The "It's My Birthday and Keith Better Shout Out To Me" edition 1/12/06

[Clark2008]

Shhhh... don't tell anyone I'm ancient today!!

:hi: KOEBers. My honey's slaving away in the kitchen making me dinner! I am drinking a fat-free, carb-free dirty martini and awaiting shrimp and asparagus.

Keith is waiting to make my birthday night special!!

:loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: Keefie!!

What kind of tie do you want? I still say ORANGE!

[Clark2008]

1. Ah, darn... I tried to be the only one.

:(

[CC]

4. Hi Clark

You're still a young 'un compared to some of us.

[SharonRB]

5. I'll delete mine

Happy birthday, Clark. Be back soon.

[Clark2008]

7. Hi Sharon!

You're a sweetheart!
:hi: :loveya:

[bleever]

2. Happy Birfday, Clark!

:party:

May you get all you want.

:)

[Clark2008]

8. I already have, Bleev.

A wonderful husband and my son earned the Star Student award today for his first honors, his excellent citizenship and his ability to be a role model to his peers.

I'm truly blessed!

[SharonRB]

24. That's a great present, Clark.

[ralps]

3. Hi Clark2008, Hi Everyone. Happy birthday Clark2008

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo: :party: :party: :toast: :toast: :bounce: :bounce: :applause: :applause:
oops- I misspelled something

[Berry Cool]

81. A belated happy birthday, Clarkie.

I couldn't be here last night. Hope it was a real joy.

[Clark2008]

6. 700 questions in 18 hours?!?!

Woah Nellie!

And thanks for the birthday wishes, all.

God, my kitchen smells good. My hubby is a wondermous cook. Someday I'll have you all over for dinner!

[Berry Cool]

82. I am happy that Keith pointed out

how many of Alito's answers were evasive and lacked all substance!

[ralps]

9. I guess Georgie thinks Rove is doing a heck of a job in New Orleans

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[Clark2008]

10. Georgie needs to go into exile in Elba.

I shant say another word. ;)

[SharonRB]

47. Sounds like a great idea to me, Clark.

[Patsy Stone]

11. Happy Birthday, Clark!

And Howard (and, okay,...Rush).

Here's your prezzie:


:loveya:

[Clark2008]

17. My Prezzie... as in my present or my PRESIDENT?

Tanks!!


(Did you know my hubby is former Army and served under that lovely person posted above? I knew it would last when he walked and, told me he loved Clark - saw my paraphernalia - and hated "Bushie." SIGH)

[crispini]

12. Hi ladies!

Happy b'day Clark! :hi:

He looks splendiferous tonight. :loveya: :loveya: More stripes, I see.

[WolverineDG]

14. hiya crispy!

:hi:

yes, looking good tonight. :)

too bad we can't say the same for NOLA. :cry:

dg

[crispini]

32. Yes, that was pretty sad.

Howdy Wolvie! :hi:

[Clark2008]

15. Hi Crispini!

:hi:

And thank you! I still like my birthday because I don't look my age. :7

And he does look splendiferous and wondermous and handsomous and all those "mous's" tonight!

[crispini]

33. Well it sounds like you are celebrating it in style! nt

[WolverineDG]

13. Happy Birthday, Clark!

:party:

dg

[Botany]

16. Happy Bay Airs Day

Hope you have fun.

[Patsy Stone]

18. So what'd I miss?

Hi, everyone! :hi:

[Botany]

19. Did bush really say in Mississippi?

"there is gonna be a building boom. these will be exciting times here."

I guess some "handler" is going to get his/her butt kicked by Rove.

[Olney Blue]

51. Yes, he really did.

:banghead:

Head, meet wall.

[Botany]

60. What a twit wit!

So your house & town are gone .... friends and family dead, displaced, or missing,
but unless you are in construction ..... other people will get to come into your town
and make money.

[Olney Blue]

67. I've had it with blivet.

:grr:

I also couldn't believe that he said "heckuvajob" at that news conference!

[Berry Cool]

83. He didn't say "heckuva job"

He said "NO is a heckuva place to take your family!"

Which is bad enough! You would've thought he'd try to AVOID that "heckuva" phrase there altogether!

He needs way better handlers.

[ralps]

20. Get off the air Mrs. Greenspan!!

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[Clark2008]

23. Doesn't she look like she's just a bulb with makeup on?

I bet she must only weigh 50 pounds and the rest is pancake makeup and hairspray.

