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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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I couldn't figure that one out, was it a metaphor, like something surreal you'd see on an album cover; 'the air conditioned nightmare'. Is the man a kind of cyborg getting refueled? Or, since it's a sex clinic, what? He seems pretty casual about the whole thing. Deadpan expression, emotionally neutral, it's a break in his day to read the paper and have a hose up his donkey hole. Shouldn't a nurse be holding his hand while he blacks out? 
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 10:59 pm Post subject: |
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| captain kirk wrote: |
I couldn't figure that one out, was it a metaphor, like something surreal you'd see on an album cover; 'the air conditioned nightmare'. Is the man a kind of cyborg getting refueled? Or, since it's a sex clinic, what? He seems pretty casual about the whole thing. Deadpan expression, emotionally neutral, it's a break in his day to read the paper and have a hose up his donkey hole. Shouldn't a nurse be holding his hand while he blacks out?
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Exactly!! I laughed so hard when I saw pic on the website! They had a few "funny" illustrations like Avatar #11 and this one that I didn't use:
I just looked at those. No 'ha-ha'... Just 'ho-hum'. But then I saw the pic that became Avatar #9 -- where the company is clearly trying to be serious and reassuring... and I just about died laughing.
But to my chagrin, nobody on Dave's mentioned it when I used that avatar. I think the photo is shrunk so small that the hose (if it's noticed at all) looks like it could be the power cord for the "air conditioner/water cooler"-looking machine. And viewed completely out of any context, it's not the sort of subject matter anyone is going to be scrutinising very closely.  |
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guangho
Joined: 19 Jan 2005
Location: a spot full of deception, stupidity, and public micturation and thus unfit for longterm residency
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| Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 4:48 am Post subject: |
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| How about this one of a monkey giving a beat down to a bad bad kitten? |
~biting my tongue....harder....~ |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 6:31 am Post subject: |
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| I'll 'fess up. I was disappointed when you changed from avatar #1 because I had fallen madly in love with your dashing online persona. Peter "The Hairy Hungarian" Lorre and his enormous rooster. Who could resist? Picturing you as a monkey suckler just doesn't do it for me. |
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guangho
Joined: 19 Jan 2005
Location: a spot full of deception, stupidity, and public micturation and thus unfit for longterm residency
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| Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 9:35 am Post subject: |
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| kermo wrote: |
| I'll 'fess up. I was disappointed when you changed from avatar #1 because I had fallen madly in love with your dashing online persona. Peter "The Hairy Hungarian" Lorre and his enormous rooster. Who could resist? Picturing you as a monkey suckler just doesn't do it for me. |
I am a hairy Hungarian who has eaten roosters...FWIW. |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 2:19 am Post subject: |
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| guangho wrote: |
| kermo wrote: |
| I'll 'fess up. I was disappointed when you changed from avatar #1 because I had fallen madly in love with your dashing online persona. Peter "The Hairy Hungarian" Lorre and his enormous rooster. Who could resist? Picturing you as a monkey suckler just doesn't do it for me. |
I am a hairy Hungarian who has eaten roosters...FWIW. |
Step 1: Hunch shoulders.
Step 2: Repeat the following quotes:
"You... you imbecile. You stupid fat-head you."
"You despise me, don't you?"
"No! Not the Melbourne method, please! "
Step 3: Sit back as you reel in the ladies. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 2:37 am Post subject: |
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| kermo wrote: |
| I'll 'fess up. I was disappointed when you changed from avatar #1 because I had fallen madly in love with your dashing online persona. Peter "The Hairy Hungarian" Lorre and his enormous rooster. Who could resist? Picturing you as a monkey suckler just doesn't do it for me. |
Then let me try to make it up to you by doing something I've vowed never to do -- post my own pictures here. Some of these are from a few years back as you'll see, but they're all that I have.
Listen and repeat after Mao: 'Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy'.
Here I am with a group of Kimils-- NO!!  I mean Fresh-Faced Young Free-Wheeling Capitalists in South(<--!!) Korea not long after my arrival here. Note how differently children dressed then. Note also -- and note well -- the proper attire of the day for foreign visitors to the Republic. Their English ability was none too polished, though after the 15th round of 'Hello!' / 'Fine, and you!', we did manage to have a pleasant but all-too-brief chat about the successes and failures of liberation theologists in Latin America.
So what you're saying is... 'Good-bye'?
Years later, the Guru (as he nearly was by then) became for the first time in his life enamoured of a young lady no more than half his Scrabble average. Casting fortune and two month's salary to the wind, he proposed. The answer was, I believe, obvious from this portrait created around that time. You connoisseurs of bitter irony will be pleased to learn the woman in question finished graduate school in the West, managed to remain there somehow, and was last reported marrying a rising young executive who worked for the company that produces, among other things, the Scrabble boardgame.
'I'm not mad! I tell you there ARE bunnies on my blanket!!'
The shock and grief of romance gone rancid were a bit too much, and I wasn't used to being on the nasty end of a breakup. 'Now the shoe's on the other foot! And how are we liking it, hmm?? Serves me right!' I began to think to myself. And I also began to drink and invest. Heavily. And alone. I could see my life slowly spinning out of control, so I decided I would throw myself headfirst into work, work and more work. Problem is, my shot drifted wide, I missed work completely and ran straight into the 797-1 bus. (see above photo) Here lies the Guru, wrapped like a fish and under heavy sedation. There were entire weeks during that time that I cannot fully account for. Oh, I knew where I was, but ask me what I was doing or thinking, and I'm  .
Vroom, vroooooom!
I emerged from it better (save for a limp that hung around for months) and stronger for the experience, and with a new-found passion for life, women and horses. Well, make that motorcycles, not horses. And make that girls, not people's mothers. Anyway, with my new lease of life, I truly was a guru set free.
'Yes, but can she use AutoCAD?'
Ah, the gritty realities of running a business. (Photo from job interview, late 2004) The Guru, as you can see, is less than impressed with the ersatz skill-sets & diverse abilities of today's university graduates. Still, there's always on-the-job training.  (j/k, J/K!!!) |
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guangho
Joined: 19 Jan 2005
Location: a spot full of deception, stupidity, and public micturation and thus unfit for longterm residency
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| Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 5:03 am Post subject: |
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| kermo wrote: |
| guangho wrote: |
| kermo wrote: |
| I'll 'fess up. I was disappointed when you changed from avatar #1 because I had fallen madly in love with your dashing online persona. Peter "The Hairy Hungarian" Lorre and his enormous rooster. Who could resist? Picturing you as a monkey suckler just doesn't do it for me. |
I am a hairy Hungarian who has eaten roosters...FWIW. |
Step 1: Hunch shoulders.
Step 2: Repeat the following quotes:
"You... you imbecile. You stupid fat-head you."
"You despise me, don't you?"
"No! Not the Melbourne method, please! "
Step 3: Sit back as you reel in the ladies. |
I've been doing this in front of Emart all day but no luck so far. I must be really anti-social.
Tomorrow I'm taking guru's 2nd to last pic with me. Koreans are famous for their ability to "get" puns. |
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Are they the lemmings
Joined: 15 Feb 2007
Location: Not here anymore. JongnoGuru was the only thing that kept me here.
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| Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Sorry to exhume a thread that's been dead for almost two years, but I just had to say it made me guffaw. A lot. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Images 1,3,5,7,12 are not showing up for me. |
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Are they the lemmings
Joined: 15 Feb 2007
Location: Not here anymore. JongnoGuru was the only thing that kept me here.
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| Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Nor for anyone else, I assume. I certainly couldn't see them. Still, that doesn't detract from the mirth - at least it didn't for me. |
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