Comrades, today is Alaska Day. It is on the 18th of October that Russia transferred Alaska to United States. I would check the People's Museum if this was legal, but now I have but a few questions.

What would you do on Alaska Day? Will you celebrate it on a Monday, Sunday or not at all? Is Alaska Day Imperialistic? What do you think of the price the United States payed for the land? Was it worth the risk of buying it?

Due to our leaders request, I am placing a poll for Alaska Day.

Since both questions are the same, I have no choice. It doesn't matter if I vote, or not vote.


The purchase price paid by the US to Russia was $7.2 million.

https://www.answers.com/Q/How_much_did_the_United_States_pay_to_buy_Alaska

Hammer and Loupe wrote:Comrades, today is Alaska Day. It is on the 18th of October that Russia transferred Alaska to United States. I would check the People's Museum if this was legal, but now I have but a few questions.

What would you do on Alaska Day? Will you celebrate it on a Monday, Sunday or not at all? Is Alaska Day Imperialistic? What do you think of the price the United States payed for the land? Was it worth the risk of buying it?

Due to our leaders requests, I am placing a poll for Alaska Day.

Comrade H&L,

Please have one of the necro-proxy voters choose for me - I can't decide.

Thanks

CC

Captain Craptek wrote:

Hammer and Loupe wrote:Comrades, today is Alaska Day. It is on the 18th of October that Russia transferred Alaska to United States. I would check the People's Museum if this was legal, but now I have but a few questions.

What would you do on Alaska Day? Will you celebrate it on a Monday, Sunday or not at all? Is Alaska Day Imperialistic? What do you think of the price the United States payed for the land? Was it worth the risk of buying it?

Due to our leaders requests, I am placing a poll for Alaska Day.

Comrade H&L,

Please have one of the necro-proxy voters choose for me - I can't decide.

Thanks

CC

Don't worry Captain Craptek, we have a list of proxies to vote for you..... Hmmmm...... Only two signed up so far..... Comrade Ivan the Stakhanovets and Comrade Putout have volunteered. Who do you want to represent your votes in this poll?

Pamalinsky wrote:Since both questions are the same, I have no choice. It doesn't matter if I vote, or not vote.

...

Pick up the phone and call the reeducation hotline. It DOES matter if you vote or not. If you think it doesn't I have a couple buddies of mine on speed dial that I'd like you to meet. And you DO have a choice: To vote or not to vote. Whether or not that is a question shall be left to your District Komissar. But, if your DK decides it is a question, I'd want to pick the right answer if I was you.

And, for the record, I DID vote. I picked the "Is none of my concern" option.

We should sell some of it back, expecially any dead, smelly fish or Lisa Murkowski. No price too cheap, so long as they agree to cart away the fish -- and Murkowski.



Re the People's Poll above: any witless dumbass, even Stephen Colbert (well, maybe not Colbert), can see the poll is a trick, and that #2 is the correct answer. Except that #1 could also be correct under certain factual scenarios that are curiously not presented by the pollster, either (1) intentionally, or (2) unintentionally, or for some other reason.

Thinking more about it, #3 is not a bad answer either, though one should not completely ignore answers 4 and 5, wherever they are.

The safest guess would be to choose answer #6, if you can count that high. If you can't count that high, you must be Al Shaprton. And if you are Al Sharpton, you probably can't even read this. So screw 'em - no tips for Sharpton. Let him pick his own answer. He'll probably pick zero - if he can count that high.

Then again, by using a list of Hillary Clinton accomplishments as an aid, even Sharpton will be able to count to zero.



Shaprton 'and' Scooter Van Neuter (Scooter, being from the hilarious www.worldnewsbureau.com)

Celebrate with the former governor, and kill baby seals and polar bears!

Ivan the Stakhanovets wrote:Celebrate with the former governor, and kill baby seals and polar bears!

And Saint Palin raised the Purdey up on high, saying, "O Lord, bless this thy shotgun, that with it I may blow the progs to tiny bits, in thy mercy." And the Lord did grin. And the people did feast upon the lambs, and sloths, and carp, and anchovies, and orangutans, and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats, and large chu...

Lev Termen wrote:

Ivan the Stakhanovets wrote:Celebrate with the former governor, and kill baby seals and polar bears!

And Saint Palin raised the Purdey up on high, saying, "O Lord, bless this thy shotgun, that with it I may blow the progs to tiny bits, in thy mercy." And the Lord did grin. And the people did feast upon the lambs, and sloths, and carp, and anchovies, and orangutans, and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats, and large chu...

Now did the Lord say "First thou chamberest the Holy Cartridge. Then thou shalt read Amendment two, no more, no less. Two shall be the number of the Amendment and the number of the Amendment shall be two. Amendment Three shall not be read, nor either read number one, excepting that thou shalt proceed to two. Amendment Four is right out! Once Amendment two, being the second Amendment, be read, then fire thy Holy Shotgun towards thou foe, who being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it".

Amen.

