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    Posts made by Zooey72

    • RE: Name your poison….

      My favorite drink: Genuine draft… I’m pretty simple

      To give to girls :Everclear (sp) Jello shots.  A nice “fun” way to get girls to drink, and you seem like a nice guy later who they want to get to know better.    8-)

      Because I am an ass: A cement mixer.  You tell a friend you want them to try a new shot you heard about.  You give them 2 shot glasses, one has Baileys Irish Cream, the other has lime Juice.  Tell the guy to take the shot of baileys, swirl it in his mouth, than take the shot of lime and swirl it Gulp.  The Lime will curdle the milk in the baileys.  :evil:

      posted in General Discussion
      Zooey72Z
      Zooey72
    • RE: Funniest stories

      Heh, this one just happened last week.

      My GF wanted to talk about “our future”.

      These things usualy always go the same way “lets see how things go, we may be forever… etc etc”

      This time though I wanted to spice things up a bit.

      “baby, you know the story about the rabit caught in the trap, that chewed its own leg away to escape?”

      “Matt!  Don’t be an ass, I am being serious!”

      “No no!  Hear me out.”  It was hard to keep a straight face, but I did for the most part.

      “Now it is true that some rabbits will chew off their own leg, and that has gotten a lot of plublicity.  But what you DON’T hear about is the rabbit that doesn’t!  Many of those rabbits will can live on for a long time.  Pain, the elements, impending doom… still they will not chew off their leg.  It gives me hope for you and I”.

      Heh, I apparently thought it was funnier than she did  :evil:

      posted in General Discussion
      Zooey72Z
      Zooey72
    • RE: Funniest stories

      Guess I did repeat that one.

      Here is one you guys will like.  Long story though.

      I was 16 or 17 and walking back from my buddy’s house, DRUNK OUT of my mind!  I hardly remember getting home.  It had to be like 4am.  Anyway, I stumble up to the door and am trying like hell to get the key to go in the lock, but I am so drunk and stupid I can’t do it.  I had the bright idea to throw some small rocks at my sister’s window, but a momment of reason hit me saying “if you can’t put a key in the door, you shouldn’t throw rocks at windows”.  So I go back to the door and try some more to get in, FINALY I do it and get in the house.  It is dark as hell and I got a bit scared “I am going to make a lot of noise, and than I’m caught!” And that is when I had my “great idea”.  I figured I would strip down to my underwear, and than go upstairs.  If my parents saw me they would think I was just sleepy, and went downstairs to get something to eat - BRILLIANT!

      I woke up the next day in my bed, Phew!  I came downstairs and when my mother sees me she gets ‘that look’, “What the hell did you do last night?!?!”

      “Nothing mah, was just over at John’s playing a game”.

      “Than why did I find you this morning 1/2 in, 1/2 out of the front door with your pants around your ankles!!!”

      So, if any of you have kids, and they act like morons… remember my tale and take it easy on em  :-D

      posted in General Discussion
      Zooey72Z
      Zooey72
    • RE: Funniest stories

      A few months back a girl at my work was flirting with me a lot.  I told my GF about it and she was a bit annoyed.  At any rate, the girl ended up quitting and I told my GF about it.

      “Oh I am sure you are REAAALLLY heartbroken!  Connie was young, and skinny, and pretty!”

      I told her “oh baby, I don’t want a young, skinny, pretty girl… I want you!”

      posted in General Discussion
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      Zooey72
    • RE: Funniest stories

      Just a few years ago I was arguing with my mother (joking around kind of thing) when she said “Listen here!  You be nice to me, I am going through the change of life!”

      I gave her a confused dog look and said “You’re becoming nice?”

      One of my crowning achievement is that I got my own mother to call me a son of a bitch  :evil:

      posted in General Discussion
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      Zooey72
    • Funniest stories

      I am sure we all have had crazy things that have happened in our lives, I thought it would be a hoot to tell some of them.  I have a lot, if the thread becomes popular I will tell some more.

