Offtopic -- HabitableZone

Within this board may there reside those posts which are not flames, and which are not about space, but rather are offtopic of these. Through their nebulous nature and tendancy they have a home here on the 'Offtopic Board'. May they find this space habitable. If you need anything e-mail: Justin or Robert

Warning... - TB - 5/9/2008 12:03:16 PM
- They had the survivor people eating Balut - FrankC - 5/9/2008 1:50:09 PM

Video of tornado tossing cars - McFly - 5/9/2008 11:30:14 AM

The people of the book - ER - 5/9/2008 7:04:21 AM
- re: The people of the book - TB - 5/9/2008 11:02:36 AM
  - re: The people of the book - ER - 5/9/2008 11:20:03 AM
    - Good point - TB - 5/9/2008 11:50:49 AM
      - Amongst the barbaroi - ER - 5/9/2008 12:52:11 PM

"Great tits cope well with warming ." - Bowser - 5/8/2008 2:51:38 PM
- Bush tits cover more territory. (n/t) - RobVG - 5/8/2008 7:37:51 PM
- Poor little tits - I'm glad they're adjusting. :-) - Eri - 5/8/2008 3:51:40 PM
- No foul...that headline was irresistible. (n/t) - TB - 5/8/2008 3:40:38 PM
- Contrary to popular belief however... - Jody - 5/8/2008 3:01:50 PM
  - But nothing's as cold as... - ER - 5/8/2008 6:21:07 PM
    - But only his proctologist knows for sure. (n/t) - alcaray - 5/8/2008 6:40:52 PM
      - No doubt his proctologist has an instrument that's even colder. (n/t) - ER - 5/8/2008 6:54:30 PM

