[Found here.]
Seems like one of two things happened at this zoo. Either a panda escaped into the reptile pen, or a cold-blooded croc decided to have it’s way with a warm-blooded mammal.
Oh yeah. It could happen. It’s common fodder for inane collegiate/stoner all-night bull sessions about the possibility of producing a human/chimpanzee hybrid, whether it could or should be done, and someone always points out that we share 99% of the same DNA as apes. BFD.
Considering that we also share a majority of genes with celery, and 70% of the same DNA with sea sponges, the discussion deteriorates from merely absurd to the level of “What if a single atom in my fingernail were really a small universe, and pass me another cold one, dude” type intellectual depravity.
Yet come to think of it, I’ve met people who think and act more like celery and sponges, and you probably have as well, but you won’t find them here on an Overnight Open Thread.
Tags: Biology, celery, chimpanzees, DNA, Evolution, Half Breed, Humans, hybrid, Obsure reference to America's "Ventura Highway", Open thread, Song by Cher, sponges
Southern Cal boys are trying to confuse me with the posts tonight.
Hey {Calo}! How are you tonight?
@ Lily:
Hi Lily – I swear, Savage had a post up a few minutes ago about LVQ and it disappeared! (my pain med is not THAT good). How was PT today?
And Bunk if you are around I am terribly sorry for being a drama queen last night. P/T is wearing me thin…
A vid for you since I was a drama Queen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REElUors1pQ
Calo wrote:
Painful. I am so sorry for being moody last night. P/T is making me moody at times.
So your pain meds aren’t working well? Damn. What are you on?
Mine aren’t that great either…bone pain is a b*tch.
Calo wrote:
Confused? I can answer any and all questions.
@ Bunk X:
{Bunk} can you forgive me?
Lily wrote:
Lily, my snark meter was malfunctioning last night. I thought it was at 2 or 3, but it was more like 7 or 8. No offense meant, and none taken. Maybe I should use emoticons more.
@ Bunk X:
Ahhhhhhh I normally can handle the snark….. I was off my game also.
Oh that vid was dancing queen…not drama queen…messed up there too!
Calo wrote:
Rodan shifted it to DoD. I’m gonna have a look.
@ Lily:
I am trying to be conservative on the narcotics. I am on Tramadol but at bedtime, I increase it’s effectiveness with a Benadryl. Somehow, it has a synergistic effect with Tramadol.
@ Lily:
We’re cool. Sometimes people bump.
Bite me pandagator.
@ Calo:
Tramadol isn’t that a anti-inflammatory?
I’m on hydrocodone….it just takes the edge off.
I don’t want to be on anything stronger…..but when they put me
anti-inflammatories didn’t touch it at all..they told me stop
taking them.
Now that’s a croc!
Bunk X wrote:
I normally don’t though!
@ Lily:
No, it’s not an anti-inflammatory. It’s a synthetic narcotic. Whatever that means. I don’t get sleepy from it though.
Lily wrote:
Any fairly chronic pain changes you. There’s an extra irritability factor. Don’t be hard on yourself, {Lily}
@ yenta-fada:
Yenta – if I recall correctly, you have arthritis that keeps you up?
And, FurryFace… a bad spine?
Calo wrote:
Rheumatoid and the other kind, plus…. This yenta could kvetch.
I heard it doesn’t do any good though.
It’s the Friday nite kvetch hour.
Calo wrote:
Furry old guy has problems walking.
@ yenta-fada:
That’s true. I don’t think I was much fun to be around until they finally found something that works on my neck pain.
Of course, the fact that I was working with idiots at the time it started didn’t help…
We could get together and do each others drugs.
@ yenta-fada:
I rarely hear you complain. Just a little factoid I remembered.
Calo wrote:
Oh….don’t know what it is……it doesn’t help the pain?
lobo91 wrote:
What worked? No cure for stupid though.
Great picture Bunk!
Where do you find these?
yenta-fada wrote:
Thanks {yenta}!
Calo wrote:
Thanks for remembering. Whining makes me look fat.
@ Lily:
It keeps the pain level. Tolerable. I’ll call the MD if it gets unmanageable.
@ yenta-fada:
The stupid people are still there, but I’m not.
I only have to deal with them by phone or email these days. Which is probably why some of them are still breathing, actually…
I take meloxicam for the neck. It’s an NSAID. Usually used for arthritis, I think.
