Longest Thread Ever

[NAOS]

exercise those argue muscles. I'm sure you can.

your optimism is admirable. You'll need to be patient here, though.

 

[NAOS]

I just participated in this thread for the first time. What's it about?

 

[spycam1]

I just participated in this thread for the first time. What's it about?

 

[babe]

You forgot hookers.

The way I look at it, for hookers you pay five times. There's the "up front" price, the price it costs you in taxes and social programs from the govt, the "gang tax"(what it drains outta the community to have these folks on the streets, not including socialist govt. handouts), the health tax you will pay doctors and such down the road, and the difficulty you'll have thinking straight. Arguably, you weren't thinking very well to begin with, but it just gets harder to get outta the deeper holes you keep digging for yourself, and you just might not ever get back to what I call the light of day. . . . where you achieve a sort of comprehensionally valid relation with the universe, or God.

 

[babe]

your optimism is admirable. You'll need to be patient here, though.

optimism is what you have left when there's no reason to hope. Patience still embraces reasonable hopes.

 

[babe]

I just participated in this thread for the first time. What's it about?

It's my front porch. A sort of big wooden door on my house where you can post your 95 theses declaring your issues with me, OneBrow, or the Universe.

 

[babe]

Be careful about buying anything wholesale.

 

[babe]

Be careful about buying anything wholesale.

I'm pretty sure anyone who can swallow a whole banana does not have a brain, and just uses that space like a sort of pre-stomach.

 

[babe]

I'm pretty sure a woman who can swallow a whole banana does not have a brain, and just uses that space like a sort of pre-stomach.

Produce might be OK to buy wholesale, if you can re-sale it at a profit. But if you think you'll eat it all, you haven't understood a few things about nutrition. Variety is not only the spice of life, but the most essential element of nutrition.

 

[babe]

I'm pretty sure anyone who can swallow a whole banana does not have a brain, and just uses that space like a sort of pre-stomach.

Pretty sure fascination with swallow produce wholesale has a high correlation with dementia.

 

[babe]

dementia is a term for a loss of useful functions ordinary to the human mind. Prion disease damage to the brain can cause it, or loss of good circulation of blood and decreased glucose or oxygen can affect thinking or other functions of the brain as well. Sleep deprivation can, I think, do it too.

when driving, I have set some rules. I have to stop driving if a blink lasts long enough I miss one of the white center lines. . . .

 

[babe]

So anyway, I came here to say hello, and now I'm getting back on the road again.

 

[moevillini]

what song.

I'd guess the one I'd love to hear is "Bridge Over Troubled Waters".

I got you, Babe?

 

[babe]

I got you, Babe?

I used to really like that song, too.

But now when I hear it, I get this mental image of Sonny Bono smashing into that tree on the ski slopes, and I guess it sorta spoils it a bit.

 

[babe]

It'd be a shame to end this thread on that visual.

 

[babe]

and besides, a new page is only a post away!

 

[babe]

According to Ambrose Bierce, if I can remember the ditty correctly. . .

Experience is something to hope for.

To the traveler lost in the night and fog,
Mired neck-deep in an unwholesome bog,
Experience, like the rising dawn,
Reveals the path he should not have gone.

 

[babe]

well, here it is:

EXPERIENCE, n. The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
To one who, journeying through night and fog,
Is mired neck-deep in an unwholesome bog,
Experience, like the rising of the dawn,
Reveals the path that he should not have gone.
—Joel Frad Bink

https://www.thedevilsdictionary.com/?e=#EXPE_

 

[babe]

Some folks have questioned my authoritative use of the word "Idiot" in regard to Marx, Obama, and some JazzFanzers. I here reveal the source of my authority on the subject:

IDIOT, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions of opinion and taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.

https://www.thedevilsdictionary.com/?i=#IDI_

 

[babe]

I couldn't get this ditty to copy, but here is something fundamental to my whole world view:

https://www.thedevilsdictionary.com/?t=#!

TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.

The Enemy of Human Souls
Sat grieving at the cost of coals;
For Hell had been annexed of late,
And was a sovereign Southern State.

"It were no more than right," said he,
"That I should get my fuel free.
The duty, neither just nor wise,
Compels me to economize —
Whereby my broilers, every one,
Are execrably underdone.
What would they have? — although I yearn
To do them nicely to a turn,
I can't afford an honest heat.
This tariff makes even devils cheat!
I'm ruined, and my humble trade
All rascals may at will invade:
Beneath my nose the public press
Outdoes me in sulphureousness;
The bar ingeniously applies
To my undoing my own lies;
My medicines the doctors use
(Albeit vainly) to refuse
To me my fair and rightful prey
And keep their own in shape to pay;
The preachers by example teach
What, scorning to perform, I preach;
And statesmen, aping me, all make
More promises than they can break.
Against such competition I
Lift up a disregarded cry.
Since all ignore my just complaint,
By Hokey-Pokey! I'll turn saint!"
Now, the Republicans, who all
Are saints, began at once to bawl
Against his competition; so
There was a devil of a go!
They locked horns with him, tête-à-tête
In acrimonious debate,
Till Democrats, forlorn and lone,
Had hopes of coming by their own.
That evil to avert, in haste
The two belligerents embraced;
But since 'twere wicked to relax
A tittle of the Sacred Tax,
'Twas finally agreed to grant
The bold Insurgent-protestant
A bounty on each soul that fell
Into his ineffectual Hell.
—Edam Smith