'he single's twist (Sulley also cheated) is a surprise and turns the cliche on its head.' This twist was explored earlier - and rather better, in my opinion - by the Joe Jackson Band. The song was 'B.I.O.L.O.G.Y.', from the terrific 1980 album 'Beat Crazy!'. You can read the lyrics of the song here: http://www.metrolyrics.com/lyrics/167662/Joe_Jackson/Biology
Perhaps I am I being dim here, but why is this article called 'Allesandro Nesta' when it appears to be about Mauro Camoranesi?
Yes, it is certainly cute. But was it actually 'written by an 8 year old named Danny Dutton who lives in Chula Vista, CA'? Well, the jury seems to be out on that one ... http://www.snopes.com/glurge/dutton.htm
'I didn't reallize that spelling was a requirement to exercise logic.' It's not, but your argument is a million miles from logic. Besides, when you post a blog with a one-word title and a seven-word sub-title and include schoolboy howlers in BOTH, I think we're entitled to conclude that you are, at best, slapdash. P.S. 'Realize' has one 'l'!
'Also it doesn't really matter how many scientists were agnostic or not.' In that case, why did you bother claiming 'And most of the sincere scientists are agnostics' to support what might be (very loosely) termed your 'argument'? 'And I believe Einstein is a good enough scientist to assert simply because He and Hawking are at the top of the list when it comes to science.' That would be the same Einstein who famously said, 'God doe
'that said, i was tongue-in-cheek here, perhaps i should have made that plainer ?' Well, maybe I should have seen that. Glad that while I appear to have narked one or two others, I don't appear to have offended you - and you are the author of the piece to which I was responding, after all! Very nicely defused too, if may say so.
'Does it disturb you to find out that it is more likely there isn't a God?' It disturbs me more to find that you think the existence of God is a matter of mathematical probability. So, oh monopoly holder of reason / intellect / integrity and the rest, what are your data and what 'facts and real world systems' are they based on? Let's see the equations and the mathematical proof. Ditto 'And most of the sincere scientists are agnostics'. Concr
'But berating someone for actually having an opinion of their own is, quite frankly, conceited, IMHO.' I didn't berate her for having an opinion, but for what I perceive as 'protesting too much', i.e. overstating the argument. 'JU is all about this very thing: having an opinion. If you agree or disagree, well fine and good. ' Unless you are perceived as disagreeing, it appears ... <img src="../images/smiles/lol.gif" border=0 ALIGN=
'wah, wah, wah....' What an enlightening contribution.
'for example: the newspaper where i work has a ‘valentine love messages’ page that i am required to edit, but would prefer to vomit on.' Does the fact that some other people may enjoy St. Valentine's Day really make you want to vomit on their messages? Sheesh, take a valium. 'everybody, it seems, except for me.' You're the only one who thinks it might be a commercial scam? Don't kid yourself. Surely the point is this - if it a
'But we do have to let them grow up. They cannot stay little girls forever.' Of course, Dr, Guy. We would not be fulfilling our responsibility to prepare them for the outside world if we didn't let them grow up. However, when dharmagrl says 'I want her to not grow so fast, I want time to slow just a little so I can enjoy her a little longer', I agree too - and not only for my benefit, but for hers too. We live in a world /society in which, to me, t
'I see guys on the horizon and I don't like the way they look at her and I want to rip their eyes out of their heads for looking at her that way. Is that normal?' Hell yes. Our little Daisy is only ten months old but I have long since developed a scarily primeval instinct to protect her no matter what. As I say to my wife, 'Our job as parents is to raise her in such a way that she is best equipped to live without us. Some time from now, upon seei
'in firefox it is just showing up as the original article, followed by another copy of it in another box' I'm using Firefox, and it's jamming it all into the same box. Maybe it's a different version or something. 'psst! It's a conspiracy!' Definitely, Dr Guy - Firefox is a product of the free market system, after all! I guess sometimes CAPITALISM doesn't work either!<
'It's a quote from the series of books by Terry Goodkind' Thank you CM. So JG actually reads authors other than Ayn Rand? Well, knock me down with a feather. Oh wait, Terry Goodkind is a Rand disciple ... One final pedantic critique (I find JG too unhinged to respond to on any other level): 'The West Commits Suicide at the hands of their own Values.' If you commit suicide, you do it by definition at your OWN hands, not at the
'"What do you call a busload of lawyers going off a cliff...A good start!"' Q. What's the difference between a catfish and a lawyer? A. One is a bottom-dwelling scum-sucker. The other is a fish.
'I am sorry. I dont see this. Is it perhaps your browser?' Yes, that may well be the case. Funny that it's not happening with any other blogs I look at though. Marvin's blog has 5 paragraphs initially, but this rises to 9 (a complete duplication, but two paragraphs get concatenated) when I click to show comments. Sorry Marvin.
Hi Marvin, how is life in la-la-land? I feel obliged to point out that you have repeated your entire article within the text. Why is this? 1) To make it look more comprehensive than it is, 2) Because 'the principles that made this country great' cause brain damage; or 3) Because you didn't do enough planning? But wait, apparently 'planning is socialism' ... <img src="../images/smiles/lol.gif" border=0 ALIGN="absmiddle
' Hehe. I actually really like Satch and Vai.' I suspect we all have guilty pleasures of this kind. You're just brave enough to reveal who yours are!
... don't you think you are kind of emulating the political witch hunt thing that Starr is often accused of?' Fair point, Bakerstreet. Patience, my dear thatoneguyinslc, patience ... you may not have long to wait!
'since he was excercising his free speech rights I would asume joe would love it.' Big assumption, MM. You confuse the RIGHT to free speech with subscribing to the opinions expressed therein. e.g. I wholeheartedly support your right to express this very opinion, but I disagree with it. See the difference?
'There ultimate goal is to do away with all modern science. This is not some fringe group; this is a large influential organization that gets a lot of support from other mainstream Christian organizations.' And if that's their aim, they should be honest enough to say so, in which case I could at least respect them for their integrity if little else. But they don't. Instead, they hide behind a facade of scientific rigour, calling themselves t
'You should have put veggies in it .' Good call! However there were two hurdles preventing me from doing this. (1) It was designed to fit decent sized animals - chickens etc. Other than whole pumpkins, few other vegetables would have got near enough to the heat to have warmed up, let alone cooked. (2) The look on my friend's face when I handed the spit over to him was better than being paid for it! The following weekend, he put a pig on
I am a huge music fan, and I like a bit of whatever style of guitar you fancy as much as the next tennis racket wielding buffoon. But I have to say, solely from a musical perspective I might add, that if messrs. Satriani, Vai and Malmsteen all went down in an air crash, I believe they they would be doing the world a big favour. Actually, while we're on this slightly tasteless metaphor, let's make it a rather bigger plane, and stick on board
I wonder what Country Joe would make of this appropriation of his song?
'So keep right on making an uproar over nothing.' You're always VERY fast on the scene to explain away this kind of stuff, BakerStreet. If it really was 'an uproar over nothing', and Col Gene was really 'the best friend Congressional Republicans have', wouldn't you be better advised to say nothing?
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