A question about fidelity. - Jody - 5/6/2008 7:14:07 PM
- re: A question about fidelity. - REB - 5/9/2008 6:42:59 AM
  - Another one who is married.~sigh~ (n/t) - Jody - 5/9/2008 6:47:47 AM
    - And that's why. - TB - 5/9/2008 10:15:15 AM
      - My dear TB, SDG, and REB, - Jody - 5/9/2008 12:03:18 PM
- If it's hurtful to the wife... - Eri - 5/7/2008 8:38:45 PM
  - Venus and Mars - FrankC - 5/8/2008 11:28:05 AM
    - Actually...speaking for myself... - Jody - 5/8/2008 12:24:23 PM
      - Look at it this way... - ER - 5/8/2008 1:12:10 PM
        Along those lines... - RobVG - 5/8/2008 7:58:17 PM
        " It's the height of selfishness to reveal an affair. " - ER - 5/8/2008 8:37:01 PM
        re: " It's the height of selfishness to reveal an affair. " - Lindy - 5/9/2008 8:01:59 AM
        re: " It's the height of selfishness to reveal an affair. " - Lindy - 5/8/2008 8:55:53 PM
        As I understand it, you've missunderstood it. - podock - 5/8/2008 10:28:47 PM
    - Aprhrodite, Ares and Eros - ER - 5/8/2008 12:06:06 PM
      - Sounds like an excuse to me - Lindy - 5/8/2008 1:44:53 PM
        Of course it is. - TB - 5/8/2008 4:31:39 PM
        re: Of course it is. - REB - 5/9/2008 6:53:30 AM
        Humans can choose their behaviors, - ER - 5/8/2008 6:49:25 PM
        Most men can resist the temptation to make a pass at their wife's sister. - ER - 5/9/2008 8:19:17 AM
        re: Most men can resist the temptation to make a pass at their wife's sister. - Lindy - 5/9/2008 8:56:59 AM
        "Alimony, alimony, paying your bills..." - ER - 5/9/2008 10:39:15 AM
        "If your wife's sister really did come on to you..." - ER - 5/9/2008 10:04:56 AM
        Abandon reason, all ye who enter here. - Lindy - 5/8/2008 8:59:04 PM
        I believe it is a scientific fact more than a theory - FrankC - 5/8/2008 2:36:37 PM
        What *would* it take to make men happy? - Jody - 5/8/2008 2:58:57 PM
        No holds barred? - RobVG - 5/8/2008 8:04:28 PM
        some people are never happy - FrankC - 5/8/2008 3:54:49 PM
        That's a great story - Lindy - 5/8/2008 5:58:46 PM
  - The women seem to agree here... - Jody - 5/8/2008 4:34:45 AM
    - I do not disagree with you. But only wish to add... - alcaray - 5/8/2008 2:23:59 PM
      - Communication - REB - 5/9/2008 7:02:51 AM
      - re: I do not disagree with you. But only wish to add... - Lindy - 5/8/2008 6:08:02 PM
      - ~sigh~ - Jody - 5/8/2008 2:50:15 PM
        "because we are more willing to endure and sacrifice. " - ER - 5/9/2008 5:48:49 AM
        Humans can make/mate for an incredible symbiosis (n/t) - Jody - 5/9/2008 6:45:32 AM
        Agree completely. - alcaray - 5/8/2008 3:22:30 PM
- Lots of answers - FrankC - 5/7/2008 5:40:24 PM
  - re: Lots of answers - Lindy - 5/7/2008 6:37:22 PM
- re: A question about fidelity. - Lindy - 5/7/2008 7:15:28 AM
- One definition of fidelity: - ER - 5/7/2008 5:45:01 AM
  - "Solemn Commitment" - Lindy - 5/7/2008 7:27:27 AM
    - Just an academic, rhetorical, philosophic question... - ER - 5/7/2008 8:16:10 AM
      - Yes, but not equally (n/t) - FrankC - 5/7/2008 5:47:25 PM
      - re: Just an academic, rhetorical, philosophic question... - Lindy - 5/7/2008 1:19:44 PM
      - re: Just an academic, rhetorical, philosophic question... - Jody - 5/7/2008 11:35:12 AM
        "I had a feeling you could ask a hypothetical question of this nature" - ER - 5/7/2008 12:46:26 PM
        This is how it goes....... - Lindy - 5/7/2008 2:22:13 PM
        I really shouldn't have - RNE - 5/9/2008 9:56:10 AM
        LOL!...Too cute Lindy! - Jody - 5/7/2008 5:33:39 PM
        AAAAAAAAAARRRGGGHHH - ER - 5/7/2008 4:47:58 PM
        Not me. - TB - 5/7/2008 12:51:32 PM
      - "Triad", by David Crosby (as performed by Grace Slick) - ER - 5/7/2008 8:36:57 AM
        Triad - Lindy - 5/7/2008 1:33:12 PM
        The song was writtenby Dave Crosby - ER - 5/7/2008 4:44:52 PM
- "Other ways"? - RobVG - 5/6/2008 9:17:01 PM
  - Cyber sex (n/t) - Jody - 5/7/2008 12:30:27 PM
    - What kind? - RobVG - 5/7/2008 12:58:25 PM
      - Is there a difference? - Jody - 5/7/2008 1:36:21 PM
        I think so. - RobVG - 5/7/2008 3:00:22 PM
        Definitely a difference it would seem... - Jody - 5/8/2008 6:59:35 AM
        Notice how quiet the men are..... - Lindy - 5/8/2008 9:15:09 AM
        Yes Dear - Tony - 5/9/2008 6:23:15 AM
        Ah so, a Marital Arts master! (n/t) - ER - 5/9/2008 8:13:02 AM
        *chuckle*...Don't forget..."You're right, Dear." ;) (n/t) - Jody - 5/9/2008 6:42:38 AM
        One thing you learn over the years... - TB - 5/8/2008 6:47:26 PM
        But you will be called in for inspection. - podrock - 5/8/2008 7:52:22 PM
        Are you associating the male's silience on this thread as tacit support for infidelity? - podrock - 5/8/2008 3:47:10 PM
        Podrock of Gibraltar ;) (n/t) - Jody - 5/9/2008 3:58:38 AM
        re: Are you associating the male's silience on this thread as tacit support for infidelity? - Lindy - 5/8/2008 6:21:36 PM
        Guilt gives rewards?? - Lindy - 5/8/2008 9:12:49 PM
        Rear Window? - podrock - 5/8/2008 8:03:46 PM
        re: Rear Window? - Lindy - 5/8/2008 9:07:43 PM
        Perfect solution - Eri - 5/8/2008 6:44:19 PM
        re: Perfect solution - Lindy - 5/8/2008 9:08:39 PM
        Yep.... - Jody - 5/8/2008 11:21:18 AM
        "Right of Passage" - Lindy - 5/8/2008 1:49:48 PM
        Whaddaya mean, "generic"? - ER - 5/8/2008 10:17:46 AM
        re: Whaddaya mean, "generic"? - Lindy - 5/8/2008 2:04:39 PM
        Yeah, right. (n/t) - Jody - 5/8/2008 11:19:46 AM
        I agree RobVG...playin' with fire. (n/t) - Jody - 5/7/2008 5:34:59 PM
        People take great risks for two reasons. - ER - 5/8/2008 6:58:32 PM
    - Don't work. (n/t) - RoboCop - 5/7/2008 12:42:49 PM
      - How so? (n/t) - Jody - 5/7/2008 1:33:22 PM
        Sorry - ER - 5/7/2008 4:52:33 PM
  - No need for details... - TB - 5/6/2008 10:49:36 PM
    - Damn! - Jody - 5/8/2008 12:26:05 PM
      - And TB's a Republican. I may have to rethink my politics! - Eri - 5/8/2008 1:15:34 PM
    - Tom nailed it. (n/t) - SDG - 5/7/2008 8:12:12 AM

