Phaedrus

Plato: For the greater good. Karl Marx: It was a historical inevitability. Machiavelli: So that its subjects will view it with admiration, as a chicken which has the daring and courage to boldly cross the road, but also with fear, for whom among them has the strength to contend with such a paragon of avian virtue? In such a manner is the princely chicken's dominion maintained. Hippocrates: Because of an excess of light pink gooey stuff in its pancreas. Jacques Derrida: Any number of contending discourses may be discovered within the act of the chicken crossing the road, and each interpretation is equally valid as the authorial intent can never be discerned, because structuralism is DEAD, DAMMIT, DEAD! Thomas de Torquemada: Give me ten minutes with the chicken and I'll find out. Timothy Leary: Because that's the only kind of trip the Establishment would let it take. Douglas Adams: Forty-two. Nietzsche: Because if you gaze too long across the Road, the Road gazes also across you. Oliver North: National Security was at stake. B.F. Skinner: Because the external influences which had pervaded its sensorium from birth had caused it to develop in such a fashion that it would tend to cross roads, even while believing these actions to be of its own free will. Carl Jung: The confluence of events in the cultural gestalt necessitated that individual chickens cross roads at this historical juncture, and therefore synchronicitously brought such occurrences into being. Jean-Paul Sartre: In order to act in good faith and be true to itself, the chicken found it necessary to cross the road. Ludwig Wittgenstein: The possibility of "crossing" was encoded into the objects "chicken" and "road", and circumstances came into being which caused the actualization of this potential occurrence. Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon your frame of reference. Aristotle: To actualize its potential. Buddha: If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken- nature. Howard Cosell: It may very well have been one of the most astonishing events to grace the annals of history. An historic, unprecedented avian biped with the temerity to attempt such an herculean achievement formerly relegated to homo sapien pedestrians is truly a remarkable occurence. Salvador Dali: The Fish. Darwin: It was the logical next step after coming down from the trees. Emily Dickinson: Because it could not stop for death. Epicurus: For fun. Ralph Waldo Emerson: It didn't cross the road; it transcended it. Johann von Goethe: The eternal hen-principle made it do it. Ernest Hemingway: To die. In the rain. Werner Heisenberg: We are not sure which side of the road the chicken was on, but it was moving very fast. David Hume: Out of custom and habit. Jack Nicholson: 'Cause it (censored) wanted to. That's the (censored) reason. Pyrrho the Skeptic: What road? Ronald Reagan: I forget. John Sununu: The Air Force was only too happy to provide the transportation, so quite understandably the chicken availed himself of the opportunity. The Sphinx: You tell me. Mr. T: If you saw me coming you'd cross the road too! Henry David Thoreau: To live deliberately ... and suck all the marrow out of life. Mark Twain: The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated. Molly Yard: It was a hen! Zeno of Elea: To prove it could never reach the other side. Chaucer: So priketh hem nature in hir corages. Wordsworth: To wander lonely as a cloud. The Godfather: I didn't want its mother to see it like that. Keats: Philosophy will clip a chicken's wings. Blake: To see heaven in a wild fowl. Othello: Jealousy. Dr Johnson: Sir, had you known the Chicken for as long as I have, you would not so readily enquire, but feel rather the Need to resist such a public Display of your own lamentable and incorrigible Ignorance. Mrs Thatcher: This chicken's not for turning. Supreme Soviet: There has never been a chicken in this photograph. Oscar Wilde: Why, indeed? One's social engagements whilst in town ought never expose one to such barbarous inconvenience - although, perhaps, if one must cross a road, one may do far worse than to cross it as the chicken in question. Kafka: Hardly the most urgent enquiry to make of a low-grade insurance clerk who woke up that morning as a hen. Swift: It is, of course, inevitable that such a loathsome, filth-ridden and degraded creature as Man should assume to question the actions of one in all respects his superior. Macbeth: To have turned back were as tedious as to go o'er. Whitehead: Clearly, having fallen victim to the fallacy of misplaced concreteness. Freud: An die andere Seite zu kommen. (Much laughter) Hamlet: That is not the question. Donne: It crosseth for thee. Pope: It was mimicking my Lord Hervey. Constable: To get a better view.

You mean there aren't already enough silly pics in the randomness thread? Okay, I can live with that... there's always more entertainment to post. However, a word of warning...

