Retro Post 2 - The Prison Dreams Of A Selfish Bastard & Gwyneth Paltrow, I've Never Dreamed Of A New Life In Detroit, A Serving Of Whole Grain In Every Shot, "El Mariachi Goes To Egypt", Font Sans Taste

(The end of the week was pretty slow for goodies.  I even had to combine a couple of days for a post.  So here is one from quite a while ago - Mr. Silver) 

7:06 AM Mr. Silver
I had strange dreams.

7:06 AM Mr. Blue

Oh yeah?

7:06 AM Mr. Silver
It was kind of jumbled. It was a prison story; actually more than one.
In the first I recall, it was one of those sci-fi prisons with "explosive collars", and the idea was if you crossed the barrier it would blow up you and others...the idea being the group would keep themselves in line.

7:08 AM Mr. Blue

Cool.

7:11 AM Mr. Silver
And my focus character is shown escaping by disabling the collar somehow, running out, and declaring:
"Finally!  Free!" 
And then as a morbid but not "chunky" explicit gag, the scene cuts to looking down the hallway of his cellblock and there's a pop and splash of red at every door.  Wah wah Waaaaaahhhh...
But then it all switched, and the dream was of a "children's prison" in some far country. The place was about as awful as the hidden kids scene from "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang".

7:14 AM Mr. Blue

Hmm.

7:14 AM Mr. Silver
And the rule seemed to be that everyone was allowed to try to escape as much as they wanted, but if you got caught you just had to go back inside. The "Catcher" was some awful, shrieking, costumed witch-like person who stalked the grounds.
So it's a winter night, and there's something like 20 of us kids making a break through the grounds dressed up in our best escape gear...camouflage...dark clothing...some in white for hiding in snow.
The Catcher, being the talented guard she is, keeps spotting kids and sending them back in.
7:31 AM Mr. Silver
Again, we get to the focus character. Although she's supposed to be a young girl, on the reveal when the hood on her cloak is pulled back, she looks like Gwyneth Paltrow.
"Vhere do YOO think YOO arrre goingk???!" 
"Please!  I only vant to go to Dee-troy-it Amerrika to be fashion designer, miss!"
"Vhere is such place?!?  I vill see!" 

7:35 AM Mr. Blue

Detroit, the fashion capital of the world...

(Turns out Detroit it isn't an unknown city in the fashion world. Who knew? – Mr. Silver)

7:36 AM Mr. Silver
(At this point the dream cut to the witch's magical vision as she views the Earth from space and zooms in closer and closer, way past continent-size to this little insignificant island that looks vaguely like North America and a spot roughly in the Michigan region.)
"No!  I vill let you go for yoor drream, but not Dee-troy-it!  You go to Oslo!  Begone!" 
Paltrow-girl vanishes.  End of dream.
There was other weirdness last night, but those were the two that I recall.

7:42 AM Mr. Blue

Interesting.

7:43 AM Mr. Silver
Detroit is just not one of those "I've always dreamed of" cities.
"Paris! London! Rome! New York!"
(Paltrow) "I need adventure...romance...I've gotta get out of this little town with its little men.  Spread my wings and go to Detroit!"
"Just imagine, waking up...there...sitting there breakfasting at a little Dunkin Donuts in the Rivertown-Warehouse District enjoying a coffee with non-dairy creamer to the subtle strains of hip-hop music.  Just takes my breath away."
7:54 AM Mr. Silver
Detroit just doesn't scream "romance".
Pittsburgh either.
7:58 AM Mr. Silver
(French lover)  "Ah, ma petite cherie...to be young, and in love, and in Pittsburgh...what could be better than this?" 
(Yinzer girl) "Paris...  Paris, Rome, London, Venice, New York, LA...just about anywhere." 

8:02 AM Mr. Silver

The theme is "No one dreams of going to Detroit", Mr. Red.

8:03 AM Mr. Red

LOL - Its so cold in the D.

8:03 AM Mr. Silver

Woot!
I forgot about that song!
We should start a petition to get that set as the official song of Detroit.
Have it played it at official functions and sports events with the National Anthem.

