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Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 1:59 am

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What was to be a short caption quickly grew into something else entirely. Thompson first submitted to Sports Illustrated a manuscript of 2,500 words, which was, as he later wrote "aggressively rejected." Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner was said to have liked "the first 20 or so jangled pages enough to take it seriously on its own terms and tentatively scheduled it for publication � which gave me the push I needed to keep working on it," Thompson later wrote.[20]

The result of the trip to Las Vegas became the 1972 book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas which first appeared in the November 1971 issues of Rolling Stone as a two-part series. It is written as a first-person account by a journalist named Raoul Duke on a trip to Las Vegas with Dr. Gonzo, his "300-pound Samoan attorney," to cover a narcotics officers' convention and the "fabulous Mint 400". During the trip, Duke and his lawyer (always referred to as "my attorney") become sidetracked by a search for the American dream, with the aid of copious amounts of marijuana, mescaline, acid, cocaine, and "a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls."

Welcome to Nevada my Friends! Now , if you'll excuse me, I need some sleep.

Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 9:28 pm

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If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

Hunter. (RIP)

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I don't know Karate, but I know Crazy!

James Brown (RIP)

Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 9:34 pm

2B or not 2B, I think its a grade of pencil.

Annoying Stuck-Up Cow Joined: 10 Aug 2006 Posts: 222

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War. War never changes.

Ron Perlman.
Fallout 1, 2 and Tactics.

Hell yeah.

Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 1:32 pm

Maybe this applies to the lads

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"The Web brings people together because no matter what kind of a
twisted sexual mutant you happen to be, you've got millions of
pals out there. Type in - 'Find people that have sex with goats
that are on fire' and the computer will say, 'Specify type of
goat.'"

- Richard Jeni

Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 12:06 pm

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The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.

Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 12:28 pm

The grave is a fine and private place. But none I think do think do there embrace. - Andrew Marvel (poet) Shocked

Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 2:43 am

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Someone has been mean to you! Tell me who it is, so I can punch him tastefully.

Ralph Bakshi's - Mighty Mouse

Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 6:17 pm

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I don't suffer from insanity, I quite enjoy it.

Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 6:20 pm

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I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

The guy in the movie Apocalypse Now, whatshisname? Que music that goes with the attack...tatattatatataaaaa....

-edit-
was that 'attack of the valkyres?'

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 12:13 am

^^^^^ Robert Duvall as Col. Kilgore.

And it's "Ride of the Valkeries". Wagner. Although attack might be a better idea...

W.C. Fields:

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'Twas a woman that drove me to drink...and I never had the decency to properly thank her.

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 10:14 pm

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"The Web brings people together because no matter what kind of a
twisted sexual mutant you happen to be, you've got millions of
pals out there. Type in - 'Find people that have sex with goats
that are on fire' and the computer will say, 'Specify type of
goat.'"

- Richard Jeni

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 11:10 pm

Here is one for when the next "ethics" thread rears it's ugly head.

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One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."

Eleanor Roosevelt
1884-1962, Former American First Lady

Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 12:01 pm

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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Phyllis Diller
Laughing

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 2:54 am

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Cherish forever what makes you unique, cus you're really a yawn if it goes.

- Bette Midler
Razz

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:57 pm

I work in quality assurance, so I find these quotes very useful:

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Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
- Mark Twain

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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley

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There is always an easy solution to every human problem � neat, plausible and wrong.
- H.L. Mencken

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 1:57 pm

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I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before.

Source unknown, but an extremely useful quote nevertheless.

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:41 pm

I know part of this quote was already posted by BA Ware with mention of the source being the US marines but actually the quote comes from David G Wiseman and the full quote is:

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We the Willing.
Led by the Unknowing.
Are doing the Impossible For the Ungrateful.

We have done So Much
For So Long With So Little
We are now Qualified
To do Anything With Nothing.

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:41 pm

Paul getty Oil Magnate's formula to Succes:

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Wake up early, Work hard and find oil

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:03 pm

This one is apocryphal, but you never know.

Queen Victoria: **Farts, regains her composure, then turns to her loyal servant John Brown.** �Sir! Stop that immediately� says she.

John Brown: � Yes Ma'am, which way did it go�?

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:51 pm

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Never pet a burning dog - unknown

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 6:06 pm

Friedrich Nietzsche: Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Having a bad day Evil or Very Mad

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 6:32 pm

For you Mike, I am hoping (no pun intended, I really am hoping for you) your day turns out better. I quoted this in the PWT first.

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You knew that the man running the Find The Lady game was going to win, you knew that people in distress didn't sell diamond rings for a fraction of their value, you knew that life generally handed you the sticky end of the stick, and you knew that the gods didn't pick some everyday undeserving tit out of the population and hand them a fortune.

Except that, this time, you might be wrong, right? It might just happen, yes?

And this was known as that greatest of treasures, which is Hope. It was a good way of getting poorer really very quickly, and staying poor. It could be you. But it wouldn't be.

Terry Pratchett "Going Postal"