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Sep 2, 2018 14:28:27   #
juanbalv Loc: Los Angeles / Hawthorne
 
It's a question: "So, it isn't?" Good one E.L.. Shapiro.
E.L.. Shapiro wrote:
OK, So the earth ain't flat and the moon isn't made of green cheese and there are those terrible rumors that Santa Claus does not live at the North Pole!

This entire thread reminds me of the old shaggy dog story from back in my high school days. It was about a Madison Avenue advertising executive who gives up his lucrative career to travel the word and discover the real "meaning of life" ! The story goes on for hours about all his trials and tribulation. At the end of the adventure, near death, emaciated and struggling for breath, our hero is found clinging to the rim of an ice encrusted crevice atop the Himalayas where a great sage, guru and philosopher is said to reside and harbors the truth and the ultimate wisdom about the real meaning of life. He peers into the abyss and there stands a little old man with a long white beard. He begs the little man for the answer. The old fellow has enormous black eyes and and barely audible and cracking voice and exclaims "LIFE IS A BLACK BUTTERFLY"! Our hero is taken aback and goes into a long diatribe on how he gave up everything and sacrificed all just to receive this seeming absurd and inane reply. The old fella looks up sheepishly and says, SO IT ISN'T!
OK, So the earth ain't flat and the moon isn't mad... (show quote)



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Sep 2, 2018 16:07:38   #
Bill_de Loc: US
 
E.L.. Shapiro wrote:
OK, So the earth ain't flat and the moon isn't made of green cheese and there are those terrible rumors that Santa Claus does not live at the North Pole!

This entire thread reminds me of the old shaggy dog story from back in my high school days. It was about a Madison Avenue advertising executive who gives up his lucrative career to travel the word and discover the real "meaning of life" ! The story goes on for hours about all his trials and tribulation. At the end of the adventure, near death, emaciated and struggling for breath, our hero is found clinging to the rim of an ice encrusted crevice atop the Himalayas where a great sage, guru and philosopher is said to reside and harbors the truth and the ultimate wisdom about the real meaning of life. He peers into the abyss and there stands a little old man with a long white beard. He begs the little man for the answer. The old fellow has enormous black eyes and and barely audible and cracking voice and exclaims "LIFE IS A BLACK BUTTERFLY"! Our hero is taken aback and goes into a long diatribe on how he gave up everything and sacrificed all just to receive this seeming absurd and inane reply. The old fella looks up sheepishly and says, SO IT ISN'T!
OK, So the earth ain't flat and the moon isn't mad... (show quote)


If the earth wasn't flat we could never have level horizons. Aside from that little divergence from reality your post made more sense than the majority of this thread. Thanks.

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Sep 2, 2018 17:14:53   #
selmslie Loc: Fernandina Beach, FL, USA
 
E.L.. Shapiro wrote:
OK, So the earth ain't flat and the moon isn't made of green cheese and there are those terrible rumors that Santa Claus does not live at the North Pole! ...

I can't blame you for tiring of this thread. It ended up as a test of endurance on an almost unrelated subject. I don't quite see why anyone would want to keep it alive.

But then, what does it say about all of the other "exciting" topics we have spent time on? We have certainly seen a lot more time wasted on less important topics.

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Sep 2, 2018 17:28:47   #
Bill_de Loc: US
 
selmslie wrote:
I don't quite see why anyone would want to keep it alive.



Then why did you??? You are at least as much responsible as anyone else.

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Sep 2, 2018 18:12:40   #
selmslie Loc: Fernandina Beach, FL, USA
 
Bill_de wrote:
Then why did you??? You are at least as much responsible as anyone else.

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It’s my thread. What’s your excuse?

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Sep 2, 2018 18:23:31   #
Bill_de Loc: US
 
selmslie wrote:
It’s my thread. What’s your excuse?


So that means you have to have the last word?

I must have missed that rule.



As for me, when I see a good joke I like to join the fun.

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Sep 2, 2018 18:32:12   #
selmslie Loc: Fernandina Beach, FL, USA
 
Bill_de wrote:
So that means you have to have the last word?

I must have missed that rule.



As for me, when I see a good joke I like to join the fun.

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So that means you have to have the last word? br ... (show quote)

Knock yourself out. There is no such rule.

Let's see who gets bored first. I'm betting on myself.

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Sep 2, 2018 21:52:31   #
E.L.. Shapiro Loc: Ottawa, Ontario Canada
 
I did not complain that I was tired or bored. The topic is perfectly valid and worth discussion . It's just that the incessant bickering was bizarre and may have broken the longest thread record in the much ado about nothing category!

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Sep 3, 2018 07:02:34   #
Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)
 
E.L.. Shapiro wrote:
I did not complain that I was tired or bored. The topic is perfectly valid and worth discussion . It's just that the incessant bickering was bizarre and may have broken the longest thread record in the much ado about nothing category!




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