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Hey smart guy, stop playing jazz cds, and catch a recent foreign flick! http://entertainment.msn.com/movies/movie.aspx?m=70258 Thanks for playing along...bet ya Brownie got the title of the thread....

He plays a lot of Marley Ta-daa! Ching! WOW!!!! How did you know what I was going to post, before I posted it here???

He plays a lot of Marley

French nutritionists give thumbs up to Big Mac Friday, March 19, 2004 Posted: 9:50 AM EST (1450 GMT) PARIS, France (Reuters) -- Want to stay fit and healthy? Two top French nutritionists are telling people to go for a Big Mac and keep their fingers off the traditional French quiche. In an unexpected message to a country priding itself on the superiority of its food, a new food guide praises the McDonald's burger for having a higher and healthier protein-to-fat ratio than France's Quiche Lorraine. "Strangely enough, the products which are the most demonized are not necessarily the worst," Jean-Michel Cohen and Patrick Serog write in their book "Savoir Manger," in which they analyze 5,000 dishes available in shops and restaurants. The verdict published this month comes as McDonald's launches a new campaign to add healthier food choices to its menus. It has also said it is eliminating Supersize fries and soft drinks. http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/03/19/big.m...reut/index.html

Hmmm, I don't think the water is carbonated (Perhaps the consumer affairs Editor should get out more) but that's some funky river water it appears.... This is LONDON 19/03/04 - News and city section Coke water in cancer scare By Jonathan Prynn, Consumer Affairs Editor, Evening Standard Coca-Cola today recalled every bottle of its controversial "pure" mineral water Dasani in a cancer scare. It came after the 95p bottles of water were found to be contaminated with illegal levels of bromate, a potentially cancer causing chemical. Coca-Cola said all 500,000 bottles of the carbonated water, which is drawn from public water supplies in Sidcup, will be cleared from stores within 24 hours. The scare also raises disturbing questions about the quality of Thames Water's household supplies in the Sidcup area. The announcement is a huge blow to Coca-Cola's bid to establish Dasani as one of Britain's leading mineral water brands following its £7 million launch last month. The Food Standards Agency said the withdrawal was "a sensible measure as bromate is a chemical that could cause an increased cancer risk". Coca-Cola said there was "no immediate health or safety issue http://www.thisislondon.com/til/jsp/module...?itemId=9740821

Well, Karros looked better than the whole Braves line-up during the playoffs, glad he didn't quit.... I think the BRAVE behind the plate hit pretty well in the playoffs. The rest of the team didn't do much. Especially the new Yankee. (right fielder) Course, both of them are gone from the Braves now. Karros hit a couple of homers in the playoffs, but the team still lost. What was strange, is that the cubs took Karros out of the game after he hit 2 homers. (maybe there was a RHP) Perhaps Dusty smokes the same crack that Bobby Cox smokes each and every playoff series! :rsmile:

Yeah, personally I wouldn't mind a bit if Berigan chose to delete this thread. good grief, I'd take a million threads like this, before I 'd want to see another on Cannibals! There's a cannibal thread?! Where? --eric Oh God, no...don't ask! Trust me, you don't want those kind of mental scars.... Now, he will spend the next few hours trying to dig up the thread! Trust me, it ain't worth it...

Yeah, personally I wouldn't mind a bit if Berigan chose to delete this thread. good grief, I'd take a million threads like this, before I 'd want to see another on Cannibals!

Well, Karros looked better than the whole Braves line-up during the playoffs, glad he didn't quit....

Nobody really needs McGriff. Hey....He got injured, basically for the first time last year...he deserves a shot at 500 homers....

Man, I feel old. R.I.P. http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1485838/2...?headlines=true

here's the info.... http://www.baseballprimer.com/to/archives/00001224.shtml Braves could use him, or Fred McGriff, but the Braves are such poor team...

They sure are!

Slayer doesn't Slay me! Actually, I do have their Punk covers cd, which no fans seemed to like, which explains why I do I guess. What is a good place to start with them, anyway? I got into metal late, about the time it was dying...a day late and a dollar short I am...

One of the best things about going to LA was to hit EVERY Tower....damn, the stuff I wouldl leave behind at the outlet store...

From the article.... Tower says 90 of its 93 stores make money. Sorry to see your store closing Lon....more fun to browse in a store than online...

His tune Cosmics makes me wish he had done more like it, not that I am complaining about what he did do....

Evan, if you don't like them, they are investments!

I just have to add, 30 seconds after posting, I see that Jazzmoose, and Indestructible! are reading the thread!

