“Overture, curtain, lights / This is it. We’ll hit the heights / And oh, what sites we’ll hit / On with the links, this is it!” Enjoy! … “When he was on an operating table with his chest cracked open, everyone assumed Command Sgt. Maj. Thompson’s long Army career was over” … “I felt at that moment that she was just nothing; she was like a piece of luggage there” … “These guys are fighting for the right to grow a plant, smoke its leaves and feel good” … “We did some crazy stuff and we’re just really lucky to be alive” … “How, as a human being, does one face infinity?” … “Most would-be college students would clearly be better off avoiding college” … “She still remembers the anger she felt when the Olympic team told her she couldn’t compete in the 1936 games” … “I guess those Iranians can pass the ball!” … “Bell ringers are not being replaced, although they’re being trained on how to guide donors through credit-card transactions” … “When I was very young I liked to spin in circles and just feel that disorientation” … “First they close down Guantanamo, then they let killer turkeys run free” … “From federal prosecutor to accused violent gangster, pimp, and drug-dealer” … “Scientists say they could announce that a million or more species remain unknown” … “Maybe Harry has some magic up his sleeve” … “The music business is really in a weird state right now” … “Nobody wants to be forced to pay a tip or be arrested for terrible service” … “Almost two-thirds of China’s 338 million Web users are now online game players” … “The Bloodhound group hopes the quest to take a car through 1,000mph will be an inspirational venture” … “A large, Mao-like portrait of Rev. Moon hung above his desk” … “250 sword-wielding butchers began the mass slaughter of around 20,000 buffalo” … “To avoid concealment, agents should put on an anonymous or even slightly dumb face” … “If my skin is lighter, I will be happier because I think I look good” … “In a series of 140-character takes, Avary has built up a vivid portrait of life in Ventura county jail” … “The Chinese construction giant signed more than $2 billion worth of contracts in the US market” … “Uygur doesn’t look like a rebel, but there is something revolutionary going on here” … “Some in the area believe the mutilations are the work of aliens” … “Obama should tell them to shut up with their self-congratulations” … “I wish I could be more artful in the way that I say things” … “The first 10 years of this century will very likely go down as the most dispiriting and disillusioning decade Americans have lived through in the post–World War II era” … “Until now these men have remained anonymous to all but their families” … “We should not be expected to stay forever as a kingdom of bicycles!” … “Our early English brethren could not abide the naughty behavior of wild American turkeys” … “An employee sent to collect from a delinquent customer found out the hard way yesterday why their bill was overdue” … “The fact that we’re stuck with the BCS is definitely the Bush administration’s fault” … “It could well be that they have been honored with being teepeed” … “We consumed your resources, dehumanized your people and disregarded your culture, along with your dreams, hopes and great love for this land” … “The version that ran this morning contains far more inflammatory imagery—three monkeys” … “The Justice Department and FCC will not be able to stop the merger—even if they know that the cost to the public interest will be grave” … “I challenge you to find a better song about robot sex” … “It’s like finding out that Adolf Hitler is your father” … “1,000 years in the future, the legacy of John, Paul, Greg and Scottie remains” … “There’s jazz from hell, then there’s jazz from
cute fuzzy rodents” … And finally, “the ninja lost the final battle and so the bear will occupy the council seat.” ∞
Rock, paper, scissors (or an equivalent) should be used to make more decisions…
Ahh, Crested Butte. Lovely town. But like most Colorado mountain towns of any heft, it’s not hard to find what we back home would call “characters.”
I do think Bear/Cowboy/Ninja would be a great movie, though. Starring Nathan Lane, Jon Bon Jovi and Jackie Chan.
Mike,
I have realized from this that turkeys have amazing ancestry. Turkeys. Amazing. Who knew?