May your cold last til this evening,
may your sinuses become unblocked,
may your eyes be no longer gummy,
may your feet still fit into your socks!
Hope you get better soon.
PAD sez: I have a cold.
Fight, Dammit, Fight
I have one, too, Peter, which may make the surgery on Monday interesting.
Happy New Year everyone! PAD, may you get rid of your cold. Kim, good luck with your surgery.
Cranberry juice!
Works better than Orange juice.
A cold what?
Rest, scarf down some chicken soup, and a Happy Dew Year to you and yours.
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Happy New Year.
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Get better soon guys.
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Good luck with the gall bladder Kim.
Got one too, which I blame on the guy behind me on the airplane who was coughing and wheezing the whole time.
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Lots of rest with the cats and a Sunday party to watch our last movie in Japanese should do me right.
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A quick recovery to both of you. Kim, I’ve had a bunch of family members have their gall bladders taken out and it fixed whatever ailed them with little to no side effects. Makes me wonder why we even have the blasted thing.
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Okay… Trying that again without the computer batshit going crazy…
. “… and a Sunday party to watch our last movie in Japanese should do me right.”
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I am so bummed that I’m working this weekend. Seeing people I know on a TV screen talking in Japanese with someone else’s voice would just about have been strange enough a sight to make it worth the trip.
I’ve watched a few bits–what’s funny is that they do some of the exact stuff we would do–like the goofy character has a kind of whiny Jerry Lewis-san voice.
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Which brings up a total thread derailment point but if I don’t do it now I’ll forget it.
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Ok, so I’m watching some Norwegian zombie movie from, I don’t know, Norwegia or whatever, who am I , secretary of state? Anyhoo, the college boys are acting like typical college boy douche-bags and one does a gay joke and lisps. In Norwegian.
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Two points, one of which may flow from the other. So…I know a lot of gay people. Some of my best friends, yadda yadda. Some I knew were gay before THEY knew they were gay and I had to fake surprise when they came out. “You??? Noooooooo…..” that kind of thing.
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Not one of them lisps. None. Zip.
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So I ask–where, when and why did that become the stereotype for gay men?
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And second–do the folks in Norweginia do the “gay lisp” because they have been taught to by Hollywood? Or did we get it from them or someone else?
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Truman Capote maybe?
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Actually, I’ve never thought about it before, but it predates Truman Capote’s fame by quite some time. Maybe it has to do with the idea (held in some quarters for quite some time) that lisping was associated with being unmanly.
Peter, Joe Straczynski told me years ago that he routinely got the Martian Death Flu twice a year. His treatment? Zinc. Echinacea. Lots of C. And what Kinky Friedman calls Jewish penicillin. chicken noodle soup. Now this is a cold, which is more pain in the ášš than really life threatening, but those things can at least relieve the symptoms somewhat. I wish I could make a better recommendation for treatment, but apart from those I got little or nothing. Having a cold, or in my case having unseasonably warm and damp weather along with a cold, is a crappy way to start a New Year, but it pretty well fits Watzinger’s Law, so I have hopes for a good 2011. Because anything that starts this dámņáblÿ has to end well.
Thank you and I hope you get well soon.
PAD, as long as you don’t have the *same* cold on New Year’s Day 2012, you should be okay.
And from this first day of 2011, I can recommend the game PIRATE VERSUS PIRATE from Out of the Box Games. (Review up tomorrow.)
Happy New Year, everybody! Kim, I hope everything goes well. PAD, get some rest. If you haven’t got your health, you haven’t got anything.
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Hey, someone stole one of my fingers!!
PAD,
I don’t know if you have a Trader Joes in your neck of the woods, but they have these jars of cherries that can really work wonders! Don’t know if it is the vitamin C, or the mildly sweet juice they are packed in, but my wife swears by them…
Charlie
And a Happy New Year to all as well. PAD, hope the cold improves; Kim, good luck with the surgery!
.
TWL
I seem to be seeing a rash of unrelated New Year’s illnesses among my online acquaintances, myself included. May we all get well soon.
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Hope you feel better, Peter.
Happy New Year to you, too!
