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Hot Or Not
April 20th, 2006
Over our late dinner at Coop’s, Becky and I are talking about some of the latest world events, and I suggest we teach the Arab nations a lesson and boycott Arabic numerals.
We’d go back to Roman numerals, but instead of X, V and I, we’d use patrotic symbols.
Freedom Numerals! Becky says.
Then we talk about the different symbols, an eagle and two Statues of Liberty is seven.
Then it occurs to me, no, we just use our presidents. A Lincoln and two Washingtons, that’s seven. Jackson is twenty. Grant is fifty. Benji’s a hundred.
Who’s on the ten, I ask? She says it’s the handsome one. Handsome? President? Who? She struggles for a bit. Hamilton she says.
Wow. It never occured to me that any of the founding fathers was a looker. I go ask Adam to give me two tens for a twenty.
Hamilton is one dashing fellow.
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I must have missed it – did you mention how many beers you had along with the menu? The last two posts sounded VERY mellow … good to see you kicking back.
Where y’at?
I’ll second Ric… you are sounding mighty relaxed, a good thing to be sure. Ah, maybe the City that Care Forgot has finally got itself nice and settled in Alan.
BTW, since I read the RSS feed, I hadn’t seen it before, but I like the new site design; very nice.
Alexander Hamilton may have been hot (he DID have that nice aquiline nose), but he was never president. Nor was Franklin. I wonder how they ended up on our money and not, say….. James Madison or Teddy Roosevelt? Aren’t they still trying to get Reagan on something? It’s bad enough to have the federal building complex and airport in DC named after him. I still call it DC National.
While we’re talking politics: Support Al Franken for Congress! (No, he hasn’t declared yet, but he sure sounded like a candidate at the film screening tonight). See the film “Al Franken: God Spoke.” Listen to Air America. Check out his pac: http://www.midwestvaluespac.org/
Good stuff. I hope he runs so he can kick Norm Coleman’s scrawny behind right out of Washington!
For the record. I stopped drinking coffee on Friday. It lasted until the middle of the next day. Lying around. Sleeping. More sleeping. Too lackadaisical for my own good. That and splitting headaches. Got a cup before I hit St Charles for the Varrecchio campaign.
Going to try it again this week. Not nowo though. Properly wired right now.
Al Franken for Congress? I thought he was going to run for Senate. Listen to you. See this film. Listen to this radio. Check out this pac. Ha! You lefties are politically adorable in your naïveté.
Did you read the Chick Tract? There are many more to choose from. Of course, they are all very much the same.
http://community.livejournal.com/hot_presidents/
Yes, Alan, of course it’s Al Franken for Senate. Oops. I got a little confused in my excited late night good mood.
Why on earth would you try to stop drinking coffee in NOLA? Even I do it there and I’m a committed tea drinker. Maybe you should try the ten day lemon juice-maple sugar-something else fast my friend Heidi just told me she’s doing. She says she’s never hungry and can smell things better… sounds a little scary to me.
Me, a leftie?
Me, naive? You MUST be kidding…
Which Chick Tract did you mean? I used to love finding those on the street back when I was a full-time pedestrian.
Nina: the hot presidents site is interesting, but I didn’t think any of them were hot. OK, maybe Jefferson.