Debunking Humor...

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NorCal Dave said:
"Life is just a fantasy, can you live this fantasy life?"- Aldo Nova
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Good grief.
You're waiting for a gig to start and you've got an UZI (probably America, I'm not commenting).
A Jetstream lands, the door opens and there's some funny-looking geezer in leopard-print pyjamas and jackboots.
It's not David Bowie and it's post-1976.

Surely the responsible course of action is to slam the door shut and motion to the pilot, in no uncertain terms, to keep going.
 
John J. said:
Good grief.
You're waiting for a gig to start and you've got an UZI (probably America, I'm not commenting).
A Jetstream lands, the door opens and there's some funny-looking geezer in leopard-print pyjamas and jackboots.
It's not David Bowie and it's post-1976.

Surely the responsible course of action is to slam the door shut and motion to the pilot, in no uncertain terms, to keep going.
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I just linked the video, forgetting how cheese and bad the intro was! It's been a few years since I saw it.
 
Fortunately the Captain has debunked several videos since posting that short. He was never a frequent poster (his vids take too much effort for that!) but he's not totally out of the game -- so nobody need be sad!
 
Mendel said:
I still say it's conditioning
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I once watched a visiting squirrel, one which was not a regular to my back-yard woods, foraging for something edible. But then several birds made a visit to the feeder on my deck, and I saw the lights go on in his little brain as he watched them. He confidently came over for his share. You're not going to convince me that animals are not intelligent.

I've also got a squirrel (I think it's always the same one) who climbs up the screen to look inside to tell me the feeder is empty. Then, when he sees me leave the room, he climbs the back door to the garage, because that's where I go to get more seed. Unfortunately he panics at the noise when I open that door and runs back into the woods, so the birds benefit from his fear and get first chance at the newly filled feeder. Maybe animals are not very intelligent...
 
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JMartJr said:
Fortunately the Captain has debunked several videos since posting that short. He was never a frequent poster (his vids take too much effort for that!) but he's not totally out of the game -- so nobody need be sad!
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The thing is, what he said is exactly how I fell.
It's disheartening debunking stuff at times. It some times feels like you are trying to piss in a hurricane
 
jackfrostvc said:
The thing is, what he said is exactly how I fell.
It's disheartening debunking stuff at times. It some times feels like you are trying to piss in a hurricane
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Take heart -- the battle is won retail, one by one, not wholesale:
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In reading The History of Nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities, their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first. Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
-- Charles MacKay, "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds"
 
JMartJr said:
Take heart -- the battle is won retail, one by one, not wholesale:
External Quote:
In reading The History of Nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities, their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first. Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
-- Charles MacKay, "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds"
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That was before government bailouts removed the incentive to avoid such mistakes. And right now, the bunk is government supported.
 
flarkey said:
René Magritte's latest work, entitled "The Treachery of Eye Witnesses".
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From that link:

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In the same edition of La Révolution surréaliste, Magritte published ... Je ne vois pas la [femme] cachée dans la forêt, a painting tableau surrounded by photos of sixteen surrealists with their eyes closed, including Magritte himself.
Something about that just tickles me. Thanks for providing the link that led me to it.
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Mendel said:
Did you know Magritte also made art about an orb?
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Ceci n'est pas une pomme (1964)
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That information doesn't jibe with any French usages I am aware of, which I have just expanded by reading: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pomme#French

English, or the argot derived therefrom for heraldry, however, does have "pomme" meaning spot or dot, but it's green, and thus hinting heavily at a stylised apple. Who am I kidding? Green spot? Green spot?!?!? No way jose, it's a roundel vert, obviously.

Magritte's real alien orb was this:
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img: https://www.renemagritte.org/assets/img/thumbs/the-voice-of-space.jpg

However, a misidentification of the sun can be found here:
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img: https://www.renemagritte.org/assets/img/thumbs/the-banquet.jpg

But an honourable mention must go to:
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img: https://www.renemagritte.org/assets/img/thumbs/the-art-of-living.jpg

All thumbs via: https://www.renemagritte.org/rene-magritte-paintings.jsp
 
FatPhil said:
That information doesn't jibe with any French usages I am aware of
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Yes, this is the humor thread, and I didn't want to deface the art by crossing out "pomme" and writing "orb" over it. Though, to be fair, apples are quite orb-like, and often crash to the ground.
 
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