Unwired Travel: Virgin Potty Talk Tue Mar 16,12:45 PM ET Add Fashion - Fashion Wire Daily to My Yahoo! Paula Conway Fashion Wire Daily March 16, 2004 - New York - KISSING IN THE MEN'S ROOM AT THE VIRGIN CLUBHOUSE Fashion Wire Daily Photo Even though they allow for high-volume servicing and back-in-a-flash trips to the john, the point-and-shoot-a-stinky-deodorizer-cake oddity known as the men’s restroom urinal has been, for women, a constant enigma. But nothing will prepare you for the men’s room in the newly-designed Virgin Airways Clubhouse in New York’s John F. Kennedy airport, terminal 4: Urinals shaped like a woman’s mouth, dolled up with red lipstick, wide open and ready for business. “In anything that we do there has to be a smile, and that’s the smile in this Clubhouse,” said John Riordan, Vice President of Customer Services for Virgin Airways. The urinals, called Kisses, were designed by Netherlands based company Bathroom Mania. “Kisses - the sexy urinal, makes a daily event a blushing experience! This is one target men will never miss!,” said the Bathroom Mania team via e-mail from the Netherlands. “The Bathroom Mania designs create a fantasy-world in the bathroom by working on impressions and stories.” They also make the Good Morning Sunshine flower potty, a toilet in the shape of a flower pot with images of flowery freshness, and the Splish Splash bathtub shaped like a hammock. But if you’re a hold it ‘til you get there kinda guy, the urinals, thankfully aren’t the only feature to rave about in the new clubhouse, where Spike Lee (news) dropped by last week and most probably got a smile from the lady in the men’s room. “My favorite other fun items are the Ben & Jerry’s “grab-n-go minis” in the refrigerators,” said Elizabeth Ciresi, a spokesperson for Virgin. “There’s also a dedicated business area for iMACS, two day beds in the Snooze Room and showers packed with Virgin accessories.” While some airlines have itty bitty lounges with big names like the Delta Crown Room Club, Virgin opted for a roomy 7,000 square feet in theirs. “With the big names that fly in our Upper Class there are big expectations - both on the ground and in the air - so 7,000 square feet is on par with what our customers expect,” added Ms. Ciresi. For an airline that has open mouths in the bathrooms, one would expect unconventional designs in the lounge areas. Instead of walls (who needs them?) there’s a free standing waterfall that pours out of the ceiling. It drains into a 100-foot pool that doubles as the wall of the lounge (why not?). The result: one exterior wall is the reflecting pool; the other is a triple height ceiling out on to the terminal. VIPs don’t have to mingle with the riff-raff (who would no doubt be milling by the urinals anyway), the Red Room is their special space. Like the cigar girls of the 1940’s, Virgin staff roam the clubhouse, weaving between pearlescent screens with the Hewlett Packard PC’s in hand to access anything for passengers at any time like reservations or ordering a meal within the clubhouse. And if Paris Hilton brings her laptop in her Louis Vuitton book bag, she can hang out in the WiFi zone to chat about The Simple Life with Nicole Richie. The Virginesque aura screams out with local flavor as the mood lighting and color-shifting patterns alter in tandem with the light coming in from the outside. As night falls, a skyline grid of New York City as seen from the East River becomes illuminated to reveal the outline of the skyscrapers. Who’s using the clubhouse the most these days? “With the exchange rate so attractive to Europeans we are jam-packed with Londoners flying over here for bargains,” said John Riordan. With added incentive to visit the new Virgin Clubhouse at JFK, I am in a hurry to book my next flight toLondonjust for the pleasure of becoming reVirginized. HEADS UP PR OFFICE, I’LL BE CALLING SHORTLY FOR A PRESS TICKET!! http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid...wired&printer=1

You might find it on sale, cuz it would be old! I forgot that some crafty marketing person changed the name to Milky Way Midnight.

I had a green beer tonight...it was worse than beer normally is!

Wow, yet another pieces ! You really only 35??? You are younger than me??? I am getting old... Have a great Birthday!!!! Enjoy the cake I have sent you!

