Static! I hate static! Every once in a while, when using the Emerald Eye of Ekron, I get a static discharge that just frizzes up my luscious green locks! It's really quite disturbing!
And speaking of disturbing - have you been keeping up to date with Eastenders?
Young Den and Sharon getting it on! yick!
It's not quite as unpleaant a picture as Pat Butcher/ Evans/ whatever her sur name is right now, getting it on with ANYONE but it is close!
And did you know that Butch Patrick wasn't the first choice for Eddie on the Munsters?
Patrick Stewart is my favorite Captain in the Star Trek universe!
Sentients, do any of you know where I can obtain a fairly large supply of Daxamite Strength Preparation H?
Truth and Justice shall Prevail!
(as long as I sit on a cushon)
Preparation is a good thing if one is going to write comics for a living. One must do a lot of research and pre-writing to discover what the story is about and who the characters are before one ever attempts to write a script.
Speaking of cushions, how many throw pillows are too many on a sofa - I mean you don't want to appear fussy.
So, when was the last time anyone here got into a pillow fight?
I need to know if the Earth is flat?
Have you ever thought where "here" really is? I mean we're all sitting at computers across the world, and the world itself is constantly moving around the sun, which is itself probably moving at some velocity through our galaxy, which itself is probably moving outwards from the origin of the universe.
Semi,you are one fine young man.
I've been thinking about buying myself a new computer, maybe a nice laptop with all the bells and whistles.
Say, I'd like to wolf-whistle at that hottie, Kara - but I'm afraid she'd slap me silly.
No way Semi, I am a little overwhelmed by some of you guys post counts.
Should a field goal count if it goes in off the goal post?
Hmmm! Something else else tells me Semi is trying to score with the opposing team!
I accidentally ate a piece of drift wood once ... I thought it was a seal ...
<splash>
Is Seal ever gonna make a decent record again?
Should I take an aspirin if the seal on the bottle was broken?
I had a bottle broken over my head once.
what's a good cure for head lice?
I had a broken heart, because I lost my head once.
It's too bad shark's don't get lice. I'd sure like to see them try and itch. It would sure make the ocean a lot safer for the rest of us.
which is the biggest ocean?
The Pacific, the one Magellan and Sir Francis Drake crossed. However, Vasco da Gama didn't make it there.
what name sounds gayer ... Francis or Percival?
Originally posted by SharkLad:
what name sounds gayer ... Francis or Percival?
I think Dietrich sounds much gayer.
Originally posted by Outdoor Miner:
So, when was the last time anyone here got into a pillow fight?
The Amazing Cans got into a pillow fight over in the "Return of Dev-em" thread in Bits o' Legionnaire Business ...
That Selma Hayek has some amazing cans.
Yeah, from Dusk to Dawn, Selma was rockin'.
Selma Bouvier? When will Homer ever win her approval...
I did enjoy the Odyssey much more than the Illiad...
Does anyone ever read the Odyssey? I'm still waiting for the movie.
One of my friends just bought an Odyssey. It's not bad if you're into that sort of vehicle. Me, I much prefer my Escape!
I like my Silverado, Pickup trucks should have big beds.
Truth and Justice shall Prevail!
(Better for hauling)
Do pick-up lines really work?
doesn't anyone do any work on this board?
Nighty does LOTS of work on this board!
Why, just YESterday, he uploaded a bunch of Liberty Meadows avatars for me!!!
I think YESterday I may have straightened out one of the cuties in my harem. Such is the power of the Emerald Eye for the Gay Guy. (Of course it may have been the Bi-beer but I like my version better!)
E E
What is this all about capitalizing the "yes" in yesterday?
EMphasis, m'boy... EMphasis.
so what about the phasis part?
Looks like stasis?
you guys are keping to topic - bad posters, bad
just like IMO, most of Athena's stock
How many Coluans does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Silly, only Imskians can screw in a lightbulb!
So what is the record for posts to a single thread in a 24hour period.
Truth and Justice shall Prevail!
(don't even think about it, Harbinger!)
La -- a note to follow sew
I've been to LA. Not at all what I expected!
My next door neighbor is expecting.
My neighbor is a bitch!!!!
Have you ever heard Tina Turner's version of "The Bitch is Back"?
Who played Tina Turner in the movie "What's love got to do with it"?
Who loves to do it??
Pov, I love your new avatar!
Is new better than old? Sometimes I think we're too quick to dispense with the tried and true for the novelty of change.
I went to this novelty store today and got some of those fuzzy dice for my car!!!!
Originally posted by icefire:
I went to this novelty store today and got some of those fuzzy dice for my car!!!!
Let's start a poll - fuzzy butts or smooth ones?
Yesterday this light-pole on my street fell!
Fell Street is a one-way street running west in San Francisco, ending at Golden Gate Park.
I hate to go to the mall because people do not know how to park!
Do they still make Pall-Mall cigarettes?
Someone said that Quis & Icey would make a cute couple. I think they're right!
if Icefire and I had a child should we name him Quisfire or Icelet?
And who said we would make a cute couple????
I want to know if your child will be breast or bottle fed.
In the words of Robert Heinlein "Reality is far stranger than fiction."
Truth and Justice shall Prevail!
(or something like that)
wow 5 pages and 68 posts in one day. This is the most successful thread I've ever started.
Tip of the hat to Greybird. a comment he made in another thread gave me the idea.
and I believe this is post 69
How did Pov ever miss that???
Truth and justice shall Prevail!
(Slowing down, Pov.)
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq:
if Icefire and I had a child should we name him Quisfire or Icelet?
And who said we would make a cute couple????
Maybe they'll be twins and you can use both!
Oh, yeah, I'm the one that said you and Icey would make a cute couple. Semi and I have taken him in hand (get your minds out of the gutter, people! This is Semi's little brother we're discussing! Sheesh!) and we want to make sure he's happy and well taken care of. You're an attorney (like Semi ~ a plus in your column) so you can take good care of him.
Also you seem a little reserved and Icy is anything but that, so the two of you should complement each other.
Ooops! Sorry! Back to being off topic, wasn't that a great game last night?
Aw, poor Quis - so close, but no cigar. A very sorry case of postus-interruptus.
Jello pudding, yum...
Truth and Justice shall Prevail!
(HUH?)
Hey wasn't Jellystone where Yogi & BooBoo lived?
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
I like cigars
Me too
I fell down today and got a boo-boo! Someone want to kiss it?
The color yellow is pretty...
I always laughed at Deputy Dawg.
Laughter is good for the soul. Cliche is not.
Originally posted by Semi Transparent Fellow:
Laughter is good for the soul. Cliche is not.
I happen to like Quiche even if it is a bit cliche!
I like pears
ANK ands Numf can both get their minds right out of the guter now
I think a good pair always stands a woman in good stead.
blah blah blah
I'm quite drunk tonight
Originally posted by Harbinger:
blah blah blah
I'm quite drunk tonight Well then, I wish you lots of fun during and no discomfort after!
Disconfort? Oh, from being drunk! It took me a minute...
I don't feel any discomfort from being drunk, only being hungover.
This post has taken far toooo long to write, I think it's time I went to bed.
Good night all, hope your Friday night is as mad as mine!
Bxx
I have to work
tomorrow!!!!
I just puked!
I'm such a lightweight, I'm going to give up alcohol!
No! Really I will
Originally posted by Harbinger:
I just puked!
I'm such a lightweight, I'm going to give up alcohol!
No! Really I will Are yoU OKAY????
yeah thanks, I went to a leaving do tonight, had five drinks (large vodkas admittedly) and as I'm usually the taxi driver home I'mnot used to it.
oh well, better out than in. I feel much better for it now and will be the only one without a hangover tomorrow
Thank you Icey for asking, you are a sweetheart.
Originally posted by Harbinger:
yeah thanks, I went to a leaving do tonight, had five drinks (large vodkas admittedly) and as I'm usually the taxi driver home I'mnot used to it.
oh well, better out than in. I feel much better for it now and will be the only one without a hangover tomorrow
Thank you Icey for asking, you are a sweetheart. Don't tell anyone I have a rep you know but I really like you!!!!
Don't let it get to your head (either) but everyone likes you!
Originally posted by Harbinger:
Don't let it get to your head (either) but everyone likes you!
Thanks but not everyone!!!!!
everyone
groovy does!
Originally posted by Harbinger:
everyone [b]groovy does!
[/b]
can you get off topic now please, you're setting a bad example!
I only found out the other day that toffee is really little more than burnt sugar.
Umm...I wouldn't like to kiss KISS
edited: Because Vee should read previous posts in order not to duplicate the comment!
Koko Is Slinging Shit -- again
Kissing Is Semi's Specialty
The special of the day at work was clam chowder.
LABBY claimed to have sampled "bearded clam chowder"... but I'm kind of skeptical.
Lab does not appear to be enamored of the genre of music known as "New Wave".
If I were to make a milestone post here, no one would be able to congratulate me.
If I were to post a milestone here someone could possibly trip over it.
Alice Cooper was such a trip -- before I acquired taste.
My favorite character on "Alice" was Vera.
I had a crush on Alice Fonseca from Kindergarten thru 6th grade, then she moved away and I started having crushes on boys.
lil'rhino
Originally posted by Danny Blaine:
I like the B 52's
My current sig is from the B's "Give Me Back My Man".
lil'rhino
Bananas Foster is a great dessert & a fabulous drag name.
lil'rhino
My mother's friend, Amy, made me banana cake for my birthday (which was on Tuesday) but I have to save some for my father's birthday which is today.
I like cake.
luv,
-Su
"Your majesty, the people of Paris are rioting! They demand bread! What shall I tell them?"
"Let them eat cake."
-- An advisor's plea to Marie Antoinette, usually omitted from the more famous quote
I'll eat cake any day. I prefer chocolate though. I got some brownies with frosting that were like a cake. I also like cookies and a Thai dessert that has warm coconut milk and sugar with sweet corn. i think the thai word for dessert is something like kanom (nom sounds like gnome).
luv,
-Su
Whatever happened to Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner?
Somehow this thread makes more sense than almost any other. If you read it all the way through you may gain a form of 'Cosmic Awareness' but then again you may not.
I was always aware of Cosmic Boy but when he started wearing the black barely there thing, I became VERY Cosmic Boy aware.
Night Girl's bouffant scares me...
Bouffant's are a good place to hide things.
"You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" was a good play ...
Originally posted by SharkLad:
"You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" was a good play ...
I play well with others!!!!!
If Timmy fell into the well again, he can darn well stay there.
My two collies, Buster and Garbo, could help Timmy.
Greta just wanted to be alone.
Plays are never as much fun as musicals.
(PS Nice tie-in Icefire)
I hate wearing a tie in the summer ...
I never liked the taste of Mai Tais.
When I was a kid, I always wished Peter Pan would appear at my window and take me flying to Never-Never Land.
My frying pan is warped...
On Friday nights, I get home from work at warped speed.
Road kills can make a special family dinner, if they are picked over carefully to remove bits of gravel before placing in the oven.
Aaaahh, Family Dinners....
Takes me back to when my Awkward Pause powers were just beginning to develop.
Be very wary of "Family Values" groups.
Originally posted by SharkLad:
I hate wearing a tie in the summer ...
I've never seen a shark wear a tie. I saw one wear a lobster bib once though.
If there is crab lice, is there also lobster lice?
The guy next to me at work tells a really bad joke about "flied lice," but I think it's kind of offensive, and I don't remember the rest anyway.
Let's not talk about work in the middle of a three-day weekend.
Jan Brady was a middle child
spare the rod, spoil the child ...
Can you spare a popsicle?
Popscicles are yummy on a hot summer day...
Today is going to be a lazy day for me.
I always feel guilty when I'm lazy? What's the point of that Puritain work ethic anyway? It doesn't make me work, it just makes me feel guilty.
The Puritans as a whole could be defined by the word "Guilt"
How does one define "sexy"?
Originally posted by Danny Blaine:
How does one define "sexy"?
Legion World posters such as Danny Blaine are very yummy!!!!
I would like a DOnna Troy poster, please...
Troy is a very gay name for a guy ...
Troy Stewart was a Legionnaire...
Originally posted by Danny Blaine:
Troy Stewart was a Legionnaire...
a very gay-sounding Legionnaire ...
I once created a gay character named Chorus...
W.C. Fields was considered quite a character - but I thought he was a major prick.
Mae West was quite a character - but she was before her time.
Before I have sex, I make sure to wash myself thoroughly ...
Wash that woman right out of your hair, and come on over to the designer print side.
I still don't print very neatly
Before I go to work each day, my bed is made very neatly. And that's the truth.
Truth is stranger than fiction...
Has anyone read L'Etranger in french?
She;ll have fun, fun, fun, 'till her daddy takes the t'bird away.
Thunderbird was from another group of heroes!
Speaking of groups of heroes, Thunderbolts is coming back in February!
Who were Thuderbolt & Lightfoot?
Gordon Lightfoot is one of my favorite singers. But I never saw him perform in Canada. The first time I saw him live was at the Flint Center in Santa Clara, CA.
I never saw the Flintstones movie..
I never saw the Rolling Stones -- in person anyway.
Eric
Rolling Rock doesn't taste half bad, as generic beers go.
Is the Rock as bad a wrestler as he is an actor?
Icefire likes wrestling threads...
I've started very few threads on these boards ...
Fall leaves are starting to show here in CIncinnati
New England is spectacular in the fall.
Truth and Justice shall Prevail!
(after a drive through the fall countryside)
I've never been to New England...
It's worth the trip, even if you don't bring a camera.
Truth and Justice shall Prevail!
(memories improve with age, photo's don't)
We bought a new digital camera...
I live in New England and back at work now.
I am glad to see everyone is having fun with this thread.