We all know that the US capitalists cheated the Russians out of Alaska in a time when Russian brains were frozen. Now that the great world soviets have invented global warming Russian brains are thawing and they want Alaska back. So far they have had no luck at grabbing the state from the evil, cold hands of the capitalists but under the socialist leader Obama, Russia may have a chance. Putin is toying with the idea of just sending in an army and taking Alaska. We all know comrade Obama would do nothing. He would disappear for a few days until the furor had stopped and then show up on some golf course somewhere. The only thing stopping Comrade Putin from implementing his plan is all the armed Alaskans. When he and Obama can disarm Americans, the takeover can continue. Onward mother Russia.

Hammer and Loupe wrote:

Captain Craptek wrote:

Hammer and Loupe wrote:Comrades, today is Alaska Day. It is on the 18th of October that Russia transferred Alaska to United States. I would check the People's Museum if this was legal, but now I have but a few questions.

What would you do on Alaska Day? Will you celebrate it on a Monday, Sunday or not at all? Is Alaska Day Imperialistic? What do you think of the price the United States payed for the land? Was it worth the risk of buying it?

Due to our leaders requests, I am placing a poll for Alaska Day.

Comrade H&L,

Please have one of the necro-proxy voters choose for me - I can't decide.

Thanks

CC

Don't worry Captain Craptek, we have a list of proxies to vote for you..... Hmmmm...... Only two signed up so far..... Comrade Ivan the Stakhanovets and Comrade Putout have volunteered. Who do you want to represent your votes in this poll?

Ahh.... Let's see.... Putout or ....that guy Stakhanovets....Hmmmm.... I'm not sure. You decide and let me know.

Thanks again for all your help,

CC

But, what about me, Comrade Crap? I always support you! (I know you already know that)

Just supporting you again. ; • )

Pamalinsky wrote:But, what about me, Comrade Crap? I always support you! (I know you already know that)

Just supporting you again. ; • )

But Pami, Comrade H&L gave me only 2 choices and I can't decide. OK, you decide for me and tell Comrade H&L and he can cast my vote. BTW: What are we voting for?

Captain Craptek wrote:

Pamalinsky wrote:But, what about me, Comrade Crap? I always support you! (I know you already know that)

Just supporting you again. ; • )

But Pami, Comrade H&L gave me only 2 choices and I can't decide. OK, you decide for me and tell Comrade H&L and he can cast my vote. BTW: What are we voting for?

Oh, I dunno! I just want to play and be happy! Is that too much to ask? (Sigh)

Pamalinsky wrote:

Captain Craptek wrote:

Pamalinsky wrote:But, what about me, Comrade Crap? I always support you! (I know you already know that)

Just supporting you again. ; • )

But Pami, Comrade H&L gave me only 2 choices and I can't decide. OK, you decide for me and tell Comrade H&L and he can cast my vote. BTW: What are we voting for?

Oh, I dunno! I just want to play and be happy! Is that too much to ask? (Sigh)

Comrade Pam, I thought you asked to be on the list. Well, since you are on it now, what shall you choose for the Captain?

Comrade H&L,

This is getting too confusing for me. I mean, to choose between two choices that are the same just confounds my understanding. So, I'll vote for which ever thingy you tell me to.

I just want to get along with things. ; • )

Pamalinsky wrote:Comrade H&L,

This is getting too confusing for me. I mean, to choose between two choices that are the same just confounds my understanding. So, I'll vote for which ever thingy you tell me to.

I just want to get along with things. ; • )

Why not both?

Hammer and Loupe wrote:

Pamalinsky wrote:Comrade H&L,

This is getting too confusing for me. I mean, to choose between two choices that are the same just confounds my understanding. So, I'll vote for which ever thingy you tell me to.

I just want to get along with things. ; • )

Why not both?

Well, Okay! I'm just a girly-girl who wants to make the world a better place, and don't know one thing from another. Yay, both!

Pamalinsky wrote:

Hammer and Loupe wrote:

Pamalinsky wrote:Comrade H&L,

This is getting too confusing for me. I mean, to choose between two choices that are the same just confounds my understanding. So, I'll vote for which ever thingy you tell me to.

I just want to get along with things. ; • )

Why not both?

Well, Okay! I'm just a girly-girl who wants to make the world a better place, and don't know one thing from another. Yay, both!

Thanks. Finally, my vote is cast and I am absolved from all responsibility for the result -- the way it should always be. I think I'll take a little nap...

Thanks, Crap! I am always grateful for crap whenever it appears. Thanks a pile!

I'm about ready for my nappy! That's all I need to sleep better. ZZZZZZZZ!

Pamalinsky wrote:Thanks, Crap! I am always grateful for crap whenever it appears. Thanks a pile!

I'm about ready for my nappy! That's all I need to sleep better. ZZZZZZZZ!

Sleep better? Pammy, get a humidifier and put some of this in it, along with some good 'ol Jack Daniels:

Comrade Stierlitz wrote:

Pamalinsky wrote:Thanks, Crap! I am always grateful for crap whenever it appears. Thanks a pile!

