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OldManMac · Aug 19, 2007, 11:40 PM

Originally Posted by abe

I can't decide whether your post offends or merely bothers.

Where do you derive such qualitative judgments? Have you any links which attest to or independently corroborate your statement that said post is the best reply in this thread?

Take your pick; doesn't matter to me. I don't need any links to corroborate anything. That's my opinion, and I don't have to prove anything to you.

abe · Aug 20, 2007, 01:42 AM

Originally Posted by JohnM15141

Gonna have to say this thread is silly, and... it is closely followed by absurd...

I wonder what this thread would say if you played it backwards? WHOA..Paul McCartney is dead, ooooh spooky

Thanks for attending our little get together.

abe · Aug 20, 2007, 01:45 AM

Originally Posted by OldManMac

Take your pick; doesn't matter to me. I don't need any links to corroborate anything. That's my opinion, and I don't have to prove anything to you.

Imagine what the response from the community might have been had I answered THEIR questions and challenges (the same questions and challenges I posed you) the same way you just did.

Thanks for helping me illustrate how I was tempted to respond but didn't.

Kevin · Aug 21, 2007, 06:28 AM

Originally Posted by OldManMac

Take your pick; doesn't matter to me. I don't need any links to corroborate anything. That's my opinion, and I don't have to prove anything to you.

Don't have to no... but it doesn't help your forum persona very much.
And we all know THAT is what is the most important.

OldManMac · Aug 21, 2007, 12:30 PM

Originally Posted by Kevin

Don't have to no... but it doesn't help your forum persona very much.
And we all know THAT is what is the most important.

You know, I couldn't sleep last night, and now I've finally figured out why. Get a grip; this is an internet forum where a bunch of anonymous people "debate" (sometimes endlessly) and post their opinions, not the Cato Institute, or the Hoover Institute. The problem with forums like this is that some people like to play mind games, to attempt (usually feebly) to "prove" to others that they are this vast repository of intelligence and therefore everyone else is either a simpleton or just not up to the calibre they need to pretend that they are.

Dakarʒ · Aug 21, 2007, 12:33 PM

Originally Posted by OldManMac

You know, I couldn't sleep last night, and now I've finally figured out why. Get a grip; this is an internet forum where a bunch of anonymous people "debate" (sometimes endlessly) and post their opinions, not the Cato Institute, or the Hoover Institute. The problem with forums like this is that some people like to play mind games, to attempt (usually feebly) to "prove" to others that they are this vast repository of intelligence and therefore everyone else is either a simpleton or just not up to the calibre they need to pretend that they are.

It took you this long to figure this out?

I keed, I keed

besson3c · Aug 21, 2007, 12:35 PM

Oldmanmac: I like to pretend that I'm a foreign agent sometimes, I got the idea from Abe. My idea of a foreign agent is somebody that does a lot of summersaults in a suit with a gun in hand.

The next time you can't sleep, I suggest you think about foreign agent besson3c just kicking ass all over the place with his gun!

Kevin · Aug 21, 2007, 01:03 PM

Originally Posted by OldManMac

You know, I couldn't sleep last night, and now I've finally figured out why. Get a grip; this is an internet forum where a bunch of anonymous people "debate" (sometimes endlessly) and post their opinions, not the Cato Institute, or the Hoover Institute. The problem with forums like this is that some people like to play mind games, to attempt (usually feebly) to "prove" to others that they are this vast repository of intelligence and therefore everyone else is either a simpleton or just not up to the calibre they need to pretend that they are.

Get a grip? My post was tongue in cheek.

I was hoping the over the top "And we all know THAT is what is the most important." would be the obvious clue.

Oh well.

OldManMac · Aug 21, 2007, 01:25 PM

Originally Posted by Kevin

Get a grip? My post was tongue in cheek.

I was hoping the over the top "And we all know THAT is what is the most important." would be the obvious clue.

Oh well.

My apologies. Sometimes the intent is hard to discern over teh internets.

OldManMac · Aug 21, 2007, 01:26 PM

Originally Posted by besson3c

Oldmanmac: I like to pretend that I'm a foreign agent sometimes, I got the idea from Abe. My idea of a foreign agent is somebody that does a lot of summersaults in a suit with a gun in hand.

The next time you can't sleep, I suggest you think about foreign agent besson3c just kicking ass all over the place with his gun!

Thanks. Now I won't have to take Ambien.

besson3c · Aug 21, 2007, 01:27 PM

Originally Posted by OldManMac

My apologies. Sometimes the intent is hard to discern over teh internets.

Well, I just hope that you have figured out by now that I'm an idiot.

turtle777 · Aug 21, 2007, 04:02 PM

Originally Posted by JohnM15141

Gonna have to say this thread is silly, and... it is closely followed by absurd...

I have to agree.

How the fark his this been going on for 5 pages.

-t

besson3c · Aug 21, 2007, 04:10 PM

Hi Turtle,

Do you like cats?

paul w · Aug 21, 2007, 04:11 PM

Originally Posted by turtle777

I have to agree.

