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This stuff is great. Keep it coming! Why is everyone so hung up on this Jeff Gordon rumor? Where did it come from? First Class Citizen Twice Over

Oh, did I mention that I'll need some verification of each of the factiods to be eligible for the super top secret prize? And why is everyone so surprised I'm interested in this? Didn't you know NASCAR grew out of a bootlegging operation? First Class Citizen Twice Over

I could use some trivia facts about the personal lives of these NASCAR drivers. Anyone know anything interesting about them? 1) Carl Edwards 2) Dale Earnhardt Jr. 3) Denny Hamlin 4) Jeff Gordon 5) Jimmie Johnson 6) Kasey Kahne 7) Tony Stewart A super top-secret surprise gift to the top 7 answers! First Class Citizen Twice Over

I wonder what the actual results of the recycling are in SF or worldwide. Here in Vancouver BC there's a strange abundance of plastic bags and no apparent recycling. If you buy three small items in a store, they'll automatically put each thing in a separate heavy-duty plastic bag with handles. It's almost impossible to come home from shopping for dinner without 8-10 of them. I've tried saying to cashiers that I can just carry my single item out or put all three into a single bag. They fight me. They literally snap and say "No!" It's a Vancouver cultural oddity. The bags all go in the garbage because the recyclers don't want 'em. I tried saving them but never found another use (unlike for paper bags which always have lots of second and third uses.) And of course plastic will never decompose unlike paper which potentially will. First Class Citizen Twice Over

Your hands must be really small then. My Kimber 1911 ultra-carry (.45) is very comfortable and my hands are quite small. First Class Citizen Twice Over

Thank god the immigrants are well educated. First Class Citizen Twice Over

Well done. I think that's a very succinct summarization of your 3607 posts in Speaker's Corner. Well done indeed, my boy! edited to add: Actually, it probably characterizes nearly all of the 255,872 posts in Speaker's Corner. That's what makes it so fun here. Simple, predictable humor. Like television. First Class Citizen Twice Over

Three replies before CDIF isn't a record, but it's a solid effort anyway. I give you a B. First Class Citizen Twice Over

You keep citing that logic but it's very strange. Do you think exasperation on the other side always validates one's position? The most wrong-headed idiots in the world get insulted all the time. I've got one of those who lives in a doorway near my home. He's an absolute moron who spouts ridiculous psychotic hyperbole and bullshit to all the passers-by. People say things back to him that aren't flattering. That must prove he's a sage. First Class Citizen Twice Over

-- John Ralston Saul First Class Citizen Twice Over

You've got to admire someone who can be shown to be absolutely obsessed with a failing position and think of that as validation. Religions work that way too, if I'm not mistaken. First Class Citizen Twice Over

You're not lambasted for finding the occasional interesting anomaly in the popular press. You're lambasted for your partisan spastic dance to build a coherent theory from them them at all costs to logic. First Class Citizen Twice Over

A particular hunk of beef tenderloin. Mmmmm. Bernaise! First Class Citizen Twice Over

It's funny but even the most squeamish among us often like rare meat. (And I'm not saying you're one of them.) I think that's a good sign though. A beautiful 2-inch tournedo, seared dark caramel on the outside and blue inside is an incredible delight even for someone who didn't expect they'd like it. And even hygiene-cowards seem to realize that the cooties are gone if the outside was roasted brown. And who can turn down carpaccio? First Class Citizen Twice Over

Market Street is blocked every day. Do the police arrest drivers during rush hour? First Class Citizen Twice Over

No no no! square1.com's code is written by hand. That's part why it's so amazing. Someone sat down and hand wrote 500 styles! I handwrite all my code too, but that motivates me to keep it compact and efficient. There are tens of thousands like this that were built by over-reaching computer nerds back when reasonably big companies thought a pocket protector qualified someone to design retail sites. "You talk in big words so make me some buttons while you're at it." There are specific types of disaster website. This kind is sad because they were the most expensive for the client to get in to. I feel very sorry for square1. They're hosed until they decide to abandon ship and start over. First Class Citizen Twice Over

Wow. That's a clever move to bring charges against a lawyer for defending the accused he was assigned to. If I were a criminal tyrannical government I'd do that too. First Class Citizen Twice Over

And ... But ... Wow. That didn't phase you one bit. First Class Citizen Twice Over

Yeah. What he said. First Class Citizen Twice Over

I beleave in spelling. First Class Citizen Twice Over

Speaking of the missing "Contact Us" button... They might be lovely individuals but their website certainly is primitive. Keeping up with every hip new fad in web design isn't necessarily a good business move but a nickle's worth of marketing savvy is! This site looks really dated -- like it was built in 1997 or maybe by someone who's 10 years behind the times. 21 buttons in the nav is horrible information architecture. To make it worse, half of them go to the second worst sin on the Internet: "Coming Soon." That JS submenu thing is really bad too! The underlying code is bizarre and painfully written. There's 95kb of javascript and 32kb of css loaded with every page! What the hell? Over 500 styles??? Someone spent dozens of hours writing that unused crap -- and got paid big bucks for it I'm sure. Where'd the Add to Cart button go on Mac Safari? Come on, guys -- it's not this hard! Speaking of fads, the barely- (or is it non-) functional "Choose Skin" function is just strange. 237 pixels of banner graphic? Ouch! Also, the fact that their e-commerce area has misspellings like: makes me think the company doesn't take their site seriously. You can bet the customers won't either. I'm sure they're spending a FORTUNE on this site which is really sad -- and unnecessary. It's all going to non-functional code. Someone's got them snowed. First Class Citizen Twice Over

I like this guy! 80% of his posts are in character. Not bad. First Class Citizen Twice Over

So thats one point for the medical crowd, but not the tokers. Actually, there are a few marijuana cafes near me and they seem to do quite a lot of business in vaporizors. For $5 cover charge you can hang out and use theirs and they also sell them retail. I gather they're quite popular. First Class Citizen Twice Over

This is also why an intact hunk of meat is probably safe to eat raw (after carefully slicing away the outside) and why well-prepared steak tartare can be perfectly reasonable. The issue is (largely) that the outside of the meat has traces of feces and other delights smeared on it. Put that hunk in a grinder and the whole batch of hamburger is contaminated throughout. But slice away the outside of the same meat (washing the knife between cuts) and you've got something pretty decent to eat raw. Chop it fine, season with salt, pepper, anchovy, raw egg yolks, mustard, and worcestershire and you've got a beautiful dish to spread on crostini and garnish with cornichons and chopped onion. A lot of cultures eat raw meat regularly: French, Ethiopian, Inuit, and Japanese come to mind immediately. They seem to do fine. I think it largely comes down to butchering technique. Americans are obsessed with consolidated, mechanical, efficient factory food production. As much as americans would like to think otherwise, that doesn't lend itself well to the absolute hygiene that they're also obsessed with. It also guarantees that when a contamination error happens, it affects millions of people simultaneously. First Class Citizen Twice Over

Hoo boy, I totally agree. And I better mention it's a quote from Satan/John Milton's soliloquy (delivered by Al Pacino) in Devil's Advocate. First Class Citizen Twice Over