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[Tyrone Slothrop]

• O"REILLY: Now, how do we get to this point? Black people in this country understand that they've had a very, very tough go of it, and some of them can get past that, and some of them cannot. I don't think there's a black American who hasn't had a personal insult that they've had to deal with because of the color of their skin. I don't think there's one in the country. So you've got to accept that as being the truth. People deal with that stuff in a variety of ways. Some get bitter. Some say, [unintelligible] "You call me that, I'm gonna be more successful." OK, it depends on the personality.
  
  So it's there. It's there, and I think it's getting better. I think black Americans are starting to think more and more for themselves. They're getting away from the Sharptons and the Jacksons and the people trying to lead them into a race-based culture. They're just trying to figure it out: "Look, I can make it. If I work hard and get educated, I can make it."
  
  You know, I was up in Harlem a few weeks ago, and I actually had dinner with Al Sharpton, who is a very, very interesting guy. And he comes on The Factor a lot, and then I treated him to dinner, because he's made himself available to us, and I felt that I wanted to take him up there. And we went to Sylvia's, a very famous restaurant in Harlem. I had a great time, and all the people up there are tremendously respectful. They all watch The Factor. You know, when Sharpton and I walked in, it was like a big commotion and everything, but everybody was very nice.
  
  And I couldn't get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia's restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was exactly the same, even though it's run by blacks, primarily black patronship. It was the same, and that's really what this society's all about now here in the U.S.A. There's no difference. There's no difference. There may be a cultural entertainment -- people may gravitate toward different cultural entertainment, but you go down to Little Italy, and you're gonna have that. It has nothing to do with the color of anybody's skin.
  
  ...
  
  O'REILLY: That's right. That's right. There wasn't one person in Sylvia's who was screaming, "M-Fer, I want more iced tea."
  
  WILLIAMS: Please --
  
  O'REILLY: You know, I mean, everybody was -- it was like going into an Italian restaurant in an all-white suburb in the sense of people were sitting there, and they were ordering and having fun. And there wasn't any kind of craziness at all.

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[Spanky]

Originally posted by Not Bob
Good point. Ayn got me laid in college, when I met a girl at the Rathskeller who applied what she called the Ayn Rand Dealkiller Test. If you liked The Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged, well . . . let's just say that, fortunately for me, my school was filled with proto-fascists running around with worn copies of the two in their back pockets.

She had just the opposite effect for me. I was on a date with a girl who was Catholic and who also loved Ayn Rand. She told me how Ayn Rand was her favorite author (basically because she loved the moral messages in her books) and that she deeply believed in the teachings of the Catholic Church. Clearly not the sharpest knife in the drawer but she had been Ms. San Diego the year before. I had her in my bedroom and I could tell she was really into me, but I just couldn't help myself. I have a book called the Ayn Rand lexicon that is like an encyclopedia of Any Rand's theories. You just pick a topic like "God" or "Religion" and it has quotes from her writings on the subject. I took down the book, and showed the beauty queen the passages of where Ayn Rand comments on God, Original Sin, the Catholic Church, and Religion etc. were quoted. Needless to say she promptly left my house crying. My housemate couldn’t believe I had even gotten the girl into my bedroom, and when he found out how I had screwed it up, he told me I was the dumbest man alive.

[Spanky]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Has this board really descended to the level of talking about Ayn Rand?

1) I think there is a strong argument to be made that Dr. Zeus has had the most influence on American culture. At least more than Ayn Rand.

2) Does anyone remember the Ayn Rand reference in the movie Dirty Dancing?

3) Orwell has had much more influence on American political thinking, philosophy and culture than Ayn Rand has. Seriously. How many times have you heard Orwell or one of his writings referenced or heard Ayn Rand or one of her writing referenced.

4) Less encouraged me to read Ayn Rand in High School. I finally caved in my senior year.

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by Spanky
She had just the opposite effect for me. I was on a date with a girl who was Catholic and who also loved Ayn Rand. She told me how Ayn Rand was her favorite author (basically because she loved the moral messages in her books) and that she deeply believed in the teachings of the Catholic Church. Clearly not the sharpest knife in the drawer but she had been Ms. San Diego the year before. I had her in my bedroom and I could tell she was really into me, but I just couldn't help myself. I have a book called the Ayn Rand lexicon that is like an encyclopedia of Any Rand's theories. You just pick a topic like "God" or "Religion" and it has quotes from her writings on the subject. I took down the book, and showed the beauty queen the passages of where Ayn Rand comments on God, Original Sin, the Catholic Church, and Religion etc. were quoted. Needless to say she promptly left my house crying. My housemate couldn’t believe I had even gotten the girl into my bedroom, and when he found out how I had screwed it up, he told me I was the dumbest man alive.

You are the dumbest man alive. Did you take her to your room to debate Rand with her? On the few days of the year I may actually get strange, I just nod my head in agreement.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by sgtclub
Didn't I chase you out of here years ago?

Yes. I would have figured you'd gotten used to eventual and inevitable failure by now.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by sgtclub
You are the dumbest man alive. Did you take her to your room to debate Rand with her? On the few days of the year I may actually get strange, I just nod my head in agreement.

Where do you troll for strange? Orinda or San Ramon?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Spanky
She had just the opposite effect for me. I was on a date with a girl who was Catholic and who also loved Ayn Rand. She told me how Ayn Rand was her favorite author (basically because she loved the moral messages in her books) and that she deeply believed in the teachings of the Catholic Church. Clearly not the sharpest knife in the drawer but she had been Ms. San Diego the year before. I had her in my bedroom and I could tell she was really into me, but I just couldn't help myself. I have a book called the Ayn Rand lexicon that is like an encyclopedia of Any Rand's theories. You just pick a topic like "God" or "Religion" and it has quotes from her writings on the subject. I took down the book, and showed the beauty queen the passages of where Ayn Rand comments on God, Original Sin, the Catholic Church, and Religion etc. were quoted. Needless to say she promptly left my house crying. My housemate couldn’t believe I had even gotten the girl into my bedroom, and when he found out how I had screwed it up, he told me I was the dumbest man alive.

SPED you could have had Paigow. she was into you and you fucked it up. Ms. SD is an old lady now, Paigow is still the holy grail of pussy and you threw it away.

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Yes. I would have figured you'd gotten used to eventual and inevitable failure by now.

I truly feel sorry for you. Is life at home with your high school sweetheart and white picket fence so uninspiring that you have nothing better to do than stalk me? Or have you just finally wiped away your sniveling tears from the last time I bitch slapped you that you can finally see your screen again?

Hank, I now know what you mean.

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Where do you troll for strange? Orinda or San Ramon?

Actually I don't need to troll for it. Your wife seems to find me. Although with the number of times I've given that whore Reebok earings, I'm not sure she technically can be categorized as "strange."

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by sgtclub
Actually I don't need to troll for it. Your wife seems to find me. Although with the number of times I've given that whore Reebok earings, I'm not sure she technically can be categorized as "strange."

Wow. That's a lot of Reebok earrings.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Wow. That's a lot of Reebok earrings.

Reebok earrings?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by taxwonk
Reebok earrings?

If it's working for club, don't knock it.

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
If it's working for club, don't knock it.

You've never heard that expression?

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by sgtclub
You've never heard that expression?

It's all the rage in Pleasant Hill. I think they also invented "y'all" and saying that things are "wicked [adjective]."

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by sgtclub
You've never heard that expression?

Sorry. Nobody's hipped me to that one, Dude.