Don't be too hard on Hillary - ER - 5/1/2008 6:58:03 PM
- "OOOO OOO...I know Mr. Kot-tare!!!!!!" - Horshack - 5/3/2008 6:36:38 PM
  - Enzyme Breakdown. - ER - 5/4/2008 5:44:48 AM
    - Welcome Back....to the same ol... (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/5/2008 8:12:40 PM
- I can tell you what I think but you won't believe it - Eri - 5/1/2008 8:41:13 PM
  - Imagination in an infinite universe. - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/3/2008 1:52:10 AM
    - Finite reality does not compute. - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/4/2008 4:22:31 PM
      - Can you give me one example of one of nature's infinite spirals... - alcaray - 5/5/2008 3:33:58 PM
        But of course! - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/5/2008 5:12:18 PM
        Not infinite, friend. Try again. (n/t) - alcaray - 5/5/2008 5:29:00 PM
        C'mon READ the link... - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/5/2008 5:44:30 PM
        re: "No matter how large"= infinite. - Yeti - 5/5/2008 10:43:25 PM
        Flowers, however, are not infinite series. You misspoke. (n/t) - alcaray - 5/5/2008 6:29:50 PM
        One more time... - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/5/2008 6:41:34 PM
        Wow! The magical Phi! Wow! Its the power of Phi! - Yeti - 5/5/2008 11:19:52 PM
        Benoit Mandelbrot was the lecturer, and its Planck's constant (n/t) - Yeti - 5/5/2008 11:22:37 PM
        Well if you want to escape to metaphysics, you can make any unprovable assertion that you want to. - alcaray - 5/5/2008 7:13:31 PM
        Where's the metaphysics? - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/5/2008 7:44:23 PM
        Wow, for a guy with a photographic memory you sure dont learn from the past... - ARRELL - 5/7/2008 5:30:12 PM
        re: Where's the metaphysics? - alcaray - 5/5/2008 7:50:47 PM
        Sigh. - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/5/2008 8:10:18 PM
        Re: there is no such thing as "a little bit infinite." - Yeti - 5/5/2008 11:45:35 PM
        You seriously need to switch to decaf. ;-) - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/6/2008 2:07:47 AM
        A steaming load of bullshit from someone who does not even understand the words you use. (n/t) - Yeti - 5/6/2008 9:31:10 AM
        Insulting yourself eh? That's a new one. ;-) (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/6/2008 3:04:00 PM
        Gradeschool comeback noted. That it does not change the fact you words you don't understand- also noted (n/t) - Yeti - 5/6/2008 4:46:13 PM
        Take a breath before hitting post. It's still garbled. ;-) (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/6/2008 5:30:54 PM
        Nope. Proof reading posts to you is not worth my time. (n/t) - Yeti - 5/6/2008 10:09:20 PM
        Hah! You said "bullshit" in a subject line! (n/t) - TB - 5/6/2008 11:18:53 AM
        He treats every board as if it were Flame. (n/t) - Lee - 5/8/2008 5:25:30 PM
        Oh, crap. So did I. (n/t) - TB - 5/6/2008 11:19:25 AM
        Wait. Does "crap" count? (n/t) - TB - 5/6/2008 11:20:00 AM
        Since when is 'Bullshit' forbidden in the subject line? - Yeti - 5/6/2008 12:00:01 PM
        Whoa... - TB - 5/7/2008 9:45:15 PM
        hit post too soon - Yeti - 5/6/2008 9:34:08 AM
        Still haven't switched, I see. - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/6/2008 2:55:25 PM
        SIGH- fish in a barrel again... If you devoted this energy to actually learning something you might get somewhere - ARRELL - 5/7/2008 6:09:26 PM
        You're on my dance card too? - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/7/2008 6:53:01 PM
        None of the 'scholarly' articles have a damn thing to do with the pseudoscience you are trying to sell - ARRELL - 5/7/2008 8:38:30 PM
        Again - Yeti - 5/7/2008 8:36:23 PM
        "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/7/2008 9:52:36 PM
        and every circle must be irrational and transcendental since pi must be used to describe them. - alcaray - 5/5/2008 9:10:06 PM
      - This was supposed to go under Raoul's post. ;-) (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/4/2008 4:23:16 PM
    - Infinity and zero are nothing more than mathematical concepts (n/t) - Raoul - 5/4/2008 7:39:10 AM
    - "There are an INFINITE number of SDAI-Tech1 type folks out there righting posts very similar to this one." - ER - 5/3/2008 7:28:46 AM
      - Scary thought isn't it? ;-) (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/3/2008 11:12:34 AM
  - You're right. I don't. - ER - 5/2/2008 6:16:03 AM
    - Am I psyhic or what? (n/t) - Eri - 5/2/2008 9:33:27 PM
      - Yeesh. It's late and I'm groggy from being up with tornado warnings/sirens. That's psychic (n/t) - Eri - 5/2/2008 9:35:43 PM
    - Dreams - TB - 5/2/2008 2:22:06 PM
    - "its capabilities and its limitations" - McFly - 5/2/2008 8:46:28 AM
      - On a related topic, - ER - 5/2/2008 12:03:41 PM
      - oops... - McFly - 5/2/2008 8:53:30 AM
- I think it's more of a 'Clinton' thing rather than an age thing. - RobVG - 5/1/2008 7:58:04 PM
  - re: I think it's more of a 'Clinton' thing rather than an age thing. - Yeti - 5/1/2008 10:49:34 PM
    - Oh my dear Yeti, I think you're already confused... (n/t) - RobVG - 5/2/2008 6:51:20 PM

The following threads have had no activity for the last 24 hours:

Complete Monty Python DVD set on Amazon for $39 - TB - 5/7/2008 11:07:15 PM

Nazis in space! - TB - 5/7/2008 9:38:33 PM
- re: Nazis in space! - anonius - 5/8/2008 4:56:08 AM

