Brent Nyitray
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Let the mutherfuker burn!
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Kevin S. Willis
Michigoose
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markinaustin
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yellojktOK, Kev, I don’t know how good I’ll be at this, but here’s an attempt to take some of the pressure off of you!
I find this to be wonderful, especially since Jon Huntsman is the only Republican in the field that I’d ever vote for. Unfortunately, I doubt he’ll make it past South Carolina.
I don’t know if any of you are watching Once Upon a Time on Sunday nights, but if you aren’t I think many of you would really enjoy it. Hulu has all of the current episodes up until Monday night so you can watch them back-to-back and get caught up in the story if you’re so inclined.
Now for the things that tickled my funny bone today. . .
First up, a nurse vs an Orthopedic surgeon. Worth it for hearing her call him a slack bloody wanker at the end. . .
Muppet Labs–where the future is being made today. Wouldn’t this be handy?
And to combine two of Kevin’s favorites, Star Wars meets the Muppet Show!
And finally, not necessarily funny, but the video popped up on the sidebar of YouTube while I was surfing around on it, so here’s one of my all-time favorite songs. . .
What do you guys got??
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The 5 Reasons Marriage Scares Men. I think many of these could apply to women, although they might be repurposed into the 5 Reasons Why Being Married Disappoints Women. My experience has been that women are usually enthusiastic about the idea of marriage, but not as typically satisfied with the results.
My observation, having been married 19 years now and living with my wife for over 20, is that marriage is a relationship where both partners tend to feel they are compromising, on everything, 90% of the time, and it gets old. For both of them. It’s a recipe for mutual dissatisfaction, especially over the long haul, but having been a parent for 14 years now, I’d definitely agree that I would not want to be a single parent. When your partner is in a mood for the thirteenth-thousand time, and you have to deal with it, you wonder what either of you were thinking when you said “I do”. 😉
Still, the fact is, the house looks a whole lot better—and a whole lot more adult, and clean—than it would if I lived alone in my Layer of Masculinity that I do, on many occasions, pine for. And meals are healthier than having breakfast cereal for dinner every day, which would probably be what I’d do, if left on my own.
— KW
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All Things in Moderation 
Cheerios or Special K? Skim milk or whole? Bananas or raisins?Ah, the decisions of bachelorhood.
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Thanks for the laughs Michi, and Kevin……..you don't sound very happy to me. I'm 32 years into my second marriage, the first was an official disaster, but this time has been perfect. We even work together, just the two of us, so the 24/7 deal is alive and well here. I did put his office in the back of the house though so we don't have to look at each other all day.BTW, if anyone's looking for a good movie this weekend, "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" was excellent. There are a couple of tough scenes to watch but it was really a fantastic movie. We're taking the grandkids to see the "The Adventures of Tin Tin" tomorrow. Has anyone seen it? I'm hoping it's okay for my soon to be six year old grandson.
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Also, so I finally set up a facebook page, I've really been dragging my feet, and my oldest daughter commented, "Welcome to the Dark Side", lol. Naturally I responded, "You haven't been to the Plumline lately have you"?
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Gratuitously ugly:http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/huntsman-objects-to-paul-ad-featuring-adopted-daughters/2012/01/06/gIQATO7xeP_story.html?fb_ref=NetworkNewsI would like to see Ron Paul strongly condemn this one.
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And he did.http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/blogsoutofcontext/53247251-64/huntsman-campaign-paul-chinese.html.cspTip of the hat to yjkt.
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Lmsinca, I'm happy. Hard to explain in limited space, but having observed even long term marriages, for years, I think my take applies at least for 75% of the time. Somebody has to win the lottery of ideal personality interfacing now and again. But your first marriage is a much more common phenomenon than your second. 🙂
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I've been to Plumline a few times. Even commented (new year and all). Not as fun as it used to be.
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Good Kevin……….I was worried. Luckily, I recognized the disaster the first time around and bailed in a big hurry. Hope springs eternal. There was a piece up by the WaPo ombudsman yesterday that I thought I'd link here in case anyone's still interested.
