peacefuljeffrey

See, that's just stupid. Coke is a brand. Pepsi is a brand. Coke does not mean "cola-flavored soft drink." I also think it's stupid to call a Scott tissue a "Kleenex." If you're talking about carbonated beverages, they are "sodas." Seltzer is not "soda," either. Pepsi, Coke, Sprite, 7-Up, Dr. Pepper -- those are all sodas. They are sure as hell not all "Cokes." To claim that they are is to try to legitimize a long-ago-made-error, which through repeated (mis)use became the norm in some (backwards) areas. Ugh. Besides, Coke sucks. Pepsi rocks!

What do you mean? Have you actually felt fear based on the government saying that someone could be planning to attack us, go to code orange? Puhlease. NO ONE is being affected by these claims of heightened threat levels, etc. People blow them off because by now they've become the boy who cried wolf. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

When you say, "The GOP had a website up" do you mean literally it was set up and run by the Republican party? Or are you playing fast and loose with your wording and you really just mean that people loyal to Republican politics have set it up? I mean, should we say, "The Democrats have that Bush-bashing website 'moveon.org'..."? edit: Okay, I went to the link (I'm usually lazy about doing that, that's why I asked) and it does appear to be the actual Republican committee's website. Now, the big question: Does not the Democratic party have similar shit going on that baahes the Republicans?" And if they do, why would you point out and bemoan the Republicans doing it unless you want to highlight Dems' hypocrisy? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

In all seriousness... I have to wonder about the morals, ethics, honesty, and EVIL of a person who can willingly LIE so egregiously as the guy who wrote this article. HOW can anyone who makes any PRETENSE at being honest about guns and gun control put forth such drivel as an attempt to justify renewal of the useless, idiotic "assault weapons ban"? The guy is either LYING, or just STUPID: in either case, he should not be allowed to sway people's opinions about gun policy. How about that part: "These are military style weapons that can fire bullets as fast as the shooter pulls the trigger."? Uh, you mean like a REVOLVER? Anything but a bolt-action or a single-shot will "fire bullets as fast as the shooter pulls the trigger." What a moron. I can't wait to get my full-cap Glock magazines! HOO-AH! - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Uh, dude, don't you mean HUBCAPS from Fords, Toyotas, Subarus, Chevys, and Isuzus...??? mh Cute, but what I meant was, if each of those different-looking "UFOs" pictured were an actual one that really was piloted by space aliens, the only way I could figure accounting for the variations in look and design would be either the astronomically small chance that we've been visited by several alien races of different origin points, or one alien race has come to pilot various different "brands" of space ships, like the way we have different automobile manufacturers for humans. I guess that the idiot alien hoaxsters we have on earth don't think too deeply when coming up with a hoax and crafting a pie-tin (or hubcap) "spaceship." - . -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Or dogs with bees in their mouths, and when they bark they shoot bees at you? Get well soon, Zenister. Better, stronger, faster than before... Or at least able to skydive again! - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Very funny! MikeJD, I wonder if you've ever seen Walter Koenig, who played Mr. Chekov, in anything else. (I remember him in a really awful science fiction movie that was not Star Trek.) He's about as Russian as you or me! And then I looked back on that awful put-on accent and realized, "Jeff, you should have picked up on that sooner..." - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I was standing on one of the upper mezzanines of a large, palatial movie theater near where I live, in a huge atrium with stairways criss-crossing. I went to a railing and looked up and down and sideways to a bunch of different ledges, and because I've gotten so used to being unfazed by kneeling next to an open airplane door at 13,000 feet, I got this weird feeling: I wasn't at all nervous when I imagined myself climbing all over those ledges. Normally, I am apprehensive about heights and ledges. I guess I've kinda gained confidence because of the notion of having a parachute on when I get high enough to hurt myself in a fall. (Somehow I can tune out the fact that I am not wearing a parachute when near these kinds of ledges. Either that or I pretend to myself that I DO have a parachute on.) - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Homage to the scarecrow in the wizard of oz. He gets his diploma from the wiz and rattles off that triangle riff. Problem was, what he said was wrong. Simpsons got it right. (as always...) I've seen The Wizard of Oz exactly... once. When it was re-released in like '98 or so. Never noticed that scene you mentioned, or its correlation to The Simpsons. That show is genius. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Well, who knows, maybe I was wrong to pick on the movie's use of tritium for the reactor in the first place. I was not using the knowledge of a professional physicist, only the fact that I know tritium is not some high-energy, highly dangerous stuff. What I know of it did not seem suited to its use in the dangerous, perilous experiments performed by Dr. Octavius. What is "ICF" as in "ICF reactor," anyway? I musta missed the origin of the acronym. (And is something an "acronym" if it is a bunch of letter initials that can't really be pronounced?) - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

"There is nothing as useless as the altitude above you or the runway behind you." "You can never have too much fuel, unless your aircraft's on fire." "Kill the brain, and you kill the ghoul." - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Homer also occasionally has flashes of brilliance (and not just when the crayon's been removed from his brain!): Sitting in the bathroom wearing Henry Kissinger's eyeglasses, he quickly rattles off: "The sum of the squares of the sides of an isosceles triangle equal the square of the remaining side." and the guy in the next stall retorts: "That's a right triangle, you idiot!" - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

PERFECT! I'd forgotten that one! You're the first to actually comply with the request my thread made...

