rkeellis says:
how is Walmart like MJ?
Wood, Richard says:
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rkeellis says:
boys pants are 1/2 off...

richardwood401 (4:33:06 PM): How did the protest go ?

Auto response from Flabber11 (4:33:07 PM): Buy Nothing Day!
Mass Consumerism can Kill your Soul.... Yada ydada yada.

The more you buy, the less you live.

"'Our modern skulls house a stone age mind,' "

"So get to it. Shut up already and make it happen. Get on out there and do whatever it is you want to do or be. Don't forget to spend time with your children�they're the greatest gift that this earth ever dreamed up�and turn your damn computers off once in a while. Don't worry, they're not going anywhere."

Dear Colleagues,

Best wishes for the Thanksgiving holiday to all US-based colleagues, and to any non-US colleagues who may be celebrating!

AlterNet: Some Reflections on Turkeys and Eagles: "When the eagle was selected, Ben Franklin, the man who discovered how to harness and tame lightning; who invented the bifocals, the rocking chair and the Franklin stove; who helped write the Constitution and gained the help of the French at a critical moment in the American revolution, wrote in a letter to his daughter:
'For my own part I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his Living honestly. You may have seen him perched on some dead tree near the river, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the labor of the Fishing Hawk; and when that diligent Bird has at length taken a fish, and is bearing it to his nest for the support of his mate and young ones, the Bald Eagle pursues him and takes it from him.
'With all this injustice, he is never in good case but like those among men who live by sharping and robbing he is generally poor and often very lousy. Besides he is a rank coward: The little King Bird not bigger than a Sparrow attacks him boldly and drives him out of the district. He is therefore by no means a proper emblem for the brave and honest Cincinnati of America who have driven all the King birds from our country . . . "

"Sagittarius: (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Surprisingly enough, the end of your life will include 20 minutes of credits, copyright information, and a rather sad zither-based closing theme."

"It's amazing how much kids can learn about chemistry the old-fashioned way. As soon as you get home from work, demand that they mix you an Old-Fashioned."

"Hasbro Pledges Additional 30 Marbles For Hippo-Hunger Relief
PAWTUCKET, RI—With global famine worsening, Hasbro pledged an additional 30 white marbles Monday to hippo-hunger relief efforts. 'To see those starving, starving hippos just lying there, not knowing if they will ever get another chance to click and clack for life-giving marbles—it's too much for anyone to bear,' Hasbro spokeswoman Lisa Reiderer said. 'We cannot stand idly by while these sweet plastic creatures slowly die. It is up to all of us to get the most marbles for our hippos.'"

"According to advisers and court records, Michael Jackson's wealth is being consumed by lawsuits and an appetite for monkeys, Ferris wheels and surgery"

'Our society expects us to grieve quickly, to put on a 'smiley face'"

'He who learns must suffer and even in our sleep the pain we cannot forget falls drop by drop upon our heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.' Escalus

X3D Fritz's congratulation statement to Kasporov on their tied series: "``With your brainpower, you challenged my Intel Quad Processor, Xeon 2.8 Mhz chip with four gigs of RAM,'' it said. ``Not an easy task.''"

"Human life is weightier than the earth."

"Duty is heavier than a mountain, while death is lighter than a feather"

"Sagittarius: (Nov. 22—Dec. 21)
Everyone has potentially fatal flaws, but yours involve a love of soldiers' wives, an insatiable thirst for whiskey, and the seven weak points in your left ventricle."

"No blossoms and no moon,
and he is drinking sake
all alone!"

This is way cool.
NOVA | The Elegant Universe | Watch the Program | PBS: "Watch The Elegant Universe (3 hours)"

"We Do (The Stonecutter's Song)
2F09 - 8th January 1995

Who controls the British crown?
Who keeps the metric system down?
We do! We do!
Who keeps Atlantis off the maps?
Who keeps the Martians under wraps?
We do! We do!
Who holds back the electric car?
Who makes Steve Guttenberg a star?
We do! We do!
Who robs the cave fish of their site?
Who rigs every Oscar night?
We do! We do!"

NOVA | Elegant Universe | A Sense of Scale | PBS: "A Sense of Scale
The strings of string theory are unimaginably small. And when we say 'unimaginably,' we mean it: Your average string, if it exists, is about 10-33 centimeters long. That's a point followed by 32 zeros and then a 1. It's a millionth of a billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a centimeter. (Physicists stick to metric.) Or think of it this way: if an atom were magnified to the size of the solar system, a string would be the size of a tree. Yup, real small. "

Reporting America at War . Ernie Pyle . The Death of Captain Waskow | PBS: "ERNIE PYLE:
The Death of Captain Waskow"

Kasparov vs. X3D Fritz: "Kasparov crushes x3d fritz in game three to tie the match"

Bite me !

diamond commercials lie !

"Cornell University physicists reported last week that they had used a laser beam to pluck the strings of an invisibly tiny silicon guitar just 10 millionths of a meter long. Each string of the instrument is about 50 nanometers (or billionths of a meter) wide — 100 atoms thick. Human hearing tops out at tones that vibrate at about 20,000 cycles per second. The high-pitched sound of the nanoguitar twanged forth at 40 million cycles per second, putting it 17 octaves above what human ears take for music."

Why SUV owners will rule the world !

"Arriana Huffington can kiss my Suburban Ass while I drive around with my
children watching a DVD. I won't be able to hear the smooch due to my
wireless headphones.

I won't be able to see her when I back up anyway.

Tonight I even sat in idle at a McDonalds, getting 0 miles to the gallon,
dropping dollar billls out the exhaust pipe while I pulled pickles off my
hamburger."

"If the day and the night are such that you greet them
with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and
sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry,
more immortal - that is your success. All nature is
your congratulation, and you have cause
momentarily to bless yourself.
- Henry David Thoreau"

Set me as a seal upon thine heart,
as a seal upon thine arm; for
love is strong as death; jealousy
is cruel as the grave.

Are polls fair ?
Yes



Results Yes=134, No=0

"The Web site you seek
Cannot be located, but
Countless more exist. "

"If you put that in your blog I will cut you off from all information"

The most painful state of being is remembering the future that you can never have.

Its like I knew who I was and one morning I woke up and didn't have a clue.

The Onion A.V. Club | Ira Glass: "Public Radio International's This American Life, Ira Glass "

This Modern World: "I think I feel a draft coming on"