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The Gang That Couldn't Try Right
What do you get when you combine a stubborn White House with an arrogant Pentagon, an ineffectual Congress and a distracted and deferential Supreme Court? Six years (and counting) of missed opportunities, false starts, backward steps and inertia in the effort to prosecute hundreds of terror detainees at Guantanamo Bay. You've heard of the Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight? We are burdened by the Gang That Couldn't Try Right.
Newsweek this week is offering up an interesting piece that unfortunately highlights only some of the chaos and "dysfunction" that has marked the government's effort to try terrorism suspects captured after Sept. 11. The piece focuses on some of the practical problems of prosecuting men who are allegedly part-soldier, part-terrorist and part-criminal. But the real shame of the military commissions at Guantanamo is not that these practical problems still exist; It's that the White House and Pentagon have made the problems worse by insisting on unrealistic and unfair rules governing the process.
The complete story is more infuriating than what Newsweek offers. Sure, the detainees present military lawyers with new challenges-- for example, how to deal with classified information at trial or what to do with detainees who were "interrogated" in a manner that would make their "confessions" inadmissible in our civilian courts. But the White House, the Pentagon and Congress have refused to compromise with the Supreme Court to reach an accord on what the rules could and should look like. The hapless Military Commissions Act of 2006 is only the latest example of this half-hearted push to do things right.
And, sure, there are good military officials strugging within the confines of a massive bureaucracy to do the right thing. But there are also, alas, too many cases like the one Newsweek profiles-- the case of leading war-crime prosecutor Col. Morris Davis, who quit last week after losing a turf battle with a superior officer over tribunal rules. Remember JAG lawyer Charles Swift? He was as good as it gets at the Pentagon, and yet, when he won a case before the Supreme Court on behalf of a detainee, it was curtains for his career. Who wins and who loses when that happens?
There is simply no excuse for the government's continued failure to develop a legally-sound, constitutionally-valid and workable tribunal process for the detainees. Too many good and brave military lawyers have being castigated and forced out because they failed or refused to go along with a sleazy strategy that put success (convictions) ahead of minimal fairness. Too many venal politicians, bureaucrats and wonks have tried to have their cake and eat it too; tried to manipulate military law and due-process principles to push ahead with self-defeating rules.
The story of the Guantanamo Bay detainees-- the story of their six years of waiting-- is a colossal failure of creativity and imagination and concern. And you just know that it never would be tolerated, legally or politically, if the people it affected most were anything other than who they are.
By Andrew Cohen |
October 8, 2007; 7:52 AM ET
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No sense in this, unless the White House wanted to keep people locked up as long as its administration was in office, by taking advantage of the slow pace of the judicial system.
Wheels grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small, is an apt description of the system. Beware of the end result, those who trample on rights, unless of course, the fix is in at the Supreme Court.
Posted by: ulterior | October 8, 2007 10:14 AM
It would not be tolerated if we -- the American people -- had not forgotten who we are. Bush's campaign of fear has brought out the worst in us. The US feels as the South did in the 1950s. We have taken giant steps backward under Bush and I doubt that the way forward exists. It certainly is not articulated by any of our political leaders. History will look back on this moment as not just a time of very bad decisions by the government but also of the complete failure by an opposition to counter those decisions. Instead, we get "triangulation" designed to gain power but not to exercise it for any purpose other than maintaining it.
Posted by: H R Coursen | October 8, 2007 10:18 AM
This shows us the results of twice voting for a man who has no sense of perspective. President Bush is one elephant that needs a whole troop of daddy's men to clean up after his walk down the parade route. He has never done anything incompetent enough to let him know the consequences of his actions. Someone was always there to sweep up his droppings.
Can't show up for National Guard meetings in Texas? No problem; just transfer to Alabama and fail to show up there. He couldn't find oil in Texas? Just sell the failed oil company to daddy's friends. Had no money of his own? Again, that isn't an issue. Take the money from the failed oil company and invest it in a baseball team whose infrastructure was largely funded by the state of Texas.
If you can't win an honest election, get the highest court in the land to hand it to you. If you can't catch bin Laden, say he isn't worth chasing. If you can't win one war, just start another and perhaps another one after that. The Democrats are feckless, so there's no need to worry.
Bush is lucky that he "serves" an electorate that knows more about "American Idol" than it does about even recent history. This is an electorate that swoons every time this religious guy talks about his "other father" and "family values." I am not a Biblical scholar, but I'll bet that Christ never advocated attacking a country for oil.
Posted by: Paul H. | October 8, 2007 01:23 PM
No matter how an individual looks at it, really, no system of jurisprudence can be considered "civilized" wherein those charged with criminality have no recourse to all evidence brought against them and unbiased and unfettered representation. For what is the gratification to be celebrated when a conviction is won where the justice process itself was illusory and an affront to the dignity of all those involved?
Posted by: Tony | October 9, 2007 08:19 AM
Gee, the last I heard is that the detainees were mostly ununiformed fighting US troops on a battle field and were captured. Since they had declined to wear uniforms identifying themselves as the enemy, one must conclude they were spies or opportunistic criminals. In reality they should have been tried by the commander of the army that captured them and shot them on the battlefield.
Some of our uniformed soldiers have been captured and slaughtered by having thier heads sawed off with a machette type knife. I think we are being extremely generous by permittting this scum to even breathe.
These are spies and criminals caught in the act of killing or attempting to kill our uniformed soldiers. they are not enemy combatantsthey are POWs, they are sneaky killers and do not deserve any consideration other than a firing squad.
Posted by: gyrotyro | October 9, 2007 10:32 AM
Unfortunately many of the detainees appear to not be soldiers or terrorists, but just Iraqis or Afghanees who were ratted out by neighbors, "friends", enemies, and even terrorists. We hold them because we don't know how to say we screwed up. When you have no standards for evidence you also have no way of determining if those you hold actually did any thing. So, the bushies torture them until they confess. Where did we learn that? Oh yeah Stalin.
Posted by: Samson | October 9, 2007 12:40 PM
The Bush administration is a lawless administration that conducts almost all of its domestic operations clandestinely. The torture of Islamiacs, while markedly unconscionable, is a red herring. Most of the administration's extreme abuses are directed at business and political competitors at home. That's how "business" is done.
Posted by: Singing Senator | October 9, 2007 12:44 PM
Question: If most or even some of the detainees are guilty of terrorism or trying kill American troops... then how hard can it be, almost six years in, to find them guilty? In a court martial, or civilian trial?
