Pessimus

A publicidade da pessimus é insuportável.
In-su-por-tá-vel.


A quantidade de idiotas que tem empregos relevantes parece-me ser ainda mais perniciosa do que a quantidade de desempregados (que pode ser encarada como uma oportunidade de reordenação por mérito.)

Inner voice

“Quantum mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory produces a good deal but hardly brings us closer to the secret of the Old One. I am at all events convinced that He does not play dice”.

Einstein
(in letter to Max Born (1970-1882)
in 1926).

C'o a Broca

Welsh actress Catherine Zeta Jones went from having heavy ethnic features -- looking like a South American Hispanic to be more precise -- to looking European, which has undoubtedly helped her popularity among Europeans and even placed her among top-ranked sexy/beautiful women!

Broca

"Sabe-se hoje (ver Gould, 1981; 1986) que não existe qualquer correlação entre populações («raças») e capacidade craniana; nem tão pouco se verifica correlação alguma entre inteligência e capacidade craniana."

Sempre esteve à frente dos olhos de toda a gente que as capacidades mentais nada têm que ver com o tamanho das cabeças. Basta olhar para os comportamentos dos animais. (Vespas, aranhas, polvos, papagaios..... e compará-lo com o de certos hominídeos!)

2008

Conspiracy Research .org

"Is there really an inverted Pentagram formed by the street layout just north of the White House?" [http://tracker.conspiracyresearch.org/torrents-details.php?id=192]


R.: Nope!

Oklahoma

As the hour for the opening approached, great crowds waited on the border, while mounted soldiers stood on guard to turn back intruders. At noon bugles (cornetins) sounded, then guns were fired as a signal that the land was open. Men raced in on horseback, on foot, in covered wagons, hanging to every available hold on the slowly moving trains, all trying to outstrip their fellow "Boomers" in the scramble for "claims."




When a homeseeker found a tract of land to his liking, he drove a stake as evidence of possession and held it as best he could against other claimants. On the same day lots were staked in the townsites, and men engaged in feverish promotion.

Tents appeared everywhere. By the end of the day Oklahoma City was a city of about 10 000 tent and wagon dwellers, (habitantes) and other cities had sprouted on the prairie: Kingfisher, El Reno, Norman, Guthrie, and Stillwater. Many of the streets were marked. Within hours, the new town had a mayor and city council, elected before The Run, in many cases. Flickering camp fires dotted the prairie as far as one could see, in all directions. Also, hundreds of broken rigs littered the plains that night. Many an 89er did not live to see the end of the day he had been so anxious to begin.


Some children set up their own business outside the land office: selling creek water for 5 cents a cup to homesteaders who were waiting to file. Other children gathered buffalo chips to provide fuel for their mothers' cooking fires.

Dentists, doctors, and lawyers immediately hung their shingles on their wagon or tent. Merchants brought merchandise in their wagons to start a store in a new town. Stores opened in the backs of wagons, then moved to a tent after a day or two, until a building was ready. Building material came in the wagons, too, or shipped by train. Complete buildings were unloaded, with the lumber cut, notched, and ready to be nailed.

Schools opened in tents the following week. Most were taught by volunteers who were paid by the pupils' parents until the cities and counties could establish regular school districts. Part of the land in each township had been reserved by law for school use.

The weeks following that first Run of homesteaders were busy ones on this newest of American frontiers. Within a month, Oklahoma City had five banks and six newspapers. Hotels were opened, and by summer, greengrocers were doing a thriving business. In Oklahoma City, fresh tomatoes sold for 15 cents a bushel, (35 L) eggs at 3 cents a dozen, and home-churned butter for 6 cents a pound. Some of the most substantial business firms in Oklahoma point to this time as the date of their founding.

For thirteen months, the settlers were without any organized government, yet good order prevailed.

Frontier living conditions were too rigorous - and money was too scarce - to attract outlaws. The only government during this period was that created and maintained by common consent. In May, 1890, Congress passed the Organic Act, providing for a territorial government, with executive and judicial officers appointed by the President, and a legislature to be elected by the people. The active new town of Guthrie was designated as the capital, and in spite of the bitter rivalry of its ambitious neighbor, Oklahoma City, it remained the seat of government throughout the territorial period.
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(daqui)

Provérbio

Ande o frio por onde andar, no Natal cá há-de estar.

