Manditory Maximum

[Tracer]

Does every town have a eccentric coffee house sage? This this fellow Little Crow, an Apache who knows 30+ languages and says he's going to be the next Ché Guevarra. He's 60 years old, dates 16 year old girls (and says he can't see him self with a girl older than 22 years of age, explaining that in his mind he doesn't feel 60) and looks kinda like Keith Richards. He's had 3 strokes and MS. The last stroke, most unusually, was beneficial... giveing him his voice back (he was a mute, I knew him then - he'd write and sign to communicate with everyone) which was taken by either MS or a previous stroke. He smokes like a freight train, usually some brand I've never seen... it's always changeing. To my surpise, when he got his voice back, his accent is, again not unlike Keith Richards, English. Most people call him Rick, instead of Little Crow. He rides a motorcycle and likes Punk Rock, Dead Can Dance and the music that some guy plays outside a Barnes & Noble =/

He helped me once scare off a pack of gypsies who were trying to rip me off, he told me what they were saying to each other and I commented on what they were saying. Thier eyes got big and they hurried off. Appearantly, they think only Gypsies know Rom.

[Parcher D.O.D.]

Tracer, that's got to be the best response yet. Yes, there are some amazing people in the world. In Honduras, I met an old fellow (ninety) who would still walk for several miles a day. He was part of the aristocracy, and far back in the past when he was a child he and his father had to escape a peasant uprising in a small boat.

He has written several books (in Spanish) and my Uncle, Bill Rose is in one of them. My Uncle gets a thrill out of that thinking people in the future will be reading it saying, "Who was this William Rose guy?".

OMGEQUILIBRIUM!!!

An equilibrium where no one looses. Where prevalance is a non-singular event. This was what John Forbes Nash Jr. wanted to create.

And he did. On paper. His theories won him the Nobel Prize. Nash's theories have influenced global trade negotiations, national labor relatioins, and even breaktrhoughs in evolutionary biology.

Not bad for a kid from West Virginia.

EDIT: For posterity, the best Rose in my book is my Grandpa, Joe Rose. Joe wore a leather jacket and rode a motorcycle in the fifties. He was a bodybuilder back when everyone was in really bad shape. He was on the cover of Bicycle World magazine when he was sixty five and all the other people were in their twenties. He will be turning ninety one soon.

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Nash's work was based on John von Neumann's... the whole "standing on the shoulder of giants" thing, I s'pose. But Captain Vegetable was talking about the movie...

[Parcher D.O.D.]

Nash's work was based on John von Neumann's... the whole "standing on the shoulder of giants" thing, I s'pose. But Captain Vegetable was talking about the movie...

Actually, it's Captain Trips. Vegetable doesn't fit. My brother has been classified as gifted and I am supposed to be highly intelligent as well. I just don't use it because I'm lazy.

Many great things have been done by men that are lazy and are tired of being pushed around. My message is a kick in the complacency, and I do pull my punches.

I'm core, but I love people. I see the world as an island with limited resources. I see our great citys as a simple village.

We can make it work. We really have all that we need. Even weed.

[Captain Vegetable]

But Captain Vegetable was talking about the movie...

Yes. Yes he was.

[Parcher D.O.D.]

It's Captain Vedgetable!!!!!!!!!!! Heh.

[Mzo]

My brother has been classified as gifted and I am supposed to be highly intelligent as well. I just don't use it because I'm lazy.

Man, I know how that is. Story of my life, except w/o the brother.

[ChaoofNee]

I'm extremely confused right now.
...what's going on?

[Parcher D.O.D.]

I'm extremely confused right now.
...what's going on?

It's basically a medical marijuanna discussion. Most people seem to be for it. I don't think that most people are for casual use, though.

I tend to agree. I'm trying to stay away from this kind of thing myself. These days.