Meanwhile, I've still gotta work. The bad guys don't take holidays off... 
I'm going to Six Flags over Texas this weekend before I check in to my next command. Joy.
I'll practice playing the spar-spangled banner on my harmonica.
"The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more."
-John Adams, July 3rd, 1776
Its been too long since I refreshed on American history.
Ben Franklin disapproved of John Hancock's german potato salad.
Oh the joy of working on a parade route...
Mankind -- that word should have new meaning for all of us today.
We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore.
We will be united in our common interests.
Perhaps its fate that today is the 4th of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom, not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution -- but from annihilation.
We're fighting for our right to live, to exist.
And should we win the day, the 4th of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day when the world declared in one voice:
"We will not go quietly into the night!
We will not vanish without a fight!
We're going to live on!
We're going to survive!"
Today, we celebrate our Independence Day!
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Monica stumbled drunkenly to the keyboard and typed:
I will be making endless frappuccinos for people, most of whom will be only vaguely familiar with the menu, but who will most likely throw huge ignorant tantrums because they have no idea how to order what they actually want (and we'll be the idiots for trying to make sure they get whatever it is they want, despite our lack of psychic ability.)Oh the joy of working on a parade route...
Okay, I admit it. I went to Starbucks today.
Yummy cappuchino...yum.
But I didnt yell at the guy, though it was busier than any place had a right to be on the 4th.
I plan to go to the local Japanese restaurant and get their miso soup. I will also sit on the theater roof and watch the local fireworks show by myself, and get paid for it.
Fuck the 4th, I'm celebrating the 5th.
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Azakias had this to say about John Romero:
Okay, I admit it. I went to Starbucks today.Yummy cappuchino...yum.
But I didnt yell at the guy, though it was busier than any place had a right to be on the 4th.
Yeah, the fireworks show in my area is hosted by the university across the street. So we get all the tailgaters and their families (I pulled like 6 packages of chocolate chip cookies, which is like 18 cookies, and I think we sold all of them.) I don't really care if people don't know the menu or whatever, it's just the ones that are defiant bitches about it and insist that we're wrong when they try to order something that doesn't exist.
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Nobody really understood why Khyron wrote:
America Rules. England Sucks.
Very nice.
No, you don't want to know. But it was very sneaky of the restaurant that the menu they gave to Vernal didn't have the prices on it, but mine did. Up to the dude, I guess, to explain to his date that he's too cheap to get her what she wants!
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
By NYC-adjacent, I of course mean Lyndhurst.
So instead, I played some Guitar Hero 3 and consumed a huge quantity of beer. Hurt for the rest of the weekend. Now that's my America. Karnaj fucked around with this message on 07-07-2008 at 03:30 PM.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
Hooray.
