Man Purse
You know I carry a breifcase around most of the time and as much as I'd like to think of Expat carrying a man purse isn't it really just a satchel?
posted by Mike Dubuc | 8:59 AM
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- Name: Mike Dubuc
This site has been set up to share thoughts and photographs with friends and relatives regarding Peter. This is a work in progress and will change and improve as time goes on. Our thoughts and ideas are, just that, ours. They may or may not agree with Peter's, but that's what makes the world go around (and seems to be an endless source of enjoyment). If your not going to respect Peter's opinions, than please continue reading. He is a conservative in every sense of the word. He feels that a civilized society cannot function without rules and regulations, rights and obligations. Letting the past guide us keeps our society from falling into chaos. Keeping the things that work, to allow for order and freedom, freedom for all, not just the special interest groups. Peter has come to realize that life is short. We should tell the people that we love that we love them as often as possible. One never knows when this may be ones last opportunity to do so. By the way, we will all be watching what is said, not doubt even his mother may very well be reading this. And YES, please wear your shoes into the Parlor!
Thursday, January 03, 2008
You know I carry a breifcase around most of the time and as much as I'd like to think of Expat carrying a man purse isn't it really just a satchel?
38 Comments:
Thankyouthankyouthankyou Mr. Michael. At long last Michael Collins has returned to us. Leader of the rebellion.
The rebellion lives! For the longest time this outpost of freedom laid in decay, with only that OTHER blog to keep our fancy. Thank goodness for the man purse!
While this new post is nice, I am afraid Dr. Franklin that there are not enough of us now to sustain any sort of sustained offensive. Too many grizzled veterans have gone away.
Nice attempt on the anniversary of the last post. Man purse, you mean Fag Bag, I wouldn't be caught dead with one. Ask Dr. F., his brother probably uses one
now now, Expat, lets not use such language. These man purses are very European. i saw it on Seinfeld.
and jo jo, I am saddened by the dparture of our long lost friends. where is lori, and spilly? Alas....dear spilly....
My dear Dr. F, I'm afraid that mon ami Spillé has Ass-Ended out of her once lowly employ into an elitest and stratospheric band of "Sista's" from whence never an utterence to her former petridish-esque acquantiences is permitted.
I too miss the good graces and the doe-eyed innocence that was so well represented by the female delegates of the Detrolio tribe.
[sigh]
What he said.
In yer ear!
oh mike how I miss the little fawn and doe of the Detrolio herd, their gentle whispers among the cacophony of unsettling vibrations which one often hears on this and that other blog-pretender. Yea noise. Then I'll be brief. Oh, happy dagger, this is thy sheath; there rust and let me die.
Item for discussion: The Bush Administration is preparing to sell 20 Billion(not Million) dollars worth of Arms to Saudi Arabia-including precision laser guided missles. Is this a good idea? The other shoe is that they are increasing the dollars in Aid to Isreal to counter balance.
it seems they want each to obliterate the other.
nothing this liberal big government president seems to be a very good idea
Well, my "talking point" inspired no(except for the good doktor) conversation, so, I'll try this one. Who was the "Burgular of Banf-f-f"? Name the show and the actor if you please.
Who is Corporal Agarn (Larry Storch) of F Troop?
ding. Try again.
What thefty character did Paul Lynde play on F-Troop?
I'll take "Obscure guest spots by Alcholic Homosexual Comedians in TV shows" for $300 please.
Is that your answer or is it another question? He was the Burgular of Banf-f-f Agarn's cousin, Pierre, I believe was not the Burgular, but and ingenious trapper who cross bread a mink with a lynx(I think) and he was being Pursued by the Burgular(Linde). Linde was in disguise as a singing Canadian Mountie.
J. WALTER GREEN/AP Photo
World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer Dies
By GUDJON HELGASON
Associated Press Writer
REYKJAVIK, Iceland - Bobby Fischer, the reclusive American chess master who became a Cold War icon when he dethroned the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky as world champion in 1972, has died. He was 64.
Fischer died Thursday in a Reykjavik hospital, his spokesman, Gardar Sverrisson, said. There was no immediate word on the cause of death.
Born in Chicago and raised in Brooklyn, Robert James Fischer was a U.S. chess champion at 14 and a grand master at 15. He beat Spassky in a series of games in Reykjavik to claim America's first world chess championship in more than a century.
The event had tremendous symbolic importance, pitting the intensely individualistic young American against a product of the grim and soulless Soviet Union.
It also was marked by Fischer's odd behavior - possibly calculated psychological warfare against Spassky - that ranged from arriving two days late to complaining about the lighting, TV cameras, the spectators, even the shine on the table.
Spassky said in a brief phone call from France, where he lives, that he was "very sorry" to hear of Fischer's death.
Former Russian chess champion Garry Kasparov said Fischer's conquest of the chess world in the 1960s was "a revolutionary breakthrough" for the game.
