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19240. uzmakk - 4/26/2006 6:32:30 PM I'm ready for a little fiction. 19241. uzmakk - 4/26/2006 6:37:59 PM P'rahps another tall tale. P'rhaps a real plan. P'rhaps some real action. Do you remember when I slaughtered all the Moties in the Cantina, Nilsson? If I recall correctly, your comment was, "Beautiful". 19242. PelleNilsson - 4/26/2006 7:27:41 PM Let us remember that day in Ulan-Bator, when after a heartening breakfast of camel yoghurt, dates and eagle eggs, you conquered twelve willing virgins and then distributed them among the chieftains, except the lovely Alisha whom you reserved for yourself. It might be argued that your ascendancy to Master of the Steppes started on that very day.
How do you recall it? 19243. uzmakk - 4/26/2006 7:59:30 PM I recall that the Cantina was actually an ashram wired to the internet. This because the slaughter took place on the Religion and Philosophy thread. 19244. uzmakk - 4/26/2006 8:04:42 PM I am busy Nilsson; when can we meet. The cantina will be mine, so you are sure to have a good time. 19245. arkymalarky - 4/27/2006 3:24:18 AM Hey Uz! I have Tues and Wed night classes for the next couple of weeks and other than that I try to get online for a few minutes when I get home and check in a few times between then and bed. If I'm stressed or have a headache you can catch me at 3am Central. Otherwise I'm no earlybird. I have the minimum amount of time it takes between getting up and leaving for work down to a fine art.
Whyn't you shoot me an email? amalarky@yahoo.com
I don't remember if I showed you the stuff I've/we've done wrt my rural "advocacy." It's grown significantly in size and scope, if not actual impact. 19246. arkymalarky - 4/27/2006 3:25:49 AM And if you two are going to go on about yaks and virgins, please let me know what time the meeting starts so I can show up after you get it out of your systems. ;-) 19247. arkymalarky - 4/27/2006 3:48:48 AM I thought MsGreer went to law school. 19248. arkymalarky - 4/27/2006 3:50:20 AM For an extra $1.99 a month I'm getting a web accelerator. I'm looking forward to seeing if it works. 19249. webfeet - 4/27/2006 5:19:41 AM I just had an idle thought: don't logos on t-shirts have to make sense? That the places on the t-shirt have to exist or at least have to be places you've actually visited?
Take 'Eagle Ridge Rowing' if that was printed on your six-year old boy's t-shirt, wouldn't it be strange if someone, say a neighbor at a barbecue asked your child, "What's Eagle Ridge? Is that someplace your family visited on vacation?" And your child does not just have any connection to it, but wouldn't even know what that person was talking about. They would draw a blank. Shouldn't a t-shirt at least have a context, a meaning? Something personal attached to it?
Take the L.L. Bean catalog--there are so many t-shirts for boys with made-up places written on them that all sound like facsimiles of real, cool vacation spots which *do*not*really*exist*. I'd love to buy some for my son because they all seem to fit in this kind of glorification of summer in Americana--fishing, lakes,, bears. But the problem is none of the places are real and I feel deeply uncomfortable about buying him a t-shirt which has something written on it that people, in other words, read when they look at him, that has no meaning to him whatsoever. That has no meaning in general.
19250. alistairConnor - 4/27/2006 6:53:43 AM If my children have to wear meaningless slogans, I prefer that they be in Chinese or Thai script, this avoids pain and suffering on my part at least.
My personal favourite, quite common around here, I suppose it's a brand name : "Coven Garden" (sic), with a .... kangaroo logo. 19251. alistairConnor - 4/27/2006 6:55:07 AM "Eagle Ridge Rowing" is pretty good, I suspect they are computer-generated, euphony, strength and vigour.
But you can't actually row on a ridge. 19252. uzmakk - 4/27/2006 12:16:11 PM "Our politics" is a very large part of what I want to talk about. I shall be in touch. 19253. uzmakk - 4/27/2006 12:16:48 PM The above is to ARKYMALARKY. 19254. webfeet - 4/27/2006 3:25:32 PM I was thinking, alistair, that the french didn't really do that as much, creating these fictional places that sound like real places where you, your grandfather and seven uncles all went river rafting or fly fishing for generations.
It's like trying to buy some authenticity or class with a t-shirt. Give your child an identity that has nothing to do with any of you.
19255. Adam Selene - 4/27/2006 4:05:59 PM re: Message # 19233. I also considered the Groundhugger XR2 - it is sooo rad! But then I realized that no one actually has a fully-functioning one in daily use...
What got me interested in recumbents in the first place was the movie Brainstorm when Christopher Walken rode his long-wheel-base, under-seat-steering Avatar home from work. You can see it in action here: Brainstorm video. 19256. webfeet - 4/27/2006 5:55:34 PM alistair--I forgot to mention to you that my sister was actually in New Zealand on a scholarship at the University of Victoria, in Wellington, where she taught fiction for 3 months.
She confessed she had a hard time figuring out what people were saying until she had sex with a New Zealander; after that, like some creature out of myth, she could hear everyone perfectly.
She loved it there, in every sense. And she brought us back elderflower cordial, a strangely delightful elixir that we mix with sparkling water. Or champagne if you can spring for it.
19257. alistairconnor - 4/27/2006 5:59:09 PM ... and then she recoiled in horror from her lover?
Must tell my ex that one, she'll love it. 19258. PelleNilsson - 4/27/2006 6:27:36 PM "University of Victoria, in Wellington, where she taught fiction for 3 months."
Very funny. 19259. iiibbb - 4/27/2006 6:51:48 PM Message # 19255
My frontrunner is the Lightning Phantom that's coming out this year. ~$1500 but certainly less than a P-38.
A lot of hills around here. I need something that can climb.
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