"Off to the big city" open thread.
And the first inaugural K-W blogger beer was a success, with "M@", "Idealistic Pragmatist", "Pretty Shaved Ape" and yours truly in attendance. Beer was imbibed, nachos were consumed and numerous individuals were insulted in absentia. And, yeah, you were probably one of them.
Back this evening. Try not to compare anyone to Hitler while I'm gone.
Cheers, guys. Nice to meet all y'all.
ReplyDeleteBeer was imbibed, nachos were consumed and numerous individuals were insulted in absentia.
ReplyDeleteYou should write a kind of a roman à clé of post length about that.
Try not to compare anyone to Hitler while I'm gone.
ReplyDeleteHa!
Then this is timely.
The Heuther Hotel is the old Kent Hotel in downtown Waterloo isn't it? I have fond, if very blurry, memories of it in the late 80s when it was my refuge from the trendiness of places like Fed Hall at the U of W.
ReplyDeleteCan we compare people to Stalin? Come on... that's more fun, and much less of a cliche? What about Mao?
ReplyDeleteCome on.. you have to give us somebody that we can ratchet up our rhetoric with and accuse people of being like such mass-murdering mad-men? :)
Pleaded "anonymous:"
ReplyDeleteCome on.. you have to give us somebody that we can ratchet up our rhetoric with and accuse people of being like such mass-murdering mad-men?
OK, how about ... this guy? Um ... the one on the right, if you weren't sure.
CC: did you mean on the right or on the "right"? Or IN the right (although I didn't see any of those in the picture).
ReplyDeleteOops, that's just the kind of joke Mao would have made, if he'd been fond of English puns...
don't forget benito. i mean we could go back to napolean or beyond.
ReplyDeletewhat about our own land? how about custer and the various presidents and prime ministers? more natives were wiped out then jews.
Sounds like it was fun.
ReplyDeleteAnd also remember: Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore, dum dum dum de dum....