GonneVille

Nope. St. Patty's is the 17th, every year...Happy St. Urho's Day!

143 Pattern recognition I have to say this is pretty close. I've taken quite a few ACTUAL IQ tests over the years, and I always come in around 142, with my best results being in pattern recogition, and reading comprehension. Math is the next highest on my list, even though I never went past algebra in school.

That's why they're so damn fun to have around...a couple minutes ago, I got a great illustration of exactly those qualities...Gypsy came rumbling down the hall jumped on the couch, bit Rover on the ass and took off. Next thing you know, they're both on the top shelf of our cat tree, chunks of fur fling everywhere. One of them pushed the other off(not sure which, they're both jet black) and then chased them down the couch and across my keyboard, before disappearing down the stairs with the sound of the shoes left at the top cascading after them... I'm still spitting out cat hair that was left floating around... BTW, if you feed them on wet food, stop and go to dry. Wet food should only be given as an occasional treat. Most wet foods are just too rich for daily feeding.

Wait, are we talking inside the yard or in the parking lot or what? Details? Seriously, details or useless post...

120 smoothbore cannister>wimpy-ass automatic shotty...

Reminds me a little of 2001, when they're looking at the monolith on the moon...

F-22 and SU-37 are roughly equivalent in maneuverability and speed, but the Raptor is a full-stealth aircraft, and the combat avionics and their integration with our other combat intelligence assets are miles ahead of the Russians. F-22 would splash the SU-37 without the SU-37 ever knowing where the missile came from.

Jesus! Man, if somebody left me alone with that, I'd stab it to death just so nobody could possily think I hit it...

Oh, gods...I can't stop picturing him trailing along behind the truck, arms and legs flapping in the wind like one of those cheap "cat-ass" trunk decorations! And BTW, if I do die doing something as stupid as going 120 in traffic, please, laugh.

Thanks, I'll check them out.

Time to get a clue, guys. OPEC is less than a tenth of the problem. Oil companies aren't even the worst of the issue. The biggest driving force behind rising prices is SPECULATION. Commodities speculation has caused over 80% of the actual rise in prices. Companies, charities, private parties and governments buy huge lots of oil futures and sit on them, driving the price up. It's the safest bet on the market right now. The only way that prices are gonna come down is if the oil market takes a dump. If it does, then prices could easily come back down to $30-$40 a barrel, where they were in the mid nineties. Problem is, that ain't gonna happen. So get used to bending over, or go kill a broker.

I totally agree with this...the one time someone got out of their car to try to "teach me a lesson" he ended up picking gravel out of his teeth. Get out of your car and charge ME, and I'm gunning it out of there. If you're in the way, tough shit. The only time I ever got out of my vehicle on someone else, he was stupid enough to try it himself. I'm pretty sure I broke his leg when I kicked the door shut on it. That's what happens when you throw a full 2 liter of water at my car on the interstate. If you get out of a car, you better be GODDAM SURE that you can handle the shit that's gonna happen.

Bump? Really do need this soon...

You know, most of us, including me, actually DON'T give a crap.(Sorry, just being honest, not sarcastic) I agree with you that speculation on your break-up should be left off the table, but you HAVE to let us play with the loofa thing! It's just too damned funny!

Dude, she probably still had the loofa. Those things last forever... Anyway, trust is a relationship requirement, but when it comes to the girl herself, she needs to be intelligent, witty, a cat person, able to put up with my family, share my interests, and she has to get Monty Python.

So, Daddy responds to suicide threats by taking away what was probably the one social outlet his maladjusted teenager had? Great parenting...thank god that particular set of genes is out of the pool...as far as the kid goes, put him down. It's the humane thing to do.

Tell you what, I retract my d-bag statement, on the condition that we race at Trails... $50, first to cross the line with all panels intact wins....

That sucks...bones that small never heal easy. I broke my hand when I was fifteen, fifth meta-carpal, IIRC. Doc decided that since it wasn't a complete break, he'd just splint it. My pinky finger is slightly twisted to this day...

If you really want to drop prices, kill a broker. Speculation on oil futures is the biggest contributor to rising oil prices. If the oil market collapsed tomorrow, we could easily see a reduction back to $30-$40 a barrel.

Our complex was completely snowed in..the plow truck was useless because the maintenance guy was stuck at his house...our neighbors down the way shoveled their drive into the road, and an Aerostar got stuck across the street, completely blocking it...my Buick and my brother's Voyager were both outclassed...great snow vehicles, both, but the 16" of snow on our street would have high-centered both of them. Pops made it over here to dig us out in his truck though...crew-cab, long-bed 03 F-350 6.0TD 4x4....friggin monster...Dad definitely enjoyed getting it sidways a couple times and scaring the crap out of Mom... Pics... http://gonneville.smugmug.com/photos/263770333_JP9BR-L.jpg http://gonneville.smugmug.com/photos/263400566_9mGFg-L.jpg http://gonneville.smugmug.com/photos/263770081_J98JU-L.jpg http://gonneville.smugmug.com/photos/263400721_B59Xx-L.jpg http://gonneville.smugmug.com/photos/263400883_Jcc4J-L.jpg

I can't even get out of my parking spot...my Buick and my brother's van were both snowed in today. Sounds like a couple people had some fun though...mybe I'll make it out tomorrow. BTW, while I have serious respect for the skills of professional drifters, the antics and attitudes of the wannabes piss me the fuck off.

And I can easily prove that oxygen exists in the atmosphere. Give me five minuted to look up a few chemicals. There are a few that react violently to the presence of oxygen. Open them in open air, and fwoosh... You're quoting pseudo-scientific bullshit that is patently ridiculous. Don't expect anyone to take you seriously. Get educated. Go back and take high-school science. Pay attention this time. Guys, I'm done trying to educate those who wish to remain ignorant. I won't bother with it anymore. It ain't worth my time. In any case, my theory has been proven. People will go to any length to preserve their own ignorance.

Get an air mattress and wrap it in heavy plastic drop-cloth...duct tape the plastic so it won't come off...either that, or just tape the plastic into a bag and use that on it's own. Little rough on the butt, but funner than hell. Then there's the classic...old metal scoop shovel, wax the bottom of it and go...

I just got a set of Hooker AeroChambers installed, and I am not all that thrilled with the work. I'm looking to get a full catback now, stainless, 3" from cat to Y-pipe, 2.5" duals to the mufflers. Easy work except for the Y-pipe, which I am going to tackle fabricating, if someone can do the welding once I have it fitting right.

OK, first of all, it IS a vestigal organ. They've been trying to figure out what it USED to do for over a century. Now we have a very good idea of what it DID. How does that alter the fact of it being a vestigal organ? How does it not make sense? The magnetic field strength and rotational velocity I have not the expertise to address, and neither do you, so STFU about it, and stop acting like you have some kind of inside track... And if you're going to use the Bible as proof that evolution never happened, you're gonna have to prove that everything in the Bible happened exactly as written, by using credible outside sources, just like we do for our scientific argument. Have at it.