Right now I am listening to Milk Shakin' Mama by Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks
Dan Hicks was a co-founder of one of the first San Francisco bands, The Charlatans.
Dwight Hicks was a great defensive back.
"Hurt" by Johnny Cash should have won more MTV Video Awards
I wouldn't be hurting if I had more cash
I once dated a guy named Cash.
I LMAO at the movie Tango and Cash.
Have you ever danced a tango?
well, I found this history of the tango using a Google search
Originally, the tango dance developed as an "acting out" of the relationship between the prostitute and her pimp. In fact, the titles of the first tangos referred to characters in the world of prostitution. These tango songs and dances had no lyrics, were often highly improvised, and were generally regarded as obscene. Further, the early tangos not only represented a kind of sexual choreography, but often a duel, a man-to-man combat between challengers for the favors of a woman, that usually ended in the symbolic death of an opponent. Sexual and evil forces were equally celebrated in this ritual. During this time, the wailing melancholy of the bandoneon (an accordion-like instrument imported to Argentina from German in 1886) became a mainstay of tango music.
The last time I tangoed I was in Paris, and very drunk.
The last time I was very drunk I was on Boubon Street
The last time I was very drunk should never be spoken of again.
People who can't or won't speak were once called dumb. Now they are mute.
Is this an example of political correctness gone amok?
The Ranger got drunk at SHAKES once. God, I hope that never happens again.
The Ranger shot up SHAKES once, god we hope that doesn't happen again.
Those bouncing heads are hard to reply to.
some people get harder than others
Some people are harder to get than others.
comments like that have lead to flame wars. But it won't here on Legion World
I attended a wedding in Hudson, Mass.
lil'rhino
Goldie Hawn was once married to one of the Hudson Brothers.
My grandfather drove a Hudson... right into the Hudson River.
Truth and Justice shall Prevail!
(flame wars over a play on words?)
River Phoenix was so cute!!!!!
The Ohio River keeps floods easily...
I've been unable to post on some ngs due to flood control.
Control was one of the first Janet Jackson songs I remember.
I am a huge fan of Jackson Browne!!!!
I have a large fan blowing air on me right now...
I have a large.....oh! Never mind!
A mind is a terrible thing to waste...
Teenage Wasteland is a great song ...
Wasteland from DC was too odd a comic to succeed.
I've heard that the beltway in Washington, DC is a very frustrating highway ...
(It is. Trust me.)
I always found it interesting that George Washington freed his slaves when he died, but Thomas Jefferson didn't.
Slave to the Rhythm by Grace Jones was written & produced by Trevor Horn who fronted the Buggles & The Art of Noise.
lil'rhino
I don't even know what that is.
Ignorance is bliss
or so they say
Ignorance of the law is no excuse
I wonder what the laws are regarding suspect's rights in the world of the Legion.
hmm assuming that parts of the US Constitution are incorporated into the UP, I imagine that having a Titan interrogate a suspect would violate the right against self-incrimination
(I wonder about the right to remain silent in the Legion... I mean, they draft children.)
The Titanic was a movie that I never saw but I laughed the previews. Everytime I saw that Leonardo DiCaprio kid I couldn't help but imagine him as the retard in What's Eating Gilbert Grape-- which I only saw because I was on a 14 hour plane ride and I got bored.
I've watched "the Spanish Prisoner" and "Waking Ned Devine" on different plane rides and I saw "Happy Gilmore" on a bus to New York City
I went to New York City last fall for a deposition.
I thought that was you, but wasn't positive so I didn't say hi. Maybe next time!
lil'rhino
What gave it away - the fact that to cover up my nodding off, I'd fade away?
The topics on most threads seem to fade away after a few posts, but not on this one. Why is that?
That reminds me, I've got to take my tax return to the post-office today.
Huh? <looks at calender>
Oh, by the way, Next years fashions were originally designed in 1968.
In 1968, Canada was 101 years old.
There were 101 Dalmations
How did the dalmation become the official fire-station dog?
Originally posted by Almost But Not Quite New Kid:
Huh? <looks at calender>
Think extensions.
Semi,
Are you saying you have extentions? Are they for your hair or ...?
No, Quis, all my hair is my own, and I have a full head. I was talking filing deadline extensions granted routinely by the IRS.
Originally posted by Semi:
Originally posted by Almost But Not Quite New Kid:
[b] Huh? <looks at calender>
Huh? There's an official extension for Fashions?
So ABNQNK, what'd you think about those new stretch fashions?
Not for me, they would make me look like a bad Chuck Taine impersonator.
Have you ever been a female impersonator?
Actually he's a Human Being impersonator.
Truth and Justice shall Prevail!
(little trouble making Nasshead)
Sentient, just who are you calling schizoid?
Truth and Justice shall Prevail!
(I'm not crazy, I'm a motorboat, Brrrrrrap)
Not who, but what -- your comment.
Originally posted by Semi:
No, Quis, all my hair is my own, and I have a full head. I was talking filing deadline extensions granted routinely by the IRS.
(initiate sacrasm mode)
Really??
(deactivate sacrasm mode)
anal retentive lawyers unite!!!!
And just how full is that head (of hair)?
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq:
Originally posted by Semi:
[b] No, Quis, all my hair is my own, and I have a full head. I was talking filing deadline extensions granted routinely by the IRS.
Really??
(deactivate sacrasm mode)
anal retentive lawyers unite!!!!
And just how full is that head (of hair)? [/b]You're mean. I'm telling your mom.
Originally posted by Almost But Not Quite New Kid:
Originally posted by Space Ranger:
[b] Actually he's a Human Being impersonator.
Truth and Justice shall Prevail!
(little trouble making Nasshead)
It was just after I had come out to my college friends. We were hanging around. Adam got pissed off about being teased and Said loudly "F**k you all!" Very quietly, I said "promise?" Everyone, including Adam busted out laughing. Adam then said "F**k you all except Rob!"
No wonder you're mean. Bad Adam.
Well get working on your silk thong dance routine and maybe Icey will take care of that.
Sentient, please note that officially, topic drift number 200 has just occurred on this thread.
Truth and Justice shall Prevail!
(which means we have stayed on topic)
Noted, Stamped, Filed, Folded, Spindled, and Mutilated
Legalize, Don't you just love it?
That's not Legalese. That is Bureaucratese. (SP? word?)
Legalese would go like this:
Let it be known to all and everyone, that on this date, Space Ranger (SR) did hereby officially notify the Legion World Message Board (LWMB) that whereas the official topic number for the Official Topic Drift Thread having reached 200, then the thread has acchieved its stated purpose of topic drift and thereby has stayed on topic.
The Supreme Court just took a step towards legalizing it (or to be correct, abstained from taking a step to further criminalize it).
What did Diane Ross and the Supremes legalize?
I just want to legislate...
A better way of livin'
I just want to legislate...
A better way of...life!
What ever happened to Katherine Ross
She got "stopped" in the name of Ross.
I got stopped for speeding - once.
Originally posted by Semi:
I got stopped for speeding - once.
Insert Vee's "Sing A Song" post here ===>
"I'm just leavin' that up to you..u..uuu!"
Well, I should be leaving since this is now 1300, but since you helped me, I'll stick around to get you ... er...to 2000.
Ok, I'll turn you about.
Never been told I was unfair.
Mirror, mirror on the wall
Who's the fairest of them all?
Semi is I can attest
In Varalent's book, he is the best!
Poetry is the language of the heart, they say.
Well, obviously, you got Keats'.
If poetry be the food of love, eat on.
Or something like that.
I ate two peanut butter sandwiches for lunch today
It's not lunch time yet on the West Coast.
I've never been to a west coast, so seeing the sun set instead of rise over the ocean would be a trip!
lil'rhino
I heard a joke about rhinos, but now I forget it. Darn!
Elephants never forget! But then again, elephants don't drink...
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.
You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think
Horse Racing, the sport of kings.
I like the Kingdom Hearts video game. All the 3-D Disney characters are cool. The sequel should be out next year. Yay!
Originally posted by Semi:
My kingdom for a horse.
Not a gelding I hope!
The Eternal didn't do very well for Marvel.
Marvel used to be Timely Comics
Now that my regular store has closed, I don't get my comics is a timely manner
I have two regular stores - which one I go to depends on my mood.
There are a few stores in the Boston area. I have a pull list at one and that is the one I go to. I'll occassionally pop into the the others if I am looking for a Trade paperback or a back issue.
I like Boston a lot. Used to go there on business frequently and of course always passed through on my way to Provincetown.
I've only gone to P-town a couple of times but just as day trips. It is nice down there and I probably would enjoy an extended stay there.
One time it was to take some friends visiting from Scotland. They were blown away by the openness there.
Tea dance at the Boatslip. I haven't been there since the early 90's.
I've led a sheltered life, I guess. Never been to Provincetown.
But I bet you've been to Key West.
I used to like Barry better, but my favorite Flash is now Wally West
Barry Manilow use to play the piano for Bette Midler when she sang at the Continental Baths in New York City.
For those who don't know, the Continental Baths was one of the bathhouses where men used to go to "meet" other men.
I think you meant "meat" other men.
Elephants never forget! But then again, elephants don't drink...
Actually, elephants *do* drink. It's a problem in some places where they make a type of alcoholic beverage (rice wine or something). The elephants love the stuff so much that they will stampede through villages, trampling any people or structures in their path, to get to the booze and suck it down.
And now for something completely different:
http://members.wnonline.net/sjohnston/missileguidance.html (if you can get the sound file to load it is worth listening to).
Hmm, I don't think we carry rice wine at SHAKES. Probably a good thing!
Originally posted by Su:
Elephants never forget! But then again, elephants don't drink...
And now for something completely different: http://members.wnonline.net/sjohnston/missileguidance.html
(if you can get the sound file to load it is worth listening to). This info of course, has just made my week
Thanks Su!
Guess I'll have to reconsider all those stories about drunks seeing pink elephants!
Are there any stories about Pink elephants seeing drunks? I seem to remember an old Harlan Ellison story...
What about drunk pink flamingos?
The Pink Flamingo
created at the Fountainbleu Hotel-Miami Beach
- 1 1/2 oz Vodka
- 1 1/2 oz Cointreau
- Orange Juice
- ice
- dash of Sloe Gin
serve in highball or collins glass.
lil'rhino
I imagine cosmic boy can get a magno ball pretty high.
I know I can get Cosmic Boy's magno balls pretty high with my Eye
I spy with my little eye, something that is green.
The I Spy movie wasn't as good as the TV show.
Usually when they make a movie from a tv show, it's not very good. However, I did enjoy the Lost in Space Movie. Did you hear, btw, that Fox has commmissioned a pilot for a new Lost in Space series. Apparently, there will be no Doctor Smith character. Although this might be heresey to some of you, I say great - I hated the Doctor Smith character with a passion. I watched that show in its first run as a kid, and I hated how that simpering coward became the focal point of the series. (Is this a bit too much for the off topic thread?)
My high school physics teacher was a dead ringer for Dr. Smith.
But did he shy away from discussion of entropy, enthalpy and diffusion coefficients?
Well, who wouldn't. It made me switch from Chem Eng. to Economics in 3rd year of undergrad.
my boobs are mummified and 3,000 years old ...
Well that's a good example of topic drift - caught up by the Gulf Stream.
I've got the flu and have sneezed so much my nostrils are all red raw...
Originally posted by Semi:
Did you hear, btw, that Fox has commmissioned a pilot for a new Lost in Space series. Apparently, there will be no Doctor Smith character.
I heard he's being replaced by Bill O'Rielly.
Originally posted by Almost But Not Quite New Kid:
Originally posted by Semi:
[b] Did you hear, btw, that Fox has commmissioned a pilot for a new Lost in Space series. Apparently, there will be no Doctor Smith character.
Tell me it's not true. Will we also have Penny's space monkey?
I had a teacher in 4th grade who sounded almost exactly like Mr. Garrison from South Park.
I wish I had a reserved parking spot for my car.
I wish that I were reserved. Being outgoing sometimes creates dilemmas (especially when I can't spell).
Originally posted by Semi:
Originally posted by Almost But Not Quite New Kid:
[b]
Originally posted by Semi:
[b] Did you hear, btw, that Fox has commmissioned a pilot for a new Lost in Space series. Apparently, there will be no Doctor Smith character.
I heard he's being replaced by Bill O'Rielly. [/b]
Where's KOKO been Lately?
Truth and Justice shall Prevail!
(or Jinx for that matter?)
Have you not been keeping up with the tag team threads Ranger? I've got them locked up in my Swiss Chalet, bwahahahahahahahaha!!!
Hmmm... "S" "Sonnie Boy" "Sonnie Saccev" "Sonnie Bozzo" All with the same avitar? And people think I've got an MPPD problem?
Free KOKO and Jinx!
Originally posted by Almost But Not Quite New Kid:
Free KOKO and Jinx!
With twelve tokens from Kellogs Cornflakes!
John Cusack was in a movie about the Kellogg Sanitarium (more of a health spa as we know them today)
Hmmm... I wonder if Sonnie would accept a coupon for a mudbath in "Wellsville"
Free KOKO and Jinx!
Phil Jimenez draws a lovely Wonder Woman ...
Jose Jiminez was supposed to be a Baseball Player. I think it was all a gag but who can be sure?
"Who's on First" was a classic gag routine by Abbott and Costello
Does anyone remember Meet the Abbotts?
Starship Troopers was my favorite bug movie.
Starship Trooper is the best Yes song.
don't you hate it when you get a song stuck in yur head?
It's even worse with an arrow stuck in your head.
I'm a wild and crazy guy ...
Donde esta la sopa? La sopa esta en el bano. <Steve Martin was the best travelling spanish lesson salesman ever.>
Is that a sopa ona ropa? (Sorry couldn't resist
)
Well, who could resist you?
