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Tuesday, December 24
Out-of-body operation banishes tumours For the first time, cancer has been treated by removing an organ from the body, giving it radiotherapy and then re-implanting it. The out-of-body operation allows doctors to administer high doses of radiation to widespread tumours without affecting other organs. Doctors in Italy used the technique to treat a 48-year-old man with multiple tumours in his liver. One year after the operation, which took 21 hours, the man is alive and well. His liver is functioning normally and the latest scans have not revealed any signs of tumours. Here for more Friday, December 20
It was one of those days where I was finding it difficult to even put on pants much less leave the house. You know that kind of day, right? The last day of a long weekend. The day at the end of a vacation. The day you put everything off until because on Monday, after a whole weekend of moderate to heavy drinking, you wake up at six in the morning feeling miraculously rejuvenated; possibly due to the slurred payer of "Baby Jesus if you get me through this night I'll never..." You decide that a few more hours rest could only do your body good so you set the alarm for nine and hit the snooze button regularly until you awake at half past one with a splitting headache and a mouth that feels/reeks/tastes very much like how you'd image an orgy at a leper colony feeling/reeking/tasting. You curse the foul trick that Baby Jesus played on you and vow to worship the devil from here on in. The rest of the day is spent waking up. Tuesday is, of course, TV/recovery/Boy George Behind the Music day so nothing can get done then. Come Wednesday you're rarin to go. You are brimming with intention and you actually manage to get a good two hours of work done. You need a break of course, you're not super-human, and you'll get right back to work after lunch, and after you quickly check your E-mail...Hey is that _____? I haven't seen her in fifteen years, I'll just IM her a quick hello and then get back to work. The rest of the day degrades into surfing the web, downloading porn, and masturbating until you're disgusted with yourself. At 1:57 am you try and get back to work, but who can concentrate at 1:57 am!? It's just not fair! What do they expect from you! I mean you did do TWO solid hours of work! You masturbate one more time and fall asleep at your desk, figuring that's where you need to be when you wake up anyway, so... Thursday is the I-can't-work-because-this-place-is-such-a-mess-clean-every-room-from-top-to-bottom-day. Once the filth pogrom is over, and you eat and shower (and re-clean the bathroom) you decide to get to bed early so you can get a fresh start on Friday. Friday, early Friday morning you realize that if this were a normal week then Friday and Saturday would be your traditional relaxation days. Far be it from you to break tradition. Two days of loud music, laughter, and fun gives way to Sunday. Guilt day. Today. As I was saying, I was having a hard time even putting on pants, and I knew that everything that needed to get done had to be done today. Wednesday, December 18
The True Story of Santa: By Martha Brockenbrough When I was old enough to notice that Santa and my mother had exactly the same handwriting, my parents gave me a book called, Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus. The book was a reprint of an actual letter a girl about my age had written to the editor of the New York Sun in 1897, asking if there really was a Santa Claus. The girl reasoned that if the newspaper had printed it, it had to be true. Shows how much Virginia knew. That same newspaper had printed a long article 60 years earlier about the winged creatures that lived on the Moon. At any rate, the editor wrote back and said there was indeed a Santa Claus, and that he would continue to make kids happy for 100,000 years. Monday, December 16
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The "Cumberland Spaceman" Cumbria, May 1964. At the time, Blue Streak missiles were being assembled in Cumbria and then being shipped to Woomera for test launches. Mr Jim Templeton, who was at the time with the Cumbrian Fire Brigade, took his daughter onto the marshes nearby to have her photograph taken in her new frock. There was nobody else on the marshes apart from a couple of old ladies, and even the normally plentiful cows and sheep had huddled at the far end of the marsh as if they had been frightened. 
Unwittingly, Mr Templeton captured the bizzare image above. The figure was not seen until the photograph was developed. After the photograph was published in a local Cumbrian newspaper Jim Templeton received calls from the Government telling him "not to persure the matter and to drop it". In the meantime Jim had two visitors who called at the fire station where he worked. They were dressed like typical bowler hatted Civil Servants who when asked would not show their identification. "Can I ask where you are from?" asked Jim, "No you can't, we are Her Majesties Government" was the reply. They asked Jim to show them the site where he took the photograph and drove him to the site in their car, a Jaguar. On arriving they asked Jim where he had seen the figure in the photo to which Jim replied that he hadn't. At this they walked away and left him. Cumberland Spaceman Thursday, December 5
Well, for all of you non-believers out there, here it is; Gods homepage. I don't know about you, but I thought God's site would be a little less...crappy looking. Wednesday, December 4
My God! I need to write for this site! I'll be highlighting all the reasons why in the excerpts from the following article. Eureka! Skin sufferers shower urine with golden praise Skincare is no piddling problem. But the legions of Japanese busily rubbing skincare products over their faces may be a wee bit embarrassed to learn of a vital component in the creams and lotions they're covering themselves with. No intention to take the piss out of anyone, but urea, a compound extracted from urine, is of irreplaceable value for Japan's beauty products, according to Shukan Shincho (12/5). "It's now the season where products aimed at prevented parched or chafed skin during the dry winter sell best," a drugstore employee tells Shukan Shincho. "Manufacturers proudly boast that their products' greatest selling point are the fact that they contain high quantities of the urine extract." Creams containing the urine extract are supposed to help retain moisture in the surface of the skin as well as absorb air moisture. "Considerable attention has been directed toward urea recently and, as well as being used for winter products, the urine extract has also been called on to combat athlete's foot and inflammation caused by atopic dermatitis," a reporter covering the pharmaceutical industry beat says. Jin Mizutani, a dermatologist and Mie University medical faculty professor explains why the urine extract is attracting a golden shower of praise. "Skin absorbs urea easily and the urine extract can be blended well with other compounds used to fight dermatological ailments," Mizutani tells Shukan Shincho. -Snickering happily to myself Mainichi! Disabled dynamo shows sex no handicap Sex among the disabled is a subject that in Japan is rarely, if ever, touched on. But the makers of "Shogaisha no Sei, Sei no Barria Furii (Disabled Sex, Sex Goes Barrier Free)," have done more than touch on the testy topic, they've gone the whole hog to make Japan's first-ever hardcore feature starring handicapped men, according to Weekly Playboy (12/17). "Plenty of erotic movies featuring the disabled have been made in the past, but none of them have passed through the examinations given by the Japan Video Ethics Commission, so they've all been left on the shelves," Yoshiya Fukabue, a writer on Japan's ejaculation industry tells Weekly Playboy. "It's always been a taboo in Japan to have a disabled actor perform in an adult movie." Erotic moviemaker Moodyz, which produced the film, initially had reservations about making the flick until it was approached by Hirohiko Kumashino, a Barrier Free Advisor for brothels and love hotels. My favorite bit? "Kumashino, a wheelchair user who has cerebral palsy that renders his legs useless, is Japan's most active campaigner for raising awareness about sex among the disabled." Because apparently the Japanese aren't aware that the disabled are able. The name of the film? ""Tatta no 5 Senchi no Haaduru (Just a 5-Centimeter Hurdle)." Snicker. Read the rest here: Mainichi! Tuesday, December 3
