Life is full of mysteries that leave us wondering and scratching our heads. Lice can also do this. But if you have a question about life, or even about lice, this is your chance to ask it. Just shoot me an email, at TippyGnu [at] gmx.com. Or, if you don’t feel like shooting me, you can ask the question in a comment.
Today’s question comes from the famous author, Carolyn Shelton, over at Nuggets of Gold.
I think Carolyn has decided to start her own cult, and is looking for followers. And I don’t mean blog followers. I mean, I think she wants to brainwash us all, take everything we own, and sequester us in a remote area where we have to follow all her crazy rules. Sound scary? Hell, yeah! Just don’t drink the Kool-Aid.
Carolyn is looking for ideas on how to run her cult, so she decided to ask for our advice. Of course my advice is, don’t serve Kool-Aid. But my advice has nothing to do with her question.
Just remember, there are no stupid questions. So here’s Carolyn’s: If you developed your own society what would 3 crazy rules be?
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Chasing Unicorns 
Oooh what an introduction! 😶🤚! I guess I better fix some kool-aid now. 😜
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Oh no! I’m not drinking it. Not even one sip.
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Pftttt!! Just a taste, its good for you.
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Does it taste so good, it will send you to heaven?
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Once you try it you will find out!
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Hmm, this is strangely tempting.
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DON’T DO IT!
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SSH!!!!
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But it’s strawberry flavored. My favorite kind.
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You KNOW you WANT TOO! Just one little taste!
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Well . . . it isn’t coffee, so . . . SLURP!!!!
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Did it taste good? Are you feeling better than ever? This was the new improved kool-aid!
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Yes, I am feeling better. If you want to call fatigue, vomiting, a gutache, and severe diarrhea a better feeling.
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Uh oh! Thats a bad sign. Those symptoms only affect unbelievers. Are you a spy?
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No, I’m a true believer. I really am! <Retch!>
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If you say so, then eat some green bananas and that might reverse the sickness, as long as you are being honest that is!
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No, I think I’m going back to my unicorn cult.
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LOL! Suit yourself!
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We don’t require suits at the unicorn cult. It’s very informal.
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“Haha!”
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Rule 1: If in doubt, Rule 3 governs.
Rule 2: If in doubt, Rule 1 governs.
Rule 3: If in doubt, Rule 2 governs.
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What if you’re a true believer, and have no doubts?
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A true believer with no doubts? Then you would have no use for the Carolyn’s cult.
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I think you’re right. In fact, I know you’re right. You seem to be the one with the truth. Master, how do I join your cult?
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Yes.
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Thank you for such clear guidance.
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You’re welcome. It was a hint on membership to my cult. You see you have to come up with the right question which prompts the secret answer.
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I think Groucho Marx had a cult like this, once.
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Marxism? That was quite different from my cult.
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Oh, I thought you were capitalizing on Marxism.
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Well there is a case for socializing, and there are also the simplistic “Left, Right & Centre” cults. The cat lovers may lean towards Mieowism, but I think Chairman Mieow is vastly over-rated as a leader. He thought he was the cats whiskers, but that has all gone to the dogs now. Woof!
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Chairman Meiow has always been one of my pet peeves. He always wants out of a cult. Then he wants back in. Then out and then back in again, over and over. He can never make up his mind.
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Yup! Typical mieow traits.
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Heyyy you are stealing people for membership in my cult!
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Only if they can come up with the right question.
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They don’t have to come up with. a question to join my group. They just have to say I agree! ( with all the terms and conditions)
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Rule 1: Thou shalt not talk back to robots.
Rule 2: Thou shalt watch the skies nightly for the coming spaceship.
Rule 3: The only footwear allowed aboard the spaceship shall be black-and-white Nike Decades.
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/true-stories/the-creepy-reason-these-nikes-are-worth-a-fortune/news-story/a27736ef44e06fb2aa4004da29bcf33d
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Wow! That was quite a rabbit hole! Their website is an interesting mix of Bible quotes and cosmic prophesy from space aliens.
In Japan, “Pana Wave Laboratory” was probably slightly less dangerous to its members (if not more publicly embarrassing), who were all “scientists” who dressed in white lab coats… and white clothes and shoes and masks… and who drove around in convoys of white vans that parked in places they covered entirely in white sheets. Apparently, this was all to prevent electromagnetic waves from contaminating them while they looked for someplace to ride out a flip of the Earth’s magnetic poles that would be caused by the passage of an as yet undiscovered tenth planet.
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I guess there are nuts all over this world. On the other hand, I always worry that some cult of “crazy people” will turn out to be right, and save themselves, while the rest of us will be doomed.
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I used to work with a man who had all his house windows covered in foil. Apparently he was afraid that the aliens would interfere with his mind via some radio like transmissions,and the foil would deflect the signals. The talk around the office was that he was nuts. Gotta go now before I miss by saucer flight.