I'm about ready for my nappy! That's all I need to sleep better. ZZZZZZZZ!

Sleep better? Pammy, get a humidifier and put some of this in it, along with some good 'ol Jack Daniels:

cloroform.jpg

Hey, Comrade Bull,

I ain't that stupid! But, pretty close. ; • )

Most Equal Komrads,

I apologize for my late response to this post. I've been recovering from the Alaska Day Bacchanalia / Baby Seal Clubbing Festival.

The "sale" of Alaska to the United States was a Czarist ploy. Czarist Russia was at war with the British Empire in the Crimea at the time. (Funny how these things never change)

The Czar had a couple problems. The first was that he was very short of cash. The second was that the British were planning a second front by invading Alaska from the Canadian territories. The Czar solved both by selling Alaska to the United States.

He got the cash he needed to continue funding his war in the Crimea AND now the British were faced with invading the United States again. The British were in no hurry to get into a war with another country as they were already at war with Russia.

The Czar figured he could take Alaska back any time he wanted.

Now if I only had a good hangover remedy and a way to get these seal blood stains out of my fur coat......

Faithful to the Current Truth ™

Red Salmon

Sigh! I love you, Red Salmon! In fact, I prefer red over white canned salmon. (The white is cheaper) But, I will always go for the best! (that would be you)

Most Equal Pamalinski

Flattery will get you everywhere.

Red Salmon

Comrade Stierlitz wrote:

Pamalinsky wrote:Thanks, Crap! I am always grateful for crap whenever it appears. Thanks a pile!

I'm about ready for my nappy! That's all I need to sleep better. ZZZZZZZZ!

Sleep better? Pammy, get a humidifier and put some of this in it, along with some good 'ol Jack Daniels:

cloroform.jpg

This reminds me of the old college pick-up line..."Say, beautiful, does this cloth smell ike chloroform to you?". I ahhh..never tried it, but it (ahem) ought to work like a champ!

[color=#C0392B]Pamalinsky[/color] was getting Red Salmon ready for the frying pan when she wrote:Sigh! I love you, Red Salmon! In fact, I prefer red over white canned salmon. (The white is cheaper) But, I will always go for the best! (that would be you)

[color=#C0392B]Red Salmon[/color], being a dude, wrote:Most Equal Pamalinski

Flattery will get you everywhere.

Red Salmon

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Hook, line, and sinker!
.

OMG, Comrade Putout, what would I do without you?

You always explain the inexplainable in so many different ways. I am so grateful for this!
As girly-girly as I can be, (which I am not) I can only giggle.

When I am otherwise confronted, I will roar and be the bitch of the century!

Meanwhile, I like to be the most darling girl a guy could imagine, someone who never complains about anything.

That, of course, means there's nothing to complain about.

Denial is one's best defense.

Comrade Putout wrote:.
Hook, line, and sinker!
.

More like hook, line and STINKER! YIKES!

Pamalinsky wrote:
Denial is one's best defense.

De Nile is a river in Egypt.

Comrade Bull,

THIS is what you leave me with? Are you serious?

I have never looked like that in my lifetime and may God have mercy on those who do.

I truly do not know what you are talking about.

Can you be more specific? (I'm not sure I want to know) but, give it a shot.

If you don't give me an appropriate answer, I'll have to turn Kommissarka Pinkie on you.

Trust me, you'll regret it.

Hmmm, on a chilly gulag night...Nevermind.


Say, did anyone get the beet quota numbers from last week?

Pamalinsky wrote:Comrade Bull,

THIS is what you leave me with? Are you serious?

I have never looked like that in my lifetime and may God have mercy on those who do.

I truly do not know what you are talking about.

Can you be more specific? (I'm not sure I want to know) but, give it a shot.

If you don't give me an appropriate answer, I'll have to turn Kommissarka Pinkie on you.

Trust me, you'll regret it.

It's called Point/Counterpoint, like the old 60 Minutes segment. If Comrade Ivan were to have left an ugly photo, I would've left a pretty one. However, seeing as he left a pretty one, I had to leave an ugly one. Trust me, I didn't want to do it, but you gotta play the game.

And don't bother with pinkie, I can see her coming from miles away (She really should take that chrome finish off her spade) and I have some fast-acting painkillers always on my person ready to be used.

EDIT::

Also, what the hell's up with the "bull" nickname?

Comrade Stierlitz wrote:

Pamalinsky wrote:Comrade Bull,

THIS is what you leave me with? Are you serious?

I have never looked like that in my lifetime and may God have mercy on those who do.

I truly do not know what you are talking about.

Can you be more specific? (I'm not sure I want to know) but, give it a shot.

If you don't give me an appropriate answer, I'll have to turn Kommissarka Pinkie on you.

Trust me, you'll regret it.

It's called Point/Counterpoint, like the old 60 Minutes segment. If Comrade Ivan were to have left an ugly photo, I would've left a pretty one. However, seeing as he left a pretty one, I had to leave an ugly one. Trust me, I didn't want to do it, but you gotta play the game.

