Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology From: James "Kibo" Parry (kibo@world.std.com) Subject: Fun fact. Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 06:40:14 GMT Organization: http://www.kibo.com In Edmonton, Alberta, the subway operates on the honor system! THEY WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO GET AWAY WITH THAT SORT OF CRAP IN NEW YORK! -- K. Also the Mall of America is inferior to the West Edmonton Mall because it only has Lego submarines, not real ones. Although, this is offset by the fact that the two KFCs in the West Edmonton Mall have The Colonel's Poutine. ----------------------------------------------------- Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology From: James "Kibo" Parry (kibo@world.std.com) Subject: Re: Former Monkee uses Liquid Paper legacy to fund idea-fest Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 01:40:44 GMT Organization: http://www.kibo.com For l'AFP, Thomas Sharpe wrote: > > SANTA FE, New Mexico, July 22 (AFP) - The next time you use > Liquid Paper to fix a typo, or ponder the weighty issues of our day, > you might spare a thought for the Monkees. I'm sorry, but I donate all my spare thoughts to the truly needy, such as Kirstie Alley. She needs every thought she can get. (I think she had a thought a few days ago, or at least started to have one and will finish it in a few weeks.) > That's right -- the Monkees. Or at least one of them, and his mother. > Five scholars will convene over the weekend at an elegant compound > near here to craft a short statement -- on the most important issue of > our time. The swimsuit issue? > The semiannual Council on Ideas is funded by a foundation set up by > the inventor of Liquid Paper, the late Bette Graham, and administered by > her son, former Monkee Michael Nesmith. HE IS NOT A FORMER MONKEE! HE IS STILL A MONKEE IN OUR HEARTS AND MINDS! > Nesmith -- the tall one with the stocking cap -- was a Dallas teenager > when he auditioned for a television serial about a rock band, patterned > after the Beatles' "Hard Day's Night." LIAR! TAKE THAT BACK! "THE MONKEES" WAS NOT PATTERNED AFTER ANYTHING, IT WAS THE MOST ORIGINAL THING EVER!!! BUT YES IT WAS A SERIAL. > "The Monkees" ran on NBC from 1966 to 1968, and continues to air > in reruns. I'm so glad they specified that they're reruns. Otherwise I would have thought they meant that people were airing NEW episodes that had been made thirty years ago. > Nesmith was one of only two members of the contrived band who had any > musical experience, so the Monkees' music was all dubbed at first. But > songs like "Last Train to Clarksville" and "I'm a Believer" sold millions. Thus proving that the music was fine art, at least as long as they didn't actually put Neil Diamond's name on it. > The Monkees broke up after the show ended. LIAR LIAR LIAR!!! THEY DID NOT! THEY JUST CHANGED THEIR NAME TO "THE NEW MONKEES" AND HAD PLASTIC SURGERY AND LIVED IN A NEW HOUSE IN A DIFFERENT DECADE BUT IT WAS STILL THE MONKEES!!! > But as Nesmith hit it big, mom did too. Graham, a single mother and > secretary, used her tempura art skills to create a far-out fluid that masked > her typing errors. She masked them by battering and deep-frying them? > Liquid Paper caught on in the pre-computer age, leaving Graham wealthy. > Before she died in 1980, she set up the Gihon Foundation, named for > a river in the Bible, to help women in business. This would have never happened if Bertha Goudy had typeset the Bible. (Degree of difficulty: 9.0) > Nesmith, now 57, said the foundation doled out small grants to business > proposals and social services for a decade. But he never thought it was > enough to make a difference. > So in 1990, Gihon switched streams and began convening councils to > consider the weightiest issue of the day. All they have to do is answer > one question: > "What is the most important issue of our time?" My answer --> "What is the most important issue of our time?" You can send my million dollars to me, care of me, at my address. Unless you want me to split it with the ten million other people who gave that answer. In which case send it to them, care of me. > Five panelists from different disciplines and races are chosen > through a complex system that begins months earlier. They convene > Saturday morning at an estate in Nambe, 40 kilometers (25 miles) > north of Santa Fe. > One of this year's panelists is journalist Stanley Karnow, 75, who > won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on Vietnam and recently published > "Paris in the Fifties." > "I don't know what to expect," Karnow said. "I've been kicking around > the world for 50 years now, so I have some ideas about things, but I'm a > blank piece of paper here." Oh no! Call a doctor, he's covered his whole body in Liquid Paper! > The ranch house that serves as the Gihon headquarters is decorated with > works of modern women artists like Georgia O'Keeffe, Grandma Moses, Louise > Nevelson and Janet Fish. > Nesmith and partner Victoria Kennedy live nearby. He keeps as a museum > the small trailer that was his mother's backyard workshop, still stocked > with mixers, bowls and other kitchen implements used to mix the first batch > of Liquid Paper. Exactly how hard is it to invent white paint? > Nesmith said he usually begins the Council by telling the panelists > about the process, and that they must reach a consensus by noon Sunday. Wow! He tells them about the process at the BEGINNING! What a genius! > Then they are left alone. And one of them gets voted out of the house every week, and then they have to run away in fast motion as a guy in a gorilla suit chases them and Neil Diamond plays "I'm A Believer". > After dinner in Santa Fe and an evening at their hotels, the panelists, > who are paid 5,000 dollars each, return to Nambe to write a statement by > noon Sunday, when they meet with reporters. At which point all the world's problems are solved so there's no need to ever do this again. > The 2000 Council includes Karnow, poet Nikki Giovanni, physicist Murray > Gell-Mann, lawyer M. Cheriff Bassiouni and anthropologist