KOEB Meeting -- 4/3/06: Opening Day Edition

[Patsy Stone]

Hi, all! It's beginning to look a lot like Fitzover! Bye, bye Scotty and Rummy, too!



Thanks to tatia for the yummy photo link!

[gkhouston]

1. let's hope the neocons

haven't spread any blood on their lintels. :hi:

[Patsy Stone]

22. Hey, lady!

They can't take enough showers to get it all off. Lady Macbeth anyone?

[gkhouston]

37. shh...

I bet "they" don't like us to mention the Scottish play.

[ralps]

2. Hi Patsy, Hi Everyone, LOL Throwing out Simple Scotty & John Snow

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

[SharonRB]

3. Hi, Pats

Now that he's back in his own studio, I can see he is really, really tan. It wasn't just bad makeup in Tampa.

Ma Nishtana....

[Patsy Stone]

4. It's true. He's downright orange.

I want indictments and resignations as a Pesach gift! Screw the afikomen. :bounce:

[SharonRB]

7. I second that emotion, for sure.

Fitzover, Fitazch, whatever you want to call it, I'm ready for it.

[Berry Cool]

102. I don't know, unless they're trying to cover the tan with bad orange

makeup.

:hi: all from Berry After the Show, who decided to just kick back and enjoy Keith tonight.

[ralps]

5. Awww Poor Rummy!! LOL

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

[Patsy Stone]

6. Some days I like Richard Wolffe

some days, I don't. Today, I like him. :)

[bleever]

8. Wolffe isn't up to date on Fitz's doings.

Glad I get my news here at DU.

:toast:

[Patsy Stone]

12. Give it two or three days. :)

:hi:

[gkhouston]

41. ain't that the truth.

scary, sometimes, that so much of the corporate media is that far behind DU. 24-hour news cycle, my ass.

[Patsy Stone]

61. I know.

Sometimes it takes so long, by the time it hits I think it's new news about the topic. Lazy sods.

[Patsy Stone]

9. Where is everyone tonight?

:shrug:

[SharonRB]

11. I don't know

It's really quiet. I know DG will be here eventually. I spoke to her earlier today.

[Patsy Stone]

Clark's on her honeymoon?

:loveya: So she's got a good excuse.

[SharonRB]

15. Has she left already?

I'm sure they'll have an absolutely fabulous time.

[Patsy Stone]

17. Wasn't it this week?

If not: NO EXCUSE! :)

[gkhouston]

45. yeah, I'm pretty sure it's this week.

Hope they're having a wonderful time.

[gkhouston]

43. I was off baking cookies

maybe the others are still fiddling with Tahoe ads? It's addictive, I tell you.

[Patsy Stone]

66. I've yet to give in

but I am very tempted.

[gkhouston]

69. aw give it a shot, it's dead easy. n/t

[WolverineDG]

10. Whoopsie!

He almost said "President." heh. :evilgrin:

and he's wearing THE gray suit too! :loveya:

dg

[SharonRB]

13. No sooner said than done

There you are!

[SharonRB]

14. I sent your BOR ad to KO, as promised

[WolverineDG]

20. Thanks!

It's a good thing I wrote down what I did frame by frame in case that ad goes walk-about like my 1st one did. :grr:

dg

[gkhouston]

47. I learned from your sad experience

and wrote mine down, too. Actually, it was easier to juggle frames with the stuff written down, anyway. I don't know about other operating systems/browsers, but for me, you couldn't move the pictures from frame to frame, so if you wanted to change the picture for the first slot, it meant re-doing everything from scratch. :grr:

[WolverineDG]

87. Yup

That's why the BOR ad has that sappy sunflower frame. :grr:

dg

[gkhouston]

99. oh, I wrote down the pictures, too.

I'm such a weenie, I counted the rows and columns and wrote 'em down like: C(1,2) means the second picture in the first row under the "capable" tab. :crazy:

[WolverineDG]

118. ok, you win Head Weenie, but

I'm not that far behind. I just put down which tab & which pic (last pic, first row) etc. I didn't triangulate it like that. :crazy:

dg

[Berry Cool]

103. I liked the sunflowers, though.

Their Big Giant Heads seemed so appropriate for a commercial about O'Reilly.

[Patsy Stone]

16. It's for you

:loveya:

:hi:

[WolverineDG]

18. Yeah, good & bad news

He liked the ad, hated the tie. :rofl: Okay, now back to reality....

