@TOXONIX - Well, the M16 was still fairly simple, and it could be manufactured cheaply and in great numbers. It could, in my experience, take quite a bit of punishment, and a ten year old girl could fire it. It was as user-friendly as a BB gun.

Re. my last post, I had a 155 average my last year of youth bowling, and that made me about the sixth best bowler under 17 in the house. This was about 1979. I got selected as the sixth man on the traveling team, which meant I got to bowl twice about every other Saturday. It was then that I learned that every house's lanes broke different, especially those that used Formica instead of wood. I think I had the most embarrassing series of the season on Formica and my team got clobbered as a result.

Of course, most of this goes out the window when I break out my cheater ball.

It's about time. The USGA diligently guards its standards on every piece of golf equipment but the tees. The club heads have to be a specific size, the angle of a 7-iron has to be just so, the grooves in the clubs have to be V-shaped, not square, there has to be this many grooves on the club and they have to be exactly this deep, the balls are only allowed to have that many dimples on them, and it goes on and on and on.

What are the regulations for bowling balls? As far as I know, you can bring just about any trick ball to any tournament at any level, as long as it weighs no more than 16 pounds. I have one at home. It's a reactive resin ball with ridiculously offset weighting. It breaks seven or eight boards more than I can ever make my old 1977 black ball. Not only that, it breaks that much EVERY TIME I THROW IT. So as long as the ball lands within half a board either way of my mark, I stand at least a 70% chance of making a strike. I throw at least one 200 game every time I go out instead of twice a season, and I used to be a 150-average bowler. Hell, 150 used to be a good average. Not anymore.

I don't think bowling was ever meant to be this easy for the non-professional. Note to the ABC - Easy for casual players == no longer a real sport. Cheating is legal == no longer a real sport.

THANK YOU! My wife is trying to talk me into wasting our precious money on solar panels in the Northeastern US, of all places. Ay carumba!

Ahhhh. Classic 60s sex bombs. You made my day.

Those were the days. When the PS Magazine dames were smoking hot. Connie had cleavage, Bonnie had a groovy 'fro, and the Army was a lot more fun than it is now. Then came the 80s, Connie had to put some clothes on, Bonnie got her 'fro straightened, and everything got all PC around the motor pool. Good God that sucked.

@logruszed - it's called 'art.'

I gotta wonder what the deal was with the raccoon coats. You only saw college kids wearing them. With the overpopulation of the nasty little buggers in many places, you'd think we could get PeTA to STFU and bring this fad back for a few years.

That's what Wal-Mart gets for buying all its inventory from China.

@misterpants - previously, Americans were asked to purchase war bonds to pay for wars. Can you imagine George W. Bush going on TV to ask Americans to buy bonds, conserve energy, and plant victory gardens for the war effort? That would require a suspension of disbelief that would probably cause one's head to explode.

So when the Niagara River does reach Erie, that's when Lake Erie empties out into Lake Ontario all at once, right? That ought to flood the whole Mohawk Valley from Syracuse to Albany.

@magicbean - "The whole thing is a little Oracle-like. Nice mythic resonance."

It reminds me of a less-than-successful Steven Spielberg film from 2001 called A.I. - Artificial Intelligence. Gigolo Joe and David the boy robot go to see Doctor Know to find out where they might find the Blue Fairy who could make him into a real boy.

Great. The Borg are assimilating our supermodels.

@#1 - Kimchi is basically sauerkraut made with Chinese cabbage with cayenne pepper flakes added to it. It's a way of preserving cabbage without having to refrigerate it.

I have never heard of certain European peoples having a greater incidence of cancer as a result of eating sauerkraut. I think the microbes in the stuff are actually good for you.

#14 - I guess no one "forces" women to wear short skirts (aka "easy access"), but pointing this out when someone describes what her rapist did to her makes you an asshole, pure and simple.

I can't believe there are people at BB who are defending this.

I would also expect that the phases of the Earth would be in the opposite order of that of the Moon.

I guess the boys don't have to listen to their mothers, either.

