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 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:42:30 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification ...nor do I play one on TV. But I find the following joke (told in V29's inimitable style) downright chucklesome: Four lawyers in a law firm lived for their Saturday morning round of golf. It was their favorite moment of the week. Then one of the lawyers was transferred to an office in another city. It wasn't quite the same without him. Then, a new lawyer joined their law firm. A woman. One day she overheard the remaining three talking about their golf round at the coffee table. Curious, she spoke up, "You know, I used to play on my... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:30:08 -0600 That joke was depressing.......15 minutes? 15 minuts? That's it? Well, I *said* the premise was pretty far-fetched... I consider it most courageous of you to post that joke under your own name. Right. Like, you're e-mailing golf jokes to John...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57735 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57735 Sun, 11 Mar 2007 08:17:44 -0600 That joke was depressing.......15 minutes? 15 minuts? That's it? I was having similar thoughts, Maggie. :)]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57730 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57730 Sun, 11 Mar 2007 00:01:47 -0600 Beth gets the "Line of the Thread" award. I prefer to inflate my own sailors, thank you. That joke was depressing.......15 minutes? 15 minuts? That's it? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57727 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57727 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 22:37:53 -0600 mmmmm hmmmmm.... So, SB was a fluffer, eh? Mebbe we should start calling you SweetCheeks instead. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57725 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57725 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 21:44:47 -0600 Well, Bill, seems the ladies gave a pass on your lapse into male chauvinism. I consider it most courageous of you to post that joke under your own name. You shoulda given John credit, sat back and watched the resulting chaos. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57723 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57723 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 20:52:43 -0600 *grin* kat, darlin', that's the most rambunctious you've been since you tried to ride your scoot with those cactus spines in your -- uhhhhh -- saddlebags... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57722 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57722 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 20:32:14 -0600 *views Bills counter measures and shakes head* You forgot hell from the sky and psyop measures *flies over head on were-kitty's chandalier - blasting Cheryl Crow from the speakers and electronically blocking all sports channels from the castle TV as we beam in "Beaches" to play 24/7.....watches Bill go careening about the castle simultaneously trying to cover his eyes and ears* Now you will know the wonder of our ways. *evil laugh*]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57721 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57721 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 20:17:41 -0600 SuperKids. I got killed five minutes before the final commercial. Served me right, too... BCR - That's why I mashed them and smothered them in a cheese sauce -- Buff thought he was chowing down on creamed parsnips. And believe me, three crepitatious carabao could clear an LZ faster than an Arc Light... ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57720 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57720 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 19:38:07 -0600 [googlegoogle] Oh my. And here I was thinking a fluffer was the guy who used ginger in creative and impolite ways to make a tired old horse seem lively for better sale. Nice try Bill, but the water buffalo hates lima beans even more than I do and can detect them in a five mile radius. Evasive maneuvers recommended at this time. As far as the effluvium, I once worked with an East German who apparently bathed only once a month. Nice guy, but you could almost see the cloud. BO that would stun a goat ... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57717 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57717 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 18:42:37 -0600 Ummmm -- would that be a reference to my culinary skills, my uncanny ability to get quadrupeds to munch whatever I decide to feed them or my occasional indulgence in peanut butter cookies? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57716 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57716 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 17:49:35 -0600 Damn, Bill - I had no idea you were a fluffer! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57714 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57714 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 17:40:32 -0600 au gratin into bag of purina carabao chow* Ever ruminate about what might happen about three hours after a ruminant munches mashed legumes? Got a feeling that hoplite shield isn't HEPA 4 gas-impermeable... T-chk, t-chk, t-chk! Heeeere, buff-buff-buff...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57711 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57711 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 16:57:04 -0600 Aww, SugarButtons paid attention! See ladies, I told you he could be trained! He just has to be suitably motivated. Now where did I put my lima-bean deflecting hoplite shield and trained helicopter-attacking water buffalo? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57688 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57688 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:05:22 -0600 omelet au fines herbes*]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57687 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57687 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 10:59:40 -0600 This is warfare as envisioned by Greenpeace. Or Unileverwith a Contract Tactical Advisor from Mrs Whitakers]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57686 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57686 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 10:41:55 -0600 More effective than fougasse and without the stink, too. This is warfare as envisioned by Greenpeace. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57685 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57685 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 10:25:35 -0600 Lessee, now -- gonna need a few diversionary measures for the others... *scattering 40 reams of sudokus with only a single digit in each box* *deploying trotline baited with dark chocolate disks* *leaning boxed set of inflatable sailors against sofa* *dangling mint edition of 1956 betty crocker cookbook from chandelier* *fluffing 20-pounds of turkish towels and loading hot tub with bath-oil beads* http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57683 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57683 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:58:27 -0600 That'll keep the Mad Scientist well away... better'n garlic for lycanthropes and other Evil creatures bent on world domination. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57681 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57681 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:38:43 -0600 *loading hubert side-hoppers with 50 bushels of lima beans* http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57680 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57680 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:31:48 -0600 Billlllllllll! Come out and plaaaaaaay! Don't shop. Get a haircut four times a year whether I need it or not. No kids. I do like to shoot, though. I wonder how much I could get these days for 500 vintage Peugeot bicycles ....]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57678 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57678 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 08:59:29 -0600 All positivity aside, I think I'm still going to clear the area of Bill's afterthought until some time after the Saturday morning catch-up reading is done. No offense, but I find women have a remarkably good ability to inflict collateral damage with their barrages. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57674 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57674 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:31:06 -0600 Wait till they discover the joy of "Whisky Fire Mission". CHeers http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57668 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57668 Fri, 09 Mar 2007 23:07:43 -0600 Yeah, but between shopping, kids, shopping, hairdressers' appointments and shopping, they generally can't coordinate massed fires on the weekends. I can dodge the occasional Battery One, but a DivArty TOT is a horse of a different color... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57667 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57667 Fri, 09 Mar 2007 22:55:17 -0600 Oh, I'm thinking yer gonna get smacked anyway... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57666 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/i_am_not_a_golf.html#comment-57666 Fri, 09 Mar 2007 22:45:39 -0600