Diplomacy, Busey-Style

Even an underage P-nnto could tell that Billy Beer was the worst concoction ever to be canned.

The Gary Busey episode is one of my favorites. Season 4 rocks. So how much longer do I have to wait for Season 5 on DVD?

For a big a joke as most Politico articles are, that one is truly ridiculous. I think a President that doesn’t drink a la Bush is far creepier than one that has a beer watching a basketball game. Every born again, dry drunk I have ever met has been a violent unpredictable person.

Thanks, Amy! Please write in more often. I think you can download / buy that episode at Amazon’s video on demand page? As for drinks, well, if both the Last Supper and Life of Brian’s praise / rant over Romans celebrated wine, then Obama can drink what he wants. Remember Lincoln’s comments about Grant’s drinking, “If I knew his brand, I’d send a barrel or so to some other generals.” Amy, do you (or KT) know what are Obama’s fave wines and spirits? We can send a few cases to the Senate to get a health care deal done. Cheers / skol / za vas!

It’s currently 97 degrees in my corner of the world. A nice cold beer sounds like a very good idea. Do not tease me with these sorts of ideas as I am trapped in cube-ville at the moment.

Gary Busey, an underrated actor. He was great in “Point Break”.

I liked him in Lethal Weapon. Who can forget his turn as Mr. Joshua?

He rocked in “Lethal Weapon”. He was good in “Predator 2″. Best line: “A F’in Alien”.
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Speaking of Predator and the “Truth is stranger than fiction” department, who woulda thunk that when Predator came out, there were two future governors in the cast.
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Is Gopher still a Congressman?

Wasn’t he in that Steven Segal movie, Under Seige? Not one of his better efforts.

Best Predator 1 line: “I ain’t got time to bleed”.

queen, gotta disagree with you on that–best line in Predator 1 was Arnold’s “If it bleeds, we can kill it.” But yours is def. up there.

Regarding the status of Gopher aka Fred Grandy:

He was elected to Congress in 1986 and served 4 terms. In 2003, Grandy was named co-host of The Grandy & Andy Morning Show, a conservative radio news/talk show on 630 WMAL-AM in Washington, D.C.
Grandy is also currently the host of a show on Retirement Living TV called “Daily Cafe” with MSNBC anchor Alex Witt.[

No one can top Clint Eastwood for best lines in a flick though.

Gopher no longer a Congressman–say it isn’t so . . . .
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Isn’t Cooter (from Dukes of Hazzard) a Congressman too?

Cooter aka Ben Jones:
Elected to Congress via Georgia 1988. Defeated in 1992. He now acts and writes.

“Dying ain’t no way to way to make a living”

Rut-ro, a civil conversation between spongy and an Swampland poster, it must be awful cold down in hell.

Regarding the temperature of hell. Best answer, from an anonymous student:

From basic theological assumptions, no souls ever leave Hell. Hell is conceived of as a place of punishment where its inmates are tortured for all eternity. On the other hand, souls are continually entering Hell. Many religions teach that anyone who is not a member will go to Hell. Historically, Christians have taught that all non-Christians will go to Hell. And many non-Christians have believed that all Christians will go there as well. One might therefore assume that all souls will end up in Hell. Thus with souls continually entering Hell and no souls exiting, the total mass of Hell is increasing.

There are two possibilities:

If the volume of Hell is expanding at a slower rate than souls are entering, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will “clearly increase until all Hell breaks loose.”

On the other hand, if hell is expanding faster than this rate, then the temperature and pressure will “drop until Hell freezes over.”

The student recalled a postulate given to him by a certain coed during his freshman year. She said that “it will be a cold night in Hell before I sleep
with you.” He noted that he had still not been able to engage in sexual relationships with her. He concluded that Hell is in no danger of freezing over. Thus Option 2 is invalid, the temperature of Hell is increasing, and thus Hell is exothermic.

