Thursday 26 August 2010

Namaste my arse

I noticed a number of posts from 'woke-up people' on a variety of different boards were often ending their messages with the word 'namaste'.

I looked it up and found that it's an expression meaning 'love & peace' or something in a similar, airy-fairy vein.  I don't know, it just seemed a really trite and condescending statement to make so I ended my faescesbook account with the "Namaste my arse" message.

[11:11 just cropped up again]

Thursday 19 August 2010

Soup II

Control of the Crouton mining is an essential part of the Soup Markets.  Croutons are not particularly rare and can be found by most people around the world however, only those Croutons that have been cut and graded by the established Crouton houses can be classed as valuable and are hence sought after by celebrities and the aristocracy.  It is rumoured that the queen holds some of the largest Croutons in the world in amongst the crown jewels!

Interestingly, Naomi Campbell (a good Soup star name) would currently be a witness in a trial over the possession of uncut Croutons (dirty croutons as they are referred to in the trade) being used to Soup up all sorts of atrocities.

Soup

Thought about this last night... Imagine a world and society based on Soup.  Everything revolves around and involves in one form or another, Soup.  Value is determined by the amount of Soup you possess.  There are some who are rolling in it or have Soup to burn whilst others can barely scrape two small cans together.


You would think that if Soup is so important to everyone and vital to their existence that they would all learn as much about Soup, its history, how its created etc. as they can and that they would want to become experts on everything Soup & Consommé related.  Schools and parents would teach their children and special universities would exist to ensure everyone knew all there is to know about the world of Soup.

However, with a little more thought it is obvious that the controllers of Soup, those few elite families that own and protect the Soup lakes and know the secret locations of the Soup mines would do everything in their (considerable) power to make sure that the opposite is true.  These elites would also own all the Soup kitchens between themselves and governments around the world would have to visit these cup in hand, to ask for a Soup allowance.

The vast majoirty of people would be completetly ignorant of where Soup comes from and how it's created.  They would simply slave away day after day for their Soup rations, saving up if they 'can' any spare Soup into the local Soup kitchens, perhaps borrowing more Soup than they can really afford to take on getting themselves into a right pickle.

An original quote?

I came up with the following a long time ago but have never been quite sure whether it's mine or I am paraphrasing another's quote... 'You are ennobled by your deeds not by chance of birth'

Tuesday 17 August 2010

By hook or by crook

First post and a bit of an experiment.  The original idea was to create a blog that contains some of my ideas and stuff and also some quotes, for example the 'Pity the pithy' of the title.