I hated the top bunk.

Thats some good advice Stinky Beaumont!

How many people will fit under a bus?

IS THIS A I.D. FREE ZONE?

The directors of the firm hired to
continue the credits after the other
people had been sacked, wish it to
be known that they have just been
sacked.

The credits have been completed
in an entirely different style at great
expense and at the last minute.

re: #4 yochanan

IS THIS A I.D. FREE ZONE?

I'm in favor of throwing the I.D. threads under the bus.

Always grab the top bunk.

— Stinky Beaumont

Indeed. Shiite flows down.

It's a fine afternoon in NYC, and a fine time for an open thread.

Hello lizards!

I grabbed the top bunk during basic training. Even though I wasn't dumped out of it by the drill sergeant I still regretted it.

re: #4 yochanan

IS THIS A I.D. FREE ZONE?

PLEASE?

I'll be in my bunk.

If you're not the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

Well, yeah...cuz' the guy on the bottom bunk makes the guy on the top's bunk every morning, because we're in Germany. If we were in Italy, the guy on the top makes the guy on the bottom's bunk, but we're not. We're in Germany.

re: #11 The_Vig

I'll be in my bunk.

Firefly reference?

Since it's open, I once again extend my invitation to Northern California lizards to attend a gathering on July 26th.

If you are interested, please email me. I will be sending out details beginning next week, after you've all had a chance to recover from the Glorious 4th.

Something I learned this week: kicking a roommate out is never fun when the cable is in his name.

re: #9 The Other Les

I grabbed the top bunk during basic, as well.

With Scarlett now thrown under the bus.. I'm thinking i should go down to the bus stop...heave-ho boys heave-ho
/ good afternoon lizards! nice day today.

re: #16 rhino2

It's not fun kicking out a roommate no matter what.

Heath Bar or Skor?

re: #6 Golem Akbar

I'm in favor of throwing the I.D. threads under the bus.

yeah, after all, the science is settled. (insert rolling eyes emoticon here).

Just threw someone under the bus who was going through an old Vlaams Belang thread and up-dinging all the fascist sympathizers.

re: #14 psyop

Firefly reference?

What's wrong with the bottom bunk?

Microsoft to stop selling Windows XP on Monday

Microsoft Corp. is scheduled to stop selling its Windows XP operating system to retailers and major computer makers Monday, despite protests from a slice of PC users who don't want to be forced into using XP's successor, Vista.

Once computers loaded with XP have been cleared from the inventory of PC makers such as Dell Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co., consumers who can't live without the old operating system on their new machine will have to buy Vista Ultimate or Vista Business and then legally "downgrade" to XP.

re: #19 Dianna

It's not fun kicking out a roommate no matter what.

No, but sometimes you have to for your sanity's sake. Believe me, I know.

re: #22 Charles

Just threw someone under the bus who was going through an old Vlaams Belang thread and up-dinging all the fascist sympathizers.

How old is it?

re: #22 Charles

Just threw someone under the bus who was going through an old Vlaams Belang thread and up-dinging all the fascist sympathizers.

Back up and make sure you got 'em.

re: #24 MandyManners

What's wrong with the bottom bunk?

Could get damp in a hurry.

Always grab the top bunk.

— Stinky Beaumont

Good advice, like the rules of stretcher carrying:

1) Take the feet
2) Go first.

On the subject of the economy:

I went for dinner last night at a long-established, very popular, large-scale local restaurant. Been going there for twenty years. Almost always have to wait if you get there anywhere near dinner time.

Last night it was barely half-full.

Never seen that before. I asked the host, the waitress, the bakery lady all, how long it had been that slow. They all said, vaguely, for a while, most of this year. I've probably been there a few times already this year, and it hadn't been *that* slow.

OTOH, the local Cheesecake Factory seem to still do pretty good business. So, question for the dining lizards, have you seen any other remarkable slowdowns, anywhere out there? Thanx.

re: #27 MandyManners

How old is it?

How many posts?

re: #29 Beobachter

Could get damp in a hurry.

People pee in bed?

re: #22 Charles

Just threw someone under the bus who was going through an old Vlaams Belang thread and up-dinging all the fascist sympathizers.

This is not the anonymous dinger I knew.

re: #25 jcm

Someone needs to throw Vista under the bus.

re: #32 jcm

It amazes me that someone would go searching for such an old thread and then spend the time dinging people.

re: #33 MandyManners

You just never know. Better safe than wet.

re: #22 Charles

Just threw someone under the bus who was going through an old Vlaams Belang thread and up-dinging all the fascist sympathizers.

So the concept of throwing individuals under the bus has been rehabilitated Comrade?

re: #22 Charles

Just threw someone under the bus who was going through an old Vlaams Belang thread and up-dinging all the fascist sympathizers.

what would posses someone to do that, regardless of the topic? it's dumb. like adding to the chalkboard after the last day of school, with the long Summer recess ahead....

re: #22 Charles

Just threw someone under the bus who was going through an old Vlaams Belang thread and up-dinging all the fascist sympathizers.

I hope you backed up and did it over and over again.

re: #22 Charles,

Wow. Anybody we know, or just a throwaway?

re: #9 The Other Les

The top bunk is much easier to make, but its also more visible when its not made well.

re: #25 jcm

Microsoft to stop selling Windows XP on Monday

Bill Gates took it with him?

re: #24 MandyManners

What's wrong with the bottom bunk?

It's uncool.

More on Obama:

"I have found, for the first time, my patriotism challenged — at times as a result of my own carelessness, more often as a result of the desire by some to score political points and raise fears about who I am and what I stand for," he said before a crowd of a few hundred people at the Truman Memorial Building here. "I will never question the patriotism of others in this campaign. And I will not stand idly by when I hear others question mine."

No, he'll just let others do his dirty work for him, and they get the privilege of being tossed under the bus.

Charles..did you read my post to you the other day?
I thought you should have an special open thread every week where you can post up to 500 words on any subject..By up or down dinging we will vote off like 5 people each week.. And continue to the next week with the survivors.. It would be like american idol meets the lizard blog..could be fun.

It was going through the comments for this post:

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

re: #37 Beobachter

You just never know. Better safe than wet.

I'd rather roll off a bottom bunk than a top one. Or, forget where I am in the middle of the night and step off the top one.

re: #22 Charles

They'll get along very well with the fellow racists/facists Obama's thrown under the bus.

The Other Les,

Just threw someone under the bus who was going through an old Vlaams Belang thread and up-dinging all the fascist sympathizers.

So the concept of throwing individuals under the bus has been rehabilitated Comrade?

The proto-fascist got curbside service.

re: #35 lawhawk

Someone needs to throw Vista under the bus.

I like vista, if nothing else they finally fixed the hibernate issue where now there isn't a 70% chance that the computer will just never return from it.

re: #25 jcm

Microsoft to stop selling Windows XP on Monday

Sucks.

The username was 'littlesquirt'.

LGF Spy rawx.

re: #44 The Other Les

It's uncool.

Sometimes safe is uncool.

It's been at this for several months.

re: #25 jcm

Microsoft to stop selling Windows XP on Monday

I fucking hate Vista.

re: #22 Charles

Just threw someone under the bus who was going through an old Vlaams Belang thread and up-dinging all the fascist sympathizers.

What a putz. So this is a case to break out the bus again, eh?

re: #18 HoosierHoops

With Scarlett now thrown under the bus.. I'm thinking i should go down to the bus stop...heave-ho boys heave-ho
/ good afternoon lizards! nice day today.

What happened to Scarlett?

re: #54 MandyManners

Sometimes safe is uncool.

Bet you've had to say that a lot with the kids, eh?

re: #58 opnion

What happened to Scarlett?

He only emailed her once, he says.

re: #58 opnion

What happened to Scarlett?

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

And it has a second account as well, which was logged into today.

re: #18 HoosierHoops

With Scarlett now thrown under the bus.. I'm thinking i should go down to the bus stop...heave-ho boys heave-ho
/ good afternoon lizards! nice day today.

I must have missed that. Scarlett Johanson is now an under-bus-resident? Poor baby...

re: #22 Charles

Just threw someone under the bus who was going through an old Vlaams Belang thread and up-dinging all the fascist sympathizers.

What the heck is the point in up-dinging stuff on an old thread?

'littlesquirtsmother'.

re: #31 itellu3times

On the subject of the economy:
I went for dinner last night at a long-established, very popular, large-scale local restaurant. Been going there for twenty years. Almost always have to wait if you get there anywhere near dinner time.
Last night it was barely half-full.
Never seen that before. I asked the host, the waitress, the bakery lady all, how long it had been that slow. They all said, vaguely, for a while, most of this year. I've probably been there a few times already this year, and it hadn't been *that* slow.
OTOH, the local Cheesecake Factory seem to still do pretty good business. So, question for the dining lizards, have you seen any other remarkable slowdowns, anywhere out there? Thanx.

I noticed it with the start (and continueance) of the boating season here on the East Coast. Father's Day, a nornally outstanding day for boaters, was freaky quiet. I'd say there were 24% of the boats out there that there normally were.

As far as dining out, can't say I noticed a difference around here yet.....

re: #36 MandyManners

It amazes me that someone would go searching for such an old thread and then spend the time dinging people.

I barely keep up here and now!

re: #57 ModerateWolverine

What a putz. So this is a case to break out the bus again, eh?

Only need the short bus for this one.

re: #65 Charles

'littlesquirtsmother'.

How original...not.

re: #13 yitzy
John Candy?

re: #65 Charles

'littlesquirtsmother'.

Has anyone seen a post from that?

re: #59 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

Bet you've had to say that a lot with the kids, eh?

Lying still for a CAT scan is not cool.

re: #24 MandyManners

What's wrong with the bottom bunk?

Do not go out drinking with the buddies and sleep on the bottom bunk. [just saying]

I did not text that woman 500 times.
/wags finger at camera

//when the heck is that bus coming by anyway? jesh!

re: #64 yma o hyd

What the heck is the point in up-dinging stuff on an old thread?

Masturbatory aid? (I can't believe that the spellcheck knew Masturbatory!)

re: #58 opnion

She was thrown under the bus last week for exaggerating her contacts with Obama.

re: #68 The Other Les

Only need the short bus for this one.

heh. And I used to sleep on the top bunk when I was younger. Much better than bottom, so long as you don't fall off.

re: #65 Charles

'littlesquirtsmother'.

Oh come on! Be a little more original than that.

That's almost as bad as changing one word in your nick to something stupid like Sock!

re: #31 itellu3times

seen any other remarkable slowdowns, anywhere out there? Thanx.

Yes. Usually I have to make a reservation a couple of weeks in advance to have my collection of Ferraris profesionally waxed. These days, no waiting.

re: #65 Charles

'littlesquirtsmother'.

How exceedingly original!

re: #55 Charles

It's been at this for several months.

perhaps an unlterior motive. some kind of operative....

re: #77 ModerateWolverine

heh. And I used to sleep on the top bunk when I was younger. Much better than bottom, so long as you don't fall off.

I actually fell out of the top bunk once while growing up. It still didn't stop me from grabbing a top bunk later on.

re: #22 Charles

Just threw someone under the bus who was going through an old Vlaams Belang thread and up-dinging all the fascist sympathizers.

* * *
Thank you Charles for the tremendous effort you make to keep LGF tip top.

re: #60 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

He only emailed her once, he says.

He is such a lying little cretin. Betcha, he iws scared to death that Michell will slap the snot out of him.

re: #72 MandyManners

Lying still for a CAT scan is not cool.

But everyone's doing it!

Never give a kid who sleeps in the top bunk Superman pajamas.

-Winston Churchill/Mark Twain

re: #47 Charles

That's an old one. Maybe ratings should be shut off when comments are. Too much room for shenanigans if the ratings are allowed after the thread is closed.

re: #79 Occasional Reader

Yes.
Usually I have to make a reservation a couple of weeks in advance to
have my collection of Ferraris profesionally waxed. These days, no
waiting.

Your Ferraris need waxing? I didn't think cars got that hairy, not even Italian ones.

Time is an illusion. Lunch-time doubly so.

re: #84 opnion

He is such a lying little cretin. Betcha, he iws scared to death that Michell will slap the snot out of him.

I think he's petrified of Michelle....

re: #86 Silhouette

Never give a kid who sleeps in the top bunk Superman pajamas.

-Winston Churchill/Mark Twain

I don't get it.

re: #87 Killgore Trout

That's an old one. Maybe ratings should be shut off when comments are. Too much room for shenanigans if the ratings are allowed after the thread is closed.

Yeah, I may do that.

re: #76 lawhawk

She was thrown under the bus last week for exaggerating her contacts with Obama.

Oh man, do I have to go out to Hollywood to comfort her?
Barry, is lyin, lyin, lyin.

re: #88 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

Your Ferraris need waxing? I didn't think cars got that hairy, not even Italian ones.

It's a preventative measure. "That was one hairy ride", my passengers always say... I don't see it myself, but you can never be too careful.

the new Bond trailer is up.

[Link: www.filmdrunk.com...]

re: #31 itellu3times

On the subject of the economy:

I went for dinner last night at a long-established, very popular, large-scale local restaurant. Been going there for twenty years. Almost always have to wait if you get there anywhere near dinner time.

Last night it was barely half-full.

Never seen that before. I asked the host, the waitress, the bakery lady all, how long it had been that slow. They all said, vaguely, for a while, most of this year. I've probably been there a few times already this year, and it hadn't been *that* slow.

