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Blind Date Has More Personality

Posted by DFO

March 3, 2009 9:14 a.m. • 15 comments

Legislative players know every session has its own character and personality, as individual as the characters and personalities who work within its brief (?) life span. This session is no different, but it challenges the imagination to conjure accurate descriptions of the “character” of this session. And “personality?” We’ve all had blind dates with more personality. This odd, disjointed session began in a rhetorical atmosphere dominated by words like “shortfall,” “holdback,” “deficits,” and “cuts.” All 50 states were embroiled in the national financial cataclysm, but each state also had its own budget demons to wrestle/Steve Ahrens, Idaho Business Review. More here. (H/T Kevin Richert/Idaho Statesman)

Question: Have you ever had a blind date? How did it work out?

15 comments on this post so far. Add yours!

scootermom on March 03 at 10:33 a.m.
Worked out pretty well.

We’ll be celebrating our 20th anniversary this September.
JeanieSpokane on March 03 at 10:56 a.m.
I had a blind date once. OMG! It was awful! He was shorter than me (and I’m 5‘2”) and he had a toupee (that I could clearly see!) and he was a dweeb! Never never never never again. Never.
Cindy_H on March 03 at 11:17 a.m.
Oh, Jeanie… short men with toupee’s need love too.
JeanieSpokane on March 03 at 11:19 a.m.
NEVER
Me on March 03 at 1:06 p.m.
O boy. I met two High School friends this last weekend that I haven’t seent in 20 years. One of the first things they asked was “remember your blind date”? It was the only one I ever had - was ruined from then on.

You know in Saturday Night Fever? The shorter guy wearing the big platform shoes to make himself taller? That was my blind date. Shiny disco shirt, unbuttoned, gold chains. It was horrible and lasted way too long. My friends still remembered my description of that date all these years!!!
scootermom on March 03 at 2:25 p.m.
Mine worked out fine, but I did hear a horror story once of a woman who got set up on a blind date with a guy who she immediately recognzed as her gynecologist.

Now, that’s a bad date.
JohnA on March 03 at 2:30 p.m.
Only had one blind date. We got along fine until the German Shepherd got jealous.

BTW, have you ever seen that sign at the Post Office. “No dogs allowed, except seeing-eye dogs”.

Now, I ask you, who is that sign for?
Cindy_H on March 03 at 2:34 p.m.
Now, that made me laugh.
Thanks, scootermom!

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D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.