So why do I have 2 red cards under my name?
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Yes, why drift from the subject matter at hand. Which is:
creamed corn and coitus
dueling with swords
fistfight at the Orlando airport
teddy bear shower curtain
Omega Seamaster Chronograph
son of sam
Mexican mafia
dirty sanchez
imaginary Purdue school of dentistry
discrimination against people with eyeglasses
heroin addict stealing credit card
nipples, farts, natural light and green tea
ray kroc's widow
oh, and reputation boxes
Let's keep this thread on track please. party on!
Vy:
Please don't insult Saint. You have apparently confused me with him. He is young. I am old. He is the dentist. I am the lawyer. He has his hands in peoples mouths. I have my hands in peoples pockets.
As a fellow insulter, make sure your insults are targeted at the right people. I am an old person from a midwestern city. You have that right. YYZ is from the midwest and may wear glasses but, I do not believe he is old.
Saint, is a young transplant from North Carolina to Cincinnati so he really doesn't qualify as being from an old guy from a small midwestern city. As far as your comment that many of the posters here are old from small midwestern cities, I guess I fit that catagory.
In defense, thereof, I cannot defend either character flaw, if you consider age and demogaphics, character flaws. It is true, I have probably seen more sunrises than I will see in the future and I was born and raised in Ohio, but I do not see that as positions I should defend or hold in high praise.
Demographics and age have there positives and negatives. Let there be no question about it, if I had the opportunity would I like to do push ups on my select-a-comfort bed with Kate or or one of my classmates from Boobie Clark Jr. High in Cincinnati? Clearly, Kate.
But, would Kate be interested in this old, ambulance chasing lawyer,with a quasi-vertical love stick, from a boring, small midwestern city when she could be with a young 22 year old nephew of a casino owner, with a sausage the size of a Louisville slugger, who owns a mansion on the pacific in southern california and just got back from the gym? I would hope not.
Besides that, where else can you find two people so perfectly matched that they both spell pathetic the same way ("pothetic") Vy, I wish I was your age again. The talent pool looks great. When I was 22 it looked great also.
As Rick said, "We'll always have Paris."
I can say, "I'll always have Bensalem."
Eddie
Please don't insult Saint. You have apparently confused me with him. He is young. I am old. He is the dentist. I am the lawyer. He has his hands in peoples mouths. I have my hands in peoples pockets.
As a fellow insulter, make sure your insults are targeted at the right people. I am an old person from a midwestern city. You have that right. YYZ is from the midwest and may wear glasses but, I do not believe he is old.
Saint, is a young transplant from North Carolina to Cincinnati so he really doesn't qualify as being from an old guy from a small midwestern city. As far as your comment that many of the posters here are old from small midwestern cities, I guess I fit that catagory.
In defense, thereof, I cannot defend either character flaw, if you consider age and demogaphics, character flaws. It is true, I have probably seen more sunrises than I will see in the future and I was born and raised in Ohio, but I do not see that as positions I should defend or hold in high praise.
Demographics and age have there positives and negatives. Let there be no question about it, if I had the opportunity would I like to do push ups on my select-a-comfort bed with Kate or or one of my classmates from Boobie Clark Jr. High in Cincinnati? Clearly, Kate.
But, would Kate be interested in this old, ambulance chasing lawyer,with a quasi-vertical love stick, from a boring, small midwestern city when she could be with a young 22 year old nephew of a casino owner, with a sausage the size of a Louisville slugger, who owns a mansion on the pacific in southern california and just got back from the gym? I would hope not.
Besides that, where else can you find two people so perfectly matched that they both spell pathetic the same way ("pothetic") Vy, I wish I was your age again. The talent pool looks great. When I was 22 it looked great also.
As Rick said, "We'll always have Paris."
I can say, "I'll always have Bensalem."
Eddie
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Sure Agent - Here's some light reading to get you started. My favorite author is Fyodor Dostoevsky - here are my 5 favorite books by him... Should keep you mildly entertained and out of trouble for awhile. If you read them in the original Russian texts I would be highly impressed, and might not be able to resist you. Get back to me when you have finished... :SIB
Notes from Underground
Crime and Punishment
The Idiot
The Possessed
The Brothers Karamazov
"Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms." - Crime & Punishment
EDDIE MADE A MISTAKE, EDDIE MADE A MISTAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's taken me years, but I finally found one:
It's WEAR GLASSES, not WHERE GLASSES.
