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That sad, mournful song with the primal drum beats by Radiohead.:sleeping::sleeping2::wacko:

Is this a guessing game?;) Let's see- - I'm wearing sneakers..

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Sounds Logical! Most songs come from humble origins; some too humble to even be believed, if it weren't so true.. Though, for the most part, it's just our imaginations churning away. Without which, life would surely be much duller!!:jester:

Carrot and stick methods work for animals:rolleyes: Are her neighbors as bad as the red squirrel living in my attic?:laugh3: He described Mostly Harmless in an interview as "a very bleak book" and said he "would love to finish Hitchhiker on a slightly more upbeat note" - (see another Coldplay song title..) The theme used for the radio, television, LP and film versions is "Journey of the Sorcerer", an instrumental piece composed by Bernie Leadon and recorded by The Eagles on their album One of These Nights. "How many roads must a man walk down, before he can be called just a man?" Part of a song Blowing in the Wind - "The answer my friend, is blowing in the wind; the answer is blowing in the wind.." by Peter, Paul and Mary; probably various folk artists before and after as well (Guthrie; Bob Dylan; et.al.)

Say Tracie, are these the neighbors, just perchance, who were to be Evicted, like, some time ago? The ones with all the mental disorders??:P

Here's One from an Ancient Celtic Monk: Foretell the season. (onset of winter): News I bring:/bells the stag winter snows,/summer past; wind high and cold,/low the sun short it's courts,/seas are strong; russet bracken,/shape awry,. wild goose raises/wonted cry; cold lays hold/on wings of bird icy time:/this I heard. And another Irish Celtic Monk's: A wall of forest looms above, and sweetly the blackbird sings; all the birds make melody over me and my books and things. There sings to me the cuckoo from bush-citadel in gray hood. God's doom! May the Lord protect me, writing well, under the great wood.

Anything to get attention! This explains a whole lot of human behavior..

Gee, that's nice Anna!:) I would probably do the same.. Unless I had only 1 hour left to live, and I were a fruit fly!:P Then, I would find the biggest, ripest banana, pig-out on it, mate with another fruit fly, and then die happy, lying on my back, with my little feet wiggling in the air!:laugh3: (I guess it all depends on one's perspective.. humans apparently prefer to get drunk instead of eat over-ripe bananas..:laugh3:) Either way, about the same thing.

Context In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, (published in 1979), the characters visit the legendary planet Magrathea, home to the now-collapsed planet building industry, and meet Slartibartfast, a planetary coastline designer responsible for the fjords of Norway. Through archival recordings, he related the story of a race of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings who built a computer named Deep Thought to calculate the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. When the answer was revealed to be 42, they were told to build an even more powerful computer to work out what the Ultimate Question actually was, but their plans never come to fruition. (Later on, referencing this, Adams would create a puzzle which could be approached in multiple ways, all yielding the answer 42.) The computer, often mistaken for a planet (because of the size and use of biological components), was in fact the Earth, and was destroyed by Vogons five minutes before the conclusion of its 10-million year program. Two of the hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings, who turn out to be Trillian's mice, want to dissect Arthur's brain to help reconstruct the question, since he is the last remaining survivor from Earth at the moment when the planet is destroyed. Trillian is also human, but had left Earth 6 month earlier with Zaphod Beeblebrox. Our protagonists escape, setting course for "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe". The mice, in Arthur's absence, create a phony question, since it is too troublesome for them to wait another 10 million years just to cash in on a lucrative deal. Their new question was "How many roads must a man walk down?"

But what about Godzilla?:P

Free at Last, Free at Last .. Mother Russia has something else in mind (according to their bosses).. Although, I think, as with everything they do, there's always some other motive (I'll bet my boots on it), as altruism is not in the normal nature of old KGB bosses.. Apparently, they will be pushing for independence in some of the former Soviet republics' provinces, ostensibly because this would only be fair to independence movements everywhere; but in reality, probably to reduce their neighbor's strengths, and to negatively impact Chechnya and Georgia. And perhaps for internal reasons as well - to rally their population into xenophobic conditioning towards the outside world (look what they'll do to further disintegrate Mother Russia, if you let them!). I doubt it will work, as most Russians are now thoroughly modern, and don't want to go backwards; their government, however, is another matter altogether. Countries that keep getting smaller get defensive and neurotic a bit - I can understand that.. I just hope Russia and Serbia don't slide backwards again - it's just no fun, and I like the idea of being in a world where everyone gets along fine.. They both have a lot to be proud of, and no sense in getting too worked up about places that never really belonged in their nation's boundaries.. But the main thing is Congratulations on your independence in Kosovo!! YEA!!:) Keep the economy improving, and have fun!!;););)

LP4 is one month away. I like that - time as a measure of distance.. How about "LP4 is 100 miles away on a truck, but moving very slowly ahead towards you."?:laugh3:

