STOP THE PRESSES!
I really did stop the presses on a magazine once. Well, I spotted the error. The editor made the decision to stop the presses. (No kidding — a period was missing on the end of a sentence in a footnote. Engineers are sooo anal retentive)
Anyhoo, that means the new Dead Pool will be up today, 6pm WBT.
About seven hours from now.
Be here, or be someplace else!
Posted: December 16th, 2011 under deadpool, personal.
Comments: 15
Comments
Comment from Pablo
Time: December 16, 2011, 11:26 am
Damn. Rest in peace, Hitch, and God bless ya. Yeah, that’s right.
Comment from Oceania
Time: December 16, 2011, 12:30 pm
Bob Hawke anyone?
I’ve just worked out why Indians have those little red dots … if you push it they go into standby mode.
Comment from Stoaty needs a gut stringed, fretless banjo
Time: December 16, 2011, 12:47 pm
Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
-BBB
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: December 16, 2011, 12:52 pm
Come back in five hours with that pick.
Uncle B won’t let me have a fretless. He says nobody can play a fretless anything in tune. (I had one picked out and everything).
Comment from Redd
Time: December 16, 2011, 1:39 pm
I’m really sorry that Hitchens died. I knew he didn’t have long but I had hoped he could live a few years longer.
RIP, Mr. Hitchesn.
Comment from sandman says:nothing to see here…
Time: December 16, 2011, 1:54 pm
I can’t do fretless but I can do talentless just fine…
just saying is all.
Comment from beasn
Time: December 16, 2011, 2:35 pm
I never could ‘get’ Hitchens. He says religion has caused the most grief in this world….unless he included his own atheist/humanism into that group, which has killed and made miserable a HELL of a lot more people.
But then I also just read him described as an avowed ‘sensualist’. And there. you. go. He doesn’t want the guilt of clean living.
Comment from Stoaty needs a soundproofed banjo parlor
Time: December 16, 2011, 3:26 pm
Hello pretend internet friends!
Anybody know of a source for good imitation ivory? I’ve tried Corian (not hard enough) and mammoth ivory (ick).
BBB
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: December 16, 2011, 3:51 pm
Is Micarta the same as Corian?
Comment from mojo
Time: December 16, 2011, 4:18 pm
I hear the guys at Macallan’s are holding a wake.
Comment from BBB wants a ferret named Wilma
Time: December 16, 2011, 5:32 pm
Corian is an acrylic polymer used for counter tops, I think Micarta is a sort of electrical insulator.
I once saw a nicely engraved shaving brush made from an imitation ivory and the hardness was perfect. I’ve been looking for years for the same stuff.
One of the things I like to do poorly is engraving. It’s really fun. I bet Stoaty could make some fine engravings.
Have you thought about do inlay to make a fancy banjo?
BBB
Comment from Nina
Time: December 16, 2011, 6:07 pm
Is it 6 WBT yet?
Comment from sandman says:nothing to see here…
Time: December 16, 2011, 6:14 pm
Is Phil Donahue still alive? If he is I wish him no well. I wish him only ill. It’s early yet but I’ma get mah illin’ on.
Comment from Christopher Taylor
Time: December 16, 2011, 10:21 pm
Yep, he knows now. And if CS Lewis is right, he wouldn’t change a thing.
Comment from ExpressoBold
Time: December 17, 2011, 4:42 pm
Good golly Miss Molly! It’s into Saturday and no selections of note yet? Lemme see if I can find an ill centenarian.
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I nominate Roman Totenberg (born January 1, 1911) Polish-American violinist and educator, father of Nina Totenberg. I don’t know if he is ill but is he famous enough for this group?
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Damn slim pickens in the “born 100 years ago group” and no, that was NOT a second selection because the phrase was not capitalized. Where is everyone? Yuletide shopping? Deadpool too depressing? What? What?
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