Why Sixx went to Schecter....

[uwe]

 

[TBird1958]

As soon as we secure our ownership of the arctic and it's oil, we will have dominion over all the earth by virtue of our oil and water reserves.  All this time y'all thought we were being nice; muahahahahahahaha.

... and happy birthday Nikki.

Great, you've already got all the Back Bacon and most of the Maple Syrup.........

I think it's time for a hostile takeover 

[uwe]

The Canucks are already building their defenses! Inevitably with small hiccups, but undeterred as regards the worthy national effort.

[TBird1958]

That's a different kind of beaver than the one at my house 

[uwe]

(Inquisitively) Yours are never under some wood, right?

[Highlander]

There is that rather poor taste baby seal joke... their fave drink... Canadian Club...

[uwe]

Lovely!!!!  

Can't we have a mandatory avatar moniker for all Canadian members like "Babysealclubber1", "Babysealclubber2" etc?

[TBird1958]

(Inquisitively) Yours are never under some wood, right?

We have the less furry ones here 


That must be a French Canadian Beaver, I hear they don't shave much.

[Dave W]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3O4QGMkPjk

[Granny Gremlin]

I prefer this one.  Take it as warning fellas 

[uwe]

We have the less furry ones here 


That must be a French Canadian Beaver, I hear they don't shave much.

And start drinking early in the day which does invite tree accidents.

Polish Canadians are the worst, really.

[Granny Gremlin]

Look, if you like bald beaver then, fine, but from where I sit, that's a bit weird.  I like my beaver to be of age so there damn better be fur on it, or I'm out.... also, I am a hairy beast (Lumberjack culture as well as genetics), and fair's fair, I'm not shavin either.  ... and before a further line of jokes start, there's a big distance between unkept mess and shaved; keeping things neat and tidy is expected on all sides.

Also, I dunno if a German partner-level lawyer should be talking about who is or isn't "the worst."  I bet it's all Mad Men breakfast up there on the _teenth floor with a clear view to the former Zyklon B factory (yer fault for pointing it out to me on that tour of Frankfurt). 

[uwe]

Hairlessness is overrated! But you know how the Yanks always cut off more than they can chew.

As regards the Zyklon B holding company office, the whole site I showed you at the time is now torn down for redevelopment, you should come for another sight-seeing tour!

And I only read recently (in leftist-liberal intellectual weekly magazine Der Freitag, just the stuff George Carlston expects me to read!), on the advent of the hundredth anniversary of Fritz Haber's



invention of the ammonia synthesis process from atmospheric nitrogen, that

- much to the chagrin of the WWI Allies he received a Nobel prize for his invention as early as 1918,

- his wife tragically committed suicide one week after poison gas based on his invention was first used by Germany in Ypres in the Flanders fields and killed 6.000 Allied soldiers (Haber held the view that "dying from artillery sprapnel wounds is more cruel ....", I have my doubts, the blood loss from multiple artillery shrapnel wounds puts you to sleep quickly),

- he was faithful to the Kaiser, a glowing nationalist and jewish, which is why he had to flee Germany from Nazi persecution as early as 1933, but died already (in his late sixties) in 1934 on his way from England to a scientific convention in Switzerland,

- he was involved in the pre-1933 development of a rodent extermination poison gas called - you guessed it - Zyklon B,

- great parts of his family/relatives were gassed in Auschwitz.

That would be stuff for one hell of a biopic, don't you think? And Der Freitag posed an interesting dialectic conundrum: Should Fritz Haber be revered or reviled? Revered for being the father of modern fertilisation that supports billions on the planet which would otherwise starve to death? Or reviled for an invention that enabled the production of military explosives and ammunition, military poison gas, Zyklon B as well as ecological doubtful synthetic fertilizer that has spawned an over-population endangering the planet?

You answer that question. In any case an interesting man.

How did we get from Nikki Sixx to this again? 

[TBird1958]

I wanted to join the Canadian Navy.




They turned me down, my wardrode and Queenly needs, including hair trimming  

[uwe]

Why, you would have looked great in that uniform!

And I'm sorry how the (w)hole ward rode you, that must stick as a memory.