Comments on: You only tell me, perhaps, perhaps, perhaps

By: M.Sphinx

M.Sphinx — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 23:41:00 +0000

Guachi:

Yeah, I just lifted the quote directly from an article written by Robin Cook, former British Foreign Secretary. I have to admit I usually hear Al Qaeda translated as ‘The Base’, but I figure it was an interesting quote to throw in there.

By: Marq

Marq — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 22:24:46 +0000

Gary Ruppert once had a teeny weenie. He then ran across ads online that said, “Gain INCHES the all-natural way–GUARANTEED!!!” Not allowing himself to be dissuaded by the fact that using all-caps in the ad possibly indicated that the ad writers were deranged, he ordered the product (a vacuum pump device) for $29.99 plus $8.79 shipping and handling, and in two and a half weeks, it arrived. Even the horoscope that Jerome Armstrong had done for him was favorable! He followed the instructions in the device’s box to the letter, and five weeks later…
…he still had a teeny weenie. But, bruised!

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 15:25:29 +0000

Scientology is just the product of a science fiction writer who wanted to get rich through religion. At least that’s how it started out, I’m sure there are more whackos now.

By: Dan Someone

Dan Someone — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 14:26:42 +0000

The universe is just an almost infinitely tiny and dense soup of pre-matter at incredibly high temperatures. At least that is how it started out, though perhaps it has cooled and expanded and formed a few galaxies, stars and planets by now.

By: guachi

guachi — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 03:36:18 +0000

â€œAl-Qaida, literally â€˜the databaseâ€™, was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians.â€?

I know you got this quote from a Guardian article, so I’m not criticizing you, but that isn’t exactly what Al-Qaida means. The word literally means base, not database. The word is used for a military base, for baseball, and also for base of support – just like in English.

I guess the word *could* have been derived from its use referring to a database, but one of my Arabic teachers said that it was a reference to the organization being a grassroots organization and not from the elite. Of course he could have been wrong.

By: windy

windy — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 01:23:04 +0000

Humans are just a small bunch of apes from Olduvai Gorge that started putting arbitrary sounds together to further their views. At least that is how they started out, though perhaps there are a few more of them now.

By: fish

fish — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 00:57:02 +0000

Thomas Edison created a small business called Edison General Electric to peddle some of his crazy new inventions. At least that’s how GE started but perhaps they employ more people now.

By: ahem

ahem — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 23:23:00 +0000

By the way, is that a Coupling reference? If so, kudos.

By: ahem

ahem — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 23:15:17 +0000

Coca-Cola is just a guy from Georgia who cooked up some syrup in his back garden and sold it to soda fountains to make a bit of extra cash. At least thatâ€™s how they started out, though perhaps they employ more people now.

By: Not Brit Hume

Not Brit Hume — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 22:18:17 +0000

Harvard is just a few Puritains who formed a divinity school to push their liberal agenda. At least that’s how they started, though perhaps they may delude a few more people now.

By: Robert Green

Robert Green — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 22:11:48 +0000

Hollywood is just a bunch of jews who want to poison your brains with liberal claptrap. at least, it was, although it may employ a few goyim now.

By: MrWonderful

MrWonderful — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 19:57:08 +0000

Yeah, ha ha ha, and so forth, but how come none of you use phrases like “my testament, for the record”? Can anything be more intelligent than that? Ans.: No, it can’t. And so even if the pompous nincompoop who wrote it were, say, touring various exotic countries (smugly assured of the protection afforded by his U.S. passport, the utility of which depends on the sanctity of international laws which Amnesty upholds and of which he is contemptuous), and if, say, he happened–through no fault of his own–to be tossed into a Turkish prison, where he was expected to play Parcheesi with rats until further notice; and if he finds himself tearfully, pants-wettingly grateful for the intervention of Amnesty International in securing his deserved release–would that mean he’s a hypocrite (and a cry baby)? Sadly, yes. But so what? It’s “a hypothetical”! It didn’t really happen (to him). So, really, in a sense, everybody shut up.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 19:01:14 +0000

Christianity is just a Jew and twelve of his followers who formed a religion to further their views. At least thatâ€™s how they started out, though perhaps there are a few more adherents now.

By: John

John — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 18:05:48 +0000

Also, SeÃ¡n MacBride (http://en.wikipedia.org/SeÃ¡n MacBride) would seem to be less a liberal British attorney and more a major Irish statesman.

By: John

John — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 18:02:43 +0000

The British Liberal Party existed as recently as 1988, when it merged with the Social Democrats (breakaway rightwing Labour Party types) to form the Liberal Democrats. So there would have been Liberals in 1961. However, Mr. Benenson was, according to Wikipedia, a Labour expert. So, you could actually say that it was founded by a bunch of British Socialists. Although, to be fair, the Labour Party has always included a large liberal (small-l) component, which I would think that a barrister educated at Eton and Balliol would be more likely to be a part of than the redder wing of the party.

Also, I’m not sure it makes sense to say “the British don’t have attorneys.” They normally call them barristers or solicitors, but that doesn’t mean they’re not attorneys. And the highest legal officer of the crown is the Attorney-General (not the same as our Attorney-General – most of the functions of ours would be held in Britain by the Home Secretary or the Lord Chancellor)

By: flawedplan

flawedplan — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 17:26:10 +0000

The American Psychiatric Association is just a bunch of deluded sexist authoritarian control freaks who formed an organization to further their –oh shit, that’s true. I’ll have to get back to you.

By: M.Sphinx

M.Sphinx — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 16:12:34 +0000

"Al-Qaida, literally 'the database', was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians." Though perhaps it means something else now.

By: Edmund Schluessel

Edmund Schluessel — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 16:06:27 +0000

They’ve got a Liberal Democratic Party. At least, they like to think so.

By: Boney

Boney — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 15:39:11 +0000

The internet is just a small, four node network.

At least that’s how it started out. Perhaps it has a few more users now.

By: jade

jade — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 15:10:13 +0000

1. The Brits don’t have “liberals”. There used to be a Liberal Party but that was a long time ago (not counting the two Davids). The word “liberal” really just means in favor of free trade.
2. The Brits don’t have attorneys.