Toadfish Monastery

And Willie Nelson is helping perfect it.


The sibling below me wonders if industrial hemp production would help, not only in biodeisel, but in soil remediation, natural fiber clothing production, and a thousand other commercial applications, if only the lunatics would recognize the differences between regular hemp and the special kind...

Yes, I think all of those are good ideas.  But I am more interested in what Al Gore invented.

Al Gore invented intant replays.

Naah, that was George Steinbrenner or somone like him.

Al Gore invented Staged Peaceful Protest as a method of Changeing Your Government.

I think he did.

Did he also invent keeping track of where you are in the forum when the phone rings?? I hope so...'cause I need to learn how to do that. That AL Gore's pretty smart!!

Al Gore invented the splatter movie. Unlike earlier assumptions propagandists for family values do not abhor this type of movie for its (usually domestic = family oriented) violence but because there is al(l) too much gore in it.

Yeessss.  I LIKES it, yesss I do.  Puns are precious, yeesss they are.

Al Gore also invented Trailer Parks - the only real estate investment that DEpreciates with time ...

I think it was actually Al Gore that replaced the old-fashioned movie trailer by that short advertising film clips. Driving the old style trailer past the screen used up petrol and left that oily smell in the cinema. Now it just has to park in front to deliver the roll.

Actually, Al Gore, DID, in fact, invent the cinema.

He also invented the proper Thank You note, in order to express appreciation to Edison and all the other people who did all the work...

Wasn't that actually Tipper's idea?

Al Gore invented Trading Stamps

Clearly preferable to stampeding trade.

Al Gore went on a roadshow with organ playing cows and ballet horses.
Al Gore has a patent on step-dancing ungulates.

Naaah, all ungulates are the province of Sib Qwetzy/Qwerty, as he's more in sync with their needs.

Al Gore is more concerned with Lagomorphs (especially considering all the Pirate activity surrousding them recently).

Likely that is true.

Al Gore also invented a Solar-powered Flashlight, for those environmentally conscious folk who are in the dark.

Yes and the flash signalling code to go with them.

In fact, Al Gore invented climate change to boost his sales of Solar-Powered Flashlights.

Yes, yes he did. 

He also invented Global Warming, to bolster stock in hybrid autos

Nah, that wasn't Al Gore. That was the insidious Ford Motor Company, first to be last with a bad idea.

Al Gore invented wind powered boomboxes.