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GREAT ‘08
Can’t beat this:
My New Year’s resolution is to increase my carbon footprint to something resembling a small country.
Yes! To all friends, emailers, commenters, readers, lurkers and haters, the very best wishes for a truly carbontastic 2008. Consume with pride!
We’ve got 6 kids to ferry about town to various activities and just this morning I was looking at a MUCH larger, full-size version of our current van, thinking it might be nice to upgrade sometime soon. Hubby said it would probably suck back twice as much fuel. I say that sounds like just the right selling point to me!
Happy New Year, all! I’m going home to turn on all the lights in the house, tonight.
Posted by WonderWoman on 2007 12 31 at 11:39 AM • permalinkSame thing as allways plotting to take over the world.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 12 31 at 11:42 AM • permalinkWe celebrated with friends under about 1000 fairy lights on the back verandah. It was the pitter patter of little carbon feet.
Posted by ooh honey honey on 2007 12 31 at 11:42 AM • permalinkPenguin, once again, sets the standard. All of a sudden, I have this urge to buy a Dodge Ram with the V-10 option and rip the catalytic converter out of it, then equip it with Cherry Bomb glass-pack mufflers and go roaring by the Environmental Protection Agency building in Washington with my left arm extended out the window registering the one-fingered international symbol of goodwill.
Wonderwoman. Get one with little organ pipes in the petrol cap so that it plays a tune as it guzzles!
Posted by ooh honey honey on 2007 12 31 at 11:54 AM • permalinkCoal in everybody’s New Year’s stockings! A Happy and Carboniferous 2008 to all!
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 12 31 at 11:55 AM • permalinkoh - and a prediction. victoria’s charter of rights & responsibilities comes into force today. i predict this will be MABO legislation par excellence (for our septic friends, Mabo was a landmark aboriginal land rights decision, sarcastically referred to as Money Available: Barristers Only, a lawyers’ picnic)
How’s this for a Gaia basher? And so tasteful, too . . .
Were I to possess the knowledge of words and their usage, as many virtual friends across this great globe have (to many to list, but you know who/whom you are) I would write something worthy of your abilities…BUT I do NOT.
To me although I have one, vocabulary is a place that stores taxis. Grammar, as I’ve posted in many places, mine passed many years ago. Syntax, is what I pay every time I buy booze or ciggies. Diction, well I won’t get into that one (damn, that didn’t sound nor did it look to damn spiffy, either).
At any rate, to all that have turned the clock and calendar into 2008, a very healthy, safe and prosperous New Year.
To those who have not yet turned the clock and calendar, my wish is that you DO have a very healthy, safe and prosperous New Year.
Cheers to all, from the sword of El Cid.
Cross posted from my piece of this virtual world. And now from a thread below
See what I mean, as far as Not having the ability. I can’t even figure out, nor can I understand the term…Scroll UP. SHIT!
Happy New Year.
Good will to you all.
Pickles you and I have met.
FORWARD
Posted by Just Another Bloody Lawyer on 2007 12 31 at 12:52 PM • permalinkMy New Year’s resolution is to increase my carbon footprint to something resembling a small country.
Yeah, but you better watch out for the Zamzam water, it might wash all the footprint away.
Carbon footprints are like sooo last year. In 2008 it’s going to be yttrium footprints.
Posted by Paul Zrimsek on 2007 12 31 at 01:45 PM • permalink#22: Not at all, old fellow! I’ve seen Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House many times. I also have the book.
Interesting side note: The original title of the book was to be Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream Castle, but this was cutting it a little close to P.G. Wodehouse’s “Blandings Castle” stories, so the Master threatened to sue - which resulted in the title change.
My resolutions for 08…
More work with Operation Gratitude.
Refill my gun rack.
Get started on that boat I’m always threatening to build.
Continue to annoy MoveOnBots and Truthers.
Be there when Harry Reid’s head pops from too much success in Iraq.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 12 31 at 03:48 PM • permalinkHappy 2008 to my favorite blogger and all his loyal bloggees. And a Happy Anniversary to Mr. Paco and the long suffering, saintly, most definitely has a sense of humor Mrs. Paco.
I will be burning carbon releasing substances but only so I can keep warm enough to lounge around in gym shorts and a tank top.Some wonderful, idiotic, biased, lefty media quotes via the excellent Blue Crab Boulevard.
My wife and four month old baby went out last night and left the air conditioner running. Mwahahahahahahahahaa!
And then when we got home, we didn’t switch it off so we could get a decent night’s sleep. Mwahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!
Posted by Young and Free on 2007 12 31 at 04:34 PM • permalinkOur carbon foot print is off to a great start.
