Oh, gee whiz

Ilsa, She-Barbie and Ruritanian Goalie Ken



Do you suppose either of these two remembers what they looked like before they started having themselves carved up?

hee.

Bushlet ponders action with the ghost of dad

from Fanatical Apathy

[Enter BUSHLET, clad in doublet, hose, and a ten gallonne hat.]

BUSHLET:Oh, what a brogue and pissant shave am I!
BER. (whispered): 'tis inpenetrable! His words lack all sense!
FRA.: And yet in that nonsense, his sense does emerge.
BER.: 'Tis why we love him.

[Unseen, a GHOST appears behind Bushlet]

BUSHLET: To attack or not to attack, that is the question -
GHOST.: -Nay, 'tis not. Not the question. Not.
FRA. (whispered): 'Pon my life - 'tis his father, once King.
BUSHLET: Lo! What's this? Tis the ghost of my Father,
Cruelly slain, and now here reanimerated.
GHOST: Slain? Nay, son, I live. Feelin' good...
BUSHLET: Oh dear father - thine death shall be avenged!
GHOST: Nay, son, I am not dead I tell thee...
BUSHLET: Long shall be the struggle, but this evil-doer
Shall be brought low. Much avengeration
Shall I have 'pon the head of Saddam.
GHOST: Saddam. Tis he who I come to speak of with thee.
BUSHLET: Speak, dear shade! What has roused thee from thy grave?
GHOST: Whatever. Listen, son. Time to listen. Now.
Thou dost fritter away thy days in indecision.
Now waiting, now preparing thine attacks.
Thy sabre rattles, and yet stays sheathed withal.
BUSHLET: Tis a defective sabre. I can't find the trigger.

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Exeunt giggling.

crosses fingers

D-day for Katherine Harris

Eschaton and Counterspin had this early, but I have to add my favorite quotes from the story:

''What he's asking for is for you to essentially declare his client the winner of the Republican primary,'' [Harris' lawyer] said of [her opponent's lawyer's] arguments.

and

To avoid the cost of reprinting ballots without Harris' name, and to prevent massive confusion at the polls, [her opponent's lawyer] told [the judge] he could simply order that any votes for Harris not be counted.

Is that - you know - Democratic?

hmmm.

How consistent are your ideas about God?

I'm unusually consistent, it tells me.