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Location: Phoenix AZ | I'm too horny to voluntarily cease breeding. |
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Location: big island | Originally posted by Tupperware:
I'm too horny to voluntarily cease breeding. dave, you didn't read it far enough... |
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Location: SoCal | He's too dense.... |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Obviously those people have never heard of the "Big country" AKA Texas...Alaska...Scandinavia..nor of the rest of the World, but If those "people" are Sincere,.. I`ve heard the Tibetan Monks have space available,... :)
Vic
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Next nominees for the Darwin Awards?
Hey, Do the world a favor... |
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Location: New South Wales, Australia | I've ceased breeding but I still love to practise :D |
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Location: Nashville TN. | Originally posted by Old Man Arthur:
Next nominees for the Darwin Awards?
Hey, Do the world a favor... Just saw it in the theater and rented it to see it again
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0428446/ |
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Location: boulder | A) I didn't even read past the first line.
B)I "believe" (which means I really don't know, but think)the 'overpopulation will crush us' theory has been refuted by evidence, but bottom line- as people ( any culture/country) become more well off financially, they have less children. Population has been growing, but the rate of growth has been slowing as more countries become wealthier in general.
C) I am fairly certain the problem will fix itself, one way or another.
Just as a side thought, I wonder what the first guitar in space will Be???????? I know what it should be, of course.
peace mike
and the darwin awards movie was priceless.... |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | First guitar in space was a Solo-ette.
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Location: Texas | Collapse of the vacuum....which is why I haven't vacuumed this week
Rogue black holes....known in Texas as pot holes
Giant solar flares....know to women as hot flashes
Biotech disaster....who found out about my cooking???
Nanotechnology disaster....me trying to read a manual.
Particle accelerator mishap....What you tell the police - I thought it was the brake.
Robots take over....I expect them to clean my house and mow the lawn
Mass insanity - mission accomplished
Alien invasion.....ditto
Someone wakes up and realizes it was all a dream...pepperoni pizza at midnight will do that every time.
Hey, I am just trying to get through the day
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Fugot-- " Just as a side thought, I wonder what the first guitar in space will Be???????? I know what it should be, of course."
Tup-- "First guitar in space was a Solo-ette."
As soon as I read the question, my thought was "No-one has brought a guitar yet? They brought a golf club to the Moon!"
Glad you guys asked and answered the question.
[I thought the Russians had on on Mir? :confused: ] |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | OK. I read the first sentence, looked at the list of 'headings' and hit the 'back' button.
I really couldn't be bothered.
Anyone actually read it and feel like summarising? |
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Location: Texas | Muzza - I read one atritcle that said there are twenty ways for the earth to be destroyed - my list above was a few of them for which I put in my own two cents.
Basically, from the little that I did read - the earth is over populated that will lead to its demise. This group is saying for people to slow down the population by not having children - that is just one of the things they proposes.
I couldn't get through the rest of it :) |
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Location: NJ | ". . "The Planet" will be FINE!! . . it's PEOPLE that're f@cked!!
. . when all's said & done, the Earth will just "shake us off" . . like a bad case of fleas . . ."
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | This has been tried before, the Shakers, a protestant group forever associated with New York State, believed in celebacy, and that if no one had children it would be the end of the world and Jesus would come again. They are also known for their elegant style in architecture and furniture, influencing such people as Frank Lloyd Wright ...
For you history buffs, prior to 1870, New York State was the California of Religion's, cooking up all kinds of new ideas. I reckon our most famous creation was mormanism.
As ecclesiastes says ... there's nothing new under the sun. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by cliff:
". . "The Planet" will be FINE!! . . it's PEOPLE that're f@cked!!
. . when all's said & done, the Earth will just "shake us off" . . like a bad case of fleas . . ."
- George Carlin Christ, Clifford! Who cares about Earth? ... It's your soul that matters. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by an4340:
This has been tried before, the Shakers, a protestant group forever associated with New York State, believed in celebacy, and that if no one had children it would be the end of the world and Jesus would come again. And then there was that rival tribe, The Movers. They believed in reproducing like rabbits in an effort to fend off the very return of Hey-Sus. Then one day the Movers and the Shakers teamed up and formed California and basically nothing east of the rockies has mattered since. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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Location: big island | sounds like an episode from mad tv. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by cliff:
". . "The Planet" will be FINE!! . . it's PEOPLE that're f@cked!!
. . when all's said & done, the Earth will just "shake us off" . . like a bad case of fleas . . ."
- George Carlin Incidentally, I'm reading a book by Alan Weisman entitled, 'The World Without Us'. It supposes humans are instantly gone from the planet, and systematically examines the processes by which Earth would reclaim that which humans created- He explains in detail how our infrastructure would collapse- what becomes of plastic- effects on the ocean, climate etc... Very well researched, written and a fascinating read... |
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Location: NJ | EarthII! . . NOW! with "Styrofoam"!!!
Yeah, I heard Weisman on the radio.
One of the hazards of being stuck in an office all day, is that I have a radio on constantly, and I've compiled about five or six desk blotters worth of scribblings of book titles that I'll never get around to buying/reading . . .
Jeanette's reading one now that I bought on such an impulse on the history of the construction of St. Peter's Basilica. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Personally, I look forward to the end of the world.
I don't wanna die alone. I like the idea of a few billion people going with me!
I miss the Cold War. The concept of everyone going in a Nuclear Flash was kinda Romantic...
"It's the End of the World as we know it, and I feel fine!" |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Vision, great idea!
No children, more guitars :D |
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OT: the global warming cult reaches for the kool-aid