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Cuz she has already thrown the first one at the guy who thought this would be a good idea.

Is it Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea???

http://www.quizyourprofile.com/guessyournumber.swf I imagine little kids would be amazed....

Man, this rings a distant bell! Was this saturday kiddie fare, or was it an NBC show? Something right after Manimal? Speaking of shows back in the day, anyone remember, or care to admit to watching Far out Space Nuts???

http://www.deepdiscount.com/The-Secrets-Of...VVviewprod.htm# I would have put this on one of those 2 DVD threads, but one can't search using only 3 letters. Amazed a show like this (A Saturday morning kids show from the mid/late 70s) would get a DVD release. But, I imagine a lot of boys really had a crush on Joanna Cameron.......

He knocked her up in Church??? Terrible!

No, that's her gay brother, who used to play Hanna Montana's boyfriend.

I just saw this email. In the subject it says, Urgent: signal loss detected on your DISH Network system! Hmmm, never saw an email from them that said this....so, I didn't click to allow all the images in the email to show up, and read down further.... Dear Valued DISH Network Customer: An electronic report generated by your satellite TV system indicates that your receiver is experiencing some technical difficulties. You may or may not notice a problem - however we would like to arrange a complimentary service call to ensure your system is working correctly. DISH Network strives to make sure every customer has the best television viewing experience, and we believe the complimentary tune up of your system will do just that. Please click on the link below to schedule your free technician visit. CLICK HERE-real link, so don't really click on it, ok???? Frequently Asked Questions “Is my system broken?” No. Our report indicates your dish antenna is receiving lower-than-normal satellite signal. This may cause programming interruptions, but is easily fixed so that you can get the most out of your DISH Network system. “What if my system is working fine?” Your equipment is telling us there may be signal troubles in the near future, even though you may not be seeing any problems right now. We understand that for some customers it may be inconvenient to wait for a technician but we feel a tune up now will avoid a reception problem later. Simply, we just don't want you to miss any favorite programming. “It only happens during weather so it’s not really that big of a deal.” Only really severe weather should affect your DISH Network programming. This complimentary service call will help make your system more resistant to weather. “Will this cost anything?” Absolutely not! This is a complimentary service offered only to those customers who we believe need some technical tweaking. “Can’t I just wait until I notice a problem?” We have available technicians in your area right now. To avoid any future inconvenience -- and a longer wait later -- we recommend that you contact us today. Well, that is some pretty lame Q&A, eh what??? Couldn't fool too many, but....this isn't the usual spoof/phishing situation. Who cares if they get your passwords! So, is it just to get you to click on the website and give you a virus? Get you to give even more personal information?? Or worse, a way to get someone to walk right into your house???? I tried to sign in to dishnetworks website, and wouldn't you know it, I can't! Their message is almost as lame as the scammers....Unable to logon to system due to technical difficulties. Please try again at a later time.

Thanks for posting this Erik!!!

and check out this video! I saw this a few weeks ago on ABC, and was blown away! http://www.breitbart.tv/html/8986.html

