MsGuy

Change is generally bad but I have to admit so far the current changes here seem pretty much benign. I don't have to log in now. That's kinda nice. Except that that particular change was apparently the unintended consequence of messing around with the kind of incomprehensible stuff that enables an old fart in MS chat live with cute young guys in Russia. So my reformulated position is that change is bad but occasionally has desirable side effects.

Yes, it's a federal felony. Also nickels (apparently nickels are more profitable to melt than pennies now-a-days). Also illegal to ship them in bulk out out of US for melting elsewhere.

About the time they took all the silver out of coinage, the Feds made all US coins legal tender, That means is that you can pay debts to the government with it and you can validly offer to satisfy private debts with it provided no other means of satisfaction is specified, A private party can still set their own terms of satisfaction. For instance, auctions often advertise something like "immediate payment of 10% in bank certified funds, balance in 10 days, yada yada." No dump trucks of nickles accepted. Like all things legal, exceptions exist, proceed at your own risk, etc. There are some railroad bond cases from back in the thirties/forties where older bonds had provisions for payment in gold specie that were voided as against public policy. The old sign in the window (for hitch-hikers) "gas, ass or weed, nobody rides for free" is probably against public policy too, LOL.

Tomcal waltzes into a restaurant and before he can sit down, his waiter's rushing over to pimp his handsome friend. MsGuy takes a table and the wait staff are playing rock, paper, scissors for who has to bring him a cup of coffee. Sigh... Half an hour and still waiting on my coffee.

1) Payment 0ne billion dollars in nickels would have required almost all of the US five cent coins minted for the last ten years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Mint_coin_production 2) Nickels have been legal tender in the United States since sometime in the mid-1960's, so the premise of the story is not entirely farcical, but AS, when evaluating claims like this, you need to keep in mind Locke's proposition that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. For instance, my claim to be a disabled old fart living in Mississippi probably needs to be supported by only a modest amount of proof while a claim by me to be Oz's sock puppet might well need to be greeted with considerably more scepticism. (Who knew the Brits spell skepicism with a K. Or so insists my spell check. Is that sufficient evidence?)

Yeah, but that ear to ear grin says he knows all about Icy Hot!

Apparently Google found it. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25000747

Lookin, are you trying to get me to believe that Google can find 7,960,000 pages for my search for "hallelujah" in 0.19 seconds, but it can't figure out where it put that photograph? Seriously, I may not know much about this tech stuff but even I ain't gonna buy into that! I mean, dude, really, they must have had to locate it at least 200,000 times just since that article went viral.

Free at last, free at last, Thank God Almighty, Free at last!

If Google doesn't want to go to the expense of rephotographing the area, I would think it would a simple thing for them simply to blank out the boy's body from the picture.

Dear Mr. Oz, Does this mean that if I don't do al that shitty crap follow those well-crafted instructions in your prior post, I get to keep posting here w/o having to log in and out? Yours sincerely, MsGuy signed but not read

It appears we are unanimous on this.

What JKane said!

MsGuy issues his final judgement: "[The] centrifugal/centripetal current of ... theorising, whereby notions ... swirl out in widening circles, only to then gurgle back in again, before eventually disappearing up the arses of their originators." It's devine justice that Mr. Self be condemned in his own words. (Wriggle of of that, AS!) (LOL, how the hell did I miss that quote the 1st time around?)

With an artful dodger like AdamSmith, gang tackling is the surest way to bring him down.

Lookin, sometimes you say what I wanted to say but so much better than I ever could that I'm left helpless with tears of joy running down my face.

Not exactly the attitude I want to see in my pilot. Charitable donation to NRA requested in place of flowers.

Yall talking about the site knowing I'm MsGuy w/o me having to log in? It's been like that for long enough that I can't remember the last time I logged in here. I thought Oz had changed the way he set up his security. I use Firefox now. I vaguely recall being asked if I wanted to be remembered here a while back but I'm guessing that was my own system asking. Sorry I can't be more helpful but I don't know jack shit about tech stuff. ---- Lookin, what are the boys like in Mogadishu? I've known several Somalis and they ran to a slender twinky kind of sexy as I recall.

AS, your Achilles heel has ever been your preference for clever and stylishly written rubbish over substance. Just saying...

Wow, this is one of your all-time great posts, AdamSmith. It reverbs here on so many different levels. Not least of which is Miranda is adorable, sexy as hell.

Reads like one of those context-free grammar, computer generated essays you were whinging on about in an earlier thread, AdamSmith. Hah! Caught you out, didn't I? No, don't lie, just admit you were trying to Sokal us, AS.

That's simply not true, Lucky. If you're Jewish, they call you a self-hating Court Jew. But, yes, it's exasperating that AIPAC treats whatever loopy policy du jour that comes bubbling up from the cesspool of Israeli domestic politics as carved in stone by the finger of God. LOL, and not unlike the old time commies and Russia, they freely admit to pushing the party line of whoever's in power in Jeruselem. They explicitly state that it's not their place to question the positions of the Israeli government. Which is all well and good except that it's also their position that it's not the place of the US government to question Israeli policies either. And if it does so, well, then obviously anti-semites like you have taken over the government.

LOL, not so much on Ms. Wilson, Lucky. After all, she did stand by her man.

You might be surprised how many processed and canned goods have "cellulose" in the ingredient disclosure. Our state pulpwood association claims that over 30% of their annual harvest now goes into cellulose production.