(OT) WHEW! ~ Just One More Year To Go, And This Decade Will Finally Be Over!
The Kentucky Wizard
this time.
Matthew Kruk
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> Anyone want to argue this point? And please, don't mention any
> religions this time.
Sorry, I'm a zero based fellow and it's over on Dec 31, 2009.
J.D. Baldwin
In the previous article, The Kentucky Wizard <KyWi...@insightbb.com>
wrote:
> Anyone want to argue this point? And please, don't mention any
> religions this time.
The century and millenium start-and-end years end in 1. Decades tend
to be referred to by the tens, though, starting and ending with years
ending in zero. It's all completely arbitrary, but I'd come down on
the side that says the current "decade" ends tomorrow.
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Brad Ferguson
Kentucky Wizard <KyWi...@insightbb.com> wrote:
> Anyone want to argue this point?
Not me. Nothing personal, but this kind of thing has grown tiresome.
Matthew Kruk
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>
> In the previous article, The Kentucky Wizard <KyWi...@insightbb.com>
> wrote:
>> Anyone want to argue this point? And please, don't mention any
>> religions this time.
>
> The century and millenium start-and-end years end in 1. Decades tend
> to be referred to by the tens, though, starting and ending with years
> ending in zero. It's all completely arbitrary, but I'd come down on
> the side that says the current "decade" ends tomorrow.
The easy way to think about it is when you turned "10", it means you
lived ten years on the planet i.e. a decade. On the last day of your
tenth year you are nearing living 11 years which is not a decade. So,
on Dec. 31, 2009 we're ending a decade of 200x.
It may be a new year "starting" but it's more an acknowledgement of the
passing of the previous year.
MWB
I'm going with WIZ on this one.
It ain't over for another year.
GO WIZLENIUM
Mark
Steve Hayes
Every year on 31 December another decade is over, from the same date ten years
previously.
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Steve Hayes
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>>
>> In the previous article, The Kentucky Wizard <KyWi...@insightbb.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Anyone want to argue this point? And please, don't mention any
>>> religions this time.
>>
>> The century and millenium start-and-end years end in 1. Decades tend
>> to be referred to by the tens, though, starting and ending with years
>> ending in zero. It's all completely arbitrary, but I'd come down on
>> the side that says the current "decade" ends tomorrow.
>
>The easy way to think about it is when you turned "10", it means you
>lived ten years on the planet i.e. a decade. On the last day of your
>tenth year you are nearing living 11 years which is not a decade. So,
>on Dec. 31, 2009 we're ending a decade of 200x.
That's the false way of thinking about it, but it's impossible to mention the
true way without mentioning religion, which we were asked not to do.
rwalker
A decade is ten years. Any damn ten years you like. Yes, there was
no year 0, but there was no year 1 either. It was named way after the
fact. We could have a year 0 if we liked, if everyone would agree to
it.
Bottom line is that it's all a matter of opinion.
rwalker
<haye...@telkomsa.net> wrote:
>On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:55:27 -0500, "The Kentucky Wizard"
><KyWi...@insightbb.com> wrote:
>
>>Anyone want to argue this point? And please, don't mention any religions
>>this time.
>
>Every year on 31 December another decade is over, from the same date ten years
>previously.
For that matter, every April 22nd marks a decade since the April 22nd
10 years previous.
Steve Hayes
That too.
Steve Hayes
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>
>"Steve Hayes" <haye...@telkomsa.net> wrote in message
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>> On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:55:27 -0500, "The Kentucky Wizard"
>> <KyWi...@insightbb.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Anyone want to argue this point? And please, don't mention any religions
>>>this time.
>>
>> Every year on 31 December another decade is over, from the same date ten
>> years
>> previously.
>
> Cute and techinically correct, but you still don't get that cigar!
What cigar?
rob cibik
> On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:34:31 +0200, Steve Hayes
>
> >On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:55:27 -0500, "The Kentucky Wizard"
> ><KyWiz...@insightbb.com> wrote:
>
> >>Anyone want to argue this point? And please, don't mention any religions
> >>this time.
>
> >Every year on 31 December another decade is over, from the same date ten years
> >previously.
>
> For that matter, every April 22nd marks a decade since the April 22nd
> 10 years previous.
every april 22nd marks the anniversary of the april 22nd i was born.
should i live until 04-22-10, it will be the end of five decades and
the beginning of my sixth.
