#2 2009-04-24 03:20:28
Ohmigod! An event like that could completely destroy the careers of hundreds, if not thousands, of pretty, sensationalist television news presenters!
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#3 2009-04-24 06:34:20
I like how he's reporting it like its new news. No sunspots though = no solar flares for the most part, why worry about it now when there has not been sunspots in months.
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#4 2009-04-24 13:20:35
Taint wrote:
Ohmigod! An event like that could completely destroy the careers of hundreds, if not thousands, of pretty, sensationalist television news presenters!
You've got something for Bill Hemmer?
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#5 2009-04-24 13:50:54
pALEPHx wrote:
Taint wrote:
Ohmigod! An event like that could completely destroy the careers of hundreds, if not thousands, of pretty, sensationalist television news presenters!
You've got something for Bill Hemmer?
Actually, I'd never heard of him until now.
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#8 2009-04-24 19:32:53
It is over when it is over.
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
R. Frost
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#9 2009-04-24 19:47:02
Beams and blasts from the sun
It will do nothing to run
Fire balls from the sky
Oh fuck, I guess we're gonna die
We'll be burnt like charcoal
And leave this Earthly hell hole
So don't even try to run
Not from those death rays of the sun.
-bigcat
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#10 2009-04-25 23:28:03
Taint wrote:
Swine flu? That's so 1970s. I'm holding out for the avian flu pandemic.
"Close analysis showed the disease is a mixture of swine, human and avian viruses, according to the CDC."
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#11 2009-04-25 23:44:15
Supposedly it'll miss, but Apophis is a hell of a lot more exciting than a fuckin' solar flare...
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#12 2009-04-26 00:27:57
Panic, you say?
“a completely novel virus.”
Nearly all those who died in Mexico were between 20 and 40 years old, and they died of severe pneumonia
It sounds just like the 1917 "Spanish" flu, and that does worry me.
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#13 2009-04-26 00:41:27
Note to self: Invest in anti-viral producing companies. Now.
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#14 2009-04-26 01:09:46
George Orr wrote:
Panic, you say?
“a completely novel virus.”Nearly all those who died in Mexico were between 20 and 40 years old, and they died of severe pneumonia
It sounds just like the 1917 "Spanish" flu, and that does worry me.
Why - you have to die at some point, may as well be this as anything else.
But to be honest, everyone around here has been sick for awhile, I wouldn't be surprised if it was pig fever.
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#15 2009-04-26 01:43:40
Ya know what's really awesome? I'm on the city's pandemic task force. It was first setup after SARS and Avian Flu gave everybody the heibbies. Since the organization I work for is a community organization that serves an under-served population, the city asked for one of us to represent and I got plucked. I was just alerted to a previously unscheduled meeting to be held on Tuesday at the civic center.
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#16 2009-04-26 03:47:05
MSG Tripps wrote:
It is over when it is over.
[center][b][i]Some say the world will end in fire,
You had to memorize that one, didn't you?
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#17 2009-04-26 07:13:52
choad wrote:
You had to memorize that one, didn't you?
Yep.
Also this one.
The End of the World
Quite unexpectedly, as Vasserot
The armless ambidextrian was lighting
A match between his great and second toe,
And Ralph the lion was engaged in biting
The neck of Madame Sossman while the drum
Pointed, and Teeny was about to cough
In waltz-time swinging Jocko by the thumb
Quite unexpectedly the top blew off:
And there, there overhead, there, there hung over
Those thousands of white faces, those dazed eyes,
There in the starless dark, the poise, the hover,
There with vast wings across the cancelled skies,
There in the sudden blackness the black pall
Of nothing, nothing, nothing -- nothing at all.
-- Archibald MacLeish
[Cold War education.]
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#18 2009-04-26 07:38:54
That's great it starts with an earthquake
Birds and snakes and aeroplanes
And Lenny Bruce is not afraid
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn
World serves it's own needs, dummy serve your own needs
Feed it off an aux speak grunt no
ladder with a clatter fight, fear flight down height
Wire in a fire representing seven games and a government for hire in a combat site
Left of west and coming in a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck
Team by team reporters baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped
Look at that low playing, fine, then
Uh-oh overflow, population common food, but it'll do
Save yourself, serve yourself, world serves it's own needs
Listen to your heart bleed dummy with the rapture and the revered and the right, right
Vitreolic, patriotic stand, fight, bright, light
Feeling pretty psyched
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
And I feel fine
Six o'clock TV hour, don't get caught in foreign towers
Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn
Locking in, uniforming, book-burning, blood-letting
Every motive escalate, automotive incinerate
Light a candle, light a votive, step down step down
Watch your heel, crush, crushed uh-oh this means
No fear cavalier, renegade, steer clear
A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives
And I decline
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it
And I feel fine
I feel fine
The other night I dreamt of knives, continental drift divide
Mountains sit in a line, Leonard Bernstein
Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs
Birthday party, cheescake, jellybean, boom you
Symbiotic patriotic slam book neck
Right? Right!
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it
And I feel fine
I feel fine
courtesy of R.E.M
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#19 2009-04-26 08:12:58
LeckMich wrote:
Whining bullshit courtesy of R.E.M
That is crap.
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#20 2009-04-26 08:57:38
MSG Tripps wrote:
LeckMich wrote:
Whining bullshit courtesy of R.E.M
That is crap.
True but so is being scared about solar flares, etc.
When it's over, it's over.
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#21 2009-04-26 09:20:43
orangeplus wrote:
I was just alerted to a previously unscheduled meeting to be held on Tuesday at the civic center.
The town authorities want to get together for a meeting...about an outbreak of an infectious disease? How many of them are retarded? I suggest you skip it. Call in sick.
Sarge wrote:
That is crap.
It's not my favorite, but it's really a lot better set to music.
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#22 2009-04-26 09:33:25
Hey George Orr.
To me, R.E.M. are wimpy boys [now men] who got together to whine.
Sort of like Smashing Pumpkins [w/o a female].
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#23 2009-04-26 09:47:43
Hey MSG.
R.E.M. were one of the bands from my young adulthood, and I was never a huge fan but I liked a lot of their stuff...But now that you mention it, yeah, pretty whiny. "So. Central Rain" always reminds my of my divorce so I find it very sad. "Night Swimming" makes me cry like an emo puppy.
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#24 2009-04-29 18:41:36
It sounds just like the 1917 "Spanish" flu, and that does worry me.
Oh shit, my dick just got hard and threw up! Isn't that a symptom of "Spanish Flu?"
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#25 2009-04-30 00:44:03
Snowball wrote:
R.E.M. were one of the bands from my young adulthood, and I was never a huge fan but I liked a lot of their stuff....
I actually liked every-thing up through "Document;" But, with "Orange" they just went too far to the "commercial" side to hold my interest any-more.
"It's so much more attractive in-side the moral kiosk."
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