http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blbyol3.htm

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Spock Jenkins of the Vulcan Jenkins'.

Yup! College does constrain creativity after
a while

That's nothing. I'm the guy who teaches people like that all they ever knew.

Except the part about the origami, as paper creatures give me nightmares...

And about the perspiration part. I am a man. All men sweat. Therefore, I sweat.

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If I set the budget, we'd have Ares and more. Unfortunately, I don't set the budget, and Ares is just too expensive and too far out for us to accomplish our goals within the budget we were given.

If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.

Good to be a generalist...

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What brings us together is stronger than what pulls us apart

Ah..to be seventeen again! The World is full
of possibilities and things to be done for the
good of all. As it is just managed to keep my
head above water since.

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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.

Hey!

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In your rush to call everyone "entrenched" or closed-minded or "limited" you fail to note that the "limit" here has a very natural boundary: that point at which the evidence stops. - JayUtah

Science fiction was never meant to be an educational tool. - Editor Amazing Tales

I know a few people like that!

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You can please some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time. But you can not please all of the people all of the time.

"Why change passwords when you've got a baseball bat?"

It ain't bragging if you've done it.

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If I set the budget, we'd have Ares and more. Unfortunately, I don't set the budget, and Ares is just too expensive and too far out for us to accomplish our goals within the budget we were given.

If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.

I certainly appreciate everyones good humor on this. I was debating posting it or not. I thought it was funny and complimentary of some amazing life experiences I've read about on this forum. But I could see it being taken another way as well.

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Spock Jenkins of the Vulcan Jenkins'.

You mean we were being nice?

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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.

Shhh...

Beats getting banned.

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Spock Jenkins of the Vulcan Jenkins'.

wow, what a nice poem, really a great composition.

The 'Bragging Song' goes way back (and forward. In 'Protector' Larry Niven added verses from the future:

I was born about ten thousand years from now
When men first land on the moon I'll show them how...

I'm the only tar who's e'er jumped ship
From Vandervecken's crew
And I guess that's just about
The strangest thing a man can do)

(edit)

Like many such songs there are alternate verses lying about. Much like Tom O' Bedlam.

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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.

I was gonna sak if Mikes lines were newly
minted or from a reserve or borrowed.
With creditation to come some overcast day
Difficult to follow.

And another question I have never thought of
before, was Billy Liar a ripoff of
Walter Mitty?

Oops. Somehow I erased the link before posting, or forgot to ctrl-v. Good catch on that. Versions of The Bragging Song:
http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/so...gingsong.shtml

And here's a link to one of the variants of Tom O' Bedlam, while I'm at it:

http://home.blarg.net/~efreeman/Basement/TOB.html

SF writers seem drawn to this song. Bob Silverberg wrote a novel titled 'Tom O' Bedlam'; one of Poul Anderson's Flandry novels was titled 'A knight of Ghosts and Shadows'; and Alfred Bester used it to good effect in 'The Stars My Destination'.

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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.

I had to take it humorously as I, believe it or not, have been known to "expand" on the details of certain tales I relate on the internet.

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In your rush to call everyone "entrenched" or closed-minded or "limited" you fail to note that the "limit" here has a very natural boundary: that point at which the evidence stops. - JayUtah

Science fiction was never meant to be an educational tool. - Editor Amazing Tales

Incidentally, which certain people?

A couple have posted in this thread. Mugaliens and Big Don have some very interesting stories. Outside this thread - I think Jay Utah operates in a world with a 36 hour day and an eight day week.

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Spock Jenkins of the Vulcan Jenkins'.

Jay is an automatomaton. BigDon doesn't embellish - he allows the full color of his tales to be revealed unhindered. Also I'm a swell guy.

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---"Why do things have to suck so bad?" a friend once asked me.
"Because space is a vacuum and that's a lot of suck." I replied.
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Yea, but you got those tat's so I can't talk to you.

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Spock Jenkins of the Vulcan Jenkins'.

And a supply of spare keyboards

Ha two tats one of which is rarely seen. Though honestly I post it on a few sites. And I can talk to myself allllllll day so there. And the ONE Amiga keyboard I have has to last a while as they are rarer than environmental policy.

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---"Why do things have to suck so bad?" a friend once asked me.
"Because space is a vacuum and that's a lot of suck." I replied.
(Actual quote)---

He is a mechanism that is a copy of a
mechanism? WOW! (now dont you dare edit)

Quite intentional and I think it was Homer of "before the Simpsons jumped the shark" time-frame that said it that way.

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---"Why do things have to suck so bad?" a friend once asked me.
"Because space is a vacuum and that's a lot of suck." I replied.
(Actual quote)---

It was this line that put me in mind of Mr. Utah:

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Spock Jenkins of the Vulcan Jenkins'.

I don't recall that line, and I'm a rabid season 1 through 13 fan. But I can't pretend to have every line from every episode memorised...just most of 'em.

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.
"In order to increase awareness of the homeless, security have been given binoculars."

Eerily reminiscent of Jimmy Webb's "Highwayman":

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TATTOOS?

Why only the most depraved of individuals will graffiti-ize themselves like that in violation of the natural order. No right thinking blank man would voluntarily offer himself up to be scribbled on like a pre-school coloringbook.

And women! Don't get me started! Women are already the right color! Anything more is vandalism!

That's why you have to get the really cool ones.

Professional is better. Get the most expensive you can afford or are willing to spend. Getting cheap here can be a life-long mistake.

Think of it like getting cosmetic surgury.

That means don't let your cousin "Spike" tattoo you in a pool hall after a brew and a shooter. Needing reservations is a very good sign. If you don't breathe alcohol fumes all over them, the tattoo artists will like you better. If they like you better, they will do a better job. Same applies to B.O., patchoulli, and inane blathering. I'm given to understand taking a valium some 20 minutes prior to the actual work helps. For those of you with a prescription for valium. You very much want to be sober when you pick your tattoo out.

I just need one more. Mmmmm, maybe two. And some re-work. The paint and trim need touch up.

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In your rush to call everyone "entrenched" or closed-minded or "limited" you fail to note that the "limit" here has a very natural boundary: that point at which the evidence stops. - JayUtah

Science fiction was never meant to be an educational tool. - Editor Amazing Tales