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07 Nov 11 - 04:54 PM (#3252375) Subject: BS: I voted for Chongo, but.... From: GUEST,Looie the Lemur He didn't win. So I get nothin' for my vote. And why didn't he win? I'll tell ya why. Because there is collusion at the highest human levels to shut honest primates outta the political process. The media are complicit in that. How many of Chongo's speeches did you get to see on the MSM in 2008? Not too many, right? And did he get into the televised debates? Hell, no! They shut him out on a technicality, just like they did with Dennis Kucinich. We are not gonna see social justice until campaign financin' is taken outta the hands of rich human creeps and put into the hands of ordinary honest tree climbers like you and me...them that know what end of the banana is the end to peel from and which grapevine is strong enough to take the weight. |
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07 Nov 11 - 05:04 PM (#3252381) Subject: RE: BS: I voted for Chongo, but.... From: gnu Sounds like a pretensile tale to me. |
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07 Nov 11 - 09:27 PM (#3252521) Subject: RE: BS: I voted for Chongo, but.... From: Rapparee ...ordinary honest tree climbers... Like squirrels and cats and black bears and cheetahs and leopards and such? |
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07 Nov 11 - 11:05 PM (#3252568) Subject: RE: BS: I voted for Chongo, but.... From: Little Hawk Why not? Animals share our world, so why should they not get to vote on policy? |
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08 Nov 11 - 12:06 AM (#3252583) Subject: RE: BS: I voted for Chongo, but.... From: Bee-dubya-ell Whaddaya talkin' about, Looie? I saw lots of Chongo's speeches on TV in 2008. There were several on "Animal Planet", a couple on a National Geographic special about gorillas, and even one on a rerun of that Clint Eastwood move with the Orangutan in it. |
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08 Nov 11 - 08:48 AM (#3252764) Subject: RE: BS: I voted for Chongo, but.... From: Rapparee I'll never forget his famous "Ook! Oook Ook! Ook!" speech. It was sooo exciting to see him stand on his knuckles like that! And the diaper he worn was just..so fashionable! |
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08 Nov 11 - 08:53 AM (#3252768) Subject: RE: BS: I voted for Chongo, but.... From: GUEST,beardedbruce LH, re 11:05 post: How many votes would amoeba get? One for all of them, or one each? |
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08 Nov 11 - 10:23 AM (#3252823) Subject: RE: BS: I voted for Chongo, but.... From: Bill D It says a-moeba, not all meobas. If it divides, each meoba would have to register and prove it was different. |
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08 Nov 11 - 10:42 AM (#3252832) Subject: RE: BS: I voted for Chongo, but.... From: GUEST,Joe the Cheatah I am lobbying the Congress and White House for a no bid cost-plus contract to register single celled organisms as voters. Question if they come from elsewhere and split in the USA are both US citizens? Or just one? (which one?) or neither? |
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08 Nov 11 - 10:43 AM (#3252833) Subject: RE: BS: I voted for Chongo, but.... From: GUEST,beardedbruce I thought the plural was amoeba, the singular was amoebum? |
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08 Nov 11 - 10:51 AM (#3252840) Subject: RE: BS: I voted for Chongo, but.... From: GUEST,leeneia I hope not. Too many bums in politics already. |
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08 Nov 11 - 11:53 AM (#3252884) Subject: RE: BS: I voted for Chongo, but.... From: Little Hawk I'm quite intrigued by your amoeba question, BB. I'm not sure how it should be sorted out, though. I think the best move (and the typical one) would be to set up a Congressional committee to thoroughly investigate the amoeba voting situation and submit their recommendations after 2 or 3 years of diligent (and costly) research and discussion. This would, naturally, be a bipartisan committee representing the best minds (cough! cough!) we can bring together from both sides of the House and the Senate. Both Democrats and Republicans have a serious stake in courting the votes of a few Quadrillion American amoebas, after all. No stone should be left unturned and no dollar left unspent to resolve this matter! The APP is also quite interested in the amoeba vote, so they will be doing their own separate investigation, and will present their findings at Duffy's Bar in Chicago, probably by around the end of this month. They will then forward those findings to Washington. Let's hope it gets resolved to everyone's satisfaction at least as soon as the War in Afghanistan does! ;-) And at a fraction of the price, I might add. |
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08 Nov 11 - 11:58 AM (#3252885) Subject: RE: BS: I voted for Chongo, but.... From: GUEST,Eliza I was always taught the plural is amoebae, with the vowels joined together (can't do this on my keyboard). We're being racist about the Swine Flu virus. It should definitely have a vote. And fleas! |
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08 Nov 11 - 12:15 PM (#3252902) Subject: RE: BS: I voted for Chongo, but.... From: Little Hawk Absolutely. Fleas are hopping mad that they don't have the vote yet. |
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08 Nov 11 - 02:17 PM (#3252962) Subject: RE: BS: I voted for Chongo, but.... From: Amos SPecies is not a technicality. Besides, he was born in Africa and the US Post Office wouldn't grant him citizenship. A |
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08 Nov 11 - 02:25 PM (#3252967) Subject: RE: BS: I voted for Chongo, but.... From: Rapparee Say YES to Yersinia Pestis!! ...and put a REAL plague in Government!! |
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08 Nov 11 - 03:08 PM (#3252996) Subject: RE: BS: I voted for Chongo, but.... From: GUEST,beardedbruce LH, An additional question: Since Mayflies never reach a legal age to be able to vote, are they disenfranchised? I presume this would apply to any animal that did not live at least 18 years (according to current law). This actually answers the amoeba question- if they are "new" individuals upon fission, then they are not old enough to vote. But if they are still the same ( single) individual, then it is certainly old enough: in fact, the oldest living thing, I suspect. |
