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Yeah, it all depends on the responder's location too. Plus some options were left out. Roll Tide Roll

If you do the stairs, never skip steps thinking you are doing yourself good by the "burn" from it. It's bad for your knees. Ditto the stairmaster. A lot of gyms don't use them anymore (I'm not talking about the thing that works like an escalator). Roll Tide Roll

Yeah, but if that pic of you on the other thread where we all posted ourselves (the one you called "whitey") is recent, you don't have much to worry about - you're tight. You even have those lines from your lower waist down toward your groin. I hardly have those, and I'm a trainer. But, I do take in a lot of calories and probably weigh about 50# more than you too, but still, keep it up...and get out into the sun some too, and even better yet, drink some carrot juice every day - that'll darken you up and naturally accentuate what I presume is possibly some ethnic heritage. Plus, the carrot juice is the best juice you can drink. Roll Tide Roll

Back to original post, without "quote" - one thing you have to remember is the season is changing toward colder, and your body wants to fatten you up for Winter, so you have to stay ahead of the cycle. The other is you need a friend to go to the gym with, who will call you and care enough to tell you what you need to hear about why you aren't in the gym at least three, but preferably 5 days a week...whether they need to be nice or be not-so-nice about it. You're paying for it, remember? Every time you go, your per-visit cost goes down. Keep at it, regularly and consistently or you will be fighting this problem and on a slightly bigger scale next Spring when you are getting ready for swimsuit season, and it's not worth it. Only you can make your ass go. Drastic diet changes are not the biggest benefit, especially not before the holidays approaching, because you won't keep up with them. No one does. Roll Tide Roll

I watched the launch from the ground at Z-hills a few years ago - it just looked like a pinpoint with a big smoke trail, of course, but the way the wind currents at different altitude moved the trail was awesome to see. I can only imagine what it must be like from 2 miles away. My friend Sandy and others were on the "shuttle jump," and they just made a round and rotated it so that everyone could see from altitude. The video is awesome. Roll Tide Roll

I have such anxiety watching every time. I'll never forget, I was in like second grade, and either school was out that day or I was home sick when I watched the Challenger explode, and those big tanks spinning away out of control. It was so shocking. Then, decades later, watching the Columbia slowly coming apart returning, was just as shocking. Roll Tide Roll

Here's me back in August when I took my shorts off hiking around Lake Powell. I thought I was so cool and outdoorsy, and out in nature "all by myself." When I got back to the houseboat my friends were giggling up on the roofdeck...and then I saw the telescope. What you see the outline of on the front side is my hand covering my stuff. Roll Tide Roll

Actually, I recognize that as being Ruprecht, from "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," with Michael Caine. Such a good movie! "Ruprecht, don't make me get the genital cuff..." Roll Tide Roll

Funny picture with the beer, Grips. Just noticed you're from Perth - one of my best friends from the University of Alabama last decade was a rugby player from Perth named Cameron Griffiths. He was a big Sinatra fan. Roll Tide Roll

psipike02 - in your modeling photo, you look like a younger, better looking Gregory Hines. Roll Tide Roll

AggieDave, I swear when your picture popped up I would have thought it was one of my friends from college at a WP concert or something. Roll Tide Roll

Gosh, if there's one running constant, it's that every one of you that I can see has pretty eyes, and all so different and unique. Roll Tide Roll

Baksteen looks like a news anchorman with that award-winning smile, and newbloomer reminds me of Ashley Judd. She could do a Revlon lipstick commercial. Roll Tide Roll

Damn, Conundrum, you're hot. You could be Erin Gray's daughter (the woman on Buck Rogers). Here's me just out of the shower. It was part of my Cabana Boy application. I guess I was overqualified. Roll Tide Roll

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I think the Clintons are in bed with the Chinese like the Bushes are with the Fahds. I think the Chinese government is funneling money through in this way, too. "Non-partisan - I think they all suck!" Roll Tide Roll

It's Johnny Goodboy Tyler. It's also debatable whether or not the Goodboy is intended to be some sort of nickname by description, or a translation fumble. I think he is a recurring character in Hubbard's writing, but am not 100% certain. It's a better name than Obi Wan Kenobi, no? So, I knew a girl in college from Iceland named Magnea Gudmansdottir. Hey, I guess I like the odd ones sometimes, even though my friends have told me for years I am the "Poster-Boy for Pop Culture." I think Stargate was one of the best films ever made too, but the box-office certainly didn't think so. Likewise with "Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead" Roll Tide Roll

