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In homage to the recently deceased Marilyn Chambers I’ve always wondered if it was as exciting inside the Green Room as it was behind the Green Door.
Good question, Velociman. Marilyn Chambers will certainly be remembered in tomorrow’s news as “The Face That Launched a Thousand ________”. That we can be certain of.
I like Karl, but if I’m not banned at Hot Air then I really should be I think. I hope K still posts at Mr. Patterico’s because he is smart and he learns me things.
It’s cause I have grown contemptuous of the Allah one is why.
Other ones of which I have grown contemptuous: the one what has the footballs what are little and green, Rick Moran, and also … I feel like there should be 3 here but I guess I already said about the Allah one.
Allah is two, net.
-1 Allah-as-we-knew-him +1 typical douche.
But I appreciate you telling me about this Dan cause I never would have known. No one tells me anything.
Charles has just moved to a new place, so he’s only got an iPhone for a banstick today. If your account is still active, post ’em if you’ve got ’em.
I was wondering why I’d never heard about Marilyn Chambers, and now Google tells me why.
I’m sitting here waiting for a plumber after I blew out the U-joint under my kitchen sink. It was running slow, so I stopped up one side and hit the other side with one of those pressurized thingers and blammo!
It was all rusty is why. House is 50 years old. Whaddaya expect?
I blew out the U-joint under my kitchen sink.
And you’ve never heard of Marilyn Chambers? Inconceivable!
that nets out to zero, when I do it in my head. I should not speak further of these three because I cannot keep a civil tongue. I just can’t deal with their issues with any graciousness while the dirty socialists are acting in callous disregard of our little country’s dignity and prosperity.
Somehow Marilyn Chambers’s treatment in “Behind the Green Door” symbolizes for me the U.S. Constitution in the Obama era.
I denounce myself, for reasons only fully appreciated by those who’ve seen the film.
I have not seen this film about the Green Door. Does it have hobbits?
Any relation to Whitaker Chambers?
I’ve heard that hobbits are hard to break.
I have not seen this film about the Green Door. Does it have hobbits?
Yes, Yes it does. Great big hairy ones. Over and Over and Over.
Dicentra, the u joint is the best one to blow b/c they are easier to replace.
I have a drum trap in my crawl space that is a total loss situation. I’m thinking maybe I should just rip the whole bathroom out.
I still like Allahpundit very much and think he will come back around to reason.
I’m very glad to see that Karl’s landed on his feet in another big time gig.
He is U joint to their drum trap.
Another example of the pub not getting enough publicity.
Yeah, best that the trap goes. Those are easy to get at.
50 year old house? Then you got a lot of galvanized plumbing. Not good, they really plug up over time. If you can re-plumb, it would be a good thing, especially the cold and hot water pipes. Cooper is the way to go with them. Waste water pipes, use pvc until you get to the big cast iron drain pipe, the cast iron will be fine.
Yes, SarahW. I get that I think. I never read the allah one when he was affable so I have no concept of an affable allah. Or what a drum trap is.
i thought allah was hilarious when he was in personna as the great provider of 72 virgins, peace be upon him.
when i was at a big NY paper, I tried to get him a job. It may have worked out or not, I dont recall since I never knew the guy’s name.
maybe he is still hilarious, i dont know.
Dicentra, the u joint is the best one to blow b/c they are easier to replace.
Yes, well I was hoping I could do it myself, but the geniuses who remodeled the house before I bought it painted over all the plumbing. When they replaced my hot water heater a few years back, they ended up having to cut through the pipes because they couldn’t twist them open. Three freaking hours.
Fortunately, they were operating at a flat per-job rate, but still.
OMG. The dude what fainted on Glenn Beck the other day, David Buckner?
I totally went to high school with him. Class of ’82 and everything.
“Professor of organizational leadership at Columbia University”
Not surprising at all.
I’ll bet they won’t offer that rate at that address again anytime soon.
I’ll bet they won’t offer that rate at that address again anytime soon.
It was a big-name plumbing company that advertises that they do flat rates. I mean, they had a three-ring binder with laminated pages and everything that show you the prices.
I would guess these ones are not union.
Is this another gig I didn’t get? I’ve lost count.
I wonder, are hilarious and dishonest the same thing? Sure seems that way sometimes.
Jeff, do you mean Hot Air or porn?
Oh. And fuck Andy Levy.
I’d have added, “or plumbing,” but for the redundancy.
take the old one out, go to home depot, get a new one: easy squeezey lemon something or other
Jeff: They only are taking on regular HA commenters. So…
take the old one out
Can’t. Tried. As a girl, I have a weak upper body. I can unscrew pickle jars but not painted-on U-joints.
Uh huh.
It’s Allah’s Twitter list buddies, all in one place!
