AdamSmith

Just so!

First the latter, then of course the former. Fortunately retaining none of my schooling, lest I have been a public danger.

Doubtless we all think of that bar scene from time to time when we find ourselves wondering, Why did I come here tonight?

Simply apply enough of our favorite Star Wars character, Lube Thighstroker. (From my and dorm-mates' drunken college parody concept also featuring Princess Labia, Obi-Gyn Kenobi et al. You can imagine what the Death Star was to look like.)

Have you considered...? http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymenorrhaphy

He was here on May 29 with a luscious Wet Wednesday post.

An agent provocateur, then? Maybe a reagent? Or possibly a catalyst? (Sorry, at one misguided point in life I was going to be a chemist.)

All this huggermugger of watching, being watched, sending coded messages to your watcher, even knowing when your watcher stops watching you -- I am more convinced than ever that our hitoall is a secret agent.

Thank you for the pointer!

The character names alone make it look worthwhile. From Series 1, Episode 3: Jedrington Secret Past Conceptiva Secret Past Victor Victoria Harmswell Grimstone Pusweasel Primly Tightclench Servegood Mrs Grumblechoop Smallcolm Small newsboy Judge Harshmore Grimstone Neverlost Dunthem Episode summary: Reduced to poverty and gin addiction, Jedrington is at his lowest ebb until his loyal and true servant Servegood restores him to sobriety by the gentle application of a massive cudgel. Reunited with Conceptiva, the two take the evil Mr Grimstone to court to demand the return of the business and their daughter. But when the judge turns out to be Grimstone's uncle Harshmore, the case seems hopeless. Will the family ever be whole again? Victor's enigmatic chum Smalcolm may hold the key to everyone's happiness.

P.S. Actually me too re submarines. This was cool... High-school teen builds one-man submarine for $2,000 By Arion McNicoll for CNN updated 8:53 AM EDT, Wed May 29, 2013 | Filed under: Innovations (CNN) -- The submarine's body may be constructed from drainage pipes and the hatch from a recycled skylight, but according to its 18-year-old inventor, this single-person U-boat can plunge to a depth of 30 feet and has already completed three successful dives. The Nautilus took high school inventor Justin Beckerman just six months and $2,000 to put together -- all while keeping on top of his homework. "He has been building things since he was two years old," says his mother, Jess Beckerman. "If we tried to help him we would just get in the way and mess things up." The submarine has ballast tanks to maintain its depth and equilibrium; air vents that bring oxygen down from the surface; a functioning PA and a range of emergency systems including back-up batteries, a siren, strobe lights, a breathing apparatus and a pump to fight leaks. The vessel can remain submerged for up to two hours and travels beneath the waves at one and a half miles per hour. Beckerman says he is going to use it to "explore the lake, see fish and hopefully find a bit of history, like the cannons from my neighbors' historic house" that, he says, were dumped in the lake during renovations in the 1960s. When he was younger, Beckerman began by making things out of balloons and string, but as the years went by his inventions grew in scale and complexity. At the age of 12, instead of complaining about having to help with the housework, he developed a remote-controlled car that could mop and vacuum. Beckerman's website is a testament to his enormous productivity. It is a menagerie of home-constructed machines including boats, planes, architectural constructions, and prize-winning robots. The materials he uses in his creations are often technological cast-offs from family and friends, or garbage scavenged from electronics recycling facilities. The Nautilus has regulators and pressure gauges from an old restaurant soda fountain that Beckerman found behind a shopping center. The two main batteries are from a child's ride-on toy, and its PA speakers are made from an old car stereo. Beckerman says he decided to build the submarine because "I wanted to see if I could do it. It combined so many different aspects of things that I had worked on in the past." The Nautilus has the most ambitious wiring system Beckerman has installed since he constructed his tree fort -- a veritable forest castle that puts all other tree forts to shame. Armed with more modern conveniences than many proper homes, the fort has a TV, wall-mounted speakers, desktop computer, air conditioning, shelving, and fluorescent lights. "It has everything a house should have," says Beckerman, "except a refrigerator and a bathroom." The Nautilus is not Beckerman's first submarine. In fact, it is his fourth. The previous iteration could dive to five feet, but had a less sturdy frame constructed from plastic containers and duct tape. It was propelled by two motor scooter engines, connected to metal blades and two 12v batteries. The new design improves on previous models in almost every way. "I had an idea of how I wanted to sit. I realized that lying down would make the sub more streamlined -- so the drainage pipes seemed a natural fit," he said. But sacrifices to the original design had to be made along the way. "The ballast tanks were originally going to be air tanks, but they were just too expensive. If I could have learned how to weld I would have made the whole thing out of metal. But that might be for the next one." Asked if there are any particular challenges which are specific to being a young inventor, Beckerman responds plainly: "No. Other than the budget issues and all of my schoolwork and other obligations that get in the way." If he had more time and money Beckerman says he would like to continue to add to the submarine. "I would love to add a robotic claw to the front. I would like to make the sub into a more useful thing with a basket the claw could put stuff into to pick up garbage and clean the bottom of the lake." http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/29/tech/innovation/teenager-justin-beckerman-builds-working-submarine/index.html

