PCIntern
PCIntern's JournalHey! I just had an episiotomy...no, an epicenter...no, an epiphany!
I can talk like a RW Congressman, and I didn't even know it!
Examples:
"Fuck you!" followed by "I was inarticulate."
"Your mother's a whore!" followed by "That remark was taken out of context."
"
Fill-in-the-blank) should be taken out and shot" followed by "This would benefit them greatly in the long run"
"You are a lying traitor!" followed by "I was not referring to you personally."
BTW, the best way to handle one of these folk if they insult you in some fashion as above is to allow them to completely finish and then say real sincerely and amazedly, "That's remarkable - that is EXACTLY what your wife said to me in the shower yesterday."
They will never ever be able to get that image out of their heads: everytime their wife says "I'm going to take a shower" or when they themselves get in the shower, or when they see you. I use it infrequently but to great effect.
Just a thought on a cold Saturday here in the City of Brotherly Love...
Any SF fans recall a short story entitled "A Subway Named Moebius"
from Groff Conklin's first Omnibus of Science Fiction?
A subway train disappears on the Boston tracks. Occasionally people can hear the train and signals can change but it doesn't appear anywhere. The narrator spends the story searching for the train - one of the funniest lines is (paraphrasing):
Physicist: The train may have hit a node and vanished.
Maintenance Chief: We don't leave no nodes lying on the tracks.
It is coincidence - or is it - that the only professor in Boston who could fully comprehend this situation is, of course, on the train.
Anyway, the narrator gives up, gets on a train weeks later and finds out that he's on it and that it's reappeared. The professor may be on another train...and THAT one has disappeared!
So: who was on that plane?
Yeah Anderson, how DARE anyone come up with his or her own theory?
The implication of these Media Whores Onteevee is that although America is a free country, only they are allowed to hypothesize.
Let me tell you when I was willing to bet, and still am, that terrorism was involved: because that know-nothing Evan Kohlmann last night on MSNBC stated unequivocally that there was absolutely no evidence that this was a terroristic attack or hijacking of the plane. Not htat there WAS any at the time, but he has been so wrong so often that betting against him is almost as good as betting against Jimmy the Greek on the old NFL on CBS back in the70's and 80's.
Anyone who saw that performance of disinformation would have given him the Brass Filigree with Bronze Oak-Leaf Palm for his act. It is all just so weird...I don't know what is more intriguing: the whereabouts of the plane or the mechanism in place to 'handle' these events courtesy of TPTB.
I had to share this re: missing jet
One of my patients is very much involved in the Internet conspiracy community: I will paraphrase his speech to me this morning...
Him: You know, Doctor (I love that) the 9/11 attacks were practiced beforehand and this taking of the plane is the same. The perpetrators got into the cabin, disabled the transponder and radio, and hijacked the plane a la the movie Thunderball. That plane is somewhere either on a landing field camouflaged or on the shallow ocean floor and camouflaged. There were people on that plane they wanted and they got them. After all, you KNOW that there was no such thing as the Pentagon plane and those people are either incarcerated or dead somewhere. If there were a crash at the Pentagon where were all the seats and the bodies? So it is the same business here.
Me: So we're doing a DO on #3 today. Here's some pina colada numbing gel before the injection, OK?
Anyone else see the Dopey CNN anchor interview Carl Bernstein?
He had to keep saying to her, words to the effect of 'I didn't say that' and she reminded me of the old-line Cold War 'journos' from the 50's: no grasp of the real situation or the history,. but lots of opinions as to what city we should bomb. She DID grant him the fact that he brought 'intellect' to the program.
Sheesh...
This missing plane is conjuring up Stephen King's 'The Langoliers'...
a very compelling novella and even the TeeVee movie was not half bad. It was rough enough to contemplate weird crashing/disappearing scenarios when I awakened in the middle of the night for middle-aged-men's reasons, but then to read that the cell phone of one of the passengers is (ostensibly) ringing was enough to give me the willies bigtime.
I am reposting this from a couple weeks ago in light of the Radio Shack News:
I certainly hope this particular store is closed...with my luck it won't be:
Here's the post from the ice storm a couple weeks ago:
I am rarely flabbergasted...
So I am without a phone, TV or Internet except for my iphone, because my Verizon Fios transformer blew after the power outage last week. However, there is a 12v jack on the side of the box for auxiliary power. I had jury rigged a 12v transformer with an almost appropriate jack and plugged it in, but it was a little too small and wasn't making good contact with the conductors. So at 7:45 I went out to Radio Shack to purchase a variable transformer which has assorted jacks which you can buy to fit into the universal cord. The guy asked me what size I needed and told him,. this one. He asked if I were sure. I said, not certain but I will tell you what: I will buy one of each of the very small. He said he wouldn't sell me two adapters. I asked him why not, that 500 of his stores were going to be closing soon and couldn't they use every sale they could get? He said that in good conscience, if everyone bought two, then there would not be enough left to supply all of the ttransformers. I then said, OK, I will buy the one I think it is, take
it home and measure it without taking it out of the package. If it works great, if not, I can exchange it, right? He said that again he would not sell this to me because I was not certain which I needed. I reiterated that I would be happy to either buy both or exchange it within 15 minutes, no harm done. He REFUSED to sell me the product under any circumstances. HE was the only guy in the store, so there was no appeal play. Now I have no TeeVee until Monday, no real Internet, and no phone. In another life, before I was on Beta Blockers I think I would have gone berserk in the store. At this point, I just accepted the fact that I am a complete loser and left empty-handed. I know: I could have bought a digital antenna but I didn't care at that point,. I only wanted to get out before I did something really stupid.
As they used to say in Peanuts, "AAAUUGGGGHHHH!"
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