FlaSoxxJim

QUOTE(Mplssoxfan @ Jan 12, 2008 -> 12:02 PM) I'll bet I'm registered in at least two precincts, if not three. Not that I would ever vote twice. I left that behind when I moved out of Chicago. I'm sure you still have some dead relatives voting there that even it all out.

That course is so ghey.

Is the Mustang Ranch a "recognized facility"? That could significantly change the response you know.

QUOTE(The Critic @ Jan 7, 2008 -> 01:05 PM) [REAL MEN OF GEEEEEENIUUUUUUS!] Here's to YOU, Mr. Sensitive Online Gratitude Displayer [Mr. Sensitive Online Gratitude Displaaaaaaayer] When you feel like sharing your innermost thoughts, you go to just the right place - an anonymous message board! [Nobody knows yooooou] Posting a gushy "thank you" message in the Pale Hose Talk section just shows that YOU MEAN IT, MAAAAN! [Why not Sex, Lies and Music???] So here's to you, Internet Man-Hugger - your buddies would give you grief for this....if anyone knew who you really were.... [Mr. Sensitive Online Gratitude Displaaaaaaaaayyyyyerrrrrrrrrrrrr] [Anheuser Busch - why, it's just fine, thanks for asking!] :lolhitting You had me singing along!

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Jan 3, 2008 -> 01:43 PM) Abby has Hannah Montana too, I forgot about that one. How is that Pet Vet game? Abby really wants it, but I am afraid it may be a little ahead of where she is right now, so i told her we would hold off until the summer to check that out(there is like 2 or 3 different animal vet titles for the DS) Personally, I really want to get Drawn to life My 8 year old played Drawn to Life for about 2 weeks solid and then he hit a rough patch in the game and got flustered. Yoshi Island and one of the other Mario tiltes (dunno which) are still his favorite DS games, and both he and his sister like Nintendogs. Santa brought them a Wii and Mario Galaxy and Big Brain Academy are the big favorites so far. That's when the kids can get Dad off of GH# that is. I'm getting addicted to that dang game, though I can't beat Lou the Devil to save my life.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Dec 28, 2007 -> 04:15 PM) The irish consider drinking to be very heavenly and the path to the truth. The only reason Jesus made water into wine was that Guinness wasn't invented yet. And the only reason God invented alcohol was to make sure we Irish didn't end up ruling the planet.

QUOTE(GoSox05 @ Dec 28, 2007 -> 01:42 PM) Do any of the republicans even drink? Isn't that against god or the bible. Heck no. Jesus turned water into wine and wine is a central component in the Christian mass. Christian Conservatives are just wound too tight for their own good.

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Dec 28, 2007 -> 12:10 PM) SHe didn't have a choice. The rest of us do. FlaSoxxJim, if your wife decided that she wanted 25 kids, would you go along, or would you stop it somewhere along the line because you couldn't feed, house, clothe or care for any more? Everyone of us makes that choice somewhere as to when enough is enough, sometimes for financial reasons, sometimes for other considerations. But if you can't even take care of yourself, and yet you knowingly bring a dependent mouth to feed into this world, you have committed a form of child abuse from the moment they are born. Personally I think Jonathan Swift had the right solution regarding the multitudes of shiftless layabout poor children, but unfortunately it never really caught on. Cr@p, I forgot to copyright it!

QUOTE(Texsox @ Dec 24, 2007 -> 11:10 AM) I agree 100%, and I would hope that individuals would make that choice. I don't believe I mentioned any laws. But making a blanket statement that someone should not reproduce makes me uncomfortable. Basically it means that poor people should not reproduce. And as soon as we start making statements about who should, and who should not, reproduce, I get an uneasy feeling. Then again, maybe God should have thought better and knocked up someone more affluent than the wife of a poor carpenter. WWAD? (What Would Alpha Do?)

QUOTE(juddling @ Dec 20, 2007 -> 11:14 AM) I'm not sure how the movie was recieved or reviewed here but i finally got around to seeing Superbad and i got to say i thought (with the exception of a few scenes) it sucked bigtime. Maybe cause I'm older or what but the amount of swearing got to the point that it wasn't funny , it was annoying. I thought McLovin's storyline with the cops was pretty funny at times but the rest was stupid. Thankfully, it only cost me a dollar. It's ok to admit you were just creeped out by all those penis drawings.

