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and (c) he wanted to finish what his father started.

(Related question: I heard a rumor that Hussein had put a hit out on George Bush, Sr, just prior to W's decision to invade. I have no clue if this is true or not, and was wondering if anyone else knew.)

I don't believe it's even been proven that Saddam had anything to do with Osama bin Laden whatsoever (correct me if I'm wrong). If Bush wants to attack Iraq, fine, show up on TV and say "Saddam sucks, let's kill him." Don't appear on TV and say "Saddam is Osama bin Laden's gay lover and they're in this together, let's fry the bastard." He didn't tell us the truth, he told us what he wanted us to believe.

and still he was re-elected... amazing

It's being said that Rove's master stroke this time was getting the gay marriage ban on ballots in swing states, which united religious and homophobic people against Kerry. Fear is the game, folks. Every time the terror alert went up, so did support for Bush. It mattered little that he failed in almost every respect as a president- the economy, global relations, education, jobs, the environment, and so on.

I don't know if any of you like to draw, but I found a hilarious art game online.

www.monsterland.co.uk

You draw a "monster" in 3 parts. One person does the head, another does the body, and someone else does the legs. I just made a turkey with 3 wings earlier!

This is called Cadavres exquis ("exquisite corpse" in English), a game invented by the surrealists in 1926 that consists in making random verse from words that are written, by different players, unaware of the previous entries. The technique got its name from the results obtained in initial playing, "Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau" ("The exquisite corpse will drink the young wine"). Later they used the same technique with drawings. It can be fun to use this principle in bots. I used it for Doll-379, she’s not very developed for the moment, but I hope some day I will find the time do work on this bot again.
You should take a look at this site too:

www.cadavre-exquis.net/eng

Here you can play in French and an English, and see the history of previous entries.

I love playing games like that! In fact, my wife and I invented a new version of that game last night- I cut a piece out of a paper bag, and then she cut something from it, and then me and then her and it ended up being this profile of a face with ponytail, eyes, mouth, etc.

But we also play with drawings- you can each start a drawing, and then trade them after a minute to add something new, and so on. But my favorite is the stories- you can do it where each person adds one, two, or three words at a time.

Oo I wanna check that game out ^^ I remember when I lived in Ukraine we used to play that all the time. Then about five years ago I moved to U.S. and just kinda forgot about it o.o

Yay! I play this game with some friends sometimes (but I never knew it was called 'cadavres exquis'). Usually with 6 categories. It's great... especially when it's 3 AM and everyone's half asleep.

We play a game called "foldover stories" that's similar. Write 2 or 3 lines of a story, leaving 2 or 3 words on the next line, then fold it over so the next person can only see those 2 or 3 words. Much cooler than the "3 word story" thingies. It's also fairly fun to do 1 word at a time stories, when you can see the whole story. Everyone tries to make the story go in a different direction, and it turns out pretty funny heh. I'll definitely hafta check out that site.

Luna: glad you're having fun with it I've seen some of your stuff, you're a pretty decent artist it seems.

Ok, visited the "cadavre exquis" site, and I'm not extremely impressed. For one thing, the "verses" all follow the same pattern. For another, there's severa ppl in there putting in dirty words just because they're "kewl" or something. While I'm anything but a swear word Nazi, I at least prefer them to be there for a reason other than "kewl"ness.

It is, however, similar to a card game we occasionally play. Take some index cards & cut em into 4 pieces. Then, on front & back (if desired), write nounse, verbs, adjectives, or adverbs. (A noun on each side of one card, for instance.) Shuffle the nouns, verbs, etc. separately, and stack them up in the order [adj] [noun] [verb] [adv]. Then you can just flip one from each pile over and add "the" to the beginning. So you end up with sentences like "The masculine submarine gargled halfheartedly."

This game got boring after a while, so I decided to make a version with varying sentence structures. Using mIRC script, I've made 75 or so newspaper headline templates (Dracula seen attacking a tampon in the valley of the shadow of death), 30 or 40 definitions (Burrito: a Spandex cow filled with fiberglass), several song titles (Defenestrate me in the psych ward, lazy crustacean), band names (the Reno churchgoing antichrists), and even mutilated Bible quotes (blessed are the crusty, for they shall sit on the aftershave). (Wow, that was a really long sentence. O.o) Anyway, I made it so I could add words and entire word lists whenever I want to right from mIRC, without having to open text files. So it now has maybe 10k words to plug into the sentences, and is usually grammatically correct. I oughtta put it online for ppl to dl sometime, but then I might actually run into bandwidth limits and stuff.

www.newzoid.com does it with real newspaper headlines, can be quite profound. And how did you recognize me, Onyx