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    When our previous topic hit the 1,000-response mark, sleazy behavior by politicians was eliciting a certain amount of non-astonishment.

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    dang
    had been helping you out Gonzo, with some corrections. Then I got "you are not authorized to post" and the whole thing was lost. Will do it again a bit later, as must cook now********************************** I am not young enough to know everything. Oscar Wilde
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    No problemo Lilly, I know where your heart is!
    If this following is really awful in German please just forget about it. The English translation ain't no pic-nic eith Never Argue With a German If You're Tired Of European Song Lyrics Artist(Band):Jefferson Airplane Sticken in mein Hachen Sticken in mein Haut Fugen mein weiss mit mein auss Pucken Sprechen Sie nicht Meinem Deutschen wenn Sie Müden sind Meine Auto fahrt sehr Schnell aber es rast Gegen mauen Ah, ja, das bin meine Ja, das bin du Du, das bin ich Ver such es Send "Never Argue With a German If You're Tired Of European Song" Ringtones to Cell If you find some error in Never Argue With a German If You're Tired Of European Song Lyrics, would you please submit your corrections to me? Thank You. Thanks to Ali for submitting the lyrics. Never Argue With a German If You're Tired Of European Song Never Argue With a German if You're Tired by: Jefferson Airplance , circa 1971 The lyrics given here (and in most places) are completely awful. The German in the actual song is not very good either, but here is my best understanding of the song: Stecken in mein Haken. Stecken in mein Haut. Fügen mein weiss mit mein Ausspucken. Streiten Sie nicht Mit einem Deutschen wenn Sie Müde sind. Meine Auto fährt sehr Schnell aber es rast Gegen Mauern. Ah, ja, das bin meine. Ja, das bin du. Du, das bin ich. Versuches. And in English: Stick in my hook. Stick in my skin. Mix my white with my spit. Do not argue with a German if you are tired. My car goes very fast but it races against walls. Ah, yes, that's mine. Yes, that's you. Well, that's me. Experiment. All the best to you and your daughter Tiger Lilly Like CSN&Y say "Teach your children well"
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    Indeed I do gonzo
    Sorry-was a bad night last night too, and was also sensing extreme tenseness in your posts, felt aggressed somehow :) If it cheers you up-my daughter and I defaced a poster yesterday, with a giant black marker. A campaign poster for the Republikaner (neo-fascist party here). On this poster was a lovely photo of a mosque, with the sun going down behind it. The caption read: "German culture instead of multi-culture". My daughter saw the poster first, and came and told me about it. She was absolutely furious, and wanting to tear it down. But we wrote on it instead. We wrote "Never forget the last time Germany was intolerant. 0 Votes for Republikaner." How could I sit here and do nothing, when my child (who I have been teaching tolerance) was wanting to take action? THAT would have been hypocritical! :-P ********************************** I am not young enough to know everything. Oscar Wilde
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    Tiger Lilly, that comment sounds unlike you...
    ...you usually cheer on the radicals. I am not trying to be hostile but the fact is (and remains) that few people will act, despite the unbelievable events unfolding in Northern Africa and here in America with the move of Repubs to take away the right to collective bargaining. The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer. 1 out of 8 people in America is on food stamps. The time to act was 30 years ago but we let it ride and anything done now is merely for one's conscience. But it is important to act.. I think Zarathustra would say we have no supermen to save the day. I feel that Deadheads, with expanded consciousness, should not be couch potatoes at this time, That is all I am trying to convey. Doing nothing is taking a stand. Apathy reigns. I accept it but refuse to stay silent! Bliss to all, be happy , healthy and whole. Keep rearranging those deck chairs on the Titanic. "What, me worry?' Alfred E. Neumann
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    don't get it longo
    why the hostility I am sensing?********************************** I am not young enough to know everything. Oscar Wilde
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    OK, 'nuff from me --
    Time to meet with my affinity group and do our thing. The rest of you can sit around arguing about E72 codes, smoking joints, playing video games and taking Watson 10/325s. To those who are acting: Bou-yahhh! Longhairs!!!