You linked to a UFO enthusiast site containing dozens of articles. How are we to know which one you insist is undisputable proof? The first thing that struck me was the photos at the top of the page. You know, those obvious-fake pie-tin "UFOs" that people have claimed were real alien spacecraft. Now, we've talked about the vastness of the universe, the galaxy, the solar system, and the gulfs of time and space that any alien race would have to span in order to reach us for a visit. So if any of those photos were to be real alien craft, we'd have to believe that either a whole bunch of different alien races had all managed to arrive at our little planet for a peek, or one race has a whole bunch of differently shaped craft that have all made the trip -- I mean, those pictures all show similar "ships" but they are not nearly identical. Now, maybe I'm being unfair, and maybe the aliens all arrived in a caravan of what amounts to Fords, Toyotas, Subarus, Chevys, and Isuzus... but I doubt it. I think it's far more likely that a number of charlatans modeled "space ships" and took pictures of them, and since they each had a concept of alien craft being shaped like "flying saucers," they all came up with similar designs. What say you? Blue skies, - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

My only question is, why do they always abduct rednecks from Pensacola? Why not someone a little more high-profile? Marion Barry would be good. Or Madonna? It's always... "They said they flew millions of miles across the majesty of space, the planets, and the universe because my butt orifice was no interesting. I'm thinkin' of starting a theme park." Or, as Kang put it to Homer Simpson, "STOP! We have reached the limit of what rectal probing can teach us!" Blue skies, - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Why not have Michael Moore's "fact checkers" look into it for you? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

This observation works in reverse, though: If we, orbiting our puny little insignificant sun, are among all these billions to the billionth power stars, why do we feel it is so likely that intelligent life that originated from any other star would manage to find us orbiting ours?? The odds are astronomically against. Even if they were sitting at home, planning their trip, with a telescope that could see every single star and planet in the universe, if they took only one second to look at every potential destination planet, it would take them billions of years to analyze data from every single viewed planet, even if they had a set of accurate criteria for use in screening out planets not worth visiting. And yet, people here on earth think it's unassailably true that alien visitors have arrived here, interacted with humans, and maybe even been captured by our military (and of course concealed). Blue skies, - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

OMG, the "No-Prize"!!! I had totally forgotten that! You surely get one. I guess I had not thought of the idea that maybe Spiderman hoped to be able to defeat Octavius and maybe get him returned to normal. It's too bad that the movie doesn't have "thought bubbles" to show what Spidey's thinking. In this case, they could have had one that said, "Can't hurt Doc -- he's not in his right mind! Got to knock him out and maybe Reed Richards can figure a way to get those arms off him!" Blargh. Maybe in the next movie they'll do that. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Ohhh, am I supposed to feel insulted, now? Good riddance. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Have you been reading entire posts or just skimming them? I specified that the movie said there are just "25 pounds of tritium on the planet." That is grossly inaccurate, even if it is "rare." And whether or not it is used in ICF reactors, it is hardly the ultra-precious, must-capture-Spiderman-for-me-if-you-want-my-tritium-supply element that they portrayed it to be in the film I found it pretty ridiculous when Spiderman would shoot webs at projectiles that had been thrown at him and yank the webs to the side, and the projectiles would change -- no, they would REVERSE -- direction. He did stuff like that over and over, and it looked BAD. Then at one point he got hurled toward the front of the train (they were fighting on the roof), and then came crashing back down on Doctor Octopus as though he'd been hurled AT him. I'd have to watch this scene again, but it didn't look physically even plausible. Talk about your "put your brain on hold" movies. This was one of the worst of them. Spoiler below: Why would the original Green Goblin have put his armory of Green Goblin weapons and attire behind a simple MIRROR in his STUDY? Talk about your ridiculous plot contrivances -- they did this simply so that Harry could discover his father's old stuff. But for all the secrecy of the Goblin, to leave his stuff where anyone who happened to accidentally break that mirror could discover it... Just dumb screenplay writing, in my view. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Don't worry, eventually we'll get it back under control. I'm already set to start ignoring you until you come to. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Maybe I could take up the same one you indulge in: Picking on my own posts... You talk about ME needing a hobby. Didja jump this weekend? See any fireworks shows? Celebrate Independence? Go rollerblading? Swimming? Play any disc golf? Did you maybe do any crafts, like making closing pin necklaces? I guess I do need a hobby. Having like NINE of them is getting to be too much. I need to pick A hobby, just like you said. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Yes, and I realize you are joking, but there IS a difference between willing suspension of disbelief and what you are asking for, which would be having no standards of realism at all. Look, if a character in a movie is in New York and calls a friend on the telephone in L.A., and the friend is getting into his car, and he says, "I'll be over soon. We'll get dinner," and then two hours later pulls up in the driveway in NY, you'd have a legitimate gripe about the "realism" of the film -- even if it were Spiderman II. See, we suspend disbelief for things like radioactive spider bites causing such a fortunate mutation... not about real everyday things like how long it takes to drive from L.A. to NY. You see the difference, right? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Well, even if he had only the standard "10 tons press" strength that the middling Marvel heroes have (see "The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe"), there is no reason why ONE PUNCH could not have separated the head of Doctor Octopus from his body, given that Ock is just a human (albeit deranged) with mechanical arms grafted to his body. But there goes Spidey, punching him repeatedly, having verrry little effect. Dumb dumb dumb. And as far as "It was just easy to use a simplistic thing like tritium," there is no reason why it wouldn't have been just as easy to cite dozens of other things instead. It's NOT as though the producers had to actually OBTAIN any REAL rare isotope or element!! The only possible "difficulty" would have been that of simply typing a different word into the script a few times. That defense you offered is inadequate. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Have you been sleeping through my posts? I HATE Michael Moron. Where did you ever get the sense that I was his fan or defender? I'd like to see him staked to an anthill! Try to keep up, Tuna. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"