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re: "pack of cards"

F — 3/1/2004 4:55:53 PM (archived)

In case the allusion escaped you:

`Who cares for you?' said Alice, (she had grown to her full size by this time.) `You're nothing but a pack of cards!'*

[* - the full text, with all the Tenniel illos, can be found here, via Project Gutenberg]

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• More info on Saddam than I knew, by far. - Bowser - 2/27/2004 4:58:44 PM
  • Don't you suppose - FrankC - 2/29/2004 1:16:48 AM
    • Why did they fly past the Kennedy/LBJ years? - REB - 3/1/2004 12:55:53 PM
      • "Hey, Hey, LBJ... - Mary Anne - 3/1/2004 1:46:57 PM
        • Tell Kerry, who calls it "Nixon's War." (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 3/1/2004 7:50:01 PM
        • re: "Hey, Hey, LBJ... - REB - 3/1/2004 2:58:17 PM
          • Lordy, what a misreading of history - Odin - 3/1/2004 9:10:47 PM
            • Read it how you want, but the world was still getting Redder in the 1960's - REB - 3/1/2004 9:23:21 PM
              • You seem to be missing my point . . . - Odin - 3/2/2004 8:33:22 AM
  • Well, everyday is a new day for the average bowwow - ebnelson - 2/28/2004 10:11:17 AM
  • 11 HOURS, ONE CONSERVATIVE SAID HE WOULDN'T WATCH IT, another lied, another said without documentation it's all lies. And that's it. - Bowser - 2/28/2004 4:01:47 AM
    • Since you are simply accepting a lie as big as the lies about ufs, what do you want? (n/t) - ebnelson - 2/28/2004 7:16:15 PM
    • So why don't you support GWB? - Lee - 2/28/2004 6:52:31 AM
      • That's not a bad question. - Bowser - 2/29/2004 4:18:02 AM
        • re: That's not a bad question. - gbaikie - 2/29/2004 11:40:46 AM
          • raising my hand - McFly - 3/1/2004 4:32:20 PM
            • re: raising my hand - gbaikie - 3/1/2004 9:21:52 PM
              • re: raising my hand - McFly - 3/1/2004 11:16:25 PM
                • re: raising my hand - gbaikie - 3/2/2004 7:03:53 AM
                  • re: raising my hand - gbaikie - 3/2/2004 9:42:06 PM
                    • A case of the pot calling the kettle 'dope'. - Davin L. - 3/3/2004 4:45:02 PM
                    • "Taking a few classes in Political Science and/or classes involving critical thinking might be helpful." - Mary Anne - 3/3/2004 1:50:54 PM
                      • As the sovereignty of the one-liners, - gbaikie - 3/3/2004 6:45:56 PM
                    • I think it apt - Tony - 3/3/2004 5:02:41 AM
                      • re: I think it apt - gbaikie - 3/3/2004 7:46:16 AM
                    • Promoted from stupid to ignorant...oh, the family's gonna be so proud!! Is there a pay raise involved? :-) (n/t) - McFly - 3/2/2004 9:56:52 PM
          • re: That's not a bad question. - gbaikie - 2/29/2004 2:49:00 PM
          • G'morning, little fella. Life treatin' you OK? (n/t) - Bowser - 2/29/2004 1:40:44 PM
    • Don't take it too hard. A good number of people here never actually check out my links, either. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 2/28/2004 4:25:27 AM
      • Thank-you everyone for keeping me thinking - jms - 2/29/2004 7:23:06 PM
      • It would be great if that were the issue. - Bowser - 2/28/2004 4:41:55 AM
        • Look, I'm beginning to see the problem... - Tom Brosz - 2/28/2004 6:20:18 AM
          • You said before that you anticipated taking a break when politics started getting to you. - Mary Anne - 2/29/2004 3:53:27 AM
            • taking a break - Tom Brosz - 2/29/2004 8:49:46 AM
              • I DID TOO!!! - Mary Anne - 2/29/2004 3:33:22 PM
                • "not just when it's convenient......." - Lindy - 3/1/2004 5:43:40 AM
                • Laws - Tom Brosz - 2/29/2004 6:17:29 PM
                  • How about that? - Mary Anne - 2/29/2004 8:29:16 PM
                    • re: How about that? - SDAI-Tech1 - 2/29/2004 11:00:30 PM
                    • Nicely said. Let us continue to evolve to changing enviroments. (n/t) - jms - 2/29/2004 9:00:26 PM
            • re: You said before that you anticipated taking a break when politics started getting to you. - gbaikie - 2/29/2004 7:15:56 AM
              • PS: For an example of delusion, follow the bouncing 8-ball - Mary Anne - 2/29/2004 5:30:13 PM