Years of detention mean American investigators, and possibly those of our allies, have had that long to bring evidence that those being held are the bad guys. No need for this overarching cloak of secrecy that the administration always uses. Hamdan was bin Laden's driver. You would think that DoJ, NSA or the umpteen intelligence agencies out there under the DNI would have something on Hamdan or the hundreds of other detainees.
If they're guilty, NAIL THEM TO THE WALL.
If not, follow US law. It's worked pretty well for about 200 years.
Posted by: CRix | October 10, 2007 03:00 PM
I don't know about "nailing to the wall"-that sounds extremely nasty.
Posted by: | October 11, 2007 01:47 PM
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The Secret of Kairo
Richard Perrin's first-person exploration/puzzle game Kairo (available on Steam tomorrow) is a great example of environmental narrative taken to the extreme, because it tells a story eschewing words almost completely.
Yet after browsing reviews and impressions pieces, I discovered some players had trouble figuring out the story.
At The Border House, Michelle Ealey wrote: "After my first playthrough of Kairo, I was frustrated. I didn't get it; I really didn't know what had happened and why."
John Walker at Rock Paper Shotgun wrote that "your purpose in Kairo is never explained" and "quite what Kairo is about entirely eludes me".
And Andrew Plotkin: "If I were to level a charge, it would be that the game world never really coheres, beyond the visual level. An adventure can set up its narrative drive through discovered texts and journals (old gag though that is). Or it can build a narrative out of its artistic details, the discovered connections and implications hidden in the visual world. Or this structure can come from the gameplay itself -- the connections you discover between the puzzles and mechanisms that make up the game. By solving, you learn what it's for."
I'm going to let you decide. In this image-heavy post, I'm going to take you through my deconstruction of Kairo's story, start to finish. This means spoilers, of course. Massive spoilers the size of the Death Star.
Auxiliary Power
We start in a white void, staring into a fog of questions. Who are we? Why are we here? What is this place? Is this a virtual construct or real?
We only really have one option - to explore the structure in the distance.
The game, at this early stage, suggests we are exploring the ruins of an ancient culture. Just inside the building, we find a throne – a recurring theme in Kairo – which suggests this was a seat for a monarch or similar figure, someone of importance. This is also the first time you see the tree symbol; perhaps it is the insignia of a leader or clan? We'll come back to what this represents much later.
However, we are already made aware of the tone of this place, signalled via the disquieting ambient soundtrack by Wounds (Bartosz Szturgiewicz). In the original alpha, the soundtrack also demonstrated feelings of wonder and awe which lead me to write that Kairo was "calming and reassuring". In the release version, this positive spark has all but been snuffed out and Wounds' music is mysterious and threatening. We are in an alien domain. Perhaps we do not belong here.
Soon, we will find the first hub chamber and from here we can find four puzzles that await us. Before I get to what these puzzles represent, there are a few rooms that carry information for us, if we're willing to take notice.
There's a pink space containing a platform that erupts to life when we step onto it. The crackle of static fills our ears and several panels appear, each one depicting an image of destruction. Is this a warning? A prophecy? Has this already happened? If we listen carefully, the ambient music develops a more sinister undertone when we stand on this platform. These visions are important.
There's also a corridor that I refer to as the mausoleum, because it contains nothing but coffins. Our current theory of ancient ruins suggests that these are the bodies of the people who built this place. But each coffin bears a screen and all of them display white noise… except two.
One of the screens relays a scene where we are moving through a continuous series of arches; the "camera" is heading into the distance. On the other screen, the image moves and twists as we step around the coffin. Examine it closely enough, and we will observe that the screen is reflecting what we are seeing. What does this mean?
The first structure in Kairo provides only questions; answers are for later.
It is time to review the puzzles, each of which has a particular function. Before we can descend into the underground chamber below the hub room, we need to accomplish four tasks.
One – generate a concentrated beam of light. I refer to this as the "sun room".
Two – release water into channels that feed into the hub room.
Three – activate the power generator.
Four – touch a tree symbol.
Impossibly large locations seem to overlap, suggesting each doorway is more of a gateway between constructed spaces, as if we are moving through the infinitely complex bowels of the TARDIS from Doctor Who. The light beam that goes up from the "sun room" comes down into the hub.
The hub will only open once all four puzzles are completed. We can interpret this in many ways, although here is my breakdown: the tree symbol unlocks the lower chamber; the generator enables the "lift" which takes us down; the water powers the chamber through hydroelectric conversion; and the light beam... well, that's the whole point. (I'd argue, however, that Kairo does not provide enough feedback to let us figure out exactly what each component is for.)
Our task is to redirect the light beam out of the structure which, once we are back outside, activates a vast new structure that was previously hidden. This is a momentous moment that will trigger euphoria in any explorer-player: if you thought the first structure was big, well, zowee, look at the size of that.
The purpose of the first building is to awaken the second and we can think of it as an auxiliary power supply. It is in the second building, however, where Kairo begins to spill its secrets.
Inside the second building, we are funnelled through a chamber containing a sunken column and a battery of empty screens. Once we trigger the column, the screens activate – and it looks like someone is watching us. Who is out there? Who is the Big Brother of Kairo?
Beyond this chamber, we encounter another throne, bearing a new mouth symbol. It soon becomes clear that the symbol is the structure's name and not representative of some past clan or political power.
After this, a new hub area awaits us which connects to three new puzzles. Each puzzle has a specific role as in the first structure.
Let's consider the first puzzle, deep underground, in which we have to activate a machine for mining. But inside the machine is a clue that changes the meaning of the game. On the wall is a map.
This alien world has something to do with Earth. Now we begin to connect some worrying dots – images of ruin, coffins, a map of Earth. Is Kairo carrying the last humans after Earth was devastated? Is Kairo, in fact, a man-made artefact?
The second puzzle is a manufacturing machine, which converts mined materials into useful products. Once activated, it starts processing the mined "cubes" into different colours. But what will these materials be used for?
Once the machine is active, we can see materials being carried alongside an adjacent corridor. There's another slight narrative hiccup here, because the machine will process mined cubes even if the mining machine puzzle is not solved first and unable to provide raw materials.
The third puzzle appears to be a giant reactor of some sort. Kairo needs enormous reserves of power for something. But what is that something?