Okay. I've found the strangest thing I've ever seen. I'm sure many of you are aware of it, but I live in a cave so you can't fault me with not knowing about this. It's called googlism. It appears to be a random list of sentences from search topics about whatever subject, person, event you type in. It's very funny because it reads so seriously. Go here to try it. Some examples: warren ellis is bored warren ellis is the type of writer who enjoys getting shouted at by die warren ellis is sad and lonely warren ellis is lacing his tragedy with jokes alan moore is best known for his pioneering work in comics alan moore is on top alan moore is a good bet alan moore is the rector alan moore is a truck driver for the rolling stones george w bush is the antichrist george w bush is a poopy george w bush is my bud george w bush is an android What? Can't find that thong with UFO motif you've been searching for? Look no more friends! Who says I don't care about you? Now you can please that geek of yours day and night. *shudder* 
Monday, December 2
I think I posted this link before, but here it is again. If you like flash stuff, comics, or would like to see an artists imagination run amok, then you should like this site. It's done by a friend of mine. Enjoy.  Tuesday, November 26
You are a Suspect "When you board a plane in the next year, your pilot may be armed. Make a call from a pay phone at the ballpark, and it may be tapped. Pay for a sandwich with a credit card, and the transaction may wind up in an electronic file with your tax returns, travel history, and speeding tickets. "These are some of the ways that the biggest reorganization of the federal government in half a century could trickle down into the minutiae of the daily life of Americans. "The Homeland Security Act that President Bush is poised to sign is sweeping in scope and will have big consequences, intended and unintended, on everything from civil liberties of Americans to due process for immigrants." "If the Homeland Security Act is not amended before passage, here is what will happen to you: "Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank deposit you make, every trip you book and every event you attend -- all these transactions and communications will go into what the Defense Department describes as 'a virtual, centralized grand database.' "To this computerized dossier on your private life from commercial sources, add every piece of information that government has about you -- passport application, driver's license and bridge toll records, judicial and divorce records, complaints from nosy neighbors to the F.B.I., your lifetime paper trail plus the latest hidden camera surveillance -- and you have the supersnoop's dream: a "Total Information Awareness" about every U.S. citizen. "This is not some far-out Orwellian scenario. It is what will happen to your personal freedom in the next few weeks if John Poindexter gets the unprecedented power he seeks." -Welcome to the future, big Bro Georgie W is watching. http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn20021121.html Every 15 seconds a woman is battered in the United States. Every 23 seconds a woman is raped in South Africa. Every minute in the United Kingdom police receive a call for assistance in situations of domestic violence. Almost half of all women in Bangladesh have been physically abused. democracynow.org Thursday, November 21
HEALTHY PLEASURES BEEF SCAM November 18, 2002 -- The upscale organic-food chain Healthy Pleasures has been scamming customers by repackaging conventional meat and passing it off as organic and natural, a Post investigation has found. The chain has been relabeling beef at its three Manhattan stores, according to current and ex-employees and industry insiders, gouging customers by several dollars per pound on some cuts. "People trust them to sell them a superior product, and that is just not happening," said one source, who asked to remain anonymous. "The beef is marked 'natural' and 'organic,' and often that simply isn't the case." Organic meat producers are prohibited by the USDA from using hormones, pesticides and antibiotics in the raising of farm animals. Natural meat must be "minimally processed" and contain no artificial ingredients, according to USDA rules. Healthy Pleasures owner Helen Burgess and chain manager Omar Bashar contend their meat business is legit. But after being asked about The Post's findings, Bashar and two store workers surrounded a Post photographer on the street and wrestled a camera from his hands. His photos were destroyed, and the three men were charged with felony robbery, criminal mischief and criminal possession of stolen property. The Post's probe found: * Current and former workers have been instructed to remove meat purchased from IBP - a nationwide producer of conventional beef that doesn't handle organic or natural products - from bulk packaging and put it in butcher display cases with organic and natural labels. "We would open the boxes, take the meat from the bulk bags and carry it upstairs on a lug," said a former employee. "Then we would put it in the case and stick the natural and organic signs on it. We were told never to take IBP boxes up to the selling floor, where customers might see them." You can buy the rest of the article here: nypost Scientists in the United States are to press ahead with plans to create a new lifeform in the laboratory. Dr Craig Venter - the man behind the privately funded human genome sequence - and Dr Hamilton Smith - a Nobel-Prize-winning geneticist - want to create a man-made microbe with the minimum number of genes needed to sustain life. The project has received $3m from the Office of Science at the Department of Energy in the US and preliminary work is already under way. If successful, this experiment, the scientists claim, will be the first step to developing new cost-effective energy sources. This could mean artificial bugs engineered to pump out vast quantities of hydrogen to power cleaner cars. In recent years, scientists have improved their ability to manufacture to order long chains of DNA - the so-called "code of life" - in the laboratory. This skill makes it theoretically possible to synthesise the genetic material necessary to drive and maintain a very simple organism - a small bacterium. Dr Venter first proposed the idea of creating an artificial bug in the lab in 1999. It raised a number of ethical and safety issues and any attempt to create the lifeform was then put on hold while these were debated. Of particular concern is the potential of this type of technology to be used to develop new biological weapons. Publishing only limited details about the work could ease worries. There is also concern about the danger to human health from a man-made organism escaping into the environment. However, the scientists say they would exclude certain genes to make the new microbe safe. The organism would be rendered incapable of infecting humans and would die if it ever escaped its petri dish, they say. I stole this from Warren Ellis who stole it from here. The Bush family’s deepest, darkest secret is not Prescott Bush’s involvement in financing Nazi Germany, nor George’s involvement in Contra Aid, or the October Surprise, or anything he did for the CIA. And it’s certainly not George Jr.’s cocaine use. Find out what the deep dark secret is, here.  