Trooper York: I don't know if I will get to post much during the vacation!

Friday, August 30, 2013

I don't know if I will get to post much during the vacation!

I won't have Wi-Fi for most of the trip. We might have it Tuesday when we are in Florida but that is when all of the kids are off the ship going to Disney World. So we will be back on the ship getting massages and drinking and enjoying ourselves.

So have fun and play nice and no fighting.

63 comments:

Icepick said...: No fighting? Maaannnn......; August 30, 2013 at 8:57 PM
Icepick said...: And ignore the internet. Eat, drink and be merry.; August 30, 2013 at 8:58 PM
rcocean said...: Have fun and looking forward to your trip pictures.; August 30, 2013 at 11:29 PM
Evi L. Bloggerlady said...: Have a great trip.; August 31, 2013 at 3:23 AM
Chip S. said...: *Sigh*. Gotta find our fun where we can for the next week.

I laid out some edutcher bait last night at EBL's blog, and woke to find he'd already taken it.

I suppose I shouldn't discount the possibility that he's gone meta, which would be very cool.; August 31, 2013 at 11:34 AM
chickelit said...: Bon Voyeurage, Troop!; August 31, 2013 at 1:16 PM
Michael Haz said...: Safe travels, Troop and LeeLee.

You left the bar stocked, right? Right?

Good.

Hey gang, here's something for the near-term flashback conversation: Women are selling their positive pregnancy test strips on Craigslist.

Because men are never entrapped, right? Even exercising splooge control sometimes isn't enough.; August 31, 2013 at 4:59 PM
ndspinelli said...: Haz, You are a BLASPHEMER!; August 31, 2013 at 5:07 PM
ricpic said...: I don't get it. One hour you'da been in Jones Beach. Clean air, the ocean, an olympic pool, a fantastic hamper of food you coulda picked up in the neighborhood sulamerias (sp?) and that night sleeping in your own bed or if you wanted to make a long weekend of it a top tier bed & breakfast out on the island. And the cost? A tenth as much. It woulda been the SANE thing to do. I rest my case.; August 31, 2013 at 5:24 PM
Michael Haz said...: As God is my witness, Althouse now has a post headlined "Nicely Played, Mr. President."

Unbelievable. As much of a Kool-Aid drinker as possible. Idiot.; August 31, 2013 at 5:29 PM
Chip S. said...: All the while Imagining herself saying it in Breathy Marilyn Voice, shimmying while she stands at her desk, typing languorously.; August 31, 2013 at 6:20 PM
chickelit said...: She's still hoping he'll be the President she voted for in order to vindicate her support. She's carried so much water for him it borders on hydrocephallus.; August 31, 2013 at 6:24 PM
chickelit said...: You left the bar stocked, right? Right?

He left a stack of boxed wine...bastard!; August 31, 2013 at 6:27 PM
Chip S. said...: OK, I just read the TOP post in question.

Either it's uncharacteristic self-parody, or she's lost her fucking mind.

One of the--perhaps the greatest--weakness of self-styled intellectuals is the high value they place on cleverness over wisdom.

AA is neither clever nor wise, and will hate you a million times if you say o/w.

The Hammer's take on Obama's gambit is "amateur hour". The even simpler, blindingly obvious take is, of course, "leading" from behind.; August 31, 2013 at 6:53 PM
chickelit said...: Ann Althouse said...
I never hold signs.

I don't think I have ever held a protest sign of any sort.

I think I've only once participated in a protest, but it was only walking and chanting. And it was more than 40 years ago, part of a student strike, demanding that the University of Michigan adopt affirmative action.

8/31/13, 5:46 PM

I've wondered how she got her deep, deep sense of white guilt. 40 years ago, in 1972, there was plenty to protest. I wonder if she's atoning for something or someone in her family.; August 31, 2013 at 8:35 PM
Chip S. said...: I don't think it's deep at all.

She's a mediocrity who's always gone along w/ "mainstream" liberal academic opinion. Somewhere along the way she got the idea that she was smart, and has spent the rest of her life building barriers against evidence to the contrary.

She's a trite cliché and a simple bore.; August 31, 2013 at 8:38 PM
chickelit said...: I disagree Chip. I think it's one of her defining characteristics. Also, by "deep" I don't mean in a philosophic sense--I mean in a way that's so deeply buried in her that she has knee-jerk reactions to situations today and paradoxically cannot think deeply about them.

Case in point: she has long blogged an aversion to lynching symbolism--even so far as to forbid one of her sons from making a macabre Halloween decoration--because it suggested lynching. Of course, she was OK with Palin's "lynching."

