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Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2021 1:13 am
by Cody
A prototype flying car has completed a 35-minute flight between international airports in Nitra and Bratislava, Slovakia.
An actual flying car? Fascinating! Article here.

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2021 9:42 am
by Cody
Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because, as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don't know.
As an obituary, that's right up there!

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2021 12:57 pm
by Disembodied
Weapon Of Mass Destruction Found Dead At 88

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2021 2:05 pm
by Cody
Yeah, that's pretty good too! Good enough to drag Teflon Tony in!

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2021 12:27 pm
by Disembodied
Interestingly, since the England team adopted a Marxist perspective they haven’t conceded a goal in a major tournament.

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2021 1:56 pm
by Cody
<scratches head>
Football's coming home!
Meanwhile...
In a blog post, Mr Cummings claimed Mr Johnson "regularly admits it's ludicrous he's prime minister".

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2021 12:25 pm
by Cody
The film [Titane] tells the story of a young female killer who has sex with cars after surviving a childhood crash.
The mind boggles!

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2021 1:25 pm
by RockDoctor
Cody wrote: Sun Jul 18, 2021 12:25 pm
The film [Titane] tells the story of a young female killer who has sex with cars after surviving a childhood crash.
The mind boggles!
But the switches toggle!

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2021 12:06 pm
by Cholmondely
Just thinking about Cody's current tagline:

Who was it that set up a system, a supposedly democratic system
Where you end up always voting for the lesser of two evils?


Is this not, really, what indirect democracy will always be?

The moment you have political parties, none will ever totally represent what any one individual desires politically, so each party will inevitably offer a compromise tailored to keep most of their supporters relatively happy, and one inevitably ends up in the situation described.

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2021 12:37 pm
by Cody
Context...

Who dealt this mess, anyway?
Yeah, it's an old card player's term
But sometimes you can use the old switcheroo
And it can be applied to frontal politics
What I mean is, who was it that set up a system
A supposedly democratic system
Where you end up always voting for the lesser of two evils?
I mean, was George Washington the lesser of two evils?
Sometimes I wonder. You got some guy that says
"For God's sake, we've got to stop having violence in this country."
While he's spending 16,000 dollars a second... snuffin' gooks


The Fugs

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2021 5:19 pm
by Cody
Some good news to brighten a dark and stormy Monday...
Baroness Dido Harding, who ran the government's Covid-19 test-and-trace programme in England, will step down from her NHS role in October.
Where next for the Queen of Carnage?

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2021 5:21 pm
by Cholmondely
Cody wrote: Mon Aug 09, 2021 5:19 pm
Dido
Queen of Carnage
A nice classical allusion!

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2021 6:41 pm
by Cody
"It turns out if you go 1,000 ft down in the ocean, it's really dark, and the animals are really strange. But if you put on some Pink Floyd, it's fantastic."

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2021 10:31 pm
by Cody
"My father worked on the road, my mother in the fields. We were very poor. I went to school… I learned nothing at all.
Everything I have learned has come from nature."
R.I.P. Lee "Scratch" Perry!

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2021 3:33 pm
by Disembodied
Kazakhstan's rich man Dauren Mussa offers to trade the last Buran space shuttles in exchange for the skull of the last Kazakh Khan, Kenessary Kassymov
https://www.caravan.kz/gazeta/burany-ve ... sa-777009/