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Iain, I miss the tinny, putt-putt sound of the VW Beetle engine. It's gone the way of the steam-whistle.

I like Goat for his predicability. No salutations or joking around. No chit-chat...he just launches into the monotone of the debate. He's the Mike Tyson of the debating club.

Here's a hump-day question for you: I've always thought that music is somehow an "adhesive" in your mind's memory bank. Music is inseparably interwoven with some of my strongest memories, particularly the good ones. Yesterday I figured out the first pop song that played over & over in my head when I was a kid. It was Billy Joe Royal singing "Down in the Boondocks" and I was playing on the beach near my house (I must have been 5 yo). So my question is, what's the first tune you remember playing in your head?

uh-oh, I see mtngoat is making a reply...incoming!

...with the pain from red being infinitely worse. Too much white upsets the guts. But too much red is a form of torture.

mattp, Also of note is the relativity of $150 immediately after you have had the first two glasses of a really good wine. Many a second, unaffordable bottle has been ordered in this manner. Also, it was Ovid way back in Rome, in Ars Amatoria (a "player's guide" written 2000 years ago), who wrote "beware of the low lights and wine" when trolling for the ladies. We know that today as the trask phenomenon, or coyote-ugly.

There are a few animals out there that will leave some chocolate on yr stuff fuh ya.

When I was in college, backpacking around Europe, the proprietor of a fondue hut in Switzerland refused to serve us our cheese fondue without wine (we asked for water because we were almost broke). After we told him we couldn't afford it, he disgustedly gave us wine for free, saying he wasn't going to let us ruin good fondue by having the water give us an upset stomach. Freeclimb's right, red wine is known to contribute to headaches (along with chocolate and other foods). But good red is mighty good.

Can, but doesn't anymore. Gore, on the other hand, slides under the table after his two half-glasses of white zin.

Fairweather, What's the real story on Gore? Were those "rim" photos really taken behind the hut? Inquiring minds want to know.

Good one, DFA

You guys got better taste than I thought! Some good cheap Chards are available from Austrailia also, although some are just too damn oaky. Penfolds Kanooga and Jacobs Creek both can be found for good prices.

I had an engineering prof whose favorite epithet was "For cryin' outside!"

Then, boys, I swear it was Lou himself at the door...

How about posting a description of some of the key identifiable stuff here?

Harry Pi and his "Wealice" was funny! It is a stretch to claim that jokes relating to accents or foreign customs is racism. I think this country's gone nuts on the subject of "racism." If you choose not to find differences between people humorous once in awhile, and instead you decide that all such jokes are "racist," then I think you have lost your ability to laugh. Shit, we'll have to discard Shakespeare among others if we decide to be rigorous about eliminating jokes about accents, customs, etc. of different groups of people.

Keep on foolin' yrself, it don't matter to me. Have a good weekend.

I am making no comment on this logging issue at all. We probably agree on this one. I am saying that you see your politics in a way that doesn't square with what they really appear to be, dude. You may think you are a negotiator and statesman, but you look like a dyed-in-the-wool environmentalist to me (...not that there's anything wrong with that, mind you...)

Jim, I call bullshit. Sit yourself down, and write down where you stand on every resource issue you can think of. Don't tweak around with the details. Just check them off: environmentalist camp or not. You need to get in touch with yourself, man.

Jim, Your politics lean hard in order to control resources, apparently always in favor of rationing them for the "public good" (ie the environmentalists' good)

I'd like to get the low-down on this subject also. I was reading a triathlon training article last night that suggested that spreading workouts rather than stacking was better. There seems to be different info in different athletic pursuits. Isn't there data on this?

hey, that's not a baby, that's mini-trask!

While I'm liking Bush's enviro record less and less, I am suspicious of NY Times writings. "some scientists" and "ecology professors" can say anything. You hire your scientists, I'll hire mine... What I want to hear is what the preponderance of scientists say. And I want to know what their credentials are and who funds their work.

One of Big Lou's early group climbs...

How bout a portrait?