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The reviews of the actual musical performances were more kind. But I think the producer and director have to be rethinking their strategy of letting Yoko have so much input into the production.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Aug 16, 2005 -> 12:09 PM) WTF did Jim just say? For the love of God, someone get me a PhD to English dictionary I was just blithely chalking up one of Bach's signature musical quirks to his serious java jones. I guess I could just as easily attribute his ear for counterpoint and his obsession with somewhat frenetic choral cantatas to a case of ADHD the caffeine coursing through his veins every waking hour of his life. Next week on Classical Composers and the Chemical Dependencies that made them Swing!

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Aug 16, 2005 -> 09:11 AM) Jesus, 10+ ???!!! Why not just have an I.V. hooked up?? True Fact: J.S. Bach drank 36 cups of coffee each day. I read a paper on Bach's minuets back in college and got hung up on the description of the persistent two-bar hypermeter phrasing he maintains during most of those zippy little numbers. It turns out he was completely hopped up on cafeine the whole time, so that explains a lot.

Tough choice. Could you make it easier by putting sex on the list too?

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1041883

That was 'single celled protein' without tissue-level organization. [/nerd][/not really][/can't stop] I didn't read the whole story, but I know the issue with similar attempts is that without the test-tube meat ever being 'exercized' in the way that muscle normally is, the texture is not very firm and leaves a lot to be desired from a consumer standpoint. That said, if they ever got this to the point of a palatable product, I'd be an immediate convert. I'm embarrased by my carnivorous ways, knowing full well we'd all be better off (and so would the planet) if we ate lower on the food chain.

Curiouser and curiouser... Seems the majority of people were alive (if incapacitated) when the Greek jetliner crashed, so the earlier 'all frozen solid' claims may have been overstated. Also, records show this same plane suffered a massive decompression failure last winter.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Aug 16, 2005 -> 08:13 AM) I'm sorry, I should have continued If you picked the Skipper, you probably are winodj (but I'm guessing he's a Professor guy) Oh, shoot, I was just thinking the fattest person on the island would be the best choice... you know, in case I got tired of eating fish and coconuts.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Aug 16, 2005 -> 08:05 AM) Let me try graphically If you picked Ginger Grant, this isn't the thread If you picked Mary Ann Summers, you are getting closer If you picked Eunice Wentworth 'Lovey' Howell, YOU GOT IT! This is the thread. What about the Skipper? er, I mean, Mmm, Ginger.

Bless you and your superhuman Mod Powers. I also deleted my calling Santo an ASS(!!), because it's not nice.

QUOTE(Brian @ Aug 15, 2005 -> 05:20 PM) Isn't that what happened with the plane Payne Stewart died on? Basically, yes. The Stewart plane flew for two hours after the last radio contact, suggesting everybody was dead or incapacittated and the plane was on auto pilot. Also, the preliminary coroner's report suggests some of the passengers in the Greek crash were alive at impact: http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/08/15...1437/index.html

QUOTE(AddisonStSox @ Aug 15, 2005 -> 02:27 PM) "So, you telling me we went to the moon? Way up there?" "Hell nah." "I ain't believing that, man."

I met Ms. Cellular live and in person at an uppity Christmas party in Evanston back when I was in high school. It was like living in my very own John Hughes movie.

QUOTE(Steff @ Aug 15, 2005 -> 04:53 PM) LMAO Jim... I just realized your sig changes.. Yep. Keeps me really busy coming up with new taglines.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Aug 15, 2005 -> 03:22 PM) Rach Ray is way cute. You have got to love that smile and giggle. Also Paige from that home makeover reality series. Another cute as a bug's ear. Love Rachel. I thought she was getting a li'l chunky at the end of last season's shows, and I thought the producers might cut her food allowance down to $20 a day this year.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Aug 15, 2005 -> 02:08 PM) I love that song. Was that Brandmeir? I seem to recall Johnny B playing it. I have no idea who recorded it, but Brandmeyer (sp?) is where I first heard it as well.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Aug 15, 2005 -> 02:39 PM) Speaking of cool conspiracies, could Atlantis have been found??? No joke, a team of self-proclaimed explorers visited my place of work (an oceanographic institution) and tried to pitch us on the idea of a mission to find Atlantis using our ships and submersibles. We told them as long as they could come up with the $15K a day it would cost us to do the marine ops we'd take them out to look for whatever they wanted to. They have not gotten back to us yet, as apparently they are still busy hunting for Bigfoot.

They are great, even though we are only half-way through Order of the Phoenix. And, yes, somebody did screw me over by already telling me who it is that dies in Half-Blood Prince. I curse that person and will keep the secret, however. The reason we're so slow getting through teh last books is that I've been appointed the de facto human book on tape and have to read them to my wife on car trips while she drives. She makes me do the accents and the different voices and the whole deal – we are odd people. But we haven't taken any long trips in the last couple of years, and we only get to read after the kids have fallen asleep in the back, so it's been slow going. I think the films are excellent as well, especially the latest one (Azkaban) which took on a new look and a darker tone with the new director.

QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Aug 15, 2005 -> 12:53 PM) So economically you won't gain anything but you'll be helping the environment & the nation. Money isn't everything. Agreed, it is difficult to be on the bleeding edge of new technology. But it is necessary that small grassroots groups of idealistic people take these kind of leaps even if they are not entirely cost effective. Demand has to start somewhere/some time, or R&D toward cost-effective follow-on technology will be minimal.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Aug 15, 2005 -> 09:02 AM) http://washtimes.com/national/20050814-115425-7424r.htm Actually a lot of interesting stuff in here. One other thing was Howard Dean saying that women are going to be worse off in Iraq without Saddam Hussein. I don't know if he's that far off the mark in his women in Iraq comments. It really depends on what the final version of the constitution looks like (versus the draft with the gaping holes being submitted todey). The Shi'ite contingent is pushing for it to be put in writing in the constitution that the principal source of law in the new Iraq will come from the Koran. If that happens, women will certainly be getting the shaft. And if that happens we will pretty much have two Irans on our hands.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Aug 15, 2005 -> 08:08 AM) Who's walking down the streets of Mayberry Smiling at everybody she sees? Who's taking care of Andy and Opie? Everyone knows it's Aunt Bea (Dum Dum Dum Dum Dum...) And Aunt Bea has Great Big Thighs Her aprons are All King Size She gives my Blue Jeans a Rise When she walks by When she walks by When she walks by

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Aug 13, 2005 -> 05:13 PM) Wow. The Wiggles = One of the greatest live acts in the entire world. I'm stunned by how much fun that friggin' show was!!! You sure the brownies they were serving in the lobby weren't laced with something, Kid? That Dorothy the Dinosaur might give Godzilla a run for his/her money, though...

Edith Prickley

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Aug 13, 2005 -> 09:19 AM) So that's what you look like after battling the hurricanes. That's what I look like after a Chimay bender.

Now I feel really old.