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14 Oct, 2011 at 2:55 pm
The Lion King 3D > Jane King’s Arrietty:
“Asante Sana! Squash banana! We we nuga! Mi mi apana” … King Aśoka!——”It means ‘No Worries’ ” …
18 Oct, 2011 at 1:31 pm
P.S. “Lion Island” of “serendipity”: [...]
16 Nov, 2011 at 10:44 am
—————— ‘Phrases’ to Deface?
—————— ” Born of Serbian parents in a part of the Austrian Empire, which a short time later became a part of the Hungarian half of Austria-Hungary and is now in Croatia. He eventually became a naturalized citizen of the US. So was he Serbian? Croatian? Austrian? Austro-Hungarian? Istro-Romanian? Jewish? American? Martian? You decide! But don’t forget to leave an edit summary saying how pathetic it is to choose any other version. “
—————— The Film Book Of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord Of The Rings : Part 1– My first ever Tolkien book!
16 Nov, 2011 at 4:14 pm
Non-Microsoft > Microsoft
23 Dec, 2011 at 1:14 pm
There’s a secert about your post. ICTYBTIHTKY
10 Jan, 2012 at 2:42 pm
” One thing that annoys many people about Occupy is that it’s trying to raise their consciousness. The scenario is akin to the Sufi story in which a young fish asks the queen of the fishes, “I have often heard about the sea, but where is the sea?” The queen replies: “The sea is within you and outside of you and you are made of the sea.”
That’s fine for fish, people say, but what landlubber wants to be told – particularly by Occupy – that he’s blind to his own social milieu? We want to trust our leaders and to believe we live in the best of all possible worlds. Who wants to know, for example, that the Big Tobaccos, Big Pharmas, Big Oils and the like routinely buy the votes of Congressmen and women of our most powerful ally?
Citizens and leaders are at one on the issue: people don’t want to hear nasty truths and politicians don’t want to tell. Out damned Occupy! Don’t mess with our consciousness.
Another thing that unnerves people is uncertainty. Occupy courts doubt. It sees dissent as basic to democracy. When the media’s “nothing’s-happening” act faltered, it switched to attack. The Occupy movement, it said, ought to have produced a clear agenda before clogging up the major arteries of the global Body Economic [...] like reprimanding Jesus for lacking a 10-point plan to evict the Romans [...] “
12 Jan, 2012 at 2:14 am
Hi – just dropped by and think the modern salient is brill -in fact far better than in my day (back in the late 70′s). Funny how many of the issues are STILL the same – the quad’s still being dug up, the avaricious rectii of the Senate want to increase fees ‘ to the max’ every year – why I’ll bet you’ve even still got the ‘the degrees are too easy’ pseudo-academic wallies wandering around. My ‘senior’ advice to all students is sink plenty of fermented juice, smoke plenty of dried vegetable substances and remember HOD rhymes with SOB for a VERY good reason!! Cheers.
26 Jan, 2012 at 8:16 pm
Many many quaitly points there.
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