Catch up on stories from the past week (and beyond) at the Slashdot story archive

 


Forgot your password?
Close
typodupeerror
×
User Journal

Journal Cliff's Journal: Did I Wake Up on the Wrong Planet, Today? 14

Journal by Cliff
Now this is just surreal. I had to do a triple take and make sure this wasn't one of those tricky URLs that look like one site but is really another in disguise. Nope, it isn't. If you're counting, that's the fourth take. Now I'm going to go and grab a Mike's Hard Lemonade. Maybe I'll feel better.
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.

Did I Wake Up on the Wrong Planet, Today? More

Did I Wake Up on the Wrong Planet, Today?

Comments Filter:
  • What planet did you expect to wake up on?
  • The president said it wasn't a press conference. It's great to see that he has a healthy sense of humor.
  • Yea,

    Remarks by the President to the Press Pool
    Nothin' Fancy Cafe
    Roswell, New Mexico

    Yea, Cliff, it MUST be of the utmost seriousness.

    BTW, got any new info on the Martians that carjacked that rover?
    • Bush was in fact in Roswell, NM this morning and he ate at the Nuthin' Fancy cafe.

      Or perhaps this picture of him stepping off Air Force One with Rep. Heather Wilson, along with the accompanying article is an alien fabrication as well?

      http://wilson.house.gov/NewsAction.asp?FormMode=Po stCards&ID=137 [house.gov]

    • I caught that. It just added to the whole surreal-ness of the whole thing. I can understand if it was all done in a tongue-in-cheek style, but...this is whitehouse.gov -- they usually don't have a funny bone.

      There was a roadsign a couple of miles back. I should have checked to see if it said

      Twilight Zone

      Next exit: 3 miles.

      Sorry. I meant to add that the whole thing seemed to be a bit surreal in the actual entry, but I thought people would figure that but out for themselves.

      • but I thought people would figure that but out for themselves.

        They never do figure it, or anything else out for themselvs, and this is the problem.

        They are born on the wrong planet, asleep, and they never wake up!

  • Wrong Planet (Score:3, Funny)

    by daeley ( 126313 ) * on Thursday January 22, 2004 @11:47PM (#8062792) Homepage
    Did I Wake Up on the Wrong Planet, Today?

    That depends. Is everybody acting angry while your best friend is suddenly sporting a goatee?

  • If it is a different planet... (Score:3, Insightful)

    by MarkusQ ( 450076 ) on Friday January 23, 2004 @12:52AM (#8063122) Journal

    If it is a different planet, I'd have to say it's an improvement. The one where "the leader of the free world" tells lie upon lie to start a war that he doesn't know how to finish, getting a lot of people killed, making the world hate my country and my country hate my party (yes, I'm a Republican, but I'm not sure how much longer I can stomach it), was getting kind of old.

    This smarting-off-to-the-press is a nice throw back to my favorite aspect of the R. R. years. I can respect someone who'd rather sit in a cafe eating ribs and giving grief to a reporter a lot more than I can respect someone who thinks the Geneva convention only applies to the other side, etc., etc..

    -- MarkusQ

  • ...sometimes you just wanna order some ribs. To me it highlights two things: 1) The press' single bloody-mindedness at all costs; and 2) The President's sense of ocassion. He was there to buy ribs, not for a press conference.

    Though I gotta agree with ya on the surreal part...
  • It's quite funny to see "live" and in person, a couple of the news channels kept replaying it last night, I couldn't bare to watch any more.
  • Was just checking to see if things were still surreal.

    /me looks around at all of the melting clocks...

    Yep. Dali, eat your heart out.

Slashdot Top Deals

You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred. -- Superchicken

Close