OT: Al Franken

Spehro Pefhany · Apr 3, 2004

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 20:35:04 GMT, the renowned "Roger Gt"
<not@here.net> wrote:

X-No-Archive: yes
"John Larkin" wrote
: Fred Bloggs wrote
: >Jim Thompson wrote:
:
: >> Cowardice actually IS a political persuasion, sort of like
TORY.
:
: >> However, as I've recently been found out, I'm more
Libertarian than
: >> Republican, though I do have an intense aversion to cowards
;-)
: >> ...Jim Thompson
:
: >Natural selection favors cowardice- the brave are killed off in
wars.
snip>:
: So why isn't humanity 100% cowards by now?

Because it isn't true

Maybe it is. You'd have to ask "compared to what". By insect
standards, we're probably very cowardly. By dog standards, less so.

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Jim Thompson · Apr 3, 2004

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 12:43:16 -0800, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@highlandSNIPtechTHISnologyPLEASE.com> wrote:

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 20:05:36 GMT, Spehro Pefhany
speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote:
[snip]
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~atman/ic/lutefisk.html

Funny! But grits isn't like that. Trust me.

Grits is just a down-home, slightly granier, white version of polenta:
bleached corn meal. Cooked right, it has a slightly wheaty, faintly
bitter flavor and a soft but still granular, not gummy, texture. It's
wonderful with lots of butter, salt, and black pepper, with a couple
of runny fried eggs on the side.

If you cook a *lot*, you might have some leftovers: refrigerate
overnight, slice into thin slabs, and pan-fry in butter the next day;
serve with syrup like pancakes. Yum.

"Grits" is always singular.

Send me your address and I'll ship you a box.

John

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John Larkin · Apr 3, 2004

On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 13:00:20 -0800, "Richard Henry" <rphenry@home.com>
wrote:

"Spehro Pefhany" <speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote in message
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On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 11:54:06 -0800, the renowned John Larkin
jjlarkin@highlandSNIPtechTHISnologyPLEASE.com> wrote:

Please don't besmurch the name of that noble breakfast (and around
here, occasionally, dinner) food.

Anybody wany my recipe for fried grits?
John

What does it taste like? Is it one of those things like tofu that only
tastes good or even okay because of what goes with it?

I had it in my Nvy days with boiled okra and chicken-fried rabbit. they
didn't help the grits.

Okra is like asparagus held together with Elmer's Glue, and my
experience with wild-shot chicken-fried rabbit is that it tastes like
a ditch-diggers glove. Terrible things to do to perfectly good grits.

Navy grits was probably over-cooked; that makes it gummy and gross,
sort of like oatmeal.

John

Spehro Pefhany · Apr 3, 2004

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 13:17:38 -0800, the renowned John Larkin
<jjlarkin@highlandSNIPtechTHISnologyPLEASE.com> wrote:

The important difference is that bugs and dogs don't shake peoples'
hands and make commitments. Well, some dogs do.
John

Employees, even if you feed them for years, won't attack and bite
threatening people several times their own size. Well, some will.

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
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John Fields · Apr 3, 2004

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 13:15:16 -0800, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@highlandSNIPtechTHISnologyPLEASE.com> wrote:

On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 13:00:20 -0800, "Richard Henry" <rphenry@home.com
wrote:

"Spehro Pefhany" <speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote in message
news:ej6u60tfl53kpa7m74n2rnnmc3g8n8o8oq@4ax.com...
On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 11:54:06 -0800, the renowned John Larkin
jjlarkin@highlandSNIPtechTHISnologyPLEASE.com> wrote:

Please don't besmurch the name of that noble breakfast (and around
here, occasionally, dinner) food.

Anybody wany my recipe for fried grits?
John

What does it taste like? Is it one of those things like tofu that only
tastes good or even okay because of what goes with it?

I had it in my Nvy days with boiled okra and chicken-fried rabbit. they
didn't help the grits.

Okra is like asparagus held together with Elmer's Glue, and my
experience with wild-shot chicken-fried rabbit is that it tastes like
a ditch-diggers glove. Terrible things to do to perfectly good grits.

