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Once I heard Bill Maher opine that Glenn Beck was 'very close to playing with his poop' and tumbled to the fact that it wasn't a compliment, I put the thought behind me. Not everyone has been happy with my decision.

This too shall pass

After a deflategatory beginning, Ben kept it up for the rest of our time together.

Callipygian, thanks for the post! I was waffling on Mr. Turner and this makes it a lock. Will also keep an eye out for the Kray Brothers. According to the linked article, the ten-minute-younger one was alleged to have had an affair with Lord Boothby, which the BBC confirmed in a documentary they called The Gangster and the Perverted Peer. (I expect the program, like the trailer, is not for the faint of heart. ) Pope sounds like a really good story teller and if he doesn't manage to work some poop into a paranoid poof story, I don't think he's trying.

Hive off the ability to annoy others and there goes half your market for recreational marijuana. Or for recreational alcohol. Or, for that matter, recreational anything else.

Gentlemen! Where are your standards?? They bake from a mix for goodness sake.

Sounds like a piece of cake!

As long as he didn't lose any of your things.

“It’s fairly safe to say that we haven’t seen conditions in the past similar to ones we see today and there is strong evidence that there [are] tipping points we don’t want to cross,” Steffen said. “If the Earth is going to move to a warmer state, 5-6C warmer, with no ice caps, it will do so and that won’t be good for large mammals like us. People say the world is robust and that’s true, there will be life on Earth, but the Earth won’t be robust for us. “Some people say we can adapt due to technology, but that’s a belief system, it’s not based on fact. There is no convincing evidence that a large mammal, with a core body temperature of 37C, will be able to evolve that quickly. Insects can, but humans can’t and that’s a problem.” Steffen said the research showed the economic system was “fundamentally flawed” as it ignored critically important life support systems. “It’s clear the economic system is driving us towards an unsustainable future and people of my daughter’s generation will find it increasingly hard to survive,” he said. “History has shown that civilisations have risen, stuck to their core values and then collapsed because they didn’t change. That’s where we are today.” Yikes!

How nice! And many thanks, but there's no way my funny bone would get tickled nearly so often were it not for all the merry members OZ has lured here. You folks have created a delightful little getaway, and it's always a treat to see who's around and what they're up to. Must confess though, my first quick read of the thread title was Honey Wagon, and I came in expecting to jump on a little something from AdamSmith.

I'm smiling for the both of us!

Much obliged, as I had missed it entirely.

While it might have been good PR, I'm not sure Obama's presence would have changed much and his security arrangements may even have influenced who else could have attended. I think Biden's presence would have helped, and Holder should definitely have participated since he was already there. But PR concerns have a way of backfiring. Apparently, Netanyahu muscled his way in once he learned that two of his political rivals would be attending. After failing to discourage Netanyahu from coming, Hollande felt compelled to invite Abbas. Bibi further upset the French by using the occasion to encourage French Jews to move to Israel. All of this political jostling and Monday morning quarterbacking does little, in my opinion, to send the message that needs sending. I'd much rather have seen a dozen leaders from the Middle East heading the procession, and am surprised that more folks aren't focused on that missed opportunity.

Well, based on the before-and-after in AdamSmith's linked article, they appear to have done all you say and shrunk his head as well. If you ask me, whoever does CK's Photoshopping should pull in at least as much as JB did. In fact, if they're any good at airbrushing liver spots, I'd do their next one for half his rate.

Thanks, guys, for the tip! At first, I was reading 'arugala' which is not one of my faves. Googling 'rugalah', on the other hand, offers up a recipe with butter, cream cheese, and brown sugar. Suddenly, my inner baleboste is stirring.

As, apparently, does Mr. Bieber's. Once upon a time, the FTC used to be all over false claims made by advertisers. One of the earliest I recall was Campbell's whose ad agency put marbles in the soup so the vegetables would float to the top and appear more abundant than they actually were. As I'm not planning to purchase any CK skivvies in order to look packed, I doubt I'd have any standing in a lawsuit. But I would consider filing a friend-of-the-court brief if I could ever get close enough to qualify as an expert witness.

Oh, my! Somebody slipped me a mickey!

Please tell Ensign Hito to stay out of my closet

Something tells me it ends up great and swell, with perhaps a detour through the Great Wind Chest.

Two big dicks, Two big dicks. See how they grow, See how they grow. They both came after the farmer's boy, Who let out a gasp as he jumped for joy, And ran to the workshop to make a new toy, With two big dicks.

Perhaps they were busy tearing up his winning lottery tickets.

Remember, I merely thought that's what he said. The fiction of his diction left much to the imagination. Not sure if I had heard correctly, I tried saying 'lonely' versus 'lowly' out loud and was amazed by how small a shift in tongue placement is required to switch from one word to the other. Not to further divert this august thread away from the Dowager Countess, but Julian Fellowes seems to have enough good lines to go around. Some that had me laughing out loud this weekend were bestowed on Lady Mary and Charles Blake, and on Carson the butler. First, after saving the recently acquired pigs from dehydration, Blake and Lady Mary devolve into a mud fight. What do I look like? You belong in Country Life. "Lady Mary Crawley, seen here to advantage relaxing at the family seat in Yorkshire." Then, after pressing Ethan, Harold Levinson's American valet, into service at Lady Rose's ball, Carson catches him actively and vocally pushing savories onto passing guests. You're a footman, not a traveling salesman. That's probably why I can watch these episodes again and again. Always something I missed the first time.

Well, seeing as it's creeping up on 9:47am PST, and this opportunity won't arise every day, I figure I might as well give it a try and see what happens. Edit: Drat! I thought I was going to stay airborne the full three seconds when I remembered my fallen arches.

According to this article, you may have fallen for your first Twitter hoax. Still, no reason to take any unnecessary chances.

Watched this episode last night and I believe the self-deprecating Lord Aysgarth said "lowly barony" although, like many in the British upper classes, his mouth was full of pebbles and it was hard to tell. He may have been lonely as well, but lowly fits the facts nicely with a Baron being at the bottom of the peerage pecking order. And, according to this Wikipedia article, it's the age of the title, rather than the title itself, that determines heritability. The older titles do descend through females while the more recently created ones don't. Perhaps some of our nobler fellow posters will weigh in if I've fumbled this folderol. I've been so common for so long, it's more than a possibility.