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QUOTE SEASON CONTINUES II
This batch features ABC (US) newsguy Terry Moran’s calm report on Barack Obama:
They’re even naming babies after him!
Yes, read where
MoronMoran had twins. Barack and Obama Moran. They were girls.As for Couric, the constant servicing of sports teams while at the University of Virginia, have obviously taken their
holetoll. She just use to get off, on the word “perky”. Who said ‘jocks’ were dumb?Gumbel, what can you say?...His present and many ex-wives, “look like a GOP convention.”...too.
As for Couric, the constant servicing of sports teams while at the University of Virginia, have obviously taken their hole toll. She just use to get off, on the word “perky”. Who said ‘jocks’ were dumb?
I was watching The Secret Life Of…Sandwiches last night, and was rather amused to see that the Stage Deli in NYC has a sandwich named after her. I’m not making this up: it contained ham,turkey and was kind of (Swiss)cheesy. So if anyone has fantasies that involve eating Katie Couric, a few dollars in NYC is all it takes!
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 12 24 at 04:22 AM • permalinkSo if anyone has fantasies that involve eating Katie Couric, a few dollars in NYC is all it takes!
Honestly, I couldn’t possibly have written that last sentence. I must have been hacked by the evil right-winged blog hacker! The terror!
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 12 24 at 04:26 AM • permalinkTo all of the commenters here, both furrin (to use Grimmy’s turn of phrase) and domestic, Merry Christmas, and remember, don’t punch your cousins, as much as you might want to. Upsets the family, and you tend to break your knuckles. :)
Headbutting is acceptable, provided you have the head for it though.Muslim names have been a fad of African-Americans since the Sixties. I’ve never understood the appeal myself—after all, Muslims still take Africans as slaves, while in every country where the evil white man “rules,” slavery has long been abolished.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 12 24 at 08:26 AM • permalinkMerry Christmas, and remember, don’t punch your cousins, as much as you might want to. Upsets the family, and you tend to break your knuckles. :)
Too late! I already had the annual Christmas punch up with my brother on Friday. And I promised the family I’d be good, too. (I at least lasted 2 hours before the scuffle broke out)
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 12 24 at 08:41 AM • permalinkHere I am at 10.30pm on Christmas eve, putting together one of those plastic outdoor playhouses (complete with verandah).
As is compulsory with all such endeavors, I discovered halfway through construction that the pins that attach the lower part of the swinging doors (its western style) to the frame was missing from the kit. Bastard chinese! Bet they’re confusion.
Never mind, grabbed one of Mrs Entropy’s wooden spoons, which has a diameter to the handle I assumed was coincidentally similar to that of the missing bastard pins, broke out the hacksaw and problem solved!
Now having a victory milo before moving onto santa’s ginger beer. Must finish wrapping presents too.
PS. Right now it’s a balmy 24 degrees C in Brisbane. After opening presents in the morning, its off to the beach at Surfers Paradise.
I saw something on the telly the other night that only poseurs do the “beach on Christmas Day” thing; REAL Aussies stay home and get drunk in a civilised and orderly fashion!
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 12 24 at 08:57 AM • permalinkAnd punch on with the rellys mate, don’t forget that. :)
Heh, heh! I think I’ve been banned from the rematch until next year…
It’ll probably be a quiet one at home, punctuated only by me telling the boys they’re still too young to drink my beer.
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 12 24 at 09:32 AM • permalink#19 #21 AlburyS
True and genuine beach-dwellers that we are, we will today make the supreme sacrifice: go to Mum’s for lunch in the suburbs, sit through five courses of eco-crap doom-world nonsense from the ecobat siblings and academic in-laws, chew our teeth down to the gums and finally threaten to punch out the lot of them. We will then retreat to the real world of our beachside paradise, visit the neighbours and enjoy the perfect end to the perfect Aussie Christmas.
Another year. Another festive season.
