― Ernest P. (ernestp), Sunday, 30 November 2003 23:55 (twenty years ago) link
Do you deny that A = A? Criminal.
― Ian Johnson (orion), Sunday, 30 November 2003 23:56 (twenty years ago) link
(Hell, what is LaRouchian sex like?)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 30 November 2003 23:58 (twenty years ago) link
It involves the window sill and the moonlight illuminating her bare breasts.
― Ian Johnson (orion), Sunday, 30 November 2003 23:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 1 December 2003 00:08 (twenty years ago) link
Just imagine the moist pasty flesh of Lyndon's face descending on your...well anyway.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 1 December 2003 01:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Monday, 1 December 2003 08:27 (twenty years ago) link
Who pays for dinner? What if you inadvertantly leave a tip?
Presumably if you try to buy your date a drink or any part of one drink, he or she will leave immediately, so therefore both parties should arrive laden down with carrier bags full of small change to ensure 50/50 parity on all refreshments.
Our song: "The Trees"
― Neil Willett (Neil Willett), Monday, 1 December 2003 09:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Neil Willett (Neil Willett), Monday, 1 December 2003 11:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Kerry (dymaxia), Monday, 1 December 2003 15:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 1 December 2003 15:49 (twenty years ago) link
1976: Ayn Rand / Jim Henson / Sidney Nolan / Yoko Ono online discussion forum
http://www.arpanetdialogues.net/vol-iv/
― Milton Parker, Monday, 5 March 2012 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
the other ones are no less astounding btw
― Milton Parker, Monday, 5 March 2012 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
looks like arpanet's servers might not have been ready to become a facebook meme
AYN RAND
Public institutions in society should exist only to support the individual not force it into abandoning its own private interest.
JIM HENSON
I think Ms. Rand and my character Oscar the Grouch would have a lot to talk about actually. I am laughing out loud at this idea.
Why would I want to talk to him. What has he achieved or trying to achieve.
He has achieved what I think is the ultimate goal of your way of thinking.
YOKO ONO
But society is what makes our culture and is what makes a people different. I know the US is different to Japan. THe US should try to get on with societies it doesnt like. Vietnam was a catastrophe.
Isolation. Contempt for others. A hard heart. Yet even he can muster a bit of empathy every now and then.
SIDNEY NOLAN
When Ms. Rands idea of individualism is amplified to the extreme things like Vietnam happen.
I am not isolated. I have no contempt for others. Millions of people read my books and find my thoughts inspirational. I hardly spend my time on the sidelines in a trash can grumping.
Not yet anyway.
― Milton Parker, Monday, 5 March 2012 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
AYN RAND (on the muppets)
To be honest I find it to be senseless entertainment. I prefer the celebration of men and what they can achieve.
― brownie, Monday, 5 March 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
Jim Henson would have made a great ILXor, it seems.
― Flagpost Sitta (Phil D.), Monday, 5 March 2012 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
too bad it's fictional :(http://www.arpanetdialogues.net/disclaimer/
― 1staethyr, Monday, 5 March 2012 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
thanks for finding that.
― Milton Parker, Monday, 5 March 2012 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
i was about to say, this doesn't scan as very real to me
― goole, Monday, 5 March 2012 19:48 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2011/06/the-fountainhead-of-satanism
― it's smdh time in America (will), Monday, 5 March 2012 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
quite embarrassed to have been taken in -- but for some reason parts of the henson comments were just plausible enough given some of the other things that generally happen in silicon valley. once I actually started reading the reagan / said exchanges it was just too florid to accept
― Milton Parker, Monday, 5 March 2012 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i bought it too, where's my 21st century permanent scepticism? congrats to ayn rand for being such a ridiculous person that even a pretty extreme parody seems plausible, though.
― Boo-Yaa Too Rough International Boo-Yaa Empire (Merdeyeux), Monday, 5 March 2012 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
Aw, bummed it's not real. Gave me a new screen name though.
― On the sidelines in a trash can grumping (Dan Peterson), Monday, 5 March 2012 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
did not seem at all real to me - for one thing, i assume that rand would be much more logically argumentative and long-winded in her responses
― Totes le Héros (contenderizer), Monday, 5 March 2012 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
"grumping" did not seem like a Randian word to me.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 5 March 2012 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
Henson "laughing out loud" stuck out immediately.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 5 March 2012 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
Stephen Colbert @StephenAtHome
I believe Ayn Rand's first love poem went: Roses are red/ violets are blue/ finish this poem yourself / you dependent parasite
― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 24 January 2013 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/ayn-rand-reviews-childrens-movies
― 龜, Thursday, 18 December 2014 19:23 (nine years ago) link
“The Muppets Take Manhattan”
This movie was a disappointment. The Muppets do not take Manhattan at all. They merely visit it. —No stars.
A+
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 18 December 2014 19:27 (nine years ago) link
Yes, the first few are good as well.
― Vic Perry, Thursday, 18 December 2014 20:57 (nine years ago) link
Her fiction is much funnier, if unintentional.
― Threat Assessment Division (I M Losted), Thursday, 18 December 2014 21:05 (nine years ago) link