10:22
AM Mr. Brown
I
never learned anything from a problem in math other than I can't
figure out the problem.
LOL
Why
the hell do I need to know how fast the train has to go to get
somewhere in so many miles?
I’ll
just look up the time it’s supposed to arrive.
LOL
Oh!
She wants to give some people some pennies? Ok, that’s
fine, I’ll take them.
I
never really read into the word problems.
I
was more worried about the answer, like most kids are.
10:27
AM Mr. Silver
(NASA
criminal negligence hearing) "Why the Hell would I need to know
how fast the rocket was accelerating and for how long? It said
on the project that they wanted it to reach Mars on February 3rd...I
don’t care when they wanted it there so I signed off on it!"
10:27
AM Mr. Brown
Only
adults will worry about what its saying.
Truthfully,
if I was interested in that stuff, like to do as a job, I probably
would have crammed hard on algebra.
10:33
AM Mr. Silver
Yes...if
only there was something provided in your formative years...some
institution that could have introduced you to numerous realistic mathematical
situations in story form to gauge your skill and interest in
real-world math, so you would have known.
That'd
be crazy though.
10:34
AM Mr. Brown
Yep
crazy
LOL
9:35
AM Mr. Silver
"New
Archaeological Research Confirms What Old Archaeological Research
Confirmed Decades Ago."
9:38
AM Mr. Silver
"It's
really fascinating to prove that something proven in, like, the 70s,
really matches up with the eyewitness detailed descriptions
explaining it all, hundreds of years ago."
(Interviewer)
"And what are your final conclusions?"
"Oh,
first and foremost, that Spanish conquistadors didn’t read
available texts and were really stupid."
(Interviewer)
"And what about modern archaeologists rehashing old work?"
"I
don't understand the question."
1:44
PM Mr. Brown
Looks
like they are going to start limiting the size of clips as an action
on gun control.
1:54
PM Mr. Amethyst
People
are buying ammo and guns like crazy to protect themselves from the
looming financial collapse of the US dollar. Do you realize how
close we are to widespread starvation and looting?
1:54
PM Mr. Blue
Not
very close?
1:55
PM Mr. Amethyst
Nah,
were a lot closer than we were a few months ago.
1:55
PM Mr. Blue
And
why is that?
1:55
PM Mr. Amethyst
Social
Security is on the verge of disappearing; our government is 1 month
out of default on almost all of its loans, foreign and domestic.
1:55
PM Mr. Silver
Good
thing so few were armed during the Great Depression then...we
wouldn't be here.
1:56
PM Mr. Amethyst
Mr.
Silver, I agree. (However,
I was being ironic – Mr. Silver)
The
longest our country can sustain without borrowing more money is
August.
Or
how about we have 1/3 of the income needed to pay our debts each
month.
1:59
PM Mr. Blue
Even
after the Bush tax cuts expire?
2:00
PM Mr. Amethyst
Yes.
Those expired on the first. Unless we raise our debt ceiling
again and borrow more money, we cannot pay our bills
2:04
PM Mr. Silver
It's
been raised 74 times since 1962.
Don’t
panic.
It’s
just a politic tool.
2:05
PM Mr. Amethyst
^
Isn’t that the problem though?
2:06
PM Mr. Brown
The
problem is where the money is going. Nobody has been able to
manage it correctly when people are getting paid as much as they are.
2:06
PM Mr. Amethyst
I
could. It’s called stop paying people millions to sit around
and pass stupid laws.
Well,
not millions, but you know what I mean.
2:09
PM Mr. Blue
All
I know is there have been worse financial disasters in harsher times
and it didn't seem to change much.
2:10
PM Mr. Amethyst
What
I’m saying is, were on the verge of one that would make all of
those look like a day you forgot your wallet.
2:11
PM Mr. Silver
I
remember all of this under the end of Carter and at the beginning of,
and right through, Reagan.
2:12
PM Mr. Amethyst
Stop
being old and let me panic. Be happy that I might get to shoot
looters.
2:12
PM Mr. Silver
Ah...I
remember the golden age of waiting for gas in a line on even or odd
days.
2:13
PM Mr. Silver
Did
you know we were about to die any day, by accident or terrorist or
Commies? That is, if all the oil didn't run out first or the
Japanese just bought everything and everyone in the USA, leaving us enslaved as part of their clever WWII strategy.
2:21
PM Mr. Silver
Although
there are plenty of real problems, "Imminent Collapse"
could safely be considered an ancient meme.
