4A • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OPINION
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2002
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I'm just wondering, all the people who keep calling in and either bashing Democrats or bashing Republicans, do you vote, or do you just sit around and bitch about things instead of taking responsibility?
muppets do exist, and we are alive and well in Lawrence. I even have some living at my house. Had you been at Indianapolis or Chicago this last week for the Other Ones' shows, you would've seen that we are alive and well. And by the way, Mizzou sucks.
This is to the person who suggested the idea of speeding in Iowa, yeah, I don't think that is such a good idea, idiot. Last summer, I believe, I was speeding in Iowa, and they pulled me over and gave me a ticket for $190, and it was nothing but a pain in the ass. So don't speed in Iowa.
muppets do exist, and we are alive and well in Lawrence. I even have some living at my house. Had you been at Indianapolis or Chicago this last week for the Other Ones' shows, you would've seen that we are alive and well. And by the way, Mizzou sucks.
See if you can say this 10 times fast:
Mizzu sucks, Mizzu sucks, Mizzu sucks,
Mizzu sucks, Mizzu sucks, Mizzu sucks,
Mizzu sucks, Mizzu sucks, Mizzu sucks,
Mizzu sucks, Mizzu sucks, Mizzu sucks
Hmm. Respect and regard for yourself and other human beings. That's the answer, dammit.
The word for today is synonym
I know things about people.
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The word for today is synergy.
muppets do exist, and we are alive and well in Lawrence. I even have some living at my house. Had you been at Indianapolis or Chicago this last week for the Other Ones' shows, you would've seen that we are alive and well. And by the way, Mizzou sucks.
All right, while I agree that the girl in the Kansan the other day was not a hippie, I would just like to state for the record that hippies were not dirt poor. This was a movement in the white middle class; these were rich kids, much like the Northface hippies that exist now. Thank you and goodbye.
Atreya from The Neverending Story is a hardass.
Is it bad that I just apologized to my teddy bear for accidentally stepping on him?
Wheaver made kusucks.com, guese
what; you suck!
muppets do exist, and we are alive and well in Lawrence. I even have some living at my house. Had you been at Indianapolis or Chicago this last week for the Other Ones' shows, you would've seen that we are alive and well. And by the way, Mizzou sucks.
An right, this one goes out to the guy I saw applying at the parking department. Man, there are a lot of jobs out there that do not involve selling yourself to the evil empire. Don't do it.
muppets do exist, and we are alive and well in Lawrence. I even have some living at my house. Had you been at Indianapolis or Chicago this last week for the Other Ones' shows, you would've seen that we are alive and well. And by the way, Mizzou sucks.
You know you're an honors student when your teacher is 20 minutes late to class, and you'll still there playing hangman.
Do they teach you people there anything in the journalism school? Don't they teach you to get names right? You can't even get the names right of your own columnists. Jonha? it's Jonah. J-O-N-A-H, Jonah. It's been wrong three times this semester. Uuuugh.
muppets do exist, and we are alive and well in Lawrence. I even have some living at my house. Had you been at Indianapolis or Chicago this last week for the Other Ones' shows, you would've seen that we are alive and well. And by the way, Mizzou sucks.
Went to the Kansas Union bookstore yesterday, and they've got every color of sweatshirt you can imagine except for KU blue. What's up with that?
muppets do exist, and we are alive and well in Lawrence. I even have some living at my house. Had you been at Indianapolis or Chicago this last week for the Other Ones' shows, you would've seen that we are alive and well. And by the way, Mizzou sucks.
What's the deal with all these people wearing plastic gloves making my sandwiches? I mean, is that sanitary? I don't want plastic residue all over my sandwich. Let's get back to human hands making sandwiches for human people.
muppets do exist, and we are alive and well in Lawrence. I even have some living at my house. Had you been at Indianapolis or Chicago this last week for the Other Ones' shows, you would've seen that we are alive and well. And by the way, Mizzou sucks.