      Anyway, this is my earliest memmory of being a jackass…

      I was 10 or 11.  My mother for the first time demanded I do the dishes.  After complaining a lot, I did them.  I rushed through it and went to watch cartoons again.

      5 minutes later my mother storms into the living room with a plate in her hand that had a big glob of food on it " Look at this dish!  Would you want to eat off of this dish???"

      With a big smirk on my face “Nah mom, I don’t.  But I figure there is only a 1 in 5 chance I will get that plate… and I am willing to play the odds” (prob. not word for word, but that was the jist of it).  She chased me around the house with the plate, but how can you be really mad at a kid cackling the way I did?

      posted in General Discussion
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      Zooey72
    • RE: Recycling, WHAT A SCAM!

      @cystic:

      because maybe land has better uses then simply as landfill?

      The landfills are a good reason to do it, but if they were willing to pay regular people for it… sobody is making a bundle off of this now and I want to know who.

      I would venture to say that if done in quanity, even paper and what not would make $.  Every company I have ever worked for has recycled their cardboard.  Has to be a reason for it, and I am guessing the reason is cash.  This has a nice mask on it “we are saving the enviorment” but I am sure there are a bunch of rich jerk offs making $ hand over fist and no one questions it because recycling is oh so noble.  And if it is going to the government, where are they spending it?  At the very least, since people are being forced to do this, shouldn’t they get a tax break from the profits made from it?

      I agree with you IL on the hybrid car.  One of many reasons I don’t like Bush, after 911 he could have pushed the auto industry to develop these cars and gave more incentive to buy them making us less dependant on oil.  They are more fuel efficient, but not enough to offset the exta price.  When they do become practical I will be first in line to get one.

      I recycled since an early age because it got me $.  The government took over that job, and now gets the $ for it.  In the end, its not their garbage… If they are going to implement this kind of thing they should have to be held accountable for where the $ goes.

      posted in General Discussion
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      Zooey72
    • Recycling, WHAT A SCAM!

      This is more of a question than a statement (however I do think that the whole recycling thing is taken to a silly extreme).

      When I was a kid one of the ways I made $ was to collect cans and recycle them.  2 or 3 garbage bags of crushed cans usualy wielded me 20-30 bucks.  Not too bad for a 10 year old in the early 80s.  For the past decade or so there is “enforced recycling” where my parents live.  The place I took my cans no longer exists, and now there are special blue garbage cans that my parents seperate their garbage into (paper, plastic, alunimum, etc).

      I never recycled anything other than cans becaus frankly there was no $ in it, and no one offered to pay me for it.  Later I learned that recycling is a bit of a scam to make people feel better.  It is almost always cheaper to make a new “fill in the blank” than it is to recycle from old parts (alunimum being an exception, hence I was paid for it).

      I would like to know, where is the $ from my old cans going???  Who is getting rich off of public policy for us to “feel good” about saving the enviorment.  The $ I made collecting cans is going straight to the government now, and I want to know where that $ is being spent.  You can’t tell me “to fund recycling” because if that were the case than I would never have gotten $ for my cans if the man I gave them to only broke even on the transaction.  That’s not how things work.

      I grew up in Chicago, but now live in TN where there is no forced recycling.  Since moving here I do recycle my cans and what not, why just throw the $ away when all it takes is a 2 minute stop to drop them off some place?

      posted in General Discussion
      Zooey72Z
      Zooey72
    • RE: Voyager

      Ok, but what makes it “Anti” matter.  Different configuration of electron/proton/neutron?  I mean, what is it?  You can see from the term it is supposed to be the opposite of matter, but what is that?

      posted in General Discussion
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      Zooey72
    • Voyager

      I was just watching the Discovery channel and it mentioned that the Voyager Satalite was the fastest moving man made object.  It is leaving our solar system going 10 miles a second.  I figured it out and that means this thing is traveling mach 317.  I sounds incredible, but at the same time they said it would take voyager 70,000 years to reach the next solar system.