Voltage over current, every time.
E=MC2 except in the case of Selinium Lasers.
A, E, I, O , U, and sometimes Y
There are ten vowels in the English language. Not five. Ten.
Juan
(This is actually true!)
Why, what a coincidence - that's how many fingers I have.
That's odd that's exactly how many toes I have!
Why, could we be the same species?
Mixed doubles are always fun.
O'Really! (definitely not to be confused with O'Reily)
Actually I think O'Rielly would frown on Jell-o Rasslin' in any form.
Are you sure about jello? What about butterscotch pudding?
I hear that crisco rasslin' can be fun, with the right tag-team partner of course. Jiggleles help!
I'm afraid crisco wrassling's a little to hard-core for SHAKES.
Okay, how about Chili Rasslin'. The Ranger would go for that.
We'd have to keep him out of SHAKES for a day or two after that.
I think we could talk Cobie into sending him on a deep space mission.
It's unlikely that he'd run out of fuel.
You'd think by now we would have developed an alternate form of fuel that is better for our environment. But then again the oil tycoons are making so much money off of their wares that they probably want to prevent such invention until they can find a way to profit from it.
luv,
-Su
my neice loves the game "zoo tycoon" ...
I want to be a tycoon with a zoo - but not like Michael Jackson.
What did the lady say to Michael Jackson at the beach?
Michael, you're in my son!
lil'rhino
Where do we go from here?
Do you know the way to San Hose?
Who liked it when they made Uncle Sam into the Patriot?
The Who never sang Uncle Sam.
The second amendment to the US Constitution reads:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the
right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
This has been interperted to mean that individuals have a right to own guns
What do you call a batallion composed solely of lesbians? Militia Etheridge.
Sentients, I often wonder if intelligent life is ever going to be found, anywhere in the universe.
Truth and Justice shall prevail!
(including here on Earth)
I've never really liked Wonder Woman....
I've never liked posting twice in a row on a thread as it is so obviously just a blatant attempt to bump up my post count....
I have let my post count go to hell...
Hell is going to bed on Sunday night, realizing that it's Monday morning that will greet you.
I have let my mind wonder....
And in yet another blatant attempt at Post Count Stuffing (
) I'm brought back to my original statement - I never really liked Wonder Woman!
Is there anything else you'd like to stuff, Sonnie?
Shocked at the fact that I thought SOnnie might like turkey and stuffing?
How long a list am I allowed?
Originally posted by Sonnie Bloke:
How long a list am I allowed? This kind of scuppers your more innocent suggestions of Turkey and Stuffing Danny, sorry!
And had been quicker to reply I might have added -
I DO love to post twice in one thread too!
Hee hee
Michelle Shocked's best (and maybe only album) came out of her protest actions at the Democratic Convention in San Francisco.
I never really liked Michelle Shocked either....
sorry
Is there any connection between WOnder Woman and Michelle Shocked?
Other than I never really liked them? Not that I know off....
I've never heard of Michelle Shocked...
Lucky you
Sorry Semi, really I am....
I generally consider myself a very lucky person...
Consideration for other's feelings is a much forgotten art....
(normally by me...oooops!)
I had forgotten how much I like your posts, SOnnie...
More more More was a cute disco song...
Echo Beach was a cute indie rock kind of song...
Echo DiSavoy was a character on One Life to Live many years ago...
I preferred Johnny Cash's cover of 'One' by U2 to the original....
I have always thought of U2 as pretentious. I'm not quite sure why.
I think U2 have sported a fine range of mullets over the years... and a perm too
"The Mullets" was cancelled after only two broadcasts - and I'm not sure why it took that long.
All my favorite shows end up getting cancelled eventally...
My favorite shows tend to get scheduled against each other.
Yeah, like the Match Game and Concentration
Concentration can easily be broken when you're horny
Being horny makes it difficult to concentrate unless you're concentrating on a good subject for your horniness!
I'm sorry what were you saying? I've lost my concentration
Lost in Translation is supposed to be a great movie ...
When I have trouble concentrating, I have a foolproof method of dealing with the problem... I go to sleep.
That's what I always wanted to be - a translator. I was really good in languages and was all set to get a degree in translation, but my parents talked me out of it. I should have gone for it.
I once knew a girl who spoke 37 different languages, she could say NO and GO AWAY in all of them.
C'est dommage, ça!
I ow-knay ow-hay to-ay eak-spay in-ay ig-Pay atin-Lay
If you have to deal with being stereotyped, the "Latin Lover" thing is not a bad way to go.
I'd like a Latin Lover. Or maybe two of them, if there's a special on.
Antonio Sabato and.....Vee!
Vee and Semi posted (seperately) the same entry in the Official Tag Team Thread.
Sympatico?
Oops I meant the LMB Tell a Story Thread
"Of" was the logical next post.
I was simply offering up my services, Quis, since Semi seemed to want a pair.
Originally posted by Vee:
I was simply offering up my services, Quis, since Semi seemed to want a pair.
Semi already has a very nice pair...!
Puppys will lick anything. My lord!!!
this topic needs to drift more
Driftwood homes are often structurally unsound. But cheap to replace when they fall down.
That reminds me of snow drifts, Quislet. I finished that book you recommended, AN African in Greenland. Rather sad, sometimes, the way things were for many of the people but the author certainly brought an open mind to everything he encountered. The sex and drinking was pretty intense! But what really got me was the food: boiled meat, raw meat, raw organ meat and the special treat: reindeer fat in coffee with sugar.
I wish he'd do a sequel.
I can't wait for the holidays to be over with.
How's that for controversy?
I love the holidays - big old tree, people over, dinners and dinners and dinners. Rearranging the living room to fit the tree is the best part.
Good time to buy new furniture
Steinfeld? I'm not familar with that show.
I have an album by They Might Be Giants. On the album there is a recording made of this woman who called their Dial-a-Song line. She got their name wrong in two different ways. First as There May Be Giants and then They Must Be Giants.
Her best line was "Don't blame me if the guy's a nut!"
I think a "rule" of this thread should be to not look back but to continue on into the future.
the future is now!
Great, isn't it!
You're older than you've ever been
And now you're even older
And now you're even older
And now you're even older
You're older than you've ever been
And now you're even older
And now you're older still
Time is marching on
And time is still marching on
This day will soon be at an end
And now it's even sooner
And now it's even sooner
And now it's even sooner
This day will soon be at an end
And now it's even sooner
And now it's sooner still
You're older than you've ever been
And now you're even older
And now you're even older
And now you're even older
You're older than you've ever been
And now you're even older
And now you're older still
They Might Be Giants
Methinks Quis, Esq like They Might Be Giants somewhat
And why not?
I like Shakespere, and Steppenwolf, but I doubt they'd go well together. Hmmm... The Tempest with Magic Carpet Ride playing in the background... Nah.
Ultra Boy's real name is Jo Nah ...
Now I am curious about it. In the same way that I am curious to know if Lizzie Borden actually did kill her father and stepmother or not.
I often wonder about the frame of mind that drives people to walk to the South Pole?
Do you agree I have too much time on my hands that I think about these things?
Grumble, Grumble, Grumble.
The curmudgeon factor seems to be increasing.
It must be the effect of the gray kryptonite!
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Why did the chicken cross the road? Was it really because it was stapled to the pedestrian?
I haven't shopped at Staples in years.
I once had a nice stapler. But, it was stolen by a chicken.
Have you guys seen the new identity theft commercials from Citibank? They are hilarious...
Remember when The Chicken was charged with assualt?
I prefer original recipe.
My recipe for Manicotti does not include chicken..
Super Chicken is a very funny cartoon from Jay Ward Studios. The folks who brought you Rocky & Bullwinkle.
Were Boris and Natasha Married? I always thought so.
They should have done a live action film of Fractured Fairy Tales.
I was watching "Foul Play" the other day. That was a funny film. Goldie Hawn was told to "Beware the Dwarf!" The part I thought was real funny when I first saw the movie all these many years ago, was the two old ladies playing scrabble.
You see an "F" on the board and the first lady takes a "UCK" from her tray. Then you see the other add a "ER" to the "UCK" on the Board. The first player then puts down "MUTHER" in front of an "FU". This is challenged by the second lady as being a hyphenated word. The first lady takes it back, admitting she was trying to sneak the word in.
my favorite board game is Payday ...
Payday aint' nuthin' but a candy bar.
White Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups... Yum...
I've had to give up candy - yesterday was my last day (I think).
Only days ago, yesterday was the future...
Yesterday
Beatles
Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they're here to stay
Oh, I believe in yesterday
Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be
There's a shadow hanging over me
Oh, yesterday came suddenly
{Refrain} Why she had to go
I don't know she wouldn't say
I said something wrong,
now I long for yesterday
Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away
Oh, I believe in yesterday
{Refrain}
Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away
Oh, I believe in yesterday
Mm mm mm mm mm
Look at all those M&M's in the last line.
A bulk candy store near me has M&Ms in, like, 20 colors!
Eric
A bulk grain and feed store near me doesn't stock M&M's at all.
I once worked for the M&M Mars Company!!!!
I can only get to Legion World while I am at work
How do you work when you're at Legion World?
I guess that is the new definition of a fun job.
My job is fun - at lunch and when I'm leaving for the evening.
I sometimes wonder how I would look in an evening gown ...
Probably like Roseanne Barr, if you're built like a typical shark.
Originally posted by icefire:
I once worked for the M&M Mars Company!!!!
"Melts in your mouth, not in your hands."
[snicker(s)]
I don't like Snickers. I prefer Milky Way.
(ooh, that sounds dirty, too.
)
I prefer Three Musketeers, but only if I'm in the right mood.
The rest of the time, I crave Mounds.
(You know what they say... sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't!)
I feel like a nut when I'm talking to my dogs and I don't know someone is listening. I have to explain I don't always talk like that.
Ah old ad campaigns.
Who remembers the Frito Bandito?
Ayiee, yie-yie-yieeee,
I am dee Frito Bandito.
I love Frito's Corn Chips,
I love dem I do.
I love Frito's Corn Chips,
I take dem from you.
I do remember having the Frito Bandito Eraser that stuck on your pencil.
Of course I can now see the harm of this "innocuous" ethnic stereotype.
Or Pepsodent:
You'll wonder where the yellow went,
When you brush your teeth with pepsodent.
Grunt and grumble
Rant and rave
Shoot the brute
Some Burva Shave
The classic:
"Winston tastes good
Like a cigarette should"
And the response to the criticism about the improper use of a conjunction (or was it a preposition):
"What do you want,
Good grammar, or good taste?"
I wish I were an Oscar Mayer weiner.
But, you are STU, you are!
Only until I change my avatar again.
I guess this has stopped drifting
Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream!
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrilly
Life is but a dream!
Shake, Shake your Bootie
At SHAKES II
Too ra lu ra lu la, too ra lu ra la...
La la la la ... lemon
La la la la ... lightbulb
La la la la ... lampost
La la la la ... lump in my oatmeal
The Starland Vocal band once did a version of "La Bamba" that was lame even by soft rock standards.
Rachel Dratch is frighteningly effective as an old man.
I just finished reading Tom Shales' book on SNL.
SNL === Slightly Naked Lad?
If I ever need a "drag" name, I'm using "Wanda Copperfield".
Think of it in the form of a question...
Helena Handbasket is a drag name I thought up, but will never use.
I always liked Helen Waite, myself.
This was the biggest success any of my topics ever had. *Sniff* I miss it now that it is dead.
If I ever need a drag name, I would be Sofonda Butts.
I can't believe that my cousin still waits under the Christmas tree for Santa Claus to show up! And what makes it worse, he's already in high school!
What if Fran Tarkenton and Fran Drescher had a baby?
My mom really likes Ferrante & Teicher.
When I'm a Dad, I'm going to call my wife my sugar momma
Single dads get a bad rap...
Rap is not "music." You need rhythm AND melody!
Melody is a hottie who lives down the street! I like when she wears mini-skirts
!
Melody from Josie and the Pussycats sure did love to giggle.
la dee dah dee dah!
there's a jingle on the radio that goes something like that.
La dee dah dee dah!
Old cartoons with a western theme sure loved the song "I've got Spurs that Jingle Jangle Jingle"
I had a thought for a new topic 10 minutes ago, and now it's gone.
I bet all the editors who turned down "Gone with the Wind" felt really P'ed when it went on to sell however many squillion copies...
I wonder what Mindy Cohn (of Facts of Life fame) is doing today?
Who would you rather be Mindy Cohn or Roy Cohn?
I've never been to a Roy Rogers before.
(morning Quis!)
Is it sad that the king of Quiz (quis) has died and gone to the great joke house in the sky.
(Bob Monkhouse for those who dont know)
what do you call a man withno arms or legs floating on the sea? BOB!!
Faraway, I thought you were on vacation!
it looks like Beagle 2 has gone belly up. What do you expect from a scientist based in Somerset?
it looks like Beagle 2 has gone belly up. What do you expect from a scientist based in Somerset?
it looks like Beagle 2 has gone belly up. What do you expect from a scientist based in Somerset?
ooh ooh ohh, can you feel the force?
Welcome to the topic drift thread, grazzendeecee.
I don't know if you got an official welcome thread of your own
Originally posted by Harbinger:
I see no evil.
Originally posted by Harbinger:
I see no evil.
Originally posted by Harbinger:
I see no evil.
A near-sighted Carggite!
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq:
Welcome to the topic drift thread, grazzendeecee.
I don't know if you got an official welcome thread of your own
From the looks of this thread, yesterday was Triad Appreciation Day.
I appreciate our furnace this morning because it's COLD OUT THERE!
I like puns. Like:
It was so cold I saw a rooster with a capon and a bee with a Yellowjacket.