Mr. Red

"It's So Cold in The D"
The new Detroit anthem.
ANYONE can sing it! Even the tone deaf! And the actual deaf for that matter.
Can you mumble? - GREAT! You can sing it.

9:42 AM Mr. Silver
A great unifying piece of music.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlBwK5vV880&feature=related – Mr. Silver)

8:05 AM Mr. Blue

Ever see the Cleveland theme song?

8:06 AM Mr. Silver
No.

8:07 AM Mr. Blue

"Cleveland! - Come on down to Cleveland town everyone - Come and look at both of our buildings - Buy some food that's prepared near the street - Who knows you might even see this guy - You should come on down to West 6th Street - It's the perfect place if you're a douchebag."

8:08 AM Mr. Silver
Hehehe!
Where did that come from?

8:08 AM Mr. Blue

Youtube

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysmLA5TqbIY – Mr. Silver)

8:10 AM Mr. Silver
What a bookend to the topic!
8:11 AM Mr. Silver
Then there's "Saturday Night in Toledo Ohio"
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r519fk811rA&feature=related – Mr. Silver)



9:05 AM Mr. Silver
My favorite "day before reserves" tale has to be roommate Bubba's birthday binge.
Back then, I was the fellow in the house old enough to buy hooch, and he was from Virginia and had “advanced tastes” from long practice in good-ol-boy land...
He gave me some money and asked for a pint of Everclear...still legal at the time.

9:07 AM Ms. Amethyst

LOL Ohhh my.

9:12 AM Mr. Silver
It said right on the bottle that it must be mixed...harmful...dangerous. 
So I had a shot with him...

9:13 AM Ms. Amethyst

Oohhhh no.

9:13 AM Mr. Silver
Well I won't do it again, I can tell you. Have you ever had the pleasure?  "Fire Water" as a description for alcohol came from somewhere, and it was likely stuff like Everclear that inspired the name.

9:16 AM Ms. Amethyst

Ewwwwww! I wont touch that.

9:16 AM Mr. Silver
Ask about Strawberry Surprise later...
Anyway; I'd had enough at one...I didn't weigh very much at that age and I was woozy already, but Bubba kept going.
It was amazing he could keep moving.
At one point he decided he had to make a sandwich, and had ingredients and half a jar of sandwich dressing (mine!) all over everything before long.
He kept declaring “I don't wanna go ta bed!” despite muster early in the morning.
And by the end...his mind simply wasn't there anymore.
It was REALLY creepy.
He was still mobile, but you'd look at his eyes and it looked like a doll or a dead man...they were just blue glass...no soul inside.

(later, after a live conversation)

9:32 AM Ms. Amethyst

Yeah, no. I won’t touch that other one either.

(“Strawberry Surprise”. Surprise! No strawberries! Its grain alcohol and a blast of pepper spray – Mr. Silver)

Isn’t it dangerous to drink pepper spray?

9:42 AM Mr. Silver
Well, it's definitely not good and I imagine the weak-hearted would regret it.  Like I said, the medical staff put posters up all over warning people to avoid it.

12:48 PM Mr. Yellow

So I'm not sure if you heard, but the Egyptian president turned over power to the military

and has stepped down.

12:48 PM Mr. Silver
Thought he gave it to his VP.

12:48 PM Mr. Yellow

I just heard the military when I was on lunch.

*shrug*

There was a video of people celebrating in the streets, with fireworks and everything.

12:50 PM Mr. Silver
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/mubarak-resigns-egypts-presidency-vice-president-announces/
The caption on the picture at the bottom is interesting:
“Egypt's Revolution (Seven people killed in a bar in Mexican border city)”
That was the revolution?

12:54 PM Mr. Yellow

Haha! That is what I saw too!

12:56 PM Mr. Silver

“It's been reported that Antonio Banderas, armed with a weapons-loaded guitar case, handled the transition.”



       (re: wedding invitation font)

2:17 PM Ms. Amethyst

That’s the font we're going to use.

2:21 PM Mr. Silver

Elegant. Also readable...a bonus. Some cursive fonts can be a mess.

2:22 PM Ms. Amethyst

I know! It took me two days to find the right font.