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Ezra Klein interviews Buddy Roemer. An interview with Buddy Roemer
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Been married for 12 years. Luckily, all of the big things in life – religion, money, child rearing philosophy – we agree on. And the other big stuff – how the house is decorated, how our investments are run – one of us really cares about it and takes the lead, while the other wants nothing to do with it. It works out well.
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lms, that ombudsman column is total ROTFLMAO, in my view.To call the disasters of the last 10 months "innovation" is laughable. I went and rewrote his 1st two paragraphs in the comments section.Marriage? Twenty-three years and counting.
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MsJS: I went and read the column and your comment. .. to quote our good friend:BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Well done. I'm only surprised you haven't been "pinked" (or whatever their current version of that is) yet.I would guess that fifteen to sixteen of the twenty-two years of my marriage were above average. . . and I don't think that anybody can argue that addiction is something that you can figure into the equation unless it's there at the beginning. But I found Kevin's list interesting, if also a little scary.I don't know how much our wedding cost, but I can tell you that I made my own wedding dress (because I couldn't buy one with the Princess Anne neckline that I wanted), and the single biggest cost to my parents was the flowers (my Mom went overboard, but had a great time) and we and our guests had a lovely time. I can't imagine spending HALF of the current average cost cited in that article on a party–craziness!
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I am with 'goose on the impossibility of predicting after-acquired addiction.The effect on the marriage is, of course, devastating and usually quite final.
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I might add that addiction of the teenage son is no picnic either.
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addiction of the teenage son is no picnic eitherNo, most definitely not. Your own? My heart goes out to you and Roseanne. . . one of the most difficult discussions I had with my family over the holidays is the difference between drinking too much and drinking to the point where you're barely human anymore. Until you've seen it you absolutely can't believe it–I hope your son has come out the other side!
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Hey, Mr Troll!Assuming you're a Texans fan–congratulations! Now, GO LIONS!!! Make a girl's dream come true. . .
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Nice comment over there MsJS. I was hoping there would be hundreds of comments not just a little over 100. I choked on my coffee this morning when I read the piece. Too funny.Here's one of my short quips, in case anyone missed it, and qb had a classic comment as well.Celebrating incompetence and calling it innovation is generally a right reserved for the political class.
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'Goose, Sean is 42 now, married, and a sober success. He went into rehab two months after I "invited" him to leave home 24 years ago, and he has been an ardent sober AA member since. Lived with me in his twenties [I was divorced from his mom] and when I married Rosanne in '96 continued to live with us for a year while he finished his computer networking courses at community college. 1986-87 were tough years for me – I can truly say that the two years after we lost our farm when I was entering 7th grade and '86-87 were the bad years. Otherwise, I have been a healthy happy camper.
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Mark, I'm more happy than anybody other than probably you can feel to hear that. That literally made my day–thank Sean for me for his deciding to live through it. I don't know what it feels like from his side, but I'm so thrilled that he was able to do it. I understand what you mean about the bad years, also, and I think I'm going to have a good 2012 and many years to come. Here's to survivors!
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"Slack PRETENTIOUS wanker! Dr. Strangepork!Good times. I'm gonna post two relationship songs.
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Celebrating incompetence and calling it innovation is generally a right reserved for the political class.That brilliantly summed up all the rest.There must be a movie scene somewhere that would illustrate the absurdity of that ombudsman column–some clownishly oblivious character surveying the wreckage of his team's efforts and asking how everyone likes it.My son and I saw War Horse yesterday. We actually stood at the ticket window and flipped a coin between that and Dragon Tattoo. In the first 15 minutes, we were worried that we would exceed our maximum dosage of Speilbergia by 2 hours, but it turned out to be exceptional. There are a few clunky plot execution issues if you look hard enough, and a little schmaltz, but it is a beautiful film for the big screen. If you are a fan of Western filmaking circa the 1950s, you will smile at how he filmed some of the beginning and ending scenes. (I'm not the big a fan, but I got a kick out of it.)
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