I've been trying to push a Broadway specialty show featuring musical gunfire for YEARS. (although not very well)

They've already had things like Tapdogs and Stomp.

Why not 'SPLODE?:-)

Followup thought...

The voices in my head are trying to promote Weight Room for the Nintendo Wii.

>When I saw this magazine on the newsstand, I thought it was a gaming magazine with a photo of a character in a video game. But I think it's a photo of a real human being.

What are you talking about? Alien Leg Training is a spectacular video game.

Really -- you're missing out if you haven't tried playing it.

Doesn't Law and Order SVU have a paranormal division for this kind of thing?

http://blog.rickbreslin.com/extras/doink_doink.wav

There's a simple solution...

Just conclude that Al Qaeda has infiltrated the Federal Air Marshals.

Problem solved!:-P

>Chuck, are you referring to Guantanamo-type detainees or more mainstream defendants? I'm not defending the former, just curious.

Yes. (I probably should have specified.) I was only referring to those cases involving terrorism, alleged war crimes, and other classified matters.

As far as I know, people haven't started receiving redacted parking tickets and traffic tickets in the mail (yet).

I still have to question the integrity of the Dalai Lama for his refusal to wear a Tibetan flag lapel pin.

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Wait. What?

I misread this whole thing to mean that Oregon has classified their laws as TOP SECRET.

Probably not an entirely wacky thought, considering that some people aren't allowed to know what charges have been lodged against them.

Quoting the idiot E-mailer:
"Men are better than women look at the comparison in IQ men are scientifically proven to have a higher IQ by roughly 5 points, or 5% you cannot dispute science...

Have you ever noticed it's always the utterly talentless morons who try to invoke the "men, on average, are better than women at blah blah blah."

If it wasn't for brain-damaged twits like this, men would have an average IQ TEN points higher than women.

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Did I just say that?

:-P

Ah. Siding with the photographer, eh?

Need I remind you people that the burden of proof lies with the photographer to prove that he's the one out of thousands of people taking photos who doesn't seem odd?

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What?

Hold on. I have to consult with a few security experts to get the proper wording on that. I'll be back.

@jamesgyre

Ooh! Thanks for the Wiki link on Eve Sedgewick and homosociality. I've come up with similar, yet (seemingly) far more hostile theories through my own philosophical fumblings, but I was unaware of Sedgwick's work. I'll check it out.

>sure he is!
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc

Dear lord.

I'm guessing he has the mindset of the kinds of managers who'd tell me something like, "You're not emotionally invested," a few minutes before a security guard escorts me -- toting a box of my personal possessions -- from my desk and out the front door.

Artificially-darkened skin aside (or maybe because of it), why do I have a suspicion that some of these guys use the N-word on a regular basis? (And not in a friendly way.)

Pinwiz said:
>Call me when Velvet Knights or Crossmen or Blue Devils do something similar faster.

I think the Velvet Knights organization just recently came back from the dead. So they probably have a couple zombie shows to get out of their system before they can consider doing Mario Brothers.:-) (This comment is not to be construed as a rumor that the Velvet Knights are putting a zombie show on the field. I'll spread that rumor in a more appropriate forum.:-P)

In a televised game I saw a while back, I heard the Texas Tech Marching Band use the Mario Brothers theme in the repertoire of songs they played in the stands -- I don't know if they used it on the field or not.

And I know some drum and bugle corps used a Mario Brothers bass drum cadence YEEEEAAAARS ago. (That may have been Santa Clara Vaguard, but I'm not too sure.)

Adding to this problem...

A few years ago I read an article (unfortunately, I don't recall where I saw it) that wormed its way through the subjects of child brides, bride selling, etc. in a few spots around the world -- although I think it mostly focused on Asia, Africa, and maybe the Middle East.

One thing I recall from the article was that young men in certain communities sometimes had difficulty finding wives because all the women their age and younger had been sold off to older men. Most of the time -- with some exceptions, of course -- these younger men couldn't immediately afford to enter this market (Yeesh! Did I just call it a "market"?), so they often had to save their money and wait.

And no, I'm not excusing the practice of brideselling/buying. I'm merely recognizing that there might be a self-perpetuating element to the problem.

Should the practice end? I'd vote for that. But whoever makes such a change in legal (or traditional/tribal) codes may have to be ready for the hostile reaction of some small or large population of lonely, embittered, wait-listed 40 year-old men going postal.

"What? You mean I've let the local warlord's thugs bugger me like a goat for the past 25 years, and now I don't get a child bride? WE HAD A DEAL! Where's my gun?"

Hm. Yeah. I guess it's easy for me to oppose the practice since I don't manage security in one of those potential hot spots. (Perhaps I'm exaggerating with my speculation about an organized insurgency of dirty old men.)

Remember the bullies in your school?

Did they play a game where they dropped a dollar bill on the floor, hung around casually within visual range of the money (pretending they didn't see it), waited for some passer-by to stop and bend over for it, rushed in, and then beat the crap out of the person who tried to pick up the money?

Looks like those bullies are employed now.

Make that three misreads.

For a second, I thought we would have to start paying fines for unlicensed orgasms.:-P

HA!

People think I'm lying when I tell them I once evicted a bat with a shoe box and a file folder.

Now I have someone else's substantiation that the technique works!

Do I get bonus points considering that mine was awake and flying around? (Luckily, it landed within arm's reach at a crucial moment.)

That's why those of us with slightly more interesting palates tend to add barbecue sauce.

You're just trying to get us to sing that babyback ribs song, aren't you?

Reminds me of a slightly spooky thing.

Years before 9/11/2001 -- I think this happened in 1997 -- I'd met a guy who claimed he ran sort of a vigilante campaign whenever he went to airports. He'd pack electrical equipment -- especially things with gauges, dials, etc. -- in his carry on. After he successfully passed through security he'd confront the screeners, produce the equipment in his carry on, and ask them if they could tell it apart from a bomb.

It seemed odd that he'd want such limits imposed, especially since he mentioned -- several times, rather obsessively -- that he wanted to be an electrical engineer.

And yes, if you're wondering, the guy gave off a creepy vibe.

Regarding the ring tones...

If you pay the 3 dollars for the ringtones, you'll be more socially acceptable to shallow people who make a point of spending their money frivolously. (Oh, I'm sorry, it's called "prestige pricing," isn't it? Or maybe the term "audio bling" applies here.) This will gain you admission to a network or more profitable people, which in turn will improve your employment prospects and your paycheck along with it. Then the price of the ring tones won't matter, or else you can consider it a good investment.

That's just the first theory to pop into my head. I hope I'm not right. But I probably am.