Looks mostly sunny in my backyard right now, but I’m not going to say with any certitude that it won’t rain later.
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update: By the way: if it doesn’t rain later, remember who it was who first reported that it was sunny in my backyard.
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update 2: BREAKING: nothing much has changed — though I do note a suspicious movement of the sun westward. Developing…
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update 3: The sun is still out and still stubbornly pushing westward across the sky. It’s too early to panic, but from my vantage point as a CITIZEN JOURNALIST it looks that, should the sun stay on its current trajectory, it could quite literally crash into the horizon line.
In which case, God help us all.
In the meantime, though: scones!
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update 4: BREAKING BREAKING: I’m getting conflicting reports. In my backyard it quite remains sunny, with the big orb ominously lurching ever westward. Yet in the UK, they are experiencing what this CITIZEN JOURNALIST can only describe as a kind of night. Worse, Michigan is reporting overcast weather — which is neither sunny nor dark.
Preliminary conclusion: I haven’t any idea, but I’ll keep on top of it. Promise.
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update 5: Ok. Now it’s raining.
I regret my earlier rush to declare it sunny in my backyard. I offered that erroneous report in advance of all the facts — specifically, the rain that has now begun to fall, leaving it no longer sunny in my backyard.
Sorry.
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update 6: And now the rain has stopped and the sun has returned. There’s a metaphor in that somewhere.
I DEMAND AN APOLOGY FOR MY EARLIER APOLOGY!
second update: Slight breeze kicking up. Seems to be from the northeast. Or maybe north-by-northeast. Stay tuned.
Should I have linked to somebody else saying it’s sunny, too. Or do you take my word for it?
I can take photos, if you all would like.
It’s mostly cloudy here in the Springs, and I can’t guarantee that it soon won’t not be not raining frogs by this evening.
will you be interviewing any experts knowledgeable in this topic?
Oh, if your weather changes when you’re taking a nap and you let this post stand, unchanged, then I question your comfort level with such accuracy. ahem
Ah, so your backyard is awash in radiation too? It’s everywhere.
Well, that slight NE or NNE breeze has died away, but there are some wispy little clouds now off to the southeast.
You know what could have caused a northeast breeze to stop and clouds to appear to the southeast? ASTEROID IMPACT!!! ZOMG WE’LL ALL BE KILLED!!!
Not saying that’s what’s really happening, but it would be irresponsible of me not to acknowledge the possibility.
It was windows-down, shirt-sleeve weather in Abidjan, Ivory Coast yesterday. I’ve proof of it.
There is an intermittent rain, which is causing a complete disaster relatively for me, because I wanted to clean the gutters. That task needs to be put off for another weekend.
I better go on Amazon and order some iodine tablets just in case. Via Glenn Reynolds, who btw seems to be mirroring what Jeff is doing about Japan’s nuclear spectookular:
I am sure Patterico will have some snide comments for Reynolds in 3, 2, …
Doomed we
arewere.Obviously any blogger who is downplaying the possibility of an asteroid impact causing those clouds I saw, is off his rocker.Why can’t they wait until all the facts are in before failing to panic!!!!????
I “rushed” not to panic. In “advance of all the facts” that I’ll need to make me panic.
Which is a kind of a roundabout death threat, if you think about it.
READER POLL!
My intrepid journalistic reporting of the fact that we’re unlikely to see giant monsters doing battle was rushed and quite in advance of the facts. I mean, potentially, some day, giant lizards and giant moths might come to blows. And then I’d have to post a correction.
WHO’D LOOK LIKE A CHUMP THEN?
Well, that’s just nuts. If you rush not to panic in advance of the facts why, you might never panic at all!
And, and, and that’s just nuts!
Every moment I spend not reporting that its neither time to panic nor not panic is a moment I could be spending reporting that it’s neither time to panic nor not panic.
Think about that.
O_o
Okay, that’s beyond nuts. That’s…
That’s OUTLAW!
Jeff, you need to turn the thread title red, to impart the proper amount of earth-shattering… ness to this post.
And maybe even post an animated gif of a flaming whatever-the-fuck. Damnit, this unknown (yet presumably rapidly-changing) situation is Important!
It’s pretty friggin’ dark over here. Deserves an update, no?
