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[Grandstander]

Originally Posted by JoseA

Thanks for answering my last one. Someone said the next saying to me, and I had no clue what it meant

What does it mean to get curb stumped?

That unfortunate young woman who returned home after running away to marry the Muslim, she got Kurd stomped. I think it's pretty much the same thing.

[LaxD]

How many licks does it take to get to the tootsie center of a tootsie pop?

[Grandstander]

Originally Posted by LaxD

How many licks does it take to get to the tootsie center of a tootsie pop?

If you're skilled, just one.

[guy incognito]

Today, while stumbling around online, I came across the following quote from John Henry Cardinal Newman, a 19th-century English Catholic theologian:

"I will not shrink," Newman wrote, "from uttering my firm conviction, that it would be a gain to this country, were it vastly more superstitious, more bigoted, more gloomy, more fierce in its religion, than at present it shows itself to be."

I wonder if the good Cardinal wasn't a man ahead of his time, and in the wrong country. Your thoughts?

[Grandstander]

Originally Posted by guy incognito

Today, while stumbling around online, I came across the following quote from John Henry Cardinal Newman, a 19th-century English Catholic theologian:

"I will not shrink," Newman wrote, "from uttering my firm conviction, that it would be a gain to this country, were it vastly more superstitious, more bigoted, more gloomy, more fierce in its religion, than at present it shows itself to be."

I wonder if the good Cardinal wasn't a man ahead of his time, and in the wrong country. Your thoughts?

I think that most readers would correctly guess my response. I am pretty strongly on board record as being anti-superstition, anti-religion and anti-bigotry. Gloomy? That is merely mood dependent. As an ephemeral emotion, gloom counts for nothing, neither does ephemeral euphoria.

I think more honestly stated, the Cardinal's assertion would have not been "gain for this country", rather it would have been "gain for me." He's in the superstition business, he's just running a promotion.

[bedir than average]

Does Krom have a favorite natural disaster? I'm thinking about moving

[Grandstander]

Originally Posted by bedir than average

Does Krom have a favorite natural disaster? I'm thinking about moving

Krom's favorite natural disaster is human conflict.

[bedir than average]

It looks as if my choices are down to Gaza, Baghdad, Darfur or Mogadishu. Have I missed anywhere else significant?

[Grandstander]

Originally Posted by bedir than average

It looks as if my choices are down to Gaza, Baghdad, Darfur or Mogadishu. Have I missed anywhere else significant?

Hollywood.

[heyterry]

Did you ever hear Ernie Harwell call a baseball game?

[JoseA]

What is your favorite nursery rhyme?

[perfectstormhits]

What brand of cancer dick is JoseA's monkey smoking?

[JoseA]

Funny question perfectstormhits ...

I got another one for you Grandstander:

Are you against giving human characteristics to animals? Why or why not?

[Grandstander]

Originally Posted by heyterry

Did you ever hear Ernie Harwell call a baseball game?

Yes, but it wouldn't come to him.

[Grandstander]

Originally Posted by JoseA

What is your favorite nursery rhyme?

Can't say that I recall having a favorite, I cannot recall liking them much at all. I was never the sort to simply let art wash over me, I would deconstruct and adults got discouraged pretty quickly when they were hearing things like..."Okay, so what? The mouse runs up the clock, it strikes one and he runs down? What about it? Was it important that it was one o'clock rather than any other time? Was it simply the striking of the clock which caused it to run down and any time would have done it, or was it the case that the mouse realized it was late for something upon learning it is one o'clock? Aren't there more details here which make sense of any of this? Why do I need to know this at all?"