jimbarry

probably the only time i disagreed lately was when you spent way too much energy slicing, dicing, and hyperanalyzing a bunch of stoopid american jokes. but all in all, your rants are pretty f'n entertaining. and then, you agreed that my cats are cool. so a few points there. if i get a third cat, hoplophobe is on the short list of names now... hoppy for short, i guess. interesting to see how this poll works out once a decent statistical sample steps up and weighs in. ok, see ya'll later. slipping back into lurkerdom now...

LOL! I was gonna say... That pic is hysterical! That one in the back is an elbow-biter, eh? - Yeah, they're always bitin' and fightin' each other. Fun to watch when they really get goin at it like rockem sockem robots. And when they get tired, they sit down and clean each other for a while. Sleep together. Can't separate 'em. Simpsons fans will pick up on how they got their names (if not, then google the lyrics to the itchy and scratchy show)

I've got 4 left. Omg, what's up with no word wrap as you edit a new message? Just runs off the screen to the right unless I put my own hard cr's in there. Or am I doing something wrong? (i've submitted this as an enhancement request, but no response)

And B.A. is finally free to do just that, now that the Team has been cleared of all charges

2 of them. itchy and scratchy. brothers. (don't tell itchy he's supposed to be a mouse)

Trust the free market. It may "seem" unfeeling and uncaring at times, but it works. It has a price leveling mechanism built-in. If I'm selling $10 wood boards for $40, there'll be someone else who'll sell 'em for $30, and so on. If no one buys the stoopid charley t-shirts, then they're worth nothing. If 1,000s are sold, then they're worth whatever people paid for them. If the supply of something goes down and high demand drives up prices, the seller is NOT a crook so long as the market is uncontrolled. Who sheds a tear when the demand for something dries up, and a vendor is stuck with inventory. No one. Nor should anyone. Works the same both ways.

Well *I* watched the interview, and he didn't give a real answer. Point is he can't answer it. He's stuck and everyone knows it. After all, *he's* the one who brought the issue up years ago on the senate floor trying to make a point of his own. If he brought it up, he should follow it through. Yes, of course it would've been ridiculous for Stewart to ask the question more than once, or push for a solid answer. He's a comedy guy, not a news guy. But then why did he ask at all? It's a hardball question in a softball situation. Surprising he even asked. My only point was that he was asked and he didn't answer. Read into it all you want everyone, (what about Bush, blah, blah...) but I'm a moderate, not a winger on either side.

So I'm watching that show, and I'm thinking, "no way left-wing funnyman John Stewart's going to ask him about Christmas in Cambodia". But then he does. Asks him straight out. And Kerry didn't answer. Oh well.

Lots of those are pretty good. Thanks! Interesting to see us americans from the objective perspective of a joke from an non-american. Which is I think what Kennedy's request was all about. It's about dialoguing with each other, not cutting each other down. A joke doesn't have to be completely factual, just a seed of truth told in a clever way. If it were completely factual, then it probably wouldn't be funny, kinda like some of the purely political jabs much further above in this thread that aren't jokes at all.

excellent. let's hear some.

Didn't know that. Could help explain my experience (details in a post far above). As a young infantry officer back then, I wasn't known to get a whole lot of sleep for weeks on end. I can't say for sure it wasn't a hallucination of some sort. But if it was, it was a really f'n good one. I'm cool with finding anything that might help explain it, because it's bothered me on and off since. Almost anytime I'm alone in the outdoors, I remember it like it was yesterday. No way I can concede to people like PJ that my story is bullshit, cuz it's not. The shit really happened. (What the hell do I have to gain by lying about it to people I've never met on a discussion forum?) But then I can't blame anyone for thinking it's bullshit, because there's not much logic to it. Shoot, even if someone told me that story, I'd probably more likely believe a far-fetched rational explanation over a first-hand paranormal one. Nothing like that ever happened to me before or since, and I've never done drugs. It lasted a good long time (around 10 sec.) and it was loud. First I was walking, then during the event I was moving quite a bit trying to defend myself from this angry animal. If my brain was kicking in some sleep level, it certainly took a long time to shake it. If it's not evidence of the paranormal, then it's evidence that the brain is an incredible machine, and crappy to admit that my own senses can't always be trusted, which would suck, since I kinda like to count on them. Whether it happened or not (and I kinda wish I could find a way to conclude it hadn't) it was the freakiest sh*t I ever saw in my life, and that's what ACME asked to hear.