Vegetable rights - TB - 5/5/2008 8:23:17 PM
- Tom, didn't you see the Space: 1999 episode... - Socrates II - 5/6/2008 10:53:22 AM
  - Don't forget "Day of the Triffids"... (n/t) - nick hoffman - 5/7/2008 2:41:21 AM
  - Plant people - TB - 5/6/2008 11:17:26 AM
    - Plant tyranny - ER - 5/6/2008 3:13:43 PM
      - re: Plant tyranny - TB - 5/6/2008 4:45:18 PM
        Plants are natural collectivists. - ER - 5/6/2008 8:41:14 PM
        re: Plants are natural collectivists. - TB - 5/6/2008 10:53:16 PM
        "no rules, no regimentation, no regulation." - ER - 5/7/2008 3:47:52 AM
        re: "no rules, no regimentation, no regulation." - TB - 5/7/2008 10:11:09 AM
        "cruelty is a human concept" - ER - 5/7/2008 10:58:42 AM
        re: "cruelty is a human concept" - TB - 5/7/2008 11:52:23 AM
- Dr Carrington's position - ER - 5/6/2008 10:28:31 AM
- Prairie Populism is back! (n/t) - Robert - 5/6/2008 9:57:26 AM
  - And no, I don't think that it's plain crazy (n/t) - Robert - 5/6/2008 9:57:57 AM
- and peace! - podrock - 5/6/2008 8:23:28 AM
  - I love that show! (n/t) - TB - 5/6/2008 11:10:55 AM
    - a clip: - podrock - 5/6/2008 7:16:05 PM
    - Loved the singing vegies in the 'fridge. - podrock - 5/6/2008 3:37:50 PM
- Lettuce agree to disagree - ARRELL - 5/6/2008 8:04:17 AM
  - re: Now that's squashing the debate (n/t) - Please don’t beet me up, couldn't help b - 5/6/2008 12:14:18 PM
  - LOL!...then at leeks can we agree to - Jody - 5/6/2008 12:02:46 PM
- 'Fess up TB, this post is a plant. (n/t) - ER - 5/6/2008 5:23:07 AM
- 'Fess up TB, this post is a plant. (n/t) - ER - 5/6/2008 5:23:01 AM
- All we are saying is give peas a chance - McFly - 5/5/2008 10:32:08 PM
  - Visualize Whireld Peas (n/t) - Yeti - 5/6/2008 9:28:32 AM
  - re: All we are saying is give peas a chance - Lindy - 5/6/2008 2:15:20 AM
    - Thanks - McFly - 5/6/2008 11:06:13 AM
- My yard needs mowing. - Lee - 5/5/2008 8:54:34 PM
- "A friend with weed is a friend indeed." -- Freewheelin' Franklin (n/t) - ER - 5/5/2008 8:30:17 PM

Enzyme breakdown update - ER - 5/4/2008 6:29:09 AM
- When you come to a fork in the road, take it! -- Yogi Berra - ER - 5/4/2008 3:09:37 PM
  - re: "When you come to a fork in the road, take it!"... I thought that was Quantum Theory? (n/t) - Yeti - 5/5/2008 9:08:13 AM
    - Yogi on Heisenberg - ER - 5/5/2008 10:02:31 AM
- The breakdown of synaptic pathways - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/4/2008 1:18:27 PM
  - re: The breakdown of synaptic pathways - SDG - 5/6/2008 4:25:24 PM
    - re: The breakdown of synaptic pathways - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/6/2008 5:19:51 PM
  - The breakdown - RobVG - 5/5/2008 8:25:48 PM
    - re: The breakdown - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/6/2008 7:14:36 AM
- Perspective/Perceptions/Purpose/Poems/Prayers and Promises - Jody - 5/4/2008 12:20:44 PM
  - Huh. - RobVG - 5/5/2008 6:08:06 PM
    - The past? - Lindy - 5/5/2008 6:19:01 PM
      - The future? - Jody - 5/5/2008 7:53:05 PM
      - :) - RobVG - 5/5/2008 7:44:22 PM
        Only when I'm in the mood... - Lindy - 5/5/2008 10:14:57 PM
- Don't sweat it. - TB - 5/4/2008 11:40:21 AM
- All those younger persons who were not there when... - Raoul - 5/4/2008 11:03:06 AM
- Living with the past - Lindy - 5/4/2008 9:05:37 AM

Derby's on - And the winner is... - Eri - 5/3/2008 2:18:14 PM
- Did I ever miss that one! - Eri - 5/3/2008 3:54:31 PM
  - I try to point things like this out - Yeti - 5/3/2008 10:41:44 PM
    - It's human competition that does it. - ER - 5/5/2008 6:58:00 AM
      - There's some of that in aerospace design, too. - TB - 5/5/2008 5:30:42 PM
        As for sailboat racing, - ER - 5/5/2008 6:33:09 PM
    - Genetics - TB - 5/4/2008 11:58:07 AM
    - Actually, natural selection is far more cruel. - Lee - 5/4/2008 10:00:35 AM
      - But nature does not say "hey! that's a great model! Let's turn out herds of those." - alcaray - 5/4/2008 11:05:50 AM
        And they serve us well. - Lee - 5/4/2008 11:37:04 AM
        Thought the topic was cruelty. (n/t) - alcaray - 5/4/2008 5:22:50 PM
        Kindness causes cruelty as well. - Lee - 5/4/2008 6:09:11 PM
        You're in the pretending-I-didn't-say-what-I-said-while-seeing-how-many-ways-I-can-find-of-contradicting-what-I-said mode now. - alcaray - 5/4/2008 7:36:38 PM
    - I wonder if there's anything we can do about it? - Eri - 5/4/2008 7:52:02 AM
    - Bad news for Eugenicists - ER - 5/4/2008 7:18:37 AM
      - Natural selection doesn't "breed" for anything. - Lee - 5/4/2008 10:06:33 AM
      - And - Yeti - 5/4/2008 10:05:28 AM
      - Exactly right (n/t) - Eri - 5/4/2008 7:49:45 AM

Mama is pissed! - Eri - 5/3/2008 8:24:36 AM

Best news story of the week - TB - 5/2/2008 3:44:28 PM
- Inspiring! Thanks for bringing it to us (n/t) - McFly - 5/2/2008 4:12:04 PM

A little spot or "splat" for magician David Blaine. - Jacob - 5/2/2008 10:27:14 AM
- Except that's not the real David Blaine - McFly - 5/2/2008 11:04:02 AM
  - Im shaking my head. (n/t) - Jacob - 5/3/2008 11:05:58 AM