Oh, I should have said,
Happy Winterval
Happy Festival
Happy Solstice
etc
etcHow about Happy Christmas, Christ’s Blessings on you all.
This is the first time I’ve sent such a salutation to anyone. Since Rowan Williams. the shameful Archbishop of Canterbury refuses to do it at Christmas, I decided this evening to take up the responsibility. And I’m not a practicing anything.
Andrea—Chlamydia Shabazz X is a perfectly respectable name. Besides, as Robert Parker wrote, what do you expect when you have 13-year-olds naming babies?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 12 24 at 03:26 PM • permalink# 22 MareeS
go to Mum’s for lunch in the suburbs, sit through five courses of eco-crap doom-world nonsense from the ecobat siblings and academic in-laws, chew our teeth down to the gums and finally threaten to punch out the lot of them.
Yeah, we’re the only “right-wingers” in our family, too.
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 12 24 at 05:10 PM • permalinkSuckers. We are on the way to the beach in about one hour. You’re just jealous, Albury.
Anyway, Christmas is about the children, not alcohol ( that’s my story and I/m sticking to it).
PS. The kids woke up at 4.30 am. Not sure if it was the light peaking over the hill to the east, or the bloody colony of sulphur crested cockatoos across the road.
#27
PS. The kids woke up at 4.30 am. Not sure if it was the light peaking over the hill to the east, or the bloody colony of sulphur crested cockatoos across the road.
No, it’s Christmas.
Strict rules at home when I was a kid. No opening pressies until everyone was awake. No waking everyone up.
<EG> we had ways…
#23 marees, In Rowan Williams, the shameful Archbishop of Canterbury’s case, his Last Great Anglican Hope sems to be to secede his authority to the Nigerian Anglicans.
Who would have thought the Episcos would have to look to Africa to remember their true faith?!!
How the Mighty have Fallen, to quote some Book or other no-one reads anymore.#28 Strict rules at home when I was a kid. No opening pressies until everyone was awake. No waking everyone up.
You got off lightly. [Yorky accent] When I was little we weren’t allowed to open the pressies until we got home from the 10:00am church service, which we walked to [/Yorky].
It’s nearly lunch time here and the pressies still aren’t open. That’s because son has only just got out of bed and daughter + boyfriend haven’t turned up.
Plus - it’s 8 degrees Melbourne and raining.
Posted by walterplinge on 2006 12 24 at 08:00 PM • permalinkChristmas in Melbourne looks exactly like Christmas in Gualala.
My very best wishes to my very good e-quaintances—nay, my friends—here at Tim Blair’s.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 12 24 at 08:35 PM • permalinkThis just in:
It has just been formally announced: by MSM proclamation Barracks Obama, D-Chi has been annointed the next President of the United States. The 2008 election has been cancelled, and it is widely rumoured G.W. Bush will announce he is stepping down, for the good of the country, after his State of the Union address. Obama will take over, and run the Executive Branch totally by himself, with one hand tied behind his back, and wearing a blindfold, just to make it look like he really has to work at being the leader of the free world.
Peace, love, and understanding will soon overspread the earth.
Really!
This quote didn’t fully capture the larger picture of liberal angst, so Greenhouse explained to students that she wept uncontrollably through the second half of a Simon and Garfunkel concert when she considered the decline of America.
Well I’d be weeping uncontrollable if I were somehow stuck at a Simon and Barfunkel concert too.
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Y’know, the funny thing about Terry Moran is that, despite coming across sometimes as a Kool Aid swilling Koskid, he actually does try to broaden his opinions through active research.
I recall a very cordial note he sent National Review Online’s Corner blog on some issue or other. Terry also has a brother, Rick, who is a decent conservative writer and they seem to get along well.
But, yeah, Terry probably only sees Obama’s election as a whole bunch of potentially ‘new’ story lines.
Let’s avoid choosing between an African-American or a woman and elect Condi.