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killthebuddha
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I hear that Apple is soon bringing out a software package where you can send bad wishes to people you don't like, through modern technology.
It's called "evil-i"
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Brilliant!
"Life-forms can transmit information both vertically (from parent to child, via replication of genes) and horizontally (through viruses and other means). Malcolm Gladwell wrote, 'A meme is an idea that behaves like a virus--that moves through a population, taking hold in each person it infects.' Memes may transmit from one individual to another through a copy recorded in an inanimate source, such as a book or a musical score."
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johnslat
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Dear ktb,
But - does the end ever justify the memes?
Regards,
John |
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killthebuddha
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| Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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Dear ktb,
But - does the end ever justify the memes?
Regards,
John |
Of Course, johnslat,
Haven't you read your Trotsky? "The end may justify the memes as long as there is something that justifies the end."
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Mia Xanthi
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Location: why is my heart still in the Middle East while the rest of me isn't?
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| But - does the end ever justify the memes? |
Oh, John...my old love for you returns! |
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johnslat
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Ah, Mia - alas and alack. We are star-crossed. Still, we have a Platonic union.
Of course, show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you one or two old or homely faces. And in this case, the one is I. 
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John |
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veiledsentiments
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..ahem... not to mention that you are both married!! 
VS |
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johnslat
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Dear veiledsentiments,
"..ahem... not to mention that you are both married!!"
Ah, yes - and we all know how the sacred bonds of matrimony are universally inviolate.
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John |
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Bebsi
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Actually, I hear Apple have also got a new package where two people can get married online.
It's called i-do! |
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killthebuddha
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johnslat,
Is it third time's the charm or the three-strike rule? I'm trying to plan for my future.
--ktb |
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johnslat
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Dear ktb,
"Is it third time's the charm or the three-strike rule? I'm trying to plan for my future."
Unfortunately, there can be no general rule regarding how many times one has to get it wrong ("it" = matrimony) before one gets it right.
In my case, the third time has indeed been the charm. However, I'm sure at least some of us know people who have wedded a third time (or even more often: e.g. Mickey Rooney - eight times; Larry King - eight times; Zsa Zsa Gabor - nine times; Elizabeth Taylor - eight times {she married Richard Burton twice and she's reportedly planning a ninth wedding.})
To extend the baseball aspect of your metaphor, one can have a virtually endless strikes (not to mention foul balls.) To extend the jurisprudence aspect, one can break the bonds of matrimony a plethora of times without getting a "life sentence.")
Consequently, ktb, planning for one's future - well, there's just no future in it. Moreover, as all we Middle Eastern veterans know so well, it's ALL inshallah.
Regards,
John |
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tannhauser
Joined: 26 May 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 8:12 pm Post subject: Speaking of Witchcraft |
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| I remember a few years ago the Arab News ran this story about divers off the coast of Jeddah whose job it was to look for spells hidden in bottles. Filipino sub-aquamen were swimming around the reefs and bringing these "spells" back to dry land where they were defused by clerics. The other great story I heard was about Nigerian voodoo doctor types who would get someone to give them a briefcase with a few hundred thousand riyals inside in the promise for returning the money in the form of transmogrified gold bars. Obviously the poor sap who handed over his life savings made a realtor in Lagos a very very happy man. |
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Bebsi
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| The other great story I heard was about Nigerian voodoo doctor types who would get someone to give them a briefcase with a few hundred thousand riyals inside in the promise for returning the money in the form of transmogrified gold bars. Obviously the poor sap who handed over his life savings made a realtor in Lagos a very very happy man. |
Oh, I've heard of those. They're also called fund-managers. |
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Bebsi
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| ...but please, no nasty jokes now about real-estate consultants, or I shall have Carlos, Dmitri and Vinnie go after you. |
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