Category: Randomness

Joe really oughta keep these to himself, but he what the hay…

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Would Buddha Drive a Porsche?

I recently bought a little sports car for all the materialistic, mid-life crisis reasons guys my age buy little sports cars.   I used the typical rationalizations to justify my purchase.   It gets better gas mileage;  it has less impact on the environment, etc.  

I knew it would be fun to drive, but what I have discovered that it is very much a “now” experience.   When I’m driving this car, shifting through 6 gears, I am in the moment, and I stay in the moment.   It does not seem to matter if I am on the interstate, a back road, or a city street.   I look forward to driving to work each morning.

An old Buddhist saying is, “When you are chopping wood, chop wood.”   When I am driving this car, I am driving this car.   All of which made me wonder, “Would Buddha  drive a Porsche?”

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Chinese factory suicide a good thing?

I’m still trying to get my mind around this.   Mattel has had to recall a million or so toys because of lead paint.   I heard on the radio that the plant manager from the Chinese factory responsible for putting the lead paint on the toys committed suicide.

A gentleman in the business segment of the morning NPR news show was commenting on the suicide story.   He said it was fairly common in Japan and Korea for business executives to commit suicide, but not very common in China.   He felt that this was possibly a good thing.   It might mean the Chinese were caring more about the quality and the safety of their products, and possibly a little less about the bottom line  at the expense of everything else.

This is about the time my head starting spinning, or maybe that was from getting out of bed too fast.  Continue reading “Chinese factory suicide a good thing?”

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Not in the da South, no more

I was telling a coworker my retirement plan was a double wide in Arkansas.   I noticed him looking at me funny.  He did not know what a a double wide was.    Being the Southern Gentleman that I am, I explained to him it was an extra wide mobile home.

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Disney Orgy

Orignally in The Realist in 1967 as black and white.  It was so successful they made a colorized version and sold it as a poster.

Paul Krassner passed away in 2019 and his website is no longer active.  SO I have not found anywhere to buy this poster except for big bucks on various sites like eBay. Oh well.

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Penis Sizes Of World Religious Figures

From Thought Catalog by Jim Goadaa95

Penis Sizes Of World Religious Figures

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How do you…

I did not want to re-post this on Facebook, so here it is.  Click on picture to see it bigger.

yup

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Voltaire on Opera

For my friend Vincenzo, an opera lovervoltaire

“This noise,” said the Senator, “may amuse one for half an hour; but if it were to last longer it would grow tiresome to everybody, though they durst not own it. Music, to-day, is only the art of executing difficult things, and that which is only difficult cannot please long. Perhaps I should be fonder of the opera if they had not found the secret of making of it a monster which shocks me. Let who will go to see bad tragedies set to music, where the scenes are contrived for no other end than to introduce two or three songs ridiculously out of place, to show off an actress’s voice. Let who will, or who can, die away with pleasure at the sight of an eunuch quavering the rôle of Cæsar, or of Cato, and strutting awkwardly upon the stage. For my part I have long since renounced those paltry entertainments which constitute the glory of modern Italy, and are purchased so dearly by sovereigns.”  ~~ Senator Pococurante in Candide, Chapter XXV by Voltaire

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Rev. Joe’s Random Thought # 1,072

yeah I know you did not ask!

Raise your hand if this applies to you.

You know you are old when you read this statement:  “The project became a federal priority around the turn of the century…”  and you think 1900.

See me raising my hand.