Article on this: Clicky

Yep, it's a great place to go. But then it can have various names. After downing a whole bunch, I tend to pronounce it "Bihhtsstelluh". Brickseller's close enough...

As far as I've been taught, PLFs can be done in any direction. 10 of my 11 round canopy jumps ended up being falls to the rear. Rear-left mostly. Push knees left, torso slightly right and slightly forward making your body into an arc, then roll.

Quick. Punchline contest. Make up your own. Let's see how this goes... "How many Americans does it take to screw in a lightbulb, and why?" GO!

heheh... yep. the whiny nasal-y voice is definitely from beeker's side of the family...

One of my favorites from American Werewolf in London. Brit, Frenchman, Yank, and Mexican on an airplane about to crash with only one chute on board (make, model, and wingloading unknown). In a moment of self-sacrifice, the Brit yells "God save the Queen" and jumps out to save the others. The frenchman, not to be outdone by the brit, yells "Vive la france!" and hurls himself out. The yank, not to be outdone by the other two yells out "Remember the alamo!" and throws out the mexican. I'm guessing then the Yank dons the chute, hook turns too low and femurs in. Not part of the joke.

Sorry, nonono, of course you didn't and i didn't intend to imply that you did. What i said was kinda sent out generally. You were the original poster so i responded to your post. Would be neat if one could add a thought to a thread without actually tacking it onto one single person's post. (or maybe this can be done, but i just don't know how) agreed. and with the rest of what you said too. but that still won't decrease my desire to hear truth from politicians... eventually.

Shoot, if he's going to resign because this issue is going to harm his ability to govern, then resign today. (yes, i know the reason why. then gov, at least give us one moment of unpressured honesty. too much to ask, i guess) If all you've seen of nj is the turnpike between exits 11 and the GWB, or soprano's reruns, any opinion that the whole state is a crap hole is uninformed. my home state too, and yes, i've heard the jokes and am immune at this point.

SH using wmd against the kurds was truth, not belief. SH never proving nor allowing the verification of the destruction of wmd he did have was truth, not belief. Not a tangent into another thread here, just showing that (while i personally agree with you on the gay marriage issue) this is not a parallel analogy.

this one time in the army during a tng exercise, i was walking alone from one co's assembly area to another's, which were about 1km apart. it was lightly wooded with tall pines and enough moonlight to see fairly clearly. all of a sudden i hear what sounded to be a large dog running in the distance and then running toward me. i couldn't see him yet but i could tell he was coming at me, and fast. i knew i'd see him soon, so i crouched to defend myself. then it sounded like he was right on top of me and running circles around me. at that point, i know i shoulda been able to see him, but he wasn't there. very loud. then he growled and i'm thinking 'great, this dog's gonna f'n bite me and i can't even see him'. then he barked loudly once, and then at that moment all the sound stopped. he still wasn't there. the whole thing lasted about 10 seconds. i immediately sat down and was stunned trying to register it all. nothing that freaky has ever happened to me before or since. it's puzzled me for years. i'm naturally skeptical about strange reports like this, and still believe most or all of it is crap. but when something like that happens to you, you know at least it happened to you. and i kinda wish it hadn't. i share this story, taking the risk that you'll think i'm a f'n lunatic. but then for a while sitting there, i thought i was.

understood, but, truth or fiction, the story's still from 2001. no, i can't prove snopes is reliable, but i'm pretty sure it hasn't invented the 'way back' machine. (ed: google'd it. it's all over the place in 2001.)

And... if kerry was in cambodia, was it a part of that 'great society' liberal Johnson's approved strategy, or was he just incompetent in not knowing troops were there? lame duck or not, he was still prez... somewhere in this is someone who's lying, or incompetent, or both.

And it's not the first time. in 1947 every single WWII infantryman who had been awarded the CIB (combat inf badge) was retroactively awarded the bronze star. no doubt most went thru some brutal fighting (and no way i'm in a positon to say), but *every* single infantryman's actions rose to the level of the bronze star? every single one? Want to get more sick? Make sure you read SGT Casey's quote in that article. i guess gone are the days when we awarded heroism on merit. now it depends on how far you are up the base pay chart?? please say it isn't so.

This story's from 2001. Snopes says 'false'.