Only one problem, I don't see any monkeys! I'm sure it was an unintentional oversight. Right?
Posted by: ana on March 18, 2003 06:48 AMIs it OK not to be peaceful in regard to the damn server? Post.
Posted by: ana on March 18, 2003 06:52 AMNot to be picky, but "ideology" is misspelled.
And while I don't personally agree with the sentiment (unfortunately I don't believe the opposite of this war is peace) kudos to jpo for actually doing something in furtherance of his convictions.
Posted by: pardon me on March 18, 2003 09:20 AMI'm proud of ye lupo. It's a great idea and a very nice site design, IMO.
Posted by: ufez on March 18, 2003 09:31 AMI have no doubts that your hearts are in the right place, but I will not be participating.
Posted by: jonmc on March 18, 2003 09:39 AMThanks for your words of support..and proofreading help.
Posted by: jpoulos on March 18, 2003 10:15 AMAlso, for those who've already signed up, there's normally a process where you get an email that you have to respond to before your site appears. If you didn't get that email, let me know.
But since I know it's you, and in an effort get more than my lonely blog up there, I've marked you as "confirmed" and put your blogs up.
Thanks again.
Posted by: jpoulos on March 18, 2003 10:21 AMThanks for the confirmation, but I haven't received said e-mail yet.
Posted by: ufez on March 18, 2003 10:23 AMI, too, support Lupo's activism while disagreeing with what he says. Best wishes for success, my friend.
Posted by: Fes on March 18, 2003 10:27 AMLupo, you should add Stand Down to your list of links.
Posted by: whatnot on March 18, 2003 10:34 AMLupo, you should add Stand Down to your list of links.
Posted by: whatnot on March 18, 2003 10:35 AMProtest, shmotest, I have the solution to this crisis:

Brutal, yes, but war is hell.
Posted by: jonmc on March 18, 2003 11:08 AM1:42 A.M.?
Omigod, I'm so sure.
I was spreadn' the word at 12:38 A.M.
It's barely even hip anymore. I'm so over this scene. Let them invade France, or whatever, it's good for the economy anyway.
They'd totally stone Justin for not covering up like a proper woman should.
Posted by: dong resin on March 18, 2003 11:14 AMPlus, we can't defend freedom abroad when our precious freedom at home is being taken away....
Posted by: jonmc on March 18, 2003 11:15 AMFuck man, some days you just wake up all valleygirl, y'know?
Posted by: dong resin on March 18, 2003 11:16 AMMe like. I signed up on my way out the door, and am about to check ye ol' e-mail.
Posted by: adampsyche on March 18, 2003 11:35 AMBesides, I had a customer call in today to cancel a system I ordered her Friday, and she explicitly stated Bush's speech last night and the Upcoming War as reason to cancel the order. I told her that the terrorists were winning because of her, but the rich ol' lady didn't believe me.
Posted by: adampsyche on March 18, 2003 11:36 AMI have an offer in on our First House™ today. What a time.
Posted by: kaf on March 18, 2003 11:39 AMI added my blog as well. Good work, Lupo. Consider yourself applauded.
And jonmc, think that no porno in cars is a dumb law, these other things are also illegal in Tennessee:
-You can't shoot any game other than whales from a moving automobile.
-Hollow logs may not be sold.
-It is illegal to use a lasso to catch a fish.
-Giving and receiving oral sex is still prohibited by law.
-No Christian parent may require their children to pick up trash from the highway on Easter day.
-You may not have more than five inoperable vehicles on a piece of property.
-And in Oneida, TN an ordinance forbids anyone to sing the song "It Ain't Goin' To Rain No Mo'."
And there's that whole "No Triple Homicide" thing. What's up with that?
Posted by: kaf on March 18, 2003 11:43 AMI support Lupo's activism and agree with what he says. Now if I only had a blog, I'd get with the program. But since I don't, I'll spread the word to the blogs I read.
And I'm getting a tattoo of his name on my inner thigh.
Posted by: tizzie on March 18, 2003 11:46 AMin Oneida, TN an ordinance forbids anyone to sing the song "It Ain't Goin' To Rain No Mo'."
Well, that one I can live with.
Giving and receiving oral sex is still prohibited by law.
I say some civil disobedience is in order. Who's with me?
Posted by: jonmc on March 18, 2003 11:46 AMNice! Looking for our First Dwelling later this year.
