Secrets of the City

michelle bachmann camping out nood on the capitol lawn

I heard from very reliable sources that RT is running for the US Senate in 2008 against Normie and that some City Councils will then be running for Mayor of Minneapolis.

alamn bob caught smoking at Stub & Herbs

TBartel writing Alexis for sex advice

TBartel writing Alexis for meth advice.

DeReusha’s penny story will take the state by storm.

Raindog66 is exposed as the lost love child of Adolf Hitler and Shirley Temple Black.

I left out the part where I dumped a pile of pennies at 10th & Nicollet to see if anyone would pick them up. People kicked them, and kept walking.

how big was the pile?

I would have picked them up. It’s my lone foray into the world of obsessive compulsiveness. My managing editor in Omaha used to throw her pennies on the ground just to watch me scramble for them.

Sailor Martin announces that he’s running for President as a member of the Let’s Party.

mnspeak ends up getting me laid

max … insert a jew joke here.

Did you hear about the blind moyel? He got the sack!

did you hear about the greedy mohel? he kept the tip.

is matt posting as “just for jk” today?

alamn bob caught smoking Herb

A girl in the story talked about picking up pennies, and I started throwing them to see if she’d pick them up. She did. Then I realized that I looked like the biggest jerk on the planet, and stopped.

jason, actually if you’d shouted “dance, monkey, dance for your pay!” while throwing them you probably would have been a bigger jerk, thus making you only a pretty big jerk and not the biggest.

So feel better!

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tmay, the backward smilies are really throwing me off.

ericam, recently called him out on that as well, but he says it’s something to do with Celine Dion or somthing

For some reason, ericam, whenever I click on your name, I expect to see a Web cam.

derusha…what you should have done is superglue quarters to the sidewalk

Psh… mnspeak’s gotten me laid plenty of times. “Hey baby… I own a blog.”

why does everyone hate my canadian emoticons, eh?

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also, so when will *posting* on mnspeak get *me* laid?

other than possibly laid off because I’m killing time while my simulations/optimisations run on the computer.

whenever I click on your name, I expect to see a Web cam – I can’t think of a way to respond to that that’s not any less dirty than what everybody’s probably already thinking. I haven’t hooked up the webcam in ages.

other than possibly laid off because I’m killing time while my simulations/optimisations run on the computer – My employer’s cracking down on the internet access. I stopped being able to access my personal email about a month ago. Earlier this week, I could no longer use Firefox. But if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s really hard to get fired around here. Although, if there’s another thing I’ve learned, it’s that they use your internet access as an excuse to fire you when they don’t quite have their real reason for firing you documented well enough.

it’s interesting that we know ericam = Erica M, but msparber is M Sparber, not MS Parber.

We both come off like girls?

We both come off like girls?

He He!

Oh, tmay, that clears it up.

I thought ( : was a guy with a parachute.

Just returned from the Freedom To Breathe Act news conference at Capitol. After the conference was over, the podium has hijacked by a large, angry gentelman who owns a bar in Osseo. He was a regular fixture at the Hennepin County hearings, and was always angry (and large). He wore his favorite shirt, which bore the friendly greeting “Welcome to America…Now start speaking English!”

Naturally, the media throng ate it up. BTW, there were a grand total of three opponents in the room, all the ‘usual suspects’ like this guy.

Enjoy your moment in the limelight, Mr. Duffy. We are just getting started.

We both come off like girls?

That will be the next big story in Minnesota!

The AP is on in, and MPR has got it.

I was looking at the comments in the sidebar on the front page, and I was all “I haven’t talked to the AP.” Never mind.

You know the guy has a point. If it’s so bad, outlaw it.

Out of curiousity, when did they schedule that news conference? I don’t remember seeing it until today.

They speak English in Osseo?

You know the guy has a point. If it’s so bad, outlaw it.

Oooo, I’ve never heard that one before.

Out of curiousity, when did they schedule that news conference?

Not sure — it was the author’s show, not ours. I just heard the final time and place this a.m.

Okay, thanks. I just wondered cause I had one going at 1 p.m. and hardly anyone showed up. Thought maybe they overlapped.

I think we should also outlaw liquor.

Oops, wait. That didn’t work.

Okay, well, then anyone should be able to drink it anytime, anywhere.

Fine, as long as you don’t spit your liquor down my throat.

Okay, thanks. I just wondered cause I had one going at 1 p.m. and hardly anyone showed up. Thought maybe they overlapped.

The coverage was huge. Pat Kessler let out a “wow!” when he blew in late and had to squeeze through. Bill Werner of Minnesota News Network had the best questions. The notoriusly grumpy Eric Escola was in an unusually fine mood, complete with trademark scarf.

or if you do, set up a webcam

you can already drink liquor anytime and anywhere. It’s called a brown paper bag, silly.