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09 Nov 11 - 12:28 AM (#3253263) Subject: RE: BS: I voted for Chongo, but.... From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp Naw....the oldest livin' thing is the crabby old woman who lives in the apartment below my office. She keeps callin' in noise complaints and makin' trouble for me. She looks like an old dried up prune that's been livin' on a diet of limes and bitters for a coupla centuries. If looks could kill, I'd'a been dead a long time ago. Just my luck havin' a neighbor like that. Humans. You can't live with 'em and there's practically no way left anymore to live without 'em. - Chongo |
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09 Nov 11 - 01:14 AM (#3253273) Subject: RE: BS: I voted for Chongo, but.... From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity I voted for Chongo, but....I'm going to organized a 'Occupy the Banana Republic's Embassy', for raising the debt ceiling on banana plantation's bailout!! ...throughout the south pole! Though, the press is denying their sources have names, or proof! GfS |
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09 Nov 11 - 01:43 AM (#3253276) Subject: RE: BS: I voted for Chongo, but.... From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity ...and just for the hell of it.... GfS |
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09 Nov 11 - 11:58 AM (#3253633) Subject: RE: BS: I voted for Chongo, but.... From: Little Hawk Hmmm. Pretty good. Not exactly my kind of music, but pretty good. |
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09 Nov 11 - 12:50 PM (#3253682) Subject: RE: BS: I voted for Chongo, but.... From: Amos Dang--a fine show! |
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09 Nov 11 - 03:21 PM (#3253795) Subject: RE: BS: I voted for Chongo, but.... From: GUEST,jts I agree that swine flu virus should have fleas. |
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10 Nov 11 - 12:22 AM (#3254078) Subject: RE: BS: I voted for Chongo, but.... From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity Well, OK Amos!!..Glad you liked it!..I thought Monte's guitar solo was pretty hot, myself....here's another that I posted on another thread..but this is the longer video, with the 'set up'. I dug the rap before the actual song, too. You may like it as well... For all those who like to mess with the song.... listen to the composing and arranging...then the piece... Enjoy... GfS |
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10 Nov 11 - 02:35 AM (#3254095) Subject: RE: BS: I voted for Chongo, but.... From: BrooklynJay Once again, I am quite disheartened to find that Chongo has not been elected to any public office in my part of the Northeast. Mind you, I did my part. Even though the elections here were local, and would not have made much of a dent in the overall balance of power, I subscribed to that old adage, "Vote early, vote often!" But, even though I sent in hundreds of write-in votes, my candidate of choice was an also-ran. Our electoral system is broken, and needs fixin'. Chongo should have been up there, head and hirsute shoulders above the rest, and been a landslide winner. The sad fact is that too many people (at least in my neck of the woods) want to preserve the status quo. Chongo (diaper notwithstanding) would have been a breath of fresh air amid the foul miasma of Politics As Usual. When, oh when will America wake up?? Jay |
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10 Nov 11 - 04:32 AM (#3254129) Subject: RE: BS: I voted for Chongo, but.... From: David C. Carter Chongo plays better guitar than all those guys put together! His style is "Claw Hammer",which requires a lot of "hammering on"and "hammering off". He once told me that he loves nothing better than to hammer off in front of a crowd of young ladies! |
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10 Nov 11 - 09:20 AM (#3254223) Subject: RE: BS: I voted for Chongo, but.... From: Rapparee Yerisina Pestis -- "Yeri" to her friends -- will bring down Chongo and the rest of the whole corrupt politico-capitalisto-military structure! Vote Yeri! You'll never regret it. |
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10 Nov 11 - 12:23 PM (#3254355) Subject: RE: BS: I voted for Chongo, but.... From: Little Hawk Who is this Yerisina upstart? Going by her name, I assume she is originally from Serbia or Croatia or somewhere in that region? Can she climb a coconut palm in 3 seconds flat? Ha! Didn't think so. |
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10 Nov 11 - 01:29 PM (#3254394) Subject: RE: BS: I voted for Chongo, but.... From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity Maybe she is a 'social climber'..who can climb up at the 'Coconut Grove'!.....THAT just might get her elected! GfS |
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10 Nov 11 - 02:13 PM (#3254444) Subject: RE: BS: I voted for Chongo, but.... From: Amos Yersinia pestis is the bacterium responsible for pneumonic and bubonic plague. It was very popular back in 547. A |
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10 Nov 11 - 04:01 PM (#3254529) Subject: RE: BS: I voted for Chongo, but.... From: Rapparee That's RIGHT!! Yeri's family came from overseas (like everyone else), but SHE was born here and can prove it, back many generations! Unlike a Certain VOTE YERI! A plague on all politicians! |
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11 Nov 11 - 02:17 PM (#3255116) Subject: RE: BS: I voted for Chongo, but.... From: Rapparee I just sort of skimmed past this in the threads list and thought it was re-titled to "I Voted for Chongo's Butt." |
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11 Nov 11 - 02:21 PM (#3255120) Subject: RE: BS: I voted for Chongo, but.... From: Little Hawk As opposed to what? |
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11 Nov 11 - 04:00 PM (#3255176) Subject: RE: BS: I voted for Chongo, but.... From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity Rapparee: "I just sort of skimmed past this in the threads list and thought it was re-titled to "I Voted for Chongo's Butt." Chongo's butt would be a far better President than the present IMF's ass! GfS |