LOL

2:23 PM Mr. Silver

I remember going to a play with a cursive font for the program for "The Whole Truth".

2:23 PM Mr. Silver

Unfortunately the font made it read as "The Whore Truth".

2:23 PM Ms. Amethyst

Hahahahahaha

2:24 PM Mr. Silver

"This play's gonna be AWEsome!"

2:24 PM Ms. Amethyst

Yup yup!

Day 163 - Can I Go To The Little Browser's Room?, These Squatchberries Are So Squatchy Papa Squatch!, E-Male, Monstrous Anatopism Issues, The Culture Of Grand Marais, Wargames 2: PU, and Inspector Clouseau Learned All His Skills From Default Wins At "Clue"

Mr. Mustard

This agent can't go to toodledo.com

8:06 AM Mr. Silver

Not with everyone looking, no.

A little privacy, please.

8:51 AM Mr. Gray

LOL

11:37 AM Mr. Silver

It figures Mr. Brown would be gone...

Was going to tell him the "Finding Bigfoot" Bigfoot call story.

(Inhale deeply, cup hands around mouth) “Iiiiiiiiiiii'm a BIGFOOT!   Iiiiiiiiiii have BIG FEET!”

11:38 AM Mr. Gray

Hehe.

11:40 AM Mr. Silver

"Squatch" is starting to sound like "smurf" to me.

"This is some of the squatchiest territory we've seen in this part of the country.  It's perfect habitat for squatches, with plenty of room for a squatch to hide and plenty of smurfy food.   ...squatchy food, I mean."

2:51 PM Mr. Silver

"...and I click next and then finish, right?"

"Right."

"And she's finished...ah...used the feminine on that.  Should have said 'he' since email is such a dumb-ass kind of thing, right?"

"I've never heard it put like that.  I like it!" 

 

11:27 AM Mr. Blue

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsters_(2010_film) << good film

11:36 AM Mr. Silver

(reads "Monsters")

11:40 AM Mr. Silver

I'd still want to go home.

11:40 AM Mr. Blue

There's a pretty big goof in it.

11:40 AM Mr. Silver

Yes?

11:40 AM Mr. Blue

They climb an Aztec pyramid and can see the US border fence from it.

11:41 AM Mr. Silver

Yyyyeah...

11:44 AM Mr. Silver

"And look! Over there to the left!"

"China?"

"No...past China and a bit south..."

11:45 AM Mr. Blue

Granted, the US border fence was enormous, but not more than 300 feet high.

11:45 AM Mr. Silver

Hehe

11:45 AM Mr. Blue

They looked like they were 4 miles away from it.

11:46 AM Mr. Silver

So like coming round into view of Pittsburgh if the buildings were a fence...

11:46 AM Mr. Blue

Yes.

12:06 PM Mr. Blue

Beaver WHATs? 

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=mexico&hl=en&ll=49.109838,-88.231201&spn=0.014384,7.108154&oe=UTF-8&hnear=Mexico&t=m&z=7&layer=c&cbll=47.749426,-90.333159&panoid=i7aHOr0WCBwJIIiF5FFuEA&cbp=12,95.43,,0,-4.73

(Minnesota, not Mexico)

12:08 PM Mr. Silver

"More quarters for the booth please...I just can't get enough of that hot hot dam building scene."

12:09 PM Mr. Blue

LI looks like a "U" there

12:09 PM Mr. Silver

That might be why they filled it in with yellow.

Hey look...what a lucky find.  The world's best donuts are located only a short way away.

Lets go!

12:12 PM Mr. Blue

Beaver and bass-flavored donuts.

12:12 PM Mr. Silver

That whole corner is starting to sound rather XXX.

12:16 PM Mr. Blue

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=grand+marais&hl=en&ll=47.753276,-90.323496&spn=0.000029,0.013883&oe=UTF-8&hnear=Grand+Marais,+Cook,+Minnesota&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=47.753275,-90.327601&panoid=6nefncYes_KfXUVSgRXwxA&cbp=12,318.06,,0,-1.05 

A restaurant/car wash called "My Sister's Place", also in Grand Marais, Minnesota.