And don't bother with pinkie, I can see her coming from miles away (She really should take that chrome finish off her spade) and I have some fast-acting painkillers always on my person ready to be used.

EDIT::

Also, what the hell's up with the "bull" nickname?

You have pain medicine? May I have a look?

Hammer and Loupe wrote:
You have pain medicine? May I have a look?

No, it was prescribed by my doctor, S. T. Eirlitz. It'd be a violation of federal law for me to show it to you.

"Stier = Bull" as in Steer. Right? Correct me if I am wrong. It's possible, and I'll do my best to remedy the situation, if necessary. But, don't push it.

Comrade Stierlitz wrote:

Hammer and Loupe wrote:
You have pain medicine? May I have a look?

No, it was prescribed by my doctor, S. T. Eirlitz. It'd be a violation of federal law for me to show it to you.

S. T. Eirlitz..... hmmmmm..... you got it from the medicine cabinet?

Pamalinsky wrote:"Stier = Bull" as in Steer. Right? Correct me if I am wrong. It's possible, and I'll do my best to remedy the situation, if necessary. But, don't push it.

Nope. You're teetering on denouncement, Pammy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stierlitz

Ivan the Stakhanovets wrote: This reminds me of the old college pick-up line..."Say, beautiful, does this cloth smell ike chloroform to you?". I ahhh..never tried it, but it (ahem) ought to work like a champ!

I hear the kids these days call that a "Hot Cosby."

Commissar Obamissar V wrote:

Ivan the Stakhanovets wrote: This reminds me of the old college pick-up line..."Say, beautiful, does this cloth smell ike chloroform to you?". I ahhh..never tried it, but it (ahem) ought to work like a champ!

I hear the kids these days call that a "Hot Cosby."

That is all.

Comrade Stierlitz wrote:

Pamalinsky wrote:Comrade Bull,

THIS is what you leave me with? Are you serious?

I have never looked like that in my lifetime and may God have mercy on those who do.

I truly do not know what you are talking about.

Can you be more specific? (I'm not sure I want to know) but, give it a shot.

If you don't give me an appropriate answer, I'll have to turn Kommissarka Pinkie on you.

Trust me, you'll regret it.

It's called Point/Counterpoint, like the old 60 Minutes segment. If Comrade Ivan were to have left an ugly photo, I would've left a pretty one. However, seeing as he left a pretty one, I had to leave an ugly one. Trust me, I didn't want to do it, but you gotta play the game.

And don't bother with pinkie, I can see her coming from miles away (She really should take that chrome finish off her spade) and I have some fast-acting painkillers always on my person ready to be used.

EDIT::

Also, what the hell's up with the "bull" nickname?

Comrade Stierlitz,

I do appreciate your clarification regarding your avatar. And, I stand corrected. Thank you.

Most Cubists would've understood the misunderstanding of it and corrected it. In fact, Comrade Craptek gave me permission to call him “Crap” for short. As long as he could call me Pamski.

I don't appreciate, however, your so-called “60 Minutes” segment, where you found it necessary to leave an ugly image of me to justify your point. At no point in this conversation did I give YOU an ugly picture or description. So, your Counter Point had nothing to counter. Capish?

Furthermore, I do not accept your premise of having to play your game.

I could ignore this whole thing but choose to address it.

My problem with your image of me is not the image itself but, the intention behind it. That, to me, says a bunch. I do not like it.

When I first joined the Cube, I loved it, as I'm sure you do, because I wanted so much to interact with such witty people. I was a jackass, at times, not knowing how to speak “progtalk.” I posted attacks on those who did not recognize the spelling of my avatar. They spelled it with an “i” at the instead of a “y.”

Really stupid stuff.

I have since come to know those in the Cube family as loving friends. They are truly a treasure.

Also, for the record regarding Pinkie, I know I have absolutely no control over what she will do. She does what she wants to do.

Meanwhile, in between time, please know that I am on your side.

For now.

Love,
Pamsky

And we were so close to a show trial and a good purge!

Oh well, beets to tend, tractors to fix, rations to trade...

Ivan the Stakhanovets wrote:And we were so close to a show trial and a good purge!

Oh well, beets to tend, tractors to fix, rations to trade...

I don't really want one but, let the chips fall where they may! I'll still be standing, as I hope we all will. All of us!

Of course you will. What would the Cube be without an opera singer with a library of YouTube video for every topic?

Oh, I denounce myself for ever using an I instead of Y in the suffix. Ever.

Pamalinsky wrote: Comrade Stierlitz,

I do appreciate your clarification regarding your avatar. And, I stand corrected. Thank you.

Most Cubists would've understood the misunderstanding of it and corrected it. In fact, Comrade Craptek gave me permission to call him “Crap” for short. As long as he could call me Pamski.

I don't appreciate, however, your so-called “60 Minutes” segment, where you found it necessary to leave an ugly image of me to justify your point. At no point in this conversation did I give YOU an ugly picture or description. So, your Counter Point had nothing to counter. Capish?

