Mr. Gray
Yeah...tonight I'm drinking. If you want to come over...cool by me. I just plan on playing Star Wars and killing people...LOTS of people.
11:14 AM Mr. Silver
I used to get God-Mode codes for 1st person shooters and go on murder sprees in the old days.
11:16 AM Mr. Gray
I'll settle for picking every evil choice imaginable in game and making NPCs suffer.
11:18 AM Mr. Silver
So...Jedi then?
11:18 AM Mr. Gray
...
11:19 AM Mr. Silver
Heh
11:19 AM Mr. Gray
>:-(
11:20 AM Mr. Silver
(Jedi Council) "Master Gray...we're concerned about this "Way of the Drunken Fury" style you've been utilizing recently. Can you explain?"
(Master Gray) "Hic! Love to... (activates red saber)."
11:22 AM Mr. Gray
Heh
1:32 PM Mr. Silver
Ready for Christmas?
1:33 PM Ms. Amethyst
Not really. I still haven't shopped yet.
1:33 PM Mr. Silver
Eee!
1:36 PM Ms. Amethyst
It’s ok.
1:58 PM Mr. Silver
How many do you need to get presents for?
2:00 PM Ms. Amethyst
Four people.
2:00 PM Mr. Silver
That’s not so bad then.
2:01 PM Ms. Amethyst
Nope.
2:07 PM Mr. Silver
"And the ferrets made your present."
"A chewed up wrapping paper tube and a baggie of...what are these? Some kind of cheese doodles?"
"They're a kind of doodles, yes. Don't open that til you get home...or at least outside."
2:07 PM Ms. Amethyst
LOL
2:13 PM Mr. Silver
See, now you're tempted....
"Who could I give that to as a gag?"
2:56 PM Ms. Amethyst
Probably my dad, but then he wouldn't find it sooo funny.
2:59 PM Mr. Silver
Hehe!
It's about spreading joy…to yourself.
3:05 PM Ms. Amethyst
LOL True!
Mr. Silver
So it's an alien spaceship...
9:16 AM Mr. Brown
That’s nice. They should have put out a statement before trucking that across country.
9:17 AM Mr. Silver
That was their one oversight in the cover story.
9:18 AM Mr. Brown
They could have at least put a sign on it.
“This is a drone”
9:18 AM Mr. Silver
"Not a spaceship"
9:18 AM Mr. Brown
“To all you that don't know what it is – Yes, it’s a UFO, but only by definition.”
9:19 AM Mr. Silver
It's an IGOoaT
"Identified Grounded Object on a Truck"
9:19 AM Mr. Brown
LOL
9:20 AM Mr. Silver
Even in flight it's an IFO
"I spotted a UFO!"
"We know what it is."
"Oh."
9:22 AM Mr. Blue
I think if they put a sign on it that said "NOT A UFO", that would just make people more convinced that it was a UFO.
9:22 AM Mr. Brown
Kind of a Catch 22.
They probably didn’t tell anybody because they figured they would get calls either way.
9:24 AM Mr. Silver
Their story is so good and their spokespeople so nonchalant that I'm convinced it's an alien spacecraft.
9:25 AM Mr. Blue
"This is a flatbed truck filled with swamp gas."
9:27 AM Mr. Blue
“The US Government reports that the little men are street performers and the “ship” is a weather anomaly."
9:30 AM Mr. Silver
"Those little gray men inside, yelling to people on the side of the road for help? Those are just technicians behind refractive glass in standard uniforms looking for spare precision tools."
9:33 AM Mr. Blue
What if aliens came to earth and decided to dock in North Korea and share all their technology with the North Koreans?
"You folks seem like you needed it the most."
9:38 AM Mr. Blue
That would be an interesting strategy, since aliens in films are so hell bent on destroying Earth. Just give advanced weapons to North Korea and maybe some group of nutjobs in sub-Saharan Africa and watch us destroy ourselves.
9:51 AM Mr. Brown
Who’s to say they didn’t give us what we need to destroy ourselves already?
Maybe they gave us nuke technology and said “Well, at some point they will kill themselves.”
9:52 AM Mr. Silver
"Here kids...run with these sticks!"
9:52 AM Mr. Blue
They goofed and gave it to the lesser of the evils then.
9:52 AM Mr. Silver
Not really. Consider if the Nazis had succeeded first and won the war and took over.
If the Nazis won with nuclear threat, you'd have no nuclear arms race and no "club", assuming they managed to keep a grip on the world.
Instead, the USA...a more conscientious non-imperialist type...got them and sat on them, and then they proliferated.
This, if you were a hostile alien group wanting nukes to be used on the scale needed to clear the Earth, was a better result.
Mr. Blue
Whoa!
12:07 PM Mr. Silver
"Yet still no Mormon culture to be found."
12:07 PM Mr. Blue
Hehehe!
12:08 PM Mr. Silver
“ ‘However both Mormon and Mayan Begin with an M and end with an N, so there's hope under the Lincoln-Kennedy Correspondence Calculations,’ say hopeful archaeologists.”
12:08 PM Mr. Blue
Moroni begins with an M too, and sounds a lot like "Moron".
12:09 PM Mr. Silver
Ah...but -i indicates the word/name is plural.
