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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.

Posted by Andrew | February 20, 2008 8:17 AM
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Hey, SLUT taggers: Fuck you, assholes.

Posted by Greg | February 20, 2008 8:23 AM
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Hey, SLUT taggers: you ain't got skill. Your work looks worse than monkey scat on canvas.

Posted by seattle98104 | February 20, 2008 8:28 AM
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The only real question remaining is whether Obama gets whacked before or after the election.

Posted by Barfly | February 20, 2008 8:29 AM
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I am a pretty package.

Posted by Ariel | February 20, 2008 8:33 AM
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It's funny how that Young Moderns passage sounds like an old-fashioned form of The Rules.

Posted by Julie | February 20, 2008 8:34 AM
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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...

Posted by Mike in MO | February 20, 2008 8:35 AM
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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.

Posted by Big Sven | February 20, 2008 8:38 AM
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@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.

Posted by infrequent | February 20, 2008 8:39 AM
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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.

Posted by Andrew | February 20, 2008 8:40 AM
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@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.

Posted by infrequent | February 20, 2008 8:43 AM
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Sally Simpson wrote the first reel of The Matrix?

Posted by elenchos | February 20, 2008 8:48 AM
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be passive aggressive towards your interests?

Posted by Bellevue Ave | February 20, 2008 8:52 AM
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Miss Popularity sounds like a stalker.

Posted by Greg | February 20, 2008 8:53 AM
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hey SLUT writers....don't stop! thanks.

Posted by matt | February 20, 2008 9:08 AM
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Sven, your grandma should be made into a movie. Except it wouldn't be believable. Very sweet.

Posted by Fnarf | February 20, 2008 9:16 AM
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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.

Posted by Bellevue Ave | February 20, 2008 9:37 AM
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Bah! Your families are PLAGIARIZING Love in the Time of Cholera. I'm reporting you all.

Posted by elenchos | February 20, 2008 9:44 AM
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@8 - cool story.

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

Posted by Will in Seattle | February 20, 2008 9:54 AM
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sven and bellevue... are you step brothers now?

Posted by infrequent | February 20, 2008 10:01 AM
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wouldnt I actually be his step uncle since it was my dad but his grandma?

Posted by Bellevue Ave | February 20, 2008 10:16 AM
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Is this the way Dan's columns will sound to kids sixty years from now?

Posted by Greg | February 20, 2008 10:24 AM
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Kekekekeke!

Posted by Mr. Poe | February 20, 2008 10:25 AM
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Dan? Dan who? Oh, you mean that guy who used to work at The Stranger? Yeah, I think I vaguely remember him.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty | February 20, 2008 10:29 AM
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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.

Posted by Andrew | February 20, 2008 10:34 AM
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The old lady poodle story is true.

Posted by Mike in MO | February 20, 2008 11:27 AM
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Bright and attractive in mood and manners? What if Mr. Studmuffin prefers sulky Goth chicks?

Posted by keshmeshi | February 20, 2008 11:59 AM
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Total Eclipse of the Heart - 7pm - Cal Anderson Park - be there.

Posted by NaFun | February 20, 2008 11:59 AM
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and here i thought i was paying attention.

Posted by infrequent | February 20, 2008 12:23 PM
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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...

Posted by Big Sven | February 20, 2008 1:02 PM
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@28 - too far. Gasworks is closer.

Posted by Will in Seattle | February 20, 2008 2:02 PM
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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.

Posted by Lloyd Clydesdale | February 20, 2008 2:22 PM
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Posted by NaFun | February 20, 2008 4:02 PM
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cool, we had an iPod with a portable speaker unit at Gas Works, NaFun.

Posted by Will in Seattle | February 20, 2008 11:54 PM

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