Your wittness...................
Penguinfan:
As Private Peter is my witness, what in the name of the raging lesbian softball dyke horde are you talking about. This morsel coming from the boards resident chick repellent himself. Since we are all in this nostalgia mood, for the newer members, several years ago, Pengy, singlehandedly, drove an entire team of female softball players (albeit carpet munchers) from this forum with his Pittsburgh charm.
I'm about ready to meet Justinsmom about halfway between Cincinnati and Philadelphia when this knucklehead starts posting with all the charm and class of Bill Cowher. In no time, the babes high tale it from the forum and I'm left with the quisi-vertical love missile in the right hand on eastbound I-70.
Thanks a lot pal.
Eddie
Eddie
As Private Peter is my witness, what in the name of the raging lesbian softball dyke horde are you talking about. This morsel coming from the boards resident chick repellent himself. Since we are all in this nostalgia mood, for the newer members, several years ago, Pengy, singlehandedly, drove an entire team of female softball players (albeit carpet munchers) from this forum with his Pittsburgh charm.
I'm about ready to meet Justinsmom about halfway between Cincinnati and Philadelphia when this knucklehead starts posting with all the charm and class of Bill Cowher. In no time, the babes high tale it from the forum and I'm left with the quisi-vertical love missile in the right hand on eastbound I-70.
Thanks a lot pal.
Eddie
Eddie
Eddie,
I'm glad to see you're sense of humor is back in full swing. Hopefully that means things for you are on the up and up in general.
BTW, that softball dyke thread was hilarious.
Hope your 24 month sentence in the southern Ohio is going okay. We'll have to get together for a beer one of these days. Most days I hang at Havanna Martinin club downtown afterwork for a few. Can you get away? Or I can meet you in Hyde Park.
Ed
Ed
Beav's assessment of Eddie Haskell:
"Even a creep's got to have friends."
"Even a creep's got to have friends."
If I dont acknowledge them, they will use th sam stupid excuses they used 3 years ago when they thought they "owned me" because i was tired of arguing with a bunch of 50 yr old men acting like 5th graders...so anyway, I respond because its hilarious and to show them that I will play their game card for card right along with them...i kknow plenty of kids as wll that were abused and come out succesful...my point is that Saint TRIES SO HARD To BE SOME BIG SHOT, and its easy to spot a guy who obviously feels a need to defend himself...i Just respond...no hard feelings....anyway. maybe this thread is finally coming to an end...i do admit it was prob teh funnist argument iv read between men that have never met, in my tim here
Outstanding reference, Edward. Has it really been three years already since the famous Softball Wars?
:com:
That is a LOT of work!!
I wonder, would you be worth it?? :shrug:
If so, are these available on tape
kurby
Well Hippo, I got started on a few of these books last night. I must say, you are correct! I did a little research on Mr. Dostoevsky, what a tremendous author! Did you know, his life was spared at the last second before a firing squad?
"Life is in ourselves and not in the external," writes Fyodor Dostoevsky in a letter to his brother dated December 22, 1849. "To be a human being among human beings, and remain one forever, no matter what misfortunes befall, not to become depressed, and not to falter--this is what life is, herein lies its task." (The Brothers Karamazov, translated by Pevear and Volokhonsky, xii)
This passage was written immediately after Dostoevsky underwent the traumatic experience that Tsar Nicholas I ordered for several prisoners condemned to death for involvement in revolutionary activities--a mock execution in Semyonovsky Square, a staged performance so terrifyingly real that it induced insanity within one of the author's fellow prisoners. (The Brothers Karamazov, translated by Garnett, x) The quote is evidence of Dostoevsky's strength of character; his would be a difficult life--living in bleak poverty, he would helplessly watch as many of the people closest to him died from the ailments of the poor. It also exposes the significant flaw common to some of his characters and tragic heroes--through despair, and weakness before the weight of misfortune, they falter, and commit barbaric acts that render them unfit to operate within the context of humanity. This is the case with both Baklushkin and Shishkov from The House of the Dead, as well as with Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment.