Gay experiments preceding AIDS (1978-1981) Scientists also discount any connection between the official outbreak of AIDS in 1981 and the experimental hepatitis B vaccine program (1978-1981) at the New York Blood Center in Manhattan, which used gays as guinea pigs shortly before the epidemic. Curiously, the exact origin of AIDS in the United States remains unstudied. Health authorities simply blame promiscuous gay men, but never adequately explain how a black heterosexual African disease could have transformed itself exclusively into a white young gay male disease in Manhattan. Researchers claim HIV incubated in Africa for more than a half century until AIDS broke out there in 1982. However, in the U.S. there was no incubation period for gay men. As soon as homosexuals signed up as guinea pigs for government-sponsored hepatitis B vaccine experiments, they began to die with a strange virus of unknown origin. The hepatitis B experiments began in Manhattan in the fall of 1978; the first few cases of AIDS (all young gays from Manhattan) were reported to the CDC in 1979. excerpt from http://www.paranoiamagazine.com/blaming.html Follow the Money: The Bush-bin Laden Connection President Bush's September 2001 address to the American people will live on in infamy. In it, Bush roused the American people to a "war on terrorism," which was to consist of rooting out the financial sources of support for terrorist activities. A global effort ensued in the following weeks. Bush then signed an executive order freezing the financial assets of several alleged charities reputed to be "fronts" for the al-Qaida network. According to a report by Christopher Byron dated 9/24/01 entitled "Terrorists, dollars and a tangled web" (www.msnbc.com/news), however, one glitch got ahead of Bush's fanaticism: following this money trail would require investigators to "probe deep into the offshore activities of America's mightiest banks and the financial affairs of many of America's leading public figures," including George W. and George H.W. Bush. More Paranoia The Awful Secret The objective of the Bush cabal and the war in Iraq is to get control of all of the oil before the blackouts start! John Kaminski How stupid are Americans - and how false are their elected representatives - to believe and actually repeat the thought that a far-off nation with the world's second-largest oil reserves, a battered and constrained nation that had already witnessed hundreds of thousands of its citizens killed by the United States, that this bedraggled and helpless nation is actually a threat deserving a full-scale invasion by American troops? How stupid are Americans not to see that all this war talk is a diversionary tactic, a red herring meant to cover up crimes of the American government: widespread corruption that robbed Americans of billions of dollars in scandals named Harken, Enron and Halliburton; a meaningless genocidal attack on Afghanistan that failed to achieve its stated objective yet killed 5,000 innocent people; and an attack on American soil that killed another 3,000 Americans. In the meantime, the highest levels of the U.S. government work diligently to cover up the brutal facts that highly placed officials knew this atrocity was going to happen and did nothing to stop it. In fact, they wanted it to happen because it served their purposes. The shock of 9/11 and the butchery in Afghanistan have been displaced from the headlines of the criminally sycophantic mainstream media as President Bush continues his ludicrous push for more death and destruction, constantly changing his rationale as one lie after another is exposed as vicious fiction. Make no mistake: the purpose of the illegal and unconscionable aggression against Iraq is meant to cover up the Bush administration's complicity in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C. The mainstream media, a virtual interlocking directorate with the Bush cabinet and his behind-the-scenes moneymen, continue to ignore the central questions about 9/11: » why did the air defense apparatus fail to respond to the hijackings? »why haven't the stock market anomalies been investigated and identified? » why did some people know not to fly that day? »Why were fires still burning underneath three structures of the WTC five weeks later? You haven't read that in the New York Times, and you won't. The attack on Afghanistan was planned long before 9/11, yet carried out as if it were a search for someone named Osama bin Laden. Five thousand dead, Americans implicated in a horrific massacre, even some Canadians killed for no good reason. Now it turns out many of the Taliban were evacuated in U.S. planes. American military bosses declared the operation a success, and the newspapers didn't blink. Read the rest of this long, angry, and most probably biased article here Tuesday, November 19
For those of you who are not sure what to get me for Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, or any other December holiday that begins with a 'C' that sounds like a 'K', or is not pronounced at all, here is a short list: This would look nice in front of my computer! I could talk to all my new holiday friends, while I update my blog on this! Droool. The perfect companion gift for the next item. Grin! I could pay you a visit in this! Swanky! Just send me an E-mail and I'll let you know where to send the stuff!! Tuesday, November 12
Dear Mr. President: I represent a small consortium of voters who are deeply concerned over your proposed {or, if appropriate, ongoing} military action in Iraq. Given the amount of public speech and political rhetoric you have devoted to this issue in past months, it seems to us as though you are more interested in playing commando than in fighting an actual war with actual human casualties. Enclosed with this letter, we have sent you some small gifts: one PlayStation 2 game console, one copy each of SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs and Conflict: Desert Storm, a memory card and an extra controller for Mr. Cheney's use. We ask that you accept these gifts and use them, rather than the lives of Iraqi civilians and our U.S. servicemen, to fulfill any militaristic fantasies. Respectfully, Mikel Reparaz Chairman Buy Bush a PlayStation 2 Campaign 
Buy Bush a PlayStation 2 Campaign Tuesday, November 5
I know, I know...it's been a while, but, I've been busy. Hey, what've you got to do that's better than to wait around for me to post, huh? Here...jackels! This is why I love America! And by love, I mean hate. Smiles all round! OMAHA, Nebraska (AP) -- The head of an excavation firm has thrown down the gauntlet. Art Dore Sr., 66, is challenging his 60-something rival Virgil Anderson to a boxing match. The two have feuded over city demolition contracts -- in court and at City Hall -- for months. "This is the way that men are supposed to settle things," Dore said. "Is he a man or is he a mouse?" Anderson, head of Omaha's Anderson Excavating Co., apparently is declining the offer. He would only say: "I'm just not going to play their games." CNN Saturday, October 26
Thursday, October 24
