<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">I would be so sure that I would win an arrogance contest, I would not enter it. Just a few years ago I was singing in a college choir. They needed a solo sung and some guys were trying out. I was asked why I didn't try, and I said that I did not want to humiliate everyone. True story. Let them have a turn - I've had plenty. I also would win any loud voice contest. One time two of us sang the same solo together in rehearsal. It was reported that no one heard the other guy. Yeah, it was really loud.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">You are getting quite a bit of dust/pollution from China. It can actually go around the world, though I don't know how they know that. Do they ride alongside in a balloon following some they can identify? How do they put tags on dust particles? Wouldn't the dust go faster than the balloon?</span></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">When I was in college, a Baptist school, one of the missionary students put on a protest over the toilet paper in the dorms. It was actually so slick it slid right off. They did buy some better tp. Had I known I might have been successful I would have protested for bidets in dorms. </span></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_attr"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I am a two sheet man myself. My wife rolls it off until she cannot see her hand (not validated by observation). </span></div><div class="gmail_attr"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_attr"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w. </span></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 12:50 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_3844298525133304323WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><u></u> <u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] viruses<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">>…<span style="color:black">Judge not that ye be not judged!</span><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">BillW, that’s exactly what I kept telling them! After our discussion on the Arrogance Olympics, we went to set up the competition. Unlike the objective games such as running or pole vault, arrogance requires judges who hold up those cards with 6s and 7s and such. But of course judges are those who are themselves experts in the sport, former competitors themselves, so they are well-qualified to know how difficult are the stunts and how well executed. So… the judges themselves must be competitive arrogantists.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">This presented an obvious problem, for when we attempted to convene a panel of judges, others would make comments such as “That guy sucks, I am WAAAY arroganter than he is” and such as that, which ordinarily would be dismissed, but stating it lends credibility to the claim, so the panel of judges continued to grow until someone made the obvious suggestion: we have an arrogance contest to see who gets to judge the arrogance contest. That too needed a panel of judges. And so on.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">Every time we did manage to assemble a panel of judges, I looked at them and opined that I was arroganter than all of them combined, and we still didn’t have John among us, so none of us had a legitimate claim.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">The next suggestion suggested itself: can an arrogance judge also be one of the competitors? Sure why not, they will of course give themselves a 10 and all the others 1s, so the outcome is somewhat predictable: an all-way tie for the silver. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">Eventually of course someone will comment “Judge not, lest ye be judged!” at which time we know that guy is a humble piker in the sport of arrogance and that guy is crushed, out of the competition, as the others ridicule him by doing the whole Krazy Guggenheim “ye ye ye” business. He goes over and tries his luck at the Humility Olympics.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">>…<span style="color:black">The cod book was very interesting</span>…<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">Give it up pal, we ain’t readin it. Life sentence, we still ain’t reading about cod.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">>…<span style="color:black">though not as much as the one on dust</span>…<span style="color:black"> bill w<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">At the expense of my silver medal, I will humbly yield on that point. Dust is interesting.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">You may have seen a sunbeam streaming thru the window and noticed all the junk floating around in the air, piquing curiosity if one is me. One asks oneself: what the hell is that junk exactly? I have some theories based on my best effort with my microscope: most of it appears to be cotton lint from the clothing aaaaaand… toilet paper debris!<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">I did some experiments and found the soft TP makes waaaay more dust than the strong. So I switched over, being a tough old asshole, in order to reduce “dust” which apparently isn’t even dust at all.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">More later, someone walked past on the sidewalk, gotta wash.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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