12:18 PM Mr. Silver

Featuring gray-water-boiled bass, and beaver donuts!

Complimentary “dippin' wax”!

12:19 PM Mr. Blue

"New Car Smell" flavored danishes!

12:19 PM Mr. Silver

Yum!

12:19 PM Mr. Blue

Trout-scented car air fresheners!

12:20 PM Mr. Silver

Try our Shammy & Eggs!

Hand-dry Homefries!

Full meal-detailing available!

12:36 PM Mr. Silver

So I found out over the weekend that "Wargames" still creeps me out a little.

Old Red-Menace paranoia/propaganda dies hard, eh?

1:37 PM Mr. Silver

Wow...this looks like a silly mess.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames:_The_Dead_Code

1:40 PM Mr. Silver

Only one of a direct to DVD series from MGM!  Woo!

1:44 PM Mr. Blue

Yeah, it sounds convoluted.

1:45 PM Mr. Silver

Perhaps it's a screwball comedy.

1:45 PM Mr. Blue

A *surprising* 4.5 on IMDB.

1:46 PM Mr. Silver

I loved them emailing the A.I. “Joshua” from the WOPR supercomputer to...anywhere...

"Eh...I have it on an old floppy disk, but it's easier just to click on the attachment."

1:57 PM Mr. Silver

Apparently this plot happens either:

1. Every time someone guesses moderately well on terrorism games.

2. Our hero is the only one who has ever won.

If only he'd run Malwarebytes before playing.

2:06 PM Mr. Silver

Military Intelligence Analyst - "Well, general, so far we've lost $5 million dollars to about 10000 kids looking up the game answers on forums and Wikipedia, and had to explain to R.I.P.L.E.Y. that nuclear Armageddon isn't an appropriate response to the top 5 winners' scenarios."

General - "Any hard terrorist evidence with those 5?"

Analyst – "No...mostly a lot of Magic and Pokemon cards."

General - "Keep the program going."

2:10 PM Mr. Blue

Heheh.

2:20 PM Mr. Silver

Silver Junior tried "Clue" last night.

2:20 PM Mr. Yellow

Cool. How did that go?

2:20 PM Mr. Silver

It was pretty funny.

Since he's closing in on the recommended age, I wouldn't get him a kid's version.

I just gave him about double the cards we got.

But he kept leaving them out, or reading them out loud

2:21 PM Mr. Yellow

LOL

2:24 PM Mr. Silver

"I say...Professor Plum...in the Study...with the knife."

(show him card)

"(whispers) Professor Plum."

"Don't SAY it!  It's a SECRET!"

"Oh yeah!  Sorry!  Hehehe!" 

But it happened all game long.

2:25 PM Mr. Yellow

LOL

2:26 PM Mr. Silver

In the end he won by default because Mrs. Silver botched her guess by 1 card (killer).  I knew the killer so I immediately popped into a room and announced the answer!

And blurted out “Billiard Room” by mistake because it was in my own hand and I was looking at it.

"Wait!  AUGH!!!!"

2:26 PM Mr. Yellow

Haha!

2:27 PM Mr. Silver

"I meant!   Oh nevermind...you win, Junior.  Bed time." 

"I won?"

"Yes."

2:27 PM Mr. Yellow

So he outsmarted all of you by pretending he did not know what he was doing.

The ole “bumbling detective” persona.

2:28 PM Mr. Silver

He went to the Jacques Clouseau Academy of Detective Sciences in Paris.

2:29 PM Mr. Yellow

*nod*

Day 162 - This Depiction Of All Life On Earth Being Destroyed Last Night Is Simulated, Stephen King's Full Name Is 400 Pages Long, The Awkwardness Of Prayer & The Theory Of Limited-Intelligence Design, and Two On Tattoos,

8:00 AM Mr. Brown

http://www.pegasusnews.com/news/2012/feb/02/meteor-fireball-dallas-sky-wednesday-night/

8:15 AM Mr. Silver

I like the picture: "Not the meteor in Dallas". 

Really?

8:15 AM Mr. Brown

LOL

8:21 AM Mr. Brown

I brought my Stephen King book today.