The following posts are all about the coming of the future. My future!! Mwahahahahaha!! Ahem. Toyota Pod October 20, 2001 – Jointly developed by Toyota and Sony, the Pod is a concept car to explore the potential for communications between people and their cars. Toyota says "It's more than a tool. It's a partner that shares your moods and grows with you just like your family and friends". One of the features is that the pod can express driver's feelings as well as its own feeling by using LEDs on the front panel. For example, when the driver approaches, the car makes a cheerful expression by putting on orange colored LEDs. When he brakes hard, the car gets angry and express the feeling by using red LEDs. The 'face' can express ten different emotional states. The tail (antenna) at the rear can also wag to express feelings just like a dog! Car Design News -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And all I have to say is...HOLY CRAP!! Honda Introduces New ASIMO Humanoid Robot for Rental Business Tokyo, November 12, 2001 --- Honda Motor Co., Ltd. today introduced a new, improved version of the humanoid robot "ASIMO" that will be made available for rental in Japan. This latest version of ASIMO, a robot first introduced in November 2000, represents a further advancement in Honda's advanced flexible walking technology, with a simplified system that will enable its use in public areas. The latest technological advancements enable ASIMO to move more freely in ordinary environments, including climbing and descending stairways and slopes. Further, it can receive voice input and guide customers. With these added features, ASIMO has become more practical, with specialized movements and guidance and explanation functions enabling ASIMO to be customized according to a wide range of user requirements. http://world.honda.com/news/2001/c011112.html -------------------------------------------------------------------- Things are getting scary. The future is bearing down on us. We are one step closer to Terminator/RoboCop/WestWorld or any other dystopian future wherein robots lose control and havoc ensues. Only...why do these robots have to have big, dumb I-Mac heads? I'll be pissed if my skull is crushed by something with an I-Mac head! IBM: Computer heal thyself Tuesday, October 22, 2002 Posted: 9:28 AM EDT (1328 GMT) NEW YORK (Reuters) -- International Business Machines Corp. this week unveiled plans to develop computer systems that will fix themselves when they break. New York-based IBM said it is creating a separate division, which it calls Autonomic Computing, that will integrate its efforts to create computer systems that need less human intervention. CNN Yippie!! Ron and Fez are back on nights!!! Check them out: 7-11 on 102.7 New York and D.C. only. As if anyone outside of NY reads this. Shut up. http://www.ronandfez.com/ All of the following posts are from Engrish.com..I know...un-PC name...very funny site. This is not a new product at all. The Edition of us whom it is already on market were painted again in the new method, hi-skill and a point of view. Glad to see that there are still some companies out there with..a..uhh..point of view... Not trust for tad batteries lest in advertent eat off!! Riight...okay, what language is this translated into? Looking for a God you can really rely on? A diety you can form a more personal relationship with? Well, check this out pilgrims. Monday, October 21
Coming of the Nautilus Arrr, Cap'n Nemo, bring 'er ta port!! Texas A&M's prototype unmanned underwater vehicle, being developed for the U.S. Navy, propels itself by wiggling like a fish. Metal muscles made of alloys that remember shapes are connected to evenly spaced vertebrae and shrink and expand as much as 8 percent as they're alternately heated and cooled, causing the 3-foot sub's sectioned hull to bend and flex. The result: No ripple evidence on the surface of the sub's presence, making it much quieter than today's vessels. A production version of the sub, at least three years off, could be as long as 13 feet and would be used for underwater reconnaissance (such as explosives detection) or exploration (ocean mapping). PopularScience Sunday, October 20
ANGELA BELCHER Materials Science, MIT Angela Belcher, has engineered viruses that can grow semiconductor materials, microscopic biosensors, and liquid-crystal structures for computer screens or DNA-storage devices. Belcher, who recently left the University of Texas to become an associate professor at MIT, accelerated...abalones' shell-building process. Then she turned to viruses, simpler life-forms that reproduce more rapidly. She sped up the viruses' evolutionary process through DNA manipulation, then exposed them to massive amounts of new substances, such as the semiconductor material indium phosphide. Soon colonies of viruses were shuttling the material through their systems, creating solid structures that Belcher could lift off with tweezers. Thanks to the speed of virus replication, it takes Belcher just three weeks to "evolve" a virus to produce a new substance on its surface. Belcher says her viruses create stronger, smaller, and potentially more complex materials than those produced in high-tech engineering facilities, and the process doesn't pollute or harm animals (a must for Belcher, a vegetarian whose dogs eat only homemade organic foods). PopularScience Funny, stupid, probably foreign translated product warnings Warning: Keep out of children -Korean kitchen knife Cape does not enable user to fly. -adult Halloween costume Do not use to pick up anything that is currently burning -commercial wet/ dry vacuum Not to be used for the other use -Japanese food processor Instructions: open packet, eat nuts -American Airlines peanut packet Do not use as an ice cream topping -hair dye package Do not attempt to stop chain with your hands -Swedish chain saw Caution: Do not use near power lines -on a toilet plunger This floodlight is capable of illuminating large areas, even in the dark -Komatasu grader manual of rear lights Fits one head -shower cap box Friday, October 18
CAVE CANUM None of this would have ever happened if it wasn't for that poodle. i know it sounds crazy, but if it weren't for that fucking poodle joey would still be alive and i wouldn't be behind bars. god, if i ever get out of here, the first thing i'm gonna do is find that poodle and roast it for dinner. and you know who's gonna eat it? that fucking Cunt who owns the poodle. nothing will make me happier to see her wail and moan while she's chewing on her own precious poodle. now you might think that the Cunt is to blame since she not only brought the poodle along in the first place, but she also diverted a lot of joey's attention away from such an important job. yet much as i fucking despise her, i can't lay the blame at her feet. honestly, i don't think she was smart enough or could draw enough time away from those talons she called nails to think up a way to fuck everything up so badly. No, it was that poodle with it's pink bow and diamond studded collar, little fangs bared anytime it saw me or Joey coming. The preceeding was a few of the brilliantly insane ramblings of a dear friend of mine. She's hip, she's happening! Go to her diary-land site. Send her E-mails. Force her to finish and publish her tales. le's help at least one person escape the drudgery of life. It's early. Shut up. http://kj-katt.diaryland.com/index.html Thursday, October 17
http://maddox.xmission.com/ Go here...read every word and think about it. Think. Then write him some hate-mail so he can wreck your shit. P.S. I stole this site from my Bro's blog...haw haw. Wednesday, October 16
