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QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Jan 15, 2007 -> 08:35 PM) This site is really fascinating! http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/ The guy has some incredible ideas, such as this one: http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidenc...quatic-park.htm Give this man a big honkin' research grant! Truly a genius in his own mind.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jan 12, 2007 -> 11:28 PM) Sadly, I can not yet afford a basement with my life. I hear a dirt pit works in a pinch.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jan 12, 2007 -> 10:21 PM) It's like a lot of criminals...people are surprisingly able to put things out of their minds and have normal lives despite the things they are doing. It's actually a fairly amazing ability of our brains. A person can go to work, go shopping for a couple people, and then go home to the young boy tied up in the basement, and no one that sees or talks to that person will ever be the wiser. So, who the hell you got in in your basement?!?

QUOTE(knightni @ Jan 12, 2007 -> 09:18 PM) BEST. COVER. EVER. Billy Bass!

QUOTE(hammerhead johnson @ Jan 12, 2007 -> 01:11 PM) Seriously though, maybe it's because you guys don't like women? I'm just trying to come up with a reason for the insanity...

QUOTE(bmags @ Jan 11, 2007 -> 12:43 AM) i would pick voodoo chile. If true, that would impress me. A 15 minute soulful blues jam with some classic Steve Windwood organ lines to close out Side 1. Of course, methinks you probably mean "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" and not "Voodoo Chile" - the more recognizable 5 minute thundering sloser to Side 4. Can't go wrong either way. Both are great tracks.

Anybody here familiar with the covers of Simon and Garfunkle's "America" and the Beatles' "Every Little Thing" that Yes did way back when? Those are both really amazing, back when it was evident that Yes were a bunch of really innovative musicians but before they started taking themselves too seriously. I think the Beatles version of Buddy Holly's "Words of Love" is one of my favorite cover tunes the early Fabs did. John Lennon's cover of Ben E. King's classic "Stand By Me" is one of my favorite John solo acoustic guitar-based tracks. When Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company did "Summertime" that was really a cover of a tune from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, so I'll include that as a favorite. REM's "Superman" is better than the original by The Clique and the first cover done by Moby Grape. Currently my favorite covers are all the cool Bowie tunes Sue Jorge does in Portuguese on the Lif Aquatic soundtrack. Listening to that right now. QUOTE(hammerhead johnson @ Jan 11, 2007 -> 12:13 AM) And yes, "All Along The Watchtower" is arguably Jimi's best track, period. If we had a "Favorite Hendrix Song" poll, that one would most likely take the cake. Great tune, and probably his best from a studio/technical production standpoint. But I'll take Little Wing as my all time fave. I like the Clapton, Stevie ray, and Sting covers of that one, btw.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Jan 10, 2007 -> 04:56 PM) I haven't seen her lately, but about 10-15 years ago I had a thing for Annie Lennox. My first really detailed erotic dream as an adolescent involved Annie Lennox. I wasn't the biggest fan of her music but for some reason she's the one who turned up to, er. . . deflower me. QUOTE(bmags @ Jan 10, 2007 -> 06:07 PM) ugh ugh chrissie hynes? i could see but annie lennox puke. Chrissie Hynde up through the Learning to Crawl era was a rock n roll hottie, yeah. Kind of like a less manly Patti Smith.

RIP Lilly. Herman, Grandpa, and Lilly, all gone now.

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Jan 8, 2007 -> 08:51 PM) Happy 72nd Elvis. I didn't know there were that many of him. QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Jan 8, 2007 -> 08:23 PM) Another classic is if you look up the term "Gaged" Hey, it's better than Santorum got.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Jan 9, 2007 -> 03:25 PM) Take a good look at the Iphone. Now in about a month or maybe 2 you will see a side announcement with a new video Ipod that has all of the same wide screen, touch features that the iphone has. That is what I am waiting for. I was a bit disappointed. I know that they wanted to really push the iphone and itv. But I was hoping to see more of the next version of OSX Leopard and of the high end Mac Pro's with quad and octal core systems. But as my boss just commented, Apple likes to trickle some of these out to keep a sustained spin going. The cingular move is the same thing that a lot of cell phone vendors use. The Treo700 series came out on Verizon only. Eventually the exclusive contract runs out and different version of the product run on different plans. Yeah, I was hoping we'd see something new on the macBook Pros as well, since I'm stuck with my desktop G5 for a while still. Time to replace the creaking Titanium Powerbook though, so I think I'll be ordering up a 17" dual-core laptop this week. Yay Toys!

