rjshae Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 1 2 "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorth Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 3 1 1 1 1 1 “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amentep Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 22 hours ago, Raithe said: Herbert Jenkins "The Strange Case of Mr Challoner" from 1921's Malcolm Sage, Detective predated S.S. Van Dine's 20 Rules for Writing Detective Stories essay by 7 years and had the butler as the killer. It is the earliest still known use of the idea; the 1930 book (Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Door) is much better known, so gets erroneously mentioned as this first. The continuing fame of Rinehart, possibly because she was a major seller and continued writing detective fiction into the 1950s is comparatively different from Jenkins, who is probably better known as the guy whose company published the original P. G. Wodehouse books than by his fiction stories (even if three of the Malcolm Sage stories were collected in a 1929 collection of best of detective fiction and Sage was favorably compared at the time to Messrs Holmes and Poirot). EDIT: To be clear, Van Dine's essay basically says using a servant (butler, maid, footman, valet, chauffer) isn't in the spirit of detective fiction (as disgruntled employees killing the person or whatever being too obvious), so doesn't call out Butler's, specifically, either. 4 I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted August 9, 2022 Share Posted August 9, 2022 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teknoman2 Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 3 The words freedom and liberty, are diminishing the true meaning of the abstract concept they try to explain. The true nature of freedom is such, that the human mind is unable to comprehend it, so we make a cage and name it freedom in order to give a tangible meaning to what we dont understand, just as our ancestors made gods like Thor or Zeus to explain thunder. -Teknoman2- What? You thought it was a quote from some well known wise guy from the past? Stupidity leads to willful ignorance - willful ignorance leads to hope - hope leads to sex - and that is how a new generation of fools is born! We are hardcore role players... When we go to bed with a girl, we roll a D20 to see if we hit the target and a D6 to see how much penetration damage we did. Modern democracy is: the sheep voting for which dog will be the shepherd's right hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 1 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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rjshae Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 2 4 1 1 "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Keyrock Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 34 minutes ago, rjshae said: That looks obviously photoshopped. RFK Jr 2024 "Any organization created out of fear must create fear to survive." - Bill Hicks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjshae Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 1 hour ago, Keyrock said: That looks obviously photoshopped. Somebody went to the trouble of adding a NZ location to google maps. Heh. "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted August 11, 2022 Author Share Posted August 11, 2022 Hits even better when you find out the author was you. 4 3 Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 4 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Sarex Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 4 "because they filled mommy with enough mythic power to become a demi-god" - KP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Raithe Posted August 13, 2022 Share Posted August 13, 2022 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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teknoman2 Posted August 14, 2022 Share Posted August 14, 2022 9 hours ago, Raithe said: even the same city. i saw a video where the reporter was asking questions in an all white neighborhood of New York about the need for id in elections and most of them said its wrong to ask for id because they believed that black people don't have it, they don't know how to get one and don't have access to the internet or know how to use it... like black americans lived in some other, 3rd world country and not in the same city The words freedom and liberty, are diminishing the true meaning of the abstract concept they try to explain. The true nature of freedom is such, that the human mind is unable to comprehend it, so we make a cage and name it freedom in order to give a tangible meaning to what we dont understand, just as our ancestors made gods like Thor or Zeus to explain thunder. -Teknoman2- What? You thought it was a quote from some well known wise guy from the past? Stupidity leads to willful ignorance - willful ignorance leads to hope - hope leads to sex - and that is how a new generation of fools is born! We are hardcore role players... When we go to bed with a girl, we roll a D20 to see if we hit the target and a D6 to see how much penetration damage we did. Modern democracy is: the sheep voting for which dog will be the shepherd's right hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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