Removing the feeding tube from our aging hipster plaid pants - Page 16

Hank Chinaski · 03-30-2005, 12:07 PM

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Originally posted by Mister_Ruysbroeck
I guess time will tell whether he develops into a good all-around, NBA caliber player. But the boy does have mad hops.

Doubt the NBA will be his future, but I do believe he has a longterm seat on the and 1 bus should he choose to try.....

robustpuppy · 03-30-2005, 12:29 PM

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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
excellent avatar, Hanky.

The best yet.

F.U. Harold Carswell · 03-30-2005, 12:33 PM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,151902,00.html

As my parents age, I know I'll be faced with some tough challenges and choices, but I can only imagine how hard it must be to be a Kennedy and have to get Joan/Ted through their final years........

Joan Kennedy Found in Street; Hospitalized

BOSTON — Joan Kennedy, the former wife of U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, was hospitalized with a concussion and a broken shoulder early Tuesday morning after a passer-by found her lying in a Boston street, said her son, U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy.

Kennedy, 68, was taken to Tufts New England Medical Center at about 3 a.m. on Tuesday, said Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I.

"We're indebted to some anonymous pedestrian who found her and picked her up and got her help," Patrick Kennedy told the Boston Herald. "I'm enormously grateful for whoever it is out there who did that. She wouldn't be here in this hospital, recuperating, if that person hadn't called and gotten someone to come."

Patrick Kennedy was somber and visibly shaken at the hospital and said he was "very concerned" for the welfare of his mother, according to the newspaper.

Details of exactly what happened and how she ended up in the street were unclear. There was no police report on the incident. Joan Kennedy, who splits time between a home on Cape Cod and a Boston condominium, has struggled with alcoholism in the past.

"You want to make sure there is someone there for her all the time ... but at the same time you don't want to encroach on her privacy too much," Patrick Kennedy told the Herald. "When things like this happen, it makes you feel as though maybe you should have done more to make sure there is someone with her 24/7 and perhaps that might become necessary."

What a sad pathetic existence. Tragic, but then again, marriage to Fat Teddy K. would drive the strongest of women to drink. Interestingly her children had her declared incompetent last month and were appointed her guardians. Nice job they are doing on that, the logical next step in the Kennedy family arsenal is to have her lobotomized, like poor sweet dumb Rosemarie.

Although, it coulda been worse for Joanie:

Replaced_Texan · 03-30-2005, 12:37 PM

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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
excellent avatar, Hanky.

Thanks to this post, I now have an unfortunate South Park association with Mr. Chinaski.

ltl/fb · 03-30-2005, 12:51 PM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Thanks to this post, I now have an unfortunate South Park association with Mr. Chinaski.

Think Hanky-Panky instead.

ETA JESUS people, keep your damn mailboxes cleaned out. No PMs you are getting really deserve to be preserved for posterity, do they?

Bad_Rich_Chic · 03-30-2005, 01:02 PM

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Originally posted by Not Bob
From http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/ (which I learned about from Rufus's Running With Lawyers:

The Safety Word is "iPod"
Jogger Guy: This is totally just a warmup for a night of hot bondage sex.
Jogger Girl: I know!

--President and Court St.

Overheard by: Todd Martin

How did I waste time before I had 24/7 access to this stuff? How, bilmore, how?

I would be cold hard cash I know exactly who that couple that is.

Even the internet is just a really dispersed small town, I guess.

bilmore · 03-30-2005, 01:19 PM

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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
I would be cold hard cash I know exactly who that couple that is.

Neither of them seem to be posting today, though.

NotFromHere · 03-30-2005, 01:29 PM

I don't believe I need any spoilers because no votes have come in. But in case you didn't see last night's show - just scroll.

American Idol judges love the rock crooner

Personally, I would not have chosen a Bonnie Raitt song for Constantine. The theme was the 90s. He should have done Alice in Chains or Soundgarden (no Nirvana, he's no Kurt Cobain).
Instead he picked Bonnie Raitt. I was shocked. But then, upon listening, he wasn't out of tune like he always is. I was amazed. I think my boy survives another week. Only because Ralphie May was so damned bad. Did he even hit 1 note? I don't think so. And Carrie is getting stale. If she does 1 more country song I'll scream.