It has all the short stories in it.

8:28 AM Mr. Silver

I'll give some credit to him on the short stories.

I tried to read some of his long-form work during his most famous period, didn't like it and never went back.

8:32 AM Mr. Silver

He was a very inefficient storyteller in long form.

I'll dare to say, to the offense of his fans, he is "boring". Perhaps he's improved since, but it's probably too late for me to be convinced to try again. I like some of the movies.

8:45 AM Mr. Brown

He always has a good concept at the beginning, but then he strives to find more to write.

8:50 AM Mr. Silver

He's filling pages is what he's doing.  Melville and Hugo were wordy too, but they made you feel like they were talking about something.

9:20 AM Mr. Brown

Catholics have more than one god.

9:20 AM Mr. Blue

Don't tell them that.

9:20 AM Mr. Brown

Technically, because they worship the angels and the saints.

9:21 AM Mr. Blue

They aren't gods.

9:21 AM Mr. Brown

But they are worshiped like gods.

9:21 AM Mr. Blue

No they're not.

9:21 AM Mr. Brown

Then why would you pray to a saint? You're only supposed to pray to God.

9:22 AM Mr. Blue

Well, I don't anyway.

9:23 AM Mr. Brown

At least with Jesus, they are saying he is God and God's son all in the same being.

9:25 AM Mr. Brown

Now if you pray to a messenger with the intent of it getting the message from him to God,

then that's different.

9:25 AM Mr. Silver

(always busy during these...sigh)

9:25 AM Mr. Brown

LOL

9:27 AM Mr. Silver

You pray to a saint to intercede on your behalf. He's the “messenger” you mentioned.

It's supposed to be like asking a favor of someone who can grease the wheels for you.

9:28 AM Mr. Brown

I still would rather pray to God directly, or a form of God.

I'm not going to ask my grandpa to talk to God for me. “Hey grandpa, can you butter Him up for me so I get a new car?”

LOL

9:34 AM Mr. Blue

You can pray to whomever or whatever you want, it won't do anything.

9:34 AM Mr. Brown

Actually it does a lot. It can put you in a better place. Give you hope to keep living

in bad situation.

9:35 AM Mr. Blue

I’d rather do something constructive.

9:35 AM Mr. Brown

Kind of like that joke of the guy that is lost at sea and prayed to God for help:

A boat came by and he refused it, saying “My Lord will save me.”

A helicopter stops by. “My God will save me.”

So he drowns.

In Heaven he asked God why he did not save him.

“I sent a boat and a helicopter, what else did you want?”

9:43 AM Mr. Silver

As far as the benefits of prayer...well, it's mixed. 

On the one hand, depending on what your motivation is and your expectations, you can get a morale boost out of it, or stress release.

It can be a re-centering act to proceed from.

9:50 AM Mr. Brown

Its usually beneficial, unless that is all you do.

9:51 AM Mr. Silver

Well if you use it to beg, or bargain, or only because you were told to, or it's just a habit. That's pretty worthless.

9:53 AM Mr. Brown

Yeah.

9:53 AM Mr. Silver

Saying a Rosary is ridiculous.  I had to do that in school.

"If she heard it at all...she heard it the first time, sister."

9:53 AM Mr. Brown

Better to ask for some guidance then start doing something.

9:56 AM Mr. Blue

When has God answered a prayer of yours?

9:56 AM Mr. Brown

It's not a matter of a true answer in the sense of you getting an immediate response or anything. Its more like somebody is guided to help you that normally would not have.

9:57 AM Mr. Blue

Example?

9:57 AM Mr. Brown

When my friend was dieing. I kept asking for God to help the doctors to fix him. To help them figure out what was wrong because they didn't know. Then, finally, after all that praying somebody figured it out and started the right treatment.

9:57 AM Mr. Blue

Credit the doctors and modern medicine.

9:58 AM Mr. Brown

But when a doctor gets a gut feeling that a problem is one thing, what is the gut feeling?

“I think I should do it this way, even though normally I'd do it this way.”

9:58 AM Mr. Blue

"Gut" feeling is your brain pointing you in a certain direction, either based on available evidence or a past experience.