All together, these elements are the "engine" of Kairo. Once the three machines are activated, we are permitted to use a domed elevator that takes us to the second level of the complex and face a new puzzle hub.
There are four new puzzles that need to be solved here, which do not appear to relate explicitly to machinery. Here's where I think Kairo becomes a little unstuck, because these machines do not appear to have any direct purpose and are more like challenges. In fact, I wasn't able to figure out their meaning without, uh, looking under the hood of the game. It seems that they are merely challenges, designed to test your worth before we are allowed to proceed to the next section of Kairo.
Possibly there is a more metaphysical explanation for these chambers, but that feels unsatisfactory. Up to now, each machine has had a specific purpose, so the thematic switch feels inconsistent and Kairo appears far more game-like.
However, all four puzzles contain images from human culture – again reinforcing the connection between Kairo and Earth. Kairo knows humanity very well.
There is another hint in Kairo's structure. In one connecting tunnel, a wall is broken revealing DNA. Why does Kairo carry DNA in its memory?
After besting the four new challenges, we ascend to the monitoring station to discover the identity of the Kairo Big Brother. We know how 3D games made on shoestring budgets play out, so we know there isn't going to be a fully interactive character to meet. So in a sense, the revelation shouldn't be a shock – but it is.
It's disheartening to discover someone was here before us and died alone. While it felt like Kairo was a safe place and would never let any harm come to us, we discover someone else has already died here, deep in the bowels of Kairo. Were they also tasked with solving the mystery of Kairo… and failed? Or did they accept the task of maintenance, watching over Kairo so that it did not collapse?
They've scratched on the station throne in English. This suggests Kairo is not man-made, because there is no recognizable human script used in Kairo – merely characters taken from an alien language. We humans are trapped here.
Now recall the mausoleum. There were two coffins with functioning monitors. One of them twisted and turned as we gazed at it, reflecting our own view. The other was travelling forever into the distance. It is now much more likely the coffins contain humans; the first human emerged, got as far as the monitoring station, and died. Kairo eventually reset and let out a second human. We are that second human.
We might wonder if we are still in that coffin, but it's unlikely considering we have discovered the corpse of our predecessor.
Kairo has woken us to complete the mission. But what is the mission?
Beyond the monitoring station, we find four pads. Each one takes us to a different destination. We recognise only two of the symbols.
The torii symbol on the far left takes our starting point in the void and the one of the far right, the fern, is where we are headed next. The third and final complex which reveals Kairo's true purpose.
We enter a vast hub area in which three puzzles are hidden. The first puzzle is a machine that collects the prepared materials from the engine complex.
The second puzzle is a machine that produces water. The interesting point about the water room is that the puzzle involves four bodies. Four bodies means they are unlikely to represent the Earth, Sun and Moon. Do they represent the Sun, Mercury, Venus and Earth? Or something else?
Once the puzzle is solved, it begins to rain outside the water machine and streams form in the hub area. The machine produces real water, not the "Kairo water" we saw in the auxiliary power section.
The last puzzle unlocks Kairo's genetic memory.
Once we solve it, birds fly overhead the "life temple" which contained the puzzle.
And images of Earth animals dot the hub landscape.
Kairo is Noah's Ark. The purpose of Kairo is to breathe life back into Earth after some terrible disaster in the distant past. Kairo is part-machine, part-test. Only if the few survivors can figure out how Kairo works will Earth be reborn. They are tasked with proving themselves worthy, worthy of a second chance.
After the puzzles, there is just one place left to go. There is another room in the hub area that offers no puzzle, but is home to plenty of interesting imagery.
First note the final throne, before which is a map of the world. This rough, stone-looking map evokes a dead world more than some of the other images we have seen.
And here is something that bears closer inspection; a ghostly image of a dead Earth, with two spheres either side.
Look at the projection of the image onto on the floor. We've seen this peculiar shape only once before in the game: on the Kairo title screen.
That symbol, which has been staring us in the face from the very start of the game, is Kairo. Two artificial moons orbiting the Earth. That's why the water room had four bodies: the Earth, the Moon and Kairo.
We proceed onwards to the final chamber that contains a single floor pad. Once we step onto it, we witness the Earth being invigorated by two spheres spinning about it. In the background, a statue of a humanoid figure is illuminated.
All of Kairo's machines awaken and perform their mighty work. After the credits finish, we are allowed one brief glimpse of life on Earth, now reborn.
The Biggest Secret
I wrote last October that "Dear Esther doesn't need collectibles. Neither does Proteus. Nor Kairo." Well, I was wrong. Kairo has collectible runes hidden in the most obnoxious places. These runes contribute nothing to the story of Kairo and only count towards the "secret ending", unlocked if you discover all of Kairo's secrets. Further, the secret ending is a fourth-wall breaking tribute for dedicated players and yields no additional revelations about Kairo.
Yet, there are some secrets that do require discussion because they have narrative importance.
If we solve the optional music room puzzle in the auxiliary power structure or the hex room in the final control complex, we will be offered a brief vision of Earth in ruins. These merely confirm our understanding of the story and do not actually add anything.
However, if we solve the Skylab puzzle – which can only be done if multiple Kairo players work together – we will be rewarded with a very special vision.
This vision allows you to witness dead Earth from space, its signature blue replaced with a dark, caramelised brown. But move the mouse. The first thing we notice are the two artificial satellites of Kairo.
The second thing... is a NASA Space Shuttle drifting in space.
It is my belief that Kairo's human survivors are the astronauts stranded on this shuttle when the disaster occurred. (See Manny Coto's aborted series Odyssey 5 for a similar storyline.)
This, of course, is just my interpretation, but I dare say close to what Richard Perrin envisioned. And Perrin wanted to foster some ambiguity so there are no perfect answers to some of these questions. Maybe Kairo is man-made? Maybe the previous human in the monitoring station was simply watching over Kairo? As the Moon is not visible in the shuttle scene - maybe Kairo was constructed from the Moon?
But I'm unsure why Kairo was left for such a long time. It's possible that Kairo was searching the universe for a "job" to do and happened upon Earth. It's even possible that Kairo was responsible for the devastation of Earth but, considering the final message of the game as deserving second chances, this seems unlikely. Were the surviving humans dead when Kairo found them on the space shuttle?
There are also some narrative oddities throughout, some of which I've discussed. Let me pick out a few others. I find the distinction between "Kairo water" and "Earth water" strange. Also, Kairo sometimes implies every location is physically connected but at other times it embraces my TARDIS analogy.