For those of you who regularly frequent this site, I apologise for not updating as often now as I did when I began. I've been very busy lately. Here are some sites for you to visit in the meantime. http://www.diepunyhumans.com/ This is the blog site of the oft mentioned Warren Ellis. He is somewhat of a comic/techo/literature guru of mine...now if he'd only notice me. http://www.mattfraction.com/ Blog site of the crazy comics Mo-Fo Matt Fraction. Gaze in awe at his elephantine tusks (careful, he's been known to gore onlookers.)! http://octagonthinktank.blogspot.com/ Blog spot of mon frere...but don't tell him that. http://www.futurehorizons.net/ Wanna pretend we're vigilantes from the future? http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/victorian_poetry/38.1bradshaw.html#top Because, c'mon, we all know you need some culture..and not the kind you get from a bottle...if you know what I mean. Excuse me...do you have the time? Je aussi veux huit cravates longues. Aaand here, http://www.almightyzeus.com/, 'cause this is where you all end up anayway. Monday, October 14
CASE OF ADAM’S ALIEN GENES In whose image was The Adam – the prototype of modern humans, Homo sapiens – created? The Bible asserts that the Elohim said: “Let us fashion the Adam in our image and after our likeness.” But if one is to accept a tentative explanation for enigmatic genes that humans possess, offered when the deciphering of the human genome was announced in mid-February, the feat was decided upon by a group of bacteria! “Humbling” was the prevalent adjective used by the scientific teams and the media to describe the principal finding – that the human genome contains not the anticipated 100,000 - 140,000 genes (the stretches of DNA that direct the production of amino-acids and proteins) but only some 30,000+ -- little more than double the 13,601 genes of a fruit fly and barely fifty percent more than the roundworm’s 19,098. What a comedown from the pinnacle of the genomic Tree of Life! Moreover, there was hardly any uniqueness to the human genes. They are comparative to not the presumed 95 percent but to almost 99 percent of the chimpanzees, and 70 percent of the mouse. Human genes, with the same functions, were found to be identical to genes of other vertebrates, as well as invertebrates, plants, fungi, even yeast. The findings not only confirmed that there was one source of DNA for all life on Earth, but also enabled the scientists to trace the evolutionary process – how more complex organisms evolved, genetically, from simpler ones, adopting at each stage the genes of a lower life form to create a more complex higher life form – culminating with Homo sapiens. The “Head-scratching” Discovery It was here, in tracing the vertical evolutionary record contained in the human and the other analyzed genomes, that the scientists ran into an enigma. The “head-scratching discovery by the public consortium,” as Science termed it, was that the human genome contains 223 genes that do not have the required predecessors on the genomic evolutionary tree. How did Man acquire such a bunch of enigmatic genes? In the evolutionary progression from bacteria to invertebrates (such as the lineages of yeast, worms, flies or mustard weed – which have been deciphered) to vertebrates (mice, chimpanzees) and finally modern humans, these 223 genes are completely missing in the invertebrate phase. Therefore, the scientists can explain their presence in the human genome by a “rather recent” (in evolutionary time scales) “probable horizontal transfer from bacteria.” In other words: At a relatively recent time as Evolution goes, modern humans acquired an extra 223 genes not through gradual evolution, not vertically on the Tree of Life, but horizontally, as a sideways insertion of genetic material from bacteria… The human genome is made up of about three billion neucleotides (the “letters” A-C-G-T which stand for the initials of the four nucleic acids that spell out all life on Earth); of them, just a little more than one percent are grouped into functioning genes. The difference between Man and Chimpanzee is less than one percent as genes go; and one percent of 30,000 genes is 300. So, 223 genes is more than two thirds of the difference between me, you and a chimpanzee! A Shaky Theory How sure are the scientists that such important and complex genes, such an immense human advantage, was obtained by us --“rather recently”-- through the courtesy of infecting bacteria? “It is a jump that does not follow current evolutionary theories,” said Steven Scherer, director of mapping of the Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine. “We did not identify a strongly preferred bacterial source for the putative horizontally transferred genes,” states the report in Nature. The Public Consortium team, conducting a detailed search, found that some 113 genes (out of the 223) “are widespread among bacteria” – though they are entirely absent even in invertebrates. An analysis of the proteins which the enigmatic genes express showed that out of 35 identified, only ten had counterparts in vertebrates (ranging from cows to rodents to fish); 25 of the 35 were unique to humans. “It is not clear whether the transfer was from bacteria to human or from human to bacteria,” Science quoted Robert Waterson, co-director of Washington University’s Genome Sequencing Center, as saying. But if Man gave those genes to bacteria, where did Man acquire those genes to begin with? The Role of the Anunnaki Readers of my books must be smiling by now, for they know the answer. They know that the biblical verses dealing with the fashioning of The Adam are condensed renderings of much much more detailed Sumerian and Akkadian texts, found inscribed on clay tablets, in which the role of the Elohim in Genesis is performed by the Anunnaki – “Those Who From Heaven to Earth Came.” As detailed in my books, beginning with The 12th Planet (1976) and even more so in Genesis Revisited and The Cosmic Code, the Anunnaki came to Earth some 450,000 years ago from the planet Nibiru – a member of our own solar system whose great orbit brings it to our part of the heavens once every 3,600 years. They came here in need of gold, with which to protect their dwindling atmosphere. Exhausted and in need of help in mining the gold, their chief scientist Enki suggested that they use their genetic knowledge to create the needed Primitive Workers. When the other leaders of the Anunnaki asked: How can you create a new being? He answered: "The being that we need already exists; all that we have to do is put our mark on it.” The time was some 300,000 years ago. What he had in mind was to upgrade genetically the existing hominids, who were already on Earth through Evolution, by adding some of the genes of the more advanced Anunnaki. That the Anunnaki, who could already travel in space 450,000 years ago, possessed the genomic science (whose threshold we have now reached) is clear not only from the actual texts but also from numerous depictions in which the double-helix of the DNA is rendered as Entwined Serpents (a symbol still used for medicine and healing) -- see illustration ‘A’ below. When the leaders of the Anunnaki approved the project (as echoed in the biblical ”Let us fashion the Adam”), Enki with the help of Ninharsag, the Chief Medical Officer of the Anunnaki, embarked on a process of genetic engineering, by adding and combining genes of the Anunnaki with those of the already-existing hominids. When, after much trial and error breathtakingly described and recorded in antiquity, a “perfect model” was attained, Ninharsag held him up and shouted: “My hands have made it!” An ancient artist depicted the scene on a cylinder seal (illustration ‘B’). And that, I suggest, is how we had come to possess the unique extra genes. It was in the image of the Anunnaki, not of bacteria, that Adam and Eve were fashioned. © Z. Sitchin Reprinted with permission. Okay, I know there was a lot in there but according to Sitchin, the theory that humankind aquired 223 genes from bacterial life is shaky. His theory, that those 223 genes were given to humankind by ancient Mesopotamian aliens is dead on. Read it again, and pay attention this time, or go here to read the full article, and see some pictures that I'm sure Sitchin would say proves his theory. Rival dojo mocking your techniques? Guy down the block stole/killed/crippled your beloved? Evil Daimyo Overlord taxing you and your neigbours to starvation? No problem, dispatch Ninja to slaughter your most hated enemy. Hours of fun are at your command. Hi-ya! Saturday, October 12
