third glass of Glenkinchie: “No offense, but I think your boy Al’s ‘concern’ can probably be traced back to something relatively unremarkable, like, say, a high-wattage bulb in a low-wattage lamp, or maybe a busted water hose in his freezer. Because me? I’ve got plenty of ice. And there’s lots more where this came from, too, believe you me…”
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update: “Hell, I’m practically swimming in the stuff!”
so bold, that scotch. ;D
Blame Tipper. She wanted Al to be more bold.
The wife asked me earlier if I wanted to watch the Oscars with her. I told her I’d rather be an ass cleaner in an old folks home.
You freaking bitch, you.
Seems like Al’s truth gets more convenient every day.
I have a new goal for when I retire from the Army…get a liquor cabinet as interesting and articulate as Jeff’s!
It was almost amusing, though, when his announcement speech was “interrupted” by the orchestra.
He did win in the “Fiction masquerading as documentary category” …. no?
OTT,
No, I think it was the “Social Engineering Masquerading as a Science Project” category.
No massive wealth redistribution ? Why bother ?
You should hear my sock drawer, Major John. A couple pair of ankle high athletic socks formed one of the best barbershop quartets I’ve ever heard.
Of course, they don’t like mixing with the colored socks—so it ain’t like they’re all good.
Of course, to create that ice in one location you will have to segregate the heat (the kinetic energy) from that system, which require an even greater external source of energy which most likely comes from fossil fuels (and even if it doesn’t, it could certainly be used somewhere else better as a substitute for fossil fuels).
See the second law of thermodynamics.
Unless you were just making a joke, in which case… yeah, global warming… hi-lar-ious.
If your underwear speaks up, don’t follow it’s advice.
Trust me on this one…
quick! look around and make sure there’s not a note that says, “Call 911”
I’m sure glad that those liberal politicians are concerned and compassionate, and not like those liberal politicians who fear monger for political gain.
er, um, “and not like those conservative politicians…”.
But you probably figured that out.
Lee, when my underwear speaks up I always pay close attention. It does, after all, have me by the….
Regards,
Ric
I thought the Oscars were ok. I had them on in the background because my son, who’s in the industry, insisted, and because my wife, who was watching, wanted me around.
Most of the winners were obvious.
The commercials were better than the Super Bowl, my favorite was the elephant one, and not because I’m a Republican.
Hollywood ascribes to the maxim, “The artist is the unacknowleged legislator of the world”, and Hollywood perceives itself as an artist’s colony.
Too effing long.
Therefore, you KNEW Melissa Etheridge would win best song, and you KNEW that Ellen Degeneres would use the opportunity for many subtle and maybe not so subtle lesbian refs, and you KNEW that Al Gore would win and you KNEW that everytime that Al Gore was mentioned there’d be a veritable riot. (There must have been half a dozen of these.) All of thes meant of course to be a big FU to the administration.
Just remember, “without Blacks, Jews, and Gays there’d be no Oscars.”
I didn’t know that Mark Wahlberg was Marky Mark nor did I know he was a racist punk in his teens.
I thought “Departed” was a stupid waste of my time, because the ending was so poorly conceived. If that’s best picture, that means, a lousy crop of movies.
A strongly leftist display of inclusiveness.
My wife reports that the entire thing was retarded. I believe her.
Once when I did walk into our living room I saw the ever important black baptist choir in the background of some musical production.
When will the people producing these things ever get tired of the black baptist choir?
Besides that, it seems sort of patronizing to me. How do the black atheist of the world feel being constantly portrayed as baptist?
Yeah, I love Scorsese, but he won for one of his weaker efforts. Like Pacino and Scent of a Woman.
Meanwhile, poor Peter O’Toole. Jesus, if Lawrence of Arabia can’t win a freaking Oscar, something is amiss!
If I’m understanding cmcintyre3600 correctly, my Scotch needs to SHUT THE FUCK UP!
