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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rambi who wrote (29854)	6/24/1999 9:04:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Isn't it from De Re Termitica? You guys read too much. It effects your thinking. I am trying to throw away some books, 1900 stuff, that I retrieved out of a dumpster, and it's hard for me. But I took a bunch up to Powell's, World's Biggest Used Book Store With Everything I Need Even Though They Want One Hundred And Twenty Dollars For Lorraine Kuck's The Japanese Garden, .....and they handed me a little card with British Thermal Units Per Volume on it. Sometimes the things you say surprise me. Uh-oh, I see that can be taken negatively, but that's not what I meant. You surprise me a lot. I'm shocked, really. Have you noticed though, perhaps per your comments, that people who "can" or "could" figure things out, are no better off that people who can't, and people who don't even try? So, as our friend Blue Crab's profile says, "What's the point?" The Idol Minds. I think it's a fact. I'm not sure, though. Merits and fruits are curious things. Maybe illusions. Humor, however, is something different. And ultimately useful. Like morphine. I think in some book I read, the author compared laughing to crying, physiologically. Said they were almost identical. And socially, too, in some very certain ways. Creepy, isn't it? That when you're laughing you're really crying about your existence? I would rather be cajoled, than think, though. I've noticed this about me. Thinking is hard; and again, ultimately fruitless. Fruit flies. Try catching some. I'm going to look up cajole, and I bet it's definition is nicer than ponder. Uh oh. Uh oh. Hee hee. It's not the word I thought it was. Heh heh. Ooops. Hmmm. Well. That's embarrassing. It says, in strange appropo to "I would rather be cajoled, than think, though": 1. to persuade with deliberate flattery, esp. in the face of reluctance, and ~ 2. to deceive with soothing words or false promises. I, however, was thinking of being persuaded to chuckle, or chortle ("to laugh or chuckle esp. in satisfaction or exultation") ~ something that makes that. I can see how things come out meaning a lot different if you don't know what you mean. I think I will retire, now, to The Dawning Room.