Did I get a welcome thread? Its so long ago now I really can't remember
Hm... should I wear the blue shirt or the red one or the black one with ornage stripes or the green one with the nice collar or...
Lots of people who work at Hot Topic wear dog collars. (Great store for Nightmare Before Christmas, Muppets, Care Bears and Rainbow Brite stuff.)
Hey! I work at Hot Topic.
I'm not working anywhere today. It's Saturday. (Ooh, I take that back. I have an interview for a freelance story. Rats.)
KB Toys just filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Chapter 11 of the book I'm currently reading is titled "Feng Shui and your clutter".....
Gunn: We could switch if you don't like the, y'know, the, kung pao or whatever.
Wesley: Feng shui.
Gunn: Right. What's that mean again?
Wesley: That people will believe anything.
I'm still waiting for Book 11 of the series I'm reading, and it doesn't look like it will end 'til at least Book 15.
I picke up a book of lesbian pulp fiction from the '50s and '60s at work for some friends of mine.
But if chapter 7 is bankruptcy, and chapter 11 is bankruptcy ....
then what about chapters 8, 9, and 10???
Chapter 8 is for opening a bank. Chapter 9 is for when the pipes rupture. Chapter 10 is for cookie; that's good enough for me.
I wonder, who did write The Book of Love.
I love Indian food! (Had it for the first time tonight.)
Originally posted by Outdoor Miner:
I wonder, who did write The Book of Love.
Dr. Ruth? Or maybe Kurt Cobain.
My cousin's pet's name is Ruth!
My dad had a dog who would go into his garden, dig up a carrot or two, and eat them. She was good in that she didn't dig up all the carrots at one time. She did this on her own too.
There's a bag of carrots in our refrigerator that has been there for quite awhile. I'm afraid to touch them.
There's stuff in my freezer from before I was born! (Well maybe not that long but you get the idea!
)
A friend of mine has something called the Ceremonial Beer, which is a can of Budweiser he's had ever since he's been living on his own.
Wonder what it's "Born On" date would be?
I've never washed my right cheek after this girl I had a crush on in 11th grade kissed me there...
I've never had a real kiss before...
When I was a kid, the family took a vacation to Hersey PA. We toured the Hersey Chocolate factory. There were two woman whose job it was to watch all the Hersey Kisses go by and make sure they were wrapped properly. Man what a boring job that must be.
Anne McCaffery's Son has taken over writing the Dragon Riders of Pern Books. I wonder if that will work out? It never seems to be as good when a second author takes over something like that.
Kind of like with The Family Circus and Hagar the Horrible...
Anyone seen the online cartoon Lil' Pimp? It's described as a cross between The Family Circus and Iceberg Slim novels.
I'd surf the 'net for porn, but my pop-up blocker keeps killing my erection.
You know, most anti-depressants have the side effect of killing your libido, which probably makes a person more depressed.
Spam currently accounts for 40% of all e-mails, according to research.
Opening your email and finding nothing but spam is depressing
I can't stand Spam, but I actually like this stuff called Potted Meat Food Product.
I hate opening my e-mail and finding nothing by Potted Meat Food Product.
But Harry Potter doesn't have anything to do with potted meat.
When I was young we used to go skating on Potter's Pond. I actually never learned to skate (ice or roller). When my friends would play hockey, everyone else skated and I ran around on the ice in my boots.
The UConn skating rink doesn't allow anyone on the ice without skates
Why don't they create characters based on skates? We've had Black Manta and Manta of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard, but the mantas close relatives the skates are ignored! Unfair!
One of the stars in Super Mario 64 is called "The Manta Ray's Reward"
And M64 was 100 times better than Mario Sunshine.
I interviewed Mario Van Peebles for a story once. He was in a really bad movie (I can't remember the name) but was quite the hunk.
I thought the teenaged Pebbles Flintstone was quite a hottie.
One of my favorite lines from Dr. Who has the Doctor ranting that it is time "we start using our intelligence" and Leela asks "Do you think that's a good idea?"
Arguing with your Doctor is rarely a good idea, especially if he has a syringe in his hand!
"Don't worry... you'll only feel a small prick!"
Only a small one? Why?
WHY DO FOOLS FALL IN LOVE
Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers
ooooo wah, oooooo wah, ooooo wah, oooooo wah,
ooooo wah, oooooo wah, Why do fools fall in love
Why do birds sing so gay
And lovers await the break of day?
Why do they fall in love?
Why does the rain fall from up above?
Why do fools fall in love?
Why do they fall in love?
Love is a losing game,
Love can be a shame I
know of a fool, you see,
For that fool is me!
Tell me why, tell me why?
Repeat first verse
Why does my heart skip a crazy beat?
For I know it will reach defeat!
Tell me why, tell me why?
Why do fools fall in love?
I just did the stair stepper, so I'm feeling a bit of the agony of de feet.
That pun touched my very sole.
Is it a filleted sole, or do you just eat it whole? (I don't know a lot about monkey eating habits.)
It's a whole sole, served in a warm banana reduction, with fresh coconut strips. Very tasty.
Warm Banana Reduction sounds like a great name for a Japanese psychedelic band.
I don't like to think about reducing long, thick, cylindrical objects.
But extending long-thread-shaped-objects to 600 replies is fun
I think there was a millipede once with 375 pairs of legs, so it would have over 700 in total, which is more than 600.
In a field that was dominated by male programmers, Centipede was one of the first blockbuster arcade games created by a woman.
You can rent video games at Blockbuster.
Video rental chains all blow chunks and you should support your mom and pop stores.
Especially since they're more likely than Blockbuster to carry the adult films we all love so dearly.
Why are they called "adult" films when there is nothing mature about them?
Edit: It was kind of you edit your post, STU. But you didn't have to do it for my sake. I thought it was funny.
Why are they called adult films when younger poeple often enjoy them more often than older people do?
(By young I mean 20 and 30 somethings. I still have that much innocence left, at least!
)
Originally posted by Outdoor Miner:
Why are they called "adult" films when there is nothing mature about them?
Edit: It was kind of you edit your post, STU. But you didn't have to do it for my sake. I thought it was funny.
By "you" I meant "one" -- you know, "you" in a more general sense... so I didn't want it to be taken the wrong way.
But I can certainly edit it back if, er, you don't mind.
Go with whichever version you thought was funnier.
Eh, I'll just leave it.
I've got lots more funnies where that came from.
I could very well be the last person on the planet who hasn't seen Lord of the Rings: Return of the King yet.
Who needs to leave his shire?
Kelly Rowland was better in FREDDY Vs. JASON than Beyonce was in AUSTIN POWERS: GOLDMEMBER.
I wish there were a Beyonce game for the XBox.
I wish there was an XBeyonce game for STU!
I wish Beyonce was an XXX performer.
I was going to drift this somewhere else but now I can't get that image out of my mind.
And I refuse to let it leave my mind...
Originally posted by Varalent:
I wish there was an XBeyonce game for STU! Ooops! And how could I forget Cobie. How about a XXXBeyonce for him as well!
Hey!
How come I only get one X, and Cobie gets three?
Originally posted by Varalent:
Originally posted by Varalent:
[b]I wish there was an XBeyonce game for STU!
Would that be an XXXBox Game?
The game of this thread is to have more drift while still remaining somewhat connected, but you guys seem to have gotten stuck on a particular topic.
I think you should start a new thread then
How many threads do you think it takes to cover Beyonce's booty?
(Sorry, Quis...
)
Sorry was one of the games I used to play as a kid.
Kid Rock seemed to be the only performer at that awful Super Bowl halftime show that didn't lip-sync.
The Super Bowl halftime show was stupid, so who cares about it anyway when the Super Bowl was such a good game this year?!
Speaking of Super Bowls...
Can somebody tell me what color Bee's eyes are?
I didn't used to like honey, but now I do. Mix it with whiskey and warm it up for a great cough syrup.
There is only one thing worse/ in this universe/ and that's no Aunt Jemima at all.
My friend Steve made a role playing world in which the main villian was Beatrice, a corporate entity trying to surplant Gaia as the Earth Mother. Beatrice looked like Aunt Bea from the Andy Griffith show
Beatrice was a corporate entity which came out of nowhere in the '80s to reveal it owned a hell of a lot of businesses.
"We're Beatrice."
Don't ever trust women in black & white!
Originally posted by Outdoor Miner:
Beatrice was a corporate entity which came out of nowhere in the '80s to reveal it owned a hell of a lot of businesses.
"We're Beatrice."
That's the one. Steve made the adventure back in the 80s
Beatrix is a nordic queen
I wonder what type of queen ole Dubya is?
We Are the Superheroes, my friend / And We'll go on fighting to the end.
In Excalibur 40, Lockheed exclusively talks in rhyme.
Supergirl found Excalibur in one of her attmepts to join the Legion.
Bugs Bunny once joined the French Foreign Legion
McDonald's french fries are still the best, even though they switched to lower-fat oil several years ago.
Two All Beef Patties, Special Sauce, Lettuce, Cheese, Pickles, Onions, all on a Sesame Seeded Bun.
Hold the pickle, hold the lettuce,
special orders don't upset us,
all we ask is that you let us
serve it your way!
Have it your way
at Burger King!
And LegionWorld today is sponsored by the letters L and W and the number 1
One is the loneliest number...
...that you'll ever find / Two is just as lonely as the number one
The only comfort is when the number one is fully done / One's fully done when the Legion becomes number one
Michael
All of Legion World is united as one in support of its most beloved Leader for Life.
The worst thing about being leader for life is the retirement party.
And the pension plan stinks
Party? Ah yes, an event where people gather to attempt to achieve advanced states of mental incompetence by the repeated consumption of fermented vegetable drinks, and generally employ time in a profitless and non-practical way.
My life's pretty profitless right now. Think I can change my tax filing status?
QUACK, quack quack quack!!
Stop trying to sell me insurance, you huckstering waterfowl!
Originally posted by His imperial majesty, STU:
Stop trying to sell me insurance, you huckstering waterfowl!
You might reconsider old friend. Rumor has it that your days are numbered! Life & Disability Insurance might be a wise investment!
I can barely stand to look at my investment portfolio anymore.
Originally posted by Outdoor Miner:
I can barely stand to look at my investment portfolio anymore.
You're not supposed to look at your portfolio, you're supposed to show it. Let everybody else barely stand to look at it. Maybe someone'll see it as art and give you work. Then you can share it with everybody here and we can all be poor.
I wonder if Portfolio Boy agrees with that?
Originally posted by Invisible Brainiac:
I wonder if Portfolio Boy agrees with that?
Good question. PB is suspiciously silent on this.
I'm suspicous whenever my managers do something nice (except my direct boss -- he's just nice -- but with the ones above him, you know there's something rotten on the way).
Hmmm... lets take this thread in a new direction... Politics, Politics, Politics. The say the Roman Senate was one of the most corrupt organizations ever.
Uncle Fester in the Addams Family loved Roman Candles.
Didn't Uncle Fester used to draw the covers to The Legion?
I'm sure Mr Feister'll
love seeing you say that
No offense intended. It's just a topic drift thread, nobody said anything about having all the letters there and in the correct order.
I mean think about it, what if Ash had actually said all three words correctly? That would have been one short movie.
Klatu Verata Necktie
But then they could have padded the movie out by including more screen time for Team Rocket.
I do think James is gay. He is always carrying that rose when they do their introduction speech. Plus he doesn't seem interested in Jesse. At first I thought they were brother and sister, but it has been shown that they aren't.
Gives the term, Blasting off again new meaning.
...Or gives a blasting off again to new meanings.
I wonder Why, Not how or when, just Why?
Quislet said, "The worst thing about being leader for life is the retirement party."
Reminds me of the title of John Harkes' memoirs, "Captain for Life, and other temporary assignments."
It was a pretty good book and I even got him to autograph both copies. (And the MLS Calendar, too!)
Soccer Dad
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The say the Roman Senate was one of the most corrupt organizations ever.
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Having read "I Claudius" and "Roman Blood" I might agree. Except I've belonged to some e-mail groups that make Rome look like Mr. Roger's Neighborhood.
Let all the poisons in the pen hatch out.
Proteus Secondus
Ours is not to reason why...
Ours is but to do and try to blame the results on someone else.
It's always a blame game, isn't it?
There's a dance (or dance move) called "Thread the Needle", I think.
Isn't that a flirting move?
Isn't dancing publicly acceptable flirting?
Around here EVERYTHING is publicly accepted flirting.
The truth cannot be denied!
That's not what Dubbya says...
Who's the hotter Bush daughter? Jenna or Barbara?
**Purr**
F.C. is much better looking than Jinx.
**Purr**
Drifting along with the tumbling tumbleweed...
Sorry, still reeling from trying to equate Bush Daughter with hot. Maybe if you're Ralph Nader...
Pecos Ken
Who's the hottest Gore offspring? Karenna, Kristin, Sarah, or lil' pothead Al III?
I know someone who once had a crush on Al Gore.
I liked Grape Crush and Orange Crush as a kid
Lie still, little bottle, and shake my shaky hand
Black coffee's not enough for me, I need a better friend
One pill at the bottom is singing my favorite song
I know I must investigate
I hope that I can sing along
There's no time for metaphors cried the little pill to me
He said, "Life is a placebo masquerading as a simile"*
Well, I knew that pill was lying
Too gregarious, too nice
But as he walked I had to sing this twice
Lie still, little bottle
Don't twist, it ain't twistin' time
With every move you make you just disintegrate my ever-troubled mind
Lie still, little bottle, and shake my shaky hand
Black coffee's not enough for me, I need a better friend
One pill at the bottom is singing my favorite song
I know I must investigate
I hope that I can sing along
Lie still, little bottle
Lie still
Lie still, little bottle
Lie still
Lie still
Lie still
Esoteric Questions are just so... Esoteric.
