Means to what End?

Dear monkeys, a job is great, but to what ends are ya'll striving towards? I had this funny notion today of imagining myself being in the shoes of famous people.

That said, who would you rather be in the next 20, 30, 40 years? Just a few names off the top...

-Barack Obama -Warren Buffet -Hugh Hefner -George W.

Personally, I think W probably led the most baller life. Partied during Vietnam, screwed around with sports leagues, then took up the job as CEO America. Not bad for not giving a shit about anything.

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3 of them are probably going to be dead in the next 10-15 years. The 4th might be dead within the next 4 or 5 years, but that's only if some hick finds his balls and does the right thing.

I will wait for the shitshower.

"You stop being an asshole when it sucks to be you." -IlliniProgrammer "Your grammar made me wish I'd been aborted." -happypantsmcgee
 

Gee, why are you guys so focused on how close they are to expiration? I was thinking more in lines of how the stuff they did and things accomplished.

 

Well, I'm just really hoping for one of them to expire. I'm not a violent man, just a hopeful one.

I'm gonna go wait by the front door for the Secret Service, if you don't hear from me for a while, that's why...

"You stop being an asshole when it sucks to be you." -IlliniProgrammer "Your grammar made me wish I'd been aborted." -happypantsmcgee
 

Julius Caesar. He went down like a gangster.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions. -Niccolo Machiavelli
 

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Follow the shit your fellow monkeys say @shitWSOsays Life is hard, it's even harder when you're stupid - John Wayne

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