Illuminati-R-Us

by **Blue Monster 65** » Sun May 22, 2011 3:40 am

Eh - I'm having fun, but I gotta get some sleep.

Edit: fixed link

by **Superluminal** » Sun May 22, 2011 6:30 am

Blue Monster 65 wrote:No.

Oh no! They got BM. :cry:

by **Blue Monster 65** » Sun May 22, 2011 11:44 am

Naw, I'm back. And I've got to mow the lawn today. Sigh ...

by **tubeswell** » Sun May 22, 2011 2:59 pm

I didn't get to mow my lawn yesterday. But I can mow it today, or tomorrow (sigh).

by **Мастер** » Sun May 22, 2011 3:10 pm

I think I last cut a lawn in 2006.

by **wring** » Sun May 22, 2011 3:30 pm

We go for the 'prairie' look, here.

by **KLA2** » Mon May 23, 2011 4:05 am

Ooh, they are back. And accepting donations. :evil:

Even though I am an athiest, perhaps I should, you know, hedge my bet and make a precautionary donation to buy my stairway to heaven. :roll:

But what would FSM think? :lol:

by **MM_Dandy** » Mon May 23, 2011 3:58 pm

KLA2 wrote:Hey, MM_Dandy, you still here? Because if you are, no Rapture today. (No sarcasm intended; I figure you would be on the first flight, good soul.)
:)

Thanks for the kind words, but not only did I not get raptured, the "rapture" probably took out a substantial part of my garden.

We had spent most of Saturday afternoon replanting a handful of veggies nipped by a freeze last week. Later in the evening, though, a storm struck, pummeling the area with pea-sized hail and wind gusts up to 70-mph.

Still, I'd rather be replanting the garden again than picking up the pieces in Joplin, Missouri. I hope that the folks in this rapture cult have enough sense to not try to use such a disaster as evidence of the rapture.

by **Мастер** » Mon May 23, 2011 4:10 pm

MM_Dandy wrote:We had spent most of Saturday afternoon replanting a handful of veggies nipped by a freeze last week.

Not a problem here!

by **MM_Dandy** » Mon May 23, 2011 4:25 pm

Mactep wrote:Not a problem here!

Don't have a garden?

:wink:

by **Мастер** » Mon May 23, 2011 4:27 pm

Actually, I do, a small one, but no vegetables.

by **MM_Dandy** » Mon May 23, 2011 9:57 pm

Ah, I see. Rock?

***

You know how sometimes, hours later, you come up with the retort that you should have come up with right away? Well, that just happened to me, so allow me to answer KLA2's question more appropriately, with a nod to Mel Brooks.

Yes, I was raptured several times. It was wonderful.

by **Lance** » Mon May 23, 2011 11:20 pm

I think the rapture actually happened as predicted.

We have I-R-U and Facebook in heaven.

And we all sit at the right hand of the Llama.

by **KLA2** » Tue May 24, 2011 2:31 am

MM_Dandy ... :lol:

Lance ... you mean hoof? Regardless, glad to be there/here! 8)

by **KLA2** » Tue May 24, 2011 2:49 am

California preacher Harold Camping said Monday his prophecy that the world would end was off by five months because Judgment Day actually will come on October 21.

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/artic ... tober?bn=1

Will no one shut up/shut out this asshole??? :roll:

ETA: In 2009, the non-profit Family Radio reported in IRS filings that it received $18.3 million in donations, and had assets of more than $104 million, including $34 million in stocks or other publicly traded securities.

Heh. Good luck getting that through the eye of a needle. :P

by **Superluminal** » Wed May 25, 2011 1:12 am

God is a baseball fan. So if the world ends in Oct., it'll be immediatly after the last out of the World Series. Let's hope the Series stretches into Nov. :P

by **KLA2** » Wed May 25, 2011 1:45 am

Especially if the Blue Jays are still playing. :wink:

by **Blue Monster 65** » Wed May 25, 2011 2:51 am

Nope. Not gonna happen. Halloween is too important: gotta get dressed up and get candy from complete strangers.

by **KLA2** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 3:24 am

Blue Monster 65 wrote:Nope. Not gonna happen. Halloween is too important: gotta get dressed up and get candy from complete strangers.

So that is different from every other day ... how?

:lol:

Sorry, BM65. Time to sign off for the day. :wink:

by **Blue Monster 65** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 9:03 pm

Bastard!

by **KLA2** » Mon Jun 06, 2011 2:33 am

Blue Monster 65 wrote:Bastard!

John Cleese ... no higher compliment could you pay ... I tear up with laughter just thinking of him in "Flowery Twats" or er... "Farty Towels" or ... whatever that show was called, brings tears of mirth to my eyes.

That scene with him whipping the little red car that would not start with a tree limb and calling it, "You vicious bastard" :lol:

Thanks, BM65. :lol:

ETA: for anyone who has not seen it, the series is called "Fawlty Towers" Rent it, buy it, but watch it. You will not be disappointed. :wink:

by **tubeswell** » Mon Jun 06, 2011 2:53 am

I was surprised to find out a few years back that only a dozen or so episodes ever made. My memory is of watching endless re-runs in the 1970s because NZ television back then used to squeeze every last drop of investment out of its programme funding.

And to think John Cleese still has to work for a living (not that I don't, but I wouldn't if I could).

http://www.ents24.com/web/artist/85496/John_Cleese.html

by **KLA2** » Mon Jun 06, 2011 3:09 am

Hard to say, Tubes. What was it that Mark Twain said about work and play, in the character of Tom Sawyer? :wink:

by **tubeswell** » Mon Jun 06, 2011 9:11 am

I've had enough work to see me through several lifetimes of play. And I'm pretty sure I could go the rest of this lifetime and never be called dull. I've been shackled to some yoke or other for the last 37 years (since I was 12) - full time since I was 17 (when I left home). I even worked 32 hours a week for 6 years (in a row - without a holiday) whilst studying full-time at university between being 23 and 29 (which I had to put myself through because my dad was (and still is - if you are mad enough to catch his cab, because he could clock-out at any time) a poor taxi driver. My mum was a welfare beneficiary after they split and she was stuck with my 6 younger brothers mouths to feed (and that's why I left home at 17 - because there wasn't enough food in the house). My parents never had any money to put a silver spoon in my mouth, and so as soon I had determined that I could look after myself, I did. The first 6 years were the most memorable and character forming, because that's when I did most of the hand-to-mouth living, until I was fed up with being poor and decided at 23 to get a higher education. When I finished university (which I hasten to add I proudly managed to pay for all by myself whilst living independently) I started on raising a family, and I've been doing that for the last 20 years without any help from the govt or anyone else. And it takes a lot of dosh to raise a family, and you have to work hard. I've spent the last 20 years going from rung-to-rung, sometimes working 80 hours per week 7 days a week. All to escape the clutches of poverty. So (as you can probably tell reading between the lines ;-) ) I've had a guts-full of work, but as yet no silver cloud on the horizon that I can see. I've got about 11 or 12 more years of mortgage payments, and if I realise my lotto dream I'm going to retire and enjoy just playing. Dull! Hah! Huckleberry Finn! Humph! Been there and done that. Give me a full-time holiday any day. (Rant, rant rant!! :x )

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