![]() Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous. - - - Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" 1897 |
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![]() that the meme, "Sold one's Soul for ..." is Bogus. See? That is an exact Drumpfian transaction on-its-face: Perzackly like the ∑real-estate /casino etc. Transactions. Once again, there was no There-there in the 'deal'-scam: He never had one, knows-not what it might mean, nor would care if informed. It'd go ^Zoom^ It was just another No- Rest case. As to a Solution: I have, ackshully, a Bircher-sticker from My Gramma's sordid past: Suport Your Local Police! s/Dalek/Police; FIFThem. Suggested mission: "go to 1600 Pennsyl.. Ave" and luxuriate-all-over. |
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![]() >> "Sold one's Soul for ..." is Bogus.... Good movie! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedazzled_(1967_film) In return for his soul, Spiggott offers Stanley seven wishes. ... |
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![]() ..as Mr. S opens LP-records carefully, scratches them and re-seals.. Dudley Moore, Peter Cooke, Raquel Welch--as Lust, et alia, Re-viewed at least 4X, here. I cannot fathom why! anyone would re-make this 'rare jewel from the Left-eye of some heathen Idol' and it's a coin-toss were I to be urged to try a 'Muricanized potboiler-of-Y2K--sans Raquel. Thanks for the reminder ... time to re-See, especially during the terminal-Weirdness Hope all is Well-ish in your bailiwick. |
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![]() Anyone willing to sell their soul doesn't have one to sell in the first place. -- Christian R. Conrad The Man Who (used to think he) Knows Fucking Everything Mail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi |
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![]() I assume all of us had that moment. Am I going to stand up for s*** I believe in or am I going to fold. I'll stand up for safety, past that I'm not sure. Actually no, I've stood up when safety was probably against me and I was being stupid. What drives us at that moment? Ego? Childhood programming? I know what I've stood up when I shouldn't. |