But Fischer's reputation as a chess genius soon was eclipsed by his idiosyncrasies. He lost his world title in 1975 after refusing to defend it against Anatoly Karpov. He dropped out of competitive chess and largely out of view, emerging occasionally to make erratic and often anti-Semitic comments, although his mother was Jewish.
"The tragedy is that he left this world too early, and his extravagant life and scandalous statements did not contribute to the popularity of chess," Kasparov told The Associated Press.
Fischer lived in secret outside the United States but emerged in 1992 to confront Spassky again, in a highly publicized match in Yugoslavia. Fischer beat Spassky 10-5 to win $3.35 million.
The U.S. government said Fischer's playing the match violated U.N. sanctions against Yugoslavia, imposed for Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic's role in fomenting war in the Balkans.
Over the years, Fischer gave occasional interviews with a radio station in the Philippines, often digressing into anti-Semitic rants and accusing American officials of hounding him.
He praised the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, saying America should be "wiped out," and described Jews as "thieving, lying bastards." His mother was Jewish.
He also announced he had abandoned chess in 1996 and launched a new version in Argentina, "Fischerandom," a computerized shuffler that randomly distributes chess pieces on the back row of the board at the start of each game.
Fischer claimed it would bring the fun back into the game and rid it of cheats.
In July 2004, Fischer was arrested in Japan and threatened with extradition to the United States to face sanctions-busting charges. He spent nine months in custody before the dispute was resolved when Iceland - a chess-mad nation and site of his greatest triumph - granted him citizenship.
Fischer told reporters that he was finished with a chess world he regarded as corrupt, and sparred with U.S. journalists who asked about his anti-American tirades.
"The United States is evil. There's this axis of evil. What about the allies of evil - the United States, England, Japan, Australia? These are the evildoers," Fischer said.
In his final years, Fischer railed against the chess establishment, alleging that the outcomes of many top-level chess matches were decided in advance.
Instead, he championed his concept of random chess.
"I don't play the old chess," he told reporters upon arrival in Iceland. "But obviously if I did, I would be the best."
If I knocked, this blog would echo. Well for that matter so would the other one. I feel like that guy in the episode of the Twilight Zone who liked to read, and as he was a bank teller would go into the vault to read and while down there one time, he managed to miss a nuclear holocaust. Overjoyed at the prospect of being able to read constantly he failed to notice the steps in front of him. He fell down them and smashed his reading glasses. But, I say this only to myself.
this reminds me of a classic from Three Dog Night....what where the words again.,..ah yes, I have them......
One is the loneliest, number one is the loneliest
Number one is the loneliest number that you'll ever do
One is the loneliest, one is the loneliest
One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do
It's just no good anymore since she went away
(Number) One is the loneliest
(Number) One is the loneliest
(Number) One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do
(Number) One is the loneliest
(Number) One is the loneliest
(Number) One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do
New words from 2007
Taken from http://www.worldwidewords.org/nl/ajdb.htm
Colloquial terms include "floordrobe", "lady garden" and "salad dodger", respectively a floor littered with discarded clothes, a woman's pubic region, and an overweight person. Other body terms include "arse antlers" (a tattoo just above the buttocks, having a central section and curving extensions on each side), "butt bra" (a garment worn as a support for the buttocks), and "manscaping" (a male grooming procedure in which hair is shaved or trimmed from all over the body). The Social Terms section has "kipper" for an adult child still living in the home of his or her parents (supposedly from "Kids In Parents' Pockets Eroding Retirement Savings") and "slummy mummy", for a mother of young children who has abandoned all care for her personal appearance, a play on "yummy mummy" for an older, immaculately-groomed and attractive woman.
A couple of characteristically Australian terms in the Environment section are "toad juice", liquid fertiliser from pulverised cane toads (a nasty introduced pest in the north of the continent), and "green shoe brigade", those people who stand to profit from dubious practices conducted in the name of environmental protection (this is formed from "white shoe brigade", a deeply derogatory term for the unscrupulous property developers who built up the coast of Queensland in the 1980s)
Well, that's a bit better. Still though, Expat, Don Miguel, Lori, Spilly and Daisy-to say the least are still MIA.
Thank you all for missing me! I am back from my adventure touring the US Southland. I bring greetings from Texas, Alabama, North Carolina (after ceeding to South Carolina) and Florida. I'm glad to be back. I must say Miami is a bit...scuzzy.
As to Bobby Fischer's death, just one less lunatic poluting the airwaves with his nonsense.
Expat who?
The world sets its lonely eyes upon the Patriots in Super Bowl 42....these are the days when we need lori's astute NFL knowledge.
I have encouraged her to contribute, but alas, she can no longer from work. As she has 2 small children she finds it difficult to do from home.
Queen Elizabeth I: Go back to your rathole! Tell Philip I fear neither him, nor his priests, nor his armies. Tell him if he wants to shake his little fist at us, we're ready to give him such a bite he'll wish he'd kept his hands in his pockets!