Oh and “A man’s got to know his limitations”.

There’s always:

” I’m just trying to find out if anybody in this room knows what the hell law is being broken, besides cruelty to animals. “

It’s long but it’s my favorite…

I know what you’re thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well to tell you the truth in all this excitement I’ve kinda lost track myself. But being this is a .44 Magnum – the most powerful hand gun in the world and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself one question–Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya punk!

“I gots to know; I gots to know”.
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Animal House has some great lines:

“The issue is not whether we took a few liberties with our female party guest. We did. [Wink].”

“When the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor!” Germans? He’s on a roll, go with it.

“That boy is a P.I.G. PIG!”

“See if you can guess what i am now . . . .”

“If the volume of Hell is expanding at a slower rate than souls are entering, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will “clearly increase until all Hell breaks loose.”"

However, it will depend on whether souls are bosonic or fermionic in nature. If souls are bosonic and superposition is possible, the increasing mass cause the gravity gradient to increase until Hell collapses within it’s own event horizon without ever going through a hot state.

Upon collapse, depending on it’s mass, temperature will change as an inverse function of the mass as more souls are added. Thus, counterintuitively, Hell might be endothermic, as any other large mass black hole* would be.

If souls are fermionic in nature, and the addition of souls increases the volume of Hell at less then a certain rate, the hot state will continue until the forces compelling souls to occupy their own energy state are overcome, at which point all hell would break loose!

If fermionic souls being added to hell increase the volume of Hell at greater than that rate, no hot state would take place, with it’s attendant pressure increase, and it actually might even feel quite, uh, well, a relatively normal state of affairs, so to speak…

*Low mass black holes radiate away considerable energy by quantum tunneling at the event horizon, thus exhibiting very energetic exothermy. We can assume that since Hell has not explosively evaporated away already, this scenario can be rejected.

Souls would seem to be bosonic in nature.

I see at least as good a case for them being fermionic, with the mass/volume function above the critical rate.

Walter Gronkite has died at the age of 92. Walter lived a full life and was a true American treasure. All of America should mourn the loss of this man, but should celebrate his once being among us.

“And that’s the way it is on July 17th, 2009…”

A agree.

God rest Walter Cronkites’ soul.

I had the opportunity to dine with him when he was honored by my J-school. I’m still amazed at his generosity and grace, as demonstrated by his good-natured tolerance of a certain know-it-all undergrad.

His professionalism was extraordinary, in a day when journalistic standards were much higher.

Jiminy Crickets! I tool around the A2 Art Fair one 60(!) degree afternoon and miss a truly fun, good-natured thread. Initiated by Amy, no less. Hell must really be freezing over…

Cronkite: RIP

Busey: Buddy Holly + Mr Joshua!

Clint: “…be careful where the dog sh*ts ya.”
“You’re a legend in your own mind.”
“We’re not just gonna let you get away with this.”
“Who’s ‘we’ sucker?”
“Me, Smith and Wesson.”

Arny: “I eat Green Berets for breakfast.”

Regardless of political stripe we can all agree about Clint Eastwood.

“Nobody, but nobody, puts ketchup on a hot dog.”

What a joy to find common ground -

Oh Boy, missed these exchanges yesterday…have to add my own favorite John Travolta movie line…about love, not war: In motel room…Waitress to Angel, “Far out! Wings!” Or maybe it was the other way around…still…

Busey’s best lines –

From The Buddy Holly Story –

To the audience at the Apollo stunned at seeing a white act: “Well, we weren’t expectin’ to see y’all either.”

From Barbarossa –

To his bandido pa

OOPs.

From Barbarossa –

To his bandido partner (Willie Nelson):

Well, we ain’t waitin’ on ME!

“You can’t just call time-out and stroll on into the beach if you don’t like the way things are going.”
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Great line in Point Break.
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“Doesn’t anyone ever f’in knock?”
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Great line in Fast Times.

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