Jon Stewart

OH HOW I LOVE GOOGLE CHAT. I never loved an IM program before. I avoided them. But Google makes it soooo easy. And when I am done, the chat is automatically saved like an email. HIP HIP HOORAY. I am over the moon about gmail. I was so skeptical at first, but now... the only thing I want is to be able to export everything so I can save it forever. I'm a saver, you know.

I got one of those email forwards today that said this:

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I LOVE THIS!!!!!!!!
The Correct Response

In Larry King's recent interview with Jon Stewart, Larry brought up the subject of the primaries and asked him if America is ready for a woman or a black president.

Jon looked at him quizzically and said "This is such a non-question. Did anyone ask us in 2000 if Americans were ready for a moron?"
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I love it too, but I wanted to check it out before posting it. I googled a couple key words and found several similar quotes. Then I found the actual transcript of the program. It turns out that what Jon Stewart said and the context in which he said it were a bit different. But the intent was basically the same. I loved reading the entire transcript; you might too if you (1) have time and/or read really fast, and (2) have some sense of Jon Stewart's general style and delivery.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0802/20/lkl.01.html

Here is the excerpt in question. It's interesting to compare the original with what it was boiled down to for an email forward.

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Hellfudge update

Hellfudge seems to be doing fine so far. I don't see her trying to pee randomly so maybe her infection was in the kidneys or bladder and is clearing up. This is day 3 of her antibiotics. We haven't given her the fluid infusion yet but we will do that today, and every day for the time being. It's hot again today--supposed to get to about 90 and it's already almost 80 in the house--so we should definitely do the fluids before too long. I'm waiting for Evan to come back so we can help each other. She'll have a checkup maybe Tuesday or Wednesday of next week to see if the fluids are helping and redo the labs.

Thanks, everyone, for your good wishes and your understanding! I really really appreciate it!