Partial solution to high gas prices - Eri - 4/30/2008 5:16:35 PM
- Do not tolerate zionist theft of Palestinian land (n/t) - E.P. - 5/7/2008 3:27:01 PM
- I think you're just speculating. :-) (n/t) - Bowser - 4/30/2008 5:19:10 PM
  - Don't shoot me! *sound of footsteps running for the hills* (n/t) - Eri - 4/30/2008 5:24:10 PM

Besides Buck, Hillary has at least one other vote - Ann Coulter. - Bowser - 4/30/2008 12:42:31 PM
- That makes 3 of us! - Eri - 4/30/2008 5:29:59 PM

And where would the boomers be if Bush had privatized Social Security? - Bowser - 4/30/2008 10:11:55 AM
- Reich is still an idiot. - TB - 4/30/2008 12:14:14 PM
  - And incidentally... - TB - 4/30/2008 12:15:49 PM
    - Tap-dancing, all around the subject. (n/t) - Bowser - 4/30/2008 12:39:05 PM
      - re: Tap-dancing - TB - 4/30/2008 4:38:15 PM

Lest we forget - "Shock and Awe" over Baghdad. - Bowser - 4/30/2008 9:56:44 AM
- Absolutely Sickening in Hindsight (n/t) - And the American People Rolled Over - 4/30/2008 9:57:03 PM

"Hello" - TB - 4/29/2008 10:57:25 PM
- Awright awready. I'll get the movie. (n/t) - ER - 4/30/2008 7:10:00 PM
- Hello? - ER - 4/30/2008 3:35:45 AM
  - Never mind. - ER - 4/30/2008 7:25:12 AM
    - Just watched it the other night. - podrock - 4/30/2008 5:53:08 PM
      - The best part - Mary Anne - 4/30/2008 6:25:17 PM
    - Fabulous movie. - Mary Anne - 4/30/2008 5:42:02 PM
    - You have to see it. Its more than just pop culture literacy, it was a brilliant flick. - Yeti - 4/30/2008 9:59:57 AM
    - You gotta see it. (n/t) - alcaray - 4/30/2008 9:44:47 AM
    - Recommended - TB - 4/30/2008 7:30:57 AM
      - re: Twice Recommended - SDG - 4/30/2008 7:53:13 AM
        Make it three - McFly - 4/30/2008 2:16:18 PM
        Four's a mandatory rental, yes? - Eri - 4/30/2008 5:22:45 PM
        You relize, of course, Tom will find collectivist propaganda in it where nobody else ever has.... (n/t) - Yeti - 4/30/2008 9:44:47 PM
        What do you expect? - ER - 5/1/2008 3:42:26 AM
        Heh... - TB - 5/1/2008 10:05:51 AM
        Actually, it's the other way 'round. - ER - 5/1/2008 10:15:00 AM
        BTW... - TB - 5/1/2008 10:53:58 AM
        "Yes, that Yeti is primately to blame"...he said finger-pointedly. (n/t) - ER - 5/1/2008 11:35:54 AM
        That's an Abominable comment (n/t) - Eri - 5/1/2008 3:32:49 PM
        Let's be careful with the ad hominid comments... (n/t) - ER - 5/1/2008 4:37:00 PM
        And let's not get too wild man (n/t) - Eri - 5/1/2008 6:42:02 PM
        Lissen up, squatch, none of that sas from you! (n/t) - Yeti - 5/1/2008 10:51:38 PM
        and let us not be Cryptid. (n/t) - podrock - 5/1/2008 5:35:44 PM
        That was mega, pod (n/t) - Tony - 5/2/2008 1:37:51 PM
        It's a gig...-- (n/t) - "mega-pod" - 5/2/2008 10:52:41 PM
        Huh? Ther-a-pod around here? I thought all of those were extinct... (n/t) - Yeti - 5/4/2008 10:08:19 AM
        I escaped from the logical zoo... (n/t) - Yeti - 5/1/2008 10:52:34 PM
        C'mon. You're just aping us, now. (n/t) - ER - 5/1/2008 7:04:13 PM
        A primate facia cae... (n/t) - Yeti - 5/1/2008 10:50:39 PM
        It simians to me these monkeyshines have gone on long enough. (n/t) - WE - 5/2/2008 6:35:30 PM
        Why must you 'orang me like this? Gibbon I have not posted a pun in several days? (n/t) - Yeti - 5/3/2008 10:45:16 PM
        That howler was definitely Arghworthy, Gorillamydreams (n/t) - ER - 5/4/2008 4:53:52 AM
        OokOok... Who me? - Yeti - 5/1/2008 2:34:32 PM
        I stand corrected - McFly - 5/1/2008 8:04:53 AM

Co2 emissions per capita by county - SDG - 4/29/2008 8:08:23 AM
- LA county? Not so good. (n/t) - alcaray - 4/29/2008 12:08:01 PM

Cultural Snapshot - Baghdad Honeymoon - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/29/2008 1:55:49 AM
- I take it you've given up watching American psychotic news (n/t) - for middle eastern psycho news? - 4/29/2008 1:33:57 PM
  - I don't watch news anymore. - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/29/2008 9:49:24 PM

ROFLMAO! - Eri - 4/27/2008 2:28:35 PM
- Those poor women. To be all alone like that! - Bowser - 4/28/2008 9:06:28 PM
- BTW! - Jacob - 4/28/2008 11:38:18 AM
  - Dubya is probably the banker! (n/t) - Eri - 4/28/2008 7:14:42 PM

