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Is Putin losing control? | 46 comments (46 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Is Putin losing control? (4.00 / 5)

Gotta run, but flipping through some other blogs about this, I saw the following comment. It is a classic, and I will cherish it forever:

Vladimir Putin is the exact opposite of Enya.

Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

by poemless on Wed Jan 7th, 2009 at 06:27:33 PM EST

It's definitely a classic (4.00 / 2)

but I have no idea what it's even supposed to mean...

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu Jan 8th, 2009 at 04:17:42 AM EST
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Re: It's definitely a classic (none / 1)

Nor me, the Enya I've heard of being a female singer.

A dreadful pun on her "Orinoco Flow" maybe?

"Ukraine-no Flow" maybe?

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"Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky

by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Thu Jan 8th, 2009 at 05:16:17 AM EST
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Heh (none / 0)

Now that makes sense!

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu Jan 8th, 2009 at 06:06:52 AM EST
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Re: Heh (none / 0)

Speaking of Orinoco, I've actually invented a drink called Orinoco Heavy (after that heavy Venezuelan crude (yes I'm such a nerd)).

Orinoco Heavy

Take a highball glass and fill it with plenty of ice cubes.
Squeze all the juice out of a slice of lemon in the glass. Rather too much lemon juice than too little.
Add 4 cl's of unflavoured pure vodka.
Fill the remaining volume with 1/3 orange juice and 2/3 coca cola.
Stir and enjoy, in spite of the fact that the drink is the same colour as the Orinoco river.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Thu Jan 8th, 2009 at 06:55:41 AM EST
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Re: It's definitely a classic (none / 0)

Oh, Enya is synonymous with vapid new age mind-numbing warm fuzzies vibes. I just thought the images were funny.

Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

by poemless on Sat Jan 10th, 2009 at 02:40:54 PM EST
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