Excessive posting? ... Interesting.....

[vitanola]

My favourite Marx story is how he calculated that by swapping to a cheaper brand of cigars, and then smoking a lot more of them, he could save money. He pursued this intractable logic until his doctor to persuaded him that he was in danger of killing himself. Sounds like a political parable doesn't it?

Well, the tale was reported as early as 1910 in Spargo's excellent "Karl Marx, His Life and Work".
"Out of this necessity for economy, he developed a" theory of saving" which he used to amuse his associates, little dreaming that such a theory would one day be held by some of the British economists. Having discovered a brand of cigars --dubbed "cabbage smokes" by his friends-- which cost eighteen pence a box less than those which he had been using, he argued that he thus "saved" eighteen pence eich time he consumed a box. If only he could manage to smoke a box a day he could in a pinch liv on his "savings"."

The cigar story was one of Marx's jokes which was taken all too seriously by some who had little sense of humor.

 

[Sloan1874]

I should know better than repeat apocryphal tales around here... Personally, with this kind of stuff, I prefer the old adage "when the legend becomes fact, print the legend"

 

[Formeruser012523]

Charles Bronson or Pierce? No wait, that's Brosnan.

lol Does it matter? lol

 

[vitanola]

Charles Bronson or Pierce? No wait, that's Brosnan.

Bronson Pinchot, I think.

 

[Formeruser012523]

Bronson Pinchot, I think.

:rofl:

At least he's funny.

 

[Gregg Axley]

I thought Bronson was a beer.
Could be wrong.
I'm not a hipster.
Speaking of hipsters, where's Powers?

 

[Touchofevil]

I thought Bronson was a beer.
Could be wrong.
I'm not a hipster.
Speaking of hipsters, where's Powers?

Ridding the world of hippies.

 

[Gregg Axley]

On St. Valentine's Day?
That's perfect...and golden era at the same time.
I hope he's driving something reliable...hopefully the Mustang.

 

[Zombie_61]

On St. Valentine's Day?

Speaking of which...

 

[jamespowers]

But these two were.

You could say that both were proto Hipsters.

Hitler: The Early Years:
-- Artistic pretensions
-- Parentally funded
-- Dilettante lifestyle

Though Hitler often characterized his early years as that of grinding poverty, nothing could be further from the truth. His mother, the widow of a senior customs official, had a generous pension which enabled her to indulge young Adolf's artistic pretensions... er, I mean ambitions. After her death he drew upon equally generous orphan's benefits that gave him an income equivalent to that of a schoolteacher at the time. He also sponged off his aunt to finance his bohemian lifestyle in Linz and Vienna.

Karl Marx:
-- Lived in London from 1849 until his death in 1883. Except for occasional work as a journalist where he was paid by the piece*. he was, for the most part, financially supported by his collaborator Friedrich Engels who came from a wealthy family. In fact to support Marx, Engels had to go to work for the family firm while Marx spent much of his time hanging out in the Reading Room of the British Museum. Wanted by the authorities in Prussia, an intelligence report on him from 1852 paints this picture:

"In the whole apartment there is not one clean and solid piece of furniture. Everything is broken. There is a chair with only three legs. In private life he is an extremely disorderly cynical human being, and a bad host. He leads a real gypsy existence. Washing, grooming and changing his linen are things he does rarely. He has no fixed times for going to sleep and waking up. He often stays up all night, and then lies down fully clothed on the sofa at midday and sleeps till evening."

*many of which were actually ghostwritten by Engels

Sounds more like hippies than Hipsters. Figures.

 

[jamespowers]

:rofl:

At least he's funny.

Looking.

 

[jamespowers]

Ridding the world of hippies.

Yeah man! :laser::hippie:

 

[jamespowers]

On St. Valentine's Day?
That's perfect...and golden era at the same time.
I hope he's driving something reliable...hopefully the Mustang.

NO. The Cadillac.

 

[jamespowers]

Come on! Papa needs a new pair of shoes.

Buy them.

 

[jamespowers]

Not sure what's up with this. Perhaps bacon has gone to far...

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Why does the Timex ad slogan come to mind?

 

[jamespowers]

bacon flavoured tic tacs, it's so yesterday:

Ben 'n Jerry's? Uh, no.

 

[Gregg Axley]

Ben 'n Jerry's? Uh, no.

Vermont's finest???????
How about California's finest, Berkley to be exact.

 

[Touchofevil]

Yeah man! :laser::hippie:

And we thank you.

 

[GHT]

Ben 'n Jerry's? Uh, no.

Oh come on, I heard, that there is a New York rumour, that kosher bacon is all the rage.

 

[GHT]

For some, the flesh of the pig must not pass the mouth:



OK, you have to accept other's beliefs, but you could always try another orifice: