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Signs of the Apocalypse
Recently we've had several sure signs that the Apocalypse is upon us. It's always a bit murky interpreting portents and omens, but I think these are clear indicators of impending doom. One, songs about instant messaging. Two, D'oh is now an official part of the English language. Three, square watermelon. I don't know how it could get any clearer than that: we're doomed.
You sick fucking bastard. That better be a joke done with photoshop or I'm going to kill that motherfucker. Poor defenseless kittens. What's this damned world coming to.
No, I'd say the bigger problem is that they're pimping a 12 year old to sing "Falling in Love" and "Swept Away". What's next, nine year old's singing "I want your sex" by George Michael dressed in Osh-Kosh_B'Gosh(sp) selling hit CD's to the throngs of third-grade kids trying to get over their latest relationships? C'mon. 12 year old kids should be singing about things they know. Like recess and dodge ball.
Has anyone ever heard of the band prozzak?
They're a small (some would say annoying) band up here in canada, and their last big single was entitled "www.nevergetoveryou".
If you actually go to that site you can hear it streamed, at least the last time I checked.
BONUS: features the "uh-oh" sound from ICQ. That alone is worth listening...
Expression on your wife's face when she learns you payed 82 fu**ing dollars on a watermelon: Priceless
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FYI, a Soviet spy plane made an emergency landing (due to low fuel) in Alaska in 1974 (the middle of the Cold War, if you're old enough to remember).
What happened? Threats? Accusations? Detention? Dismantling the spy plane?
No - the crew was provided with space heaters and fuel, and slept overnight in their aircraft. The next morning their vehicle was refueled, and they took off.
Next time, why not do a _little_ searching at Google before exposing your idiocy to all?
It is also the same way they get the pears inside bottles of Clear Creek brandy. People think it is some weird technological trick. Instead they just tie the bottle on the tree and the pear grows inside it.
Now if they could just get the brandy to taste less like some sort of industrial waste contaminant...
"Trademarks are the heraldry of the new feudalism."
The Japanese have a thing for labor-intensive produce (which is not surprising, considering the terrain of their country). Some US stores are now selling Japanese apples, so you should try one some time. What they do is let only one apple grow on each branch of a tree, nipping the rest in the bud, so that it grows large and sweet. (And of course, they pamper their trees.) So, I'm not all that surprised that they would think of square watermelons.
If you secede, all those federal water
subsidies go poof! You'll lose
water allocations from states due east,
wither and die. Greetings from NM.
"12 year old kids should be singing about things they know. Like recess and dodge ball."
Amen.
Never mind the song. Her whole act is a sign of the apocalypse. I'm only 26 years old. I should not be getting grumpy and curmudgeonly just yet. But now I can't help it. How can parents let a 12 year old dress like that in front of a camera? Never mind the Napster issue, or how the RIAA's manipulation of the intellectual property laws are cheating the artists. If the music industry lets Western culture decline to the point that 12 year olds are expected to dress like that to get stage time, it deserves to lose every penny to bootlegging.
On the other hand, she hasn't been signed yet. Hillary Rosen: take note. If you have anything resembling integrity, you'll blacklist this kid for a few years, or make sure she gets a few pointers from Charlotte Church.
Didn't you forget the last predictions of doom, the Y2K bug was going to trigger the
end of the world?
There is big money for the people who can convince enough morons to give them their
belongings or part of their paycheck in return for eternal life in heaven instead of in hell.
Here to check if you're rapture ready on that fundy site
Everyone! Download that mp3, reverse the audio and start looking for subliminal messages :)
Go you big red fire engine!
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo
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Being bitter is drinking poison and hoping someone else will die
Actually coming up with a practical use for it seems pretty cool--rectangular objects do stack and store much more nicely. I do admit, though, it would be rather strange to see a pyramid of these things stacked up at the grocery store.
Does it matter what shape the kittens are, as long as they taste good? Mmmmm.....Chinese food.
