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03-04-2021, 10:31 AM
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Random Syndicate (admin)
Join Date: Mar 2003
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Re: On the verge of Enlightenment
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Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower
The last line of that song is “Uh.”
The first time is saw RATM was about two months after their first album was released, in a small club with a couple hundred people. The energy was raw and intense. The last time I saw them was in an arena, and it was a good show. But when they played “Killing In The Name Of,” I suddenly realized that I was surrounded by a sea of thousands of identical 20-something alt-frat boys, all shirtless and all wearing the same black skull cap, and they were pumping their fists in the air in complete unison and screaming “Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me” with the rehearsed choreography of a Third Reich rally. After the show, I approached one of the alt-frat boys and said, “Hey, um, do you realize that you actually ARE doing what they tell you?” He looked at me with vacuous contempt and said, “I’m an independent thinker!” Then he vomited all over his shirt.
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I first saw them at a dorm party in 1992, where due to series of misadventures and some jello that would not set properly, I was blindingly drunk and puked all over the shirt of the dude I was crushing on. Sorry Miles! I have tickets to see them in El Paso in June. I have it at 50/50 on whether or not we'll make the show.
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"In the olden days before the internet, you'd take this sort of person for a ride out into the woods and shoot them, as Darwin intended, before he could spawn."--Will the Vampire People Leave the Lobby? pg 79
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03-04-2021, 11:28 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2003
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Re: On the verge of Enlightenment
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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan
I first saw them at a dorm party in 1992, where due to series of misadventures and some jello that would not set properly, I was blindingly drunk and puked all over the shirt of the dude I was crushing on. Sorry Miles! I have tickets to see them in El Paso in June. I have it at 50/50 on whether or not we'll make the show.
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Ha! Jello shot vomit is the best vomit. Is Run The Jewels opening for them in El Paso? They were supposed to tour together last summer, but unclear if that is happening with the rescheduled tour. RATM/RTJ would be a killer line up.
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Inside every man lives the seed of a flower.
If he looks within he finds beauty and power.
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03-04-2021, 11:30 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Government Yard in Trenchtown
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Re: On the verge of Enlightenment
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
You get down to #60 before you find a book they're going to stop publishing.
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The hoarding Dr. Seuss books is so precious. Now you have to go to #71.
Do all the folks eager to buy up Dr. Seuss realize its all pretty liberal in outlook? And that they are giving the money to the people who actually made the decision to pull six of the books? If I'm a Seuss heir, I say, hey, it really pays to pull the books we think do the least for his legacy, we boost sales of all the rest, and I'd start making this a regular event.
Eric Carle is like, Damn, why can't I have done a few more things I'm ashamed of.
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A wee dram a day!
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03-04-2021, 11:54 AM
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Re: On the verge of Enlightenment
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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
The hoarding Dr. Seuss books is so precious. Now you have to go to #71.
Do all the folks eager to buy up Dr. Seuss realize its all pretty liberal in outlook? And that they are giving the money to the people who actually made the decision to pull six of the books? If I'm a Seuss heir, I say, hey, it really pays to pull the books we think do the least for his legacy, we boost sales of all the rest, and I'd start making this a regular event.
Eric Carle is like, Damn, why can't I have done a few more things I'm ashamed of.
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This is the marketplace of ideas working. These buyers don’t realize they’re buying unnecessarily.
It also proves the rule that if you want to sell a lot of something, tell someone he might not be able to, or shouldn’t, buy it.
“Alcohol is bad. And never smoke pot.”
“Right, mom. Certainly won’t do that.”
Is the natural impulse to indulge in taboo the cure for this moral panic?
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03-04-2021, 11:56 AM
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Moderasaurus Rex
Join Date: May 2004
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Re: On the verge of Enlightenment
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Srsly? Mulligan. Put one at least near the fairway.
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Don't be all mad and pouty. I was just sharing news from the world of publishing.
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03-04-2021, 11:59 AM
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Re: On the verge of Enlightenment
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
This is the marketplace of ideas working. These buyers don’t realize they’re buying unnecessarily.
It also proves the rule that if you want to sell a lot of something, tell someone he might not be able to, or shouldn’t, buy it.
“Alcohol is bad. And never smoke pot.”
“Right, mom. Certainly won’t do that.”
Is the natural impulse to indulge in taboo the cure for this moral panic?
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It reminds me that the best bit of marketing I ever did was when I started telling people I generally was not taking new clients.
