Illuminati-R-Us

Eat me. I'm not here for public opinion.

I am used to dimwits doing things in the name of God, COuntry, Mother, or what have you. When the whole Freedom Fries thing broke, the wife and I thought it a hoot. To this day whenever we see the "french" in something, we like to insert "freedom" in its place, just to be silly. Freedom toast, Freedom dressing, Freedom cuffs on a dress shirt.

What was unutterably stupid about it was not that someone would do it, but that in our very COngress, the legislators demanded it. It wasn't just Joe Blow on the street, it was our Senators and Reps who demanded they remove the term "french" from anything in the Capitol restaurant.

The congress throwing a fit like a bunch of 9 year olds. If some other country calls us the great Satan, I think while they mean us ill, it turns out rather quaint and silly to me, and if the French care to dis us, or at least their government, I don't care. Some people wear their patriotism on their sleeves, and if the French came out and said we were apes, we'd be offended, those of us. The whole reason congress was pissed off is merely that France wouldn't go along with us on the Iraq thing 100%. SO when the French heard that our congress was doing its best to rub their faces in it by removing any mention of their names in the Capitol, I can see how some over there might be offended. Maybe they might retaliate by changing American cheese to Freedom cheese. As if they eat the stuff over there. Maybe they could start calling any wine with a screw cap - American style. Boy THAT would show us.

It doesn't matter who invented the things, WE call them French fries, and it was the "french" in the name we excised. Maybe we should start calling them earth apples?

Ok, how is this for a solution:

The US replaces "French" with "Freedom" in ALL circumstances, including Freedom's Mustard. They return the Statue of Liberty. They formally readopt imperial measurments.

The French remove all Franglais expressions from the language. They return all McDonald's outlets. They close the Louvre to anyone with a copy of any Dan Brown novel.

Neither side ever mentions this again.

Heid the Ba' wrote:Ok, how is this for a solution:

The US replaces "French" with "Freedom" in ALL circumstances, including Freedom's Mustard. They return the Statue of Liberty. They formally readopt imperial measurments.

The French remove all Franglais expressions from the language. They return all McDonald's outlets. They close the Louvre to anyone with a copy of any Dan Brown novel.

Neither side ever mentions this again.

Except for the Victory Gin. (1984 reference)

I didn't know that Congress pushed for the renaming though, but I wasn't paying attention to the Freedom thing. It seemed like more bullshit in a year of bullshit.

Dragon Star wrote:Probably not thinking of the same person, but I agree.

I'm thinking of the OP.

Khrushchev's Other Shoe wrote:

Dragon Star wrote:Probably not thinking of the same person, but I agree.

I'm thinking of the OP.

Errr... oh.

Uh...

Well, don't eat me, then. We happy then. :)

Khrushchev's Other Shoe wrote:

Dragon Star wrote:Probably not thinking of the same person, but I agree.

I'm thinking of the OP.

Ditto.

Lonewulf wrote:

Monique wrote:BAUT say I ruin conversation...

Because you broke the fucking rules, maybe?

There are rules to fucking?

I did not even know fucking took place online on a forum now. The world is getting high tech indeed.

There are rules to fucking?

Why? You never read them??

Bill_Thompson wrote:There are rules to fucking?

I did not even know fucking took place online on a forum now. The world is getting high tech indeed.

Fucking Online - The Rules

1. Avoid getting sticky stuff on your keyboard
2. Make sure your partner, if human, is over 18 (21 in some states, 12 in others)
3. Clean your mouse!

Bill_Thompson wrote:I did not even know fucking took place online on a forum now.

They did something similar in Demolition Man. . .

I Am He wrote:

There are rules to fucking?

Why? You never read them??

He couldn't fallow them anyways, he was holding "Fucking, For Dummies" upside down...

Make sure your partner, if human, is over 18 (21 in some states, 12 in others)

Did you hear there's a typo in the Kama Sutra? People have been doing it wrong all this time.

Dragon Star wrote:

I Am He wrote:

There are rules to fucking?

Why? You never read them??

He couldn't fallow them anyways, he was holding "Fucking, For Dummies" upside down...

It is just as fun upside down.
Dude, you are like so totally "owned"!

Not like anyone here is on the gymnastics team anyways.

Wolverine made a big deal that I misspelled "sentence". He wrote in this forum "people with college degrees know how to spell 'sentence'".

Since all that had blown over I never mentioned the fact that the next day on his hero's blog, Plait had made the same typo. That will come back to haunt them. I didn’t mention it before because everyone was sick of it, but I didn’t forget.

At the National Institute for the Advancement of Science, it was a different world. The scientists there were friendly and open to new ideas and answered questions.

On Plait's forum, the moderators give you a few hours deadline to provide support for your opinions or they will ban you. I was under a deadline at a real job in a real lab as a real scientist so I didn't appreciate being put on a deadline on a webform full of Sci Fi geeks. But I got my proof, now, motherfuckers. I was right.

It is just as Trey and Matt say in their movie. There are three types of people in the world, Pussies, Dicks and Assholes. Regardless of their education or credentials, the people I was subjected to on that forum were all assholes.

Bill, can we please let this go already? You were banned on the 26th of January. That's 8 months ago. You were banned and rightfully so, perhaps Wolverine was being rough in making fun of you, but it makes you no better to carry on like this.

According to your last post, their are 4 kinds of people in this world, Pussies, Dicks, Assholes, and Crybabies.

You are just a kid, no offense. You have not really lived or worked hard to submit papers to periodicals. If you life a life where recognition for your accomplishments is a cornerstone to your self-worth, that recognition and respect is worth fighting for. It is not sensible to give up. Ever.

Bill_Thompson wrote:You are just a kid, no offense. You have not really lived or worked hard to submit papers to periodicals. If you life a life where recognition for your accomplishments is a cornerstone to your self-worth, that recognition and respect is worth fighting for. It is not sensible to give up. Ever.

I tend not to rely on people recognizing or knowing me to care about myself...

hippietrekx wrote:

Bill_Thompson wrote:You are just a kid, no offense. You have not really lived or worked hard to submit papers to periodicals. If you life a life where recognition for your accomplishments is a cornerstone to your self-worth, that recognition and respect is worth fighting for. It is not sensible to give up. Ever.

I tend not to rely on people recognizing or knowing me to care about myself...

That is good. But one is naturally upset when they work carefully on an important project and some idiot gleefully shits on it only because it challenges their accepted beliefs.

Bill_Thompson wrote:You are just a kid, no offense.

Likewise.

Age doesn't grant you adulthood, Bill. I know plenty of 30yr olds that should still be in diapers.

*sigh*
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