Wayne was better when tmay was here.

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What is that, French?

“You know the guy has a point. If it’s so bad, outlaw it.“

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Gasoline is legal.

And yet, you can’t spray it around in the air inside bars.

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“why does everyone hate my canadian emoticons, eh?

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They seem to imply that Canadians have huge, expressive eyebrows but no mouths, and that last part has not been my experience, at least.

(Oh, damn, you’re not Canadian, are you?)

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ok, so can I talk about this KK article now? She’s throwing a hissy fit because the NYT published an article that may threaten to undermine the sanctity of marriage and convince impressionable young women that being single is (Gasp!) ok!

I hate it when idiots try to play the numbers game, though. She throws a shit fit about the NYT article’s inclusion of teenagers 15-19 in its stats for unmarried women, when Minnesota seems to be the land of married 18-20 year olds. Of all the states to live in and comlain about such an inclusion, that takes the cake. If we were in New York or something, I might go “hum, she may have a point!” But here it makes perfect sense given the local cultural propensity towards getting married so young (it still creeps me out).

Next we have this gem:

The evidence is overwhelming. Married women, on average, are better off financially than their divorced (and single-mother) sisters, who are often plunged into poverty when a marriage ends. After 15 years, married couples, on average, have amassed 93 percent more net wealth than single and divorced individuals, according to one study.

Ok, so Kat, let me teach you some math. A married couple is 100% more people than a single woman, so shouldn’t they logically have at least 100% more wealth? Your stats seem to indicate they’re actually underperforming the single women, which is exactly the opposite of your point. Plus you speak like a true republican, assuming that amassing wealth is some kind of sign of a good life. What about single women who spend their money enjoying themselves and don’t hoarde it? Of course, according to your stats they *still* manage to save more, ha ha!

Your point is also true of semen, bobby.

Except this one bar I once went to …

Gasoline is legal.

And yet, you can’t spray it around in the air inside bars.

Same for E85.

Or was it the basement of a bar?

the name has changed, but the rant remains the same.

the only thing from north of the border that’s better than a canadian emoticon is a canadian tuxedo.

Or was it the kitchen of a pizza joint?

spray it around the kitchen of punch NE

I hate that place.

Do you hate Punch in general, or just Punch NE in particular?

just punch NE.

also, I’m glad someone likes the canadian smilies. I think. that is what he meant, right?

Canadian tuxedos are preferable to Minnesota Handshakes.

sure glad that didn’t have a photo link. I presume you either made that up or found it while reasearching your role in Chasing Windmills.

Are they Canadian because as you tilt your head the wrong way to look at them, you say “Eh?” to yourself?

Or am I the only one that tilts my head?

It would appear that this major buy-up of nearly all news media in the Twin Cities would be the next big story… Why, only one year before the Republican National Convention hits Saint Paul, are all the local newspapers being bought up? I think the Twin Cities are in for a major “fair-and-balancing” of the media.

Thank God for MNSpeak.

Meanwhile, back at the subject….

Plus you speak like a true republican, assuming that amassing wealth is some kind of sign of a good life.

Plus, if there was more economic parity, single women theoretically would have greater likelihood of financial security.

I think Todd meant to post on this thread.

EE isn’t grumpy. He just doesn’t put up with BS. I’ve seen him up and leave news conferences when it was obvious that the person was abusing the request for free media. He’s a good barometer.

How about neither story between the statewide smoking ban and the biofuels development.

To the media: come up with a steamy scandal report in local politics and I’ll be listening to present my opinion afterwards.

“…I’ve seen him up and leave news conferences when it was obvious that the person was abusing the request for free media. He’s a good barometer.”

I would have thought Paul Douglas would have been a better barometer. In any case, I don’t recall Eric ever walking out of one of my news conferences, so I guess I’m doing okay in the delivery of actual news.

I still say he’s grumpy. Good reporter, but grumpy.

Enjoy your moment in the limelight, Mr. Duffy. We are just getting started.

An ominous little threat that I believe every word of.

I hope ALAMN Bob is just getting started. This site would be nothing without his robotic self-referencing, agenda pushing and name-dropping. I just hope he gets enough run out of the whole alternative energy thing to guarantee it for the next decade or so.

This is one of the top ten best threads ever.

With a little imaginaton and hold over power, the marvels of social engineering wrought over a decade could stagger the mind.

heh!

I’d chuckle smugly if I was in your shoes too, Bob

aren’t you going to be out of a job now, bob? once there’s a statewide smoking ban, all you’ll have to lobby for is E85, and the corn people have got way more money than you on that one anyway, so you might just dry up and blow away!

so you might just dry up and blow away!

That will be the day, pilgrim.

Maybe I can get a new job at Lunds (Lungs at Lunds…I like it!) or at the NE Mpls Punch.