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10 Sep 00 - 11:43 PM (#294847) Subject: Should have been lost forever From: GUEST,FishnJokr There was an earlier thread on things that were lost forever and forever missed. I would like to hear about things that would have been better off missing forever. My vote goes to a little psycho by the name of Vladimir Lenin. During WWI the Germans had the bastard locked up, but released him and put him on a train to Russia in an attempt to incite internal rebellion in Russia. Worked pretty well, too. |
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10 Sep 00 - 11:50 PM (#294849) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: katlaughing May you never forget What is worth remembering Or remember what is Best forgotten! |
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11 Sep 00 - 12:03 AM (#294855) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: Amos The Shopping Channel, monosodium glutamate, Disney World, lawn flamingos and several million other experiments in injection-molding, about 75% of the media stars of the last decade, political correctitude and other pseudo-sociological claptrap, angel dust and ecstasy, cheap handguns, the KGB, probably the Ayatollah Khomeini, Tiny Tim...come to tnink of it, we certainly have followed Nature's rule of allowing plenty of waste, haven't we? A |
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11 Sep 00 - 02:40 AM (#294890) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: kendall Chewing gum, electric guitars, unnecessary noise, Muzak,singing commercials and republicans. |
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11 Sep 00 - 04:42 AM (#294902) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: CarolC Amos, I'm afraid I'm going to have to disagree with you this time. I don't know if I could live in a world without lawn flamingos. ;-) Carol |
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11 Sep 00 - 06:05 AM (#294907) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: Naemanson LAWN FLAMINGOES! How could you insinuate that we would be better off without lawn flamingoes? I suppose you believe the reflecting balls, 'sploded tires, and the lady bending over should all go too? Well, let me ask you this, Mister Man, how else will you know at a glance that you are looking at a family that loves country-western music? *TIC* NOTE: TIC = Tongue In Cheek |
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11 Sep 00 - 07:54 AM (#294919) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: Wolfgang Just for the record, what FishnJokr wrote about Lenin above is far from accurate: the contribution of the Germans was letting him pass through Germany from another country where he was not locked up, nothing less but also nothing more. Wolfgang |
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11 Sep 00 - 08:30 AM (#294928) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: GUEST,James |
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11 Sep 00 - 08:34 AM (#294934) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: GUEST,James Sorry about the above error.... I would like to disinvent the following...political correctness, all portable radioes....obnoxious in the extreme, beer adverts..bubblegum for the brain...strip malls..they have a flair for unremitting ugliness, chain stores and Rene Levesque. |
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11 Sep 00 - 08:40 AM (#294939) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: Giac Plastic flowers and paisley pants, Mosh pits and that slam dance. Plastic saddles you can leave in the rain; Toxic chemicals that addle your brain. |
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11 Sep 00 - 09:21 AM (#294954) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: Sorcha AchBreaky Heart. |
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11 Sep 00 - 09:31 AM (#294960) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: Giac Amen, Sorcha! Add: Just a'Swangin'
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11 Sep 00 - 09:55 AM (#294967) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: Dee45 The "clapper" and Jerry Springer. |
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11 Sep 00 - 09:59 AM (#294970) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: sledge The millenium dome in London. The worlds biggest tent. |
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11 Sep 00 - 10:32 AM (#294995) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: SINSULL AIDS |
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11 Sep 00 - 10:35 AM (#294999) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: Wesley S Barney , Ski-Doos and Boom boxes at the beach. |
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11 Sep 00 - 10:41 AM (#295007) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: Sorcha Amen, Wesley!! |
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11 Sep 00 - 10:45 AM (#295009) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: Jimmy C Disc Jockeys |
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11 Sep 00 - 12:31 PM (#295058) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: Mbo I Love "Swingin'" by John Anderson. It was a defining song of my youth. |
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11 Sep 00 - 12:57 PM (#295071) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: annamill You guys are really scarin' me!! What's wrong with Disney World, Amos?? and I loved Achy Breaky Heart the first 50 times I heard it. Pink flamingos give us something to laugh about.. and chewing gum?? I love chewing gum and making bubbles!!! Now, if we could only lose those incredibly annoying cell phones on buses and trains!! Ooooohhh I hate them!! There you are noding off and bbbrrrriiinnnggg... Where's my cheap gun?? or, the tap, tap ,tapping of people on their laptops. Gads, don't people realize how tolerant we all are?? If emotions were to surface we'd all be psycho! ;-) **BG** LOL.. figured I'd better make it clear I was joking. Love, annamill (stillhaven'tgottenusedtothat)
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11 Sep 00 - 01:38 PM (#295099) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: SINSULL Survivors and all other "real TV crap". |
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11 Sep 00 - 01:42 PM (#295104) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: catspaw49 So yesterday, a Sunday, we're at the zoo and the water park/amusement park next door. There's a guy with his kid on a ride talking on his cell phone. On the one hand, at least he's taken the boy to somewhere fun. On the other hand, "Cat's in the cradle......." Lots of good ones here I must say!!! Let's see now.......Things that should have been lost forever..................hhmmmmm.......................Oh, I know...I got one..........How about Meebo's virginity? Spaw |
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11 Sep 00 - 02:30 PM (#295125) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: Peter Kasin Car alarms. |
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11 Sep 00 - 02:53 PM (#295140) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: katlaughing Any kind of personal-sized mechanised vehicle anywhere near a national park, camp ground, wilderness area, forest, etc., year-round! 24 hour days; 365 day years...they should be at least double that... commercials on radio and television (of course then my husband would be one of the millions without a job in a related field!)