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    Up Against The Wall, Motherfuckers!
    We can be togetherAh you and me We should be together We are all outlaws in the eyes of America In order to survive we steal cheat lie forge fred hide and deal We are obscene lawless hideous dangerous dirty violent and young But we should be together Come on all you people standing around Our life's too fine to let it die and We can be together All your private property is Target for your enemy And your enemy is We We are forces of chaos and anarchy Everything they say we are we are And we are very Proud of ourselves Up against the wall Up against the wall fred (motherfucker) Tear down the walls Tear down the walls Come on now together Get it on together Everybody together We should be together We should be together my friends We can be together We will be We must begin here and now A new continent of earth and fire Come on now gettin higher and higher Tear down the walls Tear down the walls Tear down the walls Won't you try
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    Solidarity, Jefferson Airplane starfes Khadaffy
    (by B. Brecht, M. Balin, M. Cummings)Translated by H. R. Hays People of the world together Join to serve the common cause So it feeds us all forever See to it that it's now yours Forward without forgetting Where our strength can be seen now to be When starving or when eating It's forward not forgetting our solidarity Black or white or brown or yellow Leave your old disputes behind Once you start talking to your fellow men You'll soon be of one mind If we want to make this certain We'll need you and your support It's yourselves you'll be deserting If you rat on your own sort Forward without forgetting Where our strenght can be seen now to be When starving or when eating It's forward not forgetting our solidarity All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us Just so they can remain on top Forward without forgetting Till the concrete question is hurled When Starving or when eating Whose tomorrow Is tomorrow And whose world Is the world Solidarity
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    3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds
    Do away with people blowing my minddo away with people wasting my precious time take me to a simple place where I can easily see my face maybe, baby I'll see that you were kind know I love you baby, yes I do know I love you baby, yes I do do away with people laughing at my hair do away with people frowning on my precious prayers take me to a circus tent where I can easily pay my rent and all the other freaks will share my cares know I love you baby, yes I do know I love you baby, yes I do do away with things that come on obscene like hot rods, beauty queens, real fine nicotine sometimes it buys for 65 dollars prices like that make a grown man holler 'specially when it's sold by a kid who's only 15 know I love you baby, yes I do know I love you baby, yes I do 3/5's of a mile in 10 seconds... (God bless the Jefferson Airplane)
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    Great idea Musky Ranger
    I should use Jim Boehner's gavel but his office said he won't lend it out. Maybe a really giant gavel. I definitely want the crowds attention, comedy rarely does it, but a blow-up air gavel symbolizes airhead politicians Bad news, the AFSC doesn't support self-immolation. Too bad, that is a real attention getter and the people on this site who don't agree with me would be so relieved!
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When our previous topic hit the 1,000-response mark, sleazy behavior by politicians was eliciting a certain amount of non-astonishment.
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have been advocates of washing for quite some time.....or so I have read...
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This is the news of the weird for inquiring minds who happen to care. Beware.....
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now that WOULD be news alright! ********************************** By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark Twain
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Point Lay, Alaska Walruses are massing on the beach of the Chuchuki Sea as the winter sun sets for some months. What is wrong with that picture? There ought to ice, their natural habitat, as well as snow on the ground. This is so sad, whatever the causes, and we really don't have to think very hard to come up with an answer. You can sort of see the game plan for all life on Earth -- a desperate struggle to adapt to new conditions that is, overwhelmingly, due to fail. I get the feeling there will at some point be a massive grid failure bringing traffic to a screeching halt up and down the East and West Coasts with people hopelessly trying to make their I-Phones work. Koyannasqatsi??
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Jerrys last house up for sale for 4 million,solar heated pool and oprganic garden anyone interested?
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Not sure eating gold is a good idea even for mimers now washing your penis with gold? i think those flying monkeys have gold penises
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with gold penises-now you know why they are so rare!!!!!!!! Mimers are the main culprits in flying monkey trapping!********************************** By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark Twain
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Thats how the mimers ended up down the mine,trying to trap the flying monkeys so they can steal there gold penises!!!!!!