How the fark his this been going on for 5 pages.

-t

Laminar · Aug 21, 2007, 04:23 PM

I'm beating Dakar. Ha.

Dakarʒ · Aug 21, 2007, 04:26 PM

I'm embarrassed I have 10, but abe managed to extract them out of me even though I didn't address him.

Laminar · Aug 21, 2007, 04:29 PM

Trying to covertly beat me, huh?

besson3c · Aug 21, 2007, 04:35 PM

Laminar: if he wanted to beat you, he'd just buy you a My Little Pony toy and let you have at it.

(Laminar likes My Little Pony)

Dakarʒ · Aug 21, 2007, 04:36 PM

Originally Posted by Laminar

Trying to covertly beat me, huh?

If I were trying to beat you, I'd dp. At best I'm keeping pace at one behind.

Laminar · Aug 21, 2007, 04:50 PM

Originally Posted by besson3c

Laminar: if he wanted to beat you, he'd just buy you a My Little Pony toy and let you have at it.

(Laminar likes My Little Pony)

Besson, why are you using someone else's sig?

turtle777 · Aug 21, 2007, 05:00 PM

Originally Posted by Laminar

Besson, why are you using someone else's sig?

Slow learn.., ah, nevermind

-t

sek929 · Aug 21, 2007, 05:42 PM

We now see how abe is able to win at every internet discussion.

Pure force.

abe · Aug 21, 2007, 09:59 PM

Originally Posted by Dakarʒ

It took you this long to figure this out?

I keed, I keed

You don't, you don't!

IMHO

abe · Aug 21, 2007, 10:02 PM

Originally Posted by sek929

We now see how abe is able to win at every internet discussion.

Pure force.

Pure COURTESY.

I was courteous enough to respond to those who bothered to post here. I used to be accused of NOT replying!!! Geez, some people can be sooooo fickle.

Like women, in a way.

besson3c · Aug 21, 2007, 10:04 PM

Abe, you need to learn to make love to the threads you write. This guy named mojo2 taught me this.

abe · Aug 21, 2007, 10:08 PM

Originally Posted by besson3c

Oldmanmac: I like to pretend that I'm a foreign agent sometimes, I got the idea from Abe. My idea of a foreign agent is somebody that does a lot of summersaults in a suit with a gun in hand.

The next time you can't sleep, I suggest you think about foreign agent besson3c just kicking ass all over the place with his gun!

abe · Aug 21, 2007, 10:13 PM

Originally Posted by paul w

And the the only one on that list I don't like is MacosNerd.

abe · Aug 21, 2007, 10:15 PM

Originally Posted by besson3c

Abe, you need to learn to make love to the threads you write. This guy named mojo2 taught me this.

"Just what is a mojo?

Where I got my nickname should be fairly obvious. I was first called "Mojo" in the 9th grade by a fellow named Frank Stubblefield, who was talking about HoJo's (Howard Johnson's restaurant nickname) at the time. He looked at me and said, "Mojo!" It stuck ever since.

It might not have stuck so well if I hadn't adopted "Mojo" instead of "Morris" for my name on ham radio.

Being Mojo, I tend to hear about other mojos in the world. It turns out to be a very rich word with a long history.

There is one meaning for mojo that appears to be the original and oldest I can find: A mojo is a voodoo magic charm. It can be specifically a fertility charm, or just a generic word for voodoo magic. If you have a collection of charms, you might also keep them in a "mojo bag," which I'm told is made from cat parts. In fact the word "mojo" is pidgin for the english word "magic."

So when an old blues singer sings of having his mojo working, he means he's likely to be lucky with the ladies tonight. If his baby's got a mojo, it means he's going to remain faithful to her -- can't resist the magic! I believe the first reference to mojo in song came from Muddy Waters, who recorded "The Mojo Blues."

A later reference to mojo comes from The Beatles in "Come Together" from Abbey Road ("He got ... mojo filter").

But by far the most notable reference is from Jim Morrison and The Doors in LA Woman, "Mr. Mojo Risin' ... risin' risin'." This is the one most people think of when they hear the word mojo. Mojo will always be closely associated with Morrison -- the expression "mr. mojo risin" is an anagram for Jim Morrison. Morrison said that he would be reincarnated as "Mr. Mojo Risin'."

However mojo is still a popular word in other contexts:

* It's often a euphemism for various drugs (perhaps a reference to their magic power).
* There's a high school football team in Odessa, TX known as mojo.
* There's a radio station in New York playing "Mojo Radio."
* Shakey's Pizza Parlor serves "mojo potatoes," a very good concoction of thick potato slices breaded and fried with chicken seasonings.
* Servicemen who spent time in the Phillipines remember a Mojo as a potent bar drink there. (I saw the recipe on a t-shirt once, it sounded dreadful.)
* There's an advertising agency known as Mojo in San Francisco.
* David Ahadi reports of MOJO inline skates out of Kansas City -- Skates you can use your own shoes in.
* There's an english music magazine named Mojo. "

besson3c · Aug 21, 2007, 10:46 PM

Hehehe... I didn't read Abe's post.

abe · Aug 22, 2007, 04:18 AM

Originally Posted by besson3c

Hehehe... I didn't read Abe's post.