Are you serious? The Internet is FULL of cat pictures. Cat pictures, and porn. This is what the Internet is for. If you can't find the cat pictures, we'll have to assume that you're just watching porn all day, because there's nothing else online :) Anyway... in general, right-click the image, and then choose "copy image location/address" (wording may differ depending on browser), and then you can paste the image somewhere else. Or "save as", download it to your own machine and upload somewhere else if you prefer. And finally... here's today's offering from me. Meaghan, you'll notice it has a URL on the bottom... :)

Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round Black Sabbath - Turn Up The Night Motley Crue - Dr Feelgood Talking Heads - Road To Nowhere http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWtCittJyr0 Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FxaJKm9sdI And as an aside, I can't believe this thread hasn't been rickrolled yet. I was sorely tempted...

As much notice as possible! Why on earth would you wait once you knew you couldn't make it? No good can come of that. Having said that, many SPs have stuff on their websites about cancellation policies. I think most are OK with it if you give them 48 hours, but after that you may be looking at having to give her a deposit before you can book with her again. But this is very much up to the lady in question...

Yup. Of course, Cleo's also being far too modest on her own account... ;)

Never visited, but they don't seem to be above a little false advertizing...

Congratulations, Miquelon!

I hate to say it, but this really feels to me like someone who's got an axe to grind with TER using Lenora Frago's murder as a stick to beat them with. Okay, so maybe the guy who set up TER is a class A-1 asshole. But the idea of a site where people can give feedback on services provided is not inherently evil; things like Consumer Reports exist, and if I want to hire a local lawyer or gardener or accountant or builder I can do my research and find out who's good and who to avoid. It's not clear to me why anyone wishing to visit a SP shouldn't go about it in a similar manner. After all, that's why many of us guys got to this site in the first place, even if we may now come for different reasons. And I think this is more important in the US, for both providers and clients, since both have to be so careful about making sure the other isn't a cop - which is something we Canadians thankfully don't have to worry about, in general. Now, to be sure, there are good and bad ways of supplying this feedback: it can be done through sites like CERB, where we keep things as friendly as possible, or it can be done through things like CK's diary, which limits itself to scammers and doesn't get into the more subjective things. And it can also be done through the various other boards which take a more "anything goes" approach and thus generate a more hostile environment. Different people will also consider different things to be important; some just want to put a tick next to as many abbreviations as possible in half an hour, and others will be looking for an entirely different experience that's far more about interaction with the whole person they're with, rather than just particular portions of their anatomy. There isn't much we can do about this; it's just the way the world is. And these different types of consumer will naturally tend to gravitate to one another and seek the opinions of other consumers who consider the same things to be important. Of course, providers can, if they wish, see who turns up where and screen appropriately depending on what sort of clients they wish to see... As far as Lenora Frago's murder is concerned, we'll never know the truth. Only two people know what really happened; one is dead, and the other has just stood trial for her murder and is therefore highly unlikely to ever give an objective account. The two big issues that contributed to her murder going unpunished are the Texas law that considers trivial quantities of property to be of more value than a life, and the criminalization of sex work that means sex workers can't advertize and work openly; it's not clear to me that TER is responsible for either of those things, regardless of the sins of either its founder or its denizens.

Alas, Tuesday to Thursday tends to end up more like Sunday and Monday... Anyway, we at FB-BBM Towers have recently begun to attempt to appreciate art. No not just the "art" that mostly involves photos of nubile young ladies with little if any clothing... but things that are acknowledged as being the best that humanity has produced. Art that has stood the test of time. In other words, oil paintings of nubile young ladies with little if any clothing. It's been hard work, but I think some of the art we've been appreciating has begun to rub off on us. When someone needed another beer we used to just chuck it across the room any old how, but now we pass each other beers... artistically!

Well... finally! I'd had the pleasure of meeting Vitto at one of the CERB socials, and that definitely convinced me that I wanted to further our acquaintance. It took a bit of time for the opportunity to arise, but I recently managed to meet her... properly ;) Well, I certainly wasn't disappointed! She gave me a very sexy massage while slowly shedding items of clothing, and once all that was gone, the real fun began. Fantastic bodyslides, and after that a whole lot more fantasticness (is that a word? It is now!) I'll definitely be back!

Stravinsky's The Rite Of Spring, visualized. Nerdy, but awesome.

Congrats, Royalfun!

Hope you had a great day, Castle!

Awesome job, OD! Seriously, you're the life and soul of the party...carry on!

Congratulations, Areez! Is it really only 500 posts? It feels like more...

But.... why? Okay... for now... Men At Work - Down Under Adam And The Ants - Antmusic Queen - I Want To Break Free http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRdo7WXTVoM (because Brian May in curlers still makes me giggle)

I should hope so too. You'll have to visit again soon so OD and I can check your adherence to the FB-BBM diet :)