KOEB 7/8/05

[Berry Cool]

"C'mere."



"Yeah, I mean *you*...you, right there in front of the computer...who else does it look like I'm talking to? Come over here a second...I have something important to share, with you and only you...Yeah...right here. Right up here, face to face...Yeah, that's right...mmm. Now, isn't that better? Now we can talk.

"Now...here's what I have to say. It's a very important secret, and I'm whispering it only to YOU.

*whisper* "I would really, really like it if you would do something special for me...what? Well, this...I would really, really enjoy it if you would...

"...watch Countdown tonight. Yes, watch Countdown. There will be lots of serious news, all of it reported with respect and sensitivity. There may even be a little time for snark. After all, it's Friday night. We'll see.

"So, please join me for Countdown. ...What?? You were expecting some more intimate message? Something more *secret* and *personal*? Well, sorry to disillusion you, ladies, but this is it. It's like that part in 'A Christmas Story' when Ralphie thinks he's about to decode a special secret message from Little Orphan Annie on his decoder ring, and it turns out to be nothing but 'BE SURE TO DRINK YOUR OVALTINE.' Sorry, but MSNBC blew a heck of a lot of the promo budget on the show in May and there's really not much left, so now we have to advertise on the cheap. Please forgive me. I know you will.

"What's that you say? 'Like hell'? What was that other thing you said after that? Mumbling about something else you hoped I would ask you to do? I couldn't hear you. You'll have to come closer. C'mere for a second..."

--K.O.

[crispini]

1. Hey hey, I'm here!

I get to be in the thread realtime!

:loveya::loveya::loveya::loveya::loveya::loveya::loveya::loveya::loveya::loveya::loveya::loveya::loveya::loveya::loveya::loveya::loveya::loveya:

:hi: everyone!

[crispini]

2. Damn, are we it?

And this terrorism expert dude is wearing one fugly tie!

[gkhouston]

4. please describe it; I'm still at work

and "fugly" encompasses so many ties, as we know from bitter experience!

[crispini]

8. It looks vaguely flag-ish

but with no discernable pattern -- like it's part of an actual flag or something. It's certainly mega red, white and blue!

[gkhouston]

so we can be patriotic, but faux British sympathetic

at the same time? Any news on your mom's relatives?

[crispini]

11. They're fine.

yay! Mom slept all day though. :)

[gkhouston]

14. relief from worry will do that to you

or was she up all night in whatever airport she got stuck at? Been there, done that.

[crispini]

26. She was stuck in the airport pretty late.

Yeah, one time I got stuck on the tarmac at Amarillo because of thunderstorms. The captain ordered pizza for the whole plane! :rofl:

[gkhouston]

27. Southwest Airlines?

sounds like something they'd do. I've never had any pilots that cool.

[crispini]

31. American, bless 'em!

I don't fly Southwest very much because of the Wright amendment. I'm usually going further than the planes out of Love Field are going!

[gkhouston]

33. wow, American?

good on them. Continental is never so accomodating. (Which we fly a lot since Houston is one of their hubs and so was DC. They used to have a very nice President's Club at National airport.)

[Berry Cool]

82. Great news to hear.

Happy for you. Crispi.

[Berry Cool]

81. Good for you, Crispi! I'm back too!

:hi: from Berry After the Show!

[CC]

3. Happy Friday all

I am partly here.

[gkhouston]

6. which parts?

:evilgrin:

[CC]

15. Well depends, the eyes

during commercial breaks...maybe half of my awareness since I am also listening for the ac guy. It broke and I would be fine but ferrets don't handle heat well...............and husbands don't either. Guess who the ac is getting fixed for. :rofl:

[gkhouston]

16. wow, coming this late on a Friday...

he must need his A/C bad.

[CC]

20. He is only getting it because

the ferrets needs it. They do not handle heat well. Though the up side is it shouldn't cost much because we are on a service plan.

[gkhouston]

21. well I'm glad you're not getting dinged for the evening call

at least. Hope the ferrets are too stressed at the moment.

[CC]

28. Its actually pretty nice right now

a little humid but not hot. Now tomorrow it'll be hot again and it does help to not get hit so bad over it.

Ferrets are ok though a bit stressed because the are all out together. I decided Peachy and Pixel would have to learn to get along with the other. Quiet right now though interrupted once in a while with ferret screams.

[RevCheesehead]

5. I'm here.

But the timer just went off, and dinner's ready. Give me a minute, and I'll bring a plate to the computer. :hi:

Keith: :loveya:

[gkhouston]

7. thanks, but I just ate. (ba-dum-bum)

obviously, still not sleeping much.

