KOEB Meeting --1/10/06: I think it's a new tie! Edition

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Dana again? What's up with that?

It's hard to see what KO's tie really looks like.

looks like he's wearing an old couch. :) I hated his tie.
KO's tie is various red stripes. Ooh, Red Stripe

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How can you keep track of all Keith's ties?!

but I don't remember a red one in a while. I could be wrong.

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I think red ties are nice- this one looks more cranberry on my TV.


Puppet theater lobbyist- :rofl:

but I don't always look at the TV when Countdown is on.

drive is dying so it will be replaced some time soon :cry: :hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals:

no matter what you're driving. Hope it lasts. :)

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I agree, I think it's a new tie. Red and stripey!

And this suit is nummy. It looks strokable. Two thumbs up. :thumbsup::thumbsup:

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Yes, I like it too.

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:hi: KOEBers!

Hey, Elaine. Um, I mean, Clark. :hi:

The SPONGE is back!!!

http://www.allendalepharm.com/

:bounce: :bounce: :woohoo: :woohoo: :bounce: :bounce:

I'm glad I looked up why it was discontinued!

May be a while before it's back on our shelves, but, hey... this is a start.

shouldn't be that long before it makes it to Knoxville. I always think it's funny that they keep all the contraception (including condoms) on the same aisle with the pregnancy tests and ovulation prediction kits and tampons and such -- they should name the aisle "icky female things boys don't want to have to think about". :rofl:

:hi: I don't remember this tie. Is he sending us messages again?

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"I like stripes." Hm........

Or a cinnamon flavored candy cane. Hi Clark! :hi:

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I like it fine. :thumbsup:

Attention Countdown wardrobe: Do not, I repeat, Do not put it with that odd color brown suit. Thanks, :loveya:

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pissed me off. More than anything else today. I was waiting for someone to bring it up, and then he gave that BS answer that he needed to study it. WTF? I could tell him anything he needed to know.

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A case like that he should have had an opinion about.

his opinion is that it was a good decision. otherwise, shrubbie never would have nominated him.

dg

me likey. :thumbsup:

& since pats isn't yelling, i take it ko is sitting properly on his coat tails as ordered....

tom delay getting re-elected in november? aw, pobrecito is going to have to get out of the march primary alive....heh heh heh

alito? god, sometimes i just want to burn my law degree....

dg

re-elected. I mean, Richard Morrison came very, VERY close to beating him. I think if he makes it out of the primary, Nick Lampson'll kick his ass.

If he makes it through the primary, it'll be because Dems crossed party lines and voted for him to ensure that seat goes Dem in the fall. Seriously, if I were in that district, I'd be sorely tempted...

Sadly, most of the hard-core dems are probably gonna want to vote in the Dem primary because of the contested governor's race, but tactically speaking, that would be a brilliant idea.

Who are you favoring in the gov. primary? Gammage or Bell?

talks. Don't know that much about Gammage, to be honest.

I'm hoping to actually get a chance to see Gammage in person before I decide. I like the fact that he was one of the Dirty Thirty. That's a good rebel Democrat spirit! :P

and sometimes i wonder why the hell i got into this racket. maybe if i dye my hair blonde & swallow razor blades, i could have my own teevee show....

dg

She was a prosecutor in Brooklyn, when a new station called Court TV called her in 1992
to give free commentary. Rest is history.....

Role model for you? B-)

i think i'll pass on that one. when/if i get married, it's going to be with someone who enjoys romping around with girls in general & me in particular. :evilgrin:

dg

Please, just go home. I know it's cold up there, but too bad.

that they have breaking new evidence in the Natalee case down in Aruba.
She'll be on the next flight outta there.

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I'm on it. :thumbsup:

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they found her alive in greenland. that's nice & far away from everyone, especially pats!

edited because pats told me too.
dg

Make it Greenland, and you've got a deal. :)

suits and ties, though his smugness still annoys.

