This is our open thread. Please feel free to offer your own comments on any subject.
On this date in 1939 – German U-Boat U-47 under the command of Günther Prien sank the British battleship HMS Royal Oak, anchored at Scapa Flow in the Orkney’s.
For the British, this was their “30 Seconds Over Tokyo” moment, a direct attack on the Royal Navy in a home port and the loss of 833 seamen. The Germans bestowed honors on Günther Prien and his crew when they returned.
Morning, Zooists!
Rainy NW morning, Jayden turns 9 months tomorrow.
Time flying, seems like I’m always running, trying to catch up to it…
SEA SNOT!
Typical, sneaking about under the seas, shooting at people without showing yourselves……. not Marquis of Queensbury rules…. not cricket…… fiendish Boche….. what?
/ english stereotype off
I bet the catfish downstream from the Guntersville Dam could eat that stuff. They eat anything that comes through the turbines. (Yes I know it’s salt water!)
RUC:
“And you run and run to catch up with the sun, but it’s sinking,
Racing behind to come up behind you again…”
– Roger Waters…
Ah, thank you TT, that was the expression I was trying to express!!
If anyone tried and failed to view the RNC’s “awesome” new website yesterday, well I managed to snag some essential excerpts from it which I’ve turned into a post (with my own observations of course) for your enjoyment and amazement.
http://5thstate.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/27/
Awesome postlink, 5th!
thanks RUC.
There’s actually too much material on the RNC site to be able to make proper fun of it all in just one post.
I don’t understand why they have so many blogs on the site and the extra-bloggity-blog-of blogs that they mention.
Here’s a sample from THerman’s “more tech-minded blog” that is labeled ‘Feeding the Machine’.
After some general leg-humping— “The Republican Party is lucky to have a man so unafraid, so committed to a real connection with what some people call the “grassroots” of the party (I simply think of them as “us.”). The RNC is lucky to have a man who recognizes the need to be in and of the culture that brought us to D.C. in the first place and, in ever increasing numbers, new media is part of our common cultural interaction”—THerman finally gets a bit ‘more tech-minded’ :
“It’s [the site] far from perfect, but—again, due to the fearlessness of my Boss, and his decision to embrace openness—it has the greatest possible chance to become a great platform; unlike Speaker Pelosi, the elitist who imagines that you have no right to read a Bill that will take away your very right to choose your own health care—Chairman Steele firmly believe that, as the people who support our party, you deserve the ability to partner with us in its growth.”
So in case you aren’t very ‘tech-minded’ what THerman is actually saying is that Nancy Pelosi isn’t a great platform!
I hope I’ve solved your Pelosi/platform problem satisfactorily and is there anything else I can help you with today sir? No, well thanks for the RNC calling tech-minded support line, and have a nice day! 😀
Limbought’s partners dumped him from their bid to buy the St. Louis Rams!
horoberts…
How noble of Lush Rimjob’s business partners! How shocked they must have been to discover he was a racist! 😀
TV Alert!
Keith Olbermann will have as his guests on Countdown, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, and Terry Jones, to discuss the 40th Anniversary of a little comedy troupe called “Monty Python’s Flying Circus”. It was, for strange reasons, almost called “Owl-Stretching Time,” among other candidates. Catch the second broadcast of Countdown if you miss this one. As of 22 minutes into the program, they are yet to appear. I imagine they may be closing the program, as how could anyone follow them?
“When two or three are gathered together in their Name, then they shall perform the Parrott Sketch”
“It has ceased to be”
– Mel Smith and Rowan Atkinson
Sorry, correction on the quote:
“It is an ex-parrott”
“It has ceased to be”
Very well, sir. Here we go…
I wish to register a complaint.
I fart in your general direction.
Go away before I taunt you a second time.
Peasant 1: Who’s that there?
Peasant 2: I don’t know… Must be a king…
Peasant 1: Why?
Peasant 2: He hasn’t got shit all over him.
Look, Mate, strange women lying about in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
Can we have your liver?
Oh, but you can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you!
Is this the right room for an argument?
“You got my note!”
“Well, I got a note.”
We are the Knights who say… NI!
Oh but if I went ’round sayin’ I was Emperor, just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away!
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
You stay here and make sure he doesn’t leave.
Zooey, if you are able, you should catch about the last ten or so minutes of Countdown. At one point, Keith asked them a question about their influence on politics. John Cleese stared at him blankly. Keith had to remind him that they discussed it right before the show. Cleese said that he didn’t recognize the topic from the way Keith brought it up. And they kept laughing the whole time. In the last ten seconds, as Keith is getting ready to toss it to Alyson Stewart, Terry Gilliam says (to the other two, of Keith), “He looks thinner on the YouTube.”
Thanks, Wayne. It should be up pretty soon.
It’s…
What’s brown and sounds like a bell? Dung!
Lemon curry?
Always look on the bright side of life.
