Just when you think it can't get more weird...

[dillon]

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[crfriend]

... it does.

I wonder if Australia tolerates immigrants from backwards nations? I've always had a hankering to go there.

[dillon]

... it does.

I wonder if Australia tolerates immigrants from backwards nations? I've always had a hankering to go there.

Considered it, but it's even hotter there than here and with even more poisonous snakes... I will not abandon my state even unto my last breath. I will continue, perhaps in vane, trying to reform it; to vanquish the social dinosaurs into justly-deserved extinction.

[crfriend]

I wonder if Australia tolerates immigrants from backwards nations? I've always had a hankering to go there.

Considered it, but it's even hotter there than here and with even more poisonous snakes...

Oi! Wot's wrong wit' snakes? Oz is a great place to go if you want to get poisoned. And they've got drop bears! [0]

"You're so vane". // "Yes, but at least I know from whence the wind blows." (Sorry, Dillon. I had to do it; it was low-hanging fruit.)

[0] Part of the fun memories of my misspent past had to do with "drop bears" and a bartender at our old local haunt who had a son who was going to study in Oz. I worked the story up nicely and topped it off with, "And they're venomous". To which received a stammered response of "venomenomous?!" (a "word" which entered Sapphire's an my lexicon for humour value for a while).

[dillon]

You are forgiven, and I am not so thin-skinned as I may appear. I tolerate criticism, but have no indulgence for ignorance and bigotry.

[moonshadow]

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[crfriend]

The question then becomes whether one bows to the absurd voluntarily or involuntarily. The former I can see as a gesture of utter defeat; the latter I cannot comprehend. There are things worth dying for, are there not! (Or is that "?"?)

[moonshadow]

There are things worth dying for, are there not! (Or is that "?"?)

Well, we certainly don't want to piss Satan off!

[crfriend]

Well, we certainly don't want to piss Satan off!

A long, long time ago [0], I was accused by a co-worker, who was a bit of a Bible-thumper at the time, of being a "Devil-worshipper". This went on for a little bit until I tired of it. My (sotto voce) retort to him was that, "Since I am not Christian, Satan cannot exist in my reality, hence I cannot worship him. That is the province of Christians and Christians alone." The entire office went dead silent for several minutes figuring this was going to wind up in a serious bout of fisticuffs. It never did. (We'd have trashed the place if it did, being of more or less equal size and tenacity. It would not have been pretty.)

He seems to have grown out of the phase and we remain, to this day, fairly congenial acquaintances. Life is good. 'Tis a pity that so much of what we surround it with amounts to precious less than utter dreck.

I do find it humourous that Boner [to use the phonetic spelling] (Didn't it used to be "Bonyer" with the tilde-n as in Spanish? Always distrust someone who renames himself (unless it's "Prince" or "Madonna")) would compare Ted Cruz to Satan. Somehow it cheapens the latter one's standing by a large margin, and I'm wondering if that wasn't the intent.

Yep, just when you think it couldn't get any weirder....


[0] but not in a galaxy far, far away

[Caultron]

...Yep, just when you think it couldn't get any weirder....

Oh, baby, when that happens hold onto your seat!

[skirted_in_SF]

Always distrust someone who renames himself (unless it's "Prince" or "Madonna"))

I understand that Prince is actually the name on his birth certificate. Named after his father's stage name (I think, if I weren't so lazy I'd do a bit if research).

[Disaffected.citizen]

Always distrust someone who renames himself (unless it's "Prince" or "Madonna"))

I understand that Prince is actually the name on his birth certificate. Named after his father's stage name (I think, if I weren't so lazy I'd do a bit if research).

Wikipedia confirms Prince was his given name at birth (Prince Rogers Nelson); likewise, Madonna is her given name (Madonna Louise Ciccone).

Would you have trusted John Wayne? Would you trust Mohammad Ali?

I'm guessing there was meant to be a little humour intended in there. Or maybe that we should beware of trusting anyone who goes by their first name alone? In which case, I'd also include Elizabeth as an exception alongside Prince and Madonna.

[crfriend]

Wikipedia confirms Prince was his given name at birth (Prince Rogers Nelson); likewise, Madonna is her given name (Madonna Louise Ciccone).

In Prince's case, I was referring to the "unpronounceable symbol" that he used for a while which inspired several of the computer types whom I hang with to adapt the phrase used by the ex-Prince and the media to describe the logic-diagrams for computers as "schematics, formerly known as 'prints'". Hard-core computer types have strange senses of humour.

I'm guessing there was meant to be a little humour intended in there.

Absolutely. Without humour there would be precious little hope for humanity. Sometimes it's the only thing that keeps us sane.

Or maybe that we should beware of trusting anyone who goes by their first name alone? In which case, I'd also include Elizabeth as an exception alongside Prince and Madonna.

I always thought Elizabeth's first name was "Queen". Or have I been misinformed? {duck-and-cover}

[Disaffected.citizen]

I always thought Elizabeth's first name was "Queen". Or have I been misinformed? {duck-and-cover}

I think you'll find that's Elton John

[Sinned]

Carl, the Queens official title by virtue of the Royal Titles Act of 1953, is: "Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith". Somewhere in there is also the surname Windsor but I suppose that that is the family name. Sort that one out.

BTW DA I liked your quip.