[PregNut]

Sounds like someone lost a bet to me, cc.

[notty]

That is passing strange, in the local parlance.  Sounds to me like he lost a bet.  Boys like to make stupid bets.

"I'm so cold my dick looks like a short stack of buttons." -Dell

[BillN]

That's why we don't want Canada.  Too damn cold!  

[TheZookie007]

The only good thing about the cold is that it gives you a chance to get warm, that's about it

[AZWolf]

If it was just about financial matters, we'd send our reserves into Mexico and take it over and spend less than we spend dealing with their drug imports and illegals in a single year, plus we'd have greater oil imports.  Nuke and pave I say, but most folks here think since they come here to work, they can do anything they want without prosecution.  

[collared_cherri]

Alice from Dilbert reminds me of notty.  

http://dilbert.com/fast/2008-10-20/

[Zealot]

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MasterDragonfly said:

As for where the USA will be 20 years from now in terms of territory?  I'm leaning more in the direction of the scenario put forth in Snow Crash.  

I've heard of that novel;what does it depict?Is it worth reading?
I've also heard of a mini-series shown in Canada about a politician who's in favor of the countries' merger.It's called "H2O" or something along those lines.

[MasterDragonfly]

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Zealot said:
I've heard of that novel;what does it depict?Is it worth reading?

From the page on Amazon.com:

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Amazon.com Review
From the opening line of his breakthrough cyberpunk novel Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson plunges the reader into a not-too-distant future. It is a world where the Mafia controls pizza delivery, the United States exists as a patchwork of corporate-franchise city-states, and the Internet--incarnate as the Metaverse--looks something like last year's hype would lead you to believe it should. Enter Hiro Protagonist--hacker, samurai swordsman, and pizza-delivery driver. When his best friend fries his brain on a new designer drug called Snow Crash and his beautiful, brainy ex-girlfriend asks for his help, what's a guy with a name like that to do? He rushes to the rescue. A breakneck-paced 21st-century novel, Snow Crash interweaves everything from Sumerian myth to visions of a postmodern civilization on the brink of collapse. Faster than the speed of television and a whole lot more fun, Snow Crash is the portrayal of a future that is bizarre enough to be plausible. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Publishers Weekly
In California of the near future, when the U.S. is only a "Burbclave" (city-state), the Mafia is just another franchise chain (CosaNostrastet Pizza, Incorporated) and there are no laws to speak of, Hiro Protagonist follows clues from the Bible, ancient Sumer and high technology to help thwart an attempt to take control of civilization--such as it is. When he logs on to Metaverse, an imaginary place entered via computer, Hiro encounters Juanita Marquez, a "radical" Catholic and computer whiz. She warns him off Snow Crash (a street drug named for computer failure) and gives him a file labeled Babel (as in Tower of Babel). Another friend, sp ok/pk Da5id, who ignores Juanita's warning, computer crashes out of Metaverse into the real world, where he physically collapses. Hiro, Juanita, Y.T. (a freewheeling, skateboard-riding courier) and sundry other Burbclave and franchise power figures see some action on the way to finding out who is behind this bizarre "drug" with ancient roots. Although Stephenson ( Zodiac ) provides more Sumerian culture than the story strictly needs (alternating intense activity with scholarship breaks), his imaginative juxtaposition of ancient and futuristic detail could make this a cult favorite.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

[notty]

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collared_cherri said:
Alice from Dilbert reminds me of notty.  

http://dilbert.com/fast/2008-10-20/

Oh, I like her!

[notty]

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MasterDragonfly said:
As for where the USA will be 20 years from now in terms of territory?  I'm leaning more in the direction of the scenario put forth in Snow Crash.  

Great book!  Y.T. is my hero, and Uncle Enzo is the shit.

[mofoapoo]

Things that make me go "Hmm..."

Well, at first, this thread.

Next, vaginas.

[AZWolf]

Sometimes, when very close to a vagina, you do something like say "hmm" good things happen.  

[notty]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EQ-cHWBa3c

[Djoser]

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rtpoe said:
 But we did take quite a bit of Mexico as the spoils of war in 1848.

Shhh, no that loud or they would hear you  

[AZWolf]

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Djoser said:

Quote:
rtpoe said:
 But we did take quite a bit of Mexico as the spoils of war in 1848.

Shhh, no that loud or they would hear you  

But the reconquista is here so, no fear of that.