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Just Out of Curiosity

by John Cole|  August 21, 20121:00 am| 21 Comments

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Do any of you live in Charlotte and would you like some unexpected guests, say, around the first week of September?

Just asking….

*** Update ***

Never mind. I made command decisions.

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21Comments

  1. 1.

    Mark S.

    August 21, 2012 at 1:04 am

    John and the pets are taking a road trip!

  2. 2.

    David Koch

    August 21, 2012 at 1:07 am

    Why are the Steelers playing the Panthers?

  3. 3.

    Nom de Plume

    August 21, 2012 at 1:09 am

    If you’re asking three weeks in advance, that’s not unexpected.

  4. 4.

    JGabriel

    August 21, 2012 at 1:15 am

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    __
    Nom de Plume:

    If you’re asking three weeks in advance, that’s not unexpected.

    NO ONE EXPECTS THE … Cole retinue?

    .

  5. 5.

    dead existentialist

    August 21, 2012 at 1:16 am

    “Unexpected guests” wouldn’t be a SWAT team would it?

  6. 6.

    Mark S.

    August 21, 2012 at 1:16 am

    Turns out the FBI wasn’t that interested in who went skinny dipping in Sea of Galilee. One of the dumbasses on the trip didn’t report that afterwards he took a trip to Cyprus, paid for by a guy just arrested on federal corruption charges.

  7. 7.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    August 21, 2012 at 1:17 am

    Did you win one of those Obama campaign contests? Backstage with Barack or Sits With Fritz (ten dollar donors can sit next to Walter Mondale on the second night of the convention).

  8. 8.

    slag

    August 21, 2012 at 1:19 am

    @JGabriel:

    NO ONE EXPECTS THE … Cole retinue?

    Or the Balloon Juice Imposition.

  9. 9.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    August 21, 2012 at 1:19 am

    @Mark S.: Mark Halperin is flogging the “If there’s this much smoke, there must be a fire” horse. Which is fine with me if he wants to keep pimping this. Of course, I am sure the nudity aspect isn’t at all titillating to the Dick.

  10. 10.

    MoeLarryAndJesus

    August 21, 2012 at 2:03 am

    I guess advance notice is needed because of Tunch’s apnea monitor.

  11. 11.

    seaboogie

    August 21, 2012 at 2:04 am

    @slag: FTW!

  12. 12.

    Yutsano

    August 21, 2012 at 2:05 am

    @MoeLarryAndJesus: Think more insuring there are adequate ahi supplies flown in.

  13. 13.

    dance around in your bones

    August 21, 2012 at 2:11 am

    Only football the Steelers could make Cole break his general misanthropic tendencies.

    (Misanthropic tendencies would make a great name for a …… )

  14. 14.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    August 21, 2012 at 2:26 am

    You’re going to the Democratic convention?

  15. 15.

    dance around in your bones

    August 21, 2012 at 2:37 am

    @dance around in your bones:

    Oh, wait – this isn’t football related?

    Mormon Democrats to Gather at Charlotte Convention :

    Money quote:

    But the stigma of being a Democrat in Utah is so strong that the state Democratic chairman, Jim Dabakis, said he recently had this telling encounter: He was in rural Iron County meeting with a small group of Democrats, when a man came up to him after the meeting and mentioned that he was gay. Mr. Dabakis, who is gay himself, said, “That must be tough down here.”
    __
    The man said that it was, but not for the obvious reason. “I don’t tell anyone I’m gay,” the man told Mr. Dabakis, “because if I do, they’ll know I’m a Democrat.”

  16. 16.

    ABL

    August 21, 2012 at 2:45 am

    Somebody is going to end up dead.

  17. 17.

    hamletta

    August 21, 2012 at 2:48 am

    Aw, shit, Cole. I would love to have foisted you on my wingnut brother and his cray-cray wife.

  18. 18.

    Thoughtcrime

    August 21, 2012 at 2:54 am

    @The prophet Nostradumbass:

    You’re going to the Democratic convention?

    Cole is replacing Manchin.

  19. 19.

    freelancer

    August 21, 2012 at 3:07 am

    @ABL:

    Somebody’s going to emergency, somebody’s going to jail…

  20. 20.

    JGabriel

    August 21, 2012 at 3:24 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Mark Halperin is flogging the “If there’s this much smoke, there must be a fire” horse. Which is fine with me if he wants to keep pimping this.

    If these were Democrats instead of Republicans who got drunk and skinny-dipped (and probably peed) in the Sea of Galilee, we’d never hear the end of it. Thirty years from now, we’d still be hearing Sea of Galilee jokes, much like Republicans told Chappaquiddick jokes right up to the day Teddy Kennedy died, and for several months after.

    So I say we keep it in the news until Novemeber, at least.

    .

  21. 21.

    JGabriel

    August 21, 2012 at 3:26 am

    @dance around in your bones: LOL’d. That’s hilarious.

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