J.D. Baldwin
But we don't count decades the way we do centuries and millenia. The
"first millenium" ran 1-1000, the second 1001-2000, the third
2001-3000. Likewise first, second, ... twentieth centuries are 1-100,
101-200, 1901-2000.
But we don't say Chubby Checker was popular in the "196th decade," we
say he was popular in the "1950s," whose name implies 1950-1959.
Don't you think it would be just a wee bit silly to claim that 1950
isn't "in" the 1950s?
J.D. Baldwin
In the previous article, Brad Ferguson <Brad Ferguson> wrote:
> Not me. Nothing personal, but this kind of thing has grown tiresome.
Sorry to hear you'll be retiring from Usenet.
Steve Hayes
(J.D. Baldwin) wrote:
>
>In the previous article, MWB <bic...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Whoa up...There wasn't a year 0000.
>
>But we don't count decades the way we do centuries and millenia. The
>"first millenium" ran 1-1000, the second 1001-2000, the third
>2001-3000. Likewise first, second, ... twentieth centuries are 1-100,
>101-200, 1901-2000.
>
>But we don't say Chubby Checker was popular in the "196th decade," we
>say he was popular in the "1950s," whose name implies 1950-1959.
>Don't you think it would be just a wee bit silly to claim that 1950
>isn't "in" the 1950s?
Quite.
So the decade that no one has a name for will end tomorrow, but the first
decade of the 21st century will end in a year's time.
J.D. Baldwin
In the previous article, A <aa...@att.net> wrote, quoting me:
> > But we don't say Chubby Checker was popular in the "196th decade," we
> > say he was popular in the "1950s," whose name implies 1950-1959.
>
> Try the "1960s", implying 1960-1969.
> "The Twist" (both in 1960 and again in 1961, plus "The
> Limbo Rock" in '63.
D'oh!
OK, substitute Bill Haley or the hula hoop or something.
R H Draney
>
>
>In the previous article, A <aa...@att.net> wrote, quoting me:
>> > But we don't say Chubby Checker was popular in the "196th decade," we
>> > say he was popular in the "1950s," whose name implies 1950-1959.
>>
>> I believe you are off by a decade.
>> Try the "1960s", implying 1960-1969.
>> "The Twist" (both in 1960 and again in 1961, plus "The
>> Limbo Rock" in '63.
>
>D'oh!
>
>OK, substitute Bill Haley or the hula hoop or something.
Any scheme that puts Patti Page in the same box as Buddy Holly is flawed from
the get-go....r
--
A pessimist sees the glass as half empty.
An optometrist asks whether you see the glass
more full like this?...or like this?
marcus
Whereas the socio-political, cultural Sixties decade(in the USA)
occurred from 1963/1964 until 1973/1974.
While we're gnawing on the "0" and "1" years, let me throw out another
one that always drives people crazy, and often perpetuates at least 50
posts per thread(in a thread of its own).
"If a tree falls in the forest, and no person is there to hear it,
does it make a sound?"
Richard Brooks
> Anyone want to argue this point? And please, don't mention any religions
> this time.
Are taking away ~6 to ~8 years for correct CE?
Brad Ferguson
<d9b661c8-a549-4d0b...@r24g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>,
marcus <marc...@yahoo.com> wrote:
No. A sound is the result of the movement of air across an eardrum.
No eardrum, no sound.
David Carson
wrote:
>In article
Many things likely to be in forests besides people have eardrums though.
Brad Ferguson
Carson <da...@neosoft.com> wrote:
Absolutely. It's absurd to presume (as the original statement does)
that only humans hear sounds.
R H Draney
>
>Whereas the socio-political, cultural Sixties decade(in the USA)
>occurred from 1963/1964 until 1973/1974.
I think a case can be made for the Sixties beginning and ending at different
times depending on whether you mean the social, cultural, political or
technological Sixties (just as an example, the last ended when Armstrong dropped
his boot in Tranquility)....
>"If a tree falls in the forest, and no person is there to hear it,
>does it make a sound?"
Wha!...who said that?...r
The Kentucky Wizard
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My Killer Chihuahua hears people coming to our house, sometimes as early as
five minutes before they arrive at the door. He also knows the sound of any
UPS, FED EX, and USPS vehicle when they either pass or stop by to deliver a
package, and they all know to have a dog treat waiting for him as well, for
he won't hardly let them down off the porch if they don't. He also knows
what a pizza delivery person looks like, regardless of the outfit they're
wearing or crappy car they're driving. It's almost spooky at times the
things he hears and knows.