Either that, or get himself one of them Ed Begley freezers, which runs on wind, and the cold breath of Inuits.
In another communication with my wife she has stated to me that a new self absorbing credo of hollywood starlets is to literally bleach their assholes.
I didnt believe her so I checked it out, it’s a definate possible reality.
Courtney Cox, Lara Flynn Boyle, and Katie Holmes have all been reported on taking on this as a possible attempt to hold ultimate vanity in their little socialist paws.
Or, maybe this is one of the rituals to cleanse your thetans or whatever.
Jeff,
Isn’t Glenkinchie smooth? It’s the smoothest scotch I’ve ever had. I’ve had a couple of other single malts that might be better scotches overall, but Glenkinchie is the smoothest and a fine whiskey.
If people like Gore could get elected to high public office, the Kyoto Protocol would get submitted to the Senate.
Oh.
That’s in-con-ven-ient!
I can understand a porn star bleaching their asshole, but face it, how many people are going to see Lara Flynn Boyle’s rectum in her life that it matters?
Ronnie—
Yeah, very smooth. Have you tried The Balvenie? 15-year or Doublewood (my personal favorite) are worth giving a go if you like Glenkinchie.
” how many people are going to see Lara Flynn Boyle’s rectum in her life that it matters?”
More than anyone would care to know?
Inconvenient Al still looked like the stupidest guy in the room… a room which Cameron Diaz, Leonardo DiCaprio, and the like…
And Jeff, for a fine dram without breaking the bank, look for Highland Park 18yr or Caol Ila 18yr…
Never take a rufie.
Rufies are for giving.
republican on acid, eh?
Does that mean that the blotter comes with images of Ronald Reagan?
Well it’s been years but I suppose there was a time where that would have made me laugh right before I ingested them.
There used to be a joke right when a person would put the acid on their tongue – they’d say, “oh shit, I really don’t want to trip.” and then laugh.
This is now our world, a place where people treat pregnant ideas as a joke. They don’t consider the child, just the fucking.
As lsd has the ability to completely change a persons spiritual outlook, so does the lazy political thought process that exists today. Without resources and information your likely to give birth to a destructive child that has no ability to move the force of humanity forward. Indeed the child of today is usually a speedbump. It isn’t without reason that the militant muslim imam saw his chance to strike and to keep striking . Behind all the complexities of the world, all the absurdities there is always a reason. A method, a purpose. A cat doesn’t stalk its prey merely for aesthetics!
Anna Nicole is as important as militant islam isn’t she?
But I digress, I do not mean to get into this as much as I say. Back in the day, I used copious amounts of lsd and so on, but I was never a dirty hippy. To me, being a socialist is as specious as being a churchgoer without faith. Socialism is the lazy mans christianity. It has all the trappings of faith with none of the spiritual rewards.
Ok, I give, at this moment the vodka is talking. Wish it were Scotch.
Also, let’s face it, if someone as convoluted and weird as me finds more hope in GW than I do whatever the hell it is the Dems are offering then there must be some small smidgeon of hope left.
There are many like me that don’t fall for “convieniant data” but they aren’t saying anything because they are afraid to lose face in their “community”. Me, I don’t give a shit about that. My mind is what it is and no one is going to fuck with that.
BTW, I respectfully disagree with steve. There are few Hollywood movies that would not be improved by ripping off the end of The Departed. Except Dr. Strangelove.
I wish my scotch were so eloquent. All my Balvenie Doublewood ever says is “Drink me”. Of course, fine as she is, she need say nae more.
Before I return to the kitchen to fetch another glass, I’ll quietly put in a good word for the Glenmorangie Port Wood Finish. I’d say more, but you know how jealous these high-class lassies get. I don’t care to get a sgian dubh in the chitlins while I sleep…
“Fiction masquerading as documentary categoryâ€Â
AKA “the Michael Moore category”
(you know someone was going to say it)
This bleaching news – you know, I remember when the “Brazilian” became popular, that didn’t surprise me. But this – this is surprising. And new. And – yeeeccchhh.
