Rainy and cruddy all day. Just a wasted day.
On the other hand, the newly planted garden needs the rain. One thing that never ceases to amaze me about plants is that even when you do your best to plant them, they sometimes look a little cock-eyed and tilted when you are done, but within 48 hours, they are growing straight as an arrow. I’ve sort of just given up on the aesthetics of the garden for this year, and am just piling tons of hay and grass clippings as needed on the lot.
I’ve also decided that I enjoy this enough that I am going to get some grow lights and put a little grow table in the basement so I can do my own seedlings this winter and really kick it up a notch. I figure the initial outlay will run me a couple hundred bucks, but if I have success with it I will save a ton of money in the long run on plants.
freelancer (itouch)
this will end splendidly.
demkat620
This is the first spring I haven’t planted flowers yet. I feel funny about it. Probably put some impatiens and marigolds in in a couple weeks.
The house doesn’t look right without them.
kommrade reproductive vigor
Just plant them a few weeks before you’d sow them in the ground and stick them in a window. If they grow too much indoors they’ll flop over because they need a breeze to strengthen their stems.
And use cut up toilet paper rolls, biodegradable pots or get yerself one of these so plants that hate being transplanted aren’t any wiser.
Something Fabulous
Open Thread!? Open Thread!! Then it is time to thank you for the AWESOME B-J MUGS!!! Which arrived while I was away for the week and were waiting oh so promptly on my doorstep last night! Put my coffee in a “consistently wrong” mug this morning and it was extra-delicious!
Ah, the little things. So nice to be home. Ahh.
freelancer (itouch)
Also, here’s something you don’t ever think you’d hear:
Kevin Costner, awesome human being.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bp-calls-in-costners-26m-vacuum-cleaners-to-mop-up-huge-oil-spill-1979976.html
arguingwithsignposts
WTF is going in on in the lower posts? I’m getting all kinds of weird stuff in FF?
That's *Master* of Accountancy to You, Pal (JMN)
@freelancer (itouch):
It depends upon whether he does it naked.
Martin
Just make sure to invite your neighbors over when you harvest so they don’t rat you out.
And yes, it will save you a ton of money in the long run so long as you never have to make bail.
eemom
the last thread went all psycho at the bottom (the formatting, I mean).
Martin
Woo, broken thread at post #8. I think that’s a record!
(high fives the other rabble-rousers)
Edit: Boo! It sort of fixed itself. WordPress is the Deepwater Horizon of blogging software.
kommrade reproductive vigor
@arguingwithsignposts: Wow. Tunch is so fat he broke the blog roll.
Bootlegger
Grow lights in the basement, what could possibly go wrong? Make sure your cat doesn’t attack cops who don’t knock.
Mike Kay
Where’s General Stuck?
haven’t seen him in a bit
arguingwithsignposts
Lower thread still fux0red. somehow, i’m able to post in this one.
luxuriate. ahhhh.
Fern
The nicest part of starting stuff from seed is that I got to try all kinds of varieties of plants that I couldn’t find at the garden center.
Fern
@Mike Kay: Having a sabbatical from the internet.
Bad Horse's Filly
I’ve been battling a migraine all day and I just found out that Sarah Palin (sorry, headache prevents me from remembering any of her clever nicknames) is speaking to a crowd of 6K at Denver University. So now I have a headache and I’m nauseous. Who let her into my state, that’s what I want to know. Haven’t we developed a repellent yet?
eemom
this is kind of a jaw dropper:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/21/AR2010052101670_2.html?hpid=topnews
Said to be authored by Robin Givhan though the post just says “staff writer.”
I don’t even know where to start.
Mike Kay
“Extremism in the defense of Libertarianism is no vice!” ~ Randal ןnɐd
John Cole
I’m using firefox and everything looks fine.
And I seriously doubt one grow light in a town of 300 is going to cause problems. Not to mention, when they kick the door in they are going to find all sorts of… tomato seedlings.
Fern
@eemom: What decade are we in again?
Martin
@John Cole: Post #8 by me got swallowed up in the body of post #7. I can see it in the source and the HTML is buggered, but it shows in neither Chrome or Firefox for me.
kay
Ordering seed is the best. It’s all potential, no nasty reality, the pictures are pretty, and you have to really try to spend 25 dollars. It’s cheap thrills.
Ordering seed may be better than gardening.
Warren Terra
Wait, you’re putting grow lights in the basement to help with the budget? Oh, sure, it’s for “seedlings”.
