Friday, October 21, 2011

Day 108 - Canada Has The Most Unusual Illegal Weapons Trade, In A Pig's Ear Out A Pig's Mouth, Horse!, Fauna From The Early Pimpaceous Period, No One Was Afraid Of Ghosts And Ghouls In The Good Old Days, Halloween Is 'Good Dream Season', And I Hope Some Of You Get To Read This Before The End Of The World,

Mr. Silver
Oops.
11:50 AM Ms. Amethyst
Wow......
11:51 AM Mr. Green
Beware of Canadians with BB guns!
11:52 AM Mr. Silver
First thought was "gimmie"...
11:52 AM Ms. Amethyst
Lol
We can have them; we don't live in Canada.
11:54 AM Mr. Silver
Well, I mean the BB gun as-is. It seems a pretty fishy thing, going through the expense of making an actual AK-47 into a BB gun.
There's a big pile of conversion kits already waiting somewhere.
11:55 AM Ms. Amethyst
I'll bet they'd be shipped here though, first.
12:24 PM Mr. Blue
Ahh, interesting racket.
I wouldn't want an AK, they seem finicky. But they're cheap.
12:29 PM Mr. Blue
I’ve always wanted a Swiss K31.. preferably one converted for a lefty, but I can make due without that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K31
If not that, then any Winchester lever-action.
12:31 PM Mr. Silver
Any special reasons?
12:32 PM Mr. Blue
Well, the K31 because it's Swiss, they're still around today (and fairly affordable), I like the straight pull design (easier for a lefty, but still made for a righty), they're EXTREMELY accurate. If you find a K31, there's a place on the butt end that if you remove it, you'll find the name and rank of whoever it was originally built for and assigned to in the Swiss army.
And the Winchester because of its history in the old west, and the lever action thing looks fun. (and they're ambidextrous)
12:42 PM Mr. Silver
Interesting
Any guns I’ve ever wanted are oddities...like Volition ball ammunition or a pepper-box, or a
cap and ball revolver...or AK-47s custom built for BBs.
Silly article has me looking at tiniest bullets info now.  I'm currently looking at what would shoot a .17 HM2 round.
12:36 PM Ms. Amethyst
Lol
1:16 PM Mr. Silver
My brother, back when "Escape From New York" was a new movie, watched the hero make a "door" out of a wall with some sort of SMG.  He said "Man...for as many rounds as he's fired, that thing must have bullets the size of BBs."
I've been fascinated with the idea ever since.
1:19 PM Mr. Silver
Like actual pellet rounds, not air fired.
1:20 PM Ms. Amethyst
Hahahahaha
1:22 PM Mr. Silver
Probably make a whizzzz or zzzzap noise instead of bangs.
1:23 PM Ms. Amethyst
I could see that.
1:23 PM Mr. Silver
“Cute! It blows smoke and spits tiny shells out!”
“I wouldn't stand in front of that if I were you.”



10:02 AM Mr. Blue
Just saw on my way in Mr. Pig-iron posted that soundbite of Cain's on abortion, with the comment "Here is a guy that really understands the proper role of government".
10:03 AM Mr. Silver
What a moron.
10:04 AM Mr. Blue
Yes.
10:04 AM Mr. Silver
I swear he burns IQ like fuel.
10:05 AM Mr. Blue
He was probably drunk. I hear he starts pretty early.
10:05 AM Mr. Silver
He was always an ass, but he at least simulated high intelligence traits for years. 
10:11 AM Mr. Blue
I’ve been here 10 minutes and this Fred guy is already annoying the F out of me.
10:11 AM Mr. Silver
What's he doing?
10:12 AM Mr. Blue
Turning around and talking to me.
10:13 AM Mr. Silver
The cad!
"I'm 4' away!  Text me like a normal person, you uncouth barbarian!"



10:28 AM Mr. Blue
10:29 AM Mr. Silver
He's very good.
10:37 AM Mr. Silver
"This is an excellent horse sculpture!"  "Horse!"  "What materials did you use?"  "Horse!"  "I see.  And how long did it take?"  "Horse!" 
10:37 AM Mr. Blue
lol



10:36 AM Mr. Blue
"Early discoverers of the fossils believed the older Iguanodons walked with a cane.  We can only speculate as to how strong their 'pimp hand' may have been."
10:39 AM Mr. Silver
Heh
10:41 AM Mr. Silver
Iguanodons hadn't developed the bright plumage to match the canes of later dinosaurs.
10:44 AM Mr. Blue
hehe
10:46 AM Mr. Silver
“There is some educated speculation about iguanodon calls...enjoy some simulations.”
"Be-otch!  Be-otch! Be-otch ho!"
"Mo munny...Mo munny...Slap! Slap!"
"Bling!  Bling!"
10:50 AM Mr. Blue
“And since they probably spent most of their time absorbing warmth on warm days... 'Bitch better have my sunny!'.”
“Paleontologists also discovered this nearby: http://www.blessedbegifts.net/images/13903.jpg”



1:47 PM Mr. Blue
From an actual newspaper in Pennsylvania in 1923: "It's none too early to make ready with Hallowe'en suits. Characters include: Swede, Negro, Jew, Turk, Cannibal."
1:49 PM Mr. Silver
All the classic monsters.
1:58 PM Mr. Blue
I wouldn't want to offend anyone...so I’ll just go with the Turk.



7:07 AM Mr. Silver
Odd adventure dream this morning.  Makes up for no game night tonight, perhaps.
7:10 AM Mr. Silver
My pre-license recurring dream was being in a car and never being able to stop it completely, no matter how hard I pushed on the brakes.  Those went away for years, but now my recurring dream is not having the car while away from home, often featuring the same interchange (which I've never seen for real) in a mythical “Pittsburgh-Land”, and having to jog home...sometimes with a sort of time limit.
I either end up out in parklands/wilderness, or mired in construction/detour/gated and stair-filled parts of the highway system.
Last night it was the latter.
I wasn't paying much attention and realized I was reaching the familiar exit at 100MPH.
"Oops"
I hit the brakes, spun around backwards and kept rolling till I went off the road, down a long hill, and onto the highway below, unharmed and facing oncoming traffic.
Fortunately everything was closed off for some reason.
"Guess I'll have to walk home."
(sigh...should learn to control this one)
I end up climbing stairs and such, and there's other people milling around, and the usual turns and gates.  And ahead I'm told it's unsafe to proceed: Something is killing people. 
Well, that's the way home.  So I latch onto a scientific investigator who is going in to look.
And the problem is that there are these really fast slugs
That can jump.
With sucker mouths. 
That burrow into people.
7:18 AM Mr. Green
Oooooh.... fast jumping carnivorous slugs.... nice. Good Halloween dream.
7:18 AM Mr. Silver
As long as you could grasp one that latched on with your hand fast enough, you could stop them burrowing in, but it always took a second person to pry it off.
We eventually got to a bad spot in a break room where we realized we were hosed, and I ended up grabbing a salt shaker and salting us down and shaking the rest all around just to buy time to catch our breaths.
7:24 AM Mr. Silver
I woke up as we were making a run for it down a service tunnel from there. 
7:24 AM Mr. Green
Sounds like you had a nice adrenaline surge to start your day.
7:24 AM Mr. Silver
Hehe
If only I'd had more salt!
7:33 AM Mr. Silver
“Slugs...why did it have to be slugs?”



8:13 AM Mr. Yellow
So. End of the world today.
8:13 AM Mr. Silver
Again?
8:13 AM Mr. Green
Really?
8:14 AM Mr. Yellow
Yes. Same guy: Harold Camping, the one that predicted May 21st.
8:14 AM Mr. Silver
Oh yeah...
8:15 AM Mr. Green
He needs to drink the Kool-aid
8:16 AM Mr. Yellow
I notice that no one is really mentioning his prediction this time around. He was in the news quite a bit before the May 21st prediction.
8:23 AM Mr. Gray
Rapture was on May 21st...if you are still here you just weren’t good enough.
Today you are screwed.
8:24 AM Mr. Yellow
Well Harold Camping is still here, and all his followers. I guess they were not rapture worthy.
8:25 AM Mr. Green
Heck, they were not even raptor worthy... heheh
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Thursday, October 20, 2011

Day 107 - Individually Wrapped Fromage, Time To Mow The Car, Moammar Is Going To Need A Lot Of Writing Space On His Tombstone, You Just Don't Understand (How To Write Quality) Poetry, Rush Limbaugh Needs A Meet And Greet With His Fans In Uganda, Second Hand Goods, "What Are Tarts Made Of?", And Some Observations On Republican Presidential Candidates

11:45 AM Mr. Silver
Every time I see individually wrapped American cheese slices, I think of Richard Jeni: "It took the French people to invent the croissant, but it took the American people to stuff it full of crappy ham and shitty shiny cheese."
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uahCxf-dVLo You're welcome! - Mr. Silver)
11:45 AM Mr. Green
LOL



10:07 AM Mr. Silver
10:10 AM Mr. Silver
"In addition to the strength-to-weight ratio, bamboo has the advantage of bursting into long sharp shards that can impale and lodge in human flesh like a porcupine exploded."
"That's an advantage?" 
"Oh, the military loves that feature." 
"I see..."
10:31 AM Mr. Blue
Considering how disposable cars are these days, it makes sense.
Cars aren't built to last more than like, 20 years anyway, at the most.
10:33 AM Mr. Silver
Tell a person their car is made of grass and they'll balk for a variety of reasons
10:37 AM Mr. Silver
The irrational fear of the "accident bullseye" magically drawn on "a fragile box" for one, coupled with the cultural bias not only towards metal, but heavy metal.
10:38 AM Mr. Blue
Those Lotus' are made out of practically nothing, I think.
10:39 AM Mr. Silver
Offer a guy a choice of a combat tank plated in steel versus some modern ceramics, and most would see a flowerpot and pick steel, even though that'd be stupid.
10:42 AM Mr. Silver
Tell them to pick "bronze" and they'd hear "age" and think you were crazy, even though one of the alloys comes up just short of diamond for hardness.
It'll happen though. I remember years ago when people were flipping out about all the plastic in their cars!
"It's crazy!  Plastic?!?!  What if there's an accident?"
11:14 AM Mr. Silver
Now nobody even considers it.
11:15 AM Mr. Blue
I sure don't.



11:56 AM Mr. Blue
Lots of people just died:
Gadhafi, Gaddafi, Gaddaffi, Qadhafi...all dead.
11:58 AM Mr. Silver
Kadaffi kicked it too.
I sense a pattern.
Perhaps a conspiracy is in motion.



12:13 PM Mr. Silver
She really liked Mrs. Pig-iron's poems. "She's really talented!"  I couldn't get through them.
12:17 PM Mr. Silver
She used to have some style...but limericks and simple stacks of couplets with no sense of metre is just bleh.
12:19 PM Mr. Blue
I don't know poetry at all.
12:21 PM Mr. Silver
The real stuff can be rather good.
12:23 PM Mr. Silver
Somewhere along the way there was a movement towards free verse (Read “prose”), abstract nonsense, and other claptrap. Then there's just lack of effort/talent.
12:33 PM Mr. Silver
That is considered a poem.
I call it an autistic typing exercise.
12:34 PM Mr. Blue
Yeah, that's just stupid.



12:34 PM Mr. Blue
Rush Limbaugh accidentally defended this group: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord's_Resistance_Army
Going solely on their name, he assumed they were simply Christian resistance fighters
but, in a nutshell, they kill innocents, disfigure people and rape girls (by the hundreds of thousands).
12:41 PM Mr. Silver
Nice club.
12:47 PM Mr. Silver
Rush and they should hang out together.
12:47 PM Mr. Blue
They played the soundbite on the Colbert Report.
He was, at first, criticizing Obama for sending in troops that are helping the locals to go after this organization.
Then later discovered and acknowledged that they were committing atrocities, and stated that he will do his "due diligence" and get back to (the listeners).
12:49 PM Mr. Silver
Perhaps he'll claim the story was a Marxist plot to discredit him from the inside.



1:04 PM Mr. Silver
It started with this business: “Mary's Second Hand”
"My God!  What happened to her first hand?"
1:05 PM Mr. Blue
"The second hand chopped it off!"
1:06 PM Mr. Silver
Mary's Second Alien Hand
1:06 PM Mr. Blue
Mary's hand is the Devil's plaything!



1:54 PM Mr. Blue
I wonder what a whole peppercorn tastes like.
2:04 PM Mr. Silver
Pepper, mostly.
I've eaten them; granted it was when I was a kid.
2:04 PM Mr. Blue
Bad/good?
2:05 PM Mr. Silver
I suppose it depends how much you like pepper.
2:06 PM Mr. Blue
Indifferent.
2:09 PM Mr. Silver
It tastes indifferent.
2:12 PM Mr. Blue
It doesn't taste strong?
2:13 PM Mr. Silver
Yes! It's pepper!



2:48 PM Mr. Silver
So Cain is both strict anti-abortion and totally pro-choice.
Can we please get rid of that boob?
2:48 PM Mr. Blue
Like Romney?
Romney is a pro-choice, pro-tax, pro-universal health care "conservative".
He's a white Obama.
2:49 PM Mr. Silver
2:49 PM Mr. Blue
Let's see Mr. Cain's spin...
bleh
Wonder when he decided to become a heterosexual.*
(* Mr. Blue has a theory that most loudmouthed right-wingers in authority with strong opinions on sexual issues are gay/perverts/guilty of their issue. Watch the headlines; he might win a Nobel some day. - Mr. Silver)
2:55 PM Mr. Silver
Well, with personal convictions as strong as "it should be 100% banned but completely one's personal choice", I'm sure he's hetero...as well as LGBTQ.
3:01 PM Mr. Blue
Jon Huntsman is the most rational in the field, and he's a Mormon.**
(**Me again.  Big black mark, but not on dogmatic grounds.  I'm spiritual and admire their devotion, but I also know Mormonism is as fake as Scientology, just older.  Mr. Blue is Agnostic/Atheistic and has little room for any religion, but respects history and evidence and also knows Mormonism is completely fabricated.  Neither of us want a president that wasn't curious or capable enough to figure this out by adulthood, or that knew the truth but chose to stay in the church anyway. - Mr. Silver) 
3:03 PM Mr. Silver
I'll spin the upcoming election to you this way - I can't vote in the Republican primary so I won't care who wins the nomination until its over.
At present, there appears to be a solid Idiocratic movement on the Red side...again...
3:08 PM Mr. Silver
That said, I have every confidence they will eliminate the top-merited end of the candidate list due to (sadly) over-evident intelligence and qualifications.
They will also weed out the crazies as they know they'll end under a landslide.
The final popular choice have an experienced character/history and be very amiable...so much so that his handlers will fear he will lose, and turn him into a slander spouting jerk.
They will then saddle him with a complete fool who is only selected to pander to a large segment of the voters they are "losing".
This is completely aside from any other illegal and unethical campaigning/voting/anti-voting behavior that always ends with the lion's share a very bloody Red.
3:12 PM Mr. Silver
Some history - I always liked McCain and was leaning towards him every time he ran, up until the last presidential race when the standard strategy was applied.
3:13 PM Mr. Blue
Right, he became too pliable.
3:15 PM Mr. Silver
They crafted an a-hole out of someone who seemed to be a nice level-headed guy.
Left undamaged and without a sideshow VP for a running mate, McCain might have won.
3:22 PM Mr. Silver
Here...from this morning:
7:49 AM Mr. Green
The average American is a MORON. I don’t blame politicians for the country falling apart anymore... I blame the idiots who elected them.
7:50 AM Mr. Silver
Yes, but they elected idiots.
We've needed a few rounds of meritocracy for decades.
This country was founded and run by qualified people to get it started.
No state sent their most outspoken pandering fool to write the US Constitution.
We need a new set of “founding fathers” to fix everything the current culturally-inbred imbeciles wrecked...complete with the power to tell the loud ones to shut up for about 8 years.
8:14 AM Mr. Silver
But...that isn't going to happen.
3:24 PM Mr. Blue
No.
3:34 PM Mr. Silver
Anyway, the point is: If I'm pleasantly surprised by the Republican choice...an event in which I have no confidence...I will follow the election with enthusiasm and would not ban myself from
voting for a Republican for president merely based on what team he's on, because I've followed Republicans before.
3:37 PM Mr. Silver
Sadly, my real world experience versus my philosophical open-mindedness is making their task of winning that vote an uphill battle.
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Day 106 - Bad News For Wild Animals And Deputies In Ohio, Mr. Green Just Needs A Hero To Get The Ball Rolling, How To Be A Jerk For All Eternity, Lose Weight Fast On The Carnival Geek Diet, Tonight On 'Arrogance Hunters', So Mrs. Brown Wears The Old Spice In The Family?, We Contemplate Mr. Brown's Suicide, Wrong Link But Right Result, And Being Liberal With The Libido,

7:42 AM Mr. Silver
"Exotic Animal Lover Fails To Level LARP Character"
favorite line: "He wouldn't say how Thompson died but said several aggressive animals were near his body when deputies arrived and had to be shot."
"Holy F!  Deputies!  Blast 'em!"
7:44 AM Mr. Gray
LMAO



12:30 PM Mr. Gray
Then there is, of course, this... 
Do you think that "real-life superheroes" should be allowed to take the law into their own hands?
Yes:  1232
No:  3716
So roughly 25% of the population yearns for superheros prowling the streets. LOL
12:30 PM Mr. Silver
Superheroes cause supervillains.
12:31 PM Mr. Gray
Mr. Green's been looking for a life goal....if there were superheroes, then he'd have it.
Supervillain in training!
12:31 PM Mr. Silver
No comment on that secret part of my mind.
All it'd take is one bad trip in front of a mirror and whammo!
12:32 PM Mr. Gray
"Tired of his daily stress and abuse at the hands of his fellow man. Ignored for his brilliance and creativity. Made to feel like life had no meaning...Mr. Green became "Hate 4 Life" - the most notoriously hateful super villain of them all!!!”
12:34 PM Mr. Green
LMAO! This is starting to sound good!
12:34 PM Mr. Gray
"Know to kick puppies just for laughs? Able to jump hot chicks in a single bound? Hate 4 Life is out to slap the stupid out of mankind with a single atomic blast...or many stabs to the eyes with some scissors!!!"
12:35 PM Mr. Green
OMG! That rocks!
I just told someone yesterday: "If I had access to the big, shiny red button, everyone would be doomed!"
12:37 PM Mr. Gray
Need to get you one of those Staples "Easy" buttons and change the recording to say "Another one for the stupid line" followed by a gunshot.
12:39 PM Mr. Green
I should have gotten my order by now. Damn, who's handling this today?!
12:40 PM Mr. Silver
Whoever they are will be destroyed in the new order.
12:43 PM Mr. Green
Indeed... *rubs hands evilly*
12:43 PM Mr. Gray
See...now we're talking!
12:45 PM Mr. Silver
"Hate 4 Life is recruiting for a zombie army and needs a lot of 'volunteers'.  There will, naturally, be many failed applicants."
12:45 PM Mr. Gray
LOL
12:52 PM Mr. Green
Well... for a zombie army, every applicant should be a success.
12:52 PM Mr. Silver
Only if they stand back up.
12:52 PM Mr. Gray
Hehe