Calo wrote:
Yet another advantage of dating a nurse practitioner…
savages_girl wrote:
Bunk said that he finds things where nobody else is looking. Like that’s supposed be enlightening.
Now that the gals are done – where are all the boys???
Calo wrote:
Yep that is what mine does tolerable.
Calo wrote:
I don’t count?
@ lobo91:
Thanks.
@ lobo91:
Nah – you are too old.
@ Calo:
LOL!
lobo91 wrote:
Any progress with your possible military assignment? Or are those teh
stupid?
savages_girl wrote:
The possum gets it for him!
/
@ Rodan:
Rodan needs a hot date on Friday’s to keep him busy. Possum is MIA!
@ Rodan:
So bunk has help? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?
Lily wrote:
lol. You gonna be apologizing to Bunk again?
@ yenta-fada:
That would be them.
They were arguing about how whether or not I needed to request a waiver of the rule about how many years we can be mobilized the other day.
I pretty much had to draw it out on a calendar for them before they understood that I didn’t need one. That wasted half a day.
Man, you are soooooooooo anti science! I’m gunna tell Ludwig on you…
@ snork:
Speaking of people who are closely related to celery and sea sponges…
/with apologies to celery and sea sponges
song_and_dance_man wrote:
Arrgh. Piratese it be then! “Bite me crank, Pudwig.” Pass it on, me mates.
lobo91 wrote:
I was thinking more along the lines of jellyfish and horsetail ferns, but…
Lily wrote:
Neither do I, but I make exceptions.
“Bite me crank, Pudwig!”
@ snork:
Whoa!Ludwig will get his knickers in such a twist over that one.
/lugwig he who knows alls and yet knows nothing.
I know this is a s-l-o-w song, but I love Cassandra Wilson’s voice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSwsdh_TMrs&feature=fvst
@ Bunk X:
I would make an expection for that one too.
@ Calo:
Just chilling enjoying my evening.
Bunk X wrote:
Is this gonna be ‘talk like a pirate night’? I gotta bookmark somewhere.
@ yenta-fada:
Yenta….it’s…….
@ Rodan:
Rodan, it’s time you moved on from the Fri/Sat nite threads and find a soul mate.
savages_girl wrote:
I have an image magnetizer program that seeks me out. It works like a tennis ball lobbing machine. The images I’ve seen before I swat away, but occasionally I catch a few instead.
@ Calo:
@ yenta-fada:
Gout for me. Sucks.
@ Rodan:
Check your e-mail.
Calo wrote:
What do you think….this song for him….
Bunk X wrote:
Now THAT’S perfectly clear. Y’all aren’t going for clarity, are ya?
@ yenta-fada:
The really stupid part is that they actually want to get rid of me, because we’re overstrength at my grade (E-9). Since I’m not planning to retire at the moment, sending me overseas is the next best thing.
But the same people who want to get rid of me don’t want me to qualify for my active duty retirement.
So they keep inventing new hoops for me to jump through.
Macker wrote:
So, most of us are awake because of some type of irritation?
Macker wrote:
My husband takes Indomethacin when his is bad. Says it’s amazing.
Calo wrote:
Looks that way doesn’t it?
Calo wrote:
That’s what I call an analytical mind at work!
yenta-fada wrote:
That’s exactly right. There are a lot of blogs of the “Hey Lookit This” type that I peruse, and most of them have the same stuff because they lift from each other. I check out blogs with low traffic, and several foreign blogs as well. There’s some risk in that, but that’s the cost of doing business. It’s an art.
@ Lily:
Yep – we gotta “slide” him a Persian girl…
lobo91 wrote:
Fuldkommen gak.
@ Bunk X:
The results speak for themselves. Definitely an art.
@ yenta-fada:
Teaching old dogs new tricks is fun.
@ yenta-fada:
And looking at the big picture, they’ve wasted so much time on this that if I don’t end up going, that position will end up being unfilled, because there isn’t enough time to find someone to replace me.
So they’re willing to screw a unit that’s going to Afghanistan in order to mess with me.
@ Bunk X:
So this is what you do on the over night threads….
lobo91 wrote:
No wonder you have neck pains…
Rodan wrote:
I took a buncha photos of our own neighborhood possum the other night. I had to turn off the lights in the kitchen and open the screen door to get some clear shots of it eating the catfood. Mrs. Strutts thought there was a lightning storm going on from the camera flashes.