Ditto!

LOL. Guess it goes to show why so many of them in stricter times found it prudent to be itinerant.

Well, in Newspeak, it is perfectly labeled as is.

To that extraordinary analysis, one can only reply...

P.S. So sorry! I forgot we already have a forum on the subject of distending our bellies. I got taken by Oz & TY's sly tomfoolery in giving it the oh so innocent and guilt-assuaging name of Health, Nutrition & Fitness.

Good point! ...Depending on the other players, of course. Whereas everybody's money looks good.

Personally I am with you. But then for vegetarians, poor things, one could see making an exception. There is a burger shack in York Beach, Maine, that serves the only really good (1) turkey burgers and (2) veggie burgers that I have ever tasted. Of course they have all the other kinds too, including a great buffalo burger. What is the place called...? Ah, senescence.

Secret Messages Discovered in Donald Trump’s Hair! Is He Trying to Warn Us? By Bruce Handy and Juli Weiner Vanity Fair By M. Spencer Green/A.P. Photo. Moldy baguette Donald Trump was recently photographed outside a federal courthouse in Chicago, where he is currently being sued by an 87-year-old woman. Despite years of Trump-hair connoisseurship, your Vanity Fair follicular correspondents had never seen the thrice-bankrupted businessman’s fuzzy skull growth from such a revealing, harshly-lit angle. What initially appeared to be nothing more than a simple doppelgänger for a cavity-ridden tooth—or perhaps a half-popped popcorn kernel—turned out to be, upon closer inspection and with digital enhancement, something far more ominous. Donald Trump’s hair is trying to tell us something. Thanks to over a decade of analytic training under Dr. Carl Shatner at Columbia’s Andrew Stein School of Toupee and Combover Studies, and a close reading of Erich Von Daniken’s Follicles of the Gods in 8th grade, we were able to identify the crop-circle-like symbols formed by Trump’s scalp growth as Sumerian cuneiform likely dating back to the Neo-Assyrian Empire. After consulting our Rosetta Stone—literally, a Rosetta Stone DVD for Sumerian Cuneiform (Level II) purchased at the Atlanta airport—we were able to translate the hair’s message thusly: “People R begging me—begging me!—to run for Pres in 2016. Especially people close to loser Hillary. Rubio? DUMB! Will have announcement on season premiere of NBC’s top-rated #TheApprentice. @realDonaldTrump” Read more: Donald Trump’s Hair: The 360-Degree Tour. http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2013/05/secret-messages-discovered-in-donald-trump-s-hair-is-he-trying-to-warn-us

RA1 has a point -- what could possibly be more fun than money?

