News:

And we're back!

Main Menu

Viva Fidel! Or not.

Started by Queequeg, January 09, 2015, 03:24:23 PM

Previous topic - Next topic

derspiess

Quote from: Josephus on January 09, 2015, 05:18:49 PM
Quote from: derspiess on January 09, 2015, 03:54:53 PM
Yeah I'm not popping the sparkling wine (made in California) cork just yet.

I made a similar comment when Thatcher died, and this forum went nuts....so.... :glare:

I think dictators deserve different treatment from elected leaders. 
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Admiral Yi

Quote from: Josephus on January 09, 2015, 05:18:49 PM
I made a similar comment when Thatcher died, and this forum went nuts....so.... :glare:

I think the agreement is no shitting in an RIP thread.

Maybe that's splitting hairs, maybe it's not.

Josephus

Quick trivia:

Who said this

I honestly don't understand that mindset.  I couldn't fathom dancing on the graves of Carter, Clinton, or Obama when they pass.
Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

derspiess

Probably some very intelligent individual.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Admiral Yi

Sounds like Grab On's prose, but I'll guess Speesh for triple irony effect.

Josephus

Quote from: derspiess on January 09, 2015, 05:24:24 PM
Probably some very intelligent individual.


No, not at all.

It was you
Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

The Brain

Quote from: derspiess on January 09, 2015, 05:21:11 PM
Quote from: Josephus on January 09, 2015, 05:18:49 PM
Quote from: derspiess on January 09, 2015, 03:54:53 PM
Yeah I'm not popping the sparkling wine (made in California) cork just yet.

I made a similar comment when Thatcher died, and this forum went nuts....so.... :glare:

I think dictators deserve different treatment from elected leaders.

Hitler. :wub:
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

garbon

"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

derspiess

#23
Quote from: Josephus on January 09, 2015, 05:25:16 PM
Quote from: derspiess on January 09, 2015, 05:24:24 PM
Probably some very intelligent individual.


No, not at all.

It was you

:o 

:D  Anyway, point?
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

DGuller


Barrister

Quote from: Josephus on January 09, 2015, 05:23:22 PM
Quick trivia:

Who said this

I honestly don't understand that mindset.  I couldn't fathom dancing on the graves of Carter, Clinton, or Obama when they pass.


Interestingly, all three of those were democratically elected leaders...
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

11B4V

"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".


11B4V

"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

Eddie Teach

Communism is too mainstream for QQ.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?