OT: Oh what a rat race

[GeneChing]

When you think is peace and safety: A sudden destruction. Collective security for surety, ye-ah!

Don't forget your history; Know your destiny: In the abundance of water, The fool is thirsty. Rat race, rat race, rat race!

Rat race! Oh, it's a disgrace To see the human-race In a rat race, rat race! You got the horse race; You got the dog race; You got the human-race; But this is a rat race, rat race!

[Chief Fox]

Off topic of off topic.

The goal of the maze is that there is food at the destination.

Science people use the maze game to study learning and memory. Give the lab rat some chemical and see if it improves the game or shortening the time to goal. This is how they search the drug of tommorrow to help Alzheimer and the like.

Life can be a maze with a lot of twist and turns and many and many circles.

Our ability to solve maze puzzle is not as good as the rats!.

The rat running through the maze is running through life on someone elses terms. Who ever controls the maze, controls the rat. The rat believes that there is a reward at the end. The rat hopes that it will be the biggest piece of cheese ever. But the person controlling the maze controls the size of the cheese. So the rat runs through this maze and maybe ingnores or can't spend enough time with Mrs. Rat and the little rats. So he keeps on running but it's a really big maze. So he has to run through it at night and on weekends. He gets himself a little cell phone so he can communicate with other rats. He reads books on how to find the cheese quicker. Along the way he meets some Rats that are bigger and they block the way to the cheese. He manages to scrape up some cheese here and there. Just enough to buy more things that will maybe help him get to the mysterious big cheese. The rat wishes that he never started this race in the first place. The rat misses Mrs. Rat and the little rats. Every once in a while the Rat gets to see Mrs. Rat and the little rats. He loves those rats so much and wishes he could spend more time with them. The little rats are growing up so quick and he sees that they are already on their own little rat races.

A trully smart rat would jump over the side of the maze and escape the lab to live life on his own terms.

[FuXnDajenariht]

lol your one disgruntled rat dude.

"have some more cheese. theres nothing for you outside of the cage".

remember that movie with rowdy roddy piper? i think it was called "they live". its one of the first movies i remember watching as a kid. one of my favorites. i need to go watch it again one day. i thought about it walking through time square 42nd street today. that place can give you seizure..... its ridiculous.

like i always said. marketing teams will destroy the world.

sit and ponder this.

[FuXnDajenariht]

Oh what a disgrace
To see the human race
In a rat race

satellites in space
phone on your face
everybody runnin'
at an un-stopable pace

So much haste
What a waste

zoning out to tv
like an episode of lost in space
finding time to choke down cans of cheeze paste
drownin out our fears in beer
case after case
looking around in shame
at our collective expanding waists
choking

Smoking

Running ourselves into the ground
Forgetting Anansi's stories
Leading ourselves with a carrot of haste
and a stick of waste
d time

Why run
When we can walk
Why scream into our cell phones
when we're standing next to a nice girl
Have we forgotten to talk

It's the song that matters
It's the people that matter
To busy
Becoming mad like hatters

We are our own deserved disgrace
We are leading ourselves down a dirty maze
Trying to forget we're running a rat's race
for him

There once was a lady named Cager,
Who as the result of a wager,
Consented to f@rt
The entire oboe part
Of Mozart's quartet in F-major.


hows this?

like the story of poor Cager,
strung out on shots of yager
sadly this is a typical case
showing in the end
we're still no more
than stupid (mostly)hairless apes.
and not to sound hypocritical
so i must confess
for this is my true test
while writing most of my contribution
i was an alchohol fueled mess


lost in a maze of what we must do

have to do

can't not do

climb the walls and escape

ponder this misthanthropic topic
about the blind state of our race
like a daily reenactment of dante's inferno (good book by the way)
creating a hell of our home
makes us seem not much more than infernal
most showing no concern to discern,
our confounding fate
some may think it wise to just wait for a change
for something lofty in turn
but with every loon abusing blind faith
learning how to create big booms
nukes and warplanes and finding new ways to shoot
and everyone going generally insane
it'll probably be too late.

