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• Commented on Untitled 1
  grimc, I do hope that you're right and I have misperceived things. If so, my apologies all around for the distraction....
• Commented on Untitled 1
  nosehat, I do not presume to speak for another, but my understanding is that Takuan was made to feel unwelcome. I could be wrong....
• Commented on The Jet-Propelled Couch: true story of a physicist who thought he was a science fiction hero on another planet
  Anon 6: "When this physicist was six years old, did he often play with a stuffed tiger?" Nah. Couldn't be. Calvin grew up to be Frazz....
• Commented on Untitled 1
  Was Eden all garden or did it have other areas as well? Maybe the place was even more pleasant if you avoided the garden altogether. That way you'd eliminate the risk of inadvertently provoking the ire of a capricious god....
• Commented on Celebrated Darwin biopic can't find a distributor in the US, producer blames creationists
  I do get silly. Thanks for suffering it so amicably. The date and time included in the 'Posted by' header of each comment provides a permalink to that particular comment. A nice feature. Have used it in the past to...
• Commented on If literary classics had been titled today
  Then: Oedipus the King Now: Come to Mama [Harlequin Blaze, of course]...
• Commented on If literary classics had been titled today
  Then: Moby Dick Now: Sea Trek 2: The Wrath of Ahab...
• Commented on Celebrated Darwin biopic can't find a distributor in the US, producer blames creationists
  In comment #44, David Carroll wrote: Clam down everybody! What, everyone else just kept eating? How rude!...
• Commented on Celebrated Darwin biopic can't find a distributor in the US, producer blames creationists
  I'm still waiting for David Carroll to tell us when it's OK to finish this plate of clams....
• Commented on Man awarded $63k for Ketamine "overdose" at hospital
  Anon #11: "Damn I would do anything to see God and I'm an Athiest!" Anon, this is your lucky day. I can make this happen. But you have to do anything and everything I say without question or complaint for...
• Commented on Patrick Swayze, 1952-2009
  Shall we call it a wake and keep it to eulogies this time?...
• Commented on Short video about Big Bang
  buddy66: Gee, all that, just to create ... ME. (or maybe you, if you insist) Buddy, see, cosmology shows galaxies, stars, planets, us, the weather All that be, far as we see, is Big Bang screamin' out away forever When...
• Commented on Photos of an 1890s camping trip
  Pretty strong meat there from *sniff* Takuan....
• Commented on Photos of an 1890s camping trip
  I was related to these people. Was?...
• Commented on Untitled 1
  "neh? I think he's going places." Agreed. Or so I hope. If I may be so bold, what do the CAPTCHAs portend?...
• Commented on Untitled 1
  File this under 'missing the forest for the trees': http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8250310.stm...
• Commented on Untitled 1
  Cities, like the mountains and the trees, go up and down....
• Commented on Untitled 1
  FoetusNail, that must have been a wondrous moment! Puts me in mind of a story that Charles Berlitz would tell of his own childhood. From Wikipedia's entry about him: Berlitz was born in New York City. He was the grandson...
• Commented on Battle of The Billboards in LA: Giant Boozy Ladyparts are OK, Criticizing Insurance Companies Ain't.
  Avram wrote: "I'm concerned about the baby's scalp condition." Without doubt, the crowning achievement of this thread....
• Commented on Untitled 1
  I find that a fit of pique really helps a Saturday evening along....
• Commented on 9/11/2009
  Thanks, Takuan. Glad that I correctly understood the gist of your own comment. Would not presume to drag you into it myself. Domo, Captchamancer....
• Commented on 9/11/2009
  Ave, Avram. I was alluding to (though not addressing) the author of the puerile comment currently numbered 40 and posted at 10:52 AM this day. I felt (and feel) that the comment deserved an answer. I was confident that content...
• Commented on Untitled 1
  Ouzo flavored dental floss? How very louche....
• Commented on Battle of The Billboards in LA: Giant Boozy Ladyparts are OK, Criticizing Insurance Companies Ain't.
  EMJ: Calling vulva a vagina is like not being able to differentiate penis from scrotum from testicles. Antinous: Despite being a gay man, I find myself constantly explaining that. If either of you should find yourself transported back to 1996,...
• Commented on Untitled 1
  expressions of relief...
• Commented on 9/11/2009
  Let's see, old enough to clearly remember events of eight years ago, yet still embarrassingly juvenile. I'm guessing 12, maybe 13?...
• Commented on Battle of The Billboards in LA: Giant Boozy Ladyparts are OK, Criticizing Insurance Companies Ain't.
  Sometimes one simply doesn't measure up....
• Commented on Battle of The Billboards in LA: Giant Boozy Ladyparts are OK, Criticizing Insurance Companies Ain't.
  searconflex, a slightly more legible pic for your inspection....
• Commented on Untitled 1
  Takuan, I think you meant "ahh Jimi...", unless I've enormously misjudged you......
• Commented on 9/11/2009
  desiredusername wrote: However Sept was not post-apocalyptic. Everything that happened after...Iraq War casualties on both sides..torture victims...loss of liberties...change from budget surplus to trillions in debt...that was closer to post-apocalyptic. Yes, an apocalypse would be the necessary antecedent of the...