Swing and a miss.

Yes, John McCain, who floats so serenely (*cough* Keating 5 *cough*) above the mundane day-to-day (*snort* beer heiress *hack*) taudryness of money.

BTW, didja know he was a POW?

How much do you want a bet that the white powder sent to McCain HQs was an inside job to detract attention from “Housegate”.

Yeah, I’m quite suspicious about that.

Yep, it has a real “hey, look at the monkey!” feel to it.

I expect there will be more and more of that, both to get on the news and to keep the terra level high.

Like this.

The McCains increased their budget for household employees from $184,000 in 2006 to $273,000 in 2007, according to John McCain’s tax returns.

The McCains pay the equivalent of seven average families’ annual incomes for housekeepers. But he ain’t no arugula-eating elitist! He’s a former POW!!!

I’d be very interested to see Hinderaker’s collection of million dollar ties.

Uhm, if it were designed to detract from “housegate'” (oi) then whomever sent the letter must prescient.

gotta be careful, but yeah its funny odd. Ballsy too…

Yeah, I’m quite suspicious about that.

I’m also quite suspicious about the Bush administration’s newfound enthusiasm for an Iraq timetable. Nothing like removing one of Democrat’s strongest issues completely from relevance.

Of course, they can’t exactly make the shitty economy go away…

Sorry, no matter how these repukes try to spin this one it ain’t going away. Average Jane and Joe and soccer Mom Sally cannot reconcile McCain being out of touch with his wife’s homes because he stays in hotels so much.

Does.not.compute.

I mean, I don’t want to be like, “Teh white powder is teh HOAX!11!” without knowing anything about it. That’s a hell of an accusation.

But isn’t there something really odd about this incident, or rather, of these two incidents?

To begin with, how did these envelopes apparently arrive in Denver and Manchester, NH with such eerie simultaneity and impeccable timing?

Ripley said,

August 22, 2008 at 2:59

I’d be very interested to see Hinderaker’s collection of million dollar ties.

I’m sure they look no different than my collection of $20 ties.

The McCains pay the equivalent of seven average families’ annual incomes for housekeepers. But he ain’t no arugula-eating elitist! He’s a former POW!!!

Cheap fucker too since you damn well know it takes more than seven family “bread- winners” to care for his properties.

The shrieking means it’s working!

Now for some more questions, is Osama Bin Laden Sunni or Shia?
What’s the majority ethnic group in the Gaza Strip?
Boxers, briefs, or depends?

Now, now, owlbear1.

McCain is a former POW (but he doesn’t like to talk about it).

I’m sure they look no different than my collection of $20 ties.

I’m sure that’s not true. I bet he has at least one or two that look like trout.

To begin with, how did these envelopes apparently arrive in Denver and Manchester, NH with such eerie simultaneity and impeccable timing?

Don’t worry. I’m sure the FBI and Justice Dept. will will do a completely thorough and unbiased investigation. The results of which will be released on November 5th.

Ties, video games, houses.

One of these is NOT like the others.

Tool (it’s not just a band that says “Fuck” all the time anymore)…

mikey

Houses = Ties. That’s something that bends the mind too severely. How do they manage such flights of teh stupidity?

Doctor Missus Marita said,

August 22, 2008 at 3:09

I’m sure they look no different than my collection of $20 ties.

I’m sure that’s not true. I bet he has at least one or two that look like trout.

… a trout plated in 24k gold and accented with platinum.

I don’t know about you all, but every time I go to buy a tie, the RESPA paperwork, the escrow settlements. Man, it just eats me alive. I mean, the title search alone…

I’m halfway through paying the 30 year mortgage on my video game consul.

Holy Christ did you title this one correctly. A Very Special Episode of Pompously Perfectly Asininity.

The “doesn’t care about material things” is such unbelievable crap that it makes my teeth hurt. I mean, you can just see the blood dripping from the nails of his holy body.

Lots of POWs got tortured – I don’t mean tortured as Bush defines it, but actual torture and McCain was one of them. But Christ on a saltine, I don’t call anyone who dumps his wife and marries Money Inc. to be a ‘suffering servant.” Give me some grown-up conservatives, some grown-ass men and women, not Assrocket the Moronic.

Andy Axel said,

It’s the survey comments that get me. You know, “Damn, that tie doesn’t even reach your belt…anymore! *snicker*”

… a trout plated in 24k gold and accented with platinum.

With rubies and amethysts for scales!

That’s astoundingly awesome.

You see, he’s so anti-materialistic, he doesn’t care how many mansions he has!

Exactly! There was a parable in the New Testament about how it is easier for a camel to fit through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to be able to list all his possessions!

