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FAX
06-29-2008, 06:23 PM
This fascinating thread is for one purpose and one purpose only. And that one purpose is this; Here, on this amazing and thought-provoking thread, please post the most interesting thing that you thought about today. That way, all us Planeteers will either learn something very interesting, or we can find out that you don't think about very interesting things very much.

So, on behalf of all Planeteers everywhere, I want to thank you in advance for your cooperation, participation, and all the millions of interesting posts on this fabulous and highly interesting thread.

FAX

Disclaimers: Sorry if re-post.

kstater
06-29-2008, 06:27 PM
I thought about scratching my balls.

But I didn't.



Kstater: Trying to help Mr. FAX to a 100 post thread.

Buehler445
06-29-2008, 06:28 PM
My day's focus was primarily on not screwing up my first set of ribs...but I did that anyway.

ChiefsFanatic
06-29-2008, 06:33 PM
I was wondering if the women/men who "act" in bondage or bdsm type movies, where they get whipped, beaten, caned etc. over and over again on their ass, get shots, in the area where the pain is to be inflicted, to numb the pain.

And just now, I was thinking, damn, that is one long run-on sentence.

Adept Havelock
06-29-2008, 06:35 PM
I found myself wondering why, if Jimmy cracked corn and no one cared, is there a song about it?

Nzoner
06-29-2008, 06:36 PM
I've been selling fireworks all day(just taking a quick smoke break upstairs) but it's amazing how interesting customers can be when they pick up a firework that I know sucks and I walk up to them and politely tell them they should put it back and that I can get them something better for less money.

They look at you like you've lost your mind or why in the hell would this guy tell me something like this.Of course I pick up on this and tell them I'm trying to build a business on trust and just because a firework is bigger and more expensive does not necessarily make it better.

After this they get totally interested in what I'm saying and generally tend to end up spending more than they originally planned.

Anyhow just thought this was interesting to share because bottom line people just want to know they can trust someone and unfortunately alot of firework dealers are like car dealers.Just get them in and sell it and be on your way.

Bugeater
06-29-2008, 06:39 PM
I was thinking "man, I sure hope I don't get caught with these illegal fireworks I just bought from Joe".

Edit: I just wanted to clarify that the Joe DID NOT sell me illegal fireworks, they became illegal when I crossed the border into Iowa with them.

Hammock Parties
06-29-2008, 06:40 PM
I thought about nailing a chick in the gym restroom.

siberian khatru
06-29-2008, 06:43 PM
I was thinking that chicks dig guys with bikes.

Skip Towne
06-29-2008, 06:56 PM
I didn't think today. I took today off.

"Bob" Dobbs
06-29-2008, 07:04 PM
What would a chair look like if people's knees bent the other way? You know, like a flamingo?

FAX
06-29-2008, 07:07 PM
I had quite a few interesting thoughts today. For example, I went to Sams and bought some new dogfood for my dogs that is, apparently, "New and Better Tasting". And I thought, "Who applies for the job to taste this dogfood to determine whether or not it tastes better than the old dogfood?" It seems to me that the person who tastes this dogfood should be well compensated just in case they give him some really bad dogfood that doesn't make it into mass production. I figure that guy probably makes around 500k a year, or so. Plus, of course, really good health benefits and lots of vacation time to recover.

FAX

kstater
06-29-2008, 07:13 PM
I had quite a few interesting thoughts today. For example, I went to Sams and bought some new dogfood for my dogs that is, apparently, "New and Better Tasting". And I thought, "Who applies for the job to taste this dogfood to determine whether or not it tastes better than the old dogfood?" It seems to me that the person who tastes this dogfood should be well compensated just in case they give him some really bad dogfood that doesn't make it into mass production. I figure that guy probably makes around 500k a year, or so. Plus, of course, really good health benefits and lots of vacation time to recover.

FAX

Talking dog?:shrug:

stlchiefs
06-29-2008, 07:43 PM
I thought about nailing a chick in the gym restroom.

That's rape my friend.

Donger
06-29-2008, 07:51 PM
I wondered why light can't escape gravity, considering it doesn't have mass. And, no, I don't buy "curved space."

I also wondered why Mexican garage sale shoppers never fail to ask: "Uhhh, can my daughter use your bathroom?"

