Quibbles and bits
Dec. 14th, 2006 01:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pyesetzI am excessively proud of the title, “Quibbles and Bits”, for my comment on this post about Conservative Judaism's decision to allow gay rabbis.
When I read this story I thought of a certain cougar who sometimes complains about having been short-changed in the "equipment" area.
I haven't been watching Battlestar Galactica, but apparently they use the word "frack" a lot (with meaning similar to "smeg" on Red Dwarf). Scott Adams gives us this riff:
I was reading on SlashDot (at a high comment threshold) about EMI, one of the robber-baron music conglomerates, which is thinking about selling music that doesn't automatically assume that the customer is a criminal. Because of the high comment threshold, I didn't immediately see the post for which the reply was "Celine Dion isn't quite THAT bad".
Wired has a blogpost where they ask people to vote on which technocrat put his foot in his mouth the most this year. It's mostly tired old Bush/Cheney crap, but then there's this one:
When I read this story I thought of a certain cougar who sometimes complains about having been short-changed in the "equipment" area.
I haven't been watching Battlestar Galactica, but apparently they use the word "frack" a lot (with meaning similar to "smeg" on Red Dwarf). Scott Adams gives us this riff:
Galactica is a military ship under continuous threat of annihilation by Cylons. If you were on that ship, you'd be cursing too. For example, you might be tempted to yell "frack!" when you discover that the hot chick who fracked your brains out is actually a frackin' Cylon who is now pregnant with your frackin' baby that is half human and half frackin' toaster.
I was reading on SlashDot (at a high comment threshold) about EMI, one of the robber-baron music conglomerates, which is thinking about selling music that doesn't automatically assume that the customer is a criminal. Because of the high comment threshold, I didn't immediately see the post for which the reply was "Celine Dion isn't quite THAT bad".
Wired has a blogpost where they ask people to vote on which technocrat put his foot in his mouth the most this year. It's mostly tired old Bush/Cheney crap, but then there's this one:
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