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Sony are trying to squash Bleem for the Dreamcast by any means necessary. Bleem is a Playstation emulator which will allow the huge catalogue of Playstation games to run on a Sega Dreamcast; sony ship a similar product with their Playstation 2 in order to preserve backwards-compatibility, but evidently don't want there to be an alternative `upgrade' path for Playstation owners. The courts have overturned three injunctions from Sony, but the Bleem guys are owing $1m in legal fees, and there's an appeal on their web site for Dreamcast owners who want Bleem to contact the major retailers to tell them that they want Bleem! Sony are currently telling its retailers that they will withhold lucractive Playstation 2 shipments from retailers that stock Bleem, and retailers have buckled. Let them know they don't need to stand for it.
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That was supposed to be out LAST YEAR.
I'll believe it when I see it at HMV in person.
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
That IM song sucks hard!!
The only reason all cover-ups appear to fail is that you never hear about the ones that succeed.
The surest sign of the decline of western civilization is the fact that Sonic has a drive-thru. People are too lazy to put their cars in reverse.
I am not your blowing wind, I am the lightning.
You know, I hope Apple doesn't sue these guys...
Revelation, chapter 13
1: And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
Microsoft, plain as day.
2: And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
Definately Microsoft.
3: And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
Justice department strikes a blow which proves less than effective.
4: And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
Bill, the Father of Lies and the naa-naa naa-naa-naa attitude towards the Justice department.
16: And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
The end result of too much Passport.
17: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Definately Passport.
18: Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
And the teaser. I saw something to do with numerology and Bill's name. somewhere....
Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power.
Well, maybe not a whole lot.
But ever hear of the Colorado river? Starts in (surprise) Colorado. Used to run out to the Pacific. Now, is used up pretty much in its entirety en route, both for fresh water & electricity. So, when you secede, better invade a few states, so as to avoid having them cut off your water....
Then again, there HAVE been a large number of CA people moving to CO in the last couple of years. OMG!! The invasion has already started!!!
They even admit it's at least 3 times the cost of a 'normal' watermelon (in Japan).
BUT...
I can see a use for it -- catering. All those swanky functions, with shaped fruit, and origami vegetables... and...
and ice sculptures!
Am I the only one wanting to get the rind off by running it through a food-grade bandsaw? I wonder if the skin is thicker at the corners, and the fruit inside is signifigantly rounder than the package...?
Bah, the things look just wrong. There's gotta be a lot of labor in getting them to grow proper in their little tempered glass cages... and if you read the article, notice the attention to detail -- all the stems come out the exact middle of one side! Somebody has way too much time on their hands.
They'll be sunk when next year's fridge comes out and the manufacturers change the shelf dimensions, though...
"...America's great minds of today, teaching America's great minds of tomorrow. Poor bastards." -- A Beautiful Min
when RAGNAROK, the last battle of the coders is closing in, there will follow three broken kernel CVS trees in a row. The warm sun will reach even the darkest of dens, not even the script-kiddies will go safe.
Coders will come to fight against eachothers creations resulting in terrible flamewars.
The destructive forces will be gathered, Steve Ballmer(The midgaar serpent) will raise from the depths of Redmond to engulf the net, spreading FUD everywhere.
Richard Stallman(Fenriswolf) will break free from his chains and devour all coders that has refused to share their source-code in the past.
The mighty IBM ship (Nailfather) will set sail for the battle ground armed with organic LED's, Wrist-watches featuring Linux, and chess playing computers.
Illiad (Heimdal?) will blow his horn summoning all geeks (that could be geek-found) to join the fierce battle.
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42 will cease to be.
What's wrong with her outfit?
:)
When she starts dressing like Jennifer Lopez, then I'll say there's a problem.
--RJ
Since when are square watermelons news... They had them in the Simpsons a couple years ago! (The Japanese vacation episode).
ROFL Are theses watermelons patented? im serious, if they dont do something now, there'll be law-suits to hell when other companies start making square watermelons. And what about other shapes? how would it stand in court if someone made cuboid watermelons? (ie. 1 x 1 x 1.1 -not a cube). Or maybe pyramids, cylinders or _even_ spherical watermelons!!! (god forbid). Im sure there will be government controls on fruit shapes pretty soon, as well as anger from anti-plant deformation groups :) With a complex process like this, who knows what could happen...
