Defy this age of sarcasm!
 

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Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...

Everybody ride the Trollercoaster!

Is that the guy that eats babies?

Yeah, I think it is.

wait. what if angus is really radar expressing his sensitive side? shouldn't we be nice to him?

eh, whatever.

hey, angus - show me a haiku, or at least a good radio jingle before you claim to be a poet. i want to see your chops.

noooooo-ooooooo

Is it built yet? Do you have any pictures of the place? How about of you and the Prince?

Ahhhhhh yes.... of Castles In The Air. [draws from pipe] [blows concentric smoke rings] I'm reminded of an old poem I once read of Castles In The Air.

Castles in the air.
Neurotics build them.
Psychotics live in them.

angus if you are serious, then welcome to the cellar. but before you judge our behaviour, you may want to remember that you are an unknown commodity and you introduced yourself by scolding people for having a sense of humor, in the philosophy forum without any philosophizing to boot. what did you expect?

There is a difference between being sarcastic and skeptical.

Count me skeptical.

A Tulsa Today article on Prince Lazarus.

here is New Utopia:

http://www.carbonfusion.com/utopia/u...sofcallweb.png

And here is the airport:
http://www.carbonfusion.com/utopia/u...-airport-n.jpg

I dare say the real Lazarus Long (out there somewhere in the pantheistic multiperson solipsistic universes) would barf at the thought of a) being called a prince and b) having his picture stamped on coins.

That's my .sig line, silly utopian. If I had been referring to our lord and savior lazarus' fake money, it would have read "'It's like someone's forming a cult and taking gullible people's money to build a pseudo-religious Club Med' in my brain!"

I encourage you to find spiritual guidance along one of our planet's more mundane pathways to enlightenment. I'm not ridiculing YOU, I'm ridiculing...

Ok, I'm ridiculing you. But I mean no harm. Get some help. Really. Your family probably misses you.

I'd put vocabulary somewhat high on the requirements for a good poet, but you don't seem to know what "slander" means. Though I guess maybe there aren't too many poems about slander.

re: sarcasm

You have the basics down, but you're still plagued with an overactive martyr gland and the inability to see the humor in someone minting untradeable money with their own face on it. The status quo here is that EVERYBODY has to take their licks at one point or another, particularly in the philosophy thread. And you have to be able to accept ribbing with good grace when you announce yourself as the poet laureate of New Utopia.

You came dangerously close to killing the thread with the Holocaust mention. Rule #1 -- don't call people Nazis. It's the first sign you've lost the argument.

You probably got points from some people for the Bush/witchburning/Holocaust connection, though.

Edit: I forgot to use the words "Messiah Complex". There. That's better.

Well, you're certainly right on that count.

Edit: am person who agrees with mrnoodle about some people giving points for the witchburning/holocaust/georgebush thing.