Ayn Rand wants you to find love.

My profile says 'I enjoy sex.' and 'I am looking for a person who enjoys sex.'

-- Andrew (n...), November 30th, 2003. (enneff)

Best profile ever. I should try those two lines on my Friendster acct!

Do you deny that A = A? Criminal.

(Hell, what is LaRouchian sex like?)

It involves the window sill and the moonlight illuminating her bare breasts.

Just imagine the moist pasty flesh of Lyndon's face descending on your...well anyway.

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"

1976: Ayn Rand / Jim Henson / Sidney Nolan / Yoko Ono online discussion forum

http://www.arpanetdialogues.net/vol-iv/

the other ones are no less astounding btw

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.

AYN RAND

Why would I want to talk to him. What has he achieved or trying to achieve.

JIM HENSON

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.

JIM HENSON

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.

AYN RAND

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.

JIM HENSON

Not yet anyway.

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.

Jim Henson would have made a great ILXor, it seems.

too bad it's fictional :(
http://www.arpanetdialogues.net/disclaimer/

thanks for finding that.

i was about to say, this doesn't scan as very real to me

http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2011/06/the-fountainhead-of-satanism

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

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.

Aw, bummed it's not real. Gave me a new screen name though.

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

"grumping" did not seem like a Randian word to me.

Henson "laughing out loud" stuck out immediately.

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

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/ayn-rand-reviews-childrens-movies

“The Muppets Take Manhattan”

This movie was a disappointment. The Muppets do not take Manhattan at all. They merely visit it. —No stars.

A+

Yes, the first few are good as well.

Her fiction is much funnier, if unintentional.