From: Gary Nunn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Unfortunately, not many eight year olds would get the
reference to the Wave
Motion Gun. They would rather watch Power Rangers or talking
purple demon
spawn dinosaurs. :-)
I don't think there are many 8 year olds watching purple dinosaurs.
From: Ronn Blankenship
The word denigrating has such a negative ring to it
People in the US have been fired from their jobs for using it
properly
because others who obviously did not know what the word means
took offense
because they thought it was related to that notorious
From: Marvin Long, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
None of these thoughts are set in stone, but it's a set of
thoughts that
have been gnawing at me over the past year.
I am in awe of some of the writing ability on this mailing list. Marvin, if
I could write 1/100 as well as you or
From: John D. Giorgis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
A woman in a Cleveland hospital, accorded to a nurse who
works there, heard
doctors talking about something rather nice-sounding and
decided to name
her child after it.
The young girl was named Placenta.
This is probably an urban
From: Adam C. Lipscomb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Like boxes of sh*t in your house? Get a cat.
True. But it's in a little covered box down in the basement. Some how I'd
rather deal with that a couple of times a week than everytime I walk my dog.
To each their own...
- jmh
From: The Fool [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
When I first met her She wouldnt let her daughter go Trick or
Treating
because Halloween was a Satanic holiday.
In what way is halloween any more pagan/occultic/etc. than christmas,
easter, or valentines day? They all come from ancient pagan
From: Robert Seeberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
IIRC, All Hallow's Eve is the night before All Saints Day a
Catholic (?)
holiday. On All Hallow's Eve, the dead can walk the earth
or something
like
that. So it isn't really pagan.
Or I could be wrong...
No, you are right .
From: Robert Seeberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
http://www.lordoftherings.net/index_101b_fi_vide.html
You can view (and download!) the full screen trailer at:
http://www.lordoftherings.net/two_towers/trailer/tt_trailer2.html
Very cool. I'm getting pumped again!
- jmh
From: Alberto Monteiro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
That sounds very interesting. Any chance of restating that
in words a
non-rocket scientist could understand? :-)
But I will try anyway
I think I actually followed that. Thanks!
I guess something from high school and college physics
From: Doug [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
But look at the appendixes. Who rules the Shire after Frodo leaves?
The servant, the son of the gardener.
Isn't rules a bit strong? Will Whitfoot was kind of a joke
wasn't he?
His chief task being to preside over
From: Lalith Vipulananthan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Anyway, regarding the name thing, I was given three Christian names in
addition to my ridiculously long surname. Much as I'm into
the preservation
of family name and all, I can see my sister's semi-joking
desire to marry
someone
From: Lalith Vipulananthan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
The benefits of a short name should never be underestimated.
Then again,
most people I meet can never claim to have forgotten my name
because it is so distinctive.
I suppose that is true. I remember taking those standardized tests
From: Reggie Bautista [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
The rooster's name was Butterball? That's really funny.
Yeah, my brother had a peculiar sense of humor... Still does...
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From: Julia Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
I witnessed the birth of a calf once, and helped name it.
About 18 months later, the girl whose family's calf it was
came up to me
in school and said, Remember X? [Calf's name withheld]
Yeah.
We ate him last night.
I was *not*
When I was driving earlier I turned on the radio and who was on NPR but our
good Dr. Brin. Too bad I didn't get to listen to more than 5 minutes of it
before I reached my destination. I wonder if they have that available for
listening on their website?
- jmh
From: J. van Baardwijk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
OK, dumb question here. There have been several sightings;
everyone in that
corner of the world must know about Bigbird by now. So why
are there no
PICTURES? I would expect that by after the first one or two
sightings,
nobody would
From: J. van Baardwijk [mailto:j.vanbaardwijk;chello.nl]
That is to say, by that rule, England should have done nothing while
Hitler took over Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland.
England does not have borders with those countries, so when
Hitler attacked
them, England was not under
From: Dan Minette [mailto:dsummersminet;houston.rr.com]
In short, the practical way to stop a unipolar world is not
for the US to
promise to get permission before it acts at all. Rather, it
is for other
countries to be able to actually act, instead of just telling
the US how to
act.
From: Kevin Tarr [mailto:vze3xykq;verizon.net]
You mean people owned a piece of property but they had no
control over what
was being done with it, for the sake of a phone line? Sounds
like another
example that people are just renting the ground from the government.