[crispini]

9. Cool, what's for dinner?

Are you sharing? :P

[RevCheesehead]

10. Stuffed Cabbage Rolls.

:9

[gkhouston]

12. stuffed with what?

realizing, of course, that if we get another "c'mere" moment that the stuffed will get stuffed...

[RevCheesehead]

17. You really didn't get much sleep, did you?

Ground beef, rice, tomato sauce. Like stuffed peppers, but milder.

[gkhouston]

19. suuuure.

Any neighbors of yours gone missing recently?

[RevCheesehead]

23. Have you been visiting the Lounge lately?

:spank: Last night's vegan/cannibalism threads were a hoot! :rofl:

[gkhouston]

24. no, I haven't even been visiting

the inside of my eyelids much. So how can one be a vegan cannibal?

on edit: Assuming you're not Bob the Tomato?

[RevCheesehead]

29. It was Veggies/Vegans vs. Carnivores.

Someone posted "I know that some of you would eat a human fetus, if given the chance." To which someone replied "That's so difficult, because there are so few recipes, and you have to choose which wine to serve with it."

[gkhouston]

32. ah, but fetuses have such a delicate flavor

why use a wine at all? ;-)

[crispini]

34. LOL!

:rofl:

[Berry Cool]

90. I look at it like this:

While I'm here on this earth, I will eat meat. When I die, the animals will get their revenge. You know, the old "food for worms" thing.

It's not like it's all weighted in favor of me.

Besides, how do we know how much it pains a carrot to be yanked out of the ground by the hair and eaten? To say "I won't eat anything with a mother or a face" is to exhibit bias in favor of life forms that have mothers and faces, and against those that don't.

And that was my lecture for tonight. Thank you. (wishing I had a bowing smiley)

[crispini]

13. Yum! Share!

:7

[RevCheesehead]

18. Sure - do you need a plate?

You'll need a knife - the cabbage is kind of tough.

[crispini]

22. No, I've got a plate, thanks.

Hey! These are great!

***BRAAAAAAP*** :blush: 'Scuse me, cabbage does that to me. :evilgrin:

[RevCheesehead]

25. I'll go get the Beano.

Here ya go.

[crispini]

30. Thanks!

:rofl: this song! Floaties for the audio folk! :loveya:

[Berry Cool]

93. Crispi, are you referring to "Both Sides Now"?

"I really don't know clouds at all..."

:rofl: Too funny!!!!

[Berry Cool]

91. Oh-oh, I think we're gonna need

that anti-odor toilet pretty soon...

[Berry Cool]

84. Ooh! Cabbage rolls and coffee!!

Looks like Mrs. Vilviackhy's been cooking up some of that great Leutonian food again!

Cabbage rolls and coffee...can't be beat!

[gkhouston]

87. and some pirogi later, perhaps?? n/t

[gkhouston]

35. so what's actually on the news tonight?

I won't get to see it until the late show or the taping. I'm at the office. It is all bombing redux?

[Botany]

36. It is all lime disease 24/7 ........

...... :rofl:

[gkhouston]

39. don't you have some swimming to do?

don't forget the anchor. Attach to ankle. :loveya:

[Botany]

54. I would but ......

...... they are kinda picky @ the pool ..... when anybody sees lighting ......
no more swimming ...... I guess the loss of buff is made up for by the
love I feel from the EDVs :rofl: ..... BTW some women in her late 40s
to mid 50s does laps at the same time I do ..... she used to be a world class
swimmer .... i kept up w/ her for 2.5 laps .... and then died

Besides off to get a pizza (great little local place) and watch a video
w/ son ..... almost 11 ?????? Young Frankenstein, The Holy Grail, or
Rain Man ........ you know you are my FAV! shhh please don't tell the others

[gkhouston]

58. Young Frankenstein ... goes great with lightning. n/t

[Berry Cool]

100. I would LOVE to go swimming with an anchor...

...especially a certain MSNBC anchor.

Skinny-dipping, of course. :loveya:

[Berry Cool]

96. No, Botany, that's what my WEEKEND turned into.

I had FIFTH ROW SEATS for Hall & Oates tomorrow night!!! Forget it!!! Concert's postponed...because Daryl Hall has LYME DISEASE!!!

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

[RevCheesehead]

37. Hurricane Dennis right now.

How people are upset from last year, and can't cope with another one coming.

