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phineas
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Apr 27, 2009 - 2:40pm |
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evenso wrote: I blame John Jameson. If it weren't for his invention of Jameson, I would never have made an idiot out of myself in the company of what must be hundreds of women by now.
How many women were there at the point of idiocy?
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cookinlover
Location: Auckland, New Zealand (former Boston native and Atlanta transplant) Gender:
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Apr 27, 2009 - 1:29pm |
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It's old violin's fault.
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evenso
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Apr 27, 2009 - 1:23pm |
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samiyam wrote: I blame them for Tequila... If I hadn't drunk so much of the stuff that day in 1983 I never would have gone into blackout and wandered over the top of twin peaks in San Francisco and then kicked in that man's door and broken my ankle and been put into jail. It's all their fault!
I blame John Jameson. If it weren't for his invention of Jameson, I would never have made an idiot out of myself in the company of what must be hundreds of women by now.
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oldviolin
Location: esse quam videri Gender:
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Apr 27, 2009 - 12:56pm |
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samiyam wrote: I blame them for Tequila... If I hadn't drunk so much of the stuff that day in 1983 I never would have gone into blackout and wandered over the top of twin peaks in San Francisco and then kicked in that man's door and broken my ankle and been put into jail. It's all their fault!
Yeah! And if it weren't for that bottle of El Toro (beware the little red sombrero) I would have never fallen through my barracks ceiling while trying to hide the bottle in the attic and gotten blamed for starting a riot in basic training...Seriously.
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samiyam
Location: Moving North
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Apr 27, 2009 - 12:52pm |
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evenso wrote: Don't forget Israel, Brazil, Guatemala, Peru, Australia and New Zealand. But blaming Mexicans is easy.
I blame them for Tequila... If I hadn't drunk so much of the stuff that day in 1983 I never would have gone into blackout and wandered over the top of twin peaks in San Francisco and then kicked in that man's door and broken my ankle and been put into jail. It's all their fault!
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evenso
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Apr 27, 2009 - 12:46pm |
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samiyam wrote: Exactly... There's already an outbreak in Spain and I understand now in England too.
"And we will all go together when we go... every Hottentot and every Eskimo..." ~ Tom Lehrer ~
Don't forget Israel, Brazil, Guatemala, Peru, Australia and New Zealand. But blaming Mexicans is easy.
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samiyam
Location: Moving North
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Apr 27, 2009 - 12:11pm |
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MrsHobieJoe wrote: By the way travellers from the EU have been advised against going to Mexico or .......America! stable door horse
Exactly... There's already an outbreak in Spain and I understand now in England too. "And we will all go together when we go... every Hottentot and every Eskimo..." ~ Tom Lehrer ~
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hippiechick
Location: topsy turvy land Gender:
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Apr 27, 2009 - 12:05pm |
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MrsHobieJoe wrote: Just catching up on this one. Given that we have cases in the UK from people who have recently flown back from Mexico I don't think that banning all travel across land borders is going to nail it.
I'll tell you what does puzzle me (as an observer with no medical knowledge). How on earth have so many cases spread beyond Mexico whilst they are claiming that there have only been 1600 cases in the country. Methinks they are either not telling the truth or haven't got a clue and are just guessing.
Amazing by the way the Obama shook some archeologist by the hand who may tragically have died from the disease the next day- all those armour plated limos won't protect you from germs. Although no doubt the CIA travels with crates of tamiflu to protect against that sort of risk.
And on a light hearted note- our country is actually reasonably on the ball on this one "Mr Johnson said Britain had been planning for potential flu pandemics for several years because of the threat of bird flu. The WHO rated Britain as one of the two countries best prepared for an outbreak, alongside France. " Tamiflu for half the population- is that lots or not enough?
From HuffPost: Remember way back in the day, President Obama delivered his Not Really The State Of The Union address, and the GOP trotted out Future Of The Republican Party Supra-Genius Bobbly Jindal to provide a rebuttal? Well, we all had some laughs, didn't we? Mainly because Jindal was all: "They want to spend stimulus money on volcano monitoring? Why everyone knows that the Hill Witch keeps tabs on our volcanoes by floating chicken bones in her own intestinal ichor!" And then Alaska's Mount Redoubt erupted, suggesting there might be something to this "let's monitor volcanoes with government-funded science" idea. Well, as it turns out, volcano monitoring wasn't the only worthwhile public safety program that was deemed extravagant in the stimulus package, funding for pandemic preparation was axed as well. And playing a critical role was Susan Collins — for whom the necessity of obtaining her vote is in inverse proportion to the intelligence she shows in policy making: Famously, Maine Senator Collins, the supposedly moderate Republican who demanded cuts in health care spending in exchange for her support of a watered-down version of the stimulus, fumed about the pandemic funding: "Does it belong in this bill? Should we have $870 million in this bill No, we should not." Even now, Collins continues to use her official website to highlight the fact that she led the fight to strip the pandemic preparedness money out of the Senate's version of the stimulus measure.
