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Malthus

#2205
July 22, 2009, 08:20:44 AM
How could I possibly resist this?

QuoteHello,

How are you , sorry for bothering  you on this. I have been in search of
contact's having the exact last name you answer for some reasons. Am a
Chinese and am from Hong Kong, I have a business plans I feel you can
possiblely would love to join in, from my Bank. Its involve an huge amount
I cant possibly say now, for the purpose of privacy and security. I will
need to inquire from you first if you would be intrested in handling this
will me. On response to my email, I shall furnished you with the detail of
this business. Reply back on: [email protected]

Regards,
Lan Lee
[email protected]
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Josquius

#2206
July 22, 2009, 08:38:20 AM
Quote from: Alatriste on July 22, 2009, 07:17:18 AM
A modern metro is the perfect example of the technocratic utopia. Well organized, flawless, aseptic and clean, run by some unseen central authority. The future was supposed to be like this.

Plus rockets, jumpsuits and ray pistols... dude, where is my jetpack?  :cry:
hmm, yeah, I suppose that could be a large part of the coolness.
But then flying cars and jet packs are quite the opposite sort of thing aren't they. The trouble with them is they give too much freedom.
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Grey Fox

#2207
July 22, 2009, 08:53:49 AM
Quote from: Malthus on July 22, 2009, 08:20:44 AM
How could I possibly resist this?

QuoteHello,

How are you , sorry for bothering  you on this. I have been in search of
contact's having the exact last name you answer for some reasons. Am a
Chinese and am from Hong Kong, I have a business plans I feel you can
possiblely would love to join in, from my Bank. Its involve an huge amount
I cant possibly say now, for the purpose of privacy and security. I will
need to inquire from you first if you would be intrested in handling this
will me. On response to my email, I shall furnished you with the detail of
this business. Reply back on: [email protected]

Regards,
Lan Lee
[email protected]

About time that last name of yours be usefull for something.  ;)

Did you mail Mister Lan Lee back?

Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

Josephus

#2208
July 22, 2009, 08:58:06 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on July 22, 2009, 08:53:49 AM
Quote from: Malthus on July 22, 2009, 08:20:44 AM
How could I possibly resist this?

QuoteHello,

How are you , sorry for bothering  you on this. I have been in search of
contact's having the exact last name you answer for some reasons. Am a
Chinese and am from Hong Kong, I have a business plans I feel you can
possiblely would love to join in, from my Bank. Its involve an huge amount
I cant possibly say now, for the purpose of privacy and security. I will
need to inquire from you first if you would be intrested in handling this
will me. On response to my email, I shall furnished you with the detail of
this business. Reply back on: [email protected]

Regards,
Lan Lee
[email protected]

About time that last name of yours be usefull for something.  ;)

Did you mail Mister Lan Lee back?

He's  looking for Aunt Maggie.  ;)
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

Neil

#2209
July 22, 2009, 09:01:36 AM
Quote from: Tyr on July 22, 2009, 08:38:20 AM
But then flying cars and jet packs are quite the opposite sort of thing aren't they. The trouble with them is they give too much freedom.
Well, the big problem with them is that they don't really serve a purpose, and endanger public safety.  Even if it was possible to build them, it would still be a terrible idea.
I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.

Syt

#2210
July 22, 2009, 11:11:20 AM
Yay Asian solar eclipse:






I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Syt

#2211
July 22, 2009, 11:13:15 AM
Quote from: Neil on July 22, 2009, 09:01:36 AM
Quote from: Tyr on July 22, 2009, 08:38:20 AM
But then flying cars and jet packs are quite the opposite sort of thing aren't they. The trouble with them is they give too much freedom.
Well, the big problem with them is that they don't really serve a purpose, and endanger public safety.  Even if it was possible to build them, it would still be a terrible idea.

Yeah, I saw a documentary about traffic jumpers on Curuscant once. Crazy stuff.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Zanza

#2212
July 22, 2009, 02:08:37 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8163541.stm

QuoteThe German language is known for its extremely long compound nouns.

And the new edition [of a dictionary] includes a 23-letter example: "Vorratsdatenspeicherung", which means the saving of data relating to supplies.
BBC is now apparently using Google Translate for its articles instead of asking someone what a word actually means. Because this word has nothing to do with supplies, but rather is the word for the terrible EU directive that forces telecommunication providers to save all connection data of all customers without any suspicion of wrong-doing. The word they translated as "supplies" actually refers to the fact that they hoard data without any specific intention.

Josquius

#2213
July 22, 2009, 04:29:24 PM
:lol:
Just saw something quite seriously badass on TV.
Its a documentary on the old V-bombers.
They're interviewing a Vulcan pilot where he says that should it come to nuclear war a big fear was that the flashes from all the nuclear bombs going off around the bombers could blind the crews. So it was that it was standard operating procedure for pilots to fly wearing a pirate style eye-patch; With one eye covered should this happen they'd get another shot.
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Razgovory

#2214
July 22, 2009, 04:34:06 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on July 21, 2009, 12:20:34 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on July 21, 2009, 12:03:47 PM
Quote from: DisturbedPervert on July 21, 2009, 12:00:19 PM
A bunch of casting decisions have been made for the HBO version of A Game of Thrones.  Boromir from LOTR is Eddark Stark and some dude that looks like MeatLoaf is Robert Baratheon.  Jon Stark, Prince Joffrey, and Viserys have also been chosen.

http://grrm.livejournal.com/95840.html
THis deserves its own thread.

I'd crash that thread to talk about how fat George RR Martin is.

How fat is he?
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

swallow

#2215
July 22, 2009, 04:40:59 PM Last Edit: July 22, 2009, 04:49:23 PM by swallow
Quote from: Tyr on July 22, 2009, 07:00:02 AM
I think I've just unlocked a important discovery in psychology.
The loop of human relations;
short girls -> tall lads -> tall girls -> short lads ->

This came about at the observation that:
Short girls seem to have it really bad for tall men.
Tall men however want tall girls.
But the tall girls always seem to end up with short men.
And the short men want the short girls.
Nah, we always wanted tall guys - there just never seemed to be any around.  Funny thing is, we always thought all men wanted short girls.

Savonarola

#2216
July 22, 2009, 04:41:13 PM
Some old school Sesame Street:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUAj5XDckIg

How could life on Snu have evolved to Geefles and Gonks if the only available food was nectarines; a food which they were both unable to gather independently?
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Eddie Teach

#2217
July 22, 2009, 05:38:29 PM
I always knew that Sesame Street was creationist propaganda.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

jimmy olsen

#2218
July 22, 2009, 05:59:14 PM
Quote from: Zanza on July 22, 2009, 02:08:37 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8163541.stm

QuoteThe German language is known for its extremely long compound nouns.

And the new edition [of a dictionary] includes a 23-letter example: "Vorratsdatenspeicherung", which means the saving of data relating to supplies.
BBC is now apparently using Google Translate for its articles instead of asking someone what a word actually means. Because this word has nothing to do with supplies, but rather is the word for the terrible EU directive that forces telecommunication providers to save all connection data of all customers without any suspicion of wrong-doing. The word they translated as "supplies" actually refers to the fact that they hoard data without any specific intention.
I thought privacy laws in Europe were tougher than in the states.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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Habbaku

#2219
July 22, 2009, 10:29:11 PM
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
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