[gkhouston]

41. um, you live in Florida, it happens.

And happens, and happens, and happens. I'm kind of surprised Galveston hasn't had a direct hit in so long.

[crispini]

42. Yeah, but it's worse this year. Global warming, ya know.

And Chimpy still won't sign Kyoto. :eyes:

***BRRRAAAAP**** 'Scuse me. Those cabbage rolls. :7

[RevCheesehead]

47. Consider yourself lucky.

Mine are coming out the other end. Where's the Crapper-Zapper when you need it? :hurts:

[crispini]

53. LOL!

Nice vulgar thread tonite. :evilgrin:

[RevCheesehead]

59. Well, Keith is the one showing Britney Spears.

Speaking of vulgar. :puke:

[gkhouston]

60. just to make you feel at home dear.

:*

[Berry Cool]

102. Again, great minds think alike on the toilet thing...

or, well, great *somethings* thing alike...

[Berry Cool]

127. Crispi, with what you're doing there,

you're a fine one to be talking about global warming and environmentally harmful gases!!!!

[gkhouston]

130. damn, no wonder she need cuffs

once guys find out about her imperfect digestion, they want to head for the hills!

[crispini]

146. Heyyyyyyy!

:spank:

It's just the cabbage. :blush: Everything else is fine. :7

[RevCheesehead]

150. Trust me - it's the cabbage.

I had no idea it moved so - fast.

[gkhouston]

152. snort -- now there's a new definition

of a "fast EDV". I had no idea you were a loose woman.

[RevCheesehead]

153. At least I'm clean -

inside and out. :P

[gkhouston]

170. mmhmm, and was that an invitation

for someone to help you get dirty? ;-)

[RevCheesehead]

43. Yeah - and people bitch about the cold in Wisconsin.

But the earth is relatively stable, doesn't move around, and there are no hurricanes coming off of Lake Michigan.

Happy Cows, indeed - they stay in America's Dairyland. :) Moo.

[gkhouston]

45. yeah, ice pretty much stays in one place

:7

[Berry Cool]

129. I always say, I will take miserable winters over earthquakes/hurricanes.

I KNOW how to survive miserable winters. I've had so many years of experience! And they tend not to destroy your home most of the time.

Of course, there is the tornado thing. But I lived through five of them touching down in a very hilly part of upstate NY, so don't tell me they are just a Midwestern problem!

[crispini]

149. It's all in what you're used to.

I'll take heat and tornadoes over cold and tornadoes any day! :7

[Berry Cool]

154. OK. I must call attention to an unintentionally funny sequence of posts.

I posted a joke about Crispini in response to her, ah, gas emissions allegedly experienced from eating cabbage and implying they were as bad for the environment as not signing Kyoto.

To which gk replied that it's no wonder Crispini has to use cuffs to get her men because her gases must scare them away.

And somehow or other, the sequence of posts ended up so the next one was...the Rev saying:

"Yeah - and people bitch about the cold in Wisconsin."

(which, originally, was a reference to how she prefers cold to hurricanes...but turned into a seeming complaint about quite a different source of, ah, high winds)

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[RevCheesehead]

155. I love reading the thread straight through.

Sometimes you get those doozies. :crazy:

[Berry Cool]

101. These Countdown caption folks REALLY have to be told once and for all...

...that it's not "DEJA VOUS," it's "DEJA VU"!!!!

"Deja vous" = "already you" (makes no sense)
"Deja vu" = "already seen" (makes sense)

[Berry Cool]

126. OK, I'm taking bets.

How long before the first "Dennis the Menace" joke?

Or has it all been done long ago?

[gkhouston]

128. of course it's been done long ago

everything old is new again. I'm sure we'll hear them. Which network first? I'm hoping "Weather Channel" will nobly refrain. I'm sure the local channels won't be able to help themselves, but the local broadcasts are about half a step above "who's killing what".

[RevCheesehead]

135. I believe CNN is already doing it.

Because they've NEVER had an original idea. Ever.

[Berry Cool]

171. Just a second, that is not entirely true.

It is not true that CNN never had an original idea.

Back in 1981, they had the original idea to take a chance on a kid barely out of college with radio and print experience, but no TV broadcasting experience, to help them cover sports.

And the rest, as they say, is history. :-)

[crispini]

38. Bomb, bomb, Dennis in Cuba.

:rofl: Air Supply was playing the Karl Marx Theater in Cuba yesterday! :rofl:

[gkhouston]

44. ooh, we *almost* got rid of them

kind of like Rudy G. I asked my husband last night if 9/11 and 7/7 were both "cunning plans" by Edmund Blackadder the zillionth to get rid of Giuliani. Okay, I guess you had to see the TV series, but all of Blackadder's schemes were spectacular failures.