No more blogging (?)

Parecenças

Hombre!

Hugo Chavez, o presidente da Venezuela o homem que Juan Carlos mandou calar.....

Microscopic Space Aliens Infesting Carpets

Ingleses
Aqui há dias, num fórum da TSF, um emigrante português em Inglaterra lamuriava-se (com aquele tom de voz típico de quem tem por certa a compreensiva solidariedade dos outros) sobre como é triste a vida nos países civilizados: tendo dado umas bofetadas à criancinha que o acompanhava no supermercado (filha, talvez) porque estava a ser chata como o caralho o estupor da garota, teve a desagradável surpresa, e surpresa é o termo certo, de ver que tinha a Assistência Social à sua espera quando chegou à caixa. Olarila!
Verificaram exaustivamente que a criancinha estava, enfim, bem, e impuseram umas semanas de terapia ao agressor, só para garantir...
O pobre do homem, apesar de já andar nas consultas psi, não se conseguia conformar com tão bizarro penar e, sem pejo, propagandeava a sua cruz pela rádio,em frequência modulada, ainda sem nenhum vestígio de entendimento da filosofia de vida britânica.
Esta história, a mim, consola-me.

Pasquins. Outra cena adorável e inesquecível, esta fictícia, do filme Men in Black, é quando os nossos heróis, querendo saber onde diabo teria aterrado a nave extraterrestre do mau da fita, simplesmente se dirigem ao quiosque mais próximo e compram o homólogo do Jornal do Incrível: O relato da queda da nave vinha, com foto, na primeira página.


"Kay and Jay go to a newsstand, and Kay buys several tabloids. Jay can't believe this, but Kay calls them the best investigative reporting on the planet. He says that Jay COULD get lucky if he read the New York Times, then shows him the cover story of The World: "ALIEN STOLE MY HUSBAND'S SKIN".



Tony Parsons comentou no Daily Mirror, o caso Maddie:
It is the fault of the spectacularly stupid, cruel Portuguese police. I have never much cared for the convention of calling cops "pigs" or "filth", but I am happy to make an exception.

The decline in relations is also the fault of the appalling [terrível] Portuguese media, happy to print any piece of poisonous trash spoon-fed to them by "police sources" treating the abduction of a small child as light entertainment.

And the Portuguese public must also take their share of the blame. The sight of locals jeering [insultando] at Kate McCann as she went in for questioning made me feel as though these leering bumpkins [brutos mal-intencionados] were not from another country, but another planet.

E um comentário específico para António Santana Carlos, embaixador de Portugal em Londres:
And I would respectfully suggest that in future, if you can't say something constructive about the disappearance of little Madeleine, then you just keep your stupid, sardine-munching mouth shut. [manter essa estúpida boca, que só serve para comer sardinhas, fechada.]

Leio que este sortudo cavalheiro, o senhor embaixador, esteve 7 anos em terras do Oriente, embaixando em Beijing: dado que não entende nem fala uma palavra de chinês, tudo correu bem.
Diz que se ofendeu com o comentário mas que não quer chatices e não tenciona fazer seja o que for. (Acho que quer regressar ao sistema oriental que lhe serviu tão bem quanto Jacob a Labão mas já vai tarde).

Alguns portugueses saíram logo em defesa da honra lusa e fico alegre por eles. Por mim, sou escravo da razão e o mais que vou fazer é dar uma vista de olhos ao livro do bife a ver se também vale a pena ler.

Provérbio pessoal

Morrer morremos mas não quando queremos.

Cusca-mos

A revista Guia do Automóvel (que utiliza pontinhos nos números: "51.550€") também não acha bem que os símbolos das unidades de medida sejam imutáveis e soa-lhe mal escrever 15 000 km. Vai daí, com o atrevimento e a alegria habituais dos analfabetos (como o de uma mulher hoje na TV a inventar "lamiré de oportunidade" enquanto afirmava parvoíces a condizer), corrige e manda imprimir kms.


51 550 €