OTOH, the local Cheesecake Factory seem to still do pretty good business. So, question for the dining lizards, have you seen any other remarkable slowdowns, anywhere out there? Thanx.

* * *
Maybe it's just people budgeting to have more money for gas, less for going out.

As Obama said, the rest of the world didn't like Americans driving around & going to restaurants! Something had to give.

re: #31 itellu3times

Several restaurants around where I work have been showing slower business. They first lowered quality and quantity to save from raising prices, but have had to raise them without re-establishing the quality. Fast food joints are the hardest hit, I think. Seems as if a lot more people are brown-bagging it.

re: #88 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

Your Ferraris need waxing? I didn't think cars got that hairy, not even Italian ones.

Arrowhead Lime Essence Sparkling Water (CO2 enhanced water?) on the new double monitor setup at work. Thanks BD_VM!

re: #76 lawhawk

She was thrown under the bus last week for exaggerating her contacts with Obama.

very inspiring bewbs indeed.

Nothing to do any with any topic, but pretty funny if you're over 50:

This is from newshound Dave Barry's colonoscopy journal:
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 18:52:48 -0500 (Central Daylight Time)

.... I called my friend Andy Sable, a gastroenteritis, to make an appointment for a colonoscopy. A few days later, in his office, Andy showed me a color diagram of the colon, a lengthy organ that appears to go all over the place, at one point passing briefly through Minneapolis . Then Andy explained the colonoscopy procedure to me in a thorough, reassuring and patient manner. I nodded thoughtfully, but I didn't really hear anything he said,! becaus e my brain was shrieking, quote, 'HE'S GOING TO STICK A TUBE 17,000 FEET UP YOUR BEHIND!' I left Andy's office with some written instructions, and a prescription for a product called 'MoviPrep,' which comes in a box large enough to hold a microwave oven. I will discuss MoviPrep in detail later; for now suffice it to say that we must never allow it to fall into the hands of America's enemies.

I spent the next several days productively sitting around being nervous. Then, on the day before my colonoscopy, I began my preparation. In accordance with my instructions, I didn't eat any solid food that day; all I had was chicken broth, which is basically water, only with less flavor. Then, in the evening, I took the MoviPrep. You mix two packets of powder together in a one-liter plastic jug, then you fill it with lukewarm water. (For those unfamiliar with the metric system, a liter is about 32 gallons.) Then you have to drink the whole jug. This takes about an hour, because MoviPrep tastes - and here I am being kind - like a mixture of goat spit and urinal cleanser, with just a hint of lemon.

The instructions for MoviPrep, clearly written by somebody with a great sense of humor, state that after you drink it, 'a loose watery bowel movement may result.' This is kind of like saying that after you jump off your roof, you may experience contact with the ground.

MoviPrep is a nuclear laxative. I don't want to be too graphic, here, but, have you ever seen a space shuttle launch? This is pretty much the MoviPrep experience, with you as the shuttle. There are times when you wish the commode had a seat belt. You spend several hours pretty much confined to the bathroom, spurting violently. You eliminate everything. And then, when you figure you must be totally empty, you have to drink another liter of MoviPrep, at which point, as far as I can tell, your bowels travel into the future and start eliminating food that you have not even eaten yet.

After an action-packed evening, I finally got to sleep. The next morning my wife drove me to the clinic. I was very nervous. Not only was I worried about the procedure, but I had been experiencing occasional return bouts of MoviPrep spurtage. I was thinking, 'What If I spurt on Andy?' How do you apologize to a friend for something like that? Flowers would not be enough.

At the clinic I had to sign many forms acknowledging that I understood and totally agreed with whatever the heck the forms said.
Then they led me to a room full of other colonoscopy people, where I went inside a little curtained space and took off my clothes and put on one of those hospital garments designed by sadist perverts, the kind that, when you put it on, makes you feel even more naked than whe! n you a re actually naked.

Then a nurse named Eddie put a little needle in a vein in my left Hand. Ordinarily I would have fainted, but Eddie was very good, and I was already lying down. Eddie also told me that some people put vodka In their MoviPrep. At first I was ticked off that I hadn't thought of this, but then I pondered what would happen if you got yourself too tipsy to make it to the bathroom, so you were staggering around in Full Fire Hose Mode. You would have no choice but to burn your house.

Continued...

re: #91 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

thinks they can fly.

re: #95 The Other Les

the new Bond trailer is up.

[Link: www.filmdrunk.com...]

Ohhhh....I'm off to get my Daniel Craig fix...

re: #91 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

I don't get it.

Really?

re: #87 Killgore Trout

That's an old one. Maybe ratings should be shut off when comments are. Too much room for shenanigans if the ratings are allowed after the thread is closed.

Threads get closed? I know they died, but I didn't know we couldn't go back and defile the body. Never occurred to me to try.

re: #31 itellu3times

I haven't noticed it, but I don't get to eat out as often as I'd like.

re: #22 Charles

Just threw someone under the bus who was going through an old Vlaams Belang thread and up-dinging all the fascist sympathizers.

The bus LIVES!

Colonoscopy journal continued:

When everything was ready, Eddie wheeled me into the procedure room, Where Andy was waiting with a nurse and an anesthesiologist. I did not see the 17,000-foot tube, but I knew Andy had it hidden around there somewhere. I was seriously nervous at this point. Andy had me roll over on my left side, and the anesthesiologist began hooking something up to the needle in my hand. There was music playing in the room, and I realized that the song was 'Dancing Queen' by ABBA I Remarked to Andy that, of all the songs that could be playing during this particular procedure, 'Dancing Queen' has to be the least appropriate.

'You want me to turn it up?' said Andy, from somewhere behind me. 'Ha Ha,' I said. And then it was time, the moment I had been dreading for more than a decade. If you are squeamish, prepare yourself, because I am going to tell you, in explicit detail, exactly! what i t was like.

I have no idea. Really. I slept through it. One moment, ABBA was yelling 'Dancing Queen, feel the beat of the tambourine,' and the next moment, I was back in the other room, waking up in a very mellow mood. Andy was looking down at me and asking me how I felt. I felt excellent. I felt even more excellent when Andy told me that It was all over, and that my colon had passed with flying colors. I have never been prouder of an internal organ.

ABOUT THE WRITER Dave Barry is a Pulitzer Prize-winning humor columnist for the Miami Herald.

re: #91 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

I don't get it.

He thinks he can fly.

From a comment on CNN.com June 30th, 2008 11:40 am ET

I'm voting for Barack Obama, and I can't wait. My friends and I are having an elections return party. It will be a happy day.

re: #91 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

He/she may think they can fly, and jump out.

(the Churchill/Twain tag was a joke about how it seems every quote out there is always attributed to one or the other)

re: #24 MandyManners

What's wrong with the bottom bunk?

