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1. Comment by panther girl on 12/24 @ 11:16 am #

   This is great Dan! Thanks for passing it along.

2. Comment by Bob Reed on 12/24 @ 11:22 am #

   Dan,
   That was pretty darn good. Not exactly the repartee of Hepburn and Tracy, but I suppose it’s the cuurent generational permutation…

   Looks kinda like some of the threads that develop around here!

3. Comment by Pablo on 12/24 @ 11:29 am #

   You say potato, I say spud gun. Let’s call the whole thing off.

   Hilarious.

4. Comment by Bob Reed on 12/24 @ 11:34 am #

   That’s a riot Pablo,

   I should get one to keep the neighbors teenage kids, in line…

   Since here in NYC they would take a dim view of rock-salt shotgun loads…

5. Comment by SarahW on 12/24 @ 11:41 am #

   I’m having ginger tea. All day. It’s penance, I Ate a whole bag of pretzel chips last night. And a pack of crystallized ginger.
   And some frosting after the santa cake incident. And a half-dozen fresh baked gingermen.

6. Comment by SarahW on 12/24 @ 11:43 am #

   On the other hand, I used a star-trek episode to win an argument about court reporters today. Then lost it the same way, as ironically it proved the value of live stenographers.

7. Comment by Pablo on 12/24 @ 11:44 am #

   Completely off topic, It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…

   The New York Times Co’s (NYT.N) November advertising revenue fell 20 percent, the company said on Wednesday, illustrating how the financial crisis is aggravating dizzying revenue declines at U.S. newspapers.

   Ad revenue at the publisher’s New York Times Media Group, which includes the Times newspaper, fell 21.2 percent from a year earlier because of a drop in real estate and jobs classified advertising.

   …

   Total company revenue fell 13.9 percent.

   Stupid subprime lending!

8. Comment by SarahW on 12/24 @ 11:44 am #

   I’m all for space-travel and warpfactor five and locking phasers on target.

9. Comment by SarahW on 12/24 @ 11:45 am #

   Mm. Tea is delicious.

10. Comment by SarahW on 12/24 @ 11:45 am #

    Paper of record, what is to become of you.

11. Comment by Darleen on 12/24 @ 11:50 am #

    that was awesome… I’m still laughing.

    Oooo… SarahW, what was argument? Original ST or the fairly lame NG episodes?

    (I always thought Heinlein’s Fair Witness professionals were great update on court stenographers)

12. Comment by Darleen on 12/24 @ 11:51 am #

    BTW, my tea at the moment is Republic of Teas’ Blackberry Sage.

13. Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 12/24 @ 12:01 pm #

    I’m still on Twining’s English Breakfast.

    Also OT: most awesomest Christmas song EVAR!!1!!

14. Comment by Pablo on 12/24 @ 12:12 pm #

    I think I might go with Long Island Iced.

15. Comment by SarahW on 12/24 @ 1:08 pm #

    Spies, yay to the Christmas song!

    Darleen, The Original Series, but of course! In fact, the episode in question was the court martial of Kirk, which included pilot clips.

    I was trying to convince my husband that court stenographers were obsolete.

16. Comment by TaiChiWawa on 12/24 @ 1:09 pm #

    As she sipped her tea, her brother, Gregor, awoke in the next room, combed out his antennae, gingerly shook his gimpy right metathoracic leg, then slowly crawled up the wall, making an alien clattering sound as he went…

17. Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 12/24 @ 2:24 pm #

    It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a tea-drinking asthmatic slut must be in want of a lithium fusion missile.

18. Comment by geoffb on 12/24 @ 2:30 pm #

    SarahW,

    I think IIRC it was the court martial of Spock but I maybe wrong. And now that I’ve revealed that geekiness I’ll say back in the 90’s I bought the ST pilot on laserdisc.

    The “Chamomile Tea” story is very funny and that is my favorite tea. It doesn’t remind me of anyone when I drink it though.

19. Comment by N. O'Brain on 12/24 @ 2:31 pm #

    “(I always thought Heinlein’s Fair Witness professionals were great update on court stenographers)”

    So, um, Darleen, you doing anything New Year’s Eve?

    Seeing as how my wife is going to, er, ummmm, just recently passed away and all?

20. Comment by N. O'Brain on 12/24 @ 2:33 pm #

    I also denounce myself.

    30th anneversary next year and all…..

21. Comment by geoffb on 12/24 @ 2:50 pm #

    “What happens when Venus and Mars are improperly aligned?”

    Soon it will be the “Age of Obama”.
    Then the moon will be in the Seventh House.
    And Jupiter will align with Mars.
    And peace will guide the planets.
    And love will steer the stars.

22. Comment by JohnAnnArbor on 12/24 @ 3:30 pm #

    Chamomile tea tastes like boiled weeds.

23. Comment by B Moe on 12/24 @ 3:36 pm #

    Probably because that is what it is.

24. Comment by ExDip on 12/24 @ 4:31 pm #

    Spies – not bad on the Christmas song, but check out this beaut:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFCRCWfguv4

    Teh awesome.

25. Comment by SDN on 12/24 @ 6:10 pm #

    Actually, there was also a Kirk court martial episode, where he’s accused of jettisoning a crewman prematurely.

26. Comment by SDN on 12/24 @ 6:11 pm #

    And here’s a link to watch the original series online.

27. Comment by Swen Swenson on 12/25 @ 10:18 pm #

    Meh.. Here’s the best Christmas song of the year.

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