                • re: PS: For an example of delusion, follow the bouncing 8-ball - gbaikie - 3/1/2004 9:07:31 AM
                • Verisimilar statements versus delusion and a bit on victimization. - SDAI-Tech1 - 2/29/2004 10:31:48 PM
                  • "verisimilar" ? - Fox - 3/1/2004 5:24:50 AM
                    • re: "verisimilar" ? - SDAI-Tech1 - 3/1/2004 7:54:03 AM
                      • re: "pack of cards" - F - 3/1/2004 4:55:53 PM
                      • Socrates? You? Try Euthyphro! - Davin L. - 3/1/2004 3:58:50 PM
                        • Actually, I just wanted to prove the regenerative principle of feedback. - SDAI-Tech1 - 3/1/2004 11:23:56 PM
                          • You just wanted to impsembob your feelikermabob? - Davin L. - 3/3/2004 4:35:13 AM
                        • re: Socrates? You? Try Euthyphro! - Davin L. - 3/1/2004 4:04:20 PM
                      • LOLOLOLOL! "Socrates"?? - Mary Anne - 3/1/2004 1:34:32 PM
                        • Always glad to see I still can amuse - SDAI-Tech1 - 3/1/2004 10:35:35 PM
                          • I think I'll weigh in here - Lindy - 3/2/2004 5:59:54 AM
                            • Mirror mirror in the post... - Ebenezer-SADI - 3/3/2004 1:04:13 PM
                              • Againm- Irony escapes you little techie - Davin L. - 3/3/2004 4:00:58 PM
                              • "I know you are but what am I?" - Mary Anne - 3/3/2004 1:55:20 PM
                                • Thanks for the thoughtful reply... - SDAI-Tech1 - 3/3/2004 2:09:45 PM
                                  • re: Thanks for the thoughtful reply... - Odin - 3/4/2004 12:45:09 AM
                                    • These many eons I have awaited...a question!* - SDAI-Tech1 - 3/4/2004 3:08:49 AM
                  • "But I am supposedly deluded for thinking in such terms?" Yes. - Mary Anne - 3/1/2004 12:20:06 AM
              • Thank you for calling me "deluded" - Mary Anne - 2/29/2004 3:36:37 PM
          • Welcome to a real, frustrating, world. - Bowser - 2/29/2004 2:28:04 AM
          • Ayn Rand also said . . . - Odin - 2/28/2004 10:56:28 PM
          • re: Look, I'm beginning to see the problem... - Justin Kelly - 2/28/2004 1:10:30 PM
            • Book - Tom Brosz - 2/28/2004 7:23:09 PM
              • Book - Bowser - 2/28/2004 10:29:28 PM
          • The silent majority read your posts and agree with you, Mr Brosz. Please consider doing your own blog. (n/t) - You are wasted here. - 2/28/2004 9:30:03 AM
            • The silent majority read Bowser's posts and agree they are a waste. (n/t) - ebnelson - 2/28/2004 7:05:28 PM
              • re: LOL pas du tout! LOL - Raoul - 2/28/2004 8:49:14 PM
              • Absolute shame! - Bowser - 2/28/2004 7:22:31 PM
          • For what it's worth... - SDAI-Tech1 - 2/28/2004 7:19:00 AM
  • I don't doubt it. - SDAI-Tech1 - 2/28/2004 3:22:31 AM
  • In one frame they said he supported terrorists, then in another they said he didn't. Very interesting. (n/t) - Lee - 2/27/2004 7:23:22 PM
    • BTW it is telling that your best response was to lie about what the page said... - R.L. - 2/27/2004 9:16:30 PM
    • There you go again... - R.L. - 2/27/2004 7:49:16 PM
      • And Haiti doesn't have any ties to Saddam or terrorists, so we shouldn't go in there either. (n/t) - Lee - 2/28/2004 6:34:57 AM
        • WOW Lee does it again... - R.L. - 2/28/2004 7:27:50 AM
          • It seems to work for Democrats, so I thought I'd try it. - Lee - 2/29/2004 12:35:49 AM
            • see ya on flame - R.L. - 3/2/2004 6:39:26 PM
          • re: WOW Lee does it again... - gbaikie - 2/28/2004 9:42:45 AM
  • Apparently a flash animation... - Tom Brosz - 2/27/2004 7:06:20 PM
    • re: Apparently a flash animation... - gbaikie - 2/28/2004 4:28:49 AM
      • One more bit of documentation... - Tom Brosz - 2/28/2004 6:23:31 AM
    • "There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to i… - Bowser - 2/27/2004 8:07:13 PM
      • A shorter version might be "don't believe your own propaganda," by which you dismiss everything that you disagree with. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 2/27/2004 8:15:10 PM
    • "Am I right?" Only if every last phrase of it is a lie. - Mary Anne - 2/27/2004 7:48:15 PM
  • The last text in that peice sent a very uncomfortable chill up my spine... (n/t) - McFly - 2/27/2004 5:24:07 PM