Are “buddies” and people one expects to crawl before one like worms the same thing? ‘Cuz, you know…
More cliquish nonsense. Soon HA and PJM will have the market cornered on right wing bloggery.
Of course, by then, nobody will much care. I already don’t.
You know, one might begin to suspect that the only way to “make it” in arts, entertainment and media is to kiss ass relentlessly and tow the party line shamelessly.
dear lady a monkey wrench and a section 1.5″ pipe attached will give you the necessary torque to bust that joint and keep a weak upper body shapely.
Don’t have a monkey wrench or a section 1.5″ pipe to attach.
People told me this helpless female act would have men knocking on my door, and lo, here comes the plumber.
i like allahpundit he’s my go to guy for stupid palin posts
One would be right.
Others are positioned well for such maneuverings. Me, not so much.
I just can’t commit to another blog relationship. What with the time I put in here, and now that I’ve discovered The Hostages and all the old commenters from Aces … I just don’t have time. Priorities, you know.
Plus, that stuff Jeff said up there at 41.
I actively dislike other blogs what aren’t this one.
Even if I were positioned to do so, which I’m not, I wouldn’t move there.
And Ric’s exactly right about the Pub.
I’m disliking other blogs right now even.
oh and allah does a fine job with it’s atheist v religion posts. i still like the capt’n though. where does he get his shirts family dollar?
Well, there is a purpose for the existence of other blogs. Like when no one is hanging out here. I find the hours between 6 and 9 (eastern) rather lonely here. Sigh.
i think this u joint is called a p trap
I thought the point of other blogs was for so the stupid tedious boring ones wouldn’t hang out here.
Yes, that’s another use. Like LGF eats up gobs and gobs of idiots we don’t have to deal with. I mean, I suppose Jeff would like the hits, but what if they COMMENTED too?
This is happy cheerful nice to see what is a Good Sign.
Even like at Mr. P’s where his commenters are not stupid at all – they tend to be sort of… sedate. Like where this is poker that would be bridge, maybe.
the last u joint i replaced was in a 70 something camaro. tough to drive when the drive shaft is dragging on the ground.
@56
terminator 3
“Just die, you bitch! “
Depends on whether it goes into the floor or into the wall, router. If it goes into the floor, it’s an S trap. If it makes a right-angle bend and goes into the wall, it’s a P trap.
There are also drum traps, as Sarah metioned. I’ve got one of those on my shower. I’ve had to open that bastard up a couple of time to snake it out. Not fun… my house is also over 50 years old, and the cover of the drum trap just loves to rust-weld itself in place.
I’ve found that there are very few plumbing problems that won’t yield to a big enough pipe wrench, naval jelly, a torch, and a Sawzall.
Beer is also very helpful, but that would have to be modified in dicentra’s case.
It’s a lot vindicating router cause I’ve been one of the pointedly leave the newspaper in the hall people for awhile now. Even if they bring it in I put it back out. So people notice that, is what this says. I haven’t stayed at a Marriott I don’t think but still, yay me I think.
P trap, goes through the wall. S trap through the floor. J trap is swivel for a two piece P or S trap.
I don’t want to think about any of them as I have spent several lousy hours wrestling with my son’s old double sink drain lines and hot water supply line in the course of getting his new dishwasher into a house that never had one. Only the electrical and a new counter top is left. A fine vacation day.
i used to read the sunday nyt, phila inq and the local papers. do i get carbon credits for not doing so?
Sigh, Spies, type faster.
Huh. No mention of an O trap. Any thoughts on cleaning that up? Seems topical.
I don’t care about the Obamas’ dog, fwiw.
A jewel in the crown loses its luster The paper the Times Co. may shut down was once its prized acquisition
shannon has an interesting post
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That is nice to read, mr router, about the dying boston globe … It would be nice if it was a slow and ouchful death I think. Unemployed journalists are my favorite. Hopefully they have journalism degrees and are sure to land on their feets.
Router, we do have a word for the destructive lust for political power: liberalism.
i think it is called progressivism. ask tr and woody wilson.
oh and hillary
i think this u joint is called a p trap
Naah, those are only found on toilets. And sometimes on kitchen sinks, in bachelor-occupied apartments.
Mikey #23: Do not replace the main drain with cast iron. The subdivision I’m living in has a number of 1975 era houses in it, and on my street alone, 5 of those suckers rusted out in the last year and had to be replaced. 15 grand a pop. I had to have mine replaced the year before. PVC is the way to go.
Ouch. $230. He had to replace more than the U-joint: the pipe next to it was also rusted out: broke off in his hand. And found that my pipes are choked with black sludge all the way down. I’ll have to hire somebody to rooter them out or summat.