We need a Food Forum here. Anyway, ughhh... Think Twice Before Buying This Type of Burger ...by Food Babe 4th of July is right around the corner and I really can’t think of a better way to celebrate Independence Day than a good old fashioned BBQ. But I have to be honest here, attending a BBQ produces a bit of anxiety for me every time. Will the host serve only beef hamburgers and hotdogs? (I don’t eat beef or any type hot dog.) Will the meat be organic? Will there be vegetarian options? Will the cook char the meat to death and produce heterocyclic amines that are known to cause colon cancer? Needless to say, I am honestly a little disappointed when the host decides to serve things I don’t eat but get even more anxious when they offer to pick up some veggie burgers from the store for me. I am downright frightened of the ingredients in those frozen meat flavored patties. My response to their offer is always “No, thank you, I’ll bring a dish” and here’s why: Neurotoxins & Carcinogens – The majority of store-bought veggie burgers contain some form of soy. Non organic soy is extracted using hexane, a chemical byproduct of petroleum refining. The food industry uses the hexane extraction method because it is cheap. Several studies have been published about the neurotoxicity of exposure of humans and animals to hexane, but the most alarming ones link exposure to brain tumors. Currently the FDA sets no limit to the amount of hexane that can be used in non-organic soy products and no one knows for sure how much residue is being consumed by the American public. If you want more info on this – the Cornucopia Institute released an excellent report about several popular veggie burger brands that use hexane. To quote top researcher Charlotte Valleys, “The bigger picture here is that hexane is being released into the atmosphere—since it’s an air pollutant. It leads to smog, which is ground-level ozone, which leads to a whole bunch of health problems, like asthma in kids. These effects are very real.” 
I don’t want this in my body or in the air I breathe – do you? *Image taken from Cornucopia Institute’s report on hexane in soy Cheap Oils – If you see the words “canola oil, soy oil, corn oil, sunflower, and/or safflower oil” it is likely extracted with hexane too. But what further complicates this matter (if having a neurotoxin byproduct in your burger is not enough) is that the overconsumption of these cheap oils are causing an abundance of Omega 6 fatty acids in our diets. The imbalance of Omega 6 fatty acids increases the risk of inflammation, heart disease, obesity, and prostate and bone cancer. Textured Vegetable Protein, aka “TVP” – Several frozen veggie burgers available are developed using soy products and Textured Vegetable Protein (TVP). TVP is one of those foods I avoid at all costs and no one will ever convince me to eat something this processed. TVP is extracted from soy at a super high heat and made into a powder before it is “reshaped” into strips, chunks and granules and put back into food. The processing can also add artificial and natural flavors, MSG, colorings, emulsifiers and thickening agents, including nitrosamine, which is a carcinogen no one should be consuming. Does this picture of TVP look like nutritious nuggets of real food to you? Chemically Altered Flavorings & MSG – There are several hidden sources of MSG found in vegetarian meat substitutes. The food industry uses MSG to make processed food that is low in nutrition taste good, tricking your taste buds into liking something that isn’t real food. Futhermore, MSG increases your insulin response, tricking your body into thinking you can eat more than you actually should. And this is exactly how scientists make rats obese, by feeding them MSG laced food. I don’t know about you, but knowing there is a potential substance that can trick me into eating more food is reason enough to avoid this at all costs. But MSG is linked to all sorts of terrible reactions in humans like migraines, toxicity, and autoimmune disorders that you can read about in this tell all book about MSG. Full of Genetically Modified Ingredients (GMOs) – If the burger contains anything derived from corn or soy, you can almost guarantee it comes from genetically modified seeds unless it is certified 100% organic. Genetically modified foods have been linked to toxicity, allergic reactions and fertility issues and have not been studied for their long term effects on our health. Unfortunately, here in the US, companies can get away with including GMOs in our foods without us knowing it. If you want to know if GMO’s are in your food – support the Just Label It.org by signing their petition to the FDA The Morningstar Farms Black Bean Burger, along with several other brands are guilty of every one of these points above. This burger is marketed as “healthy” and has even more questionable ingredients like caramel coloring (which is linked to cancer) and a slew of other chemical based preservatives. Knowing that I used to eat this particular brand many years ago on a weekly basis, absolutely disgusts me now. I don’t know about you, but I am tired of processed and convenience foods making a fool out of me…share this info with all your veggie burger buying friends and spread the word. Cheers, Food Babe P.S. This is one of my favorite homemade veggie burger recipes ever. http://foodbabe.com/2012/07/02/think-twice-before-buying-this-type-of-burger/

(For the record, yr umble correspondent is a Leo douchebag. )

You beat me to it. (Actually, in seriousness, right after ihpguy posted that, I googled for an image of poaching to post. But the search returned so many pitiable photos of cruelly de-horned rhinoceroses, some still alive and suffering huge red raw flesh craters where their horns had been hacked off, that I had to leave my desk for a little.)