Re: In Perfect Harmony

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Osama's been watching too much Homicide. It's "Bad Medicine" all over again.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 4:48 PM
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Pembleton fails his gun test.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 4:51 PM
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A rash of deaths from bad heroin

The heroin was spiked. I'm sorry, but that was the best of the three crappy synopses I could find.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 4:53 PM
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I wasn't disagreeing with you.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 4:55 PM
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I just liked the sentence.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 4:55 PM
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Oh, sorry.

Yeah, Pembleton was having a big mess of gun trouble that season. Sometimes he couldn't even get his pistol upright, let alone keep his aim true.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 5:07 PM
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Bin Laden's plan may have been a real one - at least it wouldn't really surprise me - but that linked story is beautifully structured in such a way as to merge the war on drugs with the war on terror.

A great companion piece to both 24 and the ad campaign doing the same thing.


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 5:07 PM
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That said, there really are links between drug-trafficking and terror-financing.


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 5:09 PM
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Brown people.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 5:10 PM
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Sometimes he couldn't even get his pistol upright, let alone keep his aim true.

No botany jokes, please.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 5:11 PM
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None have I made or sold, nor have I botany.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 5:14 PM
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Damn, I shouldn't have started with the words games, as I suck at them, and you don't. So, this Homicide, it entertains, yes?


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 5:20 PM
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--word games--- QED


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 5:21 PM
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Mucho! Especially seasons 1-4.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 5:22 PM
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Damn, I shouldn't have started with the words games, as I suck at them,

You haven't the stamina?


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 5:24 PM
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Damn, I shouldn't have started with the words games, as I suck at them, and you don't.

You just have to work on your stamena.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 5:25 PM
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Let's bronze that moment, and I'll get out of the way so you two can ban each other.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 5:26 PM
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More praise for Homicide from the archives.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 5:28 PM
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As you've now ensured that I have that jingle in my head, care to provide some appropriate lyrics?


Posted by: slolernr | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 5:33 PM
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There seems to be a sort of cohesion tension dynamic to this thread.


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 5:34 PM
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Who are you calling a sap?


Posted by: slolernr | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 5:39 PM
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Only that which rises to the top.


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 5:42 PM
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It always gets back to rising sap on this blog.


Posted by: slolernr | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 5:44 PM
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I walked into this noncoding chloroplast...


Posted by: ac | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 5:44 PM
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Thi story carries the distinct whiff of bullshit.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 6:02 PM
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s


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 6:02 PM
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You make a pun!

You make a pun!

The floating eye makes a classical allusion!

---word games---


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 6:02 PM
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Interesting that the salient difference between 15 and 16 is one of leaving-implicit versus making-explicit.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 7:23 PM
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Only one of you is an instructor at an all-boys school for troubled teens in Oklahoma.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 7:26 PM
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I'm an African-American professor at a southern university, so it can't be me.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 7:31 PM
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If we assume that "stamen" comes from a Latin noun, stamen, staminis, then "stamina" would be a correct form, as either the nominative or neuter plural.

But I do prefer the implicit.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 7:33 PM
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In puns, anyway.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 7:33 PM
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I was just amused that our little exchange here should have found spontaneous and simulaneous validation in our execution of a pun.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 7:37 PM
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So I assumed.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 7:38 PM
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Of course. Just making it explicit, you know.

Really I should have addressed 33 to ogged, not you. I have no idea what that Oklahoma business was about, so I assumed ogged had no idea what the {im,ex}plicit business was about.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 7:42 PM
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You assumed correctly.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 7:44 PM
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I will had been have trouble coordinating my moods and tenses.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 7:45 PM
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Was the Oklahoma comment meant to have a gotcha quality, like pulling the mask off at the end of Scooby Doo? As if Ogged had in fact discovered SB's true identity?


Posted by: ac | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 7:53 PM
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I was just trying to think of something that would entail gayness and a habit of making explicit.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 7:54 PM
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Really? Or is that your post-hoc rationale for typing burp-thoughts into the comments box?


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 7:59 PM
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You failed!


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 8:00 PM
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So, do you know why caricatures of feminists who are using *nix for the first time prefer the Bourne-again shell? Because they're "man bash"-ers.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 8:04 PM
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<groan>


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 8:06 PM
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Really? Or is that

Really...


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 8:16 PM
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You sooth my troubled youths.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 8:30 PM
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Do you think that it's the heat affecting the posts and comments, or just general ennui?


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 8:39 PM
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Try not to kill the mood, Tim.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 8:43 PM
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ennui body want a peanut?


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 8:49 PM
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No more rhymes now, I mean it.


Posted by: washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 8:59 PM
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"Ok, so the original story was in the NY Post, so the "source" is probably just trying to make this sound Really Scary, but wouldn't plain old word of mouth and a few news stories considerably limit the number of deaths this could cause?"

It contains a fear drug that is only air-soluable, so Osama plans to use the microwave ray to vaporize the city's water.


Posted by: Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 07-26-05 11:18 PM
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eb says "That said, there really are links between drug-trafficking and terror-financing." and it's true in Northern Ireland, certainly.

But then there are still links between the US & terror-financing in NI, and noone ever seems to get arrested for it.

I know the reason's obvious, but it should also be conspicuous.


Posted by: dave heasman | Link to this comment | 07-27-05 6:26 AM
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White people?

Wheat people?


Posted by: tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 07-27-05 7:34 AM
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Good enough to eat people?


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 07-27-05 7:35 AM
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They move enough to the beat, people.


Posted by: tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 07-27-05 8:04 AM
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It must be the heat. It denatures proteins necessary for shiny, healthy comments.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 07-27-05 9:34 AM
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White people?

Wheat people?

People who post on blogs.

Old people,

Young people,

Even people who cannot spell

Love cock jokes,

mineshaft cock jokes,

The jokes people love to tell.


Posted by: Tripp | Link to this comment | 07-27-05 9:40 AM
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Hot dogs! What kind of kids eat Armour© hot dogs?


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 07-27-05 9:59 AM
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Kids wearing under-armour? Kids wearing body armour? Tommy Armour III?


Posted by: tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 07-27-05 10:35 AM
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