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SMILEY'S QUOTE...rly!
Smiley's Quoterly:
Every 3 months (quarter..) I'll be posting some interesting quotes surrounding a theme chosen by YOU! Just go to my Guestbook and, near the top, click on 'Post New' to suggest a theme or a quote. If you think you might miss out on all the good times, don't worry! It's a cumulative thing... so feel free to revisit past themes any time.
This quarter, let's get the ball rolling with what I'm sure we'll all enjoy:
Hear something you thought was just hilarious, crazy, or thought-provokingly interesting on TV last night / today?? Why waste that one-liner on Facebook?!
Waste it here, on LloydSmiley.com.
To begin with... I will diligently watch TV all afternoon, scribbling down funny things I see... all in the name of progress...
11.02.10
"Unless you are in love, you're dead." ~Daniel Libeskind (from a TVO documentary I saw last night)
17.01.10
Here's one from the Golden Globes, which was just on tonight:
"I like a good drink as much as the next man... unless the next man is Mel Gibson" - Ricky Gervais
That's a good one, eh? What do YOU think???
;)
Every 3 months (quarter..) I'll be posting some interesting quotes surrounding a theme chosen by YOU! Just go to my Guestbook and, near the top, click on 'Post New' to suggest a theme or a quote. If you think you might miss out on all the good times, don't worry! It's a cumulative thing... so feel free to revisit past themes any time.
This quarter, let's get the ball rolling with what I'm sure we'll all enjoy:
TV QUOTES.
Hear something you thought was just hilarious, crazy, or thought-provokingly interesting on TV last night / today?? Why waste that one-liner on Facebook?!
Waste it here, on LloydSmiley.com.
To begin with... I will diligently watch TV all afternoon, scribbling down funny things I see... all in the name of progress...
11.02.10
"Unless you are in love, you're dead." ~Daniel Libeskind (from a TVO documentary I saw last night)
17.01.10
Here's one from the Golden Globes, which was just on tonight:
"I like a good drink as much as the next man... unless the next man is Mel Gibson" - Ricky Gervais
That's a good one, eh? What do YOU think???
;)
THIS PAGE WAS FORMERLY KNOWN AS...
Here, you [would have found] cause for debate, speculation, and all-around randomness...
According to some people, [I've said] some pretty zany things.
This page [was] a venue for but a fraction of my all-Natural, homemade Ram-bling-bling...
WARNING: It's pretty out-dated right now...
Lloyd's "real" first name
The Man / Rabbit in the Moon?
Chicken or Egg?
Something like 'Fight Club: 2'
Jan 25, 2008
DID YOU KNOW...
Lloyd's "real" first name is Joffre?
(Lloyd is his '2nd' name)
This comes from a Catalan French General named Joseph Joffre (see wiki) : 1852-1931
He was best known for defeating the Germans in World War 1 at the First Battle of the Marne (1914) - His nickname was Papa Joffre.
He also had a pretty kick-ax mustache, eh?
- A WWI general
- in battle for the first time in The Siege of Paris (Franco-Prussian War)
- Awarded:
- Marshal of France
- Knighthood (when that still meant something) - "Knight Grand Cross of the Bath"
- Grand Cross of the Legion d'honneur (sorry no accents on keyboard!)
- Croix de Guerre: 1914-1918
- Distinguished Service Medal (U.S.)
- Order of Merit (U.K.)
Among the many honours Joffre received:
- Mount Joffre: British Columbian mountain named after him.
- Rue Joffre: Street in Shawinigan, Quebec, named after him.
- Joffre Avenue: New Jersey avenue named after him.
- Avenue Joffre: Shanghai, China - street named after him. (since renamed Huaihai Rd.)
- Joffre Street: Pascoe Valley, Australia, named after him.
Also... a cake in Romania is called the "Joffre Cake," in honour of his role in reforming the Romanian Army in 1917. It looks a lot like the "kepi" hat that army guys used to wear back then (like he's wearing in the picture)
I hope this has been enlightening for you.
~:)
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Jan 23, 2008
The Moon: Rabbit or Man?
First of all, it's neither. It's the Moon.
That's what it is.
Next, let's explore the various ways civilizations have regarded the Moon over the years and where they're really coming from. Shall we?
THE MOON:
- Has enormous craters caused by the impact of many meteorites over millions/billions of years
- The Craters:
To some people, they appear to resemble a human face in a sort-of "wow" expression, a rabbit making 'moah chi' chewy foods, to others - merely craters on Earth's hugest natural satellite.
