<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Spike, women are blonde and men are blond. French word. So all “blonde” people are women and all “blond” people are men.<br><br><div dir="ltr">SR Ballard</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Oct 1, 2021, at 6:15 PM, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><!--[if !mso]><style>v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText">>...> On Behalf Of SR Ballard via extropy-chat<br>Subject: Re: [ExI] leif erikson day</p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText">Speaking of pirates and changing subjects, will anyone be celebrating leif erikson day this year?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText">SR Ballard<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText">> On Oct 1, 2021, at 4:49 PM, Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</span></a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText">> On 30/09/2021 19:47, bill w wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText">>> A tangential mob are ye<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">Sure will! He was one of the truly greats of our times, with his career pinnacle role as Lt. Jerry Price in the Mod Squad.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">He was brilliant, however could never quite get past that show’s introduction, where they tried to explain why the PD hired three hippies as infiltrators in places where the square detectives could not go. The description of the three: “…one white, one black, one blonde…”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd85Qim_Z6A">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd85Qim_Z6A</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><div><image002.jpg></div><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">How the hell are they counting? I am seeing two white, two (more or less) blonde, I’ll give em the one black, but that’s only a third of the description accurate. Upon pointing out the obvious logical fallacy, I was told that in the 60s, the term blonde usually implied female, but I identified as male at that time and I was certainly blonde. Imagine my confusion. The 60s were weird. And so was Leif Erikson, which demonstrates how great an actor he was because he had to play the uptight police lieutenant.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">What we should have is hippie day.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">Or perhaps I will just stick with the pirate thing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>extropy-chat mailing list</span><br><span>extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</span><br><span>http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>