FlyinNover

Carol of the Bells, Christmas Eve, Sarajevo. Go get it. This is the most exciting version of any Christmas song I've ever heard. There's something about a screaming electric guitar in a Christmas song that just sounds...........I don't know........*right*. And any group that can make a guitar work in Bach's Jesu Joy is just that damn good. Other TSO versions I listen to all the time: The Nutcracker Suite Marriage of Figaro Mephistopheles' Return O Christmas Tree Revenge of the Sugarplum Fairies Beethoven's Last Symphony They're coming to Philly December 26th. I think I just figured out what my family's doing that day. :) ---Nover Claus

I just realized that the ship where I work is the same used in Godfather II that brought Vito Andolini (Don Corleone as a kid) to America. The prow of the ship is very distinctive and visible. So is the large word "MOSHULU", which isn't painted the same way on the ship anymore, but it is still the name. This is all embarrassing.......because I've worked on the ship for 6 months, and I've seen Two close to 50 times. Another thing for this thread, three things I did today: I saw the preserved body of The Soap Lady, I saw one of Meriwether Lewis' original compasses, and I met a man who has won three Emmys for songs he wrote for Sesame Street. ---Don Nover

It's perfect if you put this URL into the Snooptifier: http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/11/14/odb.death.ap/index.html "Those cappings remain unsolved, know what I'm sayin'?" ---Nover

What's long, dirty, and makes you cringe? This post. (These get dirtier the further down you go. You're warned.) ------- What has seven arms and sucks? Def Leppard. ------- Three old ladies were sitting on a park bench when a flasher came by and opened up his trenchcoat. The first lady had a stroke. The second lady had a stroke. But the third lady's arms were too short. ------- Mrs. Smith's class had an assignment to think of a word, spell it, and use it in a sentence. Sally chose the word 'beautiful.' "B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L. My teacher is beautiful!" Mrs. Smith thanked Sally, and asked Mikey what his word was. "My word is 'gorgeous.' G-O-R-G-E-O-U-S. Mrs. Smith is gorgeous!" The teacher thanked Mikey. Then she reluctantly turned to the next student, Dirty Johnny. "My word is 'urinate.' U-R-I-N-A-T-E. Mrs. Smith, urinate, but if your tits were bigger you'd be a ten." ------- John Kerry, George Bush, Bill Clinton and Michael Jackson were on a sinking cruise ship. Kerry said, "We have to save the women and children!" Bush said, "Fuck the women and children!" Clinton and Michael Jackson said, "Do you think there's time?" ------- When is bedtime at the Michael Jackson Ranch? When the big hand touches the little hand. ------- What's the difference between a high-flying trapeze act and the Rockettes? The trapeze act is a cunning array of stunts.......... ------- Dirty Johnny was always late to school. The teacher said that if he didn't have a good excuse the next time, he would be suspended. Sure enough the next day he was late, so Dirty Johnny started explaining. "You see, I wanted to take the bus so I would be on time. But all of a sudden this car came screaming through the intersection and slammed into a truck. And the driver got the stick-shift right up his ass!" "Rectum, Johnny." "Rectum? It damn near killed him!" ------- Graffiti on a bathroom stall: I FUCKED YOUR MOTHER! Graffiti just below: Go home, Dad, you're drunk. ------- Three old men are discussing the problems of aging. Earl says to his friends, "My body is just falling apart. When I was a young man, I used to be able to piss like a racehorse. Now I'm happy if I can manage more than a trickle." "I know what you mean," says Stanley. "I used to be able to take a dump and continue with my day. But with all the exertion I have to go through now, I'm too tired to do anything else!" Winston responds, "I hear you, fellas. Every morning at 6:00 I have a strong piss, and every morning at 7:00 I take a good long dump." His friends look at him and ask, "How is that horrible, Winston?" "I don't wake up until 8:00." ------- A white guy is at a public urinal doing his business when a 6'5" black guy comes running in, quickly unzips his fly, and pulls out a massive 13 inch dick and starts pissing. The black guy says, "Whew, I just made it." The white guy asks him, "Can you make me one, too?" ------- What's 12 inches long and white? Nothing. ------- What's the difference between syphillis and gonorrhea? The flavor! ------- (I warned you about reading down this far......) What's 15 inches long, stiff as a board, and makes women go crazy? Crib death. ---Nover

B2_2 is my new wallpaper. Good stuff again, Viking! ---Nover

Oh, these words are the warts. Bush's pronunciation is right up there with Jimmy Carter's "nook-ee-er". Some others: acrost (as in, he had "ASS" written acrost his forehead. exscape, expresso, expecially, excetera. . . you'se I'm from Philly, but I can't stand it when you'se talk like that. ---Nover

What's the worst thing about having ADD? Hey, wanna go ride bikes? ---Nover

I don't know of the building in the bottom right, but I've attached a pic of the map to show the building I've jumped. It's in Downtown Los Santos, southwest of Mulholland Intersection. Am I the only one who celebrates a successful mission by jumping? ---Nover (Sad thing is, I've got more jumps in the game than I do for real. And in the game I've got about 10 times the BASE jumps that I do skydives. I checked already........CJ can't do nekkid dives.)

