I want to think that if I dig enough, I'll end up in a jolly foreign place, and they will greet me "hail good fellow!" in their nonsense tongue, and we will do jolly nonsensical things, and eat things that shouldn't be eaten. All this will be performed upside-down, and I'll have a swell time until my mom calls me for dinner, through the tunnel.
The Italian was in his car, thankfully. Iranians don't seem to believe in personal space, but I'm thoroughly westernized in this regard. I need about a baseball bat swing's worth of space in all directions at all times.
In a line or queue at a store or bank, Americans leave between a foot and a half and four feet (.5-1.3 meters) between themselves and the person ahead of them.
Probably formed similiarly to a baseball bat, but quite a bit smaller. With "Qum Slugger" engraved on the side, after the holy city of Iranian baseball.
Back to the original topic, I think that same guy tried to sell me those suits, but in Dublin. And the following day, a popular radio call-in show was full of encounters with him. Now that I know of ogged's new and great powers, I suspect he summoned up the Italian (from Italy) guy.
#42: No, he didn't. But I think your question raises another: are female commenters (like Swedes before them) going to be distraught if ogged comes to their city and refuses to have sex with them? I, for one, think this place would be far poorer without the CwO, and thus believe that ogged must, for the good of Unfogged, either (a) disguise his whereabouts at all times, or (b) promise to have sex with any CwO who so desires it.
Apparently they are all thin waisted, gigantic breasted, atheletic women with doctorates in nuclear physics, so a little lack of confidence is understandable.
Oh, come now, wolfson, did he or did he not give you cancer by injection? I refer to the Wizard Cocksucker post, but I can't remember how to hyperlink it.
Didn't the overall's and the red hat with a big M prove that he was Italian?
Posted by tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 2:57 PM
and the luxurious moustachio
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 3:01 PM
So what are Italians the opposite of?
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 3:05 PM
Scandanavians?
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 3:06 PM
Chinese.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 3:07 PM
The first episode of X-files is on Sci-fi right now, I've never seen it before.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 3:08 PM
I asked my Chinese cubemate where she dug holes to growing up.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 3:09 PM
And?
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 3:10 PM
America. That's kind of a nice symmetry among the youth of our nations.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 3:11 PM
I need to find out where Iranian kids dig to. Probably some sensitive nuclear site near a large population center.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 3:15 PM
See various Antipodes.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 3:20 PM
It is the Chileans who've been digging to China all this time! They too (the Chileans) have luxurious moustachios. Coincidence?
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 3:28 PM
There really isn't very much overlap. Most places, if you dig, you just end up in the ocean somewhere.
That makes me sad and lonely, moreso than the vast desolate expanse of the universe and all that.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 3:29 PM
They too (the Chileans) have luxurious moustachios.
They are each other's opposites; an eternal return. Quick, someone do some Photoshopping and Labs can post it.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 3:29 PM
text, if you're going to get all literal, you might want to worry about that molten core.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 3:31 PM
Does this explain Nixon's geopolitics? Only Nixon could go to China, but only the Chileans could dig to China. Therefore...
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 3:32 PM
I want to think that if I dig enough, I'll end up in a jolly foreign place, and they will greet me "hail good fellow!" in their nonsense tongue, and we will do jolly nonsensical things, and eat things that shouldn't be eaten. All this will be performed upside-down, and I'll have a swell time until my mom calls me for dinner, through the tunnel.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 3:32 PM
that molten core
Nuts to that, it's full of art.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 3:33 PM
now where's my spoon?
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 3:33 PM
only the Chileans could dig to China. Therefore...
Holy moley! Henry Kissinger's got some 'splaining to do.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 3:34 PM
Did you buy the suits? Also, did the Italian encroach upon your personal space? I don't know what the Persian rules are about personal space.
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 3:38 PM
The Italian was in his car, thankfully. Iranians don't seem to believe in personal space, but I'm thoroughly westernized in this regard. I need about a baseball bat swing's worth of space in all directions at all times.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 3:41 PM
I'm thoroughly westernized in this regard. I need about a baseball bat swing's worth of space
I think this makes you ultra-Westernized:
It must be true, there are numbers.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 3:47 PM
I need about a baseball bat swing's worth of space in all directions at all times.
This probably explains why you're having trouble resetting your TiVo...
Posted by mike d | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 3:53 PM
According to Auden, the British only need about a foot:
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 3:53 PM
I need about a baseball bat swing's worth of space in all directions at all times..
That's all times.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 3:53 PM
So you're saying you bought the suits.
