PARENTS SAY THE DARNDEST THINGS

Do you still make use of those obscure phrases that your Parents would inadvertently toss your way during moments of utter exasperation?

There were a few lines which made reference to people with whom I was unacquainted?

When confronted with these exclamatory releases I would automatically just stand there looking innocent, perplexed, and yet somehow unconditionally repentant.

like this..

"Oh For Pete's sake!"?

"For The Love Of Mike"?

"Jezuz H. Christ or Murphy"?

Can you recall any of those bizarre eponymosities ?

When you find yourself in a pinch, do you use them?

Be honest!

BOWDLERDASH!

by Lord Tennisanyone

My Word! As many of you know I was Charlie Darwin's closest confidente and companion during his search for the origin of our species.

We shared a plethora of interests and I loved him dearly, although not with the same sort of ravenous lust and undying affection that I held for our fellow naturalist, the vivacious Penelope Pinkbitz.




Here is the last known photograph of Penelope taken whilst she was off collecting birds. I can be seen in the background on my way to collect her for a spot of lunch.

That was the last time that I ever laid my eyes, or hands, on Pinkbitz.

I never saw my belusted Penelope again.

That very afternoon Charlie and I became separated during a misadventure whilst collecting scientificky specimens in the Galapogos, wherein we were inexplicably subjected to an ignominious assault from an enraged carcharodon carcharias.

I was lost at sea.

The currents carried me to the Antarctic where my frozen head was chipped from the ice and I was subsequently brought back to life....

through the miracle of cryogenics, in a laboratory next to that insufferable Walt Disney fellow.

Needless to say I am now here in the present and Mr. Coppens and I are comparing notes and trying to ascertain if any discernable progress has been made by our species.

Today's observation is on the pervasive usage of a certain word that I found myself continuously using whilst trapped beside Mr. Disney for several decades.

f*ck.

Certainly we used the F word back in the 1800's but perhaps a little review is in order.

Now when Charlie could no longer stomach the blood and gore of Medical School his old man sent him off to be a Parson.

As fortune would have it, Charlie was chosen for the unpaid position of gentleman’s companion by the aptly named Robert FitzRoy, the captain of the HMS Beagle.

Ever been to Sea?

It should come as no surprise that once you get into a boat and sail away from polite society, that even a freshly trained Theology student will start using the F word. Surely the exhuberance of youth was in effect, but we had all had enough of being told how to conduct our linguistic exchanges by the likes of insufferable expurgationists such as Thomas F*cking Bowdler.

It is the fault of Bowdler and his ilk that cursing remains an indicator of Class Distinction...

although truth be told it is mainly enforced by the Middle Class and largely ignored by those above and below.

For example, in moments of astonishment or admonishment, Her Majesty will only dare utter, "Oh My Heavens" or "intercourse the Penguin"...

whereas a completely common person will blurt out, "Oh My God!" or "F*ck Off!"..

an American would say, "O Ma Gawd!" or "F*ck Hawff!"...

and Bloggers here in cyberspace simply type in "OMG!" or "FO!"

Imagine Bowdler having the bloody nerve to edit the works of Shakespeare in order to make them more appropriate for the ears of women and children. Penelope, who was an ardent feminist, referred to Bowdler as that f*cking arsehole.

Where was I? Oh yes, the F word.

Mr. Coppens and I do enjoy going to the Pictures and I have become painfully aware that the F word is now de rigeur in Cinematic scripts...

as it is out here in the blogosphere.

You may have noticed how frequently many of my fellow British Bloggers bandy about the F word in the comment section as if there was no tomorrow...

they even use the dreaded C word..

and they use it more often than even that darling Jodie Foster does in all of her Movies.

In my day, Bowdler and many others, decided that any persons found liberally sprinkling their social intercourse with F*cks, were to be instantly recognised as loathesome, unrefined, characters, devoid of suitable articulatory abilities and vocabulary.

There was to be little doubt that such pedestrian potty-talk eminated exclusively from the mouths of lower class idiots who had been spawned amongst the great unwashed. Commoners.

This had also happened in America where those insufferable Puritans were equally adamant about enforcing this Orwellian, lexiconian, edict on the others..

including the witches that they burned and the savages that they expropriated and killed.

Well I'm afraid that I have exhausted your patience and my powers of concentration are quickly fading.

I simply wanted to elucidate upon this matter since the world is changed by the very power of words.