(pictures
the Aztecs)
"I'm
telling you, there's an enemy warrior heart crisis."
"That's ridiculous."
"The
government priests aren't talking about it, but I know a group of orthodox shamans who've
seen the portents in the heavens. It's all a big coverup by the achcauhtli and his government! He wants the world to end. "
"Um...You do know the
Sun isn't going out if we don't cut out hearts, right?"
"Friggin'
LIBERAL ATHEIST CRAP! You're crazy!"
2:25
PM Mr. Amethyst
LOL
Amazing!
2:26
PM Mr. Silver
What...the
vision?
2:26
PM Mr. Amethyst
Yes
2:26
PM Mr. Silver
Pick
a culture...any culture…
2:27
PM Mr. Amethyst
I
wish I had your clarity of thought.
2:28
PM Mr. Silver
Perhaps
it’s the anthropologist POV
2:30
PM Mr. Brown
I
still feel like the people working in politics are too involved in
finding ways of getting paid more than actually fixing anything in
the USA.
2:30
PM Mr. Amethyst
^
2:31
PM Mr. Silver
Nothing
new...
2:31
PM Mr. Brown
No
its not new. I know that.
2:32
PM Mr. Amethyst
A
true change would be a Libertarian state with a barter system rather
than money.
2:32
PM Mr. Silver
That
would be a change, all right.
Libertarianism...sigh...
2:33
PM Mr. Amethyst
LOL
Don’t sigh!
2:34
PM Mr. Silver
I'll
refrain from using the C word and say Libertarianism is "just
another idealist scheme with a lot of adherents who don't want to
see that it can't work in the real world."
2:34
PM Mr. Amethyst
It’s
not the C word, its “leave me alone”.
2:34
PM Mr. Silver
I
thought I was a Libertarian for about 3 minutes until my BS detector
went off on one of their recruitment tests.
2:35
PM Mr. Amethyst
I
don’t want shared handouts or anything. I want to be able to hunt
and defend myself as needed, perhaps ingest a mushroom of the magic
kind, or swim naked now and then. Not all at once. Build me a
little hut and live away from "The Man’s” laws.
2:35
PM Mr. Silver
Yes,
I understand the fantasies.
(Skipping
a convoluted and not-interesting scramble about Nazi and Soviet Union
experiments – Mr. Silver)
3:07
PM Mr. Brown
Ok,
so back to dead dog head.
That
would be a good beer name: Dead Dog Head
3:09
PM Mr. Silver
I
still want to brew "Old Bubonic"
"A
darker beer for a darker age"
3:10
PM Mr. Brown
I
saw a beer on the list for micros yesterday called Raging Bitch.
It’s
amazing.
3:13
PM Mr. Amethyst
Flying
Dog is my favorite brewery.
3:14
PM Mr. Silver
Flying
dog is my favorite dog
So
what are you going to brew, Mr. Amethyst?
3:15
PM Mr. Amethyst
Trying
mead again.
3:15
PM Mr. Silver
I'd
call you a medievalist cliché, but you're Tuchux
3:16
PM Mr. Amethyst
So
that’s totally accurate?
LOL
3:16
PM Mr. Silver
There's
no honey on your planet, is there?
3:16
PM Mr. Amethyst
Hmmm
true.
3:16
PM Mr. Silver
You're
innovative then.
I
never told you about "Surge Mead", I'm sure.
3:17
PM Mr. Amethyst
Enlighten
me.
3:17
PM Mr. Silver
First,
do you recall Surge? (SURGE!
- Mr. Silver)
3:17
PM Mr. Amethyst
Yes.
3:19
PM Mr. Silver
Someone
in the group ‘round here convinced the brewmaster it would be a
good idea to mix up a batch of mead with Surge instead of water as
the base, for the color and the caffeine.
3:19
PM Mr. Amethyst
But
the sugar content... LOL Holy God!
3:21
PM Mr. Silver
Well,
I think they expected the yeast to go berserk on the
sugar and caffeine, and send the proof through the roof.
Anyway,
we made a party of it.
It
was green....really
green...
We
cooked all the CO2 out of it and dissolved the honey in and...bleh.
3:23
PM Mr. Amethyst
Awe
3:23
PM Mr. Silver
(schemer)
"No! It’s a good idea!"
3:23
PM Mr. Silver
I
swear the carboy was glowing
when we put it in the basement.
Not
much poopin' was going on.
I
think it ended as 5 gallons of green caffeinated toxic waste that
went down the basement sink.
It’s
probably still down there in the drains…waiting on the return of Great Cthulhu…
3:26
PM Mr. Brown
Make
some with buckwheat honey.
