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[katallison]

A few small life lessons acquired yesterday evening:

--If you're going to play the War Coverage Drinking Game, be thoughtful about the ground rules. Setting it up as "Take one drink every time they go back to a set shot of that weird triple-gothic-arch thingie in the traffic median" means you will get schnockered far too quickly. Try instead, perhaps, "Take one drink every time at least four stations are simultaneously showing the same set shot of that mosque with the weird phallic tower."

--If you are doing the War Coverage Drinking Game (with whatever rules), do *not*, after a few hours of play, decide to use the great big very sharp chef's knife to cut the plastic wrap off a slippery block of cheese.

--If you do decide to mess around with the great big very sharp chef's knife, take a moment first to lay out some bandaids, unwrapped and with the backing peeled off, because it is extremely difficult to unwrap/unpeel standard-issue bandaids with blood gushing from one's index finger.

And two questions:

--What the hell *was* that weird triple-gothic-arch thingie in the traffic median, anyway?

--Was I completely woozy from Jameson's and blood loss, or was that actually the contemptible Oliver North broadcasting live! from the front lines! with a gas mask and everything! on Fox News last night? I mean, it's not like I had any respect for Fox News to begin with, but *that's* just ... despicable.

Comments

[demrepic.livejournal.com]

the weird set shot thing, that was in Baghdad right? I want to know why you let the main news station from a country that is about to invade you run a live feed from the middle of your nations capital. Doesn't that just seem dumb?

Dude, those people can NOT drive.

[demrepic.livejournal.com]

Oh, and, the war coverage drinking game, could you post the rules to that?, I really want to play. Maybe it will make it interesting, I miss Bernard Shaw under the table and Peter Arrnet making fun of him, and the other guy whoever he was. *g*

[brynwulf]

Thank you for providing comic relief for the war. Everyone should have at least way to help the time pass while we await the next idiotic move of our mis-administration.

[ratcreature]

For a while you could get FOX News here (that is in Germany), and I used to watch it now and then for its total bizarreness. It was interesting though, because afterwards I finally understood why people rant about it. I mean before I always thought, so it's a news station with a right wing view point, big deal, after all there is no such thing as "objective" reporting, everything's slanted and filtered in some way. But I guess they couldn't get enough viewers here (no big surprise there) with their kind of "news" and "reporting"...

[tazlet.livejournal.com]

Think the triple gothic arch thingey may be the war memorial.

[arallara.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow, why didn't I think of the war coverage drinking game??? That is now my new plan for coping, thanks. *g*

(I'm kidding, but, you know, also not. So, seriously. Thanks.
And, um, watch it with those knives, my dear, and that is an order for real.)

{{hugs}}

[resmin.livejournal.com]

I don't know, I thought it was pretty cute how the one guy was using his turn signal... esp. since his country was being bombed to shreds.
rm

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

The first war casualty on American soil! I think you should apply for disaster relief! Or a Purple Heart! You're collateral damage!

(the preceding was a lame attempt to cover up deep sadness and frustration with stupid humor. we now return you to your regularly scheduled livejournal.)

[demrepic.livejournal.com]

but the 65 point turn by the guy in the delivery truck, what was with that?

[resmin.livejournal.com]

And the 2 random people walking around?!?
It's like college students and hurricanes- "Hey dude, there's no school tomorrow. Let's get drunk and go play football on the field in 85mph and hail." "Sure, why not?"
*g*

You don't know me....

[begiled.livejournal.com]

but you weren't that drunk...that was Ollie North...they would have used Geraldo, but he is stuck in Afghanistan....


BTW, my favorite moment of the evening, when the Fox News anchor asked a reporter feeding live, via a REALLY crappy satellite link, why the border between Iraq and Jordan was still open.

The look on the reporter's face was quite funny...sort of a "Well damn it is, isn't it" look...

Anyway..I want the rules to the drinking game...