Hammock Parties
06-29-2008, 08:05 PM
That's rape my friend.

No, it was more of a "come hither, sweaty working-out man" scenario.

kregger
06-29-2008, 08:11 PM
I was at the Duck Derby on the Plaza this afternoon and they get the little rubber duckies to go downstream by creating waves with waverunners. I'm thinking, "There's got to be a better way". If it were my duck derby, I would find a way to release a shit ton of water upstream and recreate the flood of '77. Of course the spectators would all be hauled away in body bags and that would be the end of duck derby day.

StcChief
06-29-2008, 08:15 PM
No deep thoughts today /Jack Handey

stlchiefs
06-29-2008, 08:19 PM
I was at the Duck Derby on the Plaza this afternoon and they get the little rubber duckies to go downstream by creating waves with waverunners. I'm thinking, "There's got to be a better way". If it were my duck derby, I would find a way to release a shit ton of water upstream and recreate the flood of '77. Of course the spectators would all be hauled away in body bags and that would be the end of duck derby day.

The rubber ducks didn't melt when they hit that toxic sludge? That stuff is a biohazard, I bet the river rats beat all the ducks downstream.

Simply Red
06-29-2008, 08:41 PM
We'll my offer on the condo was counter-offered and then I countered back, we came to terms today and then, I thought: "Oh Sh!t!"

SPATCH
06-29-2008, 08:47 PM
today i thought a lot about mennonites/amish... mostly mennonite/amish children. i wonder what their sociological outlook is like...

its a fascinating counter-culture actually..

did you know that they are all bilingual?? that they all speak a weird dutch/german language???

Buehler445
06-29-2008, 08:52 PM
We'll my offer on the condo was counter-offered and then I countered back, we came to terms today and then, I thought: "Oh Sh!t!"

ROFL. We are looking at houses. I haven't talked to a banker or anything yet, then i figured the projected mortgage and property taxes and said the very same thing. Great minds think alike!!

Groves
06-29-2008, 08:58 PM
I wondered how the bird(s) decided when "the day" was to go from completely leaving my un-netted raspberries alone to completely stripping them bare.

kregger
06-29-2008, 09:01 PM
The rubber ducks didn't melt when they hit that toxic sludge? That stuff is a biohazard, I bet the river rats beat all the ducks downstream.

Nah, but it was pretty f'in funny when these people that were sitting on the edge of the walk got sprayed with the stream water. A few of them took afront and looked pissed at the riders. WTF, you sit that close to sewer water and guys are riding waverunners at the edge to move the ducks, what is the likely outcome here?

ChiefsFanatic
06-29-2008, 09:16 PM
I thought about nailing a chick in the gym restroom.

Why? Do you ride a bike?

acesn8s
06-29-2008, 09:18 PM
Man I really, really think, really think that I think I like being scared.

Simply Red
06-29-2008, 09:22 PM
Man I really, really think, really think that I think I like being scared.

why?

Hammock Parties
06-29-2008, 09:23 PM
Why? Do you ride a bike?

**** yeah, man. I mounted a killer 10-speed the other day.

Hydrae
06-29-2008, 09:33 PM
**** yeah, man. I mounted a killer 10-speed the other day.

I hope you were wearing protection. :p

Buehler445
06-29-2008, 09:34 PM
**** yeah, man. I mounted a killer 10-speed the other day.

Oh yeah?! Well mine is a 21-speed. Eat that chump!

Slayer Diablo
06-29-2008, 11:02 PM
I thought about drilling a 3/8 inch slot into a box; then painting it and putting a logo on it....not sure if that was the first thing, but it's pretty damn close.

Logical
06-30-2008, 12:36 AM
I was thinking that if I was Tiger Woods I would be rehabbing with the beautiful Elin to comfort me and a great baby girl that I have all the money in the world to spoil. That and I was going to miss two majors that would get me just that much closer to Jack and history.

Yes a very mellow day.

big nasty kcnut
06-30-2008, 01:48 AM
I was thinking who better g4 layla keyley oliva munn or morgan webb. Then wonder why my sense of touch is better the rest of my senses.

