Josh I was hoping you might post about the wines you selected for dinner on Saturday night. I greatly enjoyed them, but I do not remember their names. I thought others might want to pick some up at their local Trader Joes too!

Dave,

I have been trying to pronounce this word the way I normally do, but I'm not sure I'm succeeding. I might be over-enunciating because I'm thinking too hard. I'll have to listen to myself to see what I do normally. My mouth does not immediately reject "comfterble" so it's possible I say this in hurried speech, but even in enunciated speech I replace the or with the ur from hurt.

It would be useful to write the word and have our parents each pronounce it. We might put it into a sentence so that they don't know what word we're checking: "Are you comfortable in the chaise longue" would be sneaky but effective, because if they suspect we're doing a dialect survey they will probably guess we are testing chaise longue.

Frankly, I would love to see the results of our parents' Harvard Dialect Survey. I could have sworn that both our parents say "melk" and "pellow" for "milk" and "pillow", but Mom is sure she does not. Maybe we need a pair of sentences: "Are you comfortable in the chaise longue? I could bring you a glass of milk or a pillow." (And then, to thank them for being good sports and taking a dialect survey, we could get them some milk and a pillow.)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

Edited by author 02-14-2003 05:00 PM
See's Candy, Hershey's, and Nestlé buy cocoa beans from Ivory Coast, where slave boys as young as 9 years old are used to harvest beans.

Victoria's Secret employs sweatshop workers earning 71 cents an hour and U.S. prison workers earning 30 to 95 cents an hour.

The biggest and most beautiful red roses at florists' shops come from Ecuador, where impoverished farm workers are sprayed with pesticides, leading to headaches, rashes, and miscarriages.

Some of the diamonds at jewelers' shops come from Angola, Sierra Leone, and Congo, where warlords and terror groups employ slave labor to mine diamonds.  The proceeds go to finance wars.

Happy Valentine's day.

This year, show your loved one that you love her and the rest of mankind.  Buy your chocolate from companies purchasing Fair Trade cocoa, such as Scharffen Berger and Ithaca Fine Chocolates; buy domestic roses, preferably organic ones, from companies such as FlowerBud.com; buy reputable lingerie such as that from Margaret Ann, hand-made in the United Kingdom; and find out from your jeweler where they source their diamonds.

Ha...I'll one up you and just be single, thank you very much!

I say "milk" and "pillow". Try me some day.

Today I'm happy that I have asthma...otherwise I'd be worried about getting my ass drafted!

Oh man! I wish I had asthma!

I guess that I'll just have to amputate my own hand... or maybe just see what rent is like in Vancouver or Zurich.

Ok, here's what you need to do...take up smoking really fast, all the tar in your lungs w/ produce asthma-like symptoms...then bam...no draft

but you do have to worry about that whole cancer thing...ohh..i got it...you could suck on the tailpipe of a '66 Chevy...that would do it too!

Crystalline Moth?

Oh, you... you... Rear Admiral*!



*(how's that for Inside Joke of the Year?)

That model is awesome. How terribly cool.

I also really enjoyed "Red Dragon." I thought the screenplay was above average, and the acting was top notch. What a great cast. Superb acting with good words to say.

The directing, however, sort of annoyed me. I got so sick of the "EVERY SCENE WILL END WITH A DRAMATIC MUSICAL STING OVER AN IMPORTANT LINE" convention he established.

Good grief, we got it the first six times somebody lowered their voice and the X-Files "something's wrong" sound came on again just before a scene change.

But you know what? It's rare that there's that little to complain about after watching a movie.

Oh, and Mary-Louise Parker is a babe!

I watched Red Dragon for the first time last night. Over all, I'd say that it was very good. There were a couple of things that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me (why wasn't Edward Norton ever given a partner or police escort while he was investigating, especially after they found out that the killer was obsessed with him?), but I liked the product, over all. My biggest complaint was that they cut out the shot where Ralph jumps out of bed naked and you get to see his wang. Apparently, its size scared test audiences, and they had to cut the shot. Too bad; you shouldn't blame the wang.

The movie was good, but its cast was really its saving grace. If it hadn't had so many great actors giving top-notch performances, I probably wouldn't have been impressed with it.

Edited by author 04-14-2003 10:57 PM
Once again, you have failed in giving proper credit. Regarding your post on 28 Feb. 2003, it was not Ari Fleischer who made those comments in a press conference. It was me.

And he changed several bits too. For example:

Q And didn't Lyndon Johnson get in trouble for the same sort of thinking during Vietnam, in wanting to maintain his fiscal program while funding the Vietnam War?

MR. MCGEE: Whether or not the President decides to authorize the use of force, it is vital for out country that the economy grow. Lyndon Johnson's wife's name was fucking Ladybird where President Bush's wife has a much more regular sounding name. You tell me who we should listen to on this one.

I'm certain you would not suggest that if we go to war, seniors somehow don't deserve prescription drugs. And Lyndon Johnson is currently deceased, my friend. Are you suggesting that the deceased should still be covered by Medicare? And actually, that's not a bad idea considering our current economic track record. Thanks, I hope you don't mind if I take credit for that one.

Please do better research next time.

Fine, whatever.

I thought it was funny.

:P

As did I. I would have responded earlier, but I was out doing better research.