We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/07/hey_im_not_fat_im_embonpoint.html Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:57:09 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Yeah - that's it! I often disagree with John Derbyshire of National Review - but I'm with him on this one! [Enter Husband from left. He has just taken a shower, and is wearing only a towel fixed round his waist.] Wife [pointing at husband's fairly ample midriff]: What's that? Husband: That? That's my embonpoint. W: Your what? H: Embonpoint. That's my embonpoint. W: That's not a word. H: Is so. W: Well, it's not an English word. H: If it's in the dictionary, it is. I bet it's in the dictionary.* W: It's flab, that's what it is. H:... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/07/hey_im_not_fat_im_embonpoint.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/07/hey_im_not_fat_im_embonpoint.html Thu, 13 Jul 2006 04:09:25 -0600 Trias - innocent? I hardly think so. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/07/hey_im_not_fat_im_embonpoint.html#comment-47856 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/07/hey_im_not_fat_im_embonpoint.html#comment-47856 Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:40:17 -0600 *sits down, puts feet up and gives drink order to the bedoodlewhoopies and scrupl's* I haven't been in the Castle Kitchen for a while, due to the demands of the CLUs for sustenance, amusement and learning, as well as that necessary institution, Scout Camp. But, now that the summer is nearly over, I promise to put a menu or two up with recipes for the Carnival...if I could ever figger out how they surf for recipes. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/07/hey_im_not_fat_im_embonpoint.html#comment-47855 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/07/hey_im_not_fat_im_embonpoint.html#comment-47855 Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:49:57 -0600 mmmmmmmm..... #82.... mmmmmmmm mmmmmm......Shirtless (and pantless) Italian soccer honeys.... mmmmmmmmm I am *so* at home around the Castle. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/07/hey_im_not_fat_im_embonpoint.html#comment-47854 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/07/hey_im_not_fat_im_embonpoint.html#comment-47854 Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:30:42 -0600 That mysterious runic carving over the portcullis loosely translates as "Abandon All Prudishness, Ye Who Enter Here". And Trias... *definitely* avoid #82! Lioness- you were *innocent* all right... of the Reichstag fire, maybe ;) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/07/hey_im_not_fat_im_embonpoint.html#comment-47853 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/07/hey_im_not_fat_im_embonpoint.html#comment-47853 Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:40:53 -0600 I'm telling the truth. ;)]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/07/hey_im_not_fat_im_embonpoint.html#comment-47850 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/07/hey_im_not_fat_im_embonpoint.html#comment-47850 Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:57:59 -0600 Trias Don't mention No. 81! Cheers http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/07/hey_im_not_fat_im_embonpoint.html#comment-47847 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/07/hey_im_not_fat_im_embonpoint.html#comment-47847 Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:50:01 -0600 I was innocent once. Then I saw the Castle.... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/07/hey_im_not_fat_im_embonpoint.html#comment-47843 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/07/hey_im_not_fat_im_embonpoint.html#comment-47843 Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:35:02 -0600 hehe... just wanted to get your wheels turnin' this morning, John. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/07/hey_im_not_fat_im_embonpoint.html#comment-47842 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/07/hey_im_not_fat_im_embonpoint.html#comment-47842 Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:27:14 -0600 John - Here in the gutter, my most frequent visitor is AFSis! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/07/hey_im_not_fat_im_embonpoint.html#comment-47839 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/07/hey_im_not_fat_im_embonpoint.html#comment-47839 Thu, 13 Jul 2006 08:44:11 -0600 Um, are we referring to the same bit of anatomy...? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/07/hey_im_not_fat_im_embonpoint.html#comment-47838 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/07/hey_im_not_fat_im_embonpoint.html#comment-47838 Thu, 13 Jul 2006 08:33:23 -0600 I prefer to call it a Ballpark Frank... "they plump when you cook 'em". http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/07/hey_im_not_fat_im_embonpoint.html#comment-47837 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/07/hey_im_not_fat_im_embonpoint.html#comment-47837 Thu, 13 Jul 2006 08:31:18 -0600