We were visiting the relatives for Christmas when Junior borrowed a cousins bike, tore down the driveway and was promptly collected by the neighbour as she drove home.
Scratch one eco-friendly bicycle.
He hit the small, Korean made car in such a way to make it unrepairable.
Scratch one eco-friendly car.
He broke his leg in the process, which required an ambulance trip to a base hospital in a bigger country town. As he stayed there a week, I had to drive 1000 unnecessary miles to visit him each day.
That must count for at least a bear cub.
He now has to be ferried everywhere for the next 2-3 months. No walking. No bus. No bikes. Transport by 4WD only. Then there are the extra trips to specialists, physio etc.
Our humble household will of course require something like an Xbox to get us through this trying ordeal, and it will run 24x7.
I’m not sure about having a carbon footprint like a small country, but I am starting to feel like Norfolk Island.
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 12 31 at 05:09 PM • permalinkPredictions for the year ahead! Every other clown with a chemical imbalance and a hangover does it, why shouldn’t I?
FEBRUARY
Prince William, while visiting Kenya, kisses a local girl. Newspapers headlines ignore the other main story of the day, noting simply “Moon falls from orbit - Page 5.”MAY
Warm weather persists in the Southern Hemisphere. Experts point to global warming.JUNE
Cold weather persists in the Northern Hemisphere. Experts point to global warming.JULY
A distant cousin of Queen Elizabeth is found living in far northern Queensland. Gladys Fernshaw, 58, has never worn shoes in her life, and her nose has been broken three times during crocodile wrestling bouts at the local wildlife park. She lost her teeth when she was twenty and smokes a pack of cigarettes a day. Australian women’s magazines stick with Princess Diana for cover pics.Somebody famous dies. Experts point to global warming.
SEPTEMBER
Economic catastrophe strikes hard when an observant bank clerk in Neglected, North Dakota, notices that the legend FEDERAL RESERVE has been replaced on the currency with MONOPOLY. By the end of the day a million US dollars are buying approximately one Albanian leke.Children launch class actions against their parents for bringing them into a less than perfect world.
Somebody else famous dies. Experts point to the stresses of financial uncertainty brought on by global warming.
NOVEMBER
Hillary Clinton is elected President of the United States. Secret Service agents deliver her former husband to the Oval Office - next morning Hillary tells reporters, “Bill’s my first lady now.”DECEMBER
The elves stage a coup d’etat and Santa’s Workshop becomes a Marxist collective. Management committees proliferate, ensuring that every Barbie doll has at least three heads and Ipods are the size of Cadillacs.Litigated parents take their revenge. “Santa’s not bringing you anything this year… except global warming.”
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 12 31 at 05:59 PM • permalinkHappy New Year to all youse Blairites!!!!!
Happy anniversary to the pacos and the poohs!!!!!!!!!!!
My resolution:
Shoot more.
Eat less.
Learn to reload so I shoot more.
Install that back up generator.
Get out of town more often.
Build cool stuff.
Increase my carbon footprint 300%.
Piss off a leftie daily.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 12 31 at 06:38 PM • permalinkPaco—Charlie Wilson’s War is excellent.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 12 31 at 07:07 PM • permalinkGreetings and salutations to all on this fine dawn of a new year.
Well it would be ever finer if I’d got home an hour ago instead of waiting for a train that never showed and then a taxi that just drove past…
But hey thats just my bitching.
May all your new years be filled with joy and gladness, may your problems find resolution, may your kin grow happy and healthy, may your bank balance grow obscene and may the dark lord Rove’s next disciple gain the next term in office.
FOUR MORE YEARS! WOOOOOOT!!!
Jagermeister made me do it…
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2007 12 31 at 07:11 PM • permalink#11 Mrs. Paco and I will be celebrating our 30th wedding anniversary Wednesday,
Well done. An unusual milestone in these liberated times. The Mrs and I get to 25 years next month. Blowed if I can think of anything to give or do to mark the occasion. Better think of something!
Posted by walterplinge on 2007 12 31 at 07:24 PM • permalinkAs for V-10 powered ‘utility vehicles’, you should have seen the dirty look i got last night when i said i’d pulled the muffler off my car to increase its emissions so my house would be beach front in 15 years…
Well done Mr and Mrs Paco, 30 years is quite a bit longer than i’ve even been alive. Now where do i find me a good woman with a thing for fedora’s?
Resolutions?
I vow to smoke less, drink less (maybe), eat better, exercise more, work harder, root more and get my hands on a 632ci Chev and run the bastard rich.
