If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

Im not planning on pursuing this either, but stop being so sweet, Phil! If Cry-Baby-Amy is not paying her Missouri state sales tax, that money is going towards her expensive apartment/iPads/down her gullet instead of towards a new fire station in a rural MO town/supplies for a MO teacher/food for a...

I loved reading djb's rants on namedroppers. What a hoot. Until they finally kicked him off. djb has called me any number of things. Didn't bother me a bit. I was more partial to Fleming, I think his name was, on the main IETF list. The one who during one of the periodic ICANN fights said that he's...

If it helps any, it's just as feasable to liken Amy to a gorgonzola: I love gorgonzola on crusty bread and now you've ruined that for me as well. Can't you liken her to a Big Mac or some other repulsive crap that I have no interest in eating? Apologies. As someone who is very fond of cheese, I do f...

Well, I guess she told me... http://www.alstefanelli.com/mhtw.jpg Poopyhead. Wait, is she inviting us to know sexists and MRAs? Or did she mean "known", which she would have to prove beyond the shadow of a doubt? And even if it could be demonstrated (which it almost certainly cannot), so what? Sure...

The whole thing just defies logic. As a species we suck at assessing risk. For example, while not as high as rape, the murder rate is not low, and, most murders are committed by men. Given the permanent nature of murder, I would think that would be a greater danger than something it is at least pos...

Michael K Gray wrote:

franc wrote:found on 'tardbook -
http://i.imgur.com/FHG4K.jpg

Not bad, but "WORLD POLICE" needs to be changed to "WORD POLICE".

Don't the guns need to be replaced with an assortment of expensive smartphones, tablets, and laptops? Or if guns have to be kept, how about water pistols?

BarnOwl wrote:Very wealthy white people in the US have a long history of giving their children weird and unfortunate names:

Ima Hogg

I recall that the scions of the Burpee (seed) family had fairly cringe-worthy names like Phoebe and Betty and so on.

That's either very impressive, very sad. Mostly the latter, I'm afraid. I was something of an outsider in high school. To be expected for a kid from rural Oklahoma at a high end prep school. Ah, the baby DEC tapes! I wish. Only paper tape on the PDP-8/I and a tiny hard drive. I got acquainted with ...

I still miss programming a computer in assembler, in octal, with 12 binary switches. So. So. SO. NOT! Wimp. 6014 6011 5357 6016 7106 7006 7510 5374 7006 6011 5367 6016 7420 3776 3376 5357 That's my recollection (no fair looking it up) of the RIM loader for the PDP-8. The last three instructions may...

Naturally. Since PZ restricted access to his anal passage, the next best thing for Oolon was to suckle at Opheliar's mammary glands. Jesus. And I reckoned I thought some terrible thoughts. They'd be like a pair of shaved spaniel's ears with Werther's Originals on the ends. Oh, how I wish I could ge...

There's a reason why people use Oracle, even though the company is as rapacious as hell. The core product is pretty fucking awesome in terms of capability and reliability. It's just fucking painful as hell to manage at times. John is spot on here, though the manageability has been improving. From a...

Guest wrote:Have any of you guys ever read The Image, by Daniel Boorstin?

Sure. Highly recommended and still quite relevant. I also recommend all three volumes of "The Americans". Reminds me I never read "The Republic of Technology". I probably should rectify that oversight at some point.

Lol did you see dillahunty's stomping? Its a shame the caller didn't know where to take it after the right hook that left him seeing stars. Dillahunty realised he had been totally owned by one fucking sentence. You don't get more owned than that, the only thing that saved him from an on air humilia...

Any thoughts on why Austin is OK and why it's not really part of Texas? Whether deserved or not, outside of Texas, Austin has a reputation amoung some as a liberal holdout in the middle of the ignorant, republican-voting, wimmen-hating, immigrant-shooting, science-denying rest of Texas. A little bl...

disumbrationist wrote:Cancer's a funny thing

Not directly about cancer, but "Colorectal Surgeon" is still pretty funny:

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The surgeon who did my colectomy (a woman) told me about the song.

Against my better judgment, I followed the link to Greta's posting about her latest troubles. While I have sympathy for anyone having to undergo surgery, I was struck by the part where she said she'd be hopped up on pain meds for two weeks or more. Is this normal for a hysterectomy? I'm skeptical be...

Those bullshitters in the lamestream media have been telling us that Felix Baumgartner jumped from somewhere around the edge of earth's atmosphere. Nowhere near the moon, never mind any stars or shit. The bullshitters in the manufacturing industry media had this to say: http://www.manufacturing.net...

The best masturbation song ever, has more terms for it than I've heard elsewhere: I've been reading The Undead Thread but haven't posted since the early days of the ERV thread. Songs about masturbation seem like a good a reason as any to break my silence. Anyway, here's my, um, personal favorite: [...