So that would be…uh… "Morons" in modern English.
12:10 PM Mr. Silver
So the word was passed down by Morons
And the M and N correspondence remains valid.
12:11 PM Mr. Brown
Which Georgia is that?
12:11 PM Mr. Silver
LOL
12:11 PM Mr. Blue
WTF?
12:11 PM Mr. Silver
"Mayan city found in Georgia, Eurasia!"
(That, BTW, would be about the most amazing archaeological find of the past couple centuries.)
12:12 PM Mr. Brown
So it’s in South America?
12:12 PM Mr. Blue
There are two Georgias that I know of: one in Europe, one in the USA.
Which do you think it is?
12:12 PM Mr. Brown
Hillbilly gator-catchin’ Georgia!
LOL
12:14 PM Mr. Silver
"Y’all e'er been Mormonin' out in the swamp? Ye jes shine the flashlight in their eyes and they's easy t' kitch."
Mr. Brown
Finding Civil War artifacts next to Mayan would be cool.
12:23 PM Mr. Silver
And impossible, without a big hookin' hole perfectly dug during the war on top of a Mayan site.
It’s the "next to"...you don't say that in archaeology that way.
12:24 PM Mr. Brown
Well if it’s in the north hills of Georgia. They fought there.
12:25 PM Mr. Blue
"And on this battlefield is where the Mayan mercenaries defeated General Robert E. Lee's 32nd infantry."
12:26 PM Mr. Blue
"And here is an ancient Mayan musket."
What if under the Mayan temple there are dinosaur fossils?
12:27 PM Mr. Blue
"And here is our recreation of the Mayans riding triceratops into the Appalachian plateau."
12:40 PM Mr. Brown
I wonder if there is a pocket of air in the middle of the core of the Earth.
12:41 PM Mr. Blue
…
12:41 PM Mr. Brown
LOL! I knew I would get a WTF response!
12:42 PM Mr. Brown
Wonder what would happen if a volcano was about to erupt and we fired a rocket down into it.
12:42 PM Mr. Blue
The rocket would melt.
12:42 PM Mr. Brown
But if it exploded. Could it stop the eruption?
12:43 PM Mr. Silver
It would have to be one heck of a warhead...like a nuke. And at that point, you're just shattering the earth around the accumulated pressure and making a lake of magma instead of developing a normal expulsion.
12:44 PM Mr. Brown
Well if it was getting ready to erupt, we would need to release the pressure.
12:44 PM Mr. Blue
There’s no way to release the pressure other than for it to erupt.
12:45 PM Mr. Silver
I don't think you're aware of how large and powerful some of these natural events are, Mr. Brown.
Like it was once proposed to try to stop hurricanes by dropping an H-bomb in the eye and it was pooh-poohed as too feeble. Such a storm is so powerful it would just suck something like that up and move on undisturbed.
12:50 PM Mr. Blue
They were talking about attempting to drill down to the magma at Yellowstone and they basically balked under the possibility that it would just trigger the super-eruption building up underneath.
It’s best to just let it go: Let hurricanes destroy, let volcanoes erupt, let tornadoes tornade.
12:52 PM Mr. Brown
Well if we ended up with a Jupiter size hurricane, we’d be screwed.
that’s the size of the Earth, I believe.
12:57 PM Mr. Silver
Much bigger. (looks) “Three Earths would fit within its boundaries"
1:32 PM Mr. Silver
Jupiter could eat Earth. And if it had a personality, it probably would want to.
1:35 PM Mr. Brown
Aaaaa Jupiter is attacking! Call Galactus!
1:57 PM Mr. Silver
Galactus, at the size usually depicted, would get eaten too.
1:59 PM Mr. Brown
lol
Mr. Brown
2:34 PM Mr. Blue
When I read things like this:
"You wind up seeing a reflection of yourself, and that's the symbolic message of nativity," Henderson said, "recognizing divinity and potential in yourself, and at the same time perhaps recognizing the terrestrial nature of Christ."
That I realize that art is complete horse shit. Because artists somehow have a problem with just admitting they did it because "I was bored." or "I’m trying to get a rise out of people."
2:34 PM Mr. Brown
Yep.
Who is going to “know” that without him telling you?
2:36 PM Mr. Silver
That's a very New Age interpretation of the Nativity...also a total horse-crap one.
If taken literally as its intended, there's no symbolism in the Nativity story whatsoever.
2:37 PM Mr. Brown
I understand its a standard nativity scene with the wise men as aliens, but that’s all the further I would go.
2:37 PM Mr. Blue
I don’t care what he does. I mean, he can make baby Jesus shooting a needle of heroin for all I care. But call it what it is: nonsense.
2:38 PM Mr. Silver
I'm going to write to that guy and ask him the mystical symbolism of an autobiographical story about me going to McDonald's to get a Big Mac.
2:39 PM Mr. Blue
OR let's put a Big Mac on a crucifix.
2:40 PM Mr. Silver
Uh…well…see...a Big Mac on a crucifix could be argued to contain symbolism.
2:40 PM Mr. Blue
I know, I just thought of that.
In trying to come up with a hackneyed explanation for a big Mac on a crucifix, I actually came up with a good correlation between religion and consumerism.