In the latest build of Kairo, there's an addition to one of the secret rooms that clashes with the mausoleum. In the secret room, there are active screens just like on the coffins except instead of the camera travelling into infinity, it shows the view in the monitoring room from the perspective of the corpse. This suggests a little retconning and perhaps it would have been better to fix the mausoleum screen to match. Then again, I can see issues with that approach.
Also, I was unhappy most of the secrets build towards the fourth-wall breaking secret ending, which undermines the sense of place. I had hoped the secrets were part of Kairo's strange tapestry... but most of them weren't.
Nonetheless, I fell in love with Kairo and enjoyed every hour I spent in its company. The game delivers an environmental narrative showcase that stands apart from what we typically see in AAA titles and relies on it exclusively, doing away with exposition.
For that achievement alone, I congratulate Richard Perrin.
Bonus Crazy Theory Corner
I spent an absolute vomitload of time playing Kairo. To prove how far down the rabbit hole I went, here is one of my crazy theories. Is the garden near the start of the game actually a representation of the apocalypse?
Secret Addendum (25 Apr)
I just gave the new version on Steam a quick go, which is Kairo version 2.0. The above essay was prepared using version 1.2. The game has had some graphical improvements since then, but Perrin has dabbled with a few important additions that are relevant to the story.
There's indecipherable text on the back of the first structure, for example, lending more weight to the theory that Kairo is of alien origin.
Also, each of the three visions now reveals signs of previous life. The city ruins shows a sleeping bag with a knife beside it; the desert sports a tent and extinguished campfire; the space shuttle now has an astronaut floating near it, obviously dead - or at the very least, we are looking at an empty space suit.
It's now clear that these locations are where Kairo took its three "survivors" from. You are obviously one of these survivors. Another is dead at the monitoring station. Where is the third?
There is a purple-coloured secret room that has monitors tracking all three. The third survivor is apparently here:
The location shown on the monitor is unfamiliar and doesn't seem to be a part of Kairo that we are able to explore. So it was time for crazy theories again. I suspected there was one brief moment when we would be able to check this place ourselves.
I finished the game, waited for all of Kairo's other machines to wake up - and took the following screenshot.
We were never alone.
Thanks for passing me on, though. I play video games far too late at night and if I want to get any sleep I usually have to physically type all the madness out of my head.
Also, I can now tell my friends that the creator of a game commented on a game commenter's comment on my comment on his commentary of a game.
I just played Kairo – About the text on the first structure: If you look in the "museum" area before the secret ending – The text is right there.
This makes me think that the text you see first thing is just corrupted or faded away somehow.
I know I'm late to the party, but there is one "colonization/recolonization of Earth" trope that I'm surprised no one else has picked up on.
Of /course/ there has to be a second survivor. There's always got to be an Adam and Eve. ;)
Very interesting insight. Thanks. Just a couple of points to add. Kairo = chi-rho, which is the ancient Christian symbol for Christ (the first two letters of his name in Greek). This ties in with the theme of resurrection. Secondly, I'm not sure whether this is just fanciful thinking, but the final symbol in the last throne room, which you refer to as a fern, looks more to me like three lines on one. That is, three-in-one, a symbol of the Trinity. Vast empty thrones, trees of life, arks. Is this the Judeo-Christian metanarrative or is this drawing from the Egyptian-alien creation myth? Or some amalgam of several myths?
Nevertheless, I'm still not sure who the figure(s) in the TV screens is (are) – I originally thought these were the souls the lost waiting for resurrection. I was expecting their release at the end of the game…
Reedmace–I always thought the name, Kairo, was just the Japanese word for circuit. You know, what with death and rebirth and ouroboroses and so fourth. And solving the puzzles is a lot like completing circuits.
We know there are at least 3 people in Kairo: the player, the skeleton, and that guy in the crucifix position that you glimpse during the end. At first I thought the creepy TV big brothers were images of the people dead in the coffins, but the numbers don't match up. There are 24 coffins but more than 24 images of that watching head, and they're all identical–what's the chance that every person in the coffins has the same hairstyle, shape of head, thickness of neck, lack of beard or whiskers, etc? So it's very likely just one guy. We know it's not the player, so that leaves the skeleton and the crucifix guy. The skeleton can be ruled out easily: his neck is waay too thin, being just the bones, and doesn't match that of the screens. So by elimination it must be Mr. Crucifix. The omnipresence is, as with the crucifix and the rebirth, very religious. Either that, or the screensaver on the Kairo computer is just unreasonably creepy.
What's more interesting, I think, is the coffin situation. I surmise that the people inside them were dead, maybe on the space shuttle or just lone survivors on post-apocalyptic Earth after whatever disaster killed not only the rest of the humans, but apparently all animal and plant life too. Kairo picked up these people, and either killed them or they were already dead. Probably the latter–Kairo doesn't seem malicious. So it stored away the dead people it found, and woke them up one by one so they can fix the mess their kind made of the Earth.
But note that there are 3 people in Kairo. However, it's indicated that only 2 coffins have been opened. So one of the people wasn't dead when they arrived, or, couldn't die (or, at least, didn't stay dead long enough to be put in a coffin). I agree with you, Reedmace, that although on the surface this is a sci-fi game where you need to fix the world using alien technology after an apocalypse, this seems to have strong elements of several religions in it. I mean, apart from the blatantly obvious ones like the Buddha picture or the torii Shinto gates. As much as it irked me, it reminds me of that film Promethius, where the aliens are so advanced that spirituality and science have become intimately intertwined.
Gordelphus, HM: Thanks for the replies.
OK, so clearly Kairo is intended to 'reflect' the Japanese for circuit. But I am still left wondering whether there is intentional double entendre. 'Gardens' are where creation (and recreation – thinking of the Easter story) takes place.
The 2 catacombs each contain 12 tombs – a religiously significant number indicating 'completion' or 'all people' (12 tribes of Israel, 12 apostles, 12 lots of 12,000 in heaven, Rev 7). Presumably it wasn't present in the version of Kairo HM reported above, but there are three (not two) tombs or coffins that don't have white noise in the version I played. If we start numbering them from left to right from the entrance, the 'wayfarer' on his (or her) infinite journey is from (or in?) tomb 7. This must be the same one 'swaying' in the monitor in the final secret room, and spotted as a crucifix in the final screenshot above.