May your cold last til this evening,
may your sinuses become unblocked,
may your eyes be no longer gummy,
may your feet still fit into your socks!
Hope you get better soon.
PAD sez: I have a cold.
Fight, Dammit, Fight
I have one, too, Peter, which may make the surgery on Monday interesting.
Happy New Year everyone! PAD, may you get rid of your cold. Kim, good luck with your surgery.
Cranberry juice!
Works better than Orange juice.
A cold what?
Rest, scarf down some chicken soup, and a Happy Dew Year to you and yours.
.
Happy New Year.
.
Get better soon guys.
.
Good luck with the gall bladder Kim.
Got one too, which I blame on the guy behind me on the airplane who was coughing and wheezing the whole time.
.
Lots of rest with the cats and a Sunday party to watch our last movie in Japanese should do me right.
.
A quick recovery to both of you. Kim, I’ve had a bunch of family members have their gall bladders taken out and it fixed whatever ailed them with little to no side effects. Makes me wonder why we even have the blasted thing.
.
.
Okay… Trying that again without the computer batshit going crazy…
.
“… and a Sunday party to watch our last movie in Japanese should do me right.”
.
I am so bummed that I’m working this weekend. Seeing people I know on a TV screen talking in Japanese with someone else’s voice would just about have been strange enough a sight to make it worth the trip.
I’ve watched a few bits–what’s funny is that they do some of the exact stuff we would do–like the goofy character has a kind of whiny Jerry Lewis-san voice.
.
Which brings up a total thread derailment point but if I don’t do it now I’ll forget it.
.
Ok, so I’m watching some Norwegian zombie movie from, I don’t know, Norwegia or whatever, who am I , secretary of state? Anyhoo, the college boys are acting like typical college boy douche-bags and one does a gay joke and lisps. In Norwegian.
.
Two points, one of which may flow from the other. So…I know a lot of gay people. Some of my best friends, yadda yadda. Some I knew were gay before THEY knew they were gay and I had to fake surprise when they came out. “You??? Noooooooo…..” that kind of thing.
.
Not one of them lisps. None. Zip.
.
So I ask–where, when and why did that become the stereotype for gay men?
.
And second–do the folks in Norweginia do the “gay lisp” because they have been taught to by Hollywood? Or did we get it from them or someone else?
.
Truman Capote maybe?
.
Actually, I’ve never thought about it before, but it predates Truman Capote’s fame by quite some time. Maybe it has to do with the idea (held in some quarters for quite some time) that lisping was associated with being unmanly.
Peter, Joe Straczynski told me years ago that he routinely got the Martian Death Flu twice a year. His treatment? Zinc. Echinacea. Lots of C. And what Kinky Friedman calls Jewish penicillin. chicken noodle soup. Now this is a cold, which is more pain in the ášš than really life threatening, but those things can at least relieve the symptoms somewhat. I wish I could make a better recommendation for treatment, but apart from those I got little or nothing. Having a cold, or in my case having unseasonably warm and damp weather along with a cold, is a crappy way to start a New Year, but it pretty well fits Watzinger’s Law, so I have hopes for a good 2011. Because anything that starts this dámņáblÿ has to end well.
Thank you and I hope you get well soon.
PAD, as long as you don’t have the *same* cold on New Year’s Day 2012, you should be okay.
And from this first day of 2011, I can recommend the game PIRATE VERSUS PIRATE from Out of the Box Games. (Review up tomorrow.)
PIRATE VERSUS PIRATE review http://thearmchaircritic.blogspot.com/2011/01/pirate-versus-pirate.html
Happy New Year, everybody! Kim, I hope everything goes well. PAD, get some rest. If you haven’t got your health, you haven’t got anything.
.
.
Hey, someone stole one of my fingers!!
PAD,
I don’t know if you have a Trader Joes in your neck of the woods, but they have these jars of cherries that can really work wonders! Don’t know if it is the vitamin C, or the mildly sweet juice they are packed in, but my wife swears by them…
Charlie
And a Happy New Year to all as well. PAD, hope the cold improves; Kim, good luck with the surgery!
.
TWL
I seem to be seeing a rash of unrelated New Year’s illnesses among my online acquaintances, myself included. May we all get well soon.