Re: Re-direction

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The orange and green really work well with the marble and granite or whatever.


Posted by: Eggplant | Link to this comment | 10-16-11 8:19 PM
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Which leg tasted better?


Posted by: Megan | Link to this comment | 10-16-11 8:21 PM
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Racist.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-16-11 8:21 PM
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Saved from Hick's scurrilous charge!


Posted by: Eggplant | Link to this comment | 10-16-11 8:24 PM
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I ate them simultaneously, like a proper Unfogged woman.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10-16-11 8:28 PM
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I demand these photos become enlargable so that we may evaluate your anatomical claims properly.

For science.


Posted by: Jimmy Pongo | Link to this comment | 10-16-11 8:29 PM
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4: You say "marble or granite or whatever" like you don't even see stone. Just conveniently forgetting who faced metamorphic pressures and who didn't.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-16-11 8:31 PM
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Eggplants and carrots have a long running rivalry.


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 10-16-11 8:34 PM
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Yeah, our house came with terrible granite all over the place. It seems a crime to get rid of such perfectly functional stuff. Also this particular color granite is amazing at hiding spills. I love this property and Jammies hates it.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10-16-11 8:35 PM
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Also this particular color granite is amazing at hiding spills.

I swear to god I initially misread "spills" as "syphillis".


Posted by: Sifu Tweety | Link to this comment | 10-16-11 8:37 PM
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Toilet seats spread syphilis, not counter tops.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-16-11 8:39 PM
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In class the other day, some student put their proof on the board, and it included the phrase "and so it is bounded", and I read "and so it is banned" and I spent a moment too long looking for the analogy in their proof. I am not even kidding.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10-16-11 8:40 PM
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A student group at the law school is hosting a lunchtime talk on ending the federal ban on marijuana. With what I assume from context is no intended irony, the email advertises "Free burritos! (Limited quantity, so get there early.)"


Posted by: Bave | Link to this comment | 10-16-11 8:43 PM
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OT: what the hell is it with Boardwalk Empire? How can a show that looks so good be so insanely mediocre?


Posted by: Robert Halford | Link to this comment | 10-16-11 9:53 PM
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They didn't bother spending money on writing and research? I was hoping that show would turn out to be good enough to be worth watching in a few years when it was on dvd/online. I guess not.


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 10-16-11 9:54 PM
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They spent a zillion dollars on research and the show has the best set decoration I've ever seen. And yet it is just somehow not very good.


Posted by: Robert Halford | Link to this comment | 10-16-11 9:59 PM
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|| Eloise Cobell passed away today. |>


Posted by: CharleyCarp | Link to this comment | 10-16-11 10:04 PM
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Elouise. Humanity is poorer this evening.


Posted by: CharleyCarp | Link to this comment | 10-16-11 10:06 PM
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I should have qualified that to mean social research. Unless they really did that too. I assume most of the research that goes into historical period stuff is more to get accurate sets and costumes and less about making compelling stories. Although the compelling stories part is more about imagination than anything else.


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 10-16-11 10:27 PM
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No, they did tons of social research. And got excellent writers. Yet, the show is boring.


Posted by: Robert Halford | Link to this comment | 10-16-11 10:30 PM
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Maybe Prohibition-era Atlantic City was just not as interesting as you would think.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 10-16-11 10:35 PM
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Toilet seats spread syphilis, not counter tops.

Depends if you put carrot pubes on them or not.


Posted by: Ginger Yellow | Link to this comment | 10-17-11 12:46 AM
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14:I think Boardwalk lacks a charismatic lead. Buscemi, Pitt, Shannon, MacDonald are all character actors and supporting players, and none are able to rise to the occasion (Gandolfini, Idris Elba) and carry the scenes.

I have seen all these in lead parts in movies, and the movies all seem kinda small and a little flat. Which is fine in smaller movies and indies but doesn't lift this to where it wants to be.


Posted by: bob mcmanus | Link to this comment | 10-17-11 12:54 AM
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Toilet seats spread syphilis, not counter tops.

If only you had told me this yesterday, I would've had sex in the kitchen instead of in the bathroom.


Posted by: wink ;) | Link to this comment | 10-17-11 1:06 AM
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So this is the read erection thread?

I ban myself with extreme racism prejudice.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 10-17-11 7:49 AM
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Awesome.


