Re: N.G. Contest: What's The White Stuff On Mars ?
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Re: N.G. Contest: What's The White Stuff On Mars ?         

Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: Robert Cohen
Date: Jun 20, 2008 05:54

On Jun 19, 10:49 am, Robert Cohen msn.com> wrote:
> On Jun 19, 12:21 am, turtoni fastmail.net> wrote:
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>>>>> Robert Cohen wrote:
>>>>> ASBESTOS
>>>>> paper mill waste plants
>>>>> shaving cream bushes
>>>>> noxema ointment fungi
>>>>> martha white lilly self-rising baking powder-flour flowers or
>>>>> Claberboard brand
>>>>> toothpaste tube trees
>>>>> devilish albino mar (as in Earth's earth, so is Mar's mar)
>>>>> birdey doo-doo (also excellent for facial wrinkle treatments)
>>>>> optical delusion
>>>>> white fish (is the fish really "white?" i guess not)
>>>>> white grapes (again, i bet not)
>>>>> white-out (prior to cheap  printers, i used it by tons of ounces, and
>>>>> it came in other colors too, and is probably still on the market)
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>> i thought your list was some kind of dig at consumerism.
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>>> Now that's my kind of bad art, MAD Avenue surreal electronic dadaism
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>> the talking heads song appears to be a form of anti-consumerism; it
>> suggests that people mix up buying stuff as a substitute for love and
>> that our lifes are driven by the products.
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>>> That white stuff, until further advised, must be duly named, "the
>>> white stuff of Mars," a slight allusion to the White Cliffs of Dover ,
>>> another poem not memorized in the sixth grade of elemenatary school
>
>> "The cliffs have great symbolic value for Britain because they face
>> towards Continental Europe across the narrowest part of the English
>> Channel, where invasions have historically threatened and against
>> which the cliffs form a symbolic guard. Because crossing at Dover was
>> the primary route to the continent before air travel, the white line
>> of cliffs also formed the first (or last) sight of the UK for
>> travellers."
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>> i have seen them a number of times. pretty cool.- Hide quoted text -
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>> - Show quoted text -
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> re: Dover cliffs
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> Well, what are Dover Cliffs made of, and could that be the white
> Martian formation, rather than snow/ice?
>
> That would be great if they're Martian snow/ice/frozen wa wa
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> All that anti-affluent/effluent consumerism video did for me was to
> make me want to ingest some die-licious pastry with coffee, tea, and/
> or skim milk
>
> THAT'S IT; The white shite on Mars is sucaryl, cyclamates, nutrasweet,
> aspartame, sugar and SPLENDA, which survived their war with George
> Lucas' fantasies along with of course radioactive cockroaches- Hide quoted text -
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The latest group think is ice, which implies ipso facto bourbon, and
cola to kill the taste of the cheap unaged boubon, with ice in the
Mars' bars

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080620/ap_on_sc/phoenix_mars
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