'I did not notice oh great furry one, due to I have always thought mensa is like a freak show. Big IQ"S do not make a smart person.' I agree entirely. They always struck me as an organisation of mutual back-slappers - telling each other how clever they are and bathing in the glory of their own kudos, but not employing their supposed cleverness for any remotely useful purpose.
These are certainly funny, but many are far from original. I remember reading 5, 13 and 15 - 18 word for word on a single email that was circulating at my workplace some 4 or 5 years ago. From the way you word the post, MM, it appears that readers were required to develop their own new words, not swipe pre-existing examples off the ether. I hope that they credited their sources. Otherwise, it would surely not reflect well on MENSA to be passively suppo
Thank you for sharing, Dharma - that's the most moving piece of writing I've read in quite a while. I tip my hat to you. That Dave is a lucky man.
'i got no idea what that word means...but it sho do sound powerful.' It [codswallop] means 'balderdash', 'poppycock' or 'bunkum' - i.e. (LW is quite right) simply 'nonsense'. And it has a lovely derivation: "In 1875 Hiram Codd patented a mineral water bottle with a marble stopper. 'Wallop' here is a slang term for beer. Thus 'Codd's wallop' is said to have become a disparaging term among beer drinkers for mineral waters and weak d
Ah, empty insults in the absence of any cogent counter-argument - the sure sign of a redundant position. Anyone who claims that 'The value of your importance is directly related to the number of people beneath you' warrants nothing but heartfelt sympathy. Get well soon. I'm done here.
'her, and a very nice her too.' Thanks for the clarification, Dr. Guy!
'Once again, a so-called atheist proves he is no such thing.' Codswallop. I was pulling Tova7 up on an inconsistency in his / her argument. That doesn't mean I subscribe to it. 'Most of you people need to get some perspective (to say the least). In ancient times, people weren't able to travel extensively, so to them, "the world" was only what they could see. Evidence shows that there was a flood in the Middle East.' Perhaps. But this i
'First, You need to GO BACK and study scripture before you start re-inventing it. God doesn't "bring" it, he ALLOWS it. Big difference.' Didn't God cause the flood?
PS. There is no such word as 'alumnist'. Perhaps you intended to type 'alumnus', which means a former student of an educational establishment. It still doesn't make any sense as you have used it, but at least it is a word. You would have made more sense and sounded less pretentious if you had just said 'former player'.
'What do you live for?' Biological reductionists might argue that we choose to live because we are genetically programmed to do so. Any genetic predisposition to prefer NOT to continue living would very quickly die out (no pun intended). Consequently, the survival instinct prevails. This is universal across all species.
'Who was famous for leading Cuba's national team.' I assume you mean Argentina. (Well, I suppose they are both 'south of the US' ... ) 'Now, from what i read of the article, he was nothing more than a puppet.' Pray tell, which article were you reading? There is absolutely nothing in the linked article to suggest that Maradona was 'a puppet'. In fact, if you knew the slightest thing about him - how he was arguably the most gifted pl
Good blog, CS. 'Freedom' is one of those nebulous terms, isn't it (like 'life' or 'rights' or 'intelligence') where everybody subscribes to the concept, everybody believes it is hugely important, everybody wants it - yet nobody can quite agree on what it actually is. As for the excruciating irony of Australia - like Britain - supposedly waging 'war' in the name of 'freedom' while systematically undermining that very same freedom in re
FC: 'Counting is definitely not involved.' BRS: 'Of course it is. Given that the "range" of numbers 1-9 is involved, one must be able to discern which numbers fall within this range.' Knowing the numbers in the range from 1 to 9 is NOT counting. Counting imposes an ORDER in which the numbers occur. This is not relevant in Sudoku, which is why I said 'It might just as well use the letters A - I, or any 9 random symbols.' Der. Seems like you mi
'and probably strokes other bits of himself ...' And even then gives up when he's only a quarter finished!
'twinges of concious ...' But mainly unconscious, right MM?
'Suduko is a numbers based crossword puzzle and requires that you be able to count all the way to 9.' The fact that Sudoku uses numbers is incidental. It might just as well use the letters A - I, or any 9 random symbols.Counting is definitely not involved. 'With Sudoku, as with a crossword puzzle, the further along you get, the easier it becomes. A design flaw if you ask me.' Not so, in either case. (If it was, nobody would ever get on
'Repetitive and relentless promotion can become tedious, but I feel virtuous doing it ...' YOU may feel virtuous, but almost everybody else feels you are a selfish ******. 'Repetitive and relentless' doesn't even come close - what you do is hugely insulting. You do not even do people the common courtesy of responding to their comments, you just carry on posting the same old propaganda over and over again. You actively drive away those who might in
'Hitler didn't just kill 6 million people ...' Er, 6 million was the Jews alone. Hitler and the Nazis killed many, many more than that. 25 million people in the USSR for starters.
And then they sold the song lock, stock and barrel to promote Microsoft's tilt at domination of the commercial world. Phew rock 'n' roll! Still, the message fits: 'You're gonna get screwed!'
'If every blog spammer would only put one over his or her head and duct tape it tightly around each individual neck...I wouldn't have to waste my time doing this.' Hear, hear!
'Wanted: Music Lovers with Taste' Taste? Not sure quite what you mean by that. I've no doubt that Britney fans consider their taste just as worthy as anybody else's. Personally, I'd start my list with 'Pretty Vacant' by the Sex Pistols (considered tasteLESS by millions ), and I wouldn't be seen dead including anything by, for example, Aerosmith or Lynyrd Skynyrd. That's just a refl
In general I agree with the basic sentiment of your 'let's stop filling the world with plastic bags' crusade. However, clogging up JoeUser with post after post after post on exactly the same subject is, I suspect, unlikely to win you any converts. Why not just make your point once and make it well, then invite comment. Better that surely than flooding readers with the same point, over and over again?
'He thinks her boyfriend has impregnanted her ...' Excellent! 'Impregnanted' may not be a word, but it should be!
'The Commonwealth will recover from this. But it will take a long time, and the expense that it will cause due to turnover and training will far exceed any meager cost savings that the governor can cook the books for.' Perhaps I'm being dense here, but can you please explain how this is about LYING, and not about outsourcing? 'Er, who on earth said you HAD to?' 'You implied, if you did not directly state it "my philosophy" and such.'<B
'YOu have seen the complete demoralization of a state agency?' Doubt all you like. but yes. (Life does exist outside the USA, you know. ) 'So your insinuation seems to be a case of your misunderstanding, not my moaning.' No insinuation here, nor any misunderstanding. The passage which I quoted previously was quite explicitly your opinion on the outsourcing, NOT the lying.
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