Just be careful, is all I’m saying.
beltane
I apologize to all cats everywhere for saying they were like libertarians in the previous thread. My four cats and I just took a lovely walk outside to examine the lilacs and apple blossoms. They were very civil towards me and each other, and one of them graciously left a vole on the porch. This makes them superior to 98% of the libertarians out there.
Instead of cats, lets just say that libertarians are like caterpillars, the ones that grow up into moths.
Martin
@Fern: If you want to be taken seriously, you’re just going to have to look hotter. Show a little ass, baby! But no fatties, okay? The founders weren’t down with that chunky shit.
/Rand Paul
kommrade reproductive vigor
@eemom: I read the caption on the photo and had to stop.
Even Klobuchar crosses her legs, and we all know what a big lez that married mother of one is. KAGAN MUST BE A SHEMALE!
Jesus Christ. What has D.C. done to deserve two shitastic papers?
Mike Kay
@eemom: it could be written by sally quinn.
Robin Givhan’s writing is usually more interesting.
Doctor Science
Remember (those of you in the Northeast, at least) those 90-degree days in April? Well, the strawberry crop here in NJ is running about 2 weeks early and may even *run out* by Memorial Day. We may be picking cherries the first week in June — usually they’re Fathers Day.
So we got up early this AM and picked strawberries at the local farm. OM NOM NOM. Shortcake w/lemon rind + real strawberries + real cream, whipped = HEAVEN.
jeffreyw
Snack?
kommrade reproductive vigor
Since I’m in moderation I will summarize the WaPo piece on Kagan:
Girls who don’t cross their legs are shemales. Also2.
SIA
@Bad Horse’s Filly: Sorry you have a migraine. Nothing seems to work for me except maybe ice pack on the head and sleep. Re La Palin, Sister Sarah, Caribou Barbie, Bible Spice (is that enough?), there will always be a group of no-nothing ignorami (ignoramuses?) who identify with her schtick to show up in groups for her. Plus, starbursts! Alas, just one of the many things I’d like to punch John McCain in the neck for – unleashing this Pandora’s Box of Stupid Furies on the country.
Feel better.
demo woman
NYPD used to have a website where they sold confiscated items. Last time I looked they had lots of grow lights.
I’m sure that you could google it and find the site.
jeffreyw
Yes, I agree.
Warren Terra
@Freelancer
Costner is a mediocre actor and terrible filmmaker, but I never worried about whether he’s a good person. It’s nice to see him and his brother spend his wealth on something worthwhile.
beltane
@Doctor Science: This is the first year ever the lilacs have bloomed before my birthday, which is next Friday. Maybe I’ll live dangerously and plant the tomato/pepper/eggplant starters tomorrow.
Felanius Kootea (formerly Salt and freshly ground black people)
Just read the story about the 67 year old woman in Yuba, California who was shot to death by cops after pointing a weapon at a census worker. Does anyone know more about this
jeffreyw
@Bad Horse’s Filly:
Relax, I’ve got this.
beltane
@demo woman: Would anyone buy grow lights from the cops? I used to have a system in the basement, but then an acquaintance propositioned me to start illegal seedlings for him and I got paranoid and dismantled the whole thing. It’s been warm enough lately to direct seed everything but the nightshade veggies anyway, and those I do in a south facing window.
Corner Stone
@Bad Horse’s Filly:
You don’t battle a migraine, you slowly…slowly…crawl to the darkest, coldest, quietest place you can find and start praying to all the gods of every religion/sect/cult/etc for someone to either kill you or otherwise take away your pain.
Martin
@jeffreyw: Ooh, a reply to that had cream puffs. I may have to make pâte à choux tonight…
One of the joys of living in SoCal is having fresh strawberries year round. On special you can pick them up for $7.50 a flat at the farmers market. Joy…
sukabi
is this little “basement grow” op for medicinal purposes?
Martin
Oh, and with strawberries, I’d go with a lemon sour cream pound cake (use real lemons and full-octane sour cream, please) soaked in a bit of heavy cream. I like to masticate the strawberries 12 hours or so ahead of time in some sugar and put those on top.
jeffreyw
@Martin: Ooh…strawberry creme puffs! Show your work!
Corner Stone
Felanius Kootea (formerly Salt and freshly ground black people)
@freelancer (itouch): Great story, makes me see Costner in a new light. I really hope the oil vacuum-cleaner works in real-world conditions since it doesn’t look like BP has a better solution.
