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foraker

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  1. 1) a little charcoal never hurt anybody 2) more bacon 3) there are more settings to your stove than 'Off' and 'High'
  2. Rather, think increased demand for grain and grain-fed meat from by China and India as they are definitely better off now.
  3. if you don't see yourself in here somewhere, you're not white.....literally.
  4. It's been a long time since I've heard the man speak, but I recall watching his program, Firing Line, on PBS when I was much younger than today. Always interesting and thought provoking.
  5. foraker

    I HATE spelling

    Just be glad it's not grammar
  6. That would have been sweet. Both of us were too stunned to think of a rejoinder, though.
  7. Once, in grad school back in that horrid PC wasteland known as Cambridge, MA, I came into the office from outside during a rather cold and windy day. I mentioned to my officemate that "It's a little nippy out there". The resident PC gatekeeper happened to be passing by and said "That's a little offensive, don't you think?" (apparently unfamiliar with the etymology of the word)
  8. I'm sorry, this town looks like an upscale Anchorage.
  9. At least the only thing you won't be hearing is "So, how's the thesis going?"
  10. If we have rules, we'll all be nice to each other and not wish, secretly, to kill each other in horrible bloody ways. Right?
  11. foraker

    Earmarks

    They sucked then. They suck now. Of course, if people would stop *asking* for them....
  12. foraker

    ten commandments

    Be excellent to each other!!!
  13. more accurately, god bless eastern european girls and american publishing.
  14. Guess I shouldn't have gone into geophysics... :-(
  15. A partner and I were hiking up the approach to the climber's base camp on Mt Whitney. Just as we'd got out of the trees and bushes, I turn around for a look back down into the Owens Valley and coming right up at us from down lower in the valley is an F-15 going fast enough to be completely silent to us until it passed a few hundred feet over our heads. It continued to hug the face of the mountain until it flew up over the summit ridge and executed a arcing turn to the south. About five minutes after I'd summited Mt Cook in NZ, a tourist plane (a Pilatus Porter)buzzed the summit by a hundred feet. We couldn't see it coming because the actual summit was off-limits due to the massive rock-slide that had occurred a year or two earlier. Technically, an illegal fly-over according to the park but it's NZ after all.
  16. After that post, it's clearer to me now how we end up with such losers in the White House...
  17. And now anti-black as well? Tsk tsk...Wait until this hits the mainstream media... That would be a hoot if Obama asked that on TV. Will NOW, in a fit of pique and retribution, withhold support for him if he gets the nomination? Maybe someone at NOW ought to think a little further ahead.
  18. How's that memory bandwidth contention working out for you ?
  19. Apparently, if you're a woman, you're supposed to vote for Hillary. Did all of you get the memo?
  20. Yeah, right. That always held Beckey back. Sounds like what you're looking for is a 'subsidy'.
  21. I like that one, I'll have to remember it.
  22. You need one o' these to shock the Mormon girlies
  23. maybe the dhughd abides?
  24. I see you got that can of spray paint you wanted for Christmas.
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