Since the F word may very well be the most flexible word in the Dictionary (noun/adjective/verb tr & intr/interjection you name it) it is certainly worth noting that it is still trying to shake off the stigmatism of vulgarity and class distinction attached to it Centuries ago.

Bowdlerdash!

GEOdumbography

It has occurred to me that most of our problems could be solved by simply relocating a few countries. Personally I'd like to see NORTH AMERICA become a safer place to raise a family but also loosen up a bit and be more fun.

In order to make that happen we would need to exchange AUSTRALIA for the USA...and of course get Alaska back from those thieves! Australia and Canada would get along famously because we have so much in common.

Besides, it would be much cheaper for the USA to fight Russia and China and (whoever else they pick next week) if they were way over there.

Then North America would consist of Canada, Australia, Mexico, and the Caribbean..HELLO!

I would try move the UK a little closer (give them some sunlight poor things) and Spain can come over, they're fun but no mas with that Bullfighting Bullsh*t.

I'd like to move the entire MIDDLE EAST and all those STAN countries waaaay up north to RUSSIA and let the Russians have their warm water port and defrost the neo-Cold War. That way they'll all still have their bloody OIL but maybe the Russians will relax in a hotter climate and the fine folks from the Middle East & Stan countries might chillax a bit when it's 30 below?

I would also move China into smaller digs and give Tibet their spot...see how they like it. AFRICA could become one ginormous Game Preserve. Nice.

SOUTH AMERICA can just be Brazil..that would be kewl.

JAPAN needs more room to spread out so off you go, the Sea of Japan is empty anyway, and INDIA would have much better access to the American Market if the US was in Australia's old spot.

What would you do?

'68 & '08

I just watched the LBJ Presidency on PBS/AMERICAN EXPERIENCE and I am struck by the similarities between the years 1968 & 2008.

1968 was also an Election year and the US had a lame duck President from Texas in the White House who was emptying the coffers of the US Treasury in order to fight an unpopular, unwinnable, War in a foreign land.

Even back then, the Generals of the most powerful nation on Earth did not have a plan or any idea how to win a War against an enemy who, "refused to come out and fight".

The Pentagon strategists realised in '68 that the US could have Nuked the North Vietnamese back into the Stone Age and America would have still lost.
The Viet Cong knew that the US would have to leave one day.

1968 was a political watershed year and will always be remembered as the year that Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. were assassinated. In '68 the Viet Cong stormed into South Viet Nam during the infamous TET Offensive and dispelled any notion that the War was under control while race riots continued to light up the night skies of American cities.

Richard Nixon was the Republican Candidate who promised to win the War and restore Law & Order and squeaked by with 43.4% of the vote vs. the 42.7% for Democrat Hubert Humphrey.

The Governor of Alabama and redneck-racist-son-of-a-bitch George Wallace was a third party candidate who actually won FIVE Southern States! Wallace got 9 million votes, that's 14% of the popular vote! Forty years ago..just two generations.

Now in 2008 a captivating, young, Black, Senator is poised to win the White House and America may get another chance to focus on their own domestic issues instead of trying to fight unwinnable wars in foreign countries.


On the program Martin Luther King Jr. is seen delivering a speech in which he states that "it cost the US Government over $300,000 to kill one Viet Cong soldier.. and they spent about $52 per US Citizen to fight the War On Poverty."

Sound familiar?

The recent Market implosion and subsequent Government rescue of the Financial Terrorists was bad enough, but don't forget about the other War...

which we don't seem to hear much about anymore?
Iraq War Cost

CLOSER THAN I'VE EVER BEEN

This is a bit of a departure from my usual glib mental masturbations. I've been doing a little soul searching lately..as in trying to formulate a workable definition of a soul/mindforce thingamabob that can peacefully co-exist with my empirical cosmology...which as some of you may know, is all tickety-boo up until that split second before the Big Bang. I'm fine with WHEN, WHERE & HOW you and I made it here, even the WHAT we are, but the WHY needs a little tweaking.

Now I'm going to use lyrics from songs (which I shamelessly nicked) that have resonated with my search. Some mysteriously arrive through Christian Crossover Pop songs???? but most others are from popular songs..I'll spare you the bizarre oddities..this time. Why these words...I don't know? But most of these lyrics have stuck and have mercilessly rattled around in my cranium for decades.