J Diddy
06-30-2008, 01:56 AM
do spider monkeys have 8 legs

POND_OF_RED
06-30-2008, 01:57 AM
I wondered what would happen if you turned your headlights on while going the speed of light.

007
06-30-2008, 01:57 AM
I..... ummmm.... welllll. ummmmm.....

I got nuthin.

J Diddy
06-30-2008, 01:58 AM
I..... ummmm.... welllll. ummmmm.....

I got nuthin.

wtf are you guru of then, exactly?

RustShack
06-30-2008, 02:00 AM
I thought this was a pretty interesting thread, even though I didn't read any of it. Does that count? I think it should, does that count as two thoughts today then? Interesting.

J Diddy
06-30-2008, 02:01 AM
I thought this was a pretty interesting thread, even though I didn't read any of it. Does that count? I think it should, does that count as two thoughts today then? Interesting.

it depends if someone else thought it was interesting

RustShack
06-30-2008, 02:02 AM
it depends if someone else thought it was interesting

Thats an interesting thought you have there.

J Diddy
06-30-2008, 02:05 AM
Thats an interesting thought you have there.


now i'm getting confused, i didn't think it was interesting--im just bored and making conversation


would it count:spock:

RustShack
06-30-2008, 02:07 AM
now i'm getting confused, i didn't think it was interesting--im just bored and making conversation


would it count:spock:

:hmmm: Interesting

FAX
06-30-2008, 06:15 AM
Well, it appears we had some very interesting thoughts yesterday, but not too many. I am officially extending this thread to include today, also.

As soon as I have an interesting thought, you can be sure it will be posted here.

FAX

angelo
06-30-2008, 06:44 AM
Why is suicide taboo and illegal in some areas.

If you have lived a full life and accomplished everything you wish to accomplish
then you should be able to end your own life when you choose.

Ang

DaKCMan AP
06-30-2008, 06:52 AM
Why is suicide taboo and illegal in some areas.

If you have lived a full life and accomplished everything you wish to accomplish
then you should be able to end your own life when you choose.

Ang

Because the same people don't want the government messing with their guns or pay taxes want to control what you can and can't do to your own body.

Adept Havelock
06-30-2008, 08:04 AM
Why is it that George Carlin is dead, yet Tommy Chong still pops up now and then?

angelo
06-30-2008, 08:32 AM
If you had to give up one of the following meats for the rest of your life which would it be and why.

BEEF


PORK

Ang

Portlantis
06-30-2008, 08:44 AM
In Star Trek, people use transporters to travel any distance whatsoever. Now, I've read conflicting accounts about how these actually work. Some say that the devices somehow convert atoms into energy waves and back again.

Others claim that the only thing that's transmitted is your molecular pattern, and that your body is actually reassembled from surrounding atoms once that signal reaches the landing sight. If that's the case, wouldn't you basically be dying every time you stepped into a transporter?

Yes, to everyone else it would seem as if you made it through the transport unscathed. But it wouldn't be you. It would be a copy. A perfect copy with all of your memories and personality traits intact, but a copy nonetheless.

You yourself would be dead, your atoms disassembled and scattered into nothingness inside of a transporter room.

It seems to me that it would take an unbelievable amount of religious conviction to be okay with this. You'd either have to believe that your soul was immortal and intrinsic and that it would somehow travel to meet you inside of your new body, or that you were about to enter a blissful afterlife.

Yet in Star Trek, religion doesn't seem to be part of 24th century human life. I've watched a lot of Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, and I don't even recall an episode where the possibility of a higher being is even discussed.

How then can these people accept death so nonchalantly?

Hammock Parties
06-30-2008, 09:00 AM
Religion is a part of other cultures in Star Trek, just not humanity/earth. The Bajorans were drenched in religion in DS9.

Gene Rodenberry was trying to make a point. If our culture evolves to a high enough state, religion will be phased out. Like money. No money on Earth in the 24th century. Plenty of gold-pressed latinum in other societies though.

