All Discussions Tagged 'the' - TBD2024-03-29T12:27:16Zhttps://teebeedee.ning.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=the&feed=yes&xn_auth=noThe Alternative Island Of Misfit Toystag:teebeedee.ning.com,2010-03-27:1991841:Topic:8918392010-03-27T14:34:42.179ZSnagghttps://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/DavidCarltonHustava
<p><font size="2">My fiancee and I are considering a lifestyle change. It would involve winning a LOT of money and then buying our own private tropical island, which we will christen "Poopoonesia". It will be tax-exempt and the birthplace of a new kind of governing philosophy, henceforth referred to as "Benevolently Violent Democracy", or "BVD". All immigrants and visitors shall be by invitation only.<br></br></font></p>
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<p><font size="2">My fiancee and I are considering a lifestyle change. It would involve winning a LOT of money and then buying our own private tropical island, which we will christen "Poopoonesia". It will be tax-exempt and the birthplace of a new kind of governing philosophy, henceforth referred to as "Benevolently Violent Democracy", or "BVD". All immigrants and visitors shall be by invitation only.<br/></font></p>
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<p><font size="2">We will install an indigenous faith, to be known as "G-Dimensionism", and it's rituals will include hurling snooping real estate developers into a lagoon stocked with rabid sharks, hurling all non-invited proseltyzers of competing faiths into the chemical volcano, and a tolerant and easy-going community<br/> responsibility-based sense of social involvement. Also walking around backwards (and bare-assed naked) all day. In Poopoonesia, being The Misfit Toy shall be a welcomed <span style="font-style: italic;">sacred duty</span>, not a burden to be endured.<br/></font></p>
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<p>Poopoonesia will include, among other things, a world-class nightclub, hosting bands and performers from around the world - It will rival anything in London, New York or Tokyo. There will be music, comedy, the occasional prestidigitator and I will even allow my fiancee to present the random Broadway musical, although those things make my skin crawl. (NO DISNEY. Period. Ya gotta draw the line somewhere, and the Mouse House's bloated, cynical money grabs are a good place to start. No Ice Capades or "Magic On Ice" or the Preakness "On Ice", either - NO ICE, except in patron's drinks. There is only so much cheese that I'll allow to be served to my patrons.)</p>
<p>This nightclub, by the way is free to anyone who we decide is nice enough, funny enough or just plain weird enough to make it on to our invitation list, as are all things on the island. Thirsty? Free drinks at any available stand. Hungry? We'll have snack carts representing the best street food of the world scattered all over the joint - Mexican, Thai, Chicago Hot Dogs, etc, etc - No Deep Fried Anything On A Stick, though. Healthy or at least non-lethal goodies are the permanent order of the day around here....</p>
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<p>Think of Poopoonesia as Disneyworld for people with taste, as Paris without the attitude, as Rio without all of the hustlers, your getaway destination for NOT being treated like a corn-fed rube who was put on this planet for no better reason that to be fleeced and then driven off by corporate scum and bean counters... I've been to Disneyworld, you see, and "The Happiest Place On Earth" made me want to start breaking things. We'll be doing things differently around here.</p>
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<p>There will be free museums all over the place, dedicated to the arts, both classical and modern, areas reserved for busking and street performers (Although any money you throw to them is unnecessary, as they'll going to be given the same friendly treatment as you, and all monies will be forwarded to charity) and there will be polite, well-groomed and well-mannered security details who are specialists in defusing misunderstandings and disputes of all types with grace, tact and kindness. And, if grace, tact and kindness don't work, all transgressors will receive a free-of-charge lesson in decorum that they will never forget, as the security details will also be trained experts in jeet kune do, aikido and, for the really stubborn types, old-fashioned alley fighting. (All of the kind of folks that we expect to allow on the island will be, by nature, passionate people. Opinionated, idealistic and thoughtful types are welcomed and encouraged to publicly debate their views, whenever the occasion may arise - But let's not get carried away here. Spirited conjecture is one thing, but start abusing the privilege and it's the lagoon for you, chum. And I do mean "chum". And it WILL be posted on YouTube.)</p>
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<font size="2">We're still working on the finer points (Public Health, Latrine Duty, etc, etc), but I can keep you all posted as updates occur. We're just getting started, and our hearts are full of love and our heads are<br/>
full of ideas.</font> More details as we make them up.<p><br/></p> Finish the Sentence Game #2tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2009-12-05:1991841:Topic:6381232009-12-05T22:25:26.399ZTabithahttps://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/Tabitha
Not sure what happened to #1 but no matter.<br />
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Please finish this partial sentence and then begin a new thread with your original teaser.<br />
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TBD seems especially
Not sure what happened to #1 but no matter.<br />
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Please finish this partial sentence and then begin a new thread with your original teaser.<br />
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TBD seems especially Ya know, the Nazi's did that . . .tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2009-08-27:1991841:Topic:3025972009-08-27T20:16:24.704ZZenDoghttps://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/ZenDog
<div style="font-family:helvetica; font-size:11pt; font-weight:500">Yes they did. What, you weren't aware? When they embarked upon their <i>final solution</i> they began with the mentally ill. That worked so well they expanded their program of <i>racial purity</i> to include Jews, Gypsies, faggots, Russians, and anyone else who disagreed with the program. Once they had the process refined, they told the people to assemble at the train station, and only bring one bag. They wouldn't have said…</div>
<div style="font-family:helvetica; font-size:11pt; font-weight:500">Yes they did. What, you weren't aware? When they embarked upon their <i>final solution</i> they began with the mentally ill. That worked so well they expanded their program of <i>racial purity</i> to include Jews, Gypsies, faggots, Russians, and anyone else who disagreed with the program.
Once they had the process refined, they told the people to assemble at the train station, and only bring one bag. They wouldn't have said bring one bag if they were planning whole sale extermination now would they? No-oo. Of course not. And strangely enough, lots of people complied. Well, what else were they gonna do really, when the consequence for non compliance was so utterly, and abundantly, clear . . .<br />
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So, you know, I kind of figure the mentally ill in any given society are kind of like the canary, you know? Kinda. They serve as a kind of barometer of the society in which they live.<br />
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The last time I saw something come out on research involving the mentally ill it appeared in the Boston Globe in 1998, and the articles included things like wash out therapy, ketamine research, and a few other experiments with medication. Some of these <i>experiments</i> resulted in suicide.<br />
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And that kinda pisses me off.<br />
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Ya. It does. Almost as much as the idea that some right wing bible thumper might actually use scripture to justify homicide. Huh? What? You say? <i>If a seed falls and dies . . .</i> they say, and I say that's no excuse.<br />
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There is no excuse. And I've got just the punishment that will fit the crime . . .</div> A Message from Timothy Carr, FreePress.nettag:teebeedee.ning.com,2009-08-04:1991841:Topic:2050812009-08-04T12:30:36.405ZZenDoghttps://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/ZenDog
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