What, the curtains?
“Where are you going?”
“We’re coming with you.”
Our chief weapon is surprise…surprise and fear…fear and surprise….
He’s not the Messiah – he’s a very naughty boy!
And now for something completely different.
…and several butchers’ aprons.
-She turned me into a newt!
-A newt?
-I got better…
Nudge, nudge, wink, wink. Know what I mean?
Zooey,
When I worked at the food service joint at our college, some thirty years ago, that was our theme song. We got the radio station to dedicate it to us one night, as they often used it in their opening number.
“What’s so special about the cheesemakers?”
“Obviously it’s not meant to be taken literally, Darling, it refers to any manufacturer of dairy products.”
I love it, Wayne. 😀
Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is good.
Say no more, say no more! A wink’s as good as a nod to a blind bat, eh? Eh?
Tis but a scratch
A scratch?! Your arm’s off!
No, it isn’t.
God needs everybody’s.
Man: Mine…
Woman: …and mine,
Dead man: …and mine.
I never wanted this job.
I always wanted to be…
…a lumberjack!
I don’t think there’s a punch-line scheduled, is there?
We apologize for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible have been sacked.
“You were raped?”
“At first, yes.”
Surprise, fear…and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.
The Castle Aaahhhgggg – our quest is at an end.
This morning, shortly after 11 o’clock, comedy struck this little house in Dibbley road. Sudden, violent comedy.
Zooey,
That would be the world’s most dangerous joke, was it?
Don’t read it!
It’s tattooed on the back of the neck.
By a blind tattoo artist?
Jane and I are going to step out to check on the watch.
The watch.
The Chinese watch.
Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more.
Seriously. Say no more. 🙂
Ahem….have fun, Wayne & Jane.
There were 150 of us living in a cardboard shoebox in the middle of the road.
I’m off to watch Keith & Rachel.
Me too. Y’all are too funny. I would have been in class tomorrow night.
Sadly, Rachel’s still down with the Swine Flu, but she says she “hopes to be back tomorrow.” We all wish her a speedy recovery, of course. I hope Susan’s okay, too.
Keith must be feeling pretty good — he had the Monty Python guys rolling at the end. 😀
I didn’t know Rachel had the swine flu. That’s some pretty nasty stuff.
Wait, you can get H1N1 more than once?? Rachel had it a couple of months ago. As much as I don’t want this vaccine, with my traveling, I think I’m going to bite the
big onebullet. The sanitizing lotion is killing my hands. 😦I’m good! My cable has the IFC channel!
I was at the pharmacy today, and a swine flu vaccination for Oct. 29th, was cancelled for lack of supply of the vaccine. That’s two weeks away, and they already know there won’t be any!
Dammit! When Rachel has a sub, they never get the online show up when they’re supposed to. *grump*
House,
By the time they make enough of the vaccine, everyone will have had the swine flu. 😀
Maggie Thatcher had no sense of humor or comedy timing. Why am I not surprised?
Thanks for saving me from having to check for it. That explains why Rachel didn’t do the sea snot segment. But I remember the lass said Rachel was at the meeting when they planned the segment.
While waiting for The Daily Show, has anybody watched, “My Secret Girlfriend”?
I haven’t heard of it, House.
It has appeared since you gave up cable. It precedes TDS.
No wonder I haven’t heard of it. 😀
It’s been a long day. I’m going to go watch some Doctor Who, and then go to bed.
Goodnight!
Stewart calls out Sessions (yes the SOB from MY state!) for opposing Franken’s anti-rape amendment. Look for the clips later!
Enjoy the good doctor. All I have left is Colbert. He’s lagging compared to Jon Stewart lately. I can comiserate with you Zooey. I have a CAD class tomorrow night! (that’s computer drafting)
I got the Swine Flu. It’s like three days of feeling like you haven’t slept for a week and two days of wishing you were dead. After that it is like someone flipped a switch. Primary care doctor checked both me and spouse and both were positive – she felt sleepy for about two days and then popped to as if nothing was involved.
Oh time to switch to Doctor Who quotes:
“You, you’re naked!”
“Oh yes!”
Wow, what a thread. In honor of the subject
“We are no longer the knights who say ni! We are now the knights who say ekki-ekki-ekki-pitang-zoom-boing!”
What I wouldn’t do to see a finished Gilliam Don Quixote.
Where’s Ralph the Wonder Llama?
Barbara Ehrenreich is a great interview on The Daily Show!
Walt, I wasn’t diagnosed, but I could have had it several weeks ago. I had two nights where I had fever and chills, and some nausea, then it went away. I never get chills unless I have flu or strep.
Where did you guys come from?
I take it back… Colbert is good tonight!
Where did WE come from? You wouldn’t believe how many guys wanted to play here. We had to beat ’em off with a stick
Was Ralph TWL supposed to be here?
MsJ,
You can always use bleach, it’s less expensive.