posted 05-19-2003 11:46 AM            

btw...I'd have to agree with chem-cap....

posted 05-19-2003 11:49 AM            

I think seeker is right, it's basically the 'G' way to say 'moron'. You have to say it in a really funny voice, it's not a serious thing to say.

But if you wan't to get into details, basically 'Maroon', the lost definition, fits well.

posted 05-19-2003 01:12 PM               

Ga-zoooooooooon-tite

Luku

posted 05-20-2003 03:48 AM            

quote:

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Originally posted by shatoga:
'Think for yourself' is my best advice, to anyone.

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More lyrics as arguments (something for The Seeker):

Higher Ground
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Stevie Wonder

People keep on learnin'
Soldiers keep on warrin'
World keep on turnin'
Cause it won't be too long

Powers keep on lyin'
While your people keep on dyin'
World keep on turnin'
Cause it won't be too long

I'm so darn glad he let me try it again
Cause my last time on earth I lived a whole world of sin
I'm so glad that I know more than I knew then
Gonna keep on tryin'
Till I reach the highest ground

Teachers keep on teachin'
Preachers keep on preachin'
World keep on turnin'
Cause it won't be too long
Oh no

Lovers keep on lovin'
Believers keep on believin'
Sleepers just stop sleepin'
Cause it won't be too long
Oh no

I'm so glad that he let me try it again
Cause my last time on earth I lived a whole world of sin
I'm so glad that I know more than I knew then
Gonna keep on tryin'
Till I reach my highest ground...Whew!
Till I reach my highest ground
No one's gonna bring me down
Oh no
Till I reach my highest ground
Don't you let nobody bring you down (they'll sho 'nuff try)
God is gonna show you higher ground
He's the only friend you have around

posted 05-20-2003 04:49 AM            

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Originally posted by Fastwalker:
You had to edit twice just to say that, HB?

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I just love playing around ...

and boy, can't you hear that funky music now?

posted 05-20-2003 05:15 AM            

quote:

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Originally posted by ChemCaptain:
[B]Well, I don't know if it's the exact definition (the slang isn't even in dictionarys).. But you've never heard someone called a maroon?

I think seeker is right, it's basically the 'G' way to say 'moron'. You have to say it in a really funny voice, it's not a serious thing to say.

But if you wan't to get into details, basically 'Maroon', the lost definition, fits well.

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Chemmie is using Warner Brothers cartoon definitions:

"What a dolt! What a maroon!" -Bugs Bunny
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posted 05-20-2003 08:16 AM            

quote:

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Originally posted by Fastwalker:
Ain't no funk to be heard!

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posted 05-21-2003 03:41 AM            

quote:

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Originally posted by Fastwalker:
Dat not de funk, dat Edward Scissorhands!

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Disclaimer: Depp maybe!

and what if these chemtrails were being laid by E.T.?

posted 05-21-2003 04:48 AM            

quote:

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and what if these chemtrails were being laid by E.T.?

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posted 05-21-2003 07:47 PM            

Singing frog* among them.
*Warner Bros

My child matters to me.

when she met Senators Harris Wofford, Arlen Spector, Rick Santorum and President Bill Clinton...
What I was teaching is that everyone is special.
Every American is able to reach the heights.

Be a senator someday child; or be a President.

posted 05-21-2003 09:17 PM            

quote:

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Be a senator someday child; or be a President.

You can do it if they could!
Clinton made that seem even more possible.

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Clinton made it seem possible because he WAS (and still is) an irresponsible child, an evil one at that, who threw tantrums by blowing up aspirin factories and Chinese embassies, or having people who were in a position to black mail him end up in strange fatal accidents, when he got caught with his hand in the cookie jar.

In fact, I think any school child would have made a much better president than Bill Clinton, the most corrupt and dangerous president the United States has ever known...and they'd have some moral responsibility as well.

posted 05-21-2003 10:58 PM            

Speaker disrupts RC graduation

A New York Times reporter delivers an antiwar speech that offended many.

By CARRIE WATTERS, Rockford Register Star

ROCKFORD — New York Times reporter Chris Hedges was booed off the stage Saturday at Rockford College’s graduation because he gave an antiwar speech.

Two days later, graduates and family members, envisioning a “go out and make your mark” send-off, are still reeling.

Guests wanting to hear the author and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter are equally appalled.

And College President Paul Pribbenow is rethinking the wisdom of such controversial topics at future commencements. This is Pribbenow’s first graduation.

Hedges began his abbreviated 18-minute speech comparing United States’ policy in Iraq to pariahs and a tyranny over the weak. His microphone was unplugged within three minutes.

Voices of protest and the sound of foghorns grew.

Some graduates and audience members turned their backs to the speaker in silent protest. Others rushed up the aisle to vocally protest the remarks, and one student tossed his cap and gown to the stage before leaving.

Mary O’Neill of Capron, who earned a degree in elementary education, sat in her black cap and gown listening. She was stunned.

She turned to Pribbenow and asked him why he was letting the speech continue. He said it was freedom of speech. Pribbenow later said when people stop listening to ideas, even controversial ones, it is the death of institutions like 157-year-old Rockford College.

In tears, O’Neill left the ceremony.

Her husband, Kevin, sat in the audience with their daughter and was as indignant as his wife.

“This is a ceremony. ... The day belongs to the students. It doesn’t belong to a political view,” he said.

Hedges, a war correspondent, criticized military heroic ideals that grow during war. The fervor sacrifices individual thought for temporarily belonging to something larger, he said.

Hedges sympathized with U.S. soldiers. He characterized them as boys from places such as Mississippi and Arkansas who joined the military because there were no job opportunities.

“War in the end is always about betrayal. Betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians and idealists by cynics,” Hedges said in lecture fashion as jeers and “God Bless Americas” could be heard in the background.

After his microphone was again unplugged, Pribbenow told Hedges to wrap it up.

Elinor Radlund of Rockford read Hedges’ book on war and was horrified at what she said was the audience’s rude behavior. She was indignant she couldn’t hear the speaker.

“They were not behaving as people in an academic setting, where you’re supposed to be open to a great many ideas,” Radlund said.

Pribbenow said Rockford College takes no political stance, but the job is to challenge students. He reminded audience members of the liberal arts college’s commitment to listening to other viewpoints.

It didn’t happen.

Spontaneous reaction led 66-year-old Gerald Kehoe of rural Boone County down the aisle in his first time to protest anything. He was hurt to hear a verbal attack on the country. He attended Saturday’s commencement to watch his daughter graduate, the fourth from Rockford College.

Rockford College political science professor Bob Evans said it’s a reminder of the “raw edges of emotion” on the issue.

A student who rushed the stage could face reprimand although he still received his diploma.

“It’s important to go on the record that it’s inappropriate behavior,” Pribbenow said.