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Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 6:58 pm
by Ron Caliburn
That's Bert in a nutshell.

Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 7:10 pm
by kalle
Come out of the nutshell Bert. Its not healthy to live so. Stop trying to fool yourself Bert.

Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:51 pm
by Ron Caliburn
Anybody else suddenly get reminded of a squrrel?

Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:53 pm
by Bert_the_Turtle
Has anyone heard from our resident squirrel lately?

Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:02 pm
by Ron Caliburn
Check the thread of the fallen.

Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:08 pm
by Kolya
"If you were a squirrel, would you mind if bust a nut in your hole?"

Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:12 pm
by Ron Caliburn
You aren't doing anything with my hole.

Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:13 pm
by Kolya
Wasn't planning to.
Don't even desire to.

Just remembering a t-shirt I saw once.

Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:16 pm
by Ron Caliburn
We had this one where I grew up. "Better dead than red."

Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:17 pm
by Kolya
"Kill a Commie for Mommy"

Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:17 pm
by Kolya
Ron Caliburn wrote:We had this one where I grew up. "Better red than dead."
I think you got that backwards, because this is actually true!

Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:20 pm
by Ron Caliburn
Kolya wrote:"Kill a Commie for Mommy"


That one too.

Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:20 pm
by Ron Caliburn
Kolya wrote:
Ron Caliburn wrote:We had this one where I grew up. "Better dead than red."
I think you got that backwards, because this is actually true!


Fixed it.

Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:26 pm
by Kolya
Ron Caliburn wrote:
Kolya wrote:
Ron Caliburn wrote:We had this one where I grew up. "Better dead than red."
I think you got that backwards, because this is actually true!


Fixed it.
I'd rather be red than dead, I have to admit.

Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:40 pm
by Ron Caliburn
Yeah, didn't go like that where I grew up.

Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 7:31 am
by KonThaak
Marx: Hey! I've got a great idea! We'll all throw down the pigs at the top, instate a temporary government, and we'll all live as equals!

Society: YAY! ...except you ignored our old lower class, and put people into power who won't give it up. DAMN YOU, MARX!!!

Everyone all the world over: Shit, communism must be a bad thing!

Max Weber: Actually, the idea was good. He just screwed up a few things. Here, I fixed it!

World: WE DON'T WANNA HEAR IT! STFU and GTFO!

Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 8:31 am
by DroopyDawg
Communism is not a bad idea at all. In fact it is a wonderful way for a small group to work. The problem is that it doesn’t readily take in to account for the human ego. So when the group gets large enough then the largest ego usually winds up at the top of the heap, and the government shifts toward a more cumbersome form of government than a commune.

Heck, America even proves that Democracy has issues when the group gets too big.

We may have to come up with a different governmental structure to survive in the future.

Makes you wonder, if there are entities out there with the goal of ensuring mankind fails to come together.

Droopy

Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 9:12 am
by Kolya
Communism might work on a large scale; how would we know? It's never been tried on a large scale.

Although I suspect it won't for the reasons Droopy mentioned.

Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 9:13 am
by Kolya
Ron Caliburn wrote:Yeah, didn't go like that where I grew up.
A lot of things didn't go, it seems.

Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 5:48 pm
by Ron Caliburn
Many, many things.

It's weird, but for the first time, I'm actualyl starting to look forward to Christmas.

Ei's been after me not to patroll on Christmas Eve, and it's tempting . . . but I wouldn't feel right.

Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 5:53 pm
by Kolya
Interesting that Comet Tuttle will be it's Brightest on Christmas Eve; here I was hoping that 5 January 2008 was going to be boring...

Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 5:58 pm
by Ron Caliburn
So much for that, huh?

Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 6:11 pm
by Kolya
That's alright. Nothing's scheduled in the sky on the 6th that I'm aware of. So if I weren't an athiest I could still celebrate Christmas just fine I guess.

Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 6:23 pm
by Ron Caliburn
Keep looking up.

Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 8:08 pm
by Kolya
I look down from time to time, too.

Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 8:11 pm
by Ron Caliburn
Minefields.

Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 8:13 pm
by Kolya
Yes that's correct.

Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 8:20 pm
by Ron Caliburn
Fortunately I mostly have to worry about dog doo

Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 8:23 pm
by Kolya
No pets.

But sometimes people try to kill me with bombs and tripwires.

Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 10:27 pm
by Bert_the_Turtle
Not me, not intentionally anyway :P