LOL, Titus is right about me--I can't let go of Althouse's hypocrisy in that regard.; August 31, 2013 at 8:50 PM
Chip S. said...: It's fine to disagree, chick, esp. on unimportant subjects like Ann Althouse.

I say her self-identification as some sort of fighter for racial justice against the white establishment is just part of the Bob-Dylan-loving hippie-chick persona she put on in college (along w/ everyone else in Ann Arbor) and has never been able to put away w/ the love beads and lava lamp.; August 31, 2013 at 8:58 PM
chickelit said...: As you wish, Chip.; August 31, 2013 at 9:00 PM
Chip S. said...: This may sound harsh, but I don't mean it that way.

I don't wish one way or the other in her case. I simply don't care enough to think about her deeply.; August 31, 2013 at 9:03 PM
Chip S. said...: In other news, the Yankees are resorting to Groupon to fill seats.; August 31, 2013 at 9:18 PM
chickelit said...: Chip, I've been following TY for a long time. The antics and armchair analysis of Althouse psychology is a long standing topic. You can unilaterally say that it's uninteresting or even unhealthy, but it won't make it go away. Many of us "met" over there.; August 31, 2013 at 9:23 PM
Chip S. said...: OK, she's fascinating.

As you wish.; August 31, 2013 at 9:26 PM
The Dude said...: Hey, Troopski said no fighting, especially over wine-soaked bints.

Bros before hoes, amirite?; September 1, 2013 at 6:51 AM
MamaM said...: Right chew are. So are both bros.

I thought fascinating was a strange word for ChipS to use, as it lent a sarcastic tone to his response. Knowing how on-the- spot he can be, I looked it up and was seriously surprised to learn its origin and see it tracing back to the Italian pics El Pollo had posted earlier.

Fascinating -arousing great interest
-possessing the power to charm or allure; captivating.

From the Latin fascinre, fascint-, to cast a spell on, from fascinum, an evil spell, a phallic-shaped amulet.

In ancient Roman religion and magic, the fascinus or fascinum was the embodiment of the divine phallus. The word can refer to the deity himself (Fascinus), to phallus effigies and amulets, and to the spells used to invoke his divine protection.] Pliny calls it a medicus invidiae, a "doctor" or remedy for envy (invidia, a "looking upon") or the evil eye.

Once again, ChipS T's it up. And El Pollo socks it down the fairway when he says, "is a long standing topic. You can unilaterally say that it's uninteresting or even unhealthy, but it won't make it go away."

Long standing indeed. More than four hours. Ancient history

And for peacemakers and Opera lovers, this fascinating tidbit from the wiki: Catullus uses the verb at the end of Carmen 7, a hendecasyllabic poem addressing his lover Lesbia; he expresses his infinite desire for kisses that cannot be counted by voyeurs nor "fascinated" (put under a spell) by a malicious tongue; such bliss, as also in Carmen 5, potentially attracts invidia.

On the homefront, we're closing the pool today. Next week's nightly temps are supposed go to as low as 48 degrees. And what did I do after my final swim? I sat mesmerized watching vidoe after video of landslides Yup, I followed the link of one of those less than significant commenters over there for some fascinating sights. Doing so suited my mood.; September 1, 2013 at 2:08 PM
The Dude said...: You rock, MamaM - blessed are the cheesemakers. Oh, right, you're not in Wisconsin.

Which makes you doubly blessed.; September 1, 2013 at 2:44 PM
MamaM said...: Thanks Sixty! Sometimes it takes a colony if not a village of individuated curds to make cottage cheese!; September 1, 2013 at 5:04 PM
The Dude said...: We have more culture than yogurt!; September 1, 2013 at 6:27 PM
The Dude said...: I'm thinking it would be gallant of us to take Troopski out to Joe and Mary's Italian-American Restaurant in Bushwick as a nice welcome home gesture. I'll bring the cigar.; September 1, 2013 at 6:44 PM
Michael Haz said...: Anyone hungry? I'll call Marco Polo and have them deliver dinner, charged to Trooper's account.; September 1, 2013 at 7:56 PM
windbag said...: I'll bring the cigar.

That's what she said.; September 1, 2013 at 8:04 PM
MamaM said...: Trooper's soggy looking Bananas Foster pales in comparison to The Itchy Trigger Finger!; September 2, 2013 at 2:33 AM
ndspinelli said...: Haz, Nobody would let that reprobate run a tab.; September 2, 2013 at 10:39 AM
Michael Haz said...: You're right. Every place I called had the same answer: "Aayyyy...I gotcher rice balls right here."; September 2, 2013 at 10:51 AM
Chip S. said...: MamaM for Sec. of State!; September 2, 2013 at 10:22 PM
Icepick said...: I feel a great disturbance in the Force.....; September 3, 2013 at 10:35 AM
Roger J. said...: Troop--and the fair Ms Troop--you guys have a great vacation. enjoy all of it. you will have plenty of stuff to blog about when you get back.

