Who Will Stop World War III? | 56 comments (56 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

just wait a cottonpicking minute (none / 1)

I did not say I line up behind Zizek on everything :)
I did post my numbers for the ET compass, though.

By the way, I am still not sure where that expression (cottonpicking minute) comes from. This is a fascinating language.

by STA (sta.blog@gmail.com) on Thu May 11th, 2006 at 11:41:55 AM EST
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Re: just wait a cottonpicking minute (4.00 / 2)

The compass is in the breakfast.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu May 11th, 2006 at 11:51:23 AM EST
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Re: just wait a cottonpicking minute (none / 0)

See..breakfast is the most important meal of the day and I had missed it!

by STA (sta.blog@gmail.com) on Thu May 11th, 2006 at 12:04:06 PM EST
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Re: just wait a cottonpicking minute (none / 0)

At a guess the phrase says something about how long it takes to pick cotton by hand, which as I understand it was quite a labour intensive business before modern machinery.

by Gary J on Fri May 12th, 2006 at 04:10:37 PM EST
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Who Will Stop World War III? | 56 comments (56 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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