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Around these parts, we fling insults around as compliments.


You'll know for sure if you piss someone off.

How will I know?

Okay.  I thought I made everyone angry or something.

I was just putting that in and I saw what you called it.

Sorry, SC and PC.  I'll go now.

Stock avatars suck smelly wino ass!

Make your own, 100x100 pixls then upload it to photobucket and link from there.

Then and only then will you be considered cool enuff to post here.

(Giggles is the exception to this rule)

Or, you could get a new avatar entirely.

Is this better, sir?

That's ok.  Kevin Smith still thinks she's God.

Who?

Hey, me too! 


Basically, a lot of us have been kicking concepts back and forth for quite some time now, so we've fallen into a lot of shorthand about what we mean, like when we talk about the BIP, or the Machine,Ñ¢, etc.



Anyway, look at it like this:  My brother is a Scientologist, and recently got married.  I was able to check out some of their literature, and it used a lot of metaphors to describe human thought, which is fine, we all do now and again.

Then problem is, they took these metaphors, and started believing that they were the way things actually worked.

That's what I call "eating the menu": They took their metaphors (menu) as reality (meal).

I have to think about this for a while.

Or, you could get a new avatar entirely.

But then Alanis would be all alone with the ashes of her career.  I would feel guilty.

It's kind of small to moustache and have it look like anything


Incidentally the Wrath Of MSPaint cabal, offers high quality moustache rides for twenty five cents American. Post a pic of yourself and the first one's free.

I don't have a digital camera.    Maybe you could put muttonchops on Alanis?

You can always as Prof. Cramulous to put a moustache on it.

Okay.

I think I see what you're getting at, but this goes beyond the culture at large, it seems.

I am a blabbering monkey in a sea of blabbering monkeys?   

Explain "culture of soundbites", please.

Everything we hear on television and radio is prepackaged and shrink wrapped ahead of time.  Everything our friends tell us is something they heard somewhere else.  Everyone gets their religious ideas from a church and their politics from talk radio.  The president doesn't speak to you, a speechwriter does.  Even Mexican wrestling is scripted.

Aw, crap.  That's Alanis, isn't it?

Yes.  It was the first one on the list of musicians, so I took it and now I feel dirty.

heh.


"Map is not the Territory" is one of those buzz phrases that means, "don't treat the conclusions your mind makes about the things your senses perceive as the One and Only True Reality". 

"The menu is not the meal" is another way of saying it.


"occult studies" in these parts means extending the Law of Fives to ridiculous extremes for fun and profit.

This is all about using buzz phrases to describe a culture of soundbites?  Am I reading this right, sir?

Looks like Fred gets it.

If I got it I would have a better avatar.