We Should Have a Special Lounge Rules Thread ---

[La Lioness Priyanka]

pinned for the noobies.

1. Olive Garden: explanation of controversy

2. Moran: Origin of word and Link to pic

3. Smoking: Dont bring it up

...add your own to this list

[jobycom]

1. An explanation of Oscar would be good, too.

And entertaining.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

5. oscar is the best. till date i dont know whether or not to believe in oscar.

[jobycom]

21. Yes, Lioness, there is an Oscar.

LIONESS, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Lioness, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Lioness, there is an Oscar. He exists certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! How dreary would be the world if there were no Oscar! It would be as dreary as if there were no LIONESSES. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Oscar! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Oscar, but even if they did not see Oscar coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Oscar, but that is no sign that there is no Oscar. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest man that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Lioness, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Oscar! Thank GOD! He lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

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[fizzgig]

7. oscar?

there's one i don't know about

[jobycom]

24. Read it. Make sure you won't get in trouble for laughing aloud.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=624815

[LSK]

2. list of current copycats would be nice

I hate running into those without seeing the original 1st.

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. Oh, okay - so smokers should just be swept under the rug?

Pretend they don't exist? Hush hush, quiet quiet, and all that just like the old days when families had a mentally retarded child, shhhhhh.... hide him away and never mention him again.... or a pregnant unwed daughter... shhhh... pretend it doesn't exist....... tooo much shame.... shhhhhhhh........

:grr:




Just kidding - Happy New Year Lioness!! :hi: :yourock: :hi:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

4. rofl

:rofl:

happy new year to you too!

[datasuspect]

6. default navel-gazing self-righteousness and feigned outrage

button. i think a smilie could substitute nicely for multiple instantiations of venomous moral superiority.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

9. that reminds me...SUV's should also be on that list...

also a link to the "fun is over" thread...

[datasuspect]

11. don't forget veganism

oh. my. god.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

12. also pit bulls. dont bring that one up either

[datasuspect]

13. or lesbian/gay jokes

or jokes about chinese food.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

14. chinese food. i missed that one.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

15. to add to that dont called people breeders...they get offended.

apparantly full rights under the law isnt good enough

[datasuspect]

16. anybody can call me anything they want . . .

just don't call me late to dinner.

oh btw, don't post a "hats of meat" thread either.

[BarenakedLady]

22. Anything I want?

How about Smoochie Shmuggums Pookie Bear? :rofl:

[TOhioLiberal]

8. Don't forget:

...beware of Breastfeeding and letting children run wild in restaurants.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

10. yes dont bring up breastfeeding either

[crispini]

17. Chicken.

OMG, the day Skinner said "No more posts about chicken in the Lounge" :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

18. that was a good one...

[crispini]

19. Ha! Found it!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=3499154

[madinmaryland]

20. Cell phone users in restaurants while their kids are screaming!!

[RedStateShame]

23. If this is your first time at the DU Lounge, you have to fight.

[jobycom]

25. There could be a dictionary for all the acceptable euphamisms for

you know, the subject we can't talk about but do all the time anyway?