caroljane

He better be heard from again, or he will be tracked down and persuaded. We have ways of making you talk....

When I first read Rand's novels as an earnest teenage Rand-seeker, the only parts that made me laugh were not intended to be funny, and yes Ayn, I felt guilty about laughing at them. Couldn't help it though. This is no way in disrespect of Rand or her philosophy. or her novelistic skills which are considerable. The Bible has also had me roaring in the aisles at times, and I have said so to my cousin the Rt. Rev JL Matheson who agreed that it has its funny side.

I did not mean to imply that my devastating wit has left Kyle speechless. Why do I keep getting these empty boxes with the new quote function? I just finally learned to use the old one. These modern times is too much for me sometimes.

But I would have built you such a nice cottage. Hmm.... If I won the lottery, I would visit my bullion dealer. I'd ask to see his most expensive gold coins (I'd just say I'm there to admire them). I'd then ask how much he wanted for them. He'd smirk and say: surely you can't afford them. I'd then pull out a couple thousand dollars and say: don't call me Shirley. A man must be bigger than his money. lol. You are a welcome addition to our elite community, Kyle. I'm guessing your mother's a Canadian. Cuhnaydeean? Isn't that some kind of bacon? No, my mother certainly is not a meat product. And I'm sure your father would say so also. Obviously you were brought up right.

Good luck with that. You would dissipate your entire fortune in such an endeavour. Better stay poor.

I would buy the adjacent properties to Rob Ford's house and start holding open house for local and visiting journalists, free food and booze. Even the Toronto Sun would come.

I hope some of the lurkers will join and donate, as they are partly responsible for your the increased costs! I joined OL two years ago because it had the smartest and most interesting mix of minds in the Randiverse, and the members seemed to have the most fun*.(I thought that was just happy accident then, not realizing that the work of M and K made it happen. I wanted to join the party. If there had been an entrance fee at the door I would have paid it. I might have tried to haggle but I would have paid . *Also to meet men, of course, though not necessarily the ones I did meet...ref. my "Appeal to Browsing Women"

lol. "Almost comical" also describes the side-splitting moments of Objectivist literary practice, such as "I don't think of you." Well, the "almost" is a bit of a stretch.

There are many hours, nay centuries of video debunking everything on earth. I do not watch any of them.

"Can psychiatrists distinguish between sanity and madness?" They can distinguish better than their patients can, expecially the conspiracy theorists amongst them.

But I would have built you such a nice cottage. Hmm.... If I won the lottery, I would visit my bullion dealer. I'd ask to see his most expensive gold coins (I'd just say I'm there to admire them). I'd then ask how much he wanted for them. He'd smirk and say: surely you can't afford them. I'd then pull out a couple thousand dollars and say: don't call me Shirley. A man must be bigger than his money. lol. You are a welcome addition to our elite community, Kyle. I'm guessing your mother's a Canadian.

Anybody else who wants to be insulted, just take a number and wait your turn. If you want to be spanked or anything you'll have to wait till Adam gets back, I am not taking over his territory.

Assuming that by "we" you mean anyone who contributes to OL ("this bus"?): speak for yourself, clown.Actually, I too was offended that I wasn't specifically insulted. Oh boo-hoo poor you. Quit whining and sulking, I'll get to you when I have time. Other people need insults more than you do, you know, Mr Selfish.

Only through error. These errors constitute the entire knowledge of stupid, ignorant,dangerous whackjobs like you. Usually he is suspected of a real disorder by laypeople or overanxious parents. The child is assessed by a professional. He is correctly diagnosed as normal and healthy by a qualified professional. This happened to my firstborn. His JK teacher thought he was overactive and suggested we get him assessed, so we did. After the assessment, the shrink told us she knew before the tests that the kid was normal. Before the tests, she asked him to wait alone on a couch while she spoke to us for ten minutes. He fidgeted, wandered around, once came into the office, when the doctor asked what he wanted replied, "I want Mom and Dad." On request he went back and sat on the couch. A real hyperactive, she said, would have been bouncing off the walls.

You knew somebody would say it.

Theoretically, no.

I just realized that in the course of inflicting my stream of consciousness upon an innocent readership, as is my usual practice, I have resorted to hijacking somebody else's birthday for my purpose. Happy birthday, Deanna. I am not fishing for compliments here, If my excessive posting gave more annoyance or boredom than entertainment, I would know it , and not just because said readership would tell me. But as jts, who occasionally says something sensible (obvious, but sensible) remarked on addictive behaviour, we are infinitely capable of self-deception . I won't revive a painful name, but there was an ex-OLer who once dominated the board, mostly with material he plagiarized from others. In his not-an-apology apology farewell speech, he bragged that he had been "a great topic starter." He was Canadian, too.

Were they learned by Diana, I wonder.

Spitting in your own face would be very difficult though I don't say impossible. Very messy too.

Oh my. Humor is regarded as a "destructive element", and laughing at oneself as "the worst evil that you can do, psychologically". Quotes like the above give me the feeling that such a rigid take on humor does not grasp reality. To look at it one way,you cannot laugh at yourself at all, it is impossible to be at once the person laughing and the one being laughed at. The idea of "laughing with, not laughing at" I am pretty sure is not in the Lexicon.

Hey Deanna, I won't wish you many happy returns, because you will have them anyway. Your fifty will be "the new thirty" and so on. I mind back when I was 41, I considered myself middle-aged, (which I had considered myself since I was 19 anyway, another story). Now I am working on being "the new 90" and I have to tell you, it feels pretty darned good.

He was Ben-Hur's father in law, for Yahweh's sake!

I am roaring and it is not even over yet. But your study does not have proper scientific controls. I was prepared to laugh, not to resist laughing, and just seeing Sam Jaffe in that getup started me off.

At first I thought your "don't like food" post was a takeoff on Chimpy's "eating for pleasure is suicidal" one. Now you are in the same category as jts, Mike. After reading this thread I went out and bought some multivitamins. Moreover, I consented to answer a survey in the drugstore for $10, so I did not even have to pay for them. Talk about a benevolent universe. I didn't leave you alone with jts in the category, I would not do that to anybody, I brought back Ed and gulch. You influenced someone's behaviour by propaganda. Straight up.

Now we are getting into poetic justice, slightly different (??? - this is another topic I think). The instinctive reaction of laughter, the evolutuonary necessity of laughter, the various causes of pleasure, the personal ethics of what is funny.... Oh, my poor head.