I was watching Taboo on National Geographic and there is this tribe that worships crocodiles. They tell their children that there is a giant temple filled with an alligator and that they must fight them in order to become men. They make the sounds and everything so that the tribesman(or boys in this case) get all fearful before they bust through a stick wall. On the other side of the wall is the towns ancestors with sharp and long sticks, used to poke and keep the boys away from the fortress. Those brave enough enter to fight the crocodile, but instead find out that they have to lie down and succumb to about 3 months of pain as they have every inch of their body sliced with razors to create the illusion of alligator skin.
I think they would have preferred to fight the crocodile.
If I'm not mistaken, the Bozo allow their children to swim in the river with the croc's. There is some venerated bond between human and crocodile. And they encounter no problems. No children have been eaten.
Yes. Instead of the razor tattoo ordeal, I'm sure they'd rather wrestle a croc. But they're not allowed. They learn, maybe, to suppress the urge to kill that which frightens them.
Pretty serious way to learn.
And yes. Us, westerners would have some issues with that, eh?
Not I, but...
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I usually only found it moderately interesting, actually. It was one of those, I'm bored, so I guess I'll watch something fucked up on television things. PBS has freaked me out way more than that show did lol.
The Jerry Springer Show freaks me out.
And Rocket Robin Hood. lol
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Before I buy one of those leg lamps, does it provide enough light to read by?
'Cause when I get to a paragraph I don't really like I could stroke the lamp inappropriately.
Thereby, disturbing my neighbors.
C I dropped A U
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Before I buy one of those leg lamps, does it provide enough light to read by?
'Cause when I get to a paragraph I don't really like I could stroke the lamp inappropriately.
Thereby, disturbing my neighbors.
C I dropped A U
YES.
my dad is actually most happy with the impressive yellow glow, that the lamp gives off, lighting up an entire room(or in his case, his work shop/beer drinking/pot smoking hangout)
my dad is actually most happy with the impressive yellow glow, that the lamp gives off, lighting up an entire room(or in his case, his work shop/beer drinking/pot smoking hangout)
"C I dropped A U" umm, what? i dont understand...
I was tired of British empirialism, so I'm boycotting u's in some words.
And yes. Yes. The lamp will be going into my workshop/hangout.
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Yup. I'm an arse...
Beta, alpha, theta, delta...
At this delta level if I make myself believe I have scissorhands then there really is no point in smoking anymore. My habit is sliced and cut. And I will save money twice over because shaving is a cinch now.
Now, y'all can tell me to shut the fuck up.
I don't care, I hate myself more...and, back to the top.
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I'd worry a tad, too. What with George or the Hulkster doing up the bacon whilst we sleep.
And what's with the macho grills, eh?
What about a Chris Rock Grill--it's fast, and ornery, and it'll cook yo' fuckin' meat.
Skinny guys.
Like, Anthony Perkins Vacancy Grill--does birds up fine, and takes all the calories away.
A Twilight Veggie Grill for the teenage crowd, but it won't grill anything with a soul.
Anyway. That was the dream. I'm gonna have to grill my own breakfast.
Tally-ho.
LMAO....I find this funny
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Not that anyone asked but, this is how I made up my name.
A few years ago I read a book called, 'Half Asleep In Frog's Pajamas,' by Tom Robbins. And like Tom, I got fascinated by the Bozo tribe that lives along the Niger River in Africa. How for 5,000 years the Bozo have known of the existence of Sirius, the Dog Star, and the White Dwarf that orbits Sirius every 50 years. (This was discovered by telescope 150 years ago.) Now how did the Bozo knew about this? The Bozo also have a ritual in which a member of the tribe strikes a hollow rock during a major ceremony they have every 50 years, to pay homage to the White Dwarf. Furthermore, the Bozo also knew about the third moon in the star system.
I mean, 5,000 years before the telescope. Unbelievable. Mysterious.
Now, bored at the beginning of last summer, I was googling Terry Bozzio videos and one in particular caught my eye. Terry Bozzio vs. Danny Carey. I ventured in, and, well...