7:13 AM Mr. Brown
I saw something this morning on fire mummies.
7:15 AM Mr. Silver
Like dried out by heat, or used for fuel?
7:16 AM Mr. Brown
Like human jerky.
7:18 AM Mr. Silver
"This is the mummy of Zevulon the Great: He's teriyaki style."
7:27 AM Mr. Silver
These things found somewhere in particular or a natural possibility?
7:27 AM Mr. Brown
Somewhere particular but I cannot remember right now.  I fell asleep this morning watching it.
7:29 AM Mr. Silver
"After this soothing music and placid imagery, we'll reveal the most alarming thing about the fire mummies!  Attempt to stay tuned for this life changing segment!!!"
7:29 AM Mr. Brown
Its in the Philippines.
Smoked jerky humans. It would take longer and more resources to do than just using salt.
7:32 AM Mr. Silver
Well, you'd have to pick a flavor and get the spices right.
Then there's the hickory/mesquite decision.
7:33 AM Mr. Brown
Yeah, which wood is best for quality flavoring?
And then you have to tie up the body just at the right height over the fire to smoke dry it and not burn it.



8:38 AM Mr. Brown
They had octopus in the sushi bar.
I only ate the head; did not want to deal with the arms.
8:41 AM Mr. Silver
Interesting since people's tastes trend towards the opposite.
"Ewww...you eat chicken wings and legs?  Gross!"
9:23 AM Mr. Brown
There were no chicken feet there. I was disappointed in that.



Mr. Silver
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/09/pl_screenghosthunters/
The only revelation in this article is that the author doesn't watch the show and is much less intelligent than he believes he is.
9:32 AM Mr. Brown
Yep
They actually consider all of that crap and debunk nearly everything.
9:33 AM Mr. Silver
That kind of commentary always throws me.  What was he thinking putting that up?
9:34 AM Mr. Brown
Basically he did no research, just stated his own opinion.
9:38 AM Mr. Silver
Nod.  All he did was take his own disbelief in ghosts, watched a couple youtube clips and wrote what he wanted.
I assume he's going to get lit up in the comments.
(He did.  People much smarter than him responded...along with the ignorant rabble on both sides, of course – Mr. Silver)



10:26 AM Mr. Brown
Oh, Mr. Blue? I think the Dr Pepper Cherry is manly too.
10:29 AM Mr. Silver
You have to put on Old Spice to drink that, don't you?
10:32 AM Mr. Brown
I would like to wear Old Spice, but Mrs. Brown will not let me.



12:17 PM Mr. Brown
I wonder if anybody has tried suicide by a swift strike to their own jugular vein.
12:18 PM Mr. Blue
Probably
12:39 PM Mr. Silver
I wouldn't believe it if I was told no.
Is this something you're planning to try?
12:40 PM Mr. Brown
No.
12:42 PM Mr. Brown
I'll bet somebody tried to take off their own head with a sword at some point in history.
12:42 PM Mr. Blue
Probably not. Be the first!



12:41 PM Mr. Blue
Oops, wrong link.
12:47 PM Mr. Silver
So what's the right link?
12:48 PM Mr. Blue
I can't get it to link right, so I gave up.
12:48 PM Mr. Silver
So what was it?
12:48 PM Mr. Blue
Forget it.
Wasn't interesting anyway.
12:50 PM Mr. Silver
Well played.
12:57 PM Mr. Blue
I hate myself for even mentioning it.
12:59 PM Mr. Silver
Nonsense...you created confusion, then curiosity, followed by disappointment, and then frustration.
Back in my more mischievous days, I'd consider it a nice, if small, accomplishment.
Of course, I also would have just fabricated the whole link in question too.



2:05 PM Mr. Blue
"I got a grandson. He's 16 and he likes to look up that porn type stuff on the net. You do computer stuff, right? Is there anything I can do to block it?"
"Why?"
2:05 PM Mr. Apple
Haha
2:05 PM Mr. Blue
“I think denial is how rapists start out.”
2:08 PM Mr. Silver
"Is it normal hetero sex?  I suggest getting him his own laptop."
2:09 PM Mr. Blue
"What's his email address? I’ll send him some of my preferred sites."
2:17 PM Mr. Silver
"Sure, I can put a block on...let me sit there a minutes and I'll password his profile to block you out...it'll be a cinch."
3:03 PM Mr. Blue
This looks funny.
3:09 PM Mr. Blue
Sounds like a new spin on Mystery Science Theater.
3:33 PM Mr. Silver
Yup...riffin' on pornos. Sounds good!
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