As one on of your 12 commenters, I am SHOCKED by your attitude, Jeff.
Good day, sir!
It was cloudy this morning, then sunny, and now it’s turned cloudy again. Should I be alarmed, not alarmed, alarmed that I’m not alarmed, or not alarmed that I’m alarmed?
Also, Iodine!
Or is it too soon for that level of alarm?
FOX NEWS ALERT!!!!!
Overcast in mid-Michigan.
No fallout yet.
BTW, scones are delicious. Nothing alarming about that.
I don’t want to alarm anyone, but apparently we went through some sort of weird time shift. I blame Japan.
“quite literally crash into the horizon line.”
will there be fallout from the big reactor in the sky?
Carin, is it due to the earthquake, the tsunami, the meltdown, or an alarming convergence of the three?
I can’t even see this “sun” you speak of. how am I supposed to know when to panic? I NEED ANOTHER UPDATE!!!
also, aren’t we supposed to be saving daylight now? get crackin.
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Carin, is it due to the earthquake, the tsunami, the meltdown, or an alarming convergence of the three?
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Not sure. I suggest we do a reader poll. But that’s for the big man to call.
I think, Maggie, that we are currently in a daylight deficit, due to the Feds profligate wast of daylight in the past 2 years. So any daylight saved currently is going to pay off our daylight interest, before we actually see any of it.
DO NOT BE ALARMED!
well, crap.
From Glenn Reynolds:
WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE JAPANESE NUCLEAR SITUATION? Not that much. Which is why I’m not doing much with it — the reports are conflicting, and often third- fourth- or fifth-hand. It’s mostly buzz and confusion. Much of what’s going on is, literally, incalculable.
WTF is wrong with him?
Yeah, how DARE he NOT jump to conclusions based on scanty or no evidence! Someone revoke his internet card…
Ha. I see jeff found that insty bit – last link in his previous post.
Oh well.
FOX NEWS ALERT:
White stuff is falling from my sky? The fallout may have arrived in Michigan. Developing.
large reactor expected to hit western horizon at 7:23 edt
We had some white stuff from the sky a few days ago. I’m afraid to go outside, since I’m pretty sure it’s radioactive.
It is ominously dark over in north Texas. When were they expecting the fallout from Japan to hit the continental US? Is it now? I feel so unprepared.
Does anyone else want to sing “Abide with Me”?
Ella, duct tape all your windows and doors seams. We’ll make it through this.
The sun is NOWHERE NEAR AS LOW IN THE SKY as it was this time yesterday. Something huge is going on and I don’t know what it is.
Hold me.
The sun appears to be extinguishing over here in Michigan.
ALERT ALERT.
I’ll update.
It’s after seven o’clock where I live AND THE SUN STILL WON’T GO DOWN!
It’s not so much for me that I’m afraid — but what about the people on the other side of the world WHERE IT’S NEVER GOING TO COME UP AGAIN!!!!! EVER!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!
And I still haven’t seen any proof there wasn’t an asteroid impact. Maybe that’s why the earth has stopped turning!
Yay.
Seriously, can y’all get a flame war going? Not enough shit going on world-wide, anyhow. We need something to spice up the days.
Caveat: I truly enjoy both sites. Each makes a valuable contribution, snits aside.
A lack of flame can only be caused by a lack of oxygen. It’s an asteroid impact! I knew it!
I didn’t start the fire, irongrampa. It was always burning since the world was turning.
In fact, I posted a link to a story yesterday — and even then, as a response to a graphic showing worldwide nuclear fallout patterns posted in the comments — only to find today that my site is like LGF, I “accused” people of nefarious blogging, and that I “rushed” to conclude everything is cherry in Japan “in advance of all the facts.” Which as a journalist it is my job to follow. And dutifully report to you.
Only problem is, I spent the remainder of yesterday having a nice meal with my wife at Jax in Boulder, then walking the outdoor mall, blissfully minding my own fucking business and living my own fucking life.
Because I’m not silly enough to believe myself a reporter. Or a nuclear physicist. And I’m not in Japan.
Plus, I was hungry for oysters.
Were I you, there would be no offense taken,EXCEPT for being likened to LGF. That I admit was below the belt.