Josie
John Cole – Planting your own seedlings is great fun. You can read seed catalogs all winter and order seeds without spending much money. Then you only plant as many seeds as you need to without wasting them and have your plants ready to go in the garden as soon as the weather is right. Seeds are good for at least a couple of years, so you can save some for later. It’s a win win proposition.
Warren Terra
@Felanius Kootea
I hadn’t heard of that incident – but then, an anti-government gun nut killed two cops in Arkansas Thursday, a tragedy that’s not made much news nor had much notice in the blogosphere
SIA
This says a lot about our latest teabagger phenomena:
http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2010/05/rand-paul-dressed-for-success/
When does he get his honeymoon, anyway?
Warren Terra
@ Martin
Did you mean masticate, or marinate? Because I don’t see how you can masticate anything for 12 hours, let alone the sugar.
Maude
@Martin:
Do you spit the strawberries out when they are well masticated? I hope you don’t do this at the dinner table.
Zhirem
Mr. Cole:
Your blog is one of the better ones I read religiously. Thank you.
I have enjoyed your discoveries with rescue mutts and rescue political parties. Being an advocate of both, though the first are infuriating at times, wet noses and foul breath aside, there is a lot to be said for them as a species. Of the second, most of the time… not so much. I keep voting for them, and they keep letting me down. But I keep trying to have faith, every day made easier by the three reliable truths in my life: dogs, plants and the foibles of the Republicans.
Please allow me to chime in here. On the second truth. The first you have already experienced and it will continue to amaze and confound and rationalize your existence. The third, you are quite more fully aware than I.
The second: ah, my friend, these are the niftiest little factories that ever there were. Though not a botanist, I did room with one in college for a couple of years, and my parents were life-long gardeners. You won’t need to sink anywhere near $200 to set yourself up with a florescent nursery in the basement. Though you might drop close to $100 on everything.
Depending upon a finished basement or not, you have choices. Finished basement: go with the laundry room. Typically un-carpeted, and if there is floor-covering it is likely tile or linoleum. You are not going to be making much of a mess, but easier clean up, means tidier growing area, means less undesirables like fungus gnats, etc.
But a couple of 4′ florescent banks and some *full* spectrum tubes. You can do a lot with just those. Mix up a batch of 1 part vermiculite, 1 part pearlite, and 2 parts peat moss. From that, you can add a bit of potting soil if you like, but not necessary.
Second step, in either taking cuttings or planting seeds, Save Your Planting Containers from This Year! Seriously, those little plastic containers you buy plants in are GREAT to reuse and are efficient with space considerations.
Past that, get some rooting agent (Dip ‘N Grow I can vouch for completely), and then follow the instructions. Cool thing is, you can take clippings from most plants, and costs nothing. Neighbor has a sweet heirloom tomatoe? Get a clipping or 6. Friend has a cool houseplant you want to try? A clipping might work, though there are other considerations (air-layering, other propigation techniques).
But the funnest thing I have found recently was to turn my basement into a geranium explodanursery for the end of this winter. Hit the spring with dozens of six-packs with nice little geranium plants that I gave away at Easter.
My advice, you can run sweet little mini-seasons of salad greens at the beginning and end of the growing season. They are slightly frost tolerant, depending upon maturity. Salad greens are great to set up in staged maturation setup throughout the summer if you have the time and patience. You can never buy salad greens again except when there is snow on the ground, and then, you can get a few more weeks on either side with a cold frame, but I will save that for another lesson.
Heh. Sorry for the Wall O’ Text. You finally talked about something I know a little something about.
Oh, last tip/point. Get this set up going now, and try to start taking cuttings and making successful efforts. If you fail a time or two, you will still have live, healthy plants to take cuttings from.
Ok, really last point. Additionally, you may want to set up salad greens in long rectangular containers that you could slip inside for a night or two to extend some harvesting even longer into the fall/winter. I pulled some fresh spinach for salad for Thanksgiving in Iowa.
Peace, great food, good music, grateful company,
– Zhirem
Warren Terra
@Sukabi
Having realized the high cost of his seedling habit, he wants to save some money by growing his own.
And us nasty suspicious people make insinuations about his “seedlings”.
ihop
pay cash for your growlights.
MikeJ
@Warren Terra:
1) Cole puts in grow lights
2)Cops suspect drug house
3)Tunch eats cops when they ram down the door.