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As for Brittney, didn't anyone mistake her for Spears? we don't need _another_ dumb blonde. The apocalypse is certainly upon us
-tfga
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I hear ya. The motherfuck put a phone number on the page too.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Sorry, I dont find it funny. Actually I find it kind of scary. Even if it is false someone will try to do it after reading this page and a kitten will suffer (well, that's a theological debate).
How we know is more important than what we know.
I think I saw the very same thing on the Simpsons. I think it was this episode.
I will never know how the songs of a girl named "Brittney" ever became featured on slashdot.
Oh wait, on second thought (or look), yeah I do.
on a third look, um she's 12
Here's the definition (in case it's not immediately obvious):
"Fear of or anxiety about computing or technology; reluctance to engage with computers, esp, (in later use) the Internet"
Besides, adding it embiggens the english language.
I don't need large brains to have a good time.
Hmm, all I can think of is the episode of the simpsons where they were in japan and Homer buys a square watermellon. He starts walking down the street where the mellon popped back to its round shape, and Homer drops it and says "D'oh!"
I don't really mind double posts on
Hmmm... Apocalypse, eh?!
Internet + Apocalypse = $$
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Well, we all know it is coming. Some of us are even getting prepared. Most of us are wondering what to do. I'm still looking for my towel.
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A dingo ate my sig...
If anyone thinks this wouldn't result in both those prescheduled blackouts plus about as many additional ones as would have occurred anyway, I have a slightly stale CA "deregulation" plan to sell you.
Granted, there has been less talk of those plans, in recent weeks due to mild weather so far - and there is always the chance that the weather will continue to cooperate by being unusually mild - but clearly state officials are notably depending on virtually nothing unexpected happening - it is being assumed climate is going to occur instead of weather, and that citizens will heed frankly moronic pleas to only use air conditioning when the weather isn't hot enough to require it.
Meanwhile, our state governor is doing his best to prevent enough energy being available by trying to force the federal government to put price controls on electricity, ala President Jimmy Carter's debacle that nearly forced gas rationing, and the state's powerful environmental wacko lobby is gearing up to enforce their BANANA (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything) ideas to prevent as much new generating capacity from being built as they can manage.
As for your "seceding" troll - it could be nothing else - you seem to be forgetting the large quantity of energy CA is leeching off the rest of the United States. Sure, the Peoples Republic of California might be able to build some tanks - but they aren't going to get very far trying to take over the energy supplies in Mexico and the states to the north they'll need with the Sierra Club telling the tank engines to run on "conservation". Expect everyone in the new "country" will pull together and share resources? Maybe you should rent and watch the movie "Chinatown". While your TV still works.
How long until the first house is built out of these things?
Note: in place of mortar, the joints should be filled with Velveeta.
Sometimes it's more fun to go along with it.
Isn't the anticipated switch to an "electricity for part of the day" third-world infrastructure (and the contention by the idea's promoters that this would be a good thing!), and the discovery of the populace there that they can vote themselves subsidized electricity out of the state budget, evidence enough?
Well, my neighbor's cat approached spherical, with no more apparent manipulation than overfeeding and its own laziness.
More of an oblate spheroid, of course, due to gravitational distortion.
Hi, friends:
To anyone that feel some love or respect for any kind (form) of life...
There is a japanese man living in New York that sell "BONSAI WATERMELONS". Look beautifull, isn't it???? But it is anything, less beautifull!
The guy put the watermelons in glass bottle, put a probe in their anus, that get out through a gap in the bottle to depense pee e faeces.
For the watermelons to take the bottle shape, they are feed with chemistry to melt the seeds, then he keeps the watermelons for the time that they can survive. They can't move, walk or clean up. This cruelty is the last fashion in NYC, China, Indonesia, New Zeland, because it is a "decoration fruit". If you want more information take a look in this site :
http://www.bonsaiwatermelon.com/bkmethod.html
and how the babies are put into a glass bottle in
http://www.bonsaiwatermelon.com/gray.html
and
http://www.bonsaiwatermelon.com/bnw.html
We are making a list to send to Fruit Protection Association in USA and Mexico, and to TV news, to stop this. We are very thankfull for your help and we ask you to send this e-mail to everybody that love water melons and respect the LIFE, so put your name in the end of this list, and copy this e-mail and send.