I
wonder what that will taste like.
3:27
PM Mr. Silver
Buckwheat
honey and yeast pee,
3:35
PM Mr. Silver
Meat
Beer
We
kept talking about doing meat beer. I was rather loud in my
support of that one, though I also worried it would end with people
in the emergency room.
3:35
PM Mr. Amethyst
Bacon
beer
3:36
PM Mr. Silver
Nod...bacon
beer
Meat
beer was proposed to be served at a Pennsic Party called "Meat
Nite"
"Come
to Meat Nite and show us your Meat! We'll be serving Meat
cooked on Fire. Bring your own Meat and share the Meat if
desired! Meat Beer will be available on Meat Nite. (No
clothing - not optional)"
Yes...that's
right...an all nude meat-themed party.
"I'm
sorry, but clothes are not meat. Here is a bag and a tag, if
you'd like to step this way to the disrobing area, m'lady."
3:41
PM Mr. Brown
Meat,
in the flesh!
3:42
PM Mr. Silver
We
had a problem about shoes...I think we were planning to allow them if
they had leather elements.
3:43
PM Mr. Brown
So
then somebody could argue that they could wear all leather. So
I would say no shoes.
3:43
PM Mr. Silver
(says
the man who hasn't walked the Swamp in the dark with no shoes)
3:44
PM Mr. Amethyst
^
Fun
3:44
PM Mr. Brown
I
have walked lots of places with no shoes on including a whole creek.
That
hurt.
3:44
PM Mr. Silver
I
have too - picked up my first leech in one on my bare foot.
3:45
PM Mr. Amethyst
Walk
a river with clams in it without shoes, Mr. Brown...chomp!
3:46
PM Mr. Silver
But
no; the rocks and sticks being bad enough, there is also 30-odd years
of bits of glass and bottlecaps and who knows what.
Cooper's
swamp will be a fascinating archaeological area in a hundred years or
so.
Mr.
Blue
“The
terms "capital offense", "capital crime",
"capital punishment," derive from the Latin caput,
"head", referring to the punishment for serious offenses
involving the forfeiture of the head; i.e.,
death by beheading.”
12:20
PM Mr. Silver
"You've
committed a pedital offense. Off with his feet!"
12:23
PM Mr. Silver
So
a corporal offense would be punished by removal of the guilty party's
body.
"Here's
his arms legs and head...take him home, and remind him how lucky he
is."
12:29
PM Mr. Blue
What
would a federal offense be?
12:28
PM Mr. Silver
They
execute everyone in your group.
Mr.
Silver
Giggle
The
new Centrum Silver TV ad is quite the sell...
8:53
AM Mr. Silver
"My
wife takes Centrum Silver, but I was on the fence about it. But
then I read an article about a study about taking multi-vitamins.
They used Centrum Silver for the study. I guess my wife was
right."
Me
"Um...what the Hell was that?"
8:56
AM Mr. Blue
Right
about what?
9:03
AM Mr. Silver
Exactly...the
whole thing is empty and deceptive fluff.
9:03
AM Mr. Blue
Like
5 Hour Energy commercials
9:04
AM Mr. Silver
How
is one on the fence about a multi-vitamin? Where's the deep
seated conflict he just can't resolve?
What
was in the article?
What
was the study?
How
many vitamin brands were there?
What
did they conclude?
What
was his wife right about???
9:05
AM Mr. Blue
But
dude.
His
WIFE was RIGHT.
Now
go by the product, you drone.
9:08
AM Mr. Blue
Oops,
*buy*
9:09
AM Mr. Silver
I'd
rather go by it...
10:00
AM Mr. Silver
"My
wife takes Centrum Silver...she seems healthy, but every time she has
one in the morning she turns into a total bitch,
so I’m kind of on the fence about trying them out myself."
10:00
AM Mr. Gray
LOL
10:01
AM Mr. Blue
"Since
taking Centrum Silver, my wife has grown several large tumors in her
brain... so I'm kind of on the fence about it."
10:06
AM Mr. Gray
LOL
They
count on the fact people are morons...and it works.
10:07
AM Mr. Silver
"Anyway,
I read this article in The Weekly World News..."
10:29
AM Mr. Silver
"She'd
claimed that Centrum Silver was a Nazi invention utilizing alien
technology that was bartered for with the hair of young women.
And the article cited a study of a numerological Biblical text decoder that prophesied
that the Nazi-alien deal would happen."
"So
I guess she was right!"
