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Attaboy! That's what I retained from Roman roundabouts!

Sorry. I haven't even looked at what the thread is about. You would be one of the best things to do in the south. And L. Smith And L. Briggs.

Yes, please. The guy in the Dakota Quad Cab.

I'll see your $5 and raise you one act of contrition.

Bzzzt! Incorrect sir! I was all Greenpeace/Jimmy Carter/Democrat/ACLU as a yeut. Getting my BA in political science was responsible for the switch. Wierd, that, actually. All my profs were way left and were just going mad when Reagan was in office.

Yeah, after engaging my brain, what we'll do is hire (wait, you guys have got me doing it ) I mean, rent, a car when we leave London and head north to the land of NacMac. Thanks all, for all the help. Beats the heck out of Fromer's!

Yeah, it helped a lot. The sun looks to be directly overhead and you'd have lost most of the "pop" of the american flag on the guys chest. Monkey? You are just showing off! . Very nice, very deep positioning there. You in a sit?

Water cannons? Well, OK. They make it slippery and uncomfortable for the contestants. Still silly though. Tear gas? Yeah, it works good, but is hard to deploy when the crowd is moving around. Even with a good mask it's a bitch to be in it for hours at a time. Q? THe pepper ball? Yeah, would probably work well on the youngster hipster doofus protester bunch we get mostly out west, here. I seasoned and tenderized a lot of folks, one on one. What was affectionately called "blinding and beating". Honest to god, though, never until after politely asking the miscreant "Sir (or Ma'am) please submit!". "I am going to pepper spray (or Mace, in the old days) you if you don't comply". The problem with those agents is they get all over your clothes and in your eyes, and eventually everybody is crying together. It always made me kind of laugh to have all the snot-lockers open and me telling the doofus "see, knucklehead, if you'd just have gone with the program, crap, and I just had this stuff dry-cleaned too" Horses. Horses rock the world of crowd control. Very primal and environmentally safe. You get me, Amazon, Skydive XXL in hats with bats and some horses and everybody is guaranteed to play nice.

Cumbria? Is that the "Cumbria am bith" (or something phoenetically similar) place, or some such? I bought a really nice Welsh rugby jersey on a stopover at Gibraltar, once. This gigantic drunken Welsh housewife challenged me to a fistfight for being a Yank and daring to wear such a thing. At dinner on a Cunard cruise ship! At the Surgeon's table no less. God, I love those people! Can't wait to be seriously outnumbered by them in a pub!

Back to civilian applications for WTO organized riots. Most of the kids participating grew up under the impression that if they just hancuffed themselves to fire hydrants and stuff that the fire department would come break them free and the cops would zip tie them and drag them on to a bus for a coolio express booking and souvenir citation. That's because the only other option was killing them, and that is out of the question, unless they begin threatening the life and property of others. Enter this new option. A phasar set to stun. Since the cops are going to have to drag them off anyhow, why not render them unconcsious first and not have to listen to their yammering nonsense. So a few of them get blinded. That's the price of admission. At least no cops got hurt, right? There is more and more cowardice in western civilizaton. This facilitates cowardly hands-off policing. Crowd control is about horses and shields and bats and hats. Both the cops and the protestors take that stuff seriously. Having some dweeb with a fogger and a stun sniper rifle picking people off just rubs me wrong. Let them have their protests. Fine them for the excessive costs they create, but don't just level crowds as a cost control measure.

Wow. Very nicely done. Thank you for sharing that beautiful day.

Me too! 2 down, 3 to.... oh wait.... nevermind... Dude, they are all over that thing, aren't they? Connie keeps telling me they have to be pulled in this, like, particular order. I mean, the whole deal starts out with a pilot chute in tow, right? How much worse could it get?

No I have never seen a roundabout in the US. My take on them was that they were like a vehicular version of a cage match. Like I said, my first one was in Rome, in a Punto, and it was great fun. The Romans taught me how to drive, gesture with both hands and honk with my knee while commanding my wife to operate the shift. Magnificent fun.

I'm thinking phenobarbitol and cogentin. Maybe some lithium too. "We've got valium. And Lithium. Lithium would be good for you."

It just occurred to me what an arch a cat can manage. I'm thinking sub 100, easy.

Nah, that's the first frame from Hathaway's 121-way video. I did his DVD reproduction. Pictures! Theres a cool one over in Soapbox of BillVon's. There's this neato super-quiet black helicopter right outside his window.

As an EMP-type weapon, it will destroy the electronic ingition system in your car. As an added bonus, it will also destroy digital imaging media. Any reporter out there with his 10D who pissed off "the man" could be zapped and any digital photographic evidence could be zapped as well. I can imagine many Stalinist big city bureaucrats filling an area with the conductive fog and then starting the zapping with anybody with a camera being first priority. Maybe we haven't seen the end of film cameras after all.

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996014 These types of things are more dangerous than firearms. People have no fear of using them, because they are "non-lethal". Last year in Oakland the fellows got happy with a non-lethal dowel gun and seriously hurt some folks. This also emboldens crowds, as they don't fear being clubbed. I'm not a big non-lethal fan. A few years back a cop took out a bean bag shotgun to whap some knucklehead, training was deficient cross departments, and when he shot him (its a 12 guage round with a small bean bag instead of shot pellets) the other agency opened fire with "real" guns and killed said knucklehead.

A few of us posted pictures of our offices over in the religion/guns/I-know-I-am-but-what-are-you! Forum. I realize not everybody goes over there. So here's mine. What's your's look like?

WHaaaa? Somebody tracks under me and pulls, I don't care if its a 24 foot Xaos or a tandem. If you are already in a track you should have enough speed to maneuver to either side quickly. When flying RW camera, it's tougher cause you don't have any speed to work with when somebody dumps underneath you.

She actually has more than 14 friends. Don't sweat it.

All of Team JP was representing in that one. Call in sick tomorrow and come out to Byron. I'm teaching ground school and I'll give you a free tandem skydive. I can almost always find all the handles in freefall now.

That's like a small boat or something, right?

Nah, just making the point that I'm not the "in ordnung" type I may come off as. As to your office: one thing... Bill, you have an electric meter that runs backwards, water your yard with greywater, yet you don't use a reuseable ceramic mug for your beverage? Infidel.

Hildegard Bergbauer dresses three-year-old dog Zoroline in traditional Bavarian leather trousers in Hailing, near the Bavarian town of Straubing, on June 16, 2004. Bergbauer designs traditional Bavarian dirndl and leather trousers known as Lederhosen and combined her profession with her love of animals in a new traditional collection for dogs. Picture taken June 16, 2004. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle -Pic attached. There's supposed to be a dog in it somewhere