And I believe that Paula Abdul was either drunk or heavily medicated last night. She had a hard time keeping her eyes open and an ever harder time making sense.

Shape Shifter · 03-30-2005, 01:31 PM

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Originally posted by bilmore
Neither of them seem to be posting today, though.

Neither has posted in a while. Honeymoon, perhaps?

Replaced_Texan · 03-30-2005, 02:23 PM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Stupid, desperate college kid finds bored comedian on AOL Instant Messenger, begs comedian to ghost-write a paper due the next day for her, hilarity ensues.

See more on the saga in subsequent posts at A Week of Kindness, and he promises to wrap up the story tomorrow.

Plagarism saga concludes.

Hank Chinaski · 03-30-2005, 02:37 PM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Plagarism saga concludes.

I think I posted this before- but the board is so slow- here goes again:

A kid I knew was allstate QB here a few years back. He went to a Southern football school. In his freshman year the starting QB got hurt and our hero started several games at the end of the year.

December, and term papers are due- he hasn't done his. He calls his brother at some other school and brother Faxes him a paper. Hero hands it in with fax info on the top of the page. Worse, his roommate is also a deadbeat and in another section of the class. He gives the roommate a copy and its also handed in with fax info. They get caught, he's kicked out, and he ends up sitting bench for the last few years at TCU.

Stupid? duh. but I don't get why he couldn't get some freshman girl to write his paper. Isn't there glamor for the varsity athlete anymore? Are the Penthouse stories about the 3 chicks for the running back fake?

Ty- you were on the guts frisbee team, right? what gives?

Bad_Rich_Chic · 03-30-2005, 03:18 PM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Plagarism saga concludes.

I have to say that:

(1) I am quite disappointed that he did not in fact turn her in. Should have, in my view.

(2) The nature of the universe being what it is, I am pleased that she will have her just desserts anyway.

(3) I do adore the karmic irony of the whole thing.

(4) I have e-mailed links to every teacher I know. Including one who, upon deciding in his mercy that he would fail his plagarists instead of turning them in to the unversity for the advertised penalty of expulsion, discovered to his disgust that the head of his department routinely offered rewrites instead.

(5) For fuck's sake, she turned in a paper with the sentence "I made a doody" in it. If plagarism were punishable by death I would have to nominate her for a darwin award in lieu of sympathy.

BR(spoiler protection included, though I don't know if blogs rate spoiler protection)C

Watchtower · 03-30-2005, 03:48 PM

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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
I have to say that:

(1) I am quite disappointed that he did not in fact turn her in. Should have, in my view.

(2) The nature of the universe being what it is, I am pleased that she will have her just desserts anyway.

(3) I do adore the karmic irony of the whole thing.

(4) I have e-mailed links to every teacher I know. Including one who, upon deciding in his mercy that he would fail his plagarists instead of turning them in to the unversity for the advertised penalty of expulsion, discovered to his disgust that the head of his department routinely offered rewrites instead.

(5) For fuck's sake, she turned in a paper with the sentence "I made a doody" in it. If plagarism were punishable by death I would have to nominate her for a darwin award in lieu of sympathy.

BR(spoiler protection included, though I don't know if blogs rate spoiler protection)C

I have a question because I am not familiar with this blogger. Do we have any reason to believe the story, or could it simply be a work of fiction?

Bad_Rich_Chic · 03-30-2005, 04:00 PM

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Originally posted by Watchtower
I have a question because I am not familiar with this blogger. Do we have any reason to believe the story, or could it simply be a work of fiction?

If it's an April Fools Day hoax or some such, I never, ever want to see his comedy troupe, because, while amusing (and that only for the pleasure of imagining a cheating college student being introduced to the results of their own actions), it pretty much fails as premeditated humor.

That said, I think most fiction writers haven't a sufficient love of realism to produce such a mundane anti-climax. And the level of premeditation would be pretty extraordinary - putting a real name in (that could be checked), taking it out, leaving residual code clues so you could still figure out what it was and check it again, it all seems an awful lot of really carefully thought out technical planning for a goof.

ltl/fb · 03-30-2005, 04:08 PM

So, the PB (God, politics is depressing) is hopping and the FB (God, sex is fun -- best invention ever) is dead. What gives?