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• Commented on What to do if you smell a terrorist
  "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to advance" F.D.Roosevelt 1932. So it is written so let it be done!...
• Commented on Industrial robotic pancake production video
  Now that is one big waste of time. Gimme Aunt Jemima's recipe and a cast iron skillet and those pallid excuses for a pancake are history...
• Commented on Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Burqini
  #80-FOETUSNAIL. " I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some Letter of that After-life to spell: And by and by my Soul returnd to me, And answer'd "I Myself am Heaven and Hell." T'would seem you have a kindred soul...
• Commented on Iron Melies Moon fence yields teachable moment
  Nicely done Jeff, the kids were fortunate to meet someone of your calibre and sensitivity. You sent them on their way informed and curious for more Now had they met TDAWWG pontificating about 'Eurocentric' - eh what !!? - Yawwwn....
• Commented on Red dawn in Australia
  Pshaw!! This little dust up is not an Har-Magedon preview. It's a tiny rebuke to the Aussies for inflicting Russell Crowe and that canned puke, Fosters, on the civilised world. Neville Shute had the right idea but the wrong location.There...
• Commented on Happy 5770!
  Thanks Jesse, that was brilliant. The first time I have heard the Barry Sisters, they are a 10. I listened to the string of other presentations that your post prompted, On YouTube, a bonus. That reminded me that Chaim Topol...
• Commented on Blind juggling robot
  Now that! is one excellent device for shrinks that employ hypnosis in their therapy.The cadence of the piston's ka-thunk ka-thunk coupled with the boing-boing of the balls is soothing- zooming in zooming out -in and out -back and fro -ka-thunk...
• Commented on How to make chai tea syrup
  " When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean- neither more nor less." " The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make mean so many...
• Commented on How to make chai tea syrup
  Can't decide whether the prissy posters are picky,picayune or Pecksniffian.So in deference to their particularity I will have cuppa Chai, with a wee dob of tamarind [learned from our dhobi] and henceforth enjoy my Chai Chai. Thankyou Lucy and Mark...
• Commented on The great punk poet Jim Carroll has died.
  Did not know the boy but I will always eulogise a poet and so.... But I was young and did not know, That life is but the ebb and flow, Of love's sharp shaft and reason's doubt. That at life's...
• Commented on Dirty Tats: shocker, but lowbrow game marketing is lowbrow
  #67 Jeni Tut, Tut young lady-NUTBASTARD- is not an asshole- assholes are useful.But he is a great shit disturber eh!...
• Commented on Harvard Crimson runs ad for Holocaust denier
  #89 ROACH. Thankyou for bringing to my attention Cornwell's reassessment of "the scope of action" on Pius XII's part. Only dogs eat their own vomit. Nevertheless he produced 386 pages of narrative,supported by 116 bibliography references and 23 pages of...
• Commented on Conservative California legislator gives pornographic account of his multiple affairs (including a lobbyist) into open mic
  # 7- CICADA The prerequisite for a sheep shagger is wearing a pair of Wellies.Since this blabber-mouth seems to suffer from 'foot in mouth' disease he has either tiny feet or a huge mouth....
• Commented on Robert Spinrad, computer pioneer, RIP
  #8-PSPINRAD. D.W.P. = Dead White Poets. Your father pointed the way.I hope you will continue along the same path with his grand-children. I remember as a six year old, in the midst of a German air-raid, my father reading Rupert...
• Commented on Harvard Crimson runs ad for Holocaust denier
  # 50 ROACH.In the interests of accuracy Eugenio Pacelli,the future Pius XII,was not the author or the issuing authority of "Mit brennender sorge" [With deep anxiety].It was the collaborative effort of three German cardinals, Schulte, Bertram, Faulhaber and two bishops...