Well, back in the exciting days of 45-50 troops in a barracks. And you get a couple of drunk idiots who can't find the latrine. Bottom bunks are not the place to be on Friday and Saturday nights, when troops returning from pass and drunk.

re: #45 lawhawk

But only by staffers, not Obama himself.

re: #111 Dustyvet

Well, back in the exciting days of 45-50 troops in a barracks. And you get a couple of drunk idiots who can't find the latrine. Bottom bunks are not the place to be on Friday and Saturday nights, when troops returning from pass and drunk.

I forgot to mention, I had a top bunk...:)

re: #95 The Other Les

the new Bond trailer is up.

[Link: www.filmdrunk.com...]

I. Am. There.

BTW, the scenes that are billed as taking place in Haiti were actually filmed in Panama. I was there at the time, everyone was abuzz.

re: #111 Dustyvet

Or the guy with smelly feet who likes to dangle his legs over the side of the top bunk.

I had no idea there were this many adults wetting the bed.

re: #101 bulwrk

thinks they can fly.

Oh.

Thanks!

I'm sitting in a counter terrorism class playing on my computer. I'm going to get busted. Am I the only one who thinks FBI instructors are B.O.R.I.N.G.

re: #111 Dustyvet

Well, back in the exciting days of 45-50 troops in a barracks. And you get a couple of drunk idiots who can't find the latrine. Bottom bunks are not the place to be on Friday and Saturday nights, when troops returning from pass and drunk.

* * *
Doubt this EVER happens in Iraq. What drinking, though beer was invented in Iraq.

re: #103 The Other Les

Really?

Really, really.

re: #111 Dustyvet

Well,
back in the exciting days of 45-50 troops in a barracks. And you get a
couple of drunk idiots who can't find the latrine. Bottom bunks are not
the place to be on Friday and Saturday nights, when troops returning
from pass and drunk.

That happened when I was in basic. It was even funnier when I turned on the lights & shouted "Atten-shun!" as the drunk cadet stood at attention, still peeing on the floor.

re: #112 Dianna

No, she claimed that she got contacted by Obama directly. Her brother is a staffer too... she was claiming direct access to Obama, not to some staffer.

re: #100 Cygnus

I called my friend Andy Sable, a gastroenteritis

Heh.

re: #107 Cygnus

ROFLMAO!
*gasp*
ROFLMAO!

re: #100 Cygnus

OMG thank you. Best laugh I've had all week. :D

re: #118 theparson

I'm sitting in a counter terrorism class playing on my computer. I'm going to get busted. Am I the only one who thinks FBI instructors are B.O.R.I.N.G.

Darnit, if you're learning to counter terrorism, PAY ATTENTION!

/we need all the help we can get

;-)

re: #118 theparson

I'm sitting in a counter terrorism class playing on my computer. I'm going to get busted. Am I the only one who thinks FBI instructors are B.O.R.I.N.G.

um, maybe you should be paying attention....

re: #114 Occasional Reader

I. Am. There.

BTW, the scenes that are billed as taking place in Haiti were actually filmed in Panama. I was there at the time, everyone was abuzz.

* * *
Anyone here like the Dr. No ads, where Dr. No says No to energy exploration & drilling & anything that might HELP America? McCain's detractors say they're old school from 1962, but I love the old Bond/Sean Connery movies best anyway.

re: #56 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

I am SOO glad I bought my new PC not long ago with XP (on the advice of tech-worldly friends).

This thread is bunk.

re: #118 theparson

I'm sitting in a counter terrorism class playing on my computer. I'm going to get busted. Am I the only one who thinks FBI instructors are B.O.R.I.N.G.

They ship your posterior to Quantico, or come to you?

re: #125 gop_patriot

OMG thank you. Best laugh I've had all week. :D

Of course, today is Monday.

re: #125 gop_patriot

OMG thank you. Best laugh I've had all week. :D

You're welcome. I figured we need something lighter after all the ID stuff.

/ducks

Lunch thread! I just made up a small batch of guacamole, got some pita chips to go with it......spicy and yummy!

re: #130 pre-Boomer Marine brat

This thread is bunk.

Until you find your self on the bottom on a payday Friday. Then you'll have wished you paid attention.

re: #129 transient

I am SOO glad I bought my new PC not long ago with XP (on the advice of tech-worldly friends).

When I buy a my new compy (next year) I'm not getting Vista...no, I am not. The geeks can FOAD...I know how to do a data transfer...TUVM

re: #135 jcm

Until you find your self on the bottom on a payday Friday. Then you'll have wished you paid attention.

The trickle-down effect.

re: #137 Occasional Reader

The trickle-down effect.

LOL!

Good afternoon, all...

Well, I believe my computer is finally fixed. After about 17 hours on the phone with the techies and them finally sending one to the house to install a new motherboard and CPU, this thing seems to be back to normal. I've got this video playing in the background, and it is playing flawlessly while I type this. Before, all I had to do was move the mouse (with no other apps open) and the damned thing would start stopping/starting while it played.

Will definitely open a bunch of new stuff up and test it more severely, though.

re: #127 Vergeltung

We're on a break. My point is the instructors are boring.

re: #118 theparson

I had to sit through the State Dept terrorism awareness thing a few times. I though it was cool.

Hi Chris! Yay!

re: #114 Occasional Reader

I. Am. There.

BTW, the scenes that are billed as taking place in Haiti were actually filmed in Panama. I was there at the time, everyone was abuzz.

You know what they say about Haiti? Tourists go in, but they don't come out."
I am kind of exaggerating, but I was there when 'Baby Doc" was in charge. Scary place

re: #130 pre-Boomer Marine brat

This thread is bunk.

That was a prevalent theory at one time, but it has now been throughly de-bunked.

re: #132 Occasional Reader

Of course, today is Monday.

HA! OK, the best laugh I've had in the last several days since having my loverly allergic/anaphylactic reaction to antibiotics. whee. :)

re: #118 theparson

I'm sitting in a counter terrorism class playing on my computer. I'm
going to get busted. Am I the only one who thinks FBI instructors are
B.O.R.I.N.G.

Just remember that old grandmothers are the biggest threat to airport security. Guys with funny mustaches chanting "Allahu Ackbar," not so much.

History is bunk.
- Our Ford (making sign of the T over stomach)

re: #140 theparson

We're on a break. My point is the instructors are boring.

I just want to say that I LOVE the nicname and your icon...it's so deliciously macho yet humble.

re: #131 jcm

Not deep level. Standard stuff. I'm not that important.

Wouldn't the 'green' way to handle problem people be to throw them under the Prius?

re: #135 jcm

Until you find your self on the bottom on a payday Friday. Then you'll have wished you paid attention.

Heh.

Thought about making a play on "sheet", but ... yawn ... oh, look, there's a squirrel!

