reckon it would look like this....

Quote from: ell on April 16, 2008, 06:05:42 AM
so...are you sayimg it's Ok to be a bastard so long as one succeeds in one's selfish schemes?

Of course not, but the secret is, win, and you get to edit out all the nasty bits ... except of course if you happen to have a poet-king overcome by guilt at his part in it, condemned to face all manner of dangers on the way home by a vengeful patron deity, end up writing about all the nasty goings on...

The truth will out, it seems ... we hope ...

~Simone.

On another board I've been ranted at by 4 extremely right wing americans who say that the nuclear bomb was the most humane act there was, for stopping the war. Maybe a Trojan Horse argument could be similar.

Quote from: Pica Pica on April 16, 2008, 05:36:25 AM
I'd run from an army doing thriller.

A scary thought indeed! 

Z

The most humane way of ending the trojan war would be for the greeks to pack up and go home.

2nd humane thing would be for troy to lay down it's arms and let the jerks in.





Americans who think the bomb is humane are jerks

Quote from: Pica Pica on April 16, 2008, 06:22:02 AM
On another board I've been ranted at by 4 extremely right wing americans who say that the nuclear bomb was the most humane act there was, for stopping the war. Maybe a Trojan Horse argument could be similar.

Ye gods! Surely you jest?! I cannot imagine what goes on in minds like those.

~Simone.

nor me, i was just playing the argument.

Quote from: Rebis on April 15, 2008, 12:23:24 PM
Yeah, but they the trojans were failures.  Their city fell.  And was properly sacked, as it should be.

But those who got away went on to found Rome, at least if you trust Virgil. Later on, of course, the Romans conquered all Greece, so perhaps the fall of Troy was just a temporary setback.

  Nfr

Quote from: Rebis on April 16, 2008, 07:22:58 AM
Americans who think the bomb is humane are jerks

As the father of a draft-age son, I'd even say that Americans who think select service is a good idea are jerks. Let those who cry the loudest for war be on the front lines fighting it, regardless of age, sex, gender, experience, or ability.

There, now that I've cleared my colon I feel better.

Quote from: Shades O'Grey on April 16, 2008, 09:36:52 AM

Quote from: Rebis on April 16, 2008, 07:22:58 AM
Americans who think the bomb is humane are jerks

As the father of a draft-age son, I'd even say that Americans who think select service is a good idea are jerks. Let those who cry the loudest for war be on the front lines fighting it, regardless of age, sex, gender, experience, or ability.

There, now that I've cleared my colon I feel better.

there goes an army of neocons!  kind of nerdy.

Quote from: Pica Pica on April 16, 2008, 07:38:58 AM
nor me, i was just playing the argument.

You - arguing with peeps? 

no, just doing a survey of angles.

Not saxons?

  Nfr

No, e was angling for survey answers.

You beat me to that video, Pica!!!  That was the first thing I thought of when "Thriller" came up!

Quote from: Shades O'Grey on April 16, 2008, 09:36:52 AM
Americans who think select service is a good idea are jerks. Let those who cry the loudest for war be on the front lines fighting it, regardless of age, sex, gender, experience, or ability.

AMEN to that!  Dubya and Cheney ought to be on the front lines.  I'd like to point out that (hopefully) most Americans do not favor the war...just the loudest ones.

Nice puns. 

Quote from: Nero on April 16, 2008, 10:31:48 AM

Quote from: Pica Pica on April 16, 2008, 07:38:58 AM
nor me, i was just playing the argument.

You - arguing with peeps? 

Ok, dawgone it! i have to say this about p**ps.

p**ps are not just any shmo on the street. those are people.

Peeps are people who are very close to you. your Mom, sweetie, for instance, is one of your peeps.

So i doubt Pica was online arguing with hir peeps about nucular war. well, but Pica is rather strange, so, in hir case, possibly.

-ell

Quote from: ell on April 17, 2008, 08:34:22 PM
Peeps are people who are very close to you. your Mom, sweetie, for instance, is one of your peeps.

So i doubt Pica was online arguing with hir peeps about nucular war. well, but Pica is rather strange, so, in hir case, possibly.

-ell

Uh oh Ell, you said the p__p word... 

Hopefully Rebis didn't hear you, and I won't tell hir you said it 

Z

Quote from: Zythyra on April 17, 2008, 08:47:53 PM

Quote from: ell on April 17, 2008, 08:34:22 PM
Peeps are people who are very close to you. your Mom, sweetie, for instance, is one of your peeps.

So i doubt Pica was online arguing with hir peeps about nucular war. well, but Pica is rather strange, so, in hir case, possibly.

-ell

Uh oh Ell, you said the p__p word... 

Hopefully Rebis didn't hear you, and I won't tell hir you said it 

Z

it's Ok, Z.

Rebis hurt my feelings and still hasn't gotten me any flowers yet...

-ell

Quote from: ell on April 17, 2008, 08:55:49 PM
it's Ok, Z.

Rebis hurt my feelings and still hasn't gotten me any flowers yet...

-ell

Here...

Z

Quote from: ell on April 17, 2008, 08:34:22 PM

Quote from: Nero on April 16, 2008, 10:31:48 AM

Quote from: Pica Pica on April 16, 2008, 07:38:58 AM
nor me, i was just playing the argument.

You - arguing with peeps? 

Ok, dawgone it! i have to say this about p**ps.

p**ps are not just any shmo on the street. those are people.

Peeps are people who are very close to you. your Mom, sweetie, for instance, is one of your peeps.

So i doubt Pica was online arguing with hir peeps about nucular war. well, but Pica is rather strange, so, in hir case, possibly.

-ell

That's what it used to mean. Until Reebs forbid us to say it.