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Is chess anything like checkers?
In Dieren there was a guy walking on his bare feet during the whole tournament. But without shirt or short is not common, even in the Netherlands.
But are brains required? 🙂
This is a funny sign 🙂
In the book of Vasily Akseynov “Searching for a Blue Baby”(1975) the author mentioned a similar ad he’d seen in the restaurant for hippies “People without shoes and shirts are not served”
You dare to compare hippies with chessplayers, Rafaga? Shame on you!
Sorry, but what is wrong with it? Do u personally have anything against hippies, mr. van der Hoog?
You know why we lost Vietnam to the commies, Rafaga?
Who are those “we”, sorry? If u mean the US, neither u nor me live there?
With “we” I mean the free world. The good guys.
I always thought hippies were the part of that free world. Don’t u know that in the USSR real hippies and other “non-formals” had big problems? Soviets called them “Rotten influence of the West”.
How to delete a comment without leaving a trace. I have to learn that trick.
Anyway, Rafaga, nice name by the way, the Soviets were absolutely right. Those hippies were indeed a rotten influence. Did you know hippies were (are?) in favour of guns control? Did you know hippies were against the war in Vietnam? Did you know hippies had sex before marriage?
Now it is your turn.
ráfaga is not a name, it’s my lj-nick.
When u consider urself as a representative of “the free world” u can’t have supported Soviets. 🙂
Unlike u I’ve never been hippi myself(during my youth they weren’t popular anymore) and some Soviet aged “ex-hippies” like Maria Arbatova sometimes are very annoying, but I am staying for the freedom of speech, the freedom of faith and the freedom of ideologies unless they are not sexistic, racistic and discriminating.
I fully agree, Ráfaga, but more important, at this moment, is the policy of this blog. It is clear Susan hired somebody, without any sense of humour, to do the job. And what a job it is! Just imagine, somewhere on this planet, he/she has to read my messages and every time he/she has to make the decision: shall I delete the message or shall I allow it. For some reason this idea makes me very happy, it is the same happiness a scientist feels when he plays with chemicals and watches the reaction: put a little word into the message, “Iraq”, and oops, the message is gone. Try another word “sex” and hey, the message is still there!
How the chemicals work in the head of this moderator I have not figured out yet but I already know: This message will be gone, before you know it!
The thread went completely off-topic. I think it is not too nice to flood in Susan Polgar’s blog anymore so I answered u in my lj.
U can read it here:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/rafaga/3835.html?thread=8955#t8955