How the world sees the USA and why

[Jim Strong]

Ah, but you see Roger, discordant serendipity is how
we all came to be. Had nature taken the course you
suggest, tree frogs would rule the world. Perhaps not
a bad choice overall, but (to quote Vonnegut) "so it
goes."
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Netiquette abbreviations such as you posted, are - in
my opinion (no "IMHO" abbreviation)- the digital
equivalent of functional illiteracy best viewed on MTV
and embodied in the inability of the current
generation to put an "'" in the proper place to
differentiate verbal contractions from adjectives and
adverbs.
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The second law of thermodynamics is (of course)
basically immutable - (except for Schoedinger's cat -
and hey, whose seen that beast lately?) and deserving
of our closest attention.
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So if you persist, mon frer, in purveying such
inanity, I suggest you (as Sonny Barger would so
delicately put it) SIUYA - non?
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Billy Jim


--- Roger Baker <rcbaker@eden.infohwy.com> wrote:
> [We have above what is known in cyberspace as
> "thread drift"
> wherein a post topic drifts far away from its
> original subject 
> title and takes out on its own, which is cool
> enough, but begs
> for a subject title update.]
> 
> BTAIM (be that as it may), here is a sample of other
> netspeak
> peculiarities in the form of net shorthand which
> will not yet be 
> understood by most and can therefore prove useful
> for purposes 
> of net snobbery and snickery. 
> 
> asaik=as far as I know
> awhfy=are we having fun yet?
> cm=call me
> dyr?=do you remember
> fwiw=for what its worth
> gal=get a life
> gmta=great minds think alike
> ianal=I am not a lawyer but...
> 
> and so on in like manner through all the other
> well-worn cliches down through the alphabet.
> 
> But meanwhile in conclusion, and so as to seem a
> little more class to the post, I append a quotation
> that is practically unknown, but profoundly true
> from one of my favorite books that explains why the
> tribal apes have made such a mess of managing the
> world, with equivalent barbarity to all the untamed
> savagery and awesome slaughter among evildoers that
> is the bread and butter of the Old Testiment of the
> Bible -- but now assisted with all the accumulated
> and applied scientific talent dedicated to the
> complete mastery and domination of nature. -- Roger
> 
>  
> "As for pointing to our mental failures with scorn
> or
> dismay, we might as well profess disappointment with
> the mechanics of gravity or the laws of
> thermodynamics. In other words, the degree of
> disillusionment we feel in response to any
> particular
> human behavior is the precise measure of our
> ignorance
> of its evolutionary and genetic origins."
> 
>  Reg Morrison -- "The Spirit in the Gene" 
> 
> 
> 
> Jim Strong wrote:
> 
> >Branf em on bub. Sound like the makins" for a good
> >coffee table book for the barn.
> >------------------------------------------
> >Billy Jim
> >
> >
> >
> >--- Wayne Johnson <cadaobh2@brgnet.com> wrote:
> >
> >>Jim Bob.
> >>
> >>Now wait just a cotton pickin' minute.  Don't
> start
> >>telling me
> >>ole-boy-in-High School stories!  Otherwise, I will
> >>just have to recall
> >>Ernest & Emory Goethe who ran the Walston Purina
> >>feed store down by the MKT
> >>railroad station in Georgetown.  Ernest married
> one
> >>of the Palm sisters and
> >>Emory, well Emory sort of went "the other way." 
> >>Still for a 6-4" 300# guy
> >>he was remarkably nice. At least nobody messed
> with
> >>him. Ernest and Ida Palm
> >>produced two sons, Martin Heidegger Bob and Lionel
> >>Feininger Bob who later
> >>became enamored of Hollywood and ran off to
> >>California never to be seen
> >>again.  Martin Bob drove a really cool chopped &
> >>channeled green Mercury
> >>coupe with an awesome chromed Caddy engine.  Willy
> >>Bob was more into
> >>bicycles which he built from old tractor parts. 
> >>Ever seen a 900# bicycle?
> >>There was also a sister who looked like a cross
> >>between Marilyn Monroe and
> >>Kim Novak.  I was madly in love with her as was
> the
> >>football team.  Oh,
> >>well.  I was the one who helped her past, er pass
> >>algebra.  The old Goethe
> >>feed store now contains a Crown Book, a Victoria's
> >>Secrets and a Starbucks
> >>but many in Georgetown say that is progress.  Many
> >>in Georgetown can now
> >>spell progress if you spot them the "p"s ,"r"s and
> >>"s"s.
> >>
> >>More tales of mythic central Texas of the '40s and
> >>'50s to follow if you are
> >>not careful.
> >>
> >>Freddie G. Williamson, UCWCT
> >>
> >>(Unofficial Chronicler of Williamson County,
> Texas.)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >=====
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> >
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> 
> 


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