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Name: The Rt Hon KJP
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Sadly, some of these WOULD indeed be deemed politically incorrect
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But some snakes are totally harmless if you (and they) know how close is too close. In fact, they can become good companions, or so I am told.
Total chaos. An amazing story
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. Frank Zappa
I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there. Petronius (Satyricon)
"The single most important element in the maintenance of a democratic system."... "The better the citizenry as a whole are educated, the wider and more sensible public participation, debate and social mobility will be. Any serious rivalry from private education systems will siphon off Élites and thus fatally weaken both the drive and the financing of the state system. That a private system may be able to offer to a limited number of students the finest education in the world is irrelevant. Highly sophisticated Élites are the easiest and least original thing a society can produce. The most difficult and the most valuable is a well-educated populace."
John Ralston Saul, Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense, Penguin, 1995
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. Oscar Wilde
In a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll, in response to the question whether President Bush is a "uniter" or a "divider," 49 percent of Americans said uniter, and 49 percent said divider. -News of the Weird 12/27/05
The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever. --Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
Of course, the humans in Haiti have hope. They hope to leave. PJ O'Rourke, All The trouble in the World
Anyone who has studied psychology, sociology, anthropology, or any of the other wacko disciplines knows the three great rules of the social sciences: Folks do lots of things. We don't know why. Test on Friday. PJ O'Rourke.
An attempt to recreate George Seurat's painting Friends on the Riverfront in real life.
http://www.feelgoodanyway.com/interactive/Alice.swf
I have a bad history with twins..
But, Poland has identical twins as its Prime Minister and President. How odd.
The US president's brother, Marvin Bush, was director of a security company Securacom (aka Securasec). They had the contract for the World Trade Center, Washington Airports Authority and United Airlines.
Gee you can be unlucky eh?
Factoid: Hugo Boss was the designer and maker of the uniforms worn by the Third Reich.
An Army walks on its stomach, and of course on stylish clothing.
Monopoly board game players can now pay for properties with debit cards.
Game makers Parker have phased out the standard multi-coloured cash in a new version.
Players will instead use a Visa mock debit card to keep track of how much they win or lose.
For the nerdy types who think character-based art is some sort of modern trend: text typewriter art from 1948
Proof that popularity can be artificially created. Linkie Winkie
this applies today. As does this
Things that people think are errors, but aren't (probably)
I am having some ongoing and worsening problems with faces, but that has prompted some thinking.
1. http://barney.gonzaga.edu/~aburton/opil.html
2. when police ask if a witness saw a criminal, they really mean "did you see his/her FACE?". Why the face? We know that people often can't distinguich between people of a different race to them (eg "all Korean men look the same to me") and that tendency is commutative. So Koreans presumably have similar trouble distinguishing between Anglo-Saxons. And manufacturers build things with faces (esp for women, it seems, though the car industry is a big male-oriented example)
There will be more on faces. A lot more.
some hard puzzles.
as if the world has not provided enough all on its own. Number 4 is intriging, and number 6 is just ...
Yale study attempts to get monkeys to use coins as currency, that is as tokens that have an associated value unrelated to their physical usefulness.
It took several months of rudimentary repetition to teach the monkeys that these tokens were valuable as a means of exchange for a treat and would be similarly valuable the next day. Having gained that understanding, a capuchin would then be presented with 12 tokens on a tray and have to decide how many to surrender for, say, Jell-O cubes versus grapes.
Read here for more
Everything in the world is measured at Worldometer. http://www.worldometers.info/
Nearly everything.
Everyone has a sort of idea in their mind that could perhaps emerge as a film (or, perhaps, as some other sort of linear dream thing..maybe a film is as near as it gets)
I saw mine. Someone invented it and made it already. it's a rough Australian-made film called Look Both Ways. It says everything.
There is no need for me to give the idea any more thought