Pat’s suffering another meltdown of his flawed-from-the-factory Zircaloy casings. Seems he’s misplaced a few control rods, and someone’s replaced the emergency boric acid coolant with Cynn’s boxed wines.
Maybe a nice graphite moderator is in order?
I didn’t. Somebody emailed me the comment from Ace’s this morning. I wanted to set the record straight. Beyond that I care not a whit what that particular douche thinks about me or my site.
Interesting how the Guardian report keeps changing. Using the same information, they’ve updated it to make different conclusions all day!
Sorry, the mere presence of caesium around a plant does not “indicate” a meltdown at all.
it’s still gray here. would panic, but my dogs are conked out so everything must be alright. uh oh, Roxie just got up. developing…
false alarm, kitten was getting a drink, which apparently is not allowed.
Still no frogs here, but the temperature has dropped significantly since this afternoon. Global Cooling? I can’t say with any certainty until I stop exhaling and observe the results.
It’s dark here now. Will the sun come back tomorrow? I’ll give an update if it does.
Better than Vigara for Patterico:
Shep Smith will be reporting from Japan tomorrow.
Yes Patterico, I am your father…
The Guardians report gets worse and worse as they days and nights go on.
“However, the Japanese nuclear industry has a bad reputation for owning up to accidents and many observers remain cautious about accepting these claims too quickly.”
Nope, can’t have an news report about a nuclear accident without some good ole industry/capitalism bashing.
It’s stupid for many reasons:
1. Everything has a bad reputation to at least some percentage of the population. Such a generic comment has no place in a supposedly objective news report. Do you think the Guardian will mention the United Nations bad reputation (IMHO, justifiably so) among conservatives in every story about the UN? Don’t think so.
2. This is not a case of “owning” up to a accident, the fact that damage has occurred is blatantly obvious. To compare this to any alleged lack of “owning up” in the past is idiotic.
3. Where’s the evidence that such a reputation is deserved? What right does this report have to throw emotion based personal attacks into the text? Just because a group claims that a history of avoidance exists doesn’t mean it actually does.
4. The report is quick to shout down anyone or anything that says that this not a disaster, and is quick to pump up those who say it is. Also, they aren’t so quick to rebut the doomsayers.
Oh, and get this gem:
“Last night reports suggested that the emergency pumps had failed because they had been swamped by the tsunami triggered by the initial earthquake – an embarrassing failure by those who had planned the reactor’s back-up systems..”
First of all, confirm your “late night reports” before you use them as the basis to slam the designers. Second, how is that embarrassing if true? You expect the designers to have anticipated a freakish earthquake followed by a freakish tsunami? It ticks me off when some know nothing reporter acts like an expert on a subject and tells off others on what they should have done when the reporters don’t know crap about what they are talking about. Reporters make stupid mistakes daily, but I guess not the perfect reporters at the Guardian. Maybe we should hire reporters to do every job, since they know everything about everything.
This is not a report. It’s a thinly disguised scare piece meant to reassure the greenies that yes, indeed, you can use this incident to help you destroy the nuclear power industry.
I had a feeling the coverage would turn from merely reporting the possible risks and dangers and facts to bashing the industry and insinuating that officials at the plants are evil liars. I also had a feeling we’d be treated to a “Japan turning on nuclear power” meme sooner or later and that we’d start getting a steady stream of nuclear power bashing talking points mixed in with the “news.” I’m just surprised it even took this long.
Well, if it’s in the Grauniad, it’s almost certainly wrong.
Greenpeace spokespersons (spokespeople?) are their “nuclear experts”. Their opinions are unimpeachable…
Joe,
I see our former pet drama queen has taken his drama queenery to, umm… greener pastures.
I think I pulled a Sarah Palin link out of one of happy’s comments toward the end of his tenure here. I was sick of the Palin griefering.
Then I thought better of it and decided to ban him altogether. After warning him. Again and again.
No mystery, really.
And really, was there ever any question where happy would land?
At least he hasn’t started talking shit about me yet. That won’t happen until he finds out how wonderfully rewarded is such a thing in certain places in the blogosphere.
“Then I thought better of it and decided to ban him altogether. ”
oh noes discrimination.
I see that Scott Jacobs is having another grand mal seizure.