Demonpenz
06-30-2008, 09:10 AM
This was interesting atleast for me. Today at wal mart a couple hags ran into my friends car with a shopping cart and didn't say they are sorry or anything. They looked at me and then went on their way. I came up and told them. "you figure you guys are old enough to have some manners." People bitch about the younger generation not have any manners that is worse. You damaged someone's property and went on your way. I asked my dad about the generation thing, he said we're old, we have money we don't give a **** haha

FAX
06-30-2008, 09:21 AM
This was interesting atleast for me. Today at wal mart a couple hags ran into my friends car with a shopping cart and didn't say they are sorry or anything. They looked at me and then went on their way. I came up and told them. "you figure you guys are old enough to have some manners." People bitch about the younger generation not have any manners that is worse. You damaged someone's property and went on your way. I asked my dad about the generation thing, he said we're old, we have money we don't give a **** haha

The elderly are almost as irritating as midgets. I went to the market this weekend and found myself in a checkout line behind an elderly. My God!!! It took 60 seconds for him to place each individual item on the rolling grocery slider. He had like 30 items. It was like watching an overcranked factory training film. Get the hell out of my way with your halting, super slow-mo, time-stopping, elderly ass, I say.

FAX

Baby Lee
06-30-2008, 09:32 AM
I wondered what would happen if you turned your headlights on while going the speed of light.

Same thing as if you turn on your headlights anywhere else.

Adept Havelock
06-30-2008, 10:00 AM
Same thing as if you turn on your headlights anywhere else.

It does suggest another point I wonder about...

If you are traveling at light speed, what do you see if you look out a window in the front of the craft?

Baby Lee
06-30-2008, 10:05 AM
It does suggest another point I wonder about...

If you are traveling at light speed, what do you see if you look out a window in the front of the craft?
It's all relative. You realize that there are any number of objects in the universe which, from it's frame of reference, WE are travelling away from it at the speed of light, or more!!, as we speak?

RJ
06-30-2008, 10:06 AM
Get the hell out of my way with your halting, super slow-mo, time-stopping, elderly ass, I say.
FAX



What's the magic word?

Baby Lee
06-30-2008, 10:11 AM
What's the magic word?

Matlock's on.


Err, that's two. Gets the job done tho'

RJ
07-14-2008, 03:10 PM
So today I was thinking about scurvy, which as I understand it is a disease resulting from a vitamin c deficiency. As I recall this was a big problem with sailors back in Ye Olden Tymes but then somebody figured out that everyone's gums would stop bleeding if they ate lemons and limes. So......

Do/did eskimos live with chronic scurvy? I suppose the eskimo of today could get a vitamin C supplement, but what about the eskimo of yesteryear? They sure as heck didn't have any limes in the Arctic 400 years ago. And I really doubt there's much vitamin C in whale blubber or fish eyes or walrus flippers.

Are there any Eskimo Planeteers who might be able to shed some light on this? Or maybe someone who has a good Eskimo friend?

blueballs
07-14-2008, 03:18 PM
Peter Griffen would suggest lemon snow cones

acesn8s
07-14-2008, 03:21 PM
why?Not sure why. I guess it's like a bungee jumper thinking "will this be the day the rope snaps?" kinda scared.

acesn8s
07-14-2008, 03:29 PM
It does suggest another point I wonder about...

If you are traveling at light speed, what do you see if you look out a window in the front of the craft?
My guess would be that you wouldn't see the deer that ran out in front of you until after you hit it. :shrug:

gblowfish
07-14-2008, 03:53 PM
I was reading the ingredients on a bottle of Oklahoma BBQ sauce, and it had ground anchovies and liquid smoke in it.

WHY????

RJ
07-14-2008, 04:02 PM
IIRC, ground anchovies are in a lot of sauces, especially steak sauces.

The liquid smoke is in there because it pairs so well with apricot preserves.

Rain Man
07-14-2008, 06:11 PM
I wondered whether german chocolate cake was banned in America during World War II.

KCFalcon59
07-14-2008, 06:20 PM
I was wondering how many doctors get loaded the night before doing major surgery.

Rain Man
07-14-2008, 06:28 PM
I wonder if a doctor has ever sewn his shirt sleeve into a patient's aorta during open-heart surgery.

Dinny Bossa Nova
07-14-2008, 06:38 PM
I was thinking of a gravity-free room.

And I thought it would be very rude to turn on the gravity when everyone is sleeping.

And I wondered how much casino cash I have.