It sucks that women have to look so "young" on TV and men can age, but, really, shouldn't she be a little less made up to be taken more seriously?

[Patsy Stone]

31. She looks like Skeletor

She's so hollow and sunken.

Have you ever watched Adrienne Arpel on HSN? Less is more? Ha! :rofl:

[WolverineDG]

21. kate moss & lindsay lohan pole dancing?

how will we be able to tell which is the starlet & which is the pole? they're both freakin' toothpicks!

dg

[Greylyn58]

22. Happy Birthday Clark2008

Hope it has been a special one and that your new hubby took good care of you. :party: :party: :party:



Hope the rest of Keith's viewing posse are also doing well!! :evilgrin:

Keith is looking good!!! Yummy!!! :loveya:

[Clark2008]

25. The WHO!!!!

He shouted out! He shouted out!!

My favorite band!!

"I'm a boy, I'm a boy, but my Mom won't admit it... I'm a boy, I'm a boy, but if I say I am, I get it!"

[ralps]

26. Jane Anne Pilley IMHO needs to make up her/his mind

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[crispini]

29. Yeah, but that was pretty funny.

"Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face!" :rofl:

[crispini]

27. So what do all ya'll think about Alito?

I think he's gonna get confirmed, but I think that if the Dem leadership doesn't suck it up and filibuster, they're gonna lose some support. At least, gauging by the volume of hysteria in GD today.

[SharonRB]

35. I think he'll get confirmed, too

And I have my doubts that they'll filibuster. We also have to remember that DU doesn't necessarily represent the opinions of a majority of the rest of the Dems out there. I think sometimes our view of what the liberal side of the population thinks is skewed.

[crispini]

46. Oh, yes, I totally agree WRT DU

I think there are a lot of people on here who just live online and don't get out and do any local activism. I would say maybe a quarter of the local dems I know are also online. And DU skews way way left.....

[SharonRB]

49. I'm clueless -- WRT DU?

[crispini]

52. WRT = with regard to.

:P

[SharonRB]

57. Duh -- I just couldn't figure it out.

Thanks!

[Berry Cool]

84. Thanks for saying DU skews way, way left

because I feel REALLY out of place here sometimes. Like when the libertarians go off the deep end about people's right to smoke and how the secondhand smoke stuff is all just lies perpetuated by supporters of a "nanny state"...*sigh*

[Patsy Stone]

55. True dat

All of it. Hey, Sharon!

[SharonRB]

58. Hey, Pats!

:hi:

[ralps]

36. I hope he gets filibustered, but any Dems that vote for him need to have

a Dem opponent in their next primaries. :hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[crispini]

48. Agree with that.

I'm tired of these line-crossing Dems......

[Patsy Stone]

37. I spent yesterday night considering

if we needed some sort of a Mrs. Alito Cries DUDQ meeting. There had to have been 15 threads at least.

Mr. Feingold Goes to Washington. :)

[crispini]

50. Yeah, and some people just go totally over the top.

If Alito doesn't get filibustered I'm leaving the party forever! Swoon, sob, gnash teeth!

[SharonRB]

54. It was way, way overplayed, IMHO

I stayed away from most of those threads. MrsGrumpy started a thread that was good -- leave the poor woman alone. She just got emotional. End of story.

[gkhouston]

96. I don't think we have enough votes to prevent confirmation.

I think the Dems should filibuster even if they feel it's a lost cause, simply because Alito is such a spectacularly bad nominee. If the Dems won't filibuster, which to my mind is a way of standing up and saying, "Hell, NO! This guy stinks to the high heavens and you know it!", I do think they'll lose some support. Yeah, they'll still get the big contributions from businesses, but individual contributions may go down and they may have a harder time finding volunteers for their campaigns. Or they might just find their butts on the street.

And I'm pretty sure we're gonna need a meeting of the DUDQ next week. :-)

[bunny planet]

28. Happy Birthday Clarkie!!!!

[bunny planet]

30. Just found this thread, I've been posting in the Newsletter thread and

just realized everybody was over here.

[SharonRB]

34. Hi, Bunny!

Glad you found us. I just came back after Will & Grace.