Navy grits was probably over-cooked; that makes it gummy and gross,
sort of like oatmeal.

---
Actually, boiled okra is like tapioca held together with snot, but
slice it into disks and and heat it up with diced tomatoes and onions
that have been sauteed along with a little garlic (the onions, not the
tomatoes) and you'll be in for a treat!

Cooking oatmeal for too long is what makes it gross, but even that can
be rescued by stirring in a handful of raw oatmeal just before it's
served.

--
John Fields

Jim Thompson · Apr 3, 2004

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 21:38:49 GMT, Spehro Pefhany
<speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote:

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 13:17:38 -0800, the renowned John Larkin
jjlarkin@highlandSNIPtechTHISnologyPLEASE.com> wrote:

The important difference is that bugs and dogs don't shake peoples'
hands and make commitments. Well, some dogs do.
John

Employees, even if you feed them for years, won't attack and bite
threatening people several times their own size. Well, some will.

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

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John Larkin · Apr 3, 2004

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 15:44:32 -0700, Jim Thompson
<thegreatone@example.com> wrote:

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 21:38:49 GMT, Spehro Pefhany
speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote:

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 13:17:38 -0800, the renowned John Larkin
jjlarkin@highlandSNIPtechTHISnologyPLEASE.com> wrote:

The important difference is that bugs and dogs don't shake peoples'
hands and make commitments. Well, some dogs do.
John

Employees, even if you feed them for years, won't attack and bite
threatening people several times their own size. Well, some will.

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

Ever had two female employees get into a fight? I have. I'd rather
try to separate two mad dogs ;-)

...Jim Thompson

The only really serious (and I mean work-stalking, home-stalking,
love-letters-and-death-threats-sending) sexual harassment thing we've
ever had was between two women. The victim was twice the age of the
pursuer. Kinda, umm, different. Worked it out, though.

John

Spehro Pefhany · Apr 3, 2004

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 15:44:32 -0700, the renowned Jim Thompson
<thegreatone@example.com> wrote:

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 21:38:49 GMT, Spehro Pefhany
speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote:

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 13:17:38 -0800, the renowned John Larkin
jjlarkin@highlandSNIPtechTHISnologyPLEASE.com> wrote:

The important difference is that bugs and dogs don't shake peoples'
hands and make commitments. Well, some dogs do.
John

Employees, even if you feed them for years, won't attack and bite
threatening people several times their own size. Well, some will.

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

Ever had two female employees get into a fight? I have. I'd rather
try to separate two mad dogs ;-)

...Jim Thompson

No, not a physical fight, just the relentless cruel calculated sniping
that females are socialized to do so well. I'm not sure which would be
worse.

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
--
"it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward"
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Jim Thompson · Apr 3, 2004

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 23:42:24 GMT, Spehro Pefhany
<speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote:

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 15:44:32 -0700, the renowned Jim Thompson
thegreatone@example.com> wrote:

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 21:38:49 GMT, Spehro Pefhany
speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote:

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 13:17:38 -0800, the renowned John Larkin
jjlarkin@highlandSNIPtechTHISnologyPLEASE.com> wrote:

The important difference is that bugs and dogs don't shake peoples'
hands and make commitments. Well, some dogs do.
John

Employees, even if you feed them for years, won't attack and bite
threatening people several times their own size. Well, some will.

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

Ever had two female employees get into a fight? I have. I'd rather
try to separate two mad dogs ;-)

...Jim Thompson

No, not a physical fight, just the relentless cruel calculated sniping
that females are socialized to do so well. I'm not sure which would be
worse.

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

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John Fields · Apr 3, 2004

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 16:52:59 -0700, Jim Thompson
<thegreatone@example.com> wrote:

I've had that sort of thing as well, but a male and a female, arguing
over *religion*. Needless to say I just asserted that one more
mention of religion was grounds for firing ;-)

---
At the stake?

--
John Fields

KR Williams · Apr 4, 2004

In article <tnbs60h3l9q7d8svjbrljos4nfolo5dddl@4ax.com>,
jjlarkin@highlandSNIPtechTHISnologyPLEASE.com says...