My guess is there
From: Jean-Louis Couturier [mailto:jean-louis.couturier;ixiasoft.com]
De : Dan Minette [mailto:dsummersminet;houston.rr.com]
I'll warn you once. Never ever bandy the the reliability
of data and the
certainty of observation with someone who has degrees both
in science and
From: J. van Baardwijk [mailto:j.vanbaardwijk;chello.nl]
I'll warn you once. Never ever bandy the the reliability of
data and the
certainty of observation
with someone who has degrees both in science and philosophy.
Hey, are you threatening me? :-)
Yes, but is it an American or a
From: Ritu Ko [mailto:ritu;theculture.org]
Giorgis habitually uses personal attacks as a means to win
a discussion;
I am shocked to see that you think of that as something that
is not such a
big problem.
Are you usually so easily shocked?
As for what I said, well, personal
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:Medievalbk;aol.com]
A flying saucer was recently spotted hovering over Rio De Janeiro,
broadcasting,
Take me to your leader. in Spanish.
Yup, It's a genuine U. F. faux pas
Ouch. Thanks for a good laugh!
- jmh
From: Alberto Monteiro [mailto:albmont;centroin.com.br]
See below an example of how to vote
http://www.geocities.com/albmont/urna_eletronica_iraque.htm
Shouldn't the instructions be in Arabic (Persian?)? ;-)
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From: Brad DeLong [mailto:delong;econ.Berkeley.EDU]
Now any suggestions on what I should tell the cybermasses?
That the next big thing will be computers (xompitors?) made out of cheese
doodles and corn pops?
or
That everyone should forget all about that movie The Postman and go out
and give
From: Ray Ludenia [mailto:lud;tpg.com.au]
Much of Australia is currently in the grip of a major
drought.
*Victorians urged to shower together*
Victorian Environment Minister Sherryl Garbutt has urged
Victorians to
shower together.
Why can't we ever had drought's like this in the
From: J. van Baardwijk [mailto:j.vanbaardwijk;chello.nl]
First, an employer who would use a couple of e-mails as a
reason to not
hire a person, would be a lousy employer anyway. If he uses
that sort of
methods, he is likely to use other questionable reasons as
well to decide
From: Jim Sharkey [mailto:templar569;excite.com]
John D. Giorgis posited:
A UNSC made up of America, Russia, China, India, the EU, Mexico,
and Egypt as permanent members, and another 18 countries rotating
in and out.
This is a pretty interesting idea John. It sounds fair and
From: John D. Giorgis [mailto:jxg9;po.cwru.edu]
At 02:07 PM 11/1/2002 -0600 Horn, John wrote:
Would all of these permanent members have a veto? If not,
which ones would?
Virtually every country under consideration for a permanent
UNSC seat in
the future has stated that they would
From: Ronn Blankenship
This is the second list I have received it from (with minor
differences).
Maybe the new generation on the Internet have never heard
this joke? I
first heard it at least 30-some-odd years ago . . .
I didn't have access to a computer 30-some-odd years ago when I
From: Julia Thompson [mailto:julia;zurg.net]
Oh, if you haven't had kids yet, when the time comes that you
*do* have
them, if you want to watch TV, closed captioning is *great*.
I agree totally. It's almost impossible to watch TV and understand a show
with quick lines like the Simpsons or
You want US unilateralism. I'll give you US unilateralism:
In the immortal words of Randy Newman:
Political Science
No one likes us
I don't know why.
We may not be perfect
But heaven knows we try.
But all around even our old friends put us down.
Let's drop the big one and see what
From: Jim Sharkey [mailto:templar569;excite.com]
My wife and I voted ealry today. One of the good things
about voting here in NJ is they still use the old
lever-voting booths. We were able to bring the kids into the
booths with us and give them a little taste of what it's about.
I
From: J. van Baardwijk [mailto:j.vanbaardwijk;chello.nl]
About 15 minutes ago, for an other post, I did a Google
search on Dan
Minette; there were literally dozens of links to the archives at
mail-archive.com and Yahoo!Groups.
When I did a search on your e-mail address, the first two
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:Medievalbk;aol.com]
Then again, I'm one of the people who voted for a dead guy
2 years ago...
Is he still registered as a voter?
I must say, I don't know. I doubt it, but considering the state of the
political process in this state, I wouldn't be
From: Russell Chapman [mailto:rchapman;ozemail.com.au]
/8qT5dS: Permission denied
Huh?
- jmh
Confused...
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From: John D. Giorgis [mailto:jxg9;po.cwru.edu]
Would you accept hardware instead of an engagement ring?
Wouldn't that be awfully hard to wear on your finger...?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mark)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books.tolkien
Subject: OT Spam: Brin-L
Date: 7 Nov 2002 00:59:51 -0800
The fornicators have blocked me, they've blocked me. Tell 'em to go to hell
pls.