@ Lily:
The reason I have neck pain is the 2 compressed discs in my neck, probably resulting from multiple vehicle accidents over the years.
These people are more in the “pain in the ass” category…
Lily wrote:
Nope. A couple of folks here forwarded links, but that’s it.
lobo91 wrote:
That is painful to hear. In every way. Can you just retire and still get some money?
yenta-fada wrote:
Not if she gives me another hmmmer like that.
@ Bunk X:
I was teasing you.
Music by a nearly-forgotten genius contemporary of J.S. Bach, Jan Dismas Zelenka…
@ yenta-fada:
I qualified for my Reserve retirement 10 years ago.
The difference is that I wouldn’t get anything from it until I turn 60, which is still over 10 years from now.
@ Bunk X:
Yep – you made Lily cry last night. Heartless – no wonder why you are always in trouble with the women in your life.
yenta-fada wrote:
I hope not!
@ snork:
You ever read the Original Animal House story? It’s based upon another called “Night of the Seven Fires” or something like that. Hilariosity muchoness.
Calo wrote:
Hey I did cry….but it was my moodiness more I think.
Calo wrote:
That inspired a song….
@ Bunk X:
Gutter mind there…..
/took me a minute to catch it though
lobo91 wrote:
Heartless aren’t they. Damn shame lobo on the neck….I’ll keep you in my prayers.
@ Lily:
That song is on my Ipod every morning Lily! Get outta my head.
@ Philip_Daniel:
That Zelenka is just lovely.
Calo wrote:
Wow I am on tonight then! Sometimes I’m not.
yenta-fada wrote:
He was one of the few composers whom J. S. Bach genuinely admired…
Some more from Zelenka’s Missa Votiva
@ Lily:
As long as I take my medication, it’s not too bad.
There was a point where I could barely turn my head to the right, though. Made driving fun…
yenta-fada wrote:
Here‘s a biography of him…
@ lobo91:
Glad to hear it is under control!
Philip_Daniel.
Islam for “Beginners” every Saturday AM would be much appreciated.
lobo91 wrote:
I hated being a wage slave. Even though I was a professional, it still feels like punching a time clock at some levels. Now I’m insane and play the stock market. I found out late in life I’m not lucky, but I’m not greedy. That, and a lot of work has yielded good results. But the work was on MY time and that makes all the difference. Of course, you can’t afford to wait 10 years between drinks.
Drive -by (vrooommm!)
watching Food Network TV – Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives and noew Chefs Vs City.
made my jerky brine and sliced my meat. Everything’s ready to go!
(OK, resume Friday night conversation…)
Lily wrote:
Ludwig, you’re starved for attention, huh. It’s understandable. Most of what you’ve been taught all your life has been disproven, you’re forced to flail in your own vapors, and the only way you feel you can redeem your miserable little petulant pedantic self is with personal insults and vitriol. Keep at it. Congratulations are in order, though, since more than one blog is laughing at you, and you don’t even have one.
Another song….
Got a live one over @ DoD…
Philip_Daniel wrote:
Amazing the undiscovered geniuses old and new. Unless artists can promote themselves, they dwell in obscurity.
@ yenta-fada:
This tour will take care of most of my problems (financially, anyway). I’ll make enough to pay off all my debts other than the house, and it’ll mean that I won’t have to worry about a paycheck for close to 2 years.
And then I’ll start getting my retirement pay and medical coverage. It’s not enough to live on comfortably, but it’s enough that I can afford to take a part-time job, or do something that doesn’t pay all that much.
That’s been the biggest problem I’ve had in the past year. There are jobs out there, but they pay less than I get from unemployment (and a lot less that what I spend monthly).
@ lobo91:
I had neck surgery last year (one of 4 times I ended up in the hospital last year).
Bulging disc and pinched nerve. Always had some neck problems and then one day I turned my head and BAM! Really really painful… constant pain… I think God every day for the neurosurgeon who did my surgery. He was a God-send. The man knew how I felt – he had the same surgery himself.
so much better now.
@ Macker:
Hey come over to DOD.
Bunk X wrote:
Damn bunk….I thought I was a drama queen. I now declare just moody at times.
lud is a drama queen. Hands down.
