An item entirely in bad taste

I wish I would have read this before eating dinner. I would have passed on the second helping.

The good news is that if they DO cone to America, the supply will be so great that it will meet the demand and prices will likely fall  to $30 a barrel and we'll be saved.\

Gotta go now, time for dialysis.  You see, I woke up in a hotel last year in a bathtub full of ice with a sign about my kidney...

Maybe they (the Peruvians) are running their vehicles on bio-diesal?

Anyone here have (pls. pardon the ethnic slur) "hunkie" relatives who would proclaim at the dinner table that "the fat's the best part"?

I'm an honorary hunky and I just love fatty pork chops!

I just hope they don't test the cosmetics on animals.  If so, the perps will answer to PETA.

BTW, in the Movie "Fight Club" the protagonists (if there were any) stole human fat from the dumpters outside liposuction clinics, and used it to make soap.  In effect they sold people their own fat a__  back to them.  Might the Peruvians have gotten the idea from American cinema?

Maybe they could take care of the fat between your ears.

Indeed, myreply.

About 70% of our brain is composed of fats.

Some more than others.

scarlet:

For one minute do you, in all your pretend wisdom, believe that this is the same kind of fat that is evacuated from the bodies of the Peruvians?  Perhaps you should have that job done to your brain if you do.

scarlet:

I always knew you had a big head because of your ego, but you must literally have a "big head" with all that 70% fat in it.

Easy there, Myreply, there's nothing to get worked up over ...

I ain't worked up man - I'm just havin some fun.  Ain't no reason to fret mugsy.

You got me there, myreply.

It *is* pretend wisdom.

But it's also *pretend* ego.

Scarlet:

I'll go with the pretend wisdom - but your cute little ditties say otherwise on the ego.  And BTW, I won't keep replying to your pretend self nor your alter ego - Mugsy.

myreply -

I can assure you, I do not post under other names.

I wish I were as smart as mugsy.

Or for that matter, myreply, about most of the other bloggers here.

Maybe even you.

myreply -

Let me think about what you've said.

There may be more ego than (objectve) substance in what I've posted.

I'll get back to you...

Dear myreply:

Why don't you go crawl back underneath your rock!

Have a great Thanksgiving, buddy!

Myreply, I'm not a creation of Scarlet, I'm a creation of me*** I think that I do have a little better impression of Scarlet than you do, but actually I have a pretty good impression of you as well, we fall on the same side of issues quite alot.

I thought maybe you were getting a little ticked off, but if you're having fun, then me too.

Scarlet, you wish you were as smart as me? That's a hoot.I can hardly keep up with the rest of you. For the record, however, I do appreciate the fantastic participation from everybody on compliment Mugsy week. Alas, all good things must come to a close.

***Actually, the real Mugsy, both first and second, were beloved dogs. The first was killed as a pup in an accident, the second lived many years as a part of our family and passed away about 5 years ago. Just like Mr. Bojangles, I still grieve.

mugsy:

I am more convinced than ever that myreply is a complete put-on of some sort, and that there will be a prize for whoever figures it out.  I’ve already guessed that he/she/it is more than one person, or an AI project at CMU, but got nothing.

I want to win.  I’m hoping it’s beer.

P.S. – Be warned:  Your week is almost up.

I've made a decision.  I'm not waiting for the Peruvians.  I'm going to eat six pounds of bacon a day, extranct my own blubber, and sell it legally.  It's more lucrative than a Tupperware party.  What is the mailing address for Mary Kay cosmetics?

P.S.  May I borrow a turkey baster?  I'll have it back to you before Thanksgiving.

A week or whatever ago, I almost posted the link to a Time magazine piece called “Five Things the U.S. Can Learn from China,” but decided I didn’t want to do more than I already had toward turning our quiet little olive grove into link-volley city.  Mr. Shribman’s column today, “Learning old lessons,” discusses that same article.

news.yahoo.com/.../08599193867100;_ylt=AhS_fXcP8vt6Itoe3y4YtXis0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFpMjgyZTUxBHBvcwMzOQRzZWMDYWNjb3JkaW9uX21vc3RfcG9wdWxhcgRzbGsDZml2ZXRoaW5nc3Ro

www.postgazette.com/.../1015124-372.stm

What he does is point out that the five (he agrees with them) were American to begin with, and that the problem is we have forgotten them.

The last is “look over the horizon.”  The first, “be ambitious,” he calls the “key to Americanism,” and can be at least partially summarized (by me, not him) with the self-evident truth that “we are a nation of individuals.”  

Here at Henry’s Handful, the conservatives emphasize “individuals” while the liberals emphasize “we.”  

They are not inconsistent.  They are how we got here, and we ought to be able to travel forward embracing both.

Mr. Shribman says:  “Our eyes have always been on the future, not the past.  We've ignored the past . . . but we have built shining futures:  a frontier future, then an industrial future, now an information future.  When people say America is no longer the land of the future they are forgetting that we already have had more futures than any people on earth.  Who is to say we don't have one more in us, or more?”

Indeed.  But note that it is a question.  It is what is at stake.  

“We know how to do this,” he concludes.

Of course, one side of our divide continues to show itself to be infinitely more boneheaded than the other, but that’s something we can work through calmly, amicably, with open-mindedness and reason.  I’m know we can all agree on that.  

I would be thankful if Toadsly would choke on a turkey bone.  

"Have a great Thanksgiving, buddy".

Rover:  I thought of Fight Club immediately and one of my favorite lines from any movie.  The Brad Pitt character explains dumpster diving for lipids to further the soap scheme and summarizes it on this cheery note (paraphrasing): "So, the rich ladies end up washing their faces with their own fatasses!"

myreply:

In "A Fine Point," on the obese, you wrote:  “It's like smoking - if they want to over-eat, get fat, let them.  They know it's not good for them - but hey; it's their body.  If they want to kill themselves, so be it.  It's none of my business.

“But as with smoking, when it affects me, like when their blubber oozes into my seat at the theater, on a plane or at the Steeler game, then it's my business.

“Eat, smioke and be merry - for tomorrow you will probably die.”

Don’t worry.  My point is not that national healthcare and productivity costs affect you, too.

What I’m really curious about is, in those cases where you say it *is* your business, what do you do about it?

Doesn't anyone find it odd that just a week and a half ago there were also reports of three Russian "homeless men suspected of killing and eating a 25-year-old and selling parts of his body to a kebab and pie kiosk." (See news.sky.com/.../200911315453983)

Was any of this on the Mayan calender?

myreply -

I did as promised and thought about what you said.

I supose that there is some measure of ego in my postings, but no less than anyone else here.

We all feel that we have something to add, no? You certainly seem to have developed sopme sense of community on this blog.

That is, unless you are a bot, as callsigntoursit has conjectured. (I'm assuming that bots have no consciousness, and hence no ego.)

You're not a bot, are you? Because if you are, I'd say that you've satisfied the Turing Test.

Scarlet:

Are you a fool or an idiot?

Are you giving me a choice, myreply?

Maybe I want to be both.

(Think of yourself as a King, and I your jester. How's that?

Sic transit, myreply.)

No, I won't be giving you a choice.  You are definately both.

No, I won't be giving you a choice.  You are definately both.

As you wish, my liege!

As you wish, my liege!