KOEB Meeting: 09/16/08 -- Let's Give John McCain The Raspberry Edition

[Patsy Stone]

:hi: Where is everybody?

[SeattleGirl]

1. Hi Patsy! Hi all!

Yes, let's!

[Patsy Stone]

4. Pffffthtthththhthhtllththth!

:hi:

[Patsy Stone]

2. He wants a 9/11 Commission? For what?

I don't get it. And, don't we already have one?

[Berry Cool]

8. A 9/11 Commission for the economy.

Which sorta makes sense, given that we're about to experience a financial 9/11 if someone doesn't do something quick.

But I doubt the 9/11 Commission got to the bottom of everything about 9/11, so... :shrug:

[Patsy Stone]

16. Ah, that makes sense.

Because if he wanted to talk about 9/11, he could start by implementing the suggestions of the previous committee first.

[bleever]

14. Hey, at least he didn't say Warren Commission!

:hi:

[Patsy Stone]

21. Thank heavens

for small favors.

:hi:

[bleever]

29. Still, maybe there's a magic bullet for the economy.

Flaven!

[Berry Cool]

3. I'm here!

:hi: I'll happily give McCain the raspberry AND the rotten tomatoes!!

[Patsy Stone]

7. Yay!

Hello! :hi:

[Berry Cool]

18. What did I tell you guys, Keith is back to the RIGHT glasses. :-)

And he's lovely and candy-pink and stripey tonight too. :loveya:

[Patsy Stone]

32. You were right

It was obvious he couldn't read. Although I will miss the Superman moments. :(

[Berry Cool]

66. That's the only bad part.

No naked Keith tonight. :cry:

[SeattleGirl]

10. Hi Berry!

:hi:

[Berry Cool]

24. Hi SG!!

:hi: And Wolvie, bleev, ralps and Mabus!

[WolverineDG]

5. I'm here!!

:hi:

dg

[Patsy Stone]

9. Goody!

I should go get some snacks for everyone.

I simply adore the fact that Obama saw this coming and warned them a year ago. :loveya:

[WolverineDG]

40. Yah, but he has no experience

:eyes:

McCain, I fart in your general direction.

dg

[Patsy Stone]

45. They will lose

and lose bad. It will be good.

[SeattleGirl]

13. Hi Wolvie!

:hi:

[WolverineDG]

48. Heya SG!

:hi:

dg

[ralps]

6. Hi Patsy! Hi Everyone! Ok I'll do it!! LOL

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo: :rofl:

[Patsy Stone]

12. Loud!

Hi to you and meow to Crook! :hi:

[SeattleGirl]

15. Hi ralps!

[ralps]

22. Hi SeattleGirl!!! Awwww!! That's great gif! is it ok if I save it??

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo: :shrug:

[SeattleGirl]

23. Please be my guest!

[bleever]

11. I wouldn't trust Grampy with the remote,

let alone oversight of our financial market regulation.

:hi:

[SeattleGirl]

17. Hi bleev!

Neither would I.

:hi:

[Mabus]

19. Hello all

Listening to KO, checking out the forum and chatting with my nephew (DU's simpleone) on the phone.

:hi:

:loveya:


edited to add:

[SeattleGirl]

20. Hey Mabus!

:hi:

[Mabus]

25. Hey SG, sending something your way

Good catch!

[SeattleGirl]

27. Awwwwww

Thanks!

[bleever]

26. Wow, a ten point drop for Palin!

To know her is to think she's icky.

:)

[Patsy Stone]

30. Goodbye, Sarah.

It's been fun. Soon, you will either return to Juneau or pepper the talking heads shows ad nauseum.

[bleever]

34. As a caller to Thom Hartmann's show said,

"I'd buy Avon from her".

[Berry Cool]

31. Familiarity breeds contempt.

It's like when you first meet your college roomie and you think the two of you are going to be Laverne & Shirley, only it turns out you're more like the Odd Couple.

[SeattleGirl]

36. And it doesn't help that a) she does the same speech again

and again, and b) they are keeping her away from the media.

[Mabus]

43. To know, know, know her

Is to hate, hate, hate her
and I do, and I do, and I do.
And I do, and I do, and I do.

[Mabus]

37. Giving her the Kansas Wheatwave

which we do at KU sporting events when someone fouls out or when the game is OVER!

[bleever]

41. What is the Kansas Wheatwave?

Never heard of it before.

[WolverineDG]

52. Here:

here I grew up (Kansas) when something good happened you Waved the Wheat. To wave the wheat you stand up, place both hands overhead, then wave both hands from left to right and right to left. Ideally you are doing this with several others so in theory you are simulating a wheat field waving in the wind. This was the original stadium wave and the original in this case cannot be improved on.Wheat Waving
Most of the time you waved the wheat at University of Kansas athletic events specifically football and basketball games. I was born and raised a Kansas Jayhawker so naturally I waved the wheat a lot during basketball season and not so much during football season.