Here we go...
STACIE ORRICO/More To Life
"I’ve got it all still I feel so deprived
I go up, I come down and I'm emptier inside
Tell me what is this thing that I feel like I'm missing
And why can't I let go

There's gotta be more to life...
Than chasing down every temporary high to satisfy me

Cause the more that I'm...Tripping out thinking there must be more to life
Well it's life, but I'm sure... there's gotta be more
Than wanting more"

LEAHY/Down That Road

"Had all the things I thought I wanted

Then I wanted more

And in my mind this all was fine

No need to check the score

And then one day I lost it all

That's when I realized

Might never have known about it

Might never have known

All that I'd been missin' in my life

I know that what I touch and see

Can't fill me up

So if I want to wake this soul

It's about love

Oh when you go down that road

There's no turning back

And when you go down that road

It's plain to see that From out of this bleeding world

There's nowhere else I'd rather Go than down that road"

STING/Lose My Faith In You

"You could say I lost my faith in science and progress

You could say I lost my belief in the holy church

You could say I lost my sense of direction

You could say all of this and worse but

If I ever lose my faith in you

There'd be nothing left for me to do

Some would say I was a lost man in a lost world

You could say I lost my faith in the people on TV

You could say I'd lost my belief in our politicians

They all seemed like game show hosts to me"

SARAH MCLAUGHLIN/Sweet Surrender

"It doesn't mean much

It doesn't mean anything at all

The life I've left behind me

Is a cold room

I've crossed the last line

From where I can't return

Where every step I took in faith

Betrayed me

And led me from my home"

PETER GABRIEL/Love To Be Loved

"This old familiar craving

I've been here before, this way of behaving

Don't know who the hell I'm saving anymore

Let it pass let it go let it leave

From the deepest place I grieve

This time I believe

And I let go I can let go of it

Though it takes all the strength in me

And all the world can see

I'm losing such a central part of me

I can let go of it

You know I mean it

You know that I mean it

I recognize how much I've lost

But I cannot face the cost

'Cause I love to be loved"

SUZANNE VEGA/In My Book Of Dreams

"Number every page in silver

Underline in magic marker

Take the name of every prisoner

Yours is there my word of honor

I took your urgent whisper

Stole the arc of a white wing

Rode like foam on the river of pity

Healed the hole that ripped in living"

MAE MOORE/Bohemia

"I go places inside my head

With an eye on tomorrow to keep my soul fed

I came here of my own accord

I came to witness the unexplored

Green valleys and a fertile sea

I came to rediscover the real me

I like it here at least so far

I've got no plans of saying au revoir

Elevated visions when I close my eyes

Stretched out underneath these amaranth skies

Make me feel...

Closer than I've ever been to being alive

Since I've arrived in Bohemia"

MADONNA/Frozen

"Now there's no point in placing the blame

And you should know I suffer the same

If I lose you

My heart will be broken

Love is a bird, she needs to fly

Let all the hurt inside of you die

You're frozen,

When your heart's not open"

BOWIE/Moonage Daydream

"Keep your mouth shut, but listen to the world inside

Keep your head on, but open up your eyes real wide

Keep the change strong, let the things you torn aside

You messing any road to high

Keep your 'lectric eye on me babe

Put your ray gun to my head

Press your space face close to mine, love

Freak out in a moonage daydream oh yeah!"


OZARK MOUNTAIN DAREDEVILS/Within Without

"Now I'm runnin' from my house

'cause my house

doesn't please me

people comin' in, goin' out,they don't see me

now I'm flyin' through the air

I'm not scared of people all underneath,

in a heap, askin' how'd we get to here from there

where our lives had some meaning

and all the days weren't the same

we played no games and we knew ourselves within, without"

Would you be so kind as to add some lyrics that resonate with your search for your inner self?

TODAY'S LESSON;

READING IS THINKING

By Prof Plotznheimer

Good Morning Class.

Today I would like to share a very cool passage from THE END OF FAITH by Sam Harris.

"You are now seated, reading Homo Escapeons.

Reading is itself a species of thinking.

You can probably hear the sound of your own voice reading these words in your mind.

These sentences don't feel like your thoughts.

Your thoughts are the ones that arrive unannounced and steal you away from the text.

They may or may not have any relevance to what you are now reading.

You may suddenly find yourself thinking about something else even while your eyes still blindly scan lines of text.

We all know what it is like to read whole paragraphs, and even pages of a book, without assimilating a word.

Few of us realize that we spend most of our lives in such a state; perceiving the present-sights, sounds, tastes, sensations-only dimly, through a veil of thought.