I really want to move to Japan now. Venture Capitalists over there must really be loaded to let the square watermelon company slip this one by them. I mean, come on! If refrigerator space is at that kind of premium, couldn't they just cut their existing watermelon into squares (or whatever) before they load these suckers in?
I want to find the genius that let this go so I can finally market my idea for dehydrated water. Now, you wanna see something get really space-efficient...?
Well, here is my first post. (I think) I totally agree. While I can (somewhat) see the singing part, though the songs are WAY yo mature, the beauty pagents make me sick.
It is obvious that the parents, and though not trying to come off as sexist, the mother is living her dredams through her daughter. The father allowing this is incouragable (sp?). He should be checked out by a shrink.
I know I would not let my daughter go to their house is she were friends with the girl. I would be worried, REALLY worried, esp of the father.
Yeah, the song is kinda cheesy, but for 12 years old, she has a good voice!
But are the Watermelons Air Droppable ?
From Buckaroo Banzai Faq Part 16
Director W.D. Richter
Team Banzai botanical agronomists have been for years hard at work on the problem of hunger in Third World countries under constant revolutionary turmoil. A non-political, humanitarian effort, their goal has been to find ways to feed starving peoples in remote areas where traditional food delivery systems prove woefully inadequate. Often the only way to get the nourishment into the bellies of the needy is to hit and run, avoiding all petty ideological side-taking.
What you see in the Critical Stress Lab is a revolutionary watermelon capable of withstanding impact pressures of 300,000 pounds per square inch! Sweet, juicy and vitamin-packed, this remarkable fruit can be dropped from the bomb bays of low-flying aircraft into the backyards of disenfranchised villagers in the remotest backwaters of this angry planet. Just another Team Banzai effort to cut through all the unnecessary crap around us and help people help themselves. Look for high-impact, low cholesterol eggs next... and sooner than you think, shatter-proof whole-wheat taco shells.
"browser", "cybersex", "internet relay chat", "MP3", "webzine", and more. (By the way, the OED story was on plastic yesterday.)
The shareholder is always right.
When did all these moms start misspelling the name "Brittany," and why? I guess it doesn't sound as illiterate as "Anfernee," but isn't there someone at the birth-certificate place who should be pointing out spelling errors?
Yes.. have you seen it too? The new Magic release isn't all that bad.
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Those watermelons looked more like cubical to me. There wouldn't be much point in buying a square watermelon...
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off topic, I know...but I can't resist: "Tom Waits, Randy Newman, and Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart have filed a $40 million copyright-infringement lawsuit against MP3.com....." from the newest rolling stone. argh, people piss me off.
These cubic watermelons look rather like they use Illegal Bansai Kitty Technology...
Several days ago, in the "Securing Win2K, NSA Style" story, one of the crapflooders posted this comment. I was interested by it and did a search on Google and found a site with MP3s of Tom Waits.
;).
So, if you want to learn about good and interesting music, don't read the stories, just browse at -1
kickin' science like no one else can,
my dick is twice as long as my attention span.
Withdrawal before climax is very ineffective and those who try this are usually called "parents."
Not neccesarily. It's just that the interesting stuff isn't just that which is moderated up. Not that the moderation system is COMPLETELY broken. If you just want to filter out the crapflooders and nonsense postings (like these) and read stuff more like the story, then browse at +2. But sometimes the crapflooders mess up and their crap isn't so bad. I just wish we could have another drop-down menu similar to http://www.waxy.org/hot/ where you can choose Higher/Lower than and Exactly. You could read all posts that are lower than 1 and get the 0's and -1's or just the 3's. That'd be awesome!
kickin' science like no one else can,
my dick is twice as long as my attention span.
Withdrawal before climax is very ineffective and those who try this are usually called "parents."
Wait, what does this have to do with Perl 6?
my vote is for the mullet, of course its not really a day event, its a lifestyle.
Read my plan to save the Bengals
Todd was also pushing PatroNet, which I still think is a spiffy idea, and which I'm surprised isn't discussed more here on /. in view of the MP3 brouhaha, so the next day I headed for the web page. There, big as life, was "Click here to hear Todd's latest song, 'I Hate My ISP'!"