"When you remember me, it means that you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have left some mark of who I am in who you are. It means that you can summon me back to your mind even though countless years and miles may stand between us. It means that if we meet again, you will know me. It means that even after I die, you can still see my face and hear my voice and speak to me in your heart. For as long as you remember me, I am never entirely lost. When I'm feeling most ghost-like, it's your remembering me that helps remind me that I actually exist. When I'm feeling sad, it's my consolation. When I'm feeling happy, it's part of why I feel that way. If you forget me, one of the ways I remember who I am will be gone. If you forget me, part of who I am will be gone." -Frederick Buechner

All the great themes have been used up......and turned into theme parks. ---Nover (I'm Nover, and I approve this message.)

Did you ever see Pulp Fiction on USA? They changed that line to: "I'm a mushroom cloud layin' melon farmer, mother father!" Gotta love the editing. "Cameron is so tight, if you stuck a lump of coal __in his fist__ in a week you'd have a diamond." ---Nover (I'm Nover, and I approve this message.)

The popularity of conspiracy theories is explained by people's desire to believe that there is -some- group of folks who know what they're doing. -Damon Knight ---Nover

Dude that's sick! I accidentally found out you can BASE jump after about 2 minutes of playing the game. I was just running around town seeing what it looked like, and ended up on top of a building. I'm looking around while my roomate's telling me to jump off, and I saw the rig and said, "Gotta grab this first...." Took me another hour to find the building again. (I went in the first time. I found the cutaway option, but I didn't know it was a BASE rig.) You oughta send that video to Rockstar Games. You know what I can't wait for? The skydiving missions. They put the rig in the game for a reason, and took the time to program all the maneuverability under canopy, flaring, even tracking in freefall. You *know* there'll be some skydiving missions. Maybe the game designers saw Cutaway a few times and CJ has to make some "deliveries". ---Nover

It's alright! It's okay! Uhh....There's something to live for! Jesus told me so! -Uncle Bill Borchardt Anyone know the movie? ---Nover

10 inch Just Perfect peppered turkey from Wawa, provolone, lettuce, onion, sweet peppers, salt, pepper, oregano, please. No, no oil or mayo. :) And I'll grab a Raspberry Iced Tea while I'm waiting. (I'm talkin like three times a week, at least.) ---Nover

As I said in the other thread... a body suit isn't going to show the vein running down the left rear leg.... That's the seam of the body suit. There's another on the outside of his right rear leg. ---Nover

I like Eminem, so I've seen it a few times. At first I thought it was just a non-ending..not good, not bad. It just ended. There was no need to continue, because we all know what happened. Rabbit/Eminem is starting his career, he'll be famous in a few years, and that's it. But maybe the ending is a little more subtle. The last thing we see is his friends celebrating while he walks alone down the alley, "I'm going back to work." He went back to work and that's it. No rap career, no Shady empire, just a white trash wannabe who once ripped it up in a battle. And that's why the song Lose Yourself isn't in the movie........because it's not just Rabbit's character. In the song Eminem goes back and forth between first person B. Rabbit and first person Eminem. The "Eminem" lines are about how vital it was for him to take the opportunity, to do it. He's saying that you need to do it, seize it. Here's the opening line: "If you had one shot, or one opportunity to seize everything you ever wanted, in one moment, would you capture it, or just let it slip?" I think Rabbit let it slip. Otherwise, why not show him celebrating? Or a quick scene, a few months later, he gets spotted at the Battle, gets signed, etc. At the end we don't know what happens to him. The song is line after line telling people to grab it, do it, don't waste it. "He better go capture this moment and hope it don't pass" "You better never let it go, you only get one shot" "Do not miss your chance to blow, cause opportunity comes once in a lifetime" "So here I go, it's my shot, feet fail me not, this may be the only opportunity that I got" If anyone is still reading this far down, I'm surprised. :) This is what happens when english/philosophy/writing guys get a day off from work. ---Nover