Geez...I was going to post a few remarks from ebay's chat area, and I see that they are mentioning rate increases??? For what, fucking things up? Ha, ha, ha...go list somewheres else! HA, Ha, ha! What a few people buyers, and sellers think about the "improvements".... Posted by abagaylesbooks ( 103 ) on Mar-17-04 at 05:53:45 PST Auctions It's a raw deal about the raised fees. I hate the multiple page interview just to list one book. That's a drag. I am in the process of moving all inventory to Amazon. I guess all good things must come to an end. Posted by music-plus2000 ( 292 ) on Mar-17-04 at 05:49:26 PST Auctions The elimination of subcategories in the music was a moronic idea. Raise fees, then take away service? Nice slap in the face ebay. I guess when your #1 you can @$*&% who ever you please. Posted by abagaylesbooks ( 103 ) on Mar-17-04 at 05:48:36 PST Auctions First time posting. I am a half.com user, have been and thought that I always would be, until this change. I have gotten some feedback on views of the half users and most that I know seem to be unhappy. Just interested if ebayers are happy with this change. Anybody willing to share their opinons? Good or Bad. Thanks! Posted by sturges ( 733 ) on Mar-17-04 at 05:35:50 PST Auctions Who elese here thinks the new "item Specific search" feature and elimination of subcategories in the music are further evidence of the monolithic corporate thinking at eBay RUNNING AMUCK!!!!! Posted by freightmaster ( 1317 ) on Mar-17-04 at 04:44:53 PST Auctions No Updates to Search and Listings since around 9:00pm PST.....UPDATE SEARCH.... UPDATE LISTINGS..... Posted by etvideo1ataol ( 2103 ) on Mar-17-04 at 04:44:50 PST Auctions eBay - Always changing, NEVER improving. Posted by yecats5000 ( 2337 ) on Mar-17-04 at 04:18:25 PST Auctions Not surprisingly,there have been no more bids on any of my lps that I have listed,& after the changes I would not have expected that there would be. I hope the people who forced this change on us with no good reason or warning are happy with themselves for transforming a perfectly fine system where it was possible to at times get some decent money for rare items into a worthless junk heap where that is just not going to happen.I hope they also realize that if we sellers can't expect to make any decent money on ebay,we will not pay ebay for any further listings,since there is no point in throwing good money after bad. I Have to say that to my way of thinking the way this was carried out with no regard for us as loyal sellers and no regard for buyers is completely inexcusable. As others have said,without browsing possibility within categories,we sellers can expect our revenue to decline an average of 90%.I think that unless and until these changes are reversed,ebay can expect the same. What type of venue in the real world has records thrown together in one big pile that is difficult to look through?Why of course it is the thrift store, as opposed to an actual record store where people are willing to pay more for the same items in return for the convenience and pleasure of being able to browse within categories. Ebay,can you see a correlation here with your new system of no categories? Posted by williamgiorda ( 274 ) on Mar-17-04 at 04:17:20 PST Auctions Dear Friends . . . Yesterday (3-16-04), I was doing my daily scroll-through of the Classical Music CDs, which is the category in which I specialize. There were about 18 pages of items that were "ending today;" and, after I had gotten through about six pages, I could no longer get "Next" at the bottom of the page to trigger the beginning of the following page in sequence. Instead, I got a default to the very large, overarching category "Music > CD," which yesterday had over 50,000 items listed, making it impossible from a time efficiency point of view to examine just the Classical CDs that were spread throughout the whole of the "Music > CD" category. No matter what means I tried to get back into just the subcategory of "Music > CD > Classical," I was unable to do it. It was as though all of the very helpful "Music > CD" subcategories had vanished into the ether. Either I am doing something wrong, or eBay's software has developed a terrible glitch, or eBay's managers have made a terrible decision. Those seem to be the only viable possibilities. In any case, the subcategories must reappear; otherwise, it will (and this is not too strongly put) effectively cripple the work of both buyers and sellers -- and by extension, it will cripple eBay and PayPal in significant ways. Please resolve this problem: either tell me what I am doing wrong; or do whatever it takes internally at eBay to bring back the subcategories. Thank you for your patience, and your time. Posted by web-lines ( 844 ) on Mar-17-04 at 04:15:20 PST Auctions Making buyers and sellers change the way they do everything (that's millions of users having to change their methods) because of this venture of combining half.com... is the MOST STUPID maneuver they've ever made. JMHO Posted by web-lines ( 844 ) on Mar-17-04 at 04:05:39 PST Auctions Ebay is dumber than a rock.. dontchathink? half.com is a failure so what do they do? They change everything on ebaY to be like half.com then move half.com to ebaY... uhm... half.com IS A FAILURE.. shouldn't that ring some bells? All these catagory changes and Item Specifics SUCK... really SUCK BAD. It'll serve ebaY right if the sellers at half.com (bless their pee-pickin' hearts) move over to the "other" place that only charges if an item is SOLD - no listing fees. 10 cent listing fee promotion vs free listing... hmmm which one would you pick? Posted by web-lines ( 844 ) on Mar-17-04 at 03:58:25 PST Auctions Good Morning DNF Posted by joshua1991 ( 331 ) on Mar-17-04 at 02:49:54 PST