QUOTE(RibbieRubarb @ Dec 18, 2007 -> 03:45 PM) Here's some new WALL-E!!! Pixar f'n ROCKS. Head and shoulders above any crap Dreamworks animation tries to throw out there. That has the look of classic Pixar animation. That look supposedly originally came from the limitations of the RenderMan shaders, so everything had more of toy look that I still find more appealing than the photorealistic rendering apps. Whatever it is, you are right, yoou can tell something is Pixar just by looking at it.

My new favorite Aussie band!

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 19, 2007 -> 04:49 PM) I thought it was one of their best. Dead on with where this society is going. I pretty much agree, but I bet the guy pitching the idea to his bosses was sweating it a bit.

Wow. That may be the coolest thing I have ever seen. :o It's hard to tell at the end, but do you pop a small chute to slow down when you're done or do you hit the ground at 100mph?? One thing is for sure, if ACME sold these things, the Coyote would have caught the Roadrunner inside of 5 minutes.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Dec 19, 2007 -> 11:29 AM) Hello Spears family. I am Timmy your friendly Trojan Condom. Remember me before your next sexual encounter. When they turn blue like that, it means it's safe for Pac-Man to eat them, right?

I figured it would be Gore for sure.

QUOTE(StrangeSox @ Dec 18, 2007 -> 01:52 PM) Agreed 300%. I'm so sick of over-done CGI. Fixed.

QUOTE(bigruss22 @ Dec 17, 2007 -> 10:01 PM) Actually, we were at the mall on a date once and were looking at a stand full of calenders and such and one was a three stooges one and she cracked up. Well that settles it then. She's a keeper!

QUOTE(Texsox @ Dec 17, 2007 -> 06:14 PM) Nice, personal, but not too personal. She knows you are listening, and wanting her to expand her horizons. Get a load of Mr. Sensitivity. Now where's that jerking-off smiley. . . The sketching supplies are actually a nice gift. But the BETTER gift would have been the complete Three Stooges on DVD. If she grimmaced when whe opened it then you know you need to end the relationship ASAP. If all men followed this simple advice. . . we'd all be single forever.

I was shocked when I heard this on the radio this morning. Only 56?!? Very sad. First Ike, Now Fogelberg. Who's going to be "lucky" number three?

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Dec 13, 2007 -> 11:04 PM) Women. Anyone got an instruction manual? You blow her up from the smallest opening, and what you put in the other openings is up to you.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Dec 13, 2007 -> 01:48 PM) Yeah, creepy. They try to kill you in your sleep. But now you can see them coming in the dark.

QUOTE(juddling @ Dec 13, 2007 -> 11:27 AM) NYP (at the same time )

That press snippet is incredibly misinformed. The scientists didn't clone the cats by manipulating the RFP gene – they cloned a transgenic cat that had the RFP gene inserted into it, and the fact that the offspring glowed is evidence that they are derived from the transgenic parent. RFP (red fluorescent prrotein), GFP (green fluorescent protein, glowing fluorescent protein), and a couple of others – apart from the Weird Science novelty of creating glowing mice, rabbits, cats, and 'Frankenfish' that you can buy at Wal-Mart for a couple dollars – are proving to be really powerful biotech tools. The genes coding for the proteins were originally isolated from a jellyfish and a coral, and I give a pretty good overview of them here on a Marine Biotechnology website I developed with funding from Sea Grant. Click on the "Cnidarians" link to open a cascading page with all the information. Here's a rundown of some of the coolest 'serious' uses of the fluorescent proteins: One important application of these glowing protein gens is gene is as 'reporter genes.' Incorporated into a vector along with another gene that is the one researchers are actually interested in, the vector can be inserted into a new host and incorporation success can be quickly assessed by visually testing for GFP. There is also a San Diego biotech company that has developed more than 100 different glowing mouse lines that can be used to visualize tumor expression, growth, and metastasis. Human tumor tissues and cancerous cell lines that have had GFP/RFP inserted into them are surgically grafted into the mice and the expression and progression of the cancer can be visually assessed from the fluorescence, so the mice don't need to be sacrificed to be assayed. One of the coolest applications is using transgenic zebrafish that have fluorescent proteins incorporated into them as pollution indicators. Here, the GFP gene has been associated with a promoter gene that regulates when GFP is to be synthesized. A research group out of Singapore is working to identify promoters that switch on GFP production in the presence of specific environmental contaminants like estrogen and heavy metals. Basically the zebrafish will light up when the encounter specific pollutants, so this may become an extremely powerful indicator organism. The group is working on a new Frankenfish (I love that term) with 5 different fluorescence producing genes that will fluoresce different colors in response to the presence of different environmental pollutants. Wicked cool stuff.