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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on July 29, 2009, 11:26:44 AM
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Oh my. I found myself in the Lounge at the moment.
Inchworm (1000+ posts) Tue Jul-28-09 03:13 PM
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Let 'em rip - List any observations you want answers to.. maybe someone here has answers
It all started when I heard this quote earlier today. "There will always be good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. When evil things are done by good people -- that requires religion.
That opened my mind and I got to wondering...
1. Where do flies come from? Spores? Is there a fleet of flies constantly everywhere scanning for dead bodies? Do mammals have flies already that spawn when we die?
2. I'm having a very difficult time using paramount in a sentence without it being the very last word in the sentence. What's up with that?
3. Time seems like it pretty constant. Why does Greenwich get to be first and why did it take us so long to somewhat figure it out? I saw/heard a piece the other day stating the first passenger trains traveling 100 miles often experienced 5+ time zones.
4. Why isn't communication the top thing taught in schools? Doesn't it all begin there?
Do you have any wonderings?
I do I do I do.
I wonder why primitives are so stupid.
Its a wonderment of paramount importance to me.
yellowdogintexas (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-29-09 02:05 AM
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1. we have a weekly radio show called 'Everything you Ever Wanted to Know" in which the audience calls in questions and the audience calls in answers.
It started as a time filler when a guest didn't show up for the noon talk/interview show on the local NPR station and it got so popular it became a monthly, then twice a month and now weekly event.
KERA 90.1 is the station and you can stream the show. Noon Fridays
I love it
CaliforniaPeggy (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-29-09 02:11 AM
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2. My dear Inchworm!
It is of paramount importance that we always wonder about things!
I wrote mine before I saw what the California piggy primitive wrote.
RandomThoughts (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-29-09 06:26 AM
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3. I had a few I had to figure out.
What do you do about people that think they are doing good when they do bad?
If a person acquires power by doing bad, does he have claim to that power in a just world?
If a person believes they know what is good and bad, and are wrong who is to blame?
alarimer (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-29-09 08:47 AM
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4. Well flies come from maggots.
Flies lay their eggs in rotting meat (including dead people on occasion). The larvae (maggots) feed and they metamorphose into flies.
Actually some flies lay their eggs in fruit as well (fruit flies). Kind of gross and probably more information than you actually wanted.
I wonder why I always spell occasion wrong the first time. I want to give it one c and two s (esses?).
Very oddly, franksolich has that exact same problem with the word "occasion."
Also with the words "vacuum" and "penquin."
BarenakedLady (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-29-09 11:06 AM
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5. But let's say...
A person dies in a sealed room...how do the flies get to the body to lay the eggs in only a few hours?
Inchworm (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-29-09 11:38 AM
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6. Zactly!
Or out in the desert...
A secret fly scouting brigade?
SteppingRazor (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-29-09 11:53 AM
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8. They're actually attracted by the scent.
And different species of fly are attracted by different scents, which is why you get fruit flies on an overripe peach and blow flies on a pile of poop.
SteppingRazor (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-29-09 11:45 AM
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7. Answers:
1. Flies come from maggots, of course.
2. I'd avoid using paramount in any sentence. Try utmost instead.
3. Greenwich is first because the creation of a centralized time zone dates to the age when the British Empire was the most powerful seagoing force in the world (and at the time, differences in time zones were really only relevant to maritime travel). As a result, longitude -- and thus time zones -- were calculated beginning with a prime meridian that ran through Greenwich, England, which is the site of the Royal Observatory.
4. I would argue that critical thinking should be the top thing taught in schools. You shouldn't bother communicating until you have something useful to say
I dunno.
franksolich has always liked the word "paramount," because of its subtle hint that the British Empire, when it was paramount, was the most decent and civilized institution in the history of mankind.
I use "paramount" a lot.
Inchworm (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-29-09 12:01 PM
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9. And the reason for the train bit
Was just USA stubbornness? I'm guessing the train thing was due to boundary issues and chosen times. I think daylight savings had something to do with it because that was 1915ish.
I just found it interesting.
Thanks for the answers.
Nope, time zones had nothing to do with the adoption of Daylight Savings Time during the first world war.
The passage of time wasn't as important in olden days, as it began becoming circa 1880. The correct time was whatever time the locals said was the time.
Generally, when the sun was directly overhead, it was noon.
Meaning that 20, 30, miles further on, it was 11:57 a.m. or 12:03 p.m., depending upon which direction one was going.
Time zones were an invention of the railways, which wished to have consistent schedules.
Nebraska has a long and sordid history of time experts in Washington messing with our two time zones. Generally, the eastern two-thirds of the state is central time, the western one-third is mountain time. But the time experts in Washington keep shifting the boundary back-and-forth, ten or twenty or thirty miles at a time, and it gets confusing.
Probably the whole of Nebraska should be in the central time zone, the very best time zone in America.
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alarimer (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-29-09 08:47 AM
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4. Well flies come from maggots.
Flies lay their eggs in rotting meat (including dead people on occasion). The larvae (maggots) feed and they metamorphose into flies.
Actually some flies lay their eggs in fruit as well (fruit flies). Kind of gross and probably more information than you actually wanted.
Wouldn't Fruit Flies be highly attracted to gays? :-)
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That opened my mind and I got to wondering...been smoking the shoe laces outta his old sneakers again.
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4. Why isn't communication the top thing taught in schools? Doesn't it all begin there?
Actually, I'd think communication starts at home.
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including dead people on occasion
On occasion?
Unless you die in a deep freeze, flies are gonna be on your corpse in nothing flat.