We spend our lives telling ourselves the story of past and future, while the reality of the present goes largely unexplored."

Well...Did you feel it?

Your consciousness understanding the experience that YOU are simultaneously the subject and the object?

Isn't that cool?

It means that you are Salt-Of-The-Earth, and a Politically, Moderate, Centrist, or Lefty, and that the globby, three pound, lump, of folded, grey, jello, holding your ears apart, is still working despite having been bombarded from birth by a lifetime of advertisements from the Military/Industrial Complex controlled Ad Geniuses who are begging you to come over to the Dark Side.

Congratulations.

If on the other hand, you thought that that voice in your head was either GOD or SATAN, you are prolly an Uber-Conservative, Rightwing, Fascist, Nutjob, and destined to continue loathing other people who look, think, or act differently, as well as those who have more expensive crap than you have managed to accumulate at any cost..

and besides you already know everything that there is to know so why was I reading this crap?

((ahem))

So Class...what do you think about your ability to think about your thinking while you're reading?..or did your attention span expire?...a little too long for you eh?

Aaah you kids today oye-yoy-yoy!

Thanks Andrea

ESCAPING THE MENTAL MASTURBATORIUM

Each of us lives out our lives in our heads.

We are trapped in this gigantic asylum that may look grandiose and impressive from the outside, but inside, it's a madhouse that is owned and operated by the inmates.

Most of us would like nothing better than to stay in here where it is warm, dry, and attendents with protective headgear and large batons deliver our meals on a semi-regular basis. It could be worse.

Naturally we are all subjected to similar inconveniences from envisioning our delusions of grandeur by tedious, intrusive, obligations such as schooling, making acquaintances, and dying. For the most part, however, it is a solitary endeavour that involves naval gazing and deciphering the ulterior motives of our Creator(s) and captors.

Imagine then for a moment, that you were rudely awakened from this comfortable internment only to discover that you were surrounded by others. Suddenly your little world is in tatters and your cosmology is all askew.

So it is with my awakening. I find myself surrounded with other sojourners in the blogosphere trying to make some sense of it all. Each of us fumbling about in the dark corridors in search of some answers to the same questions that haunt us all...

why do men retain superfluous nipples?

is Lindsay Lohan really ghey?

why is an Orca called a Killer Whale if it's a Dolphin?

is it elitist to still refer to Zimbabwe as Rhodesia?

where exactly is the f*cking Grafenberg spot?

was Elvis really seen shopping at Walmart?

what if L Ron Hubbard wasn't a raving lunatic?

why did the Vikings hate Newfoundland so much?

why did the Millenium start in 2000 if there wasn't a Year Zero?

how much wood could a woodchuck chuck?

if brains were dynamite could you blow your mind?

why do rappers need to act like misogynistic megalomaniacs?

what if god wasn't one of us?

would Adam have had a belly button if he was created?

is Monica Bellucci blocking my e-mails or is it her lawyers?

We're all in this together, there is no early parole for good behavior.

Let's face it.

Once you start Blogging,

you can check out any time you like,

but you can never leave.


Were you ever informed of this..

I didn't think so?

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there, there, that's better!

DRUM ROLL PLEASE!

I'm sick of Politics so I decided to just listen to some music. I was listening to The Outfield and realised that there were only three guys in that band.

So I thought, hey, why not make a list of my favorite Trios and other good things that come in threes and sure enough Wiki has a whole bloody page on Power Trios here and there are thousands of Blog Posts on things that come in threes like;
morning, noon & night, good, bad & ugly, stop, yield & go, father, son & holy ghost, huey, dewey & louie, small, medium & large, water,ice & steam, Neener, Neener & Nee-NER and blah, blah, blah..

so to hell with that, here are my favorite Trios in the Rock category,

most which really date me but whatever?

The Outfield, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, The Jam, Crowded House, The Police, Grand Funk Railroad, Genesis, Foo Fighters, and ZZ Top.

I never really got into Nirvana or Rush, but they had unbelievable drummers..let's face it..
NEIL PEART IS God!..and Canadian!

I like Green Day, and Manic Street Preachers...

Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Thin Lizzy each had one big song.

A Trio would be the way to go eh? The BAND would be compact and mobile, and there would always be a tie-breaker, and more Royalty cheques and groupies for all concerned.

But, what a Trio really needs,
is an amazing Drummer.

The Drums are the glue Man...can you tell I was a Drummer?


