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I'm kinda going for "Rot in He[[ A$$hole"

Wait!!! I hear the voices all the time that come to me through the fillings in my teeth.

*smirk* ayep

The drugs must be much excellent to post something like that...."an alternative biblical truth" Geeezuuuzz...an alternative biblical truth? JAL is posting like a jilted lover not a minister who "represents" the most powerful mutha-....a in the universe. Whiny old f(ck...go out to pasture JAL...you've outlived your usefulness. You sound like some drunk in a bar whining about his ex-wife....never stopping to think that you may be part, or most, or all, of the problem.

Aye we did indeed as I recall - although recall at my age going back that far is certainly subject to question. Thanks for posting the recipe! D

All went perfectly, including the Yorkshire pudding which can be picky. Today we'll have brisket with potato pancakes, tomato salad topped with lobster. Indeed I will. Tomorrow most guests leave so I'll post some recipes. To be honest, I use a lot of basic Prudhomme or Lagazzi recipes - sometimes merge them - almost always modify them so suit my taste. Roast, brisket, etc are family recipes. Suffice it to say there was more food than even my son can tackle...and he can eat.

Naw - I either watch too many obscure movies or I miss the lines that catch others' attention. The movie was Second Hand Lion. Over to you George

And then there is this.... Dear Editor— I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, “If you see it in The Sun, it’s so.” Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus? Virginia O’Hanlon Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished. Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world. You tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

And as I said to my, now adult, children...If NORAD still believes in Santa so should you...

Sweet and thanks for posting it. However all of the heartfelt dancing doesn't help someone who has breast cancer. Why not edit your post and remind women - GET YOUR MAMMOGRAMS EVERY YEAR!!!!! Breast cancer has the highest rate of remission of any cancer and yet, since it often goes undetected until too late, also has a very high death rate. I know, I know, I'm a guy and don't know how uncomfortable a mammo is...well actually I helped design a magnet that made it so your breasts didn't have to be squeezed into a sausage casing to image - but that's another story. I've lost a couple of colleagues to breast cancer - why? Couldn't be bothered with the annual.

I think that is a valid observation. I've known penworks since before the earth's crust cooled. I've known Geisha briefly and only recently but had some nice conversations with her. I think if you two were in the same room with a cup of coffee (or some really good Scotch - say like Laphroig) you'd both get along famously. You both have good analytical skills and are both, clearly, rather intelligent - and perhaps more importantly - regardless of your respective religious beliefs, or lack thereof, you both have a strong sense of ethic and morals. Face to face you might find each other somewhat refreshingly similar. Consider science - kinda what I do for a living... Science rarely means we all agree during an investigation. The hope is that by cooperative efforts we can uncover little bits at a time - and agree on those little bits. Then, if we get really, really, REALLY lucky - we start to piece those bits together and a picture forms that we can begin to agree on. In my best Forrest Gump imitation...and that's all I have to say about that. Back to your respective banter - I'll bow out now and go get some duck ready for roasting.

And that ought to be posted on the GSC splash page. Insightful (and perhaps inciteful). Succinct and so very very true.

Nope - but same genre of actors

Ummm - OK - the movie is "October Sky" Launch of the last rocket. BTW it is a movie worth seeing. So is the next one - hint - think long time classic male actors - in endearing roles...really...even if the quoted lines do not sound so endearing. "Whole lotta good hospitals are... Hub, that's because you never stayed in one long enough to find out."

OK was this too obscure? I thought it was a defining moment in the movie. If I am wrong someone else go ahead and take the lead.

Whether he did it or not - he said he did - and I wonder how many other "faithful" fathers figured something like, "Well if VP did it I guess I should to." I hope to never know to be honest. The thought itself is repugnant enough.

Naw...lots of dirty old men out there - Jethro Tulls and all - winos on the corner. Vic holds his own title as Dr. scum, rapist and abuser

I probably would agree with that. Given the number of failed families in TWI it seems the common thread is TWI's indoctrination and not that the parents or children were messed up by nature.

OK this just irks me. The news: A short and terse paragraph about how 18 people died in a suicide bomber's explosion in Bagdhad. No names mentioned. The news: A long and flowery article on the new TV series about the Jackson family (as in Michael Jackson). TV network blasting it every fourth commercial calling it about "The First Family of Music." The news: A series of long and ugly stories about Tiger Woods' sexual liaisons with various high end escorts. A) I don't care about the Jackson Family - seems like the old man just making another dollar off of his kids like he's done for 40 years. Who cares about the first family of music?!?!? B) I don't care about Tiger Woods' little escapades. While many may find it distasteful that he had those little liaisons - fact is it happens every day in every country - without making the news. C) I DO care about innocent people dying because of some religious zealot obeying his Way Corps directive as to how to attain his 70 (or so) virgins). If this is news then we have become less than bottom feeders. At least bottom feeders (shrimp, oysters, crawfish, catfish) make for darned fine cooking. This is news?!?!? This is somehow entertaining (applies to all three of the above)?!?!? This is somehow informative and educational?!?!? Something we need to know as "informed American citizens?" (Don't chomp of me for using the word American without specifying USA citizens or I'll remind you that CBS coined the phrase "informed American citizens" - go crap on their plate of spaghetti.)

That is one of the few foods I consider truly vile - fish jello. Surprised they didn't make us eat that for some kind of disciplinary action in rez.

Look at her fly Homer! This one's gonna go for miles edited for a word correction hence quoted accurately

But the mathmetical proof was already there that it would work...Turing...nothing more need be said about Turing except perhaps to mention Von Neuman some many many years later

Trying to figure out why wierwille was so anti-relic, esp against the Catholic church. I heard a rumor today that the drunken rapist's glass eye was for sale on ebay. I never go there so I don't know about this link. Special deal for Texans since their state song is "The Eyes of Texas are Upon You" but with proof of previous way corps graduation you can get this eye in Texas with a free forehead harness so you can have three eyes and be all seeing, having the mystical abilities to see it in the original, and with three eyes, one of them wierwille's, you too can become the eyes and ears of the church.....just like he was.

Harrison Ford - Indiana Jones going after the grail with Sean Conner...which does not pass muster since I couldn't name the exact movie title