barack obama is "bright" and "articulate."
also, "it's not the heat, it's the humidity."
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:37 (nineteen years ago) link
--retired colonel
not one but 2 army men at the table tonight
― Mary (Mary), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:37 (nineteen years ago) link
"he speaks so well!"
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:39 (nineteen years ago) link
(btw, Barack Obama really is articulate in an extraordinary way that has to do in significant part with an excellent command of 'plain English', and also has a genius understanding of how people, himself first and foremost, work. he's not alone in such understanding, but he's rare in the confidence-but-not-arrogance with which he displays it.)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 26 November 2004 04:38 (nineteen years ago) link
"Can I have the recipe for [insert dish here]?" "You expect me to remember? Have three glasses of wine, then see what you can do."
― Maria (Maria), Friday, 26 November 2004 04:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― j c (j c), Friday, 26 November 2004 04:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Maria (Maria), Friday, 26 November 2004 04:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Friday, 26 November 2004 04:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 26 November 2004 04:53 (nineteen years ago) link
We wound up spending the evening talking about how horrible Wal*Mart is and shouldn't be thought of as a good way to increase employment. Unionize and rebuild, blah blah blah.
I asked Mom later, I thought that you had said that they were Republican?
Mom said They are! California Republicans!
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 26 November 2004 06:08 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh, and we talked about usual family rememberances and recipes and lighter stuff.
― Drama Queen Wannabe (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 26 November 2004 07:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 26 November 2004 12:01 (nineteen years ago) link
he is, but the joke here (i'm sure you know) is that people of a certain generation like to refer to educated/accomplished african-americans as "bright" and "articulate," which registers on a "some of my best friends are black" scale for some folks.
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 26 November 2004 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 26 November 2004 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 26 November 2004 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 26 November 2004 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 26 November 2004 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 26 November 2004 16:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 26 November 2004 16:09 (nineteen years ago) link
"Did you hear about the Amish woman who took another lover? She likes two Mennonite." (men a night, obv, ho ho, punny!)
― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 26 November 2004 16:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― S!monB!rch (Carey), Friday, 26 November 2004 16:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 26 November 2004 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 26 November 2004 16:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Friday, 26 November 2004 16:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― bnw (bnw), Friday, 26 November 2004 16:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Friday, 26 November 2004 16:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― S!monB!rch (Carey), Friday, 26 November 2004 16:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Friday, 26 November 2004 16:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― S!monB!rch (Carey), Friday, 26 November 2004 16:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Friday, 26 November 2004 16:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian John50n (orion), Friday, 26 November 2004 16:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― S!monB!rch (Carey), Friday, 26 November 2004 16:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 26 November 2004 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― j c (j c), Friday, 26 November 2004 16:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 26 November 2004 17:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 26 November 2004 20:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 26 November 2004 20:31 (nineteen years ago) link
I shouldn't be laughing this hard, but I am.
― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 26 November 2004 20:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spinktor, Friday, 26 November 2004 20:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 26 November 2004 20:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 26 November 2004 22:03 (nineteen years ago) link
Then I give my godson his ball.
W: "SQUEE-AH-AH!"
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 26 November 2004 22:07 (nineteen years ago) link
I haven't gone to school in over eleven years.
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 26 November 2004 22:14 (nineteen years ago) link
My 85 year old widowed aunt Ruth had recently remarried. She's pretty right wingish and a longstanding member of the Daughters Of The American Revolution. Her new husband, Jim, a suit dressed, dapper sort of older gentleman, at one point proposed a toast. We all reached for a glass to lift in reverence as he recited:
Here's to the breezesThat flow through the treesesAnd through the girls' kneesesAnd up their chemises
There were a few small laughs, folks drank, and things proceeeded from there. Somehow, my brother and I managed to control our emotions of that moment and stepped outside shortly thereafter and proceeded to laugh our asses off for about a half an hour.
― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 27 November 2004 04:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Saturday, 27 November 2004 08:20 (nineteen years ago) link
John, I think we're the only two people awake right now.
― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Saturday, 27 November 2004 08:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― nickn (nickn), Saturday, 27 November 2004 08:29 (nineteen years ago) link
< /Spandau Ballet >
― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Saturday, 27 November 2004 08:33 (nineteen years ago) link
Step-Grandmother: "Most homosexuals are quite well-off."
― It's hard to kill a horse with a flute (AaronHz), Saturday, 27 November 2004 08:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Saturday, 27 November 2004 08:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― It's hard to kill a horse with a flute (AaronHz), Saturday, 27 November 2004 08:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Saturday, 27 November 2004 08:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― It's hard to kill a horse with a flute (AaronHz), Saturday, 27 November 2004 08:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Saturday, 27 November 2004 09:17 (nineteen years ago) link
Like the government writes you a big check if you are born Jewish. Or is the implication that only someone living a life of wealth, privilege and leisure would "decide" to be a Jew?
― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Saturday, 27 November 2004 09:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― It's hard to kill a horse with a flute (AaronHz), Saturday, 27 November 2004 09:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Saturday, 27 November 2004 09:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― It's hard to kill a horse with a flute (AaronHz), Saturday, 27 November 2004 09:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Saturday, 27 November 2004 09:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Saturday, 27 November 2004 17:21 (nineteen years ago) link
-- Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, November 26, 2004 4:10 PM (2 years ago)
Wait, kenan, was she a J-Dub?
― Abbott, Monday, 19 November 2007 19:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Don't know if you heard about this or not, but wikipedia stole the election from Hillary.
― pplains, Friday, 25 November 2016 01:46 (seven years ago) link
Let the Seasonal Stockholm Syndrome begin!
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 November 2022 14:26 (one year ago) link
😳
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 23:15 (one year ago) link
i have curated my family feed such that I don't get bad opinions
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 23:26 (one year ago) link