A carbuncle on the ass of life, that one.
Those guys sure do spend an inordinate amount of time worrying about how I run my site, don’t they?
Yes or no.
READER POLL!
Off topic: one good thing to come out of skimming through some of that teen-age drama queen bitchiness is that at least I learned Mitch Daniels is who we thought he was:
Not sure of the source, and no way in hell am I going spe[cu]lu[m]king just to find out.
If it doesn’t, people I have had a good time.
/country state of mind
My balls are glowing…. more than usual.
They’ve been that way ever since Three Mile Island.
Excuse me while I have my harem of concubines do a consultation.
“Where’s the evidence that such a reputation is deserved?”
Dref,
Clear case of mask-dropping projection mah man. The media knows how the current administration rolls and is always prepared to deploy the strawman’s fishing boat on a red herring expedition.
This source, Enst,http://senatus.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/indiana-senate-daniels-voices-support-for-lugar/ mind it is close to flagrant stupidity from Schumer re Libya, and Durbin (well that would be on any topic, but releasing oil from the reserve, is one of the dumber strategies.
Joe, your link @55 to James Wolcott (he of the always-needed sideways-swordfish-fuck) proves he’s delving into and lurking in the comment sections of at least three different right-side blogs on a fairly regular basis. Why? I wonder? If Wolcott wants to better himself by exposure to better writers, that’s fine I suppose, but there’s no evidence that’s working out for him.
Wolcott should be one of the top lefty names on the list to fill Frank Rich’s open spot at the NYT, but of course he’s not. Even lefties require some minimal writing skills that Wolcott doesn’t have (Rich did fairly well, giving the devil his due). Wolcott’s stuck forever in whatever obsolete rag he’s writing for. Seems to keep him (obviously very well-)fed.
Enjoy your next bill ride, Wolcott. Oh, and look up one Scott Jacobs; he’s another wild bill rider from way back.
ChuckYou! Schumer is a dagger pointed at the heart of reason narciso. Thanks for the link.
it is ok folks mitch will mishandle it. GO RINO
Wolcott is clearly confused with those sad denizens of the Huffington Post, who were hosed when AOL, assimilated the organism in question, also he doesn’t know it as a joke, son, as Foghorn Leghorn would say. Daniels really is ‘removing all doubt’ as the phrase goes, he could have been funny at the grand guignol affair, referencing as he provided a pretext for the Indiana fleebaggers, but that wouldn’t seem very self deprecating.
Been a busy guy lately but the important updates here have been cracking me up.
Just checked the Daniels/Lugar stuff against the transcript and there’s no hijinx involved from the reporters:
That pretty much settles it for me. Of course, I might forgive him a bit later, like I did with Palin stumping for McCain in the primaries last cycle.
bh,
Thanks for the homework (haven’t had time to respond to your e-mailL:^)
Dick Lugar has been in the senate since 1977. 34 years.
I just find that amazing.
No problem, Danger. And, hey, I understand, I’m about two weeks behind on email myself.
I think that line where he tried to key off that debunked line ‘about Africa being a country’, to suck up to the SRM, at the assembled dinner, or his endorsement of a value added tax and an oil import fee,
Senator Smoot cried tears of joy.
Didn’t Geraldo Rivera already do that in the run-up to Gulf War II? Whatcha gonna do for an encore, rescue some poor Japanese lady’s poodle in two takes?
It’s still dark here. Just so you know.
Despite news to the contrary Japan has not started to glow bright yellow. It is sickening what the MSM, the BBC and even Austrian news are reporting. Japan’s people would be better served if these so called news organizations simply donated the cost of sending these idiots to Japan to a relief fund.
And its nighttime and raining and no I am not melting because I got wet.
It looks like daylight in Atlanta, at least according to the Weather Channel, but it’s STILL DARK HERE.
O_o
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Were the people at 3 Mile Isle union?
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Spiny, it may look like daylight here, but that thing that’s looming over the eastern horizon sure looks like a thermonuclear fireball to me.
Well, McGehee, the glare from that possible thermonuclear fireball is appearing over the horizon here now.
Developing…
Well, McGehee, the glare from that possible thermonuclear fireball is appearing over the horizon here now.