But on tomb 10 is the static image of the control panel in front of the skeleton. This is the skeleton's coffin. Ours is tomb 4 in the second catacomb (or 16 if you continue counting).
The fact that we are faced with a skeleton in the control panel room means a physical body was wandering around, rather than some ethereal consciousness still linked to its body in the coffin. Also, we hear our own physical footsteps as we walk or run. Clearly, however, there is still some connection with the coffin, but what is it? Why does it display what we see? It must mean we are somehow still an integral part of Kairo itself. Maybe these 'coffins' are life support systems. Or maybe Kairo is somehow using a neural link between us and the coffin to monitor our activities – which is why we find our vision displayed on a screen in the secret room. Kairo, it appears, 'knows' more about humans than humans do.
There are also still questions about the outside area. Why do we start the game at an abandoned throne? Why do we return to it before beginning each new phase? And why is the light beam reaching to the huge tower black, and the surrounding emptiness white, like a negative? It seems like this is 'negative' space – not meant for us?
And where does the second Kairo satellite fit in? Do we unwittingly space-jump between the two as we progress through the game? What is the relations between the two satellites and 'city' that is revealed in the closing scenes of the game? Dunno.
At first I thought all the thrones were huge, implying some giant alien species that had abandoned its kingdom or empire. But then seeing the skeleton sitting in one reveals that the are human size. Meant for us?
This theme of thrones runs right through the game. Clearly it is a central motif. Power, solitude, authority, control. And yet each throne has a limited domain, defined by its symbol. All except the first, which is symbol-less and appears to be the primary one.
But thrones and advanced machines don't mix – at least not in modern sociological contexts. So how does this fit with a machine of human construction?
This brings me back to the Egyptian-alien creation myth – that humanity was planted on earth, or at least influenced, by some advanced alien species several thousand years ago, resulting in an instant high culture and advanced mathematical and cosmological understanding. Everything in Kairo is built out of blocks, like the pyramids, and Kairo (Cairo – a triple entendre?) is this strange, but vaguely familiar, rescue machine devised and constructed by these same alien 'deities' experienced by ancient culture. Even the indecipherable writing on the back of the first 'temple' looks like a form of eroded Hebrew script – with shapes that look like words running in horizontal lines.
So my take on it at the moment is that Kairo was built by an alien species, who genetically created or modified humanity at the dawn of history, came back (if they ever really left?) to save a remnant (12 + 12, symbolically the human race) from self annihilation, because 'everyone deserve a second chance…'
This could, of course, all be baloney – it is, after all, only a game!
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I copied the Gag gift list that everyone has added to for over a year now it was ready to fall off page 10. I hope noone minds I just took out the bumps. I hope we can all add to it now and keep it for another year.
Tweetie147 Posted by Brenda (email@example.com) on Fri, Nov 3, 00 at 22:59 Last year I saw a posting for gag gifts. Goofy or funny gifts to give. I had a blast last year making and giving the home exerciser, booger keeper, and tampon angels. I've searched the forum but haven't seen anything like it. Am I just not seeing it or am I looking in the wrong place.
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I just got this from a Christmas Bazaar today. 1 marble in a small zip bag a little bigger than a business card. A poem inside was the size of a business card, with decorative trim around the edges. It read: Sometimes it seems we lose our way and life becomes so blue. You think you've lost your "marbles" and others suspect it's true. But in spite of all the odds my friend, life can be wonderful too. Just remember, that no matter what, I'm always here for you. So when you think you've lost them all; pull out my gift to you. It may be small, and only one...but you haven't lost them all!!!
Cut pipe cleaner in 3" sections. Take one end and push down into bead. Roll remaining pipecleaner into a circle. (The bead & pipe cleaner now look like a small toilet brush.) Here is a site that has some tags that you could print out.
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Let's see the Hillbilly washer and dryer are a tiny clothes pin and a metal washer (you use them between a nut and a bolt when building things) in a small baggie with a tag reading Washer and Dryer - I usually use the name of a local town (Pozo Washer and Dryer or Hill Billy or Redneck...) The Hilly billy weather station and windchimes are made with beer cans... I'll post these on the refrigerator door. I'll also post a pic of the baby longjohns too. The Yard Stick is a stick (with personality of course...) I made up a tag which I attached.
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I got a wonderful idea from this forum last year that I used for my brother. I bought two AA batteries, put them in a box with a note saying "Gift not included"
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Okay, here's one I have done. I made bedroom slippers out of maxi pads. LOL You need four maxi's to make a pair. Two of them get laid out flat, for the foot part. The other two wrap around the toe area to form the top. Tape each side of the top pieces to the bottom of the foot part. There you have slippers. Decorate the tops with whatever you desire, silk flowers, etc. Somewhere here I have a verse that goes with them. I'll look for it and post later. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
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Here's the Note for the Maxi pad Slippers:
* Soft and Hygenic
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The slippers are just to funny. What great ideals!!!! What is a booger keeper? That is something a kid shouldn't be without!
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These aren't my ideas, I took them from this last year.
The home exerciser is a block of wood with this saying printed on paper glued to it. HOME EXERCISER
I also used the batteries last year. Everyone just loved these little, easy to make, inexpensive gifts! Love the marble idea and the pad slippers. Thanks and keep those creative minds going!
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I saw this posted on another forum. Thought it was really cute!
CAUTION * Do NOT inhale when dryer is near belly button.
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How about for the maxi pad slippers also you could add 28 day warranty?!?!
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How about a "Senior Citizen's Money Clip? Take card stock and print the print like this:
Leave enough space in the middle to glue a penny in a paper clip. I sell these for $1.00 and they are a hoot. Judi
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Judi. You can also make the money clip out of the tab that comes off a soda/beer can... Just bend it with pliers around a penny. Hummmm wonder if there's a poem there somewhere?
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I saw an ad on t.v. A big box with the lable "Unfinished furniture". Inside the box is a branch, leaves and all! :)
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Last year I gave "Pork & Beans" as a gag gift .Glue a small pig on the lid of a baby food jar and inside the jar add some dried beans.
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Put some straw in a zip-loc bag and attach a tag that reads "Straw Hat -- Assembly Required"
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This is a cute one a friend gave me one year, and I really got a kick out of it. I've passed it on several times since, and everyone else has liked it as well.
