At 09:03 PM 12/21/03, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Deborah Harrell wrote:
Well, now I must put on my medieval gown and trundle
off for a solstice party -- this is my neo-druid
friends' shindig, and I'm supposed to add a bit of
quasi-partial-well-OK-pretend authenticity... ;)
How pathetic is
Trent Shipley wrote:
On Sunday 2003-12-21 16:38, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
snipped some
and snipped some more
* a student that mentions anything anti-islamic is forced to
spend hours in reeducating classes, where he must study
and recite the Quram
Schools tend to discourage hate
Robert Seeberger wrote:
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At 04:43 AM 12/20/03, Deborah Harrell wrote:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/12/22/
nchurch22.xml
Sceptic priests could face trial by heresy courts
By Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent
(Filed: 22/12/2003)
The Church of England is preparing to crack down on heresy and sloppy
worship among clerics by forcing
Doug Pensinger wrote:
With all due respect, if we stopped talking about everything that makes
someone upset, we may as well shut down the list because we wouldn't even
be able to discuss the weather.
What do you mean by discuss the weather? I feel highly offended
when you all start talking
At 06:45 AM 12/22/2003, you wrote:
Doug Pensinger wrote:
With all due respect, if we stopped talking about everything that makes
someone upset, we may as well shut down the list because we wouldn't even
be able to discuss the weather.
What do you mean by discuss the weather? I feel highly
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Julia wrote:
I think it varies on a state-by-state basis. If you told me
John D. Giorgis wrote:
Thank goodness my horrible season of picking the NFL games is almost over.
Here is one of my last gasp attempts to try and pick a perfect slate for
a single week in the year:
You deserve kudos for putting your thoughts on record week in and week out
in such a public
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Doug Pensinger wrote:
With all due respect, if we stopped talking about everything that makes
someone upset, we may as well shut down the list because we wouldn't even
be able to discuss the weather.
What do you mean by discuss the weather? I feel highly
Doug Pensinger wrote:
Julia wrote:
I think it varies on a state-by-state basis. If you told me this was
happening in California, I'd just want enough info so I could verify the
specific instances.
Yoiks, it must be bash California week.
Question is, if it's so bad, how come there
I finished off Seventh Son by OS Card the other day. It's the first book
in the Alvin Maker series. Has anyone here read that book, or perhaps all
the books leading up to and including The Crystal City?
The reason I ask is due to the fact that I rate Seventh Son above Enders
Game. Of course I
In a message dated 12/22/2003 9:48:09 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
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(on a serious note)
How dare you. Remember who you're talking to.
Vilyehm
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(on a serious note)
Trent Shipley wrote:
I have done some estimates on this. From data from GURPS Uplift and
from Contacting Aliens, I estimate:
* about 2 million populated planets at each time
Across how many galaxies?
All five of them.
(Note that for the 1000KY +- Contact Galaxy 4 was
fallow, so it
We just felt a quake here in Santa Clara... which felt like a long (30
secs or more) gentle rolling, like being on a large boat. They're
saying its center was near San Simeon, pretty far from here, and was a 6.5.
If the list goes away, perhaps it'll mean that it was a precursor to the
Big
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At 12:00 AM 12/22/03, Doug Pensinger wrote:
Julia wrote:
I think it varies
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I finished off Seventh Son by OS Card the other day.
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Subject: Science Fiction In General...
I finished off Seventh Son by OS Card the other day. It's the first book
in the Alvin Maker series. Has anyone here read
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I have read all the ones so far. (I believe the final book has not
yet been published.
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I've read all but Crystal City.
As a series it is a little uneven..some of the
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From _National Review_:
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/graham200312220001.asp
Jennifer
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Subject: Scouted: House Bans Patents on Human Beings
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 20:07:40 -0500
Not sure if anyone out there disagrees with this law, but if so, I 'd be
interested in hearing
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStoryc=StoryFTcid=1071251707109p=1012571727304
The final installment of the The Lord of the Rings film trilogy sold $246m
worth of tickets worldwide between Wednesday and Sunday, the highest total
takings over the first five
Did anyone see this?
http://www.local6.com/sports/2719807/detail.html
It was a football sideline interview -- complete with a pass.
ESPN cut short an interview with Joe Namath during Saturday's Jets-Patriots
game -- after some curious answers from the Hall of Fame quarterback.
When reporter
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Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 17:15:58 -0600
At 05:02 PM 12/22/03, Travis Edmunds wrote:
From: John D. Giorgis
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At 11:51 AM 12/22/03, Horn, John wrote:
It gets a bit preachy but that's to be expected from OSC.
Travis Edmunds wrote:
I finished off Seventh Son by OS Card the other day. It's the first book
in the Alvin Maker series. Has anyone here read that book, or perhaps all
the books leading up to and including The Crystal City?
The reason I ask is due to the fact that I rate Seventh Son above
At 05:31 PM 12/22/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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At 11:51 AM 12/22/03, Horn, John wrote:
It gets a bit
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 10:54 AM 12/22/03, Julia Thompson wrote:
Sonja van Baardwijk wrote:
Personally I have noticed that my sensitivity to smoke has been heavily
increased the less I'm exposed to it. Nothing psychosomatic about it.
There was one year that I managed to increase
At 05:54 PM 12/22/03, Julia Thompson wrote:
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 10:54 AM 12/22/03, Julia Thompson wrote:
Sonja van Baardwijk wrote:
Personally I have noticed that my sensitivity to smoke has been heavily
increased the less I'm exposed to it. Nothing psychosomatic about it.
Something I have been thinking about a lot lately is music with Science
Fictional and Fantasmal themes.
Offhand, bands like Pink Floyd and Hawkwind spring to mind immediately.
