I need to CITE that the kids who watch Nickelodian go to school?
That’s annoying. CNN pulled the same sort of crap on a fluff feature I saw. They showed kids a picture of Kerry in a suit looking really serious and a picture of Bush in shirtsleeves and a big smirky smile on his face and asked them which one they liked. Now me, I think Bush is really creepy-looking, but that’s mainly because I know what goes on behind that smirk. The kids, bless their innocent hearts, trusted and chose the friendly-looking guy.
Ha!
For the Weekly Reader survey, students voted in class, online or on the telephone.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62791-2004Oct25.html
Wonder how many Republican parents were online, or dialing in, and how many times they did so.
I read the London bookies (who apparently have been right on the majority of past elections) are picking Bush as a favorite to win.
And didn’t Teresa Heinz’s pumpkin spice cookies beat Laura Bush’s oatmeal chocolate chip cookies in the cookie contest? (I think it was a Good Housekeeping or Ladies Home Journal, can’t remember)
We could sit here until Tuesday trying to figure this shit out.
I can’t say how terribly distressed I am at how closely this election is divided. It’s just… … I don’t know. I feel like we should know who would be ahead by now.
Maybe it’s just that I’m terrified that it is Bush who appears to be slightly ahead. I don’t even want to THINK about the electoral college vote.
This is what I wrote on the message board on my door:
Historically:
Green Bay 28 - Washington 14 : Bush loses election
But:
New England 20 - Pittsburgh 34 : Bush wins PA (21)
And:
Detroit 21 - Dallas 31 : Bush wins MI (17)
And:
Jacksonville 6 - Houston 20 : Bush wins FL (27)
Therefore:
Kerry wins popular vote
Bush wins electoral college
Therefore:
Election goes to lawyers. We’re all screwed.
Any questions?
Correct? Probably not. Funny? I hope so. Grain of truth? Most likely.
If the election goes to the Courts again, I hope that the insurgents/terrorists/freedom fighters/whatevers appreciate the humor in the situation of a country trying to bring democracy to someone and not being able to democratically elect its own leader.
No, the pumpkin spice cookies lost, as noted in passengerpigeon’s Washington Post link above.
Ah, my mistake. I could have sworn I read that she won.
Well, carry on.
Well, sheesh, chocolate chips versus a seasonal cookie, of course chocolate chips are going to win.
Look, the Sox won the Word Series. Don’t you all see? The Laws of the Universe have been realigned; erstwhile sport predictors must be recalibrated. It will take another 86 years at least before we can reestablish these wondrous Signs, so all bets are off for 2004.
What Spongy and I did was a very tender and loving act involving restraints, crab burgers, surgical tubing and only one small animal was hurt. It was nothing to be ashamed of. But I’ve been advised not to talk about it any more.
But we’ll be on Springer next week- Spongy has a surprise for me. I don’t know what it is, but, between you and me, I think he’s going to propose. I don’t know what I shoyuld wear.
What was that sound?
It sounded like something just went by me.
It was kind of like a whirr or w whizz or a swoosh or something.
Leiberhosen.
A sea squirt?
Oyez, oyez.
Hear, hear.
And all that rot.
9-11 changed everything
You must be referring to people who miss the obvious point that there are not two sets of children America – those that go to school, and those who stay home and watch TV. If you google a bit, you will find these people are everywhere. “Well read, bookish children want Bush!” they argue, not knowing that every kid in America is given a Weekly Reader and told to vote. Apparently, many K-5 graders vote for the one with the kitty because they don’t know anything else to go by.
They wouldn’t if they knew what happened to that kitty once the camera was gone.
I assume you’re trying to whoosh me now, n’est-ce pas?