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JS, I can't recall if I read this somewheres, or I actually thought this up on my own, but there must have been fewer censors during the war. I have seen a few films during that era that have moments that seem right from pre-code films. (July 1934 and earlier) Well, the only films I recall right now are I Wanted Wings (1941 actually) starring Veronica Lake, and she is soooo very clearly braless(and cold!) throughout much of the movie, I never could figure out how it didn't end up being re-shot. Murder, My Sweet has it's moments as well, but Miracle of Morgan's Creek seems quite unique to have gotten away with so much!

Has been mentioned before, but a recent article on why some old shows haven't made it to dvd.... http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,66696,00.html

Joan O'Brian is quite alright as well!

After he hears about wireless laptops...I'm Free, I'm free, like a puppet without a string...something like that....Sounds like a 60's song, but for some reason, don't recognize it. Guess it's not on one of the 12 cds the oldies stations in Atlanta have....Anyone know the tune???

Are saying that's not the real Frank Driggs????

You should have typed that post in all CAPS. Why? Is the small non-cap print hard to read with 36 year old eyes?

Sorry To be late man! Hope you had a great one!!! Jack Benny's age! Is that a good thing, or bad???? Who is this Jack Benny, anyway??? I am far too young to know about him.

They did have an awards show for teachers for a few years, celebs even came out. People didn't care. I blame you personally for the show's failure!

If she a chip off the ol' block, I fully expect her to have 800 posts by 11 pm tomorrow!

Never thought I would see that happen! http://www.jimhillmedia.com/mb/articles/sh...cle.php?ID=1313

Will this help us know why she didn't come? The Fuck Brother might help in the future.

3 cds? Sounds like a select maybe?

I am sad to say back in the day, Canseco was my favorite player!!! I loved the speed/power combo....That homer in the playoffs against Toronto was incredible, I remember Tony Kubek saying how he was in awe of it. Just steroid power. Asswipe.

His sound sure changed through the years, didn't it???

You see curve balls thrown by kids in little league, just about guaranteeing they will damage the soft bones in their arms....

Left behind a wife, kid and grandkid He has written for Espn's page 2 for awhile... Most likely his last column.... >shotgun golf with Bill Murray<

Look at it this way: It gave hundreds of people a paid job, it gave some U.S. manufacturers a sizable special order, and it is attracting thousands to New York, where they will spend money. Hey good news Chris! The inauguration didn't cost much more, and it also gave jobs to hundreds, and no doubt many American companies got some much needed business from it as well!

It makes sense to have big brother force a device in your car to see how far you drive? (I am sure they are no doubt cheap items to purchace and install)It makes sense to charge the same amount per mile whether you drive a 2000 pound hybrid, or a 5000 lb SUV??? That 2000 lb car ain't doing much damage to the roads. Yeah, they can fix the last one , but we really don't need a new system, gas taxes are quite high as it is....If you are a poor student (unlike the one mentioned in the article above, you might not be able to afford to drive to and from home/work/school under the proposed system. IF it can be proven that there are not enough funds to fix the roads, increase the gas tax then.....