Furthermore, I do not accept your premise of having to play your game.

I could ignore this whole thing but choose to address it.

My problem with your image of me is not the image itself but, the intention behind it. That, to me, says a bunch. I do not like it.

When I first joined the Cube, I loved it, as I'm sure you do, because I wanted so much to interact with such witty people. I was a jackass, at times, not knowing how to speak “progtalk.” I posted attacks on those who did not recognize the spelling of my avatar. They spelled it with an “i” at the instead of a “y.”

Really stupid stuff.

I have since come to know those in the Cube family as loving friends. They are truly a treasure.

Also, for the record regarding Pinkie, I know I have absolutely no control over what she will do. She does what she wants to do.

Meanwhile, in between time, please know that I am on your side.

Love,
Pamsky

[OFF]

Yeah, I meant it in good fun but I've found out on some discussion boards that intention can come across in wildly different ways. One discussion board that I frequent has absolutely Orwellian rules, they read like a government document, and they take everything at face-value. If you take the piss out of somebody you'll have what feels like the wrath of god descend upon you. Another one I frequent has only one rule that boils down to "Don't be an ass" and things that would be incredibly, IP-ban offensive on the Orwellian board are taken in good fun and are treated like playful banter. This board, TPC, seems to have more of an ability to detect the intention behind seemingly offensive things, like the second board described, and I guess I got too comfortable and too assuming. But, then again, this kind of stuff provides me with datapoints so that I know where I should stop, where I should kick it up a bit, where I should tone it down, what should be posted and what shouldn't, etc, and ultimately makes it easier for me to make quality posts without too much hassle or offense. Red Square's slapping that he gave to me a couple days ago gave me a datapoint of the big stuff, and you gave me a datapoint of the smaller stuff.

And I do agree that the Kube is a family. This is just about the only board that I didn't have to go through a bunch of hoops or go through a long period of time before I felt comfortable on it. It was just like merging onto an Interstate Highway that is completely empty. Sure, I did have to learn a lot of terms like the infamous Next Tuesday, but that means that the Kube is more like a Mafia family than a normal one, and I'd say that's a good description. The Mafia shoots down people that don't expect it, and we shoot down articles and politicians that don't expect it.

I suppose that that the reason why the Kube's a big family because this board is the only one in it's class, so you don't have to make it hard to join to compete with other boards and keep unsavory people out. But I think that it's a good thing that it's the first in it's class; I've searched for political boards before and they all take everything too seriously. I'm not too keen on serious political discussion, I'm more on the side of discussion that makes fun of and satirizes politics and the political system. Because you DO need to laugh at it all and the futility of it all, otherwise you'll go insane. I don't personally believe in a god, and I don't have a problem if you do, but if I did I'd believe that he'd be laughing his ass off at us all arguing and worrying about something that, in the grand scheme of things, boils down to chicken-shit.

However, I DID go through a period when I was just getting into politics of loving serious discussion, but then I saw what it was doing to me (making me paranoid, anxious all the time, worrying about things that in the end didn't matter at all), and I said "this is enough, I need to cut back". I looked at some stuff by Dave Barry and Greg Gutfeld, Lewis Black's and George Carlin's political humor, and various other outlets and authors of political humor, and I never looked back. I also found that, once I'd discovered and started getting into political humor, I was more well-informed and more savvy with politics presented in a humorous way than if I just read the same story or the same event presented in a serious way. Nowadays I make jokes in my head if I ever read any serious article and sort of write and subsequently read my own humor piece as I'm going along. I looked forever to find a board like this, and when I did I thought I'd struck gold.

And I don't feel intimidated by anybody like I do on some boards, even Red Square, but whenever stupid stuff like this happens I get scared off my rear end. I don't try to make enemies with anybody on the internet; I don't like some people and some people don't like me, that's just life, but I only have one that I consider to be my enemy. And I'm glad he's my enemy because upon his banning from the board that he and I interacted on I found out that he was a Nazi. Now, I don't know about you, but I don't want to be friends with Nazis.

And I suppose this kind of stuff was coming sometime. I always manage to get myself in trouble on internet boards at least twice, but then everything's smooth sailing. I've already gotten slapped by Red Square and now I've got a slapping from you, so I suppose that makes 2. But my policy is that if I get more than four slaps from board admins or whatever I retire from the board permanently.

And seeing as you've told your side, I wish to present my side of the story:

If I were making an accurate image edit of you I would've chose the Mona Lisa or some other work of art. I was just trying to make a joke, I just searched "fat chick", downloaded the funniest image I could find, poorly lasso selected the appropriate portions of your avatar, and edited it in less than 30 seconds. It is the definition of "phoned in" and "one-off". Upon your removal of the poorly-glued on "joke" moniker, I tried to reinforce the already collapsing jest with a reference to an old news segment, something which in hindsight was a poorly-selected method of reinforcement. You essentially did a controlled demolition of one of my jokes, and I applaud you for that, because most of the time my humor is so obtuse, abstract, and morbid that nobody would even dare dissect, or worse, laugh at it. I've also never had a controlled demolition of one before; I've always been able to hold them up with wacky explanations, silly descriptions of situations, and these have usually made the joke stronger and more resilient to the explosives of rational thought.

