Totally pointless thread...

[Lefty]

(guydesavoy @ May 18 2010,17:27) Yes.

What about when people say "For God sakes" rather than "For God's sake" ?

What about people who use irregardless? It is not a standard English word but is often used.

As for God sakes or God's sake, I prefer to use for Gawd's sake. If spelling it Gawd instead of God was good enough for Rudyard Kipling, then by Gawd it's good enough for me.

[Lefty]

(PigDogg @ May 18 2010,15:37)

(JaiDee @ May 18 2010,00:26)   Sarah Palin  believes men and dinosaurs lived together.    

Proof      

"To do is to be" ~ Frederick Nietzsche

"To be is to do" ~ Immanuel Kant

"Yabba dabba do" ~ Fred Flintstone

[Lefty]

(JaiDee @ May 18 2010,17:30) No joking here....I once saw in a letter from my sister-in-law,a TEACHER no less, that she was having a problem with her ''necks store neighbor''.

I mean, I do live out in the sticks now, but that's pure hillbilly education!


    True fact;  Only 18% of Americans hold a valid passport.

Do you know how we can tell that the toothbrush was invented in Mississippi?
If it had been invented in any other state it would be called a teethbrush.

[guydesavoy]

(Lefty @ May 18 2010,20:10) What about people who use irregardless? It is not a standard English word but is often used.

As for God sakes or God's sake, I prefer to use for Gawd's sake. If spelling it Gawd instead of God was good enough for Rudyard Kipling, then by Gawd it's good enough for me.  

Yes I'm sure regardless would suffice.

I'm with Kip too by Gawd

[f0xxee]

POINTLESS:

Organised religion. Betting that basically the afterlife firstly exists and secondly is going to be better so spending your 3 score years and then some banking on the above.

Pointless.

[Lefty]

(guydesavoy @ May 18 2010,20:20)

(Lefty @ May 18 2010,20:10) What about people who use irregardless? It is not a standard English word but is often used.

As for God sakes or God's sake, I prefer to use for Gawd's sake. If spelling it Gawd instead of God was good enough for Rudyard Kipling, then by Gawd it's good enough for me.  

Yes I'm sure regardless would suffice.

I'm with Kip too by Gawd

Kipling was IMO the greatest poet to ever walk this planet.

Well, either him or Leonard Cohen  

After reading Mandalay, I've come to the conclusion that things back then were much the same as today in that part of the world, as for the western man's attraction for the Asian ladies.


MANDALAY
1892

By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea,
There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks o' me;
For the wind is in the palm-trees, and the temple-bells they say:
"Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!"
   Come you back to Mandalay,
   Where the old Flotilla lay:
   Can't you 'ear their paddles chunkin' from Rangoon to Mandalay?
   On the road to Mandalay,
   Where the flyin'-fishes play,
   An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay!

'Er petticoat was yaller an' 'er little cap was green,
An' 'er name was Supi-yaw-lat -- jes' the same as Theebaw's Queen,
An' I seed her first a-smokin' of a whackin' white cheroot,
An' a-wastin' Christian kisses on an 'eathen idol's foot:
   Bloomin' idol made o'mud --
   Wot they called the Great Gawd Budd --
   Plucky lot she cared for idols when I kissed 'er where she stud!
   On the road to Mandalay . . .

When the mist was on the rice-fields an' the sun was droppin' slow,
She'd git 'er little banjo an' she'd sing "~Kulla-lo-lo!~"
With 'er arm upon my shoulder an' 'er cheek agin' my cheek
We useter watch the steamers an' the ~hathis~ pilin' teak.
   Elephints a-pilin' teak
   In the sludgy, squdgy creek,
   Where the silence 'ung that 'eavy you was 'arf afraid to speak!
   On the road to Mandalay . . .

But that's all shove be'ind me -- long ago an' fur away,
An' there ain't no 'busses runnin' from the Bank to Mandalay;
An' I'm learnin' 'ere in London what the ten-year soldier tells:
"If you've 'eard the East a-callin', you won't never 'eed naught else."
   No! you won't 'eed nothin' else
   But them spicy garlic smells,
   An' the sunshine an' the palm-trees an' the tinkly temple-bells;
   On the road to Mandalay . . .

I am sick o' wastin' leather on these gritty pavin'-stones,
An' the blasted Henglish drizzle wakes the fever in my bones;
Tho' I walks with fifty 'ousemaids outer Chelsea to the Strand,
An' they talks a lot o' lovin', but wot do they understand?
   Beefy face an' grubby 'and --
   Law! wot do they understand?
   I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!
   On the road to Mandalay . . .

Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst;
For the temple-bells are callin', an' it's there that I would be --
By the old Moulmein Pagoda, looking lazy at the sea;
   On the road to Mandalay,
   Where the old Flotilla lay,
   With our sick beneath the awnings when we went to Mandalay!
   On the road to Mandalay,
   Where the flyin'-fishes play,
   An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay!

[JaiDee]

Just a wild guess here;

Kahuna's best buddy Nemisis does not like this thread.

[guydesavoy]

(Lefty @ May 18 2010,21:11) "If you've 'eard the East a-callin', you won't never 'eed naught else."
 

We all follow in such great footsteps  

(I remember when you used to have a quote from Kip on your sig. )

[Lefty]

Yes, I'm a great admirer of Kipling and have had a couple of quotes from his poems. The one I remember most came from The Young British Soldier and went something like this:

"and when you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
and the women come out to cut up what remains,
Just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains,
And go to your Gawd like a soldier..."

This quote is also shown at the beginning of a superb movie about the Russian occupation of Afghanistan, called "The Beast." Wrong thread, but I highly recommend this movie.

[guydesavoy]

(f0xxee @ May 18 2010,13:34) "suits you sir"....

Cooorrrrr

[guydesavoy]

  Afghanistan eh ?  The more things change..

Back on/off topic ... I love rhubarb pie with lashings of Bisto.

Aaaaaaaaah Bisto  

[JaiDee]

The average American citizen is completely clueless as to what's going on in their world; ask any 10 people who are walking down Main street right now about the troubles in Bangkok and I am guessing that 8 would have no fucking idea about anything, despite the fact it's been raging on since late March.

 The Euro's, they know..... Asians and Aussies also, but not the Yanks..... that's just plain sad.

[Jake_Sully]

 

I bet you most Americans don't even know who the Canadian PM or Mexican President is.

[Lefty]

(JaiDee @ May 18 2010,22:07) The average American citizen is completely clueless as to what's going on in their world; ask any 10 people who are walking down Main street right now about the troubles in Bangkok and I am guessing that 8 would have no fucking idea about anything, despite the fact it's been raging on since late March.

 The Euro's, they know..... Asians and Aussies also, but not the Yanks..... that's just plain sad.

Some of the regulars who email me from back home are always warning me to be careful. I get the impression the news back home makes things in BKK sound 100 times worse than they are. Not saying things ain't bad, just that western media is good at sensationalizing.

[Bumpa STIKKA]

(Jake_Sully @ May 18 2010,22:12) I bet you most Americans don't even know who the Canadian PM or Mexican President is...

I don't either. Nor do I know the French or the German or the Dutch bosses. Come to think of it I don't even know the name of the Thai PM!

Who cares?

If I lived in America I probably wouldn't have a passport either. With so much cool stuff there why would you need to go outside? (Apart for decent sex and shaggable ladyboys, that is!)

Makes me laugh when the Yanks get a bad rap for being daft. They care little about anything outside their own lives and even less what people think of them.

Frankly, I admire them for that.

One of the most well adjusted and least spiteful nations on earth.