The Red Brick Times

  Sunday, July 29, 2007

Captain Andy - you don't need an anchor. You need a first mate!
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  Thursday, July 26, 2007

I feel pretty
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  • Now I can't get this song out of my head. Thanks a bunch.

    My turn. Let's see....
    Remember the Beverly Hillbillies Theme song? Sure you do. Go ahead, hum a few bars. Ha! Gottcha!
     
  • Lemme tell you story bout a man named russ, bout some ol racoons he surely made a fuss..

    I'll be gone and off the 'net for a week. Back August 6. Gotta drain my brain and sit by a lake up in the mitten of Michigan near Alpena. I am taking ol' Betsy and a computer loaded with test software to study, so brain drain won't be complete.

    Abysinnia!
     
  • Holy great flickering pixellations, Netman! I gotta keep up with the Whatleys. so just got a 20" LCD monitor. Geeze leweeze is that thing big, and bright, and big, and able to unroll great spreadsheets at a single bound, and big, and ...
    Well, I was working on an old 17" CRT heat engine since I built my new computer in May, and the LCD is easier to pack than the boat-anchor LCD. And its BIG!. I can see it without peering myopically too much.

    Let the escalation begin. What's next, TWO monitors? Windows XP Pro can handle up to ten simultaneously, don't you know. That's a lot of video cards!
     
  • I meant "boat anchor CRT". Anyone need some ballast?
     
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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, what he should have said:
My daddy beats my mommy
My mommy clobbers me
My grandpa is a commie
My grandma pushes tea
My sisters wears a moustache
My brother wears a dress
Goodness gracious, that's why I'm a mess!
Read all about it here.
by whatley (1) comments

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  • Did you guess "Gee, Officer Krupke" from "West Side Story"? You're right (and too cool for school). Full lyrics here.
     
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Dracula? Nope. Frankenstein? Nope. Freddy Krugger? Not even close.
You want scary? This is scary.
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  • P.S. Has Joe Liebermans' mind been taken over by aliens? WTF?
     
  • Scary II. it gets worse.
     
  • Doesn't this all feel like extremism in the name of whatever happens to be popular at the moment? Imposition of a "Pax Romana" by whatever means fall to hand? Or a return to the Crusades that bankrupted the Christian West without displacing the Moslem East?

    A short prayer:
    "God, please save us from temporal leaders and their interpretations of your will. Amen."

    But then, to the raptured ducks, "saving" means Armageddon.

    We also may be in the midst of a cultural Fimbulvetr, the winter of winters. Three such winters will follow each other with no summers in between. Conflicts and feuds will break out, even between families, and all morality will disappear. This is the beginning of the end. And then, Ragnarok!
     
  • I wonder if they will visit the Wailing Wall? Baruch ata adonai, eluhenu melach ha olam . . .
     
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  Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Along with mind-machine-meld, couple force fields and cloaking cold plasma.
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  Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Baseball redux.
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  Monday, July 23, 2007

Things are officially getting weird. Remember when we worried about Mind Control? Start worrying again.
by A. O. (4) comments

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  • If I ooonly had a brain.
     
  • A whole new level of evolutionary selection emerges! Those who can and those who can't use the mind-machine interface. Those who can will have fast access to communications, information, transactions and services. Those who can't will huddle, ragged, hungry and shivering, in the dirt-crusted musty anterooms of existence.
     
  • ... embed it into a golf ball so that the ball 'listens'! Out of the way Tiger !!
     
  • Maybe I can get the right six numbers to drop into the hopper!
     
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  Saturday, July 21, 2007

Bush appointee, stand up version: Former Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona

Bush appointee, usual version: Julie A. MacDonald
by whatley (1) comments

I've spent the last week posting my resume to various online job sites. Yesterday I got this reply:
My name is Barrister Edward Williams, a legal practitioner with Williams & Associate in Malaysia. I saw your contact and profile and decided that you could cooperate with me in this proposition.

I have a client who was deceased in November 2001, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.I am contacting you because you have the same surname as my deceased client and i felt that you could help me in the distribution of funds that were left in my deceased client's bank account. This fund is close to been declared un-serviceable by the bank as there were no indicated next of kin or next of beneficiary of the fund in the bank account,having remained dormant for long.

The total amount of cash in the bank account of my deceased client is US$ 5.2 Million ( Five Million, two Hundred Thousand United States dollars Only ),
The bank had issued to me a notification to contact the next of kin of my deceased client, either to re-activate the bank account or to make beneficiary claim, of the fund in the bank account, with a month surcharge of 6% to be deducted as an Escrow safe keeping fee of the bank account,so as to avoid the indefinite closure of the bank account.
My proposition to you is to seek your consent, and to present your kind self as the next-of-kin and beneficiary of my deceased client, since you have the same last name with him.
This means that the proceeds of his bank account would be paid to you as his next of kin or the legitimate beneficiary. When the proceeds in his bank account are paid to you, we would share the proceeds on a mutually agreed-upon percentage of 60% to me and 40% to your kind self.

All the legal documents to back up your claim as my client's next-of-kin would be provided by me. The most important thing I would need is your honest cooperation in this proposition.This would be done under a legitimate arrangement that would protect you from any breach of the law.
If this business proposition offends your moral and ethical values,feel free to decline this proposal. Please contact me at once if you are interested by replying the mail.

Best regards,
Edward williams,Esq.