Those damned dirty apes! Or monkeys...whatever.... Monkeys surprisingly proficient at mental arithmetic: study Dec 18 10:11 AM US/Eastern A college education doesn't give you much of an edge over a monkey when it comes to doing some basic arithmetic, according to a study released Monday that underscores the surprising mental agility of our simian relatives. In a rapid fire test of mental addition, monkeys performed almost as well as college students, showing they're no slouches when it comes to number crunching. The macaques got their sums right 76 percent of the time, while the students got the correct answer 94 percent of the time in a series of increasingly challenging maths tests. "We know that animals can recognize quantities, but there is less evidence for their ability to carry out explicit mathematical tasks, such as addition," said Jessica Cantlon, a researcher at Duke University Center for Cognitive Neuroscience in Durham, North Carolina. "Our study shows that they can." The study in the Public Library of Science Biology comes just a couple of weeks after Japanese researchers revealed that young chimps outperformed college students in tests of short-term memory. The young chimps surprised the Japanese investigators by being able to retrace patterns of numbers flashed up on a computer screen faster than their human rivals. The current study, according to researchers, goes one step further by showing that primates can process information as well as reproduce it, and that there's more to our closest living relatives than "monkey see, monkey do." It also suggests that basic arithmetic may be part of our shared evolutionary past. "Humans have some pretty sophisticated problem-solving skills, but this study suggests they may also be able to tap into some primitive method of making calculations," said Carlton. She said the assumption is that the monkeys are using the same kind of primitive non-verbal mathematics. For the test, the monkeys and students were seated at a computer and shown a screen with a certain amount of dots, followed by a screen with another amount of dots. The third screen contained two boxes, one containing the sum of the first two sets of dots, and one containing a different number. The monkeys were rewarded with the soft drink, Kool-Aid, for selecting the box containing the correct sum of the sets. The students were told not to verbally count the dots. The average response time for both the college students and the macaques was one second, and at least in one other respect, their performance was surprisingly similar. Both the monkeys and the students took longer to make a choice and made more mistakes when the two choice boxes were close in number. "We call this the ratio effect," said Cantlon. "What's remarkable is that both species suffered from the ratio effect at virtually the same rate." http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=07...;show_article=1

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20071219/D8TK9N0O0.html

Dave, I just copied and pasted the address in the address window.... you can also click on the insert link icon(green +icon above text when you are making a new post) and Part 1 of vinyl making do it that way as well. I am lazy, so I stick to the none to too fancy way. Now posting a video on youtube...I still can't do that!

Weird!!! Here in the ATL, it's all their bad sitcoms for some reason. Like a 2 hour block of them. I'd think football fans would rather see a live game(Even if the outcome is already known) than comedies that must be repeats because of the strike....

reason 2,327 baseball is better than football! What channel is it on??? I have a sinking feeling I am missing this for the Falcons Tampa Bay game....

That's a ridiculous comment, though I've certainly come to expect it. Edmonds is so far past his prime he needs a pair of binoculars to get a glimpse. I have to admit Dan, sometimes it's very hard not to give to at least nudge you from time to time -- it's harmless Bro. Just a nudge... 2 questions. Who are they, and are they still married???

Just wanted to compare their stats from last year.... Jim Edmonds line from last year....117 365 39 92 15 2 12 53 0 .252 JD Drew.....................................140 466 84 126 30 4 11 64 4 .270

Diamondbacks traded for Dan Haren, and traded away their closer for some reason! http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3155417

Porcy, had no idea Copper theft was a global issue! Here about it a lot here in the south. Found this link talking about the worldwide problem... http://www.geotimes.org/oct06/resources.html

Very interesting!

Chuck, I think your fears can be alleviated, at least a bit because there is a lot of money to be make recycling automotive parts. I imagine Toyota is making a small fortune having folks just give them these batteries back(Well, for $200 bucks) Plus they look like are a green company as well. I have seen somewheres(History Channel???) a program showing how recyclers are able to separate everything,I mean everything, plastics, all the many types of metals in products, etc, etc...wait...it may have been a show on tearing down old buildings, and how they reuse the older bricks from these factories, copper piping, wiring, on and on. Plus, the recycling industry has to follow environmental rules for disposing of what can't be reused.

part one.... Part two.... Very interesting, but I gotta believe cds are a bit better for the environment!

