Free association thread 2

[SweetMaj]

We know the speed of light; but what's the speed of dark?

The speed of darkness is energy out of sync.

(What made me say that?)

 

[JWren]

The speed of darkness is energy out of sync.

(What made me say that?)

Now I am in the dark!

 

[JKendallDane]

Now I am in the dark!

Perhaps you should have mailed the check for your electric bill sooner.

 

[JWren]

Perhaps you should have mailed the check for your electric bill sooner.

I have candles for such emergency

 

[Handley_Page]

I have candles for such emergency

Or paraffin lamps. A very soft light, I find.

 

[SamScribble]

Perhaps you should have mailed the check for your electric bill sooner.

The Red-Billed Gull - Chroicocephalus scopulinus

 

[SamScribble]

Or paraffin lamps. A very soft light, I find.

So romantic. Apart from the smell

 

[Handley_Page]

So romantic. Apart from the smell

You can get a very pleasant-perfumed lamp oil these days, you know.

Of course, one might suspect the light (and thus the dark) speed to be a little different. . .

 

[JWren]

You can get a very pleasant-perfumed lamp oil these days, you know

What better than Esso Blue?

 

[JKendallDane]

What better than Esso Blue?

Esso means: Happy Motoring

damn...i just flashed back 45 years or so to remember that one

 

[SamScribble]

Esso means: Happy Motoring

damn...i just flashed back 45 years or so to remember that one

Whenever I'm riding with daddy
He always takes me, of course
To the station that gives lots of service
At the sign of the flying red horse

 

[JKendallDane]

Whenever I'm riding with daddy
He always takes me, of course
To the station that gives lots of service
At the sign of the flying red horse

You can trust your car, to the man who wears the star...

https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3512/3924482731_5302de2ab3.jpg

 

[JWren]

You can trust your car, to the man who wears the star...

https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3512/3924482731_5302de2ab3.jpg

Don't let the stars get in your eyes...

 

[Handley_Page]

What, better than Esso Blue?

Ah, I remember the Esso Blee Dooler.

Esso means: Happy Motoring

damn...i just flashed back 45 years or so to remember that one

"Oh the Esso sign means Happy Motoring
Happy Motoring
Oh the Esso sign means Happy Motoring
Call at the Esso Sign"

It was in opposition to the Shell campaign (remember Bing singing it ?)
("You can be sure of Shell")

And the red horse was from Mobile; I think.

 

[BurningMonkey]

Don't let the stars get in your eyes...

"In the magic of moonlight
When I sigh, "Hold me close, dear"
Chances are you'll believe the stars
That fill the skies are in my eyes"


~Johnny Mathis - Chances Are

 

[JKendallDane]

"In the magic of moonlight
When I sigh, "Hold me close, dear"
Chances are you'll believe the stars
That fill the skies are in my eyes"


~Johnny Mathis - Chances Are

Landing on 'Chance' in Monopoly though, could mean you end up in jail.

 

[Handley_Page]

Landing on 'Chance' in Monopoly though, could mean you end up in jail.

I never did understand "Community Chest"

 

[JKendallDane]

I never did understand "Community Chest"

Wasn't that what Mae West called her b(*)(*)bs?

 

[oggbashan]

I never did understand "Community Chest"

It is like the 'Chatham Chest' which was a sum of money kept to look after injured Royal Navy sailors.

'Community Chest' is basically government taxation which might ask you for hundreds of Monopoly pounds in property taxes, or give you a pittance of someone's else's money.

The designers of Monopoly were cynics.

 

[BurningMonkey]

It is like the 'Chatham Chest' which was a sum of money kept to look after injured Royal Navy sailors.

'Community Chest' is basically government taxation which might ask you for hundreds of Monopoly pounds in property taxes, or give you a pittance of someone's else's money.

The designers of Monopoly were cynics.

The designers of Monopoly were, in fact, Marxists. Seems strange for a game so relentlessly capitalistic, but it's true...

There were two sets of rules: the "capitalist" rules (which survived and are still in play today) and the "cooperative" rules, which no one remembers.

When played the first way, the point was to show that if left to the market, all money and property ends up in the hands of one individual, the inevitable concentration of wealth attendant on the unbridled free market.

When played the second way, the game was much more even-handed, with everyone able to sustain themselves and the money and property distributed more or less equally throughout the time of play. Of course, there was no "winner" the second way, so it never caught on.

 

[JKendallDane]

The designers of Monopoly were, in fact, Marxists. Seems strange for a game so relentlessly capitalistic, but it's true...

There were two sets of rules: the "capitalist" rules (which survived and are still in play today) and the "cooperative" rules, which no one remembers.

When played the first way, the point was to show that if left to the market, all money and property ends up in the hands of one individual, the inevitable concentration of wealth attendant on the unbridled free market.

When played the second way, the game was much more even-handed, with everyone able to sustain themselves and the money and property distributed more or less equally throughout the time of play. Of course, there was no "winner" the second way, so it never caught on.

Sorry...but the true lesson of Monopoly is that with it, just as in real life, the banker always ends up with the most money.

 

[SamScribble]

Sorry...but the true lesson of Monopoly is that with it, just as in real life, the banker always ends up with the most money.

Goldman Sachs

 

[Handley_Page]

Goldman Sachs

Barclays

 

[SamScribble]

Barclays

And let's not forget RBS

 

[BurningMonkey]

And let's not forget RBS

Nor UBS.