Comments on: Bahnisch on Blogging @ Online Opinion

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 03 May 2005 06:56:57 +0000

That’s why you should go to the Merthyr Bowls Club or local equivalent where you get a huge amount of beer battered fish & chips & salad for $15.50!

By: Mindy

Mindy — Tue, 03 May 2005 06:14:06 +0000

Well Kim I think you have well and truly blown Mr Donahoo out of the water. If Charlie and I have fish and chips tonight I’ll make sure we touch elbows too. Probably while the little blighter is stealing all my chips then pointing to my plate and solemnly telling me ‘all gone’.

By: Kim

Kim — Mon, 02 May 2005 14:25:31 +0000

Mark and I had fish and chips last night and made sure to touch elbows. Ha!

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Sun, 01 May 2005 05:35:37 +0000

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By: Amanda

Amanda — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 04:43:23 +0000

Anything as long as there is no Bee Gees.

By: Zoe

Zoe — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 04:41:19 +0000

The guides are hysterically devoted, but so are most of the pilgrims. So take your rubbish home, Amanda, and no snoozing on the graves.

By: Mark Bahnisch

Mark Bahnisch — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 04:40:23 +0000

Jim Jarmusch’s Mystery Train is my favourite Elvis movie - if you haven’t seen it, you should!

By: Amanda

Amanda — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 04:33:21 +0000

The Colonel killed him. End of story.

By: cs

cs — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 04:31:59 +0000

My (un)favourite moment was in the squash court, where the guide gave some incomprehensible medical explanation of how the King (allegedly) died. I happened to be standing right up the front, momentarily oblivious to the big crowd behind me, most of whom I guess must have been Fox News watchers, and I unwisely said: “but he OD’d on drugs didn’t he?” If looks could kill, I would have been vaporised on the spot. Even my own friends pretended they didn’t know me. Elvis and Gracelands, the sanatised version rules, OK.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 04:30:07 +0000

Bugger, I can’t believe I missed the Popperversary. I would put nothing past the Petrovians, Fedya.

By: Fyodor

Fyodor — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 04:30:04 +0000

That really should have been Hayek. We poppered a long time ago.

By: Fyodor

Fyodor — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 04:26:48 +0000

I believe Popper would have written it “Kunstkammer”, Amanda. You’re spelling is a little risque, to say the least.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 04:23:19 +0000

Oooh, thanks Zoe. I will have to check those closing days. I missed out on the Kuntskammer in St Pete because of those random unannounced contantly changing museum days off. Oh, OK. I give in, Gracelands here I come.

By: Sondrie

Sondrie — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 04:17:51 +0000

Jason Soon: “…it��s all about bemoaning the alleged lack of ‘physical contact��”
“how people aren��t full human beings until they have chlidren”
“how we don��t live in a real community unless we have neighbours peering over our fences watching us pick our noses.”
I’m interested in which articles you’ve made these observations from. Could you provide the links?

By: Zoe

Zoe — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 04:00:59 +0000

Hey Amanda, Gracelands and the Civil Rights Museum were both closed on Tuesday, which was sposed to be our one day in town. Gracelands is marvellous for the crowds, but Chris is right, you don’t need a whole day there.

My favourite part was the two middle aged women in Elvis shirts at lunch together. It looked like if they couldn’t have the King, they’d at least found each other. And all the crap cheap hotels have 24 hour Elvis movies.

I also would recommend the “Elvis is Alive” museum in Wright City Missouri (I think). It only needs an hour, but it will reward you well for that hour.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 02:35:34 +0000

Cool - we can all do those things like “which animal are you?” (should be easy given the number of feline and ape gravatars) and “which food are you”? Now, when I’ve been to training sessions with butchers paper, I know I’ve found real community at last! Aahhh…

By: Amanda

Amanda — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 02:31:34 +0000

Just trying to rerail my derail but, yes, count me for group elbow petting and community building, I’ll bring the butchers paper.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 02:22:27 +0000

So, yeah, I think we need to organise offline the Daniel Donahoo Blog Love-in and give each other a good hug (elbows touching of course).

By: cs

cs — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 02:11:51 +0000

Definitely to be condemned Amanda, on the obvious basis that all people who go to the Opry reduce the number of people touching other people’s elbows somewhere else.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 01:13:35 +0000

I wonder what Daniel Donahoo thinks of the Grand Ole Opry. He seems to be wearing some kind of militia outfit in his Online Opinion photo so he may have something to add.