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    hows it going mott? Believe it or not, I was missing seeing you around. granted, I was high when I thought this.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Nomad View Post
    "But Yossarian still didn't understand either how Milo could buy eggs in Malta for seven cents apiece and sell them at a profit in Pianosa for five cents."

    "Milo chortled proudly. "I don't buy eggs from Malta," he confessed... "I buy them in Sicily at one cent apiece and transfer them to Malta secretly at four and a half cents apiece in order to get the price of eggs up to seven cents when people come to Malta looking for them."

    "Then you do make a profit for yourself," Yossarian declared.

    "Of course I do. But it all goes to the syndicate. And everybody has a share. Don't you understand? It's exactly what happens with those plum tomatoes I sell to Colonel Cathcart."

    "Buy," Yossarian corrected him. "You don't sell plum tomatoes to Colonel Cathcart and Colonel Korn. You buy plum tomatoes from them."

    "No, sell," Milo corrected Yossarian. "I distribute my plum tomatoes in markets all over Pianosa under an assumed name so that Colonel Cathcart and Colonel Korn can buy them up from me under their assumed names at four cents apiece and sell them back to me the next day at five cents apiece. They make a profit of one cent apiece, I make a profit of three and a half cents apiece, and everybody comes out ahead."

    And one of my favorite exchanges....

    “As far back as Yossarian could recall, he explained to Clevinger with a patient smile, somebody was always hatching a plot to kill him. There were people who cared for him and people who didn't, and those who hated him were out to get him. They hated him because he was Assyrian. But they couldn't touch him, he told Clevinger, because he had a sound mind in a pure body and was as strong as an ox. They couldn't touch him because he was Tarzan, Mandrake, Flash Gordon. He was Bill Shakespeare. He was Cain, Ulysses, the Flying Dutchman; he was Lot in Sodom, Deirdre of the Sorrows, Sweeney in the nightingales among trees. He was miracle ingredient Z-247. He was -
    Crazy!" Clevinger interrupted, shrieking. "That's what you are! Crazy!" "immense. I'm a real slam-bang, honest-to-goodness, three-fisted humdinger. I'm a bona fide Supraman."
    "Superman?" Clevinger cried. "Superman?"
    Supraman," Yossarian corrected.”
    You'll like how they treat Clevinger in the new series.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Blissful Wizard View Post
    hows it going mott? Believe it or not, I was missing seeing you around. granted, I was high when I thought this.
    Thanks Grind. I've been busy. Since my wife's promotion to Asst Gen Manager at the hotel she works at she's been a bit of a pain. It appears the power is going to her head and she's taking her new job a little to seriously. She's developed a new method for her house maids to make beds while keeping their arms and back ramrod straight, like in a parade drill. She started out by practicing it with me over, and over, and over again, till I got it right. The bed looked like crap when I was done but it looked impressive as hell while I was making it.

    So after drilling on me she went into work and night and day and with some long, long hours and much bitching and complaining by her house keepers she had trained them all to make beds with their arms and backs locked ramrod straight. Once they got it down she was ready for the next QA inspection. So they demonstrated the new technique for making beds, which resulted in a crappy looking bed but the QA inspectors from the corporate office were so impressed that they gave her a perfect score and sent a detailed report to the corporate HQ in St. Louis who was so impressed that they promoted her to Corporate Director of Rooms.

    Now she is busy training all the house keepers in her Hotel Chain how to make beds with their arms and backs locked ram rod straight and corporate observers have been so impressed that her corporation has been awarded a JD Powers awards for best service and she's now considered a corporate genius.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople View Post
    Thanks Grind. I've been busy. Since my wife's promotion she's been a bit of a pain. It appears the power is going to her head and she's taking her new job a little to seriously. She's developed a new method for her house maids to make beds while keeping their arms and back ramrod straight, like in a parade drill. She started out by practicing it with me over, and over, and over again, till I got it right. The bed looked like crap when I was done but it looked impressive as hell while I was making it.