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2007 12 31 at 07:28 PM • permalink#45 Walter: Ah, I remember our 25th anniversary. A wonderful romantic dinner - just the four of us: me, Mrs. Paco and the two boys (our kids have always been notorious meal-cadgers, plus they were just never the sort of kids you could safely leave at home; the insurance company was pretty specific about that).
I’m thinking of getting Mrs. Paco one of these (via our own Captain J.M. Heinrichs: Chairman of the Board for finding cool things on the web).
Congratulations to the anniversarios and happy new year to one and all.
We’re in something of a quandry here. We burn wood to heat our house but I didn’t cut the trees myself. Instead I obtained the latest cords from the detritus of a commercial clear cut on my hunt club. This means I’m burning wood that would otherwise be turned into food for methane emitting termites. So am I a good gaia raper or something of an environmental steward?(I, don’t really care. My family will be warm courtesy of the lovely oaks, cherries and hickory’s that abound in my native area.)Mal Fras does not wish JWH a happy new year.
And carbon problem here:
The ice jam on the Nachako River…Posted by stackja1945 on 2007 12 31 at 08:01 PM • permalink#49, I think the rule is that if it makes your life more comfortable, it’s bad.
Posted by spot_the_dog on 2007 12 31 at 08:03 PM • permalinkNo pickles I am the bloke whose chambers are six or so floors under yours
Posted by Just Another Bloody Lawyer on 2007 12 31 at 08:16 PM • permalinkApologies for another lengthy post, but this time it’s someone else’s work rather than mine.
I’m no great reader of poetry but when I found this in Quadrant magazine it seemed just the item for the start of a new year.COULD HAVE BEEN
by John Whitworth
Goliath was big but he could have been littler,
Mickey Mouse could have been Mortimer Mouse,
Chamberlain could have said bollocks to Hitler,
Christ could have been a success as a victualler,
Coleridge could have just stayed in the house.Could have been, should have been, probably would have been,
Texts are corrupt and ther meanings obscure,
Credible, viable, rarely reliable;
All we can say is that nothing’s for sure.Ulysses might have got lost in his wandering,
Ulysses Grant might have stayed off the booze,
Wittgenstein might have got by with less pondering,
Heliogabalus might have stopped squandering,
Somebody might have converted the Jews.May have done, might have done, too bloody right have done,
Things may be different from what we suppose.
Speaking pragmatically, axiomatically,
All we can say is that nobody knows.Popes and archbishops are probably flunkeys,
Pisspots and saucepans are certainly hats,
Queens and princesses are plausibly junkies,
Hamlet was possibly written by monkeys,
Dracula ditto by bloodsucking bats.Life is precarious, random and various,
Probably fatal, but possibly not,
Too much analysis causes paralysis
All we can say is it’s all that we’ve got.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 12 31 at 08:51 PM • permalink#45, Hey, walter,
It’s our 25th next week. We’re having a big party. Well, I hope it’s big. Could be fairly intimate what with all the slackers who haven’t rsvp’d yet. You’d think people wouldn’t say no to a free feed, booze and their choice of our favourite 70s to 90s dance music. Then again, this town empties out at this time of year.
As google reminds us and wikipedia tells us
A full switchover to TCP/IP on the ARPANET took place January 1, 1983. In March 1982, the US Department of Defense made TCP/IP the standard for all.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2007 12 31 at 09:15 PM • permalinkCongratulations to those with recent or soon-to-be anniversaries. You have beaten the odds & your wives are to be commended. We’ll only have 22 come Washington’s Birthday, but it’s 21 more than anyone thought possible!
I hope all the denizens of Blairistan & Blairville & Blairboro in all corners of the globe have a beautiful, intriguing, enriching life in the year ahead. You all - especially our Host & his Administrator, nilk, kae, RebeccaH, paco, richard, mole, mentalfloss, yojimbo, el cid, Habib, Ash, lyle, Mr. Bingley, missred, pickles, pogria, TRJS, swinishcapitalist, janice, Wimpy Canadian, AndyCanuck, Spiny, Nick&Nora;, Infidel Tiger, stackja1945, SSG Pooh, & our assorted favorite Texans, Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen & Marines - put a smile on my face & keep my poor excuse for a brain working nearly every day. I thank you for that. I am a lucky woman to have found you.
Life Is Good…and getting gooder…so HAPPY NEW YEAR! NOW, Onward & Upward to 2008!!!
Frankly I’m glad it’s still 2007 here in the Great White North. If the prospects for 2008 include Hilary’s election in the US, Mark Steyn’s conviction by the Canadian Human Rights Kangaroo Kourt and more global warming hysteria, I think I’ll start drinking now and see how long I can go into the New Year. CHEEEEEEERSSSHHH!!!!