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What did The Sun run with, "Woman fingers head of lettuce in £60 blag?" Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.
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Am just back from having a needle stuck into my elbow. 15 ml of an interesting-colored orange puss were drawn out of it. The doc was poking my bone with the needle, which felt so grate I swooned, and then he shot cortisone in where the fluid had been. Haven't had that much fun in a long time-BUT now I have a really pretty spring green bandage on my arm!********************************** By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark Twain
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Good headline Pid showing admirable cultural awareness! the headline from the Guardian however might be 'Brain Salad Surgery?'
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ow ow ow!
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The 0-2 49'rs stumble into KC this weekend. What do you think will happen? Are the Giants grabbing everyones attention, as they race toward the playoffs? Keep a close eye on those pesky Rockies and the Padres.
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Hampshire police have now said this a software problem but have had no response from the efit of a man with a lettuce on his head maybe hes a vegatarian lady gaga impersonator
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ouch tiger hope you is ok does the spring green bandage look like a lettuce ?
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not quite-it looks more like a string bean on my arm than a lettuce. Or the top of a green onion! :-D And am feeling alot better, thanks! Seems as if the flu symptoms more or less left with the puss!********************************** By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark Twain
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u95EjB03cV8&feature=player_embedded he is talking about restrictions on "spiced" or "seasoned" or "herbed" -not sure of the direct translation of gewürtz cuz it could be any of those 3. And to avoid confusion he is NOT speaking German, but Swiss. ********************************** By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark Twain
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Sorry to hear about the elbow TL - or maybe I should say I'm glad if you're feeling better with the therapy which (to me) sounds pretty scary because I hate needles of any king. Sounds similar to what they want to do to my back but I won't let the docs near me. Hey to everyone else: Pid, johnman, marye, cb... hope all is well.
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The Swiss speak German, French, Italian and Swiss -- as far as I know, maybe our European heads no better than I. Geneva is a romantic place where they speak a French dialect.
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Last night, full moon coinciding with the fall equinox. And Jupiter putting on a little show of its own as well. Both were staring me in the face for my drive to work this morning. And Dylan singing "Don't the moon look good mama, shining through the trees" was about the last thing I heard pulling into the parking lot. Good, indeed. That Swiss German ain't the same as the German German (not that there's just one of those, either). Or so the Swiss and Germans that I know have told me countless times...kind of all sounds the same to me, I have to admit. I once traveled to Switzerland and Germany with a guy who worked for a Swiss company. He was in Switzerland at least 3 months out of every year, never learned to speak German (either kind). He had his own twist on the standard American practice when trying to communicate with someone who doesn't speak English: not only did he speak English slowly and loudly, he did it with this comical German accent, as if THAT would somehow make English comprehensible to a German who didn't understand English. He sounded like Sgt Schultz from Hogan's Heroes. Everytime he did it, I tried to pretend we weren't together. VERY embarrassing!
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:-D nice to see you posting. Oof re:the needle in your back!! The Swiss speak French, Italian, Rumansh (or something like that it's called) and a very strange dialect of German that the Swiss also call Switzerdeutsch. Two Swiss people speaking to each other in their dialect is basically incomprehensible to people from Germany-different pronunciation and some different words and different usage of common words. So was a half-joke really that I said that guy was speaking Swiss. He was speaking High German with a hefty Swiss accent. Austrians have a hefty dialect too, but are much more understandable for people from Germany. ********************************** By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark Twain
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when I was taking German in college one of my classmates spoke Switzerdeutsch as his family language and much comedy ensued.
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Those who learn High German do find Switzerdeutch to be extremely funny! :)********************************** By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark Twain
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Dutch just sounds like English that's a little off, as it were... Somewhere on YouTube there's a clip someone sent me of some remarkable feat of wildlife achievement, and in the background a tour guide is commenting madly in Afrikaans. It drives me crazy because all the sounds are right and I don't actually understand a word!
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I can most likely translate it for you marye-if you want to dig out the clip and send me the link.I can't speak Dutch-but as you said from speaking German and English I understand Dutch well enough to follow the news on the radio-so could give it a shot with Afrikaans ********************************** By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark Twain
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ah speek murkin end floont gibberish...
