Comments on: Time For A Photo Op

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 06:28:19 +0000

I rather think we are being booed off the world stage.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 04:57:49 +0000

I’m generally OK with historical re-creations… those I’ve been involved in have been in the musical world; in fact, I worked for years with a musician who was (and is once again) in the Governor’s Palace orchestra in Colonial Williamsburg… but as you say, there has to be something authentic about the re-creations, e.g., high-quality performances of music from, say, Jefferson’s personal library. Among my colleagues, no goat-ropin’ was tolerated; e.g., the fact that everyone was playing an historical instrument (or a close copy) was never an excuse for playing out of tune.

I wish I could say the same of our current Executive branch. Jeez, if we had played that badly, we’d have been laughed or booed off the stage.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 20:11:18 +0000

Goat-roper has a less than complimentary meaning specific to West Texas and is used down here to describe a couple of annual military “competitions” that involve doing things that are no longer done in the real world – like the hand pumper competitions by volunteer fire departments in upstate New York.

By: andante

andante — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 19:55:27 +0000

I just sprayed coffee on my monitor.

A good friend uses the phrase “goat-ropin'” to describe any event that is inefficient, pretentious, unorganized and chaotic….it cracks me up every time.

That’s as good a description of the Bush administration as any I’ve ever heard – a goat ropin’.