Posted by bobzorunkle on 2007 12 31 at 10:49 PM • permalinkHoward have good time in Kirribili House. Bad.
Rudd have good time in Kirribili House. Good.Welcome to the upside down world of Kevin 08.
My first gesture of 08 was to place all my recycling beer and wine bottles, cans and papers into my landfill wheelie bin.
I feel better already.
Here’s cheers, to 08 gang.May we, Keep Kranky at Kev in 08.
#62 Bonmot
May we, Keep Kranky at Kev in 08.
Be of good cheer, friend! 2008 is shaping up to be a fun year. Labor will be caught in their own trap(s), lefty heads will explode daily, and swinging voters will rue that wild ‘n’ crazy impulse that saw them put their keys in the bowl.
For pure amusement value, Kevin & Co will provide more bloggable material in 11 months than Howard managed in 11 years!
Posted by spot_the_dog on 2007 12 31 at 11:34 PM • permalink#64 Kae & #66 spot
Of course you’re right.
This could be a vintage year for Kevni07 going pear-shaped.For a man who personally, relentlessly campaigned on rising costs for [i]“working families” under Howard, as they say in Ghostbusters, when interest rates hit 9%, and utility prices skyrocket because of Kyoto…..
Who you gonna call?
For any of our overseas mates coming to Australia for the new year I present the australian tourist commisions newest add.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 12 31 at 11:53 PM • permalink# 62 Already there - have begun encouraging the 3 & 4 and a half year old to ignore the recycling bin at home. Can’t wait until she tells some lefty teacher that the only true material worth recycling is aluminum , provided it it not transported to far to a smelter.
For my self , I have begun riding my bike to work - think about it more Co2 produced by me , as well as added benefit of the bus I used to catch still produces the same amount of evil carbon dioxide , without my patronage.
That and the fact Perth’s public transport is so shithouse it takes 40 mins to travel 4km’s in a straight line , makes it the only way to go.
#71, as a fellow Perthian, after seeing the pics a while back showing that most of the material from our “recycling bins” gets dumped into the same landfill as all the other stuff, I now just fill up one bin ‘til it’s full, then start on the other one.
Do we even have a glass recycling facility here or would it all need to get trucked over East?
Posted by spot_the_dog on 2008 01 01 at 12:01 AM • permalinkHappy New year to Tim, Andrea and all who post hear- love my daily ‘fix’ with an AB top up.
Long may we continue to express our views.puerile or no and fight any of Kevin 07s
attempts to get his grubby little paws onto it.
It did not take long for the real agenda to start slithering out.
Have you noticed how weird, worried /anxious looking and uncomfortable he appears when interviewed on TV.
Even my husband who keeps his own council on things political commented that Rudd did not give any one any confidence in his leadership- he seems ill equipped to handle the tough issues that are going to emerge.
God how we will miss JWH or Peter Costello.
Lets hope Ruddd has a very short run.I notice he gave all the Lodge staff the day off at Christmas- was that a kind gesture or so he could snoop round their offices and domain ready to make cuts or more demands on their time.
This little man gets creepier and creepier and his deputy must be lurking somewhere in the basement- any one seen her/heard her rasping voice!!!!!!!!!!!?
#74 I know that some of the metals where being sent in bulk ships to China - the price of scrap steel forced this - nothing to do with the enviroment , as far as glass goes , I thought I read somewhere that ACI had shut the Perth plant. I heard that Stirling Council where sorting everything and burning all non recyclables to generate power .
I just love watching all my lefty neighbours ( you know the type - save abc / greens / no mining stickers on their shitty old cars ) placing all cleaned bottles & jars in a crate to make themselves feel superior.
#77, I know what you mean. Some mornings in my street you can hardly see for all the low-lying smug generated by those folks…
Posted by spot_the_dog on 2008 01 01 at 12:18 AM • permalink#53 - I’m no great reader of poetry but when I found this in Quadrant magazine it seemed just the item for the start of a new year
Great stuff. I got a subscription to Quadrant for Xmas—first time I’ve read it. Some great articles there, starting with the one on with the underhand Muslim subversion of the Australian Catholic University.
It will be interesting see what happens when Keith Windschuttle takes over as editor shortly:
LOOK out luvvies! Keith Windschuttle, scourge of leftist historians, will campaign against decadence in the arts when he takes over as editor of Quadrant magazine next year.
Posted by walterplinge on 2008 01 01 at 12:20 AM • permalinkHappy New Years! every body! Even y’all heathen and foreign devils who practice your festivities at the wrong hour or even the wrong day.
