http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30202 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sat, 18 May 2013 10:59:22 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30202#post-86340 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:43:58 +0000 writinginbsl 86340@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>funny</p> <p>late stars </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30202#post-86305 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:07:31 +0000 Sinnick 86305@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Curious that Duke Togo is an alias of that curious assassin "Golgo 13", isn't it ?<br /> Still, nothing like cross-dressing for the weekend, is there? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30202#post-86297 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:51:59 +0000 rickwestwell 86297@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Duke Togo! You look so... familiar! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30202#post-86293 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:39:30 +0000 Golgo14 86293@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I too think this is very good. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30202#post-86289 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:26:43 +0000 rickwestwell 86289@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Excellent stuff, very well written, full of great lines. </p> <p>Has it been on the FP yet? If it doesn't make it, we might as well all give up. Oh wait, I have. :-) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30202#post-86236 Sun, 18 Sep 2011 19:47:42 +0000 mr blue 86236@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Great. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30202#post-86235 Sun, 18 Sep 2011 19:22:53 +0000 Ironduke 86235@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Spiffing! Mrs Duke was giggling, and I still had my trousers on! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30202#post-86225 Sun, 18 Sep 2011 14:35:34 +0000 Qoxiivi 86225@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Very good. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30202#post-86190 Sun, 18 Sep 2011 06:52:43 +0000 Pabst Blue Ribbon 86190@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Very good all the way through. Five. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30202#post-85916 Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:15:22 +0000 Tristan Shout 85916@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Really like this one. 5. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30202#post-85028 Sun, 11 Sep 2011 04:53:21 +0000 Al OPecia 85028@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Love it - how about finishing with "However, Boehner said today 'these plans, as they stand, are just off the table'". </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30202#post-84989 Sat, 10 Sep 2011 12:22:17 +0000 Oxbridge 84989@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>A bit too long but very good concept. 5* </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30202#post-84930 Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:08:18 +0000 Textbook 84930@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Excellent. I'm jealous. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30202#post-84926 Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:51:14 +0000 Psycadelic Squirrel 84926@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Cracking stuff </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30202#post-84917 Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:02:15 +0000 Golgo13 84917@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Excellent. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30202#post-84848 Fri, 09 Sep 2011 08:15:53 +0000 TokyoTomato 84848@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Barack Obama today unveiled his plans for dinner this evening, outlining how he, his wife Michelle, and two children Sasha and Malia, would be eating a nutritionally balanced meal that would see the family through until breakfast tomorrow morning.</p> <p>Reaction to the announcement in Washington has been split down party lines. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi summed up the feelings of many Democrats when she described the plans as "sounding absolutely delicious," a sentiment echoed by Vice President Joe Biden, who said that it made him "hungry just thinking about it."</p> <p>Senior Republicans, however, were more cautious or openly hostile. Republican House Speaker, John Boehner, a fierce critic of Obama's holiday plans last month, said that the President's dinner plans amounted to "nothing more than a reheating of last night's leftovers, with a few extra vegetables thrown in to court the left-wingers of the Democratic party ahead of the 2012 election."</p> <p>Analysts have generally reacted with cautious optimism to the details of the menu. Dan Spengler, foods analyst at UBS, praised the soup starter as a welcome boost to small businesses, especially if the vegetables were cut nice and thick. "The soup is definitely a good start. And the choice of ciabatta [an italian bread seasoned with olive oil and marjoram] is a bold move that could signal a more 'European' approach of deficit spending to create badly needed jobs in the economy," said Spengler.</p> <p>The main course has so far caused the most controversy. The combination of Lincolnshire pork sausages, boiled new potatoes with butter, Moroccan 'zaalouk' salad and fava beans stewed in a rich tomato sauce caught many off guard. In his speech, Obama referred to it as a "coalition of the tasty," but Aariz Hadad, a Middle East scholar at Columbia University, sees it as tokensim: "The inclusion of the zaalouk is really just a fig leaf to disguise the fact that the sausage and new potatoes are going to be doing the heavy lifting in the battle to prevent Sasha and Malia from demanding additional snacks before bedtime."</p> <p>Many Republicans, with an eye to their conservative Christian base, are said to be unhappy about the choice of words for the 'fava bean' clause in the dinner plan. "In our house, and in the houses of honest, God-fearing Americans across the country, we eat broad beans. This is a typical exercise of style over substance for a style-over-substance President," said Congresswoman Michele Bachmann.</p> <p>Desert was the only area of the dinner plan that garnered broad bi-partisan support. "The President has reached out across the divide in Washington with his choice of apple pie with ice-cream," Vice President Biden said. But while most Republicans were generally in favor, there were rumblings of discontent in the stomachs of others: "We urgently need more apple pie, and we need it right now. By this evening I fear it's going to be too little, too late," said Eric Cantor, the Republican majority leader in the House.</p> <p>"If there's any left over, can you save me some?" he added somewhat pathetically. </p>