But I have been thinking that the band that has done the most and/or the
best with SF and Fantasy themes is Blue Oyster
How about:
ELP, Karn Evil, 3rd Impression (Brain Salad Surgery)
ELF, Tarkus (Tarkus) (the SF elements are the cover,
which follows the song!)
Damon.
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Damon Agretto
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Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.
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How about:
ELP, Karn Evil, 3rd Impression (Brain Salad Surgery)
ELF, Tarkus (Tarkus) (the SF elements
Album covershm
No, what I meant is that to understand the song you
have to follow along with the album cover (which had a
number of pictures depicting movements within the
song, and telling the story of Tarkus). Its sort of
like following along with they lyrics, except this
time the
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Album covershm
No, what I meant is that to understand the song you
have to follow along
In a message dated 12/22/2003 6:17:30 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
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There ought to be a few limits too:
No Purple People Eater comedy type songs.
Well what other type of music do you think I listen to?
If you exclude Purple People Eater, I guess you also have to
In a message dated 12/22/2003 2:10:23 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
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I'm not sure how the dizziness fits into that plan...
You try to read the label while it's spinning on that ye olde record player?
Re quake: As far as I can tell, it was very close to a campground
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Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 17:35:26 -0600
I know. But then you know I have to point out the obvious . . .
How is this mother any different than the neglectful wealthy parents of such
worthless scum as Paris Hilton?
Tom Beck
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I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I never dreamed I'd see the
last. - Dr Jerry Pournelle
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Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 18:25:54 -0500
I've read all of them but _The Crystal City_. I do confess
to being a bit upset when
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Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 17:47:28 -0600
Last I knew, he was on the high council. Of course, it has been a while
since I
Julia Thompson wrote:
What do you mean by discuss the weather? I feel highly offended
when you all start talking about snow in Christmas, and I have 41 deg
in the termometer!
41? You lucky dog -- I only have 18[1]. (No snow here either.)
The minimum in Texas is 18? Even here we have some
In a message dated 12/22/2003 8:05:15 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
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-- Ronn! :)
You've spoken to Mr Card in person?
-Travis
Then ask him why he gave Columbus a telescope.
William Taylor
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My favorite meaningless rant.
JDG wrote:
More to the point, I disagree with the result of #25. I've never heard
ofCaroling, Caroling - but Coventry Carol is probably much more famous.
Caroling, Caroling, through the snow, Christmas bells are ringing...
Coventry Carol may be more famous, but Caroling Caroling is much more
William Taylor wrote:
Back from second viewing of
ROTK.
Only change: They dropped the preview that
got booed opening night.
And that preview was...? (Sorry if this was asked before, I've been having
some unexpected trouble switching over to a new email address, and lost a
bunch of messages...)
Matt wrote:
-- Matt
...who wonders whether the monkeys' script revisions
for Hamlet were any good...
Is this possible? Hamlet was perfect, after all ;-)
Reggie Bautista
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Travis Edmunds wrote:
You may say that it's not justified. Fine. But what if you or your child or
some other loved one of yours, contracted a life threatening affliction,
and the only means of saving yours or the other person's life was to
harvest a human embryo (which you consider to be
Robert Seeberger wrote:
Something I have been thinking about a lot lately is music with Science
Fictional and Fantasmal themes.
One of my daughters' favourite bands these days is led by
a girl, Pitty, and she has some sf-based songs. She even
dedicates the album to the prophets Asimov, Aldous
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There ought to be a few limits too:
No
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How is this mother any different than the neglectful wealthy parents of
such
worthless scum as Paris Hilton?
How is this mother any different than the neglectful wealthy parents of
such
worthless scum as Paris Hilton?
Thats a rhetorical question, right?!!!
G
If you mean, that it answers itself (and the answer is, not in any
significant way), then yes.
Tom Beck
In a message dated 12/22/2003 8:17:33 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
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And that preview was...? (Sorry if this was asked before, I've been having
some unexpected trouble switching over to a new email address, and lost a
bunch of messages...)
It was some totally
Travis Edmunds wrote:
A rose by any other name
...is the sexual organ of a thorny shrub ;-)
(I wish I could remember where I first heard that...)
Reggie Bautista
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Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 8:47 PM
Subject: RE: Science Fiction In Music
Well this is right up my alley. You're talking to the resident music freak
here!
There's 4 or 5 here to keep you company.G
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Subject: Re: Filtering
Julia Thompson wrote:
What do you mean by discuss the weather? I feel highly offended
when you all start
In a message dated 12/22/2003 8:27:57 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
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Matt wrote:
-- Matt
...who wonders whether the monkeys' script revisions
for Hamlet were any good...
Is this possible? Hamlet was perfect, after all ;-)
Reggie Bautista
::Picks
In a message dated 12/22/2003 8:42:51 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
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agree. Mars is still one of my favorite classical pieces. (Even though it
has been overused to the point that it almost a mockery of itself.)
The same goes for Carmina Burana (horrible spelling
I saw it today. I thought it was a great movie.
At the end, Dan turned to me and said that we could tell Sammy that he
was named after Samwise. :) (He hasn't read Lord of the Rings yet, so
he wasn't familiar with Samwise.)
My only complaint was that at one point, there's a mother with an
Well this is right up my alley. You're talking to the resident music freak
here!
First of all though let me point out something. You said you'd like some
suggestions and criticisms. Well here's where I criticize:
Although the music mentioned certainly has sf/f themes, I don't think
that's
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And Benson Arizona!
I'm not familiar
In a message dated 12/22/2003 10:04:55 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
He is still pretty new here.
So he deserves some slack.
Besides he seems like a pretty nice guy IMO.
No harm. No foul.
On the other hand, if you try to put slacks on most fowl, you will
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