Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

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

To: Ilaine who wrote (47287)	2/22/2000 3:13:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Respond to of 71178

Hi! Hi there! I don't know if we've discussed this already. I don't remember. That's why I told the You've Discussed Everything Committee, last week, that they should contact someone else. I think it was last week. HA! I never really talked to them. I better go check my stocks.

To: Ilaine who wrote (47287)	2/22/2000 3:15:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Respond to of 71178

Hey! BS is up today. 7/16ths even. I like BS. I think it likes me. eom

To: Ilaine who wrote (47287)	2/22/2000 3:28:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Respond to of 71178

"Locomotive" ~ insanity plea. I think that goes on the Dictionary thread, but it's probably already been there, and I ain't going over there and find out, and I don't go over there anyway. I'm a homebody. Slug. I don't want to go over there, and you can't make me. (I'm ticklish tho.)

To: Ilaine who wrote (47287)	2/22/2000 3:47:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Respond to of 71178

"....so true ~ life is what you make of it." You know how there's an opposite to almost every saying that seems true? So they're "sayings," not truisms. Oh that's an ugly grey area. Anyway, just a minute, I better go check my stocks.

To: Ilaine who wrote (47287)	2/22/2000 4:00:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

Ralph Waldo Emerson was not a sensible person. You know how I know? Because there aren't any other Waldos around. Can you think of any? Everyone else who wanted to write, or become famous, a person of letters or an actor or scientist or anybody ~ everyone else was talked out of using "Waldo." And Ralph, had the option of simply losing it as his middle name,.....and he didn't do it. "Ralph Emerson." But no. His Publisher at Doubleday (then just Day): "We need to talk, Ralph." "No. Huh-uh. Wal-doh. Waldo Waldo Waldo! Ralph Waldo Emerson." I don't think his mother even yelled that. "RALPH WALDO!!" Say what? I don't like that. It's ugly. Coming out from somebody's screen door? Sheesh.

To: Ilaine who wrote (47287)	2/22/2000 4:03:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Respond to of 71178

You know what I like? I like the TV set. Off. eom

To: Ilaine who wrote (47287)	2/22/2000 4:23:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Respond to of 71178

Sometimes I turn it on, and then use the remote to turn it to say Channel 3, where there's nothing. Nothing "on." It just sits there. Silent. (You have to turn the sound down. Hel-lo!) It sits there silent and blue, a blu-ish (sorry Ish) periwinkle sort of color, yours may vary, there's definitely some nice reddish (sorry Ish) purple in this one, but anyway, it sits there silent and blue. The whole screen. Clear to the corners. No black band-y edges. Blue. It's not doing, what a TV is supposed to do. It's not TV-ing. It's on, but it's not. Right now, it's on, right over there, six feet away, a big color set; but there's nothing happening. Blue light is happening. A bluelight Special. I discovered this, this blue non-tv channel, one time years ago, trying to get the tv OFF. But our remote won't shut the fukker off, so I discovered I could "tune" to Channel 3! Wow, huh! MIT, baby. And now I tune it there on purpose. Because it's staring right at me, but it's not doing anything. Not froze, not rolling, not yakking, not biting, not throwing up in my living room ~ it's calm. Like it died and went to TV Heaven. The Blue Sky of tv heaven. Kind of like a big topaz window of the infinite. But really, it's just been emasculated. Gagged. De-boned. I AM A VERY AGGRESSIVE person; and this is HOW I FIGHT BACK. I run the tv set, with NOTHING. JUST WASTING ENERGY. Same as it usually does, but this time, it's wasting energy on ME. I just RUN it. Little fukker. HA ha ha ha!!! I RUN "IT." MJ won't let me kill it; besides, sometimes she gets shows on there I want to watch, and so this is just a little period, for it to clear its head. TV Zen. A little afternoon rest nap. Pretty soon I'll go over and turn it off, and that will be like it had its head down and fell asleep. I guarantee you, it's always perky when it wakes up. Okay, now I'm going to turn it off; because they have to dam the rivers, and that's bad for the salmon.

To: Ilaine who wrote (47287)	2/22/2000 4:35:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

".....so true ~ life is what you make of it." So, I think it was Dash I was talking with. And he said, or I said, "They say you can't take it with you." And he said, or, I said, "What if you can?" What if you can take it with you? That's one, a "saying", that you don't hear the opposite. Of. "You can't take it with you." How the hell do YOU know? Huh? WHEN did YOU die? Seems to me, you have as much chance of having a correct opinion about either one. Either "opinion", you might have. And what if these people, who really claim they know what they're talking about on this one, what if this people are RONG? What if you CAN take it with you? What if you get up to Heaven, and God says, "How much ya got? What's in your pockets there?" "Got any baseball cards?" "What ~ Did you think you were gonna live here rent free??" What if Bill Gates is immortal, and you and the Mahatma are looking for jobs? Who are you going to complain to? The people back on earth, all amassing as much as they can? And then saying to you, "You can't take it with you?" While they're taking yours? Think complaining is going to do any good? Ever seen complaining change a business deal here on earth? You better save your allowance, just in case.