[Chief Fox]

Just re-read my post.

I'm pathetic.

Changing my screen name to "Chief Rat"

[PangQuan]

rat race, rat race

flight of the bumblebee

where in the cosmos does that leave me?

[Mr Punch]

When you think is peace and safety: A sudden destruction. Collective security for surety, ye-ah!

Don't forget your history; Know your destiny: In the abundance of water, The fool is thirsty. Rat race, rat race, rat race!

Rat race! Oh, it's a disgrace To see the human-race In a rat race, rat race! You got the horse race; You got the dog race; You got the human-race; But this is a rat race, rat race!

Gene mah bredrin inna de dreadlock styyle, u da rudest! Y'aan Bob win dis rat race hans doan. Seen.

[Marcos-XB]

i think you suck because you are people

[FuXnDajenariht]

lol naaaah i didn't say it was a "bad" thing bro. ****ed off people are the ones who get things done. like buddha or ghandi

sounds like your about to go postal tho. like a ninja.......and i guess you can add postal worker to the list. but everyone knows ninja rule. therefore your a ninja. logic wasn't my strongsuit.

[rogue]

Hickory ****ery dock
the rat ran up the clock
the clock struck four
and we dragged his little rat ass down and pounded his head into the floor
Hickory dicerky dock

[SPJ]

The clock reminds me of the time.

There are times for everything.

There are times for the spring, summer, fall and winter.

There are times for running a race, resting, walking, and doing nothing.

There are times to use the cell phone

answering "necessary" calls.

There are times not to use the cell phone

during driving, in class, in a meeting etc.

There are times to turn to the right.

There are times to turn to the left.

There are times to keep going straight.

There are times to stay put and not going anywhere.

There are times to retreat, retrace or go back to where you started or visited.

There are times for me to shut up.

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[brothernumber9]

I thought this thread was about Bob Marley songs. Oh well, see y'all when I get back from Montego Bay.

COME DOWN MY SELECTA!!

[fa_jing]

heh. I'll never give up this forum.

I wrote that on a Sunday where I came in to fix **** for the team, worked all the day Monday till 5:30 got called in and asked to leave work, nothing to do with performance - actually a sniviling **** of a project manager wanted me out so his friend that he just brought in could roam free and he could take credit for things getting done. People there couldn't handle the truth. Sh!t was brewing for over a year. The boss had way too much faith in his annointed managers. Fuc(ung second-guesser jealous yes men drink the kool-aid beyotches. I was the one getting the most **** done there for over a year, yet they wouldn't seek my opinon.

There is a silver lining to this cloud though -- my wife needs care over the next two months and I'm here for her, and I wouldn't be if I were in La-la land with the rest of my shop. Plus, I'm in a great position to grab a better opportunity.

Basically, Chief Fox hit it on the head. Keeping in mind that you gotta do what you gotta do.

So SPJ, the rat race is like when the rats are all swarming over each other to get to whatever, be it food or escape a flood. Not finding a way through a maze. It is an incomplete analogy however, as rats don't have fingers to run around pointing at each other when things go wrong, unlike humans.

Definitely a disgrace.


Ah! Ya too rude
Oh what a rat race
Oh what a rat race
This is the rat race Some a lawful, some a *******, some a jacket
Oh what a rat race, rat race Some a gorgan, some a hooligan, some a guine-gog
In this rat race, yeah!
Rat race
I'm singing
When the cats away
The mice will play
Political voilence fill ya city
Yea-ah!
Don't involve Rasta in your say say
Rasta don't work for no C.I.A.
Rat race, rat race, rat race
When you think is peace and safety
A sudden destruction
Collective security for surety
Yeah! Don't forget your history
Know your destiny
In the abundance of water
The fool is thirsty
Rat race, rat race, rat race Oh it's a disgrace to see the
Human-race in a rat race, rat race
You got the horse race
You got the dog race
You got the human-race
But this is a rat race, rat race

[SPJ]

the rat race

fear, greed, competitivenes, money

social/economic statues?

[Marcos-XB]

group hug!