More evidence that John McCain is Jeebus!

“Honey, I’m home!”

“How was the trip to that base thingy?”

“Eh, it was ok, I guess. They served ribs, but the dry rub had too much cayenne. How was your week?”

“Pretty good. I bought another house.”

“Another one? Sheesh, woman, what’s that, like a dozen or something? How do you expect me to keep track of these things, dammit!”

“Oh honey, it’s only number 8. It’s not like anyone cares about these things.”

“Well, just remember to color-code and label the keys. Last time I went to one of the beach condos, Consuela was out shopping and I had get the kids from the upstairs condo to let me in.”

JiSM3 channels Grand Puba:

I ain’t mad at this game it’s been good to me
I get Tommy free I get Nike free
I got 19 inch chromes on my 8 50
I got three 6 or 7 different cribs no tellin’ where I be

And he fails at closing tags, too

The truth is that McCain isn’t out of touch with “ordinary people” because he’s rich, he’s out of touch with his own domestic arrangements because he cares little about material things

You know, I was thinking about that before, but two seconds later I realized that owning a whole lot of stuff while affecting not to care about your stuff (or actually not caring about your stuff) probably pisses off less-wealthy people even more. People who actually don’t care about material things tend not to own lots of material things.

But then again, maybe he doesn’t care about that stuff — it really does all belong to his wife, legally, because of their pre-nup. But I suppose it wouldn’t have worked for him to say “Houses? I don’t even own the house I live in … This damn suit belongs to my wife for some reason … and the shoes … Shoes make the man, but it takes men and women working together to make a pair of shoes…. Cutting down on sugar is a great way to lower gastrointestinal discomfort…. There’s a nice food restaurant on the corner of Belmont and Shanks….I am afraid of scary bats…. Hey, there’s pears in this Jell-O!…. “

I mean, the title search alone…

Pretty sure you mean the Tie-tle search…

mikey

The Original Maverick™³²®© : “Honey, I’m home! I think. I’m not quite sure. Do we live here?”

El Cid —

While your New Testament recall needs some work, I can tell you that Jesus did talk about “many mansions”:

In my father’s house are many mansions
If it were not true he would have told me so
He has gone away to live in that bright city
He’s preparing me a mansion there I know

(or Elvis, same difference really)

But I suppose it wouldn’t have worked for him to say “Houses? I don’t even own the house I live in … This damn suit belongs to my wife for some reason …

I’d actually like McCain a lot better if he did say this. It would be, um, straight talk.

Oh yeah?

Well, in MY father’s house we got this…

Oh, who am I kidding. My father never had two nickels to rub together.

Hey Jesus. JESUS!

Can hang out with you guys? Got anything to eat? How ’bout an RC cola?

mikey

Cowper Phipps Coles said,

August 22, 2008 at 3:30

While your New Testament recall needs some work, I can tell you that Jesus did talk about “many mansions”:

In my father’s house are many mansions
If it were not true he would have told me so
He has gone away to live in that bright city
He’s preparing me a mansion there I know

(or Elvis, same difference really)

Elvis died on the cross, and Jesus died on the throne (or something like that).

“Do we live here?”

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

Just one more asshat, and they’ve got a freaking barbershop quartet.

Elvis died on the cross, and Jesus died on the throne (or something like that).

Ahem!

Always look, damnit!

Jesus Presley Christ?

When a motherfucker wears $520.00 Ferragamos, it ain’t because he doesn’t “cares little about material things.”

Unless his wife dresses him, too.

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

“Powdered donuts? I SAID SPRINKLES!!!”

McCain mumbled something about condos and said the reporter should talk to his wife.

He said the reporter should contact his staff. Even I don’t think McMaverick is enough of a dickhead to refer to his wife as an employee.

EPIC. FAIL.

While your New Testament recall needs some work, I can tell you that Jesus did talk about “many mansions”…

The problem with most translations of the New Testament is that they leave out the chapter how John McCain suffered for our sins, and then was tempted by Satan and took Satan’s loot to bust up the Savings & Loan industry and then was granted many mansions in heaven, or Arizona, etc., and then where so ever 3 of us are gathered together and praise the Maverick, he shall be there in spirit, Amen.

Most New Testaments focus, thusly, too much on Jesus in his Nazareth incarnation, and not enough about when Jesus was John McCain.

Fourth Mansions. No longer just a book by Raphael Aloysius Lafferty.

Just one more asshat, and they’ve got a freaking barbershop quartet.

Larry Craig will have a lot of free time after the next election.

Gee….according to Dumbya, John McCain was never tortured!

