I'm not sure that "hot" is the correct word to use in describing Robert Downey, Jr. "Fried" might be more accurate - he's been in and out of rehab more often than the laundry service guy...

see? there you go... exaggerating... "just like a woman", as Bob Dylan said in that song... all that has in fact been demonstrated is that a man can change his mind... gender wasn't a variable in this experiment :-)

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I don't know Minstrel... I haven't seen Wen in here tonight... You don't suppose she stuck her tongue to the wall of the freezer whilst she was in there conversin' with the sherbert, tryin to to get know something other than jello, do you?

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I'm always here, I just can't always get the frigerator to lean close enough to the keyboard to type! ;)

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Good. I thought you might say something about more intelligent conversation going on with the desserts in the freezer. But that would've been cold...

Speeking of temperature, . You may be on to something, minstrel. Other than the jello's and such, I do wonder about the credibility of some of the girl's sources.

Gotta buy yourself a wireless keyboard and mouse, then the frigerator don't have to move, eh!

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But even so... having your tongue frozen to a package of fish sticks which in turn has been there so long it is welded to the permafrost on the inside of the freezer door has got to qualify as a handicap...

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Nawww Minstrel.... I heard that in Canada, as long as you got a bottle of schnapps nearby that experience qualifies as Ice Fishing, eh! }:~[

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LOL...

except it's beer (or possibly rye whiskey), not Schnapps... ;-)

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Close enough Minstrel! I'm up for it, eh! Headed for the freezer!!! Wit my tongue stuck out. }:~D

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We want what you're smokin guys ! ;-)


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Don't know if I could handle this thread were I smokin, I spend too much time laughin at it the way it is! }:~)

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And I mean more means than dreams,
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Only I am not a man of means,
I am a WOMAN who achieves my dreams!"

There's no smokin' here, didn't you see the sign? ;) But maybe these will help.

Insanity -- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
--R. D. Lang
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
--Albert Einstein

My Favorite---> There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
--Oscar Levant

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they are okay, then it's you.
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I count five of us on this page but it is entirely possible that there are lies, damn lies, and stishtics *hic# oh, excuse me stistics. I think FDR said that statistics.
Insanity -- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
--R. D. Laing

This person has a very similar name to mine...

Okay, wen has already confessed, so that leaves four of us (he drawls slowly as they circle around eyeing each other with suspicion and fear)

Look at that, minstrel, I just called us americans!

You'll be drawn & quartered for that booboo Mik ;-)

But then.... minus another....coz I'm not an american either :-)

<<< eyes Wyn & Rocky >>> ;-)


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My therapist insists I'm only slightly out of balance! Little does he know!!!

Whole problem started as an infant, I climbed out the van window and landed on my head in the parking lot! Might have grew out of it, but at about 15 I suffered a pretty serious head trauma again, playing football at a halloween party. A year or so after that, I crashed a motorcycle, head first into the ditch bank, and wandered around with a concussion again for awhile.

Once attaining adulthood, I tried to outdrink production at several major breweries for many years, but finally gave up on that upon realizing they were importing it from Canada to keep up! And, I'm suure I toasted more than a few brain cells in the battle!

Likewise, through it all, there were very few who would suggest I was sane! And, I have come to be inclined to agree with the vast majority that implied otherwise!

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Well, R.D. Laing was an interesting man. He was also a serious alcoholic who suffered what were probably psychotic breaks or alcohol dementia - so he likely wasn't the most objective writer when it came to suggesting that the insane weren't really insane.

Try telling this to teenagers playing video games :-)

Similarly, apparently 1 in 5 people in the world is Chinese. And since there were more than 5 children in my family, it must be that at least one of us is Chinese. I'm pretty sure it's not me, so I figure it has to be either my sister, Heather, my sister, Sherry, my brother, Colin, or my adopted sister, Jen-Li Chang.

Personally, I think it's Colin...

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I am a WOMAN who achieves my dreams!"

Gadzooks! You don't suppose that means her jello finally talked back?

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I don't get near Jello - Live off of it for a month and then see if you ever want to get near it again! ;)

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You lived off Jello for a month? Was this in one of those reality TV shows like "Jello Island"? Or did you lose some sort of bet?

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I wasn't going to touch that one Minstrel! It's no wonder the poor girl has these strange visions and all after living off jello for a month. That'd be enough to send anyone over the edge!

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Yes... it would also explain why sticking her head into a freezer to lick the fish sticks box doesn't strike her as unusual... :-)

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It was the puree'd mixed vegetables that sent me over the edge :)

You two keep it up and I'm going to start calling you meanie's LOL

I found this on a Molson Canadian add somewhere, and i now dedicate it to Mikmik

"Our Lager,
Which art in barrels,
Hallowed br thy drink.
Thy will be drunk (or I will be drunk),
At home as in the tavern.
Give us this day,
Our foamy head,
And forgive us our spillages,
As we forgive those that spill against us.
And lead us not into incarceration,
But deliver us from hangovers.
For thine is the beer,
The bitter and the lager,
For ever and ever.
Barmen.

