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duh, lummox, and don't roll your eyes at me.

yeah, I hate bein an outsider...

ooh lummox shows his age w/ 'the peter principle'

Now I'm sorry but I cannot let this one by (nothing personal, ehmmc). As an MBA who started with one employee 18 years ago and now has a bunch of 'em, I can tell you that there are plenty of good management books out there. They range from most anything by Peter Drucker or Michael Porter or Theodore Levitt to feel-good books like Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill or anything by Dale Carnegie. The most-timeless mgt strategy book perhaps is The Art of War. Winnie The Pooh is for kids. AA Milne wrote it for his son Christopher. Disney bastardized Pooh enough, for god's sake. I don't give a fuck what Pooh or Jesus think about business...because they don't know shit about business.

Lumberjack Song I'm a lumberjack, and I'm okay. I sleep all night. I work all day. Mounties : He's a lumberjack, and he's okay. He sleeps all night and he works all day. I cut down trees. I eat my lunch. I go to the lavatory. On Wednesdays I go shoppin' And have buttered scones for tea. Mounties: He cuts down trees. He eats his lunch. He goes to the lavatory. On Wednesdays he goes shopping And has buttered scones for tea. Chorus : I'm (He's) a lumberjack, and I'm (he's) okay. I (He) sleep(s) all night and I (he) work(s) all day. I cut down trees. I skip and jump. I like to press wild flowers. I put on women's clothing And hang around in bars. Mounties : He cuts down trees. He skips and jumps. He likes to press wild flowers. He puts on women's clothing And hangs around in bars?! Chorus : I'm (He's) a lumberjack, and I'm (he's) okay. I (He) sleep(s) all night and I (he) work(s) all day. I cut down trees. I wear high heels, Suspendies, and a bra. I wish I'd been a girlie, Just like my dear Mama (or Papa in later versions) Mounties : He cuts down trees. He wears high heels, Suspendies, and a bra?! Chorus : I'm (He's) a lumberjack, and I'm (he's) okay. I (He) sleep(s) all night and I (he) work(s) all day. Yes, I'm (He's) a lumberjack, and I'm (he's) ok-a-y. I (He) sleep(s) all night and I (he) work(s) all day.

I expected a photo of the proverbial "pearl necklace"

Exhibit A:

Catbird, it's not like the Clinton administration didn't know about the properties of ballast water. That information has been around a loooong time.

no, but Canadas themselves taste good. but have ya ever plucked a goose. Jesus, it's hard work, and an endless number of feathers.

fern, nobody is making jokes about rape. sex jokes in poor taste maybe, and maybe they should be clarified, but I would NEVER joke about rape and I don't think these other fools would either.

Once I get past that first 4 inches it won't be. Trask has already requested sloppy seconds on this deal...he says he prefers the "buttered buns."

When you guys go to killing each other, I'm comin' round to your houses to service your women.

Asking for death threats? C'mon.

I'll know that pussies have completely taken over when we close the West to cattle.

This dumb Bush Administration stance even pisses me off. This is an old issue that needs fixing, and they've chosen to ignore it: [san Jose Mercury News] - September 3, 2003 - Skirting what some scientists say is the most significant water quality threat to San Francisco Bay and other ports -- invasive species -- the Bush administration on Tuesday announced that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will not regulate ballast water discharges from ships. A coalition of 15 environmental and fishing groups had asked the EPA to declare that ballast water was a pollutant that could be regulated under the federal Clean Water Act. That tactic represents the best hope, the groups said, of reigning in the billions of tiny crabs, fish, clams, plants and other organisms that are sucked into ships' ballast tanks in foreign harbors and then pumped out in U.S. waters when they unload cargo. The tiny stowaways kill native species, clog water pipes and disrupt the food chain. San Francisco Bay is among the most severely affected places in North America. A study done in 1998 found that there were at least 234 invasive species in the bay, many of which had no natural predators and were crowding out native species for food and habitat. Some species, such as the Chinese mitten crab, also have cost millions to remove from water treatment systems and water pipes after they have moved up the bay's delta and clogged water facilities at the Central Valley Project. Mitten crabs also have burrowed into levees around the bay and delta, increasing flood risks. Similarly, the hardy zebra mussel, which federal officials estimate will cost $5 billion to remove from the Great Lakes, has jammed water pipes and cooling systems at power plants across the Midwest and has crowded out native clams and fish. But the EPA on Tuesday said it would not step in. The Coast Guard has already taken the lead in dealing with the problem, EPA officials said, and it would be duplicative if EPA also began regulating commercial shipping.

My Mom swims out to meet Troopships by Necro

How in the world did I miss this exciting thread yesterday? A little arm-chair QBing is in order: -there seemed to be little concern for Greg's threat to use the "Bad Boys" technique on catbird's head. -however, in no time there was an uproar of rightiousness about marylou, trask, and a moderator's dick. I would like to point out that trask did not make lewd threats to marylou with a moderator's dick. He specifically said that he would NOT want to have anything to do with her, even using a moderator's dick. Trask is INNOCENT! Why is marylou such an attention-seeking persimmon?

because you are an SUV-stickerer...

"overreacting" because you nearly always quote an activist rather than an impartial scientist

so trask, are you kicked back at the Acapulco Princess drinkin mescal, or what?

Once again we have Jim available to present the liberal view that we should engage in self-flagellation, because WE are at fault. I submit that WE should be in a position as a wealthy capitalist nation to come up with a plan to level world population growth to zero, using (peaceful) economic and political incentives. Regardless of the smokestack facts that people quote about North America and Europe, these populations have leveled off in reproduction. Meanwhile, populations in Asian nations continue to burgeon a la the 1800s. And many of these households build a homefire each day that emits more dioxins than a modern US waste incinerator. I have no problem with good economic incentives, here and globally. You can tax SUVs all you want, if you can get the votes to do it, but we ARE a capitalist democracy, and Jim and his ilk will be unsuccessful in forcing the rest of us to purchase the vehicles that HE wants us to drive.

is that like an animal expert with PETA?? Remember, I'm all for reducing mankind's effect on the environment...the fair way, by reducing population growth.

you two tards are startin' to remind me of the hog and dog avatars that were banned for general obnoxiousness a few months ago.

erik and iain, what you are saying is exactly why I don't take a lot of rabid enviromentalism seriously. Mankind egotistically overestimates its effect on things, good and bad. And uses bad measures---like this summer's heat equates to global warming.