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Then "he" could go make the sammich tray? What kind of fantasies are you having there Turtle boy?

I LAUGHED SO HARD AFTER READING THAT!!!! Thank you so much!! Your wit was appreciated!\ Karen

Back to the pupil thing.... my thoughts are either a DAMN bright light or some medication/chemical thing to reproduce a parasympathetic reaction (remember back in biology - the sympathetic were the fight and flight drive, and the parasymp. was the relax/chilled drive) Either that or you're just a mutant. Possibility too.....

ummm... volleyball scene..... (I seem to be caught in that moment.)

ummm.... volleyball scene..... what was that, Beau.... sorry, I was distracted .... must have been Cruises inability to act.

You can NEVER go wrong with Cruise! (even the not so good scripts... it still has Tom so worth the cost of the ticket) Edit: ummmm..... volleyball scene...... (need to go get my Top Gun DVD)

My mom told me about the search this morning. I'm glad that they caught it. My mom was saying that they specifically stated that the people who reported the kangaroo were not coming from the local bars. Cows.... Roos... they all look about the same with enough beer.... man, I would have LOVED to have seen that when I was a kid, Katy No-Pocket was one of my favorite books and I always wanted to see a kangaroo in my backyard.

Hey Kev, Don't really know much about you or where you might work, or even the person who would have done this to you... but whatever the reasons, he/she needs to really come to terms with why they would want to screw with another life so badly. It's one thing if they're mad cuz of some slamming on the internet or an imagined insult ... seen a few personal attacks/feelings hurt/stuff like that, but that's all sticks and stones. Orchestrating events so that someone looses their job... that is truly messed up. I know it's of little comfort right now... but karma does even it out. and I hope you're next job gives you a bit raise, and a secretary with big tits (or something like that that guys would appreciate) Anyway... just wanted to send you some support. Karen

Another thing to consider is to ask friends/guests to bring or make copies of the favorite pictures of him that they might have. Then create a collage in memory on the day of the celebration- it could be a progressive informal gathering of pictures or you could make it into part of the ceremony... and then people could either talk about (write about) why that picture reminded them him or what happened during that picture that they will remember.

I think we really need to get past the amount donated debate... whether it's per capita or total amount; private or government.... the point should be that people need help. It's not a contest. Now, things may have changed since I've been to church.. but I don't remember anyone looking at what I put in, and then judging me on my level of contribution. I think it's a little vulgar to be bickering about the bottom line. I don't think that the US should have been chastised, but I also feel that we can always try to give more (and I know we will.). The true donation is not just money, but life.....

For fertile cops?

I don't know much about the Skydive Las Vegas. But Vegas Extreme is run by Eddie Carroll (great guy, excellent jumper one of the flying Elvi, wouldn't say a single bad thing about him....) The tandem guys that he has are really cool too. I jumped out with Eddie about a year ago (did some fun jumps with him and Raff, although usually his DZ caters more to the tandems), good program, he picks up the tandems at their respective hotels and takes them out to Jean (short little drive) and then gets them back to the hotels. Nice and convient. Look it up, I would recommend it.

Why not? Because some of them continue jumping and never lose that attitude that someone is going to take care of them. I think that's more of a personality trait than the blame of whether they learned from tandem, S/L or AFF origins.... Some people just want to be taken care of... luckily they don't tend to be as outgoing and don't really like the high speed sports. I learned from tandem then to AFF... and I was very pleased with what I learned and how I was taught. Might be the person that's doing the teaching too. Not just the wuffo...

