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Why do Americans like Bobby Fischer?

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blueemu
batgirl wrote:

What's a DEFCON3 ?

Defense Condition 3 : one step below "Imminent Threat of Nuclear War" (which is DefCon 4).

batgirl

Thanks.

DrSpudnik

Not to be confused with deaf corn, which has ears but cannot hear.

rooperi

Why do Americans call maize corn?

AdamRinkleff
kenible5 wrote:

amazingly corny

Um, corn is a copyrighted trademark of Monsanto Corporation. You should really be more careful before they take action against you for abuse of their product.

rooperi

what's a monsanto?

trysts
rooperi wrote:

what's a monsanto?

It's a horrible corporation which uses food for exploitation and monopoly, and basically enslave the farmer and their fields of crops by selling them genetically modified seeds which do not grow crops which will reproduce naturally, but instead makes the farmer have to buy more seeds from Monsanto to grow a new crop.

AdamRinkleff
trysts wrote:

It's a horrible corporation which uses food for exploitation and monopoly, and basically enslave the farmer and their fields of crops by selling them genetically modified seeds which do not grow crops which will reproduce naturally, but instead makes the farmer have to buy more seeds from Monsanto to grow a new crop.

You'll hear from their lawyers soon.

ClavierCavalier
rooperi wrote:

Why do Americans call maize corn?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maize#Words_for_maize

DrSpudnik

Even worse for Monsanto: when pollen from their "Roundup Ready" (Roundup is a herbicide that their corn seeds are immune from) corn fields blows into and contaminates another farmer's corn, they sue the other farmer for infringing on their "intellectual property" by selling their corn without paying them for their seed/pollen. The DNA from their genetically modified plants has made the idea of non-genetically modified corn impossible in the US & Canada.

TheGrobe

Don't even get me started on aspartame.

netzach

These revelations are amaizing.

zborg
trysts wrote:
linuxblue1 wrote:

"Why Do Americans like Lance Armstrong?"

He won a lot of things, made a lot of money, lied to everyone, cheated, and was selfish. Americans like Ayn Rand as well

And Allen Greenspan too.  He likes Anny.  She was a cutie.

zborg
SPARTANEMESIS wrote:

The greatest warlord in history (in my opinion of course) believed war should always be the last resort.  I think Fischer is one of the greatest chess players in history and in that regard I respect him; but I have no respect for his racist views.  

I believe Genghis Khan is right up there on the hit parade too.

Just ask the Turks.

Sun Tzu was a lot earlier, and perhaps a bit more "local" in his purview.

zborg
AdamRinkleff wrote:
kenible5 wrote:

amazingly corny

Um, corn is a copyrighted trademark of Monsanto Corporation. You should really be more careful before they take action against you for abuse of their product.

Monsanto knows how to KICK BUTT, much like Bobby Fischer did in his salad years.

zborg
TheGrobe wrote:

Don't even get me started on aspartame.

Laughing  This tread just keeps coming back for more!

atarw

let me pose a question to you: why do russians like keres, botvinnik, alekhine, smyslov, tal, petrosian, spassky, karpov, and kasparov???

batgirl

Beats me.

atarw

because they are winners.

fischer was a crazy winner, but still a winner nonetheless.

batgirl

aw, you gave away the answer :-(

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