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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 24 2011 at 12:59
I thought Aussies would use British spelling.  Guess not.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 24 2011 at 13:01
Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:

Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

We really don't need to have threads about chain mail...
This has nothing to do with chain mail  
Maybe you misunderstood me? Your OP is chain mail, and like all chain mail it is neither insightful nor interesting. It does not need to be discussed on a forum and, honestly, really should not be shared at all. If you don't believe that it is chain mail, well, here are some links:
 
http://www.rense.com/general92/goodbye.htm (It appears this is the original source. It is the oldest dated copy I could find, and Clark McClellan is cited on this website for the list as well[/url]. It appears that some people, like your principal, cut off the part about the collapse of America and others did not. I guess it depends what your motive for sharing it was.)
http://www.putnamlive.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=205:december-letters-to-the-publisher&catid=82 (it appears someone plagiarized this for a letter to the editor shortly after Clark wrote it, lol)
http://blog.adw.org/2011/06/nine-things-that-will-disappear-in-our-life-time/ (ouch, even the Catholic Church wrote about it, that's how you know something online is really old)
http://ellisonchair.tamu.edu/2011/02/16/get-ready-for-the-future/ (appears to be claiming credit for the list, not positive: do people on the internet have no integrity!?)
 
Sorry for the lazy links, but with so many I didn't feel like shortening all of them into text hotlinks.
 
Incidentally, the memories do not remain. Your brain is very lazy, so your memories of past events should be considered unreliable at best.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 24 2011 at 13:04
Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

Originally posted by ghost_of_morphy ghost_of_morphy wrote:

7.  The idea that Huckleberry Finn can be great literature even though it refers to black people as N's


This is anachronistic.  Would you prefer Twain to have referred to them as "African-Americans?"

(what a stupid, clunky term)

I failed to notice that. Oh yes that negates the entire novel and makes it garbage. Dead
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 24 2011 at 13:16
Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:


1. The Post Office.

Welcome to Canada.

Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:

Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

We really don't need to have threads about chain mail...

This has nothing to do with chain mail
 


Although that is obsolete too, what with modern weaponry.

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Already in this thread I'm missing CHEQUES Cry Checks indeed, what ever next ... plack, anteak, brusck, grotesck, obleeck, opake, misteek, torck, statuesk, humouresk, monocock, criteek... ?



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 24 2011 at 13:43
Maybe CD's will die...but really I don't see that either but the internet/file sharing will ultimately end up being a good thing for music. Yeah


As for newspapers, couldn't care
And whoever wrote that seemed happy TV would be on its way out, and frankly I agree. Good riddance.





Edited by JJLehto - June 24 2011 at 13:46
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 24 2011 at 15:13
I think that earth only has about one generation of humans left. We're f**ked. The oceans are f**ked, the ice caps are f**ked. Pretty soon the earth will take its wrath out on us and swallow us in the rising tides.


At least I hope so anyways, we don't deserve to be here.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 24 2011 at 15:18
Originally posted by King By-Tor King By-Tor wrote:

Pretty soon the earth will take its wrath out on us and swallow us in the rising tides.



Lucky escape for Arsenal if it did.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 24 2011 at 15:36
Originally posted by King By-Tor King By-Tor wrote:

I think that earth only has about one generation of humans left. We're f**ked. The oceans are f**ked, the ice caps are f**ked. Pretty soon the earth will take its wrath out on us and swallow us in the rising tides.
Swallow us? The sea level won't rise that much, jeeze. And maybe we'll be f**ked in the future, but I very much doubt humanity as a whole will go extinct any time soon.

I have no idea why I felt it necessary to post all those links when a link to a Google search probably would have been as illustrative, but I already did it so I'm not going to delete them.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 24 2011 at 15:46
Elevation: 59 feet

gaw! I'm screwed
That b*****d Al Gore just had to go invent global warming now in 100 years my town will be underwater!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 24 2011 at 16:49
Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

Originally posted by ghost_of_morphy ghost_of_morphy wrote:

7.  The idea that Huckleberry Finn can be great literature even though it refers to black people as N's


This is anachronistic.  Would you prefer Twain to have referred to them as "African-Americans?"

(what a stupid, clunky term)


And God, has he ever read ANY Mark Twain? Pudd'nhead Wilson, anyone?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 24 2011 at 17:04
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

humouresk



You mean humoresk.  Stern Smile
Dough!


You mean D'oh. Stern Smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 24 2011 at 20:20
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

The one thing that will not disappear is progress.


The other thing that will not disappear is human stupidity.
Well, strike that - it'll disappear with the human race.


"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 24 2011 at 20:36
Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Originally posted by King By-Tor King By-Tor wrote:

Pretty soon the earth will take its wrath out on us and swallow us in the rising tides.



Lucky escape for Arsenal if it did.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 24 2011 at 20:39
Originally posted by zappaholic zappaholic wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

The one thing that will not disappear is progress.


The other thing that will not disappear is human stupidity.
Well, strike that - it'll disappear with the human race.






Yeah, I was gonna substitute the word "change" for progress.  We'll change for sure.  Progress though is a word that probably implies positive outcomes, and I'm note sure that's a slam dunk. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 24 2011 at 20:52
 
Originally posted by zappaholic zappaholic wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

The one thing that will not disappear is progress.

The other thing that will not disappear is human stupidity.
Well, strike that - it'll disappear with the human race.

But on the plus side, if everyone died then Wapsi Square would no longer exist. 

Edited by Henry Plainview - June 24 2011 at 20:53
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 24 2011 at 21:09
Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:


1. The Post Office.

Welcome to Canada.

Yeah this is really pissing me off. I ordered In The Land Of Grey and Pink on vinyl a week ago without knowing about this retarded strike. Oh well, It should be over in a week or so
I'm so mad that you enjoy a certain combination of noises that I don't
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 24 2011 at 21:13
Originally posted by King By-Tor King By-Tor wrote:

I think that earth only has about one generation of humans left. We're f**ked. The oceans are f**ked, the ice caps are f**ked. Pretty soon the earth will take its wrath out on us and swallow us in the rising tides.


At least I hope so anyways, we don't deserve to be here.
I've always though this to be a rather ridiculous notion. How can every single human be destroyed? Won't there always be pockets of humanity no matter how devastating the event? We will be thrown back to a simpler time long before we are wiped out completely.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 24 2011 at 21:36
Originally posted by Slaughternalia Slaughternalia wrote:

Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:


1. The Post Office.

Welcome to Canada.

Yeah this is really pissing me off. I ordered In The Land Of Grey and Pink on vinyl a week ago without knowing about this retarded strike. Oh well, It should be over in a week or so


Yep, I've got a couple things stranded in the mail right now.


Edited by Triceratopsoil - June 24 2011 at 21:37
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 24 2011 at 22:11
I'd add low-fat salami, sh*t is awful


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 24 2011 at 22:20
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

The one thing that will not disappear is progress.
But not it's opposite, Congress.
Trust me. I know what I'm doing.
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