Random Thoughts
A fool-proof paternity test is to go back in time and kill who you think is your father and see if it creates a paradox.
If the Founding Fathers were so Smart, what’s with All the random capitalization of Words in the Constitution?
At least they didn’t randomly bold things and put things in caps. That’s nature’s way of telling you someone is an internet crank.
Why does spell check still tell me I should capitalize “internet”? Who capitalizes that word? Oh, I guess the Founding Fathers would.
I lived in Jersey for nine years. I still wake up screaming.
Over 8.5 million people live in NJ. What possible explanation is there for that? It’s not North Korea; you can leave any time!
I have a slogan that could turn the Virginia election around: “Creigh-zy for Creigh Deeds!”
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October 22nd, 2009 at 9:14 am
Great post. I really liked “I lived in Jersey for nine years. I still wake up screaming.”
I lived there once so I know exactly what you mean
October 22nd, 2009 at 9:17 am
The capital letters are the initial letters of the words in the punchline of Ben Franklin’s favorite dirty joke, now lost to history, but thought to have been in French.
October 22nd, 2009 at 9:37 am
Because they were lesser Ron Paul SUPPORTERS.
You think you have it bad? You live in Idaho. I live in the state directly to the west of New Jersey. I feel an awful knot in my gut whenever I glance to the east and think of all the people who flee Democrat taxes in NJ so they can buy homes at “Applegate Estates” and “Oak Tree Summit” and vote for more Democrats and take over the school boards and so on and so forth.
La Cosa Nostra. All of them.
October 22nd, 2009 at 9:50 am
Ah! A spear to my heart. The founding fathers lesser Ron Paul suppporters. NEVER! They would rather be in bondage to ENgland than support that quack. I usually like your comments Mark, but that one crosses a line.
October 22nd, 2009 at 9:58 am
I have a slogan that could turn the Virginia election around: “Creigh-zy for Creigh Deeds!”
I thought that Creigh Deeds name was really Creep DeeDeeDee.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:26 am
I keep thinking that about the Soviet State of Washington. But I think I’ll stay for the revolution.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:43 am
I think I will try this one I
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:56 am
You do not pay tolls to enter New Jersey, but you have to pay to leave. At least that was the case when I was driving semi a few years ago. I thought it was fitting and frankly they could even raise the price to leave, I’d pay it!
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:54 am
Yes you can leave NJ at any time, but if you own a house you have to pay a 1% “fee” on the sale if you leave the state. Or if you move in to the state In effect it is NK.
They call it a Realty Transfer Fee Translation .. Tax
October 22nd, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Got lost once in a rental car in Mogadishu, N. J. The movie BlackHawk down is about that place!
October 22nd, 2009 at 1:38 pm
At least they didn’t randomly bold things and put things in caps. That’s nature’s way of telling you someone is an internet crank.
Or A Poster on deMoCRAt unDERgriunD . Booosh BaD !!!
October 22nd, 2009 at 1:41 pm
I capitalize Internet. It distinguishes the Internet from any other internetwork. You’re a Science! guy, Frank. You should know this stuff!
October 22nd, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Join us tonight on PBS for Nature with Jean-Michel Cousteau, son of Jacques Cousteau, off the coast of New Jersey, tonight’s program….The Search for Jimmy Hoffa.
October 22nd, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Oh, and for number 10, I know they look and smell the same but that was most likely Newark you were in….not Mogadishu.
October 22nd, 2009 at 8:13 pm
What possible explanation for 8.5 million people living in N.J.?……The effectiveness of Jersey Barriers.
Creigh Deeds, would that be Mr. Deeds?
Spell Check was also invented by Al Gore.
Random thoughts of killing your father, by time travel to the past? Frank, did you have a troubled childhood, or what?
October 23rd, 2009 at 1:21 am
The Internet is spell check’s arrogant liberal uncle who, though full of much garbage and useless and inaccurate data, insists he is very very smart and important and, thus, should be honored with the capital ‘I’ even though his conservative nephew spell check performs a much more useful (though often unused) function.
October 24th, 2009 at 2:32 am
“an internet” is generic term used to describe a network of interconnected networks.
“The Internet” is a proper name (hence the capitalization) used to describe a _specific_ network of interconnected networks.
You could take some switches, CAT5 cable, and PC’s and connect them up. You could then take another set of switches, cable, and PC’s and connect them up. If you then got a router and used it to interconnect those two networks, you have “an internet”, even without being connected to “The Internet”.
October 26th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
I lived in Maryland for an entire decade, almost exactly to the day, and have had nothing but pleasant dreams since I finally awoke from that nightmare and moved to Texas. So is Maryland like New Jersey, worse than New Jersey, or better than New Jersey based on our different responses to having lived in one or the other? I say the only way to be sure is to nuke both from space.
I also liked the movie version of Patriot Games, but only because they chose to nuke Baltimore in the movie version.
October 26th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Sum of All Fears, not Patriot Games. I liked Patriot Games because of the hot terrorist babe.