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OMG! I came to the startling realization last night that Wen is saner than we think! Or, at least she's got allot of company on the dark side if not, anyhow. And thus, this appeared the perfect place to vent this rant!

I was lying in bed watching Television in my usual state of insomnia, when a Television commercial (one trying to sell me a TV, eh), came on Television. Now usually I ignore such realizing the irony, not to mention the sheer stupidity of advertising such, in such fashion, but.... having just left here, and having nothing better to think about, my mind began to wander. (I think it came back this morning, I'm not sure though!)

But, anyhow... one truly has to wonder about anyone that would advertise their TV on your TV. They boast what a fabulous picture their high quality product has, yet I found the picture on the 27 inch high definition, high priced unit they were advertising, oddly enough was no better than the picture on my sale priced $89, 19-inch! And, I thought to my self, "You know Self, that's odd!"

My self started to explain that it really wasn't odd that it was rationalized by the fact that quality on their set was limited too quality on my set, before I interjected that I wasn't referring to that, I was instead referring to the fact that all of those college educated advertising geniuses hadn't figured it out. I mean really, if you're going to advertise a TV shouldn't you be hauling it from door to door showing off how good the picture is.

Realistically if you advertise a TV on TV it is entirely limited by the quality of the TV upon which the commercial of your TV is aired. I mean, who do they think they're fooling here... "Our $2500 plasma screen with 8 speaker surround sound offers the highest definition video and audio quality imaginable, why just look what a picture it has! And, that sound... why it's just like you're sitting in the crowd at the symphony."

Not only does it look just like the picture on my $89 sale priced TV, it fits inside of the same 19 screen! Not only that but the surround sound, sounds just like those 2 cheap little inch and a half diameter speakers on my $89 TV too. They really haven't impressed me! None! Not even a little! I mean wouldn't it be bad advertising to advertise on a bad TV, "Why just look at the quality of that picture!" when it looks like $#!+

Then there is the Bose Acoustic Wave Radio commercials, or whatever their latest design is. Hell, it always sounded just like the same old $9, rained on the speaker a dozen times, bounced around in the back of the truck with the tools, jobsite radio we listened too everday at lunch, when Paul Harvey was playing those ads. Why would I want to spend a $100 on it!

And, thus one has to wonder if Wen isn't maybe on a little more even plain than was initially anticipated here, because not to mention those that produce these commercials, there are those out there in the world that buy these commercials, and in turn buy these products, when by virtue of the nature of advertising, they are no better than the products they already own!

Who was it said, "A fool and his money are soon parted." anyhow?

Sorta makes you wonder what those folks try to talk too in their cupboads, don't it Minstrel?

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You really have to lay off the cough syrup, dude...

Actually, it makes me wonder more just how long you've been standing out there in that river... :-)

"Boy left standing in river by parents rescued after 19 years"

But... you are right about those commercials...

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only 1 in 5 hey? hmmmmm...its a bit of a worry! ;-)

Worse yet, in a very odd kind of way (and I stress ODD!), you can see an 'element' of logic in it. About as much as "if you break your leg, dont coming running to me for help".

Now Rocky me mate ....been slippin into that moonshine hey? ;-)

And Wen !! To think they picked on you ! ;-)


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Unfortunately it cannot be blamed upon drink, nor smoke! And, I gave up on the mind altering drugs my physician pushed upon me, as they made me feel worse than not sleeping at night. Thus it can only be blamed upon insanity by association! And, guess where I'm associatin' most!!!

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That's OK Rocky we all know that you are associatin' with the rest of the USA, we just thought that you may have actually been the exception to the rule.


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Well Greyhawk... I'm close enough to the border that I could relate to the Moulson Prayer, even if it were dedicated to MikMik!

And, I don't know who to point fingers at here as far as associating, because the score card reads 3 Canadians, 2 Americans, and 1 Australian who's lived all three places, so that we can't really determine where she might have inherited the traits found in this thread!

It would however appear insanity in advertising is globally unilateral!

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A lot of advertising is based on Psychological triggers - just makes you wonder who's psycho, who's sane and which side of the screen the psycho's are really on. :)

"Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in hauting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now." - Mark Twain

Makes you wonder if insanity is catchy? ;)

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Sounds more like a WenWilder quote to me! I wonder if old Mark talked to his Jello too?!

Well I'd like to think I was reasonable sane before entering this thread!

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But.......you keep coming back!?!?!?!

The definition of insanity is repeating the same action over and over expecting different results. Perhaps there was a touch of insanity BEFORE? ;)

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...and dry.

19 years in a river up to your little armpits and then finally making it into a dry room isn't going to encourage you to leave... even if you do find your grasp on reality weakening... or start to actually understand how a woman can live on Jello for a month and still think the stuff has brainwaves... :-)

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You know I just came to the realization that I haven't seen MikMik in here in a while, you don't suppose they mistook him for cured and let him out do you?

