Originally posted by SuzianneThere is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: There is nothing wrong with your television set. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to – The Outer Limits.
"We control the vertical. We control the horizontal."
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Originally posted by ChessPraxisShelley's "Ozymandias"
It's pretty easy when you're sitting in front of a computer screen. The images are under your control as well as what site and what you're doing.
The web is forever, it doesn't forget.
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Originally posted by ChessPraxis“I am monarch of all I survey,
It's pretty easy when you're sitting in front of a computer screen. The images are under your control as well as what site and what you're doing.
The web is forever, it doesn't forget.
My right there is none to dispute,
From the centre all round to the sea,
I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
O solitude! Where are the charms
That sages have seen in thy face?
Better dwell in the midst of alarms,
Than reign in this horrible place.”
-William Cowper,
The Poetical Works Of William Cowper
"The web is forever, it doesn't forget..."
this thread and these posts are already wet
with an online chess site's cybercement:
the words you type will be what you meant .
Originally posted by ChessPraxisThis would have been a good quote for Anonymous when they went on their anti online bullying campaign.
It's pretty easy when you're sitting in front of a computer screen. The images are under your control as well as what site and what you're doing.
The web is forever, it doesn't forget.
Originally posted by HandyAndyDo people still watch television? I guess they must.
There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change ...[text shortened]... t to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to – The Outer Limits.
Well it's a rainy night in Paris
And I'm sitting by the Seine
It's a pleasure to be soaking
In the European rain
Now my belly's full of fancy food and wine
But in the morning there'll be hell to pay
Somewhere along the line
Oh, but in the morning there'll be hell to pay
Somewhere along the line
Sweet Virginia Cigarette
Burning in my hand
Well you used to be a friend of mine
But now I understand
You've been eating up inside me for some time
Oh, and I know your gonna get me
Somewhere along the line
Somewhere along the line
Well I know it's just a matter of time
When the fun falls through and the rent comes due
Somewhere along the line
Well, you know I love my woman
And I would not let her down
And I did my share of lovin'
When I used to get around
Now I'm satisfied that she is lookin' fine
Oh, but you pay for your satisfaction
Somewhere along the line
Well you pay for your satisfaction
Somewhere along the line
Hey, it's good to be a young man
And to live the way you please
Yes, a young man is the king
Of every kingdom that he sees
There's an old and feeble man not far behind
Oh, but it surely will catch up to him
Somewhere along the line
But it surely will catch up to him
Somewhere along the line
Well you know it's gonna catch up to him
Somewhere along the line
Billy Joel, 'Somewhere Along the Line', Piano Man, 1973
Originally posted by Suziannehttps://scontent-a-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/7901_10151884576299445_1173467327_n.jpg
We all know it's BETTER to be the QUEEN.
The wife of the King is known as the Queen.
However, the husband of the Queen is known as the Consort, or only a Prince.
This is as it should be.
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