So by the right wing’s own standard bearer, Troofie, this means that John McCain indeed WAS a traitor!

I see Assrocket’s point. I have somewhere between half a dozen and a dozen ties but I’ll be damned if I can figure out exactly how many it is. Maybe someone on my personal staff could go and check… Wait as it turns out, I only wear about four of those ties – I have the rest for investment purposes.

I mean, I don’t want to be like, “Teh white powder is teh HOAX!11!” without knowing anything about it. That’s a hell of an accusation.

But isn’t there something really odd about this incident, or rather, of these two incidents?

To begin with, how did these envelopes apparently arrive in Denver and Manchester, NH with such eerie simultaneity and impeccable timing?

Shorter Gavin:

“I’m not saying it was a hoax, ZOMG!! NO WAY HO-ZAY!!

I’m just saying it was a hoax.”

On the third day fifth and a half year, MC Cain ascended into heaven D.C., where he sits at the right hand of the father Chimpy McFlightsuit.

He will come again, to judge the living and the dead slurp up more lobbyists’ dollars.

Ramen.

We believe in one party…

From the Exalted Ace o’ Spades®:

DKos Diarist Wins Olympic Gold By Shattering Previous Record for Questioning Timing By 88.2 Seconds

Housing Problem… I guess the real housing problem is than McCain cares more about Obama’s house then the half dozen or so that his family lives in – or is that not the message I’m supposed to be getting?

I’ve really enjoyed today. Thanks Grampa Burns.

Hey I want (80% of) my blog name back from those fuckers.

he’s out of touch with his own domestic arrangements because he cares little about material things, and for many years has devoted his extraordinary energies not to enjoying his wife’s money, but to serving the American people

Holy shit, it’s John McGandhi.

LOL.

How about we make it simple? Anyone who can’t remember how many houses they have is fucktard of dickwad proportions.

But, you can’t deny the Hindrocket’s logic: Anyone can forget how many ears *erp* “ties” they have is like just the same, dude. Goddamit if I can’t tell you how many ties I own, but can tell you that my number of “houses” (1100 sq. ft. of townhome luxury, bitches!) is, well, 1.

What American gets his number of houses and ties confused? Only the Islamofascist Dems, for sure.

Mikey, seriously, we need to talk. On Nov. 5. If McCain wins, I’ll make sure my family drops any charges related to my long-range assassination via a high-powered rifle.

Well, the powder is non-hazardous – so we don’t have to look into the whole Bruce Ivins thing again.

Dragon-King Wangchuck said,

Well, the powder is non-hazardous – so we don’t have to look into the whole Bruce Ivins thing again.

Reminds me of a certain rug buying expedition.

Thank goodness our Savior was unharmed, not that he could be.

Given the number of nights he’s spent in hotels or on military bases over the last few years, it’s no wonder he hasn’t seen much of his wife’s condos.

See? It’s all that bitch Cindy’s fault! Using her millions of dollars to buy up condos for her cunty self and those crowding brats! DAMN her and her $$$!!!

PS — POW!!! POW!!!!1!!

Just when I think they can’t get any stupider, there they go.

Because ties are exactly like houses. Seriously.

You can go to the Marshall’s and get yourself three quality year-old houses for $30.

You can even go to the Ferragamo’s and buy three insanely garish houses for $500.

Buying a house is very simple. People often do it with the money they have lying around. No lawyers are ever involved. You don’t have to arrange for things like insurance and utilities. You don’t have to worry about property taxes and realtor fees.

Nope. Houses just fall from the sky like ties on Christmas morning.

And Wii games. Don’t forget Wii games.

Golly, if I were any dumber I’d be John Hinderaker!

Another snippet of McCain Family Theatre

Meghan: That was nice of you to get dad another house for Father’s Day.
Cindy: I don’t think he liked it – he keeps forgetting how mant we have already.
John: Are you talking about me?

Buying a house is very simple. People often do it with the money they have lying around. No lawyers are ever involved. You don’t have to arrange for things like insurance and utilities. You don’t have to worry about property taxes and realtor fees.

Well, I did this before – but it is so satisfying…

The McCains bought Meghan her $700,000 condo with cash. CASH!

And I know that there probably weren’t honking great big bags of lewt with dollar $ign$ involved – but still – SEVEN HUNDRED GRAND that they had available for a graduation gift!

The white powder stuff sounds like pure Rovian M.O. He did many versions here in Texas. Sadly, yes, it worked. He was almost always found out, after the election.

And the conventions haven’t even happened yet.

I predict McLame’s self-destructive unraveling occurs sometime between the Rethuglican convention and Oct. 1. You read it here first.

