While we're at it...

[P3nT4gR4m]

short-term personal savior.

I've stolen that and filed it beside my "Annual Bible"

[LMNO]

Just so you know, I stole it from TGRR.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Hah copythefted²

[Cain]

Who took it from the Book of the Subgenius.

Who took it from Middle Eastern cults.

Who took it from the Roman Empire

[LMNO]

It's just turtles, turtles, turtles, all the way down.

[LHX]

didnt one of the disciples say that to jesus?

[LMNO]

I wish.

[P3nT4gR4m]

didnt one of the disciples say that to jesus?

troof it was archibald the undresser

He showed up in one of the gospels that the pope, in his infinite wisdom, decided should be cut from the theatrical release.

[AFK]

to RWHN: doesn't the fact that you don't think those examples are really absurd, sort of prove the Prof's argument? also, even though All Your Base is oldest hat as anything, if you don't think it's completely absurd to carry a mistranslated japanese text so far, then i think we're talking about a different definition of absurdism

Yeah, I suppose my definition of absurdism is probably different.  I think I agree with the spirit of what the Prof was saying, I just didn't really think the particular examples she gave were all that absurd.  But I still think the issue of detachment is stronger than any numbness to absurdism, but that's just me. 

as preparation for this event i took the task upon myself to let no possibility for a Bad Joke go untold. after practising this a few weeks before the event, I never got rid of the habit afterwards. I enjoy the groaning of utter despair way too much in a sadistic kind of way to not bother people with. (ok I admit, they usually turn out to be incredibly bad far-fetched puns)

There is no such thing as bad far-fetched puns.  It is a cosmic rule.  All opportunities for puns must be seized upon. 

[DJRubberducky]

There is no such thing as bad far-fetched puns.  It is a cosmic rule.  All opportunities for puns must be seized upon. 

I got a visual of Roman Emperor bukkake.

[AFK]

There is no such thing as bad far-fetched puns.  It is a cosmic rule.  All opportunities for puns must be seized upon. 

I got a visual of Roman Emperor bukkake.

Ahh, so you've seen Caligula then right?   :-D

[DJRubberducky]

There is no such thing as bad far-fetched puns.  It is a cosmic rule.  All opportunities for puns must be seized upon. 

I got a visual of Roman Emperor bukkake.

Ahh, so you've seen Caligula then right?   :-D

No, actually, I've not.  It was just the mental connection of "seize" and "Caesar".

(Feel free to be shocked and dismayed that I've not seen the movie.  I get that a lot.  I've not yet seen the entirety of Spaceballs, and it was only within the last 18 months that I'd ever seen Blazing Saddles.  And I still haven't fully seen Star Wars episodes 5 and 6.)

[AFK]

I'm not shocked.  I don't know many people in my circle in real life that have seen it.  You should rent it sometime though.  Malcolm MacDowell plays an excellent sexually and mentally derranged Roman Emperor. 

[P3nT4gR4m]

I'm not shocked.  I don't know many people in my circle in real life that have seen it.  You should rent it sometime though.  Malcolm MacDowell plays an excellent sexually and mentally derranged Roman Emperor. 

Not to mention Helen Mirren, who's still my dictionary definition of the word 'fuck'

[LMNO]

What I thought was interesting is the desensitization I experienced.  by the end of the movie, it was all "Oh, look.  More breasts.  Yawn."


Kinda like Showgirls.