An excellent discussion on the Bakken Formation oil: - podrock - 4/27/2008 2:23:48 PM
- I hope you don't mind... - TB - 5/5/2008 2:07:25 PM
  - Not at all, - podrock - 5/5/2008 8:57:26 PM
- Thanks! Good stuff. - TB - 4/28/2008 11:29:55 AM
- Great post, educational and interesting. (n/t) - Bowser - 4/28/2008 8:24:37 AM
- Gosh, I hope it dosen't help, that would be awful! - pb - 4/28/2008 1:18:39 AM
- Hardly excellent...more like propaganda - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/27/2008 2:48:42 PM
  - Me, I look under the rocks, - podrock - 4/27/2008 3:08:17 PM
    - Turning over rocks... - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/27/2008 3:28:55 PM
      - Yup, seen a whole variety: snakes, scopions, ... - podrock - 4/27/2008 4:08:24 PM
        lotsa snakes, scorpions, 'round here, too...and a lot of desert varnish, as well. - ER - 4/27/2008 4:37:02 PM
        1. You cannot produce more of a resource than has been discovered. - podrock - 4/27/2008 6:02:51 PM
        Oil is all around us - we're nearly drowning in it! - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/27/2008 6:46:04 PM
        Yes, we geologists know the truth about oil and we ain't gonna tell you. - podrock - 4/27/2008 10:35:55 PM
        Truth & oil don't mix. Abiotic oil is scary stuff. ;-) - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/28/2008 2:47:10 PM
        We discussed it in detail here (without fear). A few months ago. - alcaray - 4/28/2008 4:45:38 PM
        Thanks. I must've missed it. Darn. ;-) (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/28/2008 5:08:04 PM
        Wasn't there a question on "Community" about the definition of "Nutcase"? - nick hoffman - 4/28/2008 4:22:25 PM
        "Hydrocarbons are not biology reworked by geology but rather geology reworked by biology." *** Thomas Gold - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/28/2008 5:02:12 PM
        It wasn't just Gold. - ER - 4/28/2008 4:54:07 PM
        Well played, sir... (n/t) - nick hoffman - 4/28/2008 3:21:43 AM
        I don't think he realizes how gently you guys are treating him. (n/t) - alcaray - 4/27/2008 11:08:13 PM
        We'll add that to the huge volume of things he does not realize. - Yeti - 4/28/2008 12:23:18 PM
        His own words are their most effective rebuttal. - ER - 4/28/2008 4:04:19 AM
        Amen! :-) (n/t) - Bowser - 4/28/2008 12:38:00 AM
- Too bad about Bakken. - ER - 4/27/2008 2:45:08 PM
  - Never believe propaganda. ;-) - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/27/2008 2:52:05 PM

The US education system - a teacher speaks up. - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/27/2008 2:01:05 PM

What's wrong with older and foolish? - RobVG - 4/27/2008 11:03:34 AM
- True story. - Bowser - 4/27/2008 3:13:17 PM

One Japanese suicide every 15 minutes - Jody - 4/26/2008 6:41:51 AM
- But look at their homocide rates - S - 4/27/2008 11:48:00 AM
  - Can't spell...nor... - S - 4/27/2008 5:53:19 PM
- re: One Japanese suicide every 15 minutes - ER - 4/26/2008 11:34:14 AM
  - Scandinavia... - nick hoffman - 4/28/2008 3:39:39 AM
    - Wouldn't drinking yourself to death still be suicide? (n/t) - Lee - 4/28/2008 5:17:24 PM
  - re: One Japanese suicide every 15 minutes - Bowser - 4/26/2008 3:09:22 PM
  - Could it be... - FrankC - 4/26/2008 1:02:27 PM
    - I doubt it. - Lee - 4/26/2008 1:35:10 PM
- I guess that's one way of dealing with overpopulation. - Eri - 4/26/2008 9:09:48 AM

You may as well try to take pizza from a dog. - Bowser - 4/25/2008 10:38:25 PM
- If the good Lord had meant us to be abstinent... - ER - 4/26/2008 6:33:26 AM
  - A city boy with a cow. - Bowser - 4/26/2008 11:10:16 AM
    - Great analogy - Eri - 4/26/2008 4:43:12 PM
- You don't have to promote abstinence after marriage - Eri - 4/25/2008 11:33:31 PM

Hey, Jody! Get your very own Gort! - TB - 4/24/2008 3:53:42 PM
- Gort vs Robbie? who would Win? - carl - 4/25/2008 7:35:25 AM
- Batteries not included (n/t) - podrock - 4/24/2008 8:35:04 PM
  - re: Where's the remote? - SteveS - 4/25/2008 6:24:40 AM
- He's way too smooth for me! (n/t) - Eri - 4/24/2008 7:59:15 PM
- A figure no woman can transist? (n/t) - Yeti - 4/24/2008 7:10:35 PM
- Yes...but is he fully functional??;) (n/t) - Jody - 4/24/2008 5:46:29 PM
  - With the right attachment, anything is possible... - Yeti - 4/24/2008 7:11:27 PM
    - ...as long as one has an oil can.... (n/t) - Jody - 4/25/2008 5:40:05 AM
      - re: There***s only one oil for space farers - SteveS - 4/25/2008 10:30:08 AM
        Astroglide...for the astro'nut' (n/t) - Jody - 4/25/2008 1:44:59 PM
  - He's Gort, not Steely Dan. - RobVG - 4/24/2008 6:27:28 PM
    - Who is John Gort? - ER - 4/24/2008 6:54:44 PM