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 10-17-11 8:00 AM
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Toilet seats spread syphilis, not counter tops.

Toilet seats spread syphilis and counter tops.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 10-17-11 8:20 AM
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Oh man there's nothing worse than using a public toilet and ending up with tacky granite all over your ass.


Posted by: Sifu Tweety | Link to this comment | 10-17-11 8:24 AM
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The Overton Window at work?


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 10-17-11 8:38 AM
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Overton Window
Oh lord, we don't need another fight on the blog.


Posted by: Eggplant | Link to this comment | 10-17-11 8:41 AM
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I don't know what it should be called or how it should be conceptualized, but it seems undeniable that OWS is doing something to political discourse.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 10-17-11 8:54 AM
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30: Then don't fight! Seems pretty obvious that the, ahem, parameters of debate have been expanded in a useful direction. Moreover, this change was the result of deliberate, direct action that was designed to do what it did. If this doesn't fit the definition of "Overton Window," it's hard to see what would.


Posted by: politicalfootball | Link to this comment | 10-17-11 10:18 AM
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Who's fighting? I'm not fighting. Why would you accuse me of fighting?


Posted by: Eggplant | Link to this comment | 10-17-11 10:27 AM
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But yeah, I agree. Yglesias had a nice post about how OWS had become a means to introduce bits of reality and left wing viewpoints into the mainstream.


Posted by: Eggplant | Link to this comment | 10-17-11 10:29 AM
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our house came with terrible granite all over the place

Well, that's going to keep me up at night.


Posted by: Merganser | Link to this comment | 10-17-11 11:13 AM
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Oh good fucking Christ. Of course it fits within the stupid "Overton Window" non-social science concept, because the concept is a moronic catchphrase for morons and can be used to mean anything or nothing.


Posted by: Robert Halford | Link to this comment | 10-17-11 11:15 AM
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And sure, 34 is right. That's what successful social and protest movements do.


Posted by: Robert Halford | Link to this comment | 10-17-11 11:16 AM
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The Overton Window comes with semen of granite to destroy us all.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-17-11 11:18 AM
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29: "Too Few Have Too Much", so, what, more ought to have too much?


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 10-17-11 11:19 AM
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If enough people have too much eventually the average person will have enough.


Posted by: Sifu Tweety | Link to this comment | 10-17-11 11:21 AM
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Well, the mean person might have enough, though there may not actually be any such people.

On the other hand, if there were no mean people, that would be fantastic!


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 10-17-11 11:26 AM
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Well, right. The other solution would be for him to advocate that the same number with too much attempt to acquire much too much, but perhaps that's phase two once his current plan gets shouted down.


Posted by: Sifu Tweety | Link to this comment | 10-17-11 11:30 AM
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Your mother is average.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 10-17-11 11:30 AM
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Your mother is average.

1% of your mother controls 40% of the nation's lipids.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 10-17-11 11:33 AM
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Your mother is the 99%, all by herself.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 10-17-11 11:36 AM
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I'm occupying your mom right now.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 10-17-11 11:44 AM
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What are you protesting?


Posted by: urple | Link to this comment | 10-17-11 11:52 AM
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THE PEOPOE UNITED
WILL NEVER GET INSIDE IT


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 10-17-11 11:54 AM
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That's silly.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 10-17-11 11:54 AM
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And no more FTL neutrinos: looks like it was measurement error after all.

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Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 10-17-11 4:33 PM
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50: There have been about a billion of these explanations floated. It's a little premature to say this is the one, since it depends on whether the original scientists took this effect into account or not.


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 10-17-11 4:41 PM
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Here's a skeptical take on the proposed explanation.


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 10-17-11 4:43 PM
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I don't know what you Boardwalk Empire bitchers are talking about. The show is good! And it does too have charismatic leads! They're called Michael Pitt's lips. (swoon) And Michael Shannon's lack of lips. (recoil) And it has Omar back when he was running booze before he started robbing drug dealers! C'mon!

The only thing I don't like about the show is that it's had some obviously anachronistic expressions in the script now and then (Steve Buscemi: "What's THAT all about?") And as much as I like Buscemi, I think he's over-reliant on that little grimacey-face he makes all the time.


Posted by: piminnowcheez | Link to this comment | 10-17-11 7:29 PM
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