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Missing The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes. Mind fucked…

For me that was Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. Roger Ebert was not just a movie critic... And it inspired Austin Powers as well!

Can’t forget Elon.

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." - William J. Casey, CIA Director (1981)

https://naacp.org/articles/spread-disinformation-and-how-we-...

I’m not sure that being 50 has anything to do with it.

I quite enjoyed David Eddings books when I was younger as well. It came as a shock when I learned that he and his wife had been jailed for child abuse, which only became known after he died:

https://thewertzone.blogspot.com/2020/05/it-has-been-reveale...

Godel Escher Bach is the best book I've read. Very interesting topics and the sheer creativity of the writing is amazing.

Well, 40 Marine Corps battalions could probably blaze a few trails...

You've got to make your readers feel smart.

Thank you.

There are too many of these apocryphal stories out there of various kinds. Sorry that this one appears to be too.

Fidelity: Successful investors forget they have an account:

https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=146347

Fuck cheaters and fuck cheating.

It is the real thing after all...

Yes, if you have American dollars everything in Canada is cheap. Not so if you are a Canadian.

Alcohol overuse causes 178,000 American deaths annually:

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2023/11/6/23931877/alcohol...

Maybe everything you've read for years isn't true?

Indeed. There's less "info" now.

That can cause problems of its own. See Canada for example:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/intl-student-program-1.709599...

Just wait until they discover 40% of sick days are on Mondays or Fridays.

“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”

― Albert Einstein

Hofstadter wrote another interesting book regarding translation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Ton_beau_de_Marot

I remember visiting the UK in 2000, and there was a movie on TV that looked familiar, called Filofax. Me and my friends eventually recalled it was the movie called Taking Care of Business in N. America.

Interestingly, looking it up just now on Wikipedia it appears to be the first screenplay JJ Abrams wrote.

I think you’re remembering Reebok Pumps!

maxwellhill hasn't posted in over 3 1/2 years...

The suit is back!

https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html

Indeed, see the ones in Freeport, Maine or New Hyde Park, New York:

https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/beautiful-mcdona...

Well, we've found out it would take a week in Lloyd Austin's case...

Cosmo Kramer : Have you ever met a proctologist? Well, they usually have a very good sense of humor. You meet a proctologist at a party, don't walk away. Plant yourself there, because you will hear the funniest stories you've ever heard. See, no one wants to admit to them that they stuck something up there. Never! It's always an accident. Every proctologist story ends in the same way: "It was a million to one shot, Doc. Million to one!"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0697702/characters/nm0000632

Here's a couple of well known ones. Not sure if they were what you found:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reminiscences_of_a_Stock_Opera...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intelligent_Investor

While some of them beat Warren Buffett.