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Mr Sangrey! Your avatar? I'll have you know that I used those words in my handle on the BNBB long before this board came about! You may have dropped the words, inquire within, but those are my words! MINE!! Intellectual property! You shall hear from my mouthpiece, I mean lawyer, posthaste! If They have avatars at the new, improved Norah Jones site, can I borrow it?

Brewers prepare to seduce young drinkers with wave of 'Viagra pops' (Someone, quick! Make a joke!!!) Stephen Khan Sunday March 23, 2003 The Observer Libido-boosting drinks will flood into bars this summer as young clubbers are targeted with a potent new range of products that have been dubbed 'Viagra pops'. Powerful blends of Chinese aphrodisiacs, vodka and passion fruit will create a 'generation of randy super beings', according to drinks manufacturers who expect the new tipples to rock the market the way alcopops did in the 1990s. None will actually contain Viagra, produced by the American pharmaceutical company Pfizer, relying instead on Chinese herbs such as cordyceps and epimedium grandiflorum, better known as Horny Goat Weed. The first of these 'passion potions', Roxxoff, will sell for as little as £1.50 when it rolls out across the UK over the next month. Drinks industry sources suggest that at least three other firms are poised to launch their own versions. 'This is what everyone in the business is talking about,' said one insider. 'For months now firms have been trying to get the blends right in time for the warm weather.' Marketing experts say the new sector could spawn sales of more than five million cases in the first year alone. Surrey-based Lynch Wines is launching Roxxoff, which has an alcohol content of 5.4 per cent, in a series of adverts featuring Dannii Minogue wearing little and holding a bottle. Its publicity proclaims a 'sensational scientifically blended concoction of potent and proven aphrodisiacs' that could lead to 'a generation of randy super beings'. Campaigners for the responsible use and sale of alcohol are appalled at the prospect. Jack Law, of the Glasgow-based group Alcohol Focus, has called for a ban on Roxxof, claiming it breaches industry guidelines set up by The Portman Group, launched by top brewers to promote sensible drinking. 'Portman's code of practice states any drink or its packaging should not suggest any association with sexual success or that it can enhance physical capabilities,' he said. 'Roxxoff, sends out a completely irresponsible message to the young drinkers it is aimed at and will only increase the likelihood of binge drinking and unsafe sex.' Campaigners at Alcohol Concern warned that such drinks could lead to an increase in date rapes and teenage pregnancies. 'We would like to see these banned, whether they improve sexual performance or not,' a spokesman said. 'Lots of surveys have suggested teenagers regret having unprotected sex when drunk, so this is worrying.' A spokesman for Lynch Wines countered: 'Many young people go to clubs and bars to meet people with a view to having sex - we are just helping them on their way. 'We are acutely aware of our responsibilities. This doesn't look like a kid's drink and isn't designed to fool one into thinking it's lemonade.' Horny Goat Weed's combination of botanical ingredients is thought to enhance sexual performance through a variety of mechanisms including increased production of testosterone and other hormones. It has been used in traditional botanical medicine for hundreds of years in China, South America and India. http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,...,920079,00.html

T.J. Hooker!!! Damn...I want all those wasted hours back!!!

Wow Kevin , B3-er, thanks! 51 items showed up! I try to clean out my cookies a few times a month, have a fairly restrictive cookie setting as well! I would suggest everyone check into this!

Parkertown, I am sooo envious! Atlanta has had a strange winter as well...very cold until the last several weeks, now well above average...with it being cold for so long, there was not even the threat of a snowflake outside of the North Georgia mountains, and I think this would be the first winter in the 9 years here of no flurries even! (have gotten a few in late march in the past though-but it is going to be in the mid 70's tomorrow...not to rub it in or anything! )

Just wondering, because I have blocked this email address, thru Outlook express now dozens of times, yet it keeps showing up in my inbox! I have seen companies like 1-800-flowers use many different email addys and I understand having to each one of them...but why can I not block (Even though it says I have blocked it) this one? It almost seems like it is fooling the system to allow it in the inbox....anyone else have this problem, with this company, or another one??????

Jim, verrrry cool Avatar!!!

Brownie, Thanks for posting the info! Not having a clue if/when the Mosaic will come out,(I just don't believe May) I will look forward to some "New" Bunny! Storyville puts out some great cds!

The only Dorham cd I own (So far) really like it! How weird, just got the Charlie Christian set, man out of this world!!!

Chuck, I heard about Big Spider Beck once, something about a British Journalist not understanding Hugh Hefner was talking about Bix... true, or some sort of urban jazz legend???

Oh, that's Head Ames, ain't it?