[WolverineDG]

94. OMG Blackadder

If you haven't gotten the DVD of the series, you HAVE TO!!!!

In the very last episode, Edmund gets his revenge...... :evilgrin:

(my personal fave was Blackadder II--Rowan Atkinson in tights...yowza)

dg

[gkhouston]

103. I bought the DVD of the whole shebang as a present for

my husband and we watched it bit by bit for several nights. Screamingly funny. Actually, I read some Blackadder episodes long before I ever saw them, as we had a book of the scripts for the series and it was one of the things I read to stay awake when I got up to pump milk in the middle of the night after Amy gave up that feeding (we needed the milk for later in the day). So there I'd be chortling over Blackadder's antics (turnip!) at 1am and that would wake my husband, not me getting out of bed or the sound of the pump wheezing away, but me laughing in the next room.

Blackadder II was my favorite as well.

[Berry Cool]

105. Air Supply snark!!!!

That was classic!

Keith was shooting from the hip tonight!

I had a feeling he might be ready to get back into snark mode!!

Sympathy to Patsy for no marijuana ref tonight, unless the guy being followed by the "cloud" was also smoking in addition to his meth and whatever else he was doing.

[crispini]

40. Oh, and running of the bulls in the Pamplona, one injury.

And he's wearing a dark suit and the Anti-Tie.

[gkhouston]

48. LOL, for a moment, I thought one of the bulls

was wearing a suit. :silly:

[crispini]

67. LOL!

A bull in the gray suit... that'd take care of it right quick! :rofl:

[Berry Cool]

106. I LOVE this suit.

This is the good gray suit...not the Dreaded Gray Suit.

Looks nice with that tie, too...makes him look like a real silver fox...ahhhh. :loveya:

[crispini]

46. Follow up on Schiavo: Case closed.

Jeb Bush. What a nimrod. :eyes:

[gkhouston]

50. oh, but don't worry. His humiliated is overshadowed

by the upcoming crisis of Dennis. :sarcasm:

Not that it isn't going to be bad for people, but Jebbie is about as useful in a crisis as tits on a boar hog.

[RevCheesehead]

66. Wonder if blivet is gonna pass out ice again.

That was one of the most disgusting things I saw on the campaign last year. They actually had ice available, but held it until blivet and baby bro showed up for the photo op.

[Berry Cool]

108. I can think of some places I would put that ice

if I saw something like that.

[Berry Cool]

107. What is amazing is that Craig Crawford is probably right

and he will come out smelling like a rose.

Ladies and gentlemen, the next President of the United States, carrying on in the great Bush legacy, Jeb.

:scared:

[gkhouston]

110. let's see what the Bush name smells like

a year from now. Not so sweet, I'm guessing.

[RevCheesehead]

49. Hey - Craig is wearing Keith's shirt tonight.

:)

[gkhouston]

52. hmm, I didn't realize

they were... that... close. Why aren't you crying? ;-)

[RevCheesehead]

55. Because I'm picturing myself in between the two.

Ooooh - Craig makes a Star Trek reference! :loveya:

[gkhouston]

62. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1

is Crispi snorfing yet?

[crispini]

74. LOL!

Sounds like fun to me! :evilgrin:

[gkhouston]

77. took you a while to respond to that one

was the website where you order furry cuffs a bit slow tonight?

('cause you're gonna need a second pair...)

[crispini]

89. Hee!

Double your pleasure, double the cuffs! :evilgrin:

[Berry Cool]

131. Somehow I never imagined Keith and Craig

as the bread for a Rev sandwich.

Is Keith allowed to do that? Wouldn't he be too gluten-intolerant to mimic a bread product?

[gkhouston]

133. you can make bread from gluten-free flours

they even have some GF mixes at Whole Foods. Saw some the other day while I was picking up some amaranth flour, which is probably GF, come to think of it.

[Berry Cool]

156. I've heard of that. Well, I guess Gogi now knows

which section of Whole Foods to hang out in when she visits NYC...

[RevCheesehead]

140. OK, I'll be the peanut butter

between two rice-cakes! :9

[crispini]

56. Jeb Bush is a policy wonk compared to his brother?

Mmmmmmkay.

I'M a policy wonk compared to his brother.

