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Post by miles on Jun 6, 2021 19:09:47 GMT
Another Bankhead quote: My parents warned me about men and alcohol, but they never told me about women and cocaine."
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Post by donavan on Jun 6, 2021 21:01:36 GMT
I can't and she doesn't want to - Mr Enlarged Prostate ft. Mrs Menopause (The so dragged out Manchester version)
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Post by donavan on Jun 6, 2021 21:55:04 GMT
I hate zoos.
Laurie Anderson
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Post by miles on Jun 9, 2021 17:10:08 GMT
A poem by Auden from 1940
The Unknown Citizen
(To JS/07 M 378 This Marble Monument Is Erected by the State)
He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be One against whom there was no official complaint, And all the reports on his conduct agree That, in the modern sense of an old-fashioned word, he was a saint, For in everything he did he served the Greater Community. Except for the War till the day he retired He worked in a factory and never got fired, But satisfied his employers, Fudge Motors Inc. Yet he wasn't a scab or odd in his views, For his Union reports that he paid his dues, (Our report on his Union shows it was sound) And our Social Psychology workers found That he was popular with his mates and liked a drink. The Press are convinced that he bought a paper every day And that his reactions to advertisements were normal in every way. Policies taken out in his name prove that he was fully insured, And his Health-card shows he was once in hospital but left it cured. Both Producers Research and High-Grade Living declare He was fully sensible to the advantages of the Instalment Plan And had everything necessary to the Modern Man, A phonograph, a radio, a car and a frigidaire. Our researchers into Public Opinion are content That he held the proper opinions for the time of year; When there was peace, he was for peace: when there was war, he went. He was married and added five children to the population, Which our Eugenist says was the right number for a parent of his generation. And our teachers report that he never interfered with their education. Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd: Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.
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Post by miles on Jul 22, 2021 20:45:44 GMT
"Yes, I'm worried about the Delta variant and rightly so, but I'll be honest I'm mostly getting vaccinated knowing that it will significantly reduce my risk of being exposed to an Eric Clapton concert." -Hunter Felt
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Post by donavan on Jul 26, 2021 15:08:19 GMT
I promise to do better
- Merra
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Post by Terra Incognita on Jul 26, 2021 15:55:35 GMT
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Post by miles on Jul 27, 2021 17:00:43 GMT
Going back in time to 1966, and the Fulbright commission studying the ongoing war in Vietnam.
A reporter had written to Fulbright in early 1966 to say "the war is not going well. If there is a God, and he is very kind to us, and given a million men, and five years, and a miracle in making the South Vietnamese people like us, we stand an outside chance—of a stalemate."
Come on, give it to me straight.
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Post by Terra Incognita on Jul 27, 2021 17:49:38 GMT
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Post by donavan on Jul 27, 2021 18:57:32 GMT
When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front-row seat.
- George Carlin.
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Post by miles on Aug 1, 2021 16:42:58 GMT
"Skepticism (is) the virtuous mean between two vices: absolute knowledge and absolute ignorance." — Odo Marquard,
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Post by miles on Aug 6, 2021 17:12:10 GMT
"If people think vaccine mandates feel “disempowering,” they should try respiratory intubation." -Crashing Vor
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Post by Mare on Aug 6, 2021 18:05:17 GMT
I watched part of the hearing on TV and caught some excerpts on the news. The officers went through something that no one should ever go through and the suicides of four of the officers tells me that those who instigated this nightmarish event should be locked away forever. Heinous.
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Post by Mare on Aug 6, 2021 18:06:53 GMT
I threw my head back and laughed aloud as I listened to the lyrics, Terra Incognita. Thank you for the guffaws!
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Post by donavan on Aug 9, 2021 5:25:06 GMT
The monsters were never under my bed. Because the monsters were inside my head.
I fear no monsters, for no monsters I see. Because all this time the monster has been me.
- Nikita Gill
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