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The Brain

#37560
March 20, 2014, 11:41:02 AM
KEN SENT ME
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Ideologue

#37561
March 20, 2014, 11:47:30 AM
The director sent his only begotten son to die on speakerphone. :(
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

derspiess

#37562
March 20, 2014, 11:51:03 AM
Done!  Keep your half-assed apology for "running a little over", sister.

B-DUBS HERE I COME
"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

Barrister

#37563
March 20, 2014, 11:53:03 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on March 20, 2014, 11:36:32 AM
The #1 hater, Fred Phelps is dead.

Apparently, God Hates the Westboro Baptist Church. -_-
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garbon

#37564
March 20, 2014, 01:09:38 PM
Quote from: Barrister on March 20, 2014, 11:53:03 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on March 20, 2014, 11:36:32 AM
The #1 hater, Fred Phelps is dead.

Apparently, God Hates the Westboro Baptist Church. -_-

He had already been excommunicated from that church, no?
"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.

Habbaku

#37565
March 20, 2014, 01:24:01 PM
Quote from: derspiess on March 20, 2014, 11:34:29 AM
So my "five minute" conference call has been going on for 30+ minutes now.  It's the only thing keeping me from wings, beer, and basketball :angry:

http://conferencecall.biz/
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

MadImmortalMan

#37566
March 20, 2014, 04:30:30 PM
On this date in 1602, the Dutch East India Company, known around the world as the VOC (for Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, United East-India Company referring to the country's union after driving out the Spanish) was formed. It was the first public company to issue negotiable shares, and by some measures is considered the most successful company of all time.

"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

Valmy

#37568
March 20, 2014, 04:45:00 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on March 20, 2014, 04:30:30 PM
On this date in 1602, the Dutch East India Company, known around the world as the VOC (for Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, United East-India Company referring to the country's union after driving out the Spanish) was formed. It was the first public company to issue negotiable shares, and by some measures is considered the most successful company of all time.

Bah they were nothing but an far superior version of the Portuguese Empire.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Razgovory

#37569
March 20, 2014, 06:33:51 PM
Quote from: Barrister on March 20, 2014, 11:53:03 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on March 20, 2014, 11:36:32 AM
The #1 hater, Fred Phelps is dead.

Apparently, God Hates the Westboro Baptist Church. -_-

I've never been able to figure out if he was a genuine religious fanatic, a mentally ill individual, or just plain mean.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Caliga

#37570
March 20, 2014, 06:58:02 PM
All of the above?
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PDH

#37571
March 20, 2014, 08:14:02 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on March 20, 2014, 06:33:51 PM
I've never been able to figure out if he was a genuine religious fanatic, a mentally ill individual, or just plain mean.

The best way to look at it is this:  Phelps was a douchebag, a genuine grade-A douchebag.  That precludes none of the other reasons you listed, but it does allow a nice categorization of him.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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Josquius

#37572
March 20, 2014, 10:59:06 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on March 20, 2014, 04:30:30 PM
On this date in 1602, the Dutch East India Company, known around the world as the VOC (for Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, United East-India Company referring to the country's union after driving out the Spanish) was formed. It was the first public company to issue negotiable shares, and by some measures is considered the most successful company of all time.



What measures?
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derspiess

#37573
March 20, 2014, 11:02:27 PM
Shush.
"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

MadImmortalMan

#37574
March 20, 2014, 11:06:36 PM
Quote from: Tyr on March 20, 2014, 10:59:06 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on March 20, 2014, 04:30:30 PM
On this date in 1602, the Dutch East India Company, known around the world as the VOC (for Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, United East-India Company referring to the country's union after driving out the Spanish) was formed. It was the first public company to issue negotiable shares, and by some measures is considered the most successful company of all time.



What measures?

They were using value at peak converted to 2012 dollars, specifically.
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers
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