[Berry Cool]

132. MY CATS are policy wonks compared to his brother.

Why, I just asked the tortoiseshell, and she says "SIGN the damn Kyoto thing already. Meow."

[gkhouston]

137. cat turds are policy wonks compared to blivet**

this is, in fact, a suitable comparison. Not apple to oranges, but a straightforward excrement to excrement equivalence.

[RevCheesehead]

143. And don't forget -

Blivet calls Rover "turd blossom."

[gkhouston]

145. well, now we know where Rove plants himself

did not need that mental image...

[Berry Cool]

157. Now THAT's a good one!

My, we have a smelly thread tonight!

I like to think Keef would be proud of our bathroom humor!

[RevCheesehead]

159. Well, the other night, Keith said "potpourri,"

so I just took it as an invitation.

[crispini]

51. And it's Craig Crawford!

they're totally pointing out the fact that, HEY, Jeb released this info yesterday when, HEY, everybody's paying all of this attention to London. :rofl:

I :loveya: Keef.

Craig's wearing almost the exact same shirt and tie as KO wore yesterday. :P

[gkhouston]

57. I like Craig

A lot, actually. But could we average his tooth color with KO's? Pretty please? I think they'd both benefit from the exchange.

[Berry Cool]

111. I have to join Crispi in saying

that this was another "Thank you Keith" moment tonight for me. He did NOT let the end of the Schiavo story get buried...perhaps because he's still pissed that back when HE first said it should be "case closed" after the autopsy, people accused HIM of jumping to conclusions. Now he wants to be sure to rub it in their faces that they were WRONG. Good for him.

Of course, Michael will never get the apology he deserves, but anyway--

:loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: Keith.

[crispini]

61. Now Tom Cruise is getting blamed

for people freaking out over a tornado in Siberia? :rofl:

They said they were "jumpy" over the movie.

Ha! "Even if you're shooting blanks upstairs, doesn't mean you're shooting blanks downstairs," re: Britney Spears pregnancy.

[Berry Cool]

113. I don't care if they want to blame Tom Cruise for breaking up the Beatles!

I'm all for it!

And I KNEW how Keith was going to react to Britney carrying twins...he didn't fail us!

All hail the King of Snark!

WE'RE NOT WORTHY!!!!

[RevCheesehead]

63. Brit Hume is the Worst person in the world!!!

[crispini]

64. Brit Hume gets Worst Person in the World!

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

I :loveya: KO!!! :yourock:

[gkhouston]

65. okay, what has Brit done lately?

I haven't read the news today. Is this a recent offense or is existing sufficient?

[crispini]

68. Just today

First thought on the bombing, he said, was, Oh, the futures market's going to go up.

(or down, or whatever, this is not an exact quote.)

Asshole. :mad:

[RevCheesehead]

69. He said - on the air -

that his first reaction, when he heard of the bombings in London, was to think "this would be a good time to buy." (stocks)

[gkhouston]

70. What. A. Jackass.

I hope he stays on the "worst" list for a week. Then again, who knows what idiocy blivet** is going to spew next.

[Berry Cool]

114. And well he deserves it!!!!

Keef had great fun being able to stick it to another slimy Faux News purveyor.

GO KEEF! :yourock:

[crispini]

71. WTF, is this a movie trailer?

They're promo'ing their coverage of the shuttle liftoff like it's a movie or something.

People! The hurricane's coming! Do you really think the thing's going to lift off on Wednesday next week? I doubt it myself.

:rofl: KO's doing a Monster Truck impersonation about the shuttle! :rofl:

[gkhouston]

73. oh, yeah, it's a rally at 1/2 mile per hour.

VROOM! VROOM!

[WolverineDG]

98. Whiz-bangy shuttle promo

gotta love the caption folks....the music folks deserve a :thumbsup: too....

dg

[Berry Cool]

136. I would love the caption people more

if they would just LEARN how to spell...

[gkhouston]

139. I know. It's a real fingernails-on-the-blackboard

thing for me. They're not even snarky deliberate mis-spellings.

