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  What was your first vehicle?

  by Blithe Freshman in

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  i saw my first while out on errands today!.

  bought a 68 camaro in 1977. paid 700$ taxes, title, registration, inspection & new tires!.

  i wish i still had mine.

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  1970 Mazda Capella RE (aka RX2).

  Pity about the rotor seals though!
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  Is it reckless to eat dessert first?

  by compound complex in

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  i've heard whispered tales that some daring souls actually do do that.

  yes, eat dessert first.

  typically, for us middle earth ethnics, the antepasto* is the first course.

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  Never !

  An eating establishment near my abode specialises in various sticky, sweet & otherwise delicious offerings under the excuse of them being "all day breakfast" items.

  Ricotta Hotcakes with home-made butterscotch sauce, fresh banana and in-house vanilla gelato.......yum!!!!!

  Or substitute the hotcakes with Sticky date pudding.......

  h9k
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  Despondent Writer Jumps Up and Out Basement Window.

  by compound complex in

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  disassociated press news release (october 16, 2008):.

  an aging writer was found today by passersby, lying dazed and confused outside his basement studio window, in what local authorities are treating as a suicide attempt.

  it is understood from neighbors, who scarcely know gabriel horne due to his reclusive nature, that he was depressed/angry/furious over countless letters of rejection from various book publishing firms.

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  Aren't they part of the Disaffected Network??
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  Is This Anything?

  by Hikaru in

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  this came up in google alerts.

  http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2008/10/15/keynsian-fiscal-stimulus-oped-cx_nr_1016roubini.html

  now most of the article is lame, but that first part.... is it just the guys figure of speech?

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  Hikaru,

  I am certain that this is the writing style of the commentator - economics really is a dry subject and this is an attempt to be "smart". Some regard economics as a religion anyway!

  Religion (as in worhip of a deity) has absolutely nothing to do with this article. The abyss that is referred to metaphorically is the economic mess that is so much in the news today.

  The religion that is referred to is an earlier form of economic theory put forward by the economist John Maynard Keynes (hence the title of the article). Keynesian economics was essentially the model used (in part) to recover the world's major economies from the great depression of the 1930's.

  I understand your unease, but please read some world history and understand that predictions of apocalypse and armageddon are as old as humanity itself.

  Take care and don't worry - there are more important things in the world.

  HAL
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  what works for asthma?

  by tsar_robles in

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  hey guys and gals,.

  well, i've recently been diagnosed with asthma.

  i just dont know if it is or not.

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  HAL9000

  A respiratory specialist who specialises in asthma is essential as there are quite a number of "triggers" for asthma. Some respond to the treatments described, some do not.

  What you need to know is what precipitates your asthma and what will control it.

  Believe me, I have gone through acute asthma attackes with a close family member and I know that it is essential that it is properly diagnosed & managed by the most appropriate means.

  h9k
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  ..The Meal in your Key Board..

  by OUTLAW in

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  we`ve all done it..your busy on the computer....pretty soon you realize..you`ve been on the computer longer than you thought............your hungry!........so what do you do?..you go into the kitchen grab some food and get back on the computer..you go to take a bite..and..food falls onto your key board and in between the keys..........god what a mess!..same thing with beverages..sip a beer....and..some of it gets on your key board........how many meals are in your key board?!..lol!

  !.......what have food or beverages,have you dropped on your keyboard?...............................outlaw

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  We used to have a Director who routinely destroyed notebooks with red wine........
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  Do You Sleep ...

  by compound complex in

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  sporadically?.

  when depressed?.

  while walking?

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  HAL9000

  I suffer sleep apnea but use a CPAP which solved the problem (after I got a heated tube which eliminates drowning in condensate).

  Also have knee joint "discomfort" (Seriously, I am sensitive to changes in the weather) which can keep me awake the whole night.

  Poor night - 4 hours

  Good night - 7 hours

  Ecstacy - 10 hours!
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  I met with a surgeon yesterday about blood - wow

  by BonaFide in

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  i was asked by a friend to go with an older sister yesterday to the hospital to talk with her surgeon about her upcoming major surgery.

  hospital liason committee told her to watch the society's video on blood, and if she can't get her surgeon to agree on non-blood treatments, then they will help.

  it was the weirdest experience of my life.

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  Having seen some of the printed and video based material that is made available for JW's contemplating serious surgery, I can have some sympathy for those who take the WTS line that "bloodless surgery" is a viable option and get confused when talking to doctors.

  Religious considerations aside, the presentation that is given by the WTS "experts" seems a logical considered approach to their moral dilemma - whether or not to have a transfusion. It is only when one undertakes informed research into the practices that are promoted by these publications / videos that the "bloodless" options become less (very much less) desirable and have serious potential for adverse reactions.

  I really do get the impression that:

  1) the woman really was not listening to what was being proposed by the Doctor

  2) she had been overloaded by a great deal of irrelevant information containing technical jargon that she did not understand..
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  Your favotite Monty Python lones....

  by dawg in

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  mine.... .

  how do you know she's a witch?

  well, she turned me into a newt!......

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  No, this is getting hit on the head lessons.....
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  Your favotite Monty Python lones....

  by dawg in

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  mine.... .

  how do you know she's a witch?

  well, she turned me into a newt!......

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  Sorry....how could one forget this??

  Bruces' Philosophers Song

  also known as

  The Philosophers' Drinking Song

  (from the Philosophy Department of the University of Woolloomooloo)

  Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
  Who was very rarely stable.

  Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
  Who could think you under the table.

  David Hume could out-consume
  Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, [some versions have 'Schopenhauer and Hegel']

  And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
  Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.

  There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya
  'Bout the raising of the wrist.
  Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed.

  John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,
  On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.

  Plato, they say, could stick it away--
  Half a crate of whisky every day.

  Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle.
  Hobbes was fond of his dram,

  And René Descartes was a drunken fart.
  'I drink, therefore I am.'

  Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed,
  A lovely little thinker,
  But a bugger when he's pissed.