Zoinks! RIP Takamoto-San

QUOTE(Mplssoxfan @ Jan 5, 2007 -> 05:18 PM) If I could add one name to that dynamic duo, it'd be Ingrid Bergman. Put Hitchcock's Notorius in your Netflix cue and prepare to be dazzled. Ingrid is definitely it for me too. The most beautiful woman ever to be captured on film. The camera definately loved Ingrid. And maybe it's a personal preferance for Bogart over Cary Grant, but it's the Casablanca Ingrid and not the Notorius Ingrid that ranks above all others. Then again, it may be that Casablanca is probably the second most perfect American film after Citizen Kane, but Bergman was a big part of that perfection.

Apparently I'm more conservative than Ted Kennedy (scored a 7). It's probably his liberal drinking that puts him just to the left of me.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Jan 5, 2007 -> 03:17 PM) Next Tuesday is Steve Jobs keynote at Macworld, or when Steve announces all the new cool hardware and software. You could of gotten a new macbook. Actualy, I have my eye on a new dual quad core mac pro for my work desktop which is what I think he is going to announce. Maybe I could hold out for the 8 core boxes that will come out. For a PC the Dells are pretty good laptops. You will like it. I'm about to submit a work purchase order for a new 17" dual core MacBook Pro (not enough budget for a new desktop machine). Do you know if Jobs is announcing new laptops this round?

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jan 5, 2007 -> 03:53 PM) Someone didn't check snopes.com http://www.snopes.com/katrina/soapbox/dakota.asp Beat me to it. But the basic point remains. Those whiny-a$$ed coloreds in New Orleans should have just shut up and dealt with the levees breaking and their houses and neighborhoods being wiped out and all that dying and $hit. Like anybody above 48 degrees North Latitude really cares anyway, right?

QUOTE(YASNY @ Jan 5, 2007 -> 03:25 AM) I had a shot at a 300 game once, but I choked in the 2nd frame. I had a shot at a 300 game once, but I choked on the first ball.

Hearts and thoughts are with your family.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Dec 30, 2006 -> 11:04 PM) I could give you a hint for that cover, since I HIGHLY doubt you will get it if you are not a fan of the band. Band hint: The band you mentioned before (Gabriel) was a MAJOR influence for this band. Album title hint: The name of the album is a game kids used to play. Got it. Not without your hints, of course. I could tell the kid must have been holding something in his hand. I stalled at 42 and broke down and looked at Cheat's cheats. There are maybe two more i should have gotten but there were at least 10 of them i never would have known.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Dec 30, 2006 -> 03:04 PM) It's not that tough. I need to get going though, my supper's ready. 3rd row, sixth album might actually be the toughest one on here. It surprised me to see it there and should keep most people from hitting a perfect score. I know almost all of them by bands, but the album titles are escaping me. Is it cheating if I go to Amazon to search for the titles? I haven't yet. 3rd row, sixth album has me stumped so far. Not cheating to search for titles, entire album pics, etc. The only thing that would be cheating would be too look at Cheat's cheats.

OK, I'm up to 38 and this thing is eating away at what is supposed to be a productive day. Damn you Gene Honda Civic!!

QUOTE(BigEdWalsh @ Dec 30, 2006 -> 10:48 AM) I only got 17 of them but the fourth one in the top row was one of 'em. I knew my Gabriel-Era Genesis manlove would pay off one day. How about the first one in the second row, Ed? That one's stumping me and I know I know it. Time to start riffling through the vinyl crate to jog my memory.

I'm stuck on 37 and a couple of the missing ones are driving me batty.

QUOTE(Middle Buffalo @ Dec 30, 2006 -> 12:04 AM) 2. My cousin is arguably the most famous Irish-American violin player in the world Eileen Ivers????? If so, wow. I'm a huge fan. My wife walked down the aisle to an Eileen Ivers song at our wedding. And, if not, who??

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Dec 28, 2006 -> 03:17 PM) Oh ye, Master of the Google search, dare to look up how many times Georgie and/or republicans in general have been referred to as Hitler or Hitleresque in the last few years. I will bet that it far outnumbers however many times Santorum chooses to make an ass out of himself. But it does not far outnumber the times non-Republicans are referred to as 'Hitler', 'worse than Hitler', 'Nazis', etc. The fact that Godwin's Law was enunciated a decade before GWB took office, and the fact that Leo Strauss poked fun at the false logic of the reductio ad Hitlerum back in the 1950s demonstrates that hyperbolic Hitler comparisons have been around for generations. for every 'Bush = Hitler' or 'Rummy = Hitler' you can find, I can find some equally stupid non-conservative = Hitler reference. Here's a funny blog entry that includes a bunch of good ones, including George Soros = Hitler, Martha Stewart = Hitler, Howard Dean = Hitler, and lots of others that peg both teh left and the right as the new face of the Nazi party. To be sure, there's lots of Bush = Hitler comparisons out there, as this site tried to compile back in 2005. Heil Hyperbole!