LIVE THREAD: DEMCON -- DAY 4

www.freerepublic.com | July 29, 2004

[Howlin]

Live Convention Video, 7 - 11 p.m. ET
• Sen. John F. Kerry
• Max Cleland
• Kerry's daughters, Alexandra and Vanessa Kerry
• former Green Beret Jim Rassman
• Madeleine Albright
• Sen. Joe Biden (Del.)
• Wesley Clark
• Rep. James Clyburn (S.C.)
• Sen. Joe Lieberman (Conn.)
• Rep. Ed Markey (Mass.)
• Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald (Calif.)
• Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D.C.)
• House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.)
• Rep. Louise Slaughter (N.Y.)
• John Sweeney, President of AFL-CIO
• Gov. Mark Warner (Va.)

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

Jonathan Edwards and John Kerry both had this habit of pointing fingers at folks, be it physical or metaphysical, in a haughty know-it-all way. I hope that helps.

Sorry, the misunderstanding was mine... when you said "John Edwards" in connection to your commentary on the Democrat Convention, I thought you were making some calvinistic reference to Breck Girl and Demo-Veep nominee John Edwards, not Puritan Johnathan Edwards.

Needless to say, that left me a bit confused ("Huh? John Edwards... Calvinist... What's Torie going on about? I thought John Edwards was a professed Methodist... etc., etc.")

Mea Maxima Culpa. ;-)

[Torie]

Typing "John" rather than "Jonathan" was just an accident (I was not even thinking The Candidate), but then I just ran with the joke. Why mess up a good thing? :)

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

We want to live until 120 Hildy, and hike in the High Sierras until 120, and achieve our final exit with a quick short heart attack, right up there next to the stars, undimmed, shining bright.

Not me. I want to die quietly, peacefully, in my sleep... like my grandfather did.

Not, you know, screaming in terror like his passengers...

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I know, I know... old joke.

But, I did recently dead-pan that line to a co-worker of mine (not, incidentally, an academically dull girl -- but if she weren't full-blooded Hispanic, I think she shoulda been a blonde)... she looked at me, aghast, and responded sympathetically, "Omigosh... I'm so sorry... Is that really how your grandfather died??"

I just stared at her.

Taking a full... ten... seconds... to catch on to the gag, she then screeched at me "You're AWFUL! Don't DO that to me!!"

Ah, the joys of being a downright cad...