A Dump of Potentially Offensive Remarks

[pteromys]

• After a semester's worth of weekly trips to Harvard Square, I've lost all pity for hobos. The sketchy guy playing Yahoo games in the ESP office didn't exactly help.
• Does anybody else find the name "Operation Just Cause" (U.S. invasion of Panama, 1989) to be inappropriately hilarious?
• I still don't understand the idea that the fruit from the Tree of

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[hahafaha]

After a semester's worth of weekly trips to Harvard Square, I've lost all pity for hobos. The sketchy guy playing Yahoo games in the ESP office didn't exactly help.

I know what you mean. The worst part about Harvard, though, is that it makes it difficult to distinguish hobos from just messed up people.

I still don't understand the idea that the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge is forbidden for the residents of Eden. It makes me think I'd prefer Hell.

Well, it goes well with the general irrationality of religion.

My dream house has no doors. That way people can't stand outside the doors and smoke.

As Jerry Seinfeld once brilliantly answered a guy, asking him if he smokes a cigarette, ``No, go ahead, I second-hand smoke two packs a day.''

[pteromys]

Hehe, that makes me glad I don't hang out with the people Jerry Seinfeld's around.

I'm not actually sure what you mean by just messed up people, and I dunno if I'd feel pity for them either.

[hahafaha]

Well, it was the character Jerry Seinfeld, but yeah :-)

As for messed up people, I mean the people that hang out in the ``Pit'' at Harvard Square, for instance. Basically, the people who are there who aren't tourists, businessmen, or Harvard University students.

[darkerline]

Hint: It becomes hilarious with an appropriately placed apostrophe.

[secret_panda]

Heeheehee!

[masterdnas]

"I still don't understand the idea that the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge is forbidden for the residents of Eden. It makes me think I'd prefer Hell."

Read Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Prachett. Particularly the first chapter. It's funny.

But yes, says something about most religions, doesn't it? Knowledge is bad, much better to live in blissful ignorance of whatever the bearded man doesn't want you to know. (Pedophile? What are you talking about? There's no pedophile in the Catholic confessions booth!)

"Neither do I understand why I keep seeing paper in trash cans right next to recycling bins. Bright blue must not be obvious enough."I think the solution is to make all recycling bins (for paper anyway) have shredders at their mouth, although with some sort of muffling device so that they're not distracting. I've always wanted to play with a shredder; this gives an added incentive to recycle. Oooh! Or a magic origami-folder! Except, it needs to be done in a way so as to prevent stealing of the result, otherwise it's kind of

[masterdnas]

Well, I don't know about you, but if I saw a machine automatically make some origami thing out of a paper I had just recycled, I'd be amused enough to let the whole not keeping thing slide. At least the first few times, after that I'd probably try to skip the animation, and then get annoyed that Real Life doesn't follow the same standards as computer game intro movies.

Mangoes: See? It's a good idea. :-P

Re P.S.: But but but... it was relevant to his comment on religion! And I didn't mention Adams... oh shoot. There I go again. That one doesn't count!