So, we here at the one-man non-company of StierlitzCo applaud you for being the first ones to demolish one of our previously-thought unbreakable jokes. We offer no award but your own personal satisfaction. We will use the outcome of your demolition to make them unbreakable once again.

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Oh, and by the way, the Italian is "capisce" or "capisci", depending on who you're talking to and about. I've seen it spelled and spell it in English all the time as "kapeesh". But I've never seen it spelled as "capish". Not saying you're wrong, just an interesting observation, as I like to call them.

And by the way, Call me Comrade S, Comrade Stier, Comrade Stierlitz, The Duke of Idiocy, The Earl of Excellence, Prime Minister of Confuzistan, whichever floats your boat. But the whole "bull" thing? I was racking my brain, asking myself "did I talk about bulls with her?" "Is she trying to give me some 'bull'?" "Is she talking to someone else and misquoted me?". I thought my memory was failing on me, because my memory's usually a perfect 10 on a scale of 1-100. Pammy, please, out with the B, in with the S, and no combinations thereof, kapeesh?

And I must echo Ivan's sentiment that the Cube wouldn't be what it is today without somebody who's ready with a topical video on any subject. Not everybody can say that they own the "Youtube Swiss Army Knife". I try to but I always end up cutting myself with it. And the Opera singer aspect amazes me every time; what possesses an Opera singer who's met many famous musicians to move to Indiana and pretend to be an Orwellian Soviet on a website about right-leaning politics? It's one of those questions like "How many licks does it take to get to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop?" And the funny thing is is that the answer "The world may never know" applies to both questions.

Thanks for reading my really long, fractured, and just plain all over the place post that probably could've been shorter latest book "How I massively screwed up but managed to make everything turn out kinda okayish",
~Comrade Stierlitz

P.S. - You should tell anybody who uses -ski in your name to "go 'ski'ing", if you know what I mean. It's only a call away, option 5 on the National Thoughtcrime Hotline.

What's most awesome about buying Alaska from the Russians is that all of the natural resources and oil that the Russians would have been digging and drilling out of the ground, destroying the Environment™ with, is now out of their reach and the USSA can now protect the Environment™ by allowing Russia to dig and drill in Russian territory and the Arctic Ocean.

Comrade Stierlitz wrote:

Pamalinsky wrote: Comrade Stierlitz,

I do appreciate your clarification regarding your avatar. And, I stand corrected. Thank you.

Most Cubists would've understood the misunderstanding of it and corrected it. In fact, Comrade Craptek gave me permission to call him “Crap” for short. As long as he could call me Pamski.

I don't appreciate, however, your so-called “60 Minutes” segment, where you found it necessary to leave an ugly image of me to justify your point. At no point in this conversation did I give YOU an ugly picture or description. So, your Counter Point had nothing to counter. Capish?

Furthermore, I do not accept your premise of having to play your game.

I could ignore this whole thing but choose to address it.

My problem with your image of me is not the image itself but, the intention behind it. That, to me, says a bunch. I do not like it.

When I first joined the Cube, I loved it, as I'm sure you do, because I wanted so much to interact with such witty people. I was a jackass, at times, not knowing how to speak “progtalk.” I posted attacks on those who did not recognize the spelling of my avatar. They spelled it with an “i” at the instead of a “y.”

Really stupid stuff.

I have since come to know those in the Cube family as loving friends. They are truly a treasure.

Also, for the record regarding Pinkie, I know I have absolutely no control over what she will do. She does what she wants to do.

Meanwhile, in between time, please know that I am on your side.

Love,
Pamsky

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Yeah, I meant it in good fun but I've found out on some discussion boards that intention can come across in wildly different ways. One discussion board that I frequent has absolutely Orwellian rules, they read like a government document, and they take everything at face-value. If you take the piss out of somebody you'll have what feels like the wrath of god descend upon you. Another one I frequent has only one rule that boils down to "Don't be an ass" and things that would be incredibly, IP-ban offensive on the Orwellian board are taken in good fun and are treated like playful banter. This board, TPC, seems to have more of an ability to detect the intention behind seemingly offensive things, like the second board described, and I guess I got too comfortable and too assuming. But, then again, this kind of stuff provides me with datapoints so that I know where I should stop, where I should kick it up a bit, where I should tone it down, what should be posted and what shouldn't, etc, and ultimately makes it easier for me to make quality posts without too much hassle or offense. Red Square's slapping that he gave to me a couple days ago gave me a datapoint of the big stuff, and you gave me a datapoint of the smaller stuff.