My bird, Mojo-Jojo, (a gray high-bred cockatiel show bird who has never been in a show) is my biggest stress reliever. I can be so aggravated and bitching about something, and it gets him riled up and he starts running back-and-forth in his oversized cage (we prefer the term "hangar") and I feel bad so I get him out and he does this thing where he play-attacks my ear and hair. It is so funny, and it's only my right ear he will do it to. He is so crazy. He used to hump Pee-Pie thrice-daily, and would have nothing to do with LuLu (the girl) before they both died. I think he humped Pee-Pie to death, truthfully, considering their age differences and all. Anyway, I thought he was gay, I guess (not that there's anything wrong with that), but now whenever a female comes over, if they don't watch out, he'll hump them. Also, wool socks, are never safe! He's kinda like a kid. I know that kids are normally not considered a stress-reliever, but I think the fact that their whole being depends on your ability to keep cool in troubled times is in itself an asset. Roll Tide Roll

That sucked. I wanted something like Trixie Firecracker, and I got Critically-Mentally-Ill-Slut? You can call me Britney Hilton for short. Roll Tide Roll

I've seen children put into worse foster homes than this dog had with this family. Has anyone seen the official explanation from the shelter as to why they couldn't keep the dog, or why the conditions merit an immediate removal? Sure, Ellen screwed up, but with her promotion of animal care, I hardly believe she put the dog in a bad situation that warranted removal. As well, why hadn't the agency changed the locator chip to Ellen rather than keeping it for themselves (from the news I saw, they were supposed to have already)? This is the only reason the police let her leave with it. And now the kids are without their doggie. I don't care what anyone says, though I think Ellen's t.v. deal was a little over the top, if it were my doggie I had just gotten, I would be kicking and screaming too - that woman would not have left with it. I mean, after all, when she entered the home under false pretenses, wasn't she trespassing? She told them she was just there to "inspect," knowing full well that she was there to get the dog - her argument was not over any conditions, but simply that Ellen didn't have the right to transfer the dog to them. And yes, they have made exceptions to their rules, and not for celebrities. This has little to do with celebrity. Damn if I would have stood there and let her hold that dog away from me. Roll Tide Roll

She really should have taken into account what you said about Dahmer and penises, and realized she was safe...unless...? Or she needs to take a reading comprehension course. This sort of thing has happened to me numerous times on here, where 200 people read it, and one makes an issue of a tongue-in-cheek or in-jest remark. Anyone who would take something like what you wrote (especially having seen your own picture as avatar) personally and seriously really needs to reach over and rip their bloody, bleeding, pumping, blood-squirting heart off their red-stained sleeve. Roll Tide Roll

The odd thing is, I like Hubbard's writing, and I thought Battlefield Earth was a good movie (yes, I'm the one)! I just don't understand how it became a religion with so many seemingly credible followers. Tom Cruise seemed to be the All-American Guy. I personally believe they are involved in a lot of extortion with their little ohms unit thing, which works somewhat like a lie-detector. As well, from everything I have seen, South Park had it right. Those guys have it right about so many things - liberals, conservatives, airlines, government, racism (and the cottage-industry hypocrisy along with), etc. Roll Tide Roll

I read Dianetics three times, as well as plenty of other information (published by the "church," not about it). I can see why some people who are really in need of answers and guidance could get caught up in it, much like any good cult. A lot of what Hubbard wrote makes sense psychologically, but again, like any successful cult, they take things that may make sense early on and then twist them slowly over time, sorta like a slowly-boiled frog. Want a good dose of it? Walk down Hollywood Boulevard, literally. I have. See the unbridled enthusiasm for yourself. As for Tom Cruise and his wacky shit, I certainly haven't heard the church put out a statement relating to their disdain with anything he has done, have you? Hell no! They LOVE Tom Cruise. He's their best spokesperson, and certainly their biggest contributor. Roll Tide Roll

I think the whole town wants him gone. It's one thing to start out with bigger-small-GA planes, but he has an actual airliner there, and it's loud and could do a lot of damage, besides the reports of his showing off just a little bit low. Roll Tide Roll

Billy, when I clicked on Britney's house, I literally burst out with laughter. That was funny. I heard she makes $760,000 a month on royalties. Now, that's not too funny. Ding-dang, Y'all! Spelling's house looks like an institution. Oprah's is pretty cool. Travolta's is a Scientology symbol from overhead, you know, to repel Xenu or something. Roll Tide Roll