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Best of 2006: Poster of the year

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Re: Best of 2006: Poster of the year

Unread postby basil_hayden » Tue 12 Dec 2006, 12:08:45

pup55
rockdoc123
gg3

are some of my favorite posters

with

seldom_seen
oowolf
ohanian
rogerhb

being the most entertaining or profound

and

Leanan is my favorite news editor.

EDIT: A day without a good ole holmsian rant is like a day without sunshine. Go holmes! Holmes would kick kunstler's ass if they gave holmes a blog.
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Re: Best of 2006: Poster of the year

Unread postby smallpoxgirl » Sat 16 Dec 2006, 14:11:41

This one took a while to tally the nominations. I'm hoping we can make this into a front page poll. If not, I'll add a poll here. Since there were 3 people with 5 nominations each, I expanded the poll to the top 6 nominees. Those six are: Heineken, GG3, Smallpoxgirl, DantesPeak, Pops, and Montequest.
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Re: Best of 2006: Poster of the year

Unread postby Cynus » Tue 26 Dec 2006, 11:29:44

I vote for Dantespeak.
One of these now am I too, a fugitive from the gods and a wanderer, at the mercy of raging Strife.
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Re: Best of 2006: Poster of the year

Unread postby MrBill » Wed 27 Dec 2006, 05:06:21

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cynus', 'I') vote for Dantespeak.


I could never figure out what Dante Speak was though? Is it old Italian or the rhyme from The Divine Comedy by Giovanni Boccaccio?

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '"')Through me the way into the suffering city,
Through me the way to the eternal pain,
Through me the way that runs among the lost.
Justice urged on my high artificer;
My maker was divine authority,
The highest wisdom, and the primal love.
Before me nothing but eternal things were made,
And I endure eternally.
Abandon every hope, ye who enter here."
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Re: Best of 2006: Poster of the year

Unread postby threadbear » Wed 27 Dec 2006, 16:16:10

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MrBill', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cynus', 'I') vote for Dantespeak.


I could never figure out what Dante Speak was though? Is it old Italian or the rhyme from The Divine Comedy by Giovanni Boccaccio?

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '"')Through me the way into the suffering city,
Through me the way to the eternal pain,
Through me the way that runs among the lost.
Justice urged on my high artificer;
My maker was divine authority,
The highest wisdom, and the primal love.
Before me nothing but eternal things were made,
And I endure eternally.
Abandon every hope, ye who enter here."


You are far too cultivated, Mr.Bill. I would guess it's not Dante speak but Dante's peak:

http://www.geol.umd.edu/pages/facilitie ... /dante.htm
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Re: Best of 2006: Poster of the year

Unread postby MrBill » Thu 28 Dec 2006, 03:32:19

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'Y')ou are far too cultivated, Mr.Bill. I would guess it's not Dante speak but Dante's peak:


Yes, I suppose that would make more sense? ; - )

Nothing to do then with George Orwell's doublespeak either then.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'D')oublespeak is language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning, often resulting in a communication bypass.


By the way, I took the Dante's Inferno Test of Impurity, Sin... and Damnation yesterday while I was at it. Not too bad. I am only slightly damned to an eternity of Hell on Level Two. I suppose it could have been worse?

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Re: Best of 2006: Poster of the year

Unread postby CARVER » Thu 04 Jan 2007, 11:05:54

I'm a bit late, but I would like to nominate MrBill. Learned a lot from him and he always answers your questions, even when your questions come in the form of misinformed attacks :) (You should start your own blog.) There are many others who's posts I've enjoyed reading like: gg3, rogerhb, ...

The reason I'm not posting anymore lately is not because I ran out of questions, but lack of time or too many other things that take my time. Just wanted to say: thank you all!
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Re: Best of 2006: Poster of the year

Unread postby MrBill » Thu 11 Jan 2007, 11:30:35

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('CARVER', 'I')'m a bit late, but I would like to nominate MrBill. Learned a lot from him and he always answers your questions, even when your questions come in the form of misinformed attacks :) (You should start your own blog.) There are many others who's posts I've enjoyed reading like: gg3, rogerhb, ...

The reason I'm not posting anymore lately is not because I ran out of questions, but lack of time or too many other things that take my time. Just wanted to say: thank you all!


Hey, Carver, I wondered where you were hiding? Good to know you're still lurking somewhere. Thanks.

p.s. someone else sent me this link, but you may find it interesting as well as I know you are very interested in the theory of money creation and local currencies. Cheers.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'M')ises began his presentation in Part I, Chapter I of The Theory of Money and Credit with a discussion of voluntary exchange. In a society without exchange, money is unnecessary. Mises said specifically in the book's first paragraph that money is also not needed in theory in a pure socialist commonwealth (p. 29). By contrast, in a private property order, "The function of money is to facilitate the business of the market by acting as a common medium of exchange" (p. 29).



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