After we finish with the extra u eliminationism part of the cultural conquest, get your accents more in line with civilized speechifying and correct some inadequacies in your legal codes, we’re going to go to final phase.
Everyone will submit to Hollywood Standard Date/Time. Then we can all say Happy New Years! together and all at once.
#81 GRIMEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!
You’ll never get us to fall in line with you Grimmy. We’re already exporting OUR accent to your shores. Many Seppos are starting to say BUM, instead of butt!!hehehe, they saying PUB, instead of Bar! and they’re saying ARNTY, instead of anty.(always wondered why sepps were related to insects?) :)
You’re part of the Old World now. All that’s left that is new, fresh and vibrant is Australia and New Zealand.
AND, NO ONE wants to speak like a Kiwi!!!
So, we’re all that’s left my dear Grimmy!!Oh, and just to add my New Year’s story,
the boys had a great morning blowing up ant nests down the back paddock with the monster bungers we were able to score a couple of days ago.
Man!! those things make the ground erupt!! woo hooo!!
We’ve all just finished far too much food and not quite enough drink (I’m still working on that).
Happy Bloody New Year to EACH and EVERY one on this blog.
I’m sorry I can’t list you all by name (too bloody pissed) but I reckon you know it’s from the heart.
Christ! I hope mine doesn’t stop beating today.
And you too Tim and Andrea. And Tim, don’t forget to go for the part of Main presenter on the Aus version of Top Gear. You know you’d be just right for it.
I just drove 60 miles there and back for a New Year’s bash. And I ate meat, so stuff that, Paul MCartney
Later this week I hope to be doing some “heavy breathing” ;-)
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 01 01 at 01:44 AM • permalinkAnd a special New Year for Andrea, the real imperial keeper, of the blog of course.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 01 01 at 01:46 AM • permalinkA New Year’s Message from Gina Elise. Excuse me please, while I sit here grinning like an idiot.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 01 01 at 01:51 AM • permalink#70 so true, Mr. Mole, so true. It’s either comical, poisonous or man eating. Can’t wait to go scuba diving there again. Last time, I dove in an old Uranium mine - actually just a flooded quarry but the story sounds good, near Batchelor if I recall.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 01 01 at 01:52 AM • permalinkIn my self appointed role as forum party pooper and buzz bringer downer, I offer the following as a reminder that for those standing the line for us, this is just another day in paradise.
And for any of those who are doing the hard things in hard places for the rest of us. If you’re asking
The answer is, absolutely, every day.
...Just quietly, Pog, I think she enjoys the dressing up.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 01 01 at 02:06 AM • permalinkHappy 2008 to all the blessed Blairites and thanks for your wonderful company during 2007.
Your brilliant and stimulating writings have helped me stave off the dreaded Oldtimers’ disease for yet another year.
Mrs Skeeter requested only one Christmas present from me in 2007 and that was a year’s subscription to Quadrant. We are very much looking forward to Windschuttle’s increased influence on that excellent publication. It is the only print media item that is purchased in this household.
And while you are all in a congratulatory mood; if we live another few months, and haven’t had a serious falling out, we will be celebrating our Golden 50th anniversary in September 2008.
Beat that, you whipper-snappers!For us guys it’s quite the reverse. Whoops…
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 01 01 at 02:16 AM • permalinkWhat a wanker.
Do these guys really go around believing this stuff?
I’ve been overseas five times in the last three years, gone to a dozen countries, and not once has someone said to me, “Oh, you’re from Australia, that country that ‘organises race riots’ or ‘that country that does terrible things to refugees and/or indigenous people.’”
Exactly who are these dickheads talking to? Themselves, I’d suggest.
#102 Not sure that I want the exact date to be known to all, Kae but will email it to you.
To set any fears at rest; our wedding was exactly two years to the day before our first kid arrived.
My pa-in-law was starting to worry that his daughter had married a eunuch when it took so long to start a kid.
This two-year delay ended a long history in my family. For many generations the first-born had been behind the wedding bouquet.
Or, as Victor Borge put it, “born in wedlock but only just”.Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn’t it, of a long line of proven criminals?
The probability that the above is an orginal thought is slim—but I cannot for the life of me remember who said it and where or when.
This being the time for such statements:
I, MentalFloss, hereby resolve that in 2008 I will, at the very least, begin to contemplate in some conscious way the manner in which I intend to plan to commence the task of listing—in a rational and manageable sequence—those items which must be noted in sufficient detail before undertaking to engage in seriously contemplating any resolution that might affect my life (or the lives of others) in any significant way.
