Lake Woe-Be-Serene Days

[SueScribe]

Oh, poo-poo-oo! Elections, elections, elections! That’s all we talk about! I’m sick&tired of elections!

But: Romney looks like a leading man, don’t ch’all think? Put a white lab coat on him, wrap a stethoscope around his flawless neck (above which rests a chin worthy of a Geek God), cast him in a major role on The Old & The Tasteless, and VY-oh-lah !!

And John Edwards ? Well, what is there to complain about HIM? His head hairs are cut one at a time with 18K Gold scissors which once belonged to King Louis XIV. That’s plausible. Another in the field of "looks presidential to me". However, I’m not so sure that his voice will win over The Arab Street. They might be inclined to think he’s gay, and we already know that there aren’t any homosexuals in Iran, at the very minimum.

Barrack Obama sure can oratorize . . oratorically . . . He’s got a smooth, lyrical way of stringing sentences together. Inspirational, now and then. AND, he isn’t over 90 and kinds could play in the White House again. That might help - that and his long distance runner/mother from Kansas. Or . . maybe it was his father, but not from Kansas, Toto.

Rudy Nobody-Spells-His-Name-Right-Giuliani (sp?) is a curious character. I had a biology teacher who Rudy brings to mind. I’ve never seen a man as excited as Coach Preston over annihilating frogs, until now. Rudy has a way of dancing around a question while he throws an evasive uppercut, smiling all the time ! Foghat’s "Keep On Smilin’" would be an appropriate campaign song for Rudy.

Ron Paul is without question the most adorable presidential candidate since Clarence Darrow, and I’d lay odds that he doesn’t like monkeys, either! Turn Doctor Ron loose on The Terrorists and he’d read them a story, most likely "Paul Bunyon", or show them reruns of "Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood". Kum-bah-yah, my sons, kum-bah-yah . . . He’s astonished by his support. Reckon how shocked and awed he’d be if he actually WON something? Speilberg would do his story . .

(To be continued. When it doesn’t take me two hours to type six paragraphs.)

We can poke fun without being nasty, I hope? Laugh about ourselves from time to time? No ? *sigh* Methinks we might need to hone those skills, given the Daze of Our Lives.

[SueScribe]

*chirp* *chirp* *tweedle-tweedle" *brrraaaagh* *tweedle"

Dense fog moves in and settles above the placid lake. A chorus of night creatures echos across the water.

I wonder if it'll freeze tonight?

*chirp* *chirp* . . .

*sigh*

[Hermione]

Sue, I'm probably the only other person on here who read Lake Woebegone Days. In fact, I have Garrison Keillor's autograph. Somewhere.
Love the portrait of Mitt Romney.
Just think of all the pretty good presidents we've had who never could've been elected if there had been TV!

[dollfus46]

Oh, poo-poo-oo! Elections, elections, elections! That’s all we talk about! I’m sick&tired of elections!

But: Romney looks like a leading man, don’t ch’all think? Put a white lab coat on him, wrap a stethoscope around his flawless neck (above which rests a chin worthy of a Geek God), cast him in a major role on The Old & The Tasteless, and VY-oh-lah !!

And John Edwards ? Well, what is there to complain about HIM? His head hairs are cut one at a time with 18K Gold scissors which once belonged to King Louis XIV. That’s plausible. Another in the field of "looks presidential to me". However, I’m not so sure that his voice will win over The Arab Street. They might be inclined to think he’s gay, and we already know that there aren’t any homosexuals in Iran, at the very minimum.

Barrack Obama sure can oratorize . . oratorically . . . He’s got a smooth, lyrical way of stringing sentences together. Inspirational, now and then. AND, he isn’t over 90 and kinds could play in the White House again. That might help - that and his long distance runner/mother from Kansas. Or . . maybe it was his father, but not from Kansas, Toto.

Rudy Nobody-Spells-His-Name-Right-Giuliani (sp?) is a curious character. I had a biology teacher who Rudy brings to mind. I’ve never seen a man as excited as Coach Preston over annihilating frogs, until now. Rudy has a way of dancing around a question while he throws an evasive uppercut, smiling all the time ! Foghat’s "Keep On Smilin’" would be an appropriate campaign song for Rudy.

Ron Paul is without question the most adorable presidential candidate since Clarence Darrow, and I’d lay odds that he doesn’t like monkeys, either! Turn Doctor Ron loose on The Terrorists and he’d read them a story, most likely "Paul Bunyon", or show them reruns of "Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood". Kum-bah-yah, my sons, kum-bah-yah . . . He’s astonished by his support. Reckon how shocked and awed he’d be if he actually WON something? Speilberg would do his story . .

(To be continued. When it doesn’t take me two hours to type six paragraphs.)

We can poke fun without being nasty, I hope? Laugh about ourselves from time to time? No ? *sigh* Methinks we might need to hone those skills, given the Daze of Our Lives.

Sue's on the diet pills again.:kekeke:

[Conveyor Belt]

wtf?

[SueScribe]

Sue's on the diet pills again.:kekeke:

DIET pills? I'll have you know I'm a trim, not-bad-at-all-looking coot, mon ter'.

wtf?

Oh, pay no mind to Dof. He's presumptive about those pills. :-D

[SueScribe]

Sue, I'm probably the only other person on here who read Lake Woebegone Days. In fact, I have Garrison Keillor's autograph. Somewhere.

Keillor will go down in literary history among the likes of Twain, Will Rogers, et al. The voice of humanity at it's most fundamental and untainted.

Just think of all the pretty good presidents we've had who never could've been elected if there had been TV!

Indeed ! Lincoln would have been excoriated for his ungainly appearance and that mole on his chin; George Washington would have spent all his free time defending wooden teeth and detailing just how much powder he REALLY used on his wig; FDR's bout with polio and his clever ways of dealing with same for the camera (in his day) would have resulted in a presidential debate wherein Chris Matthews would have asked, "A lot of people think you have polio, sir. Please run across the stage for us, and put those concerns to rest."

And, that doesn't even touch the First Ladies.

Eleanor? "Mrs. Roosevelt, is it true that you refuse to use Botox?"

"Mr. Lincoln, there are rumors around the Beltway that your wife is a nut case. Care to respond?"

"Mr. Washington, clarify for us please. Is Martha your wife, or your mother?"

[fuzzis]

Just for you Sue...

Just Follow the Map
(http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2008/01/02/map/)
Stranded, unloved or unsure, the cure is to drive west with the window rolled down, the radio playing -- the whole deal.

...The thought of getting in a car and driving west has saved me from many a despairing phone call. West from Minneapolis, you have your choice of Highway 7 through Clara City and Montevideo toward South Dakota, or Highway 212 through Olivia and Granite Falls, or Highway 12 through Litchfield and Willmar and Benson and Ortonville and across South Dakota through Mobridge and all the way to Miles City, Montana. Our family drove that way every summer back in the '50s, before the interstates, on ribbons of asphalt lifting and falling gently over the plains toward our relatives in Idaho and Spokane.

My dad loved getting behind the wheel and hitting the road, and I loved to stand right behind him in those pre-seatbelt days and look at the road over his shoulder and imagine myself driving. Alone. Window rolled down. Radio playing. The whole deal. ...