#23737
04/03/2001 5:03 PM
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<<I must point out that We the People (the majority voting) did not elect that guy.>>
neither did the minority
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#23738
04/03/2001 5:31 PM
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From the headlines of The NY Post online
CHINA SHOWING LACK OF COMMUNICATION WITH US
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#23739
04/03/2001 6:20 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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... and therein (unintended pun or no) lies the problem. One unreasonable set of politicians versus a reasonable set, fine. Two unreasonable sets ... oops, I am beginning to have recurring nightmares of false dawns. 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#23740
04/03/2001 6:47 PM
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<<I am beginning to have recurring nightmares of false dawns>>
Cap,
Welcome to the half-wit's half light. There are so many inanities in the NYT today (Front Page, Powell Response, etc.) it would kill the server. It would be funny if it weren't so...
IP
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#23741
04/04/2001 2:15 AM
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enthusiast
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Just before I go to bed, this my contribution to the thread.
"Those who think that they can say, '"Were only going to have a stimulus package, but let's forget tax relief,' misunderestimate me.
..projecting an image of an engaged leader
says the New York Times
chronist
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#23742
04/04/2001 2:21 PM
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http://www.miami.com/herald/ Which ever way your sentiments weigh, this is interesting set of stories on the Florida vote ... including much new info. I mentioned this, too, in the Non-Word thread. Happy reading. wow
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#23743
04/04/2001 8:36 PM
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addict
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This from the front page of today's New York Times:
The midair crash occurred about 50 miles southeast of China's Hainan Island, in what Americans described as international waters.
Pardon the two-day delay in responding, but exactly how does a midair crash occur in international (or any other kind of) waters? [tongue-in-cheek e]
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#23744
04/05/2001 8:02 AM
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Pardon the two-day delay in responding, but exactly how does a midair crash occur in international (or any other kind of) waters? [tongue-in-cheek e]Easy, Nancy. The Orion is typically a submarine hunter (although this particular one wasn't, of course, they just wanted to listen to local Chinese FM radio stations). And the Chinese air force is usually out of its depth when dealing with Americans. Ergo, in international waters! 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#23745
04/05/2001 10:00 PM
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The Orion is typically a submarine hunter (although this particular one wasn't, of course, they just wanted to listen to local Chinese FM radio stations). And the Chinese air force is usually out of its depth when dealing with Americans. Ergo, in international waters! Thanks, CK. To paraphrase Paul Harvey, "So THAT is the REST of the story!" I knew someone out there would be able to explain it.  Gooood DAY!
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#23746
04/06/2001 1:12 AM
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From this month's "Car and Travel"
"If you've already lived through any of the automotive crises described below, congratulations. You've proved your cool. If you haven't, count your blessings.."
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#23747
04/06/2001 2:21 AM
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"If you've already lived through any of the automotive crises described below, congratulations. You've proved your cool. If you haven't, count your blessings.."
Meaning, apparently, count your blessings if you're dead...
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#23748
04/06/2001 7:01 AM
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Meaning, apparently, count your blessings if you're dead...
Or, in the local vernacular, "Count your blessings if you work in Mid-town Manhattan."
From the ninth circle [xx oo emoticon]
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#23749
04/06/2001 11:53 AM
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This one conjures up () several imagesOn a sign outside the Elks lodge: Welcome, Moose bowlers
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#23750
04/06/2001 1:22 PM
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Welcome, Moose bowlersSparteye, do they shove the ball down the lane with their antlers? 
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#23751
04/06/2001 1:43 PM
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I'd like to meet the guy big enough to hurl a moose the length of a bowling alley. Paul Bunyan perhaps?
wow
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#23752
04/06/2001 2:41 PM
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Welcome, Moose bowlersVisions of hats with no moose under them.
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#23753
04/10/2001 2:00 PM
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From the front page of today's New York Times (italicized portions are direct quotes)
According to Secretary of State Colin Powell, "[t]he whole environment is at risk right now." The non-sequitor was issued in response to a question concerning the situtation in China.
In a related development, ~President bush added muscle to the US diplomatic effort, saying each day the crew is held would "increase the potential that our relations with China could be damaged." -- Brick production is believed to have reached record levels in the karsis of The Forbidden City.
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#23754
04/10/2001 2:34 PM
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Old Texas saying :
"He's all hat and no cattle."
wow
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#23755
04/10/2001 4:20 PM
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Old Texas saying : "He's all hat and no cattle."
All bull and no balls's more like it.
(tell truth, though, this apology business is the biggest non-issue since Clinton's)
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#23756
04/11/2001 10:08 AM
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A masterly mixed metaphor in a news announcement concerning the impending closure of the Cammel Laird shipbuilding yard: “They’ve kept soldiering on through choppy waters, but now they have reached the end of the road.”(Still, at least he didn’t say much about their insolvency…) Steve Evans, BBC Radio 4, Wednesday 11th April 01A picture editor for one of the wire services, talking about training a young Vietnamese man: “We put him in the darkroom, where he developed into a photographer…” Horst Vass, BBC Radio 4, Wednesday 11th April 01
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#23757
04/11/2001 5:57 PM
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"We put him in the darkroom, where he developed into a photographer…" LOL! "They've kept soldiering on through choppy waters, but now they have reached the end of the road."Timely, considering it's Passover.
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#23758
04/11/2001 7:14 PM
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Old Texas saying : "He's all hat and no cattle."
All bull and no balls's more like it.
Pretty good translation. Ever live in Texas?
wow
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#23760
04/17/2001 6:05 PM
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In a show on oceanic wave patterns on the Discovery Channel, I learned that the meteor strike which killed the dinosaurs created a tsunami which caused "a global devastation of epic proportions." Too bad for the dinosaurs that they couldn't have endured global devastation of less-than-epic proportions.
Of course, the same show told me that the area of the Atlantic which is covered with Sargasso seaweed is called the Sargasso Sea, after the seaweed found there, Sargasso. Man, I hope I can keep that straight.
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#23761
04/17/2001 7:13 PM
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Sargasso. Man, I hope I can keep that straight.
Sargasso Man noun, an extinct hominid believed to write copy for lay science programs
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#23762
04/18/2001 7:58 PM
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This from today's Wall Street Journal Student Athletes Aren't Neanderthals ([sic] )
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#23763
04/20/2001 12:46 AM
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IP says Conserving Bandwidth: The Vatican broadcasts two signals at once.
Mixed messages, more like!
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#23764
04/20/2001 12:25 PM
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Life in the Big Apple: From today's The New York Times
In its debut on Tuesday evening, [www.ellisislandrecords.org] averaged eight million requests per hour. By 1:30 p.m. Wednesday...traffic had soured to 97 million hits per hour.
Some Manhattan nightclubs have hired private ambulance companies to wait outside and...take revelers who overdose to hospital emergency rooms..
"Spending this much time on ferrets doesn't say something really good about the way our government operates."
--Mayor Rudolf Giuliani
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#23765
05/09/2001 7:10 PM
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From today's The New York Times
"California Utility Accuses El Paso of Inflating Gas Prices"
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#23766
05/10/2001 5:15 PM
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...Inflating Gas ...Dr Bill here's the spot for your Mark Twain link!
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#23767
05/11/2001 11:09 AM
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old hand
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Old family joke:
Sign outside a Husky station with a restaurant: "Eat here and get gas"
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#23768
05/16/2001 12:20 AM
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"You cannot promise that that's possible, but it is certainly within the constellation of possibilities."
--Energy policy expert speaking on NPR, 5/15
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