Posted on 09/03/2006 11:16:25 AM PDT by Nick Danger
Now you've done it. This thread is about to be inundated with "I'd hit it" graphics.
not my point.
The fact is he is openly putting in his commercial the declaration that SHE can't win.
Quite franly all four candidates are for the basic tough on immigration, tough on the war on terror, and pro second amendment, pro traditional marriage. Not much to loose there.
Has there every been a poll comparing all four against nelson?
[A] Ah, yes, playground taunts. How they take me back. Though, since I’m British, nobody accused me in my young days of having cooties, because the word is not known on this side of the Atlantic Ocean. American children, however, have been using the word for several generations.
The original cooties were very real and extremely nasty, since the word was first applied to body lice. It’s a slang term intimately (and I mean that sincerely) associated with the military in World War One. It’s first recorded in print in 1917, but is presumably older.
Several American subscribers have told me that they remember the term being used among children for head lice back in the 1920s. Even in the 1950s and 1960s, the word was still common in this literal sense (and, of course, it's still known as such). There was also the cootie catcher, a folded paper shape that you could use to pretend you had discovered cooties on a schoolmate. By the 1970s, though, its literal associations were beginning to be become diffused to the point that the word could also refer to some generalised repulsive state that only people you don’t like ever get.
The word sounds Scots, and indeed at one time cootie was a good Scots adjective applied to farmyard fowls with feathered legs (it’s probably from cuit, ankle); a cootie could at one time also be a small wooden dish used in the kitchen for various purposes. But cootie in the sense of louse doesn’t seem to be linked to these (and great powers of invention would be needed to derive our sense from either of them).
The most common theory is that it is from Malay, where kutu is a louse, though no dictionary I have here feels able to say for sure how it got from there into the slang of soldiers who had to suffer the louse-ridden trenches of the European conflict. It’s persuasively said, though, that it was borrowed by American soldiers in the Philippines early in the twentieth century—either from Malay or more probably a related word in Tagalog—who then took it with them to Europe.
Is this what it all comes down to? Little children name calling and hate for a really nice lady. Shame! shame!
Its time to grown up and vote to better our country.
At least a zillion, but I've never seen one that seriously addressed the cooties factor.
"Katherine Harris will win!"
She may win the primary. She will not win the general election.
What Katherine Harris Orders at Starbucks
By Justin Rood - July 26, 2006, 3:01 PM
"Triple Venti, no fat, no foam, extra hot, with pink sugar." I'm not kidding.
Update: Pink sugar?
Late Update: My astute colleague Paul notes that Starbucks has been a source of friction between Harris and her staff in the past. ("Everything is someone else's fault," Ed Rollins, a strategist who left the campaign in April, told the Lakeland (Fla.) Ledger earlier this month. "If there's not a Starbucks coffee house within distance, it's someone else's fault.")
Also, Paul wonders, what's a "Triple Venti"? Is that three Ventis? Wouldn't that require, like, a wheelbarrow?
Late, Late Update: Reader LM thinks he's solved the "pink sugar" mystery: "Surely, she must be referring to Sweet N Low, which comes in a pink-colored packet."
She chastised speechwriters, press secretaries, fund-raisers, even travel aides who drove her from one event to another.
For those travel aides, a top priority was to get her Starbucks coffee, no matter where she was campaigning, "and God help him if it wasn't hot," an aide said
Several aides said Harris was so obsessed with Starbucks coffee she insisted that Starbucks locations be mapped out when she was traveling from one campaign stop to another.
One aide recalled going to Harris' house for a day of fund-raising calls without bringing her a cup of Starbucks. The aide said Harris made it clear that it was expected he bring her a coffee when coming to her house.
Another time, the aide said, he went to dinner with other staffers after a full day of campaigning while Harris was attending a church conference in Fort Lauderdale. By the time he returned, Harris had called the campaign manager to find out where the aide was so he could bring her something to drink. The aide said he was incredulous because there was a water fountain nearby.
Too bad she is terminally stupid.
Well, you can't expect someone to be rational before they've had their coffee.
ok on one on one competitions
which one is best agains nelson?
There has to be SOME POLE SOMEWHERE that did the four hypothetical races.
"Kathryn Harris and her Starbucks obsession:She chastised speechwriters, press secretaries, fund-raisers, even travel aides who drove her from one event to another.
For those travel aides, a top priority was to get her Starbucks coffee, no matter where she was campaigning, "and God help him if it wasn't hot," an aide said.."
If you could spell your views might have more credibility.
I have it on good authority that no manager has ever expected their secretary to bring them coffee in the history of the world. Otherwise, the newspapers would be full of boss-wants-coffee stories...and we all know this is not the case.
"She bought those cans. For all we know, they are filled with Campbell's Tomato Soup"
I would like them even if they were filled with mud!
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