Comments on: A Very Special Episode Of Powerline

By: David in NYC

David in NYC — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:15:03 +0000

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,

August 22, 2008 at 3:35

“Do we live here?”

Wait, let’s see what’s in the fridge before we answer.

That’s gold, Jerry. Gold!

By: Doctorb

Doctorb — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:29:53 +0000

Eruca -> Arigola -> Arugula

Eruca -> Ruchetta -> Rocquette -> Rocket

Supposedly a “niche market” thing in the US, but it doesn’t seem to be substantially more expensive than other fresh greens, so I suppose it’s actually fresh greens in general that’s the problem. If you could buy shredded arugula, pressed into bricks that you would then boil for an hour and mix with condensed cream of mushroom soup and sprinkle crushed potato chips over, it would be just fine.

By: Cain

Cain — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:14:23 +0000

I know how many ties I have. Am I in some sort of anally-retentive minority here?

By: ignatov

ignatov — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:43:55 +0000

he cares little about material things

He also has disdain for taking in nutrition. Thinks its a weakness.

By: shaun

shaun — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:42:45 +0000

Another common name for arugula is “rocket”.

Thank you for this information. I spent a couple of months working in London and almost all sandwiches for sale at the lunch places had “rocket” as an ingredient. I had no idea what it was.
Fucking elitist Brits and their elitist ham and cheese and rocket sammiches. Plus their pointy heads and whatnot.

By: Ed Drone

Ed Drone — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:24:56 +0000

The reason John McCain can’t recall how many houses he has is that he’s planning, the next time he passes “Go,” to turn four of them in and buy a hotel for Park Place.

By: Dragon-King Wangchuck

Dragon-King Wangchuck — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:10:00 +0000

Notice that Hinderocket ~~conveeeniently inserts “wife” for “staff,” as in: “said the reporter should talk to his wife.”~~ is a total dick.

Fixed.

By: MileHi Hawkeye

MileHi Hawkeye — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:53:54 +0000

Hey Smut Clyde–

Next time you stop in at the Toronado, tell Paule that his friend from Denver says howdy. And that it wouldn’t kill him to call or write sometime.

By: zuzu's petals

zuzu's petals — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:51:27 +0000

Notice that Hinderocket conveeeniently inserts “wife” for “staff,” as in: “said the reporter should talk to his wife.”

I guess he couldn’t very well say people would have to ask his staff how many ties he has.

By: Candy

Candy — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:43:47 +0000

I’ll bet bin Laden knows exactly how many houses caves he has.

The Bush Family’s good friends the bin Laden Family, on the other hand, might misplace a house here and there; although, being in the construction trade, they probably do keep track of their assets better than Mr. ~~McCain~~ Magoo does.

By: Dan Someone

Dan Someone — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:24:53 +0000

I’m envisioning an Obama ad:

Visual: A head (stalk?) of arugula.

VO: This is what John McCain thinks (wants you to think) this election is about.

Visuals: Images of Iraq, Katrina, foreclosure signs, $4.50 gas prices, etc.

VO: This is what the election is really about.

Something like that.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:25:47 +0000

Right. And the Spirit of American Gratitude slips those fucking $500 shoes on his feet while he’s sleeping the sleep of the just.

Idiots.

By: biff diggerence

biff diggerence — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:56:13 +0000

Who are dees guys?

A Dartmouth NAMBLA Chapter or sumpin?

By: Rary Guppert

Rary Guppert — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:23:06 +0000

if i vote for mccain, will he let me have a house? it’s not like he’s gonna miss it.

By: Dragon-King Wangchuck

Dragon-King Wangchuck — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:14:22 +0000

Why not try PUMA Ale? The IBU rating on it is OVER 9000!!one11!

By: Snarl

Snarl — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:56:35 +0000

FWIW, Maury Maverick didn’t much like St. John of POW using his name.

By: Marquis de Chocula

Marquis de Chocula — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:08:02 +0000

The Maximus is 72.41 IBU; their regular IPA is 45.6. Also Doctorb does not always mention dominatrices, Russian or otherwise, but I think that’s why he’s purchasing Fabergé eggs. He is a strange and many-faceted man but I fear that buying Fabergé eggs for his expensive and haughty Russian mistress will be his undoing.

By: Smut Clyde

Smut Clyde — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:35:28 +0000

Actually that last comment from “Doctorb” does not mention Russian dominatrices, so I am not convinced as to its authenticity.

By: Smut Clyde

Smut Clyde — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:33:37 +0000

Later, a Lagunitas IPA (45.6 IBU, OG 1.059, final gravity undetermined but ah).
If that was the Maximus, I had a pint a few weeks ago at the Toronado, and I can now die content.

By: Doctorb

Doctorb — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:26:57 +0000

Store-brand cheese and mushroom ravioli ($3.49) with homemade organic heirloom tomato sauce (tomatoes at under $3/lb; olive oil, herbs and garlic unknown price), 2006 Santa Christina Antinori Toscana Sangiovese (under $7/bottle or less than $1.50 per glass). Later, a Lagunitas IPA (45.6 IBU, OG 1.059, final gravity undetermined but ah).

In the morning, Fabergé Winter egg omelet (25,000 rubles) with bald eagle head rémoulade ($863).