Re: Return of the King Review Re: my mini review

2004-01-06 Thread G. D. Akin
Jan Coffey wrote: snip Unfortunately the third movie did not hold together ~without~ the books. If you did not have the books as a point of reference, the movie seemed split and fragmented. Without the battle for the shire, the last 3 minutes of the movie were somehow tacked on and mostly

Re: Personal notes

2004-01-06 Thread G. D. Akin
Dan Minette wrote: This was a big Christmas for me, I turned 50. To celebrate, my wife is taking me to San Francisco and the Napa Valley. The last time I was there was for my honeymoon, a long long time ago in a galaxie far away. Happy Birthday and welcome to the

Re: Rugby: was Shouldn't this have read N-F-L

2004-01-06 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 10:55 PM 1/5/2004, you wrote: Jan Coffey wrote: The Sugarboal. (Why do they call it a boal?) OU looked like they didn't care, but then the LSU defence was rolling over them. In answer to the question, I think because various stadiums were called bowls or something. If anyone has a better

RE: A List A List!!!!

2004-01-06 Thread Horn, John
From: Alberto Monteiro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 10. You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment. Is this true in the USA? Here in Brazil it's a capital offense

Re: A List A List!!!!

2004-01-06 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Julia Thompson wrote: 10. You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment. And if you *are* going to say something, indicating that you think she's about to pop might not be

Re: Right-wing press bias goes mainstream

2004-01-06 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 08:33 PM 1/5/2004 -0600 The Fool wrote: No _YOU_ Are Wrong. The article I pointed to Was Listed _Explitly_ AS NEWS, not as an editorial by The AP. I accessed your linke to the SFGate website, and found nothing that explicitly listed the story as news. How do you explain, however, my links to

RE: Return of the King Review Re: my mini review

2004-01-06 Thread Horn, John
From: Miller, Jeffrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cat in the Hat - ok, this may be a bad example, as it was a DREADFUL film, but if you were to make a film that was faithful (as you define it) to the source book, it would be about 10 minutes long, and be a glorified music video for the

Re: A List A List!!!!

2004-01-06 Thread Julia Thompson
Alberto Monteiro wrote: Julia Thompson wrote: 10. You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment. And if you *are* going to say something, indicating that you think

Re: Minimal Profits for Halliburton

2004-01-06 Thread Robert J. Chassell
On 5 Jan 2004, Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] said We are also asking people working in Iraq to work under extreme time pressure. People in the CPA routinely work 100 hour weeks, as do the contractors there. In other words, the Bush Administration has limited the numbers

Re: Personal notes

2004-01-06 Thread Reggie Bautista
- Original Message - From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 11:02 PM Subject: Personal notes This was a big Christmas for me, I turned 50. To celebrate, my wife is taking me to San Francisco and the Napa Valley.

Re: Minimal Profits for Halliburton

2004-01-06 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 1:01 PM Subject: Re: Minimal Profits for Halliburton --- Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If these folks were to tell me, for reasons X,Y,Z,

Re: Right-wing press bias goes mainstream

2004-01-06 Thread The Fool
From: John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 08:33 PM 1/5/2004 -0600 The Fool wrote: No _YOU_ Are Wrong. The article I pointed to Was Listed _Explitly_ AS NEWS, not as an editorial by The AP. I accessed your linke to the SFGate website, and found nothing that explicitly listed the story

Re: Rugby: was Shouldn't this have read N-F-L

2004-01-06 Thread Jan Coffey
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kevin Tarr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:55 PM 1/5/2004, you wrote: Jan Coffey wrote: The Sugarboal. (Why do they call it a boal?) OU looked like they didn't care, but then the LSU defence was rolling over them. In answer to the question, I think because

Re: Minimal Profits for Halliburton

2004-01-06 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5 Jan 2004, Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] said In other words, the Bush Administration has limited the numbers of people available to the Coalition Provisional Authority and to contractors. It has placed a handicap on past US success.

Re: Minimal Profits for Halliburton

2004-01-06 Thread The Fool
From: Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rather than arguing about this in detail, let me point you to Dan Drezner's articles on the topic, which are quite persuasive and well-researched. Drezner is hardly a Bush partisan - he wrote an article titled Bush the Bumbler for Slate. Here's

Re: A List A List!!!!

