RoR: Forum

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Friday, August 3, 2007 - 11:56pm

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Thanks must go out to Teresa, for finding this crucial video.

Ed

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Saturday, August 4, 2007 - 12:33am

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Once again, Ed, your blatant heterosexism leads you to credit the beautiful blond intermediary who, upon researching my original reference to Robert Spencer, led you in a roundabout way to this quote.

Oh, the agony! I feel like Nikolai Tesla, upstaged by Edison; John the Baptist, outshone by Jesus of Nazareth; Neil Diamond, overshadowed by the Monkees.

The pain! The anguish! The utter despair!

Why is my lawyer not answering my calls?

How do I make this text appear as green as my jealous soul?

Anne Elk

(Edited by Ted Keer on 8/04, 6:01pm)

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Saturday, August 4, 2007 - 1:22pm

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Ted:
Why do I get the feeling that it's harder to extract Phil Coates' three deepest facts about objectivism (post 36) than Anne Elk's theory about brontosauruses?

Sam

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Saturday, August 4, 2007 - 2:04pm

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What is my theory, Sam? You may very well ask what is my theory.

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Saturday, August 4, 2007 - 2:31pm

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RotFL! Thanks, guys.

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Saturday, August 4, 2007 - 3:18pm

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Yes, Chris, I am, well, asking � what is your theory?

This is the first Monty Python skit I had ever seen and had no inkling of what was going on. I haven't been the same since.

Confuse-a-Cat

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Saturday, August 4, 2007 - 3:31pm

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Sam, that was always my favorite skit. That and The Job Interview and the Oscar Wilde Sketch

Ted Keer
(Edited by Ted Keer on 8/04, 3:58pm)

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Saturday, August 4, 2007 - 4:08pm

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Ted,

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Oh, the agony! I feel like Nikolai Tesla, upstaged by Edison; John the Baptist, outshown by Jesus of Nazareth; Neil Diamond, overshadowed by the Monkees.
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And, while I cannot alter or abolish my innate enchantment with the 'fairer sex' -- I will offer you a personal 'position statement' meant for at least a partial atonement for my objective transgression here ...

"Ted Keer, I am enamored by your literary eloquence. By your palpable thirst for truth, understanding, progress, and benevolence. By the sum of your encyclopedic intellectual acquisitions; displayed here in a warm, insightful, and authentic manner -- by which so many here receive such great benefit.

Thanks for being yourself, Ted, you are of great value to me and, undoubtedly, to countless others. You are, to us (if I may speak for the enamored others), a reasonable facsimile of what Aristotle was to Rand." -- Ed Thompson (2007)

:-)

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Saturday, August 4, 2007 - 4:45pm

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Well, I certainly didn't expect that. Comparing me to the Stagirite is a bit unfair to each of us - how could I ever live up? Thanks, though.

Ted

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Saturday, August 4, 2007 - 5:18pm

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Monty Python did several job interview sketches. I like the one where the gorilla is interviewing for the librarian's job.

But perhaps the greatest sketch of all is "Nudge, Nudge."

Another great sketch (from the same show) is "Bicycle Repairman."

I am unable to find Michael Palin's "Prejudice" sketch. I did that as a monologue in my acting class.

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Sunday, August 5, 2007 - 10:49pm

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Monty Python

The Milkman Collector

The Hungarian Phrasebook

Ted Keer

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Monday, August 6, 2007 - 10:59am

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Christianity and Judaism do, too, and probably Shinto; they just don't play it up these days. To paraphrase Gail Wynand, they're developed all the time. They just aren't talked about. I don't have the citations at hand, but any good anti-religion text or website (Andrew Tobias comes to mind - his second autobiography, where he uses his real name) should be able to point you to Old- and New-Testament passages in point. You could jigger the definition of "developed doctrine theology in law" (whatever that may be) to exclude religions other than Islam and make this assertion a tautology, but where would that get you?
(Edited by Peter Reidy on 8/06, 11:01am)