Moon landing - john Langland III - 4/24/2008 1:31:00 PM
- re: Moon landing - REB - 4/24/2008 1:59:04 PM
  - Nasa would PHOTOSHOP that - carl - 4/24/2008 2:15:59 PM
    - Nasa not the only one involved - Raoul - 4/24/2008 10:30:46 PM

Ways to save energy around the house - TB - 4/24/2008 12:40:04 PM

Not exactly "Tickle Me Elmo" - TB - 4/24/2008 11:40:07 AM
- Collector's items - McFly - 4/25/2008 12:00:15 PM
- Well, you have to admit, they had neat uniforms. - ER - 4/24/2008 12:04:41 PM
  - Malignancy - TB - 4/24/2008 12:31:31 PM
    - re: Malignancy - ER - 4/24/2008 1:49:16 PM
      - Well, they also have vivid memories of the soviets. (n/t) - alcaray - 4/24/2008 2:49:28 PM
    - Anybody read the last paragraph? - SDG - 4/24/2008 12:33:39 PM
      - Well...I have seen it all now.... - Jody - 4/25/2008 5:52:08 AM

Question for all Zoners: - Jody - 4/24/2008 10:45:53 AM
- Hey, we're ALL nuts about space round here... - nick hoffman - 4/28/2008 4:22:46 AM
- Lannoy = La noix - Raoul - 4/27/2008 5:22:00 AM
  - re: Lannoy = La noix = loony - SDG - 4/28/2008 9:43:47 PM
    - loony = lune (moon) ? (n/t) - Raoul - 4/28/2008 10:29:12 PM
      - actually it probably derives from lunatic - SDG - 4/29/2008 1:37:03 PM
- "Faith is believing without seeing." - Bowser - 4/26/2008 6:59:31 PM
- re: Question for all Zoners: - azstrummer - 4/25/2008 4:01:13 PM
  - re: Question for all Zoners: - LAMM - 4/25/2008 4:45:18 PM
- re: Question for all Zoners: - McFly - 4/25/2008 12:20:02 PM
- Occam's razor is the law of the land - FrankC - 4/24/2008 3:41:30 PM
  - re: Occam's razor is the law of the land - Lindy - 4/25/2008 7:57:51 PM
    - My scale - FrankC - 4/26/2008 12:08:01 PM
- re: Question for all Zoners: - SteveS - 4/24/2008 1:39:53 PM
- re: Question for all Zoners: - ER - 4/24/2008 12:17:30 PM
- re: Question for all Zoners: - TB - 4/24/2008 11:21:19 AM

Is there a problem here? - RobVG - 4/23/2008 8:13:14 PM
- Remember when we had the power emergency in California? - alcaray - 4/23/2008 10:05:13 PM
  - Umm.. generate hydro-power by pumping water uphill? Mmmkay...? (n/t) - RobVG - 4/24/2008 6:25:28 PM
    - Peak storage concept - TB - 4/24/2008 7:19:08 PM
      - Ok, thanks - RobVG - 4/24/2008 8:44:58 PM
        It's basically a giant storage battery. - TB - 4/24/2008 9:51:52 PM
    - I'm afraid I don't follow you. (n/t) - alcaray - 4/24/2008 6:57:17 PM

Secrets and Signs..Mission Patches Tell Info - carl - 4/23/2008 9:15:13 AM
- I bought the book! - TB - 4/23/2008 9:51:27 AM
  - Yup, That's IT!!!!!!!! - carl - 4/23/2008 10:26:52 AM

Next on the agenda: Approved boxer shorts under the kilts - TB - 4/22/2008 5:57:57 PM

Absolutely unbelievable! - Eri - 4/22/2008 4:19:50 PM
- I think - Yeti - 4/24/2008 10:09:21 AM
- A good copy... - nick hoffman - 4/24/2008 8:12:31 AM
  - Are you so sure? - Yeti - 4/24/2008 10:12:01 AM
  - I'm visualizing several blind elephants standing around an elephant, touching it with their trunks... (n/t) - TB - 4/24/2008 10:04:15 AM
- How can the trunk of a elephant hold such a thin brush? (n/t) - Raoul - 4/23/2008 10:33:54 AM
  - re: How can the trunk of a elephant hold such a thin brush? - TB - 4/23/2008 9:47:34 PM
  - The handle is made from wood. - Bowser - 4/23/2008 11:10:26 AM
    - LOL! (n/t) - Eri - 4/23/2008 6:25:33 PM
    - :-) Wouaf!! - Raoul - 4/23/2008 12:35:43 PM
- I'm a little skeptical. - alcaray - 4/22/2008 6:19:44 PM
  - Snopes page on this - TB - 4/22/2008 8:14:59 PM
    - So it is equivalent to... - alcaray - 4/23/2008 5:49:00 PM
- OH MY GOD (n/t) - Jody - 4/22/2008 5:36:46 PM
  - This gave me goosebumps...and brought tears to my eyes. (n/t) - Jody - 4/22/2008 5:58:13 PM

I have a theory why we live 7 times longer than dogs and cats. - Jacob - 4/22/2008 12:31:25 PM
- I have a theory that cats are aliens that are studying us :) - REB - 4/24/2008 5:57:48 AM
- I heard on the news tonight that U.S. life expentancy is stagnant..and even going down in some areas (n/t) - Jody - 4/22/2008 3:54:41 PM
  - Life expectancy study - TB - 4/23/2008 8:49:43 AM
  - That's what an open border policy will do. (n/t) - Lee - 4/22/2008 8:50:58 PM
  - Just about 4 minutes after your life expectancy is stagnant, - - - - Bowser - 4/22/2008 8:13:20 PM
- re: What about turtles, they live longer than us? ;-) (n/t) - Johannes - 4/22/2008 1:17:32 PM
  - Perhaps another dimension? (n/t) - Jacob - 4/23/2008 11:21:59 AM
  - Cats watch us; we watch turtles? (n/t) - Eri - 4/22/2008 4:31:44 PM
    - LOL! (n/t) - Jacob - 4/23/2008 11:23:27 AM

