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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 2nd April 2023, 02:04 AM
Replies: 324
Views: 19,992
Posted By paiute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXYl8GrIQgU ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXYl8GrIQgU

With a Ford 460 that’s an engine pretty mean
Shittin’ out bolts and pissin’ gasoline
7 and 1/4 tons of pure mule power
Rollin’ down the road at 8...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 27th January 2023, 08:12 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 1,727
Posted By paiute
That's how I set up my crimes - make them look so...

That's how I set up my crimes - make them look so stupid that nobody will believe they happened.
Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts 18th January 2023, 02:19 PM
Replies: 70
Views: 3,033
Posted By paiute
My primary objection to this monstrosity is that...

My primary objection to this monstrosity is that it takes up valuable space on my Common - you know, the area that was to be saved for the use of all? If we memorialize all the worthies in this way,...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 26th October 2022, 05:09 AM
Replies: 56
Views: 4,813
Posted By paiute
Send me a dollar and I will tell you how I make...

Send me a dollar and I will tell you how I make money!
Forum: USA Politics 6th October 2022, 11:50 AM
Replies: 39
Views: 2,313
Posted By paiute
It has often struck our notice that the course...

It has often struck our notice that the course our city runs
Is the same towards men and money. She has true and worthy sons:
She has good and ancient silver, she has good and recent gold.
These...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 27th March 2022, 07:17 AM
Replies: 215
Views: 9,317
Posted By paiute
And I can assure you that I am the Queen of...

And I can assure you that I am the Queen of England.
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 29th November 2021, 10:03 AM
Replies: 111
Views: 8,296
Posted By paiute
This guy's postings remind me of this: ...

This guy's postings remind me of this:

Paleoanthropology Division
Smithsonian Institute
207 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20078

Dear Sir:

Thank you for your latest submission to the...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 2nd October 2021, 08:53 AM
Replies: 156
Views: 6,156
Posted By paiute
Hijacking this thread to recall that it was only...

Hijacking this thread to recall that it was only when the writer who worked under that pen name passed away that I realized he had lived very near me and I had driven past his house hundreds of times...
Forum: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories 26th August 2021, 10:05 AM
Replies: 116
Views: 18,410
Posted By paiute
Well, this is the same Spike Lee that thinks...

Well, this is the same Spike Lee that thinks Larry Bird was not a good player because he was white and it was the white media that hyped him.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 24th August 2021, 06:07 PM
Replies: 402
Views: 27,620
Posted By paiute
It'll be over when the fat lady is intubated.

It'll be over when the fat lady is intubated.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 18th July 2021, 08:30 AM
Replies: 84
Views: 6,123
Posted By paiute
Guards: Please ma'am, you're scaring the horses.

Guards: Please ma'am, you're scaring the horses.
Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts 16th July 2021, 08:17 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 711
Posted By paiute
Someone on the broadcast told viewers the best...

Someone on the broadcast told viewers the best camera settings for taking photographs of the screen. I remember balancing an old Argus C3 on an aluminum vacuum cleaner pipe and getting several good...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 28th June 2021, 06:28 PM
Replies: 28
Views: 1,811
Posted By paiute
I am 180 degrees from this idiot's politics, but...

I am 180 degrees from this idiot's politics, but come on. Prison time is not the way to punish such actions.
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 26th June 2021, 04:29 AM
Replies: 64
Views: 7,359
Posted By paiute
And I know that I am the Queen of England.

And I know that I am the Queen of England.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 5th June 2021, 04:20 PM
Replies: 98
Views: 5,391
Posted By paiute
I want a bazooka

The Constitution does not say "the right of the people to keep and bear some Arms, shall not be infringed". All arms are my Constitutional right.
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 9th May 2021, 10:12 AM
Replies: 206
Views: 17,140
Posted By paiute
Bartleby : You know, here's what I don't get...