*drops anvil on Abin to knock him down a few rungs on the ladder of post counts*
What symphony does the Anvil Chorus come from?
Didn't Bugs Bunny conduct an orchestra once?
One of the first funny movies I can remember going to see in a movie theater is "What's up, Doc?" with Ryan O'Neal and Barbra Streisand.
I thought Barbra Streisad turned into a hundred foot tall monster and tried to destoy the town of South Park?
Isn't Bedlam a town in England?
Legion World has England topped when it comes to Bedlam
When topped by Legion World, England becomes bedlam.
That concept is just way too esoteric for me.
I once found an esoteric concept in our front yard.
That's one of the problems with esoteric concepts, you can find them laying around almost anywhere but once you find them what do you do with them? Most of them are pretty useless.
Esoterics, Esoterics, Esoterics... If a person realizes they don't need to be self-actualized, does it mean that they have just achieved self-actualization?
Any way you can synchronize the falling anvils...?
This is the only anvil chorus I know.
Since the first of you and me asleep
In a Nibelungen land
Titanic curses trap me in
A banishment of stay
Symbols vanish from my senses
Stem and stave the view appears
Symbols captured in a trance
Vanish from my glance
For the various defenses
I enforce a strike the alarm
For the various defences
That choose to be here and there
And lose the direction everywhere
Since the first of you and me asleep
In a Nibelungen land where we cannot be
Almond trees grow along the mountain trail
From their tongues the words are spelling
The telling numb
I cannot hear it anymore
I cannot hear it anymore
Since the first of you and me here and there
We lose the direction everywhere
Shrieking city sun shiver in my veins
In flames I run
In flames I run
Waiting for the sign to come
Will you spell the words for me
Will you spell the words for me to hear
Nibelungen
Nibelungen
Nibelungen land
speaking of classical music, I just heard Brightman's version of Beethoven's 7th and I just KNOW I heard it in some sci-fi movie but I couldn't find the reference. I'm speaking the 2nd Movement, of course, the Allegreto or Slow movement.
Ken
I downloaded Wager's Ride of the Valkyries the other day, and now I have the urge to go charging at people on a great big horse and pillage!
Don't forget the plunder, Bedlam. It's always "pillage & plunder" with maybe a little "mayhem" thrown in occasionally.
But who does the throwing? Maybe a professional item thrower?
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I'm sailing away.
Set an open course, for the Vyrgan Sea.
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Thanks to Quis for offering to give me a court order to change back! We made a hell of a team taking down the Inquisitor in the confines of the law
!
"Come Sail Away" is not - I repeat, NOT - going in Calamity's set list.
I'm not a big fan of Journey, Styx or any of those bands from that era...
I'm not a fan of eras, period.
What's your favourate era?
It is a shame that the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) failed to pass back in the seventies here in the States (or colonies if you prefer)
Jenny, Jenny, who can I turn to?
You give me something I can hold on to.
I know you think I'm like the others before
Who saw your name and number on the wall.
Jenny, I got your number.
I need to make you mine.
Jenny, don't change your number,
8-6-7-5-3-0-9, 8-6-7-5-3-0-9
8-6-7-5-3-0-9, 8-6-7-5-3-0-9
Jenny, Jenny, you're the girl for me.
You don't know me but you make me so happy.
I tried to call you before but I lost my nerve.
I tried my imagination, but I was disturbed.
Jenny, I got your number,
I need to make you mine.
Jenny, don't change your number,
8-6-7-5-3-0-9 (8-6-7-5-3-0-9)
8-6-7-5-3-0-9 (8-6-7-5-3-0-9)
I got it, I got it!
I got your number on the wall!
I got it, I got it!
For a good time, for a good time call....
Jenny, don't change your number.
I need to make you mine.
Jenny. I'll call your number,
8-6-7-5-3-0-9 (8-6-7-5-3-0-9)
8-6-7-5-3-0-9 (8-6-7-5-3-0-9)
Jenny, Jenny who can I turn to? (8-6-7-5-3-0-9)
For the price of a dime I can always turn to you.
(8-6-7-5-3-0-9)
8-6-7-5-3-0-9 (8-6-7-5-3-0-9)
8-6-7-5-3-0-9 (8-6-7-5-3-0-9)
5-3-0-9
5-3-0-9
5-3-0-9
5-3-0-9 (//fade out//)
I know a lot of girls named Jenn, and almost all of them are real hot! (Psst, my first love was a girl named Jenn
)!
I've never seen a "bad" looking Gabrielle. Just seems that if you name your daughter Gabrielle, you've guaranteed her to be "hot".
Gabriel's Horn was possibly the dumbest super hero hangout EVER!
Cole Porter wrote a song about blowing Gabriel's Horn. Hmmm...
Originally posted by minesurfer:
I've never seen a "bad" looking Gabrielle. Just seems that if you name your daughter Gabrielle, you've guaranteed her to be "hot".
One of the managers above me is called Gabrielle. Based on personal experience, I can categorically deny the veracity of your claim.
*Shudder*
Gabrielle was Xena's friend. Her very, very, very close friend.
I was THIS CLOSE to winning the Mega Millions Tuesday, but the other five numbers were wrong.
Don't you just hate it when you have a really great idea and the phone rings and... Now what was I just thinking of?
An old ploy for guys who wanted to experiemnt with other guys was to say the next day "Boy was I drunk last night. I don't remember a thing!"
That's funny, girls used to say that after a night with me.
This evil must be stopped.
Without evil, how do you know what's good?
Oh that's gooooooood!!!!!
I know what's good and evil because the duty roster says that it is my task to fight evil. After that it's just a judgement call I guess.
But we are all drunken with the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and until we sober up, we won't realize that we have to grab evil by the neck and force it becomes a servant of good. Instead we fight evil and push it away and thus we are helpless to really stop it.
I've never been drunk (with power).
My ID is still drunk and sleeping at SHAKES, and I have the feeling something bad is going to happen to it soon.
Well, it is Friday the 13th, after all.
I wonder how unlucky EDE will become on Friday the 13th?
The Friday the 13th movie series is pretty awful.
There was a horror parody of the Friday the 13th series called "Saturday the 14th."
Happy Saturday the 14th Valentine's Day, everyone!
Saturday
Saturday
Saaaaaaaturday
Saturday
Saturday
Saaaaaaaturday
Saturday
Saturday
Saaaaaaaturday
Night's alright
Saturday
Saturday
Saaaaaaaturday
Saturday
Saturday
Saaaaaaaturday
Saturday
Saturday
Saaaaaaaturday
Night's alright
Saturday night's alright for love. Woooo woo.
(Psss... next word is "Sunday"
)
Sunday, my prince will come -- oh, wait, that's someday -- oh, well.
Well, the Black Panther's a king, not a prince.
The "Artist Formerly Known as the Artist Formerly Known as Prince" (as known as "Prince") was parodied on SNL last week.
Well, 1999's come and gone now.
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
Prince sucks!
At least he doesn't have an Ugly Statue!!!
Speaking of ugly statues, you should see the shapeless blob-thing (I honestly don't know what it's meant to be. It has bits sticking out all over the place) in the foyer of the building I'm in now. Hideous.
The original "Blob" was superior to the remake.
One of my favorite D&D monsters is the Gelatinous Cube.
"Sunday, Bloody Sunday" Is the only Sunday song that comes to mind.
The Edge from U2 is doing the theme music for the new Batman cartoon.
I was watch the Sound Track Channel on ON-Demand over the week end. I wasn't impressed. Although I did see "All-Star" by Smashmouth with all those clips from "Mystery Men". I did like "Mystery Men". The funniest line was when they had saved the day and Janeane Garofalo says to her dead father's skull "OK, now I'm going back to graduate school. That was the agreement."
Well, Buffy did stuff over Angel's dead body, but let's not go into that
There was a parody porn called "Boffy the Vampire Layer."
(Or so I heard.)
They may have done that, but Friends had an episode where Ursula (Phoebe's Twin sister/porno star) was named as the star in "Buffay The Vampire Layer".
"Soft and sweet, wise and wonderful
Oooh, our mystical, magical Nanny
Since the day that Nanny came to stay with us
Fantastic things keep happening
Is there really magic in the things she does?
Or is love the only magic thing that Nanny brings?
You know our Nanny showed us
You can make the impossible happen
Nanny told us
Have a little bit of faith and lots of love
Phoebe Figalilly is a silly name
And so many silly things keep happening
What is this magic thing about Nanny
Is it love....or is it magic?"
These pretzels are making me thirsty.
What's the difference between V6 and V8 engines?
Isn't Patrick Stewart Varalent's favorite Star Trek captain?
Patrick Stewart had a funny cameo in Robin Hood, Men in Tights
Patrick Stewart in tights would be my favorite Star Trek Captain!
Originally posted by Varalent:
I coulda had a V-8!
I coulda had Vee... 8 times!
(But the bi-beer keg went dry...
)
V is for Volcano and vulture and vacation.
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq:
V is for Volcano and vulture and vacation.
..as well as vice & virtue!
Virtue & Vice was a nice, albeit overpriced, JSA hardcover. I should've waited for the TPB to come out.
JSA JLA LSH
TPB TPTB
LOL ROFLMAO IMHO IIRC
ACLU AMA ABA ASPCA
USDA FBI CIA
PS MYOB BYOB
TLAs can be overused IMO, wouldn't you agree?
Freshly ground pepper is better than preground pepper.
Peppermint Patty-- did she REALLY love Charlie Brown? Or was it just a front for her butchness?
I washed my front step at the weekend. Scrubbed it down so I did. Well living close to a main road it collects dust and that's so not good for the Chi entering our home!
GUNN: We can switch if you don't like the—you know, the kung pao or whatever.
WESLEY: Feng shui.
GUNN: Right. What's that mean again?
WESLEY: That people will believe anything.
people once believed tomatoes were poisonous and were once called "Love Apples"
The french name for potatoes literally translates to "Earth Apples."
What was it about dead-teenager songs in the '50s, like "Earth Angel"?
I always had a bit of a crush on hottie Roma Downey, she of "Touched By An Angel."
"Toucha, Toucha, Toucha, Touch Me!"
Karma, Karma, Karma, Chameleon?
We have a preserved chameleon in our lab, but some say that it moves around at night...
My aunt used to make the best strawberry preserves.
I'm going to buy my aunt's lease car when she turns it in. She barely drives, so it'll be like getting an almost new car for used price!
I have a friend that got a used car for what could have been a new car price!
We used to have a chain of discount drugstores here called A.L. Price. It didn't last very long.
The
Brady Bunch two-parter in Hawai'i scared me when I was a kid... that Vincent Price is
suhPOOOOOO-ky!
Remember the Scooby Doo Movies which featured guest stars.
I remember Vincent Price, Sandy Duncan, Don Knotts, Mama Cass, The Harlem Globetrotters, the Addams Family, Batman & Robin, and Jonathan Winters.
I was laughing so hard I could barely breathe one night when Jonathan Winters and Robin Williams were guests together on the "Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson.
I watched "Flubber", starring Robin Williams, last night.
Whatever happened to Montel Wlliams?
Whatever happened to Baby Jane?
I miss those "whatever Happened to" strips in DC Comics Presents...
I remember reading an issue of DC Comics Presents that had a Legion story in it.
I'm currenly reading "Blood Canticle" by Anne Rice...
My sister has her final exam in "Reading" on Tuesday.
The Massachusetts Bar exam consists of 200 Multiple choice questions and 10 essays questions. You have about a minute and a half to answer each multiple choice question (if I figured it out correctly 200 questions and six hours to answer them) For the Essays, you have 36 minutes to read and answer each essay. Also you only have four sides of paper in which to write your answer.
We had a couple of achievement exams in Math and English recently. That was when I found out just how sneaky some of my classmates could be.
Of course, I'm not totally innocent either. After all, I'm the one who always finishes my lunch during Chinese class.
"Innocent" seems like a rather silly name for a Pope.
I heard that there is a place in Norway named "Hell".
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
The Furies were all women, IIRC
It's great seeing Fury again in JSA!
Societies, Leagues, Legions, Groups, Teams, X-es...
Spot the one that doesn't belong to the group!
Spot the Difference games can be fun, as long as they're achievable without being too easy
I hate when they come out in our exams, though, especially when you have no idea what the criteria are.
"Criteria" sounds like a kind of seafood.
For some reason, I used to be allergic to shrimp when I was a little whiny kid, but now I can eat them without any ill effects.
Jumbo Shrimp is an oxymoron
I haven't drifted in awhile.
I haven't sailed in a while
Kohl's is having a good sale on Docker-type pants. I need a pair of blue ones, but I've got rehearsal almost every friggin' night.
Has anyone ever noticed those weird blue veins under their tongue?
I'm getting one of my wisdom teeth out tomorrow.
Actor Lad,
How did that go?
I can't believe Frasier's dad married Nina Van Horn.
I never did like Van Halen
I almost got hit by a van last week.
i lost a week. maybe more.
I hear Melba Moore is a good singer.
I have never tried melba toast.
Do people name their daughters Melba anymore?
"Anymore" is a funny last name.
Roger Moore was a funny Bond.
I've always loved the pointless phrase "Roger dodger."
Krypto was in love with a Dodger Dog. (baseball reference)
Krypton is one of the noble gases; er, at least I think it is, I'm afraid I was asleep when that was being taught...
I fell asleep early tonight, and now I don't think I'll be able to get back to bed.
I don't even have a bed in my room. The floor is much more comfortable.
Speaking of comfortable, I just got back from the pool. Ah, summer!
Summer is good, b/c it allows me to up change my drinking from full-time to over-time!
I tasted some strawberry iced tea earlier today.
I finally cleaned out all the old ice in my freezer.
I like my drinks without ice
My favorite ice cream is Mint Chocolate Chip.
Have you seen the new nickel that they are minting?
