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Jul. 24th, 2004 03:14 amYeah, fine, so I'm watching "Once More, With Feeling" for the third time in three days. What can you do about it. (Man, I love Sweet's reprise.)
Two quotes from the last few weeks. First, a receptionist in a doctor's office: "Aren't carrots high in carbohydrates though? Celery's high in nothing. Probably why it's a waste of time to eat it."
Second, a quote highly dependent on context. The Weekly Dig, a local free liberal newspaper, ran a "guide to the DNC" that included a "quiz" to test how liberal you are. A quick glance at the quiz is enough to get the point across: 15 statements like "Gay marriage is more reprehensible than a war based on false pretenses" with which you were supposed to rate from 1 (agree) to 5 (disagree), and a scoring system where 15 was mainstream American (vote for Bush) and 16-75 was "redder than a baboon's ass; call the FBI".
What made this funny was that these three college-aged girls who were out raising money for the DNC were reading the quiz and taking it far too seriously. Then one read: "Ann Coulter is attractive. And not in that Iggy Pop sort of way," and looked at the other two and said, "Who's Ann Coulter?"
Well, thank heavens the wide-eyed youngsters out campaigning for the DNC are doing it because they're politically astute and informed people.
Oh god, I've gotten old, haven't I.
Two quotes from the last few weeks. First, a receptionist in a doctor's office: "Aren't carrots high in carbohydrates though? Celery's high in nothing. Probably why it's a waste of time to eat it."
Second, a quote highly dependent on context. The Weekly Dig, a local free liberal newspaper, ran a "guide to the DNC" that included a "quiz" to test how liberal you are. A quick glance at the quiz is enough to get the point across: 15 statements like "Gay marriage is more reprehensible than a war based on false pretenses" with which you were supposed to rate from 1 (agree) to 5 (disagree), and a scoring system where 15 was mainstream American (vote for Bush) and 16-75 was "redder than a baboon's ass; call the FBI".
What made this funny was that these three college-aged girls who were out raising money for the DNC were reading the quiz and taking it far too seriously. Then one read: "Ann Coulter is attractive. And not in that Iggy Pop sort of way," and looked at the other two and said, "Who's Ann Coulter?"
Well, thank heavens the wide-eyed youngsters out campaigning for the DNC are doing it because they're politically astute and informed people.
Oh god, I've gotten old, haven't I.