Worst website design - Mens Health. Unless you've got the browser maximized with at least 2000 lines of screen resolution (available with that 52-inch monitor and 64GB graphics card that don't exist), you have to scroll down each time down the list - all the better to notice those big-ass banner ads.

Shame we can't get Fred Phelps to send his goons...er...family out there to picket the Scientologists.

Sheesh! They put any old crap on Headline News nowadays.

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I'm still pulling the lever for Obama today.

What's really farked up is that Senate Republicans can veto all kinds of shit with 41 votes, but Democrats have to filibuster the old fashioned way. I hope Harry Reid gets a primary challenge who will remind Nevadans of this fact until they're tired of hearing it.

Regardless of whether you can read hangul, the panels and pages are arranged in the Japanese style, from right to left. If you "read" it this way, the pictures sort of tell the story by themselves.

Anyway, it appears to be a geometry tutorial in which the dimensions (line AB in the bottom diagram) of the female's genitalia are determined using the ratio between the two people's folded hands and the mean distance (line AC in the bottom diagram) a person holds his or her hands (folded neatly) from the torso (I'm guessing 12 centimeters).

That's Korean.

A want a T-shirt with that on it.

#21 posted by acrocker , January 13, 2008 11:54 PM

I wonder how this affects AP images. Or any photographer trying to sell works that just happen to have a Ford car in it.
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Or any movie that happens to have an old Ford in it. Does Steven Spielberg ask permission before putting old cars in his movies?

@Takuan - Watch it. Somebody at Ford might suggest that commenting on the quality of Ford cars is a violation of copyright.

Fix Or Repair Daily, indeed.

This ain't funny.

The Presidential Dollar Coin program is scheduled to run through 2016, when the Nixon, Ford, and Reagan dollars will be minted. Jimmy Carter and Bush 41 will be 92; Bill Clinton and Bush 43 will be 70. None of them will live forever. Since the U.S. Mint has seen fit to honor all the Presidents, regardless of what they accomplished or failed to accomplish while in office, simply for having been elected President, sooner or later, there will be an official legal-tender Bush 43 dollar coin.

@sugarfree - one might try heading for the nearest military installation. Big source of guns and ammo, not to mention armored military vehicles. Most do not require keys; look for a bolt cutter to remove the lock and chain from the steering mechanism.

The military also maintains a fleet of tanker trucks for refueling. I don't know if those are kept full for readiness purposes, but if so, you avoid the problem with underground fuel storage.

Also available on military bases would be various sizes and types of generators, some conveniently mounted on trailers, which can be used to operate pumps for getting at those underground fuel sources.

There are usually several dining facilities on such a facility, which hold a large store of canned goods, enough to last one person a lifetime, or at least as long as they remain unspoiled. That'll get you through several failed attempts at farming. Meals, Ready to Eat (MREs) are good for ten years under normal storage conditions.

Medical supplies are another thing commonly found on military bases. These include everything from aspirin to surgical equipment to morphine and antibiotics. Every base has a hospital; I suggest looking there first.

Also, consider engineering equipment such as bulldozers, backhoes, etc. You can't run an Army without engineers, and I'm sure you don't want to be building fortifications by hand. Essayons!

In short, military installations are one-stop shopping centers for any Last Man On Earth. There's enough there to hold off the zombies for dozens of lifetimes.

The Carousel Mall in Syracuse, New York, is practically an 18+ joint. Under 18's, money burning holes in pockets or not, must be escorted by parent/guardian as if they were going to see an R-rated movie. The policy is clearly stated on a big-ass sign at every entrance. It's not just the security goons who are retarded.

Good God, today's music sucks. It's either incomprehensible heavy metal or whiny emo shit or manufactured pop garbage with all the originality, charm, and wholesomeness of a Twinkie. Excuse me whilst I throw up.

Give me Led Zeppelin any day. Our grandchildren will be listening to it. They call it classic rock for a reason, and it isn't just because it's old.

I'm not afraid of flying as much as I just plain hate it. The whole process sucks, from check-in to boarding to the actual flight to de-boarding to luggage pickup, it just sucks from end to end. I'd rather drive two days on the most featureless Interstate highway in my little buzzy subcompact car (nicknamed "the bumblebee") than fly for two hours.