:loveya:

:hi: Pats!

dg

[ralps]

19. Did anyone see the Ann/Keith picture I did in BerryBush's wedding thread?

if so what do you all think of it? how could I make it better? :hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[Patsy Stone]

21. Very funny!

But they're so...close. LOL.

:hi:

[Olney Blue]

29. You could put eyepatches over both Keith's eyes!

[gkhouston]

49. c'mon, do the man a favor

put a bag over his head so he doesn't have to look at her. Then again his pensive, "is she or isn't she?" expression really makes the picture.

[Berry Cool]

106. I think the only way he WOULD marry her is with a bag over his head,

eyepatches on both eyes, earplugs in both ears, and a big gag tied around his brain.

[RevCheesehead]

109. oh, "brain".

I was expecting something else. :evilgrin:

[Berry Cool]

111. No, he wouldn't need a gag around that

as the mere thought of Ann Coulter would make, that, ah, part shrink into near nonexistence.

Gagging would not be necessary.

Although HE might gag, actually.

[gkhouston]

113. it wouldn't shrink

it would retract into his abdomen out of sheer terror. :scared:

[Berry Cool]

115. Same difference.

Then again, I could see him volunteering for sterilization, lest she attempt to take advantage of him for reproductive purposes in the dead of night. I mean, he could be havin' a nice dream about...well, whoever...and all of a sudden he wakes up and AAAGGGHHHHH!!! :scared:

[gkhouston]

119. hope he doesn't read this thread

if he does, I bet he won't be sleeping tonight!

[RevCheesehead]

117. Maybe that's what happened to "Mann", too?

Too bad it doesn't include Adam's Apples too. :evilgrin:

[Berry Cool]

125. Are you sure it's an Adam's apple?

After all, I don't think it looks the least bit tempting to anyone. :evilgrin:

Then again, I also say calling Ann Coulter a man is, well, insulting to the entire male sex.

[WolverineDG]

124. you forgot

and drugged stupid.

dg

[SharonRB]

23. Maybe that's Keith's new apartment

[Berry Cool]

110. I doubt that's his new apartment

It looks as if they just found some photo of an empty room and Photoshopped his image from the MSNBC ads onto it. This must have been one of the images from the shoot.

[Olney Blue]

24. Hi Patsy, et al.!

:hi:


Keith is wonderful.

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

[Patsy Stone]

27. Hey, Olney

Yes, he is... :loveya:

[SharonRB]

25. So he's talking about Garcia and he can't even wear the friggin' tie!

Was that a shoutout to us?

[Patsy Stone]

28. Maybe

but, yeah, he could have. :)

[Berry Cool]

114. I was contemplating the irony of that, actually.

Maybe we all should've chipped in and bought him Jerry Garcia's toilet. That might have made more of an impression.

Remember his original comment? "Bet that would make a KEWL BONG, man."

[Olney Blue]

31. Do you think he received the ties?

[SharonRB]

I'm sure he did.

[Patsy Stone]

63. If not, no one told me.

:)

[Olney Blue]

71. LOL.

[WolverineDG]

122. He's worn the Boccara at least once

My story, stickin' to it. :)

dg

[Berry Cool]

126. I guess you'll have to

even if the photos prove it's the same old same old he's worn a thousand times before...

Me, I'll wait until we have a positive sighting for sure.

[WolverineDG]

33. Why not?

He's wearing THE gray suit today as well.

dg

[gkhouston]

50. that's just his way of saying neener neener neener. n/t

[RevCheesehead]

26. Garcia's TOILET????

Oh, man - Keith: :hurts:


(hi, y'all! :hi:)

[WolverineDG]

30. Hi Rev!

Thanks for the inspiration for the 2nd KOEB ad. :evilgrin:

Hope your day went well. :)

dg

[RevCheesehead]

35. Hi, DG!

It went well, but it was emotionally draining.
I spent the afternoon sleeping.

[ralps]

32. Hi RevCheesehead, LOL fun smilie!!

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

[gkhouston]

51. well, now we know

where the tie is. ;-)

[RevCheesehead]

53. Yeah - framed art in the bathroom!

He prob'ly thinks it's too good to wear.

[gkhouston]

54. well...

that's not exactly what I was thinking...

[SharonRB]

55. I got your point, gk

:rofl:

You're probably right.

[bleever]

34. I don't even want to see the damned trailer to this film.

This is years too early for my taste. Maybe never.

[RevCheesehead]

36. I agree

Damn.




:cry:



Just damn.

[ralps]

39. I agree bleever

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :cry:

[Berry Cool]

120. Same here.

I watched the trailer, but it was hard. It's too damn soon.

