Misconstrued Thoughts : Yesterday's Misconstrued Thoughts Today

If I had a nickel for everytime I'd heard a complete dismissal of television, I'd have some nickels. . .

"Ask not what your family can do for you, but what you can do for your family."
-Moses Jones

"You don't remember me coming in and telling you to wake up? You were sleeping that hard? I could have killed and you wouldn't have known it."
-Moses Jones

"Well, I'd prefer that to a long and slow death with the knowledge that I was going to die going through my head throughout the entire process."
-Javann in response

"This weekend I'm going home and I'm going to watch T.V.! I'm so excited!"
-My boss, on her exciting weekend plans. The scary part? She was seriously excited about watching T.V. The horror. . .

"Well, I've been helping people fight their feelings of self-importance since 1982, and I'm rather good at it."
-Javann, to customer who asked for help

"What?"
-Customer

"Nothing. What can I help you with?"
-Javann

So in closing, all of these quotes are very real. Now I'm off to watch some television.

"TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST" - a slogan of some wheel chaired assassins.

Save some for me, Javester. *goes and watches TV*

Yes, as Jeremy brought out, TV is bad for you. But like cigarettes, only if you abuse them. In moderation it can...wait a second...this isn't making any sense. Ok, cigarettes - always bad. TV - bad if abused. So, to go along with Jerm I shall add my quote...

"Man Jeremy, that's a really nice TV!"
-Javann upon seeing Jeremy's nice widescreen HDTV.

He was right too. That TV is sweat. Like the Marlboro of TVs (I can’t stress enough that cigarettes are bad. I was just comparing that TV to another industry’s top quality product). I find it odd that a man who rarely watches TV and even exposes it inherent badness has such a TV. That would be like a man who doesn’t smoke having a carton of Marlboros. Wouldn’t it be wise for that man to give those cigarettes to someone who could use them?…wait…that would be bad too. He should, instead, destroy them. So I implore you Jerm, on all that is non-retarding…destroy your TV before your lungs turn into a heap of charred tar and a malignant mine field!

My TV is used as a computer monitor... as we all know I am a computer Junky... this was the true reason I got HDTV, for the computer capabilities.... (Want to buy it?)

I'll buy it. . .for five dollars. . .and a pack of Marlboros. Tre's comment makes me want to smoke.

Life is managed, not cured.

Whether you think you can, or think you can't, you're right-Henry Ford

Everyone's #1 need is acceptance. Everyone's #1 fear is rejection.

Rock and roll: "I love it! Turn it up! Music is great. I play mine loud! My dad always says: 'you're going to go deaf'. I say, HUH?"

"I have read professor Whitehead's theory of relativity, but I didn't understand it."-Albert Einstein
Wow I didn't realize I had that many stored up! since I didn't

*is watching TV and smoking*

hmmm well odd this has gone awry as usual... i think the point is not watching tv... not to start smoking.

And well I dont personally find either as a possible habbit in my future. tv or cigiys...

I don't know, Jerm. You could definitely be a Marlboro man. . .or whatever cigarette the popular nerds are smoking nowadays. . .Camels or Kools or Basics or whatever. I've bought a pack of Basics before, and let me tell you, that is one disgustingly cheap cigarette. Those are the ones that smell really really horrible, don't smoke those. Oh, I guess I should mention this was for a human anatomy project, where we smoked a pack of cigarettes with a fake "lung" we made out of coke bottles, cotton and clay. The cotton was ultra black after a few puffs on the Basic tobacco. Some kid used unfiltered, and no one could see into the bottle. Maybe we should compare TV to snickers bars.

Been there, done that, thanks to DFW and his quotable goodness.

Hey Jerm, when you start smoking, just for the record, you seem to me like more of an RYO sorta guy. You know, vintage, taking the less easy route.

Jerm would probably smoke pipe tobacco from a really classy pipe, very high class and sophisticated. . .trying all different types of cured tobacco for his smoking pleasure, much like he drinks all different types of liquor. He's probably have rare vintage Indian cured tobacco, which no doubt would be, according to him, "flavorful and robust, with a hint of exotic naturalness." Or to quote a commercial. . .mmm mmm good. . .

I think he wouldn't smoke. Maybe dip. He's from a farm in Tennessee. But then again, he might be one of those guy who just cover's his body with Nicoderm and chews whole packs of Nicorette in one sitting. I don't know if there are actually people lke that but wouldn't that be a funny (and sad) site to see?

Click on my name and read some of the facts.

I really can't see Jerm spending a ton on super fine pipe tobacco. In fact, after further consideration he seems more like the kinda guy who'd get way high with some LSD-32 or something more potent like that and then make a video about what he saw during the trip. Actually that doesn't sound like a bad concept. Any volunteers? Do it for the art!

I'm in for an artful LSD trip.-Jon Houser

Somehow Jon, that doesn't surprise me. I'm against the artful LSD trip, strictly because its illegal. Now if we were to stay awake for three days straight, denying ourselves all food, drinking only water and alcohol, while painting a murage. . .inside Jerm's house, then I'm all about that. I'd imagine that'd give us the same trip as LSD. Maybe if we took a few caffeine pills every hour too. . .

Laws, shmalls. Self destruction is self destruction, regardless of the method. Society simply programs us to recognize some methods as wrong, and other methods as perfectly ok. Smoking cigarettes is dangerous, bad for the lungs, and only adults with death wishes should be alowed to do it. But let's stuff our six year olds with chemically enchanced, lard wads between bread with the nutritional qualities of styrofoam day in day out and call it a "happy meal". A hyperbolic example, but it shows the point. Stuffing yourself with legal caffeine pills and depriving the mind and body of it's natural sleeping habits is as self destructive as an LSD trip. Not that I'd really condone any form of self destruction for the sake of physical pleasures.

That was kind of my point Jon. Actually that was my point. Thanks for pointing that out. Do you hate McDonalds as much as I do? I'd like to see every one burn to the ground simulataneously, and then frame Ronald McDonald for it. I'd like to see that clown go to jail. I doubt an old man in face paint could possibly survive in the joint.

Gotcha. Eat at Mcdonald's and destroy your body for physical pleasure.

It sewriously feels like my brain is gonna ooze out of my ears whenever someone in the office tturns on one of those VH1 clip/celeb shows or the E! channel. *shudders*

"sewriously"

:p

Looks like it already is fried.

Anyways I made up my own little anti-TV rhyme:

Ditch the tube ya brainwashed rube

Find a nook and browse a book

oooooooh T.V.