[WolverineDG]

177. or at least not rely on spellchecker

although maybe they're working so fast they don't catch some typos. I like to think of myself as being pretty "with it" regarding spelling, word usage & grammar, but when I go back & re-read something I've written & that I'm quite proud of, I'm often :blush: to find some really big honking errors. It's especially :blush: when they appear in court briefs & motions....stuff that I've filed & other people get to read. :+

So, I'm more than willing to cut some slack on this issue....but really, caption folks, Spellchecker is not your friend.

dg

[gkhouston]

178. no, but it is often your

fiend. :7 My problem is usually substituting a word that vaguely sounds the same but has a different meaning, like "night" for "nice". The sentences pass the spell-checker but the posts tend to be a bit :silly:

[WolverineDG]

179. my college prof had a theory

and this was back in the day when you had to type on a machine called a "typewriter." ah the joy of the days when you had to take out a ruler and mark off 2" at the bottom of the page so you had space for your footnotes due to evil profs who insisted those who used endnotes were evildoers. ;)

It goes: You'll be able to find all but the most embarassing typos because those are the ones smart enough to hide from you behind other words, but will gladly spring forward & shout "nyah nyah nyah" to whoever is grading your paper.

this was the one prof who let typos slide by unless there were too many...then she'd write "have you heard of a dictionary?" in the margins.....

dg

[Berry Cool]

180. I have known writers who won't even *spellcheck* their work!

They figure, they're the "creative" people--doing all that boring spellchecking stuff is the editor's job! Editors must like that boring kind of work, or they wouldn't be editors! :grr:

I work both sides of the street, as Keith would put it. I write AND edit. And I have too much pride in what I write not to edit it before I let someone else see it. That doesn't necessarily mean I'll have caught everything, but at least I will have tried. I'm not too damn lazy or sloppy or careless to even try. Nor do I think editing and proofreading are "beneath" me the way some writers do who think of editors as "the janitors of wordsmithing."

And one thing I have learned in my time...it's amazing what kind of grammatical mistakes lawyers can make. Despite the fact that some of them have a tendency to think that just because they have a J.D., their grammar is impeccable and no one else knows anything about the English language.

[Berry Cool]

115. I saw the part of the space shuttle special promo video with the bliv

saying something like "To leave Earth and gravity and humanity behind is a great dream..."

and to the TV I said, "Well, you've already accomplished one of those things...you've left humanity behind."

[Berry Cool]

134. WEDNESDAY! WEDNESDAY! WEDNESDAY!!!!

SPACE SHUTTLE! SPACE SHUTTLE! SPACE SHUTTLE!

After that, don't miss the Funny Cars!!!!

[RevCheesehead]

72. OK - who was it who said the Top 5 was gone?

[gkhouston]

75. I don't recall hearing that. He did the top 5 last Friday.

Did he not do them tonight?

[Berry Cool]

116. Yeah, he did

and I don't recall anyone saying he wasn't going to do them anymore, so... :shrug:

[crispini]

79. Dunno, but, damn, haven't we given them enough ideas for other stuff?

LOL, Bowtie Boy is doing his show from London, OUTSIDE, AT NIGHT, IN FRONT OF LONDON BRIDGE. :rofl:

Talk about trying too hard.

[gkhouston]

80. is anyone playing Van Halen's "Jump"?

a girl can dream, can't she?

[gkhouston]

85. was Bowtie Boy there before the bombings?

or did he already have plans to go? 'Cause if they just sent him to mooch around the rubble, :thumbsdown:

[crispini]

95. No, he FLEW OUT THERE to report from London.

What a putz. It's a talking head show! Not breaking news!

Ha ha ha, the breeze is totally fucking up his hair. :rofl: All of the other guys he's talking to have very short hair or are bald. Tucker's sitting there looking like a rooster. The camera won't even go in for a closeup of him because he's getting his mop blown into his eyes. How embarassing, he looks awful.

[Berry Cool]

118. I think this is called the "Throw Money At Tucker's Show" Plan.

If they spend enough money to fly Tucker to London to do his show, perhaps they can actually get someone to watch it and keep it from completely sinking in the toilet.

[gkhouston]

120. or perhaps they're hoping he won't come back?

or even hoping for another ka-boom? :shrug:

[Berry Cool]

138. Now THAT was mean.

gk, I regret to inform you I just got an emergency email from The Big Guy. He says he expects to see your resignation right here on this thread.

You know how mad KO gets when people dis Tucker. :-)

[gkhouston]

142. Not. Resigning.

And he can't make me. :evilgrin:

[Berry Cool]

161. But do you realize, gk...

...that if you don't resign, he may just have to turn you over his knee. :evilgrin:

[gkhouston]

164. given the size of those hands...

maybe I will resign... but I like it here... :cry:

[crispini]

166. Gish! What do I have to say again to merit that?

[gkhouston]

167. if you really have a tongue like that

you may already be a winner. :7

[Gogi]

168. Somebody else is still online too!

Got to work on my post total so I, too, can have 1000+ behind my name.