Why does everything have to become entertainment fodder so fast? Ugh.

Why can't we wait a hundred years or so to do movies about this? :shrug:

[Botany]

Step back take a breath and wash you face in the Bleever Pond

I agree w/ you too. BTW Jeff Lyons gave KO some mad props!

[Patsy Stone]

57. He sure did!

Hi, Bot. Yep, it's waaaay too soon for these movies.

[SharonRB]

48. I think it's too early, too, but I'm sure we'll see it

Of course, after watching the video I posted the link to the other day, I'm very skeptical of the official story of what happened on that plane and the others.



http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8260059923762628848

[Olney Blue]

38. Jeffrey Lyons watches Keith every night, he says!

After watching that trailer, I need something positive. Very disturbing.

[RevCheesehead]

40. Hey, I heard that, too....

One could almost call that an endoresement, couldn't they?

[Olney Blue]

44. More like he "lionized" him!

[RevCheesehead]

42. Imagine going to the movies, hoping for a nice night out...

and having that trailer pop up.

I'd probably demand my money back.

[Botany]

46. Just go out for:

did I ever tell you that you are my Fav?

[RevCheesehead]

52. Awww.....

I :loveya: you, too, buddy. :hug:


:sniff: Too much death lately. Time to celebrate LIFE!

[Botany]

56. Fresh Gull Bay for you on the other thread.

I made you the leader of the first EDV colony in America on Gull Bay.

:rofl:

[gkhouston]

58. O wise leader

what freedoms did we emigrate to pursue?

[Botany]

76. The basic freedoms

Freedom to Snark
Freedom to blog
Separation between all of us and all of the Pat Robertson mouth breathing shits
who think that the end times will be their party
Freedom from restraint without a court order (The crispini law)
Freedom to tell the EDVs that each one is my FAV
Freedom to let Bay Airs be


the right to arm Bay Airs
Freedom to Musto

[RevCheesehead]

78. The right to arm Bay Airs??

:woohoo:

[Botany]

89. And i deer hunt too

In the EDV Colony a famous story is about an EDV who was about
to swoon off into the falls on the CC Creek above Gull Bay but a Bay Air
caught her and took her back to the EDV hall and spent the night eating
Lox and cream cheese w/ Bleever.

[RevCheesehead]

94. you mean berry?

That's cool :)

[Berry Cool]

131. Oh, so THAT's my reward??

Great. *ggggghhhhhhhhh...*

Why doesn't anything good ever happen to me in Gull Bay? How come I always end up frolicking with Bay Airs?

Heck, bleev, I guess I am one step up if I get to eat with you. :shrug:

[gkhouston]

133. definitely a step up

those Bay Airs have lousy table manners and are pretty thin on scintillating conversation.

[Botany]

145. no that would be your great great great great great great great great

great great great great grandparent (father in this case) who had the Bay Air
fun .... besides if the Bay Air hadn't saved your family way back when then you
wouldn't be here now.

So be nice to the Bay Airs. It is in your DNA.

[RevCheesehead]

64. You did??

:loveya:

What cabinet position do you want, Cuddles?

[gkhouston]

67. outside, for a change?

the ventilation leaves something to be desired.

[Olney Blue]

59. I cannot stand Howard Stern.

[gkhouston]

60. seems to be permanently stuck

in the eighth grade, doesn't he?

[Patsy Stone]

62. Jean Schmidt.

Lying on your resume. Tsk, tsk...

[Olney Blue]

68. Who the f*ck needs two bachelor's degrees?

Maybe the first one didn't take....

[gkhouston]

70. did she get them simultaneously or in succession?

or... not at all?

[Olney Blue]

75. She probably did a "cut and run" when the exams were due.

[Patsy Stone]

72. That's called

"I don't know what I want to do with my life, so I'm staying in school until I figure it out." :)

[RevCheesehead]

84. perhaps....

but some of us decided that's what GRAD SCHOOL is for! :evilgrin:

[gkhouston]

86. is THAT what it was for?

I thought it was doing my penance here on Earth so I could be frisky in the afterlife.

[RevCheesehead]

88. we.., that's what it was for ME.

(looking back woefully on a completely useless Master's in Music). Oh well, it helped to kill time, I guess. :)

[gkhouston]

91. it was probably more fun than I had

serving ten to life in grad school... and let's not even talk about the sleep-deprived state of my undergraduate existence. I was a triple major. What in the hell I was thinking all those years ago is beyond me.

[RevCheesehead]

98. was that so you could get "the third degree"?

Or were you simply an over-achiever?

