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QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Mar 26, 2006 -> 09:29 PM) I personally root against his getting to Five Hundred. ::shrug:: Personally I hope you never achieve any of your goals in life.

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Mar 31, 2006 -> 03:53 AM) do know what is more annoying than someone smoking next to me? a fat person sitting next to me... i hate that so much, they stink and are always in contact with me because they can't fit in a seat designed for a normal person. i wish they would have a "no fat people" section of the park that would rule Damn...I hope everyone in your family is petite. Wouldn't want you to hurt family member's feelings.

QUOTE(vandy125 @ Mar 31, 2006 -> 09:20 AM) Anyone else have Thunderstruck going through their head already? No. I'm actually playing it on my PC.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Mar 30, 2006 -> 07:56 PM) Conduct like that can only raise her stock within their leadership. Perhaps she should have shot an old man in the face.

Anyone see 'Thank You for Not Smoking'? Is it worth checking out?

QUOTE(Mplssoxfan @ Mar 30, 2006 -> 12:33 PM) On a somewhat different tangent, is writing someone a ticket for a lewd bumpersticker productive use of a cop's time? In the last two weeks, there's been a murder two blocks from my house and a friend of mine was robbed/mugged two blocks from where I work, both of which are unusual for my neighborhood, granted. If I heard of a police officer pulling over someone for a bumpersticker, I'd be livid. I assume that there are actual crimes being committed in DeKalb County GA. Maybe not. For real. Glad to see taxpayer money put to good use.

QUOTE(hi8is @ Mar 30, 2006 -> 12:37 PM) i think theres a poopie in my pants Mmmm....time for lunch. Later y'all.

QUOTE(HeGone33 @ Mar 30, 2006 -> 12:32 PM) Check accuweather.com, their calling for no rain!!!! Best not to trust a forecast 3 days in advance. The day b4 is the best time to check. I'll just cross my fingers.

My only concern....

I am so anxious for Sunday. I'll be in bed Saturday night like a little kid on X-mas eve.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 30, 2006 -> 09:27 AM) The Godfather Twins or Indians Twins Platoon or Full Metal Jacket

04/02 and 04/04. I can't wait. i'm mentally tailgating already.

QUOTE(nitetrain8601 @ Mar 29, 2006 -> 06:29 PM) Game 3 will have more than 15,000. Aren't there over 20K season tickets sold?

QUOTE(rangercal @ Mar 28, 2006 -> 02:22 PM) Beatles Heman or GI Joe He-Man Chinese or Sushi

QUOTE(rangercal @ Mar 28, 2006 -> 02:14 PM) Chrissy Doritos or Cheetos Doritos Tupac or Biggie

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Mar 28, 2006 -> 02:04 PM) Tootoo soap or body wash? Body wash Janet or Chrissy

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Mar 28, 2006 -> 08:34 AM) Abstain. Thomas or Thome? Thomas Star Wars or Star Trek

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Mar 26, 2006 -> 01:41 PM) Holy hell. I just saw Saw 2 last night from NetFlix and it is awesome. I absolutely loved it. Talk about left field! Wow. Doesn't take much to get you excited. I thought it was very medicore.

QUOTE(Brian @ Mar 25, 2006 -> 12:25 AM) Thanks, but where do I go to type that html stuff? Doesn't say there that I saw. I embedded my John Rooney sound bite in the "People I'd like to meet" section.

They have message boards on myspace. There should be some threads about customizing your profile. Try here--> Myspace customization

Link The liberal baby bust By Phillip Longman What's the difference between Seattle and Salt Lake City? There are many differences, of course, but here's one you might not know. In Seattle, there are nearly 45% more dogs than children. In Salt Lake City, there are nearly 19% more kids than dogs. This curious fact might at first seem trivial, but it reflects a much broader and little-noticed demographic trend that has deep implications for the future of global culture and politics. It's not that people in a progressive city such as Seattle are so much fonder of dogs than are people in a conservative city such as Salt Lake City. It's that progressives are so much less likely to have children. It's a pattern found throughout the world, and it augers a far more conservative future — one in which patriarchy and other traditional values make a comeback, if only by default. Childlessness and small families are increasingly the norm today among progressive secularists. As a consequence, an increasing share of all children born into the world are descended from a share of the population whose conservative values have led them to raise large families. Today, fertility correlates strongly with a wide range of political, cultural and religious attitudes. In the USA, for example, 47% of people who attend church weekly say their ideal family size is three or more children. By contrast, 27% of those who seldom attend church want that many kids. In Utah, where more than two-thirds of residents are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 92 children are born each year for every 1,000 women, the highest fertility rate in the nation. By contrast Vermont — the first to embrace gay unions — has the nation's lowest rate, producing 51 children per 1,000 women. Similarly, in Europe today, the people least likely to have children are those most likely to hold progressive views of the world. For instance, do you distrust the army and other institutions and are you prone to demonstrate against them? Then, according to polling data assembled by demographers Ron Lesthaeghe and Johan Surkyn, you are less likely to be married and have kids or ever to get married and have kids. Do you find soft drugs, homosexuality and euthanasia acceptable? Do you seldom, if ever, attend church? Europeans who answer affirmatively to such questions are far more likely to live alone or be in childless, cohabiting unions than are those who answer negatively. This correlation between secularism, individualism and low fertility portends a vast change in modern societies. In the USA, for example, nearly 20% of women born in the late 1950s are reaching the end of their reproductive lives without having children. The greatly expanded childless segment of contemporary society, whose members are drawn disproportionately from the feminist and countercultural movements of the 1960s and '70s, will leave no genetic legacy. Nor will their emotional or psychological influence on the next generation compare with that of people who did raise children. Single-child factor Meanwhile, single-child families are prone to extinction. A single child replaces one of his or her parents, but not both. Consequently, a segment of society in which single-child families are the norm will decline in population by at least 50% per generation and quite quickly disappear. In the USA, the 17.4% of baby boomer women who had one child account for a mere 9.2% of kids produced by their generation. But among children of the baby boom, nearly a quarter descend from the mere 10% of baby boomer women who had four or more kids. This dynamic helps explain the gradual drift of American culture toward religious fundamentalism and social conservatism. Among states that voted for President Bush in 2004, the average fertility rate is more than 11% higher than the rate of states for Sen. John Kerry. It might also help to explain the popular resistance among rank-and-file Europeans to such crown jewels of secular liberalism as the European Union. It turns out that Europeans who are most likely to identify themselves as "world citizens" are also less likely to have children. Rewriting history? Why couldn't tomorrow's Americans and Europeans, even if they are disproportionately raised in patriarchal, religiously minded households, turn out to be another generation of '68? The key difference is that during the post-World War II era, nearly all segments of society married and had children. Some had more than others, but there was much more conformity in family size between the religious and the secular. Meanwhile, thanks mostly to improvements in social conditions, there is no longer much difference in survival rates for children born into large families and those who have few if any siblings. Tomorrow's children, therefore, unlike members of the postwar baby boom generation, will be for the most part descendants of a comparatively narrow and culturally conservative segment of society. To be sure, some members of the rising generation may reject their parents' values, as often happens. But when they look for fellow secularists with whom to make common cause, they will find that most of their would-be fellow travelers were quite literally never born. Many will celebrate these developments. Others will view them as the death of the Enlightenment. Either way, they will find themselves living through another great cycle of history.

