Random Thoughts

[Link the Writer]

Was thinking of going back to doing my YouTube channel, making video with the cap cut text to speech programs. ;3

 

[Louanne Learning]

Why did they use monkeys for "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil."

 

[Homer Potvin]

Why did they use monkeys for "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil."

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It's got something to do with the Japanese word for monkey, if I remember correctly. It sounds like a another word in Japanese that negates verbs, like "nicht" in German. So in a way it almost reads like monkey see, monkey hear, monkey speak. I'm probably getting part of that wrong, but I remember looking this up not too long ago.

 

[DLC]

are those monkeys advising us to ignore evil? makes u think

 

[Louanne Learning]

It kind of makes me think of "Mind your own business."

 

[CatrionaGrace]

It's not the consumption of chocolate itself that puzzles me, it's the overindulgence in them.

Um, you realize overindulgence is a personal value judgement? Wait until you experience PMS, and then talk to me about what level of consumption constitutes overindulgence.

That being said, I like vanilla.

 

[JLT]

I appreciate chocolate, but good-quality chocolate is best.

I confess to a fondness for semi-sweet chocolate chips. That, and Three Musketeers bars, are my main sources of chocolate.

A friend of mine referred to chocolate chips as "chocolate of last resort." She said that the expression wasn't original with her, but it found its way into her vocabulary and now into ours.

 

[JLT]

Here's a random thought for you:

The cleverest flies are the ones that always land on the fly-swatter.

 

[Rath Darkblade]

Here's a random thought for you:

The cleverest flies are the ones that always land on the fly-swatter.

Fortunately, few of them ever do.

And here's another random thought: Philip Marlowe starts off The Little Sister by swatting a fly. (Sorry to spoil it for you)

Um, you realize overindulgence is a personal value judgement? Wait until you experience PMS, and then talk to me about what level of consumption constitutes overindulgence.

That being said, I like vanilla.

You win.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

You win.

Thank you. No doubt you'd topple my king in chess everytime, though.

Unless the king was made out of chocolate. Then someone would eat it.

 

[Rath Darkblade]

Thank you. No doubt you'd topple my king in chess everytime, though.

Unless the king was made out of chocolate. Then someone would eat it.

Probably me. (What? Just 'cos I don't eat too much chocolate doesn't mean I don't indulge sometimes). But only if I can deliver checkmate.

And speaking of which: checkmate!

And wouldn't you know it, someone actually set up the position on the board and showed why that position is definitely possible (and plausible). Props to Mel Brooks for doing it right.

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