Other'nat, I got nuthin'

Dinny

Rain Man
07-14-2008, 06:42 PM
Would it be better to wear boxers or briefs if you were relaxing in a gravity-free room? And would your answer differ if there were other people in the room?

RJ
07-14-2008, 06:52 PM
It is becoming obvious to me that the rest of you are no more knowledgeable about Eskimos than I am.

Can anyone direct me to a good Eskimo board? One with some decent traffic?

Dinny Bossa Nova
07-14-2008, 06:53 PM
Would it be better to wear boxers or briefs if you were relaxing in a gravity-free room? And would your answer differ if there were other people in the room?


depends.....

Dinny

MTG#10
07-14-2008, 07:00 PM
I thought a lot about rocks today. I just put up a new privacy fence to keep the dogs in the yard and they've already figured out they can dig out. So I decided to go down the block where there are new houses being built to steal the big rocks they've plowed up from the ground. I placed the rocks in a fashionable manner all around my yard at the base of the fence. They are working quite nicely so far. My life rocks.

Hammock Parties
07-14-2008, 07:05 PM
I thought about how mind-bending sex would be with the high school chick I saw at the gym today.

Rain Man
07-14-2008, 07:23 PM
It is becoming obvious to me that the rest of you are no more knowledgeable about Eskimos than I am.

Can anyone direct me to a good Eskimo board? One with some decent traffic?

I tried to google one for you, but the challenge is that the eskimos have 72 words for "bulletin board".

Dinny Bossa Nova
07-14-2008, 07:32 PM
It is becoming obvious to me that the rest of you are no more knowledgeable about Eskimos than I am.

Can anyone direct me to a good Eskimo board? One with some decent traffic?

Hey Nanook,

Don't be a naughty eskimo.

Dinny

RJ
07-14-2008, 07:57 PM
I tried to google one for you, but the challenge is that the eskimos have 72 words for "bulletin board".



I'd always heard that but never knew if it was true.

RJ
07-14-2008, 08:01 PM
Hey Nanook,

Don't be a naughty eskimo.

Dinny



Eskimo porn.

Naughty Nymph Aleutians do it all!

Check out our live Igloo Cam!!!

blueballs
07-14-2008, 08:02 PM
you can bury wire just underneath the lawn
from the fence out a couple feet -like chicken wire
or hold it down some way it wont get caught in the mower

Frosty
07-15-2008, 07:44 AM
So today I was thinking about scurvy, which as I understand it is a disease resulting from a vitamin c deficiency. As I recall this was a big problem with sailors back in Ye Olden Tymes but then somebody figured out that everyone's gums would stop bleeding if they ate lemons and limes. So......

Do/did eskimos live with chronic scurvy? I suppose the eskimo of today could get a vitamin C supplement, but what about the eskimo of yesteryear? They sure as heck didn't have any limes in the Arctic 400 years ago. And I really doubt there's much vitamin C in whale blubber or fish eyes or walrus flippers.

Are there any Eskimo Planeteers who might be able to shed some light on this? Or maybe someone who has a good Eskimo friend?


Raw meat has Vitamin C.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/010119.html

Fire Me Boy!
07-15-2008, 08:22 AM
I had a dream that a guy from work found a cockroach... I hate cockroaches. He started at me with the thing. I told him if he brought it any closer, I'd punch him in the head.

He knelt down, and touched the cockroach to my leg. I grabbed him by the back of the hair with my right hand and punched him in the head with my other hand.

Interesting thought?

dtforever
07-15-2008, 08:23 AM
I wondered whether german chocolate cake was banned in America during World War II.


Nope. Just changed the name to "freedom chocolate cake". That's what my grandpa told me. It was all the rage.

blueballs
07-15-2008, 08:26 AM
I had a dream that a guy from work found a cockroach... I hate cockroaches. He started at me with the thing. I told him if he brought it any closer, I'd punch him in the head.

He knelt down, and touched the cockroach to my leg. I grabbed him by the back of the hair with my right hand and punched him in the head with my other hand.

Interesting thought?

it's just as gay to let a man suck your cock
as it is for you to suck his

Rausch
07-15-2008, 09:38 AM
Religion rock sucks.

What if someone could secure the rights to good songs and just change a few words or phrases to Jesus/God/Mary etc?

