YOUR STRING OF CHRISTMAS LIGHTS IS KILLING US

Roman Around ^ | 27 December 2008 | Andrew Roman

[Seruzawa]

Heh heh heh. You can’t make this stuff up folks.

These guys don’t even think about what they spew any more. I’ll bet they are all Mensa members. LOL!

[redhead]

And I left my tree lights burning deep into the night, turned them back on before daylight, and even added extra strings to my tree. Looked GORGEOUS, I might add...

But it's STILL way too cold to suit me, even if it IS Alaska. And we even got 5" of snow on Christmas day. More lights, fellers! We need more lights!

[redhead]

"These guys don’t even think about what they spew any more. I’ll bet they are all Mensa members. LOL!"

This made me wonder if the people on that commission were related to the dimbulb who pronounced that our corn and other domestic and commercial crops in the fields were using up way too much sunlight, and leaving nothing for the wild things to use.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Those RED stripes on candy canes are put their intentionally by conservative candy cane makers.

[clamper1797]

Not all Mensa members are idiots

[Radl]

Nobody seems to complain about the pollution caused by newspapers. I canceled mine years ago for the sake of the trees ....and of course...the children.

[Tennessee Nana]

Dear Grinchie people,

I like that string of Christmas lights...

It reminds me of the birth of my only Begotten Son, Jesus..

The night He was born of the Virgin Mary, there was a brilliant light that shone down on that lttle rough stable in Bethlehem...

Since that time Christians have remembered the birth of their Savior in many different ways over the centuries...

Candles on living trees in Medieval Germany, once placed there by pagans to worship unknown gods, have become strings of small electric lights, both colored or plain white, and placed on Christmas trees and houses...

Now they celebrate the birth of the Christ child...

If I’m not mad at the people, who do you think you are to complain?

Like I said, I like it...

Where’s your string of Christmas lights?

Your house looked gloomy and cold this year...

Reflected your gloomy and cold heart...

What did you say your name was?

Scrooge?

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Thought I had already taught him a thing or two...

Well, leave that string of Christmas lights alone...

Go out and hit the stores instead...

There’s big sales on...

There’s a special on Christmas lights...

Go get you some...

For next year...

Love,

God

[Seruzawa]

Didn’t say they were.

But seems a lot of them are like Isaac Asimov. High IQ but believed that socialism was a superior economic system. Is such a person really intelligent?

IQ testing is highly overrated.

[clamper1797]

Oh don’t get me wrong. Most mensans I have met are imbeciles but hopefully this mensan has a little more common sense that the usual member

[wardaddy]

no but what egos....

[Da Coyote]

“...I’ll bet they are all Mensa members...”

Perhaps they took a Mensa test that had no science in it.

[kaylar]

Isaac Asimov...I have pretty much all the issues of IASFM from 1980-1993. Two things about that magazine’s run stand out : One, a crappy , trite story with cardboard characters and crappy dialogue will happily be published so long as it bashes Christianity (that may have been Shawna Mccarthy’s doing, not IA’s) and two, Mr Rocket Scientist/Foundation Series Novelist mocking the guy who sent in a letter expressing a wish for a cable station devoted to science fiction films and TV series. IA stated (very condescendingly) that there just weren’t SF fans in the USA to make such a station a financial success..Just a few years before the Sci Fi channel started its long and successful run. (Though I will concede that the Sci Fi channel seems to show a lot more horror and fantasy than SF/sci fi, but whatever....)

[Salamander]

“YOUR STRING OF CHRISTMAS LIGHTS IS KILLING US”

Piano wire would be quicker.

[SkipW]

I know wehat we can do. Lets hang radical environmentalists instead of Christmas lights.

[Seruzawa]

Well. You’re a Freeper, right? There’s no greater case for superior intelligence. LOL!

[Seruzawa]

We own most of the IA SF mags too. It was pretty good I thought until IA croaked and it went down the sexual content path. I used to have great fun reading IA’s letter feedback. He sure was one arrogant cuss.

He wrote some excellent pioneering stories that I grew up on so I’ll always thank him for that. But he had so many screwy social ideas that he seemed like a demented idiot sometimes. His hatred of Reagan was clinically psychopathic.

He was a great writer but, alas, someone who would starve to death in a room full of jars of peanut butter and loaves of bread.

[kaylar]

I particularly enjoyed it when IA would go off the deep end, and Poul Anderson would step in and try to make him see the light. One thing in favor of IA : He did allow those who disagreed with his (asinine)opinions about a OWG , etc, to contradict him in the letters page. Poul Anderson....When a (very) young writer, he wrote some stories about the UN taking over the world and forming a OWG-and this is presented as a GOOD thing. The hero of the stories is a UN operative who fights UN foes, including Americans who believe in national sovereignty. Anderson made a speedy recovery from this mental illness, and spent the rest of his writing career trying to make up for this embarrassment. We lost a good man when we lost PA (but at least we still have Orson Scott Card.)

[NonValueAdded]

♫ Let ’em glow, let ’em glow, let ’em glow! ♫

[MileHi]

These people need to be flogged.