Shades of Long John Silver
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Dalek Dave wrote:
Gulliver
I thought Gulliver was the guy who got shipwrecked on a island of 5 inch tall people. How is that based on reality?! :laugh:
Simon
Just because you've never been there, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Take California, for example, who'd believe the tales of that place? :P
Remember: Patience is a virtue of the poor
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The reality is that he was a real person. The Lilliputians were a metaphor for small people filled with their own self importance. What Swift was alluding to was Politicians, all puffed up and ordering people around, whilst the truly great just got on and did things. You should read Gullivers Travels, it contains a great piece about these roughnecks and hooligans that he called "The Yahoos". Sound familiar?
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Dalek Dave wrote:
called "The Yahoos". Sound familiar?
Aren't they distant cousins of "The Googles" :-D
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Just because you've never been there, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Take California, for example, who'd believe the tales of that place? :P
Remember: Patience is a virtue of the poor
Oh, I believe tales of that place! I sat in a restaurant section of a book shop on the waterfront at Venice Beach. Hula Hoopers, Skaters, Unicyclists and a seminaked man playing a badly painted piano. People wearing clothes straight out of an episode of "The Monkees" and a body painter plying her trade amongst the litterati. Thence to Santa Monica and an Irish Bar filled with staff dressed as leprechauns. Have you ever seen Hollywood Boulevard? OMG Strangely though, I loved it! :) But it is a different planet!
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Dalek Dave wrote:
called "The Yahoos". Sound familiar?
Aren't they distant cousins of "The Googles" :-D
My Blog: http://cynicalclots.blogspot.com
Dirk Higbee wrote:
Aren't they distant cousins of "The Googles
No, The Googles is a disease acquired from to much mouse abuse! :-D
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Sir William Dampier was a naval captain and circumnavigator. First man to travel round the world 3 times. He was the basis for Lemuel Gulliver by Jonathan Swift. On one of his travels he picked up a marooned salior called Alexander Selkirk, who was immortalised as Robinson Crusoe. His cook on board was a one legged, one eyed man called John Silver! See, Gulliver, Crusoe and Long John Silver on The Same Ship! And you all thought they were stories! :)
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Oh, I believe tales of that place! I sat in a restaurant section of a book shop on the waterfront at Venice Beach. Hula Hoopers, Skaters, Unicyclists and a seminaked man playing a badly painted piano. People wearing clothes straight out of an episode of "The Monkees" and a body painter plying her trade amongst the litterati. Thence to Santa Monica and an Irish Bar filled with staff dressed as leprechauns. Have you ever seen Hollywood Boulevard? OMG Strangely though, I loved it! :) But it is a different planet!
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Dalek Dave wrote:
Venice Beach
Venice Beach != California. :laugh:
A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty… The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self. … We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive. (Albert Einstein, 1, 1954)
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Dalek Dave wrote:
Venice Beach
Venice Beach != California. :laugh:
A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty… The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self. … We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive. (Albert Einstein, 1, 1954)
Brady Kelly wrote:
Venice Beach != California
:confused: I make it half way between Santa Monica and Marina Del Ray, and that, in my book, is definitely SoCal!
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Brady Kelly wrote:
Venice Beach != California
:confused: I make it half way between Santa Monica and Marina Del Ray, and that, in my book, is definitely SoCal!
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I meant it's certainly not California in general. Venice Beach, while never having been graced with my presence, is a rather special place.
A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty… The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self. … We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive. (Albert Einstein, 1, 1954)
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I meant it's certainly not California in general. Venice Beach, while never having been graced with my presence, is a rather special place.
A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty… The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self. … We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive. (Albert Einstein, 1, 1954)
Oops, I see, and yes it is a very special place. I was thinking you were geographically ignorant, not realising you were philosophically profound! I love California though, (except east LA)
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Long John Silver's was my first job as a teen circa 1984. To this day, I hate their hushpuppies.
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snowlin wrote:
To this day, I hate their hushpuppies.
Why, err what did you put in them? ;)
Bar fomos edo pariyart gedeem, agreo eo dranem abal edyero eyrem kalm kareore
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Oops, I see, and yes it is a very special place. I was thinking you were geographically ignorant, not realising you were philosophically profound! I love California though, (except east LA)
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modified on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 11:07 AM
Dalek Dave wrote:
I was thinking you were geogrphically ignorant
:((
A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty… The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self. … We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive. (Albert Einstein, 1, 1954)
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Dalek Dave wrote:
I was thinking you were geogrphically ignorant
:((
A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty… The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self. … We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive. (Albert Einstein, 1, 1954)
No, Don't weep, I sweetened it by the "Philosophically Profound" :)
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No, Don't weep, I sweetened it by the "Philosophically Profound" :)
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I know, thanks.
A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty… The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self. … We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive. (Albert Einstein, 1, 1954)
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snowlin wrote:
To this day, I hate their hushpuppies.
Why, err what did you put in them? ;)
Bar fomos edo pariyart gedeem, agreo eo dranem abal edyero eyrem kalm kareore
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Just because you've never been there, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Take California, for example, who'd believe the tales of that place? :P
Remember: Patience is a virtue of the poor
martin_hughes wrote:
Take California, for example, who'd believe the tales of that place?
I live there and I don't believe half of it! And yeah, Venice Beach is a little bit like Disneyland - it might be in California, but it most certainly doesn't represent California. In fact, before I moved here, I thought CA was just a mile wide strip of beach about 500 miles long, with hot chicks falling from the sky (too much Baywatch methinks). Turns out it's just a giant farm with some mountains and two large towns full of overpriced housing and yuppies.
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