Not enough in depth coverage of Alito hearings for my taste, although I'm sure it's not KO's fault. I would have liked to have seen Feinstein's questioning and Feingold's opening question about Alito's coaching.


Hola ladies.

Your taste is like mine -- I think Dana's suit and tie were great. I love the green. KO's suit is good tonight, too.

Hi Sharon.

I hated that tie on Dana. The whole thing looked like my house, circa 1968, with the olive tweeds. :) I love 1968, btw, but olive wooly ties are tricky and tough to pull off.

Wow! Andrea Mitchell is so annoying.

Someone obviously told Dana to play up his green eyes and he went overboard.

Hi, doll. Speaking of ties I posted a few. I love the Hermes ones. Love, love, love.

After all he is worth it, and there are at least 14 of us so it'll work out to be a reasonable amount for each of us.

Loved your comment last night about 'now they know there's another tie thread.'. Of course they do, I like to think the staff adores the tie threads and looked forward to them starting up again. We are nothing if not entertaining n'est ce pas?

I wonder if they'll run an office pool? :rofl:

on ties and colors with close-ups. I didn't post any individual tie pics from that site except for the crazed bunny tie for yucks.

It keeps taking you back to the main page. But the ties are gorgeous.

I guess our taste is totally different. I didn't like the patterns at all. There was one orangey one with little "h's" that wasn't too bad, but the rest, yech! Too many little animals, anchors, etc.

You have to get real close to see what they are.

I just picked a few from the link Rev posted on the tie thread and posted them in a response to Rev.

This is fun. :)

IMO, Patsy's right. Teeny tiny patterns will be difficult to make out on the TV screen. Ties that look garish in extreme close up can look good even three or four feet away. Try it at the mall sometime.

1. Go to a tie counter, find a tie with a background color that you think is attractive but a tiny pattern you don't like.
2. Back up.
3. Look at tie.
4. Wait for Security to arrive.

yummy, just didn't see it in extra long. We'd definitely know he was wearing it, and it takes a real man to wear butterflies well. I'll try and find it later and post it on the tie thread. I like the Kenzo ties on the first site I posted last night when I started the thread.

Dominic Pangborn is a local designer, who does fabulous designs. He's gone international. I've met him -- he's a really nice guy.


http://www.pangbornstore.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=22

City Lights, Nightlife or Parade; the last two would look good with his gray suit. The Aarudeko tie from the Shibuya Collection would also look good with the dratted gray suit. KO likes outer space collectibles so how about Stellar from the Design Collection? He also likes modern clean lines so no flowery ties or any tie that looks like you'd get beaten up in the locker room if you wore it.


I'll protect you from the tie demons KO!

in the muted colors. Not sure we should go with such strong design choices though, being unsure of his personal taste.

collection I think might work, if we can get extra long. I'm just not sure about that. It's the Aarukedo one. I posted a picture in the tie thread. The Ann Arbor one is at the top and the Aarukedo is at the bottom.

There are many others I really like, but I don't think they'd be right for Keith.

there.

way but with Crispi's help I finally did.

I don't like any of the Hermes ties, myself. I didn't like the patterns.

Actually, it was a back-handed put-down to Alito- he said that
everyone was still talking about wonderful John Roberts was and it was tough to
follow Roberts.

get old for Sammy to have to constantly live up to electric 'blue eyes' performance. Sammy doesn't seem quite so charismatic, and looks like he'll get testy eventually under stressful questioning. Feingold and Feinstein did a good job today from the little I've read so far. I didn't get the chance to watch but I'm going to try to catch tomorrow's hearings.

in my opinion. The footage from Pete Williams gives the impression that Alito has no intention of overturning Roe v. Wade by reporting that Alito had said he'd approach any new cases impartially; his opinions in the past wouldn't be relevant (I'm paraphrasing, but that was the implication). IMHO, that's stenography -- accurate (Alito said that), but a statement that shouldn't have been reported alone at face value. In sharp contrast, NPR ran a much shorter clip right after 8am Eastern this morning (I'm sure they did more coverage later, but I didn't hear it as someone overturned her cereal bowl at an inopportune moment) that gave more information in less time. NPR ran a clip of Shumer asking Alito about his 1985 position and whether he still stands by it or disavows it. Alito gave the stock I-was-representing-my-client-the-Reagan-Administration answer and then the newsreader simply said that Alito never stated whether he currently supports or disavows his 1985 position. So, in less time than Williams took, we got actual quotes (giving the emotional temperature of the room at the time and people's exact words) and the summary that Alito never answered the question. And we're left to wonder: why did he keep ducking the question?