@ snork:
It’s Cato.
snork wrote:
And they call us stalkers. LoL!
savages_girl wrote:
Glad to hear that sg.
yenta-fada wrote:
snork wrote:
I was just going to post that over here.
Now we’re the islamists. But, we are against islam. But islam would be against islam, and building a mosque.
How do you makem snowballs in summertime?
Good evening all. Hope everyone is doing well tonight. I’m happy as a clam to be here.
Bunk X wrote:
I’d like to try that. Ever read the original M*A*S*H*? I’m here for three addictions. I’m watching Lockup even though I work in a prison. I’m playing two online computer browser games I’m hooked on, and drinking vodka with a beer chaser. It’s the last one that puts an end to the first two, I’ll be gone in another hour. (Iron Fist Rule)
@ Bunk X:
I hate blockquotes.
linoleumknife wrote:
Hey lk! Hope you are doing well……..need a song?
Bunk X wrote:
They are out to get you aren’t they?
/little evil boxes
@ linoleumknife:
evening linoleumknife!
I used to watch Lock Up. That’s a whole different world…
I’m watching Chefs Vs City (something light and food-related)…
@ savages_girl:
The only surgery anyone ever discussed with me was fusing some of the vertebrae.
The surgeon I talked to advised against it, and so did the physical therapist I was seeing at the time.
@ linoleumknife:
Howdy.
@ linoleumknife:
LK – hope you are keeping cool tonight.
@ lobo91:
As long as you don’t cut back on Leia’s brisket, you can be frugal.
Calo wrote:
Here we go.
yenta-fada wrote:
Leia needs to find a job…
yenta-fada wrote:
It’s Total Fuldkommen Gak. It’s a way of life. Live it. Love it.
@ Bunk X:
I think calo would approve.
I just had to make the FLOTUS post. I cannot tolerate this low life. I’m sure they are underestimating the costs for her and her 40 friends and 70 secret service agents at 5-star European hotels and restaurants. This is more than a million, for sure. Should be in the damn U.S.press.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1300852/Spanish-police-close-public-beach-Michelle-Obamas-250k-Spanish-holiday.html
Bunk X wrote:
Embrace the gak?
lobo91 wrote:
Iditarod?
http://www.iditarod.com/
yenta-fada wrote:
Yes it should. They are spending our taxes like no tomorrow.
/read also she didn’t even attend her own husbands expensive
birthday party…..just phoned in… Classy!
@ Lily:
Sounds good, I would love one.
@ savages_girl:
@ lobo91:
@ Calo:
Hey guys.
@ Lily:
Sorta like that, but I do it more like this.
@ yenta-fada:
She’s not big enough to be a sled dog.
Maybe she could be a sideline reporter. Does Animal Planet cover the race?
@ Lily:
Yep -besides Rodan, who is unattached here? The baby of the ONT’s? Philip_Daniel?
@ Bunk X:
Now that is different.
lobo91 wrote:
Animal Planet covers the planet.
@ Calo:
So, you are out to fix up all the men?
they ain’t broke… they don’t need fixin’…
Calo wrote:
There’s only one who I’m never in trouble with. The rest don’t mean much to me.
@ linoleumknife:
Maybe you would like this…….
Bunk X wrote:
Harsh!!!!
Got a joke for y’all.
Charlie was fixing a door and found that he needed a new hinge, so he sent his wife Mary to Lowes. At Lowes, Mary saw a beautiful bathroom faucet while she was waiting for Walt, the manager, to finish waiting on a customer. When Walt came over, Mary asked ‘How much for that faucet?’ Walt replied, ‘That’s pewter and it costs $400. ‘Damn, thats sure a lot of money for a faucet!’ Mary exclaimed. Then she proceeded to describe the hinge that Charlie had sent her to buy, Walt went to the back room to find it. From the back room Walt yelled, ‘Mary, you wanna screw for that hinge?’ Mary yelled back, ‘No, but I would for the faucet.’ and this is why you can’t send a woman to Lowes.
yenta-fada wrote:
Remember when Nancy Reagan replaced the White House china? State dinners had become so large they didn’t have enough to accommodate the guests. She bought a new set with donated money and the press still had a field day.
Calo wrote:
I’m still in the semi-attached stage at the moment…
Calo wrote:
Don’t know…a few. But I’m not too good at match making.
snork wrote:
I’ll stay here and cover the door.