Posted by: adampsyche on March 18, 2003 11:47 AMAll day long, whenever anyone in the office uses the word "war", I immediately grunt and say, "Good gawd y'all! What is it good for?"
So far, no one else has supplied the "Absolutely nothing" or the "Say it again."
Posted by: ColdChef on March 18, 2003 11:47 AMSo far, no one else has supplied the "Absolutely nothing" or the "Say it again."
Heh. I have been teaching my son that routine for the last week. He thinks it's hilarious. We had each other cracked up last night, spinnning lettuce in the salad spinner and gettin' funky with the Edwin Starr.
Posted by: tizzie on March 18, 2003 11:53 AMTsk. Torturing your poor lettuce like that. You can break the leaf, but you cannot break the spirit!
Posted by: adampsyche on March 18, 2003 11:58 AMCan I still lasso a whale from a moving car on Easter Day and give it oral sex in Tennessee? Is that still legal?
Posted by: ColdChef on March 18, 2003 11:59 AMMy fellow citizens! Although I may disagree with what you suck, I will defend to the death your right to suck it!
Posted by: Fes on March 18, 2003 12:01 PMAlso illegal and somewhat risky: fellating humpbacks while riding mopeds.
Posted by: kaf on March 18, 2003 12:08 PMMopeds are always risky. People can hardly see you on those things.
Posted by: adampsyche on March 18, 2003 12:10 PMCunnilinguating an Orca on a unicycle, on the other hand? Peice of cake...
Posted by: jonmc on March 18, 2003 12:13 PMI saw a whale's ... ahem ... member, on the Discovery channel or some such pr0n site once, and I have not been the same since.
Posted by: tizzie on March 18, 2003 12:14 PMIs that why it only takes you 2 seconds to poot no matter what you eat, Britt?
Posted by: dong resin on March 18, 2003 12:18 PMBack in 1992 in his "Live in NYC" George Carlin had a monologue about the war (that war) in the Persian Gulf in which he said:"....Saddaam Hussein questioned the size of George Bush's dick ..."And now, 10 years later same Saddaam, another George Bush, same small dick!
It looks to be headed in the same basic direction...
Posted by: Cyrano on March 18, 2003 12:32 PM9622.net: A whale dick once forever changed me too.
9622.net: A whale dick once forever changed me too.
Posted by: cowboy_sally on March 18, 2003 12:56 PMLooks like some of us are on the same wavelength this morning. Or we took the same drugs.
Posted by: Crash on March 18, 2003 01:04 PMAs opposed to Wales dicks, which are commonly called "llyllycrchandyll"
Posted by: kaf on March 18, 2003 01:10 PMCan I declare a jihad on knish vendors who get waaaay to enthusiastic with the mustard. My whole face is safety yellow now.
Posted by: jonmc on March 18, 2003 01:40 PMjon: You've found a war I'm willing to join! Down with the French...
...'s Mustard!.
And thus began the Condiment War. It was brother against brother, mayonnaise against steak sauce in a brutal holocaust that left none unscathed.
Posted by: kaf on March 18, 2003 01:50 PMSpeaking of condiments, you know what's good? Wasabi flavored GourMayo.
Posted by: ColdChef on March 18, 2003 01:53 PMI'm conducting my own internal pogrom against salsa and its erstwhile allies, the sliced jalapenos.
War IS hell, gentlemen!
Posted by: Fes on March 18, 2003 02:17 PMWelsh dicks are not disappointing, viz. Tom Jones and my ex.
Posted by: cowboy_sally on March 18, 2003 02:17 PMHey, we were talking about mayonaisse, don't go dragging penises into our nice mayonaisse!
Posted by: jonmc on March 18, 2003 02:24 PMHey, we were talking about mayonaisse, don't go dragging penises into our nice mayonaisse!
Ticket To Ride, mutherfucker.
Posted by: jonmc on March 18, 2003 02:26 PMMy dad was Welsh, so my genitals are only half disappointing.
Posted by: kaf on March 18, 2003 02:28 PM9622.net: fellating humpbacks while riding mopeds.
Oh, my, what a day. Many thanks to kaf for the thread here, and to liam for the shoutout in Mefi. I set it up so that whenever someone signs up for PeaceBlogs, I get a text message on my phone. And, thus, a loud beep. I'm getting staplers and such hurled at me by my officemates.
It looks like I'm spending the rest of the day tweaking my little site and fixing the problems that the traffic has exposed.