Its been a while since you've been there, right? lol It's been 2 years. I'm guessing they either: tore down Treasure Island, or made it an all nekkit show. Why'd you highlight that part? ---Nover

I was going to write my (cue John Cusack) ALL TIME, TOP FIVE......but people said most of them already. Here are some obscure ones I liked. The Cloud Sketcher, Richard Rayner Scandinavian architect Esko Vanannen comes to America with dreams to build the worlds largest skyscraper. And he does. Mixes real buildings (set partly in NYC) with fictional stories. Grab a few pictures of Bryant Park if you read it. The God Of The Machine, Isabel Paterson An individualists defense of capitalism. It's what Business School students would read if they could handle big books. :) Contact and Cosmos, Carl Sagan Contact is better than the movie. Five people go on the mission, not just one. Cosmos......well, if you thought Mr. Wizard was cool, this'll be like crack rock. Smilla's Sense Of Snow, Peter Hoeg Winter's coming. Why not follow a murder mystery from Denmark to Scandinavia, where the lead investigator, the young victim's friend, is a scholar of ice who just might have some connection to the motive behind the murder. The quotes in this are great, too. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo Sit down with this one day when you have a month. The movie was good, the play was a lot better. The book is deeper, broader, and 1300 pages. If you liked the play, you owe it to yourself to read the book. The first hundred pages about the Bishop....the essays on the Paris sewers.......the book makes the play seem like Cliffs Notes. I'm off, I have a Maxim to read, ---Nover

I didn't read the thread, so if I repeat something that was already said.....well, go there. :) Since it's your first time, if it's not too hot, walk the strip. Just take a look at everything. There really isn't another city as extravagant. It's like you took a coked up five year old, gave him a trillion dollars, and said, "This is your sandbox, build me something." Paris is worth a visit, as is NY,NY, the Luxor, the Bellagio, and Excalibur. The Stratosphere has a great ride "Big Shot", and a crappy roller coaster. But don't go if you're afraid of heights. Skip out on the animatronic show at Caeser's (it's a glorified commercial), but make sure you get to the front of the pack to see the water show at Bellagio. Also get a good vantage point for the pirate show at Treasure Island. Especially if you're going with kids. If you're not going with kids, Vegas has some good night life. I recommend Cheetah's, which I believe is the only strip joint in Nevada whose name is a triple entendre. The Piano Bar at Times Square in New York, New York is a great time, and you HAVE TO check out the rollercoaster there. I'd put it in my top five. (picture attached, tell me how lucky I got with the timing!) While you're there, take a chopper tour of the Grand Canyon, and see Hoover Dam (take the tour!) Damn, now I want to go back. Online poker will have to do....... Edited to add: DO NOT MISS the flair bartenders at Carnival Court right next to Harrah's. This is some sick shit they do. I was out there for 5 days a few years ago for my brothers wedding.......we went here at least once every day. These guys are the best in the world. Make sure to get a seat at the bar. ---Nover

Not really classical, but here are some ideas: Cirque du Soleil - Alegria....The song Kalandero (the first half, at least.) Freefly? Deep Forest - Cafe Europa....(It's techno-y, but more musical) Any discipline, at least the ones in freefall. I'm picturing freestyle and big ways, and they both seem good. Swooping and crew don't. Depeche Mode - In Your Room (Portishead remix)....Start with the plane ride, stop the video on an exit right when the music stops for a beat (27 seconds.) 2 or 4 way, turning quick points maybe? There's room for a lot, I think. Enya - Secret World....Anything with big beautiful views, and sunsets. And boobs. George Gershwin - Rialto Ripples Rag....no skydiving, just video of random drunken escapades at the DZ. And speed the film up, Benny Hill style. Grace Slick - White Rabbit (Live, 1965) Night jumps. Night BASE jumps. ---Nover

Rose Madder, Stephen King. It's not your usual Stephen King thriller. ---Nover

I believe it. My first ten tries were under 6.00, then I got 4.856 and 4.826. (Dude. . .Impossible) I am in no way proud of this. ---Nover

Check these out: Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Beethoven: String Quartet 13 Moussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition Mozart: Violin Concerto No.3 in G Major Eine Kleine Nachtmusik Pachelbel: Canon (bet you know it already) Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody On A Theme by Paganini (the whole thing, but especially the bit starting at around 14:45.) ----Nover

I play on Party Poker under"MrTuffy". I play for free more often than I do for money, but it's not as fun when people bet differently just because it's play money. ---Nover