Parody ZOT of Free Republic

[NicknamedBob]

"I'm mulling over another design with three balls on a strand. The balls on each end contain electromagnets that ...."

I'm printing up several thousand cards that say, "Take two of these and call me in the morning."

[Irish_Thatcherite]

That's great!!

I don't like Esperanto in priciple - kinda a lefty language.

[Alice au Wonderland]

Sounds a little too aggressive. I like the idea of the balls gently "knocking" around, subtley building to a big bang, as it were.

Think of the balls as truly extended foreplay.

[NicknamedBob]

Hey! It was Heinlein! (About number fifteen)

I knew I'd read it somewhere!

[Das Outsider]

I don't like Esperanto in priciple - kinda a lefty language.

It is a lefty language. The U.N. stamp is enough to certify it so. When I first joined Mensa, I was afraid that it was too left leaning, but there are a lot of conservative members, too--and their voices are heard regularly.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

I like it when you talk dirty.......

[Das Outsider]

Hey! It was Heinlein!

Heinlein is a veritable quote machine. I should have picked that up.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

There would have to be more conservatives in Mensa than liberals, seeing liberals can't do logic!!

[Alice au Wonderland]

Good. I like to talk dirty.

[HKMk23]

> ...too aggressive.

You're thinking of a magnet attracting a free metal object on open space. Yes, under those conditions, the action is rapid as the attraction snaps them together. Within the confines of the intended operating environment, however, the sliding ball will not be free to move nearly so rapidly. It will be restricted to a slow, sssslllllliiiiiiddiiinnnggg motion, from one end to the other. In fact, position sensing could be built in so that the eletromegnets would not switch until the sliding ball reached the active end of the strand, thus ensuring a full traverse of the length of the strand each time.

What's not to like? Slow. Deliberate. Highly tactile. Repetitive. KA-BOOM!

[Irish_Thatcherite]

A mutual arrangement!!

[Alice au Wonderland]

I'll bet that there are more liberals seeing as how liberals seem to place more emphasis on association than action.

[Alice au Wonderland]

I am reduced to a puddle of steaming flesh.

*swooning (with a bang)*

[Irish_Thatcherite]

You have a point about that, liberals group everything together - that's why they regard a belief in coincidence in political matters as naivete.

[Alice au Wonderland]

'Face, dig this from Hkmk23:

You're thinking of a magnet attracting a free metal object on open space. Yes, under those conditions, the action is rapid as the attraction snaps them together. Within the confines of the intended operating environment, however, the sliding ball will not be free to move nearly so rapidly. It will be restricted to a slow, sssslllllliiiiiiddiiinnnggg motion, from one end to the other. In fact, position sensing could be built in so that the eletromegnets would not switch until the sliding ball reached the active end of the strand, thus ensuring a full traverse of the length of the strand each time.

What's not to like? Slow. Deliberate. Highly tactile. Repetitive. KA-BOOM!

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Now you're talking dirty...

[Victoria Delsoul]

But I've got to ask, how/where did you get a graphic of my wife in that "Santa Baby" get-up?

You're a lucky man. Hope you are being a good Santa to her.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Howya Victoria!!

[Victoria Delsoul]

You are fully 62% as good as Elvgren!!

Only 62%? He's better than that... more like 80%

[Victoria Delsoul]

Hi there, how are ya?