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i'm reminded of a play by Bertold Brecth called "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui". it's basically a comedic satire of hitler and his henchmen rising to power as a bunch of crooks and thugs, written and staged while they were still rising to power. Brecht was ridiculed when it first came out... ultimately i suppose history is the judge and whoever said mean things about the leader who then really fucks up gets to say "i told ya so" when it's all over.

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i have a pair of megas. they are low top and they are wider than the kauks too. i sized mine large to wear with medium thickness wool socks on all day climbs, and i'm happy with them for this purpose.

thread drift. you wanna take this to political spray, bubba?

i think jon and timm@y should have a internet-hosting-cost fundraiser where they basically sell the right to ban people (well, avatars to be precise). they could sell a one time ban ticket for i dunno $10 or something. the banning of high profile avatars could be auctioned off. you wouldn't need any special software, just do it with pencil and paper accounting and pm's.

"It's not what ya know ya know, it's what ya don't know ya know, or ya know ya don't know that really well, causes these infligrations on the American humanity cause. Hey where did this little kid come from and why is he sniffing my tie?"

never underestimate the abiltiy of cc.comers to create new endless debate topics: - bolts vs no bolts - guns vs no guns - gop vs dems - etc. etc., i'm not going to type them all here - and now [drum roll please] coastal snow vs. continental snow DO YOU MEAN TO TELL ME YOU PEOPLE HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO TALK ABOUT THAN THERE *MIGHT* BE SOME BETTER SNOW SOMEPLACE ELSE? GET A FREAKING GRIP PEOPLE! just wanted to get my $.02 in now so i don't need to waste time later. spray on.

spray being rude to women

Portly dates popular in Portland Monday, December 1, 2003 Posted: 3:39 PM EST (2039 GMT) SAN FRANCISCO, California (Reuters) -- Are you chubby and looking for love? A good destination might be Portland, Oregon, where, more than any other place in the United States, men and women state a preference for going out with someone who carries "a few extra pounds." Miami, Florida, and San Diego, California, on the other hand, might best be avoided. People in those cities have an unusually strong preference for the svelte. That, at least, is according to recent data from the online dating site Match.com, which can use its data base of 12 million members to come up with all sorts of random trivia on singles in different parts of the country. It is a curious by-product of a hugely popular global dating service where members can check boxes on everything from desired height and body type, to hair color, eye color, thoughts on alcohol, drugs, astrology, religion, education and tattoos. As millions more sign up for online dating services, some of the biggest providers are able to crunch some pretty specific data on regional preferences. Men and women with red hair, for instance, are most in demand in Austin, Texas, and least in demand in Miami, according to the Match.com data. Men in Denver, Colorado, prefer women with long hair. Men in Miami and Houston, Texas, are most turned off by long hair. As for women's thoughts on men with long hair, it is considered hot in Denver, not in Chicago, Illinois. San Francisco, meanwhile, has the curious distinction of being the scholarly city. When asked what level of education they considered suitable in a mate, more men and women in San Francisco than in any other city said they were seeking a PhD. Doctorate degrees, by the way, are least in demand in Portland, Oregon, and Detroit, Michigan. And if guys who are a little on the short side feel they are being short-changed, they might want to consider relocating to Texas, where women have responded in disproportionate numbers that they are willing to date men 5-feet-6-inches or shorter. Debunking myths "When we look at our member base, we can tell you what divorced women in Chicago who have children living at home think about men with long hair who don't drink," said Match.com spokeswoman Trish McDermott. "We can break down any of the information we have on the site and get really interesting insight on what it means to be single in different parts of the country." She admitted that much of the data was nothing more than curious factoids but said some of it was serving to break longstanding myths about what men and women considered their ideal mate. Knocking down that longstanding saying that gentlemen prefer blonds, for example, Match.com surveys have consistently shown that gentlemen actually prefer women with light brown hair. Blond hair and dark brown hair tie dead even for second place. Perhaps more interesting, when asked about large age gaps between partners, Match.com found more men who said they were willing to date a woman 15 years older than women who were willing to go that much younger. "Women may be underestimating their opportunity," said McDermott, who conceded there was also another possibility that women who responded to its surveys were simply being more realistic than men. She also offered that men who were regular social drinkers were shunned most often by women in Detroit. Women who drink regularly may be out of luck in Miami. Divorced men and women have some of the best chances of getting a date -- at least an online date -- in Santa Fe, New Mexico. And for what it is worth, the composite of the ideal woman, is a flirtatious, thrill-seeker with an average build, long, light brown hair and a college degree, who doesn't smoke, does drink socially and enjoys public displays of affection. Women seem to want pretty much the same: a bold, assertive, flirtatious non-smoking social drinker who has dark brown hair, an average body and a college degree -- who likes to dance.

i once got on a plane with duran duran and there were like 30 screeming teenage girls at the gate (it was a while ago). i pass tom hornbein in the hallway from time to time.

the "leather biker dude" from the village people went to my high school (not while i was there). here is his emoticon - > now how many of you have an emoticon from somebody that went to your high school? hmmmm??

yes, they can be reheated 5 or 6 times i think. i've successfully reheated mine twice. i recommend doing it yourself for best results. some detailed instructions / distillation of many peoples experiences can be found somewhere at telemarktalk.com and i think is also found verbatum at telemark-pyrannes.com (sp?).

go to hotmail and get an email address, then re-register using that. it is the way of the avatar.

i believe in at least one of the previous cases they were getting paid.

PLEASE AVOID EXPRESSING YOUR OPINIONS IN THE JOKE THREADS. THANK YOU. SHEESH. ******************** little tommy: hey mommy what's that hair between your legs? tommy's mom: oh that's my, um ,er, washcloth. ~ some time passes during which mom shaves the thing~ little tommy: hey mommy what happened to your washcloth? tommy's mom: oh i, um ,er, lost it. ~some more time passes~ little tommy: hey mommy i found your washcloth! the babysitter has it and she's using it to clean daddy's face!

does anybody know how much caffiene is in those chocolate covered expresso beans? like the trader joe's ones. i.e. how many beans equals a cup of average strength coffee. thanx

so is that an old tree cutter downer joke? a fun way tree cutters haze the newby? some special memories there kurt? you can tell us.

Gotta admit, you win. But wait, what if the earth was flying aimlessly through space. Maybe there wouldn't be life, but what does the planet care? the lifeless planet earth would still care because without it's current gravitational mooring it would eventually get sucked into a black hole and have all it's atoms compressed into a volume of a couple teaspoons.

the sun's gravity. like duh, without it we would fly aimlessly through the galaxy. i win!

i haven't skied 'em myself but a couple friends use them. i see them more as an old skool kinda ski. i think there are better (fatter) choices out there, unless you want to bullshit people and tell them you've been skiing them for 10 years and are too hardman to know what's better about the new-fangled-girlie-man-fancy-graffix gear anyway. hope this helps.

sadly, however, there do not appear to be any female masturbation emoticons.

so these days i see a lot of those rubber or whatever corks and i'm totally hip to that. but it begs the question - if you're gonna use a rubber cork, why not just use twist-off? i hereby officially give trader joe's permission to go twist-off. and then there's non-twist-off beer. anybody know if terminal gravity twist off?

CLIMBER: you are the only guy in a three-way!