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Zero copies of the alternate mono mix of the White Album were originally released in the US, and it only became available last month with the Beatles in Mono CD box that coincided with the Rock Band release.

Xinhua News Agency is one of the two news agencies in the People's Republic of China. I can't understand a thing thay are talking about because the stupid thing is broadcast entirely in Chinese.

Verily, you should Vocalize you Vaunted Veneration for Vowel Volley.

Torii Totally Toasted the Tea Party Twits.

Red Sox used to be kindred spirits in the Land of Championship Droughts, but now I find their fans to largely be insufferable pricks. Attending Game 2 of the 2008 ALCS at Tropicana and seeing my SECOND favorite team beat the Bosox in 11 innings confirmed just how assholeaceous most Boston fans are.

Priceless rant right there ^^^ And the Halos are kicking carmine arse and making me happy. And unless you want to know what to mix with your Appleton's 12 year Extra* to make it SING (!!!), I won't be teaching sh*t to anybody. * Passionfruit juice, sweet vermouth, and Angostura bitters ftw.

Number Nine. . . Number Nine. . . Number Nine. . .

Kaleidoscope. Careful, don't look down the wrong end. You will see ships that fall out of the sky. Who put that nail in your eye? You make me want to cry

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Oct 8, 2009 -> 09:49 PM) Part of the reason for the "Cross" symbol is its similarity to the Egyptian "Ankh." Flasoxx, I agree it should stay. Just not for the reasons why Scalia says. Ankhs are wicked cool, Dr. Fate used 'em, so they're totally cool. Doctor Fate could kick Dr. Strange's grey-templed a$$, and all you Marvel losers know it.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Oct 8, 2009 -> 09:42 PM) I heard it said recently that if Jesus were killed today, he'd be killed in an electric chair. Just think, instead of those crosses hanging from everyone's neck, and the churches, and everything else, it could be electric chairs. It gives a whole new meaning to symbols, I guess. What a weird notion for anyone to contemplate. What would Jesus be sentenced for today that would warrant capital punishment according to US laws? Maybe he'd be locked up under the belief he's a raving lunatic with delusions of divinity, but I don't thing that would get him the chair. I get the point — that the alleged instrument of execution for Jesus has become the principal symbol of Christianity. It just seems like a lazy and not particularly nuanced observation.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Oct 8, 2009 -> 08:48 PM) They have it around but its not the original stuff. Even in Amsterdam its not the original. You have to go to Prague I believe to get it. I've heard its effects are overblown and I've heard you do really strange things hopped up on it. That's not true anymore. Prior to 2007, that was absolutely the case, and products like Pernod's "Pernod" (without the specific "Absinthe" designation) were all that was available — essentially absinthe without the wormwood and therefore without the compound thujone that was supposedly the harmful component of the spirit. But starting in the early 2000s and finally in the US in 2007, nearly all the laws banning the sale and/or production of wormwood-containing absinthe were repealed. There are undoubtedly changes and modernizations in the way the spirit is produced now compared to how it was done prior to the (1915) ban, but of course that is the case with every manufactured product. [apologies in advance, because I'm going to geek out on you now. . . ] The persistent belief that the postban products labeled "Absinthe" and available now are fundamentally different/less potent/less toxic, etc., was challenged in a 2008 scientific study by Lachenmeier et al. published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry that performed chemical analysis of vintage preban absinthe as well as the modern products and the results indicated no discernible differences in the products:

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 8, 2009 -> 07:06 PM) Its not necessarily an offense for them to exist. Its offensive to think that another religion's symbolism would do a good job of representing theirs. QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Oct 8, 2009 -> 07:21 PM) It was the comment by Scalia that a cross would be an appropriate symbol to represent a Jew, because "Crosses are the most prolific symbol when it comes to death." The comment itself just shows a complete lack of understanding. If you want to create a memorial that represents Jews, Christians, Muslims etc, it seems some what insensitive to pick any of their symbols. You both hit it on the head. That said, my issue is with Scalia's uninformed, condescending, and ignorant opinions. I still think the memorial should be preserved as an artifact that predates federal ownership of the land.

QUOTE (Tex @ Oct 8, 2009 -> 07:03 PM) When I started hitting clubs in the city, circa 1983, Division St was just starting to die a little. Coincidence??? I think not. I.K.B.I.C®

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 8, 2009 -> 05:28 PM) FWIW, the gay pride rainbow usually has one less color than the others. So which nationality refuses to admit it has gays?

QUOTE (Tex @ Oct 8, 2009 -> 05:24 PM) Of course you make perfect sense. I was thinking more in the abstract. How about this example Is this a symbol of God's covenant and should be taken down or is a Gay Pride symbol and left up? I thought it was the color scheme from those horrendous 1970s Houston Astros uniforms.

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Oct 8, 2009 -> 05:18 PM) ZOOM was my favorite show when I was young. Ahem. . .

'zactly.

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QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Oct 8, 2009 -> 05:06 PM) You need way more deatils than were available at either of those links. Did husband shoot her with her own gun or his own gun? If it was his own, it would seem that in this case, having one didnt help. Althogh not having one wouldnt have helped either, so it would be a lose/lose situation all around. I don't see how her having the gun increased the probability at all, if the hubby had his own and was intent on killing her anyway. Did another story come out saying she was shot with her own gun? Your post seems to imply that. That wasn't my intent, and I don't know if it was her gun. I'm not even assuming it was. Rather, I'll assert that the spouse of such a vocal gun owner/lover is probably a like-minded individual and probably was also a gun fetishist with his own gun. In either case, gun accessibility combined with emotional instability culminated in a tragedy.

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Oct 8, 2009 -> 04:59 PM) Definitely Old Town. It was full of shops and neat little arts and craft type places. And you had the Earl of Old Town, Somebody Else's Troubles, the Quiet Knight, the Old Town School of Folk Music. It was a pretty cool area. They say if your memory of it is that good then you couldn't have been there!

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Oct 8, 2009 -> 05:04 PM) This could be cause of a slow day, but it seems this thread is slowly dying... WOOOO! Very unlikely. hater.

Topical. . . and off-topical. Unreal. Where's that battery??

Pug??

Funny thing is, when they're giving it away free at the Hospitality House I always manage to choke one or two of the less offensive offerings down. I actually think their Bare Knuckle Stout is tolerable.

Nuts to you, I already do that. No summers off for this boy.