Happy Birthday, Karl Marx!
Keruvalia
06-05-2005, 00:20
Yes, it is a great many things today ...
In the US, it's Yom Hashoah as well as Cinco de Mayo.
It is also the 187th birthday of Karl Marx, the least funny of the Marx brothers, but definately the harriest. Frankly, I'm surprised nobody else here has mentioned it.
So, tip a virtual shot of vodka on the curb for the blood of the exploited working class.
New Genoa
06-05-2005, 00:21
No.
In Soviet Russia, birthday has you!
My vodka. You'll have to fight me before I spill any! :mad:
Happy Birthday Karl!
In Soviet Russia, birthday has you!
ah Family Guy.... where would we be without you?
Happy Birthday ya commie geezer!
[NS]Schmucker
06-05-2005, 00:37
my floor smells like vodka, but i think thats more because my gf's friend had a bit of trouble pouring last night, after the 4th or 5th shot.
Keruvalia
06-05-2005, 00:45
No.
Fine then ... don't. :p
BLARGistania
06-05-2005, 00:49
http://www.totally-funky.co.uk/images/common/eProducts/fullsize/653.jpg
Super-power
06-05-2005, 00:51
Happy Birthday ya commie geezer!
:D
New Genoa
06-05-2005, 00:51
Fine then ... don't. :p
I will, however, celebrate March 14. :D ;)
I will, however, celebrate March 14. :D ;)
...My mother's birthday? Seriously. What the hell?
International Terrans
06-05-2005, 02:04
Happy Birthday, Karl!
Loved The Communist Manifesto, hope to see some new ones!
Keep on going!
*whisper*
He's dead? Oh. Darn.
Happy birthday anyway!
Armandian Cheese
06-05-2005, 02:04
Happy Birthday Comrade Marx!
You lead to the slaughter of millions!
You designed a worthless economic system!
You actively encouraged the destruction of family and religion!
Happy Birthday to yoooouuu!
The SASF
06-05-2005, 02:12
Go Karl Marx!!
Sel Appa
06-05-2005, 02:15
Yay...except Yom Hashoah is more of a mourning period than a celebration, but Israeli independence is around the corner...
Keruvalia
06-05-2005, 02:20
Yay...except Yom Hashoah is more of a mourning period than a celebration, but Israeli independence is around the corner...
In a way it is a celebration of those who survived, a celebration of life as well as a memorial to the dead.
Keruvalia
06-05-2005, 02:21
He's dead? Oh. Darn.
No ... he's 187. He lives in a trailor behind my house. :D
New Genoa
06-05-2005, 02:31
...My mother's birthday? Seriously. What the hell?
I watch her at night.
Bogstonia
06-05-2005, 02:36
Happy Birthday you filthy red.
Happy Birthday Comrade Marx!
You lead to the slaughter of millions!
So did Jesus. :p
Vittos Ordination
06-05-2005, 05:23
I'm going to go out and buy the most expensive bottle of wine, some cigars made by underpaid Dominicans, and maybe even hire a maid service in his honor.
Greater Yubari
06-05-2005, 05:24
Hooray!
*gets plastered*
Sianoptica
06-05-2005, 05:30
Karl, Karl, Karl... you're cool, but not because you invented communism...
It's because you look like a troubled Santa Clause.
Happy 187th, and many more to ya'!
I'm going to bed now.
Lacadaemon
06-05-2005, 05:31
Marx was funny. Plus he lived with his wife and mistress, but even better, both of them had to work to support him, while he smoked expensive cigars. The guy was a fucking genius.
His economic theory is all wrong though.
Happy Birthday, Karl Marx!
Happy Birthday Karl!!!! I bought you a beautiful expensive present - but I cut it up into a million tiny pieces and redistributed it to my collective.
Ecopoeia
06-05-2005, 05:38
A man who not only contributed a great deal to political and economic thinking, but (oft-forgotten) also endorsed capitalism as a legitimate stage of development and was unfortunate enough to have his philosophy manipulated and perverted by numerous authoritarian national leaders.
The blood is not on his hands.
