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[Parks, Raymond]

Jochen Fromm wrote:

>
> What is all this talk about "World Peace" about ?
> Isn't world peace something mentioned on beauty pageants ?
> Reminds me of a scene in the terrible "Miss Congeniality"
> film my girl-friend forced me to watch:
>
> Stan Fields: What is the one most important thing our society needs?
> Gracie Hart: That would be... harsher punishment for parole violators, Stan.
> [crowd is silent]
> Gracie Hart: And world peace!
> [crowd cheers ecstatically]

   Around New Mexico, there are a lot of "Visualize World Peace" bumper
stickers.  Personally, I prefer a different one "Visualize Whirled
Peas".  It makes me think of split pea soup.

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[Marko Rodriguez]

There are a lot of memes that people need to re-evaluate..Here is my top
10:

1. One man / one vote
2. All men created equal
3. No child left behind
4. Respect life
5. Democracy is Freedom
6. Majority Wins
7. Mean People Suck
8. Show some common decency
9. Eastern religions are cool
10. When peak oil hits, we should help each other...

On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 09:05 -0700, Jim Rutt wrote:

> my point more or less!
>
> someone below was sawing away on "world peace", I thought it might be fun
> to examine the cliche and see if there was something perhaps counter
> intuitive inside it.  That's one of the problems with cliches... they
> become rubber stamps that people stop thinking about.
>
> along the same lines is one my favorite bumper stickers: "Imagine Whirled Peas"
>
> almost as good as:
>
> "Earth First!  Then Mars! - American Mining Association"
>
>
>
>
>
> At 11:16 PM 3/30/2006, you wrote:
>
> >What is all this talk about "World Peace" about ?
> >Isn't world peace something mentioned on beauty pageants ?
> >Reminds me of a scene in the terrible "Miss Congeniality"
> >film my girl-friend forced me to watch:
> >
> >Stan Fields: What is the one most important thing our society needs?
> >Gracie Hart: That would be... harsher punishment for parole violators, Stan.
> >[crowd is silent]
> >Gracie Hart: And world peace!
> >[crowd cheers ecstatically]
> >
> >-J.
> >
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