From a lost, golden age of dental care comes this ad, found in a 1961 issue of House and Garden. Now it is gone. I am reminded of the words of Babylon 5's Ambassador Londo Mollari when he was asked what he most wanted:
Do you really want to know what I want? Do you really want to know the truth? I want my people to reclaim their rightful place in the galaxy. I want to see the Centauri stretch forth their hand again and command the stars. I want a rebirth of glory, a renaissance of power! I want to stop running through my life like a man late for an appointment, afraid to look back or look forward. I want us to be what we used to be! I want. I want it all back the way it was. Does that answer your question?
I want whiskey toothpaste.
Link (NSFW URL) -via Glenn Reynolds
Comments (2)
That's why I don't eat hotdogs.;)
Hot dog is the one thing I won't feed my children without cutting the meat into very small pieces.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eScDfYzMEEw&feature=related
How can you take up less space than 0? Paper bags rot and turn into compost, which is not something plastic is known for.
His whole list reads like a really, really stupid person refuting ecological talking points: polar ice melting? It's not record-breaking this year, so we're safe for all eternity! Poison in your food? Well, if you didn't consume so much you wouldn't get ill! He has never encountered a worm hole in person, so we can stop worrying about climate change, poisonous chemicals and climate change (his _actual_ argument)! Laugh, it's funny!
Nor, dear monkeys, is the peanut gallery, from which you so humbly throw poop.
The Earth has been warming and cooling regularly over it's entire life history. Change is the only constant. I'm glad we are in a warming trend now, because in the last ice age, the area I live in was deeply covered by glaciers. That would have made it difficult for me to get to and from work each day. :)
Just because global warming doesn't affect /you/ badly, doesn't mean it won't affect others.
(Sorry for off topic, but self-centered comments like that get to me).
Kirkburn: Perhaps you should visit a seashore sometime and look for evidence of how the sea levels have varied over time.
I'm feeling claustrophobic now ...
One thing to scratch from your worry list is death.
According to Ray Kurzweil we is all gunna live to be 10,000. If'n u make it to 2030AD.
Thanks for sharing our piece: http://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/29/10-things-to-scratch-from-your-worry-list/
We think we have some decent points regarding a couple of the issues. We don't touch on the hot dog, worm holes or sharks, but a few of his points were so far from accurate that we had to address them.
Thanks,
Chris
Dave: I spend way too much time arguing politics on a forum where half of the righties still think Obama's a Muslim, so don't tell me I'm out of touch with how not-bad they are. And BTW, maybe try visiting a climatologist (not a chemist or TV weatherman) and asking about global climate change, what's almost certainly causing it and what's probably going to happen as a result. The answer won't be as reassuring as the industry shills you've been hearing from.
Because they're significantly less well paid than the oil/energy companies?
OK, so I guess the Coke can have cocaine again...
I was really worried about #7
;)