      Question:  I had to go to the bathroom when they were talking about “anti matter”.  I thought that was some star trek term or something but apparently it is real.  They said we are actualy making some now.  What is it exactly?

      posted in General Discussion
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      Zooey72
    • RE: A new source of Oil.

      @Imperious:

      Good we should take all the oil and offset the costs from medicare payments for abortions, free medical care, and paint to cover up the graffiti.

      Huh?

      posted in General Discussion
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      Zooey72
    • A new source of Oil.

      If this is true, it could help us out a lot.  It could create a lot of jobs in Mexico and stop many of their citizens from wanting to come here.  The key IMO is to min. the corruption in the Mexican government.

      If Fox tries to use this oil find as leverage to get us to lessen our resolve against illegals coming into the US.  He can shove that oil where the sun don’t shine.  And also, lets make sure that this oil is in Mexican waters.  And if it is, maybe we should look for some oil at the closest point to where our territory is to the newly discovered oil.

      http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/3/14/125153.shtml?s=ic

      posted in General Discussion
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      Zooey72
    • RE: Good news for some, and maybe others . . . .

      @cystic:

      Just an FYI - i won’t be around for a bit.  I’ll be working in Vancouver for a month (maybe find a nice career there too . . .) with the odd visit to Seattle.

      Reminds me of Che traveling around trying convert people to communism  :-D

      posted in General Discussion
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      Zooey72
    • RE: A question about Schindler's list

      @Imperious:

      I liked that “Pianist” better… for me it demonstated how hard core Nazis could also be “human”… i hate those movies where Germans are portrayed as fully evil in everyway possible… just to yield that tear jerk when they destroy people… its too much technique in the “easy method” of producing hatred against them.

      Another great movie on the subject was “conspiracy” which is one of my all time favorites…

      Never seen those movies.  I am intrested in watching them since you mentioned them.

      Because we all know the stats (we have to all be in some degree WW2 geeks, given the site) of who killed more. Stalin gets the gold, Hitler gets the silver.  I would be curious to see a movie portraying life in the good ole USSR under Stalin.  I know the stats, but the personal misery seems to be swept under the rug so to speak.  For every holocaust victem there was at least 2 or 3 people who died under Stalin in a similiar fashion.  Unlike the Holocaust, those people have just been forgotten.

      If any of you have any info on Schindler, in reguards to who he chose to save, I would greatly appreciate it.

      posted in General Discussion
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      Zooey72
    • A question about Schindler's list

      I watched the movie and thought it was done very well (it would be tasteless to say that I enjoyed it).  It was very accurate IMO of what it must have been like.  There were 2 things that always bugged me about the movie though.  1.  It never showed any non-jews.  I didn’t think that was accurate (and I didn’t know for sure) because out of the 1300 he saved I figured he probably saved some gypsies, or others who were also victems.  2.  At the end of the movie it said he died broke.  That upset me because I felt if you were one of “schindler’s jews” (which is how they refer to themselves, don’t get crazy on me) you would feel an overwhelming need to help this man in any way.

      I watched something on the History Channel today, in fact “Schindler’s Jews” did take care of him.  He was a womanizing party animal who practicaly was burning $ as he got it, but they did take care of him.  I was glad to see that the movie was not accurate as far as that goes, it would have reflected poorly on the Jews he saved if they didn’t (reguardless of him being bad with $).  They had a few of the “Schindler’s Jews” on who’s only regret is that they could not do more.  One in paticular was on the verge of tears, hoping he did everything he could have, but felt he may have come up short.  I am not sure why at the end of the movie the director (who is jewish) chose not to tell the truth about what actualy happened, but rather said he died pennyless.

