Guys, Don’t you think that Google is very smartly?

[Gummy_Cluster]

I don’t want to hear any crap about privacy, blah blah blah.

Google tried to compete with YouTube, but they failed. Once something is “branded” that’s it. You don’t call it “petroleum jelly”, you call it “Vaseline”.

You don’t call it tissue paper, you call it “Kleenex.”

YouTube was invented by two young whippersnappers in college. Google couldn’t compete, so they sent a couple of representatives to that college to talk to the kids.

Google: We would like to buy YouTube from you two whippersnappers.

Kids: Piss off, this isn’t about money. We just want to change the world. We’re not selling out to the “man.”

Google: That’s a shame, because we’re prepared to give you each a billion dollars. Have a nice day.

Kids: Wait, what? Come back…..

True story. Google is too smartly to compete. They just buy you.

It’s the same story with the Android operating system. Google just bought it. They didn’t invent it. When you have more money than God, you don’t need to invent stuff.

A lot of people hate Google. I don’t. In the next 2-3 years, they’re going to buy a time machine from some college kids. How many times have you walked down that road and it came to a fork? I’ve always taken the wrong fork. Lol

You would think I would get it right 50% of the time, but forks don’t work like that. And not only that, but forks can make you fat!

[SnowedIn]

Gummy, remember Michael? His mom... welllll... she liked to drink. It probably started a long time ago, but Michael first learned about it when he was almost 6. (Which means 5, but like people on GaG, you fudge around with the truth.)

So, when Michael was almost 6, his dad's company gave his dad a huge promotion to a Vice President position (back in corporate America when that meant something, not like now when the 19-year-old managing the local Papa John's is a Vice President. But I think I digress.

This was late summer 1979. Michael and his family flew to Germany where his dad would work and they would all live. The plane was (you guessed it) a Boeing 747-200 owned and flown by Pan American World Airways. It really was just like in the Leonardo DiCaprio/Tom Hanks movie Catch Me If You Can only it was MORE glamorous than in the movie. Michael tells me that his mom and he went into New York City to purchase him a Brooks Brothers suit for the flight. One did not fly in 1979 without the right attire.

On the flight (in business class no less), Michael's mom proceeded to drink her way across the Atlantic. Small bottles of Drambuie and Grand Marnier lining her tray table as the Pratt and Whitney engines pushed the jet from New York to Frankfurt. (Did you know that John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York used to be called "Idlewild"? True story.)

Needless to say, Michael never drank much.

Nor, really, do I. A glass of wine once in a while. I'm very particular. Either the Jolee rosé from the Del Rio Vineyard in Oregon or the Seven Daughters Moscato. There's a lovely woman named Athena managing my local grocery store. Athena has a purple streak in her hair and very cute glasses but she's a whiz at managing a grocery store. We talked about wine once; she was trying to get me to buy wine because discount, points, etc., etc., etc. I told her that I bought mine at Total Wine. She looked hurt and asked me why. I told her plainly that she is awesome and so is her store. She said, "So?"

I replied, "They have what I want."

Yes, Gummy, Google is smartly (in the same way that Amazon has quietly gobbled up Ring, and Twitch, and IMDB, and Whole Foods, and the Washington Post -- just kidding, Jeff personally owns that -- and a bunch of other companies we haven't heard of) because they bought what they know I want.

Just like my Moscato.

[Gummy_Cluster]

LOL That's perfect. I knew instantly that you were talking about a Boeing 747-200. I didn't know that Idlewild changed their name. I know what Twitch is, but I had no idea Jeff owned it. I could never get it to work. I like fine wine, and when I wrote dating profiles, I said that gas stations had the best selection.

[SnowedIn]

I'm still looking for a gas station where the single serve wines and condom vending were all inside the stall for... ahhh... convenience. Yeah. Convenience.

[exitseven]

@gummy_cluster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmVI7pf0MwE

There's a holdup in the Bronx,
Brooklyn's broken out in fights
There's a traffic jam in Harlem
That's backed up to Jackson Heights,
There's a scout troop short a child
Kruschev's due at Idlewild
Car 54 where are you?

[SnowedIn]

Yessssss!

[Gummy_Cluster]

I'm sure they're coming soon!

[Gummy_Cluster]

@exitseven

... and it's just getting worse! lol

[SnowedIn]

Thank you for MHO.

[ShiftingMonke]

If Google had access to a time machine, they would only use it to make more money and fund more politicians.. or maybe they DID invent the machine 40 years into the future, and the power they have now is directly because of manipulation of the time stream?

[Gummy_Cluster]

Well, that sucks to hear. :(

[ShiftingMonke]

I can't tell if that would be a paradox or inception.

[Gummy_Cluster]

Inception? you mean like getting pregnant?

[SnowedIn]

Gummy, you are very smartly, but I think that "conception" is getting pregnant. "Inception" is something like 'beginning' or 'brother sister fucking' but might also be a GaG category.

[Gummy_Cluster]

@SnowedIn

Don't give them any ideas.

[Lliam]

Google became evil. It has an agenda and will no longer allow information that conflicts with that agenda. It's worthless for finding information on important topics.

[Gummy_Cluster]

duckduckgo. com

Give that a try. You can find stuff that Google doesn't want you to find.

[exitseven]

"When I come to a fork in the road, I always take it."

"Yogi Berra

[Gummy_Cluster]

"It's Deja Vu All Over Again" (Yogi)

I use that one a lot on this site that posts the same questions 800 times per day.

[exitseven]

:" Nobody goes there anymore, it;s too crowded. "

[exitseven]

My rich uncle used to belong to the same country club as Mr Berra. He said that he really did talk like that.

[Gummy_Cluster]

That's awesome!

[AviatorTom]

Let's not forget this famous Yogi-ism... "Half of baseball is 90% mental"

[exitseven]

@AviatorTom yes, he had a lot of them.