Conaerlingus etc

At the very least, one thing we can all agree about is that Scott Adams has a great sense of humor. That, after all these years, Dilbert does not go stale is proof of that! At his blog today, he asks readers to find the pattern in the three items he writes about in his post (reproduced below in its entirety):

I was just talking to a friend who said he booked a trip to Ireland on Aer Lingus. This made me wonder what would happen if that airline merged with, oh, let’s say Continental Airlines. This new company, potentially named Conaerlingus, would get people’s attention. But would you be concerned about your flight going down?

For some reason this reminds me of one of the great mysteries of life: Why do attractive women pay for massages? For most of us, there’s a good reason we pay another human to rub us for an hour. If we didn’t offer money, or reciprocate with some rubbing of our own, no one would take the job. But if you are a hot woman, lots of people would volunteer to spend an hour rubbing your nearly naked body for free. So in a sense, an attractive woman isn’t paying for the same thing everyone else is. For her, the massage is always free, and she’s paying someone to pretend it isn’t.

Moving along, I have long maintained, and have been mercilessly mocked for, my opinion that voting is irrational for an individual. While I support the system as a whole, wherein potential revolutionaries are transformed into docile citizens via the illusion of having some influence on election outcomes, it is irrational to vote as long as many others do. Here’s a better take on this idea from some people who have something I don’t, i.e. credibility:

What did my three topics today have in common? (There is a real answer.)

A comment from the Adams' post. Wow.... this is very 1984-ish!

In Australia it is very rational to vote. It is a crime not to vote, punishable by a $50 fine (not a serious felony, of course, but one which the authorities follow up with perhaps unnecessary relish). You know for sure that failure to vote will cost you dosh, so you head on down to the local school and you do your thing.

incredible!! cannot believe such a law got passed there and they follow it up and enforce it too!



And speaking of voting,

Having a difficult time telling Democrats from Republicans?

O.K., it will help if you can visualize Al Pacino in the movie “Dog Day Afternoon”.

Here you go: “Well, aren’t you going to kiss me first?”.

That’s it, the Democrats will kiss you first, before they bend you over the sofa, the Republicans will usually be no kinder than to ask you to grab your ankles.

See, it’s not too difficult to tell them apart. There is a difference in their procedures, but the end result (no pun intended) still leaves you walking a little bow legged.

go see the link for a funny interesting picture..(ugg..i hate snapshot!)