Loose Links (Friday)
¶ Is Fafblog (no relation to the "Aloha" postcard) the sharpest and funniest critic going? The site is almost always funny, but it not infrequently satirizes its target so perfectly that there's no air left for laughter. This one, on treason, is exalted:
Treason isn't just providin aid an comfort to the enemy. It's providin not-aid an discomfort to America. Treason is hurting America's feelings.
That cornball hillbilly accent, by the way, is just about impossible to imitate. Its pervasiveness makes the few "lapses" into quite correct English funny in themselves. Note that, although Fafblog dabbles in surrealism, it does not exaggerate.
¶ Don't miss the "Worst Wedding " thread at Obsidian Wings. You may have to decide which story to tell! I told the shortest.
¶ Chad Everett's plugin, MT-Moderate, seems to be working nicely. It holds up posts to older comments for moderation, or approval. That makes spam much easier to get rid of, and visitors never see it - not that they would anyway. But I have to tweak the settings for "older," if I can, because over on Good For You, where we're reading The Ambassadors, posts go up the moment anyone comments on the previous chapter, which means that readers are still commenting a week later.
Comments
The best/worst wedding story I've heard was in a Time Magazine story about weddings and how fancy they'd become and there was a cautionary tale about the new fad of videotaping the event. There was a very efficient photographer on hand and upon the happy couple's return from their honeymoon they sat down to watch it on their VHS machine. During the reception, the groom's father is seen taking an envelope that was sticking out of the bride's father's pants. In it was the cash to pay the balance of the bill.
The marriage did not survive this incident.......
And I attended a wedding in which the bride and groom awoke in their hotel room, well the bride and matron of honor were passed out on the bed and the groom and his best man passed out on the floor of the bathroom. They missed the flight and the marriage did not last very long.
Posted by: PPOQ | February 18, 2005 02:19 PM