The Kentucky Wizard
> In article <nNidneUz98DOdqfW...@insightbb.com>, The
You gave up after only three posts? I'm disappointed in your, Brad ole pal.
Terry hasn't even hovered in with a smutty word yet, but I'm still holding
out hope.
The Kentucky Wizard
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I don't know, but after following this thread, so far I've been able to come
to the following conclusion;
If a tree in the forest falls on a decade, any decade, it's doesn't make a
sound, since a one or a zero don't have an eardrum, and Brad Ferguson wasn't
around to hear it.
Brad Ferguson
Kentucky Wizard <KyWi...@insightbb.com> wrote:
> "Brad Ferguson" <thir...@frXOXed.net> wrote in message
> news:301220090125395437%thir...@frXOXed.net...
> > In article <nNidneUz98DOdqfW...@insightbb.com>, The
> > Kentucky Wizard <KyWi...@insightbb.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Anyone want to argue this point?
> >
> >
> > Not me. Nothing personal, but this kind of thing has grown tiresome.
>
> You gave up after only three posts? I'm disappointed in your, Brad ole pal.
Nah. I gave up on it ten years ago. This decade thing is the same old
argument.
Further, Roy is on your side. Doesn't that bother you?
marcus
> marcus filted:
>
>
>
> >Whereas the socio-political, cultural Sixties decade(in the USA)
> >occurred from 1963/1964 until 1973/1974.
>
> I think a case can be made for the Sixties beginning and ending at different
> times depending on whether you mean the social, cultural, political or
> technological Sixties (just as an example, the last ended when Armstrong dropped
> his boot in Tranquility)....
So, in other words, mood rings don't fall under your definition of the
technological Sixties? ;-)
marcus
> In article
> <d9b661c8-a549-4d0b-9e2e-20ba0313e...@r24g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>,
that's always been my answer.
J.D. Baldwin
In the previous article, marcus <marc...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> "If a tree falls in the forest, and no person is there to hear it,
> does it make a sound?"
Not only does it not make a sound if no one is there, it doesn't make
a sound if *I* am not there.
R H Draney
>
>On Dec 30, 11:42=A0pm, R H Draney <dadoc...@spamcop.net> wrote:
>> marcus filted:
>>
>>
>>
>> >Whereas the socio-political, cultural Sixties decade(in the USA)
>> >occurred from 1963/1964 until 1973/1974.
>>
>ent
>> times depending on whether you mean the social, cultural, political or
>dropped
>> his boot in Tranquility)....
>
>So, in other words, mood rings don't fall under your definition of the
>technological Sixties? ;-)
Bingo...same with lava lamps and microwave ovens...they may have *existed* in
196x, but I never saw one....r
Brad Ferguson
<aa...@att.net> wrote:
>
> "Brad Ferguson" <thir...@frXOXed.net> wrote in message
> news:311220091024005130%thir...@frXOXed.net...
> God is certainly not on your side when you keep attacking me,
> Brad.
> Why don't you grow up already and stop the inane attacks.
It was a fair question, given the fact that Wiz drops a bomb on you
like every six hours or so.
Further, I have not been asking for divine guidance. He has enough on
his plate already.
Brad Ferguson
Fuego <t_del...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 31 Dec 2009 09:12:41 -0800, R H Draney <dado...@spamcop.net>
> wrote:
>
> >Bingo...same with lava lamps and microwave ovens...they may have *existed* in
> >196x, but I never saw one....r
>
> I was *very* surprised by the reference to a microwave oven in 1966's
> "Seconds". I don't think I saw one until 1972 at the earliest, at
> which time they were still viewed with much more suspicion than they
> are now.
>
> I used to work for an insane cat lady who wouldn't even boil water in
> a microwave oven to make tea, because Irradiated Food Is Bad.
I saw one demonstrated on I've Got a Secret in 1964. The claim was
that you could cook an entire Thanksgiving dinner in like six seconds.
The microwave was the size of a Good Humor ice cream cart.
The first time I ever used one was in 1970, in my college cafeteria,
and it had been there for a couple of years. Several years later I was
visiting a friend in the hospital. She wanted some McDonald's, so I
got her a burger and fries. She said there was a microwave in the
doctors' lounge, so we went in there and used it. It was the first
time in my life that I'd ever had a hot McBurger.
marcus
> x-no-archive: yes
>
> "R H Draney" <dadoc...@spamcop.net> wrote in messagenews:hhim2...@drn.newsguy.com...
