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"When they ask 'Who's the fool in the corner cryin'?' I say, 'Little ol' wine drinker me!'"

"Would you like to order, sir?" "Yes! Mr. Badger, what would you like to start with?" "Uh, I'll have a whiskey to start with." "For first course, sir?" "Aye!" "And, for main course, sir?" "Uh, I'll have a whiskey for main course, and I'll follow that with a whiskey for pudding." "Yes, sir, and, what would you like with it, sir? A whiskey?" "No, a bottle of wine!"

Yes. Unfortunately, Sci-Fi was offered ALL existing old series Doctor Who by the BBC as a carrot to carry the new series. Sci-Fi could air episodes they never had before; they aired the Tom Baker episodes, while falsely advertising their own network in 1992 using William Hartnell clips. Then, the new series would air on Fridays. They turned that down. For whatever reason, the BBC offered the show to them again, with a far less sweet deal: air the first season, and you'll have the option to air the 2nd. Naturally, because Sci-Fi is terrible at programming itself (Back in December, it aired NOTHING but Seaquest DSV for an entire WEEK! NOTHING else but SDSV! ) it jumped at that deal.

Well, at least the series is showing up on Sci-Fi's Schedulebot. To start on March 17th at 9 PM CST. It is unfortunately wedged between two awful Stargate shows, but, it is showing up with a probable start date. And, they are giving the show an encore presentation at midnight. Sci-Fi could have given the show a better leg to stand on pairing it with Battlestar Galactica, their current highest rated show instead of giving Who its time slot. But, it's not bad. Thus far.

Probably the biggest change from Girl to Wife is the Press Any Key downgrade. When you're dating them, Press Any Key seems to work. Once you marry them, even Pressing THE Key isn't guaranteed to always work!

Actually, that's a highly apocraphal at best urban legend. http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/joanie.htm This reminded me of an advertisement for the Captain Planet NES game. Such a poorly worded tag line! "We've taken some of the worst garbage on TV and turned it into a video game for your NES!" Now, they meant they took the villains, who were always polluting the planet. However, given the context of how they worded it, it's a wonder that anyone okayed that!

The manga figure one reminded me of another manga figure. Basically, an entire PC made in the shape of a woman... where the keyboard was place right across her breasts. BTW, the link under the manga figure one translates into something funny! "The access has concentrated on this page now. Please evade to the following pages."

Well, this section is called Drives & Media. So, I thought I'd post it here. Has anyone tried any of the firmware for the NEC ND-3500a beyond the official release version from NEC, 2.1A? I was wondering, if anyone had, what firmware was it and if it worked. I found something called LD Version 1.4 (Liggy & Dee NEC ND-3500 firmware) with some swapped write strategies, etc. Wondered if anyone had had any better reads/writes with any unofficial firmware before I tried it. Thanks!

In many ways, he is right. The one major problem I see is the US cannot pull out of what it's already gotten into. Because, and this will sound counterintuitive at first, but, wait for the conclusion a perfect example is what happened in WW II. Believe it or not, Japan's attack on the US was the best thing that could have happened for us during that time. It got Americans pissed off to seek Japanese blood in retribution. Had America kept its isolationism, then, there's no real way to tell how Europe might have gone. Europe at that time was pretty much Great Britain holding off against Nazi expansion, but, in many key areas was failing simply because it did not have the necessary aid. Again, this is just speculation, but, if Great Britain had been taken (And let us not forget there was one small Nazi occupied territory of GB at that time. Some Isle, I forget what it was.) Europe would surely have become entirely Nazi. That would be a pretty big chunk to have to take on, as opposed to just Germany and Italy and its held territories. Japan is not significant there because it's too far away and can only supply munitions, really. The bottom line is what you start, you have to finish. Granted, that isn't a Manifest Destiny carte blanche to run rough shod all over the world because someone disagrees with you. The interesting thing in the final analysis is any country cannot afford to be isolationist, nor can it afford to do everything on its own.

Near as I know, Holmes was investigated for a possible murder involvement. He apparently set up someone he knew to be in a specific place where he was to be robbed. The robbers apparently went further and killed him, paying off Holmes later in part of the money from the robbery as well as cocaine taken from the victim. I don't know if Holmes ever knew of the murder at the time. He died of AIDS complications. The worst part was he was HIV positive, knew it, and never told anyone, yet still kept on working. So, who knows how many lives he actually ruined up outside of his own? It seems that before he got addicted to cocaine, he was a nice enough guy. But, his habit eventually broke up his relationships, his work, and his life, taking to even stealing luggage from airport terminals to sell for coke money. The saddest part then is he died a creep, and will probably always be remembered for that, despite having been a somewhat ordinary (For a porn star known for one thing only. ) guy.

You know, I've often thought, one day, when the technology gets cheap enough and the software FINALLY made for the average user to set it up with relatively little difficulty, e.g. 10,000 years from now that home networking will enable small terminals to exist in the bathroom of the home. You what they say? Garbage in, garbage out!

Okay, "On Day as a Young Lad." What about on night? Lass?

You don't need to take my word for it. Ask anyone who tried to hire John Holmes towards the end of his life.

Well, you're half right. Wouldn't use coke. Coke degrades your sexual performance over time.