Naturally, it's tough to keep an economy stimulated if productivity gets diminished by a pandemic. And, hey, it turns out that the lack of a stable and well-funded public health infrastructure may not be so good for economic recovery as a whole: On Monday, the question began to be answered, as Associated Press reported — under the headline: "World Markets Struck By Swine Flu Fears" — that: "World stock markets fell Monday as investors worried that a deadly outbreak of swine flu in Mexico could go global and derail any global economic recovery." Before U.S. markets opened, the Wall Street Journal reported: "U.S. stock futures fell sharply Monday as the outbreak of deadly swine flu stoked fears that a possible recovery in the global economy could be derailed."
All of this is playing out at a time when HHS nominee sits on the sidelines, her nomination held up at the behest of pro-life organizations who want to paint her as the "Abortion Queen." The hold up is pointless - merely delaying the inevitable for "another week." Maybe the swine flu would be good enough to wait!
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samiyam
Location: Moving North
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Apr 27, 2009 - 12:02pm |
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MrsHobieJoe wrote: Just catching up on this one. Given that we have cases in the UK from people who have recently flown back from Mexico I don't think that banning all travel across land borders is going to nail it.
I'll tell you what does puzzle me (as an observer with no medical knowledge). How on earth have so many cases spread beyond Mexico whilst they are claiming that there have only been 1600 cases in the country. Methinks they are either not telling the truth or haven't got a clue and are just guessing.
Amazing by the way the Obama shook some archeologist by the hand who may tragically have died from the disease the next day- all those armour plated limos won't protect you from germs. Although no doubt the CIA travels with crates of tamiflu to protect against that sort of risk.
And on a light hearted note- our country is actually reasonably on the ball on this one "Mr Johnson said Britain had been planning for potential flu pandemics for several years because of the threat of bird flu. The WHO rated Britain as one of the two countries best prepared for an outbreak, alongside France. " Tamiflu for half the population- is that lots or not enough?
Somebody's tellin' porkies!
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samiyam
Location: Moving North
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Apr 27, 2009 - 12:00pm |
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ScottFromWyoming
Location: Powell Gender:
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Apr 27, 2009 - 11:59am |
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oldviolin wrote: Citizen: You may return to your harpsichord.
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oldviolin
Location: esse quam videri Gender:
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Apr 27, 2009 - 11:54am |
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cookinlover
Location: Auckland, New Zealand (former Boston native and Atlanta transplant) Gender:
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Apr 26, 2009 - 11:14pm |
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phineas wrote: I was wondering why Star Fleet was so interested in my derriere...
edit: I guess that was dilithium... So now the Star Fleet mystery deepens...
You must mean delirium.
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samiyam
Location: Moving North
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Apr 26, 2009 - 10:44pm |
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phineas wrote: I was wondering why Star Fleet was so interested in my derriere...
edit: I guess that was dilithium... So now the Star Fleet mystery deepens...
Well... When it comes to your derriere, there's always the Klingons.
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evenso
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Apr 26, 2009 - 9:38pm |
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phineas
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Apr 26, 2009 - 1:11pm |
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manbirdexperiment wrote: talk to the Klingons in 'Generations'. They'll tell you all about trilithium. If you survive.
Schlabby's a Klingon, isn't he? Maybe I'll just steer clear of that quadrant...
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Manbird
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Apr 26, 2009 - 1:10pm |
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phineas wrote: I was wondering why Star Fleet was so interested in my derriere...
edit: I guess that was dilithium... So now the Star Fleet mystery deepens... talk to the Klingons in 'Generations'. They'll tell you all about trilithium. If you survive.
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phineas
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Apr 26, 2009 - 1:08pm |
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manbirdexperiment wrote: and the trilithium sheath around your coccyx
I was wondering why Star Fleet was so interested in my derriere... edit: I guess that was dilithium... So now the Star Fleet mystery deepens...
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Manbird
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Apr 26, 2009 - 1:06pm |
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phineas wrote: But they make such good compost. 'cept for any silicone bits, I guess.
and the trilithium sheath around your coccyx
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