I hate racism in any form.

[Syndrome]

I don't see God as having a particular sex either. After all, what is "sex" but a set of physical attributes for the purposes of reproduction? God is a spiritual being so I highly doubt He/She/It has any genitalia!

Freaky what some churches will teach though. When I was in fourth grade, I lived with my aunt in Indiana for a spell and attended Sunday School at a hard-core Baptist church. We were taught that the song "Jesus Loves the Little Children" was wrong because it says "Red and yellow black and white, they are precious in his sight," but Jesus actually loves white children most of all. Seriously, they taught that shit! Thankfully the rest of my upbringing was enough to counteract that BS.

[Ms. Matterhorn]

Flintstones, meet the Flintstones
They're the modern stone-age family
From the town of Bedrock
They're a page right out of history
Some day, maybe Fred will win the fight
And that cat will stay out for the night
When you're with the Flintstones
Have a yabba-dabba-doo time
A dabba-doo time
You'll have a gay old time

ROTFL, GP UR2 FUNNY! :hysteria:
I had forgotten those lyrics!

[Randy B]

(snip of wonderful but long story)

You should've heard the biddies freaking out that day he got promoted LOL. I just loved it. It was a thing of beauty and as such, a joy forever . :D:

Karma can be wonderful.

Randy

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

Karma can be wonderful.

Randy

True!! Just ask Earl!

[February]

Karma can be wonderful.

Randy

I've seen it too many times not to believe it!

We were speaking of Bono earlier in the thread- OMG I just saw this: He got an artist friend of his to enlist artists to auction art for AIDS programs in Africa they raised 42 million dollars!!! http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=4301373

[CMGUY89]

CMGUY thank you for saying so succintly what I was trying to say with so much unnecessary verbage!

Bru

NP, that's what you guys keep me around for... I try to impart as much wisdom as an 18 year old can have...

[Randy B]

NP, that's what you guys keep me around for... I try to impart as much wisdom as an 18 year old can have...

We can count on you to impart wisdom BETTER than a normal 18yo can give. I know that back when I was that age the extent of wisdom was "Wow" and "Cool" and the occasional "Huh?". And the current crop may have a problem with that large a vocabulary. I think that I don't count on anything beyond the occasional "Dude", which seems to be the correct response to most anything. From your postings so far we have come to expect a much higher level of brain activity from you. Thanks for giving us hope for the current generation.

Randy

[felinefan]

Reminds me of a magazine ad I saw when I was a kid for Midol: Two pictures of the same lady, upper picture shows her with a distressed look, hand to temple, "Mary's miserable". Lower picture shows her smiling, "Mary's gay." Reason? She was bloated, cranky, achy and had low energy because of "that time of the month". Reason she cheered up? She took Midol! My mom has a set of CDs of music from her generation, including Rosemary Clooney, and in a couple of songs the word gay is used to mean cheerful.

Seriously, if you want to see something interesting, get a really good dictionary that has in-depth word history and origins, and see how certain words have changed in meaning.

But you know what the saddest thing is about AIDS? National Geographic had an article on "The Disease Detectives', studying how diseases spread, and the origin of AIDS was these West African truckers would drive up and down the coast,and in trying to save what little money they were paid, they took to eating monkeys. Since there wasn't much in the way of entertainment, they patronized prostitutes. The AIDS virus started in monkeys, but they're immune to it; but when it got into these truckers, it changed and that's how it spread.
But the first case of AIDS was in 1955; a young British sailor came to the hospital with pneumonia and other puzzling symptoms. They saved tissue samples after he died, and later through analysis it was found he'd died of AIDS. Probably was in Africa or thereabouts, patronized a prostitute, and that's how he got it. The real tragedy in Africa is there is a horrible rumor going around to these desperate people that if they have sex with a virgin it will cure AIDS. Young women and even little girls are getting raped and infected. Most of AIDS' victims are completely innocent--look at Ryan White and Arthur Ashe, they had hemophilia and got AIDS from blood transfusions.

[Randy B]

Reminds me of a magazine ad I saw when I was a kid for Midol: Two pictures of the same lady, upper picture shows her with a distressed look, hand to temple, "Mary's miserable". Lower picture shows her smiling, "Mary's gay." Reason? She was bloated, cranky, achy and had low energy because of "that time of the month". Reason she cheered up? She took Midol!

This reminds me of a comedy routine (I believe it was by Cos) about a husband with a headache and the medicine chest was out of aspirin. So he took one of his wife's Midol. He said it DID get rid of the headache, but he was high and silly for several days! His conclusion was something along the lines of "you gals don't know how good you got it to have such wild haluciogens available just for the asking. ;)

Randy

[felinefan]

I don't remember it that way; it was in his monologue "The Toothache", about how he had a toothache, no aspirin, and his landlady gave him Midol. It worked so well, when he asked her for more, she said she didn't have any more, and Cos accuses her of being a junkie dealer. She tells him he can get the Midol at the drugstore, so he runs into the drugstore and tells the druggist to give him a can of Midol, and it's for him! Then he says his voice is no higher than it used to be, etc., it's just every 28 days he gets a little iritable.