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Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :

If you've already voted, go watch it. If you haven't voted, what are you doing reading this? Go vote!

[Smile]

Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :

I'm watching it. [Smile]

[ November 02, 2004, 10:06 PM: Message edited by: mr_porteiro_head ]

Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :

Good stuff. I, too, am watching it. [Big Grin]

And I'm not even American. [Razz]

Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :

I feel vaguely offended that you are deriving pleasure from our misery.

But, of course, it's OK when I do it. [Wink]

[ November 02, 2004, 10:09 PM: Message edited by: mr_porteiro_head ]

Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :

*sigh* One of the few times I wish I had a TV. And, of course, cable.

Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :

I'm watching it also.

::glad that he recently got cable::

[ November 02, 2004, 10:12 PM: Message edited by: Noemon ]

Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :

quote:
*sigh* One of the few times I wish I had a TV. And, of course, cable.

Can't you steal both of those?

Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :

Nooooooo! WTF is going on with the broadcast?!? *shakes fist at CTV*

Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :

<-- Fine, upstanding citizen. I don't steal.

Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :

Okay, "borrow".

Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :

How upstanding an American can you be if you don't have a TV?

Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :

And how, exactly, am I supposed to return cable?

Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :

By disconnecting it when you're done borrowing it?

Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :

*sniff* Sounds like situational ethics to me. [Wink]

Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :

And?

[Big Grin]

Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :

[Roll Eyes]

You got your broadcast back yet?

Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :

Ouch, the rolleyes. That hurts me. [Razz]

But re: ethics... well. I have views about what's right and wrong, but my assessment of rightness and wrongess does vary with changing circumstances, so I suppose it isn't unfair to call me a situational ethicist.

Yeah, it's back. Jon Stewart is a funny, funny man. [Big Grin]

Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :

(shhhhh, mee too. But it's not as funny that way.)

And with no Jon Stewart, I will just sit here and obsessively hit refresh on the multiple browser windows I've got going...

Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :

(Right. Okay. *keeps quiet*)

"When you vote [on an electronic voting machine], motorcyclists inside the computer carry your vote to the Bush or Kerry part of the grid..." (Cue footage from Tron.)

[Big Grin]

Posted by Sara Sasse (Member # 6804) on :

Ewww on the E coli and yeast.

Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :

Indeed.

Also, you're getting dangerously close to the big 1k, there, ElJay.

...and... "Tell the story again, only this time you're wearing a short skirt." Bwahahahaha! [Big Grin]

... "If voting is totally safe, then lick the curtain." [Eek!]

Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :

...hmmmm?

You notice Sara registered this name three months after I joined and is already at 1326? Someone's talkative... [Wink]

[ November 02, 2004, 10:43 PM: Message edited by: ElJay ]

Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :

quote:
"If voting is totally safe, then lick the curtain."

Isn't that what Tarkin said to Leia?

[ November 02, 2004, 10:43 PM: Message edited by: Noemon ]

Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :

Well, Sara is Sara. [Smile]

The snippets are just funny things I've been hearing folks say on The Daily Show.

Noemon, I'm not up enough on my Star Wars. [Razz]

Posted by Glaphyra the Righteous (Member # 6995) on :

All life is an illusion, ElJay. I never knew so young a body with so old a head.

Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :

I was hmmm-ing the 1k comment, actually. So what? [Smile]

I appreciate the snippets, they're funny.

Glaphyra, I'm confused. But that's okay, it's a state I'm comfortable in.

Posted by Defenestraitor (Member # 6907) on :

ElJay, I feel your pain. Daily Show just wasn't enough reason for me to get cable, either. Alas, I'm refreshing browser windows just like you. And NPR just isn't that funny. [Frown]

Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :

Wow, so far all of the gay marriage bans have passed.

Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :

"Who am I if not not you, fatty?"

Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :

Also, I'm just curious to see if/what you'll landmark. [Smile]

Posted by HonoreDB (Member # 1214) on :

That is the classic line, right there. *thinking of watching the encore just to get more*

Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :

You probably didn't get it because it was a really lame comment twinky. If I weren't feeling sleep deprived it probably wouldn't even have occurred to me.

Posted by Glaphyra the Righteous (Member # 6995) on :

The gay marriage bans were what I expected. But kudos to Canada.

ElJay, you only think I have accumulated that many votes. These are not my droids.

Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :

Well, I'm also braindead from fatigue. [Razz]

Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :

Hm, now the Daily Show is over. Sex and the City is on. I've never watched it. Should I bother?

Posted by Toretha (Member # 2233) on :

I have cable but no tv...very depressing.

Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :

quote:
Also, I'm just curious to see if/what you'll landmark.

Ah, okay. Then you can have a sneak preview: Landmark. And that's all I intend to say.

Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :

*laughs*

I've said this before, but you crack me up. [Big Grin]

Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :

Thank you.

Man, at this rate I am gonna hit 1000 soon. Busy couple of days. And now I can't go to bed until there's some semblance of a decision...

Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :

I love Jon Stewart. That special was one of the funnier pieces I've seen recently.

Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :

Being non-American, I can. [Razz]

*goes to bed*

Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :

[Grumble]

Canadians. Hmpf.

(Edit: I tried three times to put a don't you know the world revolves around america joke in there, but no matter how I tried it just wasn't funny.)

[ November 02, 2004, 11:39 PM: Message edited by: ElJay ]

Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :

The truth hurts.

Posted by MaydayDesiax (Member # 5012) on :

Aw, Anna, you should have come over to our room and watched it! It was great.

And Bernard just asked if I would mind if he started looking into grad colleges out of the country. [Angst]

Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :

Good point, MayDay! Go Bush! If he wins maybe all those liberal elite that I hear people complaining about will finally move to Canada. We'll be more than happy to take your doctors, professors, and researchers in all areas. Go Bush Brain Drain! [Razz]

Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :

Edited 'cause I couldn't even say that and feel right about it. Nevermind.

[ November 03, 2004, 12:06 AM: Message edited by: ElJay ]

Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :

"We'll be more than happy to take your doctors, professors, and researchers in all areas."

What do you pay?

Posted by MaydayDesiax (Member # 5012) on :

::nods::