Useless information thread

[SoBad]

Originally Posted by Rock Strongo

I did not! Though I've had a recent obsession with North Korea. Could be why...

Not a surprise – it sounds like a nice place to vacation for a couple of weeks, away from advertisement, naked greed, and annoying people trying to sell things. You just lounge around Ryugyong-Kempinski for hours and days, drinking various drinks and smoking various smokes, meeting interesting people, and taking occasional strolls outside. Now I want to go too…

[Mike Bulgakov]

I had a recent dream where I was going through customs at Charles De Gaulle Airport. I had a passport in my hand, which I gave to the customs agent. At this point, I realized that I was wearing pajamas, had no luggage, wallet, or anything else.

As I was standing in the airport, feeling like an idiot, I realized that I needed shoes. Maria Sharapova grabbed my arm and said, "You don't look prepared." She told me she has a private plane about to leave for L.A., and that they could drop me off in San Francisco.

She pulled out shoes from her bag, gave them to me, and told me the pilots will take me to the plane. They were both huge guys that looked like thugs, and they were very drunk. I started getting very nervous about drunk guys flying me home and woke up.

[Mike Bulgakov]

Originally Posted by SoBad

Not a surprise – it sounds like a nice place to vacation for a couple of weeks, away from advertisement, naked greed, and annoying people trying to sell things. You just lounge around Ryugyong-Kempinski for hours and days, drinking various drinks and smoking various smokes, meeting interesting people, and taking occasional strolls outside. Now I want to go too…

Maybe you can enjoy some martinis with your minders.

[Mike Bulgakov]

Originally Posted by Rock Strongo

Yesterday I dreamt that me and my twin sister ran through a very updated and heavily modernised version of the Pyongyang metro (which included a sporting goods store we ran through) to try and catch a train. Weirdly, we didn't have any government minders to spot our every move. It was all very weird, and what's weirder was that the people in the store were westerners.

China use to make heavy use of minders. Now cities like Beijing have a sophisticated surveillance camera network, and watchers placed all over the city. The people in the store were monitoring you!

Fortunately, the subway map is pretty easy to read.

[Mike Bulgakov]

Originally Posted by Senator Jay Bullworth

Senator Jay Bullworth (the never-indicted, never-requited, trusted pubic servant): "Janet and Jill, we'll finish playing 'pin-the-tail-on-the-honky' later. Meanwhile, er, Jerome?....this one's yours, please run with it my good friend...."

Jerome (the senator's trusted aide-de-camp): "You got it, ya boozin' womanizer!....'"

Marion Barry, was always harried
he scored his blow, via cash & carry
He'd whip out his bills from a big, fat stack
and cop some rock, 'cause the man loved crack!

He ran on the party machine-backed dough
got busted with primo weed 'n good blow
He copped a plea, he then took the fall,
went straight from jail back to City Hall

This past April, he marked the occassion
with: "we got to do something, about these Asians"
He cracked absurd as he lit up his pipe
If 'words were birds' he'd be covered in white

As useless as this, that you are reading
Barry will never get, a ticket for speeding
In the midst of decay and urban strife
he got the ok as DC's "mayor-for-life"

It was good of Senator Bullworth to drop by. Make Nucky Thompson proud!

[SoBad]

Originally Posted by Mike Bulgakov

Maybe you can enjoy some martinis with your minders.

So it’s true that a well-trained highly skilled armed and uniformed security detail is provided by the authorities to visiting dignitaries free of charge? I am going to browse around the schedules and fares on the Air Koryo website right now. I bet those officers know a thing or two about good places to hang out around that chonu/chonsung subway terminal on your map.

[stringertom]

Just saw this story on local news:

A North Carolina man just unearthed his wedding ring he had lost 30+ years ago while gardening! Truly a "neverending band"!

[Mike Bulgakov]

Originally Posted by SoBad

So it’s true that a well-trained highly skilled armed and uniformed security detail is provided by the authorities to visiting dignitaries free of charge? I am going to browse around the schedules and fares on the Air Koryo website right now. I bet those officers know a thing or two about good places to hang out around that chonu/chonsung subway terminal on your map.

A few years ago, a friend was assigned to an embassy in Beijing. He was told to explain to his family that they might come home and find someone at their computer, or going through their things. The proper response was to ignore this person, let them finish the job, and let them leave.

If it were me, I would ask the Chinese government agent if he wanted a beer. I would then ask him what he thought about North Korea.

[Mike Bulgakov]

Originally Posted by stringertom

Just saw this story on local news:

A North Carolina man just unearthed his wedding ring he had lost 30+ years ago while gardening! Truly a "neverending band"!

