A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words

Marty Gingras

Marty Gingras

Mid-range Anarchist
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Monterey, California, USA
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Grog

Grog

Anarchist's Anarchist
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1,009
Germany
Ishmael said:
Oh, he's looking real healthy.

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We're looking at the Force fading bigly quickly in Darth Donald ...

... and I am looking at Mickey Rourke's OSCAR™, if this shit show is ever to be scripted for Hollywood.


Damn.



[. <- still no white space, suckers!]
 
Lark

Lark

Supper Anarchist
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Ohio
SloopJonB said:
My dad used to say he could never understand the appeal of the classic view of heaven - spending eternity wearing a sheet, sitting on a marble bench listening to harp music.
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May I suggest one of the greatest theological texts of the prior millennia?

Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven, by Mark Twain

www.gutenberg.org


“I had been having considerable trouble with my wings. The day after I helped the choir I made a dash or two with them, but was not lucky. First off, I flew thirty yards, and then fouled an Irishman and brought him down—brought us both down, in fact. Next, I had a collision with a Bishop—and bowled him down, of course. We had some sharp words, and I felt pretty cheap, to come banging into a grave old person like that, with a million strangers looking on and smiling to themselves.

I saw I hadn’t got the hang of the steering, and so couldn’t rightly tell where I was going to bring up when I started. I went afoot the rest of the day, and let my wings hang. Early next morning I went to a private place to have some practice. I got up on a pretty high rock, and got a good start, and went swooping down, aiming for a bush a little over three hundred yards off; but I couldn’t seem to calculate for the wind, which was about two points abaft my beam. I could see I was going considerable to looard of the bush, so I worked my starboard wing slow and went ahead strong on the port one, but it wouldn’t answer; I could see I was going to broach to, so I slowed down on both, and lit. I went back to the rock and took another chance at it. I aimed two or three points to starboard of the bush—yes, more than that—enough so as to make it nearly a head-wind. I done well enough, but made pretty poor time. I could see, plain enough, that on a head-wind, wings was a mistake. I could see that a body could sail pretty close to the wind, but he couldn’t go in the wind’s eye. I could see that if I wanted to go a-visiting any distance from home, and the wind was ahead, I might have to wait days, maybe, for a change; and I could see, too, that these things could not be any use at all in a gale; if you tried to run before the wind, you would make a mess of it, for there isn’t anyway to shorten sail—like reefing, you know—you have to take it all in—shut your feathers down flat to your sides. That would land you, of course. You could lay to, with your head to the wind—that is the best you could do, and right hard work you’d find it, too. If you tried any other game, you would founder, sure.”
 
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