Silent Shebang
By ice rivers
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Don't mean to be fatalistic but if now then when?
A special on teevee predicted that if the nukes start to fly, the shebang will be over in about half an hour.
Don't worry though.
I remember a camp counselor telling us not to worry about the buzzing of mosquitoes as we were going to sleep in our tents. He said, "The mosquitoes who sting are not the mosquitoes who buzz."
I suppose he was trying to make our tents less tense so we could sleep better under the serious moonlight.
Nobody asked the important follow up. "The only time we have to worry about mosquites is when we can't hear them, right?"
I don't thin we're gonna hear anything when atomic mosquitoes are sent to sting.
Hello, undiscovered country.
Wha' happened?
The whole shebang...that's a good one.
The whole shebang won't be gone just the overagressive species that couldn't find a way to get along.
The earth itself will survive just fine so I guess our planet doesn't count as part of the whole shebang and there's no reason why it should other than somehow the conditions on Earth were ripe enough to encourage a certain group to crawl from the ocean and enable that group to do whatever it could to destroy the mother who might not shed a tear when/we go unless we get our purpose shifted.
I still refuse to believe that the lesson of 2001 was that the key to progress was discovering weapons and clubbing everything with them. The true key that revealed itself was the most important of "human" tendencies which is to co-operate with one another.
Tomorrow, May 6th, is a "big" day for Putin according to Soviet history. Figures that it follows "May the Force" and "Cinquo De Mayo". Putin's gonna try and scare us again with his insane talk of lightning aggression. Of course, the next insane move will come without warning other than the warnings that we're hearing today and yesterday. The warnings everybody is trying to ignore. Where's my beer? What's the score of the ballgame? When do I get paid?
We need to treasure each and every day that much more fervently because these very well could be the good old days that we will refer to as "before all that." if we are still able to refer to anything at all.
Let's make them worthwhile. Do something extra nice for somebody today but don't do it out of appeasement or fear. Do it in spite of the apes with clubs. Let's play our aces of hearts instead.
Now, I'm gonna try to go back to my "everything is groovy" facade and wait for the news to help me figure out who once again who the hell we are before we don't have the chance to remember who we were.
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Putin's mouthpieces have
Putin's mouthpieces have already done part of hte groundwork. Talking about nuclear strikes on media. As you say, the shebang will end civilisation, but other creatures will survive. Cockroaches are loving it.
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The school friend next door
The school friend next door got "The Nuclear Survival Handbook” he was always digging bomb shelters from schooldays already. He is serious about survival. Studied that book cover to cover from front to back and back again. Brought my dad a sign from London he loved it he was workshop manager it was at reception:
In Case Of Nuclear Attack
1 Stay calm don't panic
2 Pay your bill
3 Put your head between your knees
4 Kiss your arse goodbye
Cheers! Tom Brown
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I did enjoy reading your
I did enjoy reading your piece about the possibility of nuclear war. It raised a few smiles, so if it does happen I will feel a little better about it (momentarily of course!) Somehow I don't really believe it is very likely. I think Putin is proving to be pretty stupid, but I still don't think he's that stupid. A lot of his statements are just bluster (I hope!)
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