Drunken FratBoy Island
06-05-2005, 05:39
Hail comrade! *tip*
And one for me! *sip*
Ancient Byzantium
06-05-2005, 05:46
So did Jesus. :p
Not exactly, he was just a convenient excuse for bloodshed... much like Bush's excuses for going to war now. :rolleyes:
Everyone loves excuses, it wasn't Jesus' fault blood was shed. Marx had a few ideas, quite a few similar to Jesus' but Marx wanted quick change, and that required revolution --> bloodshed. Not that I'm an anti-Marxist, I'm just Pro-Jesus :) :fluffle:
Ecopoeia
06-05-2005, 05:47
Not exactly, he was just a convenient excuse for bloodshed... much like Bush's excuses for going to war now. :rolleyes:
Everyone loves excuses, it wasn't Jesus' fault blood was shed. Marx had a few ideas, quite a few similar to Jesus' but Marx wanted quick change, and that required revolution --> bloodshed. Not that I'm an anti-Marxist, I'm just Pro-Jesus :) :fluffle:
No, Marx didn't want quick change. Lenin, Trotsky, etc ad infinitum were the ones seeking revolutionary change.
Andaras Prime
06-05-2005, 05:54
Happy Birthday Karl, I'm sure if was still around he wouldn't be happy with the corrupt and money hungrey capitalist society the world has become.
Incenjucarania
06-05-2005, 06:05
Hurray for Karl, making it easy for me to ridicule an entire section of literary discourse!
Lacadaemon
06-05-2005, 06:07
I'm going to go out and buy the most expensive bottle of wine, some cigars made by underpaid Dominicans, and maybe even hire a maid service in his honor.
Don't forget to have a threesome with your wife and mistress, then send them out to work to support you.
It's all good. The man was awesome.
Dark Regonia
06-05-2005, 06:11
ah Family Guy.... where would we be without you?
family guy? dont you the simpsons jeez
Dark Regonia
06-05-2005, 06:12
In Soviet Russia, birthday has you!
ahahaha not funny that joke has been used way to much
Greedy Pig
06-05-2005, 06:14
Don't forget to have a threesome with your wife and mistress, then send them out to work to support you.
It's all good. The man was awesome.
lol.
family guy? dont you the simpsons jeez
No, Yakov Smirnoff. He was the guy who invented the Soviet Russia jokes. The Original 'In Soviet Russia..." joke was:
"In California, you find party. In Soviet Russia, Party finds you!"
Lacadaemon
06-05-2005, 06:45
In soviet russia, joke tells you.
Refused Party Program
06-05-2005, 09:26
There is no Soviet Russia. I guess the joke is on them.
Anyway, two cheers for commie corpses.
Riconiaa
06-05-2005, 09:36
No, Yakov Smirnoff. He was the guy who invented the Soviet Russia jokes. The Original 'In Soviet Russia..." joke was:
"In California, you find party. In Soviet Russia, Party finds you!"
:confused:
Incenjucarania
06-05-2005, 10:15
You know. "The Party"?
Incenjucarania
06-05-2005, 10:16
Here's some more of his jokes.. Some are pretty funny.
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/y/yakov_smirnoff.html
Happy birthday to one of the most brilliant economists ever. I salute you!
Tiocfaidh ar la
06-05-2005, 10:37
Never fear, Adam Smith day is nearly here, only 30 days till we can all cheer.....
Bynzekistan
06-05-2005, 10:41
To the most underrated economist in political and literary history,
Your ideas were founded on decent principles. Your ideologies were a little wacked. But you looked like Santa Claus or a fair dinkum Aussie bushranger/biker, so the world was willing to forgive you.
Along comes a bloke with a lot less facial hair than you, named Vladimir, and a bloke with all of your facial hair stuffed into a moustache, named Joseph, who take your ideas, then start killing people 'in the name of the Manifesto, and for the successful furtherment of the betterment of the Party!' Hurrah! Workers of the free world unite!
187 not out, and still turning in your grave. I don't blame you.
Never fear, Adam Smith day is nearly here, only 30 days till we can all cheer.....
Oh, he was good too. He recognised that Capitalism wouldn't bring happiness! How right he was.
Not exactly, he was just a convenient excuse for bloodshed... much like Bush's excuses for going to war now. :rolleyes:
Everyone loves excuses, it wasn't Jesus' fault blood was shed. Marx had a few ideas, quite a few similar to Jesus' but Marx wanted quick change, and that required revolution --> bloodshed. Not that I'm an anti-Marxist, I'm just Pro-Jesus :) :fluffle:
He wasn't a revolutionary himself. He was a theorist. It wasn't Marx's fault that the authoritarian "communists" of the 20th century caused the death of millions. The blood is not on his hands, it's on theirs. Exactly the same thing as Jesus, really. Not that i'm anti-Jesus, but i'm not pro-Marxist either :p