Cause you've not been as good as you could,
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This may not exactly fit this thread, but I have an idea of something cute, practical, or fun to give in the days leading up to Christmas. The idea isn't finished so help me if you want. I'm tayloring mine for my sister who will be going into finals.
On the first day after Thanksgiving, my sister gave to me....a tasty helping of spaghetti.
I came up with this today. This is as far as I got. It could be made fun and inexpensively with little gag items from the Dollar Store.
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How about a six pack of yoohoo?lol and seven silly snowmen,
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A mini spring type clothes pin with a penny clipped in it, and write on the clothespin "Penny Pincher" :)
Hillbilly Flashlight - a block of wood with one wooden kitchen match in the end of it.
I saw these somewhere. Sawdust in a small zip lock bag. Labeled "Expert Jigsaw Puzzle"
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Elizabeth... I made one almost like it but I used candy sprinkles that you put on cupcakes and cookies. All kinds and shapes. Then I put a lable on it call "Worlds Almost Smallest Puzzle" with instruction not to open it if hungery or in front of a person with a sweet tooth.
Check out Crafters Community...funny gifts (Tuit). There is a poem that goes with this easy idea.
Ann, here is a site that has instructions and a picture of
Here is a link that might be useful: Tampon Angel
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Here is a gag gift for snowman's poop. You take the white packing peanuts put them in a tin can. The note says, " You've been bad
Hillbilly toothpick- railroad spike painted tan and the words written on it with a black marker.
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Diamond Stick Pin
I took pieces of straw and put in cellophane bags with a tootsie roll and a tag that said "roll in the hay"
Yoyoma; I had trouble finding this on crafter's community today as well, so here it is, TUIT
Cow herd seeds
And so I give this gift to you,
TURTLE POWER (I use a handpainted little turtle) Let this turtle be a simple reminder to slow down, cherish each moment, and enjoy each day.
A Gift of Love (A small empty package) This is a very special gift
SMILE... (I use a hand painted plaster smiley face) It makes people wonder what you are up to. If you see someone without a smile...give them one of yours. Lucky Horseshoe (yes, plaster again!!!!) This shoe is a gift,
I'll look and see what else I can find in one of my many boxes!!! Carol
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TERMITE TEASER Sprinkle in your driveway
**Take wood shavings in a bag, and attatch this poem.** WORLDS SMALLEST PUZZLE
I have more on my page if you would like to check it out... don't want to take up too much space here LOL :)
Yoyoma...to save on the cost of making so many I use the generic Cocoa Puff cereal and it looks great. I used raisins for bat poop at Halloween and found out not a lot of kids liked raisins. :(
This is the Exotic Rubber Plant
Saw this today and just had to share it
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Tampon Angel. Here is a tampon angel I made last year.
If you know anyone who has a "tooting" disorder, the following poem sure is cute! I found this on the crafts forum under a poetry heading. Evidently someone requested a Grinch fart poem. Posted by Carol:
The Grinch went down to Who-ville
His tummy started to rumble,
THEN SHE ADDED THAT YOU COULD FINISH WITH THIS: To his releif, he felt so good,
As soon as I read this I knew it had to be added here! Hey grandma bonne.....where's the info on the golf ball and old age pills?
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I've seen the old age pill posted. Here are the Golf Ball Seeds and
I thought the fish bait was already posted. It's a baggy with split peas in it. Make a topper for the top with...
Last Christmas at our family get together, I gave a lot of the gag gifts. One not mentioned here yet is a jar of "Pickled Peckers" I made the little "peckers" out of panty hose, shaped and stuffed them. Put them into a pint jar and added water. I also added some pickling spice for looks. Added a cute label "From the kitchen of". Got plenty of laughs.
How about a cartridge in a bare tree?
Maybe not a gag but cute all the same. Attach a bow to a roll of cookie dough with this note:
Old age pills
The red pill may be cut into fourths if needed.
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Just found the poem that goes with the booger keeper. Diane I also sent this to you via your email.
Sorry it took so long to find it!
How about a "Peter Heater" They can be knit, crocheted or sewn. I don't think you need a pattern for one if you get the drift. Here is the Poem and story.
PETER HEATER Designed and originated by a genuine old maid,
The first year my husband & I were married we got an "electric" toilet plunger. It was just a normal toilet plunger with a hole drilled in the top and an electric cord w/plug glued into the hole. It's been one of the most useful gag gifts we've received!
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After reading through these, I thought about giving my nine year old daughter with long hair some hare clips for Christmas -- a picture of a rabbit/hare or stuffed animal with paper clips on the ears. Of course, being a kid, we will have to do the adult gifts first so the kids know they are all in fun.
Did I miss this one: Cow patties. Melted Chocolate with coconut or something of texture, poured into a little plate and when almost firm, stir the top around to make it look like the real ones. I would have some melted parafin in it to make it get firmer and not melt so fast in your hands. It would be funny and edible.
This one is naughty!!!
Poor Man's Viagra "Once it's up, keep it up" CAUTION: Some assistance with assembly may be required!
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How about getting a can of that spray snow, then make a label that says SNOWSTORM IN A CAN!!!
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my son is a tv land fanatic, and asked me if i could come up with any thing that would work with some of the old shows and commercials or sayings. so last night i was watching gilligans island of corse on tv land and their boat is called the S.S. minnow. and i thought maybe i could find some type of fish that look like a minnow and write s.s. on it do you think it would work. and the other one is to put a toy cow in a bag and a card that read where's the beef. let me know what you think
Here one that I just remembered about, not my idea, Just came acrossed it a couple years back.
We're giving a gift of high quality
We considered giving you a sports car
So, open the box and you may be surprised,
WHAT A HOOT!!!!!! I love these.....I need one for grandma's and mom's, I had my daycare kids do the fishbait for the dad's and grandpa's and would like something for their mom's and grandma's along these lines. I glued a magnet to the fishbait topper for hanging on the refrigerator. Thanks!!
An idea for using suckers would be - as a birthday gag gift, stick how ever many suckers you need into a block of styrofoam that is glued into the bottom of a flower pot. Put a sign on the pot that says *40 SUCKS* or whatever milestone birthday it is.
I used to do the donut seeds (cheerios) as bagel seeds for craft fairs years ago but I can't find the stuff I used .. does anyone know the "planting instructions" for them.
Here are 2 poems for the Dustpan Cookies:
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I saw one that was a little block of wood (about 1-inch thick and about 2 1/2-3-inches square. There was a little chunk cut out of the side (kind of like a side-ways "U"). There was a small tack inside the U and written on the block was "Tacks Shelter" (tax shelter". Thought this one was cute.
