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step back on August 7, 2007 - 11:58am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

It sounds good and that's all that matters to a politician looking for votes.

Exactly.

Our scientists at the Lemming Institute for Grocking Human Thought (The LIGHT) have discovered that the human species responds best to "sound" logic.

They hold little hope for rational thought taking over.

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ET on August 7, 2007 - 3:20pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Our scientists at the Lemming Institute for Grocking Human Thought (The LIGHT) have discovered that the human species responds best to "sound" logic.

[humorous-pedantry] I believe the term is 'Grokking' [/humorous-pedantry]

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step back on August 7, 2007 - 3:39pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Given that we are strange eggs in the cusp, and often unstuck in time, it is hard to know what spelling to apply to this cognitive activity. Suffice it to say that cognitive appreciation of what goes on in the human mind is illusive if not downright impossible.

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greenish on August 7, 2007 - 7:27pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Strange eggs in the cusp, often unstuck in time. My favorite post of the day, thanks.

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step back on August 7, 2007 - 9:26pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

OK. Not fair to have book worm jokes embedded on a public bog. We're speaking in the language of the Stranger in a Strange Land. A classic if you have not read and grokked it.

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greenish on August 7, 2007 - 10:32pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

D'oh! Read it when it was first written, didn't recognize it here and admired the alien quality of thought. (And I would have put down "unstuck in time" to Billy Pilgrim and the Tralfamadorians). (Which, as Dave Barry might note, would be a great name for a rock band).

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step back on August 8, 2007 - 9:49am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Yes, you are right. The "unstuck in time" phrase should have been attributed to Slaughterhouse Five. Sorry.

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musashi on August 7, 2007 - 6:30pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Grokking Kool Aid.

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