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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/28/2009 11:47:54 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Mynok


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ORIGINAL: Terminus


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side not from my post last night. how do you go from a really crappy science fiction writer to the leader of even dumber cult


The fact that most people are dumber than a bag of hammers.


One hammer....only one.....

You got the same problem with "stupid as a box of rocks?" See, seems to me that a lot of rocks is a stupider thing than a single rock. Kinda like with rappers and pro basketball players...

I think maybe the same principle could apply to hammers, all bangin' around among themselves ... wait a minute, maybe I was thinkin' of hillbilly families ...


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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/28/2009 11:53:35 PM   
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ORIGINAL: JWE
Only Bog knows

My little droogies and I were having a real horrorshow discussion about the importance - and impotence - of Bog just the other night at the Korova Milk Bar.

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Ever been to Vegas? It’s just like THX-1138; remission of sin in a jackpot.


I dunno ... that movie eventually hit Duvall for me...

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If humans ate their young, we ‘might’ be better off,

Only if they ate 'em all.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/29/2009 12:04:29 AM   
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That's a fine recommendation, Pas. I've read 1984 years ago, but I might have to hunt down Down and Out and "Politics..."

Catch a couple of his collected short works anthologies. He was at his best in the 3-5,000 word range.

Be careful, though, Orwell is an acquired taste, kinda like single malt. Next thing you know, you may be so frustrated by the inherently decadent tendency of language use and its concomitant deteriorating influence on human thought, you'll be pedantically spouting passages from "Strunk & White" trying to save us all from doublethink and the uselessness of placing our hopes for the future in the proles...

well, maybe not...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/29/2009 1:49:34 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/29/2009 2:26:45 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/29/2009 2:50:42 AM   
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Status: offline 		Fellow Threadsters in some delusional state I've taken up biking again. I now have muscles that are complaining bitterly and a knee that looks like a cheap cheese pizza. Strangely there is a warm feeling of accomplishment from this weekends ride, or perhaps that is just the sunburn. I am not really sure this exorcise will lengthen my life as motor vehicles seem to view bikers as slightly more fun than joggers to run off the road. Yet compared to running, treadmills or other torture device a bike is the preferable way to go. At least until AE is released and I return to my troglodyte existence bathed in the light of a computer screen with a wall of reference books in arms reach.

Life is good Tithe

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/29/2009 3:07:06 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/29/2009 3:16:01 AM   
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I'm not a fan for “fighting on the beaches,”
And still less for the “breezy uplands” stuff,
I seldom listen-in to Churchill's speeches,
But I'd far sooner hear that kind of guff
Than your remark, a year or so ago,
That if the Nazis came you'd knuckle under
And peaceably “accept the status quo.”
Maybe you would! But I've a right to wonder
Which will sound better in the days to come,
“Blood, toil and sweat” or “Kiss the Nazi's bum.”

From his “As One Non-Combatant to Another (A Letter to ‘Obadiah Hornbooke’)”.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/29/2009 3:16:47 AM   
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Fellow Threadsters in some delusional state I've taken up biking again. I now have muscles that are complaining bitterly and a knee that looks like a cheap cheese pizza. Strangely there is a warm feeling of accomplishment from this weekends ride, or perhaps that is just the sunburn. I am not really sure this exorcise will lengthen my life as motor vehicles seem to view bikers as slightly more fun than joggers to run off the road. Yet compared to running, treadmills or other torture device a bike is the preferable way to go. At least until AE is released and I return to my troglodyte existence bathed in the light of a computer screen with a wall of reference books in arms reach.

Life is good Tithe



Good stuff, tgw! Biking is my preferred endurance activity, but I've not had enough chance to practice it lately.

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LOG! - 6/29/2009 3:33:42 AM   
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ORIGINAL: thegreatwent

Fellow Threadsters in some delusional state I've taken up biking again. I now have muscles that are complaining bitterly and a knee that looks like a cheap cheese pizza. Strangely there is a warm feeling of accomplishment from this weekends ride, or perhaps that is just the sunburn. I am not really sure this exorcise will lengthen my life as motor vehicles seem to view bikers as slightly more fun than joggers to run off the road. Yet compared to running, treadmills or other torture device a bike is the preferable way to go. At least until AE is released and I return to my troglodyte existence bathed in the light of a computer screen with a wall of reference books in arms reach.

Life is good Tithe


biking if far easier on the joints than running.



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RE: LOG! - 6/29/2009 4:00:54 AM   
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Status: offline 		I am not sure I want to play a game in which I may lose my winkie. This reminds me of a science fiction book by Harlan Ellison, I think. In a side note in the book there was a gambling device in Las Vegas where you could do precisely that

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/29/2009 4:01:11 AM   
USSAmerica


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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/29/2009 5:13:28 AM   
thegreatwent


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Status: offline 		Good night Thread, AE is one less day away.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/29/2009 5:31:14 AM   
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Good night Thread, AE is one less day away.



Some days, I worry AE is like Xeno's tortoise, and we only close half the remaining distance at a time.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/29/2009 7:51:26 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/29/2009 8:12:44 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/29/2009 8:45:54 AM   
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Good morning!


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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/29/2009 8:57:08 AM   
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Status: offline 		Notice how Matrix has announced War in the East? Now you can stop talking about AE.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/29/2009 9:16:02 AM   
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Notice how Matrix has announced War in the East? Now you can stop talking about AE.


Shame on you!


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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/29/2009 12:22:46 PM   
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Notice how Matrix has announced War in the East? Now you can stop talking about AE.


Oh good. I was getting bored with it.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/29/2009 2:13:19 PM   
USSAmerica


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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/29/2009 2:49:44 PM   
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Mondays suck tithe.....

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/29/2009 3:59:20 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/29/2009 4:00:56 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/29/2009 4:22:22 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/29/2009 4:45:22 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/29/2009 4:55:43 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/29/2009 4:57:52 PM   
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Summer has arrived   It's a good feeling being sat at home knowing the rest of the world is enjoying their Monday at work   Not so sure I'll feel this way on Wednesday.  Or when I'm doing the nightshift 


I'm not at work either! Going to Swindon tomorrow for an interview...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/29/2009 5:26:53 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 6/29/2009 5:35:19 PM   
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Continuing in the same vein, today is my Monday, Thursday is my Friday, Saturday is my hangover.


...with lots of noisy fireworks to compound it.

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