General Chat

Oooooh, Angie.

Deeeeeep!!

Go enter my contest now.

Well, if I were to emulate a certain person, I wouldn't be here long. ;)

It's one of those transitive verb thingies. You can't just emulate, you have to emulate something or someone -- you model your behaviour on them.

Emulating away on your own, or even in a group, well, I just thought that was weird. It seemed to be an exhortation to be Better! Faster! Stronger!, that sort of thing. To be like Che maybe.

So a few years later (I'm probably repeating my stories) I finally went to see the Cuban movie Death of a Bureaucrat, at a film festival back home here. This poor guy's father has died, and unfortunately all his ID got buried with him by accident. The widow can't claim her benefits, etc. So the son winds his way through the bureaucracy, trying to get a permit to exhume. He ends up doing it himself.

But at one point he walks out of a govt office, and there on the sidewalk is a drunk sitting on the pavement swigging out of a bottle of rum, and above his head on the wall is a big poster: EMULACION!

I burst out laughing. Of course nobody else got the joke, so I looked like a dork laughing at a drunk.

I'm glad somebody does.

There's no rule that the person who makes up an allegory has to know what it's an allegory for, surely!

Like that poster campaign in Cuba: EMULACION!

Who/what are we emulating, I asked my English teacher date.

Er, we're just emulating, he said.

Hmm.

Uh oh. Could this be another allegory??

Don't ask me!

Heaven help us if we ever try to take catnip away from a cat...

And Ophelia -- have you ever tried to *hug* a cat on catnip??

Angie, you may not be way off ... loners trying to run with the pack ... it just may not work out. ;)

...I mean..have you ever seen a cat on catnip?..they go barmy!..lol..

..I still think cat nip..is code for threads!!..lol

Ah, but cats are loners. ;)

Angie -- you're saying: Forgive them, for they know not ...?

welcome back JC........TW........it does seem that way at times lol

Ah, talking to dead people. Now that is what this site is all about is it not?

I've been meaning to say ... I hope my initials don't offend anyone ... If so, they'd have to have a word with Emily Murphy, who wrote the book. And she's dead.

lol Janey, I AM as bad as you! ;)

and we are both 'old enough to know better, but young enough to do it anyway'

xx

...am I right with the catnip theory?..lol..yes ur prob right with the Allegory..thing

Allegory, Ophelia. Must less dangerous than analogies. People who go to church might understand an allegory. Analogies, not so much.

Im thinking the ur cat analogy..has something to do with here on boards..I could be wrong mind...But `catnip`.. could be code for.. `threads`..lol...

Rose. Don't be a pig. You're getting to be as bad as me.

Welcome back JC/KB lol


*makes plans for some meaningful chats with 4 cats when back home*

I think so too, Ophelia. Symbolic. I haven't quite figured out what it's symbolic of yet. Open to all suggestions!

Hi ..J.C..the last time I `saw` you..(not literally..mind).

We were learning our periodic table!..
As for this cat post...I can only sumise there is a symbolic meaning to it...