Topic: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread (Read 934664 times)

ivan · « **Reply #5125 on:** July 15, 2010, 03:34:48 PM »

Apparently, W.S. Burroughs, at least in the excerpt quoted below, writes like David Foster Wallace:

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Provident junkies, known as squirrels, keep stashes against a bust. Every time I take a shot I let a few drops fall into my vest pocket, the lining is stiff with stuff. I had a plastic dropper in my shoe and a safety pin stuck in my belt. You know how this pin and dropper routine is put down: "She seized a safety pin caked with blood and rust, gouged a great hole in her leg which seemed to hang open like an obscene, festering mouth waiting for unspeakable congress with the dropper which she now plunged out of sight into the gaping wound. But her hideous galvanized need (hunger of insects in dry places) has broken the dropper off deep in the flesh of her ravaged thigh (looking rather like a poster on soil erosion). But what does she care? She does not even bother to remove the splintered glass, looking down at her bloody haunch with the cold blank eyes of a meat trader. What does she care for the atom bomb, the bedbugs, the cancer rent, Friendly Finance waiting to repossess her delinquent flesh... Sweet dreams, Pantopon Rose."

pbsaurus · « **Reply #5126 on:** July 15, 2010, 03:58:19 PM »

Too bad somewhere is gone. It would have been fun using posts there as fodder.

12AX7 · « **Reply #5127 on:** July 19, 2010, 12:16:52 AM »

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100716/od_afp/fblcypvuvuzelaoffbeat_20100716160237

Demosthenes · « **Reply #5128 on:** July 19, 2010, 01:58:33 AM »

When vuvuzelas are outlawed, only outlaws will have vuvuzelas.

12AX7 · « **Reply #5129 on:** July 19, 2010, 02:32:51 AM »

Quote from: Demosthenes on July 19, 2010, 01:58:33 AM

When vuvuzelas are outlawed, only outlaws will have vuvuzelas.

Rizzy · « **Reply #5130 on:** July 19, 2010, 07:43:44 AM »

Oh god, not the vuvuzelas.

reimero · « **Reply #5131 on:** July 19, 2010, 08:08:31 AM »

Rizzy · « **Reply #5132 on:** July 19, 2010, 04:27:33 PM »

Demosthenes · « **Reply #5133 on:** July 20, 2010, 09:55:17 AM »

I'm offended by the very existence of the Gejigeji.

pbsaurus · « **Reply #5134 on:** July 20, 2010, 01:24:21 PM »

That is cool! I saw a millipede right outside the door to work this morning.

xolik · « **Reply #5135 on:** July 21, 2010, 06:19:49 PM »

Quote from: Demosthenes on July 20, 2010, 09:55:17 AM

I'm offended by the very existence of the Gejigeji.

Oh hell no. Now I'm gonna have messed up dreams tonight. Thanks a lot.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #5136 on:** July 21, 2010, 06:55:17 PM »

Feh. If you think that's bad, check this out...

pbsaurus · « **Reply #5137 on:** July 21, 2010, 07:29:13 PM »

This has them both beat

pbsaurus · « **Reply #5138 on:** July 21, 2010, 07:30:57 PM »

But then there is Wucheria Bancrofti

pbsaurus · « **Reply #5139 on:** July 21, 2010, 07:33:21 PM »

But he's got the biggest balls of them all

xolik · « **Reply #5140 on:** July 21, 2010, 07:38:25 PM »

As much as I may like oiled up Asians, this is going TOO FAR.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/07/oil_spill_in_dalian_china.html

Great photos, terrible event. STOP SPILLING OIL DAMMIT.

Rizzy · « **Reply #5141 on:** July 22, 2010, 08:27:18 AM »

It's time like this I'm infinitely glad for my strong stomach.

ivan · « **Reply #5142 on:** July 22, 2010, 11:54:12 PM »

I can see my initial opinion was probably right. I don't think I'll be sticking around to read any more threads that deteriorate into drivel as this one has. Thank you to the few of you who welcomed me, but good bye. ivan -- judiciously backing out of the room.

ivan · « **Reply #5143 on:** July 22, 2010, 11:54:37 PM »

I think I'll just post that now and again.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #5144 on:** July 23, 2010, 12:12:02 AM »

Whaddaya mean? This is probably the only thread on this entire forum that HAS managed to stay on-topic!

ivan · « **Reply #5145 on:** July 23, 2010, 12:16:37 AM »

Point taken. I'll post it somewhere else next time.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #5146 on:** July 23, 2010, 12:48:53 AM »

I think both Somewhere and Somewhere Else are gone...

Novice · « **Reply #5147 on:** July 23, 2010, 08:24:12 AM »

Quote from: ivan on July 22, 2010, 11:54:37 PM

I think I'll just post that now and again.

I was considering keeping that one for later use. But, I leave it to you.

ivan · « **Reply #5148 on:** July 23, 2010, 11:12:58 AM »

Quote from: Novice on July 23, 2010, 08:24:12 AM

I was considering keeping that one for later use. But, I leave it to you.

Nonsense. It's customizable. Think of it as private labeling.

Here it is, for everyone's use:

I can see my initial opinion was probably right. I don't think I'll be sticking around to read any more threads that deteriorate into drivel as this one has. Thank you to the few of you who welcomed me, but good bye. <Your Name Here> -- judiciously backing out of the room.

Rizzy · « **Reply #5149 on:** July 23, 2010, 11:20:04 AM »

...it needs to be bigger.

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