My silly link of the day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FX9rviEhw
I was just down in Toledo yesterday, and the Toledo Blade is a particularly fulsome piece of crap journalism. I don’t know how my mil stands it.
don’t use roto router too expensive and they try to sell magic formula to clean your drains. snake oil with a plunger
I only hope these folks are getting paid.
don’t you have to pay to be in the clique?
router,
I don’t know. Is self respect a currency?
Easy now…
Stacy McCain’s in over there, too. He’s good folks. So is Jacobson. Treacher’s all right, too, so far as I can see.
My invitation must have gotten lost. Ah well. Can’t make everyone happy.
Only in the thousands of blog hits, if they write their posts with clever linkage.
I’d make fun of the selection at the Green Room but every time I type something up for the pub on these topics I realize… I’m no longer particularly funny or insightful.
Funny thing is, I started taking Zyban a few weeks ago to quit smoking and honestly think it’s made me 30% less clever and 100% more eunuch. I’m not kidding. Might have to get off the Zyban before I become a pod person.
malkin clean up in aisle HA
“Comment by Jeff G on 4/13 @ 4:42 pm
Oh. And fuck Andy Levy.”
That’s it – we are sooooo breaking up! :(
don’t take no drug to get off another drug.
If that’s actually you Andy, prove it. Give us twenty more seconds of okay material and then call it a day.
router, that’s where you’re wrong. If I do quit the Zyban that kicked the nicotine, I’m only doing it with the help of some fat lines of finely ground nutmeg.
Btw, would it have killed Karl to give Jeff the smallest of thanks in his post at P’s re: the Hot Air gig?
That’s actually Andy. He linked the comment (and Jeff’s original) from his real Twitter account.
“That’s actually Andy. He linked the comment (and Jeff’s original) from his real Twitter account.”
Welcome to the golden age of suck.
Jeff G and Andy Levy breaking up. What a sad day this is.:*(
Comment by blowhard on 4/13 @ 8:45 pm #
If that’s actually you Andy, prove it. Give us twenty more seconds of okay material and then call it a day.
Sure – I’ll even do it at the same level of discourse as many of the other comments:
Well, Suzie is hoping that Joe will ask her to prom, but Joe really wants to go with Britney cuz Tommy sez Britney puts out. BUT, Britney has a maaaaajor crush on Dalton cuz she likes the bad boys. Meanwhile, Dalton’s only a bad boy on the outside – y’know, cuz of his tough childhood (being raised by a single mom and all). He’s actually really shy, which is why he hasn’t asked Ashley yet!
Anycrap, it’s been real, y’all! I will now go back to not really knowing who Jeff Goldstein is and why he just hates me so!!
Love,
TV’s Andy Levy
Andy, why are you mimicking your Twitter circle?
But, I admit. This might be you. That was only about 15 seconds of okay material (we’d cut about half of it to tighten it up, right?). Close enough, though.
If this is Andy, I do not anticipate a happy ending.
Is that the guy who used to be on “Newsradio?”
http://twitter.com/andylevy
In the famous word of Greg Gutfeld or however you spell it. Check it out check it outers.
If it is him, why isn’t he saying obligatory, heart-ache, and nuance every third word?
Maybe he hasn’t gotten the Hot Air how-to-be-a-repetitive-hack manual yet.
Don’t forget to use the hashtag #fuckandylevy to make this ridiculous clusterfuck trackable on Twitter.
Oh, Twitter. Die.
(shamelessly adapted/stolen from the hf archives)
Here’s the thing, Andy. This ain’t Twitter.
Overall, I’m a fan. Don’t fuck that up. I really don’t want to see the halftime report with Janene Garofalo, IYKWIMAITYD.
I’ll take “Andy Dick” for $2,000, Alex.
Jeff G said:
“It’s Allah’s Twitter list buddies, all in one place!”
DUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!
Serious as Twitter, man. Serious.
#93 seems a bit gratuitously mean-spirited.
Mr. Levy and Meghan went to the same college just at different times. Andy didn’t get a coveted art history degree though. He still gets to put on his resume he went to the same college as Meghan. That’ll open a door or two.
I think it’s mean to compare Levy to Andy Dick.
Andy Dick is rich and has scored some serious high-end ass. Levy? Well, he’s guest blogging on the open page at Hot Air. So yeah. That’s pretty much a tie right there.
Who is this Dick fella, again?
Okay, if I’m dropping the Zyban and getting back to Robitussin soaked peyote, I have to ask about this:
http://twitter.com/vermontaigne/status/1449554239
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http://twitter.com/justkarl/status/1449538680
Wait, is this Andy Levy fellow famous or something? Because that would explain the little gossip circle.
Well, not so much explain as, like, explain.
How can you compare Andy Dick to Andy Levy? Dick is a hard-core drug dealer in addition to being a comedian and actor. Levy is at least funny and serves a serious purpose by keeping Gutfeld and Schultz in line. ;)
BTW, Levy has served his country while Dick has served time. ‘Nuf said!