Here ya go...... NASA Can't Wait to Smash Comet-Busting Spacecraft By MARCIA DUNN, AP CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Jan. 1) - The big, grown-up boys on the NASA team can hardly wait. Next Fourth of July, they get to bust up a comet, Hollywood-style. Getty Images This artist's concept from NASA shows the Deep Impact spacecraft after firing a probe into the comet Tempel 1. "Blow things up? I'm there. Yeah, I don't have any issue with that," says Richard Grammier, manager of the project for Jet Propulsion Laboratory. (And, oh yeah, he used to work with explosives in the military.) The spacecraft is called Deep Impact just like the 1998 movie about a comet headed straight for Earth. NASA's goal is to blast a crater into Comet Tempel 1 and analyze the ice, dust and other primordial stuff hurled out of the pit. Mission planners say the energy produced will be like 4.5 tons of TNT going off - producing a fireworks display for the world's observatories. Scientists know little about comets and even less about their nuclei, or cores. They believe that penetrating the interior for observations by space and ground telescopes is the next best thing to actually landing, scooping up samples and delivering them to Earth. "A sample return would be the ultimate, but this is one exciting mission because for the first time we're actually reaching out and we're going to create our own crater," says Donald Yeomans, a senior research scientist at JPL in California - and an adviser on the movie. Talk About It · Chat "We'll understand how the comet is put together, its density, its porosity, whether it has a surface crust and underlying ices, whether it's layered ice, whether it's a wimpy comet or whether it's a rock-hard ice ball. All of these things will become apparent after we smack it." Astronomers are counting on Deep Impact to live up to its Hollywood name on July 4, six months after its mid-January launch. This is one spacecraft NASA wants to smash and trash. "It would be like it's standing in the middle of the road and this huge semi coming down at it at 23,000 mph, you know, just bam!" Grammier says. If all goes well, Deep Impact will be the first spacecraft to touch the surface of a comet. NASA's Stardust spacecraft - on its way back to Earth with dust from Comet Wild 2 - flew through the coma, or dusty gas cloud. Deep Impact will have traveled 268 million miles from the time it is launched aboard an unmanned rocket until it intersects with Comet Tempel 1 just beyond the orbit of Mars, at a point more than 80 million miles from Earth. Liftoff is targeted for Jan. 12, two weeks late because of software and rocket problems. NASA has until Jan. 28 to launch Deep Impact. After that, Tempel 1 will be beyond rocket reach and scientists will have to pick another comet and swallow a lengthy delay. That's what happened to the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft, which will attempt a controlled landing on a comet, but not until 2014. Deep Impact, by contrast, will provide "instant gratification," says Grammier. The entire $330 million mission should be wrapped up a month after impact. Comet Tempel 1 is ideal from a scientific and demolition perspective. It's a typical comet - all the better for scientific analysis - yet has a large nucleus and weak coma, all the easier for the impactor to survive the dusty obstacle course and to nail the nucleus. Grammier says the latest calculations put the chance of the impactor missing its target at less than 1 percent. The automatic navigation software has already been tested in space; this will be a fancier version of what successfully flew on NASA's Deep Space 1, a testbed spacecraft launched in 1998, and Stardust, the earlier comet spacecraft. "We all feel pretty comfortable with that (the odds), but as we've all said before, we're doing something we haven't done before," Grammier says. No matter what, fans of the 1998 disaster film can rest easy. (Coincidentally, the movie and spacecraft people hit on the same name independent of each another, at about the same time.) NASA guarantees that no matter how powerful the punch or how big the crater, Deep Impact will barely alter the comet's orbital path around the sun and will not - repeat, not - put the comet or any part of it on a collision course with Earth. Yeomans calculates that to move Tempel 1 or a piece of it into an Earth-intersecting orbit, the impactor would have to be 6,000 times more massive than what will shoot out of the mothership on July 3. The very next day, the 820-pound impactor will strike at the heart of the comet, creating one awesome Fourth of July display. By celestial standards, the crater that is formed - anywhere from the size of a house to Rome's Coliseum, and from two to 14 stories deep - should be just a dent. Besides, comets get bombarded with stuff all the time; they're pockmarked with craters and cliffs. "You've got an object the size of a bushel basket running into an object that's 9 miles in length, so we're not going to do any real damage to the comet," Yeomans says. Some scientists, however, contend the comet will shatter into several pieces. Others hypothesize that Deep Impact will create a crater but shove everything in, with hardly anything or nothing ejected. "It is the uncertainty in the predictions - or the wide range of predictions - that make it particularly important to do this conceptually very simple experiment," says the University of Maryland's Michael A'Hearn, the mission's chief scientist. Whatever the outcome, scientists expect to learn something about deflecting a killer comet - or possibly an asteroid - if one ever happens Earth's way. Comets, after all, have hit Earth before and are thought to have brought water with them. Another practical benefit of the mission: By knowing what's inside comets, NASA would be better able to use them in the future as watering holes and fueling stations. Robots or astronauts, for instance, could break the comet's water down into its basic elements, hydrogen and oxygen, the ingredients for rocket fuel. Then there is all the scientific knowledge to be gained from studying comets, essentially giant dirty snowballs circling the sun. Formed the same time as the planets 4.5 billion years ago, comets are considered the leftover building blocks of the solar system. When the comets periodically swing close by the sun, their surfaces heat up and change, and so only their interiors preserve cosmic-origin clues. The impactor - composed mainly of a 317-pound solid copper disk - will maneuver itself in the oncoming path of the comet and, in essence, get run over by the comet. The relative speed at the moment of the collision will be 23,000 mph, enough to vaporize the impactor. Copper was chosen because, like gold and silver, it does not react with water and will not taint the observations, and it is much cheaper. A camera on the impactor will photograph the comet and beam back the pictures, almost all the way up until the moment of destruction. A pair of cameras on the mothership - flying by at a safe 300 miles - will document the actual strike and the ensuing eruption and crater, and send back all the images. "We expect to provide great fireworks for all our observatories," Grammier says, "and that's exciting to do it on July Fourth." 01/01/05 13:16 EST