Anna Roosevelt. > The 1998 council, made up of actress Jane Alexander, physicist Ana Maria > Ceto, astronomer Stephen Jay Gould, editor Robert Kaplan and scholar Jessica > Tuchman Mathews, emphasized rapid changes in the world. > "The information and communications revolution erases distance. More than > ever before, we are truly stuck with each other," the 1998 statement said. I can see why it took a panel of a dozen scientists and deep thinkers and an actress to come up with as profound and original an idea as "People can use the Internet to talk to people who aren't in the same room." > Nesmith, who operates a music-oriented Website at www.videoranch.com, > said this year's statement would be carried by a live video and audio feed > at www.gihon.com. I guess he couldn't get his non-profit organization into the classy, crowded ".org" domain. > Some criticize the council as the ultimate sound bite. I declare that sentence to be the ultimate sound bite! HA! HA! I HAVE CRITICIZED IT FOR BEING SOMETHING WHICH IS POSSIBLE TO QUOTE OUT OF CONTEXT! P.S. BON MOTS SUCK! > But Nesmith says the exercise forces panelists to find common ground > on their wide-ranging ideas. > "It stimulates people on a level they're not used to," he said. > "Something happens, but I don't know exactly what it is." I heard he sleeps wearing that hat. Something's wrong with him, but I don't know exactly what it is. -- K. I still like the version of the "Monkees" theme they chant near the beginning of "Head", over the stock footage of that Vietnamese guy getting his brains blown out in close-up. ----------------------------------------------------- Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology From: James "Kibo" Parry (kibo@world.std.com) Subject: Proof that stout-hearted MEN, MEN, MEN are controlling science. Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 02:30:02 GMT Organization: http://www.kibo.com From the current issue of _Scientific American_: -> Psychologist Raymond Rosen of Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in -> New Brunswick, N.J., showed that healthy men can be taught to have -> erections on demand, in response to mental imagery or nonsexual cues. -> In one study, men were instructed to use their minds to arouse -> themselves in exchange for a financial reward. When they were given -> feedback on their performance via a light display, they rapidly learned -> to increase their erections -- in the absence of direct physical -> stimulation -- through the use of imagery and fantasy techniques. -> To keep their motivation high, the men earned financial bonuses that -> depended on the number and degree of erections they achieved. Then they moved on to an additional study where they got to fondle naked supermodels, and were paid millions of dollars to keep their motivation high. Then they got paid for every Dorito they ate during that movie where the Three Stooges played football. Question 1: How much IS an erection worth? These articles always leave out the most useful information! Question 2: Shouldn't it be named the _Richard_ Wood Johnson Medical School? -- K. What would this psychologist say is a "nonsexual cue"? One with too much chalk on the tip? ----------------------------------------------------- Newsgroups: alt.sci.physics.new-theories,alt.religion.kibology From: James "Kibo" Parry (kibo@world.std.com) Subject: Re: I can't think of a dang thing to talk about???? (Smart) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 03:26:17 GMT Organization: http://www.kibo.com Followup-To: alt.sci.physics.plutonium In alt.sci.physics.new-theories, "Smart1234" (smart1234@aol.com) wrote: > ? > > Isn't it something how one's mind goes blank, when one explains the whole > universe to others? What else is there to explain? Maybe I have to start > creating new universes, and new worlds..... . > > I think I will start with making a new atom. It doesn't spin, it doesn't > move, and it's solid, and it's sticky as heck, and nobody knows how it got > there, but me, and I won't tell anybody...... . Then I will create some > dummies, to try to figure out how it got there. & It's only sticky because Archimedes Plutonium's been fondling it............ . also, it tastes like shredded coconut.............. . . . NOT REGULAR COCONUT, SHREDDED COCONUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Also,,,,,,,,, , why do you claim that Heck is sticky?????? ????? ???? ??? ?? ? -------- - K ......... . ----------------------------------------------------- Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology,alt.sci.joe-bay From: James "Kibo" Parry (kibo@world.std.com) Subject: Re: LEARN TO PROMOTE YOU BIZZ/// NEWBEES WELCOM 7294 Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 06:47:58 GMT Organization: http://www.kibo.com In alt.religion.kibology, actionresources@uswest.net spamvertised: > > Subject: LEARN TO PROMOTE YOU BIZZ/// NEWBEES WELCOM 7294 Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. David Pacheco will now perform his dramatic monologue, "BIFFS K00L ADVURTIZING AGENCEY A PLAY IN 1 ACT 4 1 ACT0R !!!!!!!!!1" -- K. Why are old bees unwelcome? I'd think they wouldn't sting as much as young ones. ----------------------------------------------------- Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology From: James "Kibo" Parry (kibo@world.std.com) Subject: Bleah. Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 05:36:45 GMT Organization: http://www.kibo.com I never thought I'd say something like this, but yes, watching C-SPAN is more entertaining than something. ...namely, watching the wheels of legislature turning in person... ...until after midnight... ...in Massachusetts, where every floor vote comes out the same way every time. I should point out that while I was attending the last three hours of line-item veto overrides in this year's state legislature, I was eating sausage (pepperoni, to be precise) and afterwards I still like sausage, although I'm starting to hate Otto von Bismarck. -- K. And that sleazy Mark Twain who stole his quote so he could have something to type on the typewriter he just invented.