• Commented on Harvard Crimson runs ad for Holocaust denier
  #3-BEAVERTRON REPAIRMAN You you are quite right that many Catholics suffered in Hitler's concentration camps but not because of their religion. Many priests and nuns ignored the duplicity of Hitlers Pope, Pius X11.They were motivated by Christian conscience to rescue...
• Commented on Robert Spinrad, computer pioneer, RIP
  #I-PSPINRAD- need I tell you what fortunate children you and your sister were,to have such a man that would quote Omar Khayam and have such confidence in you both, that you would remember his favourite stanza during his remarkable life...
• Commented on Singapore's second-creepiest animatronic exhibit
  #26 QUICKBROWNFOX.- Oops! of course you are correct. Why on earth would Singapore memorialize a humiliation ? Must have been a case of mead over matter on my part.I think I'll go get a cuppa and regroup....
• Commented on Singapore's second-creepiest animatronic exhibit
  #22- QUICKBROWNFOX Sorry, history does not agree with your speculation,Mountbatten was otherwise engaged. Captain Louis Mountbatten's destroyer 'Kelly' was sunk May 21 1941.He was not engaged in the South East Asian theatre of war until Aug.25 1943, when he was...
• Commented on How to make kombucha
  If you have elevated Uric Acid levels stay away from Kombucha 'cos gout really hurts. #44 Ito-nicely done, politeness will always negate invective....
• Commented on Singapore's second-creepiest animatronic exhibit
  Those creaking, shuddering robots represent exactly the quality of the generalship in Malaya at that time. They are an accurate representation of G.O.C Arthur"Rabbit" Percival and C.I.C Far East, Sir Robert "Pooh-Pooh" Brooke-Popham whose dithering and lamentable preparation,doomed Singapore...
• Commented on Kenyan blacksmiths make bellows from cement sacks
  Kenyan metalsmiths are quite remarkable.Back in the days when the MauMau were doing their little number. The metal masters produced rifles using malleable iron gas piping. It was very much a hit or miss affair when engaged in confrontations with...
• Commented on 1,000 surveillance cameras = 1 solved crime in the UK
  The other question is -how many crimes were not commited due to the presence of CCTV's?...
• Commented on Video snapshot: "Topless rights" protest hosted by Raëlian UFO clone sex cult
  A creed for all seasons should suit some posters I believe in man, maker of himself and inventor of all science.And in myself, his manifestation, and captain of my psyche; and that I should not suffer anything painful or unpleasant....
• Commented on Video of "upside-down" lightning
  Nah, that's Myrddin showing off again.Look at the picture on the right.His arms are stretched out in the midst of incantation. He is reinforcing the phase between shape-shifting and liminal. You can see his pointy hat at his feet.What an...
• Commented on TIME on unsustainable farming practices
  #51 DOC-WATT-Your post was most informative but what exactly is a "secondary medical and health researcher?" Is that cum laude or magna cum laude?...
• Commented on Bollywood stars celebrating Ganesha festival
  #4 Darren Garrison-What! Ganesh subdued? Not on your nelly mate, as long as Hanuman has breath in his body....
• Commented on Smart Bombs: Mark Dery, Steven Pinker on the Nature-Nurture Wars and the Politics of IQ
  #49 Buddy66 Ta,muchly but I must decline Ben was then and I have moved on.Besides if I get a wee hankering I always have my Nortons Anthology near at hand. #59 TDAWWG-Ah! what mellifluous,nay dulcet,words that from Apollo flow,Yet dare...
• Commented on Mark Dery: Post Mortem
  #7-TAKUAN-Costanza-Jason Alexander-Duckman so swift and subtle.The characterization is spot on.So where is Cornfed Pig when you need him?...
• Commented on Mark Dery: Post Mortem
  Mark Dery- Castanza!Were you perhaps thinking of "significant shrinkage" as apropos?Felix Unger was the the nit-picking,anal retentive,neatnik? I wonder who on earth you are referring to.I tried the link to Shovelware,looks good,will continue to enjoy your posts.Thanks for your all...