So, friends, the apocalypse started a while back.
Uh oh....h tm / 4corners/music/promotion.html
http://www.valeriedelacruz.com/Brittney%20Cleary.
http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Tidepool/3223
http://www.metafilter.com/comments.mefi/7329
And the worst:
http://www.cyberteens.com/ne/mg/html/cleary.html
- "Q: How are things going in the studio?
Excuse me? "Do you like your songs?"????????A: Good.
Q: Do you like your songs?
A: Yeah, they are cool.
Q: What is it like being in a recording studio and singing your own songs?
A: It's cool. It's better than singing cover songs because they are my own.
Q: What kind of cover songs did you used to sing?
A: "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and songs like that [on karaoke]."
sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
Go to www.globeandmail.com to see the real, true way our world is going-- doom is on the horizon, for we are the fifth element. Sorry for the offtopic post. I am in the process of getting the series of articles up on freenet-- an indication of their importance! Check it out, under the headline "Death Wish".
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Dude, the fucking watermelon is squsre!
Rather cubic, but square watermelons sounds better. Thankfully not entirely off topic, anybody remember the Simpsons episode where Lisa genetically modified a tomato with Olympic-grade steroids to grow the thing to twice the size of a beachball?
And finally, with these parting words, I would like to proclaim my happiness that at last Agriscience has brought us modifications to food that are actually, in my opinion, just really damn cool. Who cares that the watermelon's seedless, or is resistant to bugs, or whatever marvel of agri-engineering that has until now been the norm ... it's now cubic!
"[T]he single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom." -- Barry Goldwater
Mmmm square water mellon. These would be great and sell so well. I can finally stop worrying about wasted space in my enviro-friendly refridgerator. I would hate to buy a bigger one to fit my water mellons in them, because I would be wasting electricity and that's bad for the enviroment. Plus at $82 a pop, I am sure they will help spark our economy. Now excuse me I'm heading out in my Ford Excursion to buy watermellon. : )
EVery time something weird or improbable happens, people will eventually call it a Sign of the Apocalypse. Pauly Shore marries a supermodel? Sign of the Apocalypse! Someone you don't like gets elected? Sign of the Apocalypse! They start selling Pepsi in recycled colostomy bags. Sign of the Apocalypse! Cartman says the S-word on cable TV. You get the idea.
I heard a story today about air tight underwear made of a nylon material that has a coal filter on the butt that is supposed to keep your fart smells from offending other people...gee...what will they come up with next?
This is not the first song about the internet. There has been a song about the web for years.
This has nothing to do with the D'oh part of the comment, actually. Does anyone else remember the episode of the Simpson's where the family went to Tokyo? Homer buys a $200 Square Watermelon... could this be prior art?
...silly words from a cartoon are not in the dictionary. I bet that link is totally bogus. I'm going to click it now and... D'oh!
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
It's a perfectly cromulent word.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
homernym -d'oh!
as targets???
A teeny-boper country-western song. *shudder*
"and dear god does this website suck now." -- CmdrTaco
This isn't going to be the standard "I submitted the Doh is in the OED story two days ago and it got rejected" whine. I mean, I did submit it two days ago, but when I did it, I also included this story about the new Simpsons DVD box sets. So this whine also educates and informs.
http://www.realdoll.com
We were going to get one, specially made as a lookalike of my friends ex, using his credit card number, sent to him with a tag round its neck saying "Go Fuck Yourself".
Never did though...
Does that mean that if you put a watermelon in a round container, it would come out round?
Um, hang on a second... D'OH!
I suspect that people who would try this for real would probably find something equally unpleasant to do if they'd never seen the site.
But other than that, yeah, go and beat up yokels all you want...
Ok, I know I've been trolled, but *COME ON*!!!
Isn't it obviously impossible?
The photos are mostly real (hold a kitten up against a piece of glass, take its picture, let it go). But does it even make sense? "Malleable bone structure"?
Why do so many people fail to see the joke?
Tell you what, we'll give Dubya a sense of humour to bring back with him and share...
If you put a kitten in a non-transparent square jar, is the state of the kitten square or normal, before you open it to find out?
