_Morpheus_ 
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Randumb-
Speed dial through the heuristics then go with the Gut Whisperer.
Accept.....no .....prize certain inalienable truths
Get after it each day but also giggle have a blast
Never post stuff like this after partying all day.....
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Reply #21. Jul 04 10, 5:56 PM
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jolana
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Back to your remarks about the kilts. Earliear this year I was in Scotland and I saw only one man in a kilt. He was German.
Reply #23. Jul 04 10, 7:14 PM
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_Morpheus_
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I guess if I was born in Scotland, I'd have no problem wearing a kilt. I didn't mean to insinuate that it is less than manly to wear a kilt, I just meant that I didn't particularly like my "look" in the kilt.
I hope, I believe, that more than one kilt was worn all the time you were in Scotland. If that were the case, I'd haul mine back out and wear it....just for grins. |
Reply #24. Jul 05 10, 7:49 AM
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Qmel
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Jolana, did you chekc to see what the German was wearing under his kilt?
Reply #25. Jul 06 10, 7:59 PM
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tezza1551
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A Scottish neighbour advises me that nothing is worn under his kilt.. it is all in perfect working order.
(Groan)
Reply #26. Jul 06 10, 9:39 PM
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_Morpheus_
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"Jolana, did you chekc to see what the German was wearing under his kilt?"
Shoes and socks ;-)
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Reply #27. Jul 07 10, 10:27 AM
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_Morpheus_
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"A Scottish neighbour advises me that nothing is worn under his kilt.. it is all in perfect working order.
(Groan)"
I bet y'all didn't know that it's called a kilt because a lot of people were "kilt" for calling it a skirt ;-D |
Reply #28. Jul 07 10, 10:29 AM
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_Morpheus_
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Believe it or not!
In 1999, Wang Fengyou founded the Yilishen Tianxi Group and hatched a scheme so crazy it's brilliant: ant farming. He convinced poor farmers to give him 10,000 yuan (about $1,500). In return, they got a box of "special ants" and a list of very strict instructions: spritz the ants with a sugar and honey solution at 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. every day, and feed them cake and egg yolk every three to five days. Under no circumstances were they to open the box. Every 74 days, workers from Yilishen would come by and pick up the ants to be ground up and made into an aphrodisiac. For their troubles, the farmers get 13,250 yuan, a 32.5% premium every 14 months.
By 2006, Wang was a very rich man. His company was featured in newspapers and on TV. He hired celebrities to publicize his company and hobnobbed with government officials. He even got the "China's Top 10 Entrepreneurial Leaders" award from the government. His ant aphrodisiacs were sold in some 80,000 pharmacies across China and by some accounts, over 1 million people bred ants for Yilishen, giving the company an annual turnover of 15 billion yuan (US$2 billion).
In October 2007, Wang's scheme collapsed. The company started to miss payouts and thousands of ant farmers descended on his company's headquarter and government offices. A month later, Wang Fengyou was arrested.
Unlike other Ponzi scheme con artists who got off after only a few years in jail, Wang's fate doesn't look good. In the same year Wang's scheme collapsed, the Chinese government started cracking down on 3,747 pyramid schemes. Wang's rival, who conned people with a similar ant-breeding scheme, was sentenced to death.
Oh, and did his aphrodisiac ants really work? Actually yes, but not because of the ants. His products contained sildenafil, the active ingredient in Viagra.
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Reply #29. Jul 08 10, 2:39 PM
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Jazmee27
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Don't know if I believe any of it... but it makes me laugh!
Reply #30. Jul 12 10, 1:38 PM
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_Morpheus_
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| It's the whole toof and nuttin' but the toof. |
Reply #31. Jul 12 10, 2:43 PM
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wsm22
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Do you like Pilchards?
Reply #32. Jul 15 10, 4:36 PM
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_Morpheus_
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| Yes, y'all seem like good people! It's kind of refreshing after having to deal with that Llama bunch. JK! Llama's are good "people" too ;-) |
Reply #33. Jul 17 10, 9:03 AM
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Jabberwok
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RJ, you missed your last punctuation lesson.
Report to detention ASAP to rediscover the correct use of the apostrophe. I will be bringing my rolled up newspaper.
Reply #34. Jul 17 10, 9:58 AM
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_Morpheus_
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Your rite a course Jabberwok. I hope use know that you’re jaws that bite, and claws that scratch have nearly ruint my self asteem.
Someday y’all a git your comeuppance I expect. That day you’ll here the snicker-snack and I don’t mean no candy bar break ;-D
I’m too busy splitting infinitives to mess with your dang apostrophe catastrophe rite now... ;-)
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Reply #35. Jul 17 10, 1:09 PM
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Jabberwok
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'I hope use know that you’re jaws that bite, and claws that scratch have nearly ruint my self asteem.'
I thought they made them tough in Texas? You thought I was attacking you?
Come to my arms, my Beamish Boy and let's try again. I'll be careful. :D
Oops.
Reply #36. Jul 17 10, 2:09 PM
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_Morpheus_
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| Oh..OK? Now I'm really curious about how about the newspaper. ;-D |
Reply #37. Jul 17 10, 3:54 PM
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Jabberwok
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You'll have to ask 2K about that. :)
I think it's something that Lancastrians use to train pups and children who step out of line.
Reply #38. Jul 17 10, 4:22 PM
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cyberhen
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You are correct Jabberwok, being a Lancastrian I know all bout rolled up newspapers.
They are probably quite good for squashing pilchards as well.
Reply #39. Jul 18 10, 12:25 PM
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cyberhen
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On the subject of kilts - my dad used to wear a kilt for Scottish country dancing. He looked very handsome dressed in it complete with his sporran and his Sgian Dubh tucked into the top of his sock.
Reply #40. Jul 18 10, 12:28 PM
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