London, 1898. The Victorian Era draws to a close and the twentieth Century approaches. It is a time of great change and an age of stagnation, a period of chaste order and ignoble chaos. It is an era in need of champions. These champions take form in this tantalizing tale as The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. In their previous adventure, our six champions are recruited by the enigmatic Campion Bond, under orders from the mysterious "M," pressed somewhat reluctantly into service by their empire in its time of need. THE ESTIMABLE PLAYERS Miss Mina Murray (the former Mrs. Harker), a courageous lady of impeccable breeding, undaunted by an unfortunate incident in her past. Mr. Allan Quartermain, a legendary adventurer, fallen under opium's devious spell until revived by the League. Captain Nemo, the enigmatic master of a great underwater vessel, once the scourge of the Empire, now her reluctant servant. Mr. Hawley Griffin, a callow gent whose transparent nature gives him license to flaunt his bad manners without rebuke. Dr. Henry Jekyll, a retiring scientist with a mysterious dark side. Mr. Edward Hyde, a brutish fiend who is strangely never seen in conjunction with Dr. Jekyll. Is this high concept, or what? I gleaned this info off of the official ABC/Wildstorms/DC site. If you don't know already the writer of this graphic series is Alan Moore. Modern-day comics-shaman/Neo-Victorian wordwright. The man is a virtual luddite, so there is very little first hand source information though I do have two sites in honor of him here, and here. Want interviews? Okay. Here, here, here, and here (if you canfind it). He also dabbles in mystical musicks. Marvel! Reel! Doubt the world you live in! Not only is his music magickal, but so is his...magic! More Moore. Have the issues to your Alan Moore comics handy? Great! Check out these sites that annotate pretty much everything he has written. LOEG Watchmen (This is a great site. Spend some time here.) V For Vendetta And much much more! I'm sure there're even more. Any leads, drop me an E-mail, I'll throw 'em up. Friday, October 11
Some websites I wish existed: 1. www.Godzillasex.com 2. www.FuckaWitch.com 3. www.ninjatraining.com/ 4. www.sharkbukkake.com/ (I stole this one from Warren Ellis) 5. www.jedibukkake.com (This one's mine) What is wrong with us? Yes, I am talking to you too! Why are we so obsessed with celebrities. Are we, you ask? Well, if we aren't then why does Yahoo!News have a friggin slideshow of Gwyneth Paltrow's Fathers' funeral!? Wanna see it!? Or here (it's halfway down the page...you ghoul.) Thursday, 10 October, 2002, 21:19 GMT 22:19 UK Haddock In Britain, last week a politician officially named himself after seafood. Haddock MP hoped his name would make people eat fish A Labour MP changed his name to Haddock in an attempt to encourage people to eat more fish. Austin Mitchell became Austin Haddock in honour of National Seafood Week. BBC October 1853, on a hilltop in Lynn, Massachusetts, a group assembled to create the New Messiah. They had not come to pray or to praise God: they were actually going to build Him out of metal and wood under the supervision of spirits. More fun. The apparent existence of a newly discovered, or even entirely new, species of flying creatures has been touted by members of the UFO community and others for a few years now. While proponents for the "rods'" existence have presented plenty of evidence, primarily in the form of digital video footage, little independent research or investigation into the phenomenon has taken place. In this exlusive article, Michael Merchant, puts forward his case for rod reality. To prove the existence of rods we must first examine and eliminate what the skeptics claim they are, most notably sun glare, insects, internal artifacts of the camera, birds, scratches on the lens, or pollen and dust particles. The easiest skeptical claim to abolish is the claim that internal artifacts of the camera, scratches on the lens and sun glare are responsible for the Rainbow rod phenomenon. Read the rest here. This is one of my favorite conspiracy theories Alternative Three Alternative One - Elimination of a huge portion of world population. They are in the process of doing that. If they are not able to execute THE PLAN some population thinning will be blamed on acts of terrorism Alternative Two - To build many underground bunkers, as large as small towns, to protect the government in seclusion until the surface population thinning was finished. They have built over 200 such "underground cities". Mt.Weather Alternative Three - To build a "transfer station" on the backside of the Moon, build an underground base on Mars and remove a certain limited "Noah's Ark" cross section of Earth's population, artists, scientists, engineers, writers, etc., to Mars as a survival colony in the event of "catastrophy" on Earth. They started this project in 1961 and may have accomplished most of this as well. This info from http://www.thule.org/alt3.html More info: Casebook On Alternative 3 Thursday, October 10
[10/10/2002 9:37:11 PM | Johnny Test] http://www.dolphinsex.org/ Here are a few tidbits from this...informative...site: Firstly, introductions all round. My name is [removed to protect dolphinlovers], musician, pre-vet student and Delphinic Zoophile. Q2) How do I know if a dolphin wants to have sex? Q4) What diseases can I get from dolphins? Can I give them any? Just so you know...I do not, in ANY way...support beastiality in any form, even with dolphins. This is for entertainment purposes only...yadda yadda... The following comes from an illustrated periodical (a comic book) called Wildcats version 3.0. Joe Casey writing. Dustin Nguyen penciling. Richard Friend inking. You reading. Wax: "Everyone knows how this country began. We're taught it from childhood... revolt against British rule by the colonies. We weren't just fighting the British Government... but also British corporations. "Corporations were all over pre-revolution America. Powerful corporations that preyed on the colonials' fears... The Massachusetts Bay Company... The Hudson's Bay Company... The British East India Company... "The Boston Tea Party? A demonstration against British East India's monopoly of the distribution in the colonies. 1776... along comes the Declaration of Independance. Americans are finally Free... not only from British rule, but from the oppression of British corporations. "Early American government was extremely wary of corporate power. When they did grant corporate charters, they were cautious about it. Very cautious. If a corporation violated its charter, it was dissolved. No questions asked. "Didn't matter how big they were. Even J.P. Morgan knew that corporations must be kept in check, and he was a goddamn railroad magnate. They were kept on a very short leash. It was how it should be. The corporations weren't in control... people were. That all changed during the Civil War. "Just before he was killed, he [Lincoln] said this... 