Jolt Country

Wasn't he some virulent conserv-o-blogger?

Scale of life wrote:When Andrew Brietbart died, apparently of natural causes at only 43, it makes me wonder if Tdarcos' swanson dinners are some kind of human preservative. This guy, although fat, wasn't even as fat as the commander yet he's dead and tdarcos is still rolling around. What gives?

I keep thinking maybe it's something like what happened to Tom Hanks' character in The Green Mile, where he's being forced to live on and on, watching as every person he cares about or loves, dies, while he continues, as punishment for performing the execution of a man on death row whom he knew to be both innocent and a messenger of God.

I happen to be an atheist - I used to be an agnostic - or maybe I don't know either way - but I've been mad at God for some time for the things he's intentionally done to me. If God is supposed to be an entity of love, he's done his damndest to smash me over and over again. Otherwise it's the random cruelty of a causeless and purposeless universe.
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If there was one thing that bothered The guy more than anything else, it was religion. Especially monotheistic religion; believing there is one entity having a controlling power over everything. Yes, he had to admit that at one time he fell for it and believed in God, but he was a child then, and believed what his parents told him. People invent God in their own image, he thought, because the cold idea that when they died, the reality that they ceased to exist, terrified them. As he considered it, he realized that some entity that creates the entire universe and everything in it, is going to have the time or interest in the actions of each specific individual is so ridiculous as to be laughable.
- Paul Robinson's The Takeover Man

To be mad at God you would have to believe in him, no?

Tdarcos wrote:- Paul Robinson's The Takeover Man

Is the Takeover Man a NEW Tdarcos novel?!

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:

Tdarcos wrote:- Paul Robinson's The Takeover Man

Is the Takeover Man a NEW Tdarcos novel?!

Absolutely, yes. According to Word Perfect's statistics, it's 92 pages, and 58,000 words. That's why I said I wished I'd gotten the idea back around September, I only started writing it within the last two weeks and far exceeded the requirement for NaNoWriMo's recommendations to get people to write either a book or a short story in one month.

A guy develops a mind-control device and decides to use it to acquire things, specifically money. As the blurb goes, "The Takeover Man. He does hostile takeovers, specializing in mergers and acquisitions. With the occasional liquidation."

The "mergers" are instances where he uses his device to get a woman to have sex with him.

That's...pretty repugnant actually.

Sure, but let's give this a chance to breathe. I mean, with more context we might find it less repugnant. I'm saying there's a chance that could happen, so let's see?

I'll see.

First!!

I can't believe the 3/4 tonne commander outlived Dick motherfucking Clark died at only 82. But at least when Dick died it wasn't ignored for weeks because it was only marginally worse than the normal smell.

That's really cruel, CO. Are you sure you mean such foul words?

The commander is starting to move away from being the fat one-eyed punching bag around here to more of a Punch- and- Cuddle.


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Ben mentioned that Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore, died Sunday - not sure if he meant last Sunday or today - and nobody bothered to file him under the people they can't believe died ahead of me.

MCA dead at only 47. Who knew that the Beastie Boys were almost 50 anyway?

Yeah I heard about that at lunch. Sucky sucky.

One of my favorite MCA lines: "I'm as cool as a cucumber in a bowl of hot sauce."

Tdarcos wrote:Ben mentioned that Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore, died Sunday - not sure if he meant last Sunday or today - and nobody bothered to file him under the people they can't believe died ahead of me.

Jack Tramiel died in 1972 in a traffic accident. Are you sure you've got the same guy?

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:

Tdarcos wrote:Ben mentioned that Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore, died Sunday - not sure if he meant last Sunday or today - and nobody bothered to file him under the people they can't believe died ahead of me.

Jack Tramiel died in 1972 in a traffic accident. Are you sure you've got the same guy?

I mentioned no such thing. What?

Wait -- did you own a Commodore 128? I need to know the answer to that first.

Hair product designer Vidal Sassoon.

TMZ interviewed an actress who was shocked to discover (when they told her) that Vidal Sassoon had died last week. She was shocked, she didn't know. I wasn't shocked even though I didn't know either.

Designer of famous enhancements to various car lines Carroll Shelby.

Back in the 1960s the Caroll Shelby Mustang and other sports and muscle cars were the special cars to get if you wanted the best of the genre.

Donna fucking Summer.