All Hank, all the time.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
Well played playah, way to hang on to the boxed wine industry!

And the artichokes!

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
Touche, although it is that type of arrogance that the natives, npi, hate.

True dat, but I was hoping you would be the only native reading at this hour. A taxwonk/Chinaski flamewar is scheduled for the morning, so by tomorrow no one will care.

Originally posted by Penske_Account
But I need to get a copy. When is the due date? I am on vacay, sort of, 8-24-31 and can read then.

I have my own vacay coming up too, and a convoy only travels as slow as its slowest ship. So perhaps we should be done by early September?

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by sgtclub
So you take Fresno and Sac Town? Deal!

Which half are you in?

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
True dat, but I was hoping you would be the only native reading at this hour. A taxwonk/Chinaski flamewar is scheduled for the morning, so by tomorrow no one will care.



I have my own vacay coming up too, and a convoy only travels as slow as its slowest ship. So perhaps we should be done by early September?

Indeed.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
Touche, although it is that type of arrogance that the natives, npi, hate.

Are the southern californians arrogant? I found SF to be reminiscent of NYC in its attitude. So I'm OK with giving it up.

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Are the southern californians arrogant? I found SF to be reminiscent of NYC in its attitude. So I'm OK with giving it up.

Can I put a word in for the north to keep King's Canyon and the rest of the Sierras? Cuz the southerners would just drive through it as fast as they could, anyway.

[SlaveNoMore]

ltl/fb
I found SF to be reminiscent of NYC in its attitude. So I'm OK with giving it up.

You heart me, don't you?

[SlaveNoMore]

Tyrone Slothrop
I have my own vacay coming up too, and a convoy only travels as slow as its slowest ship. So perhaps we should be done by early September?

The date should be obvious - September 11th, 2006.

Plus, school shouldn't start until after labor day.

If anyone else wants to join us (Sidd, Club, GGG, Fringey, Spank, Panda, Gatti, Adder, Sebby, RT, Weed, Burger, Viola, Keaton, Hank, Wonker, etc) - this is the read:


Amazon link

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
You heart me, don't you?

Either the opposite of that, or I feel really, really sorry for you because of where you have had to live. Or both.

Did you spend time in Boston? Also don't like Boston. All of those places, from pretty much the second I land/arrive, it's like a constant background fingernails-on-the-chalkboard-sound-type feeling.

Or they are the best places ever, like Heaven, and I'm inherently uncomfortable in them because I'm Satan.

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
The date should be obvious - September 11th, 2006.

Plus, school shouldn't start until after labor day.

If anyone else wants to join us (Sidd, Club, GGG, Fringey, Spank, Panda, Gatti, Adder, Sebby, RT, Weed, Burger, Viola, Keaton, Hank, Wonker, etc) - this is the read:

[/IMG] Amazon link

OK, I'm in. I'll probably finish Fiasco this week, though I doubt we'll get the same book club to do that one too.

[Diane_Keaton]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
If anyone else wants to join us (Sidd, Club, GGG, Fringey, Spank, Panda, Gatti, Adder, Sebby, RT, Weed, Burger, Viola, Keaton, Hank, Wonker, etc) - this is the read:

Amazon link

Missed this thread. Are we all supposed to discuss this book over tea? Do I have to make out with anyone? Is there something special about this book, other than the author is known for spending years writing the book, "Clean and Decent: The Fascinating History of the Bathroom and the Water-Closet." Will the Osama book be as fascinating?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
Missed this thread. Are we all supposed to discuss this book over tea? Do I have to make out with anyone? Is there something special about this book, other than the author is known for spending years writing the book, "Clean and Decent: The Fascinating History of the Bathroom and the Water-Closet." Will the Osama book be as fascinating?

If you want tea, you'll have to make your own. You don't have to make out with anyone, but do let us know if you're coming to town.

The book has been getting a lot of good press, and both Slave and I decided to pick it up. It seems to me that the thing to do is to start a separate thread re the book, which I will do shortly, although I don't think I'll be in a position to say much until the week after next.

[Shape Shifter]

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[Tyrone Slothrop]

Marty Peretz -- who is a pompous gasbag, and a jackass to boot -- describes how Israel screens airline passengers:

• Every passenger who flies El Al, whether from Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv or from locations outside Israel, is put through a personalized psychometric at point of departure. This is not a machine test. It is an interview, short but probing, with questions that some may experience as a bit invasive, before the passenger gets to the ticket counter.
  
  It is hard to imagine the current crop of Transportation Security Administration employees deployed in U.S. airports performing this delicate function. The interviewers are smart and young, mostly female, and on their way to other jobs. It was one of these El Al personnel who discovered, simply by talking with and closely observing a young Irish woman, that she had carried in her checked baggage a "gift" she had not seen, handed to her by a Palestinian boyfriend. She was also carrying his baby in her stomach. The boyfriend was a ... well, you understand what he was.
  
  I have traveled to and from Israel on dozens of occasions. Each time I am a bit surprised and sometimes even thrown off balance by the questions. The volume of passengers at U.S. and big European airports might preclude relying on a system like Israel's--unless, of course, security service at airports and other vulnerable spots in society were to be made mandatory for a year or so. You can't imagine what a trained young person can discover in watching the subtle behavior of anxious people.
  
  Here is a true story. Do you remember the days when student air discount tickets were available for almost anybody not obviously in middle age? Well, some twenty years ago, a friend of mine, an American who was living in Rome and working in advertising, was to meet me in Israel. He had purchased a bootleg El Al student ticket. When he arrived at Da Vinci Airport, he was greeted by a genial security officer. She looked at his passport and then his ticket. "Oh, you are a student," she exclaimed. "What do you study?" Fishing out of nowhere and quickly, Bill said, "Architecture." "So, tell me," asked his questioner, "when was Palladio born?" He did not get on the plane till the next day when his innocence of malevolent intent was vouched for and proven. Now that is security.

There is no good reason for us not to be doing the same thing, except that our government does not take the threat of terrorism as seriously as Israel's does.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
If you want tea, you'll have to make your own. You don't have to make out with anyone, but do let us know if you're coming to town.

The book has been getting a lot of good press, and both Slave and I decided to pick it up. It seems to me that the thing to do is to start a separate thread re the book, which I will do shortly, although I don't think I'll be in a position to say much until the week after next.

Why doesn't she have to make out with anyone? Can we make that a predicate to her participation? Not that I want to, necessarily, nttawwt, I just wonder why we want to dismiss it out of hand........

Can we serve wine and bill LT?