@ Calo:
LOL, I am in that group. Freshly released about 3 months ago. I was supposed to have a date this evening before work, but she didn’t show. That was the first time I have been stood up. LOL, it has to be better than getting in a relationship and finding out the hard way.
@ Lily:
OOOOHHH, thanks Lily. Great song. The nineties had some awesome freaking music.
@ savages_girl:
I still would like to see Rodan happy with someone. Call me a “sap”.
@ linoleumknife:
I thought you might like it….
@ savages_girl:
Speak fer yerself, I know I need some fixin’.
@ linoleumknife:
Sorry you got stood up….
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
And
FurryFace graces us with his presence. How are you tonight?
@ linoleumknife:
I’ve been stood up… a couple of times at least that I remember… it sucks. It’s so mean to do someone.
Rancher wrote:
Nancy Reagan saw her husband through early Alzheimer’s disease when he was still president. Quite a remarkable task. She has more character in her toes than ‘chelle could ever dream of. The latter probably went to Spain on your dime over a hissy fit with her hubby.
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
Well we need more single ladies on the blog then!
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
We were talking about you. Drugs were involved. The prescription kind.
Lily wrote:
Stood up seems to be my fate.
@ Calo:
Rodan needs someone who is smart and can keep up with him…
Here’s another one for you lk….
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
Sorry to hear about that too FG…
@ Rancher:
Yep. I reread M*A*S*H a couple of years ago to pass the time at airports. Catch 22 is another similar classic, as is One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. All three are better than the movie versions, IMO.
Goodnight all!
Bunk X wrote:
Actually, I thought that was kinda romantic.
@ Lily:
@ savages_girl:
It does suck to a degree, but it’s all good. I had only talked to her over the phone a couple of times. I was sitting at the bar in the restaraunt where she works so it’s not like I had put a lot into it. I guess in the end it is still nice to know that I can get a phone number. LOL, that is the first step when you get out of a long term relationship.
Rodan wrote:
‘night, handsome.
yenta-fada wrote:
You want some of mine that I refuse to take unless absolutely* needed?
Have some hydrocodone, naproxen, and methocarbamol.
*absolutely needed translates to ad kalendas graecas.
@ Lily:
The little bastards trip me up
Calo…..what do you think about this one….
savages_girl wrote:
So do I.
Fortunately, I may have found someone like that…
@ Rodan:
Good night Rodan
@ Lily:
I just wish they would be honest from the outset and just say they aren’t interested, especially the ones that initiate things like a date.
@ linoleumknife:
Well you got the first step down the rest will follow.
yenta-fada wrote:
Breath the gak. Enjoy the gak. Get into the gak’s mind. BE THE GAK.
@ Lily:
Fuldkommen Gak at it’s best.
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
They should. I was in my younger days. I didn’t like not knowing…so I let them know. Some didn’t take it well though. I was nice.
Bunk X wrote:
I would say so!
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
Oh yeah!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIzRGHuJt_I
@ Lily:
With age was supposed to come maturity and wisdom.
In my case I just got gas and older.
Well, I have to get up in a few hours for my pre-assessment thing.
I should get to bed.
Wish me luck!
@ Lily:
LOL, yeah. It’s kind of weird being out there after so long, but I really can’t complain. Atleast I wasn’t married to my ex. That would have been much worse.
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
You aren’t kidding bud. That is the one thing that just gets under my skin. I don’t mind if you don’t like me, just don’t lie about it.
Bunk X wrote:
Blame it on the keyboard or the rain … it could not possibly be you!
lobo91 wrote:
@ lobo91:
Nite lobo!
@ lobo91:
Good luck Lobo. I’ll try and put in a good word with the man upstairs for you.
Bunk X wrote:
Never read a book that wasn’t better than the movie. Some are worse than others, M*A*S*H* and Cuckoo’s Nest
were not bad at all, Dune, one of my favorite books, was a terrible movie. Another of my favorite books, The Pillars of the Earth, is about to become a mini series on Starz. I never know if I should take the plunge or not, but mini series seem to be a better format for good books, Shogun was pretty good.
Lily wrote:
Harsh? I got my woman, and I don’t be needing no other.
@ linoleumknife:
What’s also “fun” is getting reactions such as:
“You?!? EWWWWWWWWW!”
“You? Yeah, right.”
Or the perennial favorite, unending laughter.
@ yenta-fada:
It is his wife is what matters as should be.