PurpleGirl
@Corner Stone: I agree with you. I’m light sensitive and if I’m in sunlight without dark glasses I can develop whopping headaches. The only way to handle them is to find the coldest, darkest corner and take a nap. Sometimes I add in a cup of tea and some toast and aspirin. But it’s the dark and the coolness that really helps.
Kristine
I’ve been harvesting mesclun lettuces for the last few day. Go outside and cut some leaves, then bring them in, wash/dry, and make my salad. I love doing that.
I thought I had made a mistake using up half my raised bed for lettuce, but no, dammit, even that tastes better than storebought.
I used a grow light last year. This year, we had a warm enough April/May that I’ve been able to leave the seedling tray out during most days. The last few days, I’ve been leaving them out at night as well. I’ll be sticking them in the ground around Memorial Day.
Zhirem
*post-reading-the-comments-observation*
FFS people. By all means, *DON’T INDOOR GARDEN COMPLETELY LEGITIMATE THINGS BECAUSE IT MIGHT APPEAR IMPROPER*…
Come on now.
I’m the *only* non-pro chef here that likes fresh herbs all year long?
I’m the *only* reader of this blog that likes fresh flowers for friends and family at the dinner table even in January? (well-timed xmas cactus and poinsettas can be tricked into timed blooming at odd months).
Hack your plants folks. It’s fun. And rewarding.
How do you people feel about brewing your own beer with hops that you grew yourself?
Don’t tell me there aren’t any zymurgists in the audience here?
~tap tap ~
Is this thing on?!
– Zhirem
MikeJ
@Zhirem: We’re not saying don’t do it. We are aware that Georgia sent people to prison for selling light bulbs, even with no proof of connection to drugs.
Patty K
@Martin. The recipe will work better if you macerate those strawberries.
Corner Stone
@PurpleGirl: To this day I laugh when I read or hear about Terrell Davis of the Denver Broncos playing football with a migraine.
Either he’s bizarro Superman, or he’s never had a migraine.
The Moar You Know
RE: Costner’s “invention”.
He’s been pimping the thing for several years now. IT DOES NOT WORK.
Corner Stone
@MikeJ: He’s one lucky SOB his dog Lily is not a corgi.
Martin
@Patty K: Heh. Too much gin today.
Corner Stone
@Martin: That may be the only thing with a proof rating I just can’t drink.
Makes my tongue feel like I swallowed soap.
sputnikgayle
Mr. Cole–I must pass on a gardening tip that has helped me for years. Put beer in pie tins throughout your garden. These attract and drown all sorts of bugs that want to eat your veggies.
And to attract pollinators (and to make excellent salsa!), try planting tomatilloes. They grow quickly and their blooms are prolific beyond belief—if you can grow tomatoes, the soil should be fine for tomatilloes.
Cain
@Zhirem:
We are snarking on our host. It’s what we do here. Of course, he’s probably going to start growing catnip. Anything to distract the The One Who Must Be Obeyed.
cain
eemom
migraine sufferers: ask your doctor for Imitrex if you don’t have any of the contraindications. Shit works. And it’s generic now!
Warren Terra
@Zhirem
We kid because we love. Or because we’re jerks. We’re not sincerely insisting Cole is growing controlled substances. Though he might consider growing some catnip and keeping Tunch out.
Tim I
Just what are you growing in the basement with the grow lights?
jl
What town does Cole live in. I want to watch the local papers for the raid, so I can see the outcome of Cole’s indoor ‘catnip’ garden.
But, what am I talking about? Cole will grow basil, spearmint, tarragon, and thyme or something else legal, and get raided anyway. It will be tragic, and best we can do is hope that Tunch doesn’t go to Gitmo or some other prison for taking out the poor cops. Tunch’s ‘tude in the wrong place could be trouble.
Litlebritdifrnt
Ditto on the grow lights thing. We had a case several years ago where the cops sat in the driveway of a CAPTAIN IN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT and then raided his house cause they THOUGHT he had grow lights in his basement. (He had no such thing, they found nothing), but the fact was they raided his house, terrorised his wife and daughter and ended up with nothing.
You are single John, you more than likely have a bedroom that you are not using. Set tables up by the windows and grow your seedlings there using natural light.
BTW if you have not yet bought your mater plants look out for “Amelia” it is a TSWV resistant variety and so far mine is going gangbusters and has fruit on it already. If you are looking for a cherry tomato I would go for Cherry Huskey Red, it is an incredibly robust plant, I mean it is the kicking the sand in the face of all the other wimpy cherry mater plants. It is just a glorious plant to look at and looks like a body builder among the others, and again has already set fruit that I am expecting to harvest in a week or so.
