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Stuck at home today while the winter storm rages outside.
I’m passing the time watching old episodes of Star Trek.
I found this picture, which is alarmingly accurate.
So far I’m doing a lousy job of “Live Long And Prosper”, but a great job of “Suicidal And Poverty-Stricken”.
I must live in that alternate universe where everything is the opposite.
My doppleganger in the other universe must obviously be rich, healthy, and excited about the future.
Plus she gets laid CONSTANTLY.
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I know the feeling. I am not fully living out the “live long and prosper thing either.” I am in similar circumstances as you and I know its not an ongoing picnic. Maybe there is another universe where the other half of us is living great. Or maybe we will get better circumstances in the afterlife. who knows.
I am leaving tomorrow to go on a cruse ship for 3 days so that should be fun. I will eat all kinds of nice foods and have some views of the Bahamas.
I never heard of the word Doppleganger before. I guess we learn something new everyday.
A cruise ship? For three days?
That sounds awesome.
I’ve never been on one of those.
A three day tour? Phantom Citizens Island?
That’s true… the Minnow had a three-hour tour….
Be sure to take the professor with you so you can fix a radio with sand and coconuts.
“Live long and prosper” is credited to a relatively obscure writer named Theodore Sturgeon. He was friends with Kurt Vonnegut, and Vonnegut’s Kilgore Trout character was based on Sturgeon. (I thought that was interesting).
“Smoking is the classy way of committing suicide”. – Kurt Vonnegut
He lived to an old age and smoked Pall Mall unfiltered cigarettes for most of his life. (Which is something you won’t hear in an anti-smoking commercial).
The alternate reality perspective seems a little bit out there, but hey, who knows?
Ironic, since Leonard Nimoy died of COPD, which he attributed to smoking.
Ironic indeed. Smoking is highly illogical, but quite enjoyable, Captain.
So I hear.
I’ll stick to hot peppers… they’re punishingly delightful, eye-watering, AND they probably don’t cause cancer.
And hey, if they do, it’s probably worth it.
That’s the spirit. Seems like the funnest things are dangerous, unhealthy, illegal or fattening. Since we’re all gonna die eventually, there’s no point in being a worry wart.
According to jet li’s the one you get your doppleganger’s life force, so it’ll make you faster and more intelligent, so maybe he did have a point in going through the multiverses killing his counterparts…. mmm *starts thinking on plans to go through the multiverses*.
Hmmmm. So really, if I just sit here and do nothing, there’s an excellent chance one of my other duplicates will travel over here and kill me instead.
How convenient!
Sort of like pizza delivery, only more existential.
I feel like my “dopplegangers” are siphoning my life force from afar. Every day I grow weaker :/
Me too!
argh, this movie isn’t on hulu or netflix. it sounds interesting. was it a good movie?
Here:
imdb.com/title/tt0267804/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_One_(2001_film)
It was a… mmm… above average sci-fi movie. I did like it when it came out tho, but then, i liked anything with jet li on it, i would have watched an ikea furniture building instructional video if it involved jet li and some sort of martial arts cabinet assembly. A good jet li movie is danny the dog tho, i really loved that one.
Pizza delivery is already way too existential, specially if they deliver after 30 mins and you get a free pizza. “what, i got something for free just because i waited long enough, and the poor guy who took too long has to pay for it?”… yeah, not even fortune cookies give you that level of insight on life.
I wish fortune cookies tasted better.
It would make up for their disturbing lack of insight.
Unless that’s part of the joke.
Holy crap, that was 15 years ago. Back when I was young and healthy. -_-‘ Where has the time gone? Damn those dopplegangers, stealing my life force. Give it back!!
I wish fortune cookies actually gave you fortunes, instead of cheesy one liners.
Kinda makes you wonder if Jesus ever tried Chinese food.
Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.
Jesus fed the crowd loaves and fishes because if he’d given them Chinese food, they would have been hungry again an hour later.
Btw, fortune cookies were not invented in China. NOBODY in China eats those things. It was created in California by Chinese-Americans. And the Americans seemed to like it and so it spread throughout the US. Same goes for General Tso’s chicken. It was made by immigrants in the US for the main population (white Americans).
I guess i’m the only person alive that actually likes how fortune cookies taste like, lol.
If Jesus / God was almighty, why not just eliminate hunger to begin with? No need for constantly struggling to get food every day.
My little nephew loves them. We break it up into little pieces for him. He likes to crunch on ’em. (He thinks it’s a cookie lol). I only ever open them up to read “fortunes,” but stopped doing that since it’s pretty wasteful to open up one and not even eat it.
