Go to dunesifter
- Add a comment
- Go to Prison Earth Dateline 2050
I love that one, Johnmacnab,
Old Robbie makes me laugh.
posted by
TAPS.
on January 26, 2007 at 3:23 PM
| link to this | reply
TAPS
I'm in the same situation as you, TAPS. My auld Mither and Faither used to remind me, but then I used to drive past his auld cottage each day and you know how locals don't notice famous things.
Some hae meat and cannae eat
And some wad eat that want it
But we hae meat and we can eat
And sae the Lord be thanket.
posted by
johnmacnab
on January 26, 2007 at 3:20 PM
| link to this | reply
Johnmacnab
I hope you had a great Robbie Burns Day celebration. To be honest, I completely forgot it was the day until Nautikos reminded me. But then again, it was always me darlin' mither that reminded me of the day and she's no longer wi' us.
To catch Dame Fortune's golden smile,
Assiduous wait upon her;
And gather gear by ev'ry wile
That's justify'd by honor:
Not for to hide it in a hedge,
Nor for a train-attendant;
But for the glorious privilege
Of being independent.
posted by
TAPS.
on January 26, 2007 at 12:52 AM
| link to this | reply
TAPS
Aww! I was going to ask you for the recipe, TAPS.
posted by
johnmacnab
on January 25, 2007 at 3:54 PM
| link to this | reply
I meant 2017, Johnmacnab. LOL
posted by
TAPS.
on January 24, 2007 at 9:19 PM
| link to this | reply
FactorFiction
Don't be, FactorFiction. As Pat_B says, some ingenious human will come up with a solution.
posted by
johnmacnab
on January 24, 2007 at 10:12 AM
| link to this | reply
Well, now I am depressed.
posted by
FactorFiction
on January 24, 2007 at 7:09 AM
| link to this | reply
mneme
Wow! How do you remember things like that? Is it a female thing, brains, beauty and elephant memory? I browsed, and it brought back happy memories. My Father wasn't in the Home Guard as he was a miner, but he was in the Observer Corps. I used to sit with him in a hole dug into a bing (slag heap) outside the town. I was always surprised how such a small bing could give such a magnificent view. I was never allowed to touch the binoculars
posted by
johnmacnab
on January 24, 2007 at 4:16 AM
| link to this | reply
johnmacnab
nice to see you haven't lost your touch - and it was Private James Frazer (actor John Laurie in Dad's Army) that said "We're doomed..." - enjoy browsing (you know you want to...)
http://www.dadsarmy.co.uk/maincharacters.html
posted by
mneme
on January 24, 2007 at 2:18 AM
| link to this | reply
RckyMtnActivist
Thank you Rcky. What amazes me is the throwaway society in North America. It is cheaper - in the short term - to buy a new article than have it repaired.
posted by
johnmacnab
on January 23, 2007 at 8:04 AM
| link to this | reply
John .....it's a sad and scary situation! And still people don't listen or
believe that we are destroying the planet in so many ways! Good post!
posted by
RckyMtnActivist
on January 23, 2007 at 6:29 AM
| link to this | reply
TAPS
LOL, TAPS. Did you mean 2117 or 2017? I find myself often nowadays thinking, 'Thank God I won't be here.' But I do get sad when I realize I won't see our young granddaughter graduate - well, not from this world anyway.
posted by
johnmacnab
on January 23, 2007 at 6:20 AM
| link to this | reply
Whacky
'We're Doomed, Whacky, We're all doomed.' I can't remember who used to say that but I do remember the voice. We are all, personally doomed, but that's what life and death are all about.
posted by
johnmacnab
on January 23, 2007 at 6:17 AM
| link to this | reply
Johnmacnab
I'm so glad that I won't still be around here come 2050. LOL I'm reserving a ticket for some time in 2117.
posted by
TAPS.
on January 22, 2007 at 11:05 PM
| link to this | reply
We're doomed?
-^..^- Bo
posted by
Whacky
on January 22, 2007 at 10:40 PM
| link to this | reply
Pat
That's a thought, Pat. With a fine enough space net or parachute, it would be a different type of fishing. It could become a new hobby later on in the century.
posted by
johnmacnab
on January 22, 2007 at 8:14 PM
| link to this | reply
Perhaps some enterprising space jock will take up recycling
the junk orbiting the earth. There's got to be some valuable mineral bits in the debris.
posted by
Pat_B
on January 22, 2007 at 4:22 PM
| link to this | reply
Ariel70
You haven't insulted me, Ariel70, but your -
"The future that you postulate is indeed a possibility" - sentence, frightened the hell out of me.
posted by
johnmacnab
on January 22, 2007 at 1:50 PM
| link to this | reply
Johnmacnab
I have no wish to insult you, but your post is a grotesque load of old codswallop. You cite not a single fact, apart from the bits about China ; the rest is mere hyperbolic and alarmist rubbish.
The future that you postulate is indeed a possibility ; but an extremely remote one, which has no basis in fact, nor is it a reaonable extrapolation from the actual, factual current world situation.
You clearly subscribe hook line and sinker to the current myths about global warming, but have you read arGee's recent post listing a veritable galaxy of high-powered, highly qualified scientists who dissent vehemently from these myths? If not, you eally ought to.
Some time in the near future, I shall post a piece setting out the colossal benefits that capitalism, and particulaarly globalisation has brought to world's poorest. It will bristle with indisputable fact, not assertions posing as facts.
posted by
ariel70
on January 22, 2007 at 1:01 PM
| link to this | reply