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| reader dreams about Rantburg going paper |
| 2004-03-07 |
| Last night I had two dreams. In one, I dreamt that Rantburg had become a daily printed newsletter with advertisers. In the other, I dreamt that I almost bought an 11 year old slice of watermelon (it was vacuum wrapped and I hadn’t noticed the date until the checkout clerk pointed it out). I doubt the dreams were related. |
| Posted by:mhw |
| #13 For the station in Chicago it's $1 a day, and you get a free mention on the air. "This portion of WBEZ brought to you by Rantburg.com, which advises you to read their website if you want to know the truth, unlike what we broadcast here at ... HEY, WAIT A MINUTE". |
| Posted by: Steve White 2004-3-7 11:25:45 PM |
| #12 Good thing I wasn't sipping coffee at the time I read Siggie's post. I'm actually drinking beer right now, but fortunately didn't have a mouthful going. That carbonation in the nostrils is a bitch. I wonder if the webmaster of the Watermelon Queen website checks their log files. If so, they will see a surge of activity on Miss Benson's page and be thinking "WTF". How much would it take for us to buy a Rantburg sponsorship on NPR? |
| Posted by: Classic_Liberal 2004-3-7 5:12:01 PM |
| #11 I believe this dream clearly indicates deep-seated anxiety stemming from a repressed desire to address long-standing ambivalence regards the burning question: watermelon seeds - spit or swallow? Or one could rephrase it thusly: Watermelon seeds - Why do they hate us? |
| Posted by: .com 2004-3-7 3:05:48 PM |
#10 "A women for duty, a boy for pleasure, but a melon for ecstasy"I think we have a new Rantburg slogan. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2004-3-7 3:02:38 PM |
| #9 Fred's already got the ads (see the space to the right). I hope they pay well enough that he doesn't have to knock over any more banks. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2004-3-7 1:54:49 PM |
| #8 suddenly I have a hankering for a cool piece of watermelon |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-3-7 1:17:31 PM |
| #7 How about starting with sponsorship adds on NPR? "This program has been made possible by Rantburg.com, which wants you to know that everything you have just heard is left-wing, fifth-columnist horse puckey." |
| Posted by: Matt 2004-3-7 12:23:52 PM |
| #6 Rather than paper... I hear a group of Minnesota bloggers have set up their own radio show. I wonder how one would establish a "Radio Free Rantburg." |
| Posted by: Phil Fraering 2004-3-7 12:02:34 PM |
| #5 I diagnose too much time spent reading Arab jihadi websites. I know for a fact they are encoding traditional arab wisdom in the text that you have been subconciously assimilating. In your case I think it is the traditional arab proverb 'A women for duty, a boy for pleasure, but a melon for ecstasy". Be thankful that these messages didn't involve donkeys or camels, traditional arab subjects of affection. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2004-3-7 10:12:27 AM |
| #4 nice link Dr. Freud Adadra's name and hair style were both a little weird but she did look like a beauty. |
| Posted by: mhw 2004-3-7 9:40:58 AM |
| #3 Sigmund's wrong as usual. The watermelon is the embodiment of post desciated post Soviet socialist thought. It's wrapped environmentalist left over from 1993. |
| Posted by: Carl J. 2004-3-7 9:40:05 AM |
| #2 Not bad Sigmund. You could make money doing that. I too have dreamed of rantburg going paper - but not while I'm asleep. How can I get any sleep when I spend so much time reading intriguing blogs like rantburg?? I dream of a nice montly summary, with little flow charts and glossy photos of the bad boys caught sitting on the toilet as Spec Ops bursts in - the best of rantburg - that I can page through with a cup of coffee in the garden....if I had a garden - which I don't - because I spend too much time online. |
| Posted by: B 2004-3-7 9:37:33 AM |
| #1 The vacuum-wrapped watermelon represents a long suppressed, now desiccated sexual desire for the Watermelon Queen of 1993. Resolution of this conflict will require further psychoanalysis, which will be costly. Therefore your subconscious continually ponders revenue-generating schemes, such as advertisements in a paper version of Rantburg. |
| Posted by: Sigmund Freud 2004-3-7 9:04:27 AM |