Everything shifted. I thought, man, there's something about Danny I should investigate. So, with a couple more google clicks, I found I liked Lateralus and 10,000 Days.
But I still wanted more. So I found some Tool sites, and picked this one, because it was free.
So, little bozzio, or lil' bozo, is what I came up with.
As in, this world is totally mysterious, yet I think I could keep a fifty year beat going.
Boom
My guess is aliens (or known as the Gods or Angels perhaps to them) came and taught the ancients advanced things as such (ie. the Mayan Calendar, I-Ching, Bozo, Atlanteans, etc). However, as the human race became more and more self indulged and ignorant, the aliens backed off and instead chose to just view us "vicariously". They got fed up after having handing us all the "tools" to do so much better and we fucked it up (think the topic in Right In Two). Since, throughout the ages, all the ancient knowledge has been lost and filtered until entirely dissipating. Who knows, just food for thought, now fire up that George Forman grill.
...and look at us now.
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My guess is aliens (or known as the Gods or Angels perhaps to them) came and taught the ancients advanced things as such (ie. the Mayan Calendar, I-Ching, Bozo, Atlanteans, etc). However, as the human race became more and more self indulged and ignorant, the aliens backed off and instead chose to just view us "vicariously". They got fed up after having handing us all the "tools" to do so much better and we fucked it up (think the topic in Right In Two). Since, throughout the ages, all the ancient knowledge has been lost and filtered until entirely dissipating. Who knows, just food for thought, now fire up that George Forman grill.
...and look at us now.
I don't like that theory at all. If there was a superior race who had witnessed our rise and impending fall, why would they not salvage the goods of the experiment? I mean... you have a cage full of hamsters and see that one has caught a disease and is infecting the others, surely you would remove it from the cage and find a way to dispose of it.
The same would be of an alien race. If they essentially taught us the fundamentals of life and showed us how to better ourselves, would they not eliminate the cancers and individuals who plague us as a whole? There would be a day when we'd see a giant claw reaching down from the sky, like in those toy vending machines, and it'd grab at everything that is leading us towards our destruction and it would throw it somewhere far away from the individuals who seek improvement and world peace (or just keep the people around who do not effect others in a negative fashion).
I don't like that theory at all. If there was a superior race who had witnessed our rise and impending fall, why would they not salvage the goods of the experiment? I mean... you have a cage full of hamsters and see that one has caught a disease and is infecting the others, surely you would remove it from the cage and find a way to dispose of it.
The same would be of an alien race. If they essentially taught us the fundamentals of life and showed us how to better ourselves, would they not eliminate the cancers and individuals who plague us as a whole? There would be a day when we'd see a giant claw reaching down from the sky, like in those toy vending machines, and it'd grab at everything that is leading us towards our destruction and it would throw it somewhere far away from the individuals who seek improvement and world peace (or just keep the people around who do not effect others in a negative fashion).
Um, no stoopid....not if they're entirely emotionally detached. Ever thought of that. If you had an ant farm and one ant started killing the others, would you care enough to exterminate that bad ant or watch the farm fend for itself? It's like giving someone a gift and saying "What you do with it from here is on you"
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Um, no stoopid....not if they're entirely emotionally detached. Ever thought of that. If you had an ant farm and one ant started killing the others, would you care enough to exterminate that bad ant or watch the farm fend for itself? It's like giving someone a gift and saying "What you do with it from here is on you"
Entirely different scenario. If you spent time teaching the ant how to communicate and gave it a bunch of methods for enriching their lives and then helped it build some structures, would you just so easily watch it all fall apart at the hands of a few bad ants? Under your example the ants are just in a glass container, there is no emotional connection. But obviously the aliens cared or they wouldn't have taught us things as in your first post. Stoopid.
Entirely different scenario. If you spent time teaching the ant how to communicate and gave it a bunch of methods for enriching their lives and then helped it build some structures, would you just so easily watch it all fall apart at the hands of a few bad ants? Under your example the ants are just in a glass container, there is no emotional connection. But obviously the aliens cared or they wouldn't have taught us things as in your first post. Stoopid.
Not really, it's all a matter of perspective. I could easily teach those ants all those things and then just be simply amused at their own downfall.