[gkhouston]

169. you are chugging away

the little KOEBer that could. ;-) I rolled right over 2,000 without even noticing. Actually, I'm about to give up for the night; I just logged on to send email to a co-worker.

We'll tell Sparky to start chilling that champagne...

[Berry Cool]

172. Crispi, I believe the correct terminology

is "ggggghhhhhhh!"

And if you really have a tongue like that, he may cancel the spanking in favor of alternative activities.

I really don't wanna think about that possibility myself. :cry:

[gkhouston]

175. you don't want to think about

alternative activities? :evilgrin:

on edit: are you sure you're in the right group? ;-)

[Berry Cool]

181. No, it's not that I don't want to think about alternative activities...

...it's that I want to think of him doing them with ME, not YOU. :evilgrin:

[gkhouston]

183. actually, wasn't he doing them with Crispi...?

now we can both cry... ;-)

[Berry Cool]

185. Oh well, better to cry together

than alone! :cry: :cry:

[bunny planet]

76. Don't have much time to post right now, just wanted to say........

one of the best Countdown's EVER!!!

Hi everyone. Keith is in top form tonight, has covered every story with his usual class, wit, and intellect with a healthy and well directed snark factor of 11. Plus, he is wearing my favorite suit, the charcoal gray and a yummy tie.

I love that he called Jeb Bush on his hideous hypocrisy and exposed about his under the radar dropping of the investigation into Terry Shiavo's death. Again, a * proves to be pond scum.

It's been a sad and frightening two days with the London bombings and Andy Stephenson's death. I really needed KO tonight and he didn't disappoint.

He's a gem.

:loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

[RevCheesehead]

83. Hi Bunny.

Yes, Keith gave us good show.

Hope it helps. :hug:

[gkhouston]

88. Hi, Bunny

it's hard to take it all in, especially about Andy. :hug:

[Berry Cool]

121. It's very sad.

But boy, pancreatic cancer is so bad. The odds against him were so high. It's pretty amazing he made it as long as he did.

I know...it's never enough. Never. *sigh*

[gkhouston]

124. we did our best for him

and that's what matters. And he knew we were doing our best. Everyone talks about how awful the freeper crap was, and it was plenty bad and I'm sure it was horrible for him. But think about how amazing the fund-raising was and what that must have made him feel like. Realistically, I didn't have a lot of hope but I wanted to see him have that surgery, so I donated, and I suspect many other DUers had similar feelings. I think it meant a lot to Andy that so many people cared enough to help him, even when the odds were bad, even when they didn't really know him. And he's always gonna have that memory and so are we.

[crispini]

158. That's a great sentiment.

But I would also like to drop a bomb on Ms. Evil, Bev Harris, and her evil minions at scamdy.com :mad:

Wonder if anyone at Countdown would like to go after the Bevbot? They obviously have firsthand experience with Her Fraudulency. They might be interested in how these people dogged a sick man...

[crispini]

99. Very well put.

Hug to Bunny! :hug:

[Berry Cool]

119. Hi, Bun-Bun!

And you are so right about this being one great show!

He did crank the snark back up and it was good to hear...and called out Jeb into the bargain.

He earned his floaties tonight.

:loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

[RevCheesehead]

78. Did you see Keith wave at the camera at the end?

Too damned cute, he is. :loveya:

[crispini]

86. I caught it. Adorable.

:loveya:

[CC]

92. Noooooooo missed the last half

of the show. sigh Will have to stay up for the late show.

[Berry Cool]

123. You have to catch it, CC.

It was absolutely adorable.

Don't turn away when they start showing footage of the Running of the Bulls ("where we always root for the bulls!") on the screens around the set. It will look as if they're not going to show Keith again, but they pull away and show his desk one more time, and it's at that moment that he realizes he's back on camera and gives this adorable big wave. Looks like a kid in his first school play waving to Mom and Dad.

:hi: Goodbye Keith! When you're on Countdown, Mondays can't come soon enough!

[gkhouston]

125. if they always root for the bulls then why

are they so down on Fox?

OH, "bulls" vs. "bull". Sorry, got a singular/plural thing mixed up there. Must ingest more caffeine.

[RevCheesehead]

148. Maybe you'd be better off with a nap.

They root for the bulls, not the bullshit.

[gkhouston]

151. and who's our favorite bull?