@ Rancher:
I found the movie version of The Godfather to be better than the book, but YMMV.
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
Are you the mailman on Cheers?
Calo wrote:
You’re a sap. You’re welcome.
Rancher wrote:
LOVE Dune. In retrospect, notice how much Islam was incorporated?
@ Bunk X:
I WAS TEASING!
/gonna make me cry again!
@ lobo91:
Good luck!
@ Lily:
Cliff Clavin? Hardly.
Bunk X wrote:
I’m seeing the snark…
Lily wrote:
Lucky for both of them.
I mean that.
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
Again teasing. I certainly hope no woman has told you those things.
Now that is harsh!
yenta-fada wrote:
I’m sucking up to the single women here. Hedging my bets, just in case…
Rancher wrote:
I don’t like the way it appropriates “jihad” as if that phenomenon were not evil…
yenta-fada wrote:
So do I….I was just teasing….or snarking.
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
How about “Prizzi’s Honor”? Jack Nicholson saying “Should I marry her, or should I ice her”?
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
Oh man, been there.
i am always afraid to mess up your nic – FOG.
@ yenta-fada:
I read many years ago an interview with Frank Herbert that Spice was a thinly veiled allusion to oil, hence the prevalence of so much Islamic “culture”.
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
Dude, you need to try and change your hunting grounds. I have had a couple of reactions like that, but they were from vapid teenage girls in highschool.
Philip_Daniel wrote:
Yes, wasn’t that bowing down to “Muad Dib” the representation of the Mahdi?
@ Rancher:
Books in almost all cases are better than the movies. There are a few exceptions but very few.
Lily wrote:
As a matter of fact they have, especially the laughter bit.
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
For sure. However the cult that went with the power of oil was all Islamist, no?
Bunk X wrote:
As a married woman….you need some practice…..just my opinion as a woman.
/this is snark
@ linoleumknife:
LOL, now that I look at that reply I’m afraid it might come across as me thinking you are going after highschool girls. What I was trying to get at is, try meeting women in a different place. Or try moving to a new area. Maybe all the womyns up there in the PNW are just airheads.
/I am not talking about you SG. You’re teh awesome.
@ yenta-fada:
I rarely read fiction books, except for something by Piers Anthony or David Eddings. Mostly it is non-fiction that gets my interest.
I used to read quite a lot in my younger days. Now it is an accomplishment if I can read 10 or more pages a day.
Rancher wrote:
Dune was an awesome book, but it was a mistake to try to make it into a movie as most of the action took place in the character’s minds. My sister purchased a copy for me and stood in line at a bookstore where Frank Herbert was autographing copies. She got tired of waiting and left. A week later Herbert died.
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
@ linoleumknife:
It is representative of the whole liberal outlook here.
The few exceptions are already taken.
Lily wrote:
Unless you got something better to offer. I mean, sure, I’m loyal, but I’m not blind.
@ Bunk X:
Referring to your post up top, I remember an article not too long ago, in an issue of I.C.R.’s Acts & Facts, speaking of an actual experiment some crazy “scientists” had done, mating chimp seed with human women, a few decades ago…..all the ladies died….. ):
@ Bunk X:
I’d like to unleash some of those gom jabbars in a few corridors of power. See how those ‘leaders’ would hold up.
Bunk X wrote:
Got my hubby and don’t need no other….I am surrounded by males two sons and even the dog.
Ma Sands wrote:
Good heavens!!!! Nice to see you ma sands!
Lily wrote:
I know! No need to be defensive at all. But if you cry, you’re gonna have to put it up on the Utoobage. Topless.
I never read The Godfather or Prizzi’s Honor so I can’t comment, I did like the movies however. Dune and Islam? The book romanticized Islam, otherwise no one would get behind the Fremen. For example I noticed no honor killing of females for being raped by their brothers. I read Dune before the Iranians attacked our embassy and way before I had any idea what Islam was all about. I’m glad, it might have soured the experience.
@ Lily:
Howdy. Thanks. : )
yenta-fada wrote:
…which loosely means “teacher” in Arabic.
yenta-fada wrote:
Actually, I think Putin would be the only one to pass the test of conquering fear in the face of death.
Philip_Daniel wrote:
Interesting. They acted like they were hypnotized in his presence. Maybe it was just the “Spice”.
yenta-fada wrote:
There were several factions in Dune that were trying to bring about their version of a Super Being, the Bene Gesserit (an amalgam of Judaism and Christianity) had Kwisatz Haderach.
