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BTW I'm driving home for thankstaking tommorw night, not tonight case anybody was worried. I'm no Sidney Ponson... but wouldn't it be funny if he started psoting on here since he has nothing better to do than sit around Ft Lauderdale on the beach? I thik he's make a heck of an insdier.
Some people are happy drunks.
Some people are angry drunks.
Some people are sad drunks.
Some people are sleepy drunks.
I already knew all that. The thing I didn't know (until now) is that some people are the kind of drunks who think of Sidney Ponson and wish they had more contact with him.
Learn something every day ;-)
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I have to believe you have multiple names that give you rep ponits. Because I find you extremely annoyiing and I cannot imagine how you ever got enough rep points to get to this point except that you rigged it.Waiting for a smiley face? Nope.
Hard day?
Gee, boogi, I thought we were sorta-pals. Not *good* pals, but pals-enough to get along. I know we've had some pleasant enough interactions, here and there.
Usually, when somebody's steamed at me, I at least know why. Was it the Diet Coke? Maybe you're partial to Diet Pepsi? Or maybe it's just me...
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Yeah, I know, it's a pretty prima donna thing of her to do. Making me do the throwing and the fetching. But it keeps her active so she doesn't become a lazy bum like twoBshorty's cat.
And the cat at my parent's house, for that matter. She will chase a string for about five seconds before she remembers that she's too good to play with you.I liked Churchill's quote: "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."
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Playing fetch with my cat is pretty fun. Okay, she won't bring the toy back like a dog, forcing me to walk over to where I threw it and pick it up to throw it again, but at least she runs after it.Let me get this straight: you play fetch "with" your cat... but you're doing both all the throwing and all the fetching? Is that right?
Sounds like, if your cat was a baseball player, she'd play "1B coach" ;-)
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The branch office I use of the one in Alabama works great. You can't say that about everything in Alabama, but the DMV (or whatever they call it these days) works just fine... no muss, no fuss... in and out in 5 minutes... provided, of course, that you bring the right stuff with you... it's in the courthouse... pretty much everything in the courthouse works fine, as far as I can tell...
Somehow, my wife's name wasn't on a beach lot we own (or the mortgage company owns, depending on how you look at it ;-) The mortgage company said it's nobody's fault, but we gotta fix it... and they could do it all for $275. I called the courthouse, and a lady explained to me how I could get a quitclaim deed for free off the internet, then she told me what the magic words were to put into the right places. I know a guy who's a lawyer, so I called him up and asked him if these were the right magic words, and he verified that they were excellent magic words. So then I took it up to the courthouse and they did the rest for a grand total of $13. I like these people ;-)
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Yeah, I was 6 when we lost that dog. 20 years later, it tore me up inside to see one that looked just like him run away.
I don't even wanna think about heart-breaking dog stories... I've got 3 of such stories, but let's not go there...
I've lost people that didn't upset me near as much as losing a dog... when it comes losing my dogs, I've cried like a little boy... On a good day, I try to be more like my dog...
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The MVA. In Maryland. In New Jersey. In every state. The End.
The branch office I use of the one in Alabama works great. You can't say that about everything in Alabama, but the DMV (or whatever they call it these days) works just fine... no muss, no fuss... in and out in 5 minutes... provided, of course, that you bring the right stuff with you... it's in the courthouse... pretty much everything in the courthouse works fine, as far as I can tell...
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What if I have ice cream? What if I've had too much water in a short period of time and "the urge" just hit me? What if I'm friends with Jack Bauer and he informs me that there's a bomb in the store, but I need to pick up a gallon of milk first? It would suck to be without milk, but if that bomb goes off because the person (notice how I didn't specify gender) in front of me continues to swipe the credit card the wrong way, despite the illustration on the device showing you which way to swipe it, I could have even more problems. If I were blown to bits, who would pick up my mail? I'd hate to think someone would break into my mailbox and actually steal my Netflix rentals. And if I dropped the milk in the explosion, the gallon might burst open and spill all over the floor. So, not only would a bomb have gone off, but the floor would be slippery because of the spilled milk caused by the explosion that I could have avoided if only the person in front of me had just looked at the little illustration showing you how to swipe the credit card. So, all in all, I have my reasons...
Um, well gee... I guess I never thought about it like that...
I'm convinced! Where can we all buy tasers to get all those dang little ole ladies out of the way? I want the kind we can shoot at them from 20' away. Sounds like a matter of National Security to me (just like every other rotten thing you can think of).
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I did that the other day and the girl literally could not grasp the concept that I didn't want her to bag my groceries.
Then again, she also didn't understand the concept of rechargeable batteries, either, so maybe she isn't the best example.
This is exactly the kind of professional competence that what we laughingly call a "service economy" leads to...
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So you respond to discrimination against old people with discrimination against young people? Plenty of 28 year olds (I looked up HB's profile before making my last post to avoid making stupid assumptions) have very pressing reasons to be in a hurry. Maybe they have a baby at home with an ear infection who is screaming his head off and needs medicine. Maybe they need to get to work or get home to finish the work they took home with them. Maybe they've been on their feet all day and just really want to go sit down. (Maybe -GASP- they really need to get home to watch an Orioles game!
