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QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Jun 7, 2006 -> 03:13 PM) Tugboat became Typhoon and they were the tag team known as the Natural Disasters. And the blue African outfit was Akeem, the African Dream (basically the One Man Gang before Reverend Slick gave him a transformation) Tenta's gimmicks were the following: Canadian Earthquake, Earthquake, Avalanche, The Shark and Golga (part of the Oddities in WWE when he wore a mask) First off, RIP to the wrestler I never heard of but agree did die way to young. Secondly, LCR, your command of 80s wrestling arcana frightens me.

Ann Coulter is a waste of skin.

QUOTE(Athomeboy_2000 @ Jun 7, 2006 -> 06:05 PM) My Caption: "Just shoot me now!" . . . And if I'm a good boy, Mr. Cheney says one day I can get a REAL gun!

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 7, 2006 -> 06:59 PM) But the idea that 10% (or more) of the population chooses a life of ridicule and hardship, so that they can get attention, is just assinine on its face. Then how do you explain the number of Cub Fans in Chicago??

I will have my first chess babe dream tonight, and it will consist of this exchange: Arianne Caoili (after making her coup de grâce chess move against me): Mate. Flaxx (in his typical cool, James Bond-like manner): Don't mind if I do. In my dreams I say all the right things.

QUOTE(whitesoxin @ Jun 7, 2006 -> 06:33 PM) I've seen an instance of it, so I am not embarassed for thinking that. Not every situation is the same, and it is the reason that some people do it. It really is not an ignorant comment because I have seen it happen to people I know. Is that what they call being fashionably gay?

QUOTE(jasonxctf @ Jun 7, 2006 -> 05:58 PM) http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/06/dobbs.june7/index.html normally i dont agree with Lou Dobbs that much, but he hit the nail on the head with this article. enjoy.

Wow! Congratulations CC. She's all kinds of cute. You do good work.

Sign me up!!

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Jun 7, 2006 -> 01:24 PM) Those songs remind me of how f***in' horrible the 80's were. I'll take any and all of the songs and artists listed if only I could live in a world where WHAM never existed.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Jun 7, 2006 -> 01:28 PM) Yes, of course I'm joking. I figured. You know how it is without the green to hit me over the head.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Jun 7, 2006 -> 11:59 AM) Damien. You are joking, right? If so, If not,

QUOTE(Soxy @ Jun 7, 2006 -> 10:59 AM) Do you have a link for who voted how? Indeed, as good old Sen. Brownback (R-Kan) said, "People are going to be responsible for this vote,". Hopefully voters hold the yes voters accountable and see them for the their willingness to have the federal government meddle in the persoal lives of Americans. QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Jun 7, 2006 -> 10:58 AM) The Federal Discrimination Amendment couldn't even get 50 votes in the Senate (It needs 67 to pass.) The vote failed 49-48. I think it only needed 60 to get an up or down floor vote.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jun 7, 2006 -> 08:09 AM) That sounded like the voice of experience... [Digs out Flaxx to the Future] I told her dealer I was broke He hired a camera man We did a porno film for coke I hear I'm big in Japan Ah, youthful indiscretion. . .

:bang

Yeah, most anything from the early Cure, Adam Ant, Depeche Mode, Howard Jones, etc. will always remind me of my first major earth-moving high school love. Most of the stuff drove me nuts at the time because I was much more rock and roll oriented, but I spent a lot of time quietly suffering through it to bask in the glow of her majectic presence. Damn, was I whipped good.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Jun 6, 2006 -> 11:04 PM) Didn't that one Japanese reliever on the Indians come out of the closet? Mitsubishi Tadano or something... Kazuhito Tadano. And there is a difference between coming out and being recognized in a gay porn movie you did in college for a little extra cash.

Huge Huge Huge!!!

