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Re: Bad Opinions

Postby afroannnie » Fri Apr 06, 2012 10:07 am

mickeyrat wrote:
afroannnie wrote:"He’s passé. Nobody cares about Mickey anymore… I think we should phase him out."

—Roy Disney on his brother Walt’s creation Mickey Rat, 1937

HEY!!!!!! I take exception to this. My GF tells me she still cares about me. that still counts right?


Don't worry..Roy said this...not Walt. I mean who cares about Roy? He's so passé.
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Re: Bad Opinions

Postby afroannnie » Fri Apr 06, 2012 1:17 pm

I can't imagine how this would ever work logistically...but I like the idea of flying my house and kitties wherever I want and visit friends :D

"Houses will be able to fly [by 2000]… The time may come when whole communities may migrate south in the winter, or move to new lands whenever they feel the need for a change of scenery."

—Futurist Arthur C. Clarke, Vogue, 1966
"This is like a plane, right, Matt would be the engines and Stone & Jeff would be the pilots. Mike & I would be your happy flight attendants. We'll give you peanuts, the exits are..but I would say you aren't the passengers, you are the fucking plane."~EV 5/13/10

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Re: Bad Opinions

Postby of.the.girl » Fri Apr 06, 2012 1:20 pm

"Men will never fly, because flying is reserved for angels."

Episcopalian Bishop Milton Wright, father of the Wright Brothers, date unknown
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Re: Bad Opinions

Postby dcfaithful » Fri Apr 06, 2012 1:27 pm

afroannnie wrote:“Home taping is killing music.”

—A campaign by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) targeting people who used cassette recorders to tape songs off the radio, 1980


To some degree this might be accurate.

Home recording efforts aren't "killing" music, but they're definitely changing it. In the eyes of big-wig record companies, for the worse.
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Re: Bad Opinions

Postby Who Princess » Fri Apr 06, 2012 3:11 pm

“And for the tourist who really wants to get away from it all, safaris in Vietnam.”

—Newsweek, forecasting holiday trends for the late 1960s

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Re: Bad Opinions

Postby afroannnie » Fri Apr 06, 2012 9:40 pm

“I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and, in 1996, catastrophically collapse.”

—Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3Com, 1995
"This is like a plane, right, Matt would be the engines and Stone & Jeff would be the pilots. Mike & I would be your happy flight attendants. We'll give you peanuts, the exits are..but I would say you aren't the passengers, you are the fucking plane."~EV 5/13/10

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Re: Bad Opinions

Postby afroannnie » Sun Apr 08, 2012 6:27 pm

“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.”

—Ken Olson, co-founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
"This is like a plane, right, Matt would be the engines and Stone & Jeff would be the pilots. Mike & I would be your happy flight attendants. We'll give you peanuts, the exits are..but I would say you aren't the passengers, you are the fucking plane."~EV 5/13/10

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Re: Bad Opinions

Postby Claireack » Mon Apr 09, 2012 12:50 pm

afroannnie wrote:Now you have me clicking away.. :lol:

“Strawberries as large as apples will be eaten by our great-great-grandchildren for their Christmas dinners.”

—Ladies’ Home Journal, “What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years,” 1900

:?


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Re: Bad Opinions

Postby stargirl69 » Mon Apr 09, 2012 1:06 pm

dcfaithful wrote:
afroannnie wrote:“Home taping is killing music.”

—A campaign by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) targeting people who used cassette recorders to tape songs off the radio, 1980


To some degree this might be accurate.

Home recording efforts aren't "killing" music, but they're definitely changing it. In the eyes of big-wig record companies, for the worse.


I remember that campaign well it was a very dramatic film vinyl being bludgeoned :?
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Re: Bad Opinions

Postby afroannnie » Mon Apr 09, 2012 2:23 pm

Claireack wrote:
afroannnie wrote:Now you have me clicking away.. :lol:

“Strawberries as large as apples will be eaten by our great-great-grandchildren for their Christmas dinners.”

—Ladies’ Home Journal, “What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years,” 1900

:?


I want one!


They would be great for making strawberry shortcake :D
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