Posted by: jpoulos on March 18, 2003 02:34 PMWelsh dicks are not disappointing
Cowboy Sally, my hubby is Welsh too, you know.
Nod, nod, wink, wink, say no more!
My dad was Welsh, so my genitals are only half disappointing.
I find it interesting that you inherited half of your genitals from your mother.
Hermaphrodite - the new god(dess) of uncertainty
Posted by: witchstone on March 18, 2003 02:40 PMJpoulos, Good showing. Give yourself a pat on your back for being a-do-something. Fully give you the deserved credit for using your brains for your convictions which don't just include you.
Posted by: Thomcatspike on March 18, 2003 02:41 PMYes, back and I didn't consume nearly enough wine, cheese, croissants, or pain au chocolat, but after all, what can one say but "Ou est la bibliotheque?".
Posted by: witchstone on March 18, 2003 02:46 PMDid you at any point have to pretend to be from Canada?
Also,
" target="_blank">handy French phrases here.
I can't explain the email problem. I know that most of them have gone out. It's possible there was a server hiccup or something for a little while, but I haven't changed anything and it appears to be working now.
These here cumpooters is tricky.
I've tried unsuccessfully three times since last night to sign up with no joy yet, JPo.
Is it a hotmail thing, do you think?
I found jpo's email in my sorted junk mail.
Check there.
Posted by: brittney on March 18, 2003 03:39 PMAh. Bingo. Brittney nailed it for the slow boy.
.. does that sound like very cheap porn?
Posted by: dong resin on March 18, 2003 03:45 PMI didn't have to pretend to be Canadian and everyone was very gracious.
Picasso Museum & Rodin museum: thumbs up! They are both in former houses/mansions and both have far more art & information than one can assimilate in one day--but I sure tried.
One wonders, with the amount of art they pumped out, how they found the time to fuck so many women.
Posted by: witchstone on March 18, 2003 03:56 PMMuseč Rodin is my favorite museum in Paris, witchy. I'm jealous. Did you get to the Dali museum?
Posted by: romakimmy on March 18, 2003 04:56 PMLook at that poor unattached comma, shivering with cold. I can't stand this sort of abuse!
Posted by: witchstone on March 18, 2003 04:56 PMHe is quite lonely.
At least I was driving for a good cause.
Posted by: adampsyche on March 18, 2003 05:01 PMOh Adam, I'm pretty sure I'll be there on Saturday. Is Aw coming?
Romakimmy - only had time for 3 museums, so we did Picasso, Rodin & d'Orsay. I'll keep Dali in mind for a future excusion (which I hope will be soon).
Posted by: witchstone on March 18, 2003 05:05 PMOne wonders, with the amount of art they pumped out, how they found the time to fuck so many women.
It all comes down to having a "can-do!" attitude.
Posted by: Fes on March 18, 2003 05:09 PMStealth post from the Apple Store on Prince Street in SoHo. I, of course, will be there (with Pips) as wll.
Boy does it feel weird to do this on a Mac.
Posted by: jonmc on March 18, 2003 05:12 PMOh Adam, I'm pretty sure I'll be there on Saturday. Is Aw coming?
Is a frog's ass water-tight? (kudos to you who can name the movie that quote was in, Ryan and Aw excluded). I told you we'd let nothing stop us from coming to the next one, and already I've had to clear my weekend schedule of pizza parties.
Mucho gracias, kaf. Did you get a few disks?
Posted by: adampsyche on March 18, 2003 05:16 PMjon: i called danbury, and the general manager answered, and said they were packing (i acted like a customer)
Posted by: adampsyche on March 18, 2003 05:18 PMFinally figured out what you meant by title, adam.
Yay!
Posted by: witchstone on March 18, 2003 05:19 PMDid you get a few disks?
That's right! I put them on the teak-veneer early 70s wall unit and promptly forgot about them! Tonight I'll listen for sure.
Did you manage to play the DivX?
Posted by: kaf on March 18, 2003 05:23 PMI don't know about peaceblogs, but I'd love to see a Fuck-George-Bush-With-A-Big-Rubber-Dick, Fuck-Him-In-The-Ass-And-Then-Break-It-Off-And-Beat-Him-To-Death-With-It-Blogs site.
I could get behind that.
No, really, yayhooray for Lupo. Well done, amigo. I've signed up too.
Posted by: stavrosthewonderchicken on March 18, 2003 05:27 PMYeah, but "peaceblogs" is better for the whole brevity thing.