Many Western cultures have stories about the 'man' being banished to the Moon:
ex. A Roman theif, a Germanic theif, Cain, from the Bible (see Dante's Inferno), etc.
In addition, some are reminded of the 80's late-night McDonald's lounge-singer character: "Mac Tonight"
Or... of that movie with Jim Carey... was it Andy Kaufman that was sent to the Moon?
In China, and other parts of Asia, there is no 'man'. They see a rabbit, or a woman and a rabbit. When I ws over there, I was told it was an old Emperor's daughter who had fallen in love with this fellow who was an amazing archer. Back then, you see, there were about 12 moons circling the Earth... and this archer, in order to prove his love and masculinity, shot down all but 1 of them. The Emperor, naturally infuriated, realized that if he did nothing about this, there would soon be no moons left (and thus, dark & scary nights).
So he sent his only daughter to the final moon, so the archer would be less inclined to shoot it down. Then there's something about this rabbit... and they make a delicious chewy rice-based treat... and I forget the rest.
All I know is, "MoChi" rice treats are a treat, indeed!
I guess, all this comes down to different perspectives from different places around the Earth. It's all just an optical illusion anyway, right? (the details are made out of craters). Science has a term for this: it's called a Pareidolia, which is similar to seeing things made out of clouds, and what explains many star constellations.
We have such imaginations, us humans....
What do you think? Contact me!
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Jan 15, 2008
A: Which came first: chicken or egg?
B: The egg!
C: But where did the egg come from?
B: Maybe a dinosaur, ostrich, frog, etc.
A: no, no, where did the CHICKEN egg come from???
B: No one said anything about a CHICKEN egg, now did they? : )
This is a tough one to 'crack'....
But.... the egg came first. sorry folks.
Is history a long, even flow of events?
Do 'tipping points' actually exist?
When does one species transform into a new species?
Is it Nature or is it Nurture that causes evolution?
Is the instinct to nurture come naturally?
Where is the threshold of 'chickeness' on the timeline of science?
How and where is the timeline drawn?
When was the chicken first recognized as a chicken? What about 'eggs'? (eggs first!)
Do 'tipping points' actually exist?
When does one species transform into a new species?
Is it Nature or is it Nurture that causes evolution?
Is the instinct to nurture come naturally?
Where is the threshold of 'chickeness' on the timeline of science?
How and where is the timeline drawn?
When was the chicken first recognized as a chicken? What about 'eggs'? (eggs first!)
Genetically, chickens today are not the same species as the original chicken...
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...Does any of this matter?
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The "egg" is too ambiguous. If the question was "which came first, the chicken or the chicken egg..." - it would seem easier to answer... unless you're asking linguistically... in which case, no one can know. Whoever was there at the time, it would seem, never wrote the answer down in words... DAMN SEMANTICS!!!
Was there some dude who randomly found an animal and named it "chicken"? or did they first find eggs and name them first???
Eggs seem to have been around longer than chickens... dinosaurs laid eggs... many animals other than chickens still lay 'em...
...hmm... chickens come from eggs... eggs do not necessarily come from chickens - therefore: generally speaking, there came many an egg before the first chickens roamed the Earth...
What if there were a species, similar to what was to be eventually recognized as 'chicken,' but had some distinctive differences (purple feathers, 4-legs, etc)?
This animal, being similar a chicken in many ways, would also lay eggs (that pre-date what we now know to be chickens) - perhaps the 'chicken' was an anomaly... a recessive gene... once again, the egg wins as it is from whence the first chicken 'mutation' hatched.
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So... having thought through it literally and science-fictionally, I have come to the conclusions that:
a) chickens come from eggs
(eggs first)
b) eggs came from animals that pre-date chickens
(eggs first again)
c) An omelette requires cheese to earn it's right to be known as an omelette.
ENJOY YOUR BREAKFAST!!!
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I was thinking, the other night, that it would be cool to see a movie that took place 20,000 years from today. What would remain of this century? Skyscraper ruins? Crayon drawings of Christmas trees? Nothing at all?
What if there was some devastating tragedy involving nuclear weaponry?
What if, in one sudden boom, nearly half of the world's population disappeared?
What if, in this global trade economy, the unaffected areas that grow food for the destroyed nations suddenly had an enormous surplus and the means to end hunger in the world...?