'Corporations have been enthroned... an era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands... and the Republic is destroyed.' "Corporations kept growing. Laws were amended to benefit them. There were fewer and fewer limitations to what they could get away with. The courts were their only watchdogs... and judges were favoring them, awarding legal victories that set precedents. One in particular--" Cole Cash: "Don't tell me...Santa Clara County V. Southern Pacific Railroad..." Wax: "A railroad route dispute... and the U.S. Supreme Court's 1886 ruling deemed a private corporation was entitled to protection under the Bill Of Rights as--get this--a 'Natural Person.' "Corporations were suddenly provided all the rights previously enjoyed only by the people, including free speech. But instead of having the same powers as private citizens, corporations had so much more... with their vast financial resources, they could defend their rights to a much greater degree than any one American could possibly afford to. That's one hell of a ramification for one legal decision. "So here we are now... a world where corporations dominate the Global Economy. And they have more rights... more freedoms... more powers than we do." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Makes you think...? I'm not going to tell you who the characters are. You should buy the comic, keep food in the mouths of all the hardworking people in the comics industry. (CNN) -- As the hunt for the sniper who has terrorized residents in the Washington, D.C., area enters a second week, the role of the profiler in helping investigators put a face on the killer has received more attention. Media headlines blare that the profilers are baffled by the failure of the killer to conform to known patterns. But this assertion comes from a misunderstanding of the role, function and method of the profiler, said Clint Van Zandt, a former FBI profiler. Portrayed in television and movies as the mystics of law enforcement, people with an almost psyche link to the mind of the killer, profilers are in fact engaged in what Van Zandt calls "a broad brush art." "A profile is an investigative tool. It is not science, it is not DNA, it is not latent fingerprints. ... It is just one more tool investigators have. But a profile does not tell you who did the crime," Van Zandt said. Profilers are engaged is building a "constantly evolving" document that is available to investigators to focus their search, Van Zandt said. Van Zandt disputed the popular notion that research into previous multiple killings has provided clearly defined "profiles" of killers that can be used to fit each case that comes along. "There is a skeletal structure, so to speak, of certain individuals, but the clothes that we hang on that skeleton come from investigation. And that's what starts to form the picture, the profile of who we're looking for," Van Zandt said. And sometimes a killer may not fall within even very general categories, which seems to be the case so far with the killings in Maryland, Virginia and Washington. "So far it appears we have kind of a hybrid. We have what we call a spree killer, in essence someone who kills one person after another without an emotional cooling off period in between," Van Zandt said. "And yet, because of the period of time that has lapsed, now it is starting to take on some of the traits of a serial killer, in essence, someone who kills with that emotional cooling off period, which can be days, weeks, even months, depending on the serial killer himself or herself." What profilers may well be able to offer investigators, depending on the evidence authorities have discovered at each crime scene, is a series of statistical probabilities -- the shooter's age, his race, his academic or professional background, perhaps even his motive, Van Zandt said. This enables those in charge of the investigation to "take the population group and shrink it until it becomes manageable" he says. "Hypothetically, we know, it's a statistical probability that a sniper in a situation like this is likely to be a male as opposed to a female. Well, then, we have eliminated 50 percent of the population. Now does that rule out a woman from doing this? No, but we'll say it is a very small chance. "But if a witness says, 'I saw a car with smoke coming out of the window after a shot was fired and I saw a red-headed woman in the passenger seat,' profile be damned, you have to go with the evidence that you have," Van Zandt said. So what are the types of questions profilers will be asking? "You start out with very generic profiles, like, Is the offender organized or disorganized? An organized person has transportation, brings the weapon with him, has the ability to get in and out from a crime scene without being detected," Van Zandt said. "Or, a disorganized person may walk or take public transportation. He may use a weapon of opportunity. You may see overkill on the part of the victim. He may just escape because he's lucky, not because he's calculating." "So you start with an organized-disorganized offender. Then you say: A serial killer is this, a spree killer is that. "But, again, these are broad general titles that you kind of paste up on a wall, and then you start to work with the intelligence you have, the information that comes through investigation, and you refine that." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Go to: CNN for more Here are the tracks of my web trawling. Because I'm too lazy to write web addresses down. http://www.ujournal.org/userinfo.bml?user=jhonenv http://www.ujournal.org/~jhonen_vasquez http://www.smirkingchimp.com/ http://www.parascope.com/matrix.htm http://www.parascope.com/nebula.htm http://www.theindridcoldproject.cjb.net/ Have a look. If anyone actually reads any of this, please, let me know. The safest sex of all is sex with Cthulhu! Madness and death ensue long before pregnancy or any other diseases can become apparent. Among humans, unsafe sex increases the spread of STDs (more human suffering!) and pregnancy (more succulent babies!). So Cthulhu is not in favour of Safe Sex week. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cthulhu for SU Pres. Cthulhu for President. Why vote for a lesser evil? This site is dedicated to the great old one, who should return from his slumber to take over the U.S. government and make this country a whole hell of a lot better as the leader of our executive branch. Or destroy it and drive everyone insane, kill us all, or something really nasty! Remember, Cthulhu for President, why vote for the lesser of two evils? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.cthulhu.org/ I reveal how a global secret society called the Illuminati (the "Illuminated Ones" as they call themselves) have been holding the reigns of power in the world since ancient times, expanding their power out of the Middle and Near East (and other centres) to control first Europe and then, thanks to the British Empire and other European empires, to take over in the Americas, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, and elsewhere. When I reached the point some years ago where I had put together the structure through which a few people control the direction of the world (see And The Truth Shall Set You Free), it was clear that this network of secret societies and covert groups manipulating global politics, business, banking, military, media, and so on, could not have been put together in a few years or decades. It had to go back a very long time. So I began to trace it back into what we call history. I did this in the knowledge that, for some reason, bloodline and genetics were vitally important to these manipulators, the Illuminati or Illuminated ones - illuminated into knowledge that the public never see. The ancient accounts tell us that these hybrid bloodlines, the fusion of the genes of selected humans with those of the "gods", were put into the positions of ruling royal power, especially in the ancient Near and Middle East, in advanced cultures like Sumer, Babylon, and Egypt. But it happened elsewhere, also, as you will find, for example, in the amazing information provided on this site by the African Zulu shaman, Credo