I like spam.

re: #133 Cygnus

;)

re: #100 Cygnus

Every word is true. LOL

re: #141 Killgore Trout

Some are and some aren't. This one I've heard a dozen times.
Gotta go. Starting again.

re: #142 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

Hi Chris! Yay!

Hey! By the way, I forgot the link to the video...

re: #143 opnion

You know what they say about Haiti? Tourists go in, but they don't come out."
I am kind of exaggerating, but I was there when 'Baby Doc" was in charge. Scary place

Yeah, it's no big surprise that they didn't actually want to film in Haiti.

For the Miami Vice movie, I think they used... Dominican Republic? Or somewhere in northeast Brazil?... as a stand-in for Haiti.

Actually, in terms of tour busses, I always preferred the middle.

re: #147 Cygnus

History is bunk.
- Our Ford (making sign of the T over stomach)

Spoken like a true Alpha Plus.

re: #154 Perry

Every word is true. LOL

Amen. That crap you have to drink is horrible. You have to drink it ice-cold and through a straw or it may not stay down.

Which bunk would Archie Bunker debunk, if Archie Bunker could debunk a bunk?

re: #157 Occasional Reader

Yeah, it's no big surprise that they didn't actually want to film in Haiti.

For the Miami Vice movie, I think they used... Dominican Republic? Or somewhere in northeast Brazil?... as a stand-in for Haiti.

Dominican Republic would make the most sense, as it is the better half of Hispainola.

re: #149 theparson

Not deep level. Standard stuff. I'm not that important.

I want to know the ROE for a guy in the mall with a heavy jacket that yells Aloha Snackbar.

First round no warning head shot, or standard procedure, STOP LET ME SEE YOUR HANDS.

re: #159 Occasional Reader

Spoken like a true Alpha Plus.

That's Alpha Double Plus, thank you. Now where's my soma?

re: #140 theparson

We're on a break. My point is the instructors are boring.

I think they (the gov't in general) go out of their way to find the most monotonous and droning Ben Stein voice clones they can. I swear, I've had some instructors in the Army that couldn't keep a classes attention if they were doing a powerpoint presentation on Playboy Playmates.

re: #160 Cygnus

What we used to use was called Golytely, which we mispronouned Go-all-nightly.

re: #164 Cygnus

That's Alpha Double Plus, thank you. Now where's my soma?

That stuff's bad for you, didn't you hear? I took it away.

/AAHH! The clones! They come for me!

re: #144 Silhouette

That was a prevalent theory at one time, but it has now been throughly de-bunked.

That's a blanket condemnation.

re: #151 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Heh.

Thought about making a play on "sheet", but ... yawn ... oh, look, there's a squirrel!

Careful going after squirrels.

re: #146 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

Just remember that old grandmothers are the biggest threat to airport security. Guys with funny mustaches chanting "Allahu Ackbar," not so much.

True & then of course , they have to go through grannys luggage & toss all of her meds. TSA Rules!

While we're on the subject of government-related classes, any North Carolina CCW lizards around that can tell me what to expect when I have to take the sounds-oh-so-fun 9 hour class on July 19th?

re: #164 Cygnus

Now where's my soma?

Here ya go.

re: #165 CyanSnowSock

Oops, still in sock puppet mode.

re: #165 CyanSnowSock

I think they (the gov't in general) go out of their way to find the most monotonous and droning Ben Stein voice clones they can. I swear, I've had some instructors in the Army that couldn't keep a classes attention if they were doing a powerpoint presentation on Playboy Playmates.

MY BF, when he was training his pilots in the Corps, always preferred to use pictures of wet beaver to keep the attention levels up.

re: #157 Occasional Reader

Yeah, it's no big surprise that they didn't actually want to film in Haiti.

For the Miami Vice movie, I think they used... Dominican Republic? Or somewhere in northeast Brazil?... as a stand-in for Haiti.

Sun, surf, sand, palm trees. Don't all the islands look the same?

Who needs more beach and surf, she says sitting in Fl. Bah.

Let this new sissy "Bond" tough it out in Vermont in the winter, for crying out loud.

Always grab the top bunk.

— Stinky Beaumont

Never let a guy named Stinky grab the top bunk.

... testing ... testing ...

(new av)

re: #157 Occasional Reader

Yeah, it's no big surprise that they didn't actually want to film in Haiti.

For the Miami Vice movie, I think they used... Dominican Republic? Or somewhere in northeast Brazil?... as a stand-in for Haiti.

Haiti is just different. All of that Voodoo stuff is no joke there & the poverty makes them a little off center.

re: #31 itellu3times

On the subject of the economy:

I went for dinner last night at a long-established, very popular, large-scale local restaurant. Been going there for twenty years. Almost always have to wait if you get there anywhere near dinner time.

Last night it was barely half-full.

Never seen that before. I asked the host, the waitress, the bakery lady all, how long it had been that slow. They all said, vaguely, for a while, most of this year. I've probably been there a few times already this year, and it hadn't been *that* slow.

OTOH, the local Cheesecake Factory seem to still do pretty good business. So, question for the dining lizards, have you seen any other remarkable slowdowns, anywhere out there? Thanx.

Outback here was really slow recently. I've noticed the wait at all of those type of dining places has been drastically reduced.

Of course after going to Outback I discovered high prices, bad food, horrible service, and a guaranteed gratuity even though we were two parties of 4 and not a party of 8. I won't be going back.

re: #173 CyanSnowSock

Oops, still in sock puppet mode.

Back now.

Hey, since when did logging out kick you back to the home page?

re: #87 Killgore Trout,

The only point I can see in it is to then go over to Kos or DU and say "See, LGFer's support VB!" Thing is, we make it so clear that we don't support VB or their ilk, so it is really a waste of effort.

Plus it got them banned :-)

So I sent this link (video) to my email list and mistakenly sent it to my attorney. I got back this response:

Its nonesence. His own speach proves why we can't "win this war" because you can't win a war of ideals with guns. Also, he's way off on Iran. Iran is a secular country and every government study has shown that there is no nuclear weapons program there. Iran is all about business with Russia and France and we can't stand for it because it cuts in on our oil market.

re: #157 Occasional Reader

Yeah, it's no big surprise that they didn't actually want to film in Haiti.

For the Miami Vice movie, I think they used... Dominican Republic? Or somewhere in northeast Brazil?... as a stand-in for Haiti.

I wonder why they didn't use Labadee, Haiti:

It has mango and almond trees, soft white sand, turquoise waters, and a perfect breeze. It looks like a secret paradise island. It feels like a secret paradise island.
But, actually, it's Haiti, the poorest country in the hemisphere.

[Link: www.csmonitor.com...]

/Probably because it's nothing like the rest of Haiti

re: #175 Crimsonfisted

Let this new sissy "Bond" tough it out in Vermont in the winter, for crying out loud.

