One thing I can say about you Slip is you are more fun than most in here. Ripping , yes, but at least more fun. You have a sense of humor. A rare and special gift it seems among these people. So many in here are simply pompus and arrogant, but you do that with humor! It is a nasty humor, but humor nonetheless, and I will take nasty humor over no humor at all any day. This is the most humorless room I have been in since jury duty, It is like you threw a party at the public library. This is a tough crowd.
It is like an academic morgue in here mostly. I have felt more warmth looking down at the fish on ice at the market. It is like telling jokes in a shark tank. You know I always thought that when a person achieved some wisdom, through knowledge and experience, they would become more "gentle" like a grandfather talking to a child. No sir! The more books you folks read the more blowhard you get. The angle of the snoot just changes. You know what academics I admire? The poets. Only because their entire goal is to condense their idea down to its purest form. They spend all their time crossing out lines while you folks add more and plop some big words in for spice and a nice insult on top. The poets would rather find the perfect word to reduce the rest. Not that I like poetry. Hate most of it to be honest. I just like that idea. I only like one out of a hundred, but that one sure is powerful. On Aug 3, 9:05 pm, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > BB, now look what you have done, tsk tsk tsk. > Now you are going to have to make amends by saying three Our Fathers, > two Hail Marys, and five Sob's, but wait, that 's not all, you will > also have to do 59 sit ups, that is if you can put a vacuum cleaner > hose up your butt to suck in that belly fat far enough to pull it > off. After that you will have to write a letter, in triplicate, to > everyone about how sorry you are about derailing Orn's thread and IF > that is not enough you are going to have to listen to 450 hours > straight of Billy Mays loud mouth, in your face commercials. > I'm sure that Orn might reduce the infraction to a smidgen, after all > he's not that bad of a mod. > > On Aug 3, 10:44 pm, BB47 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I may have missed the point, but I had one. I am trying to avoid > > politics. Sorry to derail your thread. Carry on. > > > On Aug 3, 8:29 pm, ornamentalmind <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > If you read the article, you seem to have missed the point. > > > > On Aug 3, 8:23 pm, BB47 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Can bacon be considered a necessary evil? Am I too simple to be in > > > > this group? I love bacon but I avoid it whenever I am able. > > > > But let me tell you, bacon adds flavor to certain things like nobody's > > > > business. Is it nobody's business? I don't know. I think it should > > > > be a personal choice. Is it basically bad for you? I think it > > > > probably is. Certainly not something you want to eat everyday if your > > > > goal is a really long life. Are there exceptions to that? Probably > > > > Do I want to live a really long life? Not really. But ask me when I > > > > am really close to the end. I might want to extend it. Can't promise, > > > > but maybe. If you told me it was the bacon, I might have to accept > > > > it. It sure was good. > > > > > Is the goal of life to live long? Like 90 something? It doesn't > > > > look that great to me, but being that life is the only game in town, > > > > it might be good enough. What if you sacrificed every single really > > > > good tasting, good feeling thing in life just to live to 90? Was it > > > > worth it? I don't think so. > > > > > On Aug 3, 7:31 pm, ornamentalmind <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > First, a lay of the land by a former FDA head: > > > > > > "Former FDA Commissioner David Kessler: “The End of Overeating: Taking > > > > > Control of the Insatiable American Appetite” > > > > > A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns > > > > > that the direct medical costs of obesity total about $147 billion a > > > > > year. That amounts to nine percent of all US medical costs. It’s also > > > > > over $50 billion more than the annual spending on cancer...." > > > > > > for the rest of this story, go > > > > > to:http://www.democracynow.org/2009/8/3/former_fda_commissioner_david_ke... > > > > > > And now for the weapons: > > > > > > "From the McDonald’s McGriddle to Wendy’s “Baconator” to “baconnaise” > > > > > to bacon-infused vodka, bacon has become a ubiquitous ingredient in > > > > > many diets in this era of extreme food combinations. Arun Gupta of The > > > > > Indypendent writes, “Behind the proliferation of bacon offerings is a > > > > > confluence of government policy, factory farming, the boom in fast > > > > > food and manipulation of consumer taste that has turned bacon into a > > > > > weapon of mass destruction.” ..." > > > > > > for the rest of this story go > > > > > to:http://www.democracynow.org/2009/8/3/arun_gupta_on_bacon_as_a-Hidequotedtext > > > > > - > > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
