally 'round the flag, is an order for the unit to reform at its center.
In addition, the regimental colors were typically fashioned by the women of the town or county where a regiment was raised. This was an item made by their loved ones and brought into battle, thus forming that emotional bond. The worst disgrase would be to allow those colors to be captured by the enemy.
On this day, I guess it would be appropriate to mention the Fighting 69th. That is the 69th New York more commonly known as the Irish Brigade (their colors actually said 1st Rgt instead of 69th Rgt because they were the 1st Rgt of the Irish Brigade). One of the Regiment's proudest claims is that it never lost a flag in battle. At Fredericksburg they thought they had lost a national colors, but the next morning the flag bearer was found dead, sitting against a tree with the stars and stripes wrapped around him and the ends grasped tightly in his hands. As their colors stated...“Riamh Nar Dhruid O Spairn Iann”
Happy St. Patricks Day!

"Popstars", the inspiration for "American Idol", was a British TV show... so the gimmick must be wearing thin, I suppose. ;p

Well, apparently one British tabloid, in announcing Charles and Camilla's wedding, headlined the article "Two Boring Old Gits Get Married."
In some cases, said gimmick is so thin as to be invisible.

Those. Are. Awesome.

The reader submissions are pretty good too.

Valentine's Day, a diabetic chocoholic's nightmare. *G*

Even worse, I don't like flowers.

Wonder if Mr Man will take my many not-so-subtle hints and buy me that Manning jersey. Heh.


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Or it could have been Courier.

You might want to insert the word "to" in between "people" and "attach." At least, that's the way they talk where I come from. Now, the Emerald City... you got me on that one.

Sigh. I need a vacation. Anybody else wanna go on spring break? I'll bring the froot monkey.


Never apologize. Never explain.

It's a nickname for Seattle.

You're not dating yourself too much. They still have those, only now they make noises as you ride.

And, hey, if you still feel like you're dating yourself, at least you're a cheap date. *G*

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If the guy in question is in his 30s as well, he may be indicating that he found someone appropriate for him to be interested in, rather than some twentysomething barbie. But the point is, he was interested in her, and was taken by her personality after talking to her for a bit. That says a fair amount in his favor.

Yup, speaking as a woman, I'd rather this comment than, "Hey, look at the A$$ on her!" Of course, I haven't actually heard that since I was

∂α/∂t would be an appropriate response to that.

(Here is an explanation for you non-engineering types. Might be fun to get a bumper sticker made with that on it with the pointing-hand graphic next to it, just to see who got the reference.)

(No real point to this post, other than an excuse to make a really bad geek joke and to play with HTML codes. ♥)

I have ADD. How did you make a heart?

I got the code for it here.

I ♠ my cat!

Join the ♣ :^D

♪♪♪♪♪ Oooo, how musical.

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Wow. Turns out there's HTML that Opera doesn't recognize. All your little hearts look like little squares. I'll go to Netscrape now.

The question should be why was she on the bus if she had a bike?

I may be a foreigner from Wales but nonetheless a fair point.

i figured that's probably why she had the horse's head on her bike - to disguise it & thus gain passage

Because Berkeley is a very hilly town. That's all I can figure. She couldn't get her lame, hippie bike up some ridiculously steep hill.

Either that, or possibly she was boarding the Transbay bus that goes from the Berkeley/Oakland area, across the bridge to San Francisco.

Well I know of one Berkeley student who used to ride her bike all around town and up and down the hills, she used to say that she had 'thighs of steel'. But then she moved and got a job and had to get a car. So sad.
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