What if then, humans as a species continued to evolve and grow - like we have been - due to the enhanced circumstances of nutrition... and soon became GIANTS to whom the world was a dwarfed land... the new dinosaurs of the future - - Super Humans.
What if we grow too big?
What if the giants run out of food?
What about the new mutations that spring from the nuclear zones, eventually allowing life to thrive again?
What would they look like?
Would these giant human 'dinosaurs' co-exist with these creatures?
Would the new mutations meet with the colossal humans before they became extinct?
Would there be battle, or just more mystery?
Has this all happened before?
I'm somehow reminded of Fight Club.... Fight Club 2???
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What if there was some devastating tragedy involving nuclear weaponry?
What if, in one sudden boom, nearly half of the world's population disappeared?
What if, in this global trade economy, the unaffected areas that grow food for the destroyed nations suddenly had an enormous surplus and the means to end hunger in the world...?
What if then, humans as a species continued to evolve and grow - like we have been - due to the enhanced circumstances of nutrition... and soon became GIANTS to whom the world was a dwarfed land... the new dinosaurs of the future - - Super Humans.
What if we grow too big?
What if the giants run out of food?
What about the new mutations that spring from the nuclear zones, eventually allowing life to thrive again?
What would they look like?
Would these giant human 'dinosaurs' co-exist with these creatures?
Would the new mutations meet with the colossal humans before they became extinct?
Would there be battle, or just more mystery?
Has this all happened before?
I'm somehow reminded of Fight Club.... Fight Club 2???
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Up for debate:
the environment
global politics
meanings of life
ethics
aesthetics
contradictions
music (sound vs. noise, etc)
art vs. exploitation
tap water vs. spring water
Jack Sparrow vs. Peter Pan
Peanuts: Nut or Legume?
Santa Claus: real or really real
Two minutes in Heaven is better than one minute in Heaven (?)
Chewy vs. Crunchy
Salty vs. Sweet vs. Tangy vs. Bitter vs. Pinocchio
Wallpaper vs. Paint
Umbrella vs. running and falling in the rain
...
ANYTHING YOU WANT!!!!
<---you can
even
talk
about
this!
Earwax removal at a Taiwanese night market... mmm... random.
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Here's a random Star Trek scene for you all to veg-out on...
Some have said it is the BEST FIGHT SCENE EVER!!!
Judge for yourselves ;)
Here's a random Star Trek scene for you all to veg-out on...
Some have said it is the BEST FIGHT SCENE EVER!!!
Judge for yourselves ;)
The Long Winding Trail:
by Lloyd Smiley, 2007
The car horns were playing
the people were crazy
the dogs were a-barking
the stars went all hazy
the times they were a-changing
the speed was amazing
and from car doors, the people
were far from just sailing
the cruise ships had passed
and there was nothing to replace 'em
and before I could change
all the keys had been stolen
from the door that was taking me
to that whole other level
that Dylan once spoke of
and dilluted in the Oceans
and if I have fall'n victim to
the disease of dis-easement
could I ever regain that
which I am trying to appease?
could it be that the apple
has rolled far from the tree
down the long winding trail
that will lead you down nowhere
that leans upon you at the
strike of the hour
in the songs about poets
in the corridors of power
who will make what you read
into something worth buying?
the time now for rhyming
has reached the impossible
and withered back home to
the point it was making
but missing the point
went for 'yours for the taking'
and littered on paper
the words he was forming
for in the young night was
a sword for the borrowing
come hell or high water
the tide will turn furious
and all the real people
will explode in an uproarious
echo
that will be heard for decades
in the books of the victorious
and the keepers of knowledge who
will add to the canvas
all the grades of fought fortitude,
buckets of lightning
fearing that living without fear
would be frightening
speaking the words
like a soldier of surplus
and feeding the minds with
self-criticism and hatred
to take a man's life
is to tear off a toenail
to suffer and sigh for
the rest of your days
and to fear that in one day
they'll come for your armory
and rattle the walls and
subsist on your flatteries
stumbling through life
unaware of any certainty
making their way back to
holiday hotels
to stay with the welcoming
branches of insanity
lurking through curtains
and all of humanity
searching for new ways
to bleach you of privacy
gossip is all that we do
when there's victory
inside this world so
deprived of creativity
oh no, it won't come again
call me back in a couple of days...
...rambling-bling...
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