Notes from Howard's Sabbatical from Working. The name comes from a 1998 lunch conversation. Someone asked if everything man knew was on the web. I answered "no" and off the top of my head said "Fidel Castro's favorite color". About every 6-12 months I've searched for this. It doesn't show up in the first 50 Google results (this blog is finally first for that search), AskJeeves says it's: red.
Monday, November 03, 2008
Barack Obama's Grandmother Died
"The day before the presidential election, Sen. Barack Obama's grandmother, a woman he called 'Toot' and someone who helped raised him, has died." Bad timing. The universe is cruel.
Agreed, though I'm not sure you can make that out to be a horrible omen. You thinking like, "she didn't want to see her lose"? Cuz, I wouldn't take it that way. I'd take it more as a good quote my mom once stole from somewhere. "I gave you roots, no I'm giving you wings". In other words, it's all up to Barack now.
Of course, there's likely a certain level of sympathy vote that's going to hit here. I'm almost surprised the Repub's haven't said this is all a plot to woo voters.
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It's not only cruel, it's a horrible omen for us paranoid people.
But, one can only hope she said something like "in my eyes you're already President" to Barack before she passed away.
And, one more angel praying in heaven couldn't hurt the Dems, right?
Agreed, though I'm not sure you can make that out to be a horrible omen. You thinking like, "she didn't want to see her lose"? Cuz, I wouldn't take it that way. I'd take it more as a good quote my mom once stole from somewhere. "I gave you roots, no I'm giving you wings". In other words, it's all up to Barack now.
Of course, there's likely a certain level of sympathy vote that's going to hit here. I'm almost surprised the Repub's haven't said this is all a plot to woo voters.
I think they actually did that on survivor. A fake grandmother death to get the sympathy vote.
Yes, one of the contestants did. Must have been long ago because I haven't watched in forever.
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