MacArthur, sunglasses, heretics and YOU b*st*rds!

In the words of MacArthur, "I have returned!" Sans les lunettes! Well for a while.

Boy, was that good! You have no idea what it feels like to eat, to eat real fish and lots of it, after so long without food! Well, if there's anyone in Africa or India or South America reading this, maybe you do know, but for most, it's out of your ken! Fricka's hanging back for another day, she wants to go to the movies again, even if it's a matinee. Ah well... little Fricka's doing better than I could have ever imagined...........Had a look around earlier, someone's got Cyrano de Bergerac in on DVD, English subtitles, perhaps we'll watch that, if we get the chance. Lovely play, breaks your heart.........If you have a heart to break.......Let's hope Depardieu is up to it!

It's funny. Someone left a comment on the 'Is God a beetle' post worrying that they might be a bad christian because they found it funny. Well, as a card carrying, fully paid up member of the Atheists' League, I hoped it would be funny but does finding it funny make you a bad christian? You see I may not believe in God, or the son of God, but anyone who goes around preaching a philosophy of tolerance and love, well he/she can't be all bad. So maybe, tolerating my atheistic ravings enough to smile makes you a good christian, not a bad one. The bad christians are the ones who don't laugh. The ones that believe we have no souls. The ones that believe they have a right to 'lord' it over the planet. The ones that believe that they, and only they, have the 'hot line' to God. No, perhaps the ones who care, the ones who love, the ones who tolerate are the true followers of your Jesus/Yehoshua/Yeshua. If it all turns out to be a fantasy, and he's not the 'son of God', what is lost if the 'true believers' in the fundamental doctrine of the man, not the church, win out? Don't we all gain? Or is that all a little too fantastic? That they will never win? They haven't so far! All there is, all there ever will be, is a tiny hope! But tiny hopes sometimes become real.

It's strange. I whinge about you lot and your less than transparent ways, Fricka (big, not little) whinges about you and all I'm going to do today is whinge about you again. Why do we penguins get so depressed about YOU!

You see I got an email from one of my e-chums about somethig that is happening to her. She got asked to do something for a friend of a friend, yes I know, accident waiting to happen but it was a straight rebuild of a widget. Now the widget has four moving parts. Now a price wasn't agreed but......when the widget turns into a widget with sixteen moving parts and you get get a non widget designer to design the new widget, wouldn't you think 4 times the work might cost a little extra? A little more than you thought? Oh no! You've got the widget, just how you asked for it, or your 'widget designer' did, but of course you don't like it! It costs too much! So you denigrate the widget, make the person feel bad about the widget they've built. Why? Because you want it on the cheap! Why can't you be like us? Honest?

Cozy wanted string, flares, my genius :) He got them! If he wants more, ok ask! But Cozy asked for a penguin length of string. If it turns out he needs more, he surely can't berate me for giving what he asked for, can he? Well this one is! I just don't understand. Why not say, oops I made a mistake. You humans are so duplicitous it amazes me you haven't killed everything on the planet by now. It's how you ususally cover your mistakes. Get rid of the evidence?

I think you should all go and read Satre.............For all the good it will do you!

And yes, Cyrano still breaks my heart, Depardieu notwithstanding! I think Fricka liked it because (a) it breaks her heart too and (b) because it makes me more like she wants me to be....but i'm not. Honest, guys! :)