I have trouble reconciling how truly good Daniel Craig is at the role with the facts that 1) he has told the press that he really hates guns, and 2) IIRC he had to learn how to drive a stick shift for the first movie. (I have a little trouble believing the latter one... a Brit who couldn't drive a stick shift?)

This* is freakin' awesome...

*My computer functioning properly again.

/hattip: Peter Griffin

re: #175 Crimsonfisted

Sun, surf, sand, palm trees. Don't all the islands look the same?

Who needs more beach and surf, she says sitting in Fl. Bah.

Let this new sissy "Bond" tough it out in Vermont in the winter, for crying out loud.

Dude....George Lazenby was a sissy Bond. Timothy Dalton was a sissy Bond...but Daniel Craig is not a sissy Bond.

He's a brooding Bond.

re: #185 ploome hineni

re: #72 MandyManners

Lying still for a CAT scan is not cool.

ever had a PET scan?

ugh

What, they use a dog, a cat and a parrot for a PET scan?
/ ;-P

re: #183 David Simon

[Link: www.csmonitor.com...]

/Probably because it's nothing like the rest of Haiti

You know things are messed up when you can objectively say that things were better when you were ruled by the French.

re: #182 unrealizedviewpoint

So I sent this link (video) to my email list and mistakenly sent it to my attorney. I got back this response:

You need a new attorney. (One that can spell would be a good start.)

re: #169 jcm

Careful going after squirrels.

HAH!

I remember a Bill Watterson cartoon (Calvin and Hobbes) -- an office, wide-eyed terrified humans huddled behind desks -- three deer standing erect holding hunting rifles -- one of the deer with a hind foot upon the body. The caption was something like "He's a big one, isn't he".

re: #35 lawhawk

Someone needs to throw Vista under the bus.

Microsoft is throwing XP under the bus.

re: #188 jcm

What, they use a dog, a cat and a parrot for a PET scan?
/ ;-P

A PET scan involves a Cat scan, and some Lab work...

re: #165 CyanSnowSock

I think they (the gov't in general) go out of their way to find the most monotonous and droning Ben Stein voice clones they can. I swear, I've had some instructors in the Army that couldn't keep a classes attention if they were doing a powerpoint presentation on Playboy Playmates.

And don't forget the temp in the classes. Always just a bit too high, promotes utter fatigue.

re: #76 lawhawk

She was thrown under the bus last week for exaggerating her contacts with Obama.

She e-mailed him after some of the Democratic debates, offering her thoughts on his messages and performance.

LOL! My favorite part of your link! Oh, great Scarlett of the pouty lips and flippy blonde hair, please let us all hear your "thoughts." BWAHAHAHAHA!

re: #175 Crimsonfisted

Let this new sissy "Bond" tough it out in Vermont in the winter, for crying out loud.

That would be interesting. How to work Daniel Craig in a Speedo into the plot in sub-zero temps?

re: #173 CyanSnowSock

Oops, still in sock puppet mode.

Socking it to us again, I see.

re: #189 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

You know things are messed up when you can objectively say that things were better when you were ruled by the French.

Hey, give 'em a break, they've only been independent for 204 years.

re: #196 David Simon

That would be interesting. How to work Daniel Craig in a Speedo into the plot in sub-zero temps?

I don't know, but I'll volunteer to keep the frost bite at bay!

Lunch, BBIA

re: #182 unrealizedviewpoint

So I sent this link (video) to my email list and mistakenly sent it to my attorney. I got back this response:

Your attorney is a fucking idiot.

re: #196 David Simon

That would be interesting. How to work Daniel Craig in a Speedo into the plot in sub-zero temps?

There'd be a lot less banana in the hammock for starters.

re: #188 jcm

What, they use a dog, a cat and a parrot for a PET scan?
/ ;-P

The dog makes you feel like you are in charge, the cat makes you feel like everything is out of control, he is in charge, but won't do anything about it, and the parrot tells you what you want to hear. Sounds like a good way to categorize the MSM.

re: #190 Occasional Reader

You need a new attorney. (One that can spell would be a good start.)

The spelling is no big deal. Being a moonbat is.

re: #182 unrealizedviewpoint

So I sent this link (video) to my email list and mistakenly sent it to my attorney. I got back this response:

You know attorneys have really gone downhill. They used to have to have debating skills and actually debate with "facts". This guy was a clown.

re: #198 Occasional Reader

Hey, give 'em a break, they've only been independent for 204 years.

That's not long enough already to really mess everything up?

re: #97 Conservative in Liberal Hands

Several restaurants around where I work have been showing slower business. They first lowered quality and quantity to save from raising prices, but have had to raise them without re-establishing the quality. Fast food joints are the hardest hit, I think. Seems as if a lot more people are brown-bagging it.

Now that you mention it, one mid-level chain (Islands) here in Los Angeles has been in a horrible slow-down all this year, hey I stopped going there, they raised their prices once too often, *and* started making changes to the old recipes and portion sizes. I understand why, but they exceeded their perceived value at some point. Also, the national California Pizza Kitchen (CPKI), has been fiddling their prices and portions, particularly the portions, for two years now, and lost my business last year.

FWIW, the local place (Katella Deli) made only a small bump in their prices last year some time, AFAIK, and also AFAIK the portions are unchanged.

I keep telling my favorite little Greek restaurant guy that he needs to raise his prices to keep up. Well, that's why it's such a little Greek restaurant, I guess, but that guy knows how to broil a chicken like nobody else! Wish I was still working on that side of town, oh well.

re: #140 theparson

Does it resemble the "life safety class" I have to take every year? The best moment is always when we get to the 13 stupid questions to ask if someone phones in a bomb threat.

How on earth is someone supposed to keep a straight face while asking the equivalent of, "What is your name? What is your quest? What is your favorite color?"

re: #196 David Simon

That would be interesting. How to work Daniel Craig in a Speedo into the plot in sub-zero temps?

James Bond in Tundraballs

(or The Spy Who Shrank Me)

re: #195 Russkilitlover

LOL! My favorite part of your link! Oh, great Scarlett of the pouty lips and flippy blonde hair, please let us all hear your "thoughts." BWAHAHAHAHA!

I have heard her interviewed. She seems profoundly stupid.

re: #202 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

There'd be a lot less banana in the hammock for starters.

lol, you're on a serious roll my friend.

re: #187 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

Dude....George Lazenby was a sissy Bond. Timothy Dalton was a sissy Bond...but Daniel Craig is not a sissy Bond.

He's a brooding Bond.

Dalton was one of the most brutal Bonds ever. Watch his movies again, he didn't give a damn who had to die. (esp. License to Kill)

re: #193 christheprofessor

A PET scan involves a Cat scan, and some Lab work...

