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Objectivist Smack Talk!

Posted by Eudaimonia 9 years ago to Entertainment
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There are times when you just gotta smack talk.

So, come up with your best Objectivist zinger.

Keep this in mind though - the almost impossible bar to reach is Howard Roarke's, "But I don't think of you..."


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  • Posted by johnpe1 9 years ago
    an ex-girlfriend, who had left me to run across the
    country to "star" in porn magazines, came back to
    see me when I was still in engineering school.

    it was a Saturday and I was studying in my 1-room
    "apartment" at school. . she stood in the doorway
    and asked how I was doing. . I kept a serious face
    and answered her. . she asked how much longer
    I had to go in school. . I answered.

    she asked, "What, don't you smile any more?"

    I replied, "Not in public."

    she left. -- j

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    • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years ago
      "ex-girlfriend, who had left me to run across the
      country to "star" in porn magazines, came back to
      see me when I was still in engineering school. "
      Engineers are a magnet for troubled young women craving stability.
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      • Posted by plusaf 9 years ago
        That reminds me of two girls I dated in college, too...
        Took the first one, "M" to a drive-in movie. She sat on my hand and I was naïve (and stupid) enough to remove my hand.

        The second one, "J", about four years later, was my bunk-buddy for two months, and although I was getting VERY serious about HER, it wasn't mutual and she dropped me like a hot rock. A few months later, I was crushing on "D" who was more interested in "Rick." Some time later, Rick and "J" married... some irony in that. "D" got her MD, I think, and married. Rick and "J" divorced, and around the time I got back in touch with "J", she stopped writing suddenly. Her sister told me a few months later that "J" had died. Such is life...
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      • Posted by johnpe1 9 years ago
        she was just an innocent young department-store
        manager's daughter when I met her. . I guess that
        the calm lifestyle I led frustrated her. -- j

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        • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years ago
          "she was just an innocent young department-store manager's daughter when I met her."
          She worked at a retail store herself and spent most of her small paycheck buying things using her employee discount. She liked the notion of having a stable person to dress and decorate the house, etc, but the reality of living daily with a stable, rational person didn't work for her. Did I guess at all correct?
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          • Posted by johnpe1 9 years ago
            well, not exactly;;; she was a student with me, and
            wanted a wild ride as a flower child . . . .and, though
            we did have some wild rides, I was in engineering
            and usaf rotc, and she wanted a wilder ride....... -- j

            p.s. it was the opposite of James and Cherryl.

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            • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years ago
              Okay. Not the same girl I knew then. :)
              "it was the opposite of James and Cherryl. "
              That analogy didn't occur to me. I was thinking of someone from my past.
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              • Posted by johnpe1 9 years ago
                I met her in math class, and tutored her a bit, and
                then it got more complicated. . . the high point of
                the wild ride was the day when her sister's puma
                decided to take my right knee in her mouth and stare
                at me until we figured out how to distract the eight-
                foot-long mama lion with food. . . still have photos
                from that weekend in floriday. . . Beautiful Lion,
                but deserving of respect! -- j

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    • Posted by khalling 9 years ago
      are you havin us on john:)
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nIdGutg...
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      • Posted by johnpe1 9 years ago
        don't know what you mean;;; this is the truth. -- j

        p.s. I was far enough along in school that
        I didn't have saturday classes anymore.

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        • Posted by khalling 9 years ago
          just joshin you. I know all too well about spontaneous girls latching on to engineers :)
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          • Posted by johnpe1 9 years ago
            at one point, my mom -- who was a knockout
            southern belle -- asked me how I was able to
            attract girlfriends so easily. . . y'see, she didn't
            understand how an atheist could relate to the
            real world, I guess, and she'd seen me with
            more than one girlfriend. . . serial monogamy.

            so, it was engineering, huh?

            I never knew that. . I thought that it was
            animal magnetism. . the other strong force. -- j

            p.s. Dale was a fortunate young man!!!

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            • Posted by plusaf 9 years ago
              I connected with my first wife shortly after she'd broken an engagement with a guy she realized was not, let's say, 'well-connected to reality,' and I, as an engineer grad, was a bastion of 'stability' compared to him. In the end, after some years of marriage, we realized that we were, like the book, "The Scientist versus The Humanist" and too different to stay together.

              Engineers DO make great spouses, though... they can fix things AND are often good earners and not as 'flighty' as some of the more ... ah... 'flamboyant' competitors.

              YMMV...
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              • Posted by johnpe1 9 years ago
                my first wife and I were escapees from parental
                restraint together, and were married by a judge with
                her next-door-neighbor witnessing. . . when the
                judge said, "You may kiss the bride," I replied
                (no kidding) "Where?"

                that's how much we wanted to comply with the
                rules -- just tell me what to do, and let us leave.

                I could fix most everything except her fear of
                having kids. -- j

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                • Posted by plusaf 9 years ago
                  <Big Smile!>
                  One of my through-marriage relatives showed up last Thanksgiving looking decidedly pregnant. I bit my tongue and didn't congratulate her, but judiciously asked around... she wasn't.
                  It turned out that her hub wants a family but she's afraid of anything and everything associated with pregnancy, birth, etc., and when she's anxious, she eats... and the fat accumulates where it makes her look pregnant.

                  Ironic, eh? My first wife and I both had enough neuroses and other shit that, had we made any babies, those poor kids would have had genes they'd want to trade in for good ones. Lucky for those unborn non-children of ours, probably (actually and obviously, no way to know now...).

                  Second wife lost her reproductive plumbing after an auto accident, so according to some fundamentalists, our marriage could not produce children naturally, so we're as bad as if we were gay and of same gender.

                  Life on this planet is SO strange...
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                  • Posted by johnpe1 9 years ago
                    I married the 1st time at 22, for 15 years. . split and
                    then looked for someone with whom to make a family
                    for 15 more, then married someone with whom
                    no kids came along, so we're growing old together
                    and loving others' kids.

                    wife is disabled with arthritis, etc. and I have
                    emphysema, so we go slow, but We Go !!! -- j

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  • Posted by BradA 9 years ago
    "What makes you think I care about your opinion?"

    "You've clearly been educated beyond your intelligence"

    "You might have the right to free speech, but there is absolutely no requirement that I listen to you."

    "If what you were offering had any value to me, I would gladly pay for it. It doesn't, so I won't"
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