On 2 Apr 2004 17:19:15 -0800, jdurban@vorel.com (Product developer)
wrote:

Ann is a kick.

My wife bought me an Ann talking doll for Christmas (to go along
with the 'W' talking doll from the year before). I may put them
on my desk at work, just to piss off the libs.

--
Keith

John Larkin · Apr 4, 2004

On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 21:24:24 +0100, John Woodgate
<jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote:

I read in sci.electronics.design that John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandSNIP
techTHISnologyPLEASE.com> wrote (in <gq5u60ld94e9g0dvrdvh1mkghom8240st6@
4ax.com&gt about 'Al Franken', on Sat, 3 Apr 2004:

So why isn't humanity 100% cowards by now?

I daren't tell you.

Oh please do; I promise not to hurt you.

John

Spehro Pefhany · Apr 4, 2004

On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 13:29:15 -0700, the renowned John Larkin
<jjlarkin@highlandSNIPtechTHISnologyPLEASE.com> wrote:

On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 21:24:24 +0100, John Woodgate
jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote:

I read in sci.electronics.design that John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandSNIP
techTHISnologyPLEASE.com> wrote (in <gq5u60ld94e9g0dvrdvh1mkghom8240st6@
4ax.com&gt about 'Al Franken', on Sat, 3 Apr 2004:

So why isn't humanity 100% cowards by now?

I daren't tell you.

Oh please do; I promise not to hurt you.
John

Don't listen to him, W., he has corn soaked in lye, deliberately
abuses MOSFETs to destruction, forces innocent junctions into
avalanche at will and produces macabre jars of thick yellow INSECT
JUICE.

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
--
"it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward"
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Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.com

John Larkin · Apr 4, 2004

On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 21:59:34 GMT, Spehro Pefhany
<speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote:

On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 13:29:15 -0700, the renowned John Larkin
jjlarkin@highlandSNIPtechTHISnologyPLEASE.com> wrote:

On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 21:24:24 +0100, John Woodgate
jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote:

I read in sci.electronics.design that John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandSNIP
techTHISnologyPLEASE.com> wrote (in <gq5u60ld94e9g0dvrdvh1mkghom8240st6@
4ax.com&gt about 'Al Franken', on Sat, 3 Apr 2004:

So why isn't humanity 100% cowards by now?

I daren't tell you.

Oh please do; I promise not to hurt you.
John

Don't listen to him, W., he has corn soaked in lye, deliberately
abuses MOSFETs to destruction, forces innocent junctions into
avalanche at will and produces macabre jars of thick yellow INSECT
JUICE.

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

He-he-hoo-hoo-ha-ha! And I apply kilovolts to tiny 0603 resistors
until they die in a puff of smoke! I run GaAs fets at 16 volts! I
sneer at safe operating areas! I bolt transistors directly to anodized
heatsinks! If Marlon Brando had been an engineer, he'd be me! Or I'd
be him! Whatever.

That said, I think I'll go bake some brownies. The Joy of Cooking
recipe is pretty good, with pecans.

John

R. Steve Walz · Apr 5, 2004

maxfoo wrote:

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 14:54:42 GMT, Fred Bloggs <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:

Natural selection favors cowardice- the brave are killed off in wars.
Scientific experiments have been conducted on mice that prove cowardice
is an inherited trait- switching offspring between bold mice and timid
mice at birth allowing the bold/timid to raise the timid/bold, and
mixing/matching bold/timid pairs, the offspring exhibit their
statistical biological traits regardless. Surveys show that in times of
scarcity, the bold population dwindles, killed off by predators while
recklessly foraging ever further from protection in search of food, and
the timid mice just get skinny but mostly survive. In the human domain-
the cowards do not participate in fighting- so they either enjoy the
privileges won for them by the brave or survive in slavery- either way
they keep on breeding.

The fact that the brave keep surviving through out every generation is that
they breed when very young, so being killed in battle doesn't dwindle the bold
population. These are the guys that are screwing every hole in sight. Raping and
pilging every village like the Genghis Khans before them. Being brave also
applies to these hoodlums too.

