No. That’s actually him inventing a whole new script for a movie where he plays a John Wayne/Clint Eastwood type of heroic character (his two favorite actors, had you bothered to read the provided link about his mental state). Too bad that the real one, were he empties a gun into the gut of an unarmed and listless assailant, was already on tape.
True, true. I apologize to ignorant imbeciles everywhere for misquoting them. No doubt it’s because I’m a filthy liberal.
**woodstockbirdybird **did it already, but let me try.
I was comparing the likelihood of winning the lottery to winning the lottery **plus **those other things I mentioned. So I guess you can say that I was comparing two situations if you want, but you don’t get to decide which two situations I was comparing; specifically, as woody noted, that “winning the lottery and all of those other things happening on the same day [situation one] is much less likely than winning the lottery alone. [situation two] Being in a highly unlikely category doesn’t mean that other highly unlikely things suddenly become more likely.”
I suppose I could have been more clear, but since reading it the other way does nothing to support my point, it seems odd that you would insist that I intended the meaning you stated.
Get it? You’re comparing the two.
Jesus Fucking Christ.
blink
blink, blink
I do not comprehend.
Not worth it, dude. You’d have better luck explaining your post to a Pet Rock.
I think the stock answer to anything jimpatro says at this point should be a simple “Moooooooooo”.
I was going by what you wrote. I’ll grant you that you didn’t mean exactly that.
Why insult the bovine brethren like that?
You’re right. Cows are pretty zen, and they don’t, as a rule, buy into urban legends.
I just want to say that was a beautiful story, Jester.
Agreed - a damn good rebuttal there, Jester. Sorry some of us let this thread get hijacked.
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Okay. So I have been trying to find a story from years ago on Google and have failed miserably. It was a party boat capsizing in the ocean off of Rio de Janeiro on New Year’s Eve in which a famous Brazilian actress, among dozens of others, was killed. This happened when I was 10 years old, I think, so I guess in 1988. Can’t find a word of it. I try to find it because I was supposed to be on that boat, but when we got to the harbor it was too full and we decided to go on another one.
Do you not believe me just because I can’t find a link?
And no one has gone for the easy joke.
I found it very easily, on my first attempt of just Googling “Brazilian actress capsize”; a New York Times article was on the first page.
Ouch.
ETA: Ouch.
No, but I do think your google-fu sucks ass.
I googled party boat capsize rio and the first hit is:
:rolleyes:
AH HA! That was in 1989, when **Drain Bead **was 11. A certain pedantic poster here will be along shortly to taunt you.
In defense of Drain Bead’s memory, the disaster occurred at about 11:50 PM on New Year’s Eve of 1988… 