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Wen's been pretty quiet too. I think we're gonna have to start feedin' her material Menstril. Heres a few things for you think about Wen!

* If heat rises, how come its so cold in space?

* How do they get deer to cross at those little yellow signs?

* Why do noses run and feet smell?

* The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

* The things that come to those who wait are usually the things left over by the ones who got there first.

* A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.

* If you're really good, and go to work eight hours every day, you may eventually become a manager and get to work twelve hours a day.


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You give me a hard time about what I do think, after asking me to tell you what I think, and now you want me to think more? Either you're a glutton for punishment are I really have driven you crazy! :p

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That probably means that he's finally figured out how to do what it is he was in here while he was trying to figure out how to do it and is now off doing it.

Either that, or he has a date :-)

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Wen has a point, Rocky - if we want her to stick around so we can tease her, we'll have to pace ourselves... and (yeah I know this part will be tough) say something nice once a month or so :-)

(sounds sort of like a marriage when put like that, doesn't it?)

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After seeing this post over and over I finally read it.

You people scare me!!!!

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Rocky darlin....your a worry! :-) Your beginning to outdo Wen ! :-)

Has it occured to anyone that the same people are posting? Maybe we make up the 1 in 5 & everyone else at webpro is sane? Noooooo...too scary a thought ;-)

(BTW...congrats Minstrel!!)


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I'll reserve comment on that, on the grounds it may incriminate myself!


Regarding the first line above, you been hangin with Wen to long too my friend! As for the second...... We won't go there, except to say she obviously does not attend WPW, with the previous mug shot he had up!


I thought I fulfilled my blissful obligations in inferring she might be saner than we thought, after watching TV commercials on TV?

And, yes... or at least portions thereof!


HELP! HELP! I'm being held hostage here and they won't let me out!

Actually I've been thinking we should maybe post a warning on this thread ~ "Warning - Entering this thread may cause serious psychological damage!" But then I guess, having a resident therapist on the thread might have been a clue!

Run for your life Janeth!



On line one ~ Methinks she is only catching her breath! I live in fear that one morning I'm going to wake up and find she has done such, and reentered this game with such ferocity that no man shall be able to stand up to her! Gotta get my two cents in while she's restin!

Yep... the same thing had occured to me! Likewise it occured to me that maybe we are the sane ones, and everyone else is depressed from staring at their monitors too long!

Did Minstrel give birth?

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LOL!! No Rocky... minstrel has just been appointed a WPW Moderator, so he's a MOD, not a MOM.
Just to clear up any confusion there!! Okay... you carry on now as if nothing had happened!! :c)

Paul

rocky1 astutely observed: and minstrel astutely surmised: Correct! The first part(!)
I have been trying to get some work done on this thread as well, and I have even started replies but I take so long to type, plus the fact that I have been exploring the uncharted, but highly interesting, regions of my freezer chest and therefore am not of sound mind, or chinese descent, and after about half an hour 'lost ' my train of thought to the point of sounding lucid and decided not to submit.

I would like to make one quick observation before I get back to 'work' ( and I use the term with the gravest of wide interpretations ) , rOCKY1!, not so obvious, man, tou're sounding too intelligently twisted - people are beginning to catch on to your Canadian citezenship - don't blow your cover!!

I have a problem. I want to develope it into a full fledged pathology so will be back soon!
Matauri, I feel really embarassed that I didn't point out " I called us american!" to minstrel and didn't include you as well! It just seemed the Irony applied to 'presently active' canucks most, as it is a very deep seated and 'not to be spoken of in polite company' fear.

"I am not an animal, I am a human being... well I guess yes, technically I AM an animal, but only biologically, figuratively, and literally speaking..."

That's good, was beginning to worry there was something he wasn't divulging to the rest of us! I missed the MOD tag next to his smiling face. Would comment further only to say... that's what you get for hanging out at the playground too long Minstrel, now they went and appointed you chaperone for a bunch of loonies!


I am deeply flattered!

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There truly is no escaping this thread! Was in the midst of watching Jeopardy and one of the contestants stated she had been too, of all places, the Jello Museum, in Leroy, NY. Home of none other than... Jello!

Had to do a search and thus offer the following URL for your viewing pleasure Wen ~~> http://www.jellomuseum.com/

I didn't see any links on there about Jello and EEGs however!

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They have a Jello mold of a Brain isn't that enough proof? :) It never occured to me to search for a Jello Museum, that is just to funny!

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Thats ok Mik...accents my 'indiviuality' ;-)
BTW Mik...Back to JELLLO ! .... did you know it was a Canadian scientist that conduct the EEG experiment! I can understand your 'fear' ;-)

No wonder some of the latest medical break thrus have come from Oz...LOL...they are too busy with jello over there ;-)


Confusion? In here ? Never!!!! It's the rest that are confused ;-)

<blinks> Did something happen? ;-)

After his last few posts, did he really need to be driven too far? ;-)

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