10:04 AM Mr. Blue

Instead of praying you could do something, I don't know, constructive.

I guess "constructive" is relative.

If praying helps you, that's fine. But there's no evidence anywhere that praying does anything other than give someone a boost, psychologically, in thinking that they're not alone in the world.

10:02 AM Mr. Silver

I certainly don't “pray” in any conventional way...it feels too goofy.

If I'm talking to spirits or beyond...I just talk to them. There's no formality. I don't have to tell them who they are.

10:04 AM Mr. Silver

Like my “saying grace at the table” story from way back:

"Mr. Silver...thank God for bringing dinner."

"Why...He's right there."

"Say it in a nice way."

"Thanks."

"No no...with some formality."

(God) "Geez...is she kidding? This is just awkward."

"God didn't even bring the KFC...I'm the one that picked it up."

(God) "Seriously..."

10:06 AM Mr. Blue

Just because you don't understand how the weather works, that doesn't mean God controls it.

10:09 AM Mr. Brown

Well He may not stop the rain in a flood, but He may send somebody in a boat.

LOL

10:09 AM Mr. Blue

No. A person with a boat makes a decision on whether or not to row to your area.

10:10 AM Mr. Brown

"Hmm. I've got this strange feeling I should go this way. I feel like somebody may be over there."

Either that is God helping you with pushing you that way, or we really do all have a connection, mentally, when all signs point to nobody being over there. Including somebody else already checking and telling you. But you get a feeling you should go there anyway.

10:13 AM Mr. Silver

Animist with faith that I am, I'm more Deist than that Mr. Brown.

Stuff just works.

Is it more complicated with unseen activity than we can understand? Yes!

But I don't really see God, or a team of agents, interceding and moving stuff all the time in the background. Or doing so for you when you ask.

This is the thinking-path that leads to predestination of all the universe under an omniscient being.

And I don't believe in omniscience or predestination.

10:16 AM Mr. Blue

Just because you don't understand something, it doesn't mean "God did it".

That's called "God of the Gaps", and there are plenty more arguments against it than I can provide.

10:23 AM Mr. Blue

God used to control the Sun and Moon and stars, and diseases and sickness, and tides, etc.

10:23 AM Mr. Blue

We now know for a fact he doesn't control that stuff.

LOL

10:24 AM Mr. Silver

"Now"? There were ancient Greeks that said it, privately.

10:25 AM Mr. Brown

The Great Creator will intervene when He feels the need too.

LOL

10:25 AM Mr. Blue

That doesn't mean that God, or a God, didn't set all those things into motion. Which leaves me open to Deist possibilities. But God is absent now. There is no evidence of a God intervening anywhere on anything, ever.

"Hunches" and "gut feelings" and hypothetical scenarios don't do it for me.

10:26 AM Mr. Silver

Why should a god intervene when the system isn't broken?

10:26 AM Mr. Blue

Right, he wouldn't. And he hasn't. The universe just goes.

10:27 AM Mr. Silver

"The hurricane is working as designed...but I'll just F- with it."

No

10:27 AM Mr. Blue

"I gave this guy cancer, but I'd better save him from this cancer because his buddy Mr. Brown over here asked Me too."

(Sorry if that sounds callous.)

10:28 AM Mr. Silver

That's one of the things so sick about the predestination peeps: you could very easily boil all existence down to "This is just a movie, we aren't even real, no experience we are having is actually happening.”

Yeah...Whatever...

10:58 AM Mr. Silver

All this being said, my "Pondering the Nature of God as Creator" personality did come up with one way to be Deist and have an active God.

It comes up occasionally to make me smile.

11:00 AM Mr. Silver

Follow me here...

Assuming He did the design of the universe as written....and stuck us in as bits like Himself.

He failed to account for our ability to figure stuff out.

And being God, and able to do whatever He wanted and make it work because He said so...

He...

Well...

He kind of...

Sort of...

He went and published a lot of outlines, and rough and 1st drafts for parts of it... (oops)

He faked a lot of the rules and data.  

There...I said it...

I mean, why flesh it all out, right?

It's not like we humans would go poking around...incessantly...and start spotting the inconsistencies.

