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Comment by Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:17:13 -0800

As much as I want Obama to get the nomination (and at this point it seems very very likely unless he royally screws up) I WANT HILLARY TO GO NASTY ASS NEGATIVE ON HIM NOW!!! Seriously, Obama needs the baptism by fire in NASTY politics to get him ready for what the GOP is going to do. If Hillary wants us to win in November; SHE HAS TO TAKE THE GLOVES OFF and do everything she can to slime Obama.

Does that sound mean? Maybe, but if Obama can withstand the worse the Clinton machine can dish out...well he has it locked up on election day.

Comment by Greg

Greg — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:23:33 -0800

Hey, SLUT taggers: Fuck you, assholes.

Comment by seattle98104

seattle98104 — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:28:40 -0800

Hey, SLUT taggers: you ain't got skill. Your work looks worse than monkey scat on canvas.

Comment by Barfly

Barfly — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:29:26 -0800

The only real question remaining is whether Obama gets whacked before or after the election.

Comment by Ariel

Ariel — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:33:17 -0800

I am a pretty package.

Comment by Julie

Julie — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:34:53 -0800

It's funny how that Young Moderns passage sounds like an old-fashioned form of The Rules.

Comment by Mike in MO

Mike in MO — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:35:41 -0800

re: Meanwhile make yourself a pretty package...

I wouldn't hurt to show cleavage. It is a tried and true strategy for getting Big Cock -er- Man on Campus...

Comment by Big Sven

Big Sven — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:38:55 -0800

Regarding the "Getting Your Man" thing at the end: my grandmother was dating a BMOC in college. But in 1940, you were supposed to marry Mr. Sensible. So when BMOC proposed, she said no. And then married Mr. Sensible, whom she didn't love then and never would.

Thirty years later, Mr. Sensible divorced her, married a lush socialite (imagine Paris Hilton + 30 years) and drank himself into the grave in three short years. Grandma didn't contest the divorce (not proper!) and only got the house she was living in out of Mr. Sensible's millions.

So there Grandma is, sitting at home, when who should come to the door but the BMOC. He had flown bombers in the war, married, become an alcoholic himself, gotten divorced, and was now back in town. "Sober up and we'll talk", said Grandma.

35 years later, they've been married now for 30 happy years. She's getting a touch of senile dementia, but degrading gracefully.

Sometimes people can wash that neo-victorian mumbo jumbo out of their brains. It just takes a while.

Comment by infrequent

infrequent — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:39:30 -0800

@5. i'm not sure what i think about that. i feel i should resent or ridicule your ambitions, but also strangely embarrassed and self-conscious.

Comment by Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:40:12 -0800

You should ALWAYS start rumors about the guy you want. Things like he has the clap or genitle warts or a small dick. THIS way you will disgust any sort of competition and have a clear and easy shot of getting him.

Comment by infrequent

infrequent — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:43:00 -0800

@8 great story! love it.

@1 i don't think the slime will help clinton now -- if she wins the nomination or not. it prove more divisive to the party, so i hope she doesn't go that route. i want the dem nominee to walk-right in to office.

Comment by elenchos

elenchos — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:48:44 -0800

Sally Simpson wrote the first reel of The Matrix?

Comment by Bellevue Ave

Bellevue Ave — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:52:18 -0800

be passive aggressive towards your interests?

Comment by Greg

Greg — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:53:17 -0800

Miss Popularity sounds like a stalker.

Comment by matt

matt — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:08:12 -0800

hey SLUT writers....don't stop! thanks.

Comment by Fnarf

Fnarf — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:16:55 -0800

Sven, your grandma should be made into a movie. Except it wouldn't be believable. Very sweet.

Comment by Bellevue Ave

Bellevue Ave — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:37:08 -0800

Fnarf, the same type of thing happened with my dad and his current wife; dated in college, stopped, he got married to my mom, she went off, and here we are 30 years later and they are now married.

Comment by elenchos

elenchos — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:44:57 -0800

Bah! Your families are PLAGIARIZING Love in the Time of Cholera. I'm reporting you all.

Comment by Will in Seattle

Will in Seattle — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:54:18 -0800

@8 - cool story.

I'm helping host a small party at Gasworks to watch the moon die.

Comment by infrequent

infrequent — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:01:11 -0800

sven and bellevue... are you step brothers now?

Comment by Bellevue Ave

Bellevue Ave — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:16:15 -0800

wouldnt I actually be his step uncle since it was my dad but his grandma?

Comment by Greg

Greg — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:24:29 -0800

Is this the way Dan's columns will sound to kids sixty years from now?

Comment by Mr. Poe

Mr. Poe — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:25:05 -0800

Kekekekeke!

Comment by Fifty-Two-Eighty

Fifty-Two-Eighty — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:29:50 -0800

Dan? Dan who? Oh, you mean that guy who used to work at The Stranger? Yeah, I think I vaguely remember him.

Comment by Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:34:20 -0800

Dan? I heard an urban legend of some "Dan Savage" who worked at the Stranger. I always thought it was just a rumor like the old lady who put her pooddle in the microwave to dry it off.

Comment by Mike in MO

Mike in MO — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:27:54 -0800

The old lady poodle story is true.

Comment by keshmeshi

keshmeshi — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:59:20 -0800

Bright and attractive in mood and manners? What if Mr. Studmuffin prefers sulky Goth chicks?

Comment by NaFun

NaFun — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:59:33 -0800

Total Eclipse of the Heart - 7pm - Cal Anderson Park - be there.

Comment by infrequent

infrequent — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:23:09 -0800

and here i thought i was paying attention.

Comment by Big Sven

Big Sven — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:02:52 -0800

Fnarf@16:

Sven, your grandma should be made into a movie.

I always thought so. infrequent@20:

sven and bellevue... are you step brothers now?

So thaaaaat's why we fight so much...

Comment by Will in Seattle

Will in Seattle — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:02:17 -0800

@28 - too far. Gasworks is closer.

Comment by Lloyd Clydesdale

Lloyd Clydesdale — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:22:00 -0800

Supersonic aircraft always create two sonic booms. There are two cones of pressurized air molecules displaced by both the nose and tail of supersonic aircraft that form the booms. Usually the two booms are indistinguishable due to the relative 'shortness' of most supersonic aircraft. With the speed and mass and length of the Space Shuttle, the "dual sonic booms" are much more distinct and crack louder closer to the ground.

Also, the pressure of the displaced air in a sonic boom is about as much as that of riding in an elevator. It is the rapid speed at which the air molecules are displaced that is genesis of the resultant boom.

Comment by NaFun

NaFun — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:02:52 -0800

http://lineout.thestranger.com/2008/02/total_eclipse_of_the_moon

Comment by Will in Seattle

Will in Seattle — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:54:10 -0800

cool, we had an iPod with a portable speaker unit at Gas Works, NaFun.