MsGuy

Same thought crossed my mind. Not enough facts in evidence to make a judgment yet but, with even the non-sports networks going nuts about this, it's only a matter of time before the truth comes out (so to speak).

Just a sprinkle of snow early here...it was entirely gone by the time I got out around noon.

Good luck, Josephga. Forty years ago rehab from that was a total painful bitch but no doubt they have better methods now.

Well, unless I'm looking at Japanese manga, I also read from left to right. But I always read the funny pages first, probably because that's how I started back when I was in the 1st grade. And similarly to lookin, I read the Sunday comix pages from back to front because my two favorites were on the front page and I wanted to save them for last. Come to think of it, that's probably why I currently read the Post comixs in reverse order online. LOL, old behaviorial traits rarely die a clean death, even when their reasons for coming into existance are long gone. They just morph a bit to fit new circumstances.

As we have no metro papers delivered in my hometown anymore, I get my funnies fix online from the Washington Post. I read three of the four featured strips (but not in the order presented), then skip to the bottom of the list and read in reverse alphabetical order the stips on my reading list. For some reason, the Post forced me to sit through a 60 second commercial when I clicked on my last strip. Now I don't mind the 15 second commercial that pops up before the third comix but waiting out 60 seconds when I only have one more strip to finish was making me crazy. I got to wondering if I could dodge the commercial if I moved the order in which I viewed the strip. Now that seemed a totally absurd possibility to me but in the spirit of my method of learning how to do stuff on the net (try out everything that pops in my head until somehow something makes the damned thing do what I want it to do), I switched the order I clicked on it and presto, no more commercial (why didn't it pop up on the new last strip?? I was clicking on the exact same number of strips.). Unfortunately that left me with a set of three strips that were often duds to finish up with, so I poked around the neglected comix until I found one to add next to last that usually satisfied. Win/ win! I am sorely tempted now to drop the 3rd to last strip as a hopeless dud (I only included it as a kind of filler in the first place), but that would be just too much change for the nonce. LOL, too much information?

I read somewhere if you want to lose weight, get poop infusions from somebody that's skinny. Seems like fat guys and skinny guys have very different populations of intestinal flora and that, at least in part, accounts for why they process food differently.

Well, I guess all of us have our compulsions: Even Ol Spidey!

Yet you rise to the bait, none-the-less, KMEM.

No fucking way! You think I'm too senile to remember what happened to the old guy?

well, what kind of Gay musical is it when they don't even take their shirts off?

How close to naked do the lovers get? (I hate to be that guy but it had to be asked.)

For AdamSmith: “To be sure, the Road of Excess leads to the Palace of Wisdom, even when it takes you through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders. Just watch out for parasites.” ― Samuel R. Delany, Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders Found while searching unsucessfully for Delany's version of "Too much is never enough."

I tend to plod through selective fora and selective threads. I've been eyeing the "View New Content" button for quite a while now but that would require a change in my habits and you all know how I feel about change. Well, I did make a change in the order in which I read my daily newspaper comic strips a few weeks ago (swapped one comic's place-order from last to 4th and added a new strip 2nd to last), so maybe there's hope for me yet! Still that took a couple of weeks of contemplation before I tried it out & I had a compelling reason to make the change. You can't be too careful about this change stuff lest things get out of hand.

Hmmm... What if Sucky were to hijack an existing Sandbox thread to initiate a new kerfuffle? Else what are loopholes for?

Why not do away with taxes altogether and just mint a handful of those trillion dollar coins every year? Use as needed.

Where are the naked guys? I searched the first 3 or 4 pages before I gave up looking.

Or, just possibly, to build an interstellar off-ramp.

A nice bit of butt cleavage is nothing to be sneered at.

When I first read of this, I was more than a little peeved at AIG. However, further research led me to believe that the board was just covering their ass against a future lawsuit by Hank Greenberg. Greenberg was ousted as AIG CEO in one of Eliot Spitzer's witch hunts just prior to his pulling his Humpty-Dumpty act with those $1000/hour ho's. Hank still controls about 9% of AIG's common, is suing everybody in sight over the AIG collapse and asked to pitch his latest lawsuit against the Feds to the board. They had little choice but to listen.

Drew creeps me out. Always has.

Maybe it was the alter boy?

Goring? Wagner? Nietzsche? Several million Germans of the Nazi persuation (I misremember their names)?

By extension: "No weapons shall be banned on campus. Not even high volume of fire weapons. (Exceptions to be made for weapons generally disallowed by International law -- weaponized biologicals and chemicals and the like). * * The committee debated at length man portable ground to air missiles, mercury core bullets, claymore mines, drones and such (which some considered unsporting) but, lacking concensus, concluded that "fore-warned is fore-armed" and defered judgement until practical experience provides definitive guidance.

Well, since sex outside marriage is a sin, the Church had no choice but to require poofters to remain celibate. Marriage being prohibited to them, there remains little choice but to follow G-D's words of Mathew 19:12.

Yep, yep...count me among the suckups too, Lucky.