I used my left over tootsie rolls for reindeer poop. Who says that all poop is round like a ball. Some do look like rolls. Lemon drops can be put in a bag with a topper saying when life gives you lemons make lemonade, or it could be smiley face poop, I suppose. Suckers ( I use Dum-Dums, they're cheaper) can be bunched up into threes and cover with material and tie off with ribbon and add poem cards. Teacher lollies, sweet treats, etc. I like the 40 sucks idea too. I'll be 40 less than 2 years.
i took the dum dum sucker and put two in a bag and write the following for it
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I just left my school Christmas party. I used some of the gags posted here. Everybody loved them. For some other ideas, a toliet seat painted the school colors with the school motto, or the school team name on it. Another thing that was a big hit, was cow bells, and kids games with the pieces missing. Just thought I'd share this with all of you. Mar
Fish Seeds
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Here's the Grinch Poop Poem I copied from the C/D forum...
But why did he do it?
But Santa and the reindeer
He left in a hurry-
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Just wanted to add the version of Grinch poop I'm using...
I have been busy making some of these and want to add one I made up. My daughter hates to cook so I copied my checkered cookbook in the scanner, printed two of them on glossy paper, or plain paper with clear adhesive paper over it. I filled it with paper and on the first page I listed all the phone numbers of the fast food restaurants in the area. I added 911 to the list, as she has been known to set off the smoke alarm when she does cook. I added a poem, but would not be suitable for all.
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For the jar of pickled "pe--ers" you could use ring bologna, or sausages. Not sure I'd have the nerve, but would save sewing and stuffing.
I made the pad about slippers, by sewing 1/2 a pad across the toe area. I just zig,zagged all around the pad attaching the toe section as I stitched. Make the toe section long enough that it stands up over the sole, like a real pair of slippers. I glued on a ruffle of lace to the toe section, a little bow also and they look
I just got a new one today from my boss:
How about A melted snow man.
I had some choc raisins so I made up this "poopy" poem:
written by Deanne Burton
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this year i made "hillbilly kits" for some family members and friends.
i am looking for a candy mold that is a skunk
I keep reading and reading and laughing every time! I don't think that these are posted but with allllllllllllll that are here I could have missed them.
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I got a 'worry wart' for Christmas. I thought it was so cute. It is made out an nylon stocking. A round ball stuffed with cotton about 1 - 1 1/2 inches across. gathered at top and tied with small bit of ribbon. Two tiny eyes glued onto it. Poem attatched......
This year I gave my brother and his girlfriend one of my husband's old work socks (complete with holes!) in a zip-lock, and then attached this poem that I got form another post.
"Official Santa Sock"
one more for the hillbilly kit....
I love the Hillbilly briefcase. I now have my mother sewing the legs opening closed on several pairs(she's 75 and is laughing the whole time she is sewing them). The ladies at the craft mall can't wait for me to get them in my booth. Thanks for the idea, Suzie. Mischelle
just a couple more for the "Hillbilly Briefcase kit"
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I've just seen a couple of more really neat ideas for gag gifts.
I found this one at the link included.
Couldn't send you flowers
Ingredient Suggestions: Cinnamon hearts
there is the jack in the beanstalk kit...
I've found another funny gag gift...
Hi -- Pat wanted the Hunter's Survival Kit -- here it the one I have (I can't remember where I got it from):
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Ok guys,gals I did manage to come up with a few more little gag gifts: Do-It-Yourself Ted.E.Bear = six small brown pompoms in a bag with the small google eyes, Pet Dust Bunnies = Dryer lint in a bag with google eyes. The three step diet program = Three plastic forks, for 20-30 lbs weight loss, 1 has only one tine removed and numbered 1, for 30-50 lbs weight to lose, 2 has two tines removed and numbered 2, 50 lbs + has all tines removed and labeled number three, all three are put into a bag together so they can diet in a 3 step program. Fanny Floss = crochet thread or heavy cotton cording, label reads for those hard to reach areas. Dodge, Ford, Chevy motor repair kit = duct tape and a rubber band in a baggie. Emergency rope for when you're at the end of yours = small piece of rope in a baggie. Anti-airhead aides = two cotton balls in a baggie.
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HEE HEE OMG!!!! Some of these are unreal. This post should be on the archives for later use. I need to print this whole thing out!!!!!!
My husband's birthday was April 3. He told me that all he wanted for his birthday was a digital camcorder - nothing else. As he is still researching models and has not decided which best fits his needs, I could not buy him the camera and I could NOT give him NOTHING. So, I went through this list and gave him the batteries - Gift Not Included, the belly button cleaner and blow drier, the donut seeds (he and my uncle, who must both watch their diets, love the opportunity to get together and go out and buy dozen(s) donuts), kazoos, and an adult bib stencilled with his favorite food stains. We had a wonderful dinner party and the gag gifts were a hit. Thanks to all !!!
if anyone is interested I have made several toppers for gag gifts, I would be happy to share them. they range from the fannie floss to farts!! and others in between!
Hey all, I just thought I would add another one to the list. It seems as if I am picking on all the Hillbillies, but really I'm not. My daughter-in-law is a hillbilly and when I told her I was having trouble finding hillbilly pictures she very innocently says " I could dig out some of my pictures of the relatives" I thought I was gonna die laughing, needless to say we haven't used them yet!
My mother made a diet fork for me as a gift. She got a silver fork from a thrift shop, and curled all the tines of the fork with pliers until they looked like that curly ribbon. She adorned it with ribbons and beads, and it was rather pretty. (To be fancy, one could even engrave "diet fork" on the fancy part of it, and/or drill a hole for hanging!)
