"BARRY" Image Stuns Waccoland!

[sd gross]

An image tentatively identified as that of Barry Chertov, founder and Grand Dragon of WACCO, an extremely popular community bulletin board, has appeared on the shower doors of several WACCO members who describe the "Barry" as "unsettling" to say the least.
Spontaneously manifesting on a dozen pebbled shower doors without any apparently explanation, the image is said to be "leering", through the glass with the expression of a "satisfied peeping tom", making it virtually impossible for people to feel they have a degree of privacy when they shower.
Appearing as a subaquatic "merman" or some kind of underwater Sprite. the image has an almost mystical quality, and friends and relatives of those who have seen the image are flocking to bathrooms where it has appeared in order to receive what people are calling, "The Barry Blessing". No one is saying how being a recipient of the blessing has affected their lives but most are realizing a dangerously inflated ego as well as a boost in their libido.
Chertov, whom we were unable to reach for comment, is off on another R & R to Dubai for a meeting with a militant lesbian cartel in Dubai where he is reputedly looking for investors with an eye to making WACCO a world-wide institution.

[Barry]

The Dubai deal fell through...but the girls were cute, none the less.

Thanks Stephen!

[sd gross]

Dear Barry
Sorry the Dubai deal fell through (and girls that age :bellydancer: are ALWAYS cute...!)
What about the talk downtown about your plan to auction WACCO off on ebay along with everyone's real names, addresses and personal information? Are you going to set a starting or "buy it now" price, or just watch the bidding wars become as outrageous as I expect?
I know there are well-funded Tea Party cultists who would love the opportunity to turn historically free-thinking and independent Sonoma/Marin into a district they'll paint scarlet on all future geo-political maps.
And there are militia people in Indiana, Michigan and Ohio who fear WACCO is run by clever, devious and somewhat semitic types who are subliminally trying to create a well-armed (with words and wisdom) New America infused with their own diabolical agenda, and those militia folks want to make sure that never happens.
Frankly, most of us are hoping ypu'll just keep running it and get rich off it yourself!
with admiration (wish I could do that!)
Tell us Barry - What's really cookin'?:bettyboopcook:
stephen

The Dubai deal fell through...but the girls were cute, none the less.

Thanks Stephen!

[Dixon]

An image tentatively identified as that of Barry Chertov, founder and Grand Dragon of WACCO, an extremely popular community bulletin board, has appeared on the shower doors of several WACCO members who describe the "Barry" as "unsettling" to say the least.

You think that's weird--I saw an unmistakable image of the face of Sarah Palin on my toilet paper yesterday. Talk about creepy!

Butt seriously, folks, those of you who are interested in a bit of gratuitous learning might like to know that this phenomenon--seeing meaningful patterns in random stimuli, like the face of Jesus in the burn marks on a tortilla--is called "pareidolia". It's a natural outgrowth of the pattern-seeking tendency that's helped us humans survive for all these millennia.

In some of the research on psychology and perception, those who tend not to see patterns even when they're really there are called "goats", while those who tend to see them where none really exist are known as "sheep". Paranoia, as well as some religious and paranormal beliefs (omens, for instance) are "sheep" phenomena.

Many systems of divining are based on projecting meaningful images onto random stimuli, such as tea leaves, animal entrails, or the lights caused by imperfections in a crystal ball (for this reason, scryers prefer crystal balls with plenty of flaws over perfect ones, which do not provide enough ambiguous visual stimuli onto which to project useful imagery).

Now that the Blessed Barry has appeared to the faithful in shower door moisture, I'm sure some enterprising Sebastopol New Age entrepreneur will start advertising shower door readings on Wacco. In fact, let me be the first. Ladies, the next time you take a shower, call me to come over and scrutinize your moisture. I promise you an enlightening experience.

[sd gross]

Was it before you used the paper or after?
I recently received the gift of a book called "LOOK! It's JESUS! by Harry and Sandra Choron in which they quote Writer/Philosopher Thomas Merton who asserts "The Whole World is Charged With the Glory of God!"
The image of the Virgin Mary in a rotting grape, a Lava Lamp "Mary", a smudge on a baseball which replicates a perfect Jesus...nothing has escaped the impassioned gaze of the compulsively pious.There's an umbrella, tortilla chip, pierogi and Washburn guitar and chicken breast Jesus, a pretzel Madonna and Child, woodblock and treetrunk Marys.
Moses found God in a burning bush, Jeanne D'Arc nailed him in a field in France and Bernadette's home town of Lourdes has forever been grateful for her monstrously elevating the local flow of tourists.
There was a scene in Fellini's "8 1/2" in which two children claim to see the Virgin Mary and run giggling through a rainstorm while thousands of townspeople, hungry for a cheap blessing, follow them.
But why focus on religious icons? What about the image of Richard Nixon on a babboon's ass or Dick Cheney's visage in a blob of wino snot on a street in Paramus?
I wonder where we of unlimited imagination can go from here?

You think that's weird--I saw an unmistakable image of the face of Sarah Palin on my toilet paper yesterday. Talk about creepy!

Butt seriously, folks, those of you who are interested in a bit of gratuitous learning might like to know that this phenomenon--seeing meaningful patterns in random stimuli, like the face of Jesus in the burn marks on a tortilla--is called "pareidolia". It's a natural outgrowth of the pattern-seeking tendency that's helped us humans survive for all these millennia.

In some of the research on psychology and perception, those who tend not to see patterns even when they're really there are called "goats", while those who tend to see them where none really exist are known as "sheep". Paranoia, as well as some religious and paranormal beliefs (omens, for instance) are "sheep" phenomena.

Many systems of divining are based on projecting meaningful images onto random stimuli, such as tea leaves, animal entrails, or the lights caused by imperfections in a crystal ball (for this reason, scryers prefer crystal balls with plenty of flaws over perfect ones, which do not provide enough ambiguous visual stimuli onto which to project useful imagery).

Now that the Blessed Barry has appeared to the faithful in shower door moisture, I'm sure some enterprising Sebastopol New Age entrepreneur will start advertising shower door readings on Wacco. In fact, let me be the first. Ladies, the next time you take a shower, call me to come over and scrutinize your moisture. I promise you an enlightening experience.

[Dixon]

...they quote Writer/Philosopher Thomas Merton who asserts "The Whole World is Charged With the Glory of God!"

Pardon me for getting quite tangential, but this reminds me of a true story that some Waccobites will find interesting.

In about 1976, while a student at Santa Barbara City College, I caught a lecture by visiting anthropologist and Hindu monk Agehananda Bharati. He was a friend of the famous and influential Catholic monk Brother Thomas Merton, and he told us this story:

Some years before (I think it was in the late 50s or early 60s), Bharati had received a package from Sandoz Laboratories in Switzerland. It contained some pure LSD. The scientists at Sandoz knew of Bharati's expertise in spiritual states of consciousness and asked him to try the LSD and let them know how it compared to spiritual states such as moksha, satori, or religious rapture.

Bharati got together with his buddy Brother Thomas Merton and the two of them took several LSD trips together. On at least one of these trips, they tape recorded their conversation. Bharati said that the conversation was interesting and ought to be published, but probably never would be, as the ownership of the tapes had gone to Merton's monastery upon his death, and since the acid-inspired Merton can be heard therein saying heretical things like "I and the Father are One", the monastery is unlikely ever to have the transcripts published.

And as far as I know, they never have been.

[unclebillballadeer]

Just wondering if this image appears with his shirt off?

[sd gross]

(From what I hear), only if you pronounce his "C" as if it were an "S".
:whistle:



Just wondering if this image appears with his shirt off?