Barry Levinson's Toys is a flawed gem. Beautiful cinematography, and prescient in some of the predictiosn it made about the convergence of the video game culture and the American military-industrial complex. I know a lot of peole have a low Joan Cussack threshold, but she is perfectly cast in this film. Robin Williams' performance is solid and somewhat understate – at least by Robin Williams standards. I've told a few people to check out this film. Of those that have, at least half of them think I'm nuts and didn't much like the film. So what the hell do I know?

QUOTE(hammerhead johnson @ Jun 6, 2006 -> 05:15 PM) Let's see, I have two choices here: 1) Choose to be gay so that I can get ridiculed, become ostracized, etc. 2) Choose to be straight so that I can blend in with the the other 90% of the population. You're telling me that people actively choose option #1? That's a bunch of bulls***. ^^^^^ Bingo. QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Jun 6, 2006 -> 06:54 PM) Here's a question I'm wondering about. Has anyone ever found out that a friend of their's was gay and did that affect how you viewed them or how you hung out with them? I haven't had a good friend come out openly before so I wouldn't know but I have thought about how it would affect our friendship and I don't think it would, I think it'd all be the same, but once again I've never been through it so I don't know. An extremely close female friend – one of my best friends – "came out" a year ago. Our only shock was why the hell she waited so long, since we all have basically known forever, despite her token attempts at dating guys here and there. Then again, it's not for me to judge when the right time to come out was for her. The way I see it, she spent 15 years or so with a very closeknit group of friends that honestly wouldn't have lost any of the love they had for this person, and never felt comfortable enough to be herself. But in truth I think she was waiting to come out to her family, and decided not to confide (again, it was not a very well kept secret) in any of us until she worked up the nerve to tell her family.

As far as national figures, it's gotta be Amy Goodman Mostly I listen to local-ish (Orlando) talk radio personalities from the Real Radio WTKS lineup, though that once-fine station has been turning the suck up to 11 ever since Evil Empire ClearChannel took it over.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Jun 6, 2006 -> 03:29 PM) For once, this will NOT work. And I still say it's not GWB's ideas. Rove, maybe, and if he thinks this particular charade will work, it won't. It's got Rove written all over it. Hard to beleive he's recycling thsi bit after just 2 years.

Damn, what a shame. RIP Billy. Get back to where you once belonged.

Happy Happy X 2!

Interesting mysteries. The news story is pretty sketchy on details, and I can't even be sure from what I read there whether the material is all preserved or whether they have viable material that they see some signs of life in. That would be hard to believe, given the complete lack of knowledge about culture requirements of these entities and and seemingly a lack of any kind of environmental controls that would put them back under something approaching their putative natural conditions (e.g., extreme temperature, anoxia, near-vacuum etc.). On the estreme temperature topic. . . The assertion that these entities to be viable (even as spores) in space at a temperature of ~3 degrees Kelvin (3 degrees above absolute zero, and 270 degrees below freezing) and also viable after being heated to a temperature nearly 900 degrees Kelvin above that – that takes a lot of suspension of disbelief. Personally, I'm annoyed that they have been punting this around between the astrophysicists and astronomers for several years and are only now bringing biologists into the mix. DNA or not, it should be a simple matter to identify the structural components – is the "cell" membrane a lipid bilayer or is it something else? Is the replication they believe they are seeing utilizing organic molecules provided by the culture system or are these spheroids just breaking into pieces? I'm not accusing this scientist of any quackery - and he has himself admitted he's skeptical of his own hypothesis. And he may well be seeing some self-organization despite a lack of DNA. It's a near certainty that such self-organizing pre-living systems were precursors to true life on earth. Maybe that is what they are seeing here. I'm not a believer in panspermia in the truest sense – life forms from space seeding earth in the distant past. But I believe that various quasi-organic molecular precursors could have come to earth this way. My biggest doubts about life coming from space come from the extreme environmental ranges an organism would have to survive to make it intact. I'm open to the notion of being convinced otherwise by new evidence, however.