I realised that I was amazed at the phenomenal Drummers that played in some of these groups...yeah yeah some of the Guitarists were decent like whathisface, Clapton and Hendrix , but I'm trying to talk about Drummers OK?

Trio Drummers aren't just shoved off in the back corner behind the Amps or blocked by some strutting Peacock!

If I wrote out my Favorite/Amazing Drummers List, many of these Drummers would have played in Trios:

Mitch Mitchell/Hendrix
Ginger Baker/Cream
Stewart Copeland/Police
Neil Peart/Rush
Dave Grohl/Nirvana

and some of my other faves are

John Bonham/Led Zeppelin
Keith Moon/Who
Taylor Hawkins/Foo Fighters
Larry Mullen/U2
Ainsley Dunbar/Bowie & Zappa

Jerry Marotta/Peter Gabriel

On rare occasions Drummers move up the food chain and end up being the Lead Vocalist like Don Henley and Phil Collins...easy. easy. Did you know that Ringo's son Zak is one of the awesomest drummers du jour and that he plays with Oasis & The Who?

If you haven't heard a drum solo since the 70s here's a treat from a seven year old kid on Johnny Carson..do you think he's a natural?

Crank the volume and hold up your lighter!

PAX PANGEA,
ONE WORLD PEACE?

refried from 05/06/06

The DECLARATION of INTERDEPENDENCE
(Apologies to Franklin, Jefferson et al)

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for homo escapeons (modern man) to advance from that subordination in which they have hitherto remained for millenia, and to assume among the people of the earth, the equal and interdependent station to which the laws of nature and of nature's god entitle them, a decent and more realistic respect to the options of mankind, requires that they should modify their self destructive nature and eliminate the causes which impel them to continually completely intercourse their future. DUH!


We must declare the following to be self evident, *that DNA studies have confirmed the opening chapter of our story over and over, that ALL of the variously shaped and shaded PEOPLE of the Earth trace their ancestry to African hunter-gatherers, some 150,000 years ago.
*National Geographic March 2006










If only we could stop pigeon-holing each other and interupt the ongoing carnage for one day....arrange a global time-out for for all of mankind. If we could dissolve the artificial segregation of humans by nationality, religion, colour, and every other human invention,and present the evidence of our common ancestry. Collect every man, woman, and child, strip them of their regional and religious costumes (uniforms), and simultaneously stand them all before giant TV screens.

As John Lennon's IMAGINE is played in the background, let them gaze at an enormous image of the African Continent.

















There, for all to see, is the inescapably obvious outline of a human skull.












Theists can relish in the moment as it would seem to be the handiwork of a Cosmic Creator, and I'm AGNOSTIC for gawdsake! In any case, who or whatever it is, would be a Force with a wonderful, yet odd sense of humor. Seriously, could this fantastic arrangement of the tectonic puzzle simply be mere coincidence...

really..

have another look?

If we humans are so smart, how can we ignore what appears to be a clue of that magnitude? A hint, a nudge, a wink, a say no-more wink-wink so blatant, that it stares us in the face every single day.

It is right under our nose hiding in plain sight.

A nod so galactic in scale that it is obvious from outer space.

The'piece de resistance' is sometimes overlooked by many.

Go back and look at Africa, notice Madagascar, the island nose that has slid off the face of the map.

That is the inside joke.

Could this be the Cosmic Puzzler's not-so-subtle way of pointing out that mankind is

cutting off his nose to spite his own face.




Would we be the same troublesome species today if we had evolved to our present state while the continents were still jammed together ?

Why are we incapable of attaining a Pax Pangea? Why can't we overcome our double edged nature to manufacture even a reasonable facsimile of the world peace that we all dream and talk about?

How should we deal with people who impede our progress?

JST SHU'T ME NW!

Today my randumb thought involves a frank discussion on the future of langwidge. Now I have already established that Inglitch won the war because it shamelessly adopts any foreign words that it fancies and makes it part of the lexicon. If you don't believe me ..well fine..be that way.

I became convinced that someday all words would become Anglysch wyrds after reading THE STORY OF ENGLISH.

The battle for a truly universal langwich that all Earthlings can share is not quite over.

The two new obstacles to overcome are:

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and this

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These days anyone under 30 seems to rely on this mode of transporting ideas and thoughts. My guess is that it is fast and the Internet Generation has an attention span that can be measured in nanoseconds. My cohorts in the Baby Boom may have thought that they had perfected Instant Gratification,

but GEN-NEXT puts us all to shame.