It is so upsetting that she is now in such danger too.

She's from this area. Her parents live in Ann Arbor.

WSJ, she said the entire staff was devastated by his kidnapping an subsequent murder. I hope this turns out better.

OMG. I swear they have him in Langley in a basement a la 24.

Bunny??? Back me up here, girl. :)

reading it too, it makes a great cautionary tale to discuss with your teenager. I'm hoping he does not get revealed as having exaggerated for literary sales. It was a great, emotional read but the part about getting root canal without benefit of anesthetic did stretch credulity just a bit, ok , a lot.

by my friend in NY.

:hi: all, Berry will be back After the Show (but in the meantime is a bit worried that the camera angle on Keith during script toss seems to have permanently changed so we can't catch a glimpse of jeans or below the waist anymore...I guess that's proof positive that Countdown people read us and they want to thwart me :cry:)

Oh, told ya, Gogi, he DOES wear red ties!!!!

Seems like I ought to know.

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No, that was "Get away from that keyhole, kid, you'll put your eye out."


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You don't know what Sparky said to me, because I was screaming "Uffda!" at the time. :loveya:

I don't know the answer to your question, but
maybe he got attacked by a cedar?!

I'm good, but must leave to go pick up my kids.

And that line is from some movie that I really ought to remember...

"He's up! He's okay!" or, wasn't there a Dr. Evil line about Mini Me?

Not sure. :hi:

exaggerating. The book should have been written as a novel, as the Times article pointed out was the author's choice, the publisher decided to run with it as a memoir.

I'm sorry, this guy is way too invested in poking holes in Frey's story. Maybe jealous, he can't get a book deal.

I would've thought it was a great book even if it was sold as a novel. It was that good.

just to sell a book.

Oh boy. I wonder how much trouble Keith is going to get into now for having his comments from his friend on Connie Chung overheard. Let's be honest: if they meant to deride her by calling her a cockroach, I wouldn't mind at all. But of course, Keith refuses to be caught saying a single bad word about his MSNBC-mates, as repulsive as some of them are.

He's all class. *sigh* :loveya:

CSI with a picture of Keith! :rofl:

Not. Ken. What is he hiding?

That Andrea Peyser thing is a riot. Cockroach-like!

From the promos, I thought it was going to be some smart-ass
married couple bickering- however, I was pleasantly surprised.

No thank you.

I tell you, it constantly amazes me that Keith is able to hold his tongue and be a good team player when I consider the quality of some of the people dragged over to work at MSNBC. Don Imus, Rita Cosby, Connie and Maury, Chris Matthews, Tucker Carlson...he won't say a bad word about the whole scurvy crew. Yet all you have to do is say "Hello" to Imus and he's off to the races about how terrible everyone else at MSNBC is other than him. :puke:

after 9/11 I couldn't stomach those crowds in the streets morning shows anymore.

I hate almost everything about his show, except for hearing what kind of spin
is going on with various issues.

if you learned that supposedly, a while back, he tried to get the makeup girls at MSNBC to win prizes on his show by telling "secrets" about the other MSNBC personalities. He tried to get them to say that a) Keith is gay and b) everyone at MSNBC hates him. They wouldn't bite.

He offends me constantly, and I HATE the way women are demeaned on his show....
but he often has newsmakers on the show for interviews and I enjoy watching
the "game" of politics (I'm a news junky). That is the ONLY reason I watch.