Jesus could’ve offered the crowd an all-day pass to the all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet.
He is the Son of God, c’mon. He can’t hook the crowd up with buffet passes?
It’s fun to eat delicious things, though.
If we never got hungry, we’d never get the enjoyment of having a yummy meal.
Bacon might only be 38% as enjoyable as it currently is.
All this talk about chinese food is making me want some egg rolls and General Tso Chicken.
Aaaaaand I’m stuck at home for the next few days.
So I’ll just pick up a granola bar and WISH REALLY HARD FOR IT TO MAGICALLY CHANGE MOLECULAR STRUCTURE….
(*opens eyes*)
Dammit.
wait, wrong reference. why are they called pigs in a blanket when they’re wrapped in dough instead of bacon?? and the “meat” in a hot dog is all sorts of “meat”…
OMG.
That might be the awesomest thing I’ve considered so far today.
The bacon, I mean.
Not the reminder that hot dogs are made of all sorts of unspeakable parts and pieces.
They are sooo good, when done right. And you gotta eat it right away, while it’s still hot and fresh, soft but crispy at the same time. Sometimes they bring it out late and it’s cooled down, and you’re like “noooooooooo……”
https ://cookeatandlive.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/flavoured-rice-roll-in-bacon/
The rice doesn’t look very seasoned…
Are there any spices in it to give it some flavor?
Looks like that. Though you can make it crispier. The place I went to made it perfect- not too crispy- just the perfect amount of crispy. Tho…the last time they brought it out after letting it sit to bring all our other dishes out at once and it got cold, and i’m like “noooooooo…..” why o’ why didn’t they bring it out FIRST???
That link is one woman’s version that she made. You can add more spices to it, or dip it in some sauce. I personally like it with less spices so I can taste more of the bacon 😛
I love hot spicy things.
The hotter the better.
No such thing as too hot.
Last year two separate friends gave me ghost peppers they grew in their gardens.
I ate them raw.
Hotter than hell, but soooooooo good.
If you ever want to feel like you’re on death’s doorstep, eat a few of those.
If you want to feel like you’re already past death’s doorstep, touch your eyes afterward.
Interesting picture. I feel like that thumb too, all alone and carrying the weight and workload of 2.
Yes, our dopplegangers must be having really great, long healthy lives, and thus, we, in this universe, must suffer. Damn those dopplegangers!!
Have you watched Fringe? Your doppleganger and alternate universe reference parallels the show.
and…who the hell coined the term “doppleganger” anyway? It’s a most terrible sounding awkward word! It’s like when you flip through a dictionary (back when ppl flipped through an actual dictionary) and you see all sorts of crazy-sounding and weird real words and you’re like “who the hell thought up that??”
Doppelgänger is a German word, so that pretty much explains it. 😉
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppelgänger
Doppel = double
Ganger = walker
It’s German
So a doppleganger is some sort of centaur? jesus christ… just thought of nazi centaurs. Pretty sure that hitler would have loved some of those for his army.
(yeah, i’m daily trying to improve my chances of going to hell. hopefully i’m winning).
Not a centaur, but more like a living photocopy….
… and for some reason I just had a mental image of Hitler sitting on a photocopier trying to make copies of his butt.
He could distribute them with smiley-faces drawn on each cheek, and a note saying “Guten Abend, meine Freunde!”
That would never happen, of course.
They didn’t have photocopiers back then.
Hitler pulling a Bart Simpson? lol
“Hail my shorts”
which brings up another question- who the hell controls what words get put into the “official” dictionary and gets added to the “official” English language? I’m sure there’s a word for doppleganger in every language, but why did they choose the German one and made that the official word in English? Not specifically pointing out German (this particular word is German so just making that an example). Why cherry pick, and who gets to cherry pick?
Schadenfreude; pleasure derived from witnessing another person’s misfortunes.
^ That’s another gem we can thank the Germans for.
Siebentausendzweihundertvierundfünfzig is the word for 7,254.
because everything sounds so much cooler in German.
It does! 🙂
Or at least more urgently distressing.
Is there such a thing as a grumpy piglet?
I thought they were all happy, because at that age they still have no clue where bacon comes from.
@ nepheliad; You’re my only stalker. You chase me wherever I go. Please. People here are already depressed, try to refrain from your snarky, obsessive, self-serving commentary.
Have a nice day. 🙂
I just confirmed on the interwebs there are absolutely no grumpy piglets.
Your lonesome doppleganger thumb is quite popular; 80 comments and counting 😛
I know, right?
It was kind of like watching a bomb explode.
Shrapnel EVERYWHERE.