You guys sure it’s not a NASCAR event?
Ohio River here is at 47 feet, it’s over the road. There’s barricades across the streets. It’s..Oh My GOD! GADZIRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAA!
I just noticed that the posted time says 8:15 am for the last comment… its 11:30 pm here in southern Japan. The last hour they had an excellent story regarding exactly what happened regarding the power plant.
http://cbullitt.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/a-little-less-hysteria-with-my-meltdown-please/
Excellent post. Obviously those pictorials at his site help keep him sanquine and clear headed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv3AY1zTzaE
This cultural reference sums it up well too.
Okay, we have full-on thermonuclear radiation pouring from the sky again, just like yesterday. I’m not sure how much more of this Gaia can take.
This just in: Upper West Side Guru James Wolcott has put down the ocelots long enough to have “his man” issue a missive to the “gentlemen of the press”.
Seems he’s disappointed in the Japan Quake/Tsunami body count.
That is all.
Since it’s becoming increasingly possible that it’s likely that perhaps, in the not so distant future, the world will almost certainly come to an end (if only there were ten –just ten!– virgins left for us to throw into a volcano)
What’s the best spirit to sip while contemplating what it all meant, or was supposed to mean?
Absinthe.
Never had it.
I did however discover George Dickel No. 12 this weekend. Jack Daniels will never be the same.
I’ve just noticed that whatever it is that going on, it’s having an effect. I’m starting to self censor.
I just wrote a blog comment that when taken in context may have been funny and might have added to the discussion about the issue presented below and illustrated by this post. But then I thought that some asshole would cherry pick my comment and republish it on some pragmatic blog as an example of how “bad” it’s gotten around here.
Since I didn’t want that to happen, I deleted the comment
Good God.
Ernst SChreiber, you might give Blanton’s a try. Expensive like Petron, but mighty smooth.
I am amazed he can give his closing argument with one handed typing. He was busy doing something else with the other hand.
He just can’t quit you, Jeff. He wishes he could.
…I thought that some asshole would cherry pick my comment and republish it on some pragmatic blog as an example of how “bad” it’s gotten around here.Since I didn’t want that to happen, I deleted the comment
Good God.
Repost the comment and regain your integrity. You owe it yourself.
But alter other’s words without notice? That is ethically wrong.
And?
Watch out Jeff, you might lose your blogging license.
I will, however, note that Ace and his cobloggers do that all the freakin’ time with their pet trolls. As well they should; it’s funny, and it’s one of the best things about the AoS commentary. But I don’t hear the esteemed Mr. Patterico (who may or may not be an anti-semite (READER POLL!)) bustin’ their chops for imagined ethical violations of The Blogger’s Credo.
Remember: when uninvited guests wander in to your house and make a nuisance of themselves, you treat them with the grace and dignity you’d reserve for (zombie) Mother Freakin’ Theresa. To do any less would be unethical.
My wife told me Cooks Magazine did a taste test with the cheapest vodka at the liquor store and Gray Goose. Everyone preferred Gray Goose in blind tatstings. Then they ran the cheap stuff through a Brita filter picture. The two vodkas tested relatively the same.
Cost savings tip of the day!
The fourth line on 101 should not be italitized. My bad. I am blaming it on the Brita filter.
Without notice?
Happy was right there. He noticed.
And I didn’t alter. I deleted a link. In Frey’s own case, I altered his spamming and Google Bombing by changing his links. I never altered a thing of Dustin’s, no matter what he says (in fact, I don’t even know who he is); and Eric PW Johnson was likewise told (in fact, he was there in the thread) — and I made mention of the fact I was doing it in that very thread.
People who cry “Death Threat” and “RACIST” at every opportunity, or who are sending often unsolicited emails to people bashing me behind my back, shouldn’t really be talking of the ethics of blogging. Or the ethics of anything.
Happy posted thousands upon thousands of comments here, was given free reign for years, and only toward the end was repeatedly warned to stop the Palin griefering, particularly on threads that had nothing to do with Palin. Simple as that.
Beyond that, I don’t much care what Frey pleads to his stacked jury about my ethics. If you don’t want to comment here for fear of my unethically twisting your words — and I’d venture that I’ve had thousands more comments than Frey over the years, nearly all without incident — then don’t comment here. You will not troll my site. That time has passed.
