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Syt

#43650
October 23, 2014, 01:28:19 PM
Well, Beslan was even more successful, IIRC, killing over 300 hostages.
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.

Josquius

#43651
October 23, 2014, 01:41:36 PM
I have a cold and worked too late to go to the supermarket (6pm).
As a result I ordered €20 take away pizza.
It.... was not good :(
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Savonarola

#43652
October 23, 2014, 03:47:16 PM
And for that special someone on your Christmas list:

http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/31262040_contemporary-musical-automaton-portrait-putin

QuoteContemporary Musical Automaton Portrait "Putin



Contemporary Musical Automaton Portrait "Putin Ecrivain" by Christian Bailly, 2014
Depicting Russian president Vladimir Putin signing the "Treaty of Acceptance of the Republic of Crimea into the Russian Federation" on 18 March 2014. With plaster-composition character head, blue glass eyes and molded hair, seated at rosewood writing desk with quill pen and a battery-powered brass lamp, dressed in blue wool suit, spotted tie and hand-sewn leather shoes, with single-air going-barrel movement in body, maker's "Olympia" ink-stamp and brass key signed "C.B.", height 20 in. (51 cm), base 12 in. (30 cm) x 17 ¾ in. (45 cm). Inspired by Gustave Vichy's automaton "Pierrot Ecrivain" of c. 1895, Bailly portrays the Russian president at work on the document at his desk. Putin's right hand moves across the paper with a realistic motion followed by his concentrated gaze until, apparently tired by his efforts, the lamp light dims and his head falls, as though on the verge of sleep. Waking, he turns up the lamp and continues writing. The figure's movements are accompanied by a traditional Russian waltz. – Literature: Bailly, "Automata, the Golden Age", pp. 74–75. – A unique contemporary automaton depicting a significant political event.
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

derspiess

#43653
October 23, 2014, 03:56:19 PM
I'll wait for the one to come out with him shooting a tranquilizer dart at a tiger.
"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

#43654
October 23, 2014, 08:45:13 PM
What kind of name is DeForest anyway?




It sounds like he should be a running back for Virginia Tech.
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

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

frunk

#43655
October 23, 2014, 08:53:49 PM
Can't have DeForest without DeTrees.

Razgovory

#43656
October 23, 2014, 08:56:52 PM
I was in a fender bender today.  Guy smacked into the back of my dad's car.  I was sitting in the passenger side.  No serious damage.  Will need a new bumper.
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

mongers

#43657
October 23, 2014, 09:53:59 PM
It's only just recently dawned upon me that a lot of people live their lives in strictly chronological order.   :hmm:
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

MadImmortalMan

#43658
October 23, 2014, 09:56:21 PM
Quote from: mongers on October 23, 2014, 09:53:59 PM
It's only just recently dawned upon me that a lot of people live their lives in strictly chronological order.   :hmm:

Oh, the tyranny.

"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

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

garbon

#43659
October 23, 2014, 09:58:30 PM
I was a baby yesterday and 70 years old the day before.
"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.

Eddie Teach

#43660
October 23, 2014, 10:07:53 PM
Mongers has been watching too much Doctor Who.  :bowler:
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Tonitrus

#43661
October 23, 2014, 10:18:24 PM
I try to live one day at a time, but they keep ending.  :mad:

Razgovory

#43662
October 23, 2014, 10:53:32 PM
Quote from: mongers on October 23, 2014, 09:53:04 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on October 23, 2014, 08:56:52 PM
I was in a fender bender today.  Guy smacked into the back of my dad's car.  I was sitting in the passenger side.  No serious damage.  Will need a new bumper.

:(

Nobody was hurt, not serious damage.  I consider that a win.  While I was waiting for the cops to come by (we didn't actually need cops for this one), someone threw packs of pop culture trading cards from the 1980's at me.  That was unexpected.  Most of them were stills from the movie Gremlins but I think I saw some Ninja Turtles ones.
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

jimmy olsen

#43663
October 24, 2014, 12:30:31 AM
Quote from: mongers on October 23, 2014, 09:53:59 PM
It's only just recently dawned upon me that a lot of people live their lives in strictly chronological order.   :hmm:
You just read Slaughterhouse 5?
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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Admiral Yi

#43664
October 24, 2014, 02:08:14 AM
Read in The Econ about a study which shows that people who live in parts of Germany which have historically had higher concentrations of Jews tend to invest in the stock market less.
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