Bunk X wrote:
There will be crying.
@ Rancher:
I read Dune long before I knew anything at all about Islam. Wish the Islamic genie could be put back in the bottle permanently.
Philip_Daniel wrote:
Given the time Dune was penned, “jihad” meant merely “fight” or “struggle.” It certainly didn’t have the same connotations the word does now, and Herbert shouldn’t be blamed for that.
Lily wrote:
THERE WILL BE NO CRYING!!!!
PIMF
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
Yes. And all of them wanted control of the Spice trade. Oil means war.
*urp*
(home made salsa with yellow corn tortilla chips)
Lily wrote:
So, the topless is still happening?
Bunk X wrote:
Then you need to read the book that inspired both MASH and Catch 22:
The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Svejk During the World War
Number 234 needs to be deleted. Asap!
Bunk X wrote:
In Western colloquialism, yes. But Herbert was a scholar, and he should’ve been cognizant of the bloody “tears of jihad” as the director of the contemporary Center for the Study of Political Islam, Bill Warner, puts it, which historians of the century such as Hurgronje and Duforcq wrote extensively about…
yenta-fada wrote:
NO, NO, NO. PIMF…….Horrible pimf there!
@ yenta-fada:
Control of the spice trade was actually secondary to each faction achieving their version of the coming Messiah/Imam.
I found Dune to be pretentious and overblown, something L. Ron would have authored.
Lily wrote:
Spoken just like a woman. Chicks dig me.
@ Bunk X:
Herbert knew exactly what jihad meant and means to a Muslim, as was his intention of using it in several contexts including the Butlerian Jihad.
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
Hey!! LOL, that sounds good. I could use a snack while I’m working.
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (the book and the film adaptation by the author, Hayao Miyazaki, himself) is much better, despite its leftist metaphysics…
@ linoleumknife:
I like making my own version of salsa, each new batch never tastes the same.
Bunk X wrote:
yeeeaaahhhhh riiiggghht! You are the big toe.
yenta-fada wrote:
They even call him “Mahdi” at one point, IIRC. It’s been years since I’ve read the book. I thought that SCI-Fi channel miniseries that was filmed on soundstages in Prague in front of painted backdrops like a 50′s Biblical epic was more faithful to the book than the David Lynch movie.
@ Lily:
And I’m either the hangnail or bunion.
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
LOL!
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
Oh well. I’m easily amused.
Light’s out for me….nite everyone!
@ The Osprey:
The costuming of the SciFi mini-series did take some getting used to, but I found it a good layering of the decadence of the Galactic Empire.
Lynch totally misunderstood the intent of the books, as is the norm in Hollywood.
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
My mom and I make salsa about once a year. We make probably about 100 pints a year. We give them out as gifts and stuff and of course we eat quite a bit.
@ linoleumknife:
100 pints a year?!? I do that in 2 months.
Yes, I like my “recipe”.
@ yenta-fada:
Good night Lily. Thanks for the good tunes.
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
It’s been decades since I read it, so I’ll plead foggy memory and the naivete of my earlier years. I gave up reading fiction years ago as well.
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
Well we make it all at once. It’s keeps pretty well if you can it in Mason jars.
linoleumknife wrote:
Night to all. I was NOT going to stay up late. Dammit. It’s 3:00 am here. sigh.
yenta-fada wrote:
You might find David Eddings to your liking then.
I especially liked his stand-alone novel, The Redemption of Althalus.
Lily wrote:
@ linoleumknife:
I make it in half-gallon batches.
I started out making it quart sized and “graduated” by sizing up each batch.
@ yenta-fada:
Nite’ Yenta. Have a good day tomorrow.
yenta-fada wrote:
My understanding of Frank Herbert’s (Frank was a practicing Jew) Dune was that it was based on the court intrigue of the House of David and that Muad Dib was suppose to represent the promised Jewish Messiah.
@ Bunk X:
Rent or borrow a copy of the SciFi miniseries, but make sure it is the unrated/European cut not the American cut. The American cut of the miniseries at times makes the Lynch version of Dune look like high art.
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
Well I wouldn’t mind doing it like that. It’s just that it’s hard for us to get together often enough for that. It’s nice letting it sit for awhile in the jar though. It gives the jalapenos more time to do their thing.
