Priorities! (1 Viewer)

[theBaron]

Speaking of Trekkies, this is one of the best clips ever on Cartoon Network's "Robot Chicken":

http://robotchicken.org/index.php?title=Sci-Fi_Convention_War

I think we're in better shape, though, when you compare guys at a toy soldier show with people at a sci-fi convention.

Prost!
Brad

 

[desk11desk12]

Has this ever happened to you? The wife comes around and ask can we buy "whatever" and say it cost $75.
You look at her and say, "Do we really need it, it cost $75?"
With that the door bell rings and it,s the UPS guy with a package of soldiers.
I open the box and there is a bill for $500.
You get my point!
Gary

I feel for you Gary.

I'm so lucky in so many ways my wife is the way she is. She never stops me or slows me down which forces me to exhibit some self control. I can't say I'm too good at it but I try especially during these times.

Hey Gary, you coming to the Texas show in a couple of weeks? It can't be that far from where you live in Missouri.

Carlos

 

[Russell]

Hi Brad, Interesting -your video won’t cross the border into Canada. It must have something to do with law or copyright.

The smoking issue. I always assumed that all toy soldier collectors were non-smokers. Hello. No seriously, I don’t smoke but a very good friend of mine does. Like most smokers he’s very careful now to not share his smoke with others. Feeling a bit sheepish about smoking he put himself down the other day. I forget the exact words. I said to him, “Hey, what are the rest of us smoking, potato chips, greasy food, sweets, and so on?” We’re all killing ourselves somehow. The only safe stuff are water, and raw or boiled vegetables.
I was brought up Catholic and being Catholic I knew about mortal sins. What are the mortal sins in our society? … : being overweight, smoking, driving a gas guzzler, not recycling, watching TV, not being rich, and then, well the ice starts to get pretty thin, so I’ll back off. Toy soldiers is kid stuff, a venial sin at worst, maybe not a sin at all.

Once again have a nice weekend and enjoy the barbecue ... oh-oh dangerous stuff barbecues, two sins in one, maybe three, meat, pollution, cancer ...

I guess it's all sin.

 

[gk5717]

I feel for you Gary.

I'm so lucky in so many ways my wife is the way she is. She never stops me or slows me down which forces me to exhibit some self control. I can't say I'm too good at it but I try especially during these times.

Hey Gary, you coming to the Texas show in a couple of weeks? It can't be that far from where you live in Missouri.

Carlos

Carlos, no I won,t be at the Texas show. It,s not close about 17 hours of driving. Already starting to think about OTSN tho.
I,m sure you will deliver a lot of great photos for those that won,t be there.
Gary

 

[Njja]

I was brought up Catholic and being Catholic I knew about mortal sins. What are the mortal sins in our society? … : being overweight, smoking, driving a gas guzzler, not recycling, watching TV, not being rich, and then, well the ice starts to get pretty thin, so I’ll back off. Toy soldiers is kid stuff, a venial sin at worst, maybe not a sin at all.
I guess it's all sin.

Wow, lets not even go there!

Do they want everyone to be tall, thin, with perfect vision because they eat

their carrots and vegitables only?

A perfect society, with only perfect people, who only follow rules set by the

government........hmmm didn't someone have this idea eariler?

America the "Melting Pot" home of the individual....sounds better to me.

 

[Russell]

Njja I don't know whom you are referring to when you write

A perfect society, with only perfect people, who only follow rules set by the

government........hmmm didn't someone have this idea eariler?

but your writing it made me think of Kurt Vonnegut who had that thought in his short story titled HARRISON BERGERON. It certainly made me think a little. In the story the year is 2081, and everybody is finally equal. They aren't only equal before God and the law. They are equal for real: slim people must wear weights, attractive people must wear ugly masks, etc.

I forget how it ends. I read it in school, I think, a long, long time ago.

 

[lancer]

Carlos, no I won,t be at the Texas show. It,s not close about 17 hours of driving. Already starting to think about OTSN tho.
I,m sure you will deliver a lot of great photos for those that won,t be there.
Gary

Sometimes we forget just how vast the USA is. 17 hours driving is further than where I live in MD. to Miami, Fla.! Quite a day trip. -- lancer