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Speaking as someone that has taken multiple products through radiated immunity testing, it takes a lot more than some aluminum foil over your windows to block alien radio waves. The best option is to live in a copper box with no openings even large enough for air to pass through. You will definitely be protected from alien radio waves while you suffocate.
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Back in my big corporate days, we’d have occasional meetings in shielded rooms. Never noticed any health benefits… just bad lighting.
Turn on a cell phone in that copper box, wondering if you could cook yourself?
And everybody knows that aliens don’t use radio waves. They use psy-waves which travel instantaneously through the interdimensional ether of quantum space.
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The shield wouldn’t cook you or bombard you with radiation, it would just stop electric fields from propagating, like the screen in your microwave window. How fine the mesh depends on what wavelengths you are after. That’s why I suggested the solid copper shield to block it all. But most cell phone type signaling can be stopped with some good chicken wire if the connections are good.
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I was thinking along the lines of getting a good standing wave going inside that box. Millimeter copper screen should be good enough for 5G.
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The atmosphere starts doing a pretty good job of attenuating the signals at the high end of 5G, so there is a point at which you don’t have to worry about it. After that the atmosphere is almost opaque until it gets to visible light, which it conveniently lets through.
But it sounds like you want to build a microwave oven to cook people. Maybe that is available on the industrial food industry market. Bone apetit.
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That’s right. I think it was Raytheon that produced the authoritative study some time in the 70s, investigating microwaves to beam power from (or to) satellites.
“gaspl” in the MATLAB library, using range, frequency, temperature, pressure, and water vapor density. Looks like there are some resonances with atmospheric water and oxygen, more scattering below 500GHz, and attenuation approaching 1THz
Checking Wikipedia, it looks like the highest 5G (NR) frequency is 7.125GHz (around 42mm).
I think a chicken-wire oven might be feasible! The question now is how to get a chicken to use a cell phone and cook itself. Maybe a highly addictive app that encourages hen-pecking? 😉
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I think with a metal cage, once the gaps are below an eighth of the wavelength, it is effectively blocking the radio waves.
I don’t know the exact numbers, but I know the upper frequencies of 5G have very limited range, even in free air. Like a city block or less.
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You all have lost me in your scientific talk. I didn’t know that a question of mine would lead to such deep calculations.
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You know about waves, they have them at the beach
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Yes, the waves I need to see and hear! But I don’t think you were talking about ocean waves PUNderhead!
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😄
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Got me thinking how to get more range out of my phone now.
Maybe the Magnetron out of the oven…
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How far are you trying to throw it?
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My society would be include time out for pun making every day. A negative reaction is the delight of a punsters, so all will be peaceful.
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😶🤚!!
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So just how much time each day would be allotted for pun making?
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Sufficient time for pundits to punder the deeper meanings of the punery.
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Hmmm….the deep meanings?? What deep meaning?? Don’t think I have ever heard of the deep meaning behind a pun, but I am not asking. Don’t want to hurt your brain.
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By a pun’s very nature it has deep meanings
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LOL!. Do you hear pretty bells.ringing and see men in white coats?
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I like that idea. Every employer should provide a pun break to go along with lunch breaks, where everyone sits around making puns.
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It’s too bad I’m so lazy or I might start a Union to demand that.
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Maybe you could join a union’s bowling league and go on strike.
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I don’t have the spare time
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I like the way you framed that excuse.
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And the ones who don’t make puns, can take the time to go sit somewhere and read a book?
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As long as it’s a book on puns.
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Gee! I don’t have one of those, how sad!
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In that case, you will be forced to listen to everyone else’s puns. As your punishment.
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Isn’t that something I am already subjected to every day??
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Well, you don’t make puns. Nor do you read pun books. So what do you expect?
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Pfttttt!
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One rule would be no complaining. You must always be cheerful! The other two rules is you have the freedom to make up the rules of your own life.
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🙂
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Sounds interesting. I like the idea of a no whining rule. No matter what happens, you’re not allowed to whine about it. Violators will be forced spend many hours listening to the sound of a mosquito.
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If my dog doesn’t like you, you can’t join. I trust her judgment implicitly.
If you leave the door open while the heat or AC is running, you will be voted off the island.
Whoever takes the last of the coffee must make a new pot.
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Dogs can be good judges of character.
Perhaps a spring can be attached to the door.
I would never take the last of the coffee, nor the first, so rule #3 would not apply to me.
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Great rules and you are sooo right about a dog’s judgment!
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I can’t. This post is too funny for someone who should be quiet 😂
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I’m sure you can do it. Then you can join Carolyn’s cult.
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🤣🤣🤣 I keep in mind for now. 😂
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