2004-01-06 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Julia Thompson wrote: A good way to show off the belly is to wear a 2-piece outfit that doesn't cover the belly at all. Do they have fashions like that in Brazil for pregnant women? Yes, of course. The only place I felt completely comfortable dressing like that was at an event where

Double Standards on Regional Bigotry

2004-01-06 Thread The Fool
http://atrios.blogspot.com/2004_01_04_atrios_archive.html#1073407288252422 65 Double Standards on Regional Bigotry Imagine if I ran an ad which went something like George Bush should take his negro lynching, anti-intellectual, pig feet eating, sister-screwing, wife beating... before the

RE: Personal notes

2004-01-06 Thread Jack Tackett - Netwharf
Congrats - I turn 42 tomorrow (always the answer to everything :-) and for my birthday we adopted a little boy, ah the joys of sleep deprivation! My wife and I took a hot air balloon ride down Napa Valley on one of our anniversaries, also a long time ago, an awesome experience if you get the

Re: Minimal Profits for Halliburton

2004-01-06 Thread Julia Thompson
Robert J. Chassell wrote: When people work long weeks under extreme time pressure, they are more likely to make mistakes. That is why the Royal Air Force grew so concerned about pilot fatigue during the Battle of Britain. That is why nuclear plant operators are limited in the amount of time

Re: A List A List!!!!

2004-01-06 Thread Julia Thompson
Alberto Monteiro wrote: Julia Thompson wrote: A good way to show off the belly is to wear a 2-piece outfit that doesn't cover the belly at all. Do they have fashions like that in Brazil for pregnant women? Yes, of course. See, that would have been perfect. :) Guess I was living

Re: Minimal Profits for Halliburton

2004-01-06 Thread Jan Coffey
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5 Jan 2004, Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] said In other words, the Bush Administration has limited the numbers of people available to the Coalition Provisional

Re: Minimal Profits for Halliburton

2004-01-06 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Jan Coffey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it not better to do a few thing right thn many things wrong? Jan I don't think so, actually. One of the things that I think I've learned the last two years (I've written about this on my blog at greater length) is that the basic decisions to be made

SCOUTED: Case of Foot-in-Mouth Disease Found in New York Senator

2004-01-06 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20040106_1188.html Hillary Clinton Regrets Gandhi Joke Hillary Clinton Says She Regrets Joking That Gandhi Used to Run a Gas Station in St. Louis The Associated Press ST. LOUIS Jan. 6 ­ Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton apologized for joking that Mahatma Gandhi

Re: Minimal Profits for Halliburton

2004-01-06 Thread Robert J. Chassell
The reason there are limits on the number of people there is _logistic_. The Bush Administration is desperately trying to squeeze as many people as it possibly can into Iraq. The long pole in the tent is that we are currently at capacity for the number of people we can

Re: Science Fiction In General

2004-01-06 Thread Travis Edmunds
From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Science Fiction In General Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 18:24:15 -0600 - Original Message - From: Travis Edmunds [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: Personal notes

2004-01-06 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 1/6/2004 1:17:31 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This was a big Christmas for me, I turned 50. To celebrate, my wife is taking me to San Francisco and the Napa Valley. The last time I was there was for my honeymoon, a long long time ago in a

RE: Return of the King Review Re: my mini review

2004-01-06 Thread Travis Edmunds
From: Miller, Jeffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Return of the King Review Re: my mini review Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 14:20:39 -0800 Lets not be coy Jeffrey. I find myself asking why you do not commit

Third viewing of Return of the King Review...and PINBALL!!!

2004-01-06 Thread Medievalbk
Very little things get noticed on the later viewing. Non-spoilers to follow. When Gandalf and Pippin get to the Hall of the Steward, there's a bird hopping on the left side of the doorway. Was this just the way it happened, or was the bird digitally added in? Debbi can confirm. When the

Re: A List A List!!!!

2004-01-06 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 3:06 PM Subject: Re: A List A List What's the general attitude on public breastfeeding in Brazil? Women who breastfeed the public in Houston

Re: A List A List!!!!

2004-01-06 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 03:06 PM 1/6/04, Julia Thompson wrote: I'd recommend that they dress for the weather wherever it is they're going, and be aware that toplessness is not socially acceptable in a lot of places in the US. It might have been possible this past weekend here, where it was actually in the

Re: Science Fiction In General

2004-01-06 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Travis Edmunds [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 6:24 PM Subject: Re: Science Fiction In General From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion

Holy Blood Holy Grail

2004-01-06 Thread Robert Seeberger
From Amazon: Michael Baigent, Henry Lincoln, and Richard Leigh, authors of The Messianic Legacy, spent over 10 years on their own kind of quest for the Holy Grail, into the secretive history of early France. What they found, researched with the tenacity and attention to detail that befits any

Re: Personal notes

2004-01-06 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 06:54 PM 1/6/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/6/2004 1:17:31 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This was a big Christmas for me, I turned 50. To celebrate, my wife is taking me to San Francisco and the Napa Valley. The last time I was there was for

Re: A List A List!!!!