Otherwise, I would have to watch chirpy cooking lessons on a network morning show
and learn that pink is the new red this season.......

I'm open to suggestions! How do you get your news in the morning?

women were demeaned or I was constantly offended. I just couldn't take it. So I don't watch Imus. I don't care if God is on his show, I won't watch.

I get my news in the morning from the Web, if I need news. No TV, normally no radio (although having XM, if I really wanted to I would have my choice of news. I believe MSNBC on XM actually carries repeats of their early edition news during Imus's TV time because he probably can't be aired on XM so long as he's on terrestrial radio).

I used to watch local TV news. Turned it off the day I saw the pretty female anchor-bots shaking their heads sorrowfully about the "fact" that people had died because Newsweek "misreported" the flushing of a Koran down a Gitmo toilet. The day I saw that any local news channel was taking that story at complete face value was the day I turned off local news forever.

to frame this story.

We should have known the mouse story was too good to be true. When I heard it last night, it reminded me of the old urban legend about the two idiots who decide to go take a brand new 4X4 out with their best retriever dog when they go duck hunting. Supposedly one of them gets the bright idea to throw a stick of dynamite onto the ice, at a safe distance, to blast a hole in it and give the ducks a place to settle so they can be easily shot. Their plot is thwarted when the retriever runs after the tossed stick of dynamite and brings it back to them...and when they start yelling at him to chase him away, runs for cover under the brand-new truck. Which is uninsured.

The mouse story sounded extremely similar, and it doesn't surprise me a bit if someone is pulling someone's leg.

Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasty.

I'm kinda sad about that. I don't know why.

http://ferragamo.neimanmarcus.com/store/catalog/prod.jhtml?itemId=prod1460007&parentId=cat132&masterId=cat102&index=8&cmCat=
I know, too 'lucy in the sky with diamonds'. Dang, I've had it with the banker's ties though. Let's have fun.

Didn't mean your choices of ties being too bankerish ladies, just wardrobe's choices at MSNBC.

And it would go with that weird suit.

Here's one I found:
http://www.bluefly.com/pages/products/detail.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=2018654143&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2420563&N=935&Nao=126&Ne=500000&Nu=Product+ID&Ntk=all&Ntt=tie&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial#

Would it really go with that weird brown suit? I'll take your word for it.

I wish they had a "zoom OUT" on those websites as well as zoom in, so we could get an idea of what it'd look like ON someone.

showed us gets smaller and you can see more what it would look like on the teevee. Not bad, but it only comes 58" length, I think extra long is at least 61" or even 62".

I like it even more! Too bad it's not long enough. :cry:

Edited to add: I googled "extra long ties" and according to this page they are 64" - 65" (!!)

http://jaystevens.com/rotaexlotie8.html

but some are only 62". I think 62" will be enough, but 58" is just too short. :cry:

how long the extra long was. I wonder how much it really matters if he just keeps the jacket closed? :)

one of the Little Rascals with a too short tie.

VERY nice.

But would he wear it, I think that's why we went for the stripe last year? :shrug:

I do like that one. Niccccccce. Which one and with what suit?

though. I like the red one best.

it would definitely go with his dark suits.

the "butterfly" aspect is pretty abstract. I like these.

voice of Rita.

See you guys later.
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in the New York Post:

There was Keith Olbermann. Before things got rolling, he could be heard loudly ridiculing his new MSNBC colleague Connie Chung for re-emerging, cockroach-like, in his airspace - and groused jealously about Bill O'Reilly's superior ratings.

Well, either she's deliberately trying to annoy him, or she's not paying much attention...otherwise she'd know what a laugh Keith regularly has on Bill's "superior ratings" and what kind of snark Keith had in store for him last night!

As for the cockroach remark, either you believe her or you believe Keith. Hey, Keith, I don't care if you DID call Connie Chung a cockroach. As far as I'm concerned, she is one!

that ko's kicking up enough dust, causing problems for the powers that be that someone's calling out the attack dogs. if he wasn't having any impact at all, they'd still have him on ignore.

dg