I categorically deny that I own another box on Padre Island.

I wouldn’t even care if some billionaire couldn’t name his real estate off the top of his head if he and his staff weren’t actively mocking some humbler rival as an ‘elitist’ cause he’s some arugula-eating perfesser type etc..

I’d love to stay and talk to you LIE-bruls, but I have a gala function to go to tonight. I’m being given the award for P.O.W. Of The Year. It was awarded to me by the Costra Petroleuma organization, which is a charitable organization devoted to giving rich executives more money to buy more houses and yachts.

By the way, did I mention I was a P.O.W?

Yeah, Dragon King, and yet they run up big personal credit card debt. What was it, $200,000 plus that they were actually late paying. WTF?! I mean, seriously, they are too fucking lazy to write a check? And if they’re going to use plastic for the convenience, get a debit card!

I hate these people. It’s like money has absolutely no real meaning for them. They have no idea what it means to do without.

I’d like to have Cindy come live with me for a few days, even though I’d have to put my kid’s migraine meds in a safe-deposit box or something so she wouldn’t glom ’em. I’d like to have her stuck in this two bedroom apartment, with a fridge that sometimes leaks onto the floor and a shower handle that you have to turn off really gentle so that it doesn’t fall off, one small T.V. that’s not hooked to satellite or cable, a lot of books that she probably wouldn’t care to read, and no money whatsoever for anything extra. I’d let her sift the cat box and do the dishes.

Shitheads

By the way, did I mention I was a P.O.W, but I don’t like to talk about it?

Fixed yur typo, Saint McCain.

Powerline foot? Powerline mouth.
Powerline mouth? Powerline foot.
I believe you two know each other already.

The best part of this? Their own insecurity leads them to react to this & fan the flames, when the smart thing to do would be to just ignore it & count on the news cycle to bury it in a day or two – but noooooo, they just HAVE to show that they’ve got all the answers, & that they’re bulletproof & immortal to boot.

Buttmissile: fighting a fire with a can of kerosene.

No Truth sighting? I guess after getting his ass smacked all over the last thread, he’s checked out for a while.

To begin with, how did these envelopes apparently arrive in Denver and Manchester, NH with such eerie simultaneity and impeccable timing?

Can’t be a hoax. There’s no way McCain knows any of his own postal addresses that he would be mailing letters to.

But, but, Barack Obama drinks some super-ultra rare hard-to-find organic tea that can only be found at elitist hideouts like Sam’s Club for $1.59 a bottle! That’s a lot!

By the way, if John McCain’s real estate is accurately valued at just under $14 million, and if a head of organic arugula costs $2.99, then John McCain could purchase over 4.5 million heads of arugula for his house value alone.

Holy sh*t — McCain’s spokesman Brian Rogers today actually referred to Obama as an “arugula-eating, pointy headed professor-type”.

(Technically he was saying what McCain wasn’t, but the anti-McCain implied was obviously Obama.)

Jiminy f***ing Elvis on a stick! What is the right’s perverted obsession with arugula? I thought they liked comparisons with the Roman Empire and classical Western culture — yet Romans were eating arugula thousands of years ago, it’s not like arugula was somehow invented at a street protest in Berkeley!

The truth is that McCain isn’t out of touch with “ordinary people” because he’s rich, he’s out of touch with his own domestic arrangements because he cares little about material things, and for many years has devoted his extraordinary energies not to enjoying his wife’s money, but to serving the American people. Given the number of nights he’s spent in hotels or on military bases over the last few years, it’s no wonder he hasn’t seen much of his wife’s condos.

Here’s another question that really needs to be asked: How does John Hinderaker know this? Is he best buds with John McCain? Do they share a plate o’ ribs and a tall, cool Budweiser every other weekend?

Also, how many nights are we talking about here, Hinderaker? You seem to be so tuned into McCain’s personal Life and all, maybe you could tell us exactly how many nights McCain spends in hotels and on military bases.

Seriously, this chump just starts throwing out socio-philisophical defenses of McCain based on, what… the inside of a Bazooka Joe wrapper? Why should anyone believe that Hinderaker has any special insight into McCain’s thought processes? What a fucking bozo…

“(McCain) cares little about material things, and for many years has devoted his extraordinary energies not to enjoying his wife’s money, pussy but to serving fucking the American people

Somehow, this makes more sense.

(And I can get away with this because upthread MzNicky said cunty.)

Indeed, Hinderaker, as I might forget how many record albums I have, another man might lose count of how many cars he owns.

I sure hope his paying clients get better tropes for their money, ’cause the free ones on his blog pretty much fall apart just from being looked at.

