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Cynner
10/05/09

In reply to Joe Biden, Call Your Office
Did *anyone* twitter that their *toot toot* was broke?
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Smitros
10/05/09

@Cynner:
Sounds like a Bat Signal for dealers.
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BxgrlJeri
10/05/09

In reply to Joe Biden, Call Your Office
I was once on an Amtrak train (BTW, I love Amtrak in a Joe Biden kinda way) and a squirrel decided to commit suicide by plummeting onto the train's switching station or some such thing. (I remember lots of jokes about fried squirrel).

I still love Amtrak, especially the older trains when they're empty at night and no one is yelling into their cell phone.
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Swifter
10/05/09

In reply to Joe Biden, Call Your Office
I was stuck in Baltimore for six years, but I did develop a taste for Old Bay Seasoning.
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hfree
10/05/09

In reply to Joe Biden, Call Your Office
How is Amtrak being broken today different from any other day? It's just broke worse. (but seriously, sucks to be the people on those trains)
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Spirit Fingers
10/05/09

In reply to Joe Biden, Call Your Office
As someone who was once on a train from Baltimore to Boston when it struck someone or, uh, vice versa (won't go into detail on what that moment was like, yeesh.) and these were the days before texting, tweeting, and all other various forms of telling people in quick shouty bursts what just freaking happened two seconds ago! (2004) all we were able to do was listen to our battery operated Discmans, use our Nokia cell phones to tell people what happened the old fashioned way, and watch people meltdown from simultaneous boredom and incredulity that the actual physical impact of a human being on a locomotive could delay 3pm drinks on the Upper East Side.
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raincoaster
10/05/09

In reply to Joe Biden, Call Your Office
Hating Toronto is a Canadian national passtime, but I must say if you're ever stuck on a train, pray it's with a bunch of Torontonians. Truly one of the most memorable nights of fun of my entire life, even WITH the repeating Stomping Tom singalong at one end of the car.
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dado
10/05/09

In reply to Joe Biden, Call Your Office
Now I got a job, but it don't pay.
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onebadclam
10/05/09

@dado: Well, I ride on a mailtrain, baby.
Can't buy a thrill
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Airvault
10/05/09

@dado:
When the train pulled out the station
It had two lights on behind.
The blue light was my baby
And the red light was my mind
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onebadclam
10/05/09

@Airvault: Casey Jones, texting on his cellphone.
Casey Jones, tweetin' to his friends.
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dado
10/05/09

@onebadclam: Mental wounds not healing, life's a bitter shame.
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
10/05/09

@dado: i need new clothes, need somewhere to stay
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Btwbfdimho
10/05/09

@Airvault:
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Smitros
10/05/09

@dado:
My name is Sharif, and I approved this thread.
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Airvault
10/05/09

@Btwbfdimho:
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Lymed
10/05/09

In reply to Joe Biden, Call Your Office
Of course it would be way too much to suggest that somebody trying to get from Philadelphia to Baltimore might rent a car and drive.
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rubyruby
10/05/09

@Lymed: I've been on broken amtrak trains before. they don't let you off. you just sit there for 4 hours, not moving, in new haven connecticut (or rye, ny-- i've been trapped twice) wondering why the hell you ever decided to move to boston. it's hard to rent a car when you can't disembark.
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Lymed
10/05/09

@rubyruby: I misinterpreted "stuck in Baltimore" to mean stuck at the train station in Baltimore. I also somehow got it backward. I like to call this comment fail.
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MrInBetween
10/05/09

In reply to Joe Biden, Call Your Office
I thought people only tried in vain to get out of Philadelphia.
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rubyruby
10/05/09

@MrInBetween: you're hilarious. what next? people from the south talk funny? seattle residents are tree-huggers? new yorkers are elistist? need i go on?
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Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
10/05/09

@MrInBetween: Ah yes--echoing the sentiments of the immortal WC Fields. First prize, a week in Philadelphia. Second prize, two weeks!
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son of spam
10/05/09

@rubyruby: Don't go on. No need to repeat yourself.
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Caius
10/05/09

@Oy Veh (Informality Reigns): Third Prize, two weeks in Philadelphia and a date with Arthur Kade (note: only 8's and above may enter this contest).
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son of spam
10/05/09

In reply to Joe Biden, Call Your Office
Not a great day for the guy hit by the train either.
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Foster Kamer
05/11/09

In reply to It Was Totally OK To Enjoy the Correspondents' Dinner This Year
Okay, can we talk for a second about Sklar's piece? (Sorry, Rachel: here we go). Her justification for the thing's existence is that it allows reporters to cozy up to and establish relationships with sources who wouldn't otherwise show up if not for the celebs. She also takes the Krucoff defense ("It's for charity!").

Can somebody help me understand the many different degrees of "wrong" I feel about this?
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Mediahohoho
05/11/09

In reply to It Was Totally OK To Enjoy the Correspondents' Dinner This Year
Colbert ended this event in 2006 because (sorry, Alex, I know this is the point you were trying to make more subtly) he basically told the media that they were a bunch of lazy assholes who were as responsible as anyone for the Iraq war because they basically phoned in the whole Bush presidency in the hope of getting favors from Karl, Ken, Dick and Andy. After that, there hasn't been much else to say. The media hate being told that they such at their jobs.
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Mediahohoho
05/11/09

@Mediahohoho: suck at their jobs.
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lrubemp
05/11/09

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Colbert "died at the dais" in 2006? Reality check. His speech was by the far the most popular and memorable speech ever given at that sorry confab of the discredited and corrupt. It's Youtube site is still smoking today. Yeah, the audience that year didn't like it. THAT WAS THE WHOLE POINT! And it explains why, in a panic over being the butt of jokes instead of the dispenser, they tried painting up the old whore with some Hollywood flash. The Great Unwashed will love us now!!!! Wretch. The fact that there's a Dem in the White House changes nothing, however silly hypocrites like Chris Lehmann may bleat. It's over.
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Pareene
05/11/09

@lrubemp: i'm only responding to you because this is the craziest comment on the subject but why does no one understand that statements like "no one in the room thought it was funny" is the definition of DYING, even if everyone loved it on the YouTube the next day
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Richard Lawson
05/11/09

In reply to It Was Totally OK To Enjoy the Correspondents' Dinner This Year
Did anyone get as upset by Glenn Beck being there as I did? Shouldn't he have been making house cat jerky and Alcoa fedoras somewhere, all the while raging about government largess, instead of lashing that black and white bow time mumu around himself and swilling champale with his sworn enemies?

His presence sort of further proved the disingenuousness of the whole affair.
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ADismalScience
05/11/09

@Richard Lawson:

On a comforting note, his presence proved he did not spend the evening in a structure that could be referred to as a "complex" or "bunker."
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Dave J.
05/11/09

In reply to It Was Totally OK To Enjoy the Correspondents' Dinner This Year
I have to quibble with the use of "died" to describe Colbert's bit. I think dying is when truly nobody thinks the act was funny, whereas Colbert did a routine that brutalized the guy up on the dais in a so-true-it's-funny kind of way. It was awkward and uncomfortable, and only liberal people liked it, but "died"? Uh, no.
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nystar2000
05/11/09

@Dave J.: Seconded. His devastating Emperor Has No Clothes routine went so viral that it's unfair to say he "died." Also, according to at least one person I know who was there, there were pockets of the audience in tears from laughing so hard.
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Baroness
05/11/09

@nystar2000: Thirded. There was nervous silence because the whole incestous crowd was being implicated as enablers. His real audience was us, on the Internet, where he slew. People still speak of it three years later, its audacity put Colbert over the top, a new level of fame not just here but abroad.
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