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by **Woody** » Thu May 07, 2009 14:10:03

Bucky wrote:WHY ISN'T THERE A DECENT E(*FING BLUETOOTH HEADSET AVAILABLE IN THIS WORLD WE CAN SEND A MAN TO THE MOON BUT I CAN'T HAVE A PHONE CONVERSATION IN MY BACKYARD WITHOUT PEOPLE ASKING ME TO REPEAT MYSELF 17 TIMES

MAYBE IF YOU TALKED IN ALL CAPS THEY COULD HEAR YOU?

by **Woody** » Thu May 07, 2009 14:10:29

Bucky wrote:WHY ISN'T THERE A DECENT E(*FING BLUETOOTH HEADSET AVAILABLE IN THIS WORLD WE CAN SEND A MAN TO THE MOON BUT I CAN'T HAVE A PHONE CONVERSATION IN MY BACKYARD WITHOUT PEOPLE ASKING ME TO REPEAT MYSELF 17 TIMES

MAYBE IF YOU TALKED IN GIANT RED CAPITAL LETTERS THEY COULD HEAR YOU?[/b]

by **swishnicholson** » Thu May 07, 2009 14:26:20

Houshphandzadeh wrote:
swishnicholson wrote:
TenuredVulture wrote:
Houshphandzadeh wrote:Igglesblog today had an interesting link to a bit about how "Hobbesian choice" is a misnomer. It's actually Hobson's Choice.

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/hobsons-choice.html

I've never heard the phrase Hobbesian choice. I would have remembered if I had.

I would have remembered because I would have laughed. What's next, Schroeder's cat?

two thousand people got it wrong go suck a garbage fart

Ummmm, garbage farts!

I just figured everyone was exposed to the poem in sophomore English like I was:

Where to elect there is but one,
'Tis Hobson's choice—take that, or none

Hobbesian doesn't scan, and Hobbes, I don't think, ever ran a stable. Or maybe he did and it was short-lived, his horses all being nasty, brutish or short.

by **TenuredVulture** » Thu May 07, 2009 14:33:10

swishnicholson wrote:
Houshphandzadeh wrote:
swishnicholson wrote:
TenuredVulture wrote:
Houshphandzadeh wrote:Igglesblog today had an interesting link to a bit about how "Hobbesian choice" is a misnomer. It's actually Hobson's Choice.

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/hobsons-choice.html

I've never heard the phrase Hobbesian choice. I would have remembered if I had.

I would have remembered because I would have laughed. What's next, Schroeder's cat?

two thousand people got it wrong go suck a garbage fart

Ummmm, garbage farts!

I just figured everyone was exposed to the poem in sophomore English like I was:

Where to elect there is but one,
'Tis Hobson's choice—take that, or none

Hobbesian doesn't scan, and Hobbes, I don't think, ever ran a stable. Or maybe he did and it was short-lived, his horses all being nasty, brutish or short.

Hobbes didn't run a stable. He was a tutor for the Cavendish family, then for young Charles II.

by **Houshphandzadeh** » Thu May 07, 2009 14:37:28

what would you know, you've never even heard of a Hobbesian choice

by **TenuredVulture** » Thu May 07, 2009 14:41:49

Houshphandzadeh wrote:what would you know, you've never even heard of a Hobbesian choice

If I had I would have assumed it had something to do with choosing to live in the security of a well ordered regime, giving up my natural liberty, because whenever everybody does whatever they want, life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

by **Grotewold** » Thu May 07, 2009 14:50:31

The students are packing up their dorms and leaving today

:cry:

by **The Dude** » Thu May 07, 2009 14:51:01

sorry grote

by **Houshphandzadeh** » Thu May 07, 2009 14:52:23

Students? Thought you lived in Old Citeh

I can't wait for the summer interns in a few weeks

by **Grotewold** » Thu May 07, 2009 14:57:48

Houshphandzadeh wrote:Students? Thought you lived in Old Citeh

I can't wait for the summer interns in a few weeks

I'm working at a college now. Hoping for some interns as well but it's table scraps after the feast of Sept.-May

by **CFP** » Thu May 07, 2009 16:08:57

I thoroughly enjoy the fact that I can get news about Obama's NSC, plus an article about Sasha Grey in the same magazine. God bless you, Rolling Stone.

by **kruker** » Thu May 07, 2009 16:13:42

This leads to something I picked up somewhere along the way: At one point, when they were making the movie “Gandhi,” people were pushing to have Gandhi portrayed by a flash of light. The idea was that Gandhi was so good, so godlike, so awe-inspiring, that he could not simply be played by a mere mortal, not even one as gifted as Ben Kingsley. I always wondered how that would work … having a movie character portrayed by a flash of light. I guess it would be a bit like the way God was played by the burning bush in “Ten Commandments.” I always that thought the burning bush was excellent.

Well, here we are now, more than 25 years later, and while Gandhi was not played by a flash of light, it does look like we will have some kind of similar movie moment. Apparently in the film “Moneyball,” Bill James will be played by a cartoon character.

“It needs a gimmick,” director Steven Soderberg said in the interview. “It needs something to make it not Masterpiece Theatre. His writer voice is so big, I thought to literalize it is going to actually harm it. I need to make his voice funny and when he comes on you’re happy to see it.”

JoePos

by **momadance** » Thu May 07, 2009 16:18:10

I wish this fat chick would stop texting me.

by **WilliamC** » Thu May 07, 2009 16:21:45

I've been outside a lot the last week or so and I have a good tan going but when I got out of the shower I couldn't believe how tan. Worse farmers tan ever. I usually stay pretty dark in the winter but these colors do not go together.

by **Houshphandzadeh** » Thu May 07, 2009 16:26:38

yeah but once you got your shirt off its too late for them right brah high five

by **WilliamC** » Thu May 07, 2009 16:28:00

you got it brova

My worst fear is to look like that when swimming whether comes around. I am probably going to lay out so much now to compensate that I turn into Kramer

by **Bakestar** » Thu May 07, 2009 16:28:29

momadance wrote:I wish this fat chick would stop texting me.

didja?

by **momadance** » Thu May 07, 2009 16:30:52

Bakestar wrote:
momadance wrote:I wish this fat chick would stop texting me.

didja?

Unfortunately. I had to do it out of spite. It was my ex's maid of honor. Was with the ex for 5 years. Revenge is a dish best served sloppy. Eww.

by **WilliamC** » Thu May 07, 2009 16:33:36

momadance wrote:
Bakestar wrote:
momadance wrote:I wish this fat chick would stop texting me.

didja?

Unfortunately. I to do it out of spite. It was my ex's maid of honor. Was with the ex for 5 years. Revenge is a dish best served sloppy. Eww.

You might have outthunk yourself there a little. What if you ex is thinking "look at how far he has fallen since losing me"

by **Houshphandzadeh** » Thu May 07, 2009 16:34:53

sloppy joe

sloppy sloppy joe

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