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 3:55 PM
I chose my words carefully, Mr. Weiner. It hasn't kept me from getting my schwerve on in the past, however. IYKWIM.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 3:57 PM
Is that a schwarma inflected "getting my swerve on"?
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 3:59 PM
It has to be "shwerve" "schwerve." It can't be "swerve."
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 4:01 PM
Read yer David Hume, Ogged. Past game is not necessarily indication of future game.
(Apropos of nothing, isn't Becks in D.C. some of the time?)
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 4:03 PM
And shwarma is an Arab food, bigot.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 4:03 PM
isn't Becks in D.C. some of the time?
Maybe, but I have an incompatible prior engagement.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 4:06 PM
Oh, I see. The baseball bat.... represents something.
I would prefer to be well over a baseball bat away from Mr. Ogged, thank you.
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 4:07 PM
Probably formed similiarly to a baseball bat, but quite a bit smaller. With "Qum Slugger" engraved on the side, after the holy city of Iranian baseball.
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 4:09 PM
"Qum Slugger" is awesome John, and buys you a few more frivolous posts.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 4:13 PM
33: *bangs head against wall*
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 4:15 PM
Re 25: LB, what poem is that from?
Posted by bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 4:17 PM
Shiraz... Hormuz... Tabriz... Kerman....
It took hours. Teh Ran would have been too obvious, of course.
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 4:19 PM
Re: 38
I think that's the whole thing -- can't remember the title offhand.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 4:21 PM
37: Can I really give you brain damage by not dating? This is a new and great power.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 4:22 PM
Did ogged claim, in 33, that he is so irresistible that if he were simply to meet Becks he would no longer be single?
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 4:31 PM
You, washerdreyer, clearly DNWIM.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 4:35 PM
Back to the original topic, I think that same guy tried to sell me those suits, but in Dublin. And the following day, a popular radio call-in show was full of encounters with him. Now that I know of ogged's new and great powers, I suspect he summoned up the Italian (from Italy) guy.
Posted by peter snees | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 4:35 PM
#42: No, he didn't. But I think your question raises another: are female commenters (like Swedes before them) going to be distraught if ogged comes to their city and refuses to have sex with them? I, for one, think this place would be far poorer without the CwO, and thus believe that ogged must, for the good of Unfogged, either (a) disguise his whereabouts at all times, or (b) promise to have sex with any CwO who so desires it.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 4:38 PM
Fortunately, that should be an easy promise to keep.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 4:42 PM
Ben, I'm sorry I gave you cancer.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 4:45 PM
I hate to say it, but in the 46-47 exchange, I give the round to Wolfson on points. I think he cut you, ogged.
Posted by peter snees | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 4:53 PM
Ogged convicted himself. For all he knows I meant that all the female commenters here are highly attractive, don't squeak, etc.
Confidence, ogged. You've got to have confidence.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 4:58 PM
Oh, he knows what you meant Wolfson. Our Persian friend is nothing if not clever when it comes to perceiving slights.
Posted by peter snees | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 5:02 PM
Apparently they are all thin waisted, gigantic breasted, atheletic women with doctorates in nuclear physics, so a little lack of confidence is understandable.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 5:04 PM
The mystery is why Ben takes my 47 to be hostile.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 5:04 PM
I think you dropped a decimal point.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 5:09 PM
No, he just forgot the unit of measurement (millimeters).
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 5:10 PM
This is really not your best work, guys. Despite being tag-teamed, I'm not feeling a thing.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 5:12 PM
Sorry, wolfson, but the answer is not responsive. We journalists call that a non-denial denial.
On a happier note, did you hear Scott McClellan may be contemplating retirement? Maybe there's gaggling in your future.
Posted by peter snees | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 5:12 PM
Re #55, perhaps that's because we haven't had the free time to work on our Larry David impressions, perfect our goggle tans and not get laid.
Posted by peter snees | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 5:14 PM
Despite being tag-teamed, I'm not feeling a thing.
His junk is so numb he can't tell if he's laid / Is it the booze or 'cause his bozack is flayed?
Snees, I can't tell what you're talking about in 56.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 5:14 PM
Oh, come now, wolfson, did he or did he not give you cancer by injection? I refer to the Wizard Cocksucker post, but I can't remember how to hyperlink it.
Posted by peter snees | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 5:18 PM
58: Ok, now I'm pwned.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 5:20 PM
I told you you were cut, ogged. You were bleeding, man, and I tried to help, but you were too proud to listen.
Posted by peter snees | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 5:26 PM
Luxurious mustachios?
Posted by neil | Link to this comment | 11-17-05 8:27 AM