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Pete Jones
In: Virginia
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More Hinckley Fun
Per Wiki:
* he arrived in DC by Greyhound Bus on March 29, 1981, one day before the shooting. The reporter says he got a call "each day" at the phone booth near the hotel, but this doesn't comport with Wiki, which says he was only in town for one day.
* his family was in the oil and gas business, presumably in Texas, presumably where the Bushes and Hinckley kids could become friends.
* The American Nazi Party expelled him for his "unstable attitude" in 1979.
* In October 1980, he was arrested at the Nashville Airport with guns and handcuffs while trying to board a flight for New York. Wiki mentions that Jimmy Carter was in Nashville that day. This seems like a detail that is added for its suggestive quality, rather than anything more concrete.
* Hinckley became obsessed with the 1976 film Taxi Driver and while I wouldn't obsess over it, this demonstrates extremely good tastes on Hinckley's part.
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Ishmael
In: Toronto
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| Pete Jones wrote: | | ...Hinckley is very remembered at Highland Park High School |
Barely remembered.
Much like Obama at university. Nobody remembers him there.
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Pete Jones
In: Virginia
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Psychiatry Saves the Day
Wikipedia:
| Similarly, Ernest Prelinger testified that, while Hinckley had an above-average IQ, his results on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory were highly abnormal—specifically, Prelinger said that only one person out of a million with Hinckley's score would not be suffering from serious mental illness. |
High IQ, but seriously "mentally ill."
Mick, how does having a high IQ and also having an ill mind fit into Mind vs Brain? I would prefer that he have an ill brain, but if that were the case, he wouldn't be in the charge of psychiatrists
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Pete Jones
In: Virginia
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| Ishmael wrote: | | Barely remembered. |
That makes much more sense. I was thinking about how the reporter could know he was VERY remembered on the same day or a day later. Also, very remembered is terrible English, and I'm now ashamed of myself.
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Ishmael
In: Toronto
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MK Ultra
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Mick Harper
Site Admin
In: London
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MK Dons is England's most recently formed major football team.
* MK stands for Milton Keynes.
* Maynard Keynes was the architect of the post-war world order.
* Milton Friedman was the architect of the post-post-war world order.
* Dons refers to the Open University which is situated there.
* The Open University was the first and for many years the world's largest source of academic propagandising.
| Much like Obama at university. Nobody remembers him there. |
One can say much the same of his presidency.
| Pete wrote: | | High IQ, but seriously "mentally ill." Mick, how does having a high IQ and also having an ill mind fit into Mind vs Brain? I would prefer that he have an ill brain, but if that were the case, he wouldn't be in the charge of psychiatrists |
This is addressed in the part of the AEL even I am not permitted entry into.
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Mick Harper
Site Admin
In: London
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Browsing through some of my back posts I kept coming across this
Sorry image is unavailable
Photobucket
Protect more of your memories for less |
Why does this happen and can I do anything about it?
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Pete Jones
In: Virginia
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I found some of these errors in the Prime Mover thread. When I hit the Quote button, the image URL is:
hxxp://i774.photobucket[dot]com/albums/yy29/
harrietadamv1/presentsealevel_zps62598000[dot]png
My guess is that this album is either no longer available, or the account is inactive. Harriet Adam?
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Mick Harper
Site Admin
In: London
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Cheers. I will get the mighty AEL engines clanking.
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Mick Harper
Site Admin
In: London
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You Think You're So Clever No 1176
| Mick Harper wrote: | | I have ordered two pairs of trousers and a towelling bathrobe for twenty quid, all in. Took me five minutes. Done and dusted for this year and next. What a wondrous world we live in. |
I was wondering idly what had happened to them when, on going onto Amazon for something else, a message appeared telling me the bathrobe was out of stock and would I order an alternative. When I tried--all the other colours were available--they told me it would cost £14.99, was a fresh order, and there was no mention of the trousers.
Unfortunately I can't remember who I ordered it from so I am totally stymied. Twenny sovs down the khazi prolly.
Fortunately a pair of trousers has sufficiently dried for me to venture out to Tesco for the Saturday shop. You know where you are with Tesco's. Internet shopping? No thanks.
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Mick Harper
Site Admin
In: London
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You Think You're So Clever No 1177
Having completed that cri de coeur I pulled myself and my shopping trolley up the stairs for the weekly shop to find, propped against my door, a parcel consisting of two pairs of trousers and a bathrobe in a colour not specified but better. Tesco, eat thy testicles.
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Mick Harper
Site Admin
In: London
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This friend of mine is 'fashionably overweight'. By that I mean he is like those women Rubens and Gauguin used to draw, ample but alluring. Anyway he was in the market for a new dressing gown and ordered one, sight unseen, from a reputable internet trader.
He had been offered S, M, L, XL and XXL and, being a friend of mine, was a realist and clicked on L. But, being a good friend of mine, he reflected further. "It will probably be made somewhere out east where they have a different idea of size from us." And altered the L to XL.
When the bathrobe arrived--and without even having a bath!--he tried it on. The two halves did not meet, not even nearly, leaving a considerable acreage of tummy in between. So much so, he realised, that even XXL wouldn't have been up to the task.
His plan of action? Being good friends of mine, you guessed correctly:
Vote for Nigel Farage, who will
introduce protectionism, meaning
the revival of the Lancashire textile industry, and
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Wile E. Coyote
In: Arizona
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I think your friend might want to consider Lowry's depictions of Lancashire textile mills, before he casts his L vote for Nige.
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Mick Harper
Site Admin
In: London
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I went off Lowry when I discovered the General Secretary of the Professional Footballers Association had bought one for a million pounds, ostensibly for the pension fund, but was hanging it in his sitting room.
As someone once said, "My Alfie does paintings like that. His teacher wanted to put one up on the wall but I told her, 'over my dead body'. I'll not have people laughing at any son of mine. Yes, ta, I'll have a port and lemon."
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Mick Harper
Site Admin
In: London
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The Waistband Thickens
There was nothing for it but to put the entire package together in order to test it out in a real world situation:
1. I took a bath
2. I leapt out of the bath
3. I put on my new XL towelling bathrobe
4. It was a revelation
5. The two sides didn't meet in the middle (not even nearly)
6. But I was soon dry and warm as toast
7. I put on one of my new XL trousers
8. It was too large (but only just)
9. Meaning XL dressing gowns have a waist size dramatically different from XL trousers
10. Meaning I'm not even XL (just big-boned).
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