New Math
By Mitch Berg
The Strib, pro forma, notes:
A much smaller group of counterprotesters held signs and shouted slogans supporting the troops, the war and Bush.
They left out “dominated every argument with calm style”.
And while our numbers were certainly small, I called my friend from Citizens for a Supine “Safer” Minnesota for an estimate.
“You had close to 1000 people there”, she said upon looking at the group picture.
I always feel better about numbers after I talk with her.
March 20th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
You insinuated that I was lying when I said I would try to get to the protests.
Goodness. Wouldn’t want to insinuate anyone wasn’t telling the truth, would we?
March 20th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
in your last post, I get the distinct impression that you’re insinuating that I am lying about what I was doing this weekend.
Doug, I’d like you to meet irony. Irony. . . Doug.
Honestly, for a guy who insinuates Mitch lied about his experience while counter-protesting, you sure are an indignant sort when someone mocks you with the same insinuation regarding your weekend activities.
March 20th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
D’oh!
What Mitch said.
March 20th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Yossarian said,
“Doug, I’d like you to meet irony. Irony. . . Doug.”
Yossaian, let me introduce you to Mr. Setup and Mr. Punchline.
March 20th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
OK, do we really need to keep asserting the other person’s dick is not as large as ours?
March 20th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
let me introduce you to Mr. Setup and Mr. Punchline.
Michael Richards called and left a message: “Write your own damn rationalizations”.
March 20th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
OK, do we really need to keep asserting the other person’s dick is not as large as ours?
Now, now, I think this thread has established beyond a shadow of a doubt Doug is, by far, the bigger dick.
March 20th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
You see… Now that was funny.
I knew you had it in you
March 20th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
really? I found it mean spirited.
March 20th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Mitch:
“Ah. If Wikipedia says it, that must be that.”
They just go by what the U.S. Census bureau says: “In 2006, the oldest of the baby boomers, the generation born between 1946 and 1964, will turn 60 years old.”
About dot com agrees.
http://geography.about.com/od/populationgeography/a/babyboom.htm
So do these people:
http://www.itseemslikeyesterday.com/BabyBoom/factoids.asp
“Rubbish, Rick. The “baby boom” was the children of World War II veterans and people of that age. I am not”
Hey if my math is wrong I apologize. But if you were 38 in 2001, you are “of the age” of someone born before 1964.
It is a close call – maybe you can get some special dispensation from Joan Baez – I hear she is still the official keeper of the boomer flame.
March 20th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
Rick,
There’s a post in this. Stay tuned.
March 20th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
bill said,
“really? I found it mean spirited.
Na. Mean spirited would have been if I had added, “but we’re not here to talk about Mitch Berg’ dick” right after I told Yossarian “I knew you had it in you”.
Now THAT would have been mean spirited.
March 20th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
March 20th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
And there Doug goes again – from “verging on admirable” to “loathsome”, inside of 24 hours!
March 20th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
Oh please Mitch. I have a reputation to maintain. You should know that by now.
March 20th, 2007 at 9:26 pm
Somewhere a beeper is going off. Hold on, Doug! Help is on the way!
March 21st, 2007 at 5:57 am
Kermit said,
“Somewhere a beeper is going off. Hold on, Doug! Help is on the way!”
Whew! That’s better. I was worried we were getting dangerously close to a group hug.