It is my Megadeth thought of the day that changes,(About every 3rd day) but I did change my avatar a little earlier, hope you like it! BY the way, since I hit no other boards except the "other" board I was truly in the dark ages, never heard of an avatar...who invented them, anyway?

Yes, I ripped off Rooster Ties...but spun it in such a way he cannot sue....

4 numbers still not picked, come on people!

Everyone will line up to see....Crippled Sugar Rivers! But no one will want to hear me.....

I hate to mention it, cuz I had a crush on her back in the day, but as someone pointed out to me about 20 years ago, Deborah Harry has a fairly large head....if it was 1980, I would still do her, big head and all....of course, I would only be 13 if it was 1980..

Wait, don't answer that! But I just posted something in Misc Non-Politics...it reads..."Operation enablesChristopher Reeve to breathe some", in the topic title space...then, in the Description I put in...."with a respirator"(Since I ran out of space in topic title) Meant to type without a respirator...thought no problem, I'll click edit, and fix...well, I didn't see the text to correct! Is that possible, or did I miss something??? I am sure I won't be the last to butcher the English language here!

More good News!(say, how do I edit to say, without a respriator?) Operation enables paralyzed actor to breathe some without a respirator The Associated Press AP Christopher Reeve has been on a respirator for eight years. NEW YORK -- Doctors have implanted electrodes in Christopher Reeve's diaphragm in an experiment they hope will allow the paralyzed actor to breathe without a respirator, hospital officials said Thursday. Reeve, 50, has needed help breathing since he broke his neck in a horseback riding accident eight years ago. The actor, best known as star of the "Superman" movies, can now breathe for more than two hours without the respirator, compared with 10 minutes before the surgery. The assistance of the electrodes eventually might strengthen his diaphragm muscles enough to allow Reeve to breathe on his own, said Dr. John McDonald, who has helped design the actor's treatment. "This procedure is designed to breathe for Chris," said McDonald, director of the spinal cord injury program at Washington University in St. Louis. Reeve scheduled a news conference for later Thursday to discuss the Feb. 28 procedure. In a statement, Dr. Raymond Onders, who performer the operation, said initial tests yielded "impressive results." "As the diaphragm contracted, his lungs filled with air and the volume of air that was exhaled and measured was certainly adequate for us to believe that this device would provide successful breathing support," he said. Over time, Reeve also will be able to speak more normally, Onders said. The implant also could greatly reduce other medical complications caused by the ventilator, including infections, McDonald said. Reeve is the third person to undergo the procedure. The first was a 36-year-old Ohio man who was paralyzed in a 1998 swimming accident. He has been breathing with the help of the implants for two years, the hospital said. The operation, called diaphragm pacing via laparoscopy, involves threading tiny wires through small incisions in the diaphragm. The wires connect a control box worn outside the body to electrodes on the diaphragm. The control box sends a signal to the electrodes 12 times a minute, causing the diaphragm to contract and air to be sucked into the lungs. When the nerve isn't stimulated, the diaphragm relaxes and the air is expelled. "Diaphragm pacing unlocks a door to greater independence, one of the most important goals for all people living with disabilities," Reeve said in statement. According to University Hospitals, the alternative treatment for someone with Reeve's paralysis is a thoracotomy, in which doctors open the patient's chest to attach electrodes directly to the nerves that control breathing. The surgery costs about $100,000, carries significant risk of damaging the nerves and requires weeks of recovery, the hospital said. By contrast, the procedure Reeve's underwent can be performed as outpatient surgery and could cost about $50,000, the hospital said. The researchers estimated that out of 10,000 spinal cord injuries each year, about 1,000 patients require mechanical breathing assistance for some time after the injury. About 300 may require mechanical assistance for the rest of their lives. Reeve's surgery was funded by a joint research project of the Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Surgical Corp., which makes surgical devices, with the assistance of the Veterans Administration and the National Institutes of Health.

I have to chime in and say I thought he was funny as well...not me though B) , I ain't that good with accents! Well, 19 years in the south, I now have "redneck" down.....