[bunny planet]

38. Hi Sharon!

I guess KO has not read this book. I agree with Oprah, it doesn't change the 'emotional truth' of the book. I don't think she is backing him up to save her reputation, I think she is genuinely touched by the book, as I certainly was.

[Berry Cool]

85. Sorry, Bun-Bun, I have no problem with the "emotional truth," but if

"emotional truth" is all it has, it should be sold as FICTION. That's why FICTION is written. That's what it's FOR.."emotional truth."

I mean, Charles Dickens didn't say he WAS David Copperfield. He wrote a STORY about a FICTIONAL kid and it rang with emotional truth. That's what fiction is supposed to do.

What people are all worked up about is this guy saying that everything that happened in the book was true or passing it off as true. It apparently is NOT.

And I have news for him, too: Contrary to what he said in that CNN interview, "memoir" does NOT literally mean "my story"! It means "memory"! As in something one REMEMBERS as having HAPPENED!

The French for "my story" is "mon histoire"!

I'm surprised Ms. Charbonnier's son didn't bother to correct him on that one!

[bunny planet]

91. I agree, I'm really annoyed with the guy for writing such a redemptive

novel and inspiring all kinds of people and then having it turn out he is lying about many details. I wish he had sold it as a novel with some resemblence to his own life, then none of this would be happening. While what Frey says about being in an alcoholic haze affecting his memory covers the time before rehab, in rehab he was sober, and he certainly would've remembered whether or not he had root canal without novocaine and whether or not he went to jail for 3 months or 1 day. Those 'exaggerations' are really troubling. I didn't make it clear in my post, I still found the book to be 'emotionally truthful' as Oprah said, the controversy will keep more people from reading it and it has many important thoughts and philosophies about the nature of addiction and life in general. I'll admit, the guy was just lame during his interview, and made himself look twice as guilty of deception of his readers, he even looked somewhat smug when Oprah called in to defend him. I liked him before, after reading the book, not so much now. It's disappointing. I have an alcoholic in my family, the book was especially poignant and illluminating to me so I'm trying not to let that be spoiled. I don't want to trash everything about the book just because the author behaved like a cad, that's all.

[crispini]

39. this editor dude is totally pinging my gaydar.... nt

[Patsy Stone]

40. Duh! :) n/t

[Berry Cool]

86. Same here

Gaydar pointing to Mo Rocca range...

[Olney Blue]

41. Happy Birthday, Clark!

Hi everyone!

[crispini]

42. bet you ten bucks

the "pole dancing" footage is another edition of puppet theatre ..... ;)

[bleever]

43. ELO Mr. Blue Sky

Nice.

[Patsy Stone]

45. Jinx

:hi:

[bleever]

62. Under settled case law,

you owe me a Coke.

:hi:

[Patsy Stone]

69. It's true. I do.

[bleever]

71. LOL.

Those MST3K guys look really interested in the bottle of syrup.

[Patsy Stone]

74. I wasn't so interested

in the syrup. The picture I had before wouldn't show up. It was better. Please, try and ignore the syrup. So sorry about the syrup.

:)


Hey! I had my remote real close and I turned off Rita immediately! :woohoo: I also found Star Trek: TNG. Jean-Luc, :loveya:

[Patsy Stone]

44. ELO Shout out!

Mr. Blue Sky.
:loveya:

[Deb]

53. omg, I can't believe it

Just had to tell someone here that might care- you know the Top 3 Newsmakers? The thief with the wet money??

My kid helped catch that guy!! Literally. Damn, I wish I could tell you more about how the money got wet, lets just say passerbys think it is river water. ;-) Woo Hoo for my kid, it's tough being a Green cop.


Happy Birthday Clark2008!!

[crispini]

66. Cool!

That's pretty great! Congrats! :thumbsup:

[Patsy Stone]

72. Nice

and Hi! :hi:

[Olney Blue]

73. Hi Deb! That's really great!

:woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo:

[Deb]

75. Hi and thanks all

Now if I can just find something to watch after KO, everything else is such a let down. I recently put a tv in the sewing room to watch KO and mess with my hobby at the same time. Guess it's time to take the wireless laptop in too. No, I'm not spoiled. :-)

[Olney Blue]

76. LOL- I have been rewarding myself by watching KO

at the end of the day in my comfy bed with my wireless laptop. I'm not
spoiled either! O8)

And its fun to be here in the KOEB while he's on.

[bleever]

56. "Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good."