More than Doh! made it into the Oxford online dictionary, (bad hair day, lifestyle drugs), easy enough to screw with that, but wait and see if it makes it into the printed version, or even the Illustrated version (a Picture of Homer? A picture of Bad Hair?)
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But consider this: US Spy plane lands on Hainan Island (China) at a chinese air base and the Chinese are letting the US get it back (Honestly, raise your hand if you ever thought the US would extend such a courtesy, then go back to wondering if a bear shits in the woods), now to get the EP-3E spy plane home, the US is using a russian Antonov 124 cargo jet. Gee, maybe North Korea could pitch in some cutting torches or something. This sure is weird.
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This is probably a little too late to reply, but I hope ya catch this...
A guy I work with, his daughter is an MIT student who was involved in this student prank. The goal was to prove what can be done with photoshop. The cat was lured into the jar with a treat, as soon as the cat went into the jar, it's picture was taken... in photoshop it was then made to appear that the cat was crunched up inside of the glass. There was absolutely no harm done to an animal, except for maybe the unhealthy treat.
That song was crappy.
And you can't tell me that was a 12 year old little girl. It sounded like she was in her 20's.
The whole song was basically trying to put Crappy internet lingo, like TTFN and G2G into a song, and use as much of it as possible.
People that actually use that need to be hung.
Can't wait to hear some preteen rap artist sing about gibs, frags and big f!@$in' guns. Get down, Quake it baby. Sheesh.
Go down the local supermarket. Buy a nice big watermellon, and cut it into a cube. pick it up, and put it in your 'fridge. Buy a small one, and do the same thing, except put the little cube in your pocket.
who are the idiot's paying a 300%+ Markup for these things anyway?
It's fad thing, but to humor you, the same kind of idiot who buys $10000 sex dolls(I forget the link).
Maskirovka
If by "geneticly modified," you mean 'grown in a square box,' then yes. Jackass.
I have an even better idea. Dodecahedron watermelons. Less failures due to the more spherical case, and damn cool looking.
"Face it, a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality.
... there's also This.
There was a Dilbert epsiode (when the series was airing on UPN) about this. Dilbet had engineered a high-protein plant, and, as a bonus, the "meat" which came off a vine was cubic and thus was able to be stacked and saved space. Dilbert reasoned this would be a cure for world hunger, as the plant could grow in not so good conditions.
This just serves to remind me that we actually live in an as-crazy world where fiction and reality have no contrasts.
"I'll just chip in a bit for RedHat: I actually have that installed on my university machine." - Linus, '95
They don't roll around in the shopping cart and crush my square eggs.
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. BB
Top Reason 3) My arse now has more musical talent the top 40 combined.
Top Reason 2) An apocalypse is the best way to make some of my favourite companies succesfull dammit. Just think of the marketing: Apocalypse = less countries with people who are alive = less worries for people who are alive (us!!) = more happiness for people who are alive and who write quality software = women/money/happiness, fame, fortune and ... umm .... well Ill just leave that one for now
(drum roll) ...... most importantly ...
Top Reason 3) Society is now allowing people like me post messages like this
Next thing you know, we'll also have square cats.. oh, wait..
Torg, come out of the spaceship. Nothing can stop Torg.
a synonym is something that has the same or similar meaning (argue, bicker, debate), where a homonym is something that sounds the same but means something different (their, they're, there)
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Brian Voils
"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students."
Brian Voils
"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students."
Fucking homonyms, coming over here, stealing our women...
graspee
Britney Cleary is indeed quite a dusturbing creatue. If I ever run into her on the "girl wide web" or any other "digital diva" on her "buddy list" i will be sure to engage in the "phenomenom of online talking" and give her the ultimate "bbfn"
Doh!..Its about time this perfect universally utilised adjective was recognised. What better way is there to sum up that moment of instant realisation. In fact, we should just have Matt Groening re-write the dictionary
Perhaps we could look at making people square too... what a space economical way to deal with the population problem.... sigh.
Australianus Geekus
And if the clock is running out who really cares we can't stop it. They can't stop it ... wait a sec I'm rambling again :)
* Please try to keep posts on topic.
And what is the topic?