If anything its the cowards that are dwindling.
-----------------

Nope, you missed it, they get to stick around and make babies.
The thrill-seekers die young, if they die too young to breed,
then they don't get to. Instead it's a dominant/recessive gene
pair, like brown and blue eyes, so that even the timid can
have a few brave children.
Steve

Mark Fergerson · Apr 5, 2004

Jim Thompson wrote:

<snip>

My normal switch, when Rush comes on, is to Bob Mohan, who has
returned to Phoenix talk radio, now that he's past his one-year
non-compete.

Where the hell is he? I missed him something fierce.

Mark L. Fergerson

Mark Fergerson · Apr 5, 2004

Mark Fergerson wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:

snip

My normal switch, when Rush comes on, is to Bob Mohan, who has
returned to Phoenix talk radio, now that he's past his one-year
non-compete.

Where the hell is he? I missed him something fierce.

Never mind:

http://www.1100kfnx.com/kfnx/shows/mohan.shtml

Mark L. Fergerson

John Larkin · Apr 5, 2004

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 14:01:23 -0700, Jim Thompson
<thegreatone@example.com> wrote:

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 12:43:16 -0800, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highlandSNIPtechTHISnologyPLEASE.com> wrote:

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 20:05:36 GMT, Spehro Pefhany
speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote:
[snip]
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~atman/ic/lutefisk.html

Funny! But grits isn't like that. Trust me.

Grits is just a down-home, slightly granier, white version of polenta:
bleached corn meal. Cooked right, it has a slightly wheaty, faintly
bitter flavor and a soft but still granular, not gummy, texture. It's
wonderful with lots of butter, salt, and black pepper, with a couple
of runny fried eggs on the side.

If you cook a *lot*, you might have some leftovers: refrigerate
overnight, slice into thin slabs, and pan-fry in butter the next day;
serve with syrup like pancakes. Yum.

"Grits" is always singular.

Send me your address and I'll ship you a box.

John

So my "mush" recollection was correct?

...Jim Thompson

Dunno, never heard it called that. It's just Fried Grits to us. My
wife (from Boston) and my kid (from California) and my bird (from
Brazil, maybe) all like grits, plain and fried. The cat doesn't care
for it.

John

John Fields · Apr 5, 2004

On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 15:10:09 -0700, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com> wrote:

Dunno, never heard it called that. It's just Fried Grits to us. My
wife (from Boston) and my kid (from California) and my bird (from
Brazil, maybe) all like grits, plain and fried. The cat doesn't care
for it.

---
Here's a trick: Mix a little honey into cooked grits and Voila! It
tastes just like Cream of Wheat.

Joke:

Did you hear that Buckwheat from Our Gang became Muslim? Now he wants
to be called Karim O' Wheat!

--
John Fields

John Fields · Apr 5, 2004

On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 15:15:04 GMT, maxfoo
<maxfooHeadFromButt@punkass.com> wrote:

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 14:54:42 GMT, Fred Bloggs <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:

Natural selection favors cowardice- the brave are killed off in wars.
Scientific experiments have been conducted on mice that prove cowardice
is an inherited trait- switching offspring between bold mice and timid
mice at birth allowing the bold/timid to raise the timid/bold, and
mixing/matching bold/timid pairs, the offspring exhibit their
statistical biological traits regardless. Surveys show that in times of
scarcity, the bold population dwindles, killed off by predators while
recklessly foraging ever further from protection in search of food, and
the timid mice just get skinny but mostly survive. In the human domain-
the cowards do not participate in fighting- so they either enjoy the
privileges won for them by the brave or survive in slavery- either way
they keep on breeding.

The fact that the brave keep surviving through out every generation is that
they breed when very young, so being killed in battle doesn't dwindle the bold
population. These are the guys that are screwing every hole in sight. Raping and
pilging every village like the Genghis Khans before them. Being brave also
applies to these hoodlums too.

If anything its the cowards that are dwindling.

---
Think so?

Take a look in the yellow pages under "Warriors" and see what you
find, and then look under "Attorneys".

--
John Fields

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