FlaSoxxJim

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Jul 25, 2005 -> 11:02 PM) I didn't feel sick or like I was going to faint. I don't get sick that easy. It's just that I don't understand why a person would read that. Just stupid, IMO. Why do people watch graphic war films like Saving Private Ryan? They are intense and they are very disturbing, but they are real depictions of human tragedy. As are incidents like the prolapse depicted here. The lack of pain the author alluded to (and this did not happen to the author mind you, it is fiction based on an actual event) is as morbidly factual as some of the the soldiers' last moments recounted from the battlefield. Somebody getting in a situation like that depicted in the short story is f***ed up, sure, but 13-year olds are f***-ups practically by definition.

QUOTE(Wong & Owens @ Jul 25, 2005 -> 05:44 PM) These things sound suspiciously like urban legends. What proof is offered to back these stories up? The impregnated sister thrown in at the end is most certainly an urban legend imbellishment. But the prolapsed rectum and large intestine is, sadly, very real. 150 cases a year was a shockingly high number to me, but it may well be that high. I remember about 5 years ago when a 9 year old kid died down here by having his bowels and intestine inverted and sucked out of him in the exact manner. Most likely it was a pre-adolescent 'good feeling' he got sitting on the intake pipe. If I recall the story right, he lived for several hours after the doctors had told the family there wasn't any hope.

I was buying the attorney/client privilege line about the unreleased Roberts docs during Reagan and Bush I. But it sounds like such a privelege (sp?) may not exist in this instance. can anybody here give clarification on the matter?

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Jul 25, 2005 -> 01:46 PM) You guys are lucky... I woulda been in first by a huge margin by now. Yeah, you're a legend in your own mind...

That is just brutal. Hell of a survival instinct story on one hand, but stull brutal. Let this be a lesson, kids. Playboys and hand cream never killed anyone.

QUOTE(TheDybber @ Jul 25, 2005 -> 10:58 AM) Where you go to school doesn't matter. As I've gotten older, I've realized that the true point of going to school is to learn how to learn. You can do that at any school if you put some energy into it. From CVS to New Trier to Exeter...there are just as many John Benders as there are Brian Johnsons. Yeah, but who wants to aspire to this? Nope, wrong one.

QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Jul 24, 2005 -> 11:39 PM) *cues the music from The Graduate* Mrs. Chisoxy, are you trying to seduce me? I've got one word for you, Benjamin. Plastic.

Nope, no reason to flame. Without one of these things you probably wouldn't hear any negative remarks anyway... [/getting old right behind you ]

Looks like Franklin may be off to visit somebody else after all:

QUOTE(Steff @ Jul 22, 2005 -> 04:37 PM) The few that I've known are friendly.. but not lap cats. I like lap cats.

QUOTE(knightni @ Jul 22, 2005 -> 04:40 PM) No one else liked it? Seems kind of mean actually. BBs friggin' hurt.

QUOTE(Steff @ Jul 22, 2005 -> 04:16 PM) Those are so ugly they're cute. Very friendly I've heard. Another one I love is a "maine coon cat".. very pretty but not so social. Yeah, they are supposed to be really friendly. And they feel really warm to the touch because of the lack of fur.

If I had the $$ (and if I momentarily lost my mind and thought we needed another cat) I'd get a sphynx. Those things are wild looking. Plus, no hair=no hairballs.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jul 22, 2005 -> 05:04 AM) I assume they start laughing immediately after calling you Dr. Love[/color] We kid, because we care™ Yes. Yes, they do.

For favorite, it's a 3-way tie: Beatles Zappa Rundgren As for the runners up, it changes, but these are always way up there: Elvis Costello Aimee Mann Jethro Tull David Bowie

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jul 22, 2005 -> 04:59 AM) My college fridge had a chip in it so it only got PBR

QUOTE(Rex Hudler @ Jul 21, 2005 -> 10:37 PM) What is considered a "back-to-school" purchase? How about a nice 32" LCD TV? Yes, but it has to have a special chip in it so it only gets PBS.

3 errors and 3 unearned runs. Crede is so on my s*** list. f***.

Two different models currently say we're going to have a visitor soon.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Jul 21, 2005 -> 09:58 PM) Does this mean we can actually call you Dr. Flaxx? Technically, yes you can. Though the ladies call me Dr. Love...

My situation is similar, Kap, in that it was school tuition that put my wife and I in the hole. We both had teaching or research assistantships throughout grad school, but those stipends were dirt and didn't come close to covering teh cost of living even very humbly in this area. So we racked up $40K in student loans by the time we each got our doctorates. You can live well within or below your means for a long time after that and still have a really f***ing hard time digging out of that kind of hole. To make ends meet and to make the loan payments, you end up leaning on credit more than you would like.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Jul 21, 2005 -> 08:51 PM) Flaxx....I take it that the whale poop industry is sluggish? Yeah, it's kinda in the toilet.

QUOTE(TheDybber @ Jul 21, 2005 -> 04:47 PM) Hail Satan. Hail Satan!

QUOTE(Balance @ Jul 21, 2005 -> 03:44 PM) Brinkley used to me married to Billy Joel. He's not much of a looker, either. And have you seen their kid? A friend of mine refers to her as "The Joel Troll"

Have it marked on our calendar! Thanks Steff