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2007-10-22 Europe

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Posted by Seafarious 2007-10-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Better plant more popcorn next spring.

Posted by wxjames 2007-10-22 07:46|| 2007-10-22 07:46|| Front Page Top

#2 What a maroon, you don't plant popcorn, you seine for it.

Posted by Thomas Woof 2007-10-22 08:24|| 2007-10-22 08:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Popcorn is versatile, Thomas dear. It behaves differently in different environments. Now apologize to wxjames for calling him a name.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-10-22 11:28|| 2007-10-22 11:28|| Front Page Top

#4 What a maroon, you don't plant popcorn, you seine for it.

Huh. Tell that to the vast popcorn ranches of Texas, some covering entire counties, the land yellow with them. Of course, that's only during the winter. You got to get your popcorn to market by April at the latest. Woe betide the popcorn rancher who waits too late, and then wakes one morning to the thunder of his entire herd popping under the cruel Texas sun.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2007-10-22 11:45|| 2007-10-22 11:45|| Front Page Top

#5 the vast popcorn ranches of Texas, some covering entire counties, the land yellow with them...

which of course were the original source for the phrase: "salting the earth"

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-10-22 11:57|| 2007-10-22 11:57|| Front Page Top

#6 When your currency (Euro) is at $1.45 when 5 years ago it was at $.85 you start to get real uppity and thing you're it. Sadly, they will find out the hard way that WE are still IT.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2007-10-22 12:01|| 2007-10-22 12:01|| Front Page Top

#7 Wrong thread, Jack.

Don't be silly, Frank. 'Twas the Romans that salted the earth. The actual phrase is "salt of the earth". And of course, "Butter wouldn't melt in his mouth."

Posted by trailing wife 2007-10-22 12:03|| 2007-10-22 12:03|| Front Page Top

#8 Jack, they will also find it is incredibly hard to compete on the world market with a Euro priced at US$1.45. The news about the Supreme Government of Europe sounds like the beginning of a low budget B movie.

Posted by RWV 2007-10-22 12:04|| 2007-10-22 12:04|| Front Page Top

#9 There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire.

Posted by gromgoru 2007-10-22 12:21|| 2007-10-22 12:21|| Front Page Top

#10 This is a really sad mark for Europe. Not sure how it will evolve,a nd hopefully end, but I'm guessing probably something in the lines of the USSR, the previous supra/post-national, ideological, undemocratic attempt at the old continent. And before, there were hitler, and Napoléon. Great.

Flashback :
Soviet Dissident Warns Ideology-Driven EU Becoming Next Soviet Union

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-10-22 12:32|| 2007-10-22 12:32|| Front Page Top

#11 Please ignore my comment #7. Obviously I was drunk.

(Ok, maybe not that. But definitely having a very stupid moment. I apologize to Jack is Back and Frank G. -- they deserve better.)

Posted by trailing wife 2007-10-22 12:40|| 2007-10-22 12:40|| Front Page Top

#12 Woe betide the popcorn rancher who waits too late, and then wakes one morning to the thunder of his entire herd popping under the cruel Texas sun.

For some reason I'm reminded of Frank Zappa's immortal line:

Raising my lonely dental floss...

Posted by xbalanke 2007-10-22 15:12|| 2007-10-22 15:12|| Front Page Top

#13 Ima sorry WX. Ima moving to Montana now wit my pigmy pony.

Posted by Thomas Woof 2007-10-22 16:38|| 2007-10-22 16:38|| Front Page Top

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