Barry White with some Jesus thrown in? Sweet Child 0' Mine with a God reference?

Money. Money I tell ya'...

Jilly
07-15-2008, 10:24 AM
Religion rock sucks.

What if someone could secure the rights to good songs and just change a few words or phrases to Jesus/God/Mary etc?

Barry White with some Jesus thrown in? Sweet Child 0' Mine with a God reference?

Money. Money I tell ya'...

Sweet Child O' God... :hmmm:

RJ
08-06-2008, 05:09 PM
First, let me just say - and I believe I speak for many of us - that I'm thankful we have a thread available to us for frank and open discussion of our interesting thoughts, without fear of retribution. Thank you, FAX, for providing this forum.

Today I wondered whether American is an ethnicity. For instance, if you ask the average White Guy American about his ethnicity, he might claim something like "German and irish" or "Italian" or some other European country as being his ethnic roots.

So what I'm wondering is if someone is born in Europe, say to an American father and French mother (ooh, la la) would that kid say he was half French and half American? Or would he go back further and say he was half French with the other half being whatever mixture his dad was made up of? Also, since Europeans have been jumping each others borders and cross pollinating for all of civilization, do people there trace their roots like we do? Does the average German say, "yeah, I'm German, but I have a lot of Norwegian in me" or something to that effect?

Lastly, if an African American moves to Africa, does the African get dropped? Is he at that point just American? Or is he American African?

And don't even get me started on my questions about the Mongols. I'd be here all day.

MTG#10
08-06-2008, 06:46 PM
First, let me just say - and I believe I speak for many of us - that I'm thankful we have a thread available to us for frank and open discussion of our interesting thoughts, without fear of retribution. Thank you, FAX, for providing this forum.

Today I wondered whether American is an ethnicity. For instance, if you ask the average White Guy American about his ethnicity, he might claim something like "German and irish" or "Italian" or some other European country as being his ethnic roots.

So what I'm wondering is if someone is born in Europe, say to an American father and French mother (ooh, la la) would that kid say he was half French and half American? Or would he go back further and say he was half French with the other half being whatever mixture his dad was made up of? Also, since Europeans have been jumping each others borders and cross pollinating for all of civilization, do people there trace their roots like we do? Does the average German say, "yeah, I'm German, but I have a lot of Norwegian in me" or something to that effect?

Lastly, if an African American moves to Africa, does the African get dropped? Is he at that point just American? Or is he American African?

And don't even get me started on my questions about the Mongols. I'd be here all day.

I hate big ethnicity.

Hydrae
08-06-2008, 07:22 PM
First, let me just say - and I believe I speak for many of us - that I'm thankful we have a thread available to us for frank and open discussion of our interesting thoughts, without fear of retribution. Thank you, FAX, for providing this forum.

Today I wondered whether American is an ethnicity. For instance, if you ask the average White Guy American about his ethnicity, he might claim something like "German and irish" or "Italian" or some other European country as being his ethnic roots.

So what I'm wondering is if someone is born in Europe, say to an American father and French mother (ooh, la la) would that kid say he was half French and half American? Or would he go back further and say he was half French with the other half being whatever mixture his dad was made up of? Also, since Europeans have been jumping each others borders and cross pollinating for all of civilization, do people there trace their roots like we do? Does the average German say, "yeah, I'm German, but I have a lot of Norwegian in me" or something to that effect?

Lastly, if an African American moves to Africa, does the African get dropped? Is he at that point just American? Or is he American African?

And don't even get me started on my questions about the Mongols. I'd be here all day.

That is too many thoughts for one day. Please delete this post and break it into smaller, day sized portions.

gblowfish
08-06-2008, 08:19 PM
Religion rock sucks.

What if someone could secure the rights to good songs and just change a few words or phrases to Jesus/God/Mary etc?

Barry White with some Jesus thrown in? Sweet Child 0' Mine with a God reference?

Money. Money I tell ya'...

I think Cartman had that idea on South Park...:hmmm:

RJ
08-08-2008, 10:36 AM
That is too many thoughts for one day. Please delete this post and break it into smaller, day sized portions.



Well, that's a good point. I'll abridge to one question.

Is American an ethnicity?