Bartleby : You know, here's what I don't get about you. You know for a fact that there is a God. You've been in His presence. He's spoken to you personally. Yet I just heard you claim to be an...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 16th April 2021, 06:06 PM
Replies: 1,390
Views: 235,012
Posted By paiute
To paraphrase Upton Sinclair, "It is difficult to...

To paraphrase Upton Sinclair, "It is difficult to get a man to measure something correctly when his salary depends upon his not measuring it correctly."
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 26th March 2021, 09:23 AM
Replies: 731
Views: 190,228
Posted By paiute
You will get nowhere approaching this from the...

You will get nowhere approaching this from the left. You have to circle around the enemy lines under cover of darkness and approach from the right:

"God spoke to me and told me that Donald Trump...
Forum: USA Politics 25th March 2021, 04:54 PM
Replies: 185
Views: 11,701
Posted By paiute
You had five years to create a nuclear weapon and...

You had five years to create a nuclear weapon and what happened? We ended up speaking Japanese! Big government can't get anything right!
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 13th February 2021, 08:20 AM
Replies: 3,849
Views: 322,823
Posted By paiute
<mandolins play>

Brave Caroline13 ran away
Bravely ran away away
When reason reared its ugly head
She bravely turned her tail and fled
Yes, brave Caroline13 turned about
And gallantly she chickened out
Forum: USA Politics 6th February 2021, 08:57 PM
Replies: 79
Views: 6,264
Posted By paiute
That is only tan if you are watching on a 1955...

That is only tan if you are watching on a 1955 Zenith.
Forum: USA Politics 8th January 2021, 01:34 PM
Replies: 358
Views: 28,950
Posted By paiute
Add to that the several patriotic Americans who...

Add to that the several patriotic Americans who were there to try and install rootkits on secure PCs on behalf of foreign intelligence agencies.
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 7th January 2021, 09:03 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 2,852
Posted By paiute
No way a deaf and blind girl was able to hide...

No way a deaf and blind girl was able to hide from the Nazis for so long.
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 13th November 2020, 05:32 AM
Replies: 26
Views: 3,143
Posted By paiute
reminds me of the old joke

First astrophysicist: That neutron star is as smooth as my wife's behind.
Second astrophysicist: I know.
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 11th November 2020, 05:59 PM
Replies: 1,390
Views: 235,012
Posted By paiute
If you can't spell Schrödinger I am not going to...

If you can't spell Schrödinger I am not going to waste my valuable time here on this earth reading what you think you have to say about QM.
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 11th November 2020, 04:01 AM
Replies: 1,390
Views: 235,012
Posted By paiute
Yeah - real confident in this 'physicist'

From the link:
"All the math in CQM is classical physics with no new equations, whereas the wave
function of SQM is determined using something called the Shroedinger [sic] equation.
The...
Forum: Computers and the Internet 30th October 2020, 04:08 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 1,066
Posted By paiute
Dammit Jim! I'm a Doctor, not a word salad chef!

Dammit Jim! I'm a Doctor, not a word salad chef!
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 4th October 2020, 07:00 AM
Replies: 178
Views: 9,677
Posted By paiute
I believe you are thinking of zero point energy,...

I believe you are thinking of zero point energy, not Brownian motion.
Forum: USA Politics 2nd October 2020, 05:23 PM
Replies: 108
Views: 4,633
Posted By paiute
If flag burning is made illegal, I want to make...

If flag burning is made illegal, I want to make some heavy-duty asbestos flags so they can be set on fire and not be burnt.
Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts 3rd July 2020, 12:49 PM
Replies: 78
Views: 6,936
Posted By paiute
Additional reading material

As an aside, I just read this account of how the English developed games to train convoys in U-Boat countermeasures
...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 29th May 2020, 07:22 PM
Replies: 3,200
Views: 102,942
Posted By paiute
I did not claim that you are racist. I claim that...

I did not claim that you are racist. I claim that you are white.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 28th May 2020, 07:15 PM
Replies: 3,200
Views: 102,942
Posted By paiute
I want to take the Million Dollar Challenge. My...