0. (a You Tube Experience) People arguing over dedication songs for tragedies and who deserves the dedication more are so removed from reality, they are utterly childish - and yet these are adults?! IIEEE!!!:stunned: 1. How do you compare the suffering of someone being killed in the World Trade Center to someone being killed by the bombing of a village in Iraq? Is it 10X worse either way??:thinking: 2. How disconnected can people be from reality??:\:confused: 3. Why can't they save their disconnectedness for something truly ridiculous, like arguing over who's the best band??:P 4. Have we advanced any from the war-like tribes of 2,000 years ago?:pirate: 5. I can sense the frustration of Martin Luther King now..:dozey:

Interesting to note - President Bush I's nickname is 41; Bush II's is 43. Neither is 42; which tells us something about not having the answer!:laugh3:

As I vaguely recall after many moons, at the end of the TV version, Arthur and Ford? were sitting around a campfire, drawing small children's number and letter cubes out of a satchel, and out came the answer as the ultimate question of the universe: what's 6 X 9: 42! (it had been wrong all these years, and no body knew it!) I recall that the earth had been set up as a giant computer to find this question, but for some reason it was destroyed to make room for the (already out-dated) intergalactic highway, and so a Vogon (an interstellar race of unreasoning and uncompromising highway builders) destroyed it before the final question could be found. It's a great read, if you like humor - I would highly recommend any of Douglas Adams' works. Wiki has a good article on 42 - check it out!

coincidence? So it becomes quite apparent now why Coldplay is at Innsbruck, Austria: "The history of The hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy is now so complicated that every time I tell it I contradict myself. and whenever I do get it right, I'm misquoted. So the publication of this omnibus edition seems like a good opportunity to set the record strait - or at least firmly crooked. Anything that is put down wrong here is, as far as I'm concerned, wrong for good.:laugh3: The idea for the title first cropped up while I was lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck, Austria, in 1971. Not particularly drunk, just the sort of drunk you get when you have a couple of stiff Gossers after not having eaten for two days strait, on account of being a penniless hitchhiker. We are talking of a mild inability to stand up." Douglas Adams Los Angeles 1983 and London 1985/1986

Who is Ron Ramsay? I know Chuck Ramsey!:laugh3: Hmm. I was thinking, "Norwegian wood, isn't it good..", as I search for any scraps of wood I can find to burn in the woodstove!:lol: (Furniture is over-rated anyhow, right?).. Also, I'm thinking - what's Putin's problem, that he can't recognize Kosovo's independence? Ten centuries of ties to Serbia getting in the way?? Old Communist ties to Titio?

Talisman, what's Russia's problem with this? Some old alliance with Serbia? Some new alliance with Serbia to have a presence in Southern Europe? Is this Putin's action, or more someone else's?? Personally, I trust Putin about as far as I can throw him! He's very out of step with his own people, and still locked into the old KGB mentality in many ways.. what would make the transition more likely at the UN??

squiggly lines are.. Eons ago, on a planet far, far away, I recall being told what those lines are - they're actually tiny, harmless worms that sit on the surface of our eyes.. I saw one the other day - most noticeable in the winter, or on a foggy day, when the focus is not so good.. Nothing to be concerned about!;)

All these immediate problems make my thoughts vanish like mist in the sun.. I was thinking, can humanity keep it all together?

Low. Daylight or Yellow?:sunny:

:--] If you want, I could send you some?!:)

That makes two! :chef:Do you like dark chocolate, Lore??:p

I mean, life goes on regardless.. :dozey: Sure, life would be duller, and I would miss all of you here!:cry: But there's always a backup - phone cables, satellites, ships, radio transmissions - communications would fall back on the next network capable of handling the traffic, albeit much slower..:) (someone had started sending TV pictures on HAM radio back in the olden days.. very, very slowly, but it worked!) What else? Well, I might get some things fixed around here that have "gone to the dogs" for lack of attention, that's for sure!:P And actually spend more time reading books and magazines!! Yes, it did happen in Asia - I recall a special on the internet, and what happens when things go wrong - earthquakes sever cables, animals (sharks) cut into them, etc... So, trading on the markets ground to a crawl! (Rerouting through Europe was too much traffic for the lines to bear..). But it did get fixed pretty fast, as a lot of money was riding on it, that I do recall. Basically, anything can happen, but when some technology becomes so important, there's usually a wake-up call, and then a more robust system is installed, extra cables laid, etc.. Once, not too long ago, a squirrel decided to climb onto some switchgear at a substation on the Eastern half of North America, and the power outage that resulted knocked out about half of the US and parts of Eastern Canada.. So, that's what can happen when investment is too heavily put into the big payoff (ie ENRON-esque thinking), and not enough into robust infrastructure.. It takes time to restart the massive infrastructure as well - hydroelectric stations have to power up the other fossil fuel stations just so they can start turbines again, and get it all going.. So, I hope we learned from our mistakes! (but one wonders..:thinking:) Why did you propose this in the first place, David??:rolleyes: :)