Mr.
Blue
I
liked this. Nobody was around to enjoy it, so I saved it
11:36
AM Brian
If Beck with THE RENAL GROUP calls in, please let
me know.
11:36 AM Mr. Blue
11:36 AM Mr. Blue
♫
I
got two turn-tables and a kidney stoooone ♫
9:02
AM Mr. Silver
lol
Excellent!
9:03
AM Mr. Blue
Thanks!
Mr.
Silver
So
while, yes, I'd prefer the average...
I'm
not really getting their “average”... Is this doll the reasonable section of a bell curve, or the completely-averaged Barbie with no outliers removed?
11:37
AM Mr. Amethyst
Yeah,
that's odd lookin'.
11:39
AM Mr. Silver
How
much fat were we mixing with how much thin? What does average 'fit'
Barbie look like?
11:39
AM Mr. Blue
It's
not like GI Joes and stuff are proportionate.
Or
Ninja Turtles.
Still,
I didn't grow up with body image issues
11:40
AM Mr. Silver
No
body issues...just an urge to fight things with lethal weapons yet
not kill anyone.
11:41
AM Mr. Blue
Heheh
11:41
AM Mr. Silver
"GOOOO
JOE!"
11:42
AM Mr. Blue
At
least no negative body issues.
11:42
AM Mr. Silver
"I
might be a slob, but I can take you out with a sword."
11:42
AM Mr. Blue
I
had a Beetlejuice toy that you could swap its head for a smaller head
that the witchdoctor gave him... I didn't want a smaller head in real
life.
Barbie
does need to change though...it's such an old-fashioned concept.
Even the name has a negative connotation. Anybody named "Barbie"
you automatically assume is a moron. Or at least I do.
Mr.
Silver
An
old story came to mind...
1:56
PM Mr. Amethyst
Oh?
1:57
PM Mr. Silver
The
town priest was a teetotaler, and was always hassling the men about
the evils of hard drink. One night he enters the bar announcing
that he has proof of the will of God regarding everyone's favorite
sin. He orders up a glass of water and a glass of whiskey.
Then he produces 2 earthworms and has the men gather round.
Plop...one
in the water. Plop...another in the whiskey.
The
water one swims about happily. The whiskey one soons stops
struggling.
"There!
Now, what does that tell you about God's will and hard drink?"
One
pipes up "God wants us to drink whiskey so we won't get worms!"
1:58
PM Mr. Amethyst
Hahahah
2:22
PM Mr. Blue
Heheh
or
"Drink whiskey...meet God sooner."
2:33
PM Mr. Silver
On
that note...
"Allah
ak-beer!"
2:33
PM Mr. Amethyst
I
wish.
2:33
PM Mr. Silver
Look'a
that derpy face. I imagine him talking like a clown.
2:35
PM Mr. Amethyst
Jesus!
LOL
2:38
PM Mr. Silver
(Finishes
reading, shakes head)
2:40
PM Mr. Silver
I
kind of like Allah Ak-Beer
"The
only light, crisp ale that comes with a fatwa."
2:57
PM Mr. Silver
"Historical
Accuracy Provides Another Unexpected Reason Not To Go See 'The
Lone Ranger' "
3:00
PM Mr. Silver
Dr.
Baehr - "For some reason the pagan character is not
Christian! And he opposes the efforts at the genocide of native
Americans that good Christian people like robber barons, the US Army,
and President Lincoln promoted."
"Who
wants to see the futile struggling and psychological death agonies of
an oppressed minority, as personified by someone damned by his pagan
traditions, much less let see him occasionally succeed in the face of
the inevitable? It's not right! There were plenty of doomed
Christian Native Americans, too. Why wasn't Tonto modeled after
them"
"Bowing
to Christian backlash, the sequel - 'The Lone Ranger and Tonto go To
Church' is expected to make 15 million it's opening weekend."
3:01
PM Mr. Blue
LOL!
I
was reading about the original Tonto on Wednesday. I remember
watching the old show, but don't recall much of it. He seems to have
been a pretty positive portrayal for its time.
For
starters the fact that he was actually played by a Native American,
and he wasn't a villain or a servant.
3:02
PM Mr. Amethyst
LOL
3:02
PM Mr. Blue
But
people didn't like his pidgin accent.
I
don't see a big deal there. I'm pretty sure a lot of Native
Americans didn’t speak perfect English in the late 1800s.
3:10
PM Mr. Silver
Hell, plenty of Americans can barely speak it now.
My
favorite thing about Tonto when I was a kid was discovering Tonto is
the Spanish word for idiot.
3:12
PM Mr. Blue
LOL
Yeah.