Posted by: kaf on March 18, 2003 05:28 PM(...that was a Carlin hijack, of course. Forgot credit where due.)
Posted by: stavrosthewonderchicken on March 18, 2003 05:33 PMI've had to clear my weekend schedule of pizza parties.
quickly, read it as peace parties, clicked link, then thought hey, why not a pizza with a peace sign.
Posted by: Thomcatspike on March 18, 2003 05:38 PM(just saw the MeFi thread. I'm feeling a visceral loathing for Metafilter these days, worse than I ever have. But I'll probably get over it, as usual.)
Posted by: stavrosthewonderchicken on March 18, 2003 05:40 PMWhat other kinds of loathings are there besides 'visceral'?
I'm feeling a genital loathing!
Posted by: stavrosthewonderchicken on March 18, 2003 05:41 PMYep, those artist dudes are walking, sculpting, painting, fucking achievers, alright, gawdblessem.
lupo, congratulations on Peaceblogs - it's a great idea, and the world needs more sites like this anyways. (My email came promptly upon signup. Just saying.)
And welcome back, witchtrotter! That trip sounds fun, if a bit too... scheduled. I admit my prurient self was hoping for some stories of wanton gallic bacchanalia, with you and a bunch of mustachioed craazy aesthetes whoopin' it up Piaf-style in the teahouses and bistros to some badassed accordion music.
Or something.
Hm. Maybe Saturday, then?
Posted by: Chico on March 18, 2003 06:15 PMYes, the DivX was good. Indeedy. Why dontcha all come out for the meetup? I'll send a magic carpet.
Posted by: adampsyche on March 18, 2003 06:31 PMI got the email in about two minutes.
I'm just sayin'...
Posted by: Cyrano on March 18, 2003 06:32 PMI'm so happy, I could adopt all of you.
Maybe not dong. He's just plain incorrigible.
Posted by: adampsyche on March 18, 2003 06:33 PMI have also received no email communications with regard to peace and/or blogging, despite the fact that I would indeed like to be known as one who is peaceful, unless you get all up in my face, in which case I'll take you out, motherfucker.
Posted by: stavrosthewonderchicken on March 18, 2003 06:49 PMstav and ryan: you're all set. i added you to the list.
I fixed a bug that was keeping some emails from going through (for those in-the-php-know, i forgot to trim() the variable, so any spaces at the beginning or end were going into the db and the mailer was choking on them). I sent out a batch of emails to those who hadn't yet responded.
Posted by: jpoulos on March 18, 2003 07:46 PMAlso, note to everyone here, whether you support this thing or not:
I fucking LOVE you people.
Posted by: jpoulos on March 18, 2003 07:47 PMLove, in proper measure, is good. But don't quote me on that. Ruin my rep or somethin'.
Posted by: stavrosthewonderchicken on March 18, 2003 08:12 PM(for those in-the-php-know, i forgot to trim() the variable, so any spaces at the beginning or end were going into the db and the mailer was choking on them).
Yeah, but did you check the flux capacitator?
Posted by: adampsyche on March 18, 2003 08:25 PMYeah, but did you check the flux capacitator?
I hate it when the conversation turns all tech-y, I never know when to laugh at the jokes.
Good job, lupo; I'll sign up as well. Obviously it's good company to be in (foxholes and atheists nothwithstanding). I've gotten in trouble before by saying that I could never support war or capital punishment as a first resort, so I suppose I might as well do so again (noting, however, that I'd always be open to hearing what the alternatives were, and recognizing that there will inevitably be a situation where each is not only advisable but necessary).
Of course, I've also gotten in trouble by saying "joke 'em if they can't take a fuck", but I was channeling Robin Williams at the time so I think that's alright.
Posted by: yhbc on March 18, 2003 09:15 PMHey, that's great news Adam! And that kid eating pizza is damn cute. Almost as cute as the one in the peace t-shirt.
I had to pay a heavy bribe to get that photoshop done, i'm just sayin'. But it was worth every alcohol-filled ounce.
Posted by: tizzie on March 18, 2003 09:23 PMI find you all incredibly sexy right now, in that "I'm not politically ignorant, and can be civil enough to make my point one way or another and not beat someone else over the head when they disagree, and then drink a beer with you while gleefully flinging poo" kind of way.
That is just about as sexy as it gets.
Posted by: readymade on March 18, 2003 10:11 PMJpoulos, as I'm here in Special Forces Central, I can't join you-but I can give you an attaboy.