Auctions Ebay just took all of the fun out of browsing through categories and finding titles that you never knew existed. I guess its time to switch to Yahoo auctions, where you can still browse through categories. It's too bad that they did this. I am sure that it will hurt everyone, buyers and sellers. Posted by uwontbeatthis ( 531 ) on Mar-17-04 at 02:38:14 PST Auctions bad move ebay! you have made it very hard to search the music sections! what are you thinking here? and seperating the memorabilia was a mistake too! i logged on to bid on music and quickly grew tired of the change! put it back the way it was, now! and maybe i'll be back? or maybe i'll just stick to the local used record stores and save the shipping charges. Posted by joshua1991 ( 331 ) on Mar-17-04 at 02:18:30 PST Auctions This new category thing is terrible. I used to like browsing through sports videos and DVD's by category in addition to music videos and DVD's, now everything is lumped together. Guaranteed, everyones sales will drop, because I for one am not going to waste my time with this nonsense. Like the old saying goes, "if it ain't broke then don't fix it." Ebay just ruined a good thing. Posted by 22b3 ( 275 ) on Mar-17-04 at 01:56:58 PST Auctions Ok. I've tried it. Gave it a few hours. No change still not liking it, I'm hating it. I'm writing about the new changes in Music. One of my passions is collecting CDs, soundtracks. But this new change of format has taken away my abilty to do that. That subcategory in music I browse everyday. Now that's it gone, I've got to shift through a lot of crap. An example. I do a look for say "Night Of The Living Dead". I go to CD section. I just want to see the topic, soundtrack. I select from "Music: CDs - Genre - Soundtrack,Theater" and hit search, leaving Basic Search field blank. I find at this moment some 7278 titles, all soundtracks. Good. I then type in the above title and hit search. Now I get friggin' category. NO. NO. NO. I was in soundtrack. I just want to search IN soundtrack. Grand, I pick off "Music Memorabilia" from Matching Categories. I find two items: a tee shirt and a lighter. WTF! I have this 4002178160 bookmarked (ends later today), a soundtrack. It's not even listed that search. FINE. I'll do it this way. From the CD section I type in the seach, the check is on for "only in cds". I also select "Soundtrack,Theater" from Music:CDs. Click on the "find" button with the check on for "Combine with Basic Search". Now I find the above auction number and a second soundtrack. I want to do a new search. I delete the window and type in "Blade Runner". The sub-selection "Genre - Soundtrack,Theater" is still on. I've removed the check from the now: "only show items containing Night Of The Living Dead". I click the find button, which takes me back to Soundtrack,Theater now with 7335 titles. Had I hit just the search button I get the whole damn thing again. This time on the topic of Blade Runner, books, comics, DVDs, Laserdiscs, VHS and so on. NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOOK. This is really pissing me off. Bring back the category, soundtrack. And the ability to ONLY search in that section, like you used to. You guys took a way a very valuable tool I use every single day. Now what? Do I have to type in a query, Basic search with check on for "only in CDs" and "Genre - Soundtrack,Theater" with "Combine with Basic Search" clicking find button... from now on? Is that it!? I search on average 20-40 CDs a day. Do you have any idea how much of hassle that is? Do you???? And don't even say: "why don't you just type in your title with the words "CD" and "soundtrack", because I should've have to. I've been doing this way for years. It was a fine system till this mess started. I was quiet when you changed listing an auction. It was perfect as two pages. Fine. Now it's five pages. Meant for newbies I suppose; to walk then through. Fine. But this is too much. I'm not new to Ebay. I know what I want. I shouldn't have to muddle through items I don't want. I know I'm not the only one angry about this change. I understand this change is intended for seller (mostly bulk) who had problems listing their auctions in different categories. This whole catch-all concept must be a god send. They're going for the stupid factor, buyers who are not smart enough or haven't done their homework before searching. Fine. But there should be a place for those of us who do. It's bad enough I see things dumb down on television, Ebay shouldn't be such a place. I realize there are a lot of folks who have just woken up to the site, they need help, things simplied. I have no problem with that. But we, the members from years back shouldn't have to be forced to endure a site catering to newbies. I'm not a child. For those sellers who do like this new format. I ask this. Do you want a buyer who wasn't informed enough to purchase your item? Probably not happy with it when it arrives and asks for a refund. Or wasn't bright enough to make payment. We've all had to deal with that one. Or do you want someone who knows what he/she want and goes for it? Weeding out the nonsense. Sure we all want our auctions to sell and to sell well. So what? I've sold a couple of auction where I got a great sale, but they took forever to send payment and given a lot of grief. Is that money worth all the pain? Just to have it happen again. I'm 22b3. I have had 275 transactions as a buyer and seller. Feedback 100%. A member since 1999. I'm no newbie. I'm no idiot either. This change you have taken isn't the right step. You need to know that. It need to be corrected. Comments to the above: regularfellow@usermail.com or if it doesn't list: regularfellow -at- usermail dot com. I'm tired. I'm going to bed. This sucks.