WooHoo!!! Looks like I won't have to get a job after all.
by whatley (2) comments

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  • Hey, "cousin" Whatley - hows about a little loan, say $1 Million USD?
     
  • Cousin Andy!
    (They're coming out of the woodwork. I just knew this would happen.)
     
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  Thursday, July 19, 2007

FIFTH AMENDMENT [U.S. Constitution] - 'No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb, nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.'

Say goodbye to this amendment.
by whatley (2) comments

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  • FOURTH AMENDMENT [U.S. Constitution] 'The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.'

    For those who are keeping score this one went out the window some time ago.
     
  • Every executive order Bush has issued is patently illegal. The state of emergency cited in the May 2003 order ceased to exist with the overthrow and subsequent capture and hasty execution of Saddam Hussein. Since all these others hinge on that one they are technically moot. But, as we know, once THEY get a hold of your property good luck getting back, innocent or otherwise. These guys are on the way the out and this shit will straightened out in short order. One order from a new president will void all of his over reaching then it will be up to Congress to try to make it doesn't happen again.

    Hopefully these assholes will get kidnapped while they're on vacation and mysteriously appear before the Hague. We can only hope.
     
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  Tuesday, July 17, 2007

"the sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, dickheads - they all adore Ferris. They think he's a righteous dude,"
For some it's Jesus, for others it's Mohamed or Buddha. Me? I'll tale Ferris Bueller every time. I mean really. Think about it. To help you along here are some Ferris (isms? - Ferris doesn't like "isms", neither do I: "Not that I condone fascism. Or any 'isms'. 'Isms', in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an 'ism'. He should believe in himself.")

More from the book(?) of Ferris:

"Life moves pretty fast...if you don't stop to look around once in a while you could miss it."

"You're not dying, you just can't think of anything cool to do."

"The question isn't 'what are we gonna do', the question is 'what aren't we going to do?'"

And my favorite: "Only the meek get pinched. The bold survive"

'Nuff said?

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  Saturday, July 14, 2007

The USofA will soon (in our lifetime I think) go the way of the USSR. But hey, so what! Lets play some Baseball!!!
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  Friday, July 13, 2007

Thought it couldn't possibly get more absurd, didn't you?
U.S. Troops Battle Iraqi Police
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  Monday, July 09, 2007

Yo! Leslie! You work with hands, don't ya?.
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Too good to be true:
"A man making a trip from Puerto Rico to South Florida to raise money for his religious education remains hospitalized Monday after he was struck down by a bolt of lightning which flew from clear blue sky on Sunday. He was selling religious materials (door to door) when he was hit."
Too true to be good:
"Last October, the Star-Ledger newspaper of Newark, citing unnamed federal security officials, reported screeners at Newark Liberty International Airport flunked 20 of 22 tests, including failing to detect bombs and guns in luggage at checkpoints. The TSA responded to the report by launching an internal investigation in which federal employees were interrogated about whether they had leaked the results, the newspaper said."

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  • Not, mind you, an internal investigation as to how the guns and bombs were entirely missed. No, no. Perish the thought. It's not the steak, it's the sizzle baby.
     
  • I'm just taking some modeling clay home to my children. Honest.
     
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  Thursday, July 05, 2007

Elyria Public Library meets YouTube. Funny in a goofy sort of... hold the phone... is that Ralph?
by whatley (8) comments

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  • Finally, a reason to stop watching the Paris Hilton clips.
     
  • I thought that WAS a Paris Hellton clip!
     
  • Really??? I did not notice anyone sans skivies. How could I have missed that??
     
  • Well, you can put a wolf in librarian's sheepish clothing, but that doesn't make him a kink. Or are you referring to social intercoarse? We should engender the "Plaster of Paris" award statue for such events.
     
  • Helen of Troy would swoon . . .
     
  • Ralph. Missing sheep.

    Are you thinkin' what I'm thinkin'?

    Not that there's anything wrong with that.
     
  • Probably only one of those old gustatorial Mutton Chef routines. In very poor taste, of course.
     
  • I'm really, really depressed now.
     
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  Wednesday, July 04, 2007

It's like Christmas only better: An obscure Ohio law, enacted in 1953, states that no person shall be arrested on the Fourth of July. The law also states that no one shall be arrested on a Sunday, or on their way to or from their designated place of worship. Although the Ohio Senate introduced a bill to repeal this law in 1998, it failed to pass and the law remains in effect to this day.
by whatley (2) comments

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  • Extra added attraction: I copied this paragraph directly from the "Mount Vernon News" website and apparently broke their copyright:

    Copyright 2007 Progressive Communications. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed, without the expressed permission of Progressive Communications.

    But hey, I did it on the 4th! No harm no foul baby.
     
  • Phewww!!! What a relief! I was just going through the couch cushions for bail money.
     
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  Monday, July 02, 2007


See Scooter. See Scooter smirk. Why is Scooter smirking? Could it be that Scooter just took a good piss? Could it be that he's just pissed on the American justice system? Piss Scooter piss.

Say what? You can't see the American justice system in this picture? Don't worry, your eyes are fine. Since Guantanamo the American justice system is just very very hard to see! Scooter can't see it either, but that's ok. His friends Georgie and Dickie hold his weenie and direct his aim. Thanks Georgie! Thanks Dickie!
by whatley (1) comments

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  • You really need to write on a much more basic level if you expect the government to understand your message.
     
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