Fun Stuff...Off Topic(O/T)

[riverbabe]

Karel,
I don't especially like any politicians and there are some I despise more than others. There has been an unrelenting attack on Obama since he first showed his face. Does he deserve it any more than Bush, Clinton, Bush, Carter, Ford, Reagan, Nixon ? Makes a person wonder if there's an underlying reason for the mudslinging.

----------billy

Um...okay, let's just say it out loud. Maybe because he is black? 'Ya think? A black lawyer rising above his station? Up against an Eric Cantor and a weak speaker? And a Mitch McConnell's Republican party with a clear ONE TERM agenda? And it brings out what I think is Obama's major weakness -- being broadminded and arguing and compromising like a lawyer to get the best result from his case. We need another FDR! Or a buck stops here Truman! Where or where is the leadership rhetoric? For all his faults, a Churchill could have turned this around.

[Karel]

Karel, so hard on him? Yeah yeah, he was warned repeatedly. But please give credit to the adults here who smirk a little, wink a lot and overall totally ignore his "mud." He has been faithfully giving stock tips every day for years now. You are within your rights absolutely. But, even I will miss him. River

I would not suggest for the world that the resident adults needed any protection whatsoever against Pete. It is just that I got bored cleaning up after him, and giving him free rein wasn't an option. That would only have encouraged him to seek lower and lower lows.

Regards,

Karel

[IIC]

Barack Obama at a recent rural elementary school assembly in East Texas, asked the audience for total quiet. Then, in the silence, he started to slowly clap his hands once every few seconds, holding the audience in total silence.
Then he said into the microphone, 'Children, every time I clap my hands together, a child in America dies from gun violence.'
Then, little Richard Earl, with a proud East Texas drawl, pierced the quiet and said:

"Well, dumbass, stop clapping!"

[Karel]

Barack Obama at a recent rural elementary school assembly in East Texas, asked the audience for total quiet. Then, in the silence, he started to slowly clap his hands once every few seconds, holding the audience in total silence.
Then he said into the microphone, 'Children, every time I clap my hands together, a child in America dies from gun violence.'
Then, little Richard Earl, with a proud East Texas drawl, pierced the quiet and said:

"Well, dumbass, stop clapping!"

I don't think anyone takes this story for real, so I can indulge a bit in my favorite game of "Let's do the math". In this case: how many children die from gun violence each day in America, according to this yarn.

First we have to estimate how fast mr. Obama was clapping. It says every few seconds. If you try it for yourself, once every five seconds is pretty slow indeed. Let's make that our estimate. Now there are 86,400 seconds in a day, divide by 5 and you get 17,280. My goodness! That's an awful lot! Could that be real? Let's dig up some statistics. Do we see a number in the 17K ballpark? Yes! "Homicides committed with firearms peaked in 1993 at 17,075 ..." There are a few problems however. These numbers count all homicides, not just those with children as victims, and they are not per day, but per year. Let's call that good news, sort of.

How did the mr. president of the tall tale come to make such a stupid mistake? It is because he is in a recycled joke. Originally it was about a commercial for the 2005 "Make Poverty History" campaign:

In that ad, a bevy of celebrities (including Bono) are shown wordlessly snapping their fingers every three seconds, with a voiceover stating "A child dies completely unnecessarily as a result of extreme poverty every three seconds."

And that is true, unfortunately. Please note that the voiceover avoids the link between the finger-snapping and the deaths, but that was of no use, they got linked anyway.

And by the way, the quote is from Snopes, of course.

Regards,

Karel

[IIC]

Yeah...but I assume he doesn't clap every 5 secs 24/7...I've seen him a lot of times on TV when he wasn't clapping...Doug

[IIC]

What I've always noticed is that every time I clap a stock goes up...Unfortunately it is rarely a stock I own.

[Deaddog]

A story with a moral

Have you ever noticed that before sex, you help each other to get naked? But after sex, you only dress yourself.

The moral of the story:

In life, very few people want to help you once your f^^ked.

[Deaddog]

The English language has some wonderfully anthropomorphic collective nouns for the various groups of animals.

We are all familiar with a Herd of cows, a Flock of chickens, a School of fish and a Gaggle of geese.

However, less widely known is a Pride of lions, a Murder of crows (as well as their cousins the rooks and ravens), anExaltation of doves and, presumably because they look so wise, a Parliament of owls.

Now consider a group of Baboons. They are the loudest, most dangerous, most obnoxious, most viciously aggressive and least intelligent of all primates. And what is the proper collective noun for a group of baboons?
Believe it or not ....... A Congress!

I guess that pretty much explains the things that come out of Washington!

[Karel]

[...]
Now consider a group of Baboons. They are the loudest, most dangerous, most obnoxious, most viciously aggressive and least intelligent of all primates. And what is the proper collective noun for a group of baboons?
Believe it or not ....... A Congress!

I guess that pretty much explains the things that come out of Washington!

Please do not consider this as a criticism of your assessment of the quality of the productions of Congress, but I do have to speak up for the baboons. They don't seem to be the least intelligent monkeys at all, let alone the least intelligent primates (which also include lemurs and lori's).

Regards,

Karel

[IIC]

[Karel]

That is a microcar from the sixties the Peel Trident!

Regards,

Karel

[riverbabe]

Just couldn't resist this one

REPLACEMENT WINDOWS

Last year I replaced all the windows in my house with those expensive, double-pane, energy-efficient kind.

Today, I got a call from the contractor who installed them. He complained that the work had been completed a year ago and I still hadn't paid for them.

Hellloooo,............just because I'm blonde doesn't mean that I am automatically stupid. So, I told him just what his fast-talking sales guy told me last year... that these windows would pay for themselves in a year,,, Helllooooo? It's been a year, so they're paid for, I told him.. There was only silence at the other end of the line, so I finally hung up. He never called back. I bet he felt like an idiot.

[billyjoe]

River,
I'm still trying to figure it out. Why in the heck did I pay for mine?

------------billy

[Deaddog]

[billyjoe]

Argh! The pointy haired boss. I know that guy.

------------billy