Actually, the way I see it, you want crazed people as suicide bombers. Why? A crazed person isn't exactly going to be willing to commit to being a suicide bomber because you have to first "reason" to those weaknesses that make them vulnerable. A crazed person won't fall victim to brainwashing, which is why you generally shoot crazed people rather than negotiating with them. Plus, recruiters wouldn't arm a crazed person with a bomb because he's most likely to set it off right then and there. Lastly, a crazed person cannot keep a secret. People on depressants would be more likely to be talked into it.

I was thinking about the current war on terror efforts that the US is engaged in. Much like its war on drugs, I believe that the US is wasting its time fighting the way it has since WW II. Ever since we dropped the only nuclear weapons to date employed against others, we have believed that all we need to do is fight any enemy into defeat. The might makes right theory does not work against ideologies, as Vietnam showed. So, I got thinking about how best to employ our greatest weapon against Islamic radical terrorism, money, into an effective fighting strategy. While the US will never do it please allow me to make my point for one moment. The way I see it, there are two easy ways to stop the terror threat as we see it. First, we smuggle in scores of hookers into havens of breeding grounds for Islamic terrorists. Think about it. The youth in Islamic areas are generally indoctrinated into being suicide bombers because they are easy to influence. Take a horny teenage male and it's easy to trick him into blowing himself up if he thinks afterwards he'll have 72 virgins blowing him off in the afterlife. It's easy to go for the brass ring that doesn't exist if you've got a rusty ring falling off your finger in real life. BUT, if every possible candidate for a terrorist bomber was busy getting laid, why would they want to give up steady for the mere chance that there is more after you die? If you've got nothing, you're willing to gamble. If you have something you could lose, you won't gamble. Plus, if these guys spend all their time getting tail, who will be left to even approach to become a bomber? Everyone will be too busy in their bedrooms! Only a handful of people will accept, and, eventually, they'll have all been blown up. There won't be anyone left to recruit. The other we can do has the same problem as the above in that the US would never sanction it. Employ the war on drugs AGAINST terrorism. Say, when you seize a shipment of cocaine, smuggle it into breeding grounds of recruited terrorists and GIVE it away to them. If everyone's stoned, no one can effectively pull off a suicide bombing! You can barely stand up let alone remember to stand up, run, and detonate an explosive pack. There you have it. Two easy ways to end the current war on terrorism. But, the war will go on because the US government would never think of laying in bed with vices... unless those vices can be taxed. Plus, a sad fact may very well be this: WITHOUT an enemy to fight, in this case terrorism, after terrorism replaced Communists, then you lose the support of the people. IMO, there is a specific cause and effect to the fall of Communism in 1989 and the shifting of political power in the US resulting. Sadly, then, those in power in the US may not actually want to really admit it, but, it may just be that a defeat of the current terrorist threat is not entirely desired by them. Because their defeat puts them out of a job. Oh, well. I've tried. I've said how to stop it, so, naturally, it won't be stopped because it works too well.

This relates back to the pants issue. Women, too, have one major on button. However, it is covered by pants, and, unlike men, they have no secondary autonomous activation systems.

This actually goes into the far more hidden meanings of gender and pants. For instance, notice how easily it is to get a man to a pair of pants... he's also the one most likely to take them off quicker?

Apparently, full DVD details just announced on my birthday? http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/n.../25/29086.shtml Probably the best story ever crafted for Doctor Who finally comes to DVD! And, it appears to be the first DVD release to offer a Tom Baker commentary track! I hope it gets an R1 release... unlike Revelation Of The Daleks, it seems thus far...

So, what is Shamus's state? Confusion? Anger? Inebriation?

I thought lfc's motto was "Liverpool 'til I die!" Or a belch.

I was hoping for a stupid, legalese reason, like this line from Leno's Headline's Monday. From the instruction manual of a cooking pot: "Do not use this product for any purpose."

From: http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7241.cfm Consumer spending on DVDs falls while disc sales rise 23 January 2006 14:35 by Dela Overall consumer spending on DVDs fell in 2005 despite the amount of discs sold being higher than it ever was. According to the report in the trade journal Screen Digest, average European DVD consumer prices fell by more than 11% in 2005 to just under ?15. Price reductions put spending down by 1.7% even though more than 732 million discs were sold during the year. Paul Callaghan, Screen Digest analyst, said VHS tapes were likely to die out completely in Europe by 2008, leaving more room for DVD sales growth, although it would be slower than before. The report, entitled European Video - Market Assessment and Forecast to 2009, found that 60% of Western European homes owned a DVD player or a DVD recorder but in Central and Eastern Europe, there is room for growth as just 12% of TV households have a DVD player. Overall, spending on DVD rentals are thought to have reached about ?2.2bn. The report covered 22 countries in detail. The report suggest that, despite growth in other parts of the continent, the majority of spending on DVDs occurred in the more affluent countries in Western Europe. Three quarters of DVD consumer spending took place in UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain, the continent's five largest video markets. So, HOW can spending on DVD's fall in 2005, BUT the number of discs that were sold is HIGHER than it ever was? Unless they're counting individual discs in boxed sets in sales, which is easily explained by the saturation of the market of TV DVD boxed sets.

Oh, this is so rich! The MPAA most likely made a pirated copy of a movie submitted to it ABOUT itself! http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7246.cfm First, they tried to prevent it being distributed by effectively crippling its market with an NC-17 rating for no real reason. Then, they apply one standard to others and not to themselves by copying said movie? AND, their cavalier attitude to it! "Oh, it's okay for us to pirate, but, you'd better not, arse !" MPAA = Movie Pirates Arh Avast! Let's face it. MPAA =