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Rome taught me patience and assiduous application to detail. Virtues which temper the boldness of great, general views.
as for the song, by this girl, why arnt you outside? playing in the sun? hanging out with friends? and no matter how much your producers claims to be your friend, do NOT listen to him when he says breast implants are a must because it will help sell more records
you look gorgeous for you age
d'uh
I think it's great to see something like this make the dictionary, it's nice to know that something we everyday people use gets put in instead of what some secret group of people decide to put in
by the users for the users!
-- botsex is {grep;touch;strip;unzip;head;mount}
Does this mean "Doh" (D'oh! I misspelled it!) will become a synonym with
words like dough, doe, John Doe, and the musical note "Do" that Julie
Andrews helped popularize in The Sound of Music?
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Capt' Trips
grep >= ! == $your
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Capt' Trips
grep >= ! == $your
NEW JERSEY: Why is there a watermelon there?
RENO NEVADA: I'll tell you later.
shut up man
The correct question to ask is whether square watermelons would be popular in the States if they were sold for $15 a piece (4 times the price of regular watermelon). And then the answer is a definite "maybe".
...with two t's. Don't make the same mistake again. :)
Instead of making watermelons refrigerator-friendly, why don't we make refrigerators watermelon-friendly? This way we could still buy those cheap watermelosn, instead of those expensive square ones!
I can picture it now.... Big round refrigerators filled with watermelons...
Lesbian Nazi Hookers Abducted by UFOs and Forced Into Weight Loss Programs - -all next week on Town Talk.
People for Ethical Treatement of Animals? What've they got to do with square watermelons?
- Toroidal watermelons, so you can hang them on your shower curtain rod, thus saving even more space in your fridge.
- Helical watermelons whose spin leads to increased projectile accuracy.
- Fractal watermelons which look the same after you hurl them at the wall.
- George W. Bush-head shaped watermelons. As decoys.
That's four ideas right there to help hasten the Day of Destruction, and I don't even like watermelon.Inventor of the LOLbalrog meme.
Wow, you haven't posted in at least a few months - ;)
and you went to all the trouble of asking mommy to let you use her iSmac, *and* help you with the multi-syallabic words, *and* make an utterly bigoted and ignorant comment? I'm *flattered*. A/S/L ?
...kthnxbiteme.
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I was watching the news tonight, and for some reason the BBC picked up on this square watermelon drivel - guess it was on Reuters or something. Anyway, they show it on the preview, and during the break my dad tells me how they do it - I'd guessed genetic engineering, when it is in fact just allowing the fruit to grow into a square enclosure. So how did he know? He'd done it when he was a kid... in Iran... in 1960. He proceeded to show me photos. Apparently this was a regular practice at the time - what's the deal with us First Worlders catching on so late?
I like this better.. I mean,I dont care where the US bombs as long as it's not it's self and it doesnt kill the web or me.
I am Jack's creative sig.
Well, when I buy a watermelon, I dont cut it up right away.I have crap to do. I stick it in the fridge and cut it up when I get the time.
I am Jack's creative sig.
Not really, I could care less. But I belive I just said that.
I am Jack's creative sig.
I can't believe there's a news article about these watermelons... First off, no, their not genetically engineered. If the method is the same as the one I know (developed by a guy I know), after the plant flowers and grows into a tiny little melon-wannabe, a clear acrylic case is fitted over it. As the fruit grows, it's forced into the shape of the case. I believe part of the reason the suckers cost $82 is due to the fact that the failure rate is rather high, resulting in deformed looking, very esthetically unpleasant melons. ;-)
The article says "Japanese farmers", but I wonder if it was based on the works of a guy I know. Although I won't mention the name here, he's a self proclaimed agriculture researcher (Japanese), that has been working on these square melons for atleast 22 years now. (That's when I first heard of them, in '79.) He has also worked on things like square eggplants, but I don't know if those ever took off. The tomatoes did, but were not economically viable... go figure. (Actually, I remember we all laughed at the idea back then too, since even in Japan an $82 square melon is more of a joke than a fruit product!)
Or anyone on Trinity Broadcasting Network saying, "you won't need to send us any money today, we have enough."
i'll just smile at our stupidity now... =-)