Mark
I have some lovely pics of Shampoo, if anyone wants to see them.
From: John D. Giorgis [mailto:jxg9;po.cwru.edu]
More importantly, why is somebody carrying out Mark's wishes for him?
OK. As has been pointed out to me by several people, I probably made a
slight error in judgement by posting this to the list. Sorry.
It still seemed like a good idea at the
From: John D. Giorgis [mailto:jxg9;po.cwru.edu]
Question: What would be your reaction if you learned that a
woman (or,
alternatively a woman and her male partner) decided to make
use of this
service to create a memento before deciding to abort their fetus?
Man, everything
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:Medievalbk;aol.com]
Iranian police are looking for a phony sorcerer who conned
a man into
believing he was invisible and could rob banks, the Jam-e
Jam newspaper said
Thursday.
Did he make a mistake by not being nude at the time?
Maybe he could
From: Russell Chapman [mailto:rchapman;ozemail.com.au]
But the USA wasn't at war at the last presidential election. I think
that in Y2000 the US population in general was looking for other
attributes than the ability to lead a country through the current
situation. Hell, half the
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/11/15/offbeat.malta.fresco/index.html
Maybe Disney *doesn't* hold the copyright to Mickey Mouse, after all...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:Medievalbk;aol.com]
Yup. I did not retain that. I was still tripping out that I
had read through
all three novels and didn't catch all of the Lord of the
Rings references
until the second time through.
Lord of the Rings references?
- jmh
Just... because...
- jmh
-Original Message-
From: Mike Surbrook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 2:21 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: KIKKOMAN! He's our hero!
Bringing new meaning to the word strange.
http://yoga.tripod.co.jp/flash/kikkomaso.swf
You
It seems I've killed the list!
(With my Kikkoman post...)
- jmh
Would it help to say, I'm very, very sorry...
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From: Julia Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
It seems I've killed the list!
I don't think that was it. I think it's just been a combination of
factors independently preventing people from posting, and
that they all hit at once.
Ah... the list seems much better this morning! Gah!
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
I'm not dead.
I'm getting better.
No you're not. You'll be stone dead in a moment...
(Someone had to say it...)
- jmh
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My brain hurts...
- jmh
(I know, I know ... one line response: bad.)
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From: Julia Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Have you ever said something that could be taken very badly out of
context in a crowded room where most of the conversations
have just
reached a pause? :)
Probably, but in the instance I remember most vividly, it was someone
else.
From: Nick Arnett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
My brain hurts...
What got your brain into *that* state?
All this talk about brains and neurons and big, big, *big* numbers...
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From: John D. Giorgis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
According to ABC News tonight, President Bush - two years
away from the
next election no less - is raising the fuel efficiency
standards for SUV's
by 1.5 miles/gallon.
2 years away from the election - wouldn't that give people 2 years
From: Julia Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Jesus didn't have 3 kids and laws regarding child safety restraints.
You *cannot* put 3 kids under 6 in a car (I have one of the
widest cars
around, and I don't think 3 child restraint systems will fit
in the back
seat; anyone in Austin
From: Julia Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Minivans *are* better on those merits.
The Honda Odyssey, mentioned by Russell earlier, is one.
(The Mazda MPV
he mentions has name familiarity to me, but I can't remember just what
it looks like. Mostly I tune out Mazda commercials
From: Gautam Mukunda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
--- J. van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
At 21:01 21-11-2002 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:
It's 2:47am, Eastern Standard Time. I'm still at the
office, with no guesses as to when I'm getting out.
For God's sake, will the two of you
From: Marvin Long, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
I'm tiptoeing
back, thinking to myself, No more L3s. No more L3s. No
more L3s)
With all the discussions about logic and religion, I think this is going to
be *very* hard for you to do! grin
- jmh
From: K. Feete [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Yes, but, as Searle and Merleau-Ponty are both so fond of
Merleau-Ponty? Isn't that that English comedy team that did all those TV
shows and movies???
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Post.
Man.
- jmh
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
but unfortuantely you were convicted of a crime and put in prison.
Please refrain from making such comments; your statement
could seriously
damage Sonja's career. If it is found that her career is
indeed damaged (for
example, she
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Ultra-radical fast food terrorists kidnap the mayor of St.
Louis. Will be
released once the Gateway Arch is painted bright yellow.
Then the giant mirror will be built just next to it.
- jmh
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Then another identically-painted arch will be built next to it.