The difficult facts of Dostoevsky's life, however, are likely the genesis of most, if not all of his work. Born on November 11th, 1821 in Moscow, he lived much of his childhood distanced from his frail mother and officious father. (Hingley, 20) In these formative years, he formed a close bond with his elder brother Mikhail. They would spend many hours reading Pushkin by meager candlelight in their family's comfortable suburban home. When they were teenagers, however, both Fyodor and Mikhail were enrolled in separate boarding schools, Fyodor matriculating at an engineering school in St. Petersburg. It is possible that being confronted with the rigorous schedule of the engineering school (that served as a recruiting pool for the Russian bureaucracy) helped assure Dostoevsky that his destiny was the written word; even as he was studying the trade of government, he was honing his skills as a writer, inking drafts of what would become his first novel-Poor Folk. In 1846, it was published to warm critical response. Something of a literary figure at the age of twenty-five, Dostoevsky began attending the discussion group that would result in his imprisonment, and the eventual mock execution which would prompt him to write the aforementioned letter to his brother.
His sentence was commuted to four years in prison and four years of army service. His prison experiences, as well as his life after prison among the urban poor of Russia, would provide a vivid backdrop for much of his later work. Released from his imprisonment and service by 1858, he began a fourteen-year period of furious writing, in which he published many significant texts. Among these are: The House of the Dead (1862), Notes From The Underground (1864), Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1868), and Devils (1871).
In 1864-65 his wife and brother died and he was burdened with debts, and his situation was made even worse by gambling.. :nono: On February 15, 1867, he married his stenographer Anna Grigorevna Snitkina who would manage his affairs until his death in 1881. Two months before he died, Dostoevsky completed the epilogue to The Brothers Karamazov (1880), which was published in serial form in the Russian Messenger. His funeral attracted thousands of citizens, as Russia mourned the death of a significant literary hero.
I will devour every one of these books, faster than you would think possible...and get right back to you. I will not however read them in the original Russian text. :nono:
Thanks for the info!
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Wow! I am very impressed...
I was aware that his life was spared at the last second after his imprisonment in Siberia. Before this moment, he did not accept God, and after this, he did - which is reflected in his writings before and after.
Above all, he is one of the best existentialist writers in my opinion, and this group of thinkers are all about getting the most out of life, indulging in existence (as am I). If you really read all 2900+ pages of these books...even if it is not in Russian, I guarantee you will enjoy the way his characters suck the marrow out of life... and you will further impress the Happy Hippo.
Cheers!
I was aware that his life was spared at the last second after his imprisonment in Siberia. Before this moment, he did not accept God, and after this, he did - which is reflected in his writings before and after.
Above all, he is one of the best existentialist writers in my opinion, and this group of thinkers are all about getting the most out of life, indulging in existence (as am I). If you really read all 2900+ pages of these books...even if it is not in Russian, I guarantee you will enjoy the way his characters suck the marrow out of life... and you will further impress the Happy Hippo.
Cheers!
For Vyrus858, since he is probably wondering right about NOW, WTF we are talking about.
existentialist --
a chiefly 20th century philosophical movement embracing diverse doctrines but centering on analysis of individual existence in an unfathomable universe and the plight of the individual who must assume ultimate responsibility for acts of free will without any certain knowledge of what is right or wrong or good or bad
Great word usage there...very impressive. I continue to be dazzled.
Perhaps, we should get a room? These guys are likely getting sick of us:142smilie
Cheers!
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:nono: Don't push your luck, Agent - I am impressed with your persistence, but I will be expecting a full report before we get to that point. And I won't bore these guys anymore with my existential ramblings...
Although as far as vyrus goes, he should be chiming in here with some ramblings of his own, since his favorite book "Man's Search for Meaning" is one of the most classic existential texts - thus my tirades are not completely off topic...:shrug:
Hey BJ:
I think its been about 3 years. As time goes by, huh. That was kinda fun. I mean other than Bahama Mamma and Va Nurse, this place ain't exactly oozing with estrogen. Starting to feel gay talking to a bunch of old guys from small midwestern cities all the time. Not that theres anything wrong with that.
Thinking about drafting Edge with pick # 6 in my fantasy draft this monday night. Any thoughts from the desert? On second thought, I'll start a new thread this one is getting rather cumbersome.
Ed
I think its been about 3 years. As time goes by, huh. That was kinda fun. I mean other than Bahama Mamma and Va Nurse, this place ain't exactly oozing with estrogen. Starting to feel gay talking to a bunch of old guys from small midwestern cities all the time. Not that theres anything wrong with that.
Thinking about drafting Edge with pick # 6 in my fantasy draft this monday night. Any thoughts from the desert? On second thought, I'll start a new thread this one is getting rather cumbersome.
Ed
