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Oh Aurora!
Yet another victim to New Variant Adman Joke Disease.
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Strangely, since you lot caught it I've been feeling a lot better!
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quote: Originally posted by Lewes:
Yet another victim to New Variant Adman Joke Disease.
Help! I need a doctor! STAT! |
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Look at my new star! Look at my new star!
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I see a huge star, Aurora! You!  Congratulations on joining the four star club. I'm inching my way towards that big gold star; what's the betting that I'll reach 549 and the PT will pull the plug on the forum. |
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481,
482
Well, that's how LML, and Adman got theirs!
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Aurora
No coincidence - you catch NVAJD and your status goes up!
Talent IS infectious ...
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quote: what's the betting that I'll reach 549 and the PT will pull the plug on the forum.
Where you born a pessimist Lewes, or is it the result of lifelong study?
I only arsked . . .
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quote: Where you born a pessimist Lewes, or is it the result of lifelong study?
I think some long dead Roman, wrote that the recipe for a contented life is to accept that life is full of disappointment and misery and to accept the rare moments of pleasure and fleeting happiness for what they are; transient and the random gifts from the Gods. Old Romans talked as much old b****cks as old Greeks, if you want my opinion, Gravedigger. |
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quote: Originally posted by Adman 1961:
Talent IS infectious ...
So's Smallpox! |
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Hello! We've nearly got the complete gang on-line again.
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quote: Originally posted by Lewes:
I think some long dead Roman, wrote that the recipe for a contented life is to accept that life is full of disappointment and misery and to accept the rare moments of pleasure and fleeting happiness for what they are;
transient and the random gifts from the Gods.
I thought that was Schoppenhauer, he wasn't a Roman though... Hmm, I guess I stand more chance than someone who didn't enter, but how the quality of my work compares to everyone else's I don't know. Unless everyone sends me copies of their entry so I can rank them and deliberately put myself at the top.
-Every rose has its thorns. Mine are all sticking in my side.
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Schoppenhauer?
He probably had much the same take on life.
He was an old misery guts.
I was thinking of Seneca.
You know the one who drank Nero's health in poison.
Oh, we're such an intellectual bunch aren't we?
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quote: Originally posted by LilMissLesley:
I thought that was Schoppenhauer, he wasn't a Roman though....
Isn't that someone who is paid to give good retail advice? |
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Schoppenhauer was a German philosopher who kept poodles and had a huge moustache, and he was an old misery guts. Ahhhhh Seneca. Which was that one they just couldn't kill?
-Every rose has its thorns. Mine are all sticking in my side.
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Sorry it was a very bad joke, you did the right thing to ignore it.  Help me! It's becoming worse... the virus... I can't go on... sinking deeper... and... deeper.... if it carries on... I'll be doing stand up by the end of the month. |
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I've been doing more house-related shopping this afternoon, I'm too tired to have a sense of humour anymore.
-Every rose has its thorns. Mine are all sticking in my side.
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Couldn't kill?
Dunno.
There was Socrates:
who refused to pay a fine;
refused to escape from prison;
and virtually forced the Athenians to sentence him to death;
even then he had to drink poison; no one really wanted to kill him.
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That was it I think. I could just get my book and check *gets book and checks* Hmm nope, someone else they tried to kill heh. It WAS Seneca. He was told to slit his wrists, but he didn't bleed enough, then he drank hemlock, and it didn't work on him, so he was put in a "vapour bath" and suffocated. He was a bit stubborn wasn't he?
-Every rose has its thorns. Mine are all sticking in my side.
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Stand up, Aurora?
I see it all now.
There is no competition,
It's all a wicked plot by Adman to convert us into stand up comedians and thus become dependent upon the supply of old gags which he alone controls.
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Thanks for that, LML.
My copy of Suetonius doesn't go into that sort of detail.
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Curses! Sussed!
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Gawd bless Alain De Botton for making philosophy simple enough for me to comprehend. Maybe Adman is infecting everyone so channel 4 wants nothing to do with them, leaving his road to the final free and clear.
-Every rose has its thorns. Mine are all sticking in my side.
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Alain De Botton?
I have his book.
It's the next one I'm going to read;
after I've finished Stephen Hawking's.
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quote: no one really wanted to kill him.
Guess he was luckier than Edward II! Did Lewes say he was gay?
I only arsked . . .
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