I recently watched a show where antiques were appraised on an American PBS channel. The show was from England, and there was a segment about people with metal detectors finding jewelry from as long as 1,000+ years ago.

There was one ring from the time of the Anglo Saxon arrival, found in a man's yard. I was surprised at the low appraisal. My thought was that I'd like to have that ring, just to imagine the history behind it.

[SoBad]

Originally Posted by Mike Bulgakov

A few years ago, a friend was assigned to an embassy in Beijing. He was told to explain to his family that they might come home and find someone at their computer, or going through their things. The proper response was to ignore this person, let them finish the job, and let them leave.

If it were me, I would ask the Chinese government agent if he wanted a beer. I would then ask him what he thought about North Korea.

The summer vacation 2013 is shaping up pretty nicely so far. A week in Moscow, a week in Vladivostok, and next thing you know you’re on an Air Koryo plane to Pyongyang and there’s a jeep by the runway full of nice uniformed bilingual people eager to chat and drive you around town. Couple of months in Hokkaido hot springs and you’re ready to wrap it up and go home…

[Roger Wawrinka]

As of right now, I just posted my 383rd post on TW.

[SoBad]

Posts on Odds and Ends don't count in the stats, so you're wrong, you've posted more than that.

[Roger Wawrinka]

Oops!.....

[Mike Bulgakov]

Jim Morrison was arrested as a freshman at Florida State University. He soon transferred to UCLA, where he met Ray Manzarek and received his degree.

[stringertom]

^^^Four years later (soon after hearing "Light My Fire"), I began my "sentence" in Tallahassee, a very big culture shock after living in Europe for 6 years. Thankfully, the town is very more progressive today!

[Mike Bulgakov]

Originally Posted by stringertom

^^^Four years later (soon after hearing "Light My Fire"), I began my "sentence" in Tallahassee, a very big culture shock after living in Europe for 6 years. Thankfully, the town is very more progressive today!

I would have thought attending an American university in the late 1960s would have been very interesting. Someone once told me that Florida State University use to have more female than male students, which would have made things even more interesting.

Maybe the music and 1960s culture didn't make it to Florida. I think Jim Morrison was finally pardoned for the Miami charges a few years ago. I would like to go back in time and see some of the bands of that time.

[TenniseaWilliams]

Six out of seven dwarfs are not Happy.

[stringertom]

Originally Posted by Mike Bulgakov

I would have thought attending an American university in the late 1960s would have been very interesting. Someone once told me that Florida State University use to have more female than male students, which would have made things even more interesting.

Maybe the music and 1960s culture didn't make it to Florida. I think Jim Morrison was finally pardoned for the Miami charges a few years ago. I would like to go back in time and see some of the bands of that time.

I was still in high school when I first arrived but played "hooky" every chance I got over on FSU campus...post-Kent State protests are a prime example. One of Joan Baez' on-stage quips from a FSU appearance sums it up..."This place is surprisingly hip!". We got more liberated as my college days progressed...I worked stage crew for a lot of early 70's acts (Allman Bros., Ike & Tina Turner, Fleetwood Mac b4 Nicks/Buckingham, Doobie Bros. to name a few). And, yeah, there was tons of skirt to chase!

Morrison's mug shot just triggered a lot of regressive memories from that era...while he was "disturbing the peace" in T-town, only a few hundred miles down Highway 90 lies the Mississippi Delta where civil-rights activists were murdered and buried in the muck.

[Mike Bulgakov]

Originally Posted by stringertom

I was still in high school when I first arrived but played "hooky" every chance I got over on FSU campus...post-Kent State protests are a prime example. One of Joan Baez' on-stage quips from a FSU appearance sums it up..."This place is surprisingly hip!". We got more liberated as my college days progressed...I worked stage crew for a lot of early 70's acts (Allman Bros., Ike & Tina Turner, Fleetwood Mac b4 Nicks/Buckingham, Doobie Bros. to name a few). And, yeah, there was tons of skirt to chase!

Morrison's mug shot just triggered a lot of regressive memories from that era...while he was "disturbing the peace" in T-town, only a few hundred miles down Highway 90 lies the Mississippi Delta where civil-rights activists were murdered and buried in the muck.

The 1960s bush era seems like it was more fun than the 2000s Bush era in America. Was the bush era clipped during the Bush era?

[Mike Bulgakov]

Originally Posted by TenniseaWilliams

Six out of seven dwarfs are not Happy.

The Brothers Grimm preferred to let the seven dwarfs run amok in nameless realms. Though subsequently identified under several aliases, they have yet to be captured.