:rofl:

[Berry Cool]

87. Poor Keith. I think he's weakening.

He needs encouragement in this no-smokes thing. :loveya: Please, Keith, keep it up. For your sake. Not just because it will be REAL embarrassing if you don't.

[crispini]

59. "Associates"

If any employer EVER calles me an "associate" I'm quitting pronto. Only Wal Mart employees and lawyers are "associates."

Scott's stuff is crap, anyway. The good fertilizer is organic. This stuff is a little too much big brother for me.

[SharonRB]

61. Many, many of our clients -- Fortune 1000 companies

call their employees associates, as does my firm. It's very common.

[crispini]

68. It's just so "corporate"

It's the same attitude that leads to putting up those horrible "Successories" posters. At my company, we put up the "Despair, Inc." posters instead. :rofl:

[Berry Cool]

88. It reminds me of Panera Bread

where, when they take your order, they say "May I help the next GUEST in line, please?" You just know that when they were employed, they were told to refer to all customers as "guests."

[SharonRB]

63. Now THAT was funny!

Eminem and his ex are getting married not far from here on Saturday, so they say.

[crispini]

64. Aw. Poor kitty!

I don't think it merits WPITW, though. I mean, I've heard about this kind of thing before.

[Berry Cool]

89. But what if the poor cat had died?

Of course, this is an excellent illustration of why they say cats have nine lives...you know, that and the one that went to France accidentally, etc.

[gkhouston]

92. Five days? It takes her FIVE DAYS to wonder where Fluffy is?

Apart from not having had enough sense to keep the cat away from the construction whilst in progress, I'm trying to imagine why it took the owner that long to think that maybe the cat was walled up. Then again, Mary always counts the cats before she's going to be out of the house for more than a few hours, to be sure nobody's strayed into a closet (ever since the time someone did spend most of the day in a closet :-().

[ralps]

65. AAAWWW!! Poor kitty!!! :cry:

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[crispini]

70. ok I'm not all THAT fond of Mo Rocca....

but that "book excerpt" was kinda funny.

[Botany]

77. So quick to judge ..... you are giving up on being Mrs. Mo Rocca?

[Patsy Stone]

78. Oy. Those pants!

:hi: Whaddya think about this?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=315&topic_id=32938&mesg_id=33442

[gkhouston]

93. Me likey (the tie, not the pants) n/t

[DemReadingDU]

79. Happy Birthday Clark!

January is a great month, isn't it! My son has a birthday, I have a birthday, and you and Keith!

:loveya:

p.s. Hi to all the KOEBs, and gents too!

[CBHagman]

80. Happy birthday, Clark!

:party: :toast: :applause:

And many more!

I guess I was the only one miffed at Keith for the Chappaquiddick jokes, huh? Keith didn't mention that the book's proceeds are going for charity. :grr:

By the way, I've known for ages that Kennedy has a dog named Splash, and my smart aleck gene never even kicked in. :shrug:

[Berry Cool]

90. Sorry, but I'm not miffed. I guess this is what Keith and I have in common

We're both not Democrats, so we don't automatically get our danders up when a Democrat does something ridicule-worthy, we just go "Oh boy..."

I'm sorry, but Chappaquiddick is just the kind of thing that doesn't go away. And certainly it's as relevant as Dems bringing up the fact that Laura Bush killed someone with a car back in '64. Each side would prefer that we just "forget all about that"...but some people never will.

Sorry, didn't mean to spoil the party. But the whole idea of Ted not realizing maybe it isn't the best of ideas for him to co-write a book, so to speak, with a dog named Splash...that's what I watch Keith for. He's a full-service snarker. Heck, if he wasn't, would he be making fun of Jim Traficant's toupee?

[gkhouston]

94. I didn't mind the inevitable Chappaquiddick jokes

but he should have mentioned that the book's proceeds are going to charity, IMHO.

[crispini]

97. I thought it was pretty stupid of Kennedy to name his dog Splash

*AND* have the dog write a book. Sorry, but anyone with half a brain could see the jokes coming a mile away, and he, or SOMEONE near to him, should have had the sense to avoid it.

[gkhouston]

98. I thought the dog had already been named when Ted got it? n/t

[gkhouston]

95. Happy Belated Birthday

I read through the thread first, hoping I might get a report on what you got for dessert, but you never said. I guess it was private. :evilgrin: