Wonkette
This week, George Will is sure going to be bummed when Borders shuts down for good, and one of you recognized a fireman or something. You people are not really being very good spies and operatives, are you? We realize nobody cares about anything but Barack Obama these days and all the famous-for-D.C. people are either recuperating at home or out on somebody's campaign trail, but Jesus Christ, how about a few sightings?
It's easy and fun! Just snap a picture with your cell phone, if you can, and text us a few words about who/where and whatever they did, especially if they were acting lame.
We will even "link to your home page" or whatever people like these days, "tap your Facebook," perhaps? But send us some sightings or we will kill this weekly column, with a knife. Thanks!
- Does this even count? I saw Spokesman for D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services Alan Etter eating lunch today at Lauriol Plaza. He was with two other uniformed firemen and one other guy. looked exactly the way he does on TV. Not sure what he ordered but i hope he didn't miss out on the guac!
- I rung up George Will again at Borders 18th and L Sunday morning (3/24). Buying more books and audio books. Didn't seem to be politics related, but not baseball related either, a bit disappointing. Still not smiley, even on Easter Sunday.
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George "Let's Say We Had a National Conversation On Race But Didn't" Will.
Every time I see that picture I say to myself, "Self, Nerd is the new Nerd."
Was George perusing Men's Health? Slowly?
jesus. spokesman for "d.c. fire and emergency medical services?!" well, hell, we're in a sad state of affairs, wonkette.
One other thing, if you saw Jessica Cutler NOBODY CARES!
@NBAWRITER1: George Will is a dork, not a nerd, which is Yiddish for "penis." A nerd is someone who just knows too much about one subject. A geek is a circus freak.
I thought George only read scrolls lovingly illuminated in copperplate script.
@FoggyFroggy: I mean "dork" is Yiddish for "penis."
@FoggyFroggy:
Putz. The word you are looking for is putz.
I saw Wonk'd today. That's rare.
I saw Kate Michael (Michel?) at Chef Geoff's but didn't give a fuck. If I knew wonk'd would be so hard up this week, I'd have submitted it. :(
I can understand George not smiling, he obviously has a hard life of...of, ahh...of doing nothing, I guess.
@Senator Boomdog: Desperate times, man, desperate times ....
That alt-text is going to give me nightmares.
"Don DeLillo blames America for Lee Harvey Oswald."
-George Will
"I don't blame America for Lee Harvey Oswald. I blame America for George Will."
-Don DeLillo
If you see Will, ask him if he still thinks Americans are undertaxed. Be sure to wait for an answer.
"I had sex with George Will in 1987"
-Glenn Beck
@Glenn Beck's Taint:
So? How was it? Dorky? Nerdy? Putzy?
I paid for sex with Jessica Cutler this weekend, but I know all you guys did, too, so I thought it wasn't really worth mentioning.
But this doesn't answer the really important question: was he wearing the bowtie at Borders?
Some years ago, my wife rode and elevator in London with George Will, who was carrying a large wheel of cheese at the time. Even on that occasion, she says, his face displayed grim and bitter determination.
@WadISay:
I rode an elevator once in NYC with Liza Minelli and Lorna Luft and they are both about the same height as hobbits.
@FoggyFroggy: Nerd has different meanings to different subgroups. To engineering students, nerd is a verb, meaning "study." "I can't go to the football game; I have to nerd out all weekend for my calc final." Software engineers are proud to be called geeks.
Here's how it breaks down when everybody's a nerd:
Nerd = standard engineering student
Geek = Somebody with serious chops in a single subject, sometimes but not always a social misfit
Dorm Lizard = Dweebazoid who never leaves the dorm for anything other than class and Renaissance festivals.
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