Spanish Minister: You see a leaf fall, and you think you see which way the wind blows. Well, there is a wind coming, Madame, that will sweep away your pride.
[turns to leave with his ministers]
Queen Elizabeth I: I, too, can command the wind, sir! I have a hurricane in me that will strip Spain bare when you dare to try me!
Had that storm not approached England would have been invaded and a proper Catholic monarch re-installed on the throne. Poor England, now it's stuck with Charlie big ears! That wouldn't be so bad if his taste in women wasn't so deplorable.
Instead, God was on the side of Her Majesty. Elizabeth I continued on to become a great monarch, frustrate the papists in Spain, and continue a monarchy which led the world to a victory over the German (twice).
God Save The Queen!
I hate to disabuse you, Dr. F., but the good old US of A defeated the Germans twice in the first half of the 20th century. The brits were drinking tea on the beach while we were shooting krauts. And most of those soldiers were not of english descent. Oddly enough the general who lead to their second defeat was a second generation german american by the name of Eisenhauer (later anglicized the spelling to make it less german looking). Your queen libby really never bested Phillip, who ruled most of the world, it would later be his half-wit descendants from over inner-breeding within the house of Austria that caused their own downfall.
Cat fight!
Britain fought alone in the dark days of American isolationism. They stood alone against the forces of evil.
"Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour!”
-Sir Winston Churchill
You always pull Churchill out of the hat to attempt to save your arguments. As he was the greatest of orators, we are awed by his words and forget the hollowness of your argument. Face it, Britain, whose empire was shortlived, suffers and suffered from imperial hangover.
Point to ponder, Churchill is in fact Church Hill, which is the same as Dunkirk, which is Dun Kirck, the Church Hill. Does anyone else find that ironic?
As a Giant Whinnie fan I am always happy to hear words and deeds once uttered and performed by the greatest of Britons. In that spirit I am prepared always to rise to his defense. Indeed when Dr. Frankin jotted down his quote I chuckled. I must say however, that Expat does deserve points on this one. In truth the British Empire(I am a fan) was short lived(but Brilliant). WWII was their curtain call, but their role as the "lynch-pin" of freedom truly was their finest hour. American Might won the war, the unfetterd healthy-blooded mongrel race of Americans(that with a bit of aid from German scientists and engineers). In truth though, Britan gave us the time we needed(and we gave them the material support they needed)to prepare to launch ourselves into greatness on the world stage and indeed fill the void of the dying European powers. As an aside I have felt for many years that the Germans ought to have won the war-not that I wish that-but that their might and skill and organization was truly breathtaking and they would have but for the Austrian paperhanger.
That was a brilliant piece of historical analysis, jo jo. Brilliant!
1. They wouldn't have gotten themselves into it, but for the Austrian paperhanger.
2. Their organization was their downfall, unlike when an american lieutenant or sargent was shot and the next guy just picked up command and ran with it, the german non-coms were lost without a leader and just collapsed. The difference between a precision luger and a sloppy 45!
"...german non-coms were lost without a leader..."
I didn't know this, hmmm, explains a lot.
I disagree. Their chain of command was very good. Their training, especially officer training was spectacular. As the Luger and the .45 were built to do different things, so their military worked differently as well. The truth of the matter is that the "Germans" were chomping at the bit to get into it again as they had been in a recession since the first war, and as far as the common German was concerned they hadn't ever lost in the first place. They had been paying reparations and been humiliated on the world stage. The common feeling especially among Veterans was that their government had sold them out by signing the Armistice-that is the key, they never lost, and the War never officially ended. Units marched home in uniform-in some cases to victory celebrations. They signed a "cease-fire" with the pig-French who didn't deserve to be on the same battle field with them. Hitler just blew on the embers, the coals and TNT were alredy there. You are sadly deluded if you think that they were outgeneralled. When WWI broke out there were over 200 members of the German Generals Staff. In the US there were fewer than 30. Hitler started things and he screwed it up for his men. The Eastern Front undid him. Market Garden had failed(thanks to Monty) Much of his staff wanted to Sue for peace and hold the line with most of the conquests still in Axis hands. That's a chunk of France all of Poland and Chech, all of Italy and N. Africa. We would have had to agree-but they lost a quarter of a million men on the road to Moscow and it broke them. That is all I have to say.
I don't disagree about the general staff. The germans out generaled the allies. But under another govt. they would not have gone back to war. Remember, without Hitler, Mussolini would have never gotten involved in Europe, the british may have joined the germans to finish off the french, the possibilities were endless. The fact it Hitler was there, he interfered with his general staff and as a result of the poor quality of the average soldier by the end of the war they were lost without superiors. They had no power to just take over when their superior was gone.
So as I don't disagree with you, jo, jo, I feel that the options were not as limited as you present them.
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