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Thursday, 1 May 2008
Decisions. Decisions.

Coffee or Tea?

 

Olive oil or butter? Butter or jam? Jam or Patum Peperium? Rice or Pasta? Steak or Lobster? Mu Shi Pork, or Mu Shi Chicken? Mushrooms or Bamboo Shoots? Sushi or Sashimi? Franks or Burgers? Coke or Pepsi? Gherkins, or Bread-and-Butter Pickles? Ciabatta or Whole-Wheat Bread? Equal or Splenda? Le Cru ou Le Cuit?

 

The Guelfs or the Ghibellines? The Red or the Black? The Blue or the Gray? The Federalists or the Jeffersonians? The Colorados or the Blancos? The Descamisados or the Sans-Culottes? The Liberals or Conservatives? The Democrats or Republicans? The Red States, or the Blue States? Obama or Hillary?   more...

Posted on 5:54 PM by NER
Comments
1 May 2008
John M. J.

Dear Hugh,

 

I appreciate your dilemma but some choices are easy:

 

Always Pasta. Always olive oil. Always Buster Keaton. Always Bix Beiderbecke. Always Cambridge. Always Benchley. Always the Libertine. Always the Crossword. Always Burgundy.

 

There, I have reduced your state of indecision by the exercise of my innate good taste. No need to thank me, I live to be of service.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

John,

Always the fool.

1 May 2008
Send an emailreactionry
Devil Ex Machina
Or: Feats of Clay
 
Browning or revolver or safety catch?  Kasparov or Karpov or the devil in the Deep Blue*?
 
From The Love Song of Long John Silver:  Decisions or revisions or friggin' in the riggin'? Truth or Dare or Consequences? Peach or lime or scurvy?  Tariq "C*ck Disease" Aziz or "Clay Oven" Aziz or Drowned Phoenician Sailor?
*IBM, therefore I exist.


2 May 2008
Send an emailMary Jackson
Monte Carlo or bust.

2 May 2008
Send an emailreactionry
The Guelfs or the Ghibellines or the Goumiers*
Or: Wojtek or Schweik?
 
Coffee, Tea, Me or Schlag*? Ostalgie or Bustalgie? - Chancellor Merkel
 
 
I still don't grok the "Schlag" banter betwixt Jackson and Fitzgerald.  The only local things which come to mind are Schlage locksets.  Maybe an international perspective would come from coffee mit Kofi anon or perhaps Debbie Schlussel could provide a key.
 
Monte Casino, Hejna? mariacki or Bust! -Polish Infantry
 
 
The above is worth a read for the mention of the good "soldier" Wojtek and the adjective, Marocchinate, which - sigh- HF has already mentioned: 
 
 
 
Feh! -hat tips to HF & Google for the lot of 'em


2 May 2008
Send an emailMary Jackson

...perhaps Debbie Schlussel could provide a key.

A key to an Arschloch?



4 May 2008
Send an emailAlfred
I AM POSITIVE THAT MR. FITZGERALD INTENDS TO MAKE A WITTY POINT. AND I AM SURE THAT ALL THE WITTY POSTS AND RIPOSTES, LAVISH WITH SELF-GRATIFICATION, EQUALLY SO.

I JUST DON'T GET IT. BUT THEN, I AM MENTALLY SLOW.

PRACTICALLY RETARDED.

SO MAYBE THE WHOLE MESS SHOULD BE READ AGAIN MORE ASSIDUOUSLY.

OR MAYBE NOT.

10 May 2008
Mark Travis
You overlooked the most important dilemma:

S*** or go blind.

xo
MT

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