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- Posted by lynne(firstname.lastname@example.com) onMon, Oct 15, 01 at 11:36
Tweetie, this would be a good one for the craftycrafters site that Robin maintains for our THS threads. It would be a good addition because a lot of the ideas are so good. After the bulk is submitted then we could just add new items. http://www.geocities.com/crafty_crafters/index.html |
Here is a link that might be useful: Craftycrafters site for THS crafts
- Posted by Sharla(firstname.lastname@example.com) onThu, Oct 25, 01 at 0:51
That was nice of you to repost all of these. Thank you! |
- Posted by LadyReadzalot (My Page) on Mon, Oct 29, 01 at 4:11
Thank you! I missed all of the ones from last year (because I didn't know about this place) so I was so glad to see them here! |
Here is a link that might be useful: My Page
I have just found these wonderful ideas, am moving them up so that others may share them. Marina |
Anyone have some NEW gag gifts to add? Please add instructions. Thanks! |
Thanks for posting these! I work with 10 great ladies and I see one that will fit each one of them! littlebit |
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OK, who has some more gag gift ideas? With the holiday fast approaching, I plan on making some of the above, but would love to see more pertaining to gardening, since most of my friends are gardeners. |
I found the tax shelter in this posting when searching for a gift for my brother. He is a tax preparer and has everything. So I just had to share what I did for him. I took one of those woodcraft houses from Walmart- removed the two screws from the base. I cut a 1" block of wood that fit into the bottom of the house. I glued this block onto the base thus allowing the top of the house to be easily lifted off the base. I cut a 1/2" groove in the center of the block with the table saw so I could set a card of thumb tacks into it. This was hidden in the house until the top was lifted off. I wrote a poem for this & read it to him while my daughter did a Vanna White presentation of the house. Everyone got a good laugh out of this and I finally did a complete craft project! It's been a while. Hope you have as much fun with this as we did. Here's the poem: I drew your name for Christmas But then I started frettin I went into an office shop He could use a tax shelter So here's your little shelter The flowers are all blooming It seems to be the perfect place |
- Posted by theworldsearcher (My Page) on Fri, Aug 24, 07 at 16:49
I am looking for a poem for donut seeds one verse in it said something about moon light shining off the badge but I can't remember the rest |
- Posted by theworldsearcher (My Page) on Fri, Aug 24, 07 at 17:57
I am looking for donut seeds poem something about the light shining off the badge . Thank you |
- Posted by evelyn_craftdiva (My Page) on Fri, Aug 24, 07 at 21:25
This is the only one that I know of. DONUT SEEDS: |
- Posted by enjoyingspring (My Page) on Mon, Aug 27, 07 at 7:48
I personally don't like receiving "Gag Gifts", waste of time and energy. They usually end up in the trash. |
once I bought the donut seed pkg at a craft fair in Rayne, Louisiana.. it had cajun instrucions for planting.. it was so very funny.. but I can't remember where I stored my poem.. LOL yep I'm OLD .. can anyone help??? |
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You can get your loved ones 100% hand made paintings from their favorite photos for Christmas gifts! |
Here is a link that might be useful: Christmas gifts
- Posted by Inge Yandell(firstname.lastname@example.com) onMon, Mar 7, 11 at 9:15
Does anyone have the poem that came with the Maxipad bedroom slippers gag gift, not the instructions? |
Check out this gals post for poem. |
Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.craftsayings.com/projects/gag_gifts/padded_slippers/index.shtml
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A petrified tree is protected from souvenir collectors by an iron fence on a Yellowstone National Park hillside. The tree is one of many inside the park, believed to have been preserved after being buried in mud, rock and sand after a volcanic eruption.
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I'm looking for a certain tree that would prevail in a container next to the front door by my apartment. I couldn't really tell what would work. It gets mostly morning sun, I would really like to find the right tree and would like it really much. I really would like to rip the concrete out. lol. If you have suggestions, all are appreciated. Adam |
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More detes: what size area should it take up? A snapshot of the area? That would be good. Will you participate at all in some upkeep or do you just want one you can plant and forget? With regard to that, if are you okay with trimming/pruning, you can make most any tree a 'dwarf'...or any plant a tree. It depends on your level of involvement. |
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Ficus benjamani does well outdoors in morning sun and light shade. It also does well in containers. |
I think that I could put a 15 Gallon container there. But would like to do less. Nothing too big. I was considering a dwarf citrus, but decided to go otherwise. I kinda like Ficus benjamani, but they're kinda scarce. I have attached a photo... There's a super-imposer! |
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Ficus aren't scarce ... almost any house plant department sells them. |
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'Angry Birds' Flock to webOS
Addictive mobile game comes to Palm's Pre and Pre Plus.
"Angry Birds" the popular iOS game that has players launch volleys of birds at nefarious pigs, has landed in Palm's app store.
The Rovio game is one of the most downloaded games in 60 countries and the company is preparing to expand the franchise into a line of toys and possibly a feature film.
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Cisco Releases Annual Security Report
Spammers go low-volume, and 90% of IE browsers are unpatched.
Zero Day Exploits Target Flash
Adobe scrambles to release patches for vulnerable Flash Player.
Intel Unveils Compute Stick
Four-inch-long computer on a stick lets you boot a full Linux system from any HDMI display device.
Obama Proposes Personal Data Notification Law
New statute would require companies to report break-ins to consumers.
TGXf Project Warns of File Transfer through Screen Pixels
Weird data transfer technique avoids all standard security measures.
Industry Giants Announce a Fix for the Password Mess
FIDO alliance declares the beginning of the end for old-style login authentication.
Poll: Vote for the Best Open Source Software for Photographers
The Linux New Media Awards have honored the most significant products, projects, people, and organizations for open source/Linux every year since 2000.
Debian Gets Forked
Legendary Uber-distro splits over the systemd controversy.
Linux Mint Project Releases Mint 17.1
New LTS version offers many refinements for the Cinnamon and Mate desktops and significant improvement under the hood.
CeBIT Open Source Forum Call for Papers
One of CeBIT's most successful forums returns in 2015.


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Man who feels like a stranger in his own country just a friendless bastard
'Oh, Percy Williams? Everyone hates him,' said neighbour Heather Smith. 'We cross the road to avoid the racist shitbag. I don't know about being a stranger in his own country, the bigoted old git is a stranger in his own street.'
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RUBEN BLADES AND WILLIE COLON By Tom Pryor Published September 13, 2005 Siembra Fania
This 1978 classic was not only the all-time greatest selling salsa album ever, it also re-invented the genre overnight. Puerto Rican trombonist/bandleader Willie Colon was one of salsa's founding fathers, and Panamanian singer Ruben Blades was one of the music's most expressive voices. Together they changed the game with this street-smart collection of dancefloor classics that combined salsa's raw energy with disco's smooth grooves, and some of the most insightful and pointed lyrics ever sung in Spanish. The result yielded such evergreens as "Plastico," "Buscando Guayaba" and "Pedro Navaja," all of which still rock dancefloors today.


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