Can you find those at Lowe’s, or Home Depot?
It might be a special-order item.
I was so proud of Dicaprio for coming to the Oscar’s in his environmentally sound Prius hybrid. Now THAT is standing up for what you believe in.
Mr. Republican,
You are my life story.
As per “Departed”, I did not see the original Japanese film, so I am limited there. However, I know something about it.
You will from time to time have a story where the protagonist is killed at the end, but it did not work in this film. The main reasons for that is that the removal of the protagonist was too abrupt, had no foreshadowing, and went nowhere. And one more: way, way too much time was spent on the redemptive theme for the protagonist.
However, if you are true to the original story, and at the same time, build your story around Leo (I will forego pointing out the other problems with the script), then you have a dilemma, because you ARE going to have to kill him off. I do know that the original film ends at the elevator: for this one to work, it would have had to do the same. Throwing in the funeral for a sense of faux retrospection on Leo was an unnecessary drag after the adrenalin of the multiple shootings moments before. The shooting of Matt Damon by Marky Mark was ridiculous and was clearly meant to throw a bone to the audience, and it didn’t work either (I also don’t think it would “work” in real life either.) To go from that to an effing squirrel on the balcony was trite.
Just a very poorly conceived ending. The only upshot of the film is that “everybody dies.” However, Jack Nicholson with a dildo is not quite the same as Hamlet’s soliloquy.
We had the scotch conversation a couple of days ago, and you guys are a bunch of damned fools—its LAGAVULIN 16, FOR CHRISSAKE!! Anything else is like taking the cute girl with the small chest when you could have had the cute girl with the not-so-small chest.
I had some Lagavulin 16 year the other night. I liked it very much.
Last night, though, I wasn’t particularly interested in something peaty.
Wow, for a moment there I thought you said Glen Kimchee, which is a really, really bad korean scotch.
I mean, c’mon, cabbage? Yuck.
SB: saying26
just
Is it me, or did Algore look like a bloated Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade balloon? I had to turn the Oscars off after that gushing lovefest for Gorebot. He stood up there like he just saved the fng world.. Made me sick……..
Did anyone else notice the Citgo ad trumpeting how much energy assistance Venezuela gives poor Americans?
I think this means that the grassroots boycott of Citgo is having an effect and they are trying to burnish their image. Either that or it’s just megalomaniacal commie propaganda from Chavez.
Funny how the ad didn’t mention the Inuit tribe in Alaska that turned down Chavez’ offer of fuel oil assistance. They said they’d rather be cold than help a dictator embarrass the United States.
“America voted for Al Gore and …….laughter and applause…….and and and he’s here at the Oscars”
The only way I’d vote for Al Gore would be if he, myself and several others were buried under a spaghetti avalanche and we took a vote on who was going to eat through the wall of pasta so that someone else from the group, who could run 100 yards without his heart becoming a roadside bomb, could go for help.
The cute girl with the small chest is still fine. If anything, better with age.
/tachyonshuggy puts Alpuccino down as “undecided”
I might vote for Al Gore if he were running for speedbump.
But it would have to be someplace where studded tires are legal in the wintertime, and I live in Georgia so I’ll have to abstain.
Okay, okay….you’re in a lifeboat with Al Gore and a bunch of dudes and help won’t be coming for another 45 minutes and the sun is raally starting to beat down on you.
Who doesn’t vote for Al Gore to be the one who gets gutted and skinned for the purpose of making a nice big awning to make the wait a little more pleasant?
Only one?
Don’t get me wrong Jeff or Mark–I’d be all over the cute girl with a small chest and/or the Glenkinchie as well, if I didn’t have any Laug and/or a cute girl with a not-so-small chest available. And of course, sometimes you’re just not in the mood for something so peaty and big-chested!