Recently Discovered

[datlowen]

###ABSTRACT###I'm done grading papers! I've gone completely soft. Dan Quayle is small and inoffensive, and so was Murphy Brown, but I have real Small Wonder issues. European drag racing is even more lame than you could possibly imagine. Imagine the lamest thing ever, and then lame it up some more, and then put it in a bunny costume. That's how lame

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[datlowen]

What makes you say that? She does poke fun at Dan Quayle a lot, but I think she would have poked fun at whoever. Of course, I had stopped watching before Clinton came to office, so I don't know if she was all Luv!Clinton. This is based entirely on a handful of episodes from season one.

>when she had the thing with dan quayle i was afraid that he would impose martial law. (i was 8)

Oh, har. That's like even cute.

[loatiloat]

Well assuming datlowen has only seen the first season dvd like me, I agree with him that season one is not that liberal. Maybe later seasons were more liberal. But my reaction was sorta -- wow, this was not that edgy.

Although they did like make fun of Quayle over and over in season one. If he attacked the show for that reason then it would make sense. But I imagine he never really watched it.

[datlowen]

Yeah, I don't think he ever really got on that bandwagon until 1992 and the whole losing the race for Vice President thing. I also imagine that the writers liberaled it up that season to play up the election angle, because hey, free advertising!

[cmshaw]

i would say something about the library of congress yay!, but i'm still too scared by the way you rattled off all of those different types of car racing (even though you did include "parades" and "charioteering", for which you are wonderful).

[datlowen]

YAY LOC!

They're all kinds of car racing I've watched, and furthermore there are more that I left out, and there and various gradations among them which overlap. But I was just trying to give you all a sense of how deeply lame European drag racing is.

I've now remembered the name of the drag strip. It's in Britain, and named "Santa Pod," but the way the lettering was on the sign, it sure looked a hell of a lot like "Santa Poo," which is JUST SO APPROPRIATE.

[insptr_penguin]

You could buy hazelnut coffee and add irish cream flavored creamer. It might explode, but hey, all in the name of science.

I love the Library of Congress. I go into a book-induced state of estacy and greed at the thought of ALL THESE BOOKS right here at my fingertips and have to resist the urge to cackle maniacally.

[datlowen]

What? BUY coffee? You are speaking the crazy language of the crazy people.

I don't ever want to cackle, but I love the smell of the old books and the thought of just all of that knowledge awes me. I want a room in my house to smell like that.

[eme_kah]

They should have a PERFUME that smells like that. It should be called Knowledge. (Duh.) And remember the old commercials for Calvin Klein's Obsession with all those naked people on the beach? Who didn't look like they wre really obsessed with ANYTHING bc obsessed people usually don't just lie down naked all day at the beach, usually they're out stalking the objects of their obsessions. Say what you will, people who obsess are DOERS. Okay, maybe not always but a lot of them. Anyway, I can see the commercial for KNOWLEDGE with all these people in nothing but cardigans and glasses, lying down all seductively at like, well, at the Library of Congress!! On the floor and when the camera cuts to their faces, they intone something really wise but in a monotone. Bc that's hop the perpetually hip and disaffected talk.

[datlowen]

I WOULD TOTALLY BUY THAT AND WEAR IT! It would make me feel smarter and crap.

I totally love those Obsession commercials. I didn't at the time because I was all narrow-minded and lame and blah, like I was, but now that I have a healthy appreciation for the absurd and inane, I am totally behind them 1000%.

[eme_kah]

What always got to me was how they'd INTONE some stupid shit as if they were handing out precious precious pearls of wisdom. And also, wtf, why weren't they smiling EVER? They were beautiful, they smelled good, they were lying around naked with other beautiful people on the beach ergo they didn't have to work--wouldn't that make you SMILE? At least? I'd be walking around like a goofball in that situation. That's the thing about obsessed people, man. They got no sense of humor. ZEE-rooooh.

[datlowen]

I think I'd be bored and naked and on a beach and nice-smelling. What would I have to do with myself except mutter whatever inanities come to my head. Not that I don't do that now, but I can distract myself with other things when the need arises. It's like that book about the kid who stays up all night and drinks tea and wears broccoli around his neck and becomes perfect! Only to finally realize that being perfect is like boring and crap. Which is a fine moral for a kids book, but seems a bit inane. Just as inane as "is this me touching you, or you touching me?" which is one of the inane things that the people on the commercial actually for real said.

[andieflynn]

My EYES! MY EYES!! I was not ready for a color change.

(comment re: use of cut-tag deleted due to temporary blindness)

[datlowen]

BUT I TOTALLY USED IT FOR YOUUUUUUUUUUU!!!

Yeah, I decided I wanted a change. I'm not sure if I like it, though. What do you think?

[andieflynn]

I know you totally used it for meeeee! And I appreciate it.

I find these colors rather, er, BOLD. But that's just cause I'm not used to them. It does make the text a lot easier to read, however.

[datlowen]

Yeah, even I was having trouble with the whole little words in a huge paragraph thing. Like, okay, now the paragraphs are bigger, but now I can also track from line to line without getting my eyes crossed. TRADEOFFS, man.