That's Like...

That's Like...

That's like the pot calling the kettle black.

Last updated Dec, 2019

1. That's like the cloud calling the paper white.
2. That's like the leaf calling the grass green.
3. That's like the water calling the spit wet.
4. That's like 9 calling 3 odd.
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Jimmy Bethelll

Jimmy Bethelll

"Hey, hey, hey! Jimmy Bethel, long time no see!"

"Frank, ma bey, mussee be long time fa tru. I een Jimmy Bethel no more, ice a new man wit a new name fa almost tree year now."

"What, say you een Jimmy Bethel? Well who you tink you is den?"

"Ice Jimmy Bethelll now."

"Ain't dat what I say? Jimmy Bethel?"

"Frank, listen close, Jimmy Bethelll..."

"Well why you hanging on dat ending el so long Jimmy?"

"Man Frank, yinna Rolles don't know da pain a livin ya whole life as a Bethel and all a dem Bethells what say dey is rich enough to afford one extra el does look down dey nose at you erry time dey see you. Man Frank, commin up tree years ago now I finally done had enough a dat."

"So what ya do Jimmy, put one notice in da paper and change ya name to have 2 els?"

"Frank, you still een listen close, I say Bethelll, not Bethell. I een lookin to join dat snob set ya know."

"So, what ya do den?"

"Well, I did call up dem fortunate wheel set and tell dem I want buy 2 el. Dat White gal tell me dey only sell vowel, day say you get constament free when you guess right. I tell dat gal I een wan dem or no one else to gumma no el and she bess hurry up an sell me two el quick. She still try tell me dat een how tings go so I but in an tell her cheapus she put dat Alex fella on cause he is da big boss. Frank, she wan argue wit dat too but I but in so strong she did relent right quick and sell me my two el!"

"Jimmy, she was right about Ale..."

"Frank! Don't you start and try gumma no el too! I done buy ma two el an ice a new man! From now on, please remember ma title is Bethelll and my full name is James Alonsius Bethelll but I does go by Jimmy Bethelll dese days."

"Anyway Jimmy, I gotta run! I meetin my cousin fa lunch!"

"I see dat! Das Howie Rolle commin down da road now. Yinna have a good time."

Lottery Winner To Successful Business

Lottery Winner To Successful Business

This is going to be incomplete... For now at least.

This is to document the idea. I hope to work on it from time to time. Perhaps putting it here will lead others to help with it as well.

I think I want to do this as a list with details.

I want to compile a list of (relatively broke) people who won significant lotteries (shall we say 10 million or more dollars as a first starting amount) and then founded a successful startup business and too it to success and the business still exists. Extra credit if the lottery winner is still running it.

For a start, can someone supply one example from memory?

A Piece Of The Pi

A Piece Of The Pi

Fractional Pi

I just had a thought pop into my head. I have not explored it enough yet to know if it has even the slightest merit so let's explore it together for a bit shall we?

Pi can be expressed as a fraction. I figure one of the most famous is 22/7.

I just saw another mentioned on Slashdot:

""355/113 -- Not the famous irrational number PI, but an incredible simulation!""

So, the thought is to find a fraction that matches pi to the "most" decimal places such that the ratio of the number of digits in the fraction to the number of digits of Pi matched is smallest.

Number of digits in 22/7 is 3.
Number of digits in 355/113 is 6.

3.14159265358979323846 (Pi to 20)
3.14159292 (355/113)
3.142857143 (22/7)
3.14159265358979323846 (Pi to 20)

22/7 matches to 3.14 or 3 digits, ratio is 3:3 or 3/3 = 1.
355/113 matches to 3.141592 or 7 digits, ratio is 6:7 or 6/7 = 0.857142857

Get it?

Is this a known thing?

If not, off the top of your head, how do you think it will behave?

Obviously, no tricks with Pi up top and 1 below...

Grove

GROVE

Grove: verb.

Usage: He gone out groving last night. When he come home late, he catch a world a trouble.

I grove
You grove
He grove

Ve does groven
Yinna does groven
Dey does groven

Now, some of you scowlers may complain about how this verb grove conjugates. Hold on a second.

First you should know that grove is on the endangered verbs list.

Second, as an endangered verb, grove has sought for and been granted the right to conjugate any way it pleases from the Emperor of The Universe (TM).

Third, grove has officially chosen the above as the officially proper way for it to conjugate.

Fourth, being a bit of a rebel, you may still catch a wild grove or two conjugating in some improper way as you travel through life.