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I see the 49'rs are favored by 2 as visitors in KC this weekend. Have fun all you folks sitting on rocks in Morrison CO this weekend. I'll await the day a show is booked in eastern Kansas or western Missouri: it sure has been long enough.
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They are not just in Iowa. 36 yrs ago I had a buddy who got a job building cages at their egg farm in Turner, ME. He lasted about 2 weeks in the job, it was that bad...the stuff he told me turned me off eggs for years until I started buying from farmers that I knew. So a lifetime later, they're still pulling the same crap (literally and figuratively from the sounds of it)...check out one of THOSE places if you want to get turned off the idea of factory farms.
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I was off factory farming after watching a programme about chickens and eggs years ago i was disgusted and moved to tears.Alot of this has to do with major supermarkets and what they think the customer wants.Everyday tons of veg and fruit are thrown away because they are the wrong size or dont look good on the eye its criminal.I boycotted supermarkets many moons ago and will not use them.I grow my own veg and buy my other groceries from a local source. all the years combine......
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My oh my it's neck to neck in the NL West. Concurrent with Furthur is the crucial baseball 3-game series at Coors Field, tonite thru Sunday. The Rockies have just been swept by Arizona and are on a 5 game losing streak. Will Bob and Phil have time to do the National Anthem before any of the games?
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Well, it kind of seems tit for tat in our media-driven society that has pathetically litte to do with substance that John Daily and Steven Colbert will be slugging it out a few days before election day a la the Palin/Beck spectacle on the Lincoln Memorial. If we wern't the most powewrful country in the world it wouls almost be funny. As it is, it is psycho-pathetic drama with a twist of dementia,;
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The book is called Operation Dark Heart by a former member of an elite clandestine unit called (no kidding) The Jedi Knights. He claims that the Taliban was on the verge of being destroyed until the military was told to ease off on Pakistan. He also, supposedly, id'd hijack-bomber Muhammed Atta. If there is one way to make people buy a book it is to ban it
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Obviously, if the Taliban were destroyed, we would have to bring everyone home.....and someone would stop making an obscene amount of money from explosives, and such....not to mention support and facilities for all the troops in country.......
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I always wonder just what it is the military and civilian leadership knows that they don't want us to know?? That 99% of wars are fought for profit? That we have to be scared shitless perpetually by people who are even more scared of us? That we can't share the limited resources on this planet because the rich couldn't stay perpetually rich? I'm not angry anymore, nor disgruntled, but I do take the path of passive resistance with every ounce of my being. That would be resistance to any further waste of scarce resources.
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greenpeace have gave up due to court order so there ya go bit disappointed myself.They have sent in swimmers to stop the ship from moving and thats it.Happy monday morning all.
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BuT AT LEAST THEY ARE TRYING!!! Lets fund Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd the way we fund the military.
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...and e-mail and monitor every money transfer of any size leaving or coming into the country.Let's all send a penny to Tonga (or the country of your choice) when this thing passes. And lately, when Obama opens his mouth to proclaim something, AG Holder make it come true.
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The Security Council (I think it was them) has already been insisting that the data on each and every money transfer taking place in Europe is sent over to the States. This goes back to BEFORE Obama, the US. leaning on the European Parliamant to turn over this data, because it will help them catch terrorists. So ever time I wire my rent here, Uncle Sam will know it over there?? PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT!!!********************************** By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark Twain
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...Business Socks Option 22 is worth the price of admission, alone, up there at Capon Bridge.Don't ferget yer woolens!
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They're sortring by SS#.. .Knock, knock,' Ahh, Mr. Man? Mr. John Mann? Mebbe, you got cookies? We'd like to know about these transactions wired from your bank. The fuck you say? To the Phillipines for 1.55 million pesos Oh, that all? Jus' my monthly shipment of San Miqguel!
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I could use a case or 2 of San Magoo...and pint or 3 of Tanduay E.S.Q. rum (Extra Special Quality!!)