I've been thinking, had Adolph's mother instead named him Chip, I think we could have averted a world war. Nobody would want to follow a Chip Hitler into battle.

Actually any name ending in "s" such as Chris or Jonas would really have made Hitler impossible to follow... at least without laughing.

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The Tall Man, Phantasm III

Losing his virginity (no offence, Force ).

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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

Actually you really need an "sh" sound, like Josh.

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Man up.

You guys crack me up...
Right now it's sounding like this. But if Wagnerian operas from Excalibur are too obscure, I can do the Jaws theme in a pinch. And as cool as Empire Strikes Back music would be - you're right, that is definitely SadSav's theme.

Excalibur reference! Now that's what I'm talking about!

If it's any consolation, the feeling is mutual.

Which I was enjoying and meant to get back to, but unfortunately my work has become far too interesting lately and is seriously muscling in on my posting time. So nowadays I'm mostly reduced to lurking (with the occasional pounce).

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One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings. --Diogenes

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!

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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

I'm sure if Nawbut can produce the libretto, it will be eminently appropriate.

Great. Some co-workers just walked by office and saw me convulsing with laughter for no apparent reason. Thank you for that.

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One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings. --Diogenes

...they will be more fearful of your apparently random laughter than you will be of their 'looks'. It would certainly scare me.

But, in that vein: when I was very young I worked for a company structured in a rigid hierarchy, and my immediate superior (a middle management dweeb) was an evil bastard. Truly evil. But a great whistler.

He would, on occasion, throw the head back and whistle like a heedless child sauntering through childhood's summer meadow, lost (as we thought) in the gentle revery of his innocent thought...not a care in the world.

But here's the problem. My fellow plebs and I noted, after a time, that he would only whistle so after having visited his superiors and completely shafted one of us - this is what had inspired his air of smug self-satisfaction, inspiring him to flights of reflective, joyful whistling....

But we got him, in the end - he whistled less, as time went on...

Perhaps this is how they view your laughter?

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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

...is this thread

http://www.politicalforum.com/viewto...otes#_somewhat

I don`t miss quiller - bigotry is no more palatable for being eloquent. The opposite, in fact.

The "legendary" Rota was a hoot.

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Marx (G.)