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umm...I was there drinking until after 9 ya dork! I left because I was hungry and Evelyn called me to tell me pizza was on its way just as I got ready to eat dinner. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

You wouldn't be asking this if you'd gone to Prairie with us last year. Goddamned newbies, always with another question! Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

There are plenty at Kapowsin, but good luck getting them to accept any pay other than maybe a beer or eight. Is there a specific reason you want to use your base canopy? You'd be better off using a Lightning. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Well he did say it was a "new" Silverado, and most people finance new cars. If that's the case, the bank would probably like their vehicle to have full-coverage. It would have full coverage. What the bank is worried about is collision insurance, so that their collateral is protected. Increasing your deductible amount from say, $250 to $1,000 doesn't threaten the bank's interest that much, and can significantly reduce your premium. And I don't think the bank has any say so in what your deductible should be - that's just the amount that you pay up front on any claim, before they kick-in and pay the remainder. If you're willing to cover the minor stuff, they'll cut your premiums for you. Oh yeah, I agree on the deductible part, just not the "minimum liability required by law" part. I was just saying that the bank will expect him to keep comprehensive and collision coverage in addition to liability, which it sounds like you agree with. So we're in violent agreement. This is at least the 2nd, if not the the 3rd or 4th time I've agreed with you on something this week. I should call and make a doctor appointment. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Woman A asked woman B to do something, and then Woman C when woman B wasn't fast enough. Woman B learned of this, took it as an insult, and suddenly it was on between A & B, with C just trying to stay out of the crossfire. I agree. A catfight wouldn't have done any more damage to their reputations and would have had MUCH higher entertainment value. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

You know, I've heard variants of this enough times to say something because it's not always in the form of a joke. When I go to McD's, I'll usually get a super-size (well, until they yanked the option) double quarter pounder with cheese meal, with diet coke. I can see the humor in cracking a joke about me thinking I can lose weight by drinking diet coke, despite the monstrous number of garbage calories I'm washing down with it, but that's all it should be...a joke. I'm really not quite that stupid (close sometimes though!) Do you know why I order diet coke? Because I LIKE it. Regular coke is so sweet it makes my face pucker. I could care less how many calories are in something. If I like it, I'll eat/drink it, and if I don't, I won't. Just my $.04 Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

So these two clerks at my work decided to scream at each other at the top of their lungs today, calling each other names & everything. Do you think that they realize that even if they win such an argument, they will still lose face with everyone who had to listen to it? And then came the waterworks, with one of them literally sobbing! What the hell? Could you BE any less professional?! Where any three women are gathered together, two will talk smack about the third. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

The University of Washington is a teaching hospital, (with one of the best shoulder guys around as chair of the bone & joint center), but my shoulder surgeries there were still relatively expensive. Brit - I don't have any answers about the financial end other than the obvious (e.g. buy insurance, then dislocate again after it takes effect), but might be of some assistance on the shoulder side of the equation. I had recurrent dislocations solved by an arthroscopic surgery, then botched a hook & started dislocating all over again. After switching to the best doctor I could find, I first made it very clear what kind of demands I'd be putting on my shoulder and what kind of risks I'd be exposed to with an untimely dislocation. We then chose to skip the regular open bankart repair and go to the next level...a bone graft "wall" outside the labrum (in the spot where I'd been dislocating) to provide hard structural support in addition to repairing the soft tissue. Obviously this might not be applicable in your case, but it worked really well for me, at least as far as stability goes. I haven't had a dislocation since and that was 3.5 years and 500 or so jumps ago. (I did however have a 500ish lb drum fall toward me at work and force my arm back, tearing a bunch of stuff in the process and necessitating surgery #3...another open excursion) Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Get the minimum liability coverage that is required by law. Increase the deductible amount for your collision coverage. Well he did say it was a "new" Silverado, and most people finance new cars. If that's the case, the bank would probably like their vehicle to have full-coverage. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

That'd be fun if the remote could somehow be controlled by cellphone. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Is that what that horrible noise was?! Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Pssst! Nick...you're not supposed to talk about your sex life in this thread. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Be thankful for the general. Uncle Sam removed my wisdom teeth and gave me a local; I've never felt so much *pressure* in my life. It wasn't really all that painful, but I swore they were about to rip my jaw clean off of my face. That was really, really disconcerting. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

If your theory is "An Omnipotent Supernatural God did it", then any observation, measurement or experimental result is explained. While the theory might support the observations, there are no observations, measurements, or expirmental results to support the theory. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Frenchy speaks true. I've jumped with very few people that have such a natural ability to make me laugh in freefall. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Tim, you should tell me how to modify Eclipse tandem riser covers so that they'll actually stay closed at least until I get out of the airplane. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Turn me on in my pants. Seriously. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

sex sex sex sex sex!! lotsa sex!! good sex!! bad sex!! anal sex!! solo sex!! solo anal sex!! good solo anal sex!! bestiality!! necrophilia!! bondage!! S&M!! outdoor sex!! indoor sex!! public sex!! group sex!! sex with hot chicks!! sex with ugly chicks!! sex with fat chicks!! sex sex sex sex sex!! Blues, Asshole "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

If you look "skygod" up in a dictionary, you'll likely find a picture of Bozimbo. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I had 50 jumps before the hook was set. I then lived to skydive for a couple years and got up to, I don't know, 800 jumps or so. Then I had 3 shoulder surgeries in a 4 year span and was forced to do other things. I've gotten back into it now, and made about 300 jumps last year, but it isn't an all-consuming thing like it used to be. If there's work jumps, interesting fun jumps, or fun people to jump with, and I don't have anything more better to do, I'm there. I don't take many weekends off (i.e. not a lot of things sound more fun), but I also don't regret it when I do. I'm coming up on 10 years now and I still expect its a hobby I'll have my whole life. The "buzz" is somewhat different now than it was 5 years ago, but it's still there. Many of the faces of the people I jump with have changed in that span, but they're still a pretty cool bunch too. That's probably a large part of why I kept coming back.

Ambulance chaser! Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Adults, especially those who refuse to manage their children properly. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Nah, he sucked the first time and didn't earn a second chance. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Is there a way to put a "no soliciting" sign on my inbox to match the one on my office door? When I'm at work, anyone who tries to sell me candy for their kids, carpet cleaner from their amway business, eternal life from their church, or get donations from me for their favorite charity falls flat on their face. What really sucks is when my employer is the one doing the begging (annual United Way drives). I still don't donate. I'll give to charity once in awhile, or buy candy from kids, but only when they approach me at home where I have the option of not answering the door, or telling them off and slamming the door in their face (n/a for most kids & charitable groups). Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Which part of "observation, hypothesis testing, measurement, experimentation, logical argument and theory-building" will let someone use "God did it" as an explanation? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)