Reply to this and I will...

1. Tell you why I befriended you.
2. Associate you with a song/movie.
3. Tell a random fact about you.
4. Tell my first memory of you.
5. Associate you with an animal/fruit.

• The bastards stole my car shortly before it was going to need overhaul!
• My car succumbed to the charms of a car thief and eloped with him.
• My car has been organlegged (inspired by Larry Niven).
• I suspect that my car was enlisted to assist in a bank robbery.
• My car was sold, in exchange for $0 and notification of the police, to a car thief.

According to Dale Carnegie, God gave humans two ears and only one mouth so that they'll speak less and listen more.
For deaf people, it is two eyes vs. one mouth ( Read more... )

http://henrykisor.com/blog/2006/12/14/sometimes-the-press-just-effs-up/ demonstrates just how funny can newspaper gaffes be sometimes. My all-time favorite is the gaffe in an Israeli newspaper from a generation ago. It was about a woman who owes 1000 nights to a tax collector (the Israeli word for night - layla - can easily be a misspelling for ( Read more... )

World of potential for mercy and compassion ( Read more... )

Instructions:

Take a look at your LJ friends list, then list up to ten things you want to say to ten different LJ friends. DO NOT state who these people are. DO NOT confirm or deny any "comment speculation.".

1. Are there any news about that idea, which we discussed few weeks ago?
2. You accepted a big challenge and were successful in dealing with it.
3. ( Read more... )

You haven't made an impact on the world before you caused a Debian release to be named after Snufkin.

If yes, read What Lies Beyond the Haze of Social Conditioning? about what happens if one expands one's consciousness and transcends above all the trifling and trivial problems, with which normal people preoccupy themselves ( Read more... )

How to Be a Successful Evil Overlord

One more point which could be added to the list:
- Do not play poker with the hero.
- Do not gamble on the hero's loss in a sport competition.

Those points would eliminate all the James Bond movies.

2000 - The Al-Aqsa Intifada
2006 - The Cartoon Intifada

and in Hebrew:

2000 - אינתיפאדת אל-אקצא
2006 - אינתיפאדת הקריקטורה