El Cid,
I am actually more struck by the “pointy-headed professor type” stuff… Way to go, America, that’s how we’re gonna compete in the World!

“The original maverick”

An unbranded range animal, especially a calf that has become separated from its mother, traditionally considered the property of the first person who brands it.

Maverick word origin

Would that person be the person who also buys houses for the “calf?” That person who is rewarded for her generosity by getting called a “c*#t” in public? Or does she exact her revenge in dark and secret ways in the privacy of those many houses?

Another common name for arugula is “rocket”. I think that Hinderaker should change his nom de blog to “ArugulaAnus”. Sticking leafy vegetables up one’s rectum is at least a little less weird (and one imagines, more comfortable) than using ordnance.

I wonder if he gets his vegetables 5 times a day?

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

Another common name for arugula is “rocket”. I think that Hinderaker should change his nom de blog to “ArugulaAnus”.

Thank you so much for that mental image. Really. I’m sending you the therapist’s bills please pay them promptly.

Poweline was Time magazine’s Blog of the Year of 2004.

I think that always deserves mention when they’re brought up in conversation.

“Poweline was Time magazine’s Blog of the Year of 2004.”

Lessee here…Time….Time….

Oh, yeah! That used to be, like, a bastion of journalistic integrity, like, or something.

They also put Ann Coulter on the cover.

I use my parents’ back issues to line my birdcages.

What’s happening, you America-hating, pointy-headed, arugula-chomping, LIE-bruls?

My birth was only slightly less messy than the moment of conception…if you were interested.

The Spawn Of The 3 Way Between Truth, Erik & Gary–

So…so…cold…so very…very cold…

Dragon-King Wangchuck offered a link
http://www.denverpost.com/dnc/ci_10266409
that led to:

“Whatever the letter said, it was troubling enough that people drove themselves to the hospital,” he said. . . .
The office was evacuated, but the letter was later found to have no powder.

It must have been a heck of a letter to send the readers to the emergency room, when there weren’t even a few grams of Gold Bond Medicated Body Powder in the envelope. Wouldn’t a real threat consist of a little bit of anthrax in an envelope with a letter that praises McCain to the skies? Does it take a Brainiac to conclude that if a slightly gritty letter supported McCain, it wouldn’t be instantly targeted for investigation by the Colorado National Guard, U.S. Postal Inspectors Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Secret Service? Such a letter would lie around the office for days–might even be elevated to the attention of higher-ranking members of the campaign staff. There would be a much greater chance of infecting more campaign workers. Would anyone even be able to track the infections to their source in that situation? Can we assume that no terrorist would be smart enough to think of faking out the campaign by writing a supportive letter to accompany the deadly spores?

I propose that TSA set up screening posts in all campaign headquarters across the nation. All incoming mail will be subjected to X-ray machines and radiation detectors. (Because who can say that a terrorist might not put polonium-210 into an evelope with a letter comparing McCain to St. Raygun and Mel Gibson?) Plus also the mail must be dusted by individuals wearing biohazard suits.

Problem solved.

Wait! Was the problem actual terrorist threats or hyperventilating alarmists?

“It must have been a heck of a letter to send the readers to the emergency room”

No, the reason is much simpler.

Us repuglicans are, at our base of our soul, Drama Queens.

Well, greedy selfish power-mad Drama Queens, anyway.

“He is a prolific writer of threatening letters,” said U.S. Secret Service Agent Malcolm Wiley.

“The 39-year-old has been in jail since last September, unable to post the $350,000 bond on charges of felony charges of menacing, harassment and assault on a peace officer, according to the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office. ”

http://www.denverpost.com/dnc/ci_10266409

So why is he able to send out letters filled with white powder to Campaign offices with his return address on them?

The Spawn of the 3 Way (ick!) says:

Us repuglicans are, at our base of our soul, Drama Queens.

Is there a biological threat.? “There is! There isn’t! There is! There isn’t!”
http://www.planetmadtv.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6698

To be honest, I assume that the Drama Queen impulse is the root of the Christian salvation narrative. “He loves me! I’m a disgusting worm! But He loves me! I’m a horrible sinner!

[…] (Via Sadly, No!) […]

[…] (Via S,N!) […]

What was it, $200,000 plus that they were actually late paying.

The thing is, when you actually spend that kind of money you can get away with it. What’s the saying? If I owe the bank a thousand dollars, I have a problem. If I owe the bank ten million dollars, they have a problem.

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).

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Who are dees guys?

A Dartmouth NAMBLA Chapter or sumpin?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Fixed.

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.

Ed

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.

he cares little about material things

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

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

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.

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!