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Yeah, the stupid ones.

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I can think of several people on cc.com (including myself) who fit nicely into one or the other of the categories in that list.

"We social scientists love to categorize the phenomena we study. So allow me to indulge my professional inclinations. One way to categorize avatars would be to use well-known personality types as a guideline - for example, McWilliams (1994) system for psychoanalytic diagnosis. Although these types described by McWilliams are for clinical diagnosis, when translated to a non-pathological dimension, they also are very useful in categorizing "normal" personalities. The theme, characteristics, or interpersonal impact of an avatar may be closely associated with one of these specific types. narcissistic - themes of power, status, perfection, grandiosity; draws for admiration and praise; feelings of being "special" and "privileged" schizoid - themes of interpersonal detachment and indifference, perhaps combined with evidence of abstract or intellectual thinking; little evidence of warmth and tenderness; the "loner" themes paranoid - distrust, isolation, hypervigilance, blaming or finding fault with others; cold, humorless, argumentative characteristics depressive - gloom, darkness, loss, low self-esteeem manic - energtic, grandiose, impulsive masochistic - self-destructive, themes revolving around the "bad self" or "woe is me" obsessive/compulsive - seriouis, formal; themes of control and perfection; shows evidence of a concern about details and rules psychopathic - antisocial, violates rules; little evidence of shame or guilt; takes advantage of others; possible superficial friendliness or charm histrionic - attention-seeking and seductive in flavor, dramatic, emotional, vain; themes involving dependency schizotypal - themes of being aloof, indifferent; evidence of magical thinking or superstitious beliefs; peculiar characteristics" source

"The Complete Hank Williams" compilation. I should have included Merle Haggard's tribute to Bob Wills ("Tribute to the Best Fiddle player in the World" or something like that.) and Buck Owens' "Streets of Bakersfield"

"Charles Gerba, of the University of Arizona in Tucson, reported on the work of a team that checked on one of the greatest fears attending use of the disposables: that they could preserve, alive, hordes of disease-causing organisms. Certainly many live germs leave the human body via feces, but no one knew how they fared in diapers buried in landfills. The team exhumed more than 200 soiled diapers from landfills in New York, Florida, and Arizona. They tested fecal samples from each diaper for an array of common disease organisms, from viruses to parasites (including Giardia, a nasty little beast that lurks in some of Alaska's clear streams). They found not a single live pathogen... Franklin Associates, of Prairie Village, Kansas, undertook an environmental audit in which they attempted to compare all costs associated with disposable diapers against those for cloth diapers. They looked at diaper manufacturing, packaging, disposal or washing, and associated products, such as plastic overpants and pins. They tried to put good numbers on everything they could verify. Disposables came out, so to speak, on top. Over the course of a year of diapering one baby, disposables take about half as much energy as cloth diapers (the equivalent of 53 gallons of gasoline). They use up one-quarter as much water (still a substantial 2,570 gallons), generate half as much air pollution (16 pounds of combustion products), and produce only one-seventh of the water pollution (3 pounds)."

"Whenever I watch TV and I see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I would love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff." - Mariah Carey

"Lick 'em, Place 'em, X 'em, Paste 'em, Rock 'em, and Sniff 'em. If it stinks, get off it!" -Instructions for placing copperheads I read in an old A5 catalog.

A poorly stitched trio of the Jumpoff Ridge to Baring Group: A banner day for sure.

"Put this on door. No one will rob." WTF!?!

No soup for you! Grouper Head Soup Put the heads in a big pot & boil them down to get a fish broth, pick all the meat to make a fish chowder. Its easy to pour the entire mess through a seive to start with a good broth, add milk, seasonings, onions, potatoes, carrots, corn, tomatos, or what you like. Comes out more a fish stew than a soup. You'll be amazed at how much meat is in a big grouper's head. You can substitute cabazone or cod for grouper, but there isn't typically as much meat.

"My name is Michael Layton and I’m with the FBI." "Frank Bowman had been Michael Layton’s friend for as long as he could remember." "Special Agent Michael Layton had been promoted to the rank of sergeant in return for the "excellent information" he had received on Hannibal Lecter. "

'rât`skelur A tavern below street level featuring beer; originally a German restaurant in the basement of city hall German pizza... German beer...

This is an interesting formation...

The PBM off the Renton plant? I got on that one several times. Got into the cockpit on one dive. I heard the salvage attempt ripped it apart.

My guess is the noise raised the Navy's hackles a bit when it registered on their listening devices in the Strait. Have you seen any of the plane wrecks in Lake Washington?

Tatry mountains? Looks nice. More here

Wow. I can't imagine the change after the collapse. I remember hitting the bottom at the bow and seeing some hulking shadows moving around in the cave under the bow, wolf eeels with heads the size of basketballs and huge schools of rock fish hovering around the mast sticking out horizontally from the deck into the murk. Definately one of the better dives I have ever done in WA state. I gpot my reg serviced at the Shorts a couple years back and Danny charged me full price. if I had talked to Terry, he would have given me a sweet deal because he is a softy.

yeah, but even Filson urges you to avoid the white belt.

I used to work for Underwater Sports on Aurora and one of my responsibilities was doing the hydro tests. I think at the time we charged about $15.00. The shops that require a VIP within one year of the hydro are gouging. Pretty uncool if they have a monopoly on filling tanks in the area. On a side note, have you ever dived the Diamond Knot?

What does a tank hydro test cost these days?

I use the Eclipse 42+5. It has a really comfortable suspension system and the load ride is very stable. The hydaration pack easily pops out and doubles as an easily adjustable shoulder strap set-up. My guess is that the Switch and Eclipse have virtually the same load carrying properties.