But I gotta tell you troop--you look awfully much like the Gene Hackman character in enemy of the state when he shows up at the end of the flick. Get some sun on the legs.; September 3, 2013 at 3:05 PM
The Dude said...: This place is deader than Bissage.; September 4, 2013 at 11:00 AM
chickelit said...: Was Troop really Bissage in disguise?; September 4, 2013 at 12:18 PM
chickelit said...: Or was bissage really Troop in disguise?; September 4, 2013 at 12:18 PM
The Dude said...: If you ever find the sock puppet, look for prints. Or Prince.

Who knows, Troopski might be Prince, too. You just never know.; September 4, 2013 at 12:34 PM
chickelit said...: He can't be Prince. Althouse loves Prince.; September 4, 2013 at 1:06 PM
The Dude said...: Yeah, plus Troopski is too dark complected to be Prince.; September 4, 2013 at 1:17 PM
chickelit said...: What about Prince of Wales?; September 4, 2013 at 4:02 PM
Michael Haz said...: Or Prince Fielder.; September 4, 2013 at 4:22 PM
chickelit said...: Doesn't he play for what the french call "DAY-trwa'?; September 4, 2013 at 4:27 PM
Michael Haz said...: Miss Darcy's team done kidnap him from the Milwaukee Brewers. The 19 games out of first place Milwaukee Brewers.; September 4, 2013 at 4:36 PM
Michael Haz said...: I have to stop doing the occasional fly-by glance at topics posted at TOP. It does nothing but anger me. Today's longish topic on abortion and men controlling their junk is just a re-do of the shit she posted in early July.

Vile, smarmy shit. With the injected "you need to think harder about what I said" condescension.

I need to clear my head. Saddling up for a ride for a few days. Need to spend time with my two-wheel peeps, and with the road.

Ran into a buddy yesterday buying new tires for his scoot. Said he had two weeks free, so he was going to ride to all four corners of America. He'll be in Seattle tomorrow morning, then turn south toward San Diego. I'm not going that far this month, but I am going.

Gone.; September 5, 2013 at 11:20 AM
The Dude said...: Have fun out there Haz. Althouse produces nothing but garbage, always has, always will. Best to avoid that landfill she calls a blog.; September 5, 2013 at 12:43 PM
TTBurnett said...: Actually, Michael, that' s "You need to laugh harder at what I said."; September 5, 2013 at 2:02 PM
chickelit said...: Troop probably needs to see these when he gets back.; September 6, 2013 at 1:09 AM
The Dude said...: Aw jeez, E. P., that is hideous. How about you give us a warning that we are increasing traffic to the bint's place? How about an NSFW tag. Better yet a spoiler tag - some of us have not had breakfast and that shit will spoil one's appetite.

What a smug prick.

In the pictures, I mean. Got the kind of face that says "Punch me!"

No wonder they get along.; September 6, 2013 at 7:10 AM
Darcy said...: LOL

They both kinda like themselves a little.; September 6, 2013 at 12:51 PM
Chip S. said...: Those looked like downloads from a sex offender registry.; September 6, 2013 at 1:21 PM
chickelit said...: Chip: Lots of guys had porn 'staches back then -- I know I did. BTW, don't you?; September 6, 2013 at 1:39 PM
chickelit said...: They both kinda like themselves a little.

I suppose they can each imagine having taken those early photos of each other, having negated the actual photographers.; September 6, 2013 at 1:44 PM
chickelit said...: I need to clear my head. Saddling up for a ride for a few days. Need to spend time with my two-wheel peeps, and with the road.

Be careful out there, Michael. I know you're a good rider, but the road is only as safe as the worst drunk out there.; September 6, 2013 at 1:46 PM
Darcy said...: And I'll bet they negate a lot, El Pollo. (I laughed out loud at my desk - thank you.); September 6, 2013 at 1:48 PM
blake said...: So, we should fight or something.; September 6, 2013 at 10:19 PM
TTBurnett said...: But, Darcy, if they don't like themselves, who will?; September 7, 2013 at 10:53 AM
Chip S. said...: For Trooper's sake I hope he doesn't have access to sports news right now.

Yanks are looking positively titanic.; September 7, 2013 at 12:00 PM
chickelit said...: There are no icebergs in the Bahamas.; September 7, 2013 at 12:07 PM
chickelit said...: But he may be force fed iceberg lettuce.; September 7, 2013 at 12:08 PM

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