Look over some of the books in this thread... book list (now it's a clicky - thanks FlyAngel2.... it's the thread from a couple of months back on books that changed perceptions started by Vallerina. Probably some good suggestions in those....) Or just go and wander around in Barns and snowballs and see what catches your eye.

Since she's no longer a tramp... how about Lady?

Note: do NOT take the little blue diamond pill.

You say that as if oral isn't a good thing?! Silly man, you just haven't getten it right then! (not that I'm offering here...) Trying to get back to tan lines.... umm.... forget it. Lets just chat about naughty good girls.

much better, vague can be good - but more detail is always better.... but we're still hijacking the thread...maybe we should make a new thread about skydiving chicks that were once good lil Catholic school girls..... and let this one go back to talking about changes in skin color.... (I still think the harlequin idea would be cool)

"more friendly"? Like they would tell you that you were nice? or that they were more umm... "warm and comforting" as per Websters II? I was a good little Catholic school girl ... until I got better.... edit to add : sorry for the hijack - now back to tan lines or none or maybe tan lines on one side of the body (say the left) and none on the right....

Anne I am horribly sorry for the pain of your family right now. I think the celebration of life party is a beautiful idea. We had a funereal when my father died... sad and somber, in a funeral home, impersonal and lonely.... The celebrations of life that I've been to have been a bit less devistating to attend.... Although part of the difference could have been that the funeral was my fathers and that in and of itself was the difference... But, I feel that you need to do what most brings honor to his past and his desires.... I think the opinions of others others about how you celebrate his life should be secondary (or even further down on the list). Again, sorry for your loss.

Oh my goodness!!!!! ROTFL!!!!! um... yes, something like that! Although that never happened at my Catholic school... that I was aware of.

Even sexier than little plaid skirts and crisp white shirts? Unbuttoned just enough to be very appealing.... Edge of the bra showing to tease.... long dark hair falling down, full and thick over the shoulders... Sexier than that?

ummm... I was under it impression that it was the police officers job to "enforce" the laws, which, as it's been explained to me, means that the law has to be broken for them to interfere. The motto may be "Protect and Serve" but there are limits and it does fall to the citizen to protect themselves at times. Few years back, I wa home alone one night - husband on a business trip, 3am, noise back behind the house, someone looking in the basement windows.... called 911, Police did respond, but in a rather condescending mannor "It's ok, dear... there was no one back there..." (made me feel protected and served!) Ruffled my feathers a bit, but still not their job to guard my house and my life.... Their job is to find whoever happens to break the law and bring justice. Bit of a difference there. (but I'm sure this point has been made before previously too... but I just wanted to respond to the "That is why we have police officers" comment.)

I understand that it looks like we, the US, are doing a great deal, while others that critisize are doing so much "less." And it's annoying to see others say that we should give more.... but the focus really shouldn't be on who gave how much.... it's give what you can. period. No one else should decide what you (a person, a family or a nation) "can" or "can't" afford. The focus should be on the prevention of future deaths. Whether it be from disease in the post-disaster time frame or from future events. We should stop looking to the dollar as the bottom line.