New U.S. President

[Zeta-Flux]

cheesehead! Long time no see. Howzitgoin?

[davieddy]

Originally Posted by cheesehead

No, he meant "we English".

I was speaking tongue in cheek

[davieddy]

Originally Posted by ewmayer

You mean "favorably"?

:P

I considered that spelling and consciously inserted
the u to be appropriately provocative, and succeeded (in both ventures:)

[davieddy]

Originally Posted by Zeta-Flux

cheesehead! Long time no see. Howzitgoin?

I second that emotion (was that Marvin Gaye or Smokey Robinson?)

On the newly defined criterion (see the "Mally post" thread) of
total characters posted, he must come close to the top

[davieddy]

Originally Posted by ewmayer

Purely subjectively, my issues with Hillary and "the voice" [a la Dune] have coalesced into this: the thought of having to listen to that shrill, strident, nagging sound near-daily for the next four years fills me with a dread beyond words...take the amorphous Wahwahwah parody of adult voices from the animated Peanuts cartoons, mix with a dollop of 60 Minutes Andy Rooney whine [e.g. "Whyyyyyyy do they call it 'taking a leak'? I meaaaaaan, you're not really taaaaaaaking it anywhere..."], apply to a background sonic canvas of fingernails-on-chalkboard, and that is roughly the effect it has on me.

Hasn't she just gone through the same "speech therapy" as one
Margaret Thatcher did ~25 years ago?

[ewmayer]

Originally Posted by davieddy

Hasn't [Hillary] just gone through the same "speech therapy" as one Margaret Thatcher did ~25 years ago?

No, not at all - Dame Maggie may have come off as insufferably smug, haughty and parochial, but shrill and "naggravatory" she was not. Maggie actually had a bit of Zsa Zsa Gabor-soundingness in her speech, sans the Hungarian accent. I'll bet she even called Ronald Reagan "Dahhhling Rohhnie" in private.

[davieddy]

Originally Posted by ewmayer

Maggie actually had a bit of Zsa Zsa Gabor-soundingness in her speech

Can't help thinking that distance lends enchantment to the view.
I'm trying to remember a famous aphorism of said "femme fatale"
but I keep coming up with Marlene Dietrich or Nico (of Velvet
Underground fame).
PS And that one who is reputed to have said "I vont to be alone".

[cheesehead]

Originally Posted by davieddy

I second that emotion (was that Marvin Gaye or Smokey Robinson?)

Smokey Robinson and The Miracles:

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2061

Originally Posted by Zeta-Flux

cheesehead! Long time no see. Howzitgoin?

I've recovered enough from my Achilles tendon surgery (November) to be allowed home, and now I've finally cleared away two months of spam (no Internet access at the nursing facility!).

On the thread topic:

I think we're having primary elections way too early (too early for the good of the country, that is), but don't yet know what difference that will make in the long run. It's an experiment.

[davieddy]

Does anyone else feel that there is something unsatisfactory
about late voters in California knowing the results in the rest of
the country before they vote?

David

[tallguy]

Originally Posted by davieddy

Does anyone else feel that there is something unsatisfactory
about late voters in California knowing the results in the rest of
the country before they vote?

David

This comes up every election cycle... it's just a fact of life. What would be the solution?

[Brian-E]

Originally Posted by tallguy

This comes up every election cycle... it's just a fact of life. What would be the solution?

Hmm... all the different states voting on the same day by agreement perhaps? What am I missing here?