"Touch Base"
 

Um, honey, if you don't hear this at least forty-five times a day on the streets of NYC, then you just haven't been paying attention.

I know I talked about the wrong kind of appliances
 

If you like, Sunny and I could start fighting again and you could imagine as much mud and scratching and hair pulling as you want.

Other than that, I have no suggestions. Work and home improvement projects have worn me out, and half of our cast list seems to be MIA. Anybody have any good poll ideas?

"Touch Base"
 

Yes!!

This is sexist of me, but I hate especially when men say "reach out". It makes them less of a man.

Atticus's Passion Rant
 

The modern Protestant mind HAS overly sanitized the crucifixion. We have a tendency to gloss over the Passion and get right to the resurrection. We only really think about it on Good Friday. The film should make people think about what Jesus went through for us and that's a good thing.


What kind of Protestant wingnuts do you know? I've never once heard that said and I'd stack up my Protty wingnut creds against yours anytime.

Doesn't take much to enrage you, does it? It would be nice if everything in the movie was historically accurate but maybe Mel decided people would be too distracted from the message ("Ethel, where's the rest of the cross he's carrying?") if certain things didn't fit in with the pictures we've always seen -- e.g., nails through the palms and not the wrists. Or maybe he just wanted to fit with his own mental picture.

"Touch Base"
 

I think it makes them sound like Sipowicz.

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I used to work for a GP who wanted to "get with" me, and not in a good way. "Atticus, I want to get with you on the Penske file." {Shudder.} It would have taken a whole case of Courvoisier for me to get with him.

Proof the Onion is still funny: Good Cop, Bad Cop Both Racist

"Touch Base"
 

I think someone must be slipping beta blockers into my food or something, because I am not finding any of these things particularly annoying. And some of you may have picked up on the fact that I find most things annoying most of the time.

I can say that the use of "grow" as a transitive verb not applied to plants irritates the fuck out of me.

"Touch Base"
 

Grow from love, dear.

"Touch Base"
 

Shit. I just left you a voice mail, didn't I?

Did I mention that I love the way you say "please leave a message after the tone"?

"Touch Base"
 

Idle, who's that in your avatar? She looks a bit like Ann-Margret.

Coals to Newcastle and all that....
 

Since we're slow and desparate, I give you a post that is otherwise pointless but shows how exciting my life is:

Things I do when My Husband is out of Town:

1. Smoke in the apartment (bad bad me)
2. Sleep diagonally
3. Allow the cat into the bedroom to sleep with me
4. Flip between the hockey game and something else instead of watching the hockey game all the way through
5. Masturbate

Subtitles
 

From the movie trailers, it appears Mel caved and put in English subtitles. Even though I read the book, I am grateful for that concession: my high school didn't offer Latin, my college didn't offer Latin or Aramaic and I didn't take Greek in college.

Coals to Newcastle and all that....
 

I trust those weren't listed in order of importance.

Coals to Newcastle and all that....
 

Boy do WE engage in different activities when the Mr. is out of town.

this review may make people want to see it
 

Just both of you pretend that I've managed to white out half of my lines, and left something which no human could possibly decipher.

You'll be happier.

"Touch Base"
 

That's an OK usage. If you'd said "Grow your love, dear" it would have been annoying.

Coals to Newcastle and all that....
 

Elaborate please. Do you masturbate while watching the hockey, and if so, do you do so on your stomach, just out of habit?

Coals to Newcastle and all that....
 

It's pretty clear that she spends all her time lying diagonally on the bed with a cigarette in her mouth and the TV on (and the remote within reach), masturbating while the cat sleeps nearby on the bed.

I realize this does not answer your question, rp.

Edited to fix sentence so that the grammar works and to add note that I wasn't answering rp's question.

"Touch Base"
 

That's b/c she is Ann-Margret.

Coals to Newcastle and all that....
 

[SOFTBALL]With you asking all of the right questions, I'm finding myself particularily irrelevant.[/SOFTBALL]

Coals to Newcastle and all that....
 

