Steve!

Okay, Sheliak, I know exactly the episode you're talking about, "You humans don't negotiate, you gibber."

And the empath, now I remember. Thanks!

Who were the Celiac? I don't remember them.

And who was the empath on TOS?

Record machine? I always thought that it was "wrecking machine"

I'm surprised no one has mentions "Roseanne", gawd, that screeechy voice reminded me of Rozilla Rivenfart's voice. If Rosepig would have spoken with a southern sicky sweet accent, it would have been close enough to Rozilla's to have made my skin crawl.

To deny emotions is to say that God is an idiot.

God is the one that dreamed us up, He put into us what He wanted to, and emotions is a huge part of what makes us up.

Emotions are necessary and vital. To put them all in a trunk and lock them away makes no sense whatsoever. It's like trying to wear size 5 shoes on your size 11 feet. It can be done, but it's very painful. But after a while, you don't notice the pain any more.

That show with John (I'm as big as a house) Goodman was "Normal, Ohio".

Dare I say it, another really bad show, but so many people loved it -

Doctor Who

Krista, I know exactly what you mean about cracking the shell, about being empty.

I still feel that way about birthdays, and some holidays.

Have you ever noticed that it's difficult to stay angry when you are smiling? That's because we are conditioned (by being human) to equate smiling with being happy.

When you are happy, you smile.

The reverse works, too. If you want to cheer up, smile - reaaallly smile. You'll soon start to feel it on the inside, unless it's just a super rotten day.

Soooo, my point is: if you want to become more emotional, fake the emotions, at least at first. They will become real, because we are conditioned that way.

It's been proven to work.

Try it! It will cost you nothing to try!

I'll apologize beforehand, but at the top of my list would be 2 shows . . .

"Awful and Windy", er, I mean, "Oprah Winfrey"

and

"The View"

well, someone ate the spam offa me, er, my email address

As a software engineer is walking along, he looks down and sees a frog.

The frog says, "Ahem. Excuse me! If you kiss me, I'll turn into a beautiful princess and make you very happy!"

He picks up the frog and puts it into his pocket.

A while later, he takes out the frog and the frog says, "Hey! Kiss me! I'll turn back into a beautiful princess, and we'll have wild times together!"

He puts the frog back in his pocket.

A while later he takes the frog out, and the frog says, "Kiss me, and we'll make love all night long every night!"

He puts the frog back in his pocket.

A while later he takes it out again, and the frog asks, "What is wrong with you? why won't you kiss me?"

He says, "I work for Microsoft, I don't have time for a girlfriend. A talking frog, though, is way kewel!"

I recently had a communication with a person who told me my email address as listed here doesn't work.

Well, of course it doesn't - I added "_NOSPAM" right before the "@yahoo.com" part of the address.

Please keep in mind that if someone lists an email address, and it contains something like "_nospam", leave out that part when sending an email to that person, and it should get through just fine.

My real email address, of course, is "studmuffin@multiple.o.com"

but if that one doesn't work, try "stevelwall99@yahoo.com".

Actually, RottsyVampirella, Falwell was quoting Time and Newsweek, who were quoting the gay community.

We're all asleep, yes, but thanks for playing.

Johnny, what is her lovely parting gift?

Everyone in the Star Wars casts was a witch or wizard, donchaknow.

Ahh, James Herriott, "All Creatures Great and Small", quite a series of books, that.

Well written, and entertaining.

I usually don't care for biographies, but he has a down-home style that I enjoy.

Because you can set your profile so that no one can see when you are present.

yaayyyy!

test and retest

well, whaddaya know, there it is.

What I think you probably did, Finz, is you may have typed in the URL incorrectly.

I'm using the www.greasespotcafe.com/forum-images copy of dolphin.gif, and it's working fine.

Just make sure that you start with http:// and type in everything exactly.

test again

you CAN have an animated avatar!

use the following url (just copy and paste it into the "custom avatar" text box):

http://faculty.chi.devry.edu/swall/images/dolphin2.gif

When you get space of your own on a web server, copy the gif file there, then update your profile to point to that one.

test

You are right, it is too big. The fact that it's animated might not make a difference. I'll let you know.

REMAINING U.S. CEOs MAKE A BREAK FOR IT

Band of Roving Chief Executives Spotted Miles from Mexican Border

San Antonio, Texas (Rooters) Unwilling to wait for their eventual indictments, the 10,000 remaining CEOs of public U.S. companies made a break for it yesterday, heading for the Mexican border, plundering towns and villages along the way, and writing the entire rampage off as a marketing expense.

"They came into my home, made me pay for my own TV, then double-booked the revenues," said Rachel Sanchez of Las Cruces, just north of El Paso. "Right in front of my daughters."

Calling themselves the CEOnistas, the chief executives were first spotted last night along the Rio Grande River near Quemado, where they bought each of the town's 32 residents by borrowing against pension fund gains. By late this morning, the CEOnistas had arbitrarily inflated Quemado's population to 960, and declared a 200 percent profit for the fiscal second quarter.

This morning, the outlaws bought the city of Waco, transferred its underperforming areas to a private partnership, and sent a bill to California for $4.5 billion.

Law enforcement officials and disgruntled shareholders riding posse were noticeably frustrated. "First of all, they're very hard to find because they always stand behind their numbers, and the numbers keep shifting," said posse spokesman Dean Levitt. "And every time we yell 'Stop in the name of the shareholders!', they refer us to investor relations. I've been on the phone all damn morning."

"YOU'LL NEVER AUDIT ME ALIVE!"

The pursuers said they have had some success, however, by preying on a common executive weakness. "Last night we caught about 24 of them by disguising one of our female officers as a CNBC anchor," said U.S. Border Patrol spokesperson Janet Lewis. "It was like moths to a flame."

Also, teams of agents have been using high-powered listening devices to scan the plains for telltale sounds of the CEOnistas. "Most of the time we just hear leaves rustling or cattle flicking their tails," said Lewis, "but occasionally we'll pick up someone saying, 'I was totally out of the loop on that.'"

So far, about 50 chief executives have been captured, including Martha Stewart, who was detained south of El Paso where she had cut through a barbed-wire fence at the Zaragosa border crossing off Highway 375.

"She would have gotten away, but she was stopping motorists to ask for marzipan and food coloring so she could make edible snowman place settings, using the cut pieces of wire for the arms," said Border Patrol officer Jennette Cushing. "We put her in cell No. 7, because the morning sun really adds texture to the stucco walls."

While some stragglers are believed to have successfully crossed into Mexico, Cushing said the bulk of the CEOnistas have holed themselves up at the Alamo.

"No, not the fort, the car rental place at the airport," she said. "They're rotating all the tires on the minivans and accounting for each change as a sale."

Finz -

What avatar do you want to use? I can help you get it working, I just need more info.

Well, now the church in Mexico needs a new bell ringer.

And the armless boy's twin brother, who is also armless, applies for the job.

The priest hires him with misgivings, remembering the previous incident.

This boy rings the bell with his head BONNNGGGGG! BONNNGGGGG! *miss!* SPLAAATTT!

The townspeople again, "Who is this boy?" One person says, "I think he's the other boy's twin". The townspeople say, "How do you know?"

"Well, I don't know for sure, but he's a dead ringer!"

Dot, you are a wonderful person.

But this is a hoax.

It's not even that good of a cookie recipe.