It is 25 degrees outside. Does anybody know why the groundskeepers are mowing the grass?
muppets do exist, and we are alive and well in Lawrence. I even have some living at my house. Had you been at Indianapolis or Chicago this last week for the Other Ones' shows, you would've seen that we are alive and well. And by the way, Mizzou sucks.
Hey, I'm a hippie, and I work here at KU. And I am dirt poor, only because I work here on campus. But man, we're alive and well, and Mizzou sucks.
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Mizzou may suck, but at least their journalism school teaches people to spell names right.
To the guy out there who is looking for his Sharon Osbourne, that's pretty cool, because I am looking for my Keily Osbourne.
--muppets do exist, and we are alive and well in Lawrence. I even have some living at my house. Had you been at Indianapolis or Chicago this last week for the Other Ones' shows, you would've seen that we are alive and well. And by the way, Mizzou sucks.
What word is spelled S-U-C-K-S? That's right — Mizzou.
muppets do exist, and we are alive and well in Lawrence. I even have some living at my house. Had you been at Indianapolis or Chicago this last week for the Other Ones' shows, you would've seen that we are alive and well. And by the way, Mizzou sucks.
Does the drummer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers look like Will Ferrel, or does Mizzou suck? Judge's ruling: both.
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ney, you guys. I just came up with the most fantastic revelation. Pants is stap spelled backwards. That's right, pants, stap, stap, pants. It's amazing.
God has blessed the Other Ones. Hey guys, just want to thank you for a wonderful fall tour, can't wait for New Year's Eve. Hippies are alive and well, and Mizzou sucks.
ney, you guys. I just came up with the most fantastic revelation. Pants is stap spelled backwards. That's right, pants, stap, stap, pants. It's amazing.
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You know, I was at the basketball game,
and I saw this girl that I've had a huge crush on, and I saw that she had a boyfriend. And I realized that in 21 years,
all the girls that I've ever liked have always already been taken. So I'm giving up. I resigned myself to the fact that I'm going to die alone.
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My name is Tad. Yo, I'm a passing fad.
And I think I'm a lad, but I'm bad. Hey,
hey, that's cool.
This is to the people that speed through campus during the day. Hit me and pay my tuition, hit me and pay my tuition. Pay for my books, my classes, my room and board, oh you can hit me and pay my tuition.
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I was driving down Tennessee, and I was driving down Indiana. The lights on Tennessee are better.
Yeah, I'm just calling from the library on my cell phone to let people know that I really hate it when people use their cell phones in the library. It just really pisses me off. I recognize the irony here, but I felt it was important to make my point
Is it sadd that I skipped calculus today to crochet?
I'm the girl that laughs at everything. Insert giggles here.
I have a message... I can't remember the message.
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BEELER'S VIEW
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Opinion Poll Do you think the Kansan should have a sex columnist?
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Last Week's Poll
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- Out of 25 votes, 24 percent talk to their childhood friends on a regular basis; 36 percent see them every so often, and 40 percent haven't kept in touch.
I don't know.
PERSPECTIVES
Not-so-perfect, but memorable Christmas celebrations are best
What do I want for Christmas?
I want an official Red Ryder,
carbine action, 200-shot-range model air rifle with a compass on
the stock and this thing that tells time.
Or then again, maybe that's not such a good idea. Besides the fact that I'll probably shoot my eye out, I'm just not ready for Christmas this year.
When the omnipresence of the holiday season is combined with the stress of impending finals, projects, papers, columns, quizzes and concerts, it all comes to an unavoidable point. There's only so much a girl can take of perfect, saccharin holiday music and Christmas tales such as the Grinch, It's a Wonderful Life, and that Little Drummer Boy and his pum-pum-pums before she cracks.
COMMENTARY
For example, I love the film A Christmas Story, the 1983 movie told from the viewpoint of 10-year-old Ralphie Parker, a kid in a working-class family in 1930s Indiana whose main goal in life is to get that aforementioned BB gun for Christmas.
Luckily there's always hope for those holiday-impaired like me.