States Mull Taxing Drivers By Mile CORVALLIS, Ore., Feb. 14, 2005 Taxing By The Mile Jayson Just commutes 2,000 miles a month. (Photo: CBS) "Drivers will get charged for how many miles they use the roads, and it's as simple as that." David Kim, engineer Toyota's fuel-efficient hybrid (Photo: AP) (CBS) College student Jayson Just commutes an odometer-spinning 2,000 miles a month. As CBS News Correspondent Sandra Hughes reports, his monthly gas bill once topped his car payment. "I was paying about $500 a month," says Just. So Just bought a fuel efficient hybrid and said goodbye to his gas-guzzling BMW. And what kind of mileage does he get? "The EPA estimate is 60 in the city, 51 on the highway," says Just. And that saves him almost $300 a month in gas. It's great for Just but bad for the roads he's driving on, because he also pays a lot less in gasoline taxes which fund highway projects and road repairs. As more and more hybrids hit the road, cash-strapped states are warning of rough roads ahead. Officials in car-clogged California are so worried they may be considering a replacement for the gas tax altogether, replacing it with something called "tax by the mile." Seeing tax dollars dwindling, neighboring Oregon has already started road testing the idea. "Drivers will get charged for how many miles they use the roads, and it's as simple as that," says engineer David Kim. Kim and his team at Oregon State University equipped a test car with a global positioning device to keep track of its mileage. Eventually, every car would need one. "So, if you drive 10 miles you will pay a certain fee which will be, let's say, one tenth of what someone pays if they drive 100 miles," says Kim. The new tax would be charged each time you fill up. A computer inside the gas pump would communicate with your car's odometer to calculate how much you owe. The system could also track how often you drive during rush hour and charge higher fees to discourage peak use. That's an idea that could break the bottleneck on California's freeways. "We're getting a lot of interest from other states," says Jim Whitty of the Oregon Department of Transportation. "They're watching what we're doing. "Transportation officials across the country are concerned about what's going to happen with the gas tax revenues." Privacy advocates say it's more like big brother riding on your bumper, not to mention a disincentive to buy fuel-efficient cars. "It's not fair for people like me who have to commute, and we don't have any choice but take the freeways," says Just. "We shouldn't have to be taxed." But tax-by-mile advocates say it may be the only way to ensure that fuel efficiency doesn't prevent smooth sailing down the road. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/14/...ain674120.shtml

I know there are some decent biographies on MM, it might be worth digging into them to see if they mention what man was with her that night...doing some googling on the web several days ago, I came across at least one article mentioning that Joe DiMaggio had hit her on at least one occasion. He was certainly in and out of her life after their divorce as well. A woman abused as a child often seems to attract abusive men throughout their lives, sadly enough.

it lives again!!!! Seems if I start a thread, no one ever seems compelled to comment... Remember Sk@@ter?(SP?) He used to say on the other board he killed more threads than anyone else....whatever happened to him/her? Another name on this board?

Berigan posting three Swift-Boat-Liar threads at once? Did Kerry suffer from a self inflicted wound, and get a metal for it? Glad to see you guys can take a break, and keep politics from bleeding into other NON-POLITICAL forums!