:evilgrin:

[crispini]

160. You are in fine snarking form tonight, Miss Thang!

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

[gkhouston]

162. I get punchy on lack of sleep

you know how anything gets funny if you're tired enough. I remember going to a corporate software class years and years ago and one of the attendees was this Canadian who'd get really wacky around 4am. He'd do this impression of a man with three heads talking to himself (each hand was a head) and at 4am, it was actually quite amusing.

[Berry Cool]

173. Watched the end of the re-air last night, and was reminded that

he didn't just realize he was visible again, he deliberately LEANED BACK PAST THE SCREEN to make sure that he could be seen on camera again, THEN gave his vigorous goodbye wave.

In other words, he WANTED to be seen. He WANTED to wave goodbye.

*That* deserves a :hug:

[RevCheesehead]

186. Yes, it was an intentional backward lean...

so he could see me one last time before the weekend. "Cheese? Cheese? Can you see me? Have a great weekend, and I'll be thinking of you..."

I have convinced myself that this is true, so please do not disillusion me.

[gkhouston]

187. I re-wound the tape, looking for this infamous wave

and it took me two tries to even see it. Do you also watch the show in reverse for secret messages? ;-)

[RevCheesehead]

188. No, I saw it in real time.

I was hoping for a suspenders or jeans shot - and got Keith instead! :loveya:

[Blue_In_AK]

97. Two "Oddball" stories in two weeks from Anchorage?

Keith must have a spy up here or something. In Mr. Vasily Basargin's defense, it really was a VERY big black cloud he was trying to escape from. :rofl:

[crispini]

104. Hi Blue!

:hi: That was a funny one. Like Eeyore, being followed around by a little black cloud (was that Eeyore? I forget...)

[Berry Cool]

141. I guess that's why he needed so many drugs

to escape from it! :rofl:

[crispini]

109. OMG, this Muslim guy is beating the crap out of Bowtie Boy.

Figuratively, of course. He's telling him what for. Wow!

[gkhouston]

112. oh? Did Tucker say something in particular to set him off

or was he just being a garden-variety ugly American?

[crispini]

117. I missed what Tucker said to start him off.

but the Muslim guy was pointing out that, well, American bombs killed civilians in the invasion. It was quite a heated exchange. Tucker, of course, was insisting that they were trying to avoid civilians. Tucker, dude, the keyword there is TRYING. They didn't always succeed AS YOU WELL KNOW.

[gkhouston]

122. to be honest, how hard are we trying?

I wonder that sometimes.

[Berry Cool]

144. Hey, gk, you know what the bliv says...

"...It's HARD WORK."

[gkhouston]

147. yeah, well if we weren't willing to do a hard job

why did we volunteer ourselves for it? Despite what he'd have us believe, Iraq was elective. Damn, if we were going to do it, could we have at least planned and executed it properly?

[Berry Cool]

163. No. Because he wanted to prove it could be done on the cheap.

And by golly, he's gonna PROVE IT...no matter how many kids have to get killed to prove it.

"We turned Iraq into a democracy on just $40 a day!! You can, too!!"

[gkhouston]

165. well, it's also fixing the employment problem for our kids

no kids, no employment problem for them. :grr:

[Berry Cool]

174. Sad...One final comment, anyway...

...note that at the end of the space-special promo, Keith went out of his way to say that the bliv's comment about "who knows where the journey will end" was a reference to space exploration, "not MSNBC."

I thought that was a telling comment on his part. His little way of saying that he knows the rumors are flying, that people are wondering how much longer MSNBC, or at least MSNBC As We Know It, is going to last.

He doesn't seem too worried so far, which is reassuring. Because I admit that whenever I find something I really like, I worry about its not lasting.

Maybe Keith feels unconcerned because he feels there will be a place for him at the network no matter what happens to it, and feels assured that it will continue to exist. Then again, maybe he's in a really cocky mood because he feels he's doing such a good job mending his napalmed bridges, rivers, etc. with ESPN that if all else fails, he can always end up back there. Or maybe there's something else in the works that we don't even know about.

All I know is, it sure would be nice to know!!

[gkhouston]

176. we've got bigger things to worry about

than which channel we'll be watching him a year from now. He'll be around. And we'll still be bitching about his clothes and doing this: :loveya:

[Berry Cool]

182. I sure hope so.

But if the bigger things we've got to worry about get any bigger, I worry about any of us being around to do news or bitch about someone's clothes.

Ah, this world has got to shape up...

[gkhouston]

184. well it's not like it can ship out

unless there's something they're not telling us about NASA's future plans...