Is the View Askew board gone?

[Amusing Pseudonym]

you'd know that this caricature you've gleaned from by postings here is very far from who I am as a person. 

I sometimes imagine your posts coming from a disembodied yachting cap, a'la Doonesbury.

[katy]

I also meant to say I suspect Dalton and Cuppy/Runshouse would get along very well.

[Dalton]

I sometimes imagine your posts coming from a disembodied yachting cap, a'la Doonesbury.

I don't understand this one.  What do you mean?  I haven't looked at Doonesbury in years.

[Dalton]

I also meant to say I suspect Dalton and Cuppy/Runshouse would get along very well.

I really doubt that.

[katy]

Really?  How do you know?

He is genuinely one of the nicest people I have met from the board.

[Amusing Pseudonym]

What do you mean?  I haven't looked at Doonesbury in years.

I meant the way Gary Trudeau often depicts characters who are also real people as floating icons.    




George H.W. was a point of light, Dan Quayle was a feather, Bill Clinton was a waffle, Newt Gingrich is an Acme style bomb with a lit fuse, so on and so forth.

[Dalton]

I meant the way Gary Trudeau often depicts characters who are also real people as floating icons.   




George H.W. was a point of light, Dan Quayle was a feather, Bill Clinton was a waffle, Newt Gingrich is an Acme style bomb with a lit fuse, so on and so forth.

So strange that I come across that way.  R ich, Sadecki, Jordy and Lynch can tell you you're way off.

[Amusing Pseudonym]

I imagine it with love. 

[Dobbin]

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2517/did-the-reagan-era-usda-really-classify-ketchup-as-a-vegetable

That link didn't really do much to dispel the story. Obviously, like the "I invented the internet!" thing, it isn't as cartoony as it is put out as, but there's more than a kernel of truth in the "classify as vegetable" thing.

But I was not being serious. Hence the "wakka-wakka."

[Dalton]

That link didn't really do much to dispel the story. Obviously, like the "I invented the internet!" thing, it isn't as cartoony as it is put out as, but there's more than a kernel of truth in the "classify as vegetable" thing.

But I was not being serious. Hence the "wakka-wakka."

Sure it does.  You libs like to pretend someone brought the problem to Reagan and he said "Uh, well, ketchup can be a vegetable".  No, it was a solution to a Democrat controlled congress slashing school lunch budgets, and a solution to the waste.  Seriously did any school kids ever eat the vegetables that were served to them in school lunches?  I know I never did.

[katy]

Sure it does.  You libs like to pretend someone brought the problem to Reagan and he said "Uh, well, ketchup can be a vegetable".  No, it was a solution to a Democrat controlled congress slashing school lunch budgets, and a solution to the waste.  Seriously did any school kids ever eat the vegetables that were served to them in school lunches?  I know I never did.

I'm going to take this to mean that you are fully in support of your taxpayer dollars being used to support universal health care for minors, a cost made much more expensive by the boom in child obesity since the 80's.

DALTON IS FOR SUBSIDIZED HEALTH CARE, Y'ALL!!

[Amusing Pseudonym]

Did I mention that the disembodied yachting cap is sometimes supplemented by the voice of Jim Backus?

[Dalton]

Did I mention that the disembodied yachting cap is sometimes supplemented by the voice of Jim Backus?

Nah I don't speak with Cambridge Lockjaw.  I grew up in Leonardo, NJ two blocks from the Quik Stop.

John Kerry Testimony: "The Last Man to Die for a Mistake" - Vietnam War Hearing Part 2 (1971)

[Amusing Pseudonym]

Nah I don't speak with Cambridge Lockjaw.  I grew up in Leonardo, NJ two blocks from the Quik Stop.

Oh, I know.  It's just that some of your sentences are more amusing when imagined being spoken in an accent that's more Howell than Holmgren.