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11 Sep 00 - 02:56 PM (#295143) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: GUEST, Banjo Johnny Mondays. |
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11 Sep 00 - 02:58 PM (#295145) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: GUEST,Ickle Dorritt cookieless again Margaret Thatcher Royal Family and mushy peas |
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11 Sep 00 - 03:12 PM (#295159) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: Melani Car radios capable of blasting out rap music at 50,000 decibles. My mother always looks around for a parade when she hears one coming. |
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11 Sep 00 - 03:13 PM (#295160) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: Metchosin cell phones, Barbie and Playboy (sorry guys but the standard for female nakedness became awfully hard to live up to after Playboy and everyone knew before that, the Vargas Girls were just a dream that most men celebrated and took delight in, not something that they expected to find downtown) |
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11 Sep 00 - 05:04 PM (#295222) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: Amergin I don't think anything should be forgotten (anything posted above or below or never posted at all), for hopefully some one will learn from the mistakes of the past and present.....someday.... Amergin |
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11 Sep 00 - 05:35 PM (#295241) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: Mbo kat, does this mean that Stephen Hawking can't go to any National Parks anymore? |
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11 Sep 00 - 05:51 PM (#295247) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: katlaughing No,of course not Mbo. He and Art Thieme are both welcome; they don't have engines that gun and spew pollution, I am sure, like the snowmobiles and ATVs of which I was thinking. Next time I will be more specific. |
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11 Sep 00 - 05:58 PM (#295253) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: bflat The formula for gunpowder. The formula for nuclear fission. bflat |
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11 Sep 00 - 07:14 PM (#295286) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: Lepus Rex I was going to agree with Amergin, until I remembered my sister's ex... >:) ---Lepus Rex |
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11 Sep 00 - 07:34 PM (#295297) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: mousethief The phrase "twenty-four/seven" as used in advertising. Advertising. Kids with car stereos that sound like denonation tests even though they're two lanes over and both your and their windows are all rolled up. Littering. Strip mining. Rap "music." People who swear in front of little kids. Michael Jackson. |
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11 Sep 00 - 07:36 PM (#295301) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: mousethief Sorry; deTonation tests. Bombs going off, you know. |
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11 Sep 00 - 08:08 PM (#295317) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: Midchuck The kind of political correctness that makes you review and censor everything you want to say, not just to avoid saying anything racist or sexist or homophobic, but to avoid saying anything that the most absurdly oversensitive person might interpret as racist or sexist or homophobic; and that makes you keep saying "he or she" or similiar phrases ad nauseum because the goddam language doesn't have generic third person singular pronouns. People who're afraid to have fun because God might not approve. People who're afraid to have fun because other people might think they're not being serious enough about life when there's so much suffering in the world. People who have a couple of sports cars, SUVs, or sporty trucks that they never carry anything in the bed of; and/or several tens of thousands of bucks worth of golf equipment or fly fishing equipment or guns or all of the above; but who think anyone who has 5 or 6 acoustic guitars is foolish and extravagant. Family gatherings where the men all watch football and the women all talk about who said what nasty thing to whom and how they all felt about it, and I go to sleep in a corner and get labeled antisocial. More later, if you're unlucky. Peter. |
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11 Sep 00 - 08:33 PM (#295325) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: SINSULL Wow! Peter. Tell me how to interpret that last paragraph as anything but sexist. I would watch the despised football game before I would stoop to vicious gossip. Honest. I tend to disappear to the library or kids' rooms or play with the pets. |
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11 Sep 00 - 08:40 PM (#295328) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: Midchuck Sinsull - I don't believe I said it wasn't sexist - but I find football - most sports involving sphereoids, in fact - and that kind of talk just about equally boring, so it actually wasn't. Disappearing to the library is good, if the house has the library in a separate room. Playing with the pets is good, unless the pets present are dogs that drool, and you're a cat person ("Cats Rule! Dogs Drool!") Peter. |
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11 Sep 00 - 08:47 PM (#295333) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: Cap't Bob Double arches Cap't Bob |
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11 Sep 00 - 09:00 PM (#295347) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: Ely I'm afraid if we forget it, it'll have to be reinvented someday. Nevertheless . . . being put on hold on the phone, shoot-em-up video games, SUV's that are bigger than my dorm room (and it's a nice, big dorm room), urban sprawl. |
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11 Sep 00 - 09:19 PM (#295356) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: Mbo Man, does that mean no more Quake? |
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11 Sep 00 - 10:34 PM (#295398) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: campfire bombs or other implements of destruction that can wipe out entire countries... the xenophobic hatred that inspires their use... campfire
