Comments on: I think we know what this calls for…

By: Rufus

Rufus — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:26:47 +0000

Other poll results not included above:

Ebola, AIDS and testicular cancer are all more popular than the American military. More Iraqis see Satan as having a positive influence on their country than see the US that way. For that matter, more Iraqis see Salman Rushide novels as having a positive influence. More Iraqis see Halley’s Comet as having a positive influence.

By: Herr Doktor Bimler

Herr Doktor Bimler — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 06:02:00 +0000

there was/is a Russian discount airline called “Red Wings,”

I didn’t know that, despite a reasonable amount of experience with discount airlines. This time last year I experienced an AirBaltic flight into St. Petersburg… then out again, a week later, with GermanWings.

Trap for new players: Almost all international carriers flying out of St. Petersburg use the Pulkovo-2 terminal. If you book a taxi, the driver will inevitably take you to the Pulkovo-2 terminal. GermanWings are the exception, however, and for reasons best known to themselves, they fly out of Pulkovo-1.

There is no way of getting directly from one terminal to the other.

By: Anne Laurie

Anne Laurie — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:07:52 +0000

Huh. I’m soooo old, the term “Red Wings” makes me think of sports in Detroit, plus the brand of work boots the team was (they told me) named after.

Those are good boots, if your footwear needs include steel toes and/or walking through corrosive stuff. Insert your own “Motown” joke here. Or your own “downtown Baghdad” joke, if you prefer…

By: M. Bouffant

M. Bouffant — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 02:55:00 +0000

So if you’re a fan of Detroit’s NHL team…Or certain work boots?

Looked all over for an image of a red wing patch, couldn’t find any. Hells Angels©™ sometimes wear various colored wing patches as part of their colors. Just so you liberal wimps know the origin of the whole thing.
But, Mein Herr Doktor, there was/is a Russian discount airline called “Red Wings,” according to the web. (Unless you knew that already.)

By: lobbey

lobbey — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 02:15:32 +0000

Although to be fair the most surreal moment was when the war bloggers wanted to show Red Dawn overseas to promote their cause.

Did that really happen? I thought I had dreamt that.

By: mikey

mikey — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:08:07 +0000

Dammit!!

My tactical Bio-units are ALL in the cleaners today.

And my hair’s wet.

Shit…

mikey

By: Righteous Bubba

Righteous Bubba — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:47:14 +0000

White, God-Fearing, Suburban said,
August 27, 2007 at 2:28

…do the needful…

I usually see this phrase used by people from the Indian subcontinent.

By: White, God-Fearing, Suburban

White, God-Fearing, Suburban — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:28:49 +0000

The problem with these polls is that if you asked 6-year olds, 92% would say that broccolli is bad and that cheese-pizza is good for them. We need to disregard these polls and do the needful (i.e. the tactical bio-units that you sggested). If we are serious about bringing democracy to the Middle East we can’t get distracted by polls and other non-sense. They will thank us later.

By: mikey

mikey — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:25:15 +0000

Really, makes you wonder what’s in Red Bull, y’know?

mikey

By: Herr Doktor Bimler

Herr Doktor Bimler — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 23:32:10 +0000

While in other news, the cut-price airline Red Wings declares bankruptcy and goes into receivership.

By: Matt T.

Matt T. — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:58:32 +0000

Now I’m a paternalistic prude on top of being a amoral deviant. Brother. Guess I’ll keep my thoughts about strap-ons to myself.

By: Notorious P.A.T.

Notorious P.A.T. — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:55:03 +0000

6 percent of Iraqis have “a great deal” of confidence in US and British forces

I don’t suppose the margin of error was 6 points?

By: ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:40:26 +0000

Smiling Mortician said,

August 26, 2007 at 21:17

Not that you’d have noticed, but I haven’t commented lately because I am overseas, away from home, in places without reliable internet access. In other words, I am happy.

Lately I’ve been in Turkey and have been chatting with people like Kurds who weave rugs. Life is good.

I’m in Columbus, and my brain hurts.

By: Righteous Bubba

Righteous Bubba — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 21:12:06 +0000

I thought the medal comparison was funny and did not make me feel less manly. A triumph.

By: mikey

mikey — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 21:06:20 +0000

As another member of geezerdom, I was raised in a manner well described by Mr. Bubba, and yes, I, of the world-weary wrinkles and long grey hair, would have blushed to an embarrassing degree had I been any less descrete.

‘Sides, I got an email from Sonny. It just said “Fer crissakes, mikey, shut the fuck up!”

In the words of Boz Scaggs, that was all she wrote…

mikey

By: MzNicky

MzNicky — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 20:56:31 +0000

You’re welcome, Mr. Dustbin, but it’d be dishonest to leave the impression that I’m one of those blushing young whippersnapper-ettes whose delicate ears Mr. T. gallantly wishes to protect. I’m a geezerette and a half my own self. His and mikey’s bashfuless over defining sexual terms having to do with female genitalia is actually rather charming, in an alarming kind of way.

By: Righteous Bubba

Righteous Bubba — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 20:50:25 +0000

There. That wasn’t so hard, now was it, boys?

A gentleman never speaks of such matters except in giggly euphemisms at large gatherings of other gentlemen.

By: Galactic Dustbin

Galactic Dustbin — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 20:46:32 +0000

Thank you MzNicky. Now I can safely go back to my hobby of writing letters to the editor and telling kids to get off my lawn.

By: Galactic Dustbin

Galactic Dustbin — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 20:44:37 +0000

OK- being 40 and not in the know with what is ‘hip’ or ‘dope’ with teh kids today; what with thier baggy pants and muffin tops and high risk mortages. Why when I was a kid we wore onions on our belt ( which was the style at the time.)

So tell me- what the gorram frak is ‘getting your red wings?”

By: MzNicky

MzNicky — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 20:38:30 +0000

Oh good lord.

noen – assumptress of ubiquitous representation:

“Red wings” is what one gets when one performs oral sex on a menstruating woman.

There. That wasn’t so hard, now was it, boys?