>
>
>
>
>
> > marcus filted:
>
> >>On Dec 30, 11:42=A0pm, R H Draney <dadoc...@spamcop.net> wrote:
> >>> marcus filted:
>
> >>> >Whereas the socio-political, cultural Sixties decade(in the USA)
> >>> >occurred from 1963/1964 until 1973/1974.
>
> >>> I think a case can be made for the Sixties beginning and ending at
> >>> differ=
> >>ent
> >>> times depending on whether you mean the social, cultural, political or
> >>> technological Sixties (just as an example, the last ended when Armstrong
> >>> =
> >>dropped
> >>> his boot in Tranquility)....
>
> >>So, in other words, mood rings don't fall under your definition of the
> >>technological Sixties? ;-)
>
> > Bingo...same with lava lamps and microwave ovens...they may have *existed*
> > in
> > 196x, but I never saw one....r
>
> But I would guess they were more available to the masses by the
> mid-1980s.
> Same as black & white TVs were extremely expensive in the
> late-1940s, but as the prices dropped (hint, hint!), the average person was
> more able to afford them.-
The first time I ever heard of a microwave oven was around 1967/1968.
I was reading an article about the Monkees in some teen zine, and
there was a mention that Mike Nesmith bought a microwave oven, with
Mike boasting something like, "I can cook a hot dog in ten seconds. I
thought that was incredible...now I bitch if I my leftovers don't get
hot in 30 seconds.
islanders
\>
> The first time I ever heard of a microwave oven was around 1967/1968.
> I was reading an article about the Monkees in some teen zine, and
> there was a mention that Mike Nesmith bought a microwave oven, with
> Mike boasting something like, "I can cook a hot dog in ten seconds. �I
> thought that was incredible...now I bitch if I my leftovers don't get
> \
The fact that you know this is truly pitiful.
marcus
Why?
It sounded so futuristic that I couldn't believe it was for
real...then about 5 years or so later(circa 1973), they appeared
everywhere...I don't think I owned a microwave oven until 1984 or so.
HankVC
>>
>>On Dec 30, 11:42=A0pm, R H Draney <dadoc...@spamcop.net> wrote:
>>> marcus filted:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> >Whereas the socio-political, cultural Sixties decade(in the USA)
>>> >occurred from 1963/1964 until 1973/1974.
>>>
>>> I think a case can be made for the Sixties beginning and ending at differ=
>>ent
>>> times depending on whether you mean the social, cultural, political or
>>> technological Sixties (just as an example, the last ended when Armstrong =
>>dropped
>>> his boot in Tranquility)....
>>
>>So, in other words, mood rings don't fall under your definition of the
>>technological Sixties? ;-)
>
>Bingo...same with lava lamps and microwave ovens...they may have *existed* in
>196x, but I never saw one....r
>
prototype back in the '60's with the idea that we'd do some figuring
out of what it could be useful for.
Well, couldn't use it with a metal pan of any sort. Strike One.
Tried roasting a duck in the thing. Dried out the duck without
rendering any of the fat out of it. Strike Two.
I think she tried baking some bran muffins in it. What a royal mess
that made. Strike Three.
Indeed, we went through any number of recipes and wrecked a lot of
ingredients. Finally figured that the thing wasn't for cooking up
meals out of ingredients, just for heating up leftovers and making
instant coffee.
In the end, we were very happy to give it back to the manufacturer,
who wasn't happy with our list of limitations on what it might do.
Also happy to reposess the space it took up. Never have owned one of
the things.
Lava lamps? I had to run a search to find out what those are. I may
actually have seen one or two, but don't recall when or where.
Hank
marcus
> In article <hhim2901...@drn.newsguy.com>,
I never heard of lava lamps either until well after the Sixties.
R H Draney
Your list of drawbacks to the microwave oven pales in comparison to my similar
list for CFL light bulbs....
>Lava lamps? I had to run a search to find out what those are. I may
>actually have seen one or two, but don't recall when or where.
Nowadays, all you need to do to signal "Sixties" in a play, movie or TV show is
hang a beaded curtain across a doorway, toss in a bean-bag chair or two, put a
lava lamp in the middle of the room, and pop some sitar music on the
soundtrack....