So now Engulash Teachers have the ominous task of attempting to instill all of those hard and fast Grandma-tical Rules, which all seem to have exceptions anyway, to a bunch of disheveled zombies who are not-so-secretly staring down at tiny screens and literally twiddling they're thumbs...

"wht r u doing?"

"nthng wht r u doing?"

"ths z so fkn lame"

"jst shu't me nw"

"LOL duh!"

"wnt 2 dtch nxt cls?"

"duh"

There are rumors of new computer keyboards being introduced with only 16 characters to choose from..

jst shu't me nw!

The other obvious threat is the arrival of the next, emerging, SuperPOWER, and it's unavoidable injection of those improbably, beautiful, Chinese characters, which they use in lieu of actual words.

Many people under thirty already have these characters tattoo'd on their shamelessly over exposed bodies. Most of them think that these exquisite squiggles translate as something profound like, "Harmony over Adversity".

My guess is that they actually translate as "Eat At Chows!" or "Kick Me!".

These new assaults on the Mother of all Langwidgaz will take a while to sort out, and I will have mercifully expired long before this matter is resolved.

For those of you young enough to remain and witness the carnage..

gd

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w tht.

*supposedly means luck

BAD & SOFT
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
H. L. Mencken

Canadians got it Bad and Soft the other day. Our Federal Election is over and Three Hundred-Frickin-Million Dollar$ later, our Parliament looks pretty much the same as it did.
Meh.

A paltry 59% 0f the 24 Million eligible voters managed to drag their sorry carcass to the polls. That means that almost half (41%) of the Population DID NOT VOTE!


The Right of Centre and never wrong Party, the Conservatives, ended up with 143 seats (up 19) @ 37.6% of the vote and will form another Minority Government.
Oh Joy, Oh Rapture.
The lacklustre Liberals managed to attain 76 seats (down 27) @ 26.2%
The traitorous Quebec Blocheads stole 50 seats (lost 1) @ 10%
The slightly Left of Left NDP now have 37 seats (gained 8) @18.2%
There will be 2 'Independent' malcontents (up 1) @ .05%
And the Enronmentaly challenging Greens didn't get any seats, even though almost one million ballots were cast in their favour (6.8% of the Popular Vote).


Our system is fercockt.
This archaic first-past-the-post plurality system SUCKS!

Had we upgraded to a PROPORTIONAL form of REPRESENTATION, where one vote, YOUR VOTE, actually matters and everybody is counted, Parliament would have looked like this;

Conservatives would have got 116 seats not 143,
Liberals 81 not 76,
NDP 57 not 37,
Traitorous Bloc 30 not 50,
and the Greens would have 23 seats!,
the Malcontents, the proverbial 'Others', would have to fight over the last musical chair.
A much more defined and equitable snapshot of our political landscape EH?


Someone summed it up quite simply, "In a room of 10 Canadians; 4 would be Tories, 3 Liberals, 2 NDPers and 1 Bloc supporter".
Someday, if the LEFT OF CENTRE wonks could ever get their 'Peeps' to join forces and quit splintering the moderate progressive vote, the Never Wrong-Always Right, Conservatives would be an exiled minority until the End Of Days!


I am a Member of FAIR VOTE CANADA and sincerely hope that Proportional Representation can become a reality..hopefully by the time my 7 year old turns 18.

The UK, USA, and INDIA need to re-screw their heads too.
Plurality Schmurality.
























We need to either fix our political process,
or beg Her Majesty to mercifully reinstate our Colonial status...
at her leisure
(goes without saying eh?)

..perhaps Tuesday next?

...after TEA?

BLOGTHEFT/CASE CLOSED?

"From: ellinidata Date: 2008-10-15 01:30

I told you

I got the text in an email,I apologized and I did put it out of Public Access,I have to admit it was a great one and that's why i posted it,

I am here on Opera because I love my friends .

I never looked to be famous or "infamous".

I was never nominated for the Clan Destiny,

I did not become MOTW because of it,

I did not win the summer story contest because of it,

I did not use it for any profit,

I feel that I am not that is looking for attention here.

It is sad that my two previous msgs and my actions did not mean anything to you.

Positive thoughts are coming to your way.

Angeliki"

message #2

"Regarding PLAGIARISM IS WRONG

hi Espen, I did receive many comments from a member ,his name is Donn.