3:13
PM Mr. Silver
"You
no call me The Moron anymore, Kemosabe. I learn what name
mean."
"Ok...how
about Tonto?"
"Tonto...hmm...sound
strong. It good!"
"...Yeah..."
3:19
PM Mr. Silver
(later
with the natives) "Did he figure out what Kemosabe means yet?"
3:20
PM Mr. Silver
"'Clueless
One'? No, he's an idiot."
3:20
PM Mr. Blue
I
guess they change it to Toro in Spanish versions.
3:24
PM Mr. Silver
The
Clueless Guy and Bull
Eh...works
9:44
AM Mr. Silver
9:46
AM Mr. Silver
I'm
not boycotting a movie over crap like that.
9:50
AM Mr. Silver
There's
a different group bitching, apparently, because there's a transgender
character in it.
9:52
AM Mr. Blue
If
I only chose to watch movies written, directed and starring people I
agreed with politically, I wouldn't be able to watch anything.
9:53
AM Mr. Silver
Exactly.
9:55
AM Mr. Silver
"Don't
live in Pennsylvania! Don't buy their maple syrup! Don't
go to movies made in Pittsburgh there! There are ANTI-GAYS
there!"
(Alt)
"(all the above but) GAY people live there!"
FFFFFFFF
UUUUUUU
Come
on, let's see that philosophical purity extended to anything real,
you dorks.
9:57
AM Mr. Brown
I’m
against myself being gay, is that in there?
lol
9:58
AM Mr. Silver
"Don't
read the Bible! There are GAY people in it!"
And
murderers...fornicators...incestuous
relationships...rapists...traitors...blah blah...
9:58
AM Mr. Brown
Yep
yep
9:59
AM Mr. Silver
With
that many writers, I'm sure some of them had something for modern
losers to protest over.
"Good Christians, and anyone with morals, ethics, and a conscience should boycott the Bible, I say!"
Mr.
Blue
I
watched a movie called “Meek's Cutoff”; an indie film, but it has
a pretty recognizable cast.
It's
kind of a western, but no guns a blazin' or anything. Its about a
wagon party that gets lost. It's not terribly exciting, but its
interesting to watch. I'd say it was very accurate to what people
back then actually went through.
Its
based on real events, supposedly.
Some
guy called Meek was a trapper who claimed to have found a shortcut
for the Oregon Trail. He got a bunch of people lost, and some died.
11:05
AM Mr. Silver
"And
the Meek shall inherit all the sucker pioneers' earthly possessions."
11:07
AM Mr. Blue
To
Meek's credit he could have just left them to die at any point, but
he stayed with them.
11:10
AM Mr. Blue
I
can imagine it was pretty hard. Finding a route by yourself on
horseback is easy, but making that same route manageable with a bunch
of huge wagons is another thing.
11:11
AM Mr. Brown
“Dang
it! I left crumbs on this path, where they go?”
He
was probably a poor map maker, I’m guessing.
“Um.
There was a tree here, I thought, that pointed to the west.”
11:12
AM Mr. Silver
"I
know a shortcut!"
"Any
scouting credentials?"
"Not
a one!"
"Are
you cheap?"
"Yessir!"
"Lead on!"
11:13
AM Mr. Blue
There
was mention of this too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Blue_Bucket_Mine
11:21
AM Mr. Blue
Maybe
it was a rumor started by Meek to literally blaze his trail. It
would be cool to find though, huh? Gold just sitting there...don't
even need to dredge or pan.
I'll
tell you what though, those wagon train people weren't particularly
prepared for the journey either. I mean, they brought rocking chairs
and stuff with them, and the women were dressed for Sunday church.
11:27
AM Mr. Silver
I'd
rather have their experience heading west than mine...
11:27
AM Mr. Blue
Yours?
Or mine as in mining?
11:30
AM Mr. Silver
As
in my own knowledge and skills and physical fitness.
11:31
AM Mr. Blue
Oh
yeah.
3:38
PM Mr. Silver
Oh! I forgot about this from yesterday, but I left myself a note.
As I was signing out for lunch, a voice
drifted across the cube wall...
3:40
PM Mr. Silver
"I'm
sorry, I'm not finding an entry for Scotland. Is that part of
Ireland?"
(pause)
"I
said I don't see a listing for Scotland. Is that Ireland?"
(pause)
"Well is Scotland part of some other country, I mean."
"Well is Scotland part of some other country, I mean."
3:40
PM Mr. Blue
Heh
3:44
PM Mr. Silver
The thing about the tone, pauses and responses were that it really sounded like neither one had any idea. It was amazing to me.
I
wanted to keep listening to it but I decided using up my lunch time for
that was silly.