Send the ships aloft - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/22/2008 9:02:48 AM

"Perils Of Victory" (February 3, 2003 Newsweek) - Bowser - 4/20/2008 6:40:53 PM
- Prescience - TB - 4/20/2008 9:18:11 PM
  - Yes, well.... - Yeti - 4/21/2008 2:01:07 PM
    - Heh. - TB - 4/21/2008 10:28:13 PM
      - Attention Robet S. - Yeti - 4/22/2008 8:42:46 AM
        No kidding - Robert - 4/22/2008 10:36:58 AM
        Can I at least get some idea of how we're scoring this? - TB - 4/22/2008 4:00:02 PM
        The scoring system is very simple - Robert - 4/22/2008 4:48:06 PM
        Okay, you win. - TB - 4/22/2008 5:13:10 PM
        That was just plain stupid - Robert - 4/23/2008 10:34:44 AM
        No, actually, your post was. - TB - 4/23/2008 8:35:28 PM
        same as it ever was - Robert - 4/25/2008 2:28:59 PM
        Incidentally... - TB - 4/26/2008 10:36:13 AM
        re: same as it ever was - TB - 4/26/2008 10:07:39 AM
        Dude. I bet you could write a lisp program - Yetiliza - 4/25/2008 2:59:29 PM
        I don't think so...it would come out as "thothialitht." (n/t) - TB - 4/29/2008 1:58:21 PM
        Ohh! - Yeti - 4/25/2008 5:53:11 PM
        Imagine, if you will, a search form... - Robert - 4/25/2008 7:56:37 PM
        And here... - TB - 4/22/2008 5:14:24 PM
        Tell you what, how about you just beat this mark? - Yeti - 4/22/2008 9:44:28 PM
        What, Tom- cat got your tongue? - Yeti - 4/24/2008 9:15:28 PM
        Dude, you had to go back five years. - TB - 4/24/2008 9:58:55 PM
        Tom used the word "dude"? - azstrummer - 4/25/2008 4:03:29 PM
        Actually... - TB - 4/26/2008 10:11:21 AM
        I do it too, for comedy's sake. (n/t) - alcaray - 4/26/2008 11:54:25 AM
        I know, right? (n/t) - Yeti - 4/26/2008 12:18:22 PM
        Far out, man. (n/t) - alcaray - 4/26/2008 1:09:32 PM
        totally! (n/t) - Robert - 4/25/2008 7:57:19 PM
        Insane - Yeti - 4/25/2008 8:53:27 AM
        Track record - TB - 4/26/2008 10:26:06 AM
        The value of the US in Iraq made really, really simple. - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/25/2008 9:39:53 AM
        The numbers make no sense. - TB - 4/28/2008 11:39:52 AM
        Check your premises. - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/28/2008 3:15:31 PM
        Please. Don't teach granny how to suck eggs. (n/t) - TB - 4/28/2008 4:00:34 PM
        Another way of looking at: - podrock - 4/27/2008 8:36:44 AM
        My calculations... - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/27/2008 1:36:00 PM
        In other words, numbers, reason, logic etc are not needed. Its all just one big conspiracy. - Yeti - 4/28/2008 12:28:23 PM
        It's hopeless. - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/28/2008 4:15:12 PM
        Maybe if I speak slowly enough, you will understand. - Yeti - 4/28/2008 5:04:58 PM
        Monopolists versus Capitalists - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/28/2008 6:41:32 PM
        You got nothing. - Yeti - 4/28/2008 6:53:54 PM
        Believe what you want. - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/28/2008 7:18:53 PM
        Like someone showing up to a southerbys auction with a little red wagon and a ball of rested bailing wire. - Yeti - 4/28/2008 8:16:53 PM
        Sotheby's? Southerby's must be for the southern folks... - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/28/2008 8:52:29 PM
        Problem is, you numbers and etc only make sense in TechLand - Yeti - 4/25/2008 3:44:17 PM
        Sure you do. - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/25/2008 4:42:37 PM
        Oookay, Tech. Thats nice. (n/t) - yeti - 4/25/2008 10:52:37 PM
        Yeah, I thought so. - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/26/2008 1:07:22 AM
        Just nothing one can say - Yeti - 4/26/2008 10:00:06 AM
        Let me get this straight... - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/26/2008 11:37:23 AM
        PS - Yeti - 4/26/2008 12:17:47 PM
        No, let me straighten you out. - Yeti - 4/26/2008 12:09:32 PM
        Actually, a pittance of a drop - Yeti - 4/26/2008 12:34:37 PM
        Like I said... - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/26/2008 3:28:48 PM
        re: Oh! Easy one- number of wars started for causes that were fictions - Yeti - 4/22/2008 4:27:18 PM
        Whoa...looks like you win hands-down then. - TB - 4/22/2008 4:42:27 PM
        re: No kidding - REB - 4/22/2008 2:45:48 PM
        Naive, perhaps... - Robert - 4/22/2008 3:26:26 PM
        Actually - Yeti - 4/22/2008 2:25:19 PM
        re: Actually - Robert - 4/22/2008 3:30:39 PM
        re: Actually - Yeti - 4/