In the spirit of the burning a candle for solidarity hoax, I recently received the following in my email. Thought I'd share it with everyone; though I have no idea how it would attract the government's attention.
turn your back on the economy!!! Please share this email with as many people as possible...we can protest with our spirit!!!
NOT ONE DAMN DIME DAY
Since our religious leaders will not speak out against the war in Iraq, since our political leaders don't have the moral courage to oppose it, Inauguration Day, Thursday, January 20th, 2005 is "Not One Damn Dime Day" in America.
On "Not One Damn Dime Day" those who oppose what is happening in our name in Iraq can speak up with a 24-hour national boycott of all forms of consumer spending.
During "Not One Damn Dime Day" please don't spend money. Not one damn dime for gasoline. Not one damn dime for necessities or for impulse purchases.
Not one damn dime for anything for 24 hours.
On "Not One Damn Dime Day," please boycott Walmart, KMart and Target. Please don't go to the mall or the local convenience store. Please don't buy any fast food (or any groceries at all for that matter).
For 24 hours, please do what you can to shut the retail economy down.
The object is simple. Remind the people in power that the war in Iraq is immoral and illegal; that they are responsible for starting it and that it is their responsibility to stop it.
"Not One Damn Dime Day" is to remind them, too, that they work for the people of the United States of America, not for the international corporations and K Street lobbyists who represent the corporations and funnel cash into American politics.
"Not One Damn Dime Day" is about supporting the troops. The politicians put the troops in harm's way. Now 1,200 brave young Americans and (some estimate) 100,000 Iraqis have died. The politicians owe our troops a plan -- a way to come home.
There's no rally to attend. No marching to do. No left or right wing agenda to rant about. On "Not One Damn Dime Day" you take action by doing nothing. You open your mouth by keeping your wallet closed.
For 24 hours, nothing gets spent, not one damn dime, to remind our religious leaders and our politicians of their moral responsibility to end the war in Iraq and give America back to the people.
A little late bringing this up again, but anyone help me out here with this "symbolic" fart deal? I mean, ain't a fart a bit like being pregnant? (no disrespect meant to the better gender) Either it exists or it don't. If it's truly symbolic, i.e., a robust whoopee cushion sound absent any trace of odure, then as a symbol it's meaningless and simply gives strength to the questionable antianachronistically nonholistic amplitude resiliency arguments (which, incidentally, we're more than amply refuted by the Duke University Parabnormal Department of Amoebic Dysentery in their widely noted 1934 through 1981 study of inner city landfills) of Hairy Houdini's adherents and the Bush Family Evil Empire. Which also leads me to question that deal where we had prisoners "simulate" oral sex. How exactly do you simulate that? Thank God and w that we're a Christian nation and our gestapo would never get confused on the difference between having unconstituionally held people in our secret torture chambers perform "simulated", or real, oral sex, for their (the torturors, not the torturees) enjoyment and videocamming. As the ancient Latino poet Virgin said so well one hundred score years ago, "En vita no est esperanza por nada sine hempa"
Hairy Houdini Member
Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 | 05:13 PM
Loco vida con hempa... Mi vida es perfecto con mi amor y el sol
Hairy Houdini Member
Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 | 05:15 PM
locA... pardone moi
Rex D.
in Milwaukee, WI Member
Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 | 05:24 PM
A fart was used as symbol, not a fake fart.
Buzz Worthy
in tucson, az
Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 | 05:32 PM
If you were trapped on a desert island and had to choose between having a symbolic fart, a real fart, or a fake fart for your only company, would "W" still be the worst president we've ever had?
One Fry Short
in tucson, az
Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 | 05:35 PM
Rex D. I mention no names but people can be reported. A word to the wise.
Rex D.
in Milwaukee, WI Member
Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 | 05:43 PM
What are you saying? Because I pointed something out that your mad at me? Isn't that the whole point of a thread? To discuss? I was simply making a correction. How can you misconstrue that?
Rex D.
in Milwaukee, WI Member
Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 | 05:45 PM
A word to the wise, that sounds like a threat. Is that tolerated in forums?
Hairy Houdini Member
Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 | 05:55 PM
The symbolism of the effort is best explained by this passage by the late, great, Italian poet(ess) Stella D'oro: "I wondered then, in the days of my youth, whether to fart in the church was rude or uncouth, but 'twas then that I knew, I must sit in my pew, or be in the confessional booth..." Brings tears to one's eyes
Hairy Houdini Member
Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 | 05:59 PM
Rex: I think our friend One Fry is suggesting that your avatar may be infringing on Mickey D's copyright. You MacIconBurglar, you
Rex D.
in Milwaukee, WI Member
Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 | 06:19 PM
Ah, well then hold on while I contact some people and straiten this out, because I was told I could, but I don't want to get in trouble if they were wrong. If thats what you were referring to OFS, then I take all that back.
Hairy Houdini Member
Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 | 06:25 PM
Do you have an image of a symbolic fart in church that is in public domain? No? Well, go to: http://www.symbolicfartsinchurchavatars.cmon Free Houdini with every purchase over L7
One Fry Short
in tucson, az
Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 | 06:56 PM
Rex D. Let's get one thing straight. Please. I am not making any sort of defamatory or slanderous remearks about you. When I said "People can be reported" , it was said in jest, not as a threat or insult. I have the highest respect for you as a poster and have read your thoughtfull essays and done my best to understand as best I can.
I do have a sense though, that you are being egged on in your angry pursuit of me by a third party. Do the initials HH mean anything to you?
Again, I make no accusations and accuse no one of anything. I don't know why one has to be so blooming lawyerly on these forums in fear of offending someone. Have you ever heard of the First Amendment?
Harry: You almost fooled me with your imitation Italian poetess deal, but your last line didn't fit the rhyme scheme. No poetess in his right mind would use a recurring iambic pentameter conversion when gliding from internal stanza lines with unsupported hectametric inverts. Sorry, nice try, but no tickee, no laundry. Don't mean to hurt any one's feelings, but this so called "poem", wouldn't fool a day old Milwaukeean.
One Fry Short
in tucson, az
Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 | 07:09 PM
How about one of those bumper sticker deals that says I heart (you know, the little heart deal that looks like a valentine) farts? If you order them magnetic you can take them off and on, and put one on, like your bosse's car. I don't think they'd stick on a Saturn door though, cause they're made of plastic(the doors, not the bumper stickers). No offense to anyone who owns a Saturn.
Hairy Houdini Member
Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 | 07:10 PM
It 'twas more of a Limerick, which were quite popular in Italy some years back. Try it to the count of "There was a young lass from Nantucket..."
Hairy Houdini Member
Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 | 07:11 PM
Or: "Barnacle Bill The Sailor"...
Buzz Worthy
in tucson, az
Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 | 07:27 PM
I tried whistling it, plying it on the mandolin, humming, etc., and I can't make the durn (no offense meant) poem sound like it should. The closest I got was when I tried it to the last stanzas of the Star Spangled Banner, and then it didn't sound all that great, to tell you the truth. I am Irish and always thought limericks were Irish not Italian. Please note, I am NOT challenging anything you said, just making an observation that I may have thought was correct, when in point of fact, it was not.
Hairy Houdini Member
Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 | 07:47 PM
"Sorry, nice try... But No Tickee, No Laundry" That's Haiku, right? I thought Haiku was Japanese, not Irish. I'm confused... Do the Japanese fart in church? A sake and suchi SBD, as it were... Sit it that pew, if you dare