I still can't believe Nickelback are popular.
Banco Popular has many conveniently located branches in the greater Tri-State area.
Conveinence stores make for a cheap (and unhealthy) college dinner.
Last night for dinner I went to the place I took Faraway Lad, Mr. Bartley's Burger Barn in Harvard Square.
Burger Beer is a vile little concoction spawned in my old home town.
I got a free root beer yesterday from a restaurant mis-order.
If flying foxlike creatures ran a restaurant, what sort of food would it serve?
Do Floating Foxlike-Creatures taste like Chicken?
The morning dew got my socks wet. Guess I need to put on shoes.
I bought three bottles of Mountain Dew, and each had a cap that allowed me to buy-one-get-one-free. Odds of getting such a cap: 1 in 6. Odds of getting three such caps in a row: 1 in 216 (I think).
When I moved to Virginia, I had to drive through some mountains. Something else else I don't ever want to do again.
I drove through the cliffs around Lake Tahoe at night in the snow once. Once, and now never again.
Kids love the name "Lake Titicaca"
The Erie Doctrine was a hard concept to grasp in law school. Basically if a case is brought in Federal court for diversity reasons (the plaintiff & defendant are from different states), the federal court uses the case law and statutory law of the state in which it sits.
So she said "Pah rumpy rumpy pah pah pah"
And you can just imagine the state he was in!
Maybe you had to be there though
Well, when Edmund Blackadder gets in a state, he starts singing a song about goblins
I've heard singing can become a rather lucrative career to some!
Footballers (not the namby-pamby more armour than skin version
) earn a heckavalot too!
Oh No! Orlando Pace sat on Beckham and bent him.
I wish I could be having a ham and cheese sandwich right now.
Someone in the world has to be eating a sandwich at this very moment.
Sandwiches are named after the Earl of Sandwich
Maybe someone is eating the Earl of Sandwich with a side order of the Duke of Potato Salad.
The cafeteria at work charges way too much for their salad bar.
My Mom works in the school cafeteria!
I love the meatballs in the school cafeteria. Tasty!
Meatballs was a movie starring Bill Murray
Meatballs were in a sandwich eaten by Bill Murray.
If the Legion gets re-re-booted will we all regress in age?
If I get rebooted, can I regress in age?
Just remember, you're only as young as whoever your feeling...
Or something like that...
Look out! Here comes Captain Ahab!
Bette Davis, who played the lead in "Jezebel", was born in Lowell, Massachusetts.
I don't know if the movie had anything to do with the Old Testament Queen Jezebel who was married to King Ahab. Both were supposedly pretty wicked.
I have a large Bette Davis picture in my closet that I inherited from my grand-parents! If I ever get my own apartment, I plan to hang it up!
Nothing is off-topic as long as there is a link and the topic continues to drift.
And the sign said,
"Long-haired freaky people
Need not apply."
So I tucked my hair up under my hat
And I went in to ask him why.
He said, "You look like a fine upstandin' young man.
I think you'll do."
So I took off my hat and said, "Imagine that.
huh , me workin' for you."
Whoa, sign, sign.
Everywhere a sign.
Blockin' out the scen'ry.
Breakin' my mind.
Do this. Don't do that.
Can't you read the sign?
And the sign said,
"Anybody caught trespassin'
Will be shot on sight."
So I jumped on the fence and I yelled at the house,
"Hey! What gives you the right
To put up a fence to keep me out,
But to keep Mother Nature in?
If God was here, he'd tell you to your face,
'Man, you're some kind of sinner.'"
Sign, sign.
Everywhere a sign.
Blockin' out the scenery.
Breakin' my mind.
Do this. Don't do that.
Can't you read the sign?
Now, hey you, Mister, can't you read?
You got to have a shirt and tie to get a seat.
You can't even watch. No, you can't eat.
You ain't supposed to be here.
The sign said, "You've got to have a membership card
To get inside." Uh.
And the sign said, "Everybody welcome.
Come in. Kneel down and pray."
But when they passed around the plate at the end of it all,
I didn't have a penny to pay
So I got me a pen and a paper
And I made up my own little sign.
I said, "Thank you, Lord, for thinkin' 'bout me.
I'm alive and doin' fine."
Whoo! Sign, sign.
Everywhere a sign.
Blockin' out the scenery.
Breakin' my mind.
Do this. Don't do that.
Can't you read the sign?
Sign, sign.
Everywhere a sign.
Sign, sign.
A friend of mine taught me American Sign Language a few years back, but all I remember now is "What's your name?" and "My name is UTS."
Hello my name is Faraway and I am an ebay addict
Have you seen the ebay ad where the clerk sings "That's on Ebay" (That's Amore)? I think the guy is not very good looking but I find I am sexually attracted to him.
Have you seen the Ford SportKa ad they showed on Top Gear a while back where the bonnet flips up and kills a pidgeon?
[They then proceeded to race a SportKa wi/SatNav against some pidgeons. The pidgeons won]
I have not driven a Ford lately.
I go past a Ford on my way to a castle
Ever seen a castle overlooking a fiord?
I kinda miss White Castle hamburgers.
My cat likes pork.
*edited to clarify I'm talking about a actual feline that likes the said meat that comes from pigs for those who might misinterupt my post*
It's always a treat when your cat brings a dead lizard to your back-door.
Ya know what's a nice treat? Chocolate chip cookies and Lemonade.
I like a nice shandy - half beer, half Lemonade. It's a great summer drink.
Surprisingly, summer is the season I go to the beach the least.
i like walking my dogs on a beach in the winter
My father's dog likes to grab a tennis ball by the fuzz (so that it looks like it is glued to the end of her nose). Then she runs with it until it flies away and then she chases it.
I played tennis for three years in my early teens.
I played teens for three years in my tennees.
I think Teen Titans Go is rubbish.
I get a good laugh whenever I re-read Cham's line: "Little do they suspect that can of rubbish is really ME, Chameleon Boy!"
I'm looking forward to the Little Archie TPB.
I'm looking forward to the Archie comic Pov is sending me
I'm equally looking forward to another shipment of Legion Archives. Mmm...silver age!
Nevada is known as the Silver State
If I were in the 31st century, I'd be drinking Silver Ale
Cobalt Kid likes to drink, period.
Now and forever, my favorite drink will be just a plain old bottled water.
I used to collect old bottles but my mom made me throw them all out.
I used to collect old comics, but my mom made me throw them out
My mom couldn't make merengue very well, but I loved her chocolate lemon merengue cake. She was a great baker. I loved her apple pies, squash pies, cocoa pink cuplets (an unfrosted cupcake with chocolate bits & walnuts on top), whoopie pies, and pumpkin bread.
I don't think Whoopie Goldberg is very funny. In fact she's only really tolerable when she's playing an actual character, not a thinly disguised version of herself.
The greatest thing about Whoopie Goldberg is her real name: Caryn Johnson.
My real name's meaning starts with "Dweller in/by the" for all three names!
My favorite types of seafood are 'bottom-dwellers'.
I've never been a fan of fish, but love lobster, shrmp, crab, etc.
My mother's maiden name was Crabtree.
My mothers maiden name was Woodhouse
The last principal of Sunnydale High was Robin Wood.
The last good movie I saw was Life as a House.
I dont live in a house I live in a Flat.
My surname means flat or level place
Rob... Runway-Modelchest???
*replying to a few pages back*
I wasn't able to get that wisdom tooth out since my insurance will only pay for it if I'm in pain. Which sucks even more because supposedly I should have them all out by now.
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
Early to bed, early to rise... makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
No wonder I'm sickly, poor, and foolish!
At least I'm not the Official LW Fool
Originally posted by ActorLad:
*replying to a few pages back*
I wasn't able to get that wisdom tooth out since my insurance will only pay for it if I'm in pain. Which sucks even more because supposedly I should have them all out by now. If you're not in pain, having them out would be insane.
Originally posted by STU:
Early to bed, early to rise... makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Whoever came up with that saying should have been taken out and maimed.
I like arranging things in alphabetical order.
So I hear. My dossier on you is quite complete... as per my previous thought, Future, I'd sleep with one eye open...
Sleeping with one eye open isn't very restful.
Odin gave up one eye to gain wisdom.
I'm about three years overdue for an eye exam. It's a wonder I can see at all through these glasses.
Whoops. I'm about three years overdue for a dental check-up, I now realize.
I'm about three stone overweight
Rolling Stones vs Beatles - you decide
the VW beatle is a funny looking car
I never thought nitro-burning funny cars were all that entertaining.
Viva Variety... now THAT was entertaining.
Viva Las Vegas is one of my favorite Elvis songs.
Elvis' middle name is the same as my first name.
In the Name of the Lord, there is far too much thread bumping going on here!
Let he who has not bumped cast the first stone.
Who had the better cast of characters, the Munsters or the Addams Fanmily?
Just realized I haven't had Muenster Cheese in a looong time!
It's taking a long time for Wednesday to get here.
Wednesday is also commonly called "hump day" in some parts of the world.
Speed Humps are also called sleeping policmen
They're opening a new Krispy Kreme not that far away from me, and lines are expected to be pretty long to get the free doughnuts.
Rick James used to do lines of coke in the back room of a night club called Septembers here in Buffalo.
It will be September soon
Soon I'll have 1000 posts!
I have to go to the post office later. Stamps for everyone!
Everyone needs to just cool out and step away from the monkey!
The post office just returned as "undeliverable"
every single statement we have sent one of our customers for the past 8 months...all at the same time! Did it take them 8 months to figure out where WE were? And how come they can't find my customer but I can?
8 months ago I celebrated the New Year. While at work.
History of the Date
The celebration of the new year is the oldest of all holidays. It was first observed in ancient Babylon about 4000 years ago. In the years around 2000 BC, the Babylonian New Year began with the first New Moon (actually the first visible cresent) after the Vernal Equinox (first day of spring). This coincided with approximately 23rd-25th March on the Julian Calendar.
The beginning of spring is a logical time to start a new year. After all, it is the season of rebirth, of planting new crops, and of blossoming. It symbolized new growth and a time to look forward to the future - the same meaning that the new year holds for people today. January 1, on the other hand, has no astronomical nor agricultural significance. It is purely arbitrary.
The Babylonian new year celebration lasted for eleven days. Each day had its own particular mode of celebration, but it is safe to say that modern New Year's Eve festivities pale in comparison. The Romans continued to observe the new year in late March, but their calendar was continually tampered with by various emperors so that the calendar soon became out of synchronization with the sun.
In order to set the calendar right, the Roman senate, in 153 BC, declared January 1 to be the beginning of the new year. The acceptance of the changed date was delayed. This might be due to some of its arbitrary nature that we have already pointed out. The date was unusual. For, unlike the customs prevalent till then, no agricultural or seasonal significance was attached to it. Instead, it was just a civil date, the day after the elections when the consuls would assume their new positions in the Roman empire. But the bigger problem the changed date posed, was difficulties in the calculation of the year. As the Romans moved their New Year's Day backward almost three months to January 1, we have irregularities in our calendar. The months of September, October, November and December, originally mean, the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth month respectively. Later, many of the Roman emperors had given new names to these months. September received names as "Germanucus", "Antonius" and "Tacitus" under each of these emperors' regime. Thus November also earned the varying names of "Domitianus", "Faustinus" and "Romanus".
The inconveniences led Julius Caesar to institute a new calendar. It was devised by the Greek astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria from the unrivaled Egyptian solar calendar. Caesar wanted to change the date of the New Year from January 1 to a more logical date - to one of the solstices or equinoxes. However, it happened that January 1 of 45 B.C. was the date of a new moon and to change it would have been to invite bad luck according to the prevalent beliefs. Infact in order to synchronize the calendar with the sun, Caesar had to let the previous year drag on for 445 days.
For his calendar reform, the Senate rewarded him by having the month of his birth, Quintilis, renamed "July" in his honor. Caesar's grandnephew, the Emperor Augustus, had a similar honor bestowed on him when he corrected a mistake which had crept into the calculation of the leap year. Till then it had been observed every three years, instead of every four. He abolished all leap years between 8 B.C. and A.D. 8. Thus he set the calendar straight and earned for himself the renaming of Sextilis as "August".
In early times, the ancient Romans gave each other New Year's gifts of branches from sacred trees. In later years, they gave gold-covered nuts or coins imprinted with pictures of Janus, the god of gates, doors, and beginnings. January was named after Janus, who had two faces--one looking forward and the other looking backward. The Romans also brought gifts to the emperor. The emperors eventually began to demand such gifts. But the Christian church outlawed this custom and certain other pagan New Year's practices in A.D. 567.
As the Catholic Church expanded, it was strongly opposed to the celebration of the Roman's New Year, and denounced it as paganism. However, as Christianity became more widespread, the religious observances of the Catholic Church began to coincide with many of the pagan celebrations. On January 1, while the Romans celebrated the New Year, the Catholic Church worshipped what is still observed by some denominations today as the Feast of Christ's Circumcision. The Church continued to condemn the celebration of the New Year throughout the Middle Ages. It wasn't until the late 1500s that January 1 became the official holiday celebrated by Western nations.
It was Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 AD who incorporated our present method of calculation and dividing the year. It was the Pope who reinstituted the practice of observing New Year's Day on January 1, regardless of the pre-Christian associations with that date. The Gregorian reforms also canceled ten days from October; Thursday, October 4, 1582, was followed by Friday, October 15, 1582. the old discrepancy was provided for by making only those century dates leap years that were that were divisible by 400. Thus although the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not leap years, the 2000 is.
The global adoption:
Catholic countries adopted it soon. Yet it took some time for the Protestants to follow suit. Finally Germany did adopt it in 1700, Great Britain in 1752, and Sweden in 1753. It was then necessary to drop 11 days from the calendar because 1700 had been a leap year.