Attaboy!
Posted by: b*nnyf*re on March 18, 2003 10:30 PM* Furiously humps Adampsyche's leg whilst maintaining unsettling eye contact with Chico*
Posted by: dong resin on March 19, 2003 12:01 AM: peers in, gives cheerful wave :
: screw the wave, hoists a beer, waves that :
Hi, muffins! :)
Posted by: roe/metrocake on March 19, 2003 12:12 AM* grabs the beer, flings poo, looks to readymade for approval *
Posted by: gsteff on March 19, 2003 02:50 AMAnyone with both a beer and poo, as long as it's friendly poo, meets my approval.
Posted by: readymade on March 19, 2003 03:13 AMBravo, Lupo!
You almost make me want to say "Screw my principles - I wanna go blogmarch with my friends."
It's a grand idea and I wish you all well, you buncha big bananas.
[This thread is the funniest I can remember. Humor is the best anti-war weapon in the world, hint hint...]
Posted by: Miguel on March 19, 2003 05:37 AMAnd welcome back, witchtrotter! That trip sounds fun, if a bit too... scheduled.
Not at all scheduled, mon ami. Well, the flights were scheduled. And we did reserve the hotel. But after that: all free form, baby. I just meant we only had time for 3 museums because those were the ones we really wanted to go to and I refuse to spend every waking moment on a vacation "doing something." I just like to hang out in a city.
Posted by: witchstone on March 19, 2003 09:21 AMSince last viewing...Like the added place-of-origin flags.
Posted by: Thomcatspike on March 19, 2003 12:52 PMYou almost make me want to say "Screw my principles..."
Yes. Please. Now. In all the ways you promised...
Posted by: Miguel's Principles on March 19, 2003 01:24 PMWhich takes us back to Miguel's celebrated Portuguese Positions for Love.
Posted by: tizzie on March 19, 2003 01:52 PMMust be this one, Tiz:#666: The Velour Overlord Cardoso
Softness being an overlord, well for Cardoso, maybe, no I bet it fits.
Posted by: Thomcatspike on March 19, 2003 03:26 PMYou're all being so perky in the thread next door, and I keep trying to join in, but I just can't.
I'm struggling with my feelings. I can't express myself here at work, and that's really difficult. I have to be firm in my resolve that this job is important, my family depends on me, etc., and I just need to keep my opinions to myself and try to focus on work. Even if there is a 20 ft. tall flag outside the window, pounding against the building in the wind.
I wish I were free to protest, to march, to speak out against this thing that is being done with my money, by "my" country. There was a bird hopping around the branches in the parking lot just now, and I thought of how the little spark of life in that bird has meaning to me, and how I would not want that spark extinguished. And yet women and children are going to die in my name! That is so wrong, so very wrong.
Right now I can't even think about it. I just have to keep thinking about trivial things.
Posted by: witchstone on March 20, 2003 01:29 PMyeah, tiz, i'm there with you. except for the bookfilter thing, this has been the shittiest day on a mountain of shit days that have been piling up since I got back to st. louis last month. (and not like, cute monkey shit, either. like elephant shit, the kind of shit you'd rather not think about.) I don't have a job constraining me, but, on the other hand, I have very, very few people I can talk to at all around here. I've three or four friends in a city of ~2 million, having left most of my best friends in the world back in Boston and Budapest. No transit, in a city built for cars, sit around doing next to nothing four days a week, no job, no real urge to get one, since I'm not really using money right now and I'll be leaving in a month or two anyway. Occasionally argue about the war with some of the trolls down at the coffee shop, and missing the activism outlets available in Boston. and so on. fuck this sorrow rant. this isn't what i'm trying to say.
i don't have a voice because i'm a white college kid on the internet. i can speak, and it doesn't matter what i say, because that point of origin flushes people's ears. "Oh, well, of COURSE you don't know anything about war or economics; you've never been in the REAL world." (to paraphrase the common argument. One of the saddest jokes I know, addressed to my face not two weeks ago: a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged.) I can put chains on my feet and march down the streets until the soles of my boots wear through again, and people will just say, "oh, doesn't he look kind of like that kid who chained himself to the wrong building in Olympia?" i can scream to the heavens, and i'll just be one more voice in a million, one more speck in the crowd. the words don't even matter, 'cause noone's thinking anyway. Reason being the first casualty, and all. i can write until my knuckles sieze up and my eyes get all bloodshot and sore, and if someone hasn't said it before and better already, it still won't be read or change anyone's thinking... marginalia is my medium.
the saddest joke i know:
Q: How many punks does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Punks can't change anything.
so, yeah, a fuck of a lot of people are there with you, feeling marginalized and ignored. I know that many of the countries on that "coallition of the willing" have populations that are 80-90% against the war, but whose leaders feel that sucking off the US is more important than the ideals and morales of the citizens. My friends in Hungary are in just such a position. (The being raped by their govn't position, not the sucking off Bush position.)
so yeah, i'm right there with you, with my full complement of rage and depression. but i'm doing what i can to keep me chin up. not much else to do, really.
Posted by: kaibutsu on March 20, 2003 01:50 PMso, yeah, a fuck of a lot of people are there with you, feeling marginalized and ignored. I know that many of the countries on that "coallition of the willing" have populations that are 80-90% against the war, but whose leaders feel that sucking off the US is more important than the ideals and morales of the citizens.
Count Italy as one of those. The crowds are still growing in the piazzas.
j-po, I hope I haven't been presumptous, but I just sent in a short article about Peaceblogs.org to www.blog.it; it's sort of a news/info community portal for Italian bloggers. Dunno if it'll get accepted, but considering the big PACE gif in the header of blog.it...eh, we'll see.
[this makes me want to punch walls]
Posted by: romakimmy on March 20, 2003 02:00 PM(sorry about the political shit. i was trying to write more about a feeling of being voiceless than about the politics, and i apologize if it intruded on the demilitarized zone.)
ahem.
Posted by: kaibutsu on March 20, 2003 04:38 PMI would like to point out the insane number of Brazilians that have wandered into PeaceBlogs. Very cool.
*kicks self for not reading the comment directly above his, thinking he'd read it already*
*sulks away*
Posted by: eyeballscampi on March 21, 2003 02:16 PMThe Brazilians have taken over. I was sure that the site had been written about or something down there, because currently three out of four blogs that are signing up are from Brazil. But I've written to a few of the Brazilian bloggers and they all say that it's just word of mouth. It's insane. Of the 450 or so who've signed up (not all have confirmed. I think I may just drop the whole "confirmation" portion and put them all on the list), around 190 are Brazilian. Most of those are in Portuguese.
All in all, there are 25 different countries represented. The Providence Journal mentioned it in their online edition. It's been a crazy week.
Posted by: jpoulos on March 22, 2003 12:01 AMI just did a quick count. Brazil has almost as many blogs on there as the US!
Posted by: jpoulos on March 22, 2003 12:02 AMWow, blog.it ran your piece, kimmy. Thanks for the plug.
Posted by: jpoulos on March 22, 2003 12:07 AMlupo, dude, I do believe this movement you started is growing legs.
I'm proud to know your bad self. Actually, I'm proud to know all of youse. Especially this week. And I'm not just saying that because I'm a little ripped, neither. No, really.
Posted by: Chico on March 22, 2003 03:11 AMLupo...Your site looks sharper each time visiting it.
Posted by: Thomcatspike on March 24, 2003 06:39 PMThat is so depressing! Unbelievable. As if the war of the humans wasn't bad enough, why do we have to bring the animals into it?
I'm so sad now.
Posted by: readymade on March 25, 2003 02:12 PMWell, as we learned from The Simpsons, the dolphins are biding their time, waiting to strike at humanity.
That episode makes me laugh and laugh and la--
My god! What's a dolphin doing in my cubic--aaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrghhhhhhhhhh!
Posted by: witchstone on March 25, 2003 03:40 PMGiven that we can design bombs that can pinpoint a toilet at 1000 miles, can't we build those little spider-bots from the movie "Runaway" to do this work. It's not like we lack people with the skills to operate remote control mechanisms. And we would still have Tom Selleck and Cynthia Rhodes in reserve.
Posted by: liam on March 25, 2003 04:00 PMA marine veteran driving a tractor-trailer tried to run over a group of peace protestors on a highway overpass in Cincinnati this morning.
And what kind of a sick Morrocan f*ck thought up that monkey idea? May he burn in a very special hell.
Posted by: tizzie on March 25, 2003 04:08 PMMilitary has been doing that stuff for years. There was an entry in The Book of Heroic Failures (which I think many here would love) about some country that trained dogs with bombs strapped to their backs to run under tanks, hence blowing them up.