QUOTE(Soxy @ Mar 24, 2006 -> 09:48 AM) From imdb (adding onto Jim's source) Jackson's Snake Film Creates Huge Buzz Samuel L. Jackson's new mile-high thriller Snakes On A Plane has created such a buzz among internet film fans, movie bosses have called for re-shoots - to give the film a tougher rating. The film, which stars Jackson as an FBI agent trying to keep a federal witness alive onboard a plane full of snakes, wrapped last September - but went back before the cameras earlier this month for five days of additional shooting. Film bosses at distributor New Line Cinema opted to add new scenes to the film to take the movie from PG-13 into R-rated territory, according to industry magazine The Hollywood Reporter. They claim the second round of filming became necessary after intense and growing fan interest in the film, which is scheduled to be released this summer. Among the reported additions to the film is a foul-mouthed rant from Jackson in which his agent character bellows, "I want these motherf**king snakes off the motherf**king plane!" The line is expected to take on cult status. The film-makers have reportedly added more gore, more deaths, more nudity and more snakes to the finished product. This is truly a must see for me now. I'm a big fan of Killer Klowns from Outer Space.

Happy Birthday!! Hope yours is as fun as mine was.

Link Rare syndrome causes female sexual overdrive Constant, unprovoked excitement actually a distressing disorder LONDON - Doctors called on Friday for more research into a very rare, poorly understood syndrome that is the opposite of the most common sexual complaint in women. Instead of failing to get aroused, women suffering from persistent sexual arousal syndrome (PSAS) experience constant, unprovoked feelings of excitement. “Persistent sexual arousal syndrome occurs when a woman becomes involuntarily aroused for extended periods of time in the absence of sexual desire,” said Dr. David Goldmeier, of St Mary’s Hospital in London. But rather than being a pleasant sensation, Goldmeier, who described PSAS in a report in the International Journal of STD & AIDS, said it is embarrassing and very distressing for women. Some sufferers have reported being suicidal, he added. In the majority of cases the cause is unknown but a number of women report symptoms after they stop taking antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. Because so few cases have been studied, little is known about the prevalence of the problem or the best treatments for a condition that was first diagnosed in 2001. “It deserves continued research, not only because it is a distressing and perplexing condition, but also because ... treatment may lead to greater understanding of other aspects of female sexual response,” said Goldmeier and Dr. Sandra Leiblum of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Piscataway, New Jersey. The International Journal of STD & AIDS is published by the Royal Society of Medicine in London.

Link Vonage 911 Caller Put On Hold While House Burns Down March 22, 2006 A Minnesota homeowner charges VoIP provider Vonage put him on hold when he called 911 to report his house was on fire. The home was a total loss. Loren Velthamp of Chanhassen, Minnesota, said he grabbed the phone and called 911 when he realized a fire has started in his home. "I called 911 using Vonage broadband and they put us on hold," Velthamp told KSTP-TV in Minneapolis. “Unbelievable… your house is burning down, and you're put on hold by Vonage.” Fire department officials say that by the time fire crews arrived on the scene, the fire had become a five-alarm blaze. No one was injured, but they described the dwelling as a total loss. The incident has raised anew the question of how VoIP services, which provide telephone services over the Internet, interface with community 911 emergency services systems. Because the calls aren't routed through the land-line telephone system's infrastructure, there has to be way to transfer into the 911 system that serves the nation's 6,200 emergency call centers. That transfer has posed numerous stumbling blocks so far, both technical and political. As it now stands, VoIP 911 calls can be unreliable. Calls made after normal business house may be misdirected to emergency-services administrative offices, where the caller gets a recorded message. Even when the VoIP 911 call does make it to an EMS dispatcher, it sometimes lacks the information traditional phone services provide, like the caller's address and telephone number. There could well be repercussions from the Minnesota incident at the Federal Communications Commission. Last year the FCC gave VoIP providers an ultimatum to institute by September 2005 the same kind of 911 access provided to people using landlines or cell phones.