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f frederick skitty's avatar

they'll blame antifa for deceiving her into it.

f frederick skitty's avatar

the best wines come in vintage soaky toy bottles.bullwinkle 1963 was a particularly good year for soaky.

f frederick skitty's avatar

'...brown eyed women and red grenadinethe bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean.'

f frederick skitty's avatar

extracted from 'archy interviews a pharoah':...i am dryi am as dryas the next morning mouthof a dissipated desertas dry as the hoofsof the camels of timbuctoolittle fussy facei am as dry as the heartof a sand stormat high noon in helli have been lying hereand therefor four thousand yearswith silicone in my esophagusand gravel in my gizzardthinkingthinkingthinkingof beer

Bitter Scribe's avatar

I sincerely believed the Nuremberg trials were a waste of time and Harry Truman liked to secretly wear his wife’s dresses, but I was only actually correct about one of those.

OK, now I'm afraid to ask which one.

Russell Jones's avatar

That right there is art of the highest order.

Dr. Rags's avatar

1. Does not mention slavery, just 'not free not untaxed indians' very genteel2. Again, oblique and includes others than slaves. Migration could include religious orders, for example.3. and finally, not just slavery. So that word and the specific working definition of slavery do not appear in the Constitution.

Paniq! At Disqus's avatar

You're a rotten egg, Noonan

Jeff and Garcia's avatar

Reminds me of a line from "The gang that couldn't shoot straight" by Jimmy Breslin,

wiseguy #1, "Ya, he died of natural causes, a heart attack"wiseguy #2 "I heard he got shot 6 times"wiseguy #1 "That's what gave him a heart attack".

Skaarphy's avatar

Dunked in rose water.

Jon Sussex's avatar

Where's this concern for human life when it comes to capital punishment?

leemoder's avatar

I don't know who writes the subheds on the front page...But, whoever wrote the Robert Taft line..? Golf clap.

popebuck1's avatar

Stunning. It's like we're right there in the room with her. For a second I thought I could smell her breath. (Though it turned out I had left the cap off the can of turpentine.)

ken_kukec's avatar

Rumor has it HST looked pretty good in that demure little calico number Bess picked up back in Missouri -- if that's any kinda clue.

Miss_Feckless's avatar

Gary Legum is the finest writer on the Noonan beat.