      My question is, did he ONLY save jews?  I didn’t get from what I watched that he only embraced Judaism, he just saw the horror that was going on and eventualy did all he could to stop it.  Were there non-jews that were on his list?  If so, it should have been mentioned.  If not that the movie (and the documentry) are just being historicaly accurate.

      Something I thought was in good taste, was that Oscar wanted to be buried in Isreal.  He was, and there was a cross on his tombstone.  The symbolism I think is great.  This man started the whole thing just to make $, to that end he even became a Nazi.  When he saw the horrors going on around him, he acted to protect people he did not share a common culture with.  He saw the evil for what it was, and that the victems were not “rats”, but people.  Him being buried in Isreal, with a cross on his tombstone, with Jews respecting him as a great person says a lot.  Kind of gives you hope.

      posted in General Discussion
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      Zooey72
    • RE: A prime case of racial discrimination

      That was funny as hell!

      Reminds me of a young guy I used to work with a few years ago.  He had a wierd accent, and one day I finaly asked him where he was from.  He is from South Africa (white guy), and being curious of what that is like (never met one of them before) he told me about his culture.  He didn’t seem overly racist, but he said there was a lot of it down there (any, story for a different thread).  He was about to start college, and he was going to get some phat $ from all over the place because he is an “African American”.  They don’t ask you on the forms to send in DNA or anything, he just gave them copies of papers showing that he is indeed from Africa.  I thought it was a riot that he was doing it, good for him.  He isn’t making a mockery of affirmitive action, affirmitive action is a mockery onto itself.  And he had a good point to, “I am more African than what you people call African American, I grew up there!”

      posted in General Discussion
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    • My Father the War Hero

      When my father was in his early 20s he enlisted into the Army during Vietnam.  He had a college degree, and the powers that be wanted him to become an officer but he declined preffering to go at it as a grunt.  He was newly married, and I had just been born when he made this decision.  He left shortly after and served his country for a year and was honorably discharged.

      Sounds nice doesn’t it?  Ok, SPIN OFF

      My father had no intrest in the military whatsoever, esp with the war going on.  He was contacted a lot by a recruiter who was trying to warn him that if he did not enlist he would be drafted eventualy.  My father would not join, and he was drafted.  On the day he got his draft notice he went to the recruiter begging him to let him enlist, because the recruiter said if he did enlist… he would not have to go to Vietnam.  The recruiter, knowing his situation being newly married and having a infant son “fudged” the date of my father’s enlistment to show that he had enlisted before he was drafted.  He was stationed in Germany, hating every second of it.  The ONLY reason he decided not to become an officer is because he detested the military so much.  Becoming an officer would have entailed him being in the military longer than what he had to.

      My point to this, you can spin the hell out of this kind of thing.  Which is what I think some veterans do, not to mention any names cough cough Kerry Cough Cough (and others).

      A derail on the topic, but I feel like saying it anyway.

      My father is against the war in a big way, I’m not, and we argue about it some times.  The one argument HE can not use AT ALL is that Bush got preferential (sp?) treatment.  You can’t take the moral high ground after what happened to him.  My grandfather was not a senator, he was a janitor.

      posted in General Discussion
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    • RE: Japan in North America

      @ncscswitch:

      @Zooey72:

      The key is to keep your fleet(s) (because of reinforcements) 3 sqares away from the main Jap fleet.  They can’t move out in force to destroy you because they need their air power in Asia.  Than just gobble away at Japan until you have the force to destroy the Jap fleet when you consolidate.

      Staying 3 squares from Japan’s main fleet leaves you these options…
      Turn 1… move to SZ44
      Turn 2… move to SZ48
      Turn 3:  Attack either New Guinea (1 IPC) or East Indies (4 IPC)
      Turn 4:  Attack the other one.

      For everything else, you WILL be in range of both the Japan Fleet, and their bomber.  And to move THAT far in the alotted time, you will have at most… 1 AC, 2 FIG, 1 BB, 1 SUB, 1 TRN 2/ 2 INF on board.