    So after drilling on me she went into work and night and day and with some long, long hours and much bitching and complaining by her house keepers she had trained them all to make beds with their arms and backs locked ramrod straight. Once they got it down she was ready for the next QA inspection. So they demonstrated the new technique for making beds, which resulted in a crappy looking bed but the QA inspectors from the corporate office were so impressed that they gave her a perfect score and sent a detailed report to the corporate HQ in St. Louis who was so impressed that they promoted her to Corporate Director of Rooms.

    Now she is busy training all the house keepers in her Hotel Chain how to make beds with their arms and backs locked ram rod straight and corporate observers have been so impressed that her corporation has been awarded a JD Powers awards for best service and she's now considered a corporate genius.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople View Post
    Thanks Grind. I've been busy. Since my wife's promotion to Asst Gen Manager at the hotel she works at she's been a bit of a pain. It appears the power is going to her head and she's taking her new job a little to seriously. She's developed a new method for her house maids to make beds while keeping their arms and back ramrod straight, like in a parade drill. She started out by practicing it with me over, and over, and over again, till I got it right. The bed looked like crap when I was done but it looked impressive as hell while I was making it.

    So after drilling on me she went into work and night and day and with some long, long hours and much bitching and complaining by her house keepers she had trained them all to make beds with their arms and backs locked ramrod straight. Once they got it down she was ready for the next QA inspection. So they demonstrated the new technique for making beds, which resulted in a crappy looking bed but the QA inspectors from the corporate office were so impressed that they gave her a perfect score and sent a detailed report to the corporate HQ in St. Louis who was so impressed that they promoted her to Corporate Director of Rooms.

    Now she is busy training all the house keepers in her Hotel Chain how to make beds with their arms and backs locked ram rod straight and corporate observers have been so impressed that her corporation has been awarded a JD Powers awards for best service and she's now considered a corporate genius.
    nevermind


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    Quote Originally Posted by Blissful Wizard View Post
    nevermind
    Sorry Dude. It’s a Catch-22 thread and I was channeling Major Major’s father.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople View Post
    Sorry Dude. It’s a Catch-22 thread and I was channeling Major Major’s father.
    There is a missing chapter of Catch 22,that Playboy published years ago ,very funny chapter,I don't know why Joe Heller didn't include it!
    Tie Your 'roo down Mate

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    Possibly of some interest.... (link)

    15 Things You Might Not Know About Catch-22
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    Quote Originally Posted by Miss Margot Frank View Post
    There is a missing chapter of Catch 22,that Playboy published years ago ,very funny chapter,I don't know why Joe Heller didn't include it!
    Probably cause the original manuscript was like 1000 pages. I’ve seen interviews with the editors and it was a tough book to edit.
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    Rana is Dori Duz!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Havana Moon View Post
    Rana is Dori Duz!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople View Post
    It's not even really anti-war. The whole comedy of the book, and it's events, and even how the story is structured, is pointing out the absurdity of how people use circular reasoning logical fallacies to make decisions. Particularly in times of crisis, like war.
    From my perspective it's about how absurd and inefficient government is...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dark Soul View Post
    From my perspective it's about how absurd and inefficient government is...
    So much more than that!
    Things like Yossarian and the woman having the deep discussion about the God they don't believe in.
    It's about everything in the outside world.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dark Soul View Post
    From my perspective it's about how absurd and inefficient government is...
    Unfortunately, your screwy backasswards perspective is so fucked up it means absolutely nothing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MASON View Post
    So much more than that!
    Things like Yossarian and the woman having the deep discussion about the God they don't believe in.
    It's about everything in the outside world.
    What more would you expect from a right-wing simpleton who only heard about it after seeing this thread?

    He probably Googled it then briefly skimmed over a synopsis on Wikipedia prior to pretending like he is actually familiar enough with the original novel to have an opinion about it.

    Typical cheap, transparent Dork Soul ruse.
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