What the military failed to realize was that they had trained the dogs using their own tanks.
Grisly and sad, but maybe a little poetic justice for our canine friends.
Posted by: kaf on March 25, 2003 04:28 PMCouldn't they find some way to do something with roaches? Cause, shit, I hate those motherfuckers.
Posted by: witchstone on March 25, 2003 04:30 PMUnfortunately, Limp Bizkit fans would all follow each other onto the same one mine. I don't know that they can be trained otherwise.
Posted by: liam on March 25, 2003 04:37 PMAh, Limp Bizkit. I always laugh when I think of Fred Durst writing on his website that his fans need to "chill out" about his relationship with Britney Spears.
Fred Durst says his fans and the media need to "chill" over his relationship with Britney Spears. He claims the media is trying to cause controversy over a relationship that is "simple, honest and pure." And, the Limp Bizkit frontman, has blasted his fans for criticising him for dating a pop star.
Writing in his diary at the band's official website, Durst says: "Well I'm sure we've had it up to our necks with all the hype. Isn't it amazing how something very simple, pure, sweet, and innocent can be blown so far out of proportion?
"Who really gives a s*** that I wanna be with Britney Spears? It seems as if everyone does. The only person that should give a s*** is Britney.
"I never meant to be in this situation. S*** happens. What's the big deal? Yeah, she is a big pop star and her last relationship with another big pop star was a big deal, but damn y'all need to chill.
"Do you think I should not like someone because you don't want me too? F*** that! You people are my family and I respect you, as you should me. I never meant to fall into all of this.
"All the media is doing is trying to create a lot of controversy. To them it's just more interesting to make up lies and crazy dramatic s***."
Bwahahaha!
FREDS NO SELL OUT!!!1 HE'S ONLY AFTER BRIT FOR HER A**. HES A PLAYAH 4 REAL!!!1! IF U THINK HES A SELLOUT U SHOULD TELL HIM THAT AND HEL'L KICK YR A** AND MAKE U HIS B*TCH
Posted by: limpbisketnumbah1 on March 25, 2003 05:04 PMMorocco offers US monkeys to detonate mines.
Well, I was going to say that Bush wouldn't dare send his cousins into battle, but upon reflection that's a serious slur on the monkeys.
J-po- no, thank you.*mwah*
Posted by: romakimmy on March 25, 2003 06:28 PMApparently there's a lot of spam on Craig's List NY about the Brittney/ Durst thing. I wouldn't know this but for Black Table's Week in Craig feature, which I ashamedly read every week to learn more of stupid people attempting to mate.
Posted by: kaibutsu on March 28, 2003 04:40 PMWhat the military failed to realize was that they had trained the dogs using their own tanks.
Russia vs the Germans.
Posted by: Thomcatspike on March 28, 2003 07:46 PMTakoma the US navy dolphin has gone awol on his first mission. Swim, Takoma, swim!
Posted by: liam on March 29, 2003 06:07 PMOh my god, I had thought the dolphin thing was a joke.
Posted by: witchstone on April 1, 2003 09:48 AMMaybe he is referring to Erin Moran. Did ya think of that? Huh? Did ya?
Posted by: ana on April 1, 2003 10:46 PM"O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant."
Wm. Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
Posted by: Mars Crash on April 3, 2003 05:17 PMThis is cool.
Locally, satirical rock act Fudgie and Fufu launched the Dissentcinnati Web site as a clearinghouse for songs from area bands. The group has collected more than 50 tracks from local artists - including the Ass Ponys, Ruby Vileos, the Underwoods and Wolverton Brothers - which they are encouraging fans to download and burn onto customized, homemade protest CDs.
Go there! Make a cd! Peace!
Posted by: tizzie on April 6, 2003 10:48 AMp.s. I have seen Fudgie and Fufu do karaoke, and even at karaoke they rule!
Posted by: tizzie on April 6, 2003 10:51 AMSo last night I heard Ani Difranco's "Self-Evident." Holy Christ. I remember when the words were first released, reading them and thinking it was just another pop artist responding to the Big Day... But two years later, I hear the performance and the thing is amazing, has me choked up at every other stanza, and the writing isn't a hundredth as bad as I thought it was. In fact, its amazing, and I find myself thinking, wondering, if Ani's the kid stepping up to the plate to take the place of Dylan when he's gone. Because she's really only getting stronger. Maybe in time, she'll take on that title of Legend.
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