I want to take the Million Dollar Challenge. My paranormal skill is the ability to tell the race of those who comment on threads like this.
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 21st May 2020, 05:58 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 2,792
Posted By paiute
Apology to blondes everywhere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8caeFYzPxk
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 19th May 2020, 06:35 PM
Replies: 269
Views: 16,805
Posted By paiute
Lot of white people in this thread going [Dave...

Lot of white people in this thread going [Dave Chappelle white person voice] Oh, dear, there is something not right. There must be more to the story.

Yeah. There isn't. Dollars to dog turds that...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 29th April 2020, 03:09 PM
Replies: 1,390
Views: 235,012
Posted By paiute
HD peak?

HD peak?
Forum: Computers and the Internet 25th April 2020, 05:54 PM
Replies: 38
Views: 3,290
Posted By paiute
You can set chrome to disable/enable the touchpad...

You can set chrome to disable/enable the touchpad with search/shift/p
Forum: USA Politics 12th April 2020, 06:03 PM
Replies: 84
Views: 5,552
Posted By paiute
AKA rational patriotic Americans

AKA rational patriotic Americans
Forum: USA Politics 3rd April 2020, 07:23 AM
Replies: 67
Views: 3,341
Posted By paiute
When I was young I read a lot of military...

When I was young I read a lot of military history. I considered it a given that the Holocaust was a one-off aberration and could never happen again. Now that I am older, I know something like it will...
Forum: USA Politics 3rd April 2020, 07:20 AM
Replies: 67
Views: 3,341
Posted By paiute
There is a spreadsheet on the Russian troll farm...

There is a spreadsheet on the Russian troll farm server where you can go to grab a new username for spewing on US social media.
Forum: USA Politics 30th March 2020, 05:50 PM
Replies: 107
Views: 6,802
Posted By paiute
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_multitasking

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_multitasking
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 29th March 2020, 06:25 AM
Replies: 25
Views: 1,416
Posted By paiute
They had FDR. We have Trump.

They had FDR. We have Trump.
Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts 16th March 2020, 04:48 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 2,120
Posted By paiute
Look at this. It's worthless - ten dollars from a...

Look at this. It's worthless - ten dollars from a vendor in the street. But I take it, I bury it in the sand for a thousand years, it becomes priceless. Like the Ark.
Forum: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories 13th February 2020, 10:17 PM
Replies: 53
Views: 11,049
Posted By paiute
Brave nwoslayer ran away. Bravely ran away...

Brave nwoslayer ran away.
Bravely ran away away.
When facts reared their ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.
Yes, brave nwoslayer turned about
And gallantly he chickened out....
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 29th October 2019, 07:15 PM
Replies: 150
Views: 20,069
Posted By paiute
As we are making unsubstantiated claims, may I...

As we are making unsubstantiated claims, may I remind you that I am the Queen of England, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Queen, Defender of...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 26th October 2019, 07:36 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 2,390
Posted By paiute
We can program them to figure out why people...

We can program them to figure out why people begin sentences with 'so'.
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 11th October 2019, 02:22 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 1,081
Posted By paiute
You just made her point.

You just made her point.
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 19th August 2019, 12:53 AM
Replies: 1,692
Views: 58,426
Posted By paiute
He'll be a newt soon.

He'll be a newt soon.
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 19th August 2019, 12:19 AM
Replies: 1,692
Views: 58,426
Posted By paiute
Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I...

Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, "Don't do it!"
He said, "Nobody loves me."
I said, "God loves you. Do you believe in God?"
He said, "Yes."
I said, "Are you a Christian or a...
Forum: USA Politics 23rd July 2019, 05:20 AM
Replies: 2,251
Views: 170,271
Posted By paiute
Define for us on the scale of man-woman...

Define for us on the scale of man-woman interaction where the line of sexual assault/not sexual assault is.
Forum: USA Politics 18th July 2019, 09:10 AM
Replies: 1,226
Views: 67,565
Posted By paiute
Quora called - they are looking for you.

Quora called - they are looking for you.
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