Besson's Digest version:

Mr. Mojo is risin.

Ok. Now try not reading THAT!

abe · Aug 22, 2007, 04:24 AM

Originally Posted by Kevin

Get a grip? My post was tongue in cheek.

I was hoping the over the top "And we all know THAT is what is the most important." would be the obvious clue.

Oh well.

I LOVE COUNTRY MUSIC

KILLER sig, Kevin!!!!!!

Kudos!

- - e r i k - - · Aug 22, 2007, 05:17 AM

I have to admit, that sig is pretty funny.

Kevin · Aug 22, 2007, 06:12 AM

Originally Posted by OldManMac

My apologies. Sometimes the intent is hard to discern over teh internets.

No big deal, as I have done it myself, and you are correct. It is hard to discern.

Kevin · Aug 22, 2007, 06:13 AM

Originally Posted by sek929

We now see how abe is able to win at every internet discussion.

Pure force.

If force you mean internet-chi, then yes.

analogika · Aug 22, 2007, 06:58 AM

I would just like to say that the name "abe" reminds me uncomfortably of the acronym for "Another Bloody Enema".

It really bothers me.

Maybe I should start a poll or something.

Kevin · Aug 22, 2007, 07:48 AM

Really? Cause I get "Another Brilliant Einstein".

Odd.

I guess how we perceive such things says a lot about ourselves.

analogika · Aug 22, 2007, 07:53 AM

Originally Posted by Kevin

Really? Cause I get "Another Brilliant Einstein".

Odd.

I guess how we perceive such things says a lot about ourselves.

So what looks like a deluge of watered-down **** from my perspective is the musings of a brilliant would-be Einstein to you?

I guess how we perceive such things *does* say a lot about ourselves.

You may just be onto something there.

Kevin · Aug 22, 2007, 08:01 AM

Originally Posted by analogika

So what looks like a deluge of watered-down **** from my perspective

Why the need for such hateful rhetoric?

is the musings of a brilliant would-be Einstein to you?

Now where did I say that? I don't believe I compared Abe to Einstein. I just said that those words is what Abe's "initials" reminded me of.

I guess how we perceive such things *does* say a lot about ourselves.
You may just be onto something there.

abe · Aug 22, 2007, 08:37 AM

Originally Posted by analogika

I would just like to say that the name "abe" reminds me uncomfortably of the acronym for "Another Bloody Enema".

It really bothers me.

Maybe I should start a poll or something.

Maybe you could think of something else to do with a poll.

abe · Aug 22, 2007, 08:39 AM

Originally Posted by Kevin

Really? Cause I get "Another Brilliant Einstein".

Odd.

I guess how we perceive such things says a lot about ourselves.

BRILLIANT OBSERVATION!!!

analogika · Aug 22, 2007, 08:41 AM

Originally Posted by Kevin

Why the need for such hateful rhetoric?

No, you misunderstand!

I was merely explaining the term "enema", since the implications of what you'd written were obviously not clear to you!

abe · Aug 22, 2007, 08:44 AM

Originally Posted by analogika

So what looks like a deluge of watered-down **** from my perspective is the musings of a brilliant would-be Einstein to you?

I guess how we perceive such things *does* say a lot about ourselves.

You may just be onto something there.

Well, speaking of someone who is onto something, looky here! It seems you DID find something else to do with a poll. You polled yourself. By the way, you are a musician aren't you analogika? Do you think aurally?

abe · Aug 22, 2007, 08:51 AM

Originally Posted by analogika

No, you misunderstand!

I was merely explaining the term "enema", since the implications of what you'd written were obviously not clear to you!

Wouldn't it be more precise to say the "bloody" is what actually bothers you in the phrase, "bloody enema"?

Dakarʒ · Aug 22, 2007, 08:54 AM

Originally Posted by abe

You don't, you don't!

IMHO

Yeah, that's a real shame.

Kevin · 09:04 AM

Originally Posted by analogika

No, you misunderstand!
I was merely explaining the term "enema", since the implications of what you'd written were obviously not clear to you!

Good Good.. I can feel the hate flowing through you now.. . it makes you powerful doesn't it..

No strike me down with all of your hatred, and your journey towards the Dark Side will be complete!

Kevin · Aug 22, 2007, 08:59 AM

Originally Posted by abe

BRILLIANT OBSERVATION!!!

Oh but that cat is still in the bag it seems.

besson3c · Aug 22, 2007, 09:40 AM

Kia doesn't bother me.

turtle777 · Aug 22, 2007, 10:00 AM

Pluth Won !

-t

abe · Aug 30, 2007, 01:40 AM

Originally Posted by turtle777

Pluth Won !

-t

Plonthequences Lost?

abe · Aug 30, 2007, 01:42 AM

Originally Posted by besson3c

Kia doesn't bother me.

What does?