MIRACLES DO HAPPEN! Missing Teen Elizabeth Smart Found Alive Subscribe to The Post The Associated Press Wednesday, March 12, 2003; 5:29 PM Elizabeth Smart, the 15-year-old girl who vanished from her bedroom nearly eight months ago, was found alive Wednesday during a traffic stop in suburban Salt Lake City, police said. "Miracles do exist," said the girl's uncle, Tom Smart. The girl was found in the car of a drifter who was pulled over in a traffic stop Wednesday afternoon, Sandy police spokeswoman Michelle Burnette said. "Two separate women called in and said they thought they had spotted 'Emmanuel,'" she said. Emmanuel, whose real name is Brian David Mitchell, once did work on the Smart's home. Sandy police pulled over Mitchell, another woman and a girl who looked like Elizabeth. They later confirmed her identity, police said. Salt Lake City police detectives arrived to take over the investigation. Smart was transferred to the Salt Lake city police station. Mitchell was in custody at the Sandy police station. Last month, Elizabeth's parents announced a new reward for information and asked for help in their search for the handyman known only as "Emanuel." They released a sketch of the man. At the time, they said Elizabeth's sister, Mary Katharine, had come to them recently to say "Emanuel" bore some resemblance to the man who took Elizabeth from their room at gunpoint. Elizabeth's kidnapping was part of a frightening string of child abductions that included the slayings of 7-year-old Danielle van Dam of San Diego and 5-year-old Samantha Runnion of Orange County, Calif. Elizabeth was 14 when she was seized early on the morning of June 5 in front of her 9-year-old sister by a gunman who may have gotten into the house by cutting a window screen near the back door. As the younger sister pretended to be asleep, the gunman threatened to hurt Elizabeth if she didn't keep quiet. The top potential suspect in the kidnapping, Richard Albert Ricci, a handyman who once worked in the Smart household, died Aug. 30 after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage while in prison on a parole violation. He said he had nothing to do with the kidnapping. Investigators have said they believe he was involved but may not have acted alone. Over the summer, the Smarts held twice-daily news briefings and helped coordinate huge volunteer searches. Ed Smart, a real estate broker, vowed to keep the case in the spotlight. The family often got calls from the police, but it was never the information they wanted to hear. Often, police were calling to alert them to grisly discoveries that might be linked to their missing daughter; they wanted the Smarts to know before the story hit the news. Sometimes, the news beat the police. Hands and feet had been found in a canyon, or bones had been discovered in the desert, according to the news. The Smarts would call police to ask if it was Elizabeth. Every time, the answer was no. Police said they followed up more than 16,000 leads from the public in addition to those they have come up with themselves. --- On the Net: http://www.elizabethsmart.com

I see someone go from Gene Harris Fanatic to Dan Gould or something like that...I remember that one more or less, but others will not stick in my mind....Just that someone used to be JuJu or rries, but I will never remember, and I am one of the younger folks! Think of all the AARP folks! So, can we have a thread here as a before:after kind of thing???? Didn't see me change my handle, did ya? Once Berigan, always Berigan!!!!

It will take seven weeks cuz they don't want to spend any time or money doing it...it will be interesting to see if it comes back or not... I posted there for a year, and it was hard to see it crumble, and no one on the board have any say in it...must be all that much harder for people who had been on the board for 4 years! I mean, at least give us some(Valid) reason for taking down so many forums, at least stoop down to saying how our business was important and all that, even if they hated saying it...Ghost, you remember how it was to grit your teeth and give someone a refund you know didn't buy much if anything from your store because the boss said to?(Reciept from 5 months ago?) Well, we were honest to goodness paying customers, now and in the future, and they just couldn't bestir themselves to keep us from boycotting them! But hey, the stuff we bought was mere chump change in the post Norah era...they did need to broaden their horizons....look out for the hottest, dopest rappers to come out on the new improved bluenote label!

Yes, I posted on the other board as well, sue me! (No, please don't!) Somehow, this has gotta be political..... Sheep Head Breaks Music Fan's Skull From the New York Times, via AP Sheep Head Breaks Music Fan's Skull By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 12:45 p.m. ET OSLO, Norway (AP) -- A flying sheep's head hit a concertgoer and fractured his skull at a concert of metal band Mayhem. The band, part of Norway's death metal music scene, was carving up a dead sheep as part of its stage act when the animal's head flew off lead singer Maniac's knife and struck Per Kristian Hagen, 25. The show was Thursday in Bergen, 487 kilometers (302 miles) west of the capital, Oslo. ``My relationship to sheep is a bit ambivalent now. I like them, but not when they come flying through the air,'' Hagen told The Associated Press Monday from his hospital room. ``I have a headache now.'' He is expected to recover. Hagen, a Mayhem fan, filed involuntary assault and battery charges against the band. The charges carry a maximum sentence of six months in prison. Mayhem member Rune Eriksen, whose stage name is Blasphemer, said the incident was unfortunate. ``The whole thing was an accident, but maybe it would be an idea for another show,'' he said. Eriksen promised Hagen a free ticket to the group's next performance. Police detective Carl-Petter Leganger told the AP an investigation has started, but ``nothing suggests this was a conscious act.'' http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/internatio...heeps-Head.html

I would never do such a thing....strange, at one time, there was this member, #2931 who was "sterile serenity is fun", on one thread, and "Norah Jones and her breasts" on another, I don't know how that happened...no longer the case

I hate that Wingy, But I like the real Wingy Manone! The Manone estate should sue!!!!