I left out the part about the orgy because I didn't want you all to be jealous. But if it's a competition, I'd have to add:

6. Have orgy

Speaking of Christmas
 

It has subtitles.

The saga continues
 

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Janet Jackson has been left out in the rain after "Stormy Weather" singer Lena Horne balked at having the younger star play her in a planned television movie.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/0....ap/index.html

Coals to Newcastle and all that....
 

I trust those weren't listed in order of importance.

Coals to Newcastle and all that....
 

Are there appliances involved?

Atticus's Passion Rant
 

You'd probably win. Fundamentalism in all its forms is essentially formalized nostalgia for a perfect age that was better than life today. I know more about Catholic wingnutism. They want to be prelapsarian, but think the downfall was either the Reformation or Vatican II. They want to recreate the high Renaissance church, and wind up missing the mark and getting the American church just pre-Vatican II. For Protestants, prelapsarian means before the medieval church. My impression of P wingnuts are that they believe they can recreate the First or Third Century church, and miss the mark and end up in the late 19th century. Maybe some of them are totally honest about it and say "we want to go back before the Scopes monkey trial, and that's about it" or something.

But I stand by my statement that Protestants tend to think that When Jesus Roamed the Earth was some kind of utopia, even though he probably spent much of his life in fear and filth, like everyone else. Catholics tend to romanticize everything about his life other than the 12 hours preceding his death.

I think there is immensely more value in producing a depiction of the times as they actually occurred. We have plenty of movies depicting the Passion as people expect to see it. Why bother just bringing the crucifix on the wall to life? Gibson claims he consulted with scholars to ensure accuracy. People will come away from this movie thinking they've seen something that strove for total accuracy, like Cameron's Titanic. We've bought into another twenty years of people thinking the picture of Jesus on Grandma's wall is somehow accurate. We didn't need a retelling of "The Greatest Story Ever Told."

BTW, we wish you a Meaningful Shrove Tuesday.

Coals to Newcastle and all that....
 

You rang?

Coals to Newcastle and all that....
 

Not a competition. I just don't watch hockey.

"Touch Base"
 

The eyebrows made me unsure.

Out of curiousity I asked my SO about his laminated list. I can only remember Ann-Margret (in her 30s) and Selma Hayek. As it is, that's a pretty full list.

"Touch Base"
 

Circle back is the new touch base.

Coals to Newcastle and all that....
 

I commend this sock for entering its Sophomore Slump with panache.

"Touch Base"
 

I think those are complementary phrases, not substitutes. As in, "Associate, after you do aaalllll the work, let's circle back and touch base."

Coals to Newcastle and all that....
 

wrong number.

Coals to Newcastle and all that....
 

I don't even know who you are anymore.

"Touch Base"
 

Disagree. "Ping" is the new touch base, as in "Did you ping opposing counsel on getting the signature page?"

Maybe pinging is a Silicon Valley thing, though.

"Touch Base"
 

ping/touch base are formal/informal- one pings a vous (not one of us) and touches base with a tu (just one of us guys)

Speaking of Christmas
 

At first I was ignoring all the nice people rushing to tell me that it has subtitles. With it having become sort of a groundswell at this point, I guess I have to respond.

I DIDN'T REALLY FUCKING CARE ABOUT THE SUBTITLES. I'm not going to see it because I don't in general care for snuff films, and I certainly don't want to support a snuff film that will used by certain less desirable members of our society to promote an agenda of hate in the name of power and hegemony. Especially since the bulk of the people watching the film for that purpose will fail to grasp the irony that Christ's crucifiction was nothing more than a cynical murder committed in support of maintaining power and hegemony.


There. I feel much better. I should have just stuck with "I read the book."

"Touch Base"
 

I think you have them reversed, though. "Touching base" is a voluntary thing, allowing for choice in the other's part, and so is more attuned to the formal, respectful vous, while pinging is intrusive and involuntary - you HAVE TO packet-respond - and so is the familiar.

"Touch Base"
 

Why does there continue to be a hyphen between Ann and Margaret? Isn't Ann her first name?

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Man, I hope you are pretty.