I'm off to buy another ant farm...mwah-hah-haaaa
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I fucked the thread up.
And I like the color green. That's a cool color.
One theory, and it's just a stoopid theory, is that the information travelled through space as a spore. Say a mushroom spore. And that spore touches down on Earth. It travels on what, a meteorite. Whatever. It gets here. Grows. Into a mushroom. Somebody eats it, and BOOM; they see Sirius, or something. A pyramid. Etc...
Or aliens. Cute little fuzzy ones, like penquins, perhaps.
Oh. Burnt my feet on the grill. Fucking George. I'm switching to the Hulkster.
Had a rough time tapping at the Rock Show.
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I fucked the thread up.
And I like the color green. That's a cool color.
One theory, and it's just a stoopid theory, is that the information travelled through space as a spore. Say a mushroom spore. And that spore touches down on Earth. It travels on what, a meteorite. Whatever. It gets here. Grows. Into a mushroom. Somebody eats it, and BOOM; they see Sirius, or something. A pyramid. Etc...
Or aliens. Cute little fuzzy ones, like penquins, perhaps.
Oh. Burnt my feet on the grill. Fucking George. I'm switching to the Hulkster.
Had a rough time tapping at the Rock Show.
Now whatcha gunna do, Brother? When the Hulkster grill is making pancakes FOR YOUU!!!
If you wrapped a shirt around it... would it dramatically rip it in half as it opens to offer you some nicely cooked meat?
LMAO
scrumptiously glistening flanks and breasts would pop out at you and make you feel lke a wolf
then you'd use the shirt to dap your jowls and wipe down the canines
a red sleeveless shirt with yellow writing, right?
yes, good marketing ploy
we should put pam anderson in the shirt
PETA, that means she likes meat, eh?
it's do-able
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scrumptiously glistening flanks and breasts would pop out at you and make you feel lke a wolf
then you'd use the shirt to dap your jowls and wipe down the canines
a red sleeveless shirt with yellow writing, right?
yes, good marketing ploy
we should put pam anderson in the shirt
PETA, that means she likes meat, eh?
it's do-able
I think we need to market a new grill... I guarantee we could team up and take over the marketplace. We just need an idea and an endorsement.
I think we need to market a new grill... I guarantee we could team up and take over the marketplace. We just need an idea and an endorsement.
Mickey Rourke. And he loves dogs too.
Eh?
Gotta' say this:
Yesterday at 5:50 PM Toronto time, I walked out under the CN Tower into the hazy, noisy air of the construction zone beside the Steam Whistle Brewery to enjoy a specially-procured cigarette with a couple buds. Again, the lights were cool.
At that time, it was 4:20 PM Hong Kong time, today.
Ten minutes later the Steam Whistle blows. 6 o'clock.
"What does that mean?," said the one guy.
"That it's 4 o'clock in Sydney, Australia, mate." I said.
"What?"
To bring it down to our level, I said, "The Aussies are rolling their joints now, dude."
Jesus. Stoners, eh?
So. Let's contact Mickey. And Darren. We'd call it 'the Wrestler.'
It's great for cooking hot dogs.
I'm thinking solar techno.
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We go to Costco and buy like 50 Hulkster Grills. We paint em all (FDA approved!) lime green.
Then we take a picture of Mickey holding one of his dogs in a nice setting. Cue in the sound of a sizzling grill. Maybe some waves and a cool song in the background.
Voice over of Mickey saying;
" Tired a eatin' at just any flea-bitten Diner, people. Aren't ya'll just tired o' that crap.
Well, if you're like me, u probably want to just stay home with the pets, y'know.
But you still want sometum' better than take out. Am I right!?
Well, folkes, you want the Wrestler. You'll never wanna eat out again.
You got Mickey's guarantee. It's one hot little doggie!"
We don't even need to tell Mickey or the Hulkster.
When we get sued, we'll just pout and tell em' we're Canadians, eh.
We didn't know, we're just trying to feed our pets. So, fuck off.
C Win/Win bcause by then we'll have made a secret deal with Proctor & Gamble
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