The idea is that we wave the wheat a lot. We wave the wheat for superior performance and effort. We wave the wheat for good ideas. We wave the wheat for meeting deadlines and getting things done. We wave the wheat to celebrate!

From: https://uto.asu.edu/wire/?p=58

dg

[Berry Cool]

57. For O-high-oans, the equivalent is spelling out "O-H-I-O" a la "YMCA"

at all sporting events, during the playing of "Hang On Sloopy" (which is ALWAYS played at EVERY sporting event in the state).

Many children today have grown up thinking the lyrics to "Hang On Sloopy" are "Haaaang on Sloopy, Sloopy hang on O-H-I-O."

[WolverineDG]

65. Just as generations of kids from my school

think the proper thing to call out during a certain Sousa March is "M-C-H-I (pause) MAC HIGH!"

:rofl:

dg

[GigiMommy]

76. The Detroit Lions wave...

Place both hands around neck. Stick tongue straight out in front as far as you can. Wiggle tongue up and down. That's the Detroit Lions wave.


:hi: Hi Everybody!

[Berry Cool]

88. I thought that was the Cleveland Browns wave.

No, wait...that's what the TEAM does on the FIELD.

:hi: Hi GGM and Cassie!!

[SharonRB]

93. LOL

:rofl:

That sure sounds about right!

[Mabus]

97. and if you find a coach doing it to you

it might be Bob Knight (or Bear Bryant has returned :scared: ).

[bleever]

62. Thanks.

[Mabus]

58. It's also known as "waving the wheat"

The arms go straight up and then are swayed from side to side like the tops of wheat blowing in the wind. You can the Wheat Wave after KU defeated Okla. State (sort of) beginning at 20 seconds on this vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT58pDSVn4o

[Patsy Stone]

61. ...

:rofl:

:thumbsup:

[Mabus]

67. Then we'd all head downtown or out to the country bonfires

and party until the wee hours of the morning. If we were really, really lucky evlbstrd would show up with his homebrew. :party:

I miss Kansas.

[WolverineDG]

44. And it would be lower

if Tina Fey didn't skewer her on SNL....

:rofl:

:hi: bleev!!

dg

[bleever]

46. How great was that?

:hi: Wolvie!

[SharonRB]

28. I'm on a Michigan Jews for Change conference call

I'm going to have to watch the replay at 10.

[Berry Cool]

35. Thanks for dropping in anyway, Sha-Sha!

:hi:

Boy, it's time for people to learn that the Keating Five is not Michael Jackson's old family musical group!

[Patsy Stone]

39. How much change

did you guys come up with already? Was it enough to buy dinner? :)

[bleever]

55. It's so hard to find good Jewish take out anymore,

since the Gefilte Hut closed down.

[Patsy Stone]

68. The Rascal House closed.

It's going to become a gourmet supermarket under a gigantic condo. Without their matzo ball soup, my life will never be the same. Don't even get me started on the pickles. RIP.

[SharonRB]

71. You're kidding!

The Rascal House has been around forevah! I remember going there as a kid when my grandfather owned a hotel on Collins Ave.

[Patsy Stone]

75. Please

It kills me.

There was no reason for it other than greed. It was still packed all the time. It's a shanda.

[SharonRB]

86. I wish I could remember the name of my grandfather's hotel.

It was right across the street from Wolfie's and down the street from Jahn's ice cream parlor.

[Patsy Stone]

100. If it comes to you

please let me know. There were so many of them at the time, I can't even begin to remember all of them. Now they're mostly gigantic Trump condos. :(

[SharonRB]

101. It's driving me nuts

I've gone through the alphabet three times and can't come up with it. I used the Google, but there was nothing. This is one of those times I would have just picked up the phone and called my mother... My dad is out playing cards tonight, but I'll ask him the next time I talk to him if I don't come up with it by then.

[Berry Cool]

77. Awww, I'm sorry, Pats.

We have a Rascal House, but it's a chain of pizzerias, pretty much. :-)

[SharonRB]

69. I hope it's a lot more than that

Tonight was the first call I was on. It was mostly about the differences in Barack's and McSame's tax plans.

[Patsy Stone]

72. You mean like

one has one and the other doesn't?

Nice to see you! Good luck. Maybe you'll meet some nice people instead of hanging out with us reprobates. :)

[SharonRB]

74. Nah!

I love you reprobates and I'll always be hangin' out with youse. I know I haven't been around as much lately, but that should change after November 4.

[Patsy Stone]

83. President Obama

will see to it.

[Mabus]

33. Reasons why McCain invented the Blackberry

* To keep track of his homes

* Because Cindy kept finding phone numbers in his pockets

* So he could keep up to the minute on the Republican talking points

There have to be more.

[Berry Cool]

59. Because it was easier to work the keys on a tiny keyboard

I mean, he can't type on a regular computer keyboard, because he's a POW. :rofl:

[Botany]

38. I gave this bus the finger yesterday

cept now it says McCain on the side ..... I got a good 15 seconds of bird time

It was southbound and I was northbond on I-71 1/2 between Columbus & Cleveland

I saw it from a distance and saw the police cars ... I took that as a sign God wanted me
to say hi to John.

