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Nice to see you back KK, did you get a new tattoo or is that just the mark of MattP's boot heel on your neck? Anyone ever tell you that you look cute with crow feathers on your lips?

Nancy Reagan blows goats. She's gotten as much respect as she's due, though perhaps not enough for running Ronnie through his final Alzheimer presidential years. Betty Ford gets sucked up to way too much too, if you ask me. I guess Nancy just relied on astrologers for advice, not seances. Personally, I prefer consulting sheep entrails, something I'll be doing tomorrow. Apparently it was Hillary Clinton who held a seance in the White House, trying to contact Eleanor Roosevelt. Pundits think Obama confused the two first ladies, but I think it's equally likely he knew exactly what he was doing.

Here's the Cromwell bit from Wikipedia, his skull was on display for 24 years:

Actually, Cromwell wasn't "unseated": he died of natural causes. It was Cromwell who unseated Charles I, and then beheaded him. I'm not sure if Charles' head was displayed on a stake afterwards, although it was a common practice. Some years after Cromwell's death, when the monarchy was restored, the Royalists dug up Cromwell's skeleton and symbolically "hanged" him for regicide. Thanks for the history refresher, I must be blurring Cromwell's coming and going stories, coupled with a mental image from some novel of Cromwell's skull on a pike high over London. Certainly a wild time in British history, one I'd not choose to see repeated here. I guess the moral of that story is that the pendulum does swing, doesn't it?

I don't want to hear anything about your fantasies of Palin on your pink stake! Ick!

He promised no such thing, it was a wager he offered that NO ONE TOOK HIM UP ON. Besides, it would be a much duller website without Fairweather around, I'd really miss him.

Not all extinct species should be revived...

I'm glad that a head on a stake is an unlikely option in our current government system, unlike when Cromwell was unseated.

Here's a little help for getting those crow feathers out of your teeth after tonight's meal.

Yeah, I hate having my thing banging around my kneecaps.

Raisin McCain!

Regardless of the outcome, the sheer volume of the turnout suggests that it's a great day for the US. Not only that, but the sun was shining while I was sign waving on the street corner today. Even Sarah Palin's god couldn't promise to deliver that kind of sugar.

Hear hear! So, our new motto should be: "The United States: not quite as fucked up as China." Yeah, Americans stand proud! Bill, I hope you expect more from your children than you seem to expect from your country.

I put some Nokian Hakkapeliitta link on my Vanagon just for the Finnish spelling fun factor. Actually, the Vanagon's a tall somewhat heavy breadbox, and these tires have really stiff sidewalls that help prevent that squishy cornering feel. They've been really swell in the snow as well, not surprising that the Finns would excel in that regard. These might be overkill for your minivan.

So last week! Okay, so Arizona is in it's own timezone...

Well, with just three of us it was more out with a whimper than a bang, but what a swell year. Thanks all ya'll for playing, maybe some more of you cubicle monkeys will come next year. I'll be sending out notices to the email list as things periodically dry throughout the winter, but this thread is unstickied for the duration.

What, is Lycra making a comeback?

Here's a few of my old buddy, still very much in active use, so it's not actually part of a "collection"

Link Sorry it's a link, but Youtube took it down as a violation of terms. It's a pretty gadzooks gutwrenching swinging the happy baby around video, can't hardly imagine it's for real! Makes my elbows and rotater cuffs hurt.

Absolutely, and it's often very entertaining. I've noticed that you always attribute what your sources are, its the first person narrative offered up without qualification that irks me.

There, see? Bug makes his points without the slander, and very nicely done I might add.

I think Ivan's hit the nail on the head. It does go both ways, and you're certainly welcome to engage in name calling (in Spray anyway), but unless it's spectacularly inventive and very clever it doesn't do much to make a case. It's all mostly internet masturbation anyway, I don't know that anyone's opinion is ever changed by one of these brouhahas. I never thought I'd be so eager to have an election over with so we can go back to arguing about bolts.

Latte just keeps going and going...

Ah Lars, you're fine example of your political subset. It's a clever bit, it made me smile, but you neither did it nor wrote it, you simply cut and pasted an endlessly plagiarized story circulating around the web and passed it off as your own experience. Sort of like Ronnie Reagan and the mythical Cadillac driving welfare queen who never existed.

I confess I'm weak on my Nietzsche, though I've always been fond of Goethe's quip "what doesn't kill me makes me stronger." I've always thought he should be the patron saint of alpinism. So, you're saying Fred wanted to do away with religion? Well hell, sign me up! If by Celtic you mean Norweigan, reivers who had their fair share of influence on those northern isles, then yes, I suppose I am, but not in any woo woo kind of way.