) Should our society (young and old people) be in as much of a hurry as it's in? Probably not. Certainly it's a very valid question to be asking. But why assume that just because someone is young and in a hurry they must be on their way to do something frivolous?Well, to be fair, you (and Alex) must admit that I phrased my answer in the form of a question ;-)
I agree that the current version of our society makes people nuts by encouraging everybody to be in a big rush. For lots of people it's unavoidable, mostly because many Mom's have to do 2 jobs: be a Mom plus do another job too. For most Dad's I don't think it's the same thing. For some Dad's it is, but many Dad's don't really split the hassle equally with the Mom's.
However, I do not think this explains all of it. In particular, I don't think it explains it at all for single people, unless they have to work multiple jobs. I think a lot of it is just people being in a crazy hurry for absolutely no good reason whatsoever. So they run red lights just so they can get to the next red light a little bit quicker.
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People over sixty-five years old should be banned from grocery store self-checkout lanes AND the credit card devices at regular registers. They just have no idea how to operate modern technology and they almost always cause a back-up.
People under sixty-five should not be in such a dang hurry all the time that they get upset with old folks for being old folks. What's the big rush? You need to hurry home to do something important, like watch American Idol or something?
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That is the funniest thing I have ever read...On a side not to this. One of my best friends and I went to a Ravens preseason game and to give you a little back ground on my friend, he is funny as well. Very sarcastic kinda funny.
Anyways, he has a GF who is kinda outta touch with common sense.
Here is her question:
"Where are the yellow lines?"
His response:
"Oh, they don't do it for the preseason games, it cost too much to get the guys to do it."
Her reply:
"Oh, that makes sense."
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"Virtual Reality" is not some super-duper SFX for games... it's what most of us are already living right now. Quick: look around you, whereever you are... of the stuff you see, how much of it do you know what it really is, how it's made, what it's made of, etc.? For most of us, the answer is "not much". It's just there and we take it on faith...
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Firefox's built in spellcheck.Firefox's add-ins... many are pointless but some are way cool... couldn't live with out them...
Plus RoboForm (w/ Firefox and IE)... no more password worries...
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As a Political Science and History major most of my classes were in the humanities/social sciences. I certainly experienced many instances of a professor injecting his (almost always leftist) politics into the classroom, but fortunately it was never bad enough to warrant a complaint or to affect one's performance in terms of grades.
It's a travesty that places that are supposed to be havens for free thought, free speech, and free debate have become stifled by political correctness and dogma.
Like it or not, academic is in many ways a microcosm of society. I've spent a bunch of time in academia (too much, probably). While the prevailing opinions might not be the same as those in larger society, I think the ambient level of willingness to consider different points-of-view does vary more-or-less in keeping with how open- vs. close-minded society is trending at the moment. Of course, people in academia think their opinions are better than everybody else's, but that is true with many groups, that's not unique to academia.
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No, it didn't bother me, so it's not a rant. I just thought it was really funny. There's nothing like getting an e-mail with "I can't find my pulse! Help!"Oh, I see now. (Never mind.)
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So we're doing a dumb stats project comparing pulse rates...trying to save time, we came up with a random sample and e-mailed the people asking them to time themselves for 15 seconds and e-mail us back the number.I just got an e-mail from a girl: "I can't find my pulse. I suck at this."
Yes, yes, you do.
I sent her back an e-mail explaining how to either press her fingers on her neck (using my wrist never works for me, I hope that's her problem) or put her hand directly on her heart. Then I collapsed in laughter. Maybe I should have told her to call 911?
AFAIK, it's hardest for people to take their own pulse. Your whole body is pretty much thumping at the same rate, so it makes it harder to feel it. Much easier for some folks if they get somebody nearby to do it for them.
ps: This sounds like a Short Rant, not an Anti-Rant ;-)
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I have a strange history with soda. My family always bought Coke...When I was a kid, my folks didn't have extra money (mainly because they had us 4 kids), and soda was a treat. Each week, we each got one 16oz bottle of Pepsi with a screw-on top. For a while, my baby sister got taken advantage of. The level of Pepsi in her bottle mysteriously got lower and lower without her touching it. (She wanted to save it. Dunno why. She was 3.) Pretty soon, she wised up. So when Mom was unpacking groceries, she made a big production of opening up her bottle, and spitting in it while everybody was looking, and then sealing it back up. If somebody wasn't there, she'd find them later, and do a repeat spitting. It worked: the mystery thieving stopped. Smart kid for being only 3.
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I'm not a big fan of PB&J, but I love Peanut Butter and Chocolate Syrup sandwiches.I'm not gonna say a word.
EDIT: Well, now that I think about it... chocolate and peanut butter go together... so I guess... but the idea of that as a *sandwich* kinda caught me off guard...
I would be much better off just sleeping on the couch, but my girlfriend won't let me...If you want your girlfriend to make you sleep on the couch, I bet some people here could give you a few tips :-0
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I <3 Slingbox. Whoever invented it should get a Nobel Prize as far as I'm concerned.I love weekends full of football and sleep.
