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Better go fill up my tank now! And good luck Kappers.

Or you could just listen to Sox N Roll for a more, uh, colorful commentary.

Wowzers. That made me nauseaous. Is that for serious?

Kinda funny Psychopaths could be best financial traders? 2 hours, 11 minutes ago LONDON (Reuters) - "Wanted: psychopaths to make a killing in the markets." Such an advert will not be appearing in the world's newspapers any time soon, but it may have a ring of truth after research revealed the best wheeler-dealers could well be "functional psychopaths." A team of U.S. scientists has found the emotionally impaired are more willing to gamble for high stakes and that people with brain damage may make good financial decisions, the Times newspaper reported Monday. In a study of investors' behavior 41 people with normal IQs were asked to play a simple investment game. Fifteen of the group had suffered lesions on the areas of the brain that affect emotions. The result was those with brain damage outperformed those without. The scientists found emotions led some of the group to avoid risks even when the potential benefits far outweighed the losses, a phenomenon known as myopic loss aversion. One of the researchers, Antione Bechara, an associate professor of neurology at the University of Iowa, said the best stock market investors might plausibly be called "functional psychopaths." Fellow author, Baba Shiv of Stanford Graduate School of Business said many company chiefs and top lawyers may also show they share the same trait. "Emotions serve an adaptive role in speeding up the decision-making process," said Shiv. "However, there are circumstances in which a naturally occurring emotional response must be inhibited, so that a deliberate and potentially wiser decision can be made." The study, published in June in the journal Psychological Science, was conducted by a team of researchers from Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Iowa.

I'm sorry Queen, that sucks a lot. I hope Stinky goes painlessly into that good night.

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Sep 19, 2005 -> 12:56 AM) The Red Sox are so much worse than the Yankees. At least the Yankees are honest in their approach to winning titles. A Red Sox fan will b**** at you for an hour about the Yankees buying titles, turn around, and talk about being a "team of destiny"...with the highest payroll of any team to win the Series ever. Oh, and they're fair-weather and they don't know baseball for the most part. Preach it brother.

I had the weirdest weekend ever. It was like every odd chance encounter that could possibly happen did. So incredibly weird. Nothing really good or bad, just incredibly odd. However, went to a few sales, got some cool stuff. And my master's experiments are running very smoothly and I should have the first two done by next Friday (!). So, I feel good, although slightly wary about any future weird stuff happening. Very tempted at the moment to become a hermit (as long as that involves indoor plumbing). (Also, fun fact for the day, did you know the word "weird" comes from the Old English word for fate?)

Lol, DBAHO's story reminded me of one time I thought someone let the cat out because I see what I think is the cat. So I run after her and I'm yelling Tommie get back here. And she just keeps running so I am about to catch her when she runs under a street lamp turns around and kind of growls/hisses at me. It is then that I realize I almost picked up a racoon, and not my cat. We also had racoons living in our chimney a couple of times.

The owl story reminds me of 2 kinda funny stories. 1.) When I was a new-born (ish) my parents took went canoeing along the I & M canal in morris. Apparently a great horned owl that was huge, my dad said a 6 ft wingspan, kept swooping down towards the canoe and, more specifically, the little baby in the middle. Allegedly it was a very short canoe ride. 2.) This past weekend a baby racoon was just sitting outside my parents' house. My dad kept chasing it away. Then he was in the kitchen and went into the living room and say our (very stupid) cat standing pressing against the window screen (the window was open). Pressing the screen on the other side (outside) was the baby racoon. Apparently, neither the cat nor the racoon were making any noises they were just standing there about nose to nose. So my dad tried to hold the screen in (so the racoon couldn't push it open and get into the house), while also trying to shut the window again to keep the racoon out. And that is how the cat almost got eaten this weekend.

Stupidly funny if you like (or don't) Harry Potter I have no idea why these made me laugh, I think I need to sleep more. . .

QUOTE(Mercy! @ Sep 18, 2005 -> 09:49 PM) Another bonus - they speak English almost exactly like we do. I don't have many of those "What'd they just say?" moments. Preach it. Can you get CBC in the states?

QUOTE(Mercy! @ Sep 18, 2005 -> 06:38 PM) I agree. And as an added bonus, they don't spend 50% of their time covering the latest young white American woman gone missing. Seriously, when I want a quick video overview of what's going on in the rest of the world, I check out the BBC and the CBC. I miss having CBC, best news coverage I've ever watched.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Sep 18, 2005 -> 09:07 PM) Yes ma'am. Man, I wish I was allowed to ban people.

Isn't this the same clown that got banned right before the season openner? YoungstownIndian or something?

QUOTE(downstairs @ Sep 18, 2005 -> 03:14 PM) 4th 1-1 You can get the score live on many sites, ya know? Yep, and this being the game thread, I figured I could get it here. . .

inning/score?

QUOTE(DonkeyKongerko @ Sep 17, 2005 -> 10:36 PM) Well I thought they were funny, maybe now is just not a good time. I feel like Soxtalk is a girlfriend that I'm trying to cheer up but there's nothing that I can do. There is always a way to cheer up a girlfriend. . . GO SHOE SHOPPING!!!!!!

QUOTE(SnB @ Sep 17, 2005 -> 09:30 PM) your L.A. Lights Those were a close second. . . I heart shoes.

Crap! I don't know what shoes to wear tonight.

QUOTE(ChiSox_Sonix @ Sep 17, 2005 -> 12:34 PM) what bar were you at? Um, that's the really embarressing part. But, for the record, I did NOT pick it. . . The Belmar. Feel free to mock me.

I'm not going to lie, when I saw the final score and (maybe) recaps at the bar tonight, I kissed my best girl friend on the lips. I was sooooooo happy it honestly made my darn night (and we both got a free drink). HELL YEAH!!!!!!!

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Sep 16, 2005 -> 07:55 PM) I thought Jenna (the one that kept getting in trouble, that her name?) was teaching school somewhere? She is. An inner city somewhere I believe. DC maybe?

Hurray! Happy birthday! When I was little my dad told me BB King and Martlin Luther King were the same person. And I believed him.

Ha! I win this divorce pool. Sorry MrEye. Link

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Sep 16, 2005 -> 12:21 PM) Oh yeah because otherwise you'll have that Pirate Dude after ya, what's his name again, Captain Feathersaw or something? I'm just going to assume that you know that from babysitting a baby cousin, and that peopel in australia don't just sit around watchign the wiggles.