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Folk singer, activist Pete Seeger dies in NY Like so many folks, my political awareness dawned with a Pete Seeger tune in the background. He dropped out as a Harvard sociology major in 1938 after hearing his professor say ''Don't think that you can change the world. The only thing you can do is study it." With his banjo and message of hope he set about proving his prof wrong for the next seventy-five years. Will we ever see his like again?

It's uninteresting and boring and full of stereotypes and stuff we've seen before and disappointing and completely insular to the point of alienation and its mother wears combat boots! (This is a TV show we're talking about, right?)

Perhaps you should start dating.

I've been meaning to get myself to a Palm Springs Weekend for years but the stars haven't aligned. One of these days I'd like to go mostly to meet some of the posters I've long enjoyed. Lucky's always a treat, and Charlie I know I'd love chatting with, and Oliver sounds like one of the nicest folks on Earth. Probably couldn't swing a weekend with an escort, so it would be more for the general socializing and hanging out by the pool. And Palm Springs itself is a pretty nice place. At least it was when I was there in the seventies and eighties. Plus now they've got Marilyn! The ultimate souvenir would be a few shots of some of the BoyToy posters looking up her dress.

Forty minutes and fifty petaflops later, Yoshi models the world's first brain fart

Thought sure we'd see a Skin Flute here but the Sprinkle Organ will do just fine.

Perhaps because I should have said right-click rather than left-click. A thousand pardons! MsGuy kindly fixed this one, but try the right-click trick the next time a picture fails to appear. On a Mac anyway, it's been kind of the Swiss Army knife for bad images. (Other than my own, more's the pity. )

If you left-click on the box where the image should be, you should be able to open the image in a new window. Why it works that way is beyond me, but it's definitely worth doing.

I said he's an ass wipe, not a Glass Wipe!

"The more time you give this process, the bigger the rough diamond starts to grow," Willy says. After the new diamond cools off, the crystal is ground and cut to shape, and sometimes engraved with a laser. Sounds a little too much like life.

I've long wondered when high quality CGI would become cheap enough to be used in porn, allowing any fantasies imaginable to be rendered realistically and without any actors being put in harm's way. Of course, there are laws restricting some content from being created even digitally. (wide opening here for AdamSmith - oops, I mean opportunity for input - oh, never mind, he'll shove his oar in somehow ) For example, there are age-related laws for drawings and computer images, so I guess there could be laws written to prevent condom-free imagery even if no humans are at risk or even involved. I've often imagined Tom-of-Finland-type characters, portrayed realistically and in color and 3D, creating any fantasy scene we can think of. Wonder how long till we see it?

Saw it last week. Although it's a three hour movie, it's very fast paced and seemed like only two hours and forty-five minutes.

I let slip a little moue, rather than a severe frown, when I saw the Elgin Marbles. Like the King Tut burial treasures, it would be so much more moving to see them in place where they came from. Of course, they may have been ruined had they stayed where they were. And not as many folks would have seen them. But I can understand those who want to see them back at the Parthenon.

Sounds like she's in the zone. Here's a little history on how the brand came to be and here's a bit on Kraft's efforts to market it as cheese. A bookend to Sir Henry's wheeze: 'Frankly, once I've eaten a thing, I don't expect to see it again.

Well, you could always get some milk, water, milkfat, whey, milk protein concentrate, whey protein concentrate, sodium phosphate, salt, calcium phosphate, lactic acid, sorbic acid, sodium alginate, sodium citrate, enzymes, apocarotenal, annatto, and cheese culture and make your own.

I expect he has some rich neighbors with pull. Wouldn't surprise me to see him move one day soon, perhaps somewhere he'd fit in better.

Hito wonders if the consommé could use another splash of sherry

I recall a classmate who said sitting down to pee got his dick all wet. He was very popular.

Honestly! Every time I start enjoying one of my little vices, somebody comes along and makes it legal. They did it with corn-holing, they did it with smut, and now they're doing it with weed. Having to sneak around a little has always been part of the thrill. Next they'll be telling us that indecent exposure isn't really so bad after all. Flash Travel™ - ride with us and leave your trench coat at home!

Compared with BoyToy, getting into NSA was a piece of cake!

I believe they refer to English muffins as 'footmen'.

According to this article, there are three primary reasons why it doesn't launch here in September as it does in the U. K. 1. It would be up against the major networks' Fall schedules and might get lost in the noise. 2. The cast would have a harder time with promotional appearances in two countries at once. (This is the only one of the reasons I guessed.) 3. The U. S. version is slightly different from the U. K. version and it would be more expensive to have two editing rooms going at once. Despite all that, the producers apparently would prefer a Fall launch in the U. S. but PBS and Masterpiece Theater execs call the shots. While they don't yet see any compelling reason to change, they are thinking about it.

I think you folks might be referring to mimeograph machines. They used a stencil to let ink through to the paper. A ditto machine transferred wax onto a master which was then pressed against a blank page onto which some of the wax was transferred. I think I remember seeing some of these and that the paper itself was sort of shiny. I'm not proud of this, but I actually looked up these early machines when this thread was first posted. It was a slow night. Also gave time to reflect on the effort necessary to reach other folks in those days. You really had to think about exactly what you wanted to say, and then hope your typing skills were up to getting it right the first time. On the other hand, it was a bunch easier than in the really old days.

Same here, and I've tried the cookie clearing routine. What's weird is that, even though some pages show me logged in, the main Forums page doesn't. Unless I really am. This seems to be one of those devilish login problems that often besets the site and I'm sure OZ will eventually move it to the front burner.

Thanks! Inspired me to find a favorite New Yorker cartoon.