If you're *really* trying to hit people over the head with the era, you hang up
a poster of a smiley face that says "Have a Nice Day"...this ensures that anyone
who actually *lived* through the 1960s will be able to tell that your scene is
set somewhere around nineteen-sixty-fourteen....r
The Kentucky Wizard
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>
> "The Kentucky Wizard" <KyWi...@insightbb.com> wrote in message
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>
Yep, he's smarter than both of us combined. You'll never see him posting on
newsgroups.
The Kentucky Wizard
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> On 31 Dec 2009 09:12:41 -0800, R H Draney <dado...@spamcop.net>
> wrote:
>
>>Bingo...same with lava lamps and microwave ovens...they may have *existed*
>>in
>>196x, but I never saw one....r
>
> "Seconds". I don't think I saw one until 1972 at the earliest, at
> which time they were still viewed with much more suspicion than they
> are now.
>
> I used to work for an insane cat lady who wouldn't even boil water in
> a microwave oven to make tea, because Irradiated Food Is Bad.
Did she live in Washington State?
The Kentucky Wizard
It severely bothers me, in a way that mere words cannot express. Thanks for
pointing it out to everyone else. ;-)
The Kentucky Wizard
> x-no-archive: yes
>
> "The Kentucky Wizard" <KyWi...@insightbb.com> wrote in message
> news:18WdnXEZwM_uxKHW...@insightbb.com...
> you die (because light travels faster than sound)?
>
Grab a mirror and try that experiment on yourself first, then let us know
the results. We'll wait.
Oh, btw, the "Mythbusters" guys called, they still don't need your
assistance, and sending them naked photos of yourself isn't an incentive, so
they asked (again) that you please leave them alone.
R H Draney
>
>"A" <aa...@att.net> wrote in message
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>>
>> "The Kentucky Wizard" <KyWi...@insightbb.com> wrote in message
>> news:romdnQWaMPdsy6HW...@insightbb.com...
>>>
>>> as five minutes before they arrive at the door. He also knows the sound
>>> of any UPS, FED EX, and USPS vehicle when they either pass or stop by to
>>> deliver a package, and they all know to have a dog treat waiting for him
>>> as well, for he won't hardly let them down off the porch if they don't.
>>> He also knows what a pizza delivery person looks like, regardless of the
>>> outfit they're wearing or crappy car they're driving. It's almost spooky
>>> at times the things he hears and knows.
>>
>> He is smarter than you, I see.
>
>Yep, he's smarter than both of us combined. You'll never see him posting on
>newsgroups.
I take it you haven't checked out alt.fan.chalupa....r
HankVC
>>
>>Indeed, we went through any number of recipes and wrecked a lot of
>>ingredients. Finally figured that the thing wasn't for cooking up
>>meals out of ingredients, just for heating up leftovers and making
>>instant coffee.
>>
>>In the end, we were very happy to give it back to the manufacturer,
>>who wasn't happy with our list of limitations on what it might do.
>>Also happy to reposess the space it took up. Never have owned one of
>>the things.
>
>Your list of drawbacks to the microwave oven pales in comparison to my similar
>list for CFL light bulbs....
>
pretty simple compared to the issues being raised around my place by
those fluorescent bulbs.
They simply won't fit in about half of the light fixtures in this
house. Either too long and/or too wide at the base. If I'm going to
be forced to use them, I'm going to have to spend some serious money
for replacement fixtures.
What's absurd about the whole business is that in my house, the total
energy savings is too small to measure. I live in the Northern
Rockies, and much of the house is heated by electrical baseboard
heater. That means that for about ten months of the year, the heat
the bulbs don't generate will have to be made up by the baseboard
heaters. Seen one kilowatt-hour, seen them all.
And that follows on last year's switch to "improve" television by
changing to digital. What that adds up to was changing the RF
frequencies of the channels to frequencies that don't propagate out my
way. So much for over-the-air traditional television. Along with
several of my neighbors, I'll simply do without---at least until and
unless I can get the one channel I watched a few hours per month over
the internet.
>>Lava lamps? I had to run a search to find out what those are. I may
>>actually have seen one or two, but don't recall when or where.
>
>Nowadays, all you need to do to signal "Sixties" in a play, movie or TV show is
>hang a beaded curtain across a doorway, toss in a bean-bag chair or two, put a
>lava lamp in the middle of the room, and pop some sitar music on the
>soundtrack....
