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Mugwort

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Put a lid on it
« on: January 21, 2010, 12:31:08 PM »
A U.S. Airways regional jet with 50 passengers was diverted to an emergency landing yesterday when a Jewish man strapped a small black box to his head, scaring the hell out of onlookers. I suppose some may have thought he was going to bomb his brains instead of his crotch.

It was just a Jewish prayer ritual. It calls for another little black box to be strapped to one arm.

Can religious antics get any sillier than this? By the way, why are Roman Catholic men required to remove their hats in church while women must cover their heads--while Jewish men are required to wear hats while women go hatless? Do head lice have anything to do with it? Could the Mexican hat dance fit in?


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8472937.stm
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royster

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Re: Put a lid on it
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2010, 12:59:49 PM »
Mugwort, I think you failed to recognise the importance of ritualistic prayer on planes. A plane full of Sufis --"The Whirling Dervishes" --might cause some confusion among passengers, but flight attendants are schooled in the various religious activities which are likely to occur on flights. I'm surprised that alcohol is still offered in-flight, because one could conceivably 'tank up' then light a match to their inhale, thus spewing lung-age all over. THAT would certainly make America surrender. Surrender WHAT and TO WHOM is the real conspiracy, which, again, you failed to acknowledge.

WHERE'S JIMMY HOFFA?
(To the tune "Mexican Hat Dance)
by r. andrew stokes 1/8/10

OH...They claimed to have seen Jimmy Hoffa
        In Uganda and Eastern Mustafa.
            But the theory that I'd Like to offah:
              Is that Jimmy sells novelty hats.

As the tourists take pictures of actions
      Of events at the tourist attractions,
           There are few who take people's reactions
               When they see Jimmy's novelty hats.

     He sells hats that have fingers and arrows,
        He sells hats that Republicans don.
        here is one that sports green chirping sparrows
                       with farrows...
                     The list it just goes on and on!

With his entrepreneurial intentions,
     He makes bundles at Nazi conventions.
       And the hats with the phallic extentions
          Keep ol' Jimmy in comfortable black.

When you buy a new hat for its squalar,
     and because it cost only a dollar,
        Fifty cents stacks up just that much taller
           For Jimmy, the vendor of hats.

        There are hats that state where you are standing,
             There are hats for just shooting the breeze.
                Teamster Union hats are not withstanding
                    demanding
                    'cause Jimmy sells several of these!

If you're ever in tourist trap places,
    milling 'round with the rest of the faces,
      Note the guy whose stand often embraces
         Jimmy Hoffa's notorious hats.

                Now I know that they say that he's fish food,
                  Or maybe a goal post at best.
                     But I'm telling you, straight out,
                        He's getting debate out
                           and making a buck off the West.

I can't prove that the guy in Mustafa
     Is the mysterious man, Jimmy Hoffa.
         But why else would somebody offah
              Hats with  persona ?
              A dangling Madonna?
              A snapping pirhana?
              A George Bush "I wanna"?
              Attacks on red Democrats?

                 It's just Jimmy's new novelty hats.

                                    Ole'!     
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Re: Put a lid on it
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2010, 01:33:46 PM »
I remember when we were in high school there were rules about what we were not allowed to bring into the building. 

No scissors, markers, whiteout, walkmen, and if a cell phone is seen it will be taken (but nobody is gonna search your bag and take it). 

The reason for no markers or whiteout was because they were used for graffiti.  (I remember passing time in boring classes by scraping off the white out on the desk.)

No scissors was so we wouldn't stab each other.  Whenever they would remind us of the rules, someone would raise their hand and ask why they didn't forbid sharpened pencils too. 
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Re: Put a lid on it
« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2010, 02:14:22 PM »
From what I've seen at the local school board meetings they've finally forbidden common sense in the building now. It must be a danger to their lively-hood!
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Re: Put a lid on it
« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2010, 02:32:49 PM »
Now they have to scrape the whiteout off computer screens used by blondes. And I hear that Jimmy Hoffa is visiting Judge Crater who recently stopped looking for Amelia Earhart when she reached her 112th birthday. None of them has a little black box strapped to his head.
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