Amid the ubiquity of tinsel and those chestnuts roasting on an open fire, there are some high spots in the holiday season. events and activities and things that are more personal and more affecting than overblown and overdone.
Lauren Stewart
opinion@kansan.com
He's desperately trying to secure the object of his affection, and he has to deal with parents, teachers, friends, and even a department-store Santa and his evil elf henchmen, all of who are unsympathetic to his cause.
Mainly, they say that he'll shoot his eye out.
Bucking the current trends, it's not saccharin-encrusted and maudlin like many holiday movies. A Christmas Story manages to be real and truthful while remaining both hilarious and heartwarming
Christmas just doesn't seem like Christmas without a hideous pink bunny costume, a larger-than-life leg lamp and that kid who gets his tongue stuck to a flagpole at recess, all of which are memorable scenes in A Christmas Story.
The fact that these moments are remembered serves as a testimonial as to how the little, basic things sometimes are the most powerful and memorable.
When I think of my Christmases, 1
I remember the Christmas dinner we had at the Conoco station in downtown Kansas City (if you're traveling with children on Christmas Day, bring food with you, because only the bars are open).
I remember fighting with my brother over who got to hang what ornaments on the tree.
I remember my little brother opening everyone's presents before we got there at my grandpa's house.
I remember dropping a music stand on my violin before a Christmas concert in middle school.
I remember my Dad driving really, really fast when we tried to look at Christmas lights.
I also remember still feeling warm and fuzzy rather than stressed out and worried.
Our holidays don't have to be perfect to be magical. We should strive to keep Christmas as a time for reflection, relaxation and rejoicing. Not for maudlin displays of sentimentality.
No drummer boys allowed.
Stewart is a Wichita sophomore in journalism and English.
All people deserve chance to experience American freedoms
Who deserves to live in America? According to one Kansas candidate who ran for the U.S. Senate during the November election, George Cook of the Reform party, only Americans.
His campaign Web site said he was in favor of shutting the border down to immigration. I realize the Reform party is not mainstream, but this extreme example is indicative of the American two-faced policy toward immigration.
On the surface there is the writing on the Statue of Liberty; "give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses" that paints an image of our ideal of a nation accepting of new ideas and willing to offer poor people a chance at a better
Our 'melting pot' hospitality seems to fade whenever our well-paying jobs are threatened by a wave of less fortunate people from somewhere else.
life, but underlying is a world of immigration quotas, green cards and border patrols.
The American way of life may not be innately superior to others, and it is dangerous to think it is, but we do enjoy a very high standard of living and are promised freedoms that many others throughout the world are not. Many people attempt to come here seeking a life better than what they once had.
Sam Lane opinion@hansan.com
GUEST COMMENTARY
America was born in a dream of freedom. We have always held certain values and rights as vitally important. In fact,
some have even argued that we are "endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights."
Are all people given these inalienable rights, or just those born in America? If the former, than shouldn't it be our business to allow all people the chance to pursue happiness?
In denying that we seem to forget we are a nation of immigrants. Except for Native Americans, all of us either came here from elsewhere or had ancestors that did. Some of our ancestors, unfortunately, were taken in chains against their will.
There are two ways to do this. One way is to attempt to create in the rest of the world what we have here, but we should avoid it when we are not asked to do so because it can lead to a superiority complex and imperialism. The second, and more viable option, is to allow foreign people passage into our country.
So what makes it good that our ancestors crossed the borders to come here, but bad that someone else does the
George Cook may have said this as a reaction to terrorism, but stopping legal immigration is not going to suddenly make us airtight against all foreigners meaning to do us harm, and our own people are at least as dangerous as 'aliens' anyway. Theodore Kazynski and Timothy McVeigh, among others, have proven that.
same? Or is this just an arbitrary distinction by those who found a good thing and don't want to let anyone else in on it?
Closing our borders only shows the world our xenophobia. Or is it just unwillingness to share?
Lane is a Leavenworth senior in psychology