How's Al Franken's Senate bid going?

That’s good news. That whole “double-counted ballots” thing was completely made up by the Coleman campaign.

Unfortunately, Coleman’s lawyer is saying that Coleman fully intends to be hypocritical, obstructionist little bitch about the whole thing.

In other words, they’re going to challenge the result in court. On what grounds, I have no idea. The double-count thing was already grasping at straws.

Remember when Norm was saying that Franken should just concede without a recount and that he would do the same if the shoe was on the other foot? Well, the shoe is on the other foot.

You’re kinda slow today, Dio. It’s on the wrong foot!

Now, if everyone is wearing their lederhosen…? People’s key of C…

Happy, happy, joy, joy, joy!
Happy, happy joy!
Happy happy joy joy joy!
Happy happy Joy! Joy!

What you want for free? The Hallelujah Chorus? Well, sorry, I can’t handle that…

Allow me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw6H3crLzpg

If the key of C is the people’s key
Then what is the key of the bourgeoisie?
I ask this question most sincerely
In what key do they play?
If anybody recognizes this and can tell me its provenance I will be eternally grateful. I heard it sung once on the radio, many years ago, and did not catch who was singing it, or why.

My Google-Fu didn’t turn up the song itself, but if you imagined the song, at least you’re not the only one. (Scroll down a few posts at the link.)

ETA: Check this link out, too. Evidently B-flat is the key of the bourgeoisie.

Best bet is The Weavers, a lefty folk music group long before your time.

According to a newsgroup that I can’t link to, “The People’s Key” was written by Bob Hipkins and recorded by the Central Park Sheiks on an LP in 1976. It’s listed on their CD “Honeysuckle Rose” which is available on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Honeysuckle-Rose-Central-Park-Sheiks/dp/B000NI3FYC/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1230174706&sr=8-1

Could be. Sifting the shards of memory, seems to me the phrase pre-dates that by some years, like when work shirts and folk singing were more fashionable. Mid to late 60’s or earlier.

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Prince?

A Greyhound bus?

What exactly are “work shirts”? Somehow I don’t think you mean a blue number with the wearer’s name sewn over the pocket.

What’s an “election contest”? A new election? Why? If they can’t count the ballots the first time, what will make them count them correctly the second time?

I think he means a light blue cotton chambray shirt, long-sleeved, with OR without a name sewn over the pocket. Like this one.

Unless I’m mistaken, it’s a court challenge to the outcome of an election, contesting its validity.

This election wil end up being settled on the Senate floor, not in court.

Conflicting MN law on who will judge election contest

It has to be a mistake, Minnesotans would never do anything so interesting.

Do not make us get out the lutefisk. You have been warned.

I suspect you’re right. In which case, I owe Captain Carrot an apology, as way back in the thread I gave him a hard time for saying just that. I was wrong.