May this latest in a long line of ne’er-do-well solar revolutions bring to each and every one of you the maximum of joy and the minimum of sadness.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2008 01 01 at 03:35 AM • permalinkI spent my new years in Sydney! Alas though I have come to the conclusion that I am getting way too old for the whole going out for new years thing.
By 9pm my friend and I looked at each other and decided that going back to the hotel with a bucket of ice cream and watching the Hells Kitchen marathon was a better idea than staying where we were.
The only thing that made me feel better about it was that the view from the room was better for the fireworks than where we were before.
Happy New Year everyone I wish you all a carbontastic new year.
#37, I just noticed when reading your post that Santa, carefully misread (sorry missred) could be seen as Satan!
Will there be a stock of Satan sacks next year? Will kiddies have to be bad for Satan?
Paco, a happy anniversary to you and your wife, who seems a very tolerant lady indeed. As for you, a fellow Wodehouse-lover is always a treasure to behold.
A happy and prosperous New Year to all! And may your fingers stay nimble!
Posted by carpefraise on 2008 01 01 at 04:20 AM • permalink#1, do we, in fact, have any Blair Rites around here?
It always takes me a while to notice these social things.
Posted by carpefraise on 2008 01 01 at 04:21 AM • permalinkA toast to the Palestinians ringing in the new year with fire
worksfights. That’s the spirit, guys!I thought it was a great joke—
A leading bank executive has been forced to quit after making an insulting remark about Muslims.
Marc Howells, who was one of Barclaycard’s leading figures, left his £200,000-a-year job after making the quip during a staff meeting as he discussed quarterly figures.
Colleagues were stunned when he said: “The results were like Muslims - some were good, some were Shi’ite.”
Posted by walterplinge on 2008 01 01 at 04:54 AM • permalink65 - Cid, if I believed in reincarnation I’d think maybe I was Cayce Mk 2. There’s just enough of a resemblance to be worrying.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 01 01 at 06:07 AM • permalinkNew Year’s Resolution:
Stop reading MSM because they will not tell it like it is.
“Former Pakistani Prime Minster Benazir Bhutto was murdered because of her potential actions in Pakistan, by the combined forces of jihadism in that country. In short, they executed her to pre-empt her future war of ideas. This was the bottom line and here is why….”
Follow the virtual Paper Trail.Happy New Year all! This year, I am going to get air conditioning if it is the last thing I do. It may lead to the end of a very happy 35 year marriage but I am not going to put up with these hot days for much longer (any solutions for coping with being married to a greenie who believes in GW, PO etc?). Either that, or I should invite Al G over for a visit - that should do it.
Congrats to all with wedding anniversaries coming up!
“Belly dancers also took the stage, ...”
Baghdad New Year 2008 seems to be going well!I just got back from star gazing. It was fantastic people. You can see the Aurora and the milky way as clear as day.
If you so decide to stay at Mt Cook, I’d suggest to rest the night at the Hermitage hotel, it’s well worth it. There’s so much to do and my dinner was delicious.
I couldn’t see any global warming in the skies tonight.
Hey, found this at Iraqi Mojo.
It’s a commercial running on Iraqi TV.
For them of y’all that poopoos this sort of thing, you should maybe take a look at the US War of Independence and how it was fought in the southern colonies.
It was as much a Civil War as a Revolution. Kind of a twofer all at oncer. Ugly in the extreme and a brutality beyond harsh.
I’ve been following what’s been coming out of Iraq in the words and deeds of the Iraqis involved in rebuilding their identity. Northing’s perfect, but there’s signs and indicators of real and true grassroots leadership building up that is pushing the ideal of “Iraq for all Iraqis”.
That’s something worth cheering and hoping for this coming year… and the next years to follow.
#134 Grimmy, the best New Years “revolution” ever!.
Thanks for sharing.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2008 01 01 at 08:16 AM • permalinkAnd in other carbontastic New Years revelry, French cars once again mysteriously burst into flames.
Posted by surfmaster on 2008 01 01 at 09:08 AM • permalink#63PACO
A brief word before retiring- Thankyou for your good wishes-
We did not celebrate NEW YEARS EVE, but have had a wonderful evening NYD- Roast beef cooked by my wonderful husband- a good red and the NEW YEARS DAY Concert from Vienna- a must watch for everyone.
Pure magic- sets the soul free and for a little while the world and it’s troubles obscured.
Not many things make ones heart sing but this annual event sends one to blissful heights and the wine not really necessary.Bless you all and may we make the world a better place by facing the truth and dealing with it.
#145, Ash_:
Ok. Looks like I have two basic operational choices here.
1. I fucked up and gave away an important gender secret. If that’s the case, I’m a gender traitor and deserving of the harshest of punishments.
2. You, being a female, and therefore, totally familiar with males and manipulation thereof, were already familiar with the program and, therefore, I did no harm.
Since I prefer the outcome dependent from #2, I’ll go with that one. Sometimes, being a guy and, therefore, in charge, makes all the difference in defining mishaps or successes.
Heh. Some New Year’s resolutions from the Plains Feeder blog. I highly recommend the “Mohammedan Fanatics” and “Fidel Castro” links.
#152 [testing EU systems] Geeze, Grimmy, why didn’t the US do something to stop it? [/testing EU systems]
Yep, after trying it out, that seems like exactly what the EU will say.
In an interim report, chief EU monitor Alexander Graf Lambsdorff said the tallying process “lacked credibility”.
Mr Lambsdorff said an independent inquiry was needed to resolve the dispute over the election and called on the Electoral Commission of Kenya to co-operate fully.
Does “Dorff” mean ass, in some language?
MentalFloss?
In case there’s anyone out there who hasn’t yet encountered Fark.com, don’t miss it. Interesting, humorous and frightening news stories, helpfully labeled (“Stupid”, “Spiffy”, “Dumbass”, etc.; Florida has its own category, which Andrea would be the first to admit is completely appropriate). The one or two-line summaries are often hilarious.
paco,
Fark.com was the very first web forum I ever registered with. I still visit from time to time (Photoshop contests are not to be missed!), but rarely comment anymore.
Beginning in mid-2004, the place became overrun with loony Leftists and 9/11 Troofers. Virtually any thread could become a political flamewar at any given moment. A crying shame, really.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 01 01 at 03:34 PM • permalinkThis Fark thread, about trendy over-used words and phrases that ought to be banished from public discourse, is pretty funny - and as yet, “uncontaminated”.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 01 01 at 04:00 PM • permalinkHeheheh:
My jackass brother spent 20 minutes on Christmas trying to convince me that the word “the” has no meaning in English. It made me feel good about Fark. I could be wasting my life on worse things.
Tell him that real linguists suspect that the primordial deity of the Anglo-Saxon/Germanic peoples was “it” as in “it rained”, “it snowed”, “it got dark”, etc. Once you let this sink into your consciousness “it” will drive you mad. It will.
Just Do It.
That’s an argument I’d like to see.
;^)
It could be worse: my best friend has an uncle (a college professor!) who is a Holocaust Denier. Whoa.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 01 01 at 04:09 PM • permalinkFWIW, in 3+ years of submitting links (with clever/funny headlines) to Fark, I had exactly (( 4 )) make it to the front page. It’s a tough gig.
#163 1.618
I really sorry to hear that. My condolences to his family.
Mountaineering is an exhilarating and often dangerous sport.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 01 01 at 04:26 PM • permalinkOh, and in commemoration of all the wedding anniversaries out there, here’s reason #115 why faithfulness is the way to go. (via J.M. Heinrichs).
Hi kidz. Hope you all had a great new year’s doing whatever it is you do on such an occasion. Me, I’ve still got champagne left. Remember: two more years and we’re done with this decade! How time flies.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2008 01 01 at 04:58 PM • permalinkLet’s hope one New Years resolution doesn’t make it out of the starter’s gate.
Oh, and Paco.
For the My Favourite Year files, how could anyone forget the “But sometimes I like to run a little water through it.” scene.OT: This is what happens when you ban guns!
Man kills father, turns hammer on self
People don’t kill people, hammers do.
Posted by Evil Pundit on 2008 01 01 at 05:28 PM • permalink#167 Locoti, nice article.
Check this out:
The State Government has set up a $5 million fund which will pay up to $100,000.
There are expected to be about 150 claims.
Let’s see, 150 x $100,000 = $15 million.
Is the government telling us that it expects 66% of claims to be fraudulent and without merit?
Given that 90% of the $5 million will be eaten up by administration and lawyers, that will leave enough to payout 5 claims.
5/150 = 3.33% of claims being paid. Given what Bolta has been telling us, even that is too high.
It’s a $5 million handout to the local law firms. “QC welfare” I call it.
Posted by mr creosote on 2008 01 01 at 05:34 PM • permalink#170 EP: Tragic story, but your lede is hilarious.
#169: Don’t worry, Skeeter; we’ll remind you. Incidentally, the 50th is “gold”, I think; better start saving up!
And now, in the Dumbass category, we have a fellow who has demonstrated the nexus between art and garbage (check out the last line of the article).