Still, I think anyone (cough cough, Ted Cruz) who seriously starts arguing that this decision by Dr. Seuss' heirs constitutes some kind of cancel culture needs to be roundly laughed at and never taken seriously ever again. I mean, If I Ran the Circus, they'd be the clown show.
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A wee dram a day!
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03-04-2021, 12:06 PM
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Random Syndicate (admin)
Join Date: Mar 2003
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Re: On the verge of Enlightenment
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Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower
Ha! Jello shot vomit is the best vomit. Is Run The Jewels opening for them in El Paso? They were supposed to tour together last summer, but unclear if that is happening with the rescheduled tour. RATM/RTJ would be a killer line up.
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Unclear. We were going to go last summer, but *waves hands*...
Given that theoretically the vaccines will be widely available by then, our odds may have increased on going. G saw them at Lollapalooza back in the day.
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"In the olden days before the internet, you'd take this sort of person for a ride out into the woods and shoot them, as Darwin intended, before he could spawn."--Will the Vampire People Leave the Lobby? pg 79
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03-04-2021, 12:57 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2003
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Re: On the verge of Enlightenment
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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan
Unclear. We were going to go last summer, but *waves hands*...
Given that theoretically the vaccines will be widely available by then, our odds may have increased on going. G saw them at Lollapalooza back in the day.
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I saw them at that Lollapalooza as well. Also a great show, but none of the times I saw them beats a dorm party, jello shot overload, puke-on-your-crush’s-shirt experience.
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Inside every man lives the seed of a flower.
If he looks within he finds beauty and power.
I am not sorry.
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03-04-2021, 03:33 PM
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Re: On the verge of Enlightenment
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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan
Unclear. We were going to go last summer, but *waves hands*...
Given that theoretically the vaccines will be widely available by then, our odds may have increased on going. G saw them at Lollapalooza back in the day.
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Prediction: If the vaccines have had their desired effect by the summer, this summer is gonna make the Summer of Love look like Monday night at the monastery.
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03-04-2021, 03:34 PM
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Random Syndicate (admin)
Join Date: Mar 2003
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Re: On the verge of Enlightenment
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Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower
I saw them at that Lollapalooza as well. Also a great show, but none of the times I saw them beats a dorm party, jello shot overload, puke-on-your-crush’s-shirt experience.
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Next day was Easter, so I had to call home. My father helpfully gave me hangover cures, which I desperately wrote down in the hopes something would alleviate the pain.
It's framed on my desk, to remind me what unset tequila jello can do to a girl.
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"In the olden days before the internet, you'd take this sort of person for a ride out into the woods and shoot them, as Darwin intended, before he could spawn."--Will the Vampire People Leave the Lobby? pg 79
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03-04-2021, 05:28 PM
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Re: On the verge of Enlightenment
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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan
Next day was Easter, so I had to call home. My father helpfully gave me hangover cures, which I desperately wrote down in the hopes something would alleviate the pain.
It's framed on my desk, to remind me what unset tequila jello can do to a girl.
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Fuck, I'd rather be hungover.
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03-04-2021, 05:50 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2003
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Re: On the verge of Enlightenment
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Originally Posted by Icky Thump
Fuck, I'd rather be hungover.
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Tell us some rock and roll stories, grandpa!
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03-04-2021, 05:50 PM
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Re: On the verge of Enlightenment
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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan
Next day was Easter, so I had to call home. My father helpfully gave me hangover cures, which I desperately wrote down in the hopes something would alleviate the pain.
It's framed on my desk, to remind me what unset tequila jello can do to a girl.
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"Gut of Cow?" Seems like making that would cure the hangover on its own.
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I will not suffer a fool- but I do seem to read a lot of their posts
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03-04-2021, 09:32 PM
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Moderasaurus Rex
Join Date: May 2004
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Re: Objectively intelligent.
Note to self: This is the link for the next time Sebby uses "woke" or some variant of it.
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“It was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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03-05-2021, 12:33 AM
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Random Syndicate (admin)
Join Date: Mar 2003
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Re: On the verge of Enlightenment
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
"Gut of Cow?" Seems like making that would cure the hangover on its own.
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Menudo definitely takes a lot out of you.
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"In the olden days before the internet, you'd take this sort of person for a ride out into the woods and shoot them, as Darwin intended, before he could spawn."--Will the Vampire People Leave the Lobby? pg 79
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