<martel> American science fiction writer and founder of the Church of Scientology
L. Ron Hubbard uses his Hubbard Electrometer to determine whether tomatoes experience pain, 1968. His work led him to the conclusion that tomatoes "scream when sliced."
<DrLazyBoy> I guess if you could create a religion that believes that humans were
put on the earth 50,000 yrs ago by aliens, anything else is possible...
<cheesy> Who is to say that a tomato doesn't have some sort of nervous system
<archon> me
<archon> a tomato doesn't have some sort of nervous system

"Every family should have a lever gun behind the kitchen door, if only to run off the the man from the bank."   -- Jason Steiner

re: "Bank of America forecloses on house that couple had paid cash for"

<slather> is it wrong that i am googling "paul harvey gay sex wav"?

<cheesy> You seriously like [Borderlands] better than [Fallout 3]?
<hide> more than seriously
<cheesy> No taste
<hide> I like to kill people, not talk to them
<hide> if I wanted to talk to people, I wouldn't have gone into computers
<isosceles> hah
<isosceles> i went into computers for the money
<isosceles> so i can spend it
<isosceles> with people
<archon> i went into computers for the bitches
<cheesy> How did that work out for you?
<archon> well i met you
* archon zing!

<ton> I'd pay a Mexican dude six bucks to slice my cucumber!

<jim> i wanna be a beekeeper
<jim> we have bees on the farm
<jim> i want to do it because i am a little afraid of bees
<jim> staring into the abyss and all that
<jim> so far my only fears are drowning, bees, and girls
<jim> so that would knock off 33%
<Mechant> don't tell jim about the queen mer-bee

<Bob_Talbot> I love selling Ayn Rand books to these fat rednecks that come in
<Bob_Talbot> they're buying it for their teenage kids
<Bob_Talbot> and at no point do they realize that they are not the fucking 
 captains of industry

<Mechant> and brain cells do grow back 
<Mechant> sometimes the brain cells are totally not afraid of the police though

<Hoot> in a recent paper I actually wrote "Wikipedia says I am a
 'Millennial'.  What this means is that I can begin a sentence with the 
 phrase 'Wikipedia says.'"

<chime> Why do the Canadians have to have their Thanksgiving at the wrong time
 of year?
<scromp> eh, they're idiots.  they just *have* to be different I guess.
<chime> What do they have to be thankful for, anyway?