I was actually looking at that durn mirror in three
dimensions. You have to
be at just the right angle to make the arch look double.
OK, OK. It was a bad joke. But I
From: Erik Reuter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Can he say it in a house?
Can he say it with a mouse?
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From: Adam C. Lipscomb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
http://homepage.mac.com/msparby/iMovieTheater5.html
*blink*
*twitch*
Make it stop
This link no longer works. So, what was it?
Or shouldn't I ask...
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From: Adam C. Lipscomb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
It was Leonard Nimoy and some groovy chicks singing The Ballad of
Bilbo Baggins. It's much, much worse than it sounds. At least 2D20
of SAN loss.
Ah, I've seen that before. It was posted on another list I'm on. It is
pretty horrid.
-
From: Reggie Bautista [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Fox has booked Will Smith
to star in sci-fier I, Robot, an adaptation of
the 1940s Isaac Asimov short-story collection
that set the groundwork for robot films ranging
from The Terminator to A.I.,
From: J. van Baardwijk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
But what about attempts to hack the server?
That is something that happened *only* because Arnett
willingly violated
list policy again, so he has no right to take any action
against me anyway.
Isn't that a bit like saying that since
From: The Fool [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
The film, then called Hardwired, apparently started
out as yet another
ho-hum robots-trying-to-take-over-the-world film. No big deal
there. One
more piece of screenplay-by-committee out of Hollywood isn't
news. In the
last year, though,
From: J. van Baardwijk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
I hereby offer my sincere apologies for my part in all this
mess and for the disturbance it caused
I'm a little late in chiming in here but I'd just like to say:
WAHHH-H
I've been trying to talk some people into joining the list and
From: Ronn! Blankenship [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Now, taste my steel, pawn of Apu!
Why would the manager of the Quickie Mart need pawns?
He might like prawns.
Would you like a nice tasty prawn-on-a-stick with your slurpee?
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From: Lalith Vipulananthan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
The short version: I liked it!
I liked it too. I'm sure I missed most of the puns and stuff. I'm always
missing stuff like that.
So, can Brin-L recommend some more Brin for me? ;)
Ha! You asked for it now, Lal!
_The Postman_ is in
From: Adam C. Lipscomb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
http://gning.org/skiffy.html
I got:
Philip José Farmer
This prolific author brings surprising depths to he-man adventure tales, and
broke science fiction's prudery barrier.
Surprising... While I really like PJF (I ran a role-playing game
From: Jon Gabriel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Anyway, the 'hot alien chick' guest star is Padma Lakshmi. I knew she
Wasn't she the queen in _The Phantom Menace_?
Oh wait... that was Padme...
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I'm waiting for Two Towers. Peter Jackson RAWKS.
*does dance*
Gotta have a new Object of Fanboy Worship, since Lucas managed to
completely f*ck up Star Wars.
I'm taking the day off from work in honor of the event! I got my tickets
for the 11:00 a.m. show on Wednesday morning! Got a
From: The Fool [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/DailyNews/saudi_teachers021210.html
Many here also frequently point out that the U.S. military campaign in
Afghanistan left civilians dead - justification, they say,
for al Qaeda's attacks on American civilians.
From: Julia Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
You know, that would be funnier if Bob as a religious figure hadn't
already been taken. I'm reading the thing, and waiting for
the slack
punchline, and it never comes. Highly irritating.
Do you mean by the Rugrats? ;-)
- jmh
(For those
From: Julia Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Do you mean by the Rugrats? ;-)
No, I mean what Adam posted. The Church of the Subgenius has been
around longer than Rugrats. (Maybe it's a homage to CoSg?)
Actually, I knew that. That's why I put in the smiley. I don't think
Rugrats
I saw _The Two Towers_ yesterday. Very, very good. I thought the first
half was excellent. Extremely faithful to the book. There wasn't anything
I would have changed about it. The second half wandered a bit from the book
but was still very well done.
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And speaking of LotR, am I the only who finds himself feeling
a very strong urge to visit New Zealand after watching the
movies? It's amazingly beautiful country, at least the parts
Mr. Jackson is showing us.
No, you are not the only one. I
From: The Fool [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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I don't like that Gimli has become comic relief. The dwarves are a
noble
race. There was a little bit of that in the first
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I also loved it, pretty much for all the same reasons. My own random
obervations:
The Gandalf vs. Balrog fight was one
I'm looking to purchase a new receiver. My last purchase of a receiver was
in 1978 so I'm a little out of date as to what to look for. Any
suggestions? Or any suggestions what features to look for? I'd like to
keep the cost under $400-500 if possible. And I'd like something that works
fairly
Last night I was putting my six year old daughter, Laura, to bed. After
reading The Grinch and Santa Cows, we turned out the light and snuggled
up together in bed. We then had the following conversation:
Laura: Dad, do you know what I like best about Christmas?