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franksolich has always liked the word "paramount," because of its subtle hint that the British Empire, when it was paramount, was the most decent and civilized institution in the history of mankind.
I have always been partial to the word "catamount", since nouns are much more to the point than adjectives.
In discussing catamounts, one has to be careful to avoid the word "catamite", which although a noun, is very different, and is neither decent nor civilized.
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I don't even know how to construct a sentence where "paramount" is the last word. What is Inchworm smoking?
Gobucks, I did not know your word-to-be-avoided and had to go look it up. Oh my!
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I don't even know how to construct a sentence where "paramount" is the last word. What is Inchworm smoking?
Gobucks, I did not know your word-to-be-avoided and had to go look it up. Oh my!
I'll help you out there.
"To save our country, killing all the DUmmies will be paramount."
PARAMOUNT: Sometimes confused with a "pair of mounts" in San Francisco.
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[q]It all started when I heard this quote earlier today. "There will always be good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. When evil things are done by good people -- that requires religion.[/q]
The worst genocides of the 20th Century
Mao Ze-Dong (China, 1958-61 and 1966-69, Tibet 1949-50) 49-78,000,000
Jozef Stalin (USSR, 1932-39) 23,000,000 (the purges plus Ukraine's famine)
Adolf Hitler (Germany, 1939-1945) 12,000,000 (concentration camps and civilians WWII)
Hideki Tojo (Japan, 1941-44) 5,000,000 (civilians in WWII)
Ismail Enver (Turkey, 1915-20) 1,200,000 Armenians (1915) + 350,000 Greek Pontians and 480,000 Anatolian Greeks (1916-22) + 500,000 Assyrians (1915-20)
Pol Pot (Cambodia, 1975-79) 1,700,000
Kim Il Sung (North Korea, 1948-94) 1.6 million (purges and concentration camps)
Menghistu (Ethiopia, 1975-78) 1,500,000
Yakubu Gowon (Biafra, 1967-1970) 1,000,000
Leonid Brezhnev (Afghanistan, 1979-1982) 900,000
Jean Kambanda (Rwanda, 1994) 800,000
Suharto (East Timor, West Papua, Communists, 1966-98) 800,000
Saddam Hussein (Iran 1980-1990 and Kurdistan 1987-88) 600,000
Tito (Yugoslavia, 1945-1987) 570,000
Fumimaro Konoe (Japan, 1937-39) 500,000? (Chinese civilians)
Jonas Savimbi (Angola, 1975-2002) 400,000
Mullah Omar - Taliban (Afghanistan, 1986-2001) 400,000
Idi Amin (Uganda, 1969-1979) 300,000
Yahya Khan (Pakistan, 1970-71) 300,000 (Bangladesh)
Benito Mussolini (Ethiopia, 1936; Yugoslavia, WWII) 300,000
Mobutu Sese Seko (Zaire, 1965-97) ?
Charles Taylor (Liberia, 1989-1996) 220,000
Foday Sankoh (Sierra Leone, 1991-2000) 200,000
Slobodan Milosevic (Yugoslavia, 1992-96) 180,000
Michel Micombero (Burundi, 1972) 150,000
Hassan Turabi (Sudan, 1989-1999) 100,000
Jean-Bedel Bokassa (Centrafrica, 1966-79) ?
Richard Nixon (Vietnam, 1969-1974) 70,000 (vietnamese civilians)
Efrain Rios Montt (Guatemala, 1982-83) 70,000
Papa Doc Duvalier (Haiti, 1957-71) 60,000
Hissene Habre (Chad, 1982-1990) 40,000
Chiang Kai-shek (Taiwan, 1947) 30,000 (popular uprising)
Vladimir Ilich Lenin (USSR, 1917-20) 30,000 (dissidents executed)
Francisco Franco (Spain) 30,000 (dissidents executed after the civil war)
Fidel Castro (Cuba, 1959-1999) 30,000
Lyndon Johnson (Vietnam, 1963-1968) 30,000
Hafez Al-Assad (Syria, 1980-2000) 25,000
Khomeini (Iran, 1979-89) 20,000
Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe, 1982-87, Ndebele minority) 20,000
Rafael Videla (Argentina, 1976-83) 13,000
Guy Mollet (France, 1956-1957) 10,000 (war in Algeria)
Paul Koroma (Sierra Leone, 1997) 6,000
Osama Bin Laden (worldwide, 1993-2001) 3,500
Augusto Pinochet (Chile, 1973) 3,000
Al Zarqawi (Iraq, 2004-06) 2,000
Appears that only the religion of Utopian communism is the true evil.
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I'll help you out there.
"To save our country, killing all the DUmmies will be paramount."
Or, you could expand it to say
"To save our country, killing all the DUmmies and their catamites will be paramount."
Maybe they could be dispatched by setting catamounts on them.
A very few people may remember that was the fate of
Jackie Rogers, Sr., father of the famous Jackie Rogers, Jr.
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yellowdogintexas (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-29-09 02:05 AM
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1. we have a weekly radio show called 'Everything you Ever Wanted to Know" in which the audience calls in questions and the audience calls in answers.
It started as a time filler when a guest didn't show up for the noon talk/interview show on the local NPR station and it got so popular it became a monthly, then twice a month and now weekly event.
KERA 90.1 is the station and you can stream the show. Noon Fridays
I love it
Be proud of your retardation! Be proud and let the whole world know how happy your retardation makes you!!
Dang, KERA 90.1 is the local NPR station. That means PukeDoginTX is a local.... please!