On April 4th,2008 I posted a post titled "ClanDestiny".http://my.opera.com/ellinidata/blog/clan-destiny

The text came from a friend in an email.

Donn received this Pmsg from me and I did include it in the above mentioned post for all readers to see:

I have no idea who you are,You commented on a post that I received in the mail by a friend from Athens Greece,and also on a post that has a You Tube video....till I find out more about it I will make my posts "friends access" only.

If the writing it is yours I apologize for posting it,if it is not kindly stop the comments.

Thank you,

Angeliki

PS.I happen to like the"annoying emoticons" sorry if you don;t enjoy them as much as we do on Opera.

PS2 Before you started to call names of "infamous" maybe you should have asked meas you see I am responding to your comments and I never ignore any ...*********what should be my next move??

should I delete the post??

I always used YouTube,Wakipedia and other sources for my posts ,in this case I wouldn't mind since I did apologize to Donn to either erase it or put it in a Private access...

Will you please kind and let me know??

thank you

Angeliki"

so I replied....

"Hello ellinidata/Angeliki

I'm glad that you aren't hiding behind your firewall deleting my comments and hoping that I'll just go away.

Now which part of this piracy incident don't you understand?
You can't copy and paste something that someone else has written unless you acknowledge them. Not only is that simple Blogospherian courtesy and common sense, it's against International Law.

Here is the deal.
You can A; either put my name on the post as the Author,
or B (for Better Yet) remove it from your Blog altogether and quit pretending that you wrote it...because believe it or not, that's what people will think...weird eh?"

EXHIBIT "A"
"I don't know how I missed this one"
By gdare, # 26. September 2008, 14:34:14

"Quite a post you made there Angeliki"
By daxonmacs, # 5. April 2008, 12:12:12

"Excellent post"
By lokutus_prime, # 26. September 2008, 13:51:51

"GREAT post!"
By CultureSurfer, # 26. September 2008, 13:58:01

"thanks Loku and Naomi have a great Day +"
By ellinidata, # 26. September 2008, 14:12:00

"For the sake of expediting this process and getting on with my life, I am going to assume that you do not understand any of these fancy schmancy concepts about intellectual property...seriously, doesn't that just sound like crazytalk?

Let me guess, you're just flitting about on the Internet to meet new people, have fun, and play show and tell with whatever pops up on your screen. Right?

All these Blogs and stuff out here on the Internet are just one, big, electronic, FREE, all-you-can-yoink, buffet! I mean wasn't the whole thing sort of set up for people to pick and choose "neat stuff" to share with all of their wonderful friends.

Of course it was.

Then you can all ROTFLMAO and innundate each other with those zany, madcap, emoticons. What a HOOT!

Ah shucks Angeliki, how could I ever stay mad at you ya big knucklehead. Gosh darnit anyway you were just havin' fun weren't ya? Who'd have ever thought that I would have ever found my post on your blog? Pffft! I mean really..what are the odds?

Boy, the Internet would sure be a real drag if everyone was as uptight as I am about all this property rights crap eh?

So anyway I guess I'll be running along now.
You try to stay out of trouble now ya hear.

Homo Escapeons"

True Story!

BLOG THEFT

Last night I was Googling around and found out that this woman has copied and pasted one of my longwinded, tedious, postings titled:

CLAN DESTINY on Friday, 4. April 2008, 12:54:01.


which is i-f*cking-dentical to my CLANDESTINY posting from Monday, January 07, 2008 @ 10:04 A.M.

Have a lash for yourself HERE

Look familiar? You can check my Archive or write Clandestiny in the little search blog thingy at the top of the page.

Now she goes by the name of ANGELIKI and her Blog is on O MY OPERA which apparently is yet another Google Powered thingamablog.

In her profile HERE she even mentions that her last movie seen was NameOfThe Rose, which is exactly how I had crammed the title together under my old profile, and under music I listen to she has Bloc Party...oh really, where are they from and what's your favorite song Angelikely...as if!

Coinky dink, I think not!

One small consolation was that her avatar is this picture of Jane Russell, but she wrote,

"I use Bette Davis' picture after receiving inappropriate msgs about my own picture."

Now I joined O My Soap Opera, which I had never even heard of, just to complain.

I suppose that the stolen posting will be gone in the click of an eye, but seriously, what is this sh*t!

Had she bothered to mention my name as the author I might have been flattered and less annoyed, but OMFGWTF!

Has this ever happened to you?

What should I do?