>
>If you're *really* trying to hit people over the head with the era, you hang up
>a poster of a smiley face that says "Have a Nice Day"...this ensures that anyone
>who actually *lived* through the 1960s will be able to tell that your scene is
>set somewhere around nineteen-sixty-fourteen....r
>
I suppose. My wife and I bought a house in 1967, and went on a buying
spree to fill in what we didn't already have, so about half of what I
have in this house today is from that era. I suppose a movie set
could add a "Nixon's the One" poster to make it complete.
Hank
The Kentucky Wizard
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> The Kentucky Wizard filted:
>>
>>"A" <aa...@att.net> wrote in message
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>>>
>>> "The Kentucky Wizard" <KyWi...@insightbb.com> wrote in message
>>> news:romdnQWaMPdsy6HW...@insightbb.com...
>>>>
>>>> My Killer Chihuahua hears people coming to our house, sometimes as
>>>> early
>>>> as five minutes before they arrive at the door. He also knows the sound
>>>> of any UPS, FED EX, and USPS vehicle when they either pass or stop by
>>>> to
>>>> deliver a package, and they all know to have a dog treat waiting for
>>>> him
>>>> as well, for he won't hardly let them down off the porch if they don't.
>>>> He also knows what a pizza delivery person looks like, regardless of
>>>> the
>>>> outfit they're wearing or crappy car they're driving. It's almost
>>>> spooky
>>>> at times the things he hears and knows.
>>>
>>> He is smarter than you, I see.
>>
>>Yep, he's smarter than both of us combined. You'll never see him posting
>>on
>>newsgroups.
>
> I take it you haven't checked out alt.fan.chalupa....r
>
>
BobF
[Default] On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 12:17:31 -0600, "A" <aa...@att.net>
magnanimously proffered:
>> I suppose. My wife and I bought a house in 1967, and went on a buying
>> spree to fill in what we didn't already have, so about half of what I
>> have in this house today is from that era.
>
>
>> I suppose a movie set
>> could add a "Nixon's the One" poster to make it complete.
>
> Only if you put next to it a picture of a pregnant woman.
Roy is living proof that insanity has a language all its own ...
********
> And no ... The Bald Soprano is not a play about Roy Lieberman's birth
> defect.
One correction for your inane remark, Bobo: I do NOT have a birth
defect.
But I know someone in NZ who has a major one in making fun of
someone who merely was premature.
You are a total ass, and if I ever thought about visiting you when
I was thinking of visiting NZ, you destroyed it with your idiocy.
Go stick your head in the dirt, and gain some real brains, and
maybe you will also become a real human being.
- From "The Sayings of Roy"
"I was born with the defect."
- From "The Sayings of Roy"
I don't know--I'm color blind myself! LOL!
I see the colors--I just don't know what they are labeled!
Esp. the crazy-mixed colors like 'fushia'--what kind of a color name is
that, and what the hell color is it, anyway!?
I see the basic colors, otherwise I couldn't drive a car, but I just
have trouble labeling what a certain color is--if it isn't 'Sun-Yellow',
'Grass-Green', 'StopLight-Red', 'FlashingCaution-Orange',
'Chocolate-flavored licorice whips', oops, not that last one!
- From "The Sayings of Roy"
You know, I wouldn't mind (sometimes--like right
now) giving it to you with an object that is larger than your rectum.
> > Did anyone else experience a deer-in-the-headlights moment upon
> > reading this?
>
> Until I saw who the sender was. Then I remembered he has "the defect".
What is that, a disease or something?
Sometimes, it happens to preemies because of the lack of oxygen,
and this was over half-a-century ago, when preemies didn't usually survive
when they were that tiny.
I've been told it was a near-miracle I survived at all and wasn't
blind at birth.
I must be here for some reason--such as to annoy you and some
other birdbrains. ;-)
>At least he has revealed there is something amiss. Not all "preemies"
>grow up without some defects, physical or psychological.
>He really does act a lot like a young girl, but now I'm beginning to
>understand a little more about why.
You don't have to accept TdF's stupid-inaccurate line, unless you
want to be labeled that yourself.
I don't act like what he thinks, I just don't process some social
skills as easily as others, due from the preemie condition *or* from a
possible genetic basis, probably from the female parent side, who was a
bona-fide creepy woman.
I'm almost like you--except I'm smarter and my natural strength
is with number processing and mathematics/computers, since it is precise and
not subject to interpretative biases as are the social sciences. ;-D
- From "The Sayings of Roy"