RobBob

Most likely causes: 1. bad water supply (you heard about the state of the airline industry's water) 2. bad food item 3. 1. or 2., accelerated by a psychosomatic wave

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Hey, you guys are both lucky! Not to pick, but just as a point of interest, there is a ton of info on air crashes, air safety, etc out there. You can extrapolate your own risk analysis. All the 'flots spook me...but what do I know, I used to think Swissair was infallible.

Thanx!

I was told in gym class that Wun Hung Lo was a disease that you got if you had a bad landing on the pommel horse.

Gentlemen, start your engines...we're going to see Old Faithful!

The objective danger of a Russian commercial flight is a hair-raising thought.

Was this a one-day survey? The website is 'not found' this morning. quote: But I don't support a ban on an activity that's been going on for generations. Freeclimb, you must be talking about families whose branches are mighty close together on the family tree!

Jim said: quote: I would also say they are getting something out of - not nothing - but a more meaningful life, less stress, more time with their families, better health, etc. It's not all about money. You could also (partly) make this argument for eastern Europeans under communism. Traveling through eastern Germany immediately after the wall came down, I got the distinct impression that while the Ossies didn't like communism, they were probably having a lot more sex, doing and thinking a lot more about non-work-related things than the Wessies were.

DFA, just what kind of salacious exchange of PMs have you and trask been having? I wonder if trask's "new, smokin'" PC just smoked cc.com with some porn virus??

Saw Jackass yesterday...now I have put trask's face with a name. Anyway, saw an ad for a new movie, Extreme Ops, coming out in a couple of weeks. It looks like a goofy movie about some extreme sports guys/gals who are making a movie in the Alps, who come upon a Serbian war criminal. The online description says "Accidentally catching him on film, they become locked in a life-or-death chase through the mountains that includes skiing, snowboarding, sky diving, white water rafting, helicopters, motorcycles, and base jumping... MPAA Rating: PG-13 for (for violence/peril, language and some nudity). Release Date: November 27th, 2002." I'm sure the plot will be stupid, but the mountain scenes in the trailer were cool. It looked like they might have filmed a lot of this on the Shilthorn or a similar peak in Switzerland.

A number of environmental issues are complex, with unclear science, and often filled with hypocrisy. Individuals who have no clue how industry or agriculture function will pontificate about the need to control them, all the while failing to change their own behavior and unwilling to confront our planet's biggest threat: the burgeoning population in the third world. Snowmobiles, on the other hand, are a no-brainer. They are bad for the environment, a scourge to those who seek a wilderness experience, and they ought to be banned from national parks and wildernesses. [ 11-15-2002, 01:00 PM: Message edited by: RobBob ]

quote: If all it takes to "appear" thoughtful is to agree with someone else stance regardless of the reasons they don't agree to begin with, it's not really worth doing IMO. Maybe *all* sides should "appear" thoughtful by taking into account the fact that substance actually matters on issues. I just came back to this thread, and saw this brilliant comeback from Mr. Goat. What you are saying is exactly what I was getting at...that substance, and making your own decisions, really matters. Okay, if you are worried about a few snowmobile concessionaires, then let's buy 'em out when we ban them. It'll be a Hell of a lot cheaper than the tobacco farmer buy-out that we are all paying for.

You yobs miss the point of trask's thread. Back in our day, that young lout would've been properly flogged, and told to quit his puelin', eat his gruel, an' get back to work like a good lad.

I say, Dr. Amazing, your avatar looks as if you're ready for the horse-race party in the parlour of the Queen Mary...

MtnGoat said: quote: J-B has yet to show us the rights guaranteed in any nations opposing Israel. WTF? I know I said I was leaving this issue...but your insinuation, that citizen rights are a more-important criterion to judge a nation on than its predation of neighboring land...is utter bullshit. You are too smart for that, Goat. You have a biased attitude on this, and it is becoming more and more transparent.

...or email that pompous ass Ellison at ego@blowhole.com?

Why is Dr. Flash talking about Priapism on this board?!

When I read the book, I got the impression that it was not confirmed, only theorized, about the toxic plant. Krakauer spent a lot of time trying to identify with Chris and understand him. The kid was lost in a dream-world, complete with his own stage-name. If you're in the woods to "find yourself," you're likely to find yourself up shit creek.

...after a hard ride and a morning libation...

trask, I read that book yrs ago and couldn't help but have nothing but disdain for the 'protagonist,' and pity for his parents. If you want to go into those kinds of woods, you have to be a 'hunter.' That kid was the opposite of a 'hunter.' Personality trait---you either have it or you don't. Rob

gregm, I think on that issue, Bush should have pushed for common sense, rather than based it on lobbyists OR demographics. If you take a stance that is not your normal one, and you take that stance based on common sense, then people will believe that you are capable of free thought and independent analysis. Not always a party line. I think that a no-snowmobile policy is a forward-looking one for the parks.

No joke in that, Off. I'm just happy-er that Bush won, because the "extreme" environmentalism of the other side would have cost dearly, I believe. But I'm disappointed in the dumb pro-business stances, like caving into the ski-doo lobby. A good politician knows when to hold the line--- when there's an opportunity to graphically stop something you've been accused of allowing to run rampant. If Bush had taken a stance against snowmobiles in the parks, he would have appeared slightly more thoughtful to us, and it would have cost him relatively little. Instead, he was dumb.

Off, your cartoon is painful for a moderate Republican to look at. GW's environmental policies are a little on the extreme right. But then, I consider again what life with Al "Earth In The Balance" Gore would have been like...and then I feel better again.

vacation, Thailand, viagra...I'm still worried.