The Oriental countries through the influence of religious groups such as the Hindus, Taoists, Buddhists and Moslems, considered the new Calendar as the Christian Calendar, but also adopted it as their official one. Japan welcomed it in 1873 and China in 1912.
The Eastern Orthodox adopted it even later, in 1924 and 1927, Russia took it twice - first in 1918 and after trying out its own calendars, again 1n 1924.
New Years web site
I haven't turned the page on my computer room calendar since March!
Gee, I give you a whole lot of stuff to work with and you stick with the calendar. Let's have more drift.
I'd hate to be lost, adrift at sea.
I like going for a walk along the wild rugged coastline and listening to the sound of the waves on the rocks below.
Jet ROCKS! I've barely taken their album "Get Born" out of my CD player since I bought it a couple of months ago.
I've been playing my cds at work because desks got shifted around and this guy near me plays talk radio all day long.
I've been growing my hair long again for some reason.
The plants I tend at work seem to grow better than the ones I have at home and I don't know why.
I took a tour of the Ford plant in Hapeville once when my uncle Lewis still worked there. It was pretty cool.
I drive a Ford, but not for too much longer.
Longer is sometimes better
Sometimes I just want to be left alone, ya know? Not now, of course, but sometimes.
Sometimes when I am the only person in an elevator I say "Shazam!" outloud as the doors are closing.
The Doors were one of my favorite bands when I was in high school. I'm not a huge Jim Morrison fan, but some of the music is pretty incredible, considering it's simply a three piece band.
There used to be a Morrison's Cafeteria next to the comic shop I go to, but they tore it down eventually and now there's a grocery store there.
I once tore the crotch of my jeans while doing a music video shoot in my buddy's studio. I was trying to crouch down with one foot on the stage and one on the floor to get a low-angle shot of the guitar player and my jeans just let loose. Being a professional, I just took one for the team and kept right on shooting. Man it was drafty in that studio!
Opposite my friend's comic store, there was Po Chu's, a dressmakers and Poochies, a dog grooming shop. They were side by side in a block of stores. We often wondered if customers ever confused the two.
Later, one moved down the street and later the other moved down the street as well. Again in the same block of stores although this time there was one other store between them.
I used to love playing street hockey. I had a wicked hard wrist shot with one of those little hard plastic hockey balls. My shot was pretty inaccurate though, so everyone was afraid to get hit in the face or the crotch with it.
I used to get a lot of uncontested goals beacuse I'd wind up from the point and the goalies (who usually weren't wearing much in the way of padding) would step out of the way and I would just tap it in!
My goal is to have this thread reach 100 pages
Sometimes I lurk, sometimes I post, but I always love coming here.
I'm in a lurking habit these days and looking to get out of it!
I smoke like a chimney. That's probably my worst habit. I've never seriously tried to quit, but I'm contemplating it ever since they changed the type of paper the tobacco is rolled in. This new paper is supposed to keep them from burning your house down if you drop a lit cigarette on the couch in a drunken stupor, but all it's doing for me is tearing my lungs up.
Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette Written by Merle Travis and Tex Williams
Now I'm a feller with a heart of gold
And the ways of a gentleman I've been told
The kind of guy that wouldn't even harm a flea
But if me and a certain character met
The guy that invented the cigarette
I'd murder that son-of-a-gun in the first degree
It ain't cuz I don't smoke myself
And I don't reckon that it'll harm your health
Smoked all my life and I ain't dead yet
But nicotine slaves are all the same
At a pettin' party or a poker game
Everything gotta stop while they have a cigarette
Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette
Puff, puff, puff and if you smoke yourself to death
Tell St. Peter at the Golden Gate
That you hates to make him wait
But you just gotta have another cigarette
Now in a game of chance the other night
Old Dame Fortune was a-doin' me right
The kings and the queens just kept on comin' round
And I got a full and I bet 'em high
But my bluff didn't work on a certain guy
He just kept on raisin' and layin' that money down
Now he'd raise me and I'd raise him
I sweated blood, gotta sink or swim
He finally called and didn't even raise the bet
So I said "aces full Pops how 'bout you?"
He said "I'll tell you in a minute or two
But right now, I gotta have me a cigarette"
Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette
Puff, puff, puff and if you smoke yourself to death
Tell St. Peter at the Golden Gate
That you hates to make him wait
But you just gotta have another cigarette
(Ah, smoke it! Hah! Yes! Yes! Yes!)
The other night I had a date
With the cutest little girl in the United States
A high-bred, uptown, fancy little dame
She loved me and it seemed to me
That things were 'bout like they oughta be
So hand in hand we strolled down lover's lane
She was oh so far from a cake of ice
And our smoochin' party was goin' nice
So help me cats I believe I'd be there yet
But I give her a kiss and a little squeeze
And she said, "ah, Marty, excuse me please
I just gotta have me another, cigarette"
And she said, smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette
Puff, puff, puff and if you smoke yourself to death
Tell St. Peter at the Golden Gate
That you hates to make him wait
But you just gotta have another cigarette
I recently re-started smoking after nearly two years without....
I couldn't do without a guy for that long.... two weeks and I'm busting!
People at work keep busting the copy machine and we can't get it fixed. Our Accounts Payable people are in some kind of a big dispute with the company that services the copier and won't pay the bill until it's cleared up. Meanwhile the people that service the copier won't come out and fix it until they get paid. So our copier has been down now for two weeks, and it's become incredibly hard to function without it. We've had to resort to making all of our copies off of a little fax machine in the back office that takes forever, and because of all of the recent abuse is now on it's last legs.
I hate my job...
People who bust other people's knee caps are just mean. I hate them.
Now, shin-kicking is A-Okay.
Ouch, your words hurt my knee caps.
Hurt - John Hurt
Knee - Bee's knees
Caps - Stylish headwear
My - Oh my!
Ouch - Boo-boo
Words - Words can hurt. Be careful
Your - your turn to drift this thread and reach 1000 posts
Definitions and lots of words remind me of Writing Communications class.
Are spin doctors the lowest form of life?
I thought lawyers were the lowest form of life
Known as "the lowest point on Earth", the Dead Sea is continually getting lower. According to The Jordan Times the surface of the Dead Sea, which stood at 392 meters below sea-level as early as 1920, now stands more than 420 meters below sea level.
The decrease in the Dead Sea's size can be attributed to a number of factors, including high temperatures in the Jordan River valley which causes the salt water from the Sea to evaporate and a decreased flow from several tributaries which feed the Dead Sea. Over the years water from these tributaries, which include the Jordan and Mujib Rivers, have been increasingly diverted for use in agricultural irrigation in Jordan, Syria and Israel.
I wonder if they ever will find water on Mars?
Working too many hours sucks, even if the money is great!
Vacuum cleaners suck. Hey, it's their job!
I like cheesecake, it's so yummy.
Do I have the Cheescake or the ice cream for dessert?
The cheesecake, it's more money but it's yummy for your tummy.
Come one people...keep the topic moving...
I have to take my truck into the shop in the morning. It's stalling out now when driving at highway speeds. That's not good. The last time I had it in they couldn't find a problem. Let's hope they find something this time, and that it doesn't cost me a whole lot of money to get it fixed.
That sucks, I thought our topics were allowed to drift?
The worst part of a blizzard isn't so much the snow, it's the drifts. Tons of snow falls, but the high winds that make a large snow storm a blizzard causes the snow that falls to blow around, which reduces visibility to next to nothing!
I like Milestone Posts!
1000 to me!
What, you hit a thousand a while ago.
1000th reply on this thread. *sigh* Milestone Post Whoring really is a lost art these days.
That sigh had better not have been typed in remark of my ignorance.
Nah, general lament over the disappearance of Milestone Whoring as a common practice in LMB circles.
And to keep the topic right on drifting, ignorance really is bliss, isn't it?
bliss your beautiful heart
god bliss each and every one of us!
-Tiny Tinya, a Klordny Carol
I'm confused. If the topic is supposed to drift why is it still here in the MMB/TT? Why hasn't it moved to another forum?
I'm even more confused by Kent/RKS/SKR/tneK/Hate Face O'Malley. He's a goofapotamus!
Aren't Goofapotami (I assume that's the correct plural form) Extinct?
Not if you deodorize them! *ba dump bump*
Sentient, that is just silly. The Goofapotami Race are alive and thriving! And deodorizing them has no effect other than making them irritated.
Truth and Justice shall Prevail!
(He looks like her, I wonder?)
Have you ever seen wild goofapotami mate? It's just silly!
Sentient, what you refer to as silly, they consider "goofing off."
Truth and Justice shall Prevail!
(Just think about it for a second)
Well, suffice it to say. He goofed her good.
Sentient, from the goofy expression on her face, I'd say she enjoyed it.
Truth and Justice shall Prevail!
(But with Goofapotami who can be positive?)
<interjection>
"hey this is starting to sound suspiciously like a single topic thread. where's the drifting?"
<ends interjection>
Winter is coming. So, I am sure we will soon see some snow drifts.
Rumor had it that it was supposed to snow yesterday around the Boise area.
It doesn't snow around here.
It will, if my Master Plan (tm) works!
Quick! Synchronize your sundials!
Sundials are so retro. But then again, they're more accurate than half of the watches I've ever owned.
I need money for my dog. Give me some.
If you need if for your dog, shouldn't I give the money directly to the dog? What does he/she spend it on?
He has tumors. So his medical bill.
Ouch! sorry to hear that.
Yep, sucks, so give me the damn money. I'm a security officer, I can do things to you and not get in trouble.
VOTE FOR ME!!!
Aren't British Police Wonderful
I geuss, the police here just beat you up.
I'd rather be upbeat than beat up.
You get beat up for that, too.
I killed a man in Arizona once.
...
...okay, I might be exaggerating a bit.
Your so manly Future, oh man, just thinking about you exaggerating makes me all giddy.
It's 80 degrees out, nicer than it's been all summer, and I'm stuck with a head cold. This sucks!
mE AM SO HAPPY!
mE AM TOPIC DRIFT ON OTHER THREADS!! sO THIS BEING oFFICIAL tOPIC dRIFT tHREAD, ME MUST AM STAY ON TOPIC HERE! bUT ME AM NOT EVEN KNOW WHAT TOPIC IS TO STAY ON!
hOORAY!! tHAT AM EXTRA SPECIAL CONFUSING!!
Me compute that topic am what topic of thread am.
Me compute that me on-topic!
sO WE AM ALL TALK ABOUT STUPIDEST COMPUTERS? oKAY! mE AM HATE rADIO sHACK trs-80 BEST, HOW ABOUT YOU?
I had both a TRS-80 and TRS-80 COLOR(!) back in the early 80's! I loved that TRS-80...
Poor Loser, head cold, it's hot here.
I'm going to the pub tonight.
I don't know where I'm going tonight.
I still miss Johnny Carson hosting the Tonight Show. He was so much better than Jay Leno. Come back Johnny!!!
"Tonight" was a great musical number in West Side Story
West Side Story is nice but nothing compared to Guys N' Dolls.
Some very interesting items can be made of driftwood.
I don't know why I'm wearing red today.
Warning signals are usually red.
I never saw a warning signal with a hickey
No, signal lights give you hickies.
Trying to stay at least 200 posts ahead of Loser is proving difficult to do...
It's not a contest Abin...
(Post count +1)
Surrrre! it Ain't
Post count +0
Stop it you two, I can't take all this competition. Look at what your doing to me.
Waaaahhh!
*Nudges Loser*
See! I told you it'd work!
Is that my hair, Oh my Goddess, I can't take it.
*Sob Sob*
~Nose bleeds~
Here's some tissue for that Viv, I'm sorry...
But Loser isn't!
Yeah. That guy's a jerk...
Ah hah. It was but a glamour. That should teach you snot nosed little punks to be so competitive. You know competitiveness is how the 100 years war started.
If you continue on you path, you two will start a war.
As long as I win, Who Cares!
It's not one of those sexy wars, like the one between Coca Cola and Pepsi. And I have to tell you something, you won't win.
Pepsi is my cola of choice, but more often than not these days if I'm going to drink pop (as we call it here in Buffalo) at all it's usually Mountain Dew.
It's funny, for some reason at work all I drink is Mountain Dew. I will not drink Pepsi at work. Outside of work I drink Pepsi, but never Mountain Dew.
Wierdo
PS, People shouldn't name call.
I just know I forgot to call someone yesterday...
I just know that I need to call Cindy and Sara.
I recently saw footage from a VH-1 special of Cindy Williams (Laverne & Shirley's Shirley)trying out for the role of Star Wars' Princess Leia.
Did Laverne snatch the cinnamon rolls and eat them?
I once named a cat I had Leia. She was just as cute & fiesty as the Star Wars one.
Woo Boy! Somehow this thread drifted all the way down to page five!
So, how about them Yankees?
Yankees? I miss the east coast.
I need to do some more travelling.
I need to put some air in the right-front tire of my Jeep. It's starting to get a little soft.
Eugene the Jeep was a character from the Popeye comic strip.
There's little to no character in the decoration of my room.
There's little to no decoration in my house for the holidays. The damn cat eats *everything*, so that pretty much rules out decorating. Haven't even had a Christmas tree since 2000.
I love eating...but I have to stop it AND posting now because I've got class. Later all.
Living organisms are scientificly classified by Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus and finally Species. The human, chimp, house cat & lion all have enough similar characteristics that they are put in the same Kingdom, Phylum & Class (Anamalia, Chordate and Mammal respectively).
Going to the Post Office is only one of the errands I'm blowing off today because I'm here.
I can't believe I'm actually considering buying a mini-van. I've done nothing for years but make fun of them and the Utah drivers who have them, which is just about every one of them.
But after our trip to SD both Caroline and I found we really liked it and wouldn't mind owning one.
