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Foreigners
Thaler
06.11.08 | Permalink | Comment?

There are pros and cons to a weak dollar, but if it gives the Belgians an opportunity to elevate Budweiser from its current position as the King of Lye-flavored Urine Substitutes, then one might say that the good our attenuated currency has brought outweighs the misery it causes our intrepid tourists abroad.
That said, having grown up watching the purchasing value of [...]
Foreigners, Politics
Dumb and dumber
06.05.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Jim Corr is self-evidently a cretin and I should not assist in propagating any cretinous musician’s political views. However, a certain common element to his ravings struck me as worthy of comment. This is the use by these cretins of jargon to give their idiocies a patina of authority. In Corr’s case he refers to a [...]
Foreigners, Sports
Crikey
05.21.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Being at work today, and only having basic cable at home anyway, I was unable to watch today’s Champion’s League final. I followed the match via BBC live update and that was enough to nearly give me a heart attack. Since my father was watching it, being retired and having more cable than I, I called [...]
Foreigners, Portland
Being helpful
05.20.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Mrs The Fyd was born and raised in Hawaii. Not only is this a foreign country, it is also a foreign clime and the torpor thus generated has led its culture to develop on a different track from that of the North American continent. It would be vulgar to state that their version of the English language has become bastardized, [...]
Foreigners
Underground
04.29.08 | Permalink | Comment?

I want to emphasize to you that AT NO TIME while I lived in Austria did I keep anybody in a secret room underground, nor was I ever kept in a secret room underground, nor did I ever know anybody who lived in a secret room underground.
On the other hand, one of my favorite places [...]
Foreigners, Politics
Honi soit qui mal y pense
04.10.08 | Permalink | Comment?

When Gorgeous George Galloway appeared before the Senate way back when, even some of those who thought he was lying through his oil-smeared pie-hole could admire his artful use of parliamentary rhetoric. In a similar vein, I present an official defending his government’s policy with an élan that Condoleeza Rice was unable to summon when confronted [...]