Truffle Kerfuffle Chinese "pig-snout" fungi are flooding gourmet-food markets, and the French are not amused BY HANNAH BEECH | HAMA Monday, Feb. 14, 2005 The locals of Hama village know what to do with a fat, smelly truffle. For centuries, if the village pigs in this remote corner of China's Yunnan province were acting a little less amorous than normal, the farmers fed a shovelful of truffles to the creatures in order to guarantee a future litter of piglets. Then, a few years ago, a strange tale wended its way through this hamlet so disconnected from modern China that Cultural Revolution slogans from three decades ago are still inscribed on the village's mud-brick walls: foreigners, for some mysterious reason, were willing to pay exorbitant prices for what the locals dismissively call pig-snout fungus. "When we first asked the people in the countryside whether they had any truffles, they were shocked we wanted to buy them," recalls Wu Jianming, chairman of Kunming Rare Truffle Co, the province's largest truffle exporter. "An hour later, they brought us a whole bagful and still couldn't believe that foreigners wanted to eat what they usually fed to their pigs." China is the world's biggest exporter of fake goods, from pirated DVDs to knockoff Birkin bags. Now add truffles to the list. To the naked eye, the Chinese black truffle, or Tuber indicum, looks virtually indistinguishable from its much-vaunted cousin, Tuber melanosporum, or the Périgord truffle, a gastronomic delicacy that perks up winter menus with its earthy pungency. One taste, though, clears up any confusion: the Chinese variety is insipid compared with the French one. Yet over the past few years, unscrupulous dealers in Europe and the U.S. have begun passing off the Chinese truffles as Périgord's black diamonds. The deception has roiled the luxury-food industry, particularly as European harvests have dwindled. Last season, when a heat wave cut the Périgord bounty from the usual 50 tons to 9 tons, the import of Chinese truffles skyrocketed to an estimated 30 tons from 20 tons the year before. This season, the U.S. is facing its own Chinese truffle deluge; a strong euro has sent the price of French truffle imports up 30% in the past year, leading some restaurants and gourmet-store owners to substitute Eastern truffles for Périgords. Purists are outraged. "You can't compare the two," sniffs Guy Monier, who sells French truffles for $2,300 a kilo at his Paris shop but has seen the Chinese fungus masquerading as the French variety in nearby supermarkets. "The Chinese import is just a flavorless, rubbery black ball." LATEST COVER STORY February 21, 2005 Issue Nuclear North Kim's Raises the Stakes Inside North Korea Essay: Time to Disengage Past Covers ----------------- A.Q. Khan February 14, 2005 ----------------- Macau Madness February 7, 2005 ----------------- Iraq Election January 31, 2005 ----------------- Sleep January 24, 2005 ----------------- Time to Heal January 17, 2005 ----------------- Tsunami January 10, 2005 ASIA Tsunami: Back to the Beach Philippines: Unrest in Jolo BUSINESS China: Truffle Kerfluffle ARTS Books: Holding Up Half the Sky NOTEBOOK Thailand: Thaksin's Real Challenge Milestones Verbatim Letters GLOBAL ADVISER Germany: Life's A Beach Hotels: King for a Day Health: Yoga's Growing Reach CNN.com: Top Headlines Kunming Rare Truffle Co.'s Wu cheerfully admits that some of his European and American clients mix his fungi with French ones. But the former metallurgist is astounded less by the chicanery than by the prices his truffles can command abroad. What Wu sells to wholesalers for $80 a kilo can be resold to Westerners for 30 times that, or more than double the average yearly income in China. "Who would pay that much for a mushroom," Wu marvels. "Is it because they think it's an aphrodisiac?" (Since medieval times, many have believed just that.) Nevertheless, Wu does maintain a modicum of pride about the 40-50 tons of truffles that his team of 20,000 gatherers harvests for him each year. "They taste just as good as the French ones, with maybe a little less aroma," he contends—although he concedes that he's never actually tasted a Périgord truffle. Don't tell that to Guy Cubaynes, a truffle harvester from the southern French town of Lalbenque, who is taking his 250-kg pig named Kiki for her first truffle hunt of the season. Cubaynes' family has been gathering truffles since the 1850s, searching for the fungi under the shade of oak trees. He says dealers in Chinese truffles have even infiltrated the center of French truffle production. Every week, Cubaynes claims, these merchants show up at the market in Lalbenque with the same number of truffles in their baskets, a suspicious constancy that normal truffle collecting does not tend to provide. "It's cheating the consumer," says Cubaynes, "and it's also cheating the honest worker." France is now counting on modern science to catch the truffle imposters. The National Institute of Agricultural Research (INRA) has developed a DNA analysis to distinguish French fungi from the Chinese ones without a taste test. Although French regulations call for a truffle's origins to be clearly marked, truffle experts say many vendors either ignore the rules or engage in outright mislabeling. France's fraud-control directorate now carries out random DNA testing to flush out bogus-truffle dealers. Anyone caught intending to deceive the consumer with a Chinese truffle may be fined $1,300. Still, there are few inspectors and many truffles. "If the consumer is properly informed that they are eating a Chinese truffle, there is no problem," says Michel Courvoisier, director of the French Federation of Truffle Growers. "But when a shop or restaurateur uses one in the place of the other, the consumer is ripped off. I suspect this happens a lot." There's more to worry the French. "We saw in experiments that Tuber indicum is very dominant, competitive and aggressive," frets Gerard Chevalier, a researcher at INRA. He paints a scenario in which errant spores from imported Chinese truffles disperse into the air, contaminate the French countryside and do ecological battle with their more fragile cousin. Already, the ancient truffle terroir is being hammered by pesticides and urbanization. Two centuries ago, French black truffles were so abundant that they were cheaper than tomatoes; yet since then, the average annual harvest in the Périgord region and beyond has declined from some 1,800 tons to 50 tons. An influx of Chinese truffle spores could finish off an already threatened gastronomic tradition. Back in China, though, Wu sees nothing but mycological possibility. In the past year, he has begun exporting his own truffle oil and is starting a canned foie gras business using geese imported from Hungary. Now, he's attempting to duplicate the soil and precipitation conditions of southern France in his Yunnan fields. Just like France's INRA, Wu has done his own truffle-DNA testing, and he is determined to reverse-engineer an Eastern facsimile of a Périgord. If he can create the correct environmental conditions, Wu believes Yunnan's plentiful land and low fixed costs will make him even more of a threat to the French truffle tradition. "Labor is very cheap here," Wu says. "In France they use pigs and dogs to find truffles. We can use humans." None of that, though, changes one irksome fact that has limited Wu's business. For all their gastronomic enthusiasm for endangered sea animals or all matter of rare mammalian life, the Chinese so far appear immune to the pleasures of a black truffle. Mushroom gatherer Li Kun shakes his head when asked whether he enjoys the flavor of the black nuggets he's scooping up from the loamy soil near Hama. "When we're really hungry, we eat them covered with soy sauce, coriander, chili paste and MSG," he says. "That way you don't have to taste the truffle too much, only the sauce." Sacrilege. —With reporting by Bu Hua/Hama and Jonathan Shenfield/Lalbenque From the Feb. 21, 2005 issue of TIME Asia Magazine

