Waiting for Fitzgerald - Page 213

Spanky · 10-17-2005, 02:17 PM

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Originally posted by Gattigap
"This Web Site Is Currently Unavailable. Please Try Again Later."

I'm slow, and it's Monday, but I didn't really get this one the previous time it was posted, either.

2. Very annoying.

Spanky · 10-17-2005, 02:18 PM

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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Not even close. Pot (well, hash) was being smoked in Europe centuries before the discovery of the new world (and tobacco). Way longer than that in the rest of the world. For centuries ship captains complained that the hardest part of their job was to keep the sailors from smoking the rigging.

In fact, you have inspired me to turn on some 13th & 14th century tunes about smoking the doobie I just happened to have in my office.

I will let the following stand in as my versification of the day:

Puisque je suis fumeux, plains de fumee,
Fumer m'estuet, car, se je ne fumoye,
Ceulx qui dient que j'ay teste fumee
Par fumee, je les desmentiroye.
Et n pourquant ja mais ne fumeroye;
De fumee qui fust contre rayson.
Se je fume, c'est ma compleccion
quolerique qu'ainsi me fayt fumer.
Je fumeray sanz personne graver,
C'est bien fumme: if n'i a point d'outrayge
Quant on fume sans fayre autruy damage.

BR(last two lines: "It's well smoked: there's no outrage done when one smokes without harming another.")C

I always heard it was the lumber companies because they didn't like the competition from Hemp.l

bilmore · 10-17-2005, 02:21 PM

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Originally posted by Spanky
2. Very annoying.

Working for me.

Are you guys on unix systems?

Gattigap · 10-17-2005, 02:24 PM

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Originally posted by bilmore
Working for me.

Are you guys on unix systems?

No. Windows IE.

Bad_Rich_Chic · 10-17-2005, 03:05 PM

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Originally posted by Spanky
I always heard it was the lumber companies because they didn't like the competition from Hemp.l

I think hemp's usefulness as a fiber is overstated. It apparently made pretty crappy ropes, and hemp paper is just shite. Ever worn a hemp shirt? Not pleasant. (Hemp seeds are delicious for cooking, on the other hand.)

And another observation: all good Christians should be appalled at a the war on drugs, because, after all, it's God what made the cannibis plant (and poppies, too, for that matter) and made it so deliciously smokeable. The G is therefore obviously thwarting God's will. Anyway, outlawing a plant is just laughably stupid.

BR("You, in the window box over there by the rhododendrons - you're under arrest!")C

Penske_Account · 10-17-2005, 03:06 PM

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Originally posted by Spanky
Why not? Might spice up the board. .

No time. I am travelling and trying to close a deal mobile.

Penske_Account · 10-17-2005, 03:10 PM

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Originally posted by Sexual Harassment Panda
Even if you support the war? Cuz if that's true, we'll see about 30% fewer posts from Spanky, and 50% fewer from Penske. Can the board survive?

Odds are you have no basis for quoting any odds on this. You may believe this, but I'd really like to see an objective probability analysis to support it.

Nice. The Politics of Division and Baseless Gratuitous Personal Insults(TM) (aka PoDaBGPI). Penske and Turdblossom have taught you well.

sebastian_dangerfield · 10-17-2005, 03:11 PM

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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
I think hemp's usefulness as a fiber is overstated. It apparently made pretty crappy ropes, and hemp paper is just shite. Ever worn a hemp shirt? Not pleasant. (Hemp seeds are delicious for cooking, on the other hand.)

And another observation: all good Christians should be appalled at a the war on drugs, because, after all, it's God what made the cannibis plant (and poppies, too, for that matter) and made it so deliciously smokeable. The G is therefore obviously thwarting God's will. Anyway, outlawing a plant is just laughably stupid.

BR("You, in the window box over there by the rhododendrons - you're under arrest!")C

The people who advocate legalizing pot on the grounds that hemp is a useful product which would be a huge benefit to society are the most comical of the crowd who seek to legalize it for reasons other than its very best, and utterly unproductive, use.

I think the legalization crowd would do 1000X better just saying "Its fun, and safer than booze."

Sexual Harassment Panda · 10-17-2005, 03:16 PM

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Originally posted by Penske_Account

QED.

Penske_Account · 10-17-2005, 03:21 PM

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Originally posted by Sexual Harassment Panda
QED.

Really original. What type of douchewad are you?

Sexual Harassment Panda · 10-17-2005, 03:24 PM

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Originally posted by Penske_Account
Really original. What type of douchewad are you?

One that disagrees with you. I understand you don't handle that well. More PoDaBGPI.

Hank Chinaski · 10-17-2005, 03:32 PM

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Originally posted by Gattigap
No. Windows IE.

My place runs Wangs

Replaced_Texan · 10-17-2005, 03:47 PM

I'm still not here, but I saw this Business Week article over the weekend and thought I'd pass it on.

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The Right and Miers: Sound, Fury, Yawns
Big-name Right-wing bloggers and pundits are livid about Bush's latest Supreme Court pick. So why do polls find only 9% of the GOP faithful oppose her?

For several years, political bloggers of the Left, Right, and interplanetary variety have scorned Washington elites and what many dismiss as "MSM," the Mainstream Media, as hopelessly out of touch with America.

But when it comes to Web-driven furor over President Bush's selection of White House Counsel Harriet Miers for a Supreme Court seat, it's the right-wing blogosphere that looks out of sync with its own grassroots.

While conservative bloggers have sliced, diced, and otherwise eviscerated Miers, Bush's surprise pick to replace Sandra Day O'Connor, new polls show that the Web's chattering classes are magnifying her troubles. Out in the Real America, the one where "online" can still mean the place to hang your wash, conservatives don't share the bloggers' disdain for the unassuming Texas lawyer.

Penske_Account · 10-17-2005, 04:11 PM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I'm still not here, but I saw this Business Week article over the weekend and thought I'd pass it on.

RiNOs.

bilmore · 10-17-2005, 04:33 PM

"So why do polls find only 9% of the GOP faithful oppose her?"

I'm curious. They keep saying things like "9% of the GOP faithful", and "9% of conservative Republicans". What's their breakdown on how we supposedly rank? Do they mean "9% of the Religious Right"?

'Cuz, my impression is that way more than 9% are concerned.