How come you need slingbox for football-and-sleep? Your TIVO lives someplace else?
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FWIW, my dad is an oncologist and says the carcinogenic effects of aspartame are negligible or at most marginal at the level of diet coke consumption. He says studies have been inconclusive (and some of the ones that found links to cancer had an agenda), and that the very weak evidence that does exist mostly involves extremely heavy dosage in rats. Then again, maybe he just doesn't want to believe it because he drinks diet coke also.I would say these sources are similar to his views on the matter:
Obviously, there are lots of sources that say it is carcinogenic, but it seems odd that both the FDA and European agencies have come to the opposite conclusion.
I imagine that your Dad is going by what some of the literature says. I don't have any reason to think he's trying to be one-sided. I'm not sure how much he knows about both sides. I also don't think it's safe to assume that Euro agencies are immune from influence either.
I think that in this particular case Wikipedia sums up both sides pretty well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame_controversy.
One summary of the FDA's process can be found here: http://www.rense.com/general33/legal.htm
The info I used to make my own decision has since been amplified... by both the pro and con sides of the issue.
But this is s'posed to be an anti-rant thread. I apologize to everyone for getting us derailed...
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It's not Diet Coke, it's the sweetener that's in it. It's in lots of stuff. In the olden days, it never would've been OK'd by the FDA. But let's not talk about how it got approved and who all was involved in that. If you like Diet Coke, you don't want to know about it anyway, so I'll shut up. If anybody's curious, you can look it up elsewhere. Google is your friend. My bride knows about medical stuff and she pointed it out to me because she was worried that I was guzzling it all the time. It was enough that I converted to making iced tea just to have something else. Which turns out to be way cheaper too. The trick is to make it right. It's incredibly easy but the exact formula varies, based on your drinking water.I'm not sure diet coke is really bad for you though.Other than our opinion of the sweetener, we completely agree about Diet Coke ;-)
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Peanut butter and MAYO?!?!Gagorama.
My thoughts exactly.
On the other hand, she puts up with me (can you imagine?)
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Sometimes a cold Diet Coke is more perfect than should be possible.
I like Diet Coke better than regular Coke because of the taste. It has nothing to do with calories. For my taste, regular Coke is too sweet. Or the wrong kind of sweet. My bride says it's because they use high-fructose corn syrup instead of sugar. In some other countries, they can't do that, so they use sugar. There, I like regular Coke better and the foreign version of Diet Coke ("Coke Lite" or whatever it's called) worse. Sometimes, if you're on an airplane and ask for Diet Coke, you get the foreign kind (if the plane recenty came from somewhere else). Look out, it's not the same taste at all.
I don't drink Diet Coke much. I usually drink iced tea instead. I'm scared of that sweetener in Diet Coke, it's bad for you (really). My bride can't stand Diet Coke because she's one of the 20% of people for whom that sweetener doesn't taste sweet, it tastes bitter instead.
I mainly drink Diet Coke in the car... because it comes in a can, and the iced tea I make doesn't. But sometimes... if it's really hot, and I'm really thirsty... and if the Diet Coke is *really* cold... it tastes SO good I almost can't stand it. Really. Sometimes it's better-than-perfect.
ps: I don't understand pouring warm Coke over ice. It makes it go flat in about 5 seconds. But if you chill the Coke first, it stays fizzy way-longer. Pouring cold Coke over ice makes it foam up a lot. Which also makes it go flat. The best way is to pour the cold Coke in the glass, and then add the ice cubes after that. That works best. Trust me. I've been working on this problem for about 30 years ;-)
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I love a peanut-butter and jelly sandwich that has sufficient jelly for it to start hemorrhaging through the bread.I like PB&J's. But not the jelly-leaking part. If I want one for later, I put PB on both pieces of bread, just to seal off the jelly from making the bread soggy. But let's not worry about that. Yeah, I agree: PB&J's are great!
I like Peter Pan Crunchy. Boy, am I glad it's back after the little, um, unfortunateness. During it's absence, I went through a lot of others. I thought Skippy Chunky was the best alternative. But IMO it's not as good as Peter Pan Crunchy. With blackberry preserves. Which is sometimes hard to find. Strawberry preserves are my back-up. PB-and-banana sandwiches are great too.
The only single thing my bride does that I just do not understand *at all* is that she likes PB-and-mayo. (Jeez.) I tell her I love her anyway.
And the cat at my parent's house, for that matter. She will chase a string for about five seconds before she remembers that she's too good to play with you.
) Should our society (young and old people) be in as much of a hurry as it's in? Probably not. Certainly it's a very valid question to be asking. But why assume that just because someone is young and in a hurry they must be on their way to do something frivolous?
I sent her back an e-mail explaining how to either press her fingers on her neck (using my wrist never works for me, I hope that's her problem) or put her hand directly on her heart. Then I collapsed in laughter. 
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Congrats... seriously... sorry it got stuck in the middle of these other posts...
Got any pictures?