YECH!
(-:

re: #25 jcm

OEM versions will be available until at least the end of the year.
Stock up.

BTW, Vista SP1 isn't that bad - particularly since most of the drivers are now on at least their second rev. Of course, those victimized by companies like Intuit (Quickbooks) who said that Vista support is only available if you buy the latest version (2007 and beyond), are still screwed unless they are running XP in a VM on Vista - using MS's free Virtual PC 2007 program or Parallels Desktop for Windows and Linux.

re: #182 unrealizedviewpoint

LO freaking L!

His riting proves that he should not be yur atterney none more.

re: #202 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

There'd be a lot less banana in the hammock for starters.

EWwwwwwwwwwwww! Get the brain bleach! Get out of my brain, foul image!

Needs a warning next time. :)

re: #209 Occasional Reader

James Bond in Tundraballs

(or The Spy Who Shrank Me)

ROFLMAO!

Comment ratings are now disabled after seven days.

To go with Cygnus' post:[Link: www.msnbc.msn.com...]

Say, I have been thinking. Since BO only knows how to read from a teleprompter, could we get an industrious lizard to hack his teleprompter at the presidential debates and substitutive something like Alice In Wonderland for what would be put up there? Oh, sorry about that, they are going to put Alice in Wonderland up there anyway, so we needn't bother.

re: #212 Mars Needs Neocons

Dalton was one of the most brutal Bonds ever. Watch his movies again, he didn't give a damn who had to die. (esp. License to Kill)

That's true...still...he was too wispy looking. Dainty even.

re: #182 unrealizedviewpoint

Iran is a secular country. I think that will be news even to the clerics that run Iran. Your attorney must be from one of those mirror universes.

re: #212 Mars Needs Neocons

Dalton
was one of the most brutal Bonds ever. Watch his movies again, he
didn't give a damn who had to die. (esp. License to Kill)

License to Kill was a bad Bond movie, but a great action movie.

re: #222 Lee Coller

Iran is a secular country? I think that will be news even to the clerics that run Iran. Your attorney must be from one of those mirror universes.

PIMF: what a difference a question mark makes.

re: #20 FreakyBoy

Heath Bar or Skor?

Six of one, half a dozen of the other.  Both good.

}:)     [Mars Bar vs. Snickers?]

re: #212 Mars Needs Neocons

Dalton was one of the most brutal Bonds ever. Watch his movies again, he didn't give a damn who had to die. (esp. License to Kill)

Of course none of this really matters. Not a damn one of the Bonds has fit the part. Bond was a cold-hearted killer, and he had a dueling scar.

/Have any had a dueling scar?

re: #205 Mars Needs Neocons

I dashed this back to him.

Its nonesence. His own speach proves why we can't "win this war" because you can't win a war of ideals with guns.

Here we have folks who have proven over and over through action - terrorist acts world over, each attack more deadly then the next, with eyes on acquisition of nuclear weapons and you don’t see a threat? It’s a war of ideals? I guess maybe you think World War 2, headed by Nazi Germany, fascist Italy and imperialistic Japan was merely a war of ideals too? This is a war and if al Qaeda or faction can get a WMD they will use it on an American city. Somehow you must understand this? Where were you when they struck on 9/11? Madrid? Bali? London? Tanzania? USS Cole?

Also, he's way off on Iran. Iran is a secular country and every government study has shown that there is no nuclear weapons program there. Iran is all about business with Russia and France and we can't stand for it because it cuts in on our oil market.

Iran is NOT a secular country. Iran is a theocracy with a Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei

Iranian’s practice the religion Shi’a Islam, and have since 1979 when Iran officially became an Islamic Republic after the overthrow of the Shah.

There was one single State Department Study that came to the absurd conclusion that there’s no proof that Iran is building. The study was prepared by liberals in the State Dept to embarrass Bush.

And every time Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he’s close to a weapon, and the IAEA Chief says they’re six months to a year away from completion they’re lying? The day Iran has its weapon it will launch on Israel.

I'm waiting reply.

re: #208 Dianna

Does it resemble the "life safety class" I have to take every year? The best moment is always when we get to the 13 stupid questions to ask if someone phones in a bomb threat.

How on earth is someone supposed to keep a straight face while asking the equivalent of, "What is your name? What is your quest? What is your favorite color?"

And what if you get the answers:
"Mohammad Atta"
"To restore the caliphate"
"The color of infidel blood"

re: #182 unrealizedviewpoint

An attorney starts off with two misspelled/incorrect words?

re: #223 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

Yeah....The theme song even sucked, except for the singer.... Gladys Knight is awesome.

re: #212 Mars Needs Neocons

If you read the Fleming books, Bond was like that. The books are by far much better than the majority of the movies. Too bad the authors who have tried to pick up from Fleming have not been able to get to same level of coldness in Bond.

re: #179 Mars Needs Neocons

Outback here was really slow recently. I've noticed the wait at all of those type of dining places has been drastically reduced.

Of course after going to Outback I discovered high prices, bad food, horrible service, and a guaranteed gratuity even though we were two parties of 4 and not a party of 8. I won't be going back.

Tried an Outback once, couple of years ago, prices seemed high for what it was, but it was better than some of the other low-buck steak houses around.

Interesting question about waiting - have to wonder how much actual business is lost when the wait is less. Queueing theory and all that. Then there's the case where the wait is still long, because they told two waitresses and one cook not to come in. But for sure, when the tables are empty at prime time, there's a problem.

Just thinking out loud a bit.

re: #209 Occasional Reader

James Bond in Tundraballs

lol, good one.

re: #218 Charles

Sounds like a wise move. Was it Spy that tipped you off?

Good Afternoon All!

re: #22 Charles

Just threw someone under the bus who was going through an old Vlaams Belang thread and up-dinging all the fascist sympathizers.

Oh, it was your turn to feed the bus today, eh?

}:)     [What a way to waste free time, up-dinging fascists.]

re: #210 opnion

I have heard her interviewed. She seems profoundly stupid.

She still has to work her way up to Cameron "rape will be legal if Bush is re-elected" Diaz-level stupid.

re: #188 jcm

What, they use a dog, a cat and a parrot for a PET scan?
/ ;-P

And do they do it at PETCO?

Who is the Bond villian this time around?

Aren't they running out of white men trying to take over the world?

re: #214 Athos

OEM versions will be available until at least the end of the year.
Stock up.

BTW, Vista SP1 isn't that bad - particularly since most of the drivers are now on at least their second rev. Of course, those victimized by companies like Intuit (Quickbooks) who said that Vista support is only available if you buy the latest version (2007 and beyond), are still screwed unless they are running XP in a VM on Vista - using MS's free Virtual PC 2007 program or Parallels Desktop for Windows and Linux.

