can we all chip in to get one ?

[Nflight]

That is Beerknurd's window's in the upper right hand corner of the picture above. He is online at the moment so we can't see his ape like outfit and the frisky tongue action! Darn...

Wave Hi everyone !

[AMDave]

I thought about starting a "swear jar" but we are mostly polite at our house so the machine would be very obsolete by the time I could make a meaningful contribution.

Maybe someone else can help?
Is there an "Ozzy Osborn" in the house?
(My apologies to Ozzy - he is an international treasure)
Perhaps, someone else can help?

[Frederic Brillouet]

I thought about starting a "swear jar" but we are mostly polite at our house so the machine would be very obsolete by the time I could make a meaningful contribution.

Maybe someone else can help?
Is there an "Ozzy Osborn" in the house?
(My apologies to Ozzy - he is an international treasure)
Perhaps, someone else can help?

At my place we swear politely, so thats not an option

[AMDave]

AHA! BUSTED!

This swear jar is retrospective!
If you have ever sworn, you must donate for every indiscretion.
Swearing "politely" is still swearing.
"@!#$%, oops SORRY!" counts every time.
According to popular opinion your lifetime contribution will support 20% of the initial outlay of the Grid.
(...ummm...it looks as though I might be up for the other 80% myself!)

http://people.howstuffworks.com/swearing.htm
(read some of the references on page 7 - some of them are fantastic)

[Frederic Brillouet]

AHA! BUSTED!

This swear jar is retrospective!
If you have ever sworn, you must donate for every indiscretion.
Swearing "politely" is still swearing.
"@!#$%, oops SORRY!" counts every time.
According to popular opinion your lifetime contribution will support 20% of the initial outlay of the Grid.
(...ummm...it looks as though I might be up for the other 80% myself!)

http://people.howstuffworks.com/swearing.htm
(read some of the references on page 7 - some of them are fantastic)

quote: According to the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," the most offensive word in the universe is "Belgium." (from that link of yours)

are you trying to say something here?

[Nflight]

I personally think if we all swear enough the kitty of funds will grow to the point we can actually get back to the subject matter of this post! Which is getting enough funding to build that gizmo Dynamic Dynamite wants to build. So with this swearing coming from who did you say is doing it AMDave? I have not seen any terrible verbose come out from anyone on this post, Like I said who is doing the swearing?

AMDave will now tread lightly when speaking of those of our team mates who live in Belgium, after that last remark!

[Beerknurd]

So do I still need to hit the streets and sell my man goods to the highest paying women??

[Frederic Brillouet]

So do I still need to hit the streets and sell my man goods to the highest paying women??

I advise a stroll through Hollywood

btw, I say we build a cluster thing ourselves with phenoms or barcies or brisbanes or kentsfields or nehalems.

[Brucifer]

So do I still need to hit the streets and sell my man goods to the highest paying women??

I don't quite think that's going to cut it. Too many places now arrest women on the streets selling their "womanly goods" along with the shopping public that purchases so named "goods." We are all aware of that old addage of "What's good for the goose is good for the gander." The result of it all would be a decrease in funds available for the building of said "gizmo." So it appears that your efforts to help would in all actuality be a detriment. It would probably be more beneficial for the funding of the gizmo if you would invest the funding that you would spend getting to the street corner to sell your manly goods into the collection jar for the gizmo rather than gas or taxi fare. And if you were really in to the gizmo effort, you could also place the projected saved funds that would be given to the local court system from selling or attempting to sell your purported manly goods, into the gizmo contribution jar which would be a boost to the collections effort.

[Beerknurd]

Collection jar started... So far there is .15 cents in the jar. If I keep up the current pace, we should have the said gizmo in approximately 3000 years, give or take a few years...