Eclectic Views

    
In fairness for the creation of topic 92, this topic is intended as a space
for anyone who simply wants to have a DAMN GOOD ARGUMENT, as if there's one
thing the Well is good at it's having a nice pleasant thrash.

Usual rules apply - no personal abuse, please, and due to the particular
nature of pre.vue please take care when referring to topics elsewhere.

Apart from that, go right ahead.
  

    
So, what shall we talk about?
  

    
Nader? guns?
  

    

Shooting Nader?
  

    

And now with the scary looking guns ban off, it's even easier!
  

    
How about speculating on the Zero Year jinx, and whether there's any
rational basis to it?
  

    
Anybody want to know my SAT scores from high school?
  

    
Oh no, I'd rather do Nader again than that!
  

    

Why would we believe what anyone claims their SAT scores to be,
anyway?

However, I did enjoy finding out that W's verbal SAT score was 527.
That seriously deficient, and it continues to show. Anyone know what
his math score was?  I wouldn't want to misunderestimate him.
  

    

OK, ready, set, thrash:

Schwarzenegger Bans Rifle in Support of Gun Control

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Breaking with Republican lawmakers who
oppose gun control and a Hollywood film career filled with gun play,
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (news - web sites) has signed a
bill banning .50-caliber BMG rifles, an aide said on Tuesday.

The large-caliber, high-powered rifle is used by the military and
police to shoot at long-range targets, including ones more than a mile
away.

Civilian owners of the weapon typically use the rifle at firing-ranges
and for big-game hunting, but with armor-piercing ammunition the rifle
can penetrate concrete shelters and lightly armored vehicles.

Critics of the rifle argue there is no reasonable civilian use for the
weapon. They say it could be used by terrorists to shoot at oil
refineries and airplanes, or by snipers against people. Gun rights
advocates maintain the weapon has not been used in a crime in
California.

<http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=578&e=10&u=/nm/20040914/pl_nm/politics_california_rifles_dc>

<http://tinylink.com/?4uXng0Iu8S>

Bwahahahaha
  

    
(I knew it! I just knew it would be guns!)
  

    

Hee hee.
  

    

Anyone who wants those guns sold is a terrorist sympathizer.
  

    
> Oh no, I'd rather do Nader again than that!

You DID Nader?
  

    

How about voting for Nader and buying an assault weapon just in case
someone finds out?
  

    

So have we determined that shooting Nader is no longer up for discussion?  I
never got a firm answer on that one.
  

    
Anything's up for discussion. 

I, for one, want to know just how good _was_ Ella Fitzgerald?
  

    
Hmm...I think I missed something.  Who here did Ella?

Is it hard to look up someone's SAT scores?  (I've never tried, just
wondering.)
  

    
I have a tape of Ella Fitzgerald singing in Berlin, and she sang
"Mack The Knife" without really knowing the words.  It's funny!
  

    
that sounds good. 

if anyone wants a thrash, just mention Frank Sinatra in the same
breath as Ella Fitzgerald (or Bessie Smith, for that matter), and i'm
game
  

    
Um, <poet-lariat>, I think *you* just mentioned him in the same breath
as both of them.  At least I can read that sentence straight through
without taking a breath.
  

    
f_____g deconstructionists!
  

    
[and hilarious gaff!]
  

    
Kitty Kelley -- respected author, journalist and biographer, or
brain-dead, shrill, shallow shrew? 

Was her award from the American Society of Journalists and Independent
Writers deserved, or is she just another gossip-dependent bullshit
artist.

 
  

    
So what exactly *is* so great about the Grateful Dead anyway?
  

    
Ha!  I think we've got a winner.