Zee 'umpday, shee ees 'ere! So, cheers, bébés! I am your guest hostess for today, coming at you from zee great state of Kansas. The last we heard, BiPM is still on vacay, and he has left us to fend for ourselves in the kiddie pool. So get your WSP on and get ready to cheer, jeer, and 4 at will. No trolls admitted! Unless they are humping trolls. But, oh...wait...EW!
So, take a look at my freckled Irish buns and join me in the cheering and jeering today!
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Go scratch your pootie...or something...
Disclaimer: This is another in a series of unofficial Cheers and Jeers diaries that bestows unofficial blessings on your unofficial camels. Unofficially.
My first CHEER goes out to a current subject that I am following with fascination: the upcoming French presidential elections. As the current polls have it, Socialist candidate Ségolène Royal is neck and neck with right of center, Nicolas "kids who live in the projects are scum" Sarkosy. Royal is former Minister of the Environment, and also served as Vice-Minister for Education and for Family and Childhood. Sarkozy is current Minister of the Interior. You can probably guess who I am rooting for.
Ségolène Royal
"Vas-y, ma fille!" Funny. It doesn't have the same ring as "You go, girl!" and sounds really condescening in French...
But JEERS to the latest poll (taken yesterday) that has her down slightly from last week.
So, the first round of voting will occur on April 22 in which the candidates from all of the various parties, including the famed Hunting and Fishing Party, will all square off against each other. On May 6, the two top winning candidates of the primary round will wrestle for the presidency in a gigantic crême brulée*, made especially for the occasion by Iron Chef French Hiroyuki Sakai. This is a true republic at work, people!
*The crême brulée pictured here is not scaled to actual size and is ironically small.
On a more local level, JEERS to Sam Brownback, just 'cause I can. And 'cause I should. Here's a linkyto Bob Dole calling him a "long shot" for the Presidency, though. Gotta love that!
CHEERS to Kansas symbols!
What is the state animal of Kansas? The state tree? The state amphibian? Well, find out now! That is, if you care, which you very well may not, but it's all for the sake of learning, people...
C&J by the numbers:
Number of eggs in the world's largest crême brulée ever made: 4,000
Number of days until the Baldwin City, KS, Maple Leaf Festival: 234
Number of Necco wafers that go into each roll sold: 38-40
96754 X 68271 = 6605492334
Number of hands it takes to make the sound of one hand clapping: 1
Number of days until YK '07: 155 w00t!
Here's your hedgehog pic of the day!
JEERS to the poverty gap widening by 26% during the Bush presidency.
Speaking of YK '07, Mem'reeeeeeees and CHEERS to YK'06!
What a handsome bunch, eh? I have very happy memories of meeting my fellow C&Jers and I hope to meet even more of you this year in Chicago!
And CHEERS to all of you irregulars, regulars, Bobs, Babettes, lurkers, occasional readers and the first-time visiters. Here's something I posted a while ago, when I was a relative newcomer to C&J. If you are new to our community, you might notice the following signs.
You know you're a C&J irregular when...
* you have started to call your pets "pooties."
* even your friends who love cats have told you to stop sending them insanely cute pictures of pooties that you found on C&J.
* you've seen more animals copulating from Wednesday C&J than a zoologist.
* you refer to your C&J friends in conversations with other people and they wonder why they have such odd names, such as "Phatty McButterpants" and "Cosmic Debris" or why it's important to say where they live every time you refer to them, as in "Bill in Portland Maine" or "Marc in KS."
* It's Friday, and the first thing you want to drink in the morning is a rum and coke.
* When you talk about stopping by C&J to pick up a little bit of mojo, you're not talking about visiting a brothel.
* Being the "frist" poster of the day can earn you a troll rating.
* You can dazzle your co-workers by telling them every day how many days there are left until various, random events (summer, the Oscars, Fat Tuesday, the Feast of St. Hedwig, Alien Guerrilla Freedom Fighters' Day), as well as other fabulous tidbits involving numbers in some way.
And CHEERS and hats off to PoliSigh who opened the pool yesterday! As a fellow academic and former grad. student, I thought you would like this. I feel that many still apply to my post-grad school life.
You just might be a graduate student if...
* you can analyze the significance of appliances you cannot operate.
* your office is better decorated than your apartment.
* you have ever, as a folklore project, attempted to track the progress of your own joke across the Internet.
* you are startled to meet people who neither need nor want to read.
* you have ever brought a scholarly article to a bar.
* you rate coffee shops by the availability of outlets for your laptop.
* everything reminds you of something in your discipline.
* you have ever discussed academic matters at a sporting event.
* you have ever spent more than $50 on photocopying while researching a single paper.
* there is a microfilm reader in the library that you consider "yours."
* you actually have a preference between microfilm and microfiche.
* you can tell the time of day by looking at the traffic flow at the library.
* you look forward to summers because you're more productive without the distraction of classes.
* you regard ibuprofen as a vitamin.
* you consider all papers to be works in progress.
* professors don't really care when you turn in work anymore.
* you find the bibliographies of books more interesting than the actual text.
* you have given up trying to keep your books organized and are now just trying to keep them all in the same general area.
* you have accepted guilt as an inherent feature of relaxation.
* you reflexively start analyzing those greek letters before you realize that it's a sorority sweatshirt, not an equation.
* you find yourself explaining to children that you are in "20th grade".
* you start refering to stories like "Snow White et al."
* you frequently wonder how long you can live on pasta without getting scurvy
* you look forward to taking some time off to do laundry
* you have more photocopy cards than credit cards
* you wonder if APA style allows you to cite talking to yourself as "personal communication"
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So CHEERS, babies! Cheers to all of you! Eejie loves ya! Especially one of you. Guess which one!?!?! Now, go! Get out and hump something! What are you cheering and jeering about today?