[gkhouston]

105. the triple major?

it was a buy-two-get-one-free proposition. (Do all the work for two majors plus an extra class or two, and satisfy the requirements for three degrees. No, I didn't get three diplomas -- I had to choose which degree I wanted about six weeks before commencement and there's a notation on my transcript saying I was awarded the BS and completed the requirements for the BAs, so I count it as one degree. It's not like I've got a shortage of diplomas, anyway, now do I?)

The actual point was that this combination (Mathematical Sciences, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering) covered the whole spectrum of computers (theoretical to software to hardware) and I didn't know which I wanted to do at the time.

[RevCheesehead]

107. You have a triple major in BS?

:rofl: go figure!

[gkhouston]

112. honey, I've got a PhD in BS!!!

nah, the BS was in Electrical Engineering. One year, they had an announcement up on the department bulletin board, announcing a new option: a five-year combination degree (which I did not opt for): get your BSEE and your MSEE after five years of study. (Six would be more typical.) One small problem: there was a typo, so instead of describing it as the "five-year plan" it was the "fifty-year plan". :rofl:

[Patsy Stone]

90. Not sure she could get in.

:evilgrin:

[ralps]

81. I've got 2 bachlor's degrees. one for Art that I got in 1978 & the 2nd one

for Graphic Design that I got in 2001. :hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals:

[Patsy Stone]

92. But you remembered to apply for the degrees, :) n/t

[gkhouston]

96. oh, is this the old, "I missed the degree on a technicality" story?

I knew someone who used to tell such a story. Through a bizarre set of circumstances, I came into possession of his transcript and found he was nowhere near obtaining the claimed the degree.

[Olney Blue]

95. Kudos, ralps! In your case, it makes sense.

And I bet you never lied about it. :)

[Berry Cool]

135. Argh. No one should have to spend more than two years in grad school

if they can possibly help it. Me, I made it out in a year and a summer.

I have only one bachelor's, but it's a BS in journalism. That means I know everything there is to know about BS in journalism.

[Olney Blue]

140. Berry, I didn't know there was BS in journalism!

[gkhouston]

142. these days, we're often confronted with the task

of finding journalism in BS. One of the reasons we treasure Keith: news you don't have to sanitize after. :loveya:

[Olney Blue]

150. So true, gk....

:toast:

[ralps]

65. Today's worst person in the world is.... NBW for not being able to find

keys to their Nuclear Plant in Germany LOL :hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[gkhouston]

79. it's so funny to me that this happened in Germany

where everything has keys. You go into a house and every damned door has a key... closets, kitchen, everything. The furniture's got a zillion keys, which must be great for childproofing -- just turn the key and remove it. How you keep all the keys straight once you've removed them is another question.

[Berry Cool]

136. Whereas on Dan Patrick's show today, they were saying

they don't even keep this nuclear plant locked.

Talk about an episode of The Simpsons waiting to happen.

[spooky3]

73. Oh boy, Musto!

[ralps]

74. LOL Lindsey Lohan & Basic Instinct 2!!

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

[SharonRB]

77. Michael Musto is Roman Catholic?

I always thought for sure he was Jewish.

[spooky3]

82. a tattoo saying "younger than Sharon Stone's"? Hahahaha!!!

[gkhouston]

151. that was some nice snark but after catching the late rerun

I found myself wondering why they seemed so averse to Sharon Stone's 48-year-old vagina. I didn't know they came with "use before" dates; I'd better let my husband know time's a-wastin'. ;-) Seriously, it made me think of a bunch of eighth-graders who sure think their attractive thirty-year-old Math teacher is hot and boy would they like to see her naked but no way no how would they like to see their equally attractive fifty-year-old English teacher naked 'cause she's as old as their Mom is and Mom doesn't have one of those things, now does she? Or if she does, she doesn't actually use it, right? :eyes:

[spooky3]

152. Good points. I thought Musto's point, if he had one, had less to do

with whether one has genitalia of any age, and more to do with the unpleasantness of using body parts as a tool to sell bad movies. But sexism and ageism are not appreciated.

[gkhouston]

153. some of Musto's point seemed to be also that Madonna had done it

already so it was no longer novel. Oh, and so much of what we see in the movies anymore is novel? I guess I could have understood it better if the argument had been "this was nothing more than a stale copy of the first film; not worth your time" and perhaps that was what was meant, but that's not how it came across.

[RevCheesehead]

154. yeah - like Musto would know what a vagina should look like.