I’m personally sorry that idiots in the child welfare department decided that it was in the best interests of a ten year old child to give her back to her abusive parents in an abusive environment where she was abused again. Physically, sexually and mentally.
It’s still a social experiment, isn’t it. Look at the results. FAIL.
Agreed! Anything coming from Australia’s only blue-eyed, white-faced “aborigine” should be instantly dismissed.
Are there REALLY any aborigines in Tasmania?
When I went to school, we were told that Truganinni was the last of Tasmania’s aborigines!
I made a special effort in ‘07 to increase my footprint by buying and M3. Despite my best efforts, I’m still only hitting 17 litres per 100k! But its great sport to drag a Prius and cut across the pompous asshole’s bow (have to brake to do the same thing to a Smart car).
I understand Toronto is joining the Fuckwads in Sydney (and San Fran, of all places) in shutting down the city lights for March 29, 2008. I’m working on arrangements for a “light-up the sky show” from my front-yard, with several thousand (million?) candle-power. Be looking for it in the papers.
To a bigger and better footprint for 2008!
Posted by Son of a Pig and a Monkey on 2008 01 01 at 06:12 PM • permalinkLotocoti,
Its a 2004 E46. Budget wouldn’t stretch to E92 (E90?).
Posted by Son of a Pig and a Monkey on 2008 01 01 at 09:23 PM • permalink#153. Since you so nicely, Ash_, I shall tell you it’s Old Low German for “village”, hence its presence in the 10th Century invention of a non-territorial Germanic language hybrid of Middle High German and Hebrew/Aramaic we know today as Yiddish.
The holder of such a surname may or may not be Jewish—however, their origins can probably be traced anywhere from the low countries to the Urals, from Bavaria to LapLand.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2008 01 01 at 09:34 PM • permalinkI defer to the inestimable efforts of Pickles and kae…
Posted by MentalFloss on 2008 01 02 at 01:04 AM • permalinkAll the best wishes for the New Year, Blairites, from a longstanding lurker.
Posted by Dame Penelope on 2008 01 02 at 01:29 AM • permalinkDame Penelope! Congratulations! When did you get your promotion from Buck House?
Are you still getting about in that sporty pink Rolls?Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 01 02 at 02:12 AM • permalinkSwinish, I had to do an Edna when Andrea’s nargils ate my original plain “Miss”. It has taken me forever and a knighthood to get back in. Clear bias against non-human contributors, I tell you, speciesists. I do indeed still drive the pink Rolls (flattered you remembered) and have now learned to type as well. Pretty nifty, I might say, when one lacks opposable thumbs.
Posted by Dame Penelope on 2008 01 02 at 02:42 AM • permalinkPickles, that is just so WRONG.
What a relief that Dame P was spared such shenanigans.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 01 02 at 06:04 AM • permalinkI’m sorry, I must confess to a very confused identity. I tried to start out as Penelope Cat, as in Pepe Le Pew, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penelope_Pussycat, then decided to become Lady Penelope, as in the pink rolls, but couldn’t register for some reason, so I registered as Miss Penelope, thinking more of Penelope Pitstop http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penelope_Pitstop as there was still a pink car involved, but couldn’t gain access to comments under that handle, so was forced to promote myself to Dame. I am accordingly a kinghted cat who drives a pink sports car. Hey, it’s a free world. But most importantly, I am finally here after years of lurking. And I will learn how to link better.
Posted by Dame Penelope on 2008 01 02 at 08:55 PM • permalinkI am accordingly a kinghted cat who drives a pink sports car.
All that, plus a very cultured and sexy voice.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 01 02 at 09:17 PM • permalinkAnd I might add, Dame P, your beauty is ageless.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 01 02 at 11:21 PM • permalinkAlthough it seems someone had plans to give International Rescue a facelift. And I’m not talking about that crappy live-action flick either.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 01 03 at 02:47 AM • permalinkResponse to #199, Take Two. Fingers crossed that Perth’s airconditioners don’t suck all the juice out of my computer twice in thirty minutes.
kae, the title just before the end says Carlton - I think: it’s a bit dark. But the Carlton name is on my TV soundtrack CD too, so that would make sense.
I would like to think that they decided to put the project aside for a few years and let the live-action barker’s egg pass from human ken. The Tracys sure as hell won’t be forgotten, and if the producers can give us a movie to match that short it will be Star Wars 1977 all over again. Queues that run for blocks! FAB!
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 01 03 at 03:56 AM • permalinkYou didn’t pay MONEY to see it, did you? I saw the shorts at the cinema and I thought I’d choke on the poo-movie stink that flooded over me.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 01 03 at 04:23 AM • permalink
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