And I do agree that the Kube is a family. This is just about the only board that I didn't have to go through a bunch of hoops or go through a long period of time before I felt comfortable on it. It was just like merging onto an Interstate Highway that is completely empty. Sure, I did have to learn a lot of terms like the infamous Next Tuesday, but that means that the Kube is more like a Mafia family than a normal one, and I'd say that's a good description. The Mafia shoots down people that don't expect it, and we shoot down articles and politicians that don't expect it.

I suppose that that the reason why the Kube's a big family because this board is the only one in it's class, so you don't have to make it hard to join to compete with other boards and keep unsavory people out. But I think that it's a good thing that it's the first in it's class; I've searched for political boards before and they all take everything too seriously. I'm not too keen on serious political discussion, I'm more on the side of discussion that makes fun of and satirizes politics and the political system. Because you DO need to laugh at it all and the futility of it all, otherwise you'll go insane. I don't personally believe in a god, and I don't have a problem if you do, but if I did I'd believe that he'd be laughing his ass off at us all arguing and worrying about something that, in the grand scheme of things, boils down to chicken-shit.

However, I DID go through a period when I was just getting into politics of loving serious discussion, but then I saw what it was doing to me (making me paranoid, anxious all the time, worrying about things that in the end didn't matter at all), and I said "this is enough, I need to cut back". I looked at some stuff by Dave Barry and Greg Gutfeld, Lewis Black's and George Carlin's political humor, and various other outlets and authors of political humor, and I never looked back. I also found that, once I'd discovered and started getting into political humor, I was more well-informed and more savvy with politics presented in a humorous way than if I just read the same story or the same event presented in a serious way. Nowadays I make jokes in my head if I ever read any serious article and sort of write and subsequently read my own humor piece as I'm going along. I looked forever to find a board like this, and when I did I thought I'd struck gold.

And I don't feel intimidated by anybody like I do on some boards, even Red Square, but whenever stupid stuff like this happens I get scared off my rear end. I don't try to make enemies with anybody on the internet; I don't like some people and some people don't like me, that's just life, but I only have one that I consider to be my enemy. And I'm glad he's my enemy because upon his banning from the board that he and I interacted on I found out that he was a Nazi. Now, I don't know about you, but I don't want to be friends with Nazis.

And I suppose this kind of stuff was coming sometime. I always manage to get myself in trouble on internet boards at least twice, but then everything's smooth sailing. I've already gotten slapped by Red Square and now I've got a slapping from you, so I suppose that makes 2. But my policy is that if I get more than four slaps from board admins or whatever I retire from the board permanently.

And seeing as you've told your side, I wish to present my side of the story:

If I were making an accurate image edit of you I would've chose the Mona Lisa or some other work of art. I was just trying to make a joke, I just searched "fat chick", downloaded the funniest image I could find, poorly lasso selected the appropriate portions of your avatar, and edited it in less than 30 seconds. It is the definition of "phoned in" and "one-off". Upon your removal of the poorly-glued on "joke" moniker, I tried to reinforce the already collapsing jest with a reference to an old news segment, something which in hindsight was a poorly-selected method of reinforcement. You essentially did a controlled demolition of one of my jokes, and I applaud you for that, because most of the time my humor is so obtuse, abstract, and morbid that nobody would even dare dissect, or worse, laugh at it. I've also never had a controlled demolition of one before; I've always been able to hold them up with wacky explanations, silly descriptions of situations, and these have usually made the joke stronger and more resilient to the explosives of rational thought.

So, we here at the one-man non-company of StierlitzCo applaud you for being the first ones to demolish one of our previously-thought unbreakable jokes. We offer no award but your own personal satisfaction. We will use the outcome of your demolition to make them unbreakable once again.

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Oh, and by the way, the Italian is "capisce" or "capisci", depending on who you're talking to and about. I've seen it spelled and spell it in English all the time as "kapeesh". But I've never seen it spelled as "capish". Not saying you're wrong, just an interesting observation, as I like to call them.

And by the way, Call me Comrade S, Comrade Stier, Comrade Stierlitz, The Duke of Idiocy, The Earl of Excellence, Prime Minister of Confuzistan, whichever floats your boat. But the whole "bull" thing? I was racking my brain, asking myself "did I talk about bulls with her?" "Is she trying to give me some 'bull'?" "Is she talking to someone else and misquoted me?". I thought my memory was failing on me, because my memory's usually a perfect 10 on a scale of 1-100. Pammy, please, out with the B, in with the S, and no combinations thereof, kapeesh?

And I must echo Ivan's sentiment that the Cube wouldn't be what it is today without somebody who's ready with a topical video on any subject. Not everybody can say that they own the "Youtube Swiss Army Knife". I try to but I always end up cutting myself with it. And the Opera singer aspect amazes me every time; what possesses an Opera singer who's met many famous musicians to move to Indiana and pretend to be an Orwellian Soviet on a website about right-leaning politics? It's one of those questions like "How many licks does it take to get to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop?" And the funny thing is is that the answer "The world may never know" applies to both questions.