:eyes: I don't *thIIINK* so! :evilgrin:

[gkhouston]

155. even some gay guys

can't deal with the idea of Mommy having one. :shrug:

It reminds of a scene from one of the Greater Tuna plays where Aunt Pearl is telling her nephew that she "wouldn't give you day-old bread for my sex life before I was sixty" and that's just TMI for the poor nephew. :rofl:

[Wetzelbill]

80. OHHHH I missed the show

well, not the last three minutes. I didn't know it came on early today! NOOOOOOOO!!!!! :)

[SharonRB]

83. Early?

It started at its regular time.

[gkhouston]

85. you missed the smiley face

Bill was bein' bad.

[Wetzelbill]

101. you know

I can't ever recall when I was ever being good.... :evilgrin:

[gkhouston]

108. it's good to know

I didn't miss anything, then.

[Wetzelbill]

93. not here

It started an hour earlier than normal for some reason. Not sure why. I flicked on the tv to catch the start of the show only to find it was nearly over.

[RevCheesehead]

97. d'oh!

Arizona doesn't do Daylight Savings Time, does it? :banghead:

[Wetzelbill]

100. no it doesn't

why did it change? haha

I am so out of it, I don't even know when Daily Savings occurs anymore. :)

[RevCheesehead]

104. You guys are the only sane ones.

I want to petition the govt to permanently disband DST. Why go back? All it does is make us crabby in the Spring. :)

[Wetzelbill]

127. you'd think it wouldn't

I mean, one hour, psh... that's no big deal, right?

OMG, the change used to screw me up for a few days, I'd be so grouchy losing that hour in the Spring. I'd like to see the violent crime stats for the day. Millions of crabby people can't be a good thing. :)

[RevCheesehead]

128. Trust me, it's not.

Here it is, beautiful spring weather - and everyone is in a crappy mood. It just doesn't make sense anymore to keep doing this.

At least you're happy - AND, you can catch the Re-Countdown (1 hour earlier than usual).

[WolverineDG]

116. A public service announcement

If you want to see the KOEB Chevy ads, do so now before they pull them off the site. The first one I did is no longer there. :(

dg

[RevCheesehead]

121. I can't even find the link to make an ad.

It's probably best. I've got enough to do.

(sorry about losing your great work, DG. :( )

[WolverineDG]

129. Just watch the ad

& at the bottom, there's a "Make your own" button. Whoops, now I've said too much. :evilgrin:

Use this power only for good, Rev. Don't do anything I would.

dg

[RevCheesehead]

134. Well, here's part of my problem....

Just to see the damned thing, I have to hit the "full screen" option. And even then, I can't see what's posted beneath the frame.

Don't they call that serendipity?

[WolverineDG]

138. Ask and ye shall receive

http://www.chevyapprentice.com/index.php

Again, Grasshopper, use this power only for good. Don't do anything I would. :evilgrin:

dg

[gkhouston]

139. are you accusing Cheese of plagiarism?

:7

[WolverineDG]

141. What?

I didn't mean it THAT way!! :o

Just trying to keep her on the good side of the Big Guy. You never know when the KOEB will need some favors. ;)

dg

[gkhouston]

143. such as?? n/t

[RevCheesehead]

144. The Lord, apparently, is protecting me.

All I get is a pop-up window - then, nada. I'll take that as a sign. O8)

[gkhouston]

146. well, pig parts

you would be such a natural for this.

[RevCheesehead]

148. *squeal of delight*

followed by *grunt of appreciation*

:hug:

[WolverineDG]

147. Dear God

Chevy isn't playing fair with Rev. Is that a "smite-able" offense? If not, it should be. We wanna see da Snark of da Cheese!

dg

[WolverineDG]

149. dupe

dang net connection!

[gkhouston]

130. watch someone else's add

go to the site and click something like "enter contest". That will put you where you want to be. You don't have to actually enter the contest to make an ad.

[WolverineDG]

132. WARNING: If you DO make an ad

DO NOT CLOSE THE WINDOW until the link has appeared in your email!! If you want, I'll PM you the addy that works for me & I'll PM the link back to you, like I did for Gina today. :)

dg

[gkhouston]

137. second warning: it's best to view your ad in pieces as you go

sometimes it's hard to see the text with certain pictures and you might want to change. Jot down what you're happy with before you pull any frames out of the beginning of your ad... you cannot move pictures from frame to frame, the way it says you can. It's a lot faster to write down what works, including the line breaks, than to figure it out all over again from scratch.

[gkhouston]

123. bummer!

that one was my favorite, and my husband got a big laugh out of it.