John: No, what?
Laura: The
Fall 1967-- Dr. Harold Waisman, a biochemist at the University of
Wisconsin, conducts aspartame safety tests on infant monkeys
on behalf of
the Searle Company. Of the seven monkeys that were being fed aspartame
mixed with milk, one dies and five others have grand mal seizures.
Spring
From: Ronn! Blankenship [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Under Windows 98 I think it is called MS-DOS or something
like that.
And is apparently located somewhere else.
How about Start, Run, type in command. OK.
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From: Marvin Long, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Me too. (Everybody together: D-V-D, D-V-D, D-V-D)
Why is everyone positive that there will be an Extended Edition DVD for
_The Two Towers_? Has Peter Jackson said for a fact that there will be one?
For some reason, I thought that the FOTR
From: Ronn! Blankenship [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
GSV I love New York. I love New York. I love New York. repeat ad
infinitum
Do they have brown recluse spiders up there?
That's funny! That's exactly what I was thinking. I lived in an apartment
infested with brown recluses for about
From: Robert Seeberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
The bite of a brown recluse can cause your flesh to rot and
fester.
Oh, I know they are nasty. I think the point of the article (I need to see
if I can find the link) was that recluses bites are much rarer than
generally thought.
Brown
From: Jon Gabriel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
I now have this mental image of a freakishly huge brown
recluse spider with
fangs as long as your arm etc. Just how large do they get?
Generally not that big. Most of the ones we saw were usually about the size
of a quarter or so with legs
From: Jon Gabriel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
I wonder if the reason I've never seen one is my cat devours
them before I
see 'em? That didn't occur to me, but it's perfectly
possible. Then again,
we haven't seen any spider parts lying around, so who knows?
That used to worry me a
From: The Fool [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
So, should I stop drinking diet soda?
Drink tea. Black tea ~1 bag / glass water.
That's great advice. Unfortunately, I drink my tea with Sweet N Low!
grin
I can't quite get the knack of drinking tea without some sweetener...
- jmh
From: Erik Reuter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
That used to worry me a lot. That one of my cats would eat
a recluse
and die from it. But I was assured by someone that it's
poison is an
injected poison not an injested poison.
What does that mean? That it is not absorbed through the
From: Ronn! Blankenship [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
(Personally, I've had little luck in training any of the cats
I've had to
use the toilet, so I'm not volunteering.)
No luck here either. It did give one of my cats a bladder infection though.
She really, really didn't want to go anywhere
From: Julia Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
No. Go back and look again at the post where I ask the question
Ah, _Spider-Man_, of course!
- jmh
I've got that one too. Good disk!
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From: Alberto Monteiro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
In the ER Episode I watched yesterday, Dr Weaver said something
like check medical stuff to see if there is any zebra
Zebra? This is a br soccer slang. What does it mean in English?
Besides being a black and white striped horse-like animal?
From: Dan Minette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
We did, so we didn't. Do you know of a
counter example
to this, where a family paid at least 20% down on a first
morgage on their
primary residence and still needed to make mortgage insurance
payments?
No one should. When we refinanced in
From: Erik Reuter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
M.I. is required for less than 20% down-payment, from everything I've
read. I did read an article that said that sometimes people continue
paying the mortgage insurance when they don't really have to (they've
reached 20% equity or whatever). You
From: Jon Gabriel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Rice cakes kill six in Japan
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Associated Press
Jan. 2, 2003 | TOKYO -- Six elderly Japanese died and 25
others were
hospitalized in Tokyo after choking on gooey rice cakes over
the New Year's
holidays, an
From: Ronn! Blankenship [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
In 2000, Archaeoraptor, a Chinese fossil of what looked
like a feathered flying dinosaur, was revealed to be a
forgery: A slab
containing the fossil of a fish-eating bird was glued to one
holding the
fossilized tail of a small
From: Richard Baker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Which gives me another opportunity for shameless self-promotion:
http://www.theculture.org/adastra/history/22/Nuclear.html
Is this your own or is it based on Bank's Culture?
- jmh
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From: Tharn Kelrac [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
First: Sorry for my english, i am belgian and my mother
language is french.
I am a very great fan of David Brin (not only for the Uplift Saga but
mostly). I am happy to join this mailing list.
Welcome aboard! Your English seems awfully good
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