Thanks for reading my really long, fractured, and just plain all over the place post that probably could've been shorter latest book "How I massively screwed up but managed to make everything turn out kinda okayish",
~Comrade Stierlitz

P.S. - You should tell anybody who uses -ski in your name to "go 'ski'ing", if you know what I mean. It's only a call away, option 5 on the National Thoughtcrime Hotline.

Dearest Comrade Stierlitz,

What an awesome reply! I am quite touched that you took the effort to respond to me so thoroughly.

First, let me say, I love, love, love your enthusiasm and share it! You're OK with me! You post some very interesting things that include your humor and I learn a lot from them. You're quite a passionate fellow. I really like that about you.

I'll do my best to address your post in order of entry. : • )

I hope, at the end of my post, you will find my “slap” a “kiss,” and, eliminate it from your quota of “4 slaps” and I'm gone. I want you to stay! BTW, if Comrade Red wanted to ban you, he would have. So, you can eliminate that from your “slap quota” as well.

I suppose I can best address this with my own entry into the Cube.

I found the Cube because someone on a comment section posted the link. I clicked it and found myself in a place that felt like home. I was astounded by this but wandered in and started posting. I mentioned that the site felt like home. But, they had to make sure I wasn't BSing them.

I was most privileged to be greeted by the most esteemed Father Prog Theocritus, since deceased. He became my mentor, and was there every day for me. (if you want to know more about him, search him on the Cube) There is a reason everyone loved him.

During this time, I always felt a sense of dread of any response I would get from my own posts. It was excruciating.

I wish I was as open as your are, Stierlitz. It would have served me well, I think.

I never had someone for me during that time, as you have from me.

Ultimately, Father Prog Theo told me “That was your initiation.”

Not saying yours is an initiation but, at one point, I was actually banned by Red Rooster for two weeks. That devastated me. Rocked my world!

It was at this time I connected with Comrade Tovarich who, at the time, was a resident of Japan, and, always sweet and helpful. He came to my aid during this “ban.”

Subsequently, we became friends and realized we didn't want to live without each other.

Short story, he left Japan, I left Los Angeles, and here we are in Indiana, where he is almost done with his Engineering degree. That's why I'm in Indiana!

I no longer dread the responses I get on the Cube, well, except for this one responding to you.

p.s.- I'm sure you now know I'm not a Nazi. Also, love the skiing thing, it's funny but, I don't care anymore. ; • )

Before Putin invades!!!

So Putin is the new Hitler, Russia is the new Germany, Crimea is the new Poland, The USA is the new Russia, and Alaska is the new Stalingrad.

Beware of National Bocialist candidates in North Minehead bielections...


No, wouldn't have much fun in Stalingrad.

Commissar Obamissar V wrote:So Putin is the new Hitler, Russia is the new Germany, Crimea is the new Poland, The USA is the new Russia, and Alaska is the new Stalingrad.

Beware of National Bocialist candidates in North Minehead bielections...


No, wouldn't have much fun in Stalingrad.

Commissar Obamissar V,

My goodness! Isn't that Omar Sharif, Hitler and Chamberlain (with an aide making his move) playing rock, scissors, paper?

Pamalinsky wrote:Commissar Obamissar V,

My goodness! Isn't that Omar Sharif, Hitler and Chamberlain (with an aide making his move) playing rock, scissors, paper?

It's even better than that! To wit:

Lev Termen wrote:

Pamalinsky wrote:
Well, Okay! I'm just a girly-girl ...

An ever-popular, but alas ... not an enviable profession in the Society of Next Tuesday, madame.

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Wow! Never heard of that one! Looked it up. Amazing the stuff you learn on The Cube™. Amazing.

Commissar Obamissar V wrote:

Pamalinsky wrote:Commissar Obamissar V,

My goodness! Isn't that Omar Sharif, Hitler and Chamberlain (with an aide making his move) playing rock, scissors, paper?

It's even better than that! To wit:

Ha! It is most definitely better than that! Thanks for posting!

Pamalinsky wrote:

Lev Termen wrote:

Pamalinsky wrote:
Well, Okay! I'm just a girly-girl ...

An ever-popular, but alas ... not an enviable profession in the Society of Next Tuesday, madame.

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Wow! Never heard of that one! Looked it up. Amazing the stuff you learn on The Cube™. Amazing.

Have you ever seen the Science Fiction Sketch?

Part 1:
Part 2:
Part 3:

Comrade Stierlitz,

If these links aren't a metaphor for the Islamic invasion of Europe, I don't know what is. Sheesh!

Also, I love Brit humor.

I once worked with a Brit who told me my former post holder's husband was, are you ready?
An architect! Yes, he was. A PRISON architect! i.e. a master of cinderblock contstruction! Hilarious!

He, despite himself, could be quite funny.

Once, this is in LA mind you, we called the cops regarding some homeless guy laying crap on our property.

My Brit friend went out into the parking lot, where this crap was discovered, and asked him, "Officer, are you on bum duty. I'd like to make a complaint."

Seriously, this really happened.