I can never get enough of ‘nuf saids.
Elden, on the funny scale, we’re in a certain Pauly Shore range regardless. I’m going with the guy who isn’t a Heathers Twitter gossip.
And Andy Dick brings in David Spade level tail. Just sayin’.
bq or plain?
You know who’s a funny conservative. That Yakov Smirnoff fella, that’s who.
I wonder if he Twitters.
Oh, now I’m getting the hang of this Twitter thing.
I’m pretty sure the tophat and smoking jacket bit Karl and Allah and Andy are on about has to do with my fake CPAC coverage. Is there a name for little inside Twitter jokes?
Tweeters? Twats?
Twats. Go with twats.
The powerful aligned against me. This kinda rocks.
I’m filled with obligatorily nuanced heart-ache!
‘Nuff said!
I’m filled with a desire to empty the TV of all the NCIS and Criminal Intent episodes that piled up in my absence.
Good night to those of you who haven’t smartened up and moved to where the money is.
Nuance!
hugh hewitt says twitter. i say tweet you buddy. no thanks mindless babble.
jack bauer killed no one tonight
@mikeOvitz I think we found that gay mafia you were talking about.
Good night.
Wow. The conservative blogosphere, from Rathergate to completely jumping the shark and becoming hollow and useless, and in only four years.
OK I am so fucking confused.
Can some one please prepare an executive summary/power point so I can understand the following:
– What is JeffG’s problem w/ Levy?
– What is JeffG’s problem w/ Allah?
– What is JeffG’s problem w/ Allah’s Twitting Circle?
– What is JeffG’s problem w/ Twitter in general?
– Finally: What is my problem that I give a crap about any of this?
Also I think JeffG should just post an enemies list to help us all keep track.
On second thought I think he should post a friends list, it would be shorter.
liberrocky, I’ll give you the quick Cliff Notes version. Avoid the suck. Wherever it comes from.
Handy tip: the very few people called out here don’t actually compose the entire conservative/classic liberal universe. If you actually think so, well…
Time for bed myself.
But, maybe someone could point out where Jeff swore a blood feud against Hume, or Hayek, or Friedman…
Seems like he’s/we’re just criticizing a gossiping gaggle of hacks.
Jeff, I know you’re irritated about internet life in general but when every comment is some talk about being bitter, its sorta self defeating. You have enough talent to not need a clubhouse so why worry about not being invited to theirs?
I’m not trying to be a jerk – its your blog, say whatever you want. But I’ve really gotten the impression you have taken this so personally that its consuming you. I wish that wasn’t the case.
I couldn’t be less interested in Twitter. Sorry if that irks, but really, really couldn’t give a flying fuck what folks are saying, there. Confucius would have renamed it Natter in a heartbeat.
Sure you could — if you were as uninterested in it as I am.
It’s the ultimate in “I couldn’t be bothered thinking, so here’s a couple of sentences of semi-literate crap direct from my fast-twitch nerves”.
Jeff’s friends list:
1. That guy out in front of the King Sooper’s who gave me some loose change
2.
I thought you killed that King Sooper guy, Jeff.
Welcome back, BTW. If you’re back, I mean.
We did rear-naked choke escapes last week; that’s probably as tough of a neck workout as anything else I can think of. I viewed Tony’s idea of how to deal with that and will give it a try next opportunity. Not sure it’ll work, though; Tony does it from a seated position, and I’m not sure you could just reach down and grab a foot if you’re already stretched out. We did find out what do do if they guy choking you has crossed his feet after he’s got the hooks in. The ankle break is pretty vicious, though, so no one really does that anymore I think.
Don’t get stretched out. And if you are doing the choking, don’t stretch somebody out so that if they roll into you they are on top — or if they have friends around, you are fucked, given that you’ve now trapped yourself underneath some dude.
Slarti – if someone leaves their foot in like that they are just begging to get their ankle snapped.
Once you get flattened out, it is simply a matter of time.
#136-#138 And so begins Dan’s series of posts on mysterious ocicat deaths. :)
BTW, a monies for you tomorrow, JeffG. I haven’t forgotten.
Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
Of course, instead of washing her hands constantly, this one has trouble getting down off her cross.
It must really hurt to be so unloved that one whines about it every 15 seconds to a gang of loving readers and regulars (who actually now pay to hear him whine.) Nice guy.
This is not the America I know.
That is not my America. That is a douchenozzle.
America must not get Allah’s tweets.
You know, there are two Americas. This America is the one that got left behind.
I blame Bush. He promised that no America would be left behind, and he LIED!!!!!!
I can’t believe I’ve actually had to TrollHammer America.
You know, I was just telling Michelle the same thing.