We're having people over to watch the debate (and eat spaghetti) AND play debate bingo. Should be a blast, and some compensation for the probability that our guy is gonna lose in November.
I'll never forget: in 1984 - yeah, the irony of THAT just reeks - my deeply, deeply weird yet clearly brilliant prof of landscape history saying, one day post-election, "WAKE UP, PEOPLE! You should be smart enough to know that not everyone thinks as you do here in Zip Code 02138!" (Cambridge, the Center of the Free World.)
We didn't believe it then, and it's difficult to believe it now. Of all the hundreds of people I know, there are perhaps two who admit to planning to vote for Bush. And those are RELATIVES - there's nothing I can do about them. My friends - there is not a Bushie among them, here in the Other Center of the Free World, the University of Minnesota. God bless the Academic Left!
Ok. Gotta see if I can figure out Ref Works before the doorbell rings. If there is anything interesting about the debate (doubtful), I'll post it tomorrow.
Posted by otto0114 at September 30, 2004 05:59 PMWhat are the details of "debate bingo"? I wanna play.
Posted by: Chris Maus at October 2, 2004 03:08 PMDebate bingo was a gift from the Internet. You download the cards, in which each box is a catchphrase - "weapons of mass destruction" "uniter not a divider" "coalition of the willing" etc and then you use little cutouts that the Infamous B made, of smirky GB heads, as the playing pieces. My card had all domestic policy stuff, so I lost, big time. I'll get the URL and you can play in the next debate too.
Posted by: Sno Cones at October 2, 2004 09:05 PMI constantly get the feeling that I live in a parallel universe. I know maybe three or four people who might vote for Bush. Everyone else -- friends, family, co-workers -- is a Kerry supporter (with a Naderite or two in the mix). Sometimes I wonder how it's possible to wind up so insulated from what the majority of Americans apparently believe, but there it is...as a resident of Minneapolis and an employee of the U of M, I live and work in a liberal ghetto.
Posted by: Stacie at October 6, 2004 12:34 PM