I say, I say it's an attached photo boy, get it???

You Won't Believe What Prevents Cancer Exposure to sunlight is known as a major risk factor for the potentially fatal skin cancer melanoma. But a new study from the University of New Mexico shows that sunlight may also help melanoma victims survive the disease, something that the researchers admit is totally counterintuitive, reports The Associated Press. In addition, a second study from Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden shows that sunlight may reduce the risk of getting cancer of the lymph glands. Warning: Do not go outside and sunbathe. "Sunlight, particularly ultraviolet radiation, is a very well established human carcinogen. Nothing in these papers should in any way detract from this message," Dr. Kathleen M. Egan told AP. While she was not involved with either study, she is a melanoma expert and associate professor of medicine at Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville, Tenn. In this five-year study of 528 melanoma victims, the researchers found that increased sun exposure led to increased survivability, even though sunshine has long been viewed as the No. 1 cause of malignant melanoma. "It's totally counterintuitive, and we're trying to investigate it," lead study author Marianne Berwick told AP. She is now doing a similar study of 3,700 melanoma patients worldwide. "It's really strange, because sunburn seems to be one of the factors associated with improved survival, and that doesn't make much sense, so we think sunburn's a proxy for the kind of sun exposure that leads to melanoma. But there's so much we need to know," she admitted to AP. The new research shows scientific clues as to how sunlight may slow or stop some types of cancer. Clue No. 1: Vitamin D. Our skin makes this vitamin in response to sunlight. It's an essential vitamin in that it helps regulate cell growth and helps cells stop unneeded growth through a process called apoptosis. Clue No. 2: Sunlight may help victims survive melanoma through something called solar elastosis, which is a response to sunlight that breaks down collagen in the skin. Or put more simply, this is the same process that causes sun-related wrinkling. "It may be something in solar elastosis itself. It may be that some physical barrier created by this breakdown of collagen keeps the melanoma from getting into the blood and lymph system," Berwick explained to AP. Sunshine may prevent non-Hodgkin's lymphoma A research team led by Karin Ekstrom Smedby of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden studied 3,000 people who had lymph cancer and another 3,000 who did not. The results? Increased exposure to ultraviolet radiation through sunbathing and sunburns resulted in a reduced incidence of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, reports AP. The experts agree that it's likely the sunlight itself is not the explanation; instead, it's the vitamin D that acts as the protective agent against cancer. What's really interesting is that doctors think non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is caused in a similar way as skin cancer. "It's long been known that vitamin D is a critically important agent in bone health," Vanderbilt's Egan told AP in an interview. "More recently it has become increasingly obvious that vitamin D has important regulatory functions in the cell, in terms of cell division." Let's hear it for the new miracle vitamin. http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/package.j...ight&floc=wn-np