2004-01-06 Thread Jim Sharkey
Julia Thompson wrote: If you go to burnaustin.org there may be pictures or links to pictures. That's you in the purple, right? I figured you were huge, but wow!!! Looked like you were smuggling medcine balls or something. :) Jim ___ Join Excite!

Re: Holy Blood Holy Grail

2004-01-06 Thread David Hobby
Robert Seeberger wrote: ... Michael Baigent, Henry Lincoln, and Richard Leigh, authors of The Messianic Legacy, spent over 10 years on their own kind of quest for the Holy Grail, into the secretive history of early France. What they found, researched with the tenacity and attention to detail

Re: A List A List!!!!

2004-01-06 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 08:55 PM 1/6/04, Jim Sharkey wrote: Julia Thompson wrote: If you go to burnaustin.org there may be pictures or links to pictures. That's you in the purple, right? I figured you were huge, but wow!!! Looked like you were smuggling medcine balls or something. :) Now that's probably an

Re: Minimal Profits for Halliburton

2004-01-06 Thread Steve Sloan II
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Re: Minimal Profits for Halliburton Maybe they should sell tee-shirts? (According to a different thread) Ed McMahon voice Hey-ohhh! /Ed McMahon voice ;-) __ Steve Sloan . Huntsville,

Stephan King

2004-01-06 Thread Doug Pensinger
I think King has his brilliant moments and he has his duds. Certainly there are some books of his that I've read that were all too real - so frightening, so close to the heart that I came away appreciating the talent of the writer, but disliking the book because the fear was so real it was

Re: Stephan King

2004-01-06 Thread William T Goodall
On 7 Jan 2004, at 3:49 am, Doug Pensinger wrote: I think King has his brilliant moments and he has his duds. Most likely. He also tries more different things than many writers which means there can be more differences of opinion about which ones are the brilliant and the duds :) snip There

Re: Science Fiction In General

2004-01-06 Thread William T Goodall
On 6 Jan 2004, at 12:19 am, Lalith Vipulananthan wrote: William T Goodall wrote: So what other writers or books in science fiction, fantasy, or horror (or heck, any genre) do people on the list like, even though they realize they're not exactly top-notch stuff? Terry Goodkind I used to, but

Re: A List A List!!!!

2004-01-06 Thread Julia Thompson
Robert Seeberger wrote: - Original Message - From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 3:06 PM Subject: Re: A List A List What's the general attitude on public breastfeeding in Brazil? Women who

Re: A List A List!!!!

2004-01-06 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 03:06 PM 1/6/04, Julia Thompson wrote: I'd recommend that they dress for the weather wherever it is they're going, and be aware that toplessness is not socially acceptable in a lot of places in the US. It might have been possible this past weekend here, where

Re: A List A List!!!!

2004-01-06 Thread Julia Thompson
Jim Sharkey wrote: Julia Thompson wrote: If you go to burnaustin.org there may be pictures or links to pictures. That's you in the purple, right? I figured you were huge, but wow!!! Looked like you were smuggling medcine balls or something. :) More like a blue, but yeah. And that

Re: Stephen King

2004-01-06 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 9:49 PM Subject: Stephen King I think King has his brilliant moments and he has his duds. Certainly there are some books of his that I've read that

Re: A List A List!!!!

2004-01-06 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 10:23 PM Subject: Re: A List A List Robert Seeberger wrote: - Original Message - From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer

Re: A List A List!!!!

2004-01-06 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 10:25 PM 1/6/04, Julia Thompson wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 03:06 PM 1/6/04, Julia Thompson wrote: I'd recommend that they dress for the weather wherever it is they're going, and be aware that toplessness is not socially acceptable in a lot of places in the US. It might have been

Re: Holy Blood Holy Grail

2004-01-06 Thread Adam C. Lipscomb
Rob wrote: From Amazon: *snippage* I just finished this book a while back. Anyone else read it? It's a lovely bit of whacknoodlery, but it's utter rot. Incredibly entertaining, and it manages to avoid the more repugnant antisemitic bits most conspiracy whackaloons (David Icke, anyone?) come

Re: A List A List!!!!

2004-01-06 Thread Matt Grimaldi
Alberto Monteiro wrote: I imagine that I will have to warn pregnant brazilian women about this, if it comes a time when brazilians can get back to the USA. Right now, it seems that our g*vernments and j*diciary powers and doing whatever they can to prevent tourists from crossing the border