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'Objects In Space'


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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Nutty - Aug 23, 2005 12:30:24 pm PDT #588 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Urology is good for those who suffer from urologic diseases, e.g. If your peter is a-burnin' I bet you're glad of the existence of urology. Also, if you're a urologist, probably you make scads and scads of money treating burning peters.

In physics, one common problem starts out "assume a spherical horse".

This is like the joke about the elephant twins conjoined at the trunk, right? When one sneezes, the other one's head gets blown up real big?

I'm just a skeptible person. I prefer to be wooed by arguments, rather than bulldozed by them.


brenda m - Aug 23, 2005 12:30:28 pm PDT #589 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I say that the existence of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is proved in my book, _The Existence of the Flying Spaghetti Monster_.

Although I suppose my case is hurt somewhat by the fact that I have not (yet) written such a book....

Maybe you have and maybe you haven't. I call it at 50-50.


erikaj - Aug 23, 2005 12:30:46 pm PDT #590 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!

Not about everything...just, I guess I don't feel that I will be tapped on the shoulder, spiritually, any time soon. I still care about England and I've never seen it for myself. Witnessing a resurrection would be a privilege, I think, though.


tommyrot - Aug 23, 2005 12:31:15 pm PDT #591 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Proctology is the specialization that amazes me.

"Hmmm, let's see, what do I want to look at every day for my entire professional career..."
I think it's a rather noble profession.

"I look at assholes, so others don't have to."


Daisy Jane - Aug 23, 2005 12:31:34 pm PDT #592 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

I am in my new office! Working my butt off, but enjoying it.

I miss y'all though


Jessica - Aug 23, 2005 12:32:43 pm PDT #593 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

In physics, one common problem starts out "assume a spherical horse" .

I always heard it with a spherical cow. Maybe because cows are funnier than horses.

(Actually, it reminds me of an economics joke I heard in college. In microeconomics class. It goes thusly:

An engineer, a chemist, and an economist are trapped on a desert island. One day, a trunk full of canned goods washes up on shore, and they each try to figure out a way to get the cans open.

The engineer designs a catapult system involving palm trees in order to physically break the cans open.

The chemist works with coconut juice and sand to devise a solution that will eat through the tops of the cans.

The economist says "Okay, first assume we have a can opener...")


brenda m - Aug 23, 2005 12:32:56 pm PDT #594 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I still care about England and I've never seen it for myself.

Rosencrantz: What a shambles! We're just not getting anywhere! Not even England. And I don't believe in it anyway.
Guildenstern: In what?
Rosencrantz: England.
Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, you mean?


§ ita § - Aug 23, 2005 12:33:33 pm PDT #595 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I still care about England and I've never seen it for myself.

Maybe if you had seen it, you wouldn't care.


Jessica - Aug 23, 2005 12:33:42 pm PDT #596 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Oh, and I love philosophy. Just not when it's about proving the existance of God.


Nutty - Aug 23, 2005 12:34:14 pm PDT #597 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

No, no, no. Proctologists look at prostates, so that they may prescribe unbelieveably expensive radiation and/or medication treatments, and take a cut thereby. Unlike psychiatry, I bet there isn't much in the way of inherent fascination drawing those particular specialists.

Wait: ita will turn out to be a proctologist in her spare time, and say, "My dad died of anal prolapse, and that is what got me started in medicine, you unfeeling turd!!"