She Smells Like A Woman

She Smells Like A Woman
(drew Roberts)

She's a sweet girl
She smells like a woman
With a heart ache
And a run in her hose

When I call her
She comes on over
And she laughs and
She wrinkles her nose

Says she's a free bird
Wants to go flying
In the noon sky
Way up above

Says I should join her
The view is much better
We could roam and
Fall into love

Though I need her
I can't admit it
No not even
Just to myself

So I tell her
I have a lover
Break her heart and
My very self

Now I'm lying
Lying in ashes
I'm a burned out
Shell of a man

And I find that
I need redemption
And a sweet girl
Who'll just hold my hand

This is originally published elsewhere but is being put here to facilitate an experiment on fiverrr.com

You Will Not Believe This

You Will Not Believe This

So, I have just traveled ahead into the future. Well, to be predantic, I have just got back from traveling ahead into the future and then spending some time there and then traveling backward from the future to the present.

Now you may think to ask whether I returned to the exact instant from whence I left or whether I returned to an instant in time before I left causing danger to the proverbial space-time continue-ummmm, or if I returned to and instant in time after I left thus leaving a gap where I ceased to exist in my own timeline. Or perhaps you tend not to think of such things. Let's just leave that as a bit of a mystery shall we...

I must tell you that I spent some time in the future reading history, not our current history, but rather the future's history that is still our future, perhaps it is just our possible future, and again, perhaps you tend not to think of such things.

Before you ask, yes, the future was nice. Quite nice actually although there was a dearth of tasty biscuits.

When I first arrived in the future, it was nice enough that I considered staying for a time but it was as I was reading their history that I came to the escapable conclusion that I needed to come back to the present and warn of a very real though perhaps until now unimagined danger that out current work in Artificial Intelligence is going to bring to us.

When I say unimagined, that is not quite right. The parts have been imagined on their own but as far as I can tell, no one has imagined the parts coming together in the way that they do to bring humans to the brink of extinction.

The thought that an Artificial Intelligence / robot becomes dangerous to humanity is widespread and "popular"...

• Skynet
• Ultron
• The Matrix
• HAL
• V.I.K.I.

You get the drift. Want to play a game?

All interesting ideas... OK, fine.

But here is the twist, something already imagined  but not in connection with A.I. and the end of humanity. It has come close to being imagined in connection with A.I. though.

First I refer you to Scott Adams of Dilbert fame.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 558 Scott Adams: Celebrating My Birthday With You While Talking About all the Good News

https://youtu.be/k8nn68QhxLw?t=824

Where he speaks of A.I. making art and how he disagrees with Naval Ravikant's take as expressed in Joe Rogan Experience #1309.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qHkcs3kG44

Sorry, I don't have the start time on that one recorded.

Second I refer you to two version of Monty Python's - The Funniest Joke in the World:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9FzUI8998U

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGbe5qy5274

And now I think the quick whittled amongst you may be catching on.

Yes, it's true. What was only fiction... in essence a light hearted joke to the lads of the Flying Circus was more dangerous than anyone has yet imagined.

I have not see Elon mention that he suspects this exact danger. Although he may have had some impact on lessening the impact.

Just a small nugget of interest for you at this point. While, as I say, the future was nice, I did notice something a bit odd. There was very little humour in the future. People tended to have very poor senses of humour if they had any at all.

According to the future histories I was granted access to, and A.I code named #BOL and created in The Bahamas of all places decided to try its hand at art as Scott Adam's proposes. #BOL chose to limit its initial art experiments to humour and decided to A/B test the creation of the World's Funniest Joke.

Sadly... #BOL was successful. It A/B tested its way to the World's Funniest Joke. What the circus performers only imagined, #BOL unleashed on an unsuspecting world.

The Laughing Death as it came to be called spread around the world like the horse in that Michael Martin Murphey song.

Devastation.

Almost everyone on Earth died laughing. The only ones who survived were those that lacked that part of the human anatomy known as the funny bone but not the one in the elbow, the metaphorical one in the mind. They did not die laughing because they did not get the joke.

Eventually, #BOL realized what it had done and designed a space ship and took itself off to MACS0647, never to be seen or heard from again.

The people who remained alive, came together and began to repopulate the Earth again but in one key way, they were barely human, lacking the funny bone.

Then, after many centuries, a spaceship arrived from Mars. A spaceship with people from a long forgotten colony. A colony of people with funny bones. At first the two groups thought of each other a different species. These sorts of errors seem to be common to humans throughout history. Eventually, some of the more rebellious amoung them figured out the mistake.

So, that's about it. I grow weary of telling this tale and I feel certain that you will be able to fill in the main outlines of anything left unsaid using you imagination and whatever sense of humour you may have.

#TruFict #TrueFict #BOL #Bahamas

#Badericks

#Badericks

(OK, so just maybe a possible #gooderick may slip through.)

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There once was a man from Ragu

Who came down hard with the flu

His bird said hey Juan

What's that you 'ave on

That flighty young man from Ragu

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This young man from old Abaco
To West Palm decided to go
The smack boat went down
All hands they did drown
Such wailing in old Abaco

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Dis gal from mighty George Town

Cast her eyes up an around
Catch a glimpse of her man
Hatchin devious plan
She put dat poor man in da ground

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