Bill in Portland Maine is so lupine!

[pyesetz]

Here's Bill:

35	Number of words TIME magazine devoted to Judge Anna Diggs Taylor's ruling that President Bush's warrantless domestic wiretapping program is unconstitutional.
1,109	The number of words in the same issue on the extradition of John Mark Karr.

To put that in perspective, 1,109 words equals:

4	readings of the Gettysburg Address
6	renditions of the song "Endless Love."
7½	readings of Robert Frost's The Road Less Taken
26	Hail Marys
139	cries of "Son of a bitch, I stubbed my toe!"

Or you could tell your local pizza place to "add extra cheese and hold the anchovies" 158 times.

But I digress. Which reminds me...you could write "But I digress" 369 times to equal the length of TIME's JonBenet Ramsey article. But I digress again. (277 times.) Stop it! (554 times.) Twit. (1,109 times.)

Comments

[xolo.livejournal.com]

I have this sudden urge to do a video of me reading the Time article, while you hop around on one foot in the background yelling "Son of a bitch, I stubbed my toe!" 139 times. Might you come to Morphicon?

[pyesetz]

My choice of typography for this post unfortunately doesn't make it clear than the entire thing is a quote—every occurrence of the pronoun "I" above is Bill talking about himself.

The BDSM aspect of stubbing my toe while you read Time doesn't sound particularly appealing, although the concept for the video does perhaps have some amusement value, especially if the video were cut so I only have to yell "Sonofabitch, I stubbed my toe" a mere 13.9 times while you read a tenth of the article.

I regret to report that I have no plans for Con attendance this year.