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
The Lynch version was cut down from over 3 hours. Even though I understood the plot, the movie lost me.
@ linoleumknife:
Mine never lasts long enough to “ferment”, I cook with mine nearly every day.
@ Bunk X:
Lynch didn’t have a clue about why the books were cult classics, even his extended/director’s cut version would have been a mish-mash.
Oh, one movie that actually improved upon the source novel is The Lord of the Rings. Yes, I know it is three books, but it is a single story. Same goes for the Peter Jackson movies.
The books read like they were written by a philologist, which Tolkien was.
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
Haha, ferment. I call it maturity.
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
I will disagree slightly there. I don’t think that the Lord of the Rings movie did a bad job. In fact considering what Hollywood does it was a damn good job, but the books were better. There were certain things that had to be left out do to time, and that’s understandable, but as a whole the books were some of the best fiction I have ever read. Of course I don’t read much fiction so I don’t think that is saying a whole whole lot.
Hey folks, I’m calling it a night. Although the refresh is running slow due to videos, there’s always room for just one more:
@ linoleumknife:
I found the pacing of the books to be glacial, the characters ALWAYS breaking out in song to be beyond distracting.
YMMV
This will certainly help to gain more respect for Islam:
2 US, 6 German doctors killed in Afghanistan
The bullet-riddled bodies of two American and six German doctors have been discovered in dense forest in northern Afghanistan, a police official told AFP Saturday.
Provincial police chief Aqa Noor Kintoz said the foreigners and two Afghan men were believed to have been killed by armed men in a remote area of Badakhshan province, according to the testimony of a sole Afghan survivor.
The group of eight foreigners — ophthalmologists — and three Afghans had been travelling between Badakhshan and Nuristan provinces and had spent a few nights in the forest, according to “Saifullah” who was released without being hurt.
Snip
As far as I’m informed were three of the physicians female.
Hey slumbering friends.
I just googled Elon Musk and found myself fight the quicksand of some sick places (think vdare).
There are a lot of creeps out there. I tend to forget that not everyone is normal.
morning all. Was reading that huge thread at DoD. Wow, what a thread of straw.
PaladinPhil wrote:
Notice that when they get flustered they have to resort to the terms “teabagging”?
Lost wrote:
VDARE is loaded with creeps and quasi totalitarian types.
@ Guggi:
Religion of Peace My Ass.
Morning Speranza.
Morning guys.
@ PaladinPhil:
Still going through it.
@ Lost:
Typical troll behaviour. Straw men attacks, questioning, statements that aren’t backed up. Haven’t seen the like for a long while.
@ PaladinPhil:
Phillip did a great job. Why doesn’t she get that as much as they have a right to build it, we have a right to oppose it?
She also calls the people behind this “good Americans.” If that’s the case, why are they persevering with this when so many are offended by it. Surely as good Americans they see and understand why.
Why can’t they compromise?
@ Lost:
Understood. The attacks were interesting since the troll ignored all facts, arguments, and statements. As well it seemed to have a narrow idea about the American Constitution. Even me as a foreigner could tell that it was defining it extremely narrowly, or too broadly. I think everybody jumped it because we haven’t had a decent troll to play with for awhile. Not that this one was decent in any sense of the meaning.
@ PaladinPhil:
She gave a good example of the leftist method of what passes for “debate”. Twisted logic, putting words in your mouth, and finally ad hominems. Note how she felt the need to throw in the scatalogical term “teabagging”. I think it might have been SanFranciscoZionist. I suggest she go through the LGF archives and she can see what her Lord and Master used to publish before she calls us racists and bigots.
PaladinPhil wrote:
Good morning
Well, I am out of here. Things to do, pictures to take, and people to annoy. Later all.
@ Speranza:
SFZ was around for quite awhile. So she is just memory holing the whole past.
/now I am gone.
No, it was was iceweael. Some things are a dead give away.
lobo91 wrote:
Yep, you don’t want to know how little a part-time rookie cashier makes these days. But I figure that if I stick it out for a little while, they may promote me to a better-paying position. And if I have to go looking for some other job at some point, it’ll help to be currently employed even if the job isn’t highly paid.
lobo91 wrote:
I have had frozen-up neck problems too. It’s a bummer and a half. When that went on I added some fairly big convex mirrors so that I did not have to turn around so much.