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If I hear one more person...

Unread postby davep » Fri 26 Sep 2008, 01:51:29

...say that we're living in interesting times, I'll kill them.

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Re: If I hear one more person...

Unread postby Carlhole » Fri 26 Sep 2008, 02:19:09

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Re: If I hear one more person...

Unread postby davep » Fri 26 Sep 2008, 02:27:27

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Re: If I hear one more person...

Unread postby Quinny » Fri 26 Sep 2008, 03:43:42

We're living in terrifying times!

Will that do.
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Re: If I hear one more person...

Unread postby davep » Fri 26 Sep 2008, 04:16:32

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Quinny', 'W')e're living in terrifying times!

Will that do.


That'll do!

I just get annoyed at the knowing looks of colleagues as they come out with it. Yes, I know it's meant to be a Chinese curse, but it isn't. It's not big or clever, so stop it.
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Unread postby TheDude » Fri 26 Sep 2008, 06:32:08

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Unread postby Niagara » Fri 26 Sep 2008, 07:00:59

Ok then. We live in...fascinating times

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Unread postby Dawn » Fri 26 Sep 2008, 07:32:58

LOL! I'm off to edit my other post. I don't want to die! 8O
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Unread postby pedalling_faster » Fri 26 Sep 2008, 12:34:45

what's the penalty for saying

WHOO HOO WA MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ?

this is the most spectacular financial trainwreck in the history of person-kind - VERY interesting times.
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Re: If I hear one more person...

Unread postby Carlhole » Fri 26 Sep 2008, 12:40:50

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('davep', 'I') just get annoyed at the knowing looks of colleagues as they come out with it. Yes, I know it's meant to be a Chinese curse, but it isn't. It's not big or clever, so stop it.


The supposed ancient Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times", is neither ancient nor Chinese.

Did you happen to click on my sig and read about one diligent wordsmith's investigation into its origins?


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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('U-Turn', 'A') day or two later, there I was in Special Collections at the University Library looking at "U-Turn" by Duncan H. Munro, a pseudonym for Eric Frank Russell. Mind you, I wasn't simply looking at a microform image or even a bound volume. I was holding the original, unbound April 1950 issue of Astounding Science Fiction in my hand. It had been recently donated in that state. Astounding. (Click on the image to the right to see it in all its glory.)

As for the curse itself, it is on page 137. The main character of "U-Turn," Mason, has opted for assisted suicide to escape a regimented life in which Venus and Mars are civilized, life on the Moon is spent safely underground, and wild animals in Earth's jungles are as harmless as if they were artificial. We learn at the end of the story that Mason has correctly surmised that the death chamber to which he voluntarily goes is actually a Star Trek-like transporter which will irreversibly send him where he really wants to go -- to the current human frontier, Callisto, one of the moons of Jupiter -- assuming he is among the small fraction of those who survive the dissociation and reassociation process of the device. But before that, while one of the bureaucrats processes his "death wish," Mason complains about the order, regulation, and control under which everyone is forced to live:

For centuries the Chinese used an ancient curse: "May you live in interesting times!" It isn't a curse any more. It's a blessing. We're scientific and civilized. We've got so many rights and liberties and freedoms that one can yearn for chains for the sheer pleasure of busting them and shaking them off. Reckon life would be more livable if there were any chains left to bust.
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Unread postby Plantagenet » Fri 26 Sep 2008, 12:53:25

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Re: If I hear one more person...

Unread postby Quinny » Sat 27 Sep 2008, 04:08:17

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dawn', 'L')OL! I'm off to edit my other post. I don't want to die! 8O


Don't worry too much - he's a scouser.

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Re: If I hear one more person...

Unread postby Lumpy » Sat 27 Sep 2008, 10:31:59

Carlhole -
Great picture - great reference. Old sci-fi - very cool :-)

This is not as cool -- but the way I am feeling rather frequently lately:

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Re: If I hear one more person...

Unread postby Chuckmak » Sun 28 Sep 2008, 17:13:28

we are living in interesting times
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Unread postby TheDude » Sun 28 Sep 2008, 17:18:55

That Maxine's a riot.

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Unread postby countrygal » Sun 28 Sep 2008, 18:16:52

So if the water boils the frog won't die?
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Unread postby Plantagenet » Sun 28 Sep 2008, 18:51:08

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Unread postby Pops » Sun 28 Sep 2008, 19:30:48

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Any sentence containing Wall Street and Main Street.

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Re: If I hear one more person...

Unread postby Daniel_Plainview » Sun 28 Sep 2008, 19:45:12

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('davep', '.')..say that we're living in interesting times, I'll kill them.

You have been warned. 8O [smilie=5arg.gif] [smilie=qright5.gif]


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Re: If I hear one more person...

Unread postby Kristen » Sun 28 Sep 2008, 19:53:33

I'd say its a lot more then interesting, more like trying or dire. People really don't know how to bring this awkward and awesome issue up and saying "we live in interesting times," is going to get a better reaction then "Holy efin' christ, she's gonna blow!"
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