Zuzu's Petals
@Felanius Kootea (formerly Salt and freshly ground black people):
Having spent the better part of a depressing decade in the Yuba-Sutter area, I can tell you that no amount of ignorance/nuttiness would surprise me.
One of the most poorly-written pieces of seen in a long time, BTW.
kay
Well, I don’t think anyone’s going to get arrested. I use a 20 dollar 4’ florescent hood and some bricks to rest the edges on, and an extension cord.
I add a brick when the seedlings grow taller, but it’s only 10 or so weeks.
I don’t even know why it has to be “in the basement”. It fits on a longish counter. It’s nice if the counter is close to a sink.
PK
@eemom: @eemom:
The most disgusting comment was below a picture of Kagan with some senator and said “most women cross their legs when they sit, but not Kagan”. Whoever wrote that caption should be shot.
kid bitzer
open threadiness:
nietzsche:
also sprach zarathustra:
palin:
“also!” sprach sarah “too!” (strut)
Zuzu's Petals
@Zuzu’s Petals:
Oops.
of seen = I’ve seen
Zuzu's Petals
@PK:
Two seconds on Google:
This.
And this.
Litlebritdifrnt
@kommrade reproductive vigor: And women who cross their legs when they sit end up with horrible, horrible varicose veins. JUST A FUCKING THOUGHT!
Zuzu's Petals
@PK:
Not to mention:
This.
And this.
(Trying to avoid multiple-post moderation hell.)
Currants
http://www.johnnyseeds.com/
You can order the growlights (and all kinds of other wonderful things) here, but I just got shop lights and grow-light tubes at a hardware store, and set ’em up on shelves in the attic. It’s a wonderful way to pass the winter–planning and ordering in Dec/Jan, setting up and planting in Feb, and watching it all grow and then transplanting, and then transplanting again, and then holy heck, do I have enough friends for all these 2 ft tall heirloom tomato plants? Peppers and eggplants I was more circumspect with, but what did I think I was going to do with 70 tomato plants??
Zuzu's Petals
@PK:
Oh yes, and:
This too.
Also too.
Stops to catch breath.
Jamey
It’s it’s always 4:20 somewhere…
Jamey
@freelancer (itouch): He built it. They came. (Hope I’m first to the buffet with this one.)
Joel
The Celtics making the Magic… (pinky to mouth)… disappear?
MikeJ
@eemom:
Ex girlfriend back in 199something had horrible migraines. Got so bad one time I took her to hospital. As they were giving her the shot of imitrex she felt better, and she was unable to stand upright before. Miracle drug.
wmd
@Currants:
Johnny’s seeds are the great!
burnspbesq
@eemom:
Re WaPo piece on Kagan’s wardrobe: “Pathetic” and “stupid” seem like pretty good places to start.
burnspbesq
@kommrade reproductive vigor:
Support the Redskins and the Terps.
kommrade reproductive vigor
@Litlebritdifrnt: Hush dear. Nice girls will gladly suffer from a disfiguring vascular condition in order to avoid being UNUSUAL.
Wow.
Good God almighty. I just read through that train wreck. TWO FUCKING PARAGRAPHS devoted to Kagan’s crazy uncrossed legs.
And Double you, tee eff:
Honestly, I can’t make heads or tails of this shit. I guess Kagan’s failure to drop 100 lbs., don skimpy high-fashion duds and slink about in 6″ heels is … an insult to modern womanhood?
SectarianSofa
@eemom:
Oh. Wow. WTF?
jl
But, if Kagan sometimes crosses her lags and sometimes does not, what kind of inner conflict and confusion does that signify? Scary stuff. She is unstable.
And, just saw poor old Cole’s deluded comment at 20.
Cole thinks everything will be OK because after the cops bust in, there will ‘only’ be tomato plants to find.
Heh heh. Yeah. Right.
Some one try to explain things to Cole, for his sake, OK?
Edit: Cole, put the damn catalog down, unclick Amazon. Eat only highly processed foods purchased at the supermarket, with your hands in front of you, only then will you be safe. Don’t buy any of that effing hemp seed cereal from Bob’s Red Mill. You are putting yourself in danger.
Zuzu's Petals
@kommrade reproductive vigor:
It’s not just crazy, it’s lazy and stupid. A two-second Google search yielded no fewer than seven pictures of Kagan in her Senate meetings with, yes, her legs crossed.