Go to Frey’s if that’s your bag. Athough be prepared: Like his coverage of the Japanese nuclear reactor, it’ll be “you’re banned; update: you’re unbanned; update, you are re-banned; update: I am granting clemency”.
Pick your poison. Me, I know who am I.
Oh and LMC? Frankly, that aggressive, violent avatar you’ve got there is yet another example of how bad it is over here these days. Might I suggest a nice bunny or a kittycat? Pancake-on-head optional.
Yeah, John. Surprised no one has brought that up over there.
Kind of like no one brought up WI at the President’s last press conference. Almost like there’s a plan, and that collusion is a major part of said plan.
Good post. I would link it but the links are not taking.
OMG! Snipers! Violence! Comment Editing! Link Deleting! Troll Banning! DEATH THREATS!
SMOG!!!!
It’s like Lord of the Flies around here.
Where’s the MLA?!?!?
Meh. Pat’s just slipped on a Banana peel as usual. Fancies himself the LA paper with less flambe.
Getting back to the serious question of the best adult beverage to greet Ragnarok with:
I like my bourbon filtered through sugar maple charcoal, Joe. And tequila is of the devil.
Not a vodka drinker either, come to think of it.
I think they’re sending RoboShemp to Fukushima in hopes that he’ll be irradiated to a crisp, green glowing crunch. Then he’ll either evaporate and nobody will have to look at him again, or he’ll transform into a superhero that they can make him wear a costume with the Fox News logo on it.
You just gotta know that would frost Ted Turner’s flakes.
How’s that?
Thus I can be insulated from any charges of homophobia and yet still let my inner (perceived) misanthrope out.
LMC, this implies that your previous avatar — the one before the one you just gave up — should have said, “Thank you, ma’am.”
For the record, being called “Piggy” by a group of pork-slurping primitives is not a good thing…
I took a particular liking to the Glenlivet 15 yo French Oak Reserve over the weekend. Smooth.
But at $12 a shot, ouch.
I thought he fancied himself crime-fighting wrong-righter by day, OMBUDSMAN OF ALL MEDIA by night myself.
I don’t know… that bright yellow is highly reminiscent of a certain former commentor, and apparently you’re hitting him! Possibly with George Michael’s cock; hard to tell.
DEATH THREATS! and/or SODOMY!
Glenlivet 15 yo French Oak Reserve
Well, since it’s the End of the World we’re talking about, I think I’ll put that on the list “things to blow the diaper money on when there’s nothing the wife can do about it.”
Speaking of Scotch, I was picking up a bottle of red label last week, and the college kid at the cash register starts telling me about the 18 yr old Macallen’s and COKE (Jesus H Christ, WTF kid!) he likes because it tastes like Copenhagen.
That griefer should be celebrating Easter. I saw a report this weekend that the creator (Tajiri) died in the tsunami, but reports just three days later say he’s among the living. Hallelujah!
Can’t make it fit McG. Take that any way you like. I can’t stop you.
Screw the 50 inch HDs, when the shit finally hits the fan there, loot all the Macallen’s from that store for justice!
Speaking of Scotch, I was picking up a bottle of red label last week, and the college kid at the cash register starts telling me about the 18 yr old Macallen’s and COKE (Jesus H Christ, WTF kid!) he likes because it tastes like Copenhagen.
At first I thought you meant snorting a few lines of powder with a glass of Macallens, a bit bohemian but whatever rocks your boat, and then the horror set in, FUCK ME, mixing 18 year old Macallens and Coca-Cola! Now that is a crime!
See ya later – off to a HS golf match and it’s 74 degrees, bitches!
I already look like a cooked lobster from the tournament on Saturday (69 degrees) and playing 9 yesterday (73 degrees).
Spring has sprung! Now, if my golf swing would cooperate…
Mixing almost any scotch with coke is crime against taste. Except Cutty Sark and Coke.
Then your ruining a perfectly good cola.
I routinely write lawyer/cheerleader fanfic and diddle myself to old Kathleen Turner videos.
Hey! Why are you changing what I wrote?
And can anyone blame you?
(Other than for mixing up the threads, I mean)
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