Minneapolis cop dug a hole for himself in shovel dustup By Nick Coleman, Star Tribune Last update: December 13, 2007 - 11:25 PM Lisa Bellanger just wanted to borrow a snow shovel to help get a bingo bus full of old people out of a snowdrift. But she picked the wrong people to ask for help. The cops. Today, I offer a heart-warming Christmas story of a good Samaritan busted by Minneapolis' finest for the crime of borrowing a shovel paid for by the taxpayers, of which Lisa Bellanger is one. It is a story that may make you think Minnesota Nice is dead and buried. But there is a late-breaking happy twist to our tale. So stay tuned. Bellanger, 46, was returning from Mystic Lake Casino to her home in northeast Minneapolis on the snowy night of Saturday, Dec. 1, when the bus -- loaded with blue-haired widows and other bingo-playing desperadoes -- got stuck in a drift left by a plow on Central Avenue near 18th and a Half Avenue NE. It was past midnight, and the people stranded on the bus were fretting about getting home. Bellanger, an Ojibwe Indian, learned at an early age to respect -- and to assist -- her elders. Her mother, Pat, was on the bus with her. The two of them left the bus and set out for the 2nd Police Precinct Station at Central and 19th, half a block away. An old, wooden-handled shovel was leaning against the door to the cop shop. Bellanger, who works for the school system and is developing an empowerment program for Native American parents, walked inside the station and asked to borrow the shovel. A bus is stuck, she said. City bus? a cop asked. No, Bellanger said. The midnight bus from Mystic. Then call Mystic Lake, the cop said. The bus was stuck 30 miles north of the casino. Lisa Bellanger thought the elders -- Minneapolis citizens -- had waited long enough. She told the cop she was going to take the shovel. And would bring it back when the bus was free. "It'll just take a few minutes," Bellanger said. "What are you going to do? Arrest me? Do you know how silly that would look?" Lisa took the shovel and returned with her mother to the bus, where Lisa's partner, Stanley Looking Horse Jr., was trying to help the driver rock the bus free from the drift. Looking Horse grabbed the shovel and started digging at the back of the bus, removing snow from under the wheels. After about 15 minutes, the bus began to move. That's when the cop showed up. He asked Bellanger for her ID. Then wrote her a citation: "Failure to Obey," a violation of Statute 169.02, which makes it a misdemeanor "to willfully fail or refuse to comply with any lawful order or direction of any peace officer invested by law with authority to direct, control, or regulate traffic." The shovel snatcher had been collared by a traffic cop. Hands up, lady, and back away from that shovel. Slowwwwly. "What happened to 'protect and serve?'" asks Looking Horse, who was stunned to learn that Lisa got a ticket as the bus drove away. "That's not right. We were just trying to be good Samaritans." "That was our shovel, too," Lisa's mom says. "We helped pay for it! He treated us like criminals. He should have helped us." The other bingo players were angry, too. When Bellanger and her mom rode the bus to Mystic again, the elderly women aboard the bus applauded Bellanger. One even said she had called the Second Precinct to make a complaint, but that they "hung up on me as soon as I said the word 'shovel.'" "You don't want to make a bunch of old ladies mad at you," Pat Bellanger says. "They were totally incensed." Thursday, Bellanger took off from work to answer the summons and go to the Hennepin County Services Center in Brooklyn Center. A hearing officer told her "Failure to Obey" requires you to appear in a courtroom. She gave Lisa a court date of Jan. 3. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Shovel this. But here's the good news: When I asked police for their side of the Central Avenue Shovel Caper, they reviewed the report and had the decency to be embarrassed. Red-faced police officials said they will apologize to Bellanger, dismiss the charge against her, and have a talk with Officer Scrooge, who wrote the ticket. (The cops did not tell me his name.) One top cop even offered to shovel Bellanger's sidewalk. "I hope no one thinks this reflects the attitude of the Minneapolis Police Department," said Deputy Chief Scott Gerlicher, who made the shoveling offer and is responsible for upholding departmental professional standards. "We want to be good neighbors out there, and that clearly didn't happen in this case. The officer in question used very poor judgment. Sometimes, we help people in dangerous situations. Sometimes, we can do it just by helping shovel. This was crazy." But let Lisa Bellanger have the last word: While Officer Scrooge -- carrying the recovered manual snow removal implement -- walked away, leaving her with a ticket, she shouted a cheery good night: "Thanks for the shovel." http://www.startribune.com/local/12493606.html

I was thinking, wow 56 posts, just about the most ever for a Birthday thead....then I saw the thread was from 2003, but still wow, 54 posts is pretty good for one year and may be a record....someone please check back and let us know! Jim have a great birthday! You're not getting older, you're getting...wait, you are getting older....but that is a good thing as you know! The older you get, the more screwed on your head seems.....