(I gave up on posting separate links.)
jl
Surely the pointless idiotic, boring WaPo Kagan story, full of frumpy logy Village sludge snark, and witlessness parading as smart insight, is why major US newspapers are flying off the stands, and getting quadrillions of clicks every second.
Also, too, the story was insulting and stupid.
In other words, an offensive waste of time to read, and also obnoxious.
I can see no reason for it, even in the style section. The story had no style, and was classless. And a total waste, or did I say that already?
Yutsano
@jl: Nonsense. The piece did its job exactly as it was intended. The more they can identify Kagan as someone outside the white heterosexual tribe (since anti-Semitism is gauche these days) the more this can be used to get the darkie usurper out of the good pure WASP White House. The press is not above being used in such a fashion, since they maintain their precious access and therefore their six figure salaries just by playing the game.
jl
@Yutsano: Perhaps, but I have always wondered what kind of trivial minded nitwits take such stories seriously. I always viewed this type of story as a high brow version of the old Weekly World News stories about which space alien the new president has chosen as an advisor.
Who the hell give a rat’s ass whether Kagan usually crosses her legs or not, or whether her choice of clothes is deemed dowdy by some style section writer?
Are there such people? I thought this was a way to fill up space between ads and give bored people without the inner resources to amuse themselves a way to kill some time.
By any normal standard, the story was total Fail. But then, I do not travel among my rulers’ circles in Washington DC, and am probably sheltered from reality.
Steeplejack
Cole:
Looking forward to the first time you discover Tunch basking on the grow table and find yourself wondering if cats can get melanoma and, if so, how much it could cost.
Steeplejack
@That’s *Master* of Accountancy to You, Pal (JMN):
Congratulations on your new ‘nym. I presume all tests were passed with flying colors.
Steeplejack
@Martin:
Win.
jl
@Steeplejack: You have implied that Tunch is mortal, heretic. You will be dealt with.
Steeplejack
@eemom:
Unbelievable.
The cutline on a photo: “UNUSUAL: Most women, including Sen. Amy Klobuchar, cross their legs when sitting, but not Kagan.”
Anne Laurie
@jl:
SATSQ: The Media Village Idiots… as directed by their paymasters. Kagan can’t meet their standards, which are not about competence but about appearance. Sitting with one’s legs agape is the prerogative of men, big powerful manly persons whose massive genital endowments force their muscular thighs to an angle, or it’s the stigmata of a horrible fat obese non-person. It’s a posture suitable only for the top of the social pyramid and the very bottom, and the aim of the article is to remind “us” (each other) that Elena Kagan does not have the right to claim protected status in either faction.
Also, it should be noted that Harvard is one of the last great strongholds of Upper-Class Dowdy, the old-fashioned “old money” pretense that spending too much money, time, or effort on one’s appearance indicates status insecurity. Bar Bush was allowed to get away with dressing that way, but Kagan was not born to the Northeastern ruling caste, so the same outfit that was greeted as “unpretentious” and “comfortable” on Mrs. Bush-Squared raises squawks from Sally Quinn when worn by less blessed beings like Kagan (or, for that matter, Michelle Obama).
Steeplejack
@jl:
Let me rephrase that:
Steeplejack
@John Cole:
Yes, but that will be after they blow you and Lily to kingdom come. Or your neighbors, depending on whether they get the right address.
Tunch will probably be fine.
jl
@Anne Laurie: OK, thanks. But I am judgmental in this case. I think anyone who takes such stories any more seriously than strories about which space alien is advising the president is a trivial minded nitwit…
So, yeah, you win. The Very Serious Village People read them and divine deep meanings that inspire media ruminations for the next week, that they make in a brave attempt to inform rubes like me about important truths.
jl
@Steeplejack: thanks. that is better, and shows some respect for the TunchForce.
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
I apologize to kommrade reproductive vigor for coming home late from work and duplicating his post. Sigh. Fuck my life.
That's *Master* of Accountancy to You, Pal (JMN)
@Steeplejack:
It can’t possibly be more expensive than a combination of lymphoma and dental work.
Steeplejack
@Warren Terra:
I’ll give him a lifetime pass for (a) Dances with Wolves and (b) his acting job in Eastwood’s A Perfect World.
That's *Master* of Accountancy to You, Pal (JMN)
@Steeplejack: Thank you. The last paper has been turned in. The last exam has been graded. I’m done with school, which means that I’ve traded in 80% of my social life for a piece of paper. At least I no longer have to fork money over to the business school.