I'm still not having any issues with Vista. Unless my random connectivity loss is caused by it. I'll be on LGF then suddenly my modem will start showing a lot of PC activity and I lose all connection to the internet in Firefox and IE, but I check download programs, and messenger and they're still connected. Any ideas?

re: #213 pre-Boomer Marine brat

YECH!
(-:

Now that I'm up and running again, you'll be seing a lot more lame puns and just generally bad one-liners... HA!

re: #239 Ben Hur

Who is the Bond villian this time around?

Aren't they running out of white men trying to take over the world?

They can use Soros. But then someone here already says he was the model for Blofeld.

re: #179 Mars Needs Neocons

Shake Shack seems ok. Long lines and all.

re: #224 Lee Coller

PIMF: what a difference a question mark makes.

I shot the clerk.
I shot the clerk?
- My Cousin Vinny

re: #223 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

License to Kill was a bad Bond movie, but a great action movie.

True, but if you go back to the original books, the portrayal of Bond in that film was as close as you can get to the original vision.

re: #231 Athos

If you read the Fleming books, Bond was like that. The books are by far much better than the majority of the movies. Too bad the authors who have tried to pick up from Fleming have not been able to get to same level of coldness in Bond.

Amen. [obscenity] upon those Bond movies after the first handful.

re: #227 unrealizedviewpoint

I dashed this back to him.

Iran is NOT a secular country. Iran is a theocracy with a Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei

Iranian’s practice the religion Shi’a Islam, and have since 1979 when Iran officially became an Islamic Republic after the overthrow of the Shah.

There was one single State Department Study that came to the absurd conclusion that there’s no proof that Iran is building. The study was prepared by liberals in the State Dept to embarrass Bush.

And every time Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he’s close to a weapon, and the IAEA Chief says they’re six months to a year away from completion they’re lying? The day Iran has its weapon it will launch on Israel.

I'm waiting reply.

Nicely written, but I'm afraid you may have confused him with the facts.

re: #24 MandyManners

What's wrong with the bottom bunk?

Well, for one thing, biologically-produced methane is a heavier-than-air-gas most of the time.

}:)     [Trust a guy named Stinky to know what he's talking about.]

re: #207 itellu3times

Now that you mention it, one mid-level chain (Islands)

Islands......I got sick once after eating at Islands - just had a hamburger and it tasted so good going down, not so much coming up again over the next 48 God-awful hours! Can't drive by one now without my stomach cramping.

re: #231 Athos

If you read the Fleming books, Bond was like that. The books are by far much better than the majority of the movies. Too bad the authors who have tried to pick up from Fleming have not been able to get to same level of coldness in Bond.

Exactly. Few seem to realize his primary job was an assassin. He defended his country by eliminating threats before they became too powerful.

Quick story about Haiti. After the French were tossed out. a warlord, King Christophe installed himself.
He ruled from the Citadel , a fort with one wall over looking the sea & the rocks.
A newly appointed European Ambassador (I believe a Dane), went to present his credentials. To impess him, Cristophe marched a squad of soldiers off the wall, to their deaths on the rocks below.
The new Ambassador, qiuite sensibly, immediately retuned to the harbor & sailed home.

re: #218 Charles

Comment ratings are now disabled after seven days.

I wonder, some time, if you'd like to run (and publish!) some summary activity reports like I've seen on usenet, most frequent posters, those on the most threads, biggest dingers plus and minus, most characters posted, etc.

For extree credit, you could categorize the threads by subject, etc ... maybe get some undergrads at Carnegie Mellon to do it for ya!

I know doing this stuff for your internal enjoyment was somewhere on your list of things to do, but ... just wondering!

re: #248 Kulhwch

Well, for one thing, biologically-produced methane is a heavier-than-air-gas most of the time.

}:)     [Trust a guy named Stinky to know what he's talking about.]

WRONG! Trust the guy UNDERNEATH Stinky to know!

Live & Let Die was my favorite Bond movie. James Bond in a blaxploitation setting & it introduced the world to the lovelyness that is Jane Seymour.

re: #231 Athos

If you read the Fleming books, Bond was like that. The books are by far much better than the majority of the movies. Too bad the authors who have tried to pick up from Fleming have not been able to get to same level of coldness in Bond.

I remember being disappointed that Jaws wasn't in the novel "The Spy who Loved Me." Also that the novel was nothing at all like the movie.

re: #243 Crimsonfisted

Shake Shack seems ok. Long lines and all.

Never heard of it. Here in the primitive hinterlands we tend to get things late.

re: #237 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

She still has to work her way up to Cameron "rape will be legal if Bush is re-elected" Diaz-level stupid.

That is world class stupid.

Sean Connery is the ONE AND ONLY James Bond!

re: #240 Mars Needs Neocons

Not on that one. First I've heard of something like that. I had an issue for about 2 weeks where my connection would just drop and not see the internet. If I closed the IE / Firefox windows and opened them again, the network would reconnect as they opened. A recommended patch from MS fixed it - there was an issue in a previous patch that caused the problem.

Are you current on the required and recommended patches?

Check the error logs to see if the network adapter might be failing and auto-recovering (driver issue) - you would see an interruption sooner in IE / Firefox than in something like messenger unless you are actively having a conversation. Also make sure that your settings for the browsers are using LAN settings (if not dialup) and on automatically detect settings.

re: #31 itellu3times

I have noticed a slow down in my business. A couple of customers drive trucks or trailers and they are being crippled by diesel prices. A few waitresses have complained of small tips and my retail is slow. People are paying in cash and wanting cheaper products.

However, my customers in construction have been busy. During my commute, I see more work trucks on the road. I called to have a new sign made for my new location and 3 places said they couldn't even come out for 4 weeks to give an estimate.

In my opinion, the construction end of it seems to be picking up. (my road rage has been more frequent because my continual bad luck of getting stuck behind dump trucks and contractors on cell phones) The restaurant and retail business seems to be slow. Its a cycle. Now that the construction is picking up other places will normalize in a couple of months. Everyone has been pinched and now we are feeling it in the wallet. This all started with construction coming to a halt because they raised interest rates. Now that the rates are more steady people feel more at ease to buy and sell homes.

re: #239 Ben Hur

Who is the Bond villian this time around?

Oily Joe Melman, who invents a virus that causes people to drive around endlessly only stopping for an occasional bag of cheeseburgers and fries. Bond must stop him before the oceans rise and drown London.

re: #231 Athos,

I've never liked the Bond movies. James Bond is supposed to be an assassin, for God's sake, not fuckin' Fabio with a .380 (yes, a .380. Pissant caliber for a pissant).

I quit watching Bond movies when I was about 15. Bleh.

re: #242 Kosh's Shadow

They can use Soros. But then someone here already says he was the model for Blofeld.

Blofeld was created in the early '50's by Fleming. Might be too early for Soros. But either Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger would fit that wanker.