But we did, and it forced Him into having to retro-actively adjust and complicate the universe to explain all the stuff He glossed over.  AND it has to fit with everything else He already botched together.

The first time Man said "But that doesn't make any sense...and no, Faith doesn't cut it."

God said "Oh crap...um...um...where's my notes?!?!"

11:09 AM Mr. Silver

So I giggle over the possibility that the Universe used to be simpler, and there was no need for answers until we went looking.

Sort of like the quantum mechanics problem of a particle changing simply because it's measured. 

11:10 AM Mr. Blue

Heh, I get it.  I think I’ve considered that too.  Once we reach an "edge", He has to start filling it in.  Kind of like a map in a video game.

11:11 AM Mr. Silver

Kind of.

God has to be tearing His hair out over gravity.

Despite the increasingly sophisticated math to observe and use gravity, researchers just won't stop picking at the fact that it simply doesn't work and makes no sense.

11:13 AM Mr. Brown

If He can't figure it out, then how will we figure it out?

LOL

11:13 AM Mr. Blue

He has to arrange an explanation that works first, so we can find it.  And so far he's got nothing.

11:13 AM Mr. Brown

“Um, I'm all powerful.  I just made gravity.  It didn't need an explanation.  It didn't matter how it worked.”

11:13 AM Mr. Silver

Yup.

11:13 AM Mr. Blue

We start looking, He has to make a reason for it for us to find.

11:14 AM Mr. Silver

It's really the same glossing over as Star Trek technology:

"We have artificial gravity".

"How?"

"Uh...it's technical."

"I'm a physicist, please explain.”

"Oh...um...shit...give me a minute...”

11:17 AM Mr. Silver

That's why the faithful get into Heaven!

God "You aren't going to ask a lot of technical questions are you?  No? Ok...head on in...grab a harp and halo and wings."

11:18 AM Mr. Brown

“These wings shouldn't work. Why do I need a harp?”

“You know what? Go to Hell!!!”

There could be some credence to the “Oops. I put the Tree of Knowledge too close to the humans.”

11:20 AM Mr. Silver

Hehe.

Anyway...I've pondered that scenario several times.

“The Unfinished Design Theory”

11:30 AM Mr. Brown

OH crap! I did not think they would sail to the end of the world.  I'd better make it round.

11:35 AM Mr. Silver

Why not...and all the stars were affixed to a big dome to start too.

“Didn't-Account-For-Intelligence Design”

(Later... - Mr. Silver)

12:58 PM Mr. Blue

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/03/scientists-snare-superprawn-off-new-zealand/

1:09 PM Mr. Silver

Mmmm...giant shrimp.

1:12 PM Mr. Silver

“It just goes to show that the more you look, the more you find,” NIWA principal scientist Ashley Rowden said.

1:18 PM Mr. Silver

A spokesman for God reported the Creator as irritable and 'very busy in R&D right now'."

1:51 PM Mr. Brown

I like this one https://imgur.com/gallery/JPO9s

1:54 PM Mr. Silver

Eee!

Funny though.

One of my favorite tattoo tales is the punker girl being brought into an ER, unconscious.  Her injury required attention 'down below', but when they went to shave her, not only was her pubic hair dyed green, but she had "Keep Off the Grass" tattooed above it.

In recovery she noted the missing hair and someone had written "Sorry, had to mow the lawn." on her groin with a Sharpie.

1:58 PM Mr. Brown

LOL

1:59 PM Mr. Silver

My second favorite tattoo story came from one of my college buddies who was a navy corpsman.

2:02 PM Mr. Silver

An injured sailor is brought in unconscious from hard partying and fighting on liberty. The chief medical officer came to assess the situation and saw that the patient was wearing fishnet stockings.

"God GOD!  Get those stockings off of that sailor!"

"Sir, we can't sir!"

"That's an order, medic!  Get them off him!"

"We can't sir, they're tattooed on!" 

2:04 PM Mr. Blue

Heheh

2:04 PM Mr. Brown

LOL

2:10 PM Mr. Blue

Lieutenant Ed Wood.

2:10 PM Mr. Silver

LOL