      Not much for if Japan sends ANYTHING your way…

      I agree with you for the most part, but the explanation would take too long and not really the question of this thread.  So I will take it up at a later time.

      The quick explanation is that the first turn for the US is gone, they don’t move.  You can’t, the Japs have the Hawian sea space.  But you build defensively, ACs and fighters.  The Jap navy will pull back as it normaly does because they need their AF in Asia (don’t forget it takes a while for the Japs to overcome existing forces in Asia).

      For the japs to fully equip their carriers against the US would take the Jap AF out of the Asian campaign.  They can’t afford that.  Early in the game a small allied push in Asia would wield great results if the Japs commited thier AF to the Pacific.

      I think you’re right, the US going against Japan whole hog is not a good idea.  I am a “traditional” player as far as that goes.  But if played the right way it can win you the game.  It is risky, I won’t argue that.  But isn’t that what makes the game fun?  Doesn’t it get boring as hell to have the traditional game of “does Russia fall to the japs before Germany falls to the allies”?  I have seen the strategy work, it just takes more skill to pull it off.

      posted in Axis & Allies Revised Edition
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    • RE: Japan in North America

      @ncscswitch:

      Zooey, you do Alaska, and you do it with a full complement of all of your Japan trannies (say 8-10 units).

      This diverst ONE Asia landing for 1 round.  If you leave the forces in Alaska, the trannies go back the next round, and bridge forces to Bury.  Or, you can evac the forces from Alaska and land THOSE in Bury (or elsewhere, depending on opportunity…)

      The thing is, all you lose in ONE wave of land forces in Asia… a wave that is 4 turns from Russia.  While the trade is that you distract the wave in Western Can that will be heading for in the US’s NEXT move (the one the turn after Japan hits them).

      So, by a well timed strike on Alaska, you can impact the Russia battle 2 turns before those same troops could get there by normal means…

      Why would I pull back if you have spent your wad in that one landing?  Fine, you have a large force in the western Hemisphere.  It is a one shot deal.  Whatever you take, I will take it back.  You have distracted me, but not on the turn you would have wanted.  I will concede western for a turn to stop the German offensive.

      It is not a bad idea, if you can lure the US into commiting more than they should for something they can easily fix later.  But the key to your plan is IF you can distract the US.  I am guessing in this scenerio the Germans either do it, or they don’t.  The whole game is centered on that, so I will commit my resourses against the Germans, and fix the probs the invasion caused later.  It is an end game kind of move (who cares what happens to infantry 3 or 4 turns away from the fight in asia), but the end game will not take place in Alaska.  It will be somewhere in eurupe.

      posted in Axis & Allies Revised Edition
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    • RE: Japan in North America

      @ncscswitch:

      Triforce… if that is the case, Russia falls to Germany around G5.

      Not always, if done PERFECTLY (I don’t mean dice rolls, responding to buys from the Japs with normal dice rolls).  But you are right for the most part.  I have played the US going into the pacific and was able to negate the Japs in Asia by threatening in the right spots.  Taking away the trans is a big deal, not to mention each one of their ICs is along the coast.  The japs constantly move troops forward to fight the Russians.  Losing the islands and than having to protect your vital ICs from the US takes the Japs out of the war.

      The one thing the US can not do is sit turn by turn building up a Navy to demolish the japs.  You will lose that battle every time.  You need to be agressive and keep out of harms way of the main Jap fleet.  Take their $ in the islands, distract their AF by having to protect things that are too strung out to protect.  Don’t allow a heads up fight with their fleet until the end.

      The key is to keep your fleet(s) (because of reinforcements) 3 sqares away from the main Jap fleet.  They can’t move out in force to destroy you because they need their air power in Asia.  Than just gobble away at Japan until you have the force to destroy the Jap fleet when you consolidate.

      posted in Axis & Allies Revised Edition
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