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11 Sep 00 - 11:01 PM (#295408) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: Parson I heard on NPR today that the daughter (or grand-daughter) of Emily Post is starting a campaign to improve our manners with regards to the cell phone. The story was told of a minister who was delivering a funeral message when a cell phone went off in the congregation. The person with the phone answered it & began a conversation right there in Church! This continued until the minister stopped speaking until he had the attention of the telephone conversationalist. If that ever happens while I am giving a funeral message, may I have the courage to do the same. Randall |
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12 Sep 00 - 06:09 PM (#295988) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: kendall They should have buried him too..afterall, he was already brain dead. |
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12 Sep 00 - 06:09 PM (#295989) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: GUEST,Rich (bodhránai gan ciall) All my best answers have been taken. Cell hones, kids with beepers so their mom's can beep them and tell them to get home, car alarms, pollution..... But then car alarms remind me of highland pipes and we could do without them ;-) And I could live quite happily without ever hearing Danny Boy or the Unicorn! Rich |
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12 Sep 00 - 06:48 PM (#296027) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: Bert Kat, re: TV commercials. Someone has to pay for the programs so I don't mind a few commercials. It's that "fourth" commercial that we can do without. Three is enough for any break. |
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13 Sep 00 - 12:26 AM (#296220) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: Peter Kasin The fast food TV ad campaign with the close-ups of people taking huge bites of burgers, with ketchup and drool dripping everywhere. What boardroom genius thought up that one? |
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13 Sep 00 - 12:57 PM (#296492) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: SINSULL Any Japanese cartoon character with peripherals. Pokemon, Tele Tubbies, etc and that f***ing purple dinosaur. I always thought that Jurassic Park should have included a scene with the T-Rex shredding a big Barney. |
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14 Sep 00 - 02:14 AM (#296963) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: GUEST, Banjo Johnny Stand-up "comics". |
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14 Sep 00 - 03:22 AM (#296990) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: Lena Guest,I was named Annalena for the pleasure of my relatives to call me 'Lenina'.I reckon I should feel soory about it.But italian communists were dreamers in those years,and as for Lenin,I always believed in Orwell's Animal Farm |
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14 Sep 00 - 03:29 AM (#296994) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: Lena And:me neither.I mean,nothing should be forgotten,or it's gonna happen again.But,probably,if Bette Midler,Berbra Streisand and crowd avoided recording all that stuff my flatmates loudly listen to ,i could sleep peacefully...and Tom Jones and Lionel Richie...but then again,they would probably stuff something worse in ther cd player. Hang on:I GOT IT!!!!Allucinogenous chemical drugs.From them on,you're not an artist if you are not into them.And I would still have three or four friend I loved who lost it completely thanks to them. |
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14 Sep 00 - 03:45 AM (#297000) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: Crazy Eddie Ickle Dorrit, I don't want to start an argument, but I really feel that I must take issue with your post. SOME people quite like mushy peas. :o) Should have been lost forever? "Two little boys" [ tho' we'd also lose Billy Connelys parody, which would be a shame ] Re-runs of "I love Lucy" - I didn't like her much first time round.
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14 Sep 00 - 04:00 AM (#297009) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: bill\sables Melodeons, The Dome, Melodeons, The Chanel Tunnel, Melodeons, Tony Blair, Melodeons, Line Dancing, Melodeons, |
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14 Sep 00 - 07:45 AM (#297057) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: catspaw49 LOL Bill!!! I see you're getting that good, aging curmudgeon, thought process down! Reminds me of an old farmer down in Georgia where kudzu grows so wild and over everything (if you don't move for a couple of minutes it will grow over YOU). When asked what bothered him, he said, "There's only three things I hate. Kudzu, city folks, and kudzu." Spaw |
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23 Sep 01 - 04:41 AM (#556899) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull terrerists |
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23 Sep 01 - 05:15 AM (#556900) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: CarolC It's a bit chilling to read the first post in this thread at this particular time in our history. It's such a powerful example of how meddling with the political affairs of other countries can really come back and bite you on the ass. |
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23 Sep 01 - 05:44 AM (#556903) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: kendall reptilian brains |
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23 Sep 01 - 10:23 AM (#556977) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: Firecat There's a fair few things that I reckon should be lost for all eternity. Here goes:-
Idiots who think that people of my age group (under 18) are not worth listening to (see isms)
There's lots of other things but I've decided to cut a long story short, as it were. |
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23 Sep 01 - 12:54 PM (#557073) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: Art Thieme Max is right. NOTHING should be lost. Everything is good----even the bad stuff. Art Thieme |
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23 Sep 01 - 01:31 PM (#557101) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: Amos I think, personally, that as a species on a small blue planet, we could have made much better progress without monotheism of any kind. A |
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23 Sep 01 - 01:34 PM (#557103) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: Big Mick Jet Ski's (or Sea Doo's or personal watercraft, whatever you all call them) and trailbikes (motorcycles). |
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24 Sep 01 - 02:03 AM (#557486) Subject: RE: BS: Should have been lost forever From: Crazy Eddie Amos, If we didn't have monothesim, we'd just have more gods to fight about! |