GO ABBA GO!!!

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
That too, but it's irrelevant to the distinction you were pointing out -- three things that involved the exact same amount of physical exertion.

This indicates you are not intellectually superior to the rest of us. Yay rest of us!

when you keep saying "the rest of us" do you mean your several internal personalities? Because I have to say you are a different level than most people here on the three catagories you mention.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
My dad is in a wheelchair.

God, this story just gets sadder and sadder.

Can you tell it to the passport office? Or will that joyless bunch be unmoved?

[dtb]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
So speaking of parents, either singularly or plurally, I may not get to go home for Christmas, which makes me sad. My passport is about to expire, so being the good person that I am, I filed an application for renewal complete with non-smiling photos* and much documentation to substantiate my existence. Now my passport renewal application has been rejected because of a small shadow that appears behind my ear in the photos. So I have to refile, and the process could take a month or two. And there is no expedited renewal process for Canadian passports.

So for me it may be Christmastime with the cat this year. And possibly with my kind Jewish friend, if she does not go out of town. Waaahhhhh!!!

*the Canadian government prohibits smiling in passport photos. We are a stern bunch.

I'll probably be in NYC for xmas. Am I your kind Jewish friend?

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
My dad is in a wheelchair.

God, this story just gets sadder and sadder.

God bless us, every one.

[Flinty_McFlint]

Originally posted by dtb
I'll probably be in NYC for xmas. Am I your kind Jewish friend?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpwamoXgb3U

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by dtb
I'll probably be in NYC for xmas. Am I your kind Jewish friend?

Kind Jewish friends abound! If you are around, I will be sure to impose on your hospitality.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
My dad is in a wheelchair.

God, this story just gets sadder and sadder.

okay. call the local CBC station, they must have a consumer action team, like "Channel 7 On Your Side!" guys who help iron out red tape.

Imagine, the reporter in your folks' living room live with you linked in from CBC NYC HQ. Give the reporter this tagline (it'll sell the story)
"Shadow Casts a Pall Over Local Family's Holiday". You'll get the bureau putting your application on top of the pile in no time.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
You possess an incredibly limited understanding of U.S. immigration laws.

Less than one would have after viewing a promo for Green Card on TBS.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Can you tell it to the passport office? Or will that joyless bunch be unmoved?

• When three of Finland's most popular musicians, including one described as that country's Bruce Springsteen, arrived for a recent tour in Minnesota, they expected a quick trip through airport customs.
  
  Instead, immigration agents at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport subjected them to more than two hours of interrogation that the musicians considered so harsh and demeaning that they filed a formal complaint with the U.S. Embassy in Helsinki.
  
  "It was almost three hours of screaming, door-slamming and accusations, according to the report I received," said Marianne Wargelin, honorary Finnish consul for the Dakotas and most of Minnesota, which has the second largest Finnish-American population in the nation.
  
  Erkki Maattanen, a filmmaker for Finnish Public Television who accompanied the musicians on the September trip, said his questioners seemed to think the entourage was smuggling drugs or intending to work without a permit. "I kept trying to tell them why we were here, but they'd just yell, 'Shut up!"' he said. . . .
  
  The incident began about noon Sept. 13 when the artists were standing in line at the airport, waiting for their passports to be checked, said Maattanen. They had been invited to the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota for a cultural tribute to Finnish-Americans. They also planned to travel to Thunder Bay, Ontario, and several small towns in Minnesota and Michigan to meet Finnish-Americans and play music from their homeland.
  
  Finnish Public Television, which was making a documentary about the trip, and the university paid travel expenses, said Prof. Jukka Savolainen, who was waiting at the airport to meet them.
  
  As the artists waited in line, two immigration agents approached musician Jukka Karjalainen, whom Savolainen described as "the Bruce Springsteen of Finland" as well as a devotee of Finnish-American folk music. According to the complaint, they began questioning and yelling at him.
  
  Dogs were brought in to sniff the artists' bags. Each was taken into a separate room for questioning, which focused on whether they were going to earn any money on their trip.
  
  "They threatened us with severe punishments if we talk to each other," according to the complaint signed by musicians Ninni Poijärvi and Mika Kuokkanen, "Through the walls, I can hear officers yelling, screaming. They ask about the purpose of our trip -- except we are only allowed to give yes-or-no answers. I try to talk about our plans to meet with Finnish-American folk musicians. Nobody listens. They interrupt me constantly and they yell, 'You are a liar!"'
  
  Meanwhile, Maattanen was being questioned in another room.
  
  "From the beginning, they said I was lying, that these guys were coming here to work," said the veteran filmmaker, who said he has travelled to the United States at least 15 times without incident. "They were shouting at me, and people were going in and out of doors. They tried to put you down mentally, to humiliate you.
  
  "I was ashamed for their behavior," he said.

Star-Tribune

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Seeds or no?

One or two, though I think they were advertised as seedless. I was too excited about the presence of the clementines to care about the presence of the seeds.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Does anyone else sometimes (all the time) mouth (mouthe?) the words to the song while listening? Or am I the lone crazy?*



*in this area

I do, even if I don't know what the words actually are, when I'm not all out singing.

I'm told that sometimes it's a little embarrassing to be around me.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop [list]When three of Finland's most popular musicians, including one described as that country's Bruce Springsteen, arrived for a recent tour in Minnesota, they expected a quick trip through airport customs.

Instead, immigration agents at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport subjected them to more than two hours of interrogation that the musicians considered so harsh and demeaning that they filed a formal complaint with the U.S. Embassy in Helsinki.

the customs guys were probably Norweigans or Swedes. they hate the finns, think they're out to take all the good jobs, claim they breed like rabbits.

minnesota is a boiling pot of ethnic tensions like that, check this out.

http://www.mnplan.state.mn.us/maps/ancestry/ the state is a fucking ethnic rainbow, a rainbow focused over a very narrow part of the spectrum, but still.

you walk into the wrong bar and grill in the wrong part of Minneapolis and order Mustamakkara, you're likely to get your ass kicked, eh.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I do, even if I don't know what the words actually are, when I'm not all out singing.

I'm told that sometimes it's a little embarrassing to be around me.

In my opinion, that is part of your charm.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
You possess an incredibly limited understanding of U.S. immigration laws.

We have a ton of attys from other countries here and the documentation they need to produce on almost a quarterly? basis is amazing. Just a lot.of.paperwork.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Some people would read this post and think, "why would she bother? surely the effort to write such a post, small though it might be, vastly exceeds the benefit she and others could possibly derive from it." On the other hand, I read this post and marvel at the efficiencies you've attained in your posting techniques. I think you realize that neither you nor anyone else will really get much out of this post -- after all, who needs to know that you hit the snooze button? -- but you have become just so professional and advanced at reducing the costs of posting that you are able to generate content of this sort at near-zero marginal cost, realizing the scale economies latent in the technology and your own exceedingly low opportunity costs. Really, it's state of the art. Brava.

snyc translation: Ty likes me!

TM