[Patsy Stone]

42. Welcome back to the world of electricity

:hi:

[Botany]

50. 3 days ... just got it back about 3 hours ago

75 mph winds .... had to drink my beer warm :scared:

[Patsy Stone]

54. :(

I've been there, and it sucks. I'm sorry for you. BTW, also fun: waiting in line in the hot sun for ice.

[Botany]

60. Ice was real hard to come by ..... 2 million + no power

I got enough to keep my food in the fridge good ...
Freezer .... not so much.

Although I had to put away the silk sheets and use cotton :rofl:

[Patsy Stone]

64. That's why we have

hurricane parties the night before, or the day after, depending on when we lose power.

[WolverineDG]

78. Cook up all the meat & invite the neighbors

who are coming over to invite you to THEIR BBQ....dear god, it was like thanksgiving in August but without the wacky relatives.

:rofl:

[Patsy Stone]

80. Right?

Why don't you have some ribs with your chicken and burger? Eat! Eat!

The trick was remembering to save some beer for later.

[WolverineDG]

90. kids never got beer

:cry:

Oh ya, it was fun...all the moms yelling at their kids to keep eating so the food wouldn't spoil.... :rofl:

dg

[Kolesar]

51. I couldn't resist either when we counter-rallied in Richfield

Heavens, when was that? 2003?

[Berry Cool]

53. Welcome back, Bot

I'm glad that bus was southbound, AWAY from me.

I'm glad Keith reported on the followup to Passport-Gate. Some quarters were trying to make it look as if Keith whipped up a big story out of nothing. So what if an employee or two peeked at the passport files of a few politicians and celebrities? That's no big scandal, right? Uh, yeah, actually it is...THEY ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO DO THAT...but in George W. Bush's federal government, it seems such a thing is par for the course!!!! :grr:

[WolverineDG]

47. Oh no, honey, you don't alleviate SAD with a tanning bed

nuh-uh, no way no how sweetie.....

Ya need full-spectrum lights for that and it has to hit your eyeballs...and aren't you supposed to wear goggles in a tanning bed?....at least 1/2 hour in the morning, every day....oh, ask me how I know this......

dg

[Kolesar]

49. I don't like the way Keith says: "Boooshed"

It's petty bourgeoisie

[Berry Cool]

63. Hi, BorealAvenger!

:hi: But he loves doing it that way...and he does it on purpose.

Oh good, he wished Lauren Bacall a happy birthday...it was the least he could do after she claimed Countdown is the only news show she watches now!

Happy birthday, Betty! :party: Did you guys know, she and Bogie got married in Mansfield...about halfway between Cleveland and Columbus.

[Patsy Stone]

56. "Your Israeli tax shekels in action."

:)

[Mabus]

70. ....

:spray: :rofl:

[Berry Cool]

73. Well, Keith has now chosen the charity he will donate his $100 to for each Palin lie.

The Alaska Special Olympics...because Sarah the "Special Needs Mother of the Year" cut their funding!

[Patsy Stone]

79. Perfect-o!

:)

[Berry Cool]

82. G. Gordon Liddy needs another helping of Apple Brown Ratty.

Jeez, buddy...is it gonna be just you and Larry Johnson left, sitting in a corner somewhere in a mental institution, saying "But I swear...that birth certificate can't be legit...I'm SURE he was really born in Kenya!...Has anyone checked again what year Hawaii became a state???"

[ralps]

81. Today's worst person in the world is Kevin D Williamson for saying that Sarah

Palin has SAD! That's why she has the tanning bed!! :hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo: :shrug:

[WolverineDG]

87. and as I pointed out up thread

it's not cured or alleviated by a tanning bed...seems the light needs to hit your eyeballs & lying in a tanning bed requires that you put on goggles & close your eyes, which kind of defeats the purpose....

dg

[Patsy Stone]

95. Just one more to add to the list.

Keith should start giving money everytime someone on that campaign tells the truth. It would mean a lot more money left in his pocket.

[Mabus]

89. Palin makes me SAD

Maybe I should go find a tanning bed of my own.

[Berry Cool]

94. And it's another baton pass with Rachel!

They keep bleeding over into each other' shows. :rofl:

[Botany]

84. Palin needs more sunlight maybe she could move in w/ ....

An EDV in TX or FL :rofl:

[Patsy Stone]

85. Does she do windows?

I need to know before we can talk.

[Mabus]

91. After she starts talking

you'll push her through the windows. It's a wash either way. ;)

[Patsy Stone]

96. If her voice

doesn't break the glass first. :)

[Botany]

92. No but she can gut a moose

p.s. she isn't real honest too

[SharonRB]

98. The drilla from Wasilla?

:rofl:

[bleever]

99. Rachel looks good tonight.

Hellooooo, Rachel.

[SharonRB]

102. I didn't know Rachel repeated at 11

Cool!