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1. Comment by SevenEleventy on 7/11 @ 11:02 am #

   Get away from that magazine rack, young man!

2. Comment by happyfeet on 7/11 @ 11:05 am #

   She isn’t despicable in her latest column thinger here. It’s about Afghanistan. I haven’t really been a follower of hers though.

3. Comment by SarahW on 7/11 @ 11:16 am #

   Yay, 7-11. I drink your slurpee!
   Or one in your honor

4. Comment by SevenEleventy on 7/11 @ 11:24 am #

   O/T They just had a news report that China will not be serving dog(referred to as fragrant meat) at restaurants during the Olympics.

5. Comment by lee on 7/11 @ 11:30 am #

   Yay, 7-11. I drink your slurpee!

   Ewww, go find a bush at least!

6. Comment by happyfeet on 7/11 @ 11:31 am #

   Oh. I’ll be looking to see if they start running a deal on Jack in the Box tacos I think.

7. Comment by happyfeet on 7/11 @ 11:38 am #

   <a href=”http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=NYT#chart3:symbol=nyt;range=20000116,20080710;indicator=volume;charttype=line;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=on;source=undefined”This is beautiful. Market cap below $2B for the second day. That’s just really uplifting news.

8. Comment by happyfeet on 7/11 @ 11:39 am #

   oh crap. I really screwed the pooch, huh? That was a lot ignoble I think.

9. Comment by happyfeet on 7/11 @ 11:43 am #

   here is what I meant. That’s just some unfortunate business up there. I really hate being that guy.

10. Comment by The Lost Dog on 7/11 @ 11:55 am #

    Hey, SevenEleventy!

    Congratulations! You are now as old as I used to be!

11. Comment by Pablo on 7/11 @ 12:04 pm #

    Ronnie Wood could have been my hero, but when you’re got Keith Richards telling you that you need to clean your sloppy ass up, maybe the 18 yo Russian cocktail waitress isn’t the best way to go.

12. Comment by SevenEleventy on 7/11 @ 12:07 pm #

    Hey, SevenEleventy!

    Congratulations! You are now as old as I used to be!

    It’s not the age, it’s the mileage!

13. Comment by cranky-d on 7/11 @ 12:11 pm #

    Two bottles of vodka a day. Yikes. He is going to die in about a month or so.

14. Comment by Ouroboros on 7/11 @ 12:23 pm #

    Hey, OT, but do any of you know what the Yiddish term ‘Honyak’ (Hon’ yawk) actually means.. ? (or even the correct anglecized spelling..) Growing up a number of people on the Jewish side of my family would refer to us kids as ‘Little Honyaks’.. I always thought it was the Yiddish equiv of little bastards.. (said in jest.. I hope..) but I just stumbled upon the actual word for bastard and it’s not..

    Any thoughts?

15. Comment by happyfeet on 7/11 @ 12:35 pm #

    Oh. My dad would say that. I hadn’t thought of that for a long time. This is the best I can find for an explanation.

    Webster’s Third (1966) gives :

    hunyak or hunyock also honyak or honyock n -s usu cap [by alter. (influence of Polack)]: HUNKY — usu. used disparagingly

    hunky also hunkie n, pl hunkies often cap [probably shortening & alter. of Hungarian + -y, -ie]: a person of central or east European birth or descent; esp : an industrial worker of such birth or descent — usu. used disparagingly

    It also means “a farmer”:

    “There were several dry farmers or Honyocks at the wagon along with TL cowboys.” (Bard and Spring, Horse Wrangler, 1958)

16. Comment by Ouroboros on 7/11 @ 12:47 pm #

    I’ve searched the internet now and the term seems to be in widespread usage.. A disparaging term that seems to refer to uneducated, ignorant, unskilled central or eastern european immigrants (or later to Americans farmer/rancher types) .. but also used like ‘idiot’ or ‘hayseed’.. Lots of spelling variations.. Could be German, Polish, Czech, Hungarian or Yiddish… Who knows.. Love the sound of it though..

17. Comment by Ouroboros on 7/11 @ 12:48 pm #

    Wonder if it’s similar to ‘pikey’ in Brit?

18. Comment by N. O'Brain on 7/11 @ 1:01 pm #

    “#Comment by SevenEleventy on 7/11 @ 11:24 am #

    O/T They just had a news report that China will not be serving dog(referred to as fragrant meat) at restaurants during the Olympics.”

    What, no Jack Spaniels to go along with it?

    They could always sell Cup O’Poodles ‘N Noodles.

19. Comment by cranky-d on 7/11 @ 2:02 pm #

    China likes to pretend they’re something they’re not. Maybe if they pretend hard enough they will become it. Or not.

20. Comment by Silver Whistle on 7/11 @ 2:29 pm #

    Happy,

    You thought that Toynbee article was alright? Apart from the title, I thought it was pretty overblown rubbish as usual. I’m with Dan – the bovine has ideas above her station.

21. Comment by The Lost Dog on 7/11 @ 2:44 pm #

    Funny, but I thought I was human for many years.

    Then i “matured” and realized that if most of the people I interact with are “human”, I must have missed the boat.

    Did God call a meting when I was really young and I missed it because I was out screwing around?

22. Comment by happyfeet on 7/11 @ 2:49 pm #

    Oh. Not despicable is all I meant. She sounded sober. I’ll read it again.

23. Comment by happyfeet on 7/11 @ 4:20 pm #

    But news magazines and some business magazines were battered by the ad slump. Ad pages dropped 21.1 percent at Time magazine over the first half of the year, 22.4 percent at Newsweek, 14.8 percent at BusinessWeek, 12.6 percent at Forbes and 12.2 percent at The Week, according to the bureau’s report.

    That is very cheering news I think.

24. Comment by happyfeet on 7/11 @ 9:43 pm #

    Here is that part of the Toynbee article that really kind of surprised me…

    He read the battery of British columnists from right and left in the past week calling for immediate withdrawal, ranging from Matthew Parris and Simon Jenkins to Andreas Whittam Smith and Seumas Milne. The “out now” clamour includes those who take a Kissinger realpolitik view – let foreigners rot and sort out their own problems; do nothing unless it’s in our own interest – and those who regard all intervention as latter-day colonialism and anything the Americans do as always fatally tainted. It’s interesting that the armchair commentators are not supported by any of last week’s alarming reports on the ground, which all warn of the danger of failure: none recommends a withdrawal that would certainly ensure that failure right now.

25. Comment by docweasel on 7/11 @ 11:12 pm #

    she thinks she’s people!

26. Comment by maggie katzen on 7/12 @ 1:14 am #

    Oh. My dad would say that. I hadn’t thought of that for a long time.

    ha, my parents too. I always assumed it was an Indian (the native variety) term. both my parents being Okies. huh.

27. Comment by happyfeet on 7/12 @ 1:54 am #

    Oh. My dad was an okie.

28. Comment by happyfeet on 7/12 @ 1:55 am #

    Dad’s dad’s dad settled the “Cherokee Strip” or something. I have a book on it but I’ve never read it really.

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