EVERYTHING tastes good when you have “The Munchies!”  :-D

@Imperious:

My god- only the frogs could come up with a ‘resistance’ movement based on the principle of falling wine prices. Unbelievable.

I see you are quite ignorant about the history of the US concerning violent intervention and private enterprise.

Heya, Yanny.  Glad to see you back.  :-)

The GM at my store says she went to high school with Barbara, and that she’s always wanted to be an astronaut.  Speculation of luck aside (past superstition on sailing vessels said women in general were bad luck), I think it’s awesome she’s getting to do what she’s always dreamed of…

i still play paintball with the young kids, im the second oldest dude there at age 43, we play in the woods and its a lot of fun

I invested in Fidelity Real Estate Investors before the Russian Ruble collapse in 97-98.  It fell 20+ % after the 30 + year before I bought. 
I put in another $1000 and then the Thai Baht debacle sank that fund for another year. 
Its years later and I sold it last year finally at a profit to pay for my wedding.

I still wanted Real estate, so I put in 40% of the prodeeds to Fidelity International Real Estate.  Which has done well until this year.

Here’s another good one I got today:

Hello Cook,

I presume this letter will come to you as a surprise, but as things unfold,we will know each other better. I will start by introducing myself to you. My name is Francis Goodman a solicitor at law.

I am writing in respect of a foreigner Robert Rice Cook, who happens to be my client an oil merchant and contractor who perished in a plane crash of 31st October 1999[WITH EGYPTIAN AIRLINE 990] with other passengers aboard.

http://www.cnn.com/US/9910/31/egyptair.03/

Since the demise of my client I personally have watched with keen interest to see the next of kin but all has proved abortive as no one has come to claim his funds of US$28.5m(Twenty Eight Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollar) and all the relevant documents in the bank has no record of any next of kin. On this note, I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as his next of kin so I have contacted you to assist in repatriating most especially, the money left behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where the huge deposits were lodged.

Particularly, the Equity Development Bank Plc where the deceased had an account valued at about Usd28.5 million dollars has issued me a notice to provide the Next of kin, or have the account confiscated.

I seek your consent to present you as the Next of kin of the deceased.I know you can assist me as I need somebody who is trustworthy and willing to assist me get the funds transfered.Whcih the account which my late client operate is valued at Usd28.5 million dollars can be paid to you, as my clients Next of Kin, and then we can share the amount on a mutual agreed percentage.

All legal documents to back up your claim as the deceased Next of Kin will be provided. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law and you should endeavor to keep it confidential.

Please get in touch with me at (francis.goodmane1@yahoo.com).to enable us discuss further about this transaction.

Best regards,
Francis Goodman

LOL, apparently I’m “trustworthy” what a joke…

Staten Island Landfill sounds pretty good…

@ncscswitch:

To my knowledge, you can get banned from posting, but not from viewing…

Rather than banning people from PD, I suggest you lock them from viewing anything BUT PD, if they get out of line.  Make the punishment fit the crime!  :lol:

I don’t think it’s a political discussion to demand that the government first take care of making sure our bridges don’t kill us before finding new ways to spend our money.  I see it as a civics discussion, or a fiscal discussion, or a discussion about common sense, etc.  But has nothing to do with politics.

Flying a billion dollar space shuttle while drunk is a gross abuse of the property of the United States of America.

Aren’t most astronauts air force personnel? Court martial anybody?

The song is called “Reflect the Storm,” and it is indeed by In Flames.  Great song, <3 IF.

BTW, as you probably have guess, the mods have decided to ban me from the PD for a while.  Not that they had much of a choice and I understand why the senior officers of the board had to ban me.

I just didn’t want anyone in the PD to think they won an argument because I did not reply.  So I’m just letting you know, I’m not replying because I cannot, not because I do not wish too. :P

Can’t help myself …

A young girl is sitting on the edge of a cliff, crying. A man sees her, and, of course, goes to see what is wrong.
“Hey, what’s the matter?” The girl sniffs and looks up.
“My dad just drove the car over the cliff, and now he’s dead!”
“Oh!” Says the man, “that’s terrible. But what about your mother?”
“She was in the car too! I have no-one to look after me!”
The man unbuckles his belt and starts to pull down his trousers.
“Really not your lucky day, is it?”

@Jermofoot:

@Jennifer:

@AJ:

Of Course :wink:

Now the question is is that sarcasm :wink:

I sure hope his post was nothing but, because he got everything backwards in his post.  It’s like saying that there is ZERO pollution coming out of the North American continent.  Utterly and totally ridiculous.

What was this thing about addressing the argument again?

I did.  I basically said your entire arguement is a bunch of dung and that I hope you are being sarcastic because if you arn’t you are less informed on the subject then most people.

With my regular driving, I could ALMOST get away with an all electric, so long as Angel had a car with gasoline that we could travel in.  A Plug-in Hybrid would take the “almost” out of that statement.

I would run on pure stored household current 99% of the time, and the engine would kick in only on longer trips, etc.  My BIGGEST problem with be gasoline going “stale” and the need to add fuel stabilizer to each tank of gasoline (so my per-tank costs would rise).  But if you only buy 1-2 tanks per year…  I’d end up with mileage somewhere above 400 mpg, unless the plug-in hybrid is designed to run the engine from time to time just to prevent that stale fuel issue…

To me it is a no-brainer to create plug-in hybrids AND to have more than just the damn Prius to choose from.  Jen mentioned her Caliber… good looking car, and if it was available as a plug-in hybrid I would probably own one, even if the mileage was “only” in the 90mpg range because of the higher power demand for the larger vehicle.

@ncscswitch:

OK, I knew the concept, but never was aware of a particular jewelry identifier.

Pretty ironic to me.  Ring + finger = sexual mimicry

It is a pretty funny show, I don’t watch TV regularly enough to keep up with a show though.  Might be woth picking up the DVDs though.

I have won a few of the Real time Strategy games without air power and none without walls.

The AI opposition will target anything you need for victory.  Walls are a cheap protection.  Build enough walls early on to secure production/resources of your military units, and you can go steadily from 10% to 99 % of the map.

If it worked for ancient Rome, Mussilini’s Libya, all of those RTS games, I think it might be a good idea in Afghanistan & Iraq.

maybe the number on the bottom has something to say…

@Jennifer:

Interesting.  That’s in order on the list under the map, I presume?

I’d have expected New York to be in the top 5.  Illinois I figured would have been much lower.

Yea I also thought New York would be at a much higher position too.  I wasn’t surprised to see my home state California to be at the top.  Stuff there is pretty expensive.  :-(