Mutwa, and in the incredible Credo videos, Reptilian Agenda, parts one and two. He tells the same story from the black African tradition that I have uncovered elsewhere in the world. The accounts of the "serpent race" in ancient cultures are simply endless wherever you look and the serpent, reptilian, symbolism in relation to the Anunnaki and other versions of these "gods" is equally widespread. We see this in the Bible, for instance, with the serpent in the "Garden of Eden"- a story which clearly comes from the Sumerian accounts, as does the story of Moses in the bulrushes, a story told about a Sumerian king long before the Bible. This is why I found it so astounding when I was told by Zecharia Sitchin, the best-known translator of the Sumerian tablets, that there was no evidence of a serpent race in the ancient world. Of course there is. He also strongly advised me in relation to the serpent race…"Don't go there". Why, when the evidence, ancient and modern, is so enormous? These reptilian-human hybrid lines became the political and economic rulers of these lands occupied by the European empires and they continue to rule these countries to this day. The United States of America has been home to hundreds of millions of people since 1776. What's more, these people came from an amazingly diverse genetic pool. And yet, wait for this, the 42 who have become Presidents of the United States are all related!!! Thirty-Three of them alone go back to Charlemagne, one of the most famous monarchs of what we call France. He just happens to be a major figure in the story of these bloodlines and their expansion out of Britain, France, Germany, and elsewhere. Former US president, George Bush, incidentally, is mentioned more than any other person in my experience in relation to shape-shifting. This is why his son is being brought through in the 2000 presidential election. Presidents are not EL-ected by ballot, they are SEL-ected by blood. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the brilliant work (all accents are mine) of one Mr. David Icke, a personal hero of mine. Read it. Go to his site, http://www.davidicke.com/ , read more. Learn. Oh wait...I forgot the best bit.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These "gods" could not take over the planet openly because there are not enough of them, so they are doing it covertly by appearing human. Movies like They Live, The Arrival (the first, not the sequel), and the US television series, V, tell the story of what is REALLY going on. I urge you to think about watching these movies to get up to speed if you are new to all of this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I love the idea that The Arrival will get me up to speed. Wednesday, October 9
History of the Moon and Stars Trademark P&G's (Proctor & Gamble) trademark originated around 1851, when many products did not carry a visible brand name. Even people who could not read could see P&G's trademark and know they would get consistent quality. The original trademark was refined into a star which multiplied into thirteen stars for the 13 original colonies and a man-in-the-moon, a popular decorative fancy of the 1800's. Rumors: Unfortunately, this familiar trademark has been subjected to preposterous, unfounded rumors since 1980-81. The rumors falsely allege that the trademark is a symbol of satanism. Typically, the story reports that a P&G executive discussed satanism on a nationally televised talk show. The rumors are, of course, totally false. The P&G trademark originated about 1851 as a symbol for Star brand candles. Later it was designed to show a "man-in-the-moon; looking over a field of thirteen stars commemorating the original American colonies. It represents only P&G. The stories about an executive appearing on a talk show are totally false. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I love that a big named company has to make these kinds of statements. It makes me laff. I got this from: http://www.pg.com/main.jhtml "I read today that...UPN, is experiencing advertising revenue problems, and that is being speculatively tied to the underperformance of ENTERPRISE, BUFFY and HAUNTED. I haven't seen HAUNTED or any of the new BUFFY season, and, frankly, I'm not going to look at BUFFY until I get some kind of written guarantee that they won't sing again." This quote is why I love Warren Ellis so much. Read more from the master on diepunyhumans, brainpowered and warrenellis.com Foucault's Pendulum Optioned to FLF Read the Variety Article After years of refusing various offers to make Foucault's Pendulum into a movie, Umberto Eco optioned his second novel to Fine Line Features, who plan to begin production in late 2001. Porta Ludovica will post details as they become available. --------------------------------------------------- From: http://www.themodernword.com/eco/ And all i have to say is.... Oh no. The following is borrowed, abridged, whatevered, from the masterful work of paranoiac/conspiriatorial-semiotical fiction of Umberto Eco's "Foucalt's Pendulum." I've re-written nothing, only cut out certain sections that did not pertain to my motives. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The next round's on me. Two more, Pilade. All right, then. There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics." "And that covers everybody?" "Oh, yes, including us. Or at least me. If you take a good look, everybody fits into one of these catagories. Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a resonable mix of these components, these four ideal types." ... -------------------- "What about geniuses? Enstein, for example?" "A genius uses one component in a dazzling way, fueling it with the others. -------------------- "Now then: cretins. Cretins don't even talk; they sort of slobber and stumble. You know, the guy who presses the ice cream cone against his forehead, or enters a revolving door the wrong way." "That's not possible." "It is for a cretin. --------------------- "Being a fool is more complicated. It's a form of social behavior. A fool is one who always talks outside of his glass." "What do you mean?" "Like this." He pointed at the counter near his glass. "He wants to talk about what's in the glass, but somehow or the other he misses. He's the guy who puts his foot in his mouth. For example, he says how's your lovely wife to someone whose wife has just left him." "Yes, I know a few of those." "Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they become diplomats. Talking outside the glass when someone else blunders helps to change the subject...Fools don't claim that cats bark, but they talk about cats when everyone else is talking about dogs. They offend all the rules of conversation, and when they really offend, they're magnificent. It's a dying breed..." ------------------ "What about the morons?" "Ah. Morons never do the wrong thing. They get their reasoning wrong. Like the fellow who says all dogs are pets and all dogs bark, and cats are pets too, and therefore cats bark. Or that all Athenians are mortal, and all the citizens of Piraeus are mortal, so all the citizens of Piraeus are Athenians." "Which they are." "Yes, but only accidentally. Morons will occasionally say something that's right, but they say it for the wrong reasons." ------------------ "A lunatic is easily recognized. He is a moron who doesn't know the ropes. The moron proves his thesis; he has a logic, however twisted it may be. The lunatic, on the other hand, doesn't concern himself at all with logic; he works by short circuits. For him, everything proves everything else. The lunatic is all idee fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you find any of this interesting, then, please, read the book. Go here for more info: http://www.themodernword.com/eco/ |