Some people in North Dakota want to change their state name to just "Dakota". They think the "North" is keeping away tourists.
My family's from North Dakota, but I'm California grown.
The Addams Family was a favorite TV show of mine. (still is). I liked the movies, but didn't like how they had Thing running around. I liked how there were various boxes around the house where he could pop out of.
Just like he used to pop out of boxes, I've famously been known to 'pop out' of my boxers.
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
Just like he used to pop out of boxes, I've famously been known to 'pop out' of my boxers.
That I'd like to see
I'd like Legion World to see Seahorse.
In the old Super Friends cartoons Aquaman was often shown riding a giant seahorse around. Of course in real life seahorses grow to no more than a foot or so in length, which would tend to make then a little tough to ride.
It would be really tough to ride a porcipine
Prickly is as prickly does.
"Prickly Pete" was the name of one of George Costanza's fake horses from an episode of Seinfeld. It was the one where he was trying to convince Susan's parents that he had a summer home in the Hamptons. They didn't believe him, so he decided to drive them up there, hoping they'd admit they were wrong (even though he knew they weren't). Along the way he tells them that he has a stable and two horses in the Hamptons. The imaginary horses were named Prickly Pete and Snoopy.
My Con Law professor loved Seinfeld. He once had his skating teacher come to class. His skating teacher was Oksana Baiul.
I think my cell phone is trying to kill me.
Sorry for carrying out the Seinfeld topic when I know we're supposed to drift off of it, but since it's Legion-related and I might not get another chance to throw it out there I hope you'll let it slide...
The Maestro, who briefly dated Elaine on Seinfeld was named Bob Cobb. He insisted on being called The Maestro, since he was the conductor of an orchestra, and got offended when Elaine called him Bob.
Bob Cobb, of course was the "secret identity" the Pa Kent gave to Mon-El when he first landed in Smallville and Superboy thought Mon was his brother. As Bob Cobb, Mon-El was a brush salesman. The identity was revived when Mon-El visited Smallville, and was last used as late as 1987 when Mon-El was in Smallville during the "Death of Superboy" arc.
'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.
"Seldom we find," says Solomon Don Dunce,
"Half an idea in the profoundest sonnet.
Through all the flimsy things we see at once
As easily as through a Naples bonnet-
Trash of all trash!- how can a lady don it?
Yet heavier far than your Petrarchan stuff-
Owl-downy nonsense that the faintest puff
Twirls into trunk-paper the while you con it."
And, veritably, Sol is right enough.
The general tuckermanities are arrant
Bubbles- ephemeral and so transparent-
But this is, now- you may depend upon it-
Stable, opaque, immortal- all by dint
Of the dear names that he concealed within 't.
The personified Roman god of the sun, completely identical to the Greek Helios. He was possibly worshipped as Sol Indiges in his temple on the Quirinalis. A second temple was located at the Circus Maximus, near the race-tracks, where he was considered to be the protector of the four-in-hands which joined the races. The emperor Heliogabalus imported the cult of Sol Invictus ("the invincible sun") from Syria and Sol was made god of the state.
One of my favorite Farside cartoons has two average looking average sized explorers looking upon a tribe of giants size natives. One says to the other "If we are lucky, they will revere us as gods."
If you're lucky sometimes these Milestone Posts just fall right into your lap!
1100 is MINE!!!
There is no justice in the world
From Judge Dredd "There is no justice. There is Just Us!"
What can be more soothing, at once to a man’s Pride, and to his Conscience, than the conviction that, in taking vengeance on his enemies for injustice done him, he has simply to do them justice in return?
I like it when I pass by the fire station and that fireman blows the horn in order to scare me. It worked once, think he would stop.
I lived around the corner from a Fire Station growing up. I always felt safe knowing they could be to my house in a matter of seconds if there was ever a fire. Until, of course, the day the Fire Station itself caught on fire and they had to send another truck from the next neighborhood over to help them put it out...
Speaking of firemen, they are already having to put out early Bonfires being made ready for Guy Fawkes night.
In 1605, Guy Fawkes (also known as Guido - yes, really) and a group of conspirators attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament.
After Queen Elizabeth I died in 1603, English Catholics who had had a rough time under her reign had hoped that her successor, James I, would be more tolerant of their religion. Alas, he was not, and this angered a number of young men who decided that violent action was the answer.
One young man in particular, Robert Catesby suggested to some close friends that the thing to do was to blow up the Houses of Parliament. In doing so, they would kill the King, maybe even the Prince of Wales, and the Members of Parliament who were making life difficult for the Catholics. Today these conspirators would be known as extremists, or terrorists.
To carry out their plan, the conspirators got hold of 36 barrels of gunpowder - and stored them in a cellar, just under the House of Lords.
But as the group worked on the plot, it became clear that some innocent people would be hurt or killed in the attack. Some of the plotters started having second thoughts. One of the group members even sent an anonymous letter warning his friend, Lord Monteagle, to stay away from the Parliament on November 5th. Was the letter real?
The warning letter reached the King, and the King's forces made plans to stop the conspirators.
Guy Fawkes, who was in the cellar of the parliament with the 36 barrels of gunpowder when the authorities stormed it in the early hours of November 5th, was caught, tortured and executed.
It's unclear if the conspirators would ever have been able to pull off their plan to blow up the Parliament even if they had not been betrayed - some people think the gunpowder they were planning to use was so old as to be useless. Since Guy Fawkes and his colleagues got caught before trying to ignite the powder, we'll never know for certain.
Even for the period which was notoriously unstable, the Gunpowder Plot struck a very profound chord for the people of England. In fact, since the failed coup, the reigning monarch only enters the Parliament once a year, on what is called "the State Opening of Parliament". Prior to the Opening, and according to custom, the Yeomen of the Guard search the cellars of the Palace of Westminster. Today, the Queen and Parliament still observe this tradition.
These days, Guy Fawkes Day is also known as Bonfire Night. The event is commemorated every year with fireworks and burning effigies of Guy Fawkes on a bonfire.
Some of the English have been known to wonder whether they are celebrating Fawkes' execution or honoring his attempt to do away with the government.
Guy Fawkes, the only man to ever enter Parliament with honest intentions
One of my favorite jokes is:
How can you tell when a politican is lying?
His lips are moving.
Let me see if I can get this thread moving again
"Movin' on up!" is a theme song from a show I've never watched, although I heard the theme song a lot at college parties...
When I was in college one of my supervisors at the dining hall I worked at used to have parties at his house. At on party there was a big group of us sitting around in his attic drinking. I got really, really drunk and threw up into a wok that was sitting in the attic. Having to go in to work the next night and face him was odd to say the least. He was a cool guy though, and he didn't really give me a hard time about it.
I miss Loser Lad. I hope he is not getting sick in woks anymore.
Man, it's taken us seven years to get this thread moving again.
I moved twice in the last seven years.
The reason a broken mirror is seven years of bad luck is because the Romans believed that a person's body completely changed in seven years. So the person wo broke the mirror is no longer here for the bad luck.
If it weren't for bad luck,
I'd have no luck at all.
Gloom, despair, and agony on me.
I searched the world over.
I have a Where in the World is Carmen SanDiego cd. Some nice songs on it. I like "Cake for Breakfast"
Seeing the Search For Spock in theaters was so disappointing I've never seen more than a short clip it ever again.
My hair will need clipping soon, but I just can't be bothered...
I once briefly dated a woman who was part of the original Broadway cast of Hair. Yes, I have dated a few older women in my time.
I put some Medjool dates in a smoothie a couple of weeks ago.
My ideal smoothie is:
1 C Lowfat yogurt
1/2 C Blueberries, frozen or fresh
1 small ripe banana
1/4 C O.J.
1-2 tsps. honey
It's certainly saved my life several times in the past week-and-a-half.
Who knew blueberries and bananas could be so good for your health?
The drifts of time moved across the thread, burying the stories and dreams of the Legion Worlders of yore. In centuries to come, travellers would cross the desert and wonder at the lone, pitted stone hand reaching from the deep sands. None knew of the Cobalt Kid Statue, but wondered nonetheless at the hand's rude gesture...
Advanced age has forced me to change the smoothie proportions, too. But I've refused to surrender it to the demon known as Kale.
I need more protein smoothies in my life
The sound of the cicadas ceased at the first footfall of the man's worn boots on the broken tarmac leading into the small town. Ahead lay quiet, faltering desperation. Behind, there were only screams. Doctor Mayavale's many hands would reach out to them all. The drifter of time and space did not falter.
Give me a hand here. You there, many-handed man, yes, I'm talking to you.
An ominous slow clap from Mayavale transports the man asking for assistance back into his previous life... where aged 6, he completely blanked Alexander the Great at a kids Birthday party. This is a crime that Mayavale will not leave unpunished, and the sentence is to read more DeMatteis penned Legion comics!
You can have mine, IB. Since I realized that I'm perfect, I never use it anymore.
(The Edit Function, on the other hand...)
Yay! Anything from cleome is bound to be excellent!
Red's actually my favorite color. I found a pair of red jeans a couple of weeks ago at a going-out-of-business sale. I almost never go to department stores, so it was doubly amazing!
My rage is...ah pants... I'm stuck in a massive Lantern crossover
What's the Lantern colour for moping?
Whatever color Sodam Yat was wearing, I bet.
I hope they found a new line of work for him and he's feeling more upbeat now. I know what it's like to be in the career that's all wrong for you.
It has to have been tough for him. There's not much more he could have done as a cry for help, other than write "help me" on a giant sign with his power ring. No support from his employers. They've a cheek calling themselves guardians if that's their idea of duty of care. No support from his friends either. They just turn up during any old Crisis and it's all "help us save the Cosmic Duffel Coat of Doom from the Anti Ambush Bug." They never just ask him out for a pint and a chat. Poor guy must feel like an abandoned Alan Moore throw away, cast into in a
drift of ownerless power rings, written by inferior scribes. Oh yeah, that is what happened.
We learned about drift in Finance class. Tendency of the market to fluctuate or something like that. The professor lost me after five minutes.
In my statistics class I learned how to yawn with my mouth closed.
Statistics was also my least favorite class last term.
I enjoy being out in a canoe in the sea, just letting the current drift me along.
I could use a vacation by the sea.
I'd not call it homesickness, but I am aware when I'm staying somewhere without a coastal view after a short while.
The beach is one place I do not mind heat.
I do still mind harsh sunlight though.
When I was a kid, during the summer on Saturday we would go first to my Grandmothers. We do some chores and have lunch. After that we went to the beach. I loved jumping in the ocean waves. After the beach we would get ice cream cones.
I tried drifting off for a snooze in the garden, but it clouded over not long after I went out, and a cool breeze started up.
Living in the Philippines, I got used to constant temperatures and nearly consistent weather through the day (if it rains, it usually does so for the better part of the day).
And sunsets! the latest would be 6.30pm.
here in France the sun sets after 10pm, and it can be intensely warm one day and cool and breezy the next.
Mark Twain is credited with the quote "If you don't like the weather in New England, wait a minute."
Our guide in Iceland would joke that you get to experience all four seasons in one day
I loved Bjork's swan dress.
There were a lot of swans in Lake Geneva.
I learned of the Geneva Conventions from watching Hogan's Heroes
I learned a lot of my German from watching Hogan's Heroes.
I took a German language class in 8th grade. If my high school had a German class, I would have taken it. As it is, I regret not taking Latin in high school
I would like to improve my French and Mandarin Chinese, and learn Spanish and more Japanese.
In high school I took Italian for my foreign language because I liked it and thought it would be easy. First day of class and the teacher is reading off the roll. Bertroni, Buonomo, Donatello, Frazetta, Gratzia, Marconi, Parella, Picardi, Ploski Um is your mother Italian? no. *quizzical look from teacher*
Most of my classmates thought I would be from Latin America, Italy, Spain or Portugal.
Well, Invisible Brainiac does sound Spanish
Yes, I can't believe how many of them have friends from back home that are named Invisible Brainiac.
Does it worry you that your duplicates have set up lives of their own?
Aren't they entitled to live their own lives?
According to the Declaration of Human Rights here are the 30 human rights.
Article 1 Right to Equality
Article 2 Freedom from Discrimination
Article 3 Right to Life, Liberty, Personal Security
Article 4 Freedom from Slavery
Article 5 Freedom from Torture and Degrading Treatment
Article 6 Right to Recognition as a Person before the Law
Article 7 Right to Equality before the Law
Article 8 Right to Remedy by Competent Tribunal
Article 9 Freedom from Arbitrary Arrest and Exile
Article 10 Right to Fair Public Hearing
Article 11 Right to be Considered Innocent until Proven Guilty
Article 12 Freedom from Interference with Privacy, Family, Home and Correspondence
Article 13 Right to Free Movement in and out of the Country
Article 14 Right to Asylum in other Countries from Persecution
Article 15 Right to a Nationality and the Freedom to Change It
Article 16 Right to Marriage and Family
Article 17 Right to Own Property
Article 18 Freedom of Belief and Religion
Article 19 Freedom of Opinion and Information
Article 20 Right of Peaceful Assembly and Association
Article 21 Right to Participate in Government and in Free Elections
Article 22 Right to Social Security
Article 23 Right to Desirable Work and to Join Trade Unions
Article 24 Right to Rest and Leisure
Article 25 Right to Adequate Living Standard
Article 26 Right to Education
Article 27 Right to Participate in the Cultural Life of Community
Article 28 Right to a Social Order that Articulates this Document
Article 29 Community Duties Essential to Free and Full Development
Article 30 Freedom from State or Personal Interference in the above Rights
Now we can rate the countries of the world against it. Drift from a Half Decent Humanity...
Sadly we don't seem to apply these principles if there's an arms deal involved, or oil or a bit of money laundering to invite.
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