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Fart Contest was the real thing, if you knew my friend and drywall subcontractor you wouldn't doubt it either.

"Well, um, actually a pretty nice little Saturday, we're going to go to Home Depot. Yeah, buy some wallpaper, maybe get some flooring, stuff like that. Maybe Bed, Bath, & Beyond, I don't know, I don't know if we'll have enough time."

I know a guy who went on a fishing trip with two of his buddies and they had a farting contest in the truck on the way there. The person who broke first and rolled down the window lost. My friend was proud of the fact that although he did have a round of the dry heaves, he did not open the window. Apparently the fellow who gorged on Del Taco bean burritos and lots of pickled herring brought something really special to the festival.

Hmmm, and as a landowner who has placed fixed protection, am I liable?

Does this mean you're recovering from your phelgm flood?

That's the "shout box" that appears on the very front end of the website. I usually open straight to the forums and don't see that end of things.

I hope to be there.

"Quick! Get your camera, I'm gonna puke!"

Dave, that sounds like the voice of experience.

I suppose if you can buy margarine in a spray bottle it probably shouldn't be considered food - maybe foreplay. "Get me da budda." --Marlon Brando

It's a clever and coy reference to his Yellow Journalism thread.

Yeah ChucK or Mattp, I think it's time for a TR. C'mon, tell us a bedtime story....

Here's the text. Anyone else out there ever use one of those old wood frame backpacks? Horrible. LOS ANGELES — Asher "Dick" Kelty, whose innovative aluminum external-framed backpacks with waist straps revolutionized backpacking in the 1950s, has died. He was 84. Mr. Kelty, who had congestive heart failure, died Monday at his home in Glendale, said his wife of 57 years, Nena. For more than 50 years, the Kelty name has been synonymous with backpacks and backpacking. A one-time cottage industry launched in the Keltys' two-bedroom home in Glendale in 1952, Kelty Packs earned a reputation as the Cadillac of backpacks. From heavy and cumbersome wood frames and canvas bags, Mr. Kelty went to a lightweight aluminum frame contoured to the human body and a nylon bag. He also padded the shoulder straps and added upright partitions inside the bag. His "hold-open frame," which was threaded through the top of the bag, allowed easy access. But most significantly, Mr. Kelty added the waist strap, which took the weight of the pack off the shoulders and redistributed it to the hips. "By taking the weight off the hiker's shoulders and putting it on the hips, he took the misery out of the sport. He made it enjoyable for people to go backpacking," Nick Clinch, an explorer for National Geographic magazine, told Nena Kelty in "Backpacking the Kelty Way," the book she co-wrote with Steve Bogain in 2000. Kelty Pack is now owned by American Recreation Products headquartered in Boulder, Colo. In addition to his wife, Mr. Kelty is survived by his son, Richard, of Santa Barbara, daughters Anita Nitta, of Manhattan Beach, and Angie Herman, of Willits, Calif.; five grandchildren; and three great grandchildren.

And to think I was sure this would be an answer to Mike Layton's "Lost: girlfriend" thread.

yes but this is the first one sarted by a woman Did you mean "started" or "farted" ???

Not since Dwayner's departure diminished their fan base.

VR, ignoring a moderator's request to modify your behavior will get you banned. I see that the snide jive you sprayed in the Rock Climbing Forum has gotten you banned... again. If you wanna play testing games like a petulant five-year-old, you will be treated like a child.

This reminds me of the way a herd of goats behave, butting each other to determine who's gonna be the lowest goat in the pecking order. Nice job Scottp.

Just for the record, I went and counted. There are a total of 45 avatars banned. A lot of them are the dead puppets of three or four still very active individuals. A number of others belong to someone persona non grata for life. All told, I'd guess there are no more than a dozen individual human beings involved in that entire list of banned users, and I think several are coming back soon. Banning is very much the exception, rather than the rule. If whining got one banned, you all would be such history....

Not precisely, he's more of a moderator-at-large. He has no authority in any of the forums, but still has access to the Moderator forum. As Alex alluded to, in many ways the moderators act as an advisory board, and Erik's input is still welcome.

Nah, he just doesn't hold a grudge anymore than you do. It's not worth it to take most online things personally. I think this has been one of the more entertaining bits of cc.com navel gazing of late, along with some excellent moderator input.

1. Unitarian Universalism (100%) 2. Secular Humanism (98%) 3. Liberal Quakers (85%) 4. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (84%) 5. Nontheist (74%) 6. Theravada Buddhism (63%) 7. Neo-Pagan (63%) 8. Bahá'í Faith (59%) 9. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (47%) 10. New Age (46%) I wanna know which magic answer made me 47% Mormon.

Another country heard from

Me. I did it. What more irritating response to a troll can there be than to have it convereted to a bonafide informational thread? I've got a statement in that thread for anyone interested. If you wanna spray on the topic, start you own thread in Spray, and no one is likely to chop any replies.