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2007-07-31 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Steve White 2007-07-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 absurdly labeling them "sponsors of terrorism"

Especially absurd when you stop to consider just how easily we could instead label all of them "hot smoking expanses of glowing molten black glass".

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-07-31 02:07|| 2007-07-31 02:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Oh, but surely the glass would be mottled, Zenster? Given the various clusters of what would have been reduced to piles of chemical colorants, I mean.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-07-31 05:32|| 2007-07-31 05:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Oh, but surely the glass would be mottled, Zenster?

No, high carbon content usually confers a rather ebon hue to such compounds. And don't call me Shirley.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-07-31 05:49|| 2007-07-31 05:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Shirley, you jest.

Posted by Bobby 2007-07-31 06:44|| 2007-07-31 06:44|| Front Page Top

#5 I wish someone would develop a bomb that turns everything within a quarter mile into a coprolite. Those things are pretty when you polish them up, and make a hell of a conversation piece.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2007-07-31 07:45|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2007-07-31 07:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Truly, Rob. "Why on earth do you have a pile of dinosaur dung on that tray in the center of the dinner table?" is a guaranteed conversation starter. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2007-07-31 19:03|| 2007-07-31 19:03|| Front Page Top

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